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Paternoster Row. + +[Greek: Pollai men thnêtois Glôttai, mia d' Athanatoisin] + + * * * * * + + +{215} + +WHERE ARE THE WILLS TO BE DEPOSITED? + +The difficulties thrown in the way of all literary and historical +inquiries, by the peculiar constitution of the Prerogative Office, Doctors' +Commons, have long been a subject of just complaint. An attempt was made by +THE CAMDEN SOCIETY, in 1848, to procure their removal, by a Memorial +addressed to the Archbishop of Canterbury, which we now print, because it +sets forth, plainly and distinctly, the nature and extent of those +difficulties. + + "To the Most Rev. and the Right Hon. The Lord Archbishop of Canterbury. + + "The humble Memorial of the President and Council of the Camden + Society, respectfully showeth, + + "That the Camden Society was instituted in the year 1838, for the + publication of early historical and literary remains. + + "It has the honour to be patronised by H.R.H. the Prince Albert; and + has supported, from its institution, by the countenance and + subscription of your Grace's predecessor in the See of Canterbury. + + "The Society has published forty volumes of works relating to English + History, and continues to be actively engaged in researches connected + with the same important branch of literature. + + "In the course of its proceedings, the Society has had brought under + its notice the manner in which the regulations of the Prerogative + Office in Doctors' Commons interfere with the accuracy and completeness + of works in the preparation of which the Council is now engaged, and + with the pursuits and labours of all other historical inquirers; and + they beg leave respectfully to submit to your Grace the results of + certain investigations which they have made upon the subject. + + "Besides the original wills deposited in the Office of the Prerogative + Court, there is kept in the same repository a long series of register + books, containing copies of wills entered chronologically from A.D. + 1383 to the present time. These registers or books of entry fall + practically into two different divisions or classes. The earlier and + the latter books contain information suited to the wants of totally + different kinds of persons, and applicable to entirely different + purposes. Their custody is also of very different importance to the + office. The class which is first both in number of books and in + importance contains entries of modern wills. These are daily consulted + by relatives of testators, by claimants and solicitors, principally for + legal purposes, and yield a large revenue to the office in fees paid + for searches, inspections, and copies. The second class, which + comprises a comparatively small number of volumes, contains entries of + ancient wills, dated before the period during which wills are now + useful for legal purposes. These are never consulted by lawyers or + claimants, nor do they yield any revenue to the office, save an + occasional small receipt from the Camden Society, or from some similar + body, or private literary inquirer. + + "With respect to the original wills, and the entries of modern wills, + your memorialists beg to express clearly that this application is not + designed to have any reference to them. Your memorialists confine their + remarks exclusively to the books of entries of those ancient wills + which have long and unquestionably ceased to be useful for legal + purposes. + + "These entries of ancient wills are of the very highest importance to + historical inquirers. They abound with illustrations of manners and + customs; they exhibit in the most authentic way the state of religion, + the condition of the various classes of the people, and of society in + general; they are invaluable to the lexicographer, the genealogist, the + topographer, the biographer,--to historical writers of every order and + kind. They constitute the most important depository in existence of + exact information relating to events and persons of the period to which + they relate. + + "But all this information is unavailable in consequence of the + regulations of the office in which the wills are kept. All the books of + entry, both of ancient and modern wills, are kept together, and can + only be consulted in the same department of the same office, in the + same manner and subject to precisely the same restrictions and the same + payments. No distinction is made between the fees to be paid by a + literary person who wishes to make a few notes from wills, perhaps + three or four hundred years old, in order to rectify a fact, a name, a + date, or to establish the proper place of a descent in a pedigree, or + the exact meaning of a doubtful word, and the fees to be paid by the + person who wants a copy of a will proved yesterday as evidence of a + right to property perhaps to be established in a court of justice. No + extract is allowed to be made, not even of a word or a date, except the + names of the executors and the date of the will. Printed statements in + historical books, which refer to wills, may not be compared with the + wills as entered; even ancient copies of wills handed down for many + generations in the families of the testators, may not be examined in + the registered wills without paying the office for making new and + entire copies. + + "No such restrictions exclude literary inquirers from the British + Museum, where there are papers equally valuable. The Public Record + Offices are all open, either gratuitously or upon payment of easy fees. + The Secretary of State for the Home Department grants permission of + access to her Majesty's State Paper Office. Your Grace's predecessor + gave the Camden Society free access to the registers of wills at + Lambeth--documents exactly similar to those at Doctors' Commons. The + Prerogative Office is, probably, the only public office in the kingdom + which is shut against literary inquirers. + + "The results of such regulations are obvious. The ancient wills at + Doctors' Commons not being accessible to those to whom alone they are + useful, yield scarcely any fees to the office; historical inquirers are + discouraged; errors remain uncorrected; statements of facts in + historical works are obliged to be left uncertain and incomplete; the + researches of the Camden Society and other similar societies are + thwarted; and all historical inquirers regard the condition of the + Prerogative Office as a great literary grievance. + + {216} + + "The President and Council of the Camden Society respectfully submit + these circumstances to your Grace with a full persuasion that nothing + which relates to the welfare of English historical literature can be + uninteresting either to your Grace personally, or to the Church over + which you preside; and they humbly pray your Grace that such changes + may be made in the regulations of the Prerogative Office as may + assimilate its practice to that of the Public Record Office, so far as + regards the inspection of the books of entry of ancient wills, or that + such other remedy may be applied to the inconveniences now stated as to + your Grace may seem fit. + + "(Signed) BRAYBROOKE, President. + THOMAS AMYOT, Director. + HENRY ELLIS. + J. PAYNE COLLIER, Treas. + HARRY VERNEY. + H. H. MILMAN. + JOSEPH HUNTER. + WILLIAM J. THOMS, Sec. + CHS. PURTON COOPER. + THOS. STAPLETON. + WM. DURRANT COOPER. + PETER LEVESQUE. + THOS. J. PETTIGREW. + JOHN BRUCE. + BERIAH BOTFIELD. + BOLTON CORNEY. + + _25. Parliament Street, Westminster,_ + _13 April, 1848._" + +As the Archbishop stated his inability to afford any relief, THE CAMDEN +SOCIETY availed themselves of the appointment of the Commission to inquire +into the Law and Jurisdiction of the Ecclesiastical and other Courts in +relation to Matters Testamentary, to address to those Commissioners, in the +month of January, 1853, a Memorial, of which the following is a copy: + + "To the Right Honourable and Honourable the Commissioners appointed by + Her Majesty to inquire into the Law and Jurisdiction of the + Ecclesiastical and other Courts in relation to Matters Testamentary. + + "My Lords and Gentlemen, + + "We, the undersigned, being the President and Council of the Camden + Society, for the Publication of Early Historical and Literary Remains, + beg to submit to your consideration a copy of a Memorial presented on + the 13th April, 1848, by the President and then Council of this + Society, to his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, praying that such + changes might be made in the regulations of the Prerogative Office as + might assimilate its practice to that of the Public Record Office, so + far as regards the inspection of the books of entry of ancient Wills, + or that such other remedy might be applied to the inconveniences stated + in that Memorial as to his Grace might seem fit. + + "In reply to that Memorial his Grace was pleased to inform the + Memorialists that he had no control whatever over the fees taken in the + Prerogative Office. + + "The Memorialists had not adopted the course of applying to his Grace + the Archbishop until they had in vain endeavoured to obtain from the + authorities of the Prerogative Office, Messrs. Dyneley, Iggulden, and + Gostling, some modification of their rules in favour of literary + inquirers. The answer of his Grace the Archbishop left them, therefore + without present remedy. + + "The grievance complained of continues entirely unaltered up to the + present time. + + "In all other public repositories to which in the course of our + inquiries we have had occasion to apply, we have found a general and + predominant feeling of the national importance of the cultivation of + literature, and especially of that branch of it which relates to the + past history of our own country. Every one seems heartily willing to + promote historical inquiries. The Public Record Offices are now opened + to persons engaged in literary pursuits by arrangements of the most + satisfactory and liberal character. His Grace the Archbishop of + Canterbury gives permission to literary men to search such of the early + registers of his See as are in his own possession at Lambeth. Access is + given to the registers of the Bishop of London; and throughout the + kingdom private persons having in their possession historical documents + are almost without exception not only willing but anxious to assist our + inquiries. The authorities of the Prerogative Office in Doctors' + Commons, perhaps, stand alone in their total want of sympathy with + literature, and in their exclusion of literary inquirers by stringent + rules, harshly, and in some instances even offensively, enforced. + + "We have the honour to be, + "My Lords and Gentlemen, + "Your most obedient and very humble servants, + + (Signed) BRAYBROOKE, President. + JOHN BRUCE, Director. + C. PURTON COOPER. + J. PAYNE COLLIER, Treas. + W. R. DRAKE. + EDWD. FOSS. + PETER LEVESQUE. + STRANGFORD. + W. H. BLAAUW. + W. DURRANT COOPER. + BOLTON CORNEY. + HENRY ELLIS. + LAMBERT B. LARKING. + FREDK. OUVRY. + WM. J. THOMS, Sec. + + _25. Parliament Street, Westminster,_ + _January, 1853._" + +A Report from that Commission has been laid before Parliament; and a Bill +for carrying into effect the recommendations contained in such Report, and +transferring the powers of the Prerogative Court to the Court of Chancery, +has been introduced into the House of Lords. The Bill contains no specific +enactments as to the custody of the Wills. + +Now, therefore, is the time for all who are interested in Historical Truth +to use their best endeavours to procure the insertion of such clauses as +shall place the Wills under the same custody as the other Judicial Records +of the country, namely, that of Her Majesty's Keeper of Records. + +With Literature represented in the House of Lords by a Brougham and a +Campbell, in the Commons by a Macaulay, a Bulwer, and a D'Israeli, let but +the real state of the case be once made public, and we have no fear but +that the interests of English Historical Literature will be cared for and +maintained. + + * * * * * + + +{217} + +Notes. + +"J. R. OF CORK." + +My gifted and lamented countryman "The Roscoe of Cork"[1] deserves more +notice in these pages, which he has enriched by his contributions, than the +handsome obituary of our Editor (Vol. vii., p. 394.); so a few words is +with reference to him may be acceptable. + +MR. JAMES ROCHE was born in Limerick some eighty-three years ago, of an +ancient and wealthy family. At an early period of his life he was sent to +France, and educated in the Catholic College of Saintes. After completing +his studies, and paying a short visit to Ireland, he settled in Bordeaux, +where he became acquainted with the most distinguished leaders of the +Girondists. + +MR. ROCHE was in Paris during the horrors of the first Revolution, and in +1793 was arrested there as a British subject, but was released on the death +of Robespierre. For some years after his liberation, he passed his time +between Paris and Bordeaux. At the close of the last century, he returned +to Ireland; and commenced business in Cork as a banker, in partnership with +his brother. He resided in a handsome country seat near the river Lee, and +there amassed a splendid library. + +About the year 1816, a relative of mine, a wealthy banker in the same city, +got into difficulties, and met with the kindest assistance from MR. ROCHE. +In 1819 his own troubles came on, and a monetary crisis ruined him as well +as many others. All his property was sold, and his books were brought to +the hammer, excepting a few with which his creditors presented him. I have +often tried, but without success, to get a copy of the auction catalogue, +which contained many curious lots,--amongst others, I am informed, Swift's +own annotated copy of _Gulliver's Travels_, which MR. ROCHE purchased in +Cork for a few pence, but which produced pounds at the sale. MR. ROCHE, +after this, resided for some time in London as parliamentary agent. He also +spent several years in Paris, and witnessed the revolution of 1830. +Eventually he returned to Cork, where he performed the duties of a +magistrate and director of the National Bank, until his death in the early +part of 1853. + +MR. ROCHE was intimately acquainted with many of the great men and events +of his time, especially with everything concerning modern French history +and literature. + +MR. ROCHE was remarkable for accurate scholarship and extensive learning: +the affability of his manners, and the earnestly-religious tone of his +mind, enhanced his varied accomplishments. + +For a number of years he contributed largely to various periodicals, such +as the _Gentleman's Magazine_, the _Dublin Review_, and the _Literary +Gazette_; and the signature of "J. R. of Cork" was welcome to all, while it +puzzled many. + +In 1851 he printed _for private circulation_, _Essays Critical and +Miscellaneous_, by an Octogenarian, 2 vols.; printed by G. Nash, Cork. Some +of these Essays are reprints, others are printed for the first time. The +work was reviewed in the _Dublin Review_ for October, 1851. + +A "Sketch of J. R. of Cork" was published in July, 1848, in Duffy's _Irish +Catholic Magazine_, which I have made use of in this Note. My object in the +present Note is to suggest that MR. ROCHE'S Reminiscences and Essays should +be given to the public, from whom I am well assured they would receive a +hearty welcome. + +EIRIONNACH. + +[Footnote 1: MR. ROCHE is thus happily designated by the Rev. Francis +Mahony in _The Prout Papers_.] + + * * * * * + +MARMORTINTO, OR SAND-PAINTING. + +There appeared in a late number of _The Family Friend_, an article on the +above process. The writer attributes its invention to Benjamin Zobel of +Bavaria; and states, that although some few persons have attempted its +revival, in no instance has success attended such efforts. This is not +correct. There was a German confectioner to King George III. whom I knew +well. His name was Haas; and those acquainted with Bristol will recollect +his well-frequented shop, nearly opposite the drawbridge on the way to +College Green, where he resided forty years ago, after retiring from his +employment at Court. There he was often engaged in decorating ceilings, +lying on his back for weeks together on a scaffold for the purpose. He also +ornamented the plateaus for the royal table; and he understood the art of +sand-painting, and practised it in the highest perfection. Whether he +preceded Zobel, or came after him, at Windsor Castle, I cannot tell; but I +can testify that he was perfect master of the art in question. I have seen +him at work upon his sand-pictures. He had the marble dust of every +gradation of colour in a large box, divided into small compartments; and he +applied it to the picture by dropping it from small cones of paper. + +The article in _The Family Friend_ describes the process of Zobel to have +consisted of a previous coating of the panel for the picture with a +glutinous solution, over which the marble dust was strewed from a piece of +cord. Haas used small cones of paper; and my impression from seeing him at +work was, that he sprinkled the sand on the dry panel, and fixed the whole +finally at once by some process which he kept a secret. For I remember how +careful he was to prevent the window or door from being opened, so as to +cause a draught, before he had fixed his picture; and I {218} have heard +him lament the misfortune of having had one or two pictures blown away in +this manner. + +The effect of his sand-pictures was extraordinary. They stood out in bold +relief, and with a brilliancy far surpassing any oil painting. As may be +supposed, this style of painting was particularly adapted for landscapes +and rocky scenery; and it enabled the artist to finish foliage with a +richness which nothing could surpass. Mr. Haas' collection of his +sand-paintings was a rich treat to inspect. After his death, they were sold +and dispersed; but many must be found in the collections of gentlemen in +Bristol and its neighbourhood. + +F. C. H. + + * * * * * + +THE SOLDIER'S DISCIPLINE, FROM A BROADSIDE OF THE YEAR 1642. + + "_The Grounds of Military Discipline: or, Certain Brief Rules for the + Exercising of a Company or Squadron._ + + _Observed by all._ + + In march, in motion, troop or stand, + Observe both leader and right hand; + With silence note in what degree + You in the body placed be: + That so you may, without more trouble, + Know where to stand, and when to double. + + _Distances._ + + True distance keep in files, in ranks + Open close to the front, reare, flanks, + Backward, forward, to the right, left, or either, + Backward and forward both together. + To the right, left, outward or in, + According to directions given. + To order, close, open, double, + Distance, distance, double, double: + For this alone prevents distraction, + And giveth lustre to the action. + + _Facings._ + + Face to the right, or to the left, both wayes to the reare, + Inward, outward, and as you were: + To the front, reare, flanks, and peradventure + To every angle, and to the centre. + + _Doublings._ + + To bring more hands in the front to fight, + Double ranks unto the right, + Or left, or both, if need require, + Direct divisionall or intire: + By doubling files accordingly, + Your flanks will strengthened be thereby. + Halfe files and bringers-up likewise + To the front may double, none denies; + Nor would it very strange appear + For th' front half files or double the reare: + The one half ranks to double the other, + Thereby to strengthen one the other. + + _Countermarches._ + + But lest I should seen troublesome, + To countermarches next I come. + Which, though they many seem to be, + Are all included in these three: + Maintaining, gaining, losing ground, + And severall wayes to each is found: + By which their proper motion's guided, + In files, in ranks, in both divided. + + _Wheeling._ + + Wheel your batten ere you fight, + For better advantage to the right, + Or left, or round about + To either angle, or where you doubt + Your enemie will first oppose you; + And therefore unto their Foot close you. + Divisionall wheeling I have seen + In sundrie places practis'd been, + To alter either form or figure, + By wheeling severall wayes together. + And, had I time to stand upon 't, + I'de wheele my wings into the front. + By wheeling flanks into the reare, + They'll soon reduce them as they were. + Besides, it seems a pretty thing + To wheel, front, and reare to either wing: + Wheele both wings to the reare and front; + Face to the reare, and having done 't, + Close your divisions; even your ranks, + Wheel front and reare into both flanks: + And thus much know, cause, note I'll smother, + To one wheeling doth reduce the other. + + _Conversion and Inversion._ + + One thing more and I have done; + Let files rank by conversion: + To th' right, or th' left, to both, and then + Ranks by conversion fill again: + Troop for the colours, march, prepare for fight, + Behave yourselves like men, and so good night. + +The summe of all that hath been spoken may be comprised thus: + + Open, close, face, double, countermarch, wheel, charge, retire; + Invert, convert, reduce, trope, march, make readie, fire." + +ANON. + + * * * * * + +LEADING ARTICLES OF FOREIGN NEWSPAPERS. + +The foreign correspondence of the English press is an invaluable feature of +that mighty engine of civilisation and progress, for which the world cannot +be too thankful; but as the agents in it at Paris, Berlin, Vienna, &c., are +more or less imbued with the insular views and prejudices which they carry +with them from England, Scotland, or Ireland, it were well if the daily +journals devoted more attention than they do to the _leading articles_ of +the Continental press, which is frequently distinguished by great ability +and interest, and would {219} enable Englishmen, not versed in foreign +languages, to judge, from another point of view, of Continental +affairs--now becoming of surpassing interest and importance. Translations +or abstracts of the leading articles of _The Times_, _Morning Chronicle_, +_Morning Post_, &c., are constantly to be met with in the best foreign +papers. Why should not our great London papers more frequently gratify +their readers with articles from the pens of their Continental brotherhood? +This would afford an opportunity also of correcting the false statements, +or replying to the erroneous judgments put forth and circulated abroad by +writers whose distinguished position enables them, unintentionally no +doubt, to do the more mischief. A surprising change for the better, +however, as respects Great Britain, is manifest in the tone and information +of the foreign press of late years. Let us cherish this good feeling by a +corresponding demeanour on our part. + +ALPHA. + + * * * * * + + +Minor Notes. + +_Materials for a History of Druidism.--_ + + "It would be a commendable, useful, and easy task to collect what the + ancients have left us on the subject of Druidism. Such a collection + would form a very small but interesting volume. It would supersede, in + every library, the idle and tedious dreams and conjectures of the + Stukeleys, the Borlases, the Rowlands, the Vallanceys, the Davies's, + the Jones's, and the Whitakers. Toland's work on the Druids, though far + from unexceptionable, has more solid intelligence than any other modern + composition of its kind. It is a pity that he or some other person has + not given as faithful translations of the Irish Christian MSS. which he + mentions, as these have, no doubt, preserved much respecting Druidical + manners and superstitions, of which many vestiges are still existing, + though not of the kind usually referred to." + + "The Roman history of Britain can only be collected from the Roman + writers; and what they have left is very short indeed. It might be + disposed of in the way recommended for the History of the + Druids."--Douce's notes on Whitaker's _History of Manchester_, vol. i. + p. 136. of Corrections in Book i., ibid. p. 148. + +ANON. + +_Domestic Chapels._--There is an interesting example of a domestic chapel, +with an upper chamber over it for the chaplain's residence, and a ground +floor underneath it for some undiscoverable purpose, to be seen contiguous +to an ancient farm-house at Ilsam, in the parish of St. Mary Church, in the +county of Devon. + +The structure is quite ecclesiastical in its character, and appears to have +been originally, as now, detached from the family house, or only connected +with it by a short passage leading to the floor on which the chapel itself +stood. + +JOHN JAMES. + +_Ordinary._--The following is a new meaning for the word _ordinary_:--"Do +ye come in and see my poor man, for he is _piteous ordinary_ to-day." This +speech was addressed to me by a poor woman who wished me to go and see her +husband. He was ordinary enough, although she had adorned his head with a +_red_ night-cap; but her meaning was evidently that he was far from well; +and Johnson's _Dictionary_ does not give this signification to the word. + +A cottage child once told me that the dog opened his mouth "a power wide." + +[Old English W. N.] + +_Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory for 1854._--In the +advertisement prefixed to this valuable compilation, which, according to +the _Quarterly Review_, "contains more information about Ireland than has +been collected in one volume in any country," we may find the following +words: + + "All parliamentary and official documents procurable, have been + collected; and their contents, so far as they bore on the state of the + country, carefully abstracted; and where any deficiencies have been + observable, the want has been supplied by applications to private + sources, which, in every instance, have been most satisfactorily + answered. He [Mr. Thom] is also indebted to similar applications to the + ruling authorities of the several religious persuasions _for the + undisputed accuracy of the ecclesiastical department of the Almanac_." + +I wish to call attention to the latter words; and in so doing, I assure +you, I feel only a most anxious desire to see some farther improvements +effected by Mr. Thom. + +I cannot allow "the undisputed accuracy of the ecclesiastical department," +inasmuch as I have detected, even on a cursory examination, very many +inaccuracies which a little care would certainly have prevented. For +example, in p. 451. (_Ecclesiastical Directory_, Established Church and +Diocese of Dublin), there are at least five grave mistakes, and four in the +following page. These pages I have taken at random. I could easily point +out other pages equally inaccurate; but I have done enough I think to +prove, that while I willingly accord to the enterprising publisher the full +meed of praise he so well deserves, a little more attention should be paid +in future to the preparation of the ecclesiastical department. + +ABHBA. + +_Antiquity of the Word "Snub."_-- + + "Beware we then euer of discontente, and _snubbe_ it betimes, least it + overthrowe us as it hath done manie." + + "Such _snubs_ as these be little cloudes."--_Comfortable Notes on + Genesis_, by Gervase Babington, Bishop of Exeter, 1596. + +J. R. P. + +_Charles I. at Little Woolford._--There is an ancient house at Little +Woolford (in the {220} southeast corner of Warwickshire) connected with +which is a tradition that Charles I., after the battle of Edge Hill, which +is not far distant, secreted himself in an oven there. This oven is +preserved for the inspection of the curious. + +B. H. C. + +_Coincidences between Sir Thomas Browne and Bishop Ken._--Sir Thomas Browne +wrote his _Religio Medici_ in 1533-5; and in it suggested some familiar +verses of the "Evening Hymn" of his brother Wykehamist Bishop Ken. The +lines are as follows: + + _Sir Thomas Browne._ + + "Guard me 'gainst those watchful foes, + Whose eyes are open, while mine close; + Let no dreams my head infest, + But such as Jacob's temples blest: + Sleep is a death: oh, make me try, + By sleeping, what it is to die! + And as gently lay my head + On my grave, as now my bed. + Howe'er I rest, great God, let me + Awake again at last with Thee." + + _Bishop Ken._ + + "Let no ill dreams disturb my rest; + No powers of darkness me molest. + Teach me to live, that I may dread + The grave as little as my bed: + Teach me to die, that so I may + Rise glorious at the awful day. + Oh, may my soul on Thee repose, + And with sweet sleep mine eyelids close; + Sleep that may me more vigorous make, + To serve my God when I awake." + +I have never seen this curious coincidence noticed by any of the good +bishop's biographers, Hawkins, Bowles, or Mr. Anderdon. + +MACKENZIE WALCOTT, M.A. + +_The English School of Painting._--In a note to a volume of poems by Victor +Hugo, published in 1836, occur these remarks: + + "M. Louis Boulanger, à qui ces deux ballades sont dédiées, s'est placé + bien jeune au premier rang de cette nouvelle génération de peintres, + qui promet d'élever notre école au niveau des magnifiques écoles + d'Italie, d'Espagne, de Flandre, et d'Angleterre." + +Does this praise of the English school of painting show a correct +appreciation of its claims to distinction? or am I in error in supposing, +as I have done, that our school of painting is not entitled to the pompous +epithet of "magnifique," nor to be named in the same category with the +Italian, Spanish, and Flemish schools? I am aware of the hackneyed and +somewhat hyperbolical employment, by French writers and speakers, of such +terms as _magnifique_, _superbe_, _grandiose_; and that they do not convey +to a French ear the same idea of superiority, as they do to our more sober +English judgment; but making every allowance on this score, I confess I was +not a little startled to find such a term as _magnifique_, even in its most +moderate acceptation, applied to our efforts in that branch of art. +_Magnifique_, in truth, must be our school, when the French can condescend +to speak of it in such language! + +HENRY H. BREEN. + +St. Lucia. + +"_A Feather in your Cap._"--My good friend Dr. Wolff mentioned in +conversation a circumstance (also stated, I fancy, in his _Journey to +Bokhara_) which seemed to afford a solution of the common expression, +"That's a feather in your cap." I begged he would give it me in writing, +and he has done so. "The Kaffr Seeyah Poosh (meaning the infidels in black +clothing) living around Cabul upon the height of the mountains of the +Himalaya, who worship a god called Dagon and Imra, are great enemies of the +Muhamedans; and for each Muhamedan they kill, they wear a feather in their +heads. The same is done among the Abyssinians and Turcomans." + +Has the feather head-dress of the American Indian, and the eagle's feather +in the bonnet of the Highlander, any connexion with keeping a score of the +deaths of the enemies or game they have killed? + +ALFRED GATTY. + + * * * * * + + +Queries. + +DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE: LICENCES TO CRENELLATE. + +Previous to the publication of the second volume of the _Domestic +Architecture of the Middle Ages_, you were kind enough to insert some +Queries for me respecting existing remains of houses of the fourteenth +century, which elicited some useful Notes, partly through your columns and +partly from private friends who were thus reminded of my wants. I am now +preparing for the press the third and concluding volume of that work, +comprising the period from the reign of Richard II. to that of Henry VIII. +inclusive. I shall be glad of information of any houses of that period +remaining in a tolerably perfect state, in addition to those mentioned in +the _Glossary of Architecture_. I have reason to believe that there are +many; and one class, the halls of the different guilds, seem to have been +generally overlooked. + +With the kind assistance of Mr. Duffus Hardy, I have obtained a complete +list of the licences to crenellate contained in the Patent Rolls, and some +other records preserved in the Tower. Most of these have the name of the +county annexed; but there are a few, of which I add a list, in which no +county is mentioned, and local information is necessary in order to +identify them. Perhaps some {221} of your numerous readers will be able to +assist me. + +_Licences to Crenellate._ + + +------------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+ + |When granted. | Name of Place. | To whom granted. | + +------------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+ + | 22 Edward I. | Melton. | John de Cokefeld. | + | 17 Edward II. | Molun. | Raymond de Grismak. | + | 5 Edward III. | Newton in Makerfeld. | Robert de Langeton. | + | 9 Edward III. | Esselyngton. | Robert de Esselyngton.| + | 12 Edward III. | Cublesdon. | John Trussell. | + | Ditto. | La Beche. | Nicholas de la Beche. | + | Ditto. | Beaumes. | Ditto. | + | 15 Edward III. | Pringham. | Reginald de Cobham. | + | Ditto. | Orkesdene. | Ditto. | + | Ditto. | Stanstede. | Robert Burghchier. | + | 16 Edward III. | Credonio. | Bernard de Dalham. | + | Ditto. | Heyheved. | William Lengleys. | + | 18 Edward III. | Chevelyngham. | Thomas de Aeton. | + +------------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+ + +J. H. PARKER. + + * * * * * + +DIXON OF BEESTON. + +Will the Editor be kind enough to insert the accompanying letter, for _if +true_ it is worthy of a place in the heraldic portion of "N. & Q.," and _if +not true_, its imposture should stand recorded? On receiving it I sent a +copy to my brother, Mr. J. H. Dixon, an able antiquary, and late of the +council of the Percy Society, who, somewhat too hastily I think, and +without sufficient proof, rejected the information offered. That the family +which my brother represents is a "good old" one, is sufficiently attested +by the pedigree furnished by Thoresby in the _Ducatus Leodiensis_, and +thence copied by Mr. Burke in his _Landed Gentry_; but of its earlier +history there is no reliable account, unless that by Mr. Spence can be +considered such. + +I shall feel very much obliged if any of your correspondents learned in the +genealogies of Yorkshire and Cheshire could either corroborate the +genuineness of the information tendered by Mr. Spence, or prove the +reverse; and it is only fair to that gentleman to add that he is entitled +to credibility on the written testimony of the Rev. Mr. Knox, Incumbent of +Birkenhead. + +R. W. DIXON, J.P. + +Seaton Carew, co. Durham. + + Sir, + + Having been engaged by Miss Cotgreave, of Notherlegh House, near + Chester, to inspect and arrange the title-deeds and other documents + which belonged to her father, the late Sir John Cotgreave, I find a + very ancient pedigree of the Cotgreaves de Hargrave in that county; + which family became extinct in the direct male line in the year 1724, + but which was represented through females by the above Sir J. C. + + It is the work of the great Camden, anno 1598, from documents in the + possession of the Cotgreave family, and contains the descents of five + generations of the Dixons of Beeston, in the county of York, and + Congleton, Cheshire, together with their marriages and armorial + bearings, commencing with "Ralph Dixon, Esq., de Beeston and Congleton, + living temp. Hen. VI., who was slain whilst fighting on the part of the + Yorkists, at the battle of Wakefield, A.D. 1460." + + Presuming that you are descended from this ancient family, I will (if + you think proper) transmit to you extracts from the aforesaid pedigree, + as far as relates to your distinguished progenitors, conditionally that + you remunerate me for the information and definition of the armorial + bearings, there being five shields, containing twelve quarterings + connected with the family of Dixon. + + Miss Cotgreave will allow me to make the extracts, and has kindly + consented to attest the same. + + The arms of Dixon, as depicted in the Cotgreave pedigree, are "Sable, a + fleur-de-lis or, a chief ermine," quartering the ensigns of the noble + houses of "Robert Fitz-Hugh, Baron of Malpas in the county of Chester, + temp. William the Conqueror; Eustace Crewe de Montalt, Lord of + Hawarden, Flintshire, during the said reign; Robert de Umfreville, Lord + of Tours, and Vian, and Reddesdale, in Northumberland, who flourished + in the same reign also; Pole, Talboys, Welles, Latimer," and others. + + In the pedigree, Camden states that the aforesaid "Ralph Dixon + quartered the ensigns of the above noble families in right of his + mother Maude, daughter and co-heiress of Sir Ralph Fitz-Hugh de + Congleton and Elton in the county palatine of Chester." + + I have the honour to be, Sir, + Your very obedient humble servant, + WILLIAM SIDNEY SPENCE. + Priory Place, Birkenhead, + Chester. + Dec. 14. 1848. + + * * * * * + + +Minor Queries. + +_Atherstone Family._--Can any of your readers oblige me with information +concerning the Atherstone family? Is it an old name, or was it first given +some three or four generations back to a foundling, picked up near the town +of Atherston? + +M. A. B. + +_Classic Authors and the Jews._--Where can I find a complete or full +account of passages in Greek and Latin authors, which refer to Judea and +the Jews? It has been said that these references are very few, and that in +Cicero, for instance, there is not one. This last is wrong, I know. (See +_e.g._ Cic. _Pro L. Flacco_, 28., and _De Prov. Consul. 5._) + +B. H. C. + +_Bishop Hooper's Argument on the Vestment Controversy._--Glocester Ridley, +in his _Life of Bishop Ridley_, p. 315., London, 1763, states, in reference +to Bishop Hooper's _Book to the Council against the use of those Habits +which were then used by the Church of England in her sacred Ministries_, +written October, 1550, "Part of Hooper's book I have by me in MS." Could +any one state whether that MS. is now in existence, or where it is to be +found? It is of much importance to obtain {222} an answer to this inquiry, +as Bishop Ridley's MS. Reply to Bishop Hooper is, for the first time, about +to be printed by the Parker Society, through the kind permission of its +possessor, Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bart., in the second volume of the +Writings of Bradford which I am editing; and, to make Ridley's reply fully +intelligible, access is needed to Bishop Hooper's _Book to the Council_. + +A. TOWNSEND. + +Weston Lane, Bath, + +February 23. + +_The Title of "Dominus."_--How is it that at Cambridge the title of +_Dominus_ is applied to B.A.'s, while at Oxford it is confined to the +doctorate? + +W. FRASER. + +Tor-Mohun. + +_The De Rous Family._--Hugh Rufus, or De Rous, was Bishop of Ossory, A.D. +1202. He had been previously an Augustinian Canon of Bodmin, in Cornwall. +Query, Was he a cadet of the ancient family of De Rous; and if so, what was +his descent? + +JAMES GRAVES. + +_Where was the Fee of S. Sanxon?_--At the end of "Ordericus Vitalis," in +the _Gesta Normannorum_, is a list called the "Feoda Normanniæ," wherein, +under the title "Feoda Ebroic.," occurs the entry: + + "S. Sanxon dim. f. in friche." + +Francis Drake, in his _Antiquities of York_, London, 1736, p. 70., speaks +of "Sampson, or _Sanxo_," the archbishop of that see; and elsewhere +mentions the parish church of S. Sampson, "called by some Sanxo." + +What I wish to ask is, Where was this half fee of S. Sanxon? Whether it had +any connexion with Sanson sur Rille? And whether it was the place from +which "Ralph de S. Sanson" or "Sanson Clericus" of the _Domesday Book_, who +was afterwards Bishop of Worcester, derived his name? + +* * + +_Russian Emperors._--Is there any truth in a rumour that was current two or +three years since respecting the limited period that was placed upon the +reign of any Russian monarch? Twenty-five years was the time stated, at the +termination of which the Emperor had to abdicate. As this period has +elapsed, and no abdication has taken place by the present Autocrat, some +one may perhaps be able to state how such a statement originated, and upon +what grounds? + +THOS. CROSFIELD. + +_Episcopal Insignia of the Eastern Church._--Having seen in a late number +of the _Illustrated London News_ (Feb. 11, 1854) a peculiarly shaped +episcopal staff, with a cross rising from between two in-curved dragons' +heads, which is represented in the hand of the metropolitan of Wallachia, I +would be glad to know whether this form is peculiar to any branch of the +Eastern Church. A reference to a work of authority on the subject will +oblige a provincialist. + +JAMES GRAVES. + +_Amontillado Sherry._--What is the real meaning of this epithet? A friend, +who had travelled in Spain, and visited some famous cellars at Xeres, told +me that the peculiar flavour of the Amontillado Sherry was always an +accidental result of mixing butts of wine brought to the merchant by a +variety of growers. I mentioned this to another friend who had the wine on +his table; and he ridiculed the account, saying that the Amontillado Sherry +was from a grape peculiar to the district. What district, I could not +ascertain. + +ALFRED GATTY. + +_Col. Michael Smith's Family._--Perhaps some of your readers may be enabled +to give me some information of the family of Smith, to which Col. Michael +Smith, Lieut.-Governor of Nevis about 1750, belongs. + +A WEST INDIAN. + +_Pronunciation of Foreign Names._--How shall we pronounce Sinope, Citate, +and many other words which are now becoming familiar to our eyes? I think +the bookseller who should give us a vocabulary of proper names of foreign +persons and places, with the correct pronunciation attached, would be +encouraged by an extensive sale. So far as my knowledge extends, such a +work is a desideratum. + +THINKS I TO MYSELF. + +_Artesian Wells._--One who is about to dig a well on his land would be glad +to know:--1. Whether, in all cases, artesian wells are preferable? 2. If +yes, why they are not universally adopted, and whether they are more +expensive then the common sort? 3. If not preferable in all cases, in what +cases they are preferable? + +STYLITES. + +_Norman Towers in London._--Can you inform me it there is any other church +in the city of London with a Norman tower, besides Allhallows, Mark Lane? +which, by the bye, has been colour-washed: I suppose, to preserve it! + +J. W. BROWN. + +_Papyrus._--Where, or of whom, can a specimen of Papyrus be obtained? + +R. H. + +Islington. + +_Mathew, a Cornish Family._--I am anxious to know the connexion of a family +of Mathew, late of Tresungar, co. Cornwall, with any stock in Wales; and I +will gladly defray any necessary expense of search, if can attain this +object. The descent of a family of the name, apparently the same from the +arms, in an old recueil of Devonshire families, is headed "nuper de +Walliâ;" and a visitation of that county ascribes their bearing {223} (a +stork) to a marriage with an heir of Starkey, which I have been unable to +verify. A Visitation of Cornwall, to which I have had access, gives a +grant, or probably a confirmation of the arms by Cooke. If this celebrated +Herald's grants are on record, some clew would probably be found; but I +doubt not that many of your readers well versed in genealogical research +can readily answer my Query, and I trust to their kindness to do so. + +B. + +Birkenhead. + + * * * * * + + +Minor Queries with Answers. + +_Bunyan's Descendants._--As a recent Query respecting John Bunyan may lead +to some notices of his descendants, perhaps I may be informed in what +edition of his works it is stated that a branch of his family settled in +Nottingham? for I find in the burgess-roll of that borough that George +Bunyan was entered freeman in 1752. William Bunyan, lieutenant in the navy, +1767; Thomas Bunyan, hosier, 1776. In event of the above story being +verified, a pedigree may possibly be extracted hereafter from the parish +registers of the town. As far as my own examination goes, the editions in +the British Museum afford no corroboration to what I have heard. + +FURVUS. + +Plumstead Common. + + [We have been favoured with the following article on this subject from + George Offor, Esq., of Hackney: + + "_Where are John Bunyan's Descendants?_--It is natural to inquire after + the ancestors and descendants of great men, although experience proves + that intellectual greatness runs not in blood, for earth's _great_ and + most illustrious sons descended from and left descendants who merged + among the masses of her _little_ ones. Of his ancestors Bunyan boasted + not, but pleaded with the readers of the first edition of his _Sighs + from Hell_, 'Be not ashamed to own me because of my low and + contemptible descent in the world.' From the life of the great dreamer, + appended to my second edition of Bunyan's works (Blackie, Glasgow), it + appears that he left three children: Thomas, a valuable member of his + church; Joseph, who settled in Nottingham; and Sarah. Joseph is named + by one of Bunyan's earliest biographers, who told his father that 'a + worthy citizen of London would take him apprentice without money, which + might be a great means to advance him; but he replied to me, _God did + not send him to advance his family, but to preach the Gospel_.' + + "The Rev. J. H. A. Rudd of Bedford and Elstow has most kindly searched + the registers of Elstow and Goldington, and has discovered some + interesting entries; and, as his numerous engagements will permit, he + will search the registry of the parish churches in Bedford and its + vicinity. Information would be most acceptable relative to Bunyan's + father and mother, his two wives, and his children, John, Elizabeth, + and Mary, who died in his life-time; and also as to Joseph. If your + correspondent FURVUS would search the registers at Nottingham, he might + discover some valuable records of that branch of the family. Bunyan is + said to have been baptized about 1653; and in the Elstow register it + appears that his daughter Mary was registered as _baptized_ July 20, + 1650, while his next daughter, Elizabeth, is on the register as _born_ + April 14, 1654, showing the change in his principles, as to infant + baptism, to have taken place between those periods. The family Bible + given by John Bunyan to his son Joseph, now in my possession, confirms + the statement verbally communicated to me by his descendant Mrs. + Senegar, that her great-grandfather Joseph, having conformed to please + his rich wife, was anxious to conceal his affinity to the illustrious + tinker. The registers contained in it begin with Joseph's son Thomas + and Susannah his wife, and it is continued to Robert Bunyan, born 1775, + and who was lately living at Lincoln. I should be most happy to show + the Bible and copies of registers in my possession to any one who will + undertake to form a genealogy." + + GEORGE OFFOR.] + +_Epigram on Dennis._-- + + "Should Dennis publish you had stabb'd your brother, + Lampoon'd your monarch, or debauch'd your mother," &c. + +is printed as by Savage in Johnson's _Life of Savage_. In the notes to _The +Dunciad_, i. 106., it is said to be by Pope. _Utri credemus?_ + +S. Z. Z. S. + + [From the fact, that this epigram was not only attributed to Pope, in + the notes to the second edition of _The Dunciad_, published in 1729, + but also in those of 1743, the joint edition of Pope and Warburton, and + both published before the death of Pope, it seems extremely probable + that he was the author of it; more especially as he had been + exasperated by a twopenny tract, of which Dennis was suspected to be + the writer, called _A True Character of Mr. Pope and his Writings_; + printed for S. Popping, 1716. D'Israeli however, in his _Calamities of + Authors_, art. "The Influence of a bad Temper in Criticism," quoting it + from Dr. Johnson, conjectures it was written on the following occasion: + "Thomson and Pope charitably supported the veteran Zoilus at a benefit + play, and Savage, who had nothing but a verse to give, returned them + very poetical thanks in the name of Dennis. He was then blind and old, + but his critical ferocity had no old age; his surliness overcame every + grateful sense, and he swore as usual, 'They could be no one's but that + _fool_ Savage's,' an evidence of his sagacity and brutality. This + perhaps prompted 'the fool' to take this fair revenge and just + chastisement." After all, Dr. Johnson, who was at that time narrating + Savage's intimate acquaintance with Pope, may have attributed to the + former what seems to have been the production of the latter.] + +_Football played on Shrove Tuesday._--The people of this and the +neighbouring towns invariably play at football on Shrove Tuesday. What is +the origin of the custom? and does it extend to other counties? + +J. P. S. + +Dorking. + + ["Shrove-tide," says Warton, "was formerly a season of extraordinary + sport and feasting. There was {224} anciently a feast immediately + preceding Lent, which lasted many days, called _Carniscapium_. In some + cities of France an officer was annually chosen, called Le Prince + d'Amoreux, who presided over the sports of the youth for six days + before Ash Wednesday. Some traces of these festivities still remain in + our Universities." In these degenerate days more is known, we suspect, + of pancakes and fritters, than of a football match and a + cock-fight:--the latter, we are happy to say, is now almost forgotten + among us. As to the pancake custom, no doubt that is most religiously + observed by the readers of "N. & Q.," in obedience to the rubric of the + _Oxford Sausage_: + + "Let glad Shrove Tuesday bring the pancake thin, + Or fritter rich, with apples stored within." + + According to Fitz-Stephen, "After dinner, all the youths go into the + fields to play at the ball. The scholars of every school have their + ball and bastion in their hands. The ancient and wealthy men of the + city come forth on horseback to see the sport of the young men, and to + take part of the pleasure, in beholding their agility." And till within + the last few years: + + "... The humble play + Of trap or football on a holiday, + In Finsbury fields,"-- + + was sufficiently common in the neighbourhood of London and other + places. See Brande's _Popular Antiquities_, vol. i. pp. 63-94. (Bohn's + edition), and Hone's _Every-Day Book_, vol. i. pp. 244. 255-260.] + +_Vossioner; its Meaning._--In looking over a parcel of brass rubbings made +some years since, I find the word _vossioner_ used, and not knowing its +signification, I should be glad to be enlightened on the subject; but, in +order to enable your readers to judge more correctly, I think it better to +copy the whole of the epitaph in which the word occurs. The plate is in +Ufton Church, near Southam, county Warwick; it measures eighteen inches in +width by sixteen deep. + + "Here lyeth the boddyes of Richard Hoddomes, Parsson and Pattron and + _Vossioner_ of the Churche and Parishe of Oufton, in the Countie of + Warrike, who died one Mydsomer Daye, 1587. And Margerye his Wiffe + w^{th} _her_ seven Childryn, as namelye, Richard, _John_, and _John_, + Anne, Jane, Elizabeth, Ayles, _his_ iiii Daughters, _whose soule_ + restethe with God." + +I give the epitaph _verbatim_, with its true orthography. There are some +curious points in this epitaph. First, the date of the death of the +clergyman only is given; second, the children are called _hers_, while the +four daughters are _his_; and two of the sons bear the same Christian name, +whilst only one _soul_ is said to rest with God. The family is represented +kneeling. Above the inscription, and between the clergyman and his lady, is +a desk, on which is represented two books lying open before them. + +J. B. WHITBORNE. + + [Vossioner seems to be corruption of the Italian _vossignor_, your + lord, or the lord, _i.e._ owner or proprietor. Many similar words were + introduced by the Italian ecclesiastics inducted into Church livings + during the sixteenth century. The inscription is given in Dugdale's + _Warwickshire_, vol. i. p. 358.] + +_The Game of Chess._--At what period was the noble game of chess introduced +into the British Isles; and to whom are we indebted for its introduction +among us? + +B. ASHTON. + + [The precise date of the introduction of this game into Britain is + uncertain. What has been collected respecting it will be found in the + Hon. Daines Barrington's paper in _Archæologia_, vol. ix. p. 28.; and + in Hyde's treatise, _Mandragorias, seu Historia Shahiludii_. Oxoniæ, + 1694.] + +_A Juniper Letter._--Fuller, in describing a letter written by Bishop +Grosthead to Pope Innocent IV., makes use of a curious epithet, of which I +should be glad to meet with another instance, if it be not simply a +"Fullerism": + + "Bishop Grouthead offended thereat, wrote Pope Innocent IV. such a + _juniper letter_, taxing him with extortion and other vicious + practices."--_Church History_, book III., A.D. 1254. + +J. M. B. + + ["A juniper lecture," meaning a round scolding bout, is still in use + among the canting gentry.] + + * * * * * + + +Replies. + +CLARENCE. + +(Vol. ix., p. 85.) + +Clarence is beyond all doubt the district comprehending and lying around +the town and castle of Clare in Suffolk, and not, as some have fancifully +supposed, the town of Chiarenza in the Morea. Some of the crusaders did, +indeed, acquire titles of honour derived from places in eastern lands, but +certainly no such place ever gave its name to an honorary feud held of the +crown of England, nor, indeed, has _ever_ any English sovereign to this day +bestowed a territorial title derived from a place beyond the limits of his +own nominal dominions; the latest creations of the kind being the earldoms +of Albemarle and Tankerville, respectively bestowed by William III. and +George I., who were both nominally kings of Great Britain, _France_, and +Ireland. In ancient times every English title (with the exception of +Aumerle or Albemarle, which exception is only an apparent one) was either +personal, or derived from some place in England. The ancient earls of +Albemarle were not English peers by virtue of that earldom, but by virtue +of the tenure of lands in England, though, being the holders of a Norman +earldom, they were known in England by their higher designation, just as +some of the {225} Barons De Umfravill were styled, even in writs of +summons, by their superior Scottish title of Earl of Angos. If these earls +had not held English fees, they would not have been peers of England any +more than were the ancient Earls of Tankerville and Eu. In later times the +strictness of the feudal law was so far relaxed, that in two or three +instances English peers were created with territorial titles derived from +places in the Duchy of Normandy. + +As to the locality of Clarence, see Sandford's _Genealogical History_, +1707, p. 222. There is a paper on the subject in the _Gentleman's Magazine_ +for November, 1850. The king of arms called Clarenceux, or in Latin +_Clarentius_, was, as it has been very reasonably conjectured, originally a +herald retained by a Duke of Clarence. (Noble's _History of the College of +Arms_, p. 61.) Hoping ere long to send you some notes respecting certain +real or seeming anomalies amongst our English dignities, I reserve some +particulars which may, perhaps, farther elucidate the present question. + +GOLDENCROSS. + +Your correspondent HONORÉ DE MAREVILLE has wandered too far in going to the +Morea to search for this title. Clare in Suffolk was one of the ninety-five +manors in that county bestowed by the Conqueror upon Richard Fitzgilbert, +who (as well as his successor Gilbert) resided at Tunbridge, and bore the +surname of De Tonebruge. His grandson Richard, the first Earl of Hertford, +fixed his principal seat at Clare, and thenceforth the family took the +surname of De Clare; and in the Latin documents of the time the several +members of it were styled _Ricardus_ (or _Gilbertus_), _Dominus Clarensis_, +_Comes Hertfordiensis_. The name of the lordship thus becoming the family +surname, it is easy to see how in common usage the formal epithet +_Clarensis_ soon became Clarence, and why Lionel, the son of Edward III., +upon his marriage with Elizabeth de Burgh, the grand-niece and heiress of +the last Gilbertus Clarensis, should choose as the title for his dukedom +the surname of the great family of which he had now become the +representative. + +VOKAROS. + + * * * * * + +MILTON'S WIDOW. + +(Vol. viii., pp. 12. 134. 200. 375. 452. 471. 544. 594.) + +GARLICHITHE is again on the wrong scent. In his first communication on this +subject, he allowed himself to go astray by mistaking Randle Minshull the +_grandfather_ for Randle Minshull the _son_; and now, with the like +fatality, he fails to discriminate between Richard Minshull the _uncle_, +and Richard Minshull the _brother_, of Elizabeth Milton. A second +examination of my Reply in Vol. viii., p. 200., will suffice to show him +that Richard Minshull, the party to the deed there quoted, was named by me +as the _brother_, and not the _uncle_, of Milton's widow, and that +therefore his argument, based on disparity of age, &c., falls to the +ground. On the other hand, Richard Minshull of Chester, to whom the letter +alluded to was addressed, was the brother of Randle Minshull of Wistaston, +and by the same token, uncle of Elizabeth Milton, and of Richard Minshull, +her brother and co-partner in the deed already referred to. + +GARLICHITHE, and all others who have taken an interest in this discussion, +will now, I trust, see clearly that there has been nothing adduced by +either MR. MARSH or myself inconsistent with ages or dates; but that, on +the contrary, all our premises and conclusions are borne out by evidence +clear, irreproachable, and incontestable. + +All objections being now, as I conceive, fully combated and disposed of, +the substance of our investigations may be summed up in a very few words. +The statement of Pennant, adopted by all succeeding writers, to the effect +that Elizabeth, the widow of John Milton, was a daughter of Sir Edward +Minshull of Stoke, is clearly proved to be a fiction. It has been farther +proved, from the parish registers, as well as from bonds and other +documentary evidence, that she was, without doubt, the daughter of Randle +Minshull of Wistaston, a village about three miles from Nantwich; that she +was the cousin of Milton's familiar friend, Dr. Paget, and as such became +entitled to a legacy under the learned Doctor's will, and that she is +expressly named by Richard Minshull as his sister in the deed before +quoted. + +T. HUGHES. + +Chester. + + * * * * * + +THREE FLEURS-DE-LYS. + +(Vol. ix., pp. 35. 113.) + +DEVONIENSIS is informed that an example of this occurs in the arms of King +James's School, Almondbury, Yorkshire. The impression, as taken from the +great seal of the school, in which however the colours are not +distinguished, may be imperfectly described as follows: Three lions (two +over one) passant gardant ----, on a chief ----, three fleurs-de-lys ----. + +As it is not unlikely that some other of King James's foundations may have +the same arms, it would be considered a favour if any reader of "N. & Q." +possessing the information would communicate the proper colours in this +case, or even the probable ones. + +CAMELODUNENSIS. + +DEVONIENSIS is quite right in supposing that the bearing of three +fleurs-de-lys alone, horizontal, in the upper part of the shield,--in other +words, {226} in chief, fess-ways,--is a very rare occurrence. I know of no +instance of it in English blazon. Coupled with another and principal +charge, as a fess, a chevron, a lion, &c.; or in a chief, it is common +enough. Nor have I ever met with an example of it in French coat-armour. An +English family, named Rothfeld, but apparently of German extraction, gives: +Gules, two fleurs-de-lys, in chief, ermine. Du Guesclin bore nothing like a +fleur-de-lys in any way. The armorial bearings of the famous Constable +were: Argent, a double-headed eagle, displayed, sable, crowned, or, +debruised of a bend, gules. + +JOHN O' THE FORD. + +Malta. + +P.S.--Since writing the above, I have read three replies (Vol. ix., p. +84.), which do not appear to me to exactly meet the Query of DEVONIENSIS. + +I understand the question to be, does any English family bear simply three +fleurs-de-lys, in chief, fess-ways--without any additional charge? And in +that sense my reply above is framed. + +The first example given by MR. MACKENZIE WALCOTT would be most satisfactory +and conclusive of the existence of such a bearing, could it be verified; +but, unfortunately, in the _Heraldic Dictionaries_ of Berry and Burke, the +name even of Trilleck or Trelleck does not occur. And in Malta, I have no +opportunity of consulting Edmondson or Robson. + +Your correspondent A. B. (p. 113.) has mistaken the three white lilies for +fleurs-de-lys in the arms of Magdalen College, Oxford. Waynflete, the +founder, was also Provost of Eton, and adopted the device from the bearings +of that illustrious school; by which they were borne in allusion to St. +Mary, to whom that College is dedicated. + +MACKENZIE WALCOTT, M.A. + + * * * * * + +BOOKS BURNED BY THE COMMON HANGMAN. + +(Vol. viii., pp. 272. 346. 625.; Vol. ix., p. 78.) + +The well-known law dictionary, entitled _The Interpreter_, by John Cowel, +LL.D., was burned (1610) under a proclamation of James I. (D'Israeli's +_Calamities of Authors_, ed. 1840, p. 133.) + +In June, 1622, the Commentary of David Pare, or Paræus _On the Epistle to +the Romans_, was burned at London, Oxford, and Cambridge, by order of the +Privy Council. (Wood's _Hist. and Antiq. of Univ. of Oxford_, ed. Gutch, +vol. ii. pp. 341-345.; Cooper's _Annals of Cambridge_, vol. iii. pp. 143, +144.) + +On the 12th of February, 1634, _Elenchus Religionis Papisticæ_, by John +Bastwicke, M.D., was ordered to be burned by the High Commission Court. +(Prynne's _New Discovery of the Prelates' Tyranny_, p. 132.) + +On the 10th of February, 1640-1 the House of Lords ordered that two books +published by John Pocklington, D.D., entitled _Altare Christianum_, and +_Sunday no Sabbath_, should be publicly burned in the city of London and +the two Universities, by the hands of the common executioner; and on the +10th of March the House ordered the Sheriffs of London and the +Vice-Chancellors of both the Universities, forthwith to take care and see +the order of the House carried into execution. (_Lords' Journals_, vol. iv. +pp. 161. 180.) + +On the 13th of August, 1660, Charles II. issued a proclamation against +Milton's _Defensio pro Populo Anglicano_, his _Answer to the Portraiture of +his Sacred Majesty in his Solitude and Sufferings_, and a book by John +Goodwin, late of Coleman Street, London, Clerk, entitled _The Obstructors +of Justice_. All copies of these books were to be brought to the sheriffs +of counties, who were to cause the same to be publicly burned by the hands +of the common hangman at the next assizes. (Kennett's _Register and +Chronicle_, p. 207.) This proclamation is also printed in Collet's _Relics +of Literature_, with the inaccurate date 1672, and the absurd statement +that no copy of the proclamation was discovered till 1797. + +In January, 1692-3, a pamphlet by Charles Blount, Esq., entitled _King +William and Queen Mary, Conquerors, &c._, was burned by the common hangman +in Palace Yard, Westminster. (Bohun's _Autobiography_, ed. S. W. Rix, vol. +xxiv. pp. 106, 109. 113.; Wilson's _Life of De Foe_, vol. i. p. 179 _n_.) + +The same parliament consigned to the flames Bishop Burnet's _Pastoral +Letter_, which had been published 1689. (Wilson's _Life of De Foe_, vol. i. +p. 179.) + +On the 31st of July, 1693, the second volume of Anthony à Wood's _Athenæ +Oxonienses_ was burned in the Theatre Yard at Oxford by the Apparitor of +the University, in pursuance of the sentence of the University Court in a +prosecution for a libel on the memory of Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon. +(_Life of Mr. Anthony à Wood_, ed. 1772, p. 377.) + +On the 25th of February, 1702-3, the House of Commons ordered De Foe's +_Shortest Way with the Dissenters_ to be burned by the hands of the common +hangman on the morrow in New Palace Yard. (Wilson's _Life of De Foe_, vol. +ii. p. 62.) + +In or about 1709, John Humphrey, an aged non-conformist minister, having +published a pamphlet against the Test, and circulated it amongst the +members of parliament, was cited before a committee, and his work was +ordered to be burned by the common hangman. (Wilson's _Life of De Foe_, +vol. iii. p. 52.) + +The _North Briton_, No. 45., was on the 3rd of December, 1763, burned by +the common hangman at the Royal Exchange, by order of the House of {227} +Commons. The following account is from Malcolm's _Anecdotes of London_, +4to., 1808, p. 282.: + + "The 3rd of December was appointed for this silly ceremony, which took + place before the Royal Exchange, amidst the hisses and execrations of + the mob, not directed at the obnoxious paper, but at Alderman Harley, + the sheriffs, and constables, the latter of whom were compelled to + fight furiously through the whole business. The instant the hangman + held the work to a lighted link it was beat to the ground, and the + populace, seizing the faggots prepared to complete its destruction, + fell upon the peace-officers and fairly threshed them from the field; + nor did the alderman escape without a contusion on the head, inflicted + by a bullet thrown through the glass of his coach; and several other + persons had reason to repent the attempt to burn that publicly which + the _sovereign people_ determined to approve, who afterwards exhibited + a large _jack-boot_ at Temple Bar, and burnt it in triumph, unmolested, + as a species of retaliation." + +I am not aware that what Mr. Malcolm terms a "silly ceremony" has been +repeated since 1763. + +C. H. COOPER. + +Cambridge. + +I know not whether you have noticed the following: + + "Droit le Roy; or, A Digest of the Rights and Prerogatives of the + Imperial Crown of Great Britain. By a Member of the Society of + Lincoln's Inn. 'Dieu et Mon Droit.' [Royal Arms, with G. R.] London: + printed and sold by W. Griffin, in Fetter Lane, MDCCLXIV." + +Lord Mahon (_History of England_, vol. v. p. 175.) says: + + "It was also observed, and condemned as a shallow artifice, that the + House of Lords, to counterbalance their condemnation of Wilkes's + violent democracy, took similar measures against a book of exactly + opposite principles. This was a treatise or collection of precedents + lately published under the title of _Droit le Roy_, to uphold the + prerogative of the crown against the rights of the people. The Peers, + on the motion of Lord Lyttleton, seconded by the Duke of Grafton, voted + this book 'a false, malicious, and traitorous libel, inconsistent with + the principles of the Revolution to which we owe the present happy + establishment;' they ordered that it should be burned by the hands of + the common hangman, and that the author should be taken into custody. + The latter part of the sentence, however, no one took any pains to + execute. The author was one Timothy Brecknock, a hack scribbler, who, + twenty years afterwards, was hanged for being accessary to an atrocious + murder in Ireland." + +A copy of the book (an octavo of xii. and 95 pages) is in my possession. It +was apparently a presentation copy, and formerly belonged to Dr. Disney; at +whose sale it was purchased by the late Richard Heber, as his MS. note +testifies. Against the political views which this book advocates, I say not +one word; as a legal treatise it is simply despicable. + +H. GOUGH. + +Lincoln's Inn. + +The following extract is at the service of BALLIOLENSIS: + + "In the seventh year of King James I., Dr. Cowel's _Interpreter_ was + censured by the two Houses, as asserting several points to the + overthrow and destruction of Parliaments and of the fundamental laws + and government of the kingdom. And one of the articles charged upon him + to this purpose by the Commons, in their complaint to the Lords, was, + as Mr. Petyt says, out of the _Journal_, this that follows: + + "'4thly. The Doctor draws his arguments from the imperial laws of the + Roman Emperors, an argument which may be urged with as great reason, + and with as great authority, for the reduction of the state and the + clergy of England to the polity and laws in the time of those Emperors; + as also to make the laws and customs of Rome and Constantinople to be + binding and obligatory in the cities of London and York.' + + "The issue of which complaint was, that the author, for these his + outlandish politics, was taken into custody, and his book condemned to + the flames: nor could the dedication of it to his then grace of + Canterbury save it."--Atterbury's _Rights, Powers, and Privileges of + Convocation_, p. 7. of Preface. + +WM. FRASER, B.C.L. + +Tor-Mohun. + +I possess a copy of _The Case of Ireland being bound by Acts of Parliament +in England stated_, by William Molyneux of Dublin, Esq., which appears to +have been literally "plucked as brand from the burning," as a considerable +portion of it is consumed by fire. I have cut the following from a sale +catalogue just sent to me from Dublin: + + "Smith's (Matthew) _Memoirs of Secret Service_, Lond. 1696. Written by + Charles, Earl of Peterborough, and is very scarce, being burnt by the + hangman. MS. note." + +JAMES GRAVES. + +Kilkenny. + +A decree of the University of Oxford, made July 21, 1683, condemning George +Buchanan's treatise _De jure regni apud Scotos_, and certain other books, +the names of which I do not know, was on March 25, 1710, ordered by the +House of Lords to be burned by the hangman. This was shortly after the +trial of Dr. Sacheverel. + +W. P. STORER. + +Olney, Bucks. + + * * * * * + +DIFFERENT PRODUCTIONS OF DIFFERENT CARCASES. + +(Vol. vi., p. 263.) + +Up to a very recent period, it was held, even by philosophers, that each of +the four elements, as well as every _living_ plant and animal, both {228} +brute and human, generated insects; but of all sources of this equivocal +generation, none was considered more potent than the putrefaction or +corruption of animal matter: as Du Bartas says: + + "God, not contented to each kind to give, + And to infuse the virtue generative, + By His wise power, made many creatures breed, + Of _lifeless bodies_ without Venus' deed." + _Sixth Day._ + +Pliny, after giving Virgil's receipt for making bees, gives similar +instances: + + "Like as dead horses will breed waspes and hornets; and asses carrion, + turne to be beetle-flies by a certaine metamorphosis which Nature + maketh from one creature to another."--Lib. xi. c. xx. + +And soon after he says of wasps: + + "All the sorte of these live upon flesh, contrarie to _the manner of + bees, which will not touch a dead carcasse_." + +This brings Shakepeare's lines to mind: + + " 'Tis seldom when the bee doth leave her comb + In the _dead carrion_." + _Henry IV._, Part II. Act IV. Sc. 4. + +The _Belfast News Letter_ of Friday, Aug. 10, 1832, gives one of these rare +occurrences: + + "A few days ago, when the sexton was digging a grave in Temple Cranney + (a burying-place in Portaferry, co. Down), he came to a coffin which + had been there two or three years: this he thought necessary to remove. + In this operation, he was startled by a great quantity of wild bees + issuing forth from the coffin; and upon lifting the lid, it was found + that they had formed their combs in the dead man's skull and mouth, + which were full. The nest was made of the hair of the head, together + with shavings that had been put in the coffin with the corpse." + +This quotation is given in an interesting work of Mr. Patterson's, _Letters +on the Natural History of the Insects mentioned in Shakspeare's Plays_: +London, 1838. + +Your correspondent R. T. shows that _serpents_ were supposed to be +generated by _human_ carcases. Pliny says: + + "I have heard many a man say that the _marrow of a man's backebone_ + will breed to a snake."--_Hist. Nat._, x. 66. + +The story of the "fair young German gentleman" reminds me of one of a +gentle shepherd and his beloved Amarante, told in De Britaine's _Human +Prudence_, 12th edit., Dublin, 1726, Part I. p. 171. The corpse of the +"Cæsar," seen by St. Augustine and Monica, was most probably that of +Maximus, Emperor of the West, slain by the soldiers of Theodosius, A.D. +388. + +Sir Thos. Browne--"treating of the conceit that the mandrake grows under +gallowses, and arises from the fat, or [Greek: ouron], of the dead +malefactor, and hence has the form of a man--says: + + "This is so far from being verified of animals in their corruptive + mutations into plants, that they maintain not this similitude in their + nearer translation into animals. So when the ox corrupteth into bees, + or the horse into hornets, they come not forth in the image of their + originals. So the corrupt and excrementitious humours in man are + animated into lice: and we may observe that hogs, sheep, goats, hawks, + hens, and others, have one peculiar and proper kind of + vermin."--_Works_, Bohn's edit., vol. i. p. 197. + +The editor furnishes the following note: + + "The immortal Harvey, in his _De Generations_, struck the first blow at + the root of the irrational system called _equivocal generation_, when + he laid down his brief but most pungent law, _Omnia ex ovo_. But the + belief transmitted from antiquity, that living beings generated + spontaneously from putrescent matter, long maintained its ground, and a + certain modification of it is even still advocated by some naturalists + of the greatest acuteness. The first few pages of the volume entitled + _Insect Transformations_ (in _The Library of Entertaining Knowledge_) + are occupied by a very interesting investigation of this subject."--See + also Sir T. Browne's _Works_, vol. i. p. 378., vol. ii. pp. 523, 524.; + and Izaak Walton's _Complete Angler_, passim. + +The equivocal generation of bees is copiously dwelt on in Bochart's +_Hierozoicon_, London, 1663, fol., Part II. p. 502. Instances of their +attaching themselves to dead bodies, in spite of their ordinary antipathy, +are given at p. 506. + +EIRIONNACH. + + * * * * * + +VANDYKE IN AMERICA. + +(Vol. viii., pp. 182. 228.) + +To your correspondent C. I would say, that his observation--that the Query +was as to an _engraving_, whilst my answer was as to a _picture_--is not +true; as I am sure, from memory, that MR. WESTMACOTT used the word +"portraits." But I plead in extenuation of my pretended grave offence, 1. +That the Query was not propounded by C., but by a gentleman to whom the +information given might be, as I supposed, of some interest; more +particularly as I referred to the _Travels_ of an Englishman, both of +which, author and work, were accessible. 2. That, in common with the +American readers of "N. & Q.," I regarded it as "a journal of +inter-communication," through whose columns information might be asked for, +the request to be treated with the same consideration and courtesy as +though addressed to each individual subscriber. I may add that LORD +BRAYBROOKE and MR. WODDERSPOON (Vol. iv., p. 17.) have urged "the necessity +for recording the existence of painted historical portraits, scattered, as +we know they are," &c. {229} + +Now, as to the expression "worthies, famous in English history." I presume +I need do no more concerning its application to Lord Orrery, Sir Robert +Walpole, &c., than say, it was used as signifying "men of mark," without +intending to endorse their "worth" either morally, mentally, or +politically; its application to Colonel Hill and Colonel Byrd, as meaning +"men of worth," might, did your limits permit, be defended on high grounds. + +Then as to the possibility of Vandyke's having painted the portraits. If C. +will have the kindness to look at C. Campbell's _History of Virginia_, he +will find,-- + + "1654. At a meeting of the Assembly, William Hatchin, having been + convicted of having called Colonel Edward Hill 'an atheist and + blasphemer,' was compelled to make acknowledgment of his offence upon + his knees before Colonel Hill and the Assembly." + +This Colonel Hill, generally known as Colonel Edward Hill the Elder, a +gentleman of great wealth, built the mansion at Shirley, where his +portrait, brought from England, hangs in the same place, in the same hall +in which he had it put up. It represents a youth in pastoral costume, crook +in hand, flocks in the background. By a comparison of dates, C. will find +it possible for Vandyke to have painted it. (See Bryan's _Engravers and +Painters_.) It has descended, along with the estate, to his lineal +representative, the present owner. Its authenticity rests upon _tradition_ +coupled with the foregoing facts, as far as I know (though the family may +have abundant documentary proof), and I doubt very much whether many +"Vandykes in England" are better ascertained. I would add that several +English gentlemen, among them, as I have heard, a distinguished ambassador +recently in this country, recognised it as a Vandyke. This picture, amongst +others, was injured by the balls fired from the vessels which ascended the +James river, under command of General Arnold, then a British officer. On +the younger Mr. Hill's tomb at Shirley is a coat of arms, a copy of which, +had I one to send, would probably point out his family in England.[2] + +As to Colonel Byrd's portrait. There were, I believe, three gentlemen of +this name and title, more or less confounded in reputation, the second of +whom, generally known as "Colonel Byrd the Elder," by reason of his son's +history, was born in 1674. The picture is of his _father_, that is, of +"old," or "the first Colonel Byrd," and is in the same style as that of +Colonel Hill's, representing a shepherd lad. He was an English gentleman of +great wealth, and certainly of some benevolence. In Campbell's _Virginia_, +p. 104. (see also Oldmixon, vol. i. p. 427.), it is stated, 1690, a large +body of Huguenots were sent to Virginia. "The refugees found in Colonel +Byrd, of Westover, a generous benefactor. Each settler was allowed a strip +of land running back from the river to the foot of the hill (Henrico +County). Here they raised cattle," &c. He sent his son to England to be +educated under the care of a friend, Sir Robert Southwell. The son became a +Fellow of the Royal Society, "was the intimate and bosom friend of the +learned and illustrious Charles Boyle, Earl of Orrery," was the author of +the _Westover MSS._ (mentioned in Oldmixon's preface, 2nd ed.), portions of +which, "Progress to the Mines," "History of the Dividing Line," &c., have +been printed, others are in the library of the American Philosophical +Society.[3] His portrait is "by Kneller, a fine old cavalier face," says +Campbell. The letters received at Westover might prove not uninteresting +even to C., seeing that there were so many titled people among the writers; +and to a gentleman of education and intelligence, the Westover library +would have been a treasure-house. In the Loganian Library in this city is a +large MS. folio, whose title-page declares it to be "a catalogue of books +in the library at Westover, belonging to William Byrd, Esq.," from which it +appears that in Law there were the English reporters (beginning with Y. B.) +and text-writers, laws of France, Scotland, Rome (various editions of +Pandects, &c.); Canon Law, with numerous approved commentators on each. In +Physic a great many works, which, as I am told, were, and some still are, +of high repute: I note only one, _Poor Planter's Physician interleaved_. +This, to every one who has been upon a great Virginia plantation, bespeaks +the benevolence characteristic of the proprietors of Westover. In Divinity, +besides pages of orthodox divines, Bibles in various languages (several in +Hebrew, one in seven vols.), are Socinius, Bellarmine, &c. The works on +Metallurgy, Natural History, Metaphysics, Military Science, Heraldry, +Navigation, Music, &c., are very numerous; and either of the collections of +history, or entertainment, or classics, or political science, would form no +inconsiderable library of itself. {230} An impression of Colonel Byrd's +book-plate, given by a friend, is enclosed. I must add that the pictures at +Brandon are at that mansion, through the marriage of Mr. Harrison (a signer +of the Declaration of Independence) with the daughter of the third Colonel +Byrd. + +I have occupied much more space than I intended, but I have said enough I +hope to show, 1. That it is possible, from dates, from the character, +wealth, and position of Mr. Byrd and Mr. Hill, together with the length of +time the pictures have remained in the respective families, for Vandyke to +have painted these portraits. 2. That as men who directed the energies, +developed the resources, of our infant settlements, who brought hither the +products of science, literature, and art, who exhibited the refinements of +birth, the graces of good breeding, yet were always ready to serve their +country in the field or in the council, Mr. Byrd and Mr. Hill are vastly +more worthy of commemoration and reverence than all the Earls of +Dredlington that ever sat at his majesty's Board of Green Cloth. + +J. BALCH. + +Philadelphia. + +[Footnote 2: It is curious to observe how matters of history appear and +disappear as it were. "The mighty Tottipottimoy," says Hudibras (part ii. +cant. ii. l. 421.),--on which the Rev. Dr. Nash has this note: "I don't +know whether this is a real name or only an imitation of North-American +phraseology; the appellation of an individual, or a title of +office:"--Tottipottimoy was king of the warlike and powerful Parnunkies, +and was defeated and slain by the Virginians, commanded by Colonel Hill, in +the action from which Bloody Run takes its name.] + +[Footnote 3: There is a curious passage in the Westover MSS. concerning +William Penn, of which Mr. Macaulay should have a copy, unless one has been +already sent to him.] + + * * * * * + + +PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE. + +_Cyanide of Potassium._--It may be interesting to our photographic friends +to know that cyanide of potassium is capable of replacing hyposulphite of +soda in all collodion processes. If used of the strength of five grains to +one ounce of water, no danger need be apprehended from it. Its merits are +cleanliness, quickness of operation, and the minute quantity of water +required for washing the picture fixed therewith. + +J. B. HOCKIN. + +_Mode of exciting Calotype Paper._--I forgot inserting this plan of +exciting in my paper: it is very clean and convenient, simple and sure. +Obtain a piece of plate glass, two or three inches larger than your paper, +level it on a table with a few bits of wood, pour on it your exciting +mixture (say aceto-nitrate and gallic acid, solution of each 20 minims, +distilled water 1 ounce), and spread it evenly over with a scrap of +blotting-paper. Float your paper two minutes, remove and blot off; this +ensures perfect evenness, especially if the paper is large. You may thus +excite half a dozen papers with little more trouble than one. + +THOS. L. MANSELL. + +_The Double Iodide Solution--Purity of Photographic Chemicals._--The +observations of MR. LEACHMAN upon the solvent powers of iodide of potassium +(Vol ix., p. 182.) are perfectly correct, but I believe our photographic +chemicals are often much adulterated. The iodide of potassium is frequently +mixed with the carbonate. DR. MANSELL writes me word, in a comment upon +your note upon his communication, "What I used was _very_ pure, having been +prepared by Mr. Arnold with great care: it was some that had gone to the +Great Exhibition as a sample of Guernsey make, and obtained a medal." I +have this day used exactly seven ounces avoirdupois to make a pint of the +iodizing solution, which, within a few grains, agrees with my former +results. Nitrate of silver, I am informed upon a most respectable +authority, has been adulterated thirty per cent., and without careful +testing has eluded detection; but I am inclined to think our cheapest +article has come in for its largest share of mixture. I have lately +perfectly failed in the removal of the iodide of silver with a _saturated_ +solution of what I purchased as hyposulphite of soda, but which could have +been little else than common Glauber's salts; for upon applying a similar +solution of some which was made by M. Butka of Prague, and supplied me by +Messrs. Simpson and Maule, the effect was almost immediate, demonstrating +how much we are misled in our conclusions, from believing we are +manipulating with the same substances, when in fact they are quite +different. + +HUGH W. DIAMOND. + +_Hyposulphite of Soda Baths._--Is there any objection to using the same +bath (saturated solution of hyposulphite) for fixing both paper calotype +_negatives_ and positives printed on albumenized paper from glass collodion +negatives? + +C. E. F. + + * * * * * + + +Replies to Minor Queries. + +_Daughters taking their Mothers' Names_ (Vol. viii., p.586.).--BURIENSIS +asked for instances of temp. Edw. I., II., III., of a daughter adding to +her own name that of her mother: as Alice, daughter of Ada, &c. Though I am +not able to furnish an instance of a daughter doing so, I can refer him to +a few of sons using that form of surname some years earlier, but the +practice seems very limited. Thus in _Liber de Antiquis Legibus_, published +by the Camden Society, we have, among the early sheriffs of London in 1193, +Willielmus filius Ysabelis, or, as in the appendix 222, Ysabel; in 1200, +Willielmus filius Alicie; in 1213, Martinus filius Alicie; and in 1233 and +1246, Simon filius Marie,--the same person that, as Simon Fitz-Mary, is +known as the founder of the Hospital of St. Mary Bethlehem Without, +Bishopsgate. + +W. S. W. + +Middle Temple. + +_The Young Pretender_ (Vol. ix., p. 177.).--Will CEYREP, or any other +correspondent, furnish me with particulars of the Young Pretender's +marriage with a daughter of the House of Stolberg; her name, place of +burial, &c.? She was descended maternally from the noble House of Bruce, +through the marriage of Thomas, second Earl of Aylesbury and third Earl of +Elgin, with Charlotte (his second wife) Countess of Sannu, or Sannau, of +the House of Argenteau. They had a daughter, Charlotte Maria, I suppose an +only child, who was married in the year 1722 to the Prince of Horn. These +had issue Mary and Elizabeth, whom also I suppose {231} to have been only +children. One of them married the Prince of Stolberg, and the other the +Prince of Salm. One of the descendants of this family was an annuitant on +the estate of the Marquis of Aylesbury, as recently as twelve or fourteen +years ago. Information on any part of this descent would confer an +obligation on + +PATONCE. + +_A Legend of the Hive_ (Vol. ix., p. 167.).--With every feeling of +gratitude to EIRIONNACH, I cannot receive praise for false metre and +erroneous grammar. In the fifth line of the first stanza of the quoted +verse, the first of the above legend, "are" is redundant: and in the first +line of the next stanza, "bore" should be "bare." I remember that in more +cases than one the printer of my published rhymes has perpetrated this +latter mistake. + +Suffer me to reply to a question of the same courteous critic EIRIONNACH, +in Vol. ix., p. 162., about a "Christ-cross-row." This name for the +alphabet obtained in the good old Cornish dame-schools when I was a boy. In +a book that I have seen, there is a vignette of a monk teaching a little +boy to read, and beneath + + "_A Christ-Cross Rhyme._ + + I. + + "Christ his cross shall be my speed! + Teach me, Father John, to read: + That in church, on holy-day, + I may chant the psalm and pray. + + II. + + "Let me learn, that I may know + What the shining windows show; + Where the lovely Lady stands, + With that bright Child in her hands. + + III. + + "Teach me letters one, two, three, + Till that I shall able be + Signs to know and words to frame, + And to spell sweet Jesu's name! + + IV. + + "Then, dear master, will I look + Day and night in that fair book, + Where the tales of saints are told, + With their pictures all in gold. + + V. + + "Teach me, Father John, to say + Vesper-verse and matin-lay; + So when I to God shall plead, + Christ his cross will be my speed!" + +H. OF MORWENSTOW. + +_Hoby Family_ (Vol. viii., p. 244.; Vol. ix., pp. 19. 58.).--Sir Philip +Hoby, or Hobbie, who was born in 1505, and died in 1558, was not only +Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to Henry VIII., but, while he held that +office, was attached to the embassy of Sir Thomas Wyatt to the Emperor +Charles V. in 1538. He was himself ambassador to the same Emperor in 1548, +being sent by the Protector Somerset to replace the Bishop of Westminster. +It may be interesting to state that two volumes of papers containing +instructions and other letters transmitted to Sir Philip during these +embassies, and copies of his replies, together with his correspondence with +some eminent reformers, were in the possession of Wm. Hare, Esq., M.P. for +the city of Cork in 1796. An account of them, drawn up by the Rev. T. D. +Hincks, was read before the Royal Irish Academy on December 17 in that +year, and printed in the sixth volume of its _Transactions_. It is probable +that these papers had formerly belonged to Rev. Sir Philip Hoby, Bart., who +was Dean of Ardfert and Chancellor of St. Patrick's; and died without an +heir in 1766. He was descended from Sir Thomas Hoby, younger brother of Sir +Philip; who was born in 1530, and died in 1566. The father of these two +knights was William Hobbie of Leominster. I presume the two volumes of +papers referred to are in the possession of the Earl of Listowel, +great-grandson of the gentleman who possessed them in 1796. + +E. H. D. D. + +_Anticipatory Use of the Cross_ (Vol. viii. passim).-- + + "It is strange, yet well authenticated, and has given rise to many + theories, that the symbol of the Cross was already known to the Indians + before the arrival of Cortez. In the island of Cozumel, near Yucatan, + there were several; and in Yucatan itself there was a stone cross. And + there an Indian, considered a prophet amongst his countrymen, had + declared that a nation bearing the same as a symbol should arrive from + a distant country! More extraordinary still was a temple, dedicated to + the Holy Cross by the Toltec nation in the city of Cholula. Near + Tulansingo there is also a cross engraved on a rock with various + characters, which the Indians by tradition ascribe to the Apostle St. + Thomas. In Oajaca, also, there existed a cross, which the Indians from + time immemorial had been accustomed to consider as a divine symbol. By + order of the Bishop Cervantes it was placed in a sumptuous chapel in + the cathedral. Information concerning its discovery, together with a + small cup, cut out of its wood, was sent to Rome to Paul V.; who + received it on his knees, singing the hymn 'Vexilla regis,' &c."--_Life + in Mexico_, by Madame Calderon de la Barca, Letter xxxvii. + +E. H. A. + +_Longevity_ (Vols. vii., viii., _passim_).-- + + "Amongst the fresh antiquities of Cornwall, let not the old woman be + forgotten who died about two years since; who was one hundred and + sixty-four years old, of good memory, and healthful at that age; living + in the parish of Gwithian by the charity of such as came purposely to + see her, speaking to them (in default of English) by an interpreter, + yet partly understanding it. She married a second husband after she was + eighty, {232} and buried him after he was eighty years of + age."--Scawens' _Dissertation on the Cornish Tongue_, written temp. + Car. II. + +ANON. + +As very many, if not all, the instances mentioned in "N. & Q." of those who +have reached a very advanced age, were people of humble origin, may we not +now refer to those of noble birth? To commence the list, I would name Sir +Ralph de Vernon, "who is said to have lived to the age of one hundred and +fifty, and thence generally was called the Old Liver." My authority is, +Burke's _Peerage and Baronetage_, edit. 1848, p. 1009. + +W. W. + +Malta. + +"_Nugget_" (Vol. viii., pp. 375. 481.).--A note from Mundy's _Our +Antipodes_: + + "The word _nugget_, among farmers, signifies a small compact beast, a + runt: among gold-miners a lump, in contradistinction to the scale or + dust-gold." + +CLERICUS RUSTICUS. + +_The fifth Lord Byron_ (Vol. ix., p. 18.).--I believe it to be an +acknowledged fact, that an old man's memory is generally good of events of +years past and gone: and as an octogenarian I am not afraid to state that, +from the discussions on the subject, I feel myself perfectly correct as to +the main point of my observations (Vol. viii., p. 2.), viz. the error +committed in the limitation of the ultimate reversion of the estate; but as +to the secondary point to which MR. WARDEN alludes, I may perhaps be in +error in placing it on the settlement of the son, inasmuch as the effect +would be the same if it occurred in the settlement of the father; and MR. +WARDEN'S observations leave an inference that the mistake may have there +occurred; as, in such case, if the error had been discovered,--and by any +altercation the son had refused to correct the mistake, which he could and +ought to have consented to, after the failure of his own issue,--this +alone, between two hasty tempers, would have been sufficient cause of +quarrel, without reference to the question of marrying an own cousin, which +is often very justly objectionable. + +WM. S. HESLEDEN. + +_Wapple, or Whapple-way_ (Vol. ix., p. 125.).--This name is common in the +south, and means a bridle-way, or road in which carriages cannot pass. In +Sussex these ways are usually short cuts through fields and woods, from one +road or place to another. (See Halliwell's _Dictionary_, and Cooper's +_Sussex Glossary_.) The derivation is not given by either writer. + +D. + +In Manning's _Surrey_, I find not any mention of this term; but apprehend +it to be a corruption of the Norman-French, _vert plain_, "a green road or +alley:" which, as our Saxon ancestors pronounced the _v_ as a _w_, easily +slides into _war plain_ or _warple_. (See Du Cange, _Supp._, _in voce_ +"Plain.") + +C. H. + +_The Ducking-stool_ (Vol. viii., p.315.).--As late as the year 1824, a +woman was convicted of being a common scold in the Court of Quarter +Sessions of Philadelphia County, and sentenced "to be placed in a certain +instrument of correction called a cucking or ducking-stool," and plunged +three times into the water; but the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, upon the +removal of the case by writ of error, decided that this punishment was +obsolete, and contrary to the spirit of the age. + +Our fathers held the ducking-stool in higher respect, as appears from the +following presentments of the grand juries of Philadelphia, the originals +of which have been lately discovered. In January, 1717, they say (through +William Fishbourne, their foreman),-- + + "Whereas it has been frequently and often presented by several former + grand juries for this city, the necessity of a ducking-stool and house + of correction for the just punishment of scolding, drunken women, as + well as divers other profligate and unruly persons in this place, who + are become a public nuisance and disturbance to this town in general; + therefore we, the present grand jury, do earnestly again present the + same to this court of quarter sessions for the city, desiring their + immediate care, that _those publick conveniences_ may not be any longer + delayed, but with all possible speed provided for the detection and + quieting such disorderly persons." + +Another, the date of which is not given, but which is signed by the same +foreman, presents "Alsoe that a ducking-stoole be made for publick use, +being very much wanting for scolding women," &c. And in 1720, another grand +jury, of which Benjamin Duffield was foreman, say: + + "The Grand Inquest, we taking in consideration the great disorders of + the turbulent and ill-behaviour of many people in this city, we present + the great necessity of a ducking-stool for such people according to + their deserts." + +UNEDA. + +Philadelphia. + +_Double Christian Names_ (Vol. ix., p. 45.).--It is surely not correct to +say that the earliest instance of two Christian names is in the case of a +person born in 1635. Surely Henry, Prince of Wales, the son of James I., is +an earlier instance. Sir Thomas Strand Fairfax was certainly born before +that date. Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey was probably an earlier instance; and +Sir Robert Bruce Colton, the antiquary, certainly so. Writing at a distance +from my books, I can only appeal to memory; but see Southey's _Common-Place +Book_, vol. i. p. 510. Venables, in his _Travels in Russia_, {233} tells us +that "a Russian has never more than one Christian name, which must be +always that of a saint." To these a patronymic is often added of the +father's name, with the addition _vich_, as in the case of the present +Czar, Nicholas Paulovich, the son of Paul. + +W. DENTON. + +Torquay. + +_Pedigree to the Time of Alfred_ (Vol. viii., p. 586.).--Some ten or twelve +years since I was staying at the King's Head Inn, Egham, Surrey (now +defunct), when a fresh-looking, respectable man was pointed out to one as +Mr. Wapshot, who had held an estate in the neighbourhood from his ancestors +prior to the Conquest. He was not represented as a blacksmith, but as +farming his own estate. I am not connected with Egham or the neighbourhood, +or I would make farther inquiry. + +S. D. + +_Palace of Lucifer_ (Vol. v., p. 275.).--If R. T. has not observed it, I +would refer him to the note in the Aldine edition of Milton, vol. iii. p. +263., where I find "Luciferi domus" is the palace of the sun (see +_Prolusiones_, p. 120.); and not, as T. WARTON conjectured, the abode of +Satan. + +I. R. R. + +_Monaldeschi_ (Vol. viii., p. 34.).--_Relation du Meurte de Monaldeschi, +poignardé par ordre de Christine, reine de Suède_, by Father de Bel, is to +be found in a collection of curious papers printed at Cologne, 1664, in +12mo. It is given at length in _Cristina's Revenge, and other Poems_, by J. +M. Moffatt, London, printed for the author, 1821. + +E. D. + +_Anna Lightfoot_ (Vol. vii., p. 595.).--T. H. H. is referred to an +elegantly printed pamphlet called _An Historical Fragment relative to her +late Majesty Queen Caroline_, printed for J. & N. L. Hunt, London, 1824, +which, from p. 44. to p. 50., contains a very circumstantial account of +this extraordinary occurrence. + +E. D. + +_Lode_ (Vol. v., p. 345.).--It would not appear that this word means "an +artificial watercourse," at least from its use at Tewkesbury, where there +is still the _Lower Lode_, at which a ferry over the Severn still exists; +and there was also the _Upper Lode_, until a bridge was erected over the +river at that place. Will this help to show its proper meaning? + +I. R. R. + +"_To try and get_" (Vol. ix., p. 76.).--UNEDA inquires the origin of this +erroneous mode of expression? Doubtless euphony, to avoid the alliteration +of so many T's: "_t_o _t_he _t_heatre _t_o _t_ry and get," &c. But +evidently the word _to_ is understood, though not supplied after the word +_and_. Thus, "to try and (to) get," &c. + +CELCRENA. + +_Abbott Families_ (Vol. ix. p. 105.).--In reply to MR. ABBOTT'S Query, I +have a pedigree of Samuel Abbott, born in 1637 or 1638; second son of Wm. +Abbott of Sudbury, who was born 1603, and who was son to Charles Abbott of +Hawkden and Sudbury, an alderman, which Charles was son to Wm. Abbott of +Hawkden. This Samuel married Margaret, daughter to Thomas Spicer. Should +MR. ABBOTT wish it, I would forward him a copy of the pedigree. I can trace +no connexion between this family and that of Archbishop Abbott, whose +father, Maurice Abbott of Guildford, was son of ---- Abbott of Farnham, co. +Surrey. + +I wish especially to know what became of Thomas Abbott, only son of Robert, +Bishop of Sarum; which Thomas dedicated his father's treatise against +Bellarmine in 1619 to his uncle the Archbishop, calling himself in the +preface, "imbellis homuncio." His sister was wife to Sir Nathaniel Brent, +whose younger son Nathaniel left all his property to his cousin Maurice +Abbott, of St. Andrew's, Holborn, Gent., in 1688; which Maurice was +possibly son to Thomas. + +G. E. ADAMS. + +36. Lincoln's Inn Fields. + +"_Mairdil_" (Vol. viii., p. 411.).--Is there any affinity between the word +_mairdil_, which is used in Forfarshire, to be overcome with fatigue for +any oppressive or intricate piece of work, and the word _mardel_ or +_mardle_, which signifies to gossip in Norfolk, as stated by MR. J. L. +SISSON? What will H. C. K. say to this subject? Jamieson confines _mairdil_ +to an adjective, signifying unwieldy; but I have often heard work-people in +Forfarshire declare they were "perfectly _mairdiled_" with a piece of heavy +work, using the word as a passive verb. _Trachled_ has nearly the same +meaning, but it is chiefly confined to describe fatigue arising from +walking a long distance. + +HENRY STEPHENS. + +_Bell at Rouen_ (Vol. viii., p. 448.).--Your valuable correspondent W. +SPARROW SIMPSON, B.A., has probably taken his account of the great bell in +the cathedral at Rouen from a note made before the French Revolution of +1792-3, because the George d'Ambois, which was once considered the largest +bell in Europe (it was thirteen feet high, and eleven feet in diameter), +excepting that at Moscow, shared the destructive fate of many others at +that eventful period, and was melted down for cannon. In 1814 the bulb of +its clapper was outside the door of a blacksmith's shop, as you go out of +the city towards Dieppe. It was pointed out to me by a friend with whom I +was then travelling--a gentleman of the neighbourhood, who was at Rouen at +the time it was brought there--and there, if I mistake not, but I cannot +find my note, I saw it again within the last ten years. + +H. T. ELLACOMBE. + +Rectory, Clyst St. George. + +{234} + +_Smiths and Robinsons_ (Vol. ix., p. 148.).--Arms of Smith of Curdley, co. +Lancaster: Argent, a cheveron sable between three roses gules, barbed, vert +seeded, or. + +Robinson (of Yorkshire): Vert, a cheveron between three roebucks trippant +or. Crest, a roebuck as in the arms. Motto, "Virtute non verbis." + +Robinson of Yorkshire, as borne by Lord Rokeby: Vert, on a cheveron or, +between three bucks trippant of the last, as many quatrefoils gules. Crest, +a roebuck trippant or. + +CID. + +_Churchill's Grave_ (Vol. ix., p. 123.).--If I am not mistaken, there is a +tablet to the memory of Churchill, with a more lengthy inscription, within +the church of St. Mary, Dover, towards the western end of the south aisle. + +W. 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It is this that renders it a work which +calls for much careful editing and illustrative annotation, and +consequently gives to every succeeding edition new value. Well pleased are +we, therefore, to receive from Lord Braybrooke a fourth edition, revised +and corrected, of the _Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys_. and well +pleased to offer our testimony to the great care with which its noble +editor has executed his duties. Thanks to his good judgment, and to the +great assistance which he acknowledges to have received from Messrs. +Holmes, Peter Cunningham, Yeowell, &c., his fourth edition is by far the +best which has yet appeared, and is the one which must hereafter be +referred to as the standard one. 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Superior Gold London-made +Patent Levers, 17, 15, and 12 guineas. Ditto, in Silver Cases, 8, 6, and 4 +guineas. First-rate Geneva Levers, in Gold Cases, 12, 10, and 8 guineas. +Ditto, in Silver Cases, 8, 6, and 5 guineas. Superior Lever, with +Chronometer Balance, Gold. 27, 23, and 19 guineas. Bennett's Pocket +Chronometer, Gold, 50 guineas; Silver, 40 guineas. Every Watch skilfully +examined, timed, and its performance guaranteed. Barometers, 2l., 3l., and +4l. Thermometers from 1s. each. + +BENNETT, Watch, Clock, and Instrument Maker to the Royal Observatory, the +Board of Ordnance, the Admiralty, and the Queen, + +65. CHEAPSIDE. + + * * * * * + + +WESTERN LIFE ASSURANCE AND ANNUITY SOCIETY. + +3. PARLIAMENT STREET, LONDON. + +Founded A.D. 1842. + + _Directors._ + + H. E. Bicknell, Esq. | T. Grissell, Esq. + T. S. Cocks, Jun. Esq., M.P. | J. Hunt, Esq. + G. H. Drew, Esq. | J. A. Lethbridge, Esq. + W. Evans, Esq. | E. Lucas, Esq. + W. Freeman, Esq. | J. Lys Seager, Esq. + F. Fuller, Esq. | J. B. White, Esq. + J. H. Goodhart, Esq. | J. Carter Wood, Esq. + + _Trustees._--W. Whateley, Esq., Q.C.; George Drew, Esq., T. Grissell, + Esq. + _Physician._--William Rich. Basham, M.D. + _Bankers._--Messrs. Cocks, Biddulph, and Co., Charing Cross. + +VALUABLE PRIVILEGE. + +POLICIES effected in this Office do not become void through temporary +difficulty in paying a Premium, as permission is given upon application to +suspend the payment at interest, according to the conditions detailed in +the Prospectus. + +Specimens of Rates of Premium for Assuring 100l., with a Share in +three-fourths of the Profits:-- + + Age £ s. d. | Age £ s. d. + 17 1 14 4 | 32 2 10 8 + 22 1 18 8 | 37 2 18 6 + 27 2 4 5 | 42 3 8 2 + +ARTHUR SCRATCHLEY, M.A., F.R.A.S., Actuary. + +Now ready, price 10s. 6d., Second Edition, with material additions, +INDUSTRIAL INVESTMENT and EMIGRATION: being a TREATISE ON BENEFIT BUILDING +SOCIETIES, and on the General Principles of Land Investment, exemplified in +the Cases of Freehold Land Societies, Building Companies, &c. With a +Mathematical Appendix on Compound Interest and Life Assurance. By ARTHUR +SCRATCHLEY, M.A., Actuary to the Western Life Assurance Society, 3. +Parliament Street, London. + + * * * * * + + +Printed by THOMAS CLARK SHAW, of No. 10. Stonefield Street, in the Parish +of St. Mary, Islington, at No. 5. New Street Square, in the Parish of St. +Bride, in the City of London; and published by GEORGE BELL, of No. 186. +Fleet Street, in the Parish of St. Dunstan in the West, in the City of +London, Publisher, at No. 186. 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