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LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 18G4.
CONTENTS. —No. 105.
NOTES • — Unpublished Humorous and Satirical Papers of Archbisliop Laud, 1 — A State-Paper Rectified, 5 — A Law Pastoral, 6 — Particulars regarding Sir AYalter Raleiirh 7 — Fashionable Quarters of London, 8— Rye-House Plot Oards, 9 — The Lapwing: Witchcraft — John Rowo, Ser- jeant-at-Law — Charles Lloyd — Cambridge Tradesmen m
1635 — Robespien-e's Remains, 10.
QUERIES: — Old Latin Aristotle — John Barcroft — Ceno- taph to the 79th Re^riment at Clifton — William Chaignoau —Eleanor d'Olbreuse — Hyoscyamus — Laurel ^^ atcr — Lewis Morris— The Prince Consort's Motto — Richard Salveyne — Swinburne —Captain Yorke, 11.
Queries witu ANSATEKSr — Pholey— Lines addressed to Charles L — Crest of Apothecaries' Company — Frumen- turn: Siligo — John Burton — James IL and the Preten- der — New Translation of the Bible, by John Bellamy, ch-ca 1818, 12.
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Notes on Books, &c.
going a step Airtlier in tlie same direction, to lay before you evidence that there really was within that cold harsh nian — for such in his ''full-blown
dig
nity
a
^ " he exhibited himself to the world power of appreciatnig and applying wit and wag- gery for which, without this evidence, scarcely anyone, I think, would give him credit.
But I must premise a few words of explanation. In 1613 the future Archbishop was, in his fortieth year. President of St. John's, Oxford, a Doctor of Divinity, and a lloyal Chaplain. In that same year a most absiiid ^'sedition,'' as it is termed by Antony ^ Wood, was raised in the University. Some of the youngsters, headed by one Henry V/iilhtwick of Gloucester Hall, deemed the di^r- nity of the Convocation House diniinibhed by the circumstance that the Vice-Chancellor and Doc- tors were in the habit of sitting in their assemblies bare-headed. There have been many foolish re- bellions; but surely, if we knov/ the truth about this matter, no one v/as ever more silly than thig. Like many other hare-brained things, however, it found patronage among men of higher standing than those with whom it originated; and, thus supported, Avhat appears to have been a mere cljildish outbreak divided and excited the whole
U
We
must sur)pose that, somehow or other, it linked itself to party difffrences of a In'iihcr character. Dons as well as uniler- graduates were, for "several years, kept in hot- WMter by this contemptible dispute. Some of the leaders of the dissentients even w^ent the length
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UNPUBLISHED HUMOROUS AND SATIRICAL
PAPERS OF ARCHBISHOP LAUD.
Few people wonld look for humour hi anything said or written by Archbishop Laud. lie, wliose '^ hasty sharp way of speaking'' is commemorated
occasioned considerable trouble once before— that of secession from Oxford, and the erection of a new colleac at Stamford.
Occupying an eminent station in the University, Laud could scarcely have avoided taking some share in the dispute ; and we know that he wae not a man to do anything otherwise than energetically. AVhatever he did or said, we may be sure that on such an occasion he took the side of authority ; but we have no information on the subject, until the proposal w^as made to dismember the Univer-
sity
Aroused by a suggestion, which was cither
absurd or of Aveighty moment, he d»jterniined to crush it at once by overwhelming it with ridicule. The stories of the iblly of the Gothamites, which v/ere then familiar to everybody, gave him a foundation to build upon. He conceiveu' the
by Clarendon, who said of himself that he had design of publishing a burlesque account of the "no leisure for compliments/' and whose voice contemplated foumiation at Stamford, under the
and nianner in speaking were such that they who heard and saw him always supposed that he was angry — such a man seems very unlikely to have been gifted with the slightest predisposition for drollery. Yet I had occasion, some time ago, to point out that, in his letters to his friends, there existed traces of a heavy but kindly pleasantry, of which I quoted several examples. I Lave now,
(or, as he spelt it, Gotam^)
Icfi^e, introducing into its imaginary regulations
such G
recollections as could be made
applicable, with such other strokes of humour as could be brought to bear upon the contemplated design, in the way of quizzing and contempt.
I know)
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any documents rcspectinn: it printed in the edi- ?" n of bis Works published in the Library of AnMo-Catholic Theolo-y ; but there exist, among ^ - the Public Kecord Ofhce,
the° State Papers in ._-
placed at the ind of the year 1613 yaricms papers mostly in Laud's handwritinor, ,vhich clearly in- dicate the nature of his contemplated publication None of tiiem are probably quite finished; but all are, more or less, advanced towards comple- tion. Why the intended pamj)hlet, or whatever it was to have been, was lai<l aside, does not a[)- pear. The Gothamite scheme may have died away, and it was not deemed advisable to stir its docayinfr embers ; or Laud's execution of jus de- sipn,' after much touching and retouching (of which the i)apers before ns ])resent ample evi- dence), may not have jdoased him. These manu-
mere wrecks and rums
but
scripts remain
there is enough in them to indicate clearly the author's purpose, and to demonstrate, unless I very much mistake their character, that he pos- \ sessed no mean power of making s])ort. He denlt i with tlie subject before him in his naturally sharp, but also in a frolicsome and witty manner.
The first of these papers— an "Epistle to the Pveader," desifrned as a preface to the intended
work
seems to be all but conijilete. I shall give
■ 1 T. "Ill /• T
it you as it stands. It "will be Ibund to be quaint and ol l-iasliioncd, but not ^vilhout touches of cflective ploasaiitry.
'* To THK Reader.
•' Come, Pieador, let's be nierry ! I have a tale to tell : I AvoiiUl it were Morth the hearinp;, hut take it as it is. There's a great complaint made against this ag<s that no good works are done in it. Sine I hear Slander hath a tongue, and it is a woman's bird never born mute.* For not long since (besides many other things of worth) there was built in the air a verv famous college, the Seminauy OF Innocknts, commonly called in the mother tongue of that place, Gotam College. T do not think, in these latter freezing age?*, there hath been a work done of greater either profit or magnificence. The founder got up into a tree (and borrowed a rook's nest for his cushion) to see the plot of the building, and the foundation laid. He resolvtd to build it in the air to save charges, because castles are built there of lighter materials. It is not to be spoken how much lie saved in the very carriage of timber and stone by this politic device, which I do not doubt but founders in other place< will imitate. Yet he would not have it raided too high in the air, lest his Col- legians, which were to be heavy and earthy, should not ffet into it; and it is against all good building to need a adder at the gate. The end of this building was as charitable, as the ordering of it prudent ; for whereas there are many places in all commonwealths provided for the lame, and the sick, and the blind, and the poor of all sorts, there is none anywhere erected for innocents. This founder alone may glory that he is the first, and may prove the only patron of Fools. lie was ever of opinion that, upon the first finishing of his College, it would have more company in it than any one College in any Univer- sity in Europe. Such height would be waited upon by
malice. Therefore he resolved to build it in no Univer- sity but very near one famous one. Not in an}', for such a place'cannot bear their folly; not far off, for no other i)lace so liable to discover and publish their worth. I could tell you much more, but it is not good manners hi the Enistle to prevent the tract. If you will not take the pains to walk about this College, you shall be ignor- ant of their building. If not to read their orders and statutes, you shall imt know their privileges. If not to be acquainted with some of the students, you shall be a stranger iu all places, and not well acquainted in your own country. One counsel let me give you: whenever you visit the place, stay not long in it;* for the air is bad, and all the studenfs very rheumatic. 1 have heard that Ladv Prudence Wisdom went but once (then she w^as masked and muffled, and yet she escaped not the toothache.) to sec it since it was built, and myself heard her swear she would never come within the gates again. You think the Autlior of this Work (who fi>r the founder's honour, and the students' virtues, hath taken on him to map out this building) must depart from the truth of the history. Reader, it needs not. For there is more to be said of these men, in truth and story, than any pen can set out to the world. His i)en is weak, and mine too; but who cannot defend Innocents ? Farewell. The founder laughed heartily v/hen he built the College : if thou canst laugh at nothing in it, borrow a spleen. You know I dwell a little tou^iear the College that I am so skilful in it, and have idle time to spend about it. But it's no matter. What if I w^ere chosen Fellow of the house? As the world goes, I had rather be rich at Gotham than poor in a better place. You know where I dAvell. Come to see me at any time wdien it is safe, that the Earsf of the College hang not over me, and I will show you as many Fellows of tliis Society highly preferred as of any other, 1 know you long to hear ; but you shall come to my house for it,*'as near'the College as*^it stands. There yo\i shall find me at my devotion for Benefactors to this worthy foundation."
Thi
Flautus
; ''Epistle to the Reader" is followed by a variety of rough noles, scattered over seventeen leaves, many of Avhich contain only a sentence or t^vo. They were apparently intended to be worked up into the designed work.
"We next have a Latin Charter of Liberties, supposed to have been granted to the College by the En:iperor of jMorea. There are among the papers two drafts of this charter. In one, the En)peror's name is given as Midas. They are both framed as if granted to the founder, who was at first designated as *' Thomas AVhite, miles,'' but the ''White" was subsequently struck out. Why the name of Sir Thomas White, the founder of Reading School, where Laud was educated, and of his beloved College of St, John's, was thus In- troduced, I am unable to explain.
The draft of a Foundation Charter of the
College then follows. It runs in the name of
" Thomas a Cuniculis, miles auritus, patriae Mo- reanus.^' *
r t
We next have two copies, but with many varl- tions between them, of a paper entitled *^The Foundation of Gotam College." This was "the author's principal efibrt. In his account of the
Anima prudtns in sicco.
t
3'd S. V. Jax. 2, '64.]
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rules and regulations of the college, he pours out his store of Gothamite recollections, with such fresh wit ns he could make to tell against the chief members of the party to whom he was opposed. It is difficult occasionally to identify the persons alluded to, but many of them will be easily recognised. The two brothers, Dr. Samp- son and IJr. Daniel Price, together with Dr. Thomas James, the author of Bellum Papule^ were clearly loaders in the suggestion which excited Laud's dislike. Upon them the vials of his wrath were consequently poured. All three were strong
anti'Romiinists, Antony Wood tells us that Dr. Sampson Price was so distinguished in that re- spect, that he acquired the name of *' 'The Mawl of Heretics/ meaning pnpisls;" antl that, both he and his brother, were regarded with especial <lii:- llke at Douay. Both brothers were royal chap- lains and popular preachers, and of the same way of thinking, — that way being in most respects nearly as far removed from Laud's way, as could co-exist within the p:de of the Church oi' England. Dr. Thomas James, the well-known iiodley libra- rian, was a man of precisely the same anti-Ro- mani:<t views as the Prices, but probably of f;ir greater learnino: than either of them. All these had no doubt, like other men, their vanities and peculiarities ; and it is upon these foibles tliat Laud seizes and applies them to the purposes of his ridicule. Thus, we learn that James was highly pleased with his dignity of Justice of Peace, whence Laud styles him Mr. Justice James, and appoints him library keeper of the new college. AVe learn also, that Dr. Sampson Price enjoyed his nap at the sermons in St. Mary's, and that Dr. Daniel was fond of an anchovy toast, and had a general liking (in which respect he was probably not singular, either at Oxford or cdse- where,) for a good dinner. xVll these points come
one or two omissions, from one of the two manu- scripts, adding here and there passages derived from the other.
^*Thk Foundatiox of Gotam College.
" The founder (being the Duke of Morea*) made suit and obtained leave for this foundation, that it might be erected, anno 1613. The reasons of his suit were: —
" 1, Because, in the midst of so many good works as had been done for the bringing up of men in learning, there had been none taken in special for the Gotamists.
" 2. Because every College in the University had some or other of them in it, which were fitter to be elected and chosen out to live together in this new foundation.
out in the following paper ; which I print, witl
" 3. Because it is unfit that, in a well-governed com- monwealth, such a great company of deserving men, or
* This is not consistent with the foundation charter notice*! before, and is an evidence that the author's design was still unsettled. In the margin is written, "Sir Thomas Cuninsb}', con-founder." This is evi- dently the •* Thomas ^ Cuniculis," mentioned in the foundation charter.
youth full of hope as those are (for stultorum plena sunt omnia)y should want places of preferment or education.
" Maintenance. — Their mortmain is to hold as much as will be given them, without any stint; which favour is granted them in regard of their number (being the great- est foundation in Christendom), and at the instant re- quest of the honourable patroness the Lady Fortuna favet : provided always, that they hold no part of this their land, or aught else, in cap'de^ but as much as they will in Knight's service, so they lit their cap and their thereafter.
" Sociorum numerus. — The number of Fellows may not be under 500, and 200 probationers (if so many may be found tit) ; which it shall be lawful to choose out of any College in Oxford : Provided that Avhen, if ever, there is any eminent man found in the other University of Cam- bridge, or any other, it shall be lawful for them, which after the founder shall be put in trust with tlie election,
to admit them in veros et perpduos socios.
coat
a
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riiere is leave ii-rante-l tliev mav re-
The statutes are appointed to be penned in brj*.'f, for the help of their memory, wdiich yet is better than ihe wit of anj' of the Fellowships. [^3Iemoran(hnn. In making of a speccli, tliey must not stop at any time, but when their breath fuls.J move ' Cuckoo bush,' and set it in some part of the Col- lege garden : and that in remembrance of their famous predecessors they shall breed a Cuckoo every year, and keep him in a pound till he be hoarse; and then, in mid- summer moon, deliver him to the bush and let him at
libertv.
" Uecause few of these men have wit enough to grieve, they shall have * Gaud\'es ' * every holyday and every Thursday through the year; and their *Gaudyes' shall be served up in woodcocks, gulls, curs, pouts, geese, gan- d( rs, and all such other fowl, wdiich shall be brought at a certain rate in ass-loads to furnish the College. But on other clays which are not ' Gaudves,' thev shall have all their commons in calf's head and bacon, f and, there- fore, to this purpose all the beef, mutton, and veal, shall be cut out bv their butcher into calves' heads; and on fish" days conger, cod's head, or drowned eel, with a piece of cheese after it — of the same dairy with that cheese which their wise predecessors rolled down the hill, to ViO to market before them.
" Broths, caudles, pottage, and all such settle- brain,
absolutely forbidden. Ail other meats to be eaten assa.
^* Fasts, — They are to fast upon 0 Snpientia. The solemn day of their foundation, Innocent's day. [Another solemn feast day to be renewed, St. Dunstan's.]
Gotam annexed to the headship, other benefices belonging to the Fellows are Bloxam, Duns-tu, Dunstable, tSt. Dunstan's (East, West), Totte- ridge, Aleton, Battlebridge, Gidding (Magna, Parva), the prebend of Layton Buzzard, Little Brainford, Little Wit- nam (Mr. Dunns being patron of Little Witnam, gave it to a good scholar), a petition being made by the College that Witnam, and all that Mr. Dunns had in his gift, should belong to the College. {^Addtd in the margin :
Cookeham (Magna, Parva), Steeple Bumstead, Uggly,
St. Asaphs.]
" An Act of Parliament held for them.
" The College to be furnished with all munition save head-pieces. None of the generations of Wisemen, Wise- dom, or Wise, eligible into thehouf^e, for the disgrace their
The book of Wis-
" Benefices,
The
predecessors have done to the College.
dom to be left out of their Bibles. To abjure Pytliagoras,
Tacitus, Tranquillus, and Prudentius.
Diet.
^^ Nepenthe potus.^' A fool at second coiirse. Mustard with everything to purge the head.
f It being lawful for them, as well as the town^s-hoys, io eat bread and butter in the streets.
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« There arc three quadrangles: the north <^or Gota- mistl tl e Youth for those that wouUl be knaves if they wt'it eLuch- the middlemost for such as are %«»n. An onlwaTd q'nadnxngle also, at both .hose entrances is
in mu'
P'lfiooA..- Hooks given to the library*:
Ctudities; Dr. Dan. Price's
work
Corvat's
Ittfera; Just!
Festivnx Vitulus
« Causce deserendi Collegium. - Experience to be ex- pelled S? fear of corrupting the company and yet m some cases to be admitted, for Experientta stultoru
^""'"'""iirnoramus ' to be played every year that they may be perfect, and on their election day a mock play. " No pictm-es but * We three.' .
" ^^i sapientior fiat ipso facto amovcatur, nonsi doctior,
because the greatest clerks are not always the wisest
" 1]
■Will. Sommor.s, Charles Chest-r, Tatcli,
tus ,
iVorert.i§"Grunii""[Grunnii] Cor'ocotta3 Forcdll . /.,mp«/«,/ f '^ P'i'^er; TcMterbcUy; Howes' Uvomc; ^sputcthmes Pua-Uc.; a children's dictionary; Seneca,
manuscript. ^ ^
« Wlicii they koop their Act, Dr. James to answer in
Divinity. . . r ^ i ^^
" The DUten/. — D\\ Sli. benic: out of office, aiifl so
parted with his custom, drew a pillow. Dr. Dan. Price, 'anchovies' ^uid could not dr.w anything but victual.
" ^talutea 'in gnV—lU that dies, if he have not a son worthy to succeed him, must leave one of the Fellows
ha-edtm ex Oi^se.
** Bet.cfactor.^, ,- ,. . r,. n
"liul.le,'"^ ike, Fortnna praripnc. \_]}lnr(jin. loni Cop- per of Okin::ham.^i]
'^ The Cullc'^'-e n^'ver to bo overthrown, because the •A-orld cannot "stand without such a foundation. There- fore these willin,:^- to iriii<le, ^'C.
*■' Ex*rci^. 5cA'o/.— Disputations Deammact infelHijentus forbidilcn. An do scnsn ct scnsaio? They nuist maintain a vacuum. The diversity of moons in divers place?, with
the clieesy substance of it.
** For geography, Sir John ]\Iandeville's Travels; and
the South Indies.
" Exercises.— 'r\\ey may play at no game at cards but Noddy and Lodam. NoChristmas pastime but blindman- bafT, push-pin, and blow-point; no race, but the wild goo^e race; no walking in the summer, but to look [for] birds' nests — especially the cuckoo.
*• ^/Y^^aW.— Wear no gloves but calfs skin, yes, and goose skin ; no breeches but motley, and are therefore to have all old clonk-bags given them to help the poorer sort : and tliese to be kept in their wardrobe till time serve: they are to pluck off their fur from their gown, that they may prove true men. A feather in their cap, — they cannot be too liglit-hcaded.
^^ Lands. — They nnist hold nothing in capite^ but as much as they will in .socage, and nothing in fee tail but fee simple.
" Probationers, — None admitted till past twenty-four, lest he prove wiser, and so be cut off from the hope of the fellowship.
" He may be chosen, be he never so old, if he be able to show himself jMre/iM moribusy et sic inidoneus auditor.
^^^Mf he be honest and constant expelletur, lie is not un- settled enough, &c. . . ,
" Tho^ Muriel * chosen, because, being senior proctor of Cambridge, the University refused him to be the fatherof the Act; a thing not known before, and given
him for his worth. ^^f
" Morlv chosen for a most famous sermon made at bt. J^Iarv's in Oxon, upon which both head and fellows took suclfa liking to him that there was [a] particular statute for him, that he should not be expelled whatever he committed, but still be thought worthy of his p.ace
" Traveller's place.— Cory •aVs successors: if he have a- child eli^nble, they are bound to elect him. No man may travel but in the Ship of Fools, never coming near the Cape Bona? Spei, and their travel must be most toward ^Gotsland': Fooliami the fat ; Morea. .^ . ,i
" The head to be married and to keepe his wite in the College, that the children may be right-bred.
" He must give over his house thatacceptsof any other benelicG but those that are in the College gift; but with anv of them he may keep his house as long as he will.
must roast their own eggs, but their fuel to-
• Many of the books and authors here mentioned are v;ell known — those I have not thought it necessary to note. Some few I do not know.
t Wood notices Prince Henry^ his First Anniversary^
1(j13, 4to, as written by Dr. Daniel Price. He also preached Prince Henry^s funeral sermon.
X Josias Bird published Lovers Peerless Paragon, a sermon on Cant. ii. 10, in 1613. He M-as chaplain to Alice, Countess of Derb}'. See Wood's Fasti, i. 334.
§ Perhaps the Commentary of Cartwright, the Puritan, on the Book of Proverbs. Howes^s Chronicle.
Who were these?
((
Thev
be borrowed out of the town. ^^ ^n^ i r^ ^^
Tiie Dunces, Half-heads, Calfes,
*■' Founders* kinsmen. Medcalfes, Woodcocks, Blocks,
Harebrains.
Goslings,
WildgooseSy
'' Election, — 'UxQh election to be at ^ Cookoe' t time more formallv, but at all times else extra ordinem, be- cause of the number of those who continually AViU be pro- vided for the place.
" Pictures to be set vp in their quadrangles.— ^i^^civria Assentatio, Oblivio, MitroTrovia, Voluptas, Amentia, De- litise; Duo cZu— Kw/tos, Deus comissationis, Ni^YperoV vTvpoSj Dulcis somnus.
Among other
rougli
notes intended for inser- tion in their proper places in the complete work occur the following :
<• Whereas there hath been a i^oolish and sophistical book intituled An Homo sit Asi7iu^, which maketh a doubt of that question, and lastly resolves negatively : that hereupon there may be a college which shall not by such quaint and sophisticate quiddities, but by most gross and sensible realities, prove the whole tract to be false.
" No physicians, for physicians are no fools.
**No other tongue to be spoken than their mother tongue, lest they should forget that to which they were
born, and7ze affectare videantur exotica.
" No division of texts in sermons, because no division must be in the Church. " St. Necdes [Neots?],ifitAverc not for their patroness,
Fortune, had all dwelt there.
"Asses to be kept against the consumption of their-
wit. ^
" Young Mr. Linkes to be schoolmaster to and of the^,
seminaria of the College. . ^^ ^
Of Pembroke Hall, proctor in 1611. + Originally written ** at Midsummer
S^^^ S. V. Jax. 2, '64.-]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
5
** Paul Clapham, another of the seminary schoolmasters.
" They have this privilege of nature newly bestowed, that their old men shall not be even bis pueri, if they make a good choice at tirst.
** Tell the holes of a sieve on both sides.
" Excluduntur medicL Ist. Quiuy a fool or a physician. 2nd. Less he shouM cure the rest. 3rd. Lest any man that is sick should borrow a physician hence and be worse.
^^ Domimts Thomas LecUis, colkgii con -founder, et oh hoc predarum opus jam nuperrhnehonore militis assignatns.
"The schoolmen foresaw this worthy foundation should be ; otherwise they had never distinguished of
f IntellectualiSy
i ^v J SeyisitiviiSy
JLppetitus < jYaiunilis, which no where
(, else is to be found. " They must swoar by nothing but ' By this Cockoe,' or 'By the swine tha't taught Minerva;' ' Jnro per
anser€7)u^
*• This title, ' Octavus SapierMim' annexed to the
headship."
There are many other similar random jottings which I must leave, at any event for the present, and
among
them that which some people may esteem ihcTmost curious thing of the whole, — the outline of perhaps an intended Latin play upoii the same subject. It is divided into what would have been acts or scenes, and the first of them runs thus :
" Ingrediuntur, Dr. Sampsonus, Dr. Danielus, Albecus. Equinus, colloquentes de Oxonia relinquemla et Stan- fordise erigendo collegio suis ingeniis niagis digno. Cau.sas hujus secessionis enarrant, prsepropere faciendum. Dr. Dan. et Albeeus statuunt statim Stanfordiam iter facere, et ibi situni commodissimum designare. Interea Equinus recipit se apud Vilpolum rhetorem insignem acturum ut literas suasorias ad Dominum Lectum det, qua) istos ad hoc collegium junctis sumptibus tedificandum eiEcaciter hortantur. Exeunt."
I shall feel obliged by yoi;r correspondents directing me to any sources of information re- specting the subject to which these curious papers relate. On many grounds they seem to me to have nn interest. Unless your readers think so too, I fear they will consider that I have trespassed
very unreasonably upon your pages.
John Bruce.
5, Upper Gloucester Street, Dorset Square.
A STATE.PAPER RECTIFIED.
In the Miscellaneous state papers which were edited by the second carl of Hardwicke in 1778, in two quarto volumes, we have various specimens of the correspondence of James Land the favorite Buckingham. I shall not presume to characterise the letters on either side, unexampled as they are in some particulars, the interpretation of an ob- scure phrase in one of the letters, assigned to the year 1624, being the main object of this note. The extract which follows, modernised by the noble editor, contains the phrase in question :
" Duke of Buckingham to king James,
Dear dad and gossip,
lu one of your letters you have commanded me to
write shortlv, and merrilv. ♦ * * This inclosed -will five you an account of the Dunkirker's ships. By this l;ttlc paper you -will understand a suit of fine Hollands. By the other parchment, a suit of my Lord President's. Of all do but Avhat you please, so you give me your blessing, which 1 must never be denied, since I can never be othe than
Your Majesty's most humble slave and dog,
Stkeni;:.'*
Now, what are we to understand by a suit of fine Hollands? No doubt the manuscript has been mis- read, and we nui^t have recourse to another text.
In 1834 a small volume entllled Letters of the duke and duchess of Buckingham made its appear-
It contains the above-de- scribed letter printed from the Balfour papers LiTEUATiM, and the extract must therefore be repeated :
ance at Edinburgh.
o
**Deredad and gossope,
In one of vour letters vou have commanded me to riii'ht shortlie and merelie, * * * This inclosed will <j:ive you an account of the Dunkerkers ships; by this little paper you will understand a side of hue JIol/a7id\sy by this other parchment a sute of my Lord Presidents; of all doe but what you please, so you give me your blessing, which I must never be denied, since I can never be other than
Your Maty, most Immble slave and doge,
Steknie.
I have forgotten to write mylegable hand in this letter,
foririve me.
J?
The editor adds this note to the mysterious
phrase
''Hardwicke makes this a suit of fine
Hollands'' But the critic loaves it, with regard to the majority of readers, almost o.s much a mys- tery as before ! I must act the commentator. The form of the small h was sometimes used as a capital. A fac-simile of the signature of sir Henry Wotton appears thus, henry Walton — so hue means Huiih.
Vie now advance to 1846. The same letter was edited in that year by Mr. Halliwell. For hue Holhmd he substitutes Ilu^h Holland, and
adds this note — '^This is, of course, a petition of a person of the name of Hugh Holland.''
The accumulation of materials on the life and writings of Shakspere, the splendor of the volumes in which those materials are embodied, and the recent patriotic proceedings at Stratford-upon- Avon, have obtained for Mr. Halliwell a very eminent position, but I cannot conceal the sur- prise which I felt on observing that he had fulled to recognise, in a person of the name of Hugh Holland^ the pupil of Camden— the friend of Ben. Jonson — the eulogist of Sliakspere !
The best account of Hugh Holland is given by Fuller in his Worthies of England, 1662. (Wales, p. 16.) — but it is devoid of dates. The Cypres garland of Holland, 1625, 4^ also contains many
6
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[3»d S. V. Jan. 2, '64
particulars of bis career. Besules that poem, and ioine fugitive verses, he left three works in n ya- nuscnpt,-!. A metrical description of the chief cides If Europe ; 2. A chronicle of the reign of O Elizabeth; 3. A memoir of Camden, i he duke of Buckingham was his patron, and his services are thus recorded :
« Tlicn vou great 1 >r.1, that were to me so gr.icious, In twentv weeks (a time not very spacious) To cause" mc tliricc to kiss (me thrice your debtor) That hand which bore tiie liily-bjaring sceptre.-
It is verv probable that our non -poetical ])oet presented one of t!;e three manuscripts on each of those occa.-^i(m^. Alas! neither the praise of Cam-
the marginal summary consecutive pages (1 writing of prisoner, nc dence of forgery
Take two examples from
14)
" The hand- facie evi-
Encfland." I could not
evidence of stealing m ^..^ explain wliat follows more briefly. Tha Eclogue is by the late John Loycester Adolphus,^ whose reputation is still too fresli to need revival by me. The best part of the wit will be understood by lawyers only, and the Common Law Procedure Act is' making much of it obsolete. _ The next generation will know no more about it than the present does of attornments; but I think you have enouirh of us
among your readers to ex-
A LAW PASTOILVL.
The Transactions of the; Northern Circuit are said to be recorded in a book accessible to mem-
bern of tlie circuit only, nnd to them under tli understood protection of '• private and confiden- tial/' So llie Northern Circviit keeps to itself a large amount of very good wit till it becomes moiddy — a word wliicli may be ap])lied to jokes when the circumstances vinder wldch they were made are forgotten. Should some modern Cneius Flavius treat this book as the Koman did that of Appius Claudius, he will serve the public; but I wish it to be understood that I have not seen the sacred volume, or obtained an extract b>
den nor'the friend^hi[) of Ben. Jonson, nor the case the insertion of a piece which I know Lord
patrono'^i* of Buckingham, availed. He did not Macaulay thought the best imitation he ever read,
obtain Vhe favor which he solicited ; an 1, as Fuller Persons are mentioned of whom I know nothing,
expresses it, he ^^ grumbled out the rest of his life If anything interesting is known about them, a
in visible discont'entment;' lie died at West- statement of it will be acceptable. I believe all
minster in 1G3:3, and letters of administration, of but one are dead. I leave a blank for his name^
which an attestel copy is In my possession, were though I am sure he would relish the joke even
granted to his son, Arhdllnus^ on the 31 August. more than the char,
BoLTOX CoRNEY. « THE CIRCUITEERS, An Ecloguk.
The Terrace, Barnes, S.^\ . _^ ^ , ^ ^,^. ^ rr. o .
Scene : The Banks of Wiadermere. — 1 IME : bunset.
ADDISON, LEWIN.
Addison, How sweet, fair Windermere, thy vraveless
coast ! 'Tis like a goodly issue well engrossed.
Lewuu ilow sweet the harmony of earth and sky ! 'Tis like a well-concocted alibi,
A. Pleas of the crown are coarse, and spoil one's tact, Barren of fees, and savouring of fact.
L. Your p'eas are cobwebs, narrower or wider. That sometimes catch the fly, sometimes the spider.
A. Come let us rest beside this prattling burn, And sing of our respective trades in turn.
L. Agreed : our song shall pierce the azure vault; For Meade's case shows, or my report's in fault, That singing can't be reckoned an assault.*
A. ^Yho shall begin?
L, That precious right, my friend,
I freely yield, nor care how late I end.
A. Vast is the pleader's raj>ture "when he sees The classical endorsement, " Please dra^Y Pleas."
L. Dear are the words — 1 ne'er could read them
frigidly,
" We have no case ; but cross-examine rigidly."
A. Blackhurst is cov, but sometimes has been known To strike out " Hoggins" and write " Addison."
L. Me Jackson ofc deludes, on me he rolls, Fiendlike, his eye, then chucks the brief to Knowles.
A. Thoughts much too deep for tears pervade Court, When I assumpsit bring, and, godlike, wave the tort.
L. When witnesses, like swarms of summer flies, I call to character and none replies; Dark Attride gives a grunt ; the gentle bailiff sighs.
A. A pleading, fashioned of the moon's pale shine, I love, that makes a youngster new-assign.
L, I love to put a farmer in a funk, And make the galleries believe he's drunk.
A. Answer, and you my oracle shall be, How a sham differs from a real plea.
treachery, llie poem which I offer was repeated to me by one remarkable for the accuracy of his memory; aiul by putting down what I remem- bered then, and hearing scraps quoted by others, I think I can give a satisfactory copy.
About thirty years ago, Joseph Addison joined the Korthern Circuit. Sir Gregory Lewin had been on it some years. Addison had been a pleader
under the bar : he was a first-rate lawyer, a good scholar, a!)<l
the
a thorough gentleman.
He
was
neither p.daulic nor obtrusive, but he loved to talk law to those who could appreciate it. Sii
G
led
r.
1 believe till he died. In 1834 he pablished A Report of Cases (letermincd on the Crown Side of the Northern Circuit,~a, marvellous work, well ^ - - jur's perusal. He took a clumsj note
tJf the cases, and hnd n Bfrmwr.. cK,lr. :„ «,_:*:
h
" No words or singing are equivalent to an ftSsauTt.'* Meade's and Belt's case, Lewin, Cro. Ca. 184.
)
^
r]
I
3rdS. Y. Ja^v2, '64.]
NOTES AND QUEEIES.
7
i. Tell me the difference first — 'tis thought immense, Between a naked lie, and false pretence. Now let us gifts exchange, a timely gift Is often found no despicable thrift.
A. Take these, well worthy of the Roxburgh Club, Seven counts struck out in Gobble versus Grubb.
L, Let this within thy pigeon-hoh s be packed, A choice conviction on the Bum-boat Act.
A. I give this penknife case, since giving thrives, It holds ten knives, ten hafts, ten blades, ten other knives
L. Take this bank-note, the gift Avon't be \ny ruin ; 'Twas forged by Dale and Kirkwood, see 1st Lewin.
A. Change tlie venire knight; your tones bewitch: But too much padding chokes, however rich. Enough's enough, and surplusage the rest, The sun no more gives colour to the west. And one by one tlie pleasure-boats forsake Yon land with water covered, called a lake.
'Tis supper-time; the inn is somewhat far,
Dense are the dews, though bright the evening star.
And . . . might drop in and eat our' char."
An Inner Templar.
15
i
PARTICULARS REGARDING SIR WALTER
RALEIGIL
Thirty or more years ago, I began to make col- lections for a new "Life of Sir VV alter Kaleigh ; but the publication of Tytler's biogrophy, and another subsec^uently by Mr. Whitehead, induced me to forego my scheme. I find, however, among my scattered papers, a few that I think may, some time or other, be of use to those who are looking for, or arranging, additional materials ; and, as I do not know of a better depository for them than •' N. & Q.," I add two or three of them now : hereafter, if acceptable, I will transmit others for insertion. There are so many memoirs of Sir AValter, that it is possible I may include some particulars already printed; but, to begin, I do
not believe that such is the case with the follow- ing information, derived from the original ac- counts of the Lieutenant of the Tower, at the time when Sir Walter Raleigh and his friend and coadjutor LaAvrence Key mis, or Kemys, were in custody early in the reign of James L Of course, this was only about the Uiiddle of Raleigh's Cftrcer ; but I do not profess to observe chrono- logical order in my contributions to his history, and those who at any future period may avail themselves of them will be able at once to deter- mine to what dates they belong, and what events they illustrate. The first account is thus headed :
" The demaundes of Sir George Harvie, Knight, Lieut* of the Tower of London, for the diett and charges of Prisoners in his custodie for one whole quarter of a yeare, viz. from Michaelmas, 1G03, to Christmas following?'
After a statement of the cliargc on accoilnt of " the late Lord Cobham, and the late Lord Graj," we arrive at this entry : — r r
^^^^ i I .
-♦ Kirk wood's case, Leivh^ Cro. Ca. 143.
S^ Walter] Item for the diett and charges of S"" Wal- Raleigh, >ter Raleigh, Knight, for himself and two Knight. J servants, from the 16 Dec^, being then sent
from Winchester to the Tower againe, for one weeke and a half ended the xxv^^ of
December, att iiij*' the weeke -
- VJH."
" Lawrence^ Item for the diett and charges of Lawrence Kemishe, >Kemishe, Esquior, from the 29^^ Sept. 1C03,
J untill the last of December, on which day
Esquior.
he was discharged from the Tower, being li weekes and two dayes, at x> the weeke
xxviiji^ xj8 viijd.'*
Here we see the precise chaige made for Ra- leigh, and that he was attended by two servants ; but no servant is mentioned in the entry for Kemys, who we know was often examined and questioned as to his complicity with Sir Walter and his friends, in the plot for which they were tried at AVinchester. The next account relates to the Fleet Prison, to which it should seem both Raleigh and Kemys had been removed : it is from Christmas, 1603, to the fca>t of the Annunciation, 1G04. It is in this form :
a
Sir Walter") Item more for the diett and charges in Kaleigh, >the Eleete of Sir Walter Kaleigh, Knight,
KniirbL
^>
J and two servants, for two weekes and a halfe, at v^^ the weeke - - xij^i
X
The charge, therefore, for Sir Walter was greater in the Fleet than it had been in the Tower: for Kemys, who accompanied him, It was the same as in the Tower, viz. :
for
the diett and charges of
Law-
" Lawrence 1^ Item Kemishe. j rence Kemishe, from 25 Dec^ 1G03, untill
the last thereof, being one Aveeke at xl» the weeke -.*---. xl^"
Here we see that no addition of Esquire was made to the name of Kemys while he was confined in the Fleet. It is to be presumed that he was discharged at the end of the week ; and we meet with no farther mention of him, on this authority,
in either place of confinement. Of Kaleigh we next hear after his return to the Tower, in an account by the Lieutenant, from the feast of the Annunciation, 1604, to the feast of St. John the Baptist in the same year. The charge is for thirteen weeks; not at 4/. per week, as in the first instance, but at 5L per week, ns in the Fleet; and the total is 65L The latest account by the Lieutenant of the Tower, that I was able to pro- cure a siglit of, was down to June 24, 1605 ; when the charge of oL per week for Raleigh and his two servants was continued.
I may mention by the way, and as a biogra- phical note of some interest, connected with the late of Henry Constable, author of the beai^itiful sonnets published in 1592 under the title of Diana^ that he was in the Tower for ten weeks in 1604, between the feasts of the Annunciation and St. John ; and that the charge by tlie Lieutenant, for keeping «ind maintaining him, was 3Z.
In the next account nothing is said of
per
week.
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NOTES AND QUERIES,
[S'-d S. V. Jan. 2, '64,
love to my L. Thomas hathe wisht mee to it : but I will not indure wrong at so pevishe a foole's hand any longer. I will rather loose my life ; and I think that my L. puritan Periam doeth think that the Queen shall have more use of roggs and villayns then of mee, or els he
him ; so that we may infer that he was no longer
in custody there.
Reverting to Ketnys, it may be farther stated, that there ""is extant from him, but never yet ^ _ , . - , • i. ^ . .
rinted that lam aware of, a long letter to the ! would not att Byndon's instance have yielded to try ac-
- - ' tions agaynst me, being out of the lande."
The whole of the above is in the handwriting of Raleigh, as well as the following document, which may serve to explain what is said in the r.S. regarding Mieres.
" Know all men that I S^' Walter Ralegh, Knight,. Capitaine of her ma'^'^s Gard, and Lord Warden of the Stanneries of Devon and Cornwall, doe hereby auctliorise Among my miscellaneous papers, connected with John Meere, my man, to take, cutt, and cary away, ov the lon'rlin<l friendly intercourse between Raleigli cause to be cutt downe, taken, and carj-ed awaye, all such and Lo"rd Cobham, tried toirether at Winchester, i manner of Trees, growinge in my manor of Sherborne or
T 1 i. -,.1 n r II •" 1 v-«.^„ ^1,- >i> v^,o,.r, else wher within an}' other my manors, or lands, in the
I iiuve met with the following etter, which bears , ,„„,,i,,,i, ^^ KhPrhninP. or Yedmv.ter in Hip, countvof
the date only of " 12"' August, but in what pre- cise year I am unable at this moment to deler-
K & Q
[1604] ing the truth of'any allegations against him ; and bearing testimony to his long friendship for, and dependence upon, Sir Walter Raleigh. ^ Kemys, as is well known, afterwards destroyed himself on shipboard in a fit of grief and despondency at the unmerited anger of Raleigh, who had been his effectual patron.
hundreds of Sherborne, or Yedmyster in the county o£ Dorset, when he shall think convenient, to be employed to my necessarie use in my castell of Sherborne, as to hym 1 have gy ven dyrection : whom I have appointed as
will be in a condition to supply the year from | well keper of the same castell, and to demand and keepe cu'cumstances mentioned in it. It is addressed
mine
" To the right honorable nn^ singular good Lorde, the • Lord Cobham, Lo. Warden of the five Ports," &c.
" ^Iv worthy Lorde, — I am now arived, havino: stnvde £0 long as I had means. I caused the Antelope to be revitled for 14 dayes, wliich was as much as that phice could alTorde ; and that being spent, I durst not tariv to cum home towards winter in a fi.sherman. I presume there is no cause to doubt it: the castells are defensibell enough, the country reasonabell well provided, and the Spaniards will either do some what more prayse worthy, or attend a better opportunitye. I am reddy now^ to obey your commandments. If you will come to the Bathe, I will not faile yow, or ^vhat soever else your L. will use me in in this worlde,
" I will now looke for the L. Henry of Northumber- lande, who, I tliink, Avill be here shortly, knowing my returne; and I doubt not but he wull meet us also att the Bathe, if your L. acquaynt hyme with the tvme. It is best, if your L. propose it, to take the end of this moueth att farthest.
" I here that the Lord Chamberlayn is dead: if it be so, I hope that your L. may be stayde uppon good cause : if it be not so, I could more willingly cum eastw^ard then ever! did in my life. How so ever [it] be, they be but tlungs of the worlde, by which thos that have injoyed them have byne as littell happv as other poore men ; but
the kayes of the same, as also to be overseer of all my woods and tymber within the sayd hundreds, that no spoyle be made therein ; or of any Fesaunts, or other game of the free warren whatsoever, within the same. Moreover I doe aucthorise him hereby to receave to my use all knowledge mone^', dew unto mee by my tenauntes- ■within the sayd hundreds. In witnes where of I, the the sayd S^' Walter Ralegh, have here unto put my hand and scale the xxviij*'^ daye of Auguste in the xxxiiij*^^ yeare of the Raigne of our Soveraigne Lady Elizabeth, by the grace of God Queene of England, Fraunce, and. Ireland, defender of the Faythe, &c. W. Kalkgh."
Out of this deed of 1586, no doubt, grew tLe lawsuit between Raleigh and Meere, which Jus- tice Periam Iiad heard during the absence of Sir Walter from England. J. Payne Collier.
Maidenhead.
QU
(late Norwich House)
Heath
Queen Mary, for the town residence of the Arch- the good of these thingos wilbe, that while men are of "^^^^^ops 01 X ork, in lieu of their former palace necessity to draw lotts, they shall hereby see their seized by Henry VIII., it is doubtful whether he chanses, and dispose them selves accordinglv. I beseech or any of his successors ever inhabited it • for Sir your L. that I may here from yow: from hence 1 can Nicholas Bacon was residing in it, certainly a&
early as the second year of Elizabeth's reif^n. He
present yow with nothinge but my fast love and trew affection which shall never part from studying to honor yow till I be in the grave. '
«* Wemouth, the 12 of August. [P.S.] " My L. Vicount hath so exa
" W. Ralegh.
had previously resided in Noble Street, Foster Lane, Cheapside, in a house which he built.
called Bacon House.
nor any one else, could be hard for me to stay trialls while I was out of the land in her Majesties service, a right and curtesy afforded to every begj^er. I never busied mysealf with the Vicount, neather of his extor- liona or pmsonings of his wife, as it is here avowed and spoken. I have forborne hvn;c in respect of my L Thoma*, and chiefly because of Mr Secretory who in his
Q
nS^Tnl "Zl^TJ *^'Tf 'I as neather M-" Sergent Heale, next Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas Bromley, there nor any one else, could be hard for me to stay trialls is no record .- b„f, \t ;. ,..f ; i.„i.i. iL. i,^
no record ; but it is not improbable that he
of his successors did.
Hou
Lord Chancellor Sir Christoi^her Hatton had a grant of the Bishop of Ely's house, in Holborn, long before he had possession of the Great Seal,
\
i
t
\
3rd s. V. Jan. 2, 'G4.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
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he also bad a town liouse In Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, where he died.
Sir Francis North, Lord Guilford, who was Lord Keeper to Charles II. and James II., resided when he was entrusted with the Great Seal in a great brick house, near Serjeants' Inn in Clian-
Lane. His brother, in his entertaining biography of the Lord Keeper, intimates that he removed to some other house; but, as far as I recollect, omits to name where it was situate.
The infjimous Chief Justice JcfTrejs, the last beth's next Lord Keeper; who resided in it till Chancellor of James II., heard causes in his house
and continued to reside in it till his death. His name, and the bishop's title, are preserved in the
streets built upon its site.
Sir Christopher's successor, Sir John PCickering, who was only Lord Keeper, lived at first at Rus- sell House, near Ivy Bridge, in the Strand. He then removed to York House, under a lease from the archbi^jhop; which enabled his widow to keep possession for a year after his death.
At the end of that year^ the archbishop granted a new lease to Sir Thomas Egerton, Queen Eliza-
eery
his death, in 1G17;
havinij
been created Lord
Chancellor by James L, and ennobled with the titles of Baron Ellesmere and Viscount Bracklev.
V
Kinii^ James's second Chancellor, Lord Bacon,
after residing for a short time in Dorset House, lution. Fleet Street, removed to York IIouse> the place of his birth ; which, soon after his disgrace, be- came the property of tlie Duke of Buckingham ; and within fifty years was converted into various streets and alleys, now, or lately, designated by the names and titles of that nobleman — George Street, Villiers Street, Duke Street, Of Alley, and Buckingham Street.
in Duke Street, AVestminster.
Lest I should fatigue your readers, and occupy too much of your space, I will stop here, and commence my next contribution with the Revo-
Edward Eoss.
RYEdlOUSE PLOT CARDS.
I have met with a nearly perfect pack of play- ing-cards, ornamented with figures and inscrip- tions, all of which relate to the celebrated Rye- House riot. The cards are distinguished by the Sir Thomas Coventry, Lord Coventry, Lord mark of the suit, usually on the riglit-hand upper Keeper to Charles L, died in Durham House, in ' corner, but in some of the suit of Diamonds, and the Strand — now the site of the Adelphi. The I the ten of Spades, on the left-hand upper corner. Lord Keeper's country house was at Canonbury, Islinuton.
I do not know the residences of King Charles's : words. Knave, Q
The number in the suit is indicated by the Roman numerals, i , ii., &c., to x., and then by the
Kin
(T
The
s, ivnuve, v^ueen, ivuig. jLiie figiu'cs on
tl»ese last court cards have no relation to their character as cards. Twelve cards are missin*r
three remaining Lord Keepers — Sir John Finch
Lord Finch of Fordwich ; Sir Edward Lyttelton,
Lord Lyttelton of Mounslow ; and Sir Richard I namely, the Iv. and vii. of Hearts; the iii., vi., viii.,
Lane. Nor can I trace with any certainty the j and x. of Diamonds; the iii., iv.,ix., and King of
London houses of the Commissioners of the Great
Seal durinir the Commonwealth.
The Earl of Clarendon, the first Lord Chan- cellor of Charles II. after the Restoration, resided
Spades; and the i. and x. of Clubs.
The figures upon the suit of Clubs are as fol- lows :
i. MissiniX-
O
at first in Dorset House, Fleet Street, before ' ii. Figure of a man resting on a walking-stick, mentioned as an early residence of Lord Bacon; ' and the inscription "AVest going downe to White- then at Worcester House in the Strand, the same halh" as Russell House, where Sir John Puckering had I iii. A man going to a door, with the inscription
for some time resided as Lord Keeper in the I "Keeling gc»ing to the L*^ Dart.'' reign of Elizabeth ; and lastly, at the splendid mansion he built at the top of St. James's Street.
iv, A man, wearing a hat and robed, sitting, and another man standinjr before him with his hat
Sir Orlando Bridgeman, who succeeded the ' in his hand. Inscription, ^'Keeling examined by Earl, while he' held the Seal resided in Essex S^ L. lenkins/'
House in the Strand — now the site of Essex v. A man, wearing a sword and hat, with words Street. from his mouth, '' I beg the King's mercy," bow-
Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury, ing to another man in an official dress. Inscrip- while he held the oflSce of Lord Chancellor, re- tlon, '^C. Rumsey delivering himselfc." sided in Exeter House in the Strand, wliere vi. Two men in oflicial robes, one of them Exeter Street and Burleigh Street now are. The w^caring a hat, standing at a table, examining Earl afterwards lived at Thanet House, in Alders- : another man, behind stands a guard. Inscription^
gate Street, where several of the nobility had *' Rumsey examined by the King and Councelh
»>
mansions in that reign.
Sir Heneage Finch, Earl of Nottin;>ham, the next Chancellor, resided at Kensington in a man- sion which has since become a royal palace; but
4
I
vii. A man in a hat writing at a table, the words from his mouth "I must discover all." In- scription, "West writinjr a letter to S' G. J/'
a guard with a
viii. One man, attended
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Tn-
javelin, arresting another man from behind, scription, " Lord Grey Apprehended."
ix. Tlie Tower of London in the back ground. A man in a hat and flowing wig Landing from a boat, received "bj another man ; a coach standing by. Inscription, "Lord Grey making his Escape."
X. Missing.
Knave. A man in gown and bands, with tlie words from his mouth, " Fight the Lairde's bat- Inscription, "Ferguson the Independent
the front, a man standing by an
tie."
Parson."
Que overturned cart ; at a distance a coach and six on
the road. Inscription, " A conspirator overturn- ing a cart fo stop the King's coacli."
Kiu'T. A nobleman siitinc^in an arm-chair, with the words from liis mouth, '' Assist me friends." BcliinJ liim :i .^liadowy black figure with horns, evidently the evil spirit, holding the back of his chair. Inscription, '' The Lord Shaftsbury."
The six of Hearts has a representation of the execution of Lord llusscll, with the inscription, " L** Russell bclieaded In Lincohrs Inn Feilds."
This may be sufficient to give a notion of these very curious cards; and I should be glad to know wlieth.er any other copy of them is known to be
T. C.
in existence.
Inlookinjjover
The Lapwing: WiTcncRAFT.— , _.. ^,^,
an ohl French book a few days since I met with a word which caused me some vexatious research. The author tells his readers how tliey may render themselves invisible, and his directions are — "To wear a wig made of the hairs of a person who has Veen hung, having first had the wig steeped in the blood of line mi pn."'' I sought for tlie mean- ing of pnpu in Cliambaud's quarto French amt English Dictionary, in French and Latin, French and German, French and Spanish, French and Por- tuguese, French and Dutch dictionaries in vain ; but at last discovered that the word was obsolete,' and synonymous with the modern huppe, and in English signifies a lapwing, peewit, and hoopoe ;
^pf
,j,
?/;
cmo; and that it is our old Ovidian friend the naughty Tereus, who fell in love with his sister- in-law, Philomela, whose tongue he cut out lest she should tell his wife how badly he had behaved • and who afterwards dined upon the remains of his son Itys I traced the pnpu afterwards from Ovid A/./, v.. 672, 673, 674; to Virgil, Eclog VI. 78 ; to Plautus, Copt. Act V. Sc. 4, iTne 7 ; and found honourable mention made of it in Plmy 8 Natural History, in .Elian, Be Animal i. 85; in. 26; vi. 46 ; x. 16; xvi. 5; in Pausanias, lb. 1, c. 40. What I wish to know is, does the Japwmg, so remarkable a bird in ancient lore and
legend, and an ingredient In mediaeval French mafjic, hold any importance in the folk lore of England ?
I appeijd in the original the receipt for one's self invisible :
'• Porter une peruque faite des chevcux d'un peadu, et trempee dans le sang d'une pupa, afin de se rendre in-
makinsr
visible."
W. B. MacCabe.
Dinan, Cotes <la Nord, France.
John Rowe, Serjeant-at-Law. — Several in- quiries have been made in previous volumes re- specting Serjeant Rowe. From an Inq, p. m. at
Exeter Castle, Oct. 28, 35
VIIL, it ap-
pears lie (lied on the 8th of October, leaving a son
wards, .. ^^^
mouth, Totnes, &c., &c.
of the same name, aged thirty-five years and up-
a widow Agnes, and property in Davt-
Another copy states,
that his son John was thirty years of age, and his wife's name Mary.
It will be seen from the above, that Serjeant Rowe was closely connected with Devonshire; and that, therefore, the statement in the Rowe pedigree (IlarL MS., 1174), that he was the son of John Rowe, of Rowes Place, Kent, is highly improbable.
A family of the name of Rowe, or Roe, had been seated in the West of England for at least a century before the reign of Henry VIIL
C. J. R.
Charles Lloyd, the poet, the friend of Words- worth, Lamb, and Southey, died at Chaillot, near Paris, January 16, 1839, aged 64. {Gent Mag. N. S. xi. 335.) He was son of Charles Lloyd, Esq., banker of Birmingham ; was born in that town, and privately educated by Mr. Gilpin. On August 31, 1798, being twenty-three years of age, he was admitted a Fellow Commoner of Caius College, but never graduated. The late Mr. Justice Talfourd, in his Memorials of Charles Laruh^ referring to the year 1799, says: '^ Lloyd had become a graduate of the University." This is a mistake ; but it must be observed that another Charles Lloyd, a native of Norfolk, pro- ceeded B.A. at Emmanuel College in that very year. C. H. & Thompson Coopeb.
Canibridge.
Cambridge Tradesmen in 1635.
loq. :
Aristippus
** 'Tis becre that drowns the soules in their bodie.^. Uuson's cakes, and Paix his ale, hath frothed their braioes : hence is the whole tribe contemned ; every prentice can jeere at their brave Cassockes, and laugh the Velvet Caps out of countenance."— Randolph, Aristippus, 1635, p. 12.
" Topicks or Common-places are the Tavernes; and Ilamon^ Wolfe, and Farlowes, are the three best tutors in the Universities."— ^m<7)/}?/s, 1635, p. 15.
J. D. Campbell.
\
J '
3rd s. V. Jax. 2, '64.]
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Robespierre's Remains.
*' The mortal remains of Robespierre, St. Just, and Leba-^," says the Pa^rie, "have just been discovered by some workmen occupied in digging the foundations of a house at the Batignolles, at the angle of the Rue du Eocher and the old Chemin de Ronde. Those men, who played so important a part in the Revolution, were buried at the above 9i)ot ; the cemetery of the Madeleine being
too full at the period of their death to admit of fresh | (Gtli edit. 1800)
Cenotaph to the 79th Regiment at Clifton.
Sir William Draper, nearly a hundred years a^o, erected in his garden at Clii*ton, near Bristol, a CGnotapli in memory of the officers and soldiers of the 79th re<iin:ient who fell durhi^i; the war in the middle of the last century. This memorial is alluded to in the Ann. Reg. 1768, vol. xi. 236
The inscription, which is in
interments." — Leeds Mtrcury^ Nov. 5, 1863.
Grime.
Old Latin Aristotle. — In a volume of Latin Sermones, printed at Cologne, and in the original
Latin, is given in the Gent. Mag, 1792, vol. Ixii. part I. p. 168; and a translation of it occurs in the same volume at p. 162. According to the Gent. Mag. 1789, vol. lix. part ii. p. 607, it would seem that under the base of the sarcophagus the exploits of the regiment in the East Indies are particularised, and the names added of thirty- four officers who were killed in action. These names,
binding, I have found parts of two leaves of an as far as I have been able to learu, not having
early edition of ArLstotle in Latin. I know that been copied into any journal, I would suggest, they are early, because of the contractions, of the
Gotl
against the chances of that obliteration which by the omission of the first j time and the weather work on all exposed monu-
letter of quoniam^ which was to have been sup- ments, that one of your Clifton or Bristol readers, plied by hand. I give a short extract belov, and interested in preserving the records on such me- I know that it i^ from the 4th book, near the moriab, impose on himself the task of sending you beiiinninji: of the treatise ''De Aninia;" and that a list of the names of those brave fellows for in-
seriion in '^ N. & Q.'' To your military readers and others no doubt such a list Avould be useful, more so as the London Gazettes of the period — the chief source of reference in many instances — only note the deaths in war by totals.
For purposes of identity, the names should be followed by any other information, such as dates, and the names of the battles and siei*;es in which the officers lost their lives, if such particulars occur
it is not the translation in the folio, Paris, 1629. The page is printed in columns, just two inches wide. As far ^s potentia, in the extract^ the Ger- man-text letters are half an inch high.
** [qluoniam anjte eade poten|tia |1 Postq; phus deter- mine'vit qua si queda pambula | ad potencia vegetativa
hie incipit | determinare de ipa & duo facit. qr
Will some of your bibliographical readers be so kind as to tell me the edition to wdiich my
fragment belon*2;s ? Oscott,
Wm. Davis.
John Barcroft.— Li '' K & Q ," 3^^ S. iv. 187, it is stated that Laurence Halsted, Keeper of tlie Kecords in tho Tower of London, was born in 1638, and married Alice, daughter of John Bar-
on the cenotaph.
M. S. R.
"Wili-iam Ciiaigneau. — The famous Irish novel entitled The Histoi^y of Jack Connor, and which I believe first appeared in 1752, is attributed to William Chaigneau, Esq., who, in 1796, is re-
823).
ferred to as deceased {Gent. Mag..,
h
VI.
•r^
croft, Esq. Is aiiything known of John Barcroft i There was a John Barcroft, perhaps his son, whose history presents some remarkable features. He was one of Cromwell's officers in Ireland, where it is to be supposed that he did good service, as he was rewarded with the estate of Castle Car- bery, near Edenderry, the name of which be changed, according to the fashion of the times, to Ask Ilill. The Castle Carbery estate reverted, on the Restoration, to the Colleys or Cowleys, ances- tors of the Duke of Wellington, to whom it had belonged from the time of Queen Elizabeth. John Barcroft, sickened perhaps by the scenes of blood "which he had witnessed during his service under Cromwell, joined the sect of Quakers, and be- came one of the principal founders of the Quaker colony at Balitore, co. Kildare, respecting which some interesting particuiars are given in i\\^Lead-
Information respecting him will be acceptable.
S. Y. R.
Eleanor d'Olbreuse. — Where can I find par- ticulars of the parentage of this lady, who married one of the Dukes of Zelle, and so became an ancestress of our present royal family ?
J. AVOODWARD-
New Shoieham.
Hyoscyamus.
In Bishop H
Q
Vadis
heaie?* Papers.
Ceylon,
Ursagellus.
(sec. 5), the follow
*• The Persian Hyoscyamus, if it be translated to Egypt proves deadly ; if to Je'^i'usaleni, safe and wholesome."
I wish to know whether this is a positive fiict?
W. J. Smith.
Laurel Water. — It was stated in conversa- tion after Donellan's trial for the murder of Sir Theodosius Boughton, that a book on botany was lent to the captain by Mr. Newsom, the rector of Harborough, and that it was returned with the
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1
leaf doubled down, saying that laurel water dis- tilled was a deadly poison. Can any of your botanical readers state in what book this accoun of laun-l-water is to be found ? A book cal ed
/
This
Lewis ]\roRRis.
a new
book is notin the British Museum Perhaps one of your rea.lers may possess the book, and_ be able to state what the account oflaurel-w:iter is.
An Ikquiber.
At the conimcncement of Lord Tei^nmouth's Life of Sir William Jones is a ktter si-'ucd Lewis ^.lorris, in which the writer states, that he has sent Sir Wilham, as year's «'Ift, and in pursuance of an old Welsh cust^.m^'among kinsmen, a pedigree, showing their descent from a common ancestor. Can any of your readers inform me wliether the writer is tlie celebrated antiipiaiy and poet spoken of by ]Mr. Borrow in his recent work. Wild Wales, and whe- ther anything is now known of the pedigree in qncstion ? I'should be glad to know, too, whether
s Morris has now any lineal descendants
Lewi livinii?
IL H.
The Prince Consort's Motto. — Tlie motto of
the Prince Consort— " Treu und Fest"— was one so strikingly applicable to his high character, that I should be dad to know its origin.
On reading
(
sat upon the \\'liite Horse was called ''faithful and true," it occurred to nie that the Elector of Saxony, from whom Prince Albert probably de- rived it, niit^ht have taken the motto from this passage in Luther's translation; but upon exandn- ation, I iind Luther's words are:
Wnhrhaftig;'
Treu und As it seems probable that this motto, and the xchltc horse in the arms of Saxony, have been derived fr^m this passage, may I ask — When, and by whom they were first used ?
T.
Richard Salveyne. — In Cliiswick church, near London, upon a monument is read this im- perfect inscription
"Orate pro anima jMathildis Salveyne iixoris Rychardi Salveyne Uiilitis Thesaurar: Ecclesie. mccccxxxii."
So states an old MS. in my possession, but I do not find it recorded in the copious list of inscrip-
Par
Mi
It is further stated in the MS. this Richard
Sal Salwej
Worcester
whose tomb at Stanford in that county is there described.
The monument at Chiswiek I presume to be no longer in existence. I do not find Richard Sai-
ls anything known about be buried at Chiswiek, a:
ped
capacity ?
, and what was his official
Thomas E. Winnington.
Swinburne. — Is anything known of a person of this name who was living about 1610 ? He was secretary to Sir Henry Fanshaw. Cpl.
Captain Yorke.
I am anxious to obtain in-
formation about a JMr. Yorke, a Captain in the Trained Bands of London, who lived about the
It is thcmght that he
middle of the last century.
was descended from the Yorkes of Erthig, Den- bighshire, Wales
any c as to ErthiiT.
and I should be grateful to
:orrespondent who could give me any details the Captain's connection with the Yorkes of
Carilford.
Caue Town,
PuoLEY. — What is the meaning of this word in the following advertisement, which I copy from a Ll^t of Books printed for and sold by Edward Cave, at St. John s Gate, Clerkenwell ? —
"Travels into the inland parts of Africa, containing a description of the several Nations for the spivce of GOO miles up the liiver Gambia, with a particular account of Job Ben Solomon, a Pholey, who, in th.^ year 1733, w^as in Enc^laud, and known by the name of the African. Being the Journal of Francis Moore, Factor for several years to the Roval African Company of England."
E. IL A.
[An interesting account of the Pholeys, a free and in- dependent pejple of Gambia, is supplied by the author in the above work, in the first edition, 1738, p. 30, in the second edition (no date), p. 21. He says, '^n every kingdom on each side of the river Gambia there are some people of a tawny colour, called Pholeys, much like the x\rabs; which language they most of them speak, being to them as the Latin is in Europe; for it is taught in schools, and their law, the Alcoran, is in that language. They are more generally learned in the Arabick than the people of Europe are in Latin, for they can most of them speak it, though they have a vulgar tongue besides, called Phvhy. They live in hoards or clans, build towns, and are not subject to any kings of the country, though they live in their territories ; for if they are illtreated in one nation, they break up their towns, and remove to another. They have chiefs of their own, who rule with so much moderation, that every act of government se(?ms rather an act of the people than of one man. This form of govern- ment goes on easily, because the people are of a good and quiet disposition, and so well instructed in Avhat is just and right, that a man who does ill is the abomination of all, and none Avill support him against the chief
The Pholeys are very industrious and frugal, and raise much more corn and cotton than they consume, which they sell at reasonable rates, and are very hospitable and kind to all; so that to have a Pholcy town in the neighbourhood, is by the natives reckoned a blessing.
ft>
)
(uul
1
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Lines addressed to Charles I. — I copy the following vei'ses from MS. on a fly-leaf, at the end of a copy of Jus Imaginis apud Anglos^ or^ the Law of England 7'elating to the Nobility and Gentry^ by John Brydall, of Lincoln's Inne, Esquier, 1675." 8vo
" Great Charles, thou Earthly God, Celestial Man I Whose life, like others', though it were a span, Yet in that life was comprehended more Than earth hath waters, or the oceans shore ; Thy heavenly virtues angels shall rehearse ; It IS a theme too high for human verse. He that would know the right, then let him look Upon this wise incomparable book. And read it o'er and o*er; which, if you do, You'll find the King a priest and prophet too; And sadly see our lot, although in vain"
(^Cetera desunt,^
They appear to have been written by the hand of one William Thomas, as they follow these words: ''John ffurr his Booke. Willhim Tho- mas witnes, 1675." But they were evidently not William Thomas's composition, as he was an un- educated fellow, who wrote
" Grate charls, though earthly god se- Lastiel man, huse J.ife Like others "
and so on — oshians for " oceans," Engels for " an^ gels," &c. : on which account I have modernised the spelling, in order to make the whole inttlligi- ble. They seem to have been really the production of one who could \vY\tQ. verse, as well as the most extravagant adulation, and may be taken as an extreme example of the poetical hyperbole of that hyperbolical age. The ''incomparable book," for which they were first written^ was probably the Eikon Basilike. Do they occur in print in any
edition of it ?
J. G. N.
[These lines are entitled " An Epitaph upon King Charles," signed J. IT., and are usually found printed in the earlier editions of the Eihon Basilike^ e. g. that by Royston, 24mo, 1649; that printed at the Hague by S. Brown, 24mo, 1G49; and in the Dublin edition of 1706. Vide " N. & Q." 2nd s. iv. 347 ; v. 393, 464 ; vi. 179.]
Crest
H
will be glad to know the meaning of the rhino- ceros, or whatever the animal may be, which orna- ments all things sent from Apothecaries' HalL
[The unicorn, as Actionized in heraldry, is a white horse, having the horn of the narwhale emanating from the forehead ; the belief in the animal being based on the passage in Job xxxix. 9 : « Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee?" but the original word "iie/n," thus translated " unicorn," is, by St. Jerome, Montanus, and Aquila, rendered ** rhinoceros"; and in the Septuagint, "monoceros" signifies nothing more than "one horn." The rhinoceros is therefore the misinterpreted unicorn of the ancients; and, from a belief in the fabulous medicinal qualities of the horn, has been advanced as the crest of the Company of Apothecaries, on some of whose sign-
boards the rhinoceros presented the similitude of any- thing but the real beast ; and being frequently mistaken for a boar, the practice of painting the monster became more monstrous, and the boar proper has, to be more agreeable to the eye, been bedizened as a blue boar. Beaufoy's Tradesmen s Tokens, edit. 1855, p. 58.]
Frumentum: Siligo. — In an account, teiJip. Edw. III., I find these words used for distinct kinds of grain. What kinds ? In Littleton's Latin Dictionary^ " siligo " is defined as " fine wheat, whereof they make manchet ; " and 'Mru- mentum" as '* all manner of corn or grain for bread." But in my account, the price of fru- mentum is 7^. and Ss, the quarter, that of siligo, 5s. 6d. and 6s. Ad. only. Can I be referred to any more definite explanation of these terms?
G. A. C.
[Frumentum was used in the Middle Ages somewliat indeiinitcly, but it most frequently signifies wheat. Pure wheat—** Sa^pe sa?piusdesignatum opinor triticum purum, nee aliis granis mixtum.'^ (^Du Cange in verb.) In the passage lefore us it is certainly wheat.
Siligo, in Middle-Age Latin, means rye. We know that in classical Latin it signifies a fine wheat, praised by Columella and riiny, as preferable to ordinary wheat for food, being finer, whiter, and lighter; but in the Middle Ages it almost always represents rye, as it assuredly does in this passage.]
John Burton. — I have in my possession a rather scarce tract of 31 pnges, entitled Sacerdos Pai'cecialis Rusticus^ published at Oxford in 1757. Its author is "Johannes Burton de Maple-Durham in Com; Oxon. Vicarius." The duties of the parish priest are in it beautifully described in cUissical hexameters, 630 in number, and occasionally re- mind one of the picture, in Gohlsmith's Deserted Village^ of the country clergyman.
Is anything known of the author, and what college in Oxford claimed him as an alumnus ? I presume that the same person was the author of the following eflfusions in ''^Selectee Poemata Anglomcm
(Ed
789)
u
De
107; '*ilortusBotanicus,"p. 147; and
borae Epinicion," p. 28; " Psalmus cxxxvii.," p.
''Psalm us
xlvi.," p. 275 for the name ^' J. Burton, S. T. P." is appended. Oxomensis.
[Dr. John Burton, a learned critic and divine, was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. lie died on Feb. 11, 1771, in the seventj'-sixth year of his age, and was buried at the entrance of the inner chapel at Eton. His Life has been published by his pupil and intimate friend, Dr. Edward Bentham. Most biographical diction- aries also contain some account of him.]
James II. and the Pretender. — Can any of
your readers refer me to any work giving details of the court held by James 11. and the Pretender at St. Germain-enrLaye, until the death of the
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former? Did James II. confer pntents of nobility
upon any of his adherents, and upon whom ? * N. H. K.
[The state of the Court of St. Germains will be found in the fuUon-ing works: (1) A View of the Court of St. Germaiusfrom the Fear 1G90 to 1695, [by John Macky], 8vo. 1G9G. (2.) " The Life of James IL, containing an Account of his Birth, I'ducation, &c., the State of his Court at St. Germains, and the particulars of his Death. Lo:id. 8vo, 1702." (3.) Clarke's Life of James IL, ii. 472-647, copied from the Stuart Pai>ers in Carlton House. Consult also chap. xx. of Lord Macaulay's History of England, iv. 380. For the titles of nobility conferred by James II. after his abdication, see " X. & Q." 2>'J S. ix. 23; X. 102,215,337.]
New Translation of the Bible, by John
Bellamy, circa 1818. — Bellamy did not complete the whole Bible. Query, how much did he pub-
Geo. I. Cooper.
[Eight parts of this new tran.slation were published, namely, from Genesis to tlie Song of Solomon, pp. 13G8. See Ilurnc's Introduction to the IIoli/ Scriptu^-es, ed. 184G,
V. 3<)4.1
li.>*li ?
EXHIBITION OF SIGX-BOxUlDS.
(3^d S. iv. 307.)
in establishing an
Bonnell Thornton's object exhibition of si(;n-boards was to convev satire on temporary events, objects, and persons. It took place at an opportune time, when the good- natured public was not disposed to consider it as an insult; and for a period it is said to have auswered the witty pr^yec tor's mast expectations.
sanguine
The mention made of this exhibition by the newspaper press of the day, presents so many il- lustrations of the state of art, and of the spirit of tlie times, that a few extracts from it may not
unacce
rti
The St. James's Chronicle of Maa-ch 26, 1762,
after noticing the preparations of the Society of Arta, adds
•* The Society of Si^^ii-Painters are also preparing a
most magnificent collection of portraits, landscapes, fancy-
pieces, history-pieces, night-pieces, Scripture-pieces, &c. Ac, designed by the ablest masters, and executed by the best ban Is in the^e kingdoms. The virtuosi Avill have a new opportunity to display their taste on this occasion, by discovering the different styles of the several masters employed, and pointing out by what hand each piece is drawn. ^ A Remarkable cognoscenti, who has attended at the Society's great room, with his eye-glass, for several mornings, has already piqned himself on discovering the famous painter of * The Rising Sun* (a modern Claude) in an elegant nightpieceof *The Man in the Moon/"
The London Register for Apnl, 1762, as quoted m Mr. Tye's Patronage of British Art, gives us tte following account of the exhibition itself;
I
" Oil entering, you pass through a large parlour and paved yard, of which, as they contain nothing but old common signs, we shall take no further notice than what is said of them in the Catalogue, which the reader will not find to be barren of wat and humour. On entering the grand room, you find yourself in a large and com- modious apartment, hung round with green baize, on which this curious collection of wooden originals is fixed flat, and from whence hang keys, bells, swords, poles, sugar-loaves, tobacco-rolls, candles, and other ornamental figures, carved in wood, which commonly dangled from the pent-houses of the diff'erent shops in our streets. On the chimney-board (to imitate the style of the catalogue) is a large^blazing fire, painted in water-colours; and -within a^kind of cupola, or rather dome, which lets the light into the room, is written in golden capitals, upon a blue ground, a motto disposed in the form following:
SPECTAlTiM
CO C/2
K.isin
'■ From tliis short description of the grand room (when we consider the singular nature of the paintings them- selves, and the peculiarity of the other decorations), it nuiy be easily imagined that no connoisseur who has made the tour of Europe ever entered a picture-gallery that struck his eye more forcibly at first sight, or pro- voked liis attention with more extraordinary appearance. We will now, if the reader pleases, conduct him round the room, and take a more accurate survey of the curious originals before us; to which end we shall proceed to transcribe some ot the most conspicuous features of the ingenious Society's Catalogue, adding, by the way, such remarks as mav seem necessarv for his instruction and entertainment :
** No. 1. Portrait of a justly celebrated painter, though an Englishman and a modern.
'' No. 8. ' Tlie Vicar of Bray.' The portrait of a beni- ficed clergyman at full length. * The A^icar of Bray ' is an ass in a feather-topped grizzle, band, and pudding- sleeves. This is a much droller conceit, and has much more effect, as here executed, than the old design of the ass loaded with pi'cferment.
"No. 9. * The Irish Arms.' By Patrick O'Blaney. N.B. Captain Terence O'Cutter stood for them. This sign repre:?ents a pair of extremely thick legs, in white stockings, and black gaiters. •
" No. 12. ' The Scotch Fiddle.' By M*Pherson. Done from himself The figure of a Highlander sitting under a tree, enjoying the greatest of pleasures, scratching where it itches.
" No. 16. * A Man.' Nine tailors at work, in allusion to the old saying, * Nine tailors make a man.'
"No. 19. * Nobody alias Somebody.' A character. The figure of an ofiicer, all head, arms, legs, and thighs. This piece has a very odd effect, it being so droTIy exe- cuted that you don't miss the body.
" No. 20. ' Somebody, alias Nobody.' The companion of the foregoing, both by Hogarty. A rosy figure, with little head and a huge body, wdiose belly swags over, almost quite down to his shoe-buckles. By the staff in his hand, it appears to be intended to reprer^ent a con- stable: it might also be mistaken for an eminent justice of the peace.
"No. 22. *The Strugglers: a Matrimonial Conversa- tion.' Bv Ransby. Represents a man and his wife fight- ing for the breeches.
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\'
«No.
23.
f Secret/
* making a
' A Freemason's Lodge ; or, the Impenetrable By a S\Yorn Brother. The snpposed ceremony and probable consequences of what is called mason.^ Represents the master of the lodge with a red- hot salamander in his hand, and the new brother blind- fold, and in a comical situation of fear and good-luck.
" No. 27. * The Spirit of Contradiction.' Two brewers with a barrel of beer pulling different ways.
"No. 35. * A Man in his Element.' A sign for an eat- ing-house. A cook roasting at afire, and the devil basting him.
" Xo. 36. ' A Man out of his Element.' A sailor falling
off a horse, with his head lighting against a milestone.
*• No. 37. *A Bird.' By Allison. Underneath is writ- ten
ca
* A bird in hand far better 'tis Than two that in the bushts is.
"No. 38. * A ]\ran loaded with Mischief,' is represen rrying a woman, a magpie, and a monkey on his ba(
ted
ck.
A perukemaker's sign Underneath is written
*'No. 39. * Absalom Hanging, bv Sclatter.
' If Absalom had not worn his own hair, Absalom had not been hani^in^ there.'
^* But the cream of the whole jest is No. 49 and No. 50' its companion, hanging on each side of the chimney These two are by an unknown hand, the exhibition having been favoured with them from an unknown quar- ter. Ladies and gentlemen are requested not to finger them, as the}'- are concealed by the curtains to preserve them. Behind the curtains are two boards, on one of which is written *lla! ha! ha! ' and on the other • He! he! he"!' At the opening of the exhibition, the ladies had infinite curiosity to know what was behind the cur- tain.5, but were afraid to gratify it. This covered laugh is no bad satire on the indecent pictures in some collec- tions, hung up in the same manner with curtains over them.
"No. G6. * A Tobacconist's Sign.' By Bransbv. The conceit and execution are admirable. It represents a com- mon-councilman and two friends drunk over a bottle. The common-councilman, asleep, has fallen back in his chair. One of his friends (an officer) is lighting a pipe at his nose; whilst the other (a doctor) is usin<? his thumb as a tobacco-stopper.
"Some humour was also intended in the juxtaposition of the signs, as *The Three Apothecaries' Gallipots,' and * The Three Coffins,' its companion."
The locale of the exhibition was the house of
Bonnell Thornton in Bow Street,
den
G
as we learn from the following advertise-
ments, and from the title-page of the catalogue. The latter reads as follows :
"A Catalogue of the Original Paintings, Busts, Carved Figures, &c. &e., now Exhibiting by the Society of Sign Painters, at the Large Room, the upper end of Bow- street, Coven t Garden, nearlv
any candid person as a reflection on any body, or body of men. They are not in the least prompted by any mean jealous}'', to depreciate the merits of their brother arti.ts. Animated by the same public spirit, their sole view is to convince foreigners, as well as their own blinded country- men, that however inferior the nation may be unjustly deemed in other branches of the polite arts, the palm for sign-painting must be universally ceded to us, the Dutch themselves not excepted."
The purchase of a catalogue entitled the owner to an admission to the exhibition. A printed slip was appended to it in the form of a ticket, which was torn off by the door-keeper upon pre- sentation, thus rendering the catalogue unavail- able for a second admission.
Copies of the catalogue are of very rare occur- rence. The only one I ever saw was sold at PutticVs about a twelvemonth since.
Edw AKD r. KiMBAULT.
*^EST KOSA FLOS VENERIS."
(P^ S. i. 214, 4o8; 3
Qrd
)
As tliis question appears to be of so ancient a date as tlie first volume of '' N. & Q.," it certainly ought to be disposed of at the earliest oppor- tunity. The lines will be found in the Anthologia Veterum Latinorum Epigrammatum et Poematum of Peter Burinan, the younger; and, also, in the collections of Wernsdorf and Meier, founded on the same work. It is pretty evident, from their epigrammatic character, that they are not a part of a larger poem, but complete in themselves. Burman quotes De la Cerda as his authority for the lines, but I can give an earlier one, having found tliem, introduced seemingly as a quotation into a work of Lievinius Lemnius, the learned Canon of Zeric-Zee, entitled Herharum atque Aihoimm qu(B in Bibliis passim ohvice sunt Expli^ catioy Antwerpia?, 1566.
any authority or reference for the lines; but in the Opei^a Omnia of Virgil, edited by the learned Spanish Jesuit Johannes Ludovicus de la Cerda, they are again quoted, the editor telling us that they were found incised on marble. The lines occur in a note to n passage in the first book of
Lemnius does not give
^ne
^ne
Passage.
One
»
opposite 4to.
edited by La Cerda, were published at Lyons in
tl'piavhouse ^^^^^ ™^' P^^^^^lj, is all the reply that
can
An advertisement was inserted in the cata-
now be
S.
logue, words
second does not admit of so ready an answer. One, who had a very complete idea of the world
nnrl oTcrx In +1.^ i^M • .1 ijne, wuo uau a very cumpieie me
a_nd also in the dailj papers, m these ^^ literature, shrewdl/observes that
of
Societ}- for the Encouragement of Arts, &c^ and of the artists. Thej hitciul theirs as an appcudix onlv, or in
Anf]
"Commentators sometin:es view In Homer more than Homer knew."
in all likelihood, most of the readers of
Q
>t
will coincide in the opinion, that,
the style of painters, a companion to the others/ 'lliere ' generally speaking, the notes and quotations of IS nothing in their collection that will be understood by , commentators and annotators should be received
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[3
cum grano
I would not presume to say
that
Lemnius coined the lines to suit his purpose ; still, withal, they have a comparatively modern aspect. AVhon the authority is so very va^ue as " reperi- untur in marmore,'' we have every right to look for internal evidence, and that, as far as regards the antiquity of the lines — which, indeed, is the
is, in my humble
hoi
gist of the question
opinion, wanting. For they seem to be deficient of the sonorous ring of the ancient Augustan metal, as well as of the quaint, flat chink of the mediaeval Latinity. Andbeinj]^ the only authority, as far as
T r i.^ r, a. i r 4.^ ^t- " ^^oc epifframma lacium est, ut prove
I am aware, for the often. repeated assertion, that ^^^^ ^,^^. ^^^^^^ ^^^^ explicaretu; poetice." the ancients respected the rose as an emblem ot silence, and consecrated it to Ilarpocrates, these lines, with regard to their antiquity, afford a very
an emblem of secresy, it is certain that the Teu- tonic races did from a very early period. The custom and principle is particularly German, ac- cording to the ancient proverbial saying —
^' Was Kir Kosen, bleib' unter dem Eosen."
And Wernsdorf decides against the antiquity of the lines in question, because they form the only Latin notice of a peculiarly German custom and idea, while Meier, in his edition of Burman, goes further, and savs the Latin lines were written on tlie German proverb
bium illud. Hoc
J. S. L. puts the the custom therein referred to the
interesting question ; or, as
query — *' Is
origin of the phrase suh rosa ?
M
When looking for the origin or explanation of an emblem or symbol, we must study the natural features of the subject, and resolutely reject every tiling approaching to the fabulous or mythicaL And so
5
J'iiere is, however, something more tlian a I ^^^^^'ds ot our worth}
we cannot conclude better than in the
Sir
English philosopher,
custom referred to in the lines ; there is, also, a sacred principle. As is well known, it was a custom for the ancients to decorate their festal tables with roses ; but that they recognised the rose as a sacred symbol of silence, through an alleged mythical connection between ^he flower, Cupid, Venus, and Harpocrates, is exceedingly doubtful; there being no other authority for the assertion than these lines, of which the authorship is unknown, and the antiquity most questionable. La Cerda, though not the first to quote the lines, is, in all probability, the first who alleges that they were found on marble ; and the manner in which he introduces them into print is rather sus- picious, they being dragged in as an annotation to the following passage in the text :
" II ic Regina gravem gemmis am'oque poposcit, Implevitque mero paterani, quam Belus et omnes A Belo soliti : turn facta silentia tectis."
A more inappropriate quotation than the lines in question can hardly be imagined ; silence, it is true, is alluded to in the text, but there is cer- tainly not one word about roses. How tlien does the commentator connect the two? By artfully and illogically dragging; in another quotation, in which roses are alluded to, without any reference to silence. Here it is, from the nineteenth epi- gram of the tenth book of iMartial :
" Usee hora est tua, dum furit Lyaius Cum regnal rosa, cum madent'capilli : Tunc me vel rigiili legant Catones "
It is not, then, without justice observed in the Biographic Universelle, in allusion to Dp 1^, C.^y.
a s Virgil
" Que le
paabesoin d pas Petre."
Thomas Browne, who says :
" Wlien we desire to con flue our words, we commonly say, they arc spoken under the rose; which expression is commendable, if the rose, from any natural property, may be the symbol of silence, as Nazianzene seems to imply, in these translated verses:
* Utque latet rosa verna suo putaminc clausa, Sic OS vincla ferat, validisque arctetnr habenis, Indicatque suis prolixa silentia labris,'
and is also tolerable, if b\' desiring a secresy to words spoken under the rose, we only mean in society and com- potation, from the ancient symposiac meetings to wear chaplets of roses about their heads; and so we condemn not the German custoni, which over the table describeth a rose in the ceiling."
The lines which have caused so mucli inkshed have been thus paraphrased :
" The rose is Venus' pride; the archer boy Gave to Harpocrates his mother's flower, What time fond lovers told the tender joy To guard with sacred secresy the hour: Hence, o'er his festive board the host uphung
Love's flower of silence, to remind each guest. When wine to amorous sallies looser! each tongue, Under the rose what passed must never be expressed."
William Pikkerton.
Hounslow.
REV. P. ROSENHAGEN.
(2
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)
ce qui n'a ne devrait
Whatever douht tliere may be respecting the ancient Romans using the rose at their foasls, as
Nobody seems to have looked at Mr. John Taylor's Junius Identified. An extract from this work, and the original communication to the Athenmim^ on^ which the question was raised in your pages, will secure your having all that has been said (Taylor, p. 119, AthencBum, Aug. 28 and Sept. 4, 1858) :
" The Rev. Philip Rosenhagen was the schoolfellow^ and continued through life the mutual friend, of Sir Philip Francis and Mr. Woodfall. ... It is a little remarkable.
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that to Mr. Kosenhagen the letters of Junius Avere at one time attributed, though certainly without foundation. In the Essay prefixed to the last edition of Junius the conjecture is thus noticed : — * It is sufficient to observe that Mr. Rosenhagen, who was a schoolfellow of Mr. H. S. Woodfall, continued on terms of acquaintance with him in subsequent life, and occasionally wrote for the Public Advertiser : but he was repeatedly declared by Mr. Woodfall, who must have been a competent evidence as to the fact, not to be the author of Junius^ s Letters. A private letter of Rosenhagen's to IMr. Woodfall is still in the possession of his son, and nothing can be more dif- ferent from each other than this autograph and that of Junius.'"
The followinii are tlie communications to the
AtJieiKSum: the second by myself. The first is an extract from the Gazetteer of Jan. 24, 1774 :
" The celebrated Junius is at last discovered to be the
gen. He was originally a great ac-
Rev. Phil, R
quaintance of Mr. Home's, and a contemporary of his at
Cambridge. Mr. R gen was there celebrated, above
all others, for his classical abilities. Mr. R gen was
in London during the whole time of Junius's publication ; for a considerable time before, and ever since, he has been abroad. He is now resident at Orleans in PVauce, where he cuts a very conspicuous appearance, having married a ver}' beautiful and accomplished young lady, sister of the celebrated Mrs. Grosvenor ; nor does he make it anv secret where he resides that he is the author of Junius."
" The identity would have been perfectl}' clear in 1774, though few would see it in 1858. The Rev. Philip Rosenhagen is lost, because he published nothing with his name. But he was verv well known in the literarv world, and better still in the convivial world : this, how- ever, must have been more after 1774 than before. He had the sort of reputation to which Theodore Hook should attach a name, as the brightest and most enduring instance of it. He took a high-bottle degree in England, and was admitted ad eundem in India, where he went as chaplain some time before 1798, to increase and fortify the well-earned gout which he carried out with him. I think I have heard, from those who knew him, that he had been one of the boon companions of the Prince of Wales, He was a necessary man to be fixed on as the author of Junius y at a time when anv man of much talent and no particular scruple, who wrote nothing which he acknowledged, was set down as one to be looked after in that matter. And if it should turn out after all that Junius is to be written by some biting scamp on whom no lasting suspicion has settled, this same Philip Rosen- hagen has a fair chance. I think that the Junius rumour was current among his acquaintance."
It now appears that the Junius rumour was so strong, that ^yoodfall himself had to deny it re-
peatedly.
COLLINS, AUTHOR OF "TO-MORROW.^'
(3--^ S. iv. 445.)
It will be difficult, at the lapse of more tlian half a century, to obtain many particulars of the life of John Collins. Of the many who laughed at his humorous monologue. The B
per-
formed as an interlude at the Theatre Royal, Birmlnfl^ham, then under the management of the elder Macready, at the end of last, or the begin- ning of the present century — those who are alive
were mostly children, who cared little about the private doings of the performer who amused them in public ; while the elders who accompanied them have made their exits from that larger stage, on which they were fellow-actors with him. He was " bDrn at Bath, and bred up to the business of a stay-makeiV as I gather from a short notice of him, as '^an actor,'' in the Thespian Dictionary^ 8vo, 1805; and we may conclude that his father was a professor of the sartorial art, from his verses, '' The Frank Confession," *^ inserted by the author some years ago in the Bath Chronicle^ in consequence of a report being spread with a view to injure him in the eye of the fashionable v/orld ; which report was nothing more nor less than his being the son of man who supplied his employers with raiment for the body, while he was furnish-
public with amusement for the mind.'^ In this piece the verses occur: —
" This blot on mv scutcheon, I never vet trv'd
To conceal, to erase, or to alter ; But suppose me, by birth, to a hanginaa allied, Must I wear the print of the halter?
" And since 'tis a truth I've acknowledged through And never vet labour'd to smother, That *a taylor before I was born took a wife, And that tavlor's wife was mv mother.'
• •••••
" Yet, while I've a heart which nor envy nor pride With their venom-tipp'd arrows can sting, Not a day of my life could more gladsonieI_v glide,
ino; the
life.
I'm the son of a King I "
Were it prov'd
From an expression in this piece —
" While I, brushing hard over life's rugged course, Its up and down bearings to scan/' &c.
we may also infer that, while in Bath, he had turned his attention to the stage; and set to work with his Brush to *^rub off" cares and troubles. His name is not to be found in Pye's Birmingham Directory for 1785; but we may suppose that he shortly afterwards made his appearance in that town, as we find among his verses an *' Impromptu, on hearing the young and beautiful Mrs. Second sinnr. at the Musical Festival in Birmino;ham, for the Benefit of the General Hospital there," — this lady being one of the vocalists engaged at the Festival of 1793. We find his name, '^Collins, John, Great- Brook Street," in the Directory for 1797 5 since which, and the previous one, a period of six years had elapsed. It was in that street, in- deed, nearly opposite the church at Ashted — and not Camden Street, though he may have subse- quently removed there — that he is known to have lived ; and he was editor, and part proprietor with Mr. Swinney, of the Birmingham Chronicle^ under the firm of Swinney & Collins. This paper was subsequently purchased, or at least edited, by Mr. Joseph Lovell, a pin-maker in the town* I mention the fact as possessing some interest : this gentleman having been the son of Robert Lovell,
^
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[S^-*i S. V. Jan. 2, '64-
the Fantisocrat of former days, the early friend ami brother-in-hiw of Coleridge and Southey, who were consequently the nncles of our Birming- ham editor, Lovell also became a resident In Great Brook Street, where he died. Collins had no fa- mily : his wife, remembered as a handsome woman, suffered from that fearful malady a cancer in the breast, and never rallied from an operation for Its removal. His portrait — the chief characteristic of which is so lKip[)ily hit off by Mr. Pinkerton is, as I have been informed by contemporaries, an aduiirable likeness. I believe that the Brush was never published. There is also a theatrical portrait of him in the character of Master Slender. Several co[)ies of mnemonical lines on English history have appeared in these pages. The fol- lowing by Collins, are illustrative of his manner, and will be read with Interest. I transcribe them from the probably unique original broadside in the possession of Mr. "William Ilodgetts, an in- telligent printer of Birmlngliam, who knew Collins personally ; and whose portfolios are not more crammed with literary and artistic scraps of rarity and local value, than his head is full of the un- printed traditions and memories— the '^ trivial fond records'' — of a long and active life wholly devoted to letters. Why does not such a man provide against the prospective loss of the va?t mass of facts he has accumulated, by embodyino- them in an autobiograpliy or local chronicle I But this by the way. Thfi dnoiimpnh ;« n^
But this
follows
w ay
as
'' The
Chai'tkr of Kings.
A Comic Song,
In Do^^gerel Verse;
KepeateJIy sung with Universal Applause hv Mr. Dignum
at the Tlieatre Royal, Drury Laue; '
and written by
Mu. Collins, Author of the ' Oral and Pictorial Exhibition,' which
bears that Title.
" The Romans in England awhile did sway ; The Saxons lonjj after them led the wav, Who tugg'd with the Dane till an overthrow Tbey met witli at last from the Norman bow t Yet, barring all pother, the one and the other W ere all of Ihcni Kings iu their turn.
u
Bol
But liufus l>is son, by an arrow was sirin': And Harry the first uas a scholar bri-'ht, Air.1 Stephy was forced for his crown to (iffht; Yet, barring all pother, the one and the other, &c
' Second Henry Plantagenet's name did bear, And Cocur- de- Lion was his son and lieir;
«Tu- u '.^''' ^''•y^'' '''^3 e^"'^^ from John, Which Harry the third put his seal upon.
barri
There wa^ Teddy the first like a lygcr bold, Thongh the second by rebels was bought and suld ;
leddy the third was his subjects^ pride, Though h..gr.„d8on Dicky, was popp'd aside. Yet. barnng all pother, the one and th.. r.fi.... .^..
And
" There was Harry the fourth, a warlike wiglit, And Havry the fifth like a cock would fight ; Though Henny his son like a chick did pout. When Teddy his cousin had kick'd him out.
Yet, barring all pother, the one and the other, &c.
" Poor Teddy the fifth he was kill'd in bed, Bv butcherinij: Dick who was knock'd on the head; Then Henry the seventh in fame grew big, And Harry the eighth was as f^it as a pig,
Yet, barring all pother, the one and the other, &c,
" With Teddy the sixth we had tranquil days, Though Mary made fire and f;iggot blaze; But good Queen Bess was a glorious dame. And bonny King Janiy from Scotland came,
Yet, barring all pother, the one and the other, &c.
" Poor Charley tlie first was a martyr made, But Charley his son wa>s a comical blade; And Jemmy the second, \vhen hotly spurr'd, Ran awav, do vou see me, from Willy the third. Yet, barring all pother, the one and the other, &c.
" Queen Ann was victorious by land and sea. And Georgy the first did with glory svray, And as Georgy the second has long been dead, Long life to the Georgy we have in his stead,
And, may his son's sons to the end of the chapter,
All come to be Kings in their turn.
As the idiom of this whimsical ballad may seem
rather singula?^, it may be necessarj^ to observe, that it
Avas originally sung in the character of an Irish School- master.
" Printed and sold by Swinney & Ferrall, No. 75, High Street."
This sonpr, wliich was liigbly popular in its day, will be also found in the Scripscrapologia^ but with a different heading.
The first piece in this volume is a
" Previous Apostrophe (for it cannot be called a Dedi- cation) to Mk. Meyler, Bookseller at Bath, at one? the most ingenious and most indolent Bard of his Day; who, having written a Thousand excellent Ihings, which he will not be at the trouble of transcribing and arranging for Publication, is now become such a liuryer of his Talents, that they are all consigned to an old Lumber Box in the Corner of his Garret; and he seems quite indifferent about adding to the Heap the bare composition of another Couplet."
These verses were not without effect, for soon after appeared :
"Poetical Amusement on the Journey of Life; sisting of various pieces in Verse, Serious, Theatric, grammatic, and Miscellaneous. Bath. 8vo. 180G."
con-
Epx- By William Meyler.
At p. 193, of this amusing collection, we'find retort courteous to ''John Collins, Esq."
" The well-known and facetious author of The Morning Bnish; who, in an Apostrophe, prefixed to a collection of
(ymn
scrapologia, has censured the author, &c. . . . Perhaps the vanity that was awakened by the praise, mixed with those friendly censures, was the prime cause of thia Volume being put to press,"
These lines will be thought, perhaps, a little toq
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long;
but, especially in connection with tlie sub-
.1
ject, ma?/ appear to merit preservation:
" To Joio Collins, Esq,
" When Players and Managers of Drurj, Some full of dread, and some of fury. Consulted lately to enhance, Their Treasury's close-drain'd finance; Ere bounced had ' Carlo ' into "water, Or Cherry shown his * Soldier's Daughter ' ; 'Mongst various schemes to prop the Stage, Brinsley declared he'd now engage His long expected play to finish, And all their cares and fears diminish ; Make creditors and audience g.iy Nay, actors touch their weekly pay.
* Fair promises! ' Mich. Kelly cries, On which no mortal e'er relies ; Again to write you will not dare. Of owe ?nany Sir, you've too much fear.' *Fear! whom? 'l dread no man's contro]/ ^ Yes, yes, you dread him to the souk'
* Name him at once, detractive Vandal ! ' ' The author of T/te School fo?^ ScandaU Thus, Collins, docs it hap with me. Since noticed by a Bard like thee, And blaz*d in thine 'Apostrophe.' I fain had written long ago. Some tribute of my thanks, or so; Some Avarm and faithful sweet eulogia.
At reading thy Scripscrapologia ;
But whisp'ring fears thus marrd the cause— *Thy Muse is not the Muse she was; When scarce a day but Avould inspire Her mind with some poetic fire. Disused to rhyme, in ''old chest laid," She's now an awkward stumbling jade ; And if thou e'er deserved the bays, Resume no more thy peccant lays, Nor damn thy friend's poetic praise.'
Ah ! when I now invoke the Nine, Ere I have hammer'd out a line. Some queer sensations make me stop, And from my hand the goose-quill drop; * Richard's himself,' no more be said, For Richard's of himself afraid.
But hence, ye stupefying fears ! Why should I dread? hence, hence, ye cares; Let me in gratitude's warni strain, ThriUing and glowing through each vein, Press to my lip that friendly hand Which points to where Fame's turrets stand ; And as the path I upwards climb, V\\ pause and listen to thy rhyme; While Poesy around me glides, And Laughter holds her jolly sides.
Oh ! as I read thy motley page. Where wit keeps time with morals sage, I trace those days when pleasure's morn Bade roses bloom that knew no thorn ; When many an Epigram and Song, Came from thy voice \\\X\i humour stronirf Those well-known notes again appear To come fresh mellowM to mine ear, With accents faithful, bold, and cleai^
May ev'ry pleasure still be thine, That hope can wish, or sense deftne ! May Ashted's shades— if shades there be, For strange is thy retreat to me Afford thee health— Oh! cordial bliss!
Enjoy i
mir-
be
t 'l
L f
May Ashted's blessings round thee pour,
Amid th}-" autumn's tranquil hour;
And may the partner of thy cot,
(Whom never yet m}' praj^er forgot,)
Long feel as cheerful, bright and bonny,
As when she first beheld her Johnny." [1804.]
The well-known song ''To-morrow'' has figured in many collections ; the last stanza, with its fine pathos, is eminently poetical. The liev. Ja!nes Plumtre has the following remarks upon it:
"The serious pun, which is similar to the Paronomasia of the Greeks and Romans, is sometimes used by Collins
The "Mulberry Tree" has some, but the fruit is not of the best flavour. The following, in his song of " To-morrow, or the Prospect of Hope," (the whole of which is given in my Collection, vol. i, p. 19-1), is not bad:
w
* And when I at last must throw off this frail covering, Which I've worn for thrcscore years and ten.
On the brink of the grave I'll not seek to keep hovering, Nor my thread wish to spin o'er again :
But my face in the glass I'll serenely survey. And with smiles count each wrinkle and furrow;
in his songs.
#.
, 5 J>
was, I am led to
May become everlasting to-morroAv.
Letters to Ji)lin Aikin^ M.I)., on his Volume of Vocal Poetry, 8vo, Cambridge, 1811, p. 372
Having, as we have seen, been successively a staymaker, a miniature painter, and an actor, Collins was somewhat advanced in life when he took up his residence in Birmingham. He was a big ponderous man, of the Johnsonian type, and duly impressed with a conviction of his varied talents. Men of this manner are apt to become unwieldy with age; and so it believe, wMtli our friend Collins — whose Brush probably ceased to attract the public, with his growing inability to sustain the labours of a sprightly monologue. Even in 1804, the date of his book, he speaks of it as his '^once popular per- formance," and he seems then to have retired into private life. He continued to reside at Great Brook Street, Ashted, with a niece, Miss Brent. This lady, to wdiose parentage some degree of mystery was attached, was possessed of a fortune, and kept some kind of carriage. The uncle may not have been entirely devoid of means, but I fancy was somewhat dependent on his niece for the comforts of age. lie died suddenly a few years later — probably in 1809 or 1810, as ]\Ir. Plumpton, in the book above referred to, pub- lished in 1811, speaks of him (p. 331) as "the late ingenious Collins, author of 2'he Evening Brush ''
and Miss Brent returned to Bath.
John Collins was undoubtedly a man of shrewd and kindly humour, as well as considerable natural talent. His song, '-To-morrow/' is a piece of unquestionable merit: though whether it deserves
the
extravagant laudation
of Mr.
Palgrave
whose opinions on poetry will be taken cum grano by many who have read his criticisms on art — is
another question. Many other pieces in the little
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volume before rae— "How to be Happy," p. 110; *' The Author's Brush through Life," p. 152, &c._ are of great, if not equal merit, and the entire collection is well worthy revival and perusal.
William Bates.
Eilgbaston.
»i
For my friend I've a board, I've a bottle and bed, i Av/and tea times more welcome that friend if he's
poor ; And for all that are poor if I could but find bread, Not a pauper without it should budge from my door.
" Thus Avhile a mad world is involv'd in mad broils,
For a few^ leagues of land or an arm of the sea ; And Ambition climbs high and pale Penurj^ toils,
For what but appears a mere phantom to me; Through life let me steer with an even clean hand,
And a heart uncorrupted by grandeur or gold; And, at last, quit my berth, when this life's at a stand.
For a berth which can neither be bought nor be sold.''
CUTHBERT BeDE.
)
Your able correspondent, Mr. Finkerton, has been enabled to supplement ^Mr. Palgrave's very scanty notice in The Golden Treasury, of the author of the admirable poem '' To-morrow. So long since as June 9, 1855, I had called attention, in the pages of this periodical, to Col- lins and his Scripscrupologia, and said, '' The book contains a variety of poetical pieces; among I find the following account of this auti.or in
whicli are several songs. One of these, ' In the Dr. Hcefer s Nouvelle BiograpJiie Generale, tome
downhill of life, when I find Fm declining,' <till xi. col. 194 :
** Collins (John), actcur et litterateur anglais, ne vers 17o8, mort en 1808, a Birmingham. II se fit re- marquer au theatre dans presque tnus les genres. II chantait avec uue rare perfection des Romances et d'autres poesies de sa composition. On a de lui: The Morning Brush, ouvrage facetieux. Ses cours publics lui pro- curerent une assez grande fortune. 11 otait aussi nudes
enjoys a justly deserved popularity.'* (^' N. c^c Q.'' 1»'* S. xi. 450.) I also quoted at lengtli (apropos to a subject then under discussion) some other very popular lines by the same ready writer, but which were often ascribed to other authors,— *' The Chapter of Kings," that historical raemuria tcchrdca which contains such well -remembered lines as —
proprietaires du Binningham Chronicle,''^
** Then ILirry the Seventh in fame grew big, And Harry tlie Eighth Avas as fat as a pig.'
a
The Scripscrapologm lias another song of the same charact'.*r as '^To-morrow," and embracing many of its qualities. As the book is so rare, perhaps you would like to print the song in ques- tion, wdiich I here subjoin : —
" HOW TO UE ilAri^Y. — A SOXG.
^' In a cottage I live, and the cot of content,
Where a few little room?, for ambition too lovr, Are furnish'd as plain as a patriarch's tent,
With all for convenience, but nothing for shov/ : Like Robinson Crusoe's, both peaceful and pleasant,
Dy industry stor'd, like the hive of a bee; And the peer who looks down with contempt on peasant, Can ne'er be lookM up to with envy by me.
** And when from the brow of a neighbouring hill,
On the mansions of Pride, I with pity look down, While the murmuring stream and the clack of the mill,
1 prefer to the murmurs and clack of the town. As blythe as in youth, wdien I danc'd on the green,
I disdain to repine at my locks growing grey : Thus the autumn of life, like the springtide screre,
Makes approaching December as cheerful as May.
" I lie down with the lamb, and I rise wdth the lark, So I keep both disease and the doctor at bay ; Anil I feel on my pillow no thorns in the dark,
Which reflection might raise from the deeds of the day :
For, with neither myself nor my neighbour at strife,
Though the sand in my glass may not long have to run,
Tm determin'd to live all the days of my life. With content in a cottage and envy to none!
** Yet let me not selfishly boast of my lot,
Nor to self let the comforts of life be confin'd ; iJ^"^ ^^^^hd the pleasures must be of that sot, Who to share them with others no pleasure can find !
'A\l€vs.
Dublin.
P.S. A notice substantially the same as the above nmv be seen in tlie new edition (>f Michaud's BiograjJiie Univcrsellc^ tome viii. p. 606.
John Hawkins (F^ S. xi. 325 ; 3^^ S, iih 459 ; iv. 425.) — We beg to refer Mr. Hareanb to a communication from us, which appeared in your columns so recently as June 3 In the present year, su^gestinof that the author of the MS. Life of Henry Prince of Wales was John Hawkins, secre- tary to the Earl of Holland, and one of the clerks of the council, who died in 1631.
C H. & Thompson Cooper.
Cambridge.
Rev. F. S. Pope (3^^^ S. iv. 395.)— Mr. Brod- RiCK begs to inform the inquirer that Mr. Pope, formerly minister of Baxtergate Chapel, Wliitby, left that place, and died at York, he believes, some twelve or fifteen years ago. Mr. Brodrick knew and was well acquainted with Dr. Bateman. The Rev. W. L. Pope, Fellow of Worcester Col- lege, Oxford, and now Minister of the Chapel of Ease, Tunbridge Wells^ is the brother of the late Mr. Pope, of Whitby.
18, Talbot Square, Hyde Park.
Mrs. Cokayne ("y^ S
)
I thank Dr. Rimbault for his courteous and very satisfiictory^ answer to my query. His account is confirmed in several particulars by Wood in his Life of Aston Cockaine^ for so lie spells the name (A. OAv. 128, ed. Bliss.) The tradition of ^^Dr. Donne's chamber '' at Ashbourne Is valuable as at
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her
ingest sister."
H. J. H. thinks It " odd that Mrs. Cokain should
be so little known," not being aware perhaps that
there was more than one lady of the name at the
period. I shrewdly suspect that he has learnt
something more than he knew before, through my
query, which, like many others, was addressed to
Q " ■
(3
rJ
) — I beg to add a more
complete answer to Anglus than I last forwarded to you.
It is true that ish^ terminating some words, has the signification of rather^ as darkish; but the other word, brackish, is not an English word at all without the ish. But ish has no more mean- ing in the word Scottish than it has in Danish, Swedish, Spanish, ^^c. A Dane, Scot, or Swede
save time in further consulting books of reference, ' is absolutely of Danish, Scottish, and S and to elicit something more than I did know on : descent, not in deo;ree or rather so^
the matter. As to the story of Charles Cotton's witticism on her head-dress, and his
losing lier
estate by liis humour, I can scarcely reconcile it with the fnct that she had children of her own, unless she intended to disinherit them for the sake of her nephew. Will H. J. H. allow me to ask him to trace the relationship? In *the History and Topography of Askhourne^ Sfc. published in 1839, it is stated that Thomas Cockayne lived in London
under
(p. 16)
O
a
what earlier authority does this statement rest?
Som
of Delta's
T\
(A. O.
IV.
8)
queries who
St
are answered by
" durinu
that
ays « .^^
the time of the civil wars he sufTered much for his religion (which was that of Rome) and the king's cause, pretended then to be a baronet made by King Charles I. after he, by violence, had left the parliament about Jan. 10, 1641, yet not deemed so to be by the officers of arms, because no patent was enrolled to justify it, nor any men- tion of it made in the docquet-books belonging to theclerkof thecrown in chancery, where all patents are taken notice of which pass the great seal ; " and afterwards he adds — *^The fair lordship of
Ashbourne also was some William Boothby, Bart." British Bihliogropher^ vc I have not erot.
ago sold to
Si
r
years
Dr. Bliss refers to the
ii, pp. 450-463, which
Cpl.
John Donne, LL.D. (3^^ S. iv. 295, 307.)
Thanks for the information given in your answer, though it does not meet the precise point to which my query was directed. I was aware of his ad- dressing Lord Denbigh as his patron, but I do not see the connection between this and his beinjx supposed to have held the rectory of Martins- thorpe. May I ask where his will is to be found ? Was it ever proved ? The " S** Constantine Iluy- gens, Knight," to whom Donne's son addressed the letter in the presentation copy of the BIA0ANA- T02, now in the possession of your correspondent A. B. G., was not the brother but the father of great astronomer.
"HuYGHKNS (Ch\6i\Qr{), Hughenlua, vit le jour k La Haye, en IG'29, de Constantiu Huyghens, gentilhomme liollandois, connu p:ir de mauvaises'podsies latincs, qii^l a trfes-bien intitules Momenta desultoria, 1G55, in-12."—
Dictionnaire Historigue, §-c., pour servir de Supplement
aux Delicts des Pays^Bas, i. 274. Paris, 1786.'
Cpl,
In German isch is a termination to the words
Banisch^ Englisch^ Schoifisch^ Sweo in the same sense as in Danish, &c.
ScOTUS.
Execution for Witchcraft (3^^^ S. iv. 508.)
Sir AValter Scott, in his Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft^ mentions a trial and execution for this supposed crime which took place in Scotland of a date six years later than the English case re- ferred to by Pelagius. In 1722, the Sheriff- Deputy of Sutherland gave sentence of death, whicli was carried into execution on an insane old woman who had a daughter lame of hands and feet, which was attributed to the mother's beinir used to transform her into a pony, and getting her shod by the deviL (See Letter dth.)
Sir Walter adds that no punishment was in- flicted on the sheriff for this gross abuse of the law. It was the last case of the kind in Scotland ; yet such was the force of prejudice, and of mis- taken interpretation of the Scriptures that, in a declaration published eight years afterwards by the Associated Presbytery of Seceders from the Church of Scotland (and which will be found in the Scots Magazine of 1743) there is classed among other national sins, against which they desire to testify, '' the repeal of the penal statutes
against witches."
S.
Mutilation or Sepulchral Monuments (3^*
S. iv. 286, 363, 457.) — My note of certain monu- ments which had suffered mutilation has provoked so many observations in the pages of " 'N. & Q." that I cannot let the subject drop without making one or two remarks.
I admit that my language was strong.
1
m-
tended that it should be so. The uncalled-for destruction of family records, if condemned at all, must be condemned strongly. Had the monu- ments in question been to members of my own family, I should, without a 'moment's hesitation, have placed the matter in the hands of my soli- citor ; as they did not, I sent copies of the in- scriptions in order that for the benefit of future genealogists, they might be rescued from oblivion. Vebna assumes that the slabs in question " have been overlaid by tile paving, more suited to the sacred character of the spot." As far as I can remember, the new paving was of white bricks, such as I should be sorry to see in any decent
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When I wrote
kitchen. Vebna adJs, that I am " unfortunate
in my selection of a signature.
the note, I had just come from a place named
P , and wanting to put some letter at the
end of my note, ex P. suggested itself to me, and so I wrote XP. I hope this solution of Yebna's ** mare's nest " will prove as satisfactory as that equally intricate puzzle which, when deciphered, was " Bill Stumps, his mark/'
I agree entirely with the remarks made by Mr. II. T. Ellacombe and Mr. P. Hutchinson, whom I have to tliank for writing replies which I felt too idle to do mvself I must add, in con- elusion, that I tliink the destruction of our old sepulchral memorials — the only witnesses to the iireatness of many a bygone family — is to be
And I would ask, what pLiCe
be a
deeply lamented.
is so well fitted as the House of God to store-house and record room of the names and acrinns <>f those who, while living, have worshipped at His altars, who are numbered among the taitli-
fill departed, and whose actions
" Sint'U sweet ami blossom in the dust"?
XI
A friend of mine visited Hereford Cathedral lately on purpose to see if the tombstone of a great-<;reat-grandparent required rechiseling or any other repairs. Alas! the cathedral had been " restored." The tombstone was gone, and nothing could be learned about it; and the whole of thai patt of the floor had been relaid with beautiful tiles to look like marbles and granites. The sooner this sort of thing is put a stop to the better. P. P.
Longevity of Clergymen (.y'l S. iv. 370, 502.) lo the mstanccs named by your correspondents you may add the following : — The Rev. AVilliam Kirby, the celebrated entomologist, was rector of Barham in Suffolk, sixty-eight years, and died July 4, 18o0, in the ninety-first year of his a-e. ^Lije, by Lreeujan, p. 505.)
Dr. William Wall, the a-
Infant Baptism, was vipnv
History of of Shoreham, in Kent,
fatty-three yei.rs, and died January 13, 1727-8
agi'd
eighty-two years, (Hook
Ecclesiasticiii
) Dr. Wall was sue-
V^i'p'''' ^■'?''-''f " ."'■. ?!"»•«'•»"' I'J •I'e Rev;
incen
in! ^V' //^^' ""^^'^ ninety-two yeai.
(M
Jmniediatfcly following the
) The case of two flpvfrv.Y^o« ,
other,
officiating i-„ tUe sanTe-pari:!, "foTthtltcelfonl hundred and two ve year,, !, . lengtr^? tZl
service
CoorEE Vase
and the prices in manuscript. There were many purchasers of the works of the above flower-
painter.
Among
them are the names of Lady
Weymouth, who bought sixty-two pieces, I Stamford twenty, Lord Brownlow twenty-seven, Wedgewood (the potter) eighty, Lord Parker nine. Walker
ninety-two, Shepherd fifty-one, Morrison thirty-six, and many others. I find the prices varied from \L ^s. to 8Z. 18a\ Qd. the lot of four paintings. The celebrated Wedgewood was a purchaser of prints and other things at thissale.^ and the following note in the catalogue regarding his bidding for the Barbeiini Vase may not be unacceptable : — ^' 1029Z., bought for the Duke of Portland; cost the Duchess 1300/. Mem., the contest for the vase was between his Grace and
Mr.
1'
AVedgewood.
On his Grace askin
nr
Mr. , -,--_, 'He
was determined to have it, unless his Grace per- mitted him to take a mould from it for his pottery, as he wished to possess every rare specimen of art that could be attained ; ' on which his Grace o-ave Wedgewood his consent, and the vase was knocked down, and immediately put into the hands of Mr. Wedgewood, who has moulded from the same in imitation of bronze, &c."
„ ]f Porcelain^
states It was knocked down to the Duchess at 1800/., whereas my Catalogue states 1029/. Which
D.
The
is correct ?
Rev. Thomas Craig (3
S.
)
Rev. Thomas Craig, minister of the Associate Congregation of Whitby, 1789, who published Three Sermons on Important Subjects, Whitby, 1791, of the time of whose death your correspon-
dent.
Y
^ , . wishes to be informed, was my
lather. He died in the year 1799.
Thomas Cbaig,
bixty-one years Pastor of the Congregational
IV.
)
Dr.
Church at Bockinir.
Dr. David Lamokt (S-''^ S. ... ^^^.^ ^^
David Lamont, about the date of whose death
rn /i, Z'"''^.^',"''!''''"^' "^'^^ ^" 1837. I cannot tell the day of the year, but that may, I suppose,
be had, from any contemporary local newspaper. He was Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1822, and preached be- fore Kmg George IV. in the High ChurcH of i^.dinburgh, on the forenoon of August 25, same
year
S.
4 J '
iiAPTisMAL Names (3'^ S. iii. 328 ; iv. 508.) i should^ say that in case of any objectionable name bemg g.yen at the font, such as those cited at p. di8, vol. ni., a refusal might be made to bap- tise on the ground of the sponsors attemptincr to throw scorn, and to bring contempt, i.pon so fl^'^I'v^'' office of the church. 1 very^ much doubt, however, whether any clergyman could re. tuse to give such a name as " Bessie." In one re-
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gister I have seen tbe name *' Bob" recorded, and a clergyman of ray acquaintance baptised one of Lis own children by the name "Tom." "Kate," too, is of frequent occurrence. Whether Sir Thomas Dick Lauder's second name was a sur- name, or an abbreviation of Richard, I cannot
OXOMENSIS.
318.) — I have no
say
Tydides (3^^ S. iv. 139, 318 conjecture as to who or what is intended l>y " Tydides;" but a hint or two may put others in the way which I cannot find. Of course the hca:l
of the clei^ical Melanippus on the table is lliat of some clergyman ill-used by his bishop, — perhaps his preferment eaten up. For the meal of Tydeus,
D
i
9o.
The "blazon" of Tydeus is given by iEschylus :
i^K^yovO vTv aarpoLS ovpavhv r^rvyixevov *
IIp^a§t(rroy Ixcrrpoju^ iwicrhs 6(p6a\/iihs Trp^irei,
Septeai contra 77iedas, v. 389.
Tydides has added to the arms of Tydeus, Gwillim says : —
** He beareth azure, the sun, the full moon, and the seven starres, or; the two first in chiefe, and the last of orbicular form in h:we. It is said that this coate armour pertained to Johannes de Fontibus, sixth bishop of Ely, Avho had that (after a sorte) in his escutcheon which Joseph had in his dream." — Gwillim, Display oj
Her
>/
Was any bishop of Ely, about a century ago, charored (after a sorte) with ecclesiastical can-
nibalism ? U. U. Club.
n. B. c.
CAPNOBATiE (3"^ S. iv. 497.) — The only in- formation I am aware of, respectin;^ the Capno- bata3, is in the French translation of Strabo, where it is su<i*;ested that intoxication by inhaling smoke and using the vapour of linseed as a bath are intended by that designation, referring to He- rodotus (i. 202, iv. 75). AVith due submission, I think this very doubtful. Strabo, in the section previous to the mention of the Capnobatae (vir. 111. 2), refers to the Hippemolgi (milkers of
(people who live on milk),
who
Abii (people devoid of riches), Hamaxoeci (d lers in waggons) ; and in the two foll< tions he mentions the Capnobatas (p cover the smoke), who are described as religious (06o(re§6ry), and abstaining from animal food (e^- i//ux^v), but who lived in a quiet way on honey, milk, and cheese. They were also remarkable (Strabo, vii. iii. 4) for living in a state of celi- bacy, which they also adopted from religious motives- The obvious inference, I C(mceivQj is, ^at requiring no cooking, the Capnobatse closed the aperture {KattPoMnri) which served as a chim- ney, and thus received the characteristic descrip- tion of KaTri/ogc^rai, people who cover the smoke.
Their resemblance to the Hindoos cannot escape notice : —
*' Contrary to what might have been expected in a hot climate, but agreeable to the custom of ahnost all Hin- doos, one small door is the only outlet for smoke, and the
onlv inlet for air and light," ("The Hindoos," L.E. K. \. 387.)
Their state of celibacy also has its parallel amongst the Hindoos, who, by destroying female infants, augment the ratio of the males, and con- sequently of unmarried men, leading thereby to the legit imatised prostitution of which Ceylon and the Xairs of Malabar furnirsh examples. (7'A^ Hindoos^ \. 247, 285-287.) To remedy this evil, marriage is rigidly enforced by tlie Hindoo i>arent on his child, even prior to maturity, and the widower speedily provides himself with another wife. (7^/. i. 284.) The geographical connection is thus shown : '^ Tartary, or the environs of Mount Caucasus, is the original natal soil of the
Brahmins."
)
chain reaches to
the east shore of the Euxine, Avhilst the IMysii or Moesi, amongst whom the Capnobata^ are found, occupy the south-western and western coasts of the same sea. The lin^j^uistic connection of the Hindoos, the Romans and Greeks, is well ascer- tained. This brief notice of the Caj)nobata3, which Strabo extracts from Posidonius (a teacher of Cicero), is an historical trace of what has been called the Thraco-Pelasgian origin of the Greeks.
T. J. BUCKTON.
Joseph Washington Q^^ S. iv. 516.)
e
— H
died a year later than is stated in the reply to C. J. K., as his will was dated Feb. 25, and proved April 7, 1693-4. He describes himself as, not of Gl ray's Inn, but '' of the Mid' lie Temple, Gentleman." If he had a son John, he was probably- dead at the date of his will, for he provides for his '^ only daughter Mai^y," and then leaves the residue of his property to his son JRohert^ who was still living in 1703. The daughter, Mary, was unmarried in 1739, when she })roved the will of her aunt Sarah Kawson. The earliest ancestor to whom I can yet trace him positively was Richard Washington, gent., of co. Westmoreland, who, ac- cording to an Inq. p. m. died Jan. 3, 1555-6. He, Joseph Washington, is mentioned in Wood's Athen. Oxon. (ed. Bliss) iv. 394, snh, James Harrington.
J. L. C;
Handasyde (3^<i S. iv. 29, 95, 432.) —The will of the Hon. Major-General Thomas HandasyJ (not Ilandasyde), who died in his ei<i;htj-fifth year, March 26, 1729, is probably at Huntingdon.
D
St. Neot*s.
Early Marriages (S""*^ ,S. iv. 515.)
I am
much interested in the inquiry started by Vectis, and am tolerably well acquainted with social
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science literature; but do not know that any ! marks in tlieir papers, has^ever been published; writer has entered upon a scientific demonstration of the postulate, that eaily nian'iao"es tend to
purity of morals. The statement has often been made in fugitive essays, associated with a con- demnation of the advice given, and so often re-
but the late Mr. Dawson Turner had collected a large quantity of specimens of old paper, which he showed me with great self-gratulation on his success in what he believed to be a hitherto un- pursued inquiry. He entered into the subject
iterated by a certain class of economists, against ■^vith lively interest; had all his samples of paper early marriages. There have been as yet no data arranged in chronological order, and initiated me
on which to establish it positively. The statistics recently published in relation to Scotland, show-
^^ _____
the
births in
established facts
in entering upon marriage be a irreat evil. It docs not follow that
ing tue great number of illegitimate
excess over the standard of Ireland, and even
England — when taken in connection with other
will go far to prove that ^' fore- sight and restraint" may
early marriages are always imprudent ones ; but that doctrine has been taught to a most injurious extent. When this complex question is entered upon fairly, and the condition of Ireland con- trasted with that of Scotland, it will be found that^ great mistakes Lave been made in our in- vestigations, and that hasty conclusions have been
arrived at.
readily in the mysteries of ** Pot," " Crown,'' ''Feather," and ^'Foolscap." I quite understood from him that he could determine the age of the paper by its texture and water-mark. Whether he contemplated the publication of the results of his researches in this line, I do not know ; nor have I any idea what became of his large collec- tion of old papers, which I suppose were sold, to- gether with his extensive library, and very curious and valuable collections in various other depart-
H.
)
ments.
Names (
d
A correspondent asks, how we are to account for the great prevalence of Pagan mimes in a Catholic country like France, if, as I had asserted, the Catholic Church so much disapproves of Chris-
The wliole question is a most important one, ,- , . , . , - - , . ,
but to pursue it would not be consistent with the I P^-.-'i b^^pf'^mal names which are not objects of " N. & Q." I am now manipulating i ^f '^t'^"' and admonishes her clergy not to tole- the Statistical Returns of the Three Kingdoms'; i ''1^^ *'Af" • ^/^"^^^^'^' that the first Revolution, with the view of elucidatinir this subject. Vectis I '• '? <^!n-istianity was openly disowned, and das- will do well to consult Quetelet. In his Treatise '"'"^ ''.^ '''^''° affected in everything, will ac-
(see Chaml)ers's People's Edition)
count in great measure
for the introduction of
found some valuable tables, accompanied bv his /^'^" names; but it must also be remembered
own remarks. Althcugh he does not enter upon 1 hupiiry specially, his chapters, where he examines into the causes which influence the
thi
that many such names are also the names of Chris- tian saints, and as such allowable. The following occur to me at this moment: Achilles.
- -- ■■•-^-^ ^.. ....x.....^,; ui^ , * „ T5 1 TT -r . T • ^^^^xander,
fecundity of mai ringes, may be read with much i ti^ • iia^cchus, Horace, Justin, Leander, Lucian, advantage by those'who ""
are interested in the suljject immediately before us. It may be well also, to consult Sadler's work. The Law of Popu- lation. Both these works were published before our Stat stical knowledge had assumed a definite
form but they are valuable in every research of this kind. r^ g
Revalenta (3^'^ S. iv. 49G.) — I remember the tirst introduction of the article now called " Reva- lenta." I knew the man who first prepared if, and advertised it under the name of "Ervalenta " It was then mciyly the meal of ground lentils; not of the Egyptian sort, but the common lentil, of a ligliter colour. The botanical name of the lentil IS £:rv>wi lem; and probably the name Ervalenta was found rather too transparent : and so, by transposing the first two letters, the article was better concealed, and some mystification gained- and the preparation is now named "Revalenta"
Mai
'cian, Martial, Marius, Xestor. Plato, Pollio,
515.^
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As Mad as a Hatter (2°^ S. iv. 462.) Although an inquiry respecting this simile ap- peared in " :N'. & Q." as far back as June 1860, it has not hitherto elicited a reply. The phrase, however, has now again come up in that very amusing volume, Capt. Gronow's Becollections and Anecdotes, 2nd series [may it be followed by a third!] 1863, pp. 151, 152 :— " on the subject of
politics, my dear Alvanley, he is as mad as a haiterT
One is at a loss to understand why a hatter should be made the tvpe of insanity rather than n tailor or a shoemaker; but may not the phrase in question be thus explained? The French compare an incapable or weak-minded person to an oyster : — " He reasons like an oyster" Qiuitre). i would suggest, therefore, that, through simi- larity of sound, the French Jiuitre may, in the case before us, have given occasion to the Eng- lish '• hatter." From " II raisonne comme une
-arl^s of the old papV:Ser "and the wa?^^^^ ' th " "'^ ''Y^ ^•"."^^"^ " ^^ ^^^ ^ ^ ^«''-"
, una ine water- I There are other similar instances, where sound
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s followed ratlier tban signification. So in our vernacular phrase, "Thai's the cheese;'' i. e.
That's the thing" {chose).
John Har
rd
s
IV.
)
SCHIN.
" Job a;
lorrins" is of course an anagram of John llar- ison. What was the rehition of this person to lis hero, "Longitude" Harrison, and what led lim to adopt so transparent a device for concealing lis identity ? Job J. B. Workard.
Stepmothers' Blessings (3'''' S. iv. 492.) — The roublesome splinters of skin, which are often brmed near the roots of the nails, are probably ialled "stepmother's blessings," upon the same ►rinciple that they are called "back-friends;"
►otii. . . . ' -„ „ --
F. C. H.
expressions designating something odious, nd bringing no good.
01
Nose" (3
rd
) — An edition
)y M. Louis du Bois in 1821, together Avith some !?orman songs o^ the fifteenth century from a ^S. till then unedited. Job J. B. Workard.
Jane the Fool (3
rd
) — Some
»f the entries relating to this person in Sir F. i-Iadden's edition of the Privy Pui-se Expenses of he Princess Mary would seem to suggest that she (ras the victim of mental disease. The first entry n which she is mentioned bears date 1537. In 543, in four successive months, March, April, Jlay, and June, there is a charge of 4^. per month or shaving her head. In July there is a charge or 22.9. Qd. paid to her during sickness. In August, her head is again shaved. In the suc-
leeding January, the charge for shaving her head s 8t/., and a like entry appears in July, August, -nd Sei)tember, 1544. All the other entries' re- erring to her are for clothing. In 1556, she had ome disorder of the eye. Is there anything to
how that she acted as a jester ?
Job J. B. Workard.
Earthenware Vessels found in Churches
1
St
1" and 2""* S. /;«.?sm.)— Numerous communica- ions have appeared in the P* and 2"** Series of ' N. & Q." on the subject of the earthen jars, or )0ts, which have been found in several churches mbedded in the masonry, and generally under- leath the stalls of the choir. In one of these S. X. 434), I described a jar of this kind in ny possession; which was found, in 1851, be- leath the choir of St. Peter's Mancroft, Norwich. L saw several of the jars as they lay in the ma- onry horizontally, with their mouths outward, hough it could not be ascertained whether they iver protruded or .appeared in the wall. I gave in opinion that they might have been intended or sepulchral vases, to receive the ashes of the^ leart, or some other part of the body of the anons ; but that opinion I have for some time ixchanged for the far more probable one. that
they were Intended to increase the sound of the
smiring.
Indeed, I consider the question quite set at rest by a recent paper in the Gentleman's Maga- zine for November last, where the following is quoted from the Chronicle of the Order of the Celestines at Metz, for the year 1432 :
" It was ordered that pots should be made for the choir of the church of Ceans, he (Br. Odo) stating that he liad seen such in another church, and thinking that they made the chanting resound more strongly."
It is added, that such jars have been found in several churches in France, inserted horizontally in the wall, with their mouths emero-inir. F. C. H.
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