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A STRAWBERRY-HILL GEM.

“Pour qui se donne la peine de chercher, il y a toujours quelque
trouvaille à faire, même dans ce qui a été le plus
visité.—Henry Patin.

I take up a work of European celebrity, and reflect awhile on its
bibliographic peculiarities—which may almost pass for romance.

It is a Scottish work with regard to the family connexion of
its author: it is an Irish work with regard to the place of his
nativity. It is an English work as to the scenes which it
represents; a French work as to the language in which it was
written; a Dutch work as to the country in which it came to light.
It was formerly printed anonymously: it has since borne the name of its
author. It was formerly printed for public sale: it has been twice
printed for private circulation. It was formerly classed as fiction: it
is now believed to be history.

But we have too many enigmas in the annals of literature, and I must
not add to the number. The work to which I allude is the Mémoires du
comte de Grammont par le comte Antoine Hamilton.

The various indications of a projected re-impression of the work
remind me of my portefeuille Hamiltonien, and impose on me the
task of a partial transcription of its contents.

Of the numerous editions of the Mémoires de Grammont as
recorded by Brunet, Renouard, or Quérard, or left unrecorded by those
celebrated bibliographers, I shall describe only four; which I commend to
the critical examination of future editors:

1. “Mémoires de la vie du comte de Grammont; contenant
particuliérement l’histoire amoureuse de la cour d’Angleterre, sous le
regne de Charles II. A Cologne, chez Pierre Marteau, 1713.
12^o, pp. 4 + 428.

“Avis du libraire.—Il seroit inutile de
recommander ici la lecture des mémoires qui composent ce volume: le titre
seul de Mémoires du comte de Grammont réveillera sans doute la
curiosité du public pour un homme qui lui est déjà si connu d’ailleurs,
tant par la réputation qu’il a sçu se faire, que par les différens
portraits qu’en ont donnez Mrs. de Bussi et de St. Evremont, dans leurs
ouvrages; et l’on ne doute nullement qu’il ne reçoive, avec beaucoup de
plaisir, un livre, dans lequel on lui raconte ses avantures, sur ce qu’il
en a bien voulu raconter lui-même à celui qui a pris la peine de dresser
ces mémoires.

“Outre les avantures du comte de Grammont, ils contiennent
particuliè[re]ment l’histoire amoureuse de la cour d’Angleterre, sous le
regne de Charles II; et, comme on y découvre quantité de choses, qui ont
été tenues cachées jusqu’à présent, et qui font voir jusqu’à quel excès
on a porté le déréglement dans cette cour, ce n’est pas le morceau le
moins intéressant de ces mémoires.

“On les donne ici sur une copie manuscrite, qu’on en a reçue de Paris:
et on les a fait imprimer avec le plus d’exactitude qu’il a été
possible.”

The above is the first edition. The imprint is fictitious. It
was much used by the Elzévirs, and by other Dutch printers. The second
edition, with the same imprint, is dated in 1714 (Cat. de Guyon de
Sardière, No. 939.). The third edition was printed at Rotterdam in 1716.
The avis is omitted in that edition, and in all the later
impressions which I have seen. Its importance as a history of the
publication induces one to revive it. There is also an edition printed at
Amsterdam in 1717 (Cat. de Lamy, No. 3918.); and another at La Haye in
1731 (Cat. de Rothelin, No. 2534*). Brunet omits the edition of 1713.
Renouard and Quérard notice it too briefly.

2. “Memoires du comte de Grammont, par monsieur le comte Antoine
Hamilton. Nouvelle edition, augmentée d’un discours préliminaire mêlé de
prose et de vers, par le même auteur, et d’un avertissement contenant
quelques anecdotes de la vie du comte Hamilton. A Paris, chez la
veuve Pissot, Quay de Conti, à la croix d’or. 1746.” 12^o. pp.
24 + 408.

“Avertissement. Le public a fait un accueil si
favorable à ces Mémoires, que nous avons crû devoir en procurer
une nouvelle edition. Outre les avantures du comte de Grammont,
très-piquantes par elles-mêmes, ils contiennent l’histoire amoureuse
d’Angleterre sous le regne de Charles II. Ils sont d’ailleurs écrits
d’une maniére si vive et si ingénieuse, qu’ils ne laisseroient pas de
plaire infiniment, quand la matiére en seroit moins interessante.

“Le héros de ces Mémoires a trouvé dans le comte Hamilton un
historien digne de lui. Car on n’ignore plus qu’ils sont partis de la
même main à qui l’on doit encore d’autres ouvrages frappés au même
coin.

“Nous avons enrichi cette edition d’un discours mêlé de prose et de
vers, où l’on exagére la difficulté qu’il y a de bien répresenter le
comte de Grammont. On reconnoîtra facilement que ce discours est du même
auteur que les Mémoires, et qu’il devoit naturellement en {4}orner le
frontispice. Au reste il ne nous appartient point d’en apprécier le
mérite. Nous dirons seulement que des personnes d’un goût sûr et délicat
le comparent au Voyage de Chapelle, et qu’ils y trouvent les mêmes
graces, le même naturel et la même légereté.

“Il ne nous reste plus qu’à dire un mot de M. Hamilton lui-même,
auteur de ces mémoires, et du discours qui les précede.

“Antoine Hamilton dont nous parlons, étoit de l’ancienne et illustre
maison de ce nom en Ecosse. Il nâquit en Irlande. Il eut pour pére le
chevalier Georges Hamilton, petit-fils du duc d’Hamilton, qui fut aussi
duc de Châtelleraud en France.

“Sa mére étoit madame Marie Butler, sœur du duc d’Ormond,
viceroi d’Irlande, et grand maître de la maison du roi Charles.

“Dans les révolutions qui arrivérent du tems de Cromwel, ils suivirent
le roi et le duc d’Yorck son frére qui passérent en France. Ils y
amenérent leur famille. Antoine ne faisoit à peine que de naître.

“Lorsque le roi fut rétabli sur son trône, il ramena en Angleterre les
jeux et la magnificence. On voit dans les mémoires de Grammont combien
cette cour étoit brillante; la curiosité y attira le comte de Grammont.
Il y vit mademoiselle d’Hamilton, il ne tarda pas à sentir le pouvoir de
ses charmes, il l’épousa enfin; et c’est la tendresse qu’Antoine
avoit pour sa sœur, qui l’engagea à faire plusieurs voyages en
France, où il étoit élevé, et où il a passé une partie de sa vie.

“M. Antoine Hamilton étant catholique, il ne put obtenir d’emploi en
Angleterre; et rien ne fut capable d’ébranler ni sa religion, ni la
fidélité qu’il devoit à son roi.

“Le roi Jaques étant monté sur le trône, il lui donna un regiment
d’infanterie en Irlande et le gouvernement de Limeric. Mais ce prince,
ayant été obligé de quitter ses etats le comte Hamilton repassa avec la
famille royale en France. C’est-là et pendant le long séjour qu’il y a
fait, qu’il a composé les divers ouvrages qui lui ont acquis tant de
réputation. Il mourut à S. Germain le 21 Avril 1720. dans de grands
sentimens de piété, et après avoir reçu les derniers sacremens. Il étoit
âgé alors d’environ 74 ans. Il a mérité les regrets de tous ceux qui
avoient le bonheur de le connoître. Né sérieux, il avoit dans l’esprit
tous les agrémens imaginables; mais ce qui est plus digne de louanges, à
ces agrémens, qui vent frivoles sans la vertu, il joignoit toutes les
qualitéz du cœur.”

If the above avertissement first appeared in 1746, which I have
much reason to conclude, this is certainly a very important edition. The
biographical portion of the advertisement is the foundation of the later
memoirs of Hamilton. In the Moréri of 1759, we have it almost
verbatim, but taken from the Œuvres du comte Antoine
Hamilton, 1749. Neither Brunet, nor Renouard, nor Quérard notice the
edition of 1746. The copy which I have examined has the book-plate
G. III. R.

3. “Memoires du comte de Grammont, par le C. Antoine Hamilton.
1760.” [De l’imprimerie de Didot, rue Pavée, 1760.] 12^o. I.
partie, pp. 36 + 316. II. partie, pp. 4 + 340.

This edition has the same avertissement as that of 1746. The
imprint is M.DCC.LX. The type resembles our
small pica, and the paper has the water-mark Auvergne 1749. At the
end of the second part appears, De l’imprimerie de Didot, rue
Pavée, 1760. This must be M. François Didot of Paris. I find the same
colophon in the Bibliographie instructive, 1763-8. v. 631. This
very neat edition has also escaped the aforesaid bibliographic trio!

4. “Memoires du comte de Grammont, par monsieur le comte Antoine
Hamilton. Nouvelle edition, augmentée de notes et
d’eclaircissemens necessaires, par M. Horace Walpole. Imprimée à
Strawberry-Hill. 1772.” 4^o, pp. 24 + 294. 3 portraits.

[Dedication.] “À madame….

“L’éditeur vous consacre cette édition, comme un monument de son
amitié, de son admiration, et de son respect; à vous, dont les grâces,
l’esprit, et le goût retracent au siècle présent le siècle de Louis
quatorze et les agrémens de l’auteur de ces mémoires.”

Such are the inscriptions on the Strawberry-Hill gem. Much has
been said of its brilliancy—and so, for the sake of novelty, I
shall rather dwell on its flaws.

The volume was printed at the private press of M. Horace Walpole at
Strawberry-Hill, and the impression was limited to one hundred copies, of
which thirty were sent to Paris. So much for its attractions—now
for its flaws. In reprinting the dedication to madame du Deffand, I had
to insert eight accents to make decent French of it! The
avis is a mere medley of fragments: I could not ask a compositor
to set it up! The avertissement is copied, without a word of
intimation to that effect, from the edition of 1746. The notes to the
épître are also copied from that edition, except L’abbé de
Chaulieu; and two of the notes to the memoirs are from the same
source. The other notes, in the opinion of sir William Musgrave, are in
part taken from an erroneous printed Key. Where are the
éclaircissements? I find none except a list of proper
names—of which about one-third part is omitted!

In quoting Brunet, I have used the fourth edition of the Manuel du
libraire, 1842-4; in quoting Renouard, I refer to the avis
prefixed to the Œuvres du comte Antoine Hamilton, 1812; in
quoting Quérard, to La France littéraire, 1827-39. The other
references are to sale catalogues. The titles of the books described, and
the extracts, are given literatim, and, except as above noted,
with the same accentuation and punctuation.

To revert to the question of a new edition: I should prefer the French
text, for various reasons, to any English translation that could be made.
That of Abel Boyer is wretched burlesque!

The chief requirements of a French edition would be, a collation of
the editions of 1713 and 1746—the rectification of the names of
persons {5}and places—a revision of the
punctuation—and a strict conformity, as to general orthography and
accentuation, with the Dictionnaire de l’Académie française, as
edited in 1835. The substance of the avis of 1713 might be stated
in a preface; and the avertissement of 1746, a clever composition,
would serve as an introduction and memoir of the author. Those who doubt
its value may consult the Grand dictionnaire historique, and the
Biographie universelle. As one hundred and sixty persons are
noticed in the work, brevity of annotation is very desirable. It would
require much research. The manuscript notes of sir William Musgrave
would, however, be very serviceable—more so, I conceive, than the
printed notes of M. Horace Walpole.

As the indications of a projected re-impression may be fallacious, I
shall conclude with a word of advice to inexperienced collectors. Avoid
the jolie édition printed at Paris by F. A. Didot, par ordre de
monseigneur le comte d’Artois, in 1781. It is the very worst specimen
of editorship. Avoid also the London edition of 1792. The preface is a
piratical pasticcio; the verbose notes are from the most accessible
books; the portraits, very unequal in point of execution, I believe to be
chiefly copies of prints—not d’après des tableaux originaux.
The most desirable editions are, 1. The edition of 1760; 2. That of 1772,
as a curiosity; 3. That edited by M. Renouard, Paris, 1812,
18^o. 2 vols.; 4. That edited by M. Renouard in 1812,
8^o. with eight portraits. The latter edition forms part of the
Œuvres du comte Antoine Hamilton in 3 vols. It seldom occurs
for sale.

Bolton Corney.

THE “ANCREN RIWLE.”

The publication of this valuable semi-Saxon or Early English treatise
on the duties of monastic life, recently put forth by the Camden Society,
under the editorship of the Rev. James Morton, is extremely acceptable,
and both the Society and the editor deserve the cordial thanks of all who
are interested in the history of our language. As one much interested in
the subject, and who many years since entertained the design now so ably
executed by Mr. Morton, I may perhaps be allowed to offer a few remarks
on the work itself, and on the manuscripts which contain it. Mr. Morton
is unquestionably right in his statement that the Latin MS. in Magdalen
College, Oxford, No. 67., is only an abridged translation of the original
vernacular text. Twenty-three years ago I had access to the same MS. by
permission of the Rev. Dr. Routh, the President of Magdalen College, and
after reading and making extracts from it^[1], I came to the same conclusion as
Mr. Morton. It hardly admits, I think, of a doubt; for even without the
internal evidence furnished by the Latin copy, the age of the manuscripts
containing the Early English text at once set aside the supposition that
Simon of Ghent (Bishop of Salisbury from 1297 to 1315) was the original
author of the work. The copy in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, I have
not seen, but of the three copies in the British Museum I feel confident
that the one marked Cleopatra C. vi. was actually written before Bishop
Simon of Ghent had emerged from the nursery. This copy is not only the
oldest, but the most curious, from the corrections and alterations made
in it by a somewhat later hand, the chief of which are noticed in the
printed edition. The collation, however, of this MS. might have been,
with advantage, made more minutely, for at present many readings are
passed over. Thus, at p. 8., for unweote the second hand has
congoun; at p. 62., for herigen it has preisen; at
p. 90., for on cheafle, it reads o muþe, &c. The
original hand has also some remarkable variations, which would cause a
suspicion that this was the first draft of the author’s work. Thus, at p.
12., for scandle, the first hand has schonde; at p. 62.,
for baldeliche it reads bradliche; at p. 88., for nout
for, it has anonden, and the second hand aneust; at p.
90., for sunderliche it reads sunderlepes, &c. All
these, and many other curious variations, are not noticed in the printed
edition. On the fly-leaf of this MS. is written, in a hand of the time of
Edward I., as follows: “Datum abbatie et conventui de Leghe per Dame
M. de Clare.” The lady here referred to was doubtless Maud de Clare,
second wife of Richard de Clare, Earl of Hereford and Gloucester, who, at
the beginning of the reign of Edward I., is known to have changed the
Augustinian Canons of Leghe, in Devonshire, into an abbess and nuns of
the same order; and it was probably at the same period she bestowed this
volume on them. The conjecture of Mr. Morton, that Bishop Poore, who died
in 1237, might have been the original author of the Ancren Riwle,
is by no means improbable, and deserves farther inquiry. The error as to
Simon of Ghent is due, in the first place, not to Dr. Smith, but to
Richard James (Sir Robert Cotton’s librarian), who wrote on the
fly-leaves of all the MSS. in the Cottonian Library a note of their
respective contents, and who is implicitly followed by Smith. Wanley is
more blamable, and does not here evince his usual critical accuracy, but
(as remarked by Mr. Morton) he could only have looked at a few pages of
the work. The real fact seems to be that Simon of Ghent made the abridged
Latin version of the seven books of the Riwle now preserved in
Magdalen College, and this supposition may well enough be reconciled with
the words of Leland, who says of him,—

“Edidit inter cætera, libros septem de Vita Solitaria, {6}ad Virgines
Tarentinas, Duriæ cultrices.”—Comment., p. 316.

A second copy of the Latin version was formerly in the Cottonian
collection (Vitellius E. vii.), but no fragment of it has hitherto been
recovered from the mass of burnt crusts and leaves left after the fire of
1731. I am happy, however, to add, that within the last few months, the
manuscript marked Vitellius F. vii., containing a French translation of
the Riwle, made in the fourteenth century (very closely agreeing
with the vernacular text), has been entirely restored, except that the
top margins of the leaves have been burnt at each end of the volume. This
damage has, unfortunately, carried away the original heading of the
treatise, and the title given us by Smith is copied partly from James’s
note. This copy of the French version appears to be unique, and is the
more interesting from its having a note at the end (now half obliterated
by the fire), stating that it belonged to Eleanor de Bohun, Duchess of
Gloucester, whose motto is also added, “Plesance. M [mil]. en vn.”
The personage in question was Eleanor, daughter of Humphrey de Bohun,
Earl of Hereford, and wife of Thomas of Woodstock, who ended her days as
a nun in the convent at Barking in 1399. Is any other instance known of
the use of this motto? Before I conclude these brief remarks, I may
mention a fifth copy of the Ancren Riwle, which has escaped
the notice of Mr. Morton. It is buried in the enormous folio manuscript
of old English poetry and prose called the Vernon MS., in the Bodleian
Library, written in the reign of Richard II., and occurs at pp.
371^b.—392. In the table of contents prefixed to this
volume it is entitled “The Roule of Reclous;” and although the
phraseology is somewhat modernised, it agrees better with the MS.
Cleopatra C. vi, than with Nero A. xiv., from which Mr. Morton’s edition
is printed. This copy is not complete, some leaves having been cut out in
the sixth book, and the scribe leaves off at p. 420. of the printed
edition.

It is very much to be wished that Mr. Morton would undertake the task
of editing another volume of legends, homilies, and poems, of the same
age as the Ancren Riwle, still existing in various manuscripts.
One of the homilies, entitled “Sawles Warde,” in the Bodley MS. 34.,
Cott. MS. Titus D. xviii., and Old Royal MS. 17A. xxvii., is very curious, and well deserves to be
printed.

F. Madden.

British Museum.

ORDER FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF VAGRANCY,
A.D. 1650-51.

At a time when the question of “What is to be done with our vagrant
children?” is occupying the attention of all men of philanthropic minds,
it may be worth while to give place in your pages to the following order
addressed by the Lord Mayor of London to his aldermen in 1650-51, which
applies, amongst other things, to that very subject. It will be seen that
some of the artifices of beggary in that day were very similar to those
with which we are now but too familiar. The difference of treatment
between vagrant children over and under nine years of age, is worthy of
observation.

“By the Mayor.

“Forasmuch as of late the constables of this city have neglected to
put in execution the severall wholsome laws for punishing of vagrants,
and passing them to the places of their last abode, whereby great
scandall and dishonour is brought upon the government of this city; These
are therefore to will and require you, or your deputy, forthwith to call
before you the several constables within your ward, and strictly to
charge them to put in execution the said laws, or to expect the penalty
of forty shillings to be levyed upon their estates, for every vagrant
that shal be found begging in their several precincts. And to the end the
said constables may not pretend ignorance, what to do with the several
persons which they shal find offending the said laws, these are further
to require them, that al aged or impotent persons who are not fit to
work, be passed from constable to constable to the parish where they
dwel; and that the constable in whose ward they are found begging, shal
give a passe under his hand, expressing the place where he or she were
taken, and the place whither they are to be passed. And for children
under five years of age, who have no dwelling, or cannot give an account
of their parents, the parish where they are found are to provide for
them; and for those which shall bee found lying under stalls, having no
habitation or parents (from five to nine years old), are to be sent to
the Wardrobe House^[2], to be provided for by the
corporation for the poore; and all above nine years of age are to be sent
to Bridewel. And for men or women who are able to work and goe
begging with young children, such persons for the first time to be passed
to the place of their abode as aforesaid; and being taken againe, they
are to be carryed to Bridewel, to be corrected according to the
discretion of the governours. And for those persons that shal be found
to hire children, or go begging with children not sucking, those children
are to be sent to the several parishes wher they dwel, and the persons so
hiring them to Bridewel, to be corrected and passed away, or kept at work
there, according to the governour’s discretion. And for al other
vagrants and beggars under any pretence whatsoever, to be forthwith sent
down to Bridewel to be imployed and corrected, according to the statute
laws of this commonwealth, except before excepted; and the president and
governours of Bridewel are hereby desired to meet twice every week to see
to the execution of this Precept. And the steward of the workehouse
called the Wardrobe, is {7}authorised to receive into that house such
children as are of the age between five and nine, as is before specified
and limited; and the said steward is from time to time to acquaint
the corporation for the poor, what persons are brought in, to the end
they may bee provided for. Dated this four and twentyeth day of January,
1650.

Sadler.”         

John Bruce.

LETTERS OF EMINENT LITERARY MEN.

Sir,

I send you, as a New Year’s Gift for your “N. & Q.,” transcripts
of half-a-dozen Letters of Eminent Literary Men, specimens of whose
correspondence it will do your work no discredit to preserve,

British Museum, Dec. 26, 1853.

I.

Dean Swift to * * * * * * *.

[MS. Addit., Brit. Mus., 12,113. Orig.]

Belcamp, Mar. 14th.

Sir,

Riding out this morning to dine here with Mr. Grattan, I saw at his
house the poor lame boy that gives you this: he was a servant to a
plow-man near Lusk, and while he was following the plow, a dog bit him in
the leg, about eleven weeks ago. One Mrs. Price endeavored six weeks to
cure him, but could not, and his Master would maintain him no longer. Mr.
Grattan and I are of opinion that he may be a proper object to be
received into Dr. Stephen’s Hospital. The boy tells his story naturally,
and Mr. Grattan and I took pity of him. If you find him curable, and it
be not against the rules of the Hospitall, I hope you will receive
him.

II.

The Rev. Thomas Baker to Mr. Humphry Wanley.

[Harl. MS. 3778, Art. 43. Orig.]

Cambridge, Oct. 16th [1718].

Worthy Sir

I am glad to hear Mrs. Elstob is in a condition to pay her debts, for
me she may be very easy: tho’ I could wish for the sake of the University
(tho’ I am no way engaged, having taken up my obligation) that you could
recover the Book, or at least could find where it is lodged, that Mr.
Brook may know where to demand it. This, I presume, may be done.

If you have met with Books printed by Guttenberg, you have made a
great discovery. I thought there had been none such in the world, and
began to look upon Fust as the first Printer. I have seen the Bishop of
Ely’s Catholicon (now with us), which, for aught I know, may have been
printed by Guttenberg; for tho’ it be printed at Ments, yet there is no
name of the Printer, and the character is more rude than Fust’s Tullie’s
Offices, whereof there are two Copies in 1465 and 1466, the first on
vellum, the other on paper.

May I make a small enquiry, after the mention of so great a name as
Guttenberg? I remember, you told me, my Lord Harley had two Copies of
Edw. the Sixth’s first Common Prayer Book. Do you remember whether either
of them be printed by Grafton, the King’s Printer? I have seen four or
five Editions by Whitchurch, but never could meet with any by Grafton,
except one in my custody, which I shall look upon to be a great Rarity,
if it be likewise wanting to my Lord’s Collection. It varies from all the
other Copies, and is printed in 1548. All the rest, I think, in 1549. One
reason of my enquiry is, because I want the Title, for the date is at the
end of the Book, and indeed twice; both on the end of the Communion
Office, and of the Litany. But I beg your pardon for so small an enquiry,
whilst you are in quest of Guttenberg and Nic. Jenson. My business
consists much in trifles.

To the worthy Mr. Wanley, at the
Riding Hood Shop, the corner
of Chandois and Bedford Streets,
          Covent Garden,
                   
London.

A note in Wanley’s hand says, “Mrs. Elstob has only paid a few small
scores.”

III.

Extract of a Letter from Wm. Bickford, Esq., to
the Rev. Mr. Amory of Taunton, dated Dunsland,
March 7, 1731.

[MS. Addit., Brit. Mus., 4309, fol. 358.]

I cannot forbear acquainting you of a very curious passage in relation
to Charles the Second’s Restoration. Sir Wm. Morrice, who was one of the
Secretaries of State soon after, was the person who chiefly transacted
that affair with Monk, so that all the papers in order to it were sent
him, both from King Charles and Lord Clarendon. Just after the thing was
finished, Lord Clarendon got more than 200 of these Letters and other
papers from Morrice under pretence of finishing his History, and which
were never returned. Lord Somers, when he was chancellor, told Morrice’s
Grandson that if he would file a Bill in Chancery, he would endeavour to
get them; but young Morrice having deserted the Whig Interest, was {8}prevailed
upon to let it drop. This I know to be fact, for I had it not only from
the last-mentioned Gentleman, but others of that family, especially a son
of the Secretaries. As soon as I knew this, I took the first opportunity
of searching the study, and found some very curious Letters, which one
time or other I design to publish together with the account of that
affair. My mother being Niece to the Secretary, hath often heard him say
that Charles the Second was not only very base in not keeping the least
of the many things that he had promised; but by debauching the Nation,
had rendered it fitt for that terrible fellow (meaning the Duke of York)
to ruin us all, and then Monk and him would be remembred to their
Infamy.

(To be continued.)

BURIAL-PLACE OF ARCHBISHOP LEIGHTON.

On a visit this autumn with some friends to the picturesque village
and church of Horsted-Keynes, Sussex, our attention was forcibly arrested
by the appearance of two large pavement slabs, inserted in an erect
position on the external face of the south wall of the chancel. They
proved to be those which once had covered and protected the grave of the
good Archbishop Leighton, who passed the latter years of his life in that
parish, and that of Sir Ellis Leighton, his brother. On inquiry, it
appeared that their remains had been deposited within a small chapel on
the south side of the chancel, the burial-place of the Lightmaker family,
of Broadhurst, in the parish of Horsted. The archbishop retired thither
in 1674, and resided with his only sister, Saphira, widow of Mr. Edward
Lightmaker. Broadhurst, it may be observed, is sometimes incorrectly
mentioned by the biographers of Archbishop Leighton as a parish; it is an
ancient mansion, the residence formerly of the Lightmakers, and situated
about a mile north of the village of Horsted. There it was that Leighton
made his will, in February, 1683; but his death occurred, it will be
remembered, in singular accordance with his desire often expressed, at an
inn, the Bell, in Warwick Lane, London.

The small chapel adjacent to the chancel, and opening into it by an
arch now walled up, had for some time, as I believe, been used as a
school-room; more recently, however, either through its becoming out of
repair, or from some other cause, the little structure was demolished.
The large slabs which covered the tombs of the good prelate and his
brother were taken up and fixed against the adjoining wall. The turf now
covers the space thus thrown into the open churchyard; nothing remains to
mark the position of the graves, which in all probability, ere many years
elapse, will be disturbed through ignorance or heedlessness, and the
ashes of Leighton scattered to the winds.

In times when special respect has been shown to the tombs of worthies
of bygone times, with the recent recollection also of what has been so
well carried out by Mr. Markland in regard to the
grave of Bishop Ken, shall we not make an effort to preserve from
desecration and oblivion the resting-place of one so eminent as Leighton
for his learning and piety, so worthy to be held in honoured remembrance
for his high principles and his consistent conduct in an evil age?

Albert Way.

Minor Notes.

Grammars, &c. for Public Schools.—Would it not be
desirable for some correspondents of “N. & Q.” to furnish information
respecting grammars, classics, and other works which have been written
for the various public schools? Such information might be useful to book
collectors; and would also serve to reflect credit on the schools whose
learned masters have prepared such books. My contribution to the list is
small: but I remember a valuable Greek grammar prepared by the Rev.
—— Hook, formerly head master of the College School at
Gloucester, for the use of that establishment; as also a peculiar English
grammar prepared by the Rev. R. S. Skillern, master of St. Mary de Crypt
School, in the same place, for the use of that school. I also possess a
copy (1640) of the Romanæ Historiæ Anthologia, for the use of
Abingdon School, and Moses and Aaron, or the Rites and Customs of the
Hebrews (1641), both by Thos. Godwin, though the latter was written
after he ceased to be master of the schools.

P. H. Fisher.

Stroud.

“To captivate.“—Moore, in his Journal, speaking of the
Americans (January 9th, 1819), says:

“They sometimes, I see, use the word captivate thus: ‘Five or
six ships captivated,’ ‘Five or six ships captivated.'”

Originally, the words to captivate were synonymous with to
capture, and the expression was used with reference to warlike
operations. To captivate the affections was a secondary use of the
phrase. The word is used in the original sense in many old English books.
It is not used so now in the United States.

Uneda.

Philadelphia.

Bohn’s Edition of Matthew of Westminster.—Under the year
A.D. 782, the translator informs us that
“Hirenes and his son Constantine became emperors.” Such an emperor
is not to be found {9}in the annals of Constantinople. If Mr. Yonge,
who shows elsewhere that he has read Gibbon, had referred to him on this
occasion, he would probably have found that the Empress Irene, a name
dear to the reverencers of images, was the person meant. The original
Latin probably gives no clue to the sex; but still this empress, who is
considered as a saint by her church, notwithstanding the deposition and
blinding of her own son, was not a personage to be so easily
forgotten.

J. S. Warden.

French Season Rhymes and Weather Rhymes.—

Ceyrep.

Curious Epitaph in Tillingham Church, Essex.—

Which has been thus ingeniously paraphrased by a friend of mine:

C. K. P.

Newport, Essex.

Queries.

DOMESTIC LETTERS OF EDMUND BURKE.

In the curious and able article entitled “The Domestic Life of Edmund
Burke,” which appeared in the Athenæum of Dec. 10th and Dec. 17th
(and to which I would direct the attention of such readers of “N. &
Q.” as have not yet seen it), the writer observes:

“There is not in existence, as far as we know, or have a right to
infer from the silence of the biographers, one single letter, paper, or
document of any kind—except a mysterious fragment of one
letter—relating to the domestic life of the Burkes, until long
after Edmund Burke became an illustrious and public man; no letters from
parents to children, from children to parents, from brother to brother,
or brother to sister.”

And as Edmund Burke was the last survivor of the family, the inference
drawn by the writer, that they were destroyed by him, seems, on the
grounds which he advances, a most reasonable one. But my object in
writings is to call attention to a source from which, if any such letters
exist, they may yet possibly be recovered; I mean the collections of
professed collectors of autographs. On the one hand, it is scarcely to be
conceived that the destroyer of these materials for the history of the
Burkes, be he who he may, can have got all the family
correspondence into his possession. On the other, it is far from
improbable that in some of the collections to which I have alluded, some
letters, notes, or documents may exist, treasured by the possessors as
mere autographs; but which might, if given to the world, serve to solve
many of those mysteries which envelope the early history of Edmund Burke.
The discovery of documents of such a character seems to be the special
province of “N. & Q.,” and I hope, therefore, although this letter
has extended far beyond the limits I originally contemplated, you will
insert it, and so permit me to put this Query to autograph collectors,
“Have you any documents illustrative of the Burkes?” and to add as a
Note, “If so, print them!”

N. O.

Minor Queries.

Farrant’s Anthem.—From what source did Farrant take the
words of his well-known anthem, “Lord, for thy tender mercies’ sake?”

C. F. S.

Ascension Day Custom.—What is the origin of the custom
which still obtains in St. Magnus and other city churches, of presenting
the clergy with ribbons, cakes, and silk staylaces on Ascension Day?

C. F. S.

Sawbridge and Knight’s Numismatic Collections.—In
Snelling’s tract on Pattern Pieces for English Gold and Silver
Coins (1769), p. 45., it is stated, in the description of a gold Coin
of Elizabeth, that it is “unique, formerly in the collection of Thomas
Sawbridge, Esq., but at present in the collection of Thomas Knight, Esq.,
who purchased the whole cabinet.”—Can any of your readers inform me
who this Mr. Knight was, and whether his collection is still in
existence; or if it was dispersed, when, and in what manner? I am not
aware of any sale catalogue under his name.

J. B. B.

“The spire whose silent finger points to heaven.”—I have
met with, and sometimes quoted, this line. {10}Who is its author, and in
what poem does it occur?

J. W. T.

Dewsbury.

Lord Fairfax.—In the Peerage of Scotland I find
this entry:

“Fairfax, Baron, Charles Snowdon Fairfax, 1627, Baron Fairfax, of
Cameron; suc. his grandfather, Thomas, ninth baron, 1846. His lordship
resides at Woodburne, in Maryland, United States.”

Fairfax is not a Scotch name. And I can find no trace of any person of
that family taking a part in Scotch affairs. Cameron is, I
suppose, the parish of that name in the east of Fife.

I wish to ask, 1st. For what services, or under what circumstances,
the barony was created?

2ndly. When did the family cease to possess land or other property in
Scotland, if they ever held any?

3rdly. Is the present peer a citizen or subject of the United States?
If so, is he known and addressed as Lord Fairfax, or how?

4thly. Has he, or has any of his ancestors, since the recognition of
the United States as a nation, ever used or applied for permission to
exercise the functions of a peer of Scotland, e.g. in the election
of representative peers?

5thly. If he be a subject of the United States, and have taken,
expressly or by implication, the oath of citizenship (which pointedly
renounces allegiance to our sovereign), how is it that his name is
retained on the roll of a body whose first duty it is to guard the
throne, and whose existence is a denial of the first proposition in the
constitution of his country?

Perhaps Uneda, W. W., or some other of your
Philadelphia correspondents, will be good enough to notice the third of
these Queries.

W. H. M.

Tailless Cats.—A writer in the New York Literary
World of Feb. 7, 1852, makes mention of a breed of cats destitute of
tails, which are found in the Isle of Man. Perhaps some generous Manx
correspondent will say whether this is a fact or a Jonathan.

Shirley Hibberd.

Saltcellar.—Can any of your readers gainsay that in
saltcellar the cellar is a mere corruption of salière? A list of
compound words of Saxon and French origin might be curious.

H. F. B.

Arms and Motto granted to Col. William Carlos.—Can any
reader of “N. & Q.” give the date of the grant of arms to Col.
William Carlos (who assisted Charles II. to conceal himself in the “Royal
Oak,” after the battle of Worcester), and specify the exact terms of the
grant?

μ.

Naval Atrocities.—In the article on “Wounds,” in the
Encyc. Brit., 4th edition, published 1810, the author, after
mentioning the necessity of a surgeon’s being cautious in pronouncing on
the character of any wound, adds that “this is particularly necessary on
board ship, where, as soon as any man is pronounced by the surgeon to be
mortally wounded, he is forthwith, while still living and conscious,
thrown overboard,” or words to this effect, as I quote from memory. That
such horrid barbarity was not practised in 1810, it is needless to say;
and if it had been usual at any previous period, Smollett and other
writers who have exposed with unsparing hand all the defects in the naval
system of their day, would have scarcely left this unnoticed when they
attack much slighter abuses. If such a thing ever occurred, even in the
worst of times, it must have been an isolated case. I have not met
elsewhere with any allusion to this passage, or the atrocity recorded in
it, and would be glad of more information on the subject.

J. S. Warden.

Turlehydes.—During the great famine in Ireland land in
1331, it is said that—

“The people in their distress met with an unexpected and providential
relief. For about the 24th June, a prodigious number of large sea fish,
called turlehydes, were brought into the bay of Dublin, and cast on shore
at the mouth of the river Dodder. They were from thirty to forty feet
long, and so bulky that two tall men placed one on each side of the fish
could not see one another.”—The History and Antiquities of the
City of Dublin from the Earliest Accounts, by Walter Harris, 1766, p.
265.

This account is compiled from several records of the time, some of
which still exist. As the term turlehydes is not known to Irish
scholars, can any of the readers of “N. & Q.” say what precise animal
is meant by it, or give any derivation or reference for the term?

U. U.

Dublin.

Foreign Orders—Queen of Bohemia.—It is well known
that in some foreign Orders the decorations thereof are conferred upon
ladies. Can any of your correspondents inform me whether the Order of the
Annunciation of Sardinia, formerly the Order of the Ducal House of Savoy,
at any time conferred its decorations upon ladies; and whether the
Princess Elizabeth, afterwards Queen of Bohemia, ever had the decoration
of any foreign order conferred upon her? In a portrait of her she is
represented with a star or badge upon the upper part of the left arm.

S. E. G.

Pickard Family.—Is the Pickard, or Picard,
family, a branch of which is located in Yorkshire, of Norman origin? If
so, who were the first settlers in England; and also in what
county are they most numerous?

One of the Family.

Bradford.

{11}

Irish Chieftains.—Some account of the following,
Historical Reminiscences of O’Byrnes, O’Tooles, O’Kavanaghs, and other
Irish Chieftains, privately printed, 1843, is requested by

John Martin.

Woburn Abbey.

General Braddock.—Can any of your readers furnish me with
information relative to this officer? His disastrous expedition against
Fort Du Quesne, and its details, are well known; but I should like to
know something more of his previous history. Walpole gives an anecdote or
two of him, and mentions that he had been Governor of Gibraltar. I think
too he was of Irish extraction. Is there no portrait or engraving of
Braddock in existence?

Serviens.

Minor Queries with Answers.

Lawless Court, Rochford, Essex.—A most extraordinary
custom exists, in a manor at Rochford, in the tenants holding under what
is called the “Lawless Court.” This court is held at midnight, by
torch-light, in the centre of a field, on the first Friday after the 29th
Sept., and is presided over by the steward of the manor, who, however,
appoints a deputy to fulfil this part of his duty. The tenants of the
manor are obliged to attend to answer to their names, when called upon,
under pain of a heavy fine, or at all events have some one there to
respond for them. All the proceedings are carried on in a whisper, no one
speaking above that tone of voice; and the informations as to deaths,
names, &c. are entered in a book by the president with a piece of
charcoal. I may add, the business is not commenced until a cock has
crowed three times, and as it is sometimes a difficult matter to get
Chanticleer to do his duty, a man is employed to crow, whose fee therefor
is 5s.

Now Morant, in his History of Essex, merely cursorily mentions
this most singular custom, and has nothing as to its antiquity or origin;
I should therefore feel much obliged for any information concerning
it.

Russell Gole.

Motto on old Damask.—Can your correspondents furnish an
explanation of the motto herewith sent? It is taken from some damask
table napkins which were bought many years back at Brussels; not at a
shop in the ordinary way, but privately, from the family to whom they
belonged. I presume the larger characters, if put together, will indicate
the date of the event, whatever that may be, which is referred to in the
motto itself.

The motto is woven in the pattern of the damask, and consists of the
following words in uncials, the letters of unequal size, as
subjoined:

“sIgnUM paCIs DatUr LorICæ.“

the larger letters being IUMCIDULIC. If the U’s are taken as two V’s,
and written thus X, it gives the date MDCCLXIII. Perhaps this can be
explained.

H.

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Explanation of the Word “Miser.”—Can any of your readers
explain how and when miser came to get the meaning of an
avaricious hoarding man? In Spenser’s Faerie Queene, II. l. 8., it
is used in its nearly primary sense of “wretch:”

Again, Faerie Queene, II. 3. 8.:

In Milton’s Comus, which was written about fifty years after
the first three books of the Faerie Queene, the present
signification of the word is complete:

J. D. Gardner.

Bottisham.

“Acis and Galatea.”—Is there any good evidence in support
of the commonly received opinion that the words to Handel’s Acis and
Galatea were written by Gay? Hawkins merely states that they “are
said to have been written by Mr. Gay.” I have no copy of Burney at hand
to refer to; but I find the same statement repeated by various other
musical historians, without, however, any authority being given for it.
The words in question are not to be found among the Poems on several
Occasions, by Mr. John Gay, published in 1767 by Tonson and others.
Have they ever been included in any collective edition of his works?

G. T.

Reading.

Birm-bank.—The bank of a canal opposite to the
towing-path is called the birm-bank. What is the derivation of
this?

Uneda.

Philadelphia.

General Thomas Gage.—This officer commanded at Boston at
the breaking out of the Revolution, and served under General Braddock.
Where can I find any details of the remainder of his history?

Serviens.

Replies.

RAPPING NO NOVELTY.

(Vol. viii., pp. 512. 632.)

The story referred to is certainly a very curious one, and I should
like to know whether it is exactly as it was told by Baxter, especially
as there seems to be reason for believing that De Foe (whom on other
grounds one would not trust in such a matter) did not take it from the
work which he quotes. Perhaps if you can find room for the statement,
some correspondent would be so good as to state whether it has the
sanction of Baxter:

“Mr. Baxter, in his Historical Discourse of Apparitions, writes
thus: ‘There is now in London an understanding, sober, pious man, oft one
of my hearers, who has an elder brother, a gentleman of considerable
rank, who having formerly seemed pious, of late years does often fall
into the sin of drunkenness; he often lodges long together here in his
brother’s house, and whensoever he is drunk and has slept himself sober,
something knocks at his bed’s head, as if one knocked on a wainscot. When
they remove his bed it follows him. Besides other loud noises on other
parts where he is, that all the house hears, they have often watched him,
and kept his hands lest he should do it himself. His brother has often
told it me, and brought his wife, a discreet woman, to attest it, who
avers moreover, that as she watched him, she has seen his shoes under the
bed taken up, and nothing visible to touch them. They brought the man
himself to me, and when we asked {13}him how he dare sin again after such a
warning, he had no excuse. But being persons of quality, for some special
reason of worldly interest I must not name him.'”—De Foe’s Life
of Duncan Campbell, 2nd ed. p. 107.

After this story, De Foe says:

“Another relation of this kind was sent to Dr. Beaumont (whom I myself
personally knew, and which he has inserted in his account of genii, or
familiar spirits) in a letter by an ingenious and learned clergyman of
Wiltshire,” &c.

But he does not say that the story which he has already quoted as from
Baxter stands just as he has given it, and with a reference to Baxter, in
Beaumont’s Historical, Physiological, and Theological Treatise of
Spirits, p. 182. Of course one does not attach any weight to De Foe’s
saying that he knew Dr. Beaumont “personally,” but does anybody know
anything of him? Nearly four years ago you inserted somewhat similar
inquiry about this Duncan Campbell, but I believe it has not yet been
answered.

S. R. Maitland.

OCCASIONAL FORMS OF PRAYER.

(Vol. viii., p. 535.)

From a volume of Forms of Prayer in the library of Sir Robert Taylor’s
Institution, I send you the following list, as supplementary to Mr. Lathbury’s. This volume forms part of a collection
of books bequeathed to the University by the late Robert Finch, M.A.,
formerly of Baliol College:

A Form of Prayer for a General Fast, &c. 4to. London. 1762.

In both the Morning and Evening Services of this Form “A Prayer for
the Reformed Churches” is included, which is omitted in all the
subsequent Forms. This is a copy of it:

“A Prayer for the Reformed Churches.

“O God, the Father of Mercies, we present our Supplications unto Thee,
more especially on behalf of our Reformed Brethren, whom, blessed be Thy
Name, Thou hast hitherto wonderfully supported. Make them perfect,
strengthen, ‘stablish them: that they may stand fast in the Liberty
wherewith Christ hath made them free, and adorn the Doctrine of God our
Saviour in all things. Preserve the Tranquillity of those who at present
enjoy it: look down with compassion upon such as are persecuted for
Righteousness’ sake, and plead Thy cause with the oppressors of Thy
people. Enlighten those who are in Darkness and Error; and give them
Repentance to the Acknowledgment of the Truth: that all the Ends of the
World may remember themselves, and be turned unto the Lord; and we all
may become one Flock, under the great Shepherd and Bishop of our Souls,
Jesus Christ, our only Mediator and Advocate. Amen.”

Form, &c. Fast. 1776.

Form, &c. Fast. 1778.

Form, &c. Fast. 1780.

Form, &c. Fast. 1781.

Form, &c. Fast. 1782.

A Prayer to be used on Litany Days before the Litany, and on other
days immediately before the Prayer for all Conditions of Men, in all
Cathedral, Collegiate, and Parochial Churches and Chapels, &c.,
during his Majesty’s present Indisposition. 1788.

The following MS. note is inserted in the handwriting of Mr. Finch,
father of the gentleman who bequeathed the collection:

“Mrs. Finch accompanied my Father (Rev. Dr. Finch, Rector of St.
Michael’s, Cornhill) to the Cathedral, where he had a seat for himself
and his lady assigned him under the Dome, as Treasurer to the Society for
Promoting Christian Knowledge, the original patrons of the Charity
Schools. Mrs. F. was so fortunate as to obtain a seat in the choir, and
saw the procession from the choir gate. Myself and Robert saw the
cavalcade (which was extremely grand, and continued for the space of more
than three hours, both Houses of Parliament with their attendants
preceding their Majesties) from Mrs Townsend’s house in Fleet
Street.”—April 23, 1789.

Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving for the King’s Recovery. 1789.

Form, &c. Fast. 1793.

Form, &c. Fast. 1795.

Form, &c. Fast. 1796.

Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving for many signal and important
Victories. 1797.

Form, &c. Fast. 1798.

Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving for the Victory of the Nile, &c.
1798.

Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving for the Victory over the French Fleet,
Aug. 1. 1798.

Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving for the safe Delivery of H. R. H. the
Princess of Wales, and the birth of a Princess. 1796.

Form, &c. Fast. 1799.

Form, &c. Fast. 1800.

Form, &c. Fast. 1801.

Form and Thanksgiving for the Harvest. 1801.

Form and Thanksgiving for putting an End to the War. 1802.

Form, &c. Fast. 1803.

Form, &c. Fast. 1804.

Form, &c. Fast. 1805.

Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving for Lord Nelson’s Victory. 1805.

Form, &c. Fast. 1806.

Form, &c. Fast. 1807.

Form, &c. Fast. 1808.

Form, &c. Fast. 1809.

Form, &c. Fast. 1810.

Form, &c. Fast. 1812.

Form, &c. Thanksgiving for the Peace. 1814.

Form, &c. Thanksgiving for the Peace. 1816.

John Macray.

Oxford.

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CELTIC AND LATIN LANGUAGES.

(Vol. viii., p. 174.)

There was a Query some time ago upon this subject, but though it is
one full of interest to all scholars, I have not observed any Notes worth
mentioning in reply. The connexion between these two languages has only
of late occupied the attention of philologers; but the more closely they
are compared together, the more important and the more striking do the
resemblances appear; and the remark of Arnold with regard to Greek
literature applies equally to Latin, “that we seem now to have reached
that point in our knowledge of the language, at which other languages of
the same family must be more largely studied, before we can make a fresh
step in advance.” But this study, as regards the comparison of Celtic and
Latin, is, in England at least, in a very infant state. Professor Newman,
in his Regal Rome, has attention to the subject; but his induction
does not appear sufficiently extensive to warrant any decisive conclusion
respecting the position the Celtic holds as an element of the Latin.
Pritchard’s work upon the subject is satisfactory as far as it goes, but
both these authors have chiefly confined themselves to a tabular view of
Celtic and Latin words; but it is not merely this we want. What is
required is a critical examination into the comparative structure and
formal development of the two languages, and this is a work still to be
accomplished. The later numbers of Bopp’s Comparative Grammar are,
I believe, devoted to this subject, but as they have not been translated,
they must be confined to a limited circle of English readers, and I have
not yet seen any reproduction of the views therein contained in the
philological literature of England.

As the first step to considerations of this kind must be made from a
large induction of words, I think, with your correspondent, that the
pages of “N. & Q.” might be made useful in supplying “links of
connexion” to supply a groundwork for future comparison. I shall conclude
by suggesting one or two “links” that I do not remember to have seen
elsewhere.

1. Is the root of felix to be found in the Irish fail,
fate; the contraction of the dipththong ai or ê
being analogous to that of amaïmus into amêmus?

2. Is it not probable that Avernus, if not corrupted from ἄορνος, is related to
iffrin, the Irish inferi? This derivation is at any rate
more probable than that of Grotefend, who connects the word with Ἀχέρων.

3. Were the Galli, priests of Cybele, so called as being
connected with fire-worship? and is the name at all connected with the
Celtic gal, a flame? The word Gallus, a Gaul, is of course
the same as the Irish gal, a stranger.

T. H. T.

GEOMETRICAL CURIOSITY.

(Vol. viii., p. 468.)

Mr. Ingleby’s question might easily be the
foundation of a geometrical paper; but as this would not be a desirable
contribution, I will endeavour to keep clear of technicalities, in
pointing out how the process described may give something near to a
circle, or may not.

When a paper figure, bent over a straight line in it, has the two
parts perfectly fitting on each other, the figure is symmetrical
about that straight line, which may be called an axis of symmetry.
Thus every diameter of a circle is an axis of symmetry: every regular
oval has two axes of symmetry at right angles to each other: every
regular polygon of an odd number of sides has an axis joining each
corner to the middle of the opposite sides: every regular polygon of an
even number of sides has axes joining opposite corners, and axes
joining the middles of opposite sides.

When a piece of paper, of any form whatsoever, rectilinear or
curvilinear, is doubled over any line in it, and when all the parts of
either side which are not covered by the other are cut away, the unfolded
figure will of course have the creased line for an axis of symmetry. If
another line be now creased, and a fold made over it, and the process
repeated, the second line becomes an axis of symmetry, and the first
perhaps ceases to be one. If the process be then repeated on the first
line, this last becomes an axis, and the other (probably) ceases to be an
axis. If this process can be indefinitely continued, the cuttings must
become smaller and smaller, for the following reason. Suppose, at the
outset, the boundary point nearest to the intersection of the axes is
distant from that intersection by, say four inches; it is clear that we
cannot, after any number of cuttings, have a part of the boundary at less
than four inches from the intersection. For there never is, after any
cutting, any approach to the intersection except what there already was
on the other side of the axis employed, before that cutting was made. If
then the cuttings should go on for ever, or practically until the pieces
to be cut off are too small, and if this take place all round, the
figure last obtained will be a good representation of a circle of four
inches radius. On the suppositions, we must be always cutting down, at
all parts of the boundary; but it has been shown that we can never come
nearer than by four inches to the intersection of the axes.

But it does not follow that the process will go on for ever. We
may come at last to a state in which both the creases are axes of
symmetry at once; and then the process stops. If the paper had at first a
curvilinear boundary, properly chosen, and if the axes were placed at the
proper angle, it would happen that we should arrive at a {15}regular
curved polygon, having the two axes for axes of symmetry. The process
would then stop.

I will, however, suppose that the original boundary is everywhere
rectilinear. It is clear then that, after every cutting, the boundary is
still rectilinear. If the creases be at right angles to one another, the
ultimate figure may be an irregular polygon, having its four quarters
alike, such as may be inscribed in an oval; or it may have its sides so
many and so small, that the ultimate appearance shall be that of an oval.
But if the creases be not at right angles, the ultimate figure is a
perfectly regular polygon, such as can be inscribed in a circle; or its
sides may be so many and so small that the ultimate appearance shall be
that of a circle.

Suppose, as in Mr. Ingleby’s question, that
the creases are not at right angles to each other; supposing the eye and
the scissors perfect, the results will be as follows:

First, suppose the angle made by the creases to be what the
mathematicians call incommensurable with the whole revolution;
that is, suppose that no repetition of the angle will produce an
exact number of revolutions. Then the cutting will go on for ever,
and the result will perpetually approach a circle. It is easily shown
that no figure whatsoever, except a circle, has two axes of symmetry
which make an angle incommensurable with the whole revolution.

Secondly, suppose the angle of the creases commensurable with the
revolution. Find out the smallest number of times which the angle must be
repeated to give an exact number of revolutions. If that number be even,
it is the number of sides of the ultimate polygon: if that number be odd,
it is the half of the number of sides of the ultimate polygon.

Thus, the paper on which I write, the whole sheet being taken, and the
creases made by joining opposite corners, happens to give the angle of
the creases very close to three-fourteenths of a revolution; so that
fourteen repetitions of the angle is the lowest number which give an
exact number of revolutions; and a very few cuttings lead to a regular
polygon of fourteen sides. But if four-seventeenths of a revolution had
been taken for the angle of the creases, the ultimate polygon would have
had thirty-four sides. In an angle taken at hazard the chances are that
the number of ultimate sides will be large enough to present a circular
appearance.

Any reader who chooses may amuse himself by trying results from three
or more axes, whether all passing through one point or not.

A. De Morgan.

THE BLACK-GUARD.

(Vol. viii., p. 414.)

Some of your correspondents, Sir James E.
Tennent especially, have been very learned on this subject, and
all have thrown new light on what I consider a very curious inquiry. The
following document I discovered some years ago in the Lord Steward’s
Offices. Your readers will see its value at once; but it may not be amiss
to observe, that the name in its present application had its origin in
the number of masterless boys hanging about the verge of the Court and
other public places, palaces, coal-cellars, and palace stables; ready
with links to light coaches and chairs, and conduct, and rob people on
foot, through the dark streets of London; nay, to follow the Court in its
progresses to Windsor and Newmarket. Pope’s “link-boys vile” are the
black-guard boys of the following Proclamation.

Peter Cunningham.

At the Board of Green Cloth,
in Windsor Castle,         
this 7th day of May, 1683.

Whereas of late a sort of vicious, idle, and masterless boyes and
rogues, commonly called the Black-guard, with divers other lewd and loose
fellowes, vagabonds, vagrants, and wandering men and women, do usually
haunt and follow the Court, to the great dishonour of the same, and as
Wee are informed have been the occasion of the late dismall fires that
happened in the towns of Windsor and Newmarket, and have, and frequently
do commit divers other misdemeanours and disorders in such places where
they resort, to the prejudice of His Majesty’s subjects, for the
prevention of which evills and misdemeanours hereafter, Wee do hereby
strictly charge and command all those so called the Black-guard as
aforesaid, with all other loose, idle, masterless men, boyes, rogues, and
wanderers, who have intruded themselves into His Majesty’s Court or
stables, that within the space of twenty-four houres next after the
publishing of this order, they depart, upon pain of imprisonment, and
such other punishments as by law are to be inflicted on them.

THE CALVES’ HEAD CLUB.

(Vol. viii., pp. 315. 480.)

The Calves’ Head Club existed much earlier than the time when their
doings were commemorated in the Weekly Oracle (Vol. viii., p.
315.) of February 1, 1735, or depicted in the print of 1734 (Vol. viii.,
p. 480.). There is a pamphlet, {16}the second edition of which was published in
small 4to., in 1703, entitled:

“The Secret History of the Calves’ Head Club, or, the Republican
Unmasqu’d, wherein is fully shewn the Religion of the Calves-Head Heroes
in their Anniversary Thanksgiving Songs on the Thirtieth of January, by
their Anthems,” &c. &c.

We are told in the latter part of the long title-page that the work
was published “to demonstrate the restless, inplacable spirit of a
certain party still among us,” and certainly the statements therein, and
more than all the anthems at the end, do show the bitterest
hatred—so bitter, so intense and malignant, that we feel on reading
it that there must be some exaggeration.

The author professes to have at first been of opinion “that the story
was purely contrived on purpose to render the republicans more odious
than they deserv’d.” Whether he was convinced to the contrary by ocular
demonstration he does not tell us, but gives us information he received
from a gentleman—

“Who, about eight years ago, went out of meer curiosity to see their
Club, and has since furnish’d me with the following papers. I was
inform’d that it was kept in no fix’d house, but that they remov’d as
they saw convenient; that the place they met in when he was with ’em was
in a blind ally, about Morefields; that the company wholly consisted of
Independents and Anabaptists (I am glad for the honour of the
Presbyterians to set down this remark); that the famous Jerry White,
formerly Chaplain to Oliver Cromwell, who no doubt on’t came to sanctify
with his pious exhortations the Ribbaldry of the Day, said Grace; that
after the table-cloth was removed, the anniversary anthem, as they
impiously called it, was sung, and a calve’s skull fill’d with wine, or
other liquor, and then a brimmer went about to the pious memory of those
worthy patriots that kill’d the tyrant, and deliver’d their country from
arbitrary sway; and lastly, a collection made for the mercenary scribler,
to which every man contributed according to his zeal for the cause, or
the ability of his purse.

“I have taken care to set down what the gentleman told me as
faithfully as my memory wou’d give me leave; and I am persuaded that some
persons that frequent the Black Boy in Newgate Street, as they knew the
author of the following lines so they knew this account of the Calves’
Head Club to be true.”

The anthems for the years 1693, 1694, 1695, 1696, and 1697, are given;
but they are too long and too stupidly blasphemous and indecent to quote
here. They seem rather the satires of malignant cavaliers than the
serious productions of any Puritan, however politically or theologically
heretical.

Edward Peacock.

Bottesford Moors.

PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE.

The Calotype Process.—I have made any first essay in the
calotype process, following Dr. Diamond’s
directions given in “N. & Q.,” and using Turner’s paper, as
recommended by him. My success has been quite as great as I could expect
as a novice, and satisfies me that any defects are due to my own want of
skill, and not to any fault in the directions given. I wish, however, to
ask a question as to iodizing the paper. Dr.
Diamond says, lay the paper on the solution; then
immediately remove it, and lay on the dry side on blotting-paper,
&c. Now I find, if I remove immediately, the whole sheet of paper
curls up into a roll, and is quite unmanageable. I want to know,
therefore, whether there is any objection to allowing the paper to remain
on the iodizing solution until it lies flat on it, so that on removal it
will not curl, and may be easily and conveniently laid on the dry side to
pass the glass rod over it. As soon as the paper is floated on the
solution (I speak of Turner’s) it has a great tendency to curl, and takes
some time before the expansion of both surfaces becoming equal allows it
to lie quite flat on the liquid. May this operation be performed by the
glass rod, without floating at all?

Photographers, like myself, at a distance from practical instruction,
are so much obliged for plain and simple directions such as those given
by Dr. Diamond, which are the result of
experience, that I am sure he will not mind being troubled with a few
inquiries relative to them.

C. E. F.

Hockin’s Short Sketch.—Mr. Hockin is so well known as a
thoroughly practical chemist, that it may suffice to call attention to
the fact of his having published a little brochure entitled How to
obtain Positive and Negative Pictures on Collodionized Glass, and copy
the latter upon Paper. A Short Sketch adapted for the Tyro in
Photography. As the question of the alkalinity of the nitrate
bath is one which has lately been discussed, we will give, as a specimen
of Mr. Hockin’s book, a quotation, showing his opinion upon that
question:

“The sensitizing agent, nitrate of silver in crystals, not the
ordinary fused in sticks, is nearly always confessedly adulterated; it is
thus employed:

“The silver or nitrate bath.—Nitrate of silver five
drachms, distilled water ten ounces; dissolve and add iodized collodion
two drachms.

“Shake these well together, allow them to macerate twelve hours, and
filter through paper. Before adding the nitric acid, test the liquid with
a piece of blue litmus paper; if it remain blue after being immersed one
minute, add one drop of dilute nitric acid^[3], and test again for a minute; and so
on, until a claret red is indicated on the paper. It is necessary to test
the bath in a similar manner, frequently adding half a drop to a drop of
dilute acid when required. This precaution will prevent the fogging due
to alkalinity of the bath, so formidable an obstacle to young hands.”

Photographic Society’s Exhibition.—The Photographic
Society opened their first Exhibition of {17}Photographs and
Daguerreotypes at the Gallery of the Society of British Artists, in
Suffolk Street, with a soirée on Tuesday evening last.
Notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather, the rooms were crowded not
only by members of the Society, but by many of the most distinguished
literary and scientific men of the metropolis. The Queen and Prince
Albert had, in the course of the morning, spent three hours in an
examination of the collection; and the opinion they expressed, that the
exhibition was one of great interest and promise, from the evidence it
afforded of the extraordinary advance made by the art during the past
year, and the encouragement it held out to the belief that far greater
excellence might therefore still be looked for in it, was a very just
one, and embodied that given afterwards by the most competent
authorities. We have not room this week to enter into any details, but
can confidently recommend our readers to pay an early visit to Suffolk
Street.

Replies to Minor Queries.

“Firm was their faith,” &c. (Vol. viii., p.
564.).—These lines are to be found in a poem called “Morwennæ
Statio, hodie Morwenstow,” published by Masters in 1846, with the title
of Echoes from Old Cornwall, and written by the Vicar of
Morwenstow. I agree with D. M. in the judgment he has announced as to
their merits; but hitherto they have been but little appreciated by the
public. A time will come however, when these and other compositions of
the author will be better known and more duly valued by the English
mind.

Saxa.

These lines were written on “the Minster of Morwenna,” May, 1840, and
appeared in the British Magazine under the anonymous name
Procul. Of the eight stanzas of which the poem consists, P. M. has
quoted the second. The second line should be read “wise of heart,”
and the third “firm and trusting hands.” With your correspondent,
I hope the author’s name may be discovered.

F. R. R.

Vellum-cleaning (Vol. viii., p.340.).—In the Polytechnic
Institution there are specimens of old deeds, &c., on vellum and
paper, beautifully cleaned and restored by Mr. George Clifford, 5. Inner
Temple Lane, Temple, London.

J. M^cK.

Shoreham.

Wooden Tombs (Vol. viii., p. 255.).—In the church at
Brading, Isle of Wight—

“There are some old tombs in the communion place, and in Sir William
Oglander’s chapel, or family burial-place, which is separated from the
rest of the church by an oak screen. The most ancient legible date of
these monuments is 1567. Two of them have full-length figures in armour
of solid elm wood, originally painted in their proper colours, and gilt,
but now disfigured by coats of dirty white.”—Barber’s Picturesque
Guide to the Isle of Wight, 1850, pp. 28, 29.

J. M^cK.

Shoreham.

Solar Eclipse in the Year 1263 (Vol. viii., p. 441.).—In
the Transactions of the Antiquarian Society of Scotland, vol. ii.
p. 350., there are “Observations on the Norwegian Expedition against
Scotland in the year 1263,” by John Dillon, Esq.; and at pp. 363-4, when
speaking of the annular eclipse, he says:

“The eclipse above mentioned is described to have occurred between
these two dates [29th July and 9th August]. This being pointed out to Dr.
Brewster, he had the curiosity to calculate the eclipse, when he found
that there was an eclipse of the sun on 5th August, 1263, and which was
annular at Ronaldsvo, in Orkney, and the middle of it was twenty-four
minutes past one.”

These “Observations” contain much curious information; but are
deformed by the author attempting to wrest the text of the Norwegian
writer (at p. 358. and in note I.) to suit an absurd crotchet of his own.
Having seen that essay in MS., I pointed out those errors; but instead of
attending to my observations, he would not read them, and got into a
passion against the friend who showed the MS. to me.

J. M^cK.

Shoreham.

Lines on Woman (Vol. viii., pp. 292. 350. &c.).—The
lines on Woman are, I presume, an altered version of those of Barret
(Mrs. Barrett Browning?); they are the finale of a short poem on Woman;
the correct version is the following:

I would copy the whole poem, but fear you would think it too long for
insertion.

Ma. L.

Satin (Vol. vii., p. 551.).—In a note just received by me
from Canton, an American friend of mine remarks as follows:

“When you write again to ‘N. & Q.’ you can say that the word
satin (Vol. vii., p. 551.), like the article itself, is of Chinese
origin, and that other foreign languages, in endeavouring like the
English to imitate the Chinese sz-tün, have {18}approximated closely to
it, and to each other. Of this the answers to the Query given in the
place referred to are a sufficient proof; Fr. satin, W.
sidan, &c. &c.”

I suspect that he is right, and that Ogilvie and Webster, whom you
quote, have not got to the bottom of the word. I may add that the notion
of my Canton friend receives approval from a Chinese scholar to whom I
have shown the above extract.

W. T. M.

Hong Kong.

“Quid facies,” &c. (Vol. viii., p. 539.).—

“Bierve, N. Maréchal, Marquis
de, a Frenchman well known for his ready wit and great facetiousness.
He wrote two plays of considerable merit, Les Réputations and
Le Séducteur. He died at Spa, 1789, aged 42. He is author of the
distich on courtezans:

‘Quid facies, facies Veneris cum veneris ante?

Ne sedeas! sed eas, ne pereas per eas.'”

—Lemprière’s Universal Biography, abridged from the
larger work, London, 1808.

C. Forbes.

Temple.

Sotades (Vol. viii., p. 520.).—Your correspondent Charles Reed says that Sotades was a Roman poet 250
B.C.; and that to him we owe the line, “Roma
tibi subito,” &c. Sotades was a native of Maroneia in Thrace, or,
according to others, of Crete; and flourished at Alexandria B.C. 280 (Smith’s Dictionary of Biography,
Clinton, F. H., vol. iii. p. 888.). We have a few fragments of his poems,
but none of them are palindromical. The authority for his having written
so, is, I suppose, Martial, Epig. II. 86.
2.:

Zeus.

The Third Part of “Christabel” (Vol. viii., pp. 11.
111.).—Has the Irish Quarterly Review any other reason for
ascribing this poem to Maginn than the common belief which makes him the
sole and original Morgan Odoherty? If not, its evidence is of little
value, as, exclusive of some pieces under that name which have been
avowed by other writers, many of the Odoherty papers contain palpable
internal evidence of having been written by a Scotchman, or at least one
very familiar with Scotland, which at that time he was not; even the
letter accompanying the third part of Christabel is dated from
Glasgow, and though this would in itself prove nothing, the circumstances
above mentioned, as well as Dr. Moir’s evidence as to the time when
Maginn’s contributions to Blackwood commenced, seems strongly
presumptive against his claim. Some of the earliest and most
distinguished writers in Blackwood are still alive, and could, no
doubt, clear up this point at once, if so inclined.

J. S. Warden.

Attainment of Majority (Vol. viii., pp. 198. 250.).—In my
last communication upon this subject I produced undeniable authority to
prove that the law did not regard the fraction of a day; this, I think,
A. E. B. will admit. The question is, now, does the day on which a man
attains his majority commence at six o’clock A.M., or at midnight? We must remember that we are
dealing with a question of English law; and therefore the evidence
of an English decision will, I submit, be stronger proof of the latter
mode of reckoning than the only positive proof with which A. E. B. has
defended Ben Jonson’s use of the former, viz. Roman.

In a case tried in Michaelmas Term, 1704, Chief Justice Holt said:

“It has been adjudged that if one be born the 1st of February at
eleven at night, and the last of January in the twenty-first year of his
age at one o’clock in the morning, he makes his will of lands and dies,
it is a good will, for he was then of age.”—Salkeld, 44.;
Raymond, 480, 1096; 1 Siderfin, 162.

In this case, therefore, the testator was accounted of age forty-six
hours before the completion of his twenty-first year. Now, the law not
regarding the fraction of a day, the above case, I submit, clearly proves
that the day, as regards the attainment of majority, began at
midnight.

Russell Gole.

Lord Halifax and Mrs. C. Barton (Vol. viii., pp. 429.
543.).—In answer to J. W. J.’s Query, I beg to state that I have in
my possession a codicil of Mrs. Conduit’s will in her own hand, dated
26th of January, 1737. This document refers to some theological tracts by
Sir Isaac Newton, in his handwriting, which I have. On referring to the
pedigree of the Barton family, I find that Colonel Robert Barton married
Catherine Greenwood, whose father lived at Rotterdam, and was ancestor of
Messrs. Greenwood, army agents. His issue were Major Newton Barton, who
married Elizabeth Ekins, Mrs. Burr, and Catherine Robert Barton. I find
no mention of Colonel Noel Barton. The family of Ekins had been
previously connected with that of Barton, Alexander Ekins, Rector of
Barton Segrave, having married Jane Barton of Brigstock. The writer of
this note will be obliged if J. W. J., or any correspondent of “N. &
Q.,” will inform him if anything is known respecting an ivory bust of Sir
Isaac Newton, executed by Marchand or Marchant, which is said to have
been an excellent likeness.

S. X.

The fifth Lord Byron (Vol. viii., p. 2.).—I cannot but
think that Mr. Hasleden’s memory has deceived him
as to the “wicked lord” having {19}settled his estates upon the marriage of his
son; how is this to be reconciled with the often published statement,
that the marriage of his son with his cousin Juliana, daughter of the
admiral, and aunt of the late and present lords, was made not only
without the consent, but in spite of the opposition, of the old lord, and
that he never forgave his son in consequence?

J. S. Warden.

Burton Family (Vol. iv., pp. 22. 124.).—In connexion with
a Query which was kindly noticed by Mr. Algor of
Sheffield, who did not however communicate anything new to me, I would
ask who was Samuel Burton, Esq., formerly Sheriff of Derbyshire; whose
death at Sevenoaks, in October, 1750, I find recorded in the Obituary of
the Gentleman’s Magazine for that year? I am also desirous to
ascertain who was Sir Francis Cavendish Burton of St. Helens, whose
daughter and heiress, Martha, married Richard Sikes, Esq., ancestor of
the Sikes’s of the Chauntry House near Newark. She died since 1696. Both
Samuel Burton and Mrs. Sikes were related to the Burtons of Kilburn, in
the parish of Horsley, near Derby, to whom my former Query referred.

E. H. A.

Provost Hodgson’s Translation of the Atys of Catullus (Vol.
viii., p. 563.).—In answer to Mr.
Gantillon’s inquiry for the above translation, I beg to state that
it will be found appended to an octavo edition of Hodgson’s poem of
Lady Jane Grey.

In the same volume will be found, I believe (for I have not the work
before me), some of the modern Latin poetry respecting which Balliolensis inquiries. The justly admired translation
of Edwin and Angelina, to which the latter refers, was by
Hodgson’s too early lost friend Lloyd. The splendid pentameter is
slightly misquoted by Balliolensis. It is
not—

but—

Thomas Russell Potter.

Wymeswold, Loughborough.

Wylcotes’ Brass (Vol. viii., p. 494.).—I should hardly
have supposed that any difficulty could exist in explaining the
inscription:

To me it appears self-evident that it must be—

H. C. C.

Hoby, Family of; their Portraits, &c. (Vol. viii., p.
244.).—I would refer J. B. Whitborne to
The Antiquities of Berkshire (so miscalled), by Elias Ashmole;
where, in treating of Bisham, that learned antiquary has given the
inscriptions to the Hoby family as existing and legible in his
time. It does not appear that Sir Philip Hoby, or Hobbie, Knight, was
ever of the Privy Council; but, in 1539, one of the Gentlemen of the
Privy Chamber to King Henry VIII. (which monarch granted to him in 1546-7
the manor of Willoughby in Edmonton, co. Middlesex), Sir Thomas Hoby, the
brother, and successor in the estates of Sir Philip, was, in 1566,
ambassador to France; and died at Paris July 13 in the same year (not
1596), aged thirty-six. The coat of the Hobys of Bisham, as correctly
given, is “Argent, within a border engrailed sable, three spindles,
threaded in fesse, gules.” A grant or confirmation of this coat was made
by Sir Edward Bysshe, Clarenceux, to Peregrine Hoby of Bisham, Berks,
natural son of Sir Edward Hoby, Nov. 17, 1664. The Bisham family bore no
crest nor motto.

H. C. C.

The Keate Family (Vol. viii., pp. 293. 525.)—Should the
Query of G. B. B. not be sufficiently answered by the extract from Mr.
Burke’s Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England relating to the
Keate family, as I have a full pedigree of that surname, I may perhaps be
able, on application, to satisfy him with some genealogical particulars
which are not noticed in Mr. Burke’s works.

H. C. C.

Sir Charles Cotterell (Vol viii., p. 564.).—Sir Charles
Cotterell, the translator of Cassandra, died in 1687. (See
Fuller’s Worthies, by Nuttall, vol. ii. p. 309.)

Ἁλιεύς.

Dublin.

Huc’s Travels (Vol. viii., p. 516.).—Not having seen the
Gardener’s Chronicle, in which C. W. B. says the travels of
Messrs. Huc and Gabet in Thibet, Tartary, &c. are said to be a pure
fabrication, concocted by some Parisian littérateur, I cannot know
what degree of credit, if any, is to be given to such a statement. All I
wish to communicate at present for the information of your Querist
C. W. B. is this, that I have read an account and abstract of Messrs. Huc
and Gabet’s Travels in one of the ablest and best conducted French
reviews, La Revue des Deux Mondes; in which not the least
suspicion of fabrication is hinted, or the slightest doubt expressed as
to the genuineness of these Travels. Mr. Princep, also, in his
work on Thibet, Tartary, &c. quotes largely from Huc’s Travel’s, and
avails himself extensively of the information contained in them with
reference to Buddhism, &c.

Should the writer in the Gardener’s Chronicle have it in his
power to prove the Travels to be a fabrication, he will
confer a benefit on the world of letters by unmasking the fabricator.

J. M.

Oxford.

Pictures at Hampton Court Palace (Vol. viii., p.
538.).—In reply to Φ.’s question when
the review of the 10th Light Dragoons by King {20}George III., after the
Prince of Wales assumed the command of that regiment, I beg to state that
the Prince entered the army as brevet-colonel, Nov. 19, 1782; that the
regiment received the title of “The Prince of Wales’s own Regiment of
Light Dragoons” on Michaelmas Day, 1783: that the regiment was stationed
in the south of England and in the vicinity of London for many years,
from 1790 to 1803 inclusive; and that King George III. repeatedly
reviewed it, accompanied by the queen and the royal family. That the
Prince of Wales was appointed Colonel-commandant of the corps in 1793,
and succeeded Sir W. A. Pitt as colonel of it in July 18, 1796. That the
regiment was reviewed on Hounslow Heath by the King in August, 1799; and
the Prince of Wales (who commanded it in person) received his Majesty’s
orders to convey his Majesty’s approbation of its excellent appearance
and performance. Perhaps the picture by Sir William Beechey was painted
in 1799, and not 1798. I did not find the catalogue at Hampton Court free
from errors, when I last visited the palace in October, 1852.

M. A.

Pembroke College, Oxon.

John Waugh (Vol. viii., pp. 271. 400. 525.).—Does Karleolensis know whether John Waugh, son of Waugh,
Bishop of Carlisle, was married, and to whom?

Farther information of the above family would be most acceptable, and
thankfully acknowledged, by George Waugh, of the family of the Waughs of
Oulton and Lofthouse, Yorkshire.

Exeter.

Daughters taking their Mothers’ Names (Vol. viii., p.
586.).—When Buriensis asks for instances of
this, and mentions “Alicia, daughter of Ada,” as an example, is he not
mistaking, or following some one else who has mistaken, the gender
of the parent’s name? Alicia fil. Adæ would be rendered “Alice
Fitz-Adam,” unless there be anything in the context to determine the
gender otherwise.

J. Sansom.

“Service is no Inheritance” (Vol. viii., p. 586.).—This
proverbial saying has evidently arisen from the old manorial right, under
which the lord of the manor claimed suit and service and fealty before
admitting the heir to his inheritance, or the purchaser to his purchase.
On which occasion, the party admitted to the estate, whether purchaser or
heir, “fecit fidelitatem suam et solvit relevium;” the relief being
generally a year’s rent or service.

Anon.

Sir Christopher Wren and the young Carver (Vol. viii., p.
340.).—If your correspondent A. H. has not already appropriated the
anecdote here alluded to, I think I can confidently refer him to any
biographical notice of Grindling Gibbons—to whom the story of the
“Sow and Pigs” relates. Gibbons was recommended to Sir Christopher by
Evelyn, I think; but not having “made a note of it,” I am not sure that
it is to be found in his Diary.^[4] If there be any monograph Life of
Gibbons, it can scarcely fail to be found there.

M. (2)

Souvaroff’s Despatch (Vol. viii., p. 490).—Souvaroff’s
doggerel despatch from Ismail, immortalised by Byron, is, as usual,
misspelt and mistranslated. Allow me to furnish you with what I have
never yet seen in English, a correct version of it:

Dmitri Andréef.

Detached Church Towers (Vol. viii., p. 63.).—In the lists
I have seen no mention is made of the fine tower of West Walton Church,
which stands at a distance of nearly twenty yards from the body of the
church.

W. B. D.

Lynn.

Queen Anne’s Motto (Vol. viii., p. 174.).—The Historical
Society of Pennsylvania is in possession of an English coat of arms,
painted on wood in the time of Queen Anne, having “Anna R.” at the top,
and the motto Semper eadem on the scroll below. It probably was in
one of the Philadelphia court-rooms, and was taken down at the
Revolution.

Uneda.

Philadelphia.

Lawyers’ Bags (Vol. vii. passim).—The
communication of Mr. Kersley, in p. 557.,
although it does not support the inference which Col.
Landman draws, that the colour of lawyers’ bags was changed in
consequence of the unpopularity which it acquired at the trial of Queen
Caroline, seems to show that green was at one time the colour of
those professional pouches. The question still remains, when and on what
occasion it was discontinued; and when the purple, and when the crimson,
were introduced?

When I entered the profession (about fifty years ago), no junior
barrister presumed to carry a bag in the Court of Chancery, unless one
had been presented to him by a king’s counsel; who, when a junior was
advancing in practice, took an opportunity of complimenting him on his
increase of business, and giving him his own bag to carry home his
papers. It was then a distinction to carry a bag, and a proof that a
junior was rising {21}in his profession. I do not know whether the
same custom prevailed in the other courts.

Causidicus.

In this city (Philadelphia) lawyers formerly carried green bags. The
custom has declined of late years among the members of the legal
profession, and it has been taken up by journeymen boot and shoe makers,
who thus carry their work to and from the workshop. A green bag is now
the badge of a cordwainer in this city.

.

Philadelphia.

Bust of Luther (Vol. viii., p. 335.).—Mr. J. G. Fitch asks for information respecting a bust
of Luther, with an inscription, on the wall of a house, in the Dom Platz
at Frankfort on the Maine. I have learned, through a German acquaintance,
who has resided the greater part of his life in that city, that the
effigy was erected to commemorate the event of Luther’s having, during a
short stay in Frankfort, preached near that spot; and that the words
surrounding the bust were his text on the occasion. He adds that Luther
at no period of his life “lived for some years” at Frankfort, as stated
by Mr. Fitch.

Alfred Smith.

Grammar in relation to Logic (Vol. viii., pp. 514.
629.).—H. C. K.’s remarks are of course indisputable. But it is a
mistake to suppose that they answer my Query. In fact, had your
correspondent taken the trouble to consider the meaning of my Query, he
could not have failed to perceive that the explanation I there gave of
the function of the conjunction in logic, is the same as his. My
Query had sole reference to grammar. I would also respectfully
suggest that anonymous correspondents should not impute “superficial
views,” or any other disagreeable thing, to those who stand
confessed, without abandoning the pseudonym.

C. Mansfield Ingleby.

Birmingham.

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WESTERN LIFE ASSURANCE
AND ANNUITY SOCIETY.

3. PARLIAMENT STREET, LONDON.

Founded A.D. 1842.

VALUABLE PRIVILEGE.

POLICIES effected in this Office do not become void through temporary
difficulty in paying a Premium, as permission is given upon application
to suspend the payment at interest, according to the conditions detailed
in the Prospectus.

Specimens of Rates of Premium for Assuring 100l., with a Share
in three-fourths of the Profits:—

ARTHUR SCRATCHLEY, M.A., F.R.A.S., Actuary.

Now ready, price 10s. 6d., Second Edition, with material
additions, INDUSTRIAL INVESTMENT and EMIGRATION: being a TREATISE ON
BENEFIT BUILDING SOCIETIES, and on the General Principles of Land
Investment, exemplified in the Cases of Freehold Land Societies, Building
Companies, &c. With a Mathematical Appendix on Compound Interest and
Life Assurance. By ARTHUR SCRATCHLEY, M.A., Actuary to the Western Life
Assurance Society, 3. Parliament Street, London.

ALLEN’S ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE, containing Size, Prices, and
Description of upwards of 100 articles, consisting of

PORTMANTEAUS, TRAVELLING-BAGS, Ladies’ Portmanteaus, DESPATCH-BOXES,
WRITING-DESKS, DRESSING-CASES, and other traveller requisites, Gratis on
application, or sent free by Post on receipt of Two Stamps.

MESSRS. ALLEN’S registered Despatch-box and Writing-desk, their
Travelling-bag with the opening as large as the bag, and the new
Portmanteau containing four compartments, are undoubtedly the best
articles of the kind ever produced.

J. W. & T. ALLEN, 18. & 22. West Strand.

BENNETT’S MODEL WATCH, as shown at the GREAT EXHIBITION. No. 1. Class
X., in Gold and Silver Cases, in five qualities, and adapted to all
Climates, may now be had at the MANUFACTORY, 65. CHEAPSIDE. Superior Gold
London-made Patent Levers, 17, 15, and 12 guineas. Ditto, in Silver
Cases, 8, 6, and 4 guineas. First-rate Geneva Levers, in Gold Cases, 12,
10, and 8 guineas. Ditto, in Silver Cases, 8, 6, and 5 guineas. Superior
Lever, with Chronometer Balance, Gold, 27, 23, and 19 guineas. Bennett’s
Pocket Chronometer, Gold, 50 guineas; Silver, 40 guineas. Every Watch
skillfully examined, timed, and its performance guaranteed. Barometers,
2l., 3l., and 4l. Thermometers from 1s.
each.

BENNETT, Watch, Clock, and Instrument Maker to the Royal Observatory,
the Board of Ordnance, the Admiralty, and the Queen,

65. CHEAPSIDE.

XYLO-IODIDE OF SILVER, exclusively used at all the Photographic
Establishments.—The superiority of this preparation is now
universally acknowledged. Testimonials from the best Photographers and
principal scientific men of the day, warrant the assertion, that hitherto
no preparation has been discovered which produces uniformly such perfect
pictures, combined with the greatest rapidity of action. In all cases
where a quantity is required, the two solutions may be had at Wholesale
price in separate Bottles, in which state it may be kept for years, and
Exported to any Climate. Full instructions for use.

Caution.—Each Bottle is Stamped with a
Red Label bearing my name, RICHARD W. THOMAS, Chemist, 10. Pall Mall, to
counterfeit which is felony.

CYANOGEN SOAP: for removing all kinds of Photographic Stains. The
Genuine is made only by the Inventor, and is secured with a Red Label
bearing this Signature and Address, RICHARD W. THOMAS, CHEMIST, 10. PALL
MALL, Manufacturer of Pure Photographic Chemicals: and may be procured of
all respectable Chemists, in Pots at 1s., 2s., and
3s. 6d. each, through MESSRS. EDWARDS, 67. St. Paul’s
Churchyard; and MESSRS. BARCLAY & CO., 95. Farringdon Street,
Wholesale Agents.

PHOTOGRAPHY.—HORNE & CO.’S Iodized Collodion, for obtaining
Instantaneous Views, and Portraits in from three to thirty seconds,
according to light.

Portraits obtained by the above, for delicacy of detail rival the
choicest Daguerreotypes, specimens of which may be seen at their
Establishment.

Also every description of Apparatus, Chemicals, &c. &c. used
in this beautiful Art.—123. and 121. Newgate Street.

PHOTOGRAPHIC CAMERAS.—OTTEWILL’S REGISTERED DOUBLE-BODIED
FOLDING CAMERA, is superior to every other form of Camera, for the
Photographic Tourist, from its capability of Elongation or Contraction to
any Focal Adjustment, its Portability, and its adaptation for taking
either Views or Portraits.—The Trade supplied.

Every Description of Camera, or Slides, Tripod Stands, Printing
Frames, &c., may be obtained at his MANUFACTORY, Charlotte Terrace,
Barnsbury Road, Islington.

New Inventions, Models, &c., made to order or from Drawings.

IMPROVEMENT IN COLLODION.—J. B. HOCKIN & CO., Chemists, 289.
Strand. have, by an improved mode of Iodizing, succeeded in producing a
Collodion equal, they may say superior, in sensitiveness and density of
Negative, to any other hitherto published; without diminishing the
keeping properties and appreciation of half tint for which their
manufacture has been esteemed.

Apparatus, pure Chemicals, and all the requirements for the practice
of Photography. Instruction in the Art.

THE COLLODION AND POSITIVE PAPER PROCESS. By J. B. HOCKIN. Price
1s., per Post, 1s. 2d.

PHOTOGRAPHY.

A COMPLETE SET OF APPARATUS for 4l. 4s., containing an
Expanding Camera, with warranted Double Achromatic Adjusting Lenses, a
Portable Stand, Pressure Frame, Levelling Stand, and Baths, complete.

PORTRAIT LENSES of double Achromatic combination, from 1l.
12s. 6d.

LANDSCAPE LENSES, with Rack Adjustment, from 25s.

A GUIDE to the Practice of this interesting Art, 1s., by post
free, 1s. 6d.

French Polished MAHOGANY STEREO-SCOPES, from 10s. 6d. A
large assortment of STEREOSCOPIC PICTURES for the same in Daguerreotype,
Calotype, or Albumen, at equally low prices.

ACHROMATIC MICROSCOPES.

Beautifully finished ACHROMATIC MICROSCOPE, with all the latest
improvement and apparatus, complete from 3l. 15s., at

C. BAKER’S. Optical and Mathematical Instrument Warehouse, 244. High
Holborn (opposite Day & Martin’s).

Important Sale of Rare Books, Books of Prints, and Illuminated
Manuscripts.

MESSRS. S. LEIGH SOTHEBY & JOHN WILKINSON, Auctioneers of Literary
Property and Works illustrative of the Fine Arts, will SELL by AUCTION,
at their House, 3. Wellington Street, Strand, on MONDAY, January 9, 1854,
and Three following Days, at 1 o’clock precisely, an Important COLLECTION
of RARE BOOKS, Books of Prints, Illuminated and Historical Manuscripts,
from the Library of a distinguished Amateur, deceased:—comprising,
The Grand Work on Egypt, executed under the munificent direction of
Napoleon I., the original edition on vellum paper, 23 vols. The Beautiful
and Interesting Series of Picturesque Voyages by Nodier, Taylor, and De
Cailleux; Barker, Webb et Berthélot, Histoire Naturelle des Iles
Canaries, a magnificent work, in 10 vols. with exquisitely coloured
plates; Algérie. Historique, Pittoresque et Monumentale, 5 vols. in 3; Le
Vaillant, Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux, on vellum paper, the plates
beautifully coloured, 3 vols.; Melling, Voyage Pittoresque de
Constantinople, 2 vols. in 1; Montfaucon, Antiquité Expliquée, avec
Supplément et les Monumens de la Monarchie Françoise, 20 vols., a most
beautiful copy, in morocco, of the best edition, on large paper; Sebæ
Rerum Naturalium Thesaurus, 4 vols., an exceedingly choice copy in rich
French morocco; Museum Worsleyanum, 2 vols., on large paper; Shaw,
Illuminated Ornaments, on large paper, the plates exquisitely illuminated
in gold and colours; Beroalde de Verville, Le Moyen de Parvenir, a very
fine copy of the rarest Elzevir edition; Cieza, Historie del Peru,
1560-64, rare; Boccaccio, Il Decamerone, Ven. 1492, extremely rare;
Consolat dels Fets Maritims, very rare; Denyaldi, Rollo
Northmanno-Britannicus, fine copy, and very scarce; Henninges, Theatrum
Genealogicum, 4 vols. in 5; Le Merre, Recueil des Notes concernant les
Affaires du Clergé de France, 13 vols., a beautiful copy; Mandeville, Le
Grande Lapidaire, 1561, an extremely rare edition; Renversement de la
Morale Chrétienne, rare; Verheiden in Classem Xerxis Hispani Oratio, very
rare; Rare Works relating to England; Books of Emblems; A curious and
interesting Volume in German, giving an Account of the Crusades against
the Turks by the Christians, printed by Bämler. in 1482; Some highly
interesting Historical and other Manuscripts; Finely illuminated Horæ and
Missals; and an interesting Fragment in the Autograph of Rousseau.

To be viewed Two Days prior, and Catalogues had; forwarded Free on
receipt of Six Postage Stamps.

PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS, MATERIALS, and PURE CHEMICAL PREPARATIONS.

KNIGHT & SONS’ Illustrated Catalogue, containing Description and
Price of the best forms of Cameras and other Apparatus. Voightlander and
Son’s Lenses for Portraits and Views, together with the various
Materials, and pure Chemical Preparations required in practising the
Photographic Art. Forwarded free on receipt of Six Postage Stamps.

Instructions given in every branch of the Art.

An extensive Collection of Stereoscopic and other Photographic
Specimens.

GEORGE KNIGHT & SONS, Foster Lane, London.

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BOOKS SUITABLE FOR CHRISTMAS PRESENTS,

PUBLISHED BY MR. JOHN HENRY PARKER, OXFORD; AND 377. STRAND,
LONDON.

THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. With Fifty Illustrations, from Designs by
Ancient and Modern Artists. Selected by the REV. H. J. ROSE and REV. J.
W. BURGON. In One handsome Volume, 8vo. The Prayer-Book is printed in
very large type, with the Rubrics in red. Elegantly bound in antique
calf, with vermillion edges, 2l. 2s.

DAILY CHURCH SERVICES.

In One Portable Volume, containing the Prayers and Lessons for Daily
Use; or, the Course of Scripture Readings for the Year, authorised by the
Church. Also, a Table of the Proper Lessons for Sundays and Holydays,
with References to the Pages. Price 10s. 6d., bound; or
16s. in Hayday’s morocco.

This volume will be found equally useful to those who read the Church
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services for every day are distinctly marked, forming a very suitable
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variety of elegant bindings.

OF THE IMITATION OF CHRIST. Four Books. By THOMAS à KEMPIS. A New
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red floriated borders taken from the ancient MSS. Cloth, 5s. Also in
antique calf binding, vermillion edges, 10s. 6d.

THE CALENDAR OF THE ANGLICAN CHURCH ILLUSTRATED. With brief Accounts
of the Saints who have Churches dedicated in their Names, or whose Images
are most frequently met with in England; the Early Christian and Mediæval
Symbols: and an Index of Emblems. With numerous Woodcuts, Fcap. 8vo.,
10s. 6d.; or bound in antique calf. 16s.

A HISTORY of the CHURCH OF ENGLAND, to the REVOLUTION of 1688. By the
late REV. J. B. S. CARWITHEN, B.D. A new Edition, edited by the REV. W.
R. BROWELL, M.A., 2 vols. small 8vo., 12s.

THE PILGRIM’S PROGRESS. By JOHN BUNYAN. A New Edition, adapted by the
REV. J. M. NEALE, M.A., for the Use of Children of the Church of England.
Fcap. 8vo., handsomely bound in gilt cloth, with Woodcuts, 3s.
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TRACTS FOR THE CHRISTIAN SEASONS. First Series. Four Vols., cloth,
18s.

TRACTS FOR THE CHRISTIAN SEASONS. Second Series. Four Vols., cloth,
15s.

SERMONS FOR THE CHRISTIAN SEASONS. A Series of Plain Sermons for
Sunday Reading. Four Vols., fcap. 8vo., 16s.

A PLAIN COMMENTARY on the GOSPEL of ST. MATTHEW, with numerous
Illustrations. Fcap. 8vo., 6s. 6d.

WILSON’S SACRA PRIVATA. From the original MSS. Second Edition. Fcap.
8vo., antique cloth, red edges, 6s.; antique calf, red edges,
12s.

THE PSALTER AND THE GOSPEL. The Life, Suffering, and Triumph of our
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the Plain Commentary on the Four Holy Gospels. 2s.

A selection of the most striking of the parallel passages contained in
the Psalter and the Gospel.

SCOTLAND and the SCOTTISH CHURCH. By the REV. HENRY CASWALL, M.A.,
Vicar of Figheldean, Wilts; Author of “America and the American Church.”
&c. &c., and a Proctor in Convocation for the Diocese of
Salisbury. Fcap. 8vo., 5s.

A SHORT EXPLANATION of the NICENE CREED, for the Use of Persons
beginning the Study of Theology. By A. P. FORBES, D.C.L., Bishop of
Brechin. Fcap 8vo., cloth, 6s.

TEN SERMONS IN ILLUSTRATION OF THE CREED. By the REV. W. G. TUPPER,
Warden of the House of Charity, Soho; and late Scholar of Trinity
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“In his ‘Sermons on the Creed,’ Mr. Tupper has condensed, with much
painstaking, and an evident sense of deep responsibility, the dogmatic
teaching of the Church.”—Christian Remembrancer.

A NEW EDITION of DAILY STEPS TOWARDS HEAVEN. A Small Pocket Volume,
containing a few Practical Thoughts on the Gospel History; with Texts for
every Day in the Year, commencing with Advent. Fifth Edition. In roan
binding, gilt edges, 2s. 6d.

DESCRIPTIONS OF CANAAN; being an Account of the Mountains, Rivers, and
Towns of the Holy Land. By the REV. C. P. WILBRAHAM. Fcap. 8vo., with
Map, cloth, 1s.

*** This Manual is particularly adapted to the use of Parochial
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TALES AND STORIES FOR CHRISTMAS.

OLD CHRISTMAS. A Tale. 16mo. 6d.

THE SINGERS OF THE SANCTUARY, and the MISSIONARY. Two Tales. By the
Author of “Angels’ Work.” 16mo. 2s. 6d.

ANGELS’ WORK; or, the Choristers of St. Mark’s. Second Edition.
2s.

ANN ASH; or, the History of a Foundling. A Narrative founded on Fact.
By the Author of “Charlie Burton,” “The Broken Arm,” &c. 18mo.
2s.

KENNETH; or, the Rear Guard of the Grand Army. By the Author of
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SPECULATION A Tale. By the REV. W. E. HEYGATE. Fcap. 8vo.
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PASTOR OF WELBOURNE AND HIS FLOCK. 18mo. 2s.

LITTLE MARY. Third Edition. 18mo. 1s.

HENRY VERNON; or, the Little Anglo-Indian. A New Edition. 18mo.
1s.

ADA’S THOUGHTS; or, the Poetry of Youth. Fcap. 8vo., cloth, gilt
edges, 2s. 6d. (Just Ready.)

SMALL BOOKS FOR PRESENTS.

THE PRACTICAL CHRISTIAN’S LIBRARY: a Series of Cheap Publications for
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LITTLE BOOKS FOR PRESENTS,

SELECTED FROM THE PAROCHIAL TRACTS.

THE PENNY POST for 1853 is now ready, bound in cloth, lettered, with
Frontispiece, price 1s. 6d.

JOHN HENRY PARKER, Oxford; and 377. Strand, London.

Printed by Thomas Clark Shaw, of No. 10.
Stonefield Street, in the Parish of St. Mary, Islington, at No. 5. New
Street Square, in the Parish of St. Bride, in the City of London; and
published by George Bell, of No. 186. Fleet
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Publisher, at No. 186. Fleet Street aforesaid.—Saturday, January 7.
1854.