The name Bevere has generally been re- Wellington's death, H. M. Wagner, the Vicar garded as a corruption of Beaver "eye" or of Brighton, called a public meeting and Beaver Island. There is an island in the proposed the restoration of the church as a Severn at Bevere, to which the inhabitants of memorial. The vicar claimed that his grandWorcester fled when the Danish forces of father's pupils included the young_Arthur Hardicanute plundered the city. Wellesley. Obviously, a Vicar of Rottingdean, first appointed there in 1792, could not have taught the Duke, who entered the army in 1787. H. DAVEY. In an alms record in Claines Church, in which parish Bevere is situated, the place is called Beverley, which, if the original name for Bevere, would mean Beaver Meadow. F. RONALD JEFFERY. Worcester. "MAN IS IMMORTAL TILL HIS WORK IS DONE (12 S. i. 388, 438).—It is interesting to note that this line, which has been the subject of much inquiry in N. & Q.,' occurs in James Williams's Ethandune,' in the sonnet on Hoorn '-interesting inasmuch as Hoorn (or Horn) has just received a new importance from the great sea fight, which (The Times tells us) will be hereafter known as the Battle of Horn Reef. Here are the closing lines of the sonnet :- Horn witnesses to-day, in view of such a success against such odds, that the fame of the power and heroism of the British navy is Montpelier Road, Brighton. The Wellington monument which now stands in the extreme south-east corner of the north aisle of St. Nicholas's Church, Brighton, is not a cross, but a structure something like a wedding-cake, 18 ft. high, surmounted by a four-cornered canopy containing an image of St. George. The base is hexagonal and has the inscription :— "In Memoriam | hæc sacrosancta domus | Maximi Ducis Wellington | qua ipse adolescens | Deum colebat | reædificatur." There is no date. There is some sort of inscription on a bronze scroll running round the marble pillar that supports the upper portion on the inside, but owing to the bad light and the cramped space it is impossible to read it without a ladder. Henry Michell, M.A., was Vicar of Brighton from 1744 to 1789. In spite of B. B.'s dogmatic denial it is, I think, obvious that the statements quoted by me refer to the JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. is done," and the "house of freedom" upbuilt. "Assaye. | Torres Vedras. | Vittoria. [According to Erredge the inscription round the Waterloo."] "immortal "--and will be so "till its work Canterbury. S. R. C. Iron Duke. "HONEST INJUN” (12 S. i. 389, 458).— That the vulgar pronunciation "Injun "is not recognized in the ' N.F.D.' is, I suppose, the fault of the present writer. It has been known for generations, perhaps since the earliest days in this country; but my notes run it back only a century. Here are a few examples : "I take this oppertunity of informin you the business of this county [Montgomery, Tennessee]. The people of Tenessee is antious to have orders commanded out for us to march against the injuns Salem Gazette, Aug. 28, 1812, p. 1/2. on the Wabash."-Letter of Col. John Cocke, in and sensible way, dropped the sentiment: Better "Old Major Bridger, in his peculiarly quaint not go fur. There is Injuns enough lying under wolf skins, or skulking on them cliffs, I warrant!' ......Circling and intermingling to confuse all aim, affecting retreat seemingly to break up their array, and by some ravine, gulch, cañon, or thicket to appear on fresh and better vantage-ground, they tion of the veteran Bridger, Where there ain't no approximate ubiquity, and fill the terse descripInjuns, you'll find 'em thickest.'". M. J. Carrington, Ab-Sa-Ra-Ka,' 1868, pp. 83, 183. Mrs. The expression "honest Injun" has long been in familiar use in this country-jocosely among grown-up people, seriously among boys. I have never seen an explanation of its origin, but offer the following guess. PARISHES IN TWO COUNTIES (11 S. ix. 29, 75, 132, 210, 273, 317, 374; xi. 421; 12 S. i. 450, 499).-There are some errors and omissions in the useful table at the penultimate reference. In Lancashire it is not Little Mitton but Aighton that is in the parish of Mitton in Yorkshire. In addition the township of Ireby is in the Yorkshire parish of Thornton in Lonsdale. In Cheshire the parish of Barthomley includes the township of Barterley in Staffordshire. The Cheshire townships of Wirswall, Marbury, and Norbury are in the parish of Whitchurch in J. J. B. Whether rightly or wrongly, treachery and dishonesty have from the earliest times been associated with the Indian, and he was regarded as beyond the pale of ordinary treatment. He was hunted with dogs, and bounties (popularly called "scalp- Shropshire. money") were offered for his scalp, there being a regular scale of prices, and the popular feeling was expressed in the saying: The only good Indian is a dead Indian." This feeling lasted in each community just so long as the Indian continued to be a factor. In short, an "honest Indian" was regarded as an impossibility, or, at least, as a rara avis. 66 If a man makes an out-and-out denial, it is in ordinary cases assumed that he is speaking the truth. But truthfulness is a late development, and a boy's denial is received with caution. If I say to a boy, Did you do so-and-so?" and he replies, "No," I may be doubtful and then ask, Honest?" He replies, Honest." If, still sceptical, I further ask, Honest Injun ? -as much as to say, "Are you speaking the truth as an honest Indian should?"—and he replies "Honest Injun," I feel confident that he is speaking the truth, for that expression is the boy's equivalent to a Bible oath. Boston, U.S. 66 66 ALBERT MATTHEWS. ROBERT SOUTHEY (12 S. i. 469).-The following, from William Howitt's Homes and Haunts of the British Poets,' 1847, though not directly supplying an answer, may assist : "[Southey's] mother's maiden name was Hill, and she had a half-sister, a Miss Tyler, with whom Southey was a good deal in his boyhood. He has left us a very minute account of his connexions and his early days......This Miss Tyler was rich and handsome, and lived......in Walcot Parade, SUSSEX WINDMILLS (12 S. i. 326, 453).— It is very sad to see the picturesque old 6 "Clayton Mills are the only ones now existing on the north escarpment, since Wilmington Mill was burned down, and, alas! these too have ceased working! One is a Tower, the other a 'Smock' Mill. Constable sketched the Tower Mill. In his day the other mill had not arrived! It was moved or brought from the Dyke Road in Brighton, and re-erected here." In The Saturday Review of Oct. 16, 1915' in an article Autumn on the Sussex Downs,, the writer states that an old shepherd at Clayton told him that he recollects when the lower mill was put up : "Brought all the way from Brighton; they tried to get it up the hill with horses, and they broke the tackling every time, 'cause they snatched, ye see: they drawed it up as steady." so they had to get oxen, ever so many pairs, and I think this shepherd must be a pretty old man to remember this, and I should be very glad if any of your readers can tell me the date of the removal of this mill. My uncle told me many years ago of the removal of a mill, and it may have been the Clayton Mill, for he made exactly the same remarks about the horses and oxen. There is no doubt about the fact that mills were bodily moved from one position to another about Brighton. In the Brighton Pavilion there is an original drawing showing the removal of the old windmill from Belle ANECDOTES OF MONKEYS (12 S. i. 166. 232, 338).-Nassau Senior's Biographical Sketches' (Longman), 1863, ends up with a chapter of Anecdotes of Monkeys.' It is a very slender affair. Waterton's Natural History Essays,' Buckland's Curiosities of Natural History,' G. J. Romanes's Animal Intelligence,' and Jardine's "Naturalists Library," vol. xxvii., all contain anecdotes of monkeys. In 1859 Cassell issued an anonymous volume, The Natural History of Monkeys,' and in 1848 a similar class of compilation appeared, entitled The History of Monkeys.' 187 Piccadilly, W. A. L. HUMPHREYS. The First Editions of the Writings of Thomas Hardy and their Values. By Henry Danielson. (Allen & Unwin, 2s. 6d. net.) A LITTLE work which. in some 40 well-printed and well set out pages, gives a careful description and collation of the first editions of all Mr. Hardy's works, together with a bibliography of the two collected editions which have thus far appeared. The present values of the various works, and a few notes as to the place and method of first appearances, as to the fortune of the several books at auction sales and a few other matters are added in each case. No doubt the values will change from one decade to another; at the present moment none of the prices recorded is sensational, and the highest are given for those lighter works which are of interest to the collector rather than the man of letters. The most valuable from this monetary noint of view would appear to be Desperate Remedies'; Mr. Danielson thinks that a good example of the first edition would fetch from 307, to 35. Next come the first editions of A Pair of Blue Eyes' and 'Under the Greenwood Tree,' which might fetch from 107. to 157. in a good copy. We are given interesting information as to where the original MSS. of some of the works are to be found. Of these 'The Dynasts' and Tess of the D'Urbervilles' are in the British Museum; A Group of Noble Dames' (incomplete) is in the Library of Congress, Washington: Jude the Obscure' in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; 6 The Mayor of Casterbridge' in the Dorset County Museum, Dorchester: Poems of the Past and the Present' at the Bodleian; The Trumpet-Major' in Poems in the Birmingham Art Gallery; and The the possession of the King at Windsor: 'Wessex Return of the Native' in the library of Mr. Clement Shorter. York Pewterers. Being a List of all those Pewterers who were Freemen of the City of York, or of the Pewterers' Guild of York, or were apprenticed to Freemen. 1272-1835. By Howard H.. Cotterell. Reprinted from The Link. (Gloucester, John Bellows, 3s. 6d.) THE main body of this monograph consists of a list of the names of York Pewterers-as described on the title-page-arranged alphabetically, and having appended to them dates, and notes of any informa tion discovered concerning them. We are inclined to think that a chronological arrangement would have been more interesting and more useful. It would have been convenient to see at a glance in which half-century, and by how much, the pewterers were increasing or decreasing in number; and also to have together the groups of con-temporary names. Still, this criticism apart, we must congratulate our correspondent upon having brought to a conclusion, and to completion, a bit of historical research which is certainly of value. It seems improbable that anything will he found to be added to it in the way of names, or much in the way of personal information concerning the pewterers themselves. The earliest of them was one William de Ordesale, who obtained his freedom in 1347/8; there areseven or eight more entries before 1400, and the largest number belong to the seventeenth century. The names which fill the greatest space are Bousfield (1567-1689), Cooke (1588 9-1652/3). Loftus (1661-1714), Richardson (1539-1668/9), and Rodwell (1677-1734/5). Three or four women's names occur as those of freewomen, to whom also apprentices were bound. Not many particulars of biographical interest are forthcoming: we learn that several of the pewterers attained to being City Chamberlains; that in 1599 a William Cooke was refused the freedom because he had not submitted an essay piece; and that a George Lockwood-who may not have been a pewterer. and has no date attached to him-once presented a mould to the Company; but there is not much else in the way of gossipy detail. Mr. Cotterell gives a separate list of the Searchers for bad ware chosen by the Company from 1665 to 1760, extracted from the York Pewterers' Company's Book of Ordinances, &c. The brochure is a thin crown 4to-of which only 100 copies have been issued is composed of 16 leaves of hand-made paper printed only on one side, so that the other may be used for notes, and is most attractively "got up." Manual of Gloucestershire Literature. Biographical Supplement. Part II. Bv Francis Adams Hyett and Roland Austin. (Gloucester, printed for the Subscribers by John Bellows.) THE second part of the Biographical Supplement, of which we reviewed the first part ante, p. 79, is chiefly remarkable for the careful, we might perhaps even sav exhaustive, bibliography of George Whitefield. This is a solid piece of work, which must have consumed a great amount of time and energy, and its whereabouts should be made a note of by those who are interested in the great preacher. It runs to nearly seventy pages, and deals with over four hundred items. About three-quarters of these are classified under separate subject-headings, and an index is given to all the titles and periodicals mentioned. There are, lastly, two chronological lists, the one of Whitefield's general works, the other of his sermons. Southey and Warburton have been competently tackled; and one of the best articles in the volume is that on the Parliamentary general Massey. The Barnard of Tunbridge Wells (Catalogue 108) earliest are two black-letter pamphlets of the year 1653, concerning the claims of the Irish Adventurers,' and the Arrears of Officers and Souldiers for the Settling and Planting of Ireland.' There are two connected with the Popish Plot in Ireland; several relating to political, industrial, and religious affairs at the beginning of the nineteenth century; a copy of 'The Ulster Tragedy' and of Mackdermot's Ghost'; and eight examples of Dublin printing from 1725 to 1756, bound together in an octavo volume. Another good and lengthy entry is that under Hannah More, in which, however, we looked in vain for any mention of the Hannah More Hall at has, among other books on our subject, a copy of Mr James Commin of Exeter (Catalogue 323) Bristol, which seems in itself as well worth record-W. Carleton's Traits and Stories of the Irish ing as could be a chapter or paper about the author, Peasantry' (1864), 158., and O'Kelly's Macaria and besides must have been the occasion of a certain Excidium, or the Destruction of Cyprus: being a amount of journalistic writing which belongs to the Secret History of the War of the Revolution in subject of Hannah More's bibliography. memoir, by J. C. O'Callaghan (Dublin, 1850), 88. 6d. Ireland,' edited, with notes, illustrations, and One or two of the modern items are somewhat more meagre than we might have expected. Thus there should have been some note of the two or three well-known books which Prof. Lloyd Morgan has to his name, and a note also of his late and his present positions in Bristol University; and it would have been just as well to give the married name of Amy Sedgwick. A slight notice of a person may sometimes prove not only of little use, but actually, by its very defects, misleading. However, as we began by observing, it is the modern notices which are thus in some places defective; justice on the whole has been done to the Gloucester worthies of the past. Subjoined to the main alphabet are a few pages of Addenda to Part I., a table of Persons and Families, and one of Localities, and an index of authors referred to. BOOKS ON IRELAND AND IRISH LITERATURE. ONE of the best books of Irish interest described in recent Catalogues is O'Hanlon's 'Lives of the Irish Saints,' which, in 10 vols., runs from January to October 21. This is to be found at Mr. Charles Higham's, and to be had for 61. (Cat. 544). Messrs. Heffer of Cambridge (Cat. 145) have several works worth attention on the part of students of the Irish language, thus:-Vols. I-XVI. of the Publications of the Irish Texts Society, of which early volumes are exceedingly scarce (with the revised edition of Vol. III., the set comprises 17 vols., and is offered for 81. 18s. 6d.); Standish O'Grady's 'Silva Gadelica, a collection of tales in Irish, edited from MSS. and having translation appended, 2 vols., 3. 10s.; from the "Grimm Library Kuno Meyer's Voyage of Bran' (17. 11s. 6d.). The Cuchullin Saga in Irish Literature,' stories compiled and edited, with Introduction and notes, by Eleanor Hull (17. 5s.), and L. W. Faraday's Cattle Raid of Cualnge.' 15s.; some half score monographs by Kuno Meyer Wood-Martin's two books on pre-Christian Ireland, and a goodly number of others. In the way of modern Irish literature we noticed that Mr. Horace Commin of Bournemouth (Cat. 58) has a copy of the collected works of W. B. Yeats in 8 vols. (1908), of which the price is 2. 17s. 6d. The political and social works relating to Ireland are fairly numerous, and among them not the least interesting are the tracts described by Mr. P. M. Mr. Murphy of Liverpool (Catalogue 205) has a edited by Grattan's son (1822), 17. 18.; and also copy of Henry Grattan's Speeches,' in 4 vols., four or five good Irish pamphlets of the turn of the seventeenth to the eighteenth century. Other works of which we made a note are Correspondence of W. Pitt and C., Duke of Rutland' (1842), 48., in the Catalogue (357) of William George's Sons of Bristol; and a copy of Vindicia Hibernicæ' (Philadelphia, 1819). offered for 38. 6d. in that of Mr. J. Thomson of Edinburgh.' The Athenæum now appearing monthly, arrange. ments have been made whereby advertisements of posts vacant and wanted, which it is desired to Publish weekly, may appear in the intervening weeks in 'N. & Q.' Notices to Correspondents. ON all communications must be written the name and address of the sender, not necessarily for pub lication, but as a guarantee of good faith. WE cannot undertake to answer queries privately, nor can we advise correspondents as to the value of old books and other objects or as to the means of disposing of them. CORRESPONDENTS who send letters to be forwarded to other contributors should put on the top lefthand corner of their envelopes the number of the page of N. & Q.' to which their letters refer, so that the contributor may be readily identified. BATH.-Forwarded to COL. FYNMORE. ATHENEUM CLUB.-Forwarded to MR. ALBERT MATTHEWS. CORRIGENDA-Ante, p. 487, col. 2, 11. 29-30, for "Daingean-in-Chuis" read Daingean-ui-Chuis.P. 495, Hymn-Tune Lydia'": Cobbin's initials should be J. I., not “J. T.” TWELFTH SERIES.-VOL. I. SUBJECT INDEX [For classified articles see ANONYMOUS WORKS, BIBLIOGRAPHY, BOOKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED, "A la Caroline," meaning of the phrase, 349, 415 Addison family, a tradition of, 408 Adjectives from French place-names, 399 Agnosco 429, 492 429, 492 agnostic," use of the words, and "agnosco,' use of the words, Ah, vous dirai-je, Maman?' song, c. 1800, 11, Alabaster panel, medieval, whereabouts of, 428 Alcester, pronunciation of the place-name, 58 "Alinement," spelling of the word, 246 Allen and Ferrers families, 84, 125, 156, 416 Allsworth (W.), artist, of Camden Town, 1854, 151, Almanacs published in Huntingdonshire from Alresford, Hants, fires at, c. 1620, 209, 294 American currant and Ribes sanguineum, 247 Amyand House and the Rider family, 349, 419 246 Anastatic printing, Edgar Allen Poe and, 13, 32 Anerley, origin of the surname, 228 Angiers, Abbey of St. Nicholas, and Spalding Anglican clerks in non-Anglican orders, 27 Annoyance, Jury of Annoyance, particulars of, Anonymous Works:- Advice to Sportsmen, 1809, by Marmaduke Agaynst ye Streame, 209 Annals of Sporting, 1809, by Caleb Quizem,' Ascanius; or, The Young Adventurer,1746, 369 Canadian Girl; or, The Pirate of the Lakes, 447 Espion Anglois,' 1779, 29, 78 Gentleman's Calling, 198 Ladies of Castellmarch, 53, 155 Masonic Portraits, by J. G., 1876, 168 Tale of the Raven and the Blackbird, 1715, Wanted a Governess, verses, c. 1845, 467, 515 Apron, Orange Lodge, Masonic symbols on, 169 |