phonetically the curious sound given by Irish speakers to the surname Ŏ'Farrell, which in Gaelic is written O'Fearghaoil, and by a rather violent contraction is colloquially reduced to one syllable, as it were O'Fraoil. The diphthong in O'Friel is meant to be pronounced in German fashion. In the place-name Abbey Leix, from Gaelic Laoighis, the vowels are reversed, and the Gaelic aoi becomes ei in English, but the sound is the same-Abbey Lees.

2

JAS. PLATT, Jun.

H. B. BURLOWE: P. F. CHENU. Mr. Algernon Graves in his 'Royal Academy Exhibitors, ii. 350, registers the exhibits of Henry Behnes Burlowe, a sculptor, at the R.A. 1831-3. From the section with the heading Last Days of William Behnes in Robert Kempt's Pencil and Palette,' 1881, p. 35, it appears that Burlowe was born Chenu :—

"The house in which the Behnes family resided was rented by a French sculptor named Chenn [an obvious typographical error for Chenu), a man of considerable ability. From him the second son, Henry, who afterwards assumed the name of Burlowe, picked up a knowledge of modelling in clay.'

The Chenu referred to was Peter Francis Chenu, who exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1788 to 1822; from 1811 onward his address was 23, Charles Street, Middlesex Hospital, which was also Behnes's address in 1817, but in that year only. These facts may be useful in preventing future con

fusion.

W. ROBERTS.

VERMONT, ORIGIN OF THE NAME: DR. S. A. PETERS. An Account of the Babtism [sic] of the Green mountain by the Rev. Samuel A. Peters, LL.D., Bishop-elect of the State of Vermont,' is to be found in The Balance, Hudson, N.Y., 15 March, 1808, copied from The Dartmouth Gazette. It purports to be taken from a MS. note in a volume written by Dr. Peters, who is said to have given the name of Verd-mont to the mountain in the presence of Col. Taplin, Col. Wiles, Col. Peters, Judge Sumner, Judge Sleeper, Capt. Peters, Judge Peters, and many other proprietors in that colony :"The Babtism was performed in the following manner and form, viz. Priest Peters stood on the pinnacle of the rock, when he received a bottle of spirits from Col. Taplin."

He then delivered a bombastic address, poured the spirits around him, and cast the bottle on "the rock Etam."

The whole thing reads like a hoax. The date of the occurrence is given as October, RICHARD H. THORNTON.

1768.

TOPOGRAPHICAL DEEDS.-I should like to draw the attention of fellow-topographers to the unique and valuable county catalogues of Deeds and other Documents now in course of publication in serial form by Mr. F. Marcham, of 9, Tottenham Terrace, White Hart Lane, Tottenham, successor to the late Mr. James Coleman the well-known antiquarian bookseller. Of these catalogues, the successive issues of which are sent post free to applicants at the time of publication, that for Middlesex is now to over three thousand deeds dating from complete in eight parts, containing references the fifteenth century onward; and those for Surrey, Berkshire, and Buckinghamshire are in course of alternate monthly issue. It will, I think, be generally agreed that N. & Q.' than they obtain occasionally these catalogues deserve further mention in under the heading of Booksellers' Catalogues.'

WILLIAM MCMURRAY.

This celebrated prelate is embalmed in the HENRY COMPTON, BISHOP OF LONDON.— saying that St. Paul's was built by one architect (Wren), presided over by one Bishop (Compton), and had one Master Mason (Strong).2

22

22

Of this prelate, who had been tutor to the Princesses Mary and Anne, and had placed the crown on the head of King William III. and Queen Mary, Macaulay tells us that he was "cruelly disappointed at not receiving the See of Canterbury, which was conferred per saltum on Tillotson. Lincoln to Canterbury. Compton's claims Afterwards Tenison was translated from were undoubtedly great, and he had not died at Fulham in 1713, at the good old age shrunk from braving a tyrant's rage. He of eighty.

celebrated prelate. One, a full-length, is There are many fine portraits of this on the staircase at Castle Ashby, the stately home of the race; and my old friend Dr. where he was educated, has in his dining-room Magrath, Provost of Queen's College, Oxford, a portrait of the Bishop.

Many years ago I paid a visit to Compton before they became so great, and I can Wynyates, the old home of the family remember seeing in the hall window the arms of Henry VIII. impaling those of Aragon, showing that the house was built before the divorce. The little church is close at hand, and was then in a state of disrepair, the only memorial of the Comptons being a large hatchment of the family. Some ponds hard by were literally alive with fish.

of

Bishop Compton was the youngest son

the gallant Henry Compton, second Earl of Northampton, who fell at the battle of Hopton Heath, near Stafford, in 1642.

Macaulay has left a stirring description of the opening of St. Paul's after the Peace of Ryswick in 1697. He relates how Compton ascended the throne, rich with the sculpture of Gibbons, and thence exhorted a numerous and splendid assembly (History of England,' chap. xxii.).

JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

[This note was in type at the time of our old contributor's death. See ante, p. 40.]

sb., one of his talli-os," 1787; attributively, the tally-ho or Nimrodian style in literature," 1857; as name of a coach and four, here is seen the tally-ho so gay, 1825, coming home by the Safety Tally-ho,' 1831. As a verb, A fox was tally-ho'd breaking covert," 1812. The shout must have been in earlier unwritten use, and

may occur in literature, but it is not easy to say where; dictionaries, of course, ignore it; it is unrecognized by Bailey, Johnson, Todd, 1818, and even by Webster, 1828. Will sympathetic readers try to think of likely places for its occurrence, and send us the results of searches or suggestions? The corresponding French view - hulloa taïaut occurs in Molière, Les Fâcheux,' 1661, where it is used in deer-hunting, taïaut, voilà d'abord le cerf donné aux chiens "; and as a sb., “au milieu de tous les taïaux," in Madame de Sévigné, c. 1700. The French is often assumed to be the source of the English, and may have been, since, so far as evidence at present goes, it is known more than a century earlier ; but it has no etymology in French, and the origin is unknown; prima facie one would say it looks like an adoption of the English tally-ho, if only the latter could be found as early. J. A. H. M. Oxford. [The discussion of tally-ho at 8 S. xii. 65, 118, 192, 291, may interest SIR JAMES MURRAY.]

HORNBOOK TEMP. ELIZABETH.-Readers of N. & Q.' familiar with the hornbooks and grammars of the Elizabethan period will oblige me by explaining the following:

"I was fiue yeare learning to crish Crosse from great A, and fiue yeare longer comming to F. There I stucke some three yeare before I could come to q, and so in processe of time I came to e perce e, and comperce, and tittle, then I got to a ei o u, after to our Father, and in the sixteenth yeare of my age, and the fifteenth of my going to schoole, I am in good time gotten to a Nowne, by the same token there my hose went downe: then I got to a Verbe, there I began first to haue a beard: the I came to Iste, ista, istud, there my M. whipt me till he fetcht the blood, and so foorth."

A pleasant conceited Comedie Wherein is shewed how a man may chuse a good Wife from a bad," London, 1602 (British Museum C. 34 C. 53).

The edition of 1608 has: :

"There I stuck some three yeare before I could come to, and so in processe of time I came to e per se e, and con per se, and tittle.' I have consulted' N.E.D.' Groningen.

A. E. H. SWAEN.

SCOTCHMEN IN FRANCE.-Can any readers of N. & Q.' give me historical details on this important subject? Scotch noblemen have played a prominent military part in France since the fifteenth century; many of them settled definitely in France, especially in the "Orléanais." Has any book been published on the subject either in England or France ? I have a few notes on the following families: Rutherford, Hepburn, Fullarton, Stemple, Daldart (?); and should be glad to complete them and add new ones.

CHARLES NOUGUIER. Château de La Vallée, Château-Renard, Loiret.

THE HISTORY OF BULLANABEE.'-Can any of your readers give me the name of the author of The History of Bullanabee and Clinkataboo, Two Recently Discovered Islands in the Pacific'? It was printed for Longman & Co. in 1828, 12mo.

ALEX. H. TURNBULL.

EARTH GOETH UPON EARTH."-Can any readers of N. & Q.' tell me of cases in which this or similar lines are used in epitaphs or mural inscriptions? There is, of course, the famous Melrose Abbey inscription mentioned by Scott :

:

The earth goeth on the earth,
Glist'ring like gold, &c. ;

and several instances have been already cited in N. & Q.' (1 S. vii. 577; viii. 575; 3 S. i. 389). Two of these, in St. James's, Clerkenwell, and St. Martin's, Ludgate-the

Replies.

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION LISTS.

(10 S. xii. 490.)

THE publication of accurate division lists only became possible with the adoption of the present system of taking divisions, by which the two parties pass through separate lobbies, where they are counted by the tellers and their names noted by the clerks. It will be seen from the following descriptions of the older methods how impossible an accurate record must have been :

"Until 1857 a division was effected in the Lords by the not contents remaining within the bar, and the contents going below the bar: but in that year their lordships adopted nearly the same arrangements as those which had been in successful operation, for many years, in the Commons.”—Sir Thomas Erskine May,' Law of Parliament, eleventh ed., p. 358.

"Whilst the Commons sat in St. Stephen's Chapel, the separation of the ayes' and noes for the purpose of a division was effected by the retention of one party within the house, to be counted there, and by the withdrawal of the other party into the lobby, who were counted on their return into the house."-Ibid., p. 360.

The Commons' arrangements, referred to in the first of the above quotations, were adopted on 18 Feb., 1836, on the motion of Mr. Henry G. Ward. The gist of the argument for the change is contained in the following sentence from his speech :

"Everybody was aware of the inaccuracies that were to be met with in the list of every division that was now given in the newspapers; and by the plan he proposed, he was satisfied that an accurate list of names would be furnished."- Hansard's Debates,' Third Series, vol. xxxi. col. 562; 'Com mons' Journals,' vol. xci. p. 54.

The first division under the new system was taken on 22 Feb., 1836, on the second reading of the London and Brighton Railway Bill (Hansard,' col. 688; Journal,' p. 67). Hansard has the following note to the division list :

"This is the first division in which the names of the members dividing were taken down, according to Mr. Ward's plan (see ante, p. 562), and regularly forth, except one or two, when the House was in Committee, which case was supposed not to be provided for by Mr. Ward's Resolution, may be relied on."

entered in the votes of the House. The lists hence

On the last point Sir Erskine May (p. 370) explains that

The new method was adopted by the Lords on 10 March, 1857, when Earl Stanhope in moving the necessary resolutions said :

"The lists at present published in the newspapers contained constant errors and inaccuracies, could not be avoided under the existing system. of which frequent complaints were made, but which Some very interesting divisions were not recorded at all.". 'Hansard's Debates,' Third Series, vol. cxliv. col. 2112; Lords' Journals,' vol. lxxxviii. p. 548.

On 19 May, 1857, the first division under the new rules took place, the subject being the second reading of the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Bill ('Hansard,' vol. cxlv. col. 537; Journal,' vol. lxxxix. p. 37).

It may be worth noting that the Commons' division lists are not entered in the Votes and Proceedings issued on the morning Journal,' being merely circulated with the following each sitting. The Lords' lists are both appended to the daily Minutes of Proceedings and entered in the Journal,' but in slightly different forms. In the Minutes the lords of equal degree appear in alphabetical order, whereas in the Journal they are entered in the order of precedence shown by the Roll.

2

It will be seen from the above that, while the accurate, complete, and official publication of Parliamentary division lists is of comparatively recent origin, it was preceded by inaccurate, incomplete, and unofficial publication. It would be difficult to say to what date the latter goes back; so far as appears from the Tables of Contents, the first list in the Parliamentary History is of the division taken in the House of Commons on 24 April, 1716, on the motion to go into committee on the Septennial Bill that isolated lists were printed earlier. (vol. vii. col. 367). It is probable, however,

6

F. W. READ.

2

The practice of allowing Parliamentary debates to be published in the newspapers dates from 1771. See Green's Short History,' pp. 751-2. In his 'History of the Radical Party in Parliament' Mr. Harris gives the first printed list of members of the progressive party taking part in a division under the year 1793. W. SCOTT.

[A. A. B. also thanked for reply.]

6

2