BURRELL, CENTENARIAN.-The Whitehall Evening Post, No. 2446 (Tuesday, Jan. 1, to Thursday, Jan. 3, 1733/4), has the following announcement: "On Wednesday last died at Sangate [sic] Castle William Burrell, aged 107 and some months." I shall be glad of information. R. J. FYNMORE. Sandgate. AUSTRIAN MONEY COINED AT THE LONDON MINT. It is said that at the time of our occupation of Abyssinia we found that Austrian Maria Theresa dollars were the principal current coin among the natives, and, for the purposes of the expedition, the British Government sought to purchase from Austria a number of these coins. As they had become obsolete, the Dual Monarchy lent us the original die, and by its use the required sum of silver was struck at the London Mint. Was this done under any special Act of Parliament or Order in Council, and what was the total value of coinage so issued ? J. LANDFEAR LUCAS. NAPOLEON AND LORD JOHN RUSSELL.Mr. G. W. E. Russell, in his recent book on 'Prime Ministers and Some Others,' refers to the fact of his uncle, Lord John Russell, conversing with Napoleon in his seclusion at Elba." What was the occasion and object of this interview? J. LAND FEAR LUCAS. Glendora, Hindhead, Surrey "BAPTISTE MANTUANI CARMELITE.' I have come across a copy of this poetical work, a crown octavo book lacking the title-page. The only clue is the following memorandum by a former owner : "This book was printed in the second year of the reign of Henry VIII., and formed part of the library of that monarch, which is evident from the royal arms on the front cover, which in that form were only borne by King Henry VII. and VIII." There is a further note to the effect that "The autograph on the back of this leaf is that of Dr. R. Farmer, author of a celebrated work on Miracles, Demons, &c., to whom the book formerly belonged.' strong calf, gilt-edged, with clasped opening, gilded ornamental back, and distinctive lettering. At the bottom of the cover back is "Paris, 1507.” Can any one supply identifying particulars and title-page of this presumed early Parisian work? I should feel thankful for any details. ANEURIN WILLIAMS. Menai View, North Road, Carnarvon. [The editions of the works of Battista Spagnuoli, called Mantuanus, fill many columns in the B.M. Catalogue. Our correspondent's book would seem to be one of the two following, which are the only octavo Paris editions of 1507 recorded. The Catalogue entry of the first is :Begin. De calamitatibus liber i. Baatistæ. [sic] Mant. carmelite' Theologi....[end] In laudem Joannis Baptista pro natali Carmen. Co'tra Poetas impudice loque'tes Carmen. Impressi rursus in e'dibus ascensianis: [Paris,] 1507. 8vo. 1070. d. 4." "Sig. t This is supplemented by the note: iiii-R and aa ii. These fragments and the Adolesce'tia,' of the same date, apparently belong to the same collection." The other entry runs : "Adolesce'tia seu Bucolica Baptista Mantuani carmelita Theologi in decem e'glogas divisa et ad Falcone', &c. Ex e'dibus Epigra mata Ascensianis: [Paris,] 1507. 8vo. 1070. d. 3," with the note" Sig. AAA-HHH. Two early renderings in English are the following: The Eglogs.. .turned into English London, Verse....by George Turbervile, Gent. 1567," and "The Bucolicks....Translated out of Latine into English by Tho: Harvey, Gent. London, 1656." The above indications will, we hope, enable MR. WILLIAMS to identify his volume.] HON. LIEUT. GEORGE STEWART.-In Macclesfield churchyard is a gravestone which bears the following inscription : "Sacred to the memory of the Hon. Lieut. George, Stewart, 88th Reg., eldest son of Francis, the eighth Earl of Moray. Born at Drumsceuch, Edinburgh, Feby. 2nd, 1771; died in this parish, Nov. 19th, 1821, aged 50 years. Rest in Peace." To whom does this refer? Burke's Peerage for 1916 gives the name of the 8th Earl of Moray as James, but that for 1871 gives it as Francis. Francis, the 9th Earl, appears to have had twin sons born on Feb. 2, 1771, namely, Francis, 10th Earl, and Archibald; but no mention is made of a son George. CHARLES DRURY. 12' Ranmoor Cliffe Road, Sheffield. EDMUND CLERKE, CLERK OF THE PRIVY · Information wanted concerning SEAL. the whereabouts and contents of the will of Edmund Clerke, Clerk of the Privy Seal, who died c. 1587. The will is not to be House or at The volume for its venerable age has a found either in Somerset A. B. MILNER. comparatively fresh appearance; it is in! Winchester. LAKES PASCHOLLER The Tourist AND CALENDARI, been supposed by its possessor to be a NEAR THUSIS. 'Swiss salver, but its exact counterpart (with a London, 1816) at p. 145 says:different coat of arms) was on show recently in a loan exhibition and was described in the catalogue as a paten. I shall be grateful for information. (Miss) E. CRUWYS SHARLAND. "From Thusis the traveller should go to the village of Flerda, a league distant, situated at the foot of the mountains, and from there ascend Mount Heinsils, on one of the summits of which is the Lake of Pascholler. This lake is small, but very deep; on the approach of storms it boils in the same manner as Lake Calendari." Then, dealing with the Via Mala (at p. 146), the same authority states: "Two leagues from Ander is Lake Calendari which boils furiously on the approach of storms it is less than Lake Pascholler, and the ebullition which takes place is still stronger." Mount Heinsils is presumably Heinzenberg. Where is Flerda, and where are the two lakes? JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. (1) Charles, son of Richard Neate of London, who graduated M.A. at Cambridge in 1769, and died March 5, 1782. (2) Charles, who was admitted to Westminster School in 1780.. 25 Waldeck Street, Reading. "On a mount vert a stag current, gorged belonged to the father of the famous Bess of This crest with a chaplet of roses, all proper. Hardwick, ancestress of the Dukes of Devonshire. At Hardwick there is a remarkable table, made upon the occasion of her fourth (3) Richard, son of Richard Neate of Hor-marriage-that to the Earl of Shrewsburybury, Yorkshire, who graduated LL.B. at Cambridge in 1759, and died Jan. 25, 1817. (4) Richard, who was admitted to Westminster School in 1774. (5) William, admitted to the same school in 1745, aged 8. G. F. R. B. NEWMAN.-Can correspondents give me any information about the following Newmans who were educated at Westminster School? (1) John,. who graduated B.A. at Cambridge from St. John's Coll. in 1754, and was ordained in 1756. (2) Thomas, admitted in 1718, aged 14. (3) Thomas, admitted in 1742, aged 11. (4) William, admitted in 1715, aged 13. (5) William, admitted in 1718, aged 12. G. F. R. B. PATEN OR SALVER ?-Were patens originally designed for domestic as well as for church purposes? Is there any instance of a paten that was once a piece of Communion plate having been diverted from that sacred use and added to a collection of household silver? The paten in which I am specially interested is 13 inches in diameter, has gadroon border, London mark, date 1690. It weighs about 31 oz. avoirdupois, and has a coat of arms in the centre. This piece of plate has until lately and ornate with armorial bearings, representations of musical instruments, &c., inlaid in marqueterie over the entire surface of the table top. The date of the marriage was 1568, and the stag of Hardwick in profusion surrounds a central escutcheon bearing the verse : The Redolent Smle which modernized should be: The redolent smell of eglantine "The crest of the Sucklings is a stag current or, in the mouth a sprig of honeysuckle proper. Originally the stag was trippant, and the honeysuckle was absent; but the story is that Queen Elizabeth, when entertained at Norwich in 1578 by that town, conferred upon Alderman Robert Suckling the augmentation as a rebus on his name Suckling-colloquially the honeysuckle or woodbine. ild flowers, and the verse lays stress on the redolent smell.' Shakespeare, in Cymbeline,' (IV. ii. 223-4), follows with The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, Out-sweetened not thy breath; and in the couplet (Midsummer Night's Dream,' II. i. 251-2) Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine, he brings the eglantine and woodbine or honeysuckle together, if, indeed, eglantine did not itself combine both sweetbriar and woodbine within the poetic meaning. Evidently the idea was that the stag should exalt,' or make an offering of 'sweet savour 'to the divine. That side of the story is patent, but what was the story? Why was the stag, to say nothing of the stag current,' in each case, to make the offering of the sweet-smelling herb? I think that it was a story of the Elizabethan Court, and, not improbably, a poetic compliment to herself." OLD EAST ANGLIAN. "Go To EXETER : MURDER TRIAL.Can any one help me to trace a story which I read in The Guardian some years ago in connexion with a murder trial? In this the words Go to Exeter are the key; and the sheltering in a church porch (at midnight?) during a thunderstorm, when the church clock struck thirteen, was another leading feature. These points would stick in the memory of any one who had read the story. It appeared in the obituary notice of the gentleman who heard the voice in the night bidding him go to Exeter," and whose evidence was the means of procuring the release of the person accused of the murder. Some old subscriber to The Guardian who has kept his back numbers may be able to verify it. Variants of the story appeared in The Penny Post and in The Treasury, but it is The Guardian reference which I want if possible. J. B. OLDROYD. Brantingham Vicarage, Brough, E. Yorks. [The story of the sentinel at Windsor, whose life was saved through his hearing the bell of St. Paul's Cathedral strike thirteen, dates back to The Public Advertiser of June 22, 1770. See 5 S. ix. 87, 114, 138, 156, 178, 198.] Thackeray seems to take in about 20 years. Miss Pinnifer must be a good-humoured caricature of his bewildering friend Charlotte Brontë; and Miss Rudge might be Miss Margaret Fuller, or more probably Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe. W. A. HIRST. · CROW-FIG.-This old name for rux vomica does not occur under Crow' in the 'N. E. D.,' but I find it in a quotation from Dr. Robert James (Dr. Johnson's friend) 'Nux Vomica.' under I met with it recently in an article on the jubilee of the Pharmacy Act, 1868, in The Chemist and Druggist, quoted from a Poison Bill introduced into Parliament in 1757. The name is doubtless due to the fact that, as Gerard says, nux vomica was used as a poison for crows. I should like to know where it first appears and when it went out of use. Any other information bearing upon the subject will also be welcome. C. C. B. PRUDENTIUS'S 'PSYCHOMACHIA.' Can any of your readers inform me if the Psychomachia' of Prudentius has been translated into English verse? If so, by whom? This Latin poem is thought to be the foundation of the plots of all conflict themes in our old morality plays. WILLIAM TAYLOR. AND ANDREW B. WRIGHT, LOCAL HISTORIAN ACTOR.-Information is sought roAndrew B. Wright, who in 1823 published a garding the parentage, career, and death of useful History of Hexham.' He is traditionally said to have been a tragedian and the son of George Wright, also an actor. Alnwick. J. C. HODGSON. Essex Lodge, Ewell, Surrey. ORLINGBURY FAMILY.-Information is desired as to the whereabouts of court_rolls, &c., of manors in the hundreds of Hamfordshoe, Higham Ferrars, Nobottle Grove, Orlingbury, and Spelhoe, Northants. I shall also be glad to hear of stray wills, and to receive particulars of persons of the surname and its variants Orlyngbere, Orliber, Orlebar, between 1347 and 1560, especially the descendants of Sir Robert de Orlingbury, c. 1420, and his connexion, if any, with William de Orlyngbere of Norton by Daventry, c. 1485, together with the parentage of George Orlyngbere of Eaton, who died 1553. J. H. BLOOM. No. 601, 329 High Holborn, W.C.1. GRAVES PLANTED WITH FLOWERS.-When did this custom come into vogue in England? Mrs. Piozzi, on the tour in Wales with Dr. Johnson, wrote in her diary for Aug. 19, 1774: "In this churchyard [Bangor Cathedral] I first saw stuck with various flowers, a large bunch of a grave rosemary in the middle" ; indicating that nothing of a more permanent nature than the strewing.of flowers on the surface, to which Shakespeare and others allude, was familiar until the approach of the nineteenth century. AUTHOR OF QUOTATION WANTED. was W. B. H. Death, at the bedside standing, Replies. SIR WALTER RALEIGH, EAST LONDONER. (12 S. iv. 296.) 66 66 IN the remarkable Raleigh Tercentenary celebrations in London, when the Shepherd of the Ocean at length secured a place in the sun," there was nobody among the crowd of eloquent eulogists to recall that Sir Walter Raleigh had good claims to be counted as an East Londoner; that it was in Old Stepney that he was tutored for the great task of his adventurous life by his half-brother, who was a resident in what even then "the nursery of English seamen ; and that men, arms, and munitioned vessels were there assembled for some of his exploits, and notably for the last fatal expedition to find the source of the gold of El Dorado for the greedy, impecunious, and ruseful Scot who had succeeded to the throne of the Virgin Queen. When Sir Walter Raleigh sailed from Limehouse on his third voyage to Guiana, in "a pinnace named the Watte," he knew that landing-place on the Thames very 66 well; it was, in fact, only an industrial annexe of Old Ratcliff until the time of Queen Anne, when it was made into a parish. From 1573 to 1578 Sir Humphrey Gilbert, the famous Elizabethan soldier, sailor, discoverer, and colonizer-the halfment at Limehouse," for some reason not brother of Walter Raleigh-lived "in retirewholly explicable by any known records. That retirement ment from Court) was certainly not absolute, (with practical banishfor Gilbert relates that he lost the greater a smelting and coppersmith's venture in part of the fortune he got with his wife in Limehouse, along with, among others, Thomas Smith, who thought he had found a way of turning iron into copper. During the winter of 1574, when Gilbert was asked by a visiting friend how he spent his time in this loitering vacation from martial stratagems," the host showed sundry profitable and very commendable exercises which he had perfected with his pen." Now, one of these was Gilbert's Discourse for a New Passage to Cataia,' which was written partly in support of his petition of November, 1566, for privileges from Queen Elizabeth concerning the discovery of a North-West Passage to Cathay. It took ten years to get this perfected" MS. into print, and it seems to have been the chief incentive to the Queen's letter to the Muscovy Company in 1574, calling upon that body either to dispatch another oxpedition in this direction or to cede their privileges to other adventurers. The bearer of this letter was Martin Frobisher, to whom a licence was granted by the Company, Feb. 3, 1575, together with divers gentlemen associated with him. Out of this grew Frobisher's three voyages in search of a North-West Passage, which the local patriots of Old Stepney justly regard as East London enterprises, marshalled, manned, and stored in the old Port of London. When Sir Humphroy Gilbert got his charter from the Queen in June, 1578, it was not carried out as an East London enterprise, although, of course, Stepney seamen associates sailed under Gilbert's pennon; and with him were Walter Raleigh, his halfbrother, and several West-Country folk. And now, at long last, after the Raleigh tamasha has ended, it is conceded by the principal literary patron of the assembly that when Sir Walter Raleigh had schemes for the English empire of the sea, had projected a discovery of the North-West Passage, and dreamed of the occupation, in the Northern parts of America, of terri 66 tories for Queen Elizabeth, "his lodging In his interesting note Mc. mentions that was at Limehouse.' There he sat among Raleigh stayed at Blackwall. He also his maps and instruments," and his dwelling quotes the words of a Poplar antiquary, was at this time a resort of voyagers and writing nearly seventy years ago,' with venturers; Frobisher and Davis were part-reference to an ancient house near Globe ners in his researches, and Raleigh, we may Stairs and opposite the Artichoke Tavern, be sure, the aptest of learners." There is a which, according to tradition, was suclocal point of significance in the leading cessively occupied by Sebastian Cabot and journal's reminder that the royal charter Sir Walter.' The antiquary's description of 1578 granted to Sir Humphrey Gilbert, of the building, which follows, quite agrees Raleigh's half-brother (under whom Raleigh with the appearance of a picturesque old served against the Spaniards in the Low tenement of which I possess a view taken in Countries in 1577, and with whom he sailed 1873. It is described on the back as Sir in the first and less unfortunate expedition Walter Raleigh's House, Blackwall.' I will to Newfoundland), descended as by in- add that it has two gables of wooden boardheritance to the younger man whom Gilbert ing, and two lower stories of lath and plaster. helped to form. On March 25, 1584-a Each projecting story is supported by pregnant date in the history of the New massive carved brackets, those above having World and the Old-Walter Raleigh, now grotesque heads on them. I should think in the first stages of his greatness and high it was a good deal later than the time of in favour with Queen Elizabeth, obtained Raleigh. Can any one give me the precise a new charter of discovery and colonization address of this house, which in all probability in place of the old. He was to send many was destroyed before 1880 ? more expeditions to Virginia before his fortunes fell, to lose all, and still to hope. Like the Scottish hero of a later day, he deemed that He either fears his fate too much, For Sir Walter Raleigh, whatever his faults There are few who will dissent from Sir Sidney Leo's considered judgment that Raleigh, as an explorer no less than in his numberless other spheres of activity, was the victim of great ideas and great speculations boyond his power to bring to fruition: "Judged, however, by the influence of his work on the future, his endeavours in the fields of exploration and colonization towered above the rest of his achievement, and more rightly than any other Englishman may he be hailed as the prophet and pioneer of the British Empire." And so, sooner or later, we shall see Sir Walter Raleigh high on that Roll of Honour in enduring bronze (or gun-metal ?) which the London County Council design to upraise at Ratcliff Cross ere King Edward's Memorial Park at Shadwell-close bycomes into being, at the instance of our ilor King. Mc. PHILIP NORMAN. HENRY I.: A GLOUCESTER CHARTER. MAY I express my regret that for a con- The editor (W. H. Hart) of the 'Hist. et Cart. S. Petri Glouc. has treated the charter even more badly than MR. SWYNNERTON describes, for, in addition to omitting the highly important witnesses, he has miswritten Willelmus for Gislebertus (de Mineriis*), and printed "affuerunt" for afluerunt as to Adam de Port and William Fitz Otho-a ruinous change (cf. also "" monachos for monachis). So much for the date; but is there any reason why the modern spelling of Mynors should be adopted for magnates who certainly never * Les Minières, Department of Eure in Normandy. |