Dalrymple, F.R.S., F.S.A., traveller and author, Lysons (vol. ii. p. 450), though later on (p. 453) he born 1737, died 1808. The others are Andrew writes, quoting as his authority Cotton MSS., Dalzell, classical scholar, 1750-1806; Andrew "The Knights Templars had formerly some posColtee Ducarel, LL.D., civilian and antiquary, sessions in this parish. In the year 1233 they 1713-85; Adam Duncan, Viscount Duncan, 1731-purchased half a hide of land," &c. If this last 1804; and Sir Alexander Dick, M.D., physician, date is not a misprint he contradicts his first asser1703-85. Particulars of the above-named will be tion, and we get twenty years earlier. found in the 'Dictionary of National Biography.' Some of them may be not at all likely, but I give the list for what it is worth. J. F. MANSERGH. Liverpool. ERRORS OF PRINTERS AND AUTHORS (7th S. ix. 261; x. 11, 131).-MISS BUSK at the second reference says printers often bind authors by hard and fast rules, and gives three instances affecting herself. She says that when she writes Raffaelle or Raffaello, the printers change the spelling to Raphael; and that when she writes "rime" the printers alter it to "rhyme.' I venture to offer the following explanation of such changes. When a name which may be spelt in more than one way occurs frequently in a newspaper or periodical to which various writers contribute, it is usual for one spelling to be adopted, and this is generally settled by the editor. If Miss BUSK were writing a book, her spelling of painters' names would be followed, I imagine, by her printers. The same remark applies to rime" or "rhyme." Some authors write such qualifying phrases with a hyphen, while others omit it. The proof-reader would in such a case insert or mark out the hyphen without thinking that he was injuring an author's feelings in any way, as many writers leave such details entirely to the printer. Personally I do not think a hyphen is needed, as the adverbial ending ly shows plainly that the following word is qualified by it; but this, as I say, is only an individual opinion. "Maiden-modest," quoted by MISS BUSK from Sir Theodore Martin, stands in quite a different position, as a noun does not usually qualify, or help to qualify, the succeeding word. JOHN RANDALL. TEMPLARS' HOUSE AT HACKNEY (7th S.x. 323).– Under this heading the information extracted from the Mirror of 1824-is this date correct ?—is not altogether trustworthy. The curious thing about it all is that where it is to be trusted it reads almost word for word like a crib from Robinson's History of Hackney, published in 1842, and where it is wrong it is Lysons and Robinson muddled. "The first mention of the village of Hackney is in the year 1253"—so says the Mirror and so says "About forty years afterwards [i. e., after 1253], in the year 1290, the village is recognized in a licence, preserved in the Tower, to erect a guild to the Holy Trinity and the Virgin Mary, granted to Henry Sharpe." -Mirror. This is all wrong. The second mention is in 1296. Robinson's note (vol. i. p. 1) thereon is "Record in the Tower of the value of ecclesiastical preferment, which was occasioned by an order from Pope Nicholas, that all benefices in England should be valued." It referred to the rectory and vicarage of St. Augustin (vide vol. ii. p. 1). The guild dedicated to the Holy Trinity and the Virgin Mary was not founded until 1477-78, when the king (Edw. IV.) granted a patent to Henry Sharpe, Simon Elrington, and John Elrington. Henry Sharpe was rector of Hackney from 1463 till 1487, when he resigned. "Their house, at the upper end of Church Street, nearly opposite Dalston Lane, existed until about seventy-five years ago (Mirror). Now this is given as a positive fact, whereas Robinson is most careful to print in italics that the house was supposed to have been their [the Knights Templars] house" (vol. i. p. 77), and adds : "It is an extraordinary circumstance that there is not at this day any authentic historical account of this structure to be found, though it was so conspicuously situated, and so interesting in its appearance: and it is said that this house never belonged to the Knights Templars." The drawing which is supplied of the building shows it to have been at one time a Renaissance house of some pretension. The remarks that it was included in the Hackney estate," &c., are all to be found in Robinson's History' (vol. i. p. 81), and a good deal elsewhere about John Ward, M.P. Beyond the fact that his house was opposite that of the Templars, he was in no way connected with the Knights. The Mirror would have been more original had it given us the history of some other "good man," and allowed Ward to be forgotten. H. G. GRIFFINHOOFE. 34, St. Petersburg Place, W. There is an engraving of this edifice in the Tyssen Library, Hackney. GEO. CHAMBERS, Hon. Sec. CHESTNUT SHAVINGS (7th S. x. 249, 330).So many times as I have inspected real chestnut wood I have not perceived its preservative quality. Unfortunately for CAPT. OLIVER's assertion as to the timbers of Greensted Church being pronounced to be of this wood, they are equally pronounced as being really of the English oak. Some years since I had a piece of the timber in my hands. Very fine-grained oak is often passed as chestnut. If any reader wishes for more information on the asserted use of it in buildings, he will find the subject well discussed in the Sessional Papers of the Royal Institute of British Architects (1) "Notes on the assumed use of Chestnut Timber on Old Buildings,' June, 1858, by W. Papworth; and (2) Oak or Chestnut in Old Timber Roofs,' April, 1878, by T. Blashill. W. P. DOGS FED ON GRAIN (7th S. x. 328).-I should doubt whether dogs have ever been treated as granivorous animals, but they have been fed on bread and biscuits, both of which are based upon grain. The "smale houndes" of the Prioress, in Chaucer's Prologue,' were pampered With rosted flessh, or mylk and wastel breed. But wastel bread was made of fine flour, and was good enough for the best of Christians, and too good for dogs, which were regaled on a special kind of bread composed of lentils. See Dr. Richard Morris's notes on the 'Prologue,' Clarendon Press edition, p. 123. ST. SWITHIN. Hounds, of course, have always been partly fed on ground grain. QUERIST'S reference to the Buccleuch mill reminds me of the old miller of Floaters, co. Durham, who was said to have made a fortune by grinding the corn (oats, &c.) for the hounds (1800-40) of that great foxhunter, Ralph Lambton, of Morton House. "Dogs should ́in general be fed upon a mixture of flesh and vegetable diet," says the Sportsman for 1841, p. 241. N. E. R. Herrington, Sunderland. Gervase Markham, in his 'Country Contentments' (ed. 1631) supplies some information on the subject of this query. He says :— "And here I thinke it meet to speake of a conuenient proportion of Food, for the maintenance of a Kennel of good Hounds: Wherein you shal vnderstand that three Bushels of Oates, or Barley meale, with halfe so much branne or Mil-dust, is a fit weekely proportion to keepe nine or ten couple of hounds; with a little help of horsedesh, if the Huntsman be any good husband, and paineful as he ought to be in finding out Horses, scraps, crusts, and bones, which almost abound in euery man's house of any worth or reckoning."-P. 19. Liverpool. J. F. MANSERGH. A considerable portion of the food of hounds at the present day consists of the best oatmeal, to say nothing of the universal practice of feeding with dog biscuit. F. H. THE BEAUTIFUL MRS. HARTLEY (7th S. viii. 229, 277, 311, 414, 495; ix. 395; x. 131, 378).COL. PRIDEAUX is no doubt right in assuming that Mrs. Hartley was never married, but as yet I have met with no clue to the gentleman who passed for her husband. Sir Henry Bate Dudley (see 'Dict. Nat. Biog.,' vol. xvi. p. 103) married, in 1780, Mary, daughter of James White, of Berrow, Somersetshire, who is stated to have been Mrs. Hartley's sister. Boaden, in his 'Life of Mrs. Inchbald,' vol. i. p. 34, mentions Mr. and Mrs. Inchbald numbering Mr. and Mrs. Hartley among their acquaintance, and that Mr. Inchbald seemed particularly attached to them. Though Mrs. Inchbald appears to have disapproved of their conduct, nothing is said, or even alleged, in absolute negation of their marriage; and again Moody, Garr. Corresp.,' vol. i. p. 476, writes, "She [Mrs. Hartley] is ignorant and stubborn; her husband is a precious fool, whom she heartily despises," &c. That the lady was Elizabeth White to the end of the chapter is pretty clear from the burial register; but though I have ransacked theatrical authorities far and wide, Mr. Hartley has always been as great a mystery as the husband of Mrs. Gibbs. ROBERT WALTERS. Garrick Club. RIVER DEE (7th S. x. 347).—The Dee of Kingsley's beautiful song, which is generally called 'The Sands o' Dee,' but which has no particular title in the romance, is the Cheshire Dee: "As I [i. e., Alton Locke] lay castle-building, Lillian's how with that picture of the Cheshire sands, and the wild air rang still in my ears, and combined itself somestory of the drowned girl, till it shaped itself into a song," &c.- Alton Locke,' chap. xxvi. REFERENCE TO QUOTATION WANTED (7th S. x. 326). The quotation from the story in Harper's April number to which NEMO refers is not from a New England hymn, but is the first line of the second hymn in Dr. Watts's second book. The doctor's original hymns were published in three books, which, without any supplement or addition, formed the standard hymnal in use among all the Independent and Baptist congregations down to the earlier years of the present century, both in this country and in the Puritan States of America. Dr. Watts gave to the Christian Church at large, as every one knows, some of the most beautiful hymns it possesses; but I venture to think the one in question is probably the most terrible in the English language. AS NEMO may not have the complete collection at hand, I send the first three verses of the hymn would disgrace the veriest plasterer, and described in a for his edification :— NOTES ON BOOKS, &c. Annals of the Artists of Spain. By Sir William StirlingMaxwell, Bart. A New Edition, in 4 vols. (Nimmo.) WITHOUT claiming to rank as classics, the works of Sir William Stirling-Maxwell occupy a high and well-merited popularity. To the exceptional beauty of their get-up, as much as to their literary claims, it is due that they have been subjects of eager competition at the book auctions, where, within the last year or two, copies of the work now reprinted have been sold for prices ranging from sixteen to twenty pounds. Annals of the Artists of Spain' may claim to be the first English work dealing with the subject in a manner at all commensurate with its importance. Early compilations by Cumberland and other writers were beneath contempt. In France, even, no adequate attempt to deal with the pictorial treasures of Spain had been made at the period (1848) when the first edition of the book of Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, then Mr. Stirling, saw the light. By a long and systematic education the author prepared himself for his task, and his Spanish explorations were conducted under exceptionally favourable conditions. His books met, accordingly, with full recognition, and their value and authority have not yet been disputed or abridged. They have many recommendations, not the least of which is their sanity, the extravagances of modern æstheticism being in their time unknown. Besides giving a full list of Spanish artists, derived in part from personal explorations zealously conducted, and in part from the best Spanish authorities, they supply much light upon the conditions of Spanish life under successive sovereigns, in which Sir William has not hesitated to avail himself of the labours of the more brilliant and trustworthy of his predecessors. Always seeking to improve and enrich his work, the author left many corrections and additions, all of which, with his notes, are incorporated in the superb edition now published. In respect of England, at least, important changes have been made, and arraignment such as is involved in the statement that "into our unhappy national collection, lodged in a building that catalogue that seems to have been drawn up by an auctioneer, Murillo alone of Spanish painters has as yet effected an entrance," has to be modified. The chronological arrangement of the volumes by reigns of the monarchs has its advantages, and as an index of names is added at the close, the task of reference is simple. There is no temptation to deal with the qualities of a work which has passed safely the ordeal of criticism, and stands secure upon its merits. It is worth while, however, to insist on the fact that, while minute in detail and giving to every branch of Spanish art its full recognition, and every small artist has place in the galaxy, it commends itself by breadth of view and precision of characterization, and is not wanting in local colour. What adds special value to the new edition and gives it a supremacy over its predecessor, apart from the new matter of the author, is the addition of new illustrations selected by Sir William with a special view to the enrichment of his work. With its numerous wood designs in the text, and with its twenty-four steel and mezzotint engravings, it may claim to be in its class one of the most handsomely illustrated works in existence. Many of its plates are, moreover, as rare and difficult of access as they are intrinsically beautiful, and designs such as those of Domenico Theotocopuli, of his daughter, of Francisco de Ribalta and his wife from the picture in the collection of Sir William Eden, of Velasquez, and of his wife, are of extreme beauty and richness. The general title-page, repeated, of course, in all the volumes, gives a design for an altar by Alonzo Cano, drawn on stone and coloured. For the rest, the volumes have the general beauty of execution in all matters, typographical and the like, that have made the productions of Mr. Nimmo veritable and covetable works of art. A striking portrait of Sir William Stirling-Maxwell is prefixed to the first volume. The revised, and in part rewritten, paper on Velasquez, published separately in 1856, now takes its place in the book. Like all Mr. Nimmo's books, the work is published in a limited edition, and copies, it may safely be predicted, will before long be as much in demand as are those of the previous edition. English Leaders of Religion.-Cardinal Newman. By If the aim of Mr. Hutton's book was to establish the genuineness of Newman's life, he has entirely succeeded in that aim. His pulverization of unscientific attempts at criticism is delightful reading, and gives the writer a good text on which to build his exposition of Newman's depth of faith in the "Christian revelation and divinity of the ecclesiastical system." But surely in dealing with the greatness of the cardinal he has directly contradicted himself. "I suppose," he says, "that one may safely regard it as a standard of true greatness to surpass other men of the game calibre of culture and character......in the ardour and success with which any purpose worthy of the highest endeavour is prosecuted." Dr. Newman's ardour he proceeds to prove satisfactorily to entitle him to a place among the greatest. But what about his success? After describing the effort to establish the via mediathe road over mountains and rivers which has never been cut "-we are told that it was a gallant enterprise, but one that for all practical purposes failed. The road was never cut." Personally we should be disposed to dispute the major premise, that success in the highest aims is material to greatness; but certainly one of the writer's premises-or his conclusion-must fall to the ground. One or two minor faults of criticism may be briefly noticed, especially in the chapter dealing with the Essay on Development'; the example of Father Damien, for instance, to show that the Church of Rome fails under the first of the seven tests, is hardly fair. The world "humbles itself" before such an "apostle and martyr," not owing to any particular width of religious views, but obviously from the broader basis of instinctive sympathy and admiration. Again, the "entente cordiale between the Roman Catholic Church of to-day and various other churches-an alliance against scepticism -is surely somewhat fanciful. However, such minor points of detail do not counterbalance the general worth of the book. Mr. Hutton's essay is admirable for the impartiality, the suggestiveness, and the "inspiration of selection" which characterize it throughout. · The Essays, or Counsels, Civil and Moral, of Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Albans. Edited, with Introduction and Illustrative Notes, by Samuel Harvey Reynolds, M.A. (Oxford, Clarendon Press.) WITH all the distinction of the Clarendon Press reprints there comes to us what, so far as the present generation is concerned, may be regarded as an authoritative edition of the Essays.' Scholars will always be thankful for the Harmony of Bacon's Essays,' with its presumed interlineations in Bacon's handwriting, and other editions have all their claims upon attention. Mr. Reynolds, however, is the latest in the field, and has profited by the labours of his predecessors. In a handsome library volume, with a fine and readable text, he publishes the fifty-eight essays. His prefatory comments are free from the idolatry of his subject which, natural as it is, interferes to some extent with enjoy ment in reading otherwise excellent editions of Bacon or accounts of his life. His words, indeed, constitute a sufficiently definite arraignment. The preface is, however, clearly expressed, eloquent, and convincing, and the notes and illustrations display a very wide range of reading. What the future has in store it is impossible to predict. For the present generation, however, Mr. Reynolds's edition is adequate. It is, indeed, in all senses a boon. The Collected Writings of Thomas de Quincey. By David Masson. Vol. XIII. (Edinburgh, A. & Č. Black.) THIS, the penultimate volume of the new and enlarged edition of the works of De Quincey, contains the most characteristic and the best known of his writings. At the head of these stands, of course, the 'Murder as One of the Fine Arts,' the irony of which will never fail to please. The curiously familiar and earnest style of the postscript is evident in The Spanish Military Nun,' which, translation as it is, repays reading. Early Memoirs of Grasmere ' is not less vivid. 'Sortilege and Astronomy, The English Mail Coach,' and 'Suspiria de Profundis' are also included. Mills Gayley and Fred Newton Scott, Ph.D. (Berkeley, A Guide to the Literature of Esthetics, by Charles U.S.), is the work of two American professors, and is issued as a supplement to the Report of the Board of Regents of the University of California. It is a pamphlet of 116 pages, and is the first of a series of handbooks intended to supply full information on the literature of æstheticism. The present instalment gives much interesting and important information. MESSRS, BLACK have issued a new edition of Waverley, with a prettily designed cover, as the first of a sixpenny series of the "Waverley Novels." It is a marvel of cheapness. To Mr. Sharp's series of "Canterbury Poets" (Scott) has been added The Poems of Owen Meredith, selected by Miss M. Betham-Edwards, who also supplies an appreciative introduction. A SERIES of "Memoirs of Mighty Men," published by Alfred Holmes, begins with lives of Bunyan, Luther, Knox, Livingstone, &c. They are illustrated, and are very cheap. Luke's Illustrated Handy Guide to Plymouth, Devonport, &c., is edited by Mr. W. H. K. Wright, F.R.H.S. It constitutes a pleasing and serviceable guide to spots of undying attraction and interest. MR. C. WISE announces, by subscription, 'Rockingham Castle and the Watsons. The publisher will be Elliot Stock. MESSRS. ASHER & Co. promise, in four folio volumes and an atlas, Olympia, the Results of the Excavations instituted by the German Empire.' Vol. IV., dealing with the bronzes and other smaller finds, and with a German text, will be first issued. The editors are Ernst Curtius and Friedrich Adler. Notices to Correspondents. We must call special attention to the following notices: ON all communications must be written the name and address of the sender, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. WE cannot undertake to answer queries privately. To secure insertion of communications correspondents must observe the following rule. Let each note, query, or reply be written on a separate slip of paper, with the signature of the writer and such address as he wishes to appear. Correspondents who repeat queries are requested to head the second communication "Duplicate." is Rabbinical. See Buxtorf ('Lex. Talm.,' s.v.). Numerous M. G. ("Lilith ").-The legend of Adam's first wife other references will be found in N. & Q.,' 6th S. viii. 248, 296, 354; ix. 5, 177; x. 40. W. R. S. ("Some Points in Latin Grammar ").-Consult Roby's 'Latin Grammar.' LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1890. CONTENTS.-N° 256. NOTES:-Long Parliament Member-Shakspeariana, 401 English Race and Poetry, 403-Tea in Cumberland-David 404-Hoxton-Thatching Groby Pool"-Amice-Caesarean Section-Rimer, 405-Universal Language-Italian Cities- given "Molesworth," although that name would naturally be at once suggested by the reference. The slight variation between Molesworth and Molsworth does not, however, help much, inasmuch as no member of the Long Parliament bore the latter name or any other approximating to it. There being no other allusion, either in the Journals or elsewhere, to this Mr. Molesworth or Molsworth, I had long been led to suspect a misprint in the Journals, a suspicion that the following further quotation from the same authority has now converted into a certainty: "Sept. 30, 1645.-Ordered, That Mr. Holsworth shall have leave to go into the Country." QUERIES:-* New English Dictionary-Sword Inscriptions Dr. Duport-John Sheehan-Scott and Gas-Sizes of Books-Joan of Arc-Labour Convulsions, 407-A Visit to Flanders'-Dwarfs-Mary Aitken-Recorder of Horsemonden-" Clothes made out of wax"-Jackanape's Charity -Hughes-White Cock-Arms-The Wiccamical Chaplet, 408-Date of Watch-Statute Law-Abbot Penny-Outside Car-Swastika-Royalist Compositions, 409. That the same member is alluded to at this reference as in the order for the 4l. per week REPLIES:—Gwydion: Flur, 409-Bickerton, 411-"Brown allowance on July 16th preceding can hardly be Lady of Rainham "-Brat-Shire Horses-Pleshy CastleMutiny of the Bounty-"Lead, kindly light," 412-Pro- doubted, although, beyond proving the existence cedure-Berkeley: Capel-Engravings of St. Saviour's- of a misprint in one of the two cases, the change Newton's Birthplace, 413-Babyland-Register, Registrar in the initial letter does little towards identifying -Metaphor-La France Maritime' Ambrose Phillips, 414-Amber-"Stinks of Billingsgate "-Corn-poppy-Folk- the man, the name of Holsworth equally with lore of Cats-Voyage autour de ma Chambre Political Molsworth being entirely absent from all lists of History of Africa-Study of Dante, 415-Scent of the Hawthorn, 416-New Words-Name of Ruskin-Egerton-Man- Long Parliament members. But the slightest acquaintance with the variation in the mode of spelling proper names in the seventeenth century, and especially the fact that the spelling was mostly governed by the sound given to the word, speedily suggested that the member intended by "Mr. Holsworth" was Michael Oldisworth, M.P. for Salisbury, a well-known member of the Long Parliament, whose name occurs repeatedly in the Journals, is sometimes rendered "Olsworth," and doubtless was always thus pronounced. sion House, 417. NOTES ON BOOKS:-Boase's Collectanea Cornubiensia'— Brinton's Essays of an Americanist-Murray's Handbook to Lincolnshire-Maskell's History of All Hallows Barking-The Christmas Carol.' Notices to Correspondents. Notes. AN OBSCURE LONG PARLIAMENT MEMBER IDENTIFIED. The suggestion of MR. SANFORD that Mr. In one of the earlier volumes of 'N. & Q.' Hender Molesworth, of Pencarrow, Cornwall, was (4th S. xi. 17) MR. J. LANGTON SANFORD the probable person who received the weekly asked for information as to the elections of allowance thus falls to the ground, as, indeed, it two members of the Long Parliament, Thomas all Royalists, and fought on the side of the king. would upon other premises. The Molesworths were Hanham and a "Mr. Molesworth," whose names appear in the Commons' Journals, but whose conIt is, therefore, unlikely that one of them would stituencies it had puzzled all his ingenuity to receive a pension from Parliament, or, indeed, be discover. No answer was given at the time to present in the House so late as 1645. On the either query. Some few months other hand, Mr. Michael Oldisworth was an outI was ago fortunately enabled at first to suggest, and after-and-out Parliamentarian, active on numerous comwards to conclusively prove, in the pages of mittees, a pronounced "Rumper," and retained "N. & Q.' both the constituency represented by, his seat throughout the entire course of the Parliaand the time of election of, Thomas Hanham; but the mystery as to Mr. Molesworth has remained up to this date. I now venture upon the following solution of this long-standing difficulty. The reference in the Commons' Journals alluded to by Mr. SANFORD in support of the membership of Mr. Molesworth, and the only place, I believe, in the Journals where the name occurs, is as follows: "16 July, 1645.-Ordered that Mr. Molsworth to have the allowance of Four Pounds per week paid to him out of the Revenue for his present Maintenance as other the Members have." It will be observed that the name is not actually ment. Although the identity between "C Molsworth " and "Oldisworth" may seem, primâ facie, farfetched, that it is nevertheless a fact I have now not the least doubt, and the foregoing reasons will, I think, go far to prove. W. D. PINK. Leigh, Lancashire, SHAKSPEARIANA. 'MEASURE FOR MEASURE,' I. ii.: THANKSGIVING BEFORE MEAT (7th S. x. 203).-In the grace after meat sung at "Election Dinner," when I was a boy at Winchester, occurred the petitions, "Face Reginam Salvam, Domine, Da |