of getting your 'Books of Birds' sent by a safe conveyance I know not *** You'l see I have sent 3 Books *** I have only a few of these Books on hand for my particular Friends, for as soon as Mr. Mawman saw a specimen he ordered the whole Edition. The retail price is half a guinea." J. Mawman, Poultry, London (who succeeded C. Dilly, one of the London publishers of the first three editions of the Quadrupeds), is the only publisher besides R. Beilby and T. Bewick named title-page. on the Atkinson was evidently mistaken (as he was about the tail-pieces, since in only five instances are the tail-pieces that follow the birds in the previous edition placed in that position in this edition) when he stated that the price of this edition was 128. per volume, and that it did not sell well, at least as far as Bewick was concerned. What is the authority for the statements made by Atkinson and Bell that the edition did not sell well, and that a portion of it was destroyed? 66 LOCHOW. I shall be obliged if any reader of N. & Q.' can inform me whether, in the proverb It is a far cry to Lochow," cited in Scott's Legend of Montrose,' chap. xii., the last word is equivalent to Loch Awe. The Century Dictionary' writes "Loch Awe," but the novel "Lochow." AUTHOR WANTED.-I should also like to know to whom the line Nec licuit populis parvum te, Nile, videre, is attributable. G. M. H. P. ASHFORD FAMILY.- Information is requested respecting the family of Ashford. I am aware of the late Irish artist of that name; also of Mary Ashford, who was murdered by her sweetheart some seventy or eighty years ago, the latter being dealt with in a peculiar manner under an old and almost obsolete law; and of a branch settled at Deptford, co. Kent, and worthily Frederick Ashford represented by Mr. (b. 1829, living 1884), a well-known antiΑΥΧΑ. quary. South Australia. 3. The British Quarterly Review for November, 1845, p. 554. contains a review of the History of British Birds. By Thomas Bewick. 1845 (new edition). Blackwell and Co., Newcastle-upon-Tyne." (Mr. D. ing of this word, which relates to the watches PLUMPE " WATCH.-What is the mean on the borders? It occurs in Lysons's Magna Britannia,' vol. iv. p. xii (co. of Cumberland), under the heading of Regulations of the Barony of Gilsland,' as follows: Croal Thomson, in his 'Life and Works of Thomas Bewick,' 1882, p. 42, says the reviewer was the Rev. Dr. Vaughan; while Robinson, in his Thomas Bewick: his Life and Times,' 1887, p. 292, says the review was written by Thomas Doubleday of New-watch, being warned, upon paine to forfeit 28. 6d. That every tenante come to the plumpe castle.) As the edition reviewed is evidently that published by R. E. Bewick, watch in horse armoure and weapon in every That every tenante come to the plumpe and is dated 1847, how came it to be reviewed respecte as he is appointed to keepe. And what tenante as cometh to the plumpe watch and leaveth either horse or armoure behinde him, or bringeth not the weapon that he is appointed to beare, that tenante to forfeit 12d." in 1845 ? 4. According to the catalogue raisonné of the works of S. Leclerc by C. A. Jombert, Paris, 1774, "the illustrations of Esop (22 small ovals, without title) were engraved in 1681, but have not been used in any edition of the text." In Jackson's Treatise on Wood Engraving,' 1839, p. 534, it is stated that "many of the cuts in Croxall are merely reversed copies of engravings on copper by S. Le Clerc, illustrative of a French edition of Esop's Fables published about 1694." If Jackson is correct, a copy of the title of the edition referred to would WHITE LINE. be of interest. PRIOR BOLTON'S WINDOW IN ST. BARTHOLOMEW THE GREAT CHURCH. It is said that Ben Jonson refers to "Bolton with his bolt-in-tun." Can any one tell me where this occurs in Ben Jonson's writings? E. A. WEBB. 66 66 66 66 HORACE PEARCE, F.L.S.-The Biblio- and this I take to be a corruption of der theca Cornubiensis,' pp. 907 and 1305, Reveil, just as "die Emaille " is of the mentions some genealogical publications of masculine French émail" (formed after Mr. Horace Pearce, F.L.S., F.G.S. I am Bataille," Kanaille,' 'Medaille," which anxious to know whether Mr. Pearce is yet are justly feminine). Is it not more natural a ive (he was born in 1838), and if not, who to assume that the English borrowed their possesses his genealogical MSS. I should technical term from us? Then we are on bo very much obliged to any reader of firm ground; réveille has existed for cen'N. & Q.' who would lend me for perusal turies and still exists, whereas réveillez, as and speedy return Mr. Pearce's Table I.,' the name of a signal, is, to me at least, a 'Table II.,' and the Table showing the ghost-word, so long as no reference is Alliances existing between the Families of tendered. G. KRUEGER. Blake, Busvargus, Kempthorne, Pearce, Praed, Worth, &c.' These three single sheets were privately printed in 1874. J. HAMBLEY ROWE. 88, Grange Road, Bradford. BOY BISHOPS.-Can any reader oblige me with the names of any boy bishops of York M nster between 1416 and 1485, or of those of any date of Beverley? Also I shall be grateful for any information on the subject of boy bishops in addition to what is given at 5 S. iv. 501, 503. ARTHUR A. R. GILL. The Vicarage, Market Weighton. [See 4 S. vi. 491; vii. 21 (Boy Bishop of the Propaganda '); 5 S. v. 66, 112, 418; vi. 326; 6 S. ix. 348, 430 (Boy Bishop at Norwich'); 10 S. viii. 484; x. 506.] THE DIARY OF TIMOTHY BURRELL OF CUCKFIELD.-I should very much like to know if the above (1680-1720) has ever been published. If not, would the reproduction of this interesting and curious Sussex diary be within the scope of the Sussex Archæological Society's work? ALFRED CHAS. JONAS. "RÉVEILLE."-As the etymology of this word the N.E.D.' and the Concise O.D.' give the French réveillez. From the standpoint of modern French grammar this is a transitive form, meaning "wake up somebody"; "wake up!" must be rendered by réveillez-vous, intransitive. Whether in the Berlin. THOMPSON FAMILY.-Can any one having Thompson collectanea help me as to the parentage of (1) Thomas Pepper Thompson of Liverpool. merchant, and of Jamaica, born c. 1739 ? (2) Robert Thompson of Oakham, surveyor of taxes, born c. 1789 ? There is no reason to suppose that they were related. Kindly reply direct. PERCEVAL LUCAS. 28, Orchard Street, W. MISLEADING MILESTONES.-It does not still stand about the country indicating, not appear to be widely known that milestones measured miles, but the "customary" mile, which in some cases is about 1 measured miles. remain standing to-day. J. LANDFEAR LUCAS. NIXON TRACY.-Can your readers kindly tell me something of John Nixon, who addressed a poem to Somervile, included in the fourth (1743) edition of The Chace '; and also of J. Tracy, who wrote in For thee I quit the law's more rugged ways headed "Robert New York. C. H. Replies. DESCENT OF DARNLEY. (11 S. vi. 488.) MATTHEW STEWART, fourth (or twelfth) Earl of Lennox (1516-71), Regent of Scotland, was son of John, third Earl, by Anne, eighth daughter of John Stewart, first Earl of Atholl, half-brother of James II. John Stewart, third (or eleventh) Earl of Lennox (d. 1526), was son of Matthew, second (or tenth) Earl, by Elizabeth, daughter of James, first Lord Hamilton, and a niece on the spindle-side of James III. Matthew Stewart, second (or tenth) Earl of Lennox (d. 1513), was son of Sir John Stewart or Stuart, Lord Darnley and first (or ninth) Earl, by Margaret, eldest daughter of Alexander Montgomerie, Knight, Lord of Ardrossan. Sir John Stewart, Lord Darnley and first (or ninth) Earl of Lennox (d. 1495) of the Stewart line, was son of Sir Alan Stewart by Catherine Seton, probably a daughter of Sir William Seton, killed at Verneuil in 1424. Sir Alan Stewart (slain at Linlithgow in 1439) was second son of Sir John Stuart of Darnley, first Seigneur of Aubigny, by Elizabeth, daughter of Duncan, Earl of Lennox. was Sir John Stuart or Stewart of Darnley, Seigneur of Aubigny (1365 ?-1429), son of Alexander Stewart of Darnley by Janet, daughter and heiress of Sir William Keith of Galston. Sir Alexander Stewart of Darnley was son of Sir Alexander Stewart of Derneley. Sir Alexander Stewart of Derneley was youngest son of Sir Alan Stewart of Dreghorn. Sir Alan Stewart of Dreghorn was second son of Sir John Stewart of Bonkyl by Margaret, only daughter and heiress of Sir Alexander Bonkyl of that ilk. Sir John Stewart of Bonkyl was second son of Alexander. High Steward of Scotland, by Jean, daughter and heiress of Angus Macrory, or Roderick, Lord of Bute. Sir John's elder brother, James the High Steward, was grandfather of Robert II. A. R. BAYLEY. There is a genealogical table in Some Account of the Stuarts of Aubigny in France,' by Lady Elizabeth Cust. The pedigree commences with Alexander, High Steward of Scotland, great-grandfather FOURIER SOCIETY (11 S. vi. 250, 418, 431). -It was a society formed to carry out the elaborate, but impracticable communistic scheme formulated by François Marie Charles Fourier (1772-1837), a French Socialist, whose views differed in certain particulars from those of Saint-Simon and Robert Owen. He believed that while man was still ignorant of the laws that ought to govern society, he would eventually, through reason, discover and perfect a true method of organization, which he maintained would be found to have a mathematical or scientific basis. His most important work is his 'Théorie de l'Unité Universelle.' After his death several societies in France adopted his principles, but those that followed them exclusively proved unsuccessful. In the United States between 1840 and 1850 he had many advocates, who founded upwards of thirty institutions, of which the most notable was that of Brook Farm, at West Roxbury, Mass. None of them, however, was destined to take root in the country. See the article on Fourierism' in the New International Encyclopædia' (Dodd, Mead & Co., New York). San Francisco. N. W. HILL. THE TEXT OF SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS CXXV. AND CXXVI. (11 S. vi. 446).-I find no reference to jealousy in Sonnet CXXV. In this, as in the Sonnet immediately preceding it, Shakespeare is protesting the disinterestedness of his affection, its freedom from all worldly or selfish motives; it is not "the child of state," not "mix'd with seconds." And clearly he is defending himself from some charge of that kind, either originating with the object of his love or suggested to him by a third person. The last couplet of the Sonnet, as usually interpreted, forces us to accept the latter theory, which is on all accounts the more likely one. The slanderer may have been moved by jealousy of Shakespeare's hold on Mr. W. H., but it is the man himself, not his motive, that is the "suborn'd informer." Indeed, I do not see how jealousy could be said to be "suborned." In Sonnet CXXVI. all that is needed to make the second line perfectly clear is to print it as it appears in most of the modern editions I know : who in thy power Dost hold Time's fickle glass, his sickle, hour. "Fickle " evidently refers, not to the glass itself, but to the shifting sand in it. The "brittleness" of the glass has no significance in this connexion. C. C. B. Author and Publisher of this Book at the Stationers "They are also to be sold by Benjamin Harris Arms in the Piazza of the Royal Exchange and at his shop against the Kings Bench in Southwark." In addition to the facts given in the 40,000th number of The Times, it may be stated that the Stationers' Company received a search warrant, issued by Earl Middleton on 11 Nov., 1685, "to damask English Liberties or Freeborn Subjects Inheritance' and deface a copper-plate for printing off seditious figures or emblems entituled A scheme of Popish Cruelties, or a prospect of what we must expect under a Popish Successor,' which were issued at the house of Benjamin Harris near the Royal Exchange, London, Victualler." Arber's Stationers' Registers,' v. lv. At a period of bitter religious and political animosities and violent language, hasty judgments were formed and often expressed in harsh terms. John Dunton, a rival bookseller at the sign of "The Black Raven opposite to the Poultry compter, writing in his wrath, said :— "I should have been much concerned if Ben Harris had given me a good word, for his commendation is the greatest reproach that an honest man can meet with. He is so far from having any dealings with truth or honesty, that his solemn word, which he calls as good as his bond, is a studied falsehood, and he scandalizes truth and honesty, in pretending to write for it."-Dunton's 'Life and Errors.' However, when, in calmer mood, Dunton drew the characters of the most eminent men of his profession, he wrote upon Harris the paragraph given us by MR. ROLAND AUSTIN at p. 515. This is no place for panegyric, but one would like to invite a tender thought for Mrs. B. Harris, the "kind Rib who stood MR. by her husband when he was in the pillory to defend him against the mob. AUSTIN'S quotation is not, I think, quite accurate. been. In line 1 "was should be has In line 15 "invention" should be plural. In line 16 "allay" should be alloy; and in line 20 "ingenuous ingenious. should be A. T. W. JONATHAN KING AND HIS COLLECTIONS (11 S. vi. 483).-I believe that it was in a note by myself that mention was first made in N. & Q.' of King's collection of Christmas cards. He called upon me in the way of business in the early seventies, and in the course of the chat between seller and buyer I asked him if he had any very early valentines in his old stock, for I was at that time seeking some. His reply was in the negative, but he said he had specimens of nearly all that had appeared; and he was greatly interested when I told him that a relative of mine living in Southport had kept all the Christmas cards she had received since the sending of them had become general. I showed him several old valentines that I had collected, with which he was pleased. He was a very genial man, and in one thing and another I had business dealings with him, and was sorry when he left the road" in favour of, I believe, one of his sons. Worksop. THOS. RATCLIFFE. FIRE-RITUAL (11 S. vi. 489).-I do not think it either needful or desirable to interpret as a survival of fire-worship the practice, once universal in districts where sea-coal came not, of keeping fire constantly aglow on the hearth. Where peat or wood is the staple fuel, burnt on a hearth, not in a grate, no effort is required to ensure the red embers lying overnight, to be fed with fresh fuel in the morning. I have recorded elsewhere a picturesque instance of this occurring on my own property. I took an English friend to fish for trout on a moorland lake. Rain came on; we rowed ashore, and took shelter in the house of the worthy peasant who looked after my boat. As it was past midday, I asked his wife (whose name, curiously enough, was Hester Stanhope) to bake us some scones for luncheon. She complied willingly, went down on her knees, and began blowing away the top of the heap of white ashes on the hearth, thereby disclosing the live red peat below. My English friend was surprised. "I that thought," said he to the gudewife, fire was out. How long has it been alight?" had been fresh laid that morning. The He told me afterwards that he supposed it gudewife looked up at him from her knees, and said: "It's just seeven-and-twenty year come Marti'mas since Rab an' me cam to the hoose, and the fire 's never been oot sin' syne. CONSECRATION CROSSES (11 S. vi. 390, 451).-At Tideswell Church, Derbyshire, often designated "The Cathedral of the Peak," are two excellent examples of consecration crosses cut on the moulded shafts in the jambs of the doorway (on either side) at the south entrance of the church. They are about 5 ft. above the pavement, and are 4 in. in length with forked ends. Consequently they are somewhat similar in shape to a cross moline. Their perfect condition is doubtless due to the severity of the Peak winters, which necessitated the addition of an external porch shortly after the erection and consecration of the church, the consequence of which was that these crosses, instead of being, as when first incised, on the outside of the church and exposed to the weather, of them will be found on p. 45 of the fifth became protected. An illustration of one edition of my Tideswell and its Church * (Tideswell, Chapman). Wimborne Minster. JAS. M. J. FLETCHER. HUGH PETERS (11 S. vi. 463).-In the second paragraph of MR. J. B. WILLIAMS'S note on the early career of H. Peters there is a surmise concerning the origin of the family and the family name, including a suggestion that both may have had a Continental source. May I point out that in the early |