Sidor som bilder
PDF
ePub
[blocks in formation]

STR cousin Portugal Red

IR JOHN J. HANSLER.-A distant

،،

formation about the subject of a picture inherited from her maternal grandfather, the son of Cornish parents, who settled in that country. It is the portrait of an old gentleman," whose name is given on the back of the picture as: “Sir John J. Hansler, F.R.S., F.S.A., J.P. for Middlesex." Can any reader assist me?

23, Weighton Road, Anerley.

G. H. WHITE.

MARIA (HAMILTON) BELL, POR

TRAIT PAINTER.-She was wife of

Sir Thomas Bell, sheriff of London; sister of Wm. Hamilton, R.A.? As Mrs. Bell, she was an exhibitor at the Royal Academy in

1816; and as Lady Bell an exhibitor in 1819. What was date of her marriage to Thomas

Bell?

G. O'F.

MANOR OF CHALKWELL.-At clv.

،،

fellow, i.e., Thomas Maltby or Mawbye, who has a provision contract for victualling the army. 1544. Grant to Thomas Melby (Malby) and others of land in Yorks; lands belonging lately to Roche Monastery. [Roche is at Maltby, near Rotherham.] 1544. Maltbie has a contract to purvey cheese, etc., to the troops, 1545. Thomas Malby, of London, fishmonger, regarding victualling Calais and Boulogne. (Ref. Letters For. and Dom. Henry VIII.' edit. Brewer.)

Thomas Malby, mariner of Lynn Regis, 1559, would seem to be related to the Mauteby (Maultby) family of Norfolk. In 1477 ('Paston Letters') William Peacock, agent

no

or award Mauteby, writes to Sir John
Paston that "the herrings that should be
into Essex, are there by the Grace of God,"
while a footnote states that the connection
with Essex is not clear, as Paston had
manor in Essex. The Mallebys, however,
held Runwell, Essex, as early as 1253. Mar-
garet (Mauteby) Paston writing to her son,
John Paston, the younger (between 1466 and
1470), says: “I pray you commune with my
cousin Clere at London
see your uncle
Maultby if ye may, and send me some tidings
as soon as ye may." Who was this "uncle

Maultby"?-the printed pedigrees mention

no brother of Margaret Mauteby.

How was Thomas Malbye, of Lynn Regis,

206, I asked for the ancestry of Arthur Malbye, of London. I have since found that he was a son of Thomas Malbye, of Lynn Regis, Norfolk, as evidenced in a deed dated 1559, from Thomas Malbye, Lynne Regis, Norff.," nearest in blood and heir to Thomas Malbye, citizen and Alder- bye. He leaves man of Norwich, deceased, to Arthur Malbye, piscena, of London, his son." This deed mentions property in Bridge Street vel Fyshestreete, London, also the manor of Chalkwell, which seems to include property in Pritwell, Havering (?) Milton, Lachingdon, Eastwood magna, S. Fambridge by Fambridge, Thundersley and Leye. in the hundred of Rocheford, in com. Essex. Bondsmen signing are Robt. Bassett, piscena; John Gosling and Henricus Gardyner. Signature: C. Lording, notary.

related to Thomas Malby, of Dovercourt, Essex, called son and heir of Sir John Malbye, of Malbye Hall, in Lynn, Norfolk ? Why does this family use the arms, Argent three garbs or, generally conceded to be the on a bend gules between two cotises engrailed of the arms of the Norfolk family, Azure a arms of the Maltbys, of Yorkshire; instead cross or.? When did the Malbys obtain the manor of Chalkwell? It was evidently in Mariner, of the family as late as 1651, at which date there is a nuncupative will of Thomas Mal

..

The Thomas Malby to whom Thomas, mariner, was "nearest in blood” seems to be the following:

[blocks in formation]

Wife and child Sarah £58 a year out of the Manor of Chakewell. his sister Mary Frewin two wodds. Copyhold Margaret, daughter of called Stubrids and the great Fusser Feild to be sold and devided amongst my three sisters, except my eldest sister. To John Carley £25. Wife Sarah and Lambert Pitches to be my exex. Wit. Thomas Bringhurst and Benjamin Pitcher. Sarah Baker otherwise Malbye the relict. Proved in P.C.C. 14 Oct. 1651 by Power reserved for Lambert Pitches the other exor.-192 Grey.

Can any reader place the county in which "Stubrids " and "the Fusser Feild" were situated?

[blocks in formation]
[ocr errors][merged small][ocr errors]

THE ARETHUSA. In the coast-guard station at Coverack is preserved in a glass case a very fine model of a three-masted ship. It has single top-sails, the hull which is about two feet long is painted black with a broad white streak and is pierced for 28 guns all on one deck. I was told that it is a

a

model of the Arethusa which was captured from the French during the Napoleonic wars and brought into Coverack bay as a prize. The French crew was left on board for time, but on their giving trouble to their captors, they were taken ashore and confined in one of the big houses in the neighbourhood. While there the prisoners constructed the model which appears to have become the property of the owner of the house. In more recent times the owner bequeathed the model to the inhabitants of Coverack. Would readers of 'N. and Q.' help me to verify this story? Could this be the same Arethusa which fought La Belle Poule ?

A. H.

CANTON, ARTIST.-Is anything known of artist of military subjects named

an

Canton? I possess some fine plates by him of equestrian portraits of soldiers in full uniform, partly printed in colours and partly coloured by hand, evidently forming part of a book. They are signed and dated Canton, del et Sculp, 1810-1815." Published by Richard Evans, Whites Row, Spitalfields, London. They are of the fol

lowing soldiers: The Duke of York; Lieut.

General Sir Thomas Picton; the Prince of Orange; Lieut.-General Lord Linedock (Late Sir Thos. Graham); Lieut.-General Sir Eire Coote, K.B., K.G. and M.P.; Lieut.-General Sir Ralph Abercrombie.

LEONARD C. PRICE.

FPITAPH WANTED.-Some ten years or

so ago, I heard Mr. Nathan Stephen (referred to at clv. 428) deliver a lecture on 'Humorous Epitaphs,' and in the course thereof he quoted the following lines:

So, here my friends, as all can tell,
There lies the corpse of Dicky Dell;
In rakes and scrapes he bore the bell,
And now sure fate he lies in Hell.
So from his fate this warning take,
And do not make the same mistake,
Or else its sure and safe to tell,
You'll go to Hell like Dicky Dell;
And rest in flames you cannot quell,
And now my friends, I'll say farewell.

Can any of the readers of 'N. and Q.' inform me of the site where such epitaph is to be found?

F. Z. BEDFORD.

Replies.

"BILL” AT HARROW.

(clv. 442).

THIS name for a general call-over of the school in the schoolyard or elsewhere must have taken its title from the "bills" or lists of the school, used on this occasion for the purpose of reading out the names in "bill order." There are now printed "bill books," with the names in school order of forms. I do not know when these were first printed. There are in the Vaughan Library a large collection of MS. and printed "bill books," reaching into the eighteenth century. I take the following references from 'Harrow in Prose and Verse,' by G. T. Warner:

Walter Trevelyan in his diary, under date March 25, 1814, refers to " 2 bill," no doubt a two o'clock call-over. On March 2, 1815, he notes Dr. B. showed a bill of Harrow

،،

School for 1770." In extracts from the Autobiography of Dean Merivale, we find the dean recording the laying of the foundationstone of the new Speech Room in July, 1819. A bottle was inserted in which

[ocr errors]

was

enclosed a 'Bill of the School' for the quarter. The writing of the Bill was entrusted to two of the most meritorious boys who also wrote good hands."

The school song 'Here Sir!,' by E. W.

دو

Howson, is based on the calling of "bill," as the boys "cap and pass and hurry on.' The chorus is:

Here Sir! Here Sir! Here Sir! Here Sir! On the top of Harrow Hill.

Here Sir! Here Sir! Here Sir! Here Sir! In the windy yard at Bill.

Besides the "bills" called in the schoolyard, the speech room or the houses, there's also "cricket bill," an ingenious invention of E. E. Bowen, which takes place on the lower cricket-ground and is all over in a few minutes. The boys are collected in groups of five, opposite numbers on a fence, and a "shepherd" from each group stands forward and reports his group all present, or so many absent, to the master who passes rapidly along the groups, afterwards receiving reports of names of absentees from the shepherds.

There is a rota of "bill masters," upon whom "bill boys" used to be attendant. There are three "bill monitors" to control the orderly formation of the line in the "bill yard." The master taking bill"

[blocks in formation]

PARISH REGISTERS AND ACCURACY (clv. 386, 425).-І am interested to see this matter raised again, as I have laboured to effect something by concerted effort for years past, to no purpose. Your correspondent, MR. C. A. HIGGINS's suggestion, though admirable, is I am sure quite impracticable. Two years ago I advertised in the magazine of the Society of Genealogists inviting replies from any interested in forming groups to carry out, if not co-operative at least, connected work. I received no answers.

I am, however, ready to join any scheme, but I suggest that the first thing required is an accurate index of extant parish registers and the years they cover. For Scottish parish registers (which are all conveniently collected at Edinburgh) there is an official guide published just over fifty years ago. It gives the years in which births, marriages and deaths start, and notes any blanks or other noteworthy matter. On the whole it is

pretty a accurate, guiding a search.

and is of invaluable

help in

If something of the same sort existed for English parishes, how useful it would be! As I visualise it the guide would contain: 1. Lists of all extant registers with dates and notes as indicated above;

2. References to parishes that have been incorporated in others or ceased to exist;

3. Notes on the Bishop's transcripts in each case;

4. An indication where any registers have been printed or copied and if in MS. where they can be seen.

Most genealogists have a thorough knowledge of several parishes and the work involved in preparing the guide on these lines would really not be beyond the capacity of someone with energy, enthusiasm and patience if he could rely on the support of genealogists generally.

[blocks in formation]

،،

A. H. STANΤΟΝ.

CARDIGAN MSS." (clv. 444). These are at Deane House, Co. Northampton. See 'Feudal Aids, vol. iv., preface p. viii. A. E. S.

DONKEY AND ELEPHANT (clv. 350). The Republican elephant and the Democratic donkey were originated by the father of the modern American political cartoon, Thomas Nast (b. 1840, d. 1902).

The Democratic donkey made its first appearance in Harper's Weekly of Feb. 14, 1874. Nast was drawing for a Republican publication and the Jackass was used in the usual uncomplimentary sense.

The Republican elephant made its entrance in a cartoon printed in Harper's Weekly in November, 1874. The elephant labelled "Republican votes" was shown in a jungle, in rage sweeping aside the covering of a pit-fall prepared to catch it, lettered "Southern claims chaos." The Democratic Party was drawn as a fox or raccoon, while a braying Jackass in a lion skin represented the New York Herald. This would indicate that the Democratic donkey symbol had not become fixed at that time. The elephant's traditional intelligence and strength were the probable factors which moved Nast to choose it to represent the Republicans.

He

"Labor Cap"

The Tammany tiger was another Nast contribution to the American political zoo. introduced the square paper and "The Full Dinner Pail"-Republican prosperity-in Harper's Weekly, Feb. 7, 1874.

[blocks in formation]

T

MEASUREMENT OF WIND (clv. 389, In 1689 a gallon of wine was declared by 427). According to Haydn's 'Diction-law to contain 231 cubic inches. No other inch weighs only 252.286 grains. The Stan- HISTORIOGRAPHER ROYAL (clv. 389, dards Office report suggests "that in any 445). James Howell was not the only future legislation on this subject it may be Historiographer Royal." There is an

[merged small][ocr errors]

ary of Dates' (ed. 1902) the anemometer was invented in 1709 by Wolfius (b. about 1675, d. 1754). But Knight's Am. Mech. Dict.' (N.Y., 1876) says that the earliest anemometer was that of Dr. Crombie, 1667 and that Wolfius improved this machine.

"

It is written in Chambers' 'Cyclopædia' (ed. 1751). M. d'Ons en Bray [Louis Léon Pajot, Comte d'Ons-en-Bray, b. 1678, d. 1754] invented a new anemometer, which of itself expresses on paper, not only the several winds that have blown during the space of twenty-four hours, and at what hour each began, and ended, but also the different strengths, and velocities of each." This was before 1734.

Brooklyn, N.Y.

JOSEPH E. SANDFORD.

EDWARD JARMAN LANCE (clv. 389,

a

430). As the above married into family with which I am connected I can give your correspondent some details. The Lance family come originally from Ash in North Kent and from there spread to Farningham, Deptford. Greenwich, Lewisham, etc.

Edward Jarman Lance (son of Edward and Elizabeth) was born 8 Aug., 1788, at Lewisham and died 25 Oct., 1863, at Reading. He married into the Holding family long settled at Bexley and Crayford, and had eighteen children, the last of whom died only two years ago, aged 95. If your correspondent desires it a full pedigree is at his ser

vice.

THOMAS COLYER-FERGUSSON.

Ightham Mote, near Sevenoaks.

THE KING'S SHIPS: CALCULATION OF TONNAGE (clv. 423). -As shewn in 'N. and Q.' clii. 327, the old method of calculating the tonnage gave a greater carrying power to merchant vessels and an excess of burthen tonnage over actual carrying capacity for vessels of war. At cliii. 304 sufficient examples were given to show that 94 was the number of cubic feet in one ton burthen. The formula used for men-of-war from probably about 1689 or earlier, appears to be the correct form of the builder's Old Measurement, viz. :

[blocks in formation]

value is available.

It would appear that the original use of 94 cubic feet to the one ton burthen was found by treating the measurements obtained from the ship as though they represented the internal measurements of a cask. I have tried this with the several vessels mentioned at cliii. 304 and, working with the following formula, I obtain 92.25 cubic feet to the oneton burthen :

[blocks in formation]

or

B=Extreme breadth of ship
"bung" diameter of cask.
H=Half extreme breadth of ship or
diameter of head of cask.

I have used 231 cubic inches, and the number of cubic inches in a gallon required to produce 94 cubic feet to the one-ton burthen appears to be 235; so it would appear that

some allowance was made. There seems

little doubt, since each ship worked gives similar results, that the vessel was treated as a cask; but there is no authority as far as I know for saying so definitely.

I have used 277.274, although I am fully alive to the fact that an Order in Council of 28 Nov., 1889, and the Transactions of the Royal Society, 1892, pp. 331-354, gave 277.463 cubic inches as the value of the gallon. The Standard Gallon is an old measure built in 1824 or thereabouts, and it was intended, believed and admitted to contain 277.274 cubic inches. According to definition (10 lbs. of distilled water at 62° Fahrenheit) it ought to contain rather more, but it does not. Therefore the various Government Departments have serenely held on to the 277.274 value: an old Act (1824) which gave this as the actual number of cubic inches in the gallon was repealed, and this appears to be the only respect paid to the modern finding by the legislature. However, I find the following note was circulated to some Departments :

Owing to the uncertainty governing the question it was not deemed advisable in the Weights and Measures Act of 1878 to re-enact so much of the Act of 1824 as fixed the weight of the cubic inch of water at 252.458 grains.

The Board of Trade appears to have taken eleven years (1878-1889) to find that the cubic

دو

desirable to consider whether the new value for the cubic inch might not with advantage be substituted for the old and incorrect one. In some of the renderings of the above referred to definition, the expression "freed from air," sometimes put in italics, is amusingly misleading. It almost looks as if the freeing from air were the explanation of the difference between the two densities, but the process would increase, not diminish, the density. There was some controversy between the lawyers and scientists as to what the "distilled water" meant the lawyers held that freeing from air and such like doctoring was not permissible !

JOHN A. RUPERT-JONES.

Hydrographic Survey,
Southampton.

THE KING'S SHIPS: H.M.S. ALBION

،،

office of Historiographer Royal for Scotland, held at present by Professor R. S. Rait. I have not seen a list of his predecessors; but Principal Robertson was certainly one in the eighteenth century, and David Masson another in the nineteenth.

In answer to the question about Howell's monument in the Temple Church, Joseph Jacob's Introduction to his edition (1892) of the Epistolae Ho-elianae," p. xliv., may be quoted :

[ocr errors]
[blocks in formation]

last century.

was

(clv. 440). The date of the launch of Jacobs has an engraving of the monument,

this battleship is 21 June, 1898. I remember it well, as I was present on the occasion, and (from a distance) saw the unfortunate victims of the terrible accident in the water. It was a sad ending to an otherwise interesting sight. Her Majesty the Queen (then Duchess of York) performed the ceremony of launching; after which the vessel was towed to the Victoria Dock, where she remained

،،

Hic

in which the inscription differs in several
details from that given at 445 ante,
" usque must be "Huc usque" and, pre-
sumably, the archaic Heic," three words
later, is correct. But an inspection of the
actual monument must decide.

،،

EDWARD BENSLY.

If MR. ASKEW will refer to a biography of

while being completed until 13 Aug., 1900, George Payne Rainsford James, the novelist, he will discover another historiographerroyal.

when I saw her leave for Chatham Dockyard.

At that time my work took me frequently to the docks, and I remember seeing the Blenheim, Grafton, Theseus, Duncan, etc., as well as the warships Fuji and Shikishima (all during the course of construction) which were built by the same firm to the order of the Japanese Government.

[blocks in formation]

Upton.

R. B.

[blocks in formation]
« FöregåendeFortsätt »