admiration, noun=a peculiar mode of election at all-composed, adj. "O all-compos'd of excellent all-controlling, adj. "The all-controlling power of fate." M. Col.,' 114. all-spent, adj. Who, being a bawd, corrupts "Two audit-time, noun=time for casting up accounts. A slave that only smell'd of ink and counters, ....in the audit time."- D.M.,' III. iii. 73. back-postern, noun-back-door. Make out by some back-postern."- W.D.,' II. ii. 51. bag, noun (?). Everything that moves, he goes in fear of 's A fur gown'd cat....a black cow.... 'Cuck.,' II. ii. 98. collectionship, noun the lapse of time during compliment, noun=challenge. 66 I rather chose the hazard of my soul, Than forgo the compliment of a choleric man. D.L.C.,' II. iv. 12. connive, active verb to join for a common purpose. Please your lordships so to connive your judgments to the view."- W.D.,' III. ii. 27. (This sentence is uttered by a pedantic coxcomb.) The verb has the meaning of "to have a covert understanding with in the following texts, but is used intransitively: 1797, Lomax, Philanthrope,' No. 28, 222; 1831, Scott, Castle Dangerous,' II., 66 Dost thou connive with the wolves? 1850, Mrs. Browning, Poems,' i. 6, Who acts, connives With God." court-calumny, noun."One of Pasquil's paperbullets, court-calumny."-D.M.,' III. i. 49. court-delay, noun.....had spent Poth money and herself in court-delays." M. Col.,' 164. court-ejectment, noun expulsion from court. "Doth he make a court-ejectment of me?"'W.D.,' V. iii. 50. court-faction, noun.-" These strong court-factions .In the career oft break the riders' necks." - W.D.,' V. iv. 14. court-gall, noun a discontented courtier. sola, the only court-gall.' 'D.M.,' I. i. 23. court-game, noun fashionable game. "Tis court-game....as gleek. '—' D.L.C.,' II. i. 57. court-mist, noun-dreams of fashionable living. "I have remov'd this court-mist from her eyes."― D.L.C.,' I. ii. 69. court-promise, noun.-" Court-promises! let wise men count them curs'd!"— W.D.,' V. ii. 193. court-sport, noun.—“ ....nought so tedious as court-sport."- M. Col.,' 92. "Bo a bawd, adj. bawdy. "A whirlwind strike off these bawd farthingales."- D.M.,' II. i. 163. be-agued, adj. seized with a fever-fit. "I was be-agu'd, fearing....."- App.,' I. i. 40. bleat, active verb (?). On a personage in the play revealing his identity before a court of justice while on the bench, another exclaims, How the judges have bleated him!"-court-wisdom, noun=experience of court life. D.L.C.,' IV. ii. 478. bondslave-like, adv. =as becomes a slave. "In her most proper habit, bondslave-like."App.,' IV. i. 205. brine-wet, adj. wet with salt water. "All the pillow....was brine-wet with her tears."W.D.,' III. ii. 328. bring off, active verb to assist in a fight, to look to a combatant's safety. Not as the law of combat is, to stand Aloof and see fair play, bring off his friend, But to engage his person. Cuck.,' I. ii. 77. burial-plot, noun=burying-ground. A burialplot for both your honours."—'W.D.,' I. ii. 301. cantharide-monger, noun=a debauched man. 66 Ask all your cantharide-mongers that question." D.L.C.,' II. i. 144. chaperoness, noun a female guardian, a duenna. city-chronicle, noun. "As the city-chronicle court-tears, noun=false weeping. These courttears claim not your tribute to them."- W.D.,' V. ii. 225. "Wilt hear some of my court-wisdom? "- dagger-point, noun. "My dagger-point had cleft devolve, active verb to open by means of folding dilate, active verb to display. "The Monu- double-married, adj.=twice - wedded. "Being elm-body, noun the trunk of an elm. 66 'Two - Mon. eye-seeded, adj. =spotted with eyes like a peacock's tail. "Her eye-seeded robe."- Mon. Col.,' 160. fellow-murderer, noun=accomplice in a crime. Now you know me for your fellow-murderer." —' D.M.,' V. ii. 296. fence, intrans. verb (?). Fencing of a congey with arms and legs."- Induction to Malcontent,' stage-direction. fiery-still, adj. bold and gentle at once. Whose resolution was so fiery-still It seemed he knew better to die than kill. Mon. Col.,' 80. figure, noun a stage surmounted with performers in a pageant. "To give you better light of the figure, the chief person in this is Sir Thomas White."- Mon. Hon.,' 331. find out, active verb to win to one's wife. "In hope to find you out."-' Cuck..' I. i. 38. fore-path, noun a short cut. "The fore-path may advantage thee to meet 'em."- Cuck.,' II. i. 32. = forespousals, noun betrothal. "Divorc'd from her forespousals with Icilius."- App.,' IV. ii. 128. fort-bridge, noun= the drawbridge in front of a fortress, or a bridge fortified with a barbican. "Meet me at the fort-bridge."— D.M.,' III. iii. 75. forthcoming, noun custody. She is a virgin, sir, and must not lie Under a man's forthcoming. App.,' III. ii. 337. (The word is quoted only as an adjective with a similar meaning, 1565-73, to keep somebody forthcoming to keep in safe custody.) fraight, adj. fraught or freighted. Fraight with love and duty."-' D.M.,' V. i. 69. French rheum, noun the venereal disease. "Your French fly applied to the nape of the neck for the French rheum."- App.,' III. ii. 27. BON A. F. BOURGEOIS. (To be continued.) whom it was entrusted should be captured. Duquesne was far to the west, and had been in our possession since the preceding year. It was the first intimation to Amherst that Wolfe was before Quebec. The route to the rear and the Hudson, though long, was familiar to the rangers. Wolfe would not have given advice to Amherst as to his movements. The rendering of assistance might refer to the regret often expressed by Wolfe that, owing to some of the French frigates having escaped up the river, he could not with gunboats clear the route towards Montreal, and thus aid the other general. There may be traditions in the family of officers in one or the other of the armies, and I have not yet been able to find the family whence the dispatch came, although I am assured of its authenticity. Col. Howe, later a general officer, was at Wolfe's side in June, 1759. DAVID Ross McCORD. Temple Grove, Montreal. A CON THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON: TEMPORARY LETTER.-The following extract from The Morning Post of 7 March may, I think, be deemed worthy of reproduction in N. & Q.' :— "A correspondent writes: Among the many interesting old documents which Mr. G. L. Courthope, the member for the Rye Division of Sussex, possesses is the following letter, which he has permitted me to copy and to send to the Morning Post for publication. It was written on the third day of the Great Fire of London, 1666, by the London agent or factor to the Courthope family, which owned extensive ironworks in Kent and Sussex. One of the few houses which survived in Leadenhall Street belonged to an ancestor of Mr. Courthope, Sir George Courthope, of Whiligh, a cousin of Mr. Alexander Courthope, of Sprivers, to whom this letter was addressed. The house survived until about 1878, when it was replaced by Africa House. The letter is as follows: "HONOURED MR. COURTHOP,-I must begg your pdon if I write nonsense, for I am in a sadd condition, my house burnt and all my other houses in London to ye valor of 150 S. And (?) but as have 5007. in S Robert Viners hands. to your Accompts & business all is safe, only I how they have disposd of your Cash I know not, but will make enquiry that soe I may supply your occasion as long as I am able you shaf be sure to heare from me next weeke when I hope to satisfie your desires, but truly sd. have it ye saddest glow that ever was seen and I believe there is'nt one house standing within ye walls except some few at Leadenhall Street & ffenchurch Street-it is still burning, and when it will cease none knows for which they scatter up & downe in all places. french Preists have a world of fireballs I saw one of their Balls this morning and there was taken 3 Bushells of them, soe that we can not ye PHIL MAY AND HIS BIOGRAPHERS.-Sir Henry Lucy in Sixty Years in the Wilderness (Cornhill Magazine, March issue) contributes some interesting reminiscences of Phil May, and states : 66 Generous to a fault, he was the daily prey of a large class of hanger-on at Fleet Street bars and late-night clubs. Anybody could get anything out of him by asking, and there were many who were not restrained by conscience in the matter." The true history of Phil May's struggling days has yet to be written. Not a few of those "who were not restrained by conscience" really helped him previously, when he was on the verge of starvation. Most of the published reminiscences of Phil May, the biography of 'D.N.B.' included, have been written by men who knew him only during his Punch days, and have little or no knowledge of the St. Stephen's Review period and the more shady days. It is not generally known that Phil May during more than two years of his life filled up a portion of his time with what is sometimes called " penny-a-lining." This 66 included reports of inquests, accidents, fires, and labour strikes at the Docks and in the East End of London. He rarely used his own name on the copy," but generally that of the better-known "liner," the late Mr. Walter Duncan. Phil received twothirds of the money for the " copy" used by the London newspapers, and Duncan the remainder for the use of his name. The accounts were always collected at the newspaper offices by Walter Duncan. ANDREW DE TERNANT. 36, Somerleyton Road, Brixton, S.W. 66 ALLSOP PLACE.-In the discussion on the demolition of Mrs. Siddons's house in Upper (see 9 S. ix. 224, 355) to this short turning Baker Street, reference was made in N. & Q.' off the Marylebone Road. From an interesting article in The Pall Mall Gazette of 12 March, The Development of Baker Street,' one is now able to identify the name as associated with Allsop Farm, along the boundary of which ran Upper Baker Street. We are further told that in 1820 the Yard of Allsop's Farm lay at the back of " the offices of Messrs. George Head & Co., This firm has now secured other premises in auctioneers and surveyors, in that street. the immediate neighbourhood after nearly a century's continuous occupation. Junior Athenæum Club. 66 Cow CECIL CLARKE. SAMUEL ANNESLEY.-The Guardian of 20 March contains an article headed 'New Light on the Wesleys,' in which the relations and his brother-in-law are described in the between Samuel Wesley, father of John, light shed on them by discoveries of docuof Samuel Annesley and his wife are quoted, ments in the India Office. The wills both and it would appear that he probably died about the year 1732. Tyerman's Life of Samuel Wesley' gives no hint of Annesley's being a married man, and says that account was ever received, either of his person "all at once he suddenly disappeared, and no or his property. The probability is that he was robbed and murdered." His will is dated 1729, and that of his wife, 1732/3, and in both the expectations of the Wesley family of legacies are utterly disappointed. Sir A. T. Quiller-Couch, in his novel Hetty Wesley,' speaks of Annesley's embarkation for England and sudden disappearance from his cabin, and of his being found afterwards as a begging hermit among the Indian hills. Is not this worthy of mention in N. & Q.' ? E. L. H. TEW. "July 9, 1706. Copy of report of the [Com of Revenue] Ireland to the Lord High Treasurer, as to the salary of Mr Thomas Knox. P. 448. Dated Custom House, Dublin, 9th July, 1706.” KING'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL.-King's College Hospital, recently demolished, stood on the south side of Portugal Street, and was founded in 1839, the buildings being on the site of the old workhouse of St. Clement "[? About Nov. 29] 1706. Petition of Thomas Danes, and of an old parochial burial-ground Knox, Esq., Surveyor General of the coasts of called the "Green Ground," which was about Ireland, for prevention of the export of wool a third of an acre in extent, the last recorded into France. Petitioner had spent about four interment being in 1850. Among the celeb-years and above 5001. in money on that service, which was all that was allowed by the Com and could not execute the office for 651. per ann., in Ireland.”—P. 473. rities buried here was Joe Miller, author of The Jest Book,' who died 15 Aug., 1738. A monument was erected to his memory, with an inscription said to be by Stephen Duck. This memorial, having become decayed, was restored in 1816. Many hundreds of coffins were unearthed during the recent clearance of this site; the remains are in a remarkably good state of preservation, and they are being enclosed in shells and reinterred at Brooklands Cemetery. Portugal Street was the last place in London where the stocks were set up, being on the north side of the street, facing King's College Hospital. Near the old burial ground was the " Grange publichouse, mentioned by Sir William Davenant in his Playhouse to Let' as a haunt of the players. This hostelry with its old and picturesque inn-yard was demolished in 1853, and its site absorbed by the Hospital. J. ARDAGH. "T. K.," AUTHOR OF PAMPHLET IDENTIFIED.—The Library of Congress has lately received a small pamphlet entitled "A brief Account of the Woollen Manufactury of England, With Relation To the Prejudice it Receives By the Clandestine Exportation of Wooll from Ireland into France [London: Printed for and Sold by A. Baldwin.... MDCCVIII.]." I do not know that the pamphlet is rare, but my reason for writing is that I think I can now furnish the author's name. The Appendix contains the author's reports on his Survey of the Southern Coasts of Ireland, in order to prevent the exportation of wool into France, signed "T. K." In the Calendar of Treasury Papers, vol. iii., 1702-7, there are several references which seen to establish that Thomas Knox, "Surveyor General of the coasts of Ireland," was the author of the pamphlet. Following are citations from the more significant items: "March 10, 1703/4. Letter from Thomas Knox to Mr. Secretary Lowndes, enclosing for the Ld. High Treasurer an answer to the Com of the Revenue's Report, relating to the discovery made by him of a correspondence held and a trade Carried on by sending wool from Ireland into France."-P. 241. So far I have been unable to find any biographical material regarding the author. It does not appear that the author's name has heretofore been discovered. The British Museum enters the pamphlet under “T. K." The work is not mentioned at all in H. R. Wagner's Irish Economics: 1700-1783. A Bibliography with Notes" (London, 1907); or in the bibliography contained in A. E. Murray's History of the Commercial and Financial Relations between England and Ireland' (London, P. S. King & Son, 1907). A. P. C. GRIFFIN. Library of Congress, Washington. Queries. WE must request correspondents desiring information on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct. "STACKFREED."-This word is used by antiquaries as the name of a contrivance (a sort of brake) employed in early watches for the purpose now served by the fusee, viz., to equalize the impulse given by the mainspring. The earliest instance of the word that I have found is in the article 'Fusée' in the Encyclopédie (1756), where it is spelt stochfred. It occurs in Berthoud's Histoire de la Mesure du Temps' (1802) as stack freed, and in Rees's Cyclopædia ' (1819), art. Clock,' as stack-freed. I should be glad to be directed to any earlier instances in English, or to receive any information throwing light on the history and original form of the word. Where can the writer in the 'Encyclopédie' have found it? Oxford. 6 HENRY BRADLEY. JOHN SWINFEN.-Could any reader tell me whether this member for Tamworth in the Long Parliament belonged to a Staffordshire family, or, as asserted by Capt. Anson in his Life of the Earl of St. Vincent,' to a Worcestershire family? If Capt. Anson is correct, what part of Worcestershire did he come from? ALFRED R. WOOD. GALE FAMILIES.-I shall be glad to Ceceive any information concerning WestCountry (especially Dorset) Gale families. More particularly, can any of your readers locate 1. Parentage and place of birth, c. 1734, of Robert Gale, yeoman, who married Rebecca, daughter of Andrew and Mary White, at Hilton, 6 Feb., 1759, by licence ? If, as I am informed, the marriage licences for the Dorset portion of the ancient Diocese of Bristol were burnt in the Chartist Riots of 1832, this source of information is closed. According to a fly-leaf inscription, Robert Gale went to Hilton 1756." He farmed there -which farm ("Upper or "Lower ") I do not know. Five children were born to Robert and Rebecca Gale at Hilton: the eldest, John White Gale, in 1760, and the youngest, Jonathan Gale, in December, 1768. Robert Gale afterwards went from Hilton 66 to Chaldon West, where he died 2 Aug., 1792, aged 58, his will being in the Blandford Probate Registry. His tombstone is in the churchyard at East Chaldon (Chaldon Herring), where he was churchwarden. Any other information concerning him will be welcome. 2. Marriage, between 1785 and 1794, of Jonathan and Sarah Gale? F. R. GALE. 103, Abingdon Road, Kensington. SHAFTESBURY'S JUDGMENT OF HERCULES.'-In his introduction to his edition of the Second Characters' of Shaftesbury (Cambridge University Press, 1914) Dr. Rand tells us that the essay A Notion of the Historical Draught or Tablature of the Judgment of Hercules' was first printed in French in the Journal des Sçavans for November, 1712, "a fact," he goes on to say, "which has strangely escaped the attention of bibliographers. I have looked in vain for the essay in the Journal des Sçavans for 1712; and I may mention also that it does not appear in the Bibliothèque Choisie of Le Clerc, who was to have been asked to get it printed. Can any of your readers tell me where it appeared in its French form? H. B. (2) "My camp is in the West."-A set of verses with the above refrain appeared in The Star many years ago. I should be glad to know the author's name, and if the verses ever appeared in a volume. WM. H. PEET. the following words ?—Where can I find the poem containing "God give us men at a time like this, men of great hearts, strong minds, true faith, and willing hands: Men whom the lust of office does not kill, I am told that they are from a poem by J. G. Holland, entitled 'Wanted,' but I cannot trace either the poem or the writer. ROBERT J. PATERSON. BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION WANTED.I should be glad to obtain any information about the following Old Westminsters :(1) Henry Haddon, admitted 1731, aged 14; (2) James Haldene, admitted 1737, aged 10; (3) Jonathan Hall, admitted 1718, aged 9; (4) Moses Hall, admitted 1741, aged 11; (5) Percy Francis Hall, admitted 1811: (6) George Hallam, admitted 1769; (7) Robert Spencer Hallet, admitted 1794: (8) James Hallett, admitted 1788; (9) John Hallett, admitted 1781; (10) John Douglas Hallett, born 1 Oct., 1805, admitted 1816; (11) Edward Halliday, admitted 1732, aged 10; (12) Nicholas Halpen, admitted 1740, aged 12; (13) Vanham Halt, admitted 1739, aged 13; and (14) William Halse, born 25 May, 1817, admitted 1827. G. F. R. B. |