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WE have received the 1928 Report of the

Association of the late Rev. Dr. Bray and his Associates for Theological Libraries for the Clergy and Lay Members of the Church of England. Thomas Bray (b. at Marton, Shropshire, 1656; d. Feb. 15, 1730) founded his Association in the sixteen

nineties, before going to Maryland as Commissary for the Bishop of London. It is reported that the Dr. Bray Libraries have well maintained their usefulness during the past year. While seventy-eight libraries at home and eight overseas have received the grant, initial grants for the establishment of new libraries have been made at Barnet, Bishop Stortford, Harrogate, Liskeard, and Machynlleth. On the other hand four libraries have ceased to exist. The Associates administer a

Schools Trust from which £200 has been paid to negro schools in the Diocese of Nassau.

THERE is a note under London Day by Day' in the Daily Telegraph of July 8, which compares Sunday's public thanksgiving for the King's recovery with the rejoicings over the recovery of George III. Great part was played in the latter by illuminations, transparencies and fireworks; and after mention of this the question is raised Why illumination was not resorted to to express the nation's joy on this occasion also. The answer suggested is that London is now nightly illuminated, and that electric light has robbed us of the childish pleasure in extravagant blaze which those enjoyed who spent their winter nights by candle-light. Perhaps there are some losses to set against the gains of our modern inventions.

Two Hundred Years Ago.

From the London Journal, Saturday, July 12, 1729.

Acted but Twice thefe Nine Years. At the particular defire of several Persons of Quality.

Tuesday next being the 15th Day of July, will be reviv'd,

The History of BONDUCA With the Humours of Corporal MACER Alter'd from Beaumont and Fletcher. With the Original Songs, set to Musick by

the Famous H. Purcel. Alfo the Original Epilogue. Scenes, Habits and other Decorations proper to the Play. To which will be added an Opera (of One

And

Act) call'd,
PHEBE: or, The Beggar's Wedding.
With Entertainments of Dancing.
At Common Prices.

To begin exactly at Seven o'Clock. Places to be had at Mr. Cook's the Box

keeper in Play House Paffage.

The Company will continue to Act on Tuefdays and Fridays only, unless

Commanded.

Printed Books of the Opera will be sold at the

Theatre.

N.B. The House is extraordinary Cool.

To all Shopkeepers and Others. Whereas Mr. JOHN CLUER, Printer, in Bow-Church-yard, Cheapfide, London, is lately deceafed; This is to give Notice, that the Business of Printing &c. is now carried on by ELIZABETH, Widow of the faid Mr. CLUER, she having the same Hands to act for her, as her late Husband employ'd for many years;

Where Shopkeepers Bills and Bills of Parcels, are curioufly engraved on Copper; Alfo Marks for Tobacconists, Haberdafhers of Hats, &c., are engraved on Wood or Copper.

Labels for Surgeons Chefts, Apothecaries, Gro-ers, &c., may be had there, painted or plain.

Alfo Blank Receipts for Taxes, &c. Titles for Hungary-Water, Directions for Daffey's Elixir, and Spirits of Scurvey-Grass.

Likewife Club-Orders and Funeral Tickets. All Sorts of Pictures painted or plain, Lottery-Pictures for Children, Copy-Book Covers, and a new Round-Hand Copy-Book with the Copies set on the Top of every Leaf for Learners to write underneath.

*** At the abovefaid Printing-Office may be had all Sorts of Paper for Writing Mufick, fold cheaper than at any other Place.

Likewife Mr. Handel's Opera's, and many other Books of Musick, are there Engraved, Printed and Sold....

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Notes.

ABSTRACTS FROM SUFFOLK

COUNTY (MASS.) COURT FILES OF

THREE HUNDRED YEARS AGO.

FOR BOSTON, MASS., AND VICINITY.
(Hitherto unpublished).

FILE 1. Copy of the Ministers' Agreement with the (Massachusetts Bay) Company, 1628/9. Copy of two agreements, namely agreement by Francis Bright of Roiley" (Rowley) in Essex, "Clark," 1628/9 Feb. 2, with the Company of Adventurers for New England in America. Mentions the plantation at or near Massachusetts Bay in New England and "the Ministrie there." Also agreement of Mr. Francis Higgeson (Higginson) and Mr. Samuel Skelton, intended min

isters, with the said Company, 1629, Apr. 8-copied out of the (Record) book of the said Company. On the back of this paper is written: The accounts between Mr. Debete

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(Deputy Governor) Mr. Dudle (Dudley) and Mr. Bagerle with our juries verdict." (1638, June 5?).

There follows another copy of the same paper.

File 2. Agreement by John and Samuel Browne. Agreement signed by John Browne and Samuel Browne, 1629, Sept. 28. Mentions goods in the ship Talbott; a committee appointed the last Court (General Court, 1629, Sept. 19), between the Company of Massachusetts Bay in New England and them (sic) the freight on said goods and the payment for their passage "homewards."

"Coun

County of Kent." Mentions a town called "New Plimouth (1620). Mentions a rivulet called Cohasett alias Conahassett. Mentions Narragansett River. Mentions the Great Western Ocean. Mentions a place called Pocanockitt alias Sowoonsett. Mentions a place called Cobissecont alias Comasceconte. Mentions the river Kennibeck alias Kenebekeck. Mentions the "flatts at Nequamkike." Appoints, to give possession, Capt. Miles Standish, Edward Winslow, John Howland, John Alden. Signed in the 5th year of the reign of King Charles, by Robert Warwick, possession, etc., in presence of James Cudworth, William Clarke, Nathaniel Norton, Secretary. Attested as a copy by Thos. Hinckley, Governor.

2nd paper:- Copy of an extract from the same instrument. Attested by Josiah Cotton, Register. Attested as a copy by Timo Fales, Clerk.

File 4. Robert Wright sent prisoner to

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England, also freight on Ship Lyon. A letter in the handwriting of John Winthrop, Governor (not signed) mentions Kobt. Wright, "citizen and merchant taylor," of London, England, who had settled himself at Charlestoune (Mass.); had fled out of England for treason; had clipped the King's coin; and is sent prisoner by Wm. Pierce, master of the Ship Lyon, and endorsed Copy Lre to [his Lordship Chief Justice] de Wright, March, 1630." On the dorso is written an agreement as to freight on certain goods, etc., aboarde the Shippe Lyon now lying at anchor in the Bay of Massachusetts," made with the Governor and assistants, dated 1631, Feb. 14, signed only by John Winthrop, Govr., and in his handwriting.

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File 7. Order of the Town of Boston as to Land, 1634. Record of the Town of Boston (Mass.), 1634/5, Feb. 9, as to allotment of land. Mentions the Neck-Noddles Island, Mr. Maverick's grant. Mentions "to be alotted out by" Mr. Hutchinson, Mr. Cogan, Mr. Asamford, William Cheesborough, Mr. Brenton. Endorsed "Order of the Town of Boston-1634, Dec. 18."

File 3. Copy of Plimouth [Plymouth, Mass.] Patent to William Bradford etc., ass Jan. 13, 1629 (Two papers-one in two parts). 1st paper. Copy of grant by the cil established at Plimouth in the county of Devon for the planting, etc., of New England in America" to William Bradford (of Mayflower fame) and his associates, 1629, Jan. 13; recites the Letters Pattents" from King James (1620) Nov. 3, to Lodowick, Lord Duke of Lenox; George, Marques of Buckingham; James, Marques of Hamilton; Thomas, Earl of Arundell; Robert, Earl of Warwick; Ferdinando Gorges, Knight-and " divers others" not named. Mentions that the lands granted by said Letters Patents

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File 8. Copy of Records as to naming of Boston, Dorchester and Watertown, and as to bounds of Watertown and Newton (Mass.).

1st paper. Copy of record of a Court of Assistants at Charlestown, 1630, Sept. 7. That Trimountain shall be called Boston,Mattapan shall be called Dorchester, and the town upon the Charles River shall be

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MR. Compton Mackenzie, the novelist, is the grandson of the Rev. John Mackenzie, Huntingdon (born 1789,) who wrote a life of Calvin in 1809. Mr. Compton Mackenzie, in introducing his sister, Fay Compton's 'Rosemary,' gives (pp. 51-55) a brief account of his Mackenzie ancestors, whom he traces to the Rev. Bernard Mackenzie, the last Episcopalian minister of Cromarty (deposed 1690), who, he says, descended from Murdoch Mackenzie IV of Kintail. Bernard was the great-great-grandfather of the Rev. John Mackenzie, Huntingdon, who, like his father, grandfather and great-grandfather before, began his career by being connected with shipping.

was

A writer in the Aberdeen Journal in 1923 stated that these shipping Mackenzies "acquired a considerable fortune in London, having cornered the barges in the Thames," s," and that the family fortune was expended by the Rev. John hn Mackenzie, who founded schools

all over England, which, however, did not prove a remunerative investment." He became a minister, of what denomination I do not know, and was settled at Huntingdon in 1809. The only definite fact I know about him was that he wrote: 'Memoir of the life and writings of John Calvin, compiled from the narrative of Theodore Beza, and other authentic documents, accompanied with biographical sketches of the Reformation' (London: printed for Williams and Smith, 1809,

8vo, pp. xiv. + 396; preface dated Huntingdon, Nov., 1809). The names of 149 subscribers are given (pp. ix.-xiii.); they include John Alexander Mackenzie, Pentonville, and three copies to Rev. Thomas Morrelle (sic), Herts, after whom Sir Morrell Mackenzie, son of Dr. Stephen Mackenzie (1803-51), who was the elder (or eldest) son of the Rev. John Mackenzie, was named. John Mackenzie married Elizabeth Symonds, the great-aunt of John Addington Symonds. Tables of the descent of the Comptons, through John Mackenzie's son, Charles (1805-77), who took the stage name of "Henry Compton," appear in

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Who's Who in the Theatre.' According to Mr. Compton Mackenzie, David Ross, the actor (1728-1790), was a cousin of the Rev. John Mackenzie.

The Rev. John Mackenzie had a sister,

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Mary Jane Mackenzie, who wrote several books, including some of an educational character: 'Geraldine or Modes of Faith and Practice,' a tale in three volumes. By A Lady. (London: printed for T. Cadell and W. Davis, 1820, 12mo; vol. i. pp. xiii + 293 + [1]; vol. ii. pp. iv. + 285 + [1]; vol. iii. pp. iv. +256; price, a guinea). The preface is dated Jan. 13, 1802, In 1821 an issue of two volumes from the second London edition," was issued by Wells and Lilly, Boston: vol. i. pp. 290; vol. ii. pp. 302. The early Scots history of the author's family is partly drawn on, for the heroine, Geraldine Beresford, is the daughter of Edward Beresford, who married Margaret Campbell, the daughter of After her mother's a Highland minister. death she goes to live with her aunt, Mrs. Mowbray.

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'Lectures on Parables, selected from the New Testament.' By the author of 'Geraldine.' Second Edition (London: printed for T. Cadell, 1822, 8vo, pp. xvi. + 320). A fourth edition "by the author of 'Lectures Miracles," identical with the second, except for a change on the title page, was printed for Cadell in 1824. A sixth edition (price 8s.) is advertised in ' 'Private Life,' 1835. The lectures were designed principally to furnish such a familiar illustration and practical improvement of the subjects selected as may be useful to young persons of the higher middle classes of society, but the author indulges in the hope that the volume may not be wholly unacceptable to readers of maturer growth."

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'Lectures on Miracles, selected from the New Testament.' By the author of 'Lectures on Parables,' etc., etc. (London: printed for T. Cadell, 1823, 8vo, pp. xxx. + 328; preface dated June 6, 1823. A fifth edition (price

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8s.) is advertised in 'Private Life,' 1835.
'Second Series of Lectures on Parables
selected from the New Testament.' By Mary
Jane McKenzie (London: printed for T.
Cadell, 1833, 8vo, pp. viii. + 345 + [1]).

'Private Life: or Varieties of Character
and Opinion.'
By Mary Jane Mackenzie,

author of 'Geraldine,' 3rd edition, 2 vols. (London: printed for T. Cadell, 1835, 8vo, vol. i. pp. ii. + 360; vol. ii. pp. ii. + 391 + [1]).

Perhaps some readers may be able to add to these meagre details, especially in the shape

of dates.

JOHN MALCOLM BULLOCH.

PADRE FERNANDO DA SILVA, A HISTORIAN OF MADEIRA. Those English visitors to Madeira whose interests lie beyond the tennis-courts, the bathing-pool and the Casino, find the Elucidario Madeir

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5. Hugh, second Earl of Stafford, Phillippa, d. of Thomas Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick.

6. Katherine Stafford m. Michael de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk.

7. Sir Thomas de la Pole m. Ann, d. of Nicholas Cheney.

8. Katherine de la Pole m. Sir Miles Stapleton.

9. Joan Stapleton m. Sir John Hudleston. 10. John Hudleston, m. Joyce, d. of John

Prickley.

11. Andrew Hudleston, m. Mary, d. of Cuthbert Hutton.

12. Joseph Hudleston m. Eleanor, d. of

Cuthbert Sisson.

ense of Padre Fernando da Silva the indispensable storehouse of all the history and antiquities of the Island: and it is therefore worth while to signal to antiquaries this learned priest's model history of his own parish, which he has just published at Funchal with the title, Paroquia de Santo Antonio da Ilha da Madeira. Though he modestly calls it Alguns subsidios para a sua historia, it is in fact an exhaustive account of the district, including the many chapels formerly existing there, its natural features, 13. Andrew Hudleston m. Dorothy, d. of its ecclesiastical history, its place in Daniel Fleming. Madeira's somewhat stormy past, and biographical notes not only of its most notable vicars, but of many residents of note. Those who regard Padre Fernando with affection and esteem, like the writer of this note, will be glad to know that one of the best known British residents in Madeira, Mr. Harry Hinton, is presenting him with a clock for his church tower, which will bear the inscription:

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14. Andrew Hudleston m. Katherine, d. of Sir Wilfrid Lawson.

15. Dorothy Hudleston Edmund Gibson.

m. the Rev.

16. Edmund Gibson m. Isabel, d. of Wilfrid Hudleston.

17. Robert Gibson m. Mary, d. of the Rev. Thomas Atherley.

18. Edmund Gibson-Atherley m. Jane, d. of George Edward Stanley.

19. Jane Gibson-Atherley

Charles Jones, the Chartist.

m. Ernest

20. Llewellyn Archer Atherley-Jones, K.C., b. 1848, d. 1929.

C. ROY HUDLESTON.

APOSTLE SPOONS. Many have seen, but few possessed, specimens of these quaint little ornamental and serviceable objets d'art. And most, in both categories, must have wondered how they originated, and longed for an authentic explanation thereof. To all such the recent volume from the pen of Mr. Charles E. Rupert bearing the title 'Apostle Spoons: their Evolution from earlier Types,

and the Emblems used by the Silversmiths for the Apostles,' and issued by the Oxford University Press, will come, like the Waverand blessing

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Readers' Queries.

Here is a brief extract from this fascinating E. MONTI, SCULPTOR. The Dowager

work:

When a spoon bears the figure of one of the Apostles accompanied by his apostolic emblem it is called an apostle spoon. They

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appeared in England in the latter part of the The emblem is held in fifteenth century one hand, and usually a book in the other. Engish spoons always have nimbus on the head. In some cases this is pierced to represent rays of Glory. Occasionally there is the figure of a dove in low relief on the top, emblematic of the descent of the Holy Ghost... The earliest mention of Apostle spoons is in a will made in York in 1494. Accompanying the

twelve spoons there was the Master Spoon

with the image of the Saviour, holding in the left hand the emblem of the "Orb and Cross." This, with the apostle spoons, made the full set of thirteen. There are but five complete sets of English spoons known to the public, and of these but two have probably come down in their original condition... St. Jude was often omitted by the early painters to make room for St. Paul, and the silversmiths at times followed the same practice. St. Jude, otherwise Thaddeus, had for emblem a halberd with which he was said to have been killed in Persia, or a Latin cross; St. Paul a sword. In

scribed names were not contemporary. The "Abbey" set of thirteen spoons sold in 1903 for £4,900.

As to St. Jude's alleged martyrdom in Persia there is a conflict of opinion. A Syrian tradition places it in Phœnicia; while Nicephorus (H.E. ii. 40) makes him die a natural death at Edessa, in which city he is said to have founded a church. He is

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regarded by the commentators some Jeremiah of the New Testament. "The Abbey set of thirteen spoons is dark to me. J. B. McGOVERN.

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"COCK-TAIL."-To any readers who may be interested in the age of the word "cock-tail" perhaps the following will be of service.

Some time in the 'sixties-I think earlier than 1866-I heard a comic song on American drinks of which the chorus ran:

Stone-fence, a Rattlesnake, Renovator Locomotive

Pick-me-up, a Private Smile, by Joves its worth a fiver,

Colleen Bawn, a Maiden's Blush Cocktail
or a Flash of Lightening
Julep splash and sangaree, or else
Corpse Reviver.

A. HONEYSETT.

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Countess of Guilford has a charming, white marble, statue, fully 2ft. high, of her brother as a child, holding a rabbit in his arms; around the plinth on which the figure stands, and which is part of it, is clearly cut: "E. Monti. Sculptor. London. 1853." I have not been able, on her behalf, to identify this artist in the indexes of 'N. and Q.,' nor in any book of reference. What is known of him?

ALFRED WELBY, Lieut.-Colonel.

EVAN EVANS. Where can information be found regarding Evan Evans, who at the end of the eighteenth or early in the nineteenth century introduced the spinning industry into the Saxon Erzgebirge? There is a portrait of him in the Erzgebirge Museum in Schloss Augustusburg, near Chemnitz. He has no place in the 'D.Ν.Β.'

F. H. C.

SCOTT AND MARY PONSONBY.

In

'The Ponsonby Family' (1929), General Sir John Ponsonby says (p. 29) that Scott fell in love with Mary Ponsonby, daughter of John Ponsonby (1738-83), solicitor, Whitehaven, and dedicated several poems to her. Which are the poems? Again, he says that the incident is referred to by Lockhart, although no name is mentioned. Where is the reference? Sir John states that Major (Archibald) Gordon (1772-1841), whom Miss Ponsonby married, was riding at the head of

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a company of Highlanders when Miss Ponsonby first saw him. Major Gordon was in the Dumfries Fencible Cavalry and is dealt with in 'Gordons Under Arms' (no. 260). The Gentleman's Magazine (lxi. 169), noting the Major's marriage at Dumfries on Feb. 6, 1798, calls Miss Ponsonby, Margaret.

J. M. BULLOCH.

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A BORDER BALLAD. At the social gatherings of a learned society to which I belong, a well-known public singer has often entertained us with a ballad of which this is the refrain:

O Wullie's gane to Melville castle,
Bits an' spurs an' a',

He kissed the ladies a' fareweel

Before he ging awa'.

Wullie was an Armstrong from the Tyne, and about to start for Melville Castle, near Edinburgh. He greets in succession Lady

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