big picture that was at the end of the Morning Room at Kenward, and which formerly hung in the great hall at Cheshunt. There was a picture of Peter Shaw in Turkish dress, squatting crosslegged, with a cup of coffee in his hand, at Cheshunt.' There is nothing to indicate a connexion between this Peter Shaw and the Jasper Shaw, merchant of Aleppo, whose name is mentioned in several of the Aleppo papers of about 1780, and whose marriage with a Greek woman in 1778 was attested by a'ertain Henry Shaw. See P.R.O., S.P.F., No. 70, Mr. Henry Shaw was apparently Vice-Consul at Latachia. Vbi Devs ibi patria Here he interred the bones of three children of the worshipful Iohn Purnell Esq. and Angela his wife. The said Iohn Purnell being Consul in the city of Aleppo, Syria, Palestine, for His Majesty the King of Great Britain, &c. and the High and Mighty Lords the States General of the Vnited Provinces of Holland, &c. ...... Here are deposed the mortal remains of | Nath. Will. Werry Esq. Three more lines illegible, and the date, which was 1841. Mr. Werry was the Consul of that period. Sacred to the memory of Rha Iou Skene | davghter of Jacobys Rhizos Rhangabe the devoted and beloved wife of Henry Skene Esquire. | British Consul at Aleppo. | She died at the age of fifty four on the 16th day of May. 1870. | Universally esteemed for her amiable and benevolent character. To the memory of George Smith. Assistant in the Department of Oriental Antiquities British Museum. Distinguished for his | knowledge of the ancient languages and history of Babylonia and Assyria. | Born 20. March 1840. Died at Aleppo while on a scientific mission 19 August. 1876. | This slab has been placed by the Trustees | of the British Museum in recognition of | his merit and great service in the promotion of Biblical learning. The slab has been broken in transport from England, and the two parts are set up side by side in the boundary wall of the cemetery.* A tomb on which the name "Brewer " is distinguishable is too much defaced to allow of any transcription. The date has quite disappeared. Written in English. Robert Condit Son of | Rev. W. W. and H. M. Eddy | Born Feb 1. 1853. Died July 7. 1853. A register book of births, deaths, and marriages, formerly in the Aleppo Consulate, is now preserved at the Public Record Office, London. Several of the entries in it are curious; it appears to have been started by the Chaplain, the Rev. Thos. Dawes, on his appointment in 1758. The deaths are as follows: 1758. July 19.-Mistress Booth, wife of Thomas Booth, merchant, "Both of them of the Anabaptists." 1758. 1758. 1758. Sept. 25.-Mistress An English lady." Elizabeth Usgate. Sept. 23.-Rev. Mr. Charles Holloway.† Oct. 30.-Francis Browne, Esq., at Aleppo."+ "Consul May 28.-Francesca Nicolette Edwards. 1781. Aug. 6.-Harriet Hays. Under the date 1770 is the entry "Rev. Robert Foster came to Aleppo 29 May,' after which occur records of persons abjuring the Roman Catholic faith, and embracing the Religione Anglicana," as it is called in one or two cases. 1776. 1779. 1782. 66 Jan. 25.-Moses Ishah, an Italian Jew, received into the English Church in the presence of the greater part of the English Factory, by the name of Eleazar, being 26 years of age. June 9.-Mr. John Hussey, Chaplain, came to Aleppo. June 10.-Mr. John Hussey departed. * Hamilton Lang in his book' Cyprus' (London, 1878, p. 334) states that George Smith was the discoverer of the ancient Cypriot syllabic mode of writing. "As there was no Protestant Clergyman at this time in Aleppo, the Funeral Service was read over the graves of the three above-mentioned persons by the British Cancellier, Mr. Jno. Brand Kirkhouse." In the same register book is a page devoted to the marriage certificate of Mr. John Boddington, who for a short period acted as Consul in Cyprus :— 1759. Aug. 10th. I performed the marriage ceremony according to the Church of England between Mr. John Boddington, Consul for his Brittanic Majesty at Cyprus, and Maria Françoise Rhymbaud of French extraction, in the Consulary house at Cyprus in the presence of William Kinloch, Esq., Consul of Aleppo, Mr. John Abbott, Mr. Edwin Sandys, Mr. James Willy, and Mr. Macleod. As witness my hand THO. DAWES. Nicosia, Cyprus. Account of Antrim, by Dobbs, 1683. Statistical Survey of Co. Antrim, Natural History, Round Towers, Antiquities, &c., with Observations on the Means of Improvement, by Rev. John Dubourdieu, many large folding plates, 2 vols., 8vo, boards, Dublin Society, 1812. History of Antrim, 1822. Coal Districts of the Counties of Tyrone and Antrim, by Richard Griffiths, coloured plates, 8vo, cloth, 1829. History of Antrim, by Kempton, 1861. ARMAGH. Dialogue, by Barton, Dublin, 1751. Lough Neagh: Lectures on the Petrification, Gems, Crystals, and Sanative Quality of Lough Neagh, and the Natural History of the Contiguous Counties, by Richard Barton, folding plates and maps, 4to, calf, Dublin, 1751. Statistical Survey of Co. Armagh, with Observations on the Means of Improvement, by Sir Charles Coote, Bart., 2 maps, 8vo, boards, Dublin Society, 1804. Historical Memoirs of the City of Armagh for 1,373 Years, by James Stuart, with illustrations, 8vo, boards, Newry, 1819. New edition, revised and largely rewritten, by the Rev. Ambrose Coleman, small 4to, cloth, 1900. Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Down, Connor, and Dromore, Taxation of these Dioceses, compiled in 1806, by Bishop Reeves, 4to, 1847. Ancient Churches, Armagh, by Bishop Reeves, 1860. Record of the City of Armagh from Earliest Period, by Edward Rogers, plates, small 4to, cloth, 1861. History of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh, by Rev. John Gallogly, crown 8vo, cloth, Dublin, 1880. Memoir of Armagh Cathedral, with an Account of the Ancient City, by Edward Rogers, crown. 8vo, cloth, 1881. Architect's Report of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh, by Rev. John Gallogly, crown 8vo,. sewed, 1886. Belfast Historical Collections relative to the Town of Belfast, from the Earliest Period to the Union, frontispiece, 8vo, half calf, Belfast, 1817. History of Belfast, by Mackay, Belfast, 1823. History of Belfast, by Benn, Belfast, 1877. The Town Book of the Corporation of Belfast, 1613-1816, edited from the original by R. M. Young, Chronological List of Events, and Notes, Maps, and Illustrations, Belfast, 1892. Historical Notices of Old Belfast and its Vicinity, edited by R. M. Young, with maps and illustrations, royal 8vo, cloth, Belfast, 1896. History of Belfast, by MacComb, Belfast. BENBURB. The Battle of Benburb, by Henry O'Tuohill, 4to,. 24 pp., privately printed, 1911. BOYLE. Annals of Boyle, by Dalton, 1845. BIRR. Picture of Parsonstown, containing the History of that Town, from Earliest Period to 1898, with its Description to the Present Day, by T. S. Cooke, plates, 8vo, boards, Dublin, 1826. Early History of the Town of Birr, or Parsonstown, with the Particulars of Remarkable Events there in More Recent Times, photograph frontispiece, 8vo, cloth, 1875. BLACKROCK (CO. DUBLIN). 'Hill's Guide, article by G. T. Stokes, Dublin, 1890. Brief Sketches of the Parishes of Booterstown, BRAY (CO. WICKLOW). Illustrated Plan of Bray, by E. Heffernan. BUTTEVANT. Historical and Topographical Notes on Buttevant, &c., by Col. J. Grove White, illustrated from photographs, Cork, 1905-11. WILLIAM MACARTHUR. 79, Talbot Street, Dublin. (To be continued.) domestic economy and the "remedies for or These personal details are well worthy of being rescued from oblivion. A genealogist might be thankful for the reference to "Mr. Edward Thorne, a Butcher, of Great Dealing, living at Little Gaddesden, in Hertfordshire, and who killed all or most of the Duke of Bridgewater's Beasts for his numerous family," though his only claim to mention by Mr. Ellis is due to the fact that he had an excellent cure for gout! If, perchance, a person of the name of Silcock has risen to fame or fortune, he may discover from Mr. Ellis's book that his ancestor was one "James Silcocke, of Hinton, nr Bradford, in Wiltshire," who, "being very much accustomed to eat Horse-flesh and Dog-flesh, and other disagreeable Things," undertook-for a wager probably—to eat a frog and a mole, and, being given a toad by mistake, "immediately died." The Hertfordshire historian may learn how the Recorder of St. Albans was cured of deafness, and how the landlord of The Bull Inn " at Redbourne fell ill by "Tippling Punch.” Without quoting further examples, it can be seen that the tabulation of these facts would be of real use. Many other old medical books of seventeenth-century date are full of references to patients, and to the successful treatment of their various ills. Some even give the place of residence and age of the person referred to, thus affording information that it might be difficult otherwise to obtain. In a subsequent issue I hope to give some further particulars of this source of genealogical and historical information, which, to my knowledge, has not been hitherto recognized. P. D. M. OLD MEDICAL BOOKS: THEIR VALUE TO GENEALOGISTS. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries there were few families which did not possess a dog-eared volume of medical lore, to which the good housewife referred when some obscure illness suggested the necessity for more stringent remedies than those emanating from the store-cupboard or herb-garden. BIRTHPLACE OF ARCHBISHOP BANCROFT Such volumes are of little value from a (1544-1610).-The 'D.N.B.' gives the birthmedical point of view, and are seldom consulted, except by the student of domestic | life of the past. They have, however, an importance which is not generally realized, inasmuch as they contain information of value to the genealogist and to the local historian. Let us take as an example William Ellis's Country Housewife's Family Companion,' published in 1750, discarded copies of which are to be found in the libraries of many country houses. The author lived in Hertfordshire, and his work treats of| place of Archbishop Bancroft as Farnworth, Lancashire, which is generally interpreted as the Farnworth near Bolton, but this is not correct. The Farnworth meant is near Prescot, Widnes, Lancashire. The Parish Registers date back to 1538, and contain the entry, in September, 1544, of the baptism of Richard Bancroft (Archbishop of Canterbury, 1604–10). He died in 1610, aged 66, and was buried at Lambeth. He founded the famous Library at the Palace there, and bequeathed it to his successors for ever. ARCHIBALD SPARKE, F.R.S.L. THE HOUSE OF NORMANDY. The following table shows the descent of the House of Normandy from Rägnvald, Earl of Mæren in Norway, ancestor of the Norman kings of England: SMOKING IN THE ARMY.-At the present time, when people at home, encouraged by the military authorities, are sending out tobacco by the hundredweight to our troops at the front, it is rather amusing to recall the Duke of Wellington's counterblast, which took the form of a General Order, in 1845:"G.O. No. 577. The Commander-in-Chief has been informed that the practice of smoking, by the use of pipes, cigars, and cheroots, has become prevalent among the Officers of the Army, which is not only in itself a species of intoxication occasioned by the fumes of tobacco, but, undoubtedly, occasions drinking and tippling by No issue. Henry II. Count of Anjou. (the first of the Angevin line). PATRICK GRAY. "TUNDISH"= FUNNEL.—A “ tundish is a wooden or metal article used, in the days when every farmer brewed his own beer or ale, to fill the casks when the brew was ready for tunning. The "tundish I so well remember was fashioned like a funnel, but it was made entirely of wood, the upper portion or dish with sides sloping to the funnel, which was inserted into the bunghole of the cask. Metal tundishes are still used for bottling and other household purposes; but the name for the tundish funnel seems to be quite lost. I do not find tundish " in any lexicon that I have. Sixty years ago every household had its "" tundish. THOS. RATCLIFFE. 66 66 Southfield, Worksop. 66 suc MORTALITY AMONG BARONETS. (See ante, p. 59.)-In your review of Burke's Peerage' you quote the editor as noting that in three cases the succession to baronetcies passed twice during the year 1914. This reminds me of an extraordinary mortality that befell the Northumbrian family of Loraine in last century. William Loraine, the sixth baronet, died, unmarried, 29 May, 1849, aged 48. His brother Charles ceeded as seventh baronet, and died 19 Aug., 1850, aged 43. Another brother, Henry Claude, followed as eighth baronet, and died 4 Jan., 1851, aged 38. Then the title reverted to the brothers of the fifth baronet, uncles of the three men who had so rapidly departed. Of these William, the eldest, ninth baronet, enjoyed his honours only eight weeks, and died, unmarried, 1 March, 1851, aged 70. His brother John Lambton, tenth baronet, held the title a little longer, dying on 11 July, 1852, aged 67. Thus in the brief space of three years and a quarter four heirs of the ancient house of Loraine had worn the family honours and departed. RICHARD WELFORD. Newcastle-upon-Tyne. PARKER FAMILY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE. The following is a transcript of a genealogical note concerning the Parker family, written on the end fly-leaf of a copy of Heylin's 'Help' (ed. 1671), which I met with some time since, and entered into my note-book. It may interest some of the readers of N. & Q.,' and is, perhaps, not unworthy of a place among the Notes. The writer's name did not appear : "I find by a letter written by my uncle, Mr. Daniel Parker, who was S.T.B. of Brazenose Coll. in Oxford, that his great [qu. great-great] grandfather, Humphrey Parker, was elder brother unto William Parker, the last abbot of Gloucester, who had his congé d'élire for the 1st bishop of Gloucester from Henry 8, but he coming down died on the way, and so was not installed 1st bishop there. But Jo. Wakeman, last abbot of Tewkesbury, was elected 1st bishop of G. 1541. "John Parker of Barnwood, who was greatgrandson [qu. grandson] unto the above Humphrey Parker, marryed unto Margery Stephens, daughter unto Edward Stephens of Estington, who was father unto Richard Stephens, James Stephens, and Thos. Stephens (Attorney gen. unto Prince Henry) and the above-said Margery, who by her husband had two sons, Richard and the abovenamed Daniel, and four daughters. Deborah marryed William Ballow, one of the Canons of Christ Church in Oxon. 2. Joan marryed Jasper Clutterbuck of Stanley. Catherine m. William Batherne Tidnam in the forest of Deane. garet m. James Carwardine in Herefordshire. Alice m. Christopher Stokes of Stanshaw. "Humphrey Parker abovesaid m. with Lucye of Highnam neere Glo. Mar 'John Parker, father unto the last John, who m. Margery Stephens, marryed the daughter of Marmyon of Upton, who was niece unto Sir Nicholas Arnold of Highnam neere Gloucester." The two suggested corrections in brackets I must have inserted. This note was copied by me and, with the above prefatory statement, addressed to the Editor of N. & Q.' in 1859, but never posted, and has turned up again after this long lapse of time. A. S. ELLIS. Westminster. His DICKENSIANA. The dramatization of David Copperfield' presented at Majesty's has been justly criticized, but the errors in the archæology of the play have evidently escaped notice. For example, Act I. sc. ii. is identified as the "Dining-room of the Golden Cross,' although the author (chap. xix.), in accordance with period and place, correctly names it the Coffee-room. The boxes in it would have settle seats, not chairs, and assuredly not the school or village-inn forms used in the present representation. 66 The waiter serving a bottle of port would carry it almost parallel, probably in a winebasket, certainly not like a carafe. This and the use of furniture obviously not of the period are, perhaps, only small faults, but they could be avoided so easily. ALECK ABRAHAMS. |