16 NOTES AND QUERIES: A Medium of Intercommunication FOR LITERARY MEN, GENERAL READERS. ETC. "When found, make a note of."-CAPTAIN CUTTLE. TWELFTH SERIES.-VOLUME X. JANUARY-JUNE, 1922. LONDON: PUBLISHED BY THE TIMES PUBLISHING COMPANY, LIMITED, PRINTING HOUSE SQUARE, E.C.4. 3, JANUARY 7, 1922. CONTENTS.-No. 195. NOTES:-Thomas Chippendale, 1-The so-called Spanish Constance. Simon, who, in her charming book on English Furniture Designers of the Eighteenth Centary' (1905), gives an exceltent account of the Chippendale family as then known in London, and whose conclusions I had generally followed. She states (p. 24) that Thomas Chippendale the second was born and spent a part of his early life at Worcester (though she gives no authority for that statement) and that both father and Architecture of Arras, 3—The Sotto Piombi, or the Piombi, Venice, 6-English Army Slang as used in the Great WarEarly Ball Games-Privileges granted by the Lord of the Manor-Fieldingiana, 7-Mrs. Joanna Stephens, 8. QUERIES:--Disraeli Queries-"Sunt oculos clari qui cernis Son were settled in London before 1727. sidera tanquam "-Vangoyen, a Dutch Painter-Psalm lxxxiii., 8—Erghum of Erghum, Yorkshire-John Wesley's First Publication-Index Ecclesiasticus-The Hôtel Vouillemont-Pio Nono-Thirlwall and Bunsen-Biographical Details of Artists so ught-The "Abyssinian Cross, 9Nathaniel Eaton-William George Eveleigh-'Not So Bad As We Seem': Charles Knight—” Molière": an Anagram In Colonel Chippindall's reference (11 S. vi. 407)—which of course preceded ninehe stated that the Chippendale family.eame from Otley, in Yorkshire, and that if Thomas Chippendale came from Worcestershire it I, was only as part of his route to London. however, cited Erdeswick's Survey of Staffordshire' (1844), as showing that REPLIES:-Mary Wollstonecraft: Lady Mary King. 10Anything for a Quiet Life The Fifth Petition in the the name must also have had a Midland Lord's Prayer, 11-" Sapiens dominabitur astris," 12- habitat, if it were true, as stated by that George Trappe-The Gender of "Ship "-Principal London author (p. 468), that the family of Chip. Authors wanted, 10. Coffee-houses of the Eighteenth Century-Vice-Admiral Sir Christopher Mings, 13- The Beggar's Opera' in Dickens-pendale once owned the estate of Blakenhall William Spry of Exeter-Verlaine at Stickney-Hatchments, in that county. I also gave other authorities 14-Egg Folk-lore: Good Friday and Christmas--" Hopscotch" Derivation of Word-Early Standards-Title of upon old furniture of that period and its Anno Quinto Edwardi III.-Verbalized Surnames-Pharaoh makers (Mr. Litchfield, Mr. K. Warren as Surname The House of Harcourt, 15-Thomas Edwards, Clouston, and Mrs. R. S. Clouston) for LL.D.-Moses Griffiths, Copperplate Engraver-The Chimney-sweeper's Climbing Boys-Bombers in Charles II.'s believing that our Thomas Chippendale was Navy, 16-Dominoes-Turner Family, 17-Authors wanted, a native of Worcestershire, though the date of his birth was quite uncertain. 18. NOTES ON BOOKS: A New English Dictionary '—' English Organ-Cases.' Notices to Correspondents. Notes. THOMAS CHIPPENDALE. (See 11 S. xi. 10.) No further discussion upon the subject seems to have taken place since my article appeared in 1913; but now. owing to the further labours of Colonel Chippindall and of my friend, Mr. A. W. Chippindale (to whom Colonel Chippindall would appear to have communicated the result of his later discoveries, though neither of these gentlemen, I believe, claims any relationship to the great cabinet-maker), a great deal has been learnt that sets at rest many vexed questions on the subject, and which I have my friend's permission to make use of in 'N. & Q.' if the editor should so desire. Ar the above reference I contributed to your pages a somewhat long article on the "Master Cabinet-maker of St. Martin's Lane"-as he has been aptly described by a In the first place, a fairly complete pedimodern writer and his more immediate gree has now been compiled showing the family, by way of supplementing Colonel immediate direct ancestors of our great Chippindall's interesting account of the Thomas Chippendale, hitherto generally Chippendale family that had appeared in believed to be Thomas Chippendale No. II. your columns, and I included references to one or two other modern authorities. This dates from the latter part of the seventeenth century, and discloses a John ChipIt was generally supposed at that time that pindale of Farnley, in the parish of Otley, there were three Thomas Chippendales-son, Co. York, as the grandfather of "our" Chipfather, and grandfather-in more or less the pendale, whose own father's name was also same way of business, the greatest of John, and not Thomas (No. I.) as hitherto the three, of course, being Thomas Chip- supposed. This John Chippindale, junior, pendale No. II. One of the authorities I married, at Otley, Mary, the daughter of had laid considerable stress upon was Miss Thomas Drake, a mason of Otley, whose son Thomas (the first of the name) was the died s.p. circa 1820. This will be mad great cabinet-maker, and whose Christian doubt, clearer to your readers if the e name ended with the death of his eldest will kindly allow me to insert the foll son Thomas, who was baptized at St. short and direct pedigree, omitting al Paul's, Covent Garden, April 23, 1749, and lateral descendants : Ann Whitehead, Thomas of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields; bap. at St. Paul's, Covent Garden, April 23, 1749 (lived at 59, Haymarket in 1817); died c. 1820 s.p. From this we learn that there are no longer, as we supposed, three Thomas Chippendales to be considered, and that it is the first of this name, not the second, that was in reality the subject of my previous article, being in all probability named after his maternal grandfather, Thomas Drake, as that Christian name appears nowhere else in this Chippendale pedigree that Colonel Chippindall has compiled. (1258) and the most modern are the Chippendale. This strange coincidence is again in the place-names, which, naturally not so numerous, show n same variety of spelling. Chipin Chippenden occur in Domesday Bool and Chippendale in 1102; Cepnd Chepyngdale, 1230; Chippendal and dale, 1258; Chippingdale, 1296; dale, 1352; Chippyndale and Chip temp. Elizabeth. The name would seem to have o From Colonel Chippindall's and Mr. A. W. Chippindale's later researches we also learn that the name now accepted as Chippendale admitted of an immense variety. From a list the latter has kindly lent me in the little valley of Chippingdale I note that over eighty varieties of the name which is mentioned in the spelling occur, mostly from Lancashire, Pipe Roll relating to Lancashire, in Yorkshire, and neighbouring localities, and of Henry I. In the thirteenth ranging down the centuries from Chipindale, the name began to be used as a 1307; Chepyngdale, 1379 (this occurs as in a charter, without date but again in 1535); Chipindall, 1597; Chipen- 1230-1256, Robert signs as dell, 1637; Chipindayll, 1703; whilst, Chippingdale " (see Cheetham strange to say, one of the most ancient N.S., vol. xxvi., pp. 165-6), and pe Lancashire Assize Rolls, 30-31 Henry III., we find Dyke de Chypendale as a surety for a defendant's appearance. The earliest church registers of Chipping are in 1559, but there are no Chippindales in them. apparently, most of the principal monuments and tombstones are still preserved there or relaid as a flooring. It should be remembered that the site of the present National Gallery once formed part of the churchyard of old St. Martin's. were pre Another very strong proof that the cabinet-maker's family was of Yorkshire I may say that there are a couple of old, extraction is afforded by these researches, large, square-backed, wide-seated arm-chairs, in which is mentioned an Indenture of covered in dark red plush velvet, preserved Lease and Release of April 30, 1770, now in the royal pew at the eastern end of the in the West Riding Registry at Leeds, south gallery by the chancel. The wooden in which the name of Thomas Chippindale part of the arms ends in a lion's face or (sic) of St. Martin's Lane, London, cabinet- mask; the same on the knee of the cabriole maker," appears, together with those of leg, which itself is supported on a lion's three of his uncles, William, Benjamin, claw-foot. The legs at the back are simiand Joseph. These documents are in re- larly designed. The wood is probably spect of a messuage, gardens, orchards, mahogany, but covered by a thick coating &c., in Broughgate, in Otley. of varnish or some other disfiguring subMay I conclude on a more personal note? stance. Whether the chairs There had been some doubt expressed as to sented, as has been suggested, by the great what was the age of Thomas Chippendale cabinet-maker himself when he was a neighwhen he died. Mr. Percy Macquoid, in his bouring parishioner, there is no evidence to great work on the History of English show; but, to my mind, though they may Furniture' (1906, vol. iii., p. 134, Age of be of the "Chippendale period," they seem Mahogany '), says that facts go to prove to disclose a heavier and more foreign that he died at the age of about 70." Miss character-possibly Dutch-than is usually Simon claims to be the first to give the actual associated with Engish "Chippendale date of his burial as Nov. 13, 1779, furniture. With scarcely an exception the and that he was buried at St. Martin's-in-interior of the church is devoid of monuthe-Fields. But no age was stated. Her ments. statement is confirmed by a personal inspection I made a short while ago of the clearly written parchment transcript of the burial entries of the parish, and there, under date Nov. 13, 1779, appears the name "Thomas Chippendale. M.," plainly enough. But there is no entry of age. Of course this can now be arrived at by his baptismal entry at Otley on June 5, 1718, as shown in the before-mentioned pedigree. And further, it is confirmed by the copy which Mr. A. W. Chippindale has made of the Account Book of Funeral Expenses belonging to the parish (which was not THE SO-CALLED SPANISH ARCHITECaccessible when I was at the church), and which he has shown me, in which the age is given as "62 yrs"; and further, presumably, the cause of his death-" Consp.", This undoubtedly means "consumption,' as it often occurs, whilst others are given as" dropsy," " fever,” and “S.P." for small pox. And now, in conclusion, let me say that having once formed the opinion that there were three Thomas Chippendales in succession-and, worse still, having recorded it in N. & Q.-now that I have very good reason to believe that it is not the case, it only remains for me to make my humble amende in the same pages, and so prevent your readers in future from falling into that error to which, I am afraid, I may have led some of them in the past. 66 J. S. UDAL, F.S.A. TURE OF ARRAS. IT is at last being recognized by writers on Arras that the architecture of the Grande and Petite Places in that town is not in origin. It is, therefore, disappointing to Spanish style" but is of purely local find in the Blue Guide to Belgium and the Western Front' a statement to the effect that the both squares were enclosed by seventeenthcentury houses built in a quaint uniform style during the Spanish domination (p. 80). His body was probably amongst those removed to the burial-ground belonging to St. Martin's, near the almshouses at Camden Town, when the mother church was restored some 80 years ago. Those also It is true that nothing here is said as to in the spacious crypt were removed, but, the architecture being Spanish, but to the |