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1. This looks like an adaptation of the epigram by Evenus in the Greek anthology (Anth. Pal.,' ix. 75), which in 1895 I translated thus ( Paraphrases,' p. 30):

"Tho' thou eat'st me to the root,
I shall bear enough of fruit
To be poured, O goat, on thee
When thy sacrifice shall be."

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

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2. The stanzas beginning "I have seen the robes [not wings] of Hermes glisten are the 15th and 16th of W. É. Aytoun's poem Hermotimus.'

(12 S. x. 94.)

A. E. H.

To-day and other Poems' was an anonymous work published many years ago by Mr. R. J. Masters. It contained the poem sought, which, set to music by Mr. F. G. Ladds, forms Hymn No. 90 in The Union Mission Hymnal' of the Baptist Union of Great Britain and Ireland. In Mr. E. C. Stedman's Victorian Anthology' the poem is attributed to Samuel Wilberforce (1805-1873), bishop successively of Oxford and Winchester.

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. (12 S. x. 49.)

1. The right words are:

"We shall have the word

In that minor third

There is none but the cuckoo knows"

(or "a minor third" in a later printing). From R. Browning's A Lover's Quarrel,' stanza 18.

MATTHEW ARNOLD:

ISAAC SHARP.

REFERENCE SOUGHT

(12 S. x. 34).—The words "the huge Mississippi of falsehood called history are in the essay on The Literary Influence of Academies, in Matthew Arnold's Essays in Criticism' (1st ed., 1865), p. 75.

Notes on Books.

A. E. H.

mysterious being Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, also the Cecils, father and son, but the spirit of patriotism that spread more and more widely as the years of the great reign drew on did not engender prudence.

Mrs. Stopes has given us a full and detailed record of the career of Henry Wriothesley, Third Earl of Southampton, who first saw the light in October, 1573, and as we follow his experiences we may catch a glimmering impression of some of the perils that encompassed a youth who was prominent by right of birth. Southampton succeeded to his father's earldom at the age of eight and became ward to Lord Burleigh. He gave early proof of the possession of a vigorous will. The marriage which his guardian arranged did not please him, and at ruinous cost to himself he evaded it. When he reached manhood, society was already divided by the Cecil and Essex factions. He had had opportunity to discover that Burleigh's example stood for wisdom and prudent calculation, but his heart drew him to Essex, and then and always he went where his heart led him regardless of consequences. Alike in love and in friendship his choice made havoc of his fortunes. He roused the wrath of the Queen by a secret marriage with her maid of honour, he fanned it by his insistence on his right to serve her in some conspicuous position. In the tragedy which ended Elizabeth's last romance Southampton narrowly escaped the penalty paid by his leader and hero. The bonds of that friendship were very close. "You whom I account another myself," Essex had written to him in 1598, but their union of hearts was not close

enough to reconcile Southampton to sharing the
fate of his friend: the youth in him clamoured
From his confession and his
desperately for life.
petition to the council we can form some estimate
of the mental suffering implied-even for one
who faced death readily on the battlefield-by
confinement in the Tower. He remained there
for more than two years in constant peril. Release
came only by the death of the Queen.

No one had more reason than Southampton to welcome the new order, but full and secure prosCar-perity never fell to his lot. He was not skilful in the craft of courts, and as Buckingham became more and more fixed in favour thwarted ambition turned to bitterness. A conspicuous figure until he met his death (when serving with the King's armies in Flanders), Southampton made no definite mark on history. His life as presented by Mrs. Stopes is of extreme interest, none the less, and it should appeal to ordinary readers as well as to students of the period. It is based on documents that are not easily accessible, it is carefully arranged and contains excellent portraits. Unfortunately where so much is admirable there are serious blemishes. Mrs. Stopes takes far too much for granted in dealing with her readers. She has long been distinguished for her vehement support of the theory (first propounded more than a century ago) that Shakespeare's sonnets were inspired by his friendship with Southampton. Now this question has been fully treated in her other books and must, unless fresh evidence should come to light, remain an open one; she admits that her recent investigations have not resulted in any new discovery. To assume that an un

The Life of Henry, Third Earl of Southampton, Shakespeare's Patron. By Charlotte michael Stopes. (Cambridge University Press, £2 28.) EACH successive generation may find new subject for enjoyment in the study of the Elizabethan age. The Maiden Queen who could bid the English House of Commons "not to meddle with any matters of state" presents a fascinating theme for reflection at the present time, and the excitement provided for members of her Court during her 45 years of rule was sufficient to satisfy the most ardent of sensation-hunters in the twentieth century. For those who were admitted to her intimacy must gamble and the stakes might mean a man's whole fortune, possibly his life. The Queen could impose indefinite imprisonment if she were so minded, and her expression of displeasure was as effective as the Papal interdict of earlier times in isolating the culprit from his fellows. When she smiled, the hopes of those around her soared to heights not visible to subjects under normal rule. And these rapid alternations were so disturbing to the balance of a man's judgment that only a few maintained composure. Among these must be reckoned that

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proved theory is a fact and build an estimate silver sold to the Pope [Pius II.] for 1,250 florins of character on that foundation is not the safest by Peter and John de Medicis." method of writing history. Moreover, Mrs. Stopes has permitted herself to make some Hampshire. By Telford Varley. (Cambridge astonishing excursions in the regions of the might have been." The contemporaries of Southampton failed, by elegy or otherwise, to commemorate his connexion with Shakespeare. She has supplied the deficiency with a sonnet and an epitaph of her own composition. She has also, in chaps. ii. and xxi., sustained her narrative by the introduction of conversations imagined by herself. The book is so rich in interest that these eccentricities of treatment are the more to be deplored.

Calendar of Entries in the Papal Registers relating to Great Britain and Ireland. Papal Letters. Vol. XI. 1455-1464. Prepared by J. A. Twemlow. (His Majesty's Stationery Office, £1 58. net.)

THIS volume may be noted as one of the richest of its kind in material for the antiquary. The topics dealt with cover, more or less abundantly, the general administration of local ecclesiastical affairs, and include, as usual, copious detail concerning individuals. The nine years embrace the pontificates of Calixtus III. and of Pius II. The Scotch sees occupy many pages; perhaps London and Oxford are the two English cities most in evidence. The documents concerning Reginald Peacock, the Bishop of Chichester, who was tried for heresy, may be cited as an example of the biographical illustration afforded, and those concerning the foundation of Eton College as an example of a group illustrating the history of an institution. Disputes among ecclesiastics (there are one or two cases of homicide by a clerk), indults and dispensations, and the application of different forms of discipline, as usual, open up vivid glimpses of situations and characters. The general effect, as in most registers of Papal Letters, is an impression of the fatherliness of the Papacy, even when exercised by Popes such as these two, who were not-like Innocent III., for instance of a specially paternal character. In the tragi-comedy of everyday life it appears as a pleasant factor, and presents a far more attractive aspect of the Papacy than the political aspect to which most history is devoted.

THIS is yet another member of the useful series of Cam bridge County Handbooks. It gives a careful account of the natural features, the towns, the industries, history, and antiquities of Hampshire, according to the plan made familiar to us by the earlier handbooks. The information given and also the illustrations are very satisfactory. The writer's English style is poor enough to be often irritating. One short sentence-" Hampshire is identified in a remarkable degree with hymn writers "-will perhaps convey what it is we complain of. However, writing of this sort need be no bar to utility.

MR. P. D. MUNDY (Burley, New Forest), writes:-I should be glad to hear from the owners of any manuscripts, letters, portraits or drawings of, or connected with, my great-uncle, Henry William Herbert ("Frank Forester "), poet, novelist, and writer on American sport, who died in 1858. He was the son of the Very Rev. the Hon. W. Herbert, Dean of Manchester, who was himself a well-known writer on botanical subjects.

This request is made in contemplation of a biography of Henry William Herbert.

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An inhibition of Pius II.'s gives a picture of the sufferings of the Isle of Scilly" under the incursions of pirates. Indulgences of Calixtus III. make mention of miracles wrought among the faithful who flock to the Chapel of St. Mary de Key in the cemetery of the Chapel of Liverpool; and also of miracles wrought in the church of the Augustinian priory at Mottisfont, in which are many precious relics, and among them" the finger of St. John Baptist with which he pointed to the Saviour of the human race." Other relics mentioned are those of St. Gilbert in the church of Caithness-a place much worried by "lawlessness and ambushes by savages," in behalf of which Pius II. hurls an excommunication; and those of St. Osmund of Salisbury, which, in a mandate dated the day after his canonization, are ordered to be solemnly translated to a worthy place in A. L. B.-We regret our inability to be of assistthe church of Salisbury. ance. We cannot undertake to advise corresponAmong the mention of objects of art and handi-dents as to the value of editions of books, encraft we have a " tapestry worked in gold and gravings or other like objects.

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LONDON, FEBRUARY 18, 1922.

CONTENTS.-No. 201.

NOTES:-John Charles Williams, a Buckinghamshire Parson, 121 Sir Richard Willys, Traitor, 123 Commonwealth Marriages and Burials in the Aldeburgh Register Book, 124-Philip de Harcourt, Bishop of Bayeux. 126-In

ference as to Date of Birth, 127-Blake in America-Foun tains Abbey Parchments--Gilbert Imlay and Henry Lee. 128.

QUERIES:-" Firdor "-Scarlet Hunting Coat-Pseudo

titles for "Dummy " Books-Graves of Polish Exiles in Britain-Regimental Chaplains, H.M. 84th Regiment, 129–

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First let me explain how he was connected with my family. My grandfather, Henry William Bull (1792-1872), solicitor, married Charlotte Susannah Swales, from the vicarage, at the parish church of High Wycombe, on Dec. 27, 1826. His brother-in-law, the Rev. John Charles Williams, M.A., F R.G.S., married them. Williams was curate-incharge of that parish from 1824 to 1843 and had married Mrs. Bull's eldest sister, Catherine, at St. Clement Danes in the Strand on Aug. 15, 1812. These were the days of

**Satan reproving sin "-Unidentified Arms-The Mont-pluralities and the Rev. James Price, B.A.,

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JOHN CHARLES WILLIAMS : A BUCKINGHAMSHIRE PARSON AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. WHEN one is collecting material for a family history one comes across many details concerning collaterals, and in the course of putting together my family papers and pedigree I have amassed some interesting facts, which I think worthy of record, concerning the family of the late Rev. John Charles Williams, M.A., who during the early part of the last century flourished in several parishes in Buckinghamshire. Unless these items get into print they are apt to be lost, so I venture to appeal to the hospitality of N. & Q.' with a view to their appearing in its columns as a permanent memento of a somewhat remarkable man.

To add to the interest I have placed the letters D.N.B.' after everyone mentioned

was the nominal vicar-having been presented to the living on March 25, 1788, by William, Earl of Shelburne and was a regular absentee.

The curate's grandfather, a certain John Williams (1727-1816) was an architect and surveyor of some note who flourished in the town of Shrewsbury in the middle of the eighteenth century.

He

His eldest son, father of our curate, was also named John (1767-1827). A solicitor by profession, he was appointed one of the six clerks of the Court of Exchequer and subsequently became a partner in the firm of Price and Williams of Bedford Row. lived in Rodney Street, Pentonville Hill, and married a Miss Ball of Welshpool, who was born in 1777, died on June 26, 1837, and was buried in St. James's churchyard, Pentonville.

This John Williams was an intimate friend of the Rev. John Newton (1725-1807; 'D.N.B.')—another curate-in-charge, by the way, for Moses Brown (1704-1781; D.N.B.'), the absentee vicar of Olney, Bucks-and friend of the poet Cowper (1731-1800; 'D.N.B.'). I have in my family records some A.L.S. written by Newton when his wife, whom he loved with an almost idolatrous love," died on Dec. 15, 1790.

John Williams's third daughter married a man named Randall, whose son, John Williams Randall, was a partner in the firm of Brundrett, Randall and Govett of King's Bench Walk. Jonathan Brundrett was one of the founders of the Law Society. He acted_for Queen Caroline (1768-1821; 'D.N.B.') and briefed Lord Brougham (1778-1868; 'D.N.B.') for the defence in 1820.

The fifth daughter married another solicitor, well known in his day, named Alfred Umney, who resided at a beautiful

stone house on the road to Epsom called Stone Cot Hill, Sutton. The Umneys had an only daughter, who married George Nelson, a solicitor of Buckingham, whose son, George Alfred Nelson, in 1916 left his estate at Sherington, Co. Bucks, to Col. Owen Williams, of whom presently.

eventually sold soon after to Messrs. Hilliard and Hastings, for he “felt a call to the ministry," and, although married, went up to Cambridge and graduated at St. Catherine's Hall. He gathered round him a circle of friends, many of whom became famous. These included Charles Simeon (1759-1836; 'D.N.B.'); We now come to the subject of these Fairish (whom I cannot identify); Thomas notes. John Charles Williams, eldest son Turton (1780-1864; D.N.B.'), afterwards of John Williams, was born April 16, 1789, Bishop of Ely; and Oliphant, afterwards and also became a solicitor. He does not Bishop of Llandaff. He knew both seem to have cared for ordinary practice, the Corries, Daniel, LL.D. (1777-1837; for in 1814 he was Judge's Associate on the D.N.B.'), and George Elwes (1793-1885; Oxford circuit. I have a charming littleD.N.B.'), the Master of Jesus; Prodiary of those days in his copper-plate fessor John Lee (1783-1866; 'D.N.B.') handwriting giving a detailed account of a of Hartwell in Bucks; and James Scholecircuit journey on horseback from London field (1789-1853; D.N.B.'), Regius Provia Windsor, Oxford, Worcester, Stafford, fessor of Greek. He corresponded with all Shrewsbury, to Leominster and home again. these men during the whole of his life. He married Catherine Swales at St. Clement In due course he was ordained by letters Danes in the Strand on Aug. 15, 1812, at the dimissory by Sparkes, Bishop of Ely. I age of 23. The Swales came from Suffolk. cannot find where he fitted it in, but he also His father-in-law was Christopher William sold about this time the practice, which Swales, who married Charlotte Spencer, he inherited, of his maternal uncle, Charles daughter of Hugh Spencer. She was born Ball, solicitor. in 1761 and baptized at St. James's, Bury St. Edmunds. She died at the town house of her other son-in-law, my grandfather, Henry William Bull, at 12, Wilton Crescent, Belgrave Square, in June, 1845, at the age of 84. C. W. Swales had died in January, 1831, at Layham in Suffolk, and was buried at Polstead. Catherine Swales, afterwards Mrs. J. C. Williams, the elder daughter of this couple, was born on Sept. 29, 1789, and was baptized at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields on Oct. 27, 1789.

Mrs. Swales was in the entourage of the Duchess of York (1767-1820; D.N.B.'). Catherine's godmother was that Mrs. Bunbury, the devoted friend of the Duchess, who requested that she (Mrs. Bunbury) might be buried beside her in Weybridge churchyard, which was done. They also knew Lady Charlotte Bury (1775-1861; 'D.N.B.'), the novelist. Both the Misses Swales although petite were very beautiful. They were known as the 'Brace of Partridges" when they used to attend the garden parties at Chiswick. It was through the influence of the Duke of York (1763-1827; 'D.N.B.'), who was patron of the institution, that John Charles Williams obtained his next appointment, viz., that of secretary of the Lying-in Hospital in York Road, Lambeth, which he held from Nov. 18, 1815, until he resigned on Jan. 17, 1820. He then returned to his practice as a solicitor, which he

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Henry Bathurst (1744-1837; 'D.N.B.'), Bishop of Norwich, the only Liberal Bishop in the Lords," next appointed him successively to the curacies of Stapleford and Pampisford in Cambridgeshire. In 1823 he held the curacy of Wooburn Green, Bucks, for six months and then was appointed curate-in-charge of High Wycombe, where he resided for nearly twenty years, viz., from 1824 to 1843. Here the last seven of his fifteen children were born, most of them being brought into the world by Dr. William Rose (1876-1864), his lifelong friend, and the father of Disraeli's solicitor, Sir Philip Rose, Bt. (1816-1883), of Rayners, Penn, Bucks.

During the later years of Williams's residence at High Wycombe, he was presented to the living of Farthingstone in Northamptonshire, by his friend John Kaye (17831853; D.N.B.'), Bishop of Lincoln-who, by the way, was born on Dec. 27, 1783, in Angel Row, in my own Borough of Hammersmith. The son of a little draper, he lived to direct the education of Queen Victoria (1819-1901; 'D.N.B.' supp.).

After one year's occupation of Farthingstone, Williams was appointed by Kaye to the rectory of Sherington, near Newport Pagnell, which he held until his death on Nov. 30, 1848.

John Charles Williams, as I have said must have been a very industrious man

for he not only adequately looked after his own parish but found time to found and carry on a preparatory school for young boys destined for Eton, Harrow and Rugby. My father, his nephew, Henry Bull, solicitor (1829-1878), went there from a dame's school at Dumpton in Kent in 1837, aged eight, and remained there until he went to Rugby in 1842, a term or two before Arnold (17951842; 'D.N.B.') died.

A great many of Williams's sermons, in his neat handwriting, are in existence, and I possess some preached two or three times, over long intervals, on certain Sundays in Wycombe church. He also wrote some hymns of merit and became an active member of the Royal Geographical Society, of which he was a Fellow.

In 1655,

In

towards winter upon Bond of £5000. 14 June, he was again taken prisoner and caryed Prisoners till ye 12th of October and then was to Lyme where he remayn'd with ye rest of ye by special orders here detayn'd prisoner alone till the end of February following and then hence he return'd home to his brothers and in released, upon Bond of Ten thousand pounds. all this while had never seen with Oliver Cromwell, nor Thurloe, nor ever heard of Moorland. the end of this year 1656, or in the beginning of 1657 it hapn'd that Thurloe had intercepted some letters of Mr. Brodericks and others. Which he supposing to be Sir Richard, Thurloe immeexamining him to this effect, What he knew of diately sent on purpose for him, and strictly those letters and the persons and matters conteyn'd in them. It being visible that one of ye feighned names often therein specified could thus shown him the danger of his condition, meane no other person but himselfe. So having and spread his nett over him. He began to say that his intention was not to destroy him, if he would be instrumentall for his reconciliation with the king, when time should serve, and that he would absolutely engage not to discover anything in the meantime the Royal party should speed without his preacquaintance and leave, and that the better for him, Which he is very confident has been effected by his management in preserving many of them (and that the most eminent) from, and delivering others out of, restraint. both in their lifes and fortunes, preventing many In this same year 1657, in the depth of winter, Amongst his scholars were Charles Thurloe hearing that the Marquis of Ormond Wycliffe Goodwin (1817-1878; 'D.N.B.'), was landed in England, sent for Sir Richard W. the Egyptologist, and Harvey Goodwin and offered £1000 in ready gold, or what he (1818-1891; 'D.N.B.'), Bishop of Carlisle.

He had very little means that I can discover. He had only £200 a year from the living in High Wycombe and yet he was able to bring up and educate a large familyputting several of his sons into the learned professions and educating some of his daughters at Campden House, Notting Hill, then the most expensive and fashionable school in London. (Burnt down Mar. 23, 1863.)

WILLIAM BULL.

(To be concluded.)

SIR RICHARD WILLYS, TRAITOR. (See ante, p. 101.)

SIR RICHARD WILLYS'S DEFENCE. SIR Richard Willys's defence is summarized on p. 232 of the Calendar of Domestic State Papers for 1661-1662, where it is asserted to have been "annexed " to a petition in which he prays for leave to come within the verge of the Court" in order to defend several suits at law. But the defence is not annexed to the petition and has nothing whatever to do with it. The summary of the defence is not a satisfactory one, but as it is rather long I omit it and transcribe the original document instead :

May 1660. In the year 1652 about the middle of the summer Sir Richard Willys returned into England from Italy, and retir'd to his brothers in Cambridgeshire where he remayned for the most part till ye end of 1653. In 1654 about ye moneth of May he was taken prisoner and sent to ye Tower from wch he was released

would aske to discover him. Which Moorland
violently and very often urged him to doe,
telling him it would be his utter ruyne if he did
not doe it, adding this, that it was in his power
to oblige the Protector for ever. From this
importunity he had not rest till he defy'd them
by detesting and abhorring so perfidious an
action. And from that tyme they absolutely
desseyn'd his ruyne. For 1658, upon Good
Friday [April 9] he was again taken prisoner,
and sent to the Tower with more severity and
close imprisonment than ever, and all the wayes
imaginable us'd to take away his life by violent
Suff. to accuse him.
meanes, and promises us'd to one Mr Cooke of
But when nothing could
be made out against him he was releas'd [illegible]
upon Bond and so continued till 1659; and in
May or thereabouts Thurloe sent for him againe,
telling him that now he visibly saw that the
King could no longer be kept out and that now
was the time, he must be beholding to him in
the making of his peace, and that at this meeting
Moorland was present where they combyne to
post him, which was done on June 3. Having
suspected that Sir Rich W. had a reall intention
to be in the then present Rysing, which they
resolve to hinder by throwing a suspicion amongst
the party. Nor, did their Malice and revenge
end there, but contryv'd an Act of Banishment
out of England of all those that had not com-
pounded, which Moorland confess'd to Sir Rich W.
was particularly contriv'd for his sake and
hindrance. And whereas they allege that his
bonds the last summer were of his own pro-

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