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30. The Window Smasher; or the Man who saw Glasgow.'

31. After Death,' Watt.

32. The Disappointed Cabman; Thoroughfare,' by Charles Dickens.

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33. The Successful Burglar; or Self Help,'

by S. Smiles.

34. Infra Dig. ; or Ashamed to Beg.'

35. The Circular Saw; or Who saw the Circular?'

36. Certain to Snore,' by the author of Per

chance to Dream.'

37. The Last Watch,' by George Atten

borough. 38.

39.

Vestments,' by Bishops Westcott.
What's in a Name? Anon.

An Editor's note to a query on the above in 11 S. iv. 230, says that a List of Imitation Book Backs' was made by Dickens for Mr. Eeles in 1851 and can be seen in the edition of his letters published by Messrs. Macmillan, 1893, or in the National edition of his works, vol. 37, pp. 279-80. A long list of Sham Book Titles,' by Hood, will be found at 8 S. i. 63, 229 and 301. For other lists see 9 S. viii. 212; ix. 384, 432. ARCHIBALD SPARKE.

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"ANGLICA [OR RUSTICA] GENS," &C. (10 S. ii. 405; 12 S. x. 95).-Let me thank FAMA for this earlier example of "Anglica" version of the line, which has now been shown to go back at least as far as 1558. But I can cap this with a much older specimen of the "Rustica" type.

On p. 86 of Jakob Werner's Lateinische Sprichwörter und Sinnsprüche des Mittelalters aus Handschriften gesammelt,'

40. Heavenly Twins,' by the author of 'The Heidelberg, 1912, we find

Double Event.'

41. Exposed Cards,' by Miss Deal. 42. Thoughts on a Future State; or The Musings of a Faded Wall Flower.' 43.. The Garden of Sleep,' by a Collector of

Church Sermons.

44, A Staunch Whig; or How to Hide Bald

ness.

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Rustica gens est optima flens, sed pessima ridens.
This is taken from a MS. in the University
to the fourteenth century, but which
Library at Basel, which has been assigned
Werner judged to be of the early fifteenth.
EDWARD BENSLY.

“SATAN REPROVING SIN " (12 S. x. 130).—
The earliest instance of this saying at the
above reference was dated 1721. But “The
Devil rebukes sin" is in John Ray's Col-
lection of English Proverbs,' p. 126, 2nd
ed., 1678. Ray appends the Latin equiva-
lent,
Clodius accusat moechos.

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THE PILLOW (PILAU) CLUB (12 S. ix. 169, 235).—With reference to my query in regard to the above, and the reply kindly given by ST. SWITHIN, I have recently found another reference to the club which proves that ST. SWITHIN was right in his surmise that the word is pilau and that the club consisted of Anglo-Indians, of which Sir Robert Nightingale, one of the directors of the East India Company, was the president. The members met at the King's Head, Leadenhall Street. Among the letters written from England to John Scattergood, merchant, while in India, is one dated From the Polow Club at the King's head Leaden Hall Strett Decemr. the 31st 1719.” It is signed by Thomas Panuwell and Richard Rawlings, who acknowledge "by order of the President Sir Robt. Nightingale and the rest of the assembly," the gift of "a Punchin of Old Arack," which was by some mistake converted into two caske, containing in all fivety three Gallons."

I presume that the King's Arms where the club met was identical with the coaching inn which appears in MR. DE CASTRO'S list (12 S. viii. 85) for the year 1732. If so, it must have been in existence at least some fifteen years earlier. Is it known when this inn disappeared?

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his poem Anthony and Octavius,' 1856, to him; author of Poems, 1856, 3 ed. 1859; Ballads and side Warbles, 1865; Sungleams and Shadows, Songs, 1858; Devonshire Melodist, 1862; Way1881. Died, Braunton, near Barnstaple, N. Devon, 4th June, 1894. Buried Heanton Punchardon, near Braunton ; his postman's beil was let into his gravestone. His portrait, by E. Williams, hangs in Bideford public library. W. H. G.

The following is extracted from The Life and Letters of R. S. Hawker,' by C. E. Byles (John Lane, 1905), p. 245 :

Capern

was buried at Heanton Pun-
On his tomb-
chardon, near Northam.
stone is the following inscription:-
Edward Capern

The Postman Poet
Born at Tiverton, 21 Jan. 1819
Died at Braunton, 4 June 1894
O Lark-like Poet: carol on,
Lost in dim light, an unseen trill!
We, in the Heaven where you are gone,
Find you no more, but hear you still.

ALFRED AUSTIN,
The Poet Laureate.
Above the inscription is fixed the bell which
Capern used to ring to announce his arrival when
on his rounds.

M.

THE ROYAL SOCIETY AND FREEMASONRY. (12 S. x. 42). The prevalence of Freemasonry amongst Fellows of the Royal BERNARD P. SCATTERGOOD. Society was dealt with in Ars Quatuor Coronatorum, vol. xi. 116 (1898), by COMMONWEALTH MARRIAGES AND BURIALS Mr. Edward Armitage, who, by comparing (12 S. x. 81, 104, 124, 142). An explanation the list of Fellows in 1722 with contemof the form of the Aldeburgh registers porary lists of Masonic lodges, found will be found on consulting Scobell's forty-seven names common to both, indiActs and Ordinances of Parliament,' cating that apparently nearly 25 per cent. November, 1640, to September, 1656. Cap. of the F.R.S. were also members of the vi. of the Ordinances of Barebone's Parlia- masonic craft. W. B. H. ment in 1653 directs how marriages shall be solemnized and registered after September 29 in that year, and directs also births and deaths to be registered. I believe that a new edition of these Ordinances has been published recently. The provisions as to marriages are mentioned in Neal's Puritans, ii., p. 603 of the 1837 edition.

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PICTURES IN THE HERMITAGE AT PETROGRAD (12 S. ix. 528; x. 114).-Perhaps I may be allowed to add something to what has already been said upon this subject. When trouble began in Russia, certain lovers of art banded themselves together to protect the museums and picture galleries. The authorities allowed them to do what they thought best, and they removed a few of the pictures from the Hermitage for the sake of greater safety, but left most of them in the Hermitage, where they may now be seen by visitors to Petrograd. At the beginning of the period of trouble there was a certain amount of pilfering, but not, I am informed, very much.

The same truth holds good about the treasures in the churches in the great cities of Russia. The icons are still there, and so

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are the diamonds that surround them the Hon. Algernon Greville and grandson of and the precious stones that sparkle on the Fulke Greville, fifth Lord Brooke, and died metal drapery of the saints. Here again in 1789. In the Minerva Library' edition of there has been a little pilfering. But the Locker-Lampson's Lyra Elegantiarum' the ecclesiastical art treasures have been pre- date of Mrs. Greville's birth is given, with a served, partly owing to the attitude of the query, as 1720. authorities of the Orthodox Church, who at once dissociated religion from politics, and partly owing to a great revival of religious sentiment among the Russian peasantry. Even the Bolshevist found it hopeless to interfere with the masses in this respect of their religious observances. T. PERCY ARMSTRONG.

The Authors' Club, Whitehall, S.W.

EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY POETS (12 S. x. 91, 108, 137).—4. John Hughes, ' On Arquëanassa of Colophos.' The lady's name and place of origin have been curiously perverted. The Greek elegiac quatrain addressed to Archeanassa of Colophon is quoted by Diogenes Laertius, iii. 23, 31, and ascribed to Plato, whose mistress Archeanassa was said to have been. We get the lines again in Athenaeus, xiii. 589c, d, with the same account of Plato's liaison and authorship. In the Palatine Anthology,' vii. 217, the writer's name is given as Asclepiades, and the 'Planudean Anthology' has the same attribution. The versions in Diogenes and Athenaeus differ in several particulars from one another and from the Anthology version. Commentators refer to a French translation of the lines by Larcher.

18. I. H. Browne's A Pipe of Tobacco.' See the late W. P. COURTNEY's paper on 'Dodsley's Famous Collection of Poetry,' 10 S. vii. 83. The parody of Ambrose Philips is there said, on the authority of Gent. Mag., 1776, p. 165, to have been written by (Chancellor) John Hoadly.

19. John Straight. See the account of the Rev. John Straight at 10 S. xi. 143, in another of W. P. COURTNEY's articles on Dodsley's Collection.' Straight matriculated from Wadham College, Oxford, on March 28, 1705, aged 17. This gives an approximate date for his birth. COURTNEY'S interesting contributions to N. & Q.' on Dodsley were afterwards privately published in book form.

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COLONEL PRIDEAUX notes that she had several children, the most celebrated of whom was Mrs. Crewe, the beautiful Whig hostess. EDWARD BENSLY.

If I. A. WILLIAMS is including any eighteenth-century dialect poems, I have a good MS. collection of unpublished 'Rhymes of the Times' of that period which I should be happy to place at his disposal. J. FAIRFAX-BLAKEBOROUGH. Grove House, Norton-on-Tees.

8. Henry Carey's dates are given as 1693 ?1743 in The Oxford Book of English

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18. I. H. Browne's 'Pipe of Tobacco. As regards the ingenious friend" who sent him the parody of Ambrose Philips, Fairholt, in his Tobacco: its History and Associations,' states (on the authority of Ritson) that the author was Dr. John Hoadley.

28. Mary Whately. I believe there is some account of her in Staffordshire Stories' (1906), by Mr. F. W. Hackwood. She married the Rev. John Darwall (1731-89) in 1766. Their daughter Elizabeth (1779-1851) was author of The Storm and Other Poems (1810). For further particulars of Darwalls see Simms's Bibliotheca Staffordensis.' Four poems by Mrs. Darwall appear in vol. iii. of A Collection of Poems, in Four Volumes, by Several Hands' (G. Perch, 1775).

the

29. Mrs. Greville. Frederic Rowton, in his Female Poets of Great Britain,' gives the Prayer for Indifference' and the Countess of Carlisle's answer, but can give no particulars. Allibone's Dictionary of English and American Authors' gives " Mrs. Frances Greville. who, he says, was daughter of James Macartney, wife of Fulke Greville, mother of the "celebrated beauty Crewe and of Captain William Fulke Greville, and wrote the 'Prayer' about 1753. No other dates given.

and

Mrs.

RUSSELL MARKLAND.

and rescued later by a party of soldiers.
The words are used by Lamorce in scene ii.
when she extorts Mirabel's watch from him,
and by Mirabel himself in scene iv. when
recovering it from her.
"One skull

The Leech of Folkestone.'
of such surpassing size and thickness as
would have filled the soul of a Spurzheim
or De Ville with wonderment." See 10 S.
x. 91, 157, where Deville is described as
a phrenologist somewhere in the forties
last century." One correspondent
quoted from A Woman of Mind':—
My wife is a woman of mind,

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30. William Kendall. Biographical notes on Wm. Kendall (1768-1832) may be found in Trewman's Flying Post (Exeter), 1832, March 29, p. 2, col. 5; ditto, 1849, May 31, p. 6, col. 4 (being No. 24 of Geo. Oliver's Biographies of Eminent Exonians'); and Wm. H. K. Wright's 'West Country Poets.' Kendall was baptized at Exeter (St. Mary Major) on Dec. 3, 1768, and was drowned in the River Wrey at Bovey Tracy on March 26, 1832. He was buried at Exeter (St. Lawrence). Kendall published a volume of Poems' in 1791, privately printed (as to place of printing, see 9 S. iii. 246); The Science of Legislation,' translated from the Italian of Filangieri (preface dated in 1792); and Poems' (Exeter, Trewman) in 1793. The poems of 1793 include Elegiac Stanzas, Occasional RICHARD WELFORD gave some lines from Verses, Sonnets, Fairy Fantasies, and Robert Montgomery's satire, 'The Age imitations of Catullus. Reviewed,'. in which " foggy Spurzheim,' Combe, Gall, and smug Deville were

M.

30. William Kendall. The Exeter Public Library contains two copies of the 1793 edition of Kendall's poems.

We also have an edition published in 1791 by W. Kendall." The 1793 edition was published by R. Trewman of this city, but on the 1791 edition there is no imprint whatever. However, from internal evidence, such as type and ornaments used, there is no doubt that it came from Trewman's Press.

Many of the poems of the 1791 edition are repeated in the 1793 edition in a revised or extended form. In the 1791 edition a footnote to the verses To Laura,' says, "Composed at a very early age, the writer's first production."

Kendall also published at the age of 24 a translation of An Analysis of the Science of Legislation,' from the Italian of Chevalier Filangieri, but I have never come across a copy of this work. There is a copy of it in the British Museum, also of the two volumes of poems mentioned above.

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And Deville, who examined her bumps, Vowed that never were found in a woman Such large intellectual lumps.

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The Babes in the Wood.' Split, and told the whole story to Cotton." I do not know whether Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, as suggested, ante, p. 99, was connected with the transmission of the legend. One is tempted to suggest that we have a reference to the Rev. Horace S. Cotton, D.D., who was Ordinary of Newgate at least as late as 1831. See 10 S. vii. 408, 454.

The Hand of Glory.' The broad, Double-Joe from ayont the sea." A joe is said by Prof. Weekley, Etymological Dict. of Mod. English,' to be an archaic term for a Portuguese coin, after Joannes V. († 1750).

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'Patty Morgan the Milkmaid's Story.' Gryffith ap Conan." This is presumably Gruffydd ab Cynan (1055 ?-1137). See the

D.N.B.'

"Preface to the second edition" (Feb.

2, 1843). "All modern Shakespearians, including the rival editors of the new and illustrated versions." One of these editors must be Charles Knight, whose Pictorial Shakspere was published 1838-41. Was Procter's (1839-43) or Thomas Campbell's J. Payne Collier's edition (1842-44) or B. W. (1838) illustrated? EDWARD BENSLY.

THE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS' (12 S. x. 33, 99).— The Old Woman Clothed in Grey.' Dullman, the worthy Jesuit's polemical publisher," Charles Dolman (1807-1863), 'Smuggler's Leap' (p. 329). Nock. Roman Catholic publisher. See D.N.B.' There were two famous gunsmiths of this 'The Mousquetaire.' "Tom- name. The earlier, Henry Nock, in 1787 inpion's I presume?'-FARQUHAR." Barham vented a breech-plug, known as the patent is quoting from Farquhar's comedy, The Inconstant; or, The Way to Win Him,' Aet V., scenes ii. and iv., where Young Mirabel is trapped in Lamorce's lodgings,

breech," which was long used, and he also introduced the short flat piece on the top of gun-barrels still known as the Nock form." There are several examples of his

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work in the Royal Collection at Windsor, parentage of Jane Black would appear to and from the date-letters on the silver be incorrectly stated in my pedigree. She mountings of these weapons they can be might, however, have been a younger accurately dated; the years 1788, 1790, daughter of the Robert Irwin mentioned and 1792 occur, which seems to have been above. I should be glad of any information about the busiest time of his life. According which would assist me in establishing her to the Inventories of the Armour, &c., in parentage. C. W. FIREBRACE (Capt.). the Tower of London, his shop was at 180, Fleet Street.

The other gunsmith of the name, Samuel Nock, appears as a gunsmith at the same address in 1812. He was probably the son of Henry Nock.

Both the Nocks were good workmen, and made both sporting and military guns, besides pistols of many patterns.

E. R.

NAMING OF PUBLIC ROOMS IN INNS (12 S. ix. 189 and passim).—Some of the numerous correspondents who answered this inquiry may possibly be interested in this record of the George Hotel, Winchester, which

dates back to the fifteenth century, possibly earlier :

:

Proprietor John Harris, 1655.

The Swan.

The Adam and Eve.

The Nag's Head.

The Sun.

The Mermaid.

The Fleur-de-lis.

The Falcon.

The Chequer.
The Half-Moon.
The Cross Keys.

The Bell.

The Talbot.

The Shuffleboard.

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The Green Dragon.
The Greyhound.

W. COURTHOPE FORMAN.

BRITISH SETTLERS IN AMERICA (12 S. ix. 462,517,521; x. 57, 114).—Marsh, Kinswomen Mary and Ann, daurs. of Joseph and Elizabeth Marsh, late of Philadelphia, Pen., Glovers, mentioned in Will of John Andrews, 1757. (250 Busby, P.C.C.)

May, son Alexander, gone to Virginia, mentioned in Will of Alexander May of Clanfield, Co. Oxford. (Cons. Oxfd., vol. A, P. 400.)

Davison, Hilkiah, of St. Mary's in Jamaica, born in Winchester, Co. Southton. Sworn 9 Sep. 1744. (C. Reg. of Affadavits, 52-1033.) Pearce, Mathew, emigrated from Kings Langley, Herts, to New South Wales, 2 Jany. 1832. (C.O., 206/33.)

GERALD FOTHERGILL. 11, Brussels Road, St. John's Hill, New Wandsworth, S.W. 11.

POEM OF THE SIXTIES WANTED (12 S. x. 132).— The little poem about the two poor boys was composed by Mary Sewell, 1797-1884. Its title A Mother's Last Words.' The ballad was published in 1860, and according to the 'D.N.B.' 1,088,000 copies were sold.

is

Leeds Library.

D. A. CRUSE.

Notes on Books.

(Cam

Alumni Cantabrigienses. A Biographical List NEVIN FAMILY (12 S. x. 131).-It is of all known Students, Graduates and Holders recorded in the pedigree of Irwin of Mount of Office at the University of Cambridge from Irwin (Burke's Landed Gentry of Ireland,' the earliest times to 1900. Compiled by John Venn and J. A. Venn. Part I. From the earliest 1912) that " Robert Irwin of Mount Irwin, times to 1751. Vol. i. Abbas-Cutts. Co. Armagh, married the daughter of bridge University Press, £7 10s. net.) Nevin, and had issue, with three daughters, To readers of N. & Q.' there is no need to labour four sons." The second son, William the importance of the great work which, in the Irwin, was born in 1769, so the marriage volume before us, begins to see the light. It is. may be dated about 1760-1765. This in its kind, a classic, which, as time goes on, will lady may have been one of the family men- gain in interest and value, which may be added to here and there, or corrected, but which can tioned in the query, perhaps a daughter of never be superseded. The compilers in their William Nevin, who succeeded to the Preface anticipate one of the earliest impulses Ministry of Downpatrick in 1746. A MS. which must inevitably arise in the mind of any pedigree of Black of Newry, Co. Down, in person who takes up this book for the first timemy possession, states that William Black, The first instalment of Foster's work was wela comparison with the Alumni Oxonienses." M.D., of Newry, married Jane, daughter of comed in our columns at 7 S. iv. 379 (Nov. 5, 1887), W. Irwin of Mount Irwin, Sheriff of Armagh, by the pen of Joseph Knight, who addressed and their son, Thomas Black, M.D., was born himself most zealously to showing its high utility. in 1799. William Irwin married (according instalment at 7 S. vii. 19 (Jan. 5, 1889), had to yet at a later date, upon reviewing a second to Burke) in 1809, Sarah, daughter of lament the slightness of the support it had met Samuel de la Cherois-Crommelin, so the with. Already, it appears, he had received

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