bluejackets and marines under the first [We regret that the above came too late to be inserted as a footnote to the list contributed at the reference.] 'CASTLE DALY' AND GALWAY.-Current events may perhaps induce some people to turn their attention to this novel of Ireland at the time of the famine, by Annie Keary. The author's descriptions of ConneA NEW CRITICISM OF CASANOVA'S mara scenery and Irish peasant life are 'MÉMOIRES.'-Students of the eighteenth very good, accurate and sympathetic, but century who are able to read German will be in her account of a journey to Galway she much interested in Gustav Gugitz's new has made two mistakes that show that volume, 'Giacomo Casanova und sein Lebens- she was not as familiar with the " City of roman,' Verlag Ed. Strache-Vienna, Prague the Tribes as with Connemara. and Leipzig. Herr Gugitz is an accomplished She seems to have thought it possible Vienne e scholar, with a profound knowledge for a rowing boat to float down from of the period, and he has made a close study Lough Corrib straight into Galway Bay of the Memoirs of Casanova for many "by the narrow channel that connects years. He appears to rate them far higher the lake with the bay," and before the from a literary and psychological stand- voyagers were out of this narrow channel point than from a historical one and is able (which I suppose is Friar's Cut, referred to show that in some places they are un- to shortly afterwards), Galway harbour, reliable and even purely fictitious. This with the Atlantic beyond," and at the book is a most notable and scholarly con- same time "the waters of the lake stretched tribution to the subject and deserves the out far behind them," were visible (chap. careful attention of all students of the xxxix.). Now my recollection is that this great autobiography. He devotes a long is impossible. Besides, Lough Corrib is chapter to the relationship between the separated from Galway Bay by the narrow adventurer and the famous Madame and deep channel of Friar's Cut, opening Thérèse Cornelys, and is of the opinion that out at the town end into a wider stretch she treated Casanova far more generously of water held up by a weir and ideal for than he acknowledges. Other chapters rowing and sailing boats, but also, below deal with Casanova's sojourn at Constan- this, by a broad, rapid and shallow reach tinople; his connexion with Cardinal of river navigable only by salmon. From Bernis; his mission to Holland; and his celebrated escape from the prison "under the leads," &c. It is a most erudite book, with copious documentation and is illustrated profusely. 66 this channel and backwater several canals take off and traverse the town, and on one of these, by negotiating a series of loughs, it might be possible for a boat to reach HORACE BLEACKLEY. the docks and the bay. But of this I SCHOOLMASTERS IN 1714 AND 1759.-The am not certain. following names are taken from the Lists of Subscribers to Walker's Sufferings of the Clergy' and to Warner's Ecclesiastical History of England' : The other mistake is in the location attributed to the house of James Lynch FitzStephen, the fifteenth-century Mayor of Galway, who from one of its windows hanged his own son. The author says: They were now walking down Castle Street, and stopped before the monument let into the wall of Lynch Castle, to mark the spot where the stern father executed his rebellious Ison with his own hands, in the face of an execrating Celtic crowd, who could not appreciate the immolation of live family love to dead law (chap. xl.). But the monument is not let into the I wall of Lynch Castle, which still exists in Castle Street, a street that runs past the south side of the old Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas; it is on the wall of a ruined house on the north side of St. Nicholas, just below the window from which the mayor is supposed to have hanged his son. He executed him not so much because Heudale he was "rebellious as because he had term signifiying a certain measurement. murdered his friend (a Spaniard), and no For instance :one else would do it. The name of the street which the house faces is Market Street. PENRY LEWIS. Queries. WE must request correspondents desiring information on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries in order that answers may be sent to them direct. Little Field-(arable) the narrow The word "bidale (more often spelled “bidle ") also occurs frequently as a measurement of land. A gad represented a perch or 10ft., but what was & wylot" and what a "bidle and also a gildam," which also occurs thus: "(1) 3 Gad gildam 3d of Toft Balk"? 66 66 I gather that the land had been Commons and had in 1796 (the date of the terriers) come into private ownership. J. FAIRFAX-BLAKEBOROUGH. Grove House, Norton-on-Tees. RUVIGNY'S PLANTAGENET ROLL. The late Marquis of Ruvigny, for some time prior to his. death, was collecting materials for Part II. of his Mortimer-Gercy' volume, Part I. of which was published in 1911. In whose hands are his MSS. ? Was the part at all near completion at his death? It was his intention to bring out a series of volumes, HENSHAW OF UTTOXETER AND CHESHUNT: embracing all the known descendants of King Edward III.-a most formidable task. I know that the present high cost of printing was a barrier to the completion of his work. W. G. D. FLETCHER, F.S.A. BRITISH MELODIES,' printed for the Editor (not for sale) by John Stacy, Norwich, post 8vo, n.d. An introductory essay called The Pilgrimage of Living Poets to the Stream of Castaly' is signed J. H. R. My copy has a pencil correction of H to L and Joseph Ritson almost illegibly written underneath. Can anyone confirm this ascription or the date 1820 given in the British Museum Catalogue, and identify any of the many original pieces never before published" in the volume ? CHRISTOPHER STONE. Peppers, near Steyning. PORTRAIT OF NELSON BY H. EDRIDGE. The D.N.B.' mentions a drawing (small full-length figure, facing the spectator) executed in 1802 and purchased by the Trustees of the National Portrait Gallery in 1891. I have a half-length oval engraving (stipple) by W. Evans of a drawing by H. Edridge, published May 12, 1798, by Molteno, and should be grateful for information as to the original portrait. CHRISTOPHER STONE. 66 а WEAKE OF NORFOLK.--Can any reader county or local history? I should be glad to obtain any particulars concerning ARMSTRONG.-John Armstrong, a farmer of South Benfleet, in Essex, married Mary, daughter of Joseph Thorn of St. Osyth, and died in 1803. His son, the Rev. John Armstrong of St. John's College, Cambridge (in 1806), afterwards married Elizabeth Damont. Another son was a doctor LAND MEASUREMENT TERMS. In going in London. Information concerning the through some old East Yorkshire and Lin- descent of this family, who by the name colnshire terriers I have frequently come presumably came originally from the Border, across the word wylot," obviously as a is requested. Peppers, near Steyning. 66 KING FAMILY BOOK-PLATES.-I possess two book-plates of the King family, namely, Thomas King and Captain William King, R.N. Arms: Gules a lion statant gardant argent, between three ducal coronets, two and one, or. Crest On a wreath of the colours, a talbot's head erased, collared and ringed or. Also a book-plate of Mrs. William Heath (née King), a lozenge with the same arms impaling Heath. To what family of King did they belong and where can a pedigree be seen? Are the arms and crest registered at the College of Arms? Any information respecting the families of King and Heath would be much appreciated, Essex Lodge, Ewell. LEONARD C. PRICE. THE RUNNING HORSE,' PICCADILLY.The Observer of the 1st inst. states that, in excavating for the new club for the R.A.F. in Piccadilly, pewter tankards of the eighteenth century bearing the inscription The Running Horse' were dug up. No such inn is named by Mr. de Castro in his list of eighteenth-century inns and taverns. Perhaps he will enlighten us. It may be "The Running Horse' was not a place of public entertainment, though that seems unlikely. W. R. DAVIES. GEORGE HENRY HARLOW, the artist, was born in St. James Street, London, on June 10, 1787, and is described in the 'D.N.B.,' xxiv. 408, as the "posthumous son of a China merchant." I should be glad to learn fuller particulars of his parentage. G. F. R. B. of the family emigrated to Ireland. Is a pedigree of the family in existence showing the names of the family which went to Ireland, and whether they changed their name on settling there, as the name Dalston does not appear to be known there? STEMMA. an "When Spring's voice is heard Which none but the cuckoo knows." A. G. 2. Margaret's Tomb.' I have in my possession engraving called 'Margaret's Tomb,' by Bartolozzi after Bunbury. At the bottom of the engraving are some lines of which I enclose a copy. Can anyone tell me where the lines come from? I have searched through a good many poets and have shown them to a good many friends without success. MARGARET'S TOMB. Her bloom was like the springy flower The rose was budded on her cheek But love had like a canker worm The rose grew pale and left her cheek; That face, alas, no more is fair, Those lips no longer red; Dark are those eyes now closed in death, the late A. H. Bullen, to whom, in 1915, I submitted the MS. of my article on that play, subsequently sent to N. & Q.' "No London-published May 10, 1799, by Thos. Competent reader," he wrote to me in a Macklin, Poet's Gallery, Fleet Street. C. BRIDGEWATER WILLIAMS. 3. "And then they kept their spirits up By pouring spirits down." HORACE BLEACKLEY. TRANSLATORS WANTED.-Who were the writers of the following books ?— letter dated June 28, 1915, can doubt that you have shown Webster to be part author." 6 With regard to Appius and Virginia,' it would be impossible, in a short note such as this, to set forth my reasons for disagreeing with those critics who believe that Heywood had “a main finger" in it. 1. The Epistles of Ovid, translated into Eng. Their chief arguments are based on the lish prose as near the original of the Latin and resemblances between its vocabulary and English languages as will allow, with the Latin that of Heywood's plays, resemblances in text and order of construction on the same page; and critical, historical, geographical and classical my opinion due to Heywood's influence notes in English from the best commentators, both on Webster. To me the style of the play ancient and modern; beside a very great number is nowhere like Heywood's and shows of notes entirely new. For the use of schools as abundant traces of Webster's workmanship. well as of private gentlemen. The fifth edition. London: printed for J. Nunn, Great-Queen-Street; Mr. Oliphant's article in Modern PhilR. Priestley, 143, High-Holborn; R. Lea, Greek-ology on 'Problems of Authorship in Street, Soho; and J. Rodwell, New-Bond-Street. Elizabethan Dramatic Literature' is well known to me, and had already led me to taste "The Bloody Banquet.' I have just tried it again and find in it no flavour of Dekker. Nor do I find any evidence to support Mr. Oliphant's opinion that Middleton was concerned in it. Whether by Thomas Drue or not (I have not yet seen his Duchess of Suffolk '), it seems to me all by one hand. 1813. 2. The Annals and History of Tacitus. A new and literal English version. Oxford: D. A. Talboys and 113, Fleet Street, London. MDCCCXXXIX. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. Replies. 'ANYTHING FOR A QUIET LIFE.' (12 S. ix. 181, 202, 225, 300; 12 S. x. 11.) I AM pleased to find that my attribution of a substantial part of this play to Webster is confirmed by so expert a critic as MR. OLIPHANT. His division of the text between Middleton and Webster corresponds pretty closely with my own (see 12 S. ix. 300, where mistakes due to the MS. from which my article was printed are corrected). Though I think Mr. Oliphant has given Webster less than is due to him, I admit that it is possible that I have given him rather more, and that some scenes I have allotted to Webster may be partly Middleton's. Enfield. 66 H. DUGDALE SYKES. JACOB TONSON AS A SPY ON PRIOR (12 S. ix. 482).-I had hoped that M. DOTTIN'S contribution would elicit correspondence from scholars of the times of Queen Anne. It is only because none has appeared that I venture to express the hope that M. Dottin will give English people the further results of his studies, for he appears to have struck a rich vein in historical records. We now begin to dimly understand why Lady Mary Wortley Montagu called Bolingbroke "that vile man," and why Addison spoke of cankered Bolingbroke,' two epithets that Mr. Sichel in his Life of Bolingbroke so strongly resents. It now My paper, although only recently pub becomes more intelligible why the second lished, was written in 1916, shortly after Lady Bolingbroke had to pay into Lady the sale of Swinburne's library in June of Yarmouth's private account £10,000 before that year, when I was fortunate enough any question of a pardon for her husband to secure the poet's copy of Dyce's Mid- would be listened to; a fact I think not dleton,' and so, for the first time, became stated by Mr. Sichel. M. Dottin will have able to study the play at leisure. to proceed critically. The evidence of Perhaps I may add that my assignment spies is not untainted; they are often to Webster of the part-authorship of The paid by "results." Fair Maid of the Inn' was endorsed by J. PAUL DE CASTRO. FIELDINGIANA (12 S. X. 7).—W. E.assertion on the entry in Magnus Rotulus Henley's observations on Taine's bon buffle are relevant, but they are not cited as controverting MR. ARMSTRONG's criticism : Of all the definitions that ever were defined Taine's definition of Fielding as "a good buffalo" strikes one as one of the most absurd. But Taine, man of genius as he was born, and savant as he made himself, was at all times the prey of any theory that happened to commend itself to his imaginative yet very logical mind; and either this, his theory of Harry Fielding, was one of the unluckiest he ever developed, or you can pay no man a higher compliment than to call him a Good Buffalo. For consider what, in Fielding's case, is comprehended in the term. If to be a Good Buffalo be all that, why, then, I can't help wishing that the breed were more prolific; and even that M. Henri Taine had himself belonged to it. J. PAUL DE CASTRO. GERVASE DE CORNHILL (12 S. viii. 229).Owing to above query, I have received so much information and direction that I beLieve this complicated conundrum to be partly solved. Query A.-Roger "nepos Huberti," whom Dr. Round showed us to be the father of Gervase de Cornhill, will prove, I think, to have been Roger de Villers, brother of that Hamo ce St. Clair who succeeded his uncle, Eudo Dapifer, in the lordship of Colchester. I must not cumber your columns with references or citations, but pp. 42 and 120 of the Chartulary of St. John the Baptist of Colchester (Roxburghe Club) give the basis of the proof. We find there that Roger de Villers (not to be confounded with Roger de Valognes, another "nepos Eudonis") was brother of Hamo, and that the Hamo in question was undoubtedly Hamo de St. Clair. Further, just as the Manor of Chalk in Kent was granted to Gervase de Cornhill at the death of his father Roger (who had held it after Adam FitzHubert and Eudo Dapifer, his brother), so we here find Hamo, Roger's brother, making a grant of tithes in that same Chalk. Both Hamo and Roger were thus proprietors in Chalk, both " nepotes Eudonis," nepotes" also of Eudo's brother Hubert, Castellan of Norwich and “ nepotes (grandsons, not nephews in this case) of Hubert de Rie, which was to be demonstrated and which brings the De Cornhills of Kent into direct descent from that great forefather. Query B.-As to Herbert, Chamberlain to Henry I., and Hubert, Chamberlain to King Stephen, Hasted makes these two father and With due hesitation, I submit that Hasted is in error, and that if he founded his son. 66 Scaccarii,' 31 Hen. I. (p. 37, Hunter's ed., 1833), where Herbert “fil. Herberti Camer: renders his dues for “terra patris sui," he had not necessarily found the right Chamberlains, all Chamberlains not being "Camerarii Regis." The Catalogue of Ancient Deeds' (Record Office), shows that Richard de Anesty was the son of Stephen's Hubertus Camerarius. The Chartulary of St. John confirms this indirectly, but certainly shows Hubertus himself to be what was to be anticipated from his close association with Gervase de Cornhill-the son of the aforenamed Hamo de St. Clair. As Gervase was son of Hamo's brother Roger, he is thus first cousin to Hubert, and they both are greatgrandsons of Hubert de Rie (pp. 153, 154, 156, 160, 164, compared with pp. 146 and 163 of the Chartulary as above, outline the evidence). This ascendance cuts out Herbert, Chamberlain to Henry I., from several pleasing pedigrees, unless he was a collateral, and we 66 are still in want of evidence as to whether Hamo and Roger, nepotes Eudonis et Huberti," were sons of a brother or of a sister of those great men. Since writing above I have re-read the recently issued History of Norwich Castle,' by Mr. Walter Rye. On p. 52 he appears to hesitate as to accepting Hamo de St. Clair as Eudo's nephew, but does not contest the weight of Mr. R. W. St. Clair of Chicago's evidence that Roger de Villers was “nepos Eudonis." As I owe to these two authorities much kind guidance and valuable suggestion, I am glad to see that, so long as either Hamo or Roger, whom the Chartulary proves to be brothers, can claim Eudo as uncle, my pedigree, as above, stands. PERCY HULBURD. 124, Inverness Terrace, W. 'NOT SO BAD AS WE SEEM: CHARLES KNIGHT (12 S. x. 10).--This was Charles Knight, the author and publisher (17911873), a close friend of Dickens, and one of the "splendid strollers." He was originally " asked to play the part of Hodge in the Guild of Literature and Art performances of Not So Bad As We Seem,' and in reference to that wrote: For myself, I should have been well contented with "Hodge the merry servant." But my profor playing the part of a scheming publisher of fessional tastes and consequent histrionic capacity the days of Sir Robert Walpole were considered, and I had to rehearse the part of Jacob Tonson, the bookseller. |