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ENGLISH ARMY SLANG AS USED IN who should drive the object struck to the THE GREAT WAR. greatest distance. But I am not sure of this, though I am sure there were no holes (See 12 S. ix. 341. 378, 383, 415. 423, 455, to negotiate as in golf. But certainly there 465, 499, 502, 538.) is a cousinship between all these various WE are indebted to MR. E. LONSDALE DEIGH-games-golf, hockey, the game depicted in TON for the following more or less travestied the Book of Hours,' cambuc and cammug. Russian words which were adopted by the troops serving in Russia and used there as were "sanfaryan" and "napoo" on the Western Front.

BARISHNYA (бapышa). Strictly an unmarried lady. To Tommy, any "bird." DO SVIDANYA ! (до свиданья). Good-bye! The Russian expression meaning Au revoir ! PLANNY (8). Drunk. POZHÁLYSTA (1ожаяуüета). Please. SPASSIBA (enacnoo). Thanks.

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STARIE CHELETEK (старый человѣкъ). An old man. A term applied to the C.O., or any other person in authority. XAROSHIE (xopomiй). (Pronounce X as Scottish "ch.") An expression of satisfaction. Equivalent to Très bien and as much mutilated in pronunciation. YAH NE PANEMIYÚ (я не понимаю). " I understand." An expression most quently used by Tommy in making to his barishnya. "ZDRÁSTVITYE!" (Contracted very often into "Zdrást!") The Russian form of greeting is "з1растBуire," meaning "Be healthy! Adopted by the troops it became the general form of greeting among themselves. [No English Army Slang will appear in the next three numbers of N. & Q.']

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EARLY BALL GAMES.- In The Daily Mail of Dec. 22, 1921, there appears a reproduction of an illustration from a Book of Hours (c. 1500) in the British Museum representing what looks extraordinarily like a game of golf. This reminded me of a passage in A. Abram's English Life and Manners in the Later Middle Ages' (p. 235), as follows: Other statutes and proclamations include among unlawful games [temp. Rich. II.] cambuc, probably a kind of golf, the ball being hit with a curved bat called a bandy.' This again reminds me of a game in vogue in the Isle of Man from days of yore locally called cammug. Both the game itself and the stout curved stick, preferably of gorse, are named cammug. The two names cambuc and cammug are virtually identical, the labial letter "b" of the one having been softened into the nasal labial "m" of the other. If I am not mistaken, cammug differed from both golf and hockey, consisting, I think, of a trial of strength as to

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CHARLES SWYNNERTON, F.S.A.

PRIVILEGES GRANTED BY THE LORD OF THE MANOR. An interesting sidelight on the social life of the time of James I., and incidentally on the comprehensive nature of the privileges which it was in the power of the lord of the manor to give, is shown by the following copy of a paper in my possession. It seems extraordinary that the amenities of even a small country village should be so disregarded as to permit such rights to any one person, however important he might be locally. John Smyth was the steward of the Hundred of Berkeley and the writer of the Lives of the Berkeleys.'

Wee Sr William Cooke and Sr Thomas Estcourt knights executors of the last will and Testament of the Right Honble Henry lord Berkley deceased, doe hereby, as farre as in us lyeth, grant, County of Glouc gent, for the better compostinge, and give leave unto John Smyth of Nibly in the of the said John in Nibly aforesaid, to bringe soylinge, and refreshinge of the arrable lands and cast strawe into the streets and highwayes their, And the same afterwards to shovell togeat her on heapes and cary into the arrable grounds of the said John, fforbiddinge all others to entermedle in the like in any the streets and highwayes in Nibly aforesaid, without the leave of the said John. Witnes our hands, this p'sent ixth of May. 1614.

Gloucester.

THO: ESTCOURT. ROLAND AUSTIN.

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"SUNT OCULOS CLARI QUI CERNIS SIDERA TANQUAM."-In The Linguist; or Weekly Instructions in the French and German Languages, of April 9, 1825, p. 33, the author writes :

MRS. JOANNA STEPHENS.-This lady's 2. When were first published Benjamin biography is not given in the 'D.N.B.' She Disraeli's editions of the following works published, on June 16, 1739, a receipt for by Isaac Disraeli: Quarrels of Authors,' the cure of the stone and gravel, which Calamities of Authors,' Amenities of raised considerable dust among the medical Literature,' and the other works of Isaac faculty in this country and abroad judging included in the Routledge seven-volume by the 13 entries in the British Museum edition of 1858, with the exception of the Catalogue. Parliament, we are told by Curiosities of Literature and the Comherself, paid her £5,000 to make the receipt mentaries on the Reign of Charles I.,' the public for the use and benefit of mankind. first publication dates of which were 1849 Her medicines were a powder, a decoction and 1851 respectively? and pills, the powder consisting of egg-shells and snails both calcined: while the decoction was made by boiling some herbs (together with a ball which consisted of soap, swine's cresses burnt to a blackness, and honey) in water. The ingredients of the pills were also snails calcined, with wild-carrot seeds, burdock seeds, ashen keys, hips and haws, all burnt to blackness, soap and honey. The preparation of all three nostrums is described in detail, and minute directions are given as to how to administer them to the patient. The receipt was published on two leaves which the binder was directed to place after the Tables of Contents at the beginning of a 12mo book, the title page of which is missing in both copies I have seen. The title page in the British Museum copy is given in MS. as follows: "The Complete Family Piece and Country Gentleman's and Farmer's Guide,' which repeats the sub-titles of the three parts or divisions of the little book, which was printed in London and sold by ¦ T. Longman at the Ship in Pater-noster Row, 1736 (according to the MS. title, but three years before the date of the lady's anyone kindly tell me when this painter signature at the end of the receipt). At the end of my copy there is a long list of books: sold by J. Clark, the first and last pages of which are also missing (press mark, 1147

b. 21).

Queries.

L. L. K.

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.

DISRAELI QUERIES.-1. Ixion in Heaven' and The Infernal Marriage.' Were these short pieces published in book form prior to 1853? They were published in The New Monthly in the early thirties, and in September, 1853, a letter from Disraeli in Monypenny's 'Life' shows that they had recently been issued as a book.

The ablest Latin scholar on seeing for the first time the well-known puzzling line, Sunt oculos clari qui cernis sidera tanquam," is obliged to give in their logical order, and this operation, which is it a moment's consideration to arrange the words rapidly performed whenever the grammatical rules and inflexions of a language are known, would be rather impeded than assisted by the English, are eyes bright which thou seest stars as," underneath the line.

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Who wrote this "well-known puzzling line"? The Linguist, in two volumes, began March 26, 1825, and ended March 18, 1826. The compiler or author was, according to a former owner of my copy, and certain internal evidence, Daniel Boileau, author of 'French Homonymes,' &c. ROBERT PIERPOINT.

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DUTCH PAINTER.-Can

flourished," and anything about him? My family have a painting on wood done by him. It is obviously old, and is entitled View in Holland with Boats and Figures --such, at least, is the inscription printed on a piece of paper affixed to the back of the picture.

We have another painting on wood, apparently by a Dutchman, of about the period 1640-1690. It depicts a number of figures of men and women grouped in various attitudes around a dog and a well-dressed dwarf. It is said by family tradition to represent the meeting of some secret or masonic society. But there is nothing about the picture by which to identify either author or subject. H. WILBERFORCE-BELL.

21, Park Crescent, Oxford.

PSALM LXXXIII. Has the extraordinary mistake regarding the heading of this psalm in the Common Prayer Book been remarked

before in N. & Q.' The Latin heading

THE HÔTEL VOUILLEMONT.-Can any of all the other psalms is a translation, reader give me the approximate date on roughly, of the opening words. But in the which the Hôtel Vouillemont (now in the case of the 83rd Psalm the heading, Deus, Rue Boissy d'Anglas) was opened in Paris? quis similis, has nothing in common with the opening words, "Hold not thy tongue." Verse 9 of the 89th Psalm contains the words, Who is like unto thee?"

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G. F.

PIO NONO.-Will some reader kindly let me have the date of the election of Pope Pius IX. and the date of his death? G. F.

was elected June 16, 1846, and crowned June 21. [Pius IX. (Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti) He died Feb. 7, 1878.]

THIRLWALL AND BUNSEN.-I am interested

H. WILBERFORCE-BELL. ERGHUM OF ERGHUM, YORKSHIRE.-Can any reader tell me where I can find any account of this family, of whom Sir William de Erghum of Erghum (buried in St. Mary's, Bridlington, in 1347) left by his wife Sybil in the relations of Christian Bunsen, Prus(d. and h. of Sir Henry FitzAucher) three sian Ambassador to England 1840-54, to sons, William, Ralph and Aucher. various English scholars. I would like to know whether the correspondence of Connop Thirlwall is accessible, also that of Christian Bunsen.

Is there any pedigree or other account of them in any county or local history? Have they been long extinct, and, if so, are they represented in the female line? Burke's 'Armory' does not mention the name.

C. J. BRUCE ANGIER.

J. J. Perowne, in his Preface to his edition of Letters of Bishop Thirlwall,' says: "I have selected and arranged those I thought most likely to be of general interest." letters exchanged between Thirlwall and am wondering whether he did not omit

Bunsen.

R. D. OWEN.

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JOHN WESLEY'S FIRST PUBLICATIONIn the account of John Wesley in the 'D.N.B.' it is stated that the first book he published was a translation of The Imitation of Christ,' but no bibliographical BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS OF ARTISTS details are given. In the writer's possession soUGHT.-Information is sought as to biois a leather-bound volume (43 by 21), with graphical details of the following waterthe following title page :colour artists, samples of whose work occur in my collection :

The Christian's | Pattern: | or, a Treatise
of the Imitation of Christ | Translated from the
Latin of Thomas à Kempis. | Compared with
the Original, and corrected throughout by
John Wesley, M.A., Fellow of Linc. Coll. Oxon.
London: Printed for C. Rivington, | at the
Bible and Crown in St. Paul's Church- | Yard.
MDCCXXXV.

A plate faces the title page with a steel engraving of .Our Lord on the Cross, and underneath in italics :

Christ also suffered, leaving us an Example yt we should follow his steps. 1st St. Pet. 2., c. 21. It would be interesting to know if there was any earlier edition of this work.

WILLIAM BROWN.

From

INDEX ECCLESIASTICUS.—In 1890 there was published by Joseph Foster a volume of List of Clergy and their Benefices,' embracing the years 1800 to 1840 (Oxford, Parker; Cambridge, Macmillan and Bowes). pp. vii. and viii. of the Preface to that work, it is evident that the MS. for the preceding years, 1540 to 1800, was ready, but I suppose was never printed.

Wanted to know, the whereabouts of that MS. now and the terms on which it may be G. W.

consulted.

1. Bernard Evans (landscape).
2. Ernest Griset (caricature).
3. J. D. Harding (landscape).
4. H. A. Harper (landscape).
5. G. J. Knox (shipping).

6. R. T. Landells (sea subjects).
7. Paul Marny (street architecture).
8. R. H. Nibbs (boats).

9. C. Pearson (landscape).
10. E. Pugh (architecture).
11. N. Pocock (sea subjects).
12. T. S. Robbins (landscape).
13. H. R. Rose (figure subjects).
14. F. P. Searle (landscape).

15. Marianne Smallpiece (landscape).
16. J. T. Serres (ships).

17. E. Tucker (landscape).
18. B. B. Wadham (landscape).

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NATHANIEL EATON, President designate of Harvard College, was the sixth son of the Rev. Richard Eaton, vicar of Budworth, Cheshire. What was his mother's maiden name ? He is said to have been twice married, one of his wives being a daughter of Thomas Graves of Virginia. I should be glad to obtain the dates and further particulars of these two marriages. The D.N.B.,' xvi. 337, does not throw any light on these points. G. F. R. B.

WILLIAM GEORGE EVELEIGH, the third son of the Rev. William Eveleigh, vicar of Aylesford, Kent, graduated B.A. at Oxford University from Brasenose in 1832. The date and place of his death are required.

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JOHN FORBES.

2. Can any of your readers kindly oblige with the author of the following lines:

C. L. H.

"A heart at leisure from itself To soothe and sympathise." [From a poem by Anna Laetitia Waring, beginning

"Father, I know that all my life Is portioned out for me," which may be found in several collections-e.g., Poems of the Inner Life" (Sampson Low).]

3. Some years ago, when in the British Museum, in perusing a volume of poems there was one that appealed to me. The theme was faithfulness after loss of the loved one, and each stanza ended with the word" Instead," in the sense that none other would do instead. I think the writer was of the Victorian period, but as I mislaid my note about the poem and am without the name or the first line, I am unable to find it by knowledge of the last word in a sense contrary to the literal meaning.

If any of your readers can guide me to this poem by furnishing name and author I will be very much obliged.

FITZ-MINSTRELLE.

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MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT: LADY MARY KING.

(12 S. ix. 490.)

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THE lady referred to in The European Magazine was Lady Mary Elizabeth King, third Two accounts of the tragedy referred to are daughter of the second Earl of Kingston. known to me, one in the Memoirs of the Comtesse de Boigne' (vol. i., p. 119), the other in a modern compilation, Love Romances of the Aristocracy,' by Thornton Hall, barrister-at-law. It is also cautiously referred to by Sir Jonah Barrington in his Personal Sketches' (vol. i., p. 196). The Comtesse's account is that of a contemporary and she was a personal friend and claims deep affection for Lady Mary King. At the same time her recollections were written down without notes and there are obvious omissions in her account of the tragedy. Briefly, she tells us that Lady Mary at the age of about 18 eloped with Colonel Fitzgerald, who was the natural son of her mother's brother and therefore her cousin in blood. Fitzgerald was colonel in the Guards, tall, handsome, and popular. He was about 30, was married, and had been Mary's playfellow since she was a child. This fatal infatuation seized these two otherwise excellent persons and they were found at a house in Kennington, where Mary, dressed in boy's clothes, was waiting to embark for America with her lover. There was an inconclusive duel in Hyde Park between Colonel Fitzgerald and Colonel King, Mary's brother. She was enceinte, and her family hurried her off on the shores of the Atlantic in the west of to a lonely house belonging to her father, Ireland. According to the Comtesse, Mary feared for the life of the child she was about to bring into the world, and she induced the woman who was in charge of her to agree to send a letter to Colonel Fitzgerald begging him to send a reliable agent to the nearest village to take away the child. The woman gave up the letter to her father, then Viscount Kingsborough, and he used it as a means to entrap Fitzgerald. The letter was allowed to go to him, for the father suspected that Fitzgerald would come for the child himself. He did, alone, and disguised. He was murdered father by Mary's brothers, and the letter and Mary's miniature found on him were brought to her

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covered with his blood. She was delivered of a stillborn child and went raving mad, so that it was necessary to place her under forcible restraint.

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ANYTHING FOR A QUIET LIFE' (12 S. ix. 181, 202, 225).-It may interest MR. DUGDALE SYKES and perhaps others if I quote from an entry made in one of my notebooks on Elizabethan dramatic subjects, the entry having been made not later than 1918, probably in 1917:

Anything for a Quiet Life-Middleton and Webster. Middleton-II., III., IV. 2, 3, V. la (to George's entry), 3; Webster-I., IV. 1, V. lb, 2. The Webster in I. from Knavesby's entrance and in V. 2, and IV. 1, is very characteristic. I have much more doubt in considering the other author Middleton. The work does not bear many of his marks; but I think it is his nevertheless.

Mr. Thornton Hall's version is more favourable to the unhappy girl's family. According to him Colonel Fitzgerald followed her to Mitchelstown Castle, the family seat in County Cork, not to receive the child, but to carry out a second elopement. Lord Kingsborough and his son heard of his presence in disguise, went to his hotel and burst in the door of his room, on which a desperate struggle took place. Fitzgerald had pointed a pistol at Colonel King's head and was about to fire when Lord Kingsborough shot him dead. Lady Mary was not insane, but was sent to the family of a Welsh clergyman, where she lived under an assumed name. She recovered her old health and gaiety and married the clergyman, who was a rest of the play, he gives no reason for his

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It will be seen that I divided the final act into three scenes, whereas Mr. Sykes, doubtless following Dyce, divides it into two only. As I have not the play by me, I cannot say to what extent I differ from him in regard to that Act. As for the

belief that the earlier part of IV. ii. is Webster's; but I am very ready to admit that he has made out a good case for adding II. i. amd III. i., or at least a share in them, to the scenes which so long ago I credited to Webster.

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Colonel Fitzgerald's wife demanded vengeance for his death, but the family were too strong for vengeance to reach them. Colonel King was tried at Cork Assizes in April, 1798, but acquitted, as no one came forward to prosecute. A month later his In reference to Mr. Sykes's remark regardfather, who had in the interval succeeded ing Appius and Virginia,' another memo to the Earldom of Kingston, was brought in my notebook, dating probably about to trial by his peers, but found "Not 1914, sets down my idea of the authorship guilty," as no one appeared to prosecute. Webster and (?) Heywood." This Mr. Thornton Hall describes this trial as was before I had seen any attribution of the taking place at Westminster, but it is clear play to Heywood. Another entry which I from Sir Jonah Barrington's narrative that it find in my notebook, attributing The took place in the chamber of the Irish House Bloody Banquet ' to Middleton and (?) of Commons on College Green. The Com- Dekker, induces me to suggest that Mr. tesse de Boigne declares that the Earl and Sykes should turn his undoubted enthusiasm his son aroused "great indignation and and energy to that play. I pointed out ̈general opprobrium" by their action. Sir years ago in an article in Modern Philology Jonah Barrington says that he had a "high (Jan., 1911) that external evidence favoured regard" for the Earl, and Mr. Thornton Dekker's authorship, and the discovery of Hall says that he was welcomed by con- Anthony à Wood's play-list (Mod. Lang. gratulating friends. Rev., Oct., 1918) has confirmed that view. One scene is really like him; but so much of the rest of the play as is not Middleton's I am not aware that Mr. Hall's is nearer the truth if not is not very characteristic. exactly correct. Burke records that Lady that, except for any unpublished effort, Mary Elizabeth King married, in April, 1805 any attempt has been made to solve the (about eight years after the death of Fitz- authorship of this play. E. H. C. OLIPHANT. gerald), George G. Meares, Esq. (whose address is given in Debrett as Richmond THE FIFTH PETITION IN THE LORD'S Place, Clifton, Co. Gloucester). She died in PRAYER (12 S. ix. 508)." Debt" is defined 1819, leaving three sons and three daughters. in the N.E.D.' as That which is owed Apparently the Gloucestershire layman has or due"; Obligation to do something, been metamorphosed into the Welsh clergy-duty." Trespass is the same as transR. S. PENGELLY. gression, a going beyond the limits of duty to God or man, hence its use as denoting

As to Lady Mary King's fate, it is clear that the Comtesse's story is inaccurate, and

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