Il chercha la rue la plus noire, d'où l'on ne vit ni le lac ni les Alpes, l'ombre humide et verdâtre des grands murs de Saint Pierre (Histoire de France,' Bk. XI., chap. vi.). seventy years and a very voluminous biblio- MICHELET ON CALVIN'S HOUSE AT graphy, to make anything like a complete GENEVA. Michelet represents Calvin collection of the descriptive works which fall shocked when he arrived at Geneva to take within the classification Guide-Books,' with up his residence there; he tells us that the examples of all the long series of editions gay city seemed to the stern Frenchman a involved, would be a very serious under- temptation of the Evil One to lure him away taking. In the limited classification of Road from the austere life to which he had vowed Books and Itineraries, if we exclude the himself. And then the imaginative hisaccounts of the pilgrim journeys to Jeru- torian goes on:salem and other places of religious interest | which appeared in print very early in the sixteenth century, the starting-point seems to be La Guide des Chemins de France, and Les Voyages de plusieurs endroits de There is no doubt that this sentence conFrance et encores de la Terre Saincte, tains a gross misstatement. The street d'Espaigne, d'Italie, et autres pays,' pub- where Calvin lived is even to-day gloomy lished by Charles Estienne at Paris in 1552, and narrow, but it is not likely that it was of the former of which the reprints continue any gloomier or narrower than most of the until 1623. This is followed by ‘La Guide other streets of Geneva in the sixteenth des Chemins d'Angleterre,' published in Paris century. The house was chosen for hiru. in 1579 by Jean Bernard, and by the Som- and there was some difficulty in getting it. maire Description de la France, Allemagne, Though the front looked out on a narrow Italie et Espagne,' issued by Théodore de and gloomy street, there was a garden at Mayerne-Turquet at Geneva in 1591, which the back, and from it a view of the Jura on was reprinted up to 1653. Amongst similar the left, the Alps on the right, and the lake publications which had a long range in time in between. Certain people, anxious to are Le Voyage de France, dressé pour la H. GEORGE FORDHAM. An exaggerate the asceticism of Calvin, at & The Authors' Club, Whitehall, S.W. ST. MARY MATFELLON, alias WHITE CHAPPEL.-In MR. WALTER RYE'S inter esting article, Whitechapel as an Ea London Norfolk Colony' (see 12 S. x. 345, he says that as late as 18 Hy. VII. (1502 3%,” there is a mention of "the parish of S.. Ut fragrans Nardus famâ fuit iste Richardus This epitaph is not in the copy of Stow before me. These lines are evidently defective. Weever, in his Funeral Monuments,' calls it crazed and imperfect" (p. 407). : In the seventh line" divinis " is obviously HOROLOGERS IN LONDON PORT.-Correspondents are now to the fore with ample evidence that high-class horologers, or watch and clock makers, were really numerous in London Port in the Georgian heyday of the British Mercantile Marine, before the construction of great docks in either of the two sections which by River customs and laws, and by trade regulations, divided the water-navigation at Ratcliffe Cross Stairs. The name of William Kipling of Broad Street, near Ratcliffe Cross, is borne on known examples dated 1710, 1720, 1730. The same name figures on a bracket clock found" among the loot from the Chinese Emperor's Summer Palace at Peking in 1860. This curio-whose history was probably various and romantic-had crown escapements, and there was a "pull repeater" with eight bells (said to be still workable); and an engraved inset back-plate bears the dates 1705-1737. The names of William and John Kipling are on other clocks of 1750; and by local assessment papers it appears that the Kiplings were succeeded by Charles Boseley during the period 1750 to 1766. Richard Motley, of the Clockmaker's Company, 1682, at the Hand and Buckle, near King Edward Stairs, Wapping," is responsible for the mechanism of a long Oriental lacquercase clock, dating about 1720. And the same horologer is seen in another long case of mahogany, pendulum worked. over, the expert Mr. Britten has seen another fine example of William Kipling's craftsYou may assoone furnish an armie, as supplie all their trickets and toyes; ** an manship in there are more oak long-case fashions extant, then there is varietie in nature; square dial, period Queen Anne, 1705-37." the French attire, the Spanish band, the Dutch At all these local establishments, along JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. TRINKET. The 'N.E.D.' suggests that this word may be connected with trick, though evidence is wanting. I can supply what may be the missing link: More clock, This ends Banks's note, but there is also the volume a manuscript included in pedigree as follows:King Edw. IV. Jane Shore, died in great poverty 18 Hen. VIII. : London Street, Broad Street, Wapping some short notes, which some day I probably may Side, Ratcliffe Highway and other places, a publish. (Signed) T. C. Banks. considerable business was done in buying and selling nautical instruments of all kinds, in trading in jewellery and other adornment of Stepney sailors' doxies with very florid tastes. In the long last some dealers drifted into bullion exchange, and to home and foreign silk-pieces dealing; some to the thriving business of miscellaneous pawnbroking and even "receiving"; and some towards modern international banking. The same process is observable at other English seaports: "the sight of means to do ill-deeds makes ill-deeds done." Queries. Mc. 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. Richard Plantagenet, Richard, ī Alphonsus Maximi- DESCENDANTS OF PERKIN WARBECK.In a copy of Horace Walpole's Historic |* Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Edward Richard the Third' that I have recently bought, which appears to have been the property of Thomas Christopher Banks, the genealogist and champion of the Nova Scotia baronets, occurs the following manuscript note: A family of the name of Warbeck was highly respectable in the County of Carmarthen, temp. Edward IV. A Philip Warbeck was bailiff of Carmarthen in 1438, John Warbeck was Mayor in 1462, also a John (probably the same) in 1474. From a rare book intituled The History of the Impostors Simnel and Warbeck,' London, 1745, it appears his lineage was prepared for him by Authority. Vide Sir H. Madden's Papers on this subject in 27th vol. of Archæologia. There are many circumstances to induce a belief that Perkin W. was a son of K. Edw. by Jane Shore, and that after the death of the King he was sent by his mother to her uncle in Holland, assuming his mother's maiden name of Warbeck. His strong likeness to K. Edw. tends to corro borate this. Having been thus educated and brought up by his uncle, it may well be imagined he had become informed of all those circumstances of which the Duchess of Burgundy is said to have instructed him, without her so doing, and knew them better than she could tell him. When at Douay in Flanders, after the Peace of 1813, I met a German officer of the Allied Army, who, talking of his descent, among other matters, mentioned that he was derived from the family of Warbeck, and would, when he returned home, send me some very interesting Memoirs not known to Eh historians. I, however, only received Cath., d. of Geo. Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntly. George Edward, Janet, d. of a Sir Jas. chen. The above pedigree looks a very suspicious one in view of the absence of surname on the male side, but it would be interesting to learn whether there is any family claiming descent from Perkin Warbeck, and whether the impostor, if impostor he were, had any son by his wife, Lady Catherine Gordon. The latter, as is well known, was received with much honour by the English Court. Horace Walpole himself is strongly of the opinion that Perkin Warbeck was the son of Edward IV. by his Queen, and therefore was the real Duke of York and heir to the Crown. Has any further evidence on this point been discovered since Walpole wrote, and has satisfactory evidence ever been offered that the bodies discovered in the Tower were really those of King Edward V. and his brother? EVANS LEWIN. Royal Colonial Institute. Norfolk,' that a quarterly coat carved on the porch, 1 and 4 a double-headed eagle (the Imperial arms), 2 and 3 a lion rampant queue forchée (Bohemia), impaled another quarterly coat, 1 and 4 three fleurs-de-lis, and 2 and 3 three lions passant (the old coat of England). MICHAEL DAHL.-I am engaged on a out, what had been previously noted by the monograph of the Swedish artist, Michael Rev. E. Farrer in his Church Heraldry of Dahl, who came to England in about 1682. He then travelled abroad and worked for some time in Rome. He settled in London in 1688 and died here in 1743. Though I have traced between two hundred and three hundred of his portraits, I am not satisfied that I have found enough from his early brush. I know that he painted in his young days portraits of his friend Christian Reisen (sold at Walpole's sale at Strawberry Hill), and C. Königsmarck. Possibly your readers could help me and would know the whereabouts of some of his portrait groups, classical subjects, drawings, miniatures, letters, and autographs, or any mention of Dahl or his descendants (he left two daughters) in literature, letters, &c. I am also trying to trace the sale catalogue of his household effects, including pictures, which were sold by Mr. Cock at the Great Piazza, Covent Garden, in January and February, 1744. I should likewise be very glad of any information concerning the work of Dahl's Swedish pupils, Hans Hysing, J. F. Schroeder, Lorenz Pasch, and Christian Richter, and that of Charles Boit and O. F. Peterson, miniaturists, who frequently copied in miniature after Dahl. WILLIAM NISSER. OLD FIELD-NAMES.-Amongst these in the neighbourhood of Sheffield Park, Sussex, I have found the following, and should like to know if they are familiar in other parts of England, and if any explanation can be given as to their origin: Crabstalk Field ; Ley Meadow; Pook's Hall Field; Butter Box Platte; Buttered Pig. The last name is in Wapsbourne Farm, which at one time, I believe, belonged to the Morley family, well-known iron-masters, and as the shape of the field resembles somewhat the pigs used in iron-foundry work, I wonder if it has any allusion to this. WOLSELEY. Massetts Place, Scaynes Hill, Sussex. WIFE IMPALING HUSBAND'S COAT.-At a recent meeting of the Norfolk and Norwich Archæological Society at Cley-by-the-Sea, in a paper read by me, which I think showed that the crowned heads of a King and a Queen which appear on the porch there were meant to depict Richard II. and his wife, the good Queen of Bohemia (and not Edward I. or Edward III. and their wives, as has been variously suggested), I pointed Also that another coat on the same poich was of Stafford impaling Roos, which presumably referred to a match between Thos. Roos, who died 1389, and Beatrix Stafford, and that in this case too the wife was made to impale her husband's arms. All I could then suggest was that the architect sketched the coats on thin paper and that the mason in error cut the coats from the reverse, or possibly that he had given him for a pattern a quarry of armorial glass and copied from the wrong side. Now I find that in Neale's Westminster Abbey' (vol. ii., p. 110) the same thing occurs on the monument to Queen Anne of Bohemia, and I see by Edmondson's Heraldry' (p. 184) that Katherine of France, the consort of Henry V., had her arms impaled with those of her husband. Was there ever a custom for a Queen to impale her husband's aims ? The seal of Anne of Bohemia (Birch's Seals,' vol. i., p. 101, No. 804, A.D. 1390, from Addl. Charters, 20,396) gives France quartering England impaling the German Empire quartering Bohemia, which is normal. WALTER RYE. COBBOLD: THE SENSITIVE PLANT.'-Can any reader supply the date of a poem, The Sensitive Plant,' by J. S. Cobbold of Nuneaton ? From the detached newspaper clipping, without any identification marks, which contained the poem I should judge it appeared in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century. PAUL KAUFMAN. American University, Washington, D.C. BETTON AND EVANS OF SHREWSBURY.I am anxious to obtain some information as to the work carried out in the last century by Messrs. Betton and Evans of Shrewsbury, the famous stained-glass firm. I know that they "restored" the ancient glass in Winchester College Chapel by removing it and substituting a facsimile copy, and believe that they did the same thing to the east windows of both St. Lawrence Church, Ludlow, and St. Mary's Church, Shrewsbury. I should be glad to know of any other works of glass "restoration" that they undertook, years ago, and people in those marshes would be also to know whether they ever inserted painted glass either new or old in private houses. JOHN D. LE COUTEUR. BADGE OF RANK: WING.-Horse Guards, General Order dated Feb. 19, 1810, on the subject of badges of rank for officers of the Army, contains the following paragraph : Field Officers of Fusileer and Light Infantry Corps, as likewise, the Captains of Flank Companies who have the Brevet Rank of Field Officer, are to wear Wings in addition to their Epaulettes. What was a "Wing" and how was it worn? J. H. LESLIE (Lieut.-Col.). BREED OF CATTLE: BELTED GALLOWAY. For some time past I have been trying to get information concerning the origin and early history of the breed of cattle known as Belted Galloways. So far my efforts have brought me no reward. I should be glad if any reader of N. & Q.' could give me any information on the subject. JOHN KINCAID. more fond of so much meadow grounds than to let those lakes remain unfilled; and he told me of many other such remains which had been within his memory, but were then filled up. Wheatley and Cunningham, who, in London Past and Present,' refer to this, speak of traces remaining in Charles II.'s reign, but it will be observed that Wallis, in 1699, is speaking of a time fifty years before.] JEANNE D'AUVERGNE.—Would any reader kindly inform me if Jeanne d'Auvergne, the second wife of King John of France, was the heiress of Auvergne and Boulogne ? If so, to whom did her heritage revert, for her two children, those of her first Burgundian marriage, Philip, Duke of Burgundy, and his sister, the Damsel of Burgundy, died childless mother? soon after their ELEANOR F. COBBY. Meon Stoke, Bishops Waltham, Hants. "WHYMPSIES."-A relative of mine in possession of a pair of painted wooden firescreens representing a boy and girl in early eighteenth-century costume, recently had BREDIN. Can any reader give any in- a visit from a lady connoisseur, who was formation on the following points? charmed with them, and termed them Is there any explanation as to how St."whympsies." This is quite a new word Mary Bredin's Church at Canterbury got to me, and I should be glad to know its this name, other than that the name is a origin. I do not find it in the Imperial corruption of "St. Mary's by, or at, the Dictionary.' Riding Gate" ? Does this name appear on the Roll at Battle Abbey ? INTERESTED. OLD LONDON BRIDGE: DIVERSION OF RIVER. I read a few days ago that when old London Bridge was built, a cutting was made from Battersea to Rotherhithe to divert the river so that the foundations for the bridge could be worked. I know both Battersea and Rotherhithe fairly well, but cannot find any trace of this river cutting. Can any reader kindly give me some information on this subject? R. F. Battersea. 1699, says : [Dr. Wallis, in a letter to Pepys of Oct. 24, "I had one Sunday preached for Mr. Gataker, at Redriff, and lodged there that night. Next morning I walked with him over the fields to Lambeth, meaning there to cross the Thames to Westminster. He showed me in the passage diverse remains of the old channel, which had heretofore been made from Redriff to Lambeth, for diverting the Thames whilst London Bridge was building, all in a straight line or near it, but with great intervals, which had been long since filled up; those remains, which then appeared very visible, are, I suspect, all or most of them filled up before this time, for it is more than fifty D. K. T. HEYGATE. James Heygate of Southend, Essex, and Roecliffe, Leicestershire (17471833), a London banker, joined the firm of Pares's Bank at Leicester within a year of its foundation in 1800. William Heygate, his son (1782-1844), also a London banker, joined the Leicester bank about 1813. He was Lord Mayor of London and M.P. for Sudbury, and was created a baronet in 1831. What and where was their London bank? Any information about them will be welcomed. It CHARLES J. BILLSON. 33, St. Anne's Road, Eastbourne. |