LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1909.

CONTENTS.-No. 263. NOTES:-John Owen the Epigrammatist, 21-Manor of Neyte, 22-Inscriptions in Jerusalem, 25-Baltimore and "Old Mortality" Patersons, 25-The Brill, Somers Town --A Poem attributed to Bonefons-Curious Heriots, 26. QUERIES:-"The Wooset"-"Christmas pig" Lascar Jargon-Nym and "Humour "-" Proxege and Senage"Mrs. Oliphant's 'Neighbours on the Green'-Pierrepoint's Refuge, St. James's Street, 27-'Plato Redivivus'Garlick: Onions for purifying Water-Isinglass used in Windows-Coningsby: Ferby-Edward Barnard-George Prior, Watchmaker, 28-"Clasket "Authors Wanted Richard Thompson, Surgeon R. N. - - Village Names Feminine-Cross at Higham-on-the-Hill-Dutton Seaman, City Comptroller-Thomas Haggerston Arnott―BrittenChantrey and Oliver, Miniaturists, 29. REPLIES:-Phillis Wheatley and her Poems, 30-Speakers of the House of Commons-The Tyburn, 31-The Curious House, Greenwich-Authors of Quotations WantedHawkins Family and Arms Adrian Scrope, 32 "Comether"-New Zealand Fossil Shells-Ernisius: a Proper Name Philip Stubbs, 33-Edward Young, Author of Night Thoughts'-"Waney" Timber, 34-Bandy Leg Walk- Shoreditch Family -The Guard Aloft, 35 — "Shibboleth"-Charles Crocker, Poet, 36-Scottish is and es in Proper Names-Lord Beaconsfield and the Primrose, 37-E. F. Holt-Gainsborough's Wife-Isabella Lick barrow-Love-à-la-Mode '-Roman Law, 38. NOTES ON BOOKS:-Lady Priestley's 'Story of a Lifetime-Reviews and Magazines. Booksellers' Catalogues.

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JOHN OWEN THE EPIGRAMMATIST. IN his History of Warwick School' Mr. A. F. Leach bestows several pages (124 seqq.) on the master whom he not unnaturally "the most distinguished person who ever held that office,' John Owen the epigrammatist. We are told that Owen was thirteen years of age in 1577, when he was given a scholarship at Winchester, so that he must have been born in 1564 or 1563.* His birth has usually been assigned to about 1560. It is of interest to learn that "the education at Winchester was largely devoted to the production of Latin epigrams," and that Owen's head master during the last two years of his time at school, Hugh Lloyd, had himself been under the Latin epigrammatist Christopher John

son.

One is surprised, however, to find Mr. Leach describing Archbishop Williams as Owen's uncle (p. 133), a statement in support of which no evidence is offered. The term cognatus, it is true, is applied by Owen both to Williams and to Williams's cousin Owen Gwyn, Master of St. John's College, Cambridge (see Ep. iii. 166, iv. 89, x. 45, and 10 S. ii. 146, where I showed that there was an error in the 'D.N.B.'); but

the Lord Keeper, whom Owen addresses ingeniose iuvenis," was his " nephew's " junior by eighteen years or so.

Some of Mr. Leach's remarks on Owen's epigrams call for correction or supplement. When quoting from Camden's Annals the lines written to honour Sir Francis Drake by Owen while still a scholar at Winchester, Mr. Leach omits to state that the lines which Camden gives (p. 327, ed. 1639) as two separate compositions appear in Owen (ii. 39) as a single epigram, the couplet " Plus ultra," &c., which precedes in Camden, being attached to the end of the quatrain. Further, the sixth line is quoted by Mr. Leach as

Atque polus de te discet uterque loqui So it appears in Owen, but Camden (loc. cit.) has

Sol nescit comitis non memor esse sui. Some discrepancy may be due to the fact that Mr. Leach cites from Gent's English translation of the Annales.'

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Again, Mr. Leach says that Camden quotes a number of them, headed by those of Owen." But besides the lines claimed by Owen, Camden gives only a single distich.

Mr. Leach writes that Queen Elizabeth's visit to Drake's ship at Deptford was in November, 1580. It was in April, 1581. The words "where its carkasse is yet to be seen,' quoted from the third edition of Gent's translation as evidence, apparently, that the ship was there in 1685, are, after all, a translation of Camden's own words "ubi ejus cadaver adhuc cernitur."

In mentioning Owen's famous lines, An Petrus fuerit Romæ, sub judice lis est Simonem Romæ nemo fuisse negat, it might have been added that a similar idea is found in an epigram of Euricius Cordus (i. 79, ed. 1517; i. 62, ed. 1520):—

Prima Simon Petrus fidei fundamina iecit
Christicolasque novus dux fuit inter oves,
At superas postquam Petrus migravit in arces,
Hoc subiit solus munus ubique Simon,
Hei mihi, quam tenuis grex est pastore sub illo,
Quam gracili rarum tergore vellus habet!
At 10 S. ix. 284 a close resemblance was

pointed out between another epigram of Cordus and one of Owen.

Such resemblances

are not unfrequent in modern Latin verse, and may at times be no more than undesigned coincidences, the same theme being common to more than one writer. Other epigrammatists were indebted in turn to Owen.*

* His closest imitator was H. Harder. See 'Delitiæ Poetarum Danorum' (1693), vol. ii.

Mille oculos gerit illa, Cyclops hic errat: at uno Plus oculo hio cernit; luscus an Argus erit? resembles Owen, i. 82 :

Sit nox centoculo quamvis oculatior Argo;
Plus uno cernit lumine lusca dies.

Owen's lines on Sir Philip Sidney (ii. 29), Qui scribenda facit, scribitve legenda beatus, &c., are singled out by Mr. Leach as worthy of their subject. It should not be forgotten that for thought and expression Owen is here largely indebted to the younger Pliny (Ep. vi. 16, 3). The metre is not beyond reproach.

Unless the reader is alert in recognizing Owen's countless reminiscences of other authors, the epigrams are not likely to be properly appreciated. In i. 6, 3-4 (addressed to Thomas Neville, son of the poet's patroness),

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Qui puerum laudat, Spem, non rem laudat in illo, Non spes ingenium, Res probat ipsa tuum, we have plainly a recollection of the words of Cicero quoted by Servius on 'Æn.,' vii. 877, causa difficilis laudare puerum, non enim res laudanda sed spes est." Misled by the faulty punctuation that appears in some editions, Owen's German translator, Valentine Löbern, 1653, has here written

nonsense.

After recording the inscription on Owen's monument in Old St. Paul's,

Parva tibi statua est, quia parva statura, supellex Parva, &c.

Mr. Leach observes that Owen would not have tolerated parva statura from a fifthform boy. This criticism argues a want of acquaintance with the history of Latin versification. The rule about not retaining a short vowel before sc, sp, st, however familiar to the modern schoolboy, was neglected by Owen. Heinous false quantities can be collected from him, and what was Owen's practice was the practice of other versifiers of his day. To see what a Student of Christ Church was then capable of, one need only turn to the Latin verses prefixed by Burton to the third and following editions of his 'Melancholy.'

EDWARD BENSLY. University College, Aberystwyth.

THE MANORS OF NEYTE, EYBURY, AND HYDE.

(Concluded from 10 S. x. 463.)

THE first part of this note had in view the original great manor of Eia with its three reputed divisions, Neyte, Eybury, and Hyde, and treated specially of the situation of Neyte Manor House; the second part was devoted to the history of the Manor House; and in this, the third part, I would refer to the limits of the three divisions or manors, noting also the particulars gathered in relation to Eybury and Hyde.

The site of Neyte Manor House being, as I hope, no longer questionable, we have now to inquire as to the land attached which constituted the manor in the broad sense of the term. I will answer at once that, as the result of study, my finding is that although there were some fields attached to the house in the time of the abbots, and certainly a considerable extent of land when, after the suppression of the monastery, Neyte became a tenanted farm, this land did not lie in or make the manor. In fact, the manor of Neyte, so called, simply lay in the words of the Abbot's grant or surrender, and the Act which embodies it -"within the compass of the moat," an area perhaps of two acres. Housings, buildings, yards, gardens, orchards, fishing, &c., were contained within the enclosure; but no lands beyond are indicated as pertaining to the manor. I am aware that this conclusion as to the very limited extent of Neyte manor will appear heterodox in view of the prevalent conception of its having been a substantial division of the original great manor of Eia; but I hope to prove it. The grant proceeds to specify over a close called "the against the same site" Twenty Acres," and a meadow called "Abbot's Meadow," with a piece of ground called Cawsey Hall (properly Haw, i.e. Causeway Haw), in all thirteen acres. These certainly adjoined and were attached to the manor house. But the next item was far from it, and far eastward of the Eye brook, the east boundary of Eia, viz., a meadow next the Horseferry over against Lambeth.' Then follow indefinitely "thirty-two acres of arable land in divers places," meadow in Thames Mede, and land near the Eye; these might have gone with Neyte, but they are items in a promiscuous list, which goes on to include land in Charing Cross Field, "The Lamb" in King Street, Westminster, the advowson of the church at Chelsea, and the manor and church advowson of Totyng

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ton (=Teddington, v. Newcourt's 'Repertorium'). Next we have the manor of Hyde with demesne lands and tenements, the manor of Eybury with lands, and after much peregrination, sometimes near Neyte, sometimes remote, the list terminates with three closes at East Greenwich!* It is impossible in this list to distinguish parcels that might have constituted a manor of Neyte. But it is true that there are several mentions of Neyte as a manor in the reign of Edward II. That king, as has been shown, had Neyte in 1320, and possibly earlier, as a cattle depot. The bailiff residing there designated it in his accounts as the King's manor; in 1325, however, the King gave an acknowledgment that it was by the will of the Abbot and Convent that he held "the manors of Eybury and Neyte"; here the two are conjoined, the cattle-sheds probably being at Neyte, the manor house; the pasturage in Eybury, the containing manor. The status is also evident in another writing preserved, viz., the release, in the first year of Edward III., of "the manor of Eybury (Neyte House certainly contained), which his father had held of the Abbot." Also it will be noticed that at the time of the release it was at Eybury that were found 60 cows, 500 sheep, and a pigeon-house, although nominally the depot had been at Neyte.†

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After the suppression of the monastery, when Neyte had become the "moated grange " of a tenant farmer, he had probably those fields always attached to it, and moreover 108 acres of Lammas land; this was in 1592, the circumstance presently to have further reference. The plan of 1723 which has had our attention designates the Twenty Acres as the Balywick of Neat," and it and the other fields excluded in the lease of 1519 were not yet absorbed in the Grosvenor estate, but were in the possession of Mr. Stanley. This bailiwick may perhaps imply a subordinate division of the manor of Eybury, but whether formed before or after the Grosvenor acquisition of 1676 is uncertain. In later plans the bailiwick is given a greater extension, and as cultivation advanced Neyte, like Bayswater, or better, like Pimlico its supplanter, from a small nucleus spread, as the "Neat House Gardens," over the area which naturally presents itself as the Neyte manor or bailiwick. That area lies between the Willow Walk (now Warwick Street, Pimlico) and the Thames, with the Eye or Aye brook (now commemorated in Tachbrook [=T'ayebrook] Street) on the east, and on the west a certain dyke which in the plan of 1723 seems to limit the bailiwick of Neat, and is now covered by the Brighton Railway.

Concerning Eybury the words of the Act

are:

"The manor of Eybury with all the lands, meadows, pastures, rents, and services......and two closes late parcel of the farm of Longmore, which manor of Eybury with the said two closes were in the tenure and occupation of Richard Whasshe" doubtless the tenant who got the lease seventeen years earlier. We hear again of the farm in 1592, then said to contain 430 acres -a good large farm, but far short of the acreage of the manor. The tenant is again

learned.

The usual term 66 messuage is not here (nor is it with the Eybury terms), the tenant's dwelling being implied in the tenements. The one manor house was that of Neyte, the lodge of the Abbot, lord of all Eia, whether or not divided into the lesser manors of Neyte, Eybury, and Hyde.

W. L. RUTTON.

INSCRIPTIONS IN JERUSALEM. THE following epitaphs and inscriptions were copied by me during a visit to Jerusalem in March of last year. They are on monuments in the British and German Protestant Cemetery, situated on Mount Sion, to reach which you pass through the garden of the Bishop Gobat Schools, beyond Jaffa gate. the The cemetery appears to be in the charge of the Church Missionary Society. Though now outside the walls, it was formerly within the wall which enclosed Sion and Ophel. In the garden I saw the foundation of the great corner tower, and some remarkable Roman baths cut out of the rock. Many white stone Roman tessera I saw on the ground also evidenced Roman occupa

tion.

Nos. 1-4 are near the wall between the cemetery and the garden, on the right of the gateway :

1. Ernest Gordon | Farquharson | Captain R.E. | Fell asleep in Jesus | On Easter Tuesday, April 1st, 1902. Aged 32. | In sure and certain hope.

2. In loving memory of Douglas Carnegie Brown Who [sic] God took | to Himself 17th May, 1904. Aged 5 months.

3. [Chi-Rho monogram.] | Alice Blyth | Ob. Feb. xxvii. M. DCCCXV.

4. In loving memory Of | Mary Maria Jacombs | Of Birmingham, England, Who came as Missionary to Syria in 1863. And entered into rest In the Mount of Olives | May 18, 1902. | Aged 64 years. | With Christ Which is far better.

5. In deeply | Loving Memory of | Helen Attlee | Who After a peculiarly happy Christian life in England & as C.M.S. Missionary from 1890 [ Ascended From the Mt. of Olives to be With Christ | Dec. 22, 1898. | Sorely missed Till the great reunion By her sorrowing Father | & many European & Native Friends.-On the other side are these texts in Arabic: John xii. 32, 1 Tim. i. 15.

6. Here lie The remains of | John C. Whiting } Mass. Horatio G. Spofford, | &c.

of the Bengal Civil Service | Born at Ecclefechan 7. In memory of Ebenezer Johnstone Barton salem 2nd December 1895. He was engaged | For Dumfriesshire | 20th March, 1839. | Died at Jerumany years In the judicial and Executive Departments Of the British Government | In India.-On a granite column supporting an urn. Mass. U.S.A. Died | November 30th, 1897. | Aged 8. In memory of James R. Patterson | Boston, 39 Years. In the central square, on the right hand. 9. In Memory of | Elizabeth Wife of Rev. | Simmonds Attlee, M.A. | Worn out by long years of | Unselfish loving labour | The last and happiest | Of which was spent | On the Mount of Olives She entered into rest Feb. 4, 1892. In her 59th year. Blessed they rest and their works do follow rejoice in hope | Of the glory of God.-On a stone them. She hath been a succourer Of many | We cross on a pedestal.

10. In Loving Memory of J. N. Coral Who fell asleep In the Lord On July 22nd, 1891. Aged 59 years For 30 years Missionary To the Jews in this City Blessed are ye that sow Beside all waters. On the back is this inscription:] In 1847. Died May 9th, 1894. This monument is a Loving Memory of Selma Coral Born Dec. 21st, marble angel on a stone pedestal.

11. Sacred to the Memory Of our beloved | Emma.-On a flat stone within a border. Born Sept. 2, 1844. Died Oct. 24, 1885. Lord, 12. In Loving Memory Of Peter Bercheim | Thou hast been | Our dwelling place | In all generations. Before the mountains Were brought forth Even from everlasting to Everlasting Thou art God. | Psalm xc. 1, 2.-On a headstone within a border.

Peter Bercheim Born Sept. 8, 1848. Died Feb. 5, 13. In Loving Memory Of Martha | Wife of 1888. Till He come. | 1 Cor. xi. 26.—On a headstone within a border.

14. In loving memory of Eliza | Daughter of the late Wm. Jeaffreson, F.R.C.S. Who died at the Aged 57. In sure and certain hope | Of a blessed Deaconesses' House in Jerusalem | May 23, 1890. resurrection.-On a stone cross within a border.

15. Dorothy Forster | The beloved wife of Frank T. Ellis | Jerusalem | Died April 14th, 1891 Aged 26 years. They that be wise shall shine as The brightness of the firmament | And they that and ever. turn many To righteousness as the stars | For ever Daniel xii. 3.-On a stone cross within a border.

(To be continued.)

DELTA.