been several times engraved. A very fine one, a three-quarter length, in oils, depicting the bishop in his episcopal habit, used to hang in the diningroom at Balnaboth, in Forfarshire, the seat of the Hon. Col. Donald Ogilvy, of Clova, who had married Maria, fourth daughter of James Morley, Esq., a lineal descendant of the bishop. No doubt there is an additional one in the collection at Farnham Castle. An old friend of mine, who died in 1864-the Rev. George Morley, vicar of Newport Pagnell, Bucks-was also lineally descended from his namesake. ton, near Lancaster, in 1850. Simpson died at ENTRIES IN PARISH REGISTERS.-The following entries in the registers of St. Dunstan, Stepney, may be thought worth bringing to light historically: Cleere, of Ratcliffe Highway, single woman, begotten as "9 April, 1641. Baptism of William, son of Frances she affirmeth by William Davis, of St. Mary Overies, in Southwerke, Keeper of the Counter in Southwerke, delivered in the Cage in Ratcliffe Highway." Charles II., who seems to have admired good men, and often to have preferred them to high ecclesiastical appointments, is reported to have said, on nominating him to the valuable see of Winchester, knowing the prelate's munificent Morley never would be the richer for it." nature, For in those days, in reference to its value, it was said, "Canterbury was the higher rack, but Winchester was the better manager. "Non deficit alter," the recently deceased prelate, the eighty- "4 August, 1641. Baptism of Gabriell, sonne of Anstis, fourth bishop, has bequeathed to his successor Maryner, whom she affirmeth to be begotten by her said the wife of Thomas Preston, of Ratcliffe Highway, Farnham Castle, beautifully furnished, and a col-husband, who is yet reported to have been forth at sea lection of full-length portraits in oil ranging from William of Wykeham to himself. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge. A COUNTRY FARMER'S LIBRARY One Hundred AND FIFTY YEARS AGO.-Perhaps this clipping from a recent second-hand bookseller's catalogue is worth noting:— Beveridge (Bp.), Private Thoughts on Religion, &c., tenth edition, thick 12mo., calf, M.T., 1720. The late owner has written on fly-leaf, This Book 100 years ago (note written in 1845) was the most prominent Book in the Country Farmer's Library. A farmer at that time had seldom more than half a dozen books, and this was the most prominent. My Grandfather's Library consisted of the following: 1. The Bible, Testament, and Prayer Book; 2. Beveridge's Private Thoughts; 3. The Practice of Piety; 4. Robinson Crusoe; 5. The Ready Reckoner; 6. Dictionary; 7. Robin Hood.' I give this note as I think it worth preserving.” Seven volumes in all: three religious; poetry and one. REV. ROBERT SIMPSON.-Born in 1796, the eldest son of Robert Simpson, jeweller, of Osmaston Street, Derby. Of Queen's College, Cambridge (B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822). Having taken orders he became curate of St. Peter's, and subsequently minister of St. George's, Derby. He then removed to Newark, Notts, as curate of St. Mary Magdalen. In 1837 he was appointed perpetual curate of the newly formed parish of Christ Church, Newark, but was compelled to resign the living in February, 1844, on account of declining health. He, however, accepted the perpetual curacy of St. Luke's, Sker ever since Midsomer, A.D. 1640-4 days olde." "9 September, 1647. Marriage of Peeter Pyper, of Shadwell, Maryner, and Elizabeth Curwin, of the same, mayd." "4 January, 1649. Baptism of Contrition, son_of Contrition Sparrow, of Ratcliffe, Shipwright, and Rebecca, his wife." C. J. F. CUSTOMS OF THE MANOR OF WALES.-An old paper document, of which the following is a copy, has been lent to me : Wales Cort. The xxiii of October 1593 wee doe find certayne customes amongst others for coppyholders. 1. We may let our lands for three yeares or less with. out fyne to the lord, by our custome. 2. We may take all kind of wood for our own useges as hay boute, geire boute, plow boute, wayne boute, and all kind of nessesary useges by our customes, so we doe not sell it or give it. 3. An heir of copiehold land ought by our costomes half years after the death of his annsessors; if the lord to come in and crave to be admitted tennant within three do keep his court costamly or els the lord may sease of his lands. 4. We ought to keep our houses in repare with thack and morter or [be] presented according to trespas. 5. We ought to have marle for oure own land byour costomes. 'Lancashire Witches,' my rambles took me to Rough Lee, near Barrrowford, where Alice Nutter's quaint gabled mansion still stands picturesquely on the banks of Pendle Water. The old trees, encircling wall and terrace, have long since disappeared, but the outward framework of the old hall (" mansion," the novelist calls it) is in fairly good condition, though two-thirds of the interior are sadly in need of repair, albeit the good woman of the inhabited portion informed me that the rest of the building was soon going to be fettled.' The sooner the better, otherwise this interesting relic of bygone days will soon have joined the things that were, the little chamber which was the scene of Mistress Nutter's nocturnal interviews with the arch-fiend being particularly rickety. Adjoining the disused part of the edifice is a low wall, in which an oblong stone lies embedded, about one and a half by two feet, bearing an inscription, now too weather-worn to be deciphered. Local tradition says it came from the celebrated Malkin Tower, hard by; but I question very much whether that tower existed otherwise than in Ainsworth's brain. The stone evidently did come from some tower in the neighbourhood, for the only traceable lettering is the first line, which sets forth that "this Tower was built"-but where? The inscription ends with a date, of which only the first two figures remain, "16-." Can any one say where this stone hails from; and does any one possess a tracing of the inscription? Mr. James Carr makes no allusion to it in his 'Annals of Colne.' Does Whittaker give it in his History of Whalley'? It seems a far cry from Rough Lee to London; but I have inquired in local journals unsuccessfully, and hope to have better luck in 'N. & Q.' J. B. S. Manchester. QUOTATION FROM SCOTT.-In a remarkably exhaustive and lucid article on Lyly, a writer in the Quarterly Review for January, p. 135, speaks thus of the dramatist's presentation of women :"As to women, Lyly gives us only their outward husk of wit, raillery, and flirtation. It is Woman in her hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, that he paints: the lepida et dicacula puella-woman on her social and superficial side." Now Scott's apostrophe to woman in 'Marmion,' vi. 30, is broader than this quotation indicates, for it points to the female attitude in the ordinary and even tenor of life-the exact words are " Our hours of ease"-the circumstances not demanding, and therefore not eliciting, the depth of her nature and her manifold resources. Helensburgh, N.B. THOMAS BAYNE. ROTTEN Row. -I am not aware whether a satisfactory explanation of this name has ever been offered. If not, may I suggest that its origin may have something in common with that of a way which once existed in Fulham, called Raton Rowe? This spelling occurs in the minutes of a Court Baron held 28 April, 1455. Possibly some of the learned philological readers of 'N. & Q.' will favour us with their opinions. CHAS. JAS. FERET. [See 1st S. i. 441; ii, 235; v. 40, 160; 2nd S. iv. 385; 3rd S. ix. 213, 361, 443; xii. 423, 509.] SCOTLAND AND RUSHBROOKE: SURNAMES. Possibly the following inscription, from the little be of interest :church of All Saints, at Honington, Suffolk, may "In memory of Robert Rushbrooke of this parish, gent: descended from the antient Family of Scotland of Scotland Hall in Polstead, Suffolk. But about the year MOL Rushbrooke near St. Edmund's Bury becoming their chief Seat they acquired by the Usage of those Times A Surname from the Place, and were called Rushbrooke of Rushbrooke. He lived an animating Example of all eminent. He died Nov. the XXI. MDOOLIII. Æt. LXXXI. those Virtues which render even a private Station Susauna Rushbrooke his wife (the daughter of George Barham, Gent.) after lamenting him Ten Years, died Nov. the VIII. MDCCLXIII. Æt. LXXV." Hard by Honington Church is the cottage in which Robert Bloomfield was born in 1766. It has been very considerably restored, but the main structure is said to be as it was when the author of the 'Farmer's Boy' was born there. JAMES HOOPER. EPISCOPAL CHAPELS IN LONDON. (See 8th S. ix. 221.)-I have before me a copy of the 'Works of the Rev. Richard Cecil,' in four volumes, arranged by Josiah Pratt, 1811, from which some particulars may be gathered as to Episcopal chapels in London at the beginning of the present century. From 'Memoir of Cecil,' vol. i. p. xvi, I make the "For some years he [Cecil] following extract: preached a lecture at Lothbury at 6 o'clock on the Sunday morning [this was not at a chapel but, I believe, at the church at which afterwards the Rev. Mr. Wilkinson officiated]. He found the walk at that early hour in winter very dangerous, as most of the lamps were gone out and few persons stirring except those who wander for prey. At this time he had the whole duty of St. John's [i. e., St. John's Chapel, Bedford Row]; and also an evening lecture at a chapel in Orange Street, Leicester Fields, at that period a regular chapel in the establishment. ......The chapel at Orange Street where he preached on Sunday evenings and on Wednesday evenings for many years being about to be repaired, it was relinquished, and the chapel in Long Acre was engaged in conjunction with his friend the Rev. Henry Foster, who had the morning duty: here the same congregation attended." I may add that the chapel in Orange Street, Leicester Fields, still remains, but is now in the hands of a Dissenting body. St. John's Chapel, Bedford Row, has disappeared; it was "Mr. Cecil's most important sphere of duty," and further particulars of his ministry there are given in the memoir. While we have Cecil's works before us it may be well to take an opportunity of noticing his funeral sermon, "preached Jan. 8, 1808, at the Church of the United Parishes of St. Mary Woolnoth and St. Mary Woolchurch Haw, Lombard Street, on the death of their late Rector, the Rev. John Newton, who departed Dec. 21, 1807, in the 83rd year of his age. He is described as the faithful and wise steward (Luke xii.). Newton had just been buried at the east end of the church, as appears from the following passage in the sermon: The worne-out body of him who long intreated you to be mindful of the day of your visitation is now a mass of inanimate clay under that communion table, his lamp broken, his tongue silent" (vol. ii. p. 436). Ealing. S. ARNOTT. THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY.-It may appear invidious to point out deficiences in the arrangement of the pictures at the National Portrait Gallery, looking to the hasty manner in which the collection was put together; but it is not too much to expect that the inscriptions on the portraits should be consistent, instead of being in some instances contradictory; and the authorities will perhaps not object to have their attention called to a few cases in point. A portrait of Sir William Erle is described as being by a painter unknown, but at the left-hand corner is the name "F. A. Tilt, 1868," which appears to be the name of the artist and the date of the drawing. Another portrait, of Lord Hardwick, copied from a picture, is said to be by an unknown artist, but the words "Gardiner delin." are clearly discernible at the righthand corner of the drawing. An inscription on the frame of a portrait of the Countess of Grammont (La belle Hamilton), "L'anglaise insupportable de Me. de Caylus," by Lely, sets out that the popular memoirs bearing her husband's name were written by her brother, Antony Hamilton, who fought in the army of James II.," while on another portrait of the same lady, copied from Lely by J. G. Eccardt, the countess is described as "married to Philibert, Comte de Grammont, author of the · Mémoires."" One of these inscriptions is clearly wrong. The first is the right version. JNO. HEBB. How MIRACLES CAN BE MADE.-The porch of the recently erected Roman Catholic church of St. Thomas of Canterbury, at St. Leonard's-on-Sea, contains a figure of St. Thomas, over the door, with the hand stretched out in the act of blessing. Coming up the road on the morning of 14 June, I saw the fingers move several times, slowly from side to side, as if bestowing a benediction. Had I been purblind I might have gone away thinking of miracles. But looking closely, I saw a sparrow sitting on the statue, its head on a line with the fingers. As the sparrow turned its head from side to side, the bird being much of the same colour as the stone, the effect was just as if the motion were in the hand-when seen from a few yards off. EDWARD H. MARSHALL, M.A. Hastings. CHURCH BRIEFS. (See 8th S. ix. 421.)—The ancient church collections upon briefs are often valuable in bringing light upon past events. Even where in themselves they are ambiguous or wanting, yet by comparison one with another they may help in elucidating and perpetuating events. The process of "putting two and two together" often converts doubt into tolerable certainty. I have a case in point. The following entries occur respectively in the parish books of East Wellow and Stanton St. John : 1671, May ye 14. Collected for ye towne of Mere in ye County of Wilts, 2s. 1d. 1671. Collected for Meere in Wilts, 3s. 2d. In neither entry is the object of the collection given. But in the church books of St. Margaret, Westminster, is this entry :— 1671, Jan. 18. Towards the great loss by fyre in the towne of in our County of Wilts, 21. 12s. Putting these three entries together, they seem fairly to evidence the fact that a fire took place here in 1670. We have no local record of such a fire, and even tradition is silent; though indirect evidence points to the probability of a fire having taken place. It is probable that some of the readers of 'N. & Q.' may know of notices of briefs in church books where the "fyre" at Mere is distinctly stated. If so, and they will kindly send them to me, I shall feel much obliged. J. FARLEY RUTTER. Mere, Wilts. "WHOA!"-The word whoa!-used in calling on a horse to stop-is merely a variant and emphatic form of ho! formerly used in the same sense. This is easily proved; for Chaucer has ho! in the sense of "halt" ('Cant. Tales,' B 3957). When King Edward IV. had to use this exclamation, he actually turned it into whoo! "Then the kyng, perceyvyng the cruell assaile [onset], cast his staff, and with high voice cried whoo!" (Excerpta Historica,' p. 211). Which stopped the tournament; and no wonder. WALTER W. SKEAT. 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 the answers may be addressed to them direct. JOHN MALCOLM.-Can any one give me information as to the family of John Malcolm? Born probably in 1713; he appears first in America in 1749, at which date he had a child born to him by Margaretta Ward, his first wife. He owned a large plantation in the State of Delaware, which was named Monkton Park-Monkton appearing also in the names of his children. It is known that he had considerable interests in the West Indies, was a man of some importance in his own neighbourhood, and had a coat of arms, since lost. He is said to have been at one time an officer in the British navy. Died 1803, aged ninety years. The name Neill occurs in the names of some of his children. Was he any relation to Neill Malcolm, of Poltalloch, mentioned in Burke's 'History of the Landed Gentry,' who succeeded to that estate through his cousin in 1785? This Neill Malcolm married Mary, daughter of Philip Houghton, of Jamaica. It is known that either he or some other member of the Malcolm family of Poltalloch had large interests in the West Indies about this time. M. L. TANNACHIE.-What is the meaning of Tannachie, or, as the old spelling has it, Tannachy? This is a Scotch name. It occurs in Sutherlandshire, Banffshire, and, till within one hundred and fifty years or so, also in Elginshire. Glencairn, Torquay. HY. B. TULLOCH. INSCRIPTION AT PERPIGNAN.-It is stated in 'A Summer in the Pyrenees,' by the Hon. James Erskine (Murray, 1837), that in the cathedral church of Perpignan there is a "Gothic inscription upon two pillars [which] states that in the year 1324, the epoch of its foundation, the first stone was laid by Sanchez, King of Aragon, and the second by Edward, Prince of England" (vo'. i. p. 32). The author suggests that the stone was laid by the Black Prince when on a visit to the King of Aragon. Has the original text of this inscription been printed? If so, where is it to be seen? ASTARTE. SCOTTISH NATIONAL MUSIC.-This subject has attracted my attention from my observing in a book published by Mr. John Glen, of Edinburgh, the following, referring to the song "Lost, lost is my quiet." Mr. Chappell, in his 'Popular Music of the Olden Time,' contends that it is an English tune, although Burns, who wrote to it "Ye banks and braes o' bonny Doon," considered it the composition of an amateur. Being anxious to ascertain the real date of "Dale's Collection of English Songs," which Mr. Chappell quotes, can any of your readers give me, and others like me, the correct date of that publication? Chappell states it was not entered at Stationers' Hall, as the collection consisted exclusively of "old songs," while Glen maintains that "Dale's Scotch Songs," in the one case and not in the other? Chappell though all old, are entered there, and asks, Why informs us that Dale began printing in 1780; but that has nothing whatever to do with this question. In the 'Popular Music of the Olden Time' there is the following garbled quotation from Sir John Hawkins's History of Music' : of Purcell, who accompanied them on the harpsichord; "Mr. Gosling and Mrs. Hunt sung several compositions at length the Queen, beginning to grow tired, asked Mrs. Hunt if she could not sing the old Scots ballad of 'Cold and Raw.' Mrs. Hunt answered Yes,' and sung it to her lute." Mr. Chappell leaves out the words "old Scots." Still, in a foot-note he gives apparently his reason for doing so, and, referring to Hilton, does not mention that he terms his catch a Northern catch, either there or elsewhere. If any of your readers can throw additional light on these questions, or on the history of the music of our country, it would be greatly valued by those who, like myself, take an interest in this subject. I like the truth, whatever it may be. SCOTIA. I have been unable to find any mention of this theatre, its site, or account of the fire in any of the ordinary works on London. I have a note that it occurred in January, 1672, and that at the same time sixty houses were burnt; but the authority for the information is wanting. Any references to works or particulars will be of especial value. Salterton, Devon. T. N. BRUSHFIELD, M.D. SIR GEORGE NARES.-An old friend of mine, Capt. W. H. Nares, R.N., had a fine engraving of this judge, a Justice of the Common Pleas, who was his grandfather, wearing his robes, and often used to inquire where the original portrait was. On the authority of Foss, in his 'Dictionary of English Judges,' Sir George was born in 1716 and educated at Magdalen College School and at New College, Oxford, married a daughter of Sir John Strange, and died in 1786. The same authority gives Eversley, in Hampshire, as his burial-place, where Charles Kingsley, the well-known writer, who was for so many years the respected rector of that parish, is buried. Did he possess an estate in that parish; or was he in any way connected with it? One of his sons was Dr. Edward Nares, Professor of Modern History at Oxford, and at one time vicar of St. Peter in the East in Oxford, a benefice in the gift of Merton College, of which he was formerly fellow. He married Lady Charlotte Churchill, daughter of the Duke of Marlborough, and died in 1848. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge. DIALECT.-A native of Lincolnshire said to me, not long ago, "That raw of radishes has been weäled all ower sin' I sew it "; by which he meant that various accidents had happened to the young plants, so that in many parts of the row empty gaps occurred, the earth in some places being disturbed and raised in mounds. By "weäled" he probably intended wealed or waled, which usually signifies marked with blows or stripes. Is not his application of the word unusual? A girl who was also born and brought up in Lincolnshire remarked, a few days since, 66 She does make a dole after him "-"dole" being the equivalent of lamentation. W. L. PHILIPPINE WELLSER.-Is anything known of the painter of the portrait of Philippine Wellser at Innspruck (8th S. ix. 355), said to be the only authentic portrait of her? · E. G. any PATE STUART, EARL OF ORKNEY.-Can reader of N. & Q.' help me respecting the following? Where can an account be found of Pate Stuart, Earl of Orkney (a natural son of one of the kings of Scotland), his pedigree and descendants? Is the present Earl of Orkney descended from him? Are the Stewarts of Appin related to Pate Stewart; and was Alan Peck Stewart (see Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Kidnapped') a real person? Can an account be found anywhere of the Rev. William Stewart, late Vicar of Swords (eight miles from Dublin), a Church of Ireland beneficed clergyman, who was waylaid and murdered after having recited a "Satyre on Priestly Indulgences in the Church of Rome"? What were the date and place of his birth and date of his murder; and are any of his descendants alive; and where are they? Was it Samuel Stewart, brother of the reverend Vicar of Swords, who, wandering to London, heard John Wesley, being indoctrinated, became a son spiritual, and lastly a Primitive Methodist preacher? What were the date and place of his birth and death, and the names of his parents? What were the names of the Stewarts of Appin who crossed with King James's army and fought in the Battle of the Boyne, 1690; and the names of the Stewarts who, after an amnesty was proclaimed, accepted it and took the oath of allegiance? Where were their lands situated; and were the same lands returned to them, or did they receive grants in other parts of the country; if so, where? In what Irish county is Dore Glore situated; and are the present occupiers members of the Murphy family? MORO DE MORO. Chichester. tion of any books, portraits, or other relics of the FERRAR-COLLETT RELICS.-Wanted a descripFerrar or Collett families who were living at Little Gidding, in Huntingdonshire, in the reign of Charles I. I have already a goodly list of interesting things which are now in the possession of the Trustees of the British Museum and of descendants of the two families. I shall, therefore, be grateful for any further additions to the list. E. CRUWYS SHARLAND. Beacon Lights, Westward Ho. AUTHOR WANTED.-Macaulay, in his essay on Lord Chatham, quotes six lines from a "lively contemporary satire": No more they make a Fiddle-Faddle "Tis right-He can't be wrong who did it. The quotation is taken from 'A Simile,' a poem, printed for M. Cooper, in Paternoster Row, 1759 folio. Can any of your readers tell me who was the author of this poem? F. G. ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD.-The following verse from Pope's " Essay on Criticism' (1. 623)— Nor is Paul's church more safe than Paul's churchyardsuggests two queries. How comes it that the "St." in "St. Paul's Churchyard" is now always prefixed, while in Pope's time, and long before, it was omitted? The translation by George Colville (alias Coldewell) of the 'De Consolatione' of Boethius, dated "Anno 1556," was Imprynted at London in Paules Churche Yarde at the Sygne of the Holy Ghost by John Cawoode, Prynter to the Kynge and Queenes Majesties." No doubt much earlier mention of "Paul's Churchyard (without the "St.") exists than the above, the earliest I can find. When did the full term, St. Paul's Churchyard, come (again ?) into common use? Further, How is it that the emphasis is upon the second syllable of "Churchyard" in this case? I think that in the majority of analogous two-worded compounds the first word takes, like "churchyard," the stress: bee-hive, grave-stone, bird's-nest, boot-jack, lich-gate, &c. Still, we say barn-door, |