Although bearing the same surname, I do not claim to be a descendant of his, but belong to a collateral branch of the family. H. J. GODBOLD. 6, Loris Road, Hammersmith, W. JEREMY TAYLOR AND PETRONIUS. (See 11 S. i. 466.)-In A Course of Sermons for all the Sundays of the Year,' Summer Halfyear, Serm. xxiii., there is the following anonymous quotation :— ......mendacium in damnum potens. This remains unidentified in Eden's edition of Taylor's works (iv. 612). The words are from Petronius, an author not unfrequently quoted by Taylor : Hoc ad furta compositus Sinon Firmabat, et mendacium in damnum potens. Petronius, cap. 89, vv. 13, 14 of the poem on the taking of Troy. The right reading of the second line, as in Buecheler's text, seems to be et mens semper in damnum potens. which spoils the application in Taylor. EDWARD BENSLY. Aberystwyth. ROYAL TOMBS AT ST. DENIS.-I have before me an interesting pamphlet, 16 PP: 8vo, entitled, 'Inventaire ou Dénombrement tant des Corps Saints et Tombeaux des Rois, qu'autres Raretez qui se voyent en l'Eglise de S. Denys, hors le Thresor. Other than "A Paris," it has no imprint or date indication, but it was clearly published about 1680, as 66 Dans le Caveau communes des Ceremonies are buried three infant daughters of the King (Louis XIV.), and the last important interment was Henriette-Marie, Reyne d'Angleterre, le 10 Septembre, 1669.22 23 66 Prepared, and probably sold, by the attendants who explained the monuments to curious visitors, it is much earlier than anything of the kind issued for Westminster Abbey, and we may assume that either the local demand was sufficient, or the numerous visitors from other countries justified such enterprise. The date is about forty years later than John Evelyn's visit (Diary, 12 November, 1643), but a great many of the "Raretez qui sont dans le Chœur " are described by him. Unfortunately, the little guide terminates with this characteristic sentence: "Ceux qui montreront le Thresor & les Tombeaux, diront le reste de ce que les Curieux veulent sçavoir"; so we cannot through this source authenticate the marvels IRISH SUPERSTITION: BOYS IN PETTICOATS AND FAIRIES.-Harper's Magazine for May contains an article on the Aran Islands, in which is the following passage :— "Little boys, until they are ten or eleven, dress in long petticoats; nobody knows why." Possibly an explanation may be found in a paragraph which appeared in The Hospital in 1905: "In Connemara, in some of the districts, a nurse has met with boys of twelve and fourteen in petticoats. The mothers insist that the petticoats are worn to prevent the fairies from taking their boys, but the common-sense nurse often attributes the custom to motives of economy." Even if the nurse's explanation (which seems somewhat surprising to the mere evident that the belief in fairies and their man) were correct of the present day, it is habit of stealing boys must have existed quite recently. A similar superstition seems to exist in the Far East. Thus in 'The World's Children,' by Menpes, we read that in China the mother of a family these evil spirits; and if there is only one boy "is continually occupied with trying to deceive in the family, and several girls, she will cunningly change their clothing and their mode of dress, putting the girl's dress on the boy and the boy's on the girl, so that if the spirits do come they may take one of the girls by mistake." Readers of Kim' may now call to mind how the Jât relates all that had been done to cure his sick child : "We changed his name when the fever came. We put him into girl's clothes." To revert to Ireland. A man who stayed in Galway more than twenty years ago told me that at that time the custom in question was not confined to Connemara, as he used to see big boys in petticoats in other parts of the county; he had not inquired the reason of the dress. It would be interesting to know if there are any traces of this superstition in other parts of the United Kingdom. I presume that it has no connexion with the genesis of the Highland kilt. G. H. WHITE. Lowestoft. on their "VOTE EARLY AND VOTE OFTEN."-This They can change shape, and generally reexpression occurs in 1858. Mr. W. P. semble ragamuffins with sacks Miles of South Carolina said in the House of Representatives on 31 March : "It has been recently told me that not long ago, at an election held in one of our northern cities, justly considered one of the brightest centers of intelligence and refinement, banners were openly displayed with this inscription, for the guidance of the popular sovereignty, upon their folds, Vote early and vote often.""-Appendix to 'The Congressional Globe,' 35th Congress, 1st Session, p. 286. RICHARD H. THORNTON. 36, Upper Bedford Place, W.C. A. F. R. DALMATIAN NIGHT SPECTRES.-Popular imagination in Croatia and the neighbouring country of Dalmatia has evolved a series of nocturnal monsters with singular names. I do not remember hearing of the following, which I have just come across in a Servian passage in a Slavonic reading-book. Some of them suggest the Arabian Nights.' The orcho marin is a sea-monster, at home on land, which can assume any shape at will, attain a huge size, and travel at great speed. The mora is a fearsome creature which can assume any shape, and goes about at night killing the servants. The maninyovo resembles the orcho marin. The matsitch is a familiar spectre. The tentsima frightens children, and haunts dark spots. The vukodlatsy appear during grape harvest. shoulders, going round at night to steal grapes. The last name recalls the betterknown tourdalak, vampire (e.g., in A. S. Pushkin's songs of the Southern Slavs), discussed long ago in N. & Q.' Streatham Common. FRANCIS P. MARCHANT. 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. GENERAL HAUG.-I shall be much obliged mation about General Haug, who fought if any of your readers can give me inforin the defence of Rome, 1849, and again under Garibaldi in 1866. Between those dates he took part in various campaigns on both sides of the Atlantic, especially distinguishing himself in the Polish revolu tion, at which time he went by the name of Bossack. I have an impression that he was connected with the family of the Counts of Erbach, but I have been unable to verify this. There may exist a biography in German. E. MARTINENGO-CESARESCO. Salò, Lago di Garda. ST. LEODEGARIUS AND THE ST. LEGER STAKES.-I should be glad to be referred to some account of the history of the connexion of the saint with the race at DonThe histories caster which bears his name. of Doncaster mention the last week of September as the date of the races, and St. Leger's day is 2 October; but late in the eighteenth century the race would hardly have got its name from the saint except I do not know for some special reason. where to look for the reason. "THE HOLY CROWS," LISBON.-Can any one indicate a truthful history of the "holy erows" which were kept with great veneration at the Cathedral of Lisbon in 1787 ? In 1834 Richard Bentley of New Burlington Street published "Italy; with Sketches of Spain and Portugal, by the Author of "Vathek,' " who was, it need hardly be said, William Beckford. The two volumes of which the work is composed are made up of a series of letters. The passages we are about to quote from vol. ii. occur in a letter dated 8 November, 1787. They indicate that some Portuguese believed that these birds had a miraculously prolonged éxistence, and that they were deeply venerated by every one. Can any one point out when they were first introduced into the Cathedral of Lisbon, and how long their descendants remained there? So many changes have happened between the period when Beckford wrote and to-day that it is their scarcely probable that inhabit the cathedral at the present, though if they do we should like to hear of it. Are there instances of birds or mammals being kept in this fashion in other parts of Europe, or of the world in general? If it be so, how are they regarded from a folklore point of view? successors Beckford, leaving another subject, remarks: "All this is admirable; but nothing in comparison with some stories about certain holy crows. 'The very birds are in being,' said the sacristan. What!' answered I, the individual crows who attended St. Vincent?' 'Not exactly,' was the reply (in a whisper, intended for my private ear); 'but their immediate descendants.""" A note added at a later date states:"At the time I wrote this, half Lisbon believed in the individuality of the crows, and the other half prudently concealed their scepticism."-P. 203. "At length, however all this tasting and praising having been gone through with we set forth on the wings of holiness, to pay our devoirs to the holy crows. A certain sum having been allotted, time immemorial, for the maintenance of two birds of this species, we found them very comfortably established in a recess of a cloister adjoining the cathedral, well fed, and certainly most devoutly venerated. "The origin of this singular custom dates as high as the days of St. Vincent, who was martyrized near the Cape which bears his name, and whose mangled body was conveyed to Lisbon in a boat, attended by crows. These disinterested birds, after seeing it decently interred, pursued his murderers with dreadful screams and tore their eyes out. The boat and the crows are painted or sculptured in every corner of the cathedral, and upon several tablets appears emblazoned an endless record of their penetration in the discovery of criminals. "It was growing late when we arrived, and their feathered sanctities were gone quietly to roost; but the sacristans in waiting, the moment they saw us approach, officiously roused them. Oh, how plump and sleek and glossy they are! My admiration of their size, their plumage, and their deep-toned croakings carried me, I fear, beyond the bounds of saintly decorum. I was just stretching out my hand to stroke their feathers, when the missionary checked me with a solemn forbidding look. The rest of the company, aware of the proper ceremonial, kept a respectful distance whilst the sacristan and a toothless priest, almost bent double with age, communicated a long string of miraculous immediate predecessors, and other holy crows of anecdotes concerning the present holy crows, their the old time before them. To all these supermarvellous narrations, the missionary appeared to listen with implicit faith, and never opened his lips during the time we remained in the cloister, except to enforce our veneration and exclaim with pious composure, honrado corvo.""-Pp. 207, 208, 209. Do the Corvidæ breed in captivity? N. M. & A. BEN JONSON.-Will some one kindly give me the correct interpretation of the italicized words in the three following quotations from Ben Jonson ?— "We have the dullest, most unbored ears for verse amongst our females."-'Staple of News,' II. i. "If you would be contented to endure a sliding reprehension at my hands."- Magnetic Lady,' I. i. "Strummel-patch'd, goggled-eyed grumbledories." -'Every Man out of his Humour,' v. 4. The usual interpretation of strummel does not seem to go comfortably with patch'd." M. E. 66 66 Mocock (10 S. viii. 107).-This is a birch-bark basket or pannier. The word occurs as early as 1827. Mud-wasp (1824).-Is this creature separately recognized by entomologists? -- Mung news (1844). False news (?). examples? what? Earlier Nail-driver (1872).-A rapid horse. Plug-muss (1857).-An uncommonly lively "row." Pot and can (1789).-Hand in glove. Priming, no part of a (1833).-Ditto. RICHARD H. THORNTON. 36, Upper Bedford Place, W.C. ELIZABETHAN LICENCE TO EAT FLESH. I shall be grateful if any correspondent of 'N. & Q.' will say what the statute of 5 Elizabeth is which is referred to below. The extract is from the Penshurst register, and I have seen a similar entry in the register of Sandhurst Church, Kent, signed or witnessed by the curate of the parish. The two entries are of about the same date : Mem: that Sir John Rivers and his Lady, bryng' certificate from Paul Dane, Physician, of their indisposition of body, and so of hurt that might come to them by eating of fish in time of Lent, had licence given them to eate flesh by me Henry Hammond......of Penshurst for the space of eight days......statute Eliz. 5th which time now.. desire to have it renewed, which of......registered it, in the presence of......" Dr. Henry Hammond became Rector of Penshurst in 1633. A. L. F. PRINCE BISHOP OF BASLE, 1790.-Can any one tell me if the Prince Bishop of Basle in 1790-92 was a Roman Catholic or Lutheran? I know he had a residence at Arlesheim at that date, but am not sure if his palace at Basle had been given up. I should also like to know his name. MILDRED HINDE. Heathcote, Wellington College, Berks. EGERTON LEIGH was admitted to Westminster School, 19 June, 1771. Particulars of his parentage and the date of his death are wanted. He must surely have been one of the Leighs of West Hall, High Leigh, but I cannot find him in my edition of Burke's Landed Gentry.' G. F. R. B. FRANCIS PECK, son of Francis Peck of Hythe, Kent, was elected from Westminster to a scholarship at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1706. He was admitted to Trinity as a pensioner 28 May, 1706, and as 1709, and M.A. 1713. I should be glad to scholar 25 April, 1707; he graduated B.A. know any further particulars of his career and the date of his death. I ought perhaps to add that this Francis Peck is not the antiquary of that name, with whom he is confused by the writer of the article in the 'Dict. of Nat. Biog.' (xliv. 184). The antiquary, who was educated at the Charterhouse and St. John's College, Cambridge, graduated B.A. 1715, and M.A. 1727. G. F. R. B. ' REVERBERATIONS.'-I have a volume of short poems with this title which belonged to the late William Davies of Warrington, the author of The Pilgrimage of the Tiber' and other works. It has his name and the date 1853 written on the top of the title, and contains many notes and verbal corrections by him. pp. IV, 68; It is in two parts: Part I. Part II. pp. IV, 108, 12mo, 1849. It has been somewhere stated, I believe, but with what authority I do not know, that William Davies had intimate relations with D. G. Rossetti and his circle. Can any of your readers say who is the author of these poems ? deeply imbued with Saga lore. He was evidently Heaton, Newcastle-on-Tyne. WM. NIXON. EAST INDIA COMPANY'S MARINE SERVICE. I shall be glad if some reader will oblige me with the name of the author of a biography (or autobiography) which gives a spirited account of an officer's adventures in the East India Company's marine service against French privateers, Arab pirates, &c. A. E. DENHAM. 92, Clarence Road, Wimbledon. MRS. FITZHERBERT'S SALE. Mrs. Fitzherbert died at Brighton in March, 1837, and a sale of her effects took place there soon after. I shall be glad to know if there is a catalogue in existence. A. H. S. WINDSOR STATIONMASTER. Can any reader remember the name of the G.W.R. stationmaster at Windsor towards the end of the seventies? Having quarrelled with his company, he resigned his position, and published some amusing reminiscences, which I should like to read again. L. L. K. SEERSUCKER " COAT.-In a recent novel by an American writer "in a seersucker coat 22 occurs thrice in the first twelve pages, and it is recorded as an East Indian material in "The Century Dictionary. 'Hobson-Jobson' makes no mention of it, and I ask its origin. Can the latter part of the word be a corruption of shikār? H. P. L. WARREN AND WALLER FAMILIES.-In Burke's Landed Gentry' it is stated that the family of Waller of Cully and Finoe, co. Tipperary, is a branch of the Warrens of Poynton, co. Chester, and that one William Warren, alias Waller, of Bassingbourne, co. Cambridge, and of Ashwell, co. Herts, assumed the name of Waller, probably from an intermarriage with an heiress of the Waller family. Any information on the subject will be welcomed. The Wallers of Cully and Finoe bear the Warren and Waller arms quarterly. The Wallers of Prior Park, co. Tipperary, use the Warren arms only. P. D. M. EGYPTIAN LITERARY ASSOCIATION.-In 'Nouvelles Annales des Voyages, Paris, 1845, tome ii., it is stated that "la société littéraire d'Egypte (Egyptian Literary Association) a publié le premier volume de ses Mémoires, sous le titre de Miscellanea Ægyptiaca, tome ler, première partie." Prince Ibrahim-Hilmy, in his Literature of Egypt, vol. ii., 1888, p. 438, has this entry: "Miscellanea Ægyptiaca de l'Association Littéraire d'Egypte. Anno 1842. Vol. I, part 1, pp. 20, 125. Alexandria, 1842. 4to. [No more published.]" Where can I find any information about this Association? And where can a copy of the Miscellanea' be seen? FREDK. A. EDWARDS. 39, Agate Road, Hammersmith, W. JOHN BROOKE, FIFTEENTH-CENTURY BARRISTER.-John Brooke, a barrister and bencher of the Middle Temple, was Treasurer of that Inn of Court from 1501 to 1504. There was also a contemporary John Brooke who became a serjeant-at-law and a judge. It is not known to which Inn of Court he belonged, or when he was made serjeant, but he died in 1522. He was a Somersetshire man, his pedigree being given in the Visitations for that county, and he was buried at St. Mary Redcliffe Church, Bristol. Can any one kindly tell me to which Inn of Court Serjeant Brooke belonged ? If the Middle Temple, the two John Brookes are SEE the annotated edition of Esmond' in Macmillan's" English Classics," 1903, p. 405, and the admirable edition by T. C. and W. Snow, Oxford, 1909, p. 470, and Index, Clergy. It was not the clergy in general, but the private chaplains, that were exposed to this indignity. 8.v. 6 In the Satires (ii. 6) of Joseph Hall, 1597, we read :— A gentle squire would gladly entertaine Into his house some trencher-chaplaine: Some willing man that might instruct his sons, And that would stand to good conditions. First, that he lie upon the truckle-bed, Whiles his young maister lieth o'er his head. Second, that he do, on no default, Ever presume to sit above the salt. Third, that he never change his trencher twise. Fourth, that he use all common courtesies; Sit beare at meales, and one halfe rise and wait. Last, that he never his young maister beat, But he must ask his mother to define How many jerkes she would his breech should line. All these observ'd, he could contented bee, To give five markes and winter liverie. I have copied the poem from Anderson's "British Poets," only substituting she for he in the last line but two. Of course it was the mother who was to decide on the number of jerks (strokes, lashes) the delinquent should receive in each case. Prof. H. V. Routh (in the Cambridge History of English Literature,' iv. 330) calls this mock advertisement the most perfect piece of workmanship in Hall's 'Satires.' |