Webb kept the Guard with his Halbert in his hand, by the Scaffold, and I did bustle to come near to them: then I returned back. Hulett (as far as I can guesse) when the King was on the Scaffold, for his execution; and said "Executioner, is the block fast?" then he fell upon his knees.' "Councel. Who did?' "Gittens. Hulett, to ask him forgivenesse,' &c...... "Benjamin Francis sworn states. 'My Lords and Gentlemen of the Jury, as to the Prisoner at the bar (William Hulett) he was very active in that horrid act, there was two of them had both clothes alike, their frocks were close to their bodies (as I remember) they were rather in Butchers habits of wollen, one had a black hat on his head cockt up, and a black beard, and the other had a grey grisled periwig hung down very low, I affirm, that he that cut off the King's head was he in the gray periwig, and I beleeve this was about that man's stature (pointing to Mr. Hulett) and his beard was of the same colour, if he had any. I was coming from Westminster, the scaffold was encompassed within, with a great guard of Souldiers of Redcoats, I think commanded by Biscoe."" It is possible in the above evidence that the name Biscoe may have been given in mistake for Bostock. C. S. HARRIS. Fort Carlisle. JOSHUA JONATHAN SMITH (8th S. iv. 308, 497; v. 72, 238, 435).—I cannot trace in the registers of St. Mary's, Fulham, the interments referred to by your querist MR. HARRISON. Alderman Smith's coffin used to be in a vault beneath this church, and I am informed that it was the only coffin in that vault. I presume that if the relatives had been buried at St. Mary's the same vault would have been used. I am not sure whether it has been put on record that Alderman Smith was, conjointly with Lady Hamilton, executor of the last will and testament of Viscount Nelson. CHAS. JAS. FÈRET. "SYNALL" (8th S. v. 347).-I am sorry that I cannot answer your correspondent's query. Synall is a word that baffles my search. Assuming, however, that the documents in which MR. PRINGLE finds it are manuscript, I would ask him if he is quite certain of the decipherment. Could a badly written small have been misread as synall? Small has a technical meaning as applied to diamonds. Jeffries, in his Treatise on Diamonds,' 1751, p. 20, defines "small stones as stones under the weight of a carat"; and "small diamonds" are referred to by Malynes, in the 'Lex Mercatoria,' 1622, p. 75, as having "some proportionable price." Since the above was written I have discovered the following manuscript entries in a dictionary that belonged to a deceased friend :— "Boart (bort?), granular or imperfectly crystallized diamonds, crushed into powder, or used for engraving on hard stones: 228. to 30s. per carat." "Bort (boart), small fragments of diamond." This strengthens my suspicion that small is the proper word. F. ADAMS. 80, Saltoun Road, Brixton. THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON AND THE ARMY OF WATERLOO (8th S. v. 345, 389, 433).-I extract the following from the 'Memoirs' of Pryse Lockhart Gordon, published by Henry Colburn & Richard Bentley in 1830. The writer was at Brussels on June, 18, 1815, and took pains to arrive at the truth : 'Perhaps no general in the world except the Duke of Wellington could have maintained for so long a time so unequal a conflict, making every allowance for the steadiness and bravery of the British troops......From every account [says this writer, and he cites many], the French appear to have exceeded the British in numerical But when we call to force from 30,000 to 40,000 men. mind that the former consisted of picked men, all of one nation, animated by one soul, who had seen a hundred battles, and were called to fight for lost honour and life; and that Wellington's foreign troops were composed of different nations, almost all raw levies from the militia, and recruits who had never been engaged (a part of the German legion, and three English regiments just disembarked from America excepted), it must be admitted that the difference between the two armies was indeed tremendous......I have taken all these details from the best authorities, and hope they will not be considered uninteresting at this distant period." The "distant period" above named was only fifteen years; and it cannot be doubted that the author would have been roughly handled if his statements had not been accurate in every particular. In writing from memory I in saying that only one regiment engaged on our was mistaken side at Waterloo had fought in the Peninsula. I should have said that the Peninsula regiments had been filled up by raw recruits, and that only three regiments of British infantry, lately disembarked from America, could claim to be styled veterans. RICHARD EDGCUMBE. 33, Tedworth Square, Chelsea, I am very much obliged for the quotation. The dyke is still there to see; but I do not remember reading in any account of the campaign what the breadth or depth of it was after the heavy rains. Some of our cavalry forded it on the retreat or retirement through Genappe on the 17th. As to works on the campaign, I cannot see anywhere the Mémoires' of Col. Lemonnier-Delafosse quoted by Creasy. R. B. S. MR. JUSTIN SIMPSON gives a list of French Regiments of the Line at Waterloo and in the Crimea,' 7th S. xi. 506. CELER ET Audax. used without another negative by the best writers. QUEEN'S ENGLISH (8th S. v. 445)-Nor has been Virgil frequently uses a single nec, Nec modus inserere atque oculos imponere simplex. "Georgics,' book ii, 1. 73. There are many such sentences in the works of Virgil, who is much given to expressing himself in this way. "Nec mora," unaccompanied by another negative, occurs often in Ovid's Metamorphoses.' Dr. Johnson, in his life of Milton, has . For who, to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, E. YARDLEY. THE 15TH HUSSARS AND TAILORS (8th S. v. 328, 413, 478).-There is a recent memoir of General George Augustus Eliott, Lord Heathfield of Sussex. It appeared in the Royal Engineers' Journal of Feb. 1, 1888, and was written by the late Capt. T. W. Conolly, R.E. In this it is stated that in in 1759 Major-General Eliott was commissioned by King George II. to raise the first corps of light cavalry, afterwards known as Eliott's Light Horse (the present 15th King's Hussars), and that this corps first came into action at Emsdorf, July 16, 1760. In the Gentleman's Magazine, vol. xxix., 1759, p. 385, is given the line of battle of the allied army before the battle of Minden on August 1, Your correspondent appears to assume as a prin- 1759. The British cavalry mentioned consisted of ciple too well known to require proof that the word three squadrons of Bland's Dragoons (present 1st nor should not be used without a preceding King's Dragoon Guards), two squadrons of Innisnegative. Only "slipshod writings," it seems, ever killing Dragoons, three squadrons of Blue Guards, transgress this rule. As such a canon of criticism two squadrons of Howard's Dragoons, two squadis an absolute novelty to me, I should be glad to rons of Mordaunt's Dragoons, and two squadrons know upon what ground it is alleged to be a set- of Scotch Greys-a total of fourteen squadrons, tled rule of our grammar. I quote a few instances which, though present during the action, took no from English writers of authority where the very active part in it, as Lord George Sackville, who thing your correspondent stands aghast at is un-commanded the British troops, failed to carry out blushingly done. Milton ('Paradise Lost,' i. 714-5) has, Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave; nor did there want Cornice or frieze. Macaulay, at the beginning of his essay on Addison, says, "Some reviewers are of opinion that a lady who dares to publish a book renounces by that act the franchises appertaining to her sex.......From that opinion we dissent.......Nor are the immunities of sex the only immunities which Miss Aikin may rightfully plead. Further on in the same essay he says, "Gay supposed that some plan to serve him had been in agitation at Court, and had been frustrated by Addison's influence. Nor is this improbable." The late Prof. Freeman ('Norman Conquest,' second ed., iii. 484) has a similar construction: "" He had died in the noblest of causes, and by the hand of the mightiest of enemies. Nor did he fall alone." These examples present themselves at once. No doubt a little search would discover countless others. But first let us hear by what authority the prohibition is supported. I venture to think that there is not, and never was, any rule of the kind. SLIPSHOD. The use of nor without a preceding negative is allowable for and never or and not ever, especially in verse. If 'H. A. and M.,' 368, be slipshod, it is in good company, for John Gilpin rode a race, the orders sent him by Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick for advancing his cavalry. My great-grandfather, Capt. Floyd, of the 1st King's Dragoon Guards, died on duty in Germany on Sept. 12, 1759; his son John (afterwards General Sir John Floyd, who commanded the 19th Light Dragoons in India), when twelve years and two months old received a commission, dated May 5, 1760, as cornet in Eliott's Light Horse, and embarked at Gravesend on June 10, 1760, on board the Port Mahon, twenty gun ship, with Lord Pembroke and Major-General Eliott. They approached the Elbe in bad weather; during one of the squalls the vessel ran aground at no great distance from Heligoland, and they left her and went with the regiment up the Weser, landing near Bremen. Cornet Floyd had a horse shot under him close to the line of the French infantry at Emsdorf on July 16, 1760, and carried off as a trophy a French cavalry sabre, which is still preserved; on the blade are the inscriptions, Regiment de Turpin," "Vivat Hussar,' "Vive le Roy." Can any reader of 'N. & Q.' kindly help me to identity this regiment? In the London Gazette of that time only Berchini's Hussars are mentioned in the list of French prisoners taken in this action. W. C. L. FLOYD. THE BATTLE-AXE GUARDS (8th S. v. 429).—The Battle-Axe Guards, or Beaufetiers (commonly called Beef-eaters), will be the Yeomen of the Guard. A list of the captains from 1486 to 1850, with a brief historical sketch, is in 'The Book of Dignities,' by Joseph Haydn, 1851, p. 212. A more extensive history will be found in 'The Book of Court,' by William J. Thoms, 1844, p. 363. The 'Angliæ Notitia,' by Edward Chamberlayne, published in A question of the same purport appeared in 'N. & Q.,' 6th S. xii. 147, and did not elicit a reply. As your correspondent's inquiry is dated from the county of Down, I would refer him to the library of Trinity College, Dublin, where he may consult Army Lists' from 1743, or to the Hon. Society of King's Inns, Dublin, where one published in March, 1744, may be seen. Those at the Horse Guards, London, commence in 1795. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. BURNET FAMILY (8th S, v. 409, 498).-If VERNON will kindly communicate to me any particulars he may possess respecting the Burnet family I shall be very grateful. HARDINGE F. GIFFARD. Junior Carlton Club, S.W. Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, &c. The Hall of Waltheof; or, the Early Condition and The cross found at Bradfield is an interesting relic. We have little doubt that it was a preaching-cross-a station where the Christian and half-heathen folk assembled to hear the truths of the Gospel ere there was a church in the neighbourhood. We do not think, how ever, that the author's surmise that there were very few churches in Hallamshire is in any way strengthened by the fact that in the Domesday Survey only one church is mentioned in that wide district. When a church is spoken of therein it is positive evidence that a church existed at the time the returns were made; but we cannot argue that there was not a church in this place or that because there is no mention of it in the survey. Why the churches are mentioned in some places and not in others is not easy to explain; but as to the fact no doubt can be entertained. In some cases Mr. Addy carries historic caution to unreasonable lengths. The arrant scepticism of a passage such as the following ought not to pass unrebuked: related about St. Patrick lead one to think that he is a "The many legends and old wives' tales which are myth, a creation of popular fancy." This is really too bad. We might as well regard Oliver Cromwell as a freak of the imagination because there are many old enshrined in modern books, where we might have hoped wives' fables told concerning him, some of which are that the sifting process would have been applied. Anne of Geierstein. By Sir Walter Scott. Edited by Andrew Lang. (Nimmo.) As has already been said, Mr. Lang is a little unjust to nizable decline of Scott's capacity. We, on the other 'Anne of Geierstein,' which he takes to mark the recoghand, prefer it to The Fair Maid of Perth.' It is true that the elfin tricks of Anne are a little puzzling, that the fortunes of Queen Margaret inspire but moderate interest, and that the termination is more than a little nebulous. The description of Swiss scenes is, however, very clever. The spirit of adventure dominates the whole. Arthur is one of the most acceptable of Scott's heroes, and the young sons of Anak," though they recall The illustrations to this favourite edition are by R. de the Osbaldistones in Rob Roy,' are fine young fellows. Los Rios, and are specially dramatic. The pictures of 'The Defiance,' 'The Duel,' and 'The Execution' are among the most vigorous that have yet appeared in any volume of this enchanting series. Old Celtic Romances. By P. W. Joyce. Second Edition. (Nutt.) IT is delightful to think that Dr. Joyce's charming translations are again available to those who have wished tional tale, good notes, and a list of proper names, all of to possess them. This edition, too, contains an addithem welcome to the student. Dr. Joyce says he has and there is no doubt he has combined the two qualities translated from the original MSS. faithfully and freely, as thoroughly as it is possible. The stories are old favourites-the fate of the children of Lir, or the four white swans; the fate of the children of Turenn, or the quest for the eric fine; the overflowing of Lough Neagh and the story of Liban the mermaid; Connia of the golden hair and the fairy maiden; the voyage of Maildun; the fairy palace of the Quicken Trees; the pursuit of the Gilla Dacker and his horse; the pursuit of Dermat and Grania; the chase of Slieve Cullinn; the chase of Slieve Fuad; Oisin in Tirnanoge, or the last of the Fena; and the voyage of the sons of O'Corra. There are few charms in ancient literature equal to the Celtic romances, and few problems in historical science so interesting as their origin and value. As we understand them, there is a world of real ancient Irish culture enshrined in the descriptions of places and events with which they abound-a culture which reveals Celtic belief and Celtic institutions-and the only doubtful element is as to the origin of the forms in which they literature. But while scholars are discussing and trying appear, the Homer or Homers who made them into to settle these things, those who love the romances for themselves will thank Dr. Joyce and his publisher for this gain to their means of enjoying that fascinating past which Ireland, above all countries, has known how best to reveal to modern days. Will not Dr. Joyce give us a second series? sciously affected the shade. Some of the sonnets quoted are excellent. Dr. Robinson's article on Every Day Cruelty' is to some extent a defence of the vivisectionist. It shows, which few will deny, that immeasurably more -cruelty comes as the result of sport than is produced by scientific research, and its author is of opinion that many domestic animals are treated with great, though not always conscious, cruelty. Over the notion that certain animals are good and others bad he makes merry. The entire article is very thoughtful, ingenious, and interesting. A Lesson from the Chicago,' by Nauticus, gives advice we might well take to heart concerning the importance to the world of a good understanding between England and America. M. Paul Verlaine's Notes on England' show very great observation. Few people, we fancy, knew that the poet was, during some years, usher in a boys' school in England, and has a fine knowledge of English. Mr. Wilde sends Poems in Prose.' Few of his rivals have such power of self-analysis and selfappraisal. The Nineteenth Century opens with a sonnet by Mr. Swinburne to M. Carnot. Sir William Des Voeux continues, in the same periodical, his_removal of popular delusions concerning the tropics. He writes with a practical regard to Australia, and seems to have doubts concerning the future of Queensland. Even with a large supply of immigrants, it seems doubtful, Sir William thinks, whether Australia will be able to compete with some other countries on even lines. Miss J. A. Taylor contributes a very suggestive paper on The Art of Dying.' It is most Montaigne-like in character, but its illustrations are principally modern, or comparatively so-Kneller, Scott, Keats, and the like. Under the heading A Land of Incredible Barbarity,' the Earl of Meath describes not Spain, as might have been expected, but Morocco, where, indeed, things seem to be even worse. Some of the stories told of the treatment accorded the Moors take away the breath. Mr. Frederic Harrison wishes us to commemorate the centenary of Edward Gibbon, and declares, eloquently and happily, that "when we yearn for a book, a man, an idea......then, for the tenth or the twentieth time, we take down 'The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,' and we have one of the greatest dramas of human civilization, rehearsed with the ordered imagination of a poet and the monumental form of a consummate master of language."-Mr. Bernard Shaw, in the New Review, goes for" the so-called dramatic critics who persisted in taking his Arms and the Man' as extravaganza. For 80 versatile and able a man not to see that his defence lays him open to tenfold more vigorous attacks shows how sad are the results of taking oneself seriously. It is no defence for an unconvincing novelist to say that the story he tells is true; nor is it more wise when a whole drama conveys the idea of sauciness to say that each separate item is the result of close observation of realities. Mr. Shaw and his critics amuse one another. In so doing they amuse society. Surely "things are for the best in the best of possible worlds." "The Real Madame Sans-Gêne' deals less with the famous Duchess de Dantzig than with another female so christened, who was famous as a warrior. Secrets from the Court of Spain' is continued.-Mr. F. Marion Crawford depicts, in the Century, Coasting by Sorrento and Amalfi, while the high road to Sorrento is tracked by Mr. Adams. The illustrations, which are quite excellent, are by Mr. Harry Fenn. Mr. Jerrold Kelley supplies, in 'Superstitions from the Sea,' matter of interest to our readers. An essay on Schubert is by Antonin Dvorak. Jacob Van Ruisdael is dealt with under Old Dutch Masters.' 'Painting at the Fair' repays attention.-Some admirable pictures by pen and pencil of The North Shore of Massachusetts' appear in Scribner's, and include 66 pictures of some very home-like scenes. Among the Tarahumaris' describes a remarkable and interesting tribe of American cave-dwellers. Some scenery of marvellous grandeur is also depicted. Portraits of François Flamang accompany an account by Mr. P. G. Hamerton. One of them, by Mr. John S. Sargent, exhibits a gentleman of very tragic appearance. A second, from a portrait, reveals a pleasant, good-natured looking gentleman, 'Beasts of Burden' is also good.-'Some Recollections of Yesterday,' in Temple Bar, are obviously from some member of the Bentley family, and supply much matter of high interest concerning Dickens, Frances Anne Kemble, and other celebrities. A Chat with Mrs. Lynn Linton' shows that clever lady at her best. Dante and Tennyson' is a subject familiar enough to our readers.-Macmillan's gives a capital account of Madame Du Deffand, writes the history of the Founders of the Bank of England,' and has an interesting account of 'Scholar-Gipsies.'-The Gentleman's supplies a 'Gascon Tragedy,' largely drawn from Froissart. Mr. Schütz Wilson writes on The Women of Fiction,' and Mr. Leonard on The Dog in English Poetry.'-The English Illustrated has a pretty frontispiece of 'Glycera'; a characteristic article, by Mr. Phil Robinson, on The Zoo Revisited'; a capitally illustrated Humours of the Duchy'; and a paper on Conversation in Society,' by Lady Jeune, illustrated by Mr. Phil May. We do not care for articles on the chase, but 'Polar Bear Shooting,' by Dr. Fridtjof Nansen, which appears in Longman's, is of more than average merit. A second article of a similar character is also given.-'With R. L. Stevenson in Samoa' attracts attention in the Cornhill. Gleams of Memory, with some Recollections,' by Mr. James Payn, contains some very pleasant gossip, and drifts, characteristically enough, on to whist. CASSELL'S Storehouse of General Information, Part XLII., carries the alphabet to "Rubeola." The most important article is on Rome, a view of which, from the Appian Way, is given.-The Gazetteer, Part X., ends at Cheddar, of which delightful Somersetshire township a pleasant description and illustration are given. Castle Howard, in Yorkshire, is also depicted. Notices to Correspondents. We must call special attention to the following notices: ON all communications must be written the name and address of the sender, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. WE cannot undertake to answer queries privately. To secure insertion of communications correspondents must observe the following rule. Let each note, query, or reply be written on a separate slip of paper, with the signature of the writer and such address as he wishes to appear. Correspondents who repeat queries are requested to head the second communication "Duplicate.' E. B. ("Haunted House in Berkeley Square").-See 4th S. x. 373, 399; xi. 85; 5th S. xii. 87; 6th S. ii. 417, 435, 452, 471, 514; iii. 29, 53, 111, 151. E. R. ("Ballad ").-'Guy Faux' is obtainable in a sixpenny book of baritone and bass songs published by A. Hall, Paternoster Row. LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 14, 1894. CONTENT 8.-N° 133. Duke of York's Son-Sir John Talbot's Second WifeEaster Sepulchres - Nelthorp, 27-"During". House, Kensington Gardens-Hedgehog's Jawbone-GerGreen man Bands-G. Samuel-Rev. E. Woodcock-Poems of Richard Verstegan, 28-Norris-Military Officers in Ireland-Helmerawe - Oxford and Cambridge - Heaving: Lifting-Longevity, 29. REPLIES:-Joan I. of Naples, 29-English Monuments in the Crimea, 31-Title of Prince George-Small-Pox, 32Manchester Author-Mothers' Maiden Names-Thistle The Gentleman's Magazine'-Extraordinary Field-The Lion of Scotland-U as a Capital Letter, 33-Irish Song"Chacun a son goût"-Jews, Christians, and George III. -Sir J. Armertre: Dr. Wotton, &c.-"To hang out," 34"Putt gally"-" Necklace"-R. Haines-Dominichetti's, 35-University Graces-Marquis of Huntly-PortraitMother of Adeliza of Louvain, 36-Post-Reformation Chancel Screens - " Antigropelos," 37-Prusias-' Venice Preserved-Smedley's 'Frank Farleigh - The Mansion House, 38-Authors Wanted, 39. NOTES ON BOOKS:-Cowper's Register Book of St. Paul, Foraminifera '-' Dorset Records.' Notes. Blaauw (p. 156).-The first of this family is branch of the Brookes of Cheshire, descended from the Brouns of Hertré, is a pedigree of "Broun of named. (Cf. Grimston, p. 837.) married Mary Chetham, great-granddaughter and SOME NOTES ON BURKE'S LANDED GENTRY.' It was hoped by many genealogists that when Burke's Landed Gentry' got into the hands of its new editors it would become a really trustworthy and scientific collection of the pedigrees of our untitled aristocracy. An examination of the new edition will certainly blast their hopes. Some of the grosser forgeries have disappeared, but there remain very many doubtful pedigrees; the ancient Irish and Welsh pedigrees are treated with great to England from the Low Countries at the time of Clutterbuck (p. 357).-"This family......came respect; many families are shown to be of Saxon or the Duke of Alva's persecutions, and was estabNorman descent from their surnames alone; ille-lished in Gloucestershire by Walter Clotherbooke, gitimate descents are treated as if legitimate, and in numberless cases descents are implied that will not bear a moment's examination. The following notes may be of interest to readers of 'N. & Q.':Astley (p. 52).-F. D. P. Astley, "grandson (by his first wife, Lady Dukinfield Daniel) of John Astley, Esq., son of Richard Astley, a physician." Mr. F. D. P. Astley was the grandson of John Astley's third wife. Lady Dukinfield Daniel was the second wife. Richard Astley was a surgeon, not a physician. Mrs. Nicholson, sister of the late Mr. Astley, is stated to have only one child. Under Nicholson (p. 1486) five children are named. Baghot De La Bere (p. 495).-No reason is given why the Rev. John Edwards changed his name to Baghot De La Bere. about the year 1521." Alva was born in 1508, so that, if Burke is to be trusted, he began his career of persecution at a very early age. that the present representative is "Descended from Cowper (p. 412).-The only "lineage" given is Sir Richard Cowper, of Cowper, son of Richard Cowper, of Salop, vide Heralds' Visitation, 1568.' Unfortunately this Visitation pedigree does not throw much light on the last three hundred years. " Dunlop being the father of Robert Delap. De Lisle (p. 498).-The early generations of this Is there any authentic instance of a family profamily show an unusual succession of only sons. ducing only one son in each of six successive generations? |