Edward III., from whom he claimed descent, ROGER O'SHAUGNESSY: LETTERS WANTED "in the nave of the church of St. Austin's-In his Historical Portraits of the Tudor monastry at Pavia. I have been unable to Period,' vol. iv. page 39, the author (S. ascertain what is the church at Pavia to Hubert Burke) quotes from the Letters of which allusion is made. the Rev. Roger O'Shaughnessy-on the Dominican fathers and the English Reformers, printed at Brussells, 1601."

Gough goes on to state that "Charles Parker was titular bishop of Man, and retired hither from England in Queen Elizabeth's reign," but as Bishop of Sodor and Man he is not recognized either by Gams or by Eubel, and he was not an "electus episcopus" to this or any other English see when Queen Mary died.

He became rector of Great Parndon, Essex, and Swanton Morley, Norfolk, in 1558, and absented himself from the visitation of 1559, but was not succeeded in his livings till 1571. He was studying in Paris in February, 1561 (Cal. S.P., Span.' Eliz., vol. i. p. 184), and it is possible that he took the degree of S.T.D. there. In 1572 he was living at Louvain and in 1581 at Milan. It is not known when Charles Parker retired to "St. Austin's monastry at Pavia, where, as Gough says, "he erected other monuments in the adjoining cloister for Francis, Prince of Lorraine, and for Richard de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk, who was killed on the French side at the battle of Pavia" in 1525.

Are these monuments still extant? When and where did Charles Parker die?

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

VENABLES.-Peter Venables, b. circa 1649, m. [licence July 30, 1709] at the age of 60 Sarah Roberts [b. 1690, d. Feb. 25, 1713]. He d. Aug. 7, 1720, and both were buried at Tewkesbury Abbey. Was Peter a son of Peter Venables of Kinderton who had issue (unnamed in the Visitation of Cheshire,' 1613) by his first two wives, Mary, dau. of Sir Richard Wilbraham of Woodhey, Bt., and Frances, natural dau. of Robert Cholmondeley, Earl of Leinster? If so, by which wife? Is it possible to establish the parentage of Sarah Roberts?

H. PIRIE-GORDON.

CISTERCIAN BUILDINGS.-In The Yorkshire Archæological Journal, vol. xv. p. 245, there are three chapters on the Cistercian Order contributed by Mr. J. T. Micklethwaite. In a note at the end he says that he hopes before long to write two more chapters, viz., on the Decay of the Rule and on the Cistercian Buildings. Will someone tell me if these chapters were ever written, and if so, be kind enough to let me have the reference ? H. P. HART. The Vicarage, Ixworth, Bury St. Edmunds.

May I ask whether any reader can say where a copy of these letters exists?

SARAH'S COFFEE-HOUSE.—In the Court several editions of it. I had one in my Book' of the East India Company hand lately, date 1677. I have been told (vol. xxxvii.a, p. 167) is the following entry, that the second edition of Hocus Pocus' under date Jan. 31, 1698-9: "Ordred That came out about 1634. & Bill of 21. 58. 6d. from Sarah's Coffee-house for Tea and Coffee at Mercers hall....be paid."

Who was Sarah, and where was her coffeehouse? L. M. ANSTEY.

"FRAY" ARCHAIC MEANING OF THE

I should be very pleased with a speedy answer, as the information is needed immediately. Please reply direct.

R. EVANS.

37 Ponsonby Buildings, Charles Street,
Blackfriars, S.E.

WORD. In a letter to Coleridge, July 6, the microscope, after whom the Coddington HENRY CODDINGTON.-The improver of

1796, Lamb writes:

"These mighty spouters-out of panegyric waters have. 2 of 'em, scattered their fray even upon me, and the waters are cooling and refreshing.'

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lens was named, married a daughter of Dr. Batten of Haileybury College and died 1845. What is known of his ancestry?

C. B. A.

All editors of the Letters' have substituted the word spray for "fray," but FINCH FAMILY: WINCHELSEY.-Can any that Lamb intended to write fray one who has seen the original of the letter of your readers tell me where I can find an can doubt. We all know that he was fond account, historical or traditional, of the of using words in their old, rather than in family of Finch of Winchelsey, &c., in Sussex, their modern, sense. Can any example be and of Sandhurst and Tenterden, &c., in found in old writers of the word "fray Kent, prior to their being merged in the Herberds, being used in the sense of " "alias Finch," temp. Edward II., spray ? and where is there any detailed account of The nearest I have found is in Spenser's Old Winchelsey, destroyed 1286-7 ? Faerie Queene,' II. xii. 45 ::

Ye might have seen the frothy billows fry Under the ship as thorough them she went. I should much like to be able to prove that Lamb's writing "fray" was not a mere slip of the pen, as editors have hitherto taken for granted. (Mrs.) G. A. ANDERSON.

The Moorlands, Woldingham, Surrey.

CAVALIER OFFICERS.-In Nicholl's 'Collectania Topographica and Genealogica' is a copy of a list of "The Names of the Indigent Officers certifyed out of the County of Salop by his Majesty's Commissioners appointed by Act of Parliament for that purpose." These lists were ordered by the Act (14 Cav. 2, c. 8) to be sent by the Commissioners to London for the purpose of having the grant made by the Act allotted to the various counties. So far inquiries at the Public Record Office have not enabled me to trace any more of these lists. Can any of your readers tell me where any of them are to be found? J. B. W.

Hocus Pocus': A RICH GIFT.'-Could any one tell me the date of the first edition of Hocus Pocus,' by White, and also the date of first edition of A Rich Gift'? The last work deals in conjuring and curious matter. I was told by one of the gentlemen at the British Museum that they did not possess a copy of A Rich Gift.' This I find hard to believe, for I fancy there were

P. H. H.

ENGLISH VERSION OF QUOTATION WANTED. -Can any of your readers furnish me with the popular accredited version of the following Latin acrostic?

Nitimur in vanum, dant auri pondera nomen
We strive in vain, it is the heavy purse that counts.
Is this near it?
JOHN W. BROWN.
Ty Hedd, North Road Aberystwyth.

LORD BOWEN: REFERENCE TO DANIEL IN THE LIONS DEN.-I shall be greatly obliged if any reader could direct me to the record of the late Lord Bowen's life history where I could see the speech he made at some dinner in which he referred to Daniel in the lions' den, and, I think, said that the historian was to be congratulated in the fact that "he was spared the necessity of an after dinner speech -or some such remark.

A. T.

Replies.

HENRY WASHINGTON.

(12 S. vi. 290.)

THE autograph in Chaucer's Works, now in the possession of SIR HERBERT MAXWELL is most likely that of Henry Washington who married on Oct. 7, 1689, Eleanor Harrison of South Cave, Yorks. By this marriage Henry Washington ultimately became lord of the manor of South Cave and he had four daughters and two sons. Susanna was born at South Cave in 1694 and died the same year; Elizabeth was baptised at the same place in 1696; Anne married John Idell, who obtained the manor of South Cave in 1719; the elder son, Richard Washington, was in 1710 living in London. His son William and his daughter Mary are only mentioned in his will. According to some Chancery Proceedings at the Public Record Office (Whittington, Easter, 1700, No. 254) Henry Washington was nephew to Katharine, wife of John Arthur of Doncaster, gent. he was her half-sister's son. He occurs again in other Chancery proceedings (Whittington, Michaelmas and Hil., 1707, No. 305), where he is described as of Lincoln's Inn, gent. He was then acting on behalf of Elizabeth Gellott, who before her marriage with Stephen Gellott was Elizabeth Washington, one of the four daughters of Col. Henry Washington, the gallant defender of Worcester in the Civil War.

Henry Washington's will (Tenison 248), dated Oct. 6, 1717, mentions his wife Eleanor, his manor of South Cave, his three younger children Anne, William and Mary, his trusty friend George Washington of Covent Garden, apothecary, his house in Cookham, Berks. The will was proved by Eleanor Washington, widow, on Dec. 15,

1718.

AN ENGLISH ARMY LIST OF 1740. (12 S. ii. 3, 43, 75, 84, 122, 129, 151, 163, 191, 204, 229, 243, 272, 282, 311, 324, 353, 364, 391, 402, 431, 443, 473, 482, 512, 524; iii. 11, 46, 71, 103, 132, 190, 217, 234, 267, 304.)

3rd Foot Guards (12 S. ii. 165, 231; v. 270; vi. 17.)

Daniel Jones, app. captain-lieutenant and lieutenant-colonel, Nov. 7, 1759; captain and lieutenant-colonel, Sept. 1, 1760; second major, Nov. 3, 1769; first major (and brevetcolonel), April 18, 1770; lieutenant-colonel of the regiment, Feb. 22, 1775, till 1777; major-general, Aug. 29, 1777; lieutenantgeneral, Feb. 19, 1779; colonel 2nd Foot, Aug. 7, 1777, till he d. Nov. 18, 1793.

Edward A'Court, brother to William (12 S. ii. 165), and 4th son of Pierce A'Court, M.P., was a captain in De Grangue's (new) 60th Foot, Jan. 27, 1741, till he d. in Ireland, December, 1745.

and

at

William Lindsay, lieutenant and captain in the regiment, March, 1744, d. Nov. 1745. Hon. John Maitland, lieutenant captain, September, 1743; wounded Fontenoy; third and youngest son of 5th Earl of Lauderdale; was the Capt. John Maitland who was Я Gentleman Usher, Quarterly Waiter (1007.), to the Princess of Wales, 1736, till 1753 or 1754. the John Maitland appointed captain of He was the Independent Company of Invalids doing duty at Landguard Fort, December, 1753, till Nov. 8, 1756.

James Leslie d. March, 1745.

and

Montagu Blomer, lieutenant and captain, lieutenant-colonel, Aug. 27, 1753; captain January, 1744; captain-lieutenant and lieutenant-colonel, Dec. 24, 1755; left 1765; brevet - colonel, Feb. 19, 1762; d. September or October, 1772. Presumably the Montagu Blomer who matriculated from Christ Church, Oxford, May 26, 1726, aged 17, as doctor." son of Ralph Blomer of Canterbury, His kinsman Dr. Thomas Blomer d. Jan. 29, 1764, aged 85, Vicar of Lavington, and for thirty years Chaplain to George II. (Gent. Mag.).

Richard Lyttelton of Little Ealing, Middlesex, fifth but third surviving son of Sir Thomas Lyttelton, 4th Bart., M.P., of Frankley, co. Worcester, was Honour to Queen Caroline in 1734 till 1737 a Page of 7: captain in Jeffreys's 10th Marines, Jan. 27. 1741; brevet -lieutenant-colonel April 11, 1744; a deputy quartermaster-general in 1742

and 1744, on half-pay till major-general, bursting of a cohorn," July 20, 1759, while Feb. 3, 1757; lieutenant-general, April 5, in command of the forces in the trenches 1759; brevet-colonel (as deputy adjutant- before Fort Niagara; local brigadier-general general), April 16, 1747. M. Dec. 23, 1745, in North America, Oct. 28, 1758. Second Lady Rachel (Russell), daughter of 2nd son of Sir John Prideaux, 6th Bart., of Duke of Bedford, widow of 1st Duke of Netherton, Devon-wrongly said in Burke's Bridgwater; was M.P. Brackley, 1747 to Peerage and Baronetage' to have been 1754; Poole, 1754 to 1761; K.B., August, 1753; Master of the Jewel Office, December, 1756, to 1762; Governor of Minorca, December, 1762; of Guernsey, March, 1766, till he d., s.p., Oct. 1, 1770. Horace Walpole described him and his wife as the besthumoured people in the world."

a colonel in the 55th Regiment," which description, of course, applied to his son, of whom Burke proceeds to say :

"This gallant officer, the friend and companion in arms of Wolfe and Amherst, was one of the three young generals selected by the Earl of Chatham to restore the credit of the British arms, which had suffered by a series of reverses in North America. He led the forces under his command with uninterrupted success to Niagara, where he lost his life through the awkwardness of an artilleryman while besieging that fortress in 1759."

His eldest son John

He m. Elizabeth, daughter of Col. Rolt, and
sister of Sir Edward Baynton Rolt, Bart., of
Wilmot succeeded his grandfather as 7th
Spye Park, and d. v.p.
Bart., 1766.
W. R. WILLIAMS.

GEORGE BORROW: LIEUT. PARRY (12 S. v. 95, 333).-The court martial referred to

of a

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John Whitwell, first son of William Whitwell of Oundle, Northants, b. there March 13, 1719; lieutenant and captain Coldstream Guards, March 17, 1744; captain and Lieutenant-colonel 3rd Foot Guards (as J. Griffin Whitwell), Feb. 18. 1747; first major thereof, May 2, 1758, to 1759; A.D.C. to the King (and brevet-colonei), May 29, 1756; adjutant-general, April, 1778, to 1780; colonel 50th Foot, Oct. 23, 1759; of 33rd Foot, May 5, 1760; of 1st Horse Grenadier Guards, March 21, 1766, till he d., s.p., at Audley End, May 25, 1797, aged 78; major-general, June 25, 1759; lieutenant- by W. B. H. at the last reference arose out general, Jan. 19, 1761; general, April 2, 1778; Field-Marshal, July 30, 1796. Took 46th Regiment. This regiment, the old ragging" case that took place in the by Act of Parliament, 1749, the surname and South Devonshire, was quartered at Windsor arms of Griffin on receiving from his aunt, in the summer of 1854, and some of the Elizabeth, Countess of Portsmouth, her share in the Saffron Walden estate, and succeeded to one of the subalterns, Lieut. Perry (not junior officers appear to have taken a dislike at her death, July, 1762, to Audley End Parry), and evidently determined to make House; was created K.B., March (and the regiment too hot for him." They installed by proxy, May 26), 1761; better seem, however, to have carried things too known as Sir John Griffin Griffin. far, with the result that the matter was M.P. Andover, November, 1749, till 1784; summoned to the House of Lords as Lord inquired into by a court martial. The Howard de Walden, Oct. 3, 1784; created finding of the court, gave rise to a good deal proceedings before this tribunal, and the Lond Braybrooke, Sept. 5, 1788; Recorder of comment, public opinion as not unusual of Saffron Walden in 1775; Lord Lieutenant, being expressed in the pages of Punch. Custos Rotulorum, and Vice-Admiral of the issue for Aug. 12, 1854, a set of verses Essex, all till death. appeared, entitled 'A Court Martial for me,' two concluding lines :the tone of which can be gathered from the

He was

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Hon. John Barrington, A.D.C. to the King (and brevet-colonel), May 25, 1756; served several campaigns in Flanders, and took Guadeloupe, 1758; general and Com-A court martial the rarest of courts in my eyes is; mander-in-Chief in the West Indies, May 12, No such other we've had since JUDGE JEFFERIES 1759; colonel 8th Foot, Oct. 24, 1759, till he the refrain being :d. at Paris, April 2, 1764; major-general, June 25, 1759; Lieutenant-Governor of Berwick (1827. 108.) in 1761. Third son of 1st Viscount Barrington; m. Elizabeth, daughter of Florentius Vassal.

John Prideaux, captain and lieutenantcolonel, Feb. 24, 1748; second major thereof, May 2, 1758; colonel 55th Foot, Oct. 28, 1758, till he was accidentally "killed by the

Sing, over the left, boys, and like a whale, very,
And "Where are your witnesses," eh, MR. PERRY?

In the next number (Aug. 19, 1854) there is an article professing to give extracts from 'The Officer's Own Book ':