will," Richard "living in 1659 and 1667," and "Ezebias." Pollards from one family or another went out to Barbados in the mid-seventeenth century, and their names occur in records there from that time till recently. I do not know if there are any now left. Among their wills recorded in that colony occur: 1682, Richard Pollard; 1687, John; and 1688, George Pollard. Can any reader kindly tell me whether there is a real connection or are these names only a curious coincidence? E. BINDOW. W. CECIL (LORD BURGHLEY): REFERENCE TO QUEEN ELIZABETH.- "Here is a great resort of wooers and controversy among lovers. Would to God the Queen had one and the rest honourably satisfied." The words were spoken in the Queen's gallery when she had around her the Imperial Ambassador, the Duke of Finland, and Lord Dudley. The only reference I can find to the quotation is in Bishop Creighton's Life of Queen Elizabeth,' and he gives no clue as to who originally put the words on record. COLENSO. PEWTER SNUFFERS.-Under date Jan. 23, 1667/8, Samuel Pepys writes :"She (Mrs. Turner) is either a very prodigal woman, or richer than she would be thought, by her buying of the best things, and laying out much money in new-fashioned pewter; and, among other things, a new-fashioned case for a pair of snuffers which is very pretty; but I could never have guessed what it was for, had I not seen the snuffers in it." WILLIAM ALABASTER. In the late Mr. Robertson's sonnet-anthology entitled 'The Golden Book of English Sonnets,' which was published by Harrap & Co. in 1913, price 3s. 6d., I find at page 32 a sonnet by the so-called "Latin poet," William Alabaster (1565-1640) of which the title is Incarnatio est Maximum Dei Donum.' Can any reader inform me whether Alabaster was favourably regarded as a poet of distinction by his contemporaries, and also whether he wrote many sonnets besides the one above referred to ? He is not mentioned in Mr. Austin Dobson's Handbook of English Literature' (2nd edition, 1880). POEMS FOR CHILDREN: TITLES WANTED -Can any of your readers tell me the title and name of compiler of a collection of poems for children, called, I think, Poems and Hymns for Children,' published probably in the fifties or sixties. Among its contents were Little Dick Snappy,' 'The Pakenham (or Fakenham) Ghost' and 'Little Drops of Water.' I had it in 1869, when it had no cover. It had little woodcuts, and was a small book. square C. S. FRY. Upton, Didcot, Berks. As far as I can trace pewter snuffers are not referred to in any of the standard books on old pewter, neither is there any reference SLATES AND SLATE PENCILS.-I wonder if to pewter cases for holding snuffers, and any of your correspondents happen to know I have therefore wondered whether Pepys when slates and slate pencils were introduced meant that the "case" was made of pewter-Papyrus, I am informed, was not used in or whether it was of totally different metal, Europe after 700 A.D., and presumably If the case Pepys saw was of pewter. something, and that decidedly inexpensive, possibly there are similar ones still in took the place in schools of this, and the existence, but they are not recognised as wax tablets used in the days of the Roman receptacles for snuffers. Can any one shed Empire. H. G. W. HERRON. any light on the matter? ERNEST HUNTER. 20 Mount Avenue, Orrell, Bootle, Liverpool. THE HAWKHURST GANG.-Local tradition has it that a mansion called Seacock's Heath, near Robertsbridge, in Sussex, was built by Arthur Gray, out of his ill-gotten gains as a member of the Hawkhurst gang. What was this gang, and when and where did it operate? J. LANDFEAR LUCAS. Glendora, Hindhead, Surrey. CROSS-BEARER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.-In Cooper's 'Ath. Cantabrigiensies' Hugh Latimer was such. Is there such an officer now, and what is his office? M.A. THORINGTON. Has any pedigree been published of the family of Thorington or is anything known of a family of that name? E. J. HARRISON. Denna Hall, Burton Point, Birkenhead. MILLER'S GARDENER'S DICTIONARY.'Can any reader tell me where there is a copy of the very rare fifth edition of the above? C. C. LACAITA. Selham House, Petworth. MARY JONES.-There was issued in Oxford, 1750, a volume of Miscellanies in Prose and "WE FOUR FOOLS." (12 S. v. 316.) Verse by the aforesaid lady. Impartable IN further description of this picture I send information about her will oblige. the following details : ANEURIN WILLIAMS. arm, CURIOUS SURNAMES.-The three following instances are as notable as I have ever met with, all from this city: Gotobed, Strongithand Fullolove. Are such known elsewhere? J. B. McGOVERN. St. Stephen's Rectory, C.-on-M., Manchester. LETTER FROM THE KING (GEORGE IV.).— Can any one give me information as to the authorship of A Letter from the King to his People,' written I presume on the accession of George IV. in 1820, and attributed to Wasborough, and again to J. W. Croker. Who was Wasborough ? ARCHIBALD SPARKE. AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED.— In the oil painting, the left figure has, on his right leg, above the knee, a pair of tongs and a poker, crossed; below, a bell on his left leg, above the knee, two fish; below a pair of bellows. The central figure has cross-gartered pantaloons. The right figure has, on his right leg, above the knee, a gridiron; below, a mug with a lid on his left leg, above the knee, three playing-cards, ace of clubs, five of spades, and three of diamonds. He is holding a fiddle and bow in his right hand, and a glass half-full of liquor in his left hand. In the engraving, the left figure has, on his right leg, above the knee, apparently, two sausages; below, two fish on his left leg, above the knee, two fish, looking right and left; below, apparently, two crossed sausages. The central figure has diagonallined pantaloons. The right figure has, on his right leg, above the knee, a mug. He is holding a metallic cup, and he is wearing heavily-rimmed spectacles. draw observations, from some Perhaps these details may interest, and of your readers, whose attention I would draw particularly to the three cards. 4 Park Street, W.1. LEES KNOWLES, Bt. The correspondent to N. & Q.' who found the old Dutch print referred to as above has, 1. Can any of your readers tell me the author of I would suggest, got a variant of the the following lines? 66 Picture of We Three referred to by Shakespeare in Twelfth Night,' Act II. sc. iii. 17-21 (Furness,' Variorum Shaks,' p. 108) as follows:: wisest fool.' Sometimes, as Henley has stated, it was two asses. Thus, in Beaumont and Fletcher's Queen of Corinth,' III. i. :— Malone's note on this was : "I believe Shakespeare had in his thoughts a common sign, in which two wooden heads (or Neanthes. He is another ass, he says; I two fools drinking) are exhibited, with this in believe him. Uncle. We be three, heroical prince. Neanthes. Nay then, we must have the picture of 'em, and the word (motto) nos sumus. Halliwell: The sign is still preserved in England, where a few taverns still exist the sign consisting of two grotesque or idiotic heads, and the inscription: We three loggerheads be.' Plaine home-spun stuffe shall now proceed from me, Much like unto the Picture of Wee Three. Taylor's Farewell to the Tower-Bottles,' 1622. The marginal note to this is: The picture of two fooles, and the third looking on, I doe fitly compare with the two black bottles and myselfe.' (The Clown referred to the picture of three fools, and Sir Toby retaliated by referring to the picture of three asses.-Ed.)" The conceit which this picture embodies has been used, so I believe, in modern instances, and another phrase of Shakespeare's has been associated with it, namely, the line "When we shall three meet again. The interesting fact about the Dutch picture referred to in N. & Q.' is that it is a "painting of three grotesque figures," and that the onlooker is supposed to be the fourth fool. Hence the inscription "We Four Fools," and the Latin inscription "Gaudemus, quia te praesente, stulti quatuor." JOSEPH J. MACSWEENEY. Howth, co. Dublin. scription under it: We three loggerheads be.' The spectator or reader is supposed to make the third." "This singular appellation owes its origin to the subject of the sign painted by Wilson for the village ale-house, and upon which are exhibited the heads of two very jolly-looking fellows, This painting belongs to a class which at grinning and staring out of the picture towards one time was not uncommon. Sir Andrew. Here comes the fool, i' faith. Enter CLOWN. the spectator; underneath are written, in very legible characters, the words: We three Loggerheads be.' The painting retains its elevated situation to this day, though, perhaps, little of the Clown. How now, my hearts! did you never original colour may remain, it having been more see the picture of We Three'? than once retouched since Wilson's time." Sir Toby. Welcome, ass. MARGARET LAVINGTON. Twelfth Night,' Act II., sc. iii. We have a similar reference in Fletcher's The Queen of Corinth':— Sosicles. Thou a gentleman? thou an ass. Neanthes. He is ne'er the farther from being a gentleman, I assure you. Tutor. May it please your grace, I am another. Neanthes. He is another ass, he says; believe him. I "An allusion to a common old sign representing two fools or loggerheads, under which was inscribed: We three Loggerheads be,' the spectator being the third. There is at the present day [1890] a public-house in Upper Red Cross Street, Leicester, which has the same figure and device on its sign-board. Dekker ('The Gull's Hornbook,' ch. vi., How a Gallant should Behave Himself in a Playhouse ') says, speaking of the fops whose fancy it was to sit on the stage: the first and principal man in election to begin 'Assure yourself by continual residence, you are the number of "We three.""" M. H. DODDS Home House, Kell's Lane, Low Fell, Gateshead. [ST. SWITHIN also thanked for reply.] 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; v. 270; vi. 17, 42.) 66 Col. Descury's Regiment of Foot IN a footnote to the list of Col. Descury's It would be going too far to ask if the 32nd at some period of its career was a Fusilier regiment, and yet in the Irish as well as the English Commission, Registers for 1735, there is an instance of a commission of second lieutenant being granted in "that regiment of Fusiliers of which Thomas Paget is colonel"; and in the Eng. C. R. are similar grants in Col. Simon Descury's regiment of Fuziliers in 1740, and in Husk's Fuziliers in 1743. In the latter year Henry Skelton was made colonel and captain of "Our regiment of Fuziliers," in the room of John Huske; and in 1745 William Douglas was made colonel of and captain of a company "in the regiment of Fuziliers, whereof Brig. Gen. Henry Skelton was late colonel." There were also other similar instances, but, as in the great majority of cases commissions were granted in the same regiment given variously as Paget's, Descury's, Huske's, Skelton's, or Douglas' regiment of Foot, it may well be that the term Fusilier was wrongly and in ignorance applied to this regiment by some of the War Office clerks who drafted the commissions. The change from second lieutenant to ensign appears to have taken place in 1748, and in the MS. Army List, 1752, in the Record Office, all are styled ensigns. The senior captain, Melchior Guy Dickens, was promoted direct to lieutenant-colonel of the newly raised 47th Foot, Feb. 6, 1740-1, but retired from the service Feb. 28, 1750-1. He may have been one of those Germans from Hanover who followed George I. to England. He was a cornet in Col. Charles dragoons, Feb. 16, 1715-16, until it was disLa Bouchetiere's newly raised regiment of banded in June, 1717, and its officers placed on half-pay, from which he was promoted to captain in the 32nd Foot in Ireland, Aug. 9, 1717. He was the Col. Guy Dickens who m. (secondly) Miss Tracey, April 17, Melchior Guy Dickens, Esq., was granted 1762 (Gent. Mag., p. 194). On May 31, 1763, an annual pension of 500l. for thirty-one years on the Irish Establishment. Secretary of Embassy to Prussia and for his diplomatic services for he had been August, 1740, Minister to Prussia, August, Chargé d'Affaires there, August, 1730, to 1740, to January, 1741, to Sweden, January, 1742, to July, 1749, and to Russia, July, 1749, to 1751, and again 1753 to April, 1755. waз made This was named after the King of Sweden, because kissed the Queen's hand on their several he was promoted from one of the three gent. name. 15th Foot (ibid. 324) was made ensign in the W. R. WILLIAMS. "THE WHOLE DUTY OF MAN (12 S. vi. 38).-The following is taken from the Encyclopædia Britannica under article "Allestree," or Allestry, Richard (16191681).' : foot-note, "Out before 1727," is misleading, would, apparently, be the third brother as his commission as such was renewed by to serve in the army, the eldest one being George II. on June 20, 1727, and the note the John Campbell mentioned in 12 S. should have been "Out of the regiment ii. 402. before 1729," as he was "preferred to a Colours in the (3rd) Foot Guards, Dec. 25, 1728," being thence transferred to Harrison's on April 5, 1733). He was identical with the Charles Campbell said (12 S. iii. 439) to have been made lieutenant-colonel of Robinson's 2nd Marines (no date, but, of course, some time in 1741, at Carthagena), 'A share in the composition, if not the sole and apparently in succession to Francis (sic) authorship, of the books published under the Leighton, said to have been made lieutenant-name of the author of the Whole Duty of Man' has been attributed to Allestree (Nichols's Anecdotes,' ii. 603), and the tendency of modern criticism is to regard him as the author. His lectures, with which he was dissatisfied, were not 66 66 -- For Allestree's authorship of the 'Whole Duty of Man,' see Rev. F. Barham, Journal of Sacred Literature, July, 1864, and C. E. Doble's articles in The Academy, November, 1884. ARCHIBALD SPARKE. There is an article on this and kindred books in The Bibliographer, vol. ii. (1882), Lewes. colonel thereof, April 24, 1741. Now the 66 JOHN PATCHING. The author of this book, and of the other ones referred to by your querist, has generally been considered to have been Lady Dorothy Pakington (d. 1679). It is now however thought that this lady was only a copyist and not the author. The 'D.N.B.' states that these works were probably written by the Rev. Richd. Allestree (1619-81). See articles in the 'D.N.B. on Lady Packington' and 'Richd. Allestree,' and the authorities referred to therein. H. G. HARRISON. In the issue of The Yorkshire Weekly Post of Feb. 28, Mr. J. S. Fletcher, in his concluding chapter on Yorkshire Worthies,' writes in respect of Obadiah Walker a3 follows: "He was one of the many to whom the authorship of the highly popular Whole Duty of Man' was attributed; Thomas Hearne, the Oxford antiquary, has a good deal to say on this point in relation to Woodhead: nowadays it is pretty well established both Obadiah Walker and his friend Abraham that the real author was neither Walker nor |