HAWTAYNE (8th S. viii. 427).—By the Heralds' Visitations of co. Oxford it appears that Thomas Hawtayne was living at Calthorpe in 1634, and had brothers Henry and Edward. The father was Henry of Calthorpe, and the grandfather Gerrard of Easington. Calthorpe, Sibford Gower, and Milcombe are all in the neighbourhood of Banbury. LEO CULLETON. BANISHMENT OF THE EARL AND COUNTESS OF SOMERSET (8th S. viii. 467).-Miss Aikin (Memoirs of James I.') says that they were restricted to "the house of Lord Wallingford, or its neighbourhood"; and Mr. Hepworth Dixon (Her Majesty's Tower') says, vaguely, come country place"; and Kennet states that it was "a very obscure retreat," where James occasionally visited Somerset. Hastings. EDWARD H. Marshall, M.A. Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, &o. English Minstrelsie. By 8. Baring.Gould, M. A. Vol. III. (Edinburgb, T. C. & E. C. Jack.) THE third part of English Minstrelsie' is inferior to neither of its predecessors in the variety of songs it affords. Among those now given areThe Lass of Richmond Hill, "My lodging is on the cold ground," My mother bids me bind my hair" (for the insertion of which, since the music is by Haydn, an apology is offered), All's Well,' Buy a Broom, and many others. The notes still supply much curious information, and are accompanied by interesting illustrations, chiefly in the guise of portraits. The introduction mean time gives a readable, though not wholly trustworthy, history of the origin of opera. We have given so much praise to Mr. Baring Gould in the previous portions of his work that he is bound to accept our rebuke for the carelessness he displays in the present section. We do not insist on such trifles as "Delphmi " for Delpini and other similar slips. On p. iii of his preface, however, Mr. Gould gives what pretends to be a quotation from Comus.' It is as follows: "The Siege of Rhodes. Made a Representation by the An Introduction to Folk-lore. By Marian Roalfe Cox. I must put off These my sky robes, spun out of Iris' wool, And take the weed and likeness of a swain That to the service of this muse belongs. The italics are ours. In these four lines there are three blunders, two of them terrible. Weed should be weeds, "wool" should be woof, and "muse" should be house. This is, of course, accident. It will, however, be hard for Mr. Baring-Gould to defend it. Of the well-known story which he tells concerning the Crom-with constant interest and advantage. There are few, wellian General Harrison, that when the Cavaliers had laid down their arms he, recognizing Robinson as a player, hewed him down, saying, "Cursed be he that doeth the work of the Lord negligently!" Mr. Baring Gould says: "The story is inaccurate in one particular. The player thus sacrificed was not Robinson." It is inaccurate in another. The charge is that Harrison shot Robinson with a pistol, which is not in the least hewing him down. No mention is made of the performance at Rutland House-qy. on 21 May, 1656-of the " opera (80 called by D'Avenant, the author) of 'The Siege of Rhodes.' This is absolutely the beginning of opera in England, and as such calls for mention. Its title is through the portals into the land in which fact replaces Folk-Phrases of Four Counties (Gloucestershire, Stafford- WE welcome gladly this collection of folk-phrases. Some ance with for the first time in Mr. Northall's book. Though not proverbs they are of a similar character, and many of them are, without doubt, very old. They belong to times and classes over which literature, as we understand the term, had no influence. Not a few have reference to some one of those many practical jokes which our forefathers thought so very entertaining. For example, "a horse with its head where its tail ought to be" is explained to be a horse standing with its "tail towards the manger." This is correct so far as it goes, but does not explain the origin of the saying. In days gone by, men were wont to visit our larger fairs, hiring a stable or other outhouse they could use as one, having doors at the front and back communicating with different streets. Here they would tie a horse with his tail to the rack and then send round a crier to give notice that they were exhibiting a horse with its head where its tail should be. As the charge for admission was very small, multitudes went to see the sight, and all were shown out by a different way from that by which they had entered, so that the cheat was not exposed at once. The writer knew a gentleman who in the days of his green youth was imposed on in this way at one of the great fairs of the eastern counties. "A month of Sundays" is, we understand, common. We have heard of women promising to do something or other for their children, which is wrong or impossible, some Sunday in the middle of next week. We have a notion, but cannot give a reference to the passage, that Rabelais, or as, perhaps, we ought to say, his translator Sir Thomas Urquhart, refers to a week with three Thursdays in it. "As full as a tick" is a very widely known comparison. We have been told, and believe, that it refers not to a bed-tick, which is seldom so full of feathers that it would not hold more, but to the mite known as the dog-tick, which frequently charges itself with blood almost to the bursting point. That's a rhyme, if you 'll take it in time is only the first line of a triplet :It's a rhyme yet, if you've got any wit, It's neither rhyme nor reason, if you don't take it in We do not think Mr. Northall has come upon "Don't run along like a barrow with a square wheel." often said to children who are sluggish in the dispatch of messages on which they have been sent. A person not remarkable for truthfulness, said to us a few days to have been regarded as a typical manor, to the customs of which, so far as was possible, it was well to induce conformity. The account of the splendour of the church during the latter days when the unreformed services were in use is picturesquely written; but we would suggest that orfreys' were by no means "phylacteries," and, so far as we can call to mind, were not called so, except, it may be, by some of the more violent of the Reformers, who used it as a term of abuse. It is interesting to find that in a noble church of this character there is no chancel arch. This is, or rather was, a feature far less uncommon than many people think; but church restorers in modern days have in too many instances taken upon themselves to supply what they have regarded as a defect. An example of this kind of injudicious treatment may be seen at Kirton-inLindsey. Before the restoration works took place there was no chancel arch. The architect's plan contained an ornate feature of this kind. Various experts strongly protested against this tasteless intrusion, but the authorities were deaf, and the new arch still offends the eye of the beholder. There was, it appears, in former days a brass in this church with an invocation to the three kings of Cologne. It is not there now. Has it found its way into some museum or the hands of a private collector, or is it lost? Happily Mr. Hooper has been able to reproduce the inscription. In 1851 certain earthenware jars were found buried beneath the floor of the choir. This caused much wonder at the time, and many theories were put We believe that it is now forth to account for it. generally accepted that these jars were placed where they were found for acoustic purposes. A similar discovery was made about the same date in the choir of Fountains Abbey. Earl de Grey had men engaged in removing the rubbish from the interior of the church, and the wheel of one of the carts employed crushed a jar nearer the surface than the rest, which led to the discovery of two long rows. The author informs us that the parish registers are complete from the year 1538. Such is very seldom the case. Our genealogical readers will call to mind that 1538 was the year when Henry VIII.'s Vicar-General, Thomas Cromwell, ordered these records to be kept. Fotices to Correspondents. We must call special attention to the following notices : ON all communications must be written the name and ago, in relation to a matter about which we expressed address of the sender, not necessarily for publication, but anxiety, "It's as sure as God made rain.” Notes on the Church of St. Peter of Mancroft, Norwich. By James Hooper. (Norwich, Goose.) THIS is an excellent pamphlet, with a copy of which every one who visits the grand old church of St. Peter, Mancroft, would do well to provide himself. Mr. Hooper traces the history of the foundation from its earliest days, gives a description-so far as is possible-of the church when in its most glorious estate, tells us what it is like now, and ends with some extracts from the churchwardens' accounts, several of which are very interesting as throwing light on the ways of our fore fathers. The college attached fell in 1545, when its property came into the hands of the king. In 1552 Edward VI., or rather those who ruled in his name, granted this property to two Norwich gentlemen, "to be held of the Manor of East Greenwich by fealty only." This is worth remarking on. Such words, or others like them, are common in Tudor grants. East Greenwich seems 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." quently discussed in N. & Q. See 7th S. vii. 264, 337, J. J. HEAD ("Rune Song ").-This has been fre438, 495, s. v. ' Carols and Songs.' NOTICE. Editorial Communications should be addressed to "The Editor of 'Notes and Queries ""-Advertisements and Business Letters to "The Publisher"-at the Office, Bream's Buildings, Chancery Lane, E.C. We beg leave to state that we decline to return communications which, for any reason, we do not print; and to this rule we can make no exception. LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 1896. CONTENTS.-N° 211. NOTES:-Rev. Samuel Wesley, the Elder, 21-Mount Grace with the Dissenters, who, in the first part of Queen Anne's reign, had a very powerful influence in both houses of parliament, and at court; and were now preparing to present a petition to the House of Lords, praying for in opposition to them, and against Mr. Wesley in parti justice against the authors of several pamphlets written cular; but were dissuaded from taking this step by two members of that House. They had, however, interest enough to hinder Mr. Wesley from obtaining the prebend; they soon also worked him out of the chaplainship of the regiment, and brought several other very severe QUERIES:-"Adwine"-Will of Cromwell-Oil Painting-sufferings upon him and his family.' "Chinese Sensitive Leaf "-The Shrine of St. Audrey"More than one"- Capt. Austin, 27 -But the most interesting account of all is that Grammatical: 'Swift's Creed'-Maynard Family-Crekederus-Rev. J. written by Samuel Wesley himself, which is to be Cranstoun— Domiduca Oxoniensis'-Isabella of Angou- found among the Kenyon MSS., now made availleme-The Cross on the Mistletoe, 28-Sir W. Musgraveable by the labours of the Royal Historical ManuSowgelder's Lane, 29. scripts Commission, and which throws a striking REPLIES:-Arms of the See of Canterbury, 29-Bookseller light upon the parochial quarrels at Epworth. It Bibliography of Sir W. Scott-Sunday Markets, 32-The would appear that on 21 Sept., 1705, W. Delaune, Sound of St. Peter's Finger-Faucit Saville-New Vice-Chancellor of Oxford, addressed from St. Cryptogram-"The Beautiful Mrs. Rousby," 33-Church John's College the following circular letter to the Bells-Saint Trunion-J. Worthington, 34-Chiffinch-members of the University :Sources of Quotations-Shakspeare's London LodgingRuined Churches, 35-J. Weekes-"Fantigue"-Parish in Lincolnshire, has made known the deplorable con"Whereas Mr. [Samuel] Wesley, rector of Epworth, Charities-Quadrille, 36-Elizabeth B. Browning-Shelley dition he is brought into, by the inveterate malice and and the Sidneys-"Namancos and Bayona's hold," 37- persecution of the Dissenters, for his vindicating the Church of England from their scandal, and detecting their villanous practices in their schismaticall schooles and seminaries, set up in opposition to the Church, and prejudice of the Universities, we thought fitt to recomend this, his pressing case, to all the members of our University, as a great obj-ct of their charity and compassion, and such as requires speedy releif to deliver him out of prison, and the calamitous sufferings he at present labours under." or Publisher, 30-Movable Types, 31-Claxton of Notts "Lanky Man "-Potato in France-The "Flanders Chest NOTES ON BOOKS:-Waters's Novellino of Masuccio'- Notices to Correspondents. Notes. " THE REV. SAMUEL WESLEY, THE ELDER. In an article in the Contemporary Review for August, 1895, Mr. Andrew Lang, referring to the supposed ghostly disturbances in the elder Wesley's new parsonage at Epworth in 1716 (this having taken the place of the old house, burned down on 9 Feb., 1709-24 Aug., the date given by Mr. Lang, being that upon which John Wesley's mother wrote a letter describing the fire) says :— "The Wesleys had often been most unpopular in the parish. Their house and their flax had been burned again and again, perhaps by incendiaries. Mr. Wesley was extremely, if unwillingly, tardy in paying his debts. He had been hated for political reasons.' A more extended statement, conveying the same ideas but with further interesting detail, has long officially passed current among the Wesleyans, for the author of the account "of the Rev. Samuel Wesley, senior" (published in the first volume of The Works of the Rev. John Wesley,' issued from the Wesleyan Conference Office in 1809), wrote : "In the beginning of the year 1705, he printed a poem on the battle of Blenheim, which happened the year before, with which the Duke of Marlborough was so well pleased, that he made him chaplain to Col. Lapelle's regiment, which was to stay in London some time. In consequence of the same poem, a noble lord sent for him to London, promising to procure him a prebend. But unhappily he was at this time engaged in a controversy Appended to this is the following : "A copy of Mr. Wesley's letter:-On my printing a poem on the battle of Blenheim, I was sent for to London by a person of quality, in January last, the Duke of Marbrough haveing promised me a chaplain's place in one of the new regiments, and another bonourable person greater favours. I had writt two books against the Dissenters, at which they were very angry. The person who sent for and, at last me told me I must drop that controversy, I must publickly, and in print, recant or palliate what I had writt against the Dissenters; he added, that those people expected so many friends in the next House of Commons, more than they had in the last, that when they came to sitt they had resolved to call those to account who had affronted them; this had a contrary effect to what was expected. I left my fortunes in God's hands, and resolved to act according to my conscience. And as soon as I could] I came into the country, to use what little interest I had in our election, to serve those who were not likely to be partial to the Dissenters; but before I would act, I was so nice as to write to Collonel Whitchcott, because there had been some intimacy between us, giveing the reasons why letter he exposed, and his friends reported there was I thought myself obliged to vote against him. This treason in it. After which I gave copies of it. They likewise threatned to write up against me, and throw me out of my chaplaine's place which the Duke had given me, and throw me into gaol; all which, I thank them, they have fully effected. I writt to London to know why I was turned out without knowing my accusation. My Collonel Lepel answered that a person of the greatest quality told him it was for something I had published which was not approved of at Court, and for haveing concerned myself too much in some other matters. The spiracy in 1400 to dethrone Henry IV., which first must be my books against the Dissenters, the latter failed, he and the Earls of Salisbury and Huntmy acting in the election for my own country, which I thought I had as much right to do as any other free-ingdon were seized at Cirencester and beheaded hollder. God be praised, there two crimes were linked by the citizens. Froissart mentions (bk. iv. together. After this the friends of the new candidates, c. 119) that the men of Cirencester cut off their the Dissenters, and their adherente, charged me with heads and sent them "in two panniers, as fish preaching treason, and reported I was distracted; where is carried, to rejoice the king (Henry IV.) at then was their mercy? But at last were content to throw me into prison, according to their promise, for no London."* History is said to repeat itself, and this great debt, to a relation and zealous friend of one of the reminds us of the Jezreelites beheading the sons of new members. They knew it was sufficient to do my Ahab, and laying their heads in two heaps at the business, I haveing been thrown behind hand by a series entrance of Jezreel, as an acceptable present to of misfortunes; my parsonage barne was blown down Jehu. But the latter event must have occurred about e're I had recovered the takeing of my liveing; my house, great part of it, burned down about two years agoe; my B. C. 884. Sir John Holand, Earl of Huntingdon, flax, great part of my income (now in my own hands), a gallant soldier, often mentioned by Froissart, I doubt, wilfully fired and burned in the night, whilst I was the brother-in-law of Henry IV., and the Ear? was last at London; my income sunk, about one half, of Kent was nephew of the same king. Shakby the low price of grain; and my credit lost, by the takeing away my regiment. I was brought to Lincolne speare has an allusion to this plot, concocted by the Castle, June 23 last past. About three weekes since, Abbot of Westminster and the Bishop of Carlisle, my very unkind people, thinking they had not yet done in 'Richard II.,' IV. :— enough, have, in the night, stabed my 3 cower, which was a great part of my numerous family's subsistence, for which God forgive them." The contested election for Lincolnshire referred to in the above letter placed Whichcote, whom Samuel Wesley opposed, at the top of the poll (see 'N. & Q.,' 8th S. vi. 63). But the letter here given is of the more interest as seeming to indicate that John Wesley had two escapes in childhood from the perils of a burning home, instead of the one which is familiarized by an engraving in many a Methodist household. The popular picture on the subject shows him being rescued from the flames when nearly six years of age; but the other fire at Epworth parsonage, of which the father speaks, would seem to have occurred when the more famous son was in his earliest infancy. ALFRED F. ROBBINS. MOUNT GRACE PRIORY. As a movement has recently been originated for the excavation of these interesting ruins, and subscriptions for that purpose are solicited, it may prove useful to draw the attention of your readers to the site of the priory, an excellent ground plan of which has been published, enabling any one to identify the different conventual buildings. It may be observed that Mount Grace was one of the nine Carthusian houses which existed in England, and that their rule was strictly eremitical, and not conventual. Mount Grace Priory is situated about five miles from the town of Northallerton, in Yorkshire, and two from the village of Osmotherley, and was founded in 1396 by Thomas Holand, Duke of Surrey, who was degraded to the inferior title of Earl of Kent. He was a nephew of Richard II. and of his uterine brother Sir John Holand, Earl of Huntingdon, who had been degraded from the title of Duke of Exeter; and entering into a con Aumerle. You holy clergymen, is there no plot To rid the realm of this pernicious blot? The earl, the founder of the priory, is known to have been buried at Mount Grace, but his death delayed for a long time the buildings of the priory, which were not finally completed until 1449. The house continued to exist until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1536, when John Wilson, the last prior, surrendered it, the gross revenue being 3821. 5s. 4d. and the net 3231. 2s. 10d. The rules of the order were of the severest kind, and it is remarkable that no charge of abuses was ever made against those bound by the vows. Fosbroke has, in his 'British Monachism,' chap. vi., enumerated some of the austerest of the rules prevailing in Carthusian houses :— "Their faces [i. e., of the monks] were totally hidden at the canon of the mass, but might be shown at other times; fingers not clenched; legs not extended, spread, or crossed. Private prayer at the altar once a day. Silence in the cell; cell door not open unless another person was with the inhabitant. No conversation with persons without the prior's licence. No letters to be sent or received. No pottage or pittance, only raw herbs and fruits to be kept in the cell. In chapter no speech but. at confession or when the chapter was held. In the bowing to those who brought or removed anything; no refectory, dining bareheaded: drinking with two hands; wiping of hands or mouth at the cloth; no speech in the fratry, cloister, or church. The prior was not allowed to go beyond the bounds of the eremus.' " At the time of the Dissolution the site of the priory was granted by Henry VIII. to James Strangwaies, and after passing through different hands came into the possession of the ancient family of Mauleverer of Arncliffe Hall, a mansion near at hand, whose descendants in the female line now possess it. There is a good engraving of Froissart's account of this insurrection has been followed, though it is usually said that the Earl of Froissart adds that the heads of the Earl of Salisbury Huntingdon was beheaded at Pleshey, in Essex, in 1400. and Lord De Spencer were also sent to the king. Mount Grace in Churton's 'Monastic Rains of Yorkshire,' and the plan above alluded to, drawn to scale by Mr. Riley, gives a better idea of the ruins than any description could possibly do. My late friend Thomas Adolphus Trollope, in his What I Remember' (vol. ii.), has recorded a description of a visit paid by him in 1861, in company with G. H. Lewes and George Eliot (Mrs. Lewes) to a Carthusian monastery, then in existence and flourishing-Camaldoli in the Apennines, in Italy. It is interesting and valuable as showing Carthusianism at the present day, or rather within our own memory. The able pen of the writer does full justice to the abilities of the compagnons de voyage who accompanied him on the pilgrimage, though not made on foot, but on horseback. In regard to George Eliot, the author of 'Adam Bede,' who possessed a mind like "wax to receive and marble to retain," he observes, "Think of the delight in passing in companionship with such a mind through scenes and circumstances entirely new to it." Of her husband, G. H. Lewes, he says that 'he was a most delightful companion, the cheeriest of philosophers. The old saying of 'Comes jucundus in viâ pro vehiculo est' was especially applicable to him." Females were not allowed to enter the Sagro Eremo, and consequently George Eliot (Mrs. Lewes) was obliged to find quarters for the night in a chamber over the cowhouse, a humble little forestieria. They found the Carthusians leading an eremitical life, not a conventual one, "each brother inhabiting his own separately built cell, consisting of sleeping chamber, study, wood-room, and garden, all of microscopical dimensions. His food, exclusively vegetable, is passed in to him by a little turntable made in the wall." But the whole description is so graphic that I cannot do better than recommend the perusal of it to your readers in the above-mentioned book. As an inscription upon the title-page of What I Remember' might be written the Horatian lines :— THE REV. JAMES STERLING. A bookseller, who knows that everything relating to St. Paul's Cathedral has an interest for me, has just sent me 'The Poetical Works of the Rev. James Sterling' (8vo., Dublin, 1734). Turning over its leaves to discover the piece which was likely to interest me, I find first some minor poems, then a long and pretentious work, with a separate title-page, entitled 'The Loves of Hero and Leander, from the Greek of Museus'; and presently I arrive at the following effusion :— Written Extempore in the Gallery over the Dome of the Cathedral of St. Paul, London. No more, amaz'd, Rome's theatres survey, No more her temples boast, thro' time rever'd ; And multiplies the never-dying sound! Pp. 128-130 I fear that the severer critics will at once cry out upon this doggerel. Even the grandiloquent line, With ambient lead the beamy rafters groan will scarcely save it from their censure; though really it is nearly as fine as that,— As streams meander level with their fount, on which Macaulay exercised so much caustic severity. Nor will the description of the cross which surmounts the ball, as |