Original Poems, in the Moral, Heroic, Pathetic, and other Styles. By a Traveller [John Hugman]. Halesworth, twelfth edition, 1832": I've seen her unassuming dips* Soul beaming eyes-refulgent hair- But, ah! ne'er sipped the nectar there! Walpole Vicarage, Halesworth. The particular "abaisance"-if we are to write Skinnerese-called a "dip," was what we call a bend or a bow. Beppo's Laura knew how to salute with a difference. By the way, this query deserves special notice. It contains the first misprint I ever happened upon in 'N. & Q.," Bryon" for Byron. W. F. WALLER. Bateman, Esq., third son of Rowland Bateman, of GEO. F. TUDOR SHERWOOD. 99, Angell Road, Brixton, S.W. The Lady Ross referred to in MR. ELDER'S query was not Elizabeth Edwards, but Olivia Edwards, daughter and coheir of Hugh Edwards. She married, first, Richard, second Earl of Rosse, who died Aug. 27, 1764, without issue, when all the honours expired. The title was renewed in 1806, in favour of Lawrence Parsons, son of Sir Wm. Parsons. Olivia, Lady Rosse, married, second, John Bateman, whose name appears with hers as grantor in deeds dated 1794 and 1799, for part of the Castlegore estate. FERGUS MACALPINE. CHURCHES OF ST. BOTOLPH (8th S. vi. 506).There are now ten churches in Norfolk dedicated to St. Botolph,-at Banningham, Barford, Grimston, Hevingham, Limpenhoe, Morley St. Botolph, Stow Bedon, Tottenhill, Trunch, and Westwick. Hevingham, strangely enough, the chancel is separately dedicated to St. Mary; perhaps it was formerly a Lady Chapel. At The Leadenhall Press, E.C. BULL-ROARER (8th S. vii. 7, 98, 158, 258, 334). -When I was a boy I never heard this thing or "implement," called anything but a buzzer." It was less popular than another plaything, called a "jackdaw," which was made of about an inch of the top part of the neck of a wine bottle. Over this was stretched a bit of parchment, which was tightly tied under the projecting rim of it. A long horse-hair with a knot at the end was then In Norwich, "over the water," but well within put through the parchment, the knot being inside the city walls, there was a church dedicated to the neck. By wetting the forefinger and thumb, St. Botolph, but it was taken down in 1548 and and drawing the horse-hair between them you the parish united with St. Saviour's. Botolph could produce the sounds "jack," "j-a-a-ck," or Street commemorates this church. 'jak, jak," as you moved quickly or slowly or in a jerky way. I have seen neither "buzzers" nor jackdaws" for many many years. R. R. Boston, Lincolnshire. EDWARDS OF CASTLEGORE AND KILCROAGH (8th S. vii. 289).-The Countess of Rosse (not Ross) is to be found in Burke's 'Peerage,' 1894 edition, Rosse of the first creation. She is there named Olivia, daughter and coheir of Hugh Edwards, not Elizabeth; and she remarried John * Dips, slight courtesies, gentle condescensions. There were formerly churches of St. Botolph at Shotesham and Tuttington, in Norfolk. Botesdale, in Suffolk, was formerly known as Botolph's Dale; in the township, on an extraparochial spot, stands St. Botolph's Chapel. here on the eve and day of St. Botolph; it has long Henry III. granted a charter for a fair to be held Is there any authority for the JAMES HOOPER. been obsolete. Norfolk. The churches in the following places are dedicated to St. Botolph, viz., Banningham, The priory church of this saint at Colchester is an example of a church situated just without an ancient gate, as the town wall appears to have been furnished with an entrance at this point. I. C. GOULD. More than fifty churches in England, ten of them being in Norfolk, have this dedication, says "The Calendar of the Anglican Church,' 1851. See also Smith L. Wace's 'Dictionary of Christian Biography.' EDWARD H. MARSHALL, M.A. See 'Dictionary of Christian Biography,' s.v.; one of the churches in Cambridge is dedicated to P. J. F. GANTILLON. this saint. THE ANONYMOUS MONUMENTS OF ARCHIMEDES AND DESCARTES (8th S. vii. 65).-MR. W. T. LYNN's note on this subject is excellent and full of pith. Everybody ought to agree with his proposition as a general rule, that all monuments should have names. But Archimedes, Descartes, and Wren are just the men of exception, who do not want it. Cicero discovers the tomb of Archimedes by "the sphere and circumscribing cylinder" (though what a cylinder can circumscribe I do not know) and Descartes' wonderful-or, if you will, nonsensical-phrase indicates him at once to anybody who is anybody. This Cogito ergo sum has had immense praise lavished on it. But to me the contrary platitude is far the profounder of the two. I am, and so am able to think. My thinking is no cause of my existing, nor a proof of it, but my existence is a prenecessity to thinking. Descartes assumes a secondary as a primary, and the feeble world praises this hysteron-proteron metaphysical. I do not think with M. Faye that anybody would take it for Mr. Cogito, for what follows would have to be ergo non sum. Mr. Cogito you were, but are not. This is another case of pretentious science approaching terribly near to flat nonsenselike smoke and dust in the eyes, to set up a smarting that the multitude take for excessive light. C. A. WARD. REV. GEORGE PIGGOTT (8th S. vii. 325).-Bartholomew Pigot, of Aston Rowant and Ickford, Oxfordshire, ob. 1558, had, by his wife Juliana, daughter of Thomas Lenthall, of Lachford, Oxon, a younger son, "George Pigot, who died in the Irish service, leaving issue by an Irish woman "; and a George Pigott appears in the Irish Record Office, whose wife Elizabeth King is served his heir, or takes out administration to him, 1595. Then, again, a Major George Pigott figures in the Irish rebellion of 1641; and a George Pickett, Pigott, or Piggot, of Derryard, co. Derry, born probably about 1735-1740, is said to have married Lavina Smith, by whom he had inter alios a son, George Pigott, of Drum, in the same county, who married Margaret, sister of a Lieut. or Capt. Alexander Stevenson, of Knockbrack, and dying Feb. 1, 1838, aged seventy-five years, was interred in Dungiven new burying-ground. Might I ask if there was any connexion between these Georges and the Rev. George Piggott, rector (1728-1736) of the parish of St. Michael, Marblehead, Massachusetts, who made a claim to the barony of Monteagle; or if there is anything known about the ancestry of this clergyman? Dundrum, co. Down. WM. JACKSON PIGOTT. ROBERT LONGDEN, OF GLOUCESTER, 1622-1684 (6th S. v. 277; vi. 138).-His eldest son Thomas, afterwards Mayor, was baptized Dec. 12, 1647, at St. Michael's, Gloucester; three, perhaps five, other children were baptized at St. Mary de Crypt, Gloucester, where he was a resident. The registers of St. Michael begin 1553, those of St. Mary in 1653. From 1650 he is found taking his part in parish and city matters, as may be seen from the old parish minute books and the records of council meetings. In 1655 he is one of the four sergeants of a volunteer corps of two hundred burgesses and inhabitants, raised to ensure peace within the city when there was danger from Royalist plotting. He was senior sheriff 1664, and was buried Nov. 24, 1684, in St. Mary de Crypt, where his wife had been laid, and where his children and descendants were buried down to the end of the last century. There were Longdens at Tresham and Kilcote, in the parish of Hawkesbury, co. Gloucester, substantial yeomen, from about 1450 to within memory. Robert in his will gives no clue to his origin, but Thomas, his son, mentions in his will I have searched the (1702) lands at Tresham. registers of Gloucester and of Hawkesbury (three years missing, including 1622), the P.C.C. wills, and the wills at Gloucester, the Gloucester freemen's roll beginning 1653. What other source of information would be likely to give me the parentage of Robert and the surname of his wife HENRY ISHAM LONGDEN, M.A. Shangton Rectory, Leicester. Joan ? " paying a person out" has something to do with the mises. With every word said by Mr. Richardson Evans French peine, Latin pœna, and that "to curry favour as to Advertising as a Trespass on the Public' we are in may, as a likely alternative, be from courir-like most accord. Two articles on the "eternal feminine" appear derivation-mongers he has generally got "another way' in Mr. Quilter's 'In the Days of her Youth' and in Mrs. if his first recipe is not approved. He propounds that Gordon's 'After-Careers of University-Educated Women.' the schoolboy's "tip" is from the Greek diobolon, and -In the New Review Mr. Archer answers Mr. Street his "lick" from " lictor, an officer of punishment under onThe Criticism of Acting' in the manner in which, the Roman code," while "slang" stands for s-lingua, on the first appearance of Mr. Street's article, we said "not language." This is surely mangling and butchery it was to be answered. Mr. Archer's paper is thoughtful rather than scientific dissection. We learn further that and brilliant. The Gentle Art of Musical Criticism,' "Hot as a coal" is far too obviously simple to be correct. by Mr. Runciman, taxes musical critics with grievous. It is, of course, a caile (French for a quail) that is pro- ignorance. Sir Herbert Maxwell writes sparklingly on verbially hot (sc. in its temperament), and not the coal What about Amateurs?' Before its appearance, the from the fire. That a "Babel of sound" really does new issue by Mr. Nutt of North's Plutarch' is reviewed refer to the Tower of Babel we are relieved to find, but by Mr. Whibley, who, as he is bound, speaks in high praise that "jerry-building" ever was "Jericho-building," 80 of Mr. Wyndham's new edition. A poem by M. Verlaine,. called from the readiness of its walls to collapse under 'A Eugénie,' forms a portion of an excellent number. less provocation than the ancient city, we beg leave to -Visitors to the South of France-which should, but does doubt. Then we have all the dear old time-honoured not, mean all travellers-will be profoundly interested chestnuts about "my eye and Betty Martin," "setting in The Comédie Française at Orange,' which appears the temse on fire," "bumper' and au bon père, in the Century. Performances, frequently musical and 66 quandary and qu'en dirai-je, &c. Evidently the occasionally of works by the félibres, have for some timenineteenth century has come and gone in vain for Mr. past been given, though we have never been fortunate Wallace. T. Row and P. Gemsege made just such shots as enough to see one. A description, with illustrations, of these in the Gentleman's Magazine a hundred years ago a performance of Edipus' given by the Théâtre Français shows what added impressiveness and solemnity was THE attention in the case of readers of the Fortnightly attached to a representation in front of so majestic a will be primarily attracted to the article, by Mr. Herbert structure. Mr. Sloane's Life of Napoleon Bonaparte' Spencer, on Mr. Balfour's Dialectics.' This will repay is continued with unabated interest. It reaches a stimuperusal. So keenly controversial are, however, its con- lating point in the invasion of Egypt, and is still protents, we are debarred from dealing with them. It is fusely illustrated. The Discovery of Glacier Bay' and otherwise with 'A Question of Courage,' by Mr. H.The New Public Library in Boston' repay attention. Quilter, which is concerned with modern feminine revolt. In most domains of man's business or pleasure woman is thundering at the gate. Has she the courage, other wise the heart, to go through? Mr. Quilter traces in women a determination, as settled as it is illogical and futile,' to retain the privileges formerly accorded women and the concessions they now ask, claiming "at once the rights of an equal, the immunities of a dependent, and the respect due to a superior." The attitude is compared, as the only analogy, with that of the actor, who of late years has demanded, and been conceded, "the claim to the privileges of the artist and the distinction of the social aristocrat, combined with" what is euphemistically called "a comparative freedom from the obliga-well as more readable, than those in any review or magations and the duties of ordinary citizenship." Madame Blaze de Bury deals with the recently published life of the Duc de Lauzun. Mr. Claude Phillips gives some optimistic views upon The Pictures of the Year,' and an Oxford B.A, writes in favour of University Degrees for Women.'-Mr. Benson's article on The Recent "Witch Burning" at Clonmel,' contributed to the Nineteenth Century, though sent in part as a protest against the infliction of the death penalty on those responsible for one of the most sinister proofs of modern ignorance and brutality, has singular value, as proving the survival of the most antiquated, wide-spread, and curious of superstitions. The episode should furnish fresh illustration for more than one chapter of Mr. Frazer's "Golden Bough.' A Journey to Scotland in 1435,' by M. Jusserand, gives a lively idea of the difficulties, perils, and inconveniences that, in the fifteenth century, befel those home-keeping folk who underwent sea voyages. Men were as mad then on enterprise as they now are, a story being told of a knight in full armour undertaking to climb to the top of the mast, falling overboard, and being, by the weight of his iron apparel, drowned beyond possibility of rescue. The Gentle Art of Book Lending' suggests a plan-not very likely, we fancy, to be adopted -of furnishing country libraries. The Celestial Empire of the West' is nearer controversy than its title pro · The place of honour in Scribner's is given to 'Chicago before the Fire, after the Fire, and To-day.' Very numerous and effective are the pictures of the city under its changed aspects. It is, perhaps, due to ingrained obstinacy that we prefer the Chicago of early times to the huge place that has been erected on its site. Under the title of American Wood Engravers' Frank French is treated. The history of the last quarter of a century in America is agreeably continued, and there is a paper on "The Wheel of To-day,' which shows that bicycling is as assiduously pursued in America as in England, and that feminine costumes are no more graceful there than here.-The literary articles in Temple Bar are better, as zine, merit of style rather than novelty of subject or reputation of writer seeming to dictate their acceptance. Two capital literary papers are on Lockhart and Landor. "Weather Preferences of Authors' is also an excellent paper, and The Modern Novel' has some well-merited satire. Letters of Edward Fitzgerald' still constitute the most interesting portion of the contents.-A very animated description of the Battle of Copenhagen, from a midshipman who took part in it, forms an acceptable feature in Macmillan's. 'A Forgotten Satire," which deals with Chrysal,' should perhaps have been called an "almost forgotten satire.' 'The Disappearance of the Smaller Gentry' depicts one of the signs of the times. On a Devonshire Trout Stream' and 'Of Cabbages and Kings' may be read with pleasure." The First Wooing of Mary Stuart,' in the Gentleman's, seems written from a strongly Scottish point of view. The Curfew, its Origin and History,' has an agreeable antiquarian flavour, and may be commended to our readers, as embodying most that can be said on the subject, with some things not generally known. That hardest of sceptice, Cyrano de Bergerac, is also the subject of a contribution. The Pall Mall has, among much lighter matter of abundant interest, some serious contributions. The fourth part of Sir Evelyn Wood's Cavalry in the Waterloo Campaign' is no less valuable 1 and important than the previous portions. Portsmouth Past and Present,'' Lord Chancellor Erskine,' and 'Evolution in Early Italian Art' are all excellent. Once more the excerpt from the Memoirs of a Minister of France' proves the most interesting portion of the English Illustrated. A picturesque account is supplied of the Château d'If, and there are pictures of Dalmeney House and Park. Mr. Andrew Lang, in Longman's, depicts very vividly, from recently published volumes, "The Home Life of the Verneys.' Rambles of Philornithos' may be warmly commended to all lovers of country rambles.-A Colony for Lunatics' and 'The Vintage Time' arrest attention in the Cornhill.-The contents of Belgravia are pleasantly varied. Chapman's Magazine of Fiction has a well-chosen selection of stories, short or serial. One on The Bishop's Ghost and the Printer's Baby' deals with some quaint forms of superstition and folk-lore. It supplies an instance, imaginary, of a creature, an existence-what shall we say?-in the way to be twice a ghost, or, to parody a phrase of the younger Colman, "two single ghosts rolled into one." IN the June number of the Journal of the Ex-Libris Society the editor, Mr. W. H. K. Wright, deals with the work of Mr. W. R. Mayer, whose designs blend happily fantasy and decorative heraldry. David Garrick's plate, once common enough, but now not easily encountered, is reproduced, à propos to an imaginary conversation between Goldsmith, Johnson, and Boswell. Among numerous other interesting reproductions is the plate of Sir William Brownlowe, of Belton, dated 1698. The enthusiasm concerning book-plates seems to be as great in America as here, a single plate having been recently sold in Boston for seventy-five dollars. THE publications of Cassell lead off with Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, Part X., " Motley" to "Pentreath." Among articles in which improvement is visible may be counted "Nebuchadnezzar " (in which much matter from N. & Q.' is inserted), "Necklace," and "Nihilist." The last, indeed, does not appear in the former edition. Cassell's Gazetteer, Part XXI., has a map of Somersetshire, a full account of Girton College, and good articles assigned to Gainsborough and Galway. Among the likenesses in the Universal Portrait Gallery, Part VIII., are the Queen, Lord Wolseley, Maarten Maartens, Mr. Frank Dicksee, Prof. Vambéry, and Mr. Hall Caine. WITH sorrow too deep for words we record the death of Mr. George Bentley. He had been in failing health for some time; but having got through the severe winter, it was hoped that his life would have been prolonged; but on Wednesday, May 28, he was suddenly attacked with heart disease, and died at his residence at Upton after a few hours' illness. Mr. George Bentley entered the Burlington Street firm in 1870, being in that year taken into partnership by his father, Mr. Richard Bentley, who, as is well known, commenced business with Mr. Colburn in 1829, from whom he separated in 1832. In 1837 Mr. Bentley started Bentley's Miscellany. In 1866 this was incorporated with Temple Bar, of which Mr. George Bentley was editor at the time of his death. Many accounts of the founding of the firm of Richard Bentley & Son have appeared from time to time in the press, and an interesting account, by Mr. S. R. Townshend Mayer, of the first publisher of the name of Bentley, temp. Charles II., was given in N. & Q.' of April 12, 1879; but the most complete history is to be found in Le Livre for October, 1885. This was reprinted, with additional notes, for private circulation, in July, 1886, the volume being illustrated with two most speaking portraits of Richard Bentley and his son. Mr. George Bentley became head of the firm on the death of his father in 1871, and in 1884 he took his only son Richard into partnership, upon whom, for many years, owing to the delicate state of his father's health, the active management of the business has devolved. Mr. George Bentley was a frequent contributor to what he was pleased to call " that invaluable little paper Notes and Queries." A great lover of books and an admirer of nature, he considered the best two possessions that a man could have were a library and a good old-fashioned garden full of roses, of which he was a careful cultivator, and of sweet-smelling flowers. He delighted in the quiet aspect of life, and cared not for the 'glare and glitter of modern society, with its crowded evening assemblies, and the other amusements of an age self as "not a man of learning, but as a mere lover of ravenous for gossip." He would modestly describe himbooks. I play about the honey collected by the learned bees and sympathize with their wisdom and the consolahave left a valuable collection of correspondence, for in tion they got out of their learning.' Mr. Bentley must munication with many of those best known in literature. his quiet retirement at Upton he held frequent comOn Wednesday, in the bright sunshine and with the singing of the birds, he was borne through his lovely garden to Upton churchyard, and there laid in a grave all beautiful with the roses he had loved so well. He to young authors, readily and cheerfully given, while to will be gratefully remembered for his kindly advice his friends his noble, unselfish character, his pure and blameless life will ever be a bright example. We can well say of him what he once said of one of his friends: "He has passed away, and lies in peace In the sweet peace that goodness bosoms everleaving a memory sweet as June roses, and likely to endure until every friend he had has likewise passed away.' death we hear with extreme regret, was the G. L. G. of MR. GRANVILLE LEVESON GOWER, of whose unfortunate these columns, in which he wrote up to the end. 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." THEODORE REYNOLDS, Monson, Mass., U.S. ("Stamps". In the cases to which you refer British halfpenny or penny stamps are usually indicated. ERRATA.-P. 253, col. 1, 1. 11 from bottom, for "einis" read cinis; p. 272, col. 1, 1. 17, for "History of Signboards"" read' Story of the London Parks." 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, JUNE 15, 1895. the torn papers, and, recognizing their value, he pieced together parts of the letters and of the CONTENT S.-N° 181. decaying fragments of the map, which he pubNOTES:-Milton's Estotiland, 461-Inventory of Church lished in 1558, with conjectural restorations of Plate and Ornaments, 462-Benyowszky, 463-"Statue of the Miracle"-Remarkable Prophecy, 464-Marshal Ponia- those parts and names which he could not decipher. towski -MSS. of the Rev. B. Rand-"Links"-J. Y. Aker- The letters contained accounts, derived from the man- Shrovetide, 465-" Pant"-Mud-Sir W. ScottVanishing London-New Bronze Coins-Prof. Adams, 466. reports of fishermen, of various islands in the QUERIES:-Captain-Lieutenant-Deputy Philazer-Great Atlantic. The distorted names of these misplaced Bed of Ware B. Hengist Horne-Halderman-"Poudre islands were deemed of great authority, and appear de Dun"-Translations of the New Testament, 467 Palmer: Kingsmill-Sir Thomas More-Sir H. Hammond on subsequent maps for more than a century. One - Churchyard Curiosities Weever" Cat's-meat Ser- island, which is called Icaria, is placed near Icemons"-Brown Baronetcy-"Quis talia audivit ?" 468"Dog's-eared," &c. - Agnes Gowge-Staunton-Authors land, some four hundred miles to the south-west of it. Icaria has been identified by Mr. Major with Kerry in Ireland, which was doubtless frequented by the Faröe fishermen, whose accounts of its position must have been misunderstood by the elder Zeno. The next island, still further to the south-west, is called Estotiland. No such island being found in the required place by the navigators and codfishers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, it was pushed by the chartographers further and further to the west, being identified by Ortelius in 1570 with Labrador, whence the "Estotilande ou Terre de Laborador on Jaillot's map of 1694. Wanted, 469. REPLIES:-Ploughing Oxen, 469-David-Descendants of XXX. Hotes. MILTON'S ESTOTILAND. Estotiland is one of the ghost-names of geography. Unknown on any map before 1558, it then appeared on the famous Zeni map, to the confusion, for more than a century, of geographers and navigators, as the name of a great Atlantic island, in search of which Frobisher and Davis vainly sailed. Its history is curious. Nicolò Zeno, a Venetian merchant, venturing into the northern seas, was wrecked in 1390 on the Faröes, the Norse name of which he distorted into Frislanda. There he was befriended and employed by a chief whom he calls Zichmni, who has been identified with Henry Sinclair, Earl of Caithness, who in 1379 had claimed the earldom of Orkney, and at the time of Nicolo's arrival was establishing himself in the Faröes. Nicolò wrote letters to Venice urging his brother Antonio to join him. Nicolò died in 1395, and his brother ten years later. Letters from the brothers, and a map which they had constructed, were preserved among the archives of the Zeni palace at Venice. The second part of the story now begins. A younger Nicolò Zeno, born in 1515, inherited the palace, and when still quite a child tore up the papers in childish fashion, as he tells us. Long afterwards, some hundred and fifty years after the voyage of the elder Zeno, he came across some of What can have been meant by Estotiland is difficult to determine. Mr. Major considered it to be Newfoundland; but it is most unlikely that any Faröe fishermen should have ventured 80 far before 1390, leaving no record or tradition of their voyage, or that it should then have borne a name with the Teutonic suffix -land. It is far more probable that the elder Zeno should have misunderstood the accounts of the fishermen, or that the younger Zeno should have misplaced some fragments of the torn and decayed map. Since Estotiland appears as the nearest island to Icaria, which is now generally admitted to have been Kerry, we should seek for it on the Irish rather than on the American side of the Atlantic, where Zeno placed it. Estotiland may possibly be Zetland, as Shetland was then called, but Shetland is more probably the Estland of the map. It seems more likely that Estotiland, so near to Kerry, is a perversion of the name Scotland, which was still given to the north of Ireland, whence the Scots had come, till the eleventh and even till the thirteenth century, or it may have been Argyle, which succeeded to the Scottish name as Scotia Minor, Ireland being Scotia Major. But the Zeni map is so wild and the Venetian transformation of names so wonderful (witness Sinclair transformed to Zichmni) that identifications must always be uncertain, though, if we take away the euphonic vowels, Stotland is a fair Italian approximation to Scotland. The identification of Estotiland with Ulster, the Irish Scotland, is confirmed by the fact that the next island to Estotiland is Drogeo, which looks like Donegal. |