Camden speaks of an excellent MS. which contains it; but no such MS. is forthcoming. See J. Parker's Early History of Oxford,' Oxf., 1885, for the Historical Society, pp. 39 sqq. ED. MARSHALL.

COURTHORPE CLAYTON (8th S. vii. 387, 418).This gentleman resided at Annabella, near Mallow, co. Cork. LEO CULLETON.

LEWIN FAMILY (8th S. vii. 409).-Sir William Lewin was son of Robert Lewin, of Wimborne Minster, Dorset, and grandson of Robert Lewin of the same place. He was elected Alderman of Castle Baynard ward November 23, 1708, served the office of sheriff in 1712-3, and that of Lord Mayor in 1717-8. He was knighted while sheriff on December 17, 1712, and sat as M.P. for Poole 1711 to 1722. Died March 16, 1722, and was buried at Ewell, in Surrey, where he appears to have had a seat. A George Lewin, of Ewell-probably the Lord Mayor's son-was M.P. for Wallingford, 1727-34. Various Lewin pedigrees are enumerated in Marshall's 'Genealogist's Guide.'

Leigh, Lancashire.

W. D. PINK.

IRON AND GARLIC TO FALSIFY THE COMPASS (8th S. vi. 65; vii. 76).-At the latter reference allusion is made to a passage from 'The Parly of Beasts; or, Morphandra,' 1660, p. 123: "The Load-stone rub'd with Garlick loseth its attractive vertu, but being dipt in Goat's milk it recovers."

It may not be out of place to quote a passage from Plutarch's 'Symposiacs,' Question vii. vol. iii. p. 252 of Little and Brown's edition, 1871, corrected by Prof. Wm. W. Goodwin, of Harvard, in which occurs the following:

"A wild bull grows tame if bound with the twigs of a fig tree; amber draws all light things to it except basil and such as are dipped in oil; a loadstone will not draw a piece of iron that is rubbed with garlic. Now all these as to matter of fact are very evident; but it is hard, if not altogether impossible, to find the cause."

San Francisco.

H. F. C.

PAMELA (8th S. vi. 468, 513; vii. 37, 91, 194, 256, 330).

"In 1792 Madame Sillery (de Genlis) visited London with Mlle. d'Orleans and her own daughter Pamela. Romney commenced two portraits of the latter lady, intending to give Madame Sillery her choice of one of them, but he never entirely finished them. One he gave to Hayley and the other was bought afterwards for a Mrs. Conolly by Lord Dunlo......Mlle. Pamela Sims, as her mother designated her when passing as her adopted daughter, was really the child of herself and the Duke of Orleans (Egalité). Almost directly after the ladies returned to France Lord Edward Fitzgerald presented himself as a suitor for the hand of Mlle, Pamela, to whom She was married at Tournai in the presence of the Duke of Orleans, M. de Chartres, afterwards King of the French, being one of the witnesses. After the death of Lord Edward his widow became the wife of Mr. Pitcairn, the

LEWES (8th S. vii. 366, 411).-I have just read the contribution to this controversy of CANON ISAAC TAYLOR; and without wishing to enter into the main question of the etymology of this placename, which I prefer to leave in such able hands, I should like to correct one point in which the Canon makes a serious mistake. He says that the Anglo-Saxon læswe can only yield, and does only yield, leasow in Modern English. Now this happens to be a pet word of mine, and a few years ago in a German scientific journal I exhaustively treated its history and that of the word meadow, which is similar both in meaning and form. Í pointed out, what had never been perceived before, that these two words not only had two forms each in modern English-namely, leas and mead, besides the longer leasow and meadow-but that both short and long forms go back into the Anglo-Saxon period. The Anglo-Saxon nominatives were las and mad, and I think the w never occurs except in the oblique cases to which laswe, quoted above, probably belongs; and in the oblique cases the Anglo-Saxon authors sometimes insert the w, as in this instance, and sometimes omit it.

JAS. PLATT, Jun.

SIR HERBERT MAXWELL's note on this word has interested me, although I am but a mere smatterer in the lore of place-names, whether Celtic or Teutonic. In the neighbourhood of Lewes there is Uckfield, and just below it there is the village of Isfield. A Welshman who comes upon these places for the first time cannot help being struck with the appropriateness of their names, if the first syllable in each is derived from a Celtic word cognate with the Welsh uch (comparative of uchel, "high") and is (comparative of isel, "low") respectively. I am told that there are geological objections to making Uckfield to mean Oakfield. Prof. Rhys kindly informed me some time ago that he did not think the late Mark Antony Lower's identification of Is and Ouse tenable (see Mr. Lower's papers on Sussex Rivers' in the Sussex Archæological Society's Collections). The term uchel, I may add, is found widely scattered in such forms as Ochill, Achill, Uxellodunum, &c.

J. P. OWEN.

How can we separate I. liodhus from Leod, in the patronymic MacLeod, once Lord of Lewis and the Isles? It is a moot point whether this clan is Celtic or Teutonic; if the latter, we refer back to

hlud, so Ludovicus, Louis, and Lewes. A further extension will let in the Slavonic forms, closely allied; proving that in primitive forms all three races blend their etymons. FITZGLANVILLE.

ARRIAN ON COURSING (8th S. vii. 428). The "Graduate of Medicine" was the Rev. Wm. Dausey, of Exeter College, Oxford, B.A. 1814, M.A. 1817, B. Med. 1818, Rector of Donhead St. Andrew, Wilts, from March, 1820, and Prebendary of Sarum from 1841 to his death, June 7, 1856. F. D. "THE BRONTES IN IRELAND (8th S. vi. 504; vii. 71).-I am very reluctantly obliged to notice the Rev. Mr. Lett's letter quoted by DR. WRIGHT, in the matter of the Drumgooland vestry book. In MR. MOSLEY's letter the whole case was stated briefly, but truthfully, with the exception of a slip in regard to a date. There was no mystery in Banbridge about the existence of the book, or the name of the individual who added it to the Banbridge Museum. I make no imputation of lack of candour on the part of Mr. Lett, but I think there is a lack of courtesy, as he writes with a disappointed feeling and a covert sneer towards MR. MOSLEY and myself, which he extends to the Banbridge Literary Society's humble, but locally valuable museum, derisively terming it a mild sort of exhibition." I expressed my hearty thanks to Mr. Lett in a private letter for having "evoked an interest" in the book, but certainly did not renounce my claim of rescuing it. In quoting from my letter Mr. Lett makes me say that I purchased the vestry book in an "old muck shop"-what I wrote was an "old junk shop." This correction is unimportant, but for the sake of elegance I make RICHARD LINN.

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of Nelson' in the cockpit on board the Victory, in which very likely an artist's licence was used, though probably there are in it many portraits of individuals present at the scene. The dying hero is held in the arms of several sailors. There is a small engraving of this, by A. W. Warren, reduced to vignette size, in Hume and Smollett's History of England,' with continuation by the Rev. T. S. Hughes, B.D., vol. xix. The frontispiece to the same volume is the Battle of Trafalgar,' engraved by the same artist. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

MISS WILKINS's Books (8th S. vii. 388).-In Harper's Magazine, vol. lxxxvi. p. 147, Pastels in Prose,' four short sketches by Miss Wilkins, & page and a half only. S. C. H.

AN AMERICAN "SMALL BOOK" (8th S. vii. 341).-The enclosed cutting, relating to a small Weekly Times, Friday, March 8, under the headbook, is from the supplement to the Manchester ing of 'Interesting Facts':

"The smallest book in the world is surely a volume

printed in Holland in 1674. It contains forty-nine pages, and on its title-page it bears the inscription: 'Bloem Hofje door, C. van L. Gedruckt by B. Schmidt' (The Court of Flowers,' by C. Van L. Printed by B. Schmidt). The volume is superbly bound in calf, tooled and ornamented on back and sides, and it is closed by a clasp manship. It opens so as to display the text to advantage, of gold filagree, solid, but of exquisitely delicate workand is in every way a highly finished book as much as any tall folio. But it is not so large. If it were laid upon a penny postage stamp, it would cover a quarter of it. If three other similar volumes could be found, the would not be so wonderful if the book were not an four together would just cover the penny stamp. This admirable specimen of the printer's and bookbinder's

art."

FREDERICK LAWRENCE TAVARE. 30, Rusholme Grove, Rusholme, Manchester.

THE ROSE CHARITY AT BARNES (8th S. vii. 307, 370).-An account of this charity is given in the Tenth Report of the Charity Commissioners,' dated June 28, 1823 (Parliamentary Papers,' 1824, vol. xiii. pp. 589-90), where it is stated that the rents were laid out in purchasing bread, which was distributed at the church on Sundays and on Christmas Day and Good Friday to the poor attending the church. From the General Digest of Endowed Charities for the County of Surrey' (Parliamentary Papers,' 1867-8, vol. lii. part ii. p. 4) it appears that the income of this charity had increased from 87. 108. to 147. 14s. 2d., and that it was distributed in bread. G. F. R. B.

Wandering through Barnes recently, I went into the churchyard and pondered over this modest grave. I further noted that the word "citizen" is spelt citisen, and on again reading your correspondent's very interesting description find that although Mr. Rose (according to the tablet) died

L'Intermédiaire, 1895. (Paris, 13, Rue Cujas.) THE latest numbers of the Intermédiaire contain quite as interesting and varied a collection of literary and his torical gleanings as any of the previous issues of this popular French Notes and Queries. Among the diverse subjects treated of may be mentioned chained books, curious feudal rights, the coinage struck with the effigy of Joachim Murat, and absurd parliamentary blunders. The blunder and correction put on record in the number for April 10 are, it may be observed, equally inaccurate, unless, indeed, the Americans have given a new mean ing to an old English word. "Corned beef" in cis-Atlantic speech is neither meat composed of dried horn nor beef from cattle fattened on Indian corn, but beef preserved or cured with salt. The word corned signifies formed into grains or particles, granulated, as Murray's New English Dictionary' shows: "1577, Harrison, England, iii. vi. (1878) ii. 38, '[Honey] white as sugar, and corned as if it were salt." 1679, Plot, 'Staffordsh.' (1686), 94, They begin......to take the corned salt from the rest of the brine."" These quotations make it evident that, properly speaking, corned beef" is beef prepared with corned salt, and that if in the New World the term is used to denote the flesh of maize-fed bullocks it is strangely applied.

We have received Vols. XXIX, and XXX. of the Antiquary (Stock), that is the issues for the year 1894. As we have said on more than one previous occasion, the Antiquary in the present day discharges many of the functions performed by the Gentleman's Magazine of former days. It goes on steadily improving. In many of the earlier volumes we could point out articles which not only are void of new knowledge, but which seem to be written down to the capacity of those without historical training. Nothing of this sort is to be found in the volumes before us. The writers show ripe scholarship, and evidently look for the same quality in their readers. Among so much that has interested us we find it not easy to make a selection. Capt. J. W. Gambier's paper on The Guanches, the Ancient Inhabitants of the Canaries,' contains much new know ledge of importance to anthropologists; Dr. Cox's account of the pigs of lead of Roman make which have been found in Derbyshire is worthy of special notice. We must also direct the reader's attention to Mr. F. Haverfield's quarterly notes on Roman Britain.

WE are sorry to hear of the unexpected death of Mr. Dykes Campbell, well known by his labours in illustration of Coleridge. He was born at Port Glasgow on Nov. 2, 1838, and at the age of sixteen he entered a merchant's office in Glasgow. He resided subsequently in Canada and Mauritius, being in business in the latter place from 1867 to 1881, when he retired. His spare time had been for several years devoted to Coleridge and Wordsworth, and in 1878 he had, while on a visit to Europe, explored every corner of the Lake Country. Settling in London fourteen years ago, he accumulated a large

By the death last year of his Honour Judge Cooke, Duncombe's History of Hertfordshire,' begun exactly a hundred years ago, has for the second time been left: unfinished. In order that the very valuable information. collected by Judge Cooke may not remain unused, hiswidow has entrusted his papers to a committee composed of the following gentlemen connected with the county, viz., the Rev. Sir George Cornewall, Sir HerbertCroft, Mr. M. Biddulph, M.P., Mr. Paul Foley, and the Rev. W. Poole, who have secured the Rev. Morgan G. Watkins, Rector of Kentchurch, to continue the work on the lines of those volumes already published. Mr. Watkins proposes to issue, as soon as possible, a volume relating to the Hundred of Huntington,' and will be. grateful to any persons who will send him information with regard to the parishes of that hundred. A limited number of copies will be issued, and the names of sub. scribers will be received by the Town Clerk of Hereford (Mr. J. Carless) or by Messrs. Jakeman & Carver, of High Town, Hereford.

A MONOGRAPH upon 'Elijah Fenton: bis Poetry and Friends,' by the late William Watkiss Lloyd, edited by the Rev. George Livingstone Fenton, M.A., will be shortly published by Messrs. Allbut & Daniel, of Hanley. The essay is preceded by a brief memoir of the author, by Miss Sophia Beale, and a life of Elijah Fenton,. written by Robert Fenton, Newcastle-under-Lyme, a lineal descendant of the poet's elder brother.

OLD English and Continental pewter forms the subject of a handbook which is being prepared by Mr. E. Guy Dawber and Mr. Langton Dennis (22, Buckingham Street, Adelphi). They will be very glad to receive any infor mation concerning fine specimens of pewter work, especially such as are in private collections. Rubbings of marks would be also welcome.

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CELER ET AUDAX ("Grotto at Margate").-See 8th S. vi. 347, 487, 471.

T. GAMBIER (""Twas whisper'd in heaven," &c.).Miss Fanshawe. See 'N. & Q' passim.

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killen,' which gives, in the words of an eye-witness, a detailed account of all that took place at Enniskillen from December, 1688, to the arrival of Duke Schomberg and his army in Ireland the following

summer:

"About the 18 of Dec. the men of Inniskillen and those that did adhere to them......made choice of Gustavus Hamilton, Esq., to be their Governour, a gentleman that was a Justice of Peace in the co. Fermanagh. His father, Lodovick, was brother to the late Lord Glenawly, in Ireland, both sons of Archibald Hamilton, Archbishop of Cashell; had been both colonels under Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, and both raised to the dignity of

lady (who is mother to Our Governour) in Swedeland...... Our Governour had been for several years Cornet to the troop that belonged to his uncle, the Lord Glenawly, but was disbanded by the Lord Tyrconnel when the rest of the Protestant officers were turned out of the Army

-C. Marlowe, 499.

NOTES ON BOOKS:-Shand's 'Life of Hamley-Invictus's Letters of Hargrave Jennings'-Thorpe's 'London Church Staves'- Stephens's Runes-Notts and Derbyshire Notes and Queries'-' Berks, Bucks, and Oxon Archæological Journal." Notices to Correspondents.

Hotes.

COL. GUSTAVUS HAMILTON, GOVERNOR OF ENNISKILLEN, 1689.

The writer of the memoir of Gustavus Hamilton, Viscount Boyne, in the 'Dict. of Nat. Biog.' has, in common with Burke and Foster, mistaken the Governor of Enniskillen for his namesake Col. Gustavus Hamilton, Governor of Coleraine, whose gallant defence of the latter town against the Irish army in 1689 is a matter of history. As both governors were made colonels of regiments in William III.'s army the same year, and both played an important part in the eventful campaign in the north of Ireland which established the ascendency of the Protestant party, the above mistake is a most natural one, and it is no spirit of fault-finding or adverse criticism which prompts the writer of this notice to draw attention to a case of mistaken identity, but merely a desire to set matters right.

After correctly stating that General Gustavus Hamilton (Viscount Boyne) was son of Sir Fred. Hamilton, by the daughter and heir of Sir John Vaughan, the writer of the memoir in question says: "In 1688 he [Gustavus Hamilton] was appointed by the Protestants Governor of Enniskillen and took up his residence in the castle." Now let us turn to a contemporary publication by the Rev. Andrew Hamilton (London, 1690), entitled A True Relation of the Men of Ennis

his own private estate."-P. 3.

This extract gives us the parentage of the Governor of Enniskillen, and proves conclusively that the said governor was not the Gustavus

Hamilton who, as stated in the memoir in the 'Dict. of Nat. Biog.' and in all peerages, was son of Sir Fred. Hamilton by the daughter of Sir John Vaughan. In the Hamilton pedigree given in the latest edition of Burke's Peerage' the first Viscount Boyne is said to have "raised six regiments, two of which are well known as the Inniskillings." Here again the two Gustavus Hamiltons have been confounded together, and the services of the Governor of Enniskillen have been credited to the Governor of Coleraine. The Rev. Andrew Hamilton, who acted as chaplain to the Enniskillen forces and wrote the narrative to which attention has been already drawn, goes fully into the raising of the six Enniskillen regiments (one of horse, two of dragoons, and three of foot), the credit of which lay with the Governor of Enniskillen, who was colonel of one of the foot regiments at its first raising. The colonels of these six regiments were not commissioned, in the first instance, by William III., but had their commissions direct from MajorGeneral Kirke, in June, 1689, to whom a deputation was sent by the Governor of Enniskillen as soon as Kirke was known to have arrived in Lough Derry. By virtue of his commission, dated May, 1689, Kirke had the power to grant commissions and to raise troops. This power Kirke exercised both before and after the relief of Londonderry (True Relation,' p. 32).

Col. Gustavus Hamilton commanded his Enniskillen regiment until his decease in June or July, 1691, when the colonelcy was bestowed on Lieut.Col. Abraham Creighton (who had acted as Hamilton's lieutenant-colonel from June, 1689) by commission dated July 14, 1691 (Commissions granted in Ireland by General Ginkel,' S.P. Ireland, vol. cccliii.). The two Gustavus Hamiltons must have been well known to each other, and