THACKERAY AND THE TIMES.'-I cannot claim to be a learned Thackerayan, so am unable to say whether the following passage has been noted by the latest bibliographers of the writer : "Thackeray came to the evening rehearsal and told me that he had written the criticism on Macbeth' in The Times, but that much of it had been cut out-that in what he wrote of Bulwer every word of praise was omitted. How sick I am of that scoundrel paper! "The Diaries of William Charles Macready, 1833-51,' ed. by W. Toynbee, London, 1912; entry of April 14, 1838. So far as I can see there is no reference to this article (perhaps there are two) in the bibliography attached to Mr. Melville's second life of the novelist (1910). But this is not surprising, seeing that the first edition of the Macready Papers' (which appeared in 1875 under the supervision of Sir F. Pollock) contained only selections from the diaries, &c., and omitted this particular entry. H. O. there are good grounds for connecting his name as initiator with that of the tree, the more so as he also practises what we call white magic, or, in other words, protects people against witches. Mama jombo is found among the Soninke and Khassonke and possibly other Mandingo tribes. N. W. THOMAS. Egwoba, Manorgate Road, Norbiton. SUPPLEMENTAL LIST OF MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS AND HERALDRY IN THE CLOISTER, SALISBURY CATHEDRAL: BAKER MANUSCRIPTS COLLECTION. (See 12 S. i. 425.)—Among the MSS. mentioned at this reference has been found a square 8vo MS. vol. of some 138 numbered pp. Of these pp. 49-138 record all the inscriptions in the Cloisters, the Cloister Green, and Close. The following is a complete index to the inscriptions contained therein. An asterisk shows those with arms: Attwood Dodsworth Donne Dowland Barter Edwards Bassett Ekins Bazley Emly Bell Eyre Judd Fagan Kellow Benson Fawcett Kelsey Finley Kerrick Fisher King The transition from Latin to English suggests that all but the English words were cut ante mortem predicti Gulielmi." The Bingham survival in 1725 of the medieval shortening generosus, extremum " is also notable. EDWARD S. DODGSON. of Oxford Union Society, Oxford. MUMBO JUMBO. – According to the Briscoe 'N.E.D.' the origin of this expression is Broderick unknown. This statement is inaccurate; Brooke Brown not only do the authorities cited-Moore Buckeridge and Mungo Park-locate the custom among Burch the western Mandingo, as is proved by one Burgis of the citations in the Dictionary itself, Cane but it can be stated with some certainty Chapeau that jumbo or jombo is a tree, probably Child Diospyros mespiliformis, the root of which is used in magic by societies of women with the object of curing a disease said to be caused by water spirits (Monteil, Les Khassonké,' p. 227 8q.). As the mama jombo (anglicized into Mumbo Jumbo) is, besides being a blacksmith and a dancer, the operator in a rite connected with the initiation of girls, Lawe(s) *Luxford Mee Middleton Money Munkhouse ASIAGO. The name of this place now figures prominently in Italian and Austrian bulletins of war. It was, and probably still is, the chief place of a little district in the mountains north of Vicenza, and a century ago was inhabited by a Teutonic colony known under the name of the "Sieben Perghe or Sette Communi." W. S. Rose, writing to Henry Hallam from Vicenza, in October, 1817, gives a description of their folk-lore and customs, some of whichaccording to him-remind one of some of the Celtic usages. The following is worthy of notice : 66 "If a man dies by violence, instead of clothing him as the dead are usually clothed, they lay him out with a hat upon his head and shoes upon his feet, seeking to give him the appearance of a way; faring man, perhaps as symbolizing one surprised in the great journey of life." his own Court was not so polished as that heard by him in the "Sette Communi.” According to Baedeker, however, they all speak Italian in our days. See W. S. R(ose), Letters from the North of Italy' (London,. 1819), vol. i. pp. 247 et seq.; J. A. Cramer's Italy' (1826), i. 125; Josiah Conder's Italy' (1831), ii. 107. It is a curious coincidence that the German name of Transylvania is also Siebenbuergen ; the seven burghs represented by seven castles in the coat of arms of that ancient principality. Queries. L. L. K. are WE must request correspondents desiring information on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct. STILL LIFE."-This term, in its very peculiar use with reference to painting, is probably, like many other terms of fine art, an importation from Dutch, which has the equivalent stilleven (compare the German It does not Still-leben). seem easy to explain quite satisfactorily how the designation" still life" has come to be applied only to lifeless objects as a subject for painting. Does the history of the term in Dutch throw any light on the question? The oldest example of the term in English Can any known to me is of date 1695. earlier instance be found? Oxford. HENRY BRADLEY. FLETCHER FAMILY.-Joseph Fletcher, of Ballyboy, King's County, married Elizabeth Kershaw, had a son Richard, born 1798; also a cousin Joseph Fletcher of Tullamore, 1779, married Sarah Higgins of Dublin, December, 1798, died at Carlow, Ireland, 1842; had a son William, born (c.) 1807, married, at Dublin, Elizabeth Smith. Ancestors of above with dates of birth, &c., will be appreciated. WM. J. FLETCHER. 1433 Jackson Street, San Francisco. AUTHOR WANTED.-There is a These the qualities that shine verse In an episcopal visit to Asiago, in 1597, the statement occurs that Cimbros se esse asserunt," and, according to Rose, Bossuet's catechism has been translated into their dialect and published under the title: "Dar kloane Catechismo vor dez Béloseland whose refrain goes something like this:vortra'ghet in z'gaprecht von Siben Perghen. In Seminarien von Padebe, 1813.' A vocabulary has been printed by Marco Pezzo P. Veronese in his Dei Cimbri Veronesi, e Vicentini' (3rd edition, Verona, 1763). According to a German author, King Frederick IV. of Denmark visited them in 1709, and found that the language spoken at The qualities are pleasingly enumerated, and that and the lilt of the verse tell me that it must be a ballad of Thackeray's, but I cannot find it in the only copy I have left. It would be kind if any one could help me on such very scanty data. B. B-T. SEM, CARICATURIST.-I shall be obliged I should be much interested to know if any if any reader of N. & Q.' can give me the one has come across any allusion to this proper name of this artist and some account echo in any old book or any account of old of his life, when and where he died, &c. I buildings. I have a recollection, going have seen portraits, mostly caricatures, back some fifty years, that there was a signed "Sem" from about 1850 to 1875, wonderful echo in Dunkeld Cathedral. but I cannot identify his personality. JOHN LANE. H. B. KER, ARTIST.-I recently acquired twenty-seven dry-point etchings of Wimbledon Common and Park and Windsor Long Walk, &c., by this artist, all about 1812. As I cannot find his name in any list of exhibitors, I hope some correspondent of N. & Q.' may be able to give me some information about him and his work, when he died, &c. Some of these etchings are quite fine, and surely something must be known of an artist so accomplished. JOHN LANE. FRANCIS The following gruesome fact Bacon also records. In Book VI. chap. V., 'Du mort,' at p. 373 he says: mouvement de quelques animaux après leur of a gentleman, very big and powerful, who had "I have seen, nevertheless, in Scotland the body had his head cut off: which, being placed at once in a wooden coffin, burst it with great force. But of that I cannot give the explanation." Such a very strange occurrence as this should be remembered in the Scotch family to which the unfortunate gentleman belonged. Can any one give the reference? It is the sort of incident that Sir Walter Scott would have delighted in recording in a foot-note. If the time of the execution of this gentleman could be known, we should have the date of Bacon's visit to Scotland, as well as the place that he was at; and Í do not know that there is anywhere else any record of Bacon's going to Scotland. GRANVILLE C. CUNINGHAM, MUSICAL QUERIES.-1. Major and Minor. The Bodley Head, Vigo Street, W. 'HISTOIRE NATURELLE,' BY BACON.-In 1631 there was published in Paris ("chez Antoine de Sommaville et André Soubron ") a book by Bacon entitled 'Histoire Naturelle.' It is entirely in French, and has prefixed to it a Life of Bacon,' the first to appear after his departure in 1626. It is highly praised and quoted from by Gilbert Wats in the forewords to his-It is popularly believed that in music the English edition of Bacon's Advancement of Learning,' 1640, and is referred to with respect by James and Isaac Gruter, who brought out editions of Bacon's works at Leyden, 1648-61. It formed the subject of correspondence between Isaac Gruter and William Rawley (Bacon's secretary) in letters that have been preserved to us by Tenison in Baconiana, 1679. I mention major key always expresses cheerfulness, and the minor key sadness. In refutation of this it is pointed out that 'Oh, Ruddier than the Cherry,' is typically cheerful, though in a minor key; while The Dead March' in 'Saul,' which is decidedly solemn, melancholy, and dirge-like, is in a major key. .e., of cheerful tunes in the minor key, and I should be glad of other similar examples, doleful ones in the major key. 2. The March of the Men of Harlech.' these facts in order to show that, though this book has been quite neglected by modern What was the origin of this tune? It has English writers on Bacon-Montagu, Sped-been said there were no men of Harlech, and ding, Hepworth Dixon, J. M. Robertson, therefore no march of them! &c.-it was, at the time it was written, in first-class repute in literary circles. It has never been translated into English, though in my book, 'Bacon's Secret Disclosed,' 1911, I gave a translation of the 'Life.' Bacon makes some interesting statements in the book. At p. 116, when speaking of echoes he says: ALFRED S. E. ACKERMANN. GARRICK'S GRANT OF ARMS.-What is the exact date of David Garrick's grant of arms and crest ? And was a motto included? S. A. GRUNDY-NEWMAN, Walsall. COLOURS OF BADGE OF THE EARLS OF WARWICK.-Can any of your readers tell me if the bear and ragged staff-badge of the house of Beauchamp, Earls of Warwick— is of any particular colour? The staff, I believe, is argent, but what colour is the H. I. HALL. "and 1 remember that near Edinburgh in Scotland 22 Hyde Park Gate, S.W. 'THE MAN WITH THE HOE.'-Can any of your readers tell me when and by whom this poem was written, and when it appeared? I see extracts from it in a book of Familiar Quotations,' and it is ascribed to Edwin Markham (b. 1852). The name of this poet is quite unknown to me, though probably this fact argues "myself unknown.' J. WILLCOCK. Lerwick. SCARLET GLOVES AND TRACTARIANS. (See 11 S. viii. 509.)-Under this heading I asked in 1913 why Henry Kingsley in Leighton Court' makes the wife of a Tractarian vicar wear scarlet gloves in deference to her husband's orders. I have just discovered a passage in S. Baring-Gould's Life of the Rev. R. S. Hawker,' in which, describing Hawker's appearance, the author says: "His gloves were crimson. He wore these in church as well as elsewhere." And later he speaks of the vicar's blood-red hands in church. As Leighton Court' is about that part of the country, it is probable that an allusion to the vicar was intended by Henry Kingsley. But this does not solve the problem, why did the vicar wear crimson or scarlet gloves? M. H. DOdds. Home House, Low Fell, Gateshead. ABBÉ PAUL PEYRON'S ANTIQUITIES OF DENMARK COURT.-The Jewish Chronicle lately mentioned a synagogue being situated in Denmark Court. I cannot find any reference to a court so named in any map of London, either old or modern. Perhaps one of your readers will kindly enlighten me. MAURICE JONAS. SYMBOLS ATTACHED TO SIGNATURES.-In the Guildhall in Rye is preserved the original agreement made between Oliver Cromwell and the citizens of Rye. The signatures of the latter are in many cases accompanied by varying signs or symbols such as an anchor, &c. Are these signs trade badges, or what are they? GRAHAM MILWARD. 77 Colmore Row, Birmingham. Evans in 1767. Will, proved Dec. 14, 1808, 1729 Pine Street, San Francisco. BLESSED WILLIAM OF ASSISI.-Anthony Parkinson, in his 'Collectanea AngloMinoritica' (London, 1726), at pp. 33-4, sub anno 1232, writes: "Br. William Anglicus departed this Life now. He was an English Frier of extraordinary Learning, and is said to have been a Doctor of Divinity; but was yet more famous for the Holiness of his Life; which was attested by many undoubted Proofs; for, he was a Thaumaturgus for supernatural Gifts and Miracles, both whilst living and after his Departure out of this Life: so that he seemed to out-doe his Founder St Francis, One of whose Disciples and Companions he was. He died at Assisium, and was buried in the lower Church of the Friers Minor there, near the Body of St Francis, The Franciscan Martyrologe, on the 7th day of March, has this Character of him, viz. Beatus Gulielmus, eximia Perfectionis Vir: qui Sanctitate & Miraculis, tum in Vita, tum post Obitum, maxime claruit. That Author quotes more Vouchers than can be here inserted." Southey, in his Commonplace Book,' 2nd Series, p. 395, says : "Guelherme Anglico, who was elected in the room after his death that to keep peace in the convent of Joao Capella the Judas, worked so many miracles Fr. Elias, the general of the order, was obliged to beg he would work no more--it brought such a rabble there. Dead as well as alive he was Cataneo. Cornejo, vol. i. p. 356." obedient, 189. A like story of Fr. and Pedro What is the authority cited by Southey? Have recent Franciscan studies thrown THE NEVILLE HERALDRY.-" Or, fretty gules" (with various cantons), is given as the one blazon ancient coat of the Nevilles; being "Or, fretty gules, a canton ermine,' which is precisely the same as that of the Noels. Were the Noels originally Nevilles ? PAYNE FAMILY.-Jonathan Payne (Paine), Their crest, a stag statant," seems to have a Quaker, married Anne · had a daughter some reference to the Nevilles' old office as Henrietta, baptized May 31, 1778, Ballin-Warden of the King's Forests north of temple, Tullow, co. Carlow, and a son Jonas, Trent. married April 25, 1804, at Urghlin, Carlow, Martha Bunbury. His will was dated June 24, 1830. He had a (?) cousin, Caleb Payne, of Colbinstown, co. Kildare, married Sarah The present bull's head crest of the Nevilles is derived from the Bulmers, and the late J. R. Planché ingeniously deduced the shield of the Raby branch from the The arms of the Nevilles of Raby, Earls of Westmorland, were: Gules, a saltire argent"; the arms of the French General Neuville, the present gallant defender of Verdun, are: Gules, a saltire or." Is there any connexion ? 66 but he cited no authority for this proposition. The late Mr. Justice Stirling, towards It is obvious that the ship which appears the end of his judgment, observed :— upon the canton at times, and also as a "The learned counsel for the coroner has asked family badge, is merely a rebus upon theme that he may not be deprived of the articles name, Nef (a ship), Neufville, Nefville, and until after the inquest which he proposes to hold. does not commemorate the helmsman I think that is reasonable.......” Neville who steered the Conqueror to our shores. ALFRED RODWAY. ALTHOUGH treasure-trove is an obscure subject, which, almost untouched by legislation, is peculiarly sterile in case law (W. Martin, The Law Quarterly Review, 1904, vol. xx. p. 27), one would suggest, with deference, that a coroner is invested with jurisdiction by reason of the geographical position of the place of concealment, or alleged concealment, and that his right to hold an inquisition, to establish or negative discovery of hidden treasure, is not defeated by the removal of such treasure beyond that officer's territorial limits. This view would seem to be supported by J. Brooke Little : "The duty of a coroner with regard to treasure trove is to go where treasure is said to be found, and to issue his warrant for summoning a jury to appear before him in a certain place.. "Halsbury's Laws of England,' vol. viii. p. 247. In the case of Att.-Gen. v. Moore, 1893, 1 Ch. 676, Sir J. Rigby, for the Crown, in arguendo, said (p. 681): "We do not seek to interfere with the coroner if he chooses to hold another inquest......but we His lordship, be it noted, acceded to the coroner's request on the ground of convenience, not on any supposition that abortive and of none effect. without the articles the inquest would be The learned City Coroner is, of course, entirely correct in saying that it is the High Court only that has jurisdiction to determine questions of title to treasure-trove (Att.Gen. v. Moore supra); but it may be expedient, in a case where the parties concerned are not agreed that the circumstances of the discovery point to treasure-trove, to have a finding of a coroner's jury on the facts, albeit their conclusions are traversable (Garnett v. Ferrand, 1828, 6 Barnewall and Cresswell's Reports, p. 611). It would appear to be a more commendable course, therefore, for the City Coroner and his jury to consider the evidence of the City Police (if possessed of any) than to have it laid before the County Purposes Committee, who are not a Court of Record. It may well be that there exist great practical difficulties in summoning a jury to attend a place "where treasure is said to be found when that place is perhaps completely covered by buildings subsequently erected, but such a state of affairs cannot affect the question of jurisdiction, the sole question raised in your columns. Such subsequently accruing difficulties serve only to emphasize the advice of Mr. William Martin : "It is of the greatest importance to obtain reliable information upon all the circumstances of a finding, circumstances which, in particular, include the condition of the articles themselves, both as regards their relative position and their position towards surrounding objects, Since so much depends upon an adequate knowledge of the surroundings, no steps should be omitted to obtain this knowledge at the earliest opportunity. Information should be first hand, and should be sought for quickly, before the constant repetition of answers to leading questions has converted mere inferences into undisputed facts.""—Ibid., supra, p. 33. |