THE CRUCIFIED THIEVES (10 S. xi. 321, 394). The story mentioned by MR. EDWARD PEACOCK came to me in German in 'Des Herren Jesu Christi Kinder-Buch,' the gift of the starter and first editor of N. & Q. I did not refer to this in my reply (p. 394), because there was nothing said of the names borne by the robbers, nor were they identified with the malefactors who suffered on Calvary. One of a band which the Holy Family encountered when flying into Egypt preserved Joseph from death, and took him, the Blessed Virgin and the Child, to his own house. "Dieser alte Mördor hatte eine Frau welche er so sehr liebte, wie sein eigenes Leben. Da die Frau ihren Mann mit der Jungfrau kommen sah, so fasste sie eine grosse Liebe zu derselben und ihrem Kinde, begrüsste sie sehr freundlich, führte sie in ihr Haus, gab ihnen zu essen und zu trinken und was sie sonst nöthig hatten. Sie richtete ein Bad zu, das Kind zu waschen, bereitete ein schönes reines Bett, und hat die Jungfrau Maria, dass sie das Kind Jesum darin legen sollte. Die Frau des Räubers hatte auch ein Kind, das sehr aussätzig und am ganzen Leibe schwarz war; sie hadete und wusch ihr Kind in dem Wasser, in welchem das Kind Jesus gewaschen worden war, und es wurde alsbald rein. Als diess ein anderer Räuber hörte, der gleichfalls einen Ausschlag an seinem Leibe hatte, wusch er sich gleichfalls mit diesem Wasser und ward rein. Da nahm der alte Räuber das Wasser und verwahrte sorgfältig. Hatte Jemand einen Schaden an sich, er mochte so alt sein, als er wollte so bestrich er nur den Schaden mit dem Wasser und er wurde sogleich heil. Es kamen Viele, die ihn für ihre Rettung reich beschenkten, wodurch er ein reicher Mann wurde und das Rauben nicht mehr nöthig hatte." What is substantially the same tale, 'Jésus-Christ et le bon Larron,' is included by M. F. M. Luzel in ‘Légendes Chrétiennes de la Basse-Bretagne' (vol. i. p. 137). A note concerning it (vol. ii. pp. 375-6) gives the thieves other names than those which have been cited in 'N. & Q.' : : "Comme on le voit, on n'est pas d'accord sur les noms des deux larrons. Dans les Collectanea, vulgairement attribués à Bède, on les appelle encore Matha et Joca; et dans une histoire de Jésus-Christ qui a été écrite en persan par le jésuite Jérôme Xavier, que les Elzévirs ont imprimée en 1639, ils sont désignés sous les noms de Lustrin et Vissimus. Selon les légendaires crédules du moyen-âge ce fut celui des larrons sur lequel porta l'ombre du corps du Sauveur qui se convertit." logy. When first published in The Star the lyric consisted of two stanzas only, to which the poet subsequently added a third, admirably suited in all respects to his original conception. Some one, however, desirous of bringing a pathetic and touching predicament to a happy culmination, produced in three additional and poetically creditable stanzas a comforting and popular narrative, and gave the whole to the readers of Pocket Encyclopædia of Scottish, English, and Irish Songs,' published at Glasgow in 1816. This composite version appears in Chambers's Scottish Songs,' i. 31. It is worthy of note that Burns, recalling the refrain of Logan's song as published in The Star 6 Duncan's On While my dear lad maun face his faes, Far, far frae me and Logan braesmomentarily thought it one of the old fragments of Scottish verse, and straightway produced his own Logan Braes.' This, while fine in many ways and not unworthy of its high origin, fails to reach the pastoral sweetness, the emotional fervour, and the simple pathos of Mayne's delineation. the whole matter see Johnson's Musical Museum,' iv., ed. Laing, 1853. In its original version, consisting of two stanzas, the song is given, with the melody to which it is set, in Chambers's 'Scottish Songs prior to Burns'; and as finally completed by the author it appears in Graham's Songs of Scotland,' Rogers's Modern Scottish Minstrel,' and Mary Carlyle Aitken's Scottish Song.' For an account of Mayne himself see memoir in ‘D.N.B.' THOMAS BAYNE. THACKERAY: ROUNDABOUT PAPERS (10 S. xi. 141, 210). If COL. PRIDEAUX is in want of a real joke by the late Thomas Hood instead of the supposititious one imagined by Thackeray in his Roundabout Papers, I can supply him with one, which, as far as I know, has not appeared in print. 66 My friend the late William Fisher, a portrait painter of some celebrity and a member of the Arts Club, Hanover Square, was friendly with Hood, and related that when one calling on Hood he found him in bed, and Mrs. Hood, whom he described as a horse-godmother sort of woman "(whatever that description may mean), about to apply a mustard plaster on Hood's chest. Turning to his visitor, Hood said, referring to his spare frame wasted by frequent attacks of illness, so little meat." 66 'So much mustard and Hood died 3 May, 1845. Primrose Club, S. W. JOHN HEBB. the following additions to Prof. Cooper's list of twenty-one publications may be noted, viz. :— 1. Young man's inquisition. 1608. RICHARD MEREDITH, DEAN OF WELLS scarce, (10 S. xi. 410, 474).-In answer to H. C.'s query as to Dean Meredith's marriage, I may say that it took place at St. Mary's Church, Leicester, on 28 Feb., 1603/4, the bride being Elizabeth, daughter of John Chippingdale, Doctor of Law, who was a resident in the Newark, Leicester. There is also reference to Meredith in the 'Calendar of State Papers Domestic, James I.,' vol. xiii., under date 21 March, 1605, which records a grant to John Chippingdale of the advowson of the parsonage of Cheriton, diocese of Winchester, to present Ric. Meredith, one of the King's Chaplains. In vol. xxviii., under date 9 Nov., 1607, is the grant to Ric. Meredith of the Deanery of Wells, void by death of Dr. Heydon. W. H. CHIPPINDALL. 5, Linden Road, Bedford. WILLIAM GUILD (10 S. xi. 470).-William Guild was the son of Matthew Guild, armourer in Aberdeen, and was born in 1586. He was educated at Marischal College, and his first ministerial charge was the parish church of King-Edward, near Banff, to which he was called in 1608. During his ministry at King-Edward the honour of Doctor in Divinity was conferred upon him by his Alma Mater. In 1631 he became one of the ministers of St. Nicholas' Church, and in 1640 he was appointed to the principalship of King's College. This office he held till 1651, when he was ejected by Cromwell's Commission. He thereupon asked to be reinstated in his ministry in St. Nicholas'; but that was not done, and he seems to have lived in retirement until his death in 1657. Dr. Guild was the author of a great many books (see Robertson's Bibliography of Aberdeen,' Spalding Club, 1893); but although he is not known by these books, Dr. Guild's name is honoured because of his liberality to some of our public institutions, and particularly to the Incorporated Trades, for whom he purchased in 1631 the convent buildings of the Trinity Friars (see Shirrefs's 'Life of Dr. William Guild,' Aberdeen, 1798 and 1799). JAMES B. THOMSON. Public Library, Aberdeen. Prof. Cooper's article in the 'Dictionary of National Biography' on Dr. William Guild, Minister of King Edward (1608-31), afterwards Minister of the Second Charge in Aberdeen, and Principal of King's College, gives the essential points, and a useful bibliography is appended. As Dr. Guild's publications are for the most part very 2. Levi: his complaint. Edinburgh, 1617. 3. A short treatise agaynst the prophanation of the Lord's Day, especiallie by salmond- fishing thereon, in tyme of Divine Service. Aberdeen, 1637. 4. To the nobilitie, gentrie, burrowis, ministers, and otheris of this lait combinatioun in Covenant, a freindlie and faithfull advyss. Aberdeen, 1639. 5. Isagoge Catechetica. Aberdeen, 1649. From the list of editions of 'Moses Vnuailed' (the work specially mentioned by MR. RUSSELL) a very interesting edition (London, 1623) is omitted. A nice copy of that edition is in this library, and a copy is also in the possession of the Aberdeen University Library. Dr. Cooper's bibliography gives the date of James Shirrefs's Inquiry into the Life, Writings, and Character of Rev. Dr. William Guild as 1799. That, however, is the second edition. The first was issued in 1798. G. M. FRASER. Public Library, Aberdeen. 66 There is a 'Life' of Guild by Dr. James Shirrefs (Aberdeen, 1799), who sums him possessing not only the talents of a up as man truly great, but the still more amiable qualities of one eminently good." Lists of his works are given in D.N.B.,' Watt's Biblio. Brit.,' and Darling's Cyclo. Biblio.'; and more modest Lives' of him will be found in Chalmers's and Rose's Biographical Dictionaries. Portraits of Guild and his father are in Trinity Hall, Aberdeen. A. L. HUMPHREYS. 187, Piccadilly, W. [MR. A. R. BAYLEY also thanked for reply.] ST. PETER'S AT ROME (10 S. xi. 448).The story which MR. LANGLEY wants is No. III. in Tom Tiddler's Ground,' being The Extra Christmas Number of All the Year Round,' 1861. Its title is 'Picking up Terrible Company.' "The Nine According to the reprint of Christmas Numbers of All the Year Round,' 26, Wellington Street. Strand, and Messrs. Chapman & Hall, 193, Piccadilly (1870 or about), and the new edition of the stories published by Messrs. Chapman & Hall in 1907, the writer of this thrilling story was The two main figures Amelia B. Edwards. in it are François Thierry, political offender, and Gasparo, burglar, forger, and incendiary. They are not on the dome of St. Peter's because they are convicts. Having escaped from Toulon, they happen to meet at Rome, ROBERT PIERPOINT. RAILWAY TRAVELLING REMINISCENCES (10 S. xi. 486). It does not require to be a septuagenarian to remember the term "covered carriages as officially used by railway companies. In the later sixtiesand it may be later-the Great Western Railway Company, to my personal recollection, always announced its excursions as First class, -; covered carriages, A. F. R. EMENDATIONS IN ENGLISH Books (10 S. xi. 401).—Political students who are at the same time men of leisure may be interested in recalling the history of the debates on the Budget of 1841, which has been admirably summarized in a work that has attained high rank as a classic during the lifetime of its author- The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay.' I can only be permitted to make a bare reference to a situation which in some important respects bore a striking similarity to that which is agitating the taxpayer at the present moment, and my sole object in writing is to invite attention to an apparent verbal irregularity in Sir George Trevelyan's historical review. One main feature in the Budget, which aroused strong opposition on the part of the planting interest in the West Indies, was a proposal to reduce the duty on foreign sugar, and on this the historian remarks: dis "Lord Sandon moved an amendment, skilfully framed to catch the votes of Abolitionist members of the Liberal party, and the discussion was discussed through eight livelong nights, with infinite repetition of argument, and dreariness of detail." To discuss a Budget is a feat which requires unusual qualities on the part of our Parliamentary stalwarts, but to discuss a cussion on & Budget is a tour de force which, if not beyond the capacity of the House of Commons, few would care to undertake except those vigorous writers on the Press whose power, if we may believe Lord Rosebery, exceeds that of any statesman, and who in a collective gathering strike even Prime Ministers with awe. I am therefore inclined to think that the intention of the writer was to say that the discussion was prolonged through eight livelong nights, a waste of time from which in these more Thursday last the Assizes ended here, at which Rebecca Downing was sentenced to be burnt alive for the murder of Richard Jarvis." On another page of this newspaper are the following details of the execution in question : "Rebecca Downing was, on Monday last, pursuant of her sentence, drawn on a sledge to the place of execution, attended by an amazing concourse of people, where, after being strangled, her body was burnt to ashes. While under sentence, and at the place of execution, she appeared totally ignorant of her situation, and insensible to every kind of admonition." The "place of execution was Ringswell, situated about a mile and a half outside the city. A small burial-ground was attached to it, given by the Mayor of Exeter (John Petre) in 1557. The murder took place at East Portlemouth in South Devon. In the graveyard there, a little to the north-west of the fifteenth-century tower of the parish church (dedicated to St. Winwaloe, a sixth-century Breton), may be seen an old slate headstone. The inscription thereupon is rather difficult to decipher, but, with a little trouble, can be read as follows: "Here lieth the body of Richard Jarvis of 25th day of May, 1782, aged 79. Rickham in this parish, who departed this life the Through poison strong, he was cut off, On whom there's sentence past. Fair Park, Exeter. HARRY HEMS. This subject has often been discussed, and the columns of N. & Q.' contain much information with regard to it, as the following references will testify: 4 S. xi. 174, 222, 347; 5 S. xii. 149; 7 S. viii. 387; ix. 49. The most notorious case was that of Mrs. Catherine Hayes, Thackeray's "Catherine," who was executed on 9 May, 1726. HORACE BLEACKLEY. India, and Greenland-can be shown to have once formed part of more extensive landmasses, and to be the upstanding relics between areas that have sunk along great SIR LEWIS POLLARD (10 S. xi. 365, 433, fissure-planes-these sunken areas widening 495, 515).—I am at a loss to understand and coalescing to the south. The classical why MR. RHODES should think the judge's work on this and allied subjects is Das will better evidence of the number of his Antlitz der Erde,' by Prof. E. Suess of children than the statements of the Devon- Vienna (translated as 'The Face of the shire historians. Was there anything to Earth'). For one attempt at a general prevent his leaving all his property to six explanation of the earth-movements that only of his twenty-two children, or for that have produced these peninsular masses, see matter to one only, if he felt so inclined? the popular account of the tetrahedral In addition to the authorities already theory of the earth in Prof. J. W. Gregory's quoted by me I would refer your correspond-Geography, Structural, Physical, and Coments to the following. Westcote, circa 1560, in his View of Devonshire' states that the judge had eleven sons and eleven daughters. Five of his daughters were married, the Christian names of some of whom he is unable to give; but he names their husbands, and we know that four of his sons attained the honour of knighthood. He does not mention the window. Risdon, circa 1580, in his 'Survey of Devon,' says:— "In Nymet church judge Pollard lieth honourably interred, having a monument erected to his memory, a window of which church, whereunto he was a benefactor, sheweth his name, marriage, office, and issue, with his effigies and his lady's figured fairly in glass, having ten sons on the one side and so many daughters on the other side, a fair offspring." Moore in his History of Devonshire (1829) gives the story of the window with twenty-two children. Now Westcote was born some twenty years, and Risdon some forty years, after the judge's death, when the window was probably intact, and both may have seen it. Again, Prince, who confirms the story, was a Devonshire vicar for the long period of forty-eight years-six at Totnes, and forty-two at Berry Pomeroy close by. He must have been engaged for many years in collecting material for his Worthies of Devon,' & work that for the time at which he wrote it is singularly correct. He may surely be considered as trustworthy as any one, and a better authority than the judge's will. A. J. DAVY. parative (Blackie). A more complicated theory was expounded by Prof. Love in his address to the Mathematical Section of the British Association in 1907. 66 A. MORLEY DAVIES. "HACKBUT BENT (10 S. xi. 507).— "Hackbut is another name for, or form Sce 'Bent of," Arquebus." aimed. 'N.E.D.,' s.". bend, where the phrase asked about is quoted, from Scott's ballad · Cadyow Castle': With hackbut bent, my secret stand, Dark as the purposed deed, I chose. SIR THOMAS BROWNE: ANNE TOWNSHEND the to (10 S. xi. 410, 473).—I am much obliged to correspondents who kindly try to elucidate Anne Townshend's precise relationship Sir Thomas Browne. MR. FRED. JOHNSON, than whom there is no better authority on Norfolk pedigrees, says that from the facts he states "the inference is that Nevil Cradock [Anne Townshend's Torquay. father] married a sister of Sir Thomas PENINSULAS (10 S. xi. 490).-The south-Browne." This is certainly a legitimate ward direction of most peninsulas requires inference, though the fact that Elizabeth a geological, not a meteorological explana- Cradock, presumably daughter also of tion. No such explanation can cover all Nevil Cradock, makes the Witherleys her cases, since there are several varieties of principal legatees, might point to a relationas Hobart geological structure in peninsulas; but the ship through the Milehams, most striking cases-viz., Africa, Arabia, Mileham, a sister of Lady Browne's, married Edmund Witherley. What relation was Davis." I do not know if this could have Nevil Witherley to this Edmund ? Another been Black Davis, who at one time kept a sister of Lady Browne's, Willoughby Mile- house in St. James's Street. F. JESSEL. ham, is not accounted for in the Mileham pedigrees I have seen. 66 66 The Browne relations are numerous and most perplexing. Sir Thomas, in his letters, mentions the following cozens "-Barker, Hobbs, Cradock, Townshend; Astley and his lady (this was Dean Astley and his wife, who was a daughter of J. Hobart, to whom Sir Thomas signs himself your unworthy Kinsman "-the kinship apparently being through Lady Browne, whose mother was a daughter of John Hobart, but his place in the Hobart pedigree is unknown to me); cozen Witherley (his wife's niece); cozen Bendish; cozen John Cradock; cozen Buck; cozen Rotheram; and greater puzzle still-" my sister Whiting.' Lady Browne names as cozens Buckbarg (sic) Bendish; Felton; Mr. Cottrell, the Howells; Tenison (wife of Joseph Tenison her nephew, son of Archdeacon Tenison and her sister Anne Mileham). 46 Edward Browne, Sir Thomas's son, in his diary mentions the following relatives, viz., my uncle Bendish, who perhaps now [1669] is Mayor"; aunt Bendish; cozen Betty Cradock, doubtless the Elizabeth whose will MR. JOHNSON quotes; cozen Garway (his great-grandfather was Garway or Garraway); cozen Barker; aunt Tenison (see above); aunt Gawdy; and "my dear sister Cottrell." 66 Allowing for the loose use of cozen in those times, and even of " sister," though I have given much time and investigation to the kin of Sir Thomas, Lady, and Edward Browne, I have yet failed to unravel the relationships of most of the foregoing, and I should be grateful to any correspondent who would help to throw light on them. SIGMA TAU. BLACK DAVIES (10 S. xi. 507).-There is a most unfavourable notice of this person at pp. 35-41 of The Minor Jockey Club, or, A Sketch of the Manners of the Greeks,' published for R. Farnham, and sold by the booksellers at Bath, Newmarket, York, and London, n.d. (1794). This is a work in the same style as The Jockey Club,' and writing of Davies, the author says :— "His friend Louse P...g...t, in the Jockey Club, has treated his old friend with most unjust and unpardonable severity, which was not to be expected, as there appears a wonderful similitude in the disposition of these worthies." I find that in 1820 the gambling house 10, King Street, was kept by "the elder 66 DR. JOHNSON'S WATCH (10 S. xi. 281, 494; xii. 12).-There is, as MR. LYNN states at the last reference, no textual authority for yàp. But I think it was inserted in order to suggest more clearly the previous injunction to work in the Biblical passage, otherwise the night cometh might naturally be taken as an injunction to rest. I note that yàp is in the right place as second word. Walter Scott's sundial had apparently the same inscription with yàp. It is figured on the frontispiece of his 'Journal' (2 vols., Edinburgh, David Douglas, 1890), and on the page of tissue paper over it is quoted : "I must home to work while it is called day; for the night cometh when no man can work. I put that text, many a year ago, on my dial-stone; but it often preached in vain.'-Scott's 'Life,' x. 88." Where did Scott get this form of the motto ? Is there any record of his deriving it from HIPPOCLIDES. Johnson? HENRY EMBLIN AND THEODOSIUS KEEN (10 S. xi. 448).—There is an account of the first-named architect in the 'D.N.B.' under Emlyn, the customary spelling of his name. To this may be added that one of his daughters married Capell Lofft the elder (q.v.); while another, Maria, was the first wife of Thomas Clio Rickman (q.v.), under whose notice, however, this fact is not stated. riage, if required. I can give further particulars of this mar work of such profound value and interest It is, of course, ungrateful to criticize a as the 'D.N.B.,' but it must be said that the absence therefrom of systematic genealogical information is the despair of the rapidly increasing number of students of heredity, to whom the pedigrees of the persons whose biographies are to be found therein form an obvious field of research. Another instance that occurs to me of this lack of system is in the case of Sir Richard Owen, the anatomist, the name of whose wife (though mentioned, with the fact of her marriage, in the account of Clift, her father) does not appear in his own biography. PERCEVAL LUCAS. Windsor, in 1787-90 was carried out by The restoration of St. George's Chapel, Henry Emlyn (not Emblin), an architect resident at Windsor, and the author of 'A Proposition for a New Order of Architecture, with Rules for drawing its Several Parts,' |