received a spirit of industry, economy and frugality among and heir of John Bradridge of Slinfold. the middling and laborious classes; and promote He was M.P. for Horsham 1529-53, and the religious, moral, intellectual, and physical knighthood on 1 Oct., 1547. condition of man.... ...Vol. I. Haddington: printed and published by George Miller and son. According to Dallaway, he left at his death 1815. 12mo, viii+352 pp. in 1557 two sons, viz. (1) John, who inherited Slinfold and is said to have died in 1563, leaving at the least three sons and Horsham in 1558. one daughter; (2) Anthony, M.P. Nos. 1-6 Jan. to June, 1815. This publication is a continuation of The Cheap Magazine. 1815. The Monthly Monitor and philanthropic museum.... Vol. I. Nos. 3-6. March-June, pp. viii, 121-352. Vol. II. No. 1. July, 1815. pp. 1-60. 1815. Title-page to vol. i. only. [1815.] The traveller's guide to Madeira and the West Indies; being a hieroglyphic representation of appearances and incidents during a voyage out and homewards, in a series of engravings from original drawings taken on the spot, &c. wherein is exhibited an exact delineation of the principal objects on the passage: with a treatise explanatory of the various figures.... To which are added occasional notes, &c. by a young traveller. Haddington: printed by G. Miller and Son, for G. Miller, Dunbar,.. No date. 8vo. With 10 plates. 120 pp. B.M. 795 e. 43. 66 The author's Introduction is dated Jan., 1815. List of Errata, p. 120, is spelt 'Eratta." Probably written by George Miller, second son of George Miller of Dunbar. He was born 10 June, 1794, and was a sailor in his earlier years. According to Latter Struggles,' he wrote the book about Madeira on his way to India. See MS. Notes on the Miller Family,' by F. M. Gladstone. for The will of Sir John Hussey appears to be somewhat at variance with this. It is dated 18 Feb., 1554/5, and was proved in P.C.C. 27 Sept., 1557. Names his wife Dame Bridget; his brothers John and George Hussey; his wife's two daughters (then unmarried) Katherine and Alice; his brother (brother-in-law) Michael Appesley (Apsley); his cousin William Hussey, 66 son to my cousin Anthony Hussey ; cousin John Mychell of Standland. No sons are mentioned by name, but to Dame Bridget his wife is left " the wardship of my two sons.' Said wife executrix. Sir Thomas Palmer, Kt., John Carryl, Mr. Anthony Husee, brother John Husee, cousin John Mychell, Overseers. Hussee," dated 23 Sept., 1557, and proved The will of his widow, "Dame Brigitt in London 2 May, 1558, requests her executors to execute the will of her former husband William Ernley. Bequests to her son Richard Ernley when 21, son John [1815.] The traveller's guide to Madeira and Ernley, and daughters Katherine and Alice; the West Indies.... Second copy. Title-page torn at top. 1816. Britain triumphant! With other poems. By an East Lothian ploughman. Haddington: printed for the author by G. Miller and Son. 1816. 8vo, iv+44 pp. B.M. 11,633, bbb. 5. This book is not in Mr. Unwin's collection: (To be concluded.) HUSSEY OF SLINFOLD, SUSSEX. THE pedigree of this family in Dallaway's 6 'Sussex' (ii. 355-6) leaves much to be desired. Not only is no indication given of its origin, or of its connexion-if anywith any other of the widespread county families of the name, but the earlier generations seem to be far from accurately stated. Sir Henry Hussey, with whom the pedigree commences, and whose parentage is not stated, was undoubtedly the first of the line at Slinfold, an estate he seemingly acquired in marriage with Eleanor, daughter to cousin Anthony Hussee of London, cousin Dame Bridget, who is not named by Dallaway, was the second wife of Sir Henry. She was daughter to Thomas Spring of Lavenham, Suffolk. Her first husband, William Ernley of Ernley and Cackham, Sussex, died in 1545, and the Ernley Visitation pedigree shows that he left by his wife two sons, Richard and John, and two daughters, Katherine and Alice, all of whom are mentioned in their mother's will, the eldest son being under age. With some reserve, I venture to suggest that "my two sons whose wardship Sir Henry Hussey left to his wife were not his sons by his first wife, but the two sons of that wife by William Ernley. It is highly improbable that a son in wardship in 1555 would in less than eight years afterwards die the father of a numerous family; and still more improbable that a son younger still would three years later be old enough for Parliamentary honours. In that case Sir Henry Hussey would die s.p., his heir probably being not a son John, but his next brother of that name, who would thus be the actual father of the Slinfold line. Katherine Apsley, the sister-in-law named in the will of Dame Bridget, was wife of Michael Apsley, second son of William Apsley of Thackham, Sussex. In the Visitation Apsley pedigree she is called daughter -of Hussey of Poynes, Sussex "-the only indication, and that very obscure, of the parentage of Sir Henry and his brothers. The will of John Hussey, brother of Sir Henry, in which he is described as of Cuckfield, Sussex, is dated 25 June, 1571, and was proved in London in September, 1572. Names his wife Margaret; brother George; sons John, Henry, and Edmund; daughter Ann (under age); nephew Michael Appesley; and brother-in-law Wyman Warde. Desires to be buried in Cuckfield Church. His wife Margaret was daughter of Edward Apsley, and sister of Michael Apsley, who married Katherine, sister to Sir Henry Hussey. There was thus a twofold marriage connexion between the families. I have not been able to follow the descendants of John Hussey of Cuckfield: so far as appears, they do not seem to agree with the descendants of John, the alleged son of Sir Henry Hussey, as given by Dallaway. 66 66 The will of Anthony Hussey of London is dated 12 Jan., 1557, and was proved 31 Oct., 1560. In it he bears the curious <description of Governor of the English nation (by which, there is little doubt, is intended Governor of the company of English merchants at Antwerp) and agent in Flanders. He appoints his wellapproved friends" Master Thomas Lodge, Alderman of London, and Benjamin Gunson, Esq., executors "for a quyet to be had between my wife and my children." "To his well-beloved wife Katherine Hussey his Mansion House in the West End of Paternoster Row." Bequest to his son Laurence Hussey reversion of house in Paternoster Row to the children of his daughter Ursula, wife of Benjamin Gunson. Plate, &c., which the Marques of Barrow [?] gave me, to my son Gunson and my daughter his wife." "To John Insente [?] 207. in money and the jointe patente of myne office in Powles, willing hym to binde upp in due form the register of the late Archbushop Cranmer, together with all books, &c., for 166 66 66 66 66 the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury." 'My adventure in Russia to be divided into three parts for wife and son. To his brother (? wife's brother) Godman's children one soveraigne of thre angels apeece. His advowson in Salisbury to Anthonie Hobbie, whom Sir Andrew Judd, Knight, knoweth." Bequests of a ring "to my good friend Sir John Tregonwell, Knight" to the Dean of Canterbury and York "that gilt pot with the Rose which Master Alderman Chester gave me"; and a diamond "to my special good ladie Dame Blanche fforman, widow." He was There is little doubt that this Anthony Hussey is the cousin Anthony of London named in the wills of Sir Henry Hussey and his widow Dame Bridget. M.P. for Horsham in 1553, and for Shoreham in 1558, and is frequently mentioned in the State Papers of the period. Dallaway wrongly calls him the second son of Sir Henry. The two brief Hussey pedigrees in the Harleian Society's Visitation of London (i. 407) are of no assistance in ravelling the earlier generations, inasmuch as both lines derive from younger sons who are not named by Dallaway. W. D. PINK. Lowton, Newton-le-Willows. [See 10 S. xi. 428, and post, p. 13.] 66 FRANCESCO CASANOVA THE PAINTER. IN the Mémoires de Jacques Casanova' his brother François, célèbre peintre de batailles," is mentioned frequently (I take the Paris edition, Garnier Frères, for my references). 66 Vol. i. p. 22, it is recorded that he was born in 1727, and was established at Vienna in or about 1783. He passed four years at Dresden. He left there in 1752, and went to Paris, after copying at Dresden all the beautiful battle pictures of the 'galerie électorale." Jacques, having met his brother François in Paris, offered to use his influence with his great acquaintances in order that François might be received into the Académie. This offer François refused, confessing that a former rejection by the Académie had been quite right, but adding that "to-day," counting on the appreciation of talent by the French, he looked for a better reception (iii. 373). He was received by the Académie de Peinture by acclamation, after exhibiting at the Louvre a battle-piece which the Académie bought for 500 louis (or, p. 373, 12,000 francs). M. de Sanci, treasurer of the administration of the revenues of the clergy, regarding himself as under an obligation to Then follows that of "M. H." :— "Mr. Cassanova. His battle-piece is a noble design, and painted with wonderful spirit and fire. The march over the Alps is also a prodigious fine picture; I believe him to be the first painter in this way in Europe." No. 60 is apparently the number of one or both of the pictures. 6 In "I believe that the phrase 'Bombay Duck' may It appears probable that this Mr. Cassanova be explained in the same manner as the phrase was François Casanova, though Bryan's tention is that Bombay Duck' is simply a playful 'Oxford Hare' and 'Welsh Rabbit.'.. My con'Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, phrase, requiring no arduous philological research." edited by R. E. Graves, does not say that he ever visited England. Neither is there Not only do I agree entirely with Mr. any mention of such a visit in the Bio- Mayhew, but I can, I think, set at rest, graphie Universelle.' once for all, any doubt in the matter. François Casanova was a painter of A Voyage to India' (published 1820) the battle-pieces, and, according to the Bio-Rev. James Cordiner describes his first graphie Universelle,' his drawing was faulty, impressions of Bombay, where he arrived at all events when he was young. This is the from England on 19 May, 1798, and on complaint made by "A Lover of the Arts," P. 67 says:as noted above, concerning Mr. Cassanova ; and a similar one appears at greater length in the criticism made by Jacques Casanova as to his brother's paintings. According to the 'Fragments des Mémoires du Prince de Ligne (Mémoires de J. Casanova,' Paris edition, viii. 459), Jacques, conversing with Catherine II. of Russia, on meeting her for the first time in the Empress's summer garden at St. Petersburg, being asked by her whether he was not the brother of the painter, asked her how she knew that dauber (barbouilleur). The Empress replied that she valued him as a man of genius. Upon that Casanova said: Oui, madame, du feu plutôt, du coloris, de l'effet et quelque belle ordonnance; mais le dessin et le fini ne sont pas son fort." The Prince de Ligne considered this a just criticism. The above is omitted in the Brussels edition. 66 "This place is likewise remarkable for an excelthe nature of a sand eel, but softer, and of a lent small fish called bumbelo. It is something of superior flavour, about a foot in length, and of the thickness of a man's finger. When fried, in its fresh state, it is of the consistence of a strong jelly, and more delicate than a whiting: it is, however, state a great quantity of these fishes is exported; most commonly eaten after being dried, in which they afford an excellent seasoning to boiled rice, which always forms a dish at breakfast, and receives. from them a most agreeable relish. The sailors, by way of joke, call them Bombay Ducks." This gives us an example of the literary use of the phrase sixty years earlier than the earliest in Hobson-Jobson' and the 'N.E.D.' and proves that the descriptive appellation for the dried fish was in common use before the end of the eighteenth century. I have not the least doubt that Cordiner is right in attributing the name duck Bombay 66 to sailors, to whom we are indebted for not a few facetiæ in nomenclature. BOOKBINDING. ALFRED MALTBY & SON, Bookbinders and Restorers, By appointment to the Bodleian Library. 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