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1844. Miller (James). The Lamp of Lothian; or, the history of Haddington, in connection with the public affairs of East Lothian and of Scotland, from the earliest records to the present period. Haddington: printed and published by James Allan, and sold by Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh. 1844. 8vo, 528 pp. Not in B.M.

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'Every type of it ['The Lamp of Lothian'] was set up and every correction-preparatory to printing off the sheets-was performed by the author's own hand."- Biographical Sketch' prefixed to edition of 1900, p. xix. A note on Printing in East Lothian' is given, p. 525. The book is regarded as a standard history of Haddington.

1859. Miller (James). The history of Dunbar, from the earliest records to the present time. Dunbar : printed and published by James Downie. MDCCCLIX. 8vo. With frontispiece, vignette half-title, and illustration p. 211. 320 pp. 1900. Miller (James). The Lamp of Lothian; or the history of Haddington....from the earliest records to 1844. New edition, with biographical sketch of the author. Haddington: printed and published by William Sinclair. 1900. small 4to,

xxxii+236 pp.

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1819. Mercer (Andrew). Dunfermline Abbey; a poem. With historical notes and illustrations Dunfermline: printed and sold by J. Miller ....1819. 12mo, xii+184 pp.

The printer and publisher, John Miller (died March, 1852, aged 74), was half-brother to George Miller of Dunbar : see the MS. Notes on the Miller Family,' and 'Bibliography of Works relating to Dunfermline and W. of Fife,' by Erskine Beveridge, 1901, p. xvii.

Additions to this bibliography, and information with regard to the Miller family,

are invited.

T. F. U.

THOMAS PAINE'S REMAINS. THOMAS PAINE, who, students now admit, was joint author of the American Declaration of Independence, died on 8 June, 1809, near New Rochelle in the State of New York. He expressed in his will the earnest desire to be interred in the Quaker burial-ground at New York, but although he believed in the Deity and in a future life, his general theological opinions did not accord with those of the Friends, and they refused sepulture. His body was accordingly interred in a field on his own farm, near New Rochelle. Shortly after the funeral, a fanatical mob invaded the farm, armed with

pickaxes and hammers, and smashed his rode to the spot, and took away the largest A friend of Paine afterwards gravestone. fragment of the marble stone that he could find.

About September, 1819, William Cobbett disinterred the remains, in the vain hope that they would receive in Paine's native land a public funeral befitting his talents. The exhumation is recorded in Cobbett's Register, vol. xxxv. p. 382, in a note written by Cobbett from Long Island. On 21 Nov., 1819, Cobbett landed in Liverpool with the coffin containing the remains, and then presented to his friend and co-Reformer, Edward Rushton, a fragment of the gravestone. It is almost certain that this is the fragment taken away by the friend previously mentioned. I had a photograph taken of the stone in June, and a tape measure taken therewith shows that the fragment is about 1 ft. 7 in. in width, about 11 in. in its greatest height, and some 3 in. thick. The inscription is as follows:

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THOM

Author of common Died June 8th 18 Aged 74 Years.

Edward Rushton, the prominent Liverpool Radical, was a friend of Brougham, Canning, Campbell the poet, and O'Connell, and very intimate with Thackeray, whom he induced to write Vanity Fair.' Rushton became and died in 1851. The stone then passed Stipendiary Magistrate of Liverpool in 1831, into the custody of his son Wm. Lowes died in March last in his eighty-third year. Rushton, the Shaksperian scholar, who His aged widow, who resides in Liverpool, had to ransack the house in order to find the relic, a fact which made me regret that it is not preserved in some public building, The authenticity of the stone is vouched for by Wm. Lowes Rushton in his book Letters of a Templar' (Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1903).

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To return to the history of the actual remains, I find the following in a rare pamphlet entitled 'A Brief History of the Remains of the late Thomas Paine, down to 1846' (London, J. P. Watson, 3, Queen's Head Passage, 1847). Cobbett occupied Normandy Farm, near Farnham, Surrey, and died there on 18 June, 1835, having piously preserved the remains in a large trunk, awaiting the funeral pageant which never came. Within a month of Cobbett's death, his son was sued for debts with which the elder Cobbett had nothing to do, and all the son's household effects (including

the sepulchral chest) were seized. In parish church; a large slab which once January, 1836, a public auction took place, covered his remains is still there. Sir and the chest containing the bones was actually presented to the auctioneer, 'for him to put them up for sale." The humanitarian feelings of the auctioneer, however, revolted, and he refused to recognize the remains as saleable.

The facts were duly reported in Court to the Lord Chancellor, who declined to regard the remains as part of the estate, or to make any order relating thereto. In 1839 the receivership ended; and in March, 1844, the person who had acted as official receiver transferred the remains to a Mr. Tilley, 13, Bedford Square, London, in whose custody they were in 1846, when the pamphlet before me was written.

What became of the remains subsequently is not clear. I have recently heard that Dr. Stanton Coit possesses part of the skull, but I have not verified the report. Wherever they be, it is to be hoped that they rest in peace. Of the identity of the sepulchral fragment there can, on the other hand, be no reasonable doubt. JAMES M. Dow. 16A, Abercromby Square, Liverpool.

THE YELVERTONS OF EASTON MAUDIT.In the recent memoir of Thomas Percy, Bishop of Dromore, entitled 'Percy, Prelate and Poet,' by Miss Alice Gaussen, one is rather surprised to find so little mention made of the village of Easton Maudit, Northamptonshire, where he spent some of the best years of his life. It was at that time the residence of a family of distinction in legal annals-the Yelvertons, then Earls of Sussex. The theory has often been put forward that climate, food, and soil have much to do in influencing the life of any one, and this view is adopted by Buckle in his 'History of Civilization.'

The Yelvertons were originally a Norfolk family, and possessed large estates in that county in the reign of James I. Sir Christopher Yelverton acquired by purchase the estate of Easton Maudit, in Northamptonshire, and was Speaker of the House of Commons as well as judge. He died at Easton Maudit in 1607. His son and successor Henry was Solicitor-General in 1613, Attorney-General in 1617, and died in 1629. His son, Sir Christopher, the first baronet, died in 1654, and Sir Henry, the second baronet, in 1676. When resident at Easton Maudit, Thomas Morton, Bishop of Durham, filled the comparatively humble office of tutor in the Yelverton family, and, dying there in 1659, found a grave in the

Henry, the third baronet, was advanced to the dignity of Viscount Longueville in 1690, and died in 1714. Oldys records some amusing anecdotes of Barbara, Lady Longueville, his wife, who died in 1763, aged nearly 100. She remembered Dryden and Edmund Waller, and had a strong hereditary attachment to the house of Stuart. The second Viscount was advanced in 1717 to the Earldom of Sussex, and died in 1730. Two of his sons succeeded him, the last, Henry Yelverton, dying in 1799.

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The members of this family are all buried in a chapel on the north side of the altar in the church, but the hall in which they resided has been razed to the ground, and of it not a vestige remains. The north aisle is literally filled with monuments of the family, and their heraldic bearings. A chief gules, three lions passant, are conspicuous. The barony of Grey de Ruthyn vested in them has descended until late years. The vicarage, the home of Percy for many years, in which the Reliques of Ancient English Poetry' was compiled, is on the opposite side of the road, and is now an unpretending structure. Simple indeed it must have been in those times, and we may dismiss as mythical the account of Percy having gathered at his hospitable board the literary celebrities of his day, though it is certain that he entertained as his guest Dr. Johnson. Robert Nares, Percy's successor at Easton Maudit, speaks of the parsonage in 1784 as merely a comfortable cottage of stone containing two parlours. Goldsmith has left us a picture, perhaps not much overdrawn, of a rustic parsonage when George III. was king, and its simple-minded occupants. The benefice of Easton Maudit was in the gift of Christ Church temp. George II. and III., and continued so until purchased by the Marquess of Northampton, to whom the Yelverton estate now belongs.

My knowledge of the place and its celebrated vicar Thomas Percy arises from my having once held a curacy in the neighbourhood, and having made many expeditions in former years to the church and village. Within a short distance towers the stately mansion of the Marquess of Northampton, Castle Ashby, built by Inigo Jones. A little biographical memoir of Bishop Percy from my pen was prefixed to the MS. folio of ballads edited by Messrs. Furnivall and Hales, and in it much information_concerning the Yelvertons was given. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

Court of Cupid,' printed, as before, for C.
Moran, who at this time had removed to
Tavistock Row, Covent Garden.
HORACE BLEACKLEY.

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SPURIOUS COINS AND MEDALS.-Should one volume in 1770, under the title of 'The any of your readers visit the church of San Juan de los Reyes, outside the walls of Toledo-the church on the outside of which still hang the chains worn by Christian prisoners in Granada when the Moors were in power-let them beware of dealing with AND HE WAS A SAMARITAN": DR. E. E. the custodian or sacristan. In 1904 he HALE.-The death of the Rev. Dr. Edward victimized me with an antique-looking Everett Hale, the distinguished Bostonian medal, about three inches in diameter. On preacher and littérateur, brings to mind the obverse is the upper part of a mailed some lines which I have always attributed and helmeted man; on the reverse, a spread to his versatile pen. In concluding an eagle holding a key in each claw. Many article in The Scotsman in 1896 on spurious antiques of a similar character are Joint Hymnal for the Scotch Presbyterian sold in Scotland and elsewhere. The strange Churches,' A. K. H. B. wrote as follows:part of it is (as the British Museum authori- "There is a quaint hymn which......will never be ties tell me) that these things are not often in any hymnal. Though it brings the tears to one's duplicated, though I cannot see how it can eyes, it is quite too unconventional, and the language is what some call Amurrikan......As the reader pay to make them separately. will never see it elsewhere, let him read it here. Mozart's beautiful music, beginning the famous mass, will go to it. I prefix a suitable text-' And he was a Samaritan." Dr. Everett Hale edited for a time Old and New and Lend-a-Hand Record, and possibly A. K. H. B.'s hymn appeared in the latter. The excellent sentiment as well as precept of the "quaint hymn" will henceforth have of N. & Q.,' some reader of which may be a wider appeal when enshrined in the pages able to determine the question of authorship:

RICHARD H. THORNTON.

36, Upper Bedford Place, W.C.

ROBERT SOUTHEY.-In The Lady's Magazine for May, 1799, there is a curious outrage on two of Robert Southey's best-known poems. One begins thus:

Father Dennis's Comforts, and how he
procured them.

"You are old, father Dennis," the young man said,
"Your locks that are left are quite grey:
You are hale, father Dennis, a hearty old man ;
Now tell me the reason, I pray?"

"In the days of my youth," father Dennis replied,
'I remember'd that youth would fly fast;
And abus'd not my health nor my vigour at first,
That I never might want them at last."

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WILLIAM E. A. AXON.

CAPT. EDWARD THOMPSON'S POEMS.— The 'D.N.B.' is inaccurate with regard to the dates of the publication of these works. 'The Meretriciad was first published in September, 1761, by C. Moran, "under the Great Piazza, Covent Garden"; see Public Advertiser, 24 Sept., 1761. It was followed in January, 1766, by The Demi-rep'; see Public Advertiser, 17 Jan., 1766. The copy of the latter poem in the British Museum, which is the second edition, bears the date 1756; but the context shows unmistakably that this is a misprint, and a foot-note to one of the verses quotes Dodsley's Annual Register for 1764. From advertisements in the newspapers it would appear that "The Courtesan' was published in May, 1765. All these poems were collected in

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Say "Hullo!" and "How d'ye do?"

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How's the world a-usin' you?"
Slap the fellow on his back,

Bring yer han' down with a whack;
Waltz right up, an' don't go slow,
Grin an' shake an' say "Hullo!"
Is he clothed in rags? O sho!
Walk right up an' say "Hullo!"
Rags is but a cotton roll
Jest for wrappin' up a soul;
An' a soul is worth a true
Hale and hearty "How d'ye do?"
Don't wait for the crowd to go;
Walk right up and say "Hullo!"
W'en big vessels meet, they say,
They saloot an' sail away,

Jest the same are you an' me-
Lonesome ships upon a sea,
Each one sailing his own jog
For a port beyond the fog,
Let yer speakin' trumpet blow,
Lift yer horn an' cry "Hullo!"
Say "Hullo!" an' " How d 'ye do?"
Other folks are good as you.
W'en ye leave yer house of clay,
Wanderin' in the Far-Away,
W'en you travel through the strange
Country t'other side the range,
Then the souls you've cheered will know
Who ye be, an' say "Hullo!"

14, Crofton Road, Camberwell.

J. GRIGOR.

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HENGLER'S CIRCUS: "THE PALLADIUM,' ARGYLL STREET, W.-It may be useful to put upon record that from Tuesday, 15 June (according to The Daily Chronicle of that date), Hengler's Circus will no longer rank among the entertainments of London. It was founded in 1871, in Argyll Street, Oxford Street,

*by the late Charles Hengler, a son of the noted tight-rope dancer and equestrian. For many years it was one of the most popular of Metropolitan resorts, but when public appreciation of circuses began to decline it was converted into a skating rink. Last Christmas, however, it was reopened for a few weeks as a circus."

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"MATTHEW, MARK, LUKE, AND JOHN.". The version of this rime familiar to most of us is, I believe,

Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John,
Guard the bed that I lie on.

One to watch and one to pray,
And two to bear my soul away.
But some twenty-two years ago an old
lady, then over ninety, gave me a version

of which the last line was

And two to drive the devil away. Surely this must be the older version.

EMILY HICKEY.

MOLIÈRE'S COMEDIES: RECORD PRICE.The Feuille d'Avis de Lausanne of 26 April last, a popular daily journal, has the following, which I venture to translate in the hope that it may interest readers of N. & Q.' "The 'Molière,' illustrated by Moreau the younger, which formed part of the collection of M. de Janzé, was sold on Saturday [24 April] to a Parisian bookseller, M. Rahir, for the sum of 177,500 francs. This unique work consists of six volumes, and contains thirty-three original drawings by Moreau. They were executed in 1773, and are bound up along with the comedies of our great master. In 1820 this Molière' was sold for 1,200 francs. In 1844 M. de Janzé purchased it for 900 francs at the sale of M. de Soleines. It is be lieved that the price named is the highest ever obtained for any book."

CECIL CLARKE.

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ST. NICOLAS'S, ROUEN.-It is proposed
to issue a history of this church, which was
demolished in 1840. Some of the windows
from it, bought at Rouen in 1802, were
sold in London by Van Hamp & Stevenson.
I know of the Visitation window in York
Minster, but am desirous of tracing the
others, and shall be grateful for information
respecting any of the windows that may be
The history will be illustrated, and a copy
in churches, museums, or private collections.
will be sent to any one assisting in its
compilation.
G. LEFRANÇOIS,

Ex-Secrétaire général de la Société des
Amis des Monuments Rouennais.

21, Quai du Havre, Rouen.

DONNA MARIA OF SPAIN.-Will some one put me in possession of information that will enlighten me as to what became of Donna Maria, the fourth child and third daughter, I think, of Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain? JOHN L. STEWART.

Lehigh University, Pennsylvania.

MARCHETTI COLLECTION OF DRAWINGS. On 20 Oct., 1743, a letter from Mr. John Talman was communicated to the Society of Antiquaries, giving an account of a collection of 2,111 drawings, bound in 16 volumes, which had belonged to Monsignor Marchetti, Bishop of Arezzo, and was being offered for sale by his nephew, Chevalier Marchetti of Pistoia, who demanded 750l. PLOUGH, THACK, STACK, AND WILLING." for them. In Mr. Talman's opinion they -I have seen scores of written applications were "worth any money." See Archæologia, for farmwork service, and in most of them vol. i. I should be glad of any information have been the words, in one form or another, as to the purchaser, the subsequent history, which head this note. One of the latest, and the present place of deposit of this colafter a general summary of what the appli-lection. EDWARD BRABROOK, Dir.S.A.

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which would be written in standard Russian
golubtchiki, but in the dialects holubtchiki,
with the sense of sweethearts.' The terms
have, I believe, to do with the breeding
season.
JAS. PLATT, Jun.

"CAMELARIO," SPANISH TERM.-I shall
be glad to know what is the meaning of the
term camelario in modern Spanish slang.
I am acquainted with the slang verb camelar,
to love, but this may not be connected.
Unfortunately, these colloquial neologisms
are not given in any Spanish dictionary.
Camelario Zaragatono' is the title of a
book by an illustrious humorist, Juan Perez
Zuñiga, 8 most prolific dramatist and
novelist, whose works already embrace
about fifty items.
JAS. PLATT, Jun.

JACKSON AND LAW FAMILIES.--I shall be glad of any information as to what became of the business of a James Jackson, attorney, of 15, Furnival's Inn, London. He acted for the Sherard and Molyneux families. By his will, dated 2 Jan., 1776, he left a legacy to his nephew Thomas Peircy of Little Chelsea, Middlesex, and Robert Law of Furnival's Inn, both of whom he appointed his executors; and he directed that the BLAIR'S 'NORTH-COUNTRY PARISH REGISresidue of his personal estate should be TERS.'-Who is the publisher of this book There is no copy at the divided equally between Robert Holliday by Robert Blair ? (his nephew) of Endfield, Middlesex; Mary Chapman, widow (his niece), and sister of the said Robert Holliday; James Peircy the elder (his nephew) of Old Fish Street, London, sugar baker; the said Thomas Piercy; and John Margerum Close, clerk, and Henry Jackson Close, clerk (the sons of his late nephew the Rev. Henry Close). The will was proved on 10 April, 1777, in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury.

British Museum.

HENRY W. Рook, Col. 121, Hither Green Lane, Lewisham, S. E.

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W. L. [The following editorial note to a similar question appeared in N. & Q.' nearly fifty years ago (3 S. i.

488):

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Robert Law appears to have been an "We find the first mention of this saying in Terattorney, and to have carried on James tullian, who notices it, not as employed by any Jackson's business. On 29 May, 1784, particular author, but as a remark current among the heathen : "See," say they, "how they love one administration of the goods and chattels of another"; for they themselves [the heathen] hate the said Robert Law was granted to his one another.' Vide, inquiunt, ut invicem se father Thomas Law. 1 should also be diligant: ipsi enim invicem oderunt.' ('Apol. adv. obliged for any information that would Gent.' c. 39.) Bingham (‘Antiq.,' book xv. cap. vii. enable me to trace the present representa-hese Christians love one another.' This last is the $10) gives the saying paraphrastically, See how tives of this Thomas Law. Please reply form in which we now have the saying."] direct.

PEIRCE GUN MAHONY,

Office of Arms, Dublin.

Cork Herald.

ARCHDEACON STED MAN.—I should be glad of information regarding the parentage and family of the Rev. Samuel Stedman, Prebendary of Canterbury, Archdeacon of Norfolk, and Rector of Denver, who married a daughter of Bishop Butler of Ely.

J. H. RIVETT-CARNAC. Schloss Rothberg, Switzerland.

"SEECATCHIE : "HOLLUSCHICKIE." Can any one tell me what is the exact meaning of these two terms, denoting kinds of seals, used by Rudyard Kipling in The Seven Seas,' 1898, p. 71? The words do not appear to be in any English dictionary. Holluschickie looks like a Russian name,

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VACHE A COLAS."-I venture to ask what this means, though I dare say it is occurs in Anatole France's L'Ile des Pingouins,' p. 165: quite elementary. It "Si quelque chrétien les approuve, à moins que ce ne soit une grande linotte, je jure qu'il est de la vache à Colas.”

LAWRENCE PHILLIPS. Sibstone Rectory, Atherstone. [The French dictionary of Littré and Beaujean gives: "Par dénigrement, la vache à Colas, le protestantisme."]

VACHELL. Have any of your readers come across the name Vachell in the first half of the eighteenth century, other than at Reading, Bath, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, and Lackford, Suffolk ? T. A. JAMES. 25, Llanfair Road, Cardiff.

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