judges are now sitting upon it at the Rolls." Can any of your readers direct me where to find any account of this application? I am not aware that it is reported in any of the contemporary law reports or in the State Trials, and Lamb's latest editor, the Rev. Alfred Ainger, is silent on the subject. H. H. S. C. 'BOOK OF JASHER. Translated into English from the Hebrew by Flaccus Albinus Alcuinus. 4to. Bristol, printed for the Editor by Philip Rose, 1829.--Who was the editor or author? When and where did Dr. Donaldson publish his Jashar; and what is the full title of that work? in COL. HUGH FRASER.-I am anxious to discover any descendants of Lieut.-Col. Hugh Fraser, who died in Ireland in command of the 72nd Highlanders on May 5, 1801. He entered the army 1775 as a lieutenant in the 1st Battalian 71st Regiment. He served with much distinction during the war in Mysore, and some high ground near Seringapatam, the scene of his gallantry, was named Fraser's Hill. At his death he bequeathed 500l. to the officers' mess of the 72nd. I am particularly desirous of obtaining a portrait of this G. EGERTON, Lieut. officer, if one exists. Hythe, Kent. A MAYOR'S TITLE.-In the programme of the Royal Archæological Institute's congress, held at Leamington this year, I notice that while the other mayors are styled "the worshipful," the Mayor of Coventry is styled "the right worshipful." Is this accidental or intentional; and if so, how comes the Mayor of Coventry to be so distinguished? E. WALFORD, M.A. 7, Hyde Park Mansions, N.W. BURIAL OF A HORSE WITH ITS OWNER.-In Southey's Letters of Espriella,' second edition, 1808, vol. i. p. 52, the case is mentioned of a man the readers of N. & Q.' explain the following pasCOLLINGWOOD AND THE LADIES.-Can any of sage (italicized), taken from a letter which was written shortly after the battle of the Nile by Sir Alex. Ball, Governor of Malta, to Sir James Saumarez of the Orion, then on leave at Bath: "When you get your second medal, beware of the ladies, if they hear such a story of you as of our friend Collingwood"? I quote from Sir John Ross's 'Life of Admiral Lord Saumarez,' vol. i. p. 275 (near the foot of the page). I am not ignorant of how Collingwood refused his second medal-that for the battle of St. Vincent-because none had been 66 granted him in the distribution after the action of the glorious 1st of June"; nor how Earl St. Vincent backed him up for so doing, while Earl Spencer, the First Lord of the Admiralty, conceded (by at once granting him Lord Howe's by. Where, however, do the ladies come in; and medal) that Collingwood had not been fairly dealt what story did they hear about Collingwood? EDWARD JAMES FRASER. EPPINGEN, a town of the Schwartzwald.-Is the etymology known to our German cousins? R. S. V. P. Lamb writes of "saloop," and describes it as SALOOP.-In 'The Praises of Chimney-Sweepers' composition, the ground work of which I have understood to be the sweet wood 'yclept sassafras." "The only Salopian house" for the vending of saloop is that of Mr. Read, "on the south side of Fleet Street as thou approachest Bridge Street." I should be glad to have some information about saloop. Has the word any connexion with Shropshire? Is the beverage in use now; and is there a Salopian house in existence? Is there reason for believing with Lamb that sassafras is the groundwork of the composition? References to other writers who mention the word would be acceptable. ISAAC BAYLEY BALFOUR. THE DOMINICAN RULE.-Can any of your readers tell me where I can find a copy of the Dominican rule? HENRY LITTLEHALES. POETICAL REFERENCES TO LINCOLN. — Will some of your many readers do me the favour of mentioning any poetical references to Lincoln ? A lady friend of mine is proposing to publish a series of views of the city, cathedral, castle, &c., to each of which she wishes to append a poetical quotation. But Lincoln appears to have been singularly neglected by our poets. Besides Wordsworth's "Lincoln on her sovereign hill," Chaucer's mention of "yonge Hew of Lincoln," Macaulay's ballad on the " Armada,' and J. Mason Neale's prophetical lines on the "long processions" which were one day to "sweep through Lincoln's aisles," I am unable immediately to recall any passages suitable for my friend's purpose. But there may be many unknown to or forgotten by me. For reference to these, either privately or through your columns, I shall be grateful. EDMUND VEnables. Precentory, Lincoln. JOSEPH FORSYTH.-In Joseph Forsyth's work on 'Italy,' p. 459 (fourth edition), I find the following: "Frascati. I was introduced to Cardinal York by an Irish gentleman residing at Rome. When my name and country were announced he said he had heard of second sight in Scotland, but never of Foresight, and this poor joke drew a laugh from all that understood English, which his Holiness talks pretty well for a foreigner. When my friend told him that my grandfather fell in the Stuart cause the recollection of that cause drew a tear into his eye, an emotion to which he is very subject." The whole account of the interview in interesting; but I quote so far only, as the object of this query is to ask if any one can tell me when and where Joseph Forsyth's grandfather fell in the Stuart cause, and also whether he refers to his paternal or maternal grandfather? Joseph Forsyth was born in 1763, and was one of the sons of Alexander Forsyth, merchant in Elgin, by Anna Harrold, his wife, and was brother of the late Mr. Isaac Forsyth, at one time well known to visitors to Elgin. H. W. FORSYTH HARWOOD. 12, Onslow Gardens, S.W. "CRITO," nom de plume of a writer in Nichols's Literary Anecdotes' in 1789.-Can any reader give the real name of this writer? He was evi MR. HALY, in his note on the above subject, takes exception to the expression that Shakespeare was at all a man of "low extraction," and proceeds to say that "the very fact of his father having had a family coat of arms, together with a crest, granted him by the Heralds' College, shows of Stratford-upon-Avon." I am far from saying that he held a high position amongst the community that Shakespeare was a man of low extraction, for I think that then, as now, a descendant of English country yeomen may have had far better blood in his veins than half the titled and ennobled plutocrats of the present day. But is MR. HALY justified in assuming that because John Shakespeare received a grant of arms from the Heralds' College, he must himself necessarily have been of "high respectability and consideration"? There has lately been an interesting discussion in the public press upon the very subject of this grant of arms to the father of William Shakespeare; but I have failed to observe, from what I remember and saw of it, that the position taken up by Mr. Halliwell-Phillipps in regard to this matter has been in any way shaken. I should like, if I may be allowed, to call MR. HALY'S attention to what has been written and published as the considered opinion of one of the greatest living authorities upon anything connected with the private life and domestic surroundings of our greatest poet. That he was not of MR. HALY's opinion, that it was John Shakespeare's own merits that obtained him this honour, but the interest of his son, who was now rising into fame, we may gather from the following passage in Mr. Halliwell-Phillipps's 'Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare' (seventh edition, i. 130): "There is preserved at the College of Arms the draft of a grant of coat armour to John Shakespeare, dated in some little time previously. It may be safely inferred, October, 1596, the result of an application made, no doubt, from the unprosperous circumstances of the grantee, that this attempt to confer gentility on the family was made at the poet's expense. This is the first evidence that we have of his rising pecuniary fortunes, and of his determination to advance in social position." This application was not successful, apparently; for towards the close of the year 1599, as Mr. Halliwell-Phillipps tells us, a renewed attempt was made by the poet to obtain a grant of a coat of arms to his father : "It was now proposed to impale the arms of Shakespeare with those of Arden, and on each occasion ridiculous statements were made respecting the claims of the two families. Both were really descended from obscure English country yeomen, but the heralds made out that the predecessors of John Shakespeare were rewarded by the Crown for distinguished services, and that his wife's ancestors were entitled to armorial bearings. Although the poet's relatives at a later date assumed his right to the coat suggested for his father in 1596, it does not appear that either of the proposed grants was ratified by the College, and certainly nothing more is heard of the Arden impalement." The italics are mine. At the same time, it might be contended that this renewed application for a grant of arms with which to impale* the Arden coat was some evidence that the Arden family was armigerous and of a somewhat higher social standing than the poet's; and that for this reason Shakespeare was unwilling to lose the chance of quartering the arms appertaining to "the daughter and one of the heyrs of Robert Arden of Wellingcote," which as an ignobilis (i. e., one not entitled to bear arms) he would have been unable to have done in accordance with a canon of heraldry doubtless well known to and acted upon in Elizabethan times. Mr. Halliwell-Phillipps has set out in his second volume (pp. 56, 60, 61) the copies of the draft grants proposed to be conferred on Shakespeare's father, in 1596 and 1599, from the original MSS. preserved at the College of Arms, interlineations and all (denoted in italics). If what Mr. HalliwellPhillipps states is correct, the "very conservative Garter of that day, as MR. HALY calls him, would appear to have been little better than the very liberal arms-vendor of the latter part of the nineteenth century; who for the modest sum of 3s. 6d. will put any one in possession of that which apparently, three hundred years ago, cost Shakespeare and his father so much trouble and anxiety to obtain. J. S. UDAL. quite mistaken. The bishop makes no pretence of knowing "the boy Shakespeare." All that he relates is the story of the marriage, and there is nothing against Bishop Whitgift having performed the ceremony. Mr. Donnelly shows that the part of the cipher story relating to the "barony" and Shakespeare's deer-stealing exploits is told by Field, a Stratford man (p. 732), who would doubtless know something about the matters on which he was speaking. The Bishop of Worcester has nothing to do with that part of the narrative. Sir As to the use of the word "barony," MR. HALLEN declared it was entirely a Scotch word, and therefore could not be applied to an English bishop's domain. I disproved this by reference to Murray's great 'Dictionary,' Chambers's 'Encyclopædia,' and Cassell's Encyclopaedic Dictionary.' It is doubtful, in the passage in question, whether reference is made to Sir Thomas Lucy's "barony " or the bishop's " barony." But in either case Donnelly may be right. Thomas Lucy was "lord or baron of the manor," on which he held a "Barons' Court." Chambers's 'Encyclopædia,' following Blackstone's Commentaries,' says distinctly that" in England manors were formerly called baronies." As to the bishop having a "barony" (i. e., "the domain of a baron," according to Murray), Blackstone says, "the archbishops and bishops held baronies under the crown," and "in right of succession to those baronies, which were inalienable from their respective dignities, the bishops and abbots were allowed their seats in the House of Lords." And again: "the bishops still sit in the House of Lords in right of succession to certain ancient baronies annexed, or supposed to be annexed, to their episcopal lands." What proof has MR. HALLEN that Stratford did not fall under this description, as a barony annexed to the episcopal lands of the Bishop of Worcester? What is his meaning of a bishop's barony? In spite of MR. HALLEN's assertion, I do not "defend the cipher use of 'Sir John, Lord Bishop,* and 'my Lord' and 'his Lordship' as applied to a Inner Temple. knight." These terms are used in the cipher with [MR. KNIGHTON denies that he "referred to Shak-reference to the Bishop of Worcester, not Sir speare......as of low origin, or words to that effect," and encloses a full report of his speech at the inauguration of Shakspeare's statue in Paris. In this there is no passage to that effect.] THE GREAT CRYPTOGRAM (7th S. vi. 25, 151, 194, 329).- While thanking MR. HALLEN for his corrections, I must inform him that on certain points he is labouring under a misapprehension. He seems to think that it is the Bishop of Worcester who tells all the cipher story. In this he is Is it not somewhat curious that the word impaled should occur in the draft grant, when, being the arms of a coheiress, one would have thought they would have been borne upon a shield of pretence? Thomas Lucy. What I said was that it would be natural for an ignorant criminal appearing before a justice to address him as "My Lord," or "Your Lordship." HALLEN insists, that Ann Hathaway applied to the Again, the cipher does not "imply," as MR. bishop to arrest Shakespeare for debt. This is mere supposition on MR. HALLEN's part, and he puts words in the mouths of Mr. Donnelly and myself which we never used. Ann simply tells the bishop, "He is arrested at my suit. Oh, my most worshipful Lord, he hath put all my substance into that fat belly, eaten me out of house and home" (pp. 835 and 836). Though under age, Shakespeare may have been arrested and afterwards released. This has happened to minors before now. Although carrying twenty-six, after a sharp action. Again, I am a Baconian, I do not believe in everything I find that in 1759 the Achilles, the Hon. Capt. put before me by Mr. Donnelly, whom, from my Barrington, sixty guns, captured the Comte de St. acquaintance with him, I believe to be a thoroughly Florentine, a private ship of war, carrying sixty honest man. Only when MR. HALLEN brought guns and a crew of 483. Neither of the names of forward "blunders " in what he styles "a sickening the Achilles or Entreprenant occurs again in Beatmass of rubbish," I felt bound to combat his views son, nor in his continuator, James. May the when the 66 blunders " he adduced were not British Trident not have confused these actions? "blunders" at all, but facts capable of proof and a J. CARRICK MOORE. perfectly rational explanation. That bishops had baronies is also held by Selden, who says, in his 'Table Talk,'" The bishops were not barons because they had baronies annexed to their bishoprics. But they are barons because they are called by writ to the Parliament." GEORGE STRONACH. 'A CURIOUS DANCE ROUND A CURIOUS TREE' (7th S. vi. 428). This paper was written by Mr. W. Henry Wills for Household Words, and appeared Jan. 17, 1852. It was immediately after reprinted in pamphlet form (with permission of Mr. Charles Dickens) by the authorities of Bethlehem Hospital, and circulated by them. In 1860 Mr. Wills published a volume of his contributions, entitled Old Leaves gathered from Household Words' (Chapman & Hall), in which 'A Curious Dance' reappeared. JANET WILLS. Sussex Gardens, Hyde Park, W. I have before me a reprint of this, issued by the Committee of St. Luke's Hospital, evidently in 1880, as it contains, at the end, the names of the committee, &c., for that year. On the title-page occur the words, " By Charles Dickens," and on p. 13 one of the paragraphs states that "The preceding notice of St. Luke's Hospital, written by that keen observer the late Charles Dickens, appeared in Household Words, February, 1852. Holmby House, Forest Gate. JOHN T. PAGE. ANNE HATHAWAY (7th S. vi. 409).—See 'N. & Q.,' 7th S. i. 269, 433; ii. 78. DANIEL HIPWELL. 34, Myddelton Square, Clerkenwell. ["The verses with the refrain in question will be found at p. 182 of Clouston's Literary Curiosities and Eccentricities "" (JULIUS STEGGALL). "Chambers's Book of Days,' i. 66" (W. E. LAYTON, R. F. H., C. C. B.). "Booth's Principles of English Composition,' ed. 1831, pp. 153-4" (WM. PENGELLY). "The Wedding Day in all Ages and Countries,' by E. J. Wood, a book largely made up of scraps from the pages of N. & Q. Can be procured in leaflet form from the caretaker at Anne Hathaway's Cottage " (E. B. TITCHENER). CAPTAIN OF THE ACHILLES (7th S. vi. 367).In Beatson's 'Naval and Military Memoirs,' from 1723 to 1783, every capture, whether by a privateer or ship of war, is recorded. I do not find there any English privateer Achilles capturing a French Entrepreneur. I do find that in 1761 the Vengeance, twenty-six guns, Capt. Nightingale, took the Entreprenant, of forty-four guns, but only ; Country Magazine, I fail to discover any mention WOODEN WALLS (7th S. vi. 326, 434).-This W. M. M. AUTHOR OF WORK WANTED (7th S. vi. 349).— The author of Musa Juveniles' was the Rev. William Cooke, Provost of King's College, Cambridge. See Dictionary of National Biography,' vol. xii. pp. 100-1, for an account of his life. G. F. R. B. ROWLANDSON (7th S. v. 487; vi. 10, 93, 193, 271, 334, 390).-Will you kindly allow me to trespass once more on your pages? Your two lady correspondents appear never to have heard of the leggings to which I have referred, simply because they lived at a subsequent period; and as at some future time my statement may be called in question, I wrote to an old lady, born in 1812, who informs me that girls wore trousers (leggings), several years before either their mothers or women in general wore drawers. The first girl she recollects wearing them was in 1822, and she positively asserts that no girls she knew wore drawers-nothing but leggings tied below the knee-till about 1830. Also that neither she nor any of her relations, nor any one with whom she was acquainted, wore drawers before 1830, and that even then very few indeed did so, and they were confined almost entirely to the upper class. The following extract from her letter will show the old lady's conservative ideas:— "I well remember the drawers fashion beginning. The style of dress was an imitation of the Swiss reaching not quite to the sandals of the slippers. A few wore these leggings, being very smartly trimmed. They were not days did not imitate the gentry. There were three worn at all by common people. Such people in those classes then. Now the poorest think they may imitate their betters. Many mothers objected to them, as did also some of their daughters to wearing them, as they were considerably ridiculed by being called tomboys."" I can confirm the statement of your very interesting correspondent GRANNY as to the age at which some girls wore drawers. A young relation was staying with me in 1854, on her sixteenth birthday. Her dress reached but little below her knees, and she seemed very proud of her trousers, as she informed me there were sixteen tucks to them. And a lady who had five daughters informed a near relation of mine she kept her girls in trousers as long as she could; there was nothing like making them look like girls as long as possible. I knew them well; and some of them must have been quite sixteen before they developed into young ladies. They all married young, and well. Eastbourne. JAS. B. MORRIS. I have a full-length portrait in oils of a little cousin, S. A. P., painted in the forties, when she was three or four years old, in which she is represented in a low-necked frock reaching just below the knees, and white drawers to the ankles, where they terminate in a very broad frill, like a flounce, deeply edged with lace, and projecting quite over the instep. In another smaller painting of the same child she is shown in a shorter frock, but with equally long drawers, full of tucks, but not frilled. The date of this picture is some few years later than that of the other. C. C. B. VASELINE FOR OLD BOOK-COVERS (7th S. vi. 86, 236, 398; and see 7th S. ii. 444).-It is now two years since my note on "the preservation of bookbindings" and the use of vaseline for that purpose appeared in N. & Q.' (see last reference), and three years since I first began to use vaseline for all kinds of bindings; and as yet I have seen nothing to justify the mournful vaticinations of "Philo Biblon." On the contrary, the good effects which at once manifested themselves have been maintained in their entirety. I predicted in my note that colourless vaseline would soon be introduced, and it was introduced very shortly afterwards. I have a bottle now before me, and I should not hesitate to apply it to the most delicately tinted drawingroom cloth bindings. I have only one caution to give with regard to vaseline, and that is, in the case of old bindings with gilding, not to rub the vaseline in, but to apply it lightly. The gold in these cases has become thin by oxidation, and any friction is liable to detach it. Sydenham Hill. F. CHANCE. LEATHER COINS (7th S. v. 355; vi. 64, 190).— A writer on leather coins seems surprised to find that they are not the only non-metallic material for money, and mentions the use of glass at Alexandria. But readers of Dr. Livingstone and other African explorers will remember that among employed as currency. more than one tribe of the Dark Continent salt is JAMES D. BUTLER. Madison, Wis., U.S. ICE (7th S. vi. 366).—The originator of the foreign ice trade was Mr. William Leftwich, a descendant of the Cheshire family, formerly at Leftwich Hall. He left four sons, William, Thomas, and George, all of whom have left issue male, and Charles, who now has the business. He had also four daughters, one of whom was the mother of Lady Nottage. GEORGE BOWLES. 10, Lady Margaret Road, N.W. THE WATERLOO BALL (7th S. vi. 441).—Mr. EDGCUMBE is in error in thinking that there is any discrepancy between the statements of my aunts Lady de Ros and Lady Louisa Tighe. Both these ladies concur in saying that the ball decidedly took place in a long, narrow room on the ground floor of the house, used generally as schoolroom and playroom. Previous to the duke's tenancy this room had been used by his landlord, the coachbuilder, as a store for his carriages, but on the duke taking possession it was converted into a sitting-room, and it is to this conversion that Lady de Ros alludes in her written statement of April, 1884, and not to a conversion, as MR. EDGCUMBE erroneously assumes, for the purpose of the ball. terpretation the alleged discrepancy vanishes. There With this correction of MR. EDGCUMBE's misinwas also a store for carriages existing at that time in the garden, partially concealed by chestnut trees, but it was never used by the duke. Lady de Ros and Lady Louisa Tighe are marvellously clearheaded and accurate, as all who know them can testify, and they have always been absolutely agreed on these points. Surely this evidence of the daughters of the house, who witnessed the preparations and were present at the ball, must outweigh all theories to the contrary! With regard to Mr. Teignmouth Shore's recollection of what Lord William Pitt Lennox said to him, we have Lord William's written statement to Mr. Charles Mackay in 1878 that the ball was held "in the not extraordinarily spacious drawing-room of that mansion." Swallowfield Park, Reading. CONSTANCE RUSSELL. S. vi. 328).-This well-known coffee-house was first DON SALTERO'S COFFEE-HOUSE IN CHELSEA (7th opened in the year 1695, by one Salter, a barber, who had been servant to Sir Hans Sloane, and had accompanied him on his travels. Salter drew the attention of the public by the eccentricities of his conduct, and by furnishing his house with a large collection of curiosities, which were principally duplicates given him by his master. The collection |