Queries. WE must request correspondents desiring information on family matters of only private interest in order that answers may be sent to them direct. to affix their names and addresses to their queries, In your first volume (1 S. i. 487) a question 'THE VIRTUOSI, OR ST. LUKE'S CLUB.'is asked about a manuscript sold in the Strawberry Hill sale (sixth day, lot 120), being an account of "The Virtuosi, or St. Luke's Club.' Its location was desired, and I renew the question. A copy of the Sale Catalogue of the Strawberry Hill Collection may supply some clue. In the article on John Smibert in the 'D.N.D.' mention is made of an unfinished picture by that artist of the Virtuosi of London. Is the location of that painting known ? WORTHINGTON C. FORD. Boston, Mass. [See 10 S. vii., xii.] THE STATUES OF LONDON.-In the lists of statues of London which were compiled by MR. PAGE, MR. HARLAND-OXLEY, and others, and appeared in vols. ix. and x. of the Tenth Series of N. & Q.,' I see no mention of the statue of William Huskisson, who was killed by the Rocket engine on the occasion of ST. SAVIOUR'S, SOUTHWARK.-The folthe opening of the Liverpool and Manchester lowing cutting, dated 1786, is in an old Railway in 1830. Haydn's Dictionary of scrapbook belonging to the Birmingham Dates' also makes no mention of this statue, Library (Margaret Street). Can any of which for long stood in Lloyd's Rooms your readers give me any further informaat the Royal Exchange, and is one of the tion on the subject? three of Huskisson executed by Gibson. It has recently been presented by Lloyd's to the London County Council on the condition that a site could be found for it, and it was moved to the Pimlico Gardens on the Embankment, at the end of St. George's Square, on Saturday, 5 June. I think this circumstance may with advantage be placed on record in 'N. & Q.' WILLOUGHBY MAYCOCK. "On Saturday last, as Messrs. Wilcox & Co. of St. Saviour's, Southwark, were digging for the foundation of several new houses to be built in marble slab, which measured seven feet by five that parish, the workmen discovered a large and a half. The foreman, being present, caused the slab to be carefully taken up, which covered the entrance into a subterraneous passage hewn Wilcox, and several gentlemen who accompanied out of the solid rock. By the aid of lamps Mr. him, proceeded 196 yards, through such passage, which terminated in a circular compartment, 25 yards and a half in diameter, and 12 feet perpendicular, supported by nine pillars of veined marble, of the Tuscan order. Along the passage in which are the figures of Popish saints......and in on both sides, at the distance of six feet, are niches the......circular compartment are six niches, which are filled with saints and other pious relics of the Papal Church. Several pieces of gold and silver coin of Julius Cæsar's were found......The learned are divided as to the original use of this subterbe very great." raneous temple, and its antiquity, which appears to THE OLD COBURGH GARDENS, DUBLIN.A piece of ground on the south side of St. Stephen's Green, Dublin, belonging to Lord Clonmell, was opened as the Coburgh Gardens early in the nineteenth century. After a period of prosperity it became unused and neglected until 1865, when the great Industrial Exhibition was held there. Afterwards the gardens became the property of Lord Iveagh, and were the scene of flower-shows and open-air theatricals. The Royal University of Ireland (incorporated THE GENTLEMAN'S CALLING' AND 'THE 1880, dissolved by royal charter 1909) WHOLE DUTY OF MAN.'-Lowndes gives occupied part of the site. The stones of various suggestions as to authorship of the the clock-tower have been utilized in the latter. Has it been authoritatively settled building of a large chimney erected behind who wrote it ? The query is doublethe Engineering School of the new Royal barrelled, as the title-page of The GentleCollege of Science (formerly housed at 51, man's Calling' says "by the Author of The St. Stephen's Green, East). J. ARDAGH. Whole Duty of Man.' XYLOGRAPHER. 6 A. STANTON WHITFIELD. 66 THE SCOURGE.'-This publication, by constitutes vol. i. It covers the period Oxymel Busby, Esq.," deals in the issue between 28 Nov., 1752, and 2 June, 1753. of 7 Dec., 1752, wholly with epitaphs. Epi- The last number concludes with a letter taphs, it seems, may be divided into from Oxymel Busby in which he promises to serious, admonitory, informative, arch, ridi- resume his Scourge "for the correction of culous, and those in commendation of the vice and folly on 6 November, when No. I deceased." The esquire proceeds to give of vol. ii. will be published. specimens of each. Perhaps it may interest your readers if I transcribe a few : Did Busby, Esq., "vapulate" (to use his own word) the public in a second volume ? The first volume alone is mentioned in the 'Catalogue of Books in the British Museum.' Is this publication of any historical or literary value? Of the epitaphs in The Scourge which are dated, the one referring to Capt. Holmes is the oldest. WILLIAM L. STOREY. Belfast. "FORTH SHALL COME AN ASKE," &C.Ainsworth, writing of the Pilgrimage of Grace (temp. destruction of the monasteries), gives two verses of a song said to be sung by the Northern rebels : Forth shall come an ASKE with one eye, One shall sit at a solemn feast, The greatest there shall be the least. Is this song historical ? Are any more verses known? B. C. S. [1. Has often been asked for in these columns, but no satisfactory answer has been received.] CAPTURE OF TRINCOMALEE.-What British regiments were represented at the capture of Trincomalee by Sir Hector Munro on 6 Jan., 1782 ? There was a detachment of the 98th Regiment, numbering 55 officers, N.C.O.'s, and men, in garrison there in March, 1782, besides artillery (European and native) and a Volunteer Battalion over 500 strong. I think I have read somewhere that the Black Watch was another. PENRY LEWIS. PORTRAITS BY JAMES LONSDALE.-Can any one direct me to the present restingplace of the following portraits by this artist, which were exhibited at the Royal Academy in the various years shown ?— 1. Mr. D. Davies (1802). 2. Mr. W. F. Collard (1802, 1806, 1809, 1831). 3. Richard Threlfall (1809). 4. J. Elmes, architect (1810). 5. J. Thelwall (1811). 6. W. Woodburn (1811). 7. C. Kynnersley (1811). 8. J. Blackett (1812). 9. S. Woodburn (1813). 10. W. H. Manning (1813). 11. Alderman Combe (1807, 1814). 12. G. Norman (1815). 13. Mrs. Toulmin (1813). 14. W. Toulmin (1815). 19. Count Vasali (1821). 20. J. B. Logier (1821). 21. Sir Humphrey Davy (1822). 22. Bishop Bathurst of Norwich (1822). 23. W. Austin (1822). 24. J. Pepys (1822). 25. Sir Alexander Grant, Bart. (1823). 26. Thomas Deane (1824). 27. Richard Arnold Smart (1824). 28. John Richards (1825). 29. R. T. Lonsdale (1829). 30. John Lodge Hubbersty, Recorder of Lancaster (1835). 31. Edward F. Lonsdale (1838). 32. T. Lonsdale (1812). 33. W. Pennington (1808). South Hackney. M. L. R. BRESLAR. HERALDIC QUERY.-May I ask your readers to assist me in discovering the owner of the following coat of arms? On a round shield, surmounted by a count's coronet (probably French), and supported by two lions (or leopards) rampant, Quarterly: 1, a sun in splendour; 2, three stars; 3, four crosses; 4, seal defaced, but the charge may have been an amulet or key. The seal appears to be that of a French family, probably that of Vezian, which, I am informed, differs from the family of De Vezian in the French Peerages. ARMIGER. PEAT FAMILY.-Information would be welcomed with regard to the Vicar of Brentwood, about 1835, who is called in documents the Right Rev. Sir Robert Peat, Grand Prelate of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. WILLIAM MACARTHUR. 79, Talbot Street, Dublin. A PHANTOM PARLIAMENT.-Some years ago I read in a weekly publication now out of print the following, and I shall be glad if any reader will tell me where it can be found, and also its basis:— "One evening late, a Prussian sovereign was out walking, and to his surprise noticed the Parliament House, then not in session, brightly illuminated. On arrival he was amazed to find a session of phantoms, the actors being of a Parliament of about one hundred years earlier, and in the dresses of that period." THOS. PRITCHARD. AGNES, DAUGHTER OF LOUIS VII.-Can any of your contributors tell me who was the husband of Agnes, daughter of Louis VII. of France ? I have seen two accounts: one, that she married Adhelm de Burgo, Earl of Cornwall; the other, that she married Alexis, [See Swearing on the Horns at Highgate,' 6 S. ix. son of the Greek Emperor. Can it be that 69, 238, 316.] she was twice married? A. M. LA T. MRS. BARRETT, NÉE TYERS.—Mrs. Barrett, née Tyers, was a daughter of Jonathan Tyers the younger, eldest son of Jonathan Tyers, the proprietor of Vauxhall Gardens. On 27 May, 1779, Miss Tyers married Bryant Barrett, who succeeded to the proprietorship of the famous pleasure-gardens on the death of his father-in-law on 21 March, 1792, and who survived until 15 Feb., 1809. The Gentleman's Magazine gives his name as Thomas Barrett in his obituary notice. Mrs. Barrett is said to have been alive in 1830. When did she die, and what was her Christian name? HORACE BLEACKLEY. MRS. JOHN PHILIP KEMBLE, NÉE HOPKINS. -Previous to her marriage with Kemble, Priscilla Hopkins had been the wife of William Brereton, actor. In what year did she marry her first husband ? It was circa 1778. HORACE BLEACKLEY. MARGARET SCOTT, ÆTAT. 125.-As long ago as 1851 there was a paragraph in N. & Q.' (1 S. iv. 230), giving an inscription from a tomb at Dalkeith. A Margaret Scott was said to be buried there, aged 125 at her death on 9 Feb., 1738. Has any one chanced to make a note on the identity of this person? Was she of a well-known family? Palmer's Epitaphs,' &c., 1869, quotes the epitaph as from the churchyard at Dunkeld, and so far inquiry from the Registers has not verified the fact of this aged widow's burial at Dalkeith. 6 L. M. M. ' REVELATIONS OF PETER BROWN.'-I am anxious to trace a book of the above title. It is quoted in an article in Longman's Magazine of March, 1886, and described by the author (Mr. Overton) as a modern book, but now out of print." 66 Mr. Overton gives a quotation from a poem entitled St. John's of Shottesbrook: a Berkshire Legend,' and the paper itself is descriptive of "Life in a Village in the Olden Time.' The book cannot be traced in any catalogue. It may have been printed privately and published locally. ROBERT RAYNER. Herne Hill, S.E. THE 66 IN the passage quoted Dominion" is that somewhat unusual word." Is called it possible that Englishmen had never heard "Old (or Ancient) Dominion ❞—a of the name that has been applied in this country to Virginia for two centuries? The story of the origin of the "Dominion is not only preposterous on its of Canada face, but can be shown to be without foundation. In his 'Tercentenary History of Canada' (1908), Frank B. Tracy says: "In some respects, however, the hopes of some of the Canadian leaders, particularly John A. Macdonald, were not carried out. Macdonald undoubtedly looked for a Kingdom of Canada. In fact, the phrase 'Kingdom of Canada' occurs in all the first documents. This did not mean an independent kingdom, but an auxiliary kingdom, somewhat like that of the German states, with the monarch of England as its head.”—III. 936–7. In his Canada under British Rule, 17601900' (1900), the late Sir John G. Bourinot remarked :— "It passed the two houses with very little discussion, and the royal assent was given to it on the 29th of March of the same year as 'The British North America Act, 1867.' It is interesting to know that in the original draft of the bill the united provinces were called the Kingdom of Canada' and the writer had it from Sir John Macdonald himself that this amendment did not emanate from the colonial delegates, but from the imperial ministry, one of whose members was afraid of wounding the susceptibilities of United States statesmen."-P. 215. It would be curious to know who the "United States statesmen were whose susceptibilities were thought in danger of The Bill was read for the being wounded. first time in the House of Lords on 12 Feb., 1867, and at its second reading on 19 February the Earl of Carnarvon made a speech in which occurs this passage: "Having thus stated the main provisions of this measure, I have only to add the designation of this new State to which we are about to give a distinct life and organization. It may seem a trifling question; but it has, in truth, been one neither unimportant nor free from difficulties. To the representatives of the Maritime Provinces belongs the credit of waiving local rights and pretensions; and they have felt the advantage of accepting a name not less familiar to the English labourer and artizan than it is distinguished by honourable traditions. Her Majesty has been pleased to express her approval of the name, and henceforth the United Provinces will be known as the Dominion of Canada-a designation which is a graceful tribute on the part of the colonists to the monarchical principles under which they have lived and prospered, and which they trust to transmit unimpaired to their children's children."- Hansard's Parliamentary Debates,' pp. 567-8. The Bill was read in the House of Lords for the third time and passed on 26 February. It was read in the House of Commons for 66 the first time on 26 February, and at its second reading on 28 February the Right Hon. Charles B. Adderley opened his speech with the words: Sir, I rise to move the second reading of a Bill for the union in one Dominion of the Canadas, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia"; and later said: "I need not go far back to show the origin of this desire of the Provinces to be united in one Dominion (ibid., pp. 1164-5). It thus appears that there had been question as to "the designation of this new State," but that the name Dominion of Canada" had been determined upon and had received the approval of Queen Victoria before the Bill was introduced into Parliament. The Bill passed, as Bourinot stated, with very little discussion"; in fact, some members of both Houses declared that it was, to use a modern American phrase, railroaded" through; but there was no debate over the name selected. 66 66 In the Virginia charter of 6 April, 1606, occur the words, any Realms or Dominions under our Obedience ; in that of 23 May, 1609, occur the words, "within our Realm of England, and Dominion of Wales," and 'within this our Realm of England, or in any other of our Dominions." In the Massachusetts charter of 4 March, 1629, occur the words, "out of any our realmes or domynions whatsoever." For half a century the terms usually found are colony," plantation,' country,' but after 1660 the word "dominion" becomes more common. On 21 June, 1665, occur the words, "Whereas his majesty out of his princely care for the preservation of all other his dominions, so of this Colony of Virginia." On 17 Sept., 1666, Virginia was alluded to as this, his Maties Ancientest Colony." 66 66 66 66 66 a On 8 Oct., 1685, James II. constituted President & Councill to take care of all that our Territory & Dominion of New England in America"; and on 3 June, 1686, and again on 7 April, 1688, he commissioned Sir Edmund Andros governor over all that our Territory and Dominion in New England in America.' A document dated 8 June, 1699, speaks of " this Our Ancient and Great Colony and Dominion of Virginia." In 1705 F. Makemie dedicated his Plain & Friendly Perswuasive,' &c., to His Excellency Major Edward Nott, Her Majestys Governor of the Ancient Dominion of Virginia." Thus, in the course of a century, was 66 Ancient Dominion' evolved the name of as applied to Virginia, and that name remained in vogue for still another century, but has now been displaced by "Old Dominion." The true origin of the phrase, sometimes wrongly explained, is clearly brought out by the extracts given above. There is no reason a priori why the name might not have been applied to any one of the original thirteen American colonies except Georgia and Delaware, but as a matter of fact it became attached to Virginia only. This was, of course, largely because Virginia was the oldest of the colonies. Boston, U.S. ALBERT MATTHEWS. PROFESSORS AT DEBITZEN [DEBRECZIN], 1756 (11 S. xi. 279, 327).-Two copies of the "Case" printed below are preserved in the University archives at Oxford. It is followed by a statement that the Bishops had contributed 2617. 158. for the assistance of the Professors, and by a certificate from the Archbishop of Canterbury to the character of "the Bearer, Mr. St. Weszprémi of the University of Debritzen.' From other papers in the same collection it appears that all but two of the Colleges at Oxford |