the second table was published and discussed by Signor Cattaneo in the Resoconti delle riunioni dell' Associazione Mineraria Sarda (Anno XII.). As I am unable to consult either of these foreign periodicals, will some kind reader tell me whether 1 can find anything about these tables in an English publication. L. L. K. MR. JOHN DENTON, 66 Rector of Stonegrave in Yorks, and Prebendary of York -so styled on the gravestone of his daughter Mrs. Hellen Cock (widow of William Cock, mercer, of Kendall, Westmorland) who died Jan. 12, 1762, aged 81. No John Denton occurs as Prebendary of York in Le Neve's 'Fasti,' ed. Hardy. The Stonegrave clergy list gives Robert Denton, M.A., of Catherine Hall, Camb, as rector from May 27, 1700, to his death June 1, 1747. Is the inscription in error? J. W. F. SAVERY FAMILY OF MARLBOROUGH, WILTS. I should be very grateful for information respecting Martha, the wife of Servington Savery, M.D., of Marlborough, who died in 1696, aged 34. What was her maiden name? She is buried at St. Peter's Church, Marlborough, and her arms impaled with those of her husband on the monument in the church (tinctures not expressed, the colours being probably worn away), are a chevron between three crosses moline, two and one. I should also be glad to know the maiden name of Mary, the wife of the Rev. Servington Savery, A.M., of St. John's College, Oxford, only grandson of the above Serving ton Savery, M.D. She died Dec. 23, 1766, aged 51, and is buried with her husband at St. Peter's Church and to whom there was originally a brass on the floor of the chancel which disappeared at the restoration of the church in 1864. LEONARD C. PRICE. 'THE WESTERN MISCELLANY,' 1775 AND 1776. There has just recently come into my hand a volume in old binding, appar. ently co-eval with or circa the above date,. the contents of which are pp. 541-660, with title-page and index of vol. v. of The Western Miscellany, pp. 25-648 of vol. vi., and the first weekly part of vol. vii., viz., for Monday, Oct. 7, 1776, pp. 1-24, printed at Sherborne, by R. Goadby. The contents are of a miscellaneous character and a feature was the provision weekly of two to four pages of Enigmas, Rebuses, Mathematical, Algebraic and Astronomical problems, nearly all both as questions and solutions, being versified and contributed by persons residing in the west, from Cornwall upwards. Can your readers oblige with particulars of its continuance after 1776, the names of its editors, &c. W. S. B. H. HAMBLY HOUSE, STREATHAM.-A 12mo Book of Common Prayer, 1823, has inside its front cover a label of crimson leather lettered in gold :— "This prize book was adjudged to Master T. H. Davison who was first in the 4th class in the examination at Hambly House, Streatham, June 16, 1827." Was the house named a well-known academy, and where in Streatham was it situated ? W. B. H. "BARONS."-In proceedings for trespass brought by John Payne against John Arthur it was alleged that the latter on Nov. 30, 1491, by force and arms, namely with sticks and knives fished in the several (i.e., private) fishery of John Payne at Weston-super-Mare and took and carried away 100 horse-loads of fish called "barons,' 400 fish called 'tubbelyns,' 300 "haddokkes," and 200 "whitynges," and inflicted other enormities to his serious injury. 66 'Tubbelyns we know, for young cod are still known by that name, here, on the shore of the Severn Sea, and haddock we know, and whiting we know, but we are sorely and sadly puzzled about "barons": many dictionaries we have searched in vain, and local inquiries have produced no results. Evidently they were a small fish, too small to be counted separately like cod, haddock The Glebe House, Weston-super-Mare. He transcribed, "in Mason's characters," 78 Egmont Road, Sutton, Surrey. DANIEL DEFOE IN THE PILLORY.-Pope says that Daniel Defoe, author of 'Robinson Crusoe,' when put in the pillory, had his ears cut off. But I cannot verify this as a fact. Defoe stood in the pillory on July 29, 30 and 31, 1703. His offence was, I believe, that of writing against the High Church party. I should like to know precise facts of his mutilation and offence. G. B. M. WOODBURN COLLECTION.-I have several drawings and pictures which have on their reverse sides notes to the effect that they came from "the Woodburn Collection. I should be pleased if any reader could give me any information concerning it. A. STANTON WHITFIELD. Bentley Moor, Walsall. AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED. 1. I should be glad to know the source of the quotation appended-which appeared in an obituary notice in The Times within the last twelve months. The Chief Constable of Lancashire is desirous of using it (with acknowledgments) on the memorial that is being erected to the men of the force who fell. "The Devil's Walk.' By Coleridge and Southey. A New Edition, with several additional Engravings by Robert Cruikshank. Simpkin & Marshall." The commencement of the review, printed above the picture, is as follows: "Nearly thirty thousand copies of this jeu d'esprit having been already disposed of, we do not pretend It is, perhaps, all things considered, one of the to sit in judgment on its merit in the eleventh hour. most singular poems ever penned; having given rise to almost endless controversy respecting its real authorship. That point is now, however, satisfactorily ascertained, and with its new illusRobert Cruikshank, seems to have entered into the trations we consider it a rare morceau. Our artist, spirit of the author with a real gusto, and has given us some rich specimens of his extraordinary talent. We select, by the kind permission of the Proprietor, the following characteristic sketch of " The remainder of the review is quoted by URLLAD, subject to the following corrections, no doubt where his copy is frayed: for very correct" read "A very correct"; for our hero "read "for our hero"; for "he's well qualified" read "him well qualified." 66 I cannot say where the cutting comes from; the following passage printed on the back suggests 1832 as the date: 66 QUERY FOR ARITHMETICIANS-If it cost a man fifty shillings to have his own windows broken by as many men at night, that being over hours, what will it cost the same individual to be cheered by an equal number of persons in the middle of the day? If Coker cannot furnish an answer perhaps the Duke of Wellington can." Shall we not offer up our best and highest? Surely URLLAD wrongs the memory of a great headmaster in describing the figure of the schoolmaster in the caricature as a por any of his portraits, and though Richard Busby liked his pint of claret, nothing in his character was compatible with a nose of the magnificent proportions depicted in the caricature. If URLLAD should by chance be able to identify the source of the cutting I should be grateful if he would let me know it. J. D. WHITMORE. JOHN THORNTON OF COVENTRY (12 S. vii. whole area was formerly "The Five Fields," 481). I may safely leave Mr. Le Couteur and has a subsoil of clean bright gravel and and others to deal with MR. KNOWLES'S sand, much of the over-lying clay having theories about John Thornton. But with been dug up and made into bricks by Mr. regard to his suggestion that the east window Thomas Cubitt the builder who replaced it of Great Malvern Priory Church may be his with an immense quantity of brick rubbish work, I should like to make the following brought from all parts of London and which remarks. raised the surface 8 or 9 feet. Mr. Ward, then in the employ of Mr. Cubitt, informed Mr. Aldis that prior to this alteration of levels and building the area was marshy and repeatedly inundated, so that ducks, snipe, and other water-fowl frequented it. ALECK ABRAHAMS. 1. We possess only one date for the rebuilding of the quire of Great Malvern, and that is the consecration of the altars in 1460, marking the completion of the work. The rebuilding must have taken several years, but I do not think the glazing of the east window can be put back beyond 1450, at the very earliest. Thornton must have been dead long before that. 2. For years past I have been on the look out for analogies with the Malvern window, and with this object I have seen a good deal of mediæval glass all over England. But I have never yet found anything in immediate relation with it. Some ten years ago, I made a study of the York glass from this point of view, and with the same result. Beyond what is common to all fifteenthcentury glass painting, I cannot see any resemblance between Thornton's work and the Malvern east window, either in style or details. G. McM. RUSHFORTH, F.S.A. Riddlesden, Malvern Wells. 66 VAN DER PLAES (12 S. vii. 29).-The brief notice of this artist in Bryan's Dictionary should be corrected and supplemented by the account given in A. J. van der Aa's 'Biographisch Woordenboek der Nederlanden,' where references are given to various sources of information. According to one authority (Kramm) David van der Plaes was born some years earlier than 1647. Mention is made among his works of portraits of Prince Hendrik Casimir, Cornelis Tromp, son of the more famous admiral (why do so many English writers persist in writing van Tromp"? Pepys was not guiltless), Jonkheer Hendrik van der Dols and his wife. For some years he worked DANIEL VINECOMBE (7 S. vi. 487).—This for the publisher Pieter Mortier, who apppears query is of ancient date, but I have just of van der Plaes, engraved by Houbraken, in Bryan's Dictionary as Martin. A portrait perused D. Vinecombe's will, which disposes of a part of it. After leaving legacies of is to be found on p. 58 of 'De Levensmoney or pieces of plate to a long list of beschryvingen der nederlandsche Konstcousins," he makes similar bequests to schilders en Konst-Schilderessen,' 1729, and friends, and among others a piece of plate a life on pp. 63-65. EDWARD BENSLY. to Eustace Budgell, son of Gilbert Budgell, D.D. There can be no doubt that the EARLY RAILWAY TRAVELLING (12 S. latter was the G. B., D.D., mentioned at the vii. 461, 511). The writer of the letter above reference. Eustace Budgell was printed at the first reference mentions early "X" of The Spectator, whose name is in- railway signalling by means of men cluded in the D.N.B.' The tankard re-posted at intervals along the line. ferred to in the query passed to Daniel Michell as the residuary legatee and principal heir. A. T. M. That was known as "police signalling," by reason of the fact that no telegraphic or other system yet existed, and it was deemed necessary, in view of the absence of present-day discipline, SNIPE IN BELGRAVE SQUARE (12 S. vii. 390, to place the traffic in charge of police 437, 476, 498).-The Flask in Ebury Square constables, who passed on the trains, by was "the resort of those who came out hand signals, in the manner noted by your duck-hunting, a sport much followed in the correspondent. It is interesting to note ponds about (Notes and Topographical that the old "hand signal code survives Memoranda relating to the Out-Wards of at the present time in railway practice. St. George's, Hanover Square.' Appendix The railway policeman figures in Punch, to a printed lecture by C. J. B. Aldis on the and the uniform was the same as that Sanitary Condition of large towns and of described, including the bearing of the Belgravia, 1837). It is known that the constable's staff. For the above reasons The County Constabulary, however, retained the tall hat for a longer period; in the West of England it survived until the end of the 'sixties, but the leathern crowns were long before discarded. The tall hat was of beaver, having side stays of iron, so connecting the brim and crown. The so-called "swallowtail was really a modification of the outdoor dress of the period, and it was officially described as a "dress coat. The belt was worn in combination therewith, and each constable carried an unsheaved truncheon, including the House of Commons police. The dress coat, however, was but toned up to the neck, and the collar was of the high type still worn by the Guards when in full dress. A stock was also included in the equipment, and a song, extant in the 'sixties, ran thus: I would I were a bobby, of genealogical interest were folding pedigrees showing the seize quartiers of the de jure sovereigns of England, the names of persons exempted from the various Acts of Indemnity, a list of titles still under attainder for fidelity to the Legitimist Dynasty, a list of the Ministers, &c., of the exiled Stuart sovereigns, and a list of 492 non-jurors, arranged under Dioceses; the whole indexed. FRED. R. GALE. Crookbury, Fitzjohn Avenue, High Barnet. The last edition of this book was pub. lished in 1910. Copies can still be obtained from Phillimore & Co., Chancery Lane. G. He is the subject of a very interesting article entitled False Poet but Genuine Assassin,' by the late H. B. Irving in The It may Weekly Dispatch (Aug. 20, 1920). be added that Gaillard's (nom-de-plume "Lacenaire ") contributions to Parisian periodical publications (verse and prose) are collectors in still sought by "morbid France. It was also said (about thirty years ago) that some of his unpublished MSS. were sold by a relative to à London literary agent, and adaptations were published anonymously by the now extinct firms of Edwin J. Brett (of Fleet Street) and James Henderson (of Red Lion Court) in their once popular periodicals. ANDREW DE TERNANT. LOUIS NAPOLEON: POETICAL WORKS (12 S. of Holland), brother of Napoleon I., and vii. 490).-Louis Napoleon Bonaparte (King father of Napoleon III., was a "poet," and published two collections of poems. These have been sometimes attributed to the son, Napoleon III., who before becoming Emperor of the French was known as Prince Louis Napoleon, and during his exile in England wrote works dealing with politics and occasional sonnets, songs, and epigrams. The David Bogue publication is probably a translation of a selection. Napoleon III., however, after becoming emperor published no poetical works in French. His great literary work was the 'Life of Julius Cæsar.' Paul Calton's account, which he gave to Campbell, is not to be relied on; he said the Admiral left only two sons, he left three. I have a copy of his will in which he specially mentions his three sons. Lucien Bonaparte (Prince de Canino), I have the coat-of-arms (it is painted on another brother of Napoleon I., was the wood, and the one on the Admiral's tombauthor of a poem entitled Charlemagne, stone at Kingstown, Jamaica, is a copy). ou l'Eglise délivrée ' (two vols., 1814, English translation by S. Butler, and F. Hodgson London, 1815), and La Cyrnèide, ou la Corse sauvée (twelve cantos). The poeti cal works of Napoleon I., most youthful efforts, will be found in the Euvres littéraires de Napoléon Bonaparte' (vol. i.), edited by Tancrède Martel (Paris, Albert Savine, 1888). ANDREW DE TERNANT. 36 Somerleyton Road, Brixton, S. W. will write to me, I shall be pleased to answer. Stetchford, Birmingham. ARMS OF ENGLAND AND FRANCE (12 S. vii. 447).-A paper was read by the late Admiral Albert H. Markham, K.C.B., in vii. 445). It seems impossible to kill the NOTES ON THE EARLY DE Redvers (12 S. May, 1904, in Budrum Castle, Malta, and myth that Richard de Reviers, or Redvers, is printed, with reproductions of photo-was the son of Baldwin de Meules (alias graphs showing the heraldic carvings on Baldwin of Exeter), Sheriff of Devonshire, the walls and towers, in Ars Quatuor Corona- whose father was Count Gilbert of Brionne. torum, vol. xvii. 74-80. W. B. H. Stapleton tried to do so ('Mag. Rot. Scacc. Norm.,' II. cclxix), but it cropped up again in Burke's 'Extinct Peerage,' p. 140, and Cobbe's 'Norman Kings of England,' Table II. Planché did his best to slay the mistake ('Conqueror and his Companions,' ii. 45), but it re-appeared in the D.N.B.' sub Baldwin, as was long ago pointed out by Dr. Round (Feudal England,' P. 486). EMERSON'S vii. 428, 473).-9. Sanderson.' ENGLISH TRAITS (12 S A blind savant, like... This was Nicholas Sanderson, the blind mathematician. If your correspondent is requiring any further information not in print and will write to me I shall be happy to help him, having compiled a pedigree of the family from wills proved at York and London and from the inscriptions which I have copied from Penistone, Yorks and Boxworth, Cambs, &c. ,, The parentage of Richard de Reviers has never been proved. The best that can be said on the question is to be found in the article on the Earls of Devon in vol. iv. of the new edition of the Complete Peerage.' This is contributed by Mr. G. W. Watson, who, I suppose, is the leading authority after Dr. Round on Norman and AngloNorman genealogy. The theory that Richard de Reviers survived until 1137, instead of dying in 1107, is founded on the confusion between him and Richard Fitz Baldwin, son of Baldwin of Exeter. 'Earl of Exeter.' It is certain that, as DR. WHITEHEAD states, Richard de Reviers was never Earl of Devonshire; and for that very reason he could not have been As Dr. Round explained, in the twelfth century an earl was always the earl of a county, but his title might be taken from either (1) his county; (2) the capital of his county; (3) his chief residence; or (4) his family name (Geoffrey de Mandeville,' pp. 145, 273, 320-1). Thus no one but the Earl of Devonshire could or would be styled Earl of Exeter. G. H. WHITE. 23 Weighton Road, Anerley. |