Ireland. Possibly one of the younger of the eight sons of Richard Norton (died 1556) by his wife Elizabeth (dau. and heiress of Sir William Rotherfield, Knt.) may have founded a cadet branch in Ireland. I shall be glad of any information on this point. It may be of interest to note that during the Civil War the senior branch of this family (viz. the descendants of Sir Richard Norton, Knight [died 1592] by his first wife) were staunch Royalists, and suffered very heavily for their loyalty; whilst Colonel Norton, a descendant of the above mentioned Sir Richard by his second wife, was a staunch Parliamentarian, and, about 1643, tock a leading part in the storming of Basing House, which was held on behalf of King Charles by John, 5th Marquis of Winchester (whose nephew Francis Paulet married, in 1674, Elizabeth, d. and heiress of Sir Richard Norton, 2nd Bart.). It would be interesting to know if Colonel Norton and any other of his branch of the family accompanied Cromwell to Ireland, or were sent there by his orders, and whether if so Colonel Norton left any of his younger kinsmen in Ireland. It is known that he himself did not settle there, but Cromwell frequently stayed with him at old Alresford House (Hants), and he may very probably have obtained a position in Ireland for one or more of his younger kinsmen through his friendship with the Protector. Eccleston Park, Prescot. F. CROOKS. THE FIRST LORD WESTBURY.--What was the episode thus referred to in the notice of Charles Neate (1806-1879) in the 'D.N.B.'? "[He] was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1832, but an unfortunate fracas with Sir R. Bethell, afterwards Lord Westbury, terminated h career there.... the old scoundrel,' as he was in the habit of styling Westbury." In 'Memory's Harkback,' 1808 to 1858, by F. E. Gretton, B.D. (1889) are two allusions to the same occurrence; at page 138, "Bethell] To his juniors he was curt, almost rade, so that you wondered that one or another did not, in the robing-room imitate the late Professor Neate, and apply the lex digitalis." At page 285: Colin, who went to India. Whom did they marry and are any of their descendants living? Please reply direct. JAMES SETON-ANDERSON. 39 Carlisle Road, Hove, Sussex. CAMPBELL: FORBES JOHNSTON: HANKEY. -I should be glad of any information as to the careers of the following officers after they left Ceylon: 1. Lieut. Col. James Campbell of the 45th Foot, author of 'Excursions, Adventures and Field Sports in Ceylon,' published in London, 1843. 2. Major Jonathan Forbes, 78th Highlanders, author of Eleven Years in Ceylon,' London, 1840. 3. Major Arthur Johnston, 19th Foot, author of A Narrative of the Operations of a Detachment in an Epedition to Candy in the Island of Ceylon in 1804,' London, 1810. 4. Sir Frederick Hankey, G. C. M. G., sometime of the 51st and 19th Regiments. None of these appear in the 'D.N.B.' PENRY LEWIS. LIGHT AND DARK A HEADPIECE.-Many Such a town as this would be sure to books of notable interest or instruction number glass-painters amongst its populapublished during the period 1570-1641 tion. John Aubrey, the Wiltshire antiquary, have on the title-page, or elsewhere, a head- (1626-1697) tells us that when a schoolboy piece in which a light A (left) end dark A at Blandford in Dorset, he used to visit the (right) are conspicuous. What is the origin shop and furnaces of "old Harding, the only of the device, and what interpretation can countrey glasse-painter that ever I knew be placed upon this emblem ? though before the Reformation there was no county or great town but had its glasspainters. Harding died C. 1643, aged R. L. EAGLE. 19 Burghill Road, Sydenham, S.E.26. TULCHAN BISHOPS.-What are they? what countries are they found. AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED. I. F. In In the course of his very interesting paper upon John Thornton of Coventry, MR. KNOWLES raises several points which call for particular comment. 1. He is correct in stating that previous to 1405, nothing is known of John Thornton except that he was "of Coventry." It is quite evident from the details given in the contract with the Dean and Chapter of York, that he was a master glazier. But it is also at least permissible to suggest that prior to 1405, he had been employed at Coventry rather than at Nottingham. It must be remembered that, until the dissolution of monasteries, Coventry was a town of great importance. In addition to its Benedictine Abbey, and several stately churches, it was the home of numerous wealthy merchants whose trading Guilds were amongst the foremost in the land.* *For an interesting account of Coventry, past and present, refer Dr. Hutton's Highways and Byways in Shakespeare's Country.' 83 or more. If a small town like Blandford could still find work for a glass-painter at a time when the art was thought but little of, what must have been the position of affairs in Coventry during the fifteenth century, when painted glass was in ever increasing demand, and when great abbeys, priories, and churches were being erected both in the town, and in the country round about? 2. MR. KNOWLES has mistaken the purport of a statement on page 20 of my book Ancient Glass in Winchester.' I merely ventured to suggest that John Thornton of Coventry might be identical with one John Coventre who as a clorour and jeynour was employed upon the King's works at Westminster in 1352-3. I did not suggest that he was a son. This tentative theory is, however, effectually disproved by MR. KNOWLES'S further statement that John Thornton Was still alive in 1433. This, assuming him to be identical with John Coventre (who must have been at least 18 years of age in 1352), would make him be past taking much interest in glassclose upon 100 in 1433. Certainly he would painting. no AS MR. KNOWLES brings forward documentary evidence in support of his theory that John Thornton was a son of John Coventre, it is naturally impossible to deal further with the point at present, but it may be added that Thornton's name does not appear either amongst the glaziers employed at Westminster in 1351 and 1352; fabric rolls of Windsor as late as 1367. or amongst the few men mentioned in the work of glazing the Royal Chapels at St. 3. MR. KNOWLES's suggestion that the Stephen's, Westminster, and at Windsor, was "rushed through by means of impressed labour, is certainly not borne out by the fabric rolls of Windsor Castle. These fabric rolls are quoted at great length by the late Sir William St. John Hope in his magnificent book upon Windsor Castle (from which much of the following information is taken). The glaziers, some thirty in all, were certainly impressed from various parts of England. On the other hand they were paid good wages, the master glaziers receiving 78. a week each, and the lesser grades in proportion to their tasks, while they were allowed a fortnight's holiday at Whitsuntide. The work of glazing the windows of St. Stephen's Chapel at Westminster appears to have lasted from June 20 to Nov. 28, 1351, and early in March, 1352, the craftsmen commenced work upon the glass intended for Windsor, which, in turn, was finished by Michaelmas of that year. The completed panels were not inserted in the windows of the Castle Chapel and Chapter-house until the next year, as may be proved by the following entries in the fabric rolls for the week beginning, Mar. 18, 1353: Paid for 18 elm boards for making boxes for carrying the panels of glass from Westminster to Windsor 36 elm boards of the same, a piece 4a Carriage of the same from London to Westminster 3 12 8d 5 14 12d for Hay and Straw to put in the boxes It should also be pointed out that impressment of labour was not confined to these few glaziers. Between 1350 and 1377 King Edward III. carried out very extensive building operations at Windsor, during which several successive Clerks of the Works were appointed (amongst them William of Wykeham, afterwards Bishop of Winchester). Each of these officials was given power to impress men and set them to work upon the King's works at Windsor. Teigns. impressing labour entirely confined to home service. In 1370 William Wynford, one of the Royal masons, was ordered to retain workmen for the King's works “beyond the Seas."* Again we find King Henry V. on his second expedition to France in 1416 authorizing Thomas Morstède, his only Army surgeon, forcibly to impress as many surgeons. as he needed, together with a suitable number of mechanics for the making of surgical appliances and to embark them in the port of Rye.† Previously to this the King had asked the London Corporation of Surgeons to supply him with a dozen volunteers for the use of his Army and it was upon their failure to comply with his wishes that he resorted to to drastic measures. 4. MR. KNOWLES's concluding suggestion. that the east window of Great Malvern Priory representing the Passion of our Lord is probably a later work of John Thornton's, may easily be tested by a single reference to the St. William window at York Minster with which he compares it. A panel from the latter window depicting Robert and Richard, two sons of the donor (William, seventh Baron de Ros) and his wife Margaret, shews that the canopy shaft is enriched with a small figure standing on a base beneath a projecting canopy. This is a very common characteristic of the York school of glasspainting but does not appear in the east. window of Great Malvern Priory. Winchester. ware JOHN D. LE COUTEUR. also manufactured in silver, inlaid wood and japanned -to-day, almost invariably made in They are electro-plate when for hotel use. described as "bottle trays,' or 'bottle stands in the old Sheffield makers' pattern BOTTLE-SLIDER (12 S. vii. 471, 516; viii. 37).—The large ornate plated specimens with florid mounts must have been contemporary with the introduction of heavily The same practice still prevailed in later cut glass decanters with which they were formerly used. They were Thus in 1390 Letters Patent were granted to Geoffrey Chaucer, Esq., Clerk of the King's Works in the Palace of Westminster, the Tower of London, and elsewhere, authorizing him to choose and set to work masons, carpenters, and other workmen about the necessary repairs of "Our Collegiate Chapel of St. George within our Castle of Windsor "; whilst in 1472 King Edward IV. granted similar powers our dearly loved cousin the venerable father in God, Richard, Bishop of Selisbury, Master Surveyor of the King's works at Windsor." Nor was this power of to A. F. Leach, F.S.A. †This incident is graphically depicted in The Illustrated London News for Sept. 6, 1913, by Mr. A. Forestier to whom I am indebted for several interesting particulars. Handbook on Stained Glass, published by the BEVERLY WHITING (12 S. viii. 11). Beverly Whiting was admitted to the Middle Temple on Sept. 8, 1722, as the son and heir of Henry Whiting (American Historical Review, vol. xxv. p. 683). He afterwards became the godfather of George Washington (Howe's Historical Collections of Virginia,' p. 509). Further particulars about him and his family may be found in a 'Memoir of Rev. Samuel Whiting, D.D., and his wife Elizabeth St. John,' by William Whiting, former President of N. E. Hist. Geneal. Society, Boston, 1871. C. E. A. BEDWELL. Middle Temple Library, E.C. CHRISTIAN WEGERSLOFF (12 S. vii. 231).— A man bearing these names, doubtless the father of the Westminster boy, petitioned for naturalization in the 12th of Will. III.; he had then been living for seventeen years in London and the suburbs; see Huguenot Society Publications, vol. xviii, p. 300. J. B. WHITMORE. LOUIS NAPOLEON: POETICAL WORKS (12 S vii. 490; viii. 14).--The David Bogue publi-cation is not a translation of a selection of the occasional sonnets, songs, and epigrams of Louis Napoleon. It is a political skit directed against the Prince, who at the time of its publication was in the transition stage from President to Emperor. David Bogue's name on the title-page is followed by the announcement that the book "may be had of all French booksellers who have a weakness for Cayenne," and the "preface by the translator quotes a decree of the Prince President " done at the Elysée, this 1st of April." The full title is The Poetic Works of Louis Napoleon now first done into plain English. There are ninety-five small woodcut illustrations, the source of which is not stated. Most of these were used again twenty years later by John Camden Hotten in Napoleon III. from the Popular Caricatures of the last Thirty Years.' F. H. C. PUBLIC AND PRIVATE (12 S. viii. 8, 34). REPRESENTATIVE COUNTY LIBRARIES : and the Library of the Lit. and Phil. of The Public Library of Newcastle-on-Tyne Newcastle, are pretty good for local works (but not perfect). Two splendid libraries of local works (of the late M. Mackey and th late R. Welford) have recently been disSunderland Public Library is fairly persed. good for Sunderland printed works, and Darlington Public Library for works relating to that town. Probably the best private Durham library is that of Mr. J. W. Fawcett of Consett (one of your correspondents) which in 1915 numbered over 15,000 printed volumes of which some 5,000 were local (North country) works. Besides these it had over 10,000 charters, deeds, &c. (copies and originals) relating to Durham, Northumberland, &c. BESSIE GREENWELL. Newcastle-on-Tyne. JOHN HUGHES OF LIVERPOOL, 1706 (12 S. viii. 12). Presumably the transcript "in Mason's characters" refers to the shorthand of William Mason, the famous stenographer (see 'D.N.B.'). Little light can be thrown and 1708 "Mr. John Hughes" had a sugar on the identity of John Hughes. In 1705 warehouse in John Street and a house in Lord Street, Liverpool. In 1727 one of the name was Mayor. In 1719 J. H., mariner, was overseer of the poor; in 1726 sidesman and in 1727 churchwarden, of the Parish Church. Possibly this was the transcriber. If so, his will was proved at Chester, 1739, and he may have been a son of Moses Hughes, of Water Street, buried at St. Nicholas' Church, Jan. 27, 1712, will proved at Chester, 1713. R. S. B. HAMBLEY HOUSE, STREATHAM (12 S viii. 11). In the early years of the nineteenth century Streatham possessed a numRides and Walks,' published 1817, says :— ber of schools. J. Hassell in Picturesque salubrious and healthful and being a pleasant "The air of Streatham is considered very and convenient distance from London, is particularly desirable for the placing of children and advantageous for seeing them, being only an hour's ride from the bridges. There are coaches to this village three times a day. Fares inside 28. 6d. ; outside 1s. 6d. The stages go from Gracechurch Street and the Ship, Charing Cross. There are also the Croydon and Brighton coaches which pass through the village every hour in the day from the Elephant and Castle, Newington Butts....The academies of Streatham and its vicinage have long been reputed as first-class seminaries, and some of them occupy situations of great beauty." Hambley House Academy was situated on the High Road facing the west side of Streatham Common occupying the land between the present No. 412 and Barrow Road. RORY FLETCHER. MODE OF CONCLUDING LETTERS (2 S. x. 326, 376, 434, 501). The following examples, from Parr's 'Life of Usher,' 1686, cover a period of almost half-a-century :— Ororaros, Jac. Usserius, 1607, 1611. Ever at your service, Edward Warren, 1610. Wishing unto you as unto mine own self, James Uster, 1611.. Yours as his own, Thomas Lydiat, 1611. Yours in all Christian Affection, James Usher, 1613. Yours ever to his Power in the Lord, H. Briggs, 1615. Yours very loving in the Lord, Tobias Eboracensis, 1616. Yours to be commanded in all Christian Duties, Yours in Christ, William Crashaw, 1617(?). Your true affectionate Friend, while I am Henry Your most assured loving Friend and Brother, Your most loving and firm Friend, Id., 1618. 1618. Your unfeigned Well-willer, Alexander Cook, 1614. Y. L. most affectionate to love and serve you, T.L. to be commanded [Sir] Henry Spelman, 1621. Y in all service, Samuel Ward, 1622. Y. L. humble Servant to his Power, Abraham To Usher chen Archbishop of Armagh. Your Grace's in all Duty, Thomas James, 1625. Your Lordships in what he may, Samuel Ward, 1625. Earnestly desirous to be directed by your Lordship, or confirmed in the Truth, John Cotton, 1626. (This letter was written from Boston in Lincolnshire; and seven years later the writer of it went to Boston, New England.) Y. L. ever obliged, Ralph Skynner, 1624 (Wal- Your Lordships ever truly assured, to honour and serve you, J. King, 1628 (Layfield). A Servant thereof [i.e., of your Grace] most bound and devoted Sir] Henry Spelman, 1628 (Barbacan). Your Lordships unfeignedly to command, Geo. 1628. Your Graces faithful Servant, Jo. Philpot, 1629 (Dublin). Your Graces loving poor Friend, and Brother, Guil. London [Laud], 1629. Your Lordships most engaged Servant, Ger. Langbaine, 1647 (Queen's Coll.). Yours in the Lord; Yours, to use, in the Lord; Yours to command in what I may, Thom. Whalley, 1653(?). RICHARD H. THORNTON. Portland, Oregon. ORDERS AND ORDINANCES OF THE HOSPITALS (12 S. viii. 5).—A good example of the 1552 edition, produced by Rycharde Grafton, abides in the Guildhal Library. It is some years since I handled it, but speaking from memory it is distinctly an The size is small octavo, signatures A to J original impression rather than a reprint. in eights, unpaged, black letter. Likely places in which to find other issues, or and St. Bride's Institute. reprints, would be the Bishopsgate Institute The very limited demand will explain the small number printed, and great rarity of these early official publications. One of the surest clues as to precise age lies in the paper (and watermarks, if any). Both paper and press-work in Pepys's time had begun their downward grade. It will be noticed, by close observation, that paper, used for official city publications, in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, if not specially white in tone, was of good honest Hence rag substance, with ample tub size. the longevity of exemplars. For instance, compare other issues of the kind, to be found at the Guildhall : "Decree for tythes to bee payed. Iohn Wolfe, 1596." 8vo. Black letter. "General matters, 1600." 8vo. Black letter. "Order of my Lord Maior, Alderman and Sheriffes for meetinges and....apparel throughout the yere. Iohn Windet, 1604." 8vo. Black letter. "Lawes of the market. Wm Jaggard, 1620." 8vo. Black letter. |