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'Chronicles,' reprint

ANGLO-DUTCH RELATIONSHIPS: FAGEL- LOWSE FAIRE.-The following are extracts BENTINCK ATHLONE REAY BOREEL.- from Holinshed's It may perhaps be worth recording an 1807-8, vol. i. :— instance where the ancient ties between two nations survive- unknown to the multitude-in one solitary individual after a lapse of time almost beyond belief.

When in 1688 William of Orange set foot on these shores, Caspar Fagel was Grand Pensionary of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, one of the principal instigators of the enterprise, and William III.'s right hand. Soon after, Bentinck was created Earl of Portland, and after the Battle of the Boyne Ginckel became Earl of Athlone.

At that very time Colonel Mackay, younger of Reay, was commander of the Scottish Brigade in the service of the United Pro

vinces.

During the Civil War, William Borcel, the Dutch Ambassador, was created a Baronet by Charles I., in 1645. The other day I came across Baron Fagel, the last representative of his name, at the residence of his first cousin, the Lord Reay, in Berkeley Square.

Baron Fagel's seat in the Netherlands, named Avegoor, came to him through his great-aunt, the last Dowager Countess of Athlone of the William III. creation. His mother was a Bentinck, and the late Burgomaster of the city of Haarlem in Holland, Sir Jacob Boreel, Bart., is his cousin.

Truly a wonderful instance of the very ancient ties between the Netherlands and Great Britain converging in one person now alive. Baron Fagel unfortunately is a confirmed bachelor and the last male of his W. DEL COURT.

race so far.

47, Blenheim Crescent, W.11.

There are verie few of them [the great towns] that haue not one or two faires or more within the compasse of the yeare assigned vnto them by the prince. And albeit that some of them are not much better than Lowse faire or the common kirkemesses beyond the sea, yet there are diuerse not inferiour to the greatest marts in Europe (p. 343).

There is almost no towne in England, but hath one or more such marts holden yearlie in the same, although some of them (I must needs confesse) be scarse comparable to Lowse faire, and little else bought or sold in them more than good drinke, pies, and some pedleric trash: wherefore it were no losse if diuerse of them were abolished (p. 411).

These extracts are from The Description of England,' attributed to William Harrison, being respectively in ii., xviii., and iii., xv.

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I have not found" Lowse Faire" in the 'New English Dictionary,' where, however, Kirkemesse," given 8.v. "Kermis," is described as In the Low Countries, parts of Germany, &c., a periodical (properly annual) fair or carnival, characterised by much noisy merrymaking." The latter part of the above first quotation is given, except that the words "Lowse faire or the are omitted. Can it be that the edition of Harrison's England, which is quoted by The Dutch the dictionary, leaves them out? word is "Kermis"; the French appears to be "Karmasse or "Kermesse. have a French engraving of Rubens's "La Kermesse Flamande," in which most of the men and women-peasants-are dancing or hugging one another or both. Little, if anything, is being sold.

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ROBERT PIERPOINT,

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"BATHWOMEN (see 12 S. ix. 69).OPINIONATION, &C. (12 S. ix. 69).—I MR. ARMSTRONG seems a little precipitate in am glad that MR. WAINEWRIGHT protests saying that Homer represents women as against the invention of hideous and un- bathing men. Whether Homer meant this, necessary barbarisms. The word "self- or only intended to represent the women opinionatedness" has long vexed me in a as preparing and furnishing the bath, has devotional litany with which I am familiar. been the subject of much discussion. Strong May I call attention to a burden which the arguments for the former view are given hysterics of our lady writers are rapidly by Max Schneidewin, Homerische Naivefastening upon us the substitution of tät' (1878), p. 150-2; for the latter, by "selfless" for unselfish"? If the mean- Gladstone, Studies on Homer, &c.,' vol. ing is the same, why not stick to the existing ii., sect. ix., p. 513-7. It seems quite word, which is both good and clear? If the new creation has a different meaning, I can only conceive that it resembles "soulless," and is therefore by no means the complimentary term intended by its coiners.

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possible that the majority of critics favour the latter view. The question is fully considered by Merry and Riddell in their edition of the first twelve books of the Odyssey, in their note on Book m. 465.

AGATHIPPE.

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"THE LANCASHIRE HOLLANDS.' The our forefathers (the expression is his) did following note with reference to the Sutton it, and we did it in memory of them. He Hall branch of this family may be of interest said it was taught by an old man who lived to those readers who possess Mr. Bernard near or in a cave. I asked where the cave Holland's book, The Lancashire Hollands.' was. He answered near Bromley." I The last-named Thomas Holland (living asked how he made his grotto, and he said 1717), shown in the pedigree on p. 238, with grass, cockle-shells, and flowers when changed his name to Waring in the hope of he could get them. I think this midavoiding penalties on account of his summer folklore in an urban district is religion. The following is a short pedigree interesting when one remembers the caves (given to me by a descendant) showing some of Chislehurst and Blackheath, the marof his descendants :vellous shell-lined grotto of Margate, and the cockles of the Iceni and other races. for earth-worship is midsummer. I have met with the grotto in May; but often it is postponed until the schools close for G. J. holidays.

Thomas Holland (afterwards = Ann Waring of Waring). Living 1717, as Goosnargh, So far as I can discover, the proper time already named above.

James Waring of Hoghton,

Co. Lancs. Leased house ! and farm known as Bleaky Height.

Co. Lancs.

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Eccleston Park, Prescot.
THE ROYAL ROUTE TO WEYMOUTH.-I am
indebted to the Town Clerk of Weymouth
and to Mr. Harry Pouncy, of the Dorset
Field Club, for information upon this sub-
ject. King George III. and his suite
made fourteen summer holiday visits to
Weymouth between 1789 and 1805.
the occasion of his first visit, and also that of
1792, the King started from Windsor, and
apparently accomplished the journey in a
day. The Times of Aug. 13, 1792, says :—
On Friday morning at 4 o'clock the Royal
Family will set off from Windsor Lodge for Wey-
mouth. They will dine at the Bishop of Salis-
bury's on their journey, and they are expected
to arrive at Gloucester Lodge, Weymouth, in the
evening.

The route followed was apparently through
Salisbury, Blandford, and Dorchester. Fur-
ther references to this may be found in the
Court Circulars, and in the Diary of Fanny
Burney.
J. LANDFEAR LUCAS.

101, Piccadilly.

"REMEMBER THE GROTTO."-A few yards from Lewisham Obelisk, on July 23, I was invited by three barefoot little boys to remember the grotto." As I am always interested in the festival, I asked questions. The most intelligent one explained that

Queries.

WE must request correspondents desiring information on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

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SICCO PEDE. For some time past I have been puzzled by a Latin idiom frequently used by Linnæus in his series of dissertations reprinted as 6 Amoenitates Academicae,' namely, "sicco pede.' Here is an instance from the thesis Betula nana':"Priorem Betulae speciem Europaeis, et in his, septentrionalibus praecipue notissimam sicco pede praeterimus ing to pass over or by the named object; elsewhere it is varied as "sicco, ut aiunt, pede . . ."-from which it would seem to be a colloquialism at Upsala at a time when so much instruction and conversation was still conducted in Latin. I have asked for an explanation of classical and Swedish friends, but hitherto in vain. "Dryshod is in Swedish "torrskodd or torrfot," but it seems only used in a literal and not a metaphorical sense. If any reader of N. & Q.' can supply light on this point, I shall be grateful.

B. DAYDON JACKSON.

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THOMAS GAGE.-I should like to obtain disposicions of Welshmen " were towards some information regarding the birthplace good rosted chese," and in 1607 we the Northern man loves white of Thomas Gage (1597 ?-1656) the author learn that " of A New Survey of the West Indias,' meats, the Southern man sallats ... the (1st ed., London, 1648). Thomas Gage was Welshman leeks and cheese." the second son of John Gage of Haling, in In Shakespeare's days the cheese-proSurrey, and a great-grandson of Sir John ducing countries were Essex, Suffolk and Gage of Firle, Sussex. The D.N.B.' Cheshire. Wales did not produce cheese, does not mention the place or date of his and toasted cheese was a rare bit in Wales birth, and some old French and Spanish now indicated by the degenerated term a and also a few English biographical notices" Welsh rabbit." state that he was a native of Ireland, which seems to me very doubtful. Sir Henry Gage, his elder and better known brother, is supposed to have been born in 1597. There are references to Gage and the Gage family in N. & Q.'-1 S. vi. 291; vii. 609; viii. 144; 10 S. vi. 468; vii. 102; viii. 241-2-but his birthplace is not mentioned. Is anything known regarding his residence as rector of Acrise (1642) and Deal (appointed about 1651) in Kent after his conversion to the Protestant faith? Gage died in Jamaica in 1656, after taking part as chaplain in Cromwell's unfortunate expedition to Santo Domingo. Gage's observations upon his stay in Mexico and Guatemala between the years 1625 and 1637 are of great value to students of the Colonial period of Mexican history.

G. CONWAY.

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What grounds were there for Welshmen and cheese to be coupled together? The Englishman used to couple Frenchmen and frogs together. It was a generalization that was inaccurate. Can it be said that coupling Welshmen and cheese toit is done by Shakespeare ? gether had a more natural basis, even when

R. HEDGER WALLACE.

DAIRIES AND MILKHOUSES IN 1594 AND 1624.-In Archæologia,' vol. 48 (1885), there is a paper on Inventories of Household goods and Farming stock at Walton and Gilling Castle, Yorkshire, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

At Gilling, in 1594, the "Darye" contained among other things:- 2 mattresses, 2 bowlsters, 5 coverlettes, 1 cheese presse, 7 leades for mylke, 24 bowles, 2 chirnes and cheese fattes." In 1624 there was at Gilling

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Apartado 490, Mexico, D.F. SHAKESPEARE'S CHEESE-LOVING WELSH MAN.-The majority of the references to in the milkhouse," among other things, cheese made by Shakespeare will be found "5 butter kittes, 20 milk bowles & 3 cream in The Merry Wives of Windsor, and they pottes," "in the landry " "a cheese trough, centre round the character of the Welsh 3 kyrnes" and 1 frame for a kyrne to parson and schoolmaster, Hugh Evans. run in & 2 iron crookes to turne it about "6 ches Evans goes back to the dinner table for with"; and "in the wash-house "there's pippins and cheese to come,' fattes, 1 sinker & 3 chees presses.' but Nym the Englishman loves not At Walton, in 1624, the milkhouse humour of bread and cheese." Ford states contained, among other things, "a bed that he would rather trust Parson Hugh stockes, a paire of sheets stopt with new the Welshman with my cheese than feathers, a bolster, a paire of blanketes, 2 my wife with herself"; and Falstaff cries coverlettes, and a matteresse,' also "16 out in respect to Parson Hugh Evans :— boweles, 8 ches fattes, 2 synkers, 4 skeeles, Heavens defend me from that Welsh 1 kyrne, 4 butter kittes, 2 creames pottes, fairy, lest he transform me to a piece of 1 scummner, 1 cheese trough and a syle, cheese." Again, we have Falstaff and and "in the store chamber" there were Evans sparring:→ 5 butter kittes and a wheele kyrne."

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Falstaff: "Am I ridden with a Welsh goat too? Shall I have a coxcomb of frieze? 'Tis time I were choked with a piece of toasted cheese." Evans: Seese is not good to give putter, your pelly is all putter." Falstaff: 'Seese' and 'putter'! Have I lived to stand at the taunt of one that makes fritters of English?"

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At this period, did dairymaids and milkers use dairies and milkhouses as bedrooms? suppose, be the upright plunge churn; The ordinary kyrne or chirne would, I what kind of churn was it that needed a frame to run in, and iron crooks to be turned by, and what kind of churn was the "wheele

We are told that in 1542 "the natur all kyrne"?

R. HEDGER WALLACE.

SIXTEENTH-CENTURY EWE'S MILK CHEESE question, as well as the whereabouts and IN ESSEX.-In Norden's 'Description of date of some Cornhill Magazine lines in Essex' (1594) there is the following pass- which Matthew Arnold, under the above heading, commemorated the incident. H. T. S. ESCOTT.

age :

Nere the Thames mowth, below Beamflete, are certaine ilandes, called Canuey Islandes, low Merishe grounds, and for that the passage ouer the creeks is vnfitt for cattle, it is onlie conuerted to the feeding of ews, which men milke, and thereof make cheese (suche as it is), and of the curdes of the whey they make butter once in the yeare, wch serveth the clothier. Was this sheep's milk cheese known by any distinctive name?

R. HEDGER WALLACE.

33, Sackville Road, Hove.

are

A. BRYANT.-Biographical details desired of the above person, who published a county map of Hertford in the early part of the nineteenth century. The title page is worded:-County Map of Hertford | by! (from actual survey) A. Bryant | In the Years 1820 and 1821 | Inscribed by Permission to the Most Noble the Marquis of Salisbury, K.G. Lord Lieutenant | and to the Nobility, Clergy, and Gentry of the County. London | Published by A. Bryant, 27, Gt. Ormond Street | April 10, 1822. Was he, in any way, related to John Briant, the noted Herts bellfounder, who lived for many years at Hertford and died at St. Albans on Friday, Feb. 27, 1829, and was Azure, a lioncel (?) arg., on a chief or, interred in All Saints' churchyard, Hertford ? three crosses patée.

ARMS ON SEAL.-I have a seal on which is the following blazoning as far as I am able to make out :

Quarterly 1st and 4th:-
:-

Paly of six arg. and az., within a bordure of the first, semée de lys, on a chief gu. a lion passant arg. (?).

2nd and 3rd :

:

Crest-Swan's head, erased at neck, ducally gorged.

I shall be obliged if any of your heraldic correspondents can inform me to whom the above arms belong or have belonged.

F. R. J.

CAMPBELL SHIELD OF ARMS.-I have a

shield, emblazoned on vellum, of four quar-
terings, with mantling or and sable and an
esquire's helmet, the first and fourth quar-
terings being Campbell and Lorn quarterly ;
the second quartering appears to be on an
argent shield, another shield azure with 3 (?)
heraldic roses; and the fourth quartering is
per pale gules and azure 9 crosses croslet,
and over all a lion rampant argent. Over
the shield is the crest, a lion's head regardant,
and over the crest the motto, "I bear in
mind." On a scroll beneath the shield is
the motto Ex seipsa renascens. To what
families do the arms on the second and third
quarterings belong, and the motto beneath
the shield?
D. K. T.

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Bedford.

L. H. CHAMBERS.

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THOMAS DICKSON, M.D.-I should be glad to have particulars of the ancestry and descendants (if any) of Thomas Dickson, M.D., physician to the London Hospital in I understand he resided at Dyers 1760. Court, Aldermanbury

JAMES SETON-ANDERSON. 39, Carlisle Road, Hove, Sussex.

HELEN DICKSON, married James Gavin, a Covenanter, of the village of Douglas, and had children: a son baptized November 2, 1694; a daughter, 1698; and a son in 1700. Who was she?

JAMES SETON-ANDERSON.

39, Carlisle Road, Hove, Sussex.

CHARLES DICKENS IN CAP AND Gown.I have a silhouette of Dickens ' in his college dress." His signature, but not that with which most of us are familiar, is below the likeness.

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THE custom of gleaning, that is allowing When was this silhouette taken, and of the poor to go into the harvest field to what college was Dickens a member?

W. COURTHOPE FORMAN.

Compton Downs, Winchester.

M, MC, MAC.—What, if any, is the significance of these variations of the Scottish prefix for " son of " ?

WALTER E. GAWTHORP.

NAUTICAL SONG.-Many years ago I heard a sailor sing a song, the chorus of which was as follows:

Heave away, haul away, jolly Boys,
At the mercy of fortune we go;
Now you're in for it, damme what folly, Boys,
For to be down-hearted, Yo-ho.

gather the scattered ears of corn that were left after the crop had been carried, was pretty general throughout the country. In some parts the practice was called "leasing." a term used by Wycliffe in his translation of Leviticus xix. 10:

In thi vyneyeerd the reysonus and cornes fallynge down thou shalt not gedere, but to pore men and pilgrimes to ben lesid thou shalt leeve. In some of the older authorities there were statements that there was a legal right in the poor to glean by the Common Law. The earliest judicial dictum to this effect is by Sir Matthew Hale, in a case at the Norfolk Summer Assizes in 1668, in the course of which he said, the poor to glean, &c., by the general "The law gives license to custom of England (Trials per pais." c. 15, 438, 534). Lord Chief Baron Gilbert, and to whom or what respectively the following in his Law of Evidence' (4th ed., p. 250), three quotations refer :founding himself on Hale's obiter dictum. states :

Can any reader say where the words of the song are to be found?

AUTHORS WANTED.-The

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1. She, standing in the yellow morning sun, Could scarcely think her happy life was done." Fancy free, She dwelt unwedded, lonely as a star.' 3. A painter-priest, Something about two hundred years ago."

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E. R. A.

I should be very grateful if readers of N. & Q.' could fix up for me the following quotations or misquotations:

1. "Speak as you think . . . fate or fortune" (Emerson).

2.That the light of a Sun that is coming may scatter the ghosts of the past."

3. "You did right to dissemble your love; but why did you kick me downstairs?

4. "Windows richly dight."

5. " God in the garden heard and smiled" (W. E. Henley).

6. Get leave to work in this world" (Brownng?).

7. ** The law's a hass."

8. Bobus "Sausage-maker on the great Scale (Carlyle).

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9. Those "petty cares and crawling interests " (Lowell ?).

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By the custom of England the poor are allowed to glean after the harvest, which custom seems to be built on a part of the Jewish Law that allowed the poor to glean, and made the harvest a general time of rejoicing.

Mr. Justice Blackstone (3 Commentaries,” p. 212) writes :

It hath been said that by the Common Law and custom of England the poor are allowed to enter and glean upon another's ground, without being guilty of trespass this humane provision seems borrowed from the Mosaical Law; and he refers to Leviticus xix. 9, 10, and xxiii. 22; and Deuteronomy xxiv. 19.

Selden (History of Tithes,' vol. 6, p. 1087) states that—

it appears the actual property was in the poor and then it belonged to the owner of the field. unless they absolutely neglected the collection. and it did not accrue as a donation but as a legal right. It was thought of so sacred a nature that it was exempted from tithes.

The Private Inclosure Act for inclosing the common fields of Basingstoke, passed in

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