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him from enquiries made regarding his reputed home, Edenderry House, Belfast, have been unproductive; although at the end of the eighteenth century there were Wilsons in that part of the world.

Miss O'Flaherty is said to have had a son by Lord Castlereagh, who was born after his father had committed suicide,and after his mother had married Mr. Wilson. This son was named Joseph Wilson. But the supposition appears to be impossible, since Lord Castlereagh died in 1822, and Joseph was baptized in 1783. He lived in his latter years in Yorkshire, at Leeds and Beverley, died on Nov. 17, 1852, and was buried at Beverley. He was married twice, his first wife dying in July 1849 at Leeds.

Joseph Wilson had at least one sister, Elizabeth, and two sons, Robert and Frederick, born respectively in 1820 and 1830. These sons were both clergymen. The latter was Vicar of St. James the Less, Philadelphia, in his earlier ecclesiastical years, and after a short though distinguished career, he died at Sledmere in Yorkshire, of which place he was vicar, at the early age of 47. The elder brother, Robert, was a chaplain to the Forces, and also at the Penal Settlement at Botany Bay. He settled in Tasmania, where he had a numerous family. But he died at Scarborough in 1897.

The two brothers were in America and Australia respectively when their father died, and as soon as they could do so, they came home to settle up his affairs. But meanwhile their step-mother, who had only been married to their father for two years, disappeared with all his papers and effects, and their efforts to trace her have been unavailing. The mystery of Miss O'Flaherty's marriage thus remains. Perhaps some reader of N. & Q.' may be able to solve it. In the church at Oughterard (Ireland), is a marble tablet which records that "William Wilson, Executor of the late Miss Sarah Wilson of Belfast gave £700 towards the enlargement of the church, &c.," This tablet is dated 1852, and the names

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of the churchwardens appear upon the tablet, one of them being Geo. F. O'Fflahertie, Esq." Can Miss Sarah Wilson have been one of the three daughters of Wilson the land agent, and Miss O'Flaherty?

RANGER.

ST. JAMES'S, BURY ST. EDMUNDS.-Can any reader send me a list of the incumbents of this church? HAYDN T. GILES.

CHEVAL OR CHEVALL FAMILY.-Entries of this family which originated in Herts and Bucks, appear in the following London Church registers: All Hallows, Bread Street; St. Mary's Aldermary; St. Peter's, Cornhill ; St. Michael's, Cornhill; St. Helen's, Bishopsgate; St. James', Clerkenwell, and St. George's, Chapel, Mayfair. There exist at present Chevall Place, S.W., and Cheval Street, E. Is there any connexion between the family and these names? Have the church registers above mentioned been transcribed, and if so are copies obtainable ? Any assistance in tracing this family or any general information would be much appreciated. A. H. CHOVIL.

Maison, Russell Road, Moseley, Birmingham. [See also 12 S. vii. 350. 458.]

THE

THOMAS CHUDLEIGH, ENVOYÉ TO HAGUE, 1682-85.-I should like to find the Chudleigh letters to Sir Richard Bulstrode, Minister to Brussels during the period Chudleigh was at the Hague. Chudleigh's letters were written from the Hague and London, 1682, and from the Hague, 1683-85. There were ninety-one letters in the Chudleigh collection and originally they were in the Le Froy collection; they were bought by John Waller, and when his collection was broken up, they were purchased by John E. Hodgkin who transcribed and annotated them. These letters are described by Hodgkin in his 'Rariora,' vol. i. p. 22. Hodgkin's collection of MSS. was sold by Sotheby's in March-May, 1914. The Bulstrode collection was broken up, parts of it were purchased by the British Museum, e.g., a few letters from Benj. Shelton to Bulstrode, &c., but I can find no trace of Chudleigh's letters to Bulstrode. I should appreciate it very much if any one can inform me where these particular letters are to be found. F. A. MIDDLEbush. 1 Gordon Street, Gordon Square, W.C.1. GEORGE FRANK OF FRANKENAU.-Can any reader give me any information about Georgius Francus de Frankenau, probably a physician either to George I. or George II.? I have a small line engraved portrait of him, no engraver's name nor artist's. He is represented with a very full wig hanging over the left shoulder, and is dressed in a collegiate gown over a coat resembling a uniform with an elaborate lace insertion.

What is particularly required is an account of his life and career. D. A. H. MOSES.

FRANCIS BOYCE.-I should be grateful passage better if the name of a popular if any one could give me some details con- English ballad were substituted for that of cerning Capt. Francis Boyce-such as parent-Calainos.' But what is the ballad or song age, wife's family, dates of birth, marriage, death, &c.

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of 'Colly my Cow' ? Where is it to be found? Curiously enough in Browning's 'The Ring and the Book (Count Guido's second speech, 1. 553) the phrase "Colly my Cow occurs as an expression of contempt. Does it mean "kiss my cow? I should be glad to hear where the ballad or song, if extant, is to be found. JOHN WILLCOCK.

JOHN AND CHARLES THOMAS BROOKS.—

Can any of your readers tell me in what parish I should be likely to find the burial entries of the above. John Brooks of

TAVERN SIGN: THE BRENTFORD TAILOR.-11 Mansfield Place, Kentish Town (parish There is an inn of this name in the village and Apr. 22, 1825, the dates of the making of St. Pancras) died between June 8, 1823, of Cholsey, Berks. Who was this individual? H. E. R.

CHURCHES OF ST. MICHAEL.-I am very much interested to find whether there is a tradition in England that churches to bear the name of St. Michael should always be on high ground. I have read rather recently that that was the case and should be glad

to have it substantiated.

An old St. Michael's Church here, named by a Welshman, in 1735, has always been a matter of query, as to why it was named after that particular saint, but it certainly stands on a hill-top.

(Miss) E. D. KINGSBURY. 80 Prospect Street, Waterbury, Connecticut. THE FISHERMAN'S "INDIAN GRASS."What was the substance known as Indian grass or Indian weed or East Indian weed, introduced here about 1700 as a substitute for horsehair for the cast or point of fishing lines? It appears to have been extensively used during the eighteenth century. It was superseded by silkworm gut, first mentioned in 1724, but not in general use till the end of the century. J. W. H.

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"COLLY MY Cow."-In Motteux's translation of Don Quixote' (vol. ii. chap. ix.) a passage is rendered: But what is the rout at Roncesvalles, tell me? It concerns us no more than if he had sung the ballad of 'Colly my Cow.'" In the original it is the ballad or romance of 'Calainos,' one belong. ing to the same epoch and collection as that referring to the defeat of the French at Roncesvalles. Motteux, I presume, thought that an English reader would understand the

Charles Thomas, and proving of his will. his son, of Duke Street, Manchester Square (parish of St. Marylebone) died between Apr. 19, 1820, and Feb. 27, 1823, the dates being similarly determined. I have searched the Registers of the above two parishes without result; nor are they buried in the native parish of the father, Churchill, co.

Oxon.

E. ST. JOHN BROOKS.

122 Beaufort Mansions, Chelsea.

CULBEN SANDS.-I should be glad to know of any trustworthy book dealing with Culben Sands, the tract of land now covered with sand, near Nairn in Scotland.

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B. C.

A PROVERB ABOUT EATING CHERRIES.connected with the Literature, Popular In Thomas Wright's Essays on Subjects` Superstitions and History of England in the Middle Ages,' London, 1846, vol i, p. 174 we read :—

"Another

very curious

quoted by Ray, Those that eat cherries with English proverb, great persons shall have their eyes sprinted out with the stones,' occurs also in German- Mit grossen Herrn ist nicht gut Kirschen essen, sie schiessen gern mit Steinen zu, und werffen die Stiele einem an den Kopf (Grüter 59 Prov. Alman.).' The same proverbs thus quoted in the German 'Reinhard.'

Uig baint id etzelige wale geweten:
Mit peren ist quait kirsen eten.
Si willent, dat ir geselle grife,
Alzit de hardi, in de si de rife.

(Grimm. Reinh. F., p. 383)." What is the explanation of this proverb ? I am here unable to get access to any of the three works quoted.

Tanabe, Kii, Japan.

KUMAGUSU MINAKATA.

"DEATH AS FRIEND."-An old Dalziel engraving with this title taken from a picture by a German artist, was cut from a part of The Sunday Magazine about 1870. It represents a very aged man, looking at the sunset from a room in a belfry tower; near by, Death in a monk's robe is tolling the passing bell. Who was the artist, and where is the original picture?

J. J. B. 52ND REGIMENT OF FOOT.-Was this regiment quartered in Surrey about 1781-2 ? E. G. T. FOUNDLINGS IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.—In the registers of a country parish in Surrey the burial of foundlings was first recorded in 1757. In that year there were 7; in 1758, 17; in 1759, 28; in 1760, 13. The numbers then dropped suddenly to one or two a year. Can any reader suggest a probable cause for this fluctuation in numbers? E. G. T.

WILLIAM LANGHAM DIED 1838, AGED 81.Can any one inform me where in London he was born, and if he was the son of Robert Langham who received the Freedom of the City of London, 1744 ?

(Mrs.) C. STEPHEN.

Wootton Cottage, Lincoln.

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66 THE EMPIRE."-In the advertisement to his Fashionable Lover,' which was produced in January, 1772, Richard Cumberland (as to whom see the 'D.N.B.'), wrote: "Wherever....I have made any attempt at novelty, I have been obliged to dive into the lower class of men, or betake myself to the outskirts of the empire."

What earlier use is there of " the empire meaning the British dominions? Usually before 1804 the empire meant the Holy Roman Empire.

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JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

A MOTTO OF ERASMUS.-The last motto or adage quoted by Erasmus from Quintilian, under the division headed "Dissimilitudiuis runs thus :-

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"Extra organum. Ductum est ab organo musico. quod intra vigesimam vocem consistit. Conveniet in valde clamosum."

The comment is intelligible enough, but what is the vigesima vox? Is it the twentieth stop or the vox humana ? An ordinary modern organ has generally (with three manuals) thirty stops and twenty-six pipes or. tubes. J. B. McGOVERN.

GIUSEPPE PARINI.-In 'Due Saggi Critici ' just issued by the Clarendon Press, Francesco de Sancti pronounces a somewhat overwrought eulogy on Giuseppe Parini, but provides no dates and but a scant biography of his subject. A similar want is observable in the second sketch or essay on Ugo Fossolo, but one is better acquainted with the latter than the former and so is not as resentful at the deprivation. No doubt these essays were either written for or read to Italians, but the benighted foreigner justly craves for a few biographical details at the hands of the essayist. Perhaps some reader of N. & Q.' could furnish me with such or refer me to some biographical dictionary wherein they lie concealed. J. B. McGOVERN.

St. Stephen's Rectory, C.-on-M., Manchester.

CAPT. SMITH, FOUNDER OF JESUS CHAPEL. -I have a late sixteenth or early seventeenth century portrait. On the back of the canvas is inscribed the following: "Captain Smith, Founder Jesus Chapel."

I shall be extremely glad if any reader can tell me anything about Capt. Smith and Jesus Chapel. He could not, of course, have been the founder of Jesus College Chapel, Cambridge. JOHN LANE.

The Bodley Head, Vigo Street, W.1.

THE REV. WILLIAM LOE, B.D., Rector of Kirkby Masham, Yorkshire, in 1639. Can any correspondent of N. & Q.' give me the name of Loe's mother, and the date of his death? The Dict. Nat. Biog.' xxx. 68, where he is described as a D.D., is silent on these points. G. F. R. B.

TUTOIEMENT.-In Anne Douglas Sedgwick's 'A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago (1919, ch. 1. p. 16) we read :—

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Is it possible that such use of "thou and you was a linguistic as well as a social characteristic of Breton ? it widely spread in France ?

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PARLIAMENT HILL.-Why was Parliament Hill, London, N.W., so named? I have heard it said, Because the conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot stood there to watch the House of Parliament be blown up.

ALFRED S. E. ACKERMANN.

AUTHORS WANTED.

I should be glad to know who wrote the following:

1. How thick with acorns the ground is strewn rent from their cups and brown! How the golden leaves of the windless elms come singly fluttering down!

The briony hangs in the thinning hedge, as russet as harvest corn;

The straggling blackberries glisten jet, the haws are red on the thorn;

The clematis smells no more, but lifts its gossamer weight on high

If you only gazed on the year, you would think how beautiful 'tis to die.

2. In the golden glade the chestnuts are fallen all; From the sered boughs of the oak the acorns fall,

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The beech scatters her ruddy fire;

The lime hath stripped to the cold,

And standeth naked above her yellow attire;
The larch thinneth her spire

after Wallace's death. But if the sword-
blade at Douglas be genuine, as it well may
be, the verses bitten into it by acid are
certainly of later date, being in Roman
characters. Moreover, the mention of many
good men of one surname does not fit the
chronology, seeing that family surnames
were still in a state of flux in the early part
of the fourteenth century, and very few
persons as yet had borne the territorial one
'de Douglas." Many years ago I tran-
It
scribed the legend on the sword-blade.
runs as follows:-

So mony gvid as of the Dovglas Beine
Of ane surname was never in Scotland seine

I wil ye charge efter that I depart
To holy grayfe and thair bvry my hart

Let it remain for ever both tyme and hovr
To the last day I sie my Saviovre

So I protest in tyme of al my ringe [reign] Ye lyk subjectis had never ony Keing. HERBERT MAXWELL.

Monreith.

JOHN BEAR, MASTER OF THE FREE SCHOOL

To lay the ways of the wood with cloth of gold. AT RIPON (12 S. viii. 150).—In 1730 the

D. W.

Who is the author of the following lines:

I shall remember while the light lasts, And in the darkness I shall not forget (MRS.) F. S. BENJAMIN, [Swinburne Poems and Ballads.' The lines occur in Erotion' and run

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I shall remember while the light lives yet, And in the night-time I shall not forget.]

Replies.

THE SWORD OF BANNOCKBURN." (12 S. viii. 151.)

PROBABLY the sword referred to under this title is the blade preserved at Douglas Castle in possession of the thirteenth Earl of Horne, who represents in the female line the ancient Lords of Douglas. It is said to have been given to the Good Sir James of Douglas by Robert I., King of Scots. There is nothing in the blade itself inconsistent with its traditional origin, for it is not a double-handed sword like that

ascribed to Wallace, long preserved in Dunbarton Castle and now, if I mistake not, in the Wallace Monument on Abbey Craig near Stirling. Double-handed swords were unknown until nearly one hundred years

master of Ripon School was a Mr. Barker who might be the John Barker of Christ Church, 1717, B.A., 1721; M.A., 1724. He was succeeded in or before 1732 by Mr. Steevens or Stephens. J. B. WHITMORE. 41 Thurloe Square, S. Kensington, S.W.7.

66 AUSTER LAND TENURE (12 S. viii. 109). -Yesterday, or was it on July 15, 1882, I made a somewhat similar inquiry in the columns of N. & Q.' thus ::

In the Enclosure award of the parish of Weston-super-Mare dated in the year 1810the Commissioner appointed for the purpose, after making various awards, sets out, allots, and awards: :

"The residue and remainder of the said moor, common, and waste lands unto, for and amongst the several proprietors and persons claiming and being allowed rights of common thereon in respect of their tenements commonly called old Auster or ancient tenements situate within the Parish of Weston-super-Mare in the proportions and manner hereinafter mentioned that is to say, unto James, &c.”

I received several replies, and to my mind, the correct solution from MR. G. FISHER, who wrote:

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This is probably derived from "Auster- The same volume records the duty payable land or Astreland" meaning "hearth to the "Pakker of London " in 1474, and in or "home."-land. Elton's 'Origins of Eng-1482 records lish History,' p. 191, has the following note with reference to the inheritance and division of land or property :—

"The word Astre is often used in old documents for the hearth, and for the dwelling house. A provincial use of the word in the latter sense in Shropshire is noticed by Lambarde, Peramb. Kent,' 563. Other instances are found in the local idioms of Montgomeryshire, and in many parts of the West of England, where Austerland' is that which had a house upon it in ancient times."

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The Austerland generally passed to the youngest son or daughter. Sandys

(p. 155) :—

Consuetudines Kanciae' has

"If a man die seised of landes in Gavelkinde, of any estate of inheritance all his sonnes shal have equall portion....there ought to be graunted to the eldest the first choice after the division so to the part of the youngest there ought to be allotted in the division that piece of the mesuage which our treatise callethastre,' that is to say, the stocke, harth, or chimney, for fire; which woord (as I thinke) was derived of the Latine astrum, a starre, bicause the fire shineth in the house as the starre therof; and which, though it be not now commonly understood in Kent, yet do they of Shropshyre and other parts receive it in the same signification till this.day." ARCHIBALD SPARKE.

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"The offices of packing all manner of merchandize and of gauging wine-vessels (to see if they contained lawful measure) were granted (inter alia) to the Mayor and Commonalty in

"that Robert Fitzherbert, the Common Packer,thenceforth take for his labour for the package of every hundred calf-fells (he finding the cords for such packing) the sum of 8 pence.'

A similar office is mentioned in P. L. Simmond's 'Dictionary of Trade Products,. Commercial Manufacturing, and Technical Terms,' 1858 ::

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Survey of London' (1769), at p. 229, writing Henry Chamberlain in his 'History and of King Charles I., in 1640, says :— "The citizens....advanced the king a siderable sum of money in consideration of his granting them another charter: by which, after first reciting their former privileges of package, survey, or scavage of all goods, and of baillage, two hundred pounds, confirmed the said offices, 'his majesty, in consideration of four thousand and created ordained and constituted an office merchandize whatsoever, and an office or carriage or officer of package of all sorts of goods and and portage of all wools, &c., and merchandize whatsoever; and did ratify and confirm the fees set down in the tables hereunto annexed, due to the said office. And his majesty did also give and grant the said offices of scavage, or surveying, baillage, package, carriage and postage, citizens of London to be exercised and occupied and their lawful fees, to the Lord-mayor and by sufficient ministers or deputies.. Waich charter is dated the fifth day of September, in the sixteenth year of his reign.'

Chamberlain, then, pp. 229-35, proceeds to set forth in detail : (1) the Scavage Table of rates inwards; (2) the Balliage [sic] Duties outwards; (3) the Package Table of Rates; and (4) Fees taken by the packers and water-side porters for landing and shipping out the goods of strangers. Probably the Packership of London had ceased to be granted by patent to a private individual. for some considerable time before 1640.

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT..

Survey of London' (ed. 1842), at p. 151, WAT TYLER (12 S. viii. 110)-Stow in his

says:

"I find that in the 4th of Richard II. these stew-houses belonging to William Walworth, then mayor of London, were farmed by Froes of Flanders, and spoiled by Walter Tyler, and other rebels of Kent,' and his note is :

"Li. St. Mary Eborum. English people disdayned to be baudes. Froes of Flaunders wereTM

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