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Henry Newell-Dr. Fifield AllenRebecca Godsalve Baths ог Salting Tanks, 374Artemus Ward "-" Butter goes mad twice a year"Vida's Game of Chess'-Making Bricks without Straw -Album Amicorum' of Wandering Scholars, 375-St. Colme's Charm-Jews' Disabilities-Surnames with Double Letters-Brothers of the Same Christian NameThe Prints and Library of Joseph Nollekens-Charles Wither Rev. E. Davies, Poet, 376-George Wateson, Rector of Millbrook Hatchments-Burial-places of Eminent Scientists-Mulberries-School Magazines-Reprints of Old Newspapers-Tudor Trevor, Earl of Hereford-Naming of Public Rooms in Inns-Virement, 377Dante's Beard-" What between : "What from ""Skelder" and "Skeldergate," 378. ENGLISH ARMY SLANG: Comments and Corrections, 378. 'Woman as she should be' and 'Intrigues of a Morning.' 12mo. Lane, 1793. Noted in The British Critic, iii. (1794), p. 199. · This novel is opened with all the romantic spirit of The Castle of Otranto,' and the reader is led to expect a tale of other times, fraught with enchantments and spells impending from every page. As the plot thickens, they vanish into air-into thin air, and the whole turn out to be a company of well-educated and well-bred people of fashion, some of them fraught with sentiments rather too formed by a depravity that for the honour of refined and exalted for any rank, and others, dehuman nature we hope has no parallel in life. Evidently Mrs. Parsons, like Clara Reeve before her, was trying to put a veneer of Gothic material on the eighteenth-century novel of manners. Allibone says she published eight novels from 1790 to 1796. catalogue of Harvard College Library gives her name as Eliza (Phelp) Parsons. She has another title on our list (see 3, below). 2. Clermont : A Tale.' By Regina Maria Roche. 4 vols. 12mo. Lane, 1798. Noted in The Critical Review, xxiv. (1798), P. 356; 'Cambridge History of English Literature,' xi. 510. There was an American reprint, Philadelphia, 1802. Mrs. Roche is no doubt the best known writer on our list. A Ger3. The Mysterious Warning.' 6 The man tale, in 4 vols. By Mrs. Parsons. 12mo. Lane, 1796. Noticed in The British Critic, viii. (1796), p. 548, and The Critical Review, xvi. (1796), p. 474. 4. The Necromancer; or The Tale of the Black Forest. Founded on facts.' Translated from the German of Lawrence Flammenberg by Peter Teuthold. 12mo. 2 vols. Lane, 1794. Noticed in The Monthly Review, xvi. (1795), p. 465, and The Analytical Review, xx. (1795), pp. 52, 594. Jane Austen gives the title inaccurately as 'Necromancer of the Black Forest,' and I do not find that it has been hitherto identified. Of course Miss Scott's pantomime, The Necromancer (1809), discussed in connexion with these Gothic titles by correspondents of 'N. & Q.' (11 S. vii. 238, 315, 396), can have nothing to do with Northanger Abbey,' which was written in 1797 and 1798, and revised for the press in 1803 (William Austen-Leigh and Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh, Jane Aus ten: Her Life and Letters,' London, 1913, p. 96). 5. The Midnight Bell' has been well discussed by W. B. H. (11 S. vii. 14), who shows that the title is included in the works both of George Walker (c. 1814) and of Francis Lathom (1798 and 1800). But there is little do with two novels of the same name. The these mystical dispensers of liberty. He slept title is a natural one for a Gothic novel, and by way of illustration it may be pointed out that there are two German terror novels with much the same name at much the same time. Christian Heinrich Spiess, Maria Clement, oder die Glocke um Mitternacht,' Olmütz, 1800 (Goedeke, ‘Grundruss zur Geschichte der deutschen Dichtung, v., p. 508), and Heinrich August Kerndöffer, Der Schreckensthurm am See oder die mitternächtliche Todtenglocke,' Chemnitz, 1807 (Goedeke, v., p. 400. The book of this title mentioned in Jane Austen's letter of Oct. 4, 1798, and in Northanger Abbey' is no doubt The Midnight Bell; a German Story Founded on Incidents in Real Life.” 3 ros Symonds, 1798. Noted in The Critical Review, xxiii. (1798), p. 472. The with Horrid Mysteries under his pillow, and confederates holding midnight conventions in dreamed of venerable eleutherarchs and ghastly subterranean caves. It will be seen that all this "rubbish " falls within the six years from 1793 to 1798. The passage in question was probably written in 1798, and records strictly contemporary horrors. No doubt this amazing young lady of twenty-three had read all seven books without rapture or terror, and then by a few strokes of her pen gave them comic immortality. ALAN D. MCKILLOP. The Rice Institute, Houston, Texas, U.S.A. SARACEN OR SAXON? A QUESTION OF ARMS. reviewer judges that it is not a translation WHEN Messrs. Ward and Price, in May, from the German, but an English original. 1921, advertised the sale of Gwydyr Castle 6. The Orphan of the Rhine: & it was described as “ the home of the ancient Romance. By Mrs. Sleath. 4 vols. Lane, Wynne family, lineal descendants from the 1798. Noticed and censured in The Crition Royal Welsh Princes for upwards of five Review, xxvii. 1799, p. 356. The Biographi- centuries"; and among its contents was cal Dictionary of Living Authors' (London, “the renowned Wynne cabinet," of which 1816, gives this writer's name as Eleanor the advertisement gave a sketch. Of the Sleath, and attributes to her, besides The great armorial erodence of Sir John Wynne, Orphan of the Rhine, Who's the Murderer; the builder of Gwydyr Castle in 1535, Mr. or The Mysteries of the Forest,' 4 vols, 12mo., Perey McQuoid, in A History of English 1802; The Bristol Heiress; or The Errors of Furniture F., PP. 38-42, tells us that the Education, 5 vols, 12mo, 1808; and The Tower portion is Nocturnal Minstrel, 2 vols. 12mo, 1809. Allibone gives the same titles decorated with the armorial bearings and emblems of the Wynne family. The upper right parol boars the ama of John Wynne, Quarterly St and 4th sable a chevron between three fleurs House of Dades de is an Tervan av Howell, 1399: 2nd and 3d Vert, three eac ́s played in fesse, or Owen Gwyrdd, KISSI The centre panel bears the mua reja, dors of Engand crowned passant above the York and lancaster nee, the Wynnes bine connatal by namAGA with the Royal GO MIG to the left, than vacie to me as crest, with 1. W Meowtad. The rightwe comparat bears ad@skadr, the last King N = pie, the The orresponding to the stuey that, a. Vychan, 7. Horrid Mysteries: A Story. From the German of the Marquis of Grosse,' London, 1796 By P. WE The Critical Reviete, xxi. (1797, p. 473, points out that the book has the same general outline and is party identical in detail with The Victim of Magical Delusion; or The Mystery of thy Revolution of P 1: a Magico Political Tale founded on Historical Facts and translated from the Geman of Cayetan Sed came of Tschink. By P. W 3 vek Robenson, s and drac 1795. Noticed in De Cazione Beskon (1795, p. 63. This book evidon, y bovan well known for its account of the King See Miss Lillie Deming Lasha The F American Novel," New York, 1907, p who refers to Thomas Love Award's de scription of Seythrop in “Nghman Abbey, ch. ii. : He built many castle in the au and wood them with secret tribunas and bands or whɔ were always the imaginary insuranenia od recjected regeneration of the humon XY S6 he intended to istitute a perfect repad rested himself with absolute sprangert erge with whom zNy rish army Klad three brought their ted Troban to beads coaped from the royal Welsh princes. Therefore Edward, his paramount claims in North the present question at issue is, why- Wales, but Llewelyn ap Gruffudd strenuin the face of so romantic an origin for their ously opposed him, with the result that there coat of arms, does Burke's Peerage,' was prolonged war, mostly in favour of the under Williams Bulkeley, blazon them as Welsh. Gules, a chevron ermine between three Saracens' heads couped at the shoulders"? The account of Vychan's exploit and the sequel is given by both Matthew Paris and Matthew of Westminster, so that it can only be supposed that the modern description of the arms, of three Saracens' heads, is a corruption of the Welsh for three Englishmen's heads. 1. Burke's "three Saracens' heads should be corrected to three Englishmen's heads. 2. That the arms were borne by only one family of Williams. 3. And that family was Williams of Penrhyn and Cochwillan, who descend from Ednyfed Vychan, a powerful noble in the time of Henry III., who was eighth in descent from Marshudd ap Cynan, died A.D. 877. But who was the Vychan of the story? According to the Welsh chronicle, the 'Brut y Tywysogion,' "in 1245 King Henry III. assembled the power of England and Ireland with the intention of subjecting all Wales, and came to Dyganny. And after fortifying the castle and leaving knights in it, he returned into England, having left an immense number of his army dead and unburied." The English version of the story is that Reading the two English chroniclers, Matthew Paris and Matthew of Westminster, it appears that, in 1257, an English force, including 200 knights, was led into an ambush by Rhys Vychan. The force was massacred and the names of two of the English leaders, who were slain, are given. The Brut y Tywysogion,' which tells the story under 1256, estimates the loss at 2,000, and is quite clear that this hero-for to the Welsh he was a hero if to the English a traitor was Rhys Vychan, which agrees with the account of Matthew of Westminster. The dates, however, do not quite fit in, since Llewelyn ap Jorwerth the Greataccording to the 'D.N.B.,' died in 1246, and the only Vychan given by that authority is the Edny-Ved Vychan (Vaughan, i.e. little ") previously mentioned, and he is described as a statesman and warrior who signed a truce with Henry III. and Llewelyn ap Jorwerth in 1231. He took part in the Apud in 1241 and was the ancestor of the Tudors." In the Williams pedigree, Griffith ap Heillen of Cochwillan married Eva, the daughter and heiress of Griffith ap Tudor, eldest son of Tudor Perhaps ap Madoc, Lord of Penrhyn. some correspondent learned in Welsh pedigrees will be able to throw more light upon this fascinating story and identify the ancester of the Williams to whom was granted so interesting a coat of arms. 66 F. H. S. GLASS-PAINTERS OF YORK. (12 S. viii. 127, 323, 364, 406, 442, 485; ix. 21, 61, 103, 163, 204, 245, 268, 323.) WILLIAM PECKITT (continued). PECKITT was not only a man of taste and refinement, but also a highly ingenious. person and something of an author. He had evidently a taste for chemical and scientific research, for in his will he mentions his "tellescope chyme obscura and "large Ring dial," a glass globe and prism, microscope and "Limiaria." What this last was it is difficult to say, and the 'N.E.D.' does not afford any help. It might have been an instrument for viewing transparencies painted on glass, or some form It will be seen that all this "rubbish " falls within the six years from 1793 to 1798. The passage in question was probably written in 1798, and records strictly contemporary horrors. No doubt this amazing young lady of twenty-three had read all seven books without rapture or terror, and then by a few strokes of her pen gave them comic immortality. do with two novels of the same name. The these mystical dispensers of liberty. He slept title is a natural one for a Gothic novel, and with Horrid Mysteries' under his pillow, and by way of illustration it may be pointed out confederates holding midnight conventions in dreamed of venerable eleutherarchs and ghastly that there are two German terror novels subterranean caves. with much the same name at much the same time. Christian Heinrich Spiess, Maria Clement, oder die Glocke um Mitternacht,' Olmütz, 1800 (Goedeke, Grundruss zur Geschichte der deutschen Dichtung,' v., p. 508), and Heinrich August Kerndöffer, Der Schreckensthurm am See oder die mitternächtliche Todtenglocke,' Chemnitz, 1807 (Goedeke, v., p. 400). The book of this title mentioned in Jane Austen's letter of Oct. 4, 1798, and in Northanger Abbey' is no doubt The Midnight Bell; a German Story Founded on Incidents in Real Life.' 3 vols. Symonds, 1798. Noted in The Critical Review, xxiii. (1798), p. 472. The reviewer judges that it is not a translation from the German, but an English original. ALAN D. MCKILLOP. The Rice Institute, Houston, Texas, U.S.A. SARACEN OR SAXON ? A QUESTION OF ARMS. WHEN Messrs. Ward and Price, in May, 1921, advertised the sale of Gwydyr Castle it was described as "the home of the ancient 6. The Orphan of the Rhine : a Romance.' By Mrs. Sleath. 4 vols. Lane, Wynne family, lineal descendants from the 1798. Noticed and censured in The Critical Royal Welsh Princes for upwards of five Review, xxvii. (1799), p. 356. The 'Biographi- centuries"; and among its contents was cal Dictionary of Living Authors' (London, "the renowned Wynne cabinet," of which 1816), gives this writer's name as Eleanor the advertisement gave a sketch. Of the Sleath, and attributes to her, besides The great armorial credence of Sir John Wynne, Orphan of the Rhine,' 'Who's the Murderer; the builder of Gwydyr Castle in 1535, Mr. or The Mysteries of the Forest,' 4 vols., 12mo., Percy McQuoid, in A History of English 1802; The Bristol Heiress; or The Errors of Furniture' (F., pp. 38-42), tells us that the Education,' 5 vols., 12mo., 1808; and The lower portion is Nocturnal Minstrel,' 2 vols. 12mo., 1809. Allibone gives the same titles. 7. 'Horrid Mysteries: A Story. From the German of the Marquis of Grosse.' London, 1796. By P. Will. The Critical Review, xxi. (1797), p. 473, points out that the book has the same general outline and is partly identical in detail with The Victim of Magical Delusion; or The Mystery of the Revolution of P-1; a Magico-Political Tale founded on Historical Facts and translated from the German of Cajetan Tschink.' By P. Will. 3 vols. Robinson, 1795. Noticed in The Critical Review, XV. (1795), p. 63. This book evidently became well known for its account of the Illuminati. See Miss Lillie Deming Loshe, The Early American Novel,' New York, 1907, p. 42, who refers to Thomas Love Peacock's de. scription of Scythrop in 'Nightmare Abbey,' ch. ii. : He built many castles in the air and peopled them with secret tribunals and bands of illuminati, who were always the imaginary instruments of his projected regeneration of the human species. he intended to institute a perfect republic, he invested himself with absolute sovereignty over As 2nd decorated with the armorial bearings and em- Vychan, the hero of this legend, was, of course, the direct ancestor of the Williams family of Cochwillan and Penrhyn, who still bear those arms, and, like the Wynnes, with whom they intermarried, claim descent |