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BRITISH SETTLERS IN AMERICA (12 S. ix. 482, 517, 521).-May I enclose extract from the Public Records as to a member of the Tapp family.

Mr. O. Tapp was proprietor of Post House, Marlborough, ir Cromwell's days. He drove to Red Lion, Fleet Street, London, every week. Pepys stayed at this post-house. In the Public Record Office, London, Chancery Bills and Answers.

B93/34 Barber v. Tapp.

17 Oct. 1639.-The several answers of
Edmund Tapp.
Edmond Tapp, the defendant, was possessed
of a messuage and divers edifices, barnes, stables,
outhouses, arable land, meadowe and pastures
lying and being in Bonington in ye County of
Hert. This defendant savth that he went and
departed fro' England in Europa the last day of
May, 1637, with all his family and never hath
been there since, and he this defend. ariveing in
that place of America which now called New Eng-
land the last day of July, 1637, and ther hath
remained ever since.

Sworn 7 day August, 1640, at Quinypy ack in
New England.
ARTHUR TAPP.

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the Municipal Art Galleries, Brighton, and
works by him often appear in Sussex picture-
shops. He flourished during the Regency
and in succeeding years. (1) Bernard
Evans, R.I., had a picture reproduced in
Modern British Water-Colour Drawings,'
a Special Summer Number of The Studio in
1900. I think he is to be identified with
Bernard Walter Evans, Esq., R.I., R.B.A.,
as to whom see Who's Who.'
JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

The following information has been gleaned from various sources :

1. Bernard Evans, landscape painter, of London. Exhibited at the R.A., Surrey Water Colour Society Street and New

during the years 1871-1893.

2. Ernest Griset, animal painter, of London. Exhibited two pictures at Surrey Street in 1871.

3. James Duffield Harding was born at Deptford in 1798. He had a few lessons from Samuel Prout, and worked with

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John Pye, the engraver. He painted landscapes in oils and water-colours, was BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS OF ARTISTS member of the Old Water Colour Society, SOUGHT (12 S. x. 9).-11. Nicholas Pocock, and was also a lithographer. He exhibited the son of a Bristol merchant, was at the R.A., B.I., S.B.A., and O.W.C.S., born in 1740. As a youth he entered &c., 1811-63.

the Merchant Service and in 1780

He died at Barnes in 1863. 4. Henry Andrew Harper, landscape painter, of London. Exhibited a large number of pictures during the years 18581893 at the R.A., Surrey Street, and New Water Colour Society.

5. G. J. Knox lived in London, and exhibited landscapes at the R.A., B.I., and Surrey Street from 1839-1859.

took up art as a profession, painting in Bristol regularly for some years. He died March 9, 1821. His portrait was painted by his son, Isaac (1782-1835), a pupil of Romney. An obituary notice of father and son is in The Gentleman's Magazine (1835). N.S. iv. 657-8. The pedigrees of his descendants are printed in Berry's 'Pedigrees of Berkshire Families,' pp. 1833. Became a special artist on the staff 116-22. Notices of him and his work are of The Illustrated London News, for which to be found in Owen's Two Centuries of he depicted the Crimean, Danish, AustroCeramic Art in Bristol,' pp. 49-52; Roget's Prussian, and Franco-German Wars. He * History of the Old Water Colour died in 1877.

6. Robert Thomas Landells was born in

Society, passim; D.N.B.,' xlvi. 5-6; 7. Paul Marny, landscape painter, and in N. & Q.,' 4 S. xi. 290, 331, 388; flourished at Birmingham. From 1866-90 8 S. iv. 108, 197, 291-2; 10 S. iv. 468. he exhibited landscapes at the R.A. and A large collection of naval drawings and various other exhibitions. engravings by Pocock was sold in two parts in 1913 by Messrs. Hodgson, whose sale catalogues form an interesting record of his work.

ROLAND AUSTIN.

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8. Richard Henry Nibbs, a popular painter of marine subjects. His first picture, Lord Mayor's Day,' appeared at the Academy of 1841, but in 1842 he sent a sea-piece, and to that branch of art he There are accounts of (3) James Duffield afterwards remained constant. He died Harding (1798-1863), (6) Robert Thomas in 1893, aged 77.

Gloucester.

Landells (1833-1877), (11) Nicolas Pocock 9. Cornelius Pearson was born at Boston, (1741 ?-1821), and (16) John Thomas Lincs, and later became apprenticed to Serres (1759-1825) in the D.N.B.' There an engraver in London. Many of his landare some pictures by (8) R. H. Nibbs in scapes exhibited at the S.B.A.,

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1843-91. He died in 1891, in his 83rd especially notable in water-colour. the 'D.N.B.,' vol. viii., p. 1220. 10. Edward Pugh, English miniature- 6. R. T. Landells (1833-1877), vol. ii painter and landscape draughtsman, was p. 169. born in the second half of the eighteenth 8. R. H. Nibbs (c. 1815-1893), vol. iv century. His works appeared at the p. 17. Academy from 1793 to 1808. He illus- 9. Cornelius Pearson (c. 1808-1891), vc trated Modern London' (1805) and Cam- iv., bria Depicta' (1816), and died at Ruthin in 1813.

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11. N. Pocock (1741-1821), vol. iv., p. 13 16. J. T. Serres (1759-1825), vol. v., p. 6 11. Nicholas Pocock was born about the As regards some other names mentione year 1741, and was the son of a Bristol I note as follows:— merchant. He became captain of a 1. Bernard Evans, R.I. A very merchant vessel and spent his leisure time complished landscapist who was an exhibit in sketching. He became an original in London and the provinces for man member of the Old Water Colour Society years. In 1875 he was resident in London and was encouraged in art by Reynolds. in 1912 at Harrogate. If now living h He painted landscapes and marine subjects, must be a veteran. I suggest inquiry and exhibited at the R.A., B.I., and O.W.C.S., the secretary of the Royal Institute Painters in Water Colours. 12. Thomas Sewell Robins (not Robbins) 2. Ernest Griset. Flourished in the mic was born in 1814. He was a member of Victorian period as an illustrator. He ha the New Water Colour Society, and one of an excellent knack, before the time of the original members of the Institute of Caldecott, in comical drawings of animal Painters in Water Colours. He exhibited 7. Paul Marny. From some drawings i at the R.A., B.I., S.B.A., &c., 1829-79, gouache by this artist which I have seen chiefly landscapes and marine subjects. should place him about the middle of las He died in 1880. century. 10. E. Pugh. Ephraim Pugh was draw figure subjects. He lived in London, and ing master at the Liverpool Mechanics between 1880-93 exhibited at the R.A., Institution, which was opened in 1839 Surrey Street and various other exhibitions. His pictures were not, I think, of hig 16. John Thomas Serres, son of Dominic merit, but I have not seen any of them an Serres, R.A., was born in London in 1759. don't know any biographical particular He was taught drawing at the Chelsea further than that he was an exhibito Naval School, and later became draughtsman to the Admiralty. He married Miss Willmot, the soi-disant Princess of Cumberland, who ruined him. He was a painter: of marine subjects, and exhibited at the R.A., B.I., and S.B.A. from 1780-1825. He died in 1825 and was buried at Marylebone.

13. H. Randolph Rose specialized

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1848-1876, and probably earlier and later If Mr. Hughes wishes to know more abou Pugh I shall be pleased to make inquiries.

17. E. Tucker. Perhaps a member a family connected with the Lake Distric which has produced several capable land scapists. An inquiry might be addressed to Mr. Arthur Tucker, R.B.A., Ashleigh of Woolwich, Windermere.

17. Edward Tucker painter of coast scenes. He exhibited at 18. B. B. Wadham. A Liverpool mid the R.A., B.I., and Surrey Street during Victorian painter of no great merit. He ha two sons who were artists, one of whom

1849-1873.

18. B. B. Wadham of Liverpool. He exhibited under another name; I think exhibited landscapes at the R.A. and Surrey Street from 1871-1883.

Sinclair.

Mr. Hughes might usefully consult Mi Algernon Graves's Dictionary of the Roya Academy' and the other analyses by tha valuable antiquary.

1 ARCHIBALD SPARKE. There are biographical notices of several of the painters about whom MR. T. CANN HUGHES inquires in the latest edition of Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers,' These are as follows:

3. J. D. Harding (1798-1863), vol. iii., p. 14. A very eminent and versatile artist,

E. RIMBAULT DIBDIN. 64, Huskisson Street, Liverpool.

The following details may be of interest :3. James Duffield Harding, born 1798 probably at Deptford, near London. H

is remembered for his paintings in water- BROTHERS OF THE SAME CHRISTIAN NAME colours, in which he abandoned the exclusive (12 S. ix. 230, 273, 312, 336, 376, 415, 436, use of transparent colours. His Sketches at 454, 497). Here is an instance from the Home and Abroad' (1836), dedicated to Louis Basque country. At Sare, in the family Philippe of France, The Park and the Lorrondo-Saharrear in 1793 there were Forest' (1841), and Picturesque Selec-five brothers and sisters, and the two tions (1861) attest his skill as a lithographer. (younger) brothers bore the name of Gratien He became known also by his textbooks, (Causeries sur le Pays Basque,' by Mme. e.g., The Principles and Practice of Art' Charles d'Abbadie d'Arrast, Paris, 1909). (1845). He died 1863. In Roman Catholic countries the practice might be explained if we could assume that both brothers were born on the same saint's day. H. A. ROSE.

5. G. J. Knox. Was he the third son of the Right Hon. George Knox, P.C., M.P., D.C.L., fifth son of Thomas Knox, first Viscount Northland, father of the first Earl of Ranfurly?

JAMES SETON-ANDERSON.

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Milton House, La Haule, Jersey.

THE REV. J. DE KEWER WILLIAMS (12 S. ix. 450, 498, 531).—He was in much request in the eighties for his lectures, which were full of humour. I well remember one entitled "Hats in general and some in

39, Carlisle Road, Hove, Sussex. MEILER MAGRATH, ARCHBISHOP CASHEL (12 S. viii. 470).—The following notes, though not giving the exact details particular." asked for by G. F. R. B., may nevertheless be of some assistance.

His wife, Anne O'Meara, appears to have been living in 1592: see a letter apparently addressed to her in State Papers, Ireland, for that year.

Five sons are mentioned in the State Papers under the following dates: 1600, Tirlogh (married to Katherine Butler, sister of the Countess of Desmond), Redmond; 1607, James, Marcus, Terence.

R. E. THOMAS.

NORRIS AND EYRE FAMILIES (12 S. ix. 212). I have the complete pedigree of Eyre of Hassop, acquired at the recent dispersal of Hassop Hall. The daughters of Roland Eyre by Ann, daughter of Sir Francis Smyth, were as follows::

Elizabeth married Pratt, Anne wife of Robert Dormer of Grove Park, Warwick.

Prudence wife of John Berry of Berry Herbert, Co. Devon. Mary wife of William Blundel of Little Crosby, Lancs, and Ursula wife of Cherry Orton of... Co. Lanr.

I do not find any mention in the pedigree of the marriage with Norris.

Sheffield.

F. BRADBURY.

In the

Two of his sons were with him in England in November, 1599, where he writes from his chamber next the Falcon, in Tothill Street, Westminster, but he does not give their names. One of his sons was at Oxford in 1602, apparently as a member of the University, MULBERRIES (12 S. ix. 337, 377, 519).— and known by the name of Gray: see. Years ago, in the South Lambeth Road, Historical MSS. Commn. Reports,' Mar- not far from Vauxhall Station, the late quess of Salisbury's MSS., Part XII. Mr. Lionel Brough, the famous actor, lived in an old house called Percy Villa. garden was a fine mulberry tree, and Mr. Brough has told me that, in days gone by, when other good houses still stood in that street, every garden had its mulberry tree. I am under the impression that he said there had been an avenue of mulberry trees before houses were built. Perhaps some authority on old London could confirm my J. R. H. dim recollections.

Foster, Al. Öxon,' records that Mark Grave and James Graye both subscribed on Oct. 31, 1601; the coincidence of names and dates makes it possible, if not probable, that these were two of the sons of the Archbishop.

Unfortunately none of the references on which these notes are based gives any clue as to the order of birth of these sons, nor as to the existence or non-existence of others.

I would add a warning that the indexing of Irish names in the volumes of the Irish State Papers of this period is somewhat erratic, and entries should be looked for under Cashels, Magrath, McCragh, Magraughe and Magrauffe.

J. B. WHITMORE.

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'Broad Grins,' and its authorship is attributed to George Colman himself.

The Newcastle Reciter' omitted the first part and partly altered the verse here and there.

To

Carthage," or are referred for "Tweedledum and Tweedledee to John Byrom, when the current use of these comic names is certainly derived from Alice Through the Looking-glass.' have " Be sure your sin will find you out [The verses kindly written out have been for- is curious, as is also the form given to the phrase. referred to the Odyssey instead of Deuteronomy warded to our correspondent.]

RICHARD H. HOLME.

Notes on Books.

Authors' and Printers' Dictionary. By F. Howard Collins. (Humphrey Milford, 3s. 6d. net.) F. HOWARD COLLINS died in 1910; the fourth edition of this admirable little work (1912) was supervised by the late Horace Hart, Controller of the Oxford University Press. That edition seemed but little short of perfection-however, here is a fifth, which shows a yet further improvement, besides taking cognizance of words and dates and persons and other matters which time and the war have brought into the general current of thought and writing. We do a little regret that those who acquire this new edition will not have the compiler's original preface, a pleasant piece of writing and instructive withal. Comparing our own well-used copy with the new exemplar we find sundry traces of consideration for brethren weaker in the matter of spelling-thus accommodate " has been inserted. Many now unnecessary names have been omitted and also several technical terms, which some pleasant fancy rather than their utility must have made the compiler insertsuch as "bewet, leather attaching bell to hawk, not -it." A few indications of pronunciation have been modified. Several new entries from foreign languages appear, and, naturally, a crop of new scientific and military terms. publisher mentions his regret at not having been able to adopt any great proportion of the numerous suggestions he has received owing to the expense of altering the plates: it would therefore be futile to make any of our own. We have but to express anew our gratitude for a most useful compilation, and our satisfaction at having it thus brought up to date."

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A Dictionary of English Phrases. (Routledge, 12s. 6d. net.)

WE dipped into these pages with great interest and some pleasant expectation. The amount of work and patience which went to the making of them entitles the compiler to considerable respect. The phrases include most of our modern catchwords and clichés, as well as the great mass of familiar locutions and, with these, an array of old or rare expressions which cannot be said to have maintained themselves in the general currency of the language. These last are often supported by references, but sometimes not so, and in cases where we should have welcomed a reminder. 66 Thus as inaccessible as Abaton " seems to want some justification, considered as an English phrase. Sometimes the origin of a well-known sentence or quotation is rather too imperfectly given-as when we read on Delenda est Carthago that this was stated to have been uttered in the Senate by Cato after a visit to

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These instances are taken at random and might be added to indefinitely. The chief use of this collection, in fact, might be to serve as a suggestive nucleus for a more correct and thorough work. THE new Quarterly Review is largely devoted history. The literary articles are not of special to international politics and recent foreign Mr. Edmund Gosse and Mr. John Drinkwater importance, though essays from the pens of must count for much on whatever subject these graceful writers discourse. Mr. Gosse's theme is Austin Dobson, to whom he brings a pious tribute such as no one but himself is in the position to offer. Mr. John Drinkwater gives us a study of Henley, in which Henley is none the less effectively discussed for being something of a stalking-horse. Sir James Frazer depicts London life as Addison knew it, and by his own vivid visualization imparts real freshness and interest to a well-known subject. On the borderline between history and present politics are two papers, each in its way striking: Dame Una Pope-Hennessy's criticism of recent somewhat extravagant accounts of the French Revolution and Mr. John Buchan's sympathetic portrait of the late David Henderson. The first place in the number is allotted to the second instalment of Mr. C. R. Haines's Recent Shakespearean Research,' which sets out chiefly the present position of inquiry as to the doubtful plays. Mr. Haines adopts in regard to these a rather sanguine view.

CORRIGENDUM.

At 12 S. ix. 393 (Astley's Circus ') for " W. H. C. Nathan " read W. H. C. Nation.

Notices to Correspondents.

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A. A. MORGAN (THE TRUSTY SERVANT ').— This is an emblematic painting at Winchester College. A most interesting discussion of it will be found at 11 S. xii. 193, 267, 342.

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QUERIES:-Cole, or Coale-rents-Thornborough-Battersea
'Allostree's Almanack' 1680 -- V. de
Veldte the Elder: Identification of Flag sought-Quant

Charms to be identified. 70-Spelling of "Champagne
"Water Measure," for Apples and Pears-Family of Lee-

Andrew Barnard : Sir Frederick Augustus Barnard. K.C.H.,

71-De Kemplen's Automaton Chess-player-Will-o'-the wisp-Mulberry-trees-Bears-Rain and Fishing-Kynaston -J. C. F. Keppel-Proverbs and Phrases-Authors wanted,

72.

REPLIES:-The Arms of Leeds, 72-Mrs. Joanna Stephens. 73

'The Beggar's Opera' in Dickens, 74-Title of "K.H." Baron Grant, 75-The Brighton Atheneum (Antheum)

Edward Lamplush-Launching of Ships-Song-book by

Tobias Hume, 76-Index Ecclesiasticus St. Christopher and the Christ Child-The Troutbeck Pedigree-The House

of Harcourt, 77-Pharaoh as Surname Tavern Signs: "The Five Alls"-The Maccabees, 78-Adah Isaacs Menken's Infelicia '—“ Mata Hari's " Youth-Wellington Testimonial Clock Tower-The Abyssinian Cross-" To

burn one's boats "-Author's Name wanted, 79.

NOTES ON BOOKS: The Old Deeside Road

Selected Polish Tales - The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney '—— The Elizabethans and the Empire.'

Notices to Correspondents.

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Whether we have here a case of true collaboration, or rather as has been supposed the result of Massinger's recasting of an early work of Dekker, is a question that it is scarcely possible to determine. It is, however, possible to distinguish, with a degree of certainty unusual where problems of joint-authorship are concerned, the work of the two dramatists who comPosed it, for the writings of each possess clearly-marked characteristics. only has Massinger's mature blank verse So distinctive a ring as to render it (in the longer speeches at least) easy of recognition, but he has also a habit of repeating images and sentiments to a degree not paralleled in the writings of any other dramatist. Many of his sentiments are to be met with, phrased in almost precisely the same way, in half a dozen or more of his plays. He has also a large number of mythological allusions drawn from a very limited stock and consequently frequently repeated.

Dekker also has many characteristic words, phrases, allusions and tricks of speech. Some of the features most conspicuous in his early plays-e.g., his habit of repeating words two or three times in succession, of using volleys of adjectives, adverbs or synonyms are not, however, particularly in evidence here, from which

MASSINGER AND DEKKER'S THE it is clear either that Dekker's work in the

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play is of a much later date than in such THE practice of collaboration in dramatic plays as Satiromastix,'The Shoemaker's authorship, so prevalent in Elizabethan Holiday' and Westward Hoe,' or that times, has seldom yielded a more happy Massinger has drastically revised Dekker's result than in the case of Massinger and work throughout. On the whole, although Dekker's The Virgin Martyr.' Massinger's some passages written by Dekker show stately style and mastery of dramatic signs of alteration by Massinger, the former technique combined with Dekker's sincerity incline to the opinion that the two authors conjecture seems to me the more probable. and high poetic gifts have given us as powerful and moving a tragedy as is to be worked upon the play together, and that found outside shakespeare. No doubt from The Virgin Martyr' is the result of collabo the point of view of the modern reader the ration in the true sense of the term. "comic relief" afforded by those two base creatures Hircius and Spungius is a blot upon the play, but the introduction of these characters does not in any way affect its essential morality. Their conversation and behaviour, offensive though it is, is at least in keeping with their typical character, and the vices of lechery and drunkenness which they personify, far from being presented

Hitherto those who have discussed its

authorship have treated the shares of the two authors as if they were entirely independent-allotting one scene to Massinger, another to Dekker, and

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I should except Professor Cruickshank, who, in Appendix X. of his Philip Massinger (published in 1920, after my analysis of the text was made) suggests that II. iii. and IV. i. are of composite authorship.

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