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The signature to the former is omitted, but learned source from which it emanates (a that to the latter is "John Paul." contributor to N. & Q.') how it is that the is not included. It is curious Holyoake should omit all mention of this book, which is the only one of Carlile's that has survived. RALPH THOMAS.

In the same year (1830) there was pub-Freemasonry lished at New York the Life and Correspondence of John Paul Jones, including his Narrative of the Campaign of the Liman. From original Letters and Manuscripts in the Possession of Miss Janette Taylor.' In his preface the editor (Robert Sands) says :— "Miss Janette Taylor, a niece of Admiral Jones, arrived in this country some months ago, having in her possession original copies of all the documents which were before the Editor of the biography above commented upon [i.e. the Edinburgh 'Memoirs'], with others which were not."

At pp. 20-22 of the New York work are printed the two letters mentioned above. Are they the two letters of which MR. ATTON says that he has himself seen the signatures ? At p. 31 we read :—

"At the time when Paul settled (or more properly, supposed he meant to settle) in Virginia, it would seem that he assumed the additional name of Jones. Previous to this date, his letters are signed John Paul."

This statement, coming from Jones's niece,
and the remarks of the Edinburgh and New
York editors, indicate that there were once
in existence many letters signed "John
Paul." Where such letters are now to be
found, I regret that I cannot say.
Boston, U.S.

ALBERT MATTHEWS.

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"GOVERNOR OF THE ENGLISH NATION (10 S. xi. 428).--According to Members of Parliament: Part I. Parliaments of England, 1213-1702' (Blue book), the members for Shoreham in the Parliament summoned for 20 Jan., 1557/8, were Anthonius Hussey, armiger, and Ricardus Baker, armiger. These names are taken from the Crown Office List in the absence of Original Re

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ROBERT PIERPOINT. [See ante, p. 4.]

ALL THE WORLD AND HIS WIFE

(10 S.
xi. 490).-Anstey, in the New Bath Guide,"
1766, says (p. 130, 4th ed., 1767): –
You may go to Carlisle's and to Almanac's too;
And I'll give you my Head if you find such a Host,
For Coffee, Tea, Chocolate, Butter, or Toast;
How he welcomes at once all the World and his
Wife,

And how civil to Folk he ne'er saw in his Life!
Swift uses the phrase, with a host of other
colloquialisms, in his Polite Conversation,'
the third dialogue, and doubtless it was
in popular use long before his satirical pen
noted it.
G. L. APPERSON.

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GREEN DRAGON (10 S. xi. 129).-As in- much into question what he asserts with any I do not know if you have variably is the case with heraldic signs, the reasonable man. colour (in this instance vert), is no mere not, paltry as it is, I should send it to you. The received this performance. If I thought you had fancy of the sign artist, and furnishes an work I mean is called The Diaboliad. His hero is important clue as to the origin of the Lord Ernham [sic]. Lord Hertford and Lord Green Dragon," which, as well by its Beauchamp are the chief persons whom he loads colour vert as by its ubiquity in town cousin Mr. Ascough are also treated with not much with his invectives. Lord Lyttleton [and] his and country, may be recognized as the levity; Lord Pembroke with great familiarity, as badge of that celebrated nobleman and well as C. Fox; and Fitzpatrick, although painted sagacious statesman William Marshall, Earl in colours bad enough at present, is represented as of Pembroke, Regent during the minority one whom in time the devil will lose for his disciple. of Henry III. It is, in fact, so described in I am only attacked upon that trite and very foolish a list of signs which had their origin in the acknowledging [it] to proceed from an odd and opinion concerning le pene e le delitté led i delitti], heraldic badges of the nobility, or of royalty, insatiable curiosity, and not from mauvais cœur. In compiled by Bagford in his MS. notes about some places I think there is versification, and a few the art of printing (Harl. MSS., 5910, vol. ii. good lines, and the piece seems to be wrote by one p. 167). By his peaceful, but vigorous not void of parts, but who with attention might administration in reducing the turbulent write much better. barons to allegiance, the Earl of Pembroke became extremely popular, the sagacity of his statecraft filling England with wealth and luxury, by her commerce with the south of France (Strickland's Queens of England'). Probably the "dragon" is strictly a wyvern, a kind of flying serpent, the upper part resembling a dragon, and the lower an adder or snake, for the crest of the present Earl of Pembroke is a wyvern, wings elevated, vert, holding in the mouth a sinister hand, couped at the wrist, gules. The Earl, however, traces his descent from William Herbert ap Thomas, who was advanced to the earldom of Pembroke in the eighth year of Edward IV., about 250 years after the three years of the Regency of William Marshall,

Earl of Pembroke.

J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL.

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THE DIABOLIAD,' BY WILLIAM COMBE (10 S. ix. 227; xi. 458).-In case budding bibliographer should be led astray, it may be well to record that copies exist dated 1677, a printer's error for 1777. One of these is in the writer's possession, with the blank names identified. The Fitzpatrick is added to the initial “F.........." on p. 3, line 14, in this exemplar. There is no name blank (or annotation) on p. 20. Possibly the Dublin edition was revised or

recast.

Liverpool.

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WILLIAM JAGGARD.

There is a very interesting reference to "The Diaboliad' in a letter from George Selwyn to Lord Carlisle, February, 1777; see Hist. MSS. Com., Fifteenth Report, Appendix, Part VI. 320 :

"The author of a new Grub Street poem, I see, allows me a great share of feeling, at the same time that he relates facts of me, which, if they were true, would, besides making me ridiculous, call very

"I forgive him his mention of me, because I believe that he does it without malice, but if I had leisure to think of such things, I must own the frequent repetition of the foolish stories would make me peevish. Alas, I have no time to be peevish."

Besides corroborating a large portion of the key that I have already inserted in N. & Q.' this letter is interesting because it gives Selwyn's views with regard to the popular opinion that he was fond of attending executions. Simon Luttrell, Baron Irnham, afterwards first Earl of Carhampton, the hero of The Diaboliad,' was, in consequence, known as the "King of Hell."

HORACE BLEACKLEY.

JOHN SLADE, DORSET (10 S. xi. 488).He was usher of Magdalen College School, Oxford, 1546-8; master 1548-9; ordained deacon in London April, 1554, being then M.A.; the master of Bruton School before 1559; Rector of Clifton Maybank, Dorset, of Thornford 1559; and of South Perrot 1554; Vicar of Stogumber 1556-9; Rector 2 Nov., 1570. (See Macray's Magd. Coll. He supplicated for the B.D. degree Register,' ii. 88, 89; Frere's 'Marian Reaction,' p. 270.)

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suffered at Winchester 30 Oct., 1583 (as to The Catholic martyr John Slade, who whom see Father Pollen's 'Acts of English Martyrs,' pp. 49-62; Cath. Rec. Soc. v. 8, 39, 48-50, 395), was taken in Dorsetshire, which was reported to be his native county. Was he a son of the Rector of South Perrot ?

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

lii. 365. His elder brother Samuel (1568–
For Matthew Slade see 'Dict. Nat. Biog.,'
of Embleton, Northumberland,
1612?) was M.A.Oxon. 1594, then Vicar
but re-
signed the living to travel in search of MSS.,
and died in Zante. Their mother was Joan

Owsley of Misterton, Somerset. Matthew in the book named by MR. SOLOMONS, calis married Alethea Kirford of Honiton, Devon; himself a mathematician and ploughman, their son Cornelius, born at Amsterdam in and says his whole life may be looked 1599, was Professor of Hebrew and other upon as an umbrage of troubles and perlanguages there; and, like his father, plexities among vexatious neighbours and Rector of the Academy in 1628. Cornelius people of bad principle and conduct." He married Gertrude, daughter of Luke Am-died on 27 Sept., 1769, aged 76 years.

brose, and English preacher in Amsterdam, and was father of Matthew Slade (1628-89), born in England, who became a Doctor of Physic. He died while travelling in a stage coach on Shotover Hill, and was buried in St. Peter's-in-the-East, Oxford.

A. R. BAYLEY.

In the Catholic registers of Lulworth, printed in the Catholic Record Society's volume vi., which is just being issued to subscribers, MR. G. SLADE will find many of his name, though whether what he wants I cannot say. JOSEPH S. HANSOM.

27, Alfred Place West, South Kensington, S. W. SAINTE-BEUVE ON CASTOR AND POLLUX (10 S. xi. 309, 392).—The idiom “se jeter sur Castor et Pollux" in the quotation from Sainte-Beuve means to talk diffusely or at random, not confining oneself strictly to any single subject, in order to prevent the conversation from flagging. In all probability it originated with a sentence of D'Alembert's (see Littré, s..): "Je ferai comme Simonide, qui, n'ayant rien à dire de je ne sais quel athlète, se jeta sur les louanges de Castor et de Pollux." Here the allusion is doubtless to the military achievements of the renowned Dioscuri.

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New York.

N. W. HILL.

MARGARET OF RICHMOND: INSCRIPTIONS IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY (10 S. xi. 463).— The suggestion that "reinpa" stands for requiescere in pace" is borne out by the manner in which the letters are spaced in Camden's Reges, Reginæ, Nobiles,' &c., 1600, sig. D3, verso, the reading there given being CALON AGATON CVM ARETA RE IN PA. All the inscriptions are given by Camden.

W. M. B. AND F. MARCHAM.

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J. WILLME (10 S. xi. 469). There was a note on him by J. F. M[arsh] at 4 S. iv. 493; but the fullest information obtainable is to be found in an article by another of your valued correspondents, the late John Eglington Bailey, in his Palatine Note-Book. July 1, 1881 (vol. i. p. 117), from which we learn among other things that Willme was the son of a yeoman at Martinscroft, Warrington, born 11 May, 1692, and baptized at Warrington Church on 2 June. Willme,

Manchester.

C. W. SUTTON.

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COMETS (10 S. xi. 489).—The French game and in English was called comet. at cards was called not comette, but comète: old game played without aces, and received It was an its name from the fact that the nine of clubs was sometimes replaced by a picture of a black comet, and the nine of diamonds by that of a red one. I believe it somewhat resembled Pope Joan. I have played at it, or a variety of it, long ago, but forget the rules. The earliest allusion to it in Littré is from Voltaire, dated 1763; and the earliest allusion to it in English is dated 1689; see the 'N.E.D.' The statement that it was played in Scotland in the sixteenth century must be due to a mistake; probably the seventeenth century is meant. In 1864 it was called the comet-game, or manille. See also Manille' in 'N.E.D.'

The quotation from Byron is duly given in N.E.D.' s.v. 'Comet.' The poem entitled Churchill's Grave' begins :

I stood beside the grave of him who blazed
The comet of a season.

Here "comet" simply means “blazing star," and is used metaphorically; so that no particular comet is alluded to.

WALTER W. SKEAT.

The reference is to the Rev. Charles Churchill See Byron's poem 'Churchill's Grave.' (1731-64). He was conspicuous for a short period, but was quickly forgotten; hence Byron's comparison of him with a "comet of a season.' T. M. W. [Other contributors thanked for replies.]

"STICK TO YOUR TUT" (10 S. xi. 307, 417). -This expression can, I think, hardly refer to the game of tut-ball, which is said to be played in East and West Yorkshire, in Shropshire, and particularly at Exeter about the Easter holidays. A "tut is the stopping place in the game, which resembles, and probably is the game of

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rounders, or stool-ball. But there could be
no merit or reason in the case of the game,
of sticking to one's tut. The phrase must
refer to work being done with perseverance
and tenacity, in the case of the refractory
paupers, the ringleader having laid himself
out to stick to the rôle he had assumed.
The word seems to be the same with tot
or 'tote," i.e., the total, the whole of the
job or work undertaken for the day or any
specified time. I have myself heard the
phrase "He has done his little tot." Grose
(1790) says that "To do work by the tote
is to undertake it by the great." As it is
pointed out in the English Dialect Diction-
ary,' in Derbyshire, Isle of Wight, Wiltshire,
Dorsetshire, Somersetshire, Devonshire, and
Cornwall"tut "-piece-work, and a tut-
man is one who works by the piece.
"Tut" and "tit" is in Devonshire the
whole of anything, complete in every detail
('Hora Subsecivæ,' cited in the E.D.D.,'
8.v. 'Tut'). J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL.

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W. B. GERISH.

business of the patentee, nor does it furnish any details of the construction of the machine, but it contains a special clause extending the privilege to the plantations of Virginia."

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In 1650 Ed. Williams published in London a tract entitled 'Virginia's Discovery of Silk Worms....Together with the making of the saw-mill, very useful in Virginia, for cutting of Timber and clapboards to build withall." Williams gives a description of the saw-mill, together with a woodcut; and although he does not mention the name of the inventor, it is hardly likely that there could have been two machines of this kind in Virginia at that early date. I feel, therefore, justified in assuming that the saw-mill described by Williams in 1650 was really that for which Hugh Bullock obtained a patent in 1629. Williams's tract furnishes the basis of an article on the introduction of the saw-mill into America in the Report of the U.S. Commissioner of Patents for 1850,' Part I. p. 387.

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HANGMEN WHO HAVE BEEN HANGED (10 S. xi. 468).—I can add an instance in 1538 :—

Sundaye, at Clerkenwell, where the wrestlinge is "This yere, the first day of September, beinge kept, after the wrestlinge was done, there was hanged on a payre of gallowes, newe made, in the same place, the hangman of London, and two more, sayd hangman had done execution in London since for robbing a youth in Bartlemewe fayre. Which the Holy Mayde of Kent was hanged, and was a conninge butcher in quartering of men."-"Wriothesley's Chronicle,' Camden Soc., i. 85.

We learn from Walford's History of Fairs," P. 184, that the hangman's name was Cartwell, but Hall's 'Chronicle' shows the name as Cratwell. The Holy Maid of Kent was hanged on Monday, 20 April, 1534.

For Juvenal's "filius alba gallina" see Lewis and Short's Latin Dictionary,' 1900, under albus, p. 80, col. 2. It has travelled a little into our literature. In Ben Jonson's • New Inn,' 1629, I. i., where the discourse is upon the bringing up of youth, the host says "all are not sons of the white hen " (ed. Cornwall, 1838, p. 409). Peter Heylyn in his Answer to Henry Burton,' 1637, satirically writes of him : Fortunate man, one of the sonnes, no question, of the Pope Leo XIII. by decree dated 29 Dec., young white henne " (pref.). W. C. B.

WILLIAM BULLOCK: HUGH BULLOCK (10 S. xi. 169, 236, 277).—In the replies relating to William Bullock mention is made of his father, Hugh Bullock, who was the owner of a saw-mill in Virginia. I should like to point out that on 2 Jan., 1629, a patent (No. 45) for a saw-mill was granted to Hugh Bullock, who, I have no doubt, was identical with the person of the same name already mentioned. The patent does not give any particulars of the place of residence or

A. RHODES.

MARGARET POLE, COUNTESS OF SALISBURY (10 S. xi. 429, 477).-She was beatified by

1886. In 1887 the Catholic Truth Society
brose Lee.
published a biography of her by Mr. G. Am-
The latest and completest bio-
graphy is that by the late Father Keogh and
by Dom Bede Camm, O.S.B., in 'Lives of
the English Martyrs,' vol. i. (Burns & Oates,
1904), pp. 502–40.

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

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EDINBURGH DERIVATION OF ITS NAME (10 S. x. 410, 473).-It will hardly be accepted as proof that, because David I. mentioned Edwinsburg* in the foundation charter of Holyrood, it is the earliest form of the place-name; nor do I suppose the fact of Simeon of Durham writing the same settles the matter. Many, no doubt, will consider that to trace the original form we must go much further back. Here may I repeat the generally accepted dictum, place-names did not (often) take their origin from personal ones?

Dr. Daniel Wilson, in his 'Archæology and Primitive Annals,' states that there is sufficient evidence that a Roman colonia existed on the site of Edinburgh.

There seems an inclination to treat this place-name apart from the castle, which in the circumstances appears to be a mistake. That the castle had an existence before the town will, I imagine, be conceded. The district in which the castle was placed was for many years exposed to the ravages of the English and Danes: naturally, the neighbouring inhabitants, for protection at least, erected their homes under its wing. The probability is the name of the castle became applied to the town, in some form

or another.

Camden wrote, “The castle was, by the Irish Scots, called Dun Eden," and Wynton wrote: "Maydn, Dunedin." For centuries Edinburgh was known by the latter name, and as late as 1776 was so called throughout the Highlands. "Henry the Third ordered the King of Scotland to summon the prelates and magnates of his kingdom at Maiden's Castle"; further, "Robert de Poppelai renders his account, Saiher de Quenci owes 201. of Aron's debts, for Robert his father, but as yet he ought not to be summoned, for the canons of the Holy Rood of Edenburgh (Castellum Puellarum)." Buchanan wrote that it was Dun Eden, the face of a hill, and he thought the name should be Edenum (see 5 S. xii. 128, 214).

The State Register, recording the death of King Edgar, has the following: "Mortuus in Dun-Edin, est sepulctus in Dunfermling." This was about eighteen years before David I. was crowned.

Prof. Kuno Meyer asserted that "Edwinesburh would, however, have given Edinsburgh; for the genitive s is never lost in such derivations.'

My authority has the form Edenesburg, which, it may be added, is found in a charter of David I. printed in the Registrum de Dunfermelyn.'

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Upwards of a century ago, a writer informs us that'Annales Ullonienses,' MS. in the British Museum, No. 4795 of Mr. Ayscough's catalogue, has Bellum Gline Muresan et obsessio Edin."* With respect to "The Maidens' Castle," i.e. Castellum Puellarum, Ayloffe, in his 'Calendars of Ancient Charters' (p. 288), has "Manipulus parvorum rotulorum tangentium homagium regum Scotia and victualium pro Castello Purcell" (anno 6 Edward I.). The last word is supposed to be a typographical error so far as the c is concerned. To revert 66 As in an old book of to Camden, he states: the division of Scotland, in the Library of the Honourable my Lord Burleigh, late High Treasurer of England, in the reign of Indulph, Eden Town was quitted (vacuatum) and abandoned to the Scots to this present day." In Parvvm Theatrvm Vrbivm sive Vrbivm Praecipvarvm Totivs Orbis Brevis et Methodica Descriptio,' now before me (1595), I find "Edenburgum, alias Alata Castra," and again "Arx vocatur Castellum puellarum,” "Vrbis appellationem nobile and once more munimentum nonnulli interpretantur, ut sit Edenburgum quasi Edleburgum.”

Major states that the Romans and Britons levelled, among other cities, Agned, which, when it was "rebuilt by Heth, the King of the Picts, came to be Hethburg, and to-day is known as Edinburgh." The earliest known description of Edinburgh is by Alesius Edinburgi, or Alesse, who was a native, born 1500. He wrote: "The name of the Town is always given as Edinburges, and never as Lisleburgh or Lithleburg, as it was called by the French, in the writer's

time."t

Edwin only fortified the castle.‡ Can any sound reasoning be produced, proving that the castle was unnamed at that time?

What explanation is there for "Edwinsburgh" lapsing into "Edin," that, too, in the face of "Eden" water in Fife, &c.?

ALFRED CHAS. JONAS.

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