a spirit of industry, economy and frugality among and heir of John Bradridge of Slinfold. the middling and laborious classes; and promote He was M.P. for Horsham 1529-53, and the religious, moral, intellectual, and physical received knighthood on 1 condition of I. Oct., 1547. man.... ... Vol. Haddington : printed and published by George Miller and son. According to Dallaway, he left at his death 1815. 12mo, viii+352 pp. in 1557 two sons, viz. (1) John, who inherited Slinfold and is said to have died in 1563, leaving at the least three sons and Horsham in 1558. one daughter; (2) Anthony, M.P. Nos. 1-6 Jan. to June, 1815. This publication is a continuation of The Cheap Magazine. 1815. The Monthly Monitor and philanthropic museum.... Vol. I. Nos. 3-6. March-June, 1815. pp. viii, 121–352. Vol. II. No. 1. July, 1815. pp. 1-60. Title-page to vol. i. only. [1815.] The traveller's guide to Madeira and the West Indies; being a hieroglyphic representation of appearances and incidents during a voyage out and homewards, in a series of engravings from original drawings taken on the spot, &c. wherein is exhibited an exact delineation of the principal objects on the passage: with a treatise explanatory of the various figures....To which are added occasional notes, &c. by a young traveller. Haddington: printed by G. Miller and Son, for G. Miller, Dunbar,....No date. 8vo. With 10 plates. 120 pp. B.M. 795 e. 43. The author's Introduction is dated Jan., 1815. List of Errata, p. 120, is spelt "Eratta." Probably written by George Miller, second son of George Miller of Dunbar. He was born 10 June, 1794, and was a sailor in his earlier years. According to Struggles,' he wrote the book about Madeira on his way to India. See MS. Notes on the Miller Family,' by F. M. Gladstone. Latter [1815.] The traveller's guide to Madeira and the West Indies.... Second copy. Title-page torn at top. 1816. Britain triumphant! With other poems. By an East Lothian ploughman. Haddington: printed for the author by G. Miller and Son. 1816. 8vo, iv+44 pp. B.M. 11,633, bbb. 5. This book is not in Mr. Unwin's collection: the title and description are taken from the copy in the Advocates' Library, Edinburgh. The B.M. copy has unimportant MS. notes. T. F. U. (To be concluded.) HUSSEY OF SLINFOLD, SUSSEX. THE pedigree of this family in Dallaway's 'Sussex' (ii. 355-6) leaves much to be desired. Not only is no indication given of its origin, or of its connexion-if any with any other of the widespread county families of the name, but the earlier generations seem to be far from accurately stated. Sir Henry Hussey, with whom the pedigree commences, and whose parentage is not stated, was undoubtedly the first. of the line at Slinfold, an estate he seemingly acquired in marriage with Eleanor, daughter for The will of Sir John Hussey appears to be somewhat at variance with this. It is dated 18 Feb., 1554/5, and was proved Names his wife in P.C.C. 27 Sept., 1557. Dame Bridget; his brothers John and George Hussey; his wife's two daughters (then unmarried) Katherine and Alice; his brother (brother-in-law) Michael Appesley (Apsley); his cousin William Hussey, son to my cousin Anthony Hussey ; cousin John Mychell of Standland. No sons are mentioned by name, but to Dame Bridget his wife is left "the wardship of my two sons." Said wife executrix. Sir Thomas Palmer, Kt., John Carryl, Mr. Anthony Husee, brother John Husee, cousin John Mychell, overseers. The will of his widow, "Dame Brigitt Hussee," dated 23 Sept., 1557, and proved in London 2 May, 1558, requests her executors to execute the will of her former husband William Ernley. Bequests to her son Richard Ernley when 21, son John Ernley, and daughters Katherine and Alice; to cousin Anthony Hussee of London, cousin Laurence Hussee, sister (-in-law) Katherine Apesley, cousin George's eldest son, cousin Thomas Mychell of Hillwith, sister Jane Moore, and brother (-in-law) John Hussey. Cousin George Goring, Lawrence Hussey, George Fennor, and Avery Mychell executors. Richard Fulmerston and Anthony Hussey, Esq., overseers. Dame Bridget, who is not named by Dallaway, was the second wife of Sir Henry. She was daughter to Thomas Spring of Lavenham, Suffolk. Her first husband, William Ernley of Ernley and Cackham, Sussex, died in 1545, and the Ernley Visitation pedigree shows that he left by his wife two sons, Richard and John, and two daughters, Katherine and Alice, all of whom are mentioned in their mother's will, the eldest son being under age. With some reserve, I venture to suggest that "my two sons whose wardship Sir Henry Hussey left to his wife were not his sons by his first wife, but the two sons of that wife by William Ernley. It is highly improbable that a son in wardship in 1555 would in less than eight years afterwards die the father of a numerous family; and still more improbable that a son younger still would three years later be old enough for Parliamentary honours. In that case Sir Henry Hussey would die s.p., his heir probably being not a son John, but his next brother of that name, who would thus be the actual father of the Slinfold line. of Katherine Apsley, the sister-in-law named in the will of Dame Bridget, was wife of Michael Apsley, second son of William Apsley of Thackham, Sussex. In the Visitation Apsley pedigree she is called "daughter Hussey of Poynes, Sussex "-the only indication, and that very obscure, of the parentage of Sir Henry and his brothers. The will of John Hussey, brother of Sir Henry, in which he is described as of Cuckfield, Sussex, is dated 25 June, 1571, and was proved in London in September, 1572. Names his wife Margaret; brother George; sons John, Henry, and Edmund; daughter Ann (under age); nephew Michael Appesley; and brother-in-law Wyman Warde. Desires to be buried in Cuckfield Church. His wife Margaret was daughter of Edward Apsley, and sister of Michael Apsley, who married Katherine, sister to Sir Henry Hussey. There was thus a twofold marriage connexion between the families. I have not been able to follow the descendants of John Hussey of Cuckfield: so far as appears, they do not seem to agree with the descendants of John, the alleged son of Sir Henry Hussey, as given by Dallaway. 66 66 the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury." He was There is little doubt that this Anthony Hussey is the cousin Anthony of London named in the wills of Sir Henry Hussey and his widow Dame Bridget. M.P. for Horsham in 1553, and for Shoreham in 1558, and is frequently mentioned in the State Papers of the period. Dallaway wrongly calls him the second son of Sir Henry. · The two brief Hussey pedigrees in the Harleian Society's Visitation of London (i. 407) are of no assistance in unravelling the earlier generations, inasmuch as both lines derive from younger sons who are not named by Dallaway. W. D. PINK. Lowton, Newton-le-Willows. [See 10 S. xi. 428, and post, p. 13.] FRANCESCO CASANOVA THE PAINTER. IN the Mémoires de Jacques Casanova his brother François, "célèbre peintre de batailles," is mentioned frequently (I take the Paris edition, Garnier Frères, for my references). The will of Anthony Hussey of London is dated 12 Jan., 1557, and was proved 31 Oct., 1560. In it he bears the curious Vol. i. p. 22, it is recorded that he was description of "Governor of the English born in 1727, and was established at Vienna nation (by which, there is little doubt, in or about 1783. He passed four years at is intended Governor of the company of Dresden. He left there in 1752, and went English merchants at Antwerp) and agent to Paris, after copying at Dresden all the in Flanders. He appoints his "well-beautiful battle pictures of the "galerie approved friends" Master Thomas Lodge, électorale." Jacques, having met his Alderman of London, and Benjamin Gunson, Esq., executors for a quyet to be had between my wife and my children." To his well-beloved wife Katherine Hussey his Mansion House in the West End of Paternoster Row." Bequest to his son Laurence Hussey reversion of house in Paternoster Row to the children of his daughter Ursula, wife of Benjamin Gunson. Plate, &c., “which the Marques of Barrow [?] gave me, to my son Gunson and my daughter his wife." "To John Insente [?] 20%. in money and the jointe patente of myne office in Powles, willing hym to binde upp in due form the register of the late Archbushop Cranmer, together with all books, &c., for 66 brother François in Paris, offered to use his influence with his great acquaintances in order that François might be received into the Académie. This offer François refused, confessing that a former rejection by the Académie had been quite right, but adding that "to-day," counting on the appreciation of talent by the French, he looked for a better reception (iii. 373). He was received by the Académie de Peinture by acclamation, after exhibiting at the Louvre a battle-piece which the Académie bought for 500 louis (or, p. 373, 12,000 francs). M. de Sanci, treasurer of the administration of the revenues of the clergy, regarding himself as under an obligation to the painter, got him many commissions, thus paving the way to his great fortune and reputation (iii. 373, 486). 66 In The Gentleman's Magazine for May, 1767 (xxxvii. 199, numbered by mistake 239, et seq.), are "some Remarks from two different Quarters on some of the pictures hibited in Pall-Mall." Both connoisseurs "pretend to select the best.' On p. 199 is the following :— ex "Mr. Cassanova [sic], Bond Street, No. 60. This picture shows great strength of genius; the light and shadow finely managed; and was the drawing a little more correct, it might be deemed a painting of the first class. The other is more tame and cold, though his sky and some of the rocks are very grand, and worthy the attention of landscapepainters." This is the criticism of "A Lover of the Arts." Then follows that of "M. H." : "Mr. Cassanova. His battle piece is a noble design, and painted with wonderful spirit and fire. The march over the Alps is also a prodigious fine picture; I believe him to be the first painter in this way in Europe.' No. 60 is apparently the number of one or both of the pictures. It appears probable that this Mr. Cassanova was François Casanova, though Bryan's 'Dictionary of Painters and Engravers,' edited by R. E. Graves, does not say that he ever visited England. Neither is there any mention of such a visit in the Biographie Universelle.' François Casanova was a painter of battle-pieces, and, according to the Biographie Universelle,' his drawing was faulty, at all events when he was young. This is the complaint made by "A Lover of the Arts," as noted above, concerning Mr. Cassanova; and a similar one appears at greater length in the criticism made by Jacques Casanova as to his brother's paintings. According to the Fragments des Mémoires du Prince de Ligne' ('Mémoires de J. Casanova,' Paris edition, viii. 459), Jacques, conversing with Catherine II. of Russia, on meeting her for the first time in the Empress's summer garden at St. Petersburg, being asked by her whether he was not the brother of the painter, asked her how she knew that dauber (barbouilleur). The Empress replied that she valued him as a man of genius. Upon that Casanova said: Oui, madame, du feu plutôt, du coloris, de l'effet et quelque belle ordonnance; mais le dessin et le fini ne sont pas son fort." The Prince de Ligne considered this a just criticism. The above is omitted in the Brussels edition. 86 "Du fou resembles closely M. H.'s phrase "with wonderful spirit and fire." As I am quoting mainly from the Mémoires de J. Casanova,' I use the French versions of the names Giacomo and Francesco. ROBERT PIERPOINT. 66 "BOMBAY DUCK."-In a letter to The Times of 4 June Sir George Birdwood suggests a new explanation of this phrase, viz., that it is a corruption of Bombay dog," the reason he gives being that "the literary Indian (Telegu) names for the fish are kukka-mutti-i.e., dog [literally 'the barker "] pilchard,' and kukka-savara―i.e., dog-snake,' ; and he adds that "it is so called from its stealthy and deadly mode of attacking the other fishes which this depraved and degraded looking little monster makes its daily prey." In a letter to The Times of 5 June Mr. A. L. Mayhew showed the untenability of some of Sir George Birdwood's arguments in support of this very far-fetched derivation, and said : "I believe that the phrase 'Bombay Duck' may be explained in the same manner as the phrase tention is that Bombay Duck is simply a playful 'Oxford Hare' and 'Welsh Rabbit.'......My conphrase, requiring no arduous philological research." In Not only do I agree entirely with Mr. Mayhew, but I can, I think, set at rest, once for all, any doubt in the matter. 'A Voyage to India' (published 1820) the Rev. James Cordiner describes his first impressions of Bombay, where he arrived from England on 19 May, 1798, and on P. 67 says: "This place is likewise remarkable for an excelthe nature of a sand eel, but softer, and of a lent small fish called bumbelo. It is something of superior flavour, about a foot in length, and of the thickness of a man's finger. When fried, in its fresh state, it is of the consistence of a strong jelly, and more delicate than a whiting: it is, however, state a great quantity of these fishes is exported; most commonly eaten after being dried, in which they afford an excellent seasoning to boiled rice, which always forms a dish at breakfast, and receives from them a most agreeable relish. The sailors, by way of joke, call them Bombay Ducks." This gives us an example of the literary use of the phrase sixty years earlier than the earliest in Hobson-Jobson' and the 'N.E.D.' and proves that the descriptive appellation for the dried fish was in common use before the end of the eighteenth century. I have not the least doubt that Cordiner is right in attributing the name "Bombay duck to sailors, to whom we are indebted for not a few facetiæ in nomenclature. 66 66 I feel doubtful, however, regarding the morning I counted four entirely different origin of the name ducks as descriptive orthographies of this name. The spelling of Bombay soldiers or civilians (the 'N.E.D.' at the head of this note I take from an and Yule differ as to which is meant). Were excellent authority, Redhouse's 'Turkish the Bombay men so called from the popular Lexicon,' 1890. It has the merit, at any name of the fish, or from the fact (if it be rate, of being easy to pronounce. Dolma a fact) that they wore clothes (? trousers) Bagcha means the filled-up little park," of duck? The *N.E.D.' I notice, favours this part of Constantinople being on the neither of these derivations, but implies site of a former harbour: dolma, filled up; that the soldiers of the Bombay Presidency bagcha, a little garden or park. got their name from the bird. Perhaps JAS. PLATT, Jun. some reader of N. & Q.' can solve this question. Returning to the dried fish, I may mention that in Ceylon it is called by the Sinhalese bombili, but I suspect that this name was introduced into the island with the condiment, which has a large sale there. DONALD FERGUSON. CHAUCER'S TWO ALLUSIONS TO PERSIUS. -In The Canterbury Tales,' F 721, occurs the line I sleep never on the mount of Pernaso, which (as we learn from a side-note in the Ellesmere MS.) was suggested by 1. 2 of the prologue to the Satires of Persius, viz., YAMUYLE," A VICTUAL.-The Brut; or, the Chronicles of England' (E.E.T.S.) has at p. 435, dating c. 1480, and referring to the siege of Orleans : vij M of Frensshe men fill vpon oure men as they went toward the Toune with vitaill that is called yamuyle." This can hardly be other than the French gamelle (Lat. camella), a military term for a mess bowl, or platter; hence the mess itself. H. P. L. JOHN ANGEL OR ANGER.-In Musgrave's Obituary there are two entries, John Anger and John Angel, under date 25 Jan., 1751, The London Magazine has both of them in its list of deaths. The Gentleman's Magazine has only that referring to John Anger. John Anger is described in both as a proprietor of lighthouses in the North for the conveniency of shipping; John Angel as in the commission of peace for Surrey. John Anger is a myth. John Angel was the proprietor of the lighthouses in the North, as will be seen by a reference to his will, proved (P.C.C. Busby 68) March, 1751, as follows: Neque in bicipiti somniasse Parnasso Memini, &c. I now find that Chaucer was indebted to another passage in the same very short prologue for the remarkable form "Pegasee" (for Pegaseus), which occurs in The Squire's Tale,' F 207. Here another marginal note in the same MS. has equus Pegaseus. I have noted (Chaucer's Works,' v. 376) that Chaucer was thinking of the adjectival form Pegaseus rather than of Pegasus as a sub-1 stantive. This is not quite right, but very nearly so. For a side-note in the Cambridge MS. Dd. tells us a little more. It runs thus: id est, equus Pegaseus: Percius 4to." Here either error for " 14to," or it is short for "quatuordecimo,' SC. versu, as the allusion is obviously to l. 14 of the same prologue, viz., Cantare credas Pegaseium nectar; the only allusion (I believe) to Pegasus that occurs in Persius, and only twelve lines distant from the line quoted above. This shows that Chaucer evolved the form Pegaseus as a sb. from the adjectival form Pegaseius. 66 66 "4to is an WALTER W. SKEAT. DOLMA BAGCHA, CONSTANTINOPLE.-The name of this palace has been before the public very prominently of late in the innumerable articles referring to the new Sultan of Turkey; but its spelling presents a difficulty: in The Daily Telegraph one : "I do hereby give devise and bequeath unto my good friends and executors Mr. Robert Alsop one of the Aldermen of the City of London Mr. William Cockell of Blackwell Hall London Factor and Mr. Nicholas Spencer of the Parish of St. Margaret Westminster in the County of Middlesex Sadler and their heirs all that my Lighthouse or Lights erected and built upon a piece of ground Head at the Mouth of the River Humber in the situate lying and being on the Spurne Point or County of York." Owing to a printer's or possibly clerical error, Gent. Mag. makes Angel read Anger, and this, being copied by the London, has been perpetuated in Musgrave. M. B. LORD ALTHORP IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS IN 1806.-In Le Marchant's Memoir of Viscount Althorp, Earl Spencer' (p. 88), it is stated that Althorp," having been obliged to retire from Okehampton when he stood for the University" (of Cambridge on Pitt's death), "had to seek another seat, and found one very expeditiously at St. Albans." This statement is reproduced in Selkirk's adventures, except that the comthe 'D.N.B.'; but despite these authorities panion of his solitude is an ape whose it is incorrect. Althorp vacated his seatback was a lively green, his face and for Okehampton on accepting office as belly a very bright yellow, his coat all over a Lord of the Treasury early in February: shining like burnished gold." The artist the poll for Cambridge took place on 7 Feb.; in the copy before me has painted this the new writ for Okehampton was ordered animal a dark green. With such an opporon that day, and Althorp was re-elected for tunity for display it is a pity. his old constituency on 15 Feb. He ALECK ABRAHAMS. never sat for, nor did he ever contest, St. Albans. How easily errors are made and perpetuated in works of standard authority ! ALFRED B. BEAVEN, M.A. 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. SIR FRANCIS BACON ON TASTING.-Can any of your readers give me the exact reference for the following statement, which is said to have been made by Sir Francis Bacon in his Natural Philosophy' : "BRING," ARCHAIC USE.—I was under the impression that the use of this verb in the sense of “to take" in certain quarters in America, not always of necessity plebeian ones, was a mere vulgarism, as in the phrase "Bring that letter to the post office"; but I find that Dr. Marcus Hartog, an old fellow-student of mine at University College, London, in an article (by himself and Miss Hayden) on the Irish dialect of English in The Fortnightly Review of April instances it as a current Irish use having an older English origin. I do not find this early use of "to bring noticed in the 'N.E.D.,' however, which merely mentions the totally dissimilar bring to," as in This quotation is first given in an essay by "to bring her to," i.e., persuade (Tom Addison in The Spectator, No. 447, for Jones'); "to bring her to," i.e., revive Saturday, 2 Aug., 1712, and is to be found (Uncle Tom's Cabin'); and the nautical on pp. 293-4 of vol. vii. of The Spectator locution " to bring to a ship," i.e., to cause reprinted in 1817. The title of the essay it to stop. The Influence of Custom.' New York. 66 N. W. HILL. DARK ROOM IN PHOTOGRAPHY.-I am informed by Mr. Herbert Awdry that Henry Fox Talbot, the inventor of the method of producing by photography any number of prints on paper from a negative on glass, resided at Lacock Abbey, and that the first dark room used in this process c. 1838, was an early English crypt there. This fact seems to be of sufficient interest for a note. Durham. J. T. F. "Sir Francis Bacon observes, in his 'Natural Philosophy,' that our taste is never pleased better disgust in it. than with those things which at first created a claret, coffee, and other liquors, which the palate He gives particular instances, of seldom approves upon the first taste, but, when it has once got a relish of them, generally retains it for life." is F. S. PITT-TAYLOR, M.B., CH.B. The Lawn, Rock Ferry. 66 HERRICK ON THE YEW.-What does ROBINSON CRUSOE'S LITERARY DESCEND- Herrick mean by the epithet crispèd "wrinkled ANTS. (See Crusoe Richard Davis,' 10 S. yew"? Southey writes of a xi. 425.)—To this list can be added "The holly," evidently alluding to the edge of Adventures of Philip Quarll, the English the leaf. Yew leaves are straight. But Hermit, who was discovered by Mr. Dor- the general effect of a yew tree, especially rington on an Uninhabited Island, where he of some varieties, is often crinkly when had lived upwards of Fifty Years. London: battered by wind and rain. I am inclined Printed by and for Hodgson & Co., 10, to think it is this general effect that struck Newgate Street. Sixpence." with folding Herrick-Milton, too, when he wrote in 'Comus': hand-coloured frontispiece in compartments dated July 22, 1823. This, unlike Crusoe Richard Davis,' is on the same lines as Along the crisped shades and bowers. |