RICHARD MEREDITH, DEAN OF WELLS scarce, the following additions to Prof. (10 S. xi. 410, 474).—In answer to H. C.'s Cooper's list of twenty-one publications query as to Dean Meredith's marriage, may be noted, viz. :— I may say that it took place at St. Mary's Church, Leicester, on 28 Feb., 1603/4, the bride being Elizabeth, daughter of John Chippingdale, Doctor of Law, who was a resident in the Newark, Leicester. There is also reference to Meredith in the Calendar of State Papers Domestic, James I.,' vol. xiii., under date 21 March, 1605, which records a grant to John Chippingdale of the advowson of the parsonage of Cheriton, diocese of Winchester, to present Ric. Meredith, one of the King's Chaplains. In vol. xxviii., under date 9 Nov., 1607, is the grant to Ric. Meredith of the Deanery of Wells, void by death of Dr. Heydon. W. H. CHIPPINDALL. 5, Linden Road, Bedford. WILLIAM GUILD (10 S. xi. 470).-William Guild was the son of Matthew Guild, armourer in Aberdeen, and was born in 1586. He was educated at Marischal College, and his first ministerial charge was the parish church of King-Edward, near Banff, to which he was called in 1608. During his ministry at King-Edward the honour of Doctor in Divinity was conferred upon him by his Alma Mater. In 1631 he became one of the ministers of St. Nicholas' Church, and in 1640 he was appointed to the principalship of King's College. This office he held till 1651, when he was ejected by Cromwell's Commission. He thereupon asked to be reinstated in his ministry in St. Nicholas'; but that was not done, and he seems to have lived in retirement until his death in 1657. but Dr. Guild was the author of a great many books (see Robertson's 'Bibliography of Aberdeen,' Spalding Club, 1893); although he is not known by these books, Dr. Guild's name is honoured because of his liberality to some of our public institutions, and particularly to the Incorporated Trades, for whom he purchased in 1631 the convent buildings of the Trinity Friars (see Shirrefs's 'Life of Dr. William Guild,' Aberdeen, 1798 and 1799). JAMES B. THOMSON. Public Library, Aberdeen. Prof. Cooper's article in the 'Dictionary of National Biography' on Dr. William Guild, Minister of King Edward (1608-31), afterwards Minister of the Second Charge in Aberdeen, and Principal of King's College, gives the essential points, and a useful bibliography is appended. As Dr. Guild's publications are for the most part very 1. Young man's inquisition. 1608. 2. Levi: his complaint. Edinburgh, 1617. the Lord's Day, especiallie by salmond-fishing 3. A short treatise agaynst the prophanation of thereon, in tyme of Divine Service. 1637. Aberdeen, 4. To the nobilitie, gentrie, burrowis, ministers, and otheris of this lait combinatioun in Covenant, a freindlie and faithfull advyss. Aberdeen, 1639. 5. Isagoge Catechetica. Aberdeen, 1649. From the list of editions of 'Moses Vnuailed' (the work specially mentioned by MR. RUSSELL) a very interesting edition A nice copy (London, 1623) is omitted. of that edition is in this library, and a copy is also in the possession of the Aberdeen University Library. Dr. Cooper's bibliography gives the date of James Shirrefs's Inquiry into the Life, Writings, and Character of Rev. Dr. William Guild as 1799. That, however, is the second edition. The first was issued in 1798. G. M. FRASER. Public Library, Aberdeen. 6 ST. PETER'S AT ROME (10 S. xi. 448).No. III. in Tom Tiddler's Ground,' being The story which MR. LANGLEY wants is The Extra Christmas Number of All the Year Round,' 1861. Its title is Picking up Terrible Company.' Christmas Numbers of All the Year Round,' According to the reprint of The Nine 26, Wellington Street. Strand, and Messrs. Chapman & Hall, 193, Piccadilly (1870 or about), and the new edition of the stories published by Messrs. Chapman & Hall in 1907, the writer of this thrilling story was Amelia B. Edwards. The two main figures in it are François Thierry, political offender, and Gasparo, burglar, forger, and incendiary. They are not on the dome of St. Peter's because they are convicts. Having escaped from Toulon, they happen to meet at Rome, having enrolled themselves among the eighty men hired to light the dome and cupola of St. Peter's on the evening of "Easter Sunday, April the sixteenth." Possibly Miss Edwards had some reason for giving this precise date. It would, I think, be 16 April, 1854. ROBERT PIERPOINT. as RAILWAY TRAVELLING REMINISCENCES (10 S. xi. 486). It does not require to be a septuagenarian to remember the term "covered carriages as officially used by railway companies. In the later sixtiesand it may be later-the Great Western Railway Company, to my personal recollection, always announced its excursions "First class, ; covered carriages, A. F. R. EMENDATIONS IN ENGLISH BOOKS (10 S. xi. 401). Political students who are at the same time men of leisure may be interested in recalling the history of the debates on the Budget of 1841, which has been admirably summarized in a work that has attained high rank as a classic during the lifetime of its author- The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay.' I can only be permitted to make a bare reference to a situation which in some important respects bore a striking similarity to that which is agitating the taxpayer at the present moment, and my sole object in writing is to invite attention to an apparent verbal irregularity in Sir George Trevelyan's historical review. One main feature in the Budget, which aroused strong opposition on the part of the planting interest in the West Indies, was a proposal to reduce the duty on foreign sugar, and on this the historian remarks : "Lord Sandon moved an amendment, skilfully framed to catch the votes of Abolitionist members of the Liberal party, and the discussion was discussed through eight livelong nights, with infinite repetition of argument, and dreariness of detail." To discuss a Budget is a feat which requires unusual qualities on the part of our Parliamentary stalwarts, but to discuss a discussion on a Budget is a tour de force which, if not beyond the capacity of the House of Commons, few would care to undertake except those vigorous writers on the Press whose power, if we may believe Lord Rosebery, exceeds that of any statesman, and who in a collective gathering strike even Prime Ministers with awe. I am therefore inclined to think that the intention of the writer was to say that the discussion was prolonged through eight livelong nights, a waste of time from which in these more "On Monday, Rebecca Downing was committed to High-Gaol for poisoning her Master." The trial took place at the following July assizes, and is thus chronicled in the issue of the same paper for 2 August : Thursday last the Assizes ended here, at which Rebecca Downing was sentenced to be burnt alive for the murder of Richard Jarvis." On another page of this newspaper are the following details of the execution in question : "Rebecca Downing was, on Monday last, pursuant of her sentence, drawn on a sledge to the place of execution, attended by an amazing concourse of people, where, after being strangled, her body was burnt to ashes. While under sentence, and at the place of execution, she appeared totally ignorant of her situation, and insensible to every kind of admonition." The "place of execution" was Ringswell, situated about a mile and a half outside the city. A small burial-ground was attached to it, given by the Mayor of Exeter (John Petre) in 1557. The murder took place at East Portlemouth in South Devon. In the graveyard there, a little to the north-west of the fifteenth-century tower of the parish church (dedicated to St. Winwaloe, a sixth-century Breton), may be seen an old slate headstone. The inscription thereupon is rather difficult to decipher, but, with a little trouble, can be read as follows: "Here lieth the body of Richard Jarvis of Rickham in this parish, who departed this life the 25th day of May, 1782, aged 79. Through poison strong, he was cut off, On whom there's sentence past. Fair Park, Exeter. HARRY HEMS. This subject has often been discussed, and the columns of N. & Q.' contain much information with regard to it, as the following references will testify: 4 S. xi. 174, 222, 347; 5 S. xii. 149; 7 S. viii. 387; ix. 49. The most notorious case was that of Mrs. Catherine Hayes, Thackeray's "Catherine," who was executed on 9 May, 1726. HORACE BLEACKLEY. India, and Greenland-can be shown to have once formed part of more extensive landmasses, and to be the upstanding relics between areas that have sunk along great SIR LEWIS POLLARD (10 S. xi. 365, 433, fissure-planes-these sunken areas widening 495, 515).—I am at a loss to understand and coalescing to the south. The classical why MR. RHODES should think the judge's work on this and allied subjects is 'Das will better evidence of the number of his Antlitz der Erde,' by Prof. E. Suess of children than the statements of the Devon- Vienna (translated as 'The Face of the shire historians. Wes there anything to Earth'). For one attempt at a general prevent his leaving all his property to six explanation of the earth-movements that only of his twenty-two children, or for that have produced these peninsular masses, see matter to one only, if he felt so inclined? the popular account of the tetrahedral In addition to the authorities already theory of the earth in Prof. J. W. Gregory's quoted by me I would refer your correspond-Geography, Structural, Physical, and Coments to the following. parative (Blackie). A more complicated theory was expounded by Prof. Love in his address to the Mathematical Section of the British Association in 1907. A. MORLEY DAVIES. Westcote, circa 1560, in his View of Devonshire' states that the judge had eleven sons and eleven daughters. Five of his daughters were married, the Christian names of some of whom he is unable to give; but he names their husbands, and we know that four of his sons attained the honour of knighthood. He does not mention the window. Risdon, circa 1580, in his 'Survey of Devon,' says: "In Nymet church judge Pollard lieth honourably interred, having a monument erected to his memory, a window of which church, whereunto he was a benefactor, sheweth his name, marriage, office, and issue, with his effigies and his lady's figured fairly in glass, having ten sons on the one side and so many daughters on the other side, a fair offspring." Moore in his 'History of Devonshire (1829) gives the story of the window with twenty-two children. Now Westcote was born some twenty years, and Risdon some forty years, after the judge's death, when the window was probably intact, and both may have seen it. Again, Prince, who confirms the story, was a Devonshire vicar for the long period of forty-eight years-six at Totnes, and forty-two at Berry Pomeroy close by. He must have been engaged for many years in collecting material for his 'Worthies of Devon,' a work that for the time at which he wrote it is singularly correct. surely be considered as trustworthy as any one, and a better authority than the judge's will. He may A. J. DAVY. SIR THOMAS BROWNE: ANNE TOWNSHEND to (10 S. xi. 410, 473).—I am much obliged to the correspondents who kindly try elucidate Anne Townshend's precise relato tionship Sir Thomas Browne. MR. FRED. JOHNSON, than whom there is no that from the facts he states "the inference better authority on Norfolk pedigrees, says Torquay. is that Nevil Cradock [Anne Townshend's father] married a sister of Sir Thomas PENINSULAS (10 S. xi. 490).-The south-Browne." This is certainly a legitimate ward direction of most peninsulas requires inference, though the fact that Elizabeth a geological, not a meteorological explana- Cradock, presumably daughter also of tion. No such explanation can cover all Nevil Cradock, makes the Witherleys her cases, since there are several varieties of principal legatees, might point to a relationgeological structure in peninsulas; but the ship through the Milehams, as Hobart most striking cases-viz., Africa, Arabia, Mileham, a sister of Lady Browne's, married Edmund Witherley. What relation was Davis." I do not know if this could have Nevil Witherley to this Edmund ? Another been Black Davis, who at one time kept a sister of Lady Browne's, Willoughby Mile- house in St. James's Street. F. JESSEL. ham, is not accounted for in the Mileham pedigrees I have seen. The Browne relations are numerous and most perplexing. Sir Thomas, in his letters, mentions the following cozens "-Barker, Hobbs, Cradock, Townshend; Astley and his lady (this was Dean Astley and his wife, who was a daughter of J. Hobart, to whom Sir Thomas signs himself "your unworthy Kinsman "-the kinship apparently being through Lady Browne, whose mother was a daughter of John Hobart, but his place in the Hobart pedigree is unknown to me); cozen Witherley (his wife's niece); cozen Bendish; cozen John Cradock; cozen Buck; cozen Rotheram; and greater puzzle still-" my sister Whiting.' Lady Browne names as Buckbarg (sic) Bendish; Felton; Mr. Cottrell; the Howells; Tenison (wife of Joseph Tenison her nephew, son of Archdeacon Tenison and her sister Anne Mileham). 66 cozens Edward Browne, Sir Thomas's son, in his diary mentions the following relatives, viz., my uncle Bendish, who perhaps now [1669] is Mayor "; aunt Bendish; cozen Betty Cradock, doubtless the Elizabeth whose will MR. JOHNSON quotes; cozen Garway (his great-grandfather was Garway or Garraway); cozon Barker; aunt Tenison (see above); aunt Gawdy; and " my dear sister Cottrell." BLACK DAVIES (10 S. xi. 507).-There is a most unfavourable notice of this person at pp. 35-41 of The Minor Jockey Club, or, A Sketch of the Manners of the Greeks,' published for R. Farnham, and sold by the booksellers at Bath, Newmarket, York, and London, n.d. (?1794). This is a work in the same style as 'The Jockey Club,' and writing of Davies, the author says: "His friend Louse P...g...t, in the Jockey Club, has treated his old friend with most unjust and unpardonable severity, which was not to be expected, as there appears a wonderful similitude in the disposition of these worthies." I find that in 1820 the gambling house 10, King Street, was kept by "the elder DR. JOHNSON'S WATCH (10 S. xi. 231, 494; xii. 12).-There is, as MR. LYNN states at the last reference, no textual authority for yap. But I think it was inserted in order to suggest more clearly the previous injunction to work in the Biblical passage, otherwise "the night cometh might naturally be taken as an injunction to rest. I note that yàp is in the right place as second word. Walter Scott's sundial had apparently the same inscription with yàp. It is figured on the frontispiece of his 'Journal' (2 vols., Edinburgh, David Douglas, 1890), and on the page of tissue paper over it is quoted : "I must home to work while it is called day; for I put the night cometh when no man can work. that text, many a year ago, on my dial-stone; but it often preached in vain.'-Scott's Life,' x. 88." Where did Scott get this form of the motto ? Is there any record of his deriving it from HIPPOCLIDES. Johnson? HENRY EMBLIN AND THEODOSIUS KEEN (10 S. xi. 448).-There is an account of the first-named architect in the 'D.N.B.' under Emlyn, the customary spelling of his name. To this may be added that one of his daughters married Capell Lofft the elder (q.v.); while another, Maria, was the first wife of Thomas Clio Rickman (q.v.), under whose notice, however, this fact is not stated. I can give further particulars of this marriage, if required. work of such profound value and interest It is, of course, ungrateful to criticize a as the 'D.N.B.,' but it must be said that the absence therefrom of systematic genealogical information is the despair of the rapidly increasing number of students of heredity, to whom the pedigrees of the persons whose biographies are to be found therein form an obvious field of research. Another instance that occurs to me of this lack of system is in the case of Sir Richard Owen, the anatomist, the name of whose wife (though mentioned, with the fact of her marriage, in the account of Clift, her father) does not appear in his own biography. PERCEVAL LUCAS. Windsor, in 1787-90 was carried out by The restoration of St. George's Chapel, Henry Emlyn (not Emblin), an architect resident at Windsor, and the author of 'A Proposition for a New Order of Architecture, with Rules for drawing its Several Parts,' MAJOR RODERICK MACKENZIE (10 S. viii. 30). This officer seems to have been identical with Lieut. Roderick Mackenzie, of the 71st Regiment, who was killed at the storming of Seringapatam on 15 May, 1791, when the 71st so gallantly drove the enemy across the river. I am thus able to answer my own query. D. M. R. Q. CAPT. THOS. Boys (10 S. xi. 487).-There is a list of twenty-one captains of Deal Castle in the Rev. C. R. S. Elvin's later book on 'Walmer and Walmer Castle,' pp. 91-3. The date of the appointment of Capt. Thos. Boys is there given as 20 Feb., 1551, and the name of his predecessor as Thomas Wingfield. Lyon's date (1538) is probably incorrect, as, according to a paper by Mr. W. L. Rutton, "Deal Castle and its fellows were only founded in March, 1539. They do not appear to have been completed until 1540, in which year they were placed under the control of the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports by the statute 32 Henry VIII. cap 48, sect. 6. G. H. W. NAME - CORRUPTION: MOUNTAIN BOWER (10 S. xi. 505). The village of Monkton, near Jarrow-the reputed birthplace of the Venerable Bede-used to be, and may be yet, known as "Mounten," or rather Moonten," the dialect giving oo sound for ou. R. B-R. 66 66 66 66 It "SEVEN AND NINE": 'PEANUT POLITICIAN (10 S. xi. 410, 497).-MR. THORNTON mistakes the meaning of sevenby-nine politician " in the U.S.: it means just the reverse of one who 66 cuts some figure," viz., a borné man, of tco limited abilities, force, or outlook to cut much of any. The phrase refers to the old-fashioned window-panes, before the time when glass filling the whole or half of the sash was common; these were seven by nine" in hundreds of thousands of farm or village houses, and an affliction to the hard-worked housewives who had to clean them. differs from "parish politician" in England or village politician here, as not necesthere are plenty in the national field; the sarily implying a restricted field of action; name concerns what they do, not where or how conspicuously they do it. Its nearest the same relation to large political ideas synonym is peanut politician, i.c., bearing and plans as a peanut vender, or huckster of peanuts and roast chestnuts in a pushcart, does to large mercantile activities. Neither name implies a low position or importance: only the pettiness of the issues which form the staple of the activities. Chairmen of national committees, U.S. Senators, even Cabinet ministers, have often been peanut politicians; that is, given up their whole souls to questions of petty patronage and mean huckstering for spoils, without political principles or thought for the national welfare or dignity. The Duke of Newcastle in the elder Pitt's time was a 'seven-by-nine or peanut politician of the foremost type. Similar names are two-cent or two-for-a-cent " (“ha'penny comes just between) or "huckleberry" (whortleberry) politician: the last having the same implication as peanut -one who peddles huckleberries by the quart. FORREST MORGAN. 66 66 Hartford, Conn. 66 66 |