ROBERT LOWTH'S

MACE FAMILY (12 S. xi. 48, 92, 110, 156, 219). In the transcript of the marriages of St. Aldate's, Oxford-at Bodleian::1742, June 5th. Richard Morgan & Eliz. Mace. HERBERT SOUTHAM. HAMPSHIRE PARISH (12 S. xi. 470).-The Victoria County History of Hampshire,' Vol. iv, p. 218, says that amongst distinguished Rectors of OverRobert Lowth, afterwards Bishop of London. He was instituted Vicar in 1735. The living of Overton was in the gift of the Bishop, while that of Ovington ARCHIBALD SPARKE.

ton were

was not.

Kirby's Winchester Scholars,' at p. 230, describes him as Rector of Ovington and Woodhay. Another Rector of Ovington mentioned in the same work is Thomas Jefferies (p. 234).

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

a

DUC DE REICHSTADT (ROI DE ROME) (12 S. xi. 490).-Napoleon's son was made by his grandfather, the Emperor of Austria, Colonel of one of the Styrian regiments. The pre-war editions of the Almanack de Gotha' contain a full list of the Austrian Emperor's many titles, and these include "Duc de Styrie." My father, the late Victor de 'Ternant, often said that when on a visit to Prince Collerdo-Mannsfeld's Styrian residence, in the year 1856, he was shown a fulllength painted portrait of the Duc de Reichstadt, and the buttons had the letter "S." Prince Collerdo-Mannsfeld said it was painted in the same room in which it was hung in the winter of 1829, when young Napoleon was in the neighbourhood with his Styrian regiment. The miniature portrait may be a copy of the CollerdoMannsfeld picture. ANDREW DE TERNANT.

I have been unable to identify) with Buckhurst in Withyham. Near Etchingham there are two farmis named Bugsell, which were probably manor-houses of the de Buxhulls. I would suggest that the family may have derived its name from Bexhill in Sussex, which, in early times, was regularly Bexle," or "Buxle." spelt, either " coincidences between Suffolk names and Sussex names are many and curious, and might repay a close study, as illustrating the connection between the two branches of has the South Saxon race. How often

The

Hodley, Suss." (written with the long s doubled) been transformed by a copyist into "Hadley, Suff." ! F. L. WOOD.

PAPER MARKS (12 S. xi. 411, 455, 478).— In Vol. xxxvii (1857) of Archaeologia, there is an interesting article, containing about thirty illustrations, on paper-marks. The The first date is 1330, and the last 1431. illustrations are all from France and England, and it is suggested that we received our paper from Bordeaux, or that Aquitaine and England were supplied from the same

market.

H. T. BEDDOWS. Borough Librarian, Shrewsbury.

GIRALDUS CAMBRENSIS (12 S. x. 272).— The meaning of Tant giwe li purcel cume uolt li chael is-The little pig gives as much as the dog wants. It would be easier to offer an interpretation of incedere cornutus if the context of the expression were supplied. Cornutus can mean more than one thing; e.g., it has been applied to a bishop, the allusion being to his mitre.

EDWARD BENSLY.

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POEM WANTED (12 S. xi. 350). The poem entitled sought for is probably that 'A Captive Linnet,' by the Rev. Edward Caswall Stratford-Sub-Castle, (1814-1878). Curate of The concluding stanzas of this poem are:Wiltshire, convert to Roman Catholicism, 1847.

A single thread of silken hair,
That, borne by zephyrs here and there.
Had settled on the spray;
Then, as he sported there, had wound
His soft and glossy neck around,
And bound him fast a prey.
Moral:

Ye children of the world beware!
Too oft a lock of silken hair
Has made the soul a prize;
And held it riveted to the earth,
When, by the instinct of its birth.
It should have sought the skies.

W. H. WELPLY.

Notes on Books.

Early Latin Hymns with Introduction and Notes. By the late A. S. Walpole. (Cambridge University Press. 15s. net.) THIS-volume belongs to the series of Cambridge Patristic Texts, and has been prepared for the press by the General Editor of the series, Dr. A. J. Mason, to whom Mr. Walpole sent the material from his death-bed. Dr. Mason tells us in his Preface that he had been working at these hymns with Mr. Walpole for more than twenty years. He thus speaks from intimate knowledge of the immense pains which Mr. Walpole bestowed upon his taskof the many transcripts he made of the texts; of his reading through the whole of the prose writings of St. Ambrose in order to qualify himself better to judge of the right attribution of hymns; of the volumes of notes he had accumulated. The work he was compelled to relinquish has been most worthily carried out, and we have here a book which will stand for many years as the authority upon a subject which perhaps merits closer study than it has generally received. These early Latin hymns-to say nothing of their ecclesiastical interest-have a peculiar character as poetry. They are akin to the GrecoRoman Christian art with which they are contemporary. In both the finest work is charged with conceptions felt to be so tremendous, so moving, and still so novel that they strain to its utmost the vehicle conveying them, and produce a simplicity, an effect of stiffness, a concentration and force, which at first sight seem stern, almost forbidding, void of beauty, but, upon any lengthened contemplation, reveal beauty not to be surpassed in its power to charm and awe. The not infrequent echoes of classical poetryVirgilian echoes especially-haunting what is so strongly and newly Christian, add here and there a distinct strangeness, a curious richness. So much may be said in general of a large proportion of the 127 hymns forming this collection, and when the student has familiarised himself with the type he will discover within its limits much variety and many degrees of culture and poetical faculty in the writer and of poetical merit in the achievement. Speaking roughly, and bearing in mind exceptions discussed in the Intro duction, these are hymns which were sung in Church up to about 600 A.D. One third, or rather fewer, can be assigned to their author; the rest are anonymous. Of those by known authors several are formed of centos put together by later hands from long religious poems not intended to be sung. The main body of the hymns is comprised in two ancient collections, the old Benedictine hymnal of thirty-six hymns which was in use during the sixth century, and the later hymnal which superseded it. How or why the change was made is not known, but Fr. Blume has an interesting suggestion connecting it with Greg

ory

the Great and his provision for the liturgical requirements of Britain. Five of the hymns, including the first of all (St. Hilary's Hymnum dicat turba fratrum) are from the Irish Liber Hymnorum.' Each hymn is provided with a separate introduction and with copious notes at the foot of the text, the history of each and its. place in the offices of the church being carefully noted. The essay on St. Ambrose and the tests by which to recognise his work, with the introductions to the several hymns. (eighteen in number) here given under his. name, may be mentioned as specially good. It is useful, too, to have the mistaken attribution to him of several hymns disallowed. Fortunatus, again, is very happily discussed and interpreted. We noticed, by the way, that in his hymn Crux benedicta nitet,' the words manus illa quae eripuit

"

morte Petrum " are referred to St. Peter'srescue from prison (Acts xii); they certainly refer to Matt. xiv, 31, "et continuo Jesus, extendens manum, apprehendit eum. Mr. Walpole suggests and shows good reason in support-that the metrically anomalous hymn, Mediæ noctis tempus est, may be the work of Niceta of Remesiana. He was inclined also to think that Alcuin might be the author of Nocte surgentes vigilemus omnes and Ecce iam noctis tenuatur umbra.' Mr. Walpole had made an exceedingly careful study of the hymns on their linguistic side, noting grammatical developments and eccentricities and the numerous allusions toor reflections of the older Latin literature; he had even collected material for a special grammar. The fruits of this particular study are to be gathered in the notes on linguistic points. which are copious and excellent.

WE much regret to learn the death of our correspondent, Mr. A. F. G. Leveson-Gower, which took place at Hadleigh House, Windsor, on Dec. 26. Born in 1851-younger son of William Leveson-Gower of Titsey Place, Surrey-he was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, and entered the Diplomatic Service in 1876. In this nearly thirty years of his life were passed, the last seven as Secre tary of Legation at the Hague. He was a Knight of Justice of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, and one of the three members who represented the Order when the ex-Kaiser visited Palestine in 1898. Mr. Leveson-Gower was a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and devoted much of his leisure to antiquarian pursuits, being especially active where the preservation of ancient churches was concerned, and where the alienation of church furniture or plate was to be either remedied or prevented.

CONTENTS.-No. 248. NOTES:-Dalton of Leatherhead, 23-Seventh Day Baptists of Mill Yard, Whitechapel, 26-English Graves at Iquique, 27-The Milton-Ovid Script, 28 -Inquisitions post mortem-Wordsworth and George Herbert-Francis Thompson: a Correction, 30.

QUERIES:-Oscaha, 30-Italian Actor in England in the Seventeenth Century-Samuel and Jane Holden-Dickens's Punch-Hyde Park (" High Park")-Crumlum Portrait, 31-Eldernel Whit tlesey-Royal Badges, Lions and Eagles-Richard Whittington, his Knighthood-" Il colpo di stato di Domineddio "-David Ross Dickson-Henry James Buckoll-Bean Club-Laly's Regiment, 32 - Irving - Bluestocking - Home of Sir Thomas More's first wife-Agricultural use of sea-sandJames Kenney, 33.

REPLIES:-" Whip (Naut.), 33-"Hog's Norton
where pigs play on the organ"-"To go the
Way of all Flesh "-Portraiture of King Henry
IV-Sleep and the Moon, 34-Sir William Beatty,
M.D.-The Mistletoe Bough'-Rapp: Jewish
Name-Van Eyck: the Ince Blundell Madonna-
"And shall Trelawny die?" 35-St. Michael as
winged Bishop-The 365 children, 36" Go to the
Devil and Shake Yourselves "-St. Mary-atte
Moore-Plough Monday Plays Cheese begging
Rhymes-Duxbury. Minors in Preston Church
Shorthand
Rolls, 37-The Stocks, 38-Shelton's
System- Lorna Doone'-Bellhorses, 39.
NOTES ON BOOKS:- Medieval English Nun.
neries' The Topography of Stane Street.'
Notices to Correspondents.

chamber in Ordinary without fee or salary until a vacancy in Mr. de la Dale's (dead) place." The vacancy occurred June 19, 1673, when he received the appointment, "with all rights, profits, perquisites and advantages, etc." He died March 12, 1683, and on April 14 following John Captaine was appointed Page of the Bedchamber in his room. He also lies buried in Leatherhead Church, where a flat stone in the North floor of the chancel bears the inscription:

Here lyeth interred the Body of Lowde Cordell Esq. one of the Pages of his Majesty's | Bedchamber who departed this Life March the twelfth | 1682/3 in the thirty sixth year | of his age.

Above the inscription are his arms: "A chevron engrailed ermine between three leopards faces affronté." Crest, A Wyvern.*

*

The children of the marriage were Caroline, Mary, Anne, Richard and Elizabeth. The baptisms of the girls are not recorded at Leatherhead, but Caroline was buried there on January 7, 1674/5. Mary was also buried in the church, where a stone on the South side of the Chancel is inscribed:

Here lyeth the body of Mary daughter of Lowde Cordell | So (sic) one of the Pages of his Majtie's Bedchamber the delight of her parents and all that knew her being a child! of the most early hopes deserving | beyond her yeares She was borne in Leatherhead the 28th of Aug. Anno Dom. 167-t and dyed there ye 20th of Sept. 1681.

Mary Cordell was granted a pension of £60 a year by King James II, to commence July 1, 1685. She married secondly Sir Henry Firebrace, Kt. in Aug. 1685. She died after giving birth to a daughter, and was buried in the Cloisters of Westminster Abbey, Feb. 1, 1687, leaving three children by her first husband. Administration was granted to their grandmother Anne Cordell to administer to the goods, etc., of said deceased for the use of the said minors until they attain the age of 21 years." Dated July 18, 1691 (P.C.C.) Anne Cordell the Parish of St. Bridgett als. Brides, London," was buried at Leatherhead, November 26, 1697. The pension was continued to the children, March 5, 1687/8,

of

These pensions are duly recorded in the succeeding reigns, but on July 1, July 1, 1702, Richard's name falls out, and Elizabeth died in June, 1718. The last payment noted is one to Anne, on June 11, 1727, 20. 0.0." Richard Dalton (the third) would to have become a freeman of the Glaziers' Company, as a Warrant dated Whitehall,

appear

Dec. 15, 1684, granting a Charter, shows John Oliver, Esq., Master, and Richard Dalton and Thomas Tipping jun., Wardens; but he had already got an appointment in his father's department of the Household. He was sworn Page of his Majesty's Cellar Aug. 5, 1670; Groom of the Cellar in Ordinar in the place of Abraham Scudamore, Oct. 29, 1677; Yeoman, Aug. 29, 1681 (this entry, however, is marked "Removed "); Yeoman of the Mouth, Dec. 26, 1681; Gentleman and Yeoman of the Mouth, Oct. 3, 1683; 2nd Yeoman of the Cellar and Yeoman of the Ice and Snow, Apr. 24, 1685; and Gentleman and Yeoman Apr. 10, 1689.

The Establishment of his Majesty's Wine Cellar in 1699 was as follows:

£5 0 0, with Board Wages £45 0 0. In 1714 under George I Dalton re-appears as and Gentleman, his wages are again £11 8s. 1d. and Board Wages £48 11s. 10d. The yearly contracts for providing Canary and Sherry Wines held by Richard Dalton, senr., were granted after his death, to his From 1685 to 1689, Richard Flintham is associated with him. Later William Per

son.

1695.

kins the Serjeant appears to have supplied wines, but of such bad quality that, after being suspended for a short time in November, 1691, he was discharged in November, He was restored in July, 1696, but finally surrendered his place Feb. 21, 1698 The latter proved to Stephen Thompson. equally unsatisfactory, and in 1704 he was replaced by James Heymans, Yeoman of His Majestys Store Cellar, who was still holding the appointment of Purveyor of 1718.

were

Among the duties of the Yeoman also those of supplying bottles, glass, etc., conduit Water from those and of fetching places where it shall please their Majesties.' "the best Mum "§ at They also supplied 8d. a quart.

In November, 1690 a grant was made to Richard Dalton Esq. of the office of Comptroller of the Accompts of their Mties' Revenue arising upon the granting of Lycenses to retail wines to hold and to exercise the same during their Mties' pleasure with the fee or salary of £200 pr. An. payable quarterly out of the

said Revenue.

In 1692 the Board of Green Cloth called attention to a malpractice.

The officers of their Majesties Privy and Great Cellar do daily sell wine and make their

§ Mum was a kind of ale brewed from wheat at Brunswick, and largely imported into England in the 17th and 18th Century. During the brewing, the tops of fir and birch, betony, marjoram, pennyroyal, etc., were put into it. English brewers put in cardamum, ginger, and sassafras instead of fir-tops, and added also walnut-rinds, madder, red sanders and elecampane. Pepys seems to have liked it: May 3, 1664. I went with Mr. Norbury near hand to the Fleece, a mum house in Leadenhall and there drank mum and by and by broke up, it being about 11 o'clock at night." It is also mentioned by J. Phillips: Sedulous and stout, with bowls of fattening mum. Cyder,' vol. ii. p. 231. Andrew Garrenton (England's Improvement,' 1677) proposed to bring the mum trade from Brunswick and establish it at Stratford-on-Avon. He states that "the mum at Brunswick is a medicine, and drinks very nauseous-that which makes it good-is its See N. E. D.' being kept long at sea." s. v. Mum, and Wheatley's Edition of Pepys' Diary.'

2. Richard, who was buried May, 1677, in the Cloisters of Westminster Abbey.

Among other matters which came before

the Board was the want of sufficient accommodation for wine, and in 1698 the cellars at the Cock Pit were handed over to Dalton. In the same year complaint was made that a part of his Majesty's Great Cellar which was preserved from the late dreadful fire at Whitehall doth lie exposed to the rain, ," and request was made for a speedy order for making such a cover as may preserve the wine from the danger of the weather."

was

In his later life Dalton appears to have suffered from gout. In 1715 leave granted him to " go to the Bath for some time," and two years later he was allowed to be absent for one month on account of his health.

He married Feb. 4, 1674/5 at St. Martin'sin-the-Fields, Margaret Johnson, sister of Nicholas Johnson, Receiver and Paymaster to the Army. The Mar. Lic. Bp. Lon.,' dated Jan. 28, 1674/5 describes him as of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, Middlesex, Gent. Bachelor aged 25, and Margaret Johnson as of the same parish, spinster, aged 22. She died Aug 5, 1686, and was buried Aug. 25, in the North Cloister of Westminster Abbey. Col. Chester states in his Extracts from the Registers of Westminster Abbey,' that he married a second wife, but no particulars of her are forthcoming. His children were: 1. Jane, who married as his second wife, James Eckersall, one of the Clerks of the Kitchen to Queen Anne and to George I, and Chief Clerk of the Kitchen to George II. She died Aug. 6, 1729, aged 46, and was buried at West Drayton, Co. Middlesex, M.I. Her husband died Apr. 29, 1753, aged

Nicholas Johnson was appointed December 1679 jointly with Wm. Fox, son of Sir Stephen Fox (Clerk to the Board of Green Cloth) Receiver and Paymaster to the Army. He appears to have married (1) Jane Churgeon of Southampton, who was buried in St. Margaret's Westminster Nov. 20. 1673. (Mar. Lic. Vic. Gen. dated Mar. 29. 1670). (2) Jan. 27: 1673/4. Dorothea dau. of Peter Maplesden of St. Margaret's Westr. She was buried at St. Margaret's, Apr. 16. 1675. (3) Jane Fox, sister of Sir Stephen Fox. She died Sept. 2. 1710 aged 71, and was buried in Westminster Abbey, North Cloister. He died Apr. 20, and was buried Apr. 21. 1682 in Westminster Abbey, North Cloister. Will dated Apr. 16. 1682.

3. Mary, who married Rupert Billingsley, Capt. R.N., Commander of the Royal George in 1715. He was born Aug. 10, She died 1670, and died Dec. 14, 1720. Both were Aug. 5, 1727, in her 42nd year. Their only buried at West Drayton, M.I. daughter Bridget, born Apr. 15, 1715, married at the Chapel Royal St. James's, Aug. 17, 1732, William Bellasyse, Esq., of Brancepeth Castle, Co. Durham. 4. Richard (see below).

5.

Margaret, who was buried June 13, 1677, in the Cloisters of Westminster Abbey. 6. Anne, who married Sydenham Malthus, of Lincoln's Inn Fields, son of Daniel Malthus and Elizabeth Portman. They had four children:

a. Anne, who married Humphrey Hackshaw.

b. Catharine, who married in 1745 her cousin George Eckersall, of Lincoln's Inn Fields.

C.

Elizabeth, who married in 1750 as his second wife, Samuel Wathen, Surgeon. d. Daniel, of Halstock, Co. Essex, and Albury, Co. Surrey. He married Nov. 6, 1752, Henrietta Catherine Graham. Their second son was Thomas Robert Malthus, the author of the Malthusian Doctrine. (See D. N. B.')

e. A daughter who married - Bridges. Richard Dalton died Nov. 24, and was buried at Leatherhead, Nov. 27, 1731. He "Richard is styled in the parish Register, Dalton Esq. of the Parish of St. James' Westminster in the County of Middlesex." He held land in Leatherhead in 1710, when he voted there as a freeholder, but he makes no mention of it in his will. A stone in the S. side of the Chancel bears the inscription:

Here lyeth the Body of Richard Dalton Esq. Son of Richard Dalton Esq. | Serjeant of the Wine Cellar to King Charles the second Dyed the 24th of November 1731 1 aged eighty years and ten months.

estate

His will is dated July 10, 1731. He left to his nephew Stephen Downs "all that my mortgage on the of Mr. Robert Hatton's, of Althorp in Lincolnshire, which I lately redeemed and bought in my son's name for £850," together with his "interest in the South Sea Annuities, viz., £500 and all his personal estate in trust for his grandson William Dalton only son of his Richard Dalton," then under age. To his

son