The Diary continues: September 13. In the afternoon to Westminster where Mr. Dalton was ready with the money to pay me for my house but our writings not being drawn, it could not be done to-day. September 16. After that to Westminster and dined with Mr. Dalton at his office, where he had one great Court dish, but our papers not being done, we could not make an end of our business till Monday next. Mr. Dalton and I over the water to our landlord Vanly, with whom we agree as to Dalton becoming a tenant. Back to Westminster. September 17. Dined at home and Mr. Moore with me and afterwards to Whitehall to Mr. Dalton and drank in the Cellar where Mr. Vanly according to appointment was. Thenceforth to see the Prince de Ligne Spanish Ambassador come into his audience, which was done in very great State. That being done, Dalton, Vanley, Scrivener and some friends of theirs and I to the Axe, and signed_and sealed our writings and hence to the Wine Cellar again where I received the £41 for my interest on my house, out of which I paid my Landlord to Michaelmas next and so all is even between him and me, and I freed of my poor little house. Home by link with my money under my arm. September 20. After dinner to Whitehall to Mr. Dalton and with him to my house and took away all my papers that were left in my closet, and so I have now nothing more in the house or to do with it. Pepys mentions Dalton once more: January 5, 1662/3. I took Sir W. Batten and Capt. Allen into the Wine Cellar of my tenant (as I call him Serjeant Dalton) and there drank a great deal of variety of wines, more than I have drunk at one time, or shall again a great while, when I come to return to my oaths, which I intend in a day or two. The Axe" mentioned above was a tavern situated in King Street, Westminster, from which Axe Yard close by took its name. On this site was built Fludyer Street in 1761, and this again was swept away in 1864-1865 to make room for the new Government Offices §. SDiary of Samuel Pepys.' Edited by H. B. Wheatley, London, 1903. supply Spanish wine to His Majesty's Household, but in June of the following year he surrendered this to Joseph Batailhe. The latter was a friend of Pepys, who calls him Batelier. His death is recorded in the Diary on Oct. 16, 1667. And so home to supper, when Pelling comes and sits with me, and there tells us how old Mr. Batelier is dead this last night in the night, going to bed well, which I am mightily troubled for, he being a good man. At an earlier date he is mentioned as being a wine merchant. December 11, 1666. Anon came our guests old Mr. Batelier and his son and daughter, Mercer, which was all our company. We had a good venison pasty and other good cheer, and as merry as in so good, innocent and understanding company I could be. He is much troubled that wines laden by him in France before the late Proclamation was out, cannot now be brought into England, which is so much to his and other merchants' loss. We sat long at supper and then to talk, and so late parted and so to bed. The son, William Batailhe (or Batelier) held an appointment as purveyor of French wines to the Court, which he resigned in 1673 in favour of Basil Firebrace, son of Sir Henry. The daughter Mary kept a linen-draper's shop in the Royal Exchange. Of her Pepys writes on July 26, 1665: I back to the Royal Exchange, where I sat talking with my beauty, Mrs. Batelier, a great while, who is indeeed one of the finest women I ever saw in my life. He also mentions another daughter (Susan): July 9, 1666. And there was also Mrs. Mary Batelier and her sister, newly come out of France, a black, very black woman, but mighty good-natured people both as ever I saw. Here I made the black one sing a French song, which she did mighty innocently. After Joseph Batelier's death Pepys bought wine from his son as stated in the Diary: June 22, 1668. Thence home where the streets full at our end of the town, removing their wine against the Act begins, which will be two days hence, to raise the price. I did get my store in of Batelier this night. Dalton again secured the contract for Spanish wines in 1670, and held it until 1681. It was renewed yearly with the exception of the year 1674, being described variously as "for Canary wine," Canary and Sherry wines," and for rackt wines." for "Rack." 1. To draw off wine from the lees. 2. To empty a cask by racking. N. E. D.' The establishment of the Royal Wine of the first. Crest. A ram's head issuant Cellar in 1668 was as follows:from a ducal coronet." Pepys makes mention of Gilbert Thornbrough in his account of Coronation Day, Apr. 23, 1661, after the "Strange frolic in Axe Yard. I went in with Mr. Thornbury (who did give the Company all their wine he being Yeoman of the Wine Cellar to the King) to his house, and there with his wife and two of his sisters (he had three sisters, very fine and the most zealous people that ever I saw in my life even to admiration if it were true zeal) and some gallant sparks that were there, we drank the King's health and nothing else, till one of the gentlemen fell down stark drunk. Pepys went to bed drunk, too, and "waked in the morning with my head in a sad taking through last night's which I am very sorry for." drink, in The last mention of Richard Dalton the Household books is dated October, 1681, The On the south wall of the Chancel is a black marble pyramid crowned with an urn. inscription runs : Near this place is deposited the body I of Richard Dalton | Esq Serjeant of the Wine Cellar to King Charles the II | He dyed Oct IV | MDCLXXXI | Aged LXV And of Richard Dalton | Esq | his Son who dyed Nov XXIV MDCCXXXI | aged LXXXIV years X months. A flat stone in the north floor Chancel bears the inscription: of the Here lyeth the Body of Mary Dalton wife of Richard Dalton Esq | Serjeant of ye Wine Cellar to King Charles ye Second | who dyed ye second day of April 1.1691 | in ye 70th year of her age. Richard Dalton's will is dated July 6, 1681. He gave to the poor of Leatherhead 40s. To his loving wife Mary Dalton during her life all his freehold lands and houses in Leatherhead with the appurtenances thereunto belonging and the lease of the house that John Booth and Thos. Stacey now lives in and all the furniture of the best Chamber over the Kitchen and a part of all his plate and brass and pewter and linen. To his daughter Cordel £20. To his daughter Elizabeth Dalton £100 besides the £200 that his son Richard Dalton is to pay her. To his son and daughter Cordell £10 to buy them mourning. To his grandson Charles Cordell £5. To his grandson Richard Cordell £5. To his granddaughter Mary Cordell £10. To his granddaughter Elizabeth Cordell £5. To his granddaughter Anne Cordell 50s. To his granddaughter Katren Cordell 50s. To his sister Cordell 20s. to buy her a ring. To his son Dalton's children 40s. apiece. His wife Mary Dalton and his son Richard Dalton to be executors. By a codicil dated Sept. 20, 1781, he gives to his sister Stacey 40s. To his sister Dorothy Mounger 40s. The residue of his personal estate to be divided equally between his daughters Mary Cordell and Elizabeth Dalton. By a second codicil dated Sept. 26. 1681, he appointed his son Lowde Cordell of Westminster. Esquire, Overseer in trust of the said will and gave his executors and overseer 40s. apiece over and above their charges. Proved in London Oct. 19, 1681, by Richard Dalton, his son (P.C.C. North 140). C. W. FIREBRACE, (To be concluded). The Will of his son-in-law, Edward Bridgen.--The will of Edward Bridgen*, of London, merchant, dated 30 April, 1787, bequeathed all his estate in North Carolina, left him by his late sister De Rosset, of that State, to Joseph Spilsbury, esq., of Curzon Street, Mayfair. His estate at Hackney he bequeathed to Richard Crowther (his brother-in-law), of Boswell Court, esq., he to pay an annuity of £12 for life to Mrs. Jane Bennet of Bromsgrove (of whom later), and a similar annuity of £25 to Mrs. Jane Oakes of Bridgnorth. The witneses were Wm. Herne, Robert Horsfield and Thomas Symonds. The will was thus continued on 9 May, 1787: I give to my sister Mrs. Anne Richardson of Stratford, the only original picture of her father, the ingenious friend to virtue, and after (her) death I desire it be delivered to the Company of Stationers to be fixed up in their hall. His Roubillac's design for a monument for General Wolfe was to be disposed of by public sale, under the direction of Thomas Brand Hollis, esq., his friend. To Mrs. Elizabeth Quartermain he gave 10 guineas for her long service, and the same to his then head servant Catherine Gardner; to Alexander and Frances, five guineas each for mourning. His executors were to be his partner, Mr. James Wallert, and Mr. Thomas Quartermain, to each of whom he gave 20 guineas, while the latter to have also 10 guineas a year for four years. He desired to be buried under St. Paul's, by his two wives and children, and that not more than 10 guineas be laid out on coffin, shroud and pall. was He named as his residuary legatees, Mrs. Ann Glover, Rebecca Walter, Esther Coope,. Sarah Crowther, Bryan Crowther, and Samuel Crowther. He had included the names of Philip Ditcher and Mary Ditcher, but afterwards crossed them out ("because they do not want it ") and willed them 20 guineas each instead. If any of these eight persons were to die under 21, the share of the deceased was to be: divided among the survivors. He continued the will again at some time between 9 May and 28 July, 1787, when, as we have seen, he died. The two portraits in his drawing room, of Mr. Laurens and Mr. Paine, he left to his friend Thomas Brand Hollis. To the Society of "the great Antiquaries, London, he left The seven or eight volumes of letters. which had formerly passed between Lady Bradshaigh and Mr. Richardson, with the copy of Pamela,' in eight volumes, corrected. by Mr. Richardson in 1758, were to be sent to Mrs. Anne Richardson. His set of Tillotson's works. in folio, and all Clerk's sermons, he desired Philip Ditcher to accept. His silver inkstand, and small silver box with rings in it, both of which were her dear aunt's, he gave to Miss Mary Ditcher. My Hebrew manuscripts of the Pentateuch on 39 skins of morocco leather I beg leave to trouble my worthy friend Dr. Price to present to the new Dissenting Academy at Hackney, as a small addition to their library. This clause he crossed out, writing in the margin, already sent.” In conclusion he left Mr. Brand Hollis his red pocket-books, all sealed up and directed for him. On 6 Aug. 1787, James There were to be eight poor men parishioners as bearers, each to have half a guinea. An abstract of this will was printed re cently in Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, 5th S., vol. iv. pt. x. pp. 214-15. Waller and Thomas Quartermain, of St. Faith's, London, merchants, the executors named in the first codicil to the will, made oath personally that on Saturday, 28 July last, they found the will and codicils in a bureau in the deceased's dwelling house in Lovell Court, St. Faith's parish. On the same day, William Sloman, of St. Faith's, wine merchant, and Richard Baldwyn, of St. Bartholomew-theLess, linen-draper, attested to their knowledge of the deceased and to the authenticity of the will and codicils. The will was proved "Messieurs Brigden (sic) and Waller," I find among the subscribers to The Works of Aaron Hill,' 2nd ed., 1754; while in The Universal British Directory' (London), 1790, still appears the firm of Bridgen and Waller, merchants, Warwick Place, Bedford Road, James Waller, merchant, being given separately as resident at Warwick Place, 8 Aug. 1787, by the exors. named, in P.C.C. Gray's Inn. (355 Major). There is much in the will to. interest us. The most important bequests, those of Richardson's portrait, and the volumes of his correspondence, to Anne Richardson, his sister-in-law, will be dealt with later. As regards the copy of 'Pamela,' in 8 volumes, corrected by Richardson in 1758, this was evidently the manuscript copy which Bridgen had offered to Mme. de Genlis not long before (see ante, p. 508); what became of it after Anne Richardson's death I do not know. In reference to his Roubillac's design for a monument to General Wolfe, one C.T.C. wrote to The Gentleman's Magazine, in 1788 (pp. 668-9), saying that he had a letter in Bridgen's writing, evidently intended for that periodical, concerning this very model. It appears that Bridgen was an intimate friend of Louis François Roubillac (1695-1762), and "C. T. C." tells us that the design was presented to him by Roubillac himself, who, I believe, was previously under some considerable pecuniary obligation to Mr. Bridgen." The "Clerk whose sermons, together with Archbishop Tillotson's works, he left to his brother-in-law, Philip Ditcher, was, I presume, Matthew Clerk (1659-1735), Irish Presbyterian minister, who was at the siege of Derry (Dict. Nat. Biog.'). an A Edward Bridgen is said to have sold to the Society of Antiquaries, for 15 guineas, "a curious old View of London," painted on board and folding together like an altarpiece, which he had purchased from Mr. Webster for the same sum (Nichols's Literary Anecdotes,' Vol. viii, p. 664). long and detailed account of this curiosity appeared in The Gentleman's Magazine for 1780, pp. 179-81, which stated that it was purchased in 1776 "for a few shillings by Mr. Webster, a surgeon at Chigwell, who is the present proprietor." Bridgen's political sympathies are indicated by his bequest to Thomas Brand Hollis of the portraits of "Mr. Laurens According to a recent communication by and "Mr. Paine" that hung in his draw- Mr. Arthur Schomberg, Bridgen was elected ing-room. "Mr. Paine " was, of course, F.S.A., 28 April 1768, he being then of Thomas Paine (1737-1809), author of The Lovell's Court, merchant, and a Member of Rights of Man,' who had accompanied the Society of Arts and Commerce. In the Colonel Laurens, the American envoy, as possession of Mr. Schomberg's family is a his secretary, on his mission to France in portrait--not claimed as of much artistic 1781 (Dict. Nat. Biog.'). Thomas Brand merit-inscribed in the dexter corner, Hollis, who in 1774 inherited the consider-Edward Bridgen, Esq., F.R.S. & S.A. able property of the well-known Thomas Died July 28, 1787" (Miscellanea GeneaHollis, and took his name, was the institutor, logica et Heraldica, 5th S., Vol. iv, part x, with the Duke of Richmond, of the stitutional Society," and was some time M.P. for Hindon§. What his red pocket. books contained, all sealed up and directed to Brand Hollis, I do not know, but the circumstances suggest their political interest. The "great glass" in his parlour, which he left to the Society of Antiquaries, was duly accepted in 1787, as the minutes show. Mr. H. S. Kingsford, the assistant secretary of the Society, believes it to be a large pier 66 Con Henry Laurens, American congressman, died Feb. 1793, aged 70 (Musgrave's Obituary,' Harleian Society). And see Walpole's Letters,' ed. Mrs. Paget Toynbee, vol. xi. pp. 295, 296, 320, and vol. xii. p. 109. § He died 2 Sept., 1804. See account of him in The Gentleman's Magazine, 1804, pp. 888-9, 1098-9. p. 214). Dr. Price, who was to convey his Hebrew MSS. to the New Dissenting Academy at Hackney, would be that well-known nonconformist, Richard Price (1723-91), who was then minister at Hackney ('Dict. Nat. Biog.'). This College for the education of Protestant dissenters had only just been established, in 1787, under the care of Dr. Price and others (Lysons' 'Environs of London,' Vol ii, p. 480); and by 1796 it had been broken up and the building deserted (ibid., iv. 628). Bridgen, as we have seen, desired to be buried with his two wives and children. under St. Paul's. Mr. Schomberg, at the reference I have quoted, records a tradition that he was buried in the Chapel of St. Faith in St. Paul's Cathedral, the burial Mr. place of the Stationers' Company." Crowther-Beynon has kindly inquired at the Office of Works in the crypt of St. Paul's, and been informed that there is no Bridgen commemorated in any decipherable inscription in St. Faith's Chapel or any other part of the crypt. I have no record of Bridgen's first wife, and cannot say whether the children buried there were by her or Martha Richardson. ALEYN LYELL READE. (To be continued). THE MILTON-OVID SCRIPT.-XVIII. 111. The travell of Alcmena Seuen nights and dayes Alcmena opprest sore with beareing pains, to Joue her prayers adrest with hands erected, and Ilithyia calls T' her helpe, whose aide Juno with spite forestalls with crosseleggd charmes, and finger foulded spells Sh' Alcides birth retards; Galanthis tells Her false deliv'ry, and by what she said Juno deceiu'd, for 't she's a weasell made. 112.. Dryope turn'd into a tree. Fair Dryope one of the Oechalides with her babe in armes walking among the trees plucks from a flowry Lotus which did grow Thereby, a sprig from whence the blood doth flow of a Nimph in it inshrin'd, for which crime she Is changed too into a Lotus tree. 113. Byblis in loue with her brother Incesteous Loue rages in Byblis brest And scearcly giuing her one minutes rest Torments her so, that 't last she doth discouer T'her brother Caunus, whom she'd haue her lover This Rageing fitt by letter, which once seen 114. Byblis turn'd into a fountaine Byblis the mountaines and the planes had past And through the woods she racing ran, at last Tyred with travell on the grasse she lies, when sprung a fountaine from her mouth & eyes which through the vale a present course found out. The Nimps and naides, come round about Her new made streme, and willingly doe shew, The favours that are in their power to doe. 115. The Goddesse Isis appeares to Lydus commands his wife Telethusa Vnto his joy should give the world a son |