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Did the name "North Sea come to Eng-
land with George I, or can earlier examples
of its use here be found?
JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.
ARCHBISHOP HOWLEY: " I SIT ON A ROCK."
William Howley, Archbishop of Canter-
bury from 1828-48,
is referred to in
'N. & Q,' 7 S. ix. 207, 317; xi, 147, 236-7.
A MS. note dated 1842 says he was the
author of
the following conundrum or
charade, but no solution of it is given. Can
any reader supply its meaning?

I sit on a rock when I'm raising the wind
But the storm once abated I'm gentle and
kind.

Both princes and kings await but my nod To kneel down in the dust on the ground that I've trod.

I'm seen by the world tho' known but by few

The gentiles detest me, I'm pork to a jew.
I never have passed but one night in the
dark

And that was with Noah alone in the ark.
My weight is 3lbs my length is a mile
But when I'm discovered you'll say with a
smile

That my first and my last are the best in
your Isle.
K. B. W.

Inner Temple.

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I should be grateful if any reader could tell me of any family of the name of Adgate,. if possible with some account of its history and connections. No tittle of information is too unimportant, even to other instances of its use as a baptismal name.

Would any correspondent please write
BRIGHTONIAN.

[This charade has often cropped up in direct through N. & Q.'

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'N. & Q.'-see 1 S. ii. 10, 77; xii. 365, 520-
2 S. i. 83-7 S. ii. 27, 71--9 S. v. 332; vii. 328–
10 S. viii, 420; xi. 345. At the first reference
(1850) it was said to have appeared in The
Times a few years back." It has been
ascribed to several authors, and said to have
been solved by Dean Peacock.
Church,' measure," the letter R and
Alone (a loan) " have been proposed as
solutions, but none is quite satisfactory. Dr.
Husenbeth at 1 S. xii. 520, expressed the
opinion that it is a hoax].

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PANTON BETEW.-Is anything known of this silversmith and picture-dealer beyond what J. T. Smith records in his 'Life of Nollekens,' in which is given some interesting information about contemporary artists, derived from Betew? When did he die, and has anyone else mentioned him? Ꭱ. GILBERT WHITE'S 'SELBORNE.'-I believe that there have been upwards of 130 editions of this book. It would be of interest to know what other books (if any), have been so often edited.

HUGH S. GLADSTONE.

THE ATLAS NEWSPAPER.-I am particularly anxious to find a file of this newspaper for 1829, the one in the British Museum

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Venner's rising took place in the night of Sunday, Jan. 6, 1661, when his followers murdered three or four people, broke out of the city gates, ran away and hid themselves. On Monday the 7th the soldiers sent to search for them found them (at night once more) in hiding near Caen Wood (now miscalled Kenwood "). Only one man was hurt and no one captured, for there was no moon and so the rebels dispersed in the wood and made good their escape. On Tuesday, the 8th, nothing happened. Pepys' hearsay account, which there is a tendency nowadays to distort into an account of the whole rising, refers only to the final incident, which took place about 5 o'clock in the morning of Wednesday, the 9th. This was really an attempt to catch the Lord Mayor in bed and murder him. The only full and accurate account of all this is that in Mercurius Publicus and Parliamentary Intelligencer. Some pamphlets published contain many mistakes. The book of Robert Vaughan was written at a time when historical research was without the aids we all have nowadays, and is not worth citing. I think readers of N. & Q.' will like to know where they can see all the original authorities about the "Fifth Monarchy Men,' They are as follows:

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3. Richard Blome's Fanatick History,' published in 1660.

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4. Lastly, Semper Iidem,' a tract published on March 28, 1661, after Venner's rising.

Finally the aims and objects of Venner and his friends can be ascertained from three manifestos. The first of these has never been noticed, and is the discovery of the present writer. It is entitled The Panther Prophecy,' was issued and perhaps printed at the end of 1653, and was reprinted in 1662 (copy at the British Museum). The second manifesto was that issued by Venner in 1657, and is entitled 'A Standard set up, whereunto the true Seed and Saints of the Most Migh may be gathered together.' There is a copy of this in the Thomason tracts. Lastly, in the same collection, Christopher Feake's of Light,' published in 1659, urging the Fifth Monarchy men to be ready for a general massacre, is important.

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I have already drawn attention to Venner's Door of Hope' in 1661. The other points raised have no relation to the matters under discussion. J. G. M.

Pepys' account of the Venner's rising quoted at the last reference is probably not so accurate as Sir John Reresby's, who in his Memoirs' (1904 d.), at p. 143 says:

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On the 6th of January, 1661, a small rebellion was raised in London by one Venner, which in its very rise was defeated by party of the guards; but running out of town they rallied again in Cane-wood near Highgate. Having a mind therefore to see a little action, I mounted one of my coach-horses, and mounted my man upon the other, and joined Sir Thomas Sands, who commanded the party of the guards that went in pursuit of the in1. In A. M. Christie's translation of cendiaries. Having searched the wood till Janssen's History of the German People at the close of the Middle Ages,' there is in the fifth volume (published in 1903) a very lengthy and completely referenced account of John of Leyden and the Anabaptists of Münster, who actually put into practice the Fifth Monarchy millenium.

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midnight, we came to a little house where the victuals but a little while before, and that people told us they had been desiring some they could not be far off. Accordingly, about an hour after this we found them in the thickest part of the wood. They discharged their pieces at us, but the moon setting they

got from us, and hurried back again to London, where they met with the fate everybody

knows. Their captain and about twenty more

ROBERT

were hanged, drawn and quartered: about (12 S. OWTH'S HAMPSHIRE

twenty of them were killed in their several skirmishes, and about as many of the king's men, one of which was shot not far from me in Cane-wood.

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. THOMAS BOWSFIELD (12 S. xii. 12). The Rey. C. J. Robinson in his Register of Merchant Taylors' School (i. 3) says that Thomas Bousefielde's father was Harry, and that he was a Merchant Taylor, that Thomas after being head boy went to Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he was Wattes' scholar and proceeded B.A. 1575. He seems to have proceeded almost at once to Queen's College, Oxford, where in the same year Bartholomew Bousfield, probably a relative, was (9 June) elected Provost. Thomas is found in the course of the academic year 1575-6 as lecturer in logic of that college, and was incorporated there 23 May, 1577, proceeding M.A. 6 July of the same year. Bartholomew Bousfield resigned the Provostship in 1581. His resignation seems to have been a matter of negotiation between him, Archbishop Grindall and Henry Robinson, who was at this time Fellow of Queen's and Principal of Edmund Hall, and in the event Robinson became Provost of Queen's and Thomas Bousfield Principal of Edmund Hall. He seems to have been a good Principal. Wood, after Hearne, who here follows Miles Windsor, says of him qui ab ipsis fundamentis aulam suam renovavit." He seems also, and his family, to have been good friends with the Fellows of Queen's, as in 1590 the College accounts have the unusual entry of a present of 20s. "filie magistri Bowsfeld nupture. Wood makes him in 1582 prebendary of Grimston and Natminster in the church of Salisbury, and Foster (Al. Ox.' s.v. Bowsfield), following probably two different authorities, makes him canon of Sarum 1577-85, and 1582-1621, but his name is not in Le Neve's Fasti.' Foster also identifies him with one of the name who was rector of Trottiscliff, Kent, 1575-1621, and of Romsey New Church, Kent, 1582-1621, and of Windermere, 1610-27. If any of these identifications are correct, he probably died in 1621 or 1627. His name is very variously spelt. Besides the variations given above it appears Busfeld and Busfell (which Boase- Reg. Univ. Oxf. i. (Oxf. Hist. Soc. i), p. 215 with substitution of a second long s for the f, prints "Bussell.")

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JOHN R. MAGRATH.

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xii, 19). Of Bishop Lowth's found in the fourth volume of Dodsley's charming poem The Link,' which is to be collection, the first stanza runs as follows:Ye ladies that live in the city or town, Fair Winton or Alresford so fine and so gay;. And ye neat country lasses in clean linen gown,

As neat and as blithe and as pretty as they :

Come away straight to Ovington, for you can't think

What a charming new walk there is madeon the Link.

Collection of Poetry, its Contents and ConThe late W. P. Courtney in his Dodsley's tributors (privately printed 1910), says that The rectory of Ovington was Lowth's first preferment. He was collated thereto tion in November, 1753, to the Rectory of on 25 July, 1744, and held it until his collaEast Woodhay."

I. A. WILLIAMS.

THE PEAK, DERBYSHIRE (12 S. xi. 530). According to Mr. Arnold Bemrose's 'Derbyshire,' which forms one of the Cambridge County Geographies,' (" the few Mercians who settled in the hilly parts of Derbyshire were called Pecsaete, or Settlers in the Peak, so that part of England which is now called Derbyshire narrowly escaped being called Pecsetshire after the fashion of Dorsetshire

or Somersetshire.'

G. F. R. B.

It is incredible that the name of the Peak

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in Derbyshire can have any connexion with
either the English word peak (pic) or the
Picts (Pihtas). The Peak is not a moun-
tain, but a wide district covering the whole
of north Derbyshire. It is referred to as a
The earliest form of the name is
short-this assertion is con-
Pec, with the
firmed by the spelling of the Valor Eccle-
siasticus of the time of Henry VIII, In Alto
Pecco. In that very early document, the
Tribal Hidage, the inhabitants are called
the Pecsætan. Their territory contained
1,200 hides. In the oldest MS. of the
English Chronicle, at 924, we are told that
Bakewell is in Peaclond.' The name
Pec, in all probability, was given by an
earlier race than the English. There is.
reason to think that the original British
inhabitants were not exterminated; but that
here, as in Elmete over the Northumber-
land boundary line, they long maintained
their identity. The Tribal Hidage has

DEATH OF GENERAL TALMASH (12 S. xii.

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both the Pecsætan and the Elmedsætan. A fascinating inquiry for a properly-equipped 6 v.s. Samuel Richardson and his Family local antiquarian would be the extent to which Celtic elements enter into the surviving place-names. But in matters of etymology mere speculation is worse than futile; the obvious explanation is hardly ever the real one. A. POTTS. Chester.

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There is an earthwork east of Colchester marked on the lin. Ord. Map as King Coel's Castle," and between Neath and Brecon is an early entrenched camp called Coelbren.

As regards "cold" in place-names, the following are additional Herefordshire experiences tending to connect the word with sighted trackways. (1) I visited Coldstone Common on account of its name, and found a straight slightly sunken track (which could not be a water course) along its whole length. (2) I visited Coldman Hill for the same reason, and found a straight sunken track going down to a Wye crossing from which the track (its hollow) formed a V notch in the sky-line. (3) I halted at a certain spot (a road junction) on the highway because I had a long distance sighted track marked as crossing there. A cottage stood on the high ground at the spot. No name was marked for it on the map, but I remarked to my companion that being obviously a sighting point it might have an ancient place-name, and would he knock at the door and ask? The name was Cold Nose. ALFRED WATKINS.

Circle ').-Edward Bridgen, whose will is quoted at the above reference stated that General Talmash "fell under King William in the service of his country in Ireland.” General Talmash was killed at the siege of Brest in the early summer of 1694.

L. F. C. E. TOLLEMACHE.

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MRS. BEETON (12 S. xi. 489; xii. 18).In the Note to the New Edition,' dated 1869, of Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management,' Mr. S. O. Beeton refers to his late wife. A. H. W. FYNMORE. Littlehampton.

I quote a few biographical particulars about Isabella Mary Beeton, the wife of Mr. S. O. Beeton, from an edition of 'Beeton's Everyday Cookery and Housekeeping Book,' published by Ward, Lock and Tyler in the year of her death, about 1880. The extracts speak for themselves:

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Extract from Preface:-" The reasons for the publication of this volume thus explained in a prospectus issued a few months ago, and approved by the late Mrs. S. O. Beeton."

From page facing end of text and headed 56 Her hand has lost its Usque ad finem: cunning-the firm, true hand that wrote these formule, and penned the information contained in this little book. Cold in the silent tomb lie the once nimble, useful fingers-now nerveless, unable for anything, and ne'er to work more in this world! Exquisite palate, unerring judgment, sound common sense, refined tastes-all these had the dear lady who has gone ere her youth had scarcely come. But four times seven years were all she passed in this world; and since the day she became wedded wife now nearly nine years past-her greatest, chiefest aims were to provide for the comfort and pleasure of those she loved and had around her, and to employ her best faculties for the use of her sisters, Englishwomen generally. Her surpassing affection and devotion led her to find her happiness in aiding, with all her heart and soul, the Husband whom she richly blessed and honoured with her abounding love.

Her plans for the future cannot be wholly carried out: her Husband knew them all, and will diligently devote himself to their execution, as far as may be. The remembrance of her wishes, always for the private and public welfare, and the companionship of her two little boys,-too young to know the virtues of their good Mother, this memory, this prestinue to do his duty: in which he will follow ence, will nerve the Father, left alone, to conthe example of his Wife, for her duty no woman has ever better accomplished than the late Isabella Mary Beeton."

W. R. B. PRIDEAUX,

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PAPER MARKS (12 S. xi. 411, 456, 478; xii. 19).-C. H. Timperley, in his "Encyclopædia of Literary and Typographical Anecdotes,' London, 1842, p. 271, gives an historical account of Water Marks with some diagrams. He also gives an item on p. 201. GEORGE MERRY WEATHER.

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DICKENS' THE OLD CLOTHES SHOP' BOY'S DRESS (12 S. xi. 370).-As late a the fifties of the last century the costume of the lads of Danby and other dales back of Whitby, Yorkshire, was similar to that described by Dickens in Sketches by Boz.' GEORGE MERRY WEATHER.

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LORD BALVAIRD, 1643 (12 S. xi. 529). MR. BLACK raises a difficulty where none exists. The D. N. B.' says:

On 17 November, 1641, he was created a peer by the title of Lord Balvaird. .As a peer he attended a meeting of the convocation of estates, but on 10 August, 1643, it was after much reasoning' decided by the assembly of the kirk that my Lord Balvaird should keep his ministry, and give over voicing in parliament, under pain of deposition and further .censure (Robert Baillie, Letters & Journals,' ii. 9). On the death of the second Viscount Stormont in March, 1642, Lord Balvaird succeeded to the lands, lordship, and barony of Stormont, but not to the title. He died on

24 September, 1644, aged about 47.

It adds that David, second Lord Balvaird, on the death of James, earl of Annandale, in 1658, succeeded to the title of Viscount Stormont and Lord Scone.

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HARMATOPEGOS.

CONGREVES (12 S. xii. 11).-The N.E.D.' describes them as "a particular kind of friction matches, invented by Sir W. Congreve (of rocket fame). The quotations range from 1839 to 1854, including one about a penny box of lucifers or congreves." The description given by F.H.H.G. seems to point to a kind known in AustriaHungary as "drawing-room matches," as they were not tipped with sulphur and could be used in the "salon."

L. L. K. The first friction matches made in England (1827) were named after Sir William Congreve (1772-1828) by their inventor, John Walker thus says the Encyclopædia Britannica,' but the N.E.D.' under Congreve,

says

a particular kind of friction match, invented by Sir W. Congreve," and the first literary quotation they give is dated eleven

years after Congreve's death, which perhaps rather supports the statement in the former authority. Sir W. Congreve was an ingenious and versatile man of science, and has a long list of inventions to his name in addition to the war rocket.

John Walker was resident at Stockton-onTees, Durham, and is claimed to be the inventor of the first true friction match, making it from a compound of chlorate of potash and sulphurate of antimony, with mixed with water and applied to the end of powdered gum to render it adhesive when the match, which had been previously dipped in melted brimstone. Imitations of Walker's matches, known as lucifers, were made by Samuel Jones about 1829-30.

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ARCHIBALD SPARKE.

SUCKLING FAMILY (12 S. xi. 231, 297, 333, 456, 538; xii, 15).—MR. THOMAS FOLEY at the last reference has fallen into three MR. W. E. GOVIER's list (12 S. xi, 333) shows (1) that Horatio John Suckling retired from the Ceylon Rifles after a little more than three years' service in the army with the rank, not of captain, but of lieutenant; and (2) that he was gazetted out of the 90th Foot into the 1st West Indian Regiment and the next day into the Ceylon Rifles. (3) His father, Major H. S. Suckdysentery. He had been over five years in ling, did not die of his wounds but of Ceylon at the time, and there had been no fighting in the island for twenty-three years. (See my List of Ceylon Inscriptions,' p. 52). PENRY LEWIS.

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SIR ALAN LE BUXHULL, K.G. (12 S. xi. states that he has been unable to identify 392, 437, 474; 12 S. xii. 19).-MR. WOOD Buckholt, of which, with the Forest and Park o Clarendon, the forest of Gravely and Melchet, Sir Alan was Bailiff. Spelman's Villare Anglicanum,' 2nd ed.,

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1678, gives Buckhole, Sussex, Hastings rape, and "Buckhoult Forest, Hants., Thornegate hund." Stephen Whatley's England's Gazetteer,' 1751, also mentions Buckhole, Sussex, 2 miles S. E. of Hoo" (near Battle and Bexhill); and BuckholtForest, Hants, on the edge of Wiltshire." I am unable to place Melchet, unless it derives the name of the residence until recently of the Ashburton family in the New Forest, Melchet Court, Romsey, Hants. The name Melchet does not appear in the two. books quoted, both of which mention, as a

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