colour our Blag, Blache, Black and Blake in Place-names. The entries include biographical articles emBy Hugh R. Watkin. (Torquay, Bendle bedded in essays, volumes of collected biogBros.) raphy, and other books. What labour this THE syllable" black," whether in its ordinary design required, and how much labour is meaning or as an element in place-names, has thereby saved to the searcher those engaged puzzled etymologists. The Teutonic stem exin such research will thoroughly and apprepressing the colour or rather negation of ciatively recognise. The classification is very is that which appears in good. The Catalogue shows that the Bolton "swarthy " and the German " Libraries are well furnished. schwarz;" how comes it that we have adopted this strange syllable to denote it? Along the line of rayless," then "pale," it has been plausibly argued that black is "white.' However that may be, black as representing a colourmotion is, in place-names, more often than not awkward and unmeaning, and Mr. Watkin, in this admirably worked out paper, aims at showing that it is generally the equivalent of blag. Blag is a Slavonic stem meaning good in the sense of 66 blessed," heavensent,' sacred," and may be expected where it occurs to indicate some ancient sanctity or also some royal appurtenance. The numerous black names of the West of England, which Mr. Watkins discusses in the light of old records, certainly, for the most part, bear this sort of explanation far more easily than any imputation of 'blackness " in the ordinary sense. There remains the difficulty of accounting for the arrival in Britain, so early, of this Slavonic word, and the equally difficult question of its adoption. Our author thinks it came from Northern Russia via Scandinavia and Ireland, and reached Britain by means of the Irish missionaries. وو " 66 66 Mr. Watkin has made out a case worth either confirmation or refutation, for it is framed upon a most conscientious examination of the data. He gives us, by the way, many bits of interesting information, and, what is more, conveys both these and this general contention in a clear, pleasant and readable way. WE have received from the Publishers (Spot- Catalogue of Books in the Bolton Public WE Congratulate our correspondent, Mr. Archibald Sparke, on this Catalogue, which those who are interested in genealogical and biographical topics would do well to make a note of. LUCY HUTCHINSON'S LIFE OF HER HUSBAND. To the Editor of Notes and Queries.' Sir,-The recent purchase by the Nottingham inson's Life of her husband, Col. Hutchinson, Corporation of the Manuscript of Lucy Hutch-Governor of Nottingham Castle during the Civil War, makes it possible for students to carry out a thorough research into the lifeand actions of this Parliamentarian soldier. From time to time documents have come to my notice bearing on Col. Hutchinson-either written by him or referring to the part he played in the Civil War and I am now appealing to any of your readers who may know and, if possible, to allow a transcript of them of, or possess, such documents, to inform me,. to be made. The fact that there are considerable differlished versions of it, makes it desirable that ences between the manuscript and the pub and this can only be done with the kind help a carefully edited transcript should be made, of those who possess unpublished documents bearing on the subject. I am, faithfully yours, E. L. GUILFORD. dressed to re page of another contributor, correspondents are ALL communications intended for insertion in our columns should bear the name and address of the sender-not necessarily publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. for Printed and Published by The Bucks Free Press. Ltd., at their Offices, High Street, QUERIES:-The Legend of St. Eustatius, 89 Royal Institution School, Liverpool-De Brus Effigy, Pickering - John M'Leod Campbell George Offor's Collection of English Bibles Alexander of Aphrodisias-Mackintosh, Governor of Heriot's Hospital, 90-Dyche, d. Aug., 1719Yonge of Caynton-Hickey: Barry, Portraits wanted-Manor Roll of Braintree, 1678, 91Moray-St. Agnes' Eve-Taber Family-Birth and Death dates wanted-Trythall Family, 92. REPLIES: Seventh Day Baptists, Whitechapel, 92-Thomas Venner "Disce ut semper victurus"-Suburbs of the City of London, 94 Panton Betew-" Man of Wax "-The North Sea: "British Ocean," 95 James Johnson-The 365 Children-Graffiti of Ships, 96-Sir Alan le Buxhull-Shelton's Shorthand System-The Third Form in Public Schools-Mrs. Orger-Trick Numbers, 97"An unconscionable time in dying "-Greengages-The Fighting Sword of Lord Nelson-Hyde Park (" High Park")Renton of Lamerton-The Southern Cross, 98Adgate Family-Mrs. Gamp's English-Cheesebegging Rhymes, 99. NOTES ON BOOKS:- The Year's Work in English Notes. SAMUEL RICHARDSON AND HIS FAMILY CIRCLE.-XII. (See ante, pp. 6 (v. refs.), 44). The Will of His Daughter, Anne Richardson.-The will of Anne Richardson, of St. Mary Stratford, co. Suffolk, spinster, was dated 26 Oct., 1802. She desired to be buried by the side of her late cousin (unnamed), in the vault she (Anne) had made in the churchyard of the said parish, but if she died in London then she desired to be buried with her parents in St. Bridget's, Fleet Street. The interest on £1,200 which she had bought into the Irish Tontine on her life and the life of Francis Gosling, Esq., now of Bloomsbury Square, London (probably a son of Sir Francis Gosling; see 12 S. xi. 386), which interest had increased 1 % since she bought it, she bequeathed to her two nieces, Mrs. Mary Peck, daughter of her late eldest sister, Mrs. Mary Ditcher; and Mrs. Sarah Moodie, daughter of her late younger sister, Mrs. Sarah Crowther, in equal portions, but in case either died without issue during the life-time of her nominee, Francis Gosling, Esq., then she bequeathed the share of her niece so dying to her brother or brothers, that is to her nephew Philip Ditcher, brother of her said niece Mary Peck, or to her nephews Bryan and Samuel Crowther, the brothers of her said niece Sarah Moodie. 20 To her godson, Henry Frederic Proby*, and her god-daughter Anne Weller Proby, she left £20 each, and £10 to the poor at the discretion of the Rev. Charles Proby, rector of the parish. The Rev. Narcissus Charles Proby, 20 years rector, died Dec., 1804, aged 66, and Arabella his wife, daughter of Capt. John Weller, R. N., died 28 Nov., 1841, aged 89; they are buried at Stratford, close to Anne Richardson. Mary Proby, buried with them, and presumably their child, who must have known the novelist's daughter well, did not die until 3 March, 1868, aged 92. To her niece Sarah Moodie, she left the picture of Mrs. Watts (see ante, pp. 45-6), and to her said nephew, Philip Ditcher, the pictures of her father and mother, in case of his death without a son then to her nephew Bryan Crowther, and in the same case to her nephew Samuel Crowther. She desired that the picture of her father be always possessed by his own descendants. With the question of Richardson's portraits I shall deal later on. Edward The picture of the late Dr. Young, which he had presented to her father, "which is the only original of that "she desired her pious and ingenious man, nephews should present to the College of All records) he was educated and from which he Saints (sic), Oxford, in which (as she received his living of Welwyn. If Hannah, who had been so long with her, remained till her (Anne's) death, she was to have £10 and all her wearing apparel. The residuary legatees were to be the sons and daughters of her * 66 sisters; April 2. Lost, among the persons on board the Apollo frigate, off the coast of Portugal, Mr. Proby, midshipman, son of the Rev. N. C. Proby, of Stratford St. Mary, Bury St. zine, 1804, p. 479). Edmunds, Suffolk." (The Gentleman's MagaProbably this was Anne Richardson's godson. Francis Gosling, Esq., to have 30 guineas and be sole executor. By a codicil dated 24 Oct., 1803, she willed that her nephew, Bryan Crowther, was to have no share in the money in the stocks, because of the probability that he would be the gainer from the £500 annuity. The will was proved 11 Feb., 1804, by the executor named and by him again on 23 Feb., in P.C.C. (133 Heseltine), the first probate having been declared null and void. An affidavit as to the authenticity of the will was sworn on 2 Feb., 1804, by Andrew Wootton, of Stratford St. Mary, co. Suffolk, gentleman, and Elizabeth Day, of the same place, widow. Anne Richardson's gravestone is still to be seen in the churchyard of Stratford St. Mary, and the inscription runs thus: Anne Richardson | last remaining daughter of the celebrated author of Clarissa Pamela and Sr. Chas. Grandison ob: 27: Dec 1803 aet 66 † Her death was noticed in The Gentleman's Magazine, 1803, p. 1256: (Dec.) At Stratford St. Mary, Suffolk, aged 66, Mrs. Anne Richardson, the only remaining daughter of the celebrated Author of Sir Charles Grandison,' Clarissa,' etc., etc. And in The European Magazine for January, 1804, p. 79: Lately, at Stratford St. Mary's, Suffolk, in her 67th year, Mrs. Anne Richardson, only surviving daughter of the author of Clarissa,' etc. Anne Richardson's death released the volumes of her father's correspondence, which Edward Bridgen had bequeathed to her in 1787 (see ante, p. 6). An announcement appeared in The Monthly Magazine for March, 1804, pp. 158-9, of its impending publication: The recent decease of his last surviving daughter, Mrs. Anne Richardson, of Stratford in Suffolk, is the cause of these valuable relics being given to the world. after being locked up in possession of the family for upwards of forty years. As the correspondence chiefly related to living characters Mr. Richardson enjoined in his last illness, that his posthumous papers might not be published during the life time of his daughters, unless either (sic) of them should by accident be reduced in circumstances, when he trusted the publication would prove a fortune to them;" and under this impression he actually arranged and corrected great part for the This inscription is given, though not so accurately, in Nichols's Literary Anecdotes, vol. viii, p. 507. press. The death of his last daughter having now removed the force of the above injunction, his grandsons, the Rev. Samuel Crowther, rector of Christchurch, London, and Philip Ditcher, Esq., of Wimpole-street, have disposed of the manuscripts, in behalf of the various branches of the family, to Mr. Phillips, of St. Paul's Churchyard, and they will immediately be published in five or six elegant volumes, accompanied with suitable embellishments+ I., Mrs. Barbauld, later in the same year, tells us that, after Richardson's death, his letters "remained in the hands of Mrs. Anne Richardson, his last-surviving daughter, till her death, which took place in January last (sic). After that event they became the property of his grandchildren (Richardson's Correspondence,' Vol. p. iv.). Mrs. Barbauld was not aware that the letters had been in the possession of Mrs. Bridgen and her husband until 1787. It will have been noticed that Edward Bridgen referred to them as seven or eight volumes of letters which had formerly passed between Lady Bradshaigh and Mr. Richardson (see ante, p. 6); and of course Lady Bradshaigh was his principal correspondent. scarcely be doubted that the "six vast folio volumes, of which the aspect alone is sufficient to appal the stoutest explorer (Austin Dobson's Richardson,' p. 51), that comprise Richardson's correspondence as preserved in the Forster Library South Kensington Museum, are those willed by Bridgen to Anne Richardson, for the letters are nearly all carefully docketed, in his (Richardson's) own hand, with their date and subject-matter (C. L. Thomson's Richardson,' p. 292). We can now It can at the see the explanation of the fact that the Forster collection does not, as it now exists, comprise all the examples which Mrs. Barbauld selected (Austin Dobson's Richardson,' p. 53). Austin Dobson suggests that individual letters were detached in the interval between their ownership by Phillips and their purchase by Forster, and found their way into other collections; but the truth seem to be that one or two entire volumes had been side-tracked before Forster made acquaintance with the collection. Where are these missing volumes now? Anne Richardson's bequest of the portrait of Dr. Edward Young, the author of Night Thoughts' (see 12 S. xi. 385), is of decided See also Richardson's Correspondence,' vol. i., p. iv, where it is added that "Mr. Phillips purchased them at a very liberal price." interest, and historically valuable. Anthony Highmore, the legal writer, wrote to The Gentleman's Magazine for 1817, part 2, pp. 209-10, enclosing a note in Richardson's handwriting, dated October or November, 1754, to his grandfather, Joseph Highmore, in which the novelist announced that he had induced Dr. Young to sit for his portrait, a favour "what none of his Friends have hitherto been able to obtain. The Piece is to be mine, and I shall put a just value upon it.' An endorsement on the note recorded that "Dr. Young paid for it, 1st Decr. 1754." Anthony Highmore added that his father, the elder Anthony Highmore, used to declare that this was the only portrait taken of Dr. Young; and asked to know its present whereabouts. Later in the year he wrote again to the same journal (p. 392), that he had been informed that the portrait was at All Souls', Oxford, and quoted a letter from the Bishop of Oxford stating that it was formerly placed in the Warden's lodgings, but has lately been removed into the College-hall, as a situation more worthy of the subject of it; and that it was always understood to have been left as a legacy to the College of which Dr. Young had been so distinguished a member, by Mrs. Richardson, probably a descendant (or widow) of Mr. Samuel Richardson. Sir Leslie Stephen thus deals with the question of Young's portrait in the Dict. Nat. Biog.': Young gave a portrait of himself, painted by Joseph Highmore in 1754, to Richardson, by whose widow it was left to All Souls' (see Gent. Mag., 1817, ii, 210, 392). It is said to be the only portrait, but an engraving from another by Louis Peter Boitard, is prefixed to the Aldine edition by Mitford. It is just as well we should know that it was not Richardson's widow who bequeathed the portrait, but his daughter, whose description of it as the only original of that pious and ingenious man strengthens the evidence that Young gave no other sitting for his portrait. The National Portrait Gallery has a portrait of Young, purchased 1899, painter uncertain" (Lionel Cust's National Portrait Gallery,' Vol. I., p. 268), which, according to the evidence, cannot be an original. To the late Jasper Kenrick Peck, a greatgrandson of Philip Ditcher and Mary Richardson, descended some eighteenth century books with the name of "Anne Richardson " in them, including a copy of Johnson's Rasselas,' with the inscription in, "From the Author." In the possession of the late Mrs. Metcalfe were two volumes of 'Adventures,' in one of which was written, "Anne Richardson: this copy of the 'Adventures I bequeath to my dear nephew Samuel Crowther "Mrs. Metcalfe's grandfather. Mrs. Metcalfe also inherited a portrait which she believed to be of Anne Richardson, but it is not known what became of it at her death in 1911. The very well known picture of "The Pantiles at Tunbridge Wells,' shewing the celebrated characters assembled there in 1748, "was carefully preserved by Mr. Richardson, and was in the possession of Mrs. Anne Richardson at her death" (Richardson's Correspondence,' ed. Barbauld, Vol. VI., p. 316). The identity of the cousin for whom Anne Richardson had made a vault at Stratford St. Mary, wherein she also desired to be buried, remains an unsolved problem, though a search through the burial register might give the necessary clue. There is no inscription on the grave except to Anne herself. Perhaps Sukey" Richardson, who had been practically adopted by her we have seen, was still uncle and, as unmarried when Mrs. Richardson made her will in 1773 (see 12 S. xi. 426), accompanied her cousin Anne to Stratford when the home was broken up at Parson's Green. ALEYN LYELL READE. Treleaven House, Blundellsands, near Liverpool. (To be continued). A SQUIB BY JAMES SMITH, 1824. On Feb. 10, 1824, H. R. Bishop (knighted in 1842) produced at Covent Garden an opera entitled Native Land: or, The Return from Slavery,' Four days later, James Smith (of Rejected Addresses') sent the following squib to Mrs. Orger, a charming actress : Critique on the Opera at Covent Garden. Twice Nine Monks, 14th February, 1824. Expensive insane Execration! The new opera, said to proceed from the American Lawgiver of an additional hundredweight, is a Cessation of hostilities Irish River written Ing upon a Man tired of a Cats? noise for one who draws Juice out of a crooked Letter. It borrows much from the Birth place of Pope's Worthy in an organ of Vision: tie up a French conflagration of the Breezes love-month buzzing Insect traced, direct, to that cut down with a scythe gravy holder ap proach Puzzler. By means of sitting down burnt old woman, I think it will gain upon the Town in short you Irish Footman after dinner. Omit discharge a hundred weight has a valiant ura large public house the third deed, burnt old woman she launches into Eternity in put every bit of it in your hat wooden exit at the end of a field. Second Giants' Intonation Cockney first Letter in the Alphabet looks about, with a Saxon deity leg, in order to indict the Mount Centinel a Second Time of Mislay Cupid. Mislay Conson Vegetable Production divisions in a Coat rather poorly, water cask she launches into Eternity the Man tired of a Cats' Noise assigned to her, with Propriety. All of the same size, Visual Organ was rather tired before the Cessation of hostilities concluded. Stich Michael Cassio at present from, Expensive insane Execration, Vases Guilt brand Falsehood. J. S. What I make of it is this: Eighteen Blackfriars [Road.] Dear madDamn! The new opera, said to proceed from the Penn of is a Peace Dee-pen'd-ing upon Mew-sick for Sucks-S. It borrows much from Ross-in-Eye [Rossini)] knot a few of the Airs May Bee traced, direct, to that mow-dish come-poser. By witch I think it will dissent. Miss gain upon the Town Pay-ton has a bravura inn the third act, witch .she executes in cap-it-all stile. Faw-cit apeers, with a Woden leg, in order to of Miss Love. Miss Conson (?) Tree seems rather poorly, butt she executes the Mew-sick assigned to her with Propriety. All the same, Eye was rather tired before the Peace concluded. Sew No Moor at present from Dear mad Damn, Ewers Sin Sear Lic, This to her son she giues, and this he 152. Ajax falls upon his Sword Stout Ajax being of Achilles Armes Bereft, He who sustain'd so many harmes From Cruel foe most manfully, is now Conquer'd by wrath; and to his ire doth bow. Griu'd that vlysses should obtaine the prize,. His breast he peirceth, by his owne hand dyes He falls; his blood springs from his mortall' wound The wch a flower ingend'reth on the ground. 153. The Greeks prepare to goe away Troy now distroy'd, the Greeks prepare to goe And Trojan dames fill'd with heart-breaking [woe] Are Captiue'd; with them they are forc'd,. they cry with teares & howlings wale their miserie Lought to depart, the Dardan earth they kisse Some cleaue to that place, and some cleaueto this Old Hecuba enraged, stormes, and romes Flings him from off a tow'r into ye sea: They Polexena first must sacrifise. she held The wch the priest & ye spectators fill'd With heauy Grief. To leaue the world shesaid She was not (but her mother deare) afraid. The sword her tender breast doth peirce, she dies And all behold it with teare dewed eyes 156. The body of polydorus found on ye shore. The new slain virgin, fair polexena, By her afflicted mother Hecuba Is brought unto the sea, about to poure water to wash her wounds, she polydore Finds slaine upon the sand, amaz'd at this Like to a statue she transformed is with heavy griefe, teares falling from her eyes with their salt springs increase we salter seas. 157. The excaecation of Polymestor To polymestor straight without delay Filled with griefe enraged Hecuba |