The Scriptorium, Oxford. ILLUSTRATORS OF GRANT'S 'SKETCHES IN LONDON.'-I have a copy of the first edition of 'Sketches in London,' by James Grant (Orr, 1838). It has "twenty-four humorous illustrations by 'Phiz' and others." The etchings by H. K. Browne are worthy of the illustrator of Nicholas Nickleby,' which was then appearing in monthly parts; and, as Mr. Grant says: "They are among the happiest achievements of the genius of one who, though yet but young in years, is unquestionably, in this particular style of engraving, the first artist of the day." But who are the "others"? The first two etchings are signed "C. R. delt." They are terribly poor. The next two are slightly better, and are not signed. The next two are also not signed, and are very good, especially the 'Cheering the Speech of a Comrade.' Then follow the masterly etchings by Phiz. Who were the artists of the six first-named etchings? In Sotheran's catalogue, August, 1885, a copy of the second edition (1840) of the 'Sketches in London' is priced at 11. 4s., and is said to contain "thirty-four humourous illustrations by 'Phiz' and others." The "thirty-four" is so printed. Is this an error for "twenty-four," or were ten extra plates inserted in the second edition ? CUTHBERT BEDE. TRINKETS.-Defoe writes in his 'True Relation of the Apparition of Mrs. Veeal to Mrs. Bargrave':— "Mrs. Bargrave asked her whether she would drink some tea? Says Mrs. Veal, 'I do not care if I do; but I'll warrant you this mad fellow [meaning Mrs. Bargrave's husband] has broke all your trinkets."" Evidently the speaker by trinkets meant cups and saucers. Can any reader of 'N. & Q.' give other similar examples of such a use of the word trinketswhen first used in such a sense; when last so used? When had the word come to signify exclusively articles of jewellery or ornament? No doubt the cups which Mrs. Bargrave's bad husband was accused of having broken were ornamental porcelain. Could the word trinkets in the sense of cups for drinking have any connexion with the German trinken? T. A. T. DUAL ORIGIN OF THE STUART FAMILY. — Debrett gives the family name of the royal line of Stuart as Fitz Allan. According to Camden there were two families of that name, one Norman, which bore the title of Arundel, &c., ending by the marriage of the heiress with the head of the Howards; the other, Camden writes, was proud of its descent from Alain, Duke of Brittany and Earl of Richmond, Yorkshire, which also ended in the marriage of two daughters, one to the head of the Stapleton family, the other to Grey of Rotherfield. Camden gives quite a different origin of the royal family, viz., one purely Celtic. What authority, therefore, is there for the Fitzalan PICTUS. name ? HEREWARDS.-Will MR. E. WALFORD, or any gentleman genealogically disposed, kindly give me information respecting the Herewards? The Harleian MSS. say something about the first Hereward, and there are accounts, I believe, in existence of three of the name in Devon, Midlands, and Northumberland. It has been handed down in my own family that the modern name Heward is a contraction of Hereward (can this be verified?), just as Howard is the present form of the Anglo-Saxon Holdward (the governor of a hold or keep), Lewin of Leofwin, a lover of war. Two Herewards carried their banners during the Crusades to the Holy Land, and in my youth I saw the tracings of their standards or coat armour, but have forgotten them I should very much like to learn what these were also the arms of the other Herewards, particularly of Northumberland or the North. In Saxon times the Hereward held a position (as the name implies) similar to that of Constable of France. E. V. H. G. P. R. JAMES.-In 1843 there was published at Dublin a novel, in one volume, entitled 'The Commissioner; or, De Lunatico Inquirendo.' In the Catalogue of the London Library and in many other places this book is attributed to G. P. R. James. What is the authority for this? The style is different from such acknowledged works of that author as I have read. ΑΝΟΝ. [In Halkett and Laing the work is said to be by assigns it to Charles Lever, a much more probable George Payne Rainsford James. Allibone, however, parentage. It is time the question should be decided. What does our friend MR. FITZPATRICK say?] AWINE-BUCKLED,--Romulus is no more famous as the founder of Rome than as having been muckled by a wolf. The very statues and medals of that wolf have a world-wide renown. But I hear it asserted that a certain warlike chief was muckled by a now, as if he was one of the thirty in the litter which Virgil has immortalized (Eneid,' i, 300). Never having met with the name of this awinish muraling, 1 betake myself to N. & Q.,' to which whoso turns in time of need will seldom turn in vain. Who was the great unknown swinenursed 7 JAMES D. BUTLER. Madison, Wis., U.8. NwYWN CLERICAL ORDERS-What are they? read, "NA. Ching, who succeeded Kutychianus in #78, made it a law of the Church that all clerici should pass through the seven inferior orders before they were capable of being ordained bishops," E CORRAM Barwes Roma,' vol. i. pp. 316, 317). Has anything been FLEAK. What is fleak-stone? It is mentioned ASHMOLE'S TOMB AND RESIDENCE.-Will any kind reader acquainted with the archaeology of Lambeth inform me in what part of St. Mary's Church the tomb of Elias Ashmole is to be found; and if Tradescant's house, where the worthy antiquary used to live, is still extant; or, if it be demolished, when the lamentable deed was done? J. BESWICKE TWYCROSS. [See 5th S. iv. 80; 6th S. i, 196, 386; iii. 147, 512.] ANDREWES FAMILY.-Can any of your readers furnish me with any information about Anthony Andrewes, who was a Prebendary of Gloucester From the parish registers it appears that he was Cathedral, and Vicar of Haresfield, near Gloucester? vicar for some years, married, and had several children, and died in the year 1678. Any information as to his parentage and descendants would be received with much satisfaction. Please reply direct. Broad Oak. Reading. H. E. ANDREWES. RIDDLES ON TREES.-Where can I find some verses of riddles on the names of trees which I heard forty years ago, and which begin thus :— I have searched in vain the indexes of the SaturWhat is the sociable tree, and the dancing tree, &c.? day and Peany magazines. F. E. B. ROCKPEASE-I should like to know the meanNe Loosaex In some churches in the southing of the name Rockbeare, given to a parish seven of Germany a figure of a woman mailed to a cross with a view on her basd mer be seen. Her name miles east of Exeter. In the Exeter Domesday we fnd Rocebers and Rochebers; in the Exchequer Raebere: bet the most common form in the Domesday, Rochebere; in the 'Testa de Nevill,' fourteenth and fheenth centuries was Rokebeare. The aroma' suggestion for the first syllable, a stone. I am tod, is not a proper combinato hư: Hever, there is no stone in the past that can give its name to it. St. Roch Sedis 20 late been a fractie saint in this part & Deror: pony a gel dedicated to him **** 21 det de macs of a remis The surname Anh về phe de voy Sady s tumi a some para of England; but I cho dare ser ne mendra af s in any documents Anime wedde dasi, pred * AUBARU #2 the ham, the ewers in the twelfth And wat soms being De Rockbeare. BÀN HŢ dann a the naming of it, for best so that Streamen is mentioned ## RUSSIA & Erecer is Brocastoc ds. A Ânes. I am härmed that there is z shade stiver, tremble, པ from which we derive to rock the cradle' and 'rocking-horse.” ” It might here indicate a bog, though none of any extent exists at this day. In the Domesday Book Rogo appears as owning land in Devonshire, though not in this vicinity; but possibly Rockbeare at an earlier time belonged to a Saxon named Rogo-and hence called Rogo's beare. As to beare four derivations are suggested. I have forgotten the form of spelling the word for barley. Taylor (Words and Places') says bear is from "Byr or by, an abode or single farm, hence afterwards a village. In Iceland......a farmstead is boer." He does not mention the South African boer, or the English boor. Flavell Edmunds (Traces of History in the Names of Places') gives "Beer (British) from ber, a hedge." Blount's Dictionary' is " Bere an open field." The "doctors disagree" to such an extent that I should be thankful for any attempts to make them harmonize, or if any one who has studied the subject can derive from them the most probable meaning of Rockbeare. Any information concerning the parish would be gratefully received by FRANCES B. JAMES. Rockbeare Manor, near Exeter. In "A Historie of Ferrar shewed before her Matie at Wyndesor, on Twelf daie at night, enacted by the Lord Chamberleynes servaunts, furnished in this office with diverse newe things, as one citty, one battlement of canvas, iij ells of sarcenet and x paire of gloves and sondrey other things in this office, whereof some were translated for fitting of the persons." Mr. F. A. Marshall refers to the above in his introduction to the 'Comedy of Errors,' in the first volume of the "Henry Irving" edition of Shakespeare's plays. W. A. FERRAR. Osborne Park, Belfast, head is a large hat of the Duchess of Devonshire United Service Club, Edinburgh, QUEEN ELEANOR CROSSES.-Did one and the same person design all the Eleanor Crosses? It is asserted by some that Peter Cavalini designed the cross at Waltham, which, I observed the other day, is being restored. Others think it was the work of William Torel. Who will decide the disputed CRUCIS. point? [See 4th S. xi. 77, 142, 205]. IRISH EXPORTS IN 1847.-The follwing sentence is from a recent number of the Athenæum : "[In the year 1847] the exports of Ireland were greater than those of any country in the world; not greater merely in proportion to its people or its area, but absolutely more.' The writer quotes Lord George Bentinck as his authority for the statement. Can any reader of 'N. & Q' say where in Lord George Bentinck's speeches or writings the passage is to be found? The full title and name of publisher and date are desired. PERTINAX. NAME OF ARTIST WANTED.-Can any of your readers inform me of the name of the artist who drew the unsigned illustrations for Charles Reade's 'A Good Fight' in Once a Week, 1859? Replies. A. HUGH FISHER. CASANOVA. (7th S. v. 461, 509.) I feel somewhat like a wayworn and belated traveller, on a starless stormy night, who, having timidly knocked at the door of a farmhouse to inquire the road to the nearest town, is received by a man with a battle-axe. Though my reception was rough, yet, if it gives MR. CHRISTIE any satisfaction, tion to the subject of Casanova that I ventured to I cannot complain. It was merely to draw attenburden the columns of ' N. & Q.,' and I am glad that my remarks, culled from the 'Memoirs,' and written partly from memory and partly from notes taken from the Biographie Universelle' in 1880, should have given the readers of N. & Q.' the full benefit F. W. D. of MR. CHRISTIE's rejoinder. MR. CHRISTIE OLD ENGRAVING OR PRINT.-A lady stooping must not, however, suppose that every one is so down upon her left knee, with her arms stretched well acquainted with the subject as he is, and I out as if to welcome a man, who appears to be a venture to think that it is rash to deprecate a disnaval officer, standing up in the bow of an approach-cussion which has not yet been exhausted. Armand ing boat, which is being rowed towards the spot where the lady is kneeling. Her hair is a mass of curls hanging down over her shoulders. Upon her Baschet tells us that Casanova died at the age of seventy-eight. Now, as it is admitted that Casanova was born April 2, 1725, this would bring the date of his death to the year 1803. But almost tells us that Casanova met at Paris the Comte de That Casters returned to Yense in 1774 *** ford which I did not pretend to dean LaRavenware minquitable pubie domenis pa **Mastica Amod Rusdiens mun Jabe and to circumstances which, in the interests of human- 33, Tedworth Square, Chelsea. DR. MOUNSEY (7th S. v. 449).-In the biographies of the whimsical Dr. Messenger Monsey (not Mounsey), who died on December 25, 1788, published in the European Magazine of February and March, 1789, pp. 83, 190, and in the 'Eccentric Biography' (1803), there is no mention made of his having resided out of this country at any time. He was physician at Chelsea Hospital for a great number of years, and the following anecdote of him, taken from the latter of the above-named works, may be thought worthy of reproduction: "He lived so long in his office of physician at Chelsea Hospital, that during many changes in administration, the reversion of the place had been promised to several of the medical friends of the different paymasters of the forces. Looking out of his window one day, the doctor he knew had just got a reversion of the place; he theresaw a gentleman examining the house and gardens, who fore came out to him, and thus accosted him. Well, sir, I see you are examining your house and gardens that are to be; and I will assure you they are both very pleasant and very convenient; but I must tell you one circumstance-you are the fifth man that has had the reversion of the place, and I have buried them all! and, what is more,' says the doctor, looking very scientifically at him, there is something in your face that tells me I shall bury you too!' The event justified the doctor's prediction, as the gentleman died a few years after; and at the time of Dr. Monsey's death no person had the promise of a reversion.” Liverpool. J. F. MANSERGH. Magazine! If not, he will find an account of Mounser in vol. 1. p. 1183, but I am not sure that he will find what he wants Has MR. WYLIE consulted the Gentleman's His Christian name was Messenger. Munk, in the Roll of College of Physicians, vol. ii. p. 75, says he settled at Bury St. Edmunds, and Lord Godolphin, to whom he was called in when seired with apoplexy, was so delighted with his conversation that he transplanted him to London, and got him appointed at Chelsea This does not lock like a mission to St. Petersburg. Dr. Maak spes the name Monsey. Walthamstow, C. A. WARD. De. Messenger Monger, who died at Chelsea lege on December 2, 1786, in his ninety-fifth nur, wax anding to Nichols's Literary AnecNews' at one time pòtesian to the Empress of Kata See rain à 74: in pp. 67, 761. G. F. R. B. heme Mazzer. His friend Dr. De Jobreen had not on his Sst of friends anyVoeger a seriaż że M. W. Thornbury, in rat si of “chi ani New Lambm, and more fully by Mr. Walford, under "Chelsea Hospital," in According to Nichols's Literary Anecdotes,' vol. v. p. 274, and vol. ix. pp. 607, 761, Dr. Messenger Mounsey, who died in 1788, had in his earlier years been physician to the Empress of Russia. Oxford. C. E. D. We are informed in a note that Maubertus (i. e., Maubert) was "Bruxellanus Novarum Rerum Scriptor." He is taxed in the dialogue by his two accusers with printing gross falsehoods in his paper, and is by them threatened with the pillory and the gallows. Maubert in terror bids farewell to England, where he is threatened with such punishments, and the poem concludes with a compliment to George II. It would seem, from there being in the theatre of Oxford two rostra opposite each DEDLUCK (OR DIDLUCK), CO. SALOP (7th S. V. 488). The querist admits that the correct read-other, that they were primarily intended for the ing of the register may be Didluck. Probably the place intended is Dudlick, five miles from Cleobury Mortimer. As a parallel case, I may mention that in James A. Sharp's 'Gazetteer,' published in 1852, the place now so widely known as Didcot is entered as "Dudcott, Dudcote, or Didcot." If I am not mistaken, Llandudno is sometimes, and more correctly, pronounced Llandidno. JOHN W. BONE. Didlick (Dedluck) is in the parish of Stottesden, Salop. The estates of Didlick, Catherton, Dayhouse, and others belonged to the family of Mather about the middle of last century. Mary Mather, of Didlick (born 1721), married, about 1755, Samuel Hallen, my great-grandfather. I should be glad to learn something about the Mathers. Alloa, N.B. A. W. CORNELIUS HALLEN, A.-S. leag is liable to become lay, ley, lake, lock, luck. Vichy. R. S. CHARNOCK. MOLIÈRE (7th S. v. 487). The earliest known reference to Molière by an English writer is to be found in the preface of the Damoiselles à la Mode,' by Richard Flecknoe, and printed in 1667. In this preface the author states: - "This comedy is taken out of several excellent pieces of Molière. The main plot out of his Pretieusees Ridiculees'; the counterplot of Sganarelle out of his Escole des Femmes,' and out of the Escole des Marys' the two Naturals; all of which, like so many Pretieuse stones I have brought out of France; and as a Lapidary set in one Jewel to adorn our English Stage." This motley play was never acted. The next reference to Molière is in Shadwell's preface to the 'Miser,' acted in 1671. He says that "the foundation of this play I took from one of Molière's, called 'L'Avare'......It is not barrenness of wit or invention that makes us borrow from the French, but laziness." HENRI VAN Laun. THE 'BRUSSELS GAZETTE' (7th S. v. 127, 374). -In 'Selecta Poemata Anglorum," "editio secundo emendatior," 1779, published by John Dodsley, is a long poem in Latin hexameters, entitled "Dialogus inter Maubertum et duos Britonas. Poema Recitatum in Theatro Sheldoniano. Oxon, 1755." interlocution of the dialogue. There is an earlier edition of the book mentioned, in three small volumes, the matter in which varies considerably from this, which purports to have been edited by Edward Popham, M.A. (17481815), late Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. Popham was afterwards Rector of Chilton-Foliatt, Wiltshire. The book contains some excellent Latin poems in different kinds of metre, many of which have the authors' names appended, others have merely appended initials, and others are anonymous. There is supposed to be another volume of the work, consisting mainly of epitaphs and inscriptions. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge. JACQUES BASIRE (7th S. ii. 189, 275, 391, 497). -See an account (with bibliography) of Isaac Basire, D.D. (1607-1676), at pp. 193-4 of the Monthly Chronicle of North-Country Lore and Q. V. Legend, vol. ii., May, 1888. WALKER THE FILIBUSTER (7th S. v. 388).—This man's career, his deeds and fate, have been in the mouths and minds of men for many a year. The first book about him was one written by himself, and published by S. H. Goetzel, of Mobile, Alabama, in 1860. In reality the book was printed in the city of New York, and was there copyrighted. Its title is 'The War in Nicaragua.' Copies might be found in the second-hand book stores, and it would not be very difficult to obtain. The Brooklyn Library has a copy, according to catalogue. One of Walker's companions, now a resident of this city, has a copy, which I have seen, but not read. In Blackwood's Magazine, vols. lxxix. and lxxxi., 1856, 1857, there will be found some mention made of Walker and his schemes. The latest publication on that subject is 'Reminiscences of the Filibuster War in Nicaragua,' by C. W. Doubleday, and published 1886 by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York city. The poet "Joaquin" Miller has a kind word to say of Walker in one of his works; he calls him a brick-a term of praise, and to be understood as the "free and accepted" speaks of the ashlar. It is not worth while at this day to speculate on what might have been had Walker's schemes succeeded, any more than to consider what might have followed a French victory at Waterloo. He contemplated |