'Records.' Notwithstanding its ex parte character, the letter may doubtless be held of value for its light upon what was, in all probability, the too common experience of the poor apprentice in the good old days :- Sunderland, May yo 10: 1723. Dear Sister, I am very sory to hear that you have Not heard from me this four months, makes me doubt you have not Received my last Letter which Menshou'd something of my hard Usage which was known to be very hard at that Time which all my neigbours can very well tell, for my master threaten'd to send me aboard of a Ship, and Likewise Hee'd make me an intire Slave dureing my prentisship in spite of my Bondesmen or any friend I could procure to Looke after me, which god knows I have none but what pleases my Bondsmen to do for me, so I leave it to their discression. But I crave y Favour they will Be so kind as eighther to take me away or otherwise Let me have the coorse of my Indentures. So no more at present, But I fast. Pray present my Humble Servise to all my remain your ever Loving Brother Matthias StandScoolfellows and all yt Ask after me. greatly in November, 1906; in June, 1908, it was on the increase; and now, in June, 1910, caps are becoming quite exceptional among undergraduate men, and seem likely soon to be confined to Dons and women students. The cap no less than the gown is a part of the proper academical costume, and a shilling fine at the first would have stopped the irregularity in a week. One result is that the old interchange of courtesy between undergraduates and Dons by mutual " cap ping is becoming impossible. The disuse of the cap is just a fashion of the day, based partly on convenience, and partly on that dislike to uniform which we now see in the Army and Navy, and among servants. We have a Territorial corps here, but none of its members would ever think of going about without their caps when on duty, because discipline is better maintained by their officers than by those of the University, and the men themselves seem to think more of their corps than of their Alma Mater. But it is not only while on duty that caps are dispensed with. One day I met a young friend returning from an afternoon walk gracefully handling a walking cane, but paper of folio size, folded and postmarked. with nothing on his head except that covering which nature had so bountifully provided. The craze is extending into clerical life. I have just heard of a curate who goes about in greatcoat and gloves, but without a hat. It has also invaded the nursery. I now see dear little boys, breeched for the first time, and the pride of their parents, going out hatless with their nursemaids, and thus doubly asserting their early manhood. Durham. J. T. F. Mrs. Catherine Standfast, at Mr. Bay's in Fell WILLIAM MCMURRAY. 66 The SMOLLETT'S "HUGH STRAP." Monthly Magazine of May, 1809, records the death at the Lodge, Villier's Walk, Adelphi, of Mr. Hugh Hewson, at the age of eighty-five, and states that he was the identical Hugh Strap whom Dr. Smollett has rendered so conspicuously interesting," &c. over forty years had kept a hairdresser's shop in the parish of St. Martin's-in-theFields. The writer of the notice says understand the deceased left behind him an Hewson for we 22 interlined copy of Roderick Random,' CHAUCER'S 'CANTERBURY TALES: EARLY REFERENCE. The will of Richard Sotheworth, clerk (P.C.C. 44, Marche), dated the eve of St. Andrew the Apostle, 1417, and proved 20 May, 1419, makes mention, among other books, of his copy of the Canterbury Tales ("quendam libru' meu' de Cant❜bury SHROPSHIRE NEWSPAPER PRINTED. Tales "). This is surely a very early note LONDON.-From a fragment of The Shropof the work. The will was sealed at South-shire Journal, with the History of the Holy morton, but the testator speaks of his church of Esthenreth (East Hendred, Berks). 2 F. S. SNELL. IN Bible, for Monday, 12 Feb., 1738/9, it Queries. WE must request correspondents desiring information on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct. Sir William Warren (frequently mentioned by Sir Charles Doe (knighted while Sheriff, June, 1665). 1783). Sir Edward Waldoe (knighted Oct., 1677). LIEUT.-COL. COCKBURN, R.A.: ROBERT Sir Thomas Griffiths (knighted Jan., 1682). WRIGHT. I desire for historical purposes- Alexander Master (Sheriff London 1758-9). to hear of the representatives of Col. Cock-Thomas Wooldridge (Alderman Bridge Ward 1776burn, R.A., who was a most accomplished officer in Canada in the thirties of last century, and whose grandson Major-General C. F. Cockburn, R.A., died a few months since in the South of England. I also desire similar information about Robert Wright, who published in 1864 a Life of General Wolfe. DAVID ROSS MCCORD, K.C. Temple Grove, Montreal. GILDERSLEEVE FAMILY.-We have followed the name of our family back to 1273 in the county of Norfolk, England. This person was Roger Gyldersleve, as stated by the Hundred Rolls. Some people, however, think that the family came from Holland. We should be very grateful for any information on the subject. Please reply direct. OLIVER GILDERSLEEVE, Jun. Gildersleeve, Connecticut. Leamington. ALFRED B. BEAVEN. JOHN WILKES.-Being engaged in collecting materials for a Life of Wilkes, I shall be greatly obliged if some of my fellow-contributors to N. & Q.' can give me information about any unpublished manuscripts concerning the famous politician. HORACE BLEACKLEY. Fox Oak, Hersham, Surrey. T. L. PEACOCK'S PLAYS.-I am editing for publication in the autumn the plays of T. L. Peacock, of which mention has already been made in 'N. & Q.,' and should be grateful to any reader who could supply me with references to their existence made before 1904. I am acquainted with Sir Henry Cole's brief allusion to them. A. B. YOUNG, M.A., Ph.D. 4, Cardigan Terrace, Northgate, Wakefield. VIRGIL, GEORG.' IV. 122: "NARCISSI 'SHAVING THEM,' BY TITUS A. BRICK.I wish to learn who was the author of Shaving Them; or, The Adventures of LACRYMAM."-What did Virgil mean by Three Yankees on the Continent of Europe. Edited by Titus A. Brick, Esq. London, John Camden Hotten, 74 and 75, Piccadilly," pp. 230. this "tear of Narcissus," employed by his bees in building up their combs? Was he thinking of their nectaries, or of their pollen, or of dew and rain clinging to the petals? The title-page has no year of issue, but Milton annexes the phrase, bidding daffathe publisher's advertisements at the end are dillies fill their cups with tears to bedew the dated 1872. The British Museum Cata-hearse of Lycidas; but Milton who saw logue treats the book as anonymous, entering it under Yankees.' It does not appear in Halkett and Laing. Has the work been reprinted? P. J. ANDERSON. Aberdeen University Library. ALDERMEN OF LONDON: DATES OF DEATH WANTED. Can any reader of N. & Q. supply me with dates, actual or approximate, of death of any of the following, all of whom were at various periods aldermen of London ? plants not in nature, but in books, and never worried himself about floral consistency, was merely imitating Virgil. What, again, was Virgil's narcissus? The commentators make it a daffodil, Narcissus poeticus, or N. serotinus of our flora. Linnæus too assumed it to be a daffodil, having in mind the legend of the lovesick youth concerning whom. Ovid sang and Bacon moralized. But. Proserpine was gathering narcissi in Sicilian fields centuries before Narcissus was born, and she wore them as an appropriate crown in hell. In the Athens chorus the flower is called by Sophocles 1670-suit the. daffodil; and its derivation, the Kaλλißorρos, an epithet which fails to Sanskrit nark=hell; points to a narcotic effect of the scent which the daffodil does Alexander Bence (M.P. Suffolk 1654, Master Trinity Tempest Milner (Sheriff London 1656-7). Sir William Bateman (knighted May, 1660). not possess. If, as some think, Sophocles 23 'MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR,' III. i. 5.In his answer to the question of Sir Hugh Evans, Simple says: Marry, sir, the pittieward, the park-ward, every way, &c. Here I would read “the spittle-ward." For in what direction would one be more likely to look for "Master Caius, that calls himself doctor of physic 22 ? In Every Man in his Humour,' I. i., From the Bordello it might come as well, where Gifford notes: "Here the allusion is local, and without doubt applies to the Loke or Lock, a spittle for venereal patients, situated, as Whalley observes, at Kingsland in the neighbourhood of Hogsden." Was there one at Frogmore or at Windsor ? me. NEW BUNHILL FIELDS, DEVERELL STREET, BOROUGH.-Where am I likely to find the records of burials in this place? An ancestor of mine was buried there in 1832. Basil Holmes in The London BurialGrounds, p. 308, states that it was closed in 1853. E. A. FRY. 227, Strand. AUTHORS OF 22 G. D. B. QUOTATIONS WANTED.Can you tell me the authors of the following? 1. He sailed into the setting sun, and left sweet music in Cathay. 2. May the sun of thy life, like that of the morn, be an ascending one! Whether its rays rise in mist or pure air, it is all one if only the light increase, if only the day brighten. MARY A. FELL, Librarian. What Hell may be I know not. This I know: He goes; and better fire-walled Hell with Him HENRY SAMUEL BRANDRETH. Launched point-blank his dart NORTH MIDLAND. MONEY AND MATRIMONY.-The following DAME ELIZABETH IRWIN : SIR JOHN quotation is prefixed to the English transla MURRAY: GENEALOGICAL PUZZLE.-Elization of Zola's 'Money' :beth Bunbury, formerly Dame Elizabeth Irwin of the city of Dublin, made her will with a codicil 20 February, 1720 (1720/21). She signs them Eliz. Irwin. She mentions her husband Walter Bunbury, her brother Sir John Murray, her sister Lillias Byrne, her niece Hellen Fox, her daughter-in-law Lettice Bladin (sic) alias Loftus, her late husband Mr. Broughton. She desires to be buried in the parish church of Lambeth. "God has set the world on two pillars, Money and Matrimony; and on the right use of money, and on the right relations of the two sexes, everything depends."-C. MERIVALE, Dean of Ely. Could any one oblige me with a reference to the exact part of Merivale's writings from which this is taken? Elizabeth Broughton, widow, and Walter Bunbury were married in Dublin in 1720. The will was proved in the Prerogative Court, Ireland, 24 February, 1735/6. Musgrave's Obituary' (Harleian Soc.) has the death, 7 February, 1736, of the Lady of Sir John Irwin, Bt. (? relict of Sir Gerard). Is this the same lady? Who was she? And who was 66 Sir 22 John Murray living in 1720? He is not to be found in G. E. C.'s 'Complete Baronetage' nor in Shaw's Knights of England. 6 Glasgow. J. ROBERTSON. CHRISTMAS FAMILY OF BIDEFORD.-Did any of that family, hailing from Waterford, own land or live near Bideford in Devon in the eighteenth century? A certain John Christmas Smith is stated to have been born there in 1757 or 1759, and when settling in Denmark in 1790 he obtained royal licence from the Heralds' College to use the name-and arms-of Christmas as his surname, instead of Smith, Christmas being presumably the name of his mother. His descendants are still settled in Denmark. W. R. PRIOR. MELMONT BERRIES JUNIPER BERRIES. POLL-BOOKS OF THE CITY OF LONDON.— Can any of your readers inform me where In Jamieson's 'Dictionary of Scottish I can see the Poll-Books of the City of Words occurs the following: "Melmont London for the following years ?-1702, 1705, berries, juniper berries, Moray." Can any 1707, 1708, 1718, 1741, 1742, 1747, 1754, reader say if this name is so applied any1758, 1761, 1770, 1774, 1780, 1781, 1790, where else, and suggest an origin for the 1795, 1806, 1807, 1812, 1817, 1818, 1820, word? F. R. C. 1826, 1830. ARTHUR W. GOULD. "ABRAHAM'S BEARD,' A GAME.-What was this game, of which one reads in 'Reginald Bosworth Smith: a Memoir (p. 15)? On Sundays, writes Bosworth Smith's sister Mrs. Caledon Egerton of their childhood days, "after supper, we would adjourn to the study, where our father would read aloud to us some ponderous memoir, the dulness of which we would while away by looking at pictures in old missionary records. We sometimes indulged in the game of Abraham's Beard' until our father directed us to change the name of the father of the faithful to Cæsar,' when the frankly secular nature of the amusement stood revealed." ST. SWITHIN. SHENSTONE AND THE REV. R. GRAVES.Shenstone the poet, in a letter to the Rev. Richard Graves of Claverton, dated 26 October, 1759, says: "I have three or four more of these superb visits to make.. then to Lord Lyttelton, at our Admiral's." He does not give the Admiral's name. any one tell me whether any of the Admirals Graves were related to the Rev. Richard Graves of Claverton ? E. Can THAMES WATER COMPANY: THE WATER HOUSE. Among some old deeds, I have lately found a lease, dated 25 December, 1679, from five persons described as Undertakers for the raising Thames water in YorkHouse Garden in the County of Middlesex," of " Thames water, arising and running from certain The lease is in a printed form. of the modern water companies, or of where PLACE-NAME.-In this village there are two by-roads called "The Folly and "The Little Folly." The general idea among the old inhabitants seems to be that a 'folly " is a lane. I cannot find that meaning of the word in the 'Dialect Dictionary nor in the N.E.D. Is it general in Hertfordshire? JOHN CHARRINGTON. The Grange, Shenley, Herts. On "THE BRITISH GLORY REVIVED." one of the medals struck to commemorate the taking of Porto-Bello by Admiral Vernon, and others, the obverse has The British Glory Revived by Admiral Vernon "; on THE story of this unusual circumstance is "Whereas a great number of our good subjects, peaceably following their employments at Sea, have been lately taken by the Turkish Pyrates, under whom they now remain in most cruel and inhumane bondage, who by their friends and relations have humbly besought us to take their miserable and deplorable estates into our princely consideration," &c. On 27 July, 1670, a Committee of the Privy Council was held, Charles himself being present, when it was reported that "by certificates of several ships taken, as by several letters from the respective masters, officers and seamen now in slavery; to their friends and relations here in England, it doth evidently appear that the said poor slaves, assaulted by these inhumane Thieves and Pyrates, did in their several fights behave themselves with remarkable valour and courage......not yielding to the enemy till they had been often boarded and the enemies slain upon their decks, and till their own ships were fired about them; when being forced to cast themselves into the sea to avoid the devouring flames were seized on by these barbarous enemies, with whom they now lead a life much worse than death; bought and sold like beasts in the market, held to most insupportable service, and fed only with a slender allowance of bread and water; many of them chained to their work, and beaten daily with a cer tain number of stripes......That the number of these poor slaves is so great, and the demands of their Taskmasters is so high that the money needful for the accomplishing their redemption is represented "We......do give and grant unto the said poor distressed subjects, the captives aforesaid, or to their agents, or other persons, who shall be lawfully authorized......full power......to take the almes and charitable benevolence of all our loving subjects (not only householders, but also servants, strangers, and others inhabiting within all and every the Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Towns corporate, Cinque ports, Priviledged places......and all other places whatsoever in England......for and towards the redemption and relief of the said poor captives." The King desires effectual arguments to their flocks, both by exhorta"especially to stir up the inferiour clergy to give tion and example, for a Liberal contribution towards the redemption of these miserable wretches, whose cases are much more deplorable than theirs who ordinarily seek for relief by collections of this nature......Witness Our Self at Westminster, the tenth day of August in the two and twentieth year of our Reign." in the Mediterranean in the seventeenth century is scattered but ample. There is a letter dated 1617 in the Buccleuch MS. reference is made to the pirates then inter(Hist. MSS. Comm., vol. i. p. 197) in which fering with the Levant trade. These Barbary Turks and the condition of Tangier at the end of the seventeenth century are also dealt with in the Dartmouth MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm., Eleventh Report, App. V. p. 18). The first Lord Dartmouth was sent to effect the destruction of Tangier. The evidence for the sad state of affairs The actual circumstances which brought matters to a crisis, and forced Charles II. to take the steps he did to relieve these sufferers are found (printed) in Domestic State Papers, 24 June, 1670-S. P. Dom. Car. II. 276 (186). Here are given letters addressed to Williamson (secretary to Lord Arlington), in one of which, dated 14 April, 1670, Samuel Daukes, aged 20, a captive at Algiers, says that he and his fellows were taken near Sardinia, "sold like horses, and made to lie down on our backs, and two men with ropes beat us until the blood ran down our heels. For three months my diet was bread and vinegar, and that only once a day. Had I been seen writing this letter, I should. have received at least 200 blows for it." Then follows a series of petitions upon the same subject, including one from the relatives of "140 men of Stepney " in the hands of the Turks. |