: 2 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 Menshon'd something of my hard Usage which doubt you have not Received my last Letter 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 Records. Notwithstanding its ex parte was on the increase; and now, in June, character, the letter may doubtless be held 1910, caps are becoming quite exceptional of value for its light upon what was, in all among undergraduate men, and seem likely probability, the too common experience of soon to be confined to Dons and women the poor apprentice in the good old students. The cap no less than the gown is a days. 12 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 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. J. T. F. Mrs. Catherine Standfast, at Mr. Bay's in Fell Court in Fell Street near Criplegate, London. The letter is written in a clear hand on paper of folio size, folded and postmarked. WILLIAM MCMURRAY. SMOLLETT'S HUGH The 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. Hewson for 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 we 2 22 interlined copy of Roderick Random, Durham. 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 Bible, for Monday, 12 Feb., 1738/9, it of Esthenreth (East Hendred, Berks). 2 F. S. SNELL. APPRENTICESHIP IN 1723.-The subjoined letter is contained among the papers preserved at SS. Anne and Agnes Church. Containing as it does no apparent local reference, I have thought it more suited to the columns of N. & Q. than to the pages of my IN appears that so far from being a real local th 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. LIEUT. COL. COCKBURN, R.A.: ROBERT WRIGHT.-I desire for historical purposesto hear of the representatives of Col. Cockburn, 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 fol lowed 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. Sir William Warren (frequently mentioned by Sir Charles Doe (knighted while Sheriff, June, 1665). Sir Edward Waldoe (knighted Oct., 1677). Leamington. 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 LACRYMAM. -What did Virgil mean by 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 daffa. the 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. 'SHAVING THEM,' BY TITUS A. BRICK.I wish to learn who was the author of "Shaving Them; or, The Adventures of Three Yankees on the Continent of Europe. Edited by Titus A. Brick, Esq. London, John Camden Hotten, 74 and 75, Piccadilly," pp. 230. 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? Alexander Bence (M.P. Suffolk 1654, Master Trinity Tempest Milner (Sheriff London 1656-7). Rowland Winn or Wynn (Committee E.I.C. 1670- Sir William Bateman (knighted May, 1660). 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 suit the daffodil; and its derivation, the KaλλiBoтpos; an epithet which fails Sanskrit nark=hell; points to a narcotic effect of the scent which the daffodil does to not possess. If, as some think, Sophocles Lillias Byrne was widow of William meant the hyacinth, which is at once fair- | Byrne of Dublin, surgeon, whose will, dated clustering and narcotic, when did the flower 19 September, 1699, was proved 12 October change its name ? and, once more, what was following. William Byrne and Lillius (sic) its tear? W. T. Murray alias Reade were married at St. John's Church, Dublin, 16 July, 1695. Lettice, only surviving child of Dudley Loftus, LL.D., and Frances, daughter of Patrick Nangle, married Charles Bladen. How was she daughter-in-law" to Dame Elizabeth Irwin ? '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 23 AUTHORS 66 G. D. B. OF QUOTATIONS WANTED. look for "Master Caius, that calls himself Can you tell me the authors of the following? doctor of physic "? In 'Every Man in his Humour,' I. i., From the Bordello it might come as well, where Gifford notes: DAME ELIZABETH IRWIN : SIR JOHN MURRAY: GENEALOGICAL PUZZLE.—Elizabeth 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. 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 "Sir 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. who was 2 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. 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. POLL-BOOKS OF THE CITY OF LONDON. MELMONT BERRIES=JUNIPER BERRIES.— 66 "Melmont Can any 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: London for the following years ?—1702, 1705, berries, juniper berries, Moray." 1707, 1708, 1715, 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. Constitutional Club, W.C. GENEALOGICAL TABLES.-Is it correct in [The symbol is used to indicate issue not named.] “ABRAHAM'S BEARD," J. D 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 A GAME.-What Underwas this game, of which one takers for the raising Thames water in YorkReginald Bosworth Smith: a Memoir House Garden in the County of Middlesex," of (p. 15)? On Sundays, writes Bosworth Smith's sister Mrs. Caledon Egerton of their childhood days, reads in "after supper, we would adjourn to the study, 2 ST. AGATHA AT WIMBORNE.-In a short article on Tetta by the Rev. Charles Hole in Smith's Dictionary of Christian Biography (vol. iv. p. 875), mention is made of St. Agatha, who with St. Lioba was educated at Wimburn (Mabillon, Acta SS. O. S. B.,' Sæc. III. pt. ii. p. 223). I should be glad of any information about the St. Agatha alluded to here. JAS. M. J. FLETCHER. The Vicarage, Wimborne Minster. BOTANY: TIME OF FLOWERS BLOOMING.Can any one recommend a simple manual of botany which contains a classification of flowers according to the months in which they are in bloom? LAWRENCE PHILLIPS. Theological College, Lichfield. one Water-course conveniently furnished with Thames water, arising and running from certain waterworks belonging to the said undertakers in York-House Garden aforesaid, running in and through one Branch or Pipe of Lead," for the use of two houses in Oxenden Street in the parish of St Martin's-in-the-Fields. The rent (thirty shillings) is made payable "at the House commonly known by the name of the Water-house, seituate in York Garden in the Parish aforesaid, belonging to them the said undertakers." The lease is in a printed form. 46 Is anything known of this forerunner of the modern water companies, or of where the Water-house 22 stood? I presume that it was in some part of the grounds of the Duke of Buckingham's mansion York House. C. L. S. the reverse "Who took Porto-Bello with six ships only, November 22nd, 1739." What may be the meaning of the word "revived" in connexion with Britain's naval prestige? Of three medals I have struck in commemoration of this event only one has "The British Glory Revived." THOS. RATCLIFFE. Worksop. Replies. TURKEY CAPTIVES: BRIEF AT (11 S. i. 488.) THE story of this unusual circumstance is given fully in a rare single sheet dated 10 August, 1670, and issued in the form of letters patent by Charles II. The sheet is entitled "Letters patent for collections towards the redemption of English captives taken by the Turks. London [Thomas Milbourn dwelling in Jewen Street] 1670." This open letter was addressed by Charles II. to the clergy of all degrees and denominations, as well as to all Justices, Mayors, Bailiffs, Constables, Churchwardens, Chapelwardens, Headboroughs, Collectors for the Poor, &c. It proceeds : "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- in the Mediterranean in the seventeenth 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. |