brought it there up to Pheniusa Pharsa, who was the son of Baath, son of Magog, son of Japhet, son of Noa. This is the pedigree as it is brought forward in the old Irish chronicles. PETRUS. EARLY SEVENTEENTH CENTURY MS. SERMONS (5th S. viii. 281, 356.)-The first extract from these sermons, as given by DR. SPARROW SIMPSON, is a version of one of the tales in the Gesta Romanorum (which I am at present editing for the Early English Text Society). It is No. 45 of the printed Latin editions (see Gesta Romanorum, ed. Herman Oesterley, 1872, vol. ii. p. 342), and No. 42 in Sir F. Madden's edition for the Roxburghe Club, 1838, of the Harl. MS. 7333. Other versions are in Addit. MS. 9066 (in English), tale No. 12, and (in Latin) in Harl. MS. 2270, tale No. 50. The original of DR. SIMPSON'S second extract I have been unable to ascertain, but doubtless it may be found in some similar collection to the Gesta. SIDNEY J. HENTAGE. Lavender Hill, S.W. SPARROW SIMPSON to Douce's Illustrations of As to the history of the three sons, I refer DR. Shakespeare, a new edition, London, 1839, pp. 549, seq., and to Hermann Oesterley's edition of the Gesta Romanorum, Berlin, 1872, cap. 44 (45), The story is also to be found in the "History of Friar Bacon," in Thoms's Early English Prose Romances, i. 319, and in the Talmud Baba Batra, fol. 58, translated in G. Levi's Parabole, Leggende e Pensieri, Firenze, 1861, pp. 264, collected from the Talmudic books of the first five ages. In the Talmud the sons do not shoot at the corpse of their father, but strike his grave. Weimar. REINHOLD KÖHLER. "MAULEVERER" (5th S. vii. 344, 478; viii. 217, 379.)-Allow me to correct a slip of the pen in MR. PICKFORD'S interesting note on this family. Arncliffe Mauleverer or Ingleby Arncliffe is in the North Riding of Yorks; and this family have never been connected with Arncliffe in Craven. J. BOYD. BOOK-PLATES (5th S. viii. 200, 298, 397.)-The oldest dated book-plates in my collection are those of "Edward Nicholas, of Gillingham, co. Dorset, 1703," and William Thompson, 1708." I possess an impression of the small plate of "Sir Francis Fust, Baronett"; but I am at a loss to discover wherein it so remarkably differs from other plates of the same style. W. M. M. Having a few duplicates of Sir Francis Fust's book-plate, it will afford me the greatest pleasure to send one to any collector who will kindly say where a letter shall be addressed. If J. O. would describe his small plate I could send him the one he has not, as I have two kinds. EMILY COLE. Teignmouth. W. PRYNN, OF CHELTENHAM (5th S. viii. 207, 279.)-I much regret that I cannot find anything respecting William Prynne, of Cheltenham, but still believe him to have been first cousin to the celebrated lawyer. The pedigree styles Mrs. Prynne Mary; so does the parish register of Swanswick, Swayneswick, or Swineswick, as it is written in different documents. The inscription on the tombstone given by Collinson is to the memory of Jane Capell, wife of Edward Capell, Esq., and late wife of Thomas Prynne, of Swainswicke, Gent., deceased. That her name was Mary is proved by the old wall of the manor-house garden. In it there is (or was) a stone, cut lozenge-wise, and on.it, E. M. Capell. Edward. Mary. 1625, surmounted by the family crest. The whole pedigree of Prynne of Swanswick is very interesting. If it will be of service to ABUBA, I shall be most Swanswick in 1632. William Prynne attested the parish accounts at He resided in his chambers in Lincoln's Inn, where he published his Histriomastix. He was expelled from the Society, but, being readmitted, he again took up his old lies buried in Lincoln's Inn Chapel. quarters, and died there on October 24, 1669. He William Prynne, of Cheltenham, was twenty-nine years his junior. happy to send a copy to his address. THUS. From this Sir CARVERS IN ORDINARY TO THE KING (5th S. viii. 229, 353.)-Was Sir Richard Browne son or grandson of Sir Richard, Bart., Lord Mayor of London, 1660? Wootten's Baronetage, published 1727, gives Sir Richard, Lord Mayor then, as his sons Sir Richard (who marries Atkins), Moses, John (who marries Hussey). Richard descends Sir Richard, "cupbearer and Carver," ," "Brigadier of the Guards," died in Flanders, 1689, when the title reverted to his uncle John. His eldest son, says Wootten, Sir Thomas, is the present baronet, and now (1727) a bachelor. So far for Wootten. Now Courthope, in his Extinct Baronetage (1835), gives Sir Richard, who died in Flanders, as the son of the first named, and adds that Sir John, brother and heir, was a pauper in the Charterhouse, London, 1697, at whose decease the title became extinct. Who is right? Is the title extinct or not? I should be glad of any information on this point. Various authors mix up this Browne with Sir Richard of Sayes Court. Another says the Lord Mayor was one of the Brownes of Singleton, Great Chart, and also father-in-law of Evelyn. If "N. & Q." had space, I should like, at some future opportunity, to point out these errors. JAMES ROBERTS BROWN. Possibly "pastum" ought to be "pratum," but I followed the printed book, which has in the sentence next to that quoted, "It' pasta sepal' p'tin' ad eand' val' p' annu' xxs." I am aware that "pastum" is not classical Latin for a meadow, but neither does classical Latin recognize such a word as "sepale" or "separale." T. F. R. De Sozier and DE SOUSA FAMILIES (5th S. viii. | 48, 179.)-HIRONDELLE is thanked for kindly inserting mention of book, Casa de Sousa, which I have not seen ("N. & Q.," 5th S. viii. 179). I have, by a strange accident, stumbled on "N. & Q.," Jan. 4, 1851, vol. iii. p. 10, where the De Sousa arms are said to be "four crescents, quartered with the arms of Portugal, without the border." Can HIRONDELLE or others supply the motto, crest, or tinctures which are not mentioned? Are the arms of Portugal borne by a special grant, and why? I shall be glad to know especially concerning those of the family settled in the Azores, or having official positions in connexion with them. As regards De Sozier (or Sosier), I desire to know if it be a separate family or only a corruption of Souza (Sousa). To this end (as I have exhausted all sources of information accessible to me) I shall be under great obligations to any reader of "N. & Q." who can consult any (especially French) dict. or encyclopaedia of heraldry, remembering that I shall be as much obliged and instructed by knowing that the name is not to be found in any authority as that it is to be found. The following Aubert de la Chenaye des Bois, Dict. de la Noblesse. Berry. Encyclopædia Heraldica. 3 vols. Lond., 1828. SPECIAL COLLECTIONS OF BOOKS: HIGHWAYMEN (5th S. vi. 483, 544; vii. 40, 153, 294, 437, 476; viii. 57, 271, 358, 378.)-I may tell MR. TAYLOR, and any one else interested, that I read the book he refers to, ante, p. 378, in 1842. It had belonged to the soldiers' library of H.M. 44th Foot, and was one of a series. There was another of a celebrated thief's memoirs, a native of Arras, in France, which in 1843, travelling by diligence, enabled me, while passing through that town, to point out to a townsman of his the house in which police, was born. My fellow traveller was surthe notorious man, afterwards employed by the matter. I referred him to the memoirs I had read prised that I should know anything about the at a distance of half the globe away. I trust soldiers' libraries are supplied with some better stuff in the present day. J. C. H. TURKISH ORDERS (5th S. viii. 289, 415.)-The original signification of ghází is "one who takes part in a raid or foray." As plunder has generally word was soon employed in the secondary sense of formed the principal object of Arab warfare, the "warrior," and subsequently of "one who fights in defence of Islam." The Algerian word ghazia, a military incursion," is almost naturalized in French as razzia. The more easterly form of this latter word is ghazwa or ghazoo, which is the usual term in El-Yemen for a predatory expedition. W. F. PRIDEAUX. THE RED DRAGON OF WALES (5th S. viii. 429, 474.)—The red dragon was the badge of the Cadwalladers, and was displayed by Henry VII. on his banner at the battle of Bosworth. China, as well as Wales, owns the dragon for its badge. In China the dragon is venerated as the symbol of good. The five-clawed dragon is an emblem of imperial power, and no person may make a representation of it except by special permission from The use which has been made of this remark in modern controversy may be seen in Dr. Newman's Apologia, pt. v. p. 208, ed. 1864, and the Dublin Review, Aug., 1839, p. 154, where the reference is to c. iii. instead of c. iv. ED. MARSHALL. This quotation has been roughly rendered by an epigram of Talleyrand: "Everybody is cleverer than anybody." FRANCIS ANDERSON. Miscellaneous. New Ireland. By A. M. Sullivan. 2 vols. (Sampson the other entitled Selling a Horse by Auction, and therewith grave and important matter which will and ending with the line "Going-gone! to Tom Toddle for seven pound ten." If so it is a book which I well remember as a child, and should like to see again. C. S. JERRAM. THE HOLY SEE AND SCOTLAND (5th S. viii. 369.) -DR. GORDON will find that subsequently to the Reformation the Pope confirmed a grant of lands made by the Bishop of Aberdeen to Lesley of Balquhaine. The confirmation is given in one of the Spalding Club books, but I cannot at present give the reference to the particular volume. MAG. I BLESSING THE FISHING (5th S. viii. 349, 434.) -This custom was not peculiar to Yarmouth. remember that in the Isle of Man the custom prevailed some years ago, and may still prevail. It was customary, too, in the Litany to insert the phrase, "and the produce of the seas," in the clause in which the blessing of God was asked upon the "fruits of the earth." One night going out with the fishermen, I noticed that in nearly every boat the men, before they stood out to sea, took off their caps and reverently knelt down, offering a short prayer. WILLIAM NORMAN. Wanstead. AUTHORS OF BOOKS WANTED (5th S. viii. 449.)The Good St. Anthony.-The words of this song are in a song book, published by Lloyd, Salisbury Square, in penny numbers, about 1845 (No. 6, First Series). The music to be had of Duncombe, Middle Row, Holborn. G. D. T. arrest attention. The author, representative in Parliament of an Irish constituency, is not what has been called a "professional patriot," but a patriot in the best sense of the word; not without passion, but with that control over it which bespeaks a true gentleman, who has good argument on his side, and knows how to apply it, without offence, to the persons to whom it may be disagreeable. There is, in truth, a great charm in this work. National questions are dealt with in altogether a novel and attractive way, with abundance of anecdotal illustration. The chief attraction, however, will probably be found in the sketches of personal character. Among these we may notice, as particularly excellent, the sketches of O'Connell, Father Matthew, and James Sadleir. To those who knew these historical personages the sketches seem almost like life itself. We add an anecdote which suits our space, but there are scores which are of higher merit. We must premise that a young Blasket islander crossed, for the first time, to the mainland to get his bishop's dispensation for his marriage. The bishop was the late and much respected Dr. Moriarty, of Kerry; and he tested the young islander's knowledge of the cardinal points of the Christian doctrine by asking, in Irish, "How many gods are there, my good boy? "Well, great and holy priest," replied the islander, "in Blasketmore we have but one, but 'tis world here." very likely there may be more than that in this great work to all who love a genuine book. We heartily recommend Mr. Sullivan's Upper Egypt: its People and its Products. A Descriptive Account of the Manners, Customs, Superstitions, and Occupations of the People of the Nile Valley, the Desert, and the Red Sea Coast. With Sketches of the Natural History and Geology. By C. B. Klunzinger, M.D. With a Prefatory Notice by Dr. Georg Schweinfurth. (Blackie & Son.) FOURTEEN years ago, Dr. Klunzinger left Europe with the intention of studying zoology on the shores of the AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (5th S. viii. Red Sea. Probably, remembering that "l'homme est 470.) "Securus judicat orbis terrarum." The reference is to St. Augustine, Contr. Epist. Parmeniani, 1. iii. c. iv. tom. ix. col. 72, E, ed. Ben.: "Quapropter securus judicat orbis terrarum, bonos non esse qui se dividunt ab orbe terrarum in quacunque parte terrarum." un animal," he took to study him also. The happy consequence is one of the most "taking" books that has ever been printed on the subject of Egypt and the Egyptians. Wilkinson and Lane have contributed many satisfactory chapters on this subject. Dr. Klunzinger has added to them many fresh details-details of out-ofthe-way places, persons, morals, and manners. It is all thoroughly new, and it will be a pleasant and profitable surprise to all who fancied they knew everything that could be told about Egypt, but who will find themselves here in untrodden scenes, and among a hitherto unknown people. A Vision of Hell: The Inferno of Dante. Translated into English Tierce Rhyme. By Charles Tomlinson, F.R.S. (Partridge & Co.) DEATH OF THOMAS WRIGHT, M.A., F.S.A.-Though I do not know that he ever contributed to your columns, do not let this accomplished scholar and antiquary, whose death on the 23rd inst. I have just heard of with deep regret, pass away from us without a fitting tribute in "N. & Q." to his varied learning and the readiness with which he placed his vast stores of information at the service of his friends. While an undergraduate at MR. BOUCHIER, at p. 366 of our present volume, furnished Trinity College, Cambridge, he became a contributor the readers of " N. & Q." with a list, to which JABEZ and to Fruser; and I remember in the last a very to the Gentleman's Magazine, the Foreign Quarterly, added at p. 417, of the translators of Dante's works. We are sure that both these gentlemen will be glad to characteristic portrait of him, quite as a young man, by have their attention drawn to the work whose title heads Maclise. He took an active part in the establishment this notice. Mr. Tomlinson starts with an essay on of the Camden, Percy, and Shakspeare Societies, and edited many of the more important works published by Dante and his translators. them. Mr. Wright was as industrious as he was learned, The History of Rome. and of the nearly forty different publications by him Edition. (Longmans.) named in the Catalogue of the London Library, many WE are glad to be able to welcome at last the third are in Latin, some in Anglo-Saxon, some in Norman volume of this extremely valuable work-a work that French; and it was owing to his writings in connexion must necessarily secure a prominent place on the book-with early French literature that in 1842 he was elected shelves of every English scholar. We trust it may not a Corresponding Member of the Académie des Inscripbe long before Mr. Ihne is enabled to increase that debt tions et Belles-Lettres. Peace to his memory! of obligation which all now owe him. AN OLD F.S. A. By Wilhelm Ihne. English TOWNSEND'S Manual of Dates (Warne), edited by Mr. F. Martin, is now at its fifth edition. In testing it we have found but one record admitting of correction: "Dr. Winsenius declares that the custom (of kissing) was unknown in England till 449, when the Princess Rowena, daughter of Hengist, King of Friesland, pressed her lips to the cup, and saluted Vortigern with a little kiss." It is not to be believed that Britain was so backward in science and practice as is here inferred. The custom, however, is not even now universal. When Captain Speke in Africa was about to kiss at parting a dusky daughter of a chief whose guest he had been, the young lady shrieked for fear and fled. She thought he was a cannibal, and was tasting as a preliminary to eating her! The Poetical Works, the Essays, and the Life of E. J. Armstrong (Longmans), fill three volumes. The young Irishman, who died full of promise and with much accomplished at twenty-three, has found a loving and able editor in his brother. The volumes are well worth reading. Mrs. Barbauld and her Contemporaries, by Jerom Murch (Longmans), is a gossiping and readable sketch. Prometheus, the Fire Giver (Chatto & Windus), is a fairly attempted restoration of the lost first part of the Promethean trilogy of Eschylus." The work is put forth with all the care that distinguishes the firm from which it is issued, and with not more care than the scholarship and ability of the author may justly claim. WE have only space left to acknowledge the receipt of Ashburton and its Neighbourhood, by Ch. Worthy; Notes of Quaint Words and Sayings in the Dialect of South Worcestershire, by A. Porson, M.A. (Parker); Specimens of the Dialect of Westmoreland, part i. (Kendal, Atkinson); four additional numbers issued by the English Text Society (Trübner & Co.), referring to the dialects of Holdernesse, West Somerset, of the South Western Counties, and a bibliographical list of works, published or in MS., illustrative of the various dialects of English. We have also part ii. (Longmans) of A History of the Castles, Manors, and Mansions of Western Sussex (an important work), by D. G. C. Elwes and the Rev. C. J. Robinson. The Tragedy of Macbeth, according to the First Folio, by Allan P. Paton, has some remarks on Shakspeare's use of capital letters as a means of emphasizing words. THE LATE HALL OF THE SCOTTISH CORPORATION, CRANE COURT.-MR. CHR. COOKE refers to a recent engraving of this edifice in The Builder and to Weld's History of the Royal Society for a view of the interior of the hall, with an engraving of Sir Isaac Newton's head. He suggests that photographs or copies should be taken of all valuable pictures for reference." Notices to Correspondents. ON all communications should be written the name and address of the sender, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. M. D. H.-Lives of the Poets Laureate, by W. S. Austin and J. Ralph (Bentley, 1863). See also Masson's Life of Chatterton, and the Poetical Works of Chatterton, with Notices of his Life (Cambridge, Grant, 1842, 2 vols.). The life by John Dix, who afterwards assumed the name of Ross. C. F. ANKETELL will find all that is known of the bronze horses that stand over the central portal of the vestibule of St. Mark's, Venice, in Mr. Murray's admirable Handbook for Northern Italy, thirteenth edition, p. 348. M. C. (CHORLEY.)-We never undertake such an office. There is very good advice on such a matter in Horace :"Membranis intus positis, delere licebit Quod non edideris: nescit vox missa reverti." D. M. H. asks for the titles and publishers of a history of the Irish Rebellion, 1641, chiefly giving annals or history of Wexford, and of the worthies of Somersetshire (biographical account). Queries, with No. 212, Jan. 19, 1973. } INDEX. FIFTH SERIES.-VOL. VIII. [For classified articles, see ANONYMOUS WORKS, BOOKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED, EPIGRAMS, EPITAPHS, FOLK-LORE, Aberdeen puns, 86 Alfred (King) and the cakes, 68, 179 Alphabet, origin of the Semitic, 35 Alton, Hants, part called Normandy, 509 America, the yacht, 229, 257 American dollar mark, its origin, 179 Abhba on anonymous works, 69, 109, 129, 149, 209, American postage stamps, portraits on, 266 Adams (E.) on Jared Leigh, 148 Redman (Bishop), 369 Scott family: Abp. Kotherham, 79, 392 A. (F. S.) on E. Whalley, the regicide, 29 A. (G.) on Rev. Wm. Harness, 279 Agglestone, near Poole Harbour, Dorset, 501 Albanie (Count d'), 28, 58, 92, 113, 158, 214, 274, Albert (Prince), his portrait by Winterhalter, 89 "Alea Evangelii," its use and origin, 128, 279 De Brus family, 123 Esquire, the title, 114 Pedigrees and pedigree makers, 5 Scott (Sir W.) and use of the cope, 126, 250 Annett (Peter), his tracts, 98, 350; metrical portrait, Anon. on baronial coins, 207 Fiennes (Celia), "Account of her several Jour- Hooping cough, 465 Nalson MSS., 108 Names wanted, 218 Passion Week: Holy Week, 129 Anonymous Works:- Age, The, a poem, in eight books, 90 Alexandrians, an Egyptian tale, 90 Alexis Hinkof; or, the Russian Mariner, 90 Alidia and Cloridan, 469 Almacks, a novel, 469 |