Ossory on the 29th of January, 1774? There can be no doubt that he took it from the supplement to the Town and Country Magazine for 1773, published in January, 1774. There, at p. 681, is a memoir of the "Macaroni Preacher the Rev. Dr. D-." In this it is distinctly stated that Dr. Dit was found necessary-in a declaration of right to "married the late mistress of a certain noble lord, who has made himself as conspicuous for his gallantries as for his political abilities, and who had made a provision for this lady after quitting her to unite with Miss R-." It is not necessary to quote any more of this memoir; the short extract just given is enough to show that the writer of this ill-natured statement was either wholly ignorant of the facts or wilfully perverted them. Miss Reay was murdered by Hackman in 1779, having then lived seventeen years under the protection of Lord Sandwich; she was thirty-two years old at the time of her death, and consequently could not have been much over four years old in 1751, when, according to this strange story, she became Lord Sandwich's mistress and displaced Miss Mary Perkins. It is evident that the writer knew nothing really about Mrs. Dodd, and imagined that Dr. Dodd's marriage took place about 1763, in place of in 1751. Practically, Walpole appears to have only echoed the Town and Country Magazine in a statement evidently without foundation. Sutton, Surrey. EDWARD SOLLY. pedigree of the family of Halsham, of Sussex, Kent, and Norfolk, and have come to the conclusion that there were co-existent two Richard and John Halshams, and that after the death of Sir Hugh and Richard Halsham his brother (1442), Joan, daughter of Richard, and niece of Sir Hugh, to succeed, as heir of the latter, to the manor of Brabourne-that the deed, dated 1468, should distinctly set forth all facts connected with her family descent. As a matter of fact, the manor of Brabourne descended to her in direct descent from Philippa Strabolgie, daughter of the thirteenth and last Earl of Athol of the Celtic and ScotoIrish line, she being, in relation to the descent of the manor of Brabourne, the descendant and representative of the Comyns of Badenoch and the De Valences, Earls of Pembroke, previous lords of that manor. The family of Strabolgie at this time (fifteenth century) were very wealthy, so much so that the Earl of Northumberland gave four thousand marks to the king to have the wardship of the two daughters of David de Strabolgie, last Earl of Athol, and he married these to his two sons: Sir Thomas Percy (spoken of in the Scotshall deeds as "Percy of Athol") to Elizabeth, the eldest daughter, and Philippa, the youngest, to Sir Ralph Percy, brother of Sir Thomas and Hotspur." Philippa married, secondly, John Halsham, of West Grinsted, from whom, through Sybilla Lewknor, the Scotshall family derive their descent. 66 JAMES R. SCOTT, F.S.A. THE HALSHAM FAMILY (5th S. vii. 407.)-I have great pleasure in replying to SYWL, and enclosing a rough proof* from the Memorials of Clevelands, Walthamstow. the Scotshall Family, which not only furnishes a photo-zincographic fac-simile of the interesting BIBLIOGRAPHY OF UTOPIAS (4th S. xi. 519; notarial deed from which the subjoined pedigree xii. passim; 5th S. i. 78, 237; ii. 252; vi. 38, of Halsham is taken, but likewise a literal trans-118; vii. 458.) The first book inquired about lation of the deed in question. This deed un- by MR. PRESLEY is L'Isle Taciturne et l'Isle questionably was originally required to settle Enjouée, ou Voyage du Génie Alaciel dans les doubts respecting the right of Joan Halsham to Deux Iles, Amst. (Paris), 1759 (anon., but Barbier succeed as heir to the manor of Brabourne, Kent, says par De la Dixmerie "). My copy is in right of her uncle Sir Hugh Halsham, who had of the translation, under the title of Taciturna died without issue. The question of right was and Jocunda, 12mo., 1760, and I can see with not in respect of any disputed point about her half an eye that the Taciturnians and the Frivolites father Richard's legitimacy, but in relation to her here satirized are our good selves and our old own, inasmuch as Richard Halsham was supposed enemies-now permanently, to be hoped, our exto have been a Celestine monk in Paris, and under cellent neighbours-across the Channel. celibate vows, and issue (if any) under such circumstances must have been regarded as illegiti- Londoners, are peculiarities of the Sombragloomy-ians, or mate. The deed in question settles, in my opinion, beyond a doubt, 1st, that Richard Halsham was the legitimate son of Philippa Strabolgie and John Halsham; 2nd, that Richard Halsham was simply a "novitiate," and not under vows-" nunquam fuit vir religionis"; and 3rd, that he married a daughter of John Thorlegh, of West Grinsted, Sussex, and had legitimate issue, the said Joan. I have gone very fully into the history and [* We will forward this to SYWL.] The comically brought out and contrasted strikingly with the light-heartedness of the Jocundians or Parisians. The little book is highly piquant in describing both countries and people; here is his first experience when the genius dropped himself upon Taciturna : fills the souls of the inhabitants with a certain sadness, "A thick and perpetual vapour covers this island, and misanthropy, and irksomeness of their own existence. Alaciel was hardly at the first barriers of the metropolis when he fell in with a peasant bending under the weight of a bag of gold, who made the best of his way, but to all appearance his heart was sad and heavy. 'What 'Incidit in Scyllam, cupiens vitare Charybdim.' Rex periture, fugam? Nescis, heu perdite, nescis, The Close, Exeter. [Mr. H. T. Riley, B.A. (Dict. Class. Quot.), describes the author as "Philip Gualtier de Lille, a poet of the thirteenth century."] AXTELL FAMILY (4th S. iv. 478; v. 103.)-It may The other book, "Mammuth, or Human Nature displayed on a Grand Scale: in a Tour with the Tinkers into the Inland Parts of Africa, by the Man in the Moon," 12mo., 1789, is by William Thomson, a Scottish miscellaneous writer, author of, among many other remarkable works, "The Man in the Moon, or Travels into the Lunar Re-be of service to Y. S. M. in his researches to have gions, by the Man of the People," 2 vols., 1783. The last represents the visit of the "Man of the People" (Ch-s F-x) to the upper regions, where the "Man in the Moon," by the aid of his magical glass, exhibits to him various eminent characters known to his visitor as contemporaries or historical notabilities, contrasting their high reputation and popularity in our lower sphere with the very opposites their acts have obtained for them aloft. Both books are indeed a series of satires, and both pretend to give some autobiographical matter, the most interesting of which is where he speaks of his connexion with the Gipsies. Although Thomson's works are extensive, and entitle him to be better known than he is, the only notice I find of him is in the Living Authors, 1816, "N. & Q.," July 28, 1870, and in Burton's BookHunter, where it is said he was a minister; but if an anecdote be true, which runs that he struck the letter c out of the word changed, when a student had to read to him the solemn passage in 1 Corin. xv. 51, 52, it is clear that he was unfit for the kirk, and so took to the more congenial pursuit of literature, where he has left his mark. J. O. "INCIDIT IN SCYLLAM," &c. (5th S. vi. 468; vii. 77, 478.)-Some interesting information on the proverb, "Incidit in Scyllam, cupiens vitare Charybdim," will be found in Jortin's "Life of Erasmus," Works, vol. x. p. 285, London, 1808. The following are . some brief extracts : "Erasmus, in the explication of this proverb, which he hath taken from Apostolius, without citing him, concludes with this verse, famous, says he, amongst the Latins, but the author of which, as he owns, was not known to him: I the following data of a family of this name who Camden, New Jersey. "THINGS IN GENERAL," &c. (5th S. vii. 488.)— This is by Robert Mudie. See 4th S. xi. 156, 510; xii. 19. OLPHAR HAMST. "THE CRISIS," 1775-6 (5th S. iii. 487; iv. 78; vii. 467.)—In 1775 a pamphlet, entitled The Present Crisis with respect to America Considered, was presented to the House of Lords by Lord Effingham as an insult to the king; and the third number of a periodical paper called the Crisis was complained of by the Earl of Radnor. Complaints were also made in the House of Commons, and, after a conference on the subject, both publications were ordered to be burned by the hangman, and were burned accordingly, first at the gate of Westminster Hall, on March 6, and the following day at the Royal Exchange. An account will be found in the Annual Register for 1775, p. 95:"On the 7th of March the concourse of people was prodigious; some of them were at first very riotous; they seized and threw about the first brush faggots which were brought, and treated the City Marshal and the hangman very ill; but, more faggots being brought, and dipped in turpentine, they immediately took fire, and soon consumed the publications in question." It is to be observed that these two publications were in principle quite opposed to each other, the pamphlet asserting the right of the sovereign to levy taxes without the consent of Parliament, whilst the 23d. weekly Crisis took just the other side of the question. I find no evidence as to further proceedings of the ministers against the Crisis newspaper, and it certainly continued to be issued for more than a year, many of the numbers being in fact far more seditious, if not more "treasonable," than the celebrated No. 45 of the North Briton. EDWARD SOLLY. Sutton, Surrey. Roxburghshire to Mr. Thomas Stephenson, as it was both compiled and arranged by my father (Mr. John Tait), and sent by him to Mr. T. Stephenson, who intended to deliver a lecture on the same subject at Melrose; but it was never expected that the authorship would be ascribed to Mr. Stephenson, especially as the lecture was never delivered. It pleases me much to think that any portion of it has been considered worthy of notice in "N. & Q."; and though it may not be altogether of much moment, still I cannot bear the idea, after all my father's trouble and research, that another is receiving honour where honour is not due. VIOLET S. TAIT. D'Almaine is, according to Lower (Patronymica Britannica), "from Allemagne, a place near Caen, famous for its quarries of Caen stone. From this identity of name that stone is often misunderstood to have been brought from Germany." FAMILY OF DE LA MAINE (5th S. vii. 448.)— ST. SWITHIN. BRIGGS FAMILY of Norfolk AND YORKS (5th S. vii. 449.)-In Morehouse's History of Kirkburton, p. 70, there is mention made of an inscription in the church to the memory of Mrs. Frances Wells, daughter of the Rev. Joseph Briggs, who died in 1748, aged seventy-four; also William, son of the same, who died March, 1668. The Rev. Joseph Briggs died July 25, 1727, aged eightyeight, having been vicar of Kirkburton sixty-five years. Huddersfield. G. W. TOMLINSON. SCOTCH HEREDITARY OFFICES (5th S. vi. 149, 257, 299; vii. 338, 496.)-The number of claims made by holders of hereditary offices, and entered in the Court of Session in pursuance of the Act, 20 Geo. II. c. 43, for abolishing the heritable jurisdictions in Scotland, was 160, a list of which, showing the names of the claimants, the jurisdic- CURIOUS USE OF WORDS (5th S. vii. 468.)-I tions, &c., claimed, and the prices demanded, will have heard the word "pash" frequently used in be found in the Scots Magazine, vol. ix. pp. 582-Yorkshire in the sense of strike: "I'll pash you 588. Of these claims, 124 were sustained by the if you don't keep quiet." Lords of Session, and the values stated in their report, dated March 18, 1748, and laid before the King in Council. The following is an abstract of the claims sustained and the values allowed. (See Scots Mag., vol. x. pp. 136-138.) "THE CHURCHYARDS OF ROXBURGHSHIRE" (5th S. vii. 425.)-MR. MANUEL must have been mis J. K. Our stock men in the Weald and Mid Kent always say of a cow or sheep it is "chowing its quid," meaning thereby chewing the cud. D. F. KENNard. (5th "BARON OF THE COURT OF EXCHEQUER" S. vii. 449.)-"The above time-honoured title will" certainly "expire with its present holders." The act of the present session, c. 40, s. 4, making clear the fifth section of the Supreme Court of Judicature Act, 1873, enacts that "the ordinary Judges of the Court of Appeal shall be styled Lords Justices of Appeal, and the Judges of the High Court of Justice (other than the presidents of divisions) shall be styled Justices of the High Court." The puisne judge last appointed in the Exchequer division, Sir Henry Hawkins, is styled "Mr. Justice" instead of "Baron" Hawkins. C. S. FAREWELL FAMILY: COL. JOHN FAREWELL (5th informed when he attributed The Churchyards of S. vii. 427, 468.)—A John Farewell was, in 1643, a member of the Committee of Defence for the county of Surrey. Husband, Orders, Ordinances, and Declarations, vol. ii. p. 381. The same person, or a namesake, was a justice of peace for Surrey in 1650. Names of Justices, Michaelmas Terme, 1650, p. 55. This man can hardly have been LieutenantGovernor of the Tower in 1690, but he may well have been the father of the person inquired after. EDWARD PEACOCK. I believe that a Mr. Farwell, a medical gentleman at Chipping Norton, is of a family from Somersetshire; he might be able to give the desired information. In names like Farewell, Whitelocke, Whitefield, and Shakespeare, the e in the middle is often omitted though pronounced. GIBBES RIGAUD. CARAUSIUS (5th S. vii. 361, 382, 403, 422.)In a little work on the life of St. Patrick, by the late Robert Steele Nicholson, of Ballor, near Bangor, co. of Down, published in 1868, the writer endeavours to prove that St. Patrick's "Epistle to Coroticus was actually addressed to Carausius, the Roman admiral, who usurped the sovereignty of Britain in A.D. 287. If MR. MAC CABE has not seen the book alluded to, he would, I think, whether convinced or not, be interested by the statements and arguments brought together by Mr. Nicholson. Of course the result is to alter the time of the coming of Patrick from the fifth to the third century. Belfast. W. H. PATTERSON. which men have learned to make gods of others and beasts of themselves and lose their reason while they pretend to do reason.' He who drank a bumper on his knees to the health of his mistress was dubbed a knight for the evening. On drinking healths to mistresses see Young's England's Bane." W. F. R. Worle Vicarage. "HIGH BORLASE" (5th S. vii. 468.)-See “N. & Q.,” 2nd S. iv. 248, 300, 317. In 4th S. v. 532, some slight additional information may be obtained. ED. MARSHALL. "THE LONG ELEVENTH OF JUNE ” (5th S. vii. in 466.)-I remember an old rhyme common Lancashire : "Barnaby bright, All day and no night." Before the reformation of the calendar St. Barna bas's Day would answer to our June 22, therefore about the longest day. E. LEATON BLENKINSOPP. JOHN WITHERSPOON AND DESCENDANTS (3rd S. x. 167; xi. 25.)—Having had occasion to look up some back numbers of "N. & Q.," I saw your correspondent's inquiry concerning John Witherspoon and his descendants. I think I can put him in the way to obtain some knowledge of them, if he has not already done so. There is a Mr. Joseph Woods, of Pennsylvania (who was graduated at Princeton in the class succeeding my own, i.e. 1876, and whose father unveiled the "Witherspoon Statue," placed in the Centennial Grounds, Philadelphia, last year), to whom I can refer MR. BAIN as a descendant of John Witherspoon. I also notice in the Catalogue of Princeton the name of a Mr. John Witherspoon Woods as having been graduated in 1837. address of Mr. Joseph Woods, but I think I can obtain it if MR. BAIN so desires. I do not know the exact SAMUEL W. BRADFORD. 459, Eutaw Place, Baltimore, Ma., U.S. [The reply at the second reference has escaped the notice of our correspondent.] "A COMMONPLACE BOOK," &c. (5th S. vii. 229, 356.) I have to thank MR. WARREN for the information given. Inquiring at Hatchard's about the 1814 edition specified, I learned that there was none of later date, and of it they could produce only a second-hand copy, which, moreover, was not at all the book I was in search of. Another Commonplace Book was, however, shown to me, with title-page as follows : "A Commonplace Book to the Holy Bible: wherein the Substance of Scripture, respecting Doctrine, Worship, and Manners, is reduced to its Proper Heads. By John Locke, Gent. Revised and Improved, and the whole Faithfully Collated, by W. Dodd, LL.D., Prebendary of Brecon, and Chaplain in Ordinary to His Majesty. London: Printed for Thomas Tegg, No. 73, Cheapside, 1842." This, I was glad to find, was the later edition I was in search of, of the 1697 book in my possession, which, however, gives no compiler's name or names on the title-page or appended to the preface. Inquiring of W. Tegg & Co., I learned that the original authorship was attributed to "John Locke, Gent."-as shown in the list of his works-but a note says there was some doubt about his having compiled the Commonplace Book. I commend the 1842 edition, as above, to the notice of MR. Warren, should he not have seen it. H. W. B. B. "Ev'N IN OUR ASHES LIVE THEIR WONTED FIRES,” GRAY'S “ELEGY" (5th S. vii. 470.)-MR. WARREN says this line seems to have been suggested from Petrarch. In what part of his writings does a similar line occur? It is almost identical with one by Chaucer : "Yet in our aisshen old is fyr i-reke." But the image is one likely to suggest itself to almost any thoughtful mind. J. DIXON, STRASBOURG CATHEDRAL (4th S. viii. 205.)The impression made on Americans whilst travelling in Europe when they first see its grand cathedrals was once strikingly seen by me in the case of a young native of the United States, who, on standing before this magnificent fabric, and looking up at its lofty spire, exclaimed with enthusiasm, with his arms crossed on his breast, "Come for me to-morrow morning; come for me to-morrow morning!"--he was lost in admiration. J. MACRAY. JOHN RIVETT, THE LOYAL BRAZIER (1st S. vii. 134.)-I find that, in February, 1853, it was inquired what is known of the life and history of John Rivett, the brazier, living at the Dial, near Holborn Conduit, to whom the preservation of the statue of Charles I. at Charing Cross is attributed. We are told, in Cunningham's Handbook, that, in 1660, John Rivett was refusing to deliver to the Earl of Portland a statue in brass of the late king on horseback, according to an order of the House. Cunningham added that he had been unable to discover any further proceedings in the matter, but that the statue was not set up at Charing Cross until 1674. It would appear that in the above year Rivett must have succeeded in making his peace with the Court, and, it may be inferred, in disposing of the statue to his own advantage, as I find it mentioned in Dr. Spender's valuable work on the Bath waters that "at the entrance from the King's to the Queen's bath is placed a massive ring of brass, and on it is inscribed: 'I, John Revet, His Majesty's brazier, at 50 ye. of age, in ye present month of July, 1674, Received Cure of a True Palsie from Head to Foot on one Side. Thanks be to God."" CALCUTTENSIS. [See "N. & Q.," 5th S. iv. 34, 158.] PHILOTHEA AND PAMELA (5th S. vii. 389.)-Is not Philothea a mistake for Philoclea? Philoclea and Pamela are the heroines of Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia. F. L. BONVYLE FAMILY (5th S. vi. 447; vii. 52, 231.) -I am much obliged to SIR JOHN MACLEAN, MR. GREENFIELD, and CHANCELLOR HARINGTON for their replies-of course Cheston was an oversight for Chuton. MR. GREENFIELD corrects SIR JOHN MACLEAN and makes one or two suggestions, which I confess I cannot quite follow, but which cause me to repeat one of my original queries, of whom was Alice the daughter? I have great doubts myself as to her reputed husbands, Sir Edmund de Clyvedon and Ralph Carminow; I do not believe she was ever wife to either of them, for the simple reason that from the dates of their deaths to the date of hers is at the most a period of fifty years; but in her inquisition, 4 Hen. VI. No. 34, taken at Crukern, Somerset, May 7, 1426 :— "She held in dower, of the inheritance of Walter Rodenay, s. and h. of John, s. of Walter, s. of John Rodenay, Knt., her late husband, now being under age and in the custody of Walter, Lord of Hungerford. Walter Rodenay is ten years and upwards," i.e. her great grandson. By another inquis. taken at Southperet(?), Dorset, May 7, 1426, Alice was seized in fee of the manor of Coleway, and granted the same to Thomas Carmynowe, Esq., and others. This suggests to me the possibility of Alice being a member of the Carmynowe family by blood and not by marriage. I should also like to have proof of Cecilia, wife first to Thomas Bonvyle, secondly to Sir William Cheyney, being the daughter of Sir John Streeche. I do not see that the m. of Clyvedon, co. Somerset, is mentioned in Alice's inquisition at all. A John Streeche is very frequently mentioned in connexion with both Sir William Bonevyle and Alice in charters, &c., quoted in the inquisitions, 9 Hen. IV. No. 42, and 4 Hen. VI. No. 34. In the proof of age of William, son of John, son of William Bonevyle, Knt., 1 Hen. V. No. 58 (inquisition taken at Honiton, co. Devon, Oct. 31, 1413), is a very curious anecdote. It proves he was born on Aug. 31, 1392, and was baptized in the church at Shete, co. Devon, on the same day. Three of the witnesses called to prove it made the following statement, which may be thought worthy of a nook in "N. & Q." :— "That the said William, s. of John, is of the age of twenty-one years and upwards, for that he was born at Shete, in co. Devon, on the last day of August in the sixteenth year of the reign of Ric. II. and baptized in the p'sh ch, of the same vill on the same day, about the that these jurors on that day were together (pariter) at vesper hour. And this they well know for truth, for Honyton on a certain day of love (die amoris) chosen to make an agreement between two of their neighbours, and in the same day there came there one Lady Katherine, formerly wife of John Cobham, Knt., and then the wife of John Wyke, of Nynhyde, aunt of the same William, |