in his valuable Notices of English Dictionaries, published by the Philological Society, states that Bailey's Dictionary was the first English dictionary illustrated with woodcuts; this, however, is not the case, as in the Glossographia Anglicana Nova, 1707, there are upwards of sixty woodcut illustrations printed in the pages. The contractions in Lowndes, such as Dent, Bindley, &c., refer to celebrated book sales; their purpose is to show the prices of books as produced at the auction of well-known libraries. It must be remembered that Lowndes's book was chiefly intended for the book trade; ordinary book buyers would be misled sadly if they trusted to Lowndes's statements of "best editions"; and the prices which he gives must be received with some caution, for many books have increased in sale value, and perhaps even more have diminished, since the dates to which he refers. EDWARD SOLLY. 66 which these are the day-books. When a couple are married an account is opened for them, stating the time and place of the marriage; and as each child is born it is entered in the same page, with the date of the birth. Opposite is written the date of death or marriage, as the case may be. In the latter case a fresh account is opened for the newly married couple. The account closes with the death of the old couple; or in case either of them marries a second time, the account is extended if the widower marries, or transferred to a new page if the widow marries; and thus the records have gone on from the early ages of the Society to the present time. Government was sc much pleased with these records that it asked for them, and offered to have certified copies lodged in the various places from which they were withdrawn. At an early period in the existence of the Society a question as to the validity of Friends' marriages was raised with regard to some property. It was contended that as the marriage was not performed according to the rites of the Church the children were illegitimate, and could not succeed to the property; but the judges held that Friends' marriages were valid, and that decree was never reversed; but the same privilege was not extended to other dissenters. JOSEPH FISHER. Waterford. A SOCIETY FOR THE PUBLICATION OF CHURCH REGISTERS: THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS (5th S. vi. 484; vii. 9, 89, 131, 239, 290, 429, 459.)-There is a reference in the reply of CPL. (5th S. vii. 430) to the records of the Society of Friends, about which the readers of "N. & Q." may desire some information. Having been allowed to consult them some years ago, I was struck with the perfect system and order that pervaded them. The organization of the Society of Friends is composed of two parts-the monthly 437.)-The sermon which MR. NASH quotes at THE SIMILE MILTON (5th S. vii. 186, 296, meeting, corresponding with the parish, and the the first of the above references, and whose title, quarterly meeting, corresponding with the diocese. The original records are all prepared in duplicate, &c., MR. SOLLY asks for at the second, is this :one of which is pasted into the register of the Whitehall before the King's Majesty at the Nuptials of "The Royal Merchant. A Sermon preached at monthly meeting, the other is pasted into that an Honourable Lord and his Lady. Prov. xxxi. 14. of the quarterly meeting, in the order in which She is like a Merchant's Ship, she bringeth her Food they occur; but they only form the basis for from afar. By Robert Wilkinson, Cambridge. The other records. The Society of Friends looks upon Black-Friars, near the Water-side. For the Benefit Second Edition. London: Printed and Sold by H. Hills, baptism as an internal change, not an external of the Poor. 1708." rite, and the record of birth is a birth note" which states the time and place of the birth and the parents' names; it is witnessed by two persons who were present at the birth. The marriage certificate is a parchment document which describes the proceedings which have been taken towards the marriage; it is signed by the bride and bridegroom, and by any of those present who wish to sign it; it is read at the meeting, and becomes the property of the wife. But there are other registers which are pasted into the books. The record of death is called a "burial note"; it is an order from the appointed officer to the person in charge of the burial-ground, and directs him to make a grave, and therein lay the body of So-and-so, who died the day of The gravedigger certifies that the body was duly buried. These are the original documents prepared in duplicate, which are preserved, one by the local, the other by the provincial registrar. The latter has a separate book, of the nature of a ledger, to This is a copy of the title of my edition, which is an octavo. Allibone mentions quartos of 1607 and 1615, with a reference to Beloe's Anecdotes. The sermon is a most comical one, showing in what respects the bride is to do her utmost to be like a ship, and in what others she is not to think of such a thing (MR. NASH's passage is, of course, of the latter kind), and ending with the devout aspiration that she may, "in the mean time, do worthily in Ephratah and be famous in Brittain ; live to a Hundred, grow into Thousands, and your Seed possess the Gate of his Enemy. Amen." Bexhill. CHARLES F. S. WARREN, M.A. "THE GRIM FEATURE":"PARADISE LOST (4th S. xii. 85, 191, 316, 435; 5th S. i. 52, 236; ii. 378; v. 186; vii. 497.)-Is it possible that JABEZ can have read this "long passage then deliberately tell us (5th S. vii. 497) that in it "neither parent is once named"? Why, the and Disguis'd he came, but those his children dear Their parent soon discern'd, though in disguise." Again, 1. 349: "Met who to meet him came, his offspring dear." Ll. 352-354: "Long he admiring stood, till Sin, his fair Enchanting daughter, thus the silence broke: "That I must after thee with this thy son." Ll. 383-386: "Whom thus the prince of darkness answer'd glad: The reader now shall judge for himself whether it be true or otherwise that in this "long passage neither parent is once named"; and all that I shall say on my own behalf is, that if the affirmative be the fact, the whole gist of JABEZ's argument is as fatal to his view as it is conclusive of mine. But there is a word to be said on the other passage quoted, book ii. 11. 781 and 804, "where," JABEZ tells us, one of his parents is addressing Death." Now, marvellous to say, the whole of this speech is addressed by Sin to Satan, as the most cursory glance will make plain to any one. It will be seen, too, that the relationship between the several personages is not a whit more broadly stated in the passage of book ii. than in that of book x. I need hardly, perhaps, mention that the italics in the quotations are my own. EDMUND TEW, M.A. STONE'S SERMON AT ST. PAUL'S, 1661 (5th S. vii. 401, 450.)-The fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, was not Samuel but Benjamin Stone, who was admitted a pensioner from co. Norfolk in 1598, D.D. 1660 (Masters's Hist. Corpus Christi College). Benjamin Stone, M.A., was admitted and instituted to the rectory of St. Mary Abchurch on May 19, 1613; collated on May 2, 1637, to the rectory of St. Clement Eastcheap; and on March 5, 1638-9, to the prebend of Reculverland in the cathedral church of St. 66 Paul (Bishops' Certificates, London dioc.). In March, 1642, the rectories of St. Mary Abchurch and St. Clement Eastcheap were sequestered from Benjamin Stone (Jour. House of Lords, vol. v. pp. 663-4); and in the proceedings of the Committee of the House of Commons for the relief of plundered ministers" are the following entries: "20° Junij, 1646.-Cleamentes East Cheape & Mary Abb Church. It is ordered yt ye peticōn of Joane ye wife of Beniamine Stone, from whom ye rectoryes of Clementes East Cheape & Mary Abb Church, London, are sequestred, bee shewed to ye respectiue ministers & sequestrator* of ye sayd Churches & to returne their answere therein to this Comtee" "Julij_27°, 1646.-Mary Abchurch & Clemts Eastcheape. It is ordered that the ministers & sequestrators of the respective Rectories of Mary Abchurch & Clemts Eastcheape, London, doe shew cause before this Cotee on the 13th day of August next ensueinge wherefore they doe not pay vnto Joane the wife of Beniamin Stone. from whome the sd Rectories are sequestred, the 5th p'te of the proffittes of the sd Rectories, according to the seu'all orders of this Cotee in that behalfe." In the face of the above authorities it is evident that the Christian name of Prebendary Stone was Benjamin, and not Samuel. I will only add that a Samuel Stone from co. Derby was admitted a pensioner of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, in 1656, and proceeded to M. A. in 1663. E. H. W. D. See the Fifth Report of Historical MSS. Commission, "House of Lords' Calendar, 1642–3, March 23.-Order for sequestering the living of St. Mary Abchurch." EMILY COLE. Teignmouth. MARLOW'S "FAUSTUS" (5th S. vii. 388, 493.)— MR. PHILLIPS must, I think, have lost sight of his answer to my query about the opening lines of the chronology of Marlow's plays when he wrote Doctor Faustus. I would therefore call his attention to the following_extracts from Collier's History of Dramatic Poetry, Dyce's "Account of of the poet's works, and Warton's History of Marlow and his Writings" prefixed to his edition English Poetry. Tamburlaine the Great" is Marlow's earliest drama, at least the earliest of his plays which we possess" (Dyce, xv); "Marlow's Faustus, in all probability, was written very soon after his Tamburlaine the Great" (Collier, ii. 126). It follows from this that the 66 proud audacious deeds" referred to in the fifth line may possibly be those of the Scythian shepherd, though I should not be prepared to assert it as confidently as MR. PHILLIPS does. was written by Dekker, Haughton, and Day, and is mentioned in Henslowe's Diary under the "13th of febrearye, 1599" (Dyce, xlvii). I therefore think I am justified in not accepting MR. PHILLIPS's explanation of the third and fourth lines. 66 That "the fields of warlike Thrasymene" refer to Dido, Queen of Carthage, is still less evident" to me. How can two lines in one of Mar H. imagines that the sovereign's commission necessarily confers the title of Esquire. The sovereign's commission does confer the title of Esquire on a magistrate and on a captain in the army, but it only confers the title of Gentleman on a lieutenant in the army. J. LLEWELYN CURTIS. Is it not the fact that in recent Tables of Prelow's earliest plays refer to the Tragedy of Dido, cedence barristers take their proper place beneath "Gentlemen entitled to bear arms"? "which was completed for the stage by Nash after H. C. the decease of Marlow" (Warton, 907; Dyce, xxxvi)? What in the name of chronology has the battle of Thrasymene, fought two hundred years before Christ (217 B.C.), to do with Dido, who lived six centuries (B.c. 853 c.)-or, if we adopt the poetical anachronism which makes her a contemporary of Æneas, almost a thousand years -earlier (B.C. 1190 c.)? Bückeburg, Germany. L. BARBÉ. "Barristers at law you shall enter by that title, but you shall accept them as gentlemen only, unless otherwise qualified to bear the title of Esquire." The above is an extract from the instructions issued in 1682 by Clarencieux to May and King, his deputies, on their "visiting" the counties of Worcester, Warwick, &c. HALLEN FAMILY (5th S. viii. 28.)-Cornelius Hallen was buried at Oldswinford (Stourbridge), Oct. 29, 1682. This is, I believe, the first entry of the name in the registers; but Anne, the daughter of Cornelius Holland, was baptized in 1652, and Constance, the wife of Cornelius Holland, was buried in 1654. In 1704 John Grazebrook married Elizabeth (née Hunt), the widow of Samuel Hallen, of Stourbridge, but in her marriage Holland. In fact, the family seem to have changed licence at Worcester she is called Elizabeth their name about the time of the Restoration, a fact (?) which almost leads me to suppose that they the regicide, of whose family history little or were in some way related to Cornelius Holland nothing seems to be known. If your correspondent will communicate with me, I shall be glad to tell him all I know about the Hallens. In the mean time I beg leave to refer him to Dr. Howard's Miscellanea, ii. 406. H. SYDNEY GRAZEBROOK. Middleton Villa, Grove Park, Chiswick. WHITSUNDAY (5th S. viii. 2.)-MR. PICTON'S article is quite conclusive, and there can be no further controversy about it. The Ancren Riwlo and the Icelandic dictionary between them settle the matter for ever. I merely write this to remind MR. PICTON that the connexion between Whitsunday and the Icelandic hvítasunnudagr is duly recorded in my Index to the dictionary, published last year. But I venture to say, in reply to MR. CURTIS (p. 34), that I think a chapter of the Heralds' College would in these days admit that a barrister is entitled to write himself armiger. At all events, the right of a graduate of an inn of court It is, perhaps, as well to note that Whitsunweek to that title is sufficiently attested by the fact that is a wretched popular corruption of Whitsundaythe Court of Common Pleas refused to hear an week, Icel. hvítasunnudagsvika, due to the fact affidavit because a barrister named therein was that the phrase hvíta sunna, i.e. white sun, could not called Esquire. See the Heraldry of Worces- be used by itself in Icelandic to denote the Domitershire, Introduction, xlix; Bythewood's Con-nica in Albis. Any who require further informaveyancing, ii. 386; Burke's Patrician, v. 114; tion may find it in Mr. Vigfusson's article upon and Gent. Mag., 1834, i. 51. H. S. G. the word hvítr, p. 302. WALTER W. SKEAT. 2, Salisbury Villas, Cambridge. EDWARD GIBBON AND JOHN WHITAKER (5th S. vii. 444, 489.)-I have read MR. BAILEY'S note, but do not see that it, in the slightest degree, touches or refers to the fact I put forward in the testimony of Lord Sheffield-the true reason that prompted or induced Mr. Whitaker to write against Mr. Gibbon. The statement is clear and common in those parts of the eastern coast of England which have been brought into contact with Denmark by trade. Such names as 'Joan Cristina,'' Brice Cristian,' or John fil. Christian,' frequently occur in mediaval registers. Their descendants are now found as Christian,' Christy,' and Christison.'"-Bardsley's English Surnames, 1875, p. 30. HIRONDELLE. convincing, being supported by every circumstance connected with the case. It is unnecessary to recapitulate them, to enter upon other matters, or to enlarge upon the merits of the great Gibbon, "who still sits upon the imperial throne of history unapproached, if not unapproachable." I know that Mr. Whitaker pretended it was on a different account he attacked Gibbon, but I place no reliance on his statement when confronted with that of Lord Sheffield. I beg to close by giving a quotation that Mr. Gibbon himself used respecting the struggle of authors for literary fame: The judi"M. Ant. De D'nis Arch-bishop of Spalato, his Shiftcious lines of Dr. Young, That every author lives ings in Religion. A Man for Many Masters. Matt. xxvi. or dies by his own pen, and that the unerring sen-15, Et ait illis, Quid vultis mihi dare? London, printed tence of time assigns its proper rank to every com- by Iohn Bill. MDCXXIV. Sm. 4to. Title, one leaf, and position and to every criticism which it preserves The Printer to the Reader, one leaf, both unpaged; from oblivion."" D. WHYTE. pp. 1-92. 213, Upper Parliament Street, Liverpool. "Ev'N IN OUR ASHES LIVE THEIR WONTED FIRES," GRAY'S "ELEGY" (5th S. vii. 470; viii. 17.)--It is Gray himself who appends three lines of Petrarch as a note to the above passage (see ed. 1768, p. 117):— "Ch'i' veggio nel pensier, dolce mio foco, Fredda una lingua, e duo begli occhi chiusi Petrarch, Son. 169 (in some editions 170). But certainly the suggestion is not very strong. The point of Gray's line lies in the epithet wonted, which the Petrarchian prototype_hardly involves. Gray was deeply imbued with Italian literature, and seems to have prided himself not a little on this knowledge. Some of your readers may like to be reminded that under "SPALATO'S SHIFTINGS IN RELIGION" (5th S. vii. 308.)-There are two copies of this pamphlet in the British Museum. The following is the full title-page : then It appears from the printer's address that the particulars of the archbishop's "shiftings" were collected by the Bishop of Durham. 15, Queen Anne's Gate, S.W. W. P. COURtney. RUSSIA IN THE BIBLE (5th S. vii. 306.)-By way of supplementing MR. A. L. MAYHEW's remarks permit me to point out that, in Ezekiel xxxviii. 2 and xxxix. 1, Meshech and Tubal have been held to indicate Moscow and Tobolsk, the ancient capitals of European and Asiatic Russia respectively. Nebuchadnezzar (Ne-Boch-ad-ne-Tzar) in Russian signifies "there is no God but the Czar." M. D. HERALDIC (5th S. vii. 288.)-The coat which G. inquires about is, I should think, that of Hadley, of co. Hereford, which is thus blazoned by Burke: Gray quotes (ed. 1768) from Dante's Purgatorio, legged, and belled or. Crest: A falcon ar., beaked, Gu., two chev. betw. three falcons ar., beaked, "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day" cant. viii. 1. 5: "Squilla di lontano, Che paia il giorno pianger che si muore." J. L. WARREN. FRANCIS FAUQUIER (5th S. vii. 427.)-In 1737 an address to the public for funds to establish the General or Mineral Water Hospital, Bath, was issued. Contributions are to be sent "to Richard Nash, Esq. (Beau Nash), Francis Fauquier, Esq., and Dr. Oliver, at Bath, or Mr. Benjamin Hoare, banker, at the Golden Bottle, Fleet Street, London." On Jan. 15, 1738, the accounts of the treasurers, Dr. W. Oliver, Richard Nash, Esq., and Francis Fauquier, Esq., were examined and approved. Was this Francis Fauquier any relation of the Francis Fauquier for whose armorial bearings MR. TOMLINSON makes inquiry? Batli. R. WILBRAHAM FALCONER, M.D. legged, and belled or, holding in the mouth a THE SCOTCH-IRISH JOHNSTONS (5th S. vii. 449.) Walsall. 66 an WHITSUNDAY AND WHITSUN DAY (5th S. vii. 488.)-May 15 is a term day in Scotland, and is called Whitsun Day. The almanac mentioned by J. F. M. is therefore adapted to both England and Scotland. Presbyterians deliberately ignore Church festivals. E. LEATON BLENKINSOPP. "TOOT HILLS" (5th S. vii. 461.)-MR. THOMS says, "I wonder how many Toot Hills, or Tothills, are now left in England!" There is one about a mile distant from Cleobury Mortimer, commonly called "Castle Toot," the scene of many a picnic, and the spot where the Foresters and Oddfellows assembled for their annual fête on June 11. It is an elevated spot, where formerly stood a strongly fortified castle, occupied by the Mortimer family, until it was destroyed by Henry II. Toot Hill, at Peterborough, must be well known to many readers of "N. & Q." Concerning Toot Hill, in Lindridge, and other Toot Hills in Worcestershire, see Allies's Antiquities and Folk-Lore of Worcestershire (1852), pp. 223, 232 to 236, 294, 417. Four pages of this work are devoted to the etymology, &c., of Toot Hill. CUTHBERT Bede. HUMAN BODIES FOUND IN A GLACIER (5th S. vii. 428, 515; viii. 38.)-The late T. Herbert Barker, M.D., F.R.S.E., in his description of the ascent of Col. du Géant, after stating that glaciers move from sixteen to eighteen inches per day in summer, and less than half that distance in winter, says :— About's book is a piece of fun about the Greek Wolverhampton. TEMPLE BAR (5th S. vii. 466, 492.)—Anent the old Bar, I find the following in Thornbury's Haunted London, ed. 1865, p. 6:— "Temple Bar was doomed to destruction by the City as early as 1790, through the exertions of Alderman Picket. Threatened men live long,' says an old Italian proverb. Temple Bar still stands, a narrow neck to an immense decanter, an impeder of traffic, a venerable nuisance, with nothing interesting but its associations and its dirt." F. D. Nottingham. only of beef-eater, but of salt-beef-eater : "BEEF-EATER" (5th S. vii. 64, 108, 151, 272, 335.) The following passage leaves little doubt that MR. SKEAT is correct in refusing to accept “A striking fact has in recent years verified the pre-buffet and buffetier. It gives an early instance not ceding observations_on_glacier motion. In 1820 a Russian physician, Dr. Hamel, in an attempted ascent of Mont Blanc, proceeded as far as the Grand Plateau, when three of his guides were swept away by an avalanche and were never more heard of. Some years afterwards Prof. Forbes made some observations on the glacier towards which the men were drifted by the avalanche, and from the rate of the glacier's movement he was led to predict that, within forty-five years from the time of the accident, some remains of the unfortunate guides would be reaching the terminus of the glacier in the immediate neighbourhood of Chamouni. So it has come to pass. In the summer of 1861 human remains were found there, and the colour of the hair and other marks sufficed to identify them with those of the guides in Dr. Hamel's party." Waterford. JOSEPH FISHER. SPECIAL COLLECTIONS OF BOOKS (5th S. vi. 483, 544; vii. 40, 153, 294, 437, 476.)—I am interested in obtaining a list of books upon the subject of highwaymen and knight-of-the-road-ism in its many shapes. Although I am not making a collection of such books, I desire to refer to certain of them, and if any contributor can furnish “N. & Q." with a list, I do not doubt it will be of use to others beside myself. The following works of fact, fiction, and fun I already know of: The History of the Rapparees. Published at Belfast. ? date and publisher. The Lives and Exploits of Banditti and Robbers in all Parts of the World. By C. Mac Farlane, Esq. London, Thomas Tegg & Son, 73, Cheapside. 1837. 4to. Ballads, Romantic, Fantastical, and Humorous. By Jack Sheppard. By W. H. Ainsworth. Le Roi des Montagnes. Par Edmond About. The first four novels mentioned above contain real adventures used up to suit the stories, and M. "Not much vnlike that wealthie richeman, whome Senec writeth of. Who takyng vpon hym to tel a tale had euer his seruauts at hand to prompt him when he missed; and beyng him selfe so feble, as scantly he could stand on his legges, would not fear yet vpon confidence of so many poudrebeefe* lubbers as he fedde at home to make a matche with any man at footeball."-Chaloner's trans. Prayse of Follie, second edit., 1577, G v. (first edit. was published 1549). If we are obliged to accept such words as breadwinner without seeking a foreign origin, why should there be any difficulty about beef-eater? Boston, Lincolnshire. R. R. "A True Relation of that Honourable, though Unfortunate, Expedition of Kent, Essex, and Colchester in 1648. By Matthew Carter, Quarter-Master General in the King's Forces, one among the Prisoners who Surrendered Themselves." The sixth chapter contains "The Heroic Actions, Character, and Behaviour of Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle, who were Executed at Colchester Five Hours after the Surrender of that Place, as also that of the Lord Capell, who was Beheaded at Westminster in March following. With many other Curious Particulars." Bury St. Edmunds. WM. FREELove. "WEMBLE": "REMBLE" (5th S. vii. 148, 216, 377.)-Remble is simply to move. "Wemble it over" means to pull over without suffering the object to fall. The expression, "It is wembling over," is a warning that something is hanging over, perhaps in danger of falling. The definitions may * Salt-beef. |