MR. CHADWYCK HEALEY'S BOOK ON THE COUNTRY OF 'LORNA DOONE.' Printed at the Chiswick Press in One Volume of about 600 pages; the impression limited as follows:SMALL PAPER, in imperial 8vo, printed on " 'Pure Rag" Paper specially made for the Work by John Dickinson & Co., Limited. 350 Copies for Sale, price £2 2s. each net. LARGE PAPER, in small folio, printed on Arnold's unbleached Hand-made Paper, also specially made for the Work. 50 Copies for Sale, each numbered, price £4 4s. each net. A few extra Copies of each Edition have been printed for presentation, and the type has been distributed. The Publishers will make no reduction from these prices at any time. THE HISTORY OF THE PART OF WEST SOMERSET COMPRISING THE PARISHES OF LUCCOMBE, SELWORTHY, STOKE PERO, PORLOCK, CULBONE, & OARE. BY CHARLES E. H. CHADWYCK HEALEY, K.C. F.S.A. The greater part of this work consists of matter which has never before been published. It is hoped that it will prove an exhaustive history of that portion of Somerset to which it is devoted; but beyond this it will be found to contain information as to other parts of the same county, as well as on the topography and family history of Cornwall and Devon. The sources of information have been almost wholly manuscript records belonging to the State and private owners. In the Appendix will be found many documents hitherto unpublished, including a series of four rolls of the bailiff of the Manor of Porlock, temp. Henry V. and VI., of seven rolls of the Manor of Brendon, temp. Henry VI.; the Porlock rental of Cecily, Marchioness of Dorset; the foundation deed of the Harington Chantry, prescribing minutely the duties of the Chaplains and the appointed ritual; the names of all parishioners signing the Protestation of 1641; and the last Perambulation of the Forest of Exmoor. The lists of parochial incumbents will be found to be more complete than any hitherto published. 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LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 6, 1901. CONTENTS. - No. 184. NOTES:-Civil List Pensions, 1-Newbury, James's Powders, and Goldsmith, 11-Shakespeariana, 12- Bishop "Three acres Sherborne, 13-"A bad day and a worse and a cow"-Pall Mall-Japanese Names - Dahlia and Fuchsia-Price of Ink in 1288, 14. QUERIES:-"Kentish fire"— Goldsmith's Publishers Antoine de Lafosse in England-"In the days when we went gipsying' Redmaynes-Mayors of Newcastleunder-Lyme, 15-Cowley's Poems set to Music - Isaac Penington the Younger-Custice"-Lavington in Sussex King of Spain's Bible-Breslaw-Philpot MSS. Mackenzie of Gairloch, 16-Icknield Street, 17. REPLIES:-St. Clement Danes, 17-" Anyone," "Every one," 18-Sheriff Sir T. Cooke-Neptune and Crossing the Line-La-di-da," 19-De Bathe and Holsworthy Families, 20- Designations of Foreigners in Mexico - Gladstone Volume-Game of Battledore-Funeral Cards-" Rabbating," 21-Bell Inscription Scottish University Graduates -Verbs formed out of Proper Names-" Toucan,' Knifeboard-St. George and the Dragon, 23-Hogarth's House-Blue Beard, 24-"Parlour "-Glasgow University, 25-"Collate"-Malt and Hop Substitutes-Authors Wanted, 26. 22 NOTES ON BOOKS:-'Memorials of the Duttons of Fotes. CIVIL LIST PENSIONS. ON the 16th of May, by an Order of the House of Commons, a Return was printed of "Persons now in receipt of Pensions charged on the Civil List of Her late Majesty under the Act 1 Vict., c. 2, s. 5." On looking over this publication I felt what an interesting permanent record it would be if we could place it in the pages of "dear old N. & Q.," and with the Editor's cordial approval I wrote to the printers, Messrs. Eyre & Spottiswoode, asking them for permission to reprint it. Their reply was that the copyright did not rest with them, but they courteously suggested that I should place my request before the Controller of His Majesty's Stationery Office, who has kindly acceded to my wish upon the understanding that "mention is made of the fact that the permission of the Controller of His Majesty's Stationery Office has been obtained," and I am now able to place the Return before the readers of 'N & Q.' The following references to the subject of literary pensions have appeared in these columns: - On the 21st of October, 1854, INDIGNANS calls attention to the pittance of 1,2007. distributed among some thirty or forty individuals, all of whom, by the force and splendour of their genius......have contri "Quelques pensions accordées aux gens de lettres n'exerceront jamais beaucoup d'influence sur les vrais talens. Le génie n'en veut qu'à la gloire, et la gloire ne jaillit que de l'opinion publique." On the 31st of July, 1858, J. M. H. notes that in the year 1663 Louis XIV. granted pensions to several literary men, and asks for a copy of the list. To this CLERICUS (D.) replies on the 21st of August. On the 1st of February, 1862, MR. J. W. BRYANS proposes the founding of an Order of Merit, to take the name of the "Order of the Albert Cross," in memory of the late Prince Consort. "We have already the 'Victoria Cross' for deeds done in the field; might we not have the pendant to it, for exploits no less worthy in the peaceful paths of science?" On the 1st of February, 1868, appears a note, 'The Literary Pension of the Civil List,' signed J. A. G., who suggests that 5,000l. per annum should be the very minimum sum devoted to literary pensions, and leaves it "in the hands of the Editor and those of his able contributors for an influential and successful advocacy." On the 25th of July, 1885, H. Y. P. asks for records of royal bounty funds. I have, as will be seen, not given the pensions in the order of the printed list, but have classified them under their respective heads. The name of the Prime Minister under whose administration the pension was granted has also been added. One name dear to all lovers of literature, that of Sir Robert Peel, appears but once, there being now only one recipient among the many who received pensions at his hands. This survivor is a daughter of the late Sir Hudson Lowe, the pension being granted as far back as 1845. Of Sir Robert Peel's sympathy with literary men full mention was made by the Athenaeum in the obituary notice of him which appeared in the number of the 6th of July, 1850. The grant of 300l. a year to Southey, with an offer of a baronetcy, a like sum to Wordsworth, 2007. a year to Tennyson, 150l. a year to James Montgomery, 2001. a year to Mr. Tytler, the same to Mr. M'Culloch, 100l. a year to the widow of Thomas Hood, proved his appreciation of literature, while for the sons of Mrs. Hemans he found places under the Crown, and the first appointment of his first administration was given to Allan Cunningham. He also bestowed pensions on Mrs. Somerville and Faraday, and it is pleasing to record that a niece of the great chemist, Miss Jane Barnard, still enjoys a pension. 'N. & Q.' of the 8th of May, 1852, opens with a note by the Editor on Sir Robert Peel, and his claims to be remembered by the literary men of England. Mention is made of the many literary pensions granted during the time he was Prime Minister, as well as of his generosity towards Dr. Maginn, and it is proposed that a bust or statue of him should be placed in the vestibule of the British Museum. In 1888 an investigation as to the Victorian administration of the Pension List, in reference to literature, was conducted for the committee of the Incorporated Society of Authors by Mr. William Morris Colles, and the result published. Mr. Colles proposes that "the sum of 1,2001. be yearly voted for the purpose of assisting distinguished men and women of letters, art, and science by granting pensions when they have arrived at the age of fifty-five or are incapacitated from work by ill health, mental or bodily, and their widows or daughters if they are in dis tressed circumstances." LITERATURE. 1851, October 10th (Lord John Russell). MRS. MARY REID. "In consideration of Dr. Reid's valuable contributions to literature, and of the distressed condition in which his widow and children are placed by his decease.' 50l." Mrs. Reid is the widow of James Seaton Reid, D.D. (1798-1851), Church historian, author of 'History of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland,' the third volume of which was completed by Prof. Killen, of Belfast (Dictionary of National Biography,' vol. xlvii. p. 429). 1856, November 10th (Lord Palmerston). MR. PHILIP JAMES BAILEY. "In consideration of his literary merits. 1007." He Born at Nottingham, 22nd of April, 1816. Author of 'Festus,' published in 1839. was included in the honorary LL.D.s at the recent celebration at Glasgow University. Mr. Theodore Watts in the Athenæum for April 1st, 1876, writes that "there is, in fact, both here and in America, a large section of the public, both cultivated and uncultivated, which-free from the bonds of Calvinism on the one hand, and from hedonic nescience and art-worship on the other-feels a warm and passionate sympathy with Mr. Bailey's poem and the universalism it teaches. And this sympathy in religious circles, at least-is, as a matter of fact, widening. It might almost be said, indeed, that Christianity can never-even in the highest development possible to it-get beyond the loving universalism of such opposite poets as Bailey and Burns. ..Had not Festus' been itself preceded (by something like four years) by Mr. Browning's Paracelsus,' and not followed by it, the influence of Bailey would, through Dobell, have been so great upon our youngest school that his place in the history of nineteenth-century poetry would have been more important than it even is now. Yet, in the study of English poetry, it is always necessary to consider the influence of Paracelsus' upon 'Festus,' the influence of 'Festus' upon Balder' and 'England in Time of War'; and the influence of these upon most subsequent poetry.' 1858, February 15th (Lord Palmerston). MR. STEPHEN HENRY BRADBURY. "In consideration of his contributions to literature. 50l." 1861, April 19th (Lord Palmerston). Second grant. "In consideration of his literary merit. 251." A poet of the middle of the century. 1858, October 4th (Earl of Derby). MRS. SUSANNA Bartlett. "In consideration of the literary merits of her husband, the late William Henry Bartlett. 751." His "In consideration of the literary merit of her father, the late Mr. Douglas Jerrold. 50%." first article in Punch, signed Q., appeared in Douglas William Jerrold (1803-57). the second number, September 13th, 1841, and he was a constant contributor until ten days before his death. From 1852 he was editor of Lloyd's Newspaper at a salary of 1,000l. a year. He contributed three columns of leaders each week as well as literary reviews. He was also an early contributor to the Athenæum. For a list of his works, &c., see 'D.N.B.,' vol. xxix. pp. 349-52. 1863, June 18th (Lord Palmerston). MR. GERALD MASSEY. |