HOMERIC THEORY (3rd S. ii. 329.)—I cannot free myself from what S. S. calls "the wild notion that the Iliad and Odyssey were not the work of one great poet." The contrary appears to me as probable as the removal of the house at Loretto without miracle; but I am not a Homeric scholar, and I do not seek controversy. The state of the question up to 1846 is well and fairly given by Dr. Ihne in Smith's Classical Dictionary, ii. 500, art. "Homerus." After noticing Casaubon and Bentley, he says: "Some French writers, Perrault and Hedelin, and the Italian Vico had made similar conjectures, but all these were forgotten and overborne by the common and general opinion, and the more easily as these bold conjectures had been thrown out almost at hazard, and without sound arguments to support them." Perrault gives as conjectures the opinions which Wolf has supported, and says: "Je les ay ouï soûtenir par des très-habiles gens. L'Abbe Daubignac, que nous avons connu tous deux n'en doutoit pas. Il avoit des memoires tout prêts pour faire un ample traité sur cette matière, où il pretendoit prouver la chose invinciblement. On nous assure d'ailleurs, qu'on travaille la-dessus en Allemagne où ces memoires ont peut-être passé."- Perrault, Paralelle des Anciens et des Modernes, p. 25. Paris, 1693. As Dr. Ihne mentions Hedelin (D'Aubignac), perhaps these memoirs were afterwards published. I shall be obliged by information on this point, and as to whether anything is known of the work then going on in Germany. H. B. C. U. U. Club. A Two-HEADED MAN (3rd S. ii. 470.)- The "Italian gentleman with two heads" seen by Mr. Thoresby was undoubtedly James Poro, a native of Genoa, born in 1686, who had an excrescence in the form and features of a human being growing out of his side. This child, as it was called, was named " Matthew." Sir Hans Sloane possessed a painting of him, which I believe is now in the British Museum, and from which Faber in 1722 made an excellent mezzotint engraving. Poro was exhibited in London in 1714. The time of his death is not known. J. H. W. The bicephalous_gentleman mentioned by your correspondent W. P. was probably the same with an Italian seen by Winslow in 1698, just sixteen years previously to the date given by W. P.'s author. He is described by Winslow, a trustworthy writer, as having a second head, much smaller than his own, connected to the chest below the cartilage of the third rib. Bartholin (from eye witness) and Zacchias mention the case of a well-formed man, æt. 28, named Lazarus Colloreob, who had a deformed twin brother, John, hanging by the chest from the lower part of the sternum. His head was larger than that of Lazarus. He had two arms, with three fingers on each hand, but only one lower ex tremity. His respiration was hardly perceptible, and he was nourished by food taken in by Lazarus. Rueffe, Paré, Palfyn, and Winslow give accounts of two other bicephalous monsters, who attained at least to puberty; as well as of several who have had the lower extremities, or the lower half, of a twin brother or sister, in union with themselves; but for these I would refer him to the detailed descriptions given by medical authors, who have carefully sifted the evidence on which the accounts rest. E. F. WILLOUGHBY. University College, London. FORTHINK CHAUCER (3rd S. ii. 377, 479.)— CHESSBOROUGH may verify my quotation from Chaucer for half-a-crown, by purchasing a copy of the admirable edition of the Canterbury Tales, edited by Mr. Thomas Wright, and published at that price by Messrs. Griffin. The text follows MS. Harl. 7334, and the numbering of the lines is arranged in accordance with Tyrwhitt's edition. That CHESSBOROUGH may see in what points it differs from his own copy, I subjoin the number of the last line of each division of the poem, up to that in which my quotation occurs : Prologue, 860. Knight's tale (Palamon and Arcite), 3110. Miller's prologue, 3186; tale, 3852. Reeve's prologue, 3918; tale, 4322. Cook's prologue, 4362; tale, 4420. Man of Law's prologue, 4518; tale, 5582. Wife of Bath's prologue, 6439; tale, 6846. Friar's prologue, 6882; tale, 7246. Sompnour's prologue, 7290; tale, 7876. Clerk of Oxenford's prologue, 7932; tale (Patient Griselda): part 1, 8072; part 2, 8324; part 3, 8485; part 4, 8660; part 5, 8814; part 6, 9052. L'envoi de Chaucer, 9088. Merchant's prologue, 9120; tale, 10,292. edition of 1561; in respect to which, Tyrwhitt CHESSBOROUGH's copy is, I should think, the says, "it seems to have been usual to print books in partnership, and for each partner to print his own name to his share of the impression." The editions of 1542, 1546, 1555, and 1561, were reprints of that of 1532, edited by Mr. William Thynne; and that CHESSBOROUGH's copy was one of these would seem to be proved from the fact that, though printed in the reign of Elizabeth, it contains Thynne's dedication to Henry VIII. JOB J. BARDWELL WORKARD, M.A. HOUGHTON FAMILY OF JAMAICA (3rd S. ii. 449.)-I presume SPAL is aware of the marriage between Cary Helyar, of Jamaica, and Priscilla Houghton, in 1671. May I ask him for the favour of any further information respecting the Helyar family; or rather, that branch of it settled in Jamaica? C. J. R. LAWRENCE FAMILY (2nd S. x. and xi. passim.)— I have reason to think that information respecting members of this family might be obtained from the registers of St. Giles'-in-the-Fields, London. Between the years 1678 and 1684, are entries of the baptisms of several of this name: children of Thomas Lawrence, Esq., or, as he is called in the later entries, Sir Thomas. His wife's name was Ann: the children baptized were Thomas, Giles, Mary, and Henry. In the same church is a monument to Sir Soulden Lawrence, Knt., Justice of the King's Bench, who died in 1814, aged sixty-three. He was son of Thomas Lawrence, M.D. C. J. R. GEORGE CHAPMAN (3rd S. i. 170.) — MR. CUNNINGHAM is probably acquainted with Parton's History of St. Giles's Parish. In that work will be found the inscription upon the monument erected to G. C. by Inigo Jones, together with the remains of the original inscription. The burial register contains an entry which perhaps refers to his family: "1655, May 7. Mrs. Martha Chapman, buried." C. J. R. HAZEL EYES (2nd S. xii. 270, 337.)-MR. BUCKTON (whom I beg to thank for his communication), having definitively settled the colour of hazel eyes, I wish to know further, Why so many writers (especially our female historians) call greyish-blue hazel? E. g.: 1. Mrs. Jameson, in her Female Sovereigns, says of Christina, Queen of Sweden, that her eyes were "a brilliant hazel, quick and penetrating." A portrait of this queen, in the Art Treasures Exhibition, had blue eyes. Mademoiselle de Montpensier (an eye-witness) says, "Elle a les yeux bleus;" while the Countess de Brégy (another eyewitness) says decidedly: "Ses yeux sont beaux, bleus, et de ce bel azur dont nous paroit le ciel." 2. Miss Strickland, in her Life of Queen Katherine Parr, says: "Her complexion was that of a genuine Westmoreland beauty-brilliantly fair and blooming, with hazel eyes, and hair of a golden auburn." The description here given is from a miniature which is now being exhibited at the South Kensington Museum; and the eyes in that miniature are greyish-blue, as anyone may see who will examine it, and compare it with Miss Strickland's description. (It is the original of her portrait of Katherine Parr.) 3. Miss Costello, in her Eminent Englishwomen, says of Bess of Hardwicke, with whose life she commences, that her eyes were hazel, with a deep tinge of blue." 66 Here are the three first examples which occur to me, and I doubt not that more might be easily found. HERMENTRUDE. was in the freemen at large; and I find that James, tenth Earl of Derby, was mayor of that borough in 1734. His successor in the earldom, Edward, was, while Sir E. Stanley, Bart., mayor of Preston, viz. in 1731-2; but the Preston Corporation was a close one, and the mayor was not chosen by popular suffrage. WM. DOBSON. Preston. I beg to send the following cutting from the Irish Times, December 20, 1862 : "THE LORD MAYOR ELECT. The selection of the Hon. John P. Vereker as Lord Mayor of Dublin has given rise to some discussion in Notes and Queries and other English papers, as to the connection of members of the Aristocracy with the civic chair. The present Viscount Gort (when the Hon. Major Vereker) was twice mayor of Limerick, and so was the Hon. Colonel Smyth Vereker, the uncle of the present Lord Mayor. We also find that the Duke of Bolton was mayor of Winchester in 1661; and the Duke of Chandos in 1784. The Marquis of Donegal was mayor of Carrickfergus in 1817, and other years. The Marquis of Westminster, of Chester, in 1807. The Earls of Derby were often mayors of the great commercial port of Liverpool: for instance, in 1666, 1677, 1707, 1734. An Earl of Derby was also mayor of Chester in 1702; as was the Earl of Warrington in 1691. The Duke of Newcastle, whilst Earl of Lincoln, was mayor of Newark in 1768. The records of other Corporations will afford abundant instances of civic honours similarly accepted by members of the Peerage." ABHBA. CORBET OF SPROWSTON (3rd S. ii. 448.) — Clement Corbet, LL.D., Chancellor of Norwich, and Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, was the sixth son of Sir Miles Corbet, of Sprowston (who died 1607), by his first wife Catherine, daughter of Sir Christopher Heydon. He was uncle to Sir John Corbet, the first baronet of Sprowston, to Miles, the regicide, and to Amy, wife of Brewster: they being respectively the first and second sons and a daughter of Sir Thomas (second son of the said Sir Miles) by Anne, daughter of Edward Barrett of Belhouse, Essex. (Visitat. Norfolk, 1611, MSS. Harl. 1177, fol. 105; MSS. Add., 5524, fol. 132. And see Blomf. Norfolk, viii. 188; x. 459.) Bishop Corbet does not appear to have been of this family. The biographical dictionaries say that his father was a Surrey man. CHARLES SPENCER PERCEVAL. VIOLIN RUGGIERI (3rd S. ii. 491.)-There were several makers of violins, &c., of the family of Ruggeri, but there seems to be a little difference of opinion as to their numbers. The eldest appears to have been Francesco, who worked at Cremona from 1640 to 1684, or somewhat later. He was a pupil of Antonius Amati, and made some good instruments, after the model of his master. He was frequently called il Per, as in the following ticket:-"Francesco Ruger. detto il per. in Cremona dell anno, 1645." He had a son called Giacinto, who worked at Brescia in the latter part of the century, who was sometimes called I buono. There was also a Pietro Giacomo Ruggeri at Brescia, in the beginning of the eighteenth century, said to have been a pupil of Nicolaus Amati, some of whose instruments are good. The distinguished performer, Piatti, has, or had, a fine violoncello of his make. WM. S. JOHN HALL, BISHOP OF BRISTOL (3rd S. ii. 389, 415, 497.)-Bishop Hall's gift of Bibles is still distributed at Kidderminster; the books are stamped with an inscription in gilt letters, and also a coat of arms. Information on this point could be obtained by addressing a letter to Mr. W. Fawcett, Wolverley, Kidderminster. Bishop Hall also bequeathed 800l. to the poor of his native town of Bromsgrove, directing the proceeds to be distributed in money and Bibles. An estate at Elmbridge was purchased with the money; and it would appear, that for some time, the charity was a great loser through falling into the hands of a Presbyterian trustee. A handsome carved chair, formerly the property of Bishop Hall, is preserved in the vestry of the New Meeting Chapel, Kidderminster, side by side with Baxter's pulpit, and is represented in my etching of Baxter's Pulpit, pub- | lished in the Gentleman's Magazine, January, 1854; a copy of which etching is very much at your correspondent's service. CUTHBERT BEDe. NOTICEABLE ENTRIES IN THE REGISTERS OF ALLHALLOWS BARKING (3rd S. ii. 497.)- In reply Col. Ashton's name is not in this Registry. JUXTA TURRIM. THOMAS CAMPBELL (3rd S. ii. 475). - Will SHOLTO MACDUFF give me, either in "N. & Q." or privately, the date of the notice referred to? As to the lines " On Linden," &c., I doubt the accuracy of the last sentence, for many of Campbell's poems did first appear in the Greenock Advertiser. Your correspondent is altogether wrong in his reference to the then editor. The lady he alludes to was not the wife of an Irish but of a Scotch gentleman. M. “O BOLD AND TRUE" (3rd S. ii. 491.)—OXONIENSIS will find the lines "O bold and true, in bonnet blue," with a stanza in addition to that he quotes, in Sir Walter Scott's Fair Maid of Perth, chap. xv. Cs. HEIRESS'S SON (3rd S. ii. 430, 515.) — If, as I take it, the proper marshalling of coat armour is an index of descent, it appears to me an "heraldic anomaly" that the law advanced by F. L. B. D. (in which, however, I find he is supported by some writers) should be enforced. I can see that an impropriety and inconvenience would arise by a child quartering the maternal coat if, as is popularly believed, the right to do so were heirship to money, and not to representation or co-representation; but as an heiress (heraldically speaking) round the neck or put in the pockets of her husneed have nothing but her arms either to throw band, I do not think that there could be or has been any objection to the children marking their descent by quartering the coat, as well before as after the mother's death. On the other point, also, I differ from F. L. B. D. I believe that the children of an heiress would be entitled to bear her arms solely, as representing her family, if there were no paternal coat to quarter them with. S. T. ST. CECILIA, THE PATRONESS OF MUSIC (3rd S. ii. 370, 433, 509.) Only a few final words on this subject. The main question is set at rest; and it is clear that there is no foundation in the Acts of St. Cecily for her being chosen the Patroness of Music. Whether her Acts are authentic is quite foreign to the inquiry. I am by no means convinced that they are worthy of credit. (I shall never adopt the new, ill-formed, and odious word reliable.) But this is neither the place nor occasion to discuss the authenticity of the Acts. I am astonished, however, that CANON DALTON should think me inclined to the belief that they were first compiled by Metaphrastes, in the tenth century, when I had just before mentioned the observation of Fleury, that they were believed early in the ninth. Metaphrastes gave them in the form in which we now have them; but whether he did not embellish them, as he did so many others, is open to inquiry. F. C. H. ROOD COAT (3rd S. ii. 491.)-The rood coat was probably the purple cloth for the cross, with which it is covered on Passion Sunday, and which remains upon it till Good Friday. MR. T. NORTH appears to confound the loft with the rood, which was the large crucifix which stood in the centre of the loft. F. C. H. POLVARTIST (3rd S. ii. 491.)-Your correspondent MR. N. MACKIE has misread the sign-board over Mr. Howell's house, the word being Polyartist (i. e. an artist in many departments), not Polvartist, which is of course unintelligible. The y in the sign-board has some resemblance to a v, which has led to the mistake; but it seems strange that Mr. Mackie, who states he had an interview with Mr. Howell, did not think of asking the latter for an explanation. Black's General Atlas of the World. A Series of Fiftysix Maps. New Edition, containing the New Boundaries, and numerous Additions and Improvements; accompanied by an Alphabetical Index of 65,000 Names. (A. & C. Black.) 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Dr. John THE COMPLUTENSIAN POLYGLOT. THE PRINTER AND SCHOLARS EMPLOYED BY CARDINAL XIMENES IN ITS PUBLICATION AND COMPILATION. The printer of this celebrated Polyglot was a person named John Brocar, son of Arnold William Brocar, belonging to a family that became illustrious in the annals of Castilian printing. Gomez mentions the names of both father and son: "Audivi Joannem Brocarium Compl. excussorem, Arnoldi Gulielmi Brocarii filium," &c. (De Rebus gestis Francisci Ximenii, ed. Alcalá, 1569, fol. 38.) The family seem to have been resident in Alcalá de Henares; but whether the father was a Spaniard by birth, or had been invited into Spain from Germany by Ximenes, I am unable to determine. Can any of your readers give me some information on the subject? The name "Brocar' seems to be of German origin, though Mr. Prescott, in his History of Ferdinand and Isabella, gives the name as if it were Italian-"Broccario." The names of the illustrious scholars connected with the Polyglot are thus given by Gomez: "Accersivit (Ximenius) continuò ad se homines utriusque literaturæ peritissimos, Demetrium Cretensem, natione Græcum; Antonium Nebrissensem; Lopidem Astunigam et Fernandum Pincianum, Græcarum literarum et latinarum professores; Alphonsum, medicum Complutensem; Paulum Coronellum; et Alphonsum Zamoram, hebræarum rerum consultissimos." (Folio 37.) "Die Männer, welchen er diese Arbeit anvertraute, waren der berühmte oben genannte Aelius Antonius von Lebrija; der Grieche Demetrius Dukas aus Creta, von Ximenes zum Professor der griechischen Sprache nach Alcala berufen; der durch seine Streitigkeiten mit Erasmus bekannte Lopez de Zuñiga (Stunica oder Astunica), und der hoch-adelige Nuñez de Guzman (Pintianus), Professor zu Alcala und Verfasser vieler Commentare über die Classiker. Diesen gesellte Ximenes drei gelehrte, zum Christenthum übergetretene Juden bei, den Arzt Alphons von Alcala; den Paul Coronell aus Segovia; und den Alphons von Zamora, welcher insbesondere das hebräische Wörterbuch und die Grammatik für das grosse Bibelwerk verfasste." (P. 116, xii. Hauptstück.) It would be very interesting to know the history of these illustrious scholars. Where can it be found? I am aware that Mr. Prescott has given a few short notices of some of them in his History of Ferdinand and Isabella. In Spain, Clemencin and Muñoz have, I believe, published valuable "illustrations" in the Memoirs of the Royal Academy of History, of the reign of Queen Isabella the Catholic, but I am unable to say whether the subject referred to is mentioned by them. Prescott also frequently refers to Nicolas Antonio's Bibliotheca Vetus, and also to his Bibliotheca Hispana Nova (Matriti, 1783); but unfortunately I have not these works by me. JOHN DALTON. Norwich. THE SUPPOSED LOST MANUSCRIPTS, USED BY THE EDITORS OF THE COMPLUTENSIAN POLYGLOT. The following letter addressed to the Rev. William Green* by the great Catholic rationalist critic, Alexander Geddes, LL.D., as it bears upon this interesting subject, is worth reproducing in "N. & Q." Although it has been already printed in the Gentleman's Magazine, it is probably unknown to many of your readers. If the story of the burning of the "membranas inutiles" be true, it is singular that Dr. Geddes's correspondent did not mention it to him. If Geddes had heard of it when he wrote the following letter, he would certainly have mentioned it: "Rev. Sir, "London, July 26, 1787.. "Your Letter of the 23d I received yesterday inclosed in one from Mr Cubit of Norwich; to whose care I shall direct this and a copy of my Appendix. "There is little doubt but that there are many valuable MSS. in the East, especially in Upper Egypt: but the great difficulty is to get free access to them; and even if that could be easily obtained, where is the man * Rector of Hardingham, co. Norfolk, late Fellow of Clare-Hall, Cambridge, B.A. 1737, M.A. 1741. Died October 1794, Gent's. Mag. vol. Ixiv. pt. II. p. 1060. † Vol. xcii. pt. 1. p. 128. |