SALE OF DAVIS'S BOOKS, JANUARY, 1756. There was probably printed a catalogue of the sale of the books belonging to Mr. Charles Davis, bookseller in Holborn. If the catalogue is in existence, the undersigned would be much obliged to any possessor of a copy who would kindly allow him to inspect it. EDWIN C. IRELAND.

4, Selwood Place, Brompton, S.W. GRAINING, INVENTION OF.-By whom was the art of imitating woods, marbles, &c., invented, and at what time? In the Builder's Price Book, 1798, "Mahogany grained and varnished" is mentioned, but nothing is said of oak, wainscot, maple, satin-wood, &c. "Ionic Pilasters in Sienna" is another item, but no mention of any

other marble.

P'oets' Corner.

A. A.

HEWETT FAMILY. In 1586, Arthur Hewett, of the City of London, was a party-defendant to a suit in chancery relating to lands at Litlington, in Bedfordshire. From the company in which I find him he must have been a man of some mark and standing. Can your correspondent MR. J. F. N. HEWETT (3rd S. ii. 398), or "any other man," tell me anything about said Arthur Hewett?

JAMES KNOWLES.

PICTORIAL HISTORY: JUNIUS.-T. P. B., who threw so much light on a very obscure point in this hieroglyphic writing (3rd S. ii. 401), may perhaps help us to a conjecture on a somewhat similar difficulty.

The London Magazine for Feb. 1770, contains what is called on the title-page a "Portrait of the celebrated Junius." Junius, as there represented, is dressed in a clergyman's gown, seated, and reading a MS. of the "Letter to the King" with Lord George Sackville on his left, and Edmund Burke on his right, apparently suggesting some alteration. About Lord George and Burke there can be no doubt; both are leaning on the table— | the forefinger of the one touching a letter addressed "For Ld. G. S-k-lle," and the arm of the other resting on a volume lettered "Sublime and Beautiful." But who was meant for Junius? Of course, who was the writer of the Letters is not here the question; but simply, Who was assumed to have been the writer? There have been some

wild conjectures on the subject, with which I need not trouble you. But by way of help to a conjecture, I would ask, was this clergyman meant for Dr. John Butler, afterwards Bishop of Oxford, translated to Hereford? In an anonymous letter to George Grenville, in 1764 (Gren. Corr., ii. 330), the writer warns the minister against Dr. Butler; and describes him as "a particular friend of the infamous Wilkes, with whom he lived in the closest connection two summers at Winchester, whilst he was engaged on the North Briton." It is known that, from the first appointment, Butler

was called "Lord George Germaine's Bishop;" and we learn, from Mr. C. Butler (Reminis., i. 86), that to the last Wilkes's "suspicions fell on Dr. Butler, Bishop of Hereford." P. H. S.

HENRY DEUX WARE.-Is there any foundation for the following statement in the Chronique des Arts as to the artist to whom we are indebted for this rare and curious species of ceramic manufacture?

has just been solved by M. Benjamin Fillon, an amateur "The problem of the origin of Henry II.'s earthenware of Poitiers. This mysterious pottery, which has been designated the "Sphinx of Art," was made at Oiron, near Thouars (Deux-Sèvres), with clay from Rigné. Two artists aided in the manufacture-the potter, François Charpentier, and Jean Bernard, librarian and secretary of Hélène de Hangert-Genlis, widow of Artus Gouffier, a superior woman, who died in 1537."

H. D.

OLD CARVED STATUES.
KING'S BENCH IN WESTMINSTER HALL, AND

"At the upper end of Westminster Hall is a marble and three feet in breadth, and a marble chair, where the stone (perhaps table or bench) of nineteen feet in length kings of England formerly sat at their coronation dinners; and at other times the lord chancellors: but now not to be seen, being built over by the Courts of King's Bench and Chancery."- Nichols, Coll. of Royal Wills, p. 240.

It is suggested that probably "the same barbarous insensibility that buried them alive, will scruple as little to profane or destroy them, when disclosed." (Smith, Antiq. of Westminster, 1807, p. 258.) Were these found when the alterations were subsequently made? I suspect not, for Mr. Sydney Smirke, R.A., does not mention them, and notices that the pavement was lowered several feet; this, however, was in 1835. But the Hall had undergone a restoration in 1822. What has, too, become of the following statues mentioned on page 268? Perhaps used up as "old materials,” a favourite expression of builders and contractors.

reign of Richard II., similar in style to the six over the "Eight fragments of elegant figures, carved in the Courts of King's Bench and Chancery, were discovered in niches of exquisite workmanship, against the lower part of the front of Westminster Hall. Five of them against the north-east tower are much mutilated, four of which are without heads; but the three, against the north-west tower, are more perfect; they have heads, and one of them is a graceful female, wearing a crown. Six of these statues are as large as life; and the other two are about four feet high. All these statues are of fire stone." WYATT PAPworth.

WILLIAM LONG, Esq.-Can any of your readers oblige me with a copy of the epitaph of the abovenamed gentleman in Salisbury Cathedral, where he was buried? He died 24 March, 1818, at Marwell Hall, Owslebury, Hants: also inform me if the armorial bearings of Mrs. Long, the same I fancy as Dawson (Spaldington, co. York) are impaled with Mr. Long's on the monument, or placed on an escutcheon of pretence. Mr. Long completed the rebuilding of Marwell Hall about 1816 (Vide Duthy's Sketches of Hampshire, p. 308). Any recollections of him would be acceptable. F. G. NICEAN BARKS. Can any of your correspondents favour me with an explanation of the allusion in these lines of E. A. Poe?

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"Helen, thy beauty is to me,
Like those Nicean barks of yore,
That gently o'er a perfumed sea,
The weary, way-worn wanderer bore
To his own native shore."

A GALWEGIAN.

ORDER OF ST. JOHN OF JERUSALEM.-Can any of your correspondents kindly inform me where I am likely to obtain authentic information relative to the present state and position of the English langue of this Order? Who are its dignitaries, council, &c.? And where do they meet?

CONSTANT Reader. PEERAGE FORFEITED. I once read, and I imagine the circumstance was mentioned in Burke's Patrician, or in his St. James's Magazine, that in the eleventh or twelfth century, or thereabouts, a nobleman forfeited his title in consequence of the insufficiency of his estate to support the dignity. Can any reader of " N. & Q" inform me when, and to whom, this event occurred, and if any other instance is on record?

DID SIR WILLIAM WALLACE VISIT FRANCE?We have very little information concerning Wallace excepting through Henry the Minstrel, commonly called Blind Harry, and much that he relates is not very generally believed even in Scotland.

In some circumstances Blind Harry might have been misled by popular tradition. Some years ago, however, a public document was discovered on the Continent, which made Wallace known in foreign countries as a distinguished man at home: it was a letter addressed by him, as Scotland," to the Hanse cities. I cannot designate it more particularly, but it is published by one of

the book clubs.

66 Governor of

C. J.

PROCESSIONAL CROSS FOUND in Ireland. what number of the Morning Post, under the head of "Ireland" "from our Correspondent," for this year does an account of the discovery of an ancient processional silver cross appear? It was found at some Irish abbey. ANON.

"SELLENGER'S ROUND," ETC. - In the article of "Christmas Hospitality" (" N. & Q." 3rd S. ii. 481), DR. RIMBAULT quotes a passage from the old dramatist Middleton about "dancing Sel lenger's Round in moonshine about Maypoles." Will that gentleman, or any other correspondent,

A.

KING WILLIAM RUFUS, AND THE PURKISS FAMILY. - In the Beauties of England and Wales, it is said that the descendants of Purkiss, who, according to the inscription on Rufus Stone in the New Forest, conveyed the king's body in a cart to Winchester Cathedral, still lived close to the spot; and, according to the tradition, have never been sufficiently rich to keep a complete team, or poor enough to apply for parish relief. Are there any of this ancient family still in the neighbourhood?

M. N.

[Our correspondent's Query has received an answer in The Times of the 30th Dec. Their "Special Correspondent," writing from Richmond, after giving an interesting sketch of the great Southern General, proceeds to say: "As there are many conflicting reports about the origin of the name Stonewall, it may be interesting to repeat the true circumstances under which it was given. In the first battle of Manassas, on July 21, 1861, General

this Narrative is printed in The Annual Register, xxviii. 224-233. 2." An Interesting and Authentic Account of the Loss of the Halsewell, with all its dreadful circumstances." Lond. 8vo, 1786. From these works we glean a few particulars of Capt. Pierce; that he married the daughter of Thomas Burston, Esq., the collector of excise for the county of Surrey, and that since their marriage they constantly resided at Kingston. Capt. Pierce merits and industry, and he intended this fatal voyage to had acquired a competent fortune, which was due to his

be his last. At the time of his death he had been married above twenty years, and his disconsolate widow was left with six children, one an infant at the breast. Capt. Pierce's two daughters, Anne and Mary, who perished in the "Halsewell," were going to India to be married to gentlemen of large fortunes. The eldest was only seventeen, and the youngest but fifteen years of age. For two poetical pieces upon this sad catastrophe, see The Universal Magazine, lxxviii. 40, 214.]

CAPT. RICHARD PIERCE of the "Halsewell" East Indiaman. The melancholy fate of this gentleman with his daughters, Miss Elizabeth and Miss Mary Anne, who were wrecked off the Island of Purbeck, Dorsetshire, and perished on January 6, 1786, excited the greatest commiseration. He had been a long time a resident with his family at Kingston-upon-Thames, which was their usual place of interment, but his remains were never found. A hatchment was put up in the church for him, and a funeral sermon was preached for him by the Rev. Matthew Raine, on Sunday, February 19, 1786, from James iv. 14, the latter part-For what is your life," &c. (4to, 1786), and published by desire of the bailiffs and corporation of Kingston. I do not find any particulars of this sorrowful catastrophe in Manning's Surrey, nor in Anderson's History of Kingston, 1818. Though both have an account of a monument by Rysbrach to a Richard Pierce, gent. (Qy. an ancestor ?), who died June 22, 1714, aged ninety-four, who received a wound through his body at Edgehill fight, in the year 1642, as he was loyally defending his king and country. The widow of the foregoing Richard Pierce died April 29, 1807. Where can I find further particulars of Capt. Pierce, the family, and the unhappy fate of the "Halsewell"?

Φ.

[Two small works have been printed on the loss of the "Halsewell." 1. "A Circumstantial Narrative of the Loss of the Halsewell' East-Indiaman, Capt. Richard Pierce. Compiled from the communications, and under the authorities of Mr. Henry Meriton and Mr. John Rogers, the two chief officers who happily escaped the dreadful catastrophe." Lond. 8vo, 1786. An abstract of

title? There are Wyatts living on the southwest coast of Sussex, originally of Preston or Rustington. Are they the descendants of Sir Thomas Wyatt? What was his crest and armorial bearings? R. E. G. A. E.

[Perhaps the most satisfactory reply to our correspondent's Query will be the following inscription on the Wiat monument in Boxley church, Kent:

"Edwin Wiat, serjeant-at-law, son and heire male of Sr Francis Wiat of Boxley Abby, and Margaret his wife, was at one time justice of the peace of this county, recorder of Canterbury, and recorder and burgess in parliament for the corporation of Maidstone; one of the Council of the Court before the President and Council in the Marches of Wales; and the chiefe justice of the grand sessions for the counties of Carmarthen, Pembroke, and Cardigan. Thomas Crispe, of Quex in Thanet, Esq., by whom he had He married Frances, second daughter and co-heir of Thomas and other sons, and Margaretta and other daughters, buried in this chancell, and hath Edwin, Francis, and Richard liveing, and erected this monument, 1702, To the memory of Sr Henry Wiat, of Alington Castle, Knight banneret, descended of that ancient family who was imprisoned and tortured in the Tower in the reign of King Richard the Third, kept in dungeon, where fed and preserved by a Cat. He married Anne, daughter of Thomas Skinner, Esq. of Surry, was of the Privy Council to King Henry the Seventh, and King Henry the Eighth, and left one son, Sir Thomas Wiat of AlHenry the Eighth, and married Elizabeth, daughter of ington Castle, who was esquire of the body to King Thomas Brooke, Lord Cobbam, and well known for learning and embassys in the reign of that King. Sir Thomas Wiat, of Alington Castle, his only son, married Jane, youngest daughter of Sir William Hawt of this county, and was beheaded in the reign of Queen Mary, leaving George Wiat, his only son that lived to age, who married Jane, daughter of Sir Thomas Finch of Eastwell, and Katherine his wife, restored in blood by act of Parliament of the 13th of Queen Elizabeth, and leaving also two daughters; *The poet.

Anna, who married Roger Twisden of Royden Hall, Esq., and Jane who married Thomas Scot, Esq.

"George Wiat was succeeded by his eldest son Sir Francis Wiat, twice governor of Virginia, and married Margaret, daughter of Sir Samuel Sandys of Ombersly in Worcestershire. George Wiat left also Hawt Wiat, who died vicar of this parish, and hath issue liveing in Virginia; and left also Elionora, married to Sir John Finch, parson of Forditch. Sir Francis Wiat*, by his wife Margaret, had issue the said Edwin Wiat, and also Elizabeth, who married Thomas Bosvile of Little Mote, Einesford, Esq., and by him hath Margaretta, his only daughter and heire, who is married to S Robert Marsham of the Mote in Maidstone, K, and Baronet."

On the monument is a coat quarterly of eight. 1. Parted per fess azure and gules, a barnacle argent; 2. Argent, 3 bars gules, in chief a greyhound courant, sable; 3. Gone; 4. Argent, on a chevron sable, 5 horse-shoes or; 5. Argent, on a chevron sable between 3 hearts gules, as many martlets or; 6. Or, a cross engrailed, gules; 7. Gone; 8. Gone.

Of the sons of Serj. Wiat-1. Edwin, married a daughter of Edward Hales of Chilston, and died s. p.; 2. Francis died s. p.; 3. Richard died s. p. 1753, leaving his estates to his relative Lord Romney of the Mote.

That the affections of the family were alienated from the Seyliards, by litigations, is proved by the omission of all allusion to them on the family monument.

The same circumstance will account for Richard Wiat leaving his estates to Lord Romney, to the exclusion of the descendants of Sir Thomas Seyliard. The consanguinity was the same in either case: the Seyliards, through a brother of the Serj., and the Marshams through a sister, but the families were irreconcilably estranged.

If it can be proved (which we much doubt) that all Seyliard's daughters died without representatives, then the present Earl of Romney is the proper representative of the Wiats. Doubtless the descendants of the younger sons of George Wiat may be still in existence, but we have no means of ascertaining the fact.

The old coat of Wiat was-Or, on a fess gules between 3 boars' heads couped sable, langued gules, 3 mullets of the field.

Sir Henry Wiat, Privy Counsellor to Henry VII. adopted for his coat- -Per fess azure and gules, a barnacle argent, which the family afterwards bore, sometimes in conjunction with the old coat, and more often alone.

The arms on the monument in Boxley, as cited above, prove that Serj. Wiat bore the barnacle alone.

Our correspondent asks, "Who came to the title?" In reply, we would remind him that there was no hereditary title. Those who had any were knights.]

JENNER OF WILTS, WORCESTERSHIRE, AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE. In a biography of Dr. Jenner it states, that his father was the possessor of considerable landed property, and a member of a family of great antiquity in that county (Gloucestershire) and in Worcestershire." Is there any published pedigree of this family? In Burke's Landed Gentry occurs Jenner of Wenvoe Castle, *The inscription on the monument ignores altogether Henry the eldest son and heir of Sir Francis, who had an only daughter and heir, Frances, married to Sir Thomas Seyliard, Bart.

This omission may be accounted for by the long litigations which were carried on between Serj. Wiat (who erected this monument) and his niece Lady Seyliard, as to the inheritance of the Boxley estates.

Glamorganshire, but only dating back to 1775, to the father of the late Sir Herbert Jenner Fust; they do not seem to have been of Dr. Jenner's family, but of Kentish extraction. What were

the arms of Dr. Jenner?

In Ackerman's History of the University of Oxford, there is a Baron Jenner, 1687, mentioned: was he a judge? Is anything known of him? In Cromwell's Letters and Speeches there is a letter to Robert Jenner, M.P., of Cricklade, 1648. Any information on these points will greatly oblige R. J. F.

[We have not been able to discover any pedigree of the Jenner family. The arms, crest, and motto of Jenner of Berkeley and Jenner of Wenvoe Castle (according to Burke's Landed Gentry) are the same, and may have descended from the same stock. Arms: Az., two swords erect, in chev., arg., hilts and pommels, or, between three covered cups, of the last. Crest: A covered cup, or, standing between two swords, in saltier, arg., hilts and pommels of the first. Motto: In pretium persevero. As supplementary to Dr. John Baron's Life of Dr. Edward Jenner, 2 vols. 8vo, 1838, some interesting particulars of this celebrated physician will be found in the Cheltenham Examiner of Jan. 22, 1862, and March 12, 1862, from the pen of a gentleman who was for the last twenty years of his life upon terms of the most friendly intercourse with the Doctor.

Sir Thomas Jenner, a Baron of the Exchequer, was born at Mayfield in Sussex, and married Ann Poe, only daughter and heiress of James Poe, Esq. His arms were originally, Vert, three cups covered, or; but were altered to azure, with the addition of two swords in chevron or. It is stated in the Gent. Mag. for August, 1814, p. 116, that "the late Sir Francis Fust, Bart., of Hill Court, Gloucestershire, was related to the Jenner family by an intermarriage with the Poe family, and he always acknowledged Edward Jenner of Berkeley to be a relation." For biographical notices of Sir Thomas Jenner, see Gent. Mag. for June, 1814, p. 544; and August, 1814, p. 116, also Campbell's Lives of the Chief Justices, ii. 93, 101, 117, 128.

Robert Jenner, or Jennor, M.P., was a goldsmith of London, who died in 1651. He was the founder of a free-school at Cricklade, of almshouses at Malmesbury, and of the church of Marston Meysey. He is said to have been afterwards outlawed; and on that account the endowments which he left for the support of his charitable foundations, both at Cricklade and at Malmesbury, have been lost. See Britton's Wiltshire, iii. 17, ed. 1825.]

DR. ARNE'S "THERE WAS AN OLD WOMAN." The following nursery rhymes were sung to me a short time ago by two young ladies, who said they were taught them by an elderly couple, being told by them that the words were set to music by Dr. Arne for George IV. when a child. much after his style. I have searched what comThe air appeared remarkably melodious and positions there are of his at the British Museum, and have been unable to find any trace of it. I have also looked through a work on Popular but it was not there. Rhymes and Nursery Tales by J. O. Halliwell,

Can any of your musical correspondents throw any light on the subject, and tell me where the

music (if ever published) is to be found? By so doing they will much oblige JNO. REYNOLDS. "There was an old woman toss'd in a blanket,

So high, so high, so high as the moon, And under her arm she had a broom. 'Whither, ah! whither, art thou going?' said I. 'I am going to sweep the cobwebs from the sky, And I will be with you by-and-bye." P.S.-I have inquired at Cocks and Co.'s, and other music publishers, but they know nothing of it.

[Chappel, in his Popular Music of the Olden Time, ii. 571, has given another version of this well-known nursery rhyme, which he states is sung to the tune of Lilliburlero, the music of which he has printed on the following page:"There was an old woman went up in a basket,

Seventeen times as high as the moon,

And where she was going I could not but ask it, Because in her hand she carried a broom.'Old woman, old woman, old woman,' said I, 'Where are you going? whither so high?' To sweep the cobwebs off the sky, And I shall be back again bye-and-bye. ""] BRYAN FAUSSETT, 1755.- Who was he, and what were his arms or the arms of his family? W. P. L.

[The Rev. Bryan Faussett of Heppington, near Can. terbury, to whom we owe the formation of the celebrated Collection of Anglo-Saxon relics now in the possession of Mr. Mayer of Liverpool, was one of the most remarkable archæologists ever known in England. Between the years 1757 and 1773 it is stated that he opened from seven to eight hundred sepulchral tumuli. Mr. Faussett was a Fellow of All Souls' College, and Rector of Monks' Horton, in Kent. He died on Feb. 10, 1776. His grandson was the Rev. Dr. Godfrey Faussett, the Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity in the University of Oxford, and a Canon of Christ Church. Arms: Or, a lion, rampant, sa., debruised by a bend, gobony, arg. and gu., quartering Bryan, Godfrey, and Toke. (See Burke's General Armory.) Crest: A demi-lion, rampant, sa., holding in the paws a Tuscan column, inclined bendways, gobony, arg. and gu., the base and capital, or.]

"HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS," ETC. I have in my possession a book of the following title:

"Historical Collections relating to the Originals, Conversions, and Revolutions of the Inhabitants of Great Britain to the Norman Conquest, in a continued discourse." London, 1706.

Who was the author of this work? He seems to have been a clergyman of the Church of England. The book shows extensive and well-digested learning, and the style is good. C.

[This work has been attributed to Dr. George Hickes; but is the production of Thomas Salmon, M.A., Rector of Mepsall, co. Bedford. We have seen a copy with the name printed on the title-page.]

Peter Bouis. — Can you inform me where I may obtain some account of the life and labours of Peter Bouis? E. F. WILLOUGHBY.

[If by Peter Bouis is meant Peter de Bruys, the founder of the sect of the Petrobrussians, some notice of him will be found in the Biographical Dictionaries of Moreri, Rose, Chalmers, and Hook. The best account of him, however, is by Baronius (Annales Ecclesiastici, tom. xviii, p. 396, ed. 1746.]

Replies.

JOHN HAMPDEN.

(2nd S. viii. 495, 646; xii. 271.)

The exhumation of the body of Hampden has been lately mentioned by Mr. Forster in his Memoir of Lord Nugent, prefixed to the third edition of Some Memorials of John Hampden, his Party, and his Times; and still more recently by Mrs. Grote in her Collected Papers, &c.

I had the pleasure of being intimately acquainted with Lord Nugent for many years, and I may speak with some authority upon this subject, as I am, I believe, with one exception, the only survivor of those immediate friends who were specially invited by him to be present on that occasion. I never heard that he was inclined to 66 deny his participation," but I believe Mrs. Grote may be right when she further describes him as "becoming in some sort ashamed of the part he had borne in the affair." For myself I have always extremely regretted that I was an assistant in it, and I sympathise entirely with the feelings of the parish clerk as related by Mrs. Grote. It was indeed "a sorry sight"-the remembrance of it even now haunts my imagination.

It is right, however, to observe that Lord Nugent had deceived himself in his expectations. He said, when he asked me to accompany him upon this expedition, that he had obtained permission to open the Hampden vault, and that we should readily find the coffin of John Hampden, and therein probably a mere skeleton, from which it would be easy to ascertain whether the bones of the arm and shoulder had been in any way fractured. It turned out, however, that there was no family vault in Hampden church, and that the exact spot where the patriot had been laid in the earth was not certainly known.

On Saturday the 19th of July, 1828, I left London with Lord Nugent and Mr. Denman (then Common Serjeant of London, afterwards Lord Denman). We halted at Chalfont to see the church, and the house where Milton had for a time resided; thence to Amersham and Aylesbury, where we visited the county gaol; and upon that occasion I made my first, and I hope my last, appearance on the treadmill, in company with the future Lord Chief Justice of England. We arrived in the evening at Lilies, Lord Nugent's residence, and on the following Monday morning started early for Great Hampden, where, at the church door, we were met by the Rev. Mr. Brooks, the rector; Mr. Grace, Lord Buckinghamshire's land steward; Mr. C. Moore, the eminent sculptor; Mr. Coventry, and one or two other gentle

men.

After the inscriptions on several coffins had been examined, one was found about four feet