(4to, 1741, Knowsley Library), and are the original manuscripts known to exist? F. R. R. ["The Siege of Lathom House" in Seacome's History is attributed to Samuel Rutter, consecrated Bishop of Sodor and Man, March 24, 1661. See the Gentleman's Magazine for April, 1823, p. 299, which also contains some notices of the MS. of Capt. Edward Halsall's Account of the Siege in the Ashmolean Museum, A. Wood MSS. D. 16, printed separately in 8vo, 1823, and in the European Magazine, vol. xxiii., and, lastly, as an Appendix to Lady Hutchinson's Memoirs of Col. Hutchinson in Bohn's Standard Library, 1846.] "THE MIRROur of State AND ELOQUENCE, or BACON'S REMAINES: quoted in a note to the English Dedication of the Rev. Evan Evans's Welsh Sermons, 1776. — Is The Mirrour of State and Eloquence a separate and distinct work from Bacon's Remaines, or are there some editions of Bacon's Remaines which bear the above title? My copy, which is dated 1648, has its title as follows, viz. The Remaines of the Right Honorable Francis, &c. LLALLAWG. The Mirrour of State and Eloquence (Lond. 1656, 4to), according to Lowndes, contains pp. 103, with title and contents three leaves. The running title, however, is Bacon's Remaines.] "HOGLANDIE DESCRIPTIO."- Has the Latin poem, entitled Xoipoxwooypapia: sive, Hoglandiæ Descriptio, printed in 1742, been translated into English verse or prose, and printed? If so, by whom and when, and where was it printed? LLALLAWG. [Hoglandia descriptio, by Maredydius Caduganus Pymlymmonensis [who was he?] was first published in 1709, in retaliation of Edward Holdsworth's Muscipula. In 1711, it was "Imitated in English," London, 8vo. A copy of the translation is in the Bodleian.] Replies. PRINTED WILLS. (3rd S. ii. 341, 403, 434.) The wills of the following persons have been printed: Grandisson, Bp. of Exeter; Rob. de Vere (1369); Baldwin de Vere (1424); Ric. Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick and Aumarle; Joh. Stafford, Earl of Wiltshire; Sir Oliver Mannyngham; Roger Drury, Esq. (1483-4); Rob. Wuley, of Ipswich (father of the Cardinal); Abp. Rotherham; Edward Stafford, Earl of Wiltshire; Sir Hen. Vere, of Addington; Sir Will. Carewe; Nic. Bohun (1504); Sir Joh. Mordaunt; Joh. Gardener, of Bury St. Edmunds (father of the Bishop); Everard Digby, of Stoke Dry (1508-9); Joh. Bohun (1511); Will. Grocyn, the great Greek scholar; Sir Roger Drury; Joh. Rooper, of Eltham; Sir Mat. Cradock; Erasmus; Lady Kath. Gordon; Piers Butler, Earl of Ormond and Ossory; Sir Tho. Pope; Sir Will. Drury (1557); John, first Lord Mordaunt; Sir Tho. Rowe, Al- The foregoing persons were more or less eminent. I have also notes of above a thousand printed wills in addition to the above, and exclusively of those which have been noted in your columns. If MR. NICHOLS will undertake to prepare a list of printed wills for The Herald and Genealogist, I will gladly communicate my notes to him. I believe such a list would occupy above ten pages of "N. & Q.," and I consider that your miscellany may be more usefully occupied. A few of the wills mentioned in "N. & Q." have been printed in other publications, besides those pointed out by your correspondents. In at least two instances, Sir Harris Nicolas gave only abstracts of wills in Testamenta Vetusta, being obviously unaware that the wills had been previously printed in extenso. C. H. COOPER.* Cambridge. [* Mr. Cooper's additions reached us too late for insertion in the present Number.-Ed.] 1486. William Waynflete, Bishop of Winchester. Chandler's Life of Waynflete, p. 379. 1523. William Pope, of Dedington, father of Sir Thomas Pope, founder of Trin. Coll., Oxon. Warton's Life of Pope, p. 265. 1556. Sir Thomas Pope (summary only). Warton's Life of Pope, p. 158. 1607. Sir John Croke, of Chilton, Bucks. Sir Alex. Croke's Genealogical History of the Croke family, vol. ii. Appendix, p. 826. 1653. Henry King, Bishop of Chichester. Poems and Psalms, by Hen. King, edited by Rev. John Hannah, 1843, p. cviii. 1662. Robert Sanderson, Bishop of Lincoln. Sanderson's Works, edit. Jacobson, 1854, vol. vi. pp. 342 345, 404. BELLS AT PISA. (3rd S. ii. 387, 496.) Through the kindness of a friend I am able to give the inscriptions on these celebrated bells. On the largest, in Roman capitals, "Assumpta est Maria in Coelum, Gaudent Angeli laudantes, Benedicamus Dominum, A.D. M.D.C.L.I.V. Joan Petrus de Orlandis." There are also a Madonna, a shield with the arms of the Medici, a large embossed cross, and two bands with foliage. On the second, in Lombardic characters, "Lotteringus Pepisis me fecit, Cerādus (probably Geradus) Hospitularius solvit, A.D. M.C.C.L.X.II." There are some small rosettes round the bell, some small circles containing a bull and a swan, side "Ave Maria G. P." and two small angels, all in bas-relief. On each On the third, the inscription is written backwards, "Francesco Ourantotto Edile A.S. M.D.C.C.XXXV. More Pis." Above this, "Religioni modo, ac Divo Raynerio Patrono Juri Prætoris Olim." Below, read forwards, "Petrus. Franc. Bertt. Lucensis Fudit." In different parts of the bell, "o. R. E.," The following may be added to the lists of wills shields with the Medici arms, with a cross flory, with which have already appeared in print: 1457. Ditto. Another will. Ibid. 152. 1520. William Pope, father of Sir Thomas Pope, founder of Trinity College, Oxford. Warton's Life of Sir Thomas Pope, 2nd edition, 265. 1550. Robert Parret (or Perrot), Organist of Magdalen College, Oxford. Bloxam's Magdalen College Register, ii. 184. 1683. Izaak Walton. Complete Angler, 8th edition, 60. 1687. Ellen Gwynne. Preface to first edition of Douglas Jerrold's comedy of Nell Gwynne, v. 1720. Rev. Stephen Nicoles, Clerk of Magdalen College, Oxford. Bloxam's Magdalen College Register, ii. 80. 1723. Rev. Samuel Cripps, D.D., Rector of Appleton, co. Berks. Ibid. i. 99. 1734. Thomas Hetcht, Organist of Magdalen College, Oxford. Ibid. ii. 208. 1759. George Frederick Handel. Handel. Schoelcher's Life of 1776. William Hayes, Mus. Doc. Professor of Music in the University of Oxford. Bloxam's Magdalen College Register, ii. 215. 1803. Joseph Ritson. Sir Harris Nicolas's Life of him. a cross between two animals, with a band between four etoiles, and some bands with masks and fruit. On the third bell in Roman capitals, on one side the monogram of Constantine, ; below which is, "Servatoris Honori et Gloria et Patriæ Incolumitate restituta Comite Francesco Alexandro del Testa De Tiniosa De Gambaccortis Edituo ANNO D. c1-13- ccc-XVIII. ;" and below "Santo Gualandio, Pratensi, Æri, Flando, Feriundo." A shield of arms underneath rather indistinct, but 1818-23. Joseph Nollekens, Sculptor. J. T. Smith's Nol- they appear to be quarterly, an eagle and a castle. lekens and his Times, ii. W. H. HUSK. In An Excursion down the Wye from Ross to Chepstow, there is printed the will of Wm. Jones, haberdasher, of London, and founder of great charities at Monmouth, dated 1614. R. I. F. On another part of the same bell, "Serenissimo Ferd: Elmriæ (qy.) Magno. Duce III. et Carlo Ant: Puteo: Pis: Archiep:" There are also escutcheons with a castle, a cross flory, the arms of the Medici, and a Madonna. Poets' Corner. A. A. THE WALKINSHAWS OF BARROWFIELD. (3rd S. ii. 117, 457.) I beg to thank G. J. for his obliging information regarding the deaths of Barbara and Elizabeth Walkinshaw, and the name and position of their sister Katherine in the household of the Princess of Wales, mother of George III. I am satisfied that G. J. is correct in stating that this last-named lady was not one of the Maids of Honour, and that she was one of the Barrowfield Walkinshaws. This latter point is pretty conclusively settled by Dr. Carlyle in his Autobiography (p. 518), wherein he states that he saw Miss Walkinshaw in 1770, when in London that year; and he adds, that "she was sister to the lady, said to be mistress to Prince Charles." It would appear, therefore, that this Katherine Walkinshaw held the situation at least twenty-five years: for, according to Dr. King, she was there in 1745; but how much earlier, or what ultimately became of her, I have not been able to trace. In my former communication I stated that one of the Misses Walkinshaw was named Eleonora, who married Alexander Grant of Arndilly; and I quoted her name, instead of Katherine above referred to. The authority on which I rested, will be found in the Appendix to The Cochran Correspondence (p. 111), one of the Maitland Club books. But I have since had reason to doubt that any of the Misses Walkinshaw bore the name of Eleonora; while, on the other hand, I am now certain that one of them was called Katherine. My reasons are these. Having lately had access to old deeds, dated in 1730, signed by the parents of the Misses Walkinshaw, as well as by these ladies themselves, I find that, for family purposes therein explained, it became necessary to mention the names of all the members of the family; that this was accordingly done, and the following names appear, viz. 1. Barbara; 2. Margaret; 3. Katherine; 4. Anna; 5. Elizabeth; 6. Mary; 7. Jean; 8. Helen; 9. Lyonella; 10. Clementina. The name of Eleonora is not even alluded to, which would not have been the case if she had been one of the sisters; and, like the other ten, entitled to share the provisions in the family settlements. I, therefore, drop Eleonora out my list, and substitute Katherine, on the authority of these antique papers, subscribed, as they are, by the whole members of the Walkinshaw family. My object is to ascertain, with all possible respect, what became of the ten Misses Walkinshaw above enumerated? They were the representatives of the old Lanarkshire family of Walkinshaw of Barrowfield: the last male owner of that estate having been their father, who died about one hundred and thirty years ago; after which, the family disappeared out of the district; the estate having been sold, and the clue to the ladies lost. Some of them were married, and their paternal name became absorbed in that of their husbands, while others died unmarried. It would be interesting to know, at the distance of one hundred and thirty years, who are now the representatives of the married Walkinshaw ladies. With this view, I beg to summarise the information which I have procured from different sources; and if wrong, I shall be obliged by having errors pointed out : 1. Barbara, died unmarried, April 26, 1780. 2. Margaret married her cousin James, son of John Hynd of Glasgow; whose wife was a daughter of James Walkinshaw of Walkinshaw. 3. Katherine, housekeeper, from at least 1745 till at least 1770, to the Princess of Wales. 4. Anna, fate unascertained. 5. Elizabeth, died at Edinburgh, February 27, 1787. 6. Mary, married James, son and heir of Colin Campbell of Blythswood; and died, childless, on September 24, 1771. 7. Jean, fate unascertained. 8. Helen, married William Murray of Jamaica, whose descendant, Sarah Murray, espoused the Hon. Charles Ashburnham, third son of the Earl of Ashburnham. Another descendant of Helen Walkinshaw, named Mary, married Major-General Sir Henry Floyd, Bart. 9. 10. Lyonella, married her cousin William, son of James Clementina, whose tie to Prince Charles is well Thus only two, viz. Anna and Jean, are unaccounted for. Perhaps some of your correspondents can supply the void. I may mention, that throughout the old deeds alluded to, the ladies' names constantly appear in the above order; from which I infer that they stand in the order of their ages, especially as the last, Clementina, is described as the youngest. John Walkinshaw, the father, died some time between April 1730, and January 1731. His widow, Mrs. Katherine Paterson, who was a daughter of Sir Hugh Paterson of Bannockburn, survived Mr. Walkinshaw about fifty years; and died at Edinburgh, in November, 1780, at the great age of ninety-seven. PORTLANDERS. (3rd S. ii. 411, 480.) J. B. In consequence of the question as to the correctness of the statement respecting the Portlanders, I asked my brother, the Rector of Weymouth, about them, and he told me that they were a very remarkable race; and peculiar for their size, the beauty of their dark eyes, and their loud voices; but more especially for the great readiness with which they can turn their hands to anything they undertake; and he referred me to the Rev. D. Hogarth, the Rector of Portland, for further information; and, through his great courtesy, I am enabled to make the following statement: Twenty-four years ago, the population of Portland was 2,850; and at that time a man died there at the age of ninety, who was said to have been the one-thousandth person in the island when he was born. Though there was a continued intermarriage among the families of the island, and rarely beyond its limits, yet Mr. Hogarth thinks that with such a population it was very different from a continued family or blood intermarriage so that the same effects are not to be looked for in so marked a form; but one disease of a terrible character is more prevalent there than in any place in Scotland or England with which Mr. Hogarth is acquainted. Cancer occurs in the breast, throat, tongue, lips, and stomach; and Mr. Hogarth has been in the habit of attributing it to the intermarriages, but perhaps erroneously. There are four great families-Stone, Atwooll, Pearce, and Comber; but there are also many Lanos, Whites, and Sansoms old Portlanders, besides many interlopers. The stature is exaggerated. There are many men above six feet high, but by no means approaching an average. When the Portland Volunteers lately met those around Weymouth, the remark was that they were half a head taller, and that there was a step of some inches up where the line of Portlanders joined in. They are a fine strong healthy race, greatly superior to the ordinary agriculturists, both in person and intelligence; but Mr. Hogarth thinks that the former must be partly attributed to fine air and comparatively good living; their wages averaging a pound a-week, instead of ten shillings. Mr. Hogarth feels clear, from his own observation during the twenty-four years he has been in the island, that they have diminished in stature as a race. He doubts their being of Saxon origin; for they have the law of gavelkind, which tradition says was given to them by the Conqueror when he landed, in gratitude for their having joined him in a body against their Saxon oppressors; and Mr. Hogarth thinks them more likely to be of Danish extraction, like the noble men still to be found at Pakefield, near Lowestoff; Spital, near Berwick-on-Tweed; Dundee, and Montrose. As a great change has taken place in the inhabitants of Portland in the last few years in consequence of the government works there, Mr. Hogarth's information seems peculiarly valuable. I may however add, that gavelkind was a Saxon tenure, which was continued in Kent through the importunity of the Kentish men; and this rather leads to the inference, that Saxons inhabited the island at the Conquest. On the other hand, Lewis (Topog. Dict.) states, that "a party of Danish marauders landed here in 787, and, having killed the governor, obtained possession of the place;" but no authority is referred to in support of this statement. C. S. GREAVES. The following abstract of a long note may further elucidate the question of the fine race of the inhabitants. It is from Smeaton's Account of the Building of Eddystone Lighthouse, second edit. fol. 1793, p. 65: 66 Having observed that by far the greatest number of the quarrymen were of a very robust, hardy form.. they are all born upon the island; many of them have never been farther upon the main land than to Weymouth... The air, though very sharp, from our elevated situation, is certainly very healthy to working men. . . . all our marriages here are productive of children. . . They intermarry with one another, very rarely going to the main land to seek a wife; and it has been the custom of the island from time immemorial, that they never marry till the woman is pregnant." This arrangement is thus described:-Some of the men sent from London at that time (17—) were obliged to marry some of the Portland ladies: "Since then, matters have gone on according to the ancient custom." W. P. OWEN FITZ-PEN, alias PHIPPEN, A MELCOMBE MAN. (3rd S. ii. 409, 515.) During a tour in Cornwall a few years since, I was examining the church at Truro, and the epitaph in question-" Melcombe in Dorset was his place of birth," &c. was pointed out to me by the sexton on a marble tablet in the chancel. I read the lines with much interest, being myself a native of that county, and well acquainted with nearly every parish in Dorsetshire. I remember there was no doubt in my mind as to the whereabouts of this Melcombe Man. It was certainly not at Melcombe-Regis, which two hundred years ago was only a hamlet, with a few scattered fishermen's huts in the village of Radipole. Dr. Willis, the royal physician, recommended George III., on recovering from his mental affliction, to sojourn in this quiet retreat, and after that it soon became a celebrated watering-place. The whole of that made ground, now called the Park, was in the sixteenth century a swamp covered with rushes, extending up to the village Reedy-Pool. There was a ferry across the water to the ancient port and harbour of Weymouth, always a place of considerable trade. Owen Fitzpen, alias Phippen, was a cadet of the Norman Fitzpaines, a family which (see Hutchins's Dorset) had manors and lands in no less than twenty parishes. The historian gives their pedigree under the head of "Ockford Fitzpaine," a parish on the banks of the Stour, no great distance from Melcombe, the 34 birthplace of Fitzpen the subject of this inquiry. The attempt to trace his lineal descent, and unravel the mystery of his exploits, would occupy too much space in your columns; and, at best, would be but a prosy narrative to most of your readers. I shall, therefore, only briefly explain the original derivation of the name. Pagan-Paynim-Payne-Penn, the noted Quaker of Pennsylvania; Fitz is Norman-French, from the Latin filius, a son. The corruptions and contractions in all tongues are dreadfully puzzling to the uninitiated. Frequently even the antiquary can only make a doubtful guess at the original word. Take, for instance, Fip-penny Ockford, Sixpenny Hanley, and Shilling (i. e. twelvepenny) Ockford. So the illiterate vulgar pronounce the names of these places. Who would ever guess that Fitzpen and Saxpen, and Schilling were lords of the manor in these three parishes? And the medieval literati, who could sign their names, and not simply put a X, were no great orthographers. Happily a new Roll of Domesday Book lately published will be a better guide for the unknown tongue of Norman spelling. In the numberless passages of his History, where Hutchins mentions Fitzpaine, the name is It is much like the never spelt twice the same. riddle of a wig, sometimes with a head, sometimes without a head; sometimes with a tail, sometimes without a tail; and sometimes without either. So diversely were the letters placed to compose this word. The "haughty English" of medievalism was somewhat improved after the Reformation. Henry VIII. wrote Payne. Penn came in at the Restoration with Charles II. The Augustan Age in England varied the letters again. A courtly wit, writing to a fair lady of this name, who had sent to inquire for his health, answered ""Tis true I am ill, but I must not complain, For he never knew pleasure that never knew Pain." This was in the reign of Queen Anne. The first two Georges were poor scribes, and their German text was illegible. With third George came the French Revolution, and The Age of Reason of that notorious radical, Tom Paine. So he spelt his name, and here I lay down my-pen. QUEEN'S GARDENS. SIR THOMAS PRENDERGAST (1st S. xi. 12, 89, 172.) My attention having been called to one of the earlier volumes of "N. & Q.," where the account of Sir Thomas Prendergast's dream given in Boswell's Johnson, is reproduced (vol. xi. p. 89), I send you the words entered in Prendergast's pocket-book, as copied by me many years ago from a MS. collection of family notes, which had belonged to his grandson. I fancy General Oglethorpe or Colonel Cecil indulged in the frequent license of storytellers, filling up from their own imaginations such details in the story as they could not call to mind. The tradition in Prendergast's family is, that the pocket-book was taken possession of, not by Colonel Cecil, whom I have been unable to identify, but by Lord Cadogan, who was a general in the army where Prendergast was serving as brigadier. This is very probable; and in this case the book may still exist in the possession of his representative, the Duke of Richmond. the General Oglethorpe's version connects dream with the death of Sir John Friend; but I know of no evidence that Prendergast ever saw him; and his conscience must have felt at ease as regarded him. Friend was tried and condemned at the same time as those implicated in the Assassination Plot, but it was for a different offence; namely, for accepting a commission to raise a regiment for King James II., and it is believed that he in no way sanctioned the assassination. Prendergast was not a witness against him, nor concerned in his trial. The story, therefore, related by MR. D'ALTON ("N. & Q." xi. 172) can have no connection with him, but appears to refer to Captain Blair, to whom Friend had been a benefactor, and who then betrayed him. The manly and honourable conduct of Sir Thomas Prendergast throughout these affairs will be well understood by referring to Macaulay's description of it, vol. iv. chap. xxi. pp. 662, 664; a chapter written in a tone (see p. 660), which satisfies me that he would not have praised an Irishman if he could have helped it. The extract I copied is as follows: — Being in bed with my wife last night in this my house in the city of London, I dreamt that James Cranwell, a native of Clonmell in Ireland, and who died in my service three years ago, appeared in my livery, and told me to prepare for death, for that I should die this day year. Though having no superstition on the subject, note this as a curious memorandum, if such an event should happen me. "THOS. PRENDERGAST. "7ber 11, 1708." -- S. P. V. JENNER PEDIGREE (3rd S. iii. 10.) In answer to your correspondent R. J. F., there is a pedigree of the Jenner family to face p. 220 in Fosbrooke's Biographical Anecdotes of Dr. Jenner, commencing with the Doctor's great-greatgrandfather Stephen Jenner, of Standish Court, Gloucestershire, who died 1667, æt. fifty-six. There is also an account of the family in Fosbrooke's SAMUEL LYSONS. History of Gloucestershire, ii. 44, 45, 46. CAPT. RICHARD PEIRCE (3rd S. iii. 9.)—I have a gold mourning ring enamelled, black on one side, white on the other. It has this inscription: "Capt: R. Peirce, æ. 46, shipwreck'd with his dau" El: æ. 16, & Ma: æ. 14, 6 Jan: 1786." I send this because it corrects the orthography |