Queries. [We must request correspondents desiring information on family matters of only private interest, to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that the answers may be addressed to them direct.] 66 LEOFRIC'S MISSALS.-Our first bishop gave to his cathedral at Exeter "two complete Missals," as testified by the record of his donations, now in our archives. One of these Missals, of the date A.D. 969, is now in the Bodleian Library, having been transferred thither from our library, together with 131 other MSS., in the year 1602, and a very beautiful MS. it is. Wanley, in his Catalogue of Anglo-Saxon MSS., published in 1705 (p. 83), states that the other Missal was then in the possession of the Rev. Robert Bourscough, Rector of Totnes, Devon. In Bernard's Catalogue of the English MSS. is given a list of MSS. belonging to the said rector of Totnes, and among them is Liturgia antiqua, eadem, ut videtur, quam Leofricus Eps dedit Eccl. S. Petri Exoniensi " (vol. ii. p. 233), and in the list of the MSS. belonging to the Bodleian the other Missal appears, under the title "Missale antiquum, Ecclæ. S. Petri Apostoli, in Exoniâ, a Leofrico Episcopo donatum" (vol. i. p. 143). I have made inquiries about the Missal which was in the possession of Mr. Bourscough, but I can get no information as to its "whereabouts." It is not in the Church Library at Totnes, nor in the Bodleian. I ask you to insert this query in the hope that some of your numerous correspondents may be able to answer it. It would be most interesting, if it were discovered, to learn, by comparison with that in the Bodleian, whether it is simply a copy of that one, or of a different date, and containing other services than it. The Close, Exeter. HENRY WOOLLCOMBE. BALLAD LITERATURE.-I shall be much obliged to any reader of "N. & Q." who can assist me to recover the whole or part of three old ballads, which I know through oral tradition in a fragmentary form, and of which I can find no printed copies. 1. "His bernie bright was dinted sair, From whence are these two lines? I have them from the lips of a friend, who remembers to have heard the whole, nearly forty years ago, from his grandmother, an old Liddesdale gentlewoman; unfortunately, he can recall no more of the ballad. Motherwell has used the first line in his poem of Lord Archibald And his shield was hackit in three." 2. And this is more important. The same friend recovered for me, within the last month, the following fragments of what has evidently been a rhyme that might rank with Clerk Saunders. He had it from a yeoman in Suffolk, who got it from his nurse : "Cold blows the wind o'er my true love, Cold blow the drops of rain; I never, never had but one sweetheart,- One kiss from your lily-cold lips, true love! One kiss is all I pray; And I'll sit and weep all over your grave My cheek is as cold as the clay, true love! Your life would not be long !" I am told that the traditional tune is as fine as are the words. It would seem that other lines are floating about, but so disfigured in the course of recitative transmission as to have become grotesque. What was their original? I cannot help a, perhaps irrational, feeling that here we may have the very song from which Shakspeare got "Still through the hawthorn blows the cold wind." 3. Does any one know the whole of a Scots ballad called Johnnie Barbour, which I heard I append all I can remember, as he gave it. It sung, years ago, by a West-country fisherman? will be seen that there are evident traces of its having been long in recitation :— "Oh daughter, oh daughter! her father he said, What makes you look so pale? (sic: wan?) His two bonnie black e'en were rolling in his head, Oh, are you ready to marry my daughter, And to eat and drink with me at the table, Oh, it's I am ready to marry your daughter, And to eat and drink with her at the table, As well as I remember, this closed the ballad ; OBSCURE EXPRESSIONS.-Encouraged by the satisfactory replies that I have already received from the correspondents of "N. & Q.," I venture to ask for help in other difficulties that I have met with. The first two are from another work by Howell, Instructions for Forreine Travell : · something home that may accrue to the publique benefit." Evertuate.-"One should evertuate himselfe to bring -Sect. 16. Guunshing." They have sundry sorts of punishments After-noones men." Your Innes of Court men were vndone but for him, hee is their chiefe guest and imployment, and the sole businesse that makes them afternoones men."-Earle, Microcosmographie, "The Player." Mumfision: coustrelyng.-In Udal's Roister Doister, Merygreeke, relating to a servant some fabulous exploits of Roister Doister, is prompted by that hero with the words, "And how when mumfision?" to which he replies,"Oh your coustrelyng that torture the sense a longer time, as drubbing, guun-wards Provost of Eton, the second Bishop of shing, flaying alive, impaling."-Appendix. Oxford, and the third Archbishop of York. Fell and Dolben had also in their early days fought bravely for Charles I., the former at Naseby, and the latter at Marston Moor and at the siege of York, where he was wounded. In a poem in the Muse Anglicana, on the death of Archbishop Dolben in 1683, the painting is thus alluded to: "Thyr. At vos nec fatum, meritorum aut immemor ætas Dissimiles unquam arguerit: vos una tabella, Vos tres una refert, famamque æterna loquetur Pictura En! ut vicinos sub imagine vultus Jussit amor spirare et eadem vivere cerâ. Fortunatæ animæ ! primis adolevit ab annis Jam matura fides, vobis et foedera sanxit Multà dies, junctasque exhausta pericula dextras." Bore the lanterne a fielde so before the gozelyng." Haze."Nay and plaine, ye will haze, haze: otherwise I tell you And ye will not haze, then giue vs our geare againe." Ibid., Act iii. sc. 4. Vol. ii. 147. The poem is in the form of a dialogue, like one of the idylls of Theocritus or the eclogues of Virgil, and the names of the interlocutors appended at Collocauit. When Roister Doister is arming, and the end of it are Sam. Jones, Tho. Chester, Armig. e. Coll. Mert," who have taken the parts of Corydon and Thyrsis. wants a headpiece, Merygreeke suggests "The kitchen collocauit, the best hennes to grece." What is a collocauit, and what is the meaning of the latter part of the line? Banbury glosses.-"In this your realm they have so blinded your liege people and subjects with their laws, customs, ceremonies, and Banbury glosses, and punished them with excommunications," &c.-Latimer's Remains, p. 299, Parker Soc. Garget." The drunkard is without a head, the swearer hath a garget in his throat."-T. Adams's Sermons, vol. i. p. 123 (Nichol's Puritan Divines). "If it were granted the covetous were mad, the world itself would run of a garget; for who is not bitten with this mad dog?"-Ibid., p. 280. Richardson gives garget as meaning "windpipe," and quotes from the Canterbury Tales, 15 341; but the word has some different signification in the above passages, and not the same even in those two. Darbyshirian. "Two words for money, Darbyshirian wise; (That's one too many) is a naughty guise.' Hall's Satires, III. iii. 11. Iulisy. In 1527 Ashwell, Prior of Newnham Abbey, wrote to the Bp. of Lincoln that George Joye was infected "with heresi, iulisy, and frensy."-Maitland's Essays on the Reformation, p. 7. Bounnies. In the same book, p. 137, the following is quoted from Traheron's Warning to England, 1558:Briefely there be no vices in the world whereof you maie not see great buddes, or rather great bounnies, and bunches in them." I stop here, not that my list is exhausted, but out of regard to your space. In one or two of the above instances I suspect the difficulty is caused by a misprint. T. LEWIS O. DAVIES. Pear Tree Vicarage, Southampton. THE PORTRAITS OF ALLESTREE, FELL, AND DOLBEN IN CHRIST CHURCH HALL.-Has this fine picture by Sir Peter Lely, representing Allestree, Fell, and Dolben reading the Liturgy at the time its use was forbidden by the Parliament, ever been engraved or photographed? The first was after JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge. "THE LIBERAL."—In a notice of Moore's Letters and Journals of Lord Byron in the Tatler for January 14, 1831, Leigh Hunt says (p. 454):— "One of the most genuine wits now living, whose name we do not feel ourselves at liberty to mention without applying to him, and from whom (we are not sure) perhaps Mr. Moore has heard in one of the Reviews, was a writer in the Liberal." Who was this "genuine wit"? Hazlitt had reknown that the latter wrote in the Liberal! cently died; but Charles Lamb was alive. Is it There are two articles-(1) "Les Charmettes and Rousseau," signed "Carlone"; and (2) "On Shakspere's Fools," signed "Carluccio." Was one of these by Lamb? The concluding paragraph of the first is very Lambish; and the second I have always attributed to my old friend Charles Cowden Clarke, from the subject and the fact of there being three C's in the signature, though Leigh Hunt never to my knowledge named Cowden Clarke in connexion with that ill-starred publication, nor could Cowden Clarke very well be regarded as a 66 wit" in 1831. S. R. TOWNSHEND MAYER, MARLOW'S "FAUSTUS."-The opening lines of Marlow's Faustus are as follows: "Not marching in the fields of Thrasymene, Where Mars did mate the warlike Carthagens; Nor sporting in the dalliance of love, In courts of kings, where state is overturned, Nor in the pomp of proud audacious deeds, Intends our Muse to vaunt his heavenly verse." Could any of the readers of " N. & Q." help me to discover to what plays the poet here refers? Dyce has no note on this passage, and Cunningham merely remarks that he is "not aware that any of our Elizabethan commentators have ascertained what dramas are alluded to." SARAWAK.-I am anxious to know whether there be any official account of the territory and I should also feel obliged for an explanation of government of Sarawak. I know, I think, pretty a line which occurs in the same passage:"To patient judgments we appeal our plaud." Bückeburg, N. Germany. 66 L. BARBÉ. "OUTILE."-A Lancashire man, writing temp. Charles I., uses the following phrase, “The outile of the chapel," and, again, a little outile or hovel." Can any of your readers tell me the derivation and exact meaning of the word outile, or give other instances of its use? "PHILOTHEA AND PAMELA": "THE SPAWE." -A testator (temp. Charles I.) bequeaths two pictures, one of "Philothea and Pamela," the other of The Spawe." Can your readers throw any light on the subjects of these paintings, or tell me who was the painter? "IF PETER'S KEYS WILL NOT SERVE, PAUL'S SWORD MUST."-What pope uttered this saying, and on what occasion? J. S. F. RIDLAND, READLAN, OR READLAND.-Magnus Readlan, or Ridland, was in York, York county, Maine, U.S. America, in 1719, and was ancestor of a large descent, many of whom now spell the name Redlon, Ridlon, and Ridley. I am informed that there are Ridlands in Sandsting parish, Shetland, the only family bearing either of the above names that I have heard of in Great Britain. Can any one inform me whether such surnames are known in Scotland or England? G. T. RIDDEll. Harrison, Maine, U.S. America. ST. DUBRICIUS.-Where can I find any particulars about this British saint, to whom at least one church in West Somerset is dedicated? Can any one inform me to what family the Wentworth belonged who was governor of Jamaica circa 1690? Was he one of the family of that name who were Barons Arundel of Trerice, in Cornwall, but who frequently resided on their estate at Allerford in West Somerset? It seems probable, as this Governor Wentworth married a Hancock, which family held at that time the manor of Lydeard St. Lawrence, a property situated not far from Allerford. FREDERICK HANCOCK. Windermere, Cary Crescent, Torquay. "LINES WRITTEN ON CONTEMPLATING THE RUINS OF BEAULY ABBEY."-Perhaps one of your readers who has the opportunity of referring to the back numbers of the New Monthly Magazine will favour me with a reference to the volume, between the years 1825 and 1830, which contains "Lines written on Contemplating the Ruins of Beauly Abbey," together with the signature or initials of the author. C. K. nearly all that can be gathered from ordinary published sources up to the date of the death of Sir James Brooke, but from that time I have not been able to meet with any account of the progress of the country. ANON. THE DEATH OF CAPT. COOK.-I am anxious to know where I can see a key to Hodges's picture, of which I have a print, representing the death of Capt. Cook. I wish to know who the person is who is represented on the ground, firing at the natives. He has epaulets on his shoulders, otherwise he appears to be in plain clothes. H. A. J. his account of the rising of 1715 (Hist. Scot., "LANCASHIRE MEMORIALS."-Mr. Burton, in Lond., 1873), makes frequent reference to a book called Lancashire Memorials. Where can I obtain or see this book? A. M. S. LAVENDER.-Lupton, in his Notable Things, p. 250, says that the water in which lavender is soaked will remove spots and stains from cloth, cap, or hat, if the spot be rubbed with it. Is there any foundation at all for such assertion? Mayfair. C. A. WARD. Replies. PREMONSTRATENSIAN ABBEYS. (5th S. vi. 288, 411, 524; vii. 234, 297.) Brodholm, Nottingham, founded temp. Stephen by Agnes de Camvile. Value, 16l. 5s. 2d. Granted 6 Elizabeth to John Caniers and Wm. Haber. Welbeck, Notts, founded 1153 by Thomas Jocei. Value, 2981. 4s. 8d. Granted 30 Henry VIII. to Richard Whalley. I append a list of all the Premonstratensian houses in this country at the time of the disso-Bishop of Winchester. Value, 3371. 15s. 6d. Granted Hales, Salop, founded 16 John by Peter de Rupibus, lution. It is compiled from the catalogue of Wm. 30 Henry VIII. teSir John Dudley. Cobbett : Tychfield, Hants, founded temp. Henry III. by Valued at Peter de Rupibus, Bishop of Winchester. 2807. 198. 10d. Granted 29 Henry VIII. to Sir Thomas Wriothesley, who built a stately house here. Bradsole, near Dover, Kent, founded 1191 by King Richard I. Value, 1421. 8s. 9d. Granted by Henry VIII. to the Archbishop of Canterbury. West Langdon, Kent, founded 1192 by William de Auberville. Yearly value, 561. 6s. 9d. Granted 30 Henry VIII. to Archbishop of Canterbury. Cockersand, Lancaster, founded temp. Henry II. by William Lancastre. Value, 2827. 78. 74d. Granted 35 Henry VIII. to John Ketchin. Horneby, Lancaster, founded by the ancestors of Sir Thomas Stanley. Value, 261. Granted 36 Henry VIII. to Lord Monteagle. Croxton, Leicester, founded 1162 by William Porcarius. Value, 4581. 19s. 14d. Granted 30 Henry VIII. to Thomas, Earl of Rutland. Barlings, Lincoln, founded 1154 by Ralph de Haye. Value, 3071. 16s. 6d. Granted to Charles, Duke of Suffolk. Hagneby, Lincoln, founded 1175 by Herbert de Oneby and Lady Agnes, his wife. Value, 981. 7s. 4d. Granted 30 Henry VIII. to John Freeman, of London. Irford, Lincoln, founded temp. Henry II. by Ralph Albini. Value, 147. 13s. 4d. Granted 31 Henry VIII. to Robert Tirwhit. Neubo, Lincoln, founded 1198 by Richard de Malebisse. Value, 1587. 11s. 8d. Granted 29 Henry VIII. to Sir John Markham. Neus or Newhouse. Lincoln, founded 1143 by Peter de Gousel. Value, 1141. 1s. 44d. Granted 30 Henry VIII. to Charles, Duke of Suffolk. Tupholm, Lincoln, founded temp. Henry II. by Alan de Nevill and Gilbert, his brother. Value, 1191. 2s. 8d. Granted 30 Henry VIII. to Sir Thomas Heneage. West Dereham, Norfolk, founded 1188 by Hubert, Bishop of Salisbury. 2521. 12s. 11d. Granted 31 Henry VIII. to Thomas Dereham. Langley, Norfolk, founded 1198 by Robert Fitz Roger. Value, 1281. 19s. 94d. Granted 38 Henry VIII. to John Berney. Wendling, Norfolk, founded 50 Henry III. by Rev. Wm. de Wendling. 55l. 18s. 41d. Granted 16 Eliz. to Ed. Dyer and H. Cressener. Sulbey, Northampton, founded circa 1155 by Wm. de Wideville. Value, 3051. 8s. 5 d. Granted 10 Eliz. to Sir Christopher Hatton. Alnwick, Northumberland, founded 1147 by Eustace Fitz John. 1947. 78. Granted 4 Edward VI. to Ralp Sadler and Laurence Winnington. Blanca Landa, Northumberland, founded 1165 by Walter de Bolebec. 441. 9s. 1d. Granted 37 Henry VIII. to John Bellew and John Broxholm. Leyestone, Suffolk, founded 1182 by Ralph de Glanville. Value, 1817. 17s. 1d. Granted 28 Henry VIII. to Charles, Duke of Suffolk. Beigham, Sussex, founded 1200 by Robert de Turreham. Value, 152l. 9s. 44d. Dureford, Sussex, founded 1169 by Robert Hoese. Value, 1087. 138. 9d. Granted 29 Henry VIII. to Sir Wm. Fitz Williams. Corham, Yorks, founded temp. Henry II. by Ralph Fitz Robert, Lord of Middleham. 207. 14s. 8d. Eglestone, Yorks, founded temp. Henry II. by Ralph de Multon. 36. 8s. 3d. Granted 2 Edward VI. to Robert Shelley. stable of Richmond.' Value, 1887. 16s. 2d. Granted 14 Richmond, Yorks, founded 1151 by Roald, the ConElizabeth to John Stanhope. Tallagh, Caermarthen, founded 1197 by Rhesse Griffith Price. 1531. 1s. 4d. JOHN THOMPSON. The Grove, Pocklington. PROCLAIMING AN EARL'S TITLES AT THE ALTAR (5th S. vi. 447; vii. 15.)—MR. WARREN, at the latter reference, says, "the offering of the coronet was most likely merely of a private nature." I cannot agree with him in the view he takes. Collins, in his Peerage, gives a very full description of the funeral of Edward, third Earl of Derby, in 1574, copied from a MS. in the library of John Austis, Garter. The body was carried to Ormskirk Church, and placed within a stately hearse, erected "between the quire and the body of the church." Norroy King of Arms then pronounced the style of the defunct. The MS. proceeds thus: "Which ended, the Dean of Chester began his sermon, and after the sermon the Vicar began the commemoration, and after the Epistle and Gospel the Offering was commenced in manner following. First Henry Earl of Derby, being principal mourner, did offer for the defunct and Norroy Kings of Arms, and Lancaster Herald of a piece of gold, having before him Garter, Clarencieux, Arms,... and after him did proceed the other eight mourners, two and two, according to their degrees.... First, the Lord Stourton and Sir Richard Stanley offered up the coat of arms, having before them Clarencieux King of Arms...." The MS. then describes the offering up, with similar ceremony, of the sword of the deceased, the targe of his arms, and his helm and crest, and afterwards the offering of the standard and great banner by the esquires who bore them, preceded by Bluemantle Pursuivant of Arms. At the con clusion of the ceremony of the offerings, the body was borne to the grave, attended by Clarencieux and Norroy Kings of Arms, and Lancaster Herald of Arms; and the Steward, Treasurer, and Comptroller, "kneeling on their knees, with weeping tears, brake their white staves and rods over their heads, and threw the shivers of the same into the grave." The offerings were evidently made at the altar, and the ceremony, which was no doubt arranged with strict regard to heraldic usage, had certainly nothing of a private nature about it. Had the Earl been the last of his race, it is very probable that the coronet would have been offered up as well as the sword, &c. It is to be observed that the style of the deceased was not proclaimed at the grave when the staves were broken (as was done at the great heraldic funeral of the Duke of Wellington), but before the commencement of the religious service, probably at the foot of the hearse at the entrance to the choir. H. P. D. DEVOTIONAL WORKS (5th S. vi. 369, 492.)-To the notices which have already appeared there may be added another book, which had a great popularity in the seventeenth century, as is evidenced by so many editions. The title is "The Practice of Piety, directing a Christian how to Walk, that he may please God. Amplified by the Author. Piety hath the promise. 1 Tim. iv. 8. Lond., 1695." 12mo. pp. 566, with an allegorical engraved title. On another page there is: "Ad Carolum Principem. Tolle malos, extolle pious (sic), cognosce teipsum; Sacra tene, paci consule, disce pati. "She (Bunyan's wife) brought him for her portion two books which her father had left her at his death: The Plain Man's Pathway to Heaven was one; the other was Bayly Bishop of Bangor's Practice of Piety, which has been translated into Welsh (the author's native tongue), into Hungarian, and into Polish, and of which more than fifty editions were published in the course of a hundred years. These books he sometimes read with her; and though they did not, he says, reach his heart to awaken it, yet they did beget within him some desires to amend his vicious life, and make him fall in eagerly with the religion of the times...." &c. THREE PASSAGES IN "PARADISE LOST " (5th S. vii. 325.)-1. I cannot agree with JABEZ in the explanation he accepts of "A chance but chance may lead," &c. To say "It is only a chance, but even chance may lead," is not in Milton's manner; would require a constrained emphasis on the but; and, further, would make the speaker describe as improbable what he is intended to tell us is very likely to happen. The key to the explanation lies in the construction of the first chance, the meaning of but, and in the repetition of the word chance being an instance of one of Milton's "jingles" (such as "beseeching or besieging"). The verb is is omitted, as commonly in Milton; but is "that"; and the second chance we may treat as personified; then the line reads :"There is a chance that Chance may lead." Where would have been the difficulty if it had stood:A chance but, wandering nigh, some spirit of heaven May lead, &c.? And yet the construction of chance, but, and spirit is precisely the same as that of the "chance but chance" before us. There being a chance that chance might lead me to some similar term in the poetry of Milton's time, I turned over Fanshawe's Pastor Fido, and came on "If thou think, fond child, This chance by chance befell thee, thou art beguiled." Buchanan's paraphrase (quoted by JABEZ) goes for nothing, as it does not explain the force of but, and his comma before it is no help; a comma before that in my paraphrase would not affect the meaning. Buchanan's, whether he intended it or not, could be read to mean the same as mine. JABEZ says that "in all future editions it should be printed 'A chance-but chance,'" &c. As I am preparing a "future edition," I am glad of any suggestions, but as yet cannot see that either the pointing should be altered, or, if thus altered, that the passage would necessarily bear the construction he puts upon it. 2. (Bk. x. ll. 265-268.) Landor is wrong. His conjectural changes in Milton are seldom in Milton's spirit;-to "err the way" is, and may come under the same head as "wandering many a realm (iv. 234), and "these orbs to dwell" (iii. 670). 3. (Bk. ii. ll. 917-919.) A parallel to "Into this wild abyss the fiend stood and looked" is:"What the garden choicest bears Bk. v. 1. 369. JOHN BRADSHAW, LL.D. Balmoral House, Weston-super-Mare. To sit and taste." Milton's words are surely capable of simple enough interpretation, the sense seeming to be 'a chance, which after all is only a chance," or 66 ED. MARSHALL. |
