man may, by any possible chance, have either of those papers loose. P. J. F. GANTILLON. 4, Andover Place, Cheltenham. "JOURNAL OF A SOLDIER": ITS AUTHOR. At the close of the great war which ended with the downfall of Napoleon, many books were written on the subject, but few readers will fail to remember one remarkable for the purity of its English, the high moral tone which pervaded it, coupled with much shrewd observation and no mean descriptive power. The writer, a native of Edinburgh, educated for the ministry, enlisted while quite a youth in the 71st Regiment, was with Moore through Spain, fought at Corunna, and finished off with Wellington at Waterloo, blighted in prospects and broken in constitution pensionless. In one of the early numbers of Chambers' Journal there is a resumé of this book; and the reviewer-Robert Chambers, I think-states that the writer, "Poor Tom," was last seen working as a day labourer on the Calton Hill; that he went to South America, and probably never heard of the success of his book. In my young days I have met with many old heroes who belonged to the 71st; none of them, however, could tell me more than that they knew "Donald McDonald, the hardy Highlander," but could not remember his comrade "Tom," although they admitted he must have been "one of them "; and a rare old soldier, Sandy Campbell by name, warmed up on my referring to a story in the book, and confirmed it by exclaiming, Man! I was one of the Millers." In the last canto of Don Juan, Lord Byron puts a foot-note from the Journal of a Soldier to justify his attack on Lord Wellington. J. T. B. FRANCIS JUNIUS.-Is it possible to ascertain what became of the brothers of this reformer? His autobiography forms the basis of the account given of him by Bayle. He mentions that he was one of nine children, and gives the name of his elder brother. But more than this it seems difficult to collect. Perhaps some of the readers of "N. & Q." may be acquainted with sources from which the histories of noble French families of the sixteenth century may be gathered. F. J. JOHN MONINS, LIEUTENANT OF DOVER CASTLE. All the old pedigrees of Cranmer say, that the archbishop's sister Jane married John Monins, Lieutenant of Dover Castle. Hasted does not mention Monins in his list of Lieutenants of Dover, but says (ix. p. 473) that John Monins, Lieutenant of Dover Castle, died 1554, seised of Charlton near Dover, and was ancestor to Monins of Canterbury, whose pedigree was attested in 1779 by R. Bigland and T. Heard. But Bigland's pedigree of Monins, in the College of Arms, does not contain any John Monins, Lieutenant of Dover, but has a Thomas Monins, Lieutenant of Dover, who did not marry a Cranmer. Can any Kentish antiquary clear up this confusion of authorities? TEWARS. ROLL OF MONTROSE'S ADHERENTS. — After the rout of Philiphaugh, Sept. 13, 1645, there was found among the baggage "a roll wherein were the names of all that either were come into, or held correspondence with Montross; which occasioned trouble to many persons afterwards "(Rushworth, Hist. Col. part IV. vol. i. p. 232). Has this interesting document been printed in full? Does the roll itself still exist? CORNUB. PLUSCARDINE ABBEY: ITS "HISTORY OF SCOT LAND."-In an interesting article on the subject of the Battle of Baugé, and the personages engaged in it, which appeared in the Herald and Genealogist (No. xxviii. p. 340), Mr. F. M. Nichols, noticing Buchanan's account of the Duke of Clarence's death, attributed by that historian to "Alexander Macalselanus, a Knight of Lennox," on the authority of the Pluscardine Book, says in a note (p. 350), "I have been unable to discover any particulars regarding the chronicle or record to which Buchanan refers under the title of 'Liber Pluscartensis.' I have also looked in vain for any notice of it in several of the various works regarding the records of religious houses in Scotland, and have very great doubts if it ever existed, any more than did the ancient chronicle in the possession of "Mr. Macduff, the alehouse-keeper," on which Hume of Godscroft rested his account of the fabulous origin of the Douglases. As it seems to be the sole authority for the existence and exploits of this "Knight of Lennox," I should like to know if any one of the readers of "N. & Q." ever heard elsewhere of this Book of Pluscardine? Buchanan of Auchmar is of very little weight. His "Inquiry" is merely got up to flatter his own clan, and deals largely in fable regarding its origin and early history. ANGLO-SCOTUS. less creature that flew to him for protection was not worthy to live; thereupon they fell upon him and slew him." I heard the above lately in a sermon, and I am E. H. curious to know its authority. FIRST PLATE EXECUTED ON STEEL. In the sumptuously got up and illustrated edition (1823) of Coxe's Social Day, a poem, where, sooth to say, the burin vaut bien mieux la plume, there being thirty-two engravings of the most costly and delicate character to a very small halfpenny-worth of text, at p. 288 is the illustration, the "Broken Jar," after David Wilkie, engraved by C. Warren, a well-known print. In a catalogue book sale it is stated that this is the first plate executed on steel. I question this. Can any of your readers decide in this question? Surely steel engravings were in existence before 1823. C. D. L. SUBJECT OF A PICTURE.-I wish to consult you, and your readers through yourself, as to the probable subject of a picture which is at present in the country mansion of an acquaintance of mine. It appears to me to be either Italian or Spanish, and of the sixteenth or early seventeenth century. Size, about four feet high by three. The background represents a forest. In the front, to the spectator's right, a cave. In it the sitting figure of a monk, in black robes: his head rests on his left arm, of which the elbow rests on a slab of rock; on his knees a book of devotion, near him a cross and a skull; behind him a wooden stair, apparently for communication from without, and a coil of rope. He seems to be asleep. The rest of the foreground, to the spectator's left, is occupied by a sort of pit, or depression in the forest. It is separated from the ground behind by a ledge of rock, or a parapet. Over this another black figure of a monk is leaning, and letting down a small basket by a cord. From the extreme left (of the spectator), a naked bearded figure-the lower limbs being in shade, it is not easy to say whether of man or satyr-is advancing with outstretched arms as if to lay hold of the basket. Near him, in front, a third monk's figure, with his back to the spectator, but his face seen in profile, appears to be watching the proceeding. The last three figures are smaller, in proportion to the seated personage, than the rules of perspective would seem to justify. The impression produced is that of a vision, seen by the sleeping monk. It was called by the owner a "Temptation of St. Anthony"; but the treatment of the subject on that supposition is quite unusual, and not very intelligible. JEAN LE TROuveur. VERNON AND DUNCOMBE FAMILIES (3rd S. xii. 147, 258.)-G. F. D. in a former number answers a query of mine respecting the Vernon family of Antigua. Having found the name of Duncumbe among the family records, I desire to ask him if he knows of any connection between the two families of Duncombe of Surrey and Vernon of Antigua, whose old mansion was Little Forsters, near Egham. The names occur in the connection indicated thus: -About 1750, my great uncle, James Vernon, was in partnership with a Mr. John Dixon Duncombe, as West India merchants. The Antigua estate was at that time mortgaged to a Mr. Slingsby Bethell, a London merchant, I believe. Mr. Bethell was, as appears from one of his letters, which I have seen, connected with the family of Codrington. My great-grandfather, Colonel the Hon. John Vernon (a privy councillor W. J. VERNON. for Antigua) was then living. Leek. MARCHES OF WALES.-By statute 27 Hen. VIII. c. 26, s. 7, Cawrsland and Clunesland (the baronies of Caus and Clun) are allotted to the newly formed county of Montgomery; these lordships are, however, now part of Shropshire. Information is solicited as to any documents showing when and M. C. J. how the change was effected. 20, Abercromby Square, Liverpool. "WHO IS THE BABY?"-Can any correspondent tell me who is the author of the following lines, and whether there be any more verses belonging to them ? "Who is the Baby That doth lie I am not sure that I quote the words correctly. Queries with Answers. THOMAS EARL OF CONINGSBY. — In "N. & Q." (3rd S. vi. 455) E. M. B. mentions having lately seen a print of Thomas Earl of Coningsby. I am anxious to learn where he saw it. Perhaps E. M. B., or some of your numerous readers, could inform me in what work it is to be found, or the MAURICE DENNY DAY. name of the engraver? Manchester. [The portrait of Thomas, Earl of Coningsby, with his daughters, Ladies Margaret and Frances, was painted by Kneller in 1722, and engraved by George Vertue in 1723. In 1784 the original painting was at Hampton Court in Herefordshire, and is probably still in that mansion. Musgrave (Addit. MS. 6391, p. 70) thus describes it: "Over the chimney of the great hall is a large family piece, painted when Lord Coningsby was in the Tower on account of the South Sea affairs. His lordship is sitting in a gown, Magna Charta in his right hand; by him his two daughters-Margaret, afterwards Countess of Con ingsby, and Lady Frances-when girls, in red riding habits trimmed with silver; a distant view of the Tower, on the pedestal of which his right arm rests, also arms and quarterings. This picture is engraved on the pedestal also, with a long inscription setting forth the reason of his imprisonment," &c. Musgrave also found another portrait in the great dining parlour of "Thomas Lord Coningsby, standing in his robe as Vice-Treasurer of Ireland, black with gold frogs, hat on a table by him, painted by Kneller in 1709, whole length." Consult also Noble's History of England, iii. 44, and the Beauties of England and Wales, vi. 577.] MRS. PRITCHARD'S EPITAPH.— "Her comic vein had ev'ry charm to please, 'Twas Nature's dictates breath'd with Nature's ease; W. WHITEHEAD, P. L." I found the above lines written on a fly-leaf of a work entitled The Goat's Beard, a fable in verse, printed in 1777. Who was the author of this work? and who was Mrs. Pritchard, also W. Whitehead, P.L., the composer of the above lines? H. W. BOYCE. Wangford. [These lines are by William Whitehead, Poet Laureat, and author of The Goat's Beard, a Fable, Lond. 1777, 4to. They are inscribed on a monument erected to the memory of Mrs. Hannah Pritchard, "by nature for the stage designed," in the south transept of Westminster Abbey, where it is also stated that "This tablet is here placed by a voluntary subscription of those who admired and esteemed her. She retired from the stage, of which she had long been the ornament, in the month of April, 1768, and died at Bath in the month of August following, in the fifty-seventh year of her age."- Vide Neale's Westminster Abbey, ii. 261. The Goat's Beard was the last of Whitehead's publications. It produced an attack, entitled Asses' Ears, a Fable, in which the office of Laureat is denied to men of genius, and judged worthy to be held only by such poets as Shadwell and Cibber. Some account of Whitehead may be found in "N. & Q.," 3rd S. vi. 140.] &c., in Scotland. He was, according to Camerarius, an abbot of Pittenweem, in Fife; from which situation he retired, and died a hermit in the wilds of Glenurchy, A.D. 649. He is commemorated on the ninth of January. There are in Perthshire several wells and springs dedicated to him, which are still places of pilgrimages and offering. See notes to Marmion and to the Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border. For some account of the Holy Pool in the neighbourhood of St. Fillan's chapel at Killan, in Perthshire, see the New Statistical Account of Scotland, x. 1088.] QUOTATIONS. "As on the driving cloud the shining bow- THOMAS E. WINNINGTON. [From a poem by S. T. Coleridge, written in later life, entitled "The Two Founts: stanzas addressed to a Lady on her recovery with unblemished looks from a severe attack of pain."] Who is the author of the following lines? [By Joseph Addison, Cato, Act II. Sc. 1.] H. [Young, Love of Fame, Sat. i. lines 147, 148.] ISLAND MENTIONED BY PTOLEMY.-It is supposed that Man is the island to which Claudius Ptolemæus has given the names Μοναοιδα, Μοναρινα, and Movavnoos. He begins his Geography with an account of Britain and, if I remember rightly, of the Western Isles of Scotland. It is, therefore, I suppose, in Book 1. he refers to the Isle of Man. As I live in the country and have not access to a copy of this work, I shall take it as a favour if you will be so good as to inform me of what Ptolemy says about the island. MANNINAGH. [The words of Ptolemy are: "Juxta orientalem plagam Hiberniæ, Insulæ hæ sunt Monaceda (alias Monarina Monavia)," etc., to which Baxter adds: “Quod manifeste vitiosum est pro Monaæta vel Mon uict."] BIBLE INDEX.-Is there any published Index to the events of the Bible? J. B. WHITTLE. [Consult The Book of Bible Events, by C. Baker, Lond. 1848, 16mo; The Home Treasury, edited by Felix Summerly, "Bible Events," Three Series, Lond. 1844, 16mo; A Shilling Book of Old and New Testament History, by George Frederick Maclear, 2 vols. Lond. 1866, 1867, 16mo; and the Tables at the end of The Bible Cyclopædia, 2 vols., Lond. 1843, 4to.] ESSINGTON, ETC.-1. A family of Blake is styled "of Essington, Hants," in the Visitation of 1634. The same family are styled "of Eston-town, Hants," in Berry's Hants Genealogies. Neither Essington nor Eston-town are mentioned in the Clergy List of 1867, or in the Map of Hampshire. What is the modern name of the place above mentioned ? 2. William Milward of St. Michael's, London, is described in 1627 as "Crewallman." What does this mean? TEWARS. [1. Essington we take to be the Essessentune of the Domesday Book, now known as Exton, in the hundred of Fawley. 2. Crewallman is perhaps Krefeldt-man, i. e. from Krefeldt in Rhine, Prussia, whence Crewell, as in "Crewel garters."] OLD PAPER. — I have by me several old diaries and some historical memorandums relating to the dispute between England and America in George III.'s time. It is my wish to have them bound for the sake of better preservation. From time, however, and in some cases perhaps from damp, many of the leaves have become more rotten and loose than blotting paper, so that they will scarcely hold together. I should be much obliged if any reader of "N. & Q." could inform me of any way by which I could restore to the paper its original cohesiveness, at the same time so as not to damage or obliterate the writing. It is necessary for me to add, that I am precluded from mounting the old paper on sheets of modern paper, as most of the old paper is written on both sides. P. HUTCHINSON. "Paschalis Episcopus Servus servorum Dei Cum universis sanctæ Ecclesiæ filiis et Apostolica sedis auctoritate et benevolentiâ debitores existamus; illis tamen locis atque personis, quæ specialius ac familiarius Romanæ sunt Ecclesiæ addictæ, quique ampliori Religionis gratiâ eminent, propensiores nos convenit eorum cui Domini authoritate ejusque Filii legitimi præsides, studio imminere. Quia igitur beatæ Mariæ cœnobium, Romanæ et Apostolicæ Ecclesiæ hactenus jure proprio adhæsisse cognoscuntur; nos pro devotione ac reverentiâ ejusdem Dei, Genitricisque semper Virginis Mariæ, ipsum sub nostræ manus protectione specialiter confovemus atque dirigimus. Unde tibi tuisque successoribus ad prædictæ Domus regimen auctoritatem concedimus; confirmamus siquidem vobis Coenobium ipsum et omnia, quæ ad illud pertinent, monasteria sive cellas cum suis pertinentiis: videlicet, Ecclesiam S. Salvatoris cum aliis Ecclesiis de Castello Bandusii: item Ecclesiam S. Nicolai cum Casali suo: Ecclesiam S. Mariæ de Cacunigio, S. Maria de Sala, S. Maria de Servaritiæ cum Casali suo, Sancti Petri de Monachis, S. Michaëlis de monte Salvolo cum Ecclesiis et pertinentiis suis, Ecclesiæ S. Mariæ de Calapano, S. Petri in Gennano cum Casali suo, Ecclesiam S. Vitalis in oppido Gentiani, S. Michaëlis in loco Firminiano cum villanis suis, Ecclesiam sanctæ Anastasiæ apud Acheruntem cum Ecclesiis ad eam pertinentibus, Ecclesiam sanctorum Martyrum Gervasii et Protasii in Bandusino fonte apud Venusiam, Ecclesiam sanctæ Luciæ cum suis pertinentiis apud Melphiam, &c. &c. "Datum Laterani per manum Johannis S.R.E. Cardinalis Diaconi, undecimo Kal. Junii Indict xi. Incarnationis Dominicæ мCIII. Pontificatus quoque Paschalis Papæ anno Iv." 66 The remaining part of the bull is not material, and therefore has not been copied, but from the portion given it will appear that Chaupy is perfectly correct in his quotation, the only error being that of the printer, who has transformed the names Gervasii et Protasii of the original work into Gervasi et Protasius. Chaupy's account of himself is, that he resided twelve years at Rome, depuis douze ans que je suis dans cette ville," i. e. Rome (p. 315), while the Biographie Universelle supposes him to have been there only ten. He adds that he was engaged for five years on his work-"La vérité est qu'il a été si difficile à bien établir que c'est à lui surtout qu'on doit attribuer que mon ouvrage ait été cinq ans à se finir," (p. 359),—the reason of which was, that his great difficulty had been to find a site, all the circumstances of which would suit those of Horace's villa. In order to accomplish this, he examined every probable situation in the neighbourhood of Rome, the details of which make the value of his work; for the Italians themselves, with some few exceptions, seem strangely to have neglected, or imperfectly treated of, their ancient topography, a subject successfully taken up by foreigners, as by Chaupy, a Frenchman, by Cluverius, with Hol stenius's notes upon him, and latterly very much by Germans and Englishmen. The result has been the production of a work of sterling value. Whether he or Cimaglia was the first to discover the true Fons Bandusiæ I do not know, but I have been unable to find Cimaglia's name in his work, though other writers are quoted, Pratilli especially, in his account of his journey on the Via Appia. This may have been owing to a little national jealousy between French and Italians, or he may really have been ignorant that the spring had been identified; for, as regards the site of Horace's villa, the subject of his whole work, and upon which he assumes this triumphant motto "Dicam insigne, recens, adhuc Indictum ore alio."-Od. iii. 25. Yet in his Preface (p. xxxvii.) he candidly and modestly admits that he was not the first who had looked for it on the proper spot:· “L'information prise sur les lieux, s'il n'y avoit jamais paru personne pour reconnoître la situation découverte, m'apprit que deux MM. anglois s'y étoient fait voir il y a dix ou douze années. Leur première demande qu'on les menât aux sources de la Licence, prouve, et qu'ils avoient connoissance de la conjecture que j'ai dite, qui avoit été, que cette petite rivière est la Digence, nommée par Horace comme le caractère de sa maison de campagne, et qu'il (sic) ne l'avoient pas méprisée. Les questions qu'ils ajoutèrent s'il y avoit des ruines antiques dans le lieu, et sur la réponse affirmative, si on vouloit le leur montrer, les firent conduire justement dans l'endroit découvert. Mais semblables à ceux qui, dans le jeu où on bande les yeux à un de la troupe, saisissent en vain les compagnons qu'ils désirent de faire mettre à leur place s'ils ne parviennent à les reconnoître, ils eurent beau tenir pour ainsi dire la vérité dans leurs mains, ils n'en furent pas plus avancés, faute de la discerner." After such an admission, I think we ought to allow to Chaupy the benefit of any doubt in his favour, and permit him unmolested to enjoy the little triumph of any discovery which he conceived himself to have drawn from the twentyeight folio volumes of that edition of the Bullarium which he had been rash enough to purchase. It is hardly necessary to say that, of commentators upon Horace, there are many, and old ones too. To take one edition only, Opera Horatii, folio, 1528, there are included in it the commentaries of Acron, Porphyrion, Ant. Mancinelli, and Judocus Badius Ascensius, and the annotations of Matthæus Bonfinis, and Aldus Manutius, Ro manus. And to show how inveterate was the persuasion that Horace's spring was the Fons Bandusiæ, I will quote some of their observations upon the ode addressed to the latter: "Acron.-Hæc Ode Blandusiæ fonti sacrificium pro *I do not forget Nibby, but hold his writings to belong more to the class of guide-books than antiquarian works. If the reader will compare his Dissertazioni delle Vie degli Antichi (printed at the end of the fourth vol. of Nardini, 8vo, Rome, 1820), with the old but valuable maps of Ameti, he will see reason for this remark. mittit. Blandusia enim Sabinensis agri regio est, in quâ Horatii ager fuit. Laudat igitur fontem, dicendo eum perspicuum vitri comparatione. "Anonymus. Festissime celebrat poëta fontem in agro suo in Sabinis positum, pollicens eum carmine suo nobilem efficere. Unde dicit, O fons Blandusiæ, regiunculæ illius in Sabinis, splendidior vitro, et digne dulci mero. hic sacrificium fonti Blandusiæ apud agellum suum in Sabinis, ubi perspicuitas ad imum, frigusque amabile et amænum erat, quem fontem laudando inter nobiles fontes annumerari contendit. Erat Blandusia regiuncula apud Sabinos ubi poëtæ agellus. Ant. Mancinelli.-Argumentum Odes xiii. Promittit And Porphyrion on the line, "Fons etiam rivo," &c., Epist. i. 17 :— "Fons Bandusinus è rivo qui Indulgentia dicitur; ergo magnus fons, siquidem ab illo rivus non sine nomine." Such are the observations of commentators, none of whom, it may be supposed, had attempted to verify the spot where Horace's villa once stood, and who, probably misled by Blandusiæ being in the genitive case, have enriched geography with a new district of that name, unknown alike to Cluverius and Cellarius, and which had escaped the investigations of Holstenius. But if one who has never had the good fortune to visit either of the springs in question may be permitted to offer a conjecture, I would venture to suggest that Horace's silence as to the name of his spring, joined with what he has said. "Me quoties reficit gelidus Digentia rivus, Quem Mandela bibit."-Epist. I. xviii. 104. "Fons etiam rivo dare nomen idoneus," xvi. 12. are a poetical way of expressing that it was called Digentiæ Fons; the saying that a thing is worthy to give a name to another, being, in works of fancy, one mode of affirming that it did so, and worthily. But some one may ask, what then do you say of the Fons Blandusia? I would say of it, that it was in Horace's native country, and that old recollections, and joy at seeing it once more, were, in addition to its natural beauty, the moving reasons why the poet vowed to sacrifice a kid to it on the morrow. Illness has prevented me from following out DR. RAMAGE's inquiries so early as I could have wished, and the seventh vol. of Ughelli's Italia of the church of Sta. Maria di Bancio by Pope Sacra I have searched in vain for any consecration Urban II. in 1093. In p. 43 is a bull of Pope Pascal II., dated 1103, in the fifth year of his pontificate, which begins thus: "Paschalis Episcopus Servus servorum Dei dilecto in Christo filio Abbati Coenobii S. Mariæ quod apud Bantium situm est ejusque successoribus," &c.; and in page 46 в it mentions "ecclesiam sanctorum martyrum Gervasii et Protasii in Bandusino fonte apud Venusiam." Orelli and Fea end in a reference to Chaupy. |
