chrisom, as a shroud. And from this the term I presume the lines quoted by L. A. M. from the Castle Hedingham Register are by the Rev. Charles Darby, a poetical writer, to whom is ascribed Bacchanalia; or, a Description of a Drunken Club, a folio sheet, 1680. At an advanced period, when there was much rivalry among the religious poets to produce a metrical version of the Psalms which should give general satisfaction, Mr. Darby tried his hand at this hopeless task, and published, in 12mo, 1704," The Book of Psalms, in English Metre. The newest Version, fitted to the Common Tunes," which, with the exception of its being slightly noticed in Dr. Watts's Preface, is not recorded by any author or bibliographer who has treated of sacred poetry, and is, consequently, a much desiderated volume to collectors in that department of literature. When Mr. Darby published his Psalm-Book, he was "Rector of Kedington, Suffolk." Does he appear to have held a clerical appointment at Castle Hedingham? The dates I have given may enable your correspondent to satisfy himself as to the Peace referred to in the lines. A. G. two preceding weeks, a correspondence on the subject of the number of executions for murder in this country since 1839. As your correspondent J. P. D. appears to have found it difficult to obtain the required statistics, I may inform him that they are to be found in the Judicial Statistics published annually by Hansard & Co., Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn. From these official papers, I find that in the ten years following 1839 (1840-1849 inclusive), the executions for murder, in England and Wales were, each year, respectively-9, 9, 9, 13, 16, 12, 6, 8, 12, 15. In the next ten years, 1850-1859 inclusive, the respective numbers were-6, 9, 9, 8, 5, 7, 16, 14, 11, 9. In 1860, '61, '62, the executions for murder were, respectively 12, 14, 15. In 1863 (down to the present date, December 1), 19 persons have been executed for murder in England and Wales; a larger number than in any one year since 1835, when 21 persons were executed for that crime. The statistics of capital punishment, whether in our own or in other countries, afford interesting matter for reflection. It is found that where the extreme penalty for various crimes has been wholly or partially abolished, and permanent restraint substituted, the result has been a greatly increased public security from the evils conseifquent on such crimes, either through an increase in the proportion of convictions arising from commitments, or from a positive decrease in those commitments, or in some instances from both results combined. I should be very much obliged to L. A. M., he could give me a verbatim extract of that entry; and to any of your correspondents who could give me similar ones, as from their scarceness they become interesting, and I have never been able to find an entry of such myself. Chester. ROBERT MORRIS. JANE, LADY CHEYNE (2nd S. x. 127.)-Can there be a doubt that the play of The Concealed Fansyes is by Jane Lady Cheyne, eldest daughter of William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle, and wife of Charles Cheyne, Esq. (in 1681 created Viscount Newhaven)? She died Oct. 8, 1669, æt. 48, and was buried at Chelsea on November 1 following, her funeral sermon being preached by Adam Littleton, D.D., rector of that parish. (As to her, see Wilford's Memorials, 112; Lysons's Environs, ii. 76, 93, 106, 107, 127; Life of the Duke of Newcastle, by his Duchess, 90, 91, 157; and Faulkner's Chelsea (ed. 1829) i. 223-225, 332-334; ii. 132). As she married Mr. Cheyne in or about 1654, her drama was probably written before that period. The portrait of this estimable and accomplished lady has been twice engraved (Granger's Biog. Hist. of England, ed. 1824, iii. 309); she therefore ought to have had a place in the Catalogues of British Engraved Portraits. C. H. & THOMPSON COOPer. EXECUTIONS FOR MURDER (3rd S. iv. 438.)—I observe in your journal of Nov. 28, and of the WILLIAM TALLACK. When I replied to J. P. D. I was under the impression that the Returns known as Redgrave's Tables were still published among the parliamentary papers, but I find that they have been superseded by the Returns under the above head, and which are presented in the form of a blue-book of somewhat formidable dimensions, price 3s. 6d. I have only one at hand, that for the year 1861. The contents are most compendious, embracing Part I. Police; Criminal Proceedings; Prisons. Part II. Common Law; Equity; Civil and Canon Law. There is no number given; but they will be readily found under the title of Judicial Statistics, either at the British Museum or at Hansard's in Great Queen Street. The former mode of presenting the Criminal Returns was that of printing them in the usual form of Parliamentary papers, but my copies are displaced, and I cannot give the numbers; but they are easily procurable on applying for them as Criminal Returns, naming T. B. the years for which they are wanted. HAWKINS FAMILY (3rd S. iii. 205; iv. 438.)I do not know whether the following item of information may throw some light on the Hawkins family, but I give it for what it is worth. I have an old poetical translation of Horace, entitled"Odes of Horace: the best of Lyrick Poets, containing much Moralitie and Sweetnesse. The Third Edition. Selected, translated, reviewed, and enlarged with many more, by Sr T. H. London: Printed by John Haviland for William Lee, and are to be sold at his shop, at the signe of the Turk's Head in Fleet Street, 1635." In very old handwriting T. H. is filled up Hawkins, and from some pieces of poetry prefixed to it in his honour, it is shown that he was a knight (eques auratus). The pieces of poetry in his honour are by Sir John Beaumount, Baronet; George Fortescue, Hugh Holland, and J. Chapperlin. C. T. RAMAGE. MERCHANTS' MARKS (3rd S. iv. 413.) - Mackerell's History of Lynn contains examples of several curious merchants' marks formerly in the Lynn churches. These examples are, however, not carefully engraved. In the possession of the Corporation of Lynn there are an extensive series of early deeds, to many of which are appended seals, on which are represented the marks of very many of the early mayors and burgesses of that town. I have a collection of nearly 400 examples copied from these seals, dating from 1290 to the reign of Elizabeth. The Corporation of Coventry possess also a large collection of charters, deeds, &c., with numerous examples of merchants' marks impressed on the seals appended thereto. A short paper by Mr. Harrod, in the Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Archæological Society, contains examples of several of the marks used by the Yarmouth herring packers, temp. sixteenth century, and the Corporation Records contain drawings of others. Examples of marks used by coopers are given in a privately printed account of the Coopers' Company of London by Mr. Firth. Mr. Fitch, of Norwich, has printed a short pamphlet on the Brewers' marks of Norwich. Mr. Frost, the historian of Hull, made a collection of the marks pertaining to the merchants of that town. His collections, which are in my possession, contain some very interesting specimens. I should be glad to give A. B. any additional information on this subject. J. J. HOWARD. IRISH UNION (3rd S. iv. 342.)—When the great agitation for Repeal of the Union was carried on by the late Mr. O'Connell, many most valuable statistical works on the subject of S. G. E.'s query were published by the association. The general statistical publications issued by the body (independent of political bearing) were very valuable. Perhaps J. M. Ray, Esq., of the Registry Office, Dublin, could assist S. G. E. S. REDMOND. THE EARL OF SEFTON (3rd S. iv. 442, &c.) — Your correspondent, S. REDMOND, seems unfortunate in supposing that an Earl of Sefton was a priest of the Church of Rome. The first Earl certainly was not. The second and third Earls were both married, and therefore could not have been priests in a church whose rule is celibacy. The fourth and present is a Lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards. It, however, appears from Burke's Peerage, my authority for this account, that Richard, 7th Viscount, was a clergyman of the church of Rome. GEORGE W. MARSHALL. SIMON FRAZER, LORD LOVAT (3rd S. iv. 444.) In the Notices to Correspondents, p. 444, it is stated that Lord Lovat was taken by a party of armed constables at his lodgings in Soho Square in 1715. This suggests a query I have long intended sending to "N. & Q." Where was he taken in 1745? He was, I believe, taken in Scotland. I wish to find an account of his journey from Scotland to London, and should be greatly obliged by any reference which would tend to throw light upon this subject.* I possess a rubbing of his coffin-plate from the chapel of St. Peter ad Vincula, as also of those of Lords Balmerino and Kilmarnock. A copy of it may be interesting, as I have not yet seen it printed. "SIMON DOMINUS FRASER DE LOVAT Decollat: Apr. 1747. Etat: Suæ 80." GEORGE W. MARSHALL. CAPACITY FOR RELIGION IN THE INFERIOR ANIMALS (3rd S. iv. 414.)-In reply to your correspondent G. C. GELDART'S query, "Whether [* Lord Lovat was finally apprehended in the district of Morar, on the western coat of Scotland, by a party from the "Furnace" Sloop, which had been sent to search the isles and the coast. In the Lake Morar he had hidden himself, and the contemporary narratives state that he was discovered within a hollow tree, in which he was able to stand upright after having entered by an orifice below, through which the sailors were astonished to see what appeared to be two human legs muffled in flannel like those of a gouty alderman. He was conveyed in a litter, first to Fort William, and then by easy stages through Stirling and Edinburgh, and thence by Berwick to London. Vide John Hill Burton's Lives of Lord Lovat and Duncan Forbes, p. 249, &c. 8vo, 1847.-ED.] there has ever prevailed among the great Roman Catholic Doctors any opinion that was esteemed probable or commendable respecting a capacity for religion in beings below the grade of humanity?" I would refer him to the following passage at p. 13 of A Treatise of Church-lands and Tithes by William Forbes, Advocat." Printed at Edinburgh in 1705. This writer, speaking of St. Francis, whom he describes as "a dissolute merchant in his youth," proceeds to inform us that "upon the wakening of his conscience" he became so compassionate that He cou'd not find in his Heart to kill a Louse. He endeavoured, by Preaching to Beasts, and Teaching Birds their Catechism, and Sheep to Bleat out their Canonical Hours, and such like Holy Feats, to treasure up a Stock of Merit in the Bank of his Fraternity." J. C. R. MARVEN (3rd S. iv. 268, 420.)-I am afraid that I am not on the right scent after all respecting the connection of Marvin and Cambell. I have a seal which bears "ar. a demi-lion sa." The arms of Marvin of Pertwoode, co. Wilts, temp. Eliz. The arms which your correspondent H. S. G. kindly gives are-Or, on a chevron sa. a mullet with crescent for difference, which are those of Sir Thomas Murfyn, Lord Mayor of London in 1518. As he lived in 1518, and the Marvins shortly after, viz. temp. Eliz., bearing distinct arms, they can hardly be of the same family. K. R. C. EIKON BASILIKE (3rd S. iv. 441.)-The epitaph, said to have been painted on the chancel wall of Handborough church, Oxon, will be found at the end of an 8vo edition of the Eikon Basilike, published in 1727, or rather at the end of the Royal Martyr, published at the same time, and by the same editor, and bound up with it. The Dedication of both pieces is signed "R. Royston." The Address to the Reader is signed "Rich. Perrin chief." The same epitaph is published in Sandford's History of the Kings of England, who says it was written by Richard Powell, of the Inner Temple, Esq., and together with his majesty's portraiture at large, and his works in folio underneath it, was painted and set up in St. Olave's church, Silver Street, London. H. T. ELLACOMBE, M.A. Is it possible that my old acquaintance, the remarkably interesting inscription in Handborough Church is obliterated and gone? Surely this is a piece of Vandalism in the disguise of restoration, which only requires to be represented in the proper quarter, and with due urgency, in order to obtain its reversal. No man, one would suppose, in his right senses, not even a fashionable architect in the paroxysms of medievalism, could imagine a few scraped stones on a chancel wall to be preferable to this striking record cf a bygone age. I pray you, Mr. Editor, that not another number of "N. & Q." may go forth without this indignant protest, in which I feel thousands would C. W. BINGHAM. | join me, of If it is lawful to contravene an editorial note, let EXECUTION FOR WITCHCRAFT (3rd S. iii. 300.) me remark that there is a case of execution much later than that of the three reputed witches at Exeter, in 1682. See British Topography, vol. i. p. 311, which tells of "Mrs. Mary Hickes and her daughter Elizabeth, but of nine years of age, who were condemned the last assizes held at Huntingdon, for witchcraft, and there executed on Saturday the 28th of July, 1716." PELAGIUS. BAPTISMAL NAMES (3rd S. iii. 328.) — When I was a curate I remember my vicar being sore perplexed at being asked to baptise a child "Bessie." He refused to baptise it by any nick-name, and suggested Eliza, Elizabeth, &c., to the parents instead, but in vain. We searched the books, and only discovering the same constitution of Abp. Peccham, mentioned by the editor, bearing upon the case, the point was referred to the late excellent Sir John Patteson, who advised compliance, as we had no law on our side. So I baptised the PELAGIUS. child by the obnoxious nickname. RING FINGER (3rd S. iii. 344.)- UUYTE may like to hear that Pliny informs us (Hist. Nat., xxxiii. 1), that rings used to be worn originally on the fourth finger, afterwards on the second, then on the least. The Britons and Gauls wear PELAGIUS. them on the middle finger. DENTITION IN OLD AGE (3rd S. iii. 499.)-Having occasion, to my sorrow, to visit lately one of the most experienced dentists of the midland counties, I took occasion in an interval of torture to bring this subject before him. S. D. will be pleased to know that his guess was entirely corroborated by my tormentor, who assured me people frequently fancied that they cut new teeth when at a great age, whereas the truth was their gums had fallen, and the stumps of the old teeth once more came into play. This also explains the condition of the old gentleman's teeth examined by MR. PICKFORD (p. 474 same volume). Pliny tells a more wonderful story than any adduced in "N. & Q.:" "Homini novissimi [dentes] qui genuini vocant, circiter vicesimum annum gignuntur, multis et octogesimo. Fœminis quoque, sed quibus in juventa non fuere nati, decidere in senecta, et mox renasci certum est. Zanclen Samothracenum civem cui renati essent post centum et quatuor annos Mutianus visum a se prodidit.”—Hist. Nat. xi. 37. PELAGIUS. DYING WITH THE EBBING-TIDE (3rd S. ii. 258.) The opinion is older than Pliny, who states, after 3rd S. IV. DEC. 19, '63.] NOTES AND QUERIES. recounting numerous marvels, "His addit Ari- DOGS (3rd S. iv. 50.) - Pope speaks rather hastily respecting the honour the Scriptures pay this animal. On the contrary, it is throughout them spoken of with hatred as unclean and abominable. The higher side of this creature's character, its fidelity, attachment, &c., which is the prevailing view we moderns take of it, is first seen emerging in Homer. Byron and Landseer, in their respective arts, have ennobled these higher qualities of the dog in our own days. See on the moral qualities of dogs, and how this animal is used, symbolically by the great Venetian painters and others, some remarkable sections in Mr. Ruskin's Modern Painters, v. pt. ix. § 14-20. PELAGIUS. SUNDRY QUERIES (3rd S. iv. 451.)-6. Good accounts of the Via Dolorosa may be found in the Père Geramb's Pilgrimage, and in Chateaubriand's Itinerary of the Holy Land. 9. Dorax is a character in one of Dryden's plays, Don Sebastian. The dialogue between Sebastian and Dorax is considered but little inferior to the quarrel between Brutus and Cassius in F. C. H. Shakspeare. 15. Jockey of Norfolk. Does not MR. WALCOTT refer to the lines pinned on the Duke of Norfolk's tent before the battle of Bosworth? "Jockey of Norfolk be not too bold, For Dickon your master is bought and sold." : 16. The Duke with the Silver Hand. I do not know what Duke of Somerset bore this appellation; but Sir Humphrey Stafford with the Silver Hand, the founder of the great Stafford family, died in 1413. (See Burke's Extinct Peerage, HERMENTRUde. p. 492.) QUOTATIONS WANTED (3rd S. iv. 454.) — “He died of no distemper." These lines are Dryden's, but I am unable to state from which of his works they are taken. I think, however, that S. S. S. "Of no distemper, of no blast he died, F. C. H. PISCINE NEAR ROODLOFTS (3rd S. iv. 270, 361, 441.)-To determine the character of the supposed piscina at Maxey, the first thing to be ascertained is whether it had a drain. This STAMFORDIENSIS does not inform us, though he should have done so before rushing to the conclusion that there must have been an altar near it. If any opening in the basin, or any vestiges of a drain are still discernible, it was a piscina. Still it does not neany altar, cessarily follow that it was for the use of and certainly no altars were placed in such positions. Piscinas were for various uses; generally, indeed, for receiving the ablutions, the water of the lavabo, and also such portions of wine and water as had not been used for the mass; but also for the reception of water which had been used for baptism, water in which the corporals and mundatories had been washed by the subdeacons or others in holy orders; water which had been used to wash any altar linen, pavement, or place on which the consecrated species had accidentally fallen; as also the ashes of burnt tow, cotton, palms, and other things, which it was not proper to deposit in ordinary places. Piscinas for these purposes might be placed any where about the church, and elevated and out of the way places would be obviously preferable for them. If, however, the piscina discovered at Maxey should not appear to have had any drain, and especially if its flooring is flat, and without any hollow, it is quite probable that it was only a niche for some holy image. F. C. H. 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