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able to write The History of Self-Defence.' of special kinds of medicine who had invented authors But they are not mentioned in the account them spoke of themselves as the of him in the 'D.N.B.' of them. Greenhough's tincture, for instance, a famous preparation, the receipt for which is given in Dr. Paris's Pharmacologia,' 1833, p. 708, is described in The Whitehall Evening Post, 16 March, 1756, as being sold by "the Author T. Greenhough, Apothecary in Ludgate Street."

The letter of W. C. B. (ante, p. 227), about the writing of “ president" for "precedent being common at the time of Sir Roger L'Estrange, is a valuable result of my query. EDWARD S. DODGSON.

ADMIRAL CHRIST EPITAPH (10 S. vi. 425, 517; vii. 38).-Still another example not hitherto noted in N. & Q.' will be found (copied from a tomb at Newhaven) in The Gentleman's Magazine for November, 1856, at p. 603. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

This epitaph, or a variant of it, as follows, may be found in the churchyard of Whitby, just where it might be expected :—

"An old man of eighty-two is made to say :-
From rageing storms at sea
The Lord he did me save,

And here my tottering limbs is brought
To moulder in the grave.

Lancelot Moorsom, aged seventy-four, varies the
matter thus :-
:-

Tho' boreas blasts, and neptune waves,
Hath toss'd me too and fro',

By God's decree, you plainly see,
I'm harbour'd here below,

But here I do at anchor ride

With many of our fleet,

And once again I must set sail

Our Saviour Christ to meet."

J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL.

DR. JOHNSON: DR. JOHN SWAN: DR. WATTS (10 S. vii. 348).—I would suggest that the Dr. Watts referred to by Dr. Swan in his letter to Dr. Johnson may have been Dr. W. Watts, of Northampton. He was evidently practising in that town in 1757, some five years previous to the date of the letter quoted, as on 3 Oct. of that year he was a co-signatory with Dr. Stonhouse and others of an official announcement that Northampton was at that time entirely free from the smallpox. JOHN T. PAGE.

Long Itchington, Warwickshire.

A Month in Yorkshire,' p. 99, of Great Queen Street.

From 1858, by Walter White.

JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

Has the similarity of the idea expressed by Tennyson in the concluding couplet of his noble poem 'Crossing the Bar been

noticed ?

I hope to see my Pilot face to face

When I have crossed the bar.

T. M. W. O. W. HOLMES ON CITIZENSHIP (10 S. vii. 249, 297). The statement of O. W. Holmes that Dr. Hunter could not locate is not the passage MR. OXBERRY refers to, but is in Elsie Venner,' chap. xx. §1 :—

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There are people who think that everything may be done, if the doer, be he educator or physician, be only called 'in season. No doubt, but in season would often be a hundred or two years before the child was born; and people never

send so early as that."

ALEX. RUSSELL, M.A.

3. On the W. side of Water Lane, near White Friars.

4. In Finsbury Fields, near Little Moorfields.

There were two Black Horse Yards: on the N.E. side of Windmill Street, near Pickadilly"; and on the E. side of Nightingale Lane, near East Smithfield.

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There was a Black Horse Alley on the N. side of Fleet Street, "the first Wd. from Fleet-bridge, a Passage to ditch-side."

There were also two Black Horse Courts: on the W. side of Aldersgate Street, near Half Moon Alley; and on the W. side of the Minories (by Tower Hill), about the ROBERT PIERPOINT.

middle.

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There was a "Black Horse Inn in Shug Lane, near the end of the Hay-market and 6 Lane's Masonic Piccadilly. Records (1886), p. 93, says that a Masonic lodge was The George," commenced to be held at The Shug Lane, in 1765, and was held at Black Horse," Shug Lane, from 1767 to "AUTHOR" USED FOR "EDITOR (10 S. 1782, when it was removed to Westminster. vii. 226).-There is another eighteenth- This is the only mention I find of either century use of the word "author which "The George" or "The Black Horse" in a I do not think has been noted. The vendors Masonic connexion. At" The White Hart,"

Stromness, Orkney.

Shug Lane, a lodge was held in 1753, and the origin of the word in the sense of a gunner's assistant." from 1766 to 1772.

ALFRED SYDNEY LEWIS.

Library, Constitutional Club.

4. James Abbadie, D.D., was Dean of Killaloe from 1699 to his death on 25 Sept., 1727. See Dict. Nat. Biog.,' vol. i. p. 1,

and Cotton's Fasti Ecclesiæ Hibernicæ,' G. F. R. B. vol. i. p. 478.

[H. L. O. and MR. J. B. WAINEWRIGHT also thanked for replies.]

This is followed by a quotation from a letter
dated London, 29 Jan., 1690/1, in which
An illustra-
the spelling is "Montrosses."
tion of their uniform in 1689 is in Clifford
Walton's collection at the Royal United

Service Institution.

In The Gentleman's Dictionary,' 1705, it is said that

Matrosses are soldiers in the artillery, next to a gunner; their business is to assist the gunners about the gun, to traverse, spunge and fire, to assist in loading, &c. They carry firelocks, and march along with the store waggons, both as a guard, and to help in case a waggon should break down." This description is repeated, almost verbally. in Watson's Military Dictionary,' 1758. The name seems to have become obsolete in 1783, when they were called gunners.

W. S.

I cannot see why "matross" should be looked upon as an Anglo-Indian word. It was in use in England in 1639 as meaning a soldier of the train-a distinct rank; vide Grose's Military Antiquities' (quoted from Rushworth), vol. i. p. 373.

MANSFIELD GOOSEBERRY-TART FAIR (10 S. vii. 329).—These pies (for they are hardly tarts) are still made at Mansfield, and what is an old custom shows no signs of failing. A Mansfield friend tells me that they usually speak there of "Mansfield Fair Gooseby Tarts," and not of "Mansfield of Gooseberry-Tart Fair." The custom making these tarts or raised pies is very old, and my friend tells me that none can say when the custom began. The July fair of Mansfield, he says, is probably very much older than the custom of making gooseby tarts" with pork-pie crust and shape. At the present time with every fair the confectioners and pork butchers fill their The term was abolished in India in 1819, windows with them. My friend thinks gunner "being substituted for it, and the gunner was the custom probably arose because goose-rank hitherto known as berries in July are always in just the right changed into “ bombardier." hard, green condition for the purpose. The gooseberries require to be small; and plenty of good, pure cane sugar should be used in the making. If large gooseberries are used, they shrink so much that when the pies are done there is but little fruit in them. Mansfield Fair is held on the Thursday nearest to 10 July.

Worksop.

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THOS. RATCLIFFE.

"MATROSS": TOPASS (10 S. vii. 348, 411). In Firth's Cromwell's Army,' p. 427, is to be found a statement drawn up by General Monck in 1657, wherein objections were submitted against abolishing certain officials, and among them

"The mattrosses for amunition. It is humbly desired that their may bee two mattrosses belong ing to the stores of the trayne to attend for drying of powder that is decayed in Summer, helping to remove the tents, collers, and cordage to keepe them in good condition, alsoe to helpe the Comisarie in delivering out amunition to the officers that come to receive it."

Clifford Walton, in his 'British Army,' p. 733, says:—

"The term mattross, matros, or montros, is evidently akin to the Dutch matroos, and the German matrosen, a sailor; but I am unaware of

Dykes Hall, Sheffield.

TAILOR IN DRESDEN CHINA (10 S. iv. 469, 536; vii. 292).-A man riding on a goat and hung about with sundry sartorial attributes was one of the Early Victorian ornaments which gave interest to my nursery chimneypiece. I presume, therefore that the model came to be imitated in baser clay than that used at Meissen. figure was ever a cause of wonderment to me, as I could not imagine why the tailor was ST. SWITHIN. so treated by his maker.

This

WILLIAM TALMAN, ARCHITECT: HAMPTON COURT PALACE (10 S. vii. 288, 395).—I have examined the volume of drawings attributed to Talman in the library of the Royal Institute of British Architects in Conduit Street.

It contains nothing which throws additional light on the lives of the two Talmans. There is a note in the handwriting of the late Wyatt Papworth, the Curator of the Soane Museum, to the effect that the designs for a palace, &c., are to be ascribed to William Talman, and the sketches to his son John Talman. Bound in this volume are some designs in sepia for stained-glass

Closely parallel to this is Chaucer's description of MAGDALEN COLLEGE SCHOOL AND THE the red pimpled face of the Somnour:"D.N.B.' (10 S. vii. 383). For "the A Somnour was ther with us in that place, Decani and Cantores," in the first para-That hadde a fyr-reed cherubinnes face, graph of the second column, read "the pars For sawcefleem he was, with eyen narwe. Decani and pars Cantoris "-the south and north sides of the chapel. A. R. BAYLEY. [The REV. COMPTON READE, an old chorister at Magdalen, sends a similar correction.]

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for a short time Gilling was held by the Nevills, has been hastily assumed by some persons ignorant though the Fairfaxes were the next of kin. Sir of the origin of surnames, a female name become We have further proof of this. The de Annes are Humphry Nevill, the holder of the property, was, hereditary. Its origin was evidently territorial. like many others of his race, by no means of a peaceful nature. His life had been in peril more mentioned once at least, and we think oftener, in than once. At last he joined Robin of Redesdale's the early Rolls of Parliament. rising in 1469, and was captured by his kinsman the great Earl of Warwick, and beheaded at York in the presence of the King. About twenty years after this, Thomas Fairfax of Walton proved his right to the estate, and Gilling passed into his hands. He was succeeded by his son Nicholas, who for a time took a leading part in what is known as the Pilgrimage of Grace; but, unlike Aske and the others who suffered death, he escaped punishment even when, many years after, the Rising in the North occurred and

The Percy's crescent set in blood.

He seems to have shown at least a leaning to the old order of things, and one of his sons was a prisoner at Carlisle.

To trace the various occupants of Gilling Castle down to the beginning of the nineteenth century would occupy more space than we can afford. The castle, however, claims attention as a record of past times, although nothing remains above ground of an earlier date than the second half of the fourteenth century. It is like a peel-tower, but of much larger dimensions than any other existing example. Many additions have been made from Tudor times down to almost the present day, but its outward appearance has been little damaged. The great chamber, as it was called, now the dining-room, was built by Sir William Fairfax, and completed in 1585. It is probable that there is no finer example of a state apartment which has survived the destruction of three centuries. The sight of the painted glass alone is worth a long pilgrimage. It is not only very fine as to form and colour, but also must have great interest for every student of the heraldry and genealogy of Yorkshire, as it is nearly all devoted to heraldic display. The shields with their accompanying inscriptions are treated of at length by the writer, who also gives an account of the elaborate painted frieze which runs round the room, setting forth the arms of the gentry of Yorkshire with whom Sir William Fairfax was contemporary. This was always a very uncommon form of ornament, but at one time there were parallels to be found, though we are not aware that there are any others now in existence.

Mr. F. Royston Fairbank's account of 'The Last Earl of Warren and Surrey and the Distribution of his Possessions' is a highly important essay alike for the historian and the local antiquary; Much of the information the author has collected has remained unknown until now. The details of the long struggle regarding the divorce which the Earl endeavoured to force the authorities, ecclesiastical and lay, to provide for him will be new to nearly every one. They are highly curious when studied in the light of the canon law. Mr. Fairmore lenient view of the Earl's bank takes a character than we can consent to do. "He was "not one whit worse than probably," we are told, the great majority in his own station." This is surely a view which is not borne out by what we know of the lives of his contemporaries. William de Anne, a Yorkshire squire, is twice mentioned by Mr. Fairbank. The "de" attached to his name is evidence that this old Yorkshire name was not, as

MR. THOMAS BAKER'S Catalogue 510 is mostly theological. A copy of Daniel's Thesaurus Hymnologicus,' which is scarce, is priced 57. 10s., and there are many other works equally rare. We note a few general items: Smith and Cheetham's 'Christian Antiquities,' 17. 168.; Salmeronis Commentarii," Chrysostomi Opera Omnia,' 13 vols., 6. 10.; 1612, 14.; De Lugo's 'Opera,' 8 vols., 4to, 107. 10s.; Butler's 'Lives of the Saints,' 1. 48.; Milman's Latin Christianity,' 9 vols., 17. 15.; Pinkerton's Scottish Saints,' Il. 18.; The Priest in Absolution,' exceedingly scarce, 31. 15s.; The Sarum Psalter,' finely printed, small 4to, vellum, 18.; Dodds's Church History,' 1. 15s.; and ‘Analecta Liturgica,' edited by Weale, 41. 4s. There are books under Newman, Stanley, and Wilberforce. A complete set of the 90 Tracts for the Times,' in 6 vols., is 17. 58.

Mr. Richard Cameron sends from Edinburgh his List 216, which has among Scottish items original MS. documents connected with the Nether Cowell Farmers' Society, Argyleshire, 1784 to 1854, the Register containing the names of 400 members, 11. 5s.; four books of choice old Scottish ballads, privately printed, 1868, 158; Chambers's Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen,' 12s. 6d. Burns's Works, 5 vols., 8vo, calf gilt, 1813, 12s. 6d.; Cockburn's Memorials,' 16s. 6d. Dalyell's 'Fragments of Scottish History,' 1796, 168. 6d.; The Edinburgh Daily Express, 1856-7, 188. 6d. (containing a verbatim report of the trial of Miss Madeleine Smith); first edition of Hogg's Jacobite Relics,' vols., a fine copy, 17. 58.; and Scott's Novels, 48 vols., red cloth, as issued by Cadell, Miscellany,' 10 vols., royal 4to, 1808-12, 27. 10s. 1829-33, 47. 158. General items include Harleian History of the rare first edition of Pope's 'Rape of the Lock, Lintott, 1714, 31. 38.; and Rapin's England,' 5 vols., folio, russia extra, 1732-47, 27. 10s.

Messrs. S. Drayton & Sons, of Exeter, offer in Britannica' for 12. 12s.; Blackwood, from the comtheir List 186 the last edition of The Encyclopædia Byron Illustrations,' 3 vols., 4to, 17. 18s.; Green's mencement to December, 1902, 77. 78.; Finden's plates restored by Heath, elephant folio, 1822, History,' 4 vols., 27. 58. ; Hogarth, from the original 5. 10s.; Gell and Gandy's Pompeii, 2 vols., 4to, The catalogue has full russia, 21. 28.; and Prof. Knight's edition of Wordsworth, 12 vols., 17. 48. Messrs. James Fawn & Sons, of Bristol, have in Addenda devoted to Theology. their Catalogue XXXIX. (New Series) Picturesque America,' 6 vols., 67. 68.; Book-Prices Current,' vols. ii. to ix., 51. 5s.; and British Association Reports, 1864-98, 67. 68. Murray's pretty pocket Byron, 6 vols., clean, in the original boards, uncut, is to be had for 5s. Doyle's Chronicles of Eng"Romola,' illustrations on India paper by Leighton. land,' 4to, is 1. 58.; the Edition de Luxe of 18%. ; and the first edition of Johnson's Tour to the Hebrides,' 1785, 31. 38. Under Lamb is a largepaper copy of the edition published by Dent, edited

by Macdonald, 12 vols., half-vellum, quite new, 67. A second edition of Ruskin's 'Seven Lamps' is priced 17. 10s.; and Pope's Works, edited by Elwin and Courthope, 10 vols., 8vo, russia gilt, 41. Under Somerset is a good copy of Collinson, Bath, 1791, 81. 88.

Messrs. E. George & Sons' List 45 contains Brittons Cathedrals,' 4 vols., 4to, 1814-36, 37. 38. ; Britton and Brayley's Beauties of England and Wales, 30 vols., 1801-18, 5.; Britton's Architectural Antiquities, 1807-14, 27. 15s.; Lysons's Environs of London,' 9 vols., 4to, 1792-1811, 47. 48.; Stothard's Monumental Effigies, folio, 34. 39.; and Berry's 'Encylopædia Heraldica, 3 vols., 4to, 21. 10s. Messrs. George have also a Short List No. 52, devoted to Antiquarian, Archæological, Bibliographical, and other Journals and Reviews.

Mr. James Irvine's Catalogue 92 contains a number of botanical works and books on gardening. These include Flora Brasiliensis,' now complete in 15 vols., folio, 1840-1906, price 300. This work gives a description of all Brazilian plants, and contains 3,811 plates. The general items include the first edition of Swinburne's Bothwell,' 1/. 10s. Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Idea, translated by Haldane, 3 vols., 17. 15s.; Bray's 'Life of Stothard, 17. 18.; Coryat's Travels Through Europe in 1608,' 17. 5s.; The Legitimist Kalendar for 1899,' withdrawn from circulation, 17. 18.; and Montbard's 'Morocco,' 17. 58.

Mr. John Jeffery's List 110, of 90 items, comprises several of Quaker interest. These include Howgil's Dawnings of the Gospel Day,' containing The Popish Inquisition, newly erected in New England, 1676, 27. 28.; Besse's 'Sufferings of the People called Quakers, 1650-89,' 27. 28.; and the American edition of Sewel's History,' New Jersey, 1774, 27. 28.

Messrs. Myers & Co.'s Catalogue 117 contains a unique copy of Jesse's 'London,' first edition extended to 6 vols. by the insertion of 665 scarce portraits, bound by Zaehnsdorf in levant morocco, 47/. 10s. Other extra-illustrated works are Knight's "Pictorial Shakespeare,' 8 vols. extended to 15, full morocco, 35 guineas; and Napier's 'Peninsular War,' 10 vols., blue morocco, 257. There are some choice items under Cruikshank. The rare first edition of Massinger's 'The Emperour of the East' is 91. 9s.; Evelyn's Diary,' with life by Wheatley, 4 vols., half-vellum, 3/. 3., and Hood's Comic Annuals, 1830-39, 21. 12s. 6d. A copy of Punch's Pocket Book,' 1847, containing plates by Leech and Thackeray, 12mo, limp calf, as published, is 17. 158. Under Genealogy is The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal,' being a complete table of all the descendants now living of Edward III., 2 vols., 4to, 1905-7, 41. 48. There are lists under Occult, Topography, and Travels; and a small collection of interesting and rare items relating to Ireland. Among these we note Hamilton's True Relation of the Actions of the Inniskilling Men,' small 4to, very rare, 1690, 21. 2s.; Temple's Irish Rebellion,' Dublin, 1724, 17. 12s. 6d.; and Wilde's 'Beauties of the Boyne,' 1850, 17. 12s. 6d.

Messrs. W. N. Pitcher & Co., of Manchester, keep well in front with their monthly lists. On the 1st inst. we noticed two of these, and now we have received No. 147. There is a scarce copy of Ainsworth's romance The Lancashire Witches.' It appeared in The Sunday Times as a serial during 1848, and was printed for private circulation in

1849, and this is one of the copies, 37. Other items include Eaton's Ferns of North America,' 37. 3s.; Baring-Gould's 'Lives of the Saints,' 16 vols., 21. 88. Vol. I. of the first edition of Bewick's 'Birds, Newcastle, 1797, 1. 18.; Browning's Poetical Works,' 16 vols., half-morocco, 51. 5s.; Creighton's History of the Papacy,' best library edition, 5 vols., 57. 108.; Da Vinci's Literary Works,' 2 vols., 6.; Edgeworth's Tales and Novels,' complete, 18 vols., 1832, 51. 5s.; Freeman's Norman Conquest,' 6 vols., 8vo, very scarce, 71.; and Brinkley's Japan and China, Edition de Luxe, limited to 35 numbered copies, 25. 4s. Maybe some devotee of the fragrant weed will like to invest 34. 5s. in item 686, Tobacco Tortured, or the filthy fume of Tobacco refined; shewing all sorts of subjects, that the inward taking of Tobacco fumes is very pernicious unto their bodies, &c., and most pestiferous to the publike state, exemplified apparently by most fearefull effects, more especially from their treacherous projects about the Gun-Powder treason, &c.,' by John Deacon, small 4to, calf, London, 1616.

Messrs. Probsthain send us Catalogues XI. and XII. They are both devoted to Oriental literature. No. XI. is confined to works relating to our Indian Empire, and, looking over its contents, one is inclined to think that not a subject of interest relating to it has been omitted. We have Briggs's History of the Rise of the Mahomedan Power in India,' translated from the Persian of Ferishta; the Annals of the East Indian Company'; and Forbes's well-known work Oriental Memoirs,' 1813, 6. 6s. Law, the Mutiny, Military, Medical Science, Sport, Philology, and many other subjects have long lists; while Biography includes Clive, Hastings, Outram, Lumsden, Wellesley, and a host of others.

Catalogue XII. is devoted to China. We find Periodicals and Grammars and Dictionaries, the latter including Sir John Barrow's copy in MS. o a Chinese-Latin Dictionary, 31. 3s. Under Religions is the Journal of the Buddhist Text Society, 1893History, Travel, and Law occupy 1906, 37. 10s. 27 pages of the list. Under Korea, Chinese Dependencies, Russo-Japanese War, and Texts and Translations are many items.

Mr. A. Russell Smith's Catalogue 57 contains Noel Humphreys's Illustrations of Froissart,' in original publisher's half-morocco binding, 1845, 117.; Lanquet and Cooper's 'Chronicle,' fine clean copy, 1565, 57. 58.; and Lloyd's 'Pilgrimage of Princes,' 1573, 8. 88. (only one other fine and perfect copy of the present volume, now in the British Museum, has occurred for sale). Under America, is ‘Sir Francis Drake Revived,' 1652, 107. 10s. This is the first collected edition of Drake's voyages. Under Broadsides is The Last Will and Testament of John Donne, the Younger,' black border, 1662, 57. 5s. In this he bequeaths his father's MSS. to Izaak Walton, and his doves to Thos. Killigrew, with quaint remarks on the fitness of each legacy.

The Prince of Orange's Letter to the English Fleet,' 1688, is to be had for 38. 6d. Among the Cruikshank items are 'Greenwich Hospital,' 1826, 31. 3s.; and first edition of the Table Book,' edited A collecby A'Beckett, Punch Office, 1845, 21. 58. tion of Elizabethan tracts, including Peter Wentworth's 'Pithie Exhortation,' is 12. 12s. Other items comprise Goad's Dolefull Even-Song,' 1623, 21. 28. (an account of the fall of the floor while Drury, a Jesuit, was preaching at Hunsdon House,