Tailors' Company, Exeter-Discordia maximi dilabuntur.

Glaziers' Company-Da nobis lucem, Domine, and Lumen umbra Dei.

Amicable Society- Esto perpetua.

Paviours' Company-God can raise to Abraham children of stones.

Silk Throwers' Company-God in his least creatures. Founders' Company-God the only founder. Foundling Hospital-Help.

Sadlers' Company-Hold fast, sit sure. Gardeners' Company-In the sweat of thy brow shalt thou eat thy bread.

Order of the Bee-Je suis petite, mais mes picqûres sont profondes.

Armourers' and Braziers' Company-Make all sure. Royal Fishery Company-Messis ab alto. Butchers' Company-Omnia subjecisti sub pedibus, and Oves et boves.

Apothecaries' Company-Opiferque per orbem dicor. Bakers' Company-Praise God for all.

Hudson's Bay Company-Pro pelle cutem. Patten-Makers' Company-Recipiunt fœminæ sustentacula nobis.

Salters' Company-Sal sapit omnia.
Scriveners' Company-Scribere scientes.
Clock-Makers' Company-Tempus rerum imperator.
Woodmongers' Company, London-The axe is laid at
the root of the tree.

Smiths' Company, Exeter-Tractent fabrilia fabri,
Trinity House Guild-Trinitas in trinitate.
Wax-Chandlers' Company-Truth is the light.

Queries.

"BLESSING OF THE BELLS.” The Editor of the Washington Republican states that he is indebted to Mr. Ellis, 310, Pennsylvania Avenue, for a copy of a beautiful sacred song, "Blessing of the Bells," which had reached its second edition. It is gratifying to know that bells are blessed in any quarter, for they certainly are not by strangers who are passing through this island in the summer time, when they are so incessantly W. W. ringing. Malta.

JOHN BRUEN, OF BRUEN STAPLEFORD, CHESHIRE, is the subject of an engraving well known to Granger collectors. Can any one direct me to an original portrait of this worthy? If one were for sale I should like to be informed of it, and its price. JOHN BRUCE.

5, Upper Gloucester Street, Dorset Square.

CAP-A-PIE. Can you or any of your correspondents inform me whether the compound word cap-a-pie is to be found anywhere except in Hamlet in early English literature? I should be glad to be informed further, whether it occurs in French writings of the same period? As I am inclined to doubt the correctness of our dictionaries with respect to the derivation of the word, I am desirous of ascertaining where it is to be found, in order to judge how far the spelling or context throw light upon the etymology. D. P. S.

may

Eternum.

applied, and are vocal works, such masterpieces as the oratorios of Handel and the operas of Mozart, to be excluded. A question has arisen on this subject, and I would venture to solicit the opinion of some one or more musical readers and contributors to "N. & Q." upon it.

WM. BRAILSFORD.

MARQUIS D'AYTONE. Will you or any of the readers of "N. & Q." oblige me by referring to

FONT INSCRIPTION.—I shall be much obliged if some correspondent would send to "N. & Q." the Latin inscription on the font in Threckingham church, Lincolnshire. I may add that it is given by F. Simpson, Jun., in his now rare Series of Ancient Baptismal Fonts, p. 35; but the editor could not then (1828) decipher it.

The celebrated palindromic font inscription in Greek (which has frequently appeared in the pages of "N. & Q.") was not given quite correctly, p. 38. It should be as follows:

Νίψον ἀνόμημα, μὴ μόναν ὄψιν.

I should be glad to know of an instance where it has been found on a "holy-water vessel." W. II. S.

Yaxley.

REV. J. GUTHRIE.-Can any reader of "N.&Q." inform me whether the Rev. J. Guthrie, late vicar of Calne, is the author of Alphonso, or the Beggar Boy, a comedy in verse, 1827 (London: Ridgway)? It is briefly but favourably noticed in the Gentleman's Magazine. The comedy is dedicated to the Marquis of Lansdowne, and, as appears from the preface, was partly written at Bowood. Some lines in the comedy are mentioned as being intended to represent the character of the late marquis. At the time this drama was printed Mr. Guthrie, if I mistake not, was the Marquis of Lansdowne's chaplain. Another comedy, called Athens, by the author of Alphonso, was published about 1825.

R. I.

appears

IMMERSION IN HOLY BAPTISM.-Prince Arthur, eldest son of Henry VII., King Edward VI., and Queen Elizabeth, were all baptised by immersion. Simpson observes that the first instance of pouring being allowed in public baptism is in the first the child be weake, it shall suffice to pour water Prayerbook of Edward VI., which says, And if upon it." It is strange that the exception has, in permitted use of ordinary bread in the Holy Euthe English Church, become the rule; just as the charist has supplanted the customary wafer. W. H. S.

Yaxley.

IMMORTAL BRUTES.-Mahomet allows that into Paradise will be admitted Abraham's calf, Jonah's whale, Solomon's ant, Ishmael's ram, and Moses' o.x. To these will be added Mahomet's ass, the Queen of Sheba's ass, the prophet Salech's camel, and Belkis' cuckoo. What are the incidents connected with the animals in italics? QUERY.

"NOMASTICON CISTERSIENSE."- Can any one tell me where I may be able to see a copy of Nomasticon Cistersiense, edited by Julien Paris. Paris, 1664, folio? ΑΝΟΝ.

Junior Athenæum.

ASSUMPTION OF A MOTHER'S NAME.-E. S. S. would be glad to know whether a man can take his mother's maiden name, or can only add it to his own surname? What are the best steps to take to effect such a purpose, and the costs? Bury St. Edmund's.

SURNAME OF "PARR." quiring as to the origin of the name Parr, but I have long been inhitherto without success. As a patronymic it is Prescot, in Lancashire; but the question is, what certainly derived from a manor in the parish of is the meaning of the term? The derivation of local names is commonly obvious: "Radclyffe,” selves; but why a place should be called "Parr" "Stanley," "Towneley," &c., speak for themis not apparent. The name is not found in Domesday nor in the Testa de Nevill. I first meet with it in the case of Henry de Parr, who was witness to a deed in 1318, and also to one, without date,

"It does not appear to be commonly understood, and not even by Webster, that the above title has any other significance than the readiness with which this simple dish is prepared. It has its origin in the vernacular of England, where the word 'hasting' is used in the sense of stirring or agitating a liquid mass. As hasty pudding cannot be made with haste unless it is to be eaten raw,

use.

Yoxford Vicarage, Suffolk.

"The chain thou hast spurned in thy moment of power Hangs heavy around thee at last."

I have understood it was written on the Union, by Furlong. Can the reader favour me with a copy or information where one can be met with? LIOM. F.

Where does this line occur?

"In the clear heaven of her delightful eye," &c.
E. P. C.

SMITH QUERIES.-Of what family was Anthony Smith, whose daughter and coheiress, Emma, is stated to have married, in the early part of the sixteenth century, Edward Watson, ancestor of the Lords Rockingham ?

Where can I find the pedigree of Captain John Smith, "sometime Governor of Virgina," to whom, in 1623, was granted an allusive coat of armsviz. Vert, a chevron gules between three Turks' heads by "Sigismundus, King of Hungarion"? He was born 1579; died 1631.

Where can I find a copy of the grant of arms to Thomas Smith of Hough, county Chester, dated July 7, 1579? (See Guillim.)

Who was John Smith of Newcastle-underLyme, to whom was granted, in 1561, the following coat of arms :-Barry ermine and gules, over all a lion rampant sable crowned or?

H. S. G. ARMS OF SOUNd, etc. - In the Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica, iv. 101, is described an escutcheon of Richard Chetwode, who died in 1559-60, consisting of six quarterings-viz. 1st Chetwode; 2nd sable, fretty argent, a fesse ermine, on a chief gules, three leopards' faces or; 3rd, Okeley; 4th,argent, a lion rampant gules, crowned azure; 5th, Nowell; and 6th, Foulhurst.

The 2nd and 4th quarterings are assigned, with a query, to Sounde and Lyons.

Betham (Baronetage, iii. p. 123, &c.) states that John Chetwode, living 36 Edw. III., married an heiress of Okeley, and had a son John, whose wife's name was Margery. His son Roger married Margery, daughter and coheiress of David Crewe of Pulcroft, and was father of Thomas, whose wife was Margaret, daughter and heiress of ". Sounde, Lord of Sounde, co. Chester."

According to a pedigree of Brindley in the Harl. MS. 1535, fo. 32, David Crewe of Pulcroft married "Johanna fil: and hæ:.. Sounde," and had Alice, the wife of Thomas Brindley (22 Rich. II. 1399), and Margery, wife of Roger Chetwode; and the arms quartered by Brindley are―(1) Bressy; (2) Crewe; (3) gules, a lion rampant or (evidently for Sound).

Ormerod, iii. 216, says that Sound or Soond gave its name to a family, and that Johanna,

daughter and heir of John de Sound, married David Crewe, one of whose coheiresses married Roger Chetwode, &c. Under Worleston, pp. 189190, he states that David Crewe of Pulcroft, by Johanna, daughter and heiress of Sounde of Sounde, had issue Alice, married—(1) Geoffrey de Boydell; (2) Thomas Brindley (p. 190), and Margaret, wife of John Chetwode of Oakley.

In the Harl. MS. 1412, is a list of arms from the Visitation of Cheshire in 1580, among which appears, immediately following Chetwode, "Sound, B. a lyon ramp. or.

The last

the Heraldic Dictionaries, nor are they given by I have not found the arms of Sound in any of should be gules, a lion rampant or. Ormerod, but it seems pretty clear that they named MS. has evidently confounded Crewe and Sound, while Betham has fallen into a similar for Crewe was of Sound in right of descent from error in confounding two Margarets or Margerys, that family.

I wish to ask on what authority the elaborate coat first named (which looks very like a concoction of a Tudor Herald) is assigned to Sound; and also whether any of your readers can bear me out in the opinion that the true coat of that family is a lion rampant or, on a field gules?

H. S. G.

"Discours sur le Suject de la mort du Seigneur Struard Escossois, decapitè deuant le Chasteau du Louvre a Paris, le Lundy, 27 de Februarier dernier. A Paris. De l'Imprimerie d'Anthoine du Brueil, entre le Pont Sainct Michel, et la rue de la Harpe a l'Etoile couronnée M.DC.XVII."

Who this Scotch "Seigneur" was, is not explained in this moral discourse upon his decapitation, beyond that he seems to have been one of the "garde particulière de la personne de sa Majesté," and that he was one of the Scotish guard which, for nearly seven hundred years, had been chosen to protect the persons of the French monarchs.

What was the act of treason for which this unworthy Scotch guard suffered death? Moreover, to which of the numerous races of Stewart did he belong?. I presume the brochure is unique, but in this I may be wrong.

J. M.

TITLES OF THE JUDGES.-I am not aware that

the title of "Reverend was ever given to the Judges individually, as one to which they had a right by their position, although we read of them collectively as "the Reverend the Judges." I

know not whence the editorial note (antè, p. 26) quotes the expression, "and as the Rev. Sir Edward Coke, late Lord Chief Justice of His Majesty's Bench, saith"; but I apprehend that it is there used more as a mark of respect, in the same way as the complimental terms "learned " or "respected" are used, than as a designation of style to which he was entitled.

I observe that the word "Honourable " is now prefixed to the name of each of the Judges; and I would ask when the custom was introduced, and by what authority? D. S. DUDLEY WOODBRIDGE, ESQ. was the eldest son of Rev. Benjamin and Mrs. Mary (Ward) Woodbridge, and a grandson of Rev. John and Mrs. Mercy (Dudley) Woodbridge. He was born at Windsor, Connecticut, Sept. 7, 1677,* and was graduated at Harvard College in the class of 1696. He removed to Barbadoes, where he was Director General of the Royal Assiento Company of England, agent of the South Sea Company, and JudgeAdvocate of the island. He was also a member of the Society for Propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts. His portrait, painted by Kneller in 1718, was engraved the same year by Smith. He died Feb. 11, 1720.† There is little doubt that he was the "Mr. Woodbridge, a New England man," ," whom Governor Hutchinson calls "the projector" of paper money in Barbadoes.

He had at least two children-namely, Dudley and Benjamin, the latter of whom was killed at Boston, July 3, 1728, aged nineteen years and two months.§ The former I take to be the Rev. Dudley Woodbridge, rector of the parish of St. Philip, in the island of Barbadoes, on whose wife an epitaph is printed in the Gentleman's Magazine for 1747, p. 393. He died between March 15, 1747-8, and July 20, 1748, leaving a widow Ruth, who died at Boston (Mass.) between Dec. 23, 1748, and the 9th of the following month.

I wish to learn the Christian and maiden names of the wife of Dudley Woodbridge, Esq., and also desire to ascertain whether he left any other children besides Dudley and Benjamin. Rev. Dudley Woodbridge, rector of St. Philip, mentions, in 1748, in his will, a "sister Mary Alleyne of Boston, N. E., widow of Major Abel Alleyne, formerly of" Barbadoes; but she may have been a sister-in-law, though I think not.

Boston, Massachusetts, U. S.

JOHN WARD DEAN.

* Stiles's History of Ancient Windsor, Ct. p. 837. + Noble's Continuation of Granger, vol. iii. p. 260. History of Massachusetts Bay, vol. i. 1st and 2nd ed. p. 402; 3rd ed. p. 356.

§ See Sargent's Dealings with the Dead, vol. ii. pp. 550-64; Drake's History of Boston, Mass., p. 579; and Bridgman's Pilgrims of Boston, p. 191.

Queries with Answers.

SIR JOHN BOURCHIER.-Can any correspondent of "N. & Q." give me some particulars relative to Sir John Bourchier, Knight, whose name appears among those who signed the death-warrant of King Charles I.? I particularly wish to know when and how he died. I cannot find any mention of him in Caulfield's Memoirs of the Regicides, 1817, nor yet in the Trials of the Regicides, 1714. I should also be glad to know if he was in any way related to the Sir James Bourchier whose daughter the great Protector married. JEAN VALJEAN.

[Neither Sir John Bourchier, a Yorkshire knight, one of the King's judges, nor the loyal Mr. George Bourchier, who was inhumanly shot at Bristol, were related to the Protector's wife. (Noble's House of Cromwell, i. 131, ed. 1787.) On Monday, June 18, 1660, Sir John Bourchier surrendered himself to the Speaker, and was committed to the custody of the serjeant-at-arms. (Kennett's Register, p. 183.) He must have died shortly after his committal, for on Feb. 2, 1660-1, Sir Henry Cholmeley produces His Majesty's commission authorizing him to give pardon and security to any whom he engaged to forward the Restoration; but he used it only in the case of his nephew, Barrington Bourchier, whose late father was engaged in the sentence of the late king. (Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1660-1661, pp. 446, 501, 557.) In the History of King-Killers, 1719, Part v. p. 38, as well as in Winstanley's Loyall Martyrology, p. 112, it is incorrectly stated that Sir John Bourchier died before the Restoration.]

GENERAL OGLETHORPE.-If General Oglethorpe was born (according to most accounts) in London, on the 21st of December, 1688, or (according to his recent biographer, Mr. Robert Wright) in 1689, I should be glad .if any one would inform me who was the James Edward, son of Colonel Theophilus and Eleanora Oglethorpe, who was born on the 22nd and baptized on the 23rd of December, 1696, at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, where I saw the entry a few days ago. J. L. C.

the birth of the celebrated General James Edward Ogle[This entry conclusively settles the disputed date of thorpe, who was the son of Sir Theophilus Oglethorpe

and Eleanor, daughter of Richard Wall, Esq. See the pedigree of the Oglethorpes of Westbrook in Manning and Bray's Surrey, i. 614. It also clears up two other points in Mr. Wright's interesting Memoir of Oglethorpefirst, why Oglethorpe's birthday was "kept in Georgia on the 21st of December;" whereas the James, whose baptismal certificate at St. James's was found by Mr. Wright, turns out, as that gentleman shrewdly suspected, to have been an elder brother, who probably died young, was born on June 1; and, next, it furnishes the second Christian name, Edward, which appears on the monument erected by his widow in Cranham church. We may also

call attention to the fact that it proves that the gallant old general was eight years younger than was supposed he being only eighty-nine, and not ninety-seven, at the time of his decease.]

RICHARD DUKE (3rd S. xii. 21.)-I would humbly submit that this chronology requires some confirmation. The hero is represented to have been bound apprentice in 1595; we will assume him to be then thirteen years of age; he thus becomes warden of his company at twenty-five (this is unlikely); his youngest child is born in 1668, when he must be eighty-six years old; he marries thrice, and outlives all three wives. This is possible; but is it not more probable that the

entries refer to two or more individuals?

H.

[We must thank our correspondent H., as well as MR. WILLIAM BLADES, for their suggestive corrections. The primary object of the writer was to supply the exact date of the birth of Richard Duke. He has since examined the manuscript more critically, and is now of opinion that the entries previous to 1641 were made by members of the Macro family, into which family Richard Duke, father of the poet, married, as appears by the entry under 1644. The remaining entries are all in the same handwriting.]

THE BLACAS COLLECTION.-Can you help me in the search for any catalogue or description of the Blacas Collection of Gems in the British Museum? There is an article in the current Number of the Intellectual Observer, which I possess. Is there not something fuller and better?

JOSEPHUS.

[Perhaps the best description of the Blacas Museum at present published is that contained in the parliamentary paper recently printed by order of the House of Commons of the Accounts, Estimates, &c. of the British Museum. Nearly all the most valuable gems in this collection came from the Strozzi Cabinet, noticed in the Museum Florentinum of Gori, published in 1731, Preface, p. 14; also, H. K. E. Köhler, Gesammelte Schriften, St. Petersburg, 1851, vol. iii.]

Replies.

JAMES HAMILTON OF BOTHWELLHAUGH, ASSASSIN OF REGENT MORAY. (3rd S. xi. 453.)

I wish to add a little more information to my communication (3rd S. xii. 10) concerning the members of the family. On February 10, 1601, David Hamilton, younger, of Bothwellhaugh, servant to the Laird of Innerwick (eldest son of Alison Sinclair), along with an armed company, invaded the tenants of Woodhouselee, assailed them with furious language, threatening to take their lives unless they desisted from labouring the said lands; and on February 19 following, Sir James Bellarden, of Broughton, made a complaint

"Dec. 12, 1643, James Hamilton of Bothwellhaugh, heir of Alison Sinclair, daughter lawful of John Sinclair of Wodislie, his grandmother in the one half part of the 10 merk lands of Spotts of old extent called Kingsgrange in the Lordship of Galloway-E 144. 14s. 7d. in fee farm. Decr 12, 1643, Alison Hamilton, relict of the deceased Gavin, formerly bishop of Candida Casa, heiress of Isobell Sinclair, daughter lawful of John Sinclair of Woddislie, her mother in the one half part of the 10 merk lands of Spotts of old extent called Kings grange in the Lordship of Galloway-E 147. 14s. 7d.

These writs of succession show that Isobel Sinclair and Alison Sinclair, the wives of James Hamilton and David Hamilton of Bothwellhaugh, were owners of the lands of Spots called Kingsgrange in the parish of Urr, stewartry of Kirkcudbright. One of these services shows that Alison Hamilton had been married to the Bishop of Galloway. In Hamilton of Wishaw's History of the County of Lanark, p. 133, the editor has stated in a note that Mr. Gavin Hamilton was Provost of Bothwell in Feb. 1590 and Feb. 1591.

Mr. Innes, in his Origin of Parishes, vol. i. p. 505, mentions that the synod of Glasgow complained, in 1591, that the Provost of Bothwell had not old Statistical Account of Scotland, parish of BothI built the choir of the kirk of Schotts. In the well, vol. xvi. p. 324, it is stated that Mr. Gavin Hamilton was minister in 1604. Keith, in his Catalogue of Bishops, p. 166, states that Gavin Hamilton was a son of John Hamilton of Orbiston, and promoted to the bishopric of Galloway in 1606. Keith also says King James VI. gave him the abbey of Dundrennan and a grant of Whithorn annexed to the see of Galloway. He died in 1614. His widow, Alison Hamilton, must therefore have survived her husband at least twenty-nine years. Spottiswood, in his account of Religious Houses, says that Whithorn, or Candida Casa, was a bishop's seat in Galloway, and Dundrennan Abbey was situate on Solway Firth, about two miles from Kirkcudbright. I may mention that the lands of Orbiston and Bothwellhaugh, where Gavin Hamilton and Alison HamilJohn Hamilton, the father of Gavin Hamilton, ton were brought up lie contiguous, and that was slain at the battle of Langside, and James

Hamilton (the assassin), father of Alison Hamilton, was there taken prisoner on May 13, 1568.

Paisley.

DAVID SEMPLE.

The weapon used in the assassination of the Regent is still preserved at Hamilton Palace. It is a carbine with a brass rifled barrel. Yet we are told that Bothwellhaugh loaded it with