1. 2. In the service of mankind to be A guardian god below; still to employ Ships, ships, I will descrie you Amidst the main ; I will come and try you, What's your end and aim. One goes abroad for merchandise and trading, Another stays to keep his country from invading, A third is coming home with rich and wealthy lading. Halloo my fancie, whither wilt thou go? JAMES HOOK, son of William Hook of Lambeth, Surrey, was at Westminster School in 1797. I should be glad to learn some particulars of his career and the date of his death. G. F. R. B. THOMAS HOOKER was admitted to Westminster School 19 June, 1773. Particulars of his parentage and career, as well as the date of his death, are desired. G. F. R. B. RICHARD HUCK became Vicar of Corton, Suffolk, and of Fishley, Norfolk, in 1801. Í should be glad to ascertain the exact date of his death, which is said to have occurred "about 1837." G. F. R. B. WILLIAM HUGHES, son of William Hughes of London, was admitted to Westminster School 11 February, 1772, and is said to have been chaplain to the Prince of Wales. I am anxious to obtain further particulars of his career and the date of his death. G. F. R. B. FRENCH PEASANT DRINKING SONG.—I once saw in a book on country life in France, published in London, but the name of which I have forgotten, an amusing song, of which the following were the first words: Pour éviter la rage de la femme dont je suis l'époux Je boire à sa santé le vin de quatre sous. Can any one supply me with the rest? CAMPBELL LOCK. Ashknowle, Whitwell, Ventnor. COWPER ON LANGFORD.-In Cowper's Task,' Sixth (last) Book, almost twosevenths of the way through (I regret that the lines are not numbered in my editions), are the lines : Nor him, who by his vanity seduc'd, 66 "PAINT THE LION." In The New Wonderful Magazine. vol. ii. p. 237, s.v. Thursday (vol. ii. is not dated; vol. i. is "for the year 1793 "), we read :— "This day a woman going on some occasion on board a ship in the river, some of the crew took it in their heads to paint the lion, as they called it; which was performed by stripping the woman quite naked, and smearing her over with tar, and in that manner threw her into the river, where she was nearly drowned." Was "to paint the lion" ever current ROBERT PIERPOINT. slang? "FIVES COURT," ST. MARTIN'S LANE : TENNIS COURT, HAYMARKET.-Will some London archeologist quote me the exact site of "The Fives Court"-of "Fancy fame-in or about St. Martin's Lane? I fail to find it in the index to Mr. H. B. Wheatley's Cunningham,' or in any of the orthodox reference books, or in the Indexes to N. & Q.' Mr. MacMichael's volume on 'Charing Cross' has no mention of it; and one is thrown back upon casual references in Pugilistica,' 'Boxiana,' &c. When did it finally disappear? Since I wrote the above, my brother, Mr. Herbert Sieveking, has ascertained from Mr. W. E. Milliken that in John Leckie's 'Topography of London,' 1810 and 1813, a Fives Court is mentioned in St. Martin's Street, Leicester Square. Was this a covered-in Fives Court, or an open court of houses? In 'Fistiana' (1859) Pearce ("the Game Chicken") is said to have beaten Bourke in Martin Street (1803). Is there reason for supposing the Fives Court was identical with the Carolean Tennis Court in James (now Orange) Street, Haymarket? Blake and C. Turner's engraving of 1821, with Randall and Turner (or is it Martin?) sparring, lends colour to this, as the place is very like a tennis court, and very unlike an ordinary fives court. But if so, when did the change of name occur? In 1865 (according to the 'P.O. Directory') Edmund Tompkins, Tennis Court Keeper, lived at 16, James Street; and tennis was played till 1867. Now and then "Tennis Court" and "Fives Court" seem to be used interchangeably as the site of a battle. And why is almost every allusion to the "Fives Court" in pugilistic records coupled with (in or about) St. Martin's Lane? It is curious how little topographical echo the "Fives Court" has produced, beyond its mere name. Knight, Besant, Cunningham, Wheatley, Timbs, are all silent about it, so far as I have been able to glean. A. FORBES SIEVEKING. 12, Seymour Street, Portman Square, W. MAIDA: REGIMENTS PRESENT.-Can any reader inform me why the Gloucestershire regiment (28th and 61st) carries “Maida on its colours ? Neither of those regiments is mentioned in any accounts that I have read of that battle, but I think that I have seen it stated that certain details from other regiments stationed in Sicily formed part of Sir John Stuart's force. James Grant mentions also the regiment of Sir Louis de Wattville, but does not say of what it was composed. Was it a foreign battalion, like the Corsican Rangers or the Sicilian Volunteers? and what was the regiment 'de Rolle " ? E. L. H. TEW. Upham Rectory, Southampton. COMTE DE PONS.-I shall be glad if any the Comte de Pons, who was governor to reader can give me information concerning Was his Christian name Barthélémi, and Philippe "Egalité," Duc d'Orléans, 1747-93. was he of the family of De Pons de la Grange in Auvergne? I am anxious to trace a Barthélémi de la Grange who was this time, and who was probably of the Gouverneur des Princes du Sang" about family of Pons de la Grange. 66 (Mrs.) FRANCES HILL THOMAS. Replies. SIR NICHOLAS ARNOLD: (11 S. iv. 42.) MR. PINK may be glad to know that John Arnold was living at Highnam, which was then in the parish of Churcham, long before 1542. Smyth in his 'Lives of the Berkeleys,' vol. ii. p. 222, says that Thomas, Lord Berkeley, the fifth of that name, on the death of his elder brother, the sixth Maurice, in 1523, "sojourned with his wife, children, and family with his brother in lawe Jno. Arnold at Hynam by Glouc., the sooner to recover his estate." On p. 241, referring to the will of the same Thomas, who died JOHN DARBY ELIZA REBECCA HART.- in 1532, he says, "By this will and other I want to trace the ancestors of John his deeds, hee gives these pensions and Darby, my grandfather, who married in Annuities for the lives of the parties, his 1835 Eliza Rebecca Hart at St. Luke's, kinsmen....," giving as reference "Carta Chelsea, and was buried in Old Battersea Churchyard in 1853. He possessed a coppergilt Davidson Medal with "John Darby cut on it. Please reply direct. J. T. DARBY. 141, Culford Road, N. in castro de Berkeley, vol. 24 H. 8. in predict."; and “To John Arnold, Esqr., his brother in lawe; Ten pounds, whom hee made high Steward of all his Manors and lands in England," with the reference Carta 4 Junii, 17 H. 8. in castro de 66 Berkeley" (1525). There were also bequests to Nicholas Arnold 408., to Richard Arnold 5li., to Margaret Denys 40s. and the foundation of the cathedral church, diocese, and city of Gloucester, by the charter of 3 Sept., 33 Hen. VIII. (1541). His accounts are in the P.R.O. is a In Suppression of Monasteries John Arnold was granted an annuity of 40s., for the term of his life, for performing the office of steward of the manor of West-letter (p. 236) from the King's Commissioners bury (on Severn, Gloucestershire), by John in the West, John Arnold being one, reportBaynham, by deed dated 5 Feb., 17 Hen. VIII. ing on 4 Jan., 1539/40, that they had taken (1526). See Trans. Bris. and Glouc. Archæo- the surrender of St. Peter of Gloucester, log. Soc., vi. 133. Hayles, and Winchcombe. Flaxley. Valet clare in redd' et firm' unacu al' casual' ib'm per annů ultra 538. 4d., solut' pro feod' Johis Arnold armigeri capit'li sen" omi' terr' et ten't' pred'co monasterio pertin'....' Smyth in Lives of the Berkeleys,' vol. ii. p. 186, says : "The said Margaret Denis, an other daughter of the said Anne Berkeley and of Sir William Denis her husband, was in the 20th of Henry the 8th marryed to Sir Nicholas Arnold son and heire of John Arnold, to whom her uncle Thomas lord Berkeley, the fifth, by his will gave two hundred marks to her marriage; who had issue Rowland Arnold, who by Mary his wife daughter of John Brydges created lord Chandois, had issue Dorothy marryed to Sir Thomas Lucy, who had issue Joyce maryed to Sir William Cooke Knight, whom Henry lord Berkeley made one of his executors in trust." On 4 Sept., 1538, John Arnold, Esq., and two others were granted the next presentation to the chantry of St. James or St. Anne, in the churchyard of Newent, by the Prior and brethren of the Hospital of St. Bartholomew, Gloucester (Glouc. dioc. rec. in MS.). By his will (dated 26 March, 1537, proved 22 June, 1538) Sir Richard Skidmore, parson of the parish church of Rudford, Gloucestershire, bequeathed to "Mr. Arnold, esquire, a pair of organce called portytudes" (Reg. Cranmer, fo. 104a, at Lambeth Palace). He also bequeathed a pair of porty tudes" to Sir Philip Oxenford, monk. I should be glad to know what these instru 66 A record in the Worcester Diocesan Registry, undated, but probably of December, 1540, gives a list of the 21stipendary prists of the Kyngs College of the towne of Glouceter," commencing with Syr William Jenyns wa[r]den and stipendary there." Each name is followed by the words "payd bie Mr. John Arnold." Arnold was the King's receiver for the possessions of the dissolved monastery of St. Peter, which accounts for his paying the "stipendaries during the interval between the surrender, 6 Atkyns in his Ancient and Present State of Gloucestershire,' 1712, under Churcham, says: "The manors of Highnam and Over and divers messuages and lands with the tithes thereof lying in Churcham, all which did formerly belong to the abbey of Gloucester, were granted to John Arnold of Monmouthshire, esq., 33 Hen. VIII. who died 37 Hen. VIII., and livery of this manor [sic] was granted the same year to sir of John. He married Nicholas Arnold, son Margaret daughter of sir William Dennys of Dyrham, and was succeeded by Rowland Arnold his son, who married Mary daughter of John Brydges, lord Chandos, and left an only daughter and heiress married to Thomas Lucy, son of sir Thomas Lucy, of Charlecot, in Warwickshire. Thomas Lucy likewise left an only daughter married to sir William Cook....By this marriage sir William Cook had the manor of Highnam and died seised thereof 1618." He also mentions an inscription in the church which is given with more details in Bigland, as follows: A small tablet of stone inlaid and bordured with alabaster, sculptured with devices and arms as follows:-On four escutcheons: 1. Gules, on a fess between three billets argent, three lions passant guardant purpure, for Oldisworth ; impaling, gules, five marlions' wings in saltire argent, for Porter. 2. Porter; impaling, gules, a chevron ermine, between three pheons or, between three cinquefoils azure, on a chief gules, for Arnold. 3. Arnold, impaling, or, a chevron a griffin passant ermine, for Hawkins. the first." The inscription runs :— 4. as "Here lye buried near this place the bodies of Edward Oldisworth, Esq., and Tace his wife dowghter of Arthur Porter, Esq., and of Alice his wife, and sister to Sir Thomas Porter, Knight, which Alice was dowghter of John Arnold Esq., and of Isabel his wife, and sister to Sir Nicholas Arnold, Knight, which Isabel was the daughter of William Hawkins, Esquier, the said John, Isabel, and Sir Nicholas, being also interred in this church. The said Edward departed this life the 8th day of August, 1570; and the said Tacey the 8th day of June, 1576, having had between them five children; wherof two sonnes, Arnold and Thomas, and three daughters, Margaret, Anne, and Dorothy, of whom only Anne died yonge, in the life of her parents." Atkyns says that Thomas Luci, Esq., was in 1712 the tenant of the manor of Rudford, by lease from the Dean and Chapter of Gloucester. Rudder in his New History of Gloucester- daughter and heiress married to Thomas Luci, who in right of his wife had livery of this manor shire,' 1779, says under Upleaden 15 Eliz." "The manor continued in the abbey [of St. Peter at Gloucester] till the general dissolution, when it passed to the crown, by which it was afterwards granted to John Arnold, who died seised of it 37 H. 8, and livery was granted to sir Nicholas Arnold, his son and heir, the same year. Rowland Arnold, son of sir Nicholas, left an only daughter Dorothy, married to sir Thomas Lucy, of Charlecot in Warwickshire, who was lord of the manor in the year 1608. It afterwards passed to Thomas Brown esq. alderman of Gloucester." Sir Nicholas Arnold was one of the commissioners for inventories of church goods in 1552. His signature is on an inventory preserved in the parish church of Siston. In 1554 he joined Sir Thomas Wyatt of Kent, Sir Peter Carew of Devon, Sir Nicholas Throckmorton of Gloucester, and others in a conspiracy arising out of the general antipathy to the marriage of Queen Mary and Philip of Spain (note by the Rev. J. M. Hall in Trans. Bris. and Glouc. Archæolog. Soc., vol. xix. p. 305). Under Newent, Rudder says:"After the general dissolution of religious foundations, the manor of Newent and a wood called Yarkledon, were granted to sir Richard Lee 1 Ed. VI. Sir Nicholas Arnold was afterwards lord of it and sold it to Sir William Wintour." In a list of pensions payable in 1555 (B.M., Add. MS. 8102) occur "Lanthonia juxta Glouc' nup' monast'iu' Ann. Nich'i Arnolde mits LX," and "S'ci Petri, Glouc. nup' Monasterium Nich'i Arnolde mits Sen om'i possess' d'ci nup' monasterii xiiiili vs xd" (Trans. Bris. and Glouc. Arch. Soc., xxix. 115, 118). On 24 Oct., 4 Eliz. (1562), on the institution to the vicarage of Churcham with Bulley, Gloucestershire, of Francis Goughe, priest, on the presentation of the Dean and Chapter of Gloucester Cathedral, the bond to the bishop was given by the said Francis Goughe and Richard Arnold of Churcham, Esq., and bears their signatures (Glouc. dioc. records in MS.). Atkyns says under Westbury-on-Severn: "There were two chantries in this church, whereof one was dedicated to St. Nicholas, and the lands belonging to it were granted to Sir Nicholas Arnold 5 Eliz." 66 Gloucester Corporation accounts show a payment in 1553: Gevyn to Maister Arnoldes servauntes on May Day at the bryngyng in of May, 20s. More to those persons that daunsed the moorys daunse the This was probably Rowsame tyme 58." land Arnold. In 'Parliamentary History of the County of Gloucester,' by W. R. Williams (1898), occurs the following on p. 41 :— "Sir Nicholas Arnold of Hyneton, a distinguished statesman, was the son of John Arnold (who was granted the manors of Highnam and over, by the Crown, 1541). Sir Nicholas, who had livery of these manors on his father's death 37 Hen. 8, presented to Dormington 1546, and to Cusop, co. Hereford, 1563, and was a Gentleman Pensioner to the King in Jan., 1526. He m. (1) Margaret, dau. of Sir William Dennys of Dyrham, and (2) Margaret, widow of Nicholas Hore of Harpersdown, Wexford, and dau. and co-heir of John Isham of Bryanstown, Grand Seneschall of co. Wexford. She d. Sept., 1616. He was H.S. co. Gloucester 1558, 1559, Custos Rotulorum till his death April, 1580, Knighted about 1553, M.P. co. Gloucester 1545-7, Feb. to 31 March, 1553, Sept. to Dec., 1555, Gloucester city 1559, 1563-7, Cricklade 1571, and co. Gloucester 1572 till his decease. He was app. one of the Council of the Marches of Wales June, 1574, and was He bred the Lord Deputy of Ireland 1564-5. best horses in England' (Hollinshed). In March, 1556, Thomas White made a deposition implicating Sir Nicholas Arnold in the plot to kill the King and Queen. J.P. CO. Gloucester, Arnold wrote the Council 20 Sept., 1571, certifying his proceedings in search and watch for rogues and vagabonds. On 17 April, 1580, the Mayor of Gloucester requested the Council to grant a separate commission to take the musters of their city; Sir Nicholas Arnold and Thomas the late commission, are Purie, named in dead. As A short search in the records of the Gloucester Consistory Court shows that "Sir Nicholas Arnold, Kt., and Mr. Richard Arnold, Esq.," as farmers of the rectory of Churcham, brought several suits for nonpayment of tithe, 1560-68. They produced an indenture of a grant of tithes and ecclesiastical dues made by the Abbot and Convent of St. Peter, Gloucester, to John Arnolde, Esq., for 99 years, dated 10 Aug., 21 Hen. VIII.; also the wills of John Arnold, Esq., and Isabel Arnold, widow, their late parents, proved and approved by the late Archbishop of Canterbury. These records doubtless contain other information respecting the family which will be available on their publication. Highbury, Lydney. F. S. HOCKADAY. CHARLES I.: 'BIBLIA AUREA' (11 S. iv. BATTLE ON THE WEY: CARPENTER, 70). The volume to which POURQUOI PAS CRESSINGHAM, AND ROWE FAMILIES (11 S. iv. refers is more accurately described by its 24, 77.)-What Fordun has to say of Cresfull title Directorium Biblie Aureum.' It singham may be easily stated. In the is also entitled 'Repertorium' and 'Repor-Gesta Annalia section xcix. is headed 'De tatorium.' Its author was Antonius bello pontis de Strivelyn,' and it is introRampegollis "de Senis ordinis fratrum duced with the statement that the activities heremitarum Sancti Augustini." The of William Wallace in Scotland proved earliest dated edition was printed by intolerable to his Majesty of England. Then Johann Zainer at Ulm in 1475, and more the narrative proceeds thus:than a dozen editions appeared during the fifteenth century. Some of these are by no means rarities. The book is a kind of dictionary of Biblical quotations. It is divided into 138 chapters; each of them deals with a subject or group of subjects, and contains a mass of texts from the Bible which are relevant. Perhaps ch. cviii., entitled 'De prelatis et principibus bonis,' may have been of special interest to Charles I. The popularity of the book was probably due to its obvious utility to preachers. CHARLES THOMAS-STANFORD, F.S.A. Preston Manor, Brighton. "Qui [rex Angliæ, videlicet], arduis negotiis alibi multipliciter intentus, suum thesaurarium, nomine Hugonem de Clissinghame, cum magna potentia, ad reprimendam ipsius Willelmi audaciam, et regnum Scociæ sibi subjiciendum, destinavit. Audito ergo hujus viri adventu, prædictus Willelmus, tunc circa obsessionem Anglorum in castro de Dunde existentium occupatus, statim, commissa cura et diligentia obsessionis castri ejusdem Villa burgensibus, sub pœna amissionis vitæ et membrorum, cum exercitu sub omni festinatione versus Strivelyn eidem Hugoni obvius processit, et, bello commisso apud pontem de Forth juxta Strivelyne, iii idus Septembris, idem Hugo de Clissinghame interfectus est, et cunctus ejus exercitus in fugam conversus, aliis ex ipsis gladiis jugulatis, aliis captis, aliis aquis submersis, sed, cunctis Dei virtute superatis, prædictus Willelmus cum laude non modica felici potitus est victoria." PRINCESS VICTORIA'S VISIT TO THE MARQUIS OF ANGLESEY (11 S. iv. 67).-Her late There is nothing here to shed light, except Majesty Queen Victoria spent a couple of inferentially, on the Treasurer's character months as the guest of the Marquis of Angle- and his personal history, even his name sey in August and September, 1832. The being inaccurately given. The writer's conPrincess, as she then was, was accompanied cern was with the general's hapless venture, by her mother the Duchess of Kent. Accord- and this he impressively delineates in his ing to Edward Parry's Royal Visits and characteristic fashion. THOMAS BAYNE. Progress to Wales,' they made a stay of some months at Plas Newydd, on the bank of the Menai in Anglesea, the marine residence of the Marquis of Anglesey. After a loyal reception at Shrewsbury, they travelled via Oswestry to Wynnstay Park, the seat of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, Bt., M.P., where they spent Sunday. Although most of the time they were at Plas Newydd, they stayed for some days at "The Bulkley Arms Hotel," Beaumaris, whence they made numerous excursions in Snowdonia. They also visited Carnarvon Castle, the scene of the recent investiture of the Prince of Wales. Princess Victoria was escorted the spiral steps to the top of the Eagle Tower, and visited the apartment in which, according to tradition, Edward II. was born. It is worthy of mention that the Prince, King George, and Queen Mary entered and left the castle through the Eagle Tower. up During her visit the Princess Victoria attended an Eisteddfod at Beaumaris and distributed a number of prizes. D. M. R. [Further reply next week.] "CASTLES IN SPAIN":"CASTLE IN THE AIR" (11 S. iv. 66). The phrase "in nubibus," applied to things invisible and intangible, must be due to somebody who was familiar with the Vulgate Psalms : e.g., lxvii. 35, magnificentia ejus et virtus ejus in nubibus," A.V. lxviii. 34. It is used in Les Termes de la Ley,' written by John Rastell, 1527, and translated by William Rastell, 1567, wherein a certain remainder is stated to be in abeyance "and as we say in the clouds," come nous dicimus in nubibus," ed. 1667, p. 6. 6 Castles in Spain occurs in George Herbert's Jacula Prudentum,' printed first in 1640. W. C. B. AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (11 S. iii. 468).-M. M.'s fifth quotation, And now a poet's gratitude you see ; Grant him two favours, and he 'll ask for three, was rightly attributed by Cowper to DrYoung. It is the second couplet of Young's 'Universal Passion,' Satire III., addressed to Bubb Dodington. EDWARD BENSLY. |