SPANISH MOTTO (11 S. iv. 290, 338, 353).— By a freak of memory the writer gave "Fray Antonio de Agapida as the historical source of Irving's account of the war of Granada. This highly amusing mnemonic aberration is perhaps not incomprehensible in one who, though not unacquainted with Spanish chronicles in the original, has not read Washington Irving since youth. In proffering a humble apology to the Editor and readers of N. & Q.,' the writer finds some consolation in the fact that the same memory, dormant when he turned up Washington Irving, now enables him, unprompted, to rectify the "howler." SICILE. BRISTOL CATHEDRAL CLOCK (11 S. iv. 348). -I would suggest that the name is Hebditch. Forty years ago this name abounded at South Petherton in Somersetshire, of which parish the Dean and Chapter of Bristol are patrons. S. H. A. H. “HAPPEN" (11 S. iv. 346).-This word was used as a familiar equivalent for " perhaps" thirty years ago, and, for aught I know, is still current in Yorkshire. It seems to have been overlooked by lexicographers. Example : Happen [i.e., perhaps] I may go to-morrow. Stanmore Road, Edgbaston. HENRY SMYTH. MARLOWES (11 S. iv. 370).-This name is probably derived from-(1) mare or mere, A.-S. for a pool of stagnant water, and (2) hlaw, A.-S. for a hill, a mound, or rising ground. It would thus appear to mean the marsh by the hill," or the " pool at the foot of the hill." Norden, speaking of Berkhampstead in his 'Speculum Britanniæ,' WILLIAM WOOLLETT (11 S. iv. 346).— What was the date of his birth? He was buried in St. Pancras Churchyard. An engraving of his gravestone, as recently restored by the Graphic Society," appeared in The Illustrated London News of 29 Aug., 1846. Thence I copy the following inscription :Engraver to his Majesty William Woollett was born at Maidston in Kent upon the 16 of August MD.CC.XXXV. He died the 23 and was interred in this place on the 28 day of May MD.CC.LXXXV. Elizabeth Woollett Cansick's copy of the above inscription gives the date of birth as 15 Aug. He also reproduces a copy of the inscription to Woollett's memory in the Cloisters, Westminster, the date there being 22 Aug. This coincides with the Vergers' Guide to the Abbey,' Allen (History of London,' iv. 149), however, records the date as 29 Aug. I shall be glad to know which of these is correct. JOHN T. PAGE. Long Itchington, Warwickshire. PENGE AS A PLACE-NAME (11 S. iv, 330).— Before we can tell the origin of this name. some one must find a really old spelling of it. Evidence of the seventeenth century is absolutely valueless; experience shows that we must try to obtain a spelling earlier than 1300. WALTER W. SKEAT. "I AM PAID REGULAR WAGES (11 S. iv. 287, 356).—I am afraid that MR. GELL'S ingenious eureka of the Latin double accusative will not assoil the faulty English construction anathematized by DR. KRUEGER. The Doctor's position (ante, p. 287) is that since a passive verb cannot have a direct object, such a sentence as “I was given him "is ungrammatical; he adds that it is illogical, since he, not I, “was given." MR. GELL urges against this that when in Latin a verb of asking is followed by two accusatives, of the person and the thing, the verb, if cast into the passive form, carries 66 after it an accusative. An accusative, yes; Peters, an Englishman. Sandwiches," &c., a direct object, no. The double accusative used to be engraved on the windows, and is due to the fact that certain verbs-in-probably are there still. terrogo, flagito, doceo, celo, &c.-bear a double According to what I heard perhaps thirty meaning. Interrogo Ciceronem means, "I years ago, Mr. Peters having died, his widow question Cicero"; interrogo sententiam, "I married M. Noël. Perhaps he was a desolicit or demand his opinion"; it is really scendant of Frederick the Great's Noël. a double sentence with a zeugma in the verb. ROBERT PIERPOINT. Transformed into the passive, interrogo Ciceronem becomes interrogatus Cicero "; interrogo sententiam becomes interrogata sententia" in each case the accusative belonging to the other meaning of the verb is by the Latin idiom retained, but retained indirectly or elliptically, not as a direct object. The only English word, I think, which holds this double meaning is "ask but "I asked him his opinion,' iv. 309, 372). "I asked him a guinea for the book," are colloquial, not pure English, and to no other of the words cited by DR. KRUEGER—afford, give, offer, &c.-does the Latin analogy apply. ORBILIUS. The "SWALE," " "SWEAL": ITS AMERICAN AND ENGLISH MEANINGS (11 S. iv. 67, 114, 175, 351). When a boy I did a good deal of candle holding for my father and others whilst they were working on winter evenings. Thus I often heard this word used. nearest spelling that I can get to the pronunciation is sweeul or sweeal. The word was applied indifferently to the flame being blown aside, and to the guttering produced thereby, or when the candle was held out of the perpendicular. Thus it seems to me that the two ways of using the word given at the last reference may have a close connexion in origin. Longfield Road, Todmorden. ABM. NEWELL. C. F. LAWLER (11 S. iv. 349).—A very full notice of Dr. Wolcot in the anonymous Dictionary of Living Authors' (by F. Shoberl and W. Upcott), published in 1816, ends with the following mention of Lawler : "Latterly the name of Peter Pindar has been unwarrantably assumed by one Lawler, a poetaster of little or no wit, merely to deceive the public and to bring some profit to the writer and his bookseller." W. D. MACRAY. NOËL, COOK TO FREDERICK THE GREAT (11 S. iv. 269). It may be that MR. SCHLOESSER might get some information if he were to write to the proprietor of the Café Noël-Peters, Passage des Princes, Boulevard des Italiens, Paris. The Passage runs from the Boulevard into the Rue de Richelieu. This well-known restaurant was, I believe, founded many years ago by one BAKED PEARS="WARDENS" (11 S iv. 309, 371). In answer to J. F. R. (p. 372), Chrustumium is evidently a variant of the Crustumia pira" of Virg., Geo.,' ii. 88. They are also mentioned by Columella H. K. ST. J. S. (v. x. 18 and xii. x. 4). 66 66 PEARS: season 'DOYENNÉ DU COMICE" (11 S. This pear was also called 'poire de la St. Michel," from being in from Michaelmas. "Les comices in the sixteenth century in France for the agricoles" were agricultural unions started improvement of the cultivation of land. They took their names from the Roman comitium or assembly of voters. Doyenné (through doyen, eccles. Lat. decanum) indicated the superior position held by this fruit in the estimation of its producers, and is short, I suppose, for "poire de Doyenné.“ Â. E. P. RAYMUND DOWLING. LIONS MODELLED BY ALFRED STEVENS front of the Law Institution in Chancery (11 S. iv. 349). The lions on the railing in Lane date only from March, 1904, when the new wing at the corner of Carey Street was Stevens's model to the order of the La opened. They were then newly made from Society, and did not come from the British Museum. Some similar lions used formerly to adorn the railings outside the British Museum, but about twenty years ago, when Great Russell Street was being widened, the railing on which they stood was removed, as it encroached somewhat on the public footpath; and since then the lions themselves have been distributed among the galleries inside the building, and may be seen there at any time. ALAN STEWART. [MR. ALECK ABRAHAMS also thanked for reply.] REV. JOHN M'BRIDE OF BELFAST (11 S iv. 307).-A letter of 1710 of this once conspicuous divine appears in the Wodrow Correspondence,' 3 vols., Edinburgh, 1843. followed by later contemporary mentions of his strikingly named fiery polemic trac and the turmoil it set in motion at the period. J. G. CUPPLES. Brookline, Massachusetts. QUEEN ELIZABETH'S DAY: 17 NOVEMBER (11 S. ii. 401, 453).—In the Chapter Library at Westminster is a manuscript volume of 'Poems to Q. Elizabeth,' of about 1587. Among the writers are John Packer, Peter Smart, and John Whitgift: see Robinson and James, 'Manuscripts of Westminster Abbey,' 1909, p. 90. Packer himself wrote a volume of Greek and Latin verses, Elizabetha, sive Augustissimæ Anglorum Principis Encomium,' for which see 'D.N.B.,' xliii. 32 b. The book on Clymactericall Yeeres,' by T. W., 1604 (11 S. ii. 401), was written by Thomas Wright ('D.N.B.,' lxiii. 128 b). There is an illustrated article on this day in The Book of Days,' ii. 588-90. W. C. B. 'ENGLISCHE SCHNITZER (11 S. iv. 368).— * Englische Sprach-Schnitzer was by O'Clarus Hiebslac, Esq., M.A., Fellow of the German Athenæum in London, &c. It was first published at Strassburg in 1884. A second edition was issued soon after, which bears the date at the end of the preface, "London, November, 1884." My copy, which is a third edition, is dated "London, Mai, 1886." It is worthy of the attention of every student of German and English, and especially so if one is interested in howlers.' Saffron Walden. 66 THOMAS WM. HUCK. 'HOWDEN FAIR' (11 S. iv. 325).-MR. EDWARD PEACOCK, who so frequently contributes dainties to the banquets of N.& Q.,' has already served up this song (7 S. v. 345). There are slight differences in the versions, due, no doubt, to tricks of memory on the part of the narrators. I do not know who wrote the song, which suggests by means of words the fuss and clatter of a country horse-fair almost as well as Rosa Bonheur did with her pigments. ST. SWITHIN. AND a [W. C. B. also thanked for reply.] JESSIE BROWN THE RELIEF OF LUCKNOW (11 S. iv. 328, 416). Jessie Brown; or, the Relief of Lucknow : Drama in Three Acts,' was written by Dion Boucicault for Wallack's Theatre, New York, where it was played for over eighty nights. It was first given in England in November, 1858, at the Theatre Royal, Plymouth, under the management of J. R. Newcome. It was described in the preliminary announcements at Plymouth as being a new, great, and original play, founded on a beautiful episode in the present Indian War"; and that episode was set out at full length from "an account taken from the letters of a lady, one of the rescued on the 26th September [1857] when Lucknow was relieved by the forces under Sir Colin Campbell.” ALFRED F. ROBBINS. Notes on Books, &c. The Cambridge History of English Literature. Edited by A. W. Ward and A. R. Waller.Vol. VII. Cavalier and Puritan. (Cambridge University Press.) STUDENTS have by this time, we imagine, found this history invaluable. It is full of facts, and remarkably accurate. The arrangement of the chapters, too, is so made as to group successfully some writers who generally escape the notice of the literary critic. The selection of contributors shows a wide and catholic knowledge of the world of scholarship, and, though they have their differences in style and manner of presentment, every one of them is a capable judge of his subject. In the special sections which lie a little outside belles-lettres the choice of the editors is particularly good. The chapters, for instance, of Prof. Sorley on Hobbes and Contemporary Philosophy and Prof. Foster Watson on 'Scholars and Scholarship, 1600-60,' should satisfy at once the advanced reader and the ordinary man of education who takes a general interest in their themes. The pleasantest chapters to read, and not the least learned, are Dr. Ward's two on Historical and Political Writings.' Prof. Saintsbury's extraordinary dialect, which spreads over three chapters, we tolerate for the sake of his erudition. He dealt with Shakespeare in an earlier volume, and in this he is entrusted with Milton, and gives a satisfactory estimate, though to our mind unduly scorning tradition Thus he says and controversy. "His college sojourn begins the Milton legend and controversy-tedious and idle like all controversial legends, and to be kept down as much as possible.' The bookman has, it seems to us, an exaggerated contempt for oral tradition, which may contain some valuable hint of fact or likelihood. In this case of Milton, Johnson makes at least a definite statement which may safely be rejected," according to Dr. Bass Mullinger in his masterly volume of Cambridge history issued this year. Whether any of Johnson's conclusions here can be accepted is doubtful, but they have been followed by a host of commentators and writers who make no original research, and therefore it seems to us that the evidence was worth exhibiting and appreciating at its proper value. On the verse of Paradise Lost' Prof. Saintsbury is at once concise and judicious, and his comments on the influence of Milton on English letters are excellent. When, however, he adds that Milton "has had few admirery out of England," we recall more than one piece of evidence that 'Paradise Lost' is a familiar classic in Russia. 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Hamilton's Hair-Matthew Prior of Long Island-Mor The internal evidence of the MS., however, furnishes very strong grounds for believing, firstly, that the Aske mentioned in it was the leader of the Pilgrimage of Grace, and, secondly, that he was not the collector of the pedigrees and miscellaneous notes contained in the volume. I will discuss the second inference first. The papers conjecturally or certainly conUERIES:-Hebrew Medal-Spenser and Dante-Lady nected with Aske are all, with one exception, land's Inn Sign, 447-Lady Bulmer-Antigallican Society legal in character, mainly notes of law -Bennetto Family The Robbers' Cave'-St. Bride's: readings and cases, and forms of writs and J. Pridden - Anvil Cure - Yarm: Private Brown they seem to have no Glastonbury, and Joseph of Arimathea-Latin Accentua- proceedings, and tion, 448-Authors Wanted - Dillon on Disraeli-Old connexion with the genealogical and hisSampler-Lucius The Dublin Gunns-Bequest of Bibles torical collections which occupy the greater -The Young Man's Companion '-North Devon Words 1600-Murder in America-Hadria-Geese and Michael- part of the volume. With one exception, mas Day, 450. they all fall within ff. 7-13; but the original REPLIES: - Early Arms of France, 450 Municipal foliation, dating from not later than about Records Printed, 451-Ceylon Officials: Capt. Anderson, the middle of the sixteenth century, begins 453-Duke of Wellington's First School - Friday as Christian Name, 454-Hulda-American National Flower on f. 13 b with the first pedigree, although, Progress of Error-Tattershall: Grantham, 455 since f. 14 forms a single sheet with f. 8, Peers immortalized by Public Houses-Urban V.'s Family Name-Bradshaw the Regicide, 456-Porch Inscription the contents of which follow on from f. 7, in Latin-Lowther Family Church with Wooden Bell-part at least of these preliminary papers Turret - Burgh-on-Sands, 457-Noble Families in Shakespeare" Broken Counsellor"- Weare and ThurtellFent"-John Downman-Bearded Soldiers-Military Executions, 458-"Shoe her horse 'round"-"The Noon Gazette-Du Bellay-Diatoric Teeth -R. Anstruther, M.P.-Mr. Stock, Bibliophile, 459. NOTES ON BOOKS:-A Thomas Hardy Dictionary' Notes. ROBERT ASKE. Of the life of this famous leader of the Pilgrimage of Grace prior to the rebellion very little is known. A slight addition to our knowledge is made by a MS. recently acquired by the British Museum, and it seems well that this should be recorded. The MS. in question (now Add. MS. 38133) was formerly Phillipps MS. 3765. It is described both in the Phillipps catalogue and in the 1911 sale catalogue as containing genealogical collections by Robert Aske, but Sir Thomas Phillipps, who published several items from the MS. in vol. i. of the ⚫ Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica ' (pp. 20, 168, 243, 324), does not seem to have identified this person with the leader of the Pilgrimage of Grace. He has written a pencil note on the back of the cover, stating that the name of the Author of these Pedigrees appears to have been Robert Aske, Servant to the Earl of Northumberland, and a Herald by profesQu. if any account of him in Noble's History of the College of Arms?" sion. must have belonged to the volume from the beginning. The contents of the volume are very miscellaneous, and many hands are represented. Some entries are by persons certainly other than Aske, or of a later date than Aske's death; e.g., on f. 35 a number of notes on Charleton arms are signed “Edward Charleton" with the date 1550, 4 Edw. VI. So, too, on f. 50, in a pedigree of the Hamertons, a note is added to Sir Stephen Hamerton's name pendeu a Tyborne ao 29 H. 8" (1537). As Hamerton was executed for complicity in the Pilgrimage of Grace, and Aske was at this time a prisoner, he can hardly have written this note, or compiled this pedigree, which is in the same hand as several others in the volume. These facts do not, of course, prove that the collection was not made by some other Robert Aske than Aske of Aughton, but they clearly rule out the latter; and since the Aske papers have, as mentioned above, no internal connexion with the rest of the collection, and are in hands which do not occur elsewhere, it seems unlikely that the Aske mentioned in them had anything to do with the compilation of the volume. It remains to consider the evidence identifying the Aske here mentioned with the leader of the Pilgrimage of Grace. Almost the only facts recorded of the latter in the 'D.N.B.,' apart from his connexion with the movement, are that he was a lawyer and that he belonged to the Aughton branch of the family, both of which statements can be confirmed from documents |