LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1906. CONTENTS.-No. 111. NOTES:-Fonseca's Devout Contemplations, 1929, 101A West Indian Military Burial-ground, 104-Guineas, 195 "Marmor" and the Sea in Latin Poets Dekker's Cheese Letters-Dublin Records-Oxford University Volunteers vpon all the Parables." The latter work has never appeared in an English dress, so far as I know; and we may thus reasonably conclude that the expected encouragement from the publication of these 'Devout Contemplations' was not realized. Sir John 'Sweet Content' - Townley House, Ramsgate, 106St. Expeditus-Stevenson's New Arabian Nights,' 107. Strangwayes was the father-in-law of Sir QUERIES:-"Pip" - "Pious founder" - The Waterloo Lewis Dive or Dyve, who married Sir John's Campaign, 107-Sterne and Johnson at the Cheshire She was the Authors of Quotations Wanted-King: Joachin daughter Howarda in 1624. Cardoza-Century of Persian Ghazels, 1851-Laconic widow of one Edward Rogers, of Bryanston. -Tatham's Life of Blake, 103-Ernest Augustus Stephen- The D.N.B.' gives a very comprehensive 80.1 - Passow's Greek-German Lexicon Novel: Title account of the leading events in the life of Wanted Samuel Williams, Draughtsman Jenkyn, Sir Lewis; and consulting Howell's 'Letters' Little John, &c.-Spinola's Whale-Hetman: Ataman, 109 -Portmanteau Words and Phrases - Dutch Epiphany in the edition of 1726, I find several references Custom Poems of Early Years-Vamphorn-Lustre to him. There is one letter in which Dyve is stated to have attended Prince Charles when he went to Madrid in connexion with what is known as the business of the Spanish marriage. The arrival of Charles and his companion Buckingham in that city was something of a mystery: the former passing himself off as Mr. John Smith, and the latter as Mr. Thomas Smith. By and by, however, the real character and mission of the travellers came to be known, and the little incident in which Dyve played a part I shall now quote in Howell's words (ed. 1726, P. 133): Ware, 110. REPLIES:-"Hoast," 110-"Jan Kees "-Rockefeller Exhibition,' 113-Tower of London-"Was you?" and -Fame-Rebecca,' a Novel, 117. NOTES ON BOOKS:- The Enterlude of Youth '-'Swin burne's Tragedies '-'The Folk-lore of Women'- Early Lives of Charlemagne and the Monk of St. Gall'Brooches of Many Nations'-'Upper Norwood Athenæum-Reviews and Magazines. "Devovt Contemplations Expressed In two and Fortie Sermons vpon all ye Quadragesimall Gospells Written in Spanish by Fr. Ch. de Fonseca Englished by I. M. of Magdalen Colledge in Oxford. London Printed by Adam Islip Anno Domini 1629." The work is printed in small folio of 648 pages, excluding the table at the end, the title page, and two preliminary leaves. It is dedicated "To the Two Noble Knights, Sir Iohn Strangvvayes, and Sir Levvis Dive; and Their Vertvovs Ladies, the Lady Grace Strangwayes, and Lady Howard Dive. In Acknowledgment of his own true Loue and Respect, Don Diego Pvede-Ser Dedicateth these his Indeavovrs.' "And now it was publickly known among the vulgar, that it was the Prince of Wales who was come; and the confluence of People before my Lord of Bristol's House was so great and greedy to see the Prince, that to clear the way, Sir Lewis Dives went out and took coach, and all the croud of People went after him: so the Prince himself a little after took coach, wherin there were the Earl of Bristol, Sir Walter Ashton, and Count Gondomar; and so went to the Prado, a place hard by, the King pass'd by." of purpose to take the Air, where they staid till This letter is dated "Madrid, 27 Mar., 1623," and is addressed to "Sir Tho. Savage, Kt. and Bar." In a letter without date, written by Howell "To Sir L. D. in Paris," there is an interesting reference to his forthcoming 'History of Naples' (p. 509) : "I shall shortly by T. B. send you a new 'History of Naples,' which also did cost me a great deal of oil and labour." and was dedicated by Howell" To the Right Of the author of the present work, Christopher de Fonseca, I gather from the Following this dedication there is an address meagre account given in Moreri's Grand To the Reader,' the only notable remark in Dictionnaire Historique' (Amsterdam, 1740, it being an undertaking by the translator vol. iv.) that he was a native of Toledo, in that if the present venture receives sufficient Spain. Choosing a religious life, he entered encouragement, he "will hereafter furnish the Order of the Augustines in 1566, as I thee with the Labors of the same Author take it, and afterwards came to have the reputation of being one of the ablest preachers of his time. He died in 1612. Besides the work now under consideration, Moreri mentions that Fonseca wrote a 'Life of Christ' and a treatise on 'The Love of God,' and suggests that he wrote others which are not specified. As stated above, he also produced a work on 'The Parables.' The treatise on The Love of God' was translated into English by Sir George Strode, and published in 1652. It may be noted that John Spencer, in his excellent collection of 'Things New and Old,' 1658, frequently quotes from these 'Devout Contemplations.' James Mabbe, the translator, is now generally accepted as having been the author of the commendatory lines in the Shakespeare Folio, 1623, subscribed "I. M." He was born in 1572, and matriculated at Magdalen College, Oxford, taking his M.A. degree on 17 October, 1598. He accompanied Sir John Digby when he went as ambassador to Madrid in 1611, and on his return in 1613 was made one of the lay prebendaries of Wells. It will have been noticed, in the dedication_quoted above, that he subscribes himself "Don Diego Pvede Ser." This was a pseudonym for "James May-be"; and in 1622. He died about 1642. It would be out of place to say anything here regarding the author's religious opinions and beliefs. I may, however, remark that the discourses are all eminently practical, and give the impression that the preacher must have been a man of a somewhat austere temperament. One of his epigrammatic sayings is and if this were the place a goodly number might be quoted-"Salt in a Preacher is more necessary than Sugar," and of the former commodity he seems to have had more than enough in his mental constitution. Let me also say that, saving for a chance reference here and there, we might take Fonseca to have been one of those devout spirits who belonged to that great communion of which John Donne, George Herbert, and Richard Hooker were members. In the following passage we have a reference to the fine old comedy entitled 'Jack Drums Entertainment' (not "Tom as in the text), first published in 1601. The text of 1616 will be found reprinted in the excellent collection formed by the late Mr. Richard Simpson, and known as 'The School of Shakespeare' (vol. ii. p. 125): "Martial said of Homer That if he brought nothing along with him but the Muses, hee should haue Tom Drummes' entertainment, and be shut out of doores."-P. 277. Here is one of those touches which make the whole world kin (p. 39):— "But the impatient man when the coller fits closer to his neck than he would haue it, thrusts in his fingers betweene, to stretch it wider and make it more easie." A disciple of Walton will appreciate this illustration (p. 109):— "Theirs are like fishing rods, which when the fish bite not, continue strait & right, but if they nibble neuer so little at the bait, presently bow and bend." Perhaps it is not a new point in Scriptural exegesis, but our author does not hesitate to hint that the Patriarch Job was afflicted with the gout (p. 168): "Iob calleth the Gout, a paire of Stockes." The following collection of quaint and proverbial phrases I noted in reading the book, and I trust they may prove of interest : "He made another statue of gold from top to toe."-P. 2. "The Lyon preyes not vpon children and women, Greyhounds vpon Shepheards curs nor foisting nor the Eagle vpon the lesser birds, nor your Irish hounds."-P. 6. "That they that were publike & scandalous Sinners did present themselues in a kind of soutage or coarse Sacke-cloath before the Bishop."-P. 9. Sauiour had beene bred vp) tooke it in such "Nazareth (which was the place where our dudgeon."-P. 23. "But when the enemie comes vpon them, more fearful than hares, and betake them to their heeles."-P. 25. eaten him piecemeale."-P. 25. "There is no Collirium that so opens the eyes of the soule, as miserie and trouble."-P. 27. "Not like the Archisynagoguian, who desired him, That he would lay his hand vpon his daughter."-P. 37. "The Ribond or bend of Saluation, wherewith the bloud is stanched."-P. 39. "As a Lieger- booke of Laws and Statutes." P. 40. Dauids souldiers fingers itcht, and would faine haue set vpon Saul, when they had him cub'd vp in the caue."-P. 46. "Your Bookes of Duell haue their eccho; the lye must be returned with a boxe on the eare; a boxe on the eare will require a bastonadoing; a bastonadoing the vnsheathing of the Sword, and the Sword death."-P. 50. "But because their end was not to play bo-peepe with the Deuill, and to goe about to mocke him, but to serue their God, and to enjoy his favour, they did not care a fig for all his temptations.' P. 77. P. 80. The Deuill now thought himselfe cocke-sure." "And therefore, bee it by hooke or by crooke."— P. 80. "I terme it follie; for, as Man, hee [Christ] bad no reason to doe any such rash and inconsiderate action; and, as God, hee had no neede to play the Tumbler, and to flie in the aire."-P. 89. "This is a short and cutted kind of speech."P. 99. 44 Beeing one that wisht them all good, hugg'd them vnder his wing."-P. 101. "King Balacks Messengers had so greased his [Balaam's] fists with good gold."-P. 110. 66 Whereas the Adulterer was by all adiudged to be a happie and a fortunate man, that by good hap he had escaped out of the hands of Iustice. either by flight, or greasing the Officers in the fist."P. 117. choses, made dishes, and pleasing sauces for the "Nothing will down with them but quelques. Palate."-P. 124. "No man will spare his enemie, if he can catch him vpon the hip."-P. 130. "He that pretends a Captains place, the gouern ment of a Garrison Towne, or the keeping of a Fort, frets and fumes, when he knowes he hath done the State good seruice in the Warres, to see a Carpet Knight, that can better vse a Violl than a Sword, lead a measure with a Ladie than a Band of men, be preferred, and himselfe put by."P. 163. "Philon saith, That he [Moses] was a King, a Lawgiuer, a Prophet, & a Priest. Gregorie Nazianzen, Saint Augustine, and Saint Hierome jumpe together in that point."-P. 209. Elias in that furious whirlewind, in that terrible earthquake, and that fearefull fire, wrapt himselfe vp like a bottome of yarne, and lay close to the earth."-P. 217. "The pleasures hee tooke therein, clapt wings to his feet."- P. 219. "The metaphor is taken from those that run, when as the one trips vp the others heeles."P. 224. "What greater snare than that pit-fall which was prepared as a punishment for Tantalus, who standing vp to the chinne in water, could yet neuer come to quench his thirst."-P. 233. "Salomon commending a manly mettled woman, sayes. That she cloathed herselfe with Purple and with Silke."-P. 234. [John Boys in his 'Workes,' 1629 (p. 297), speaks of "a woman endued with manly courage and carriage."] "But if what Vanitie will egge thee vnto, thou shalt be poore."-P. 236. "What doth this poore Rogue make here, send him packing, that I may see him no more."P. 239. "I am not so desperate as to cast my selfe wilfully away, when as I may sleepe in a whole skinne."-P. 247. "When shee [Delilah] had her purpose she cared not a pin for him."-P. 277. "But he [Shimei] no sooner saw him [David] flie from Ierusalem halfe naked, and with one shooe off (as they say) and another on."-P. 277. Art thou greater than our Father lacob?' said the Samaritane woman; calling lacob Father, as long as the lewes power and prosperitie lasted; but no sooner downe the wind, but they wind their neckes out of the coller, acknowledging neither friendship nor kindred."-P. 277. "And as the Cough of the lungs is eased with a clap on the back, so is the sinners heart, when Sinne hammers vpon it."-P. 279. Hug him in her armes, and spred out the lappet of her garment for him."-P. 285. "A Rogue that hath neuer a shoo to his foot, nor a rag to his tayle."-P. 291. "For if the Deuill be still pulling him [the "They whip a young theefe for stealing but ten "The Nazarits would not wagge a jot, to goe see 46 "Being in that great danger as thou art, doost thou stand off, doost thou hang taile, and wilt not P. 325. make a little more to come vnto thy Sauiour?"-Many men are like vnto your Ferrets or your Bloud-hounds, they go nosing and hunting after "Yet when their wits are thus a wooll-gathering." faults in other mens grounds."-P. 338. -P. 338. "Where that nose is taken to be somewhat of other mens liues and actions: and that of the the longest, which goes nosing and senting after shortest, which quickely takes snuffe, and frets and "The Horse that carrieth himselfe well and fumes at the wagging of a Feather."-P. 339. handsomely with one bridle, it is needlesse to clap two."-P. 339. "It is lost labour to correct a Scorner, and such a one as makes but a sport & Maygame of sin."P. 340. "Lucian sayth, that our hart is a white, or marke P. 341. "He that whereat shafts be shot." P. 594. gouernes, must fix his eye vpon this White." "And albeit the washing of the hands was a verie light fault, yet one little and another little "He beeing appointed by God to punish Adulcomes in the end to make a mickle."-P. 357. teeth."-P. 358. "Notwithstanding all this Absalon. terers & Murdrers, they might not tit him in the titteth him in the teeth."-P. 424. "With this deceit he [Jacob] grieued both his father and his brother, but he was paid at length in his owne coyne."-P. 361. "Thou sneezest, hee that is next vnto thee puts of his hat, not that that does hinder thy farther receiued custome so to do."-P. 365. sneezing, but because it is a Tradition, and a "Of those that weare one of Linsey-woolsie."P. 365. "Their conscience was a verie Dung-mixen, P. 367. they were faire without, but foule within." For that the people were much affectioned to this outward asperousnesse and strict - seeming "Abhorring her former lewd life, shee turned ouer course of life."-P. 367. "But the truth is, that Walls haue eyes as well a new leafe."-P. 400. as eares."-P. 415. 64 Others stickt not to say, the weakest still goes. to the wall."-P. 417. "The one sought to picke a hole in his [Christ's] Coat vpon some quirke and quillet of the Law."P. 420. "Vpon a Prince, or the Princes Fauourite, they will make no bones to bestow some great and costly Present, but grudge to offer vp to God a poore hunger-starued Lambe.-P. 431. "Of much to make a little, is euery dayes practise; for your Cookes and Manciples know how to dicke their owne fingers."-P. 439. The world is a Cosiner and a Cheater, it promiseth mountaines of gold, but performeth molehills of nifles."-P. 443. "The lust shal haue their food good cheape." P. 444. "But some one will say, How can I want, or bee in need, if I keepe my fruits safe vnder locke and key?"-P. 444. "Riches that are ill gotten, flie vp to Gods tribunall seat, and there like so many fiscalls or busie Attornies accuse thee for an vniust possessor of them."-P. 456. [This quotation vividly recalls Sir Henry Taylor's beautiful lines in his 'Isaac Comnenus' (Act III. sc. iii.):— Words though from earth with wings they fly away Yet perish not nor lose themselves in space, "There is a new kind of tyranny nowadayes, he that sells, wraps and wrings all he can vnto him, but returnes nothing; takes all but giues not a dodkin to the poore."-P. 457. "And of Demosthenes, That he would Scotch and notch his hayre crosse-wayes, that he might keepe in for three moneths together, and follow his study."-P. 461. "Though ye have lien amongst the Triuets and blackest Pots of Egypt."--P. 486. And at continuall oddes with my selfe from top to toe."-P. 521. "Knights of the Post to lie and sweare. P. 541. Penitence must rent the sailes wherewith thou sailest in this world with the wind in the poupe." -P. 560. "For if Palam be to publish a thing openly, and not to doe it in hugger-mugger."-P. 565. "It were a great lasinesse and foule slothfulnesse in vs not to take occasion by the foretop."-P. 576. "One Elias consumed with fire, Ahabs Quinquagenarian Captaines, and their souldiers." P. 592. "There is not that meere Polititian or Statesman, that is not desirous to sleepe in a whole skin, and to looke well enough to himselfe for one, without thrusting himselfe into quarrels and contentions for points of Religion."-P. 593. "The King (said they) hath the report of a good honest gentleman, but that the State was neuer worse gouerned than now, for it is serued by the greediest and the gripingest Ministers that were in the world."-P. 610. "The people making a confused noyse, the Trumpets send forth a hoarse voice, the drums a dead sound, the theeues go cheeke by iole close to our Sauiors side, the cryers lift vp their voyces, and ball out aloud."-P. 642. A. S. A WEST INDIAN MILITARY BURIAL GROUND. (Concluded from p. 63.) BUT it is in its historic connexions that lie the most interesting associations of the old dockyard at English Harbour. Who can say what those records and entries of the last century and a quarter could unfold I have been informed that the Admiralty has recently removed these records to headquarters at Bermuda, owing to their having been so mutilated by autograph hunters, &c., in search of names like Rodney, Nelson, and other bygone heroes of England's naval glory. Here, too, occurred what at the time was believed to be the very brutal killing of Lieut. Peterson, of H.M S. Perdrix, by Lord Camelford, in command of H.M.S. Favourite, in 1798, which has been well told by the author of 'Antigua and the Antiguans,' at p. 275 of the first volume. The work, in two volumes, was published in 1844, and is said now to be very scarce. From her account we learn that a dispute took place between the two officers as to which of them was the senior. Mr. Peterson declining to execute a command given him by Lord Camelford, and persisting in his refusal, was instantly shot dead by his lordship, who, it being a time of war, viewed the refusal as an act of mutiny which justified death. The event created a great stir at the time, and public feeling in Antigua ran high in favour of the deceased officer, who was quite a youth and a member of a good family in Nevis. But as Mrs. Lanaghan states, this circumstance was not the only one that caused the name of Lord Camelford to be well known in Antigua. It appears that he had required the local superintendent of the dockyard, Mr. Kitto, to do something which the latter declined to do, as he considered it "beyond his warrant"; whereupon his irate lordship had him strung up and two dozen lashes administered. For this illegal and brutal conduct a complaint was laid against Lord Camelford, and he was summoned to appear at the very Court House in St. John's in which it is now my duty frequently to preside. But Lord Camelford did not wait to meet his accusers, and effected his escape on horseback, but was recaptured in his endeavour to regain his ship at English Harbour, some twelve miles distant. On being brought back to the Court House, and, in the words of Mrs. Lanaghan, who graphically describes the whole scene, "placed upon a horse, bare headed, surrounded by the officials, and followed by all the riff-raff of St. John's and its environs," he was ordered to find bail for his appearance at the next sessions, the amount of his recognizances being 5,000l. This substantial sum did not, however prevent him from again breaking his bond, for having drawn bills to the amount of his recognizances, so as to protect his sureties from loss (to his credit be it said), he proceeded on board his ship and quitted Antigua. In one of the old record books kept in the Court House at St. John's occurs an entry of the indictment presented against the Right Hon. Thomas Pitt, Lord Camelford, Baron of Boconnoc in the county of Cornwall, and James Brown, in the old Court of King's Bench and Grand Sessions of the Peace held for the island of Antigua at St. John's on 25 Sept., 1798, for conspiring to assault and assaulting George "Kittoe," Esquire. A true bill having been found by the grand jury, and neither of the accused appearing when "called out," "their proctor," Mr. Horsford, stated that they were absent on the king's service, and the indictment was ordered to be "continued over" to the next sessions. A later entry in the same volume shows that the case was proceeded with on 25 March, 1799, when, as neither of the defendants appeared when "called out," their recognizances were, on the motion of Mr. Burke, H M.'s Solicitor General, ordered to be estreated, those of Lord Camelford being himself in 3,000l. and two sureties in 1,500l. Those for Brown were 2007. and 100l. respectively. Of course Lord Camelford was tried by court-martial for killing Lieut. Peterson. An account of the matter appears in The Annual Register' for 1798, on p. 10 of the 'Chronicle section. A letter received from Antigua is there printed, containing particulars very similar to those given by Mrs. Lanaghan in her book, but adding that during the dispute a dozen of Peterson's men from the Perdrix had come up armed, and that Lord Camelford had brought up half as many of his marines. It further stated that Lord Camelford gave himself up as a prisoner to Capt. Neatson, of the Beaver sloop of war, in which ship he was carried to the admiral in Fort Royal Bay, and there tried and acquitted. Two of Peterson's brothers were stated to be in Antigua, collecting evidence for the purpose of seeing what could be done against Lord Camelford in a civil court of justice. The coroner's inquest on Mr. Peterson brought in a verdict of Lost his life in a mutiny." Fort Royal Bay was in Martinique, which had then been captured from the French, and the sentence of the court-martial fully bore out Lord Camelford's action and the verdict of the coroner's jury. It stated that it was "unanimously of opinion that the very extraordinary and manifest disobedience of Lieut. Peterson, both before at the instant of his death, to the lawful orders of Lord Camelford, the senior officer at English Harbour at that time, and the violent measures taken by Lieut. Peterson to repany, were acts of mutiny highly injurious to the sist the same by arming the Perdrix's ship comdiscipline of his Majesty's service. The Court do therefore unanimously adjudge that the Right Honourable Lord Camelford be honourably acquitted, and he is hereby unanimously and honourably acquitted accordingly." What Lord Camelford's ultimate fate was, is, I believe, doubtful. I have seen it stated somewhere that he was killed in a duel in Barbados; but I have been recently informed by the Hon. A. W. Holmes A'Court, who now fills Mr. Kitto's place, that Lord Camelford, who had gone to Switzerland, was followed thither by a brother of Peterson's, who, having picked a quarrel with him, shot him in a duel. By a curious coincidence Mr. A'Court tells me that on a recent visit to Bermuda he saw in a local paper an advertisement or notice asking for information relative to the burial-place of Lord Camelford. Mr. A Court, who has recently retired from the office of Superintendent of Public Works in Antigua, should feel quite at home in charge of this fine old naval yard, for he is the great-nephew of that Admiral A'Court younger brother of the first Lord Heytesbury who as a midshipman of H.M.S. Blanche cruising off St. Domingo in November, 1803, earned great distinction for himself by cutting out (assisted only by seven seamen and one marine) a French armed schooner lying becalmed, having on board half a dozen guns and forty soldiers besides her crew; but, notwithstanding the odds against him, A'Court carried the schooner in triumph to the Blanche. This almost incredible story is well told in a recent number of The Windsor Magazine, and shows what kind of spirit actuated British seamen in the days of the great hero the centenary of whose death has just been celebrated all J. S. UDAL, F.S.A. over the world. Antigua, W.I. GUINEAS. All the lexicographers appear to agree that guinea-the name of the gold coin, first coined in England in 1663-is derived from the place-name Guinea, the |