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"HOW THEY BROUGHT THE GOOD NEWS FROM GHENT TO AIX" (5th S. i. 71, 174, 298, 418.) Mr. Browning, while on a yachting expedition in the Mediterranean, was once lying becalmed. The fancy struck him, what would I give for a good gallop! As a δεύτερος πλοῦς he wrote the ballad in question. I have heard the story at first hand. F. STORR.

THE SUNFLOWER (5th S. i. 165, 256, 417.) This flower is called girasol in both Italian and Spanish, and derives its name from turning, girare, in both languages. From one of these languages comes our Jerusalem artichoke, which has nothing to do with Jerusalem, but a great deal with its resemblance to the girasol, or sunflower.

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458, 498.) -Permit a final paragraph to this subject to recommend a perusal of vol. ii. of Christopher Kelly's History of the Wars, where the reader is told, and quite correctly, that every individual present" at Waterloo received the medal. J. W. FLEMING. Brighton.

ST. CATHERINE OF SIENNA (5th S. i. 387, 433.) -I copy the annexed titles from various catalogues :

1. "Vie de Sainte Catherine de Sienne, par Raymond de Capoue, suivie du Supplément du Thomas Caffarini et des témoignages des disciples de Sainte Catherine au procès de Venise." (Editions, Paris, 1853 and 1859. Raymond of Capua was her Confessor.)

2. The same work translated, Dublin, 1857.

3. "The Life of Saint Catherine of Siena, New York." [? By Father Formby.]

4. "Catherine de Sienne. Fioreti utilissimi extracti

dal diuto Dyalogo vulgare de la Seraphica sposa di Sco. Domenico (A la fin). Impresse in Ferrara per Laurentio de Rubei da Valentia, 1511," in 8vo. with portrait.

Christo Sancta Catharina da Siena del tertio ordine di

5. "Catharina Senensis. Vita ac miracula selectiora formis aeneis expressa Venitiis, 1755," in 4to., 34 plates. Nos. 4 and 5 are quoted in Catalogue Maisonneuve et Cie. Paris, 1870. E. A. P.

WOOLSTON WELL, WEST FELTON (5th S. i. 449, 515.) -The local traditions are singularly meagre. I have never heard any date assigned to the building. It is evident, I think, that the cottage over the well was formerly used as a chapel, and there are some persons in the neighbourhood (mySHOTTEN HERRING (5th S. i. 146, 194, 276, 449.) self amongst the number) who would be glad to -See Taylor's Works, iii. 5:

E. L. BLENKINSOPP.

"Though they like shotten-herrings are to see, Yet such tall souldiers of their teeth they be That two of them, like greedy cormorants, Devour more than sixe honest protestants."

FREDK. RULE.

THOMAS FRYE (5th S. i. 269, 316, 419, 476.) — I believe the portrait of the Queen of Denmark referred to under the above heading is not by Frye. Since writing I have seen a reduced engraving of the same subject by Watson after Cotes. I was led into the mistake from seeing it among the heads by Frye in the Print-room of the British Museum. CHARLES WYLIE.

"BLOODY" (4th S. xii. 324, 395, 438; 5th S. i. 37, 78, 278, 377.) - Permit me to suggest that this expletive is, like most oaths, of theological origin, and is synonymous with the obsolete woundy, preserved in Dean Aldrich's Hark the Bonny Christchurch Bells, which sound-

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see it restored as such. The water of the well is singularly pure and clear; it is said to be good for the eyes. I hope that some one will be able to discover more about it than

THE RECTOR'S WIFE.

STERNE AS A POET (5th S. i. 388.) -I copy the following from the account of Coxwold in Gill's Vallis Eboracensis :

"The following piece of original poetry, by Sterne, has been handed down in succession from the composer to the rev. gentlemen who have succeeded him in the living of Coxwold, and through the kindness of the Rev. George Scott is now presented to the public:THE UNKNOWN.

Verses occasion'd by hearing a Pass-Bell,
By y Revd. Mr. St-n.

Hark my gay Frd yt solemn Toll
Speaks y departure of a soul;
'Tis gone, yts all we know not where
Or how y unbody'd soul do's fare.

In y mysterious none knows,

But alone to wTM it goes;
To whom departed souls return
To take yir Doom, to smile or mourn.
Oh! by w' glimm'ring light we
ring light
The unknown we're hast'ning to!

view

God has lock'd up y mystic Page

And curtain'd darkness round yo stage!
Wise 8 to render search perplext,
Has drawn 'twixt y
& y next
A dark impenetrable screen
All behind wah is yet unseen!

We talk of 8, we talk of Hell;
But w2 yy. mean no tongue can tell!
Heaven is y realm where angels are,
And Hell ye chaos of despair.

But wt yese awful truths imply,
None of us know before we die!
Whether we will or no, we must
Take yo succeeding on trust.

This hour perhaps of Frd is well,
Death-struck y next he cries, Farewell!
I die!-& yet for ought we see,
Ceases at once to breathe & be.

Thu' launch'd fm life's ambiguous shore,
Ingulph'd in Death appears no more,
Then undirected to repair
To distant we know not where.

Swift flies yo 4, perhaps 'tis gone,
A thousand leagues beyond y sun;
Or 2ce 10 thousand more 3ce told,
Ere ye forsaken clay is cold!

And yet who knows if Frnds we lov'd
Tho' dead may be so far remov'd ;
Only y vail of flesh between,
Perhaps yy. watch us though unseen.

Whilst we, yir loss lamenting, say,

They're out of hearing far away;
Guardians to us perhaps they're near,
Conceal'd in vehicles of air.

And yet no notices yy. give,
Nor tell us where, nor how yy. live;
Tho' conscious whilst with us below,
How much yms desired to know.

As if bound up by solemn Fate
To keep y secret of yir state,
To tell yt joys or pains to none,
That man might live by Faith alone.

Well, let my sovereign, if he please,
Lock up his marvellous decrees ;
Why shd I wish him to reveal
Wt he thinks proper to conceal ?
It is enough yt I believe
Heaven's bright yn I can conceive :
And he yt makes it all his care
To serve God here shall see him there!

But oh! w shall I survey
The moment y I leave y clay?
How sudden y surprise, how new!
Let it, my God, be happy too.” *

J. G. B.

BAR SINISTER (5th S. i. 268, 314, 418.) -Begging MR. STEPHEN Jackson's pardon, the mark of illegitimate descent in heraldic bearings is not a bend sinister, but a baton sinister, the latter figure being a diminutive (in width) of the former, and

* Explanation of the symbols, &c. :- world; D He; 8 heaven; 24 soul; yms themselves; y th; yy they; ym them, &c.

being truncated at each end, instead of extending entirely across the shield. The first Dukes of Cleveland, Grafton, and St. Albans, natural sons of Charles II., bore his arms with a baton sinister over all, to mark their illegitimacy. In those days, such a mark of connexion with royalty was considered an honourable distinction in a coat of arms, and some heraldic authorities write with scorn of the notion that any marks of disgrace were ever inserted in heraldic bearings. The term "bar sinister," in English heraldry, would not only be a misnomer, but would involve in it an impossibility; for as a bar is a horizontal figure, extending entirely across the shield, it could not, as a whole, be either dexter or sinister. I think, however, that I can explain how the term "bar sinister" has crept into our language. In a curious work on heraldry now before me, published in 1724, and which I fancy is now somewhat rare, viz., Johnston's Notitia Anglicana (see vol. ii. p. 54-6), it is stated that the French heralds have no "bend sinister" in their heraldry, but call it a "bar." So it would seem that "bar sinister" is a Gallicism. Johnston ridicules the idea of any heraldic bearings being significant of disgrace. At the same time, I imagine that all heralds admit that there are degrees of honour in the position of figures in the field, and that the sinister side of a shield is less honourable than the dexter. M. H. R.

Surely a "baton sinister" is also used as a mark of illegitimacy. It may be seen at this moment placed on the shield of the Royal arms of England borne by the Fitz-Roys, Dukes of Grafton. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

WELSH TESTAMENT (5th S. i. 9, 173, 256, 393.) -I opened this correspondence in order to call attention to important variances between the English and Welsh versions, and with a view to ascertain whether the New Testament Company, in collating different versions, are taking any notice of the Welsh version. I only quoted the case of the miracle at Cana as one instance out of many, in which it appears to me that the Welsh is more clear and forcible than the English. Possessing but a superficial knowledge of Welsh, I may have been mistaken, as pointed out by MR. UNNONE and SIGMA, in translating the Welsh "mo'r" into the English more, and I don't dispute their correctness. At the same time I have this excuse, that one of the dictionary meanings of the Welsh mo" is more of. However, this error does not affect my main contention, that the Welsh version, stating clearly that the wine had run short, is more expressive than the English, in which it is at least doubtful whether there had been any wine originally provided. SIGMA admits that the Welsh is less vague. My object now is to point out two in

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stances, in the next chapter (S. John iii.), where the English and Welsh are strikingly different; the difference being, in my opinion, in favour of the latter. Verse 16, "That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." The words "but have everlasting life" are thus rendered in the Welsh: "ond caffael o hono fywyd tragywyddol," the meaning of the latter being "but obtain from him eternal life." The difference is most important. Again, in verse 33 (English), "that God is true”; (Welsh), “mai geirwir yw Duw" (that God is truth-speaking or truthful, literally true in word). The difference here is of special importance, as speech is referred to in the immediate context: indeed in the very next verse occurs the expression (English) "speaketh the words of God." I observe that in the Luther

Bible the word "wahrhaftig" (truthful) is used for the English true. It appears to me that the English word is more general-not to say vague -than either the German or Welsh, and not nearly so expressive in relation to the context as the latter. M. H. R.

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"REGINALD TREVOR: A TALE," &C., BY EDWARD TREVOR ANWYL (4th S. viii. 327, 462; 5th S. i. 86, 413.)-OLPHAR HAMST has overlooked that part of the note of CYMRO AM BYTH in which the writer remarks that "Anwyl" is a Welsh surname as well as an adjective. The Cambrian Quarterly Magazine for April, 1829, in a review of "Reginald Trevor," speaks of the author as Mr. Anwyl," and the author, in that name, dedicates the work to Sir Watkin Williams Wynn. Your anagrammatic correspondent does not think the word Anwyl euphonious; he has never heard a Welsh mother, in caressing her baby, call it "Anwyl bach," or he would perhaps alter his opinion. He is puzzled with the signature "Cymro am Byth," and fears there may be some hidden meaning in it. If he will refer to the magazines of the day, he will find "Cymry am Byth" as a motto, under the trade-mark (a goat) of the Ruthin Soda Water Works; and the meaning of the one is "Welshman," and of the other "Welshmen for ever!" Anwyl, as a surname, is not uncommon in North Wales: the Anwyls of Bala are the descendants of Evan Lloyd, a friend of Churchill, Wilkes, and Garrick, and who wrote The Methodist, The Powers of the Pen, and other poems.

Croeswylan, Oswestry.

A. R.

"Anwyl Bach"=little dear; "Deux Anwyl" =good God! a common expletive, "deux" being corrupted Welsh.

I am astonished that any doubt should exist as to this being a proper name. I have often paid taxes to a Mr. Anwyl, who formerly kept a grocer's shop in Belgravia, and was a tax-gatherer as well;

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ARMS OF MILGATE: RADCLIFFE FAMILY (5th S. i. 227, 374.) - After much careful study and investigation of this point, I have come to the conclusion that there can be but little doubt of this ancient family of Radcliffe being at the present time directl represented in the male line by Mr. Radcliffe of Foxdenton Hall, in the county of Lancaster. Why his coat of arms is differenced by a label, I am unable to say, representing as he does the main stem. There are three families at the present day bearing that time-honoured name, whose arms are underneath described :

1. Radcliffe of Foxdenton arms: Argent, two bends engrailed, sable, over all a label of three

; crest,

a

points, gules; ducally gorged and chained, azure; bull's head erased, sable, motto, "Caen, Cressi, Calais." In addition to Foxdenton, this family has extensive estates in the county of Dorset.

2. Radcliffe of Rudding Park, Yorkshire, now represented by Sir Percival Radcliffe, Bart. Arms, argent, a bend engrailed, sable, charged with a crescent of the field for difference; crest, as that of Foxdenton; motto, "Virtus propter se." The name of the first baronet was originally Joseph Pickford, Esq., who, in consequence of the eminent services he rendered to Government in suppressing the Luddite disturbances, was so created, with the singular honour of a gratuitous patent. He died in 1819.

3. Delmé Radcliffe, of Hitchin Priory, in the county of Hertford. Arms, as Radcliffe of Foxdenton, according to Clutterbuck's History of Hertfordshire, iii., 22 and 23. But Berry's Encyclopædia Heraldica gives as arms, "argent, a cross crosslet, gules, between two bendlets engrailed, sable; a label of three points, on a canton argent, a cross crosslet, or." The original patronymic of this family was Delmé, and the name Radcliffe was added in 1802, on coming into possession of property in right of his wife.

But the arms of Ratcliffe, or Radcliffe, Earl of Sussex in the sixteenth century, were: Argent, a fess, engrailed, sable. JOHN PICKFORD, M.Α. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

Miscellaneous.

NOTES ON BOOKS, &c.

English School Classics. Edited by Francis Storr, B.A., Assistant Master at Marlborough College, &c. Cowper's Task. By Francis Storr, B.A. Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel. By J. Surtees Phillpotts, M.A., Assistant Master in Rugby School, &c. (Rivingtons.)

MR. STORR may be congratulated on the manner in which he is providing for schools a good training in English. The

English School Classics (they will embrace, besides those enumerated above, the Seasons, Bacon's Essays, Wordsworth's Excursion, &c.) ought to find its way into Eton and

Harrow, and all our great public schools, to say nothing of the colleges that are springing up everywhere for the education of girls. We cannot but think that, were that mental training adopted which the study of our greatest writers would assuredly provide, far greater and more useful results must be attained than by driving boys, whether they like it or not, through a course of elegant accomplishments. On all hands it is affirmed now that too much is being attempted; that, after all, the thorough knowledge of a few subjects is of more avail in after-life than that smattering intelligence which is only too often productive of an eloquence that is offensive by its ignorance. Thoroughness then is evidently Mr. Storr's aim, for he suggests that each volume contains enough for one term's work. The notes are sure, by their freedom from dryness, to create an interest and rivet attention.

The Manuale Clericorum : a Guide for the Reverent and Decent Celebration of Divine Service, the Holy Sacraments, and other Offices of the Church. Edited by the Rev. F. G. Lee, D.C.L., F.S.A. (Hogg & Co.)

THIS manual, abridged from the Directorium Anglicanum, will prove of great service to those clergy, lay readers, and choirmasters who find the larger work out of their reach. Dr. Lee is so well known for his great knowledge of those ancient ritual arrangements which are gradually being revived, that it would almost seem presumption to criticize anything that he may say on the subject; we will, therefore, rest contented with congratulating our learned correspondent, not only on the method and style of his last work, but also on the very exhaustive manner in which each service, as to its ritual arrangements, is treated. Recourse must be had to the Directorium when authorities are needed, for these in the Manuale were omitted for the very sufficient reason that the editor might be enabled to issue it in a convenient portable form, and at a reasonable price. We must not omit to add that the Manuale is furnished with an admirable glossary; and it is not too much to say that, without the help thus afforded, it would have been, to a great extent, unintelligible to those not pretending to a very deep knowledge of the subject.

Materials for the History of the Athenian Democracy from Solon to Pericles. Collected from Ancient Authors. By T. Case, M.A., Late Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford. (Parker & Co.)

CLASSICAL authors may find in this pamphlet material whereon to found many chapters. The authorities cited are in Greek, and, though limited to a certain period, are very comprehensive. The laws of Solon, and the changes made by Clisthenes and Pericles, form the main basis of several important quotations. Voting by lot is placed before 490 B.c., and is shown to have been generally, but not necessarily, democratic. "Literæ Humaniores" and "Tripos" men may peruse Mr. Case's collection with advantage.

Stories from Herodotus, in Attic Greek: 1. Story of Rhampsinitus; 2. The Battle of Marathon. Adapted by J. Surtees Phillpotts, M.A., Assistant-Master in Rugby School, and formerly Fellow of New College, Oxford. (Rivingtons.)

AFTER second thoughts few critics will find fault when they see the revered Herodotus turned into Attic Greek. Mr. Phillpotts's aim being "pedagogic and not literary," he has struck his target. To learn Herodotus at school means genuine hard work, some loss of temper, and not very rapid progress. Yet not to be taught it is to be deprived of much classical ground-work. How is it to be mastered? Let these and similar stories be read in the Attic, and then in the original text. It is not enough to read Xenophon. Herodotus has a style sui generis. Something more than "Herodotus made easy" is wanted

-a comparative knowledge of dialects has to be gained. The author of Selections from Xenophon, Selections from Arrian, Notes on the "Lay of the Last Minstrel," King and Commonwealth, has, in Stories from Herodotus, presented public schools with a book which will encourage both teachers and scholars in an arduous task-beginning Herodotus.

The Herald and Genealogist. Edited by John Gough Nichols, F.S.A. Parts XLVII., XLVIII. (Nichols & Sons.)

WE intend no disrespect to other labourers in that field of antiquarian literature which the late Mr. John Gough Nichols had made so peculiarly his own when we express our conviction that it has been wisely determined that the Herald and Genealogist, of which he was the originator, should be brought to a close now that he by whom it had been so successfully conducted has gone to his rest. Not less judicious and becoming is it, that the last number of that journal should contain a memoir of its accomplished editor, written by a loving hand, in which are to be found not only a full and detailed account of the numerous literary, historical, and genealogical works for which the world are indebted to the varied knowledge and untiring industry of Mr. Nichols, but also pleasant allusions to the friends and scholars with whom he was often closely associated, and many glimpses of that amiable character which distinguished him in all his domestic relations. Mr. Nichols's love of truth, and honest dislike of all false pretences, is aptly characterized by two or three of the shorter notices which conclude the present work, the last which heraldic students are destined to receive from the fearless and independent pen of John Gough Nichols.

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H. E. S. K.-" At sixes and sevens" is a phrase in The Widow, Act i. sc. 2 (1652), a piece by Jonson, Fletcher, and Middleton. It became a popular phrase to denote confusion. It was, however, of earlier date, but its derivation has never been satisfactorily accounted for.

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CONTENTS. - N° 28.

NOTES:-Archer Family of Worcestershire, 21-A Picture Sale in 1753, 22-"British and Continental Titles of Honor." By a Traveller, 23-Lord Wellestey and Lord Cornwallis

Purgation by Fire, 24-Parallel Passages-The Latest Irish Bull-A Strange Epitaph-Lines on a Sun-Dial, 25-The O'Mulconry-A Conjecture, 26.

QUERIES:-Family of Alexander, or Zinzan, 26-Gipsy Names-Christy Collections-The Judges on Circuit-Queen Anne and the Duchess of Marlborough, 27 "Yange Monday"-"The Bonny House of Airlie" French Dictionaries-Tintern Abbey-Mrs. Elizabeth Montagu Kirkstall Abbey. Yorks. - A Canterbury Foundling-Henry James Bellars-The Brig "Temple," Lordon-Mrs. Sargent, 28-"Master"-Jonathan Edwards, of America, 29.

REPLIES:-Spelling Reforms, 20-Ralph de Cobham:

de Roos, 30-Byron: Wycherley" "Twas at the Birthnight Ball," &c., 31-" Prester John and the Arms of the See of Chichester-John Luson, 32-Cerevisia - "The Glory of their Times," &c. "The Lighthouse"-The Swift Family, 33St Verdiana Sheridan and The School for Scandal"

"Had be"-The "Vengeur," 34-" Yale College Magazine" -David Lloyd-"Hudibras '-Register of Jews-HeraldicSprinkling Rivers with Flowers-The "Jacobus"-La Vienville-"The Private House in Drury Lane," 35-Buda-The Emperor Alexander II. - "Sele"-Arithmetic: Casting out the Blood Royal-T'he Use of Inverted Commas-Isaac (and John) Fransham - The Population Two Hundred Years Ago -Marmion Herbert in "Venetia," 37-"Desier" - Rigby,

Nines, 36 Mortimer of Wigmore-"Whele"-Princes of

Paymaster of the Forces in 1768-Poets and Proper Names A Jew's Wilt-Rancke Riders, 38-Duns Scotus-HeraldicPedigree Tracing, 39.

Notes on Books, &c.

Notes.

ARCHER FAMILY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.

My attention bas lately been drawn to the question of the origin of the Archer family of Barbadoes in the seventeenth century from having seen a work on this surname, which, although a useful guide to inquirers, is, nevertheless, embarrassing from the recurrence of misprint or typical errors, which might have been obviated by the slightest effort in the correction of the proof sheets. In this work, although frequent suggestions are thrown out in favour of the Worcestershire origin of this family, it is evident that the author had a preference for Suffolk. A careful analysis of the contents, however, and collation with other sources of information, will, I think, show that there were Archers in Barbadoes from London, Suffolk, and Lincoln, but that Edward Archer, who died there in 1693, was none of these, but was of a distinct and Worcestershire origin. I am well aware how little reliance can be placed on family traditions, yet, to a certain extent, they possess some value as clues. The descendants of this Edward Archer are still to be found, not only in Barbadoes, but in Jamaica, where two of his grandsons settled about 1753. In both branches of the family, notwithstanding the lapse of time since their separation, the tradition still exists

that their English progenitors were Royalists, and of Umberslade descent; and this, too, in face of the facts that Sir John Archer of the De Boys, or Essex, family was himself in Barbadoes, and that he had relatives in Jamaica in the seventeenth century, and they still treasure an heirloom transmitted from generation to generation, which would seem to strengthen the first part of the tradition, viz., a locket set in gold of the period, containing a portrait of Charles I. reading!

That the Worcestershire Archers were Royalists there can be no doubt; the children of Edward Archer of Hanley Castle, eldest son of John Archer, of Welland, by his wife Eleanor, daughter of Richard Frewen of Hanley Castle, were dispossessed of their estates by Cromwell. We find, about 1652, "William Archer and William Walter petitioning on behalf of the children, being minors, Thomas, George, and Anne, of the late Edward Archer of Hanley Castle." There is no mention of his elder children in this petition; they, no doubt, had equally incurred the Protector's displeasure. Thomas, George, and Anne, being minors, might be presumed to be guiltless of political sympathies. These Welland Archers appear to have broken up entirely about 1649, and to have dispersed in all directions, their large possessions passing into the hands of their Cromwellite neighbours-the Lechmeres and others. Presumably, the Frewens-maternal ancestors of Edward of Hanley were also Royalists, for we find them settled in Barbadoes at the same period as Edward Archer of 1693, as well as the Thornes, Moores, and other families, with whom the Welland Archers had intermarried. It is a curious and suggestive fact that the first Barbadian ancestor of Edward Archer of 1693 called his estates "Cleobury," "Oldbury," and "Gretton." Now, if we refer to Dugdale's "Pedigrees of Archers of Umberslade," we find that Thomas le ArcherEdward III.-married Margarita, daughter of Cleburie, and Rowland Archer of Umberslade quartered the arms of the Mortimer-Cleburie family. Again, Oldbury is a town in Worcestershire. I cannot but think that a deep significance lies in the names chosen by this branch of Barbadian Archers for the first properties held by them in the land of their exile. They would serve, not only to keep alive the cherished memory of the mother country, but act as landmarks to their posterity, showing the line of Umberslade from which they derived, as in the case of Cleoburie, and their Worcester origin from Oldbury. Taking all these circumstances together, I think I am justified in my preference for a Worcester instead of a Suffolk descent for Edward Archer of Barbadoes.

The earliest Archers mentioned in the Parish Registers of Barbadoes are Richard, Leonard, and Nicholas. They were undoubtedly sons of

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