and the sum of the even digits is, that the difference between the radix (ten) and eleven is negative unity; but if we cast out any number less than the radix, the operation is one of addition only, taking care to write the number operated on, as if its radix were not ten, but the difference between ten and the number to be cast out. Thus, take 6432 and cast out the eights, then we work thus:

2+3x2+4x22 + 6 x 23 = 72;

and 2+7 x 2 = 16; and 6+1×2= 8.

That is, 6432 is divisible by 8 without remainder. Or, cast out the sevens from the same number,

then

2+3x3+4 × 32 + 6 x 33=209; and 9 + 2 x 32 = 27; and 7 + 2 x 3 = 13; and 3+1×3=6;

ISAAC (AND JOHN) FRANSHAM (2nd S. ii. 467.) --Isaac Fransham was elder brother of John Fransham, a linen-draper in Norwich. Of his history I know nothing more than is recorded in the inscription on his tombstone (quoted above). Nor can I tell whether they were related to "the Norwich polytheist," who may have been a nephew, but certainly was not the son of either of them. (Why that very eccentric person was called a polytheist I know not.) The younger brother, John, died about ten years after Isaac. I have a parcel of his note-books, consisting partly of copies

of his contributions to the Gentleman's Journal (a monthly periodical published in London, 169092), for the most part in verse, and not much worse than the rubbish which a few years later passed

Athenæum Club.

JABEZ.

MORTIMER OF WIGMORE (5th S. i. 188, 234, 358, 476, 498.) -Though I cannot tell T. H. who Radegunda Becket, or Ragona Bechet, was, for she is a puzzle to me, I can at least tell him who she was not, and that is, the wife of Roger, fifth Earl of March. The wife of Earl Roger, Alianora of Kent, survived him, and died in 1405, while Ragona was living in 1407, and was then widow of Diggory Seys. So far as my knowledge goes, she is never called Ragona Mortimer, but Ragona Bechet Domina de Mortimer.

I must beg leave to offer an apology to yourself and your readers for my stupidity in asserting that the Queen is the heir of the Mortimers. TEWARS has caught me napping; and though I deserve his rebuke, I do not feel entitled to the sweet envelope in which he has wrapped it. I will try not to "do it again."

HERMENTRUDE.

"WHELE" (5th S. i. 247, 452.)-Stratman's Dictionary of Old English gives "whele, A.-Sax. hpele, putredo." The Promptorium Parvulorum translates the word by pustula. F. STORR.

PRINCES OF THE BLOOD ROYAL (5th S. i. 467, 516.)-F. H. H. is too hasty in his reply to my query. I am well aware that the "Duke of Cambridge is the grandson of George III."; but that does not, on "n my own showing," explain his precedence over the Archbishop of Canterbury and the great officers of State. The Duke is the grandson of a king, not of "the" king. The distinction is important. MIDDLE TEMPLAR.

Bradford, Yorkshire.

THE USE OF INVERTED COMMAS (5th S. i. 9, 75, 154, 217, 336, 455.) -Inverted commas are frequently found in printed plays to denote passages omitted on the stage: see Lord Lytton's Richelieu. J. BRANDER MATTHEWs.

Lotos Club, New York.

the Gentleman's Magazine, with sundry other equally uninteresting compositions. The collection is, however, not altogether worthless, for it contains also his correspondence with Daniel Defoe, of whom he appears to have been a great admirer. These letters are all interesting; one from Defoe especially so, dated from Edinburgh, and containing an account of proceedings there during his mission as secretary to the Commissioners for the Treaty for Union between England and Scotland. None of them have ever appeared in print, and I shall have much pleasure in sending copies for publication in "N. & Q." as soon as I can find a little leisure for transcribing them.

17, Bedford Street, Covent Garden.

FR. NORGATE.

THE POPULATION TWO HUNDRED YEARS AGO

(5th S. i. 387, 495.) - Your querist will find some useful information in Hallam (Murray's Reprint, p. 22):

"The northern counties, especially Lancashire and Cumberland, being very ill peopled, and the inhabitants of London and Westminster not exceeding sixty or

seventy thousand." (Note 1.) "The population for 1485 is estimated by comparing a sort of census in 1378, when the inhabitants of the realm seem to have amounted to about 2,300,000, with one still more loose under Elizabeth in 1588, which would give about 4,400,000, making some allowance for more rapid increase in the latter period.

Three millions at the accession of Henry VII. is probably not too low an estimate."

G. LAURENCE GOMME.

MARMION HERBERT IN MR. DISRAELI'S "VENETIA" (5th S. i. 140, 400.) - In reply to a query of mine as to the historical character represented by "Marmion Herbert" in Disraeli's Venetia, a correspondent wrote to you to say that Shelley the poet is meant. I was for many reasons dissatisfied with that answer. I have just come across a passage in the last chapter of Guiccioli's Recollections of Lord Byron, which gives a very satisfactory solution:

"He (Disraeli) has given Byron two individualities. Lord Cadurcis represents Byron from his infancy to the time of his marriage, and Mr. Herbert equally represents

RIGBY, PAYMASTER OF THE FORCES IN 1768 (5th S. i. 428, 513.)-Mr. Wilkes, in the North Briton, No. 31, closes a humorous comparison, after Plutarch's manner, of Mr. Pitt with Mr. Rigby in the following words :

"In their more private characters, both Mr. Pitt and Mr. Rigby have generosity and spirit; in other things they differ. Mr. Pitt is abstemious, temperate, and regular; Mr. Rigby indulges more in convivial pleasures, is an excellent bon-vivant, amiable and engaging. Mr. Pitt, by the most manly sense, and the fine sallies of a warm and sportive imagination, can charm the whole day; and, as the Greek said, his entertainments please even the day after they are given. Mr. Rigby has all the gibes, and gambols, and flashes of merriment, which set the table in a roar; but the day after, a cruel headaché at least frequently succeeds. In short, I wish to spend all my days with Mr. Pitt, but I am afraid that at night I should often skulk to Mr. Rigby and his friends."-John Timbs's Anecdote Biography, "Lord Chatham," p. 130.

RANCKE RIDERS (5th S. i. 203, 271, 419.) -If I may be allowed to say so, and without being egotistic, the best description of these "beggars on horseback" is to be found in Dekker's Lanthorne and Candle-light, 1609, a book on thieves and thieves' tricks, carefully condensed by me in my Shakspere's England. The passage I allude to is the following :

"The Rank Riders were cheats akin to the German guests who took in 'mine host of the Garter.' They generally went six or seven in company, their purses well-filled, well dressed, booted and spurred. The Innkeeper they cheated they called the Colt; the gulled farmer the Snaffle; and the plunder the Ring. Two of them dressed as gentlemen, and the rest wore blue coats as servingmen, They generally entered the best inn of the place, dirty and dusty, asking their servants if their footman had gone back with their horses, to which the blue coats answered 'yes.' Here, then, they stopped several days-living in clover, keeping the rust off the spigots, and never bating the reckonings a penny-to show they were gentlemen of noble extraction. In the meantime their servants ascertained from what county the innkeeper came, where the ostlers and chamberlain were born, and what other country gentlemen were their fellow guests. They then, in the gaping circles round the sea-coal fires, bragged of their master's estates in some remote and unknown shire, described how many hawks they kept and how many hounds, and began to swear that they had come up to receive some hundreds of pounds upon land which they had lately sold, and would harbour in that inn (liking the situation and the host) some quarter of a year at least.

"These reports spread, and widening as they spread, the head cheat got better attended, and was soon dubbed your worship at every sentence; and to please Boniface, he would refuse to sit down to dinner till his host took the upper place at the board.

"In the middle of supper, just at 'the pippins and ale,' or very early in the morning, rushed in an accomplice, dressed as a running footman, and fiery hot with haste, sent up a message that Sir Somebody Something had wished to see his worship, and that he must be with him at such an hour, the journey not being more than twelve or fourteen miles. Upon receipt of this message (from so dear and so noble a friend), one who stands so well at Court look you, the chief sweated and chafed because all his horses were out of the way, cursed the sending them back, and the fool who proposed it; offers to give any sum if his cousin, himself, and his man, could be reasonably horsed. Our host provided them all horses (if he had none himself, borrowing them of his neighbours, passing his word for their forthcoming in a day or two), and with grace cups, and kissing of hands, and ruffle of ribbons, the cheats spurred away.

"Three days or so having passed, and his worship not yet returning, the host began to smell a trick. He runs up and down as busy as a constable on Shrove Tuesday, with a hue and cry at his heels, and a plentiful store of stout cudgels. But alas! by this time our friends had changed their dresses four score miles off, had sold their horses at some country fair, floated away half the money in seas of wine, and started off in search of fresh confiding hosts and pleasantly situated inns."-" Lanthorne and Candle-light; or, The Bell-mans Second Nightswalke, in which he brings to light a Brood of more strange villanies than ever were till this yeare discovered. Decet novisse malum, fecisse nefandum. The second edition newly corrected and amended. London, Printed for John Busby, and are to be solde at his shop in Fleet Streete, in Saint Dunstanes Church-yard, 1609."

sentiment, and without an unmerited sanctity being attributed to the originals. The martyrdoms and persecutions of men to whom many of our churches are dedicated are faithfully told. The days of the Baptist, St. Chad, Alphage, Abp. of Canterbury, and of others "whose praise was once in all the churches" will be found far from subjects of dull reading.

Mainoc, Eveline, &c. (Pickering.)

THE author of this little volume of poems need not have suppressed his name. He may fairly claim to be a writer of poetry. Mainoc can hardly be said to be the prominent feature of the five cantos devoted to him. Similes and home truths are inserted to a great extent and with Mainoc comes on the scene, in the midst of a

1864:

"SCOTUS (Joannes Duns).

"QUESTIONES quodlibeticæ purgatæ per Th. Penketh. Explicit feliciter, M.CCCC.LXXIIII. Hæc Albertus ego Stendael Quodlibeta. pressi (Venetiis), in fol. Edition rare, commençant par ces mots: Et cuncta res difficiles (sic Brunet), etc., et finissant par un index de 5 ff. Vend. 80 fr. m.r. La Vallière: 2 liv. 2 sh. Pinelli, et moins

depuis, car en général toutes ces anciennes éditions des théologiens scolastiques sont à très-bas prix."

SPARKS HENDERSON WILLIAMS.

PEDIGREE TRACING (5th S. i. 509.) -I should advise X. to purchase a copy of Sims's Manual for the Genealogist, Topographer, Antiquary, and Legal Professor. He will, in this book, find an account of most of the public records likely to be of service. If, however, the members of the family whose pedigree he wishes to trace were not owners of land or holders of offices of importance, he will find the work neither easy nor cheap. As an example of the information sometimes afforded by the Inquis. Post Mortem, I may say that, not long ago, I found in one of these documents (taken in 1535) the evidence of nine generations.

H. FISHWICK, F.S.A.

Miscellaneous.

NOTES ON BOOKS, &c.

St. Chad's Day in Lichfield, A.D. 1643, and other Short Poems. By the Rev. R. J. Buddicorn, M.A., Vicar of Morton, Gainsborough. (Parker & Co.)

THESE poems are interesting and attractive. Dark deeds of yore are poetically penned in verses of pleasant reading. The lives of saints whose names fall so familiarly on the ear from the Church's calendar, but whose histories are not every day read, are depicted without

"He

storm, distracted, and the very image of despair. is a dreamer ever of that which could not be; a phantommocked and wild-brained He had no sense of fault. He knew no friendship." Eveline is a pensive

and lonely girl. Her deep love is misinterpreted by the admiring yet timid Oscar. Both pine in loneliness, but Time gives a voice to Reticence. All gloomy thoughts are at last agreeably stilled. Alcyone and other short poems close this alluring little book.

BUNYAN'S "PILGRIM'S PROGRESS" (5th S. ii. 8.) -The following is the letter in the Guardian, referred to in

the last number of "N. & Q.":

"Sir,-After two days of careful research at the British Museum Library, I can perhaps give some further information respecting the subject of my former letters, and in reply to two letters in the Guardian of this week.

"It appears that Guillaume de Guilleville wrote his first book, Le Pelerinage de l'Homme (or de la Vie Humaine), about A.D. 1330 to 1335, and re-wrote it in 1358.

"Between these dates he wrote two other books, viz., Le Pelerinage de l'Ame and Le Pelerinage de JésusChrist.

"It is to the first of these, if any, that Bunyan was indebted. To look for coincidences between The Pylgrimage of the Sowle and The Pilgrim's Progress is useless or nearly so, as the latter ends where the former begins. Bunyan does not enter into the subject of the intermediate state; De Guilliville's second book treats only of that.

"I find that the volume printed by Caxton in 1483 contains no part of De Guilleville's first book, but begins with his second.

"A reprint of the Pilgrimage of Man was made for the Roxburghe Club in 1869. In the preface to this work it is stated:

""It is not within the scope of the present preface to discuss a question which has been raised as to how far

Bunyan may have been indebted to this allegory for the ideas and even the details of his Pilgrim's Progress. But it is at least worthy of remark that in the seventeenth century there was copied and circulated in MS. a condensed English version of G. de Guilleville's First Pilgrimage. In the University Library at Cambridge there is a small volume of 242 pages, of which the class mark is Ff. 6.30..... It is not likely that Bunyan ever saw this, or the Glasgow MS. in the Hunterian Museum (Q. 2. 25), or the MS. from which the present volume is printed, or that in the library of St. John's College, Cambridge (G. 21), but he may at some time have fallen in with a little volume like that described.'

"Miss Cust's translation and comparison is founded upon the French MS., which Bunyan is never likely to have seen, nor could have read, as we are told he understood no language but his own. There are still a few copies of this work, both of the Pilgrimage of Man and They were printed in 1858 and 1859, 15s. each. I find that Mr. Disraeli, in his Amenities of Literature, refers to the resemblance between the Pilgrim's Progress and an old work by Piers Plowman. Dr. Didin says the Pilgrimage of the Soul laid the foundation of the Pilgrim's Progress, which is clearly a mistake, as I have s'ated above. Southey says, 'The same allegory had often been treated before him. Some of these may have fallen in Bunyan's way, and modified his conception when he was not aware of such influence.'

"I can hardly ask you to find joom for so long a letter as this without expressing my thanks to the Librarian and officers of the British Museum for the help they so readily and courteously have afforded me.

"W. J. STRACEY.

"Buxton Vicarage, Norwich, June 26, 1874."

Papers on "Pilgrim's Progress" not copied from "The Pilgrimage of the Soul" will be found in " N. & Q.," 2nd S. viii. 268, 372, 402. See also 3rd S. viii. 46.

"THE NORTHUMBERLAND HOUSE LION.--Mr. Frank Buckland, in a letter to Land and Wuter, states that, bappening to be passing Northumberland House on Thursday as the lion was being taken down, he obtained permission to inspect it. The inscription on the lion, Mr. Buckland says, runs thus:- ALG:D:S 1749. C:N: REST. Under this, on the east side, is a monogram of the letter a with an s twisted into it; on the west side, the letter N with a P, and hung on to one of the small legs below this is a crest, viz., a coronet with five spikes, carrying round balls, and underneath a half moon; on the other side is a different pattern of a coronet, with three strawberry leaves and a phœnix rising from the flames; the former is the Earl's, the latter the Ducal coronet. The measurement of the lion was as follows: From tip of nose to end of tail, eleven feet seven; tail, four feet three; height at shoulders, five feet five; round the mane, six feet; weight, about one and a half tons. The body is lend; the tail copper. There are three coats of paint on the lion; one is bright blue. He was painted blue in 1822 by the then clerk of the works. The inscription was interpreted to Mr. Buckland as meaning 'Algernon, Duke of Somerset, 1749 (and the) Countess Northumberland restored. The lion represents the blue lion, the crest of the Percy family, Earls of Northumberland. The stone on which the lion stood, and into which his paws were fastened with long iron rods leaded in, represents the chapeau d'honneur of the crest." - Pall Mall Gazette.

ROYAL ARCHEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE. - July 3.-Lord Talbot de Malahide, President, in the chair. - Mr. Greaves read "Notes on the Brasses on the Tomb of Nicholas Kniveton in Mugginton Church, Derbyshire." -Mr. J. H. Parker, C.B., gave a d scourse on "Archæological Investigations in Rome during the Winter of 1873-74." This was illustrated by numerous plans, sketches, and photographs.-Mr. Bohn exhibited two portions of frescoes from Pompeii; Mr. Hippisley, an arrow-head and two objects in bronze; Mr. Golding, six roundels of the time of Elizabeth; Mrs. Gwilt, rubbing of a brass in the church of St. John, Margate.Mr. Tregellas gave an outline of the proposed arrangements for the Ripon Meeting, beginning on the 21st inst.

PORTRAITS OF SHAKSPEARE. - MR. HAIN FRISWELL writes: "I am about to issue a new edition of my Life Portraits of Shakspere. The fine illustrations of the portraits will be reproduced in permanent photographs, several new ones being added. Might I ask any of your readers who have copies of the Ashbourne, the Felton, or any other curious portraits, if they would aid me by letting me have them copied? The greatest care should

Messrs. Sampson Low, Marston & Co., 188, F.eet Street." "Fair Home, Bexley Heath."

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That they should write clearly and distinctly-and on one side of the paper only-more especially proper names and words and phrases of which an explanation may be required. We cannot undertake to puzzle out what a Correspondent does not think worth the trouble of writing. plainly.

IM. ROY. The author of the Eloge Historique de Madame Elizabeth de France was M Ferrand. The edition published in Paris in 1814 was the second. The first edition was published at Ratisbonne several years before.

C. F. S. WARREN. -The passage alludes to the project of certain French reformers of a generation ago to divide society into phalanxes.

N.-The acre varies in extent in England, Ireland, and Scot'avd. 121 Irish acres = English, and 48 Scotch = 61 English.

A. L. MAYHEW. - It is no lapsus calami of ours. The line stands in The Speaker's Commentary as E. S. W. gives it, and he simply asks how it is to be amended.

F. H. G.-" Was Bunyan a Gipsy? See " N. & Q." 2nd S. iv. 465; v. 15, 318, 386; vi. 67; and note on Bunyan's l'aventage, p. 25 of present number.

R. W. F. (Bath). - The London Post-Office Directory gives the information with the exception of the dates of foundation.

B. P. J. The whole Art of Tachygraphy; or, Shorthand Writing made Plain, &c., is not considered scarce. J. B. The subject of archangels has been discussed in "N. & Q.," 3rd S. ix. 462, 517; x. 34, 137.

W. William Curtis, the botanist, was born in 1746, and died in 1799.

L. P.-" Abraham men." See "N. & Q.," 1st S. v. 442. P.D.-Yule was the name anciently given to Christmas. T. C. D. Inquire at the Lambeth Library.

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CONTENTS. - N° 29.

NOTES:-"Kike" in Chaucer, 41-Jottings in By-Ways, 42A Poem by Miss Catherine Fanshawe, 43-Macaulay: Spenser: Bunyan-"The Flower and the Leaf"-Father Kemble's Hand, 44-The Dowager Lady Tichborne-Pope's Rhymes-Iron Trees-Old Hobson's Epitaph-The "Brag" Ministry-Bells, 45-MS. Notes in Books-The Equestrian Statue in Leicester Square-Captain Benjamin Starkey, 46.

QUERIES:-Old Engravings-Ancient English Episcopal Sees -Authors Wanted-Mary of Buttermere-Edward King, of "Lycidas": Portrait of Shelley, 47-Marlborough Family Picture - Drury House - The Blessed Thistle-Heraldic Brooke and Powell Families-Sir Theodore Turquet de Mayerne-London Companies or Guilds-"Quid hoc ad Iphycli boves"-W. W. Story: Henry Perkins-Welsh Slates Lord Collingwood-Mary Somerville, 48-"The Millennium"-Proat, Verb Neuter-Earliest Woodcut with a Date-Roman Catholic Landed Gentry, temp. Charles II. and James II., 49.

REPLIES:-"The Pilgrim's Progress," 49-Single Eye-Glasses -Byron's "Siege of Corinth," 50-Grants of Nobility to Foreigners, 51-" A Stick of Eels"-Hogarth's "Marriage à la Mode"-Stanley of Birmingham-Robert de Wyclif, 52"Bosh"-"Newlyn"-Zinzan Street - "Situate," 53-Falconet the Artist-Gray's "Elegy"-"Topographia Hibernica" of Giraldus Cambrensis-Edwards, of America-Therf-Cake, 54-Rev. Samuel Hardy-Prefaces to Books-The Australian Drama-The Earl of Moreton "Mars his Sword "-A "Water-Blast"-The Emperor Alexander II., 55-Sea-Port Town, Africa - "The Ghost of the Old Empire"-Use of Inverted Commas, 56-Tea-An Heraldic Magazine - The Egg and the Halfpenny-Clogstoun Family, 57-BéziqueRichardson Family-"Sibilla Odaleta" - "S" versus "Z," 58-Coroner-"God and the King," 59.

Our "kick," with its short i, would seem to require a form kikken in Early English; but the i in kike is long, like the ee in keek.

As to the sense of the word, I think it clear that it has nothing to do with kicking, and that if kick were substituted for kike it would not accord with the good wife's argument.

Here is the passage in full :

"A man shal wynne vs best with flaterye
And with attendancel and with bisynesse
Been we ylymed, bothe moore and lesse
And somme seyn that we louen best
ffor to be freel and do right as vs lest
And that no man repreue vs of oure vice
But seye that we be wisel and no thyng nice
ffor trewely! ther is noon of vs alle

If any wight wol clawe vs on the galle That we nel kikel for he seith vs sooth Assay and he shal finde it þat so dooth ffor be wel neuer so vicious with-Inne

We wol been holden wise and clene of synne."

This is from the Ellesmere MS. The five other MSS. published by the Chaucer Society give as follows:

Hengwrt. "That we nyl like for he seith vs sooth." Cambridge. "That we nolde kyke for he seyth vs soth."

Corpus. "þat we nyl loke or he seip vs sop." Petworth. "pat we nyl loke or he saye vs soth." Lansdowne. "þat we nyl loke or he seis be sobe."

We may dismiss like from consideration; but though it may be a mis-writing either of kike or loke, and not a true reading, I think it gives approximately the sense of the passage.

Kike (or kyke) is evidently the modern keek, meaning to peep, or look, which is now used only in Northern speech, a keek signifying a stolen glance.

The word accordingly appears as loke in three MSS. of the Wife of Bath's Tale, and in one of the MSS. of the Miller's Tale (1. 3841) :Ellesmere. "In to the roof they kiken." Corpus. "And to be roof bay loken."

The Lansdowne is indeed a Northern MS., and might have been supposed to have been content with kike without translating it into loke; but loke was good Northumbrian enough, and was probably in the MS. which the Northern scribe took as his original, and in which loke had been substituted by a scribe to whom kike was a less familiar word.

Now, as to the sense of the word in the passage before us, what could the Wyf of Bath not mean? She could not intend to say that every woman would "kick" every man who would tell her the truth. That was a violent way of enforcing the Rights of Women to which she makes no pretension! Nor was she likely to use the word "kick" in an intransitive sense. It was not a question of resisting anybody or anything, but of being and looking pleased or not pleased.

The sense of the whole passage seems to be roughly this :

"Flattery is what pleases us all, and with that we are easiest limed. However freely we may live, we don't like being told of it, but like to hear that we are wise, and no fools at all. Why, there's not a woman of us but, if a man will scratch her where she itches (praise her for her foibles, perhaps), will look sly (and pleased), because forsooth he tells her truth. Let him try only, and he shall find that that's the way to please. However bad we are, we like to be thought good."

The "keek," or stolen glance, implies a certain enjoyment of it, and with that meaning here and in the Miller's Tale we have all we want for Chaucer's "kike." HENRY H. GIBBS.

St. Dunstan's, Regent's Park.