career of a young spendthrift, showing him first in his university days, afterwards as the leading object of the ring men's attention on the rails of the Royal Enclosure at Ascot, and, finally, on the point of taking his own life. "The Race for Wealth,' also a series of five paintings, illustrates the ups and downs of a bogus-company promoter, the chagrin of his ruined victims, his trial at the Old Bailey, and his final tramp with other convicts in the quadrangle of old Millbank Prison. It took Frith the best part of two years to paint, and the enormous pains he took to be exact in every detail forms one of the most interesting chapters in his own Autobiography,' published by Bentley in 1887. Even Baron Huddleston donned his judicial robes and sat for the portrait of the judge. This set was never in the Academy, but was exhibited at the King Street Galleries in 1880, where thousands of people paid the necessary shilling (which included a descriptive pamphlet by Tom Taylor, which I should like to get) to view it. I have discovered that it was purchased by Agnews for 400l. at a sale at Christie's in 1896. They tell me they subsequently resold the pictures to a Continental dealer, but have no knowledge where they now are. Can any of the readers of 'N. & Q.' say? Frith's other chief masterpieces, 'The Derby Day' and 'The Railway Station,' are respectively in the Tate Gallery and in the King's collection. The first named, which drew such a mob at the Academy, has been exhibited all over the world. 1787. Mr. Dodgson, although he does not say why, supposes the writer "to have been a lady." The scene of the story is laid near Plymouth; French is quoted freely; classical literature is referred to, as also are Dryden, Hobbes, Milton, Pope, and "Shakspear ; some curious expressions, such as mahap," and " trepan "for "entrap," are used; and the devil is termed "Old Scratch." The Bodleian is to be congratulated on having stolen a march on the B.M. in the possession of this odd specimen of eighteenthJ. B. McGOVERN. century literature. 66 St. Stephen's Rectory, C.-on-M., Manchester. daughter." WILLOUGHBY MAYCOCK. SAINTS' GARDEN.-I have heard of a garden so called, situated, I believe, in Cheshire, where blossoms grow that are named after the holy men and women in the Calendar. CLEMENT SHORTER. GOVER SURNAME. Can any corre Any information respecting this garden spondent tell me the derivation of the surand its contents is desired. name Gover? Was it originally a variant of Gower? R. VAUGHAN GOWER. Ferndale Lodge, Tunbridge Wells. Berchtesgaden, Bavaria. M. L. D. 'ZORIADA; OR, VILLAGE ANNALS.'-Is CROMWELL AND VANE.-At a certain the author of this novel, published in London period in the lives of these men their in 1786, known? A copy of it, marked "T. mutual affection was so great that they had Marcer's Circulating Library in Andover," pet names for each other. Cromwell was has recently been presented to the Bodleian Brother Fountain," and Vane "Brother Library by Mr. E. S. Dodgson, who also Heron." Has any explanation or suggestion furnished several interesting details con- as to these names ever been given? I cerning it to a Cornish paper of recent date. From these I gather that the B.M. authorities were anxious to secure this particular copy, since they possess only an incomplete eplica, and that a French version, issued in should be grateful for information on the point. I see that Carlyle speaks of a village of Cromwell or Crumwell, and remarks, "Well of Crum, whatever that may be." Can Fountain have any connexion with 66 incertum habitat Deus. 11. Je souffre; il est trop tard; le monde s'est fait vieux; Une immense espérance a traversé la terre ; 3. THE REV. THOMAS JACKSON, D.D., CANON RESIDENTIARY OF ST. PAUL'S.-When and whom did he marry? TheDict. of Nat. Biog.,' xxix. 90, does not give this in-12. Malgré moi l'infini me tourmente. formation. In Alumni Oxonienses' he is described as the son of John Jackson of Chancery Lane, but in the list of the candidates for election into St. Peter's College, Westminster, his father is styled Henry Jackson of London. Is it possible to obtain the correct particulars of his parentage? G. F. R. B. LONDRES: LONDON: LONDINIUM.-It is very interesting to know how we got the n into Thames (see PROF. SKEAT'S note, ante, p. 45); but how did the French get the r into Londres ? D. O. 13. Lay myself upon the knees Of Doom, and take mine everlasting ease. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. The law condemns the man or woman [Other versions are supplied at 7 S. vi. 469; vii. 98; 8 S. x. 273; but the authorship is doubtful.] I should be glad to know who is the author of the following lines, and where they are to be found :— The East bent low and bowed her head She heard the legions thunder past, It seems that they are not in 'The Light of The lines run thus : A. B. G. The East bow'd low before the blast She let the legions thunder past, They are part of a well-known passage in Matthew "knew what rent a ready-furnished house of that consequence might fetch should not have been surprised if Sir Walter had asked morehad enquired about the manor-would be glad of the deputation, certainly, but made no great point of it-said he sometimes took out a gun, but never killed-quite the gentleman." 66 In Pride and Prejudice,' chap. iv., it is said of Mr. Bingley, the tenant of Netherfield, that as he was now provided with a good house and the liberty of a manor," he might probably be content to remain there as a tenant, and leave the next generation to purchase." STEWART FAMILY, SCOTLAND AND IRE- JANE AUSTEN AND THE WORD "MANOR."LAND. Did Andrew Stewart of Bonny-In Persuasion,' chap. iii., Mr. Shepherd, the toun, Ayr (1620), second son of Robert lawyer, describes Admiral Croft as a desirable Stewart of West Braes and Haltoun de tenant of Kellynch, the seat of Sir Walter Loncardie, Perth, son of Andrew, second Elliot. The Admiral Lord Ochiltree, whose daughter married John Knox, or any grandson of this Robert Stewart whose name was Andrew Stewart, migrate from Scotland and settle at Gortigal, in the county Tyrone, about 1627? Or can any of your readers state the parentage of Capt. Andrew Stewart (a native of Scotland), who settled at Gortigal in 1627, and was the ancestor of the family of Stewart, Bart., of Athenry, Ireland? Had Robert Stewart of Roberton, Scotland, who had a grant of land in Ulster in 1609, any sons or grandsons who migrated to Tyrone at this period? or had Sir James Stewart of Bonnytoun, 1608? If so, what were their names, and who were the fathers of Robert Stewart of Roberton, and Sir James Stewart? HERBERT A. CARTER. JANE ROBERT PORTER.-1. Jane Porter died 1850, authoress of Scottish Chiefs,' Thaddaeus of Warsaw,' &c. In several old books, also in A Happy HalfCentury,' by Agnes Repplier, Jane Porter's Diary is alluded to. Can any one tell me where it is to be seen, and if it was published, or is only in MS. ? AND · 2. Sir Robert Ker Porter is described in 'D.N.B.' as being descended from Sir Endymion Porter, Gentleman of the Bedchamber to King Charles I. Who stated this as a fact? What foundation is there for such a statement? Can any reader throw light on the subject? The College of Heralds, Queen Victoria Street, have no record of his arms or pedigree, as I have inquired there. HELEN VIOLET PORTER. Donnycarney House, Dublin. TOBACCONISTS' HIGHLANDERS.-Reference is made at p. 64 to the Highlander of Tottenham Court Road. This was lent to the Old London Exhibition, Whitechapel Art Gallery, last December. Mr. A. M. Broadley, in his 'Nicotine and its Rariora,' gives the card, dated 1765, of "William Kebb, at ye Highlander ye corner of Pall Mall, facing St. James's, Haymarket," and he says the Highlander was a favourite tobacconists' sign for 200 years. When and where did these Highlander signs originate, and had they any connexion with meetings of Jacobites in this country? J. LANDFEAR LUCAS. Glendora, Hindhead. [See 10 S. vii. 47, 92, 115, 137, 457; xi. 305, 307, 396. What, precisely, was meant by "the liberty of a manor 100 years ago? Surely not mere sporting rights, which would belong to all landowners, whether lords of manors or not. Yet what other manorial rights would be " deputed" or transferred to a tenant ? B. B. "BARTHOLOMEW WARE." In one of James Howell's epistles (1594-1666) I read your Latin epistolizers go freighted with mere Bartholomew ware." What was this? M. L. R. BRESLAR. 66 THOMAS WYMONDESOLD OF LAMBETH, 1693.-Particulars required of the above, who in that year gave the chimes to Southwell Minster. No clue is to be found in the book on the Surrey bell-founders, nor in the Dictionary of National Biography.' Were the bells also from Surrey? If so, whose? JOHN A. RANDOLPH. 'LONDON CHRONICLE': MONTHLY REVIEW.'-Can any one inform me of the history of these two periodicals, which were both printed by William Strahan in the eighteenth century? R. A. A. L. THE LUMBER TROOPERS. I shall be obliged for any particulars concerning this society, which flourished circa 1770. HORACE BLEACKLEY. REGISTER TRANSCRIBERS OF 1602.-Is there any reason to believe that when the earliest parish registers were transcribed on to parchment, about the year 1602, professional scriveners found employment by travelling from parish to parish and performing the work of transcription, as ordained by the Act regulating parish registers passed towards the close of Elizabeth's reign? "The married mens Feast, or, the Banquet at | Barnet | being an invitation to all those married persons who are master over their wives to a great dinner provided | at Barnet on Michaelmas day next. Together with the articles to be enquired on of all those that are to be admitted to the Feast with the several | dishes and dainties provided for them | "Most women have tongues as long as a Bell rope and as loud as the Clapper, like to a river always running and making as big a noise as the cataracts of Nilus, that deaf [sic] all the inhabitants thereabouts." It continues : "The premisses considered, it is to be thought there will not be such a great appearance of these be able to contain and maintain them all without married masters, but that the town of Barnet will the help of adjacent parishes....And therefore I believe the butchers may have no great trading for this feast, since some suppose the leg of a lark may satisfie all those that can swear truly their wives are obedient to them in everything they are bidden to do...." "The manner how this Feast is to be ushered on to the table. "Before the dishes first march six trumpeters playing on bagpipes the tune of Chevy Chasea very martial tune. "In the second place go four fidlers playing on Jews harps.. such as was Ascapart, page to Bevis of Southamp"Then just before the dishes two lusty men ton, to make way and to keep the people off from thronging upon the servitors. "Then marches a gentleman usher in a red scarlet cloak with white silver lace upon it. "And after that comes the servitors bareheaded, with the dishes in their hands, all of them Henpeckt fellows, and therefore wearing ropes about their shoulders, instead of towels, to signifie what they deserve for suffering their wives to become their masters. Come all away do not this feast neglect Unless it be such men as are Hen-peckt, For these there is no room as you shall see, The others welcome, welcome, welcome be. London. Printed by Peter Lillicrap for John Clark at the Harp and Bible in | West-Smith-sea in the Henpeckt friggot at their first mitation Field. 1671." Pp. 6. The following extracts will give the character of this Banquet," which was evidently a jest : "Oh yes, O yes, O yes, All manner of married persons, high or low, rich or poor, wise or simple, gentlemen or beggars, that can truly and honestly answer in the affirmative to all these questions hereafter mentioned: You are hereby invited gratis to a special feast provided for you at Barnet, in the county of Hertford upon Michaelmas day next between the hours of eleven and twelve, where you shall be accommodated with all things necessary for the dignity of such a feast." Then follow the questions to be asked of the "married men about their wives, some of which are not suitable to print :"Does she rise before you in the morning and make you a fire against your rising, warming your slippers or shoes against your putting them on? Does she if dinner or supper be ready when you are at the Ale house or Tavern submissively stay for your coming home and not eat one bit thereof until you are come ? "Does she keep silence when you bid her hold her peace and not talk in her sleep? In sum does she go at your command, come at your call, and be obedient to you in everything she is appointed to do." "Then let all Land men that would not go to [? initiation] into the state of matrimony, be sure to keep the bridle in their own hands [that] they be not jade-ridden by a scolding wife, for win a day at first and you may with ease keep it afterwards, but if (fie on such a but) you yield pitiful that next to a man riding up Holborn Hill the day at first, your case is very pitiful, yes so westwards....I know none worse. Fore warn'd, fore armed for this you may protest Those that are Henpeckt come not to this Feast." No The above is the pith of the pamphlet, a copy of which is in the Bodleian, and is entered in the Catalogue under 'Barnet.' It belongs to Antony Wood's collection (press-mark, Wood, 654 a. 26), and is evidently part of the collection of printed books left by Antony Wood in November, 1695, to the Ashmolean Museum, and transferred to the Bodleian in October, 1858. separate catalogue of this strange and valuable collection of books has been printed. and the 'D.N.B.' is wrong in saying that such a catalogue was published by William Huddesford. Huddesford published a Catalogue of Wood's MSS. in 1761, but not of his books. The pamphlet in question is bound up with about thirty other pamphlets upon kindred subjects. It is a fine copy, with 66 66 raw edges just as it left the printer. and Wauchope, may be seen at Simancas. The publisher, John Clarke, carried on In the eighteenth century they are chronicled business 1650-82. He was successor at under the names of their regiments, but in "The Harp and Bible" to Richard Harper, the seventeenth century under the names of and was succeeded by James Bissel. The the officers themselves. Harp and Bible" published especially ballads, V. HUSSEY WALSH. broadsides. and such pamphlets as The Married Men's Feast.' An extensive list of Clarke's ballad publications may be found in Lord Crawford's Catalogue of Ballads' (privately printed, 1890), p. 537. 66 Peter 'The Married Men's Feast' is referred to in Hazlitt's Handbook,' 1867, p. 391, where it is entered for some reason under the heading Middlesex.' No clue is there given as to where the copy catalogued by Hazlitt may be found. Hazlitt spells the name of the printer incorrectly as Lillitrap." His correct name was Peter Lilliecrap, and he was a native of Queathiock, co. Cornwall. In the time of the Civil War he served in the Royalist army. He was first at "The Crooked Billet on Addle Hill, and secondly at "The Five Bells," near the church in Clerkenwell Close. A short time before the date of the publication of The Married Men's Feast he was registered as employing one press, one apprentice, one compositor, and one press man. 187, Piccadilly, W. A. L. HUMPHREYS. Has MR. GERISH a note of A True Relation of a Devilish Attempt to Fire the Town of Barnet (see 5 S. vi. 169, 297)? Copy in Guildhall Library, London, Political Tracts, 1655-1706,' No. 20. GEORGE POTTER. 10, Priestwood Mansions, Highgate, N. SPANISH TITLES GRANTED TO IRISHMEN (11 S. v. 69).—I am afraid I do not know of any book which gives definite data with regard to the titles granted by Philip IV. of Spain to the Irishmen who fought in the Wars of the Netherlands," but it is possible Don Francisco Fernandez de Bethencourt may deal with this subject before he has finished his Historia Genealogica de la Monarquia Español.' Some information as to the pedigrees can be found in the papers relating to Spanish military orders such as Calatrava, Alcantara, Carlos III., &c., in the Archivos nacionales, Pasco de Rigoletos, Madrid, as some fifty Irishmen were enrolled in these orders. The services of the officers of the Irish regiments - Dublin, Irlanda, Hybernia, Comerford, Macauliffe, Ultonia, Limerick, Waterford-and of the Irish officers in the originally Scotch regiments Edimburgo SAMUEL GREATHEED (11 S. iv. 347; v. 71).-MR. COURTNEY'S excellent account of this worthy at the later reference omits what is to me his one point of interest, namely, the fact that his portrait was painted by Romney. This portrait, a three-quarters (i.e., 30 in. by 25 in.), has never been traced. It was painted early in 1795, and dispatched to Newport Pagnell on 14 May of that year. His acquaintance with Romney was doubtless brought about by his friendship with Cowper and Hayley. He preached a sermon on Cowper's death at Olney, 18 May, 1800, which was printed; he sent a copy to the artist, inscribed "To Mr. Romney, from the author," and this identical copy was offered in the second-hand book catalogue of Mr. Hollings some time since. The Monthly Magazine of January, 1803, had the following announcement : "The Rev. Mr. Greatheed, of Newport Pagnell, has in considerable forwardness a General History of Missions, in which he is assisted by Mr. Burder, of Coventry. The work is expected to make three or four volumes in octavo; and the first will be ready for delivery early in the spring." The portrait to which MR. COURTNEY refers as having been published in The Evangelical Magazine of April, 1794, cannot, of course, have been the Romney picture. 6 W. ROBERTS. Allow me to correct a misprint in MR. Roffey Maitland. He was the author of |