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ing Reminiscences of Hampshire,' by sop,
Lond., 1864.
S. JAMES A. SALTER.
Basingfield, Basingstoke.

STROUD AS A PLACE-NAME (7th S. vi. 187, 309,

by Parry in his confession in the Tower of London, A.D. 1585, was not originally his own, but a quotation from another. It was uttered by him at Paris in 1570, in reference to killing Queen Elizabeth :"I answered that I was ready to kill the greatest sub-357, 449, 516).—A PEDANT will find all the interject of England. But, said he (Morgan), why not the Queen herself? And this, said I, might easily be done, if it might appear to be lawful. For Wattes, a priest, with whom I had conference about it, concealing persons' names, affirmed flatly, it was not lawful. And Chreicton also, the Spanish Jesuit, avouched the same, teaching, "That evil was not to be done that good might come of it: that God was better pleased with adverbs than with nouns; and more approved what was done well and law. fully, than what was otherwise good.'"-Cambden, in Complete History of England,' vol. ii. p. 502, 1706. Parry was hung at Westminster in the same year. ED. MARSHALL.

changes of vowels which I have instanced in the photographic facsimile of the Yorkshire Domesday. The value of this document is that it proves that in the eleventh century owners of land, in the same township, interchanged vowels almost indifferently in spelling the name of the township. The value of the vowels must, therefore, have been more indeterminate than, from the study of purely literary documents, we are accustomed to suppose. ISAAC TAYLOR.

Palermo, Sicily.

JOHN BUNYAN (7th S. vii. 7).-The date of Bunyan's licence to preach, as given at the above reference, is evidently wrong.

Both Venables

A like term in Bishop Hall may explain, and is probably the original of the quotation from Motley. "God loveth adverbs; and cares not how good, but how well" (Holy Observations,' § 14, 1614),("Great Writers ") and Froude ("English Men of which, from the context, means, cares not for the Letters") give it as May 9, 1672, and the latter nature or greatness of the work, but for the hearti- refers to it as a "licence as pastor of the Baptist ness or conscience with which it is done; and per- Chapel at Bedford" (p. 86). Further on in the haps in Motley, if it suits the place, that Parry same book (p. 173) also occurs the statement that fortunately found out, not mere personal excellence, after his release and pardon "he visited London good intent, or goodness (noun), but doing or accom- annually to preach in the Baptist churches." Surely plishing well (adverb), was of import. Bunyan cannot be said to have belonged to any other sect; for was he not "baptized in the Ouse, and became a professed member of the Baptist Congregation"? (Froude, p. 53.) I am not aware that he ever changed his opinions on this subject in after life. Probably Canon Venables has seen the parish registers of Elstow, which I believe date back as far as 1640, and can supply the dates of Bunyan's marriages and the baptisms of his children. On p. 17 of his book, before referred to, he states that two (at least) of his children were baptized in the still existing font at Elstow, "Mary, his dearly loved blind child, on July 20, 1650, and her younger sister, Elizabeth, on April 14, 1654." This latter sentence answers part of HERMENTRUDE's question. It was only lately that Bunyan was loudly proclaimed to be of gipsy extraction, and now he is said to have been of the Will Dr. Brown Congregational persuasion." explode this latter theory also?

W. C. M. B. 'ALUMNI OXONIENSES' (7th S. vii. 18).-In your review of Mr. Foster's Alumni Oxonienses you remark that" in Mr. Foster's list of subscribers does not appear a single club, English or American." Will you allow me to state that the committee of the Gladstone Library at this club have pur

chased the work?

ARTHUR W. HUTTON, Librarian. National Liberal Club.

[The name did not appear in Mr. Foster's list. We are glad a beginning has been made.]

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HUNTING SONGS WANTED (7th S. vi. 509).The words "Sly Reynard" begin one verse of Henry Fielding's "A-hunting we will go," which is probably one of the songs MR. VIDLER asks for. It was originally written in the opera of Don Quixote in England,' and may be found in Dr. Charles Mackay's 'Book of English Songs.' I do not, however, see the 'Dark Day in November' in that book. C. F. S. WARREN, M.A. Foleshill Hall, Longford, Coventry.

Towards the latter part of the last century the members of the Hampshire Hunt had monthly dinners, and appear to have been a very jovial, song-singing set of men. Among them was the Rev. C. Powlett, of Icen Abbas, who was known as "the poet of the H. H." Whether his hunting songs have ever been published collectively I cannot say, but some of them may be found in 'Sport

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Holmby House, Forest Gate.

JOHN T. PAGE.

'MONODY ON HENDERSON' (7th S. vii. 7).— This was written by Joseph Cottle, "in a small volume of poems published without Cottle's name, at Bristol in 1795" (Ainger's 'Letters of Charles Lamb,' i. 312). Lamb's reference to it is so mixed up with his criticisms of Coleridge's own poems (1796) that he seems to be writing of one of these. In the six-volume edition of Lamb's 'Works' (i. 303) confusion is worse confounded by the editor. Lamb wrote, 'Monody on H.,' and the editor filled

up the blank thus: "[artley]." probably he only could explain.

What he meant J. D. C. BRANDINGS (7th S. vi. 428).-I do not think DR. MURRAY need shake in his shoes on account of the omission from the 'New English Dictionary' of a mere misprint of the German word brandung (breakers, surge), which Dr. Pusey has transferred (placing it, rightly, within brackets) from Ritter's original work. Q. V.

Is not brandings, a word found in no English authority that I know of, coined directly from the German branden, to surge against, and brandung, breakers ? EDWARD H. Marshall, M.A. Hastings.

IN MEMORIAM: J. O. HALLIWELL-PHILLIPPS. (See ante, p. 59.)-May I also be permitted a few lines in memory of our friend ?-no doubt it would greatly interest your readers. I was not known to him before 1874, but since that time he has been to me, perhaps unwittingly, the chief mental comfort of my life, and it will be so to the end. To him I am indebted for a methodical system of gathering, ordering, and indexing materials for my Old Southwark'studies. His way was to give you a hint, to take you a few inches on the way, and leave you to your own devices. Ever and anon would come by post or parcel, paid to my door, valuable books, cuttings, clues, and hints; anything that he found about old Southwark and the Bankside would be soon on its way to me.

I have many letters and postcards from him, all of the most genial and hospitable character. When we began to know each other well, he would open to me his iron safe, his scrap and note books, and bid me copy and use whatever I liked. We were wont quietly to sit in his study at Hollingbury Copse, each pursuing his own work, with just a word when either lighted upon something interesting to the other, until, wearied or desiring change, we sauntered to and fro along those airy charming walks at the Copse. The well-known bell would ring out, heard far off over the hills, and in we would go together to meet at lunch visitors, who in that hospitable bungalow, as he called it, were always coming and going, cared for by his wife, who, if it were not their own fault, made every one comfortable and cheery. Nothing was stereotyped; all were free to follow their own bent, friendly eyes and hearts always caring for them. He was kind, even tender, especially to those who were below him in fortune or attainments; and, as I know well, he was in the great esteem of others his peers, from whom his good word never failed to procure for me the most effectual attention in any literary help I required. The only condition in that house, tacit but evident, was to help in the general harmony and kindliness to each other. I often met young and old, sick or weary, friends of theirs, irrespec

tive of notoriety or attainments; to be kind to them seemed always pleasant to him.

About 1874 I met him for the first time at Dulwich. He was there accompanied by a gentleman from the British Museum for one final and critical look at the suspected 'Diary of Philip Henslowe'tainted, that is, in a point or two. Directly I knew Mr. Halliwell-Phillipps sufficiently I wrote to tell him of opportunities of seeing the valuable St. Saviour's papers in a comfortable room at the church and at leisure. "Would he like to be there?" His note, April 5, 1874, is before me, "that it would be a great treat to have the opportunity of going through the St. Saviour's papers." Very many who greatly reverence his name and attainments-here, in Germany, and America-would prize a small, well-digested volume, that would, so to speak, bring him back to us. I hope his able nephew and executor, correspondent of N. & Q.,' may see his way to do it. He would not lack help in this labour of loving respect. WILLIAM Rendle.

Miscellaneous.

NOTES ON BOOKS, &c.

The Inns of Old Southwark and their Associations. By William Rendle, F.R.C.S., and Philip Norman, F.S.A. (Longmans & Co.)

THIS volume holds a place midway between the severely antiquarian treatise and the light literature with which we are deluged. It is not intended to be an exhaustive treatise, but the writers know their subject far too well to permit themselves to indulge in the nonsense with which serious historical studies are often bespattered. As an introduction to a curious subject, concerning which but little has been written, we welcome it gladly. The homes of England have been described in every possible manner. The cottage, the mansion, the manor, and the palace have been experimented upon by the spend some part of our lives and some of us a great learned and the ignorant; but the inn, where all of us portion, has been almost entirely neglected, except by a few magazine writers. This is not as it should be. Much curious lore gathers about our old hostelries. There are some of them whose very names carry us back into the Middle Ages; many which tell us of the times when England was Roman Catholic and it drew custom to have a saint for a signboard. The authors of the volume before us have interpreted their commission liberally. They tell us not a little of the old breweries which stood in such intimate relation to the houses of entertainment. The plan they give of the Borough will be very useful to many persons who do not require it for the sake for which it has been intended. The illustrations are a marked feature in the volume. To some they will be more interesting than the text. The growth of modern wants has swept away nearly all our old inns. So enwho desire to realize what was in the minds of memoirtirely have they become things of the past, that those writers and novelists of the last century cannot do 80 without some amount of antiquarian research. Even Pickwick' without illustrations is not easily understood by the modern reader. To all such 'The Inns of Old Southwark' will be very useful.

Most of our readers know Larwood and Hotten's book on signboards. It is not our duty to criticize that work now. We may remark, however, that it was the first

attempt to give us a catalogue of our signs. We would
ask if it be not possible to complete this work, and give
us a perfect list of these objects, with engravings illus-
trating the more curious among them. We have heard
that such a labour has been accomplished for the Nether-
lands, and are anxious that we should not be behind
hand. Messrs. Rendle and Norman would, we are sure,
do such a work in a most satisfactory manner.
Chaucer: the Minor Poems. Edited by the Rev. Walter
Skeat, Litt.D. (Clarendon Press.)

present state of feeling with regard to nursing sistera.
This or that particular institution may still be unpopular
with certain people, but no one is to be found now who
would attack the principle which leads ladies to devote
their lives to the physical good of others.
The Travels through England of Dr. Richard Pococke.
Edited by James Joel Cartwright, M.A., F.S.A. Vol. I.
(Printed for the Camden Society.)

To its esteemed treasurer the Camden Society is in-
debted for the first volume of what will prove a work of
equal value and interest. Dr. Pococke, successively Bishop
of Meath and of Ossory, was a born traveller, and ex-
tended his peregrinations so far as Palestine and Syria.
His English travels are, however, alone dealt with by
Mr. Cartwright, who has found the materials in the
Additional MSS. in the British Museum. The letters
are transcripts, only made with a view to publication,
the originals being untraceable. With a fidelity akin to
that of Drayton in the 'Polyolbion,' Dr. Pococke has pur-
sued his way from hamlet to hamlet, leaving little of
interest unnoticed, and giving us a graphic picture of
England as it was when the North had barely recovered
from the shock of Jacobite invasion. One of his pleasant
specialties is that he was a warm lover of natural scenery
at a time when such taste was rare. The following
volumes will be waited with some impatience. In some
cases the original scribe seems to have omitted the signs
of abbreviation in the letters, and allows such mistakes
as "Sr Henry Sligsby, of Scriven Hall," for Sir Henry
Slingsby. To most county histories the work will be an
indispensable addition.

As a specimen of thorough workmanship, Prof. Skeat's edition of the minor poems of Chaucer is probably unrivalled. Not much more than a third of a volume of nearly six hundred pages is occupied with the poems themselves, the remainder being taken up with preliminary dissertation, various readings, notes, critical, explanatory, and illustrative, glossary, indexes, and other similar matters, the whole constituting a display of varied knowledge and critical acumen not easily rivalled. Of the matter rashly assigned to Chaucer by successive editors Prof. Skeat makes short work. Now he shows that a poem is dated after Chaucer's death, now that it is known to be by Lydgate or Occleve, now that it contains reference to matters in the fifteenth century, and, again, that the style is that of a period much subsequent. Not seldom Prof. Skeat hits upon proofs that his predecessors seem to have gone out of their way to avoid. In every case he is careful to state on what authority a poem is assigned to Chaucer or withdrawn from him. The only cases in which his decision might be disputed are those in which he decides from the rhymes and from internal evidence. In order to judge in these matters a writer must be saturated with his author. There is no question about The Bronte Country: its Topography, Antiquities, and the fact that a man of critical faculty may know an History. By J. A. Erskine Stuart. (Longmans & author so well as to be able to decide all but infallibly THE Brontë literature grows rapidly. There are two Co.) (perhaps infallibly even) whether a poem is genuine. Few lovers of Shakspeare or of Milton (of the latter really good lives of Charlotte, and more books have been especially) can be in any doubt. We claim no such written concerning her and her surroundings than we knowledge, and acquiesce in the decision that reduces can call on ourselves to enumerate. More than one of the minor poems of Chaucer to twenty. Shall we shock these lesser lights has contained passages in very unfortunate taste. No fault can be found with Mr. Stuart's the editor, however, by saying that we should like to have the remaining poems-some of them, at least-which volume on the ground that it discusses subjects with have been accepted as his printed in a supplemental which the public have no concern. The author realizes volume, like the Apocrypha or the doubtful plays of the fact, which is not as yet universally acknowledged, Shakspeare. Such a task as the preparation of this that because a person has become justly celebrated would not suit Prof. Skeat, nor would we demand the his or her greatness does not give every one a right wealth of notes which we gladly welcome here. The to publish all the personal gossip that can be picked reader, however, who is not a Chaucerian expert misses up from neighbours, servants, and those unhappily consome poems from which he has derived pleasure. Mean-stituted persons who derive a great part of their daily while we congratulate the student upon the possession of pleasure from hearing and retailing scandal. a work of unfailing and marvellous erudition, a treasurehouse of wonderful and valuable information, together with a text which puts out of court all preceding versions,

Catherine Leslie Hobson, Lady-Nurse, Crimean War,
and her Life. By the Rev. W. F. Hobson. (Parker
& Co.)
THIS is an affectionate memorial of one of that devoted
band of women who served the sick and the wounded
during all the horrors of the Crimean War. It is not
easy to speak of the service these holy women rendered
to humanity without seeming to be guilty of florid
exaggeration. We have learnt many things since the
fifties, and one of them is that a woman does not go
beyond her proper sphere who devotes her life to the
succour of the miserable. Englishmen were in those
days unaccustomed to such devotion. To the Crimean
nurses we not only owe the fact that the sufferings of
many of our soldiers were relieved, and their death-beds
tenderly watched-a mercy for which we must all be
grateful-but we are indebted to them also for the

The Brontë family were all of them highly gifted and, with one exception, were of extremely noble characters. Poor Bramwell, weak, but not by nature evil, has been seized upon by the gossip-mongers, and the trivial events of his sad and painful career made padding for books and copy for newspaper scribblers in a way that would have given acute pain to Charlotte and his other sisters could they have foreseen the future. Mr. Stuart has little to tell of this gifted race that is new, but he knows the country in which they lived, and is able to describe to us the places which were used by Charlotte in her novels. How skilfully these real objects were employed we can easily see when we compare her pictures with their originals, as Mr. Stuart describes them for our benefit.

The taste of the novel-reading public has changed since Charlotte Brontë flashed upon the world. The alteration has not been entirely for the better. In her days few novel-writers had given bright and clearly cut descriptions of scenery. Her pictures of what she had Been are terse and as truthful as it is possible to imagine. No English writer has ever brought a landscape, with all

its details, so clearly before the reader and in so few words as she has done. Her brilliant success has produced many imitators, and we now have cloudy verbiage manufactured in imitation which hardly rises above the elevation of a parody. So needful has this kind of writing, however, become for a certain class of readers, that we believe the recipe for making it has been communicated in conversation by more than one successful practitioner in this imitative line. Though Mr. Stuart's style is not always good, his book is to be commended as pleasantly written, and from first to last in good taste. He should not, however, speak of the Armytage baronetcy being "instituted" in 1641, or at any other time. A title is created by the patent, and is conferred on the person, who receives it. To speak of a title being "instituted " conveys no meaning. The clergyman was right when he wrote in his register of the overthrow of "Prince Robt" at Marston Moor. Robert and Rupert are the same name, and the dashing Royalist commander was frequently called Robert in the printed and manuscript literature of the early days of the Civil War. As time went on, the form Robert died out, and Rupert definitely took its place.

The Actor's Art. By Gustave Garcia. Second Edition. (Simpkin, Marshall & Co.)

A SECOND edition of M. Garcia's practical treatise on stage declamation, public speaking, &c., has soon been demanded. Such now appears with an appendix, which is not the least useful part of the volume. In this, which gives views of performances in classic and medieval times, early forms of dramatic entertainment are described. Greece occupies nearly half the space, but sections are given to farces, satires, &c., and to the drama in Spain, Germany, and China.

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A NEW volume of Le Livre begins with a Conte pour les Bibliophiles' of M. Octave Uzanne, a very curious and clever piece of literary patchwork, admirably illustrated by M. Albert Robida. Continuing the series of articles on English writers, which have become a special feature, Le Livre gives us a good account of George Eliot. Some slight improvements are noticeable in the 'Bibliographie Moderne.'

DR. BRUSHFIELD has reprinted from the Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature, and Art admirable papers on 'Andrew Buer and the Early Exeter Newspaper Press' and

Who Wrote the Exmoor Scolding and Courtship? Far more important and valuable than its unambitious form denotes is this interesting pamphlet, which is illustrated by reproductions in facsimile, and throws light on many subjects recently discussed in 'N. & Q.'

MESSRS. SWAN SONNENSCHEIN & Co. have issued the Student's Pestalozzi, by J. Russell, M.A.

Notices to Correspondents.

We must call special attention to the following notices: ON all communications must be written the name and address of the sender, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith.

WE cannot undertake to answer queries privately. To secure insertion of communications correspondents must observe the following rule. Let each note, query, or reply be written on a separate slip of paper, with the signature of the writer and such address as he wishes to appear. Correspondents who repeat queries are requested to head the second communication "Duplicate."

MR. E. WALFORD writes:-"Will the Editor of N. & Q.' kindly allow me to protest in his pages against being

killed before my time? I make this request as in a bookseller's catalogue which has just reached me one of my books is ascribed to the late Edward Walford.'"

E. P. JACOBSEN ("Ronyon ").-Is not the customary derivation from the French rogneux easier than from the Italian rognare, which you suggest?

EDWIN MURRAY ("Latin Work ").-The book you describe appears to be an edition of the 'Digestum Vetus of the Emperor Justinian.

8. A. DONALDSON ("Monogram of James II.").-We have no means of reproducing this.

inventor (in 1829) of the lucifer match. See Athenæum, E. WALFORD ("Lucifer").—Mr. Isaac Holden was the March 29, 1884, p. 401, col. 3. See also Haydn's 'Dictionary of Dates,' s. v.

B. F. SCARLETT ("Manchester Bookseller ").-Cornish, Piccadilly.

MRS. LEOPOLD SCARLETT, Boscombe Manor, Bournemouth, wishes to borrow for a short time a Manchester directory of the latter half of the eighteenth century.

J. M. M. ("Anonymous Poem ").-A copy of this, one of many received and acknowledged, has been forwarded

to YORICK.

RICHARD EDGCUMBE ("Pull devil, pull baker").-See 2nd S. iii. 316.

M. G. D. ("Dress of London Apprentice ").-Send address. We have a communication for you.

F. ("Prose of Shakspeare ").-Will appear in next 'Shakspeariana.'

CORRIGENDA.-P. 37, col. 1, 1. 35, for "coal" read coke; p. 45, col. 2, 11, 3 and 7 from bottom, for "gri S."

read 5th S.

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Bishop of Durham, and sometime Chancellor of Edward III. The Latin Text Edited and Translated by ERNEST C. THOMAS, Barrister-at-Law. "Fine type, hand-made paper, and wide margins combine to make this edition valuable in collectors' eyes." St. James's Gazette. "An admirable edition and translation. By placing this work within the reach of everybody-for it is the 'general reader' for whom Mr. Thomas has laboured-the editor has earned the gratitude of all who love books, and effectually remedied what has long been a reproach to literary enterprise."-Saturday Review.

London: KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH & CO.

LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1889.

CONTENTS.-N° 162.

Lowndes's 'Bibliographer's Manual' refers to this book as having been published. But publisher's or printer's names are absent, and the book has NOTES:-Samuel Pepys, 81-Gibbon's Autobiography,' 82- every appearance of being privately printed. One Touching for the Evil, 83-Ancient Norfolk Will-Obituary may look for a copy for years without its turning of 1888, 84-Chinese Funeral in London-Henry Cromwell-up. It is a beautifully printed octavo of 214 pages, Paper-chases in France, 85-Verify your Quotations-Cos-exclusive of index, &c., and has a brilliant portrait

tume of Mary Stuart, 86.

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of Pepys, engraved by R. White after Kneller.

As to the intrinsic truth of the contents of this book, no better testimony could, perhaps, be desired than is contained in the autograph letter from Evelyn to Pepys, reprinted in the Braybrooke edition of the 'Diary' from the original in the collection of Mr. Samuel Pepys Cockerell, and headed In Rei Memoriam." As Pepys's book is so little known, it may not be uninteresting to try and take, in the brief manner demanded by your space, the true measure of what his talents and patriotism mainly assisted in accomplishing.

The fleet in August, 1678, stood thus :-
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Notes.

SAMUEL PEPYS AND THE RECONSTRUCTION

OF THE ROYAL NAVY, 1678-88.

Two hundred years have now passed away since the dates above cited, and the same question as to the adequate strength of the fleet again emerges as one of supreme interest. The governments of the Restoration and Revolution had to face difficulties not very different from those which the Parliament of 1889 will have to do battle with, in the like attempt to make the fleet sufficient to command the seas and to defend imperial interests at home and abroad. This parallelism, to a certain extent at least, in the outlines of a burning question in past and present times, would perhaps have been more widely known to students of history if Pepys to the great loss of the public of these days -had not been compelled, by fears for his eyesight, to cease writing his Diary' during the thirty-four years which passed between its last words (1669) and the date of his death (1703). Had it been otherwise, the continuation of the 'Diary' would doubtless have afforded interesting notes about the printing, circulation, and reception of the only literary performance under his own name which Pepys has printed. The title runs thus :

"Memoires relating to the state of the Royal Navy of England. For Ten Years, Determin'd December 1688. Quantis molestiis vacant, qui nihil omninò cum Populo contrahunt? Quid Dulcius Ūtio Litterato?-Cic. Tusc. Disp. Printed Anno MDCXC."

The above were actually in sea service and pay, completely furnished with sea stores for six months, in view of a probable war with France. In April, 1679, Pepys was confined to the Tower, and his "unhappy master" the Duke of York was commanded abroad by Charles II. The fleet then left by Pepys in sea-pay comprised 76 vessels and the men numbered 12,040, the ships in harbour as a reserve being certified as thoroughly fit to go to sea and with sea stores valued at 50,000l. A commission was then charged with the execution of the whole office of High Admiral, which had previously been managed under the king's own inspection. The commission immediately began the process of paring down the navy, and things went on merrily in that direction for five years. At length, in May, 1684, on the return of the Duke of York to England, King Charles resumed the business of the Admiralty into his own hands, assisted by his royal brother, and Pepys was replaced in his post of Secretary. It resulted, on inquiry, that England could hardly then be said to possess a fleet :

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