of

upon Hull Kn was born y 26 of March 1608 & died
the 30th of March 1651 & was buried in this church
of Wintringham.

Is't possible did not this star appear
One of the brightest in our hemisphere
How comes this quick privation, oh tis gone
Nor see we save a sable horison

Learn hence we may that none so fixed is
In this our orb but must glide hence like this
Such is our state yet 'tis that happy way
Translates us hence to heaven fixed stars for aye

Even such is this blest star now whose fall here
Returned him glorious to that blessed sphere.

Can any of your correspondents say by whom the above was written? It is thought by some of the villagers to be by Andrew Marvell, M.P. for Hull.

Royal Institution, Hull.

WILLIAM ANDREWS.

Beylies.

DESCENDANTS OF ELIZABETHAN
WORTHIES.

(9th S. x. 208, 310, 433.)

WE are told at the last reference that William Hawkins, Professor of Poetry at Oxford 1751-6, was a descendant of Sir John Hawkins ('D.N.B.,' xxv. 212); and statements to the like effect may be found in several books; for instance, in the History of Pembroke College' (Oxford Hist. Soc., 1897), p. 379. The professor was son of William Hawkins, the serjeant-at-law, about whose father I sent some notes, printed at 9th S. vi. 188; vii. 154. The matters there stated led me to infer tentatively that the serjeant's father was the John Hawkins who, when he was admitted to the Inner Temple on 18 October, 1672, was described as "de Mortlake in comitatu Surrie, generosus." The theory that the serjeant was descended from Sir John Hawkins appears to rest upon the supposition that John Hawkins, the serjeant's father, who settled at Great Milton, Oxfordshire, about 1682, was identical with John, born 1643, son of John Hawkins (of Slapton, Devon), and grandson of Sir Richard Hawkins, the voyager, who died in 1622. See "The Hawkins' Voyages' (Hakluyt Soc., 1878), p. 1. Can any reader tell us whether there is good evidence which either supports or refutes this supposition? The following

matters make me incline to doubt its accuracy :

1. William Hawkins, Esq., J.P. for Surrey, died 31 January, 1677 ( 1677/8), aged fiftythree, and was buried at Mortlake (Manning and Bray's 'Surrey,' iii. 308). He was, presumably, the William Hawkins, Esq., of Mortlake, Surrey, whose will, dated 6 October,

1677, was proved 11 February, 1677/8, P. C. C.
14 Reeve. It appears from the will that the
testator had property in Westminster, and
was entitled to the rents of "houses in ffoxes'
ordinary, London." He appointed, as his sole
executor, "John Hawkins, my only brother
John Hawkins his son," and, as trustees and
overseers of the will, “Mr. Simon Smyth, of
the city of Westminster, merchant, and Mr.
Richard Hawkins, in the Old Bayley neare
Ludgate, scry vener." John Hawkins, the
executor, was under twenty-eight years of
age at the date of the will, which provided
that, until he reached that age, he was to

have a chamber reserved for him in the tes-
tator's house at Mortlake, and also that care
was to be taken "to purchase a chamber in
" The will
the Temple for him to practise in '
mentions the testator's wife; also his "sister
Bowles," and Henry, Mary, and Hannah, her
children by her former husband Henry
Kem (3); and Hester, Mary, Anne, and Susan,
daughters of the testator's dead brother John.

2. The above reference to "a chamber in
the Temple" leads me now to suggest that
John Hawkins, the testator's nephew and
executor, may have been the father of William
If he was
Hawkins, the serjeant-at-law.
the serjeant's father, it is difficult to see
how the supposed descent from Sir Richard
Hawkins can be admitted, because :-

(a) The serjeant's father, if he was under twenty-eight years of age in October, 1677, was born several years later than 1643, the year in which John, grandson of Sir Richard Hawkins, is said to have been born.

(b) Sir Richard Hawkins does not seem to have had any son named William (see 'D.N.B.,' xxv. 223, 225); and, moreover, William Hawkins, the above testator, who died in 1677/8, aged fifty-three, cannot have been son of Sir Richard, who died in 1622.

H. C.

Sandgate, Kent.

beth Raleigh, grand daughter of the Famed the above statements in regard to the known Sr Walter Raleigh," described, in the certificate transposing of the whole piece are most that she was buried in woollen, 29 October, important. The admitted expansion of the 1716, as being the daughter of Mr. Philipp episode of 'Levina' must not be overlooked. Rawleigh, of Westminster. She would, how- Dr. Baird states in the most emphatic ever, I assume, be great-granddaughter. manner that nearly 200 lines of it are R. J. FYNMORE. entirely Logan's. Nor can it be doubted that Mackelvie would have utilized these lines as convincing proof of the correctness of his case on behalf of Bruce, had they, as they now stand, or even the slightest resemblance For he has printed part of the germ of the to them, been in his so-called "first sketch." episode taken from Bruce's MS. But although many of his statements are too indefinite to be of much value, one cannot imagine that he would have neglected to take advantage, and make the utmost use, of a point so important as this. Writing of the two versions of 'Levina,' he says:—

has (6

ARMIGEROUS FAMILIES (9th S. x. 509). What does H. M. mean? A family which used the same arms since the time of Edward III." is evidently "armigerous." It is more than that. In any other country in the world it would be classed as 66 noble."

D.

MICHAEL BRUCE AND BURNS (9th S. vii. 466; viii. 70, 148, 312, 388, 527; ix. 95, 209, 309, 414, 469, 512; x. 69, 130, 449).—The parallelism to which allusion has already been made was thus introduced to the notice of his readers by Dr. Mackelvie :—

"Before advancing any claims in behalf of Bruce to these pieces [several of the disputed ones, including Levina"], we beg to advert to internal evidence which seems to favour Logan. The only piece in his collection bearing any resemblance to the historical ballad in which Bruce is known to have excelled, is 'A Tale,' beginning, "Where Pastoral Tweed renowned in Song,' one stanza of

which is as follows:-
·-

The picture of her mother's youth
Now sainted in the sky,
She was the angel of his age

And apple of his eye.

In the episode of 'Levina' in Bruce's 'Lochleven'
these lines occur:-

The perfect picture of her mother's youth,
His age's hope, the apple of his eye.'
Dr. Mackelvie continues :-

"These are not accidental coincidences of thought. They are either the production of the same mind, or borrowed by one writer from another. Our firm conviction is that both are the composition of Michael Bruce. The first draught of 'Lochleven' is now before us, containing the germ of the episode claimed for Logan, and the only difference between it and the one in the printed edition is, that in the former Bruce makes his hero a giant, in the latter a hunter, and expands the episode to a length disproportioned to the poem.'

Dr. Mackelvie adds :

"If, because the printed version is somewhat different from the original draught, it is inferred that Logan altered it, then it must be inferred that he altered the whole poem; for it happens that there is as great a difference in the whole, as in this particular part. Many verses are omitted which are, and many verses are added which are not, in the first sketch. The writer has transposed the whole."-Par. 87.

Taken along with the internal evidence already presented to readers of N. & Q.,'

"We shall place the opening stanzas of both in juxtaposition. The printed version begins as follows:

Low by the lake, as yet without a name." Then follow eleven lines, the last being the all-important one,

The perfect picture of her mother's youth.

Dr. Mackelvie also placed before his readers the opening fourteen lines of the "first draught." Of these lines, all except the first, which is identical with that given above, bear but slight resemblance to those in the poem as originally published. The last two lines are those which refer to Levina :

His daughter fair Levina, often there

Tended the flow'rs-herself a sweeter flow'r. Dr. Mackelvie, having on the preceding page to that on which the above quotations occur expressed his "firm conviction" that A Tale' and Levina' were Bruce's, seriously invalidates his conviction by printing this portion of Levina' as it appears in the two versions. Had the lines upon which his conviction was based been before him in the "first sketch," it cannot be conceived that Dr. Mackelvie would have failed to print them also, so that he might clinch this part of his argument by pointing to them in print as conclusive proof that the 'draught," the extended poem, and ‘A Tale' were all by Bruce. He did not, however, put them in print. I am, therefore, clearly entitled to conclude that he failed to do so because they were not in the MS. before him. As already stated, their absence seriously invalidates Dr. Mackelvie's "firm conviction," but at the same time it materially strengthens the "internal evidence which seems to favour

Logan " (Mackelvie, par. 87). In fact, it is entirely in his favour!

There is, therefore, abundant evidence, external and internal, to prove that, although Bruce prepared a considerable part of the entire piece Lochleven,' it is to Logan that the credit belongs of having rearranged its component parts, and particularly of having extended 'Levina.' The evidence upon which this conclusion rests may be thus summarized: (1) Bruce's state of health unfitted him for working daily at this composition. Five months, therefore, was too short a space of time in which, according to his own account of its progress (although this need not be taken as being literally accurate), the poem, as we have it, could have been written by him. (2) The facts related by Dr. Mackelvie, that many parts of the original were omitted, that additions were made, and that the whole piece had been rearranged, point to the necessity of more time having been required for its production, granting, for the sake of argument, that Bruce was the author of the whole. (3) But positive evidence in favour of Logan is to be found (a) in Dr. Baird's emphatic statement, already quoted, that nearly 200 lines of 'Levina' are Logan's (he, like Mackelvie, had Bruce's MS. before him); (b) when it is seen that one of these 200 lines is that to which Dr. Mackelvie drew attention, "The perfect picture," &c.; and (e) when it is further seen that this line is wanting from Dr. Mackelvie's so-called "first draught" of 'Levina.' (4) The many parallelisms, &c., form another link in the chain of evidence which goes to prove that it was Logan who wrote the greater part of this episode.

A. M. McDONALD.

ROUBILIAC'S BUST OF POPE (9th S. x. 408, 471, 492).-I think your correspondent MR. GEORGE G. NAPIER will find that this marble bust was bought by Lord Rosebery at the Peel sale a few years ago. It may interest him to know that the original clay model, made by the sculptor's hands for this marble bust, is still in existence. The clay was fired, and is now good terra-cotta. It was for some time in the collection of Samuel Rogers, and was bought at his sale by my father, John Murray, and passed into my possession at his death in 1892. It was exhibited at the Pope Commemoration in 1888, and a photogravure reproduction is given of it in the frontispiece of vol. v. (Life) of Elwin and Courthope's 'Pope.' It also forms an illustration to a paper in the Magazine of Art by Mr. Austin Dobson, entitled Little Roubillac,' published some few years ago (I cannot, at this moment, ascertain the exact date), in which Mr. Dobson says:

"It bears every evidence of that strong marking of the facial muscles, especially about the mouth, which Reynolds had observed to be characteristic of deformed persons. The sculptor himself, in an anecdote preserved by Malone, went further still. He found in the contracted appearance of the skin between the eyebrows proof permanent of that aching head' to which the poet so frequently refers. The bust, which is without the wig and successful efforts. It, of course, fails to reproduce shows the natural hair, is one of Roubillac's most the magic of the wonderful eye; but is full of courage, keenness and alert intelligence." A. H. HALLAM MURRAY.

THE GOLDEN HORN (9th S. x. 405).-In bowdlerize, hyperbatize, and mangle to his 'Plin. Sec. Opera,' Regent's edition, líb. ix. heart's content? On his own head be it; 20, this name is more manifest than in Master Doctor Holland's translation: "Hujus aspectu repente territi, semper adversum Byzantii promontorium ex eâ causâ appellatum Aurei cornus, præcipiti petunt agmine. H. J. MOULE. Dorchester.

I believe that the Rev. D. Kitcat, of WestonBirt Rectory, Tetbury, Gloucestershire, claims to be a descendant of the original Kitcat, and I well remember his telling with glee a story of the mystification of a Bristol stationer, from whom he was ordering some cardboard or canvas "Kit-cat size," when directed to send it to "Mr. Kitcat," and how he kept repeating, Yes but that is the size of the canvas, now I want your name," believing all the while that he was the subject of a hoax. There are at least four Kitcats in the Clerical Directory.' Is there any family of this name in England other than that of the Kitcat Club founder? W. S- -S. LATIN CONVERSATION (9th S. x. 407, 452).— At the latter reference a correspondent mentions several Latin papers. Being interested in the subject, I wrote my bookseller, who informed me that the Phoenix is not known at Red Lion House; and Post Prandium is discontinued. The failure of these two papers published in England would imply that they received little support from English scholars. Perhaps there are others more favoured in circulation. If so, I should be grateful if some correspondent would kindly bring them to my notice. I should also like to know whether I can obtain copies of the American journals through any London publisher. I have seen Vox Urbis.

THEO. ETHELBERT BEASLEY.

Bulbourne, Tring.

MISQUOTATIONS (9th S. x. 428). To what extent are misquotations allowable? 'Tis a fearsome question, i' faith. The misquotation (innuendo, without exculpatory parenthesis), is it not aye high treason, a misdemeanour punishable by the aristarchs? But, with a bracketed caveat, may not the quoter treat his hapless authority as his own sweet will dictates? May he not orthographize,

suum cuique; "tu l'as voulu, George Dandin." (Dandin flourishes amazingly in unparenthesized tutoiement.) And even if a mutely recumbent attitude on the part of tergiversative "Brer Rabbit" appears metonymically preferable to any vulpine posture, may not the misquoter be allowed catachrestically to less alike of the lugubrious Gray and of the pursue the even tenor of his way, regarddark sayings of Uncle Remus? "Tis a free country; and philippics about the verification of quotations fall on deaf ears.

J. DORMER.

I think that C. C. B. is hardly fair to Byron. poet. I might point to many passages in his He is as much spoilt by misquotation as any works which could not be altered without injury being done to him. I will point to one-the thirty-four lines in 'The Giaour' beginning, "As rising on its purple wing." No doubt he sometimes writes very carelessly. But so does Shelley. So does Shakspeare. E. YARDLEY.

ELIZABETHAN POEM: AUTHOR WANTED (9th S. x. 489). The quotation is copied, with scrupulous exactness, from the back of leaf 53 of "The Popish Kingdome or reigne of Antichrist written in Latin Verse by Thomas Naogeorgus and Englyshed By Barnabe Googe," printed in 1570.

WALTER W. SKEAT.

THE KING'S WEIGH HOUSE (9th S. x. 427).— The Steelyard in Upper Thames Street, so named probably from the balance or beam of steel employed there in weighing the merchandise imported by the German fraternity of Easterling merchants, appears to have been the most important "weigh house" in the City; but upon the expulsion of these monopolists by Queen Elizabeth, owing to representations of the Company of Merchant Adventurers, their hall was used as a depôt for the navy, and the supervision and weighing of important merchandise were transferred to the Mayor and Corporation. Consequently the "King's Beam," as it was called, was removed first to Cornhill, where there was already a "beam" supervised by the Grocers' Company, and afterwards to Weighhouse Yard in Love Lane, Little Eastcheap, where, before the Great Fire, stood the church of St. Andrew Hubbert. Here, in a large room over the Weighhouse, a congregation of Independents had their "commodious meeting house" in the early part of the eighteenth century. From this conventicle the later meeting house called the "King's Weigh