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CONTENTS.- N° 152. NOTES:-The English Ancestry of Longfellow. 421-Busts and Portraits of Byron. 422-Citations touching on Angling and Fishing. 423-John Burkes History of the Commoners," 424-Mary Wollstonecraft-Sussex Brickmaking Terms-Riding the Stang 425-Red-haired Men-Sir R. Walpole-A Remarkable Bequest-Lessons from Japan

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THE ENGLISH ANCESTRY OF LONGFELLOW.

A subject especially interesting at the present moment, and worthy of investigation, is the English ancestry of the departed poet. It is known

he was descended from a Yorkshireman who went to America about the reign of Charles II.; further, the poet himself always held that the branch of the family from which he was derived emigrated from Horseforth, near Leeds. Efforts have been made by correspondents in the "Weekly Supplement" of the Leeds Mercury to identify this ancestor and to gather some particulars about him. The Rev. Robert Collyer, of New York, contributed an overlooked passage touching the Longfellows of Horseforth, printed in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register. It occurs in a letter, dated 1680, from Samuel Sewall, of Boston, U.S., to his loving brother Stephen Sewall, of Bishopstoke, in Hampshire," and runs thus :

"Bro. Longfellow's father William Longfellow lives at Horseforth near Leeds in Yorkshire. Tell him bro. has a son William a fine, likely child, and a very good piece of land and greatly wants a little stock to manage it. And that father hath paid for him upwards of a hundred pounds to get him out of debt."

A note says this Longfellow (his name was William) "married (Nov. 10, 1676) Ann Sewall (daughter

of Henry Sewall and) sister of the Chief Justice. His father must have died about 1687, for in that year he went to Yorkshire to obtain his patrimony." He must have returned within a year, for in 1688 Mr. Collyer found, from an entry in the town ratebook of Newbury, Mass., that "Mr. Longfellow has 2 houses, 6 plough lands, meadows, and stock." Two years later, being an officer in the Essex Regiment, he went with it in an expedition against the French and Indians, and was drowned off Cape Breton. His widow Anne married, May 11, 1692, one Henry Short.

William Longfellow, of Horseforth, in the parish of Guiseley, the father, was a clothier, and his mark occurs to a deed by which he sold, Aug. 9, 1671, a piece of land there to one Thomas Hargraves, clothier, for the sum of 24s. It is worth mentioning that this identical strip of land passed, about 1771, for 500l., and again, about 1871, for 1,500l. Evidence that he was a substantial man is afforded by the fact that he was rated in the hearth tax, 1672, for the A Thomas respectable number of four hearths. Longfellow, also of Horseforth, was assessed for

one.

Nothing more has been found. Mr. Horsfall-Turner writes that the Longfellows have been located at Horseforth since 1600, but adds that the Guiseley registers are in a shameful condition. No one has yet offered to search the wills at York, which will doubtless reveal the truth, and show whether those of Horseforth came from Ilkley, as suggested, or elsewhere. In the third volume of Dr. Howard's Misc. Gen. et Her., an extract giving all the Longfellows and Langfellows occurring in the Ilkley register is printed. The name is not to be found in the very full poll tax of 1379 for the whole of the West Riding, printed by the Yorkshire Archæological and Topographical Association.

It is very far from probable that the poet's eponymous ancestor had his name from his unusual stature, as, though the case is similar to Armstrong or Strongi'th'arm, it admits of another and more plausible derivation, namely, a corruption of Longvillers. The Norman family of De Longvillers came from a place so called in the canton of VillersBocage and arrondissement of Caen. which is situated in the wooded district called Le BocageCalvados, and had the epithet Long given to it to distinguish it from many other places so calleda custom which was found necessary in this and other countries where the name was a common one. Villers (or Villiers, as the word as a surname was afterwards spelt in England) must not be confounded with -ville, nor Longueville with Longvillers; and the Rev. Isaac Taylor (Words and Places, p. 166) is convinced that, as occurring only in Normandy, it must be the Teutonic weiler, an abode or single house, which is so common in the Rheingau and in many parts of Germany.

That Longfellow is a corruption of Longvillers

rendered more likely by the fact that the Norman family was settled in this part of Yorkshire, and one of them, Eudo, married one of the granddaughters and coheirs of the great local magnate of English descent, Sweyn Ailricson, thereby greatly adding to his possessions. But before this we find, as early as 1166, Heodo de Leguilliers holding one knight's fee of the honour of Pontefract. In the fourth generation their lands went to the Nevills by marriage with the sole heiress; but younger sons there must have been leaving families who had to earn their living, and some village blacksmith may have been one link in the chain connecting the modern poet with the Norman baron.

The arms of the Longvillers, like all ancient English heraldry, simple and beautiful, were, Sable, a bend between six cross-crosslets arg., formerly to be seen in stained glass in windows of Lexington or Laxton church, Notts. A. S. ELLIS. Westminster.

BUSTS AND PORTRAITS OF BYRON.

1815. Property of Mr. John Murray.* Engraving from this picture, by Agar, was disapproved of by Mrs. Leigh.

6. Miniature by Holmes, 1815, painted for Scrope B. Davies, Esq. This was considered by the Contessa Albrizzi, Mrs. Leigh, and Mr. Trelawny an excellent likeness. Property of Mr. Alfred Morrison. Replica belongs to Miss Leigh.

7. Bust, in marble, by Thorwaldsen (Rome, 1816). Property of the Lady Dorchester. Replicas at Chatsworth, at the Biblioteca Ambrosiana at Milan, in America, and another belonging to Mr. John Murr y.t

8. Half-length (in oils) by Harlowe, 1817. Present habitation unknown to me.

9. Miniature by Prepiani (Venice, 1817), and another, executed a few months later, by the same hand. Both were given by the poet to his halfsister Mrs. Leigh.

10. Full-length miniature (water colours) by Gilchrist, Byron in his college robes. Now at Newstead, date circa 1807-8.

11. Byron in Albanian dress, half-length (oils), by Thos. Phillips, R. A. Property of Lord Lovelace. There is a replica at the National Portrait Gallery; and Mr. Murray possesses a small-size copy also by Phillips.

1. Full-length miniature by Kaye, of Edinburgh. Byron at the age of seven. The child is here represented standing, with bow and arrow in his hand, a profusion of hair falling over his shoulders. This picture was given by Byron to his nurse May Gay, and at her death in 1835 passed into the possession of Dr. Ewing, of Aberdeen.

2. Miniature by Saunders (1807). Of this work Byron had but a poor opinion. In a letter to Mr. Murray, dated October 12, 1812, he requested that gentleman to destroy the plate from which certain engravings had been taken, and on no account to prefix this portrait to the contemplated edition of his poems.

3. Full-length portrait (in oils) by the same artist, 1807. In reference to this picture Byron wrote to Rogers: "If you think the picture you saw at Murray's worth your acceptance it is yours; and you may put a glove or mask on it if you like."*

4. Half-length (in oils) by Westall, R.A., 1814. This portrait was exhibited in the Royal Academy, 1815, and is now the property of the Lady BurdettCoutts.t

5. Half-length (in oils) by Thomas Phillips, R.A., 1814. Exhibited in the Royal Academy

*It never became the property of Mr. Rogers, and is now in the Lady Dorchester's possession.

† A replica was lately in the hands of Mr. W. Cox, Pall Mall.

13. Medallion by Alfred Stothard. The property of his son.

14. Marble bust by Bartolini, Pisa, 1822. Property of Lord Malmesbury. In an unpublished letter to Mr. Murray, Byron says, "The bust does not turn out a good one, though it may be like for aught I know, as it exactly resembles a superannuated Jesuit."

15. Half-length (in oils) by West, an American artist, Leghorn, 1822. Now the property of Mr. Horace Kent, of Plumstead, Kent.

16. Three (crayon) sketches by Count Alfred D'Orsay, Genoa, 1823. Although these sketches vary in detail the same pose is preserved in all three. One is a full-length portrait; this may be seen at the South Kensington Museum. Another is half-length, the head uncovered; this was retained by the Countess Blessington, for whom all three were done. The third has a cap, added at Byron's especial request.§ This sketch belongs. to Mrs. Muir, relict of Dr. Muir, who was in friendly intercourse with the poet at Cephalonia.

17. Full-length statue (marble) by Thorwaldsen, now in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge,

Replicas at Stoneleigh and Newstead Abbey. †The order from America was coupled with these words: "Place the names of Byron and Thorwaldsen on it, and it will become an immortal monument." I See "N. & Q.," 6th S. v. 116. Letter 517, Moore's Life of Byron.