ruption have been accustomed to expose the bodies of their dead, to Robert Xavier Murphy, a talented young Irishman, editor of The Bombay Times and Oriental translator to the Indian Government, who died 26 February, 1857, in the fifty-fourth year of his age. Murphy was a contributor to The Dublin University Magazine from 1847 to 1850, and probably later. Sir George Birdwood suggests that it was in an article in this magazine that the phrase "towers of silence" was first employed, but avows his inability to undertake the task of tracing where and when it was first used, and desires that younger hands may perform this labour of love. JOHN HEBB. NUTTING: "THE DEVIL'S NUTBAG."-The nuts are ripe, and nutting parties have found pleasure in a day's nutting in the woods in many a Midland district. Each lad and lass carried a nutting bag, and a hooked stick with which to pull within hand-reach the hazel branches loaded with tempting nuts projecting from the beards in which they grow. When the nut-noses begin to brown, and the green beards shrivel and turn grey at the tips, then are they ripe, and then nutting may begin. Sticks and nut. bags were often household belongings, handed down from one set of young folks to another, and the crooked stick was as much prized as the nutbag. Why in such an entertainment a nutting bag should be connected in any way with the devil does not appear; but it was common enough, on looking into the bag to find how its filling was going on, to remark that it was as black as the devil's nutbag." In gathering nuts some are found fair without, and dead within. These are, or at any rate were, called "def" nuts or "det" nuts, and the "def" were said to have been touched by the devil, much as a little later on will be said of blackberries, when frost has nipped them, that the "devil has cast his hoof over them." THOS. RATCLIFFE. Worksop. Queries. WE must request correspondents desiring information on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct. SYLVAIN MARECHAL.-This man wrote that strange book the 'Dictionnaire des Athées.' He began as a somewhat successful poet at twenty-one, and was remarkable for the harmony of his versification and the lightness, grace, and gaiety of his manner. His literary success introduced him to the sublibrarianship at the Collège Mazarin. He immediately took up with erudition deep and varied, which had a most singular effect upon him. The deeper he went the more he lost of grace and simplicity, he became hard and dialectic, and in his clouded imagination sought celebrity as a sage. So at last, says his biographer, he quitted reason altogether. Perhaps we might say rather, that he found Rousseau and Voltaire. He was twenty-eight when Rousseau died, and he managed to embitter completely his life by his writings, especially by his Pseaumes Nouvellement Découverts, published as by S. Ar. Lamech, the anagram of his name. What I want to know of him is this. J. B. L. Germond, who republished the dictionary, writes thus: "Nous avons donc rétabli tous les noms, sauf deux, dont notre gratitude nous a fait un devoir de ne point trahir le secret.' two are? The secret of who they were would Can anybody point out which these be of some interest also; and it is possible that in the lapse of time, now more than a century, the secret may have transpired of itself. Walthamstow. C. A. WARD. DUCHESS OF CANNIZARO.-In a diary of the year 1831 I find occasional mention of a "Duchess of Cannizaro." I shall be greatly obliged to any of your readers who will tell me who this lady was. She gave parties at Cannizaro, Wimbledon, and I believe her to have been English by birth. E. M. FARRANT'S ANTHEM “LORD, FOR THY TENDER MERCY'S SAKE."-I have a note that the words of this beautiful anthem are from Lydley's Prayers,' but I cannot find who Lydley was, or the date of his Prayers.' He is not mentioned in the 'D.N.B.,' or in any other biographical work to which I have access. Can any of your contributors enlighten me? Farrant was Master of the Choristers of St. George's Chapel, Windsor, and died in 1580. J. A. HEWITT. The Rectory, Cradock, S. Africa. CHAUNCY CORRESPONDENCE, &c. I am anxious to meet with any letters in the handwriting of Sir Henry Chauncy, the Hertfordshire historian. He must have had an extensive correspondence with persons in the county relating to his work between 1680 and 1700, but the only manuscript I have, up to the present, discovered is the original draft of the preface to his 'History of Hertfordshire,' in the possession of a descendant. I am loth to believe that all else has perished, OSCAR WILDE BIBLIOGRAPHY. I am preparing a bibliography of Oscar Wilde's writings. Can you help me to trace the first publication of (1) The Harlot's House,' (2) Lord Arthur Savile's Crime'? The date of the former is before 13 June, 1885, on which date a parody, called The Public-House,' was printed in The Sporting Times. The story of Lord Arthur Savile's Crime' appeared in some periodical before July, 1891, when it was issued in book form with other stories. It is possible one or both appeared in The Court and Society Review or in Society, but I am unable to find either of these publications in the Bodleian, nor does the former seem to be in the British Museum Catalogue. In 9th S. xii. 85 are three verses of a poem by Wilde, beginning "The Thames Nocturne of Blue and Gold." Can you tell me whence MR. HEBB got this version? It differs very considerably from that given in The World for 2 March, 1881, and also from the version in the collected edition of the 'Poems' in the same year. STUART MASON. c/o Shelley Book Shop, Oxford. GEORGE COLMAN'S MAN OF THE PEOPLE.'"Finding that I could tag rhymes," writes George Colman the younger, in his amusing Random Records,' "I sat down, immediately on my return from Laurencekirk (to Old Aberdeen], to write a poem; but I had the same want as a great genius, not then, I believe, born, and since dead,-I wanted a hero. The first at hand-I found him in the last newspaper, lying on my table, which had arrived from London-was the renown'd Orator and Statesman, Charles Fox, who was then term'd, in all Whig publications, the Man of the People.' I accordingly gave the same title to my Poem; knowing little more of politicks, and the Man of the People, than the Man in the Moon! In one particular of my work, I follow'd the example of a Poet whose style was somewhat different from my own; I allude to one John Milton. Milton has, in most people's opinion, taken Satan for the Hero of his Paradise Lost; I, therefore, made my hero as diabolical as need be,-blackening the Right Honourable Charles James till I made him (only in his politicks remember) as black as the Devil himself; and, to mend the matter, I praised to the skies Lord North, who had lost us America! This notable effusion I publish'd (but suppress'd my name) at Aberdeen, "Some short prefatory matter to the poem was dated Bamff,- a town thirty miles, and upwards, north-west of Aberdeen." in a small Edition, for the Author,'-the Bookseller there (I believe the only one in the Town) course, he only sold the work by commission, wisely declining to purchase the copyright;-of leaving me responsible for the expense of printing. A new Poem publish'd in this corner of the King. dom was an extraordinary event, and excited some curiosity there. It was thought to contain some smart lines, and was in everybody's hands; but, alas! not at all to the author's profit ;-the Aberdeenites were in general like Rory Macleod, great economists; the prodigal few who had bought my lent it again to others, and the others to others, production lent it to their frugal neighbours; who ad infinitum;-so that about one hundred copies were thumb'd through the town, while all the rest remain'd clean and uncut upon the shelf of the bibliopolist. He sent me his account, some time afterwards, enclosing the Printer's Bill, by which it appear'd that I was several pounds debtor for the publication;-but, then, I became sole Proprietor of all the unsold copies, which were return'd to me;-all of which I put into the fire,in looking over old papers. I found it to be downsave one, which happen'd to turn up a few days ago, right schoolboy trash, and consign'd it to the fate of its predecessors. I hope that there is now no trace of this puerile stuff extant." 66 Has any copy survived of this Aberdeen publication? It is not to be found in the local" collections of the Aberdeen University Library or Public Library, nor yet in the British Museum, Bodleian, or Advocates' Library. P. J. ANDERSON. THE PIGMIES AND THE CRANES.-How can I get a print, drawing, or photograph of this Pompeian fresco ? H. T. BARKER. - Last summer I SPANISH FOLKLORE. travelled by night in the company of a muleteer between Avila and Segovia in Spain. To while away the time he told me the story of St. Peter and the Charcoal-Burner,' which roughly amounted to the following, of which I should like to know the source, and whether it may be found in print in any Spanish collection of folk-lore. Christ and S. Pedro were wandering one night on the mountains in winter, when the latter spied the hut of a charcoal-burner. They took refuge there from the storm. The charcoal-burner gave them what he had, which was not much. After a time a knock came at the door: it was St. John. And again a knock: it was St. Matthew; and so on all night till there were the twelve apostles in the hut with Christ. In the morning they went away. Only St. Peter remained to thank the charcoal-burner, offering him what he would as payburner, who guessed who they were, asked ment. After many excuses the charcoalthat he might always win at cards! This St. Peter granted. When at last the man came to die he found he had done neither good nor harm with his gift. So he said to used on that line was manufactured in his angel, "Take me to the bedside of the first England? Through the instigation of King poor soul who is in danger of hell." And his Leopold I., Messrs. Simonds and De Riddel, angel took him to the bedside of a lawyer in two well-known Belgian engineers, were sent Madrid, where sat the devil. The charcoal-over to England to report on the working of burner played cards with the devil and won from him the soul of the lawyer. Any information to EDWARD HUTTON. SNAITH PECULIAR COURT.-Can any reader of N. & Q' tell me where I may find the marriage licences issued by the Peculiar Court of Snaith, in Yorkshire, prior to 1850 ? After that date they are in known custody. WM. CLEMENT G. KENDALE. 'BOOK OF LOUGHSCUR.'-Can any one give me a clue to a book, presumably in manuscript, called 'The Book of Loughscur; or, History of the Reynolds Family? A friend of mine, about a year or eighteen months ago, whilst visiting near Kesh, in co. Fermanagh, heard of it from some one who said she had seen it some years previously; but he was unable to discover anything further about it FITZGERALD. the two railways then in existence, and on the strength of this report the Belgian Parliament voted eighteen million francs for the purpose of railway construction in Belgium. A contemporary states that the first engine, and carriages were sent over line was laid by English workmen, and the there is any authority for this statement. from England. I should like to know if FREDERICK T. HIBGAME. W. R. BEXFIELD, MUS. Doc.-I find in the 'Anthem Book' of Wells Cathedral (Index, p. iv) this composer mentioned as "assistant organist of Norwich Cathedral, died 18-" Can any reader supply the two missing digits ? T. WILSON. Harpenden. GLANVILLE, EARL OF SUFFOLK. In Mr. Glanville-Richards's 'Records of the AngloNorman House of Glanville' two or three early members of the Glanville family in But England are styled Earls of Suffolk. G. E. C. knows no Earls of Suffolk of this had fallen into an error for which he alone name, and I had concluded that Mr. Richards was responsible. I chanced, however, the other day upon the following entries in Papworth's Ordinary,' which seem to support Mr. Richards's views: Arg., a chief ́dancetty az., Glanvile, Earl of Suffolk"; "Arg., a MRS. MARY WILLIAMS. I have in my chief az., Glanvil, Earl of Suffolk." Turning possession a will of Mrs. Mary Williams, of then to Burke's 'Armory,' I found, s.v. GlanCecil Street, apparently in St. Martin's-in-ville, the following statement: "Ranulph de the-Fields. She appears to have been connected by marriage with Mary and Sarah Cudworth, William Avery, Ann, Lydia, the Hon. Mrs. Elizabeth, and Capt. Charles Carter, Rebecca Hall, Lady Drake and her sister Mrs. Hamilton, Mrs. Elizabeth Minshall, Mrs. Mary Savage, Miss Katherine and Miss Ann Money. I should be obliged if any of your readers could identify the family Carter, Rebecca Hall, or others of those to whom reference is made. J. C. WHITEBROOK. FIRST RAILWAY ON THE CONTINENT.-The first Belgian railway, which was also the first railway on the Continent, was inaugurated 5 May, 1835, nearly ten years after the Stockton and Darlington Railway, which was opened in 1825. It ran from Brussels to Malines, a distance of about twenty-one kilometres. Can any reader of 'N. & Q.' tell me whether the first engine Glanville, Baron de Bromholme, co. Suffolk, temp. William the Conqueror, ancestor of the Earls of Chester and Suffolk." I should be glad to know how the belief arose that the Glanvilles were ever Earls of Suffolk, and at what date it originated. It appears that their only connexion with this earldom lies in the fact that Michael de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk 1385-8, married Catherine, daughter and heiress of John Wingfield by Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Sir Ralph Glanville (G. E. C., 'Complete Peerage'). C. L. GLANVILLE. RICHARDS BARONETS.-Sir James Richards (son of John Richards) was created a baronet on 22 February, 1683/4, and married twice: by his first wife he was father of Sir John Richards, second baronet, who died s.p., and by his second marriage Sir James had (1) Sir Joseph, who succeeded as third baronet; (2) Sir Philip, who succeeded his brother as fourth baronet, and married the daughter of Grenfell House, Mutley, Plymouth. Beylies. THOMAS POUNDE, S.J. THOMAS was the eldest son of William with Thomas Wriothesley, first Earl of Southampton, by legacies to Lady Anne Lawrence, whom she twice described as her sister. The biographers of Thomas Pounde who have written his mother down an Anne have confused her, as regards her Christian name, with this sister, the wife and widow of Sir Oliver Lawrence, Knt., of Creech Grange, Dorset, whom MR. WAINEWRIGHT has already mentioned. I am unable to name the year in which William Pounde, Thomas Pounde's father, died; but his burial was evidently at Farlington, which lies west of Bedhampton, as his widow expressed in her will a desire to be buried in Farlington Church, by his side. He had bought from the Crown, in 1540, the manor of Farlington, which had been part of the possessions of the dissolved priory of Southwick (Letters and Papers temp. Hen. VIII.,' vol. xv. p. 412); and he was the younger of the sons of the William Pounde, Esq., who, as MR. WAINEWRIGHT has stated, died on 5 July, 1525. William Pounde, sen., the grandfather of Thomas Pounde, was the son and heir of Sir John Pounde, Knt., and was a person of considerable position and property, particularly in Hampshire, where he was in the commission of the peace. See his will, dated 24 October, 1524, and proved on 20 July, 1525, P.C.C. 36 Bodfelde; and the five inquisitions which in consequence of his death were taken in and between July and October, 1525, at Chelmsford, Andover, Southampton, Midhurst, and London, 'Inq. post Mortem,' C. vol. xliii. Nos. 29, 30, 42; vol. xliv. Nos. 89, 143 (Record Office). Two only of his children are mentioned by Berry ('Hants Genealogies,' 194), viz., his elder son Anthony and his eldest daughter Catharine (whom MR. WAINEWRIGHT has converted into Charlotte). These were children he had by his earlier marriage with Mary Heyno. But his will informs us that he had younger daughters by a later marriage with a lady whom he calls Edborowe (Edburga), and also that he had a younger son named William. I infer that this son was Edburga's child. At any rate, certain properties were settled by the will upon Edburga during her widowhood, and next upon the son William as tenant-in-tail; and as the properties so settled included the manor of Belmont, it is clear that this William was the father of Thomas Pounde, who was born at Belmont in 1539. Edburga, who was an executrix of the will, found later husband in Nicholas Upton, and she died on 14 January, 1552/3. See the inquisition of 1553, mentioned below. upon Anthony Pounde, the elder son of William Pounde, sen., inherited from his father properties which included the manors of Drayton, Hants, and Wickford, Essex. In 1525, when his father died, he was twenty-three or twenty-four years old, and he afterwards married Anne Wingfield, who survived him and became wife to John White, of Southwick. He made his will and died in February, 1546/7,* and the will was proved by his widow on 14 May, 1547 (P.C.C. 35 Alen). He left three children by her, an only son Richard and two daughters, Honora and Mary. Richard married Elizabeth, daughter of William Wayte, of Wymering, Hants, after a deed of settlement between the parents, dated 4 April, 1542, and he died on 28 May, 1548, leaving an only son William, who died on 20 June, the very next month. An inquisition this son's death was taken at Winchester on 10 April, 1553, and his aunts Honora and Mary were returned as his coheirs, 'Inq. post Mortem,' C. vol. xcviii. No. 58 (Record Office). Honora was sixteen and Mary fourteen and a half years old when their nephew died. Honora was married in 1549 to Henry Ratcliffe, afterwards fourth Earl of Sussex (Harl. Soc., xxiv. 14; G. E. C.'s Peerage'); and according to Berry (loc. cit.), Mary became the wife of her cousin Edward, the eldest son of John White, of Southwick, by his marriage (after the death of his wife Anne, Anthony Pounde's widow) with Catharine, Anthony Pounde's sister, whom I have already mentioned. If this be correct, Edward White must have been considerably younger than his wife Mary, for Anthony Pounde's widow was still alive, as John White's wife, in 1553. See the inquisition of 1553, supra. The above sketch of the family of which Thomas Pounde was a member furnishes a solution to two of the problems set to us by MR. WAINEWRIGHT. The third problem concerns Thomas Pounde's connexion with Winchester College, the true particulars of which I have long vainly desired to obtain. I hope, however, to be able to tackle this problem also on some future occasion. H. C. Beamond, or Belmont, the residence of the Pound family, was situate in the parish of Farlington, some six miles north-east of Portsmouth; and Drayton is a hamlet in the same parish. The present Belmont Castle, on Portsdown Hill, is probably built on or near the site of the old house. Thomas Pound was the eldest son of Wil *He also was buried at Farlington. See Gentle man's Magazine, lxx. ii. pp. 729 et seq. liam Pound, of Beamond (a younger son of William Pound, of Drayton, by his second wife, Edburga, daughter of Thomas Troyes), by his wife Ellen, eldest daughter of William Wriothesley, York Herald, and sister of Sir Thomas Wriothesley, first Earl of Southampton, and also of the Lady Anne Lawrence. According to the Farlington register, Thomas Pound was baptized on 29 May, 1538. He had ten brothers and sisters, as will be seen by the following entries, copied by me from the registers at Farlington some thirteen or fourteen years ago : Baptisms. 1538. Thomas, son of Mr. William and Mrs. Helen Pound, 29 May. 1539. William, son of William and Helen Pound, 24 May. 1541. John, son of William Pound and Helen, 10 Oct. 1543. Richard, son of Mr. William Pound, 9 April. 1544. Anne Pound, daughter of Mr. William, 11 Oct. 1545. Nicholas, son of William Pound, 17 Oct. 1548. Mary, daughter of Mr. William Pound, 23 Dec. 1549. William, son of Mr. William Pound, 15 Sept. 1551. Henry, son of Mr. William Pound, 9 July. 1557. Jane Pound, daughter of William Pound, Esquire, 7 July. Burials. 1546. Joan, daughter of William Pound, July 22. 1547. William, son of Mr. William Pound, 8 Feb. ton, . 1559. William Pound, Esquire, of FarlingFeb. 1566. Mary Pound, daughter of Ellen Pounde, of Bemonde, buried 20 May. 1589. Ellen Pound, wife of William Pound. Esq., of Beamond, deceased the last day of September, and buried the 14th of October. 1613. Thomas Pound, Esq., was buried by night the 1st of March. Anne Pound (born 1544), sister of Thomas, married George Breton, or Britton, of Michell Park, co. Sussex, by whom she had issue Henry Breton (living at Soberton, Hants, in 1602, and had a son Beverley), Anne, Dennis, George, Samuel, Elizabeth, and Ellen, all living in 1602. The Pounds were living at Drayton and Farlington for upwards of two hundred years; but very little, beyond what is given by Berry in his Hampshire Pedigrees, has |