see me you know me.' And I can refer for a third to Shirley's "Triumph of Peace' (Gifford's 'Shirley,' vi. 280), 1633.

H. C. HART.

FOXES AS FOOD FOR MEN.-On p. 5 of The Standard, 8 September, and under the heading 'Parisian Topics,' it is stated :

says, "The natives call the Potto aposoro" and similarly in Cassell's Natural History,' 1896, vol. i. p. 243, it is stated, "The negroes seemed to be much afraid of the Potto, which they called aposo." I am driven to the conROBESPIERRE'S ARREST AND THE MOON.-clusion that either Bosman wrongly appreIn that interesting book 'Robespierre and hended the word, or his printer misread his the Red Terror,' by Dr. Jan ten Brink (transmanuscript. JAS. PLATT, Jun. lated from the Dutch by J. Hedeman), there is a picture of the scene outside the Hôtel de Ville on the night of 9 Thermidor (27 July, 1794), the night that Robespierre was arrested by the National Convention. In this picture a full moon is shown high in the sky. Now I find by calculation that there was a new moon on 27 July, 1794. The full moon shown in the picture had therefore no existence except in the mind of the artist, and this shows how little reliance can be placed on the accuracy of historical pictures.

Dublin.

J. ELLARD GORE.

LAURENCE WASHINGTON'S DEATH.-I have discovered at Dr. Plume's Library, Maldon, Essex, in a certified copy of the parish registers, this entry, amongst the burials: "Mr Laurence Washington 21 January 1653.'

This is a piece of information lacking in any of the literature which I have found on the subject. There can be no doubt that this is the entry of the burial of the erewhile rector of Purleigh. His widow was buried at Tring in the following year (19 Jan., 1654).

R. T. LOVE, Rector of Purleigh. "DRAPER": OMISSION FROM THE 'N.E.D.'The 'N.E.D.' strangely omits the form "drapier," which seems to have been the spelling usual in the eighteenth century. The form is immortalized in the title of Swift's work 'The Drapier's Letters.'

ALEX. LEEPER.

Trinity College, University of Melbourne. "POTTO": ITS ETYMOLOGY.-It seems highly probable that this popular and well-known name for an animal found both in the West Indies and in Africa will turn out to be a

"ghost-word." Our only authority for it is Bosman, who was chief Dutch factor at Elmina, and made a memorable voyage along the Guinea coast in 1698. In his letters, original Dutch edition of 1704, p. 32, he speaks of "een beest, 'tgeen by de negers de naem van potto draegt.' This is the source of the modern usage of the term by naturalists, but I find no trace of it in any dictionary of the Gold Coast tongues. On the other hand, Mr. Skues, in his account of an independent investigation (Proc. Zool. Soc., 1869, p. 2),

"I found out to-day that foxes are classed as game in France and are poached as such, but whether for their pelts or their flesh, or merely in sport, I could not ascertain. But the poachers of the Seine et Marne district have a special way of their own for getting Reynard out of his earth which is so contrary to the elementary rules of sport that I must conclude that in their case, at least, the sporting instinct is absent. A rag soaked in petroleum is tied to the tail of a live rat, and lighted just as the animal is thrust into a hole where a fox has been located. The tortured beast rushes about until he comes to the fox's nest, which generally takes fire, sending its scared occupant out into the open. There the poacher is waiting, finger on trigger, and he never misses.' I am curious to know what punishment our hunting squires at home would reserve for these individuals."

I have been told that the flesh of the fox is used for food in some parts of Spain, and also that broth made of dogs' flesh is given to delicate children. MR. J. PLATT, in his recent letter on Vixens and Drunkenness' (10th S. iii. 437), has not proved that the Catalán for fox, guineu, cannot be a first cousin to Castilian viñero, i.e., in a joking E. S. DODGSON. sense, a viner.

"CATAMARAN."-In the latest book on the

great Douglas cause the author tells us that
the Duke of Douglas "had something wild
and barbarous in his nature-something of
the old type of Highland chief or catamaran."
Highland chiefs were never Madras surf boat-
men, but even if the printer is responsible
for the longer word, still caterans were never
chiefs, nor was the Duke a Highlander. The
sentence which follows is a gem of its kind:
"He was long unmarried, and remained so
for the greater portion of his life."
A. T. M.
[Catamaran is applied to a cross-grained person.
See N.E.D.' (3). We are familiar with its use in
this sense.]

WELSH MUTATIONS. Mr. Charles G. Harper, in his delightful The Oxford, Gloucester, and Milford Road,' makes a curious slip, apparently owing to his ignorance of the law of mutation of the initial consonant in Welsh, whereby c becomes g. and sometimes ch or ng. Speaking of Dafydd

Gam, thought to be the prototype of Shake-
speare's Fluellen, he rightly states that
Dafydd Gam was a nickname meaning
"David the crooked," but he adds, "I do
not find the word gam in a modern Welsh
dictionary, but it is often heard in Shrop-
shire and on the borders to-day, where a
lame person is said to have a 'gammy leg.'
Of course he should have looked under cam
for the word, when he would have had no
difficulty in finding it.
D. M. R.

[Gammy is in the 'N.E.D. as dialectal and slang.]

famous. Is it possible that Derbyshire has nobody but Samuel Richardson and Herbert Spencer, and that Archbishop Cranmer is the only illustrious man who may be claimed by Nottinghamshire? Macaulay represents Leicester, and Drayton Northamptonshire. Huntingdonshire took many centuries to produce that really great man Oliver Cromwell, and having produced him was so exhausted that she has achieved nothing since but mediocrity in genius. Rutland is still hatching her swan. Apparently, many of the southern counties have been very richly Gordon Colborne is aware of. I leave their dowered, and probably more so than Mr. case to somebody who is better versed in their history than I can claim to be, and

ST. SWITHIN.

JEHAN OSTERMAYER.-Dr. Naylor in his 'An Elizabethan Virginal Book' (London, 1905) prints a galliard by "Jehan Oystermayre (sixteenth century)," and gives in a foot-note, "for what it is worth," a state-offer, above, sufficient matter for discussion. ment about a musician of the same name (but the Christian name Jerome) from the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie.' He should have consulted Robert Eitner's 'Biographisch-Bibliographisches Lexikon' in the Reference Library of the British Museum, wherein he could have found some information about Jehan and Jerome Ostermayer, and one or two musicians of the same name. L. L. K. St. Margaret's Bay, Kent.

ROBINSON CRUSOE, 1619. In this year Daniel Robinson was admitted into Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and his surety was Mr. Cruso ('Admissions,' by J. and S. C. Venn, 1887, p. 141). W. C. B.

'GENIUS BY COUNTIES.'- An article so entitled appeared in The Strand Magazine for August. Genius was attributed to men of energy and distinction, as well as to those possessed of the intangible gift which shows itself independently of physical condition or of the favour of fortune. The author was content with Yorkshire, which he credited with Lord Lawrence, Wilberforce, Capt. Cook, Bentley, Lord Leighton, Flaxman, Charlotte Brontë, and Smeaton. In Lincolnshire he recognized Lord Burleigh, Algernon Sidney, Isaac Newton, John Wesley, and Lord Tenny son. I cannot but think that he has materially underrated the output of illustrious men and women from both of these vigorous shires, and I should like to know if there be readers of 'N. & Q.' who share my opinion. Many Yorkshire names occur to me which ought to be added to such a list, and I feel that there must be some of Lincolnshire quite worthy to appendix the five which Mr. Gordon Colborne has brought together, though he has probably picked out those which are most

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.

"THE MOST ELOQUENT OF ANCIENT WRITERS." -I am anxious to trace the author alluded to in the following passage from Lord Charles Somerset's proclamation (issued in 1818) establishing the Public Library at Cape Town, and declaring the design of the library to be

"to lay the foundation of a system which shall place the means of knowledge within the reach of bring within their reach what the most eloquent the youth of this remote corner of the globe, and of ancient writers has considered to be one of the first blessings of life-Home Education."

The only passage of an ancient writer which occurs to me as referred to here is Pliny the Younger's "Children should be brought up where they are born, and should accustom themselves from earliest infancy to love their native soil and make it their home." But is Pliny the Younger ever described elsewhere as the most eloquent of ancient writers? Any references to such description or to other passages will be much appreciated.

Public Library, Kimberley, S.A.

B. L. DYER.

TOUCHING FOR THE KING'S EVIL.-I am anxious, before publication, to make as complete as possible a collection of records of this ancient practice, and shall be much obliged to any of your correspondents who will be good enough to furnish me with extracts upon the subject from parish regis

Hudson Bay. Mrs. McPike's maternal granduncle, the late Mr. Isaac Brabb[s], who died in Romeo in 1875, married, circa 1817, one Hannah Hudson, the nuptial ceremony proIbably being performed in North Cave or one of the neighbouring towns in Yorkshire.

HENRY HUDSON'S DESCENDANTS. - Writing now from Romeo, near the city of Detroit, in Michigan, I have to make some inquiries regarding the possible existence in Yorkshire, circa 1800-25, of descendants of BOWES CASTLE, YORKSHIRE.-The CumberHenry Hudson, the famous discoverer of land and Westmorland Antiquarian Society

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visited this ruin on 14 September. The information vouchsafed about it by the Rev. Ernest J. Frost, vicar of Bowes, was by no means exhaustive. Can any Yorkshire antiquary direct me to a proper account of it, which surely must exist, with a plan of the site, and also particulars of the excavation of the adjacent Roman station of Lavatra? The like information as to the Roman camp adjoining the "Morritt Arms" Hotel at Greta Bridge would be interesting. Are any good photographs obtainable of the Roman altars to be seen at Rokeby? It is a great pity they are not placed in the Tullie House Museum at Carlisle (several were found at Naworth), or some other safer depository than they are in at present, exposed to damage alike from the climate and mischievous persons.

Lancaster.

T. CANN HUGHES, M. A., F.S.A.

will be found on p. 46 of the volume above cited:

"John Danister, priest, is deserving of first mention, in that he is almost the only confessor among those who managed to flee the realm: for, while he was waiting to cross the sea, he was apprehended and thrown into the meanest of prisons. To the same prison, at about the same time, came another priest, who by the influence of friends had obtained an order for his release. The governor of the prison, mistaking the identity of his prisoners, gave honesty forbade him to utilize. He indicated the Danister an opportunity to escape, which his

per person to be set free, and the governor, in admiration of his straightforwardness, worried the Council into liberating Danister also. Our hero was educated in boyhood at Winchester, and in youth at Oxford. Everywhere he has surpassed in everything appertaining to poetry; as a youth, his contemporaries: as a boy, in writing verses and in rhetoric and civil law; and, finally, as a young man, in theology, as he has recently shown at Louvain, where his preaching last Lent won universal applause. Already, too, his fixed habit of seriousness has earned for him the nickname of Cato."

This account suggests intimate personal knowledge of the subject, and as Dr. Sander himself was educated at Winchester and Oxford, it is most improbable that John Danister is a character of fiction. Nevertheless his name does not occur either in Kirby's 'Winchester Scholars' or in Foster's 'Alumni Oxonienses.' The Rev. Henry Gee, B.D., in his 'Elizabethan Clergy,' has been unable to identify him in any way; and in The Marian Reaction,' by the Rev. W. H. Frere, his name is to be sought in vain. It seems to me probable that he had another name, as so many persons had at that time, e.g., the Richard Clare alias Dominick mentioned by Mr. Gee (op. cit., p. 255); John Devon alias Cox, imprisoned in the Marshalsea, 15 April, 1561 (P.R.O., 'S. P. Dom. Eliz.,' xviii. 2); and Bishop Turberville, who frequently appears as Troblefield. Can any one help me to identify "John Danister"?

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

FERMOR.-Can any one give me the name of the wife of Sir John Fermor (temp. Henry VIII.)? His daughter Catherine married Henry D'Arcy, a grandson of Thomas, first Lord D'Arcy, who was beheaded on Tower Hill, 1538. KATHLEEN WARD.

JOHN DANISTER, WYKEHAMIST.- Dr. Nicholas Sander's report to Cardinal Moroni, which, though undated, is by internal evidence clearly to be assigned to the middle of 1561, has at last been printed in the first volume of the Catholic Record Society's publications (pp. 1-23). Under the heading Quid ii ob fidem passi sunt qui ad episcopatus nominabantur," he gives an account of six worthies, only one of whom, Maurice G. F. R. B. Clenock, was in point of fact a bishopnominate at Queen Mary's death, and first HARDING FAMILY. Several members of in the list comes John Danister. I translate this family were engaged in paper-making in the passage myself, but another translation | the south-west corner of Surrey in the eigh

Westminster School 24 September, 1778, and
GIFFARD.-John Giffard was admitted to
James Giffard 3 July, 1783. Particulars of
their parentage and career are desired.