without paying, or decamping without leave. The I do not know how old the phrase is, but when we had wars with France this bit of British swagger meant running away from our troops. I never heard any other origin hinted at. "VITA SINE LITERIS MORS EST" (6th S. v. 346). We-Epistola LXXXII. Seneca: "Contra delicias, et mollem vitam: itemque otium ignavum. Studiis id dedicandum esse: et præsertim philosophiæ, quæ muniat contra metas et externa omnia mala, contra ipsam mortem." Sect. 3 commences, "Otium sine literis mors est, et hominis vivi sepultura," &c. GIBBES RIGaud. Born in the days of Bonaporte, I may say even children's toys kept up the national spirits. had "John Bull and Bonaparte, T. Bubb maker," in such a box as a stuffed bird is put in. Boney, in a pea-green coat and cocked-hat, was humbly kneeling, with his nose pressed against a wooden grindstone, which John Bull was turning round by a piece of wire which came out at the back, and which the exhibitor turned. P. P. WEATHER PROGNOSTICATION (6th S. v. 346).-—I am familiar with the term 66 weather breeder" as one used in the Yorkshire dales, when after continued wet weather an unusually fine and cloudless day follows, which is regarded as foretelling that the rain will soon return. Mr. F. K. Robinson, in his Whitby Glossary, says of this expression, "A warm and serene day, which we say is too fine for the season, betokens a speedy reverse." F. C. BIRKBECK TERRY. PELHAM OF CROWHURST, SUSSEX (6th S. v. 448). -I should have stated in my query that John Pelham, son of the Rector of Crowhurst, had eight children, John, Mary, William, Kendrick, Charles, James, Thomas, and Henry. Charles Pelham's daughter Martha, wife of Thomas Jones, had five children, viz., two sons and three daughters, all of whom married. REGINALD STEWART Boddington. Beaconsfield Club, Pall Mall, S.W. 18, Long Wall, Oxford. I have heard this pithy saying attributed to William Robertson, the great Scottish historian (1721-1793), but am unable either to give a reference or quote my authority for the statement. At any rate it was worthy of so distinguished and industrious a writer, and he exemplified it. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge. "HYPNEROTOMACHIA, THE STRIFE OF LOVE IN A DREAME," PUBLISHED BY JOHN BUSBIE IN 1592 (6th S. v. 347, 375).-Copies of this work were sold at the Nassau Sykes and Heber sales. Dr. Dibdin, in his Bibliotheca Spenceriana (1815), vol. iv. p. 164, in a note, says, "Mr. R. Triphook, bookseller, is in possession of a copy of this very rare volume, which has escaped the researches of Herbert. My friend Mr. Douce also possesses a copy." I may add that the Duke of Devonshire possesses a perfect copy, printed on vellum, of the Italian original of this work. G. FISHER. 1836. The copy in part vi. 2824, "woodcuts, red COACHES FIRST USED IN SCOTLAND (6th S. v. 367). There ought to be at least two copies in exist-At the ruined castle of Inverugie, near Peter-ence, as two were sold at Heber's sale in 1835 and head, on the moulded cope of the wall enclosing the castle and grounds there are various sculptured scenes, one of which represents a coach with four wheels, and drawn by four horses. The vehicle is shaped very much like an ordinary heavy family coach of the present day, with driver's seat and dickey. The driver himself is almost effaced, except his legs; there is the usual heavy pole between the front and back wheels beneath the body of the coach, while a face is seen looking out of the window; and, what is certainly singular, on the lower part of the stone, in incised figures, is cut "G B 1670," being the exact date given in the MS. as the year of Lady Bruce's birth. This would seem to show that coaches were known in Scotland, in Aberdeenshire, before Cooper of Gogar appeared in his at the Cross of Edinburgh. As a confirmation that the date on the stone is At the sale of the Sunderland Library a copy was sold for 861. The Finch collection, preserved in the Taylor Institution, contains another copy as well English version of 1592. as the Bodleian Library. Brunet mentions the H. KREBS. Oxford. BLACK MAIL (6th S. v. 226, 356).-When Dr. STRATTON undertakes to prove that this expression is of Gaelic origin I think that he is indulging in a piece of unnecessary philology; for I do not believe that the word black has anything more to do with Gaelic bealach a pass, than black has in black malice, an expression which I have heard used in a Yorkshire dale, where at one time there was a custom of levying, under the name of "pitchering," black mail on those who came on a sweethearting" expedition. To me the whole term appears to be of Anglo-Saxon parentage. I suppose Dr. Mackay has not noticed the fact that mal is found in A.-S., meaning tribute or toll. The following passage from The Ormulum will illustrate its use : "And forrpi badd hemm Sannt Johan and sammnenn laghelike and rihht LI. 10,185-8. The epithet black was evidently used with mail to denote a tax illegally levied, but which those on whom it was imposed could not well refuse, however much they might desire to do so. We have a somewhat analogous expression in black money, money taken by the harbingers or servants, with their master's knowledge, for abstaining from enforcing coin and livery in certain places, to the prejudice of others. See the State Papers, ii. 510" (Halliwell's Dict.). There are several phrases in English in which black is used with a bad meaning. Thus we have Black Monday, black-hearted, black witch, black envy (Shakespeare), black magician (ditto), &c. In Craik's Hist. of British Commerce, i. 157, black money or black mail is alluded to as being certain coins of inferior kind authorized to pass current in Ireland in the fourteenth century. Cardiff. F. C. BIRKBECK TERRY. PRONUNCIATION OF "FORBES" (6th S. v. 269, 316, 397, 417).—I have no means of ascertaining the date to which MR. WALFORD refers. When I was in Edinburgh, Ochoncar, Lord Forbes, was Commissioner to the General Assembly. I never heard his name pronounced otherwise than as a monosyllable, nor was it otherwise with the banking firm of Sir Wm. Forbes. But I think the daughter of a don of the University of Aberdeen, with whom I was acquainted in Edinburgh, was called Miss For-bes; and Thomson, in his Autumn, addresses the illustrious Lord President (Forbes of Culloden) " Thee, For-bes, too, whom ev'ry worth attends, As Truth sincere," &c. GEO. E. FRERE. A near relation of mine, born about a hundred and ten years ago, always used to pronounce his own first Christian name Forb's. He said, however, that when he was a little child, his father being stationed at Perth, the auld wives used to all him to their doors and treat him with hunches of short-cake, saying, "Hoo's a' wi' ye the morn', For-bess?" He spoke of a legend to the effect that the first of this name gained the hand of his lady-love as a reward for killing a wild animal— wolf, bear, or boar (Sir Bernard Burke says that the arms of Forbes of Pitsligo are Az., three boars' heads, couped ar., muzzled gu., but D. F. C. is probably correct in saying that they are bears' heads)-which had troubled the country. He brought the head in upon his spear-point, saying that he had done this for Bess. He then assumed the name of For-bess. CALCUTTENSIS. In Aberdeenshire, where the name of Forbes is common, it is pronounced by the upper classes as of one syllable, by the lower classes as having two. I recollect hearing a kind of legend as to the origin Two men were fighting a wild boar, and the one of the Aberdeenshire names, Forbes and Gordon. said to the other," Haud ye the fore birse and I'll gore him down." From this sprang the names If there is any argument to be deduced from the Fore-birse, or Forbes, and Gore-down, or Gordon. above, it would be in favour of the word being in the armorial bearings of both the Forbes and pronounced in two syllables. Boars' heads appear Gordon clans. J. KEITH ANGUS. I am afraid I cannot plead guilty to (in this instance) a faulty knowledge of natural history in mistaking lions' or leopards' faces for bears' heads (profile) muzzled. A friend of mine, one of the best authorities on heraldry in Scotland, to whom I submitted the coat, informed me that "Michel, in his Les Ecossais en France (i. 54), gives the chevron and three leopards' heads as the coat of the Scoto-French family of Forbin, which he seems to associate with that of Forbes, although his blazon for the latter is three bears' heads muzzled, with a cross crosslet in the centre of the shield." A. A. Pitlochry. sister of Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo (with whom Lady Wood, wife of Sir Alexander Wood and I was acquainted from my childhood), always pronounced her maiden name as a dissyllable. J. E. E. PLURALITY OF WORLDS (6th S. v. 229, 392).— Plurality of Worlds. By A. Maxwell. 8vo. 1820. An Essay on the Plurality of Worlds. By Henry J. Smith. 8vo. 1855. God's Glory in the Heavens, with a Chapter on the Plurality of Worlds. By Dr. Leitch. Fourth edition. be corrected by comparison with the Acts of the Parlia ments of Scotland and the Retours-sources which, we the purposes of the Collectanea. On referring to the think, have not been sufficiently consulted as yet for AUTHORS OF BOOKS WANTED (6th S. v. 469).—naw, &c., with the Office of Heritable Sheriff of Wigton, Conjectures sur les Mémoires, &c.-It was written by Jean Astruc, an eminent French physician (1684-1766), professor at Montpellier during a period of thirteen years. After visiting Poland, he finally settled at Paris as physician to the king, and professor at the Royal College. WILLIAM PLATT. See Biographie Universelle. Although the name "Bruxelles" appears on the title-page, yet the book was really printed in Paris. GUSTAVE MASSON. Amoris Effigies, &c.-It was published in 1649 (Lond., 12mo. anon.) by Sir John Birkenhead, the editor of the court journal, Mercurius Aulicus, at the desire of Robert Waryng (Waring), who wished to be unknown as the author. Third edition, 1664, 12mo.; fourth edition, 1668, 12mo. In English, Effigies of Love, 1680, 12mo.; and again translated by the famous John Norris of Bemerton, Salisbury, under the title of The Picture of Love Unveiled, 1682; fourth edition, 1744, 8vo. WILLIAM PLATT. AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (6th S. v. 469). "God gives us love," &c., is the fourth stanza of Tennyson's poem "To J. S.," commencing," The wind that beats the mountain, blows," &c. The poem was written to the late Mr. James Spedding on the death of his brother, private secretary to Lord Ashburton during his embassy to the United States, and a college friend of the poet's. D. B. B. Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, &c. Collectanea Genealogica. By Joseph Foster. Vol. I. (Privately printed.) MR. FOSTER must have found considerable employment, even for one so Briarëus-handed as himself, in the preparation of the materials forming the first handsome volume of his Collectanea. It is obvious that the mass of information here brought together will require much sifting when used as genealogical tools. The Parliamentary Return of Members, for instance, which has been so keenly criticized as regards England and Ireland, seems little better in the way of accuracy as regards Scotland. What the Scottish list requires, as far as we are enabled to judge by the portion contained in Mr. Foster's present volume, is to Acts, for instance, in the case of Sir Andrew Agnew, fiar of Lochnaw, about whose sitting. 1644-7, Mr. Foster intimates a doubt because he did not succeed to the baronetcy till 1661, we believe the case is made quite clear. We there find, s.v. Agnew of Lochnaw:-"Andrew, apparent, Sheriff of Galloway, a Commissioner for the Loan and Tax for Sheriffdom of Galloway and Stewartrie of Kirkcudbright, 1643, vi. i. 29 b. Present in Convention at Edinburgh, 25th Jan., 1644, Car. I., 1644, vi. i. 73 b......On Committees and Commissions of Parliament, 1644-5-6-7-9. Commissioner to Parlt. for vi. ii. 125a, 377b.......Andrew, fiar, on the Committee Wigtonshire, 1648, vi. ii. 4a, 7b. Present in Parl. 1649, of Estates, 1649, c. 258, vi. ii. 291a; 1649, c. 365, vi. ii. 536. The Sheriffship of Wigton ratified to him, vi. ii. 740a. Sir Andrew, Deputy for Wigtonshire in 1652, vi. ii. 794......Ratification to Sir Andrew Agnew of Lochnaw, Bart., Sheriff of Wigton, of the barony of LochCar. II. 1661, c. 385, vii. 364." We read the above as referring to one and the same person, and on this ground offer it for Mr. Foster's consideration. In the printing of Musgrave's Obituary, and the Lists of Marriages (1650-1880), both very useful sources for reference, it would have been well to have inserted in brackets corrections or suggestions for the correction of obvious errors or misdescriptions. Thus, for "Anderson of Tushawlon," on p. 17 of Musgrave's Obituary, should be read "Tushielaw," a name enshrined in the lays of the Ettrick Shepherd. In the same Obituary, at p. 20, 8.v. "Anstruther (Hon.), Francis," for "son of the Earl of Newark "should be read "Lord Newark," the title, itself erroneously claimed and assumed by the Anstru thers, having been a barony, not an earldom. We are aware, of course, that Mr. Foster is here reprinting, and it was necessary to give the ipsissima verba of his authority, but it was none the less necessary from time to time to correct the inaccuracies of the original. In a work of such considerable dimensions as the present, extending to nearly eight hundred pages, there must needs be portions of greater general interest than others. But we must confess to having been rather agreeably surprised by the names which met our eye in the Register of Marriages at Gray's Inn Chapel. There are, no doubt, many which do not offer the slightest prospect of genealogical interest, but, on the other hand, there are not a few very suggestive of a new source of information as to the refugee families in England. Such names as Cavallier, Van Boxstand, Lefeuer, Duchesne, are likely to arouse the attention of all students of Huguenot family history, who may possibly here find a long desired link in a chain of evidence. And for the general reader of genealogical works, a list containing entries alike of Barham and of Ingoldesby (they ought to have made a match of it, but did not) can scarcely be said to be devoid of literary interest as long as the Jackdaw of Rheims" is held in remembrance among us. Mr. Foster has done a good work in bringing these varied materiale into a form available for ready reference. He has much yet to do, and we shall look forward with interest to his next volume, which we hope will contain some, at least, of the features suggested by us as tending to increase its permanent value. English Men of Letters.-Bentley. By R. C. Jebb.- suppose that few persons could have been better fitted to undertake the memoir of the great critic and scholar of the Augustan age than Dr. Jebb. The learning and research that but suggest a larger learning and research behind are present on every page, and those whose knowledge of the famous controversy concerning the letters of Phalaris is derived from Macaulay's essay on Temple will find here new reason for distrust of that brilliant historian. Dr. Jebb's book is of necessity largely occupied with the discussion of Bentley's works; but the account of the domestic life of this "warmhearted, imperious man is also exceedingly interesting, especially that passage which records his concern at the death of Sir Roger de Coverley. But some of Dr. Jebb's academic humour is a little grim, witness the description of the famous brazen bull on p. 45. Prof. Ward's Dickens is hardly on a level with Dr. Jebb's Bentley, but his subject presented greater difficulties-difficulties which always more or less incommode the biographers of the recently dead. Mr. Trollope had to write the life of Thackeray without letters and in the face of an expressed desire on Mr. Thackeray's part that no life of him should be written at all. Mr. Ward has had the countenance of Mr. Dickens's family, and must therefore be assumed to be more or less committed to the biographer whom Dickens selected for himself and who was the friend of his children. But a life written from an anti-Forsterian point of view is what is most wanted at present, though the need for anything immediate is not very urgent. The "Men of Letters" series would, however, have been incomplete without some account of the author of Pickwick, and Mr. Ward's volume falls naturally enough into its place. The Shakspeare Phrase-Book. By John Bartlett. (Macmillan & Co.) SINCE the first publication of Mrs. Cowden Clarke's Concordance to Shakespeare the task of arranging a phrase or text book has been much simplified. Another book almost equally useful to workers in the same field is the Shakespeare Lexicon of Dr. Alexander Schmidt. With all allowance for aid from such sources, a work like that Mr. Bartlett has now compiled must involve great zeal and labour. No equally voluminous phrasebook has as yet seen the light. Omissions may, of course, be found. We do not, for instance, find the phrase from the Merchant of Venice employed by Jessica : "I would out-night you did nobody come." Nor that from the first part of Henry IV. to which recently a wide publicity has been assigned, "Doth give us bold advertisement.' Juliet's pathetic and ironical address to her nurse, "Well, thou hast comforted me marvellous much," and many other phrases of equal significance, do not appear. We are not disposed, however, in this instance to say as Sheridan is reported to have said at the sight of Dodd's Beauties of Shake speare, "This is all very well, but where are the other eleven volumes?" It is easy to believe that a man wading laboriously and frequently through Shakspeare may arrive at the conclusion that certain phrases which to another man have a deep meaning are of little significance without the context. In the case of Shakspeare, however, the only rule is to give the reader the benefit of the doubt and insert everything. As it stands, Mr. Bartlett's volume extends to more than a thousand pages. To those who seek phrases from Shakspeare it will have much utility, and scholars who do not possess the more important works to which we have made previous reference may also find it of service. The Bibliographer. Vol. I. (Stock.) THE Bibliographer has completed its first volume, and attained to the glory of its first title-page, on which, with the addition of spectacles, reappears the now familiar eighteenth century student of the cover. The editor has fairly fulfilled the promises he made at the outset, and the subscribers may be congratulated upon the possession of a bibliographical organ that is honestly bibliographical, and of genuine interest and value to book lovers. Despite certain ominous indications in the preface, we trust that the success of the enterprise will not be marred in the future by any attempts to over-popularize it. A specialist periodical should have the courage to be special, for it is its surest source of strength. We have also received the first number of vol. ii. It contains an instalment of Mr. Comyns Carr's recent lectures on "Book Illustration," a sketch of Feyerabend, the Frankfort bookseller, and other interesting papers. MR. J. E. BAILEY has had the good fortune to come in contact with one of the lost volumes of John Byrom's Journal. He is not, strictly speaking, its discoverer, but it is to him we owe the publication of a portion of its contents in the current number of The Palatine NoteBook. Byrom was perhaps hardly a great man, but he was a man of mark in his day and noted for purity of life at a period when the moral virtues were commonly disregarded. He is noteworthy, also, as being one of the little band of men who took an interest in the higher theology" in days when most people thought it sufficient to be well up in the "evidences" and to avoid enthusiasm. for mystics themselves. One of the strange people we He had a liking not only for mystical reading but also come across in these notes is Edward Elwall, the Jewish Arian Sabbatarian, as he is here called, of whom an interesting account appeared some time ago in our pages (6th S. iv. 50). Though tried on one occasion for blasphemy, he seems to have been a harmless and innocent person. The few specimens of the Journal Mr. Bailey has given will be interesting to all students of eighteenth century life. We cordially agree with him in thinking that the complete book should be printed by the Chetham Society. KENT ARCHEOLOGICAL SOCIETY.-Messrs. Mitchell & Hughes have just issued to members Vol. XIV. of the Society's Transactions, illustrated by portraits, views of churches, houses, &c. Notices to Correspondents. We must call special attention to the following notice: ON all communications should be written the name and address of the sender, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. E. R. V. Consult Skeat's Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language. SCOTUS ("Heraldic Glass at Hassop ").-In your former paper ("N. & Q.," 5th S. xii. 305) you only appear to have described shields Nos. 1 and 2. Nos. 3 and 4 are omitted in that just sent. FRED. W. W.-You should address yourself to some musical journal. NOTICE. Editorial Communications should be addressed to "The Editor of Notes and Queries'"-Advertisements and Business Letters to "The Publisher"-at the Office, 20, Wellington Street, Strand, London, W.C. We beg leave to state that we decline to return communications which, for any reason, we do not print; and to this rule we can make no exception. Queries, with No. 134, July 23, 1852. ) INDEX. SIXTH SERIES.-VOL. V. [For classified articles, see ANONYMOUS WORKS, BIBLIOGRAPHY, BOOKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED, EPIGRAMS, EPITAPHS, A A. (A.) on the pronunciation of Forbes, 397, 498 A. (E. H.) on Bp. Edmund Keene, 359 A. (H. W.) on election of a mole-catcher, 406 A. (J. S.) on Hooke family, 175 A. (L. R.) on Mar earldom, 452 A. (M.), Oxon., on Bailiff of Constantine, 188 Communicants, order of administering to, 414 "Nothing venture nothing win," 408 "Whole Duty of Man," 53 A. (W. B.) on Lord Robert Stuart, 256 Abaddon, its meaning, 188 Abhba on anonymous works, 28, 409 Ireland and Scotland in Wiltshire, 388 Jones (Philip), minister of Cirencester, 25 Parsons (Dr. Richard), his MS. collections, 347 Accentuate, a new word, 346 Alexander (P. F.) on "Don't marry," 471 Allsopp (A. P.) on Worcestershire field-names, 185 "Sir John Chiverton," 126 "Amazon, British," 457 American nation anatomically considered, 406 American States, their names, 366 American words and phrases, 65 Ammonium sulphide a restorer of faded writing, 288, 355 Amusement, places of, in the 18th century, 348 Andersen (Hans Christian) and E. Blémont, 246 Ace of spades in bygone days, 66; called "Old Angelus bell, 229 Ache on Esthnian funeral custom, 294 Sepulchre in churches, 157 Achil Island, article on, 188 Anglesea (Marquis of) and the Irish agitators, 88, Angus (J. K.) on the pronunciation of Forbes, 498 Acland and Ransome's "Political History of England Anon. on a curious book-plate, 305 to 1881," 126 Acreme, its meaning, 88 Adams (T.) and Swift, 75, 97 Adams (W.) on gibbeting, 129 Adamson (W.) on Shipton of Lyth Hall, 171 Addy (S. O.) on Magathay, a place-name, 48 Parochial registers, 291 Sydney and Sydenham, 215 "Adeste Fideles," 18 Adjective, verbal, in -ing, 426 Adjectives pluralized in English, 205, 251, 294, 495 Advertisements, " coupon," 206 Brewer (Rev. J. S.), 285 Jean, gean, jain, or jane, 68 Novels, religious, 108 Oak, British, 208 Polygamy, forfeiture of goods for, 198 |