To these excerpts may be added such George IV.,' H. E. Lloyd, pp. 115, 324; expressions as Statute of Lamentations Hist. MSS. Com. 15 Report, Appendix, (Limitations), p. 28; poluteness (politeness), part vi. pp. 470, 553; Reminiscences of p. 20; instuted (instituted), p. 53; syllabub, Henry Angelo' (Kegan Paul), ii. 177; 'Female p. 54, &c., which suggest, to an ear attuned Jockey Club,' Charles Pigott (London, 1794), to Fielding's creations, a Slipslopian similipp. 19-20. HORACE BLEACKLEY. tude. EPITAPHS OF FINMORE AND WILLIS NORTH HINKSEY.-In the chancel of the church of St. Laurence, North Hinksey, distant a mile to the west of Oxford, and famous for its remains of Norman architecture, one finds the following epitaphs : 1. On the floor to the north of the altar. ton who Died the 15th of 2. To the south. Beneath this Stone Rest the Remains of William Fynmore On the 224 Dec 1757 And in the Year of his Age 85. Martha his Wife Who Exchanged this Life for a better And James Fynmore Citizen and Vintner Caused this Marble to be laid Of their Deceased Parents. 3. On a marble slab on the north wall inside. Martha, COL. JOHN HAYES ST. LEGER. (See 1 S. ix. 76; x. 95, 175, 376; 2 S. viii. 225, 362.) -No biographical information respecting Colonel, afterwards Major-General, St. Leger has appeared in ' N. & Q.' since the somewhat scanty details given more than fifty years ago. We know that he was a member of the Doneraile family, that he was born on July 23, 1756, and that he died at Madras in 1799 (Gent. Mag. lxx. parti. 187). The most interesting portion of his career was during the time of his intimate association with the Prince of Wales, and it is with regard to this period that references would be welcome. A short but valuable biography will be found in The European Magazine of June, 1795 (vol. xxvi. pp. 363-5), from which we learn Guil: that he was gazetted Captain (with the rank of Colonel) in the First Regiment of Guards on Oct. 25, 1782. In this particular it is interesting to note that as early as March 19, 1781, The Morning Herald speaks of him as Colonel St. Leger, and says that he is one of the principal companions " of the Prince of Wales. For this reason I conclude that he is the hero of one of the famous tête-à-tête 'Histories' in The Town and Country Magazine in July, 1781 (vol. xiv. p. 289), the letterpress of which seems to point to him. The portrait, given under the title of 'The Gallant Colonel,' while quite dissimilar to the prints after the famous picture by Gainsborough, is not altogether unlike that reproduced in The European Magazine. Other references will be found in J. Chaloner Smith's British Mezzotinto Portraits,' p. 242; Gainsborough,' Sir Walter Armstrong, p. 278; Thomas Gainsborough,' William B. Boulton, pp. 180, 207, 252-3; Memoirs of .66 Sponsa non minus chara: Quâ, non imāturo sed precoci fato avulsâ Per 14 tanti dies superfuit. Vitæ integer, M.S. Unica prolis posuit Mærens Mater Jane Finmore. 4. On the inside of the south wall. Look to thy feet, honest & Loyall men are sleeping year of his age 87, & in y year of our La. 1646, He dyed Iune ye 3 A°. Dni. 1677. well-known house in Albemarle Street, then 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. ANGLICAN CLERKS IN NON-ANGLICAN IN September, 1749, the Bishop of Sodor and Man, who was described for the purpose as "the Most Reverend Thomas Wilson," (See became, at the age of 86, by election and without other consecration than he had theretofore received for the episcopal office, "one of the Anetecessors (sic) of the General Synod of the Brethren of the Anatolic Unity," and to him was given liberty to delegate the episcopal jurisdiction so con "If any Gentlemen please to repair to my House aforesaid, they may be furnished with all manner of English, or French Histories, Romances, or Poetry: which are to be sold, or read for reasonable considerations." Almoner, and Prebendary of Westminster.* This notice occurs at the end of the 1661 edition of Webster and Rowley's play Theferred to the Rev. Thomas Wilson, Royal Thracian Wonder.' It was mentioned re- | cently in a daily paper, but I do not think the notice has been placed on record in N. & Q.' The imprint to the work is as follows: "London: Printed by Tho. Johnson, and are to be sold by Francis Kirkman, at his Shop at the Sign of John Fletchers Head, over against the Angel Inn, on the Backside of St. Clements, without Temple Bar. 1661." R. A. PEDDIE. St. Bride Foundation, Bride Lane, E.C. "MURRAY'S RAILWAY READING." (See 11 S. xii. 432.)—In a notice of book-catalogues an editorial mention of the above appeared to suggest that information might not be unacceptable. I have one of the publications that were included in the series, bearing date 1853, and from a full advertisement on the back cover it appears that "Murray's Railway Reading; containing works of sound information and innocent amusement: suited for all Classes of Readers," issued by the At a date within the memories of many now living, Monsignor Jules Ferrette, who had been consecrated to the episcopate by Peter the Humble, Archbishop of Emesa, and afterwards Jacobite Patriarch of Antioch, consecrated the Rev. R. W. Morgan, curate of Mapledurham, Oxfordshire, to the episcopate, and the succession thus begun has been perpetuated to the present day.† Somewhat later Monsignor Luigi Nazari di Calabiana, acting, if the account be accurate, with formal sanction such as would have been required, consecrated the late Rev. T. W. Mossman, then and afterwards Vicar of East and West Torrington, in the Church of England diocese of Lincoln, to the episcopate. An attested copy of the records of this consecration were duly de posited for examination, it is said, in the Registry of his diocese.* It is certain that on Aug. 30, 1879, T. W. Mossman ordained John Elphinston-Robertson to the priesthood, and that thereafter Mr. Elphinston-Robertson ministered in the Church of England, duly depositing evidence of his priesthood with the proper authorities. With the knowledge of Archbishop Temple he acted as Chaplain to the Convent of the Sisters of the Faith at Stamford Hill, of which institution his Lordship, as Bishop of London, was Visitor. At previous and later dates Mr. Elphinston-Robertson officiated freely in several dioceses. ‡ Of some of these facts I have personal knowledge; in addition I give other authorities in foot-notes. I have not the slightest wish either to impugn or to defend the propriety of the acts to which reference is made. What I desire is to collect additional instances of bishops or clergy of the Church of England occupying ecclesiastical positions in other religious organizations. I am acquainted with many, of course, but the desirability of preserving a record of each and every one will make me grateful for the communication of all detail of like occurrences. To write the history of some of the eighteenth-century attempts at Catholic Revival is well-nigh impossible, because of the deliberate obscurity achieved by the originators of the movements. Whilst those concerned in the particular class of activity to which I have referred yet survive from the nineteenth century, may I ask of them, in the interests of research, to communicate what is now communicable, and to leave a sufficient register of the remainder. J. C. WHITEBROOK. 'A LOST LOVE,' BY ASHFORD OWEN (ANNIE OGLE).-For many years I had been trying to secure a copy of the above work, but was so repeatedly told that it was out of print that at last I gave up the quest. Hope revived when less than a year ago I happened to see, in an article by Sir Robertson Nicoll on Mark Rutherford, a quotation from the latter stating that he had searched all London through for a copy and had at last found one, which he never regretted buying. The quotation (undated) goes on: "This very week I see in The Athenæum, to my great surprise and delight, that it is to be reprinted." With this clue I recommenced my search. but, so far, have been unsuccessful. Could any reader of N. & Q.' furnish me with particulars as to where the book could be obtained? Mark Rutherford, in writing of the book, states that one of the greatest of living poets counselled him to read it, and this reminded me that I was once told that Browning, with whom Miss Ogle was intimately acquainted, had suggested that she should put her own life-story into the form of a novel. (Mrs.) ELEANOR LE SUEUR MACNAUGHTON. 1167 Henleaze Avenue, Moose Jaw, Sask. of THOMAS MAY, RECORDER OF CHICHESTER, 1683.-The pedigree of the family of May of Rawmere, Mid Lavant, Sussex, is given on p. 21 of Berry's 'Sussex Genealogies," and repeated in the first volume of Dallaway's History of the Western Division Sussex.' The Middle Temple records (ii. 649) show that Thomas May, son and heir apparent of John Maye of Ramer," was admitted on May 8, 1620, and that Richard, the fourth son, was admitted on Jan. 28, 1631. Richard, according to Foss's Judges of England,' became Recorder of Chichester at the Restoration, was M.P. for the city in 1685, and appointed Cursitor March 17, Baron of the Exchequer on 1683. He was succeeded in the Recordership by his nephew (grand - nephew ?), another Thomas May. The statement in the pedigrees that this Thomas May became a Baron of the Exchequer seems to be The pedigree also adds that this Thomas May died in 1718. erroneous. Thomas May of Rawmere was returned M.P. for Chichester on Jan. 9, 1688/9, and again on Feb. 24, 1689/90. He was knighted on March 9, 1697, and again returned for Chichester on Jan. 7, 1700/1. He seems to have been the son of the second John May of Rawmere, who died in 1677, and he left VILLAGE POUNDS.-I am collecting information about Pounds which still exist, or which have fallen into decay or have dieappeared within recent memory, and shall be greatly obliged to any one who can tell me of examples, with particulars as to shape, as his only child Henry May, who died without issue according to the pedigree. According to Dallaway, Thos. May, Alderman of Chichester, was one of those removed by James II. on Feb. 17, 1688 (vol. i. p. 159); and the same authority states on p. 113 that "about the year 1765 this estate [of Raw-materials of construction, state of repair, mere] had devolved to Thomas May, Knight, Esq., by whom it was sold to Charles, Duke of Richmond." The house was then pulled down. Was the Thomas May, M.P. in 1689 and in 1690, the same person as the Sir Thomas May, M.P. in 1701 ? Can any one give further particulars of him? I believe him to have been the author of several important tracts. J. B. WILLIAMS. use, &c., in the following counties:-Bed- M. BELMAYNE, THE FRENCH SCHOOL-mend to me a practical work on painting in MASTER.-His name appears in Sir Edward oils to serve as a guide to a beginner? I Waldegrave's Account of the Burial of have done a good deal of painting in waterKing Edward VI.,' printed in Archeologia, colour without the aid of a teacher. xii. 334-96. I should be glad to obtain any information about him. G. F. R. B. "THE METEOR, OR MONTHLY CENSOR.'I am unable to find this in the National Library Catalogue. Capt. Douglas in his Cruikshank Catalogue says it was published by T. Hughes in 1814. He puts the value of a perfect copy at 1007. Nor can I find, either in Douglas's catalogue or in the National Library, The Meteor, or General Censor,' in 2 vols., London, Longman, 1816. This, I believe, has a frontispiece of E. Kean as Richard III., signed G. Ck. Neither is in the London Catalogue. 66 T. N. G. ARCHER: BOWMAN.-These two surnames -widely dispersed-are not, so far as I can find, placed chronologically or locally by names and places." any writer on By the middle of the thirteenth century the two words were indifferently applied to such soldiers (cf. Robert of Gloucester, 1269), but just as the Anglo-Frisian preceded the Anglopresumably one must have had the start, would be more interesting would be to Norman dialect and vocabulary. What ascertain whether the adoption of one or the other as a family surname was or was not practically simultaneous, and whether the choice was decided by local influence and surroundings. L. G. R. PARISH REGISTERS.-Can any reader of N. & Q.' say whether any society has undertaken to index the Parish Registers of Oxfordshire, Cambridgeshire, or the town of Eton? What dates do these embrace ? To whom should one apply for publications? A. E. OUGHTRED. Castle Eden, co. Durham. 'L'ESPION ANGLOIS.' Who was the author of 'L'Espion Anglois, ou correspondance secrete entre Milord All Eye et Milord All Ear,' London, John Adamson, 1779? There is a long description of the work in 'B.bliographie des ouvrages relatifs à L'Amour, aux Femmes, au Mar age,' published by Gay and Quaritch, v. 278, but the author's name is not given. MR. RICHARD EDGCUMBE (at 8 S. xi. 243) says that Ange Goudar, the friend of Casano the author of 'L'Espion Français à Londres,' PASSAGE OF FUNERAL THROUGH CHURCH. published in 1779. M. Charles Samaran,In a village in Northants there is a feeling however, in his recently published Jacques that a dead body must always be taken to Casanova, Vénitien,' p. 94, gives the title the church and pass through it for burial; of Goudar's book as 'L'Espion chinois.' it is immaterial whether it passes north to Had Goudar anything to do with 'L'Espion south, or south to north. Can anybody sugAnglois,' published by John Adamson ? gest the reason for this feeling? HORACE BLEACKLEY. Bedford. SIR GEORGE MOUAT KEITH. (See 11 S. xii. 430.) In the year 1806 I find serving as lieutenant on board the gun-brig Boxer Sir George Mouat Keith, Bart. Can any of your readers say to what family he belonged, as I do not find his name in the 'Baronetage'? A. H. MACLEAN. 14 Dean Road, Willesden Green, N.W. A. G. KEALY. ANN COOK.-I should be most grateful to any reader who could spare a few minutes to the frightfulness of war, I have now to help me in the following matter. Owing access to no library. On Feb. 5, 1821, died Mary Ann, dau. of Joshua and Ann Cook, and was buried at Framlingham. A memoir of her life appeared in The Methodist Magazine for that month, I believe. I should like a note of this memoir, with the exact date of publication of the magazine, and any other information as to Miss Cook that can easily be obtained. PRIVATE BRADSTOW. THE SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL (11 S. xii. 462, 508; 12 S. i. 11.) JOHN WHITFIELD, ACTOR.-Wanted formation as to the parentage and marriage of John Whitfield, the comic actor. He died in London, 1814, and is known to have had a sister Margaret who married one William Green. William Whitfield, son of the actor, had an uncle, Thomas Lane, who devised lands in Romney Marsh, in the parish of Brookland, Kent. William Fynmore of Craven Street, Strand, was an executor to the above Thomas Lane. GERALD FOTHERGILL. 11 Brussels Road, New Wandsworth, S.W. |