being Parish Corruption in Part Display'd, or a Narrative of Some Late Transactions in St. Luke's Parish,' &c. In 1826 some other local agitation produced a broadside :— "To be sold by auction on Tuesday, April 17th, at the Rookery in the Parish of St. Rook in the County of Neithersex, the situation of Vestry Clerk," &c. The places of entertainment were fruitful of handbills. The Peerless Pool is described in Warwick Wroth's London Pleasure Gardens'; the Chelybeate Spring | or Baths of St. Agnes-le-Clair is not so well known; and still less familiar is the Royal Albert Saloon, 11 Ironmonger Row, which from 1840 was а Showmen's Hall and Subscription Theatre. I have a brief reference to some theatre in Whitecross Street, but its literature is not known to me. ALECK ABRAHAMS. ANAGRAM : "MONASTERY." Here is a curious anagram. I know nothing of its origin, but the allusion to 66 Dan my seems to point to the time when Senator O'Connell was M.P.:"How much there is in a word!' says I. * Monastery makes Nasty Rome; and when I looked at it again it was evidently More Nasty, a very vile place, or mean sty. Ay, Monster,' says I, 'have I found you out?' 'What Monster?" says the Pope. What Monster?' says I. Why, your image Stone Mary.' 'That,' says he, is My One Star, my pride, my treasure.' Says I, You should say My Treason. Yet No Arms,' says he. 'No,' quoth I, you rely on quieter means, which go better as long as you have No Mastery-I mean Money Arts.' 'No,' says he again, those are Tory Means, and Dan my Senator will baffle them.' 'I don't know,' says I, 'but I think one might make no Mean Story out of this one word Monastery." G. W. E. R. ROBIN HOOD BIBLIOGRAPHY. (See 9 S. viii. 263; 10 S. v. 468; viii. 70, 295; 11 S. v. 29, 94, 296; viii. 203, 297, 313, 378; ix. 498; x. 170, 236; xii. 170.)-The two following have Bewick cuts : History of all the Notable Exploits performed by "Robin Hood's Garland: Being a Complete. him and his Merry Men. In which is given a Preface; containing a more full and particular Account of his Birth, &c., than any hitherto Wilson and Son, High Ousegate. 1811.”—18mo, published. York: Printed by and for Thomas pp. iv, 106.. "The History of Robin Hood. Embellished with cuts. York: Printed by Thomas Wilson and Son, High-Ousegate. 1812. (Price One Penny.) 32 mo, pp. 30. Similar cuts to preceding. Note also:— Journal of Forestry, vol. iii. p. 190; v., 1881, pp. 385-9 and 457-72. Lancashire and Cheshire Naturalist, vol. vii., 1914, pp. 50-51. 'London's Forest' (Perceval), 1909, pp. 66-7. Forests of England' (Brown), 1883, pp. 17-18. J. ARDAGH. ANDRIA.-Reuter, on April 18, conveyed to us the news of the destruction by fire of the ancient cathedral of this see, in which Iolanthe of Jerusalem, second wife of the Emperor Frederick II., was buried in 1228. According to Baedeker : 'His third wife, Isabella of England, who died at Foggia in 1241, was also interred in the Cathedral of Andria, but the monuments of these empresses have long since disappeared, having been destroyed by the partisans of Anjou." of King John, has a notice in the D.N.B.' 66 FOR ONE'S SINS."-The jocular use of this expression is noticed by the N.E.D.,' which cites Geo. Borrow, 1842. occurs in the CARDINAL NEWMAN : HIS BUST IN OXFORD. -On May 2, 1916, a bust of bronze was set up in the garden of Trinity College, Oxford. Its pedestal, of stone, bears the Burney, 1773: inscription : John Henry Cardinal Newman 1801-1890 66 An instance Early Diary of Frances Had I been for my sins born of the male race (vol. i. 203, ed. 1889). RICHARD H. THORNTON. porated with the Marylebone Road. This Southampton Row was the name indicating the houses on the north side of the thoroughfare, and extended from Chapel Street to the Edgware Road. The site in question formed a portion of the estate of the late Mr. Benjamin Bond-Cabbel. J. LANDFEAR LUCAS. Glendora, Hindhead, Surrey. ITALIAN OPERA IN ENGLAND.-I have been requested by Dr. Tage E. Bull of Copenhagen to ask the following questions:1. When were the following Italian operas performed in London for the first time ?(a) La Merope,' by Da Ponte, music by Fr. Bianchi, about 1799; (b) La capricciosa corretta,' by Da Ponte, music by Martini, about 1795 (?); (c) Aci e Galatea,' by (?), music by Fr. Bianchi, about 1795 (?); (d) Isola del piacere, or the Island of Pleasure,' by Da Ponte, music by Martini, about 1795 (?); (e) · Armida,' by Da Ponte, music by Bianchi, about 1795 (?). 2. What is the title of the cantata which Da Ponte and Bianchi composed together for the wedding (April 8, 1795) of the future King George IV., and when was this cantata produced? 4. The most unhappy man of men." 5. Greatest of losses on the lone peak slain of Alp-like virtue." 6. Who 66 whole"? at saw life steadily and saw it 7. What is it that " ? imagination boggles C. J. HOLLIS. Holy Trinity Vicarage, Worthing. sonnet To a Friend' :- My special thanks, whose even-balanced soul, Browning's The Ring and the Book,' 'Giuseppe The Jews who needs must, in their synagogue, JOHN RANBY, F.R.S., SERJEANT-SURGEON. I shall be obliged if readers of N. & Q-According to the D.N.B.,' xlvii. 267, he can answer them. HORACE BLEACKLEY. MEDIEVAL ALABASTER PANEL.-In 1746 Stukeley, in his Palæographica Britannica,' illustrated an English mediæval alabaster panel, depicting the head of St. John on a charger, beneath which is a seated and bound figure of Christ, flanked by St. Peter, who wears a tiara and carries a church, and St. Paul, who holds a book and a sword. Above these are St. Catherine, who holds a wheel and sword, and St. Margaret, who containing his soul, supported by two angels, Above St. John is a vesica, emerging from clouds. apparently been lost sight of since the date This panel has of the publication of Stukeley's work, and it would be of much interest if any reader-Can any musical reader identify authorcould afford any information which would ship or origin of the collection of twelve lead to the discovery of its present location. Welsh hymn-tunes in the earliest edition PHILIP NELSON. of his versified Psalms ? was the son of Joseph Ranby of St. Giles-in- Professor of Physic in the University of holds a cross. Beechwood, Calderstones, Liverpool. G. F. R. B. ARCHDEACON EDMUND PRYS'S SALMAU.” ANEURIN WILLIAMS. "GALOCHE":"COTTE."-What is the game of galoche which is mentioned in L'Enfant Espion,' one of Alphonse Daudet's Contes de Lundi,' p. 29? "Mais le plus amusant de tout c'était encore les parties de bouchon, ce fameux jeu de galoche que les mobiles bretons avaient mis à la mode pendant le siège......Lui ne jouait pas, bien entendu; il faut trop d'argent; il se contentait de regarder les joueurs avec des yeux ! "Un surtout, un grand en cotte bleue, qui ne misait que des pièces de cent sous, excitait son admiration. Quand il courait, celui-là. on entendait les écus sonner au fond de sa cotte." What was the form of the garment that the big lad wore ? A cotte is suggestive of a skirt, otherwise I might have pictured the player in a blouse. ST. SWITHIN. ["Cotte" is a regular word for a workman's or peasant's overall.] THELMA: CHRISTIAN NAME.-Can any reader give me particulars of the Christian name Thelma ? It does not appear in Miss Yonge's classic upon Christian Names.' 66 JULIUS CAESAR ON SUDDEN DEATH.". Julius Cæsar is said to have remarked that to die suddenly and unexpectedly would be most preferable to him." It may be worth while to ascertain from Cæsar's writings his ipsissima verba confirming this statement. H. KREBS. of the medallions on the stone vaulting of ENGLISH CARVINGS OF ST. PATRICK.-One the Benedictine Abbey of Milton, in Dorset, represents St. Patrick surrounded by sprigs of shamrock. The carving is of the fourteenth century. Another medallion in the same line represents St. Dunstan, who visited Dorset. Is any earlier sculptured image of St. Patrick to be found as forming an original part of an ecclesiastical building in Great Britain? EDWARD S. DODGSON. Oxford Union Society. SHAKESPEARE'S FALCON CREST.-Is there any reason why Shakespeare should have had a falcon for his crest? It is curious that he should twice casually refer-in 'Love's Labour's Lost,' II. i., and again in 'The Merchant of Venice,' I. ii. to the name Falconbridge. There was a William Fawconbrygg, Fawconbrugge, in Coventry in the fifteenth century (Coventry Leet Book, 249, 319, 352). M. D. H. Coventry. CATHOLICS UNDER ELIZABETH.-Is there any evidence of those concerned in the Marian burnings, especially of the burning of the bishops, being tried for murder under Queen Elizabeth ? G. B. VAUX. Carshalton Rectory, Surrey. CHARLES LAMB AND JOHN LOCKE.-In his essay 'Imperfect Sympathies' Lamb speaks of "three male Quakers, buttoned up in the straitest non-conformity of their sect." Had he in mind a phrase of John Locke's (Conduct of the Understanding,' ed. T. Fowler, p. 11): "Here is one muffled up in the zeal and infallibility of his sect" ? L. P. IBBOTSON, Private. Athlone. 66 " AGNOSTIC AND "AGNOSCO."-Shortly after the decease of Mr. Cecil Rhodes, of South African fame, appeared a statement, by some collector of his obiter dicta, that, on being asked what his religious views were, he replied: Agnosco, I do not know." I should be grateful if any one possessing first-hand information on this matter would say if this statement is founded on fact, or not. I have always hoped that it is not, because such a lapsus Latinitatis Seems improbable in one who founded scholarships 66 At any for the advancement of learning. rate, this saying, true or false, has acquired considerable vogue, and is to be met with in the correspondence of persons with pretensions to culture; and the meaning therein conferred on agnosco appears to have superseded the signification of that verb according to Latin dictionaries. This strange error is to be found even in Dr. Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,' 8.v. Agnostic.' One wonders how the compiler of that work would have construed Dido's confession : Agnosco veteris vestigia flammæ." N. POWLETT, Col. 66 TOUCHING FOR LUCK.-In a Birmingham factory, on the appearance of a sailor, the hands crowd round the visitor and touch him 66 for luck." Can any one supply a parallel case or comment? There is nothing on the subject in the index to The Golden Bough,' nor in Brand and Ellis's Popular Antiquities' (ed. W. C. Hazlitt, 1905). I can only think of Matthew ix. 21 and xiv. 36. Touching for the King's Evil is, of course, given in both the works of reference named; and Sir James Frazer quotes the Macleod touch. CHARLES SAYLE. Replies. DEATH WARRANTS AND PARDONS. (12 S. i. 49, 111, 157, 210, 289, 358.) SIR HARRY POLAND has truly stated at a former reference that the King did not sign the Recorder's Warrant, of which Blackstone sets out the correct form. But I am not sure that at some period he did not sign the "dead warrant of which we constantly read in The Ordinary of Newgate, His Account,' from its earliest publication by the Rev. Paul Lorraine in Queen Anne's time; in the examinations of Ford and Cotton, Ordinaries of Newgate during the latter half of George III.'s reign, by Parliamentary Committees and Commis sions; and in Edward Gibbon Wakefield's rather lurid Thoughts on Capital Punishment.' True, searching among the MS. lists of those Condemned to Dye preserved at the Record Office, I have as yet met no royal signature, but I have met this in a criminal petition :— "The Dead Warrant will be signed by the Lords Justices (regents in George I.'s absence) tomorrow morning, for my execution on Monday next."-S. P. Dom. Geo. I. 23, No. 53, 14 Sept., 1720. The HON. STEPHEN COLERIDGE states that on the S.W. Circuit he does not use an Order for Execution. The Clerk of Assize on the N.E. Circuit does, however, and it runs, after the usual formal parts, thus :— "Whereas, at this present sessions of gaol delivery, A. B. is and stands convicted of murder, It is thereupon ordered and adjudged that the said A. B. be taken back to the prison where he was last confined before his trial, and there to a place of lawful execution, and that he be hanged by the neck until he is dead, and that his body be buried in the precincts of the prison in which he shall have been last confined. "JOHN DOE, "Clerk of Assize." Anciently, and until recently, as SIR HARRY POLAND has reminded me, pardons had to pass under the Great Seal, but the use of that has for some time been discontinued, as also in the case of Commissions of Assize. I transcribe a very recent pardon signed by His Majesty in respect of an offender whose order for execution I myself wrote.out, when recently assisting in the Clerk of Assize office on the N.E. Circuit : GEORGE R.I. [The King's own Sign Manual.] GEORGE THE FIFTH by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas King, Defender of the Faith, To our Justices of Assize for the North-Eastern Cirouit, The High Sheriff for the County of York. The Governor of Our Prison at Leeds and all others whom it may concern. Greeting! WHEREAS was, at the Assizes, Leeds, on the 15th March [1916], convicted of murder and sentenced to death Now KNOW YE that We, in consideration of some circumstances humbly represented unto Us, are Graciously pleased to extend Our Grace and Mercy unto the said and to grant unto dition that he be kept in Penal Servitude for Life. him Our Pardon in respect of the same on Con Our Will and Pleasure therefore is that you do give the necessary directions accordingly; And for so doing this shall be a sufficient Warrant. Given at Our Court of St. James's the By His Majesty's Command I find that this form is in almost identical language with that used in previous centuries. The royal seal is in the left-hand margin of the first paragraph, below a ten-shilling stamp. The "Dead Warrant " was a list of those who, on the Recorder's report to His Majesty decided must suffer. The Ordinary, in full having been considered in Council, it was canonicals, brought it down to the condemned hole, and duly acquainted each man, woman, and child of his or her Isaac's sons. In the Middle Ages Ireland fate. "VICTORIA COUNTY HISTORIES "(12 S. i. 386). No one is more conscious of shortcomings in these than the editors are. But I do not plead guilty to all H.'s criticisms. Lord Hylton very kindly supplied a great deal of valuable information-more than the plan of the Histories allowed me to use and I could not have gone to a better source. It was from him that I got the date of the amalgamation of Merstham and Alderstead. If he or I made a miscopying of a date, it is a pity. It is not said in the History that the " manor of Chilvertons was bought by Mr. Watson. Our information that a Court had been held was positive. It is plainly inferred that the School Board built the present schools. The stone quarries are undoubtedly the great historical feature of industrial Merstham. It is not fair to suggest that they have been confused with the lime-works, when the latter are mentioned He is was said to have been filled, in old times, by Jewish people coming either from Palestine or from Egypt. In the sixteenth century Giles Fletcher, LL.D., wrote an Essay upon some Probable Grounds that the Present Tartars are the Posterity of the Ten Tribes of Israel' (see D.N.B.,' xix. 301). I should suggest to MR. W. L. KING to Catholic Encyclopedia'; I have not it at study the article on Maya' in the New hand, but, if my memory is not wrong, it was a really interesting one. is a dangerous method, even when used with 66 indeed. P. TURPIN. Some little information about her relatives I know that there are two people engaged in writing the life of this lady. separately. Both are more fully described may be gleaned from the article 'Sir in the Industries Section. Finally, this Andrew Dudley and Lady Margaret editor at least has visited every parish in Clifford' in my volume Shakespeare's his county (generally several times), except Environment,' p. 247. one, and that one is not Merstham. not aware now who was responsible for making Baron Hylton a Viscount. He can only hope that he or she merely anticipated the action of the prerogative of the Crown. He cannot continue this correspondence. EDITOR V. H. SURREY.' RESEMBLANCES BETWEEN SEMITIC AND MEXICAN LANGUAGES (12 S. i. 70, 234).-Is it possible to understand Dr. le Plongeon's assertion as intended to be something in the way of a striking illustration of a certain similarity between the rather little known Maya and the old Semitic languages? In itself the affirmation is, of course, far from being accurate. Both of the quoted sentences are real riddles for the linguist-the first " Eli, Eli," being a mixture of Aramaic and Hebrew; the second a grammatical puzzle, according to Hastings's Dictionary of the Bible.' As for Capt. Marryat's theory, the lost tribes of Israel seem to have originated a lot of nations quite different one from another. I remember reading seriously given explanations about the Saxons being really C. C. STOPES. "COAT AND CONDUCT MONEY (12 S. i. 189, 316). May I add the following extract from Grose's Military Antiquities, 2 vols., 1801, to my recent reply about "Coat and Conduct Money"?— 66 About the time of Henry VII. we meet with a being the subject of the chapter]: this is a coat and regulation that somewhat respects quarters [this conduct money; the first was, as has before been observed, a species of clothing. probably for recruits; the money for which was advanced by the county wherein they were raised, or such other as was directed by the king or his privy council; conductmoney was an allowance for subsistence, to and from the army, according to the number of days the soldiers had to march; a day's march was sometimes estimated at twelve and sometimes fifteen miles; both the coat and conduct-money was occasionally advanced by the different counties wherein the troops were quartered." Notes at foot of p. 342: |