your absolutely straight. At any rate, it may DEANERIES UNATTACHED TO CATHEDRALS (10 S. xii. 469).—I know no work on this deans of the collegiate churches of Auck- 66 the Subject to the better knowledge of American correspondents, I think this is conclusive as to Attucks's negro blood, as if a native Indian his birthplace and sub-deanery"; but on the site of the Deanery sequent movements would not be so accuat Chester-le-Street a comparatively modern rately known or chronicled, and I under- mansion has been erected, which is still stand also that the word called "The Deanery." mulatto 22 would not have been used unless one of the parents was of negro race. 66 22 66 JOHN P. STILWELL. "MAR IN MARDYKE (10 S. xii. 310, 475). Mardyke would seem to denote the dyke or drain through the marsh," that which passes through the three Saltfleetbys in Lincolnshire on the north side of the main road. In St. Peter's parish it is comparatively small, though larger than the field-drains in 66 'The Marsh 22 ; but, receiving tributary drains all the way, it becomes, in St. Clement's parish, quite wide and deep, a remarkable-looking drain indeed, and might be taken for a river, were it not Yorkshire, had also its dean and prebends. South Shields. R. B-R. 66 SELBY, YORKS: ITS PECULIAR 22 COURT AND PARISH REGISTERS (10 S. xii. 409, 475). -MR. S. S. M'DOWALL does not quite touch the point of my inquiry. I know that the original registers in a more or less imperfect state are at Selby; but I want information about what are known as the Bishops' Transcripts, which one would expect to find at the Diocesan Registry, York. On inquiry I am told that they are not there because Selby was a Peculiar Court. Where are these transcripts now, if they have been preserved ? It appears to me that the parishes within the Peculiar Court should have sent the copy of their register to the bishop, as required by the ordinance of 1597. The Heights, Rochdale. HENRY FISHWICK. Though I cannot give COL. FISHWICK any information as to the registers from 1636 to 1715, it may be worth while to point out, in case he does not know it, that extracts from the registers for many of the years 1728-63 are to be found in the British Museum. They are Add. Charters 45913-33. H. I. B. For sudden joys, like griefs, confound at first. AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (10 S. description of Castle Hedingham-the great xii. 509).fortress of the De Veres-shows us the best side of one of the finest of its kind. To us it has but one merit, spacious rooms, and its defects are many windows too small to make the rooms cheerful, yet quite large enough to make it cold in the absence of any glazing; each side of the room an outside wall; a fireplace with a short flue and small vents; the sleeping-places (if any) mere bunks in recesses burrowed in the walls; cooking carried on either in the hall itself or at Peak Castle in Derbyshire long distances from it. must have been very much harder to live in. It had two rooms (perhaps four if an attic and a cellar floor were ever constructed and used). the lower lit by two small slits in the wall, the upper (measuring 22 ft. by 19 ft.) having in addition two closets hollowed in the walls. There were no fireplaces, and there is no trace of hearths, though probably they existed. Yet this was a famous place in its time, and many of the peel towers on the Borders built three centuries later BAKERS' SERVANTS, c. 1440 (10 S. xii. 427, 498). On the analogy of proweour purveyor in Langland (Stratmann-Bradley), sowreour may mean surveyor, with no dis cordant sense. H. P. L. CANON PELLING (10 S. xii. 367). The Christian name of Canon Pelling was John. In The Fruits of Endowment,' London, 1840, the following entry occurs: "Pelling, John, D.D. Canon, Windsor [published] Sermon: Before the Clergy (Exod. xx. 5). 1709." I am unable to say who his parents were, except that possibly his father may have been the Rev. Edward Pelling, D.D., Prebendary of Westminster, who between 1673 and 1696 published a considerable number of theological works. See Darling's Cyclopædia Bibliographica,' vol. ii. W. SCOTT. DR. JAMES BRADLEY, ASTRONOMER ROYAL (10 S. xii. 489).-There is a pedigree extant of the family of Bradley by Rouge Croix, but whether the original or a copy of it is in the College of Arms, or not, I do not know. J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL. Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, &c. The Growth of the English House: a Short History Considered as a dwelling-house, a Norman keep must have been singularly uncomfortable from every point of view-cold, dark, and inconvenient: it had but one merit, that of being safe from a sudden surprise. Mr. Gotch's full were little better. All these towers were four-square, the round tower finding little favour in England (we except Windsor), as at the time of its vogue in France Englishmen were building fortified or moated manor houses. What is really curious and unexplained is the building of such a place as Tattershall Castle (half way between Lincoln and Boston) on the model of a Norman tower so late as the middle of the fifteenth century. We can understand the use of Warkworth Castle-its contemporary-and admire the skill shown in planning it, so as to combine something of the comfort of a manor house with the security of a fortress; but Tattershall seems built to no purpose-it was not a dwelling-place for the man who built South Wingfield Manor House. However it may be, the great single room of the Norman Castle suited the temperament of English builders, for it was the central point of domestic architecture till Stuart times. The first fortified manor houses consisted of a great hall, with a kitchen near the doorway for the service, and a solar at the other end as a retiring room for the lord. Every important building down to the days of Elizabeth repeated and enlarged on this plan the kitchen developing into the servants' wing, the solar into the family apartments. Lastly, the hall began to lose its importance in some houses it becomes a gallery running the whole length of the front, in others it is a mere parlour. Mr. Gotch has described many fine examples of the hall in its various stages. The finest of them, and the earliest, is Oakham Castle, in Rutland; while Stokesay Castle in Shropshire is a later and very interesting form. No work on English homes could possibly omit Haddon Hall or Kenilworth Castle, but it will be seen that the author has gone to considerable pains to avoid hackneyed examples. His account of the kitchens at Stanton Harcourt and Glastonbury is extremely good. Mr. Gotch is at his best, we think, in the chapters dealing with Elizabethan and Jacobean houses-interiors and exteriors alike-but especially when treating of the decorative plaster and panelling; and he is least happy when referring to the influence of the Amateurs." The elevation of fig. 159 from Kent's Designs of Inigo Jones is almost a copy of one of Palladio's drawings with a few banal additions; while 66 track. many of the houses figured in the chapter on the Palladian style do not recall any features of his work. Of course the truth is that no one could live in England in a really Palladian house-one would have to follow Lord Chesterfield's advice and live in a house opposite to enjoy a view of it. The reaction from the grand style to the "ugly but comfortable " is comprehensible, if deplorable. No work will ever displace in our affections Turner and Parker's Domestic Architecture in the Middle Ages,' but Mr. Gotch's little book will stand beside it on our shelves. the sort of book to give to any one who is inclined It is just to be interested about old buildings without knowing much of them. Without any parade of teaching, it will direct attention to obvious features of style and set the student on the right One feature we are specially pleased with is the Chronological List of Castles and Houses.' It does not pretend to include even all the more notable historic houses of England, but it is a beginning, and the buildings given here, being all dated, will serve to fix the dates of many others whose origin is unknown. A complete list of the historic houses of England is not an impossible undertaking, and we should like to see it done. Unfortunately, there are difficulties in the way. Travelling is often costly and uncomfortable in England. Here is a book describing 200 fine buildings, but one's heart sinks when one realizes that the attempt to see any of them out of the beaten tourist track means a day's labour, the discomfort of bad food, and, probably, overcharge for it. An association like the Touring Club de France is badly wanted in England for the education of English hotel-keepers. All the same we are grateful to Mr. Gotch for having mapped out new objects of interest in rural England, and refreshed our memories of old friends. The Fortnightly opens with the first three chapters of Meredith's posthumous novel, Celt and Saxon.' So far the Celt only is exhibited in a young Irishman, who comes to Wales on a chivalrous quest concerning his brother. Mr. Garvin's review of ' Imperial and Foreign Affairs' is almost entirely concerned with Germany and the question of the Navy, and is a good example of his vigorous writing. Mr. W. S. Lilly in Eyes and No Eyes' considers the Irish question, and no more succeeds in giving an impartial view than most writers. Mr. Lilly's style is too heavy to be attractive. The Later Heroines of Maurice Maeterlinck' are the subject of a pretty piece of prose by his wife. The version in English by Mr. A. T. de Mattos is excellent. Mr. Archibald Hurd considers The Naval Issue more, and declares that our present fleet is "admittedly above a two-Power standard." He regards 41,000,000l. as necessary for the Navy Estimates of the coming year. Mr. E. й. Pickersgill writes on Imprisonment for Debt,' proposing changes in the law which seem to us by no means sure to do good. The Committee on the subject of which he was chairman were divided in opinion, but he claims a majority for his views. Mr. Alfred Stead dwells on the virtues of Prince Ito, Patriot and Statesman,' which are generally recognized by the thoughtful. Prof. H. H. Turner has an interesting article on Migrating Stars,' and belongs to the small body of scientific men who can both write and observe. Mr. F. G. Aflalo in The Mind of the once Sportsman Fuller writes, doubtless, good sense miners so general as to paralyze virtually all In BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES.-JANUARY. MR. RICHARD CAMERON'S Edinburgh Catalogue 228 contains, as usual, a number of works of Scottish interest. Other items include the Coleridge and Prothero edition of Byron, 1898-1904, 13 vols., cloth, as new, 11. 158. ; Kinglake's Crimea,' 9 vols., 11. 6s. ; Fine Art Illustrations of Scott,' 13 vols., folio, 11, 58.; and the Works of Christopher North," 12 vols., half-calf, 17. 158. Under Napoleon is Bell's Weekly Messenger, Sunday, 3 Jan., to 26 Dec., 1813, folio, boards, 9s. 6d. The numbers contain full details of Napoleon's campaigns, with accounts of the disastrous retreat from Russia and of Wellington's Peninsular campaign. Mr. Bertram Dobell's Catalogue 179 contains books from the library of the late Frederick Hendriks, most of them with prints, autograph letters, and notes. Byron, complete edition in one volume, extra-illustrated with Finden's engravings and a series of female portraits, green morocco extra, a fine copy, 1850, 15s. Under Dickens is Ward's Memoir,' illustrated with 50 portraits of Dickens and his contemporaries, and six autograph letters from Albert Smith, Forster, and others, calf extra, 1882, 31. 38. Under Heraldry is Sylvanus Morgan's Treatise of Honor and Honorable Men,' the Author's unpublished manuscript, 170 pages, with drawings of coats of arms (inserted is the title-page of The Sphere of Gentry,' containing the Author's portrait), 1642, 77. 10s. Under Roxburghe Club is a volume containing Dibdin's Song to be sung at Roxburger's Hall,' Diary of Roger Payne,' &c., with a collection of 200 illustrations, royal 8vo, half-russia, 27. 128. Among miscellaneous books are works under Ballads and Bibliography. Under Calderon is MacCarthy's translation of three dramas of Calderon, 1870, 11. 18. There is a rare and curious book under Drinking: A Warning-Piece to all Drunkards and Health-drinkers,' full of accounts of the untimely end of persons alleged to have been killed by drink, 1682, 21. 28. A fine large copy of Fletcher's Rule a Wife and Have a Wife,' first edition, small 4to, half-morocco, Oxford, Leonard Lichfield, 1640, is 8l. 108.; the first edition of "The Egoist,' 3 vols., original cloth, library ticket removed from covers, 1879, 21. 10s.; and a rare copy of Boccaccio's 'De Præclaris Mulieribus,' 1475, crimson morocco, 221. Mr. John Hitchman's Birmingham Christmas Catalogue contains the Autograph Edition of Ruskin, 8 vols., full morocco extra, 91. 98.; Lucas's edition of Charles Lamb, 8 vols., halflevant, 47. 12s. 6d. ; J. M. Barrie's Novels, Author's Edition, 10 vols., 2l. 58.; Catlin's 'North American Indians,' 2 vols,, 21. 108. ; Scharf and Cust's Mary, Queen of Scots,' 11. 58. ; Wyon's Great Seals of England,' folio, 21. 88. Thackeray's Novels, 7 vols., first editions (except Vanity Fair,' which is the second issue of the first), half-levant, 51. 58.; and the first edition, in the original wrapper, of Swinburne's 'Ode on the Proclamation of the French Republic,' 1870, 158. Mr. Sutton's Manchester Catalogue 173 contains Ainsworth's Windsor Castle,' Old St. Paul's,' and The Miser's Daughter,' the 3 vols, as new, 1844-8, 15l. 158.; black-letter cditions of Foxe's works; the Library Edition of Froude's History,' 12 vols., cloth, uncut, 1856-70, 41. 48. ; a set of Lever's novels, original illustrations, 16 vols., half-calf, 81. 88. ; Staunton's edition of Shakespeare with Gilbert's illustrations, 3 vols., 1858, il. 18.; and Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography,' 3 vols., 1850, 128. Under Cruikshankiana is a collection of 81 plates, folio, original boards, McLean, 11. 108. There are nearly 300 items devoted to Irish Topography and Literature. Mr. T. Thorp's Catalogue 41 contains a collection of Mrs. Inchbald's Manuscript Diaries, 107. 108. Under Hogarth is a set of original drawings inserted in a copy of Tristram Shandy,' Vols. 1.-III., bound in one thick small 8vo volume, rough half-calf (date cut from title), about 1765. These seven drawings are executed, Mr. Thorp states, "in Hogarth's best style," price 1057. Among the Addenda will be found under Hogarth an atlas folio, half-calf, containing 79 plates, fine early impressions, 1738-90, 87. 108. Under America are some early maps. There are many juvenile books, ranging from 1760; and there is a list of book-plates recently purchased. Works under London include an extra-illustrated copy of Brayley, the 4 vols. extended to 10, 1816, 71. 108.; and a Register of Admissions to Gray's Inn,' 1521-1889, with Register of Marriages 1695-1754,' by Joseph Foster, privately printed, 1889, 12s. 6d. Among speeches are those of Sir Robert Peel, with explanatory index, 4 vols., 1853, 21. 10s. Under Wordsworth is Moxon's edition, 6 vols., original cloth, uncut, 1841, 17. 168. Mr. Thorp issues from Guildford Catalogue 20, which contains works on Zoology, Botany, Astronomy, and Physics. [Reviews of other Catalogues held over.] THE REV. JOHN PICKFORD.-We are sorry to notice the death on December 30th of the Rev. John Pickford, Rector of Newbourne, Suffolk, at the age of 80. He was one of the steadiest correspondents to our columns, and kept up to the last a vivid interest in history, antiquities of all sorts, his Oxford friends, and the classics. He wrote a 'Life of Thomas Percy, Bishop of Dromore.' At 10 S. xii. 376 he pointed out that his first communication to us appeared as long ago as 19 July, 1856, in the Second Series. Notices to Correspondents. and address of the sender, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. ON all communications must be written the name WE cannot undertake to answer queries privately. nor can we advise correspondents as to the value of old books and other objects or as to the means of disposing of them. CORRIGENDUM.-Ante, p. 16, col. 2, 1. 19, for Mr. Hitchman has also a short list (No. 500) of a few interesting books at reduced prices,gaujah" read ganjah. including Burton's Arabian Nights,' the Centenary Edition of Carlyle, Bradshaw Society R. E-R ("Jookery-parkery ").—See 10 S. iv. 87, Publications, St. John Hope's Order of the 166, 232, and the articles on hocus-pocus in the Garter,' &c. 'N.E.D.' LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, 1910. CONTENTS.-No. 3. NOTES:-Maria Jane Jewsbury in Ceylon, 41-Yon": its Peters-Topographical Deeds-Bishop Compton, 47. QUERIES:-"Tally-ho "- Hornbook temp. Elizabeth Scotchmen in France History of Bullanabee" Earth goeth upon earth," 48-"This world's a city full of crooked streets"-Lysons-"When our Lord shall lie in our Lady's lap"-Critical Review'-"Be the day weary" Testimony of the Spade,' 49-Authors Wanted-Rev. R. Snowe-Marriage in a Shift-W. Keith-E. PlassW. Shippen-Characters in The Squire's Tale' Sir R. Geffery, 50. Although, strangely, there is no reference, editorial or otherwise, in any of the intervening issues of The Colombo Journal, to the gifted writer, she herself has left on record in beautiful verse her impressions of the island. My father, who arrived in Ceylon in 1837, relates in some reminiscences printed in 1886 (Ceylon in 1837-46,' p. 15) that during her brief sojourn in the island Mrs. Fletcher stayed under the hospitable roof of the Rev. Benjamin Bailey (himself the writer of some little books of verse), where she wrote what is perhaps the most exquisite poem that has ever been penned respecting Ceylon. Mrs. Fletcher appaREPLIES:-Parliamentary Division Lists Mrs. Browning rently presented the manuscript to her host, and Sappho, 51-Fig Trees in London-Acres in Yorkshire who only some seven months later seems -Walsh Surname Thomas Paine, 53-Dr. Wollaston in Scotland-Lovels of Northampton-Johann Wilhelm of to have sent it to The Colombo Journal, Neuburg, 54-"Hen and Chickens" Sign-Pin and Needle where it was printed in the supplement to Rimes "Huel"-Lynch Law, 55-"Land Office business" -River Legends-Marie Antoinette's Death Mask-Feet the issue of 7 Sept., 1833, in the midst of of Fines-Rotherhithe, 56-Restoration Plays-Restora- extracts of political news, and without a tion Characters-"He will either make a spoon," 57-single line calling attention to it. Pronunciation of "oo"-Steamers in 1801-N. & Q.': Lost Reference--Lady Worsley, 58. poem is as follows: NOTES ON BOOKS:-Keats's Poems of 1820-'Congregational Historical Society Transactions'-Hume Brown's "History of Scotland'-The Churchyard Scribe'-Magazines and Reviews. Notices to Correspondents. Notes. MARIA JANE JEWSBURY IN CEYLON THE notice of Miss M. J. Jewsbury in the 'On 1 Aug., 1832, she married, at Penegroes, Montgomeryshire, the Rev. William Kew Fletcher, a chaplain in the East India Company's service, with whom she sailed for Bombay. She died fourteen months later, on 4 Oct., 1833, at Poonah, a victim to cholera. Some extracts from the journal of her voyage to and residence in India are given in Espinasse's 'Lancashire Worthies.' It is in the Second Series (1877) of the Lancashire Worthies,' pp. 330-37, that Espinasse deals with Mrs. Fletcher's voyage to and brief residence in India. Curiously enough, however, nothing is said of a short stay in Ceylon on the way to Bombay. The Colombo Journal of 23 Jan., 1833, records the arrival, on Sunday, 16 January, of the " ship Victory, Capt, C. Biden, from England 22d Sept. and Isle of France 22d Dec." Among the passengers for Bombay are mentioned "Revd. Mr. Fletcher and Lady." The same paper, in its issue of 6 February, announces the departure of the Victory for Bombay on the previous day. THE EDEN OF THE SEA. (Written at Ceylon.) A dream! a dream! our billowy home As quick to ask, as quick to view, Books for to-morrow: this calm bower I know that creatures strange and fierce The |