AUTHOR WANTED. lowing: -: JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. Who wrote the fol- When death comes knocking at the door S. R. Replies. CHARLES I AND THE BANQUETING HOUSE. (clii. and cliii. passim; cliv. 11, 30, 47). DO not think it necessary further to comment upon the articles seeking to maintain the theory that the King's window was not a window of the Banqueting House at all, but a window of the vestibule or annexe, "otherwise than by pointing out that not a word of contemporary evidence has been put forward in support of it. Many statements made in the course of an unnecessarily wordy argument will, to all who know the literature of the times, convict their writer of errors, (more particularly the ephemeral literature) which no one seems likely to discuss. To do so, besides, would side-track the real issue. This is Which of the seven great windows of the Banqueting House was the King's window? For only one window of the Banqueting House proper "whereof a way was forced,' as Heylin states, was ever mentioned. And the final official account of the beheading of the King, licensed by Milton upon 16 Dec., 1649, says of the King that par l'une des fenestres il passa sur ledict éschafaut.' This account was entitled 'Histoire entière et véritable du procez de Charles Stuart, Roy d'Angleterre,' and its history was traced in The Times for Jan. 30 last. Grignon's letter to Brienne dated 1/11 Feb., 1649, amongst the Record Office Paris transcripts, Bundle 89, renders it impossible to pervert the meaning of the passage, for it says that the King "parut sur un éschafaut tendu de noir sur lequel il estoit entré par une des fenestres de la grande Salle de Witehall [sic].” I therefore propose to end this discussion by completing the traditional evidence, commenced by me at cliii. 426. The further traditional evidence is to be found partly in the later editions of a tract first published in 1660 and entitled England's Black Tribunal,' and partly in an eighteenth century guide-book, perhaps the first of its kind. In their account of the King's passage to the scaffold the earlier editions of England's Black Tribunal' were based upon King Charles, his Speech,' already quoted, but in the later and competing editions issued by various publishers this was amplified. Thus, Thus, seven years before Herbert wrote his manuscript stating that the King passed through the wall yt was purposely broken down at ye North end of ye roome," this writer anticipated him by saying that he passed through it at the further end." The "fifth edition very much enlarged," as also the sixth edition of this tract, printed for J. Wilford and for C. Rivington respectively, and dated respectively 1720 and 1737, agree in saying that the King, ducted through the Banqueting House to the scaffold by a passage made through a win dow." was con The Foreigners Guide,' of which the first edition is dated 1729 and the fourth 1763, was written in English and in French Some versions of the later editions were in Dutch in lieu of French; evidently, therefore, it was very popular. The first edition says: It was from one of the walled windows of this Banqueting House that the same unfortunate Prince, Charles I, went to the scaffold." And the fourth :- It was through one of the windows of this House, which was afterwards walled up, that the same unfortunate Prince Charles I passed to the scaffold." These passages exclude the centre window and first window at the north end, for these were not walled up, and thus PAPWORTH's argument, at 3 S. iv. 195, is rendered nugatory, The evidence of the founder of N. & Q.,' MR. THOMS, and his friend, MR. OWEN, therefore, is confirmed all along the line. The second window from the North was the King's window, because it was walled up. It is quite possible that the record of the blue lozenge-shaped stone in the pavement beneath this second window may be traceable in the books of the "Commissioners of Sewers," now in the custody of the County Council. Unfortunately, these are very voluminous, the Westminster, etc., books, commencing with forty-four volumes of Orders of Court from 1659 onwards, and fifty-three volumes of Bill books, Journals and Ledgers from 1694. These Commissioners had charge of the paving arrangements of London and Westminster, etc. The first Paving Act was 22 and 23 Car. II. c. 17. J. G. MUDDIMAN. BLIND MEN AND THE ELETHE PHANT (cliii. 425, 467). This parable occurs in the Buddhist Tridjñâna-sûtra,' Chinese translation, A.D. 397-439, wherein it is related thus: Anciently there was a king, who made many one of them felt its leg, another one its trunk, blind men observe an elephant in its stall. another one its ears, and yet another its tail. When they had finished the trial, the premier asked them what like the elephant was. He who had felt its leg replied "The elephant is said, as big as a column ; he who had felt its trunk 66 The he who had felt its ear said that it was like elephant resembles a cable "; a winnowing fan; and he who felt its tail similized it into a large broom. Thus they squabbled all together, each holding as truth what he could perceive. Quite on a par with these blindmen are those who consider themselves as of great understanding, regardless of their inabilty to attain the principles because of the paucity of their individual experiences. Here it will be à propos to note that in Chinese the one and same word Siang stands for both Elephant and Imagination.' This has been explained by the famous pragmatic philosopher, Kan-pi (ob. 233 B.C.):"Man [in China then] can see a living elephant very seldom, the bones of a dead one being only obtainable. So he uses to imagine a living elephant after the picture of its bones; hence every one's imagination and the elephant are homonymously called Siang.' KUMAGUSU MINAKATA. Tanabe, Kii, Japan. AL LLPORT: EAST INDIA COMPANY MARINE SERVICE (cliv. 102).-As I was recently successful in a somewhat similar enquiry to that made at this reference, a relation of the line of search I followed may help. For the name of the East Indiaman, search might be made at the P.R. O., where will be found the bulk of the records of the H.E.I.C. should contain some notice of Captain AllThe Company's "In Letters " port's ship. If not, the "In Letters "" to the Admiralty should be seen, as it is possible that the vessel was engaged at some time in the Government's transport service to the Cape and India. Having found the ship's name, the best way to trace the log would be to apply first to Lloyd's Register of Shipping, Fenchurch Street, who would be able to supply the name of the shipowners whose representatives might know where the log is. If it was not retained by the Master or handed to his Owners, an enquiry should be made of the General Register Office of Shipping and Sea men, Tower Hill, which is entrusted with the custody of logs of English vessels. The volumes of Muster Rolls which are also archived at that Register Office should be looked at, as, in the event of the vessel having been used as a transport while Capt Allport was Master, there should be a reference in the Rolls to him and his crew. If these sources fail, it would be as well to glance down the typed list of ships' logs at the P.R.O., although the logs of Government transports do not appear to have been deposited at the Admiralty. All logs of that period belonging to the Admiralty are, of course, now stored at the P.R.O. There are a few logs in the MS. Dept. of the British Museum; and the catalogue of the library of the Royal United Service Institution should also be seen. Regarding biographical details of Capt. Allport, it is well to know that the H.E.I.C. required birth certificates from its officials. These certificates or sworn declarations of birth are still archived in the library of the India Office, and a copy of a specified entry can be obtained. These declarations are specially useful in the case of Scotch officials in the Company's service, in view of the unsatisfactory condition of the parish registers of Scotland at that time. If it be found that Capt. Allport was at any time in Government service, the Navy Records Society, Admiralty, may have a note of his career. In one case I found that among the records at the India Office were the ledger and receipt book of an East Indiaman. Their catalogue should be inspected by your correspondent. G. W. WRIGHT. Information regarding the East India Company's Marine service is to be found in Charles Hardy's Register of Ships employed in the Service of the Honourable the United ancestor, who bore arms prior to 1415, the claimant could obtain access to such records as Wills, the Patent, Close, and Subaidy Rolls, Inquisitiones Post Mortem, Heralds' Visitations, Feet of Fines, etc., and by apply ing for information to the College of Arms, which he would naturally do in the first place, this Institution being the fountainhead in matters of coat-arinour and genealogy, and before which it would be necessary for him eventually to submit his case for approval by the Heralds. Parish Registers commenced, or were ordained to commence, in 1538, and not in the mid-fifteenth century, as your correspondent surmises. C. S. C. (B/C.). in this Upon the assumption, stated query, that it could be proved (to the satisfaction of the officers of the College of Arms) that Tess's father was descended from a very ancient family (which the records of the College showed bore arms), Tess's brother would be entitled, without any grant, to use such and registered at the College of Arms. The arms when the pedigree had been accepted additions, words in brackets are essential The last part of the query is inconsistent with the previous statement that the descent could be " proved, and suggests that the necessary proof could not be given if church registers and wills were not available. But there are obviously many other and additional ways of proving a descent which are accepted by the College of Arms for the period before the existence of church registers and wills. The Record Office is full of legal documents of all kinds which can be called in aid, and proper research can often unearth documents in private custody which would also be admitted to prove links in a descent. R. S. B. ing is an extract from an account book in Berkeley Castle: 1613 May 27th. To John Paynter the glasier for glasing the chappell by the church, viz.: East India Company,' 1707-1760, with a sup-QUARILLS (cliii. 405, 448, 466).-Followplementary volume by his son carrying on the record to 1810. After that date the Marine Records preserved at the India Office should be consulted. Captain Rowland Allport's name does not appear in the list of captains, the logs of whose ships exist in that collection, but the records of the Committee of Shipping or other Misc. MS. volumes will probably furnish the details desired. LXV foote and v inches of newe glasse LXVIII new quarrells at vi a foote and a penny a quarrell and for banding vi panes of ould £1 198. 4d. glasse at II a pane. ffor poynting the said chappell windowes 10d. The Chappell by the Church SACKVILLE'S BUCKINGHAM AND · She thrice essayed to speak; her accents And, faltering, dried 'unfinished on her Dryden is translating Ovid, 'Metamor- RIVER WATER USED FOR DRINKING And perhaps also- Das Wasser,' by Pfaff d'eau,' by Van Der Mensbrugghe (Bruxelles, (München, 1870); and Histoire d'une goutte 1885). Olomouc, Czechoslovakia. OTTO F. BABLER. THE BOOKS OF NUMA POMPILIUS (cliv. 83).-Matthew Paris, or rather the compiler of the earlier part of the Chronica Maiora,' was not the author of the passage quoted by H. F. The compiler took it from the Chronicon of Freculphus, bishop of Lisieux, who died about the middle of the ninth century. H. R. Luard, in his Rolls Series edition of the Chronica Maiora,' vol. i. p. 37, gives the reader a marginal reference to the place in Freculphus's work, i. 3. 13; and if we turn to Freculphus, in vol. cvi. of Migne's Patrologia Latina,' we find the same passage with the slightest verbal differences, down to the end of the sentence (omitted by H. F.) which follows concremauit, ne aliqua curiositate ad hominum notitiam tantum nefas diabolicum perueniret.' But, after all, the account in Freculphus is a not unnatural developement of what Livy (Book xl. chap. 29) tells of the discovery and destruction of Numa's books. The praetor urbanus, Quintus Petilius, he says, on a general examination of the contents of these books, formed the opinion pleraque dissoluendarum religionum esse, and on his report the senate ordered them to be burnt. The introduction of the diabolus into the matter is not surprising in a medieval Christian when he comes to speak Ter conata loqui, ter fletibus ora rigavit. Lancelot's passing by. Surely it is the classical substratum that induces the feeling of resemblance between Sackville and Milton. W. J. Courthope wrote (in his "History of English Poetry,' ii. 125): "Of the epic poets of England, if Chaucer is the first to exhibit the genuinely classic spirit, Sackville is the first to write in the genuinely classic manner, L. R. M. STRACHAN. Birmingham University. of the unorthodox. EDWARD BENSLY. FERRERS CHURCH (cliv. HIGHAM 64, 105). The enclosed from my friend Mr. Owen Parker, will, I hope, answer this enquiry: My dear Mr. Pocock, Higham Ferrers. 3rd February, 1928. 1 duly received your cutting from "Notes and Queries." So far as our local histories tell us, it would appear that the spire of our Church, with a small portion of the tower, collapsed during a heavy gale in the early part of 1631. The responsible officers of the Church lost no time in ENGLISH IN THE LISBON EARTHQUAKE (cliv. 101). Though I am unable to answer the query, perhaps the following notes may interest the querist. The English College at Lisbon, at that time new and solidly built, suffered little material damage, but the President, Dr. John Manley alias John Thorpe, who was born in 1680, was killed by the falling of the belfry on the feast of All Saints (1. Nov.), 1755, while preparing to say Mass. The Rev. T. Flood, in an article in The Tablet for Sept. 16, 1922, wrote: For greater security the students were sent to the country house beyond the Tagus, a plan that nearly proved a quicker route to heaven than the earthquake. The government had forbidden anyone to leave the city. The community were either ignorant of this, or were resolved more britannico to "chance it." All the way across the Tagus they were bom barded by the river forts, but thanks to Providence and the poor aim of the Portuguese gunners they reached their destination safely. Lord Charles Douglas (b. 17 July, 1726), the younger brother of Henry Douglas, styled Earl of Drumlanrig (as to whom see cxlvii. 333), was at Winchester College as a Commoner from 1734, when there were 123 Commoners there, to 1741, when the number of Commoners had sunk to 39. He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, 30 May, 1745. From 1747 to 1754 he was M.P. for Dumfries, but, as in those times the eldest sons of Scottish Peers were ineligible for the House of Commons, he became disqualified on the death of his brother, 19 Oct., 1754. Lord Drumlanrig, as he was thereafter styled, went to Lisbon in 1755 for his health's a sake, and was there at the time of the earthquake. 'He was writing a letter to his father when it commenced, and he was occupied from nine till two in the morning clambering over ruins till he got into place of safety. So says Douglas and Wood's Peerage,' but it must mean from nine_in_the_morning till two in the afternoon. The British Minister at Lisbon, writing 6 Nov., after remarking that his house, having survived the shock though greatly damaged, and being out of reach of the flames, had become the refuge of several of his friends burnt out of their houses, goes well as I could, under tents in my large garon to say "I have accommodated them, as den; nobody but Lord Charles Douglas, who is actually on board the packet, besides our chaplain and myself, having dared hitherto to sleep in my house since the day of our disaster." Lord Drumlanrig died at Amesbury, Wilts., on 24 Oct., 1756, unmarried, and was buried at Durisdeer, Dumfriesshire. BLOTTING-PAPER AND INKSTANDS (cliii. 459; cliv. 35, 68, 105).-The fallibility of fixing the age of documents from the manner in which they were blotted was commented upon by me, in answer to a somewhat similar question, as long ago as Sept. 7, 1907, in the Boston Evening Transcript's Notes and Queries, viz.: "When the sandbox went out and blotting-paper came in would be hard to fix. Blottynge papyr werueth to drye weete wryttynge lest there be made blottis or blurris,' wrote Horman in 1519; it is mentioned elsewhere fifty years earlier and fragments have been found in fifteenth-century account-books where it had been used. As to sand, I saw this used by Joseph A. Willard as clerk of Suffolk Superior Court about 1900, and I understand |