of and in the reversion of a cottage, garden, The Hilton Register records the burial on 22 May, 1626, of William Dyrant, and the marriage on 22 Sept:, 1617, of William Dyrant, son of John Dyrant and Mary, daughter of Henry (Whinnell ?); also the burial of John Dyrant of Aller on 6 March, 1617. The baptism is recorded of Eliza beth, daughter of William Dyrant, 18 Nov., 1621. or Can any of your readers locate the DyrantGerard (or vice versa) marriage, ante 1630, which would appear to be indicated? the marriage of Charles Dirent or Gerard (or Jearrad) circa 1730? or throw any light upon the use of the alias ? F. R. GALE. 103, Abingdon Road, Kensington. LEYSON FAMILY.-The subjoined paragraph appeared in The Morning Post of 20 Dec., 1911 : "Mr. William Leyson, of Neath, has died at the age of 86. He traced his descent from a Welsh prince. It was a Leyson who was the last Abbot of Neath Abbey." I should be glad to know where a pedigree of this Mr. Leyson's descent may be seen, and whether the Rev. Thomas Leyson, a former vicar of Bassaleg, co. Monmouth (whose son John Leyson married a Brecknockshire heiress, and assumed her name, Penoyre), was of this family. CURIOUS. COMMUNION TABLE BY GRINLING GIBBONS IN ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL.-Can any reader of 'N. & Q.' tell me what became of the original altar in St. Paul's Cathedral when the present altar and reredos were erected? I have always understood that it was placed in some other position in the Cathedral, but a contemporary asserts that it was presented to some other church, and also that it was richly carved by Grinling Gibbons. mention is made of this in any of the guideAs no books to St. Paul's, I should be glad to know if there is any truth in it. FREDERICK T. HIBGAME. 23, Unthank Road, Norwich. 'GULLIVER': Gulliver's Travels,' Brobdingnag, chap. v., BRISTOL BARRELS. certain apples are described as them near as large as a Bristol barrel. "each of should be greatly obliged if any of your readers could inform me whether Bristol was actually, at any period of its history, particularly blest in its barrels, or whether it is merely mentioned by the Dean by way of corroborative detail to add a reasonable verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing statement. RUDOLF PICKTHALL. 66 The Cottage, New Milton. SUSSEX DRINKING CUSTOM.-In the Sussex village of which my father was rector a At the last words the beer had to be drunk, The liquor's drinked up, and the bowl is turned over, "is" should the person be so unlucky as Upham Rectory, Hants. Is it E. L. H. TEW. FRESH WHARF.-One Henry Yevele or ments, rents, &c., comprising Yeuele, who died in 1400, left certain tenewharf at le Hole in the parish of St. Magnus "le Fisshthe Martyr, London Bridge.' forerunner of the present Fresh Wharf? The Was this a latter evidently existed in 1422, and was called " Fresh Wharf " Fitz - Robert, Reginald Sharpe's 'Calendar (vide will of Robert of Wills, Court of Husting,' ii. 437), but is described in the will as being situated in Stow writes it "Frosh Wharf," and says the parish of St. Botolph, Billingsgate. that it is so called after its owner. Could any of your readers enlighten me on this point? REGINALD JACOBS. 24, Glenmore Road, Belsize Park. 66 MOSS, AN ACTOR.-Born in Dublin, died at Edinburgh, 11 Jan., 1817. Originally engaged in an active profession, he came from Dublin to London, and joined a company of actors at Enfield, Essex" (see The Thespian Dictionary,' 1802 ed.); appeared at Drury Lane in 1786 as Lovegold in The Miser,' also at Bath and The Haymarket Theatre, and again at Drury Lane, which he finally left in 1789 for Edinburgh. The Gentleman's Magazine, 1817, No. 87, pt. i. p. 92, recording his death, says: "Many still recollect the excellence with which he pourtrayed Lingo," adding that "he was many years a member of the Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Haymarket Theatres." Public and private assistance alone prevented his dying in extreme poverty. Will any reader kindly tell me where fuller information may be obtained? I wish to ascertain (1) his Christian name; (2) date of birth; (3) whom he married and where; (4) what children he had, if any; and (5) his parentage. E. W. Moss-BLUNDELL. 7, North Grove, Highgate, N. MAJOR-GENERAL MILLER, R.M.-I have a portrait so named, dated 1821. Can any one assist me to identify the original? He appears to be a man of middle age. P. D. M. VALIDITY OF A PRESIDENTIAL SEAL.Will any reader kindly inform me through the columns of N. & Q.' whether any legal formalities (as in the case of armorial bearings) have to be observed for an official seal of the head of a religious body, e.g., president or bishop elect of a Nonconformist Church? The question occurred recently in examining some literary remains of a bishopelect of a Nonconformist Church. Apparently the seal of this said bishop, consisting of an ecclesiastical ornament, &c., had been officially used, and the legal value of it was questioned on the ground that it had not been through the formalities at Heralds' College. The question arises as to whether the use of such a private seal of a lay bishop is permissible in the case of legal documents, and whether it ranks in the same way as the private seal of a public company. Wм. F. BAKER. some hymnals the called a "Spanish to "Marechio." I Who was he, and FORREST MORGAN. MARECHIO. In tune 'Autumn' is melody," and credited cannot find his name. when did he live? Hartford, Conn. REFERENCE WANTED. In which of Thomas Hood's poems occurs the line And elephant-like I had a cake put in my trunk?] I have the Complete Works,' edited by W. Jerrold (Frowde), but cannot find it. W. PRICE. 45, Montague Road, Richmond, Surrey. MAYWOOD: MAUDE OR MAWHOOD. - Can any of your readers inform me of any eighin parish registers or probate registries or teenth-century records of Maywoods, either elsewhere? without success trying to get behind Samuel I have spent a very long time between 1787 and 1808, when he died. His Maywood, who lived at Plaistow, West Ham, birth, which would be about 1750, must have occurred elsewhere. There is another curious fact upon which I should be glad to receive enlightenment. In Hunter's Familia Minorum Gentium From this it appears that a John Maude of occurs a pedigree of Maudes and Mawhoods. Ardsley had four sons, who spelt their surname Mawhood. This would be c. 1600. Can any one inform me if this was an instance of a common practice of the period, and the reason of the practice? Was it differentiation or disguise? H. G. MAYWOOD. 87, Iffley Road, Oxford.*. CURZON AND CLERKENWELL (?). Some Powell. Owen is believed to have left a time late in 1910, or between June son or sons by his first wife, and any inforIt and December, 1911, or early in 1912, mation about these will be welcomed. there appeared an article either in The is known that there were a son and daughter Morning Post or The Times-more prob- of the second marriage: information as to Owen was living in ably the former-upon certain archæo- these is also wanted. logical discoveries in London, among 1698 (according to W. R. Williams's 'Parliawhich was mentioned the gift of a drink- mentary Representation of Wales'), but ing trough or fountain by one Nathaniel the date and place of his death are required. R. L. MORETON. Curzon circa 1500 to Clerkenwell (?). The reference having been mislaid, the under- 12, Serjeants' Inn, Fleet Street, E.C. signed would be very glad if any reader of N. & Q.' could supply the information. C. OF K. MILO AS A SURNAME.-I should be glad of any reference to this surname in the eighteenth century. I am inclined to place it in Sussex, but can trace it in London from the early part of the nineteenth century. G. R. MOTTO ON A RING.-Some few years ago a posy ring found in this neighbourhood came into my possession. Originally it appears to have been a wedding- or reason ring," and then, wearing thin, to have had a thick band of pale floriated gold welded round it. After ten years' wrestling its riddle remains unread, and I now appeal to 'N. & Q.' for help. The motto reads:Devinez-H. L. A. F. S. H. A. HARRIS. Thorndon Rectory, Eye, Suffolk. CORNISH CAROL.-In the parish of Gwennap is sung by children a (cumulative) carol beginning I will teach you one- No. 2 is the Son, 3 the Trinity, 4 the daily hour, 5 the fillee bird. Can some one kindly tell me what the corruptions indicated by italics represent? YGREC. ["What is your one, oh!" has been discussed at considerable length in N. & Q.; see 1 S. ix. 325; 4 S. ii. 324, 452, 599; iii. 90, 183; x. 412, 499; 6 S. xii. 484; 7 S. i. 96, 118, 206, 315, 413; vii. 264, 337, 438, 495. At 6 S. xii. 484 MR. G. C. BOASE printed, under the heading A Cornish Carol,' a version which had been sung at Padstow "from time out of mind."] ARTHUR OWEN OF JOHNSTON, CO. PEM- PRINTS TRANSFERRED ΤΟ GLASS.-Can any reader inform me by what method prints were transferred to glass, the paper being entirely removed, leaving only the ink of the print upon the glass, as in the Was there case of the old glass pictures? more than one method? and if so, which is the most suitable in transferring old prints ? ANDREW J. GRAY. 3D, Bushey Hill Road, Peckham Road, S.E. J. W. GILBART : HIS MOTHER.-James William Gilbart, the eminent banker, was the son of the Rev. Francis Gilbart, a Congregational minister, and was born in London in 1786. I am anxious to ascertain his mother's maiden name and the date and place of her marriage. I have before me Francis Gilbart's pedigree back to James Gilbart, who married Mary Veycholl (or Vercoe), 23 April, 1677. J. H. R. LINES IN GEORGE PEELE'S EDWARD THE FIRST.-On the second leaf from the end, after the disclosure of Ione's (Joan's) illegitimacy, Shee fals groueling on the ground.' Then the following lines are introduced : Por ce ine abbassa come vinto e stanco. King. O Sommo Dio come i guidneo humans, The edition of 1599 follows that of 1593, except a misprint. I would ask whether these lines are traceable to any Italian author, and if so, how they run in the original, for here they are manifestly corrupt. RICHARD H. THORNTON. GEORGE II.'s NATURAL CHILDREN.-Are there any records of George II.'s illegitimate descendants? and were they numerous ? In a case which I am interested in the son and daughter of the King seem to have been remarkably well provided for, which would suggest that such offspring were not very numerous. G. J., F.S.A. RAILWAY SMOKING - CARRIAGES. (11 S. ix. 129.) 66 as not to be allowed to proceed to London by any train that night. 66 An amusing volume of reminiscences, written by an ex-station-master on the Great seventies," tells Western Railway in the " how that company once caught a tartar. The stationmaster at Didcot removed a up" express train, and passenger from an handed him over to the police on a charge of smoking to the annoyance of a fellow-traveller. The next day the prisoner was brought before the magistrates, and when asked what he had to say in answer to the charge, he replied : "Gentlemen, the offence took place in the county of Wilts, whereas I am now charged in Berkshire. I am a solicitor; I was specially engaged in a case which I shall now miss, and I I shall sue the company for detaining me. respectfully hold that you, in this county, have no jurisdiction over what occurred in another county." He was released, and he did sue the company, and got 807. damages. no The anti-tobacco fanatics did every. thing in their power to strengthen the companies' hands, and gave them mercy if they evinced a disposition not In 1853 a rabid to uphold the by-law. old fogy sued the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway merely because he smelt some one smoking, not in his compartment, but He based his somewhere in the train. claim on the danger he ran from fire and injury to his feelings, and he was actually restricted damages to the tune awarded 66 of 8l. 6s. 8d. DURING the first thirty years of their existence a great tobacco persecution was waged by the railways of this country, when, with a few isolated exceptions, no accommodation was set apart in trains for smokers, and smoking was absolutely prohibited in railway carriages. This veto, which was productive of annoyance, diversion, and some hard knocks, was probably dictated, not by any lingering belief in the supposed noxious qualities of the herb, but by an apprehension of danger from the carelessness of those who used it. Nevertheless, as early Guards, however, were venal, and invenas 1839 Lieut. Peter Le Count, inspector tors came to the assistance of smokers. of rolling-stock on the London and Bir- Writing to The Times in 1846, a corremingham Railway, recommended attach-spondent reported, with indignation, that tobacconists' windows were full of craftily ing a smoking-carriage to every train, "railway pipes," adapted for this habit has become almost a necessary contrived During the "instantaneous concealment. of life with many people." This carriage," 'fifties and sixties the great railway he added, "should be placed last on the train, except horse-boxes, and no platform smoking question was a standng jest in should communicate with it, nor any connec- Punch: how the smoking traveller bribed tion exist with the other carriages.' The officials, how he got rid of fellow-travelrailway companies' by-law against smoking lers who objected to pipe or weed, &c. was vigorously enforced, and sometimes to a point of gross illegality, if we are to believe contemporary accounts. For example, The Mechanics' Magazine tells the story of the fate that befell a foreign gentleman who, while travelling from Brighton to London in 1842, insisted upon keeping his cigar alight after the guard had warned him to desist. At the next station he was met by a demand for his ticket, ordered out of the coupé, and the guard, addressing one of the officers on the platform, warned him that "that person was 66 The first smoking-carriage was introduced on the Eastern Counties Railway It was a first-class in September, 1846. saloon, forty feet in length, the ends being converted into a kind of open lounge, while inside the "Divan," as it was termed, morocco-leather sofas, mahogany tables, and self-balancing lamps were found. It was the peculiarity of a officially stated that portion of the Cambridge and Newmarket traffic suggested to the Company the formation of such a description of carriage." 66 MEN, WOMEN, AND HERVEYS " (11 S. viii. 250, 334, 360).-At the second reference COL. PRIDEAUX throws considerable doubt on the attribution of this saying to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. In The Jockey Club; or, A Sketch of the Manners of the Age' (attributed to Charles Pigott), part ii., seventh edition, 1792, p. 4, in the article on the D-ke of G-c-t-r, is the following :— 66 'MEMOIRS OF SIR JOHN LANGHAM, BART." (11 S. viii. 281, 351, 463; ix. 16, 53, 155).— Gilbert Burnet and Narcissus Luttrell have already been quoted for Sir James Langham's command of Latin. The Bishop's testimony, it may be observed, when given in its complete form, is rather more disparaging. He describes him as "a very weak man, famed only for his readiness of speaking florid Latin," and concludes: But he was become a pedant with it, and his style was too poetical, and full of epithets and figures" (History of his Own Times,' vol. i. 1823, p. 464). The books A more flattering estimate, by a more famous writer, of Sir James's character and Latinity has been overlooked. and further subdivisions of Fuller's great Church-History,' 1655, have separate Ďedications. I am content to accept John Eglington Bailey's calculation that there "are no less than seventy-five dedicatory epistles addressed to eighty-five patrons and patronessesa circumstance which evidences Fuller's popularity and a wide acquaintance.” The tenth century in book ii. is offered to "Iacobo Langham, Armigero, amplissimi Senatoris Londinensis Primogenito." After explaining that the dedication is meant to be particularly honourable because of the importance attaching to the number ten, and referring to Langham's "lætum in. genium," and explaining that his name is prefixed to this part of the history to lighten the path of readers wandering in this dark friend's familiarity with the minutiae of period, he ends with a compliment to his Latin style : "Quo cum nemo sit in ipsis Elegantiarum apicibus Latinior, probe scio, Te perquam suaviter barie scatens, perlegeris." risurum, cum Diploma Edvardinum, nimia Bar The charter was that by which Edward the elder in 915 "effected the Restauration of decayed Cambridge"! EDWARD BENSLY. "Old Lady T-sh-nd formerly observed, that the human race might be divided into three separate classes :-men, women, and H-v-eys.' (The latter second dash is evidently an error.) AYLOFFE (11 S. ix. 191). The family of A foot-note says: Alluding to the B-t-1 Ayloffe will be found in the Harleian family." Though one does not put great Society's Visitations of Essex,' as well as faith in the Jockey Club' articles, it may in Morant's Essex' and other county be worth noting that this attribution to histories. The pedigrees in the Visitations Lady Townshend is in a book which was do not mention any Isabella. published forty-five years before Lord Wharncliffe's edition of The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu,' which appeared in 1837. See third reference, s.v. corrigendum. ROBERT PIERPOINT. William Ayloffe was Serjeant-at-law in 1577, and died in 1585, and other members of the family seem to have been closely connected with the legal profession. GEORGE RICKWORD. Public Library, Colchester. |