undecked boat, and now a small wooden compartment in the bows or stern of a boat to serve as a cupboard. The derivation of tille, according to Littré, is the same as that of tillac, a sea-term for the bridge of a ship, and at one time for the deck of a ship. Panurge was prostrate on the tillac during the storm described in the eighteenth chapter of the fourth book of Rabelais. The etymology given of tillac is: Spanish tillá, Portug. tilhá, Anc. Scandin. thilia, Swed. tilja, Anglo-Saxon thille. The ll in tillac and tille should be "mouillées et non 'ti-yak,' 'ti-yé.' On the other hand, Skeat (1882) insists that the proper sense of the word till (a shop's till) is something that can be pulled in and out; and, while. stating that the origin is obscure, and the root uncertain, suggests words giving the idea of something that is moved an idea quite contrary to Littré. It is noteworthy that none of the cognate words mentioned by Littré is noticed by Skeat, and vice versa. J. J. FREEMAN. no Shepperton-on-Thames. EXTRAORDINARY BIRTHS. (See 4 S. viii. 369; ix. 53, 127, 165, 204.) Whatever scepticism there may be in connexion with other recorded instances, there seems reason to doubt the particulars described on a memorial tablet on a house in Hameln, in Westphalia-the Hamelin of Pied Piper fame. This Denkstein der Siebenlinge depicts the kneeling figures of the father, mother, two sons, three daughters, and the seven swaddled babies. It bears the following inscription : ALHIER EIN BÜRGER THIELE RÜMER GENANNT SEINE HAUSFRAU ANNA BREYERS WOHL BEKANNT ALS MANN ZEHLTE 1600 IAHR DEN 9TEN IANUARIUS DES MORGENS 3 UHR WAR 6 66 Quoted by Burton in his Anatomy of Melancholy,' but that is all I know of him." One can see how the error arose. Burton's marginal note, as late as the third edition of his Anatomy' (1628), p. 486, is Englished by Mr. B. Holiday in his Technog., Act I. Scen. 7." In the fourth edition (1632) the name is spelt "Holliday." In the fifth (1638) we get "M. B. Holliday." But Barten Holyday (1593-1661) and his 'Texvoyaμía; or, The Marriages of the Arts, a Comedie,' to say nothing of his translations of Juvenal and Persius, are pretty well known-by name at least. There are articles on the play in Isaac D'Israeli's Curiosities of Literature' and vol. viii. of The Retrospective Review, and a Life of the author in the 'D.N.B.' EDWARD BENSLY. "When the late Duke of Cumberland, son of George III., was at Rome, he fell in love with, and privately married, a nun, daughter of Lladislaus [Stanislaus ?], the last King of Poland, whose son was lost at the battle of Dresden. She had a daughter, and on her was settled a large sum, of which Lord B[rougham] was one of the trustees. Mr. Binks was a servant of the Crown, an observer at foreign Courts. He married the daughter of the nun's daughter. The trust money His was never really conveyed, and was lost. wife died, and at my request Sir John Lubbock [the late] put Mr. Binks into Morden [?] College, where he also died a year or two ago.' This memorandum, dated 30 March, 1875, is addressed to C. Wollston, Esq. Both it and Lord Brougham's barely legible letter are in my possession. RICHARD H. THORNTON. 8, Mornington Crescent, N.W. SHAKESPEARIANA: MEASURE FOR MEASURE,' V. I. 293.— Duke. Respect to your great place! and let the devil Be sometime honour'd for his burning throne! Surely this is a reminiscence of a passage in the Epistle of Jude, vv. 8, 9, which I give in the words of the version which Shakespeare most frequently quotes. The writer is speaking of certain lawless persons, and says: "[They] despise government, and speak evil of them that are in authority: yet Michael the Arch angel, when he strove against the devil and disputed about the body of Moses, durst not blame him with cursed speaking, but said, 'The Lord rebuke thee.' The illustration chosen to enforce the precept to respect those in authority is so singular that one can scarcely believe that the two passages are independent of each other. It has been said that Shakespeare's knowledge of Scripture was just of the sort that a sharp boy might pick up from hearing it read in church. The above instance of intelligent appreciation of a somewhat recondite passage of Scripture is only one of many of the kind, and suggests something more than superficial knowledge. The title of this play itself is, of course, taken from Matt. vii. 2: "With what measure ye mete,' &c. Some of our readers may remember the allusion to the above passage of Jude in Felix Holt,' where Mrs. Holt speaks of honouring your betters, even if they was the devil himself." Lerwick. 66 Queries. J. WILLCOCK. RETROSPECTIVE HERALDRY. - In The Gentleman's Magazine for 1830, vol. ii. p. 87, is a long genealogical notice of the Gale Everett family of Heytesbury, Wilts, in which the coat of arms is "to be borne by the grantee Thomas Everett and his descendants, and by the descendants of his grandfather John Everett deceased." The grant of arms to the Everett family is said to have been from the London College in 1811. Does the London College of Heralds grant coat armour in this fashion nowadays as an ordinary part of its business? and what may the value be of such heraldry from any point of view? It would be interesting to 'FABLES DES ROYS DE HONGRIE.'-The compiler of The Present State of Hungary' (London, 1687) mentions among the sources he made use of a book entitled 'Fables des Roys de Hongrie.' As this was evidently published anonymously, I require the exact title, to enable me to find the entry in any library catalogue. Can any reader kindly help me? L. L. K. MERCERS' CHAPEL, LONDON.-Is Mercers' Chapel still standing? and if so, where is it situated? Are its Registers of Burials, &c., still extant ? Dame Elizabeth Whitmore, widow, by her will-proved in P.C.C. in 1667 (58 Carr) -directs that she be buried in Mercers' Chapel, London, by the side of her son-inlaw John Bennett, or at St. Andrew's M.P. for Bridgnorth, and died in 1663. Undershaft, London. John Bennett was I want to obtain the dates of the burial of Dame Elizabeth Whitmore and John Bennett if it be possible. W. G. D. FLETCHER, F. S. A. CUTHBERT BEDE.-Writing to N. & Q.' in 1855 (1 S. xii. 280), CUTHBERT BEDE (the Rev. Edward Bradley) says: "My mother's mother came from the Newport neighbour. hood" (Newport in Shropshire). Can any correspondent kindly tell me who this lady was, and to what village she belonged ? W. G. D. FLETCHER, F.S.A. Oxon Vicarage, Shrewsbury. NAMES ON COFFINS.-Can any of your readers tell me when it became general to inscribe the name and age of the deceased upon the coffin? I have seen coffins in the vault of a wealthy family, dated 1777, of which the earlier ones are without any inscription, and those of a later period (some of which are covered with cloth) have real silver plates with name and age inscribed thereon. LEONARD C. PRICE. OLD ETONIANS.-I shall be grateful for information regarding any of the following: (1) Lewis, George Goodin, admitted 8 Sept., 1763, left 1768. (2) Lewis, John, admitted 8 Sept., 1759, left 1766. (3) Lister, Thomas Martin, admitted 25 July, 1756, left 1758. (4) Lloyd, John, admitted 24 Jan., 1764, left 1769. (5) Lloyd, Richard, admitted 2 Sept., 1760, left 1764. (6) Long, Francis, admitted 19 Sept., 1759, left 1765. (7) Lovibond, George, admitted 12 Jan., 1759, left 1762. (8) Lovibond, James, admitted 12 Jan., 1759, left 1762. (9) Luttrell, Thomas William, admitted 5 May, 1762, left 1763. (10) Macpherson, John, admitted 2 Feb., 1764, left 1764. (11) Manners, George, admitted 7 July, 1757, left 1762. (12) Manners, George, admitted 8 July, 1763, left 1766. (13) Manning, George Owen, admitted 10 Sept., 1765, left 1772. (14) Martin (or Marten), Thomas, admitted 14 May, 1757, left 1765. (15) Martin, William, admitted 23 Jan., 1761, left 1761. (16) Martyr, John, admitted 29 Aug., 1759, left 1767. (17) Mason, Guy, admitted 20 Jan., 1758, left 1762. (18) Mead, Richard, admitted 19 Jan., 1756, left 1763. HORSE ON COLUMN IN PICCADILLY. The Story of Bethlehem Hospital,' by the Rev. E. G. O'Donoghue, has an illustration showing Piccadilly, at the top of St. James's Street, in 1720, and a column there surmounted by a horse. What was this monument ? J. LANDFEAR LUCAS. THE GERMAN RAID: EFFECT OF SOUND OF FIRING ON BIRDS.-Letters have appeared in the newspapers about the distance at which firing was audible during the recent raid, and I observed that two of them (to a Leeds newspaper) refer to the fact that pheasants and other birds in remote localities became much perturbed and noisy at the time. This seems very singular, as the sound of the detonation many miles inland would be by no means loud. Can any one explain why the birds behaved in this way? G. BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION WANTED. I should be glad to obtain further information concerning the following Old Westminsters: (1) Thomas Nathly, K.S. 1669. (2) Thomas Neale, Scholar of Trin. Coll., Camb., 1698. (3) Walter Neale of Trin. Coll., Camb., LL.D. 1682. (4) Samuel Needham of Trin. Coll., Camb.,M.A. 1675. (5) William Nelson of Ch. Ch., Oxon, B.A. 1753. (6) James Necton, Scholar of Trin. Coll., Camb., 1585. (7) Edward Nevile of Trin. Coll., Camb., M.A. 1615. (8) Francis Newbery of Ch. Ch., Oxon, B.A. 1594. (9) Thomas Newland of Trin. Coll., Camb., B.A. 1642/3. (10) Henry Nokes, son of Henry Nokes Jamaica, of Ch. Ch., Oxon, B.A. 1711. (11) George Nourse of Ch. Ch., Oxon, M.A. 1658. (12) John Nourse of Ch. Ch., Oxon, G. F. R. B. M.A. 1657. of SIR DUDLEY WYATT.-A letter written by Cromwell to the Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, dated 23 Dec., 1647, requesting the readmission of Wyatt to his Fellowship, is printed in Carlyle's Letters and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell' (1893), vol. i. pp. 259260. after the date of this letter, went to France, According to Carlyle, Wyatt, directly developed himself into a spy, and "attained to Knighthood to be the ‘Sir Dudley Wyatt' of Clarendon's History." [Mr. Algernon Graves in his Royal Academy of Arts' (1905), vol. i., gives the title as Socialists,' and the number in the exhibition of 1850 as 252.] "PARASOL."-A lady going out said, "O! I must have my sunshade." I said, "Why not parasol ? Has that word gone Shaw's The only Dudley Wyatt in out? "No," was the reply; you can Knights of England' is described as a have a parasol if you like to pay for it. But Commissary-General, and was knighted it is far more expensive than a sunshade." 4 June, 1645, two years before the date Is this difference generally recognized? of Cromwell's letter. I should be glad to The Oxford English Dictionary' explains learn further details of this Dudley Wyatt's parasol by the word "sunshade." career and the date of his death. 6 66 RALPH THOMAS. 6 G. F. R. B. Handley Cross or the Spa Hunt. By the Author of Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities. | Henry Colburn. 1843." This book is not illustrated, but, with some exceptions, is word for word as that of the 1854, the great exception being in the omission of six chapters of the 1854, the whole 1843 work being divided into thirtynine chapters, against eighty in that of 1854. I should feel much obliged if any reader of 'N. & Q.' would kindly explain this evident plagiarism. The Handley Cross' of 1854 I take to be a first edition, and by Surtees. The question is, Who is the culprit? The dedications are dissimilar. [The 1854 edition Handley Cross, or Mr. Jorrocks's Hunt,' is an expansion of Handley Cross, or the Spa Hunt,' published in 1843, both being by Surtees.] BARLOW. I should be obliged if some reader would explain the meaning and origin of the surname Barlowe or Barlow, which occurs frequently in the North of England; and also as a place-name, such as Barlow Moor in Lancashire, and Barlow in Yorkshire. Which is the elder of the two placeINQUIRER. names ? 6 Replies. THE SLANG DICTIONARY' PUBLISHED BY J. C. HOTTEN: ITS AUTHOR. (11 S. x. 488.) I WAS closely connected with Mr. John Camden Hotten in the latter part of his life up to his death, and I always understood from him that he was the author (so far as a dictionary can have an "author") of the Slang Dictionary.' From the nature of the case, all dictionaries, from the biggest to the smallest, must be to a great extent compilations; and doubtless Mr. Hotten was largely helped by the contributions of fellow-workers in the field, and by the great collections of cuttings to which, like all working antiquaries, he was always adding ; but that the putting into shape and the making into a volume of the material so collected, as also much of the original writing in it, was his own, I have never doubted. I think the volume may have been once revised by him after 1859, but he had always intended to prepare a greatly improved edition of the book-a project the realization of which, beyond the collection of much additional matter and many corrections, was prevented by his premature death. 66 Soon after Mr. Hotten's death, the work was taken in hand by Mr. Henry Sampson, who, it will be noted, in the Preface to the 1874 edition speaks of the compiler" of WORDS OF POEM WANTED. I wish to the fifteen-years-earlier edition, but himself obtain the words of a 'Poem upon the signs as "editor." He certainly put a Statue of the King erected in the Royal great deal of himself into the book (he was, Exchange by the Society of Merchant Åd-by the way, no mean humorist), though, as venturers, 1684,' J. ARDAGH. 35, Church Avenue, Drumcondra, Dublin. SHAKESPEARIANA ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL.-In 'The Arden Shakespeare,' which is the only separate edition of this play that has a full commentary, the important passage "Has led the drum before the English tragedians is left unnoticed. I am prepared to wager that not one in a hundred readers of Shakespeare would be able to interpret it. I am not quite certain of its meaning, and therefore I ask your readers to explain it to me. I believe it has reference to the actors who marched through the city accompanied by a drum to call attention to the play they were about to MAURICE JONAS. act. 33 66 he tells his readers, in his position as editor of "what, with the smallest possible stretch of fancy, may now be called a new book,” he had "mainly benefited by the labours of others," including "two gentlemen well known in the world of literature,' who have not only aided me with advice, but have placed many new words and etymologies at my service. He tells us also that he "had no idea that the alterations would be nearly so large or so manifest.' The etymologies and histories of words are often very difficult to trace; but the 1874 edition largely added to the value of the 'Dictionary in these departments as in others. Since that date, of course, philology has progressed, and any new compiler of a Dictionary of Slang-should any one be bold enough again to undertake such a task, after the work of Farmer and Henley, Barrère and Leland, Redding Ware, and others would doubtless be able to add considerably to our knowledge of the origins of both older and newer words. MR. PIERPOINT speaks of Mr. Sampson as writing under the name of "Pendragon in The Weekly Dispatch; but is he not best known by the use of that pseudonym in The Referee? He was closely connected with, and held an important position upon, Fun in its best days, and was the author also of the History of Advertising -now long since out of print, but not a rare book in second-hand catalogues. F. J. HYTCH. When Slang, Jargon, and Cant,' by A. Barrèe and C. G. Leland, was published by George Bell & Sons in 1897, the reviewer in The Daily Telegraph wrote as follows:— "From Grose and Bailey to the 'Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words,' published by the late John Camden Hotten nearly forty years ago, was a far cry. The compilation of the last-named work is commonly attributed to the industry of the publisher. As a matter of fact, it was executed for him by the late Henry Sampson, who was in early life a sprint runner and a bit of a boxer, and thoroughly acquainted with the London flash talk of the day." Sampson, who died in 1891, was for many years, if not indeed from its commencement, editor of The Referee, to the readers of which he was well known under the pseudonym of "Pendragon." WILLOUGHBY MAYCOCK. The first edition (1859) bears the following title: "A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words used at the Present Day in the Streets of London, the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, the Houses of Parliament, the Dens of St. Giles, and the Palaces of St. James. Preceded by a History of Cant and Vulgar Languages from the Time of Henry VIII.....with Glossaries of Two Secret Languages spoken by the Wandering Tribes of London, the Costermongers, and the Patterers. By a London Antiquary." A second edition, revised, with 2,000 additional words, was published in 1860, with new editions in 1864 and 1874. The British Museum attributes the work to J. C. Hotten, and Cushing's Initials and Pseudonyms also gives Hotten as the real name of "A London Antiquary." D.N.B.' also gives Hotten as the author of the work, and it seems hardly possible that Henry Sampson could have compiled it, seeing that he was born in 1841, and would be only 18 years of age when it was published. ARCHIBALD SPARKE, F.R.S.L. The Errata Volume of the 'D.N.B.' (1904) adds to the account of Henry Sampson (1841-91) the words: "after the author insert (together with Dictionary of Modern Slang,' second edition, 1860).” A. R. BAYLEY. The late John Camden Hotten was not authors. either very candid or very scrupulous, and the names on the title-pages of some of his books are not necessarily those of the real I very much doubt the existence of "Jacob Larwood," who is credited with the authorship of The History of Signboards,' Anecdotes of the Clergy,' &c.; and the late W. Moy Thomas told me that he was the author of Thackeray, the Humourist and the Man of Letters,' by "Theodore Taylor," which Mr. Lewis Melville in his William Makepeace Thackeray,' 2 vols., 8vo, 1910, attributes to John Camden Hotten himself. Wм. H. PEET. [An interesting reply from ST. SWITHIN postponed.] THOMAS SKOTTOWE : CRAVEN COUNTY (11 S. x. 509).-The modern equivalent for Craven County, South Carolina, is the country generally north of the Santee River and east of what was known as Camden District. It comprised part of what is now included in Berkeley, Charleston, and Georgetown counties. It lost the name of Craven at the time of the American War of Independence in 1776. The Onaree River (or Ganaree, as it was sometimes called), which is the river B. C. S. is looking for, is a tributary of Broad River, and is the boundary dividing Spartanburg and Union counties from Laurens and Newberry counties in the north-western part of the state. E. HAVILAND HILLMAN, F.S.G. [MR. R. FREEMAN BULLEN thanked for reply.] AUTHOR WANTED (11 S. x. 270). The proverb "Le vin est versé, il faut le boire," is said to have been used by M. de Chârost in speaking to Louis XIV. at the siege of Douai (1667), when the King showed an within the firing line. inclination to retire upon finding himself LEO C. SOUTHEY'S WORKS (1 S. x. 489).—In an Appendix to vol. vi. of The Life and Correspondence of the late Robert Southey,' edited by his son, the Rev. C. C. Southey, a probably exhaustive bibliography is given. It is grouped under the two heads of 'Publi. cations and 'Contributions to Periodical Literature.' THOMAS BAYNE. |