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By 1772 the medicine had become standing joke. The Rev. Richard Graves, one of the keenest humorists of the eighteenth century, thus refers to it in his 'Spiritual Quixote' (Book IX., ch. 14) :—

Stephens upon a proper discovery to be made by her for the use of the publick of the medicines prepared by her for the cure of the stone." On March 5, 1739/40, the major portion of the trustees named in the Act met and signed a certificate stating Slicer [a hypochondriac who was in the habit that they were convinced by experiment of sampling all the quack remedies advertised] of the utility and efficacy of the medicines then bid the servant bring him Mrs. Stephens's disclosed by Mrs. Stephens. Thereupon Medicine for the Stone and Gravel, which he never omitted, he said, since it was first discovered. the Treasury paid out £5,000 to her. Writers What! are you afflicted with the stone and on the eighteenth century have condemned gravel then? says Mr. Selkirk.—“Afflicted!" says the whole transaction in the severest terms, Slicer, no sir, God forbid ! nor ever was but it can scarcely be said that the Govern- afflicted with it; but I suppose I should have ment acted recklessly. Of the 22 trustees been afflicted with it before this time if I had not taken this admirable medicine; and, as every who signed the certificate, nine were medical one is subject more or less, to gravel and sabulous men of standing in their profession: T. concretions, it is madness to neglect so easy a Pellet, president of the Royal College of precaution as this noble lithonthriptic, which Physicians; the four censors of that College; and for which the Parliament has granted so Providence has permitted to be discovered, Peter Shaw, who was as eminent as a scienti- handsome a reward." The servant having fic chemist as a physician; Cheselden, brought the preparation, with a large bason of surgeon to Chelsea Hospital; Cæsar Haw- veal broth, Slicer swallowed the nauseous prekins, surgeon to the Prince of Wales; scription with alacrity; though the virtues, or and Samuel Sharpe, surgeon to Guy's. even the safety of that medicine have justly been questioned, notwithstanding the decision The Rev. Stephen Hales, the ablest scientific our wise legislators in its favour. chemist of his day, was also a signatory. In the face of these names it cannot be said that the Government failed to take expert advice. The malady sought to be cured was, at that time, almost as direful as the small-pox, and no one would say that Jenner's discoveries would not have been worth such a sum as was paid to Mrs. Stephens.

J. PAUL DE CASTRO.

7 1, Essex Court, Temple.

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'THE BEGGAR'S OPERA IN DICKENS (12 S. ix. 309; x. 14).-MISS DODDS pulls me up about the paucity of literary" allubut when I wrote sions in Dickens; "literary" I was contrasting him in my mind with Fielding, Scott, and Thackeray, who abound in such quotations-often learned; perhaps I should not have applied the word "literary to The Beggar's Opera,' which is rather dramatic or musical, and therefore current and popular. popular dramatic allusions there may be many in Dickens; I have just found another to add to Miss Dodds's list, also from David Copperfield.' The song from The Beggar's Opera,' When the heart of a man,' which Mr. Wegg sang, was also sung by Steerforth's friend Markham at the disastrous supper party in chap. xxiv. Such references to theB.O.' are perhaps on a level with Sam Weller's mention of the once popular story of George Barnwell.

Particular care should be taken not to put the patient into a course of powerful diuretics with a view of preventing the gravel from concreting in the kidneys: because, whatever great things may be said of this sort of medicines by ignorant pretenders, they certainly injure the parts by their heat and acrimony. Nor can avoid observing, though I am extremely sorry for the occasion, that some gentlemen of the faculty a few years since acted a part much beneath their character, first, in suffering themselves to be imposed on, and then, in encouraging the legislature to purchase an old woman's medicine at an exorbitant price; by vouching that it was capable of breaking stone in the If I may add another word, we must bladder, and bringing away the fragments. distinguish between quotations proper and Mead proceeds to explain the manner allusions, or hidden quotations without in which the experimenters had misled inverted commas in the text of authors. themselves, and recommends a book by One of these was the passage I quoted Dr. Parsons "in which both the mischief from Miss Moucher. A recent reading of done by the medicine, and the artifices several of Scott's novels has shown me how employed to bring it into vogue, are set many unacknowledged expressions from out in a clear light." Milton there are in his pages. For instance,

Jeanie Deans, after her interview with p. 371) awards him the K.C.B. in 1843, with Queen Caroline, was dazzled and sunk with colloquy divine." So was Adam on one occasion in Paradise Lost,' bk. viii.

to indicate that the stern, being the heavier
and bulkier end, will more readily induce
"way," or motion, when the vessel is
released and gliding down the slips, and
this thicker part of the structure will also
assist in retarding her motion, once launched.
Most ships are built at right angles to more
or less narrow rivers, and if motion was not
quickly checked the ship would soon be
ashore, or in collision with the opposite
bank.
W. JAGGARD, Capt.

EDWARD LAMPLUGH (12 S. ix. 491, 533; x. 39).-Edward Lamplugh was the second son of the Rev. Thomas Lamplugh, who was the eldest son of Thomas Lamplugh, Archbishop of York. This Thomas was rector of St. Andrew Undershaft ; his SONG-BOOK BY TOBIAS HUME (12 S. x. 31). wife was Anne Boham. I take this from -In offering to purchase this excessively a MS. pedigree in, I think, probably rare book, it is to be feared Miss Lehmuth Katherine Lamplugh's writing. She was a daughter of Thomas Lamplugh, a granddaughter of the Archibshop, and niece of Edward Lamplugh; also she was my greatgreat-grandmother. I possess the memorandum of Thomas Lamplugh's induction to the living of St. Andrew Undershaft. It is in Latin on stamped and sealed paper, signed by the Bishop of London and six witnesses, dated Dec. 24, 1701.

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aims at the impossible. No copy came into book auctions for the last thirty years. Her best course will be to inquire at the British Museum, Bodleian, and at Trinity College, Cambridge, and if these three great collections fail, a copy may exist in one of the college libraries at Oxford or Cambridge.

A touch of humour is given to the title as printed, by lack of punctuation. Captain (afterward Colonel) Tobias Hume wrote I have also a wine merchant's bill: three works, all with long titles. The first "London anno 1702. The Revd Dr Lamp- two, as described, are in folio, and the last in lugh, Dr to Wm Raphe for wine.' (The quarto. A copy of the first, required by Miss wines are White Callavella," Red Anna- Lehmuth, was sold in the Bright sale nearlydea," White Annadea,' and " Canary.") a century ago for £4 12s. Od., which indicates "To wine sent from 12th of February its then rarity. The titles, abbreviated, to ye 18th of August, £48..01..08." All run thus:details in full as to quantities, packing, credit on bottles, and hampers returned, &c. I have, too, the Archbishop's case of silver-handled knives and forks; the knives have on their ends the arms of the See of York impaling Lamplugh (Or, а cross fleury, sable) surmounted by a mitre, but without the modern, and incorrect, addition of a coronet. I have also the Archbishop's silver-mounted ebony walking-stick, with Lamplugh arms and crest on the end of the handle; quantities of his MS. sermons, a few letters, one from Sancroft, and one from the future rector of St. Andrew Undershaft, in a childish hand, written from

1. First part of ayres, French, Pollish [Polish], and others together, some in tabliture, and some in pricke-song. With pavines, galliards, and almaines for the viole de gambo alone, and other musicall conceites for two base viols expressing five parts, with pleasant reportes one from the other, and for two leero viols, and also for the

leero viole with two treble viols, or two with one
treble.
Composed by Tobias Hume,
dwelling at the signe of the Crosse Keyes at Powles
gentleman. Ln: Printed by John Windet,
Wharfe
Folio. Dedicated to William
Alexander, Earl of Stirling.

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cipally made for two basse-viols, yet so contrived 2. Captaine Hume's Poeticall musicke printhat it may be plaied eight severall waies upon sundry instruments, with much facilitie. Composed by Tobias Hume, gentleman. Ln:

Printed by Iohn Windet 1607.' Dedicated to
Queen Anne, Consort of James VI. and I. (Brit.
Museum has a copy.)

positions.
The head of the Child on the
Sacheverell brass unfortunately disappeared
some years ago, before the Rev. A. E. R.
Bedford's incumbency, otherwise the brasses
are in excellent condition.
W. H. QUARRELL.

3. True petition of Colonel Hume, as it was presented to the Lords assembled in the High Court of Parliament; being then one of the poore brethren of that famous foundation of Charter House. Declaring that if they would employ him for the businesse in Ireland, THE TROUTBECK PEDIGREE (12 S. x. and let him have but six score or an hundred 21). Mr. J. P. Earwaker, a reliable authoinstruments of war, which he should give direction rity, prints in full the will of Sir William for to be made, he would ruin the rebels, all within Troutbeck, 1510, in his History of St. will undertake within three months, if their Lord- Mary-on-the-Hill, Chester,' p. 185. Where ships would give credence to him, to bring in by it refers to my sons and daughters and sea, being furnished with a compleat navy, to to children he has a footnote::H.M. and the Parliament twenty millions of This was a natural provision to provide for money. Ln: John Giles, 1642.' Fcp. 4to; four leaves only. any children he then had or in case any children were born to him, but it is certain he died without surviving issue.

three months, or else lose his head. Likewise, he

Stratford-on-Avon.

W. JAGGARD, Capt.

INDEX ECCLESIASTICUS (12 S. x. 9).The first part of the MS. of this intended work, 1500 to 1800, comprising letters A and B, together over 14,000 names, was advertised for sale in E. Menken's Catalogue 164, in November, 1905, price 328. 6d. Presumably the remainder of this projected Index was never compiled.

In the same catalogue are a number of MS. volumes relating to Cambridge matriculations and graduates. Foster had intended to compile a list of Cambridge alumni in a similar style to his Oxford volumes, but never lived to commence the work. It would be interesting to know where these Cambridge MSS. are now deposited.

W. G. D. FLETCHER, F.S.A.

Oxon Vicarage, Shrewsbury.

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While I agree that Richard Troutbeck
as father-in-law of John Talbot requires
explaining, the evidence of the inquisitions
and other documents are hard to get over.
It seems that in 1502/3 Sir William Trout-
estates which were to be held by Robert
beck made a settlement of his Cheshire
Frodsham for Sir William and his heirs
Troutbeck, Thomas Hough and William
The inquisition of Dec. 17, 1512, two years
(39th Report Dep. Keeper, pp. 264-5).
after the death of Sir William, states that
kinswoman and heir, namely, daughter of
Margaret, wife of John Talbot, was the
Adam, brother of Sir William; that she
was aged 16 at the death of Sir William
(in 1510) and that she had been married
to Talbot during Sir William's life. The
same year, 1512, arrangements were made
with Margaret, the widow of Sir William
and then wife of Sir William Poole, by
which she and her husband acknowledged
the rights of Margaret Talbot as the heiress,
and received a life interest and an annuity
from the Cheshire estates. Margaret Poole
died on May 2, 1531, when her husband
was left with a son, Thomas, aged 17.
this date Margaret Talbot is stated in the
writ of livery to have been aged 37 (39th
Rep. D.K., 256), which agrees with the
previous statement of her age.

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ST. CHRISTOPHER AND THE CHRIST CHILD (12 S. ix. 371, 415, 436, 452, 536). As to MR. W. E. GAWTHORPE'S query respecting the brasses at Morley, I have asked the rector, the Rev. A. E. R. Bedford, as I have not inspected these brasses lately, and he informs me that the three representations of St. Christopher exist (a) on the John Stathum brass on the floor of the north chapel; (b) on the tomb of Sir Thomas Stathum in the south aisle; (c) on the John Sacheverell memorial on the south wall near the door. These are figured in the Rev. Samuel Fox's History and An- THE HOUSE OF HARCOURT (12 S. ix. 409, tiquities of the Church of St. Matthew, 453, 495, 514; x. 15, 37).-In reply to MR. Morley,' Plates XIII., XIV. and xv. The HARCOURT-BATH, when I wrote that Wace first figure is 10in., the second 8in., and is the one authority for the presence of a the third 6in. A representation of the Harcourt at Hastings, I was not referring second is in Mr. H. W. Macklin's The to modern writers. Of these Delisle is Brasses of England' (2nd ed.). The second undoubtedly the greatest on the French and third are not now in their original side, but Round pointed out long ago

Bromborough.

R. STEWART-BROWN.

that his 'Dives Roll' is by no means free at the same time, which information will from errors (Monthly Review, June, 1901, probably be the means of solving the pp. 97-98). I do not know Delisle's previous query, in some degree? authority for including Robert de Harcourt 3. How many castles were in possession amongst the companions of the Conqueror, of the family in Normandy during feudal but it seems very likely that he relied on times, or, say, up to 1450, when the French Wace's reference to the Sieur de Harcourt, finally recovered the Duchy ? I have and added the Christian name from his indications of three at least, viz., one each own knowledge of the pedigree, rejecting at Harcourt and Thury-Harcourt, andthe alleged Errand de Harcourt as imaginary.

another at St.-Sauveur-le-Vicomte, in La Manche, which was in possession of Geoffrey de Harcourt, who was one of the Marshals in the English Army at the Battle of Crécy. I also believe that there was another castle belonging to Jean d'Harcourt, Count of Aumale, at Aumale, c. 1400.

It is very probable that the Anschitel de Harcourt living in 1130 was the son or grandson of a companion of the Conqueror, but I fear it will be difficult to discover the missing links. In the article cited above, Round showed how few of our 4. Robert Baron de Harcourt, who is oldest families could bridge the "grievous stated to have been present at the Battle gap" of 80 years between 1086 and 1166. of Hastings, is recorded to have built a A genuine male descent from 1130 ought castle at Harcourt in 1100. At which of to satisfy the most unreasonable person. the two towns of Harcourt was this? I It is a pleasure to learn that a younger presume that it was the one near Bernay branch of the family still survives, and I in the Department of Eure, which surhasten to offer my apologies to the Harcourts rendered to Peter de Brézé in 1449, when of the Ankerwyke line for having treated the English garrison were so alarmed at them as extinct. As to MR. CARTER'S sug- the first cannon-ball which went through gestion that a little research would unearth the wall that they thereupon made terms other cadet lines in the Midlands, it is to be to capitulate within eight days if not rehoped that he will be able to undertake the lieved by Talbot. research himself, as any investigations carried out by him would command general confidence. G. H. WHITE.

23, Weighton Road, Anerley. I should be much obliged for any replies in elucidation of the following topographical enigmas:

WILLIAM HARCOURT-BATH.

PHARAOH AS SURNAME (12 S. ix. 407, 454, 537; x. 15). There was a dealer in milk at Oxford about twenty years ago named Pharaoh; and much merriment there was in a certain law court on a certain occasion about "Pharaoh's lean kine" and the milk they produced. FAMA.

1. Which was the original town of Harcourt in Normandy whence this family derives its name? There is one in the Depart- TAVERN SIGNS: "THE FIVE ALLS "(12 S. ment of Eure, 10 miles north-east of ix. 145, 355, 390). Even if no "Five Bernay, and another in Calvados, 15 miles Alls" inn existed in London the name north-west of Falaise. The latter is either must have been known and understood prefixed or affixed by Thury, with a hyphen there, for Antony Wood records of 1662 connecting it with Harcourt. (Thury, by (Life of Wood,' ed. A. Clark, Oxf. Hist. the way, is derived from the Scandinavian Soc., i. 465), that "This year such a saying cri de guerre "Tur die "--by Thor's aid). come up in London" (as a satire) :— In most works of reference it is stated that the Harcourt in the Department of Eure is the original. If so, it is probable that the Harcourt in the Department of Calvados was named after the Harcourt who was in possession at some subsequent date. The Duchess of Cleveland (Battle Abbey Roll Call,' vol. ii., p. 149), however, seems to think that the latter was the original lordship which was acquired by Bernard the Dane in 876.

The Bishops get all,
The Courtiers spend all,
The Citizens pay for all,
The King neglects all,
And the Divills take all.

FAMA.

THE MACCABEES (12 S. ix. 370, 414, 436). -MR. WAINEWRIGHT inquires who "Dr. Wells" was, who wrote on Jewish geography. No doubt it was Dr. Edward Wells, 2. Where are Cailleville and Beauficiel, whose Historical Geography of the Old the lordships of which Bernard acquired and New Testaments (Lond., 1711-18,