"The unit or present value refers to that of the shilling before the last coinage, which reduced it," he says, i.e., to the third issue of George III. (1798), when the proportion was still kept at 92 grs. to the shilling. In this, as well as in the following section, some interesting information about prices is given e.g., 25 eggs cost a silver penny between 1415 and 1425. Further information, beyond that which can be obtained from the published accountbooks of convents, &c., will be found in Ruding's 'Annals of the Coinage' (1819), pp. 15-34, where valuable tables are given; and the fineness of all the coins of every issue can be learnt from Grueber's Handbook of the Coins of Great Britain and Ireland' (1899). G. R. DRIVER. MORBUS ANGLICUS (12 S. v. 180).According to the received account the sweating sickness was first known at the beginning of the reign of Henry VII. Polydore Vergil says:— Anglica "Eodem anno nouum morbi genus pervasit per totum regnum, sub primum Henrici in insulam descensum, dira quidem lues, & quam nulla sit ætas antea, quod constet, perpessa: subito enim sudor mortifer corpus tentabat.. historia,' lib. xxvi., p. 567, ed. 1570. Erasmus writes with less precision in his dedication of 'Lingua (1525): 66 Sudorem letiferum ante annos triginta non novit Anglia," and in a letter dated April 23, 1533, speaks of the "scelerata pestis as being too well known to the English for over forty years past. We should not then expect this disease to be mentioned by the specific name of "Morbus Anglicus" more than eighty years before its supposed first appearance. MR. FAWCETT's query assumes that the inscription is still to be seen in the church. If so it would be as well to examine it carefully, not only to determine the date, but to set the reader's mind at rest with regard to the singular latinity that appears in the transcript. If, however, the copy is taken from Joseph Hunter's History and Topography of the Deanery of Doncaster,' it should be noted that the wording of this and other inscriptions depends on a copy made from a set of notes taken by a monk of Roche. According to Hunter the originals no longer remain in the church at Hatfield. In more than one case he suspects an error in the date. It is Hunter's suggestion that the sweating sickness was intended by " morbus Anglicus." The correct title of Gideon Harvey's book, in its second edition, is Morbus Anglicus: Or the Anatomy of Consumptions' (not "Consumption "). In the first edition it ran 6 Or a Theoretick and Practical Discourse of Consumptions.' Hunter gives Consump tions correctly. 66 It may be worth adding that from about the middle of the seventeenth century "morbus Anglicus was applied to rickets. See Dr. Greenhill's note on the words "the disease of his country, the Rickets in 'A Letter to a Friend,' p. 297 of the "Golden Treasury edition of Religio Medici.' "Die englische Krankheit" still bears this meaning in German. Nor should we forget George Cheyne's work on Hypochondria, "The English Malady.' Dr. Cheyne begins his preface: : Reproach universally thrown on this Island by "The Title I have chosen for this Treatise, is a Foreigners, and all our Neighbours on the Continent, by whom Nervous Distempers, Spleen, Vapours, and Lowness of Spirits, are, in Derision, called the ENGLISH MALADY." EDWARD BENSLY. Much Hadham, Herts. [JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT also thanked for reply.] QUOTATION FROM HOOD (10 S. xii. 109).— At the above reference DIEGO asked for the source of : And there were crystal pools, peopled with fish, This is taken from the beginning of stanza iv. in The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies,' by Thomas Hood. As the Series Indexes of N. & Q.' are gradually building up a Dictionary of Quotations on an ample scale it may be worth recording, though late, the answer GENERAL STONEWALL JACKSON (12 S. vi. 11). The maiden name of the General's mother was Julia Neale, and she was the daughter of a merchant who resided at Parkersburgh in Wood County on the Ohio. After the death of her husband, Jonathan Jackson, she married in 1830 a widower named Woodson, but she was in such reduced circumstances that her children were brought up by her first husband's relatives. She died of consumption on Dec. 4, 1831. WILLOUGHBY MAYCOCK. [CAPT. FIREBRACE also thanked for reply.] CANTRELL FAMILY (12 S. v. 291, 332).— It is hardly correct to say that there is a monument in St. Peter's Church, Derby, in memory of the Rev. Thomas Cantrell. "There once was such a monument, the in Derbiensis. : scription on which is given by Glover in his "1697/8. Sepult. Thomas Cantrill Scholar: che Darb. 23tis die mensis Mart.' Tachella in The Derby School Register gives the following Cantrells (in addition to the above): "Henry Cantrell, b. 1684-5. Son of the abovementioned Rev. Thomas Cantrell, educated at Derby School 169(?)-1701, and at Emm. Coll. Camb. B.A. 1704, M.A. 1710, incorp. Oxford 1756, Vicar of S. Alkmunds, Derby, 1712-1773. Prominent controversialist. Author of 'Invalidity of Lay Baptism,' 1714, 'Dissenting Teachers. 1714, The Royal Martyr,' 1716, &c. (died 1773). BURIAL AT SEA: FOUR GUNS FIRED FOR AN OFFICER (12 S. v. 38, 106).-With reference to SIR RICHARD TEMPLE'S query and the REV. A. G. KEALY's interesting notes on the subject, I have recently found other instances of the use of an even number of guns for burials at sea and also on land. On Sept. 29, 1702, Daniel Du Bois, merchant at Fort St. Geroge, Madras, was "interr'd with honours, 3 volleys and 12 great guns (Factory Records, Fort St. George,' vol. xii.). 66 On July 16 Capt. Wyatt was buried at Fort St. George A Company of Soldiers marcht before the Corbs [sic], which when buryed, fired three Volleys, and the Garrison fired six great gunns ('Factory Records, Fort St. George,' vol. xiii.). On Jan. 29, 1705, at the burial of Capt. Henry Sinclare, second-lieutenant of the Fort Soldiers in the Garrison of Fort St. George, twelve Great Gunns were "discharged "(Madras Public Proceedings,' vol. lxxxiii.). On Mar. 19, 1709/10, the Log of the 66 YesterTavistock has the following entry : day in the afternoon we buried Mr. Mildmay, hoisting our Coullers half mast and fired 12 Guns, the Wentworth doeing the same 8 Guns (Marine Records,' and fired vol. dxciii.b). The funeral of Capt. John Slade, who died at sea on June 2, 1636, was an exception to the rule of firing an even number of guns. He was buried "with a salute of fifteen guns and three volleys of small shot (Foster, English Factories,' 1634-36, p. 305). L. M. ANSTEY. 66 CAPT. B. GRANT (12 S. v. 238, 298).-There was in 1808 a Brodie Grant, captain 95th Foot from Sept. 28, 1804; but he left the army before 1811. MR. PIERPOINT has done good service in supplying the clue that Bernard and Charles Grant both fought in the ranks at Waterloo. Hart's New Annual "Cantrell, Henry, b. 1711. Son of Rev. Henry, Army Lists' (evidently the source of Dalton's Vicar of St. Alkmund's. Died young. Monu-information) say that: Quarter-Master Bernard Grant served the campaign of 1815, including the battle of Waterloo and capture of Paris." The (Official Annual) Army List' for 1853/4 gives the further detail that he was placed on half-pay of Q.M. 82nd Foot on Feb. 11, 1848, and the same authority for 1857/8 (dated April 1, 1857) places him (under the wrong initial of R. Grant, ment in St. Alkmund's. Also son of Rev. "Cantrell, William, b. 1715. Henry, Vicar of St. Alkmund's. Educated at Derby School 1725-30 and afterwards at Repton and St. John's, Camb., B.A. 1738. Rector of St. Michael's, Stamford, Lincs., and of Normanton, co. Rutland. Monument in St. Alkmund's (died Jan. 17, 1787).J "Cantrell, Joseph Craddock, b. 1738. Educated at Derby School and at Brasenose College, Oxford, where he matriculated in 1757. Q.M. on h.p. 82 F.") under the heading apparently died early in 1857. As there is no record either of his having been wounded, or of his being made a captain, I rule his name out and suggest that in "Capt. B. Grant a clerical error has been made, and that the man who fulfils both conditions was Capt. Charles Grant, for Hart, 1865, says of him that he was granted (with several other Q.M.s) the Honorary rank of Captain, July 1, 1859," having gone on half-pay of Q.M. 23rd R.W.F., Mar. 17, 1854. As his name does not appear in Hart, 1866, it is presumed he died in 1865. Dalton very likely only included such names as he had come across. Although at the present day, as in 1853, quarter-masters are usually promoted from N.C.O.s of long service and merit, and granted the honorary rank of lieutenant or captain, this was by no means the case during the eighteenth century, when about half the appointments of adjutants and quartermasters were conferred upon young ensigns or lieutenants, who frequently held the post until promoted to the rank of captain, and in some cases eventually became general officers. The most notable instances are those of General Sir Thomas Picton, who fell at Waterloo, who when an ensign in the 12th Foot at Gibraltar was also made quarter-master thereof, May 6, 1776; the same position, curiously enough, having been held by his uncle, Lieut.-General William Picton, who, while a lieutenant in the same regiment, became its quarter-master, Dec. 9, 1752, as appears from the Army List, 1754. W. R. WILLIAMS. GEORGE SHEPHERD (12 S. v. 295, 332; vi. 25). I am obliged for the replies to my query but they do not help me appreciably. I had consulted the British Museum Catalogue of English Drawings and Bryan's Dictionary,' which chiefly repeats Redgrave, but these books are not infallible. Dropping the alternative spelling of the name with an a, which I merely gave because Bryan and Redgrave's " George Shepheard seems to be my 66 George Shepherd,' I will now amplify my statement, with slight variations, the result of further research. It has been my lot to examine most of the portfolios in the Crace Collection and I have the catalogue. I have also looked through a considerable part of the vast collection of London views now belonging to Sir Edward Coates, and have the catalogue of the collection formed by the late Mr. J. H. Wilson, which was dispersed by auction in 1898. In all these water-colours, by that most industriousartist Thomas Hosmer Shepherd, who is not mentioned, by Bryan or Redgrave. To judge from the Crace catalogue, wherein his name occurs probably more than a hundred times, his working life extended from 1814 orTM earlier to 1859. George Shepherd's name appears first in the designer of a view of Cheapside published by Ackerman as a. coloured print in 1792. He was especially busy in 1809-12, and continued certainly until 1830, perhaps longer. His works are common enough. So far, among the collections referred to, I have only found two London subjects by artists named Shepherd which are catalogued with other initials than those of George and Thomas Hosmer; these are L. G. and G. H., both in the Crace collection, and they are perhaps clerical errors. I met my After sending my original query good friend Mr. I. D. Crace, F.S.A., now, alas! no more, who was keenly interested in London and whose father made the collection known by his name. I asked him if he knew whether T. H. Shepherd was son of George and he replied: "My father told me that he was.' This is rather strong evidence, but I am still doubtful. Perhaps some one would be good enough to communicate with me direct. There may be descendants or relations who will read this.. PHILIP NORMAN. ROMELAND, ST. ALBANS (12 S. v. 294; vi. 48).-As a confirmation of the derivation of a place-name in towns from rum, not Rome, may I say that the whole space about Blackhall in Oxford, at the opening of the Banbury Road, was once colloquially called Rome? The situation is precisely like that at Waltham, as cited by the Rev. G. H. Johnson, and at other town-ends known to MR. N. W. HILL. The Oxford rum lies beyond what was in mediæval days the northern end of the town, and neighbours St. Giles's Church. It was a most convenient waste land in old days for carters CLERGYMEN AT WATERLOO (12 S. vi. 39). I suppose the question means: Did eight men who fought at Waterloo take holy orders afterwards? From Mr. Dalton's Waterloo Roll Call' I learn that five men at least did. These are: Colonel Algernon Langton, 61st Foot, .A.D.C. to Sir T. Picton. Lieut. Wm. Bellairs, 15th Light Dragoons (Hussars), later Vicar of Hunsingore, Yorks. Ensign Charles R. K. Dallas, 32nd Regiment, late curate of Mitcheldever, Whitchurch, Hants. Ensign Wm. Leeke, 52nd L.I., later author of 'Lord Seaton's Regiment at Waterloo' and incumbent of Holbrooke, Derbyshire, 1840-79. Assistant Commander-General A. R. C. Dallas, later rector of Wonston, Hants. I was under the impression that Rev. Wyndham Carlyon Madden had also been at Waterloo, but his death does not appear in Mr. Dalton's list. Of many Waterloo officers Mr. Dalton has no information. G. C. MOORE SMITH. Sietges. Paxarette. "The last five labels are of much smaller size and were obviously for use on cruet bottles. As these labels are all of English origin and former owners, one is struck by the fact that to-day the variety of intoxicants in daily use constitutes a very small proportion of those in fashion a century or more ago. F. BRADBURY. Sheffield. I feel pretty sure that wine of Cypress is what is meant. Sugar of Cyprus is frequently mentioned in the Durham Account Rolls (Surtees Soc.); they got it by the barrel, and wine of Crete is mentioned once. like other Mediterranean lands, produces wine Cyprus, and oil at the present time. Winterton, Doncaster. J. T. F. There is an apple used for cider called Cockagee. This probably explains the label. E. A. BUNYARD. BISHOPS OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY (12 S. iv. 330; v. 107, 161, 273; vi. 44).There was certainly a John, Bishop of Dromore, in the fifteenth century, but there is nothing to indicate that his succession was disputed. According to Gams (Series Episcoporum," Ecclesiæ Catholicæ,' Ratisbon, 1873, p. 217) he held the see from 1410 to 1418, and died in 1433. He resigned in 1418. Eubel (Hierarchia Catholica Medii Aevi,' Münster, 1898, i. 236) gives the same dates, adding that he was a Benedictine monk of Bury St. Edmund's, was a Bachelor of Theology,. and a "noblis," while his "Curlw was or de Choules.' Neither work mentions any foreign see with & name resembling "Dromorens -the Surname Latin form of Dromore is Dromorensis. W. A. B. C. HALLOWEEN (12 S. vi. 39).-MR. CHAPMAN will find desirable information in Brand's Antiquities,' vol. i., p. 377; Chambers's Book of Days,' vol. ii., p. 319; Hone's Everyday Book,' vol. i., p. 630; vol. ii., p. 704; Spence's Shetland Folk-Lore,' p. 169; Campbell's Superstitions of the Scottish Highlands,' pp. 18, 260; and, I should think, in almost all books treating of North British manners and customs. I hope I have copied these figures accurately. I am getting humiliatingly blind. ST. SWITHIN. EPIGRAM: "A LITTLE GARDEN LITTLE JOWETT MADE (12 S. v. 288; vi. 19, 50). In Facetia Cantabridgienses,' London, 1836, p. 200, are two English versions of the epigram, both different from that given at the last reference. Also a Latin version, beginning: "Exiguum hunc hortum fecit Jowettulus iste." One of the English versions had appeared in Blackwood's Magazine, no reference given, authorship not known, unless it originated with Porson, as was declared to us by a Gentleman, in whose veracity we have great confidence." J. T. F. Winterton. Doncaster. LIEUT.-GENERAL SHARPE (12 S. v. 321).Hoddam Castle is in Cummertrus parish, Dumfries-shire, and is now the residence of Mr. E. J. Brook, whose father, I believe. acquired it from the Sharpe family. colonel, Aug. 5, 1799; colonel, Oct. 25, 1809; There is no such place as Haddam Castle, co. Northumberland. Hoddam Castle is: intended. This ancient building is beautifully situated on the south bank of the River Annan, 1 mile from Ecclefechan, a village in the parish of Hoddam, Annandale, Dumfriesshire, and in 1826 is described as in excellent conditions, being then the residence of Sharpe, Esq. (see the 18th ed. of Paterson's Road Book,' p. 230). Jas. Finlay's 'Directory of Gentlemen's Seats, Villages, &c., in Scotland' for 1843 gives Hoddam Castle as the residence of General Sharpe, while the 1851 edition has Admiral Sharpe. Hoddam Castle does not occur in the 1862 edition, but in the 1868 edition (edited by N. W. Halliburton) the Castle is given as the residence of Wm. J.. Sharpe. Since writing the above I have looked up. 'The Scottish Nation,' by Wm. Anderson, 1863, and in vol. iii., pp. 445-6, find an interesting account of the Sharpes of Hoddam. The full name of Lieut.-General Sharpe is General Matthew Sharpe. His ancestor John Sharpe purchased the estate and castle of Hoddam from the Earl of Southesk in 1690. The granduncle of the General was Matthew Sharpe of Hoddam Charles, and died in 1769, aged 76. The who fought at Preston on the side of Prince General was the eldest son of Charles Kirkpatrick (afterwards Chas. K. Sharpe, on succeeding to grandson of Sir Thomas Kirkpatrick of the estate of Hoddam), Closeburn, the second baronet of his line. General Matthew Sharpe was M.P. for the Dumfries Burghs from 1832 to 1841, and was a Whig of extremely liberal politics. His mother was Eleanor,daughter of John Renton of Lamberton (not Lammerton as in Burke's Peerage and Baronetage'), a lady whose charms have been commemorated by Matthew Sharpe was born 1773; cornet Smollett in 'Humphry Clinker.' The 16th (the Queen's) Regiment of (Light) father of the General matriculated from the Dragoons Feb. 18, 1791; lieutenant, Feb. 19, University of Glasgow (see The Matricula1793; captain 26th (the Duke of York's tion Albums,' 1728-1858, by W. Innes Own) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons Mar. 25, | Addison, 1913) in 1762, and is there described 1795; major, Feb. 27, 1796; lieutenant- as |