"Penyston Hastings did not tarry before making another marriage. His second wife's name is not given; but she is said to have been the daughter of a butcher in Gloucester. It was probably through her that the Rector of Christ Church became possessed of The Plow Inn and other property at Cheltenham which he left to his third wife by his will....The will of the Rev. Penyston Hastings is dated 21st December, 1743. As it was proved on the 20th January following, the testator did not long survive its execution.... ...Warren is twice mentioned by his father. The name of Daylesford also occurs. 64 The register of burials for Christ Church has the following entry, after that of 1736, May 25: Palace. W. H. F. RICKMANSWORTH CHURCH: INDULGENCE IN AID OF REPAIRS.-The existence of this indulgence was noted by Cussans in his History of Hertfordshire,' a copy having been discovered pasted in the cover of an old book in the British Museum; but it has not hitherto been printed. The document is about 6 in. long by 5 in. broad, and is slightly imperfect at the bottom, although it appears to be complete otherwise. At the head is the representation of an altar, covered by a cloth and surrounded by draperies. Upon the table are a pair of candlesticks and a dish (? a paten) bearing the monogram I.H.S. The indulgence reads: "Be it known to all Christen people which joyeth in their hearts of the power of God showed by His own precious body in form of bread in the church of Rykmersworthe, where wretched and cursed people cruelly and wilfully set fire upon all the images and on the canopy which the Blessed Sacrament was in, and to make the fire more cruel, they put tow with banner staves between the sparres and brasses of the chancel, through which fire the said chancel was burnt and the pyx was molten, and the blessed body of our Lord Jesus Christ in the form of bread was found upon the High Altar and nothing perished. Also they broke into the vestry and put fire among all the ornaments and jewels, and burnt the said vestry and all that was therein. Also in the rood loft they wrapped tow about the blessed rood, and about a pair of organs, and melted all the wax in the said loft, containing in weight 14 score pounds, where as the flaring fire was in the said loft about the blessed image of Jesus Christ, neither the said image nor the tow about was nothing hurt through the might and power of our Saviour Jesus Christ. Also to maintain their cruel opinions they went unto the font and brake it open and despoiled the water that was hallowed therein and cast it abroad in the church floor in dispite of the Sacrament of Baptism. And forasmuch as the substantial men of the said parish hath inuewed the King's grace, how honourably God was served in the said church in time past and also that it pleased him to shew his great might and power. Wherefore my Lord Cardinal and legate delatere hath granted 100 days of pardon releasing of their penance in purgatory to all them that give any part of their goods to the restoring of the said church. Also my Lord of Lincoln hath granted 40 days." A collotype reproduction of the indulhad of Mr. H. J. Butcher, The Bank House, gence has been made, and copies may be W. B. GERISH. Rickmansworth. WALTHAM ABBEY CARVED PANELS: DENNY ARMS.-A curious problem is presented by the arms upon the carved panelling once in the Abbey Mansion House at Waltham, and now set up in the form of a small room in the Victoria and Albert Museum. The coat is Quarterly, 1 and 4, a chevron between three mullets; 2 and 3, a lion rampant (or over a lion rampant a bend). In the first place these are not the family arms of the Right Hon. Sir Anthony Denny, who first, in 1541, obtained a lease of the Abbey House, which, being purchased by his widow, became the residence of their descendants for over a century. From this it has been argued that the panelling must be of an earlier date than that at which the Dennys became possessors of the Abbot's Mansion. one However, in 'A Late Tudor Book of Arms,' published by Foster a few years ago, occurs Dennys, 1 and 4, Argent, a chevron sable between three mullets gules; 2 and 3, Argent, a lion rampant azure, crowned or." This is evidently the very coat which appears finds that the arms of Denny of Eye in on the Waltham panels. Elsewhere Suffolk, and of Deneys of Suffolk, were Argent, a chevron sable between three pierced mullets gules. Argent a chevron sable between three mullets gules, pierced or, were the arms of "Mr. Edmund Dennie, borne at Stoke Ashe in Suffolk, and descended from ye family of Deneyes of Tannington in Suffolk, and now dwelling at Chigwell, Essex.....He died Sept. 5, 1656, and was buried at Chigwell, being Principal of Clifford's Inn."-Harl. MS. 1449, f. 108. All this seems to point to the conclusion that whoever carved the Waltham panels designed them for the Denny family, and intended the arms upon them to be theirs, but mistook for their coat that of another family for materials for the new edition of his A modern instance adds weight to this supposition. In one edition of Lodge's Portraits of Illustrious Persons' various family arms are introduced into the the ornamental border of each engraving. The coat over the portrait of Denny is not his, but Argent, a chevron Sir Anthony between three mullets sable-an parallel to the supposed error of the designer exact of the Waltham panels. If this be the true explanation, it would prove the panels to be of a later date than has generally been supposed, namely, subsequent to 1552, when (as the inscription on her portrait sets forth) "Joane ye daughter of S Ph. Champernoone and relict of Sr Anthony Dennie purchast Waltham Abbie of K. Ed. ye 6th unless they may have been removed to Waltham from the old Denny seat at Cheshunt, when the heads of the family took up their residence at the former place. H. L. L. D. 66 "THE RISING SUN."-In a late issue of the Cambridge Granta we are told that fashioners of signboards had something 'the besides their art; they had optimism as well. Rarely, if ever, do we light upon an inn that is called 'The Setting Sun,' but a 'Rising Sun' may welcome us at the end of many a dusty road." 22 22 The The signification, however, thus imputed to the sign is not the correct one. Rising Sun was not a sign of a particularly invitatory character, like, for instance, Traveller's Rest,' "The "The Packhorse," or "The Dew Drop Inn," "The Plough "; it was originally merely the badge of cognizance of King Edward III., and was set up, like so many other heraldic signs, by a retainer who had been in the king's service. sometimes described more heraldically as It is rays issuing from a cloud." 66 66 66 J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL. "DEW DROP INN."-Some years ago an inn at Dorchester Point, near Boston, U.S., had on its sign the inscription Inn." The local pronunciation of "Dew Drop dew," so what to a visitor seemed a very do " 18 sentimental name was, when pronounced by a countryman, the matter-of-fact request Do drop in." M. N. G. "BANG-BEGGAR. 22 illustrating the use of this word in the New -The only quotation English Dictionary the Archdeacon of Montgomery, in searching is dated 1867. But 2 keep away from the parish all stragglers, all idle "John Owen was appointed bangbegar [sic], to neighbourhood, the remuneration to be 17. 18. per persons, who may come to be troublesome to the annum." The above extract appeared in a newskindly supplying the above particulars. paper, no date or place being given; but I am indebted to Archdeacon Thomas for R. B. P. the petitions presented to Charles I. through QUEEN OF BOHEMIA'S PLAYERS.-Among the Lord Chamberlain is one from "The King and Queen of Bohemia's Players, for leave to exercise their quality, being restrayned by the justices." 66 pleased that the petitioners have free liberty to Answered, vizt. His Majestie is graciously exercise their quality of playing without restraint notwithstanding. Dec. 13, 1630." any former Act of Prohibition to the contrary always content with one profession. In the The actors did not seem, however, to be February following the College of Physicians petitioned against of these was Bohemia's players, sometimes an apothecary. divers empirics." One Bugges, one of the Queen of L. C., V. 44. The College allowed relief (7 Feb., 1630). C. C. STOPES. 66 66 BULGARIAN RIVER TRADITION.-According to a legend, the rivers Isker and Maritsa were brother and sister, and flowed together along struck by the beauty of the country which the heights of Rilo. One day the young girl, she saw eastwards, said to her brother : "Lo, I say, what a great sea lies in that descend and go towards the sun until I find direction! I will go and see it. I will it." The Isker was shocked, and tried to dissuade her; but when he saw that it was useless, he said: "Thou seekest to desert I will pass on, but I shall reach the sea before me for the white sea. Well, if I am left alone thee, for I will descend northwards and join why the Isker and Maritsa, starting from the rapid Danube." This is the reason Rilo, flow in opposite directions. The Maritsa is said to weep as a wounded widow in the Bulgarian war-song Sumi Maritsa,' to the melodious strains of which battle of Slivnitsa against the Serbs. Prince Alexander's troops marched to the FRANCIS P. MARCHANT, Streatham Common. Queries. We must request correspondents desiring information on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct. WILLIAM CROW OF UPLEATHAM.-In Upleatham Church, midway up the tower, on the western side, roughly carved on stone, appears the following quaint inscription : WILLIAM CROW CHURCHWARD BVLDED STEPEL 1664. EN has lately been published, I am informed, The Firs, Norton, Worcester. WYCLIF AND SISTER ME Needeth.” In Capgrave's Life of St. Augustine (Additional MS. 36, 704), shortly to be issued by the Early English Text Society, the monk refers to the Manichæans, saying that they held their schools by night, and that, after the lesson, the light was blown out and they played, "as Wiclif disciples played, Is anything further known of this person? Sister me nedith." Capgrave's book was New York. J. C. H. · PROMETHEUS THE FIREGIVER.'-Who is the author of Prometheus the Firegiver: an attempted Restoration of the Lost First Part of the Prometheian Trilogy of Eschylus, published in 1877, seven years before Mr. Robert Bridges issued his drama with similar main title? ROLAND AUSTIN. Gloucester Public Library. HEINE ON KANT.-In The Journal of Theological Studies for January last, p. 303, a reviewer states that a passage in a book under notice reminds him irresistibly of Heine's famous irony about Kant and der alte Lampe,' for whose benefit the existence of God must needs be demonstrated." Will some one explain this reference? Theological College, Lichfield. L. PHILLIPS DE GUILEVILLE AND BUNYAN.-I have recently been reading carefully The Ancient Poem of Guillaume de Guileville entitled 'Le Pelerinage de l'Homme' compared with 'The Pilgrim's Progress of John Bunyan, edited from notes collected by the late Mr. Nathaniel Hill of the Royal Society of Literature, with Illustrations and an Appendix," published by Pickering in 1858, and have compared the passages from the French poet with those therein set out from The Pilgrim's Progress.' I now venture to ask whether any one has written since 1874 touching their great similarity. I have carefully read all that is to be found on the subject in N. & Q.,' and I may perhaps be allowed to point out, for the benefit of any one interested in the question, that the reference in the Index to Series II. under Guileville (De) should be to viii. 322, and not to 372. An exhaustive essay written for an unnamed gentlewoman who had made him sundry retributions, and it met with the approval of Magister Nicholas Reysby, head of the Order of Sempringham. Elsewhere also Capgrave attacks Wyclif, but not with this kind of vilification; and I can find no reference in other authors game." Perhaps some to this so-called 'N. & Q.' contributor can trace other references. JOHN MUNRO. 6 66 J. WALTON, TOPOGRAPHICAL ARTIST.— Mr. Dobell's new catalogue of books contains three entries of water-colour drawings of scenes in the Lake District, circa 1790-95, by J. Walton, whose name is not recorded in Bryan, nor yet in Mr. Binyon's British Museum Catalogue of Drawings by British Artists. The three volumes of drawings by J. Walton came from Sir Wilfrid Lawson's collection. Mr. Dobell tells us that in 1821 Ackermann published A Picturesque Tour of the English Lakes, with coloured plates from drawings made by this artist. Apparently this is all that is known about Walton, who, from the series referred to, must have been an artist of more than ordinary talent. No such person exhibited at the Royal Academy of the period which would fit in with the date of these drawings. It would be interesting to know something more of J. Walton. 6 2 W. ROBERTS. . FOSTER'S ALUMNI CANTABRIGIENSES.'A friend tells me that a few years ago he saw, in a second-hand bookseller's catalogue, the MS. of Alumni Cantabrigienses by Foster, a similar work to his monumental one for Oxford. This MS. was purchased, I am told, by a Canon Wordsworth, but has never been published. Can any one say where it is now ? Surely, if permission could be obtained, it ought to be published. R. STEWART-Brown. "at EDINBURGH CLUBS.-Can any reader in- Johann Schott, archer "de la garde' form me where I can see original papers Nancy, and claiming to be of Scottish (minutes, rules, lists of members, &c.) descent, may have had in mind the standard relating to Edinburgh clubs of the eigh- of the Scottish archers? The motto "Treu" teenth century and the early part of the nine-("fidelis ") seems to have been associated teenth, such as Antemanum, Crichton, with his arms some seventy years ago, but I Gowks, Boars, Crockallan Fencibles, &c. ? have no evidence of its contemporary_conH. A. COCKBURN. nexion. J. W. SCOTT, Bt. Junior Carlton Club, Pall Mall, S.W. INDEX TO THE CHRISTIAN FATHERS.- INDEX TO FOXE'S ACTS AND MONUMENTS.' -Has any one ever prepared Indexes M. A. W. Nominum and Locorum to Foxe's Acts and JACOBITE SONG.-Can you tell me of a Bishop's Stortford. W. B. GERISH. JANE ISDALE. St. Stephen's Manse, Muirton Bank, Perth. BIBLIOTHECA DRUMMENIANA.-Can any of your readers assist me to identify the ARMS OF JOHANN SCHOTT.-Can any of Bibliotheca Drummeniana? There has your readers throw light on the following lately passed through my hands a most rather curious arms, granted by Charles interesting manuscript catalogue of this II. (III.) of Lorraine in 1570 to my ancestor Johann Schott (=Scot), a German soldier of fortune, and traditionally descended from Scottish immigrants? The arms, which we may presume to have been devised by the grantee, seem to suggest some allusion to which no clue is given in the papers which he left behind him (described in The Ancestor, v. 169). The original grant is as follows :"D'azur au levrier d'argent courant accollé d'un collier de geule chargé de bouton d'or lié apres une sphère d'or en chef de l'écu." The sphere in chief is described in the German memoirs as a “large ball or round " (Kegel oder kugel"); the greyhound is of English breed. a It appears evident to me that there must have been in existence at some time drawing of these arms, since in Siebmacher's 'Wappenbuch' the sphere is represented as a ball-shaped cattle-bell, a mistake which could only have arisen from some one's having seen the arms depicted. In Pelletier's Nobiliaire' the arms are given correctly. The greyhound was the device on the standard of the Scottish Archers of the King of France, with the motto 66 Fidelis (Forbes-Leith, Scots Men-at-Arms'). Can any reader explain the origin of this banner? Is there anything in the theory that library, entitled Catalogus Librorum qui 6 Jacobo.' " G. E. MANWARING. ALLEGORICAL PICTURE.-I bought last October, at a sale at Willis's Rooms, a curious old picture, about which I should be glad if any one could give me information, e.g. as to its painter, its date, its allegory. It is on thick panel, somewhat decayed and worm-eaten, measuring about 4 ft. 3 in. by 3 ft. 2 in. Under the principal figure are the following verses :— Quattuor adversus justum certamina vinci This principal figure may represent the Virgin Mary, or some minor saint. Above her head is a chaplet held by two flying angels. Above the chaplet is a word in Hebrew characters which, I think, is "Jehovah." The right arm is extended, and on the open palm is a Hebrew word, probably 66 Jesus." Behind the hand is a display of yellow light or fire. On the bosom is the dove-the Holy Ghost. The left hand holds a large open book. On her right side is a winged male figure on bended knee, holding an open book. His left hand is raised, as though he might be speaking. In front he is good; behind he is evil. The shoulders of the wings are feathered; the back parts are batlike. Suspended apparently from this figure's waist, at the back, hangs a great worm with a skull for its head. On the left side of the principal figure is a voluptuous female, kneeling, with bared bosom, offering with her right hand a golden wine-cup, and in her left holding a casket with a heap of gold pieces on it, some of which bear a cross potent, another an escutcheon, &c. Behind and above the male figure is a skeleton Death with bow and arrow, aiming at the principal figure. Behind and above the woman with the casket is the devil with horns, tail, &c. Under the Latin couplet are an escutcheon (showing a red cross); three keys on a loop, a bowl of fruit, and a golden flagon. The 22 66 Christenings, 1698-9. Jan. 16. William Slade, son of William Slade by Mary Slade, his wife." If any of your readers could give me information respecting the above-mentioned Wm. Slade, I should be obliged. Please reply direct. G. SLADE. Walcot, Alexandra Park, Harrogate. "MUSIC OF THE FUTURE."—When, and by Liszt-Wagner school of music? It is indiwhom, was this phrase earliest applied to the cated by Robert Schumann in a letter of Athenæum of 26 February of this year, the great composer exclaiming : 1854, described in The Liszt-Wagnerian enthusiasm. Those whom you I am not particularly in harmony with [this] consider musicians of the future, I consider musicians of the present; while those whom you Beethoven) appear to me the best musicians of the regard as musicians of the past (Bach, Handel, future." ALFRED F. ROBBINS. GEORGE CUMBERLAND, son of Richard Cumberland (1732-1811) the dramatist, is said to have been killed at the siege of Charleston. I wish to know when he entered the Navy, and the date of his death. G. F. R. B. THE HON. JOHN FINCH, Captain 1st Foot Guards, was killed in America, 3 July, 1777. Whose son was he, and when was he born? G. F. R. B. four" certamina " are perhaps typified by the four figures, viz., the winged male, the WILKINSON LISTER KAYE was admitted female with the casket, Death, and the devil; to Westminster School in 1787. Particulars and assuming that the principal figure is the of his parentage and career, and the date Virgin, the four "auxilia be the of his death, are wanted. may That he entered Trinity and the Virgin. the Royal Artillery in 1815, as stated in In the sale catalogue it was described as the 'Westminster School Register,' is "Early Italian School.' On the back of the obviously wrong. G. F. R. B. panel is a wax seal containing a coronet, coat of arms, and motto. The arms and motto are those of the 3rd (? the 2nd) Earl of Mount Cashell. 22 Presumably the picture was at one time at Moore Park, which has passed out of the possession of the Mount Cashell family. The present Earl in a courteous reply to a letter of mine says: "I think the picture you mention may have belonged to my uncle Mount Cashell, the 3rd Earl. ......1 should have been pleased if I could have given you any information, but I cannot." ROBERT PIERPOINT. WILLIAM SLADE, BORN 1698-9.-In the registers of St. Paul's Church, Covent Garden, there is the following entry : THEIR PRE BOOKS AND ENGRAVINGS : SERVATION.-I should be greatly obliged if any of your readers could inform me if there is anything one could put on books and engravings which, from age or damp, have become brittle and rotten, in order to restore them. I have saved some of the illustrations to Dickens's novels, which broke at the touch, by putting strong paste on the back; but I am told this is apt to make them change colour. D. MANLEY. |