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. 66 SIR JOHN GREVILLE OF BINTON, 1480.In the east window of Binton Church, Warwickshire, there were formerly the kneeling figures of Sir John Greville (in armour, and a surcoat with the Greville arms), who died in August, 1480, and his wife Johanna. A scroll over the head of Sir John had the words, 'Jhu fili dei miserere mei"; and another scroll, over his wife, had an inscription, which in an old etching appears to read," intercede pro me Johannes Xpn carn." The last three words in the second inscription are impossible, and suggest an error on the part of the copyist. Can any correspondent kindly give the correct reading of the second inscription? The glass has long since disappeared. W. G. D. F. BRISBANE OF BARNHILL.-William Brisbane of Barnhill, parish of Inchinnan, Renfrewshire, undoubtedly the progenitor of the Brisbanes of Barnhill, died 11 Jan., 1591. His "Testament Dative and Inventory" (Edinburgh Commissariot Testaments, vol. xxix.) mentions Issobella Maxwell his relict." One of his daughters is named Janet. I should like to know the parentage of Issobella Maxwell. William Maxwell, who died 13 July, 1542 (son of Sir John Maxwell of Pollock), and who was generally designated of Carnnaderick, left by his wife Janet Cathcart two sons and a daughter, Isabel. Is there any way of ascertaining whether Isabel, the daughter of William Maxwell of Carnnaderick, was the Issobella Maxwell, wife of William Brisbane of Barnhill? E. HAVILAND HILLMAN, F.S.G. 13, Somers Place, Hyde Park, W. SALEHURST, SUSSEX.-I am collecting data for a history of this parish (which includes the small country town of Robertsbridge), and shall be grateful to any correspondent who can furnish me with any information bearing on the subject. I am, of course, already in possession of all the information to be found in the Transactions of the Sussex Archæological Society and in Horsfield's History of Sussex,' &c. Please reply direct. LEONARD J. HODSON. Robertsbridge, Sussex. THE FIRST FOLIO SHAKESPEARE: EARLIEST REFERENCE TO, AND PICTORIAL REPRESENTATION OF.-The earliest reference I have 9 May, 1687, of books belonging to Sir W. seen is in the auction-sale catalogue, dated Coventry, in the British Museum, press-mark Stationers' Register, 8 Nov., 1623, is not 1422. c. 5 (4). The well-known entry in the refers to the First Folio. Prynne's reference sufficiently specific, though no doubt it to "Shackspeers.... Playbooks....Folio," in his Histrio-Mastix' (1633), may, though I do not think it does, refer to the Second Folio (1632). Some portion of HistrioMastix (Prynne's reference is on p. 1) was probably written before 1633. On the whole, I think Prynne did refer to the First Folio. The earliest pictorial representation I have seen is in an engraving by Sharp, dated 8 May, 1789, alleged to be from the portrait of the Earl of Southampton (1573-1624) in the collection of the Duke of Bedford, in the Print-Room, British Museum. The portrait of Southampton in the Duke of Bedford's collection, which I have not seen, is painted by Mierevelt (1568-1641), but it is obvious that the 1789 engraving cannot correspond in details with any portrait painted in or before 1641, the style being at least 150 years later. I cannot think that the portrait by Mierevelt contains the representation of the First Folio which is in the 1789 engraving. Can any of your readers tell me of an earlier reference to, or pictorial representation of, the First Folio than the above? EDWARD B. HARRIS. 5. Sussex Place, Regent's Park, N.W. 6 "TAMSON'S MEAR (MARE)."-I find this phrase, meaning to go afoot, in Catriona. I shall be much obliged for information regarding its origin. P. V. ACHARYA. Chepauk, Madras. WORDS ON A SAMPLER.-I have recently acquired by purchase in England a sampler upon which are embroidered the following words: Sasidu by eouer i my self and god remains. 1504, E. Fifty-Third Street, Chicago. CARDIGAN MANUSCRIPT: WHAT HAS BECOME OF IT?-Lipscomb in his History of the County of Buckingham,' written in 1847 and before, frequently refers to this manuscript as an authority for his statements, especially in in matters of pedigree and genealogy. He states that it was then in the possession of Lady de Grey at Wrest, Bedfordshire. The manuscript is evidently an important one from an historical point of view. I hope it may have been deposited in the Bodleian Library at Oxford with the other manuscripts there, or in some other repository where it will be carefully preserved. Can any one tell me where this manuscript may now be found? MONUMENTS AT WARWICK.-Is there any list or catalogue of the inscriptions on the monuments and tombstones in the church and graveyard at Warwick, and where may this list be seen? POLHILL FAMILY.-I am in search of information regarding the brothers, sisters, and daughters of David Polhill, M.P. for Rochester. Was "Jane from Barkhamstead," whose burial with her mother at Otford is mentioned by MR. COLYER-FERGUSSON at 10 S. xi. 315, married? David Polhill had four daughters, only one I received intelligence from Otford that of these being alive when he died in 1754. Since then a representative of David Polhill has kindly sent me an extract from their pedigree, stating that David had but the one daughter, Elizabeth (b. 1727, d. 1815). Are there any grounds for the first statement, or is it merely a misapprehension ? Is there positive proof that Mr. Charles Polhill, grandson of General Ireton, died without issue? In many cases this is stated in pedigrees, simply because the descendants are unknown to the compilers. Was his brother Henry buried at Ötford, or is it possible that he left, married, and had a son and daughter? Were David, Charles, Henry, and Jane the only children of Mrs. Elizabeth (Ireton) Polhill? (Miss) E. F. WILLIAMS. 10, Black Friars, Chester. PAYMENT FOR GOOD FRIDAY SERMON.It is stated in a Parliamentary Return of Sussex Charities made in 1836, "There is an annual payment of 6s. 8d. to the officiating minister of Yapton for preaching a sermon on Good Friday, issuing out of land called Bury (or Berea) Court. The Vicar's terrier, taken in the year 1689, mentions this payment, but it does not appear whence it originated. mentary Returns as land,' the proceeds of which probably the charity mentioned in the Parlia are incorrectly stated to have been applied to the use of the poor." This is I cannot hear of similar payments, and I shall be glad if any reader of N. & Q.' can say if these charges exist in other parts of England, and if so, where, and how they originated. S. J. B. F. RECORDS OF NAVIGATION IN INDIA.— Mr. John R. Spears, in his valuable little work on Master Mariners (Williams & Norgate), affirms that "there are records showing that the coasts of India have been navigated for at least 9,000 years." Of what nature are these records? Or must the statement be classed with that recently made by Mrs. Walter Tibbits when she speaks of " the long pointed boats which have navigated the Gunga for millions of years" ('Cities Seen,' p. 225)? O. KNOTT. 6 H.M.S. BEAGLE.-Has the ultimate fate "OF SORTS."-In replying to the query of the ship on which Darwin made his cele- concerning A "Dish "of Tea' MR. DOUGLAS brated voyage ever been definitely cleared OWEN uses (11 S vi. 433) the expression “the up? An article appeared in The Japan dish was originally a bowl of sorts.' WhenMagazine in April, 1910, stating that a ship ever I meet with this "of sorts" I am called the Beagle was presented to Japan puzzled, as no English dictionary that I in 1870, and after being used as a gunboat, have consulted has as yet furnished me &c., was broken up in 1880. But there were information. What is its exact meaning? doubts as to whether this was the Darwinian I have come across such sentences as Beagle. On the other hand, Essex friends "It is an army of sorts," where the context tell me that they are under the impression seemed to imply that it was a sorry one; that the guardship moored in the Roach and the title of a book, 'Chances of Sports River (near Burnham-on-Crouch) thirty of Sorts,' which seems to be only a variant for "all sorts." G. KRUEGER. Berlin. or forty years ago was named the Beagle. PARISH REGISTERS OF SURREY.-Could any reader of' N. & Q.' kindly let me know whether there are any transcripts of the parish registers of Surrey earlier than 1813 still extant, and if so, where ? They should, of course, be in the same custody as the Marriage Licences of Surrey Commissary Court, but they are not. REGINALD M. GLENCROSS. Makshufa, Harefield Road, Uxbridge. THE INQUISITION IN FICTION AND DRAMA. -Can any of your readers give me particulars of works of fiction or of plays introducing the Inquisition? I am aware, of course, of its introduction in Westward Ho!' and of Victorien Sardou's tragedy La Sorcière '—a mere travesty of Inquisitorial process. But in the autumn of 1911 I read a review of a novel dealing with "the Holy Office" in the Netherlands -supposed to be based on a MS. found in an old house in Antwerp; and I believe that some four or five years ago another novel was based upon the Inquisition. Its elaborate and very dilatory procedure is all against a successful and accurate treatment of it in fiction or drama. ERIC R. WATSON. (10 S. vi. 447; vii. 37; 11 S. vi. 407.) MAY I supplement COL. CHIPPINDALL'S interesting account of the Chippendale family by a reference to one or two other modern authorities ? In Miss Constance Simon's charming and tasteful production English Furniture Designers of the Eighteenth Century' (1905) a very good account is given of the Chippendale family as known in London. Miss Simon says (p. 24) that Thomas Chippendale the second (the great Thomas Chippendale, I may call him) was born and spent a part of his early life in Worcester (though she gives no authority for that statement), and that both father and son were settled in London before 1727. On 19 May, 1748, the son would appear to have married Catherine Redshaw of St. Martin-in-theFields at St. George's Chapel, Mayfair, as related by both Miss Simon and COL. CHIPPINDALL. This, the latter states, was followed by the baptism of a son-Thomas Chippendale the third-on 23 April, 1749, Chippendale as having been a native of at St. Paul's, Covent Garden; and he con- Worcestershire. siders that his father must have been dead Mr. K. Warren Clouston, at p. 31 of by 1797, as a Chancery suit arose con- The Chippendale Period in English Furnicerning his estate, in which his wife Eliza- ture' (1897)-as cited by MR. HARRY HEMS beth (whom he assumes to have been his in N. & Q.' at the second reference-also second wife) and four children (Thomas, claims the Thomas Chippendale as having Mary, John, and Charles) are named. been born in Worcestershire. This is followed by Mr. W. E. Penny in an article on Thomas Chippendale and his Work' in The Connoisseur, who says: "Thomas Chippendale, it is believed, was born century." at Worcester in the first decade of the eighteenth Mrs. R. S. Clouston, in a series of articles on Thomas Chippendale' in the same periodical,* whilst mentioning the belief that he was born in Worcester, says that the dates of his birth and death are quite uncertain. She, however, gives reasons for supposing that he must have died between 1762 and 1765, which we know now could not have been the case. Miss Simon claims to be the first to give the actual date, and shows that Thomas Chippendale (II.) died on 13 November, 1779, and was buried at St. Martin's; no age is stated, however, though that age might have helped one. Administration to his estate was granted in the following month to his widow Elizabeth. Another grant was made in 1784 (by which time she was dead) to one Philip Davies, who was appointed administrator in her stead "in order to attend and confirm proceedings then impending in the Court of Chancery." These proceedings are no doubt those to which COL. CHIPPINDALL refers, and were for the recovery of a long-outstanding debt of the In such a general history of English Chippendale firm due from the notorious furniture as Mr. Percy Macquoid's great work Theresa Cornelys, of Carlisle House, Soho, one, perhaps, could scarcely expect to find who was the subject of notice in N. & Q.' much detailed information as to the family a few years ago (see 8 S. vi. 3, 93; viii. of the various craftsmen whose work he so 115, 157, 277; ix. 281; x. 171, 311). She fully and masterfully deals with; but on had been declared a bankrupt in 1772, when P: 134 of vol. iii. (Age of Mahogany ') of she had assigned her estate to Chippen- his History of English Furniture' (1906) dale and other creditors, and eventually the author says:died in the Fleet Prison in 1797. Miss Simon states that the final result of these lawsuits between the creditors is not known, but it did not seem as if the Chippendales recovered much of their money. On the death of Thomas Chippendale (II.) in 1779 his eldest son, Thomas-the last of the triumviri-succeeded to the business, and he himself died, unmarried, in December, 1822, his will being proved in the following month. It would seem that COL. CHIPPINDALL has made out his statement that the Chippendale family came from Ottley, co. York, and he claims that if Thomas Chippendale came from Worcestershire, it was only as part of his route to London. There are authorities, however, besides Miss Simon who give the family a Midland habitat. In Erdeswick's Survey of Staffordshire (1884), p. 468, it is stated that the family of Chippendale once possessed the estate of Blakenhall in the same county. Mr. F. Litchfield, both in his 'Illustrated History of Furniture' (1903) and in his most useful smaller book How to collect Old Furniture' (1904), speaks of Thomas But little is known of the career of this celeand so much has been written on his work and brated craftsman [Thomas Chippendale II.], influence that it is not necessary to attempt here to introduce his personality in connection with the furniture called after his name. It has been 1727 with his father, who was a carver, gilder, and proved that he came to London before the year cabinet-maker; that he married his first wife in 1748, took a shop in 1749, moved to St. Martin's Lane in 1753, and published his celebrated book in 1754. The Gentleman and Cabinet-maker's Director' Facts also go to prove that he died at the age of about 70. If the date of his birth was, say, 1709, he would have been thirty-nine when he married, and forty-four at the date of the merely to suggest that it was not till after the 'Director's' appearance. These dates are given appearance of the Director that Chippendale's influence really affected English furniture.' Mr. Macquoid does not state what the facts are that go to prove that Thomas Chippendale died" at the age of about 70 ; and it may, I think, be fairly assumed that, as the first volume (The Age of Oak') o his great work was published in 1904, he had not seen, when he wrote these words, references to The Connoisseur, as I have detached I regret that I am unable to give the exact these and other articles from that periodical, and have kept them separately. DR. PETER DU MOULIN AND NORTH WALES (11 S. vi. 389). - A letter, dated Canterbury, 11 Oct., 1675, from Dr. Peter Du Moulin the younger to Sir Thomas Myddelton, second Baronet of Chirk Castle, discloses the benefaction in North Wales bestowed on the Doctor by Archbishop Williams, which he enjoyed from 1626 to the time of his death in 1684. It throws no light, however, on his mother-in-law." Should it not be "2 mother or "stepmother"? Sir Thomas, to whom the letter is addressed, succeeded to the baronetcy when he was only twelve years of age, his father, Sir Thomas, dying in 1663, and his grandfather, Sir Thomas Myddelton, Knt., in 1666. It is through the kindness of Mr. Richard Myddelton, the present possessor of Chirk Castle, that I am enabled to send a copy of this letter. SIR, 66 Though I haue not the happines to be knowne to you, I was to yor worthy father, and more to my noble friend yor Grandfath" who did severall wayes oblige me, and once kept me a whole Xmas att Chirk Castle; But I hope I need noe other introduction to the businesse I haue with you then yo owne righteousnes and Gentlenes. My busines, Sir, is to represent vnto you, that you are possest with a litle piece of glebe belonging to my Rectorie of LLanarmon in Yale (called tir llan, that is terra ecclesia) which yor Grandfath without any designe to wrong the Church, & being ignorant of my right, bought of Mr. John LLoyd of Kelligonen [Gelligynan] a yeare or two before the Civil warre. When I knew of that wrong to my church I represented it to S Tho: whom I found inclined to amicable termes. But the warre debarred me from any recouery of my right, the Rectorie being seized into the Parliam's hands because I was found guilty of loyalty, And since the King's returne, either yo young yeares, or yo' trauelling abroad, haue kept me from renewing my claime. Sir, the matter is but small, it is but foure akers of ground in the township of Boddigra yr yarll, & I thank God I am in a Condition to find noe want of it, yet y losse of it to the Church in my time lyeth heavy vpon my Conscience, & calls vpon me, who am welnigh 76 years old, not to goe out of this world, before I haue discharged my duty to the Church in yt particular. Edward, father to John LLoyd, holding that land without Mr. paying anything to the Church I gott him summoned by a reference from the King to appeare before y Lords of ye Councell about it, where I produced the terriar of the Church & other such evident proofes as made the Lords satisfied of my right, And before their Lordsh the said Edward Lloyd acknowledged that he had nothing to setle the s busines by some reasonable agreem to shew for it. Wherevpon ye Lords advised him with the present Incumbent, but soe as the right of y Church might be declared, or in default thereof, to attend them with his answere in the begining of Easter terme of the yeare 1636. Edward LLoyd shewed himselfe willing to yeald y tennam wholy, and did not attend ye Lords any more. But falling sick of a very long sicknes of which he died nothing was done. And his son rather then to restore that tenement to the Church chose to sell it to Sir Tho: Myddelton for which Sir I am certeine yt you shall find among your papers no title produced by him; it being knowne in ye Countrey that his family had never one foot of ground in Bodigra yr yarli. Sir in this busines I cast myselfe vpon your justice & wisdome & doe humbly craue your resolution & directions, resting in ye meane while yo most humble servant yt beares an hereditary loue to yo' family. PETER DU MOULIN. Sr you may be pleasd to honour me with a let directed to me at Canterbury where I am one of the Canons of the Church. fath held that land by a lease from my preI forgott to say that Edward LLoyd's granddecessor Godfrey Goodman who when I came to the Rectory was made Bishop of Glocester, and from whome I had a certificate of the same which I did exhibit to the Lords and which I keep still. Canterbury, October 11th, 1675. Woodhall Spa. W. M. MYDDELTON. CAPT. PITMAN (11 S. vi. 448, 513).-About fifty years ago Capt. Samuel Pitman lived at the Manor House, Bishop's Hull, near Taunton. He held a commission in the West Somerset Yeomanry, and was a keen sportsman. He owned and hunted the Langport Harriers, and at the same time was Master of the South Berks Foxhounds. The following extract from one of the sporting papers (The County Gentleman and Sportsman's Gazette of 1883) will give some idea of his love of hunting : "He hunted the harriers near Taunton on Monday, went up to Reading (125 miles) Monday night, hunted the South Berks Hounds on Tuesday and Wednesday, went back to Taunton Wednesday night to hunt his harriers on Thursday, returned to Reading Thursday night to hunt the South Berks on Friday, and on Saturday he often had a day with the Duke of Beaufort or the Vale of White Horse on his way down to Taunton, to be ready for a fresh start on Monday morning. This he did for three seasons, never missing a day except when the frost stopped hunting, his railway journey alone averaging 1,000 miles a week. Upon giving up the South Berks Hounds, Capt. Pitman hunted from Bath with the Duke of Beaufort's, the Vale of White |