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In the old, old days-my days CONTENTS.-N° 263. -St. Dunstan upreared on its venerable campanile NOTES:-Dame Rebecca Berry, 21-Shakspeariana, 24-The Grave of Laurence Sterne-Chelle-The Penny Post-Old a cupola-long since removed, when modern churchJokes in New Dress-Sir W. Dawes-" Popular Theology" warden Gothic substituted a bastard battlemented -Cacico, 25. parapet for the ancient square-topped tower.* QUERIES:-Conduct - Richard Turner-Biographical- But what I particularly wish to call attention to Wakefield Grammar School- Abou Ben Adhem-Muni- is the connexion-not very indirect-of the lady cipal Records, 26-Presidents of the North Parts-Decapitated Trees - Amber-Shenley-"Misericord" in St. of the tradition with an interesting episode of our Mary's, Lancaster-Illustrations by C. H. Bennett-Lord domestic history; and this relation has-so far as I Byron-Duncan Family, 27-Leech-Richard Savage-know-never yet been noticed in print. 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(See 7th S. x. 289, 451). I feel personally grateful to MR. JOHN T. PAGE for reviving in your columns the old legend of "The Fish and the Ring," and to dear old 'N. & Q.' for permitting the resuscitation, the I think that I may perhaps claim to be entitled to say something on this "violet of a legend," which, although it cannot be said to "blow among the chops and steaks,"* flourishes exceedingly amidst old moss-covered tombstones of the Eastgrey End cemetery pertaining to the church which is consecrate to the memory of the archbishop who had the temerity to "take the devil by the nose. I diffidently assert my right to be heard on the ground-the graveyard ground-that I have been personally familiar with Dame Rebecca (Elton) Berry's peculiar monument for five decades and a lustre. I knew it well when it was a mural ornament on the "outside of the east wall of St. Dunstan's Church," as MR. PAGE accurately informs your readers. I remember perfectly when, under the inspiration of a demagogic, but reverent churchwarden of Stepney,† the memorial was trans * The Poet Laureate-'Will Wimble's Lyrical Monologue,' stanza 19. The late William Newton, a popular local official and prominent trades union leader-an unsuccessful candidate for representation of the then borough of the Tower Hamlets in the House of Commons. It will have been observed that the dame was twice married, and, according, I believe, to strict heraldic custom, the name of her first husband-as being the superior in rank-is assumed in addition to that of her second spouse. Who was the "Berry" who preceded "Thomas Elton, of Stratford Bow, Gent.," in thea ffections of "Dame Rebecca"? I extract here, literatim et verbatim, from some notes made by me (and only retained in MS.) many years ago. At the end of the seventeenth century an extensive community of Britain's "old sea-dogs" inhabited the parish of St. Dunstan's, Stepney, comprising, as that extensive parish then did, Limehouse, Poplar, and Blackwall on the extreme east and south, the whole of Bow (including part of the hamlet of Stratford) on the north-east, and the hamlet of Bethnal (or Bednall) Green on the north. A corresponding colony on the southern side of the great metropolitan river balanced the northern, and Deptford and Greenwich, Bermondsey and Rotherhithe, swarmed with the retired veterans of the Dutch and French naval wars. A dweller at remote Blackwall (for which locality consult your De Foe's History of the Plague Year,' and "when found make a note of it"), in Stepney parish, was the redoubtable Admiral Sir John Berry. This "old salt" had sturdily fought the Dutch in many a tough encounter in the " seas," and in 1682 proudly trod his deck as-what we should now term-post-captain. In that year a great misfortune befell Capt. Berry. He was ordered, as commodore, to command the squadron escorting James, Duke of York, the king's brother, from London to Leith. I believe Capt. Berry at that date had not yet attained the actual rank, narrow but I think that he was conceded the brevet-rank of admiral. He hoisted his flag in the April of 1682+ on board of the Gloucester, "first rate," and there, as flag captain, he received that last * I think the cupola was directly superimposed upon the tower. To the best of my memory St. Dunstan's, Stepney, never had a bartisan like so many of the Eastern Counties' churches. For bartisan see, sub tit.' Bartisan,' some notes of mine appearing many years ago in N. & Q.,' to which I cannot now recall the reference. † See Pepys's Diary'-Pepys to Hewes under date May 8, 1682, Lord Braybrooke's ed. (Colburn, 1849), pp. 314, 15, et seq., dated from Edinburgh. |