Lord High Admiral of England, who afterwards became King James II.* On Friday, May 5,§ however, the Gloucester, being near the mouth of the Humber, ran ashore on a Yorkshire shoal— | certain sands known as "The Lemon and Oar "and the flagship and the other convoying vessels soon became total wrecks. The duke-the heir apparent, or perhaps I ought to say presumptive-was saved with some difficulty. The accident gave rise to much controversial-pamphleteering acrimony. A court-martial was held, but the commodore-who had been knighted some years before for professional services rendered off the coast of Tangiers-was acquitted of all blame. + The press (journalistic), at the command of the Court party, warmly eulogized the royal High Admiral's readiness of resource in the emergency-his Royal Highness's fortitude and self-devotion to the officers and crews not only of the flagship, but of the other vessels of the convoying squadron. The country (the Whig) party, on the other hand, retorted by roundly accusing James of selfishness, and even of personal pusillanimity. Well, the responsible commander was the first husband of the subject of the "Fish and the Ring" mural memorial. Sir John survived during the reign of his royal Admiral, and saw his illustrious commander ignominiously abdicate the throne, and a Dutch prince (a prince of the nation the stout old sailor had so often engaged in maritime conflict) substituted in his place. Admiral Sir John Berry survived this deplorable episode for nearly ten years, and during the latter period of his eventful life enjoyed the lucrative repose of a bench in the maritime service of the Crown as one of the Com

Is there not a story extant of King William IV., when Duke of Clarence, announcing that when he became king he would be his own Lord High Admiral, and of a courtier responding, " Then your Royal Highness will be the only Lord High Admiral that has held the office since the reign of King James II.; and what did he get by it? Why, he lost his throne!"

There is an unimportant discrepancy about this date. Pepys (see previous note) says "about five in the morning of Friday last," which would be May 5; but Luttrell (Brief Relation,' &c., i. pp. 184, 185), an authority usually to be depended upon, says the 6th (which would be Saturday), at five in the morning. Evelyn does not assist us much. The accomplished diarist, under date May 25, 1682 (Thursday), only incidentally alludes to the catastrophe in the words, "The Duke and Duchess of York (Mary of Modena) were just

now come to London after his escape and shipwreck as he went by sea to Scotland" (Evelyn's Diary,' by Bray, edition Colburn, 1850, vol. ii. p. 166). His Royal Highness appears to have escorted his consort home from the North.

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missioners of His Majesty's Navy.* "He was buried in Stepney Church-where there is a monument to his memory. The date of his death is given on this as February 14, 1691—that is 1691/2; but it appears by an Admiralty Minute of March 22, 1689/90, that he was then already dead." honourable retirement of this veteran was spent in the extreme south-eastern corner of the parish of St. Dunstan's, Stepney-that riparian resort erst famous for its feasts of whitebait-Blackwall. His widow, as we have seen, married again a gentleman of Chaucer's "Stratford atte Bowe "-a village lying about twelve furlongs, as the crow flies, north of the locality of her husband's death. It is an unimportant detail that my version of the metrical epitaph differs in some slight respects from that contributed by MR. PAGE. I was under the impression that I had, as he has, copied directly from the stone. I find, however, on reference to my commonplace book of two score years ago, that I was indebted to the obsolete Mirror (vol. for 1833, p. 162) for my rendering; however, the differences between the two versions are only literal, not at all textual. I may here mention that the lines are printed in the late Mr. Tegg's (the publisher's) exquisite volume-too little known-entitled 'An Hour's Reading,' but I cannot give the page.

It at first sight appears rather singular that Sir Richard Steele, in his well-known paper on Stepney Churchyard, which appeared in the classical Spectator, No. 518 (Friday, October 24, 1712), should omit all reference to the "Fish and the Ring" monument; but then so he does all allusion to another relic jealously prized by the Stepney church wardens, and built in the wall of St. Dunstan's porch-a stone said to have been imported from the ruins of Carthage. The fact is "Dick Steele's " article only professes to deal with two quaint epitaphs out of many, and its scope does not pretend to comprise the innumerable monumental inscriptions and other curious features to be found in this most interesting cemetery.§

See his life by Prof. J. K. Laughton, Dictionary of National Biography,' vol. iv. p. 398, vouching Campbell's Lives of the Admirals,' and Charnock's Naval Biography.'

Ibid. See, however, Luttrell, vol. ii. p. 15, under date Wednesday, Feb. 12, 1689/90, where Sir John is spoken of as then "lately dead."

Quoting from memory, this slab, let into the south alike of Delenda est Carthago and Tempus edax rerum):— wall of the church porch, bore the inscription (suggestive Of Carthage great I was a stone; O mortals, read with pity; Time rendeth all; he spareth none, Man, mortal, town, nor city!

The only two mortuary perpetuations he (Sir Richard Steele) professes to deal with are (1) a doggerel set of lines upon one Thomas Sapper, and (2) doggerel equally poor, and by no means unique, for in the churchyard of St. Anne's, Limehouse, and of the cemetery of Hackney, the same verses are, with insignificant variations, repeated. :

Here lies the body of Daniel Saul.

Of Spittlefields, weaver, and that's all.*

Variants of the "Fish and the Ring" legend are to be found in the folk-lore literature of all peoples and ages. I have not access at this moment to the books of the Apocrypha of the Old Testament, but I fancy there is some simulacrum of the fable to be found there. It is clearly traced in the myth of Polycrates; was not his so-called "jewel" a ring or annulet? See Lempriere's Classical Dictionary' (ed. Black and Armstrong, 1838, p. 940, col. 1). I have an impression that it (the legend) may be met with in The Arabian Nights Entertainments,' or at all events some of the numerous compilations of Oriental yarn-spinning. Perhaps its analogue may be traced Somewhere in the 'Decameron' or in the Eighty Merry Tales.' I had thought that the ballad of The Cruel Knight; or, Fortunate Farmer's Daughter,' was enshrined in Percy's 'Reliques'; but I cannot find it there. "Similarly," as Joe Gargery would say, I had a notion that the late Rev. R. B. Barham had adopted it for one of his

interesting in an antiquarian point of view-features of this historical graveyard. There, to this day to be seen, is a “Lovers' Walk," a splendid avenue of elm trees leading diagonally south-east from the chancel door, a little portal from which the "happy couple" emerged after their official visit to the vestry (they had-separately of course-entered by the western ingress, the "stone of Carthage" porch), with the bells clanging a congratulatory peal over their consecrated heads. Interiorly there is to be beheld that wonderful architectural contrivance a hagioscope, vulgo "a squint," a kind of diagonal tube through which, it is asserted, the high priest of the Temple could inspect the propriety of the performances of the subordinate ministrants at the altar. I think there are but three of these "squints" remaining in existing ecclesiastical edifices in Britain. I have noted one; another is in the "prisoners' church," the chapel of St. Peter ad Vincula in the Tower of London; the third is in some church in Northamptonshire the dedication and locality of which have escaped my memory. For a secular illustration of the use of the "squint " (the tube through which the lady of the house, from her "with drawing room," could observe the "goings on" of the guests above the salt, and the serving men and maids below it) I can refer any inquirer to the historical edifice Penshurst Place, Kent, the ancient seat of the Sidneys, where, leading from the great hall, a perfect specimen of the hagioscope may be inspected.

It would seem that the Spectator was at this time in a lugubrious frame of mind. It had just killed its best known hero. The paper immediately preceding that in which Sir Richard Steele prints his "meditations among the tombs" is devoted to describing the death and funeral of Sir Roger de Coverley.

Ingoldsby Legends; but I have failed to discover it in that amusing collection.

As to the arms; the "charge " displayed on the oval-shaped convex shield is a device not (infrequently to be met with. It appears in the coat of the family of Ventris of Cambridgeshire. It is to be found in the municipal "bearings" of the City of Glasgow. It pertains to the "house" of the lady's second husband, "Thomas Elton of With one more observaStratford, Bow, Gent." tion, which I trust may prove interesting, upon this "charge" I will endeavour to bring this inordinately long paper to a conclusion.

Almost exactly a measured mile to the north-west of the site of the dame's monument, at the junction of the Bethnal Green with the Cambridge Heath Road, at the south-eastern corner of the former, nearly opposite St. John's Church, is a popular tavern, a well-known starting-place and terminus for omnibuses, called by the sign of "The Salmon and Ball." This establishment is now a flaring gin palace, and for many years has borne no pictorial indication of its title; but when I was a boy it displayed diagonally on a bend, to use heraldic terminology, a golden fish apparently nibbling at a golden sphere. "The point o' this observation," as the astute Jack Bunsby remarks," lies in the application on it." It must be remembered that formerly the site of this tavern was comprised in the extensive territory of the parish of St. Dunstan, Stepney. It (the public-house) stood on the old Roman road, or just off it-the ancient highway to Stratford-leBow; the modern thoroughfare runs some half a mile south of it. "The Salmon and Ball" was a sort of half-way house between the north-eastern gate of the great city and Mr. Elton's residence, which, it must also be noted, was in the parish of St.. Dunstan, Stebon-hethe, just within its eastern boundary. I think it very likely that the tavern sign was originally the fish and annulet of that gentleman's arms-a device carved in low relief in stone and probably long exposed to atmospheric action, which in course of time would wear away its accurate heraldic definition, the ring assuming a spherical appearance, accounting for the uneducated coming to regard it as a salmon with a ball in immediate contact with the mouth of the fish. I think this a more plausible derivation than the theory that ascribes it to "the well-known ball of the silk mercers in former times added to the sign of the salmon."* It may be-but this perhaps is "to consider too curiously," as Hamlet has it-that the inn was a part of the property of the Elton family, and that the sign of "The Salmon and Ball" was the vulgar appellation for "The Elton Arms." Be this as it may, I submit that I have adduced some plausible inferences for connecting the existing gin'

'ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL,' IV. ii. 38:Diana. I see that men make rope's in such a scarre That we 'll forsake ourselves. Give me that ring. So the Cambridge editors, following accurately the two earliest folios. I am satisfied to correct thus: I see that men make hopes for such a lure That we 'll forsake ourselves.-Give me that ring. That is :

"I see men flatter themselves that we are to be enticed from our duty by promises as fictitious as the falconer's lure of a stuffed bird :-I must have a material pledge; give me that ring."

This is quite in the spirit of a like negotiation in 'Troilus and Cressida,' V. ii. 58 :

Diomed. But will you then?

Cressida. In faith I will, la; never trust me else.
Diomed. Give me some token for the surety of it.

'KING LEAR,' I. iv. 130.—

I'd shake it in this quarrel.

Cornwall. What do you mean? my villain! The question "What do you mean?" might be assigned to Regan more appropriately than to the servant; but I doubt not it belongs to Cornwall, and should be restored to him.

W. WATKISS LLOYD.

SONNET LXXVII., 1. 10.—

Commit to these waste blacks, and thou shalt finde. Here, where our author is speaking of tables, i. e., of a table-book given by him to W. H., modern editors, acting on Theobald's suggestion, read blanks, one spelling in Shakespeare's day having been blancks. Never, however, accepting an emendation unless it be necessary or carry conviction with it, I set about inquiring whether these "tables" might not have sometimes been made of slate, or of some black composition. That they were at times of ivory we know, and possibly they may have been of paper. My friend W. G. Boswell-Stone directed my attention to Douce's 'Illustrations of Shakespeare,' 1839, p. 454, a book I had most forgetfully overlooked ::

"They were sometimes made of slate in the form of a small portable book with leaves and clasps. Such a one is fortunately engraved in Gesner's treatise De Rerum Fossilium Figuris,' &c., Tigur., 1565, 12mo., which is not to be found in the folio collection of his works......The learned author thus describes it: Pugillaris è laminis saxi nigri fissilis, cum stylo ex eodem,'"

The engraving, copied in Douce, dispels any doubt that might be entertained. Hence I trust that Shakespeare's blacks will in future be restored. In case I be told that slate is not black, I would add these two remarks:-first, that Gesner speaks of "laminis saxi nigri fissilis "; secondly, that names of colours were then loosely used, and, indeed, are now, or were when I was a schoolboy, for "a black slate pencil" was a common expression amongst BR. NICHOLSON.

us.

'MEASURE FOR MEASURE,' I. ii.: THANKSGIVING BEFORE MEAT (7th S. x. 401).—MR. CECIL DEEDES (I wonder whether he is a son or grandson of one of my pupils as a prefect at Winchester) says that in the grace after meat sung at the election dinner occurred the petitions "Face reginam salvam, Domine; pacem in diebus nostris." "Fac regem salvum Domine" it was in my day. It was sung by the whole force of the chapel choir; and the melody is a most delicious one, especially in the

words which follow those cited, "

.Et exaudi nos in die quocunque invocamus te!" Some portions of the grace sufficiently show that it could not have been used elsewhere, save perhaps at New College. Every note of the music lives in my ear, at the end of more than sixty years, as clearly as when I heard it last.

Budleigh Salterton.

'MACBETH':

T. ADOLPHUS TROLLOPE.

"WEIRD SISTERS" (7th S. x. 403). Whatever may have been Holinshed's opinion, I think that Shakspeare meant his three witches to be of the common sort. The question of one of them should be remembered :

Say! would'st thou rather hear it from our mouths Or from our masters'?

This argues that they were the servants of the devils, as witches of the common sort are supposed to be. Their knowledge of futurity was derived from the spirits to whom they had sold themselves. Spirits of all kinds are generally represented as capable of prognostication.

E. YARDLEY.

THE GRAVE OF LAURENCE STERNE.-Though there are many notices of the life and writings of the English Rabelais, as he has been called, interspersed through the several series of N. & Q.,' and mention is made of the fate of his body after death, yet very little, if anything, is said of the place of his burial, St. George's burial-ground in the Bayswater Road. Sterne died in 1768. Percy Fitzgerald, in his 'Life of Sterne,' published in 1864, more than a hundred years after the death of Sterne, and a quarter of a century ago, gives the following mournful description of the grave of

Parson Yorick.

"We can readily find our way to it now, for it is notorious among the neglected graveyards of London, and is useful as a sort of huge pit for the

rubbish of the ruinous houses that hem it in closely all round. Weeds, rioting in their impurity, yawning graves, headstones staggering over, dirt, neglect, and a squalid looking dead-house, all soiled and grimed, with a belfry and a bell. This is now the condition of the graveyard where Laurence Sterne is supposed to lie."-Vol. ii. p. 404.

Alas poor Yorick! Mr. Fitzgerald gives a copy of the inscription on a headstone erected long after his death by two Freemasons, though Sterne was not a brother of the order. Has this memorial also departed? His friend Garrick wrote an epitaph upon him which was not inscribed:

Shall Pride a heap of sculptured marble raise, Some worthless, unmourned, titled fool to praise; And shall we not by one poor gravestone learn Where Genius, Wit, and Humour sleep with Sterne? A fine portrait of Sterne, painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds, representing him with his fore

finger thrust under his wig, has been often engraved. Prefixed to a volume of his 'Sermons,' published in 1788, in my library, is another portrait of him "Engraved by Heath from a Picture painted by Hopkins.' Bryan's 'Dictionary of Painters' makes no mention of Hopkins.

Does the graveyard yet exist; or has it been improved off the face of the earth, like many more in London have been, in order to be rendered available for the abodes of the living? JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

CHELLE-The latest example given in the 'New Eng. Dict.' is 1240. Is it the same word which occurs four centuries later in the case of Adney v. Vernon and Others (36 Car. II., C.B. Rot. 825)? The words are unam pensilem eream Anglice a Brass Chell.”

SARUM.

SIR WILLIAM DAWES (1671-1724), ARCHBISHOP OF YORK.-As an interesting addition to the account of him appearing in 'Dict. Nat. Biog.,' vol. xiv. p. 215, it may be well to record the existence of a certificate by Thomas Richardson, curate of Bocking, co. Essex, that Sir William Dawes was baptized Oct. 10, 1671 (Rawlinson MS., C 983, fol. 130, Bodl. Lib.). DANIEL HIPWELL.

34, Myddelton Square, Clerkenwell.

"POPULAR THEOLOGY."-Some quarter of a century ago the phrase "popular theology" became very common on the lips of young university men. It was used for the purpose of designating certain historical religious convictions which the speakers had repudiated. I was surprised some little time ago to come upon the following passage in The Family Memoirs of the Rev. William Stukeley (Surtees Soc.), vol. i. p. 86. The date of the letter in which it occurs is 1754: "The philosophers of Greece were much too wise to enter intirely into the popular theology." ANON.

CACICO. The 'New Eng. Dict.' does not give this form. It occurs in a work on 'Carolina,' by T. A., 1682," reguli or cacicoes." The same work mentions the " manacy or sea-cow" and the "wild walnut or Hiquery tree.” SARUM.

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 the answers may be addressed to them direct.

CONDUCT. This word in the now leading sense of "behaviour of such a kind," "manière de se comporter," appears to be modern. It is unknown to Johnson, Todd, and Richardson. I have, how ever, a quotation from Lady M. W. Montagu about

1716. I should like to find it earlier. Conduite in French was used in this sense by Corneille ante 1650, but is not in Cotgrave, 1611. The ordinary seventeenth to eighteenth century sense of conduct was managing power, generalship, skill, tact. The antithesis of courage and conduct occurs hundreds of times in biographies and characters. An instance of "virtue and conduct" from Swift is mistakenly explained by Johnson. The verb to conduct oneself is also absent from Johnson, Todd, and Richardson, and we have no quotation before 1815; but it must surely be earlier! Se conduire was used by Corneille in Cinna,' 1639; and the intrans. to conduct, meaning "to behave," occurs in 1677, and has always been in use in New England. Its genesis is difficult to account for, unless as a shortening of "conduct oneself" (like behave for "behave oneself "); but where are the seventeenth century instances of "conduct oneself" to be found which have been totally missed by Johnson, Todd, Richardson, and our readers? It was apparently not used by Milton, Pope, or Cowper, and I think it can hardly have been missed by our systematic readers of Addison's Spectator. But perhaps some correspondent of N. & Q.' can help us. Surely some eighteenth-century heroines must have conducted themselves with propriety! and did not their rival beaux conduct themselves with proper spirit?

Oxford.

J. A. H. MURRAY.

RICHARD TURNER.-The Gentleman's Magazine records the death, on February 6, 1733, of the above, and adds: "Formerly a Turkey merchant, reckon'd worth upwards of 100,000l. (and therefore nicknamed Plumb Turner), the bulk of which he settled on Sir Edward Turner, of Bicester, in Oxfordshire, Bart." What relation was this Richard to Sir Edward? F. A. BLAYDES.

Bedford.

BIOGRAPHICAL.-Can any of your readers kindly give me (or refer me to) any information touching the following? Herzman, a Russian agitator, living at Park House, Fulham, about 1850; John Tarnworth, Privy Councillor temp. Elizabeth, died 1599; the Claybroke family, living at Fulham in the time of Elizabeth; the Sherbourn family, living at Fulham in the fifteenth century; and Sir William Withers, living 1708. Hallam, the his

torian, was living at Arundel House, Fulham, in his residence here? Please reply direct. 1819. Can any one give me the exact period of CHAS. JAS. FERET.

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WAKEFIELD GRAMMAR SCHOOL.-I am attempting to write a history of this school in commemorafall on November 19, 1891; but I find myself very tion of its three hundredth anniversary, which will much at a loss for information about most of its masters. The following is a list of them up to

1800:

1. Rev. Edward Mawde, November, 1591-1598. 2. Rev. John Beaumont (Emm., Camb.), October, 1600April, 1607.

3. Rev. Jeremy Gibson, June, 1607-July, 1607. 4. Rev. Robert Saunders (King's, Camb.), July, 1607— October, 1607.

5. Rev. Philip Isack (Emm., Camb.), January, 1607/8May, 1623.

6. Rev. Robert Doughty, May, 1623-February, 1662/3. 7. Rev. Samuel Garvy (Emm. Camb.), July, 1663October, 1665.

8. Rev. Jeremiah Boulton (Magd., Camb.), December, 1665-April, 1672. 9. Rev. John Baskervile (Emm., Camb.), May, 1672May, 1681.

10. Rev. Edward Clarke, August, 1681-June, 1693. 11. Rev. Edmund Farrer (St. John's, Camb.), July, 1693-April, 1703.

12. Rev. Thomas Clarke (Jesus, Camb.), April, 17031720.

13. Rev. Benjamin Wilson (Trin., Camb.), 1720-1751. 14. Rev. John Clarke (Trin., Camb.), April, 17511758.

15. Rev. Christopher Atkinson, June 1758-January, 1795. 16. Rev. Thomas Rogers (Magd., Camb.), February, 1795-1814. No. 6 is mentioned in the preface to Hoole's 'An Easie Entrance to the Latin Tongue'; Nos. 8 to 13 are named in biographies of their distinguished pupils-Dr. Bentley, Dr. Radcliffe, Archbishop Potter, Joseph Bingham, and others; the life of No. 14 has been written by Dr. Zouch under the title The Good Schoolmaster Exemplified,' &c.; and there are references to many of them in local registers. But some readers of N. & Q.' may be able and willing to supply further particulars. I shall be very deeply grateful for any information sent direct to me or contributed in these valuable columns. MATTHEW H. PEACOCK.

Wakefield Grammar School.

'ABOU BEN ADHEM.'- This poem of Leigh Hunt's is said to be founded on an incident recorded in D'Herbelot's 'Bibliothèque Orientale. As I have no means of referring to this work would some contributor kindly obtain the passage and have it printed in "Replies"? MYOGA. Tokyo, Japan.

MUNICIPAL RECORDS.-On behalf of the Hull Literary Club, I am most anxious to compile a list