GRAVE OF EMPEROR HONORIUS, A.D. 423.-Rodolfo Lanciani in his book, 'Pagan and Christian Rome,' speaking of the Rotunda of St. Petronilla, called the chapel of the Kings of France, now covered by a part of the Basilica of St. Peter, mentions the discovery in 1544 of the tomb of Maria, daughter of Stilicho and wife of Honorius; and adds: "A greater treasure of gems, gold, and precious objects has never been found in a single tomb." and later on he says:- "We know from Paul Diaconus that Honorius was laid to rest by the side of his empress; his coffin, however, has never been found. still be concealed under the pavement at the It must southern end of transept, near the altar of the Crucifixion of St. Peter.' Why, then, are we told by some, that one of the beautiful sarcophagi in the mausoleum of his half-sister, Galla Placidia, at Ravenna, contains the ashes of Honorius ? And why should a Christian Emperor have been cremated? A. R. BAYLEY. has the second numeral. What was the St. Stephen's Rectory, C.-on-M., Manchester. We have lately had presented to the Pump CHAIR c. 1786: INFORMATION WANTED.Room by a visitor to Bath, a chair which he believes dates from about 1786, and marks a transition period between the sedan chair and the present Bath chair. sedan chair, but with a small door at each The body is wood, shaped much like a small windows of the carriage type, with a side like a miniature brougham. There are deep rail underneath. I believe the whole carriage is known as the 'Barker' type. wheels in front on a swivel carriage, to The vehicle has four wheels, two small which is attached a handle for the man, while the rear wheels are much larger. GISSING'S ON BATTERSEA BRIDGE.'Can any of your readers tell me the exact glad if any reader could give me any infordate when George Gissing's On Batterseamation about this type of chair. I forward a photograph, and should be Bridge' appeared in the Pall Mall Gazette? The year commonly given is 1882, but I have failed to find it in that year's files. The Nest, Croydon Road, Caterham, Surrey. H. E. LEEDS. "BEAUTY IS BUT SKIN DEEP."-Who first used this expression? Was it Sir Thomas Overbury, in his poem, 'A Wife' ? J. R. H. URCHFONT.-There is a village in Wiltshire called Urchfont. Could any reader tell me the origin of the name? J. R. H. NEW ENGLAND.-There is a hamlet of this name south of Bagshot, Surrey; also a district at Peterborough: and many villages or hamlets throughout England. Can anyone suggest the origin of this name? PRESCOTT Row. PAGINATION. (See 10 S. viii. 386).—At this reference I directed attention to what I termed "the vagaries of printers and publishers in this matter," giving two modern instances thereof, viz. : inserting the numbers at the bottom of the page, and introducing them into the context. I have since learned that these vagaries are not entirely modern, for in my edition (1630) of the Adagia of Erasmus the leaves are only paged alternately, i.e., the first bears the first numeral, the second none, and the third Hot Mineral Springs, JOHN HATTON. Grand Pump Room, Bath. [We shall be glad to forward the photograph to any reader with special knowledge on this subject.] 66 of his writings, but at what date was it portion of Bleak House Dickens describes DEAL AS A PLACE OF CALL.-In the latter a homeward-bound East Indiaman at anchor passengers in small boats at Deal. There was in the Downs, and the landing of some of the apparently a fog in the Channel when the vessel cast anchor, but it had cleared before the voyagers left the ship. Was this a usual practice at the period, or did the author draw on his fancy to provide a fresh opportunity for Allan Woodcourt to meet Esther Summerson? E. BASIL LUPTON. 10 Humboldt Street, Cambridge, Mass. Scotland, in the time of Sir Walter Scott, differing little from the first one by him, except that the coat was thrown open, showing a heavy gold watch-chain. I have a large coloured photograph of this very pleasing portrait, showing a heavy gold double chain round the neck and going down towards the waist, and thought it was purposely displayed by the artist, because Sir Walter was Sheriff of Selkirkshire. J. T. ANDREWS. GENERAL JAMES OGLETHORPE.-1. Is the year of his birth definitely known? R. Wright (Memoir, p. 5 and App. pp. 393-6) gives it as 1689 (June 1st). Others say 1696 2. Was he named James,' or James Edward' ? 3. Is there a portrait of him anywhere? H. F. B. COMPSTON. Bredwardine Vicarage, Hereford. JOHN THORNTON.-In 1405 John Thornton of Coventry contracted to fill the great east window of York Minster with coloured glass, the work to be completed within three years; whilst in 1410 one John Thornton, presumably the same man, was admitted a freeman of the City of York. Is anything known of Thornton's career, either previous or subsequent to these years, that could identify him as the John of Coventry who, in 1353, was one of those engaged about the glazing of the king's new chapel at Windsor ? Winchester. JOHN LE COUTEUR. an MONKSHOOD.-Can any reader tell me why the common monkshood is called Aconitum napellus? If napellus is adjective why does it not agree with the neuter noun? In any case what does the name mean? The botanical books I have been able to consult throw no light on the subject. J. ANDERSON SMITH, M.D. CAPT. I. W. CARLETON.-Can any of your readers refer me to a life of Capt. I. W. Carleton, who wrote the Young Sportsman's Manual' published about fifty years ago by Messrs. Bell & Daldy? The 'D.N.B.' contains no notice of him. He wrote under the name of Craven. S. P. KENNY. Primrose Club, St. James's, W. HENRY JENKINS: KILLED IN A DUEL.Is anything known of Henry Jenkins, who, according to an old MS., was killed in a duel by a Mr. Glover, brother to Richard Glover, the author of Leonidas'? Was he & soldier, and who were his parents? He married Hannah Taylor, born 1726. H. C. B. Не JOHN WITTY. At 6 S. ii. 148 appears the following query ! John Witty, author of works on Mosaic history, against Deism, 1705–34. Who was he ?-W. C. B.' was the Rev. John Witty, son of Richard Witty, of Lund, Co. York. Baptised there 1679. Entered St. John's College, Cambridge, 1696. M.A., 1711. Can any reader help me as to what livings he held or where he died? In 1709 two letters were addressed to him, "att Mr John Wyatt's house at the sign of the Cross in St. Paul's Church-yard" (Ad. MSS. 4276). After this I can find no trace of him. The date 1734 given by the previous querist above is hard to understand, as his last work in the B.M. Catalogue is dated 1707. L. S. CAPT. J. C. GRANT DUFF.-I am at present engaged in the preparation of a new edition of Capt. J. C. Grant Duff's History of the Mahrattas,' and am anxious to obtain for the introduction some details of his career be used as a frontispiece. I shall be glad as well as a copy of a portrait which might to be placed in communication with the present representatives of the family. S. M. EDWARDES, C.S.I., C.V.O., LEPER'S WINDOWS: Low SIDE WINDOW.It is stated by some authorities that the term Leper's Window is a misnomer, as it is asserted that no leper would have been allowed to come near enough to a church either to look through or communicate with a priest within the building by means of the windows described above. These openings are also named, I believe, Low Side Windows. There is said to be a Leper's Window in Elsdon Church, Northumberland. I shall be glad of information on the matter. F. W. 'IN ALBIS.'-What is the meaning of these words? They occur in Bisset's MS. Rolment of Courtis,' where he writes : : "Why some were ordayned to salvation and some to damna ion."-P. 96. 66 That the elect cannot finally perish."-P. 373. Why some believe and are obedient, and other some remain unfaithful and disobedient."—Pp. 82 and 107. "God worketh both in His elect and in the reprobate, but in divers manners."-P. 118. Acceptance of persons defyned, that God respecteth not persons."-P. 83. betwene Jacob and Esau."-P. 136. "God doth not plague His people, only by suffer- I should be grateful if some reader of N. & Q.' can identify the theological work thus summarised. PENARTH. THOMAS PAGARD (PACKARD, PACKER) entered Winchester College, aged 11, from London, in 1538, whence he proceeded to New College, Oxford, where he was Fellow from 1547 to 1553. He received the first tonsure in London in December, 1553, in which year he also took the degree of B.C.L. and became vicar of Laughton, Sussex. He TUNSTALL.—I should be glad to obtain obtained the rectory of Ripe, Sussex, in information showing the connection between 1555/6, and the prebend of Bargham in the the families of Tunstall of Thurland Castle Cathedral of Chichester in 1558, becoming (Lancashire) and Parks. Mary Tunstall about the same time rural dean of South | married Robert Parks of Liverpool towards Malling, Pagham, and Terring. He was the end of the eighteenth century. Is there deprived of all his preferments in 1560. Any further particulars about him would this marriage? any Tunstall pedigree extant which shows H. WILBERFORCE-BELL. be welcome. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. JOHN ELLIS, D.D.-Could any reader satisfy my curiosity as to who was the Rev. John Ellis, D.D., at one time vicar of St. Catherine, Dublin, author of a book called The Knowledge of Divine Things from Revelation not from Reason or Nature,' third edition, 1811, when the author is referred to as "the late John Ellis, D.D." The above-named book is probably the ablest "brief" ever published in behalf of the hopeless philosophical position known as Hutchinsonianism, which darkened the counsel of so many good men 21 Park Crescent, Oxford. WALVEIN FAMILY.-Can any one furnish any information re this family, which I believe to be of Irish origin? A Walvein was thrown by a mob from a window of the Hotel de Ville at Ypres about 1297 and killed. Circa 1329 John Walvein was chief magistrate of Bruges. At the latter end of the eighteenth century a Walvein was military Governor of Bruges and a favourite counsellor of Joseph II., brother of Marie Antoinette, but owing to revolts in Flanders caused by persecution of Catholics he was forced to take refuge at Marseilles, where he NOTES FROM AN OLD DIARY: THE MOORES OF E. OWEN OF SWANSEA.-Can any keen Swanseian annalist furnish any knowledge MILTON PLACE, EGHAM, SURREY. of Mr. E. Owen, who kept a circulating library in the town, flourishing in the 1790 period? ANEURIN WILLIAMS. Menai View, North Road, Carnarvon. CAPT. HENRY BELL.-Some time ago in India I came across a small book by Henry Bell entitled: 'A true relation of the abominable injustice, oppression, and tyranny which Captain Henry Bell suffered nine years together at the Councill Board before this Parliament began, 1646." Other works by him are in the British Museum, and Captain Bell was apparently a friend of Martin Luther. He is not noticed in 'D.N.B.' Is anything known about him, and as to his parentage? His first work, "Lutheri Posthuma,' is dated 1650, not including that mentioned above. H. W. B. EDWARD KENT STRATHEARN STEWARD was born Oct. 29, 1818, and was admitted to Westminster School Jan. 31, 1833. I should be glad of any information about him. G. F. R. B. VALUATION OF ECCLESIASTICAL BENEFICES, 1292-3.-At the dispersal of the Savile MSS. (query, when ?) a Taxation Roll of the Benefices in England taken in 1292-3 was sold, and appears to have passed into private hands. I have not been able to trace it, but it was stated at the time of the sale that the value of the benefices was about one-third more than that given in Pope Nicholas's Valor of 1291. Can any reader give more particulars of this Valor ? J. C. Č. (12 S. v. 284.) THE statement in the 'D.N.B.,' xxxviii. 336, that Dr. Robert Moore was born at "Hol 6 yard, Hants," would seem to have been taken from Wood's Athenæ Oxonienses' (Bliss), ii. 654, and Wood may have taken it from the records of New College, Oxford. In our copies at Winchester of the Liber Successionis et Dignitatis,' which is an old manuscript book of the Fellows of New College, compiled from records of that College, I find: "Rob. More, de par. Holyard, comit. South.," under Aug. 19, 1589, the date when he was admitted full Fellow after two years' probation. 66 Holyard' might, I suppose, mean Holybourne (near Alton), with its church of the Holyrood. But there can be little Holyrood at Southampton. Holyrood is doubt that it really means the parish of and was "the town church of Southampton, and accordingly it was there that Philip of Spain heard mass (July 20, 1554), on the day of his arrival at the port(' Victoria Hist. of Hants,' v. 527). MR. TURNER having established the fact that Moore was born abroad at Antwerp, it may be conjectured that his parents, when they brought him as a child to England, landed at Southampton, and that consequently Holyrood came to be regarded as his native parish, in much the same fashion as Stepney has been reckoned popularly, though not legally, as the birthplace of children born at sea and brought by ship to the port of London (see 3 S. x. 291, 345, 379; 4 S. vi. 547; 8 S. xi. 328, 433; 10 S. ii. 448, 512; 12 S. v. 261). At any rate Robert Moore, upon becoming a Winchester Scholar, was set down in our Register as of Southampton : "Robertus Moore, de Southampton., 10 annorum Micha. preterit., admissus 140 Februarii [1579/80]. [Diocesis] Winton. [Marginal note :-] recessit Oxoniæ.' Moore's gift in 1602 of Theodori Bezae Vezelii volumen Tractationum Theologicarum' (Anchora Eustathii Vignon, MDLXXVI.), a book which remains in the Library, and which has, pasted on to the title page, an old note of its being Moore's gift. The beauty of the book was not improved when it was re-bound (long ago) and the margins were cut down. According to Foster's Alumni Oxon.,' Dr. Moore's son Robert matriculated at Oxford, as of Exeter College, on Nov. 21, 1634, aged 16, but I cannot trace him in Boase's Registrum Collegii Exoniensis ' (Oxford Hist. Soc., 1894), and he does not seem to have graduated. Curiously enough, Foster omits to mention Robert Moore, the Wykehamist, who migrated from Winchester to New College. in 1635 and is described in our Register as : "Robertus Moore, consanguineus Domini Fundatoris, de parochia Stoke-Rivers in comit. Devon., 12 annorum Fest. Michael. preterit., et admissus Julii 28, 1629. [Dioc.] Exon.' It was in his boyhood at Winchester that his acquaintance, which MR. TURNER mentions, with Bilson, the future Bishop, began; for Bilson was Headmaster of the College (1571-79), and afterwards Warden (1580-96). The "Dr. John Harris," who preached the sermon at Moore's funeral at West Meon in February, 1640/1, was not only Rector of the neighbouring parish of Meonstoke: he was Warden of the College (1630-58). MR. TURNER'S statements concerning Moore's Church preferments need a slight revision: for in 1603 Moore, who was then rector both at West Meon and at Chilcomb, parted with Chilcomb and took the vicarage of Hambledon (Hants), under an exchange with Arthur This Robert Moore appears in the 'Liber Lake, afterwards Bishop of Bath and Wells. Successionis' under date Oct. 15, 1635, next In 1612 he gave up Hambledon, in order to after William Twisse (Dr. Robert Moore's hold, in conjunction with West-Meon, the grandson), but the book ascribes to him a vicarage of East-Meon. (See the Com-birth-place quite different from that just position Books at the Public Record Office.) "stated:At Winchester he was installed prebendary (4th stall) on June 4, 1613, but resigned before Jan. 9, 1631, the date when Dr. Edward Meetkirke, his son-in-law, succeeded him (Hardy's Le Neve'). He was also prebendary of Exceit, one of the Wykehamical prebends in Chichester Cathedral being installed there on Feb. 11, 1611/12, but vacated in or before 1625, the year in which Dr. Edward Stanley (Headmaster at Winchester, 1627-42) obtained Exceit (Hennessey '). Moore apparently bequeathed his library or a part of it to Winchester College, for Our Accounts of entries : 1640-1 contain these "Sol. in regardiis in Domo Domini More per socium evolventem Libros Doctoris More nuper defuncti, 020." ('Custus Necessariorum cum Donis,' 2nd quarter). "Sol. pro carriagio Librorum Doctoris Moore ad Collegium, 0-14-0" (Custus Capellæ et Librariæ,' 3rd quarter). The legacy is not recorded in our parchment book of Donations to the Library,' which, though it records several gifts of an earlier date (one of them, William Moryn's, being as early as 1543), was not actually started until 1651-2 (as appears from the Accounts of that year under Custus Capellæ et Librariæ '). It mentions, however, Rob. More, de par. Wichingham Parvæ, com. Norfolk, dioc. Norwich: [recessit] 1637: Consanguineus fundatoris: Non Graduatus. Civilist. Resignavit." The foregoing entries do not relate to Dr. Moore's son Robert, but to a contemporary of the same names. This contemporary seems to have been son of William Moore of Stoke-Rivers, Devon (Winchester Scholar, 1601), who resigned his Fellowship at New College in 1613, upon accepting the college living of Witchingham, Norfolk. William Moore held Witchingham for two postea' (runs our note) years only: "Rector de Stoke, com. Devon., et Bishops Lydiard, com. Somerset." He had certainly been rector of Bishop's Lydiard for fifty years when he died in 1665 (see Collinson's 66 Somerset,' ii. 496). I should be glad to learn whom he married and how his son Robert came to be Founder's kin. This family of Moore does not occur in our College book of C.F. pedigrees. MR. TURNER states that the Moores of Milton Place, Egham, were armigerous. If he would kindly tell us what their arms were, that might possibly help to throw light upon Dr. Moore's ancestry. The epitaph at WestMeon described him as Ortus stirpe bona (see Wood, loc. cit.). H. C. Winchester College. 66 |