RECKONING: "DEDUCED Some other rarely met with occupations "DEAD " are "glaseman," in 1625 (Wigan), a hawker RECKONING.-Lloyd's List of October 29 in glassware, but in 1599 (Middleton) a draws attention to an article lately consimilar individual is described as a "carier tributed by Mr. Henry Harries of the of glasses" (alienigena) and in 1623 (Wigan) Meteorological Office to The Morning Post as a glasyer." In 1677 (Croston) on the meaning and origin of the nautical "dryster" is met with, as a person em- locution "dead reckoning.' Mr. Harries ployed in drying something, probably in a took pains to point out that all the lexicobleach field, although, of course, he may graphers down to Sir James Murray repeat have been employed in a pottery, as there the old stereotyped definition of the formula are mention in the same Register of as it occurs in Dr. Gregory's Complete Throwers, Panners, and Pipers, all terms Dictionary of the Arts and Sciences' used in the manufacture of pottery, but (1819) :these would probably be used by persons peregrinating the country as hawkers, as there were no potteries in the districts mentioned at the dates given. Bolton. ARCHIBALD SPARKE. PLOUGH-JAGS. We have this day, Jan. 7, had a fine " gang" of plough-jags from Burton here. I remember when every village had its own "gang," but for many years Burton-on-Stather has provided the only "gang" in this neighbourhood. The word is given in 'N.E.D.,' with quotations from Peacock's 'Ralf Skirlaugh.' It is probably a variant of "plough jogger, one who jogs or pushes a plough" (1605, 1658, c. 1787), a ploughman. The local folk-lore should be put on record. A Winterton woman used to say that "when flood was out over all the earth and they came out of Noah's ark they was all so pleased that they dressed theirselves up wi' bits o' things an' danced about, an' the's been plew-jags ever sin'." There is a list of the characters sustained at Bottesford near Brigg in 1882, in 'Between Trent and Ancholme,' p. 316. Winterton, Doncaster. J. T. F. IRONMONGERS' HALL.-It should be noted in N. & Q.' that, following the damage done by German air-raids in June, 1917, and with a view to the erection of a pile of city offices, the Hall of the Ironmongers' Company at 117 Fenchurch Street has been demolished. The original hall of the Company was in Ironmonger Lane in Cheapside: the Company acquired its Fenchurch Street property in 1457. A hall was built at the southern end of it in 1587, and that was rebuilt in 1750. The building now destroyed had no special features of interest, but the vanishing of such a landmark should not pass unrecorded W. H. QUARRELL. "In navigation the calculation made of a ship's place by means of a compass and log; the first serving to point out the course she sails on, and the other the distance run. From these two things given, the skilful mariner, making proper allowance for the variation of the compass, leeway currents, etc., is enabled, without any observation of the sun or stars, to ascertain the ship's place tolorably well." 66 66 While this description is specifically The Dutch equivalent of the designation 35 Woburn Place, W.C.1. 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. PRINCE CHARLES IN NORTH DEVON. In the Northam Parish Registers an entry records : Prince Charles was at Appledore, July 10, 1645." After his name is an erasure, three inches long, where possibly the names of his friends or that of a ship had been entered. Black's Guide states he was at the Scilly Isles for several months in that year with Lords Capel and Hopton, and later on escaped to Jersey and France. Are his movements earlier in that year known and recorded? A. CARRINGTON. Northam, N. Devon. VALUE OF MONEY.-We are informed that the present value of the sovereign amounts only to some 60 per cent of what it was in 1914. I am anxious to know whether any tables have been published shewing the relative value of the sovereign, or its equivalent, at various periods of English history. For example, what sum, according to our present standards, represents the amount of the fine of 0,000. inflicted upon the fourth [Cavendish] Earl of Devonshire in April, 1687, for striking Col. Colepeper "within the verge of the court,' fine of 20. inflicted for recusancy in 1581, or of the or of the 30,000!. collected as the total customs revenue of England for the year 1377-78, or of the 66,000l. prescribed as the ransom for King Richard I. by the Treaty of Wurtzburg in 1193 ? H. PIRIE-GORDON. BISHOPS OF DURHAM.-I am anxious to know the full style and titles borne by the Bishops of Durham while they still enjoyed Palatine jurisdiction (before 1836). H. PIRIE-GORDON. 20 Warwick Gardens, Kensington, W.14. MORGAN BARONETCIES.—(1) John Morgan after 1679 styled Sir John Morgan, Baronet," once styled in proceedings of Ecclesiastical Court 66 almost certainly, identical with John Morgan Miles," probably, who, born 1638, son Morgan of Bangor, Cardigan, entered Trin. of Rev. Gryffyth Coll., Dublin, 1657; prebendary of Tullybrackey, co. Limerick, 1666; rector of many parishes in Kerry; trustee with Earl of "homond to the Stoughton Estates, 1672; hantor of Ardfest, &c., forfeited all livings by reason of absence, 1696-7; appears in several Chancery proceedings in Ireland, and frequently absent on leave abroad or in England. The P.R.O. Records, Ireland, have been pretty thoroughly searched. His leave of absence in 1679 dates a few days after the death of Sir Thomas Morgan, Bt., of Llangattrch, and Governor of Jersey. styled of Killarney, which may be Killary He first appears in Kerry, 1674, and is of which Edward Morgan was rector, 1664. fest, 1670; died or retired about 1675-6; (2) Edward Morgan, Archdeacon of Ardfirst appears as Rector of Castleisland and other Kerry parishes, 1664. was a rector in Tipperary. He probably His son Robert was brother to the Chantor above mentioned. The Kerry livings held by E. M. were in gift. of the Herberts, who were connected with. Llantamaw and Llangattrch Morgans in men have always claimed a descent from Wales. The descendants of these clergyWelsh baronets of the name. that the Rev. John Morgan claimed the title of a cousin. It is possible said to have knighted a John Morgan.. In 1658 Richard Cromwell is This is possibly an Morgan who received a Cromwellian knighterror for Sir Thomashood for the victory of the Danes and subsequently a Caroline baronetcy. baronetcy were put forward by the Morgans anything to the Morgan-Williams who were 36 Trinity College, Dublin. Winchester MATHEW MYERSE entered College, aged 11, from Milton, in 1547. went to Christ Church, Oxford, in 1553, and Senior Student of Christ Church when he took the degree of B.A. in 1556. He was a was December, 1557. ordained sub-deacon in London in to make room for his Edwardian predecessor. Chelsea in 1558, but was deprived in 1559 He became rector of Cathedral of Chichester for some short time He was prebendary of Highleigh in the about 1561, and held other preferments in the diocese of Chichester, and in 1572 he became rector of Bedhampton, near Havant, Hants. Further particulars about him would be welcome. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.. LEIGH HUNT ON SHELLEY.-Will some Bransby's School, or as vernacularly styled student of the literary decade 1820-30, Ysgol Bransby. and thereabouts, be so good as to "place an article by Leigh Hunt on Shelley, beginning : : "One of the coadjutors in the present work was to have been Percy Shelley, a writer with whose stories of learning and knowledge and beautiful prose style the public have yet to become intimate." It would be sought naturally in The Liberal, but is not there. It might be in The Literary Pocket Book, 1819-22; but no copy of this work is in the chief public libraries. L. M. M. 60 Seymour Place, W. 'NEW BATH GUIDE' (Anstey, 1766).Has the writer of the letters contained in this interesting little book, or the recipients, ever been identified? H. C. B. HOLMES FAMILY OF DEVONSHIRE.-Could any reader give me information concerning the pedigree and descendants of the Holmes family of Devonshire. Their arms, I believe, are: Barry of six, argent and azure, and on a canton gules a chaplet of the first; crest: a holly tree vert, fructed gules; motto: Holme Semper Viret. Information is also desired as to when and to whom these arms were granted. J. P. HOLMES. 48 Lavender Gardens, S. W.11. "TUBUS": A CHRISTIAN NAME.—I should be glad of particulars of the origin and use of" Tubus" as a Christian name. occurs in the Registers of parishes in South Devon, and runs through the Sparke family for some generations. ARCHIBALD SPARKE. Particulars relating to birth, his years of association and identity with Carnarvon, where he died and where buried, and any mentionable ana would oblige. Was he known or suspected to be a Unitarian? ANEURIN WILLIAMS Menai View, North Road, Carnarvon. SIMS. I should be glad to learn any information about the following four boys of this name, who were educated at Westminster School : (1) Sims, who was at school in 1733. (2) Henry Sims, who was admitted in June, 1732, aged 9. (3) James, who was admitted in January, 1730/31, aged 9. (4) Sims Sims, who was admitted in June, 1719, aged 13. G. F. R. B. DORA WILBERFOSS.-There is a family tradition that a lady of this name was burnt at the stake at Beverley, and that she had been a nun at Nunkeeling Priory. I can find no confirmation of the tradition in Foxe's Book of Martyrs,' nor have I seen the name in connexion with either the martyrdoms of the Reformation or of the Marian persecution. Is anything known of her? She was of the family of Wilberfoss of Wilberfoss. H. WILBERFORCE-BELL. 21 Park Crescent, Oxford. are GOGIBUS. This surname occurs at Watten There It (Nord), in French Flanders. several families so named, but I have not come across it in other towns or villages in the district. What is its origin ? REV. JAMES HEWS BRANSBY.-The only scrap of information given about him in Dr. S. Austin Allibone's Dictionary of British and American Authors,' is "Theological Treatises,' 1806-14. He is known to have brought out small guide-books such as the following: Sketch of History of Carnarvon Castle, 1829,' Description of Carnarvon and the District, 12mo, Carnarvon. 1845,' Guide to Llanberis, Guide to Beddgelest.' Other productions may have been issued by him. He is known to have settled in Carnarvon, and, during his residence in the town, built and lived in a fine stone mansion locally known as Bron Hendre," and bounded on one side by the extant remains of an old Roman wall. He also built and kept a private school, familiarly known as F. H. C. SWARTVAGHER. This surname occurs in the Pas-de-Calais. Is it Flemish ? F. H. C. KNOCK HUNDRED ROW, MIDHURST.What is the origin of this place-name in the centre of this little old Sussex town? J. LANDFEAR LUCAS. Glendora, Hindhead, Surrey. DREUX FAMILY.-I should be glad to hear whether anything is known of the descendants of the noble French family of Dreux, Huguenot refugees, some of which family settled in Glasgow. The Comte de Dreux is mentioned in the royal lineage, kings of Scotland, in Burke's Peerage,' wherein it is stated that in the year 1285 King Alexander III. married Yolande, daughter of the Count de Dreux, d.s.p. : A Watson appears to have married one of famous translator, the Rev. Edward Samuel, these refugees towards the end of the eigh-But the name of the author has never been teenth century—perhaps about 1790. Can put on the title-page, and we in Wales are any reader also tell me where I can find the led to believe, by our literary historians, pedigree of this family? Their pedigree to that the name is not known. Is this so! the present day would interest me parti- Looking through an old book list the other cularly. G. D. McGRIGOR. day I came across the names of these seven books by "the learned and pious Author of The Whole Duty of Man' (1) 'The Duty of Man'; (2) The Causes of Decay of Christian Piety'; (3) The Gentleman's Calling; (4) The Lady's Calling'; (5) 'The Government of the Tongue'; (6) Art of Contentment'; (7) The Lively Oracles given to us.' This book list was issued at Oxford in 1730, but I find practically the same list issued by Edward Pawlett, Chancery Lane, near Fleet Street," in 1667. Besides the above, the two book lists referred to also have The Whole Duty of Man' "put into significant Latin for the use of Schools." GORDON A JACOBITE BANKER AT BOULOGNE. In March, 1723, Lord Carteret, Secretary for the South, got hold of a suspicious letter which was to have been conveyed to M. Gordon, banker at Boulogne, by Roger Garth of Hammersmith, skipper of the sloop Dove. Garth said he knew Gordon and suspected him of being a Jacobite agent. Does any reader know who this Gordon was? I think it was Alexander, and that he was the son of William Gordon, the Jacobite banker at Paris, who figures so largely in the Stuart Papers.' J. M. BULLOCH. 37 Bedford Square, W.C.1. MRS. GORDON, NOVELIST.--Between 1844 and 1857 a certain Mrs. Gordon published in London four novels, mostly about life on Scottish estates. They included The Fortunes of the Falconars,'' Musgrave,'' Kingsconnell,' and 'Sir Gervase Grey.' One of them is dedicated to "Delta (David Macbeth Moir) whom she evidently knew. Who was she? J. M. BULLOCH. 37 Bedford Square, W.C.1. INSCRIPTION ON STONE.-The first part of an inscribed stone upon this house is E. C. D. XIV G III R praefec Reg. C. P. L. and I should be glad of any information as to the meaning of the third line. The house was built in 1774, and the builder, John Chadwick, was a magistrate and officer in the Militia. He was also described upon another stone as Armigero" and "Thesaurio." 66 "Among the stories of the Boer War which appeared in 1900 in The Daily Express were two not given by MR. YOUNG: With Number Three' (four issues of the paper), 'Surgical and Medical' (two issues)." We desire for bibliographical purposes to locate these more exactly. The editor of The Daily Express has been unable to trace them, and a search at the British Museum has failed. If any reader can furnish us with dates of publication we shall be obliged. B. F. STEVENS & BROWN. 4 Trafalgar Square, W.C.2. HECTOR BOECE'S HISTORY OF SCOTLAND: BELLENDEN'S TRANSLATION.-Dr. R. W. Chambers and I have undertaken Can the line above have reference to any Bellenden's translation of Hector Boece's for the Scottish Text Society an edition of of his public positions? Healey Hall, Rochdale. RICHARD HEAPE. "THE WHOLE DUTY OF MAN." This Scriptural phrase was adopted in the year 1657 (as appears from an introductory To the Bookseller '), as the title of a celebrated Christian manual which went through several editions and had a very extensive circulation for nearly two hundred years. It was translated into Welsh in 1672 by one John Langford, and again in 1718 by the 'History of Scotland.' University College Hall, Ealing, W. HARRIS FAMILY OF ESSEX (Southminster, Creeksea, Woodham-Mortimor and Maldon). -Can any one kindly give information (1) as to where the second wife of Sir Arthur Harris of Creeksea, Anne Salter, widow of Sir Henry Bowyer, and her son Salter Harris, were buried. Sir Arthur was buried in 1632 at Creeksea, and his eldest son Sir Cranmer Harris in 1674 at WoodhamMortimor, and (2) what family bore the Coat of Argent, guttée de larmes, usually blazoned 3, 2, 3, but also 4, 3, 2, 1, quartered with that of Harris in the seventeenth century. H. C. FANSHAWE. METHOD OF REMEMBERING FIGURES. Mr. Stokes lectured on Memory at Cambridge in 1872, and had a figure alphabet. Has he left any trace of his system behind H. PELHAM BURN, Major. him? National Club. BATMANSON [OR BATMISON] OLIVER, of Gilligate, near the city of Durham, landOwner in West Auckland, co. Durham; over whose estates there were suits in the Durham Chancery Court on Feb. 19, 1619, Apr. 6, 1619, and Dec. 2, 1620, is said to have entered into Religion at the Charterhouse. Can any reader give further details of him? been the same in the early eighteenth century. Was the above coat granted to a common ancestor of all three families, and if so which is the senior branch of the three? Sir Robert himself was not the ancestor. LEBEL. HALLOWEEN.-Can any reader kindly give particulars, or direct to sources of information concerning the old superstition that on the night of Hallowe'en the apparitions of those persons who are to die in the course of the year always appear in the churchyard of the place where they dwell? (Rev.) H. CHAPMAN. The Vicarage, Forest Gate, E.7. JAMES. The Rt. Rev. William James, Master of University College, Oxford, 1572, Dean of Christ Church, 1584, Dean of Durham, 1596, and Bishop of Durham, 1606-17, married as his third wife Isabel, widow of Robert Atkinson, Alderman of Newcastle. Who were the parents of Isabel? When was the bishop born? H. PIRIE-GORDON. 20 Warwick Gardens, Kensington, W.14. SCANDINAVIA, ICELAND, FINLAND BIBLIOGRAPHY WANTED.-I am compiling a list of books in English relating to Scandinavia, Iceland and Finland and should be glad if any of your readers would write to me and suggest the names of books of travel in these countries or of works dealing with their customs, folk-lore, history and literature. HERBERT WRIGHT. University College, Bangor. T. FORSTER, M.B.-Can any of your readers refer me to further data concerning T. Forster, M.B., Corpus Christi Coll., Cambridge, who revised and edited The Perennial Calender, published London (Harding, Mavor & Lepard), 1824; and inform me who was Philostratus," who wrote Fides Catholica, apparently during the life-time of Malthus? 66 MORE ADEY. CHARLES PARKER is described in the Concertatio Ecclesiæ' as "nobilis sacerdos, exul, doctor theologiæ, et frater Baronis de Morleio, electus episcopus." The 'D.N.B.' (xliii. 239) says that he was born Jan. 28, 1537, and was a younger brother of Henry, ninth Lord Morley. From Gough's 'Sepulchral Monuments,' vol. i. p. 216, it appears that Charles Parker de Morley in the year 1590, being the thirtieth year of his exile for the Catholic faith, put up a monument to Lionel of Antwerp, Duke of Clarence, second son of King |