been a prolonged one. He slept, of course, at the "Bridge" Hotel, not the "Ship." The East Sussex News states that the royal fugitive was amused to find that the landlady was called Smith, a name he had himself temporarily adopted. Junior Athenæum Club. CECIL CLARKE. 31 CLOUT TILL MAY BE OUT St. Paul's, the Mansion House, and "ot places of the first distinction" forme stood. To the annotator of the Essay: fact of greater interest is that, sixteen ye previously to the date of his review Ranke's History of the Popes,' Macau anticipated the famous New Zealan passage in a notice of Mitford's 'Histor Greece' which was contributed by him Knight's Quarterly Magazine, No. 6, Nov "CAST NOT A (10th S. v. 388, 433).—The complete form of ber, 1824. See 5th S. v. 214, 338. the proverb is— Button to chin Till May be in; Cast not a clout Till May be out, thus evidently meaning the month, and not the blossom, of May. R. E. FRANCILLON. MAY SONG (10th S. v. 403)-Is not your esteemed contributor MR. J. T. PAGE misled in his emendation of the second stanza of the song quoted, which has nothing to do with drinking? To which song should be accorded the priority it is not for me to say; but as to the 'sobriety," the reference is to the chorus of the well-known song 'Three Jolly Postboys,' of which the chorus ran : Landlord, fill the flowing bowl H. P. L. The second verse seems a free adaptation of the chorus of Three Jolly Postboys':Landlord, fill the flowing bowl until it doth run over (twice); For to-night we 'll merry be (thrice), What is the date of the 'Three Jolly Postboys'? JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. [MR. WILLIAM CHAPPELL said at 4th S. vi. 104 that the tune and the varied traditional versions of the words are derived through a duet of the eighteenth century, entitled 'The Jolly Fellow, for two voices.' See other communications at 4th S. v. 475, 543; v. 33.] MACAULAY'S "NEW ZEALANDER" (10th S. v. 344, 418).—MR. W. T. LYNN is quite right in saying that Macaulay's reference was to London Bridge, although it is obvious that if a traveller from New Zealand wished to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's, he would obtain a much better view from Blackfriars Bridge. The point is not, however, relevant to the issue. In the magazine article of 1745 the "Briton of the future" did not take his stand on the broken arch of any bridge, but was described as walking along the banks of the Thames with his son, to whom he points out the spots on which 6 W. F. PRIDEAU CAPT. ONLEY, R.N., 1735 (10th S. v. 409 Charnock, in his Biographia Nava vol. iv., mentions a Capt. John Onley, was appointed captain of the Lively frig 18 Jan., 1728. He was dismissed from command of this ship, and declared in pable of holding any subsequent commiss in the navy, by a court-martial held] Portsmouth, 3 Dec., 1728. A private memorandum says 1738, but this must b slip for 1728. His offence appears to h been not cruising according to his inst tions. Dates of birth and death not kno (Rev.) A. G. KEALY, R. H.M.S. Sapphire 2, Portland. DANTE'S SONNET TO GUIDO CAVALCA (10th S. iv. 207, 277).-As regards the read Lagia in 1.9 of this sonnet in place of B Dr. Paget Toynbee has been so good as inform me as follows: "The change was made because a careful c tion of the best MSS. proves beyond a doubt the correct reading is Lagia, not Bice (see M. B in Bullettino della Società Dantesca Italiana, Nu Serie, vi. 206; and also Giornale Dantesco, vii. n. 2). Prof. Michele Barbi, who is editing Canzoniere for the Italian Dante Society, an probably the greatest authority on the subject, no hesitation in reading Lagia in this passage." He adds in a P.S. : "You will find a similar alteration in Son. 3, 12 ('Oxford Dante,' p. 175), where Lisett substituted for una donna' and 'quella.' On emendation see a note of mine [Dr. Paget T bee's] in Athenæum for Oct. 29, 1898." With reference to what MR. JOHN H says of the improbability that Dante sho make use of such a familiar address as in addressing Beatrice, he would seem to h overlooked Monna Bice" in the fourtee sonnet of the Vita Nuova.' See a Parad.,' vii. 14. J. F. I JAPANESE AND CHINESE LYRICS (10th S 429).-B. H. Chamberlain's Classical Poe of the Japanese,' 1880, is a good antholo with renderings into English verse of ma ballads, love songs, elegies, and short stanz For Chinese there are two recent wor Hwa wai tsin tsai lien li shu, which I know only from catalogues: 'Pekin- and Inns '), p. 26, of 'A New View of London,' ROBERT PIERPOINT. ese Rhymes,' collected and translated by 1708. Baron G. Vitale, Peking, 1896, and 'Can"Places" are to be met with in most of tonese Love Songs,' edited and translated the older cities of the U.S.A., but nowhere by C. Clementi, and published by the else to the same extent as in New York, Clarendon Press. A Chinese diplomat, who where the title is applied both to a terrace was a great connoisseur, gave me as a of fine houses, such as Astor or University wedding present a poem emblazoned upon Place, and a short street, such as Washington, a pair of scrolls, which the querist, if he Clinton, or Waverley Place. All of these cares to see them, will find photographed in date from the end of the eighteenth century, G. R. Sims's 'Living London,' vol. i. p. 81. or the first quarter of the nineteenth. I have The Chinese text reads:always understood that the name was imported into America from France, as the influence of French architecture is very marked in many of the houses erected in New York during that period. Previous to the war of 1812 many American cities, including New York, Philadelphia, Boston, &c., were said to have been influenced a great deal by the stately buildings at that time in course of erection at Bath, Clifton, Cheltenham, &c. Consequently, some of the "Places" in the former cities may owe their existence to those which were so fashionable in England. Rodney Place and Savile Place, Clifton, are said to have their counterparts in New York; but already the erections of that era are fast giving way to the enormous “skyscrapers "of our own day. King chung shwang chao pi kien jin. The meaning is "Nigh to the flower-beds are other plants around them whose roots are intertwined; the mirror ever reflects two images which stand shoulder to shoulder." JAS. PLATT, Jun. "PLACE" (10th S. v. 267, 316, 333, 353, 371, 412, 435).-In The Antiquary's Portfolio,' by J. S. Forsyth (London, 1825), vol. i. p. 191, is a "list of Jews supposed to preserve the names of the first settlers here of that nation. It was found among the MSS. of Mendes Da Costa, and marked by him as received from Dr. Chauncey. The orthography shows it to have been made by some person of that persuasion, who had attained but a slight knowledge of the English language; and the handwriting is certainly of about the middle of the seventeenth century." In this list are the following: Sinor Antony Rodregus Robles, Ducks plate. Sin. Manuel de Costa Berto. Sin. Docter Boyno, Phision to the Jewes, Ducks plate. Sin. Aron Gabey, Ducks plate. FREDERICK T. HIBGAME. A few miles from Hastings, and not far from Ashburnham Place (already mentioned), are Brede Place and Ore Place, whose present mansions are described in local histories and guide-books as being on the site of manor houses dating from the fourteenth century. The name "Place" abounds in SussexFairlight Place, Firle Place, Isfield Place, Catsfield Place, Friston Place, Laughton Place, Glynde Place, Hurstmonceux Place, &c. W. S. Sin. Domingoes Deserga, Ducks plate. I suppose that "Ducks plate" and "Duck plate" mean Duke's Place, Aldgate, which has been mentioned several times in the At Salisbury each "place" or tenement replies. (See Peter Cunningham's 'Hand- area paid a fixed sum to the bishop. "Place" book of London,' s. v. Ducksfoot Lane, "pro- there seems equivalent to "haga" at Walperly Duke's-Foot-lane." Perhaps Plate" "lingford. Here in Devon the lord's house on was simply platea abbreviated (see ante, a manor is in several instances known as "Place-barton"; for instance, at Honiton p. 333). and Otterton. I mention these uses of the term, seeing that an ounce of fact is worth OSWALD J. REICHEL. a ton of theory. In Mason and Payne's reprint of the map called 'A Survey of London, made in the Year 1745,' is "Broad Pla" in the angle formed by Shoemaker Row and Henage (ie., Heneage) Lane-Shoemaker Row being now apparently Bevis Marks and Duke Street If we assume that "Pla" means Place," Broad Place and Duke's Place were close together, or perhaps identical. Dukes Place" and "Dukes place court" appear in sect. i. (Streets, Squares, Lanes, Markets, Courts, Alleys, Rows, Rents, Yards, A la Ronde, Lympstone, Devon. CATEATON STREET (10th S. v. 429).-It was the eastern end of the tortuous thoroughfare now known as Gresham Street which bore this name. Its boundaries are defined by Stow thus: "Now for the north wing of Cheap Ward have ye Catte Street, corruptly called Catteten Street, which beginneth at the north end of Ironmonger Lane, and is afore showed." runneth to the west end of St. Lawrence Church, as Cheyne, mentioned above with the heire the Cheshams, and his descendants w The derivation of Cateaton is apparently have succeeded to Cheneys but for the fa unknown, and the various topographical compact which gave him Cogenho in writers seem to have refrained from guessing change. The Buckinghamshire squire at it. The street, in conjunction with Lad bought the manor of Chelsea in 1657, Lane and Maiden Lane, its western continua- lies buried in old Chelsea Church, was tions, was denominated Gresham Street in direct descendant. R. CHEY 1845, "to suit the convenience of the postal authorities." WILLIAM MCMURRAY. Besides Stow, see Wheatley and Cunningham, London Past and Present,' vol. i. p. 339, where it is also mentioned "that a street of a similar name is at Manchester." Perhaps some Manchester reader can give the origin of the name there. ANDREW OLIVER. Perhaps it is in the Creed Collection of Tavern Signs (Brit. Mus. Lib.) that I have seen the statement that the "Gresham," No. 58, Gresham Street, was formerly known as the "Cat." Is it not probable, therefore, if this be the case, that the sign gave its name to the street? J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL. AMERICANS IN ENGLISH RECORDS (10th S. v. 163, 432).-Burke's 'Peerage' has the name Custis correctly in the later editions. A family of this name was in Dublin in 1731, carrying on the business of shoemakers, and later trading as saddlers. In a list of twelve Custis marriage licences in Dublin the wife's name also was Custis in four instances. LEO C. CHEYNE WALK CHINA WALK (10th S. v. 245, 312, 375, 415).-I thought MR. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL and MR. ALECK ABRAHAMS had made it sufficiently clear that this name is due not to a village in Buckinghamshire, but to the family who held the manor of Chelsea from 1657 until 1712. I am glad to have the authority of PROF. SKEAT for the etymology of the name, but I am confident that the name of the village is also due to the same family having settled there in earlier times. The manor of Cheneys-or IselhampsteadCheneys, as it is properly called-passed from the Cheynes as far back as 1494, in accordance with the will of Agnes, Lady Cheyne, the heir taking the manor of Cogenho, Northants, in exchange. I fancy, but am not sure, that there was another family whose name was connected with Iselhampstead before the Cheynes came. MR. MACMICHAEL is mistaken if he supposes that Chesham Bois was an older seat of the Cheynes than Iselhampstead. This manor came to them through the marriage of the brother of the husband of the Agnes, Lady BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PUBLISHING AND B two of Ashbee's volumes only: there w SELLING (10th S. v. 361).-MR. JAGGARD third, Catena Librorum Tacendorum,' lished in 1885 under the same pseudo and on the same subject as his two volumes. RALPH THOM WATCHES AND CLOCKS WITH WORDS INS OF FIGURES (10th S. v. 349, 413).—I am i fifty-sixth year, and up to 1877, when Bedford, I believe the dial of the cloc St. Cuthbert's Church was of stone; a "Cuthbert" has one letter too much. dial had "Saint Cudbert" instead of fig But alas! alas! the old face has disappe and an entirely modern one has replace The original inscription was there bet 1852 and 1868, when the Rev. C. Tro was rector. Some old Bedford boy can haps tell me when the present common was placed in the tower. M that this place was so named because, TWYFORD ABBEY (10th S. v. 430).—I t the manor of Twyford was purchased in by Mr. Willan, the coach proprietor erected "Twyford Abbey," in the G style, on the site of the ancient m house; but the only claim it can hav the title of "Abbey" is apparently in pseudo-ecclesiastical architecture. The an account of "Twyford Abbey in Norris Brewer's 'London and Middle 1816, pp. 352-4, with an engraving of mansion. See also J. A. Sharp's 'Gazet 1852, and J. Dugdale's British Trave vol. iii p. 555. J. HOLDEN MACMICHAI other Celebrities' two stanzas (not verses) of John Howard Payne's famous song which "have never before been printed." The two stanzas are reprinted in N. & Q.' If MR. JENNINGS will turn to 'Stories of Famous Songs,' by S. J. Adair Fitz-Gerald, which was published in London in 1898 by John C. Nimmo, he will find there, at p. 10, the two stanzas which Mr. Mackinlay states "have never before been printed." Fitz-Gerald's book gives a different rendering of the first line of the two stanzas. He prints the line thus: How sweet, too, to sit 'neath a fond father's smile. Fitz-Gerald's punctuation and that in 'N. &Q. are different in nearly every line of the two stanzas under discussion. FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN. 537, Western Avenue, Albany, N.Y. G. ROSSETTI'S 'TRE RAGIONAMENTI (10th S. v. 428). In the catalogue of the Dante Library of Cornell University (vol. ii. p. 408) the brochure La Beatrice di Dante' is entered as having pp. viii + 100, and having the following title: La Beatrice della Vita Nuova è una figura allegorica, per confessione e dimostrazione di Dante medesimo.' No later publications by Rossetti are entered. J. F. R. MR. MCGOVERN inquires concerning the 'Tre Ragionamenti' of G. Rossetti (my father). The answer to the inquiry is as follows. The second Ragionamento, and the third, have not yet been printed. Two or three years ago a gentleman well known in Italian literary circles-Prof. Ciampoli, the Director of the Victor Emanuel Library in Rome-formed a project of publishing in Italy a complete edition of my father's compositions in verse, to be followed, perhaps, by a similar edition of his com positions in prose. The two Ragionamenti in question have been placed at the disposal of Prof. Ciampoli, with a view to this contingency of publication. lating Gray's 'Elegy into Greek verse," Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, &c. Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama. By Walter W. Greg, M.A. (Bullen.) To Mr. Greg we are indebted for a work of remarkditions attendant upon its production, including able erudition and singular charm. To the conthe manner in which what was originally a small sketch developed into a solid and substantive book, claiming to rank as an authoritative pronouncement, is attributable a sense of want of systematic arrangement of which we have to complain. Some ten years ago Mr. Greg's conclusions concerning the pastoral drama in Elizabethan literature formed the subject of a magazine article. In the com the fact that the due execution of his self-imposed position of this the author became impressed with task involved a knowledge of European pastoralism in general, and learned at the same time that a work from which such knowledge was to be obtained did not exist. This deficiency he now his first essay an account of pastoral literature geneattempts to remedy by prefixing to a revision of rally. So thoroughly has this task been executed that the prefatory matter seems disproportionately large, an impression of lop-sidedness being conveyed. After an account of the pastoral poetry of Virgil, and those of medieval times, the opening Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus, the eclogues of chapter deals at some length with Italian pastoral poetry and pastoral romance. A second chapter takes us to England, and carries us from Spenser's 'Shepherd's Calender' to Milton's Lycidas' and Browne's Britannia's Pastoral.' We then in chap. iii. return to Italy, to the Aminta' of Tasso and the Pastor Fido of Guarini, and are then in the remaining chapters brought back to EngIland and the consideration, in the final chapter (vii.), of Milton's masques Arcades' and 'Comus.' Excellent is the matter all through, and the book, which may be studied with advantage and read with delight, occupies a high position in modern GRAY'S ELEGY ITS TRANSLATIONS (10th S. literary accomplishment. It has none the less a v. 428). In the opening lines of the Third fragmentary appearance, and should, in its author's Dialogue, published in 1796, of The Pur interest-reluctant as we are to counsel such a suits of Literature,' the author tilts in good-course-be recast and rewritten before going into humoured fashion at the "cobweb labours" a second edition. of those scholars who had become tainted with what he terms "the rage for trans W. M. ROSSETTI. LADIES' HEAD DRESSES IN THE THEATRE (10th S. v. 389. 433).-My reference should have been to No. 235 of The Spectator, as given by MAJOR BUTTERWORTH. CHARLES MASEFIELD. As regards the pastoral in classic times, among the humanists in Italy, Spain, and England, the work is exemplary in fulness. In France Les Foresteries' of Vauquelin de la Fresnaye deserve renown; of Drake putting forth to singe The Bible in Spain. 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