A pamphlet was issued in which a full descrip- ecclesiæ tuæ adjumenta esse possint; per Christurn tion was given of the process, there called "A plan for extending the use of artificial water-baths, pumps, &c., dedicated to Sir John Fielding, Knt., Chelsea, November 1, 1771." It is there spoken of "The entrance of the building which contains the apparatus is in Robinson's Lane, very contiguous to China Walk, Thames side, and to the King's Road; it is situated in my garden, 220 feet in length, 30 in breadth, and two stories high; it contains 36 Sweating and Fumigatory bedchambers." There were also separate rooms for cases deemed infectious, and also a place for recreation and amusement. He made a great stir in the society of the time, and numbered among his patients the Duke of York and Sir John Fielding, the blind magistrate, a son of the novelist. He claimed to cure all diseases, alleging that "he never sent out one of his patients dead"-those that died being sent away by a back door. Sir John Fielding expressed great faith in the doctor, and said he was so much benefited that he wrote what we may call a vindication of the treatment pursued. It is stated that over 37,000l. was spent upon this establishment; but after some seventeen years he became involved in debt, and was a bankrupt in 1782, fled from Chelsea, and finally disappeared from the scene, there being apparently very few friends left to him, although it is asserted that from first to last he had had under his care upwards of sixteen thousand persons. W. E. HARLAND-OXLEY. 20, Artillery Buildings, Victoria Street, S.W. Dr. Dominichetti resided at No. 6, Cheyne Walk, Chelsea. He was an early advocate of hydropathy, and was very popular for a short period. Dr. Johnson told one of his admirers to get his head fumigated by Dr. Dominichetti, as that was the peccant part. See Memorials of Old Chelsea. A New History of the Village of Palaces.' 71, Brecknock Road, EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. Dominum nostrum. Amen. Bishop Hatfield's Hall. Ante Cibum.-Benedictus benedicat. Post Cibum.—Benedicte Deus, qui pascis nos a juventute nostra, et præbes cibum omni carni; reple gaudio et lætitia corda nostra, ut nos, quod satis est habentes, abundemus in omne opus bonum, per Jesum Christu'n Dominum nostrum, cui tecum et Spiritu Sancto sit omnis honos, laus, et imperium, in sæcula sæculorum. Amen. This latter is a version of the beautiful Greek grace in the Apostolical Constitutions,' vii. 49, quoted in Cony beare and Howson, note on 1 Tim. scholars in turn, each beginning on Saturday eveniv. 5. In Durham the graces are said by the ing and going on for a week. J. T. F. Bp. Hatfield's Hall, Durham. At Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, the same grace is used, or very nearly the same, as at Gonville and Caius. H. J. MOULE, M.A., of C.C.C. Dorchester. The grace before dinner at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, is as follows:— Oculi omnium in te spectant, Domine, tuque das eis escam eorum in tempore opportuno. Aperis tu manum tuam, et imples omne animal benedictione tua. Santifica nos, quæsumus, per verbum et orationem, istisque tuis donis, quæ de tua bonitate sumus percepturi, benedicito per lesum Christum, dominum nostrum. W. J. NEWCOMB. Louth, Lincs. In the St. John's grace, there should be a full stop after Dominum nostrum; ceteris and caelestem should be spelt as here written; and the undersigned was never, he regrets to say, Socius. P. J. F. GANTILLON. MARQUIS OF HUNTLY (8th S. v. 287).-Inter alios, consult History of the Ancient House of Gordon,' by William Gordon, 8vo., 2 vols., 1726, Edinburgh, and 'A History of the Ancient House of Gordon,' by C. A. Gordon, 12mo., 1754, Aberdeen. C. E. GILDERSOME-DICKINSON. Eden Bridge. 488).-The arms about which MR. FINCH inquires PORTRAIT: ARMS OF WANKFORD (8th S. v. are obviously those of Wankford. The blazon is: Or, a lion rampant double queued azure, between three hurts. Crest: a lion rampant guardant or, holding between the paws a hurt. granted to Wankford, of Berwick Hall, co. Essex, Sept. 18, 1664. This was S. JAMES A. SALTER. Basingfield, near Basingstoke. THE MOTHER OF ADELIZA OF LOUVAIN (8th S. v. 367).-MR. BROWN seems to have got a little "mixed" among the puzzling Carlovingian genealogies. Adeliza was niece neither of Pope Calixtus nor of Archbishop Albert of Trèves. Her mother was Ida, daughter of Albert, Count of Namur, and of Ermengarde, daughter of Charles, Duke of Lorraine, and her father (Godfrey of Louvain) being great-grandson of the same Duke Charles, Adeliza was thus sprung on both sides from the imperial line of Charlemagne. Miss Strickland, by the way, calls Ida, "sole daughter and heiress " of Albert of Namur. This is surely wrong. Heylin and others mention his son Godfrey, lineal ancestor (through his daughter Alice, married to Baldwin, Count of Hainault) of Louis VIII. of France, who thus united in his own person the illustrious Carlovingian dynasty and the house of Capet. OSWALD, O.Š.B. Mr. Freeman ('Norman Conquest,' v. 196) writes, "the new Queen was Adelaide or Adeliza, the daughter of Godfrey, Count of Löwen, and Duke of Lower Lothringen." And Miss Strickland ('Queens of England,' i. 112) states that her mother was "Ida, Countess of Namur," whose parents were Ermengarde, daughter of Charles, brother of Lothaire, and Albert, Count of Namur. Adeliza's name is cherished by us in Sussex as the heroine of a siege in the Castle of Pevensey, and as the traditional founder of Calceto and benefactor of Boxgrove Priories. Though Burke (Peerage') states that Adeliza was daughter of Duke of Louvain, Foster ('Peerage') calls her "Adeliza, daughter of Godfrey, Duke of Lorraine and Count of Brabant." In this he agrees with Reusner (Opus. Gen. Cath.,' ed. 1592), who states (pt. ii. p. 6) that Henry married, secondly," Adeliciam Lotharingiæ Ducissam." In his genealogy of the Dukes of Lorraine (pt. i. p. 520), Adelina, eldest daughter of Theodoric the Violent (who died 1133), by Bertha, daughter, "Simonis Ducis Mosellani," is stated to have married Henry 1. Her brothers were Simon (succeeding Duke), Henry (Bishop), Frederick, Theodoric, Charles (Ecclesiastics), and Theobald, (Count "Tullensi "). There is no brother Josceline. The 'Peerages' state that Josceline, ancestor of the Dukes of Northumberland, was son of Godfrey Barbatus, Count of Louvain. Reusner (p. 480) states he died circa 1140, having married "N.,' sister to Henry V., emperor, and by her had issue one son, Godfrey, his successor, and three daughters, Aleida, "nupsit Angliæ Regi"; Ida sive Joann, wife of Theodoric IV., Count of Cleve; Clara, a nun. Here Reusner gives Aleida as wife of Henry, which contradicts his other two statements, but throws no light on Josceline. Oliver Vredius (Gen. Com. Flandriæ,' vol. i. p. 65) states that Henry I. married Adeliza, daughter of Godfrey, Duke of Louvain, and quotes William of Malmesbury and Orderic. A. W. CORNELIUS HALlen. Alloa. POST-REFORMATION CHANCEL SCREENS (8th S. v. 487). Add Brancepeth, Durham; Sedgefield, Durham; St. Mary in the North Bailey, Durham; Cathedral, Durham. The post-Reformation organclock-case (partly pre-Reformation) and many screen was swept away, together with the fine chapel screens, &c., in the early "Restoration" period. See plates in Billings's Durham Cathedral' (1843), and for Brancepeth and Sedgefield, his Durham County' (1846). Bishop Hatfield's Hall, Durham. corium. J. T. F. "ANTIGROPELOS " (8th S. v. 249, 353, 394).-I write from personal knowledge, well remembering the time when these conveniences were in use. In the last line quoted by your correspondent from a song familiar to me, "coat" should be boot, or, to be precisely accurate, boots. The line runs :Your boots are antigropelos, your shoes are pannus Observe the connexion of idea of boots with shoes. Antigropelos" were introduced as a substitute for the boot that formerly protected the horseman's leg, and were brought in in order to keep his pantaloons free from mud splashes and stains. They from equestrians descended to the pedestrians, by whom they were christened " knickerbockers during the lustre 1860-5. I think the introduction of the volunteer service reintroduced the idea in this form. Even the ladies appear to have adopted these leathern leg-protectors; for how runs the ballad, singing of a fair maiden in about 1862? " A pork pie hat and a little white feather And knickerbockers for the dirty weather. My contention, then, is (based upon personal memory) that knickerbockers superseded antigropelos, both being protective against the mud of London. Antigropelos we have no longer with us, and the knickerbocker, in leather or American cloth, at all events, has become obsolete as bizarre; but to this hour at which I am writing any "tenderfoot" can secure a pair of pannus corium shoes by giving an order to any London NEMO. shoemaker. Temple. This word was first used to describe some leggings, fastened by a steel blade in the material, which hooked on instantly, by a spring-action, pushed in to an upper and lower button from the knee to the ankle. The name was familiar as an advertisement about fifty years ago. ESTE. PRUSIAS (8th S. vi. 8).-Prusias was a King of Bithynia (192-148 B.C.), who was so basely servile to the Romans that his name has become a synonym to mean flatterer. To please the Romans he would have put to death Hannibal, who had sought for a refuge in his court; but the great warrior anticipated his host's crime by poisoning himself. B. H. G. 'VENICE PRESERVED' (8th S. v. 488).-MR. PICKFORD's very natural question raises an issue hardly compatible with the space in 'N. & Q,' and is one that might perhaps be best answered by a theatrical manager. Nowadays the reasonable anticipation of a run is the inducement for the revival of some old favourite play, and its rescue from the limbo of oblivion. Whether Venice Preserved' encourages hope of even temporary success is doubtful. To the star actor it presents the disadvantages of two male characters of nearly equal (stage) value; and although Belvidera has been handed down by a long train of distinguished queens of tragedy from the days of Mrs. Barry, yet the part is wanting in variety, and the actress's opportunity, when it comes, comes somewhat late. When each important town boasted its stock company, Jaffier, Pierre, and Belvidera met with their casual chances of appearance. In his early days, Macready often played Pierre; but, once a manager, he gave the part to Warde, and Jaffier to Phelps; and Venice Preserved' is only found in the bills six times during his management of Covent Garden and Drury Lane collectively. At Sadler's Wells, in Phelps's first four seasons, it was played but four times. opinions vary greatly. Dryden's praise of his brother Ware Priory. When, in 1794, the Rev. Wm. Jackson fell in the dock from poison, previous to being sentenced to death for high treason, he pressed the hand of his counsel, Leonard MacNally, muttering, "We have deceived the Senate!" This, quoted from Venice Preserved' at the very moment when life was ebbing away, shows the deep impression which that powerful play had produced; and it is indeed strange that it should be now wellnigh forgotten. The tragic incident referred to is described in Secret Service under Pitt,' p. 192, Longman. CLIO. It is well known to all students of the drama SMEDLEY'S FRANK FARLEIGH' (8th S. vi. 8). that every management of repute for nearly two-This work was first published in Sharpe's London centuries has familiarized the public with Otway's Magazine as a serial tale, 1847-8, and is entitled powerful, though indecent stage portrait of an his-Frank Fairlegb,' and this mode of spelling is no torical episode. Though excision was a matter of doubt the correct mode. E. A. BURTON. necessity, the piece has greatly suffered from indis[Other replies are acknowledged.] criminate use of the pruning-knife, and such strength as is left of Otway's most popular play would appear to lie in an absence of anti-climax, and a really awful-there is no better wordsituation towards the close of the last act. To compass the deaths of the three principal characters within three minutes, without risk of raising a smile, is an achievement that any dramatist may be proud of; but in our more prosaic times, when the mean between the sublime and the ridiculous is so difficult to determine, the horrors of the rack, the gleam of the dagger, and the death-shriek of the maddened wife might fail in the effect produced on the audiences of the last century. On the merits or demerits of Venice Preserved' THE MANSION HOUSE, LONDON (8th S. v. 487). Dance disfigured his Mansion House with two separate superstructures of the kind that E. L. G. refers to. One was near the front, and the other towards the back, or Walbrook end, of the building. A good view of the house, as thus adorned by the City architect, will be found in Chamberlain's History of London' (1769). Singularly enough, though these hideous excrescences were much abused and satirized-they were commonly known as the "Mayor's (mare's) nest "—those inveterate copyists the London historians do not seem to have thought the exact date of their removal a matter of any consequence. No doubt the facts may be found in some of them but the phrase used in Old and New London,' "now removed," or, by more than one compiler, "taken down some years ago," represents the extent of the information vouchsafed by thirteen compilers whose works I have consulted in my own library. Nevertheless, we can fix the date approximately. Hughson, in 'Walks through London,' published in 1817, gives a pretty engraving of the Mansion House with Dance's eccentric story still intact; Percy, in his 'History of London,' writing in 1823, says that it was taken down "a few years ago"; so that the removal must have been between 1817 and 1823. As Hughson gives no hint of any impending alteration, it was probably about midway between these dates, say in 1820. Now, as the Mansion House was completed in 1752, the "hump-like" roof, as Percy calls it, of the Lord Mayor's house must have been an eyesore to the City pedestrian for sixty-eight years or so. Walthamstow. R. CLARK. laws had been so modified, they could be useful for no business purpose, and that a mere list of names and dates It is not necessary for N. & Q.' could interest no one. to reply to nonsense of this sort; but we fear there are yet uninstructed persons in whose brains such-like folly finds harbour. If for no other reason, these registers are of service in helping to disprove the silly calumny as to the Puritans taking a delight in harsh-sounding fabrications based thereon. Mr. Cowper has been good names culled from the Old Testament, and modern enough to give us, in his introduction, a list of the uncommon Christian names which he has encountered in transcribing these pages. There are a good many of them; but very few are open to the charge of Puritanism. Abijah, Bethiah, Elhanah, Freewill, Hevah, Mehetabill, Methuselah, Mnason, and Uriah exhaust the list. We gather from a passage near the end of the introduction that Mr. Cowper has no intention of printing the remaining nine Canterbury registers which yet remain in manuscript, subject to loss by theft, fire, and all the other mischances to which unique documents are liable. We trust he may be induced to change his mind; or if that cannot be, that some one else will carry on the good work. To use the editor's own words, "The day is surely coming when the registers, which contain the brief memorials of the makers of England, of Greater AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (8th S. v. Britain, and (may I not add?) of the United States of 129, 279). Generosus nascitur non fit. At the latter reference it is asked, "What snob perpetrated this vile parody on Horace's 'Poeta nascitur,' &c.?" It would be very interesting to be told where this occurs in Horace. Hitherto it has not been found. Touching "Generosus nascitur non fit," whoever invented the saying erred in good company. Seneca, in his forty-fourth Epistle, says: "Quis est generosus? ad virtutem bene a natura compositus." Surely "Generosus nascitur non fit" does not necessarily mean that a homo generosus must be well born, but rather that he must be "ad virtutem bene a natura compositus." A little further on Seneca says: "Non facit nobilem atrium plenum fumosis imaginibus." If generosus is taken to mean "nobly born," the truth of the saying is obvious, and the proverb unnecessary. If it means "noble hearted," the saying is probably true. It appears to be wrongly assumed that generosus means "gentleman." I do not find that meaning in either Bailey's Facciolati' or Gosset's Dumesnil's Latin Synonyms,' ROBERT PIERPOINT, Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, &c. The Register Book of Christenings, Marriages, and Burials in the Parish of St. Paul without the Walls in the City of Canterbury, 1562-1800. Edited by Joseph Meadows Cowper. (Canterbury, Cross & Jackman.) MR. COWPER is a most industrious antiquary. He possesses, moreover, a faculty which, for work such as his, is more important than even industry. He is scrupulously accurate. He has already printed the parish registers of six of the Canterbury churches. They are models of painstaking work of this kind. We do no know a single parish register which has issued from the press-and we have, we believe, examined nearly all that have been printed-which surpasses those of Canterbury which Mr. Cowper has edited. For all practical purposes they are quite as serviceable as the original documents themselves. When parish registers began to be transcribed for the press, we well remember that such work was described as archæology run mad. We were told that, now the America, will all be printed." The sooner this great national work is undertaken the better. Fire is an agent of destruction which never sleeps. The Royalist Composition Papers. Being the Proceedings of the Committee for Compounding, A.D. 16431660, so far as they relate to the County of Lancaster. Vol. I. A-B. Edited by J. H. Stanning. (Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society.) A List of Lancashire Wills proved within the Archdeaconry of Richmond, 1748-1792. Also a List of Wills proved in the Peculiar of Halton, 1615-1792. Edited by Lieut.-Col. Henry Fishwick. (Same Society.) An Index of Wills and Inventories preserved in the Court of Probate at Chester, 1741-1760. Edited by J. P. Earwaker. (Same Society.) WE welcome these volumes very gladly. The two volumes of indexes of wills are not literature, as we commonly understand the term, but they are of very great use, as furnishing a key to an immense mass of evidence which is useful not only as helping to prove pedigrees, but also as throwing light on the domestic life of those who have gone before us. It is barely a century since wills have become the dry legal documents such as we now know them. Before that time there was hardly a will executed which did not contain so ne fact or allusion which the antiquary will be glad to remember. The volume of Royalist Composition Papers' belongs to a class widely different from the foregoing. Here we have, so far as Lancashire is concerned, the papers relating to the fines inflicted on the Royalists between 1643 and the Restoration, so far as the surnames A and B are concerned. The papers here given are, we need hardly say, not printed in full. Writers of legal documents were, in the seventeenth century, well-nigh as fluent in legal verbosity as their successors of to-day. We do not believe, however, that any facts have been omitted which could be of interest to the local historian, the genealogist, or the student of dialect. We have carefully examined every page of the volume, and have come to the conclusion that the utmost care has been bestowed upon its preparation. There are many facts which have a wide interest. Thus, in the papers relating to John Ackers, of Whiston, we find that three members of the family died of "the sore visitation of the plague" in September and October, 1652. Was this the true plague, or some kind of malignant fever? There seems to be no certain authority for stating that the true plague ravaged this country between 1650, when it was at Shrewsbury, and the great plague in London and elsewhere in 1665. Whether this was the true plague or not, we gather from Dr. Creighton's History of Epidemics' that fatal sickness was prevalent in the West of England in those years. There is a common impression that it was the Parliamentarians only who used the churches as prisons. This is a mistake, as is clear from the depositions regarding Christopher Anderton. A certain Roger Nicholson, of Over Hulton, deposed that "being taken prisoner at Midlewich [he] was put into the church among the other prisoners," when he was visited by Christopher Anderton, who we know, from other evidence, was in service ex parte regis. In the depositions regarding the case of Richard Ashton, of Croston, a certain William Jumpe swears that he had served under the Parliament, was taken prisoner by the forces of Prince Rupert, and was secured in Bolton church. Many of the persons in these depositions were Roman Catholics. They illustrate in various ways the working of the old penal system, so very different in its action from anything that could happen in these days. For instance, a trustee applies for money for the maintenance of an infant of about ten years of age. A sum which seems to have been sufficient was allowed on condition that the boy was brought up a Protestant, his father having been a recusant. There are several other entries which lead us to believe that, over and beyond the effect of the penal laws, the recusants did not receive treatment similar to that of the other Cavaliers who were in trouble. Lives of Twelve Bad Men, Edited by Thomas Seccombe. (Fisher Unwin.) infanti perduti who have been lifelong martyrs to hyper-æstheticism, physical as well as intellectual; and, as Moore puts it, The heart that is soonest awake to the flowers, Is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns. Sufficient weight, perhaps, has not been given to the hereditary taint of insanity which is known to have afflicted his family, and may have contributed largely to the lurid gloom which hung over the life of the unhappy poet. We gave a favourable notice to Mr. Bell's book when it first appeared, and need now only add that this new edition is introduced by a good appreciation of Whitehead from the pen of Mr. Hall Caine. An Index to the Genera and Species of the Foraminijera. By Charles Davies Sherborn. (Washington, Smithsonian Institution.) IT is well when science has such a true devotee to its cause as Mr. Charles Davies Sherborn. For years past this gentleman has been steadily at work in the preparation of the present book, some idea of the extent of which may be formed when it is stated that, although as yet the author has only gone from A to Non, he has noted or described as many as ten thousand genera and species of Foraminifera, The public spirit of that magnificent institution the Smithsonian, of Washington, is worthy of all praise, for by its recognition of Mr. Sherborn's vast labour the world is able to see this scientific text-book appear in immortal type-a work not for to-day, but for all time. Notices to Correspondents. We have received the first part of Dorset Records (Clark), which is intended to furnish indexes, calendars, and abstracts of records relating to the county as well as to furnish transcripts of the various parish registers. We wish Dorset Records' every success. The vast mass of information relating to the shire remaining in WHY twelve? From the title, this work would seem the Record Office, Somerset House, the British Museum, intended to be a counter-blast to the late Dean Burgon's and elsewhere is undreamed of by most persons. To Lives of Twelve Good Men.' In those charming bring the facts contained in these records before those memoirs, however, there was some reason for the limita-persons who have neither time nor skill for the study of tion, as twelve has been accepted from time of old as the the originals is surely a good work. The determination symbolic number of the Church. For Mr. Seccombe's that has been arrived at of printing the whole of the purpose we should have thought that six, the number of parish registers of the county is very admirable. reprobation, would have been more appropriate; or, if that allowance seemed insufficient, the same symbol raised to the power of intensified malignity as 666. Material would not have run short, even then, with the We must call special attention to the following notices: 'Newgate Calendar,' Charles Johnson's Highwaymen,' and other copious records of human villainy to fall back ON all communications must be written the name and on. Amongst the eminent scoundrels here sympathetic-address of the sender, not necessarily for publication, but ally treated by various hands we have Judge Jeffreys; Matthew Hopkins, the witch - finder; the notorious débauché Col. Charteris; Jonathan Wild; Wainewright, the poisoner; "Fighting Fitzgerald," and other black sheep of various degrees of nigritude. On the whole, the sketches are not so objectionable as might be expected. Some, like Mr. Pollard's account of Edward Kelly, the necromancer, are relieved by an agreeable irony. But surely Mr. Seccombe might have found a more congenial occupation than acting as resurrection-stitute man to ruffians who were better left in the oblivion they deserved. Unwept and unhonoured, they might well remain unsung. as a guarantee of good faith. WE cannot undertake to answer queries privately. To secure insertion of communications correspondents must observe the following rule. Let each note, query, or reply be written on a separate slip of paper, with the signature of the writer and such address as he wishes to appear. Correspondents who repeat queries are requested to head the second communication "Duplicate." VERA ("Countries to whom," &c.)-Incorrect. Subwhich. PAOLO BELLEZZA ("Note on Wyatt ").-Not received. R. CLARK ("Stow's 'London "").-Appeared. See 8th S. v. 308, 519. NOTICE. Editorial Communications should be addressed to "The Editor of Notes and Queries'"-Advertisements and Business Letters to "The Publisher"-at the Office, Bream's Buildings, Chancery Lane, E.C. Charles Whitehead: a Forgotten Genius. By Mackenzie Bell. Second Edition. (Ward, Lock & Co.) MR. BELL has made it his pious task to redress the wrong implied in the secondary title of his book. Poor Whitehead was, no doubt, a genius of a certain order, and certainly was almost forgotten from the day when We beg leave to state that we decline to return comhe died in destitution in a Melbourne hospital till Mr.munications which, for any reason, we do not print; and Kell rediscovered him. He was one more of those to this rule we can make no exception. |