populace who could squeeze near enough to him to seize his right hand, and would not allow his escort to keep the people back. Up comes the assassin and seizes the President's right hand, but not with his right hand. He seizes it with his left hand, and, throwing up his victim's arm, plunges the dagger into his right side. Had it been possible for the President to insist upon mutual surrender of right hands, the attack upon him would assuredly have miscarried. JOHN HEBDEN.-Among the portraits I have collected of players of stringed instruments, I possess an engraving in mezzotint of a man named John Hebden, who is represented playing the violoncello. I am curious to know something about this man, as next to no information is to be found concerning him in any book I have come across treating of music and musicians. I have been unable to find any reference to him, beyond seeing his name in a list of subscribers in an old music-book, wherein he is described as one of His Majesty's Musicians in Ordinary; and again, in a little book setting forth the rules of the Royal Society of Musicians, of which Society he was one of the original members and founders. ARTHUR FREDERICK HILL. 38, New Bond Street. "FIFTY-DOLE.”—This word, apparently denoting a rate or assessment of some kind affecting land, appears in a MS. of the sixteenth century relating to Devonshire. What is its precise meaning? H. J. C. young into France, and there sold for a slave at a very low price," and then goes on to tell that "King Clovis II., in 649, took her for his royal consort, with the applause of his princes and whole kingdom; such was the renown of her extraordinary endowments." The Rev. Richard Stanton, in his 'Menology of England and Wales,' speaks of her as being, "according to the general opinion, a native of England." Dean Milman, in his History of Latin Christianity,' says " she was a Saxon captive of exquisite beauty," and proceeds to speak of her as "the holiest and most devout of women (edit. 1854, vol. ii. p. 221). By calling her a Saxon, the dean leaves in doubt whether she was a native of our island or a continental Saxon. Has evidence reached our time which puts the question at rest? She had several children. Can she be proved to be an ancestress of our royal family? We have read somewhere, but have failed to remember where, of some one of our own royal, or semi-royal, people purchasing a slave in some Baltic port, whom he afterwards married, and from whom our Queen is descended. Is this a romance founded on the life of St. Bathildes; or were there, in those disturbed times, two instances of kings whose consorts had been slaves ? N. M. & A. MAID RIDIBONE.-Mr. Rye, in his 'History of Norfolk' (1885, p. 291), states that there was at one time Maid Ridibone's Chapel" in Cromer Church, and that Maid Ridibone was remarkable for having been killed by falling through a millwheel, and yet having no bones broken, and being restored to life by the intervention of St. Alban. Where may this legend be found; and is there any explanation of the name Ridibone ? Norwich. JAMES HOOPER. - In WRIGHT. VAUGHAN, OF WORDSTONE. Burke's 'Landed Gentry,' of 1850, it is stated that the Wrights of Wordstone are a branch of the baronetical family of Wright, of Cranham Hall, co. Essex. In what way were they related? RALPH SEROCOLD. VERNOR, HOOD & SHARP.-I am wanting particulars of the firm of Vernor, Hood & Sharp, publishers, formerly of the Poultry. Hood was the father of the celebrated humourist. Was he W. WRIGHT. of Scotch descent? 10, Little College Street, S.W. DELIA BACON.-Acknowledging my indebtedness for the reply to my inquiry about the author of the letter to Lord Ellesmere, I crave the Editor's permission to ask for sources of information concerning Delia Bacon. I have Hawthorne's account of her in 'Our Old Home, but do not know whether her story has been given elsewhere. F. JARRATT. FAMILY OF PENKHURST, PENCKHURST, OR PANKHURST.-Can any of your readers give me information regarding this family, which was once at Buxted Place, and at Great Trodgers, Mayfield, Sussex, and also in Kent? Portions of it intermarried with the Marshams, the Fowles, the Cobhams, and also the Hammonds, of East Kent. T. H. "les Gillenormand says, "Par les cent mille Javottes KELLAND AND FISHER FAMILIES.-Can any of your readers inform me of the relationship between the above families, and the connexion between the Kellands of Lapford and Sir Clement Fisher, living temp. James I.? I hear that Sir Charles Dilke, In George Sand's 'Horace,' chap. v., Horace says, M.P., is lineally descended from the above Sir "Si Eugénie s'était appelée Margot ou Javotte. Clement Fisher. Is this so; and how is the relation-To which Théophile replies, "J'eusse mieux aimé ship traced? W. D. PINK. Margot ou Javotte que Léocadie ou Phoedora." JONATHAN BOUCHIER. [There was probably more than one Sir Clement Fisher, as there was probably more than one Sir Clement Throckmorton. The Sir Clement Fisher named as living in the reign of James I. was perhaps not the one from whom Sir Charles Dilke is descended, who was christened in 1538, and married in 1568, Clement Fisher is reputed to have been a friend or patron This Sir of Shakspeare in his early days; but there is no evidence of this except tradition. His daughter, born May, 1572, and married to Sir Thomas Dilke January, 1588, became, after Sir Thomas Dilke's death, the wife of Sir Hervey Bagot and the Lady Bagot who defended Lichfield Castle for the king. This Sir Clement Fisher was, therefore, the grandfather of Fisher Dilke, of whom Sir Charles Dilke is representative by lineal descent in the eldest line, the family of Dilke of Maxstoke Castle being descended from his elder brother. The Aylesfords and the Dilkes are the joint representatives of these Fishers, whose family portraits are in the Aylesford collection; a portrait of Anne Fisher (afterwards Lady Dilke) when young, and the family Bible being in Sir Charles Dilke's possession. The Bible contains entries of the births, christenings, and marriages of many members of the family between 1538 and 1601. Sir Clement Fisher's mother had a name not unlike Kelland, but not that name.] INDIAN MAGIC.-Has any attempt ever been made to offer a rational explanation of the extraordinary tricks performed by Indian magicians, e. g., putting a seed in the ground and then making the plant grow and blossom before the eyes of the spectators? The feats said to be performed by these uncanny gentry seem to us so utterly impossible that we feel inclined to laugh at them; but when English officers and gentlemen whose veracity one can accept declare that they have seen such feats performed we are puzzled. W. E. W. Holcrofts, Fulham. CHAS. JAS. FERET. ADVENT PREACHERS. Under the heading 'Ingoldsby Letters (Original)' appears the following in Willis's Current Notes for February, 1851: Rev. R. H. Barham (1841), which have been kindly for"The following extracts are from letters of the late warded to us : "What do you mean by Advent Preachers? I never heard of such creatures.' "In Lent, the Bishop of London appoints certain and Fridays, and against these, I suspect, you have been clergymen to preach at certain churches on Wednesdays knocking your Milesian head. Did you never hear the old rhyme :- To the Church then I went, But I grieved and I sorrowed, And the sermon was borrowed?'" The second extract mentions the tradition that no [Consult Messrs. Maskelyne and Cooke.] "STRANGE OATHS."-In 'Guy Mannering,' chap. xxxiv., Dirk Hatteraick says to Glossin, in speaking of Brown or Bertram: "By the knocking Nicholas he'll plague you now he's come over the herring-pond." Who or what is "the knocking Nicholas"? Is not this an early instance of to the New English Dictionary,' the word caucus IN ENGLISH POLITICS.-According herring-pond" as applied to the ocean? In" was first applied in 1878, by Lord Beacons'Les Misérables,' partie v. livre v. chap. iii., M. field and the Times newspaper, to the organization "CAUCUS " of the Birmingham Liberal 'Six Hundred,' and thence to those which were speedily formed on its model elsewhere"; and it goes on to quote a letter to the Times, of Aug. 1, 1878, by Mr. Chamberlain, saying: "I observe that you, in common with the Prime Minister [Lord Beaconsfield], have adopted the word caucus to designate our organization." When and where did Lord Beaconsfield so designate it; and was his the earliest use of the word in English politics? POLITICIAN. CUP-CAKE.-In Miss Wilkins's delightful New England stories, and in other tales relating to this corner of the United States, I have frequently found mention of cup-cake, a dainty unknown, I think, in this country. Will some friendly reader of N. & Q' on the other side of the Atlantic kindly answer this query, and initiate an English lover of New England folks and ways into the mysteries of cup-cake? G. L. APPERSON. Wimbledon. SPIDERS.-The following paragraph is copied from the Sporting Magazine for September, 1821. Are the statements therein pure fiction? If not, can any one tell me how much we may safely believe? A spider weighing four pounds is indeed a heavy tax on the reader's credulity :— "The sexton of the church of St. Eustace, at Paris, amazed to find frequently a particular lamp extinct early, and yet the oil consumed only, eat up several nights to perceive the cause. At length he discovered that a spider of surprising size came down the cord to drink the oil. A still more extraordinary instance of the same kind ocurred during the year 1751, in the Cathedral of Milan. A vast spider was observed there, which fed on the oil of the lamps. M. Morland, of the Academy of Sciences, bas described this spider, and furnished a drawing of it. It weighed four pounds, and was sent to the Emperor of Austria, and is now in the Imperial Museum at Vienna."-P. 289. ASTARTE. "ST. STEPHEN'S."-Can any one inform me why the Houses of Parliament are sometimes called "St. Stephen's," and when that name was first used? A. B. [The chapel, of which the crypt remains, and in which the Commons used to sit, was dedicated to St. Stephen, and the whole palace hence took that name.] AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANted.— Believe not each aspersing tale I only am the man Among all married men, R. F. B. Hale and Hales families of England and America), I am preparing a 'History of the Haleses' (the and your notes on Admiral Hales naturally fell under my eye, particularly since I was engaged in writing about the Admiral then. What Hume, Burke, Walsyngham, and others have had to say is noted; but in tracing back for the sources had derived his data from the Chronicon Angliæ of their information I found that Walsyngham (1328-1388) now printed, and in the index of that work (series "Chronicles and Memorials of Great Britain and Ireland during the Middle Ages") I found mention of (1) Hale, Robert, "one of the captors of the Count of Denia (Hispano); holds the count's son as hostage; his prisoner is demanded of him by the Crown; he is sent to the Tower, but escapes to Westminster; he is murdered in the Abbey; his murderers excommunicated. A servant of the church is also killed; Hale's body dragged through the choir," &c. All this occurred in 1378. The same work refers to (2) Hales, Robert, Lord Treasurer, Prior of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, in England, &c., giving an account of his death in Wat Tyler's insurrection, in 1380. Inasmuch as it is impossible for a man to die two deaths, and at two different places, I at once concluded the first Robert was the Admiral, the last Robert the Lord Treasurer, &c. But I was soon undeceived. Turning to Beatson's 'Political Index,' vol. i., I found among the Lord High Admirals of England: Baron de Hales, Prior of the Hospital of St. John, '1377. Nov. 24. Michael, Lord of Wingfield, N. and W." (the letter N. denotes northern station, and W. the western); succeeded, apparently in about two weeks, by "1377. Dec. 5. Thomas Earl of Warwick, N., and Richard, son of Alain, Earl of Arundel, W." The same book gave as Lord Treasurer, "1381. Robert Hales," &c. This made the matter still more mysterious, and Michael had to be accounted for. I could not connect him with any of the Wingfields of Suffolk, Norfolk, Salop, or elsewhere. never heard of a Michael de Hales, and the mystery was only solved later on, when I found that Michael de la Pole had been an admiral contemporaneously with Sir Robert de Hales. This is not the only slip that Beatson makes. 66 I had The historians told us to fight shy of the early chroniclers. Lingard says: The history of this insurrection has been transmitted to us with many variations by Walsyngham, Knyghton, and Froissart," and Keightley added to our discomfort by saying, "We must remember that all the details are furnished by Walsyngham and Knyghton, (N.), and William, Earl of Salisbury, admirals, July 16th, 1376; succeeded by Sir Michael de la Pole (N.) and Sir Robert Hales (W.), Nov. 24th, 1376 (both these anno 50 Edward III). The two last were reappointed Aug. 14th, 1377 (anno 1 Richard II.), but were succeeded, December 5th, same year, by Thomas, Earl of Warwick (N.), and Richard, Earl of Arundel (W.); all which is a quite different story from what Mr. Beatson told, and accounts for the Michael, besides giving them not only two weeks tenure, but a year and two weeks previously. There is no doubt, then, that Sir Robert Hales was Admiral of the Western seas for over a year, according to Nicolas, Walsyngham, and Rymer; but who was the man killed in Westminster, of nearly the same name, two years previously to the death of Sir Robert Hales? Was it a Frank de Haule, Lord Francis Hawley, or Walter Haule the admiral's assistant or deputy? Or was it really a Robert Hale, as his epitaph says, and as the Chronicon Angliæ' intimates? And if it was the latter, was it not most likely a relative of Admiral Hales? I cannot trace the admiral's ancestry beyond his father, Nicholas de Hales (vide Burke), but I believe they connect with the Norfolk Haleses, who were also called De Calthrop and De Bosco, as I shall try to prove anon. two inveterate enemies of the insurgents." Guizot of the Royal Navy' gives William, Earl of Suffolk called the Lord Treasurer "Thomas de Hales," but that was to be expected in a popular history. Green added one item to our stock of data, by showing that a Hales was engaged on Tyler's side. "A hundred thousand Kentishmen gathered around Walter Tyler of Essex and John Hales of Malling to march upon London." The 'Chronicon Anglie said also that "Sir Stephen de Hales was forced by the Norfolk insurgents to join them in 1381, under John Lytstere of Norwich," and I knew that Stephen was a prominent knight of Norfolk, and an extreme Royalist. But all this did not solve the doubts in my mind as to whether the Lord High Admiral and the Lord Treasurer were one and the same. Finally I consulted the standard work on Westminster, the History of the Abbey Church of St. Peter's, Westminster, its Antiquities and Monuments,' London, 1812, vol. i. p. 102, where I found a full and succinct account of the murder of Robert Hawley in the Abbey. The story therein reads like a romance, but it is too long to give here. Suffice it that it is taken from Walsyngham, and says that Robert Hawley and John Schakell, two brave soldiers under the Black Prince in 1367, took prisoner the Count of Denia, who gave his son as ransom, and then utterly neglected to reclaim him; and years after, when he was produced by Schakell, he had become the latter's valet. Perhaps he may have been the Count's valet in the first place, which would account for not ransoming him. The circumstances of the killing are given, and even his epitaph, where the name is given Haule. The only other place where I find Haule is in Knight's London,' 1843, vol. iv. p. 75: "At the battle of Najara, during the campaign of the Black Prince in Spain, two of Sir John Chandos's squires, Frank de Haule and John Schakell," &c. Now where did he get the name Frank from? Rymer's 'Foedera,' iii. p. 1066, says that Sir Robert Hales, when made admiral, appointed Walter Haule and John Legg, serjeants-at-arms, his deputies." This is still another permutation of the name, and leads us deeper into the mire of doubt. Looking into Dict. Nat. Biog.,' I can find no Sir Robert Hale or Hales to help me out. Under "Sir John Chandos " is nothing about Frank de Haule. Among papers in the Tower records regarding forfeited estates is one relating to Lord Francis Hawley and others. This may serve as a clue. Genealogical data about the Hawleys is very scarce. From the connexion of the Duke of Lancaster in the story (vide History of Westminster' quoted) there may be something found among the papers at Duchy of Lancaster Office, Lancaster Place, Waterloo Bridge. Also see lists of serjeants-at-arms. " Now as to the tenure of the office of Admiralty, about which Beatson is wrong. Nicolas's' History That the De Calthrops and the De Boscos were the same lineage can be found in Mumford's Analysis of the Domesday Book of Norfolk,' and that the Haleses came from the same stock, see account in Blomefield's 'Norfolk' of Walter de Suffield, alias De Calthrop, tenth Bishop of Norwich, and his brother, Sir Roger de Hales, alias De Suffield, alias De Calthrop, founder of the Norfolk Hales family, and father of Alice, who captivated by her beauty Thomas de Brotherton, son of Edward I., and thus became Duchess of Norfolk (vide Burke, et al.) Admiralty affairs will be found on Close Rolls in Chancery. Admiralty and Navy lists and lists of officers will be found in High Court_of Admiralty or Public Admiralty department. For particulars as to Sir Robert Hales's death, see Foxe's Book of Martyrs' and Hasted's 'Kent.' There was a Nicholas de Bosco, one of the last of the line in Norfolk, about 1333 (see under "Fersfield "), and also a Nicholas de Bosco is found early in Herts. Can this be the same as the Nicholas de Hales, father of Admiral Hales? Norfolk, Kent, and Herts are the three principal strongholds of the Hale and Hales families in England. W. FARRAND Felch. Hartford, Conn., U.S. PSALM LXVII. (8th S. v. 408, 498).—If MR. WARREN will please to look at the original form of the introduction of "yea" into verse 5, his experienced eye will, I thing, at once perceive the reason of the introduction, to preserve uniformity in "saying." In verse 3 there is "yea, let all the people." In verse 5 there was no "yea" in the text. In musical intonation it was unsuitable to have a variation so soon after. The compilers, therefore, of set purpose, inserted the "yea" in verse 5. In the authorized copy of the C. P. it appears thus: at verse 3, "Yea, let all the people praise Thee "; at verse 5, "Yea, let all the people" (sic). I have not the facsimile edition, so I take the form from A. J. Stephens's C. P., vol. i. p. 477. This shows the addition of the "Yea" purposely. It was not a printer's repetition from the former verse (v. 3). ED. MARSHALL. Λ The variation is thus explained in that useful book, "The Psalms, by Four Friends : "The fact of these three verses, which are really a cento from various Psalms, following immediately upon the quotation of the 3rd and 4th verses in the Epistle to the Romans (iii. 13-18) led the copyist into the belief that was a continuous quotation, and he consequently inserted the three verses in the MS, of the Psalm." For the connexion between Psalms xiv. and liii. and Romans iii., see the indispensable Perowne, and Dr. Vaughan's admirable Epistle to the Romans,' in locis. EDWARD H. MARSHALL, M.A. The REV. J. CATER is mistaken in regarding the difference between the Prayer Book and the Authorized Version in their respective presentations of Psalm xiv. as a question of accuracy. Both are accurate; the former (in this instance) in following the Vulgate, the latter as a translation from the Hebrew. MR. CATER surely cannot mean to blame those responsible for the Authorized Version for not inserting in their translation what they did not find in the original. The Psalms in the Prayer Book are, as MR. CATER knows, taken from what is known as "Cranmer's Great Bible." "A magnificent and probably unique copy of it on vellum," says Mr. Hartwell Horne,— “which formerly belonged to Henry VIII., is preserved in the Library of the British Museum. In the text those parts of the Latin Version which are not to be found in the Hebrew or Greek are inserted in a smaller letter; such, for instance, as the three verses in the fourteenth Pealm, which are the fifth, sixth, and seventh in the translation of the English Liturgy."-Horne's 'Introduction,' ninth edition, vol. v. p. 88. The verses thus "inserted in a smaller letter," to indicate that they were not to be found in the Hebrew or Greek, while not to be found in the Hebrew, are to be found in the Codex Vaticanus of the Septuagint, but not in the Codex AlexFrom St. Jerome downwards the andrinus. been that the Codex rational belief has Vaticanus has, in Psalm xiv., been tampered with by a Christian band to make it conform with St. Paul's quotation in Romans iii. The error of the rash interpolator was his regarding St. Paul's quotation as from one passage only (Psalm xiv.), whereas it is from several, which can be easily identified. MR. CATER will find them given at large in "Tables of Quotations from the Old Testament in the New," in Horne's 'Introduction,' vol. ii. p. 301. R. M. SPENCE, M. A. THE ETYMOLOGY OF "JINGO" (5th S. x. 7, 96, 456).-The following extract is taken from an article written for the Matin by M. François Times of June 25 (p. 6, col. 1):Deloncle, a translation of which appeared in the "This state of mind......is called in a term of AngloIndian slang 'jingoism.' A 'jingo' in England is the holder of the doctrine that everything must be done, especially against France, that the whole world may one day become a British Empire. It is the cold fanaticism of Imperial policy. Now Lord Dufferin knows what jingo" means in Persian Hindustan. It is the man of the jing,' a Persian word signifying the Holy War,' in the sense of a general insurrection of India against the infidele. 'Jingoism' is thus the policy of the Holy War,' Has not M. Deloncle, in the heat of argument against Lord Dufferin, confused the Persian word jang (spelt by French scholars djeng), meaning "" war," with the Arabic jihad, meaning " a boly war"? One would like to know what experts in AngloIndian slang have to say to a Persian derivation of the word jingo. A. L. MAYHEW. [Is not jung, not "jang," Persian for war?] "NIVELING" (8th S. v. 248, 395, 437, 493; vi. 15).—I beg ten thousand pardons for writing anything which seemed to cast a reflection on 80 eminent a scholar as PROF. SKEAT. I have always understood his edition of 'Piers Plowman' to be a learned and exhaustive work, or I dare say I should have placed it in my library before now; but I do not like "learned and exhaustive" works; the authors are so apt to write down to one's capacity, and to make one feel small. Too much pap or chewed food does not suit all stomachs. It is healthier to do one's own mastication. However, I shall get PROF. SKEAT's book next time I go to town, and expect to profit by it. But my habit is not to consult dictionaries and glossaries much, but |