4th S. X. SEPT. 7, 72.] NOTES AND QUERIES. investigating the pedigree of the Russells of Stub- C. G. H. I quite agree in your correspondent's conjecture, that the Cookseys were paternally Beauchamps. In the roll of temp. Edward I., Walter de Coksey bears a coat of arms nearly identical with that of Beauchamp, viz. Gules, semée of crosses-crosslets, a fesse argent. H. S. G. P.S. The Russells of Swallowfield, baronets, claim descent from the Strensham family. BLANCHE PARRY. (4th S. x. 48.) Stubbers really descend from those Strensham, and from the first baronet, the belief will remain that John Russell Cookes, Esq., of Bentley, John Vincent Hornyold, Esq., of Blackmore Park, and the heirs (if any) of the Wintors of Hodington, represent the house of Strensham (all descended from the sisters of Sir W. Russell, Bart.). MR. COOKES gives no information of any use in compiling a pedigree, and no authority as to where he Will MR. COOKES kindly state what reasons he derives information from, in his long reply; I hope, has for believing Alderman Sir William Russell therefore, he will investigate the pedigree of the Stubbers house before he answers this. He says, (he was knighted in 1679) to be identical with "The alderman had issue at least three children-William, younger son of Sir William Russell of Elizabeth, a daughter unknown, and William." Strensham, Bart.? This is a vague commencement of a pedigree. His informant says, "The only lineal descendants of the alderman that I know of were the Russells of Stubbers," that the pedigree "might, he believes, be made out from the parish registers," that " he has no doubt that all the Russells of Stubbers were descended from the alderman." The latter sentence makes it quite possible that, although a Russell of Stubbers married into the alderman's family, it is uncertain whether the Stubbers house descends from this marriage; and if all did not, is there proof any did? Is it certain there were not two Sir William Russells? Is the portrait certain? There are several of Sir William Russell the baronet. I submit with all courtesy to your correspondent, that he does not show that this alderman belonged to the Strensham family, that he founded that of Stubbers, or that all the latter descend from him. MR. COOKES goes on to say, "in the absence of valid proof of the fact, we have no right to suppose that neither of the first baronet's three youngest sons left issue male [only the first baronet had sons], all these may have married," hence the probability of the baronetcy not being extinct. Now we have every right, I think, to believe otherwise; as no record can be found of their having had issue, they must be considered as having none until it is shown they had. It is extraordinary what contempt for a baronetcy, and perhaps chance of an estate, the house of Stubbers, and MR. COOKES's suggested possible houses, had, supposing they had any right at all, although they were brothers or nephews of the last baronet Sir Francis Russell. I will not occupy space by a treatise of the origin of the name Russell, or suggestions which cannot be ascertained of family connectionships, but only observe that the name Roussel or Rosel is still common in Normandy, &c., and that it is most improbable that the family had a common ancestor. It is quite improbable that the Bedford Russells were ever connected with those of Strensham; I think otherwise, putting aside the antiquity of the coats of either. I apologise for my length, but could not answer more shortly; and hope that MR. COOKES will settle the matter by Mrs. Blanche Parry was daughter of Henry YLLUT meant to write in the Welsh form Henry Parry and granddaughter of Miles. Perhaps ap Miles. She was buried in St. Margaret's church, A monumental portrait of her Westminster. hangs high up in the tower of that church, removed perhaps from the nave upon some alteraTwo windows at Atcham have painted glass tions or improvements being made in the church. were originally in Bacton church, and were rerelating to the Parry family, but these windows them. At Bacton they were exposed to the boys, moved from thence by Mrs. Burton to preserve were near to the vicarage-house, where Mrs. Burwho pelted stones at them. At Atcham they ton lived. Mrs. Burton was a long time in getting possession of them, but one day she went to Bacton, treated the churchwardens, and (according to her suggestion) made them too merry, and they gave her permission to take away the windows. They afterwards repented, and sued Mrs. Burton to regain them. How Mrs. Burton got off from this suit I do not know; but she did not say a word about the suit to her children for many years. As this is a question of property between two F. C. P. parishes, I thought I might as well tell the story. The monument to the memory of Blanche Parry is in St. Margaret's church, Westminster. It will be found in the north aisle of the chancel, nearly opposite the door. T. G. T. 1 This lady was not buried in Westminster Abbey, but in the parish church of St. Margaret, Westminster. The entry in the parish register, under date of Feb. 27, 1589-90, is "Mrs. Blanch of Pary." J. L. C. On the Patent Rolls of Queen Elizabeth, this lady is named Blanche a Parry-apparently the middle term between Parry and Ap Harry. Some notices of her may be found in the "Memoir of Queen Elizabeth," in Miss Strickland's Lives of the Queens of England. The following extracts are taken from Sloane MS. 814, a document containing lists of Queen Elizabeth's jewels, delivered to the custody of Lady Katherine and Mrs. Elizabeth Howard. I may note, en passant, that this is the earliest MS. in which I have found Catherine spelt with C., and that in one place only: [14 Eliz. New Year's Gifts.] "It a fayre flower of golde, Being a Rose enamuled white and redd in the toppe and other flowers also all sett wth iij diamonds iij Rubyes and one litle perle in the midds poz halfe an ounce and a farthing golde weight. Geven by Mrs. Blaunche Parrye. [In margin ]. "Given by her Matie to Mrs. Elizabeth Howarde." (Fol. 2, b.) [15 Eliz. New Year's Gifts.] "Itm one Jvell being a Scrippe of Mother of perle garnished wth golde having at three litle Cheines of golde and a smale agathe pendante [sic]. Geven by Mrs. Blaunche Parrye." (Fol. 4, b.) [16 Eliz. New Year's Gifts.] "It a Jvell being a Cristall garnishedd wth golde, Adame and Eve enamuled white, and a Cristall pendante garnished wth golde, and iiij smale perles pendaunte. Geven by Mrs. Blaunche Parrye broken poz ij oz di q3tr." (Fol. 6, b.) [17 Eliz. New Year's Gifts.] "Itm a flower of golde enamuled greene, wth three white Roses in either of them, a sparcke of Rubyes, and the midest thearof a flye, and a smale cheyne of golde to hang it by, being broken poz j oz q3tr. Geven by Mrs. Blaunche Parrye. (Fol. 9, b.) [18 Eliz. New Year's Gifts.]" Itm a Juell being Cristall sett in golde wth twoe storyes appeering on bothe sides with a smale perle pendaunte. Geven by Mrs. Blaunche Parrye. (Fol. 11, b.) [19 Eliz. New Year's Gifts.] "Itm a Juell of golde whearin is sett a white agathe and sett wth iij smale sparcks of Rubyes and a smale perle pendaunte. Geven by Mrs. Blaunche Parrye. (Fol. 12, b.) [20 Eliz. New Year's Gifts.] "Itm a litle Box of golde and a litle spoone of golde. Geven by Mrs. Blaunche Parrye. (Fol. 15, b.) [21 Eliz. New Year's Gifts.] "Itm a payre of Braceletts wth Cornelyon's hedds and two very smale perles betwixt every perle garnished with golde. Geven by Mrs. Blanche Parrye. (Fol. 17, b.) [22 Eliz. New Year's Gifts.] "Itm a payre of Braceletts of golde, xij peces of goldsmithes worke and the rest agathes, geuen by Mrs. Blanche Parrye. (Fol. 19, a.) [23 Eliz. New Year's Gifts.] "Itm a Juell of goulde, being a Crane wth meane pearle pendante geuen by Mris Blanche Parrie. (Fol. 21, a.) [26 Eliz. New Year's Gifts.] letts of golde poiz j oz q3tr. Aparry. (Fol. 28, a.) "It a payre of BraceGeuen by Mrs. Blanche [27 Eliz. New Year's Gifts.] Itm a wast Girdle of Black Villatt, Buckle, pendant, and Studds golde xxxj, Buttones of golde, and very smale perles betweene. Geuen by Mrs. Blanche Parry. (Fol. 30, a.) Serpents tongue sett in golde enamuled garnished with iij [29 Eliz. New Year's Gifts.] "Itm a Jvell, being a sparks of Rvbyes, ii Sparks of Emeralds, and iij very litle perles pendante. Geuen by Mrs. Blanche Parrye." (Fol. 34, b.) HERMENTRUDE. COLLINS AND HIS “ BARONETAGE.” (4th S. x. 27.) I find among my family papers what appears to be an extract from Arthur Collins's Journal in his own handwriting, and which may explain the "discouragements and unprecedented usuage" he complains of in his letter to Sir John Trevelyan on the occasion of his first publication of the tinued to be his portion to the time that the Baronetage of England, A.D. 1725, and which conPeerage was published. As Arthur Collins's greatgrandson, and knowing full well how deserving this indefatigable historian was of the gratitude of the nobility, I can only apologise for the length of the extract, feeling sure that your correspondent SIR WALTER TREVELYAN will be interested in its perusal : "January 30, 1752.-I breakfasted with their Graces, the Duke and Dutchess of Portland, with their two eldest daughters, Lady Elizabeth Cavendish Bentink and Lady Henrietta Cavendish Bentink, both very beautiful in their Persons, of most agreeable sweet tempers, with a most affable behaviour. The Discourse between us gave me an opportunity to say how I was descended, and the misfortunes that attended my family and myself; on which they seemed to pity me, but said nothing more. The Countess of Oxford had sent up Pictures of her Ancestors to be engraved by Mr. Vertue, one of the most eminent of his profession; but her Grace of Portland, thinking of the expense, determined to have only two engraved; that of Elisabeth, Countess of Shrewsbury, who was the Advancer of the noble Family of Cavendish; and of Horace Lord Vere of Tilbury, a Person very famous, and from whom the Countess of Oxford was also descended. Her Grace desired me to call on Mr. Vertue, that he might have the Pictures, which I did, and then return'd to my House at Highgate, where I employed myself in writing part of the Life of Denzil Lord Holles, and never stir'd out of my House till Febry 5th that I came to London. About half an hour after 12 o'clock, I took Coach for St James's to attend the King's Levee, and to speak to some of the Lords to interceed for me; but principally in hopes of seeing the Duke of Newcastle, who had told me to wait on him soon after the Meeting of the Parliament, which I had done at three several times, but his Grace was so taken up with Business, as he said, he had not time to talk with me. I therefore wrote the following letter with an intent to deliver it to him at St. James's before he went to the King :— "May it please your Grace,-When I consider what your Grace has said to me, with what most of the Nobility have told me, and am yet kept in suspence, it fills me with amazement; but I have a Heart and a Spirit (with blood from my Ancestors) not to be conquered by oppres sion, or I couldn't have wrote that which will make my name memorable to after Ages, celebrating the Memory of eminent and extraordinary Persons, and transmitting their virtues for the imitation of Posterity, being one of the principal ends and duties of History. "I am the Son of Misfortune (my Father having run through more than 30,000 lbs.), and from my fruitless Representations am likely to dye so; but I have left in Manuscript an Account of my Family, my Life, and the cruel usuage I have very undeservedly undergone, with Copyes of the Letters I have wrote on the occasion, of which are several to your Grace, whereby Posterity may know I have not been wanting either in Industry, which the Books I have published will justify, or in my application for Preferment which I so well deserve. "If your Grace has any Compassion for me, I humbly beg you will order Notice to be left at Mr Withers's, Bookseller in Fleet Street, when I may have the Honr to wait on you, who am Your Grace's Most faithfull And most Devoted Servant, Febry 5, 1752.' "Whilst I waited for His Grace's coming to St. James's, I spoke to the Duke of Portland, telling him I had Three more Sheets printed of the Life of the Earl of Clare, that I hadn't delivered to him, but would bring them to His Grace the next morning. Whereunto he said it would be as well if I sent them, which I thought shewed a coldness, and induced me not to send them till Friday morning. I went in afterwards with many who attended, to the King, who spoke first to the Duke of Portland, then to the Earl of Buckingham, the Duke of Grafton, and the Lord Delawarr, who stood together, and to Sir John Ligoneer. The Marquis of Rockingham was the Lord of the Bedchamber in Waiting, and introduced two Persons to kiss the King's Hand. My modesty would not permit me to stand in the first Rank, but I stood so as to be seen by the Lords, as also the King, but having never had the Honr to be introduced to His Majesty, was unknown to Him. "On departing out of the King's Bedchamber, the Lord Viscount Gage spoke to me, asking whether I was on a new edition of the Peerage. I told him I had made Collections towards it, but there being so much to write, it was impossible without some provision, to enable me to keep a Person to transcribe for me, to finish it in the manner I designed; and therefore till that was done, I should think no further of it, and I told my Lord Delawarr the same, who said that I deserved to be provided for. I waited till half an hour after two, and the Duke of Newcastle not coming, and being told by the Waiters it was then in vain to expect seeing him, I left the Court, intending to dine with Mr Perry in Berkley Square, to whom I was always welcome; but in my way there, being to pass Arundell St, I resolved to call first on the Earl of Granville, having ever had easy access to him. Being admitted to his Lordship, and making complaint how hard it was with me, telling him I had been at the King's Levee, and the answer I had given to my Lord Gage; he said that he had often spoke for me, and would again; that he knew several Lords commiserated my condition, and that he hoped very soon to tell me of some Provision being made for me, which he earnestly wish'd. I must say his Lordship was ever an encourager of Literature, and on several occasions when I have been with him has said to other Lords present at the same time, Here is Collins who has served us, and we do nothing for him'; to which all the answer made was, that the Ministry ought to show me more Favour. "Taking leave of his Lordship, I went into Berkley Square, and dined with Mr Perry, his Lady, and Mr Burnaby, who had been in foreign Parts one of the King's Ministers; and from the observation I made of him, he seemed to be a Person of Address and affable behaviour. Mr Perry, before Mr Burnaby came, asked my opinion of the way he intended to pursue in obtaining the Barony of K*****, to which his Lady had pretence, and desired me to draw the case of the State of the Barony, which I promised to do. I took my leave of them about 5 of the Clock, and on my return to my Chambers in the Temple, I made it in my way to call at Newcastle House in Lincoln's Inn Fields, where I delivered the Letter before mentioned; went to my Chambers, and staid there the whole evening, musing on what I should do the next morning, and looking over Papers." C. T. COLLINS TRELAWNY. Ham. "BILLYCOCK” AND “WIDE-AWAKE." (4th S. ix. passim; x. 96.) As a 16 wind-up to this subject, I take the liberty of forwarding a copy of a song printed for private circulation by your correspondent MR. STEPHEN JACKSON, who will, I trust, excuse the liberty. I have added the notes made by the P. D. just as I find them in the original, the author having good-naturedly adopted them: 66 THE WIDE-AWAKE. "A New Song on an Old Hat, written by Stephen Jackson, Esq., to the tune of The Leathern Bottle.' "I know not how it was, but yesternight "Of all the hats that ever I see Who first invented the wide-awake! And manhood crown'd with the wide-awake! "This means the same as to settle his hash.' The origin of the two culinary expressions is explained in the Archaic Dictionary, but if that work is not at hand an inquiring reader can consult Mrs. Glasse's Cooking made Easy, edit. 1745.”—Printer's Devil. t "This has reference to Dibdin, who sings"The wisdom's in the wig'; but the same expression occurs in a learned tractate on the hair, written by Caputius Caxonius, Professor of Crinology in the University of Hairlem. See the Elzevir Such as is worn in Church and State By priest and ermined magistrate! But if those coverings were but doom'd, And the graceful wide-awake assumed, Far greater impression it would makeFancy [Cockburn *] wearing a wide-awake! "And what d'ye say to the huge broad-brim That shades the Quaker starch'd and prim? Or the three-cock'd hat so grave and big That tiles the curls of the rector's wig? Why, in good sooth, I like them not, A villainous by-gone look they've got: I'd sink such things in the pond or lake,† And supply their place by the wide-awake! "And what d'ye say to those gibus things, With cranks, and screws, and iron springs, That, if you choose, you can make as flat As a fluke or anything flatter than that! Why! I rayther think well of hats like those, For your head is cool'd by each wind that blows; But it's dolorous sad if a spring should breakNow there isn't no springs in a wide-awake! ‡ "And what d'ye say to those beavers fine? Oh! they shall have no praise of mine! 'Spose a gennelman goes to the play, As every one does once in a way: 'Tis a benefit night-there's an awful rush, And your beaver receives a dreadful crush That spoils its beauty and no mistake; Now! it couldn't be so with a wide-awake! "And 'spose you take a jaunt by rail, As you must in lack of coach or mail, But your wide-awake you may, if you please, VIATOR (1.) ICELAND (4th S. ix. 535; x. 19, 53.)—Through the politeness of the mother of Mr. W. L. Watts, I am enabled to fix the date of his departure from England, and approximately of his ascent over that terra incognita the "Vatna," and to supply some additional information which may be acceptable edition of his work printed in 1555, or the recen translation by Professor Brown of the City of London. The original is scarce."-Printer's Devil. In the original the word is Campbell.-VIATOR. Malham Water is close to Mr. Jackson's house.VIATOR. "This line is shocking bad grammar; but Mr. Jackson has chosen a 'shocking bad' subject."-Printer's Devil. to R. P., and possibly not without interest to other of your readers. Mr. Watts left London on July 5, 1871, by steamer to Granton, thence by a Danish vessel to Iceland. The name of the friend by whom he was accompanied is Mr. John Milne, of the Hermitage, Richmond, a student of the school of mines. Prints from the negatives taken by Mr. Watts were presented to the "Icelandic Literary Society," the "Royal Geographical SoMrs. ciety," and to the President of Iceland. Watts states that the name of the great glacier ascended by her son, as written to her by a gentleman, a native of Iceland, is the "Vatna jökul,' and this the latter described to that lady as untrodden mountainous region of ice and snow, superstitiously feared and shunned by the natives. In this region," she tells me, "the bottle was deposited. My son," the lady continues 66 an does not affirm than he reached the summit, although he believes he did, as he saw nothing beyond but an apparently boundless plain of snow, which he had neither time nor resources to venture upon. No doubt an experienced determined man like Captain Burton, with great resources at command, and bearing or exacting a sort of prestige in all that he undertakes, will do a great deal more than could be accomplished by two young holiday students with limited means; nevertheless he will not be the first to venture upon this hitherto unknown region." Mr. Watts sailed for Quebec in the beginning of July, and so is not here to tell his own story. Captain Burton's expedition to Iceland was lately noticed in one of the public prints in connection with his appointment as British Consul at Trieste. J. CK. R. FERREY'S" RECOLLECTIONS OF WELBY PUGIN": ISABEY (4th S. x. 8, 90.)-I ought to have replied to your respected and courteous correspondent P. A. L. sooner. I have to thank him for most interesting information respecting the artist Isabey; at the same time, in the severe remarks which I have used upon the practical joke he played on the great Napoleon when First Consul, I simply gave expression to the very strong language used by the elder Pugin, when speaking of his friend Isabey's folly. As far as my memory goes, I believe I have used the very words uttered by Pugin, and I well remember how indignantly he spoke of Isabey's presumption. The exaggeration, therefore, does not rest upon me. It now appears that there have been various versions of this "practical joke." It is related in a very mild form in the Duchess d'Abrantes' Memoirs, and the other accounts (as I suppose) of the same incident vary considerably. Pugin was a most polished gentleman of the old school, and would necessarily feel that such an act of impertinence, perpetrated by his friend Isabey, was deserving of the strongest reprobation. I am acquainted with Isabey's great works, and appreciate his skill as a most distinguished artist, but I cannot think that, however successful as a painter (and therefore patronised by the First Consul), anything could justify such an impudent practical joke as he committed. The little historical sketch given by P. A. L. is very entertaining. I venture, however, to think that he is hardly correct when he states that Isabey had to prepare all the drawings for the coronation. I remember having seen some masterly sketches by Mons. Lafitte, brother-in-law of Pugin, a very distinguished member of the Legion of Honour, for the Sculpture of the Arc de Triomphe on the Place de Carousel, and for other public buildings, and I fancy also there were some for the coronation of the emperor; they may, however, have been simply prepared by Lafitte for approval. BENJAMIN FERREY, F.S.A. "I KNOW A HAWK FROM A HANDSAW" (4th S. ix. 358, 514; x. 57, 135.)—Judging from certain previous notes of MR. CHATTOCK, I thought it within the bounds of possibility that he might mistake the heronsewe of my culinary references for heron-stew. For this reason I gave him my Chaucer-quotation., MR. CHATTOCK has made the mistake I thought he might possibly make; and has (beyond my expectation) failed to see the bearing of the Chaucer passage. Chaucer rhymes heronsewes (young herons), with sewes (= stews). I congratulate MR. CHATTOCK on his first attempt at "index-ferreting." It brings out the strange fact that he was ignorant that Early-English sewe stew. There needs no comment upon this. I recommend a further study of indices to MR. CHATTOCK before he tries again to prove, from the late Albert Smith, that hernshawshaw-hern. JOHN ADDIS, M.A. = Rustington, Littlehampton, Sussex. ARNUTS (4th S. ix. 534; x. 52, 117.)-This little note is not intended to criticise what some crusty readers would call "learned lumber"; but to correct a mistake in Johnstone's edition of Jamieson's Scottish Dictionary. "Tall oat-grass" is no relation of pignut, Anglice, or arnut (earthnut), Scottice, which is an umbelliferous plant, called by botanists Bunium flexuosum; but is a grass called Arrhenatherum avenaceum. In some places this "tall oat-grass" bears flattish roundish knobs at the base of the stem, and these are called by the Scots "swines' arnuts." Chelsea, S.W. A. I. curious, and full of anecdotes on a particularly interesting subject. According to his own account, Mr. Elliott was born in 1784; was successively a stage-coach driver, groom to General Campbell, and Mr. James Graham, and became acquainted with Joseph Paisley, the Gretna Green parson, in 1810. Paisley was known as the "Blacksmith," through "his quickness in uniting eloping parties"; and taking a liking to Elliott, agreed to hand him. over the "goodwill" of his profession if he would marry his granddaughter. This was done; and Paisley dying in January, 1811, aged eighty-four, the subject of this notice "became the sole and only parson of Gretna Green": "I have," writes he, " continued so for the last twentynine years, during which period I have married more than 3000 couples of all ranks and grades." Mr. Elliott died a short time since. There is an advertisement in this book stating, that "The Gretna Green Register," with an appendix containing the names of 7,444 persons married by Elliott, was in the press, and would be shortly published at one guinea-copies limited to 500. Was it issued? T. C. NOBLE. 79, Great Dover Street. I have a book called "The Gretna Green Memoirs by Robert Elliott, with an Introduction and Appendix by the Rev. Caleb Brown. London: Published by the Gretna Green Parson, of whom only it can be obtained, at 16, Leicester Square,* price 2s. 6d." &c. 1842. It is an interesting little autobiography of eighty-two pages, and full of anecdote. The introduction (xix. pages) is by Mr. Brown, and from it it appears that an innkeeper having usurped Mr. Elliott's "ancient office," he had "taken to pen to aid his pocket." his Mr. Elliott succeeded his father-in-law, Joseph the office of Gretna Green Parson for sixty years, Paisley, the reputed blacksmith (who had held having commenced about 1753) in 1810, the old man dying in Jan. 1811, aged eighty-four.† From 1811 to 1839 inclusive, Mr. Elliott celebrated 3872 marriages; the number for each year is stated; the highest was 198 (in 1825), and the lowest were the last three years, numbering 55, 46, and 42 respectively-a diminution doubtless owing to the New Marriage Act, the average number from 1829 to 1835 inclusive having been above 160 a year. There is the following advertisement at the beginning of the book :— "In the press and shortly to be published, by subscription of one guinea each, The Gretna Green Register, with an Appendix containing the Names of 7,444 Persons * Sic. But query, if not Leicester Place, Leicester Square (see further on). How could he sign the certificate given in "N. & Q." 4th S. x. 111, if the date of 1818 be correct? |