to a muscular man. Both the femurs were perfectly sound"; and then in a foot-note it is added: "The figure when erect must have been of an average size; not that of a giant, and certainly not that of a diminutive man, as the sneering remarks of the Countess of Auvergne would lead us to suppose-'1 Hen. VI.,' 11. iii." The twenty-six pages which Mr. Egerton's paper occupies seem to contain much interesting information respecting the life, death, and burial of this remarkable general. There is, besides the outline portrait, a sketch of his tomb and another of his skull and jawbone, in the former of which may be seen the fatal fracture which caused his death. BOILEAU. Ten or twelve years ago the bones of John Talbot were discovered. They were remarkably well developed, and were such as had belonged to a muscular man. Probably a search among the newspapers about that time would give further details. C. Westminster, S.W. SEAL OF GRAND INQUISITOR (6th S. xii. 387, 438, 472).—MR. WOODWARD is right in supposing that Roman Catholic prelates arrange their armorial devices according to their individual tastes. A friend informs me that prior to the Reformation diocesan sees had coats armorial assigned to them in England as now, but this was not the case in Scotland. When Episcopacy held its brief sway an attempt was made to imitate the English custom in this respect, hence a few post-Reformation coats to which MR. WOODWARD alludes. But who is, or was, "Bishop Herbert, of the Roman Catholic See of Plymouth"? Since this see was created by Pius IX., in 1851, there have been two bishops, Dr. Errington and Dr. Vaughan ; and from 1585 to 1850 I can find no Roman Catholic prelate named Herbert in England. GEORGE ANGUS. THE ACT OF UNION (6th S. xii. 468).—The four Union between England and Scotland to be pre- I believe the fourth castle named in the Act of CRONEBANE HALFPENNY (6th S. xii. 469). With regard to the above token, mentioned by inform him of three varieties (there may, of course, your correspondent R. B., may I be allowed to be more) of this coin? (1) That which he mentions. (2) Similar: the bishop has no crosier. (3) One (with crosier) bearing the inscription Associated Irish Mine Company." I have never heard of a place called Cronebane, but (3) has round its edge the following, "Payable at Cronebane Lodge or in Dublin," while (2) has "Payable at Birmingham, London, or Bristol." Each token bears the date 1789. Could the name 66 Cronebane" refer to the bishop? I shall be happy to lend the coins to R. B. if they will be of service. H. S. WILTSHIRE. This is a token issued by a mining company, and was (as it should bear on the rim) "payable at Dublin, Cork, or Belfast." Cronebane is in co. Wicklow, and the head is that of St. Patrick. C. E. The Cronebane and Ballymurtagh Mines are in six miles above Arklow. These mines were largely the slate district of Wicklow, in the Vale of Avoca, worked and yielded much copper, from which tokens were made. Conder describes nineteen varieties, of which I possess examples of the greater number. The mitred head is a fanciful representation of St. Patrick. In addition to the cross reference to Conder's 'Tokens,' an accessible work, I would refer your correspondent to any good map for Cronebane. SCOCHYNS: SCOCHYN MONEY (6th S. xii. 148, 191). I fear my query on these terms was not W. FRAZER, F.R. C.S.I. clearly expressed. I have referred to Prof. Skeat's Cronebane is a mountain in the county of Wick'Etymological Dictionary,' but that only tells me low, noted for its copper-mines (Rees's 'Cyclowhat I knew before-that Scochyn, or scutcheon, pædia"). Conder, Provincial Coins,' 1798, p. 196, means escutcheon. Why should a small parish thus describes the halfpenny about which R. B. asks like St. Dunstan's, with, perhaps, five hundred for information :-"O. A bishop's head in profile, inhabitants, possess over nine hundred escutcheons, and crosier; 'Cronbane halfpenny.' R. Arms; crest, a crank; date on the sides, 1789; 'Associated part of the historical painting, but was symbolical Irish Mine Company.' E. Payable at Cronebane of his beatification. He thanked me for the explaLodge or in Dublin." There are twenty-six nation, which he acknowledged was new to him. varieties of the Cronebane halfpenny, on one of So also it appears to be to your correspondent. which is a whole-length figure of Bishop Blaize. The title to the crown is concurrent with that to The profiles on the other examples are probably of the prefix of "Saint" to the name. the same bishop. W. D. PARISH. THOMAS KERSLAKE. Selmeston. [G. F. R. B. says descriptions of this coin are given in James Conder's Arrangement of Provincial Coins' (1798), vol. ii.; and ALPHA supplies a portion of the information anticipated above.] JURY LIST (6th S. xii. 513).—The list of socalled Puritan names given by DR. BRUSHFIELD has long been consigned to the limbo of hoaxes. It was either invented by Brome, or accepted by him without investigation. Hume quotes it in his "History of England,' in a note under "Commonwealth," anno 1653. The absurdity of it was pointed out long ago in 'N. & Q.' (4th S. vii. 430), by MR. PEACOCK, than whom few are more intimately acquainted with all that relates to the Puritan period of our history. I followed up MR. PEACOCK'S reply (4th S. viii. 72), and other replies appeared, proving that during the time of Charles I. and the Commonwealth Puritans bore the ordinary names of Englishmen (4th S. vii. 430, 526; viii. 72, 134, 381, 467; ix. 287; xi. 533). Of course it would have been illegal for a man to change his baptismal name. No doubt Scriptural terms were sometimes given as Christian names during the reigns of Elizabeth and James I., and these would appear among adults during the succeeding reigns; but eighteen consecutive names of that kind, such as Hume quotes, could never have been found grouped together in the same jury list. J. DIXON. The amusing jury list reprinted by DR. BRUSHFIELD cannot possibly be anything more than a satire. Those who are acquainted with the manners of the Puritans know that absurd names like those which occur therein were at all times very uncommon. EDWARD PEACOCK. ARMS OF HALIFAX (6th S. xii. 426, 526).— Your correspondent F.S.A.Scot. says, A representation of Our Lord might be crowned, the other [i.e., St. John Baptist] certainly not." A most distinguished art critic was once kindly showing me some of the leaves of a much-treasured illuminated Bible, and directing my attention to the manner in which the face had been treated of one of the figures limned upon the margin. It was of a man, seated and crowned, with two dogs at his feet. We were not observing the text, as it was a passing glance, but I suggested that it was a figure of Lazarus. "No," he replied; "it is of a king; he is crowned." To this I remarked that the figure was in proper tinctures, whilst the crown was in burnished gold. The crown did not form a Bristol. The borough of Halifax has no arms, and the device adopted by the Corporation for their seal is modern, having been designed by a gentleman now living (to whose ingenuity the Dewsbury Corporation are indebted for their seal). No argument, therefore, can be based upon the authority of G. W. TOMLINSON. the seal. Huddersfield. BARTOLOZZI: VESTRIS: MATHEWS (6th S. xii. 495). The celebrated actress Madame Vestris was the granddaughter of the eminent engraver Francesco Bartolozzi and the daughter of his eldest son, Gaetano Stefano Bartolozzi, by his wife Miss Jansen, daughter of a dancing master at Aix-la-Chapelle. The mistakes in contemporary memoirs probably arose from the fact of the son having also taken to engraving for a short time; and his father, in order to encourage him, allowed him to publish under his name many of his own works. See Gaetano Bartolozzi had one other child, Josephine, who married Mr. Anderson, a singer. Mr. Tuer's 'Bartolozzi.' With regard to the date of F. Bartolozzi's birth, there can be, as Mr. Tuer says, no doubt that it was 1727, as the engraver in many instances added his age when he signed his engravings; on a ticket is engraved, "F. Bartolozzi inv. & sculpt. 1797, ætatis suæ 69"; on a portrait of Pope Pius VII., engraved in 1809, his age appears as eighty-two; and on that of Lord Wellington, engraved in 1810, as eighty-three; the latest example seen by Mr. Tuer being "engraved by F. Bartolozzi when 87 years of age, in Lisbon, in 1814." See Tuer. CONSTANCE RUSSELL. Swallowfield Park, Reading. Had NEMO taken the trouble to ask Mudie or Smith for a copy of the second (revised) edition of Bartolozzi and his Works' (noticed in your columns a week or two ago), wherein every one of his questions is answered and his generally incorrect assumptions are disposed of, the space occupied in the congested columns of 'N. & Q.' I do not would have been usefully available. care to repeat information so easily accessible. ANDREW W. TUER. The Leadenhall Press, E.C. On consulting Tuer's 'Bartolozzi and his Works' I find that Madame Vestris was the granddaughter of the celebrated engraver Francesco Bartolozzi, whose eldest son, Gaetano Stefano, married, in 1795, Miss T. Jansen, the daughter of a dancing master of Aix-la-Chapelle. Of the two children (daughters) from this marriage, the elder, Lucy Elizabeth, born in January, 1797, became the wife of Armand Vestris in 1813. On the decease of her husband, Madame Vestris married, in 1838, the celebrated comedian Charles Mathews the younger. She died at Gore Lodge (Holcrofts), Fulham, in 1856. H. C. MILLARD. Supplementary Annals of the Church and Parish of Almondbury. By Charles Augustus Hulbert. (LongTHE notice we gave of Mr. Hulbert's Annals in our mans & Co.) issue of June 30th, 1883, would, if reprinted verbatim, answer almost exactly as a criticism of the supplementary volume before us. The representation of the old hall at Longley is one of the rudest things of the kind we remember to have seen. The engravings which used to adorn the broadsides issued in the neighbourhood of the Seven Dials are interesting works of art compared Madame Vestris was the daughter of Gaetano with this rude sketch. The book is, however, useful, as Stefano Bartolozzi, the son of Francesco Barto-it preserves in a permanent form some biographical lozzi. See Dictionary of National Biography,' in popular books of reference. The account of Prof. sketches of persons whose names have not found a place vol. iii. G. F. R. B. Cocker, of Ann Harbour, in the State of Michigan, who Madame Vestris was the granddaughter of Bar- We trust that if ever Mr. Hulbert should be called upon was born at Almondbury in 1821, is worthy of notice. tolozzi, the celebrated engraver. to revise his labours, he will modify the statement he GEORGE ELLIS. has made with regard to the Puritans in his memoir of Cornet Blackburn. We can assure him that at no period during the great Civil War which desolated our country in the seventeenth century was there ever a determination on the part of the Puritan leaders" to put to death every Royalist officer whom they took prisoner." We have no doubt Mr. Hulbert can find some partisan [A reply from MR. JULIAN SHARMAN received too late for insertion.] Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, &c. La Française du Siècle: Modes, Mours, Usages. Par authority for the statement; but we are none the less sure that it is absolutely untrue. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians. A.D. 1450-1885. Edited by Sir George Grove, D.C.L. Part XXI. (Macmillan & Co.) WITH this wonderfully sumptuous volume M. Octave Uzanne completes the series of richly illustrated studies he has written on the physiology and frippery of the female sex. Though works of erudition as well as of fancy, the four volumes respectively headed L'Eventail,' THIS excellent work approaches completion. Part xxi. L'Ombrelle, le Gant, le Manchon,' 'Son Altesse la carries the alphabet from "Verse" to " Water-music," a Femme,' and La Française du Siècle' are in concep- short distance it might be thought were it not borne in tion and in execution as un-English as they can well be. mind that the letters V and W are more important, proThe blending with archaeology of the imaginative and the bably, in music than in any science or art. In the presensuous in art is essentially Parisian, and is carried in sent instalment there are included, for example, "Violin" these productions to the highest point. No more bril- and "Violin Playing," which, in the excellent articles of liant series of illustrated works has seen the light. With Mr. E. J. Payne and Herr Paul David, occupy thirtythe first three volumes, all of which, though recently pub-two pages, and" Wagner," whose life by Mr. Dannreuther lished, are already classed as rarities, the art and litera is scarcely inferior. Viola, violoncello, voice, Vogler ture loving public is probably familiar. In the fourth Volkslied, and virginal are a few only of the remaining volume, which is on the same lines as the third, advan- subjects. Contrary to the wont of similar publications, tage has been taken of the experience obtained; and the the work expands as it progresses. Vol. i. thus includes designs in colour and the illustrations, especially the A to "Impromptu," and vol. iv. will only embrace from coloured vignettes at the head of each chapter, are the "Summer" to the end of the alphabet. most delicate in workmanship and the most successful in result that have yet been obtained. In treating of female caprice M. Uzanne brings to light much eminently curious matter. Very striking are the excesses committed by the pleasure-loving Parisians after the removal of the horrible yoke of the Terror." Among the fashionable balls described is a bal des victimes, held at the Hôtel Richelieu. On entering each visitor bent his neck in salutation, in the manner in which in the hands of the executioner the man about to be beheaded had to Book-Lore. Vol. II. (Stock.) THE second volume of Book-Lore is likely to commend it further to bibliographers and antiquaries. It contains a variety of interesting and valuable contents. Conspicuous among these are the papers on Sham Almanacks and Prognostications,' by the late Cornelius Walford, of which many successive instalments are given; 'ShakeFirst Teetotal Tract,' by W. E. A. A.; and contribuspearean Rarities,' by Mr. J. O, Halliwell-Phillipps; The tions concerning libraries by Mr. W. Roberts and Mr. Carl A. Thimm. The East Anglian. Part XII. (Ipswich, Pawsey & THE latest number of the East Anglian, which, under In an excellent number of the Nineteenth Century, Mr. Swinburne's powerfully written, keen, and judicious essay on Middleton first arrests attention. Mr. Lang's characteristic paper on Myths and Mythologists' is another assault in his brilliantly conducted war on Prof. Max Müller. Dr. Augustus Jessopp writes thoughtfully on 'The Little Ones and the Land,' and Mr. Frederic Harrison wisely on A Pedantic Nuisance,' otherwise an affected method of spelling proper names.-In Temple Bar is a brilliant review of The Greville Memoirs, in which an experienced hand turns the memoirs inside out, shows all that is best in them, and supplies illustrations indicating a wide range of curious political and social knowledge.-' Charles Lamb in Hertfordshire,' by the Rev. A. Ainger, which appears in the January number of the English Illustrated Magazine, is unusually readable, and is ably and profusely illustrated. Like praise may be, accorded Mr. H. D. Traill's A Month in Sicily,' of which the first part only appears. A good engraving of Sir John Millais's picture of Sir Henry Thompson also appears in the number.-To the Gentleman's Mr. Percy Fitzgerald contributes an account of Sheridan and his wives, and Mr. H. Schütz Wilson an interesting study of Goethe as an actor. Mrs. E. Lynn Linton has also A Protest and a Plea.'-In Longman's Mr. Lang commences some pages of gossip on new books and things, to be continued under the title of At the Sign of the Ship'; Mr. Charles Hervey describes the actors in the Reign of Terror. The Cornhill contains two or three eminently readable papers. One is A Novelist's Favourite Theme,' which casts a clear light of illustration upon the method of workmanship of Scott and Dickens; a second, Samanala and its Shadow,' a curious record of travel; and the third, In the Rekka Höhle,' a description of adventure which we fancy and hope is imaginary.-Mr. George Saintsbury contributes to Macmillan's an excellent paper on George Borrow, Mr. Mowbray writes on The Eumenides" at Cambridge,' and Cavendish defends the 'American Leads at Whist.'-Dr. Brinsley Nicholson concludes in Walford's Antiquarian his papers on How our Elizabethan Dramatists have been Edited,' and lays the whip hard across shoulders already well used to castigation; Mr. Solly writes on Francis Hoffmann, 1711'; Mr. Greenstreet on The Ordinary from Mr. Thomas Jenyns's "Booke of Armes "'; Mrs. Boger continues her King Ina in Somerset'; and the Editor Our Old Country Towns.'-Red Dragon remains of interest to others besides Welshmen, and The Oscotian' gives interesting information on the family of Ferrers.-The articles in the Fortnightly, which reaches us at the moment of going to press, are chiefly political. Mr. Courtney's excellent paper on Mr. Irving's "Faust" is an exception. Notices to Correspondents. We must call special attention to the following notices: ON all communications must be written the name and address of the sender, not necessarily for publication, but 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." A. C. B., Glasgow ("Munchausen ").-The authorship of The Singular Travels, Campaigns, Voyages, and Adventures of Munchausen,' written as a satire on the memoirs of Baron de Tott, is unknown. In Fifty Years' Recollections of an old Bookseller,' by West, it is attributed to Mr. St. John, of Oxford; by Sir Charles Lyell, Principles of Geology,' 1850, p. 44, to Rudolph Eric Raspe, the editor of Leibnitz. The edition cited by Lowndes, the third, was published in London, 1786. The English translation of De Tott's memoirs was issued in 1785. The first edition of Munchausen, the date of which our correspondent seeks, appears to have been Oxford, 1786. Consult N. & Q.,' 1 S. passim, and Gent. Mag. for January, 1837, p. 2. J. M.-("Short Account of the Life of Jules Simon.") M. A. Quantin in 1883, as a number of the series known A book exactly such as you want was published by аз Célébrités Contemporaines," price, with portrait and facsimile of letter, seventy-five centimes. It can be got through any foreign bookseller.—("Chouan,") This France, fought against the Revolution. 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