and a master-builder of this city, who had heard the saying without knowing its origin, went to much trouble and no small expense in obtaining bullock's blood with which to mix the mortar for a job of some importance he was about to undertake. He did not get the results he expected, and returned to the use of water. The church-ghost has not made his appearance in this country. We are yet too new. In the twenty-fifth century, perhaps, he may be one of our domestic institutions, adapted from the elder civilization of Europe, but accustomed to American ways. JOHN E. NORCROSS. Brooklyn, U.S. QUARLES (7th S. vi. 225, 373).—The entry of the baptism of Francis Quarles runs : "May 8. 1592 bapt fuit Franciscus, filius Magistri Jacobi Quarles."-Par. Reg., Romford, co. Essex. "Francis Quarles, gent., of Romford, Essex, bachelor, about 26, and Ursely Woodgate, of St. Andrew, Holborn, spinster, 17, daughter of John Woodgate, of same, gent, who consents-at St. Andrew, Holborn, 26 May, 1618." -Col. Chester's' Marriage Licences,' Bishop of London's Office. "21 June, 2 Charles I.-True Bill that at St. Clement's Danes, co. Midd., on the said day, Frances Richardson, late of the said parish, spinster, assaulted Francis Quarles, gentleman, when he was in God's and the King's peace, and secretly and without his observation picked his pocket of fifty shillings.' The note 'Franc'us Quarles pross,' at the foot of the bill, indicates that on this occasion Francis Quarles figured at the Old Bailey as the prosecutor of a female pickpocket. How it fared with the Frances Richardson when she had put herself on a jury of the country does not appear, 'po. se being the only minute, by the pen of the clerk of Gaol Deliveries, over her name." Middlesex County Records,' ed. by John Cordy Jeaffreson, vol. iii. p. 9. "1639, 1 February, 15 Charles I.-At the request of the Right Hon. the Earl of Dorset, signified by his letter, Francis Quarles, Gent., was admitted Chronologer, with a fee of 100 nobles per annum, during the pleasure of the Court."-Rep. 54, fol. 86, Remembrancia preserved among the Archives of the City of London.' He was buried in the church of St. Leonard Foster, in the City of London, but the registers of this parish have long since perished. "In P. C. C.-Francis Quarles, late of Ridley Hall, co. Essex, dec. Adm'on to Ursula, the relict, 4 Feb., 1644/5." In the Calendar (Rivers) for the year 1645 the word "poor" is prefixed to the entry of the name. DANIEL HIPWELL. 34, Myddelton Square, Clerkenwell. An estate in Ufford, in the county of Northampton, was purchased in 1554 by Francis Quarles, Esq. (Bridge's 'Northants,' ii. 600). He and his descendants resided at Ufford down to the beginning of the last century. Mr. Justin Simpson has printed full extracts from the registers of Ufford and neighbouring parishes of the baptisms, marriages, and burials of members of the Quarles family from 1577 to 1703 in the Reliquary, xi. 23. How came Pierre Phillipe van Ufford, nephew of Angelique Quarles, by his surname? Jos. PHILLIPS. " CHILDREN (7th S. vi. 467).-The Latin charter of Norwich School, granted by King Edward VI., 1547, uses "pueros" only. The Mayor and Aldermen made, "accepted, and passed "" Ordinances, Laws, and Statutes" on June 14, 1566. In these, which are long and in English, the word "boys does not occur; but "scholar," ""scholars," and "child," "children" are always used. One heading is, "Certain ordinances necessary to be declared to such as offer their children to be scholars." O. W. TANCOCK. Norwich. BUONAPARTE'S HABEAS CORPUS (7th S. vi. 467). -It is stated in Scott's 'Life of Napoleon," chap. xcii., that when he was on board the Bellerophon, after Waterloo, and attempting resistance to his banishment to St. Helena, a suggestion was made that he should be brought up on a writ of habeas corpus, which, he being an alien and a prisoner, was not acted upon. Probably some rumour of this was in Lamb's mind. But that Buonaparte himself could have made any such application is quite unlikely. On July 31, when the resolution of the Government was told him, Scott says that he inquired "to what tribunal he could apply." The Bellerophon sailed from Torbay on August 4. On the 7th he was put on board the Northumberland, which then set sail for St. Helena. There is another possibility, which seems more than such to me, that Lamb was altogether in joke: "the twelve judges" looks very like it. Lastly, it would appear that the fact which H. S. S. C. himself states, that the applica tion is not reported, might be considered conclusive that it never was made. Surely such a remarkable case could never have been omitted. C. F. S. WARren, M.A. Foleshill Hall, Longford, Coventry. Such an application was certainly made by Mr. Capel Lofft. The process was found to be inapplicable to an alien. An attempt was made to subpoena Napoleon as a witness in an action for libel, but this also fell through; and Lord Keith prevented the attorney from serving the writ. See Hazlitt's 'Life' and Bussy's 'History.' EDWARD H. MARSHALL, M.A. Hastings Corporation Reference Library. AMSTERDAM BOURSE OPEN TO CHILDREN (7th S. vi. 447).-Baedeker's Guide to Holland' states that the Exchange is converted into a playground for boys during one week in August and September, the time when the Kermis, or church dedication festival, used to be held. The tradition is that some boys playing there in 1622 discovered a plot of the Spaniards against the city, and that this privilege was granted in commemoration of the event. I have not met with any account of this in the histories I have consulted. H. B. A. Derby. A Hollander informs me that fairs are annually held throughout Holland, but of late years they had been discontinued in Amsterdam; and so as not to deprive the children of that city from enjoying the fun of such times, they were allowed to make free of the Bourse, and to disport themselves in the manner described by your correspondent. My informant regards the story of the heroic deed and the accompanying wish as a pure fable. M. I. J. 'L'Indispensable, Passe-Partout dans les PaysBas,' by J. F. Flöcker, notes, pp. 186-7, concerning the Exchange at Amsterdam: "L'ancienne Bourse que les Espagnols voulurent faire sauter en 1622 ayant échappé à ce danger par l'intermé diaire d'un enfant alimenté dans un des hospices, ce garçon demanda comme récompense la permission de s'amuser annuellement à la Bourse à faire sonner des fifres, des tambours et des trompettes pendant toute une semaine avec les enfants d'Amsterdam ce qui fut accordé; on observe scrupuleusement cet usage jusqu'à nos jours." ST. SWITHIN. BATTLE OF AGINCOURT: DAVY GAM (7th S. vi. 444).-David Gam was a gentleman of Breconshire, 66 whose vision was distorted." He attended the parliament held by Owain Glyndwr at Machynlleth, in 1402, professedly to support his claims, but with the secret intention, it is said, of assassinating the Welsh warrior. The plot was discovered, but Glyndwr was persuaded not to put Gam to death, and he remained a prisoner for ten years. It is related that at Agincourt, where he was knighted for helping to save the king's life, he reported to Henry V. that there were enough of the enemy to kill, enough to take prisoners, and enough to run away. Gam died of wounds received in the battle, but according to some accounts he lingered for several months (see Williams's 'Eminent WelshE. W. men'). Borrow, in his delightful book, 'Wild Wales,' chap. lxxix., gives a short account of Dafydd Gam, from which I extract the following particulars. Gam was a petty chieftain of Breconshire, who owed his surname to a personal deformity. He was, however, a man of immense strength. Early in life he was driven from his own country for killing a man named Big Richard of Slwch in the High Street of Aber Honddu (Brecon), and took service under John of Gaunt, for whose son, Henry Bolingbroke, he conceived a violent friendship. Henry, upon his accession to the throne, restored Gam to his possessions, and gave him employments of great trust and profit on the Welsh border. He was thus brought into conflict with Owain Glyndwr, whose insurrection against Henry he so violently resented that he swore "by the nails of God" to assassinate him, and actually went to Machynlleth for the purpose; but his design being discovered, he was seized and thrown into prison, where he remained until the fall of Glyndwr. His subsequent achievements under Henry V. in France are well known. C. C. B. Sir David Gam is stated by Dr. Clark to be of the family of Games of Newton, of the great house of Maenarch. See his fine work, Genealogies of Morgan and Glamorgan.' ARTHUR MEE. Llanelly. He was Owen Glendower's brother-in-law. A note in French's Shakspeareana Genealogica' (p. 121) asserts that some of his descendants"are buried in the church of Llanfrynach, county of Brecon. And in the church of Merthyr-Cynog there is a monument to Roger Gam, dated 1600." ST. SWITHIN. HERRICK (7th S. vi. 268, 436, 496).-There were people in England who appreciated Herrick before the writer in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1796. In that amusing book, 'Naps upon Parnassus,' 1658, he is thus noticed : And then Flaccus Horace, Writes as well; who is hight Robert Herick, A 3, verso. Phillips does not "pass him over" in his ‘Theatrum Poetarum,' but gives an average amount of space to him, and says he was not particularly influenc't by any Nymph or Goddess, except his Maid Pru. That which is chiefly pleasant in these Poems, is now and then a pretty Floury and Pastoral gale of Fancy, a vernal prospect of some Hill, Cave, Rock, Boston, Lincolnshire. by Crabb Robinson in the 'Diary' as a place at which he was accustomed to read. It was there that "Dante" Cary in 1819 found the copy of Selden's Table Talk' with the marginal notes in the hand of S. T. Coleridge, Cary's transcript of which is printed in the 'Remains.' I have not BEANS IN LEAP YEAR (7th S. vi. 448).- met with any later mention of the Westminster This strange superstition that beans grow diffe-Library. It had nothing to do, I believe, with the rently in the pod in leap year from what they do in Westminster Institution, established about 1840, other years is prevalent in Surrey. My informant, afterwards merged into the existing Free Library an old labourer, and a native of the county, told in Great Smith Street. I have a copy of "A me that "in leap year the eye is to the point, in Catalogue of Books in the Westminster Library, other years to the strig" (i. e., the stalk); and he with the Bye Laws and Regulations of the Library. added that the old men would tell me the same. To which is added a List of Officers and Members. I have opened several pods of this year's growth, Corrected to 1803." Written on the title is “Le and find the eye is to the point, and probably it Grice, Sept. 22nd, 1804." This was doubtless will be so next year. The prevalence of the belief Charles Valentine Le Grice, the friend and schoolin different parts of England is curious. fellow of Coleridge and Lamb. He has bound up G. L. G. the volume without the "List of Officers and LORD LISLE'S ASSASSINATION (7th S. vi. 467). Members," but has included a portion of "A Cata-Bp. Burnet's account of the assassination is :- logue of the Books contained in the London "Her [the Lady Lisle's] husband had been a regicide, Library." Although this fragment only begins and was one of Cromwell's lords, and was called the with sheet E, p. 33, the list of books seems comLord Lisle. He went at the time of the restoration plete. Is anything known of this earlier London three beyond sea, and lived at Lausanne. But biso desperate Library ?" "The literature in both collections is of Irishmen hoping by such a service to make their fortunes, the most solid character, with a mere sprinkling went thither, and killed him as he was going to church; and being well mounted and ill pursued, got into France."Hist. His Own Time,' A.D. 1685, vol. iii. p. 59, Ox., 1823. ED. MARSHALL. Lord Lisle was not an English peer. He was a ROLLING A BALL DOWN THE TABLE AFTER WESTMINSTER LIBRARY (7th S. ii. 447; vi. 240, of poetry and novels. J. DYKES CAMPBELL. HAMMONDS OF SCARTHINGWELL (7th S. i. 107; vi. 252).-Would MR. HAMMOND kindly send me his address, as I wish to write to him concerning J. A. WHITLA. the above family? Ben Eadan, Belfast. POISON (7th S. vi. 327, 477).—At the last reference is a paragraph on the celebrated "Aqua Tophania," in which the REV. E. MARSHALL quotes from C. Mackay's 'Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions,' vol. ii. pp. 202-16. It is evident that the author quoted has hastily paraphrased from the article on the above-mentioned poison in the well-known 'Curiosities of Medical Experience,' pp. 152-3, by J. G. Millingen, M.D., 1837, and for some unexplained cause he has omitted to mention the source of his knowledge. The "Abbé Gagliardi" should be Abbé Gagliani, "Toffina" should be Tufinia. MR. MARSHALL is there corroborated as to the poisoning by this preparation having taken place in the seventeenth century, "during the pontificate of Alexander VII." ST. CLAIR BADDELEY. 5, Albert Hall Mansions, S.W. TONY ASTON'S 'BRIEF SUPPLEMENT' (7th S. vi. 489).-In your review of the new edition of 'An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber' a statement is twice made that Aston's "Brief Suppleme it' is reprinted for the first time. This is an error. It was printed in the Cabinet; or, Monthly Report of Polite Literature, Londor, 1807-8. W. H. CUMMINGS. A NIGHTCAP STRATAGEM (7th S. vi. 48).-The following historic story, which is doubtless that sought in PROF. BUTLER'S inquiry, I take from 'A Thousand Notable Things, published by J. Gleave, Manchester (1822); whence derived the author does not impart : think, in 'N. & Q.' I will not pillory the bookseller who was thus illtreated by his printer. He was made to advertise for sale "Marryat (Capt.), Pirate and Three Butlers, beautifully illustrated," &c. The association of the two great predatory classes, by sea and by land, seemed to me, as the aesthetics would say, "distinctly humorous." JULIAN MARSHALL. PENDULUM CLOCKS (7th S. vi. 286, 389).— Remember, man, that die thou must, This is the oldest pendulum clock we have seen, except "Henry, Earl of Holsatia, surnamed Iron because of his strength, having got into favour with Edward III., King of England, by reason of his valour, was envied by the courtiers, whereupon they one day, in the absence of the king, counselled the queen, that forasmuch as the earl was preferred before all the English nobility, she would make trial whether he was so noble born as he gave out, by causing a lion to be let loose upon him, saying, That the lion would not so much as touch Henry if he was noble indeed.' They got leave of the queen to make trial upon the earl. He was used to rise before day, and to walk in the outward court of the castle to take the fresh air of the morning. The lion was let loose in the night, and the earl, having a nightgown cast over his shirt, with his girdle and sword, coming down stairs into the court, met there with the lion bristling his hair and roaring. He, nothing astonished, said with a stout voice, Stand, stand, you dog. At these words the lion crouched at his feet. To the great amazement of the courtiers, who looked out of their holes to behold the issue of this business, the earl laid hold of the lion, and shut him up within his den; he likewise left his nightcap upon the lion's back, and so came forth, without so-My copy, which I have always regarded as bemuch as looking behind him. 'Now,' said the earl, calling to them that looked out of the windows, let him amongst you all that standeth most upon his pedigree go and fetch my night-cap': but they, being ashamed, withdrew themselves." Bishopwearmouth. R. E. N. Scots.' Sir R. Phillips says, "The first pendulum clock SWIFT'S 'POLITE CONVERSATION' (7th S. vi. 403). longing to the first edition, bears date 1738, being printed at London for B. Motte and C. Bathurst, at the Middle Temple Gate, in Fleet Street. Lowndes mentions the same edition. F. C. BIRKBECK TERRY. 'BOMBASTES FURIOSO' (7th S. vi. 379).—In your CURIOSITIES OF CATALOGUING (7th S. v. 505; "Notices to Correspondents" at this reference you vi. 54).—“Junior's (D.) Anatomy of Melancholy, say you "believe the author of 'Bombastes what it is," &c., hardly needs explanation. Furioso' is unknown." Davenport Adams, in his "Bart (S.), Anacsthesia, Hospitalism, Herma-'Dictionary of English Literature,' states him to be phroditism, and a proposal to stamp out small-pox William Barnes Rhodes. I suppose the 'Dictionand other contagious diseases, embellished with ary' is an authority. JOHN TAYLOR, wood engravings, thick 8vo., cloth, 2s., pub. 14s., 1871"; and "Bart (J.), Selected Obstetrical and Gynecological Works, containing the substance of his lectures on Midwifery, thick 8vo., cloth gilt, 68. 6d., 1871." Both by Sir James Y. Simpson, Bart. Under the heading "Numismatic in a catalogue of second-hand books lately received I find a list of eighteen works relating to coins, tokens, and medals wound up by "Money, a Comedy, a poor copy, 18., 1841." This is a curiosity of classificaST. SWITHIN. tion. It is generally a rather cheap laugh which is CHAUCER'S 'BALADE OF GENTILNESSE' (7th S. vi. 326, 454).-That there were two Scogans is a fact which I never doubted; and on looking further that the author of the ballad sent to the young into the matter, I now think it equally certain princes was named Henry, and that Caxton made a mistake (thinking, probably, at the time of his own contemporary) in calling him John. Having thus answered my own query, I cannot but express my surprise at A. H. failing to see the connexion with the 'Balade of Gentilnesse,' which shows that he cannot have read my note very carefully, for otherwise, or if he had ever read Scogan's ballad at all, he must have seen that the connexion is very close, and it is just this connexion which makes Scogan's ballad so specially interesting to Chaucer students. F. N. P.S. Since writing the above, I have found Lat a John Scogan, who died in 1391, was sucout of printers' errors; but the following, wh cheeded in the lordship of the manor of Hanyles occurred in a recent catalogue, deserves a niche, 1 Haviles), in East Rainham, co. Norfolk, by his brother Henry, who appears a few years later, viz., 9 Hen. IV., as owner of this and other property in the same parish. This Henry was doubtless our poet, and at his death (11 Hen. IV.) the estate passed to his son Robert. THE BRUSSELS GAZETTE' (7th S. v. 127, 374; vi. 31, 134). It would appear that the lines quoted from a letter of Charles Lamb's in 'Eliana,' at the first reference, had originally nothing whatever to do with Napoleon. I find that they were part of a song which is still well known and popular, namely, 'Hearts of Oak.' This was published, together with the music, in the Universal Magazine for March, 1760, pp. 152-3, and is there entitled "A New Song, sung by Mr. Champness in "Harlequin's Invasion." As it has been much altered, the original version may, perhaps, be deemed worthy of record in the pages of 'N. & Q.' It runs as follows: Come cheer up, my lads, 'tis to glory we steer, Heart of oak are our ships, heart of oak are our men, They swear they 'll invade us, these terrible foes; in 1734, "at his house in Cork Street, Burlington Gardens." EDWARD H. MARSHALL, M.A. Hastings. Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, &c. Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715 to 1886. Being the Matriculation Register of the University. Alphabetically Arranged, Revised, and Annotated by Joseph Foster. Vols. II., III., and IV,, completing the work. (Parker & Co.) WITH expedition which seems "phenomenal," and for which his subscribers owe him their gratitude, Mr. Foster has completed his heroic task of printing the Alumni Oxonienses,' a record of the members of the birthplace, year of birth, and degrees. The appearance University of Oxford, 1715-1886, with their parentage, of the first volume was chronicled in N. & Q.' (7th S. iv. 378). Its completion shows how worthily Mr. Foster wears the mantle of Col. Chester, and establishes him in a foremost place among genealogists. Work such as Mr. Foster has crowded into the last half a dozen years is, indeed, in its line, unprecedented. Far beyond the genealogist extend the obligations conferred. Thanks to the information Mr. Foster is the first to supply, facts and dates of the utmost importance to biographical and historical research are now accessible. No sign of haste is there in the work he pours forth with industry so unfailing. So far as our researches extend-and his various works have been frequently tested-his compilations are as remarkable in accuracy as they are monumental in research. Of this matriculation register of Oxford University the mere title conveys an idea of the extent of labour involved. To give any insight into the contents which the simple mention of the book does not convey is not, of course, to be hoped. Under names from Matthew Arnold to Samuel Wilberforce the reader may satisfy himself of the plan and the execution of the work, which occupies between sixteen and seventeen hundred pages, closely printed in double columns. The book thus defying analysis, we will give it warmly such help as lays in our power. Mr. Foster's list of supporters is largely-we may say principally-composed of subscribers or contributors to our own columns. It includes thirteen Oxford and five Cambridge colleges, the principal libraries in England and America, and other public institutions. Large as seems the list, however, the result so far is a deficit of 2,000l., which will necessitate an augmented subscription for the four volumes of the earlier series, 1500-1714, the MS. for which is in an advanced state. Mr. Foster naturally shrinks from committing himself to publication unless individuals it is, of course, frequently a question of his subscription list is greatly increased. With private means, or other similar cause, and it is no mission of ours to chide those whose names do not appear. It is, however, fair to point out that in Mr. Foster's list does Gray's Inn Library alone among the libraries of the not appear a single club, English or American; that Inns of Court figures in the list; that while the Royal Library at the Hague and thirteen American libraries secure the book, royal, parliamentary, and municipal patronage is refused to it in England; and that Sydney Public Library is the only institution in any English colony to support the undertaking. It is, indeed, remarkable that no name of nobleman, with the exception of two bishops, or member of Parliament is in the list. Of Mr. Foster's labours we can only say that they are of national importance, and that what reward or recompense a public or private recognition can afford |