LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1907.

CONTENTS.-No. 158.

Thus it was that young Albion, a prince of
Britain, came to the haunts of the fairies,
was fostered by them, and grew to be the

NOTES:-Fairy-haunted Kensington, 1-Lady Anne Hol-

bourne, 2-Dodsley's Famous Collection of Poetry, 3-wonder of the wood for height, and strength,

"First-Footing," A.D. 1907, 5- Cardinal Mezzofanti: and beauty :-

Jeremiah Curtin - King Alfonso's Marriage Guevara

Inscriptions at Stenigot: "Potie" Warden, 6-Admiral

Benbow's Death-" Firgunanum "-Christ's Hospital at

Hertford-"Churchyard Cough"-Long Public Service, 7.

QUERIES:-" Unconscionable time dying"

Thune": A

"Eil-de-boeuf," French Slang Words-T. Caverley: Jean

His lofty port his human birth confest;

A foot in height! How stately did he show!

How look superior on the crowd below!

fairy princess falls in love with him, and

Cavalier Gamelshiel Castle, Haddingtonshire-George he returns her affection with equal warmth.

Stepney-Eleanor of Castile-Rev. R. Rauthmel, 8-

'Cantus Hibernici' "Unbychid"-H. S. Kemble
Beneath a lofty tulip's ample shade
London and Neighbourhood,' 1750-Sea-Voyage of they sigh their love into each other's ears,

Aloysius' - Romney's Ancestry-Isle of Man and the and plight their troth

Countess of Derby - Doncaster: Image of the Blessed

Virgin, 9-Authors of Quotations Wanted-Boddington

Family Officers of State in Scotland-John Stivens-

Scott Illustrators, 10.

REPLIES:-First Female Abolitionist, 10-St. Oswald:

"Gescheibte Turm "-Cowper, Lamb, or Hood?-Mar-
quise de la Fayette-"Mony a pickle maks a mickle".

In words so melting that, compared with those,
The nicest courtship of terrestrial beaux
Would sound like compliments from country clowns,
To red-cheeked sweethearts in their homespun

gowns.

The Maghzen," 11-Authors of Quotations Wanted- King Oberon, all unseen, watches their
"Ito": "Itoland"-"Forest of Oxtowe Bibliotheca
Farmeriana-Carlyle on Religion-Myddelton Family, 12 passionate love-making, and overhears their
-Illustrations of Shakespeare-André-George Eliot and Vows. He had cherished other views for
Dickens-St. George's Chapel Yard, Oxford Road-Oscar Kenna's future, and is furious at what he
Wilde Bibliography - Richard Humphries, the Prize-
fighter-Monkeys stealing from a Pedlar, 13-Walton, has seen and heard. He decrees, as a
Lancashire West Indian Military Records "Quap punishment for the luckless pair, the im-
ladde -"Poor Dog Tray," 14-March 25 as New Year's
Day-Ausone de Chancel, 15-A Knighthood of 1603-mediate banishment of Albion from fairy-
Dole Cupboards, 16-Sante Fé, 17-Courtesy Titles, 18. land and the speedy marriage of Kenna to
Dod's PeerageClergy Directory-Literary Year- another lover, Azuriel, whose large and fair

NOTES ON BOOKS: - Sheridan's Dramatic Works

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Book-Whitaker's Almanack '—' Whitaker's Peerage'—

"Muses' Library."

Obituary:-Mr. Arthur Hall.

Booksellers' Catalogues.

Notes.

FAIRY-HAUNTED KENSINGTON.

IN choosing Kensington Gardens for the

'haunt of Peter Pan and his elfish companions,

Mr. J. M. Barrie has followed the example

of an early eighteenth-century poet, Thomas

Tickell, who peopled the same district with

a fairy host who

played

On every hill, and danced in every shade.

In Tickell's time Kensington Gardens

domains stretched

Where the skies high Holland House invades.

We need not pursue the story further

than to say that the death of Albion in

battle is followed by the destruction of the

fairy kingdom and the dispersal of the

fairies. All except heart-broken Kenna

seek a home elsewhere. She continued to

haunt the grove where her mortal lover,

trying to say,

"Kenna, farewell!" had sighed his soul away.
Her faithful attachment to scenes endeared
by the memory of a lost love has been
rewarded by the bestowal of her name upon
"the neighbouring town of Kensington.
was the lapse of a hundred and eighty-four years,
Such in brief is Tickell's story, and, after
the fertile fancy of another imaginative
writer has once more given to airy nothing
a local habitation and a name. Kenna's
home is again alive with fairies, and, aided
by the fantastic pencil of Mr. Arthur Rack-
ham, Mr. Barrie has conjured up for us a
twentieth-century vision of the doings of
the "little people " of Kensington, about
whose loving and fighting Thomas Tickell
tried to interest our ancestors in the days
when George I. was king.

a fashionable resort, where, he tells us,
The dames of Britain oft' in crowds repair,
To gravel walks and unpolluted air;
Here, while the Town in damps and darkness lies,
They breathe in sunshine and see azure skies.
But charming as Kensington was to the
beaux and belles of early Hanoverian days,
the poet assures us that

Far sweeter was it when its peopled ground
With fairy domes and dazzling towers was crowned.
In the dim past the seat of Oberon, the Elfin
king, was situated here. Only fairies were
admitted into the beautiful domain that
surrounded his palace, except when some
daring elf stole a mortal child from

the matron's bed

And left some sickly changeling in its stead.

Tickell may be safely classed among the
forgotten poets, though he wrote a good
deal, was the companion of Addison, and
in one instance appeared as the rival of
Pope. He was a North-Countryman, a

1. Or, a lion ramp. double-queued sa.,

langue gu.

2. Gu., a cinquefoil erm.

3. Or, two lions passant in pale sa.

4. Arg., a cross patonce sa.

5. Barry of six arg. and sa., in chief three

torteaux; a label of three points sa.

6. Or, a maunch gu.

7. Barry of twelve arg. and sa.; an orlə

of martlets sa.

native of Bridekirk, in Cumberland, where rising of the second; 2 and 3, Sa., three

he was born in 1686. He received the lions passant in pale arg.; impaling-

beginning of his education at Carlisle

Grammar School, but from the commence-

Iment of his college career saw little of his

native North. He mixed freely with the

wits of his time, and contributed verses to

The Guardian and The Spectator. His friend-

ship with the Addison clique of politicians

secured him an appointment of a lucrative

character in Ireland-Secretary to the Lords

Justices-which he held from 1725 until

his death at Bath in 1740. His poetry is

of the conventional eighteenth-century type,

and if we did not remember that he was but

aping his betters, we might well be filled

with wonder at the fulsomeness of the

flattery in which he sometimes indulged.

He is not likely to have his work resuscitated,

though a student of the period in which he

lived can hardly afford to ignore him alto-

gether.

JOHN OXBERRY.

Gateshead.

LADY ANNE HOLBOURNE.

DUGDALE, in his 'Hist. of Warw.' (1730),

i. 346, mentions as being in Long Itchington

Church a tablet near the pulpit referring to

the above lady. He gives the inscription and

arms thereon. I am inclined to think he

66 tablet," as

was wrong in using the word

there still exists in the church an achieve

ment and inscription, painted on canvas

enclosed in a wooden frame, which corre-

sponds in all other respects with his descrip-

tion. For many years past (doubtless

since 1860) this painting has hung at a point

over the western or tower arch, from which

it was quite impossible for any one to see

its details. Last September it was brought

down from its elevated position, and placed,

with certain charity records, on the wall

at the west end of the south aisle. Before

it was rehung J examined it closely and as

my reading of the arms somewhat differs

(especially with regard to the tinctures)

from Dugdale's, I submit it to 'N. & Q.'

At the foot of the canvas runs the follow-

ing inscription :—

The truly Virtuous & Right Honorable the

Lady Anne Holbourne one of ye Daughters

& Coheires of ye Right Honoble Sr Rob Dudley

Kt Duke of ye Empire who bequethed 50

annum to

Mr Sam: Row minister of this Church & to

successors for

per

his

ever also 50 more to ye poore of this Parish.

Above this is a femme shield containing

the following arms :-

Quarterly, 1 and 4, Arg., on a fesse sa.

three crescents or, in chief two choughs (?)

8. Vairée arg. and gu.

9. Gu., seven mascles conjoined or, 3, 3,

and 1.

10. Sa., three garbs or.

11. Gu., a lion rampant within a bordure

engrailed or.

12. Gu., a fesse betw. six cross-crosslets or.

13. Chequy or and sa., a chevron ermine.

14. Gu., a chevron between ten crosses-

pattée arg.

15. Gu., a lion passant guardant arg.,

crowned or.

16. Or, a fesse between two chevrons sa.

The inscription bears the marks of re-

touching in several places, and the canvas

has at one time been repaired; but the

achievement has not apparently been tam-

pered with. The tinctures are therefore

in some instances very hard to define, owing

to the mellowing tendency of the dust of

ages. On the sides and at the top and

bottom of the frame are painted hour-glasses

and skulls and crossbones. Lady Anne

Holbourne was granddaughter to Eliza-

beth's Dudley, the Earl of Leicester who

figures conspicuously in history as the hus-

band of the ill-fated Amy Robsart.

married secondly Douglas, daughter of

William, Lord Howard of Effingham, by

whom he had one son, Robert. This Robert

married Alice, daughter of Sir Thomas

Leigh, the issue being five children, of whom

Anne was the youngest. She married Sir

Richard Holbourne, Solicitor-General to

Charles I. This and other parishes still

benefit by the charitable bequests of Lady

Anne Holbourne and her sister Lady

Catherine Leveson, wife of Sir Richard

Leveson, K.B.

He

Banks's Dormant and Extinct Peerage'

(iii. 266) states that Lady Anne Holbourne,

who died in 1663, was buried in the church

of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, London. I shall

be glad if some London correspondent will

kindly tell me if any tablet or monument

dedicated to her memory still remains there..

JOHN T. PAGE.'

Long Itchington, Warwickshire.