and 5 should be described as those of 10. To the Memory of the Honourable Sir Henry "elephants"; and in the Latin inscription on No. 8 read dvodium, l. 5, for" dvodecim"; accurato, 1. 11, for "accurata"; Elizabethæ, 1. 13, for "Elizabetta"; and religiosissimeq, 1. 17, for “religiosissimiq.” I have recently succeeded in tracing a most interesting and valuable old MS. book of twenty-two foolscap pages with paper cover. This commences : "Chertsey Church, 21st April, 1806 Memorandum of the places where the mural and other tombs have been taken up which are to be replaced after the church is built as near to the relative situations as possible." Hotham of Silverlands in this Parish, youngest the Red Knight Commander of the Most Honourson of Beaumont, Lord Hotham | Vice-Admiral of able Military Order of the Bath Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George and Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Naval Forces in the Mediterranean who died at Malta, April 19th, 1833, aged 56 years. His Remains are deposited at the place of his decease | Where in testimony of his high Professional Character | Meritorious Public Services, and Eminent Private Virtues A monument has been erected by the officers of his Fleet. Also To the Memory of The Lady Frances Anne Juliana Hotham widow of the above, and eldest daughter of John, first Earl of Stradbroke who died at Silverlands January 31st, 1859 aged 68 years. 11. Parentibvs Decessis | Matthæo et Elizabethæ It contains copies of (apparently) all the inscriptions then in the church and the church- Cotton | ingenti evm svorvm desiderio | havd ita yard, with rough drawings of the inside of pridem elatis | hoc in memoriam pietatis marmor | the old church before it was pulled down Hvivsce Pastor Ecclesiæ | cvm Fratre ivnctisqve and of the tablets, with plans of the church-sororibvs | flentes posvervnt | A.D. MDCCCLVI. | yard showing by numbers the exact position Mortvi vocem filii Die avdient | Eamqve Avdientes Vitam Recipient | Joh. 5. 25. of each of the monuments. Needless to say, numbers of these have now entirely disappeared or are illegible. There is no record of the writer, but my own impression is that it must have been the Dr. Smith to whom Manning and Bray were indebted for the inscriptions printed by them. On the cover is written : "This plan of the tablets, graves, &c., in the interior of the Chertsey Church was purchased by a Mr. Boyce, a chemist in the town of Chertsey, with a quantity of waste paper, and by him presented to the Rev. C. Cotton, Vicar of Chertsey, by whom it is deposited in the parish chest, March 25, 1852. C.C." This is followed by two lines of Hebrew. The book, however, disappeared from the parish chest, and was only recently found among some other papers by a resident, who took it to Mr. H. J. Bidwell, thinking he might be interested. The latter gentleman has kindly lent it to me to examine, and informs me that at some future time he proposes to restore it to the church. The arms of No. 8 are a stag's head on a chief party per fess, or and arg., a crescent gules. 9. Robert Hinde, Esqre of Chertsey Abbey, departed this life | 10th February, 1693. | Robert Hinde, his eldest son | Died 3rd March, 1734. Elizabeth Hinde, his Widow and Relict Died 5th August, 1736. | Venables Hinde | Their Grandson by Obryana Venables Daughter of John Venables, of Agden, Esqr In the County of Chester and Obryana Leycester, Daughter of | Sir Peter Leycester, Bart., of Nether Tabley | Died 9th August, 1733. | Erected by Charles Hinde, of Langham Hall in the County of Essex, Esq | and Robert Venables, of High Leigh in the County of Stafford, Esq'. To the Memory of John Wightwick, Esq. of 12. "For I know that my Redeemer liveth." I Sandgates in this Parish, who died Decr. 27th, 1816, aged 75. | Elizabeth his wife daughter of Thomas Browne, Esq., of Camfield Place, and Martha, daughter of George Needham, Esq. of Wymondley Priory, both in the County of Herts who died May 29th, 1823, Aged 80. | Francis Wightwick, Esq also of Sandgates in this Parish, died March 3rd, 1843. aged 69. John Wightwick | of the Inner Temple, Esqre, died Juliana Wightwick, died Sept. 20th, 1807, aged 32. Jan. 27, 1814, aged 34. | Anna Maria Wightwick, died Deer 22d, 1840, aged 63. | Winifred Wightwick, died May 17th, 1851, Aged 68. Their Remains are interred in a Vault in this Churchyard. | Also to the Memory of Harriot, third Daughter of the above John and Elizth Wightwick | who died Sep 27th, 1803, and is buried in the Churchyard of Hertingfordbury in the County of Herts. 13. Sacred to the Memory of Soloman Hudson, Esq. of this Town who departed this life | Febry 23rd, 1829 | Etat. 88. | Also Sacred to the Memory of Charlotte Priscilla, Relict of the above she was the youngest daughter of the late Revd Egerton Leigh | Rector of Murston in Kent | by Sarah his wife and she departed this life April 10th, 1837 | Ætat. 65. | The Mortal Remains of the above are deposited in a Vault in the adjoining churchyard. "The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away: | Blessed be the name of the Lord." Arms: Party per chevron embattled, argent and gules, three escallops, 2 and 1, counter-changed; impaling Or, a lion rampant gules. Crest: Out of a ducal coronet a griffin's head erased. 14. To the Memory of Nathaniel Rowe, of Chertsey, Esqr who was the One and Thirtieth *She was eleventh in direct descent from King Henry VII. 10 S. VII. MARCH 16, 1907.] NOTES AND QUERIES. Child of his Father John Rowe, Esq. of Plaws worth Hall in the County of Durham a Magistrate who administered Justice with Discernment, Candor and Impartiality a Christian Devout and Exemplary in the Exercise of every private and publick Duty a Friend to Mercy a Patron to Distress an Enemy only to Vice and Idleness he lived esteem'd by all who knew him and died lamented by the wise and good the 16th of December, 1778 in the 65th year of his age. Galway Cottage, Chertsey. was 66 66 66 RUVIGNY. the 66 66 The that at the time of his death Sir William, who had been granted the receivership of the counties of Essex, Herts, and Middlesex, and of the City of London, was in the Queen's debt to the amount of over 3,000l., and that great portions of his lands were sold after his death to make good the deficit. Many years afterwards his son Sir Robert (knighted before Rouen in 1591) was forgiven the balance of the debt (some 6007. odd), as a reward for his services. Sir William's widow married Sir John Scott, and died 1598/9. 1 March, "EXE- shortly before SIR WILLIAM DRURY'S FUNERAL ante, D.N.B.' in its account of Sir John Scott CUTED." (See 'Parish Registers,' nor that she was a daughter of Sir William p. 26.) It is somewhat remarkable, in view (li. 107) does not mention the latter fact, exsequiari funus," of exsequi funus,' and corresponding Latin expressions, and Stafford of Grafton (knighted 1545) and JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. in the frequent Elizabethan use of such words Sir William Drury's widow. 66 and exequial," that the as exequies "PLUMPER'S INN." (See "Plump Masses, 'N.E.D., while providing phrases in which execute Voting,' 10 S. vi. 148, 212, 276, 377; vii. said to people are 77.) The Directory of the West Riding," Tinsley, in sacrifices, feasts, and the like, has no exa funeral. ample of "executing The Sir William Drury whose funeral by Edward Baines, 1822, has, 66 executed 10 March, 1589/90, must the parish of Rotherham, Swinden, John, 'Sheffield Directory,' 1906, there apThis sign be distinguished from the Sir William Drury maltster & victualler, Plumper's Inn." In Plumpers' Inn.' twice pears pro(knighted 11 May, 1570) whose life is given in the 'D.N.B.,' xii. 60. I think he is The Sheffield Iris, dated bably the Sir William Drury knighted in is not mentioned in the History of SignHe Camden Hotten. 1574, and not the Deputy Lieutenant of boards' by Jacob Larwood and John Buckinghamshire knighted in 1576. succeeded his grandfather, another Sir Tuesday, 16 June, 1807, has: "On Thursday, Freeholder, aged 101, gave a plumper to William Drury (knighted 1546/7), while he in the last week of the Yorkshire Election, a There is very HENRY JOHN BEARDSHAW. was yet a minor, in 1557. little to add to the account of him given in Lord Milton.' It may, however, 27, Northumberland Road, Sheffield. Cullum's 'Hawsted.' be pointed out that the Sir John Borough (knighted 1586), in a duel with whom he was mortally wounded in France, was colonel in command of a Sussex regiment of 1,000 "Thicknesse (P.). Useful Hints to those whomen, and Sir William Drury himself was "Charles Lamb's copy, with the following chacolonel in command of a Hampshire regi- Make the Tour of France. 1770. £1 4s. book of no great Thicknesse.ment of 1,000 men, the whole of the army 'This is a under the command of General Lord Wil-racteristic note in his autograph inside the cover:: C. Lamb."" loughby de Eresby consisting of 4,000 men. The campaign in support of Henry IV. of France lasted from the end of September, 1589, to the middle of January, 1589/90. The duel seems to have taken place shortly before 21 January, 1589/90 (cf. S. P. Dom. If, however, this is so, it Eliz., ccxxx. 19). is somewhat remarkable that the commission for the post-mortem inquisition was not issued till 9 February; and as A. B. C. has pointed out, the funeral was not "executed' till 10 March. A letter from Sir William Drury on taking up his command at Portsmouth, 26 Sept., 1589, is still extant (S. P. Dom. Add. Eliz., xxxi. 69). I do not think Cullum mentions CHARLES LAMB ON THICKNESSE'S 'FRANCE.' -I take the following from an old bookseller's catalogue : : ALECK ABRAHAMS. RADNORSHIRE RIME.-The following was given me many years ago by the then member for the Radnor Boroughs : Radnorshire, Radnorshire, Or any one with five hundred a year, SINGLE TOOTH. (See 9 S. xi. 488; xii. 71.)-Besides the instances of this monstrosity I gave at the first reference, there is one in a passage of Herodotus (ix. 8 trans. Cary), which only recently came to It is to be noted that in the case of Pyrrhus, too, if we follow Plutarch, to the upper jaw was restricted the growth of his single tooth. 166 Tanabe, Kii, Japan. KUMAGUSU MINAKATA. parish clerk informs me that up to a few · FEMALE AUCTIONEERS. (See 8 S. xii. "TAPING SHOOS."-In an old oak parish chest, possessed of three locks, but now minus any keys, in the fifteenth-century parish church of St. Stephen at Treleigh Cornwall), is a document containing a lista of pauper expenses for 1709. The entry for occurs frequently. Taping taping shoos" means soleing, and is a word still in very general use in the West country. Indeed in the ordinary spheres of life eight out of ten people would say, Those boots must be tapped" rather than that they should be soled." In broad Devon the rendering would be: "Ef zo be yü taps thew bütes, they'll least awl drü tha zummer." quotation I give from the late Mrs. Sarah Hewett's Peasant Speech of Devon (1892). Fair Park, Exeter. 66 66 66 66 This HARRY HEMS. 66 PRECKET": "CAGEFUL OF TEETH.". A doctor in North Devon, on visiting a woman, found her scolding her child-a girl of twelve-with much severity. The child left the room, and the doctor asked what was the matter. Well," said her mother, she's so precket"; and then, to explain precket, added, "There 's too much formality about her; it's as if she wanted to reign over us all." The idea of attributing the formality which surrounds the throne to the naughtiness of a child of twelve strikes me as very ludicrous. In North Devon they also say of a mouth full of teeth, "So-and-so has a good cageful of teeth." T. M. W. SPRING-HEELED JACK.-In 1906 there was published a book which received some favourable notice from reviewers, Revelations of Inspector Morgan,' by Oswald Crawfurd. One of the cases, The Flying Man,' pp. 95-192, seems to be founded on the accounts of Phenomenal Footprints in Snow' collected in 7 S. viii., ix. (1889–90). But a similar story of Spring-heeled, Springall, or Springle Jack forms the chief excite A. F. R. A JUNIUS CLAIMANT.-The Dover Express and East Kent News of 28 Dec., 1906, under the heading Mr. John Smith: his Doings and his Folly,' has the following: manifested with regard to his military leader (Lord was the writer of the Letters of Junius."" 66 R. J. FYNMORE. 'PARATOUT."-This word is not in 'N.E.D.,' but it occurs in the subjoined announcement, which appeared in The Observer of 10 Aug., 1806, under the heading New Inventions : "Messrs. Barnet, of Birmingham, some months ago, obtained a patent for an improvement upon Umbrellas, which articles they have since further improved, and given to them the name of Paratouts. The form is more like a dome than those of the common kind, and effectually protects the holder from rain and snow; while, by a rapid alteration of form, it will completely shelter any part of the body, without exposing another part.' ALFRED F. ROBBINS. JOHN TALMAN, ARCHITECT.—The notices of Talman in the books of reference are The extremely_meagre. He was the son of William Talman, an architect with an extensive practice, who designed Chatsworth in 1681 for the first Duke (then Earl) of Devonshire, and several other noblemen's seats, including Fetcham Park, Leatherhead, for Arthur Moore, M.P. for Grimsby (1695), which was decorated by Laguerre (4 S. ix. 138, 307). William Talman had in 1726, and his effects were sold in the charge of the buildings at Hampton Court following year (Nichols, 'Lit. Anec.,' vi. JOHN HEBB. under Wren, and is believed to have died 159-60). about 1700. There is a letter from him to Wren in the Crofton Croker MSS. dated 12 Sept., 1699, which is printed in The Builder, 1849, vii. 327. John Talman, his son, travelled in Italy with Kent, and appears to have resided much abroad. He brought Giuseppe Grisoni, the artist, to England in 1715, where he remained until 1728, according to Nagler. Thomas Madox in his epistolary discourse concerning the most ancient Great Roll of the Exchequer, commonly styled the Quinto Regis Stephani, printed at the end of his ancient Dialogue concerning the Exchequer' (1758), speaks of Talman "that famous man John Talman, jun.,.. a very great architect and limner, who was very useful to me." as Nagler says that William Talman died about 1690, which is clearly an error, and adds: Sein Sohn war Dilettant, und besass eine vorzügliche Kunstsammlung." 66 John Talman addressed a letter from Florence, dated 2 March, 1709/10, to Dr. Aldrich, Dean of Christchurch, recommending the purchase of the fine collection of drawings of the Bishop of Arezzo formed by Father Resta, a Milanese of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri at Rome. This letter was printed by Vertue, who says in a note: "This collection was purchased, I think, by Lord Somers; and Mr. Richardson, painter, collated, purchased, and exchanged many, which were sold and dispersed in his sale. "N.B. Mr. Talman was a gentleman of fortune, and was many years in Italy; he copied very accurately, in water colors, the inside of churches, marbles, &c. He was afterwards admitted a member of the Society of Antiquaries in London, for whom he made several very fine drawings, many of which he presented to the Society." There are two drawings by Talman in the Print-Room of the British Museum : one of a jewelled tiara at the Vatican, and the other of a doge's cap at Venice. He was an accomplished draughtsman, but does not appear to have practised as an architectat least no buildings are attributed to him; but Walpole (ii. 241–2) says :— "He resided much in Italy, and made a large collection of prints and drawings, particularly of churches and altars, many of which were done by himself." I am inclined to think from this description that Talman may have amused himself by making designs for altars in churches, but did not undertake the more onerous work of designing buildings. Talman died Queries. formation on family matters of only private interest WE must request correspondents desiring into affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct. PANTALOONS v. TROUSERS.-In the fourth volume of Mr. Calthrop's English Costume it is said that Brummell invented black 66 a [Much on pantaloons and trousers will be found in N. & Q.' An editorial note at 3 S. v. 136 gave quotations from Ben Jonson and from Beaumont and Fletcher for trouses and trossers, but these, like the trowzers of 1741, quoted at p. 220 of the same volume, differed from the modern garment so called. The third division of the article 'Pantaloon' in the N. E. D.' deals with the word as applied to a garment, the first meaning being defined as kind of breeches or trousers in fashion for some time after the Restoration." This usage is marked obsolete, but the third definition applies to the point raised by P. I. T.: “A tight-fitting kind of trousers fastened with ribbons or buttons below the calf, or, later, by straps passing under the boots, which were introduced fate in the 18th c., and began to supersede knee-breeches," the earliest quotation in this sense being from Charlotte Smith in 1798: "He......v ...was pantalooned and waistcoated after the very newest fashion." The Retrospective Review, xii, 25 (1825), stated that "in October, 1812, an order was made by St. John's and Trinity College, that every young man who appeared in Hall or Chapel in pantaloons or trowsers, should be considered as absent." The prejudice against trousers was not, however, confined to the heads of an ancient university, for at 9 S. ix. 489 it appears that the founders of Bethel Chapel, Cambridge Street, Sheffield, in 1820, inserted a clause in the trust deed that "under no circumstances whatever shall any preacher be allowed to occupy the pulpit who wears trousers." Even this penalty was not a sufficient punishment in the minds of some people, the same page of 'N. & Q.' relating that the Rev. Hugh Bourne, one of the two founders of the Primitive Methodist Connexion, said of his cofounder, "That trousers - wearing, beer - drinking In addition to Clowes will never get to heaven. the above references to N. & Q.' see 5 S. xii. 365, 405, 434, 446, 514; 6 S. i. 26, 45, 446, 505, 525; ii. 9, 54, 94, 144; iv. 37, 215, 316; ix. 155; 8 S. ii. 488; 9 S. iii. 126, 274; ix. 268, 415; 10 S. vi. 86, 157, 255.j MR. CHAMBERLAIN AND ROBERT BURTON. -With reference to Mr. Joseph Chamberlain's often quoted phrase, What I have said, I have said," has it been noticed that Burton in his Anatomy of Melancholy' writes as follows? "As the barking of the dog I securely contemn those malicious and scurrile obloquies, flouts, and calumnies of railers and detractors; I scorn the rest. What therefore I have said, pro tenuitate meà, I have said.""-Democritus to the Reader,' p. 10, W. Tegg's edition, 1866. And on p. 59 in the same work Burton, in referring to the Utopia that he would establish, says as follows: "As of such wares as are transported or brought in, if they be necessary, commodious, and such as nearly concern man's life, as corn, wood, coal, &c., and such provision we cannot want, I will have little or no custom paid, no taxes: but for such things as are for pleasure, delight, or ornament, as wine, spice, tobacco, silk, velvet, cloth of gold, lace, jewels, &c., a greater impost." Had Mr. Chamberlain been studying Burton before he started his Tariff Reform campaign? WALTER L. JODE. 'A SCOURGE FOR THE ASSIRIAN.'-Is it known by whom a volume of 88 pages, bearing this title, was written, and at what date it was published in Shrewsbury ? The title-page reads : "A Scourge for the Assirian | the great Oppressor, According to the Slaughter of Midian, by the Anointing, Isai. 10, 26, 27. [A quotation in five lines from Is. xl. 5, 6.] Collected out of the Works of an Ancient Author. By The Testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of Prophecy. Rev 19. Salop Printed by W. Laplain.' : There is a copy in the Bodleian Library, where information about it is lacking. On its back there is an old label, on which is written in faded ink "T. Meredith and Moses Lewis 1756, &c. A Scourge for the Assirian." Bound up with the Scourge,' and before it, there is another book, of which all before p. 11 is missing. On p. 73 of this the name Thomas Meredith appears, as concluding the first part of the headless work. The next page is white. Pp. 75-102 inclusive contain twenty "Letters to some of his Friends," the signature Thomas Meredith occurring at the end of 19. The second, third, and fourth letters are addressed "To Moses Lewis." The letter on p. 92 bears the date 21 Jan., 1758; that on p. 97, 1 Jan., 1765, which gives us a terminus à quo. Pp. 103 and 104 are not numbered, but contain some obituary verses beginning Ah! lovely Appearance of Death. On p. 83, in a letter "To his Brother in Denby Town," Meredith thrice 66 refers to "the Assirian." Was some enemy of his sect known by that name? From the appearance of the pages this book seems to have been produced at the same pressas the Scourge.' On p. 16 of the latter begins a letter To the Baptized Churches in South Wales.' On p. 63 there is a letter signed "Morgan Lloyd"; on p. 64 another To the gathered Church at Wrexham," signed W. E., followed by other correspondence between these two writers. On p. 77 there is a letter from Ireland signed J. R.,. and another "To Mr. Walter Cradock,' On pp. 85-8 there is "A signed W. E. Poem, made by John Cenick, found in his Pocket Book after his Decease." Can any further light be thrown on these worthies? EDWARD S. DODGSON. 49, Iffley Road, Oxford. AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED.— The snowclad yew tree stirred with pain To hear that mournful cry; The old church listened, and the spire Kept pointing to the sky. The quotation may not be exact, as it is twenty-five years since I read it. T. A. H. Can N. & Q.' locate the following ?— Man never rises higher than when he knows not whither he is going (Cromwell). So passeth in the passing of the day (Spenser ?). Among the wide waves set like a little nest (Spenser). Patience and gentleness are power (Landor). Plato, that plank from the wreck of Paradise cast on the shores of idolatrous Greece (Coleridge). ROBINSON SMITH. |