I do not know the title of the (Miss) F. CHAPMAN. Garrick' (1868, i. 125) gives an incorrect or the Lady Winefred Howard of Glossop, date in connexion with little Davy's de- appear? parture for Parkgate; but he conjectures article. very feasibly that as he was unaccompanied by Peg Woffington, she doubtless remained to go with the Smock Alley company to 1 Preston. Tate Wilkinson paid an unprofessional visit to the Jubilee in August or September, 1762, but was disappointed with his experience. "At Preston," he writes in his Memoirs,' "we found very bad accommodation, very dear, very dirty, and much crowded. The procession was tolerable, but not worth the trouble or expence of a journey to see it; indeed, I was very glad on the second day to persuade Mr. Sowdon to quit Preston for Chester, for it was all confusion and mire, except the main street, which I recollect is spacious and handsome, but it was the crowd and inconveniency that made us glad to depart.' Wilkinson also tells us that during the festival of 1762 Hull and Younger's players came from Birmingham to support the London performers who had been engaged. W. J. LAWRENCE. 66 AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED.— 1. "O Charidas! What is there down below?" "Much darkness." "And what is this other life? "A fable." A lie!" "And the god of hell?" "All is over with death!" This is attributed to Callimachus. any one supply me with the reference ? Can 2. "Did we think victory great? So it is. But now it seems to me, when it cannot be helped, that defeat is great, and that death and dismay are great." Walt Whitman expresses the same idea Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? 3. Quæ venit indigno pœna, dolenda venit. 264, Worple Road, Wimbledon. 79, Eccleston Square, S. W. ARMS WANTED. Can some correspondent identify for me the following arms, apparently foreign? Quarterly, sable and argent, on a scutcheon of pretence a tree (perhaps an orange tree from its shape)-the tincture They are not very clear, but possibly or. in the corner of a panel portrait of a man of about twenty-five, with an amiable but rather weak face, in the "Puritan" black, with plain collar, and with flowing locks, circa 1640–60. W. C. J. a niche PORLOCK CHURCH.-There is roughly cut in the north-eastern face of an octagonal column in the nave of Porlock Church, the purpose of which I should like to ascertain. The demolished rood-screen formerly came against this column, so that the niche would be just to the right of the return stalls. The bottom of the niche is 3 ft. 8 in. from the present floor; its height is 10 in., and width 63 in. It is cut 3 in. into the column, and its floor is rectangular. The upper part of the niche is semicircular There is no trace in front, and coved back. of an ambry in the chancel, and the piscina has double basins, so that there is little room for movable utensils. My own opinion is that the niche was used [No. 3 is slightly varied from Ovid, 'Heroides, for the pax, but I should be glad of other v. 7.] What are the source of the following quotations in Coleridge's 'Biographia Literaria' ? 1. Vir bonus es, doctus, prudens; ast haud tibi spiro. Bohn's Library Ed., p. 116. 2. Their visnomies seemed like a goodly banner spread in defiance of all enemies.-P. 252. The second quotation is, according to Coleridge, taken from Spenser; but I have not been able to trace it in Spenser's works. J. SHAWCROSS. KIRBY HALL, NORTHANTS.-When and in what paper did an article on Kirby Hall, Northants, by either Lady Constance Howard opinions. JOHN H. WHITHAM, M.D. Seaward Cottage, Porlock, Taunton. "TWOPENCE FOR MANNERS."-Was this charge at all common in private schools? The Daily and when was it discontinued? Mirror, in an article the other day, dealing with the present time and manners, said: : "We were never the politest of people, and unless we take care we shall become the most boorish. The old joke against unmannerly people, that their parents hadn't paid an extra twopence for them to be taught manners, has unfortunately become true of the British nation." The only reference I can recall just now to this practice is in that excellent novel 66 Oliver Westwood,' by Emma Jane Worboise. The story opens in 1830, and the authoress seems to draw very largely on her own recollections for contemporary things, the introduction of railways, &c. The curiosity shown on the top of a stage coach concerning the display of a steel pen (evidently new in 1830) seems strange at this date. Flannel waistcoats (ante, p. 95) were still fashionable in 1840. The hero was asked by an old lady, if he wore flannel waistcoats." He said, 'No, as his aunt did not wear them herself, and therefore did not approve of his doing so." Tea cosies were novelties in 1840. Oliver inquires why that queer thing "like a nightcap is on the teapot. It is explained to him, and he is told that the invention probably came from the North Country. The description of a village school is admirable and true to life. It is probably autobiographical. I take the following extract from it : "It had been Miss Grimly's school for a good half century! The finishing school of the town at one time, as she was wont to boast, though it was now of such small account that she was obliged to take small boys and girls, and instruct them in their Primer, and give them their first lessons in writing and cyphering for the small sum of 6d. per week. But there were extras. Was there ever a school of any kind where extras were unknown? Grammar was 3d. per week extra, so was Latin, so, I believe, were the higher grades of arithmetic-by which I do not mean algebra, but all that came beyond long division. The traditionary twopence for manners was not charged. It never occurred to Miss Grimly or her Satellite Miss Blum to teach us how to behave ourselves in society." The italics are mine. The period referred to is 1830. J. H. MURRAY. 100, Lothian Road, Edinburgh. [For "Twopence for manners see 9 S. ix. 129. Societies for the reformation of manners are described at 2 S. i. 273; 4 S. iii. 313; ix. 202, 268; 6 S. xii. 454.] DANTE ON PAOLO AND FRANCESCA.-I should be much obliged if any of your readers could kindly inform me in what translation of Dante I could find the following lines, descriptive of the pathetic story of Francesca da Rimini and Paolo at the end of canto v. of the 'Inferno ' : One day we read for pastime and sweet cheer Our eyes were drawn together reading thus. But Mrs. Everett Green-a careful writer says that Eleanor, daughter of Edward I., left but one daughter, Joan, who married Earl Warren and died before her husband; and several historians concur in saying that the only daughter of Llewellyn the Great and Eleanor de Montfort died a nun. descendant of Lowry, I am much interested in ascertaining whether this pedigree is correct or not. Can any one help me? As a HELGA. ARCHBISHOP'S IMPRIMATUR.-In a copy of "Delectus auctorum sacrorum Miltono facem prælucentium. ... adcurante Gulielmo Laudero, A.M. Londini: excudebat Jacobus Ged, Anno 1752...." in the Cambridge University Library, there are to be found labels gummed upon the back of the titles to vols. i. and ii. Vol. i. is "Andreæ Ramsæi.... Poemata Sacra....editio ter tia," with a dedication, occupying 3 pp., to Thomas Herring, Archbishop of Canterbury. The label in this volume is : Lambeth, November 29th, 1752. These are certifying that Mr. Lauder has my Allowance for prefixing my Name to the New Edition of Ramsay's Sacred Poems, just now published by him. Tho. Cantuar. In vol. ii., dedicated to John, Earl Granville, the label reads : Arlington-Street, December 5th, 1752. These are certifying that Mr. Lauder has my Allowance for prefixing my Name to the New Edition of the Adamus Exsul of Grotius, just now published by him. Granville. What would be the reason that could make it necessary to print such a notice as an afterthought? E. J. WORMAN. Cambridge. Replies. "BAWMS MARCH." (10 S. vii. 188.) THE following quotation from The Protestant Mercury of 20 Sept., 1700, is to be found in Sibbald's Scott's 'British Army,' vol. ii. p. 147: "The exercise of arms performed by the Artillery Company in the fields leading to Baums, on Tuesday last, under the command of Sir R. Jefferies, General; Sir Jeffrey Jefferies, Lieut. - General; Captain James Ball, Major; Captain Daniel Newcomb, 1st Captain; H. Longley, 2nd do.; W. Jewell, 3rd do.; Major Thomas Lesley, Captain of Grenadiers; W. J. Kelson, Captain of the Pioneers, were as follows: The General having made a review in the Artillery Ground, orders a march to Baums (afterwards Sir George Whitmore's), to preserve the ancient privilege; which orders are accordingly pursued, and the whole body marches in one battalion through the east gate into an open field about half-way thither, where it is drawn up; and the Lieut.-General sent with half the army to the eastward, at which he is disgusted, and resolves to revolt; therefore possesses several passes through which the General must march to the southward, and accordingly attacks his van by a detachment of grenadiers and musquetteers, forcing them to give way; but they making an orderly retreat, in which the Lieut.-General also draws up in battalia, which brings them to a general battle, in which the Lieut.-General, having the disadvantage, retreats to a strong pass, defending it for some time, but being overpowered, maintains a running fight to an eminence strongly situated, and with great celerity fortifies it, which the General attacks, and, after springing several mines and carrying the outworks, prepares for a general assault, which obliges the besieged to beat a parley, and surrender upon articles." Scott then refers to an article by Steele on another of these sham fights, Tatler, No. 41, 14 July, 1709. At p. 137 of the British Army,' vol. ii., reference is made to Highmore's History of the Artillery Company, and it is said that, 66 'considerable encroachments having been made upon the archery marks belonging to the Company, the court, on 30 July, 1786, ordered a notice to be sent to the occupiers of all the lands in Baumies and Finsbury Fields, between Peerless Pool towards the south, Baumes Pond to the north, Hoxton to the east, and Islington to the west, wherein any of the marks were placed, to remove any obstruction march over Baumes and Finsbury Fields, ordered to the Company's rights. The Company, on its the fences of a piece of ground, enclosed for about two years by Mr. Samuel Pitt, to be pulled down by the pioneers, and other obstructions were levelled.' W. S. by the Honourable Artillery Company in the fields near the old mansion called Bawmes or Balmes at Hoxton. It was an exercise in which the removal of certain encroachments formed an important part. These marches to Baums or Balmes were Library, Constitutional Club. It is necessary to remember that a patent was granted by Henry VIII. in 1537 to create-or, what is more likely, to confirm (as there is a probability of a previous "VITTLE = VICTUAL (10 S. vii. 188).— existence as a fraternity)—the “ Fraternity or Guild of Artillery of Long-bows, Cross-that the original spelling was vitaille, a It is worth while to remind your readers bows, and Hand-guns." The patent included a licence to shoot at all manner of marks, butts, &c. "do by Prescription march over all the ground from the Artillery Ground to Islington and Sir George Whitmore's, breaking down gates, &c., that obstruct them in such marches." Finsbury Fields, Hogsden or Hoxton Fields, and Islington had wooden marks. and stone rovers, utilized as the archers' marks. Balmes or Baulmes House was better known as Sir George Whitmore's (Lord Mayor 1631-2), it having been his residence. Many of the most prominent of the aforesaid rovers were placed in the fields or grounds of this estate; therefore the Company made a special feature of marching over this particular property in order to ascertain what encroachments or removals had been made with regard to the ancient marks belonging to them. Many notices occur respecting these marches over Bawmes and Finsbury Fields and the removing of obstructions (see Lewis's History of Islington,' 1842, pp. 20-26, and Tomlins's Perambulation,' 1858, pp. 149158). It may be of interest to add that the Balmes estate to which we have been referring was held on lease by Mr. William Rhodes, the grandfather of the Right Hon. Cecil; but the lease was set aside by the courts. Suffice it to say that the original carriageway to Balmes mansion was for years a private approach to Mr. Rhodes's premises. It may be recognized to-day as Whitmore Road, Hoxton. JOSEPH COLYER MARRIOTT. 36, Claremont Road, Highgate. The last" Baums March" of the Honourable Artillery Company was held in 1779. spelling which occurs more than a dozen vittle. 66 WALTER W. SKEAT. Scottish writers use vittal, vittel, and In the Scottish Dictionary' JamieBuchan-vittal is applied to meal son says, of which the twa part is aits, and the third bear'"; and he adds that it is said of an He's Buchan-vittal untrustworthy person, that." 66 66 66 I must confess your wine and vittle I was too hard upon a little; and Walker, in his dictionary, complains of the Dean for having thus, in some of his manuscript remarks also, done a mischief to language." Walker seems to have regarded the pronunciation vittle as being itself a corruption; but surely the word was always pronounced so-or, at least, without any sound of the c. Butler (Hudibras,' I.ii. 87-8) has the couplet : His death-charg'd pistols he did fit well, Drawn out from life-preserving victual. But Butler's rimes prove nothing except his facility in twisting sounds. C. C. B. POONAH PAINTING (10 S. vii. 107, 152, 195). An earlier reference than any given so far is contained in the following advertisement in The Liverpool Mercury of 19 Sept., 1817: of pumpkin? A pomekin or pomerkin would. 6 J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL. CHURCHWARDENS' ACCOUNTS (10 S. vii. 189).-1646-7. With reference to the editorial note in regard to my query under this date, I would remark that it is not an explanation of the classical system of the interregnum that I desire. I am fairly well' acquainted with it, and Dr. Shaw's exhaustive church history of the period shows that the triers of the classis referred to were really three in number. What I want is an expression of expert opinion as to the probable reason for the payment of a modern lawyer's fee," by the wardens of St. John's, to the parish (?) clerk of St. Botolph's, by order of a member of a body which had no jurisdiction over either parish. 66 1661-2. For "scineing " read scizeing. W. McM. 66 Taprells " is probably an abbreviation of "tape-purles," .e., fringes of tape hanging from the head of window-curtains, and corresponding to the modern valance (see Nares). to be. "Poonah Work or Oriental Painting. — This elegant and fascinating Art, which enables any Lady to ornament her Dress or embellish her Rooms, Furniture, &c., in a style at once superb and nouvelle, taught in a few lessons, with the greatest facility, and at a very moderate expense. Days for inspection of the above work, Tuesdays and Fridays from 12 to 4 o'clock, No. 33, Bold St. Would not the grate for the watercourse R. S. B. be a drainage receptacle for rainwater flowing Probably the modus operandi was the same from a pipe or conduit, as in the waterspout in the case of young ladies as in that of of to-day? children, though the former would exercise By a schrve-pin would appear more care and taste, and produce less pardon-meant the shrieval staff of office, or someable results. I now remember seeing Poonah thing to represent it, standing at the entrance stencil patterns in a portfolio containing to the sheriffs' pew. Shrieve," says Cowel, some of my mother's early works; and I was vulgarly sheriff. have an impression that she had no great opinion of the effect which she had produced by rubbing colour through the holes. In one respect she was like Rebecca Linnet in 'Janet's Repentance,' chap. iii. (a friend has very kindly directed me to the passage) :— "At school.......she had spent a great deal of time in acquiring flower painting according to the ingenious method then fashionable, of applying the shapes of leaves and flowers cut out of card board, and scrubbing a brush over the surface thus conveniently marked out." 66 "Poynts were laces, and performed the office of buttons. J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL. WESTMINSTER CHANGES, 1906 (10 S. vii. 81, 122, 161, 193).-Stillington Street was. probably named after Robert Stillington, who was a Prebendary of St. Stephen's, Westminster, and afterwards became Bishop of Bath and Wells and Lord Chancellor. He died after a rather stormy career in 1491. There is a memoir of him in the 'D.N.B.' W. F. PRIDEAUX. AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (10 S. vi. 449).-I have since been informed by Miss Charlotte Lloyd, of Quebec, that the |