5. Who wrote The Christian Man's Vocabulary'? 6. Where is to be found the story of the slave who ran for miles with a thorn in his foot, when bringing the news of a victory ? H. M. F. LIEUT. HENRY CLARKE, R.N., was married at the parish church of Oulton, Norfolk, to Miss Mary Skepper, of Oulton Hall, on 26 July, 1817. Lieut. Clarke died on the following 24 March, 1818, at the age of twenty-five years, and was buried at Oulton. I am desirous of obtaining a certificate of his birth. I am told his father was Osman Clarke, Esq. His father seems to have been residing in the parish of Sisland, Norfolk. I am also told that the arms of the family of Clarke are on a monument in Mundam 66 66 'Magistri Ambrosii Spiere Tarui sini Ordinis Seruoru Sermões pu tiles de Aduētu Dni Fe. incipiüt." The abbreviations are to be expanded thus: Seruorum Sermones perutiles de Aduentu Domini feliciter incipiunt.' There is no mention of the book in the Catalogue of the British Museum. The sermons, editi & cumpilati per Reuerendum Sacre Theo. professorem Magistrum Ambrosium Spiera, are assigned in the Prologus' to 1447, recommended by Thadeo Tancredo, and approved by Philippo de Favencia, professors in the convent at Bologna, which is described as the property of "fratrum Seruorum diue Marie ordinis sancti Augustini." Was the book printed in Bologna, and in what year ? EDWARD S. DODGSON. HUNGARIAN RARE PLANT.-Michael Klein, in a little book entitled 'Sammlung merkwürdigster Naturseltenheiten des Königreichs Ungarn' (Pressburg, 1778), records the fact that in 1737 or 1738 two Englishmen arrived at Pressburg, in Hungary. They proceeded to the picturesque old castle Theben, on the Austrian frontier, and mounted the Berg Kobel. On its highest point they found a plant, of which they had brought a picture with them; they dug it up with its roots, placed it in a box, and returned to England. I have not been able to discover anything further about these enthusiastic British botanists in quest of rare plants, and shall be glad to receive more information. L. L. K. Replies. HAYMARKET, WESTMINSTER. IN reply to the query by MR. HOLDIN MACMICHAEL concerning the locality of this market, I would inform him that the exict site occupied was in the Broadway, Wetminster. Very little appears concerning it in the ordinary books of reference. The Broadway as we see it to-day appears to be very little different in size from what itwas a couple of centuries or so ago, extending then, as now, from the west end of Thill Street to the east end of York Street. The market was held in the open, there being no Market House, the carts or waggons leing placed in the middle of the open space; the horses were most probably removed and stabled in some of the numerous inn ards abounding in both Tothill and York Steets. It is not unlikely that the dealers transcted most of their business at the same hosteries, especially in bad weather, when deling by the roadside would be impossible. This was the case in the East End Haymarke, in Whitechapel High Street. The minute-books of the late vestr of the parishes of St. Margaret and St. ohn contain many allusions to this old-wrld market, some of which were reproduce in the annual report for 1889, from whia I quote as follows: "The circumstances under which the aymarket in the Broadway was established are us recorded: ·- "24th October, 1733. John Lawton and Mrk Frecker, Esq, from the Committee of Vetry appointed to Solicit for the Grant of a Haymarktt in the Broadway, West, acquainted the Vesry that by the particular favour and Interest of he Right Honble. Sir Robert Walpole, the Riht Honble. Sir Charles Wager, and the Right Honte. William Clayton, Esq., they had obtained a Patat (with a Remission of the Fees amounting to te Sume of One hundred and One pounds twele shillings and Eightpence) from his Majesty undr the Great Seal for holding three Marketts in evey Week Weekly for the Selling of Hay and Straw i the Broadway aforesaid for the Term of Thirty On Years from the first of October instant, whic Patent is granted in the Names of the said Joh Lawton and Mark Frecker, Esqr, their Execr Adms, and Assigns, in Trust for the Poor of thi Parish."" This excellent report (which was compiled under the direction of Mr. J. E. Smith, F.S.A., at that time the Vestry Clerk) proceeds as follows: "It was unanimously "Ordered-That the thanks of this Vestry be returned to Sir Robert Walpole, Sir Charles 66 Westminster. W. E. HARLAND-OXLEY. It The broad street denominated the Haymarket, connecting Pall Mall East with the eastern end of Piccadilly, was a place for the sale of farm produce as far back as the reign of Elizabeth; and in Aggas's plan it appears under its present name. was then evidently a rural spot, as there were hedgerows on either side, and few indications of habitations nearer than the village of Charing." At that time, as may be gathered from an inspection of the plan referred to, the air was so pure and clear that the washerwomen dried their linen by spreading it upon the grass in the fields, as nearly as possible on the spot where now stands His Majesty's Theatre. Down to the reign of William III. it was the public highway, in which carts loaded with hay and straw were allowed to stand toll-free; but in 1692 the street was paved, and a tax levied on the carts according to their loads. But this was not the first market held here; for, as far back as the reign of Charles II., John Harvey and another person received a grant empowering them, and their heirs after them, to hold markets here for the sale of oxen and sheep on Mondays and Wednesdays; but the grant was found to violate a part of the charter granted by Edward III. to the City of London, and was accordingly annulled. At the beginning of the eighteenth century we find the Crown, however, leasing the tolls of the Haymarket for ninety-nine years to one Derick Stork. The market for hay and straw, three times a week, continued to be held here as lately as the reign of George IV., when it was removed to Cumberland Market, near Regent's Park.* About 1815 some low and mean houses that stood between the market and Pall Mall were demolished, and these were soon afterwards followed by the market itself, in order to form the broad and spacious thoroughfares of Lower Regent Street and Waterloo Place. ALFRED SYDNEY LEWIS. Library, Constitutional Club. Memory is a funny thing; but am I wrong in thinking I have seen hay carts, with hay for sale, standing down the centre of the Haymarket-say fifty or sixty years ago? HIC ET UBIQUE. HORNSEY WOOD HOUSE: HARRINGAY HOUSE (10 S. vii. 106, 157, 216, 253, 274).— If I understand PROF. SKEAT aright, he considers that Harringay and Hornsey are two different names, the former answering to an A.-S. Heringa-ég, or "isle of the Herings," and the latter to Heringes-eg, or, "isle of Hering." The history of the names, which can be easily traced in the Middlesex Feet of Fines, does not seem to substantiate this view. 66 In my former reply (ante, p. 216) I gave instances of the form "Haryngeseye" in the latter half of the fourteenth century. In the time of Henry VII. we get to the form Harnyssay," which runs side by side with "Haringay until the reign of Elizabeth. In a fine dated 4 & 5 Eliz. ('Calendar of Feet of Fines for London and Middlesex,' ed. Hardy and Page, I. ii. 120), we find "Haryngey otherwise Harnessey"; and after that date Haringay disappears altogether, and only Harnsey or Hornsey occurs in the fines. Norden in his 'Speculum Britanniæ,' 1593, makes no mention of Haringay, but in his list of Middlesex towns and villages enters only" Harnsey, of some Hornesey.' From this date the old name vanishes in favour of the new one, just as about the same date "Stebonhith " or Stebonheath " gives place to Stepney, and "Chelchith" or "Chelsith " to Chelsea. The modern Harringay is apparently a revival, possibly due to the builder of Harringay House in the eighteenth century. This was the age of Strawberry Hill, Lord Holland's buildings 66 market was opened in 1664, and was removed to *Haydn's Dictionary of Dates' states that the Cumberland Market, 1 Jan., 1831. at Kingsgate in Thanet, and other "modern we find Burning-, Jerning-, Warning-, and antiques. A writer in The Gentleman's Magazine, 1784, part ii. (Nov.) p. 803, says that the manor court of the prebendal manor of Brown's Wood was 66 held at Hornsey Wood House-a tea-house-formerly much frequented." Browneswood or Brown's Wood is a prebendal manor of St. Paul's, of which the corp is generally supposed to be within the parish of Willesden; but the writer whom I have quoted says that this is a mistake, and that it is "co-extensive with the east side of the parish of Hornsey (at least in this southern part of it), of which it forms a very considerable part-I apprehend more than half." The picturesque old tea-house, of which a sketch is given in Lewis's History of Islington,' p. 282, must have been of ancient date as a place of entertainment. It was pulled down in the early part of the last century, and the larger building known to your correspondents was erected on its site, and lasted till 1866. W. F. PRIDEAUX. 66 66 Horning itself, among others. Why, then, should we assume that gemination of r has taken place, driving out the other liquid? It is much more probable that rr in Harringis the gemination of thr or fr. We find a Haverstock Hill (ă) in Hampstead parish, and *Hǎfering would readily become *Hæfring, Harring-. It is noteworthy, too, that a few miles from the West-Essex Hornchurch and the Horndons there is a Havering (a), distinguished as atte Bower." The final syllable of Harringay cannot represent either ég or heath (hæð). I have somewhere seen the name given as "Harring-hey," but I cannot quote any authority for this form, which recalls such names as Oxhey. If the form " Harringhey could be certified, there could not be much doubt about the meaning of -hey, and it is not inapplicable to the site, which is a steep and conspicuous hill. This syllable undoubtedly represents hege, hæge, "hedge," as used in fortification. Compare the Peterborough Chronicle,' wherein, at annal 547, we are told that Ida's stronghold at Bamborough was first "mid hegge betined." The other spelling occurs at annal 1130. These conjectures lead me to suppose that the original form of Harringay may have been "Hæferingahege." ALFRED ANSCOMBE. 4, Temple Road, Hornsey, N. The meaning of the name Hornsey or Harnsey is very frequently discussed, and PROF. SKEAT now derives the final syllable from ēg, an island." But with all deference I submit that no one who knows Hornsey could accept that as the etymon. The parish church, the burial-ground, the glebe land, the manor house, and the village street are clustered on the northern slopes of a little hill, and it is a physical impossi-cated somewhat vaguely by MR. COLYER bility for that hill ever to have been surrounded by water. For the east side of this particular hill shelves sharply, and with a south-easterly trend, and this is continued, with but very slight undulation, right away to the river Lea, which flows through much lower ground at a distance of about two miles. I do not think there is a better reason for assuming that Hornsey is identical in etymon and formation with, say, Guernsey, than there would be for ussuming that another Middlesex name, sc. Stepney, is formed on the same principle as Alderney. The former place in Domesday Book is Stibenhede," and about five-and-twenty years ago the "old name of Stepney, namely, Stebonheath," was known to copyholders therein, and may, of course, be still known to such tenants. Why, then, should not Hornsey=Harn's Heath? 66 Similarly, it is not at all clear why there should be assumed to be a verbal connexion between Horn-, Harn-, and Harringay. Names of places in -rning are not rare, and 66 The position of Harringay House-indiMARRIOTT at the first reference-was, according to the reminiscences of the oldest inhabitants," on the ground now occupied by the west end of Hewitt Road, half-way up Wightman Road, a quarter of a of the mansion stood near the end of Alison The dovecote mile from Hornsey Station. Hewitt Road. I am looking forward with Road, the next thoroughfare parallel to interest to MR. MARRIOTT's long-promised 'History of Hornsey.' HENRY JOHNSON. THE MYSTERIES OF THE EMBO BARONETCY (10 S. vii. 246, 315). I have to thank D. M. R. for his most interesting reply, and plead guilty to having overlooked the reference to Robert Home Gordon in 'The House of Gordon.' Since penning the original query I have seen a document which illustrates symbolically the difficulty of dealing with the Embo family. It is a lease of some property in Jamaica drawn up in favour of the sisters of Robert Home Gordon in 1788, by which time his father Dr. John was dead. But though signed by Robert Home Gordon-who is designated in the text simply as "Robert Gordon " it was invalid because it was based on the assumption that Dr. John's brother George (d.s.p.), who left his property to the doctor and his sons, had made a second will for the benefit of his sisters. It was discovered, however, that this second will was never signed. In the divorce case of 1794 Robert Home Gordon is cited throughout as Robert Gordon. His sisters were Jane, who married Bailie Robert Murray, of Edinburgh, and died 1795; Catherine, who married Munro, of Dalmore; Elizabeth, who married George Mackenzie, factor to Sir H. Munro; and three others whose names I do not know. Catherine's daughter married Alexander Smith, and became the mother of Katherine Gordon Smith, who married (1) Lieut.-Col. Ross, died at Badajos; and (2) Major John Gordon, 2nd Queen's, the father of Lord Gordon of Drumearn. That is why Lord Gordon utilized the Embo coat when registering his arms. 118, Pall Mall. J. M. BULLOCH. A SCOURGE FOR THE ASSIRIAN' (10 S. vii. 208). The volume in the Bodleian to which my friend MR. DODGSON refers was published at Shrewsbury from the press of W. Laplain in 1770, at the instance of Thomas Meredith, a Methodist who had joined Howell Harris in his community at Trevecca, in Brecknockshire. Later he adopted Antinomian and mystical views, and separated from Harris, returning to his home in Montgomeryshire, where he attempted to win converts to his views. To this end he caused to be printed A Scourge for the Assirian,' the work of William Erbury, a seventeenth-century Welsh mystic, together with some letters of Erbury and Morgan Llwyd (or Lloyd), of Wrexham, a contemporary and friend of Erbury's. For Erbury and Llwyd see 'D.N.B.' There is a brief account of Meredith in Montgomeryshire Worthies,' by Richard Williams, 2nd ed., Newtown, 1894. The book described by MR. DODGSON is fully entered in the Catalogue of Printed Literature in the Welsh Department of the Cardiff Free Libraries' (London, Sotheran & Co., 1898), under the heading Erbury. The subject of these seventeenth-century Welsh mystics is too large to be entered upon here, but it is a fascinating one. BR. CARLYLE ON PAINTING FOAM (10 S. vii. 310). The allusion seems to be to Proto genes, a painter of Rhodes, who lived in the fourth century B.C. He wished to paint a dog, frothing at the mouth, but was unsuccessful in painting the froth. In a fit of anger he threw his sponge at the picture. The sponge fell on the mouth of the dog in the picture, and represented the froth in the most perfect and natural manner. 66 E. YARDLEY. See Sterne, that it was as casual as the vol. ix. c. xxv.). foam of Zeuxis's horse "('Tristram Shandy," W. BRADBROOK. Bletchley. DANTEIANA (10 S. vii. 202, 251).-MR. R. J. WALKER's interesting suggestion is worthy of careful consideration, and I have given it such. Yet I cannot, with the best will in the world to accept or weigh plausible interpretations, bring myself to read Mark x. 29-30 into the passage. The difference between a thousandfold" and hundredfold " is immaterial; but Dante's reference is more material, and relates either to the abbey or the proposed, but abortive, colony. Prebendary Ford's rendering gives, I think, the spirit, if not the letter, of the line :— Above San Benedetto, from her head Sounds thundering headlong to a base, just where Full many, in truth, might well be hous'd and fed. It is a question, it seems to me, rather of numerical accommodation (realized or otherwise) than one of spiritual emolument cona renunciation of earthly sequent upon things. The suggestion, however, argues thought and ingenuity. J. B. McGOVERN. St. Stephen's Rectory, C.-on-M., Manchester. people not to spit on the floor is to be seen in French, German, Italian, and English in all tramcars, railway carriages, &c. The notice in the first three languages is couched in the most courteous terms: "You are particularly requested to be so good as to abstain from spitting on the floor." The English or American translation runs as follows "No spitting on the floor! Some months ago a well-known personage, writing to The Times on the subject, I think, of the destruction of Swiss scenery by the new railways, &c., remarked that, English visitors being on the decrease, British opinion had no longer much weight here. French, Germans, and Italians, he said, now visited the country in increasing numbers, and were regarded as of greater importance. In support of this view he mentioned that public notices were invariably to be seen printed in French, German, and Italian, English being seldom used. He overlooked the fact, that, the Confederation being composed of French-, German-, and Italianspeaking cantons, these three languages are the official languages of the country, and that all official notices are printed in these tongues. This will be seen at once by a reference to a Swiss post card. The absence of a notice in English thereon has nothing to do with indifference to British interests, and a preference for those of the three nations whose languages are to be seen on the address side of the card. J. H. RIVETT-CARNAC. Schloss Rothberg, Switzer land. Like MR. HEMS, I was at first not a little surprised at the brutal curtness of notices in America. One which I first saw in Santa Barbara, and subsequently elsewhere in California, was positively aggressive: "Keep out. This means you." But other countries other manners. DOUGLAS OWEN. The following is also brusque, but to the point: "Don't spit. Fine one dollar." L. L. K. "BULK" AND BASKISH "BULKA" (10 S. vii. 227, 273).-One would think that Gaelic mulcadh, mulcaidh, and possibly Baskish bulka too, are connected rather with mulcatum than with mulcere, as the latter has mulsum, and less commonly mulctum, for its past participle. See the Latin dictionary of Lewis and Short. It is disheartening for the etymologist, who is but a seeker after truth, to read on p. 74 of Aphorisms on Man, translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. J. C. Lavater' (2nd ed., London, 1789), that the wrangler, the puzzler, the 66 6 Πᾶσα γυνὴ χόλος ἐστίν· ἔχει δ' ἀγαθὰς δύω ώρας, τὴν μίαν ἐν θαλάμῳ, τὴν μίαν ἐν θανάτῳ. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. 11. For the quotation from Wycherley, which was not given accurately, see Act IV. sc. i. of 'The Plain Dealer' (not far from the beginning, p. 126 in Moxon's one-vol. edition of The Dramatic Works of Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar,' 1840): Fidelia. [She said] That she would rather trust her honour with a dissolute debauched hector, nay worse, with a finical baffled coward, all over loathsome with affectation of the fine gentleman. Cf. Olivia's remark in Act II. sc. i. :"The ill-favoured of our sex are never more nauseous than when they would be beauties, adding to their natural deformity the artificial ugliness of affectation." 14. This is an inexact quotation from Cicero, Pro Archia Poeta,' i. 1 : 66 'Aut si huiusce rei ratio aliqua ab optimarum artium studiis ac disciplina profecta, a qua ego nullum confiteor ætatis meae tempus abhorruisse," &c. EDWARD BENSLY. University College, Aberystwyth. The lines quoted by EZTAKIT are not quite correct. They should run : Whate'er in her Horizon doth appear, She is one Orb of Sense, all Eye, all aiery Ear. They are by Henry More, and appear in his Antidote against Atheism' (4th ed., 1712), p. 131. J. WILLCOCK. Lerwick. 66 Tears are the oldest," &c., is from Glenaveril,' by the Earl of Lytton. I am sorry I cannot give the precise reference; correspondent. I think the punctuation in but probably the above will satisfy your lines 2 and 3 should be And yet how new The tale each time told by them! &c. J. R. F. G. "FORWHY " (10 S. vii. 185, 237, 294).— Is it certain that this was a pet archaism " of Freeman's? Was it not rather a rustic phrase of the country-side? My late friend George Sidney Harrison had no love for 66 |