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name of Mawe is found as early as 1271. I shall be very grateful if any reader of 'N. & Q.' can inform me if the name Maw or Mawe occurs in early Lincolnshire records, as, if not, it is probable that the Maws of Epworth are of Yorkshire extraction. GERALD W. MAW, M.R.C.S. 30 Kempston Road, Bedford.

'INDEX ECCLESIASTICUS, 1550-1800.The late Joseph Foster left a collection of MSS. for an Index Ecclesiasticus' from about 1550 to 1800. Can any reader say if this is still extant, and where it may be J. W. F.

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NICCOLO DA UZZANO.-Can any reader tell me anything about Niccolò da Uzzano, whose bust by Donatello is in the National Museum at Florence? BRADSTOW.

[He was a Florentine statesman of the Guelph party, and waged war against Visconti, Duke of Milan, from 1423 to 1428. He died in 1432.]

JOSEPH CLOVER OF NORWICH.-" 'Joseph Clover, Esq., late barrack-master at Norwich" (1756-1824), was also a promoter of the first " Swedenborgian" congregation in that city. His son, another Joseph (17791853), was a professional artist, and exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1804 to 1836. Were they, respectively, son and grandson to the " Joseph Clover, 1725-1811, farrier, blacksmith in Norwich," noticed in 'D.N.B.,' vol. xi. p. 131 ?

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"DAVERDY": PIPCHINESQUE." The Little Man, and other Satires,' by John Galsworthy, p. 256, we read: "garbed, if I remember, in a daverdy brown over coat." This word is not in the N.E.D.' or the Eng. Dialect Dict.' There is a West-Country verb, to daver, to fade or wither, and the past participle, daver'd, is quoted. Does "daverdy

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On 257 of the same work Mr. Galsworthy uses the phrase matched his pipchinesque little old face." I suppose this refers to the original illustration in

Dombey and Son.' It is a great tribute to the descriptive powers of Dickens and H. K. Browne to assume that modern readers will understand the meaning of this word. The puzzle is that the word is used to describe a delightfully amiable, childlike old man, with a

"face that riveted attention. Thin, cherry-red, and wind-dried as old wood, it had a special sort of brightness, with its spikes and waves of silvery hair, and blue eyes that seemed to shine."

Mrs. Pipchin is described by her creator as "a marvellous ill-favoured, ill-conditioned old lady, of a stooping figure, with a mottled face, like bad marble, a hook nose, and a hard grey eye, that looked as if it might have been hammered at on an anvil without sustaining any injury." How can these descriptions be reconciled? J. J. FREEMAN.

Shepperton, S.O.

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GEORGE POWELL, THE DRAMATIST.-I have recently obtained a copy of the Reliquiæ Wottonianæ,' 4th ed., 8vo, 1685, on the fly-leaf of which is written "E Libris Georgii Powell, 26th Decemb., 1692." I am desirous of learning whether there are extant any specimens of the handwriting of George Powell, the author of 'The Treacherous Brothers' (4to, 1690) and 'Bonduca' (4to, 1696), with which I might compare my fly-leaf inscription.

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C. W. B. H.

EARL OF BEACONSFIELD: THE FIRST LORD LYTTON MARTIN TUPPER.-In A Bookman's Letters,' 1913, Sir W. Robertson Nicoll has much about Mark Rutherford (William Hale White), and quotes the following from his fugitive writings :

"Lord Lytton....drew a wonderful horoscope of his friend Benjamin Disraeli, in which by some strange freak of fate nearly every one of the predictions was fulfilled."

"Lord Beaconsfield, charmed, I suppose, by the mystery of the line, 'A fool is bent upon a twig, but wise men dread a bandit,' pensioned its author, Mr. Martin Tupper."

I should like to ask, as to the first, if showings and their fulfilment. anything is known of the horoscope, its As to the second, was not the author of the line given the late Sir W. S. Gilbert? He certainly included it in his Bab Ballad' of 'Ferdinando and Elvira; or, The Gentle Pieman ' : Mister Close expressed a wish that he could only

get anigh to me;

And Mister Martin Tupper sent the following reply to me:

"A fool is bent upon a twig, but wise men dread a bandit,"

Which I know was very clever, but I didn't

understand it.

that she was in Inverness at the time of the
trial, so I fancy that it took place about the
beginning of the nineteenth century. I should
be glad to obtain a copy of Mackenzie's
work.
R. M. H.

Melbourne.

PENRHYN DEVIL AS A KNOCKER. I recently came across a small brass knocker for a bedroom door, the design of which puzzles me a good deal. It is obviously itself a quite modern piece of work, but its appearance suggests that it is a reproduction of some object of legendary interest. It consists of a grotesque crouching human figure with distorted head and cloven hoofs; the head hangs very much sideways, and is weighed down by a thick chain passing round the neck and down the front of the body; at the end of the chain is a human skull, which the figure holds in both hands and apparently gloats over. base, in partially obliterated lettering, the Penrhyn Devil." As the knocker is quite new, this faintness of lettering must, I think, be an attempt to correspond with an original. I have failed to find any legend connected with Penrhyn bearing on the matter, and shall feel obliged if any of your readers can help me.

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It bears on the

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HOMES OF FOULSHOTLAW: JANET DICKSON.-I should be very grateful for any information about the above, who mentioned in the Historical Manuscripts Commission Report on the MSS. of Col. David Milne Home of Wedderburn Castle. No. 619 is a "Disposition by James Brounfield of Quhythous, to Mr. John Home of Foulshotlaw and Janet Dickson his spouse (for whom Abraham Home in Kennetsydeheid is cautioner) of the third part," of certain lands of Hassington and the croft called Clerkcroft. Dated at Hassington, April 11, 1634. Alexander and George, sons of Robert Dicksone of Stainfald, are among witnesses. Foulshotlaw is in the parish of Greenlaw. W. K. BENSON.

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THE CONSTANT REFORMATION, FLAGSHIP: ITS CHAPLAIN.-Sir Wm. Laird Clowes in his History of the Royal Navy,' vol. ii. p. 134, says that the Constant Reformation, Prince Rupert's flagship, sank off the Azores in a gale in September, 1651, Prince Rupert and a few others being saved by a small boat from the Honest Seaman; and he quotes Warburton's History of the Cavaliers,' vol. iii. p. 333: "At 9 P.M. the ship, burning two firepikes to give us notice of their departure, took leave of the world." Eva Scott in Rupert, Prince Palatine,' says (p. 248) that the chaplain of the Constant Reformation refused to leave the sinking ship, called all hands to Holy Communion, and sank with them.

Can anybody give the name of the chaplain? In searching the Muster Books at the P. R. O. for my List of Chaplains of the Royal Navy, 1626-1903,' I did not find it.

The Constant Reformation was

one of

the eleven ships carried over to the Prince of Wales by Admiral Batten in June, 1648, when he joined the Royalists in Holland.

Bedford.

A. G. KEALY.

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'ANTHOLOGIA GRÆCA': EPICTETUS. (a) Among nearly 100 epigrams translated from the 'Anthologia Græca' by Dr. Johnson, and published in_ vol. i. Works' (ed. A. Murphy, London, 1806), is one of which I cannot find the original: Cogitat aut loquitur nil vir, nil cogitat uxor ; Felici thalamo non, puto, rixa strepit. (b) There are also the following lines, said to be translated from Epictetus:

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Me, rex deorum, tuque duc, necessitas,
Quo lege vestra vita me feret mea.
Sequar libenter, sin reluctari velim,
Fiam scelestus, nec tamen minus sequar.
Can any one kindly direct me to the original

Greek of these?

If any one would like to have the references to the A. G.' of the rest of Dr. Johnson's versions, I shall be pleased to H. K. ST. J. S. give them.

Ashfield, Bedford.

KINGHORN OF FIREBURNMILL.-Margaret MAW FAMILY.-In the Herald's Visitation Kinghorn (or Nisbet), wife of James Kingfor Suffolk there is a pedigree in which it horn, farmer in "Fireburnmilne," was served heir general to her uncle Patric is stated that Symon Maw of Rendlesham (father of Leonard Maw, Bishop of Bath Home of Foulshotlaw, Aug. 20, (see Service of Heirs in Scotland'). and Wells in 1621) was the son of John Fireburnmill is near Coldstream. I should be glad of further information about these Kinghorns. W. K. BENSON. The Corner House, Chobham Road, Woking, Surrey.

Maw of Epworth, gent. This John Maw would probably be living at Epworth about the year 1500. I should be glad of any notes concerning this family or any of its branches. In the Yorks Inquisitions the

name of Mawe is found as early as 1271. I shall be very grateful if any reader of 'N. & Q.' can inform me if the name Maw or Mawe occurs in early Lincolnshire records, as, if not, it is probable that the Maws of Epworth are of Yorkshire extraction. GERALD W. MAW, M.R.C.S. 30 Kempston Road, Bedford.

'INDEX ECCLESIASTICUS, 1550-1800.The late Joseph Foster left a collection of MSS. for an 'Index Ecclesiasticus' from about 1550 to 1800. Can any reader say if this is still extant, and where it may be seen? J. W. F.

ST. BEES ALUMNI.-Can any reader say whether any work has been published dealing with the students and graduates of St. Bees College, Cumberland ?

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DISRAELI ON GLADSTONE.-In which of Disraeli's works occurs the description of Gladstone as a good man-in the worst sense of the word "? J. W. F. NICCOLÒ DA UZZANO.-Can any reader tell me anything about Niccolò da Uzzano, whose bust by Donatello is in the National Museum at Florence ? BRADSTOW.

[He was a Florentine statesman of the Guelph party, and waged war against Visconti, Duke of Milan, from 1423 to 1428. He died in 1432.]

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EARL OF BEACONSFIELD: THE FIRST LORD LYTTON MARTIN TUPPER.-In A Bookman's Letters, 1913, Sir W. Robertson Nicoll has much about Mark Rutherford (William Hale White), and quotes the following from his fugitive writings :

"Lord Lytton....drew a wonderful horoscope of his friend Benjamin Disraeli, in which by some strange freak of fate nearly every one of the predictions was fulfilled."

"Lord Beaconsfield, charmed, I suppose, by the mystery of the line, 'A fool is bent upon a twig, but wise men dread a bandit,' pensioned its author, Mr. Martin Tupper."

I should like to ask, as to the first, if As to the anything is known of the horoscope, its showings and their fulfilment. second, was not the author of the line given the late Sir W. S. Gilbert ? He certainly included it in his Bab Ballad' of 'Ferdinando and Elvira; or, The Gentle Pieman' : Mister Close expressed a wish that he could only

get anigh to me;

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And Mister Martin Tupper sent the following reply to me:

"A fool is bent upon a twig, but wise men dread a bandit,"

Which I know was very clever, but I didn't

understand it.

Melbourne.

PENRHYN

DEVIL AS A

that she was in Inverness at the time of the THE CONSTANT REFORMATION, FLAGSHIP: trial, so I fancy that it took place about the ITS CHAPLAIN.-Sir Wm. Laird Clowes in his beginning of the nineteenth century. I should'History of the Royal Navy,' vol. ii. p. 134, be glad to obtain a copy of Mackenzie's says that the Constant Reformation, Prince work. R. M. H. Rupert's flagship, sank off the Azores in a gale in September, 1651, Prince Rupert and a few others being saved by a small boat from the Honest Seaman; and he quotes Warburton's "History of the Cavaliers,' two firepikes to give us notice of their vol. iii. p. 333: "At 9 P.M. the ship, burning Scott in Rupert, Prince Palatine,' says departure, took leave of the world." Eva Reformation refused to leave the sinking (p. 248) that the chaplain of the Constant ship, called all hands to Holy Communion, and sank with them.

KNOCKER. I recently came across a small brass knocker for a bedroom door, the design of which puzzles me a good deal. It is obviously itself a quite modern piece of work, but its appearance suggests that it is a reproduction of some object of legendary interest. It consists of a grotesque crouching human figure with distorted head and cloven hoofs; the head hangs very much sideways, and is weighed down by a thick chain passing round the neck and down the front of the body; at the end of the chain is a human skull, which the figure holds in both hands and apparently gloats over. It bears on the base, in partially obliterated lettering, the words Penrhyn Devil." As the knocker is quite new, this faintness of lettering must, I think, be an attempt to correspond with an original. I have failed to find any legend connected with Penrhyn bearing on the matter, and shall feel obliged if any of your readers can help me.

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C. F. DOYLE. HOMES OF FOULSHOTLAW: JANET DICKSON.-I should be very grateful for any information about the above, who mentioned in the Historical Manuscripts Commission Report on the MSS. of Col. David Milne Home of Wedderburn Castle. No. 619 is a "Disposition by James Brounfield of Quhythous, to Mr. John Home of Foulshotlaw and Janet Dickson his spouse (for whom Abraham Home in Kennetsydeheid is cautioner) of the third part,' of certain lands of Hassington and the croft called Clerkcroft. Dated at Hassington, April 11, 1634. Alexander and George, sons of Robert Dicksone of Stainfald, are among witnesses. Foulshotlaw is in the parish of Greenlaw.

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'ANTHOLOGIA GRÆCA': EPICTETUS. (a) Among nearly 100 epigrams translated from the Anthologia Græca' by Dr. Johnson, and published in vol. i. is one of which I cannot find the original :· 'Works (ed. A. Murphy, London, 1806), Cogitat aut loquitur nil vir, nil cogitat uxor ; Felici thalamo non, puto, rixa strepit. (b) There are also the following lines, said to be translated from Epictetus:Me, rex deorum, tuque duc, necessitas, Quo lege vestra vita me feret mea. Sequar libenter, sin reluctari velim, Fiam scelestus, nec tamen minus sequar.

Can any one kindly direct me to the original

Greek of these?

If any one would like to have the refer-
ences to the A. G.' of the rest of Dr.
Johnson's versions, I shall be pleased to
W. K. BENSON. give them.
H. K. ST. J. S.
Ashfield, Bedford.

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KINGHORN OF FIREBURNMILL.-Margaret Kinghorn (or Nisbet), wife of James King- MAW FAMILY.-In the Herald's Visitation horn, farmer in "Fireburnmilne," for Suffolk there is a pedigree in which it served heir general to her uncle Patric is stated that Symon Maw of Rendlesham Home of Foulshotlaw, Aug. 20, 1741 (father of Leonard Maw, Bishop of Bath (see Service of Heirs in Scotland'). and Wells in 1621) was the son of John Fireburnmill is near Coldstream. I should Maw of Epworth, gent. This John Maw be glad of further information about these would probably be living at Epworth about Kinghorns. W. K. BENSON. the year 1500. I should be glad of any The Corner House, Chobham Road, notes concerning this family or any of its Woking, Surrey. branches. In the Yorks Inquisitions the

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