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. seen? 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.0. ་ GEORGE POWELL, THE DRAMATIST.—I have recently obtained a copy of the Reliquiæ Wottonianæ,' 4th ed., 8vo, 1685, on the 'E Libris fly-leaf of which is written 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. : C. W. B. H. EARL OF BEACONSFIELD: THE FIRST LORD A BookLYTTON MARTIN TUPPER.—In man'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." As to the I should like to ask, as to the first, if 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; 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. I always understood that Gilbert's rather strong calf, gilt-edged, with clasped opening, famous line was written in derision of gilded ornamental back, and distinctive Tupper's method and style, and should lettering. At the bottom of the cover back think it highly improbable that it was a is "Paris, 1507." more transcript from Proverbial PhiloCan any one supply identifying parsophy.' But some one may, even at the ticulars and title-page of this presumed early present day, be able to say how this is. Parisian work? I should feel thankful for any details. ANEURIN WILLIAMS. W. B. H. BURRELL, CENTENARIAN.-The Whitehall Evening Post, No. 2446 (Tuesday, Jan. 1, to Thursday, Jan. 3, 1733/4), has the following announcement: On Wednesday last died at Sangate [sic] Castle William Burrell, aged 107 and some months." I shall be glad of information. R. J. FYNMORE. Sandgate. AUSTRIAN MONEY COINED AT THE LONDON MINT. It is said that at the time of our occupation of Abyssinia we found that Austrian Maria Theresa dollars were the principal current coin among the natives, and, for the purposes of the expedition, the British Government sought to purchase from Austria a number of these coins. As they had become obsolete, the Dual Monarchy lent us the original die, and by its use the required sum of silver was struck at the London Mint. Was this done under any special Act of Parliament or Order in Council, and what was the total value of coinage so issued ? J. LANDFEAR LUCAS. NAPOLEON AND LORD JOHN RUSSELL. Mr. G. W. E. Russell, in his recent book on 'Prime Ministers and Some Others,' refers to the fact of his uncle, Lord John Russell, conversing with Napoleon in his seclusion at Elba." What was the occasion and object of this interview? 66 J. LANDFEAR LUCAS. Glendora, Hindhead, Surrey "BAPTISTE MANTUANI CARMELITE."I have come across a copy of this poetical work, a crown octavo book lacking the title-page. The only clue is the following memorandum by a former owner : "This book was printed in the second year of the reign of Henry VIII., and formed part of the library of that monarch, which is evident from the royal arms on the front cover, which in that form were only borne by King Henry VII. and VIII." There is a further note to the effect that "The autograph on the back of this leaf is that of Dr. R. Farmer, author of a celebrated work on Miracles, Demons, &c., to whom the book formerly belonged." The volume for its venerable age has a comparatively fresh appearance; it is in Menai View, North Road, Carnarvon. [The editions of the works of Battista Spagnuoli, called Mantuanus, fill many columns in would seem to be one of the two following, which the B.M. Catalogue. Our correspondent's book are the only octavo Paris editions of 1507 recorded. The Catalogue entry of the first is :66 Begin. De calamitatibus liber i. Baatistæ. [sic] Mant. carmelite' Theologi....[end] In laudem Joannis Baptistæ pro natali Carmen. Co'tra Poetas impudice loque'tes Carmen. Impressi rursus in e'dibus ascensianis : [Paris,] 1507. 8vo. 1070. d. 4." t iiii-R and aa ii. These fragments and the This is supplemented by the note: “Sig. 'Adolesce'tia,' of the same date, apparently belong to the same collection." The other entry runs : "Adolesce'tia seu Bucolica Baptista Mantuani carmelita Theologi in decem e'glogas divisa et &c. Ex e'dibus Epigra mata ad Falcone', Ascensianis: [Paris,] 1507. 8vo. 1070. d. 3," with the note "Sig. AAA-HHH. Two early renderings in English are the following: "The Eglogs....turned into English Verse....by George Turbervile, Gent. London, 1567," and "The Bucolicks....Translated out of Latine into English by Tho: Harvey, Gent. London, 1656." The above indications will, we hope, enable MR. WILLIAMS to identify his volume.] Macclesfield churchyard is HON. LIEUT. GEORGE STEWART.-In which bears the following inscription :a gravestone "Sacred to the memory of the Hon. Lieut. George Stewart, 88th Reg., eldest son of Francis, the eighth Earl of Moray. Born at Drumsceuch, Edinburgh, Feby. 2nd, 1771; died in this parish, Nov. 19th, 1821, aged 50 years. Rest in Peace.' To whom does this refer? Burke's Peerage' for 1916 gives the name of the 8th Earl of Moray as James, but that for 1871 gives it as Francis. Francis, the 9th Earl, appears to have had twin sons born on Feb. 2, 1771, namely, Francis, 10th Earl, and Archibald ; but no mention is made of a son George. CHARLES DRURY. 12 Ranmoor Cliffe Road, Sheffield. EDMUND CLERKE, CLERK OF THE PRIVY SEAL. Information wanted concerning the whereabouts and contents of the will of Edmund Clerke, Clerk of the Privy Seal, who died c. 1587. The will is not to be found either in Somerset House or at Winchester. A. B. MILNER. A LAKES AND PASCHOLLER CALENDARI, been supposed by its possessor to be a Tourist salver, but its exact counterpart (with a different coat of arms) was on show recently in a loan exhibition and was described in the catalogue as a paten. I shall be grateful for information. "From Thusis the traveller should go to the village of Flerda, a league distant, situated at the foot of the mountains, and from there ascend Mount Heinsils, on one of the summits of which This lake is small, is the Lake of Pascholler. but very deep; on the approach of storms it boils in the same manner as Lake Calendari." "Two leagues from Ander is Lake Calendari, which boils furiously on the approach of storms; it is less than Lake Pascholler, and the ebullition which takes place is still stronger.' Mount Heinsils is presumably Heinzenberg. Where is Flerda, and where are the two lakes? JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. (Miss) E. CRUWYS SHARLAND. EGLANTINE: ELIZABETHAN Then, dealing with the Via Mala (at p. 146), COURT STORY.-Can any reader suggest an the same authority states :explanation of the fact that two families of crests stags Elizabethan times had for which bore in their mouths, or wore as a chaplet around their necks, sprigs of honeyIs there any tradition eglantine suckle or eglantine? as to the origin of the borne on the crests of the families of Hardwick and of Suckling of Norfolk, as is suggested by the following, from the pen of a member of the Society of Antiquaries? in NEATE.-I should be glad of any formation about the following members of this family : (1) Charles, son of Richard Neate of London, who graduated M.A. at Cambridge in 1769, and died March 5, 1782. (2) Charles, who was admitted to Westminster School in 1780. (3) Richard, son of Richard Neate of Horbury, Yorkshire, who graduated LL.B. at Cambridge in 1759, and died Jan. 25, 1817. (4) Richard, who was admitted to Westminster School in 1774. (5) William, admitted to the same school G. F. R. B. in 1745, aged 8. 66 "On a mount vert a stag current, gorged This crest with a chaplet of roses, all proper. belonged to the father of the famous Bess of Hardwick, ancestress of the Dukes of Devona remarkable At Hardwick there is shire. table, made upon the occasion of her fourth marriage that to the Earl of Shrewsburyand ornate with armorial bearings, representations of musical instruments, &c., inlaid in marqueterie over the entire surface of the table top. The date of the marriage was 1568, and the stag of Hardwick in profusion surrounds a The Redolent Smle central escutcheon bearing the verse :— Of Eglentyne We Stagges exavlt To the Deveyne, NEWMAN.-Can correspondents give me any information about the following New-which modernized should be :— mans who were educated at Westminster School? (1) John, who graduated B.A. at Cambridge from St. John's Coll. in 1754, and was ordained in 1756. (2) Thomas, admitted in 1718, aged 14. PATEN OR SALVER ?-Were patens origin- The redolent smell of eglantine We stags exalt to the divine. "The crest of the Sucklings is a stag current or, in the mouth a sprig of honeysuckle proper. Originally the stag was trippant, and the honeysuckle was absent; but the story is that Queen Elizabeth, when entertained at Norwich in 1578 by that town, conferred upon Alderman Robert Suckling the augmentation as a rebus on his name Suckling-colloquially the honeysuckle or woodbine. "There is the same idea, although quite (' Delay causes the unjustifiable, of a rebus connecting the name "In each case we have an Elizabethan origin. In the one the Queen herself conferred the augmentation upon the stag; in the other the verse calling attention to it was the central ornament of the state table used at the marriage of her High Steward. In each case a stag is adorned with one of the sweetest-smelling of our wild flowers, and the verse lays stress on the The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine, he brings the eglantine and woodbine or honeysuckle together, if, indeed, eglantine did not itself combine both sweetbriar and woodbine within the poetic meaning. Evidently the idea was that the stag should exalt,' or make an offering of sweet savour to the divine. That side of the story is patent, but what was the story? Why was the stag, to say nothing of the stag current,' in each case, to make the offering of the sweet-smelling herb? I think that it was a story of the Elizabethan Court, and, not improbably, a poetic compliment to herself." OLD EAST ANGLIAN. "Go To EXETER": MURDER TRIAL. Can any one help me to trace a story which I read in The Guardian some years ago in connexion with a murder trial? In this the words "Go to Exeter are the key; and the sheltering in a church porch (at midnight ?) during a thunderstorm, when the church clock struck thirteen, was another leading feature. These points would stick in the memory of any one who had read the story. It appeared in the obituary notice of the gentleman who heard the voice in the night bidding him " go to Exeter," and whose evidence was the means of procuring the release of the person accused of the murder. Some old subscriber to The Guardian who has kept his back numbers may be able to verify it. Variants of the story appeared in The Penny Post and in The Treasury, but it is The Guardian reference which I want if possible. J. B. OLDROYD. Brantingham Vicarage, Brough, E. Yorks. [The story of the sentinel at Windsor, whose life was saved through his hearing the bell of St. Paul's Cathedral strike thirteen, dates back to The Public Advertiser of June 22, 1770. See 5 S. ix. 87, 114, 138, 156, 178, 198.] CROW-FIG.-This old name for rux vomica does not occur under 'Crow' in the N. E. D.,' but I find it in a quotation from Dr. Robert James (Dr. Johnson's friend) under 'Nux Vomica.' I met with it recently in an article on the jubilee of the Pharmacy Act, 1868, in The Chemist and Druggist, quoted from a Poison Bill introduced into Parliament in 1757. is doubtless due to the fact that, as Gerard says, nux vomica was used as a poison for crows. I should like to know where it first appears and when it went out of use. Any other information bearing upon the subject will also be welcome. C. C. B. The name PRUDENTIUS'S 'PSYCHOMACHIA.' C&n any of your readers inform me if the Psychomachia' of Prudentius has been translated into English verse? If so, by whom? This Latin poem is thought to be the foundation of the plots of all conflict themes in our old morality plays. WILLIAM TAYLOR. AND 66 ANDREW B. WRIGHT, LOCAL HISTORIAN ACTOR.-Information is sought regarding the parentage, career, and death of useful History of Hexham.' He is tradiAndrew B. Wright, who in 1823 published a tionally said to have been a tragedian and the son of George Wright, also an actor. Alnwick. J. C. HODGSON. EGIOKE FAMILY OF EGIOKE, CO. WORCESTER.-I should be grateful if any one could tell me whether the Egioke family is extinct in the male line. There is a monument in St. Margaret's Church, Westminster, with a Latin inscription to Francis Egioke of Egioke in the county of Worcester, who died in 1662. LEONARD C. PRICE. Essex Lodge, Ewell, Surrey. 'THE NEWCOMES.'-In chap. viii. of ORLINGBURY FAMILY.-Information is de"The Newcomes Thackeray has an ex-sired as to the whereabouts of court rolls, quisite account of Mrs. Hobson Newcome at home. He satirizes all lions indiscriminately, and yet with a loving hand. Has any one written a key of the whole chapter, identifying Dr. McGuffog, Prof. Bodgers, Count Poski, &c. ? 'The Newcomes was published in 1854-5, and dramatic date was about 1833, i.e., &c., of manors in the hundreds of Hamfordshoe, Higham Ferrars, Nobottle Grove, Orlingbury, and Spelhoe, Northants. I shall also be glad to hear of stray wills, and to receive particulars of persons of the surname and its variants Orlyngbere, Orliber, Orlebar, between 1347 and 1560, especially the descondants of Sir Robert de Orlingbury, c. 1420, and his connexion, if any, with William de Orlyngbere of Norton by Daventry, c. 1485, together with the parentage of George Orlyngbere of Eaton, who died 1553. J. H. BLOOM. No. 601, 329 High Holborn, W.C.1. GRAVES PLANTED WITH FLOWERS.-When did this custom come into vogue in England? Mrs. Piozzi, on the tour in Wales with Dr. Johnson, wrote in her diary for Aug. 19, 1774: "In this churchyard [Bangor Cathedral] I first saw a grave stuck with various flowers, a large bunch of rosemary in the middle" ; indicating that nothing of a more permanent nature than the strewing of flowers on the surface, to which Shakespeare and others allude, was familiar until the approach of the nineteenth century. AUTHOR OF QUOTATION WANTED.— W. B. H. Death, at the bedside standing, Replies. SIR WALTER RALEIGH, EAST LONDONER. (12 S. iv. 296.) IN the remarkable Raleigh Tercentenary celebrations in London, when "the Shepherd of the Ocean" at length secured a place in the sun," there was nobody among the crowd of eloquent eulogists to recall that Sir Walter Raleigh had good claims to be counted as an East Londoner; that it was in Old Stepney that he was tutored for the great task of his adventurous life by his half-brother, who was a resident in what was even then "the nursery of English seamen "; and that men, arms, and munitioned vessels were there assembled for some of his exploits, and notably for the last fatal expedition to find the source of the gold of El Dorado for the greedy, impecunious, and ruseful Scot who had succeeded to the throne of the Virgin Queen. When Sir Walter Raleigh sailed "from Limehouse on his third voyage to Guiana, in "a pinnace named the Watte," he knew that landing-place on the Thames very well; it was, in fact, only an industrial annexe of Old Ratcliff until the time of Queen Anne, when it was made into a parish. From 1573 to 1578 Sir Humphrey Gilbert, the famous Elizabethan soldier, sailor, discoverer, and colonizer-the halfment at Limehouse," for some reason not brother of Walter Raleigh-lived "in retirewholly explicable by any known records. That retirement ment from Court) was certainly not absolute, (with practical banishfor Gilbert relates that he lost the greater part of the fortune he got with his wife in a smelting and coppersmith's venture in Limehouse, along with, among others, Thomas Smith, who thought he had found a way of turning iron into copper. During the winter of 1574, when Gilbert was asked by a visiting friend "how he spent his time in this loitering vacation from martial stratagems," the host showed "sundry profitable and very commendable exercises which he had perfected with his pen.' Now, one of these was Gilbert's 'Discourse for a New Passage to Cataia,' which was written partly in support of his petition of November, 1566, for privileges from Queen Elizabeth concerning the discovery of a North-West Passage to Cathay. It took ten years to get this "perfected MS. into print, and it seems to have been the chief incentive to the Queen's letter to the Muscovy Company in 1574, calling upon that body either to dispatch another expedition in this direction or to cede their privileges to other adventurers. The bearer of this letter was Martin Frobisher, to whom a licence was granted by the Company, Feb. 3, 1575, together with divers gentlemen associated with him. Out of this grew Frobisher's three voyages in search of a North-West Passage, which the local patriots of Old Stepney justly regard as East London enterprises, marshalled, manned, and stored in the old Port of London. When Sir Humphrey Gilbert got his charter from the Queen in June, 1578, it was not carried out as an East London enterprise, although, of course, Stepney seamen associates sailed under Gilbert's pennon; and with him were Walter Raleigh, his halfbrother, and several West-Country folk. And now, at long last, after the Raleigh tamasha has ended, it is conceded by the principal literary patron of the assembly that when Sir Walter Raleigh had schemes for the English empire of the sea, had projected a discovery of the North-West Passage, and dreamed of the occupation, in the Northern parts of America, of terri |