Mr. Lovering two years, and Mr. Mazey four years [the Grammar School], age 17, admitted 1669." The family of Cruso still exists in Norwich. I may add as a curiosity that about 1859 or 1860 the two Bible-clerks of Worcester College, Oxford, were called Robinson and Cruso. O. W. TANCOCK. Norwich. "THE LINCOLNSHIRE POACHER.'-I had fondly supposed that this song had special connexion with Lincolnshire, and that the hero was a worthy of that county. I read, however, in 'A Generation of Judges' (p. 14) that on a day when Sir Alexander Cockburn was dining with the bar on his last visit to the west, it fell, after dinner, "to a very young barrister, who had sung a good song, to 'call' upon some one else to contribute to the entertainment," and that, when "with matchless coolness, he said, 'I call for a song from the Lord Chief Justice,' Cockburn was a little taken aback, but eventually sang The Somersetshire Poacher' -'It is my delight on a shiny night'—in a broad, Westcountry dialect, with great gusto and in good style, to the huge gratification of all present." Tell me, I pray, Is there a song called The Somersetshire Poacher"? I take leave to doubt whether anybody who heard the Lord Chief Justice tune up was able to discriminate, I will not add post-prandially, between one variety of folk-speech and another. ST. SWITHIN. LOT, THE LOST PERFECT OF THE VERB LET. The old Gothic verb letan, to let, belonging to the reduplicating class, had for its past tense lai-lôt, just as the Gothic tekan gave past tai-tok. The reduplicating syllables were worn off, and from tai-tok we retain only the shortened form tok or took in modern English books. But lai-lot, the old Gothic past of letan, has, I believe, totally perished in all Germanic languages, and we have run into the one form let, the past, the past participle, and the infinitive. But though lai-lot seems to have dropped out from literary use, I have found it constantly spoken in the North of Ireland, around Ballymena, by the descendants of the first English settlers, among whom lot is the ordinary past tense and past participle of the verb let. This demonstrable fact may be of use to philologists who have been searching for this lost form. W. CLARKE ROBINSON. University, Durham, "PHIZ" AND "ALFRED CROWQUILL."-In the appendix to Mr. Graham Everitt's 'English Caricaturists' (1866) a list is given of the works illustrated by Alfred Crowquill and H. K. Browne, "Phiz." In the former list the title Fairy Tales,' by Cuthbert Bede, ought to be 'Fairy Fables,' a five-shilling volume, published by Bentley, 1858. Alfred Crowquill also designed the cover to the two-shilling edition of my novelette Nearer and Dearer' (Bentley, 1857); also the design (a Bloomer young lady) on the cover of the two-shilling edition of Charles Reade's 'The Course of True Love never did Run Smooth' (Bentley, 1857); also the cover to George Warburton's 'Hochelaga' (1854); also the cover to his own book, 'A Bundle of Crowquills' (Routledge, 1854); also the cover to Hain Friswell's Ghost Stories' (Bentley, 1858). Mr. Graham Everitt has omitted to mention 'Alfred Crowquill's Christmas Pieces' (London, J. Harand ingenious designs, in a cover, lithographed. wood, no date), six large sheets of most humorous They are among the best of Crowquill's productions. In the list of works illustrated by "Phiz" omission is also made of the Illustrated London Magazine (1853-5), to the first four volumes of which H. K. Browne contributed many illustrations. One of these was to an article by myself, 'Out!' (iv. 157), the fanciful design to which includes more than a dozen subjects and a great number of figures. The editor told me that Phiz drew this on the block, without the slightest preliminary sketch, "just as you would take a sheet of note-paper and scribble off a letter." Other artists who illustrated this magazine-in which Mr. Edmund Yates began, but did not complete, his novel, Arthur Hargrave; or, the Uniform of Foolscap' -were Sir John Gilbert, Hine, Kenny Meadows, Weigall, Sargent, R. Landells, Rolfe, Halsewelle, Prior, N. J. Crowley, Anelay, and Wilson, Hulme, McConnell, Birket Foster, Keeley volumes well deserve notice. others, including myself. Phiz's designs in these So also do some large-page illustrations that he made for Life, the Mirror of the Million, one of those weekly papers death. It was started on February 2, 1850. Phiz, that, after a weakly existence, soon died a natural who was then illustrating 'David Copperfield,' has and fanciful large-page designs, which, for the put some of his very best work in these graceful most part, are crammed with small figures. I would mention 'The Governess,' 'King Pen' Page of Life,' 'Old Mother Country and her Colo(which is signed "E. Chapman Didit "), "The first nies,' and 'The First Valentine,' the signature to which is a head with a fool's cap, across which is scribbled "Phiz." Other illustrators of this paper were Kenny Meadows, T. H. Nicholson, and NewOmission is also made of Phiz's excellent seven page illustrations to Horace Mayhew's Letters left at a Pastrycook's' (Ingram, Cooke & Co., 1853), the first of those "shilling railway books" that had such a large sale. The same publishers followed it by the issue of 'Verdant Green' in 1853. Mr. Everitt has mentioned Phiz's illustrations to Christmas Day,' by Christian Le Ros (Routledge, 1854). I do not know what Phiz may have been paid for his designs; but Albert Smith told me that the author, whose real name man. ILLUSTRATORS OF GRANT'S SKETCHES IN LONDON.'-I have a copy of the first edition of 'Sketches in London,' by James Grant (Orr, 1838). It has "twenty-four humorous illustrations by 'Phiz' and others." The etchings by H. K. Browne are worthy of the illustrator of Nicholas Nickleby,' which was then appearing in monthly parts; and, as Mr. Grant says: "They are among the happiest achievements of the genius of one who, though yet but young in years, is unquestionably, in this particular style of engraving, the first artist of the day." But who are the "others"? The first two etchings are signed "C. R. delt." They are terribly poor. The next two are slightly better, and are not signed. The next two are also not signed, and are very good, especially the Cheering the Speech of a Comrade.' Then follow the masterly etchings by Phiz. Who were the artists of the six first-named etchings? In Sotheran's catalogue, August, 1885, a copy of the second edition (1840) of the 'Sketches in London' is priced at 17. 4s., and is said to contain "thirty-four humourous illustrations by 'Phiz' and others." The "thirty-four" is so printed. Is this an error for "twenty-four," or were ten extra plates inserted in the second edition ? CUTHBERT BEDE. TRINKETS.-Defoe writes in his 'True Relation of the Apparition of Mrs. Veeal to Mrs. Bargrave': “Mrs. Bargrave asked her whether she would drink some tea? Says Mrs. Veal, 'I do not care if I do; but I'll warrant you this mad fellow [meaning Mrs. Bargrave's husband] has broke all your trinkets." Evidently the speaker by trinkets meant cups and saucers. Can any reader of N. & Q.' give other similar examples of such a use of the word trinketswhen first used in such a sense; when last so used? When had the word come to signify exclusively articles of jewellery or ornament? No doubt the cups which Mrs. Bargrave's bad husband was accused of having broken were ornamental porcelain. Could the word trinkets in the sense of cups for drinking have any connexion with the German trinken? T. A. T. DUAL ORIGIN OF THE STUART FAMILY. Debrett gives the family name of the royal line of Stuart as Fitz Allan. According to Camden there were two families of that name, one Norman, which bore the title of Arundel, &c., ending by the marriage of the heiress with the head of the of its descent from Alain, Duke of Brittany and Howards; the other, Camden writes, was proud Earl of Richmond, Yorkshire, which also ended in the marriage of two daughters, one to the head of the Stapleton family, the other to Grey of Rotherfield. Camden gives quite a different origin of the royal family, viz., one purely Celtic. What authority, therefore, is there for the Fitzalan name? PICTUS. HEREWARDS.-Will MR. E. WALFORD, or any gentleman genealogically disposed, kindly give me information respecting the Herewards? The Harleian MSS. say something about the first Hereward, and there are accounts, I believe, in existence of three of the name in Devon, Midlands, and Northumberland. It has been handed down in my own family that the modern name Heward is a contraction of Hereward (can this be verified ?), just as Howard is the present form of the Anglo-Saxon Holdward (the governor of a hold or keep), Lewin of Leofwin, a lover of war. Two Herewards carried their banners during the Crusades to the Holy Land, and in my youth I saw the tracings of their standards or coat armour, but have forgotten them I should very much like to learn what these were also the arms of the other Herewards, particularly of Northumberland or the North. In Saxon times the Hereward held a position (as the name implies) similar to that of Constable of France. E. V. H. JONAS E. DRINKWORTH, KNT.-Who was Jonas E. Drinkworth, Knt., said to have been a judge or portrait painter, date 1727 ? Natural History Society, Torquay. J. E. MAJOR-GENERAL SIR JOHN STUART.-What Roma,' vol. i. pp. 316, 317). Has anything been is known of this officer, who commanded our discovered of this city in recent times; and what is troops at Maida in 1806 ? Did he distinguish the evidence of its existence and extent? himself at all afterwards? E. L. H. TEW, M.A. Hornsea Vicarage, E, Yorks. SWINE-SUCKLED.-Romulus is no more famous as the founder of Rome than as having been suckled by a wolf. The very statues and medals of that wolf have a world-wide renown. But I hear it asserted that a certain warlike chief was suckled by a sow, as if he was one of the thirty in the litter which Virgil has immortalized (Eneid,' iii. 390). Never having met with the name of this swinish nursling, I betake myself to N. & Q.,' to which whoso turns in time of need will seldom turn in vain. Who was the great unknown swinenursed? JAMES D. BUTLER. Madison, Wis., U.S. · ST. LIBERATA.-In some churches in the south of Germany a figure of a woman nailed to a cross with a crown on her head may be seen. Her name is St. Kümmerniss, and in Dutch St. Ont Kommera (thus is sans souci interpreted). In a German book I find that the Latin name of the crucified princess is Sta. Liberata, and I am referred to Acta Sanctorum,' July 20. Can any hagiologist who lives within reach of those ponderous folios tell me her legend? A. R. W. S. L. S. FLEAK.-What is fleak-stone? It is mentioned thus, "Adorned with fleak-stone and other painting and gilding. C. A. WARD. Walthamstow, ASHMOLE'S TOMB AND RESIDENCE.-Will any kind reader acquainted with the archæology of Lambeth inform me in what part of St. Mary's Church the tomb of Elias Ashmole is to be found; and if Tradescant's house, where the worthy antiquary used to live, is still extant; or, if it be demolished, when the lamentable deed was done? J. BESWICKE TWYCROSS. [See 5th S. iv. 80; 6th S. i. 196, 386; iii. 147, 512.] ANDREWES FAMILY.-Can any of your readers Andrewes, who was a Prebendary of Gloucester furnish me with any information about Anthony Cathedral, and Vicar of Haresfield, near Gloucester? From the parish registers it appears that he was vicar for some years, married, and had several children, and died in the year 1678. Any information as to his parentage and descendants would be received with much satisfaction. Please reply direct. Broad Oak, Reading. H. E. ANDREWES. RIDDLES ON TREES.-Where can I find some verses of riddles on the names of trees which I heard forty years ago, and which begin thus : What is the sociable tree, and the dancing tree, &c.? ROCKBEARE.-I should like to know the meaning of the name Rockbeare, given to a parish seven miles east of Exeter. In the Exeter Domesday we find Rocebera and Rochebera; in the Exchequer Domesday, Rochebere; in the 'Testa de Nevill,' Rakebere; but the most common form in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries was Roke beare. = The natural suggestion for the first syllable, rock a stone, I am told, is not a proper combination with beare; moreover, there is no stone in the parish that can give its name to it. St. Roch seems to have been a favourite saint in this part of Devon; possibly a chapel dedicated to him existed, but no trace of it remains. The surname Rocke is found in some parts of England; but I have seen no mention of it in any documents connected with the place, the owners in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries being De Rockbeare. Rooks might lay claim to the naming of it, for ETRUSCAN CITY ON THE SITE OF ROME.-It Mr. Davidson says that Stokecanon is mentioned is said that there was an ancient Etruscan city in an Anglo-Saxon charter at Exeter as Hrocastoc built on the site of Rome, of which some of the—that is, Rookstock. I am informed that there is famous cloacinæ are remains (v. Story's 'Roba di "a Saxon word Roke, to shake, shiver, tremble, HERALDIC.-Can any correspondent inform me to whom, and at what date, the following arms and crest were first granted; or instruct me where I can obtain the information? Arms, Or, on a fesse gu three lozenge buckles of the field; crest, a poplar tree vert. S. from which we derive to rock the cradle' and 'rocking-horse.' It might here indicate a bog, though none of any extent exists at this day. In the Domesday Book Rogo appears as owning land in Devonshire, though not in this vicinity; but possibly Rockbeare at an earlier time belonged to a Saxon named Rogo-and hence called Rogo's beare. As to beare four derivations are suggested. I have forgotten the form of spelling the word for barley. Taylor (Words and Places') says bear is from "Byr or by, an abode or single farm, hence afterwards a village. In Iceland......a farmstead is boer." He does not mention the South African boer, or the English boor. Flavell Edmunds (Traces of History in the Names of Places') gives Beer (British) from ber, a hedge." In Blount's Dictionary' is " Bere an open field." The "doctors disagree" to such an extent that I should be thankful for any attempts to make them harmonize, or if any one who has studied the subject can derive from them the most probable meaning of Rockbeare. Any information concerning the parish would be gratefully received by FRANCES B. JAMES. Rockbeare Manor, near Exeter. 'A HISTORIE OF FERRAR.'-Can any of your correspondents give me any information about the following play? Extract from Malone's Variorum Edition, 1821, vol. iii. p. 406, Prolegomena, which gives An Historical Account of the English Stage": 66 "A Historie of Ferrar shewed before her Matie at Wyndesor, on Twelf daie at night, enacted by the Lord Chamberleynes servaunts, furnished in this office with diverse newe things, as one citty, one battlement of canvas, iij ells of sarcenet and x paire of gloves and sondrey other things in this office, whereof some were translated for fitting of the persons." Mr. F. A. Marshall refers to the above in his in- Osborne Park, Belfast. ARUNDELL FAMILY.-In Foster's Collectanea Genealogica' mention is made of "Sir Thomas Arundell, of Shaftesbury, who was beheaded Feb. 26, 1550," whilst in Foster's Peerage, for 1881 it is stated that Sir Thomas Arundel (sic), of Wardour Castle, was beheaded Feb. 26, 1552. Which (if either) of the dates is the right one? head is a large hat of the Duchess of Devonshire United Service Club, Edinburgh. QUEEN ELEANOR CROSSES.-Did one and the same person design all the Eleanor Crosses? It is asserted by some that Peter Cavalini designed the cross at Waltham, which, I observed the other day, is being restored. Others think it was the work of William Torel. Who will decide the disputed point? CRUCIS. [See 4th S. xi. 77, 142, 205]. IRISH EXPORTS IN 1847.-The follwing sentence is from a recent number of the Athenæum : "[In the year 1847] the exports of Ireland were greater than those of any country in the world; not greater merely in proportion to its people or its area, but absolutely more.' The writer quotes Lord George Bentinck as his authority for the statement. Can any reader of 'N. & Q.' say where in Lord George Bentinck's speeches or writings the passage is to be found? The full title and name of publisher and date are desired. PERTINAX. NAME OF ARTIST WANTED.-Can any of your readers inform me of the name of the artist who drew the unsigned illustrations for Charles Reade's 'A Good Fight' in Once a Week, 1859? A. HUGH FISHER. Replies. (7th S. v. 461, 509.) I feel somewhat like a wayworn and belated traveller, on a starless stormy night, who, having timidly knocked at the door of a farmhouse to inquire the road to the nearest town, is received by a man with a battle-axe. Though my reception was rough, yet, if it gives MR. CHRISTIE any satisfaction, tion to the subject of Casanova that I ventured to I cannot complain. It was merely to draw attenburden the columns of N. & Q.,' and I am glad that my remarks, culled from the 'Memoirs,' and written partly from memory and partly from notes taken from the 'Biographie Universelle' in 1880, should F. W. D. have given the readers of N. & Q.' the full benefit of MR. CHRISTIE'S rejoinder. MR. CHRISTIE OLD ENGRAVING OR PRINT.-A lady stooping must not, however, suppose that every one is so down upon her left knee, with her arms stretched well acquainted with the subject as he is, and I out as if to welcome a man, who appears to be a venture to think that it is rash to deprecate a disnaval officer, standing up in the bow of an approach-cussion which has not yet been exhausted. Armand ing boat, which is being rowed towards the spot where the lady is kneeling. Her hair is a mass of curls hanging down over her shoulders. Upon her Baschet tells us that Casanova died at the age of seventy-eight. Now, as it is admitted that Casanova was born April 2, 1725, this would bring RICHARD EDGCUMBE. 33, Tedworth Square, Chelsea. the date of his death to the year 1803. But almost to circumstances which, in the interests of humanin the same breath-and this fact I confess I had ity, every one must deplore. not remembered-Armand Baschet, on the authority of the biographer of Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus,* tells us that Casanova died June 4, 1798. The obvious discrepancy between these two statements may be taken in extenuation of my error, and I accept the date here given with an apology to the readers of N. & Q. I do not agree with MR. CHRISTIE'S statement that Casanova went to Dux in 1785. We have it on the authority of Armand Baschet that his residence commenced in 1784, which brings MR. CHRISTIE in conflict with the authority he quotes. I gather from Casanova's final letter to M. Faulkinher that he visited Paris for the last time in 1783. The Prince de Ligne tells us that Casanova met at Paris the Comte de Waldstein, who invited him to his chateau in the manner I have described; and I concluded, from the then state of Casanova's finances, that such an offer would have been accepted with alacrity. But as it appears Casanova did not reach Paris until September, 1783, possibly he did not go to Dux until early in the following year. That he went to Dux in 1784 there can be no doubt whatever, for the Prince de Ligne tells us that he spent the last fourteen years of his life as librarian to the Comte de Waldstein. Five years after his arrival Casanova began to write his Memoirs'; and as he took seven years in completing that work, the labour of composition must have ceased in 1796. In support of my statement that the seventh volume of these Memoirs' may still be in existence in MS., I refer the reader to Armand Baschet's article in Le Livre, May, 1881, pp. 136-7. I took care not to state positively that the concluding volume still exists, and Armand Baschet himself is in some perplexity on this question. He says, "Je m'aperçois que la dernière parti du recit aura été détruite par le Comte Marcolini, dépositaire confident du manuscrit à la morte de Casanova." As Comte de Waldstein would naturally have wished to avoid a publication so inimical to the privacy of his own domestic life, there is reason to suppose that he may have consented to withhold the latter portion. But that he should have acquiesced in its destruction is extremely doubtful; and I am still of opinion that search may prove fruitful. MR. CHRISTIE objects to the manner in which I spell the word "Wallenstein." But the fine poem with which Schiller has blended his name precludes the necessity for further expla DR. MOUNSEY (7th S. v. 449).-In the biographies of the whimsical Dr. Messenger Monsey (not Mounsey), who died on December 25, 1788, published in the European Magazine of February and March, 1789, pp. 83, 190, and in the 'Eccentric Biography (1803), there is no mention made of his having resided out of this country at any time. He was physician at Chelsea Hospital for a great number of years, and the following anecdote of him, taken from the latter of the above-named works, may be thought worthy of reproduction: "He lived so long in his office of physician at Chelsea Hospital, that during many changes in administration, the reversion of the place had been promised to several of the medical friends of the different paymasters of the forces. Looking out of his window one day, the doctor he knew had just got a reversion of the place; he theresaw a gentleman examining the house and gardens, who fore came out to him, and thus accosted him. Well, sir, I see you are examining your house and gardens that are to be; and I will assure you they are both very pleasant and very convenient; but I must tell you one cirreversion of the place, and I have buried them all! and, cumstance-you are the fifth man that has had the what is more,' says the doctor, looking very scientifically at him, there is something in your face that tells me I shall bury you too!' The event justified the doctor's prediction, as the gentleman died a few years after; and at the time of Dr. Monsey's death no person had the promise of a reversion." Liverpool. J. F. MANSERGH. Has MR. WYLIE consulted the Gentleman's Magazine? If not, he will find an account of Walthamstow, C. A. WARD. Dr. Messenger Mounsey, who died at Chelsea College on December 26, 1788, in his ninety-fifth year, was, according to Nichols's 'Literary Anecdotes,' at one time physician to the Empress of Russia. See vol. v. p. *274; ix. pp. 607, 761. G. F. R. B. of friends anyHis friend Dr. Thornbury, in Dr. Johnson had not on his list body of the name of Dr. Mounsey. Monsey is recorded by Mr. W. vol. ii. of 'Old and New London,' and more fully |