'NEW ENGLISH DICTIONARY,' VOL. III.-Quotations are wanted for the following words :— Elect (adj.), in general sense= chosen, eighteenth century. Also as in bishop-elect, after 1709. Elect (verb), to choose a course of action, eighteenth century. In sense "to elect to an office," seventeenth century. In theological sense, eighteenth century. Elicit (adj.), before 1624. Eloign (verb), as law term, after 1809. Elope (verb), either in legal or popular use before 1596. Examples of the Latin or Anglo-French forms would be useful. I find aloper in YearBooks Edward III., A.D. 1338. Eluder (subst.), any date. COURT OF ASSIZE HELD AT THE MARKET CROSS, DERBY.-Glover's 'Derbyshire' states, at p. 604, that in the year 1514 "Sir William Milnes, the Sheriff, was obliged to hold his Court of Assize and County Courts at the Market Cross." Did any public event occur at that date likely to account for the sheriff being obliged to hold his Court of Assize at the Market Cross? In his "List of Sheriffs" Glover names "Roger Minors, Esq.," as serving the office in 1514. E. S. M. AUTHOR OF BOOK SOUGHT.-I should be obliged for information as to the name of the writer of a book entitled "Scloppetaria; or, Considerations on the Nature and Use of Rifled Barrel Guns...... By a Corporal of Riflemen. London: Printed by C. Roworth, Bell-yard, Temple Bar, for T. Egerton, Military Library, near Whitehall. 1808." The author's assumption of military rank must be a description de plume, for he writes scientifically on the projection of balls, &c.; and besides an Horatian motto, his book contains several quotations from the Latin poets-acquirements which no corporal in the ranks from which the British soldier was enlisted eighty years ago was likely to have possessed. He mentions the 95th Rifles (Rifle Brigade), then the only British regiment of riflemen, but not in terms suggestive of his having served in the regiment. He may, however, have been a corporal of volunteers, which force he mentions more than once. AN OLD RIFLEMAN. 'ALUMNI WESTMONASTERIENSES.'-When did this book first make its appearance? I have come across references to the editions of 1851 and 1852. Was it published annually? What is the date of the latest edition? There is no copy of any edition in the British Museum. Will any reader of N. & Q.' kindly allow me the loan of his copy for a few days? I will take great care of it, and re-turn it, together with all postage charges. J. B. WILSON. Knightwick Rectory, Worcester. Edward LIGHT, BORN 1747.—Can any one tell me where I can obtain the baptismal certificate of this individual? He was the inventor of a dital harp, two of which are in the South Kensington Museum. His address when taking out a patent for these, about 1816, was Foley Street, Marylebone. His father is supposed to have been Thomas Light, of London, merchant, who married a Miss Garrard, coheiress, of Ifield Court, Northfleet,. Kent (Hasted's 'Kent'). Address direct, P. E. CLARK. 24, Duke Street, St. James's, London. THE STAR CHAMBER' AND THE WASP.'How many numbers were published of the Star Chamber and the Wasp, both commenced in 1826 ? HENRY SAXBY. SHELLEY'S 'ADONAIS.'--Who is the poet referred to in stanzas xxxi-xxxiv of Shelley's Adonais'; and who is the "Pilgrim of Eternity" in stanza xxx? W. FELLS. Sheffield. 'MEMOIRS OF SYLvester Daggerwood, COMEDIAN,' 2 vols., 1807.-By whom is this work? "Sylvester Daggerwood" was a pseudonym of URBAN. George Colman. TAILED ENGLISHMAN.-Who was it of whom Dr. Wolff wrote this ?— "There is, even in England, a gentleman of dark complexion and of great talents [whose name Wolff forbears mentioning], who walks exactly as if he had a tail; and people of high rank told him [.e., Wolff, who wrote, like Cæsar, in the third person] that he and his family were known to have tails; and therefore in his carriage there is a hole in the seat where he sits, in order that he may be able to sit comfortably. A peer of the realm has hired a house from this Father of the Tail,' as he may be styled; which is a title the Arabs give to their horses." -Travels and Adventures of Joseph Wolff,' 1861 edition, vol. ii. chap. xxx. E. L. G. GENEALOGICAL.-I hope some reader of 'N. & Q.' may be able to assist me in discovering how Euphemia Ross, second wife of Robert II., was related to the king in "the fourth degree of consanguinity" (Dispensation, May 2, 1355), daughter of Hugh, Earl of Ross, by his second wife Margaret, daughter of Sir David Graham, of Old Montrose, not by his first wife Lady Matilda Bruce, as has been often stated. The four descents on the king's side are, of course, (1) Robert Bruce and the Countess of Carrick; (2) Robert I.; (3) Princess Marjory; (4) Robert II. On the queen's paternal side: (1) William, Earl of Ross, and Jean, daughter of William Cuming, Earl of Buchan; (2) William, Earl of Ross, and Euphemia --(Whose daughter was she?); (3) Earl Hugh and Margaret Graham; (4) Euphemia. On her maternal side: (1) Sir David Graham, who died circa 1330-2; Sir David of Old Montrose (Who was his wife?); (3) Margaret, Countess of Ross; (4) Euphemia. Who was the common ancestor of the king and queen? I do not think he is to be found on the Ross side. Did Sir David Graham the elder marry a sister of Robert Bruce or of the Countess of Carrick? From the Kilravock charters (1294) I am aware that Sir David was married to a Bysetb, being styled "brother-in-law of Elizabeth Byseth," but he may also have married a Bruce. F. N. R. was removed from the Bench at the Revolution. Wodrow ('Hist. Glasgow,' 1829, vol. i. p. 32) records that among the counsel allowed to defend the Marquis of Argyll (1661) were 66 Mr. Andrew Birnie and Mr. Robert Birnie." Mr. Andrew was no doubt the Lord Salin, but what connexion had he with Saline? I can find no record of any family of that name in this parish. W. F. Manse of Saline, Fife. ODE.-In Dorchester Domesday is enrolled a fifteenth century acknowledgment of 2001. paid for six score pipes of ode. What is this? It can hardly be woad. I have known eau de vie spelt odv. But that will not do, I fear. Dorchester. H. J. MOULE. 'THE PLEASURES OF MELANCHOLY.'-Who was the author of this poem, published_in_4to. by Dodsley in 1747 ? F. W. D. HERALDIC.-Whose is the following crest: A leopard's face, surmounted by a bird's leg erased? It probably belongs to a Devonshire family, as it is engraved on some very fine silver candlesticks (150 Plymouth. W. FOSTER. WHEELWRIGHT: WHITE NIGGERS.-Can MR. JOHN MACKAY or any other of your readers give any information as to the descendants of Wheel-years old) purchased lately at Exeter. wright of Rhode Island? Is anything known 'of the Royalists who were shipped to the plantations by Cromwell's government? I have heard that there is a class of people in Jamaica known there as "white niggers." Are any of these outcasts representatives of those unfortunate exiles? H. G. KEENE, M.A. BENGAL FUSILIERS, 101ST AND 104TH REGIMENTS.—Will one of your numerous readers refer me to any MS. or printed notice of these gallant regiments? PLASSEY. HOWE FAMILY. Can any correspondent of N. & Q.' help me to find where the following members of the Howe family are buried? Col. John Howe, died 17-; his son Robert, died at Havering-atte Bower 1794, aged eighty-six; Robert's wife (she was a daughter of Robert Colebrooke, of Chilham Castle); James, younger son of Robert Howe, died 1790 in the West Indies, probably at Nassau; and Ann (née Hewitt), widow of James Howe, also died in West Indies. I shall also be much obliged for copies of inscriptions on monuments, previous to 1800, relating to the Howe family in the neighbourhood of Sudbury and Bures, Suffolk. Answers direct. E. G. How E. 48, Duke Street, St. James's. BIRNIE, LORD SALIN.-A letter of Sir George Mackenzie, Lord Clerk Register, mentions a Lord Salin, who is said to have been "Sir Andrew Birnie of Saline: appointed a Lord of Session November, 1679" (Letters to the Earl of Aperdeen,' Spalding Club, p. 76), and who, I believe, ISAAC D'ISRAELI.-It is stated in the life of D'Israeli in the 'Dictionary of National Biography,' XV. 117, that he first appeared in print in December, 1786, with a vindication of Dr. Johnson's character, signed "I. D. I.," in the Gentleman's Magazine. In the Wit's Magazine for April and Letter from Nonsense; with some Account of May, 1784, are two articles, entitled respectively Himself and Family,' and 'Further Account of the Family of Nonsense.' For the first of these articles a "silver medal for the best original article in prose" was adjudged to Mr. D'Israeli, Great St. Helen's, Bishopsgate Street. The second article is not anonymous, but is stated to be by Mr. D'Israeli. I should have unhesitatingly ascribed these articles to Isaac D'Israeli, who was living in London at the time, were it not for the fact that in the May number the medal is said to have been given to "Mr. M. J. D'Israeli." It would be interesting to know whether D'Israeli had any other prénom besides Isaac, and, if not, whether he had a contemporory namesake of a literary turn, and resident, like him, in London. The latter supposition seems to be improbable. W. F. PRIDEAUX. SIR FRANCIS VERNEY, THE BUCCANEER, is said, in 'Admiral Blake,' by David Hannay, 1886, to have come home after his piracies, and to have been thought rather a credit to his family. Is anything of his fate known more than is given in the Verney Papers' (Camden Soc., 1853), where he is said not to have come home, but, after seven years' absence, to have died in Messina, Sept. 6, 1615? By this account his piracies appear to have been thought most discreditable; they were brought up afterwards as an argument against one marrying his widow. Mr. Hannay calls him a Buckinghamshire squire. He was more properly a Herts squire, being of the Verneys of Pendley, now owned by Mr. J. G. Williams. The Verneys for generations lived at Pendley, and were buried in Albury, both in Herts. Some of the earlier knights were buried at Ashridge (now Lord Brownlow's), and on dissolution of the monasteries removed to Albury. Of the famous or infamous Algerine only a certificate of death, his turban, &c., were brought home, if we may trust the Verney papers. HANDFORD. AUTHOR OF WORK WANTED.-"Musa Juveniles. Londini, Typis H. Parker: cura Josephi Pote, Bibliopola Etonensis. M.DCCXXXII.," 8vo., pp. 104. The first fifty-six pages contain a Greek drama, Zopía Oenλaros. This is followed by "Oratio Etonæ habita ad Electionem ibi celebratam 1730. Præsente Celeberrimo Principe Gulielmo Augusto, Duce Cumberlandia "; then by five Latin poems, and two translations into English verse, the former from the second Georgic, the latter being "The Nightingale' and 'Lutanist,' imitated from Strada. The Latin verses are not in the Muse Etonenses of 1755. May the work be by Dr. John Burton, of Corpus, Oxford, who, though not elected to a fellowship at Eton till 1733, was for some years previously engaged in epistolary correspondence and social intercourse with the masters of the school and the provost and fellows of the college, owing to his having had several young Etonians who excelled in genius and learning among his pupils at Oxford? See Harwood's 'Alumni Etonenses,' 1797, p. 89. W. E. BUCKLEY. CHARGE OF ENGLISH AND FRENCH REGIMENTS. -Is there not an instance in the Peninsular war where an English and French regiment charged each other, and, neither giving way at the moment of shock, the front ranks of each regiment were transfixed and lifted up by the pressure of the rear ranks from behind? The reference to this incident (which I have read somewhere) would greatly oblige. A. G. WITHERBY. 4, Hare Court, Temple. "WILKES: AN ORATORIO as performed at the Great Room in Bishopsgate Street," published in 4to., and sold by F. Richards, in Bell-Savage Yard and others, price 6d., is said on the title-page to be by Mr. Foote, the music being by Signor Carlos (sic) Francesco Baritini. It is not assigned to that dramatist in the 'Biographia Dramatica,' nor is it mentioned in ordinary works of theatrical reference. What justification is there for ascribing this stupid production to Foote? URBAN. to explain the meaning of this name, which is the title of a public-house near Plymouth or Portsmouth, I forget which. "THE WHISTLING OYSTER."-I have been asked J. W. HARDMAN, LL.D. SIR JAMES STRANGWAYES. Can any correspondent give me an account of the family and life of Sir James Strangwayes, of Harlsey Castle and Court of Common Pleas in the time of Henry VI.? Whorlton, Yorkshire, who was a judge of the THOMAS E. STRANGWAYES. The Leases, Bedale. Replies. KIRK GRIMS. (7th S. vi. 265.) As supplementary to the note of F. M'C., I beg to send an extract from Caxton's 'Chronicles of 1480,' p. 42, upon this subject. It commences :castell that wolde not stande without mortier tempred "How Vortiger went into Wales and bigan there a with blode...... Masons in hast tho were set and bigan the werke upon the hylle of Breigh. But certes thus it befell all the werke that the masons made aday adoune it fell anyght and wist not what it myght bene. Ther of the Kyng was sore an'oied of that cha'nce and wyst not clerke and also letred men that weren thurgh oute Wales what to done. Wherfor he let send after the wysest that myght bene founde. For they sholde tell wherfor the foundament so failled under the werke and that they sholde bym telle what was best to done. And the wysest men lo'ge tyme had studied they said to the Kyng that he sholde done seke a childe borne of a woman that neuer had with man to done, and that childe he sholde slee and tempre with his blode the mortier of the werke and so sholde the werke ever endure without ende." The Chronicle' further relates how the king sent messengers throughout Wales to find such a child, who, hearing some quarrelling going on between two persons at "Karmardine," they heard one say to the other, "Ye have no thyng of God Almyghty sith ye had never fadre." The account of the circumstances attendant upon the young man's (Merlin) birth is given at some length, but the particulars are not quite suitable to the pages of N. & Q.' However, Merlin, being brought before the king, accounts for the inability of the masons to continue the work by reason of two dragons who lived in a pond at some depth in the hill. The king was satisfied with this explanation, and Merlin's blood was not required for the mortar. C. LEESON PRINCE. Poole, in his Ecclesiastical Architecture,' refers to this. He says:— between four and six o'clock. "Mixing blood with mortar in order (as was supposed) if he could call, by appointment, on a Friday, to increase the stability of foundations seems to have been an ancient superstition amongst the British." And in a note continues : "Fitzstephen, in his description of London, says that the town was built with mortar tempered with the blood of beasts. Habet ab oriente arcem Palatinam, maximam et fortissimam, cujus et arca et muri a fundamento profundissimo exurgunt; comento cum sanguine animalium temporato.' The writer evidently attributes the strength of the citadel as much to the blood as to the depth of the foundation." "Vortigern, when attempting to build his town on Mount Eriv, was told by his magicians that in order to procure a firm foundation, he must find a youth that never had a father, and kill him, and then sprinkle the stones and cement with his blood,' for by those means, they said, he would have a firm foundation." R. W. HACKWOOD. Advices were brought from Accra, dated Dec. 8, 1881, that the King of Ashantee had murdered 200 girls, for the purpose of using their blood to mix with the mortar employed in the building of a new palace. Compare this with St. Luke xiii. 1. Some instances are mentioned in an article on 'Panics' in the Spectator, Sept. 1, 1888, p. 1186, especially a recent case in England. W. C. B. F. M'C. will find a striking illustration of a part of his subject in 'The Tower of St. Maur,' a poem in Miss Mary Robinson's recently published volume, 'Songs, Ballads, and a Garden Play.' JOHN RANDALL 66 THE TURIN PAPYRUS (7th S. vi. 209).-This papyrus, containing what is now a singularly fragmentary list of Egyptian kings, was brought from Thebes by an Italian named Drovetti. Accounts more or less full are to be found in the writings of most of the distinguished Egyptologists, whether British or continental. I may thus mention Brugsch Bey,' Hist. of Egypt under the Pharaohs,' vol. i. pp. 39, 47, 48; a translation is given vol. ii. p. 165. This writer says that the Turin papyrus once contained the most complete list of the kings of Egypt in their chronological order, according to the views of the compiler, who, however, did not give any account of the contemporaneous double reigns of two kings, which have been proved beyond all doubt by the inscriptions." The late W. Osburn, F.R.S.L., in his 'Monumental Hist. of Egypt (Lond., 1854), vol. i. pp. 227-8, has an account, in the course of which he severely criticizes Seyffarth's arrangement of the fragments, In the Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature, N.S., iii. pp. 128, seqq., will be found a paper by Dr. E. Hincks, read before the society in 1846, on A Portion of the Turin Book of Kings.' A facsimile of the Turin papyrus is in the library of the society, and either I or my colleague, the librarian, Mr. T. R. Gill, M.R.A.S., would be happy to show it to your correspondent 6 C. H. E. CARMICHAEL, Foreign Sec. R.S.L. 21, Delahay Street, S.W. COLOURS AS SURNAMES (7th S. vi. 208, 272).—In a reply (6th S. x. 438) to a query on the origin of the use of colour in surnames, I incidentally introduced a quaint quotation, remarking, just as MR. HACKWOOD does, on the absence in England of some colour names that are common in other countries. This was met by a rejoinder from PROF. SKEAT, in the characteristic style MR. HACKWOOD deprecates, pointing out that Red does exist as a surname, under the spelling Reid, &c. This cannot be considered a satisfactory rejoinder, as it only moves back the difficulty which remains under this form: Why was the earlier spelling retained in this one particular instance? Other replies, however, were elicited, which supply instances of persons of the name of Red, Orange, Purple, actually existing, just serving to accentuate their general absence (see 6th S. I. 289, 438, 520; xi. 72, 129, 452). MR. HACKWOOD will find some curious information anent his inquiry in the work named by me at 6th S. x. 438. R. H. BUSK. 16, Montagu Street, Portman Square. Blue exists among us in its early form of Bluet, or Bluett, sometimes spelt Blewet. My list of curious mediæval names, now very large, contains but few instances of colour. I give such as there are, the date referring to the earliest known. Green, as your correspondent J. T. F. remarks, is almost always of local origin. Brown. - Fauuel (chestnut), 1327; Browneswayne, 1389. Black.-La Blak, 1272; Blakson, mour, 1362. 1343; Blaka Grey.-Greygrom, 1327; Grayson, 1461. Violet. Vyolet, 1469. White.-Whitemon, 1321; The White, 1339; Whitfelawe, 1380; Whitebrest, 1392; Snowhite, 1416; Whitechild, 1439. Gold.-Goldheu, 1274; Gowlde, 1459. There are several Welsh surnames traceable more This last MR. HACKWOOD will find in the New York City Directory' the names Redd, Blue, Purple, and Yellowlee, also Violet. A. TOWNSHend. "A HOLBORN WIG "9 (7th S. vi. 228).-Judging from a passage in Etheredge's 'The Man of Mode,' Act III. sc. iii., it would seem that "a Holborn wig" meant ". an untidy or unfashionable wig," the idea being Holborn as opposed to the West-End. "Oh! odious, there's many of my own sex with that Holborn equipage trigg to Grey's Inn-Walks; and now and then travel hither on a Sunday." This is spoken in "the Mail" (Mall). I quote from a copy of the play "Printed for the Company of Booksellers," probably about 1730. Liverpool. J. F. MANSERGH. HERALDIC (7th S. vi. 248).—The arms are those of the ancient family of Stoughton, which Burke describes as one 66 of remote antiquity." In the time of Stephen, Godwin de Stocktun resided at Stocktun. The chief line, the Stoughtons, of cease of Sir Laurence Stoughton, second baronet, Stoughton, co. Surrey, became extinct at the dein 1692. The crest of the family is a robin-redbreast ppr. ONESIPHORUS. ANSON'S 'VOYAGES' (5th S. iii. 489; iv. 78, 100, 396; 7th S. vi. 92, 235).—It may be that some of the internal evidence of authorship and of its ing both Anson and Thomas, may be worth a place mixed nature, noted a year or so ago when readin N. & Q.' I think your correspondent (p. 92) is in error that Thomas's allusion to the return of some one, and subsequent claim to determinations of longitude, refers to Mr. Walter, who it is clear was with the ship till she reached Canton; for Thomas, on the opposite page, speaks and further adds that it was of the report of this claim as reaching them while there, thought safe" because they were believed to be lost. I understand that two, at least, of the party (a Capt. Norris and a lieutenant) returned (Thomas, p. 5) before Anson rounded Cape Horn; in doing which, or after, he was thought to be lost, and nothing was heard of him till he reached China. At the close of chap. ii. book iii. Anson's account is given of a separation of the party, Mr. Anson and some of the crew being on shore at Tinian, one of the Ladrones, while the ship was driven to sea. Here the narration of the ST. LAURENCE (7th S. v. 468; vi. 131).-I should like to know the actual authority for the statement that St. Laurence of Canterbury was not canonized, as he is mentioned in catalogues of saints in the same manner as those who unquestionably were. Is it meant that he was only beatified? Baronius, 'Mart. Roman.,' has at Feb-party at sea is in the first person: "Leaving beruary 2: hind us, on the Island, Mr. Anson with many of "Cantuariæ in Anglia natalis S. Laurentii Episcopi, our officers" (p. 429). In the next chapter the qui post S. Augustinum eam ecclesiam gubernavit, et story of the party left on the island is in the third regem ipsum ad fidem convertit."-P. 57, Paris, 1607. person: "And here I must relate an incident Ribadeneira and Alban Butler notice him upon which for some time gave Mr. Anson more conthe same day. I have not for reference Trithemius, cern than all the preceding disasters (p. 433). De Viris Illustr. O.S.B.,' iv. 49, where there may This chapter ends with their return to Tinian: be some notice of this. He obviously has a place "The joining of our Commander and Shipmates in the Roman martyrology, whether justly or not. were not less pleasing to us than our return was to By the kind reference of my friend the Rev. them" (p. 441). In Pascoe Thomas's list of officers W. D. Macray to the 'Acta Sanctorum,' Feb- who were on shore at the time the chaplain's name ruary 2, I have been able to ascertain that while does not occur, as I think it would had he been Archbishop Laurence is named in calendars and with them. The relation of those driven to sea martyrologies at various places, and has an office (chap. iv.) is in the first person again. In Anin the Sarum Breviary, there is no mention in that son (chap. vii.), after they had reached Canton, collection of any decree for canonization or beatifi- occurs: "And I, having obtained the Commocation, and that nothing is said there of any formal dore's leave to return, embarked with them" (p. recognition. I am aware that the absence of canon-483); and Thomas also speaks of some who reization can be referred to the statement of Bishop Stubbs, and have referred to Haddan and Stubbs's 'Concilia,' vols. i. and iii., so that the query may rather take this form-How the name comes to be in such lists as those above mentioned, and in the Sarum Breviary, which is, apparently, a more general recognition than local saints obtain. ED. MARSHALL. turned to England from Canton in other vessels, and says: "I think, in the same ship, Mr. Walter our Chaplain" (Thomas, p. 269). Anson's narrative continues in the third person after this, till quite at the end there are some remarks on the Chinese in the first person. All this looks as though Mr. Walter edited Lord Anson's journal; for when he is with them |