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correspondents would furnish particulars as to the phases through which the railway ticket has passed. Query when the present card tickets were first introduced? J. ELIOT HODGKIN.

Richmond-on-Thames.

STEELE AND THE CHARTERHOUSE.-At p. 322 of the 'Report on the Earl of Dartmouth's Collection,' just published by the Historical MSS. Commission, mention is made of the candidature of Sir Richard Steele for the Mastership of the Charterhouse, vacant by the death of Dr. Thomas Burnet, author of the 'Sacred Theory of the Earth.' As this incident does not seem to be mentioned by most of Steele's biographers, it may be worth while to call attention to a letter from Steele himself on the subject to Mrs. Clayton, dated October 14, 1715, and printed in Mrs. Thomson's 'Memoirs of Viscountess Sundon,' second edition, vol. i. p. 53. Steele writes:

"I will not proceed in the affair of the Charterhouse, except I have the direct promise of the majority; though had I not been influenced, as I am now, with the most entire resignation to the rule you have given me, I should have taken a pleasure to perplex those who have a great mind to be artful, and of whom Providence has taken so great care, that it will not let them be anything at all, if they are not honest. I sincerely assure you, that I do not seek this station upon any other lien but to do good to others; and if I do not get it, you will see my opposers repent that they would not let me be humble; for I shall then think myself obliged to show them what place among mankind I am really in, and how useful I can be to the family to whose service I have devoted my

life and fortune."

Oxford.

C. E. DOBLE.

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ABBOTT FAMILY: ARMORIAL.-The following coat (unrecorded in any heraldic work) may useful to your heraldic readers to add to their armories. It is also interesting as being the only example of such a bearing (that I am acquainted with), except the Penner and inkhorn brass. Gales (?), a chevron between three inkhorns (?) or, impaled on the brass of Sir Walter Mauntell, Knt., in Nether Heyford Church, Northamptonshire, for Elizabeth his wife, one of the daughters and heirs of John Abbot, Esq., 1487. In 15 Henry VI. (1436) there is a grant recorded of the manors of Overcourt and Nethercourt, in Daventry and Heyford, Northamptonshire, from John Abbot, Esq., to Walt Mauntell. It has long been a doubt in my mind whether the pears worn by the Suffolk Abbots and Archbishop Abbot are not corruptions of the ancient inkhorns.

L'Abbe." He was a married man, and left issue in 1207. This is an instance of how the title became perpetuated as a surname. See my tract on 'Ecclesiastical Surnames.' J. T. ABBOTT (retired F.S. A. Scot.). Chelsworth House, Darlington.

THREE SOVEREIGNS IN ONE YEAR.-It has been our privilege, with the whole civilized world, to watch with admiring sympathy the combination of heroism, fortitude, and sublime patience manifested so simply and unostentatiously by the short and suffering reign of the Emperor Frederick II. Perhaps the rare fact of three sovereigns occupying the same throne in succession in one year may deserve a record in 'N. & Q.' If we except the five days' royalty of the baby king" Jean premier," which intervened betwen the reigns of Louis X. and Philippe V., and the nominal reign of two months of the young Prince Edward V., which intervened between Edward IV. and Richard III., we must, I think, go back more than 800 years for a like occurrence. In the terrible year 1066, when two great battles were fought on English soil, three kings-all, strangely enough, not only of different families but almost of different races, for Harold II. was at least half a Daneoccupied the throne in succession. The Confessor died on January 5, and was buried the next daythe Feast of the Epiphany-at his new Abbey of Westminster, only "hallowed on Childermas-day Dec. 28." Immediately after the funeral of King Edward, Harold was crowned at Westminster; his short reign terminated on October 14, the date of the battle of Hastings, or Senlac. William of the same prelate who had crowned his rival on Normandy was crowned in the same abbey and by Christmas Day in the same year.

St. Saviour's, Southwark.

C. G. BOGER.

ORDER AGAINST GAMES.-The following is from our forthcoming edition of Vicary's 'Anatomie':1554. Order against May Games, Stage Plays, &c., in London Streets.*

(Journal 16, leaf 287, back, between 19 April and 22 May, 1 Mary, A.D. 1554.)

My lorde Mayre, and his brethern the Aldermen of this our moste drade and most benygne souerayn Ladie the Quenes Citie and Chambret of London, on her hignes behalf, do straightlye charge and commande, that no maner of person or persones do in any wyse from hensfurthe make, prepare, or set furthe, or cause to be made or set furthe, eny maner of mayegames or moryce dawnce, or eny enterludes or Stage playes, or sett vpp

maner of maye pole, or bucler playeng, in any opyn streat or place, or sounde eny drume for the gatheringe of eny people within the said Citie or the lib[er]ties

Another interesting and unrecorded (heraldic-eny ally) Abbot coat is from the Abbaye de Gauffern, in Normandy, where we have a charter with the seal of "Ralph the Abbot"-viz., a knight in armour, bearing a shield on his left arm, with two croziers in pale and a sword in his right hand, surrounded by the legend "Sigillum: Radulfi

*This Order implies, what we know is the fact, that

these Games and Plays had gone on in the streets or open places. Vicary must have seen some such. †The Chamberlain's office or Treasury says Dr. Sharpe: the City of London was called the King's chamber.

therof/ And also, yf any suche maye pole be alredie
latelie set vpp in any open place within the Citie or
lib[er]ties therof, that then the parisheners of the
parishe where eny and euerye suche maye pole ys set
vpp, shall cause the same, withe convenient speade, to be
taken downe agayne/ & no longre suffre them theare to
stande, not only vppon payne of ymprisonement/ but also
vpon suche further payne as the said lorde Mayor &
Aldremen shall thinke meate and convenient/
God save the quene!
1557. The xxx day of May was a goly [goodly or
jolly] Maygam in Fanch-chyrche strett, with drumes
and gunes and pykes; and ix wordes [The Nine Worthies]
dyd ryd; and they had speches, evere man; and the
morris dansse, and the sauden [Sultan], and a elevant
with the castyll; and the sauden and yonge morens
[Moors] with targattes and darttes; and the Lord and
the Lade of the Maye.'-Machyn's Diary, 1550-63,
p. 137, ed. 1848.

There are many Acts of Common Council against
interludes, plays, &c.

PERCY FURNIVALL.

MISS FOOTE, THE FAMOUS ACTRESS. - The following has been a piece of club history for the last forty or fifty years, and distinguished men now living could be mentioned who love to tell it still. Miss Foote, the celebrated actress, had become the wife of Lord Harrington. Queen Adelaide having objected to this lady attending her Court, Lord Harrington waited upon the Premier, and very clearly conveyed his intention of opposing the Reform Bill if such invidious exclusion should be extended to his wife. The threat

Louise, Victoria, and Maud. It may be remembered that Sydney Smith invented a new name, Saba, for his daughter (Memoirs,' vol. i. p. 22). I once invented a name, Mareli, which was intended as an amalgam of the names Mary Elizabeth. I did this for the purposes of a little story, in which the father of the baby girl has asked two wealthy maiden aunts to be the two godmothers; and he proposes to call the baby Mary Elizabeth, after the respective Christian names of the two aunts. Miss Mary Ricketts consents to this, and promises to give her godchild a handsome present. Miss Elizabeth Meagrim will do the same, provided that the baby is named Elizabeth Mary instead of Mary Elizabeth. Miss Ricketts will not yield; and at last the father finds a way out of the difficulty by inventing the amalgam Mareli, with which combination the two aunts are satisfied. This little tale was published in a six-shilling volume, 'The Curate of Cranston, with other Prose and Verse,' by Cuthbert Bede (Saunders, Otley & Co., 1862). In the obituary of the Times, April 2, 1870, appeared the following ;

"On the 30th ult, at Eastbourne Priory, near Midhurst, Mary Elizabeth (Mareli), third daughter of Francis and Martha Tallant, in her ninth year." I conclude that the parents had read my story, and called their child Mareli as a pet name.

CUTHBERT BEDE.

THE VERIFICATION OF QUOTATIONS.-Among the many hackneyed quotations in use in political matters is the well-known saying of Gustavus Adolphus's great Chancellor Oxenstjerna as to the little wisdom with which the world is it as follows: "Nescis, mi fili, quam parvâ governed." Coleridge, in his "Table Talk,' quotes sapientiâ regitur mundus." Struck by the bad Latinity of this, I had recourse to Chambers's Cyclopædia,' and there I found it, “Nescis, mi fili, quantillâ prudentiâ homines regantur. " Still turned to a little German book of quotations, unsatisfied, I consulted a distinguished friend, who

told, and the Bill received Lord Harrington's support. For half a century this story has obtained currency. Just as a counterfeit should be nailed when detected, it may be well to say that, inquiry having been made in the House of Lords, there is no evidence that Lord Harrington was present at any stage of the Reform Bill, viz., second reading, April 13, 1832; committee, May 7, 21, 22, 23, 24, and 30; report, June 1; third reading, June 4. The Lords' Journals contain lists of the peers present on each day that the House sits; and, so far as I can discover, Lord Harrington did not come to the House at all. Lady Ashley, who was lady-in-waiting to Queen Adelaide and wife of the Vice-Chamber-Geflügelte Worte,' and there it ran, Quantula lain, denies that the countess in question was ever presented at Court. "Lord Harrington invariably voted with the Tories," says Lord Sydney, to whom the question was referred. This inquiry is one of many which the editing of O'Connell's correspondence-soon, I hope, to appear-rendered necessary.

Garrick Club.

W. J. FITZPATRICK, F.S.A.

wards he lighted on a Latin essay of his own, when sapientiâ regatur orbis." But a day or two afteran undergraduate at Balliol College, Oxford, and found yet another version, "I puer, nescis quanand this reading was endorsed as correct by his tulâ sapientiâ res orbis terrarum administrentur," tutor, an accomplished scholar, now a dignitary of the Church. I applied to one of the masters at Eton, an undoubted authority, and he gave me quite another rendering; and again another was at hand, in which the variation was "gubernetur mundus." Six various readings lay before me, each one backed by an extremely respectable authority. I determined to hunt it to its source, and this 'Geflügelte Worte' informed me was Lundblad's 'Svensk Plutarch.' I searched the The book was not there. Then the

LOUVIMA, A NEW CHRISTIAN NAME.-It is stated in the newspapers-but it may not be correct; for, as Theodore Hook said to the credulous old lady, "Those rascally newspapers will say anything "that Sir Francis Knollys, private secretary to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, has named his firstborn Louvima, which is an ingenious amalgam of the names of the three daughters of the Prince-Bodleian.

Library of the British Museum. They had portions of it, but not that I wanted. Then, through a friend, I invoked the aid of a Swedish scholar, Dr. H. Hagelin, who, at my instance, consulted first the library at Upsala, and finally ran it to earth in the Royal Library at Stockholm; and here it appears in a different version from any of the preceding: Lundblad, 'Svensk Plutark II.,' Stockholm, 1826, p. 95, "An nescis, mi fili, quantillâ prudentiâ regitur orbis."

Wise was the remark of Dr. Routh, the late venerable President of Magdalen, that he spent the last of his declining years "in verifying quotations." But here the question will arise, Was it Dr. Routh who said this; and did he express himself in exactly these words?

Queries.

JOHN RICE BYRNE,

We must request correspondents desiring information on family matters of only private interest, to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that the answers may be addressed to them direct.

CHAFFER.-Trench, in his 'Select Glossary (ed. 1859, p. 32), says, "To chaffer is now to talk much and idly"; and Webster, Ogilvie, Cassell, &c., have this sense on the authority of Trench. But no examples of chaffer = chatter, jabber, have been sent in by the readers for the Dictionary.' Can any reader of 'N. & Q.' inform me where the word is so used? Oxford.

in any of our numerous quotations for the word. Can
any one say what was the nature of the vehicle
called a chaise-marine, which is often mentioned
during last century, and appears (1823) in 4 Geo. IV.,
c. 95 § 19, "Nothing......in......this Act......shall
extend......to any chaise-marine, coach, landau,
berlin"? (To anticipate ingenious suggestions, it is
perhaps desirable to say that it was not a bathing-
coach.) Reply direct, please.
J. A. H. MURRAY.

Oxford.

CHAD PENNIES, according to Brewer, 'Dict. P. and Fable,' are pennies paid at the cathedral of Lichfield, dedicated to St. Chad, on Whit Sunday, in aid of the repairs. I should be glad to receive authentication or illustration of this statement, for which no authority is given. Also of the origin of chad farthings, referred to by Halliwell (for which we have one authentic quotation). J. A. H. MURRAY.

Oxford.

EGOTISM.-Littré, s. v. "Égotisme," says that the origin of the intrusive t is a question for English scholars. It would appear, however, that the word is really of French origin, for Addison, in Spectator, No. 562 (1714), says, "The Gentlemen of Port Royal......branded this form of writing [in the first person] with the name of an Egotism; a figure not to be found among the ancient rhetoricians." I should be glad to learn where the passage referred to is to be found; it does not appear to occur in any of the Port Royal treatises known to me. The inserted t is presumably due to the analogy CHALLIS.-Can any one give me information as of some rhetorical or grammatical term, possibly to the name and origin of this fabric of silk and idiotisme; but perhaps the context of the passage worsted? If Mr. Beck is right in the 'Drapers' in which the word first appears would settle the Dictionary,' that it was first introduced at Nor-question as to its formation. wich about 1832, one suspects that the name is the common English surname Challis. Some improvement seems to have been made on it in

J. A. H. MURRAY.

France in 1838, and I believe the name commonly passes as French, and is pronounced shally. So, at least, says Webster and English dictionaries which copy him. But Littré (who gives it in his supplement only as challis, chaly, chalys) knew no French origin for the word, and in French it looks rather like the English word adapted. Where Webster (and his English copiers aforesaid) found that there is a French word chaly, meaning fabric of goats' hair," I cannot discover. Can any one help me? We also want quotations before 1849. Can Norwich correspondents help?

Oxford.

J. A. H. MURRAY.

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CHAISE-LONGUE: CHAISE-MARINE.-In a modern dictionary I find the first of these entered as chaiselounge (as a kind of "lounge"). I should be glad to know whether this is a current vulgar corruption, or merely a slip of the writer. It does not appear

HENRY BRADLEY.

11, Bleisho Road, Lavender Hill, S.W.

MACREADY.

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throw light on the following difficulty? In the Can any of your contributors first line of his 'Reminiscences,' Macready states that he was born in "Mary Street, Tottenham Court Road, 3rd March, 1793." Now, I can find no evidence that there ever was such a street. It is not shown in either the 1787 or the 1797 edition Westminster,' which gives this district in great of 'Cary's New and Accurate Plan of London and London and Westminster' (1799), which professes detail, nor in Horwood's Plan of the Cities of to show not only every street but every house Some biographical notices give "Charles Street, Fitzroy Square," as Macready's birthplace. There is, as every one knows, a Charlotte Street, Fitzroy Square, but the nearest Charles Street is the continuation of Goodge Street, which scarcely comes within the Fitzroy Square region. Macready's parents seem to have been domiciled in the parish of St. Pancras, for his sister, Letitia

chapel was dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary
on Oct. 21, 1347, St. Ursula's Day, hence the
patronage of St. Ursula, under which it was placed.
J. A. RANDOLPH.
3, Walton Street, Lennox Gardens, S. W.

Margaret, was baptized at the parish church vain run through over fifty histories of the SorDecember 9, 1794 (born December 4), and he bonne and the Paris University in the hope of himself was baptized at the same church Janu-coming across the desired information. The former ary 21, 1796. The date of his birth is given in the register as March 3, 1792, but this is doubtless an error, as his own and all other testimony goes against it. The parish of St. Pancras, if I am not mistaken, includes only a small portion of the Tottenham Court Road district, and does not include Charles Street. I am inclined to conjecture that he was born in Charlotte Street, and that he himself confounded two female names, while his biographer mixed up "Charles" and "Charlotte." I am also unable to discover his mother's maiden name. Her Christian names, according to the St. Pancras register, were Christina Ann. Perhaps her tombstone in Sheffield, where she died December 3, 1803, may give it. WILLIAM ARCHER.

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[The notion is widespread.] ELIZA JANE CONROY.-I have a small volume, on the title of which is written, "To Eliza Jane Conroy, from her very sincere friend, Victoria, 1837." Who was Eliza Jane Conroy? Is she still living? I find that a Sir John Conroy was Equerry to the Duchess of Kent in 1830. Was this young lady his daughter? Can any one give me information as to Her Majesty's early friendship with Miss Conroy? H. F. H.

BISHOPS JACKSON AND LLOYD, OF OXFORD.-— What is known of William Jackson during his three years' episcopate? I know the story of the see being offered to him on the recommendation of his brother Cyril, who had just declined it, "Try Will, he'll take it"; and Bishop Wilberforce speaks of him as unlike the great Dean in everything."

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Of Bishop Lloyd, 1827-1829, though the tutor of Keble, Pusey, Newman, and others of that band, there seems to be no account extant. He is casually mentioned in the 'Reminiscences of Oriel' and the 'Diocesan History,' but that is all. As he seems to have moulded the minds of those who started the Oxford movement, is it not singular that no memoir of him should exist?

E. L. H. TEW, M.A. Hornsea Vicarage, East Yorkshire.

THE SORBONNE.-Where can a description of the old chapel of the Sorbonne be found? The accounts of the church now standing as built by Cardinal Richelieu are numerous; but I have in

HENRY IV. AND MARY DE BOHUN.-Can any one inform me in what year the Earl of Derby, afterwards King Henry IV., carried off his wife, Mary de Bohun, from the custody of her brotherin-law, the Earl of Gloucester, at Pleshy?

C. P. W.

CONFUCIUS.-The holy Kong-fu-tse, it is said, being asked by his disciples, at the conclusion of one of his lectures, whether the whole duty of man could be expressed in one word, answered, "Certainly; Shoo contains the whole duty of man." I consult Morrison's 'Dictionary,' vol. ii., under the sixty-first Radical, p. 144, and I find, "Shoo, to treat others as one would like to be treated oneself." Can some obliging Sinologue tell me anything more about the meaning of this exceedingly interesting A. R. monosyllable?

BISHOP HUGO LLOYD.-I have a sketch made by the late Rev. C. Boutell from a mural slab bearing a monumental brass in the ante-chapel of New College, Oxford. The arms on the shield on this brass are Quarterly, 1 and 4...a chev...between three dolphins embowed, those in chief affrontés... 2 and 3...a chev...between three fleurs de lis... The inscription appended is "Hugo Lloydus, EpisNo Who was this? copus Roffensis, 1601." bishop of this name appears, so far as I can find, in the list of Bishops of Rochester; and although there was a Bishop of Llandaff of the name, it was nearly a century later. The first quarter of the but arms is not known to me as a coat of Lloyd, the second, with varying tinctures, is a not very uncommon bearing of several Welsh families.

Montrose, N.B.

JOHN WOODWARD.

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word in this way, and whether there is not some restriction to be understood as implied by it in regard to the kind of grave or burial-place intended. I give two of the entries on p. 17 of the receipt by the wardens of the parish church of Tavistock:

Of Richard Tooker for the grave (sertifago) of his wife vi viijd, for cross and bells viij. Of the said Richard

Tooker for an anniversary viija.

Of the gift of John Glyn for his grave (certifago) vi viijd, for cross and bells xijd.

They are indisputably connected with burials;
but an entry (in English) of a later date mentions,
"Receuyd of Stephen a Bourne for his pytte and
the palle, vis xd," so I venture to suggest that some-
thing special was intended by the use of "certi-
fago."
W. S. B. H.

ROCKALL. This little point of land, or rather stone, rises from a submerged plateau far away in the Atlantic in about the latitude of the middle of the Hebrides. It appears in most modern maps with any pretension to detail, but I do not know where to find any account of it. I wish some one would answer the following questions: (1) Who was its discoverer? (2) What is its geological structure? (3) Where shall I find a detailed description of it? ASTARTE.

SERVANTS TO KINGS AND QUEENS: STAPLEFORD FOUKE.-In St. Paul's Walden Church, Herts, is a small monument with two kneeling figures between pilasters and under a pediment; and the following inscription appears beneath the figures :

"Nigh to this place ly interred ye bodies of Henry Stapleford Gent., and Dorothy his wife. The said Henry was servant to Queene Elizabeth King James and King Charles vntill ye time of his death, and departed this life ye xxxth of May Ano. Dni. 1631 and aged 76 yeares," &c. The arms on the shield under the pediment are given by Cussans as "Gyronny of twelve argent and sable." In the register of burials for "1631, 31 Mai," is the entry of "Henry Stapleforde Yeoman B Guarde to Queene Elizabeth King James B.R. [sic]." Can any reader of 'N. & Q.' help me to any contemporary mention of Henry Staple

ford?

In Flamstead Church, Herts, about eight miles in a straight line from St. Paul's Walden, is a monument generally similar to that in memory of Henry Stapleford and his wife. Below a small effigy of a knight in armour kneeling at a desk is the following inscription :

"Here lyeth the body of Sr Bartholomew Fovke, Knt, whoe served Kinge Edward, Queene Marye, and was Mr of the Household to Queene Elizabeth for many yeares, and to King James that now is; in memorye of whose vertuous lyfe (worthy eternall remembrance), Edward Fovke, gent, his brother, hath erected this monument. Obiit xix° Julii, 1604. Etat, suæ 69."

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WESTMORLAND DIALECT.-At the end of 'A True Story of the Terrible Knitters e' Dent,' which forms interchapter xxiv. of Southey's 'Doctor,' vol. vii. p. 94, is a note by the editor :

"There was another comical History intended for an Interchapter to the 'Doctor,' &c., of a runaway match to Gretna Green by two people in humble life, but it was not handed over to me with the MS. materials. It was taken down from the mouth of the old woman who was sixty or seventy years." one of the parties, and it would probably date back some

Is anything known as to the present whereabouts of this MS.? It is not unlikely to be among Wordsworth's papers. Has Prof. Knight seen anything Q. V.

of it?

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In the light of the information afforded by MR. WALFORD and H. G. K., it would seem to be a settled fact that Mark Lemon was not born at Hendon, but in the neighbourhood of Oxford Street, though at that point the authorities diverge, one asserting that the name borne by him was assumed, the other that there was never any change, and further, that his ancestors bearing that name are actually buried in Hendon churchyard, his father's Christian name being Martin. There are members of a family of Lemon buried at Hendon, as I mentioned in a former communication, and, curiously enough, the earliest of these is "Mr. Martin Lemon," who died January 21, 1818, aged thirtytwo, and in the same grave is interred "Mr. George Mark Lemon," who died November 29, 1831, aged thirty-seven. The adjoining grave contains the remains of "Mr. Mark Lemon," who died December 12, 1820, aged sixty-three, and "Mrs. Grace Lemon, wife of the above," who died October 5, 1823, aged 63. What relation were

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