making extracts from wills in Doctors' Commons, kindly furnish me with genealogical extracts from the wills below mentioned, to enable me to unravel the tangled threads of the descent of the houses named in 2nd S. vi. 465; with the view of assisting in the compilation of my history of the houses, the pedigree of families, and biographical notes of individuals? I shall be happy to reimburse any expenditure involved in the search. And as this is a matter of private, and not public interest, and the information if inserted in "N. & Q." would only needlessly occupy valuable space, I append my address. CURIOUS SIGN MANUAL (3rd S. v. 436.) - In reply to H. C. I may state that, as a Land Commissioner in Turkey, I have seen the thumb dipped in ink, and applied as a signature to a conveyance or land-receipt by low-class Mussulmans, and by the rayah Greek landowners. This is a usual way; but there are few Mussulmans without a signet, such as are sold cheap in the market ready made (Mahomed, Ahmed, Mustafa, &c.); and the Greeks very often sign with a cross. It is only of late that any rayah Greek can write his name in Greek. 196▲, Piccadilly. HYDE CLARKE. BURTON FAMILY (3rd S. v. 140.) — May I be allowed to thank MR. SYKES for his information respecting the Burtons of Weston-under-Wood, which was particularly interesting to me, as it tended to confirm and throw light on some points in the genealogy which I was anxious to have cleared up. I should be glad to know whether any mention of the family occurs in the heraldic Visitations for Derbyshire. E. H. A. GLASS (3rd S. v. 400.)-The following extract is taken from Strype's edition of Stow's Survey of London, fol., 1720, p. 8: "These Saxons were likewise (as the Britons were) ignorant of the Architecture or Building with Stone, until the year of Christ DCLXXX. For there it is affirmed that Benet, Abbot of Wirral, master to the Reverend Bede, first brought Masons and Workmen in Stone into this Island among the Saxons." This appears to give the date wanted, but the original authority is not stated. A.D. 674 is the date usually given. W. P. LORD CLONMELL'S "DIARY" (3rd S. v. 477.)In answer to your correspondent ABHBA, relative to Lord Clonmel's Diary, I beg to say that I have seen at least four, if not five copies of such a publication. I believe that it never was regularly sold as a publication; but was printed by Lord Clonmel for distribution solely amongst his own private friends. As an Irish judge and politician, his Lordship occupied a foremost, if not a very distinguished place. He was not a man of genius, and hardly of talent; but he acted in stormy and perilous times, and his antagonistic feeling to his great rival Lord Clare (the Irish Chancellor), induced him to put forth all his powers. From a perusal of his Diary, I should say that he was a selfish man, whose maxim was Après moi le déluge." He was a wine-bibber and a gourmand to an extravagant extent; and a great deal of his Diary is occupied with abuse of Lord Clare, and in praise or dispraise of the dinner he ate the day before. 66 Some years ago (1857), Sotheby sold three copies of this unique but not very respectable production. I believe that Cambridge possesses a copy, that the Duke of Devonshire possesses another, and that, more recently, the Dublin University Library (or Dublin Society, I know not which,) has purchased another—at the enormous price of 561. EPHRAIM W. M'MINIMIE. Sadholt Cottage, Clondalkin. ERRONEOUS MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS IN BRISTOL (3rd S. v. 289, 368.)- MR. PRYCE seems to doubt the identity of Col. John Porter, the eldest brother of the Misses Porter, with the "unfortunate officer," J. B. Porter, whose death in Castle Rushen prison is mentioned in the volume of the Gentleman's Magazine to which I before referred. I was always under the impression that John Porter, originally an officer in the army, having afterwards gone out as a merchant to Antigua, there fell a victim to its dangerous climate. The Bristol inscription, however, asserts that he died in the Isle of Man, though, as I have shown by an extract from one of Miss Porter's letters, the date is given incorrectly. I cannot help coming to the conclusion, that the "merchant in the West Indies," having probably been unfortu nate in business, must have returned home, and was the "J. B. Porter" noticed in Mr. Urban's pages. The second initial probably stood for Blenkinsop, which was his mother's maiden name. Dr. Porter of Bristol is described on his first wife's tombstone at Durham, as simply William Porter, M.D., though it appears he also had a second name, viz., Ogilvie. Both John and William were early in life withdrawn from their mother's charge, which may account for the younger portion of the family not being aware perhaps of the embarrassed state of John's affairs. In referring to his decease in the above named letter, Miss Porter goes on to say, "He was not brought up with us like Robert, nevertheless we loved him as a brother, and mourn him as such." DUNELMENSIS. JOHN HALL, B.D. (3rd S. v. 496.)-John Hall, B.A., was elected a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1658, commenced M.A. in due course, and proceeded B.D. 1666. On July 11, 1664, he was collated to the prebend of Isledon, in the church of St. Paul, as he was, Feb. 20, 1665-6, to the rectory of S. Christopher le Stocks, London. On Oct. 5, 1666, he was collated to the rectory of Finchley, Middlesex. On March 21, 1666-7, he exchanged the prebend of Isledon for that of Holywell, alias Finsbury. He was president of Sion College, 1694, and died towards the close of 1707. Watt thus describes his work:-"Jacob's Ladder, or a Book of Salvations (!), 8vo, London, 1676." Mr. Hall contributed to the rebuilding of St. Paul's, and was also, to a small extent, a benefactor to Sion College, but we do not find his Jacob's Ladder in Reading's Catalogue of the library of that institution. Cambridge. C. H. & THOMPSON COOPER. RAINE'S MARRIAGE PORTION OF £100 (3rd S. v. 475.)—This account reminds me of a similar portion which is given by the Quarterly Meeting of the Society of Friends in the south of Ireland, to young women, members of the Society, who have lived for three years either as family servants, or assistants in business to members of the Society, on their marriage with members of said Society. The portion given is also 1007. L. J. F. RICHARD BENTLEY, D.D. (3rd S. v. 509.)-Your correspondent, who is struck by the little pains ordinary readers take to verify their statements, will not, we hope, be offended at our pointing out that Richard Bentley the critic never was librarian of Trinity College, Cambridge. He was master of that distinguished society for above forty years. Although for a long period Archdeacon of Ely, he was never Dean of Ely. Cambridge. C. H. & THOMPSON COOPER. Calendar of State Papers. Domestic Series of the Reign of Charles I., 1634-1635, preserved in Her Majesty's Public Record Office. Edited by John Bruce, F.S.A. (Longman.) "The period comprised within the present volume was," as Mr. Bruce truly observes, "fertile in important changes," which are clearly reflected in the documents here calendared. No wonder, then, that such volume should be one of great importance, for the new materials which it contains for the general history of the time, as it is scarcely of less importance for the light it throws up graphers of Sir Robert Naunton-Sir Robert Heath—g the characters of many remarkable men. Future bio the facetious Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench, Sir Thomas Richardson-Sir Edward Coke (whose squabble with his second wife Lady Hatton, and his alleged breach of faith with her, as here detailed, are painful to contemplate)-Selden and Attorney-General Noy-will find in the Calendar references to papers which will be of the greatest service to them. While those who are investigating our social progress, will find abundant amusement and instruction among the various records now really first made available by this useful guide. Like all the preceding Calendars, for which we have been indebted to Mr. Bruce, the present is set off by a pleasant, instructive, and well-written Preface; and completed by a full and accurate Index. The Plays of William Shakespeare. Carefully edited by Thomas Keightley. Vols. I. and II. (Bell & Daldy.) We have here the first two volumes of a Pocket Shakspeare (to be completed in six), which will be welcome to all who love to make a volume of the poet's works their companion in a quiet country stroll, or when taking their ease at their inn. Beautifully printed by Whittingham, this compact yet handsome edition puts forth the additional temptation of being edited by a gentleman who has made our older poets the study of many years. Mr. Keightley's text may not perhaps command universal acceptance, but it will be recognised by all as that of an accomplished scholar. BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE. 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(A.) on bells called skelets, 457 Beech trees never struck by lightning, 97 Chaperone, 446 Expedient, its earliest use, 477 Games of swans, &c., 436 Greek custom as to horses, 153 Lasso, and similar weapons, 442 Pews before the Reformation, 43 Salmon in the Thames, 479 Seals, Anglo-Saxon and mediæval, 445 Shaksperian criticisms, 231, 232 Spartam, quam nactus es, orna," 444 Tedded grass, 43 Tout, its derivation, 429 Verifying quotations, &c., 290 Whittled down, a provincialism, 435 A. (A. S.) on Card. Beton and Abp. Gawin Dun- Bishop George de Athequa, 352 Campbell (Sir Alexander and Sir Hugh), 367 Guernsey, governors of, 328 Knox (Andrew), Bishop of Raphoe, 371 Knox (Thomas), Bishop of the Isles, 411 Kohl, antimony, 349 Lamont (Rev. David), 367 Longevity of clergymen, 453 A. (A. S.) on Montalembert (Count de), 328 420 "Abel," an oratorio, author of the words, 297, Abhba on Earl of Clonmell's Diary, 477 De Burgo's "Hibernia Dominicana," 457 Family burying ground, 377 Fellowships in Trinity College, Dublin, 345 Life of Prince Eugene of Savoy, 515 Petrie Collection of ancient music, 498 Rundell (Mrs. Maria Eliza), 419 Spottiswoode (Abp. John and Bp. James), 415 Abraham aben Hhaüm, his MSS., 435 Ache on a quotation, 142 Acland (Rev. John), noticed, 320 Acrostic: Christ, 355 Adair (John) of Kilternan, 404, 442, 501-504 Adair (Robin), Esq., subject of the song, 404, 442, Adei, a sect, 240 "Adeste Fideles," composer of the tune, 312 Anonymous Works:- Adolphus (Gustavus), letter to Charles I., 294 Hoods of Oxford and Cambridge, 517 Trevor (Sir Marcus), Vise. Dungannon, 55 Enigmata, Latin, 93, 257 Ævum, words derived from, 100 African, South, chart of the discovery, 498 Agg (John), satirical writer, 346 Agincourt battle, picture at Guildhall, 171 Ainger (A.) on Chough and Crow," a glee, 243 Psalm xc. 9, 83 Quotation, 261 Swallows and the spring, 83 Alabarches, or Arabarches, 294. Albert, Prince Consort, his arms, 457, 522; motto, Albini Brito (Wm. de), 382, 505 Aldeburgh barony, 224 Alexander the Great's grant to the Sclavonians, 345 Al-Gazel, Mohammedan doctor, his birth, 401. Cumming (James), F.S.A., 308 Dobbs' Trade and Improvement of Ireland, 64 Almack (Richard) on Mary, Queen of Scots, 321 Amen, a curious derivation of the word, 33 America, its first paper-mill, 222; Seneca's pro- Anderson's "Scottish Nation," 147 Andros (Sir Edmund), his arms, 345, 425 Angelic vision of the dying, 448 Anonymous Works: - Art of Politicks, 164, 205 Arundines Devæ, 496 Autumn near the Rhine, 119 Bubble and Squeak, 323 Cabala, sive Scrinia Sacra, 514 Castle Builders, or History of Wm. Stephens, 514 Chronicle of the Kings of England, 300 Contest of the Twelve Nations, 518 Discourse, Historical, on the Revelations, 420 Education, especially of Young Gentlemen, 38 - Essay on Politeness, 437 Eugene (Prince) of Savoy, his Life, 515 Hermippus Redivivus, 100 Honour of Christ Vindicated, 133 Land of Promise, or Impressions of Australia, 514 Letter Box, by Oliver Oldstaffe, 321 Leprosy of Naaman, 55 Living and the Dead, 106 Meditations on Life and Death, 400, 448, 506 Post Boy Robbed of his Mail, 448 Resurrection, not Death, the Hope of the Be- Revelation of St. John and the Jewish Tem- Royal Stripes, or a Kick from Yarmouth to Salmagundi, a Miscellany of Poetry, 322 Antiphanes, passage in the Aphrodisian, 486 Appleton (W. S.) on Nicholas Bayley's family, 330 Arden (Edward), related to Shakspeare, 352, 463, 492 Ardesoif (J. P.) inquired after, 435 Arland (Benedict), miniature painter, 336 Aristotle's Politics, 475, 525 Arm, breaking the left, a punishment, 469 Arnold (Rev. Thomas Kerchever), death, 450 Arundel Society's publications, 106 Audley (P. A.) on Cambridge villages, 212 Digby motto, 153 Epitaph on Thomas Adam, alias Welhowse, 239 Austin Friars' church, 376 Austrian motto, the five vowels, 222, 309 Averroës, birth and death, 401 Avon, the Vale of, its population, 357 Ballard (Col.), his Christian name, 320 Barbauld (Anna Letitia), Prose Hymns, 33 Barcroft (John), Esq., 11 Barham (Francis), works, 36, 120 Barley, an exclamation, its derivation, 358 Bartolozzi (Francesco), engraving, 377, 445 Blair's Grave, its frontispiece, 196 Collins (John), author of "To-morrow," 17 Baxter (Thomas), "Circle Squared," 258, 348 Capell's Notes on Shakspeare, 77 Martin family, 222 Preaching ministers suspended, 357 Sancroft family, 291 Sussex newspapers, 75 "To a Caged Skylark," a Poem, 515 Bayley (C. H.) on first book printed in Birming- Bayley (Nicholas), family, 330 Bayly (T. H.), Latin version of his song, "I'd be a Baynbridge (H. A.) on Burnett families, 376 Beckington (Bp.), letters, 26 Bede (Cuthbert) on the "Amateur's Magazine," 64 |