66 the Provost and Baillies, to find wine- her rooster, which had been lent to the boy glasses. These he procured from "Lawrance for his school sport to fight the " Whigs' Stottis booth 2 to the amount of cocks," and which comes with a bell 'twenty-nine punds Scottis," "for which around his neck-a badge of victory." payment the said Lawrance Stott does dayly trouble him." This appeal one is pleased to find noted by the Lord Treasurer as paid in full. Another document, consisting of some 52 pages foolscap, is an account of "Money Spent on the Fortification of Leith," together with the names and amounts paid to those employed. This is in 1639, by order of the Committee of Estates; and it is of interest to note that' Haydn's Dates,' ed. 1892, gives the 1560 fortification, but does not mention that of 1639, upon which James Loch, commissioned by the "Comittie," expended 12,4007. sterling. The last of this sequence is by the Earl of Mar in 1824, who in a letter to James Loch, M.P., expresses "the thanks of an old man for the trouble taken and kindness shown in securing the restoration of his title. Here another question arises relative to Burke, who gives the Earl of Mar as joining the Prince of Orange. If there is undeniable proof of this, it seems singular that the title and estates should have been confiscated, had the allegiance been transferred, unless it was after the “Call to Arms" letter dated 1715-16, which bears the signatures of both "James" and "Mar." This would perhaps account for the confiscation, but the A MS. rime of 148 lines, entitled 'The restoration not taking place till over a Slow Policie, by The Man of the Moone, pre-century later, the joining of William seems sumably written about 1642, criticizing open to doubt, and the questioning of Charles's Court and advisers, will in all the point must be allowed as pardonable probability be gladly welcomed by the curiosity. antiquaries of Scotland. 22 2 It is at present only possible to dwell briefly upon any period, for after the many hundreds of papers dealing with the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries one must pass on to a most valuable sequence of the Jacobean, wherein are letters and "calls to arms signed James," and addressed to the Stuarts of Appin, the last written just before Culloden. The flight after Culloden carried these letters to the Continent, where they remained for upwards of thirty years before their apparent secret return to Anne Stuart, spouse to David Loch, merchant in Leith." At this point the question arises whether it was not David Loch and his wife who aided Ardsheil in his escape from Holland. The present Duke of Argyll in his account of this in Adventures in Legend' mentions a Leith merchant as discovering Ardsheil in an inn in that country, and in the plan of escape the merchant sends for his wife, who arrives to exchange garments, or rather to clothe Ardsheil in hers, and so effect his successful disguise and return to Scotland. The family relationship is here established, which, by the way, is missing from the Jacobite Peerage; and Ardsheil being a big man, it is possible that Anne Stuart was of a size somewhat corresponding. The continuation of this sequence takes the form of a schoolboy letter, written by John Erskine from school at Edinburgh in 1749 to his aunt Frances Erskine, spouse of James Loch of Drylaw, and accompanying The period 1796 to 1809 has already been lightly touched upon in the volumes of Brougham and his Early Friends,' recently issued privately; but it abounds with letters of great literary and political interest awaiting the necessary encouragement for publication, while others deal extensively with Napoleon's threatened invasion. Sir Walter Scott and Miss Edgeworth also appear, and it is curious that the former in mentioning the heirs to the ancient estate of Linlithgow repeatedly writes the name 66 Pope." The letter, although short, is of a humorously strong and characteristic nature. Thomas Campbell has left the original MS. of some of the early stanzas of Gertrude of Wyoming'; and the birth of the University of London is also described in the correspondence. To catalogue this surprising accumulation in full would not be giving it more than it really merits, but the interest exhibited in it up to the present has not proved of a nature sufficient to warrant even a brief record, which, however, has been begun in the hope of its receiving the necessary encouragement. The offer of a loan exhibition to Edinburgh is at present awaiting the acceptance of the authorities of the good towne," whose space, even now, is insufficient for showing their own possessions, so that they may reluctantly decline the offer. The thanks of all lovers of antiquity are due to Mr. H. B. Woodcock, of the firm of Messrs. Darling & Pead, for the preservation of the collection. Any reader desiring further particulars relating to the collection will, on written application, receive a willing response from G. A. JACKSON. 32, Harrington Road, South Kensington, S.W. JOHN WILSON PATTEN, LORD IN the 'Dictionary of National Biography,' first edition, are some errors relating to Lrod Winmarleigh. was John Wilson Patten (b. 1802) the younger son of Thomas Wilson, formerly Patten, and eventually Wilson Patten of Bank Hall, Warrington. Thomas, the elder son, died at Naples, 28 Oct., 1819, aged eighteen. The father did not, as alleged in books of reference, assume the additional name of Wilson in 1800. On inheriting certain property in Cheshire, i.e., the Manor of Woodchurch, Hundred of Wirral, he took the name of Wilson in lieu of Patten, and the arms and crest of Wilson in lieu of those of Patten, according to a drastic clause in the will (which I have examined at Somerset House) of Thomas Wilson, D.D., Rector of St. Stephen's, Walbrook, and of St. Margaret's, Westminster, Prebendary of Westminster, son of Thomas Wilson, D.D., Bishop of Sodor and Man, who had married a sister of Thomas Patten's great-grandfather. Dr. Wilson of St. Stephen's, Walbrook, married his cousin, who was a cousin of Thomas Patten's grandfather. In or about 1800 this Thomas Patten became Thomas Wilson. His two sons Thomas and John (Lord Winmarleigh) were at Eton in 1817 as Wilson major and minor (see Stapylton's Eton School Lists from 1791 to 1850, 2nd ed., 1864, PP. 90, 91). On 14 March, 1821 (the elder son Thomas having died in 1819), John went to Magdalen College, Oxford. At this time Peter Patten Bold was in possession of Bank Hall, and Thomas Wilson, his younger and only surviving brother, lived at Wotton Park, or, as it has been for many years called, Wooton Lodge, near Ellaston, Staffordshire. The latter was M.P. for Stafford Borough 1812-18, bearing the surname Wilson only. The entry in the Matriculation Register of the University is : "1821.-March 14. Johannes Wilson, 18, Johannis de Wotton Park in Com. Staffordiæ. arm. fil. unic." These extracts I have obtained from the Registrar. 6 The name John attributed to the father should be Thomas. This error is naturally repeated in Foster's Alumni Oxonienses.' dated 9 Jan., 1909, from the Rev. W. D. The following is an extract from a letter, Macray of Ducklington Rectory, Witney :— "I was able to go to Oxford yesterday, and in our College [i.e. Magdalen] MS. Room I looked at a vol. of Dr. Bloxam's valuable collections relating to all members of the College, at a list of Gentleman Commoners, and his entry at the of Thomas Wilson, of Wotton Park, co. Staff., year 1821 is : Wilson, John [Patten], only son matric. 14 Feb., 1821, aged 18.'" As to the difference in date, i.e., between that perhaps John Wilson was admitted as a February and March, the Registrar suggests member of Magdalen College on 14 February, but not presented to the Vice Chancellor and matriculated until 14 March. In 1823, or possibly 1824, Thomas Wilson resumed the name of Patten. There is a tablet in the old Protestant Cemetery at Naples, in memory of his elder son, having the following inscription: "Thomas Patten Wilson died October 28, 1819. Aged 18 years.' 22 In the Patten Chapel in the old parish church, Warrington, is a tablet in memory of the same. In this he is called Thomas Wilson Patten. Being a somewhat elaborate male figures and two female, as well as an work of art, presenting in bas-relief two until a considerable time after the death; urn and torch, it was probably not put up if before 1823, no doubt Thomas Wilson had already determined to resume his old name, and to call himself Wilson Patten, without loss of the Wilson (Cheshire) estate, when the opportunity came. This change, was feasible in 1823, when John (afterwards Lord Winmarleigh) came of age. The following is from William Williams Mortimer's History of the Hundred of Wirral,' 1847, p. 283, s.v. 'Woodchurch': by his will, dated at Bath, 1779, bequeathed his "Dr. Wilson, who died the 15th April, 1784, property in this parish to Thomas Macklin of Derby, Esq., with remainder, in default of male issue, to Thomas, second son of Thomas Patten of Bank Hall in the county of Lancaster, Esq., upon condition of assuming the name, arms, and crest of Wilson only. On the entail being barred in the year 1823, Mr. Wilson resumed the surname and arms of Wilson after Patten [sic] and his eldest son and heir, John Wilson Patten of Bank Hall, Esq., one of the representatives in Parliament for the northern division of Lancashire, is P. 216), who died in 1755, aged 91, should have troubled himself about a change of name which was to affect a man born in at present lord of the manor of Woodchurch.' A foot-note refers to the genealogical collections of Thomas Douning Hibbert, of the Middle Temple, Esq. In the above there can be little doubt that Wilson after Patten" should be "Patten after Wilson." 66 In Paterson's Roads,' 16th ed., 1822, p. 481, col. 1, appears Wooton Lodge, Col. Wilson." This is repeated ibid., col. 3, and p. 482, col. 3. In the 18th ed., 1826, pp. 483, 484, is "Wooton Lodge, T. W. Patten, Esq." In the 16th ed., 1822, p. 442, is, s.v. Warrington,' Bank Hall, unoccupied (Peter Patten Bold, elder brother of Thomas Wilson, died in 1819 without male issue). In the 18th ed., p. 444, is, 8.v. 'Warrington,' Bank Hall, Thomas Wilson Patten, Esq." I have examined the Warrington ratebook, and found 1821. Thomas P. Wilson, Esq. 1822. Thomas Wilson, Esq. 1823. Thomas Wilson, Esq. 1824. Thomas Patten, Esq. It is apparent that he resumed his original name in 1823 (or possibly early in 1824). No doubt the particulars for Paterson's Roads had to be gathered a considerable time before the date of publication. Presumably Thomas Macklin assumed the name of Wilson in lieu of Macklin, and died without male issue in or about 1800. It is. I think, worth noting that nowhere in the Patten chapel-whether on the tablets or on the monument in memory of Anna Maria (wife of John Wilson Patten), who died 1846, and of the same John Wilson Patten, Lord Winmarleigh, who died 1892 is there a hyphen between the two surnames Wilson and Patten, excepting on the brass recording the names and dates of those buried in the vault, including Lord Winmarleigh, and further recording that "the vault was filled up and finally closed 14 July, 1892." son, As to the allegation, e.g. in Burke's 'Commoners,' that Thomas Patten" assumed the additional surname of Wilson at the request of the Bishop of Sodor and Man, and by the testamentary injunction of his lordship's "I have, I think, shown that Wilson was taken in lieu of Patten; and further, I have found no evidence beyond the modern assertion that the Bishop had any concern in the matter. Indeed, it is scarcely likely that one of the poorest prelates in Europe (see History of the Hundred of Wirral,' 92 1770, and which was made a condition of inheritance of an estate which never belonged to him, but was bought by his son. Thomas Wilson (formerly Patten, and afterwards Wilson Patten) married, 1800, Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Nathaniel Hyde, Esq., of Ardwick (not Urdwick, as given in the Dict. of Nat. Biography '). It is asserted that his son John (Lord Winmarleigh) travelled for some years, but returned in 1830." He was married to his first cousin, Anna Maria, a daughter of Peter Patten Bold, formerly Patten, 15 April, 1828, at St. George's, Hanover Square (see Gentleman's Magazine, 1828, pt. i. p. 362). "By her," it is asserted, he left a son Eustace John." The said Eustace John died more than eighteen years before his father. There were two sons and four daughters. The younger son, Arthur, born 1841, Lieut. 1st Batt. Rifle Brigade, died unmarried at Quebec, 1866. The elder, Eustace John (born 1836, died 1873), Capt. 1st Life Guards, married in 1863 Emily Constantia, daughter of the Rev. Lord John Thynne. By her he had one son -John Alfred, born 1867, Lieut. 1st Life Guards, who died unmarried in 1889and two daughters: Constance Ellinor, who married, 1892, Col. the Hon. Osbert Victor G. A. Lumley; and Evelyn Louisa, the Hon. Charles who married, 1896, Harbord. Lord Winmarleigh had four daughters: Anna Maria (died s.p. 1869), married to the Rev. Robert Rolleston; Ellinor; Vanda (died s.p. 1861), married to Thomas Henry Lyon of Appleton Hall, Cheshire; and Elizabeth. Beside the bust of Lord Winmarleigh by G. Bromfield Adams in the Warrington Museum, there is one by Warrington Wood in the Town Hall, a poor production. ROBERT PIERPOINT. St. Austins, Warrington. The British Museum has a copy of the English version issued in 1772, but does not possess that published in the following year, which, on account of the statements prefixed by the publisher, is of considerable interest in relation to what Isaac D'Israeli loved to regard as the secret history of literature. The title-page reads :— Usong. An Oriental history in four books, translated from the German of Baron Albert von Haller, President of the Royal Society at Gottingen, and the Economical Society at Bern, &c. London: printed for J. Wilkie, No. 71, St. Paul's Church-yard; C. Heydinger, opposite Essex Street, Strand; and S. Leacroft, Charing Cross. MDCCLXXIII. The volume opens with a the Queen, by the translator. the Advertisement dedication to Then follows expresses himself concerning the Translation: 'I did not know whether Usong translated in is actually in the Press, and the beginning printed English, would ever be printed, but now I find it off." A few days after his first volume was ready for publication, and the proprietors of this being informed therof, found that the Rev. Mr. Pl-a had himself employed the Printer and the Book seller. They accordingly waited on him a second time, and offered him Twenty Guineas, besides paying all expenses for paper and print, to desist from publishing his Translation; or to accept of precisely the same Conditions from him, and stop the publication of this edition. The Reverend Translator then owned his translation, but thought proper however to reject this equitable proposal. It was just, it was honourable, it was fair. titious Edition of a Work, whether taking adWhether the Stealing into the world a Surrepvantage of the Advertisement inserted by the Proprietors of the following Translation, and selling upon that advertisement; whether infring To the Public in General and the Booksellers in ing upon an honorary engagement, rigidly observed Particular. A Surreptitious English Edition of this Work, translated at second hand from the French, having lately appeared, the Proprietors of the following Translation from the German Original think it incumbent on them to acquaint the Public in general, and the Trade in particular, with the several remarkable circumstances attending this Publication. In the beginning of the year 1772, the Proprietors of this Translation caused the following Advertisement to be inserted in most of the Town and Country News-Papers : "In the Press, and soon to be published, Usong; An Oriental History. Translated from the German Original of Baron Albert von Haller, &c. Printed for C. Heydinger, opposite Essex Street, Strand." This Advertisement being several times repeated, the Proprietors thought they had effectually secured to themselves an Exclusive Right in the copy of the said Translation. Amongst the Trade such procedure is deemed quite sufficient to establish a Property in any work translated from a foreign language. Some time after this present Translation had been taken in hand, a German copy of Usong was presented to our most amiable Queen, by the desire of Baron Haller. After a perusal thereof Her Majesty expressed a wish of seeing it soon Translated into English. This hint was sufficient to set a Labourer in the Gospel Vineyard to work, the Rev. Mr. Pl-a zealously undertook the task, and Interestedly published his Translation, though he was informed, when he borrowed the German Original of Mr. Heydinger, that a Translation was in hand. As soon as the Proprietors heard of this Rev. Mr. Pl-a's Translation, one of them waited on him, with a view of accommodating matters; but he then denied his having translated the Work, and expressed some knowledge of a Translation undertaken by some of his acquaintance, which he however thought would never be printed. Six days after (Nov. 13, 1772) he sent a letter to Mr. Heydinger, wherein he thus by all men of rectitude in the Bookselling branch of business; whether this be not dishonourable, unfair, and totally unbecoming the character of a Clerical Translator, who highly declared himself void of self-interest, let the Public determine. All that the Proprietors will say for themselves is that at a considerable expence they have undertaken this Edition, and under every discouragement they have completed it, as well to assert their own, as to maintain the rights of others in the Trade; since, if those honorary engagements, which are now by Booksellers deemed Sacred, should once be broken through, literary Property is at an end, and no man will think of undertaking a Translation, the right to which he cannot ascertain, nor secure the property thereof. The blank left in the name of the rival translator is easily supplied. The Rev. Andrew Planta, F.R.S., was "reader to Queen Charlotte, and from 1758 until his death was an assistant librarian in the British Museum. He died in 1773. His son Joseph Planta was a distinguished antiquary, became Principal Librarian of the British Museum, and died in 1827 at the age of eighty-three. It is a little curious that the British Museum should not contain this edition, but it does not appear in the printed Catalogue. WILLIAM E. A. AXON. insinuate what I believe to be untrue, viz., that the Icenhilde Way passed through Ickleton. This was an assumption made by former antiquaries, merely because both words began with the same two letters; much as if we were to assume that model is derived from the Lat. monere because both words begin with mo-. The A.-S. name of Ickleton was Iceling-tun; and, as I have already said in my Place-Names of Cambs,' Ickleton has no more to do with the Icenhilde Way than Icklingham in Suffolk has, or the Ickleford in Herts. No one My contention is that this ridiculous identification of Ickleton with the course of the old way makes an utter mess of the course of that way. The theory was that a man going from Newmarket to Royston would follow the road from Newmarket towards Great Chesterford all the way to the place called Stump Cross, about a mile short of Chesterford; and then he would get across the Cam as soon as he could (for the sole purpose of passing through Ickleton), and then go across country where there is no very good road even now, till he regained the Royston high road. would ever have done anything so transcendently foolish. He would quit the great road from Newmarket to Chesterford some three miles short of Stump Cross, at a point twelve miles from Newmarket, and go a little to the right to Pampisford, cross the Cam at Whittlesford by the ford there, and follow the great road to Royston. Whatever direction the old road took, it could not have been very different from this at any time, because the route is so extremely direct and obvious, and the name of the ford over the Cam is still pre served. I cannot believe that the idea of going through Ickleton would ever have arisen if it had not been for the unlucky accident that its name began with Ic-. But if we are to be guided by such considerations as chance resemblance, surely the road should have driven through Ickenham in Middlesex ; for this resembles the roadname in two syllables, and not in two letters only. WALTER W. SKEAT. 'BEOWULF: HEMMING OF WORCESTER.After a minute examination and a careful comparison-in 1908-of the handwritings of the two MSS. now in the British Museum labelled MS. Cotton, Tiberius, A. XIII. and MS. Vitellius A. XV., I wish to give my results to your readers for their further research and criticism. The first MS. is the well-authenticated Monk Hemming," monk and vellum of the afterwards Sub-Prior of Worcester, who compiled by the command of Bishop Wulfstan a Chartulary of the Church of Worcester,' printed by Thomas Hearne (1728) under the Chartularium Ecclesiæ title Hemingii Wigiorniensis. The Chartulary is identified as the work of Hemming under his own declaration on p. 132 in folio B, in the printed edition on p. 282. The Chartulary is written in verse arranged as prose. The handwriting is nearly all that of Hemming himself, and is in a good Norman hand. The names of persons and places which are in the Saxon characters are A few of the freely and readily written. charters have been copied for Hemming by other scribes, but all have been verified, and the signatures usually written by Hemming. Prof. Maitland, in The Victoria History of Worcester,' has this to say of Hemming's Chartulary : "There is hardly a long series of charters which is of better repute than the line of land books which belonged to the church of Worcester. And where Hemming's work can be tested, it generally gains credit." in order of date are the charters of the The Chartulary has three divisions: first Conquest; next come the documents and narratives relating to the "Period of Conquest"; thirdly, a brief survey of the lands held by the Monastery of Worcester. Charter signers Among the names of the are many of the names mentioned in the poem 'Beowulf.' 2 The MS. of Beowulf was discovered in 1705, and first mentioned in Wanley's Catalogue. As this poem has been so frequently translated and discussed, it would be out of place to mention that it has been traditionally known to have had two scribes. The second hand is said to have com- These lines are said by Thorpe to be 'barely intelligible." I disagree with him, and say that these lines are the key to the author and scribe of the poem. I identify Hemming as the scribe of the whole poem. While there are slight differences in the shape of a few of the letters in the handwriting of the first and of the later part of the MS., they are, in my opinion, only the differences in the handwriting of a |