of Charles Cornwallis, of Rock (who claimed descent from Edward I through the Jernegans, Calthorpes, and de la Poles). The pedigree "G. E. C." sent me gives this Edward Allen six daughters (one of whom is my ancestress) and no son, but the deeds of the Finchley Charity Estates refer to another Sir Thomas Allen, who was party to a conveyance in 1714. In 1780 the Manor of Finchley was in the possession of Thomas Allen, "great-grandson of Sir Thomas Allen," presumably the earlier Sir Thomas. According to "G. E. C." he was " in remainder to estates of his father, with remainder, failing his issue, to the heirs of testator's great-grandfather Sir Thomas Allen." The earlier pedigree derives from Richard Allen, and Mary, daughter of Henry Hed, Sheriff of London, through Thomas Allen, citizen and haberdasher of London, Edward Allen, Alderman, Sheriff 1620-21, and thence to Sir Thomas, who was "of Finchley" in 1636. to When I last saw the Manor House the entrance gates still bore the eagle crests of Allen family. the Is it known how and when the estates passed away from the Allens, and can the later pedigree be verified? The latest memorial that I noted in St. Mary's Church, Finchley, was to "Thomas Allen, Esquire, of Finchley Manor House and of Henrietta Street, Cavendish Square, London," who died in 1830, aged 72. P. D. MUNDY. BENJAMIN SAMBOURNE. Who were the parents of Benjamin Sambourne, who married Ann Wheat at St. Edwards, Cambridge, 2 May, 1756? DECEM. ALICE DE NEUBURGH, COUNTESS OF WARWICK. This lady, who was a daughter of Sir Robert (I) de Harcourt of Stanton Harcourt, co. Oxford, married as her second husband, and he her as his third wife, Waleran de Neuburgh, 4th Earl of Warwick, in 1198, they being the ancestors in the female lineage of the de Mauduits and de Beauchamps Earls of Warwick, and other illustrious families On the decease of Earl Waleran, Dec. 12, 1204, his widow Alice had [This subject came up in our first volume at 1 S. i. 244, and again at 2 S. vii. 374. At 8 S. i. 307, MR. E. STREDDER, after remarking that the custom of eating hot cross buns was local rather than national, traced these buns back to the sacred cakes made in honour of Diana. At 9 S.. v. 334 PROF. HENRY ATTWELL protested against the new way of making hot cross buns without spice (which should bring to mind the embalming of Our Lord) and with currantsan incorrection. At 10 S. ix. MR. THOMAS RATCLIFFE mentioned the custom of keeping one of the hot cross buns "for luck" till the following Good Friday, and stated that some old women would administer bits grated from the bun so preserved to children as medicine for small ailments. At ibid. p. 436 MR. JOHN HEBB quotes Father Thurston, in the Tablet of Apr. 18, 1908, as asserting that the hot cross bun was originally a Lenten ration of dry bread, and that the spice and currants are post-Reformation additions. It has also been stated, we do not know on what authority, that the buns were made of what remained of the dough from which the altar-breads for Easter Communion were prepared.] HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN': SOURCE OF QUOTATION WANTED. Could any reader help me to the source of a quotation of Scott's in the Heart of Mid-Lothian,' quite at the end of chapter xlvii. Manu French words, are they a translation? The sea of Ambition is tempest tost, And thy hopes may vanish like foam; But when sails are shivered and rudder lost, Then look to the light of home. And when, like a star through the dark night cloud, Thou shalt see the beacon bright; For never till shining on thy shroud, Should be quenched its holy light. W. W. 2. What is the origin of the expression: "masks and faces"? A. H. COOPER-PRICHARD. Replies. ST. MICHAN'S CHURCH, DUBLIN. (cliv. 155, 196). I VISITED this Church before the War, and saw all the vaults and chambers ship. were leading out of them. The bodies leathery, as your correspondent says, and I handled several of them. The chambers belong to private families, and deceased members were still placed in them. The coffins are piled one on the top of another, and not buried in the ground. Two I specially remember-one the vault of the Hamiltons: the coffins stand upright on their feet, facing the door, so that their occupants can walk out of them at the Judgment Day, so the verger informed me! The other, that of the Earls of Leitrim, with the coronets on the coffins. I specially remember the coffin of the third Earl, who was murdered 2 April, 1878. His nephew and successor, Mr. Robert Clements (the 4th Earl) was then living in this immediate neighbourhood, and one of his daughters was baptized at Oxon Church. A medical friend who visited Palermo and its monastery told me that the soil there was of a similar character; and that it was the custom, when a monk died, to inter his body in the soil for six months, and then to disinter him, and vest the corpse (which had become leathery) in his monastic habit, and place him in a vault in the monastery behind glass with other deceased monks. My friend had seen this array of dead monks, but said that the Government had lately stopped the practice of disinterring their corpses. What is it that, at St. Michan's and at Palermo, stops the usual decay of dead bodies, and causes them to become hardened and leathery? W. G. D. FLETCHER, F.S.A. Oxon Vicarage, Shrewsbury. ALLPORT FAMILY (cliv. 102, 139, 176). Since I communicated my reply to ' N. & Q.' I find that I have a very full pedigree of the family to which Captain Allport belonged. He was sixth in direct lineal descent from William Allport of Wolverhampton, whose wife Margaret was buried at St. Peter's, in that town, in 1648, and was the ninth child of Thomas Allport of London (1758 to 1818), by his wife Martha daughter of William Bensted of Maidstone. Rowland Allport was born 10 Dec., 1797, went into the Merchant Marine Service, married in India, I possess the original silver seal of William Alport of Cannock, who entered his pedigree at the Visitation of Staffordshire in 1663. It is engraved with the Alport arms and crest, and is here reproduced. W. G. D. FLETCHER, F.S.A. Oxon Vicarage, Shrewsbury. BLOTTING-PAPER AND INKSTANDS (cliii. 459; cliv. 35, 68, 105, 142, 212). — From the correspondence which has appeared in 'N. &Q.' on the above subject, it is evident that the origin of blotting-paper is remote. When I first framed my enquiry, I more particularly interested in an endeavour to obtain information as to the approximate date of the deletion from inkstands of the bottle with pierced top to contain pounce or sand. was The earliest silver inkstand I have examined was hall-marked late seventeenth cen- tury. This was of the box form with two hinged lids, and three spaces, one for ink, another for presumably-wafers, the third for pounce, i.e., sand. In the Queen Anne, George I and George II periods, the inkstand, or standish," usually had two covered bottles of solid silver, and a table-bell in centre between them. Those made in the reign of George III were almost invariably of the three-bottle type, one with a pierced top for sand, one completely covered, the third with three small holes for the pen. George IV and William IV ink stands usually had two bottles for ink with centre taper and box part. I have never come across a silver inkstand with pierced top for sand or pounce that could be dated as made during the years 1726-36, or in early Victorian times, and should be extremely interested to learn that one exists. Why I refer to silver specimens is due to the fact that by the hall-marks alone can the definite date of their manufacture be accurately fixed. It would appear therefore from the evidence that blotting-paper came into more SUNDAY ENTERTAINMENTS (cliv. 136). In America theatrical entertainments are permitted or forbidden on Sunday according to local desire. In New York, for legitimate drama is giv given, instance, no although vaudeville and "movies" show to large patronage. In Chicago, on the other hand, all theatres, including the opera during its season, give well-attended performances at prices calculated to be popular. This is generally the case in large cities. But many good-sized towns forbid even "movies" on Sunday. Evanston, with 60,000 inhabitants, adjoining Chicago to the north, a residential community, and four of the suburban towns along Lake Michigan above it, are content to have their theatres closed; but two large ،، movie" palaces built the last street AS VOLUNTARY The The MISSIONARIES SLAVES (cliv. 83). In the history of the Christian missions there are many examples of missionaries selling themselves as slaves in order to preach the Gospel. most known personality of such missionaries was St. Vincent de Paul (1576-1660). history of his missionary work in voluntary slavery you will find particularly well described in Loth's 'St. Vincent et sa mission sociale' (Paris, 1880), and Maynard's 'St. Vincent, sa vie, son temps, ses oeuvres, son influence' (Paris, 1860). Further examples of missionaries as voluntary slaves you will find among the members of the Order of St. Trinity (Ordo sanctae Trinitatis de redemptione captivorum), in whose intentions was the apostolic activity among the captives and slaves. A history of this order is Gmelin's 'Die Litteratur zur Geschichte des Ordens St. Trinitatis' in Serapeum, vol. xxi. More information on this subject you would find-if you could reach this very rare book-in P. Josephus a S. Maria: Captionis Redemptor' (Sacræ Caesareæ, 1736). Olomouc, Czechoslovakia. OTTO F. BABLER. within the Chicago city limits to the north ARTIFICIAL STONE (cliv. 210). In his are packed every Sunday by citizens from the places without entertainment. Winnetka, Illinois. PAUL MCPHARLIN. BEADLE'S AMERICAN LIBRARY (cliv. 138). Erastus F. Beadle (born at Pierstown, Otsego County, New York, 11 Sept., 1821) issued the first of his booklets, generally known as Dime Novels," about 1859. They became vastly popular in the succeeding two decades, and many imitations of them flourished. Orville J. Victor was their editor. A note reprinted in brochure from the Bulletin of the New York Public Library of July, 1922, 'The Beadle Collection of Dime Novels Given to the New York Public Library by Dr. Frank P. O'Brien' says of him, "For thirty years, Victor personally studied, passed upon and edited the thousands of publications of the House of Beadle. He History of Renaissance Architecture in England' Sir Reginald Blomfield states, p. 268: “After 1750 stucco architecture, to a great extent, superseded brick building." Referring to the period 1786-7, I myself wrote in Architecture: 11 او A invented by the elder Bacon, the sculptor, and first established by Mr. or Mrs. Coade of Lyme Regis in 1769. It was afterwards Austin and Seeley's and was removed to the New Road. The material was said to be frost-resisting, and was used for 'The Death of Nelson' over the west portico of Greenwich Hospital (designed by West, and executed by Bacon and Panzetta), and the rood screen of St. George's Chapel, Windsor. Many artificial stones are in use to-day (cf. Ency. Brit.' 11 Ed., vi. 837d). ، C. M. P. PHOENICIAN NAMES IN ENGLAND (cliv. 189, 232). Mr. L. A. Waddell (The Phoenician Origin of Britons, Scots and Anglo-Saxons,' London, 1924) deals with the subject of Phœnician place-names in the British Isles. In spite of its aggressive title and aim, this book contains a mass of illuminating information on the connection of the Phœnicians with this country, and goes to show that they not only visited our shores to obtain tin, but that they conquered and colonised the country and ruled it with Phœnician kings for some thousand years or so, and by inter-marrying with the natives that their blood is to be found in the present inhabitants. There is more in Mr. Waddell's theory than one would be prepared to suppose at first sight. The subject of placenames is open to much speculation, and there are many pitfalls to be met with in its examination, though with the publications of the English Place-Name Society much is now teing done to place it on a scientific basis. Some writers, on the other hand, refuse to recognise in Cornish present-day names any connection with Baal worship and the Phœnicians. It is an interesting subject for investigation, though the documentary evidence has almost entirely disappeared. FREDK. A. EDWARDS. "KYD," ILLUSTRATOR OF DICKENS WILBERFORCE: OBITUARY NOTICES (cliv. 138, 213). -I think that some further information regarding Mr. Clarke would be very acceptable. Is he still living? Some twenty years ago, there was a barber's shop in Hand Court off Holborn, where original portrait sketches of Dickens charac ters, signed by "Kyd," many of them duplicated, but all hand drawn and colored, could be obtained at prices from one shilling upwards. I possess several of them, and I know a collector who owns some complete sets of characters from the novels, which he thought were unique, but I hardly think can be so. Kyd" appeared to be clever artist, skilful in producing portraits true to the spirit of the author of the novels. It seems strange that he has not risen to greater fame as an illustrator of Dickens. Are any of his drawings in the Dickens collections at the Guildhall and at the Museum in Doughty Street.? a R. (cliv. 189). brief obituary William Wilberforce is given in 'The Annals of Yorkshire,' compiled by John Mayhall, and published in Leeds, 1862. The notice is given under date July 28, 1833. H. ASKEW. CHURCHES WITH SHOPS ATTACHED (cliv. 189). Perhaps the most curious example of a church with shops attached is provided by Richmond, Yorks. Holy Trinity Church, in the market place, has a dwellinghouse and shop wedged in between the nave and steeple. Around two sides and at the west end are various business establishments. Mr. Edmund Bogg mentions the following: two tobacconists and hairdressers, a sixpennyhalfpenny bazaar, and a dealer in antique wares: He also says that wedged round the base of the tower are a saddler and leather merchant's shop, a dealer in corn and meal, and a decorator and picture-framer. H. ASKEW. JOBSON FAMILY (cliv. 119, 177). My thanks are due to the kind help of MR. J. ARDAGH and MR. H. ASKEW. It would seem that Thos. Jobson of Rymswell in Holderness, who dated a will in 1555, was the nephew or father of Richard, afterwards Sir Richard. Were Peter, Stephen and Francis brothers of Thomas? If so, presumably one of them was older than he, and was the father of Sir Francis (1550). Our genealogical history says: He [Sir Francis] married the Lady Elizabeth Plantagenet, had 4 sons. John the eldest married Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Richard Pexall, Esq., of Beaurepaire in the County of Southampton, Knight and master of Buckhounds to Queen Elizabeth and had 1 son and 2 daughters. The son's name was Pexall and from him the direct line would descend. Is anything of him known? The arms of Sir Richard are as those of Sir Francis, Paly of six argent and azure, a chevron ermine between three eagles displayed, or, armed gules. But the crest we use is different. It is, On a hand extended argent, a falcon close, or, over all a mantle gules doubled ermine. Motto, Patientia et Animis. It would seem a likely crest for a Queen's falconer to choose on his knighthood. Would not members of a family, while bearing the same arms, choose their individual crest when receiving knighthood? There is a Yorkshire family to which Wal ter Jobson (1570) probably belonged, but their arms and crest are quite different from the above. "de" It would be interesting to discover how the came to be used for Sir Richard, it being the only time it is used in the whole history, which adds "that his ancestors appear to have inter-married with most of the principal families in the South of England." This history does not deal with them, as it is concerned with the Scottish branch. I. M. JOBSON. There is IZOD FAMILY (cliv. 210). pedigree of the Irish branch of this family in Burke's ‘Landed Gentry,' editions 3 to 8. An early pedigree (four generations to 1623) will be found in The Visitation of Gloucester, published by the Harleian Society, p. 95. See also Fenwick and Metcalfe's 'Visitation of Gloucester,' p. 97. H. J. B. CLEMENTS. No complete record of their children has, as yet, been found. Therefore, a partial list may be in order. The first child appears to have been a Katharine baptized at Islington, in January, 1683 (9 S. xii. 185), but she must have been one of those who died in infancy. Next was also a Katharine, baptized 27 March, 1683/4 (see The Genealogist, series, xxv. 10). new 1 May, 1685, Margaret, d. of Edmund and Mary Hally (so the register reads) was baptized (see Registers of St. Benet's and St. Peter's, Paul's Wharf,' vol. i., p. 48; Harl. Soc., London, 1909). The elder surviving daughter, Margaret Halley, was born circa 1688, for she died 13 Oct., 1743, in the fifty-fifth year of her age (cliii. 159). The younger surviving daughter, Mrs. Catharine Price (formerly Butler), was born circa 1688. She died 10 Nov., 1765, aged 77 years (ibid.). Edmond Halley, jun., Surgeon R. N., who seems to have been the astronomer's only maturing son, was born circa 1698, for he gave his age as forty years at the time of his marriage, 4 May, 1738, to Sybilla Freeman, widow (11 S. iv. 164). Further information will be gratefully received. EUGENE F. MCPIKE. WARBURTON FAMILY (cliii. 117, s.v. 'John Pond Astronomer Royal').-It was suggested at the reference that a Henry Warburton was, perhaps, related to Eliot Warburton. The latter's nephew, Mr George Warburton, of Springhill, Malvern Wells, Worcestershire, informs me that this is not so, although both were at Trinity College, Cambridge, if we are to identify this Henry Warburton with his namesake in the 'D. N. B.', who was a member of Parliament for Bridport, in Dorsetshire. AUTHORS EUGENE F. MCPIKE. WANTED (cliv. 210). 2. H. E. G. E. has kindly informed me that this Greek quotation occurs in the Memoir of Lord Tennyson by his son, vol. i., p. 317, chapter xiv. The source, I find, is given in a footnote on p. 266 of the later one-volume edition (1899). See Plato, Phaedo,' 77A, where the passage, appearing in the 'Memoir'in a slightly condensed form, runs as follows :Οὐ γὰρ ἔχω ἔγωγε οὐδὲν οὕτω μοι ἐναργὲς ὂν ὡς DR. EDMOND HALLEY'S CHILDREN τοῦτο, τὸ πάντα τὰ τοιαῦτ ̓ εἶναι ὡς οἱόντε μάλιστα (9 S. xii. 126). -The astronomer Halley καλόντε καὶ ἀγαθὸν καὶ τἆλλα πάντα ἃ σὺ νῦν δὴ and Mary Tooke were married 20 April, 1682 | ἔλεγες. (11 S. iv. 85, 198). EDWARD BENSLY. |