daughter and coheiress of Symon Paterick, only son of Symon, late Lord Bishop of Ely, by whom he had two sons, Charles, late Archdeacon of Wilts, and now Prebendary of Durham, London, and Lincoln, and Rector of Therfield, in Hertfordshire, and Edward, who died at Batavia, in the East Indies, 1762. His second wife was Anne, younger daughter of John Fountayne, late of High Melton, in the county of York, Esq., by whom also he had two children, William, who died 22 April, 1767, in the service of the East India Company in Bengal, and Anne, who married in the year 1766 to Sir Jacob Wolff, Bart. of Great Britain, and Baron of the Roman Empire. He died at Buxton, the 15th day of July, in the 68th year of his age and in the year of our Lord 1770, in sincere repentance of many and great transgressions and in the humble hope of a happy resurrection, through ye unbounded mercies of God in Christ Jesus." W. P. COURTNEY. "SPANCEL."-A spancel is a kind of tether. In the Century Dictionary' it is derived from the Mid. Du. span-zeel, which Hexham explains by "horse-fetters or shackles"; cf. Mod. Du. spansel. And, of course, the Du. zeel, a rope, is cognate with A.-S. sal, a rope; as is duly noted. But spancel is a good old North-Country word, as noted by Ray in 1691. So I see no reason why it may not be a native word, though rather of Norse than of Wessex origin. Thus the true components are rather to be seen in the Icel. spönn (stem spann-), a span; and seil, a rope (with voiceless s, not voiced z). The sense is ". a rope a span long i.e., a very short rope indeed, as it was used for fastening the two hind-legs of a cow or horse together. I believe the sense stretched rope," as given in the 'Century Dictionary,' is unoriginal. The point is that the rope was short and unyielding. The heraldic use is somewhat different, and later. A horse spancelled" has a fore-leg and a hind-leg joined by a wooden clog having a short chain at each end. WALTER W. SKEAT. 66 66 66 MINUTE-MEN."-Garfield, as a boy, was called by some one a minute-man," and, asking the meaning, was told : "Men in the Revolution, who stood ready to defend their country at a moment's warning, were minute-men. Then I'm a minute-man,' promptly answered the future President." From Log-Cabin to White House,' by Wm. M. Thayer, forty-ninth edition, 1897, p. 108. JAMES HOOPER. Queries. WE must request correspondents desiring infor mation 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. ADMIRAL SIR CHARLES TYLER, G.C.B.-I am now engaged in compiling a biography of this distinguished naval officer. During his service he commanded H.M.S. Meleager (at Toulon), L'Aigle, Diadem, Warrior, and Tonnant (at Trafalgar). I shall be very grateful for any information concerning him. His father was Capt. Peter Tyler, 52nd Regiment, and his mother Anne, daughter of the eighth Lord Teynham. Of what family was Peter Tyler? W. H. WYNDHAM-QUIN, M.P. Late Major 16th Lancers. "MELIUS SUPERIUS INDUMENTUM."-In a composition between the vicar of St. Gluvias, in Cornwall, and the burgesses of the neighbouring town of Penryn, bearing date at Glasney College, October, 1322, the vicar's claim to "melius superius indumentum" of every servant and lodger dying in Penryn was upheld and allowed. The best upper cloak is an unusual mortuary. Is the word "indumentum" ever used for the bed-cover -a not unusual mortuary? YGREC. MENILEK. The Queen of Sheba said to Solomon, "What shall we call our son?" and he answered, "Menilek, meaning from me to thee." Where can I find this? I should be glad of the reference. RICHARD HEMMING. 11, East Grove, C.-on-M., Manchester. to the publication of Burke's 'Armory' (in 1842 I believe)? Has any one seen them on monuments, stained glass, &c.? The three wheatsheaves might indicate some connexion with Cheshire. G. S. P. TITIAN AT WARWICK CASTLE.-In Tennyson's 'Life' mention is made of the poet's visit to Warwick Castle, and of his having been much struck by a portrait of Machiavelli by Titian. Dr. Waagen doubts both painter and subject, and cannot recognize "either the conception and execution of Titian or the features of Machiavelli," but says that the young man has a sensible countenance, and the painting indicates a great master whose style much resembles that of Giovanni Battista Moroni, of Bergamo. Murray's 'Warwickshire' makes no mention of the picture. Can any one inform me whether the picture is still at Warwick; if not, where it is to be found, and whether any decision has been arrived at as to master and subject? B. W. S. PALMER FAMILY.-It is recorded in a West of England newspaper that a Miss Palmer was born at York 13 January, 1856, the only daughter of the late Rev. H. V. Palmer, rector of St. Margaret's, York, who is described as a descendant of Palmer of Wingham, through Sir Roger Palmer, afterwards Lord Castlemaine. Mr. Palmer had been an officer of artillery before his ordination, and his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather had also be longed to the_ariny. The only recorded descendant of Roger, Earl of Castlemaine, in the Palmer pedigree at Dorney Court, was the Lady Anne Palmer, who married the Earl of Sussex in 1675. Whence does the Palmer family above noted deduce its pedigree? S. S. CALENDS. HERALDIC. As a sequel to the question at 9th S. iii. 308, I ask what means should be employed to ascertain the authority for arms borne by exiles who left France at the close of the seventeenth century? It is probable that even the old armorials published in France are incomplete, and, in any case, they could hardly be conclusive evidence. Has not the democratic spirit in France resulted in the abolition of the office of Judge of Arms, and with it the possibility of any search-authoritative or otherwise-for information (1) in confirmation of any claimed right to bear French arms; or (2) to elucidate the origin of the arms borne by French exiles? MARKEN. THE AGE OF HUMAN BONES.-How is this arrived at in the absence of any indications of the date of burial? For example, I have KERR.-Can any of your numerous readers supply me with information concerning one Lewis Kerr, who was Attorney-General of the Bahamas about 1839, and of his parentage; also of the date and place of the marriage of his daughter, Mary or Mona, with Capt. James Edward Boggis of the 55th Regiment about that time? D. H. BOGGIS-ROLFE. "OLD CLUSTRUM."--- This is the popular name given to a painted wooden figure in Halifax Parish Church, which stands close to one of the pillars at the west end, holding a box for alms for the poor. I cannot find any information as to the origin of the name or the history of the figure, and shall be glad of any help. ALF. GARDINER. Leeds. BLESSING CATTLE.-In Brittany a custom still exists of blessing cattle by the bishop at a special service. Are there any records of similar services being held in the United Kingdom at any period? If there was not a general blessing, were selected or typical animals ever taken to church to be blessed? Did the pre-Reformation Church in any way recognize the cattle of our R. HEDGER WALLACE. ancestors? Sea View, Lower Largo, Fife. ANGLICISMS.-Am I right in applying the term "anglicism" to such idioms as "Mr. X. wishes the book sending at once"; "That house needs a lot doing to it"; or is it only my provincial ear that fails to appreciate them? I noted these two examples lately from the mouths of educated natives of Yorkshire and Buckinghamshire. Is the usage found in any standard English writer? A MERE SCOTCHMAN. cutting off the second 1, while we double it in idyllic, as we do in metallic and libellous. Fulfil, fulfilling is not a case in point, but it shows the English dislike for a final double / in a dissyllable, even when the accent is on the last syllable. M. R. [Tennyson, as a matter of fact, wavered a great deal between the two spellings "idyl" and "idyll," and it seems possible that a desire to distinguish his English pictures of country life and the later Arthurian cycle led to the adoption of the variant spellings. Analogy is a dangerous guide; why not follow the usual English spelling of to-day, viz., "idyll"=εidúλλtov? It can hardly be said to be wrong, even if in America "idyl" is usual.] SIR EDWARD BARNES.-Can any reader of 'N. & Q.' tell me the full name of the wife of Sir Edward Barnes, Governor of Ceylon, 1824-31 The 'D.N.B.' does not even mention that he was married. DONALD FERGUSON. 5, Bedford Place, Croydon. 'LIFE OF EDWARD II.'-I have in my library a small thin volume entitled "The Life of Edward II. with the Fates of Gavestone and the Spencers, a Poem in Three Cantos......Done from a Manuscript. London. Printed for Tho. Harbin at the Bible and Anchor in the New Exchange in the Strand. 1721." In the preface the manuscript is attributed, by way of conjecture, to a Richard Hobert, and the date of it is conjectured to be "about a hundred years ago," . e., reckoning from 1721, the date of this volume. Can any one give me more certain information about the author of this work, which seems to me considerably above mediocrity? C. LAWRENCE FORD. [It is by Sir Francis Hubert, died 1629, for particulars concerning whom see Mr. Gordon Goodwin's memoir in 'D.N.B.'] DR. THOMAS SANDERSON, ARCHDEACON OF ROCHESTER.-In his 'Annals of the English Bible,' 1862, p. 480, Mr. Christopher Anderson has, among the list of persons who translated the present version, "Dr. Thomas Sanderson, of Balliol College, Oxford (?), Archdeacon of Rochester in 1606." I should like to have further particulars regarding him, and also any information which may help to discover his ancestors, and, if he left any, his descendants. CHAS. H. CROUCH. Nightingale Lane, Wanstead. TAVERNER. I am desirous of ascertaining the name of the grandfather of Capt. Samuel Taverner. The captain was born at Romford in Essex, July, 1621, and he died at Dover, 4 August, 1696. He was the son of Samuel Taverner, who was buried at Romford, 28 October, 1641. During the Commonwealth he was Governor of Deal Castle, and he commanded a troop of horse under Cromwell. His arms on his tombstone at Dover are a bend lozengy, in the sinister chief point a torteau. Family history states that he was descended from Richard Taverner, A.M., of Brisley, Norfolk. A. - In the ABRIDGED MOTTO ON SUNDIAL. walled garden of the public grounds of Brockwell Park at Herne Hill I recently copied the following Latin inscription, which is dated 1775, on a sundial: "So: Doct Ho: In D." Can any one oblige me with the full wording of the inscription, which I have copied verbatim? I do not find it in Mrs. Gatty's book on sundials (third edition). RUSTICUS IN URBE. [Is it "Sol (or Solarium) docet horas in diem "?] MARRIAGES OF PERSONS ALREADY MARRIED TO EACH OTHER.--Notices of these occur in parish registers during the seventeenth century, and perhaps earlier; e.g., in those of St. George the Martyr, Queen Square, Middlesex, is, under 11 December, 1799, that of "John Richardson and Penelope Richardson, formerly Lucas, both of this parish, they having already been married to each other." At St. James's, Piccadilly, under 27 April, 1802, is the marriage of "The Rt Hon. William Edwards, Lord Kensington, and Rt Hon. Dorothy Edwards, Lady Kensington, formerly Dorothy Thomas, they having been already married to each other. Lic. Cant. Witnesses, Robert Baxter, Furnivals Inn. Pride. N.B. The former marriage was on 2 Dec. 1797. [Signed] R. B." [presumably Robert Baxter above named, who possibly was the family lawyer]. Samuel W. D. PINK. AUTHOR OF QUOTATION WANTED.- A LINCOLNSHIRE PRIEST. Beylies. CHINESE MEDICINE. (9th S. iii. 408.) IN reference to this procedure, which seems to be peculiar to the Celestial Empire, Sir John Davies, in his book on 'China,' vol. ii. p. 229 (London, John Murray, 1857), writes as follows: "The Chinese occasionally practise a species of forensic medicine, to ascertain from external indications the mode in which any person came by his death. A lad had one day been found dead in a house not far from the factories at Canton, and, as it was suspected that violence had occasioned his death, the magistrate instituted his court near to the spot. The several parties implicated or suspected were brought before him and examined, some of them with torture. The body being extended upon boards, a quantity of mash, composed of some grain in a boiling hot state, was laid over it. After a time this was removed, and from the appearance of the skin and muscles they appeared to form a judgment as to the cause of the individual's death. It is needless to remark in how very few cases this superficial mode of examination could be of any use in ascertaining the multiform ways in which life may be extinguished." A complete account of the process, drawn from the official book entitled 'Si-yuen,' that is, "The Washing of the Pit,' is given in Père Huc's Empire Chinois,' vol. i. chap. vii., fifth edition (Paris, 1879). As it covers several pages, I cannot give more than a summary : "The 'Si-yuen' is a work of legal medicine, famous throughout China, a copy of which should be in the hands of every magistrate, for, whenever a dead body is found, it is the duty of the official of the district to go and inspect it and state whether the death has been natural or the result of suicide or murder. This is what the book directs to be done in order to discover the traces of blows and wounds on corpses, even when decomposition has set in. The body is washed with vinegar and then exposed to the steam of the wine, which comes out of a deep pit. It is this process which has given to the book of legal medicine the name of 'Si-yuen,' or Washing of the Pit.' Ground of a dry and clayey nature should as far as possible be chosen for digging the pit, which should be five or six feet in length, three in width, and as many in depth. It is then filled with branches and brushwood, and the fire is kept up until the earth at the bottom and sides is made almost white with heat. The embers are next cleared out, and a large quantity of rice wine is poured in. Over the opening of the pit, a wickerwork hurdle is placed on which the corpse is stretched; then the whole is arched over with sheets of canvas, in order that the steam from the wine may act on every part of the body. After the lapse of two hours, all marks of blows and wounds show quite plainly. The Si-yuen' assures us that the same operation may be equally applied to the bones alone, which will show the same results. The book asserts that if the blows have been of a nature to cause death, the marks must appear on the bones. The magistrates are bound to perform this operation whenever the least suspicion arises as to a person's death. They are even obliged to get the bodies exhumed and carefully examine them, though the effluvia arising therefrom may endanger their lives, 'for,' says the book of legal medicine, less glorious to face death in order to protect one's 'the interest of society demands it, and it is not fellow-citizens from the weapon of assassins than from that of open enemies: he who has not the courage to do so is no magistrate, and ought to give up his office."" This gruesome book reviews all imaginable ways of causing death, and explains the method of discovering them on the corpses: "Take the article 'The Strangled': the author distinguishes the strangled when hanging, on the knees, lying down, with a running or a turning knot, and carefully describes all the marks which should be found on the body and which will show whether the person has strangled himself or not. With regard to 'The Drowned,' he says that their corpses are very different from those that have been thrown into the water after being killed; the former have the belly much extended, the hair clinging to the head, foam at the mouth, feet and hands stiff, the soles of the feet extremely white; none of these signs is found in those thrown into the water after having been stifled, poisoned, or killed in any other way. As it often happens in China that a murderer endeavours to hide his crime by causing a fire, the Si-yuen,' in the chapter of The Burned, shows the magistrate how he is to tell, by an inkilled before the conflagration or suffocated by the spection of the corpse, whether the person was fire; among other things, it says that in the former case neither ashes nor traces of fire are found in the mouth or nose, whereas they are always found in the latter. The last chapter discusses the various kinds of poisons and their tests." Such is the interesting account of a very remarkable book given by Père Huc in his admirable work on China. With his conclusion every one must agree : 66 However skilful and watchful the magistrates may be considered, one cannot help thinking that these practices of legal medicine must be generally very inadequate, and cannot serve as a substitute for a post-mortem examination, from which the Chinese are debarred by ancient and inveterate prejudices." JOHN T. CURRY. The Chinese procedure for determination of doubtful forensic cases, concerning which MR. FOWKE makes an inquiry, is contained in an empiric work styled 'Records to Clarify Innocence, 'Si-yuen-luh,' or brated in China, and which should be in the very celehands of all magistrates." An excellent though brief account of this work is given in Huc's Chinese Empire' (Eng. trans., 1855, vol. i. p. 278 sqq.), with only this error, that the title of the book is mistranslated by the Abbé as 'To Wash the Pit.' So far as I know, there are two perfect copies of the work in the British Museum; and its translation into · French I gather to exist from Dechambre's 'Dictionnaire Encyclopédique des Sciences Médicales,' passim. KUMAGUSU MINAKATA. WALLER (9th S. iii. 165, 352). - Many, I should think, would agree with MR. AULD that Waller will be remembered for more than the ode 66 Go, lovely rose," &c. The short poem referred to, On a Girdle,' has a fine couplet, often quoted: Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round. And, apart from his lyrics, his sacred poems contain some choice passages, particularly that at the close, which posterity will not willingly let die, embodying, as it does, one of the most striking metaphors in English poetry : The seas are quiet, when the winds give o'er; So, calm are we, when passions are no more; For then we know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, so certain to be lost. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal that emptiness which age descries; The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light thro' chinks that time has made; Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, As they draw near to their eternal home; Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new. Waller's spirited panegyric upon Cromwell who was remotely his kinsman, ought to be of special interest just now. Of this Johnson says that it has always been considered the first of his poems. "Of the lines some are grand, some are graceful, and all are musical." Such a series of verses had rarely appeared before in the English language." Waller, in fact, is celebrated as one of the refiners of English poetry. Pope in one place commends his " smoothness," and in another his "sweetness": And praise the easy vigour of a line Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness join. I may here call attention to what seems to me a misapprehension on the part of Johnson. In his poem To the King on his Navy,' Waller writes: Should Nature's self invade the world again, In criticizing this Johnson says: "In the poem on the Navy those lines are very noble which suppose the king's power secure against a second deluge; so noble, that it were almost criminal to remark the mistake of centre for surface." But, if I am not mistaken, Waller by the "centre" here means the earth itself, which, according to the old astronomy, was the If I mistake In those foundations which I build upon, where I take "centre" to mean "this vast As from the centre thrice to the utmost pole, the centre" is, I submit, the earth itself, a point in comparison with the whole celestial sphere, the pole of which, and not of the earth, is, of course, meant; so that we need not interpret it as meaning the earth's own centre. I may add that in George Herbert's poem "The Search,' verse 2, the " sphere" and the "centre" correspond respectively to the "sky" and the "earth." In his interesting list of parallels MR. YARDLEY has not included the famous simile of the eagle viewing his own feather on the dart by which he was slain, found both in Waller and Byron, and ascribed to a Greek poet by Colton in his 'Lacon.' Perhaps, however, this was too well known to be quoted. What is not, I believe, so frequently remarked, is that Wordsworth has utilized the end of one of Waller's songs for the beginning of one of his own shorter poems. Waller writes:For all we know Of what the Blessèd do above Is, that they sing, and that they love. And Wordsworth opens his lines entitled 'Scene on the Lake of Brienz' thus: What know we of the Blest above But that they sing, and that they love? Here, both in Moxon's edition, 1847, and in Knight's, 1884, marks of quotation are put but no reference to Waller is given. With Waller's character as a man this note is not concerned. C. LAWRENCE FORD, B.A. IRISH GLIBBES, OR COULINS (9th S. iii. 449). Halliwell, Nares, and Wright all describe glib to mean a large tuft of hair hanging over the face." Neither gives the word |