of Simon Green, Merchant, by the Rev. Henry Pollock-The Family of Pollock of Newry and Hartigan, M.A. Folkestone, Birch & Co.; Slacke-Records of the Slacke Family in Ireland, vately printed.) THE DOUBLE NAME BEFORE THE TROUSERS ERA. The following entry from the Register of Hanney may be interesting as an early example: "Georgius Hermes Abner Eugenius, son of George Dew of East Hanney, practiconer of physick, bap. 3 July, 1706." E. R. NEVILL, F.S.A. Stawell-A Quantock Family: the Stawells of Cothelstone and their Descendants, the Barons Stawell of Somerton, and the Stawells 6 S. vii. 119, 172; viii. 153, 273, 371; ix. 36, 438; [For the early use of double Christian names see of Devonshire and the County Cork. Com-x. 214, 333; 9 S. vi. 107, 217.] piled and edited by Col. George Dodsworth Stawell, late Director of Military Education in India. Taunton, Barnicott & Pearce, 1910. Townshend-An Officer of the Long Parliament and his Descendants, being some account of the Life and Times of Col. Richard Townesend of Castletown (Castletownshend), and a Chronicle of his Family. Edited by Richard and Dorothea Townshend. London, Henry Frowde, 1892. Tyrrell-A Genealogical History of the Tyrrelk. Compiled by Joseph Henry Tyrrell. Privately printed, 1904. HENRY B. SWANZY. were HICKEY AND ALEXANDER, DRAUGHTSMEN TO LORD MACARTNEY'S CHINESE EMBASSY, 1793. Included in the sale of Sir Thos. Phillipps's library just over several items of interest connected with Lord Macartney's embassy, among them a large volume of water-colour drawings. There was a curious piece of jobbery connected with the appointment of Hickey to this embassy. It was well known that he was without the necessary artistic qualifications, and SO Alexander, afterwards Keeper of Prints, &c., at the British Museum, was appointed assistant draughtsman. I have never seen a drawing of Hickey's illustrative of this embassy, and I doubt if any one has, whereas there were hundreds done by Alexander. It would seem that the explanation of this piece of jobbery was the fact that Hickey was the natural son 66 66 LANCASHIRE SOBRIQUETS.-To the best of my remembrance, some of the following Lanky registered by 'N. " nicknames have not yet been & Q.': Owdham Rochda Bulldog," Roughyed," Yewood Monkey, Middleton Moonraker," "Bowton Trotter." Does the story told of Middleton men correspond with that which accounts for "Wiltshire Moonrakers"? ST. SWITHIN. indix. Please to send to the Temple of the Muses You have now the whole of the copy except sealed up diricted for me one sheet B and two sheets of each of all that are worked of as I want to make the indix and you will oblige J. LACKINGTON. Alverton, Dec. 12th, 1803. P.S.-Pray do all you can as it is very much wanted among the Methodists and indeed by receive this as there is a parcel coming to me from others. Send the above sheets as soon as you the Temple. work excep[t] the Indix send the sheets by coach As soon as you have finished the two of each if such as you have not sent before. With the sheets to the Temple say if you have any Binder or not [so] as I may have time to write to some if you have not. Sopose the book will not be more than two thirds as thick as my Life so that foulding [and] sowing will only be in proportion. A note is added under the address, "Mind to send the letter with the percel.' The book referred to is ' The Confessions of J. Lackington, late Bookseller at the Temple of the Muses, in a Series of Letters to a Friend,' crown Svo, London, 1804. Two editions were issued in that year, and those familiar with the book will understand the application of the remark in the letter "it is very much wanted among the Methodists, and indeed by others." A less common work is Lackington's Confessions, Rendered into Narrative, to which are added Observations on the Bad Consequences of Educating Daughters at Boarding-Schools,' by Allan Macleod, Esq., London, printed for B. Crosby & Co., 1804, post 8vo. This rendering of the Confessions is, as its editor claims, less prolix and far less egoistic." ALECK ABRAHAMS. 66 "THE COMMON DAMN'D SHUN HIS SOCIETY."-The source of this quotation, cited by Lamb in his essay 'On the Custom of Hissing at the Theatres,' has eluded the search of his editors and commentators. Mr. Lucas admitted that he had not succeeded in tracing the "quotation or adaptation"; and in a notice of the first volume of that gentleman's edition of "The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb,' an Athenæum reviewer declared that it was "clearly adapted from 'while foulest fiends shun thy society (Nathaniel Lee's 'The Rival Queens,' Act V. i. 86)." The author was an eighteenthcentury poet, Robert Blair, in whose work The Grave' the line is to be found. The passage in which it occurs runs as follows :— But, if there's an hereafterAnd that there is, conscience, uninfluenc'd And suffer'd to speak out, tells every man- · Then must it be an awful thing to die; More horrid yet to die by one's own hand! Unheard-of tortures Must be reserv'd for such: these herd together; The common damn'd shun their society, And look upon themselves as fiends less foul. S. BUTTERWORTH. ST. KILDA AND INFLUENZA.-Boswellians must have noted a strange incident recorded in The Times a few weeks ago, namely, that all the inhabitants of the isle of St. Kilda, save three or so, were simultaneously attacked by the influenza. This seems to support what the historian of St. Kilda states-that when a vessel arrived nearly the whole John community was seized with colds. son and his friend discussed the matter gravely or sarcastically: in the former mood making suggestion that the wind which brought the vessel might also have brought the malady; in the latter, that when the agent arrived to collect rents, this pretext of illness was put forward by the natives. Still, the coincidence of the modern and ancient occurrence is very remarkable, and scientists and others should apply themselves to the explaining of the prodigy. PERCY FITZGERALD, M.A., F.S.A. Athenæum Club. [St. Kilda colds are commented on at 9 S. i. 85 and 10 S. vii. 397.] THE SMALLEST SQUARE IN LONDON.The replies in N. & Q.' as to the largest square in London suggest an inquiry as to the smallest. I should think that among these are Golden Square, Hampstead, and Audley Square, South Audley Street. The smallest enclosed space in London is at the north corner of Upper Grosvenor Street and Park Lane, where a tiny garden is completely enclosed with railings, and surrounded by the public footway. Knightsbridge Green, facing Tattersall's at Albert Gate, which was one of the old buryingplaces during the Plague, is very limited in extent. J. LANDFEAR LUCAS. Glendora, Hindhead, Surrey. GRACE BEFORE MEAT.-A writer of midsixteenth century has decorated the lower margin of fo. 55 b of MS. Harl. 614 with the following :— Who so euer setteth downe for to eate forgettinge to geue god thankes for his meat And riseth againe lettinge grace ouer passe Sitteth downe like an oxe, and riseth as an asse Q. V. A HATFIELD CHARTER. (See 11 S. vii. 505.) -Since my note on the above was published, I have read an article in vol. vii. of the Proceedings of the Sussex Archæological Society (1854), without reference to which my note is incomplete. On p. 216 mention is made of this charter, which still remains in the possession of Trinity College. F. LAMBARDE. "ASK"=TART. — A Lincolnshire man remarked recently that certain strawberries were ask. They were ripe enough, but belonged to a tart kind. I do not find the word in the dictionaries. RICHARD H. THORNTON. 36, Upper Bedford Place, W.C. Queries. 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 answers may be sent to them direct. MANSFIELD PARKYNS. Mansfield Parkyns, who travelled in Abyssinia in 1843-5, returned to Europe through the Sudan and down the Nile to Egypt. He breaks off his narrative ('Life in Abyssinia,' London, John Murray, 2 vols., 1853) with his arrival at Khartoum. He mentions casually that he travelled in Kordofan, Nubia, and Egypt (vol. i. p. 16); also that he collected "about six hundred birds, and about a ton weight of nigger arms and implements on the White Nile and in Nubia (id., p. 9). Did he leave any notes of these travels? TheD.N.B.' states that he returned to England in 1846. This is evidently a mistake, for Parkyns apparently remained in the Sudan for quite two years later than this. He would appear to have reached Egypt in the latter part of 1848 or the first weeks of 1849; for Antoine d'Abbadie, in a letter from Cairo to the editor of The Athenæum (undated, but probably written in January, 1849), wrote: "I have had the pleasure of meeting here again M. Parkyns, whom I had left some years ago in Tigray....M. Parkyns has travelled in Kordofan; and, having followed a new road from Adwa to Sennar, he recognized the identity of the Takaze with the Settit of the Mussulman lowlanders." The Athenæum, Feb. 10, 1849, p. 142. That Parkyns had not in the meanwhile visited England is shown by his statement (vol. i. p. 16) that he was nine years travelling, eighteen months in Europe, Asia Minor, &c., three years, of which the present work treats, and the remainder in various parts of Nubia, Kordofan, and Egypt." In his Preface he speaks of his "final return to England (in June, 1850)," and on p. 32 he says he left Egypt in that year. Still more convincing of the error of the 'D.N.B.' date is the following sentence : : "From the day I left Suez (March 25, 1843) till about the same time in the year 1849, I never wore any article of European dress, nor indeed ever slept on a bed of any sort-not even a mattress."-Vol. i. p. 84. He does not give in his Life in Abyssinia' the date of his arrival at Khartoum ; but as he started from Adowa in June, 1845 (vol. ii. p. 313), he must have spent some two or three years in travelling about the Sudan; and it was no doubt here that he had a gun and new rifle sent out to him in 1847 (vol. i. p. 39). As he was one of the earliest tra- 34, Old Park Avenue, Nightingale Lane, S.W. MERSH.-In 1909 a query of mine was in- I should very much like to establish the Her 123, Holland Park Avenue, W. [The N.E.D.' says: "Money, sb. Pl. moneys. For the plural the irregular spelling monies is still not uncommonly met with, esp. in sense 4," which is defined as "pl. Properly sums of money,' but often indistinguishable from the sing. (sense 3). Now chiefly in legal and quasi-legal parlance, or as an archaism."] SIR WILLIAM BROWNE, KT., GOVERNOR OF FLUSHING TEMP. ELIZABETH AND JAMES I.-IS his parentage known? A note in Lodge's Illustrations,' quoted in Nichols's Progresses of James I.' (p. 43), states that he was the Sir William Browne who was knighted at the Tower, 14 March, 1603/4, and was only son of Nicholas Browne of Snelston, Derbyshire, by Eleanor, dau. and heir of Ralph Shirley of Stanton Harold. This identity has been generally accepted, but I do not feel quite satisfied with its accuracy. The will of Sir William Browne of Snelston was proved in 1612, at which date, I believe, the Governor of Flushing was still living. Moreover, the latter was certainly a knight some years earlier than 1604. He long served as a captain in the Low Countries, and was a particular friend alike of Sir Philip Sidney and the brothers Sir Francis and Sir Horace Vere. According to a note in Markham's 'Fighting Veres' (p. 249), he received knighthood from the Earl of Essex at the Azores, 7 Oct., 1597, and this date is confirmed by numerous allusions to him in the State Papers which prove him to have received the honour between February and November of that year. He was Lieutenant-Governor of Flushing under Vere in 1597, and under Sidney in 1602, an office he certainly continued to hold after 1610, in which year letters were received from him. On 1 June, 1604, his children William, Anne, and Barbara were naturalized. He appears to have died about 1622, in which year letters of denization were granted to Percy and Mary Browne, "children of the late Sir William Browne, Lieut. of Flushing, and born there," probably after 1604. I strongly suspect that he was M.P. for Haslemere in 1614 and 16211622, he being then, so far as I can ascertain, the only Sir William Browne, Kt., then living. W. D. PINK. INVERNESS BURGESS ACT: W. CURTIS.I have a stipple engraving, printed in colour, of a portly elderly man, not unlike Sir Walter Scott in face, dressed in tartan, with trousers trimmed at the side and end with fur, and a plaid across his shoulders, gold medal of George III. on the left breast, and bonnet with two eagle's feathers secured with a clasp of blue, with St. Andrew for a device, holding in his right hand a scroll, on which is engraved "Inverness Burgess Act | in favour of | W. Curtis of London | 1774.’ At the foot of the engraving is printed “A true character | drawn and engraved by TL Busby." I should feel grateful if some of your Scottish readers could tell me anything about the print: (a) as to whom it represents; (b) as to the circumstances in which this personage came to be portrayed. L.A. W. Dublin. curate or REV. JOHN THORNLEY.-Can any reader give me information about the antecedents of the Rev. John Thornley? He was perpetual incumbent of Bosley Church (near Macclesfield), Cheshire, from 1728 He is prominently until his death in 1765. referred to in the History of Cheshire' by Earwaker, who states that at his death he left legacies to several adjacent Cheshire parishes, thus indicating a Cheshire origin. Can any reader help me to find out the following items? (1) What was the name of his father? (2) What was the date of his birth? (3) Where and on what date was he ordained? J. B. THORNLEY. 39, Mapperley Plains, Nottingham. NED WARD.-I shall be glad of any particulars (literature or otherwise) of Ned Ward, author of The London Spy,' &c. J. ARDAGH. [The 'D.N.B.' devotes over four columns to him and his works.] JOHN HELE, SOUTH MOLTON.-Can any of your genealogical correspondents give the earlier history of the family mentioned below? John Hele, Gent., "Southmolton," is mentioned by Richard Hele, the Rector of Rampisham, who died in 1755, as his father. The other children of this John Hele were as follows: John, barrister-at-law of the Middle Temple, who married (mar. settlement 1724) Phillippa Jordan, daughter of William Jordan of Charlewood, Surrey. He had a son Ambrose, died young, and his wife, surviving him, married John Sharp of West minster. Musgrave, Latin master of Squiers' School, South Molton, curate of Worlington and Rector of South Perrott. His wife's name was Dorothea and they had a son Musgrave, who died young. Anne, who married, circa 1703, the Rev. Mary, married Webber. They had a son Hele, and a grandson John. Penelope, married Hugh Daw. They had a son John. Another daughter, married field. White I shall be most grateful for information. (Miss) A. Q. CARTER. DINING-ROOM AT WHITE'S.-The Committee of this Club would be very grateful if any reader of N. & Q.' could assist them in obtaining information respecting the large Dining-Room here previous to 1840. I have advertised the following in The Times | and Morning Post :— "The Committee of White's would welcome the loan of any pictures or prints of the 'Great Room (which is the present Dining-Room here) previous to 1840." The room has to be redecorated, and I am anxious to get the above information, which would be of great assistance in guiding us in the scheme of decoration. R. H. GIRAUD WRIGHT, Secretary. White's, St. James's, S. W. HONYWOOD FAMILY: KENTISH PETITION. -I have an engraved portrait of Filmer Honywood, Esq., M.P. for Kent (son of the third baronet, died 1809), seated, holding in his hand the Kentish Petition, upon which is inscribed To the Freeholders," &c. Can any of your readers tell me to what the petition related? The portrait is engraved by W. Sharp. Essex Lodge, Ewell. 66 LEONARD PRICE. House of Commons in 1701 in support of the policy [The Kentish Petition was presented to the of the Whigs. Defoe as "Legion" took a prominent part in the ensuing controversy. See the article in Low and Pulling's Dictionary of English History, which refers to Burnet's History of his own Time,' Stanhope's Reign of Queen Anne,' and Hallam's "Constitutional History'; or 'Cassell's Illustrated History of England,' vol. iii. pp. 524-6.] Two POEMS WANTED.-I should be glad if you could publish through the means of your valuable paper the two following poems : 2. Song of one eleven years in prison. 46, Barlow Moor Road, Didsbury, Manchester. WALTER DE MUNDY, KNT., A.D. 1300. -Can any of your correspondents kindly oblige me, by referring to some well-indexed county history (probably (probably Yorkshire or I cannot obtain either in this State, and Norfolk), with information respecting this it is remarkable that neither the University individual? In the Calendar of Close Rolls, Library nor the Public Library can assist 28 Edward I. (1296-1302),' p. 388, the follow-me. If you can oblige me with these ing appears :poems in full, I shall be very grateful. E. ANGAS JOHNSON. "1300. Westminster, April 1. Walter de Mundy, knight, and William de Manegreve acknowledge that they owe to Robert de Estdene and Thomas de London[ia] 231. 68. 8d.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in the cos. of York and Norfolk." 1. Where did Walter de Mundy live? 2. From what place did he derive his surMONEDÉC. name ? Pirie Street, Adelaide. PARISH REGISTER, BASINGSTOKE. - Has any private person yet transcribed the Register of Births and Deaths of the Parish Church, Basingstoke, Hants, or does any society contemplate printing it for its members? G. A. WOODROFFE PHILLIPS. |