BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION WANTED. I should be glad to obtain any information about the following boys who were admitted to Westminster School: (1) Thomas Edward Allen, admitted 5 Feb., 1818; (2) William Allen, admitted 31 Jan., 1775; (3) Plomer Allway, admitted 20 Jan., 1845; (4) George Anderson, admitted Christmas, 1812; (5) Robert Andrews, admitted 24 Jan., 1774; (6) Bransby Arnold, admitted 28 Jan., 1839; (7) Robert Atkinson, admitted 7 Feb., 1786; and (8) Wynne Frederick Dott Staples Aubrey, admitted 5 Oct., 1842. G. F. R. B. THE QUEEN OF CANDY.-In the Oriental Annual' for 1834 is published a portrait of the Queen of Candy by Daniell. I should be very glad to know where the original of this can be seen. Cambridge. F. V. SHARP. and it was recorded in local papers that the firing was heard by shepherds on Carter Fell, on the border of Northumberland, and on Peel Fell, in Cumberland. As to Waterloo, I may contribute a fact. My mother was born in the beginning of the nineteenth century, and lived till 1887, and her girlhood was pervaded with incidents of the Napoleonic War, which in my boyhood she always spoke of simply as "the War" or "the Last War." In she was a native, was dependent for its those days the town of Hawick, of which earliest news from London upon the mail coach from Carlisle, forty-five miles off, and on occasions of great interest or anxiety many persons used to walk out several miles on the Carlisle road to meet the coach and get early news. On the occasion of a British victory the coach came gaily draped with flags, while a defeat was announced by insignia of woe; so that even at a distance it could be told whether it brought news of victory or defeat. On the occasion of the Battle of Waterloo excitement was very great, and between sixty and a hundred men and boys went out to get the news. A detachment of these was left at the head of the Loan on the western outskirt of the town, another at Langbaulk, a third at Branxholm Bridge, a fourth at Branxholm, else was rejoicing because news had come 66 a fifth at Newmill, a sixth at Teindside, while the most active pushed on to the Change House, where the coach changed horses for the last stage on the way to Hawick. When these learnt that the battle had been fought at Waterloo, and had resulted in a signal victory, there was a shout of exultation and wild hurraying, which was heard at Teindside; there it was at once repeated and sent on to Newmill, and so stage by stage, till almost before the coach left the Change House wild hurrays at the Loanhead announced to the burghers of Hawick that a great victory had been won; and long before the mail coach reached the town the whole population-" everybody that could crawl,” as I was told-was assembled on the Tower QUEEN'S TRUMPETER (11 S. viii. 249). Knowe to hear the particulars of the great-By this is probably meant the Sergeantvictory. Women also lent their aid. My Trumpeter, who is an officer of the Royal mother, then in her early teens, accom- Household presiding over sixteen ordinary panied two or three elder sisters as far as trumpeters. The earliest mention of the Langbaulk, and some fifty years after office occurs in the reign of Edward VI., pointed out to me the spot on which they when the post was held by Benedict Browne. stood and heard the cheering at Branxholm This gentleman had been Trumpeter to Bridge, and raised their own cheers to be Henry VIII. at an annual salary of 241. 68. 8d. heard at the Loanhead. One of my uncles The office is mentioned as being filled in 1641, pushed on much farther. The first time I but without name of the holder. In 1685 heard the tale I asked him how they knew Gervase Price held it, and he was succeeded that there had been a battle, and that there by Mathias Shore, who had been a trumwould be news of it that day. His answer peter-in-ordinary to James II., being prowas that it had been expected all over the moted afterwards to Sergeant Trumpeter. country for several days that there would be Mathias died 1700. He was succeeded in a battle somewhere on the way to Brussels, the office by his son William, who, like his and that the mail-coach on the preceding father, had been previously a trumpeterday, or the day before, brought news that in-ordinary. William died December, 1707, heavy cannonading had been heard on the and is buried at St. Martin-in-the-Fields. coast of Kent all Sunday, the 18th of June, He was succeeded by his brother John, who and that news of the result was expected to was the most famous trumpeter of his time. come that day. Thus the sound of the At the public entry of George I. in 1714 he guns heard on the Dover cliffs gave the first rode as Sergeant Trumpeter in cavalcade. intimation of the battle, although it did not bearing his mace. He was the inventor of give the result. the tuning-fork. He is said to have split his lip in blowing his favourite instrument, and to have thus incapacitated himself from playing. He died 20 Nov., 1752, aged 90 (20 Nov. John Shore, Esq., Serjeant Trumpeter to his Majesty," Gent. Mag., 1752, p. 536). Hawick, being an inland town, was one of those selected for the quartering of French prisoners on their parole of honour. These were mostly officers and educated gentle men, possessed of pecuniary means, and many of them employed their time of cap. tivity in works of art and ingenuity. When I was a boy many such proceeds of the skill of "the French Prisoners were preserved in the town, and doubtless many still exist. Among other things, the earliest map or plan of the burgh and neighbourhood was made by some of them from actual survey. My mother has told me that one of the most vivid impressions of her childhood was that of seeing grown-up menFrench prisoners weeping when everybody His sister Catharine was Mrs. Colley Cibber. It will be remembered that Cibber lamented that his muse and his spouse were equally prolific : "the one was seldom the mother of a child but in the same year the other made me the father of a play." Catharine Shore had been a pupil of Henry Purcell, and shortly after her marriage she appeared on the stage as a singer, to her brother John's trumpet accompaniment. Purcell composed for John Shore (see 'Orpheus Britannicus '). Shore's playing is commended in The Gentleman's Journal for January, 1691/2. His name appears as one of the twenty-four musicians to Queen Anne. Rimbault in The Cheque Book of the Chapel Royal' (Camden Society) says that Mathias and William Shore were brothers, and that John was a nephew of William; but it seems more likely that Grove's Dict. of Music is correct, and that William and John were brothers. At John Shore's death (1752) Valentine Snow succeeded, and held the post until 1770, when he died. He was possibly a son of Moses Snow, a minor composer and lay vicar of Westminster Abbey (see Rimbault, Cheque Book '). His daughter Sophia (b. 1745) eloped with Robert Baddeley, and became the famous actress. The successors of Snow were, many of them, not even musicians. At the Coronation (1821) of George IV. there was a Sergeant Trumpeter, carrying his mace, with sixteen Household Trumpeters. In 1835 the Sergeant Trumpeter was Thomas L. Parker, Esq., and under him eight Household Trumpeters. It is possible that he may have been the Queen's Trumpeter of 1838. R. J. FYNMORE. CROMARTY (11 S. viii. 130, 178).—If Cromar and Cromarty be of Viking origin, may not Cromer of the Norfolk coast have a similar source? Repps and Thorpe, &c., appear to be Scandinavian. FRANCES HALES. AN ELZEVIR (11 S. viii. 209, 250).—To the valuable bibliographical notes of MR. A. L. HUMPHREYS it may be added that Berghman's 'Nouvelles Études sur la Bibliographie Elzevirienne-Supplément à l'ouvrage sur les Elzevier de M. Alphonse Willems,' John Charles Crowle, who held the office was published in 1897, twelve in 1812, was meritorious in one thing, viz., years after the Études of 1885. It is a that he presented to the British Museum most important book, and an Appendix of the well-known extra-illustrated copy of five pages is devoted to a faithful" ComptePennant's London' in fourteen folio rendu of Mr. Goldsmid's "complete cata volumes. In 1858 the post was again held by a musician-Joseph Williams; and in April, 1875, by J. G. Waetzig. The Sergeant Trumpeter formerly claimed, under letters patent, a fee of 12d. a day for every person sounding a trumpet, beating a drum, or playing a fife in any play or show without his licence, for which licence 20s. a year was demanded. Both Mathias and William Shore successively issued advertisements authorizing all magistrates to receive such fees, and apply them to the relief of the poor. The Records of the Lord Chamberlain's Department, the Accounts of Coronations from Edward IV., the Establishment Books of the Household (1641 to 1759), and the Salary Accounts (1667 to 1782) are lodged in the Public Record Office, but are not open to inspection without permission from the Lord Chamberlain. Possibly further details could be obtained through the Earl Marshal and the Heralds' College. I have obtained much information from the valuable articles by Mr. W. H. Husk in Grove's 'Dict. of Music.' 187, Piccadilly, W. A. L. HUMPHREYS. I have in my possession a document endorsed "Thomas Maclean, sworn Household Trumpeter in Ordinary to His Majesty." He was appointed by warrant from the Earl of Hertford, Lord Chamberlain, 24 Jan., 1771. logue." Of the Études' only 100 copies were printed, and of the 'Nouvelles Études' 550 copies, including 50 on large paper. Berghman's works are invaluable in their way, but he is rather given to repeating himself. The note on Giannotti's book which is given ante, p. 250, by MR. HUMPHREYS from the Stockholm Catalogue, will be found in the Études' on p. 37, and in the 'Nouvelles Études' on p. 65. A work that should not be overlooked is Catalogue d'une collection unique de volumes imprimés par les Elzevier et divers typographes Rahir. Précédé d'un Avant-Propos par M. hollandais du XVIIe siècle. Rédigé par Édouard Ferdinand Brunetière, de l'Académie française, et d'une Lettre de M. Alphonse Willems, professeur à l'Université de Bruxelles." Paris, Damascène Morgand, 1896. There is an idea, prevalent chiefly among novelists, that "Elzevirs are scarce and valuable. The wicked but cultured baronet usually has the walls of his study, where the spaces are not filled with Corots and Ziems, lined with priceless Aldines and Elzevirs. This only holds good of a very few when in the finest condition. Ordinary Elzevirs, especially the Respublica series, are common and cheap. When I was hardly more than a boy, I bought several of them at a stall for ninepence or a shilling apiece. They have hardly risen in price since. 66 W. F. PRIDEAUX. In addition to the information given at the latter reference, it may be worth while to mention that there are two copies of the first edition in the British Museum. The Catalogue states that in one, 568. a. 28, the 'Liber Singularis de Forma Reipubl. Venet.' does not appear. This is an error. The 'Liber Singularis,' though mentioned separately on the title-page, is printed as the last of the Notæ,' and the running heading remains the same. The first engraving, that of the Rialto, is missing in this copy. The other, 165. a. 18, is defective, though the Catalogue does not notice this. The 'Notæ are wanting, the book ending at p. 288, and containing consequently none of the engravings. Giannotti's work appeared originally in Italian in 1540. It is not the only instance of a volume in the Respublica series which is a translation. EPIGRAM ON ST. LUKE (11 S. v. 28).DR. J. A. OWLES asked for the source of the following words :— Lucas evangelii et medicinæ munera pandit, On reading this I was reminded of a couplet quoted by F. W. Farrar on p. xxv of the Gospel according to St. Luke,' in 'The Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges,' and on p. 18 in his Gospel according to St. Luke' in the Cambridge Bible for Schools' :— Utilis ille labor, per quem vixere tot ægri ; Utilior, per quem tot didicere mori. Farrar does not name the author. 66 Besides the instance given by your corre spondent at the latter reference, I can say that Mr. J. H. Ellis, who is Town Clerk of Ply. mouth, and also Clerk of the Peace, signs his surname only on notices relating to the Quarter Sessions. There is one on the church and chapel notice-boards at this very date so signed. In his capacity, however, of Town Clerk he signs in full "J. H. Ellis." The late Devonport Town Clerk and Clerk of the Peace, Mr. G. E. Rundle, signed the respective notices in the same way. May I ask, 179 therefore, if the person named on p. also held the two offices? or did he sign his surname as Town Clerk only? W. S. B. H. John Carpenter's "foible" of signing only his surname spread rather extensively into the provinces, as may be seen by a reference to the law newspapers even in the last few years. This became a little weakness, especially among officials of certain smaller boroughs. It is interesting to note that in this week's Law Times (27 Sept.) the Clerk of the Peace for the County of Norfolk, the Town Clerk of Camberwell, and the Town Clerk of Birmingham have the sound good sense not to indulge in this practice. W. H. QUARRELL. This latter distich, I find, is the conclusion of a quatrain that begins with the words quoted by DR. OWLES. The epigram appeared in N. & Q.,' 1 S. vi. 507 (27 Nov., 1852). It was sent by LORD BRAYBROOKE ROBIN HOOD ROMANCES (11 S. viii. 203, (the third lord, editor of Pepys's Diary'), 297). If MR. FROST will turn to 9 S. viii. with the introductory remark, "If the 263 he will see there a note of mine headed subjoined Latin verses have never appeared Robin Hood Literature,' in which I attempt in print, as I suspect, they may be worthy a list similar to, though wider in range than, of a place in 'N. & Q.' The author was his own, embracing plays (10 S. viii. 70) stated to be the Rev. Richard Lyne, one and foreign papers, articles, or pamphlets of Eton's most poetical sons, who became a (10 S. v. 468) on or in connexion with the MR. FROST's hobby has Fellow of the College in 1752, and was living great outlaw. in 1764." LORD BRAYBROOKE was mis- been mine for many years, only with the taken, however, in suspecting that the lines added difference that I have been and am had never appeared in print. They were collecting materials for as exhaustive a given on p. 2 of the Rev. James Ford's monograph on the subject of our common The Gospel of S. Luke, illustrated.... hero as I may be able to produce. Hence of romances, from Ancient and Modern Authors,' London, your correspondent's list pleaded for at the first quoted reference, was very acceptable. My own excursion into this particular branch of literature has, in spite of a vigilant eye, been limited. 1851. Ford, however, did not know by whom they were written. See N. & Q.,' EDWARD BENSLY. 1 S. x. 243. Univ. Coll., Aberystwyth. I J. B. Marsh. 1900. 8. A. Lang in Longman's Magazine, July, 1900. 9. Kirklees Priory. Yorkshire Archæological Journal, 1901. 10. Stories of Robin Hood. H. E. Marshall. 1905. 11. Tales of Robin Hood. S. Percy. 1905. 12. Robin Hood and Little John. Yorkshire Notes and Queries, 1907, p. 337. 13. King John, Robin Hood, and Matilda. Yorkshire Notes and Queries, 1907, p. 365. 14. Jolly Pinder of Wakefield. Yorkshire Notes and Queries, 1907, p. 12. 1908. 15. Sherwood Forest. J. Rodgers. 16. Strange Story of the Dunmow Flitch. J. W. Robertson-Scott. 1910. B. Books and articles not in my collection: 1. Gentleman's Magazine, 1795. Articles by G. Pegge. and had issue; and five daughters: (1) SIR SAMUEL WHITE BAKER (11 S. viii. 265).-In The Illustrated London News of 11 Oct., 1873, appeared portraits of Sir Samuel White Baker and Lady Baker. The letterpress which accompanied them contained a short review of his life. It is there stated that "in November, 1866, her Majesty the Queen bestowed on him the honour of knighthood." JOHN T. PAGE. The date of his knighthood as given in 2. The Penny Magazine, 1838, May to Septem-Men of the Time' is correct, viz., 10 Nov., 1866. ber. 4. The Forester's Offering. T. Hall. 1841. 6. Story of Robin Hood. The Argosy, April, 1899. There are forty-four pages devoted to PAULET OF EDDINGTON (11 S. viii. 208). -Sir William Paulet of Edington, co. Wilts (born c. 1578, knighted 1603, died 3 March, 1628/9, eldest natural son of Sir William Leamington. ALFRED B. BEAVEN. Shaw's The Knights of England,' ii. 358-also [C. W. S. and H. I. A.-who quotes W. A. thanked for reply.] AN AMBIGUOUS POSSESSIVE CASE (11 S. viii. 25, 91, 135, 153, 174).—This discussion has been very interesting, and, if it has done nothing else, has at least shown that this form of words should be used with the absurdity is the inevitable result. I am utmost caution, otherwise nonsense or not surprised to learn that Mr. Nesfield in his Modern English Grammar' (ante, Paulet, third Marquis of Winchester, by explanations he mentions as decisive. The p. 153) does not accept any of the three Jane Lambert), married Elizabeth, daughter attempt to solve the difficulty by calling it of Sir John Seymour (son of Sir Henry," a double possessive" was made as far younger brother of Edward, first Duke of Somerset) of Marwell, co. Hants, by Susan, youngest daughter of Lord Chidiock Paulet of Wade, co. Hants, by his first wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas White of South Warnborough, co. Hants; and had issue two sons (William, b. 1613, d. 1684; and Essex, d. 1682), both of whom married back as the year 1762, when A Short Intro- times to be used: as, 'A scldier of the King's'; but one |