5 two days' pay for the purpose. to perpetuate his triumphs The British Fleet consisted of 27 Sail of the Line, On the completed until 1815. In shape it looks The old battleship Victory, moored in Portsmouth Harbour, is an object of neverdying interest to every British subject. On the deck is marked with an inscription the spot where Nelson fell, and in the The cockpit the spot where he died. stone Victory's anchor, mounted the Esplanade, pedestal, is placed on Southsea Beach. On the base is inscribed on Close to this spot embarked the Hero of the Nile, a base- comprises an octagonal battlemented The structure is 102 ft. high, and on the Dublin.-The design of the Nelson column in Sackville Street is something of a cross between the Trafalgar Square memorial and the Great Fire Monument, London. It consists of a massive square pedestal, from which rises a fluted pillar 120 ft. high. On the summit is a colossal statue of Nelson. Above the entablature of the column is a On caged platform, to which access is gained from the interior by a spiral staircase. the four sides of the basement are depicted Alas, for the last time to take command of the in relief scenes from the battles of the Nile, British Fleet that fought and conquered at Trafalgar, where our Nelson fell. This tribute of respect is placed in humble admiration of the departed Hero Lord Frederick Fitzclarence 1852. In an appropriate niche in the Town Hall is placed a white marble bust of Nelson. Below it, on a brass shield, is engraved the following inscription : England expects every man to do his duty. This Bust of Admiral Lord Nelson, sculptured Monuments of Wellington and Nelson, presented by Lord Frederick Fitzclarence in 1850, and placed on Southsea Common, mysteriously disappeared some years afterwards. They had been adversely criticized as possessing little or no artistic merit, and it is said that their remains received decent burial at Spithead. Edinburgh. The Nelson monument forms a conspicuous object on Calton Hill. It was founded soon after his death, but was not Copenhagen, St. Vincent, and Trafalgar. Long Itchington, Warwickshire. (To be continued.) "DOG DAYS."-In CHARLES LAMB AND Hone's Every-Day Book,' No. 29, published on Saturday, July 16th, 1825, there Mad Dogs,' appeared an article entitled in which the writer stated as an appalling fact that there was no cure for hydrophobia. He went on : Ex "Preventive [sic] is better than cure, and in Dogs, however useful in some this case it is easy. situations, are wholly useless in towns. terminate them." This suggestion of bellum ad exterminationem called forth in the following number an amusing remonstratory reply in the shape of a letter purporting to be written by "Your faithful, though sad dog, Pompey," which has been identified by Mr. J. A. Rutter as Charles Lamb's. In his edition of the Works of Charles and Mary Lamb' Mr. Lucas prints it in the Appendix to vol. i., among the Essays and Notes not certain to be Lamb's but probably his,' and his comment is that 26 there certainly is no difficulty in conceiving it to be from Lamb's pen, although there is no overwhelming internal evidence." Mr. Macdonald, on the other hand, appears to be more confident and affirms that we 66 cannot doubt that Charles Lamb held the pen which drafted the complaint of that most intelligent, if also sad dog.'" Mr. Walter Jerrold, in his edition of Lamb's 'Essays and Sketches,' published in the Temple Classics," is of opinion that the following extract from Lamb's letter of 25 July, 1825, to Hone seems to tell against this contribution being his own " :"You have done with mad dogs; else there is a print of Rowlandson's or somebody's of people in pursuit of [one] in a village which might have come in." 66 In the "Oxford " Lamb, Mr. Hutchinson prints it apparently without any doubt as to its authorship. To put an end to any dubiety on the subject, it may be sufficient to point out that the original manuscript in Lamb's handwriting, with a short note at the end signed "C. L.," dated 16 July, 1825 (a week before its appearance in the EveryDay Book '), was sold by Messrs. Sotheby's on 18 July, 1904. S. BUTTERWORTH. THE DEAF ADDER THAT STOPPETH HER EAR.-In one of his Advent sermons the late Rev. A. H. Stanton conjured his congregation not to resemble "the deaf adder, which stoppeth both her ears"; adding, in one of his inimitable asides, "though, how she can do it, I never could imagine.' But the problem had already been solved in the twelfth century. In the O.E. Homilies,' Second Series (E.E.T.S. Publications, 1873, pp. 196, 198), occurs a passage on prayer, the modern rendering of which runs as follows: 'The adder seeketh a stone and layeth one ear thereto, and in the other ear she putteth her tail, and so stoppeth up both." This is in order that she may not hear the voice of the charmer, and the application is given : "When we draw away from the evil which assaults us, let us go to the stone, that is....our Saviour....Upon Him we lay our right ear when we understand He is true GOD....and stop up our ear against the teaching of the devil. left ear we close with our tail when we understand He became Man for us....and so we stop both ears and do not hear the devil's charming." E. M. F. Our THE LORD OF BURLEIGH AND SARAH HOGGINS. (See 11 S. vii. 61, 83, 143, 166.) —A recent visit to the College of Arms has shown me that Lord Exeter, on 26 Feb., 1794, petitioned the Earl Marshal to issue his warrant for granting arms to his wife Sarah, Countess of Exeter, and to be borne also by her father, Thomas Hoggins of Great Bolas, co. Salop, gentleman. The Earl Marshal's warrant is dated 4 March following. Accordingly, on 5 April, 34 George III., 1794, Sir Isaac Heard, Garter, granted to Sarah, Countess of Exeter, these arms: Gules a lobster's claw erect Or, between three herons' heads erased argent, to be borne by the Countess, and also by her said father, Thomas Hoggins, and his descendants, with the following crest, namely, On a wreath of the colours a heron's head erased argent charged with a lobster's claw gules (Grants, xviii. 304). The St. James's Chronicle for 5–7 May, 1796, states that at a court held on Ascension Day (5 May), 1796, the Countess of Exeter Queen, and the four elder Princesses were was presented by Mrs. Lecan. The King, present at this Court. W. G. D. FLETCHER, F.S.A. LEGHORN: ENGLISH MERCHANTS THERE IN 1702. I add the following names from the title-page of the Italian Grammar published by Arrigo Pleunus. The surnames capitals. Christopher Hanbury, Christopher are in small type, the Christian names in Michel, Daniel Gould, Francis Arundel, George Colling, George Lambe. Gilbert Serle, Humphry Chestman, James Harriman, James Paitfield, John Horsey, Jonathan Basket, Richard Frome, Samuel Lambert, Samuel Thorold, Thomas Balle, Thomas Chamberlayne, Thomas Dorman. And John Robbins, presumably of the same city, owned a copy of the later edition on 24 March, 1738-9. RICHARD H. THORNTON. THATCH FIRES.-Hanging in the top of the porch of Bere Regis Church, near Wareham, are two weighty iron hooks, like half-anchors, with a stretch of, perhaps, close on 2 ft. They are each on an iron shaft, which is split for a length of about a couple of feet, opening out to a width of about 3 in. at the lower end. Across the split are the old bolts by which the hook was fastened to a pole, which must have been big and heavy a two-man power pole. I was told that the hooks- formerly hanging in the churchyard-have been kept at the church from old days, and that when a thatched cottage caught fire there was a rush for the hooks with which to tear off the burning thatch. Hanging to the hooks are heavy iron shackles, though what these were for I failed to learn. These very interesting objects are now in the dry, but rusted heavily. They should be tarred or painted to preserve them. I have never seen or heard of anything of the kind before, but perhaps specimens exist elsewhere. Savile Club. 66 46 DOUGLAS OWEN. 66 A NEW CIRCUS FOR LONDON.-The effacement of old Baker Street station has resulted in considerable alterations in the circus vicinity. Amongst others a tiny is being constructed in the Marylebone Road hard by, which bids fair to offer a unique example of its kind in London. Upon each dwarf pillar is carved a viscount's coronet, with a fleur-de-lys beneath, to warrant the inference that the circus will bear the name of “Portman "-quite an appropriate and sufficiently indicative title. It has been proposed that York Place should now be incorporated with Baker Street. venture to suggest further that "Upper might now well be removed from the northern end of the street, which was recently done in the case of Avenue Road, not far off. CECIL CLARKE. Junior Athenæum Club. Queries. I 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. BRUCE OF AIRTH.-Who was the Laird of Airth in 1608 ? In that year Edward Bruce, younger brother of the Laird of Airth, and lawful scion of the great northern house, was compelled to change his name and migrate to Ireland under circumstances of a peculiar nature. A dreadful quarrel broke out between, apparently, John, Lord Erskine, Earl of Mar, of the one part, and Alexander, fifth Lord Livingstone, Alexander, fourth Lord Elphinstone, and Bruce of Airth, of the other part, concerning the disputed title of the Castle of Kildrummie; and in the fight which ensued David Forrester, a follower of Mar, was killed, the murderers being hounded on by the Laird of Airth. So says Drummond. But Burke, in his Dictionary of Landed Gentry (1847), vol. i. pp. 151-2, says that the reason for changing the name was as follows. Mrs. Bruce's grandfather in a letter to his son relative to the family descent in 1774-5 gives the episode thus:: of Scotland, retreated as far as wood and water, &c., would allow him, then turned, in his own defence, and killed his chief. In those days, two or three hundred years ago, the chief had great influence. He (Edward Bruce) was prosecuted with great virulence. The sentence was that he should be either banished or change his name': he said he had done nothing sinful or shameful to fly his country, but put a tail to the "u," and make it "y": thus it was Bryce: but when my grandfather went to Ireland, he spelled his name with an 'i,' and since it has so remained." Do these two accounts refer to the same episode? The following skeleton pedigree may illustrate and explain what I want to have confirmed :— Sir Alexander Bruce (8th laird of Airth), d. 1603. INIGO JONES : HIS CHRISTIAN NAME. (See 11 S. vii. 424.)—I have not the volumes of Eighth Series of N. & Q.' to refer to, Ignaand would like to know if the name tius," in this Spanish form Iñigo, is often to be met with in the registers of the sixS. T. P. teenth century. [The references in the Eighth Series are not concerned with the point raised by our correspondent.] ELFORD FAMILY.-William Elford (Vicar of Lew Trenchard, chaplain to the Duke of Bedford, and Rector of North Petherwin, who lived at Tavistock), son of Ralph of Tavistock, gent., matriculated 30 June, 1772, from Balliol College, æt. 18, B.A. 1776. Who was Ralph Elford, and what relation was he to the banker of the name ? A. STEPHENS DYER. "One of my ancestors had a dispute with his chief, who attacked him; he, according to the laws 207, Kingston Road, Teddington. ST. JOHN OF BLETSOE.-I should be very grateful if any one of your numerous readers could kindly furnish me with the dates of the two following marriages and the place where solemnized : Sir John St. John, of Bletsoe, Knt., and Anne, da. of Thomas Nevell, of Cotterstock, c. 1552-8, his 2nd wife, who was bur. at Bletsoe, 22 Aug., 1595. Oliver, 1st Ld. St. John, of Bletsoe (s. & h. of above), and Elizabeth, da. (or wid.) of Sir Edward Griffin, Knt., who was, I believe, Attorney Genl. temp. Q. Eliz. She was his 2nd wife, and was bur. at Wakerley, Northants, 1 Dec., 1609. This m. would have taken place c. 1560-70. Also I should be glad to learn what became of Oliver, 4th Lord St. John of Bletsoe, said to have died in 1646, and of Elizabeth Paulet his wife. The usual sources of information are singularly reticent as to the above, and I am unable to ascertain their place of marriage or burial, nor have I come across any trace of will or administration. FREDK. A. PAGE-TURNER. 15, Palmeira Square, Hove. AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED.I should be glad to learn (i) the author of a poem about the Dead Sea, beginning I looked upon a sea Although by Hermon's snows and (ii) the author of the following translations: : (a) Sounds which address the ear are lost and die, But truths submitted to the faithful sight Are writ and graven with a beam of light. Horace, 'A. P.,' 180-2. (b) Intestine quarrels place an obvious lever In every hand of every unbeliever. Virgil, En.,' ii. 104. The latter was quoted in 1888 by the Master of Trinity, Dr. Butler, I believe, as a translation of "Hoc Ithacus velit et magno mercentur Atridæ." G. H. J. [A query on this subject, including the epitaph, appeared at 2 S. vii. 477, and we reproduce here the editorial by which it was answered : "This lady was connected with the Cromwells of Wimbledon, and was a descendant of Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex. Her father Thomas Cromwell, the fourth baron, and the fourth in descent from the Earl, was summoned to Parliament 18th of James I., and in 1625 was by Charles I. created Viscount Lecale, and in 1644, Earl of Ardglass in Ireland. He was a loyalist, and took the contrary side from his friend Lord and was buried at Tickencote, co. Rutland. Essex, the parliament general. He died in 1653, His wife was Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Robert Meverell, of Throwliegh in Staffordshire, by whom he had issue three daughters, Frances and Jane, who died young; and Mary, who married William Fitz Herbert of Tissington, co. Derby also three sons, Wingfield, Vere Essex, and demise of Vere Essex (the seventh baron) in 1687. Oliver. The barony became extinct on the The pedigree is printed in Banks's Dormant and Extinct Baronage, ii. 126."] ST. PAUL AT VIRGIL'S TOMB.-Where can I find, printed in extenso, the medieval Latin hyinn in which this legend is related ? A stanza was quoted at 11 S. vii. 463. R. L. MORETON.. 197, Albany Street, N.W. “AUDITIOUS" ("AUDITIONS") ADVICE. -What is "auditious" intended to signify when prefixed to the word advice? On 7 June the following advertisement appeared in The Western Morning News (Plymouth) : "Madame On the 9th the word "auditions" was sub- = Is it a word of modern coinage? and what does it exactly mean? W. S. B. H. ["Audition" appears in the N.E.D.' with one instance each from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It is being brought into fairly frequent use in modern scientific books.] LOUIS ALEXIS CHAMEROVZow.—I should be glad to be referred to a biography of this miscellaneous author, who was writing so lately as in 1873 (in English). One of his historical novels, dealing with the Bastille, was included in "Dicks' English Library of Standard Works,” n.d. M. ROLAND AUSTIN. ILLEGITIMACY IN THE MIDDLE AGES. Some months ago the social position of illegitimate children in the Middle Ages was discussed in the Intermédiaire, the conclusion reached being that such children were more readily acknowledged and recognized than now. One correspondent says :: "The Acts of Francis I. contain numerous letters of legitimation of bastards, especially of bastards of priests, which is somewhat surprising.' Were the children of celibate priests ever legitimated in England? What was the custom in Spain, Italy, and I. Y. Germany ? CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY.-I shall be glad if any one can give me the name and publisher of a history of the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway. G. M. H. P. MATTHEW HENRY BARKER ("THE OLD SAILOR").-During the 'thirties and early 'forties of the last century the author of Jem Bunt,' Tough Yarns,' Cruikshank's Greenwich Hospital,' and a number of collectors' books," was other well-reputed resident in Nottingham. For part of that period he was editor of a local weekly newspaper, The Nottingham and Newark Mercury, wrote his entertaining Walks 'BEARSDENHALL.'-Where shall I find round Nottingham,' and also was responan account of the picture entitled 'Bear-sible for the first appearance in serial form denshall' at Putney? of The Old Sailor's Jolly Boat,' with engravings by the brothers Cruikshank. Is it known definitely in what year he again took up his abode in London, and where ? Born at Deptford in 1790, he achieved very considerable name and fame ere his death in June, 1846; and I am desirous of gleaning any available data as to his London literary activities after quitting the Midlands, and also a transcript, if possible, of his tombstone epitaph. Copies of his works are not, I gather, to be seen at the Deptford Public Libraries, nor have I been able to obtain there any particulars respecting this cheery Cruikshankian confrère. Public Library, Gloucester. PICKETT'S LONDON IMPROVEMENTS.'—I have before me the small 4to volume published, without date, in 1789 in which William Pickett introduced his schemes; its title reads: "Public Improvement; or, a Plan for making a convenient and handsome communication between the Cities of London and Westminster." Also the 8vo volume issued about 1807 under the title of "The Representation of the Leaseholders and Contractors interested in the Houses and Buildings in Pickett Street, near Temple Bar; Skinner With the Street; Fleet Market, and Snow Hill. Scheme of the Proposed Lottery." I shall be glad if some reader will give particulars of any other pamphlets, books, or broadsides relating to the improvements at these dates. I have met with odd plates of some other 4to volume issued about 1795, but cannot trace a copy of the entire work. The 8vo issue of the Acts of Parliament obtained 1795-1804 for this improvement does not contain either plans or illustrations of the houses. ALECK ABRAHAMS. CEDRIC BONNELL. DEMOLITION OF THE KENNELS OF "DOG KENNEL LANE."-To the left and at the foot of the declivity sloping from Denmark Hill in the direction away from London, there stood until a short time ago a little group of miniature houses, in which__in former days the hounds were kept. The last traces of these are now disappearing, and as I have seen no mention elsewhere of their destruction, I write in the hope that this loss to a neighbourhood fast losing |