POEM ATTRIBUTED TO DR. JOHNSON. (See "THE DAY."-This phrase, made familiar 11 S. x. 304.)-The magazine from which to us by recent events, may indicate a Lord Buchan, assuming that he is A. B., necessary element in huge ambitions in the tore these verses is The Gentleman's, vol. few cases permitted by the nature of things xviii., 1748. They are printed on the to mature in history. Or may it be an echo reverse of the page that contains the Preface. of Seneca's Suasoria,' I.-means, motive, Johnson's Vanity of Human Wishes' was and measure all chiming with the original? published in January, 1749, but he must I quote from the Elzevir edition, vol. iii. have declined on a lower level if we are to pp. 3, 4, and venture to add capitals:suppose that about the same time he wrote the address to Mr. Urban. Could Johnson have passed the couplet 66 His missive weapon gives a distant wound, iv. 31. There is a curious resemblance between Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Have they a common source ? The verses addressed to Mr. Urban on the completion of vol. xix. are still milder. They are signed Phil-Urban. Those who have access to other volumes can say whether it was a regular practice to prefix such addresses. Johnson is known to have touched and corrected many verses written by others. EDWARD BENSLY. "Deliberat Alexander, an OCEANUM NAVIGET................. Venit ILLE DIES, Álexander, exoptatus, quo TIBI OPERÆ EST adesse. lidem sunt termini et regni tui, ET MUNDI." J. K. 66 cou "COUSAMAH."-In the 'Oxford Thackeray' edition of The Newcomes,' in which the text followed is "that of the 1864 edition," the last revised by Thackeray himself, Col. Newcome is made to say: Do you suppose I want to know what my kitmutgars and cousamahs are doing?" I suggest that there is a mistake here, and that what the great novelist wrote was not samahs," but "consamahs," and that the printer has in this instance mistaken the author's n for u, and very likely his u for an a. Thackeray, son of a Bengal civilian, and himself born in India, must have been familiar with the name khansama, which in his father's time was probably written consumah, or even consumer-the name by which in Bengal the chief table servant in a European's household is known. I do not think it at all likely that he wrote cousamah, which perversion of the word, however, has a compositor's mistake, probably been perpetuated in all the editions of The Newcomes.' Queries. PENRY LEWIS. 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. THE FOUNDER OF THE HULME TRUST.—now, owing to The 'D.N.B.' does not give the birthplace of William Hulme, the founder of the Hulme Trust. By the publication of the Bolton Parish Registers, a transcription which this writer has just issued, it is possible to fix the place definitely. Among the baptisms for 23 March, 1631, we find "Willyam Holmes, son of Willyame de Breighmitt, grandchilde to Mr. Richard Banister.' From this it may be inferred (says Mr. W. Hewitson, who reviews the book in The Manchester City News) that William Hulme was born at his mother's old home at Breightmet, then a township within the parish of Bolton. His mother, Christian, was the daughter of Richard Banister, and her marriage is recorded in the Bolton Register under date 6 May, 1630. William Hulme seems to have lost both parents before he was 8 years old. He was married at Prestwich Church on 2 Aug., 1653, and died at Kersley in October, 1691. ARCHIBALD SPARKE, F.R.S.L. NAME OF PLAY WANTED.-An engraving by Hollis of Mr. G. V. Brooke as Philip of France' represents him as reciting the following lines :— The Pope, my Lords! Four letters, things, not names ! The Pope! Did earth receive him from the stars ; WILLIAM THOMPSON, D. 1775.-I am trying to trace the origin of the first William Thompson in the subjoined extract from my pedigree. Any information I can get as to his place of birth, &c., or surname of his first wife, will be most gratefully received. Martha......(?) William Thompson, d. 26 May,Anne Swaddell, 2nd wife. 1775. Surgeon of St. Katherine's by the Tower of London. Will dated 10 Jan., 1774, P.C.C. 209 Alexander. 1st wife. Executrix with son Thomas to her husband's will. Died at Holbeach Marsh in Torry Elston's house. William, b. 19 March, 1775, Sophia Nott at Bourne. D. 1853 at Stamford. of Stamford. George, M...C...(?) b. Sept., 1758. Served in Hon. gent.), b. Feb., 1756. East India Co.'s NATHANIEL COOKE.-Who was he? Was he related to several famous musicians of that name? I picked up at a bookstall a book by him:— "A Collection of | Psalms and Hymns | Sung at the Parish Church | Brighthelmston | To which are added Several | Canons. and a Te Deum laudamus | Composed, Selected and Arranged for the Organ or Pianoforte | By | Nathaniel Cooke | Organist of the Parish Church." There is no date in the book; 148 psalms have tunes assigned to them, and a few hymns are set to tunes. Portuguese and Sicilian hymn tunes are in the collection. Strange to say, "Hark! the herald angels sing," is not there. M.A.OXON. Per though emendations are dangerous. haps some contributor who is better versed in old Lowland Scottish than I am can throw light on the line in question, which, how ever, I suspect is corrupt. RICHARD H. THORNTON. OLIVER CROMWELL OF UXBRIDGE.-In the (recently transcribed) parish registers of Uxbridge there is mention of an Oliver Cromwell who, in 1551, married Alice Nuttinge. Can any genealogist place this Oliver? The name suggests a connexion with the Protector's family, but the locality rather that of Thomas Cromwell, the minister of Henry VIII., who hailed from Putney. According to Lord Morley, it is not known when the Protector's family changed their name from Williams to Cromwell. OLD ETONIANS.-I shall be grateful for information regarding any of the following: (1) Kelly, Henry, admitted 30 Sept., 1759, left 1765. (2) Kelly, William, admitted 30 Sept., 1759, left 1765. (3) Keppell, George, admitted 5 May, 1764, left 1765. (4) Kerrick, Thomas, admitted 24 Jan., 1764, left 1765. (5) Kingscote, Robert, admitted 29 Sept., 1763, left 1769. (6) Knowles, Benjamin, admitted 13 Jan., 1762, left 1768. (7) Knowles, Edward, admitted 8 Sept., 1761, left 1765. (8) Knowles, Willoughby, admitted 8 Sept., 1761, left 1766. (9) Kynaston, Charles, admitted 5 Sept., 1763, left 1770. (10) Lamb, Matthew, admitted 6 Sept., 1755, left 1762. (11) Lander, James, admitted 19 Jan., 1763; left 1763. (12) Lander, Thomas, admitted 22 Jan., 1759, left 1763. (13) Lane, Theophilus, admitted 26 Jan., 1761, left 1763. (14) Lascelles, Robert Hammond, admitted 16 Jan., 1761, left 1761. (15) Lee, Albert, admitted 22 Sept., 1755, left 1759. (16) Leigh, Thomas, admitted 25 June, 1765, left 1769. (17) Lemoine, Samuel, admitted 12 April, 1763, left 1772. (18) Lewis, David Edward, admitted 9 May, 1764, left 1768. R. A. A.-L. "THE PIRÆUS MISTAKEN FOR A MAN."This expression is occasionally used as if it were a well-known allusion. Will one of the learned contributors to N. & Q.' supply the original source of the story? Two or three standard works of reference have been T. P. M. consulted without success. EAST ANGLIAN FAMILIES : ELIZABETH STAINTON. (See 11 S. vii. 277, 378, 477.) I have again to thank correspondents for information given. I had hoped to have taken a trip to England. Instead, two of my boys have gone to fight for the Motherland. I have a copy of Foxe's 'Martyrs,' published 1684, in which there is a picture of the burning of John Goose or John Hus, 1473. My family, on one side, is descended from the Goss or Goose family, and I have always understood that there was a martyr among them, though this has been handed down without documentary evidence. Is there any grant of arms to any of the Gos, Gosse, or Goose family? I should also be glad to learn where I can obtain any information of Elizabeth Stainton, Abbess (?) of Kirklees Priory in 1247. TANNITSOW. Hawkes Bay, N.Z. NEWNHAM FAMILY.-I should be pleased if any reader could give me a definite description of the arms of Nathaniel Newnham (Lord Mayor of London 1782), which are displayed on the cornice opposite the southwest corner in the Alderman's Court Room of the Guildhall in the City of London. Indeed, any information concerning the family of Newnham would be very much esteemed. A. JAMES NEWNHAM. 14, Silchester Road, near Baffin's Farm, Portsmouth. LUKE ROBINSON, M.P.-Can any reader of N. & Q.' give me, or put me in the way of obtaining, any information concerning Luke Robinson, M.P., born before 1730, described in a paper cutting in my possession as a barrister of considerable eminence who refused a judgeship? I am unable to trace his parentage or place of birth or burial. His birthplace, I am led to believe, was in Yorkshire. LUKE N. ROBINSON. The Small House, Sunbury-on-Thames. WILLIAMSON OF ANNAN.-Can any reader give information about the following Williamsons of Annan? James, born 1721; John, his first son, born 8 Aug., 1749; James, his second son, born 23 Feb., 1752; and George, born 1725 or 1726. The last joined Prince numerous. HARDY. (11 S. x. 449.) THE books upon the campaign of the Duke of York in Flanders in 1793-4 are not There is L. T. Jones's contemporary account (1797), which is a poor, thin affair. Far better is General Calvert's Journa's and Correspondence,' issued as late as 1853. But neither of these works refers to the incident in question, as far as I can tell (no index is granted in either book). There is, however, a less-known book, published anonymously immediately after the campaign, which throws considerable light upon the affair. This book is entitled : "An Accurate and Impartial Narrative of the War. By an Officer of the Guards. In two volumes. Comprising the Campaigns of 1793, 1794, and the Retreat through Holland to Westphalia, in 1795. Introducing also the Original Poetical Epistles from Head-Quarters, &c. 3rd edition, enlarged. Pub lished by Cadell & Davies, Strand, London, 1796," 8vo. It is a clever and entertaining book, consisting of a series of letters in rime from an officer in the campaign, written to his lady at home in England. It has additional value in the elaborate notes at the foot of each page. The first reference in the book which I take to be to Hardy is in vol. ii. p. 14. It occurs in a poetical letter dated Ghent, 22 Feb., 1794 :— But the historical incident to which MR. PRICE refers did not happen until 18 May, 1794, three months later than the date of the letter above. It occurred at the battle of Tournay, and is referred to in the same book as follows:: Letter VIII. Head-Quarters, Tournay, May 19, 1794. We wheel'd on a pivot, no time to be lost, And push'd tow'rds a river, or ditch, which we cross'd. In the 's horse strong symptoms of madness appear'd, For at sight of the water he snorted and rear'd: So his rider dismounted and plung'd in the tide. The Carmagnols judging pursuit was in vain, There appear to have been Press Censors in this campaign as in more recent ones, but we are, at any rate, allowed to know that a horse belonging to a captain whose name ended in the letter y was found to be useful. incident, a copy of which I will forward to Facing p. 60 of vol. ii. is a drawing of the MR. PRICE if he wishes. Thomas Carteret "This was generally supposed to have been a led horse, belonging to one of his Royal Highness's Aid-de-Camps; but that gentleman gives the He was following account of the circumstance. riding, attended by an orderly Dragoon, leading a horse loaded with body cloaths; and finding the girths of his own saddle loose, dismounted to buckle them up tighter, when his charger alarm'd by the fireing galloped off. Not conceiving the Camp, to the Commander in Chief, he mounted the batt horset properly caparisoned for an Aid-deDragoon's, leaving him with the other; which must have been the one on which his Royal Highness so fortunately escaped, unless the Soldier caught Capt. -Y's original runaway steed, as indeed appears highly probable, the only historical account which has transpired, informing us the horse was led."-Vol. ii. pp. 59-61. "Batt horse: A horse which carries an officer's baggage." I will now add a few details connecting the family of Thomas Carteret Hardy with more recent times. The Rev. Daniel Lysons, M.A., F.R.S., of Hempsted Court, the celebrated topographer and antiquary, author of 'Magna Britannia,' &c., b. 23 April, 1762, m. first at Bath, 12 May, 1801, Sarah, eldest dau. of Lieut.Col. Thomas Carteret Hardy of the York Fusiliers, and by her (who d. 1808) had issue: (1) Daniel, d. 1814, aged 10 years; (2) Samuel, of Hempsted (see below); (3) Sarah, b. 1802, m. 5 Oct., 1831, to the Rev. John Haygarth, Rector of Upham, Hants, and d. 18 May, 1833, having had issue a dau. (Josepha, d. unm. 1846); (4) Charlotte, b. 1807, m. at Naples, 14 Nov., 1825, to Sir James Carnegie, Bart., of Southesk, N.B., and d. April, 1848, having with other issue a son, James, Earl of Southesk. The Rev. Samuel Lysons, of Hempsted Court, co. Gloucester, J.P., b. 17 March, 1806; m. first, 1 Jan., 1834, Eliza Sophia Theresa Henrietta, eldest dau. of MajorGeneral Sir Lorenzo Moore, K.C.H. and C.B., and by her (who d. 1846) had issue : (1) Arthur Charles, b. 1836, d. 1855. (2) Lorenzo George, b. 1839, late captain 23rd Regiment, adjutant 1st Battalion Aberdeenshire Volunteers. (3) Edmund Hicks Beach, b. 1842, lieutenant R.M. (4) Daniel George, b. 1844; B.A.Oxon, in Holy Orders; m. 7 April, 1869, Katherine Anne, fourth dau. of Thomas C. Eyton, Esq., of Eyton Hall: (i.) Alice Elizabeth. (ii.) Clementina Agnes, m. to the Rev. Francis John Atwood. Samuel Lysons m. secondly, 11 March, 1847, Lucy, dau. of the Rev. John Adey Curtis (by Albinia Frances his wife, who, after the death of her husband, assumed her family name of Hayward in addition to Curtis, in compliance with a request in her father's will). He m. thirdly, in 1872, Gertrude Savery, second dau. of Simon Adams Beck, of Cheam, Surrey. Mr. Lysons graduated at Exeter College, Oxford, B.A. 1831, M.A. 1835. He was Rector and Patron of Rodmarton, Gloucestershire, appointed 1833, resigned 1866; Rural Dean of Gloucester 1865, Hon. Canon Gloucester Cathedral 1867. He died at Hempsted Court, 27 March, 1877. He General Sir Daniel Lysons (1816-98), Constable of the Tower until recent years, was the son of Daniel Lysons the topographer (supra) by his second wife. d. 29 Jan., 1898, and by his first wife, Harriet Sophia, d. of Charles Bridges, Court House, Overton, he had four sons, one of whom, Henry Lysons (Scottish Rifles), obtained the Victoria Cross in the Zulu War of 1879. I feel sure that some of the descendants of Thomas Carteret Hardy will be able to substantiate, or otherwise, the story in question. A. L. HUMPHREYS. 187, Piccadilly, W. BESZANT FAMILY (11 S. x. 270).-Many French families have a dolphin or dolphins in their arms; among them may be mentioned Banton, Dantil, Feugerolles, De Caverson, Guilabert, Poisson de Gastines, Dauphin. I have never heard or read of any restriction on the use of the dolphin as a figure in French arms, and would much like to know the source of the information furnished to the Encyclopædia Britannica' (1799). family named Beszant bearing a dolphin for arms is known to me. LEO C. No DETECTIVES IN FICTION (11 S. x. 469).— I dimly remember being greatly interested, some sixty years ago, in 'Recollections of a Police-Officer' in Chambers's Edinburgh Journal. The hero's name was, I think, Waters or Walters, and his stories were enjoyed both by me and by my grandfather. ST. SWITHIN. |