MRS. ANNE DUTTON : AUTHORSHIP OF B.M. CATALOGUE, 4255 aaaa 41.

(12 S. ii. 147, 197, 215, 275, 338, 471; iii. 78, 136; v. 247.)

THE list of the works of Mrs. Dutton given in 12 S. ii. 471 include:

(a) A Discourse on Justification,' October, 1740.

(b) A Discourse concerning the New Birth,' to which are added two poems, 1740. A note upon the last work indicates that · examination should show that the two poems were, in reality, three.

Both the above-named discourses were republished in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, under the name of Thomas Dutton. The former is 4255 aaaa 41, B.M. Catalogue. It was printed at Glasgow, by Wm. Smith, in 1778, pp. x, 185, and contains a ten-column list of subscribers'

names.

The title-page describes : "A Treatise on Justification....by the Reverend Mr. Thomas Dutton, late Minister in London, and Author of the Discourse on the New Birth and Religious Letters. The Third Edition." The end pages conclude with an announcement of proposals for printing, by subscription, "A Treatise concerning the New Birth, to which will be subjoined 36 Letters on Spiritual Subjects, by the Rev. Thomas Dutton....With a Recommendatory Preface by the Rev. Jacob Rogers, B.A."

The preface of 4255 aaaa 41 refers to the Rev. Mr. Dutton, and states: "We have seen his discourse concerning the New Birth and his letters on Spiritual Subjects.' The advertisement adds that the worthy author of the book was well known, but that copies were scarce and dear.

The projected treatise concerning the 'New Birth' was printed at Dalry in 1803, and contains, as was anticipated in 12 S. ii. 471, three, and not two, hymns. Of it I know no copy save my own. Both books are productions that, many years previously, had been claimed by and ascribed to Mrs. Anne Dutton.

There certainly had been a Mr. Thomas Dutton, a minister, of London sometime, though not, I hope, a minister within it. He had held a mission in Edinburgh, of which the results were published under the title of : "The Warnings of the Eternal Spirit....to Edinburgh, 1710." The pro

by Dutton, the principal of three impostors to hysterical audiences. He was abetted by Guy Nutt and a man named Glover; the two acting as corner-men at his abominwhen he reached the rare difficulty of conable private séances, and breaking into song tinuing perfectly obscure. He produced the usual result of psychic aberration in a Lady A- and, apparently accompanied by her, left for London. The account given of Dutton's catalepsed posturings and agitated struttings, of his face very terrible to behold (framed in plaid and whiskers), but pleasing as a bridegroom's at other times, would be rather amusing if it were not still more disgusting.

Whether this Thomas Dutton was father-in-law of Mrs. Dutton I do not know. There is an occasional resemblance in their styles. But it is not credible that she was a literary impostor, indebted for the whole of her work to this Thomas Dutton. Much of her writing was in response to the requirements of her own notably the best of her material, that produced against Sandeman.

time;

On the other hand, it is equally difficult to believe that pious and earnest men reprinted the treatises with false ascription purposelessly. The successor of Mrs. Dutton at Great Gransden was a man named Keymer, and he probably became possessed of some of her manuscripts. He was of character that, even if his own exculpation be accepted implicitly as true, was even more despicable than that of his wife; but this could hardly have been known to Mrs. Dutton. He would have been quite capable of selling her manuscripts, with a fresh ascription that would have overcome the objection of Presbyterians to feminine divinity. J. C. WHITEBROOK.

21 Old Square, Lincoln's Inn, W.C.2.

AN ENGLISH ARMY LIST OF 1740. (12 S. ii. 3, 43, 75, 84, 122, 129, 151, 163, 191, 204, 229, 243, 272, 282, 311, 324, 353, 364, 391, 402, 431, 443, 473, 482, 512, 524; iii. 11, 46, 71, 103, 132, 190, 217, 234, 267, 304.)

3rd Foot Guards (12 S. ii. 165, 231; v. 270.)

William Lister, captain-lieutenant May 4, 1740, till captain and lieutenant-colonel, January, 1741 (when The Gent. Mag. styles him Capt. Leicester); d. March, 1744.

Hugh Frazer, captain and lieutenantcolonel (v. Mordaunt), April 25, 1741;

BLACKSTONE: THE REGICIDE (12 S. v. 291). -This was John Blakiston (1603-49), once member of Parliament for Newcastle-onTyne (1641-49), and mayor of that city in 1645. He was one of fifty-nine persons who signed the warrant for the execution of Charles I., and one of two connected with the Northern City, the other being George Lilburn, governor of the town in 1647. As your correspondent assumed, he was a member of the Durham family of that name, his father being Marmaduke Blakiston (son of John Blakiston of Blakiston in the County Palatine of Durham), who was archdeacon and prebend of York. John was the second of eleven children, three of his brothers were brought up in the Church, and one of his sisters married Dr. Cosin, Bishop of Durham. The Register of Sedgefield contains his baptismal record on Aug. 21, 1603, and as his father held the living of this parish it may be inferred that John was born and his boyhood spent there. He later went to Newcastle and married Susan Chambers, a widow, on Nov. 9, 1626, as the register of All Saints' reveals; his wife is buried there, her monumental inscription reading: Susannah, late wife of John Blaxton, one of his late Majesties Judges -a careless way of signifying that Blaxton was one of those who sat in judgment upon his majesty. Blakiston became a Puritan, and was the candidate of the Puritan party for Parliament; he had two opponents, and was defeated, but on petition, which was unheard owing to the death of one of the successful candidates, Blakiston was declared to be duly elected.

Blakiston's name occurs frequently in the Journals of the House, the Calendars of State Papers, &c., and a variant of his name is there as Blackston, which probably accounts for your correspondent not finding him in various books of reference. He was a member of the Committee for Compounding, enjoyed the confidence of both Houses of Parliament, and was honoured by his fellow burgesses.

He was twelfth in the list of persons who signed the king's death warrant ; the signature is bold "John Blakiston," beside the arms of his family: "Arg., two bars, and in chief three dunghill cocks gu." He did not live long to share the further triumphs of his party, as three months after the death of the king he was taken ill, and died a day or two after the making of his will, which is dated June 1, 1649. The actual date of death is not known, but a record from the

widow and children of 3,000l. is dated June 6 of the same year, the record stating: "John Blakiston, deceased."

The issue of John and Susan Blakiston was seven children, of whom three only survived their father.

The foregoing particuars are taken from various Sources: the Surtees Society's publications, the State Calendars. The Monthly Chronicle of North Country Lore and Legend,' &c. A brief memoir will also be found under Blakiston in 'D.N.B.,' which gives further points not touched on here. ARCHIBALD SPARKE.

A little garden little Jowett made,
And fenced it with a little palisade;
A little taste hath little Dr. Jowett,
This little garden doth a little show it.
Because this garden made a little talk
He changed it to a little gravel walk.
JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

HAVERING (12 S. v. 229).—I am afraid Mc.'s statement that " Havering is plainly derived from two Saxon words, and means 'Goats' Pasture,' would not pass in the North of England, where the place-name occurs for one or two fields. Haver is. Danish for oats, "havermeal" is oatmeal, 'haverbread" is oaten-bread, and "havercake" is oatcake; ing or inge is AngloSaxon, akin to the Danish ing, an enclosure, a meadow, a pasture, literally a field, and the havering," or the " haverings," up north here were the oat-fields. I never knew that haver was Anglo-Saxon for goat." Mc. must have made some mistake here. only Saxon word for “ goat " that I know of is goet.

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J. W. FAWCETT.

"XIT": WHO WAS HE)? (12 S. v. 295).— I take this to be Harrison Ainsworth's name for John Jarvis, who figures in Caulfield's 'Remarkable Persons' ; and of whom Granger in his 'Biographical History of England' (vol. i., p. 342) says:

"The resemblance of this diminutive person is preserved by his statue, most inimitably carved in oak, and coloured to resemble the life. All that is known of his history is that he was in height but three feet eight inches, and was retained by Queen Mary as her page of honour. He died in the year 1558, aged 57 years, as appears by the dates painted on the girdle at the back of the statue in the possession of Geo. Walker, Esq., Winchester Row, Lisson Green, Paddington." F. F. LAMBARDE.

Perhaps the statues represent Xit the dwarf, a prominent character in Harrison Ainsworth's historical romance The Tower of London.' W. H. PINCHBECK.

[ST. SWITHIN also thanked for reply.] PETERLOO (12 S. v. 291). This was in 1819 (not 1816). An octavo publication, entitled Peter-Loo Massacre,' Manchester, has the date 1819 assigned to it in the catalogue of the Liverpool Public Library,

but seems not to be dated.

R. S. B.

The Statute of Frauds, which was passed in 1677, and therefore after Milton's death, provided that no written will should be revoked or altered by a subsequent nuncupative one, except the same be, in the lifetime of the testator reduced to writing and read over to him and approved, and unless the same be proved to have been so done by the oaths of three witnesses at the least, that no nuncupative will should in anywise be good where the estate bequeathed exceeded thirty pounds, unless proved by three such witnesses present at the making thereof and unless they or some of them were specially required to bear witness thereto by the testator himself; and unless

habitation or dwelling-house, or where he had been previously resident ten days at the least except he be surprised with sickness on a journey or from home and die without returning to his dwelling. No nuncupative will was to be proved till fourteen days after the death of the testator, nor till process had first issued to call in the widow or next of kin to contest it if they thought proper. Sir William Blackstone says, itself had fallen into disuse and is now (1765) the thing hardly ever heard of."

Nuncupative wills were finally abolished by the Wills Act, 1837, except in the case of soldiers and sailors in expeditione.

G. P.

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"The popularity of the dance in England is to be seen in the frequency of its name in Tudor and early Stuart literature. A couple of quotations will suffice to show the way in which it was used. Ben Jonson, in The Devil is an Ass' (iv. 1), has : Coach it to Pimlico, dance the saraband, Hear and talk bawdy, &c.' The same writer employs this word twice in The Staple of News' (iv. 1) : And then I have a saraband'; and later: ..how they are tickled with a light air, the bawdy saraband! The word is sometimes to be met with spelt 'sarabrand' in Elizabethan literature."

J. R. H. CENTURY LAW

UNFINISHED ELEVENTH CASE (12 S. v. 293).-In 1275, and again in 1286, the Crown proceeded against Guy Visdeloo, Lord of the Manor of Shotley, in Suffolk, for certain claims he made in respect of that manor. The case was adjourned (Hundred Rolls). Six hundred years later, in 1887, the Crown proceeded against the Marquis of Bristol, the lineal decendant of Guy Visdeloo, for certain claims he made in respect of that same manor. As Mr. Charles Elton was one of the counsel for Lord Bristol, and as there is a Shotley in the North of England as well as in Suffolk, it looks as if in course of repetition of the story Durham had been substituted for Suffolk. Or, of course, the same sort of thing may have happened in both counties. Some account of the Suffolk case will be found in a recent history of Shotley.