BROWNE : SMALL : WRENCH : MACBRIDE.— I should be glad of information about any of the following:- John Browne, Regius Chirurgus Ordinarius, born 1642. A portrait engraved by R. White, with a coat of arms below, which I am not sufficiently versed in heraldry to be able to describe. Alexander Small, Chirurgus. A mezzotint portrait after B. Dandridge, engraved by J. Faber, probably about 1740. Sir Benjamin Wrench, M.D., born 1665. Practised as a physician in Norwich for over sixty years. David Macbride, M.D., probably of Dublin, about 1797. A portrait engraved by J. T. Smith after Reynolds of Dublin, and published in London, 1797. D. A. V. MOSES. 78 Kensington Park Road, Notting Hill, W. [For Browne and Macbride see 'D.N.B.'] PRINTS ILLUSTRATING IRISH HISTORY, 1579-80.-1. The late Dr. Richard Bagwell ('Ireland Under the Tudors,' iii. 21, 22), writing of the murder of Henry Davells and Arthur Carter by Sir John of Desmond in 1579, alludes to "a curious print " illustrating it. Where is this print to be seen? 2. An old print illustrating the attack by the English fleet on the Castell dell' Oro in Smerwick Harbour in 1580 was reproduced in an Irish magazine (I think The Kerry Magazine of 1854). Where is this print to be seen now? I am told that neither is in the British Museum. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. GILBERT, BISHOP OF LISBON.-The first Bishop of Lisbon after it was reconquered from the Moors was an English monk named Gilbert, who died April 27, 1166. He is not in the 'D.N.B.' Is anything known about him? JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. PORTRAIT OF MISS PRICE.-I should be very grateful if any one could give me particulars of the portrait of Miss Price, engraved by F. Bartolozzi from a picture by Sir Peter Lely, published July, 1808, by John White, Fleet Street, and John Scott, Strand. To what family of Price did she belong and who were her parents? Essex Lodge, Ewell. LEONARD C. PRICE. ROE FAMILY. I shall be grateful for assistance with the following pedigree: Joseph Roe of Henley, co. Suffolk, baptized there July 16, 1691, buried at Wester (buried at Westerfield Jan. 16, 1778) a third son, Robert, baptized at Henley Jan. 11, 1732. Was the last named identical with the Robert Roe who died Feb. 13, 1818, aged 86, and was buried at Darmsden, not far from Henley ? Robert Roe of Darmsden married Mary (Robinson ?), who died Jan. 6, 1815, aged 83, and was buried at the same place. Amongst their children were : 1. Joseph Roe of Ipswich, married Jemima. Coe (?), and had (a) Robert of Cambridge, died July 31, 1880, in 88th year, engraver and_miniature painter, who left issue; (b) Joseph of Brook Street, Ipswich, died July 17, 1877, aged 81, leaving issue; (c) Owen of Brook Street and Museum. Street, Ipswich, died s.p. Nov. 9, 1884, aged 87. In addition to these there were probably three other children: William, Jemima, and Martha. 2. Owen Roe of Rose Hill, Ipswich, died April 30, 1825, aged 55, and was buried at Darmsden. Will dated April 5, 1825, and proved in the archdeaconry of Suffolk, May 19, 1825. He married, by licence, Sept. 7, 1792, at St. Margaret's, Ipswich, Ann Coe, who died Aug. 4, 1846, aged 82,. and was buried at Darmsden, leaving a daughter, Ann Roe (died Nov. 29, 1851, aged 50, buried at Darmsden), wife of Charles Cobbold of Ipswich, by whom she had issue. I may add that I am aware of the pedigrees in the British Museum Library (Add. M.S, 19147) and in the W. S. Fitch collection at Ipswich. F. GORDON ROE. 18 Stanford Road, Kensington. SCOTTISH BISHOPS. The voluntary workers of the Clerical Index Society are desirous of compiling a complete and up-to-date list of all the bishops who have held the sees of the Church of England in Scotland from the date of their foundations. Can any reader help us, either with complete succession lists of any one see or the whole ? Most works of reference are out of date and full of errors. What are chiefly wanted are dates and places of consecration, resignation, death and burial. J. W. FAWCETT. Templetown House, Consett, co. Durham. JEANNE OF FLANDERS.-Is there any account, other than that in the chronicles of Froissart of the adventures of this valorous lady, known as Jeanne la Flamme-one of the three "Amazons of Brittany who engaged in the struggle for the lordship of Brittany (1341-64)? D. KING THE INVENTION OF THE HOLY CROSS.- co. Gloucester, and obtained a grant of arms How old or how recent is the Church com- Sept. 14, 1708. He married Jane, dau. and memoration of the "Finding of the Cross ? co-heir of John Ovey of Greenville Green, What relation, if any, does it bear to the Watlington, co. Oxon. John Ovey was "Holy Rood discovered at Montacute buried at Turville, co. Bucks, December, in the reign of Canute and brought to Wal- 1707, and Jane d. December, 1729. A John tham by a team of oxen, thereby leading to Ovey bought the Rectory Manor at Turville, the founding of Waltham Abbey ? co. Bucks, in 1653, was this the father of Jane? Who were the parents and wife of John Ovey ? What were his arms, if any? H. PIRIE-GORDON. 66 Is any like commemoration kept at Waltham ? And, further, in records of sacred relics, is the true cross of Jerusalem differentiated from the "Holy Rood attached to Waltham Abbey history? WILLIAM R. POWER. 157 Stamford Hill, N.16. [The Feast of the Invention, or Finding, of the Holy Cross is an ancient one. It commemorates the finding of the True Cross by St. Helena, the mother of Constantine, at Jerusalem. This is said to have taken place in the year 326. The silence of Eusebius has caused some doubt to be thrown upon the story; but it would seem to have the testimony of St. Cyril of Jerusalem, a contemporary of Eusebius, in its favour, and it is certain that the commemoration of the " Finding of the Cross," instituted first at Jerusalem, had spread throughout the Church by about the first half of the eighth century. Fr. Thurston, in his interesting article on the Calendar in The Catholic Encyclopædia, sets out in full a Calendar which belonged to St. Willibrord, the Apostle of the Frisians, " probably written in England between 702 and 706." In this the Feast of the Invention of the Holy Cross is assigned to May 7 instead of to May 3, the usual day in the Western Church.] FITZHENRY. Who is the father of Henry, father of Robert FitzHenry, Lord of Lathom? By Burscough Charter, this Robert Fitz Henry, Lord of Lathom 1173-99, was grantee of lands in Manchester fee from Albert Gredle the elder (T. de N., 823), Founder of Burscough Priory circa 1170, which was endowed by him (int. al.) with the churches of Ormskirk and Flixton (Ormerod)? ALFRED RANSFORD. East Elloe, Hunstanton. WEARING A CROSS ON S. PATRICK'S DAY.Swift, Journal to Stella,' Mar. 17, 1712-13, writes: "The Mall was so full of crosses that I thought all the world was Irish. Brand quotes from an Irish dictionary: "Seamroy, clover, trefoil; worn by Irishmen in their hats, by way of a cross, on St. Patrick's Day." How old is the custom of wearing the shamrock? G. G. L. OVEY, Timothy Perry, merchant of St. Benet Sherehog, London (son of Thomas Perry of Cirencester, b. 1632, d. Mar. 20, 1707, will proved May 5, 1707, and Mercy Dansey, his wife, bur. at Cirencester June 15, LOUISA DE BOSCH (b. June 28, 1798) married ante 1821 Oliver Hughes Toulmin (b. April 17, 1793, d. April, 1874). Who were her parents? Was the De Bosch family resident in England or was Louisa a Belgian refugee ? H. PIRIE-GORDON. 20 Warwick Gardens, Kensington, W.14. TURKEY MERCHANTS.-Who was Thomas Pye, member of above circa 1630 ? E. E. COPE, was SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE, 1723-80.-The official catalogue of exhibits at the Caxton Celebration at South Kensington in 1877 included amongst Engraved Portraits of Celebrated Men at One Time Printers,' one of Blackstone, a note stating that he " in his youth a practical printer." I find nothing in the 'D.N.B.,' or in earlier biographical dictionaries, which supports the assertion, any reference regarding which would be welcome. W. B. H. connexion with the Clarendon Press, of which a [Does not the statement refer to Blackstone's short account is given in the 'D.N.B.'?] THE REV. JOHN BOULTBEE, 1703-58, sometime vicar of Castle Donnington, co. Leics., was he related to the family of Boultbee of Springfield, near Knowle (co. Warwick)? If so, what was the relationship? L. C. B. JOHN DE BURGO, Chancellor of Cambridge University 1383-86, and author of Pupilla Oculi.' I should be glad to learn anything of his subsequent career; why he held so short a term of office; was he in disgrace, and whither did he retire at the end of his chancellorship? .E. ILIFF ROBSON. HYPHENATED SURNAMES.-Can any reader inform me when the practice of using hyphenated surnames began ? And what has been the greatest multiplication of the hyphen ? H. G. B. BIBLIOGRAPHY: FOREIGN REPRINTS AND TRANSLATIONS.-What publishers' lists are available of works of English writers (especially novelists) issued in the Dominions or in foreign countries, either in English or in any other language? The lists of B. Tauchnitz of Leipzig are known so far as M. reprints are concerned. REFERENCE WANTED.-In which of Robert Buchanan's poetic compositions can one come across following lines concerning personal descent ? AARON BAKER OF BOWHAY. (12 S. vi. 75, 139, 153.) FIRST President and Governor of Fort Worl and honoured friends I knowe yor long experience of ye Compas affaires on ye Coast needeth noe directions from mee, how you shall Governe their busines in theis partes after my departure nor doe I leave theis lynes wth you purposely to direct you in yt point I rather commend this to you to putt you in minde of some pettie pticulers weh wthout theis may pchance in ye most of yor other thoughts, bee forgotten pmiscuoufly. I shall not bee tedious in a preamble, but rather desire to discend to ye pticulers themselves. Sly a little before my coming from Bantam ye King of Macasser wrote mee a letter, requesting mee if any Portugall to whom he had consigned some moneys to provide him necessaries from this Coast, should bring mee anything for his vfse or Acco: I would receive it of him and remitt it to him vpon our next shippes to Macasser after my coming hither Sr Joan Perdrade Faria an Goods leathered over for ye afforsaid Kings Acco There Herewth all I deliver yo" severall erers from y Capt Generall in St Thomey, to his Servt Thomas De Cruse Etra in Pegu, if wthout feare of trouble from ye Dutch our people from thence could bring ye sd De Cruse, and another black youth of his Ant Fonsera, ye Generall saith hee shall bee much bounden to you for yt favour, pray when you write to Pegu next, remember this busines, and whether you give leave for his people to retourne vpon or ship, or not, yett forgett not to send away his erers. When I came from Bantam I was importuned by one Kay Mass Arrea De Lewingratt to bring one hundred Rialls of his with mee, to provide him some Caingaloones, ye money presently vpon my coming hither I putt into the Compas Cash, and ye sd Kay hath Creditt 60 pa for it in Generall Bookes, when you send to Bantam pray appoint him Caingaloones for ye value as afforesd In ye Compa Wearhouse are 4 Chests Drinking Glasses belonging to Mr Wm Cokayne Or Governor in England they are numbered No. 3, 23, 24, 26 and containe vizit The Compas order is that theis Glasses may be solde (M Cokaynes Acc° to have Creditt for their produce in Generall Bookes) to bee transported for England soe soon as you can meete with a merchant that will buy them I doe here Deliver yo" Sossadra ye Braminees (.... Branco's) Bills for ye Respondentia money wch they were to make good in Maccasser, as also ye Acco that was made amongst them since my arrival on this Coast, how much everyone was interested therein. I conceive ye busines cannot well be pfectede till you have ye Bantam Generall Bookes & ye Macasser Accts sent you for wch by ye next conveance to Bantam you may doe well to ye Agent, to send them yo". I doe now leave in yor jointt Custodie as yo Compas Prisoners, till they have satisfied their Debts wch they owe to ye Compa and Wm Gurnies 'Connapa. And I Doe here require you all as you will one Day answare it in ye presence of Almighty God, yt to satisfie any mans pticuler hatred, or malice hee beares them, you straine not yor Consciences by vsing violence and so make Justice a Stalking horse to worke yor owne revenge vpon them: Remember yt God is Just and yt hee tells you vengeance is his, and hee himself will repay it. Their 4 bills wth they pass to Mr Gurney for ye money wch they owe him I doe here deliver you. And I pray God to blesse and prosper ye Compas affairs on this Coast vnder your Direction, soe It THIS is a survival from ancient tenures. appears from Seebohm's English Village Community' that gwestva was a contribution of food exacted from ancient Welsh tenants. Among the Anglo-Saxons the gebur or villanus, besides doing regular week work, did precaria or bene-work, that is, extra special services-"To plough three acres to bene (ad precem) and two to gærsyrde and he also rendered gafol, which included :At Martinmas xxiii. sesters of honey and ii. hens. At Easter a young sheep or iid. With another to feed a hound." 66 ; 66 Seebohm gives typical cases from the Hundred Rolls of Services of Villani, which include: "A hen at Christmas and 8 eggs at Easter and "7d. as 'loksilver,' that is, 2d. for a loaf and 5 hens, also 20 eggs at Easter " and of services of Cotarii, which include: At Martinmas gives 1 cock and 3 hens for Churchshot and "1 hen at Christmas and 5 eggs at Easter. From the Domesday of St. Paul's (A.D. 1222) it appears that on the manor of Thorpe each house in the whole village owed a hen at Christmas and eggs at Easter. The following are taken from 'Tenures of Land and Customs of Manors,' by W. C. Hazlitt (London, Reeves & Turner, 1874) :— 66 Bery, Co. of Devon.-Geoffery de la Worthy held premises here for which he rendered at Easter and Midsummer (inter alia) three capons. Brayles, co. of Warwick.-In the reign of Edward I. Adam Underwood held premises here "Hedsor, co. of Bucks. An estate was held here by the service of bringing in the first dish at the Lord's table on St. Stephen's Day and presenting him with two hens, a cock, a gallon of ale, and two manchets of bread; after dinner the lord delivered to the tenant a sparrow-hawk and a couple of spaniels to be kept at his costs and charges for the lord's use. ̈· "Lastres, co. of Hereford.-10 Edw. IV. John de la Hay took premises here rendering therefor twenty pence a year, and one goose fit for the Lord's dinner on St. Michael's Day, suit of Court, &c. Plansworth, co. of Durham.-In 1382 John de Elvet held premises here, rendering (amongst other things) four hens at the office of the master forester at the feast of St. Martin." These examples will no doubt suffice. I have never myself come across the reservation of poultry in a lease in modern times, but other survivals of incidents of ancient tenures and of the feudal spirit have come under my notice. For example, in a printed form of agreement used for letting land in the neighbourhood of Burnley, Lancashire, in 1806 it is provided that the tenant is: "to keep a Dog or Cock for the Proprietor of the said estate for the time being when thereunto required." with a penalty of 51. per annum in default. The form of agreement also contained the following clause, which, however, was struck out in the copy now before me as the letting for which it was used was only 12 acres : "And also to cart or plow [a blank is here left in the form to be filled in with particulars of the amount of Boon work to be done] as Boon work with three able and sufficient horses with a Driver for the Proprietor of the said Estate the said term when thereto required." for the time being yearly and every year during This clause is clearly a survival from the precarice of the Anglo-Saxon gebur and the boon-work of the manorial villani. Again, a printed form of lease, used on the estate of Sir Henry Hoghton at Walton, near Preston, Lancashire, in 1785, contains a reservation for the lessee :— at and to the Court and Courts from time to Yielding and doing suit and service of Court time to be holden for the Manor of Walton upon general warning to be given in the usual manner for the holding of such Courts by the Bailiff or other Officer of the Lord or Lords of the said Manor for the time being unless upon reasonable excuse to be allowed by the Steward of the said Courts for the time being he or they shall be freed or discharged for that time for the same and also doing and performing all orders made or to be made in any of the Courts kept or to be kept for There are covenants by the lessee to perform mill." The printed form also contained a provision that the lessee should well and sufficiently keep and provide for a dog or cock when thereunto required by the lessor. This clause was struck out in the lease for which the form was actually used as such lease only applied to a cottage. În a lease for 999 years of a plot of building land at St. Annes-on-the-Sea, Lancashire, granted as recently as 1888 by the trustees of the Clifton Estate, which passed through my hands a short time since, there was the following reservation : 66 the "York Library." This last is in a Clarendon Press. VAN BALEN: CHARLES LAMB (12 S.. vi. 167).-What Lamb writes to Barton in the letter (no. 393 in Mr. E. V. Lucas's edition) referred to by MR. F. H. CLARKE is: this : 66 Apropos of Van Balen, an artist who painted me lately had painted a Blackamoor praying, and not filling his canvas, stuff'd in his little girl asideof Blacky, gaping at him unmeaningly; and then didn't know what to call it." If syntax is to count for anything it is clear that Van Balen is not the artist who Yielding and performing suit of Court at all had lately painted Lamb. Mr. Lucas exthe Courts to be held for the Manor of Lytham." plains in a note that Van Balen was the This appears to be a mere survival of no painter of a Madonna and Child which practical use whatever, as not only have Barton had received as a present from. Courts leet fallen into disuse, but suit to Edward FitzGerald's mother, and that them did not depend on tenure, while a Henry Meyer was the artist who had lately lessee under a term granted by deed has no painted Lamb. A reproduction of Meyer's place among the copyholders or customary picture of the negro and girl, which Lamb tenants, for the admission of whom Custom-christened The Young Catechist,' is given. ary Courts are still held for manors upon in Mr. Lucas's edition. which copyholds exist. Westwood, Clitheroe. WM. SELF WEEKS. EDWARD BENSLY. University College, Aberystwyth. 66 "THE DERBY BLUES" : "THE OXFORD BLUES (12 S. v. 97, 138). The inquiry concerning the Derby Blues," suggests a further one concerning "the Oxford Blues." A work of 1820, in an account of a most magnificent entertainment given at Windsor Castle by George III. on 25 February, 1805,' 66 BURTON'S ANATOMY": "DEUCE ACE NON POSSUNT (12 S. vi. 167).-The couplet is earlier than Burton's day. Camden gives the following account of it in his Remaines Concerning Britaine,' ed. 1636, pp. 339, 340, near the end of the chapter on 'Rythmes ':— "In the time of King Henry the 4. when in leavying of a Subsidie, the rich would not, and the "In the courtyard and on the grand staircase. poore could not pay, so they of the meaner sort every circumstance of military pomp was exbare the burthen: a skilfull dicer, and no un-hibited by the disposition of parties of the Oxford skilfull rimer wrote these verses. Blues and Staffordshire Militia." Dews As non possunt, & Sise Sinke solvere nolunt. G.G. L. asks whether there is a good modern edition of Burton's book. The most convenient is that in three volumes published by George Bell & Sons in 1893, with notes by A. R. Shilleto and an introduction by A. H. Bullen. It was reprinted in Bohn's Standard Library' (1896 and at an estimated cost exceeding 50,000l. |