WAINEWRIGHT. He does not appear in the list of vicars of Boxgrove. Thos. Boxfeld was vicar in 1523 and the next name is John Hull resigned in 1612, so that he night well occur between the two dates. The list is evidently not complete CHAS. HALL CROUCH. NEWTON, R.A.: PORTRAITS WANTED (12 S. v. 236, 277).-The following portraits by Gilbert Stuart Newton, R.A., were exhibited at the Royal Academy in the years stated: : 1818. Portrait of himself. 1822. Washington Irving, Esq. 1825. Sir Walter Scott, Bart. ARCHIBALD SPARKE. ST. CASSIAN (12 S. iii. 473; iv. 28).-The cathedral at Imola in North Italy is dedicated to the saint. JOHN B. WAINWRIGHT. "ÉPATER LE BOURGEOIS (12 S. vi. 11).— Is this not a paraphrase of the famous saying attributed to Baudelaire by Th. de Banville on the occasion of his visit to a government official to solicit help for a friend in distress. The official was amiability itself to Baudelaire, but could not restrain himself from asking one question :"Je voudrais savoir pourquoi avec votre magnifique talent, avec ce don que Vous avez de créer l'harmonie et de susciter la plus puissante illusion, vous choisissez des sujets si...... "Si quoi?" demanda froidement Baudelaire. Mais," reprit le fonctionnaire, si atroces! Et se reprenant aussitot: "Je veux dire si...... peu aimables.' "Monsieur," dit le poète d'une voix aiguisée et coupante comme le tranchant d'un glaive, "c'est pour étonner les sots!" I have always thought that the phrase épater le bourgeois originated in this way, W. A. HUTCHISON. and do so still. 32 Hotham Road, Putney, S.W. EDMUND UVEDALE (12 S. v. 316).-MR. WILLIAMS asks if there is a place in the family pedigree connected with Dr. Robert Uvedale, the seventeenth-century botanist alluded to at 12 S. ii. 361 et seq., for an Edmund Uvedale, who was appointed an officer (cornet ?) in Harrington's 13th Regiment of Dragoon in 1710/11. May I, as the writer of the articles upon Dr. Robert Uvedale, tell MR. WILLIAMS all I can first upon the matter? In the Uvedale pedigree given in vol. iii., p. 144), the name of Edmund appears several times; but, with the exception of the two I will presently mention, these occurences are at too early a date to make it possible that they can refer to a person joining the army in 1710. With regard to the two others these alsopartake more or less of some improbability as to either of them being the Edmund Uvedale inquired after by your correspondent. They were Edmund Uvedale, born in 1671, the son of William Uvedale, who died in 1679, and Edmund Uvedale, the youngest brother of the botanist himself, who was born in 1653. The former, therefore, would have been about 39 years of age, and the latter about 57 in 1710. I think the latter must be considered out of the running; whilst the age of the former must be exceptionally high at which to join the army as a cornet. Nothing is stated in Hutchins as to whether either of these two persons married or not, so it is quite possible, of course, that the Edmund Üvedale of 1710 may have been a son of the Edmund who was born. in 1653. J. S. UDAL, F.S.A. 6 THE REV. AARON BAKER (7 S. xii. 407).— From family papers and some recent inquiries I am able to answer this query, and to sort out the seven of these names, who are to be found in Foster's Alumni Oxon.' Aaron Baker (1), after whom all the others were named, was a native of Alphington, near Exeter, who acquired a considerable fortune in the East India trade. He purchased Bowhay in the adjacent parish of Exminster, died there in 1683, aged 73, and was buried at Dunchideock. His co-heiresses were Ann, married to Daniel Michell, who succeeded him at Cheeke. Bowhay, and Mary, married to Edward to the Rev. Aaron Baker, son of his brother He left his study of printed books John. This nephew, Aaron Baker (2), was M.A. of Wadham College, Oxford, and Rector of West Alvington, Devon, 1679 until his death in 1729. He had four sons, Aaron, George, John, and Anthony, three of whom were of Wadham College, and George of King's College, Cambridge. The eldest son, Aaron Baker (3) was at Eton College, 1696; M.A. of Wadham, 1707; and a barrister-at-law. He lived at Oxford and had two sons, Aaron and John, both born there. The eldest son, Aaron Baker (4), was M.A. of Pembroke Hutchins's Cornwall, 1743 until his death, 1749/50, aged 38. He left an only son, Aaron Abraham Baker (5) of Wadham and All Saints' Colleges, D.C.L., Incumbent of Brislington, Rector of Burnett and of Marksbury, Somerset, and Prebendary of Wells, until his death in 1814, aged 64. His eldest son, Aaron Webb Baker (6), was of C.C.C., Oxford; B.A., 1803; lieutenant 18th Royal Irish Regiment; and died at Jamaica, 1805, aged 25. Returning to Aaron (2), his second son George was at Eton and King's Colleges; Vicar of Modbury and Staverton and Archdeacon of Totnes, 1740, until his death in 1777. He had three sons, George, Aaron, and Thomas. George was the well-known Physician to George III., F.R.S., and baronet. Thomas was Vicar of Staverton and Prebendary of St. Asaph. The second son, Aaron Baker (7), was born in 1725, and was of Wadham College, B.A. 1746. He died early in the following year. It will be seen therefore that the answer is that the Rev. Aaron (Abraham) Baker (5) was the great-grandson, while Sir George Baker was the grandson, of the Rev. Aaron (2), Vicar of West Alvington. It may be observed that the Baronetages leave the origin of Sir George Baker of Loventor in unnecessary obscurity. A. T. M. P.S. Since the above was in print, I have learned that Aaron (3) became Recorder of Plymouth, and died there in 1750. DREUX FAMILY (12 S. vi. 37). The Comte de Dreux, whose dau. Yolande m. Alexander III., King of Scots, was Robert IV., fifth holder of the county which was originally conferred in 1137 on Robert I., fifth son of Louis VI., King of France. According to the Genealogie Historique de la Maison Royale de France' [Paris, 1738], the succession went from Count Robert I. (d. 1188), a Crusader, and his third wife Agnes (m. 1152), dau. and heir of Guy de Baudement, seigneur of Braine, to their son Robert II. (d. 1218), a Crusader, who m. as his second wife Yolande (d. 1222), dau. of Raoul I., Sire de Coucy. Of their sons Robert III. became Count of Dreux and Peter m. Alice (d. 1221), dau. and heir of Guy de Thouars and half-sister and heir of Arthur, Duke of Brittany (murdered 1203), in whose right he became Duke of Brittany in 1213. He abdicated in 1237 in favour of his son John I., whose descendants became extinct in the male line in 1488. Robert III. | of Thomas, Seigneur of St. Valery; their DONKEYS' YEARS: A VERY LONG TIME (12 S. ii. 506; iii. 39, 74).-At the second reference B. B. states he has heard this expression for at least forty years in Wiltshire but never in London. I have a cutting from The Standard newspaper of Jan. 21, 1896, which contains the report of a case at the Bow Street Police Court. In the course of the examination of a witness the following occurs : "Mr. Bodkin: How long ago is it since you first borrowed money from Prisoner? "Witness: Years and years: donkeys' ears ago (laughter). It was long before I came of age." The expression is noted in Prof. Wright's Dialect Dictionary,' as in use in Oxfordshire, and the following quotation given from the Dorchester Parish Magazine (presumably Dorchester in Oxfordshire) for April, 1896: "For years, long years, and to use a well-known local expression, donkeys' 66 66 The expression is also current in the Isle of Wight. I am over 60, and the expression is familiar to me as in use there as long as I can recollect anything. I am quite satisfied that it is not a piece of modern slang, but a proverbial expression of long standing. It invariably ran "Years and years, and donkeys years ago.' There is a tendency in the Isle of Wight dialect to prefix a y to words beginning with a vowel, e.g., yarm," the arm; 'yeal," ale; yeaprun, an apron ; yet," to eat. This tendency in the case of ears has existed as far back as 1566 as evidenced by the following entry in the inventory taken in that year of the goods and chattels of Sir Richard Worsley of Appuldurcombe (Appendix B. to The Undercliff of the Isle of Wight,' by J. L. Whitehead, M.D. London, Simpkin, 1911): "2 basons wth yeares to them." 66 Westwood, Clitheroe. 66 WM. SELF-WEEKS. JOHN WITTY (12 S. vi. 13).—The record of his admission to St. John's College, Cambridge, is as follows: "1696. John Witty born at Lun [Lund near Beverley], Yorkshire, son of Richard Witty, husbandman (agricolæ): school, Beverley (Mr. writer states that, "Sykes was with us on the Captain "-i.e., with Nelson and Miller, as the latter had also been flag-captain of that ship, hence his thorough knowledge of the Admiral's coxswain. Again, Nelson's barge was carried on the Theseus, so was manned by her men and commanded by her captain. Further evidence as to the identity of the writer is contained in a letter* from Capt. Miller to his wife, giving a graphic description of the battle of the Nile. Therein he remarks: it [the letter] will remain in your hands, as a record for me hereafter of the Battle, the share the Theseus had in it, and the mode of conduct I found beneficial." 66 URCHFONT (12 S. vi. 12).-In Edward Lambert); admitted sizar for his tutor and surety Hulton's Highways and Byways of Wilts,' Mr. Nourse, 17 April, æt. 17." G. C. MOORE SMITH. he says 66 6 They told me in Urchfont or Erchfont that the name is derived from a spring there, which. they showed me, and which never runs dry. In the Domesday Survey I find the name spelt Jerchesfont." ing : Sheffield. There is in vol. 2, page 219, of Letters of Eminent Men addressed to Ralph Thoresby,' a letter dated Jan. 20, 1709/10, from a certain John Witty in which he speaks of Amongst some Wiltshire Notes, by my his uncle Mr. John Witty, Rector of Lock-late father, T. H. Baker, I find the followington, near Beverley, and of his cousin Mr. Ralph Witty, Senior Fellow of St. Peter's College, Cambridge. The Rector of Lockington may be the man desired. I may be able to give your correspondent further information about the family if he cared to write to me. T. C. DALE. Erchfont or Urchfont was in Domesday Book Ierchesfonte, and in the Nomina Villarum' of 1316, Erchesfonte. The name is variously written Erches-font, Ierchesfonte, and Urchesfont. The first syllable may be Celtic Iwrch-the roebuck, and the latter A.S. funt, funta, a foaming or frothing fount. Hence the fount of the roebuck.' I think it probable, however, that the first syllable represents an A.S. personal name." In Elizabethan documents the name is found as Urchefont, Urchfonte, Urchfount. *Dispatches and Letters of Lord Nelson,' The interpretation here offered is typical of those proposed by the erudite for the enlightenment of the unlearned. In the present instance the general reader, while marvelling at the picturesque group of the roebuck at the foaming fount, is relieved to learn that the author of the foregoing note would be content with a less fanciful derivation of the first syllable. K. S. Under the head" Urchinwood" in PlaceNames of Somerset' (J. S. Hill), p. 320, we are told that Urchfont contains the personal name "Eorcon' pronounced Erchon, soft not hard." Identifying this with "urchin," Mr. Hill proceeds : "Urchin no doubt means a hedgehog, which, however, is not a Saxon word, but a FrenchLatin word. The Latin is ericius (the initial vowel is long), the old French irecon (with soft c), and in the Norman dialect herichon and herisson. The name would thus be late and mean the hedgehog wood, and then, naturally, we desire Eorcon as Saxon means a gem or pearl." to know why. So very many hedgehogs? REV. JAMES HEWS BRANSBURY (12 S. vi. 37).-Unitarian minister; was born at Ipswich, 1783. Son of John Bransbury (d. 1837). Minister at Moreton Hampstead, Devon, 1802-5; at Dudley (where he also kept a preparatory school), 1805-28. He married Sarah, dau. of J. Isaac, a Baptist minister at Moreton Hampstead. She died Oct. 28, 1841. He was a very eccentric character and "GRAM " IN PLACE-NAMES (12 S. v. 266).— The places named being all hamlets, I think the suffix represents a contraction of the O.Fr. grange, a barn or granary, also a farm, and the place where formerly rents and tithes were received; see Johnston's 'Placenames of England and Wales,' s.v. Abbotsgrange and Grangemouth. In Bartholomew's 'Survey Gazetteer of the British Isles' I find Kilgram Grange in the North Riding of Yorkshire, and Kill (i.e., Cell) of the Grange in co. Dublin. Angram may stand for Atten-Grange, Leagram for La Grange, and Legrams for Les Granges. in the United States, where it occurs as a Pegram is purely a patronymic, except place-name. It comes from Lat. peregrinus, O.Fr. pelegrin, a pilgrim, the I having disappeared and the common change of n into m taking place. Needless to say, the terminal in Agram and Wagram is radically different, the former deriving from Slavonic Zagreb, and the latter from O.H.G. Wagreine. N. W. HILL. 35 Woburn Place, W.C.1. DUMB ANIMALS: AN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY Το FRIEND (12 S. v. 290). - The second of the lines" the Critic" is of course adapted from Gray's "Or draw his frailties from their dread abode." LEPER'S WINDOWS: Low SIDE WINDOW (12 S. Henry VIII.' is in several ways, that the or vi. 14, 45).--See also 9 S. i. 186, 392. 493. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. AUTHOR OF QUOTATIONS WANTED.— (12 S. vi. 15.) When wild in woods the naked savage ran. The line as usually quoted is from Dryden :I am as free as Nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran. 'The Conquest of Granada,' pt. 1, Act I., sc. i. C. A. Cook. Sullingstead, Hascombe, Godalming. The correct version is: "When wild in woods the noble savage ran," and is from Dryden's Conquest of Granada,' pt. i, Act I, sc. i. The late Andrew Lang once wrote an article in The Morning Post headed "When wild in woods the noble Marquis ran," and said: "The remarkable line which heads this paper may be found, I think, in the early works of Sir George Trevelyan." Is this so or was Andrew Lang's memory misleading him? W. A. HUTCHISON. 32 Hotham Road, Putney, S.W. Some of Almanzor's bravest lines were parodied and put in the mouth of Drawcansir in the Duke of Buckingham's Rehearsal.' EDWARD BENSLY. dinary reader does not perceive, different from the authentic plays of Shakespeare. We think he may have touched it up here and there; but general assent will be given to Mr. Sykes's views that it is the work of Fletcher and Massinger. In metrical quality it is markedly unShakesperian. A Yorkshire Tragedy' and a part of Pericles are assigned to Wilkins. All readers of taste will be glad to find Shakespeare relieved of uncouth stuff with confusing elliptical constructions which does not seem worthy of a master-hand. Mr. Sykes's examination of A Yorkshire Tragedy is one of his most telling pieces of argument,. supported as it is by abundant learning. Another dramatist who takes on a new importance is Peele, who, if he is the author of The Troublesome Reign of King John,' stands at the head of the English school of chronicle-dramas. like this makes one realise how widely as well as bow wisely Shakespeare adapted the plays of others, a fact which is sometimes forgotten by those who exclaim at the amount of work he got through. Certainty on such questions is a difficult matter to achieve; but we had sooner read one essay by Mr. Sykes than a dozen pretentious books explaining that Shakespeare was somebody else. He is both erudite and careful, and we regard his arguments as "good gifts," if' we may use a Shakespearian phrase. We hope that he will pursue his inquiries. A book [MR. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT and MR. H. COHEN Catalogue of Printed Music published prior to 1801 also thanked for replies.] Notes on Books. Sidelights on Shakespeare. By H. Dugdale Sykes. (Shakespeare Head Press, Stratford-onAvon, 7s. 6d.) WE reflect with sorrow that Mr. A. H. Bullen, one of the soundest of our Elizabethan scholars will write no more on his favorite subject. Whether anything of note remains among his papers we do not know; perhaps his Publisher's Note to Mr. Sykes's volume is the last fruit of his ripe knowledge. Publishers are apt in these days to praise their goods without always scrutinizing too closely their literary worth. But Mr. Bullen was a learned critic as well as a publisher, and experts will we think, endorse his opinion of the worth of Mr. Sykes's researches which, like those of our old contributor, Mr. Charies Crawford, bring forward parallels and correspondences as a guide to the authorship of dubious or disputed plays. This method of discovery can, as in many Baconian books, be grossly and foolishly overdone; but the work of Mr. Sykes supplies an accumulation of evidence not relying on commonplaces which deserves serious consideration. The Shakespeare Apocrypha are a fair field for conjecture and discussion. 'Arden of Feversham' good critics have not generally, we think, followed Swinburne in regarding as Shakespeare's, and the pages before us offer strong reasons for assigning it to Kyd. It has passages of unusual power, now in the Library of Christ Church, Oxford. Edited by A. Hiff. (Humprey Milford, 7s. 6d. net.) FOR some a catalogue may not be full enough and for others it may seem inconveniently bulky, but in this volume it would be hard to find any seriousfault it seems to fulfil exactly the purpose for which it is intended. It is a short but sufficiently Christ Church Library, which in no way attempts detailed hand-list of the printed music in the to compete with Mr. Arkwright's larger work, but sets out to provide a convenient list with just enough information to make it generally useful. Mr. Aloys Hiff has, we think, fulfilled the expectations of his friends and co-workers in Oxford, but those of us who may wish to incorporate the volume in future musical bibliographies would have liked the compiler to explain the system of " adopted. finding" or class-marks which he has Tales by Washington Irving. Selected and edited. with an Introduction by Carl van Doren.(Humphrey Milford, 3s. 6d. net.) HERE is a welcome addition to the "Oxford Edition of Standard Authors." Interest in Irving's work is apt to be confined to Bracebridge Hall' and Rip van Winkle'; but there is much more that is really attractive, and in the admirable Introduction the merits and defects of the man who first gave a strong lead to American fiction are fully explained. We only regret that nothing is said of Irving's charm as a man, his life as a bachelor with the nieces who stood to him as daughters, and his generosity, which eased the difficulties of his publisher, if we remember right, at a serious crisis. Irving was historian, wit and essayist as well as story-teller; but in the last line only lies his claim to general recognition to-day. , too, are not " short |