66 tions, they would be troubled by persons was sold and paid for beforehand, and desiring to see them. In that case, if the owner objected, he could easily send a polite refusal. These catalogues would be most valuable to historical students and students of economics. In consulting the Reports issued by the Historical MSS. Commission one often finds that the present owner of some of the manuscripts is unknown. afterwards delivered as per agreement." This slave, who had the hardihood to run away with his own head after trouble and expense had been incurred in tattooing it to make it valuable, is no fiction. For fuller particulars see 'Old New Zealand,' by a Pakeha Maori (the late F. E. Maning). WILLIAM R. ADAMS. OLNEY IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY.-The two items which follow are from the testa If a bibliography of these private lists were compiled, it would supply the necessary indications to the position of the collections.mentary records of the Commissary Court of London, now preserved in the Principal Probate Registry. T. C. MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS. I do not know what progress other counties are making with the work of recording these aids to genealogical research, affording as they do much additional information to that obtainable from the parish registers; but within the past four years (1906–9) nearly half the county of Hertford has had the inscriptions recorded by voluntary workers. The lists for each HundredEdwinstree, Odsey, Braughing, and Hitchin -have been carefully transcribed, indexed, and bound in volumes for reference; and inquiries will be freely answered if a stamped and addressed envelope is enclosed. W. B. GERISH. Bishop's Stortford. ALDERMAN ATKINS AND THE THOMASON TRACTS.-Many readers of these tracts have been puzzled as to the cause of the countless stories regarding Atkins which must have made his life a misery to him. They are all quite unquotable. Perhaps one which may be described as amusing is to be found in Mercurius Pragmaticus for King Charles II., June 5-12, 1649, which, I think, was written by Sheppard. The Man in the Moon, Feb. 20-27, 1650, has another story on p. 350. The solution of all this (it is not quite quotable) is to be found in 'Free Parliament Queries (20 April, 1660), E 1019 (23). J. B. WILLIAMS. 2 2 TATTOOED HEADS. In the review of Col. Rivett-Carnac's interesting Many Memories (ante, p. 178), reference is made to the collecting of skulls in India. This recalls to my mind the fact that a shameful trade in tattooed heads was carried on with the natives of New Zealand by the traders, who sold the heads to various museums. Slaves were tattooed for the sole purpose. Governor Darling issued a proclamation in 1831 for the suppression of the practice. It is a positive fact that the head of a live man The will of Robert Olney of Weston Undyrwode," Squyer," dated 20 Jan., 1486, is in Book Lichfield, folio 100. The will of Thomas Roberd, "fyschmonger," of London, dated 1499, contains the following: I bequeth to the chirch of Olney in the Counte of Bukk' XLs. It'm, to the Reparacions of the Brige of the same Town XLs. It'm, I will that an obyte be kepte for my soule in seyd chirch Bred and Ale XLs." of Olney And spent in Syngyng and Ryngyng in Book Harvey, folio 201. The testator's parish church was St. Nicholas Coleabbey. GILBERT HUDSON. "ROSE" IN THE 'N.E.D.'-Under 'Rose' Dr. Craigie says: "The petals of the rose have been used for various economical purposes: cf. Attar, Otto, Rose-cake, Rosevinegar, Rose-water, etc." Surely mention ought to have been made here of the medicinal use of rose-petals, which are, and always have been, in our official Materia Medica, and are used directly in the preparation of confection of roses and acid infusion of roses. The omission is the stranger because the medicinal use of rosemary (which is itself no longer official) is noted. The rose- water is 'wate definition of 66 22 66 "SPECULATIVE GLASSES." - In a very imperfect volume of Wardrobe Accounts, chiefly of the time of Henry VIII., there is an entry of the purchase, during the fourteenth year of his reign, of "speculative glasses, 2" (L. C., II. 309, Record Office). There is no clue to what is exactly meant. C. C. S. DR. WILLIAM HARVEY, 1630-33.-Among the Royal Warrants, 1628-34, p. 236, is a warrant to swear Mr. Dr. William Harvey Phisition for his Majesty's Household, in ye place of Dr. Leonard Poe, deceased," 22 March, 1630 (L. C., V. 93). At p. 354 is a warrant for payment of 51. unto Dr. Harvey for 5 weeks' lodging at Newmarket, 1632," 21 March, 1633. In the same volume is "Another for 201. for his lodging in Scotland Progresse. Signed same day." C. C. S. to "PUNJAUB OR BURMAH HEAD." This term is not given in Hobson-Jobson' or the Anglo-Indian glossaries. It is used denote the various kinds of amnesia or loss of memory that Europeans often suffer from in the tropics; and it is named after Punjab or Burma because the largest number of cases occur in those districts. These cases of amnesia are 66 cerebral symptoms of tropical neurasthenia," and a return to cold climates often leads to recovery. Bald men are said to suffer more than those who are protected from the sun's rays by hair (Woodruff, Tropical Light,' p. 197). V. CHATTOPADHYAYA. 6 Allen with all convenient speed to erect a dwelling Now these presents oblige me the sd Bozoon house upon some part of the sd Land, and as a further consideration to the sd Esther the use of three Roomes in the sd dwelling house when it shallbee built and to finde her with raske for fireing during the term of her naturall life." 'Suffolk Deeds,' xi. 276. I have examined the original document, and have no doubt that "raske " is the correct spelling. The following extract is taken from an unprinted deposition dated 19 Feb., 1693/4 : "Elizabeth Norden Aged about 60 years Testifieth yt haueing in my youthfull time liued with mrs Esther Howchin being then her maid and haueing a Respect for her after ye Death of her Husband mr Jeremiach Howchin I went many times to see her when she liued In ye house with her Sonn Bozoune Allin where I found her most times alone in a Cold Roome most times no fire or at best but a little Dirty Raske on y hearth & in a sick & weak Condicōn." It should be added that Jeremiah Howchin was a tanner; that he died in 1670 or 1671; and that when, in 1673, Bozoun Allen married Howchin's daughter Rachel, he (Allen) succeeded to his father-in-law's business. 66 2 66 22 raske What does the word mean, and what is its derivation? I have been unable to find the word in that form in any dictionary, though my guess is that it is the same word risk, as " stated in the English Dialect Dictionary to be found "also in form rusk" and to mean "rind or bark." In his Ancient Language and Dialect of Cornwall,' 1882, F. W. P. Jago says: "Rusk or Risk. The rind or bark. It is risc in Celtic Cornish " (p. 322). And in his 'English-Cornish Dictionary,' 1887, Jago says: 'Bark, s. (Of a tree)....risc, rusc, ruscen"; and gives several references to places where the word occurs, none of which is modern. 66 66 22 Can English scholars throw any additional light on raske," or cite any modern ALBERT MATTHEWS. examples? Boston, U.S. 6 BORROW'S WILD WALES,' AND 6 CHINESE GALLERY IN LONDON.-Gordon AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED.- 22, Rue Servandoni, Paris (VI.). Great God! to see the golden stream To count the many barques that gleam GEORGE WOLSELEY. Two grey stones at the head and feet, LAVENGRO,' ROMANY RYE.'-Nearly ten years ago (9 S. viii. 343) you kindly allowed me to 'Wild insert some queries on Borrow's Wales.' Most of these remained unanswered, and I venture to send two of them a second are quoted by the late K. H. Digby in 'Comtime. (1) Has the Father Toban, so often men-pitum,' vol. vii. p. 568, but no reference is tioned (chap. iv., &c.), any prototype, or given. Whence do they come? ASTARTE. Whence come the following lines? They is he purely imaginary? (2) Was Potosi the actual name of the lead-mine of chap.lxxx., plainly relate to Oliver Cromwell : and where is it situated ? To these I should like to append a query One of the most vivid on Lavengro.' portraits in that book is Peter Williams, the Methodist preacher. This personality is certainly real, yet the 'D.N.B.' (lxi. 438), speaking of another Peter Williams, remarks: Peter Williams, the hypochondriacal evangelist, who figures so largely in Lavengro' (cc. 71-81), was probably a creation of Borrow's own imagination." Now it will be remembered that at parting Peter Williams gave Borrow a Welsh Bible, and Dr. Knapp tells us (notes to Lavengro, p. 567): "This Bible, with Peter Williams' name in it, : I heard a little bird sing The thing became a trumpet, whence he blew S. W. Within this earthly temple there's a crowd. M. HALLIDAY, 208 SCHEFFELDE IN COM. CANTIÆ.-This place at all events, that as far back as 22 Oct., 1831, is referred to in Burton's 'Monasticon there appeared for the first time in The Eboracense' as having some centuries ago a Athenæum a column headed 'Our Weekly church. Can any reader identify its position, Gossip on Literature and Art'; that on or give the modern name if changed? The 13 Sept., 1837, Our Weekly Gossip' took the only approach to it that occurs is Sheffield place of the longer title; Park in Sussex. Might it be anciently a familiar phrase and that the coast church that has shared the fate of heading dates from the issue of 30 Oct., Literary Gossip' as a Dunwich? Upton. R. B. 1869. Mr. Espinasse, who is in his eightyseventh year, was certainly not associated with The Athenæum in 1831. 14, Crofton Road, Camberwell, S.E. J. GRIGOR. HOLE-SILVER.-This fine was paid by the vills of Coln Rogers, Coln St. Aldwyn, and Duntisborne Abbots, co. Glos. What was the nature of it? ST. CLAIR BADDELEY. GUILDHALL: p. 71 of Price's 'Descriptive Account of the Guildhall of London' is a reproduction of a drawing in the Gardner Collection of six statues from the outside of the old porch. Price states :— "In 1794 Mr. Alderman Boydell induced the Corporation to present them to Thomas Banks, the sculptor, who held them in great estimation as works of art. chased for 1007. by Henry Bankes, M.P., for Corfe At his death in 1809 they were pur Castle." Can any readers kindly inform me where these statues are now ? S. P. Q. R. 6 "BUSH INN 22 AT STAINES.-Where can I find an account of this famous old hostelry? HORACE BLEACKLEY. middle-aged people say in relation to the Several times during February I heard "CUCKOOS TO CLEAR THE MUD AWAY.". weather: the cuckoos come to clear the mud away." We shan't have it better until GUILDHALL MS. ON CITY CHURCHES.Others said 66 crows," &c., and as the latter, Can any one assign a fairly close when grubbing for their young, get on the to the account of Wren's churches constitut- comes, the crow date land at least a month before the cuckoo ing MS. 44 in the Guildhall Library? bird, and I shall be glad to know how the seems the more likely It looks like the writing of the eighteenth saying runs elsewhere. or very early nineteenth century. author seems unknown to the authorities. WILLIAM MCMURRAY. The SCHULTZ'S MY LIFE AS AN INDIAN.'-Will some transatlantic correspondent of N. & Q.' tell me whether the life of the Blackfeet described in 'My Life as an Indian,' by J. W. Schultz, 1907, is considered a correct account of the tribe, as it existed in buffalohunting days? Were the higher types of Red Indian in reality so fine a race before they were contaminated by the Palefaces? Had they so many virtues, and so few vices? Or did the author as he wrote look back on the past through the rose-coloured mists which often brighten it? M. P. "LITERARY GOSSIP."-Is "Claudius Clear" correct in his statement in The British Weekly of 10 February to the effect" that the originator of literary gossip in this country is still living"? Espinasse, a He refers to Mr. Francis venerable Brother of the Charterhouse. I have made the discovery, Worksop. THOS. RATCLIFFE. Abraham Witham, Friends, by Florence MacCunn (Black- 'Sir Walter Scott's "The hunt, cut out of toast, galloping over a Bowhill plat." landscape of boiled spinach-the triumph of La Jeunesse's skill-was perhaps a reminiscence of a Scott's writings, nor can I identify the hunt of toast galloping over boiled spinach. Can I cannot find La Jeunesse in any of any reader of N. & Q.' assist me? Windham Club. F. N. THOROWGOOD. 'THE BRITISH CHRONOLOGIST.'-I have recently become the possessor of the three volumes of the second edition of this work, dated 1789. It was previously unknown to me, but I have found it almost invaluable, and, with its fullness of detail as to Acts of Parliament, taxation, coronation processions, votes of money, &c., so interesting that I should like to know more about it. Who was the compiler, and can it be considered reliable ? MR. PIERPOINT at 10 S. xii. 135 gives extracts from The Chronological Historian,' by W. Toone, 1826, which occur in my volumes, so I presume this is a later edition of my book. Toone is not W. P. D. S. mentioned in the 'D.N.B.' 66 22 66 'TARNISH." The following occurs in Bowen's 'Logic,' chap. xiii. p. 431 (ed. 1870): "To adopt Bacon's expressive metaphor, it [the mind] imports into a new sphere of research the rust and tarnish contracted in the workshop wherein it has chiefly laboured.” Will any one who knows Bacon tell us where the passage occurs in his writings? Perhaps it is a modern rendering of a Latin passage, for we do not otherwise know tarnish as a substantive before 1738. Hence J. A. H. MURRAY, the verification is of importance. Oxford. Replies. SOLLY COLLECTION OF PICTURES. (11 S. i. 107.) 66 "LJUS."-This is the Icelandic word for 'light," liuht, and Prof. Skeat derives it from liuh-, with an -sa ending instead of -t. Now Gregory the Apostle of the Armenians is 22 who called "Lusavoritch," which is said to mean IN answer to MR. W. H. CLAY's inquiry I should be glad to know as to the "English merchant Solly Illuminator.' the quantity of the vowel u in lus-, lus-a, sold his collection to Frederick William III. and whether the Armenian word, if real, at Berlin in 1821, I may say in the first place has been taken into consideration when that he was an uncle of Samuel Solly the In this surgeon, who died in 1871. determining the etymon of ljūsa. connexion it is noteworthy that in Old Irish an acolyte, or light-bearer, is lēs-boire. ALFRED ANSCOMBE. GALE, boat builder of CHRISTOPHER Whitby, was born in 1774, and died 6 April, 1846. He married Eleanor Pretty, probably in 1798 (at all events, his first child was born in 1799). I should like to obtain particulars of his baptism and marriage, but my search has hitherto been unavailing. Whitby parish register does not contain the record of the baptism. The eldest son of Isaac Solly of London and Walthamstow, who died in 1803, was the Isaac Solly who in 1832 became the first chairman of the London and Birmingham Railway, and who died in 1853. This Isaac was the father of the distinguished surgeon Samuel Solly, F.R.S., and elder brother of Edward Solly, the picture Solly, F.R.S., F.S.A., collector, who lived in Berlin, and whose son, the late Edward 'N. & Q. and other periodicals on geneaHe was also of Sutton, was a frequent contributor to logical and literary subjects. JNO. C. HARLAND. a great book-collector, his library being sold at Sotheby's after his death in 1886. 18, Broadway, New York. Will any CAXTON AND EDWARD IV. reader of N. & Q.' kindly give information regarding a picture or pictures having for subject Caxton at his press or showing The frontispiece to proofs to the King? Curwen's History of Booksellers' has this The artist's name and the for subject. present locality of the picture are required. WM. H. PEET. [The frontispiece to Curwen represents Gutenberg, not Caxton.] 66 - Who was the "SECOND CHAMBER.22 Second Chamber," author of the phrase now so generally applied to the Upper House? As it implies a subordinate position, it was probably not bestowed by a ConservaBRUTUS. tive. 66 In an account of the new Berlin Gallery which appeared in The Times on 22 Nov., 1905, particulars are given of some of the most famous pictures in the Solly Collection, and The Times correspondent writes of was evidently one Edward Solly that he of the most remarkable collectors that ever lived, and one of those most conspicuously ; also that in advance of his time "his collection contained a number of pictures of the first importance, belonging to schools which were universally neglected a hundred years ago, but which the historical spirit of the present day recognizes as the most interesting of any." The reason why Edward Solly was able to form one of the most remarkable collections ever made by a private individual consisted largely in the fact that during the time |