8th S. X. JULY 4, '96.J NOTES AND QUERIES. LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1896. CONTENTS.-N° 236. NOTES:-The Murder of Mountfort, 1-Literature v. Science, 2-Pepysiana-Portraits of Bishop Morley, 3- Farmer's Library One Hundred and Fifty Years Ago- Rev. R. Simpson-Entries in Parish Registers-Customs of the Manor of Wales-Rough Lee Hall, 4-Quotation from Scott-Rotten Row-Scotland and Rushbrooke: Surnames-Episcopal Chapels, 5-National Portrait Gal- lery-Miracles-Church Briefs-Governor-"Whoa!" 6. QUERIES:-John Malcolm-Tannachie-Inscription-Scot- Churchyard, 8-J. Everard-Military Flags-Haddow, 9. REPLIES:-Windmills, 9-Lead Lettering-Cramp Ring s 10-White Boar as a Badge-Southey's English Poets- Chauvin"-Straps-The Giaour,' 11-Oxford-" Simili- tive"-"Hyperion," 12-" Child"-" Fantigue "-Fleur- de-lis, 13-Ognall-St. Mary Overie-Tunstall Church- warden-Prebendary Victoria, 14-The National Debt Holborn, Hanwell, and Harrow-Austrian Lip-Ancient Service Book, 15-Dr. Freman-'The Two Peacocks of Bedfont-Flags-Title-page and Date of Book-Inscribed Fonts, 16-The Suffix "well"-Book of Common Prayer- -Knights of St. John of Jerusalem-Universities of the NOTES ON BOOKS:-Wheatley's 'Diary of Samuel Pepys, Vol. VIII.-'Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica 'Specimens of Caslon Old Face Types'-Guide Books, &c. Lord Macaulay tells us that Capt. Richard Hill, At the age of twelve Richard Hill was appointed a subaltern in Viscount Lisburne's newly raised regiment of foot. He served in the Irish campaign, of a company when he was only fifteen. We may conclude that Lord Lisburne's regiment was rather a fast corps, and a bad school, as regards morals, for a very young officer, for we find the inspecting officer at Dundalk Camp, in December, 1689, sending the following confidential report to William III. relative to Lord Lisburne's regiment: "Le Colonel s'en mette fort peu et avec cela d'un humeur extravagant; qui aussi prend tous les jours plus de vin qu'il ne peust [sic] porter." 1692, Hill exchanged with Capt. Vincent Googene, being forcibly hurried into the coach by the soldiers whom Hill had hired for the occasion. Frustrated "To the Queen's most Excellent Majestie. "Showeth that your Petitioner at the age of sixteen, "May it therefore please your most Sacred Majestie, "And your Petitioner shall ever pray, &c." above petition need be given here, although both are equally favourable : "Whereas Capt. Richard Hill was under my command during the late Irish war, and a volunteer with me in Flanders, I must needs give him this character that he behav'd himself on all occasions as a man of honour and really with more courage and conduct than from one of his years could have been expected. For he was but twelve years old when he came into the army, and but sixteen when his misfortune hap'ned, which is eleven years since. Now the great concern for his misfortune, and his earnest desire to serve her Majesty again, even in any post, will I hope move her compassion and mercy in obtaining bis freedom which I am ready to certify to her Majesty whenever 'tis thought convenient. "THO. EARLE." Hill had friends at court to plead for him, as witness the following: "A Memorial for the Rt. Hon. Sir Chas. Hedges, Secretary of State. "That his Grace the Duke of Somerset has promised to call for Captain Hill's petition in the first Cabinet Council and the Lord President has promised to speak to both. Therefore your Honour is most humbly desired to have the said Captain's petition and certificates in readiness to lay before her Majesty for the more effectual obtaining of her Royal mercy." There is reason to believe that Hill was pardoned. In 'Recommendations for Commissions in the New Levies in 1706' (War Office MS.), the name of Capt. Richard Hill appears in a list of officers recommended by the Duke of Ormonde. CHARLES DALTON. LITERATURE VERSUS SCIENCE. (See 8th 8. viii. 286, 332; ix. 51.) What PROF. TOMLINSON says under this heading is an interesting addition to the question on the relations between these two branches of human knowledge, a question which is peculiar to, and characteristic of, our century. I had occasion to touch on it in my study on Tennyson (pp. 175 sq.), speaking of the scientific element in the works of your late Laureate, of whom it was well said that "he spiritualized Evolution and brought it into Poetry." I pointed out the numerous allusions to the progress of science and the scientific similes in which he indulges, as well as his views on the future of science,t and concluded that he certainly would *See Nineteenth Century, October, 1893, p. 670. Science moves, but slowly, slowly, creeping on from I wander'd nourishing a youth sublime lb. All diseases quench'd by science, no man halt, or deaf, When science reaches forth her arms 'In Memoriam,' xxi: not have joined in the much-quoted toast given by Keats to the infamy of Newton: "The only things which threatened to paralyze his artistic function were the overwhelming revelations of astronomy";* which fear is strange enough when we remember that Tennyson was a great stargazer and that of this very science, in which he thought to behold a menace looming over poetry, a contemporary poet had sung:— L'astronomie, au vol sublime et prompt.† Victor Hugo was not afraid of any science whatever, and Mr. Swinburne could write of him :‡ "The mysteries of calculation......were hitherto, I imagine, a field unploughed, a sea uncloven, by the share or by the prow of an adventurer in verse. The feat was reserved for the sovereign poet of the nineteenth century." Counterparts to Tennyson's and Hugo's enthusiasm for science are exhibited in Poe's sonnet entitled 'Science,' of which I give here the first lines: Science! true daughter of Old Time thou art! How should he love thee? and in the opening words of Coleridge's 'Essay on Shakespeare': "Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, as prose to metre." In the same spirit wrote Macaulay in one of his ‘Essays': "In an enlightened age there will be much intelli Truth sometimes will lend her noblest fires, 'Tis the part Of a true poet to escape from fiction The question of the relation of science to literature-an important one, as it also implies that of the future of the latter has been recently taken up and treated in different ways by men both of letters and science. In an article entitled 'Hopes and Fears for Literature,' Prof. Dowden refers to the opinion held on the matter by Miss F. P. Cobbe, who, in writing on Literature, Religion, and Moral versus Science,' affirms: "When science, like poverty, comes in at the door, art, like love, flies out of the window." Quite different is the opinion of Matthew Arnold; for him "the future of poetry is immense. Criticism and science having deprived us of old faiths and traditional dogmas, poetry, which attaches itself to the idea, will take the place of religion and philosophy, or what now pass for such, and will sustain those who, but for it, are forlorn."§ Prof. Dowden sums up his own views in these words : "The results of scientific study are in no respect antagonistic to literature, though they may profoundly modify that view of the world which has hitherto found in literature an imaginative expression. The conceptions of a great cosmos, of the reign of law in nature, of the persistence of force, of astronomic, geologic, biologic evolution, have in them nothing which should paralyze the emotions or the imagination. To attempt, indeed, a poetical 'De Rerum Natura' at the present moment were premature; but when these and other scientific conceptions have become familiar they will form an accepted intellectual background from which the thoughts and feelings and images of poetry will stand out quite as effectively as the antiquated cosmology of the Middle Ages." Sir John Lubbock combats those who pretend that science withers whatever it touches (because "Science teaches us that the clouds are a sleety mist, Art that they are a golden throne"), affirming that, "for our knowledge, and even more for our appreciation, feeble as even yet it is, of the overwhelming grandeur of the Heavens, we are mainly indebted to Science." In the same spirit speak of the subject Mr. H. M. Posnett, in the preface to his 'Comparative Literature (1886), and Mr. J. Burrough, in an article on 'The Lite rary Value of Science,* who shows how (p. 188) แ a literary and poetical substrate" is to be found in Darwin's works. I shall also add that the question was treated in England so early as 1824 in an article of the European Magazine (pp. 383 sqq.) 'On the Necessity of Uniting the Study of the Belles Lettres to that of the Sciences.' But the question is an international one; and perhaps it will not be uninteresting to see how it was differently discussed by scientific and literary men in France, Germany, Spain, and Italy. Considering the peculiar character of this paper, I shall limit myself to a list of quotations and references, which, however, will not prove quite useless to him who chooses to trace the history of the PAOLO BELLEZZA. question. Circolo Filologico, Milan. (To be continued.) PEPYSIANA.-1. In a brief for the French Protestants, dated 31 Jan., 1688, the name of "Samuel Pepys" appears amongst the number of those appointed "to dispose and distribute the money." 2. In 1685 was published A True Account of the Captivity of Thomas Phelps, at Machaness, in Barbary, and of his Strange Escape' in that year. It contains the following dedication, printed at the back of the title-page : To the Honourable Samuel Pepys, Esq.; SIR, Having by your generous Favour had the Honour of being introduc'd into His Majesties presence, where I delivered the substance of this following Narra tive, and being press'd by the importunity of Friends to Publish it to the World, to which mine own inclinations were not averse, as which might tend to the information of my fellow Sea-men, as well as satisfying the curiosity of my Country-men, who delight in Novel and strange Stories; I thought I should be very far wanting to myself, if I should not implore the Patronage of your ever Honoured Name, for none ever will dare to dispute the truth of any matter of Fact here delivered, when they shall understand that it has stood the test of your sagacity. Sir, Your Eminent and Steady Loyalty, whereby you asserted His Majesties just Rights, and the true Priviledges of your Country in the worst of times, gives me confidence to expect, that you will vouchsafe this condescension to a poor, yet honest Sea-man, who have devoted my Life to the Service of His Sacred Majesty and my Country; who have been a Slave, but now have attained my freedom, which I prize so much, the more, in that I can with Heart and Hand subscribe my self, Honourable Sir, Your most Obliged and Humble Servant Salterton, Devon. PORTRAITS OF BISHOP MORLEY, OF WINCHESTER (1662-1684).-There are two portraits in oils of this eminent prelate at Oxford, one in Christ Church Hall, by Sir Peter Lely, and another in the hall of Pembroke College, which have doubtless *Macmillan's Magazine, vol. liv. (1885), pp. 184 $27. |