should be very grateful. 'The London JOHN RUSTAT.-Besides being Chaplain Catalogue' also mentions 'St. Aubyn's to Charles II., Rustat was Master of St. John's Poems,' published about the same time, Hospital, Bath. Can any one tell me what and probably by the same author. Particu- other preferment he held or where he died? lars of the latter would also be desirable. C. W. SHICKLE. Please reply direct. F. S. SNELL. St. John's Hospital, Bath. The Ferns, Burroughs, Hendon, N.W. LIMBURGER CHEESE AND COFFIN.-Reference wanted to the book which contains a short story (probably American) about a man who travelled in a railway van with the guard and a coffin. A disagreeable odour arising, it is thought to emanate from the coffin, but at the end of the journey it is discovered that it comes from a Limburger cheese. A. SUTHERLAND. [We think, by Mark Twain.] GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS. A short time ago a relation said that my genealogical notes might be very interesting to me, but not to the rest of the family, and that after my day all would be destroyed except those relating to our own family. I must say I do not like the idea of my work being destroyed. The Society of Genealogists of London-to which I belong-was partly formed for preserving notes made by different individuals. Their notes are kept on cards 3 by 5 inches and also on clergyman's essay paper (about 8 by 6 inches). The latter slips are put into large envelopes, with the name of the family to which the notes refer written outside. These envelopes are put into an envelope-shaped case made of cardboard and canvas measuring about 10 by 8 inches. On these cases are marked alpha betical divisions. I use 10 by 8 slips, and keep them in Stanley files; the latter I keep in a vertical filing drawer between guide-cards. The files are not quite satisfactory, as occasionally the slips are torn out by users who are not sufficiently careful, especially when the file is very crowded. I thought of presenting my notes on local families to the local library, but wish to hand them over in the form most useful to the public, and least troublesome to the librarians. It struck me that something after the style of the Kalamazoo would suit, only it would have to be much cheaper. I have tried to keep portraits and topographical prints, &c., with my MS. notes, but at last I have come to the conclusion that this will not do on account of the various HERALDIC VISITATIONS.-A friend of mine possesses a sixteenth-century MS. book containing copies of (1) Wm. Harvey's Visitation of the North Parts, made in 1552, described in Gutch's 'Collectanea Curiosa,' vol. ii. p. 253, and (2) Leonard Dalton's Visitation of the North Parts, begun at Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1557. He has some thought of publishing these two little-known Visitations, but, before doing so, would like to know whether any other MS. of either Visitation exists outside of Heralds' College, and, if so, whether opportunity would be given for comparison The vellum cover of of it with his own. the book containing the Visitations is marked "N" outside; and the vellum cover of another MS. book containing a copy, dated 1593, of Wm. Harvey's Visitation of Norfolk, made in 1555, is marked "M" on the outside. Both books are apparently parts of the library of some Herald. It is desired to know whether other books of the same series are extant, marked with any of the remaining letters of the alphabet. Newcastle-upon-Tyne. RICH. WElford. "BURSELL."-What is the meaning of this word? Katharine Stutting, widow, was fined twopence for not repairing her "bursell." This entry occurs among the As I have not myself Scotton records. seen any of the Scotton papers, I have no F. H. means of telling its date. APPARITION AT BOVINGDON.-Some few years ago there was an article in Temple Bar entitled 'Here and There in West Hertfordshire,' which referred to Boxmoor and Box Lane thus: (11 S. iii. 165, 232, 295, 373.) AT Whitsuntide I spent a week-end at Great Ayton in Cleveland, and one afternoon two friends and I walked through the fields to Easby, and climbed Easby Hill, in order to copy the inscription on the monument erected to Capt. Cook, which is as follows: 64 In memory of the celebrated circumnavigator, Capt. James Cook, F.R.S., | a man in nautical knowledge inferior to none, in zeal, prudence, and energy superior to most. | Regardless of danger, he opened an intercourse with the Friendly Isles, and other parts of the Southern hemisphere. He was born at Marton, Feb. 14th, 1779, to the inexpressible grief of Oct. 27th, 1728, and massacred at Owyhee, his countrymen. While the art of navigation shall be cultivated among men, while the spirit of enterprise, commerce, and philanthropy shall animate the sons of Britain, while it shall be deemed the honour of a Christian nation to Christian faith, among pagan and savage tribes, spread civilization, and the blessings of the so long will the name of Capt. Cook stand out among the most celebrated and most admired benefactors of the human race. As a token of respect for, and admiration of, that great man, | this monument was erected by Robert Campion, Esqr., of Whitby, A.D. 1827, by permission of the owner of the Easby estate, J. J. Emerson, Esqr. It was restored in 1895 by the readers of The North-Eastern Daily Gazette." I have On the skirts of the Moor stands an old coaching inn, still blinking lazily across the uneven stretches of grassland, with a dark tunnel of trees running sharply up at right angles beside it. This was the way which, in olden days, the industrious parson, who had four churches of the locality in his charge, used to ride on those Sabbath mornings when it was the turn of little red-roofed Bovingdon to be spiritually ministered to. It is a haunted lane, with an unique charm in day- capital letters, and as it was repeated aloud The foregoing inscription is inscription is in small light as well as in dusky hours. I remember well, as a child, dreading its cloistered quiet; its high, to me by one of my companions whilst uneven walls, covering mystery, and rich in I wrote it down, the punctuation may not blocked-up squat doorways and narrow much-be strictly accurate, as it is my own. barred windows; in reality, the reticent backs of three ancient houses. The lane, first narrow, walled, and arched by beeches, widens to permit of the irregular backs of these inscrutable and wandering old houses, and the abutment upon one of them of an adjacent meeting-house, rarely opened, and set in the midst of its forgotten graves. The ghost would, of course, belong of right to this rank spot, whose enclosing walls arose when Charles II. granted indulgence to the dissenters; but it is a wandering ghost, a strange gleaming little presence that has been seen passing along by the wall of the largest of the old houses. I can vouch for the truth of its appearance, and of the impact, followed by a strange tingling sensation, felt by one of us who saw it upon a summer evening two years ago. that was of the party cried and leapt aside. A dog, too, There is a mystery in the thing, and one never likely to be solved; but the country folk avoid the lane." Can any one supply a solution of this mysterious visitant ? W. B. GERISH. Bishop's Stortford. taken this opportunity of giving the inscrip- are to be had of Capt. Cook's school at C. L. CUMMINGS. THE CUCKOO AND ITS CALL (11 S. iii. 486).-The Daily Chronicle a little more than a month ago contained the following letter from my pen, which supports MR. BAYNE'S observation of this bird :— Cuckoos like this hot weather; they won't sing-if sing is the proper word-in cold weather. On But to-day, and for the last three or four days, O, blithe new-comer! I have heard, O Cuckoo, shall I call thee bird, The truth is the cuckoo can frequently be seen if watched and waited for. E. M. It is absurd to say the cuckoo does not sing as he flies. I heard and saw him constantly up to about 15 June, and not again till 30 June, when he gave three "cucks" to one "koo," confirming the old rime "In June he changes his tune.' E. MARSTON. Farnham Royal. The cuckoo "sings as it flies," and it "calls" when at rest, but country folk are not agreed as to whether it is the cock or the hen that calls "cuckoo," and some say it is the male, others the female; while others say both sing, and that it may be either when a pair are seen flying together. When resting, a cuckoo may call once, but when it has taken wing, the call is usually “Cuck-00, cuck-00, cuck-oo" (thrice), followed by a pause, often of some length, or until it alights again. Such is the observa tion of some who hear the bird's call three months in the year, and never fail to "turn their money when hearing the call for the first time. THOS. RATCLIFFE. CUCKOO RIMES (11 S. iii. 465).—I have never heard the rimes cited by Mr. RATCLIFFE, but since my childhood have known the following: In March he flies under the arch; In May he sings all day; JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. MR. RATCLIFFE's note brought to my mind a legend which I have never seen in print, but which, having been formerly well known in East Sussex, deserves to be re corded in ‘N. & Q.' It is that the first cuckoo in this country was for a considerable time kept in captivity by a witch at Heathfield, Sussex. Eventually, on one 14th of April, whilst the witch was at Heathfield Fair, the bird escaped, and the story runs that in each year the cuckoo is first heard on Heathfield Fair day-the anniversary of the escape. Heathfield Fair is locally known as “Cuckoo Fair,” and oats sown in the district after the 14th of April are termed "cuckoo oats." R. VAUGHAN GOWER. Ferndale Lodge, Tunbridge Wells. BONAR: THOMSON, BONAR & Co. (11 S. iii. 369, 457, 497).-Anderson's "Scottish Nation,' cited by S. H. P. at the second reference, is not an authority to be depended on in this matter, the account of the Bonar family containing sundry inaccuracies. Thomson Bonar of Thomson, Bonar & Co. was not the Thomson Bonar who married Andrew Bell's daughter. John Bonar (1671-1747), minister at Torphichen, had inter alios two sons, John and Andrew. John (1696-1752) was minister at Fetlar; his son John (1721-61) was minister at Cockpen and Perth. This John had a son Thomson (1756-1814), who married first Elizabeth, daughter of Andrew Bell, engraver, and secondly Mary, daughter of Archibald Laurie. John of Torphichen's son Andrew (17081762) was a merchant and banker in Edinburgh. He married Agnes, daughter of John Thomson, also a merchant there. He had a son Thomson (1742-1813), who married Ann, daughter of Andrew Thomson of Roehampton. This Thomson Bonar was a partner in Thomson, Bonar & Co.-I believe, one of the original partners. Mr. Thomson, the senior partner, was probably a connexion of his his father-in-law, or mother or father-in-law. It was this Thomson Bonar who, along with his wife was murdered at Chislehurst in 1813. His son succeeded him in the business. He married a daughter of Guthrie of Halkerton. What I want to ascertain is : 1. Who was Mr. Thomson of Roehampton, father of Mrs. Thomson Bonar, and senior partner of the firm circa 1775? Was he a relative of Mr. Thomson Bonar? If so, how was he related? I have seen it stated that her father was Andrew Poulett Thomson of Crichton (where ?) and of Goathurst in Somerset, and Thomson Bonar's uncle. I should be glad of a reference to any history of the family of Andrew Poulett Thomson or of the Pouletts. 2. Who were the other partners of the firm included under " & Co." in 1775 ? 3. Who were the subsequent partners of the name of Bonar? HORATIUS BONAR. 3, St. Margaret's Road, Edinburgh. About the murder of Thompson Bonar and his wife the following appears in W. Toone's Chronological Historian,' 1826, vol. ii., under date 1813, May 31 : "On Sunday evening, Thompson Bonar, Esq., and his wife were savagely murdered in their own house at Chislehurst, in Kent; both were dread fully mangled, and Mr. B. was found quite dead, and his wife just expiring, and incapable of speaking; suspicion fell upon their Irish footman, named Philip Nicholson, who confirmed it by cutting his throat, but not doing it effectually, he afterwards confessed the fact, but assigned no motive for the act; but said, it was an idea struck him when asleep, that he must kill his master and mistress, and that he accordingly jumped out of bed, and committed the murders with a poker." Under date 23 August :— "Nicholson, the murderer of Mr. and Mrs. Bonar, was executed on Pennenden-heath; he persisted to the last that he had no motive to commit the crime, and that it was, as he had repeatedly declared, the effect of sudden impulse." ROBERT PIERPOINT. SIR JOHN ARUNDEL OF CLERKENWELL (11 S. iii. 367, 415, 491).-By way of supplement to the information given by MR. A. R. BAYLEY and MR. J. B. WAINEWRIGHT anent Sir John Arundel of Lanherne, the following abstract of the will of the Cornish knight may be noted : 66 66 To my Sir John Arundell, Knight of Lanherne, co. Cornwall, dated 12 Dec., 32 Elizabeth. To be buried near my grandfather in the higher St. Columb within the said county." very good ladie and wife the Right Honourable Lady Anne Stourton " plate, &c., received at marriage, and 1007. To son George Arundell 10CZ., which I owe him by a legacy bequeathed him by my brother George Arundell, deceased, the which I received of Isabell, the wife of my said brother George, to the use of my said son.' To my nephew Thomas Bosgroe [? Bosgrave] an annuity of 51. out of Lanhearne-tenant John Basing. To servant Edward Victor an annuity during life of Isabell my sister-in-law. Several legacies to servants. Require my wife and my son John Arundell to have special care of my son [-in-law] Charnocke and my daughter his wife, until my son-in-law shall discharge his debts. Residue to John Arundell my son and heir, who is executor. Proved in London 9 Dec., 1590, by John Kene, notary public, on behalf of John Arundell, Esq., son and executor (83 Drury). Sir John Arundell of Lanherne, in addition to being M.P. for Cornwall in 1558, represented the Lancashire borough of Preston in the Parliament of Oct.-Dec., esq. Anne, d. of Mr. Geo. Arundell. Francis, son of George Arundell, Michael, son of John Arundell, 6 The last may be the Michael, grandson of Sir John, who is said in Vivian's Visitation of Cornwall' to have "Mon. in St. Columb Church," but the date of whose decease is not given. The other three may have been infant children of Sir John's second son George, but they are not named in the pedigree. W. D. PINK. Lowton, Newton-le-Willows. BURIAL INSCRIPTIONS (11 S. iii. 488).1. St. John's, Westminster.-The inscriptions on the monuments in this church will be found in Mr. J. E. Smith's St. John the Evangelist, Westminster : Parochial Memorials,' 1892, pp. 63, 64. A few references to persons interred in the burialground will be found at pp. 129-31, 154, but only two or three inscriptions are given. 2. St. John's Wood Chapel.-Thomas Smith in his Topographical Account of the Parish of St. Mary-le-Bone,' 1833, gives the inscriptions on the monuments in the chapel, pp. 137-46, and a long list of persons to whom memorials have been erected in the burial-ground, pp. 140-45. These records, however, extend only from the year 1814, when the chapel and burial-ground were consecrated, to the year 1832. 3. King's Road, Chelsea, burial-ground. -Some of the inscriptions on the tombs and monuments, with short memoirs of the principal persons buried in the cemetery, will be found in Faulkner's History of Chelsea,' 2nd ed., 1829, pp. 37-43. 4. Chelsea Hospital.-The same work, pp. 265-86, gives several inscriptions on the monuments erected in memory of the many distinguished persons connected with the Hospital who were interred in the burialground, including such eminent doctors as John Ranby, William Cheselden, and Benjamin Moseley, and the two Amazons, Christiana Davis and Hannah Snell, both of whom served in the British Army, and received pensions from Chelsea Hospital. W. F. PRIDEAUX. 66 the Cavalier was subsequently captured and beheaded-also that legends were afterwards related to the effect that he haunted certain places, carrying his head in his hand. Holland may perhaps have visited Docwra after his flight from Kingston, and before the fight at St. Neots, as Pirton would lie on the route. The Royalists certainly gave Livesey's troops from Surrey the slip, and were beaten by Scroope's forces, sent by Fairfax from Colchester. G. H. W. some APPARITION AT PIRTON, HERTS (11 S. iii. 466). The legend related by MR. GERISH says that the Cavalier officer took refuge among the Docwras of High Down. In the reports of the Committee for Compounding, as quoted in Kingston's East Anglia and the Great Civil War,' there is an entry relating to "Henry Docwra of Pirton, near Hitchin, As the story is "well known and widely Herts," under date April, 1649: Com- believed in the neighbourhood," pounds for his delinquency in being twelve hours in company with the forces raised against Parliament last summer-fine £66." This entry would seem to point to the skirmish being that of St. Neots, fought 10 July, 1648, where Col. Scroope in a brief sanguinary conflict routed the Royalists under the Earl of Holland, the Duke of Buckingham, and Col. Dalbier, who a few days before had been defeated at Kingstonon-Thames and driven from Surrey by Sir Michael Livesey. At St. Neots Dalbier was cut to pieces by the Parliamentary troops, Buckingham fled, and Holland was taken prisoner at his inn. Who the officer of the legend was it is difficult to say. Col. Scroope in his report ( Welbeck MSS.,' p. 478) says: "There were slain one colonel and some other officers, which I cannot get knowledge of their names, with 40 soldiers or thereabouts......I hear also that Sir Kenelm Digby's son is slain." Henry Rich, Earl of Holland, was subsequently beheaded for his share in this Royalist rising, and a legend similar in some respects is related concerning him in Ingram's · Haunted Houses and Family Traditions.' He was said to haunt a room at Holland House. Princess Lichtenstein writes in her history of the house : The gilt room is said to be tenanted by the solitary ghost of its first lord, who, according to tradition, issues forth at midnight from behind a secret door, and walks slowly through the scenes of former triumphs with his head in his hand. Το add to this mystery, there is a tale of three spots of blood on one side of the recess whence he issuesthree spots which can never be effaced." A long avenue of trees called the "Green Lane is also referred to as having been the scene of a "spiritual experience of his daughter Lady Rich. The underlying fact of the Pirton legend would seem to be that a Docwra was in the company of a Cavalier officer (possibly Holland) during a Royalist rising, and that definite day is probably alleged to be "the anniversary of the fatal day." Can MR. GERISH tell us what it is, and also give the names of any persons now alive who profess to have seen the apparition? HARMATOPEGOS. LORD MACAULAY'S ANCESTRY (11 S. iii. 448). The Rev. Aulay Macaulay, the historian's great-grandfather, was the grandson of Donald Cam Macaulay of Lewis, that is, Donald the One-eyed, so called because he was blind of an eye. Donald had a son, known in Gaelic as "Fear Bhreinis," that is, or Tacksman of Brenish, of whose remarkable strength many stories are related. This son of Donald the One-eyed was the father of Aulay Macaulay, the historian's great-grandfather. SCOTUS. "the Man |