was with Wallis, if compared with his later works. certain that Rome for Good News ' In the Epistle Dedicatory in Room for not published before 1661, for on p. 19 is the Cobler' he speaks of his "two former a reference to "William Gloucester "-i.e.,. books," this, no doubt, referring to Rome William Nicholson, who was Bishop of for Good News' and 'More News,' and on Gloucester from 1661 to 1672. The tract is p. 6 there is another reference which con- dated in the British Museum Catalogue as nects Wallis with the first of these. On "[1642 ?]," but evidently this is some p. 26 of Rome for Good News' the dialogue twenty years earlier than it should be.. ends with:: while on p. 4 of More News from Rome; or, Magna Charta' (1666), the wife says:— "The last winter you and I fell into some discourse by the fire and brake off somewhat abruptly, you promised to begin with Magna Charta. 6 These extracts suggest the year 1665 as the date of Rome for Good News,' but the examination of Rawson given in the 'Calendar of State Papers (Domestic),' 1 Oct., 1664, raises the question whether earlier editions of this and other tracts by Wallis may not have been issued. In this examination it is stated that Wallis " wrote the books called Magna Charta,' Good News from Rome,'' More News from Rome,' and the Honour of a Hangman,' which would make it appear that copies of works bearing these titles were then in existence. So far I have not yet seen any of these works with the date 1664 or earlier, and if such were published-as seems likely from the evidence given-it would appear they were all destroyed. It also seems probable that the titles of later issues were transposed or combined. The British Museum has a copy of Or Magna Charta; More News from Rome,' 1666, but an addition in MS. reversing the lines has been made to the Catalogue, and a note appended that the first and second titles were evidently transposed by the printer. This tract may be a combination of the first and third of the works mentioned by Rawson. And I suggest also that the second tract named, Good News from Rome,' is the same as 'Rome for Good News,' the title of the later issue (supposing an earlier) also being transposed. 6 The verses in Rome for Good News ' contain allusions to many who suffered for their refusal to conform, among them being Arthur Hildersam (1563-1632), Thomas Turner (1591-1632), Bates, and Sharp, the last a bookseller of Banbury, who is also referred to in More News.' There also occurs the name of Ravis, Bishop of Glou cester (1604-7), who made a threat that he would "not leave one preacher in my diocese who doth not subscribe and con. form.' He is spoken of thus: Where are the thousand men become, Doct. Ravis. A rare bird with his heady book, Soon wrought their desolation. There are some very uncomplimentary references to Nicholson, Bishop of Glou cester, who is also handled severely by Wallis in his later tract, More News.' A further letter in the 'Calendar of State Papers (Domestic) for 1667-8 suggests that Wallis wrote other tracts. It is as follows: "1668. April 24. Roger L'Estrange to Williamson. I perused all the books and papers sent, and have marked the passages found most of the witnesses, and hear the circumstances of liable to censure; but till I see the examinations the proofs, I cannot make any judgment of the issue. Let the messengers that made the seizure, and the persons that made the discovery, be sent to me; I will then prepare such an information as may serve for a guide to the King's counsel to proceed. 'Felo de se' is undoubtedly Wallis's, but a jury will not make much of it. The Queries' will punish most, because they reflect the present Parliament. Omnia concessa a Belo' is a vile libel, of the same quality as Felo de se.' I can fasten nothing on The Poor Whores' Petition that a jury will take notice of. Liberty of Conscience' is rather to be answered than punished, except as an unlicensed pamphlet. The Saints' Freedom have brought it home, but the alarm is now so has direct treason in it, and a little patience would hot that all are upon their guard. on "I send another libel, Room for the Cobbler," which is the damndest thing has come out yet'; but I beg privacy, being in quest of Wallis, who has disguised himself....I hope the libel of the Cobblers will be closely and quickly followed up; if you show it to Lord Arlington or my Lord of Canterbury, let no words be spoken, as I want to surprise the parties." With the exception of Liberty of Conscience' (by Sir Charles Wolseley, 1668) 6 and Room for the Cobler,' I cannot trace any of the tracts mentioned. L'Estrange suggests that 'Felo de se is by Wallis, and it seems possible that Omnia Concessa a Belo' and 'The Poor Whores' Petition' were also by him. It will be interesting if some reader of N. & Q.' can give information as to these, and also as to the dates of the earliest issues, if any are known, of the publications named in the record of 1 Oct., 1664. Zachary Grey in his 'Review of Mr. Daniel Neal's History of the Puritans,' 1744, has an entertaining passage relating to Wallis. He says: "About this time [1667] Mr. Neal observes (p. 412) that Ralph Wallis, a Cobler of Gloucester, publish'd an Account of a great number of Scandalous Conformist Ministers, and named their Scandals: but forbears to inform us, how Ralph Wallis came off upon his Tryal. The Author was to be tried for his Life, and when he came before the Judge, he ask'd him Whether his Fault was greater than Oliver Cromwell's ? No, said the Judge, nor so great. Pray, my Lord, said he, let not my Punishment be greater; if I must be hang'd, let me be dead and buried, and lie so long in the grave first, then take me up and hang me after: which made the Judge instead of an Halter; a thing much the better of invite him to Dinner, and give him a Guinea the two." A careful reading of the Life and Death of..the Cobler of Glocester' (1670) reveals more of Wallis's strange career than is suggested in the 'D.N.B.,' though the only pamphlet of his which is mentioned is Room for the Cobler of Gloucester.' There is a curious reference to Sir Thomas Overbury. Wallis had a particular friend, Capt. L., who praised his pamphlets, saying they were the works of the "witty Cobler," whereupon he was told that the epithet of witty was above the capacity of a cobler to deserve. He replied, "Oh Sir, you must understand he is a Glocestershire-man, and Glocestershire is famous for having two great Wits born in it, instancing in Sir Thomas Overbury, and the Cobler of Glocester." According to accepted authority, Overbury was born in Warwickshire, and the reputation of Gloucestershire for wit must, indeed, have been at a low ebb if it rested in the hands of Ralph Wallis. The British Museum Catalogue attributes to Wallis authorship of "The Cobler of Gloucester reviv'd In a Letter Observator's Countrey-Man. London, Printed and sold by H. Hills, in Black-Fryers, near the Water-side," but this is, I think, incorrect. The pamphlet is dated 30 June, 1704, and signed Thy Loving Friend R. Wallis, Cobler ; but,. as Wallis died in 1669, this would not seem to be his. Though written in somewhat the same style as tracts known to be by him, the subject-matter is mainly political. The date agrees with references to Queen Anneand Admiral Sir George Rooke. There are allusions to Gloucester and to the Bishop of Gloucester, but these are evidently madeto be in keeping with the nom de plume: adopted by the writer. ROLAND AUSTIN. Public Library, Gloucester. DOTHEBOYS HALL ANTICIPATED. A NOTE in 'N. & Q.,' 15 March, 1862, suggests a possible relation between the account of Yorkshire schools in Nicholas Nickleby and a narrative of closely corresponding experience to be found in Literary Recollections,' by the Rev. Richard Warner (1830), nine years earlier. This hypothesis is dis-posed of in a brief comment by the editor, based on Dickens's statement in the Preface to the first cheap edition of his novel that his earliest knowledge of such dens of misery had come to him, in some forgotten way,. during his boyhood days at Rochester: observation during an unofficial tour of all the details were obtained through direct inspection. little-known works of fiction in the eigh Still, it is interesting to discover that two teenth century made use, in their initial chapters, of an almost identical situation, and show besides unexpected coincidence in 'The Placid definite points of treatment. Man; or, Memoirs of Sir Charles Beville (1770), contains the following significant passage (i. 44) : : "I was accordingly sent to a school....the master of which took a journey on foot, or in the waggon, to London, every Whitsuntide holidays, on purpose to advertise, that At Stonelands, in Yorkshire, youth are boarded, educated and cloathed, at twelve pounds a year, by Zachary Birch, and proper assistants [his wife and a parish will take the care of any young gentleman down '; apprentice]. N.B. Mr. Birch is in town, and by which means, he sometimes contrived to get his own passage gratis....I....underwent the usual discipline of the school, namely, cold,. hunger, and beating," &c. If the procedure of Squeers is thus anticipated here in one noteworthy particular, there is further resemblance discernible in The History of the Curate of Craman; Taken from Real Life; By an Unbeneficed Clergyman of the Church of England (1777), in the second chapter of which is given a much more elaborate rehearsal of bitter school experience under the rule of "Mr. John Conjugate....at B-es [Bowes ?] in Yorkshire.' The hero relates how Master Conjugate, with what appeared to be the tacit indifference of his parents, stole from him a toy watch. "I had the mortification to see the young rogue wear it for several days, and at last sell it to one of his schoolfellows." Then, "with what frugality we lived passes all credulity. ....Our dinner consisted of a very coarse hard pudding, made chiefly of rye, peas, and broken pieces of bread, which was succeeded by nearly half a pound of mutton that had died a natural death, or was in danger of dying of some disease. We were sent to a common at a considerable distance, to fetch bundles of furze for the use of the house....My department generally was, with another boy, to milk two cows, clean the vessels of the dairy, and conduct the cows from and to the field." .... erected by public subscription at a cost of 66 his Thin as this appears in comparison with The statue is protected by iron pallisades the solid and brilliant pictures we know shaped like boarding-pikes, connected by a so well, is it not yet conceivable that cable. The lamp-posts at the four corners the reading of an unguided and precocious are modelled in the form of clusters of boy might have stamped one of its impres-boarding-pikes issuing from cannon. Mr. sions from just such suggestions as these? Joseph Farror bequeathed a legacy of 6d. It is undoubtedly in Dickens's earlier work per week to keep the basement of the statue that we find it easiest to detect the lines clean. along which his genius travelled when stimulated by his quite untutored studies. In one chapter alone (chap. xliv.) of 'Pickwick' we find two such instances: Sam Weller's tale of the gentleman who blew out his brains as a testimony to the digestibility of crumpets, the bald original of which is recorded by Boswell, 16 April, 1779; and the story of the cobbler ruined through inheritance of a comfortable legacy, still more distinctly foreshadowed in bk. iv. chap. ii. of The Spiritual Quixote,' by the Rev. Richard Graves (1773), the sufferer from the technicalities of the law being in this case a travelling tinker. Colour, glow, and movement, it need hardly be added, are in none of these cases to be looked for in the first sketch. PAUL T. LAFLEUR, McGill University, Montreal. Yarmouth. The famous Doric column in honour of Nelson is erected on the South Denes. The foundation-stone was laid on 15 Aug., 1817. The column is 144 ft. high, and was raised by contributions from fellow countrymen of Norfolk." It is hollow and fluted, and springs from a massive square pedestal. At the summit is a huge globe resting upon Caryatides, and from it rises a colossal statue of Britannia, grasping a trident and holding forth a laurel wreath in the direction of Burnham Thorpe, the little Norfolk village in which Nelson was born. On the base is a long Latin inscription. The summit is gained by an interior circular staircase of 217 steps. I am informed that in St. Nicholas Churchyard, Yarmouth, is a stone bearing the following inscription :— "Here is deposited the body of Thomas STATUES AND MEMORIALS IN THE Sutton. | He creditably discharged the duties surveyor to the corporation and superintended the erection of the monument to the memory of Lord Nelson on the summit of which he departed this life | June 1st 1819 | aged 65 years. Portsmouth. Near the western extremity of Portsdown Hill, 300 ft. above sea-level, an obelisk is placed to the memory of Nelson. It is 150 ft. high, and was erected by his brave companions the survivors of the Trafalgar fleet, who each contributed 11 S. VIII. JULY 5, 1913.] NOTES AND QUERIES. two days' pay for the purpose. On the completed until 1815. In shape it looks base is the following inscription To the memory of to perpetuate his triumphs The British Fleet 27 Sail of the Line, The old battleship Victory, moored in Portsmouth Harbour, is an object of neverdying interest to every British subject. On the deck is marked with an inscription the spot where Nelson fell, and in the The cockpit the spot where he died. a stone Victory's anchor, mounted on on the Esplanade, pedestal, is placed Southsea Beach. On the base is inscribed Close to this spot embarked the Hero of the Nile, something like a drawn-out telescope, and base comprises an octagonal battlemented ment, containing several rooms, surmounted by a circular embattled tower of four storeys, over which again is a similar, but narrower turret of one storey." Above The structure is 102 ft. high, and on the Dublin.-The design of the Nelson column Alas, for the last time to take command of the in relief scenes from the battles of the Nile, British Fleet that fought and conquered at Trafalgar, where our Nelson fell. This tribute of respect is placed in humble admiration of the departed Hero Lord Frederick Fitzelarence 1852. In an appropriate niche in the Town Hall is placed a white marble bust of Nelson. Below it, on a brass shield, is engraved the following inscription :— England expects every man to do his duty. This Bust of Admiral Lord Nelson, sculptured This suggestion of bellum ad exterminationem called forth in the following number an amusing remonstratory reply in the shape of a letter purporting to be written by "Your faithful, though sad dog, Pompey," which has been identified by Mr. J. A. Rutter as Charles Lamb's. Monuments of Wellington and Nelson, In his edition of the Works of Charles presented by Lord Frederick Fitzclarence in 1850, and placed on Southsea Common, and Mary Lamb' Mr. Lucas prints it in the Appendix to vol. i., among the Essays mysteriously disappeared some years afterwards. They had been adversely criticized and Notes not certain to be Lamb's but as possessing little or no artistic merit, and probably his,' and his comment is that it is said that their remains received decent" there certainly is no difficulty in conburial at Spithead. given a much more elaborate rehearsal of bitter school experience under the rule of "Mr. John Conjugate....at B-es [Bowes ?] in Yorkshire." The hero relates how Master Conjugate, with what appeared to be the tacit indifference of his parents, stole from him a toy watch. "I had the mortification to see the young rogue wear it for several days, and at last sell it to one of his schoolfellows." Then, "with what frugality we lived passes all credulity. Our dinner consisted of a very coarse hard pudding, made chiefly of rye, peas, and broken pieces of bread, which was succeeded by nearly half a pound of mutton that had died a natural death, or was in danger of dying of some disease. ....We were sent to a common at a considerable distance, to fetch bundles of furze for the use of the house....My department generally was, with another boy, to milk two cows, clean the vessels of the dairy, and conduct the cows from and to the field." Thin as this appears in comparison with the solid and brilliant pictures we know so well, is it not yet conceivable that the reading of an unguided and precocious boy might have stamped one of its impressions from just such suggestions as these? It is undoubtedly in Dickens's earlier work that we find it easiest to detect the lines along which his genius travelled when stimulated by his quite untutored studies. In one chapter alone (chap. xliv.) of 'Pickwick we find two such instances: Sam Weller's tale of the gentleman who blew out his brains as a testimony to the digestibility of crumpets, the bald original of which is recorded by Boswell, 16 April, 1779; and the story of the cobbler ruined through inheritance of a comfortable legacy, still more distinctly foreshadowed in bk. iv. chap. ii. of The Spiritual Quixote,' by the Rev. Richard Graves (1773), the sufferer from the technicalities of the law being in this case a travelling tinker. Colour, glow, and movement, it need hardly be added, are in none of these cases to be looked for in the first sketch. PAUL T. LAFLEUR. McGill University, Montreal. erected by public subscription at a cost of about 3,0007. The statue is of bronze, on a marble pedestal. It was inaugurated on 25 Oct., 1809, the day of the celebration of the jubilee of George III. Nelson is represented standing erect, bare-headed, clad in an admiral's uniform, and invested with his insignia and honours. His left arm reclines on an anchor, and at his right side is seen the prow of a model man-of-war. The pedestal is ornamented with allegorical sculpture, and also contains the following inscription : a Yarmouth. The famous Doric column in honour of Nelson is erected on the South Denes. The foundation-stone was laid on 15 Aug., 1817. The column is 144 ft. high, and was raised by contributions from “his fellow countrymen of Norfolk." It is hollow and fluted, and springs from massive square pedestal. At the summit is a huge globe resting upon Caryatides, and from it rises a colossal statue of Britannia, grasping a trident and holding forth a laurel wreath in the direction of Burnham Thorpe, the little Norfolk village in which Nelson was born. On the base is a long Latin inscription. The summit is gained by an interior circular staircase of 217 steps. I am informed that in St. Nicholas Churchyard, Yarmouth, is a stone bearing the following inscription: "Here is deposited the body of Thomas STATUES AND MEMORIALS IN THE Sutton. He creditably discharged the duties BRITISH ISLES. (See 10 S. xi. 441; xii. 51, 114, 181, 401; 11 S. i. 282; ii. 42, 381; iii. 22, 222, 421; iv. 181. 361; v. 62, 143, 481; vi. 4, 284, 343; vii. 64, 144, 175, 263, 343, 442.) SAILORS: NELSON. Birmingham. -Nelson's statue stands in the Bull Ring. facing St. Martin's Church. It is the work of Westmacott, and was of surveyor to the corporation and superintended the erection of the monument to the | memory of Lord Nelson on the summit of which he departed this life | June 1st 1819 | aged 65 years. Portsmouth.-Near the western extremity of Portsdown Hill, 300 ft. above sea-level, an obelisk is placed to the memory of Nelson. It is 150 ft. high, and was erected by his brave companions the survivors of the Trafalgar fleet, who each contributed |