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THE BADDELEY CAKE AT
DRURY LANE

(concluded.)

By RALPH THOMAS.

DID FIELDING WRITE
'SHAMELA'?

By J. PAUL DE CASTRO.

AND

THE TRAGEDY OF MARIAM.
By PROF. G. C. MOORE SMITH.

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CONTENTS.-No. 1.

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In my collection of West's juvenile theatrical
prints I have one of which I have never seen
another copy, except that in the Print Room
of the British Museum. This latter is laid
The figure just under Kean's right arm,
down and bound up at p. 43 of the fourth of holding his goblet in his left hand and cake
the nine folio volumes comprising the splen- in his right hand, is probably James Wallack,
did collection endorsed "West's Toy Theatre who withdrew to the United States in
Prints," which was bought of me for the 1845," the 'D.N.B.' says; but read 1851,
nation by Sir Sidney Colvin in 1886. Need- as he was then at the Haymarket Theatre.
less to say that nothing but the direst The man just below him, who is also cutting
necessity made me part with it. The the cake, bears a striking resemblance, both
collection includes one of every print I in face and figure, to Charles Kemble as he
then had, and also a number of sheets I
believe to be unique, for I have no copies,
though I have assiduously collected since.
I estimate the Print Room collection to be
now worth four times what I got for it. At

is depicted in the character of Thomas
Cromwell in the splendid mezzotint engrav-
ing by G. Clint, A.R.A., after the well-known
picture by G. H. Harlow entitled The
Court for the Tryal of Queen Katharine,'
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published Jan. 1, 1818.* Eighteen of the figures are portraits, Mrs. Siddons being the Queen, and Charles Kemble the central figure at the table. But Kemble, though he acted frequently in the old theatre, only acted once or twice, on the occasion of a benefit, in the present Drury Lane Theatre.

I am unable to say why Elliston is dressed as an officer in a costume much resembling that of "The Governor" in The Exile,'

have a sheet of West's characters in The Exile,' by W. Heath, on which plate ii. gives the Governor's costume. It is dated 16 Jan., 1822. This plate is in the Print Room collection, vol. i. p. 66. I also have West's Theatrical Portrait' of Mr. Farren as the Governor, so I presume he acted the part at the revival of 1821. The Farren portrait I only acquired in 1915; it is a quarto representation by William Heath of the

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Londen. Published Jan 1.1827, by W. West. at his Theatrical Print Warehouse 57 Wych Street Oppofite the Olympic Theatre Strand (Reduced from a Print in the possession of MR. RALPH THOMAS)

revived at Covent Garden in 1821. It may be intended as symbolical of his being in command at Drury Lane Theatre. I

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small one in the sheet of characters abovementioned.

To return to the print: on the extreme left is John Liston as Paul Pry, with his portrait of Charles Kemble is almost unrecognizable. However, the likeness is worse still in a wood engraving of the same size (22 by 30 inches) as the original mezzotint, which was issued with No. III. of Reynolds's Miscellany (about 1848) as The Trial of Queen Catherine' at the price of threepence.

umbrella under his arm and goblet in his left aware of the fact that for a figure to come hand; and on the extreme right is the out right-handed he must draw it leftsame actor, as Grojan, a character in a long handed on the copper, since a proof taken since forgotten farce, which seems never to from a copperplate represents everything have been printed, called Quite Correct,' the reverse of what it is in the drawing on adapted from the French by Joseph Ebs- the copper. Any one who wishes to see worth, and first produced at the Haymarket, these prints can do so, at the Students' July 29, 1825. There can be no doubt Print Room at the British Museum, where, about Liston's features or the characters, for an occasional visit, no ticket is required. because he is saying to Elliston, who with It is quite clear that this copperplate his left hand is giving a slice of cake to the engraving represents the cutting of the monkey, "That's not correct," which is a Drury Lane Baddeley Twelfth Night cake, catch-phrase of Grojan's, just as "I hope I well known in theatrical circles. I presume don't intrude" is of Paul Pry's. It seems it was intended as a Twelfth Night card, of curious that Liston should be twice repre- which at that time great numbers were sented, but he was so popular that he fre-issued every year. There is a good article quently acted both these parts on the same 'On Twelfth Night as a Religious Period,* night. commenting on the decay of the custom of celebrating the twelfth night after Christmas, in Household Words for Dec. 26, 1896, p. 156. RALPH THOMAS.

in

of

(To be concluded.)

SIR JOHN SCHORNE.

The monkey figure is intended for little George Wieland as the Chimpanzee 'La Perouse,' a part which he had acted at Drury Lane, and which Edmund Kean is said to have played when he began, about 1809, but which had, no doubt, been completely forgotten. Wieland acquired a unique position as a representative monkeys and sprites, and continued on the stage almost to the time of his death, which occurred on Nov. 6, 1847, at the age of 35. He was a member of the Acting Committee of the Theatrical Fund. One of West's best sets of characters is to be found in The grand historical ballet called La Perouse, or the desolate Island, as performed the English Opera House, published 25 October, 1819." T. P. Cooke was La Simpson, in particular, was assiduous in Perouse, and Miss Leonora Pincott, after-collecting anything relating to the Buckingwards Mrs. Alfred Wigan, is representing the hamshire worthy, and there is but little chimpanzee. known upon the subject which is not included in his articles in vols. xxiii., xxv., and xli. of the Journal of the British Archæological Association. Of later date there is a good summary in the number of The Reliquary for January 1901, not, however, adding anything fresh to what was already known

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The figures of Punch on the left and Judy on the right, holding their goblets in their left hands, are simply allegorical. It only remains to mention the figure holding the goblet in his left hand immediately above Elliston, which may be intended for John Charles Hughes, an actor of humorous parts, and for some years Secretary to the Drury Lane Theatrical Fund.

Ebsworth, who is mentioned above, married an elder sister of Miss Fairbrother, afterwards Mrs. Fitzgeorge, the wife of the late Duke of Cambridge. The late Rev. J. Woodfall Ebsworth was the son of this Joseph Ebsworth.

FOR a good many years past the Rector of Long Marston, that Master John Schorne, "gentleman born," who conjured the devil into a boot and was canonized by the voice of the people, if not by the authority of Rome, has been a standing subject of interest to The late Dr. Sparrow readers of N. & Q.'

about this saint.

During the last few months I have been so fortunate as to come across a second copy of the Office for Sir John Schorne which was printed by Dr. Sparrow Simpson in the Journal of the British Archæological Association for 1885 (vol. xli. p. 262). Dr. Simpson's version was taken from Sloane MS. No. 389, folio 92, and was obviously the The artist who drew this Twelfth Night writing made some passages quite unintelwork of an illiterate person whose bad handprint was William Heath. He did hun-ligible. The new version which has come to dreds of prints for West. Heath was quite *For information about him see N. & Q.,' 1908 (10 S. ix. 385, 473; x. 13, 93).

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light is contained in a fifteenth-century collection of prayers, offices, &c., of English origin, belonging to Robert Berkeley, Esq.,

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Aue diuini puerorum ! consolator miserorum

qui sunt in tristicia

Aue aux peregrinorum esto ductor viatorum

ad superna gaudia.

Ora pro nobis sacerdos
Christi Johannes:

Ave tu que sunt in tris-
ticia

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A comparison of the two versions shows that the Spetchley MS. is much better than the Sloane copy, though it is not altogether free from the mistakes of an ignorant copyist. In stanza 7 the " VOS of the former should evidently be "bos"; but the ninth stanza (Spetchley) and eighth (Sloane) offer most difficulty. The MS. leaves no doubt as to the word divini " "Dnū

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but this is obviously incorrect.
(in the same place in the Sloane MS.) was
read by Dr. Sparrow Simpson as domnus,"
which seems equally unlikely. Mr. Herbert
(of the Department of MSS., British Museum)
suggests that in both places the original
word was dulcis," which became corrupted
by a succession of ignorant scribes. The
Spetchley MS. enables us to make sense of
the absurdities of the last stanza and the
collect as given in the Sloane MS.
sidering the extreme rarity of local offices
in England, it is satisfactory to possess this
record of the popular devotion to Sir John
Schorne in a fairly complete and accurate
form.

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Alphington, Devon; Cawston, Norfolk; Gateley, Norfolk; Suffield, Norfolk; Wolborough, Devon.

Ave dux peregrinorum
Esto doctor viatorum According to F. B. Bond and B. Camm's
Ad superna caudia. 'Rood-screens and Rood-lofts' (1909), ii. 238,
the saint's figure also occurs on screens at
V. Ora pro nobis, beate Portlemouth (Devon); Barton Turf, Bin-
sacerdos Christi, Jcham Abbey, Litcham, and Ludham-all in
Norfolk. The Portlemouth and Litcham

hannes.

It nos a cunctis febri R. Ut a cunctis febre-figures are so much effaced that it requires a

bus

defendat gratia Christi.

bus defendat nos gracia

Christi.

good deal of imagination to see a representation of Sir John Schorne in them; at

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