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1886, and I believe I also saw it on view a
year or two afterwards at Whitechapel.
JOHN T. PAGE.

West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

'CORYAT'S CRUDITIES': ERROR IN 1905
EDITION (10th S. iv. 49).-The passage in
question runs as follows in the original
edition: "eyther with faire monuments,
or learned epitaphes. This Church was much
amplified and beautified by Carolus Mag-
nus (Coryat's Crudities,' 1611, p. 379,
wrongly numbered 377; the numbering 375-
376 occurs twice).
EDWARD BENSLY.

23, Park Parade, Cambridge.

[LADY RUSSELL also sends the words from the
edition of 1776.]

4TH LIGHT DRAGOONS' UNIFORM (10th S. iv.
69). In plates xxxi. to xxxv. in Lieut.-Col. J.
Luard's History of the Dress of the British
Soldier' will be found several illustrations
of the uniform of the 4th Light Dragoons
between 1808 and 1814.
S. H.

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ROYAL OAK DAY (10th S. iii. 446; iv. 30).— It may be of interest to note that this day was duly kept in the army during the period of the Peninsular War. I quote from a letter written by the commanding officer of the 18th Hussars: "All the regiment wore oak branches in their fur caps in honour of 'Restoration' or 'Oakapple' Day."

HAROLD MALET, Colonel.

It was, nearly fifty years ago, and may still be, the custom for village schoolboys in Cumberland to try the effect of the following:Yak-bob day, 29th o' May, If ye divn't gie us holiday, We'll aw run away.

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MISTLETOE.

HORSE-PEW HORSE-BLOCK (10th S. iv. 27).— In connexion with DR. MURRAY'S most interesting note, some of your readers may like to be reminded that etymologistsor it were wiser to say, some etymologistsderive Puy-de-Dôme, Le Puy, and the like from the Latin podium. It is curious to note the relationship between them and a horseblock. ST. SWITHIN.

I have no other books of reference at hand, but suppose that it may be worth remarking, as part of this interesting question, that in the 'Pocket Dictionary' of Castilian and English, by Don Enrique Runge (published in Barcelona and printed in Leipzig in 1899), one finds "Poyo, m. bench made of stone and mortar." In the sixth edition of the 'Diccionario da Lingua Portugueza,' published in Lisboa by the Companhia Nacional Editora, the word "Pójo," on p. 565, is defined as s.m. Ponto de desembarque"-i.e., as a point for disembarking. or setting one's foot on land. That the word pew is derived ultimately from the Greek few cannot alight in safety. πους, πόδος, seems to be a point at which EDWARD S. DODGSON.

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GARIBALDI (10th S. iv. 67).—In regard to the ancestry of Garibaldi, see 2nd S. ix. 424, 473, 494, 509, where it is discussed whether he was of Irish descent; 2nd S. x. 167, 304, where a Bavarian and Lombardian descent (dating CRICKET: PICTURES AND ENGRAVINGS (10th back to 584 or 590) is suggested; and ibid. S. iv. 9). In the July number of The Con208, where his father is given as "Garra-noisseur will be found an interesting article baldeh," an Iroquois chief in Lower Canada. It may be added that in the Calendar of Entries in the Papal Registers relating to Great Britain and Ireland,' issued from the Public Record Office ('Papal Letters,' vol. i.

by Mr. Robin C. Baily on 'The Cricket Pictures at Lord's.' He reproduces from the precious collection of the M.C.C. the following: 'The Game of Cricket as played at the Artillery Ground, London, 1743,' by Francis

Hayman; 'An Exact Representation of the a club more than anything else. I have Game of Cricket,' by Louis Pierre Boitard ; | heard an old friend of mine, who was at Eton ; 'Cricket at Hampton Wick,' by R. Wilson, when Dr. Goodall was head master (1801-9), R.A.; frontispieces to 'The Laws of the Game say that in his time the boys used to dress in of Cricket' for 1785 and 1800; A Cricket shorts and silks to play at cricket. Match,' by Louis Belanger, 1768, lent by the King; and The Grand Jubilee Match of Monday, 10 July, 1837, between the North and South of England, at Lord's.'

I may add that in the new Speech-Room of Harrow School (recently honoured by the presence of the King and Queen) there hangs a copy of a curious picture representing William and John Mason playing cricket at Harrow in 1772. In the distance, more or less northward, one sees the ancient hill, with the old school buildings and St. Mary's Church. The original picture belongs to Mr. R. H. Mason, of Necton Hall, Norfolk. A. R. BAYLEY.

Perhaps the earliest print depicting a cricket match is a satirical one published in 1757, and entitled 'The Crowned Heads of Europe,' of which, and of others, there are valuable reproductions in illustration of an article by Mr. Alfred T. Story in The Strand Magazine of some few years ago, entitled The Evolution of Cricket.'

I have what is perhaps the earliest extant photograph of a cricket team, dated 7 September, 1859. It represents 'England's Twelve Champion Cricketers starting for America.' The names are Carpenter, Caffyn, Lockyer, Wisden, Stephenson, G. Parr, Grundy, Cæsar, Hayward, Jackson, Diver, and John Lillywhite. The photograph is by W. H. Mason, of Brighton. J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL. 6, Elgin Court, Elgin Avenue, W.

I have an interesting engraving of the match between the women of Surrey and those of Hampshire, for 500 guineas, which took place in 1811 at Newington Green, when Hampshire won by 14 notches. H. SOUTHAM.

Shrewsbury.

I have a coloured engraving of the picture by Francis Hayman, R.A., of 'The Game of Cricket as play'd in the Artillary Ground, London,' published in 1752 (the figures are very much rubbed) by "Robt. Sayer, at the Golden Buck in Fleet Street." Hayman died in 1776. E. E. STREET.

In 'Old-fashioned Children's Books' (p. 165) and in Forgotten Children's Books' (p. 261), published at the Leadenhall Press, may be found some curious information, illustrated by cuts, of this game as played in 1812-13. The wicket is composed of two stumps, on which the bail is laid, and the bat resembles

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In Evans's 'Old Ballads,' 1784, vol. iv. p. 323, is a long amusing poem on cricket, entitled Surrey Triumphant,' by J. Duncombe, 1773, a parody on 'Chevy Chace.' In this it is said :

This game did last from Monday morn
Till Wednesday afternoon,

For when bell Harry rung to prayers
The batting scarce was done.
Bell Harry was at Canterbury Cathedral.
JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.
Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

MR. CLIFTON ROBBINS should refer to
Strutt's 'Sports and Pastimes of the People
of England,' 1884, p. 747, and The English
Illustrated Magazine, 1890, 1-3.
EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

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"We dined with Mr. Foxley on Friday [i.e., about three went to Queen's College, where we 6 June, 1731] and Mr. Parker on fish and pease, and were last night, to take a copy of the devil's handwriting, which I did, as it is on the following page: we saw likewise Christ's College library [Christ Church is meant], and in particular the mandrakes, which were very surprising."-P. 516, vol. i. pt. 2.

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Just before the title page, among the Addenda et Corrigenda,' is an explanatory note on the words to take a copy of the devil's handwriting."

John Byrom was born in 1691, and died in 1763, and was buried with his ancestors in the Byrom Chapel of the collegiate church of Manchester. He is usually styled Dr. Byrom, but it does not appear, though he studied medicine, that he graduated as doctor.

The following anecdote from 'Oxford and Cambridge Nuts to Crack' (1835) may prove amusing and illustrative, and is not generally

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been aptly called, was Senior Wrangler, on graduating B.A. at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1786, with many able competitors for that honour. He is likewise celebrated, as everybody knows, for writing three several hands one only he himself can read, another nobody but his clerk can read, and a third neither himself, clerk, nor anybody else can read! It was in the latter hand he one day wrote to his legal contemporary and friend, the present Sir Launcelot Shadwell, Vice-Chancellor of England (who is likewise a Cantab, and graduated in 1800 at St. John's College, of which he became a Fellow, with the double distinction of seventh Wrangler and second Chancellor's Medallist), inviting him to dinner. Sir Launcelot, finding all his attempts to decipher the note about as vain as the wise men found theirs to unravel the cabalistic characters of yore, took a sheet of paper, and having smeared it over with ink, he folded and sealed it, and sent it as his answer. The receipt of it staggered the Great Bell of Lincoln, and after breaking the seal, and eyeing and turning it round and round, he hurried to Mr. Shadwell's chambers with it, declaring he could make nothing of it. Nor I of your note,' retorted Mr. S. My dear fellow,' exclaimed Mr. B., taking his own letter in his hand, is not this, as plain as can be, Dear Shadwell, I shall be glad to see you at dinner to-day." 'And is not this equally as plain,' said Mr. S., pointing to his own paper, "My dear Bell, I shall be happy to come and dine with you. """ Pp. 154-5.

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Bell died in 1836, and is depicted as Mr. Tresayle in Warren's Ten Thousand a Year.' Vice-Chancellor Shadwell died in 1850. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge. M. (10th S. iv. 45).-Under the heading M. (as an abbreviation for Monsieur) a curious question was incidentally raised by MR. MARCHANT, viz., how it came to pass that Mr., in addressing envelopes to gentlemen, has ceased, in course of time, to sound dignified, and is now confined to tradesmen and to men of lower rank? Considering that Mister is a mere corruption of Master (see Prof. Skeat's Etymolog. Dict.'), have we to regard its limited use as an analogous deterioration of meaning? Certainly, it contrasts with Monsieur, Herr, Signor, Señor, Pan, Gospodin, Kyrios, &c., prefixed, respectively, in most of our European languages, as a title of courtesy and politeness to the names of gentlemen, and only dropped before the names of men of lower rank. This subject appears to deserve, perhaps, the particular attention of Dr. Bradley for the historical elaboration of Master and Mister in the 'H.E.D.'

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be a sign of descent from the old "noblesse." M. Laborde is a commoner; but Monsieur de Laborde or de la Borde may be supposed to have originated from a family who feudally held the village or domain of La Borde. Of course the present-day triumphant democracy" is careless of such trifles; and while a thoroughgoing Republican-Henri Rochefort is a well-known example-drops alike title and "particule," the parvenu whose father was M. Dubois will probably write his name du Bois without let or hindrance. Still, the principle exists.

In this connexion may one be allowed to point out that "M." or "M. de" is only permissible "in the third person," and that when addressing a letter (or even when alluding to a mutual friend in a letter to another) the word Monsieur should invariably be written in full? The frequency with which Englishmen fall into this error must be my excuse for insisting on such a well-known rule. F. A. W.

Paris.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (10th S. iv. 68).-The quatrain of which A. N. desires stanza of a 'Tom o' Bedlam Song,' which to know the source forms part of the seventh Isaac D'Israeli reprints in his 'Curiosities of Literature' (vol. ii. pp. 311-17, ed. Warne, 1866) from a collection of verses entitled 'Wit and Drollery,' ed. 1661 - an edition, however, which, according to D'Israeli, "is not the earliest of this once fashionable miscellany." Stanza 7 runs :

With a heart of furious fancies,
Whereof I am commander:

With a burning spear, and a horse of air,
To the wilderness I wander;
With a knight of ghosts and shadows,
I summoned am to Tourney:
Ten leagues beyond the wide world's end;
Methinks it is no journey!

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The lines quoted by A. N. at the above reference are prefixed, by way of motto, by Edgar Allan Poe to his 'Unparalleled Adventure of one Hans Pfaall,' a fact noted by the late James Thomson in his Essay on the Poems of William Blake.' See "Shelley, a Poem, with other Writings relating to Shelley, by the late James Thomson ('B. V.')," &c., 1884. R. A. POTTS.

BOWTELL FAMILY (10th S. iv. 29).-See two Chancery suits temp. Queen Eliz.:

1. Ed. Owen v. Wm. Pinfold and Jane Bowtell. Claim by purchase: sundry lands and tenements in Thorpe and Egham, Surrey.

2. Ed. Owen v. Thos. Bowtell, to protect title by purchase: "Foster's Farm, Egham

......late the estate of Thos. Bowtell, who settled same on Jeremy Bowtell, his son," &c. FREDERIC TURNER.

MR. MOXHAY, LEICESTER SQUARE SHOWMAN (10th S. iii. 307, 357, 395, 474; iv. 35).I would recommend MR. CECIL CLARKE to examine the St. Martin's Scrap-Book' at the library in St. Martin's Lane.

ALECK ABRAHAMS.

BYRCH ARMS (10th S. iv. 90).—The Franciscan Priory at Ware was granted to Thomas Byrch in 1545, 36 Henry VIII. Thomas Byrch is reported to have been a yeoman of the Crown, and a scrivener, synonymous with the money-lender of those days. He was probably one of Thomas Cromwell's agents, and employed by him in the valuation of the doomed religious houses, and duly rewarded by the king. He is alluded to by Vallans, a native of Hertfordshire, in the "Tale of Two Swannes' in the description of the "Companie of Swannes" passing by "Byrche's house, that whilom was the Brothers Friars place." Byrch was of substance and some social position. One of his descendants, a great-granddaughter, married Lionel, Earl of Middlesex. I am unable to give your correspondent any particulars of Thos. Byrch's arms. ROBERT WALTERS.

Ware Priory.

Frederick Cooke in A New History of the English Stage,' ii. 366, Mr. Percy Fitzgerald writes:

"His spirit before the audience, when he was gallant, as when he told the people at Liverpool sober, was untamed, and had in it something there was not a brick in their dirty hole that was not cemented by the blood of a negro.' On another occasion, he said the only thing he had to apologize for was having degraded himself by appearing before them; but this he was induced to qualify later, saying, that he meant he had degraded himself by appearing in such a state,' &c."

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THOMAS BAYNE.

69, West Cumberland Street, Glasgow.
"WARM SUMMER SUN " (10th S. iii. 288).
These lines in their original shape were
written by Robert Richardson, at one time
in Australia (who died a short while back),
and may be found by D. M. printed at
p. 35 of R. R.'s book Willow and Wattle'
(Edin., 1893), thus :-

Warm summer sun, shine friendly here;
Warm western wind, blow kindly here;
Green sod above, rest light, rest light-
Good-night, Annette!

Sweetheart, good-night!

E. WILSON DOBBS.

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Toorak, Victoria, Australia. CROMWELL HOUSE, HIGHGATE (10th S. iv. 48). -Both Mr. Prickett, the historian of Highgate, and William Howitt, in his Northern "RISING OF THE LIGHTS" (10th S. iv. 66).-Heights,' give the date of the erection of Twenty years ago I had a maidservant who, Cromwell House as about 1630. That it was according to the diagnosis of her mother, built by the Protector is most probable, for was suffering from this complaint. Acting the interior decorations display the interon the advice of the same authority, the girl twined initials I. and C. (Ireton and Cromswallowed a quantity of gun-shot to keep well), and previous to a destructive fire in 'em down." I have not seen the earlier refer- 1865 the drawing - room ceiling bore the ences in N. & Q.,' but in my opinion this Ireton arms. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. particular case of "rising of the lights" was the well-known one of globus hystericus.

JOHN S. CRONE.

[This remedy is mentioned at 8th S. vi. 415, 516.] BIBLIOGRAPHIES (10th S. iii. 243, 316, 394).MR. EDWARD SMITH'S Comments on the annotation of bibliographies receive confirmation in the pamphlet described below:"New York State Library.-Lecture Outlines and Problems. Albany: University of the State of New York, October, 1902." 8vo. Paged 85-143. (See 'Principles of Book Annotation,' pp. 135-8.)

The article last cited, being written by Mrs. S. C. Fairchild, vice - director of the New York State Library School, is authori: tative in every particular, and a very useful guide. EUGENE F. MCPIKE.

Chicago, U.S.

INCLEDON: COOKE (10th S. iii. 464 ; iv. 92).— Annotating his brief account of George

71, Brecknock Road.

I venture to point out that there is no reliable evidence that the Protector built this house as a residence either for himself or for General Ireton. The general_could, however, have lived but little here. Having married Bridget Cromwell in 1646, he was immediately engaged in active service. He sat in judgment on King Charles, and in 1650 went as commander of the army in Ireland, where he died on 26 Nov., 1651. HENRY GERALD HOPE. 119, Elms Road, Clapham, S.W.

House having been built by the Protector There is no direct evidence of Cromwell for his son-in-law General Ireton; but it is not unlikely. Ireton could, however, have lived but little here. He married Bridget | Cromwell in 1646. He was directly after engaged in active service. On the proclama

6, Elgin Court, W.

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tion of the Commonwealth he was sent to "Quartodecimans," as MR. LYNN says. Ireland, and died there in November, 1651 in ante-Nicene and ante-Gregorian history, (The Environs of London,' by James in the description of the Nicene calendar Thorne, F.S.A., 1876, part i. p. 351). by St. Ambrose, and in the decree of Pope Prickett, in his 'History of Highgate,' 1842, Victor, there is no mention of "Plenip. 76, says less. lunarians" or of the "full moon," but explicit J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL. reference to the "fourteenth day" of the calendar moon. And in Clavius's own work, 'Romani Calendarii a Gregorio XIII.,' which appeared in A.D. 1603 at Rome, a passage occurs which reads in English thus: "The Church, in finding the new moon, and from it the fourteenth day, uses neither the true nor the mean motion of the moon, but measures only according to the order of a cycle." And the motions of Clavius's calendar moon were so arranged as to be in advance of the moon of the heavens. For as the early Christian Church kept the first day of the week (Sunday) as the special day of the new dispensation to mark their dissociation from the Jewish Sabbath (Saturday), similarly their ecclesiastical calendar emphasized a desire for an allied yet different date for Easter from the time of the Jewish Passover. E. WILSON DOBBS.

Neither Nelson, in his 'Antiquities of Islington' (1829), nor Tomlins, in his 'Perambulation' of that district (1858), makes mention of Cromwell House, although both refer, passingly, to the Protector's connexion with that part of North London. The former credited authority (p. 85) remarks:"On the north side of the road at Upper Holloway [which is near the foot of Highgate Hill] are a few ancient houses, which it is probable were formerly inhabited by persons of note; but nothing now remains to point out who have been their original possessors. Tradition reports that Oliver Cromwell resided in one of them (now the Crown public-house)......It does not appear, however, that the Protector ever had a house in this parish, though he in all probability visited the place; for his contemporary and associate, Sir Arthur Hesilrige, had beyond a doubt a dwelling in Islington." HARRY HEMS.

Fair Park, Exeter.

EASTER DAY AND THE FULL MOON (10th S. iii. 281).-While heartily supporting MR. W. T. LYNN with regard to fixing Easter Feast on the second Sunday in April in perpetuum, may I-with all due deference to his exactness generally-note that the rule which refers to the Paschal "full moon" is not strictly correct? The fact is that the Act of Parliament 24 Geo. II. cap. 23, A.D. 1751 (see 'Statutes at Large,' vol. vii. pp. 329-45), while adopting the tables of Clavius, should have set forth "the fourteenth day of the calendar moon," and not "the full moon." And this same mistake it is that persists in the Anglican Church Prayer-Book rules, and must be the cause very often of misconception. Thus we find persons complaining that the ecclesiastical calendar on this, as on other occasions, seems partly to agree with, and yet mainly disagree from, 'The Nautical Almanac.' It is, of course, well known that the fourteenth day of Nisan figures in the Jews' mode of reckoning the date of their Passover; also that the observance thereof at the present time by the Jews on the fourteenth day after the new moon does not appear to be in accordance with the order made for its observance at the time of its institution. But this, as Kipling would say, is another story." In the early Christian Church those who adhered to the Judaizing method of keeping Easter were called

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Toorak, Victoria, Australia.

ADAM'S COMMEMORATIVE PILLARS (10th S. iv. 69).-Sir Thomas Browne, in his 'Religio Medici,' writes as follows:

lost lines of Cicero: others with as many groans "I have heard some with deep sighs lament the deplore the combustion of the Library of Alexandria: for my own part, I think there be too many in the world, and could with patience behold the urn and ashes of the Vatican, could I, with a few would not omit a Copy of Enoch's Pillars, had others, recover the perished leaves of Solomon. I they many nearer authors than Josephus, or did not relish somewhat of the Fable."-Dent's ed., pp. 36-7.

The Jewish historian and antiquary is, therefore, the first narrator of the legend but in a note "condensed from Greenhill we are told that

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Josephus does not mention Enoch, but says the descendants of Seth erected two pillars, on which were engraven all the discoveries then known to mankind."-P. 188. JOHN T. CURRY.

HYSKER OR HESKER (10th S. iv. 69).—The Hysker isles-or rocks, as they are generally called-lie about nine miles west of Rum, and about five south-west of Canna. The larger is about half a mile long, by about one-third of a mile broad; the other is much smaller. The highest point, as marked on the chart, is thirty-four feet. Till recently they were uninhabited, but a lighthouse has lately been erected there by the Northern Lights Commissioners, so that there is now a permanent,

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