But it would require a whole book to give even a brief account of the transformation of geographical nomenclature in Greece brought about by foreign conquest. J. GENNADIUS. "PSYCHOLOGICAL MOMENT (10 S. x. 488).—I have a dim notion that this phrase was first used by Bismarck, towards the end of his career, and soon transplanted into English journalese. I have always understood it to mean that a thing is said or done just when it fits in with some prevailing idea of the moment. "Happy thought! conveys the same meaning in fewer letters. G. W. E. R. I believe this phrase is French in origin, and that it has been discussed recently in the Intermédiaire. But the last table générale that I have is of 1897, and shows only two entries (xv. 199, 304 [1882]) under this head. Q. V. of London, left money (inter alia) for a sermon to be preached in Christ Church yearly on 17 November, and for a dinner on that day for those Governors of the Hospital who had been at the hearing of the sermon. The sermon is still preached, but the dinner has been discontinued since the old order of things at the Hospital yielded place to the new; but the Amicable Society, as the repository of the old traditions of the house, unwilling to let die the festive observtogether annually on their own account, and ance of the day, resolved in 1896 to dine at their own expense, on Queen Elizabeth's and Barnes's Day. The many good deeds of Barnes are on record in the chronicles both of Christ's Hospital and of the Society. A. W. LOCKHART, F.R.Hist.S. Hon. Sec. Amicable Society of Blues.. Christ's Hospital, Horsham. To the instances of bell-ringing on Queen. WILLIAM BLACKBOROUGH, MILTON'S Elizabeth's Day may be added an exRELATIVE (10 S. x. 488).-William Black-tract from the churchwardens' accounts at borough and John Milton, father of the poet, married two ladies who were first cousins. Richard Jefferye of East Hanningfield, Essex, had a daughter Hester, who married William Blackborow by licence at St. Peter's, Cornhill, on Tuesday, 19 Feb., 1618/19. Paul Jefferye of St Swithin's, London, Merchant Taylor, brother of Richard Jefferye, had a daughter Sarah, who married John Milton, father of the poet, in 1600. MR. MCMURRAY will find particulars in Milton notes published in The Athenæum of 13 March, 1880, and subsequent numbers. R. C. BOSTOCK. QUEEN ELIZABETH'S DAY, 17 NOVEMBER (10 S. x. 381, 431, 477).-The Amicable Society of Blues, the oldest of the Old Boys' Associations connected with Christ's Hospital, also observes the date of the accession of "that bright Occidental Star, Queen Elizabeth of most happy memory,' as she was called by the translators of the Authorized Version in their address to King James I. The Society claims to have been originated in connexion with a meeting for thanksgiving and festivity held by former scholars of Christ's Hospital on 15 Sept., 1629. The thanksgiving was in Christ Church, Newgate Street; the festivity in the Great Hall of the Hospital. Under his will, dated in August, 1663, Thomas Barnes, citizen and Haberdasher Repton : "Geven to the Rynggars of the coronation day, iis. iiijd.”—Journal of the Derbyshire Archæological and Natural History Society, I. 30. At p. 34 is a reference to Archbishop Grindal's form of prayer with thanksgiving to beused on the day. AYEAHR. 66 OLD KING COLE" (10 S. x. 510).-MISS MOOYAART is not learned in King Cole,' or she would not describe "the final verse A of an immortal poem that has no end. great Lord Justice, now retired, was famed, in the year preceding his brilliant mathematical degree as Senior Wrangler, for having sung without mistake, except that wilful error which confuses the prayer of the parson with the oaths of the sailor, more verses of King Cole' by far than the highest amount previously attained. There is no limit except the ingenuity of invention and the perfection of memory bestowed by nature on the singer. The tradesomitted by Miss MoOYAART are the most interesting, except indeed those "fiddlers (pronounced "fiddl-ee-ers ") who stand first. Next to these favourites are the Drummee-ers and the coachmen; the parsons. and the sailors being a little high-flavoured for general society, although in no way truly shocking. As for the music, there is but one tune. It is chiefly on one note: almost entirely on two; and to write it down in notation (such as perhaps Gounod alone could have accomplished) would hardly, 66 Matthew Arnold, 'A Southern Night,' st. 18. I am glad to see the French version of ""Tis Love, 'tis love," &c., referred to (10 S. x. 368, 497), as I think this must be the original. As far as I can remember its burden from hearing it in the sixties, it was something as follows, but I cannot be sure that this is correct : C'est l'Amour, l'Amour, l'Amour, The tune was the same as that used for the -of J. FOSTER PALMER. 8, Royal Avenue, S. W. 'Tis Love, 'tis Love, that makes the world go round Surely this is quoted in 'Alice,' either in Wonderland, or through the Looking-Glass. G. W. E. R. The lines sought by K. P. D. E. (10 S. x. 468), 6 The Periodical for September, 1908, p. 268, has the following note :— "Mr. Frowde has become joint publisher to the Early English Text Society, which is including in its extra series The Promptorium Parvulorum,' edited from the manuscript in the Chapter Library the first English-Latin Dictionary, c. 1440 A.D., at Winchester, with introduction, notes, and glossaries, by A. L. Mayhew, M.A." The December issue notes the publication of the book by the Oxford Press at a guinea net. It will be seen that a different manuscript has been selected for editing, the Camden Society's issue having been edited from the Harleian MSS., with readings from other MSS. ROLAND AUSTIN. Gloucester Public Library. [MR. W. R. B. PRIDEAUX and Q. V. also thanked for replies.] ITALIAN GENEALOGY (10 S. x. 449).— There is no Italian equivalent to Burke or Debrett in the sense of being exhaustive as regards all existing titles. An Annuario della Nobiltà Italiana' has been published annually at Pisa since 1879; and there is Count Litta's Celebri Famiglie Italiane,' 11 vols., Milan and Turin, 1819-99, the Second Series of which (Turin, 1902) is now in progress. RUVIGNY. The issue of There is a little book published year by year called Annuario della Nobiltà Italiana,' Bari, Direzione del Giornale Araldico e dell' Annuario della Nobiltà Italiana,' Via Piccinni, 115. 1893, which I have before me, was the fifteenth. I bought it at Hoepli's in Milan in 1893, price, I think, 10 lire or about. Fronting the title-page is a portrait of the founder of the book, viz., Comm. G. B. di Crollalanza, who died at Pisa 8 March, 1892. His son Goffredo di Crollalanza, with the same address at Bari, was responsible for the 1893 Annuario.' There is not much of old genealogy in the book, but probably the direttore could give the information asked for. ROBERT PIERPOINT. Two men look out through the same bars : One sees the mud, and one the stars, -occur in a little book called A Cluster of Quiet Thoughts,' published by the Religious Tract Society. They were written by the Rev. Frederick Langbridge, a clergyman of the Irish Episcopal Church, residing, I believe, at Limerick. W. S-R. For Neapolitan aristocracy consult C. THE PROMPTORIUM' (10 S. x. 488). Padiglione's 'La Nobiltà Napoletana,' The E.E.T.S. has lately issued this volume Napoli, 1880, also Discorsi delle Famiglie (No. CII. of its Extra Series), edited by Nobili del Regno di Napoli,' by Carlo de the Rev. A. L. Mayhew, and published, as Sellis, 4 vols., Napoli, 1654-1701. Both the usual, by Messrs. Kegan Paul & Co. It is foregoing are to be found in the B.M. not a reprint of Way's edition, the text being from the Sylkestede MS. of Winchester Cathedral, with about two hundred pages of valuable philological notes by the editor. H. P. L. For a tolerably full bibliography of books and manuscripts on Neapolitan families see Gatfield's Guide to Heraldry and Genealogy,' 1892, pp. 595-6. A. L. HUMPHREYS. 187, Piccadilly, W. An alphabetical catalogue of some principal families in Naples will be found at p. 624 of the second edition of Royal Genealogies; or, The Genealogical Tables of Emperors, Kings, and Princes from Adam to these Times,' by James Anderson, D.D., London, 1738. The catalogue has references to tables in the same work giving pedigrees of some of the families. Genealogical accounts and pedigrees of some Neapolitan families will also be found in Genealogiæ in Italia,' by Jacob William Imhoff, Amsterdam, 1710. WILLOUGHBY A. LITTLEDALE. [MR. W. ROBERTS also refers to the Annuario.'] TOLSEY AT GLOUCESTER (10 S. x. 469).— In the Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archæological Society, vol. xix. pp. 142-58, will be found an excellent account of the Gloucester Tolsey by Mr. M. H. Medland, illustrated by photographs and drawings. An account of the remains of All Saints' Church is also given, with drawings. The Gloucester Journal of 13 Aug. and 15 Oct., 1892, gives an interesting account of the Tolsey. ROLAND AUSTIN. Public Library, Gloucester. 6 on the In Lewis's Topographical Dictionary it is stated that the Tolsey stands site of a church dedicated to All Saints," at the angle formed by Westgate and Southgate Streets, and that it was erected for the transaction of the municipal affairs of the city in pursuance of an Act of Parliament passed in 23 George II. Dr. James Dugdale in his 'British Traveller' says that “ Tholsey is an appellation supposed to have been derived from the toll which was received in it, by the lords of the manor, from the fairs and market." The building had at that time (ie., the beginning of last century) been altered since its erection, about the latter end of the reign of George II." 66 J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL. [MR. HARRY HEMS also refers to Lewis.] BILLY BUTLER THE HUNTING PARSON (10 S. x. 310, 395, 453).-As this worthy's ancestry appears to be unknown I give a few facts. native island, and in his will, dated at Camberwell, 27 July, 1739, proved 4 June, 1744 (138 Anstis), names (besides four daus.) his four sons :— 1. Thomas, who m. and had a dau. Susan, a minor in 1739. 2. John, of Nevis, merchant (dead_1772), who m. Frances, dau. and coh. of Francis Saunders, planter (pre-nuptial settlement dated 29 Jan., 1746), and had an only s. and h. Thomas, of Greenwich in 1772. 3. James, d. 1770, aged 48, M.I. at Okeford Fitzpain, Dorset (284 Trevor). 4. Rev. Duke, Rector of Okeford Fitzpain, who was father of Billie Butler and others. The arms on the Dorset monument are: Or, a chief indented sa., three covered cups of the first. There were many Butlers in the West Indies, and Major Wm. Butler, Speaker of Nevis in 1697, was not apparently related to Capt. Thos. Butler of 1687. V. L. OLIVER. CAROLINE AS A MASCULINE NAME (10 S. x. 450).-Col. Caroline Scott entered the service of the Hon. East India Company after the rendition of Fort St. George by the French, 1749. He belonged to H.M.'s 29th Regiment, and was A.D.C. to H.R.H. the Duke of He was specially employed by the Company as a military engineer to strengthen and complete the defence works of the fort. His Christian name has frequently been noticed, but always with an expression of surprise, as if it were unusual. FRANK PENNY. Cumberland. 66 "CARDINAL" OF ST. PAUL'S (10 S. x. 85, 173, 235, 273).-A deed of 1393 on the Husting Rolls of London (R. 122, memb. 7, dors. 53) makes mention of Martin Elys and John Lynton as cardinals of the cathedral. Neither of these clerics is named by Hennessy in his succession of the cardinals before alluded to. He, however, includes Elys in his list of unplaced minor canons, and tells us that he was Rector of St. Faith's and Vicar of St. Giles, Cripplegate; while Lynton is doubtless one with the John de Lynton who was Chamberlain and Minor Canon of St. Paul's, and Rector of St. Dunstan-in-theEast and of St. Vedast, Foster Lane, &c., about the same period. WILLIAM MCMURRAY. MITRED ABBOTS AND PRIORS (10 S. x. 410, 455).-In 'Rites of Durham,' ch. XXV., we read that Robert Berrington of Walworth, Prior 1374-91, first obtained the use of the mitre with the crutch or staff. The primary authorities for this are William de Chambre in Scriptores Tres,' 136, and documents there referred to. Durham. J. T. F. R. B. has omitted Chertsey. The abbots, though mitred and having large possessions, do not appear to have been called to sit in Parliament, although some histories say so. F. TURNER. LE BLON MEZZOS IN FOUR COLOURS (10 S. x. 450). Surely MR. HAYES is wrong in suggesting that these are printed in red, blue, green, and yellow. The fact is that Le Blon, alone of the colour-printers of the eighteenth century, recognized that with the three primary colours any tints could be produced. The green in the plates mentioned is without doubt composed of the blue and yellow impressions. MR. HAYES asks further what the discoveries of the last three hundred years amounted to." I think he must recognize that in the application of photography to illustration, and in its combination with the modern scientific three-colour process, a degree of accuracy is obtained which is far beyond anything that could have been produced in the eighteenth century. I may add that a full and accurate account of Le Blon's work may be found in No. 2 of a series of articles entitled 'Some Notes on the History of Printing in Colours,' which appeared in The British and Colonial Printer for 2 July, 1903. R. A. PEDDIE. St. Bride Foundation, Bride Lane, E.C. BISHOP SAMPSON OF LICHFIELD (10 S. x. 429).-Though I cannot tell MR. PIGOTT the parentage of the Bishop, I would suggest that his birthplace was at or near Pattingham, co. Staff., for his brother William married at that place, 28 July, 1577, Joane, daughter of Walter Northwood, and widow of Thomas Hardwycke, to whom she was married in 1533. Both these were of PattingEGLANTINE. ham. BELL CUSTOMS AT SIBSON, LEICESTERSHIRE (10 S. x. 430). The evening Angelus or Curfew bell was rung at Baldock from March to October at 8 P.M., but at Hitchin it was rung at the same time from September to March. Both these, and that at Sibson, are probably survivals of pre-Reformation days when the canonical hours were observed, the bells being rung by clerics in minor orders. The alteration to an earlier hour on Saturdays may be a later innovation for some special local reason. The Matins bell was rung at 7 A.M. at Much Hadham, St. Stephens, St. Albans,. Tring, and Watford; while not fewer than thirty-three churches in Herts had the bell rung one hour later. Mr. North ('Church Bells of Hertfordshire,' 1886) suggests that this 8 o'clock "Sermon bell" (as it is locally known) originated in the days of Elizabeth, when for a time many churches were served by Readers," who were strictly forbidden to preach, and this early bell announced a sermon by a priest licensed by the bishop of the diocese. 66 It seems more probable that it is a survival of days when the morning service was held at an earlier hour. Our forefathers were more robust, and to a man who habitually rose at 4 or 5 A.M. the Church's service at the hours named was quite fit and proper. W. B. GERISH. Bishop's Stortford. PALL MALL, No. 93 (10 S. x. 425).-The sale of William Upcott's library and collections was conducted by Messrs. Sotheby_at "the rooms of Messrs. Evans, 106, New Bond Street," not 93, Pall Mall. Had not Evans left the latter address before 1846 ? The sale was transferred to Messrs. Sotheby because they had been specifically named by Upcott in his will, dated 25 Aug., 1832 : "The rest of my printed books, books of prints, and cabinets of coins and medals I desire may be publicly sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby & Sons in Wellington Street.” There was excellent reason for this instruction. During 1819-20, when he was assistant to R. H. Evans, then at 26, Pall Mall, his diary constantly refers to the supposed hardships he suffered and the bad business principles of his employer. This bitterness evidently lasted until his death, although he was under some obligation to Evans when he obtained a position at the London Institution. R. H. Evans came to 93, Pall Mall between 1821 and 1822, and was there until 1839 or a few years later. The 'Street Directory' of 1817 (Johnstone's) gives "G. Wagner & Co., hat manufacturers," as the then occupiers. ALECK ABRAHAMS. SAMUEL FOOTE, COMEDIAN (10 S. x. 109; 455).—MR. ROBERTS states that Samuel Foote, the dramatist, was buried in the Cloisters of Westminster Abbey in 1777. "The Annual Register' for 1777 makes the same statement, but in Ireland's History of Kent,' referring to St. Mary's Dover, the author says :- "Amongst the numerous monumental records is an inscription, painted on a black board, placed at a great height, near the east end of the middle aisle of this church, in memory of the British Aristophanes, Samuel Foote, who died at The Ship Tavern' in this town, on his way to France (whither he was going for the recovery of his health), and was here buried." The above was published in 1829. The black board with its inscription is not now in St. Mary's Church, having probably been removed in the rebuilding of 1843; but at the west end of the south aisle, affixed in the wall, is a large plain stone with this inscription : Sacred to the memory of Samuel Foote, Esq., He departed this life Oct. 21, 1777 (on his journey The wall in which this stone is fixed was erected at the rebuilding of 1843. 46 Dover. JOHN BAVINGTON JONES. 66 PARCEL POST IN 1790 (10 S. x. 450).It is evident from quotations in the 'N.E.D.' that formerly there was a parcel post in existence early in the eighteenth century. The passage in 'The Adventuress' is "Jack Spavin bolted an old apple-woman into the parcel-post at Cripplegate," and the context shows it was the act of a reckless horseman, who in his wild career frightened an old woman, and caused her to seek shelter in an enclosed place, here called a parcelpost." 66 66 Under post," 5, the 'N.E.D.' gives a quotation from Chamberlayne's Present State of England,' iii. (ed. 22), 444, in 1707 : "There is establish'd another Post, called the Penny-Post, whereby......any Letter or Parcel...... is......conveyed to, and from Parts......not conveniently served by the General-Post." : Then under " parcel," 7, there is a quotation These two quotations show that there was RATTLESNAKE COLONEL: CATGUT RUFFLES (10 S. x. 189). The expression a Rattlesnake Colonel" is singular, and the present writer is unable to suggest its meaning or origin. Though MR. MALLESON fails to mention where Mrs. Browne met Col. Crisop," yet a guess may be hazarded as to his identity. He was doubtless Col. Thomas Cresap, who, born in Yorkshire, emigrated before 1737 to America, became a noted man, was a friend of Washington, and died at the advanced age of 106. There are constant allusions to him during the war with the French that took place while Mrs. Browne was in America. He was Upton. 66 road-hog" AYEAHR. A parcel post was established in London as far back as April, 1680, but was discontinued in 1765. (The first use of postmarks was made also in 1680 by Dockwra.) For further details consult Joyce's History of the Post Office from its Establishment down to 1836' (London, 1893), chaps. v. and xi. R. B. |