Papers,' vol. iv. had ever been published. This I have been unable to ascertain. Dr. Furnivall in his Forewords to his edition of The Anatomy' discusses the question of the author's family, and discredits Wood's account. But it seems difficult to get over the fact that Philip Stubbs, vintner, of St. Andrew's Undershaft, evidently believed that he was of the same family, and apparently told Wood so; and the latter may possibly have used the word 66 descendant "" loosely in the sense of "relative." There are two Philips in the pedigree of the Kentish family (Archæologia Cantiana, vol. xviii. 209) before the vintner's time, but neither looks like the author. 66 to a According to the memoir of Dr. Young prefixed to an edition of his ' Night Thoughts On the title-page, and at the beginning printed in 1807, he possessed both degrees. of the memoir, he is described as LL.D., and further on in the latter it is stated that he D.C.L. in 1719. took the degree of B.C.L. in 1714, and 66 In 1879 I chanced on a bond, dated July, 1586, executed by "Philip Stubbes of Benefield in Northampton, generosus,' Dr. James Dugdale in his 'British Trato "William Stubbes, of Ratcliffe veller' (who was LL.D. himself) gives the in whole of Young's epitaph in Latin, beginning Middlesex, generosus ; it relates messuage in Congleton, Cheshire, which "M. S. Optimi parentes Edwardi Young, LL.D." J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL. Philip grants to William for ever. The author in The Anatomy' [MR. A. R. BAYLEY also thanked for reply.] (Part I.) speaks of knowing a man for a dozen or "WANEY TIMBER (10 S. x. 490).-Waney sixteene yeares togither " in Congleton, simply means defective," from the sb. wane, and this may furnish a possible link between diminution." When the moon is on the the two names. The late Bishop Stubbs wane, it might have been called wany, made some searches in the Congleton records, though this use is not actually recorded. but found nothing to the point. None has been made at Benefield, so far as I am aware. As to any relationship between John Stubbs, Scæva," author of A Discoverie of a Gaping Gulf,' &c., and the author of "The Anatomy,' it is significant that in 1719 Dr. Wolfran Stubbs, grandson of "Scæva," by his will left the reversion of his three manors in Norfolk to the Rev. Philip Stubbs, then Rector of St. James, Garlickhithe, London, who was the eldest surviving son of Philip Stubbs the vintner. Had there been no relationship between the families, it is difficult to account for the testator's making this disposition of his estate. what the connexion was is now unknown. H. STUBBS. 66 Danby, Ballyshannon But The word is duly explained in the right book, viz., in the English Dialect Dictionary,' vol. vi. p. 377. It is only applied to wood or timber, and expresses a certain kind of deficiency. The explanation is given thus : : "Wane, a natural unevenness of the edges of boards. Hence waney, (1) tapering, irregular, having an imperfect edge, gen. used of wood: (2) of wood; having the grain separated by the violence Six illustrative examples are given, which of the wind, partially unsound." should be considered. bundles of faggots, i.e., bundles in which proceeding from the centre of the tree. W. ROBERTS CROW. In the timber trade the definition "waney" implies not quite square in section, v.e. minus the corners. Some round logs have This street is mentioned as one of twentyBANDY LEG WALK (10 S. x. 390, 438).-nine principal thoroughfares contained in The following instance is earlier than those given at the second reference :: "Bandy leg walk, in Maid lane, Southwork, near Gravel lane." A New View of London,' 1708 (by Hatton), p. 4. : In the same book (p. 34) is the following:"Gravel lane in Southwork, betn the Upper ground (near the Falcon Stairs) Nly, and Dirty lane by St. George's fields Sly, and from P. C. [St. Paul's Cathedral Sd, 800 Yds. In Mason and Payne's reprint of a map called A Survey of London, made in the Year 1745,' Bandy Leg Walk extends further south than does the present Guilford Street, i.e., as far as Mint Street. Is the suggestion too fanciful that Bandy Leg Lane was so called because it and that part of Gravel Lane south of Maid Lane (Maiden Lane in the 1745 map) are shaped like a pair of bandy legs, or that Bandy Leg Lane alone took its name from its bent shape? At their north ends they are about 165 yards apart; at Duke Street (now, I think, Union Street) about 350; and at their south ends they approach each other pretty closely, their curves being about equal. ROBERT PIERPOINT. Strype's edition of Stow's 'Survey,' vol. ii. p. 28 (6th ed.), under the heading of St. Saviour's, Southwark, describes Maiden Bridge Ward Without, in Don Manoel Gonzales's account of London in his 'Voyage Harleian collection in 1745. The account to Great Britain,' and first printed in the seems mainly to relate to a period before 1724. Stoney Street, Deadman's Place, Gravel Lane, Dirty Lane, Crucifix Lane, Five-Foot Lane, and Long Lane are some of the other streets mentioned. W. P. D. S. Great Western stations, where they are of whistles from the enginemen. Most gauge locomotives to be seen at the principal companies supplied them with a pilot cloak and goggles, as they ran serious risks of being blinded by the sparks and pieces of coke emitted by the engine-fiery particles which also constantly set fire to the passengers' luggage carried on the roofs of the vehicles. On freight trains in the United States it is a regular custom for guards to be stationed on the roofs of covered luggage wagons; but, although I have seen them perched in that apparently perilous position hundreds of times, I have never noticed any wearing masks or goggles such as ST. SWITHIN mentions. HARRY HEMS. Fair Park, Exeter. The next refinement was to provide brake-vans for storing the luggage, and to make the guard ride inside. In order that he might still keep a look-out along the top of the train, the roof of those vans was furnished with a raised glass-hutch. At the time of writing, the fusion of the London and North-Western and North London Railways is announced. An interesting feature of the North London trains consists of the retention of the raised guard's look-outs of olden days, which are seldom to be met with now on any other railway. The Great Western was one of the first railway companies (if not the first) to introduce regular brake-vans. In October, 1847, however, in consequence of the great speed of the broad-gauge express trains, the directors considered an additional precaution necessary, so an iron box was provided at the end of the engine tender for a "travelling carriage porter," whose duty was to keep a steady That test had promptly the desired effect. and vigilant look-out on both sides and along the top of the train, so that in case of any accident to any of the carriages, or of any signal from the guards or passengers, or any apparently sufficient cause that might come to his observation, he could at once communicate with the engineman, and, if necessary, stop the train. "SHIBBOLETH (10 S. x. 408).-Another historical instance is the legend that some authors on Frisian history attach to the defeat of the army of William IV., Count of Holland, Sealand, Hengau, &c., near Stavoren (1345). The Frisians, aware of the difficulty a Hollander had in speaking their language, compelled all who were escaping to pronounce their own sentence by speaking the following lines :- Of course, the lot of the "travelling porter," seated in a snug shelter, with his back to the engine, and deriving a certain amount of warmth from the proximity of the engine, was far happier than that of the guard aloft.' The narrow-gauge exponents, however, at once claimed this innovation on the part of the Great Western Railway as a confession of weakness regarding the safety of the broad-gauge trains, while they refused to own that the Man in the Iron Coffin," as they nicknamed him, was better protected than the wretched guard perched on the top of the carriage on the narrow-gauge trains. The " travelling porters," who were picked men, and who received 25s. a week, were not withdrawn until many years later, when an efficient system of communication between the guards and the enginemen had been evolved. The beautiful models of broad Butter, bry, yn greane tchease Amsterdam. A. M. CRAMER. CHARLES CROCKER, POET (10 S. x. 489).— According to the autobiographical details in the preface to the first edition of his poems, Charles Crocker was born in Chichester on 22 June, 1797. I have been told that his parents were then living in the street called Little London, in the parish of St. Andrew. He was educated, he says, at the Grey Coat School, of which there is now no trace, but of which Hay (Hist. of Chichester,' p. 392) says: There is also a charity school, for cloathing and educating twenty-two poor boys, whose uniform is grey; and twenty-two poor girls in blue." was Crocker was apprenticed to a shoemaker, and worked as such for many years. He was for a time employed by Mason, the printer and publisher. In 1845 he appointed sexton of the Cathedral, and subsequently received in addition the office of Bishop's verger, a capacity in which I knew him well. He was twice married. His daughter by his first wife married a greengrocer named Benford, who subsequently settled down as a publican at Compton. By his second wife he had a daughter Mary, who died unmarried, and 8 son Charles W. Crocker, whom I also knew well. This son, who was a botanist, had been employed at Kew; but, his health breaking down, he came back to Chichester, and succeeded his father as sexton of the Cathedral. He was, I think, consumptive, and he died in 1868. I do not remember much about his family, but know that he had a daughter who married her cousin Benford, son of the elder daughter, mentioned above. They are living in London now. Of course Crocker's poems are of varying merit, and many different opinions have been passed on them. It has always been reported that Southey declared that 'The Sonnet to the British Oak' contained one of the finest ideas in such poetry, viz., that the Druids worshipped the oak from a prophetic knowledge of the part it was to play in the making of British naval supremacy. I do not know whether F. K. P. is speaking sarcastically when he calls Crocker of equal merit with "the Silkworm Hayley of Peter Pindar. The poem alluded to, The Ode to Kingley Vale,' whatever its merits, has had what I consider a disastrous effect upon the nomenclature of that wonderfully beautiful coombe of the South Downs. Up to the publication of that poem it was always known as "Kingley Bottom," but after that it was considered more genteel to adopt the poet's name. The fact that it was not a vale or valley at all, and that it was a true Sussex "bottom," had no effect whatever, and now only a few know the place by its true name. The first edition of Crocker's collected poems was published in 1830, the second in 1834, and the last in 1860, one year before his death. E. E. STREET. In the Sussex Collection of the Brighton Public Library is a volume of Crocker's poems, entitled The Vale of Obscurity, the Lavant, and other Poems,' Chichester, 1830. In February, 1861, the spire of Chichester Cathedral fell, and Mark Antony Lower's ⚫ Worthies of Sussex,' 1865, says that “the fall of Chichester spire killed but one man, and that man was Charles Crocker." He died on 6 Oct., 1861, at Chichester, and was buried in the Subdeanery Churchyard of that city. The two books I have quoted may be seen in the Reference Department A. CECIL PIPER. here. Brighton Public Library. SCOTTISH IS AND -ES IN PROPER NAMES (10 S. x. 486).—-Regarding the name Forbes a word may be added to what is said at the 37 Scarce had lamented Forbes paid The tribute to the Minstrel's shade; The tale of friendship scarce was told Ere the narrator's heart was cold. In certain districts of the country this was the only pronunciation heard till well into the second half of the nineteenth century. Schoolmates of my own, afterwards distinguished in the army and in commerce, were all "For-bes" to their fellows, and are still such when reference is made to them. One of my teachers—an engaging humorist of curiously diversified interests- -was fond of contributing conundrums as well as other matter to the local newspaper, and sometimes tried the effects of his ingenuity in the classroom before committing himself to the press. One experiment he placed on the blackboard was this: Capt. BBBB went with his CCCC to dig pot ooo00000.' He chuckled deliciously when no pupil ventured to interpret the mystery, and he found it necessary to explain that it meant 66 Capt. Forbes went with his forces to dig potatoes." This was in the sixties, when one would not have risked sounding the profundity of a pedagogue. Since then it has become fashionable with the upper and educated classes to make Forbes monosyllabic. I have friends now who would keenly resent the older method of pro nouncing their name. THOMAS BAYNE. LORD BEACONSFIELD AND THE PRIMROSE (10 S. x. 486).—In 7 S. v. 146 there is another reference to Lord Beaconsfield's novels and the primrose, namely, that in 'Lothair' it is said that this flower makes a capital salad. Lady Dorothy Nevill's book of reminiscences p. 210, deals with the subject, and her ladyship admits that she had not heard Disraeli express any partiality for the primrose, and goes on to relate :— "As a matter of fact, I believe that Queen Victoria at the proper season sent Lord Beaconsfield primroses from the slopes at Windsor, and it is probable that, having expressed to some one his warm appreciation of those flowers, it was in consequence assumed that the great statesman had a strong partiality for the primrose." This to some extent confirms the story told at 7 S. v. 146 as to the flower being the favourite, not of Lord Beaconsfield, but of the Prince Consort, and that when the Queen flower on the wreath sent on the occasion of Lord Beaconsfield's funeral, Her Majesty had in mind her own great loss. R. J. FYNMORE. Sandgate. [G. W. E. R. also thanked for reply.] E. F. HOLT, PAINTER (10 S. x. 489). In 1907, when looking through some old prints and paintings, I came across a painting dated July, 1857. I bought it, and still possess it. On examining it I saw follows in the corner of the painting: Misleading. E. F. Holt. July, 1857. 3 Slone Str., S.W." as The picture shows a young girl standing by her father's side, listening to what he has to say, while the father is laughing at her. C. GRANT. 19, Blackfriars Road, S.E. [Mr. Algernon Graves in his Royal Academy of Arts' gives Holt's address as 34, Sloane Street when he exhibited at the R.A. in 1855, but as 1. Alma Road, Croydon, for the picture shown in 1857. Perhaps the address and date on our correspondent's picture are somewhat indistinct.] GAINSBOROUGH'S WIFE (10 S. x. 509).— Has J. G. referred to Mr. Cosmo Monkhouse's article in the 'D.N.B.,' xx. 362 ? A. R. BAYLEY. ISABELLA LICKBARROW (10 S. x. 403).— She wrote "A Lament on the Death of H.R.H. Princess Charlotte Augusta. To which is added Alfred, a Vision," Liverpool, printed by Harris's Widow & Brothers, and published in 1818 at 2s. 6d. R. S. B. "LOVE-A-LA-MODE' (10 S. X. 490).This is described in The Poetical Register,' 1723, as having been "writ by a person of honour, and acted with applause.' D. E. Baker, in his Biographia Dramatica,' observes that "it might possibly be known who this writer was, by tracing back the alliances of the Colbrand family, as the first of three recommendatory copies of verses prefixed to this play is subscribed R. Colbrand, Baronet, and directed to his honoured brother the author, who by the letters signed to the preface appears to have been his brother-in-law, or half-brother. -Vol. ii. p. 194. J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL. ROMAN LAW (10 S. x. 469). See the Institutes' of Justinian, Lib. I. cap. i. § 3: "Juris præcepta sunt hæc honeste vivere, alterum non lædere, suum cuique tribuere "; and the references to Cicero and others given under “Suum cuique" in Büchmann's Geflügelte Worte.' EDWARD BENSLY. Aberystwyth Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, &c. The Story of a Lifetime. By Lady Priestley. (Kegan Paul & Co.) LADY PRIESTLEY originally wrote her 'Story' for her children only, and for five years it remained among books printed for private circulation. She has now been persuaded to issue the work for the public, and we cordially congratulate her on having done so, although we can well understand her hesitation in placing so much that must be almost sacred to her in the hands of an outside world, for this story reveals her home life with all its joys and sorrows, and that home was from first to last an abode of peace and love, the only sorrows that came to it being those caused by sickness and death. Lady Priestley wrote this book in the solitude of her library, "a refuge in time of trouble, a retreat after a full and active life, a sanctuary." She is a daughter of Robert Chambers, and some reminiscences of him are given. It is difficult to recognize the staid Robert Chambers as we knew him in the early sixties with the accounts he wrote to his wife 1847, at Fingask, in the house of his friends the of the goings-on in which he took part in December, Thrieplands "We carry on very merrily. Last night there was High Jinks' of the most extraordinary character. What would you think of a whole night of singing, dancing, and capering in all sorts of dresses, ending at about one in the morning with three or four of them, including Lord M., roaring out the chorus of 'It's no use knocking at the door' at the top of their voices?...... The whole made good the saying that men are only overgrown laddies, or, as Dryden puts it, Men are but children of a larger growth. This morning I don't know how we are all to face each other. There was a locking of the doors at last to make the ladies submit to an accolade before escaping, but they picked Lord Charles's pocket of the key of the back door and stole away. It was shortly before this that 'The Vestiges of Creation' "fell like a bomb among the Darwinites of the future." Great was the mystery as to its author, and many precautions were taken that his identity should not be known; but there was no doubt about it in literary circles, and at an early period it was well known to ourselves. Lady Priestley's first school had for its master Dr. Graham. Boys and girls were taught together, being divided by a screen "not so tall that we could not tilt ourselves up to see the boys getting palmies." One of the boys in the school was William Playfair. Dancing lessons the young girl took at home; the dancing master "wore tights, played the fiddle as he danced, and rejoiced in a green wig from which we could never take our eyes." About this time (January, 1839) De Quincey spent many Sundays at her father's house, but had to rush back to get into Sanctuary before twelve o'clock, after which hour he could be arrested." we girls gave the balls, and our mother the There were "delightful" Edinburgh days when dinner-parties." One of these was "purely and simply a Scotch dinner" in honour of George Outram, editor of The Glasgow Herald. It is to be |