left his property to that charity. The property had all to be sold and divided between his sister and St. George's Hospital, and the governors bought the family portraits, in number about a dozen. Among them is this picture. Sir Thomas Apreece was seventh in descent from Robert Ap Rhese of Washingly, co. Huntingdon, who died in 1621, having married a daughter and co-heiress of Robert Wilford, of London: from which marriage, I suppose, came this picture. The Apreece family were settled at Washingly for a considerable period, and in their pedigree probably may be found some account of the Wilford family. The secretary will have much pleasure in showing G. W. M. the pictures.

HERDER (4th S. ii. 323.)—

C. H.

which lines I find in Charles Aleyn's Historie of that Wise and Fortunate Prince Henrie of that name the Seventh (p. 136). My copy of Aleyn is dated 1638.

Whilst it is quite true that the proverb in prose was well known long before Defoe's timee. g. in George Herbert's Jacula Prudentum is the following:-"No sooner is a temple built to God but the Devil builds a chapel hard by." The above lines of Aleyn make it evident that Richardson was wrong in believing that Defoe was the first who put it into verse.

I called attention to this apparent plagiarism in your 3rd S. vi. 337. A. B. MIDDLETON.

The Close, Salisbury.

NOBLE OF EDWARD III. (4th S. ii. 105, 140,

The reference is not to any passage in Eschylus, but to a saying of that poet, recorded by Athenæus, viii. 347 e, § 39 ad fin. (ed. Dindorf), and which I give below:

Αἰσχύλος . . . τὰς αὐτοῦ τραγῳδίας τεμάχη είναι ἔλεγε τῶν ̔Ομήρου μεγάλων δείπνων.

P. J. F. GANTILLON. [We have to thank PHILOLOGUS and several other correspondents for replying to this query.-ED.]

DANIEL DEFOE A PLAGIARIST (4th S. ii. 284.) Although no charge can be established against Defoe as regards Dr. Dove, I fear he must be found guilty of plagiarism notwithstanding. There is surely something more than mere coincidence between the celebrated couplet of Defoe

"Wherever God erects a house of prayer,
The Devil always builds a chapel there,"

and the following lines:

"It is the Divel's policy that where

God hath his church, his chappell should be there,"

His

of which exhibits the king standing in a onemasted vessel, the sail brailed up (as sailors say), and there are four ropes, three and one. drawn sword is in his right hand; the shield is France and England quarterly ; four fleurs-de-lys in the 1st quarter, and only three in the 4th. DI . EDWARD Legend: GRA. REX ET. FRANC. DNS. HYB. ET. AQUIT." verse shows a beautifully ornamented cross-flory, having a lion passant and open crown in each angle, and a fleur-de-lys opposite each limb of the cross. Legend: "I.H.C.: AUTEM: TRANSIENS: PER: MEDIUM: ILLORUM: IBAT." The letter "E" is in the centre of the cross.

ANGL. The re

From its resemblance to his effigy on his great seal, I have always imagined that the king represented was Edward I. Was not he "Lord of Aquitaine" in right of his queen Eleanor? Absence from books of reference must be my excuse for want of knowledge on these points. This coin is one of those discovered in Glasgow cathedral about twenty-five years ago by the workmen engaged in its repair, and narrowly escaped the melting-pot. ANGLO-SCOTUS.

HANNAH LIGHtfoot and George Rex (3rd S. xi. 110.) — It was the settled etiquette of the French court that the king's mistress must be a married woman. Therefore the Comte du Barry was hired to marry Jeanne L'Ange. Did this etiquette hold in the English court? Certainly George II. affected Mrs. Howard, and Prince Frederick patronised Lady Middlesex. This might account for the marriage of Hannah Lightfoot with Axford, and their immediate separation.

Again, let us suppose that the young prince was himself married to a Quakeress, it might be a morganatic marriage only. The king undoubtedly was inclined to favour the Lutheran religion, which alone recognises such marriages. (Vide Jesse's George III. iii. 416.)

When the Duke of Edinburgh went sporting in the Cape Colony he was attended by George Rex

side of a river or streamlet," I am inclined to think it is derived from the same source as the Cornish hal, "a salt marsh, a moor"; Welsh hal, Armoric hal. Penhallow, Penhale, and Penhillick, are the names of places in Cornwall.

The eastern boundary of what is termed "The Land's End District" is formed by a small stream called Hayle; and Mousehole (spelt Mosal in 1392 and 1419), an ancient fishing village bordering on the western shore of Mount's Bay, through which a little brook runs, is said by some Cornish antiquaries to signify "the maid's river," from moz, a maid, and heyle, a river. Possibly the Cornish heligen, Welsh helygen, and Armoric halegen, a willow, are partly from the same root. Heligan, in Cornwall, meaning "a place of willows," is the seat of T. H. Tremayne, Esq.

See Taylor's Words and Places (p. 392) for an W. N. account of the Keltic word hal.

There is a piece of low land in Tottenham, between the High Cross and the railway station, called Tottenham Hale, or more commonly "The Hale."

The O.-E. hale, usually explained as a hollow, occurs in the "Owl and Nightingale" (Percy Society):

"Ich was in one Sumere dale,

In one sube dizele hale."

The Rev. O. Cockayne (in Spoon and Sparrow") points out that the original meaning is found in A.-S. hal, a hiding-place; hence a recess, corner, den, cave, hollow. The root is A.-S. helan, to hide; whence O.-E. holsten, a hidingplace. R. M. QUOTATIONS: "THOUGHTS UPON THOUGHTS" (3rd S. iii. 408.)-" Mento canescant," etc.:"Mento canescant alii; nos mente: capillo;

Nos animo: facie; nos pectore. Tempora certe
Virtutem non prima negant, non ultima donant.
Quod duplex ætas varios contendat in usus,
Hæc viget; illa jacet: hæc pullulat; illa fatiscit."
Josephus Iscanius De Bello Trojano, i. 19–23,
ed. Valpy, London, 1825.

E. N. The passage about which Q. H. F. inquires (suprà, 203) is in Troilus and Cressida, Act I. Sc. 3. P. J. F. GANTILLON. "HOGEN MOGEN," OR "HOGAN MOGAN" (4th S. ii. 300.)-This term occurs in Sir Walter Scott's Peveril of the Peak, in a conversation between Ganlesse and Smith:

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'Ay, Will,' answered Ganlesse, carelessly; I think I have seen thee wave thy whinyard at the throat of a Hogan-Mogan -a Netherlandish weasand, which expanded only on thy natural and mortal objects of aversion-Dutch cheese, rye bread, pickled herring, onions,

and Geneva.'

LUMEN.

LORD FOLKYNGHAM (4th S. ii. 323.)—The manor of Folkingham, co. Lincoln, was granted by Ed

ward II. in 1307 to Henry de Beaumont, who was created Baron Beaumont of Folkingham. The barony was held by his descendants, and became extinct upon the death of William Viscount Beaumont, the lord of the nanor of Sheepshead in 1507. Jos. PHILLIPS. Stamford.

THE SKETCHING SOCIETY (not CLUB) (4th S. of this society in The Century of English Painters, ii. 334.)—P. A. L. will find an interesting account and some gossip about it in the Life of T. Uwins, R.A. G. Stewart Newton, Leslie's friend, was never a member, I believe. In the Exhibition of National Portraits at South Kensington, which has just closed, there was a clever group of the society at a meeting, painted by Mr. Partridgenow, alas! the only surviving member. N. P. E.

SHAKSPEARE MONUMENT (4th S. ii. 324.)-I cannot answer MR. WYLIE'S query, but it may possibly be pertinent to it to state that there is a reduced copy of the Shakspeare monument in the Lecture Room of the Mechanics' Institute of Northampton, the gift of Mr. Charles Cowden

Clarke.

Northampton.

G. J. DE WILDE.

ELECTION COLOURS (4th S. ii. 295.)-In spite of the exceptions named by WILLIAM RAYNOR, I think it will be found that the general rule is orange for the Radical or Reform party, and blue for the Tory side. This is the case in the West of England. The blue is doubtless chosen as being a royal colour, and the badge of "Church and King." The orange may have been selected from its opposition to blue, but probably, I think, from association of ideas with William of Orange. P. E. MASEY. RING (4th S. ii. 276.)-Nehemiah Ring, of Merton College, took his Bachelor's degree at Oxford, November 24, 1752. W. T. M. FURROW (4th S. ii. 344.)-I never considered that in the line quoted from Gray's "Elegy "

"Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke," the poet intended to substitute furrow for plough. I believe he simply meant to express that the furrow made by the plough broke up the stubborn glebe. We speak of cheeks furrowed by tears, and of such furrows destroying their beauty; but in so saying we do not substitute furrows for tears. F. C. H.

Robert Pacocke of Blyton, mentioned in her father's will dated April 3, 1559. EDWARD PEACOCK.

HORSE-SHOE AT LANCASTER (4th S. ii. 344.) · The Journal of the British Archæological Association, No. xxiv. p. 414, gives an account of this singular custom. The shoe is said to have just been placed there to mark the place where John of Gaunt's horse lost a shoe. It was formerly (and perhaps is now) renewed every seven years. H. FISHWICK.

Miscellaneous.

NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC.

The Life of Sir Walter Ralegh, based on contemporary Documents, preserved in the Rolls House, the Privy Council Office, Hatfield House, the British Museum, and other Manuscript Repositories, British and Foreign. Together with his Letters, now first collected by Edward Edwards. 2 Vols. 8vo. (Macmillan.)

The memory of Ralegh is here enshrined in two extremely handsome-we had almost termed them noble -volumes, well printed, well illustrated, one of them well written, the other well edited, and both the results of a great deal of hard and conscientious literary labour. The author has travelled over the debateable land of the politics of the close of the reign of Elizabeth, and of the first fifteen years of James I., with much diligence, and has found, like all his predecessors, that he has had to thread his way, often in great uncertainty, through the intrigues of a set of men among whom a far brighter light than the lanthorn of Diogenes would have failed to make manifest anything like political honesty. Even his hero, if better and more interesting than many of his contemporaries, was not so because he was more honest, but because he was less mean, because he possessed more of the fire of genius, was more daring, and in his heart more patriotic. Added to which, there is a neverdying interest attached to his name on account of the hard measure which was meted out to him. A judicial murder like that of Ralegh would have gone far towards making a hero of a much less gifted man.

Mr. Edwards's work is twofold. Each volume is almost complete in itself-one containing the Life, the other the Letters. They have separate dedications, separate introductions, they aim at separate classes of readers, and are united only by occasional references from the one to the other, and by a common index. We are not inclined to think that this is an arrangement to be followed. It predisposes to redundancies, and it occasions repetitions.

The

The Life is a careful reinvestigation of all the known facts, with the addition of a good many new ones. latter do not materially alter the main features of the well-known story, but they add to its interest, and they freshen and deepen our impression of the character and position of the man to whom they relate. In the second volume there is a good deal of new matter. "Of the hundred and sixty-six letters written by Sir Walter Ralegh, which," observes Mr. Edwards, "are now first collected. many are now printed for the first time." The sources whence they are derived are stated with the greatest candour, and no one can look through the book without feeling respect for the attainments of an author who has made so valuable an addition to our historical materials, and even in many instances to our history itself. Some of Mr. Edwards's views will of course be disputed, and his reasoning will, we think, occasionally

....

fail to carry his readers along with him, but for our own part we give his work a hearty welcome, and wish it every success.

The New England Tragedies. By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. (Routledge.)

America owes much to Mr. Longfellow for the patriotic feeling which has led him to select the subjects for his later works from the early records of his native country. The two tragedies before us are founded upon New England history-the scene of both being Boston. The first, Endicott, is founded on the persecution of the Quakers in 1665, and contains many scenes of great power. Giles Corey of the Salem Farm, as the second is entitled, owes its origin to the extraordinary trials for witchcraft, of which Cotton Mather (who himself figures in the tragedy) is the well-known historian; and in this the interest and power is not inferior to that which the author exhibits in Endicott, while the pathos is yet deeper. Both works fully maintain Longfellow's reputation, and will be read with delight by all who relish that simple unaffected poetry which seeks not to dazzle the imagination of the reader, but to make his heart beat with a warmer sympathy for the trials and sorrows of his fellow men.

The Fuller's Worthies Library. The Poems of Thomas Washbourne, D.D. Edited with Memorial Introduction and Notes by the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart. (Printed for Private Circulation.)

With Mr. Collier, Mr. Hazlitt, Mr. Grosart, and Mr. Arber all devoting their time and talents to the republication of old English writers to say nothing of the Chaucer, Spenser, Early English Text and Ballad Societies-it is clear that future would-be editors of Reprints will be left, like Alexander, to lament that there is no work left for them to do. Mr. Grosart, to whom we are already indebted for an edition of Thomas Fuller's Poems and Translations (to which we have already called attention), presents us, in the volume before us, with another of the projected series of reprints, to which he has given the name of Fuller's Worthies Library.

The author, Thomas Washbourne, Rector of Dumbleton in Gloucestershire, and Prebendary in Gloucester Cathedral, was a devoted adherent of Charles I. It is the poetical effusions of this worthy divine which Mr. Grosart has collected in the volume before us, writings for which he very properly does not claim any very high degree of poetical merit, but in which, as he observes, the careful and loving student will come on quaint touches and tender coloured fancies and occasional melody of wording, and felicity of epithet, that remind us of " The Silurist," and place Washbourne in a niche with the singers of The Temple and The Synagogue.

The poems of Sir John Davies and Giles Fletcher will form the next volumes of The Fuller's Worthies Library.

THE REV. E. GILLETT. (From a Correspondent.)-We regret to observe the decease of one of our earliest correspondents, whose contributions under the signature of E. G. R. enriched the first numbers of this journal. The REV. EDWARD GILLETT died at his vicarage of Runham, in Norfolk, on the 6th of this Month. He possessed a most intimate and accurate acquaintance with the local dialect and peculiarities of the population of East Anglia, into the dialect of which province, if we mistake not, he executed a translation of the Song of Solomon. MR. GILLETT, who was a man of close observation, was also an accomplished botanist. His varied knowledge was chiefly brought to bear on the study of what related to his native province; and we apprehend his decease at a comparatively early age will leave a blank in his own department which will not easily be supplied.