was that Æthelbald had already planted a Mercian colony on that part of the north coast of Devon and Cornwall of which the island of Lundy is an off-lier. THOMAS KERSLAKE. Bristol. the only instance of refusal with which I am ac- I shall be glad if the following facts prove useful to your correspondent who inquires regarding [Many contributors are thanked for replies to the Scots noblemen who, having been granted British above effect. THE "FARMER'S CREED IN THE LAST CENTURY (7th S. i. 448).-According to Solly's Titles of Honour,' the first and only Simpson who was created a baronet received that honour in 1866. G. F. R. B. The Game of THIRTY (7th S. i. 349, 411). – Is it not probable that the game alluded to is the game of bone-ace, or one-and-thirty? Thirty would be a good number with which to "stand," but the bishops were not content with that, but, so to speak, drew another card, which proved not to be the ace, and so were “out.” F. C. BIRKBECK TERRY. SCOTCH PEERS (7th S. i. 447).—Burnet records that in 1711 "Duke Hamilton" was by patent created a duke in England. It appears, however, from the context, that the new dukedom was in the peerage of Great Britain. The title was that of Brandon. A debate took place in that same year on the question whether the new duke could sit and vote as a peer of Great Britain; and by a majority of five it was decided that he could not, since by the Act of Union the peers of Scotland could only vote in Parliament through their sixteen representative peers. Previously to this the Duke of Queensberry had been created Duke of Dover in the peerage of Great Britain, and had been suffered to vote by the latter title, but was restricted from giving a vote in the election of Scotch representative peers. Kensington. EDWARD C. HAMLEY. The opposition of the House of Lords was caused by the elevation of the Duke of Hamilton to the English peerage by the title of Duke of Brandon. On Dec. 20, 1711, the Lords finally resolved (Contents 57, Not-Contents 52) that "Scottish peers, created peers of Great Britain since the Union, have not a right to sit in that House" (Hansard's 'Parliamentary History,' vol. vi. p. 1047). See also Sir Walter Scott's Tales of a Grandfather: Scotland,' vol. iv. p. 174, ed. 1836. The resolution, as is well known, has been rescinded subsequently. Hastings. EDWARD H. MARSHALL, M. A. Perhaps your correspondent refers to the case of the Duke of Hamilton, who on being gazetted to the English dukedom of Brandon, Dec. 12, 1711, was refused a seat in the English House of Lords, which prohibition was in force for seventy years. This is peerages in Queen Anne's time, were refused seats in the House of Lords. It appears that at different periods much complication has arisen with regard to the effects of British peerages thus conferred, and that such cases have been seen from very different points of view in connexion with the election of the sixteen representative peers of Scotland. Thus, the Duke Dover in 1708 by a patent of British peerage, his of Queensberry having been created Duke of vote at the election of representative peers was sustained by the House of Lords, January, 1709. objected to on that account. The objection was In a few years after, however, the Duke of Hamil ton having received a patent creating him Duke of Brandon, claimed his seat as such in the House of Lords; but after some debate, and after a motion for a reference to the opinion of the judges had been negatived, their lordships, on Dec. 20, 1711, came to the resolution "That no patent of honour granted to any peer of Great Britain, who was a peer of Scotland at the time of the Union, can entitle such peer to sit and vote in Parliament, or to sit upon the trial of peers." This resolution, it appears, remained in force till June 6, 1782, when the claim of the Duke of Hamilton to sit in Parliament as Duke of Brandon being again agitated, and a question having been put to the judges, they delivered a unanimous opinion that "the peers of Scotland are not disabled from receiving, subsequently to the Union, a patent of peerage of Great Britain, with all the privileges usually incident thereto." His grace's claim to a writ of summons was sustained by the House, and, it is added, no doubt has ever since been stirred on that branch of the question." The substance of the above is taken from a little book I picked up at a bookstall a few days ago, entitled, 'Notes relating to the Procedure in the Elections of the Representatives in the British Parliament of the Peers of Scotland,' Edin., 1818. ALEX. FERGUSSON, Lieut.-Col. Lennox Street, Edinburgh, ROB ROY IN NEWGATE (7th S. i. 469).—That he was ever a prisoner there, or anywhere else, for his share in the rising of 1715 is at variance with history. In November, 1716, he captured Grahame of Killearn in his feud against Montrose. In 1716 he escaped from the Duke of Athole at Logierait (Ant. Scot. Trans., iii.). In 1719 he fought at Glenshiel, where the MacGregors fell upon the rear of the 15th Regiment. In the same year he wrote his mock challenge to Montrose (see Scott's novel, Appendix i.). In 1720 he wrote to Marshal Wade a letter that was but little to his Rob Roy was never imprisoned in Newgate. The only time he was ever south of Carlisle was on the notable occasion of his visit to London, where he went at the invitation of the Duke of Argyll, and met him and the Duke of Montrose for the purpose of a reconciliation between the two. Equally incorrect is the statement that Rob Roy was transported to Barbadoes. Swallowfield, Reading. CONSTANCE RUSSELL. The reference to Swift is a short piece of five stanzas, 'The Dog and Thief,' written in 1726. EDWARD H. MARSHALL, M.A. Hastings. STEVENS (7th S. i. 448).-If MR. WARD had consulted the Times for May 4, 1875, before sending his query, he would have found the following announcement on the first sheet: -"On the 1st May, at 9, Eton-villas, Haverstock-hill, Alfred George Stevens, Esq., aged 57 years." G. F. R. B. BIRTH OF THE KING OF SPAIN (7th S. i. 428, 478). The question of the posthumous issue of a sovereign was raised in the reign of William IV., and the constitutional law of England was declared on the point in the Regency Act of 1831 of that reign. The fact that no precedent could be found since the Norman Conquest for provision having been made for government in an interval between the king's death and his heir's birth shows that this case was of rare occurrence in England. Accordingly difficulties presented themselves as to the succession to the crown. It was clear that an unborn child could not be seized of the crown, for it is a maxim that the king never dies, and immediately on the death of the reigning monarch the crown must devolve on the heir presumptive. It was, therefore, determined that if William IV. should die during the minority of the Princess Victoria, she should be proclaimed queen, subject to the rights of any issue that might be born of the king's consort, that is to say, she was to succeed to the crown on the understanding that if any child was born afterwards she should forego the dignity in its favour. Happily the contingency contemplated did not occur, and her Majesty succeeded without reservation. DAVID ANDERSON. 14, Gillespie Crescent, Edinburgh. THE LAST EARL OF ANGLESEA (7th S. i. 328, 455). I now perceive another ancient reference in N. & Q.' (2nd S. xi. 74), where it is said that Anne Salkeld was the sixth earl's third wife. A correspondent also refers me to a pedigree of Jackson (the family of Anne Salkeld's mother) in Morehouse's History of Kirk Burton, co. York,' p. 172. Here the date given to Anne's marriage with the earl is 1742. This, according to the dates I have given, would make her the fourth wife. More entanglement! I must repeat my hope that some one with authority will clear the matter up. C. F. S. WARREN, M.A. Treneglos, Kenwyn, Truro. HORACE SMITH (7th S. i. 360).—Why Horace? He himself wrote Horatio. See facsimile autograph in Mr. S. C. Hall's 'Book of Memories.' I have a short note, dated Brighton, Dec. 14, 1840, also signed Horatio Smith. CLIO. FYLFOT (7th S. i. 368, 455).—I think that there is a third German equivalent for fylfot, viz., drüdenfusz, the spirit's foot. I doubt whether it is generally known that the fylfot is at the present time in universal use in China as a Buddhist symbol. H. J. MOULE. Since asking my query, which O. has kindly answered, I have also found krückenkreuz in a book of German heraldry for the crux gammata. A. R. THE RUSSIAN FIELD-MARSHAL PETER DE LASCY (7th S. i. 449).—Taking a special interest in Peter De Lascy, otherwise Peter Lacy, who was of my maternal kin, I may inform your correspondent B. T. that in the memoirs of the Prince de Ligne (Journal des Campagnes de Lascy') will be found the information he desires. He might also consult the 'Histoire de Mon Temps' of Frederic II. Temps' of Frederic UKE 12, St. Mary's Road, Dublin. BRADFORD FAMILY (7th S. i. 89, 175).-If SIGMA would extend his offer to furnish notes of thirty marriages connected with the Bradford family to another inquirer, he would find one who would be extremely grateful for the same in W. C. 10, Piccadilly, Bradford. SOUTHEY'S 'BATTLE OF BLENHEIM' (7th S. i. 406, 474).—I mentioned Blindheim, not Blendheim, as the name of the Bavarian village. J. DIXON. "MONTJOYE ST. DEN YS" (7th S. i. 427).-Ducange ('Gloss.') derives the word Montjoie from "Mons Gaudii Montagne-de-la-joie." But Montjoye= Montjoie Montjou comes rather from Mons Jovis =mount of Jupiter=mount of God. Heaps of stones were thrown in old times on the way to indicate the road to be followed. Afterwards crests were placed on these stone-heaps, and, by extension, the banner borne before the troops to guide the army was called Montjoie. So "Montjoie St. Denis" will say that they had "to follow the banner of St. Denis" (the oriflamme). Montjoie was undoubtedly a via index, an enseignechemin for the army. The battle cry of the Dukes of Bourbon was "Montjoie Notre Dame"; of the Dukes of Burgundy," Montjoie St. Andrew "; of the Kings of England, "Montjoie St. George"; of the Dukes of Anjou, "Montjoie Anjou," &c. I believe that, except the royal house of Bourbon, no other family has this motto. (Vide Borel d'Hauterive, 1872; Ducange, 'Glossarium,' &c.). Moscow. EASTER BIBLIOGRAPHY (7th S. i. 325).-One addition which may be made to the list given by W. C. B. is the following: J. Newland Smith, Rev., M.A. 'Some Observations respecting Eastertide: Suggesting and Advocating a Change in the Mode of determining the Paschal Limits.' Lond., Longmans, 1872. I have marked the title of my copy as part i., because there appeared a notice of Eastertide,' part ii., in N. & Q.,' 4th S. xi. 313, in 1873. ED. MARSHALL. 'A FAITHFUL REGISTER OF THE LATE REBELLION' (7th S. i. 408).-MR. PARTINGTON is in error as to Mr. Crossley's belief that the above note from his copy of it: "An interesting account, I transcribed the following tract is by Defoe. though not, I think, Defoe's.-J. C." 69, Ladbroke Grove, W. EDWARD RIGGALL. NOBLE MASTERS AND THEIR SERVANTS (7th S. i. 386). In 1884 an article appeared in the Times (February 23 and 25) on "The Speakership." In the second instalment I find these words: "About this time [1708] there seems to have been a custom of the Members' servants electing a Speaker among themselves. In Swift's 'Journal,' November 25, 1710, is this entry:- Pompey, Colonel Hill's black, designs to stand Speaker for the footmen. I have engaged to use my interest for him, and have spoken to Patrick to get him him some votes.'" ALPHA. "OLD STYLE" AND THE OLD PROVERBS (7th S. i. 407).—I have often heard this question raised; but to answer it in any particular case we must know in what century the proverb arose. Gregory's reform was meant to bring the calendar back to its state in the fourth century, just after the council of Nicæa. A proverb originating just at Hoadley's death it "was purchased by Sir Richard Glynn, who sold it to the Earl of Ashburnham." This was doubtless the Sir Richard Glyn who was Lord Mayor in 1759, and who lost his election for the City in 1768, Barlow Trecothwick being elected in his place. Sir Richard Glyn died on January 1, 1773, some fifteen or sixteen years after Hoadley. Sir Richard's second wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Robert Carr, Bart., and their eldest son was Sir Richard Carr Glyn, who served as Mayor in 1799. G. F. R. B. CHILDREN'S CRUSADE (7th S. i. 487).-Though it is not a long, and therefore is not an exhaustive" notice, MR. E. A. D'ARGENT would see a summary of the history, the origin, progress and end of the children's crusade in Mat. Paris, ' H. M., ad. A.D. 1213, pp. 242-3, ed. 1640. There are also the historian's views as to its character. ED. MARSHALL. 6 SHAKSPEARE'S DOCTOR (7th S. i. 428).-This It is mentioned by Fuller in his 'Holy Warre.' story of Shakespeare's pall-bearer, which has been An account of it will be found in Dr. Charles floating about in the newspapers for some twenty Mackay's 'Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Deyears, has been finally disposed of by Mr. Moncure lusions,' vol. ii., article "The Crusades." Conway in Harper's Magazine for January, 1886. CUTHBERT BEDE. He proves, from personal inspection, that no such Hallam gives some particulars of this in a note, tomb ever existed in Fredericksburg graveyard,'Europe during the Middle Ages,' vol. ii. p. 359, and that no such inscription was ever engraved on and cites as his authorities Annali di Muratore,' any tombstone in Virginia. He gives a facsimile A.D. 1211; Velly, Hist. de France,' t. iv. p. 206. of the stone from which the legend was said to be ST. SWITHIN. derived, and which contains no reference to Shakespeare or pall-bearer, and supposes that these words must have been added to the original inscription by some "note" which has got into the printed text. ESTE. LATIN LINE WANTED (7th S. i. 487).—I have much pleasure in accepting the "benediction" of so good a scholar as MR. BROGDEN for the hexameter and pentameter line on behalf of the undersigned, who must plead in excuse for its authorship that it was made in undergraduate days, and solely in consequence of its having been pronounced an impossibility. The line is Quando nigrescit nox rem latro patrat atrox, where six out of the thirteen syllables (two, three, eight, nine, ten, twelve) are either long or short as it suits. It has two other features-it is not a mere nonsense verse, and it rhymes within itself. As another curiosity of literature, I may add that, on being challenged to make another line both alcaic and sapphic, I did so by omitting the last word and substituting 66 sacra" for nox and "rem." CHARLES DE LA PRYME, Trin. Coll. Cam. 86, Gloster Place, Portman Square. GLYN (7th S. i. 448).-An account of this house and its inhabitants will be found in Faulkner's Chelsea' (1829), vol. i, p. 72. Faulkner says that with references to various authorities, see Michaud's Hastings. EDWARD H. MARSHALL, M.A. book is not expensive, and the publishers are Col- M. DRISLER. AUTHORS OF BOOKS WANTED (7th S. i. 470).⚫ England as seen by an American Banker' was published at the beginning of this year. The author is Mr. C. B. Patten, of the State National Bank, said by the Boston Traveller to be "one of the leading men of finance in Boston." J. H. NODAL, Miscellaneous. and duchess, and of designs from the famous 'Book of Horsemanship' of the former, adds greatly to the attractions of the volume, and the miscellaneous matter of interest supplied by Mr. Firth in the shape of appendices adds no less to its value. It is, in short, a work of solid value as well as a covetable volume. King Edward the Sixth, Supreme Head: an Historical DR. LEE is a learned antiquary and an accomplished the "State Papers." Surely time and space might have been afforded sufficient to furnish us with the volume and page of the Calendar in which it is referred to. The volume contains a most useful catalogue of portraits of Edward VI. and of many others of both sexes who were prominent during his short and unhappy reign. There is also a most useful pedigree of the house of Tudor and its connexions, beginning with Richard, Duke of York, who was killed at the battle of Wakefield in 1460, NOTES ON BOOKS, &c. The Life of William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle. To which is added, The True Relation of my Birth, Breeding, and Life. By Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle. Edited by C. H. Firth, M.A. (Nimmo.) THE lives of the Duke and Duchess of Newcastle, written by the hand of the duchess, deserve a place in that handsome and admirable series of biographies which Mr. Nimmo is bringing within reach of the book-lover. They constitute not only the best known, but the only fairly known works of the most prolific of female writers. The ponderous folios which her grace poured forth in profusion-securing, in so doing, an amount of adulation from the writers and dignitaries of her day such as no woman had received since the days of Queen Elizabeth-sity when he tells us that a certain passage comes from are now known only to the antiquary and the student, who, however, cherish them with delight for many reasons it is needless here to explain. Her poems, some of them wanting neither in fancy nor in taste, her orations, her philosophical opinions and disquisitions, her plays, scarcely to be distinguished from her disquisitions -with all these things Time declines to burden himself. The price they sometimes fetch in the auction-room is more often due to the portraits which grace them than to the works themselves. The memoirs, however, live, and will live. Edition after edition of them has appeared, though this is the first time they have appeared in a becoming form. It is needless to go through the bibliography of the works of which Mr. Firth supplies a list. It is worth while, however, to say that the life of the duchess forms, as is said, "The Eleventh and Last Book of Nature's Pictures, Drawn by Fancy's Pencil to the Life, &c., 1656" (the duchess's title-pages are, to alter slightly an illustration of Macaulay, long enough for prefaces), but in the first edition only. For some reason, at which we are unable to make a conjecture, and in which we should have been glad of the opinion of Mr. Firth, who does not allude to the fact, it disappears entirely from the second edition, copies of which are before us. These biographies should be read by all. The life of the duke needs, of course, to be supplemented, but is something more than an outcome of conjugal idolatry, which, however, among other things, it is. That of the duchess gives a delightful picture of domestic life in England in the family of which it was said that all the sons were brave and all the daughters virtuous. The reproduction of handsomely executed portraits of the duke The Ethics of Aristotle. By Rev. I. Gregory Smith. (S.P.C.K.) THIS instalment of the series entitled "Chief Ancient Philosophies" is a very creditable performance. It is a little book (of not a hundred pages) on a vast subject; and the wonder of it is, that the subject is so well set forth and explained as to be a great help to the student of the Stagyrite, and by its close association with modern ethical systems to be useful to all students of ethics. We know the author of this manual chiefly as one of the Bampton lecturers; but he was in his time a notable Oxford scholar, having gained both the Hertford and the Ireland; and it is evident from this manual that though he has freely used Sir Alexander Grant's larger work on the same subject, he has had a long and intimate acquaintance with the original Greek treatises. It is only this almost lifelong experience of his master's works, joined to a remarkable power of concise and methodical expression, which could have enabled the learned prebendary to compile this book. After the introductory matter are seven chapters: i, “Psychology of the Ethics"; |