tentionally incoherent. I own that I approach it with much doubt. However, one thing at least seems clear, that Shakspeare had in his mind the words of Psalm xviii. 10, "He rode upon a cherub and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind," though he has confused the image by making the cherubin ride upon the wind. It is also clear that the main thing which Macbeth thinks of is the universal abhorrent "pity," which his deed of murder will arouse. But is there not a side-thought about discovery? Assuredly the thing was to be done in secret. He had no thought of defying the world by a deed of open violence. And discovery must precede pity. These things being granted, I would venture to paraphrase the words somehow thus :"The winds, indeed, are sightless, but God's emissary the cherubin,† the living wind who bestrides them, is, by God's appointment, a seer of hidden things he shall see my deed, and shall make all eyes to see it and to shed infinite tears for it." Thus Macbeth would say of himself what Hamlet says of the King, "Here are hidden evil designs, but I see a cherub who sees them."

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P. 4 a. For "Pettenhall" read Tettenhall. P. 10 a, John Burton, M.D. The memoir in Yorksh. Arch. Journ., ii. 403-440, by the late Mr. Davies, differs widely from the account here. See also Philos. Trans., xliv., xlvi.; Biblioth. MS. Stowensis,' 1818, i. 344; Walpole's 'Letters,' 1840, iii. 424; Surt. Soc. vol. lxvii.; Davies, York Press; 'N. & Q.' indexes.

P. 10 a. For "Constable Burton" read BurtonConstable.

P. 23 a. For "Valambrosa" read Vallombrosa. P. 27 a. Omit the comma after "Badius." P. 28 b. Bury was one of the judges who gave his opinion on the trial of Dr. Sacheverell.

P. 30, Busby. Dryden's translation of Persius, Sat. iii., and other such exercises were in 1693 still in Dr. Busby's hands. Dryden dedicated to him his translation of the fifth satire, with many expressions of thankfulness; he had been a King's scholar at Westminster, leaving in 1651, and his two sons were also educated by Busby (ed. 1697, pp. 436, 468). The Earl of Rochester, ridiculing

The "sightless couriers" may no doubt mean the unseen. The point is not important, but I am disposed to prefer the other sense for the sake of the antithesis.

The commentators generally say that "cherubin must here be plural, though elsewhere in Shakspeare always singular. I see no sort of need for it, and I do not think that the plural" couriers "makes it necessary.

Lee, wishes "the hot-brain'd fustian fool in Busby's hands, to be well lash'd at school” (1707, p. 20). Prior writes (fol. 1718, p. 15)," When at school we first declaim, old Busbey walks us in a theme."

P. 34, Brown Bushell. See Surt. Soc. vol. xxxvi. p. 82; Henry Bushell, arm., of Haysthorpe, was buried at Burton Agnes, 1662, with a long Latin epitaph.

P. 35, Thomas Bushell. See 'N. & Q.,' 4th S. iv.; Cole, 'Bibliog. Tour,' p. 38.

P. 44, Charles Butler. His 'Rhetoric' " vulgò in scholis teritur," formed the base of William Dugard's 'Elements,' and of the 'Art of Rhetorick,' by John Newton, D.D., 1671. George Emmot, a converted Quaker, went to a cathedral service, and was offered a book by a chorister; having learned music from Dr. Butler's Introduction,' he took his part (Northern Blast,' 1655, p. 4).

P. 72, Bishop Butler. See Ch. Quart. Rev., i. 337, on the 'Method of the Analogy'; Gladstone, Juventus Mundi,' 406; Dr. Grosart, in the Leisure Hour, June, 1875; Wilson and Fowler, 'Principles of Morals,' 52-57; Sidgwick, Hist. of Ethics,' 188-196; notes to Mozley's Miracles.'

P. 72 b, l. 34. For "Dublin " read Armagh. P. 74 b. For" Coombe” (bis) read Croome. P. 75 a, Carbury. More usually Carbery. P. 90. Owen has a highly laudatory epigram on Dr. Butler, second collection, No. 250.

P. 117 b. Byng's victory, Free-Thinker, ii. 21. P. 126 a. For "Bamborough" read Barnborough. P. 166. In 1872 Dr. W. J. Irons recommended Bythner's Lyra' to candidates for ordination (Considerations,' p. 21). Zurich, 1664.

There was

an ed. P. 182 b, Cadogan. See Doddridge's 'Life of Gardiner' (1778, pp. 27, 149). He befriended Farquhar, who intended to dedicate his Beaux' Stratagem' to him (Works,' 1760, i. 7). collected edition of the Guardian has a glowing dedication to him.

The

P. 207 a. A Catalogue' of the MSS. of Sir Julius Caesar was printed 1757.

P. 224 b. The letter in Clerke's translation of Castiglione's 'Courtier' is dated London, October, 1571.

P. 234 b. John Johnson's 'Clergyman's VadeMecum,' contains a long preface in reply to Calamy's 'Defence.' Calamy corresponded with Col. Gardiner after his conversion, and one of hi letters, 1719, is printed by Doddridge, to whom it was given by his friend the doctor's son, the Rev. Edmund Calamy. The colonel and his mother belonged to Dr. Calamy's congregation.

P. 274-5. Thomas Calvert. See Davies, York Press; Norcliffe, Holy Trin., York,' 1862, p. 12. P. 275 a, l. 42. After "Holme" add -on-Spaldingmoor. See Hymers's ed. of Bp. Fisher's Sermon,' p. 102-3.

P. 302-3. On the Camidges see Crosse, 'York Musical Festival,' 1825; Charlton, 'Biog. Sketches of Musicians,' Lincoln, 1836, p. 25.

P. 339 b, 341 a, 369 a. "Talmash"- Tollemache. P. 358 a. Campbell's 'Dissertation' was translated into French, and was reprinted in 1834. He also published an 'Address to the People of Scotland, upon the Alarms that have been raised in regard to Popery,' 1779.

P. 373 b. For "Bevan " read Brown. There was another ed., 2 vols., 1753. See 'N. & Q.,' 4th S. xi. 197, 244.

P. 398 a, Lady Glenorchy. See 'Life of Lady Huntingdon,' ch. xxvii., xxx., xxxii.; Aveling, 'Memorials of the Clayton Family,' 1867.

P. 402. Some of Campion's controversy is commented upon in Cartwright's 'Certamen Religiosum,' 1652, pt. ii.

P. 431, Canning. See 'Life of W. Wilberforce.'

W. C. B.

The account of Oscar Byrne appears defective. In 1825 and 1826 he was my dancing master, and the statement then was that he had been chief dancer at the Opera, and having broken the tendon achilles, was obliged to leave the stage. He was in England at that time, and, so far as I know, long after, and previous to 1850. Before 1850 and before Charles Keane he had been a balletmaster, and, so far as I remember, at the Opera. It is possible 1795, the year of his reputed birth, is near the time. In 1825 he was a handsome man of, say, thirty-five. He was then married, so that the wife named in the article was a second wife.

Oscar Byrne kept his class of boyish cubs in order in a special way. He promised them that if they were orderly and obeyed his instructions he would dance to them, and, like Orpheus, his brutes surrendered to his enchantment. His dancing delighted even rough boys, and they would say, "Mr. Byrne, do give us another dance!" A brother, Charles Byrne, was not so popular. HYDE CLARKE.

"At Hatfield House, the seat of the Marquis of Salisbury, is preserved in a carved oak cabinet the genealogical chart of Queen Elizabeth. This stupendous work of art is twelve or fifteen yards long-proportions not too swelling when it is discovered that the chart carries the genealogy straight back to Adam and Eve. As far as the nobility and gentry of England have concern in the family tree, the coat of arms is in every case given, with full particulars of name, date of birth, and of death. But, going backward, this labour is necessarily abandoned long before Methuselah is reached. All the coats of arms are hand painted. It is curious to note that the royal coat of arms is filled up on one side only;

the other side is left blank, it is conjectured for the arms of that husband it was believed the Queen would at some time or another deign to accept." Thus far Harper. The writer makes no mention of the author of this remarkable chart, and I conclude he is, therefore, unknown to its possessors. The following extract from A Brief Chronicle of the Success of Times-a book to which I refer in another part of ' N. & Q.'-points not only to its author, but also to the way it came into the possession of the Cecils :

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"Maister Thomas Lyte, of Lytescaries, Esq. (son of Henry Lyte), a true imitator and heir to his father's King James with an excellent map or Genealogical Table virtues, hath not long since presented the Majesty of (containing the breadth and circumference of twenty large sheets of paper), which he entitleth Britain's Monarchy,' approving Brute's History, and the whole succession of our nation from the very original, with the just observation of all times, changes, and occasions therein happening. This worthy work, having cost about seven years' labour, beside great charges acceptance of, and to witness the same in Court it and expense, his highness hath made very gracious hangeth in an especial place of eminence." These two accounts must undoubtedly refer to the same chart. It is equally certain that it must have come into the possession of the Cecils in their exchange of Theobalds for Hatfield Palace, the contents of each probably being included in the transfers.

JOHN J. STOCKEN.

"IN PURIS NATURALIBUS."-I had an idea that this expression was an invention of the present century; but I find that I am wrong. It occurs in the Connoisseur, No. 55, February 13, 1755 :"But if ever the weather should be too severe for the ladies to appear (as Bayes expresses it) in puris naturalibus, they are to wear flesh-coloured silks, &c." The above passage is in a satirical article on the scantiness of ladies' apparel. Who invented the phrase? F. C. BIRKBECK TERRY. PICKWICK. The following appears in the obituary of 1838 :-" December 8, at Bath, Mr. Eleazer Pickwick, the well-known West of England coach proprietor. GEORGE ELLIS. St. John's Wood.

LORD BROUGHAM.-Has his lordship ever been charged with perpetrating a "bull"? If not, here is something like one:- There are rigorous moralists who hold that if a murderer asks you which road his victim took, you have no right to deceive him and send him on a false track " (The British Constitution,' London and Glasgow, 1861, chap. xix. sect. 3, p. 328). In the sentence immediately following the above there are two instances of bad grammar:-"These reasoners, if to such as them the term may be applied, have a right to preserve their consistency by holding that no spy ought ever on any account to be employed, or any informer encouraged." J. J. FAHIE, Teheran, Persia,

BARRACK.-The first meaning given by Dr. Murray to this word when used in the singular is, "a temporary hut or cabin, e. g., for the use of soldiers during a siege, &c." I object to nothing here but the word temporary. A barrack may be, and probably most frequently is, temporary; but is it necessarily so? I doubt it. In the Globe of September 11, 1886, I read that at Farnham, during the time the hopping lasts, the hoppers are "located in what are known as barracks-a euphonious, if not a highsounding, term for an oblong shed, built of brick or wood, and constructed so as to keep out the rain." Now the barracks made of wood may very likely only serve for the one season; but those made of brick are surely not pulled down every year; else why make them of brick? Again, at the camp at Shorncliffe, which is a permanent one, there are, if my memory serves me right, streets of permanent wooden, and maybe also brick, buildings, each of which is probably called a hut or barrack; at any rate, in France, so a French officer tells me, whenever a camp is intended to last much longer than usual, the tents are replaced by wooden buildings or huts, which form streets, and are called baraques. And that this is so my own eyes can testify, for in 1872 I visited the camp at Châlons-sur-Marne, which had been formed before the Franco-German war, and was then in the hands of the Prussians, and I distinctly remember the streets of wooden huts. This camp still exists, and huts (or barracks) that have thus lasted more than fifteen years can scarcely be called temporary. F. CHANCE. Sydenham Hill.

JOHN BURY.-The notice of the above in the 'Dictionary of National Biography' being incomplete, the following additional particulars, from Mr. R. E. Chester Waters's important work 'The Chesters of Chichele' (p. 66), may be of use to your readers. John Bury, eldest son and heir of William Bury, citizen and draper of London and merchant of the staple at Calais, was born in 1535, studied law, and was probably of the Inner Temple. In July, 1563, he succeeded to his father's estates at Culham and Water Eaton, being then twenty-eight years old, and on August 30 following married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Stafford, Esq., of Bradfield, Berks. He fell from his horse and broke his thigh in August, 1570, and died, from the effects of this accident, on February 22, 1570/1. E. C. A. A.

room used as a council chamber by the Prince when he resolved to return to Scotland was carefully preserved and was re-erected in the Bass Free Library. An autograph letter of the Prince, the gift of Her Majesty Queen Victoria (1885), hangs upon the wall. The librarian will gladly show the room to inquiring visitors. W. BEMROSE.

PICTURE OF PURITAN SOLDIERS.-In the Paris Exhibition of 1855 there was a picture of Puritan soldiers puffing smoke into the face of their prisoner Charles I., which raised the anger of a critic in the Eclectic Review for August of the same year. In pouring out the vials of his wrath he calls the painting an "historical fiction on canvas," and challenges replies to the following two questions: "Was there a man in the army who smoked?" and "How long is it since common troopers could afford to buy tobacco?" I leave it to the readers of N. & Q.' to take up the gauntlet flung down by the enraged champion of the Puritan cause, and only wish to avail myself of this opportunity to state that the "fiction" is of old standing, as I find it mentioned in a letter dated Eperjes (in Hungary), January 31, 1661, and addressed to Dr. Basire. I give the passage in question without any comment :

"Ex Anglia hoc habemus, de quibusdam regicidis sumptum esse supplicium, inter quos classem ducunt Generalis Major Harrison, Fleetwood, Colonellus alius, qui innocentissimo juxta et patientissimo Regi Carolo I. fumum ex tobaco in faciem venerandam exspuerat, Colonellus Hacker, et quidam Magister Hugo Petrus, qui in militiâ Cornettum, deinde sacerdotem Puritanum, et tandem carnificem egit, caputque regium a cervicibus amputavit."

Hull.

L. L. K.

MARRIAGE OF CHARLES II.-The visit of the King of Portugal to this country reminds me of the marriage of King Charles II. to Catherine, Infanta of Portugal, of which the following illuminated entry is preserved in the register-book o St. Thomas, Portsmouth :

Or brick, for in the French permanent camps the baraques may be, and frequently are. made of brick, instead of wood.

W. LOVELL.

MARRIAGES IN ST. PAUL'S CATHEDAL.-The last recorded in the old register took place on February 7, 1758, by special licence. A new

does not then know their relationship; he plots the destruction of Sir R. Clavering, and ultimately murders him, but attributes the murder to his father's legitimate son, young Robert Clavering, who is an officer in the Duke of Monmouth's army. Master Parker acts as guide at the battle of Sedgemoor (July 6, 1685), and leads the army to destruction. Master Parker and young Robert Clavering are both in love with their cousin Mabel. She favours the latter. Master Parker is also captain of a band of pirates and smugglers. Other characters mentioned in novel: Miriam, Master Parker's mother; Duke of Monmouth; Kirke's Lambs, &c. WESTON ZOYLAND.

EAST CLANDON, NEAR GUILDFORD.-Can any one give me any information which will throw light on the history of East Clandon, near Guildford? I know all that Aubrey has written, Bray and Manning, and Domesday. Is it usual that a benefice in the patronage of an abbey is filled by a rector, and not served by a monk of the abbey? G. H. LEE.

JAGGER. Is anything known of a miniature painter of this name, who was living 1790-8? He was a most accomplished artist, as appears from a

work now before me and so signed.

H.

"THE THREE WOODTHORPES."-A recent article in the World, in describing Sir John Monckton's room at the Guildhall, speaks of "the three Woodthorpes." I am anxious for any information I can obtain concerning these gentlemen; inter alia, I should like to know their Christian names, the relationship they bore to one another, and what (if any) kinship exists between the Woodthorpe and Nelson families. Answers direct will be much appreciated. E. G. YOUNGER, M.D.

Hanwell, W. 'RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW.'-I shall be obliged by being referred to any key to the names of the authors of articles in the old series-1820-6.

R. W. C. PORTUGUESE AMBASSADOR.-Mrs. Garrick told J. T. Smith, Keeper of the Prints at the British Museum, that she was married "at the parish of St. Giles," at eight o'clock in the morning, and immediately afterwards in the chapel of the Portuguese Ambassador, in South Audley Street. Mr. Walford mentions that the house was 74, the Earl of Cawdor's, and the embassy occupied it for the best part of a century. He does not say whence he gets this (iv. 344). He states (iii. 213) that Garrick

was married at the chapel in Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, to "Eva Maria Violette, of St. James, Westminster, a celebrated dancer," by Dr. Franklin. For this he gives no authority, and Dr. Franklin's name is wrongly spelt. It was Francklin, the translator of Lucian. He slightly errs, also, in quoting Smith's Rainy Day.' Mrs. Garrick was married at the parish church of St. Giles. Smith's report of her statement is, "I was married at the parish of St. Giles at eight o'clock in the morning," and this reconciles the difficulty. The son of this Dr. Francklin was also in the Church, but quitted it in deep disgrace. He succeeded his father in the chapel, I He is alluded to in the 'Life' of Macready; but fancy. Where can anything be learned about him? the name is not given. Writers on topography are so slovenly that in dealing with their facts one feels like a megatherium floundering in primeval mud-shoals. First one fin sinks and then another, and at last we subside to the bottom bodily, hopelessly buried in slush or clay-paste.

C. A. WARD.

Haverstock Hill.
NEWTON AND THE APPLE.-In Sterne's 'Koran'

(Cadell, 1794, p. 192) I find the following:

Why

"Sir Isaac Newton, standing by the side of a quarry, saw a stone fall from the top of it to the ground. descend than rise or fly across! Either of these direcshould this stone, when loosened from its bed, rather tions must have been equally indifferent to the stone itself.' Such was his soliloquy," &c.

Is this version of the well-known anecdote, to which frequent reference is made in the early series of 'N. & Q.,' found elsewhere and earlier ?

S. R., F.R.S. WORDSWORTH QUERIES.-Where in Wordsworth shall I find the following notable sayings of the poet?—

"Poetry is only the eloquence and enthusiasm of religion."

"Truth takes no account of centuries." "How men undervalue the power of simplicity; but it is the real key to the heart."

"The true poet ascends to receive knowledge; he descends to impart it."

"He who has Nature for his companion must in some sense be ennobled by the intercourse."

J. R. TUTIN.

HONEYSUCKLE.-It is pleasant to hear the children in parts of Leicestershire and Warwickshire speak of gathering woodbine. But whereas they also speak of the early clover as "honeysuckle," I should be glad to know whether the application of this name to any plant "where the bee sucks," besides our familiar hedgerow friend, is common in any other parts of England.

G. L. F. MASSAGIST.-The London correspondent of the Sheffield Independent uses the word massagist to