we have a shoemaker's shop in Shoemaker's Street owned or occupied by six shoemakers from 1670 to 1792. The property was held of the Mayor and Burgesses of Hedon.

Cordwain, for Cordovan, occurs, e. g., in Edmund Spenser's State of Ireland' (ed. Dubl., 1763, p. 108), "his riding Shoes of costly Cordwain." W. C. B.

Queries.

We must request correspondents desiring information on family matters of only private interest, to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that the answers may be addressed to them direct.

THE

PROBABLE ANTIQUITY OF A BOAT AND TIMBER ROAD RECENTLY FOUND AT BRIGG, IN COUNTY OF LINCOLN.-I am not aware whether the attention of your readers has been called to these relics of the past, and therefore will briefly call attention to them, in the hope some one learned in such matters may give a probable solution of the mystery which attaches to them. The roadway was discovered about two years ago, and the boat about two months since.

The road was made of oaken planks fastened side by side, running across the road transversely Below the planks were small trees and branches running in the contrary direction, and the whole fastened to the ground by stakes, which seem to have been morticed, rather than bored, into the wood. Above the road are the following strata: three feet of dark grey alluvial clay, with remains of vegetation in it; then two feet of brown alluvial clay, and then one foot of peat, in which are found the remains of a forest with trees of vast size, of oak, yew, &c., which must have been some centuries in growing; and all record of this upper forest is entirely lost. Above this is the present soil.

The boat was found only a few feet below the present surface, but was covered with clay and

alluvium which came from somewhere. It is

formed out of one piece of oak, is forty feet long and four feet four inches across, and altogether of a most curious and primitive build. To attribute a date to either road or boat is hazardous, and we can only venture upon it by analogy. I will, therefore, remind your readers of two other boats or canoes found in a somewhat similar position, and bearing a striking resemblance to the Brigg

boat.

In 1726 a canoe, thirty-six feet long and four and a half feet wide, and all of one piece of oak, was found near Edinburgh under thirteen or fourteen feet strata of loam, clay, shells, moss, sand, and gravel.

At Callao, in Peru, in the seventeenth century, some miners in running an adit into a hill discovered a ship which had on top of it the great

mass of the hill." Geologists are satisfied that these two boats must have been in situ before the formation of the strata heaped upon them; and if so, that carries us back to preglacial and antediluvian times, and before the destruction of the world by fire and flood, after which followed the drift which covers so much of the surface of the present habitable globe. That man existed in a highly civilized state before that great catastrophe which changed the surface of the earth, recent discoveries have sufficiently demonstrated; and if the works of man, such as implements both for war and domestic use, pottery, carvings, coins (engraved by a process unknown to either ancient or modern numismatists), and boats have been found in other parts of the world below the drift which followed the great cataclysm (thereby proving they existed before it), is it impossible that the boat and road recently discovered in Lincolnshire may be coeval with them? I assert nothing. I invite inquiry, and await a reasonable solution of the mystery. C. T. J. MOORE, F.S.A. Frampton Hall, near Boston,

EXTRA VERSES IN ST. MATTHEW'S GOSPEL.— In the Anglo-Saxon version of St. Matthew, the words of which the following is a modern paraphrase occur between vv. 28 and 29 of chap. xx.:

"Ye desire to speed in a small thing, and to be decreased in a great thing. Verily, when ye are bidden to a feast, sit not down in the highest seat, lest a more honourable man come after thee, and the master of the house bid thee arise and make room for the other, and thou be put to shame. If thou sittest at a feast in the lowest seat, and another guest come after thee, and he that bade thee say unto thee, Friend, sit higher; then shall more honour be given unto thee, than unto him that is made to sit lower."

In what Latin version of St. Matthew are such words to be found in this place?

WALTER W. SKEAT.

BRERETON.-Can any reader aid the undersigned in tracing the ancestry of Thomas Brereton, Gent., who lived in Dublin in 1724? He leased there to Edmond Maguire, Gent., a dwelling in Abbey Street, formerly occupied by Thomas commanded the armed ship Betty, of Liverpool, Grace, Esq. Capt. Thomas Brereton, his son, and came to America as early as 1754. He used a seal, still in possession of the family, bearing the two bars sable; crest, out of a ducal coronet a following described arms of Brereton:-Argent, bear's head muzzled. Do any of the family pedigrees make mention of the above described

Thomas Brereton of Dublin?

THOMAS J. BRERETON.

Yonkers, New York, U.S. 'FABER FORTUNE.'-In what edition of Bacon's works can I find the Faber Fortunæ,' which Pepys read with such pleasure? "My dear Faber Fortunæ of my Lord Bacon." It can hardly be

THE

PROBABLE ANTIQUITY OF A BOAT AND TIMBER ROAD RECENTLY FOUND AT BRIGG, IN COUNTY OF LINCOLN.-I am not aware whether the attention of your readers has been called to these relics of the past, and therefore will briefly call attention to them, in the hope some one learned in such matters may give a probable solution of the mystery which attaches to them. The roadway was discovered about two years ago, and the boat about two months since.

The road was made of oaken planks fastened side by side, running across the road transversely. Below the planks were small trees and branches running in the contrary direction, and the whole fastened to the ground by stakes, which seem to have been morticed, rather than bored, into the wood. Above the road are the following strata: three feet of dark grey alluvial clay, with remains of vegetation in it; then two feet of brown alluvial clay, and then one foot of peat, in which are found the remains of a forest with trees of vast size, of oak, yew, &c., which must have been some centuries in growing; and all record of this upper forest is entirely lost. Above this is the present soil.

The boat was found only a few feet below the present surface, but was covered with clay and

alluvium which came from somewhere.

It is

formed out of one piece of oak, is forty feet long and four feet four inches across, and altogether of a most curious and primitive build. To attribute a date to either road or boat is hazardous, and we can only venture upon it by analogy. I will, therefore, remind your readers of two other boats or canoes found in a somewhat similar position, and bearing a striking resemblance to the Brigg

boat.

In 1726 a canoe, thirty-six feet long and four and a half feet wide, and all of one piece of oak, was found near Edinburgh under thirteen or fourteen feet strata of loam, clay, shells, moss, sand, and gravel.

At Callao, in Peru, in the seventeenth century, some miners in running an adit into a hill discovered "a ship which had on top of it the great

mass of the hill." Geologists are satisfied that these two boats must have been in situ before the formation of the strata heaped upon them; and if so, that carries us back to preglacial and antediluvian times, and before the destruction of the world by fire and flood, after which followed the drift which covers so much of the surface of the present habitable globe. That man existed in a highly civilized state before that great catastrophe which changed the surface of the earth, recent discoveries have sufficiently demonstrated; and if the works of man, such as implements both for war and domestic use, pottery, carvings, coins (engraved by a process unknown to either ancient or modern numismatists), and boats have been found in other parts of the world below the drift which followed the great cataclysm (thereby proving they existed before it), is it impossible that the boat and road recently discovered in Lincolnshire may be coeval with them? I assert nothing. I invite inquiry, and await a reasonable solution of the mystery. C. T. J. MOORE, F.S.A.

Frampton Hall, near Boston,

EXTRA VERSES IN ST. MATTHEW'S GOSPEL.— words of which the following is a modern paraIn the Anglo-Saxon version of St. Matthew, the phrase occur between vv. 28 and 29 of chap. xx.:

creased in a great thing. Verily, when ye are bidden "Ye desire to speed in a small thing, and to be deto a feast, sit not down in the highest seat, lest a more honourable man come after thee, and the master of the house bid thee arise and make room for the other, and thou be put to shame. If thou sittest at a feast in the that bade thee say unto thee, Friend, sit higher; then lowest seat, and another guest come after thee, and he shall more honour be given unto thee, than unto him that is made to sit lower."

In what Latin version of St. Matthew are such words to be found in this place?

WALTER W. SKEAT. BRERETON.-Can any reader aid the undersigned in tracing the ancestry of Thomas Brereton, Gent., who lived in Dublin in 1724? He leased Abbey Street, formerly occupied by Thomas there to Edmond Maguire, Gent., a dwelling in Grace, Esq. Capt. Thomas Brereton, his son, and came to America as early as 1754. He used commanded the armed ship Betty, of Liverpool, a seal, still in possession of the family, bearing the two bars sable; crest, out of a ducal coronet a following described arms of Brereton :-Argent, bear's head muzzled. Do any of the family pedigrees make mention of the above described

Thomas Brereton of Dublin?

THOMAS J. BRERETON.

Yonkers, New York, U.S. 'FABER FORTUNE.'-In what edition of Bacon's works can I find the 'Faber Fortunæ,' which Pepys read with such pleasure? "My dear Faber Fortunæ of my Lord Bacon." It can hardly be

PRAYERS FOR THE ROYAL FAMILY.-Can any of your readers furnish a complete list of the members of the royal family mentioned by name in various editions of the Prayer Book? I find the following have been named in the present reign:1. Adelaide, the Queen Dowager; the Prince Albert; the Prince of Wales; and all the Royal Family.

2. The Prince Albert; Albert, Prince of Wales, &c. (1853).

3. The Prince Consort; Albert, Prince of Wales, &c. (1861).

4. Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, &c.

5. Albert Edward, Prince of Wales; the Princess of Wales, &c.

Was there any reason for twice altering the description of the Prince of Wales?

Brighton.

FREDERICK E. SAWYER, F.S.A.

"The custom of dedicating books is ancient; and they have been usually dedicated either to great persons, for protection or reward; or to acquaintances, out of friendship and affection; or to children, out of mutual love, and for their instruction.". First book of Mason's Travels,' republished in 'A Collection of Voyages and Travels,' 1745.

How soon after the introduction of printing was the "custom" adopted? WM. FREElove. Bury St. Edmunds.

"STANDARD" TAVERN.-Whereabouts was this tavern in Leicester Fields? It was kept at the close of last century by Sir Benjamin Tibbs, originally a shoeblack at the Golden Cross, Charing Cross. He became a sheriff of the City of London C. A. WARD.

in 1793.

Haverstock Hill,

BLANKETEER.-What does this word mean in the following references? Who were the Blanketeers of 1817?

"Brandreth's insurrection in 1817, the projected expedition of the Blanketeers a little later, and the Bristol riots, were all parts of a widely concerted scheme."Southey, in Life and Corresp.,' 1833, vi. 203. "This epistle awaited her at Beamish's inn on returning from her blanketeering adventure." The Husband Hunter, 1830, iii. 230.

"The King having formerly declared that he would not treat with any of those five notorious members, one of whom they therefore named that his Majestie blancetering att him, might refuse thereupon.".”‘Trelawney Papers,' 1644, Camd. Soc., 8.

Oxford.

J. A. H. MURRAY.

SIR RICHARD FRY.-So far back as 2nd S. vii. 129

MR. E. HORTON made some inquiries concerning Sir Richard Fry. Would any one favour me with MR. HORTON's address, either then or now ?—as I am making similar researches to his, and wish to communicate with him or his successors.

E. A. FRY.

Yarty, King's Norton, near Birmingham, WORDSWORTH'S BIBLE.-Will you kindly allow me to ask any of your readers who have complete editions of Wordsworth's Bible to dispose of to communicate with me, stating the price they want for the books? Post-cards permitted. H. J. CUNLIFFE.

28, Adelaide Crescent, Brighton.

CORINTH'S PEDAGOGUE.-In stanza xiv. of his 'Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte' Lord Byron bids the fallen emperor go to his island, gaze on sea and land, both now free, and write on the sand, That Corinth's pedagogue hath now Transferr'd his by-word to thy brow. Who is the Corinthian pedagogue, and what the "by-word" meant?

J.

[Corinth's pedagogue is Dionysius the younger, who during his second banishment from Syracuse is said to have kept a school at Corinth. Byron means that instead of the name of Dionysius that of Napoleon must henceforward be the stock "by-word" among moralists for a fallen tyrant.]

FORBES OF CULLODEN.-Duncan Forbes, Lord President, had seven sisters. Jean married Sir H. Innes; Margaret, George Munro of Newmore; Grizelda, Ross of Kindence. Will any reader of N. & Q.' kindly give me the names of the others? F. N. R. South Italy.

PSEUDONYMS: "CENSOR DRAMATICUS,"

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