rental was 661. 13s 4d;* Jacob observes at this time [i.e. in 1774] they amount to upwards of two hundred and fifty pounds.t Faversham Church being very old and decayed, a faculty was obtained in 1754 to demolish and rebuild the same; it was pulled down in 1755, and on the rebuilding, the grave-stones with and without brasses were moved from the positions where they lay into other open and conspicuous places in the church. Jacob, however, in reference to Hatch's monument, observes, the large marble inlayed with brass that covers his remains, was so commodiously situated as not to require, when the late alterations were made in the church, any moving as others did, so that his ashes, and even the common earth which covered them were undisturbed, and the said stone is still very conspicuous at the middle entrance into the south aisle or transept. In the same church is a figure in brass, of which the inscription is gone. From his mark it seems he was a merchant of the Staple. He bears besides the arms of the City of Lon 啥 Sterne, in his Sentimental Journey, has the following beautiful expression-God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb. Is the idea the sole product of the Sentimentalist's brain, or was it suggested to poor Yorick while reading some other author's works, and if so, who was he, and where is it to be found? July 1. DAVID GALLOWAY. THE HAT COVERS ALL. The wide-brimmed hats worn by English Ladies, including the entire range of grandmothers to granddaughters, still maintains the overwhelming tenor of a general adoption. In France, the national levity of character, more particularly prior to the revolution, when royalty itself expiated its follies on the scaffold, was frequently developed in the aptitude to accommodate themselves to the frivolities of an unmeaning fashion. M. le Comte d'Artois, afterwards the ignoble King Charles the Tenth, being in a field near Versailles, don, and the Haberdashers' Company. There NTB where a very pretty brunette was milking a cow, and is also a figure of a hawk jessed and belled, perched on a man's wrist, which was probably intended as a rebus on his name. Lee Road, Blackheath. NTE J. J. H. The Foundation stone of Covent Garden Theatre was laid January 4, 1809. On the evening of Friday, 17th inst., after the day's labour of those employed in demolishing the walls had ceased, the stone laid over the Foundation stone was displaced, and below a piece of slate, within a circular cavity of four inches diameter, and about two inches deep, was a copper box. This contained the coins there deposited in 1809. The face of the stone inscribed in three lines in capitals: LONG LIVE GEORGE PRINCE OF WALES. Its position was below the pavement, in the wall, at the corner of the edifice in Hart Street, immediately opposite the doorway of the house numbered 52. At the time of laying the stone in 1809, whoever was in attendance at the lowering the upper stone, in a frolicsome mood, introduced a farthing between them, and on the men shifting the stone it was instantly secured as a relic, intended to have remained there for ages. *History of Faversham, 1774, p. 134. † Harris, History of Kent, 1719, fol. p. 122, referring to this benefaction, describes it as an estate of 1801. per annum, lying in Icklesham, near Hastings, in Sussex. The same writer notices 'On the north side of the chancel is an old fine monument and tomb raised, but there is no inscription about it' -on the margin of a large paper copy of the work is added in manuscript-except this: Whoso him bethoft, inwardly and oft, How hard it were to flitt, from bed unto the pitt, singing a sans souci to each press of the teats, he insisted on and took a kiss. This honour of a salute by the king's brother, was duly acknowledged by her with a curtsey, while with a conscious daring of character, she smartly told the Count-Sir, if you mean to be familiar in my dairy, you must accustom yourself to bearing the burden of part of its furniture. So saying, seigneur's head. The story was soon repeated with she immediately placed the skimming-dish on Monadditions of all kinds, and as nothing was then so common in France, as to create a fashion from the most taneously obtained a hat, as nearly as possible resemtrifling circumstance, every man of the gay circle sponbling a skimming-dish, and the hat thus introduced, was promptly designated with the romantic appellation of— the Milkmaid's frolic. The year 1776 exhibited some whimsical extravagancies in the fashion of the hat, as worn by those who were in attendance on the Court. Square hats, or hats with four points, for a time prevailed, and this grotesqueshaped covering of the head was worn by the petit maitres for their morning dishabille. Some innovators soon after introduced another form as a novelty, hats with two points; this, however, had a brief period of adoption, although the Duke de Richelieu dismissed his valet for daring to place in his hands a hat with four points instead of two. The English slouched hat, being in its turn introduced, wholly set aside the two former, and these fashions constituted the national business for one year! QUEEN'S FOOL.-In the accounts of John Lord Harington, of Exton, as Treasurer of the Chambers to Anne of Denmark, temp. James I., Horace Walpole found an item--paid to T. Mawe, for the diet and lodging of Tom Derry, Her Majesty's Jester, thirteen weeks, 101. 18s. 6d. TANTAMOUNT.-In Johnson's Dictionary, this word, signifying equivalent,' is designated a French word. Locke seems to use it in that sense-If one-third of our coin were gone, and men had equally one-third less money than they have, it must be tantamount, what I'scape of one-third less, another must make up.' What other uses are there of the word, by which its original meaning may be deduced? Cork, July 5. J. W. S. POOR JOE ALL ALONE! Among an extensive series of engraved portraits collected by one of my family, in the last century; is a folio etching, inscribed Poor Joe all alone!' I have been assured it is a rare print, and have referred to Bromley's Catalogue, who merely refers to Gulston's Catalogue, p. 71-r -no mean compliment to its rarity; and Noble is silent; possibly as beyond his period, the close of the reign of King George the First. As CurThe Rev. Edward Clarke, in his Letters concerning the rent Notes is, I am confident, in the hand of many Spanish Nation, 1760-1761, 4to. p. 199, while describing distinguished Collectors, it would confer on me a favour the churches in Segovia, notices that of St. Dominic, a noble which would be gratefully appreciated, if any one of gothic structure, built about 1406, having cut in the stone your correspondents will forward any elucidation in beneath the cornice continued under the roof outside, a reference to Poor Joe? representation of the words TANTO MONTA in old characLiverpool, July 12. M. ters; the meaning of whichis, that when by the marriage of Ferdinand and Isabella, 1474, the kingdoms of Spain and Castille were united, they made this Spanish proverb -Tanto monta, monta tanto Isabella como Fernando; that is to say, Isabel is as good as Ferdinand, and Ferdinand as Isabel!' The only remark I shall make is, that hence comes our English word tantamount. STATUE IN LEICESTER SQUARE. Some years since, prior to the usurpation by the Great Globe of the garden ground in Leicester Square, was a gilded statue of King George the First. Has it been removed elsewhere, or what has become of it? Possibly some of your readers may be able to explain this matter, and who was the sculptor? July 16. When N. J. Dallaway, in his edition of Walpole's Anecdotes, 1827, Vol. IV., p. 89, states-The equestrian statue of King George I. was cast in mixed metal by Van Ost, or Nost, and afterward gilded by him and his principal assistant, Adrien Charpentiere, for the Duke of Chandos, at Canons. The horse was modelled from that by Le Sueur at Charing Cross, and the figure of the Hanoverian monarch certainly an improvement on that of Charles the First. Canons was sold in 1747, for the value of its materials, and its sumptuous ornaments dispersed, the statue of King George with its pedestal was purchased, placed in Leicester Square, and not many years since was regilded. It was understood that in the permission granted for the raising the structure for the Great Globe, the statue was in no way to be interfered with, that a spiral staircase was to surround it, as it stood, and the figure to remain in its position, when the Great Globe itself should leave not a rack behind. That stipulation appears to have been wholly set at nought; the statue was displaced, and some Irish labourers, who believed the figure to be of lead, hacked off one of the legs, but were unable to master its possession from the iron skeleton or frame work within it. It is now hidden in the earth, within the railing, opposite to the late Panopticon, from whence, if nothing is said respecting it, or a claim made on the part of the public, it may find its way, one morning early, to some Jew metal dealer. Poor Joe was a mendicant long well known in the metropolis, whose surname has not transpired. He used to traverse the streets, with a then remarkably long beard, selling ballads and matches, and occasionally diversifying his appeals by some tricks of dexterity, or sleight of hand, and in his patrol used commonly to utter in a plaintive tone-Poor Joe all alone! a term by which he was generally designated. He died at Ware, in Hertfordshire in July 1767, said to be upwards of 105 years of age. The house in which he died, he was known to have possessed some years, at times he sheltered himself there, though in common he lay about Town, in stables, hay-lofts, and other adventitious places, but is reported not to have lain upon a bed for more than fifty years. states, that he died worth more than three thousand pounds, A contemporary notice which he bequeathed for the benefit of Widows and Orphan Children, under the direction of certain persons named in his Will for that purpose. The print was probably a private etching. FRENCH FUNEREAL HONOUR. Béranger, the national poet of France, has at length paid the debt of Nature: he died on Thursday, 16th laid him in his last home, lest the lamp which had so instant, at half-past five, p.m., and on Friday noon they long illumined France should again flicker in the socket. He who had rejected places, pensions, and preferments, and declined to hold any intercourse with the Court, has been followed to the grave not by those whom he loved, but by those with whom he had no sympathy. Twelve cannon were posted in the Place de la Bastille, troops were echellonné on the Boulevard, in order to delude the people into a supposition the cortége would take that direction, and whilst those who would have honoured his transit to the tomb, were proceeding to this great and leading thoroughfare, the police were silently bearing off the body of the most popular poet France ever produced, along the back streets of St. Louis and La Roquette, to the burial ground of Père la Chaise. The Prefect of Police has changed the name of the street, the Rue Vendôme, in which Béranger lived: it is in future to be called the Rue Béranger-the sword Nothing goes down to posterity so uncorrupted as the in this instance yielding to the pen! On parlera de games of children. Dr. Arbuthnot. sa gloire, however, elsewhere than in the Rue Béranger. No. LXXX.] "Takes note of what is done- EPITAPH IN LIMERICK CATHEDRAL. In the History of Limerick, printed for John Ferrar, bookseller in Limerick, 1767, duod., at p. 80, while describing the monuments in St. Mary's Cathedral, it is stated In the wall of the Vestry Room may be seen a curious plain inscription, which very few gentlemen can make perfect, as it is greatly abbreviated, and cut in old English characters; as it may lead others to a discovery, I shall give as many words of the inscription as we can plainly read. Hic jacz in tumuli fundo An. Dni M, D, XIX. Later, in the Appendix, p. 147, it is intimated-A copy of the old inscription mentioned in p. 81, for which no printing types could be procured, may be seen at the Editor's shop, curiously wrote and the abbreviations explained by Mr. David Mahony, writing master. Mahony's elucidations appear to have been sold for illustration of the volume, as my copy has the leaf beautifully written, and subscribed by him. Hiciacz i tumuli fūdo sblat9 amūdo Intu fie 8 caneq, hicdice8prEane Or in words in full length Hic jacet in tumuli fundo sublatus â mundo [AUGUST, 1857. The Earldom was a creation of the reign of Queen Anne: Sir James Stuart having been created by patent dated at St. James's, April 14, 1703, Earl of Bute, Viscount of Kingarth, Lord Mountstuart, Cumra, and Inchmarnoch, to him, and his heirs male for ever. He married a daughter of Sir George, the bloody Mackenzie,' as he was called by the Covenanters, and by this marriage the Bute family became possessed of the Rosehall estates. The Earl died at Bath, June 4, 1710, whence his body was carried to Rothsay, and there buried. John, the second Earl, married Ann, the only daughter of Archibald, first Duke of Argyle; who by this her first husband was the ancestress of the Marquis of Bute, Lords Wharncliffe, Stuart de Rothesay, and Stuart de Decies. The letters of the Countess here printed from the autographs are interesting as illustrative of the then habits of ladies of high families-only think of a modern Countess ordering cheap "candells and salt petter." Were any unfortunate Peeress to venture on looking into household matters now-a-days, what a sensation it would create! Think of a modern GALFRIDUS ARTHUR veræ Thesaurarius quondam istius Countess of Bute travelling by the mail-coach, her Ecclesiæ, Decimo sexto Luce Maia requiescit in pace perpetua The footman being on the top with the luggage! Why, even with the aid of railway travelling, there would be a van for the luggage, lady's maid, etc., etc., etc., ad infinitum; and yet the lady who travelled by the coach, and studied economy in her establishment, was a Duke's daughter. to whom these letters were addressed, was James Anderson, whose Diplomata Scotia are well known to Scottish antiquaries. The Countess's spelling is most abominable, but in this she was not singular, as most of her cotemporaries were equally deficient in that respect. The notorious Colonel Charteris was distinAccording to ancient custom the fifth line bears this guished for his vicious orthography, he nevertheless From this World translated in May, in the morn, on the six- The fifteen hundred and nineteenth year, of our Crucified version: Rests in perpetual peace. person contrived to amass great wealth, which was carried into the family of Wemyss, by the marriage of his only Do thou incite the solemn Train, and with the doleful trumps daughter to the fourth Earl. Her ladyship was the proclaim Eight times this mournful story; Then to Eana oblation make, of eight prayers for the sake great-grandmother of the present Earl of Wemyss, who is thus the Colonel's heir of line. The first letter is superscribed-To Mr. Anderson, To the care of Mr. Thomas Paterson, Att the Crowne and Stare Coffee-house, Att foot of the Haymarket, London. I Sir, I desire the faver of you to by for me 2 duzen of| Molds for Candells, 12 of fours in the pound, and 12 of Long Sexes in the pound, and lett them be strong and very smoth within; and 1 pound of salt, and 1 pound of salt petter, the propertyes of which are to be very white, so that when you chose them, tak the whitest you can gett. I would hawe them Come Doun with the plate (which I hope you will send as sone as possibl), take care in the packing of them that thay be no ways brused, for if they be, they will spoil my candells. I put you to this trobel, those things here being nather so good nor so cheep. I am, Sr, your Humble Servant, Edin., ye 5 of Jun, 1712. A. BUTE. The post mark indicates the charge at this time, to have been sixpence. The second letter, addressed, “To Mr. Anderson, Postmaster att Edinburgh," relates to her preparation for travelling. Sir, I give yow many thanks for sending me my letter, and as to the Coach, I can't waite so long, so pray doe me the favor to hire a coach against monday or tusday att fardest, for pleas God, I entend to sett out from monday or tusday at fardest. be pleased to lett me know what you doe in this afair. I am, Sir, your most humble servant, A. BUTE. The following addressed Mr. Anderson, General Postmaster, at Edinburgh,' is dated Munday ye 10 cloke. Sir, I give yow many thanks for the troble you are pleased to be att about the coach, but baley [i. e., Baillie] asks so dear, that I can't think of giving it. I must give yow furder troble which I'm ashamed of, but I hope you'll excuse it, being (sic) I know you will doe it better and cheaper as any other person. You'l please asone as the stage Coach comes in, to send inquir if it be taken, and if it be not, you will put yourself to the troble to inquir about it. don't lett them know it is any body of qualety, call me only Mrs. Stewart. I shall want I beleve 4 pepils places. I have baggeg and a footman to goe one the coach, so let me know the condiscions, but agree fully so as they may not take up any of these 4 plases, and asone as yow send me word, I will fully determain in it. I would rather goe this way as any other, so pray keep the bearer in toun til once yow may send the positive word if I can have 4 plases or how many three is the fewest I can have. Pardon this troble. I am, Sr, your humble servant. ANN BUTE. The Countess was the mother of John, third Earl of Bute, who was born in Parliament Square, Edinburgh, May 25, 1713; of the Right Hon. James Stuart of Mackenzie, born in or about 1718; and of four daughters. The Earl her husband died in January, 1723, and she married secondly, September 19, 1731, Alexander Fraser, of Strichen, co. Aberdeen, a lord of Session and Justiciary; by him she had a son, named Alexander, born January 6, 1733. The Countess died at Strichen, October 9, 1736. Advocate's Library, Edinburgh. J. M. KIT CATT CLUB. In the list of the portraits of the members engraved in Faber's Series, p. 51 ante, an error has inadvertently crept in. Their order should be thus 15. Charles Howard, Earl of Carlisle. Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlington. 16. James Berkeley, Earl of Berkeley. 17. Richard Lumley, Earl of Scarborough, painted 1717. The quotation referred to by B. of Worcester, p. 49; Did good by stealth, and blush'd to find it fame; occurs in Pope's Epilogue to the Satires, line 135: Let humble Allen with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it Fume. Beverley, July 27. CAROLINE BRERETON. The Editor has gratefully to acknowledge the same reference from J. K. R. W., July 27; CHARLES WYLIE; D; and W. B., Grove Street, Liverpool. G. N. Y., Limerick, August 3, while kindly denoting the same reference, adds-for many hours of interest and subjects for thought, out of gratitude to the Fair gatherer and disposer of other men's stuff, I would commend to your readers the Handbook of Familiar Quotations, chiefly from English authors,' published by Murray, for five shillings. A second edition is now printed, with an index. In what author is to be found the line that has in its purport become an every-day axiom? A little learning is a dangerous thing. Norwich, August 13. R. F. In Pope's Essay on Criticism, line 215. The quatrain proffers the admonitory caution and advice A little learning is a dang'rous thing; JOHN DUNSTALL, THE PLAYER. The following unpublished letter of John Beard, in Garrick's time the leading great singer at Covent Garden Theatre, of which he was one of the patentees, was addressed to Thomas Hull, the dramatist and player. distinction at Drury Lane Theatre, under Garrick's It refers to the exit of John Dunstall, a player of some management, and at the Haymarket, under Foote. A reference to the Kemble collection of play-bills has the memorandum in the tragedian's autograph-Dunstall died Thursday, December 31, 1778. Beard made his debut at Drury Lane Theatre, as Sir John Loverule, in the Devil to Pay, August 30, 1737. Rose Hill, Old New Year's Day, 1779. Dear Tom,-The loss of poor Dunstall affects me exceedingly. He was as just, as honest, as sincere a man as ever lived; the bluntness of his address served only as a foil to every social virtue, which He possess'd in the most eminent degree; whatever he said or did was from the heart. He ate heartily, drank heartily, laughed heartily, and loved with all his heart. It may be truly said of Jack as of Paul-He knew no guile! Who ever heard him depreciate an absent Enemy, or flatter a present Friend? Oh no! his bosom was too full of the noblest feelings of Humanity to have room for the little polite arts of deceit or cunning; he had great theatrical merit, was indefatigable in his business, an honour to his profession, and as far as his power extended, a friend to mankind. He honoured, he succoured merit in rags, and despised unfeeling arrogance, though in the golden chariot of a manager. Such are my real thoughts of honest Jack. He is the subject of my meditations in my garden, my parlour, my bed; and if this sketch of his character appears tolerable in black and white, it is because the outline is just; we were nearly of the same age, and no wonder I indulge these serious reflexions on the Man of Worth,' and pay this little tribute of An Epitaph To the ever respectable Memory of JOHN DUNSTALL, COMEDIAN, in the sixty-second year of his age. A man by Nature, open, warm, sincere; This manly heart would melt, the tear would flow. Beloved from youth to age, by old and young, Tho' flatt'ry ne'er disgraced his honest tongue. Tried and approved by a discerning age, His name shall grace the annals of the Stage, Whilst Truth, which most he loved, shall tell, Through ev'ry scene of Life he acted Well. Go, gentle Reader, go! and if you can, Live like this upright, downright honest man. Dear Tom, you know I do not pretend to write, but I know you are my Friend, and by that tie bound to endure and conceal my weakness, and am sure, you forgive the attempt for the sake of the motive. Live and be happy, my dear Tom, that I may be happy whilst I live; and tell dear Maria, that except self, there is no man living, loves, honours, and esteems her more than ARMORIAL BEARINGS OF KENTISH FAMILIES. lected by FILMER SOUTHOUSE, of Faversham, Gent., Recently examining a volume of Kentish arms, colAdditional MSS. in museo, no, 14307, I was induced by its great interest to the County Historian to take some extracts, which I communicate to Current Notes. The their proper colours, on vellum; in some instances the arms, nine shields on a page, are emblazoned in place of abode of the families are inscribed above the shield. On the first, in the upper corner, is written "J. GODteret Webb appears to have been a subsequent possessor, FREY, Norton Court, January 13, 1707." Philip CarJACOB, the Historian of Faversham, with the intimation as the preceding note is followed by one, by EDWARD of its purchase by him "out of Webb's library, in March, 1771." In the centre of the same page is a coat, Southouse of Southouse, tricked without denoting any blazon, viz: Quarterly, 1 and 4, on a bend between two cotises, three martlets. 2, on a chief, a cross tau, between two mullets. 3, three bars, in chief three cinquefoils; impaling Lozengy on a pale invected, a sword erect, hilt in base on a chief, a fleur de lis between two cross molines. Crest, out of a ducal coronet, a lion's head, the shield surmounted by a mantle arg., doubled gules. Below these arms is written-Purchased at the sale of Lord Berwick's library, May 3, 1843, no. 1736. On the reverse of this leaf, the volume is entitled,― A Collection of Kentish Arms, extracted and drawne from not only Ancient Collections and Office Bookes now remaining in the Heralds' Office, but also from Church Windowes, Gravestones, Seales, and Windowes in Gentlemen's Houses, by me, Filmer Southouse of Faversham in the County of Kent, Gent. Subjoined is the description of several coats of arms which I considered more particularly deserving of notice. AKEHOLт. Quarterly, arg. and az, over all a bend chequy or and gules. BASINGE. Azure, across moline or, over all a bend gules. will BODE, of Faversham and Bailey. Sable, two chevrons between three escallops argent. your-chief three crosses fitchy gules. JNO. BEARD. My Charlotte bids me add all that's kind from her to both; a thousand loves to Dear Emmy, and tell her I will not lose my Christmas Kisses. Hull was then living in Martlett Court, Bow Street, Covent Garden. Beard lived happily; died Feb. 5, 1791, in his 75th year, and was buried at Hampton Court. Hull pursued an even course through life, and survived Beard, till April 15, 1808, when dying in his 68th year, he was buried in St. Margaret's, Westminster. BYKNORE. Arg., on a chief az. three lions rampant arg., over all a bend gules. Sable, a cross en BARNHAM, of Hollingborne. grailed argent, between four crosses argent. CLEYBROOKE, of Nash Court in Thanet, a cross pattée gules. Arg., CRUX. Arg., a pale sable, thereon an eagle displayed between two crosses pattée fitché, argent, all within a bordure sable. DEATH of Dartford. Sable, a griffin passant or, armed gules, between three crescents argent. DOGGE. Barry of six or and sable, over all a pale. arg., a human eye shedding drops of blood. |