rine Nairn pleaded pregnancy, and was respited. I quite agree with your correspondent that this story is not suitable for discussion in the pages of 'N. & Q.' There is a very full account of the trial and subsequent events in the Annual Register, vols. viii. and ix. Ogilvie was hanged in the Grass Market on the evening of Nov. 13, 1765. Catherine Nairn, who was necessarily respited, escaped from prison, and got away to France. EDWARD H. MARSHALL, M. A. Hastings Corporation Reference Library. POETRY FOR CHILDREN (7th S. vii. 168, 254). -The name of the book asked is 'Poetry Book for Schools.' Unfortunately I have only a fragment-the remains of one used by a very young child years since-ergo, cannot state publisher. R. J. MANNING. SIR RICHARD PRESTON (7th S. vii. 228).-Sir Richard Preston was one of the Prestons of Whitehill, near Edinburgh, and descended from Andrew de Preston, fourth son of Sir Simon de Preston of Craigmiller, who was knighted about 1360. Being one of King James I.'s favourites, Sir Richard was loaded with honours. He was created Lord Dingwall, and married Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Thomas Butler, tenth Earl of Ormond, by whom he had one child, Elizabeth, whom the Duke of Buckingham intended for the wife of his nephew, George Feilding, second son of William, first Earl of Denbigh. With a view to this marriage Mr. Fielding was created Baron Fielding, and Lord Dingwall created Viscount of Callan and Earl of Desmond, with remainder to his intended son-in-law. The scheme was frustrated by the murder of the Duke of Buckingham and the death of the Earl of Desmond, who was drowned in his passage between Dublin and Holyhead, October, 1628. The barony of Dingwall devolved on his daughter, who, however, married the following year James, Lord Thurles, afterwards twelfth Earl of Ormond. The earldom of Desmond devolved on Lord Feilding, in whose family it still remains. CONSTANCE RUSSELL. Swallowfield, Reading. The earldom of Desmond was conferred by James I. on his favourite, Sir Richard Preston, Knt., Lord Dingwall in Scotland (who had married Lady Elizabeth Butler, descended in the female line from the original earls). Sir Richard Preston had been drowned on his passage from Dublin to England in 1628, and, leaving only a daughter, the dignity reverted to George Feilding, who was created, November 22, 1622, Lord Feilding of Lecaghe and Viscount Callan in the peerage of Ireland, as also Earl of Desmond, which title was to be enjoyed after the death of Sir Richard Preston, then holding the dignity. I have never come across a pedigree of Sir Richard Preston. GHERADINO. แ "WARPLE WAY" (7th S. vii. 269).—MR. ATTwarple way" at WELL will find reference to a Acton in the reports of the case of Serff v. Acton Local Board (L. R., 31 Ch. D. 679; 54 L. T. R. (N.S.), 379; 55 L. J., Ch., 569; 34 W. R. 563), before Mr. Justice Pearson, in January, 1886. I believe the Law Times newspaper gave a note on the term "warple way" during February of the same year; but I have not the paper to refer to. Q. V. See N. & Q.,' 1st S. ix. 125, 232, 478. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road. HENRY MARTYN (7th S. vii. 245).—It should be mentioned that the Journals and Letters' of Henry Martyn were published in 1837, in 2 vols., under the editorship of the Rev. (afterwards Right Rev.) Samuel Wilberforce. EDWARD H. MARSHALL, M.A. Hastings Corporation Reference Library. There is a good deal about Martyn in Carus's 'Life of Rev. C. Simeon.' See also 'Memoir of Joseph Pratt,' 1849, pp. 54, 65; Life of W. Wilberforce'; Seeley's Later Evangelical Fathers,' 1879. St. Chrysostom and Henry Martyn died under similar circumstances, and are buried at the same place. See the parallel drawn out in the large edition of Conybeare and Howson's 'St. W. C. B. Paul.' FRANCIS MACERONI (7th S. vii. 208).—In or about 1836 Francis Maceroni lodged at the house of Lieut. Raymond Evans, R.N., Chapel Place, Lower Norwood. Evans living next door but one to my parents, I knew Maceroni well by sight, and was often at Evans's house. Maceroni was then engaged with a Frenchman named Marquet, who lived at Kennington, in bringing out a steam carriage to run upon common roads. In an experimental run at Chelsea the carriage ran into a jeweller's shop at the corner of Sloane Street. THOMAS FROST. CHURCHES OWNED BY CORPORATIONS (7th S. vii. 248).-In Glasgow the Corporation are the proprietors of the following churches (Presbyterian, of course): Blackfriars, St. Andrew's, St. George's, Tron, St. Enoch'e, St. David's, St. John's, St. James's, and St. Paul's. J. B. FLEMING. SOPHY DAWS (7th S. vii. 248).-The story of Sophy Daws, her connexion with Chantilly, and career subsequent to the mysterious death of the last Condé, have been lately exhaustively written by a friend of mine in two articles in St. James's Gazette. The first appeared on March 22, and the second will follow shortly. R. H. BUSK. JOSEPH FORSYTH (7th S. vi. 469; vii. 155).— Will J. A. C. kindly give me the full title of Young's 'Annals of Elgin,' including date of publication and Christian name of the author? I gather from J. A. C.'s quotation that there are further particulars relating to the Forsyth family in the book, and, if so, I should much like to see a copy of it. I have searched the calendars at the British Museum, but as yet without success. H. W. FORSYTH HARWOOD. 12, Onslow Gardens, S.W. STUART EXHIBITION (7th S. vii. 248).—According to the list of the names published in the Athenæum as intended to be inserted under the letter G in the 'Dictionary of National Biography,' there were in the last century two Scotch judges called Patrick Grant. One of them lived from 1690 to 1756, and became Lord Elchies. The following short account of the other is taken from the 'Biographical Dictionary' (1809):— "Patrick Grant, a judge in Scotland, was born at Edinburgh in 1698; in 1754 he was made one of the lords of session, with the title of Lord Preston-Grange. He wrote several tracts against the rebellion in 1745. He died at Edinburgh in 1762.” May not this have been the man to whom the miniature was presented? Besides the above, the only possible names in the list mentioned appear to be the Rev. Philip Gibbs, stenographer, f. 1736, and Peter Grant, Catholic divine, fl. 1784. J., F. MANSERGH. Liverpool. Can the initials P. G. on the back of the case containing the valuable miniature portrait of Charles I. signify "Princeps Gallia" (Prince of Wales), and the gift have been to Prince Charles Edward of his great-grandfather's likeness. Preston. H. C. WALTON. RICHARD FRANCKLIN, BOOKSELLER (7th S. vii. 41). As MR. W. ROBERTS has no notice of the authorship of the essay on the Thirty-nine Articles which he mentions as published by R. Francklin, let me observe that it was Anthony Collins. At p. 28 there is a notice of the "King's Declaration before the Articles in 1628," with which compare N. & Q.,' 6th S. i. 331. One particular more of his connexion with N. Amhurst may be given. It is stated that he "was buried at the charge of his printer Richard Francklin" (W. Butler, 'Chronological, Biographical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Exercises,' London, 1811, p. 129). ED. MARSHALL. "" MACBETH" ON THE STAGE' (7th S. vii. 68, 130, 145, 231, 275).—In this connexion the following jeu d'esprit from the European Magazine for July, 1977, may be read with interest: ON THE PERFORMANCE OF 'MACBETH.' (Eight kings appear, and pass in order over the stage. Banquo the last.) Old Quin, ere fate suppress'd his lab'ring breath, C. C. B. CANCINATING (7th S. vii. 289).—This is obviously a mere misprint for lancinating, an ordinary word, commonly used, and meaning "tearing," "lacerating," or (as in this case)" shooting," as applied to a pain in the head. JULIAN MARSHALL. [Very numerous correspondents write to the same effect.] SAMUEL PEPYS (7th S. vii. 81, 196, 274).-The MS. corrections occur in my copy on the same pages as in that of MR. FREDK. HENDRIKS; they are, therefore, presumably identical. This proves almost certainly that the published and unpublished books are from the same type, uncorrected and unaltered in any way, except only the presence or absence of the publisher's name on the title. Otherwise there is no difference: the edition is one and the same. The collation of my copy agrees with that which MR. HENDRIKS gives, except for the blank leaf at the end; and I doubt if that is part of the book, for there are four leaves to signature S without it. JULIAN MARSHALL. I have a copy of this book, which somewhat resembles that of MR. HENDRIKS. Like his, it has MS. corrections on pp. 11, 40, 70, 92, and 120. The collation is exactly the same, but it has no MS. letters or figures on the title. G. FIELDING Blandford. It is very interesting to find that there were two editions of this work. I should not have thought it was a very rare one, as I have often seen mention of copies, but do not remember to have seen the privately-printed and more interesting one described. My copy has the same imprint as MR. JULIAN MARSHALL'S, and has MS. corrections in the following pages: 39, 40, 57, 70, 90, 92, 103, and 120. It seems impossible to say whether they are in the handwriting of Pepys or not. I have seen a copy described as being on large paper. Query, if there are two sizes? J. ELIOT HODGKIN. I also have a copy of the little book by Pepys corresponding to that described by MR. JULIAN MARSHALL in every way. The corrections are also in it as described by MR. HENDRIKS, with additional ones at pp. 33, 57, 90, 103, 138, 142. JAMES ROBERTS BROWN. PRONUNCIATION OF VASE (7th S. vi. 489; vii. 173, 236). Is it worth while to reproduce these clever verses of James Jeffrey Roche on this subject ? The Vase. From the madding crowd they stand apart And none might tell from sight alone, In which had Culture ripest grown. The Gotham Million fair to see, The Boston Mind of azure hue, Or the Soulful Soul from Kalamazoo. The Western one from the nameless place, She cries: "Tis indeed a lovely vaze!" But the Boston maid smiles courteouslee, I was so entranced with that lovely vaws." Sinistra quum Bostonia. W. H. BURK. I recollect about seven years ago frequently hearing this word pronounced in Staffordshire as if spelt vause, rhyming with cause. I also knew several people who invariably used vaze, as if to rhyme with haze. But this pronunciation is rapidly being superseded there by the usual one-vahse. J. CUTHBERT WELCH, F.C.S. There is a second volume of Anon.'s poems which from its rarity is probably unknown to FAMILY MOTTOES (7th S. vii. 127).—The tradition in our family regarding the origin of our crest and motto is this. Angus Dhu Mackay (13801429) being questioned as to the validity of the charter by which he held his lands (he had in reality no charter), drew his dirk, or dagger, and striking it on the table at which he was sitting, said, "This is my charter," adding some words in Gaelic, meaning "with a strong hand." The hand and dagger seem then to have been adopted as the crest. In the oldest form the dagger is represented as held upright; but when Sir Donald Mackay was raised to the peerage in 1628, with the title of "Lord Reay," he seems to have changed the crest somewhat, and made it a dexter arm couped and erect, grasping a dagger also erect, with the motto "Manu forti." The motto of the Abrach Mackays (descendants of John Abrach Mackay) is "Bidh treun" ("Be valiant"), which was very appropriate, as they were considered the wardens of the clan territory. The ancient banner (the bratach bhan) of this branch of the Mackays is still preserved, and is now in the possession of Mr. Alex. Mackay, Thurso. It was exhibited at a meeting of the Clan Mackay Society, held in Glasgow on December 27 last. It had a figure in the centre, said to have been a stag, and the above motto; but the figure is now worn out and the motto hard to decipher. I examined the banner several years ago. JOHN MACKAY. Cambridge, Mass., U.S. I think that MR. J. S. FARMER will find great difficulty in making his intended collection, from not at all universally so. the fact that while arms are hereditary, mottoes are ridges formerly used the punning motto "Cole For instance, the Colevita finis ita." In my own family, the late Mr. Regem," but now Lord Coleridge adopts "Qualis Cornelius Walford took as his motto, I know not on what ground, "Fortis et stabilis"; one of my brothers has taken "Fortis ut leo cui fides in Deo," in allusion to our lion and cross crosslet; while I have adopted "Per ardua," in allusion to the struggles of a literary life. Gibbon, too, speaks of the pathetic motto of the Courtenays, “ Ubi lapsus? quid feci?" But the late Earl of Devon told me that he had exchanged this for the somewhat commonplace "Quod verum tutum." E. WALFORD, M.A. uncertainty as to the birth-date, and even the MAGAZINE LITERATURE OF THE PRESENT CENTURY (7th S. vii. 267).—MR. TAYLOR is but ex7, Hyde Park Mansions, N.W. pressing a wish of every literary worker. Poole's 'Index' is excellent, but far from complete. We BATTLE OF KEllinghausen (7th S. vii. 248).—want an index which will include certainly such This action is probably the same as that of Villings- useful periodicals as the Athenæum and Notes and hausen, which is described in the Annals of the Queries, and which will be brought up to date. I Wars of the Eighteenth Century,' by Lieut.-General commenced myself an index to the magazine literathe Hon. Sir Edward Cust, D.C.L., vol. iii. p. 63. ture of 1888, but pressure of work has prevented The battle was begun on the evening of the 15th, its completion. I should be glad, however, to coand was fought out on the 16th of July, 1761. operate with MR. TAYLOR or others. W. C. L. FLOYD. COFFEE-HOUSE SIGN OR TITLE (7th S. vii. 248). -In Louis Fagan's 'The Reform Club, 1836-1886,' p. 70, the following occurs : "Four rooms were taken at the Salopian Coffee House, No. 41, Charing Cross, from December 29, 1810, to January 21, 1841, at a rent of 81. 9s. per week, including fuel and allowances to the servants of the hotel. This about to be demolished," FREDERICK HINDE. How POPULAR INFORMATION IS ACQUIRED: DAUGHTER (7th S. vi. 283, 370, 510; vii. 255).— May I correct an inaccuracy I detected in CANON TAYLOR'S note on this subject? Dr. O. Schrader, in his quoted work, 'Sprachvergleichung und Urgeschichte,' by no means explains the word daughter to mean "the suckling," but he confines the himself to the remark, "Whether duhitár (i. e, primitive form of daughter) means the milkmaid, the suckling, or the sucking one, is more than uncertain, and can never be decided" (cf. l. c., p. 196). H. K. house, now [1886] occupied by the Horse Guards, is the reasoning which leads Dr. O. Schrader to his Will CANON TAYLOR kindly give us the pith of conclusion respecting the etymological signification of daughter? ST. SWITHIN. Reform Club. GEO. B. SYRETT. The old Salopian Coffee-House is supposed to have occupied the site of what is now 41, Charing Cross. The premises, indeed, though altered from time to time, may never have been entirely rebuilt. W. H. CROSS-TREES (7th S. vii. 8, 138, 252).-It may interest E. L. G. and others to know that the curiously carved stocks indicated at the last reference are still" on view" at Waltham Abbey, being enclosed in a small angular space between the road and the schools opposite the abbey church. The carved ornamental details and date 1598 are still visible, and by the side of the stocks is the high post bearing remains of the pillory. Loughton, I. C. GOULD. FFOLKES BARONETCY (7th S. vii. 207, 257).— Since writing my query I have seen 'Marlborough College Register' (1870). It states (p. 96) that Martin William Browne Ffolkes, son of M. B. Ffolkes, Esq., Hillington Hall, Lynn, Norfolk, was aged fourteen at the date of his admission to the college in August, 1864, a statement clearly at variance with Burke's, viz., that he was born July 19, 1849. It is strange to think that in this nineteenth century there should have been this 'LORD DERWENTWATER'S FAREWELL' (7th S. vii. 248).—The ballad on Lord Derwentwater for which Allan Cunningham is responsible is in Cromek's 'Remains of Nithsdale and Galloway Song,' p. 107 (Gardner's reprint, 1880). It opens thus : O Derwentwater 's a bonnie Lord, "The editor cannot find any tradition on which this ballad. is founded. It is taken from the recitation of a young girl in the parish of Kirk-bean, in Galloway." Without any such explanation he gives it in his 'Scottish Songs,' iii. 192, where he likewise quotes from "a very beautiful song popularly known by the title of 'Lord Derwentwater's Good Night "": And fare thee well, my bonnie gray steed, That carried me ay sae free, &c., eight lines being quoted in all. Why the whole of this "very beautiful song" is not given the editor does not explain. Helensburgh, N.B. THOMAS BAYNE. 'SKETCHES FROM ST. GEORGE'S FIELDS' (7th S. vii. 228).-Lord Broughton did not write this work. The author was Peter Bayley, of Sampford Arundel, in Somersetshire, and of Handford, in the parish of Trentham, Staffordshire. As the general public know nothing of him beyond what is contained in the 'Dictionary of National Biography,' perhaps I may be allowed to add that he was a member of an old family seated for many generations in Cheshire and Staffordshire, and now represented by Mr. James Hayes Bayley, of Willaston Hall, in the former county; and that through his grandmother, the second wife of James Bayley, of Stapeley, eldest son of James Bayley, of Wistaston, High Sheriff of Cheshire in 1717, he was descended in several ways from the Plantagenet Kings of England. His death was most sudden, and an account of it is given in the Annual Register for 1823. Before that time he was living in London. A copy of 'Sketches from St. George's Fields' would probably be found in the Library of the British Museum. But this was not his only work. He was also the author of a poem called 'Idwal'; a tragedy, 'Orestes in Argos, which after his death was brought out at Covent Garden Theatre; and several other works, among which a Greek poem may be mentioned. I may state that I am Mr. Bayley's only grandson, and last remaining male descendant, and that the particulars that I have here given of his family connexions are taken from private sources of information, and have never before been published. C. W. STRETTON. I have a copy of this book, "by Giorgione di Castel Chiuso," published by Stodart & Steuart, Strand, 1820. It is in one volume, 8vo., not 12mo. I shall be happy to show it to G. F. R. B. Do any of the readers of 'N. & Q.' know by whom the illustrations, head and tail pieces, were executed? They are much in the style of Robert Cruikshank. G. FIELDING BLANDFORD. 71, Grosvenor Street, W. or capable of keeping a secret. Besides the more familiar meaning, Littré gives "Secrétaire, anciennement, confident, celui à qui l'on confide ses secrets." I heard the word so used not long ago by a Scots lady by no means very old or given to archaic forms of speech. It may be found in Allan Ramsay's 'Gentle Shepherd.' I have not the book at hand. But I am somewhat surprised to find no mention of this use of the word in Jamieson's 'Scot. Dictionary.' ALEX. FERGUSSON, Lieut.-Col. Lennox Street, Edinburgh. Secretary, in the sense suggested by L., is not used in Ireland-not, at any rate, in the south. It seems probable that the witness simply caught the sound of the word secret, and framed his answer accordingly. GUALTERULUS. ERROR REGARDING THE MASS (7th S. vi. 506; vii. 154, 235).—I think I can state the matters which seem to have given rise to doubt respecting the celebration of the mass somewhat more clearly than has been done. No sacred service whatever in which the Consecration of the Elements does not take place is, or can be, called a mass. The word itself is sufficient to indicate this. No mass is celebrated on the vigil of Christmas Day, or on any other vigil. It is usual in Rome to celebrate a midnight mass, i. e., on the morning of Christmas Day. This mass may be begun before midnight, but it must not be finished till after, it being absolutely necessary that the consumption of the elements should take place in the morning-i. e., in the hours between midnight and midday. This Christmas mass is merely a matter of usage. There is nothing to prevent a mass being said any morning immediately after midnight. The statement about the three masses on Christmas Day is likely to mislead. Any number of G. F. R. B. will be enabled to see a copy by masses may be said in any church, which can be applying to 20, Molesworth Street, Dublin. J. H. F. Gentleman's Magazine, April 20, 1825: 'A new tragedy by the late Mr. P. Bailey, author of "Sketches from St. George's Fields."" No doubt G. F. R. B. will find it under that name in the British Museum or at Guildhall Library, but I have not seen it. WILLIAM RENDLE. SECRETARY (7th S. vii. 229).-Had the Irish witness who stated that he understood by this word the keeping of a "secret" been examined in the course of the Scots Parnell case, his testimony would possibly not have caused such merriment amongst the court and audience as it seems to have done in London. The word is not uncommon in Scotland in its apparently original sense of one who is confidential, said at the different altars in it within the canonical hours-it being understood, of course, that they must be said by different priests. No priest can on any occasion celebrate more than once in each day. In all large churches many more than three masses are probably said each day. It may be mentioned that according to the Armenian rite the rules respecting the canonical hours for saying mass are not quite the same as in the Roman rite. T. ADOLPHUS TROLLOPE. Budleigh Salterton. In connexion with this question, it may be worth while to note the following entry in the records of the Drapers' Company at Shrewsbury :— "1527. Paid to Sir Richard Forton, Chaplain, and to the Parish Priest at a funeral for a mass of Requiem by night 0 0 11." See Phillips's History of Shrewsbury' (1729), |