Henry, the author of the play, with the man murdered by Sir Edward Bishop:

"Such were the sudden and untimely ends of all those ancient play-poets, which should serve as a caveat to our moderne (of whom some have likewise come to desperate ends) to deter them from their ungodly profession. Witnesse, Sherly, slaine suddenly by Sr Edward Bishop,

while he was drunke, as most report."

The most particular statement of the circumstances of this murder is preserved in one of Dr. Birch's Transcripts in the Museum (Add. 4177.). The original appears to have been in the State Paper Office; but I have been unable to discover it, where it ought now to be, among the of the papers

domestic

1627: year "Mr Beaulieu to Sr Thomas Puckering, Bart., London, 31 October, 1627.

"There is a foul murther committed on Friday last by Sr Edward Bishop, of Sussex, on Mr Henry Shirley of the same shire, whom he run thro' with his sword (having no weapon about him), as he came to him in his lodging in Chancery Lane to demand of him an annuity of 401., which the said Sr Edward Bishop was to give him, whose lands (which are reported be of 15007. or 20007. by the year) were presently begged or given away, but himself

not yet found out."

The Henry Shirley here mentioned, and who by the preceding extracts is identified with the play-writer, was the second son of Sir Thomas Shirley the younger, of Wiston, in the county of Sussex, by Frances Vavisore, his first wife. He is thus noticed in the Latin pedigrees of the Shirleys, written by Sir Thomas Shirley of St. Botolph's Bridge, in the latter part of the reign of Charles I. (Harl. 4023., p. 125. b.):

"Henricus Shirleius secundo natus, qui sine sobole occisus est."

The annuity of 40%., which was the occasion of his death, was bequeathed to him by his grandmother, Lady Shirley; who secured it on the estate of her friend Sir Thomas Bishop, Knt., of Parham (father of Sir Edward), and in whose will it is also mentioned.

I may add as confirmatory of the above, that it appears by the address "to the courteous reader" that the author of The Martyr'd Souldier was dead in 1638 :

"But the worke it selfe being now an orphant, and wanting him to protect it that first begot it, it were an injury to his memory to passe him unspoken of: for the man, his muse was much courted, but no common mistresse; and though but seldome seene abroad, yet ever much admired at," &c.

Henry Shirley was also author of the following plays never printed, but entered on the books of the Stationers' Company, Sept. 9, 1653: The Spanish Duke of Lerma: The Duke of Guise; The Dumb Bawd; Giraldo, the Constant Lover.

In the Ashmolean Library there are some verses by, I presume, the same author (see Black's Catalogue, c. 43.), thus described:

Knt., and Glascott, the Bailey of Southwark; the place, the Rules of the King's Bench-No amorous style affects

"The Battaile: the combatants, Sr Ambrose Vaux,

my pen."

subscribed, "Henrye Sherley." And in the Scourge of Folly (by John Davies of Hereford), London, 1611, p. 81., are some verses addressed

"To my right worthy Friend, and truly generous Gentleman Henry Sherley, Esquire.

"Could I but sett thee forth as I desire."

I wish I could include the more celebrated poet James Shirley—the author of those noble verses, "The glories of our birth and state"-also among the worthies of the family tree; but the genealogy of the Shirleys of Sussex is so well ascertained, that I fear this to be impossible, and that I must rest contented with the less known name of his supposed kinsman. EVELYN P. SHIRLEY.

THOMAS SIMON THE MEDALLIST.

Can any of your correspondents give me any information concerning Thomas Simon, Simons, or Symonds, the famous medallist, who flourished temp. Charles I., the Commonwealth, and Charles II., and particularly as to the place of his birth? I believe him to have been a native of the island of Guernsey, and for the following reasons:

The name is common in the island, and may be traced back to an early date. Richard Simon was one of the "douzaine," or jury of the parish of Torteval, when the extent of the revenues of the Crown in Guernsey was drawn up in the 5th of Edward III., and many individuals of the name are at the present day holders of land in the same and neighbouring parishes.

"To the Reader of this Play now come in Print. "That this play's old, 'tis true; but now if any Should for that cause despise it, we have many Reasons, both just and pregnant, to maintaine Antiquity; and those too not all vaine," &c.

Imons in which it does not occur.

Thomas Simon himself was married to a Guernsey woman, daughter and sole heiress of Cardin Fautrart.

In a complaint about the year 1655, against Peter de Beauvoir, Esq., bailiff of Guernsey, by

The foundation of the Order is usually placed in 1210, and the saintship of its founder had of course a still later date.

Why does Sir Walter, both in the Tales of the Crusaders and in Ivanhoe, always style a conspicuous personage in the fourth Crusade, Marquis of "Montserrat," instead of "Montferrat?" Did the long f mislead him? J. S. WARDEN.

Childe Harold" and the "Gerusalemme Liberata." The resemblance between the following stanzas of Childe Harold and the Gerusalemme Liberata has never, to my knowledge, been noted: Oh Rome! my country! city of the soul! The orphans of the heart must turn to thee, Lone mother of dead empires! and control In their shut breasts their petty misery. What are our woes and sufferance? The cypress, hear the owl, and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples, Ye! Whose agonies are evils of a dayA world is at your feet as fragile as our clay." Childe Harold, Iv. 78.

Come and see

2. To his son John Benbow, May 5, 1671. 3. From Vice-Admiral Benbow to Captain, (afterwards) Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Hardy, Nov. 30, 1702.

4. From Sir Thomas to Rear, (afterwards) Vice-Admiral Jas. Mighells, March 28, 1717.

after passing of the Reform Bill. Perhaps some of the readers of " N. & Q." may throw some light upon the fact of its passing through so many hands. I may add that, on the first page, the word Talavera is written in large Roman text in letters three quarters of an inch long. JOHN GOODWIN.

Frances Street, Strangways, Manchester.

Queries.

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WHO WAS HENRY SHIRLEY, THE AUTHOR OF THE MARTYR'D SOLDIER?"

In Wood's Athena Oxonienses (edit. Bliss, iii. 741.), under the article on James Shirley, the poet, is the following passage:

"I find one Henry Shirley, gent., author of a play called The Martyr'd Souldier, London, 1638; which Henry I take to be brother, or near kinsman, to James." That this supposition of Wood is without foundation, I think will appear from the extracts which follow premising that on the parentage of James, I can throw no light, it is true that he assumed the arms of my family, which Wood also mentions, with the expressive adjunct: "If he had a right to them," - -an assumption which has yet to be made good.

There is a passage in Tierney's History of the Castle and Town of Arundel, vol. i. p. 67., which gives some sanction to Wood's observation as to the relationship with Henry, at least as regards the popular notion of it; it is taken from a newspaper:

"The Weekly Account of certain Special Passages, &c., from Wednesday, Jan. 3, to the 10th of the same Month, 1644."

Mentioning that

"Sr Edward Bishop some years since embrued his wilfull hands in the blood of Master Henry Shirley, kinsman to Mr. James Shirley, the playwright, and who did excel

1777.

7. From Lord Viscount Nelson to his dear friend Captain Hardy (now Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas), Oct. 21,

1805.

8. From Admiral Sir Thomas to Captain Salusbury Pryce Humphreys, June 11, 1813. 9. From Captain Humphreys to Edwd. W. Lloyd, July 27, 1821.

EDWD. W. LLOYD, July 27, N. S., 1821." This book is in good condition considering its age, and the present owner purchased it in the town of Stockport some thirty years ago at a bookstall. The Edward W. Lloyd was, I think, the first representative of Stockport in parliament

And in another newspaper, called "Certain Informations from several Parts of ye Kingdom, No. 52., Jan. 8 to Jan. 15, 1644," where the taking of Arundel Castle and Sir Edward Bishop is mentioned as

untill he wilfully deserted his service there, who is also stigmatised with blood, for killing of a man that only de

"Once a member of the Honourable House of Commons,

manded his due of him."

That the same person is meant, there can be no doubt. The circumstances as to the debt, which are here alluded to, we shall see afterwards.

Again, in Prynne's Histriomastix, 1633, p. 553. b. (for this extract I am obliged to the Rev. Joseph Hunter), is the following, clearly connecting

Henry, the author of the play, with the man murdered by Sir Edward Bishop:

"Such were the sudden and untimely ends of all those ancient play-poets, which should serve as a caveat to our moderne (of whom some have likewise come to desperate ends) to deter them from their ungodly profession. Witnesse, Sherly, slaine suddenly by Sr Edward Bishop,

while he was drunke, as most report."

The most particular statement of the circumstances of this murder is preserved in one of Dr. Birch's Transcripts in the Museum (Add. 4177.). The original appears to have been in the State Paper Office; but I have been unable to discover it, where it ought now to be, among the domestic papers of the year 1627:

"Mr Beaulieu to Sr Thomas Puckering, Bart., London, 31 October, 1627.

"There is a foul murther committed on Friday last by Sr Edward Bishop, of Sussex, on Mr Henry Shirley of the same shire, whom he run thro' with his sword (having no weapon about him), as he came to him in his lodging in Chancery Lane to demand of him an annuity of 401., which the said Sr Edward Bishop was to give him, whose lands (which are reported be of 1500l. or 20007. by the year) were presently begged or given away, but himself not yet found out."

The Henry Shirley here mentioned, and who by the preceding extracts is identified with the play-writer, was the second son of Sir Thomas Shirley the younger, of Wiston, in the county of Sussex, by Frances Vavisore, his first wife. He is thus noticed in the Latin pedigrees of the Shirleys, written by Sir Thomas Shirley of St. Botolph's Bridge, in the latter part of the reign of Charles I. (Harl. 4023., p. 125. b.) :

"Henricus Shirleius secundo natus, qui sine sobole occisus est."

The annuity of 40%., which was the occasion of his death, was bequeathed to him by his grandmother, Lady Shirley; who secured it on the estate of her friend Sir Thomas Bishop, Knt., of Parham (father of Sir Edward), and in whose will it is also mentioned.

I may add as confirmatory of the above, that it appears by the address "to the courteous reader" that the author of The Martyr'd Souldier was dead in 1638 :

"But the worke it selfe being now an orphant, and wanting him to protect it that first begot it, it were an injury to his memory to passe him unspoken of: for the man, his muse was much courted, but no common mistresse; and though but seldome seene abroad, yet ever much admired at," &c.

Henry Shirley was also author of the following plays never printed, but entered on the books of the Stationers' Company, Sept. 9, 1653: The Spanish Duke of Lerma: The Duke of Guise; The Dumb Bawd; Giraldo, the Constant Lover.

In the Ashmolean Library there are some verses by, I presume, the same author (see Black's Catalogue, c. 43.), thus described:

Knt., and Glascott, the Bailey of Southwark; the place, "The Battaile: the combatants, Sr Ambrose Vaux, the Rules of the King's Bench-No amorous style affects my pen.""

subscribed, "Henrye Sherley." And in the Scourge of Folly (by John Davies of Hereford), London, 1611, p. 81., are some verses addressed

"To my right worthy Friend, and truly generous Gentleman, Henry Sherley, Esquire.

"Could I but sett thee forth as I desire."

I wish I could include the more celebrated poet James Shirley—the author of those noble verses, "The glories of our birth and state"-also among the worthies of the family tree; but the genealogy of the Shirleys of Sussex is so well ascertained, that I fear this to be impossible, and that I must rest contented with the less known name of his supposed kinsman. EVELYN P. SHIRLEY.

THOMAS SIMON THE MEDALLIST.

Can any of your correspondents give me any information concerning Thomas Simon, Simons, or Symonds, the famous medallist, who flourished temp. Charles I., the Commonwealth, and Charles II., and particularly as to the place of his birth? I believe him to have been a native of the island of Guernsey, and for the following reasons:

The name is common in the island, and may be traced back to an early date. Richard Simon was one of the "douzaine," or jury of the parish of Torteval, when the extent of the revenues of the Crown in Guernsey was drawn up in the 5th of Edward III., and many individuals of the name are at the present day holders of land in the same and neighbouring parishes.

It is known that Thomas Simon had an elder brother, also an artist, of the name of Abraham, and for many generations his Christian name has been common in the various branches of the

"To the Reader of this Play now come in Print. "That this play's old, 'tis true; but now if any Should for that cause despise it, we have many Reasons, both just and pregnant, to maintaine Antiquity; and those too not all vaine," &c.

mons in which it does not occur.

Thomas Simon himself was married to a Guernsey woman, daughter and sole heiress of Cardin Fautrart.

In a complaint about the year 1655, against Peter de Beauvoir, Esq., bailiff of Guernsey, by

one of the many factions into which the island was then divided, I find the following passage:

"And the said Peter de Beauvoir makes use of Mr. Thomas Symons, a graver living in the Strand, which Symons having skill in graving and making medalls, hath accesse unto his Highnes and many members of the Council, speakes rashly of the isle and of the inhabitants thereof, and mainteynes and recomends the said de Beauvoir, who is his cosen german and his helpe and council in a suite in law about inheritance in the island of Guernzey, wherein the said de Beauvoir is very officious to oblige to himself the said Symons," &c.

*

In 1643 Simon was ordered by the House of Commons "to make a new Great Seal of England," Lord Keeper Littleton having in the previous year fled to York, where the King then was, taking the Great Seal with him. Is there any engraving of this new Great Seal, and where is it to be found?

From the second edition of Vertue's Medals and other Works of Thomas Simon, published in 1780, I glean the following particulars, which will form the subject of one or two more Queries:

The only surviving child of Thomas Simon was the wife of Mr. Hibberd of London, by whom she had one daughter, married to Samuel Barker of Fairford, Gloucestershire, high sheriff of the county in 1691. Mrs. Barker had two daughters; one died in her infancy, the other (Esther) was married to James Lamb, of Hackney, Esq., who died in 1761. In 1780 his widow was lady of the manor of Fairford. She had inherited several warrants and papers that had belonged to Thomas Simon. Can any one inform me whether she left any descendants, and whether these documents are still in existence ?

The following passage also occurs in Vertue's work:

"Mr. Raymond also favoured me with the sight of a book on vellum, signed Thomas Simon' in the first leaf, containing twenty-five heads in pencil and ink,

Finally, is there any memoir of either of the brothers? EDGAR MACCULLOCH. Guernsey.

Miner Queries.

Lord Byron and the Hippopotamus.-In one of Lord Byron's Journals, he mentions having visited Exeter Change in 1813; and having seen, amongst other animals, a "hippopotamus, very like Lord Liverpool in the face." Never having seen either premier or quadruped, I can only judge from their respective portraits, which certainly display very different physiognomies: but the question is, what animal he can have mistaken for hippo, as there can be no doubt whatever that the stout gentleman in the Regent's Park is the first of his kind that appeared in Europe since the days of the Romans. I should suspect the tapir; which is an animal of somewhat similar habits, and the outline of whose countenance is not so utterly different from that to which it is compared. J. S. WARDEN.

Scottish Nursery Song. An old lady of my acquaintance repeated to me the following lines of an old Scotch nursing song, which her mother used to sing to her. There were several verses, but her memory has lost all but one:

"Ken ye Mysie Barley hinnie,

The lass that sell't the barley hinnie,
She's lost her pouch an' a' her siller,
Ne'er a laud will ere come till her.
Wae's me! for Mysie Barley hinnie."

medals."

This Mr. Raymond was no doubt John Raymond, Esq., of Fairford in Gloucestershire. Was he in any way related to Mrs. Lamb?

Is it known what has become of the book on vellum ?

Vertue mentions that Abraham Simon was in the suite of Queen Christina of Sweden. Are any farther particulars known of him?

[* In the British Museum (Addit. MS. 5478.) is an order for payment to Abraham Symons for the great seal made by his brother Thomas Symons, dated October 4, 1643. And in Addit. MS. 5497., f. 71., is Abraham Symons's receipt for his brother Thomas in behalf of T. Blakestone, dated October 5, 1643. It is generally supposed that Thomas Symons died in 1665, but according to a letter of Samuel Pegge (Gent. Mag., May, 1788, p. 379.), it seems that he lived many years after that date.]

C. D. L.

"Christ Church Bells." Can any of your numerous readers inform me where I can find the above glee in Greek? I heard it sung many years ago, and remember the conclusion:

Sidmouth.

volume of verse in my possession, bearing the fol"Original Poems, by a Lady.' lowing title:

"Original Poems, on various Occasions. By a Lady. Revised by William Cowper, Esq., of the Inner Temple: London, printed for J. Deighton, Holborn; J. Mathews, Strand; and R. Faulder, Bond Street. 1792."