"Vicesimus secundus Rex Danorum, Ambletus, qui fuit vir astutissimus regem Angliæ in bello occidit (at Ambleside?) et Angliam &c. in ditione sua tenuit. "Tricesimus rex Frichlen totam Britanniam Danis subjugavit et tributum dare coegit.

"Tricesimus primus R. D. dictus fuit Frothi Frichgote. Hujus Regis tempore Christus Jesus mundi salvator natus est. Iste sibi subjugavit Svveciam iterum Danis rebellantem, insuper subjecit sibi Britanniam, Hiberniam, Scotiam, Angliam, &c., quorum Reges et Principes omnes servierunt Danis." [What were the Romans about?]

Reiner, sixty-first King of Denmark, "subjugavit Angliam, Schotiam, Hiberniam, Ruciam,

&c."

Eric, sixty-sixth king, destroyed all the churches in Anglia, Britannia, &c., and in his time his general, Rollo, obtained possession of Normandy. The next invasion of England is that by Canute, and as the subsequent history is well known, I will here take my leave of the old Chronicler.

The first invasion of France by the Normans of which I can discover any account, is that mentioned in the old Chronicle known as Annalista Saxo, where, under the year vCCCLIII (853), it is reported that

"Nortmannorum Classis Ligeris fluminis primum adiit littora, qui Nortmanni Britannicum mare navigio girantes, ostia Ligeris occupaverunt et repentina irruptione civitatem Namnotis invadunt. . . . omnem circum quaque regionem devastantes, primum Andegavensem, deinde Turonicam occupant urbem: " [the church of St. Martin in which town they destroyed by fire."]

The Normans are, in this chapter, spoken of as strangers to France, for we read, "Hi siquidem a Scithia inferiori egressi Normanni lingua barbara, quasi homines septentrionales, dicti sunt,"

-an explanation that would not, I think, be given by the Chronicler if they had not been hitherto strangers. The next invasion, according to the same author, took place in 868, when the Normans, who appear, however to have established a sort of colony on the banks of the "Ligeris fluminis," again began to "crudeliter depopulari" Namnetensem, Andegavensem, Pictaviensem atque Turonicam provinciam." Having obtained a victory in a battle with Rodbert de la Marche and Rudolf, Duke of Aquitaine, in which both of these leaders were killed, "Nortmanni ovantes classem repetunt."

In 874, under Hasting, they again annoy the

French, and make a treaty with Salomon, King of Bretagne, which cost the latter 500 head of cattle. We next hear of them in 881, when, under Godefrid and Siegfrid, they burn Tungres and Utrecht, and lay waste Cologne and "Bunna;" and in 882 they invade Ardenne and burn Treves. The Chronica Regia S. Pantaleonis, which appears to have derived most of its information from the same source as the Annalista Saxo, states, that Treves was burned on Good Friday, 883. On this expedition the Normans got possession of Frisia, and Godfrey was baptised, and married to the daughter of Lothaire.

If these notes are of any interest to your corCHESSBOROUGH. respondents, I am satisfied. Harbertonford, Devon.

Of some the aboundance of an ydle braine Will judged be; and painted forgery, Rather than matter of just memory.

Sith none that breatheth living air doth know
Where is that happy land of Faery

Which I so much doe vaunt, yet no where show; But vouch antiquities which nobody can know. "Of Faëry land yet if he more enquire

By certain signes here set in sondrie place, He may it find; no let him there admyre But yield his sense to be too blunt and base That no'te without an hound fine footing trace. And thou, O fayrest princesse under sky, In this fayre mirrhour maist behold thy face, And thine owne realmes in land of Faery, And in this antique image thy great ancestry."

To whom can this apply except Prince Arthur? There are many corroborations of this view to be found in the poem. The character is enriched with many of the achievements of the British power as a state: the defeat of the Armada, in his contest with the Soldan; the rescue of the Netherlands from Spain in the destruction of Gerioneo and his seneschall, and the reinstatement of Belgè.

As a curious coincidence similar to some of those brought forward by C., I may refer to the description of Arthur's baldrick athwart his breast, in which he wore a precious stone- "shaped like a lady's head" (Gloriana's). Sir S. Meyrick appropriates to Essex a suit of armour in the Tower, which has the head of Elizabeth engraven on the breastplate. FRANK HOWARD.

THE "ARCADIA" UNVEILED.
(3rd S. iv. 150.)

I was not aware of MR. HOWARD's suggestion, that
Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, was intended by
Prince Arthur; which, however, appears to me
scarcely tenable, since in the spring of 1580 the
Earl was only in his thirteenth year.

MR. HOWARD also says, "Sir Guyon unquestionably refers to Ratcliffe, Earl of Sussex." This question I must leave to others to decide; but the following lines appear to support the opinion, Sir Guyon is Walter, Earl of Essex :

"Now hath fair Phoebe, with her silver face,
Thrice seen the shadows of the nether world,
Sith last I left that honorable place,
In which her royal presence is entrold."
Bk. ii. can. 2, stanza 44.

This statement coincides historically with the arrival of the earl in Ireland in July, 1576, having just three months previously left the English court.

Further, I have a strong impression, or rather conviction, that at the end of his Treatise on Ireland, Spenser points at his friend Sir Walter Ralegh, and not at Robert, Earl of Essex; for he distinctly states the head of the Irish government should be one, who knew the country, and had seen service in Ireland, as well as in France and C. Belgium.

ST. PATRICK AND VENOMOUS REPTILES IN IRELAND (3rd S. iv. 82, 132.) — The late W. Thompson, Esq., in his Natural History of Ireland, published in 1856, vol. iv. p. 63, says that "Ireland has ever been free from the presence of Ophidian reptiles" (serpents). He mentions that about 1831, James Cleland, Esq., of Rathgael House, co. Down, bought some snakes in London, and turned out half a dozen in his garden. Of these, four were killed within a short time, and the remaining two probably met the same fate. He subsequently made inquiries "of persons about Downpatrick, who were best acquainted with these subjects, not one of whom had ever heard of snakes being in the neighbourhood."

KILDARE.

Kilkea Castle, Mageney.

"HE DIED AND SHE MARRIED THE BARBER." (3rd S. iv. 187.)- The following extract from Mr. John Forster's pleasant biography of Foote (Forster's Biographical Essays, 3rd ed. p. 386), will enlighten R. F. C., and perhaps many others, on the subject of the famous nonsense, so often falsely quoted, and so often ascribed to a wrong source. Mr. Forster is speaking of Macklin and his lectures on oratory, delivered at a Covent Garden tavern:

"His (Macklin's) topic on another evening was the employment of memory in connection with the oratorical art; in the course of which, as he enlarged on the importance of exercising memory as a habit, he took occasion to say that to such perfection he had brought his own, he could learn anything by rote on once hearing it. Foote waited till the conclusion of the lecture, and then, handing up the subjoined sentences, desired that Mr. Macklin would be good enough to read, and afterwards repeat them from memory. More amazing nonsense never was written:

"So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she

bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop.

"What! no soap?" So he died and she very imprudently married the barber; and there were present the Picninnies, and the Joblillies, and the Garyulies, and the Grand Panjandrum himself, with the little round button at top; and they all fell to playing the game of Catch-as-catchcan, till the gunpowder ran out at the heels of their

boots.'

On looking at the text I find nothing to fix the paternity of Thomas Pilkington, Esq., whose daughter Mary, who died s. p., was the knight's second wife; but I have carefully looked over the titles Pilkington in Burke's Landed Gentry, and find that he was a son of Joseph, and grandson of Leonard, prebendary of Durham, who was a younger brother of James Pilkington, the first Protestant Bishop of Durham. The Leghes came into possession of the manor of Middleton, in the parish of Rothwell, temp. Edw. III., by marriage with one of the co-heiresses of Mereworth. The other co-heiress married an ancestor of mine. The Leghes of Middleton, a branch of the great Cheshire house of that name, ended in an heiress who married, in 1697, an ancestor of the Brandlings of this county. Their arms are, argent, a bend gules, over all 2 bars sable.

I take this opportunity to thank_two correspondents for replies to my Legacy Duty query. I am the more obliged because of the repulses I met with when I applied to the Legacy Duty Office a few years ago, to ascertain the amount of duty which had been paid upon the legacy in question. R. W. DIXON.

Seaton-Carew, co. Durham.

COWTHORPE OAK (3rd S. iv. 69.) I cannot answer C. J. ASHFIELD's inquiry as to the present existence of the Cowthorpe oak. But it may interest him to read an extract from Hayman Rooke's description of some remarkable oaks in Welbeck Park, published in 1790, where he mentions the Cowthorpe oak:

[3rd S. IV. SEPT. 19, '63.

"On the north side of the great riding is a most curious ancient oak, which before the depredations made by time on its venerable trunk, might almost have vied with the lyn's Sylva]. It measures, near the ground, 34 feet 4 celebrated Cowthorpe oak for size [mentioned in Eveinches in circumference; at one yard, 27 feet 4 inches; at two yards, 31 feet 9 inches. The trunk, which is wonderfully distorted, plainly appears to have been much larger, and the parts from whence large pieces have fallen off are distinguishable; the inside is decayed and hollowed out by age, which, with the assistance of the axe, might be made wide enough to admit a carriage through it. I think no one can behold this majestic ruin without pronouncing it to be of very remote antiquity; and might venture to say, that it cannot be much less than a thousand years old."

A view of this oak is given in one of the plates. QUERCUS.

A LADY'S DRESS IN 1762 (3rd S. iv. 85.) — "the swelling hoop's capacious round," &c.

The ample capacity and circumference of female dress may be traced so far back as the poet Ovid, classic agewho cynically remarks of the Roman belle of the

"Ipsa puella est minima pars sui.”

J. L.

Dublin.

There are allusions to him in a letter from his RANDOLPH CREWE (3rd S. iii. 164, 165, 197.) — grandfather to Sir Richard Browne at Paris, dated April 10, 1644, and printed in the Fairfax Correspondence, iii. 98. The letter is interesting gretted that it is unindexed. on several accounts, and it is therefore to be re

C. H. & THOMPSON COOPER.

MEVIUS (3rd S. iv. 168.)-Kirchner supposes that Horace intended Mævius in his 6th Carm.

Epod. Grotefend, however, contends that Bavius is meant; whilst Macleane urges the claims of Cassius if any name is to be retained. The 10th which Horace lampoons the offensive poet with Carm. Epod. is a curse on Mævius's Voyage, in the fury of an Archilochus

"Mala soluta navis exit alite, Ferens olentem Mævium."

la origine des sept familles patriciennes qui transmirent la noblesse par les femmes." H. D'AVENEY.

GREEK PHRASE (3rd S. iv. 167.)-The words of Bishop Blomfield are: "Memini me vidisse locutionem ἀποσφενδονᾷν τὰ χρήματα, dissipare, sed locus non succurrit." We find the verb in Plutarch, but no one seems able to produce the phrase; "locus non succurrit." May not the phrase be an ingenious and somewhat fanciful rendering of the Latin, "effundere pecuniam"? This is both classical and Ciceronian. It is within the limits of possibility that the learned Bishop himself, for his own private satisfaction and entertainment, may at some early period of his literary career have made the translation out of Latin into Greek; and then have imagined, at some future period, that he had somewhere met with the Greek phrase. If any man might stand excused in mistaking his own for classical Greek, surely SCHIN. the late Bishop of London might.

OBSCURE SCOTTISH SAINTS (3rd S. iv. 111.) — Similarity is not unfrequently to be observed, I believe, in the mythology of Wales and of Scotland, and thus we may reasonably conceive that S. Eurit, concerning whom A. J. inquires, is connected with S. Euryn, a saint of the seventh century, and one of those sons of Helig-ap-Glanawg, who, when their patrimonial estates were irrecoverably alienated by the sea, devoted themselves to religion. His name is locally preserved in N. Wales, and he is noticed in the Book of Welsh Worthies.

Jos. HARGROVE.

Clare Coll. Cambridge.

PEALS OF TWELVE (3rd S. iv. 96.) To the REV. H. T. ELLACOMBE's list may be added the beautiful old church of Gresford, in N. Wales, whose peal of twelve bells used to be reckoned among the seven wonders of Wales.

Jos. HARGROVE.

which he is in search, in the "Report of the Proceedings on the Mayo Election Petition," in 1857: when Dr. M'Hale's nominee, Mr. G. H. Moore, was unseated by Colonel Ouseley Higgins. H. W. H.

Scevole was first acted in 1646, and revived in 1721. It is stated to be a stock-piece by Léris, Dictionnaire des Théâtres, Paris, 1763.

FITZHOPKINS.

Reform Club.

FRENCH LEGEND, "LA MELUSINE" (3rd S. iii. 491; iv. 14.)—An account of the Melusine, and of the illustrious house of the Lusignans, her descendants, will be found in Favyn's Theatre d'Honneur et de Chevalerie, Paris, 1620, tom. ii. pp. 1577-1593. See also Miss Millington's Heraldry in History, Poetry, and Romance, pp. 280, 282 (where is a quotation from Brantôme); and Moule's Heraldry of Fish, pp. 217, 218. JOHN WOODWARD.

New Shoreham.

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