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THE KING'S SHIPS: 7. BUILT AT PORTSMOUTH.

(cliv. 402, 420, 447; clv. 15).

IN reply to COMMANDER RUPERT-JONES, I fear I cannot grant that the GALATEA was handed over in a different state from that of the other twenty-one men-of-war built by my ancestor, George Parsons. But possibly this is no longer suggested.

As to the request for information about some, at least, of the ships built on the Hamble River by John Tyson and by Messrs. Black and Scott, I have much pleasure in supplying N. & Q.' readers with the full list. But it needs a line or two of explana

tion.

At the beginning of 1807 George Parsons was building the HORATIO at his yard adjoining the public landing-stage close to Bursle

don Point. He held contracts for the HorSPUR and the PERUVIAN, not started upon. The foreman of Woolwich Dockyard arranged to take over the Parsons yard after the launch of the HORATIO. George Parsons took Warsash Hard for a new yard.

The Woolwich Dockyard foreman's name was Richard Blake. A Mr. Scott, probably the London timber-merchant, was his first partner; and no doubt remained a partner, as regards the 74 they started upon, till its launch in 1812. But by October, 1808, John Tyson, who had till then held a higher Wool

wich Dockyard post than Blake-who left his Woolwich post at the end of 1807-had joined Blake in partnership, and had taken a house at Bursledon close to the yard; and from then onwards the yard was called Tyson and Blake's." Tyson had not been a shipbuilder, and was only one through his partnership with Blake.

The men-of-war built at the Parsons yard after Blake took it over, were as follows:

DOTEREL, 18, 1808, Blake and Scott. TRINCULO, 18, 1809, Tyson and Blake. BOLD, 12, 1812, Tyson and Blake. BORER, 12, 1812, Tyson and Blake. RIPPON, 74, 1812, Blake and Scott. SIRIUS, 38, 1813, Tyson and Blake. The SIRIUS was the last man-of-war built at Bursledon. Those built at Warsash Hard were named by me at cliii. 190.

J. DENHAM PARSONS.

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S PLAIN AS A PIKE STAFF " 406, 444, 464). I bought I bought a pedlar's packstaff a few months ago. It was lying in a box of miscellanea on the counter of a local pawnbroker. Struck with its appearance, I asked what it was and was told all about it. It is in shape like the old long s of eighteenth century printing, with a bold curve. At the end is a small hook carved out

of the wood, which is of holly. It is remarkably plain or smooth, fits on the shoulder comfortably, and from the well-worn handle has evidently done much work. I showed it to several old people in this village, who all recognized it. They said it was in common use by all who had to travel distances with a bundle, up to about forty or fifty years ago. I remember men who came into this district for the harvest carrying their bundles on a straight shoulder-stick, but this shaped specimen is the only one I have come of the military weapon, 16 feet long, and shod Might not the pikestaff also refer to the shaft with an iron point to stick into the ground when resisting cavalry? A object.

Appledore, Kent.

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very evident

F. WILLIAM COCK.

was originally diphthongal (Welsh ei, half-way between English lay and lie), but by about 480 B.C. it had become simply equivalent to a long ("long. close e ") English a in day, pronounced Pronunciation of Greek and Latin,' by E. V. without the final y sound."- The Restored Arnold and R. S. Conway, 4th edition, 1900.

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The symbol e in modern Greek denotes a sound equivalent to the English ee. See e.g. the modern Greek grammars of E. M. Geldart or Vincent and Dickson.

In the modern language the variety of vocalic sounds is not as great as in the ancient.

I cannot at this moment quote a source for the story about the pronunciation of Alexandria. In my recollection it ran something like this: A man who was aware that Alexandria in Latin has the penultimate i long, asked Dr. Parr (let us say) whether it was not correct to give it that quantity in speaking English. The reply was, Mr. Porson and I may say Alexandria, but you, I think, had better say Alexandria." How did Parr, or whoever it was, pronounce the long vowel? I suspect, considering how Latin was treated

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in those days, he made the syllable sound like dry.

Latin Classical MSS., by the way, give Alexandrea and Alexandria promiscuously; the oldest Latin inscriptions have the former. EDWARD BENSLY.

THE REGICIDES (cliv. 298, 410; clv. 16). -The three judges who condemned King Charles to death and who fled to America, were Major-General Edward Whalley, own cousin to Oliver Cromwell, Major-Gen. William Goffe, son-in-law of Whalley, and Colonel John Dixwell. The Davenport Genealogy states that four, at least, of the court that condemned the King to the scafWhalley fold, escaped to America." and Goffe went to New Haven (Connecticut), where, at one time, the judges received shelter from the Rev. Mr. John Davenport, and later, May 15, 1661, sought shelter natural cave on West Rock, near that city, since called the Judges Cave." Afterwards they retired to Hadley, Mass. Above reference calls Dixwell Col. James Dixwell who went by the name of James Davis, Esq.' He died in 1689, and is buried at New Haven. Goffe and Whalley are also said to have been buried, secretly, in the same place.

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A Court Feb. 19, 1673, New Haven, has the following: Received of James Davids [Col. John Dixwell] of New Haven, £5, the which was given me by my uncle Mr. Benjamin Ling as a legacy by his last will and testament. Also four barrels of pork which my Aunt Davids delivered unto him to give me, Samuel Cooper. Wit. Thomas Munson,

Thomas Mix, Ellis Mew." A note in The

Tuttle Family' states that "Sarah Cooper was sister of James and Ellis Mew. In 1706, Mr. Blinn, mariner of Boston, and Joseph Tuttle, claimed the estate of Ellis Mew, tin worker of London, from whom Blinn showed power of attorney. James and Samuel Cooper were also akin to the Mews. James Mew lived in South Wood Street, London.' Is anything of the family of John Alured known? I have a copy of a Chancery Proceed., Maltby v. Alured,' 22 Nov., 1672. John' Alured claims to be one of the next of kin of Ann Maltby. (She was probably Ann Cotton).

D. M. VERRILL.

Indian attack, he put himself at their head and drove off the red-skins, then disappeared as suddenly as he had come. An illustration showing Goffe repulsing the Indians at Hadley' appears in Hutchinson's Story of the British Nation,' vol. iii. p. 1073. G. H. W.

The three regicides who escaped to New England were Edward Whalley (Whaley), William Goffe, and John Dixwell. There was no regicide named Dickenson, or any person of that name connected with them in any way.

Lives of all three are in the D. N. B.' and have been written by Sir Charles H. Firth. J. G. MUDDIMAN. DOMESTICUS ' (cliv.

MERCURIUS

333. 408; clv. 12).-It would be very interesting if MR. J. G. MUDDIMAN would ancient publish a list of the imitation newspapers.

J. ARDAGH.

A LINGUISTIC PRODIGY (cliv. 460). The D. N. B.' has a notice of Richard Roberts Jones (1780-1043) known as "Dick of Aberdaron.' There is an anonymous Memoir of him by William Roscoe (London, 1822) republished, with additions, at Llanidloes, Montgomery, after Jones's death. A copy of each edition is in the British Museum Library. The Memoir was first issued to invite subscriptions for the assistance of its destitute subject. An advertisement to this effect at the beginning of the paragraph is signed by seven Liverpool. Dick was self-taught and wildly eccentric. Under the circumstances his know

ledge of the many languages with which he had some acquaintance could hardly be expected to be of a scholarly character. Dr. D. Lleufer Thomas in his life of Jones in the 'D.N.B.' writes of his having acquired a practical knowledge of English, in which he was never very proficient. Some manuscript translations from Homer and Apuleius, in the National Library of Wales, which I have examined, give evidence of his want of proficiency in Greek and Latin as well as English, and of the curiously mechanical way in which he dealt with languages. He was unable to turn his acquirements to any use. Roscoe, writing in his lifetime, mentions the "total neglect of cleanliness in his person and dress, "and infers that

if the unfortunate subject of these remarks is to exist on earth, it must be by the dis

interested bounty of well-disposed individuals, and not by the aid of any support which he is likely to obtain for himself. EDWARD BENSLY.

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For a life of Richard Roberts Jones see the Dictionary of National Biography,' The Memoir' referred to in the query was written by William Roscoe, but his name does not appear on the title-page which reads as follows: "Memoir of Richard Roberts Jones, of Aberdaron, in the County of CarNorth Wales; exhibiting a remarkable instance of a partial power of cultivation of intellect. Povera e nuda va Filosofia. Petr. London: Printed for J. Cadell, Strand; and J. and A. Arch, Cornhill. 1822." The frontispiece is an etched portrait (head) of "Richard Roberts" (sic), stated in the D.N.B.' to be by Mrs. Dawson Turner of Norwich; and preceding it is the following advertisement: Any profits that may arise from this Publication will be applied to make provision for the person who is the subject of it, and whose destitute situation requires the benevolent aid of those who may be disposed to afford him their assistance." Jones died at St. Asaph on Dec. 18, 1843.

Erdington.

BENJAMIN WALKER.

[MR. THOS. WHITE writes that the Corporation of Liverpool Reference Library possesses five portraits of Jones, and a copy of the Memoir, which might all be examined by MR. MCGOVERN if he would call at the Picton Reading Room. MR. A. J. HAWKES points out that the Memoir may be seen at the London Library, and also, with other brief notices of him, at Aberystwyth, in the National Library of Wales.]

BEATY: DADE (cliv. 369). Suggestion :

has your correspondent tried Lincolnshire for the Beaty ancestry? In Lincolnshire Notes and Queries, July, 1926, there are abstracts of the wills of Charles Beatie of Gayton in the Marsh, 1653, and James Beatie of same, 1653, both proved at Westminster, Brent, 88 and 306. The will of Charles Beatie mentions my uncle Richard Beatie of Maltby," while in 1602 "Anne Battie married William Maultbie at St. Mary in Wigford, Lincoln." Has the BeatyAsfordby Genealogy been consulted? It is said to contain, a long pedigree of Beaty, with arms, and the ancestry of a John Beatty who married (probably in the early part of the seventeenth century) Susanna Asfordby, eldest surviving daughter of William Asfordby of Stayne-in-the-Marsh, co. Lincoln."

D. M. V.

rather famous There is an entertaining account of this "" eccentric," whose full name

is Ephraim Lopes Pereira d' Aguilar, in Henry Wilson's Wonderful Characters (1821), vol. ii., p. 92. He was a Sephardic Jew, born about 1840, at Vienna. He died in London, in March, 1802. Wilson's account is reproduced verbatim in the easilyaccessible Wonderful Characters,' p. 64, issued by John Camden Hotten in the 'sixties. The Baron's portrait, surrounded by his underfed "stock," may be found in both books.

An account of Ephraim Lopez Pereira D'Aguilar is given in The New Wonderful Museum . by William Granger (1802-8), vol. i. pp. 141-155. D'Aguilar was exceedingly wealthy, and at times charitable. He possessed property in Twickenham, Sydenham, Bethnal Green, Islington, and in America; but serious losses affected his brain, and he became an uncleanly miser. In the compilation cited (to be seen at the British Museum), there is an engraved portrait of the Baron, with his arms beneath; and & second engraving shows the "Starvation Dirty Farm," which was at Islington. The view depicts D'Aguilar, accompanied by a farm-helper, together with a number of horses and other animals, characterised by ribs of most unpleasant visibility. Several years ago, having tried to discover the site of this place, I satisfied myself that it was where there is now, I think, a garage, adja