THE PURITAN AND HIS CAT. (See 12 S. it is found for the first time, I believe, in iii. 360, 393, 455).-Richard Brathwaite's Barnabæ Itinerarium' (first published 1638) contains the famous lines: To Banbury came I, O profane one! Where I saw a Puritane one Hanging of his cat on Monday, For killing of a mouse on Sunday. The play 'Pathomachia or The Battell of Affections' (described when printed in 1630 ag "Written some yeares since, and now first published by a Friend of the deceassed Author") appears to have been written about 1616 by Thomas Tomkis of Trinity College, Cambridge, author of the plays 'Lingua' and Albumazar.' (It occurs Piers Plowman' in a Latin form, and it occurs again in The Imitation.' What,however, is more striking than any of the above versions is that German has "DerMensch denkt, Gott lenkt," and Russian, "Cheloviek predpolagaet a Bograspodagaet.' Russian scholars who read 'N. & Q.' and there are several of them, I knowwill not be too hard on me, I hope, if I have not rendered the Russian lettering into English with the nearest possible approach. to accuracy. Possibly, of course, the version. I have given is merely a translation of the English, and is not a proverb in current useamong the Russian people. also in Harl. MS. 6869 and Bodleian MS. T. PERCY ARMSTRONG. Eng. misc. e.5.) Here in Act II. sc. v. we have mention of some factions [perhaps SIR RICHARD PHILLIPS.-In discussing: 'factious'] men whereof one of late killed (11 S. x. 463) this author-publisher's unhis Cat because it kil'd a Mouse on Sunday." familiar work A Personal Tour through. Again, in the lines On my Lute-stringes the United Kingdom,' issued by his son Catt bitten,' by the accomplished Thomas Horatio Phillips in parts, commencing 1828,. Master of New College, the friend and I was uncertain as to its extent and what the literary assistant of Lord Herbert of Cher- author intended to accomplish. These bury-lines found often in MS. collections points are definitely settled in a letter (e.g., Rawl. Poet 206, p. 59, and 147, p. 104, addressed by him to William Hone (then at and printed in Dr. Smith's and Sir John Newington Green) from 8 Marlboro' Square, Mennes' Musarum Delicia ') we have: Chelsea, Dec. 19, 1829: Puss, I will curse thee, maist thou dwell Or with some close-parde Brother, where Sheffield. 66 "MAN PROPOSES, GOD DISPOSES."-It may, perhaps, be of interest to note with regard to this proverb that in seven languages the jingle is preserved. This, no doubt, is not very remarkable in the case of the Romance nations, as they all borrowed from a common source, and though Ariosto wrote Ordina l'uomo e Dio dispone," the rendering L'uomo propone e Dio dispone" may be found in a modern Italian English dictionary. Latin has Homo proponit et Deus disponit," French 66 L'homme propose et Dieu dispose," and Spanish “El hombre pone y Dios dispone." England has taken the saying, not from an Anglo-Saxon source, but from the Latin: 'I mean to prosecute my tour as a downright fagging job, to the extent of 40 or 50 parts or 7 or 8 volumes. I have copy for 7 parts, but wait for the public to buy and read. My reception everywhere, good as it was, will be improved, and the excursion become memorable! I wanted a companion like you, but as it was, I found materials in superabundance. I could write becoming dull and prosing. 3 parts for 1, but I dare not dwell for fear of "There are Book Societies at Newington Green and they ought to be of my readers. What an old-fashioned place! I often meditate on what London will be, if it last, 'till all the New buildingsget of that age. "What a No. of odd and curious people I found everywhere! I converted most of them by some means or other, though in a preliminary route L was less understood than I could have wished to be. I often wanted Cruikshank." ALECK ABRAHAMS. MRS. SUSAN CROMWELL. (See "Rabsey Cromwell, alias Williams," 12 S. ii._136.)— The following is taken from The Book of Days,' edited by R. Chambers, 1863, vol. i. pp. 305-6, under February 28: "On the 28th of February, 1834, died, at the age of ninety, Mrs. Susan Cromwell, youngest daughter of Thomas Cromwell, Esq., the great-grandson of the Protector. She was the last of the Protector's descendants who bore his name. The father of this lady, whose grandfather, Henry Cromwell, had been' Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, spent his life in the modest business of a grocer on Snow-hill; he was, however, a man of exemplary worth, fit to have adorned a higher station. His father, who was a major in King William's army, had been born in Dublin Castle during his father's lieutenancy. It may be remarked that the family of the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell was one of good account, his uncle and godfather, Sir Oliver Cromwell, possessing estates in Huntingdonshire alone which were afterwards worth £30,000 a year. The Protector's mother, by an odd chance, was named Stewart; but it is altogether imaginary that she 'bore any traceable relationship to the royal family. The race was originally Welsh, and bore the name of Williams; but the great-grandfather of the Protector changed it to Cromwell, in compliance with a wish of Henry VIII., taking that particular name in honour of his relation, Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex." FRED. L. TAVARÉ. 22 Trentham Street, Pendleton, Manchester. MRS. GRUNDY.-Within the last few weeks a Doctor of Divinity of some eminence referred to this lady two or three times in a sermon preached in a cathedral church. She is as yet only about 120 years old, and it is perhaps too soon to affirm her immortality, but it strikes me that as a mere name, in an almost forgotten play-not one of its personages-her vitality is abnormal. When Thomas Morton wrote Speed the Plough he could have had little idea how the fame of Mrs. Grundy, whom he never brings upon the stage, would outlive that of every other character in his play. ST. SWITHIN. ROGER DE GLOUCESTER IN 'DOMESDAY.' -In 1102 Roger de Gloucester made an exchange of lands with Serlo, Abbot of St. Peter's, Gloucester : "Anno Domini millesimo centesimo secundo, Serlo abbas fecit escambium cum Rogero de Gloucestria, scilicet quod abbas habuit in West'bury habeat Rogerus in feodo absque decima aquæ et silvæ, et abbas prædictus habeat in elemosinam Sandhurst, et Erelyam, et terram Ulsthetel, cum omnibus quæ prædictæ terræ pertinent apud Hamme, et decimam suam Hist. et Cart. S. Petri de Gloucestria,' i. 112). "Erelyam" should rather be " Atteleyam" as on p. 352. 6 Of the above lands given by Roger, Sandhurst and Hatherley were in the king's hands in 1086 (Taylor, Analysis of the Domesday Survey of Gloucestershire,' pp. 288-9). Hamme was already held by St. Peter's of Gloucester at that date (ibid., pp. 320-1). Its identity is not certain (ibid., p. 205), but it was apparently close to Lassington (ibid., pp. 320-1), and of Lassington we read in Domesday': "Ulchetel tenuit Lessedune....Modo Bog' de Thoma Arch" (i. 164b.). ten' I suggest that it is at least highly probable that the " terra Ulsthetel of 1102 was part of the estate held by Ulfketyl in 1066, and had retained the name of Ulfketyl's land in spite of the change of ownership. If this were the case, the Roger who held of the Archbishop in 1086 would presumably be Roger de Gloucester, who has not previously been traced in 'Domesday' so far as I know. G. H. WHITE. 23 Weighton Road, Anerley. "TOPPING":"TOP-HOLE."-In modern slang topping and top-hole have quite displaced ripping." I venture to throw out the suggestion that “ top-hole may be merely a light-hearted variant of topping "-invented by, or conceived by some horsey youth who had in mind the buckling of a horse's girth or belly-band to its top-hole. 66 66 66 99 66 But "topping appears to have 8 The dictionaries give respectable ancestry. it as a synonym for surpassing,' prefine," eminent,' noble,' and I have just come across it in Mr. Hardy's gallant," &c., Far from the Madding Crowd,' chap. xxxviii. Gabriel Oak says to Boldwood, You look strangely altered, Sir," and in reply to Boldwood's disclaimer, remarks, I thought you didn't look quite so topping as you used to, that was all." FRANCIS PLACE, POLITICAL ECONOMIST, 1771-1854.-Neither the 'D.N.B.' nor Bates's 'Maclise Portrait Gallery' in notices of the above mentions that he was foreman of the coroner's jury which in 1810 sat to inquire into the death of Sellis, who was found to have committed felo de se after having attempted to murder his master, Ernest, Duke of Cumberland. In a later troversy, arising in 1832 on a prosecution for libel upon the Duke in connexion with the Sellis affair, Place, described as Charing Cross, man's mercer," figured in affidavits that were made and filed, and appears to have himself published a letter to the Public " under date of April 19, 1832. W. B. H. OFFICIAL PEACE REJOICINGS.-Touching the neglect of the Port of London in the matter of official peace rejoicings, a correspondent writes that he well remembers being taken to Victoria Park on May 29. 1856, when there was a grand official firework display to mark the termination of the Crimean campaign and its many blunders and glories, and the end of the FrancoBritish War with the Autocrat of all the Russias." Mc. Queries. WE must request correspondents desiring information on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct. EMERSON'S ENGLISH TRAITS.'-I should be grateful for any suggestions, elucidations, or reference to sources or authorities for any of the following passages in the above work. References to pages and lines follow the World's Classics Edition. Phrases in brackets are my own. 1. P. 11, 1. 33. [Wordsworth advised Americans] never to call into action the physical strength of the people, as had just now [1832] been done in England in the Reform Bill, a thing prophesied by Delolme. [What is the "thing prophesied by D."-the Bill, or its effect in calling into action, &c. And where does such a prophecy occur in D.'s writings ?] 2. P. 13, 1. 22. κτῆμα ἐς ἀεί. [From Thucydides, I believe; but have no reference.] 3. P. 19, 1. 4. [Concerning the English claim to the sovereignty of the seas against the Dutch.] "As if," they said, we contended for the drops of the sea, and not for its situation, or the bed of those waters. The sea is bounded by His Majesty's empire." [Is this a literal quotation from any source? If a general abstract, to what date may it be referred ?] 4. P. 19, 1. 20. Alfieri thought Italy and England the only countries worth living in. [Perhaps from Alfieri's autobiography.] 5. P. 22, 1. 16. Charles the Second said, "it [the English climate] invited men abroad more days in the year and more hours in the day than any other country.' 8. P. 23, 1. 2. The epigram on the climate by an English wit, "In a fine day, looking up a chimney; in a foul day, looking down one.' 7. P. 23, 1. 13. Sir John Herschel said, "London was the centre of the terrene globe." 8. P. 23, 1. 28. Chestnut Street. [Apparently a street in Philadelphia; but is it the Park Lane of Philadeplhia, or the Throgmorton Street, or what?] 9. P. 24, 1. 29. Fontenelle thought that nature had sometimes a little affectation. 10. P. 25, 1. 32. Humboldt reckons three races of men. [I cannot find any such reckoning. In his Cosmos H. deprecates such divisional classification.] 11. P. 28, 1. 5. Our Hoosiers, Suckers, and Badgers of the American woods. [Where are these tribes located?] "the 12. P. 30, 1. 8. Defoe said in his wrath, Englishman was the mud of all races." [I cannot trace any such phrase literally. Is it merely given as the gist of D.'s True-born Englishman'?] 13. P. 32, 1. 8. The Celts or Sidonides are an old family. [Liddell and Scott give "Phoenicians" Is it so. as a meaning for "Sidonides." Has Emerson any used in classical literature? authority for identifying the Celts with the Phoenicians. or is he following some theory now abandoned ?] 44 14. P. 35, 1. 25. The [Norman] conquest hasobtained in the chronicles the name of the memory of sorrow." [I have not found any such " name, though passages on the people's: misery are common enough.] 15. P. 36, l. 37. Alfieri said, "The crimes of Italy were the proof of the superiority of the stock." [Probably in A.'s autobiography.] 16. P. 37, 1. 23. The right of the husband to sell the wife [in England] has been retained down to our times. [Is this still true? If not, when was the right abolished? English Traits was published in 1856.] 17. P. 38, 1. 5. As early as the conquest it is. remarked in explanation of the wealth of England that its merchants trade to all countries. 18. P. 39, 1. 32. I apply to Britannia the words in which her latest novelist portrays hisheroine: "She is as mild as she is game, and as. game as she is mild." [Who is this heroine ? I should guess the novelist to be Thackeray.] 19. P. 40, 1. 2. Admiral Rodney's figure approached to delicacy and effeminacy, and he declared himself very sensible to fear, which hesurmounted only by considerations of honour and public duty. "if he 20. P. 40, 1. 9. Sir Edward Parry said the other day of Sir John Franklin, that, found Wellington Sound open, he explored it; for he was a man who never turned his back on a danger, yet of that tenderness, that he would not brush away a mosquito." [Who was Sir Can his observation on Franklin Edward Parry? be traced ?] (Rev.) R. FLETCHER. Buckland, Faringdon, Berks. WORDSWORTH: THE EXCURSION': GRAS-MERE CHURCH.-1. In book vi. (Knight,vol. v. p. 261, 11. 515-26; Macmillan, 1888, p. 489) the following inscription is given as being "around the margin of the plate" of a dial in Grasmere churchyard :— We gathered, as we read, The appropriate sense, in Latin numbers couched = "Time flies: it is his melancholy task To bring and bear away delusive hopes And reproduce the troubles he destroys. But while his blindness thus is occupied, Discerning mortal, do thou serve the will Of Time's eternal Master, and that peace Which the world wants, shall be by thee confirmed." followed immediately by the Solitary's comment :— Smooth verse, inspired by no unletter'd Muse. Richard Chaloner of Westmeston had a son named William, who died in May, 1713, aged 57, and was buried at Westmeston: probably John Chaloner of Lewes another son. "There is no dial in Grasmere churchyard, Chaloner." I have been unable to find and no tradition even of one (Knight); this tomb; but, anyhow, John Chaloner was but it is suggested that Wordsworth has not Bishop Challoner's father, though permixed up with his Grasmere scenery some haps he was a relative. reminiscence of a dial once existing on a pillar in Bowness churchyard. Or it may be somewhere else. Does any reader of 'N. & Q.' know this inscription? What I want to get at is the original Latin versc. The passage with its context seems to me proof that the inscription did exist and was not a flight of fancy, like the bells of Sir Alfred Irthing' in book vii. 1. 981. 2. In book v. 1. 172, Wordsworth records among the sepulchral stones in Grasmere Church: Some with small And shining effigies of brass inlaid A brazen plate, Not easily deciphered, told of one 66 Of the Eighth Henry, when he crossed the seas, was Where is there any pedigree of the Sussex Chaloners ? JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. DENNIS THE HANGMAN.-In recording the trials at the Old Bailey of the Gordon Rioters, The Gent. Mag. has this paragraph, under date, Monday, July 3, 1780: "Edw. Dennis, better known by the name of Jack Ketch, was tried for assisting in pulling down the house of Mr. Boggis in New Turnstyle. The prisoner admitted the fact, but pleaded compulsion, the mob swearing they would burn him if he did not assist them in burning the goods. He was found guilty, but recommended to mercy, and has a bailable warrant, which will be sued out when the executions are ended. The humanity of Mr. Smith, the Keeper of Tothill-fields bridewell, to whose custody he was committed, deserves due praise. He declined confining him among the other prisoners lest his obnoxious character should expose him to their rage." 6 Now if old " Sylvanus Urban's statement was correct it sharply controverts at least two of the portions in Barnaby Rudge' dealing with this unhappy man, for it implies (1) that Dennis would be reprieved, and in that case was never hanged, so disposing of the thrilling picture of the allnight waiting of the crowd for his execution; and states (2) that he was allowed a cell by himself in Tothill Fields Bridewell, whereas in Dickens the turnkey thrust him into Hugh's cell in Newgate, with the grim remark that necessity, or the rioters, had left no choice. Has any student of the novelist noticed this before? W. R. WILLIAMS. OLDFIELD.-Who was John Oldfield of Oldfield, who died 1762, aged 74? Please "reply direct. (Mrs.) E. E. COPE. Finchampstead, Berks. bishop was related in any way to Richard Hare in his 'Sussex' (1896) states at p. 110 that the church of St. John, sub Castro, at Lewes contains a tomb of Mr. John Chaloner, 1705, father of Bishop DAVID M. MAIN AND THE ENGLISH identification numbers painted on them. SONNET.-David M. Main in his preface to Is any list in existence? The majority had "Mr." the Treasury of English Sonnets' (ed. 1880) but a few "Esq." Among the says that he determined not to encumber latter I noticed Robert Auchmuty, Judge his volume with the analytical Essay on the of the Admiralty in New England, whose American Sonnet out of which it originally grew." death is not given in Sabine's Can any reader say if that essay was Loyalists.' V. L. OLIVER, F.S.A. ever printed, either separately or in any Sunninghill. periodical? ROLAND AUSTIN. Public Library, Gloucester. LUCIEN BONAPARTE: PRISONER IN ENGLAND.-Madame Junot, Duchesse d'Abrantès, at p. 146, vol. iv., of her 'Memoirs (Bentley & Sons, 1893), relates that Lucien Bonaparte on being taken prisoner by the English was conducted to Ludlow Castle and placed under the charge of Lord Powis, Lord Lieutenant of the county. Is this accurate, and was any part of the Castle habitable so recently as 1810? GRAHAM MILWARD. 77 Colmore Row, Birmingham. FEAST OF THE ASSUMPTION: SIGN OF THE ་་ CROSS.-Can any of your readers tell me of an instance in which they have heard Aug. 15, the Feast of the Assumption, spoken of as Lady Day in harvest ? I believe that it was so called by the peasantry in past days and I am very anxious to know if the usage, or any definite record of it, still survives. I should be grateful also for any information as to old Catholic practices, such as the use of the sign of the cross, which may still exist, to your readers' knowledge. I am trying to collect traces of such. I may add that I do not want to trouble any one for more than a postcard. MARGARET A. MOULE. Thistledown, Bearton Avenue, Hitchin, Herts. MARY CLARKE OF NEW YORK.-There is a tablet to her memory in the chancel of Millbrook Church, Bedfordshire, in which she is described as wife of Richard Vassall of Jamaica who was born in 1730, died 1795. Any particulars regarding Mary Clarke, especially in regard to her connection with Millbrook, will be welcome. HARRY P. POLLARD. MARYLEBONE BURIAL GROUNDS.-On the south side of Paddington Street is the largest ground, consecrated temp. George I. The site having been converted into a public garden the headstones have been mostly set up against the boundary wall, others having been laid flat to form a walk. Very few of the inscriptions are now legible, owing to incrustations of dirt and the effect of the weather. Some stones have had WOODEN PEGS: SCREWS.-I should be glad to know when wooden pegs in furniture were displaced by pointless screws, and when the latter gave way to pointed screws. J. W. SWITHINBANK. Sheffield. dates of birth and death of the founder or RALPH GRIFFITH.-A few particulars and conductor of Monthly Review, 1749-1789, will be esteemed ANEURIN WILLIAMS. Menai View, North Road, Carnarvon. MAULE.-Information concerning the following Maules who were educated at Westminster School is desired: (1) John Maule, admitted in 1787. (2) Robert Maule, admitted in 1746, aged 10, (3) Willaim Maule, admitted in 1786. G. F. R. B. MARTIN.-Information is much wanted about the following Martins, who were educated at Westminster School : (1) Charles Martin, admitted 1766. (2) Charles Martin, son of Charles Martin of Charleston, South Carolina, who was admitted a King's Scholar 1772, aged 13. (3) Edward Martin, who graduated M.A. at Camb. Univ. from Trin. Coll. 1606. (4) George Martin, admitted 1772. (5) George Martin, admitted 1783. (6) John Martin, who graduated M.A. at Camb. Univ. from Trin. Čoll. 1649. (7) John Martin, admitted 1718, aged 15. (8) Leonard Martin, admitted 1727, aged 12. (9) Richard Martin, admitted1720, aged 11. (10) Samuel Martin, admitted 1722, aged 7. (11) Thomas Martin, admitted 1720, aged 14. G. F. R. B. |