The oldest Huntingdonshire school magazine I can record is a manuscript one which commenced as early as 1841. The St. Ives | British School | Miscellany of Literature | Science | and | Art May 1842. Table of contents and articles, pp. 103, the Earl of Sandwich, chairman of the governing No. 1. 1910.-Frontispiece: The Right Hon. with few illustrations. The original body. [Born London, a 19 July, 1839; died contributions were bound in paper covers Hinchingbrooke, 26 June, 1916.] and lent round, and in 1843 a selection was printed as follows: Selections from the St. Ives British School Magazine | St. Ives: Printed by P. C. Croft. 1843, pp. 74. The preface states that during the last two winters the Elder Boys of the British School, St. Ives (assisted by their teachers and some friends), have supported a manuscript monthly magazine-that is, they have had the paper provided, taken it home, written on any subject they chose, brought the pieces to their teacher, who has sewn them together and then circulated it. Some of the original pieces were subscribed for and printed by (Signed) J. B. friends. No. 2.-Portrait of the Ven. Arch. Francis Gerald Vesey, LL.D. [Born 15 July, 1832; died 18 Mar., 1915.] No. 6. Some Famous Old Boys: Sir Michae! Foster. [Native. Born 8 Mar., 1836; died 29 Jan., 1907.] No. 7.-Some Famous Old Boys: Oliver Cromwell. [Native. Born 25 April, 1599; died 3 Sept., 1658.] No. 8.- -Death of Mr. J. M. Heathcote, J.P., D.L. [Died 3 Aug., 1912, aged 78.] No. 9.-View of Hinchingbrooke House and Cromwell's Barn, St. Ives. No. 10. Some Famous Old Boys: Samuel Pepys. [Born 23 Feb., 1633; died 26 May, 1703.] View of Pepys's House, Brampton, drawn by H. G. Mitchell. No. 11. The Cromwell House Remains, by S. Inskip Ladds, A.R.I.B.A. Spring Term: 1915. "Europe at War." In progress. J. B. Howgate, M.A., Headmaster. Kimbolton Grammar School, founded A.D. 1600, published its first magazine Christmas, 1878. Its title was Kinnibantum Grammar School Magazine, and it was printed by R. C. Ibbs, at Kimbolton. Vol. i. was composed of six parts: Christmas, 1878; Easter, Midsummer and Christmas, 1879; and Easter and Mid summer, 1880. Vol. v. No. 19, Easter, 1892 (price sixpence), contains an article on The Royal Prisoner of Kimbolton.' An editorial note 66 states, in a quiet unambitious way. Yes, it is the old paper reappearing article on The Man of Huntingdonshire'; Vol. vi. No. 22, Easter, 1893,'contains an and No. 23 an account of the rebuilding of the school in 1877, when a fresh start was made and the magazine organized. headmaster in 1877 was W. Ingram, B.Sc., and he still continues to hold that important position. The St. George's School, Brampton, was founded in 1874, the headmaster being the Rev. R. H. Wix. M.A. (late scholar of St. Peter's College, Cambridge). It soon commenced a magazine, The Miss Oliver was succeeded by Miss H. B. Bramptonian: Chronicles of St. George's Prentice, and in 1920 Miss Prentice was sucSchool, Brampton. 'Not only words." ceeded by Miss Bruce and Miss Rogers. Michaelmas, 1878.-The first number con- I have now finished my list of magazines tains a calendar; Sir Guy of Warwick'; The Night before Exams.; From Milan for Huntingdonshire. I think it shows to Lucerne'; Prize Day' Chronicle. It how useful these publications are to the was issued four times a year, at 4s. payable boys and their parents and also to a larger circle of friends who are interested in county schools and educational matters. Various in advance. The earlier number, 1879, was printed by Edis and Cooper at Huntingdon branches of learning and sport are recorded The next in sequence was published at St. in the successive numbers, so that a volume Neots. This school was first a Church of England School and afterwards St. Joseph's contains a good history of the year's work. It also links up some of the old boys, who College of the Roman Catholic Church. Prospect House Gazette, St. Neots: A early struggles mentioned in its pages. often look back with great pleasure to their Paper for the Immortalization of the Wit These magazines are useful also for biograand Genius of Prospect House, was issued as phical and genealogical and many other No. 3 in March, 1890, price ld. Being an amalgamation of Parts 1 and 2 originally their own periodicals that the literature purposes. So many schools now publish brought out in MS. 4 pp., 4to. Editor hopes in the next issue of this paper for reference. The great difficulty of susdeserves collecting, and lists should be made to be able to give his readers a short original taining a small paper makes their life un tale." 66 N.B.-The Miss Eliza Oliver became principal of Prospect House, St. Neots, in 1862, and retained that position until July, 1906, when she was presented with a purse of £60 by teachers and friends. Miss Oliver died A tablet in the Congregational Church has this inscription :: in 1912. and then soon finished; so that it is not certain, and the series is broken and re-started county, and it becomes more important for easy to get all the magazines even of a single bibliography to come in and register them, bearing as they do in some measure on the past and future history of the country. All the papers mentioned above were entirely produced in the county and now brought to the notice of the wider public of N. & Q.' It is the love of the history of our schools and scholars that keeps up the traditions of our country and its patriotism. HERBERT E. NORRIS. Esteem by her Pupils. Cirencester. AN ENGLISH ARMY LIST OF 1740. (See 12 S. ii. passim; iii. 46, 103, 267, 354, 408, 438; vi. 184, 233, 242, 290, 329; vii. 83, 125, 146, 165, 187, 204, 265, 308, 327, 365, 423; viii. 6, 46, 82, 185.) THE next regiment (p. 75) is one of the six which were raised in 1702, and added to the army as a Marine Corps. From 1751 to 1782 it was designated the Thirtieth Regiment of Foot"; from 1782 to 1881 the "Thirtieth (or the Cambridgeshire) Regiment of Foot," and from 1881 to the present time (1921) “The East Lancashire Regiment" (1st Battalion). Lieutenant-General Bissett's Regiment of Foot. Captains Captain-Lieutenant.. First Lieutenants Second Lieutenants. Henry Ravenhill (3) Charles Bouchetiere (6) David Brevett James Ramsay William Ball (7) The following additional names are entered in ink on the interleaf: Aug. 1715 1 April 1712 1 Aug. 1708 25 Aug. 1717 24 Dec. 1720 24 Oct. 1718 6 May 1719 24 Oct. 1709 21 June 1709 8 Feb. 1723-4 2 Feb. 1728-9 1708 1 June 1732 (4) Younger son of Brig.-General Sir James Jefferys, of Blaney Castle, Co. Cork. Major, Apr. 2, 1742; Lieut.-Colonel of the 34th Foot, Feb. 17, 1746; Colonel of the 14th Foot, Jan. 2, 1756. in 1765. (5) Died in 1743. (6) Captain, Feb. 5, 1739/40. (7) Captain, Mar. 13, 1740/1. Died (8) Third son of Thomas Bendyshe, of Barrington Hall, Cambridgeshire. Captain-Lieutenant, Mar. 13, 1740/1. Died in 1766, aged 61. (9) Captain, Oct. 11, 1748. Still serving in 1755. (10) 1st Lieutenant, Feb. 5, 1739/40. (11) 1st Lieutenant, Mar. 13, 1740/1; Captain-Lieutenant, Oct. 11, 1748. Still serving in 1755. (12) 1st Lieutenant, June 5, 1741. (13) 1st Lieutenant, June 6, 1741. "A GENTLEMAN, A SCHOLAR, AND A the Christian," takes occasion to remark CHRISTIAN."-The 'N.E.D.,' while quoting that "the first ingredient is generally found "a Scholler and a Gentleman" and "a to be the predominating dose in the composiGentleman and a Scholer" from the first tion." But long before this Hacket in his quarter of the seventeenth century, furnishes 'Life' of Archbishop Williams, p. 11, no earlier instance of the triple combination wrote of Richard Vaughan, Bishop of than the passage in the Essays of Elia,' London, that he had much of a Gentlewhere Lamb, mentioning "that class of man, much of a Scholar, and most of a modest divines who affect to mix in equal Christian." proportion the gentleman, the scholar, and 6: EDWARD BENSLY. WAR PORTENTS.-It is believed by some in Germany that the occurrence of mirage heralds the coming of a great war, as does also the advent of a certain kind of bird. A lady staying in Westphalia made the acquaintance of a villager, a student of nature, who, showing her a bird which he had caught and stuffed, said :- a book radiant with light outweighs a gold chain and a winged world. Perhaps someone who is in possession of Sir Thomas Encomiis Miscellanea, cum Epigrammatibus ac Chaloner's De illustrium quorundam Epitaphiis nonnullis, will be able to supply N. & Q.' with a copy of the epigram in question. J. E. S. SARDANAPALVS AIT, PEREVNT MORTALIA CVNCTA VT CREPITVS, PRESSO POLLICE DISSILIENS You won't know this bird, lady, for I never saw it before in my life, but the spring of last QVAE PEREVNT, NIGRO FVGIVNTQ3 SIMILLIMA FVMO year, before the war, suddenly whole flocks of strange birds appeared here. I managed to catch this one and looking in my books I found out what it was, and that these birds hardly ever appear in Germany. They come from the North, and only in great flocks, before a war. This is related by Princess Blücher in 'An English Wife in Berlin' (p. 70), and the author continues : SIR THOMAS CHALONER.-The following inscription, copied from a portrait of Sir Thomas Chaloner the elder (belonging to Mrs. M. G. Edgar, and numbered 297 in the Exhibition of National Portraits at South Kensington), may be interesting to some of the readers of N. & Q. The verses were probably written by Sir Thomas himself, who, besides his reputation as a statesman and soldier, is also accredited with having been one of the best Latin verse writers in the reign of Elizabeth :SARDANAPALVS AIT PEREVNT MORTALIA CVNCTA P'ss VT CREPIT QVAE PEREVNT IROI VI VNTQ3 SIMILLIMA FVMO AVREA QVAN VMVIS NIL NISI FVMVS ERVNT AT MENS CVLT VIRO POST FVNERA LARIOR TAT DNO M ENT AN VOLANT. OLLICE DISSILIENS AVREA QUANTVMVIS, NIL NISI FVMVS ERVNT. AT MENS CVLTA VIRO, POST FVNERA, CLARIOR EXTAT PONDVS INEST MENTI CAETERA VANA VOLANT. JAMES D. MILNER. Queries. WE must request correspondents desiring into affix their names and addresses to their queries, formation on family matters of only private interest in order that answers may be sent to them direct. ETCHING BY ROWLANDSON : 'PAWPAW SWEATMEATS AND PICKLES OF ALL SORTS, BY RACHELL, P.P.'-I have a very interesting etched caricature of four persons. The central figure is that of a fat coloured lady, richly adorned with jewels, wearing a miniature of a white man, while a distinguished looking man in uniform, apparently the original of the portrait, is looking in through a window on the right. The other two figures are those of a young coloured woman, standing, wearing a turban with a green hat perched curiously on one side of it, and an elderly ugly man, possibly a mulatto, wearing a straw hat, and sporting a long pig-tail and spurs. The etching, which is hand-coloured, has "Rowlandson fecit," but no other lettering except the inscription on the wall given above. The caricature possibly refers to some West Indian affair, and I should be glad of any information concerning it. There is no copy of it in the British Museum. JOHN LANE. Books. The Bodley Head, Vigo Street, W.1. THE EARLIEST "LONDON " If by the term "London" it is understood that books of direct London interest, as dealing with its topography or with incidents in its history, are meant, then there is some doubt as to which are really the earliest. Richard Arnold's Chronicle or Customs of London' may be so classified. Its purpose, as the sub-title at the top of the lefthand column in A ii. recto indicates, is to provide a record or chronicle of specific London interest. The first edition, printed some pamphlet that should have been circa 1505 at Antwerp, by Adrian van included. My list describes two that have Berchem, is therefore the earliest work hitherto been overlooked. I should be glad of its kind, and apparently the re-issue, to hear of any others known to readers of published in 1523, but possibly printed N. & Q.' ALECK ABRAHAMS. in 1521, is its immediate successor of any importance; only two sermons appear to have been printed in the interim. În 1509 Wynkyn de Worde printed Fyrher (John Bishop of Rochester) his sermon in the Cathedrall Chyrche of Saynt Paule, the Bodye beyinge present of the most famouse Prynce K. Hen. VII. Empr [?] at the Speciall requeste of the Pryncesse Margarete moder unto the sayd noble Prynce.' In 1511 Thomas Berethelet printed Dean Colet's sermon to the Convocation at St. the GHOST STORIES CONNECTED WITH OLD LONDON BRIDGE.-Dickens, in 'The Pickwick Papers,' when describing the George Inn in the Borough, remarks on numerous ghost stories and old legends connected with Old London Bridge, and which are sufficiently numerous to fill a good-sized volume." 66 Can anyone give me any examples or put me on the track of them? REGINALD JACOBS. CAPT. COOK'S CREW: Coco-NUT CUP.Quite recently an old silver-mounted coconut cup has come into my possession which, although not hall-marked, I date about 1760-1775. St. Paul's is the subject of the next group of early books and pamphlets, those, namely, issued in 1561, in English, 8vo, by W. Seres, in French, 4to, by Guillaume Nysserd at Paris, and in Latin by John The coco-nut itself is chased or engraved, Day, on the storm and resulting destruction the details of which decoration are strongly by fire of the steeple of St. Paul's. These suggestive of its having originally belonged pamphlets have been reprinted several to one of Capt. James Cook's crew. There times and are fully discussed by the Rev. is the figure of a man, and the name Joseph W. J. Sparrow Simpson (' St. Paul's Cathedral and also the name of a woman. Library,' 1893, p. 71). This excellent In the centre of the cup is a medallion bibliographer also lists a pamphlet attri- enclosing a double monogram, J.G., and set buted to 1539, The Enquirie and Verdite in the foot is a medal with inscription as of the quest panneld of the death of Richard below. Hune wich was founde hanged in Lolars Tower.' "Lollard's Tower" at St. Paul's is identified by Stow, but the pamphlet, although of small interest, is not to be omitted from my list. One other pamphlet calls for notice before passing to the period of press activity when such works became almost numerous. In 1571 John Day printed The Effect of the declaratio made in the Guildhall by M.Recorder of London, concerning the late attemptes of the Queenes maiesties Euill, seditious, and disobedient subieties.' The date is added to the title in MS. by a contemporary hand, and is probably accurate. The pamphlet in black letter-describes the meeting at the Guildhall in the maiors Court, having all the Wardens of the companies before them, with a great multitude of other citizens," Fleetwood's speech, the Lord Mayor's reply, and the loyal acclamations of the multitude, the text finishing God save Queen Elizabeth and confound her Enemies." 66 There is much uncertainty in these early years of the press; possibly I have omitted |