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MUDIE'S SELECT LIBRARY (LIMITED), 30-34, New Oxford-street; 241, Brompton-road, S.W.; 48, Queen Victoriastreet, E.C., London; and Barton Arcade, Manchester. LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 1896. CONTENTS.-N° 212. QUERIES:-" Dockerer"-John Ranking- -"Ade"-John REPLIES:-Spring Gardens, 49-Old Picture-A. Cowley- not throwing much additional light on the point raised. MR. ELKIN MATTHEWS, following, apparently, the editorial note before quoted, says that the ring referred to by DEAN PLUMPTRE" was about the Alworth Merewether, Serjeant-at-law, Recorder middle of the century in the possession of Henry of Reading, in whose family I presume it still is " ('N. & Q,' 6th S. x. 526). In the Life of George Herbert of Bemerton,' published by the S.P.C.K. in 1893, the author states (p. 305) that Dr. Donne, by his will as recorded, left to Walton a signet ring set in a heliotrope with a carving of Christ crucified on an anchor. This ring was left to Ken, who wore it all his life and sealed his own will with it. "This seal is at Longleat House, Wilts." At p. 222 the author writes: "The ring bequeathed to Herbert was preserved at Bemerton, and is now with the Rev. W. Ayerst, Ayerst Hall, Cambridge." As regards the seal or ring said to be at Longleat, and connected with Bishop Ken, I am informed on the best authority that no such seal or ring exists there. And from these conflicting accounts it will, I think, be very puzzling to determine who are now the fortunate possessors of any of the original seals disBar-tributed by Dr. Donne. None of the writers except the late Dr. Philip Bliss appears to have seen and handled any of the original seals, and there is a curious confusion, first about the exact nature of the articles referred to, which are described by some persons as seals by others as rings; secondly, about the circumstances under which these articles were originally distributed by Dr. Donne and subsequently descended. A signet ring may doubtless be described as a seal; but a pendent seal, which cannot be used as a ring and which is intended for suspension to a chain or ribbon, cannot possibly be described as a ring. The ornament sent to George Herbert, with a poem by Dr. Donne, is described as a seal; but there is no evidence to show whether it was a seal ring or a seal for suspension. The poem is headed, "To Mr. George NOTES ON BOOKS:-Powell's Excursions in Libraria' Furnivall's Shakspeare's Tempest-Inderwick's The King's Peace-Holt's Lights in the Darkness' tholomew's Hospital Reports.' Notices to Correspondents. Fotes. Herbert sent him with one of my seals of the anchor and Christ "; and the following two lines may be quoted : DR. DONNE'S MEMORIAL SEALS. The history of these seals has always been a matter of public interest to collectors of curiosities and to lovers of Isaac Walton, who, in his 'Life of Dr. John Donne,' which bears date 15 Feb., 1639, gave the first account of the circumstances under which they were made and distributed by Dr. Donne not long before his death on 31 March, 1631. A description of one of these seals was published in 1807_in_the Gentleman's Magazine. În 1859, CANON H. T. ELLACOMBE, of Clyst St. George, Devon, communicated to N. & Q'a letter from Dr. Philip Bliss, saying that he had seen two undoubted Donne seals: (1) in possession This seal's a catechism, not a seal alone; of a schoolboy, of which he had himself sent a Under that little seal great gifts I send. description to the Gentleman's Magazine; (2) in The articles described by Dr. Philip Bliss in possession of Mr. Domeville (Domville ?) Wheeler, writing to CANON ELLACOMBE are mentioned as of Badham, from the impression of which a fac-seals, not as rings; and an account will be given simile was made for Dr. Bliss. The print of a third seal in Pickering's Life of Walton,' was also referred to, N. & Q.,' 2nd S. viii. 170. The Editor inserted a note at p. 170 that Isaac Walton's seal is in the possession of H. A. Merewether, Esq.," to many of his dearest friends, to be used as seals Q.C., of Bowden Hill, and another with Dr. Bliss. In 1884, DEAN PLUMPTRE, of Wells, inquired for the history" of the bloodstone ring left by Donne to Isaac Walton, by him to Ken, by him to Isaac Walton, junior" ( N. & Q.,' 6th S. x. 426). Several replies were received, showing much interest, but below of another original seal of Dr. Donne, which cannot possibly be described except as a seal. The confusion appears to have arisen from Walton's statement that Dr. Donne sent these ornaments or rings, and kept as memorials of him and of his affection to them." This passage suggests that some of the stones engraved with the anchor and Christ were set as seals and some as rings; but although the device of Dr. Donne's seal has been frequently engraved in connexion with Isaac Wal ton's works, and in the Gentleman's Magazine of 1807, no description or engraving appears to have been ever published of the gold setting of these seals or rings, beyond a bare statement, "set in gold evidently of the date of Donne's time" (Gent. Mag., vol. lxxvii. p. 313). It will not fail to be noticed that DEAN PLUMPTRE and the author of the Life of George Herbert of Bemerton' speak of rings bequeathed to Herbert and Walton, and of subsequent bequests. But Isaac Walton's account distinctly stated that Dr. Donne distributed these ornaments before his death; and there is no mention of any such bequest to Herbert or to Walton in Dr. Donne's will, dated 13 Dec., 1630, a brief abstract of which is given in Walton's memoir of his friend. The following passage from the will of Dr. Donne, proved P.C.C., 5 April, 1631 (St. John, 46), clearly suggests that the rings or seals given to Herbert and Walton were given by Dr. Donne before his death: "Item, I give to my twoe faithful servants Robert Christmast and Thomas Roper, officers of the church of St. Paule to each of them five pounds to make them seal rings engraved with that figure which I usuallye sealle withal of which sort they know I have given many to my particular friends." seal, which may have passed into the possession of William, afterwards Serjeant Hawkins and his sister Anne, who, in 1720, when Canon Walton's will was proved, represented their mother, the residuary legatee named in the will. It is noticeable that Serjeant Hawkins was the executor both of Bishop Ken and of Canon Walton; and from one or the other Isaac Walton's original seal received from Dr. Donne is likely to have passed into his possession. I am not aware of the date of Serjeant Hawkins's death, or whether he left a will, and should be glad to receive information on these points. He married Jane, daughter of John Merewether, M.D., of Devizes, who is said to have attended Bishop Ken in his last illness. This connexion may throw some light on the fact stated by the Editor of 'N. & Q.,' 27 Aug., 1859, that Isaac Walton's seal is in the possession of H. A. Merewether, Esq., Q.C., of Bowden Hill. The authority for this statement of fact I should be glad to know, for another original seal of Dr. Donne, believed by family tradition to have been received by John Lloyd from his uncle Isaac Walton, is known to be in existence, and has been in the family of its present possessors since 1749. This seal belonged to Miss Deborah Lloyd (buried at Flaxley, Glouc., There is no mention in Isaac Walton's will, 20 Oct., 1749), a daughter of this John Lloyd, and proved 4 Feb., 1683/4, P.C.C., Hare, 375, of any a great niece of Rachel Floud, or Lloyd, who was bequest of Dr. Donne's seal or ring to Bishop Ken; Isaac Walton's first wife, married 22 Dec., 1626. but there is mention of a memorial ring left by It descended as a family relic to my father, the Walton to Bishop Ken, and this bequest may late Sir Martin Hyde Crawley-Boevey, Bart., of possibly have given rise to the misunderstanding Flaxley Abbey, co. Glouc., a descendant and which appears to exist. What became of Dr. representative in the seventh generation of Robert Donne's seal on Isaac Walton's death, on 15 Dec., Lloyd, brother of the said Rachel. This seal is 1683, cannot be traced from his will; but it appears now in my possession. It is contained in a circlet of to have passed into the possession of his only son gold surmounted by a gold lion couchant as a bandle and executor Isaac, afterwards Canon of Salisbury, for the finger, and pierced with a small suspending who died unmarried 29 Dec., 1716, and whose will ring to enable a person wearing it to attach to was proved 14 Nov., 1720, P.C.C., Shaller, 244. chain or ribbon. The stone, I am informed by This will, the original of which I have examined, experts, is chalcedony-not heliotropian or bloodis sealed with a seal bearing Dr. Donne's charac-stone-and is engraved with Dr. Donne's characteristic device. Bishop Ken died 21 March, 1710, and his will was proved by his nephew, William Hawkins, 24 April, 1711, P.C.C., Young, 84. This will also makes no mention of Dr. Donne's seal. The original will of Bishop Ken, which I have examined, also bears a seal with Dr. Donne's device, but the impression differs both in size and in small details from the impression on Canon Walton's will. The probability seems to be that Bishop Ken and Canon Walton both possessed signet rings or seals with Dr. Donne's device, and one of those seals (probably that used by Canon Walton) may have been the original seal given to Isaac Walton by Dr. Donne. Canon Walton's will bequeathed to his sister Anne (widow of Prebendary Hawkins), who died 18 Aug., 1715, "all the gold, whether rings or broad pieces, which I have," and all the residue of the estate. No mention is made of Dr. Donne's teristic device, Christ suspended on an anchor, surrounded by the motto "Sit fides sic fixa deo." The fact that this seal has been in the uninterrupted possession of members of the Lloyd family and their representatives for nearly 150 years shows, at least, that it comes from a most probable source; and if the seal be what family tradition supposesviz., the gift of Isaac Walton to his nephew John Lloyd-it furnishes an additional link in the chain of evidence establishing the identity of Isaac Walton's first wife with Rachel, daughter of William Floud, or Lloyd, of Chepsted, in Chevening, Kent. MR. H. HUCKS GIBBS was the first to establish this identity in a communication addressed to N. & Q.,' pablished 15 Nov., 1873; and the correctness of MR. GIBBS's demonstration derives much support from various allusions contained in Walton's 'Life of Hooker.' In this "second, posthumously in 1625. Of translations there are the following: memoir Walton speaks of his "happy affinity with William Cranmer and two of his sisters, one of whom was the wife of Dr. John Spencer, President of C.C.C., Oxford. The other sister referred to is not named, but may have been Susanna, who married William Floud, or Lloyd, of Chepsted, Kent, 11 Sept., 1598 (Sundridge parish register). With these two sisters Isaac Walton relates that he had "an entire and free friendship"; and when the Rev. Richard Hooker became Rector of Bishop's Borne, near Canterbury, in 1595, William Cranmer and his two sisters were thrown into great intimacy and received some part of their education in his house. Walton married Rachel, daughter of William and Susanna Floud, at St. Mildred's, Canterbury, on 22 Dec., 1626; and Susanna, his motherin-law, lived with them for some time, and died in their house in Chancery Lane in 1635. Walton acknowledges the private information received from various members of the Cranmer family in his Memoir of Richard Hooker,' and specially alludes to his "aunt" (i. e., wife's mother's sister), the wife of Dr. John Spencer, who gave most important testimony regarding the preparation by her husband of the last three books of Hooker's 'Ecclesiastical Polity' and the delivery of Dr. Spencer's papers into the hands of the Archbishop of Canterbury. The connexion of Isaac Walton with the Cranmer family through Susanna Floud, and with the Flouds or Lloyds of Chevening and Chepsted through his wife Rachel, seems to be clearly established; and the circumstances under which the Life of Hooker' was prepared show that Walton was considered to be his fittest biographer by reason of his own connexion by marriage with the families of Cranmer and Floud. The writer will be happy to correspond with any person interested in the subject of this paper. A. W. CRAWLEY-BOEVEY. 76, St. George's Square, S.W. P.S.-Since this paper was written, I have been informed, by the kindness of the Rev. Wyndham Merewether, of North Bradley Vicarage, Trowbridge, Wilts, that the Merewether seal, referred to by the Editor of 'N. & Q.' in 1859 as "Isaac Walton's seal," is now in his possession. It is not a seal ring, as might be inferred from the correspondence quoted above, but a pendent seal. It is smaller than the Flaxley seal, and bears no motto. The stone is described as "dark green, possibly 'heliotropian.' This seal is said to be the original seal of Isaac Walton, received from Dr. Donne. It is clearly a family relic of the greatest interest. CAMDEN'S 'ANNALS OF ELIZABETH,' The first volume of Camden's 'Annales Regnante Elizabethâ' was published in 1615, the : 1. In 1624, a French translation of vol. i. was brought out by Paul de Bellegent, published in London, and dedicated to King James. 2. In 1625, Abraham Darcie published an English translation, mainly made, as appears, from that of Bellegent, whose dedicatory address he gives (and see specimen below). One little flourish of his own is amusing. Camden begins with the grave and becoming sentence: "Elizabethæ Angliæ Reginæ genus paternum vere regium erat." Darcie says: "The all-glorious, all vertuous, incomparable, inuict, and matchlesse pattern of Princes, the Glory, Honour, and Mirror of Womankind, the Admiration of our Age, Elizabeth, Queeue of England, was by the Father's side truely Royall." 3. In 1829, Thos. Browne, of Christ Church, Oxford, translated the second volume. * 4. In 1630, a new translation of the whole was made by R. N. (Robert Norton). It passed through (at least) three editions. The Bodleian has a copy of the first, the British Museum has one of edition 1635. 5. In 1675, some one, anonymous, took in hand and recast Norton's translation, "without destroying the groundwork," as he says, but supplying omissions, correcting errors, omitting superfluities, &c. He calls it "the third edition," apparently as having worked upon Norton's third edition of 1635. There is no earlier copy of this revised edition, either in the British Museum or in the Bodleian. 6. In 1707, the annals were "newly done into English," for a 'History of England' compiled from the works of various historians, under the supervision of White Kennett. This also is anony mous. I subjoin a short sentence, as specimen of the manner of each translator: Galliæ non poterat non timere, si Anglia novis nuptiis "Sollicitum hoc etiam habuit Gallorum Regem, qui Hispano nosti denuo accederet."-I. p. 4. "Et le Roy de France s'en alarme, sçachant combien il importoit à la France, que l'Espagnol son ennemi adjoignist à son Royaume celuy d'Angleterre."-Bellegent. "The French king likewise was in an extasie, considering how important and dangerous it was to France, if Spaine her enemy should vnite and adjoyne to his kingdoms the realmes of England and Ireland."-Darcie. "This also troubled the French king, who could not but misdoubt France, if by this new marriage England should fall again to the Spaniard his enemy."-Norton. Norton's reviser, idem. "Nor could the King of France sit easy or unapprehensive, under the prospect of this new alliance, which his Spanish enemy was like to contract with England." -White Kennett's translator. From which it may appear that Robert Norton * See notice of him in 'Dict. of National Biography.' |