66 'THE SCOURGE.'-This publication, by constitutes vol. i. It covers the period Oxymel Busby, Esq.," deals in the issue between 28 Nov., 1752, and 2 June, 1753. of 7 Dec., 1752, wholly with epitaphs. Epi- The last number concludes with a letter taphs, it seems, may be divided into from Oxymel Busby in which he promises to serious, admonitory, informative, arch, ridi- resume his Scourge "for the correction of culous, and those in commendation of the vice and folly on 6 November, when No. 1 deceased." The esquire proceeds to give of vol. ii. will be published. specimens of each. Perhaps it may interest your readers if I transcribe a few: SERIOUS. 1. On a Child of Two years old. As carefull Nurses on their Beds oft Lay Did Busby, Esq., "vapulate" (to use his own word) the public in a second volume ? The first volume alone is mentioned in the 'Catalogue of Books in the British Museum.' Is this publication of any historical or Their babes which would too long the wantons play; literary value ? 2. 66 Of the epitaphs in The Scourge which are dated, the one referring to Capt. Holmes is the oldest. WILLIAM L. STOREY. Belfast. "FORTH SHALL COME AN ASKE," &C.Ainsworth, writing of the Pilgrimage of Grace (temp. destruction of the monasteries), gives two verses of a song said to be sung by the Northern rebels : Forth shall come an ASKE with one eye, the least. But, 'twas not so, 'tis like he gave him liquor, Yet let not us bear too much Grief in mind, The quaint work before me comprises the first eighty-one numbers of the paper or brochure, each of three folio sheets, and the 98th Regiment, numbering 55 officers, N.C.O.'s, and men, in garrison there in March, 1782, besides artillery (European and native) and a Volunteer Battalion over 500 strong. I think I have read somewhere that the Black Watch was another. 66 PENRY LEWIS. PORTRAITS BY JAMES LONSDALE.-Can any one direct me to the present restingplace of the following portraits by this artist, which were exhibited at the Royal Academy in the various years shown ?— 1. Mr. D. Davies (1802). 2. Mr. W. F. Collard (1802, 1806, 1809, 1831). 3. Richard Threlfall (1809). 4. J. Elmes, architect (1810). 5. J. Thelwall (1811). 6. W. Woodburn (1811). 7. C. Kynnersley (1811). 8. J. Blackett (1812). 9. S. Woodburn (1813). 11. Alderman Combe (1807, 1814). 13. Mrs. Toulmin (1813). 20. J. B. Logier (1821). 21. Sir Humphrey Davy (1822). 22. Bishop Bathurst of Norwich (1822). 24. J. Pepys (1822). 25. Sir Alexander Grant, Bart. (1823). 27. Richard Arnold Smart (1824). 28. John Richards (1825). 29. R. T. Lonsdale (1829). 30. John Lodge Hubbersty, Recorder of Lancaster (1835). 31. Edward F. Lonsdale (1838). 33. W. Pennington (1808). Lancaster. T. CANN HUGHES, M.A., F.S.A. South Hackney. HERALDIC QUERY.-May I ask your readers to assist me in discovering the owner of the following coat of arms? On a round shield, surmounted by a count's coronet (probably French), and supported by two lions (or leopards) rampant, Quarterly : 1, a sun in splendour; 2, three stars; 3, four crosses; 4, seal defaced, but the charge may have been an amulet or key. The seal appears to be that of a French family, probably that of Vezian, which, I am informed, differs from the family of De Vezian in the French Peerages. ARMIGER. A PHANTOM PARLIAMENT.-Some years ago I read in a weekly publication now out of print the following, and I shall be glad if any reader will tell me where it can be found, and also its basis: "One evening late, a Prussian sovereign was out walking, and to his surprise noticed the Parliament House, then not in session, brightly illuminated. On arrival he was amazed to find a session of phantoms, the actors being of a Parliament of about one hundred years earlier, and in the dresses of that period." THOS. PRITCHARD. AGNES, DAUGHTER OF LOUIS VII.-Can any of your contributors tell me who was the husband of Agnes, daughter of Louis VII. of France? I have seen two accounts: one, that she married Adhelm de Burgo, Earl of Cornwall; the other, that she married Alexis, [See Swearing on the Horns at Highgate,' 6 S. ix. son of the Greek Emperor. Can it be that 69, 238, 316.] she was twice married? A. M. LA T. MRS. BARRETT, NÉE TYERS.-Mrs. Barrett, née Tyers, was a daughter of Jonathan Tyers the younger, eldest son of Jonathan Tyers, the proprietor of Vauxhall Gardens. On 27 May, 1779, Miss Tyers married Bryant Barrett, who succeeded to the proprietorship of the famous pleasure-gardens on the death of his father-in-law on 21 March, 1792, and who survived until 15 Feb., 1809. The Gentleman's Magazine gives his name Thomas Barrett in his obituary notice. Mrs. Barrett is said to have been alive in 1830. When did she die, and what was her Christian name ? HORACE BLEACKLEY. as MRS. JOHN PHILIP KEMBLE, NÉE HOPKINS. -Previous to her marriage with Kemble, Priscilla Hopkins had been the wife of William Brereton, actor. In what year did she marry her first husband? It was circa 1778. HORACE BLEACKLEY. MARGARET SCOTT, ÆTAT. 125.-As long ago as 1851 there was a paragraph in N. & Q.' (1 S. iv. 230), giving an inscription from a tomb at Dalkeith. A Margaret Scott was said to be buried there, aged 125 at her death on 9 Feb., 1738. Has any one chanced to make a note on the identity of this person? Was she of a well-known family? Palmer's 'Epitaphs,' &c., 1869, quotes the epitaph as from the churchyard at Dunkeld, and so far inquiry from the Registers has not verified the fact of this aged widow's burial at Dalkeith. L. M. M. 'REVELATIONS OF PETER BROWN.'-I am anxious to trace a book of the above title. It is quoted in an article in Longman's Magazine of March, 1886, and described by the author (Mr. Overton) as a modern book, but now out of print." 66 Mr. Overton gives a quotation from a poem entitled 'St. John's of Shottesbrook: a Berkshire Legend,' and the paper itself is descriptive of Life in a Village in the Olden Time.' The book cannot be traced in any catalogue. It may have been printed privately and published locally. Herne Hill, S. E. ROBERT RAYNER. IN the passage quoted "Dominion " called "that somewhat unusual word." it possible that Englishmen had never heard of the Old (or Ancient) Dominion "—a name that has been applied in this country to Virginia for two centuries? The story of the origin of the "Dominion of Canada is not only preposterous on its face, but can be shown to be without foundation. In his 'Tercentenary History of Canada' (1908), Frank B. Tracy says :— "In some respects, however, the hopes of some of the Canadian leaders, particularly John A. MacMacdonald undoubtedly looked for a Kingdom of Canada. In donald, were not carried out. fact, the phrase 'Kingdom of Canada' occurs in all the first documents. This did not mean an independent kingdom, but an auxiliary kingdom, somewhat like that of the German states, with the monarch of England as its head."-III. 936-7. In his Canada under British Rule, 17601900' (1900), the late Sir John G. Bourinot remarked : "It passed the two houses with very little discussion, and the royal assent was given to it on the 29th of March of the same year as 'The British North America Act, 1867.' It is interesting to know that in the original draft of the bill the united provinces were called the Kingdom of Canada'; and the writer had it from Sir John Macdonald himself that this amendment did not emanate from the colonial delegates, but from the imperial ministry, one of whose members was afraid of wounding the susceptibilities of United States statesmen."-P. 215. 66 It would be curious to know who the United States statesmen were whose susceptibilities were thought in danger of being wounded. The Bill was read for the first time in the House of Lords on 12 Feb., 1867, and at its second reading on 19 February the Earl of Carnarvon made a speech in which occurs this passage :— "Having thus stated the main provisions of this measure, I have only to add the designation of this new State to which we are about to give a distinct life and organization. It may seem a trifling question; but it has, in truth, been one neither representatives of the Maritime Provinces belongs unimportant nor free from difficulties. To the the credit of waiving local rights and pretensions; and they have felt the advantage of accepting a name not less familiar to the English labourer and artizan than it is distinguished by honourable traditions. Her Majesty has been pleased to express her approval of the name, and henceforth the United Provinces will be known as the 'Dominion of Canada '-a designation which is a graceful tribute on the part of the colonists to the monarchical principles under which they have lived and prospered, and which they trust to transmit unimpaired to their children's children."-Hansard's Parliamentary Debates,' pp. 567-8. The Bill was read in the House of Lords for the third time and passed on 26 February. It was read in the House of Commons for the first time on 26 February, and at its second reading on 28 February the Right Hon. Charles B. Adderley opened his speech with the words: "Sir, I rise to move the second reading of a Bill for the union in one Dominion of the Canadas, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia"; and later said: "I need not go far back to show the origin of this desire of the Provinces to be united in one Dominion (ibid., pp. 1164–5). It thus appears that there had been question as to the designation of this new State," but that the name "Dominion of Canada" had been determined upon and had received the approval of Queen Victoria before the Bill was introduced into Parliament. The Bill passed, as Bourinot stated, “with very little discussion"; in fact, some members of both Houses declared that it was, to use a modern American phrase, "railroaded" through; but there was no debate over the name selected. Of course, the word "Dominion" was used in the special sense thus defined in the 'N.E.D.' The territory owned by or subject to a king or ruler, or under a particular government or control." As, however, the extracts from 1512 to 1832 are not to our present point, it will be pertinent to give some earlier ones, and to show how Virginia received its sobriquet-the earliest in this country except Bay State" as applied to Massachusetts. 66 In the Virginia charter of 6 April, 1606, occur the words, any Realms or Dominions under our Obedience"; in that of 23 May, 1609, occur the words, "within our Realm of England, and Dominion of Wales," and "within this our Realm of England, or in any other of our Dominions." In the Massachusetts charter of 4 March, 1629, occur the words, "out of any our realmes or domynions whatsoever." For half a century the terms usually found are colony," "plantation," country," but after 1660 the word "dominion" becomes more common. On 21 June, 1665, occur the words, "Whereas his majesty out of his princely care for the preservation of all other his dominions, so of this Colony of Virginia." On 17 Sept., 1666, Virginia was alluded to as "this, his Maties Ancientest Colony." 66 66 66 On 25 Feb., 1674, we read of "the colony and dominion of Maryland," and of “the colony and dominion commonly called Carolina." On 8 July, 1675, Charles II. Culpeper the office of our Lieut. and Governor unto the said Thomas Lord granted General of all our said colony and dominion of Virginia in America." On 10 Nov., 1682, the Virginia Assembly enacted that "if any person......shall...... maliciously......declare ......that the acts of assembly of Virginia_not repealed......or annulled by the kings most excellent majestie are not of force or binding within this his majesties dominion......such person......shall be adjudged...... factious and seditious." On 8 Oct., 1685, James II. constituted "a President & Councill to take care of all that our Territory & Dominion of New England in America"; and on 3 June, 1686, and again on 7 April, 1688, he commissioned Sir Edmund Andros governor "over all that our Territory and Dominion in New England in America." A document dated 8 June, 1699, speaks of " this Our Ancient and Great Colony and Dominion of Virginia." In 1705 F. Makemie dedicated his Plain & Friendly Perswuasive,' &c., "to His Excellency Major Edward Nott, Her Majestys Governor of the Ancient Dominion of Virginia." now Thus, in the course of a century, was evolved the name of "Ancient Dominion as applied to Virginia, and that name remained in vogue for still another century, but has been displaced by "Old Dominion." The true origin of the phrase, sometimes wrongly explained, is clearly brought out by the extracts given above. There is no reason a priori why the name might not have been applied to any one of the original thirteen American colonies except Georgia and Delaware, but as a matter of fact it became attached to Virginia only: This was, of course, largely because Virginia was the oldest of the colonies. Boston, U.S. ALBERT MATTHEWS. PROFESSORS AT DEBITZEN [DEBRECZIN], 1756 (11 S. xi. 279, 327).—Two copies of the “Case " printed below are preserved in the University archives at Oxford. It is followed by a statement that the Bishops had contributed 2617. 158. for the assistance of the Professors, and by a certificate from the Archbishop of Canterbury to the character of "the Bearer, Mr. St. Weszprémi of the University of Debritzen." From other papers in the same collection it appears that all but two of the Colleges at Oxford contributed to the fund sums ranging from 107. 16s. to 31. 38. the total amount was 1217. 178. "THE CASE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF DEBRITZEN IN THE KINGDOM OF HUNGARY. "It is well known that the University of Debritzen has from the earliest times of the Blessed Reformation down to our Days constantly supplied almost all Hungary with Pastors and Masters of Schools; But within these three Years past, such has been the prevailing Influence of their Enemies at the Court, that an Edict hath been issued from the Aulic Chamber forbidding the Magistrates of Debritzen to pay the usual Salaries to their Professors, with this hard Clause annex'd to it, that no Provision shall be made for them within the Kingdom by way of Collection. In this their Distress they had no other Resource left them but that of imploring the Compassion and charitable Assistance of their Brethren abroad, particularly the English; humbly hoping they will be moved to pity the Distress, to which the said University is now reduc'd, and willingly contribute towards keeping it up: As the preservation of the Reform'd Religion in the Kingdom of Hungary seems under God chiefly to depend upon the Continuance of this Seminary of Learning and pure Religion. Whatever shall be collected here for that Charitable Purpose, His Grace the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury has been pleas'd to declare, He will see properly and faithfully applied by means of the Revd Mr Majendie Prebendary of Sarum." 66 In Farmer and Henley's Slang and is Analogues' the word pound is given as an old substantive for a prison, but no examples of its use are cited. There is an old substantive "Lob's pound," also meaning a prison, as the following examples show :1603. Dekker, Batchelor's Banquet': ran wilfully....into the perill of Lob's Pound.” 1663. Butler, Hudibras,' I. iii. 909 [ut supra]. 1671. Crowne, Juliana,' I. i.: "Between 'um both he's got into Lobb's pound." "He [Note (Maidment, 1870). Jocularly, a prisor cr place of confinement. This phrase is still used and applied to the prison made for a child between the feet of a grown-up person.] There is also a slang phrase among thieves, In for pound," meaning "Committed for trial." ARCHIBALD SPARKE, F.R.S.L. A RUSSIAN EASTER (11 S. xi. 277, 440, 498).-ST. SWITHIN will, I think, find that MR. W. A. FROST is correct in his statements about the Russian Church. Dr. Wladimir Guettée, priest and S.T.D. of the Orthodox Church of Russia, in the second edition of his Exposition de la Doctrine de l'Église Catholique Orthodoxe (Paris, Bruxelles, 1884), writing of "l'église romaine," says at pp. 443-4 : "Elle célèbre des liturgies secrètes ou messes basses; elle en célèbre plusieurs dans la même église et sur le même autel; elle célèbre une foule de messes tous les jours. Ce sont là autant d'abus." The italics are the author's. And again :-— "On ne doit pas célèbrer la liturgie deux fois, le même jour, sur le même autel." JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. I am still sceptical about Mass being celebrated three times on the same day at any altar belonging to the Orthodox Eastern Church, and I may say that Easterns do not usually call the Eucharist "the Mass," but the Liturgy." I can quite believe that at some church in Petrograd there were three services on Easter Day between midnight and daylight, and that the priest stood at the centre of the altar at each of them, for that is his ordinary position, and hence a stranger might imagine that he was celebrating Mass. Nor would a knowledge of Greek undeceive him, as in Russia the services are in Slavonic. What may be called the special Easter Matins a service very different from the ordinary Matins-begins in many churches at midnight, lasts about an hour, and is followed by the Liturgy of St. Chrysostom, which, if there be much ceremonial and music, may occupy three hours, though that is not the case everywhere, and at Bayswater it takes far less time. It is possible to extend Matins by the addition of certain other services, and if there is much singing the whole series may last even seven hours. This, I understand, is the case at Moscow Cathedral, where the Liturgy is not reached till about 7 A.M., SO that there is a service, or series of services, lasting ten hours, though it is difficult to believe that the same priests and choir officiate throughout. Assuming then that there were three services (wrongly called Masses) at some church in Petrograd between midnight and daylight, I should say that the first was the Easter Matins; the second some, at least, of those other services to which I have referred; and the last the Liturgy. At the end of this, as at the beginning of Matins, the priest |