LONDON, MAY 8, 1920

CONTENTS.- No. 108.

NOTES:-An Early Heroic Tragedy, 181-The De Gorges of Knighton Gorges, 182-An English Army List of 1740, 184-"Bellum "-Dr. Butler's Ale-London Innholders, 186-An Early Automobile-" A Nyesse Hawk"-The Royal Exchange Statues, 187.

a precursor of the dramas of Dryden and of Orrery themselves.

Its scene is Poland, and, like many of the early Restoration dramas, it combines with a romantic plot a certain amount of historical reference, mainly in that part which deals with the King and the revolt of Zorates and of Selucious, reference that is

close "Upon Hells High-Commission Court,
set to judge the King. Jan. 1648 " and
"Upon the horrid, and unheard of Murther,
of Charles the First....the 30th of Janu.
1648. Apart from this historical parallel,
however, the rest of the play is romantic and
heroic. The Prince loves Francina, who is
beloved by Nonantious, who, in turn,
heroically kills himself to make way for his
rival. Francina, however, on Nonantious'
death, departs to a nunnery.
A similar fate
befalls Symphrona who loves the brother of
Francina, Bellarious, for she had believed
him irredeemably captured by the Turks.

QUERIES:-Old Stained Glass-The Irish in Spain-intensified by the verses appended at the
Browning: The Flower's Name-Coddington Family,
Cheshire-Nursery Rime Wanted-Elizabeth Castle, 188
-Rev. George Barclay-Wild Boar in Heraldry-John
Blake-The Turks and the Caliphate-Crystal Standing
Salts-Clerk of the Crown in the Northern Counties-
Griffiths Rhys-Major Nicholl--Joseph Lee, 189-Le
Capitaine Blaise The Norman People'-The Artist of
the Antiquarian Itinerary '-Frames-Fani Parkas-
Exemptions-Edward de Vere's Mother-Henry de Vere's
Sponsors-Tennyson on Tobacco-Lightfoot Marriage-
Author of Quotation Wanted, 190.
REPLIES:-The Hawkhurst Gang-Maison Rouge, Frank
fort, 191-Pharmaceutical Book-Plates-Battle Bridge
Cinders and Moscow-Pirie-Louisa spelt Leweezer-
The Temple of the Muses'-Double Christian Names
J. Symmons of Paddington House, 192-The Third Troop
of Guards-Stobart Family-Prince Charles in North
Devon-"Diddykites" and Gipsies, 193-Earliest Clerical
Directory. 194-Reference Wanted-No Man's Land-
Bibliography of Lepers in England, 195-Persistent Error
-Curious Surnames, .96 Yale and Hobbes-- Slang
Terms Origin of-Master Gunner-Grafton, Oxon-
William Thomas Rogers, Sculptor and Church Builder,
197-Wm. Hawkins: Anne Walton-Urchfont-Anathema
Cup-David Humphreys-Grosvenor Place--Soaps for
Salt Water-Finkle Street, 198-General James Ogle-

thorpe-Authors of Quotations Wanted, 199.

NOTES ON BOOKS-'A Study of Shakespeare's Versification' Last Verses.'

Netices to Correspondents.

Notes.

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AN EARLY HEROIC TRAGEDY. AMONG the several investigations into the origin of the heroic tragedy of the seventeenth century, attention so far has not lighted upon an interesting play by a writer, George Cartwright, of whom the only thing we know is that he lived at Fulham, and was, as the title-page to his one dramatic production avers, a gentleman." Yet The Heroick-Lover: or, The Infanta of Spain,' printed in 1661, the year following the restoration of Charles II., has many characteristics that merit our regard, and, not the 'least among these, the obvious one that it is written in rime. Rimed plays, of course, existed before 'Mustapha or 'The Indian Queen,' and heroic elements are visible as far back as Beaumont and Fletcher, but this play connects itself much more intimately with the Drawcansir school than by mere technical expression alone, and indeed seems almost, although a closet play-at least,

Into this plot of romantic passion the author has infused all that easy psychology of conflicting emotions which is one of the typical characteristics of the heroic play. Do, or not do," soliloquises Nonantious :Do, or not do, criminal ev'ry way.

Of evils, chuse the lesser of the two,
They are so equal, I know not which to do.
My love to fair Francina, bids me not;
My duty to my Prince, can't be forgot.
How both, the ballance hold, so just and true,
That willing both, I know not which to do.
Act II., sc. ii.
sentiments which exactly parallel the cry of
Aretus in Orrery's 'Tryphon' (Lincoln's Inn
Fields, 1668) :-

O Love, O Friendship, and O Fatal Vow!
To which shall I pay my Obedience now?
or that of Tudor in the same author's 'Henry
the Fifth (Lincoln's Inn Fields, 1664). Nor
does the death of Nonantious fail to become
his life, for, like his younger brothers, the
heroes of 1664-77, he knew the correct code
of heroic chivalry. Drawing his dagger, he
turns to his Prince :-

Yet 'fore I die, here on my bended knee,
Do I bequeath Francina, willingly.
All, all the interest, which I have in her,
Henceforward do I give, unto you Sir....
But I can do no more then I can do.
I know she is too poor, a gift for you,
Since that my life to you, is so suspect,
'Tis fit my Death, shoo'd witness my respect.
(Stabs himself.)
Act IV., sc. iv.

Francina, however, as I have indicated, refused to be treated as goods and chattels,

without explanation, to the Princess Flora of Spain, no doubt dragged in for contemporary reasons. In politics, too, this forgotten author anticipates the thoughts of practically every one of his fellow dramatists. In this play the Admiral, approached by conspirators, bursts out in true Cavalier wrath at their proposals :

Your Doctrine is of Devils; I fear to name

before, the commencement of Henry II.'s
reign. William de Morville it is conjectured,
obtained a grant of the manor from the
Crown, but no documentary evidence of
such grant has been traced.
His name is
attached to two important island charters of
1150 and 1161. His descendant Ivo de
Morville, Lord of Bradpole, co. Dorset,
Wraxall, co. Somerset, and Knighton, Isle-

The words which you have utter'd, without shame. of Wight, died before 1256, the date usually

That I shoo'd help, for to correct the King,
Were he the worst, of any living thing!

assigned, leaving an only daughter Elena. heiress to his large estates. She married Far be't in me, such wickedness shoo'd dwell.... Ralph, son of Ivo de Gorges of Tamworth,

Or were his Royal soul, more black then Hell,

To us, who cannot judge of common things,
Does not belong, the judgement of great Kings.
They shoo'd be like stars, seated in the Sky,
Far from our reach, though seeming near our eye.

Act II., sc. iii.

In Cartwright's 'The Heroick-Lover' we have, therefore, an anticipation of the regular heroic tragedy the initiation of which is generally accredited to Dryden or to Orrery. Never acted, as it appears, it was, no doubt, in those early years of renewed interest in the drama but of meagre dramatic production, read, maybe, by Dryden himself and certainly by many a lesser follower of Dryden's style. It gives us a new hint, if but a slight one, towards an elucidation of the origin of the whole heroic species.

Oxford.

ALLARDYCE NICOLL, M.A.

NOTES ON THE DE GORGES

KNIGHTON GORGES,

co. Warwick.

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Peche and Joan de Gorges to the custody of the
Appointment during pleasure of Bartholomew
lands of Ralph de Gorges and Eleanor his wife."-
Cal. Pat. R., 1232-47, p. 243.

(A reference to Joan de Gorges is found on the Liberate Rolls, May 7, 26 Henry III., Issues of the Exchequer: "Pay &c. to Joan, wife of Ralph de Gorges, 4 marks to purchase a robe and coat.")

In September of the following year is a mandate to the Archbishop of York,

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to assign as soon as possible to Ralph de Gorges ten pounds yearly....for the maintenance of him and his wife."-Cal. Pat. R., 1232-47, p. 323.

Wiffen, Historical Memoirs of the House of Russell,' i. 136, alludes to an earlier alliance of Ralph de Gorges with the heiress of Foliot of Warleigh, but cites no authority for the statement. by the Rev. George S. Master, Collections This story is echoed later for a Parochial History of Wraxall,' p. 10, published 1900:

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Sir Ralph de Gorges married for his first wife Margaret, daughter and heir of Robert Foliot, of OF Warleigh, in Tamerton Foliot, co. Devon, and by her, who died in 1239, had issue, &c." The Foliot heiress did marry a Ralph de Gorges, but he was of Est Almere, co. Dorset, who is named later as one of the executors of the will of his namesake of Knighton Gorges, whose death took place circa 1272. A pedigree of the Gorges of Tamerton Foliot is given in Pole's Devon' p. 335. Particulars of the inquisition following on the death in 1289 of "Ralph de Gorges de Almere is given in the 'Calendar of Inquisitions,' ii. 462, published in 1906. He died, in 1289, sine prole, and his wife's name was Margaret, a daughter of Simon de

ISLE OF WIGHT, A.D. 1241-1349. THE knightly family of the De Gorges ranks among the most distinguished of the early nobility of the Isle of Wight. The site where the old Manor House of Knighton Gorges stood is to be found about midway on the steep southern slope of Ashey Down, one of a range of lofty chalk hills running through the centre of the Isle of Wight. The triangular sea-mark on its summit stands some 400 feet above sea-level.

An earlier family of repute the De

Sir Ralph was one of those attendant on the king when he was "blocked up," in there Feudal Aids, Dorset,' ii. 34), and equalled' year 1263, by the disaffected citizens of Bristol. Collinson adds that :

amongst which this Ralph being one, was carried prisoner to Paris."

Evidence is supplied in a Close Roll that Sir Ralph had already started in September on his unfortunate expedition to France (Cal. Cl. R., 1288-96, p. 369). He died during his captivity abroad; the writ to the escheator bears date Portsmouth, May 23. The text is found on the Fine Rolls (25 Edw. I., m. 13). A closing word vacat leads to an inference that the customary writ was issued in ignorance of the grant made to Sir Ralph in 1294, and was quashed later when it was found, in consequence thereof, that the king had no interest in Ralph's "lands. The year is given as 1296, but if the regnal year began on Nov. 16, the date is really May 24, 1297, and since the death took place in France it follows that Sir Ralph had been dead some little time on May 24.

Evidence of Sir Ralph's marriage is -supplied in the following assignment of dower to his widow::

"1297, June 27. These lands [in Essex] are assigned to Maud, late the wife of Ralph de Gorges, as her dower, for a third part of the lands that belonged to Ralph by the assent of the exors. of the will, &c."-Cal. Cl. R., 1296-1302, p. 114. The text of the foregoing deed is of more than ordinary importance, since it shows that a Ralph de Gorges had died in the year 1297, leaving a widow, surviving-dower being assigned from the de Gorges estates. Now this Ralph must be "the Marshal," Lord of Knighton Gorges, with wide estates over on the mainland, father of-not identical with"Ralph, Baron Gorges," who died in 1325.

"Ralph de Gorges, son and heir of Ralph by
Elena his wife, was a knight, and 21 Edward I. was
Marshal of the King's army in Gascony."
He goes on to say :-

"2 Edward II., he was summoned to Parliament among the Barons and died Nov. 29, 17 Edward II., leaving issue by his wife Eleanor, &c."

G. E. C.'s 'Complete Peerage,' vol. iv., p. 54, art. Gorges,' has :

:

AN ENGLISH ARMY LIST OF 1740.

(See 12 S. ii. passim; iii. 46, 103, 267, 354, 408, 438.)

THE third Marine Regiment (p. 51), raised on Nov. 19, 1739 (46th Foot), had light yellow facings to its uniform dress. It was "broke' on Nov. 7, 1748, the officers being then placed on half-pay.

The officers whose names appear in the Army List of 1755 (p. 89) as having belonged to this Regiment are seven in number-Burton, Browne, Foulks, Bertles, Spetigue, Mompesson, and Medlicott-here spelled Milliquet.

In 1745, Colonel Lowther was succeeded in the command by Colonel R. Sowle.
Colonel Lowther's Regiment of Marines.

Dates of their present commissions.

Dates of their first commissions. Ensign, 18 Oct. 1704. Ensign, 24 April 1708. Ensign, 1711.

(1) Ensign in the Earl of Barrymore's Regiment of Foot, Jan. 27, 1706. Captain in the Scots Fusiliers, Jan. 1, 1708. Major, Rich's Regiment of Dragoons, July 22, 1715. Captain-Lieutenant : and Lieutenant-Colonel, Coldstream Guards, Dec. 20, 1717. Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel, July 8 1721. Major-General, May, 1745.

(2) Ensign, 3rd Regiment of Foot Guards, May 2, 1711. Lieutenant. Sept. 9, 1717. Appointed Lieutenant-Colonel in Wynyard's (4th) Marine Regiment, Mar. 24, 1741. Name spelled "Emonstoun

(3) Captain, April 10, 1741.
(4) Captain, April 13, 1741.
5) Captain, May 7, 1741.
(6) Captain, June 24, 1741.
(7) First Lieutenant, Mar. 14, 1741.
(8) First Lieutenant, April 8, 1741.
(9) First Lieutenant, April 10, 1741.

Captain-Lieutenant, June 1, 1741.

(10) First Lieutenant, April 13, 1741. Spelled "Tuttie" in the MS. entry.

11) First Lieutenant, May 28, 1741.

12) Captain, June 1, 1742. "Bold" is a possible misprint for "Bald," i.e. Baldwin. (13) First Lieutenant, June 22, 1740.

(14) "Spetigue in MS. entry.

(15) Cummings" in the MS. entry.

The following additional names of officers are given on the interleaf, in MS. :—

(1) Fifth son of Wentworth Harmar. Ensign in Hawley's (32nd) Regiment, Sept. 29, 1719First Lieutenant in Howard's (24th) Regiment, Dec. 1, 1722.