BOOKSELLERS CATALOGUES.-JANUARY. MR. L. C. BRAUN'S Catalogue 62 contains the first edition of The Dunciad' and 'The Rape of the Lock,' bound in one volume, 17. 2s. 6d. ; Gilchrist's Life of Blake,' 2 vols., 1. 108.; Gibbon's Rome,' 12 vols., full calf, 1820, 21. ; and Lowndes's Manuals, 6 vols., 1890, 188. Under Historical and Biographical Naval MSS., are the log-books of H.M.S. Assistance, employed in the search for Franklin, 1850-51, 21. 28. Among works on natural history is Dodoens's New Herball,' black-letter, 1595, 27. 108. Works of travel include one on Japan, Ambassades Mémorables de la Compagnie des Indes Orientales,' Amsterdam, 1680, 27. 108. Under Topography are a number of engravings, many of special interest relating to London. There are also engraved portraits. Sketches in Mr. Bertram Dobell's Catalogue 180 contains books from the library of John Henry Shorthouse, among them being A. Symonds's Italy, a presentation copy, with the following inscription: "To the Author of John Inglesant and The Little Schoolmaster Mark,' in sincere admiration of his genius. John Addington Symonds, Davoz, March 21, '85." There are also books from the library of the late William Wheeler Smith of New York. These include illuminated Hora, editions of Alciat and other books of emblems, many editions of The Dance of Death,' the books issued to members of the Bibliophile Society of Boston and the Grolier Club of New York, and many other valuable works. Another portion of the Catalogue is devoted to miscellaneous books. Mr. Dobell evidently believes in keeping some good wine to the last, for in the Addenda we find the Édition de Luxe of Edward FitzGerald's Letters and Literary Remains,' 7 vols., in the original silk binding, Macmillan, 1902-3, 31. 3s. ; Buxton Forman's edition of Shelley's Prose Works,' 4 vols., original light-blue cloth, 1880, 61. 158.; the first edition of George Meredith's The Shaving of Shagpat,' 1856, 31. 10s. (unopened copy, not the original cloth, has a name lightly written on title); and a fine large copy of the first edition of Howell's Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ,' 1645, 41. 48. our We congratulate Mr. A. H. Mayhew on the issue of his First Catalogue, which we should have noticed before but for pressure on space. The second item in this is an extraillustrated copy of the last book printed at the Kelmscott Press, being a note on William Morris's aims in founding the Press, by S. C. Cockerell, and an annotated list of the works printed thereat. The book has been inlaid to form a folio volume, and inserted are nearly all the original prospectuses, specimen leaves of most of the books, autograpli letters from Morris and the Kelmscott Press secretaries, and portraits of Morris and others, vellum extra, uncut, 501. There are works relating to Shakespeare, folk-lore, art, &c. Mr. Mayhew's Second Catalogue contains the only uniform edition of Ariosto and Boiardo, which was edited by Panizzi, and published by Pickering in 9 vols., 1830-34, this copy being in the original cloth and uncut, 21. 10s.; Feuillet de Conches, Causeries d'un Curieux,' 4 vols, 1862-8, 1. 108.; Froude's England,' 12 vols., half-calf, 41. 108.; Nisard's Histoire des Livres Populaires,' 2 vols., half red morocco, 17. 108.; · Roscoe's edition of Swift, 2 vols., half-calf, 1l. 18. ; Messrs. B. & J. F. Meehan of Bath have in Mr. Zaehnsdorf has a catalogue of books in the beautiful bindings for which he is famous. We note a few. M. de Nolhac's Les Femmes de Versailles,' 5 parts, each containing 10 plates in colour enclosed in a silk brocade portfolio (edition limited to 100 copies), is 2001. Art works include Gainsborough,' by Armstrong, first edition, full levant after the style of Derome, 181. 188.; 'Laurence,' by Lord Ronald Sutherland Gower, 81.; Hoppner,' by McKay and Roberts, 107. 10s. ; and 'Michel Ange,' par Gebhart, 401. The general portion comprises Matthew Arnold, 8 vols., 51.; Browning, 2 vols. in 1, 31. 10s.; Mrs. Browning, 31. 158. ; Marshall's Cathedral Cities of France,' 61.; Musset's Poésies,' 2 vols., 61. 68. ; Edgar Poe, 41. 158.; Bernard Shaw's 'Plays, Pleasant and Unpleasant,' 5 vols., 31. 108.; and Tennyson, 9 vols., 5l. 7s. 6d. Notices to Correspondents. notices:- ON all communications must be written the name and address of the sender, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. We cannot undertake to answer queries privately. of old books and other objects or as to the means of nor can we advise correspondents as to the value disposing of them. EDITORIAL Communications should be addressed tisements and Business Letters to to "The Editor of 'Notes and Queries'"-Adver"The Publishers"-at the Office, Bream's Buildings, Chancery Lane, E.C. J. HAUTENVILLE-COPE ("Extent' of a Property"). -Defined in the 'N.E.D.' as the valuation of land purpose of taxation; assessment." The illustrative or other property; esp. such a valuation made for the quotations range from c. 1330. meaning of this sign and the related one "* LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1910. CONTENTS.-No. 6. 66 Literature and Literati of Bath,' 1854. The 66 NOTES:-Catharine Macaulay, 101-Crowe of Kiplin, Yorks, 103-Inscriptions in the Trafalgar Cemetery, Gibraltar, 104-"The Holy Ziaret"-"Shabrack"-Holbein's 'Duchess of Milan': a "Spencer"-Burns's Death and Dr. Hornbook,' 105-Oldest Postmaster in EnglandJohn Murray and Medical Books-Flying Man: Early Instance-"Sake," to Kill-Printers of the Statutes, 106 "The statue of Mrs. Macauley [sic] (as the -Municipal Swords-" Incidis in Scyllam," 107. QUERIES:-Chaucer and Boccaccio-J. H. Swale, Mathe-personification of History) which he [Dr. Wilson] matician-Solly Collection of Pictures-Most Expensive placed in the Church, now stands in Bank Hall, Election, 107-First Nonconformist Minister in Parlia- the seat of John Wilson Patten, Esq., M.P. for ment-"Hem of a noise"-Cisterns in Kensington North Lancashire. It is from the chisel of Gardens-Rokeby House, West Ham-Rochechouart-Bacon, and is esteemed a work of art." Ducetoy: Castleden Family-Portraits by Flick, 108 22 66 Authors Wanted-Verse quoted by Burns-"Ganion A foot-note refers to an estate in the hundred Wheral (meaning Wirral), Cheshire, Coheriga "-"Unrejoicing" in Wordsworth-De Quincey of Cosnahan under and Swedenborg Armstrong-Fawcett Family--Abbott Family, 109-Sphinx Wanted-John which belonged to Dr. Wilson, and his will became vested in the late Thomas Patten Wilson, now (1855) his son's estate, J. W. Patten, M.P." Hunter's Club -Sea Songs, 110. " There may or may not have been a statue by Bacon, but that the St. Stephen's statue I do not think was not by him is evident. that there is, or ever was, any such statue by Bacon. Bank Hall is now the Town Hall of NOTES ON BOOKS :—' Iliad' translated by Blakeney-Warrington, having been sold by Col. the Eschylus translated by Headlam-Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed, and Official Classes'-'Fortnightly Review''Cornhill.' Notices to Correspondents. Notes. CATHARINE MACAULAY. 66 Right Hon. John Wilson Patten (afterwards 66 town in 1872. In the entrance hall stands "The Right Hon. Col. Wilson Patten having presented to the Corporation a life size Statue of the late Mrs. Macauley the Historian which is (See 5 S. vi. 428, 545; vii. 77; 8 S. ii. 527; iii. 113; 9 S. iv. 200, 238; vi. 128, 215.) THERE are some errors in N. & Q.' as well as in the Dictionary of National Biography A little later Col. Patten expressed a concerning Mrs. Macaulay. In an editorial notice it is stated (9 S. iv. 200) that a desire that the statue should be accepted At as a statue of History. It is presumably statue of her by Bacon is in existence. the next reference the REV. JAMES J. G. over life size, being nearly six feet high. GRAHAM asks: Where is her statue by 22 He then refers to Bacon to be seen? beautiful marble statue erected by Dr. Wilson, Rector of St. Stephen's, Walbrook, and placed in his church during her lifetime, but removed thence by order of the vestry." An editorial note (ibid.) states that "the statue by Bacon came into the possession of the Right Hon. J. Wilson Patten, subsequently Lord Winmarleigh." This note is apparently taken from the Dictionary of National Biography.' a In Nollekens and his Times,' by John 204-5, J. F. 1828, ii. Thomas Smith, Moore is mentioned as the sculptor of the Beckford monument in Guildhall, and of the statue of "Mrs. Macauley " in St. Stephen's, Walbrook, put up by "her doting admirer Dr. Thomas Wilson; which it is said the same divine had pulled down when that Smith conlady offended him by marrying a brother of Graham, the Quack Doctor." "I believe the Bishop insisted He adds that Dr. tinues: upon its removal." employed Moore to execute attribution to Wilson The authority for the Bacon appears to be G. Monkland's 'The monument in memory of his wife, leaving 66 а the dexter side plain, for the insertion of his own death.' 22 This monument, an ornate tablet, is in St. Stephen's. Under Dr. Wilson's will the estate of Woodchurch, in the hundred of Wirral, eventually became vested in Thomas Patten, father of John Wilson Patten, but Thomas Patten, father of the above Thomas, was one of the two joint residuary legatees, to whom was left all real and personal estate not otherwise devised by Dr. Wilson's will. Presumably the statue, having been removed from St. Stephen's (see later), passed as a chattel to Thomas Patten the elder, then to Thomas his son, and eventually to John Wilson Patten, who gave it to the town of Warrington. Now as to the assertion made by Monkland (see above), and copied by the Dictionary of National Biography,' that Dr. Wilson placed the statue within the altar rail of St. Stephen's. (It was erected in the church 8 Sept., 1777.) I have examined the Vestry Minute Book of St. Stephen's, Walbrook, now lying in the library at Guildhall. pre The churchwardens were evidently very irate about the erection of the statue in the church. At a Joint Vestry of the united parishes of St. Stephen, Walbrook, and St. Bennet Sherehog on 26 Nov., 1777, two of the churchwardens of St. Stephen's informed the meeting that they had sented 22 Dr. Wilson at a Visitation held at Christ Church on the 20th instant. presentment the statue is stated to have In the been erected" in or near the Chancel of the said Parish Church." They also reported that they had stated a case for the opinion of Dr. Wynne (of Doctors' Commons), and they reported his opinion, which was in their favour. In the case it is stated that "this Monument is fixed on the East side of the Church and directly facing the South Ayle thereof, and it is apprehended that the Doc thinks he had a right so to do, that part of the Church being his Freehold, as he conceives." 66 If the above description of the position of the statue could be supposed to mean within the altar rails," it is inconceivable that the churchwardens would have omitted such a strong point. Moreover, the space within the altar rail is and was (according to an old print, not dated) barely sufficient to allow the officiating clergyman to move about the altar. The Vestry began to take action 26 Nov., 1777, two of the churchwardens having six days earlier presented " Dr. Wilson as 66 [11 S. I. FEB. 5, 1910. above. no answer, but a letter received by the When they met on 24 December there was Vestry Clerk on 26 November (presumably after the meeting of that date) was read. This letter is not given in the minutes. The Clerk was directed to write to Dr. Wilson informing him that, if he did not give a satisfactory answer in one month, the churchwardens were ordered to 66 commence a suit " was on 17 July, 1778, when it was The next meeting of the Joint Vestry was on 12 Aug. (1778). The minute is not follows the last-mentioned, and immediately dated as to the year, nor is it signed, but it precedes a minute of St. Stephen's Vestry (alone) dated 12 Aug., 1778, which is signed by the two St. Stephen's churchwardens who were present at the Joint Vestry (prelatter were meant to cover the former as sumably the signatures at the end of the well) :— the Statue of Mrs. Macauley from out of the written in the Vestry minutes. Exactly 17 Dec., 1778. removal of the statue is well put by A. Y. Z. it) in the life-time of Dr. Wilson and by his order. was taken down (by the statuary who erected Whether the Doctor was instigated so to do Mr. Graham, or whether from fear, because the Vestry was just upon citing him to the Commons from motives of revenge, because she married for it, I will not undertake to say.' sideration the dilatory courses of the Joint I am inclined to think, taking into conVestry, and the fact that they did not, apparently, succeed in getting any answer from Dr. Wilson, that though the action or threatened action of the Joint Vestry may have been contributory to the event, anger at the marriage was the final cause which inclined Dr. Wilson to accede to the demands of the Joint Vestry, or that both causes combined produced the effect. ROBERT PIERPOINT. St. Austins, Warrington. (To be continued.) CROWE OF KIPLIN, YORKS. IN 1860 a correspondent of N. & Q. (2 S. ix. 144) inquired what were the arms and pedigree of the above family. By means of a deed dated 1765, which has come into my possession, and by reference to various well-known sources of information, I am able to reply to the query, to which no answer was given at the time. As far as I can discover, no pedigree of this family has been printed hitherto, though members of it intermarried with some of the best-known families in the North Riding. In a book called 'Historical Sketches of the Reformation,' by F. G. Lee, D.C.L. (1878), mention is made of a family of Crowe, "of position and respectability in the co. of York in the middle of the sixteenth century. The heads of it and the various chiefs of its branches were in the ranks of esquires and gentlemen." Dr. Lee does not, however, give any references in support of his statement, and I know nothing further of any of this name in Yorkshire till the eighteenth century. Christopher Crowe purchased from Sir Richard Child the hall and manor of Woodford, co. Essex. He married Lady Charlotte Lee, widow of Benedict Leonard Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore (who was born at Kiplin), and dau. of Edward Henry Lee, 1st Earl of Lichfield, by his wife Lady Charlotte FitzRoy, natural daughter of Charles II. Lady Baltimore died in 1720, and was buried at Woodford: on her monument in the chancel of the church there are the following arms: Gules, a chevron or, between three cocks arg., Crowe, impaling Arg., a fesse between three crescents sa., Lee (Lysons's 'Environs'). In 1727 Crowe sold the Woodford property to Wm. Hunt, Esq., and in the same year leased to the Earl of Lichfield and Willey Revely of Newby Wisk, Esq., the manor of Tunstall, Yorks. He died 9 Nov., 1749. Of the above-mentioned marriage there were two sons, Christopher and George, and two daughters, Catherine and Charlotte. 66 Christopher Crowe, jun., was born 17161717, and matriculated Univ. Coll., Oxford, 6 Feb., 1732/3, son of C. C. of Woodford Hall, Essex, armiger," and married in 1752 Barbara, dau. of Thos. Duncombe, of Duncombe Park, Yorks, Esq. (marriage settlements dated 20 Jan., 1752, in which she is described as of Copgrave). There was no issue of this marriage. Mr. Crowe had lands in Bolton-on-Swale, Catterick, Ellerton, The Scorton, and Kiplin, all in Yorks. second son George married, and had issue Robert and George Crowe, both under age in 1765, of whom hereafter. Of the daughters of C. C., sen., Charlotte d. unm. before 1749, and Catherine married Roger Henry Gale, Esq., of Scruton, Yorks, and died in Newman Street, London, in 1782, having had issue Henry, Samuel, Christopher, Harriet, and Catherine Gale, all under age in 1765. INSCRIPTIONS IN THE TRAFALGAR THE tombs in this cemetery are placed A few interments have no stone or inscription. This is called the Trafalgar Cemetery, but only one inscription (No. 19) records a death as the result of that " memorable sea-fight," and there is only one great and other (No. 31) which may possibly be connected with it. These abstracts were taken on 3 May, 1909. FIRST ROW. McKay, 7th R.V.B., ob. 17 Oct., 1813, a. 36, 17. Mary, the w., and Sarah, the d., of Ensign and 28 Sept., 1813, a. 11. 1809, a. 54 years, 40 of which he devoted to the 18. Lieut. John Mullen, 4th R.V.B., ob. 11 May, service of his king and country. H.M.S. Mars, ob. in the Naval Hospital, 6 Dec., Artillery, ob. 18 May, 1808, a. 32. 1804, a. 23. 22. Jane, w. of Capt. Flack, 1st R.V.B., ob. 3 June, 1807, a. 49. 23. Edmund, s. of Lieut. John Burke, 1st R.V.B., ob. 16 Aug., 1805, a. 18. 24. Almena, w. of Lieut. John Burke, 1st R.V.B., ob. 10 Oct., 1805, a. 53. 1. Mr. E. A. Clark, Ensign, 2nd Bat. (8)5th R.V.B., ob. 28 Jan., 1806, a. 52. Regt., ob. 22 Oct., 1800. 25. Mary, w. of Daniel Clark, Ensign, 1st 2. Catharine, w. of ob. 24 Oct., 1803. 3. Lieut. R. A. Wilson, Royal Marines, ob. 10 Jan., 1803, a. 30. 4. Capt. Thos. Mahon, Prince of Wales's Own Regt. of Fencibles, ob. 8 Feb., 1801, a. 32. 5. Eliza Louisa Gibbon, d. of Capt. D. H. Braine, of New York, and w. of Capt. H. G. Gibbon of H.M. packet Lord Chesterfield, ob. of a decline on board the Lord Chesterfield, 15 Feb., 1810; bur. 22 Feb., a. 20 yrs. 3 months. 6. Mr. John Bentley, of London, merchant, ob. 13 Nov., 1813, a. 70. 7. Lieuts. Thos. Worth and John Buckland, of the R.M. Artillery, killed by the same shot, 23 Nov., 1810, while directing the howitzer boats in an attack on the enemy's flotilla in Cadiz Bay. Erected by their brother officers as tribute of respect to two who were the brightest ornaments of their corps. a 8. Quarter-Master John Connel, ob. 22 Aug., 1812, a. 56, after a service of 40 years. by the officers of the 26th Regt. Erected 9. James Lilburn, Esq., Captain H.M. sloop Goshawk, who nobly fell in an attack made on the enemy's forts and shipping at Malaga, 29 Ap. 1812, a. 38. Erected by the officers of the sloop. 10. Lewis Northen, Esq., Capt. 82nd Regt., ob. 11 July, 1810, a. 37. 11. Robert Lee, Esq., b. in Jamaica; landed here 1 Ap., 1810, on his voyage from England to Malta, in the, alas frail! hope of recovering his health; ob. 28 May following. 12. Robert Monson, Esq., Surgeon H.M. Navy, ob. 6 May, 1811, a. 26. 13. David Lawson, Esq., Surgeon H.M.S. Rainbow, ob. 22 Nov., 1812, a. 21. 14. A four-sided tomb. No legible inscription. SECOND Row. 15. Amelia, inf. d. of Major Fraser, 1st Royal Veteran Battn., ob. 8 Feb., 1811. 16. Henry Winter Latimer, s. of Lieut. and Adjt. James Stevenson, 1st Royal Veteran Battn., ob. 5 Jan., 1808, a. 11 months 14 days. Look down, blest soul, and from the realms above Accept this last sad tribute of our love. The last. E'en now our sorrows we resign, And lose our feelings to rejoice in thine. THIRD ROW. ob. 17 Nov., 1800, a. 22. 27. Lieut. Wm. Robert Montresor, 18th or Royal Regiment of Ireland, ob. 18 Nov., 1799, a. 19. Quarter-Master 54th Regt., ob. 6 July, 1804, 28. Martha Anne, d. of Hamilton Finney, a. 14 yrs. 8 months. Regt., 29. Capt. Robert McGregar, 10th ob. 9 Aug., 1804, a. 50. 30. Henry Edward Andrew Sheppard, Dep.fell a victim to the epidemic fever, 24 Oct., 1813, Asst.-Commissary-General to the Forces, who a. 20. Artillery, ob. 17 Nov., 1805, a. 35. Te veniente die Royal Erected by of Priory in the I. of Wight, ob. 25 Oct., 1804, a. 23. by his widow and family. Artillery, of Letterkenny, Donegal, ob. 21 Nov., Also his s. George Andrew, ob. 8 Oct., 1812, 36. John Butt Taylor, Surgeon 26th Regt., ob. of the epidemic fever, 4 Oct., 18(1)3, a. 37. a. 10 months. 37. Agnes, w. of Lieut. Daniel Robertson, 7th Acting-Dep.-Paymaster-General, ob. in St. Roque, Regt., ob. 7 Nov., 1804, a. 22. 41. A recumbent tomb illegible from dirt. |