90 Replies. WATSON'S HISTORY OF PRINTING.' I AM obliged to Mr. SCOTT for his answer, although it does not give the information as to where Blades makes the statement that Watson's History of Printing translation of the French author, J. de la Caille. a His Pentateuch of Printing' is not may have been made in a Bibliography I suspect that the statement of Printing which Blades contributed to The British and Colonial Printer about 1875, but I have no means here of consulting the file. the book. 2 6 2 In regard to the further question of the authorship of the Preface to the History,' MR. SCOTT says doubt" that it was Watson's. 66 I appear to have no case appearances are deceptive, for I do not Well, in this know. All I know is that Watson has been credited with the authorship, and that it has also been assigned to John Spottiswood, his contemporary and law-agent. For that matter, the other book usually ascribed to Watson-the " Choice Selections -has also been handed over to Spottiswood. The title-page of the History is quite explicit it speaks of "A Preface by the Publisher," and Watson's publisher. The newspaper advertisement appears below which he sent out on the day in 1713 when as the History' was ready has the same phrase. In his History of Edinburgh' (1788) Hugo Arnot, who is fairly accurate in his references to bibliography, wrote of author of the young Watson, (p. 437). The Editor of the Spottiswood History of Printing" Club Miscellany, Vol. I., who contributed a short life of Spottiswood to that volume (pp. 229-32), in which he gives a list of the latter's works, seems to know nothing of his authorship of the Preface. name 66 So far as I can trace, the first who made the definite assertion that Spottiswood was the writer Edinburgh antiquary, and he did so about was George Paton, the the beginning of the last century-a hundred years after the book had appeared. He gives no proof. If it could be shown that Dr. David Laing referred to a claim by Spottiswood himself, the question would probably be considered settled. facts will appear in a paper on Watson in the One or two additional forthcoming number of The Scottish Historical Review. 66 If Paton's story is not a myth, it has one of the prime qualities of a myth: it grows as 1886) say: it goes. Messrs. Bigmore and Wyman in their Bibliography of Printing' (Quaritch, The didactic part, as stated in writer." the preface, was written by John Spottis hard to discover, and shows considerable woode, translated from a celebrated French confusion of mind, but it is needless to say The meaning of the sentence is that the Preface makes no such statement. curious item in reference Bohn's edition of Lowndes has also a posed of it notes-" Bright, 5960, 5s. Large Among the sales at which copies were disPaper. Roxburghe, Suppl., 650, 17. 10s." to the book. It is impossible from the punctuation to say whether it was at the Bright or Roxburghe Was there ever a large-paper copy? No mention of such an issue is made in the Sale this so-called large-paper copy was sold. original advertisement; and I have never edition of the book. Has any one? to what does the Bohn entry refer ? seen or heard of one, nor even of a second And Glasgow. W. J. COUPER. 264, 318, 357).—I was the first to disclose, in the SHORT WHIST,' BY MAJOR A. (10 S. xii. Handbook of Fictitious Names,' name of the compiler would be still un1868, the fact that Major A***** was C. B. known to the public. Coles, and but for that it is probable the have the fact confirmed at the last reference by a living authority. But if Coles had not It is satisfactory to been the author, surely he would have repudiated such a piece of plagiarism as is disclosed in my Handbook." 6 and only lately have I found the date of his death and some particulars about him in searching for Mr. Boase, in whose Modern English Biography,' vol. iv., But these facts were all on the assumption that "C. B." and then known about him will be found. the facts identical. Charles Barwell 22 In 1868 C. B. Coles was a mere name to me, were and Laing from my Handbook.' 11 S. I. JAN. 29, 1910.] NOTES AND QUERIES. there is another (unless indeed he was the same) C. B. C., as is shown in the list of works below. If we reckon from Coles's age, which is given in The Times, 1 Dec., 1874, in the announcement of his death, as ninety-one, he was born in 1783. It would be interesting to know where Coles was born and the exact date of his birth. From the heading of one of his poems on p. 46 of The Discarded Son' Mr. W. P. Courtney (English Whist,' p. 371) infers that Coles was educated at Winchester. His name is not in Kirby's list of" scholars": it is on the College Register, but the authoHis rities have no information about him. books testify to his having received a good education, and his poem shows he was inclined to versify from boyhood. name He was in the 7th Dragoon Guards, and was gazetted cornet 5 Jan., 1805, and lieutenant, without purchase, 5 June, 1806 is in the (London Gazette). His Army List for 1810 for the last time. am unable to find any mention of his leaving; if it is in The London Gazette, the fact is not indexed. I As there are some inaccuracies in previous notes, I will name his publications that are at present known, with further information. 1. The Discarded Son, a tale, and other rhymes. By Charles Barwell Coles, Esq. London, Thomas Boys, 1823. 12mo, pp. 12 and 50. It forms This is dedicated to his mother. This C. B. C. wrote a letter to The Times, 3. The next known is the Short Whist,' 1835, published as by Major A*****, which might be a mask for the author's real name. As I have said, it was a plagiarism, and to the name ; further a supercherie as nevertheless it brought him in a small annuity. None of his really original publications ever reached a second edition. The sixteenth, and last, edition of Short Whist,' in 1865, was provided with an essay by Prof. Pole. I have commented somewhat severely on this in the 'Handbook.' The tendency of Coles's publications is educational and excellent, and after reading The them I certainly had very great doubts As to Major Aubrey, I have the following "died Col. Aubrey, aged seventy-six: the deepest gambler and the best whist and piquet player of his day. He had passed through various vicissitudes of wealth and poverty comme de raison. He made two fortunes in India, which he successively lost; he then made a third at play from five pounds which he borrowed, and at last died in very meagre circumstances." 4. Hints on Life and how to Rise in Society. By C. B. C. Amicus. London, Longmans, 1845. 12mo, pp. 4 and 42. This has a highly finished frontispiece etched by John Leech. As shown above, this book is pseudonymous, and not anonymous. This makes a Hints' would be great difference, for a person looking for it as anonymous under unable to find it, and, if told simply that it was pseudonymous, would not attempt It is under Amicus in the to look for it. B.M. Catalogue, and the author's name is not known there. Coles was then sixty, so should have been fully qualified to give the excellent advice he does in this little book. 5. The next book will be the short history of Russia mentioned by MR. NICHOLSON, who will do a literary service by forwarding to N. & Q.' an exact copy of the title of this book, and, if there is no author's name, stating if there is any to the preface or elsewhere. It is impossible to identify the book among the numbers of such that were issued during the Crimean War. 6. Tea, a poem. London, Longmans, 1865. 12mo, pp. 4 and 45. Price one shilling. This is autonymous. There is no mention in any of these works that Coles published any other book. Coles died at a pension or boarding-house, No. 2, Cité Odiot, Paris, on 28 Nov., 1874. I will now give some extracts from his last testament, as there is so much of his biography to be learnt from it. His will, dated 3 Aug., 1864, which is very short, with a codicil, shorter still, dated 11 July, 1868, and a second dated 5 Oct., 1873, was proved 4 Jan., 1875, as under 1,500l. He is described as formerly of to his nephew Alpha Place, St. John's Wood. He leaves legacies, among others, Henry Coles, barrister (called to the Bar in 1847, and not in The Law List' after 1876). His residuary estate he left to the widow of his son Charles James Coles of Port au AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (10 S. xii. 509).-CONSERVATIVE can find his quotation, I am tired of four walls and a ceiling, &c. as the opening lines of the late Richard Hovey's poem entitled 'Spring,' in Along the Trail (Boston, Small, Maynard & Co., 1898). I. H. PLATT. Prince, Hayti, and their daughters. His nephew Capt. Cowper Phipps Coles, R.N., was appointed by the first codicil executor, in the place of the Haytian consul at Liverpool, who had died. As is well known, Capt. Coles lost his life, with nearly five p. hundred others, by the capsizing of H.M.S. Captain in 1870 (see Boase, M.E.B.,' i. 675). The testator left all his MSS. and such of his books as he might choose to Cecil Nicholson. If it had not been for Mr. Boase requiring information, and for the doubts of COL. PRIDEAUX (10 S. xii. 204) and MR. E. WALL (10 S. xii. 318), most of these facts would have remained unknown, perhaps to puzzle a future generation. RALPH THOMAS. KING'S PLACE (11 S. i. 30, 74).-King's Place is now known as Pall Mall Place. It is next to the Marlborough Club, between Nos. 51 and 52 (formerly Nos. 58 and 59). It is marked in Horwood's Map of London, 1799. The name was changed to Pall Mall Place in 1864. In Harris's Map of London, 1783, and Wallis's Map, 1813, the name of King's Place is given-apparently in error-to an alley further west, which in the earlier maps as well as in Horwood is called Paved Alley or Old Paved Alley. This is now known as Crown Court. H. A. HARBEN. · THREE CCC COURT (11 S. i. 31, 74).—In Ogilby and Morgan's Map of London, 1677, there is a court called Three Crown Court, leading out of Garlick Hill, nearly opposite to Maiden Lane. This is marked in Rocque's Map, 1761, as 3 Crown Court. In the map of Vintry Ward in Strype's Stow,' ed. 1755, vol. i. p. 692, it is called Three Shear Court. Three Crown Court is also mentioned in Dodsley's London and its Environs Described,' 1761, in The Complete Guide' of 1758 and 1763, and in The New Complete Guide of 1783. All these guides, however, mention also Three CCC Court, Garlick Hill; but no court of this name appears to be mentioned in Strype or Maitland, or to be marked in any map in my possession of the eighteenth century. It seems not improbable that Three CCC Court is an abbreviation for Three Crowns, and that the name got into Dodsley and The Complete Guide' under both descriptions. H. A. HARBEN. A. L. O. G.'s seventh quotation (ante, 50) is to be found in Butler's Hudibras, Part I. canto i. ll. 505-6, and should read "Tis a dark lanthorn of the Spirit, Which none see by but those that bear it. ETHEL M. TURNER. Esmond, Egham. [PRINCIPAL SALMON also refers to 'Hudibras.'] BANISHED COVENANTERS (11 S. i. 9).— C. asks if any manuscript by a banished Covenanter is known to exist. In endeavouring to reply I may refer to a little bit of personal experience, to some extent bearing on the point. About seven years ago I had an opportunity of looking over several mutilated leaves of a manuscript, recovered apparently from some rag-merchant's store. On examination the sheets proved to be written by a Covenanter, whose name the mutilated condition of the manuscript effectually concealed, who had survived the "killing time," and was living in the earlier years of the eighteenth century. The MS. displayed most of the characteristic features of Covenanting literature of the poorer sort, being absolutely destitute of literary merit, or, as Ruskin phrases it, "of an eternally worthless intellectual quality." A very few facts (sufficient, however, to determine the time of writing) about persons and events emerged painfully out of an overwhelming flood of pious reflections. The writer appeared to have possessed a fatal facility in the quotation of Scripture, and a marked predilection in polemical moments for the language of the "cursing Psalms." In other respects the MS. was valueless. I mention the matter merely to prove how, under most unfavourable conditions, MSS. may survive even from Covenanting times. There is no reason to doubt the Rev. Robert Simpson's statement that Covenanting MSS. may still be extant. As a rule, the Covenanters were the most intelligent persons in the country districts where they resided. Many, if not the most of them, possessed, or believed themselves to possess, a gift of exhortation, which they were never slow to exercise when pen and paper were convenient. At the same time, it must be 11 S. I. JAN. 29, 1910.] NOTES AND QUERIES. remembered that the Rev. Robert Simpson's assertion applies to a period full sixty years ago. Conditions have greatly altered within recent years. Covenanting literature is not now regarded as a treasure, as it was in Simpson's time. It is matter for regret that the spirit which animated the Sanquhar Declaration is no longer held in the same esteem as formerly, even in districts once avowedly Covenanting. "THIS WORLD'S A CITY FULL OF CROOKED (11 S. i. 49).-At 9 S. iii. 192 STREETS PROF.SKEAT showed that the first two lines of this epitaph must have been taken from the anonymous play of The Two Noble Kinsmen (Act. I. sc. v.). The editorial note to when MR. CLEMENT SHORTER's query gives the source of the remaining lines, so the reference in Gay has been supplied, the whole of the epitaph will have been identified. C.'s allusion to Williamson seems to imply that he has in view, not only unpublished Covenanting MSS., but also such as have already found their way into print. If this be so, I would venture to recommend him, to consult Johnston's Treasury of the Scottish Covenant,' Edinburgh, 1887, in which he will find a tolerably complete list of the writings of Covenanters, banished and otherwise. It probably includes all Cove-date 1775, and the lines are :— nanting literature that is worth the knowing. At the same time Wodrow's History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland' and Howie's Scots Worthies' will afford not a few details in the line of his query. I have been for some years greatly interested in this epitaph, and have collected It is contained on one of the cases of its occurrence in different parts of the country. group of gravestones connected with the Banbury family in the churchyard here which Sir Frederick Banbury caused to be restored in August, 1908. The stone bears Stirling. 22 W. SCOTT. "TALLY-HO " (11 S. i. 48).—As I ventured to suggest in a recently published volume, "tally-ho is probably merely a contraction of the old Anglo-Norman cry of "Dans le taillis en haut " ("Up in the brushwood"). I cannot for a moment believe that the 22 was derived from our French cry of “taïaut RALPH NEVILL. English "tally-ho." Some years ago a falconer told me that the word in question was 66 This World a City full of Crooked Streets See also 9 S. iii. 53, 191, 192, 415. JOHN T. PAGE. Long Itchington, Warwickshire. The first two lines of this quatrain occur in The Two Noble Kinsmen,' I. v. 15, 16, in the following form :derived from I est allé en haut," as applied to a quarry which has taken an upward flight. E. O. The refrain of the fourth verse of the cele. brated old hunting song "A southerly wind 27 runs thus :and a cloudy sky Tally-ho! tally-ho there! across the green plain! Tally-ho! tally-ho, boys! have at him again! When was this song written ? TOM JONES. the New Shakspere Society some instances Cambridge. MICHAEL MAITTAIRE (11 S. i. 30).-The day of Maittaire's birth is supplied by his Senilia (London, 1742), that volume of Misquoted from the last two lines of Act I. Latin verse, the title of which may be familiar to the English reader through of The Two Noble Kinsmen,' by Fletcher Johnson's criticism and Macaulay's essay On p. 105 are on Croker's Boswell.' In meum Natalem, some lines headed Mr. Suffling is mistaken in thinking the Scottish version of 1689 of the lines to be the original. The first two lines of the epitaph, which appears to be a composite one are slightly varied from the last two lines of the first act of The Two Noble Kinsmen. This play was first printed in 1634, and, according to the title-page, was by 'Mr. John Fletcher and Mr. William Shakspeare." Authorities differ as to how much, or what parts, of the play may be attributed to Shakespeare. 66 G. L. APPERSON. [C. C. B. also thanked for reply.] DUN Y (10 S. xii. 510).-There is a place of this name, a hill, 327 feet high, in the island of Iona, about half a mile distant from the abbey. It is spelt Dun I in The Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland.' In olden times the name Iona appears spelt in various forms, being sometimes Hii, Ii, or Hi. In Gaelic Y, I, or Ii means the island," and hence Dun Y will signify "the hill of the island." For derivation and meaning of Iona see Johnston's Place-Names of Scotland,' Edinburgh, 1892, p. 140. Nature having denied me the privilege of being born a Highlander, I am incompetent to enter into the question of Gaelic pronunciation. W. SCOTT. Stirling. 22 "WHEN OUR LORD SHALL LIE IN OUR LADY'S LAP (11 S. i. 49).—" Prophecies such as these are much to be regretted. They grieve the judicious and scare the ignorant. Since the change of style, and up to 1999, the years required are 1785, 1796, 1842, 1853, 1864, 1910, 1921, and 1932. If the " prophet " lived before the change of style in 1752, which could neither have been foreseen nor allowed for, his or her prediction has now been falsified. WALTER W. SKEAT. Is not W. F. mistaken in supposing that this saying refers to the coincidence of Good Friday and 25 March? It has usually been held to apply to the coincidence of that date and Easter Day, which last occurred in 1894. For several variants of the saying, from Fuller, Aubrey, and elsewhere, and for a long series of dates when Easter Day fell on 25 March, see 6 S. vii. 200, 206, 209, 252, 273, 314. G. L. APPERSON. The concurrence of the observance of the Crucifixion with that of the Conception, viz., on 25 March, is less rare than the word ing of the old saw quoted might lead one to suppose. It will recur in 1921 and 1932. It has happened about thirty-five times since the accession of King Alfred the Great. In the fifteenth century it occurred in 1407, 1418, 1429, and 1440. There was then a long interval, and it did not happen again till 1502. That is the year to which the prophecy is to be assigned, because Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales, died on 2 April, the eighth day after the combined observance. ALFRED ANSCOMBE. [MR. W. H. JEWITT, L. L. K., and MR. W. SCOTT also thanked for replies.] DISS (10 S. xii. 170).-The hundred of Diss is separated from the county of Suffolk, to the south, by the river Waveney; and is bounded on the east by the half hundred of Earsham, which abuts upon Suffolk, but is not within the boundaries of that county. Earsham hundred with that of Diss is said to be considered in some records as constituting one whole hundred. But by another division they are reckoned two distinct hundreds, comprising the Deanery of Redenhall in the Archdeanery of Norfolk. In the hundred of Diss are the parishes of Brossingham, Barston, Dickleburgh, Diss, Fersfield, Gissing, Roydon, Scole, Shelfanger, Shimpling, Thelverton, Tivetshall St. Mary. and Winfarthing, a small village four miles north from Diss, which anciently gave its name to the hundred, and still continues to enjoy peculiar privileges. From these data it would appear that Diss can hardly at any time have been included in the hundred of Hartismere, which is wholly a Suffolk division. Vide The New British Traveller,' by James Dugdale, F.S.A., 1819, iii. 603-4, and iv. 292-3. J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL. SIR ROBERT GEFFERY (11 S. i. 50).-The Rev. Septimus Buss, who is Chaplain to the Ironmongers' Company as well as Rector of SS. Anne and Agnes, informs me that the Company have in their banqueting hall a portrait of Geffery (who was Master of the Company in 1667 and 1685), painted by Richard Phillips. In the Court Room is also, Mr. Buss says, a statuette; while there is at the almshouses in the Kingsland Road (Geffery's foundation) a statue of painted wood, with a sword, in front of the chapel. WILLIAM MCMURRAY. A portrait of this civic worthy hangs in the Court Room at Ironmongers' Hall in Fenchurch Street; and a statue of him may also still be seen in the central portion of the same Company's almshouses in Kingsland |