1630, and as he died before he grew up his brother Thomas took his place as second son, heraldically. And soon afterwards the rector was married a second time, for his son Thomas (no doubt identical with Dr. Thomas, mentioned above) was baptized "in Bedall" in 1631, but the month and day are omitted; and on Nov. 17, 1633, another son John was baptized. In that same year Margetson resigned the rectory, and accompanied Lord Wentworth (afterwards the ill-fated Earl of Strafford) to Ireland as his chaplain.

Mr. Anderson could not find any entry of Margetson's second marriage, nor is his second wife's Christian name mentioned; but from the facts I have given it seems clear that he was married no fewer than three times. His eldest son was, I presume, the James given by Berry. His second son, Thomas, was, doubtless, the M.D. and M.P., and the third son, John, probably died

young.

Besides the seven sons named, the archbishop had a daughter Anne, married in 1678 to William, Viscount Charlemont, and she died in 1729. Margetson's first wife, Ann, was buried March 20, 1627; his second wife remains unknown; and his third wife, to whom he was probably married during his life in London in poverty, under the Commonwealth, was Anne Bonnett, sister of Thomas Bonnett.

Of his sons by her, John and James were born in London, and Robert in Leicestershire. I have not ascertained what became of James, but very probably he entered the Church, and in the diocese of Armagh, where, perhaps, some of your readers might find his name in the diocesan

This is probably the oldest writer on the topic; but those who know the pedigree of Cnut can lay no stress on Reusner's story; vide Freeman's 'Norman Conquest' and Keary's 'The Vikings in Western Christendom.'

From the History of the Church of Scotland' (Spottiswoode Society Publications, vol. i. p. 60):

"This Edmund left two sons, Edwin and Edward, whom Canutus in the beginning entertained very kindly, but afterwards, seeking to establish the crown in his own posterity, he sent them to Volgarus, the governor of Swain (Sweden), to be murthered. The governor, pitysecretly unto Solomon, King of Hungary, giving out to ing the state of these innocent youths, conveyed them Canutus that they were made away. Edward (surviving Edwin his brother) married Agatha, sister to the Queen of Hungary, and daughter to the Emperor Henry II., by whom he had a son called Edgar, and two daughters, Margaret and Christian,"

From Buchanan's History of Scotland,' vol. i. bk. vii. p. 346: Volgar, governor of Sweden, "sent them to Hungary to King Solomon. After being there royally educated, Edward displayed so amiable a disposition that the king chose him, in preference to any of the young nobility, as a husband for his daughter Agatha." A note added to this by a later compiler says: "The genealogy of the lady copied by Buchanan from the English historians is doubtful" (see Hailes's 'Annals,' vol. i. p. 1).

From Lord Hailes's 'Annals of Scotland,' 1797, note, pp. 13, 14:

"This Margaret was the grand-niece of Edward the Confessor. The English historians unanimously assert that Edward, the father of Margaret, was educated at the court of Solomon, King of Hungary, and that Solomon gave his sister-in-law Agatha, the daughter of the Emperor Henry II., to him. But this account is inconsistent with the truth of history. Edward, the son of Edmund Ironside, returned to England in 1057 (Chron. Sax., p. 169). At that time Solomon, born in 1051, was but six years old. He did not ascend the throne of Hungary till 1062. Five years after the death of Edward, he married Sophia, daughter of the Emperor Henry III. It follows that Solomon could not receive Edward at his court, and could not give his sister-in-law in marriage to him.

Besides, Agatha, the wife of Edward, could not be the daughter of the Emperor Henry II.; for Henry II. had no children. We all know his unnatural crime, termed sanctity by a superstitious age, and the declaration which he made to the parents of the virgin Cunegonda."

Papebrock, Ad Vit. S. Margaretæ,' June 10,

p. 325, has endeavoured to reconcile this genealogy with historical truth. He says

"that Solomon is an error of transcribers for Stephen, and that Edward may have been received at the court of Stephen I., King of Hungary, who began to reign in 1001. Stephen married Gisela, the sister of the Emperor Henry II. Henry had a brother Bruno, who rebelled against him in 1003. This Bruno may have gone into Hungary, may have married, may have had a daughter Agatha, who may have been given in marriage to Edward."

Aldred, 'De Genealogia Regum Anglorum,' p. 366, says: "Rex Hungarorum Edwardo filiam Germani, sui Henrici imperatoris, in matrimonium junxit." Papebrock, by an ingenious conjecture, instead of "Germani sui Henrici " reads "Germani sancti Henrici." There is another passage in the same page of Aldred which cannot be cured by this critical application: "Imperator Edwardum cum uxore Agatha, generi sui filia, ad Angliam mittit." The hypothesis of Papebrock is, shortly, this, and without it we can have no genealogy of Agatha and her daughter Margaret: "That instead of Agatha, the daughter of Henry II. and sister-in-law of Solomon, King of Hungary, we ought to read Agatha, daughter of Bruno, and niece of Gisela, the wife of Stephen of Hungary." It is not worth while to devote much attention to Papebrock, as he has been effectually riddled by Prof. Freeman and others. Let us look into Hungarian history a little further, for some dates.

King Geisa (972-997) was the first pacific ruler of pagan Hungary; from 972, Duke of Hungary; baptized by Bruno, Bishop of Verdun, ambassador to Geisa, sent by Otho I. Geisa married a Christian princess as his second wife, a sister of the Duke of Poland, Mieczyslaw; her name was Sarolta, and she was the daughter of Gyulas, one of two Hungarian princes baptized at Constantinople 948; the other prince, Bolusudes, however, relapsed into barbarism. Geisa and Sarolta had a daughter who married Boleslau the Brave, Duke of Poland; a daughter who married Urseolus, Doge of Venice; and Waik, son and heir, who was baptized by Adalbert of Prague with the baptismal name of Stephen, when he was four years old, 983 or 984. He succeeded his father Geisa in 997, and reigned forty-one years, and died Aug. 15, 1038 (just thirty-eight years after his coronation to the very day, according to another authority; this is accounted for by the fact that he really began his reign 1000 or 1001). Stephen married Gisela, daughter of the Duke of Bavaria, while through the alliances of his father's family Hungary obtained a recognition among European nations. When Stephen came to the throne, Otho III. governed Germany; Boleslaw III., Bohemia; Boleslau the Brave, Poland; Vladimir the Great, Russia; and Basil II., Constantinople. Emmerich, or Henry, son of Stephen and Gisela, died before his father, in 1031. Stephen chose for his succes

sor his nephew Peter, son of the Doge Urseolus ; but this prince made himself unpopular. After various changes a popular assembly declared in his stead for Andrew I., son of Ladislaw the Bald, in 1046. This Andrew was nearly related to Stephen, and by some said to be a cousin. I should like to know if he was a cousin. He was forced to yield to his brother Bela in 1061, who, however, died in 1063. Then came Solomon, son of Andrew I. W. FARRAND FELCH, Hartford, Conn., U.S.

MRS. SOPHIA WILLIAMS.—This lady, whose death, June 25, 1823, at the Dowager Viscountess Sidney's house in Chapel Street, South Audley Street, is announced in the Gentleman's Magazine, Supplement i., 1823, vol. xciii. pt. i. p. 651, was the only daughter of the celebrated Mrs. Thersea Cornelys, a native of Germany, who once held a distinguished station in the regions of fashion. Her mansion was called Carlisle House, in Soho Square. The premises were very extensive, and reached to what is now known as Crown Street. The rooms in this capacious mansion were numerous, and were laid out with considerable taste. The fashionable world in general warmly patronized Mrs. Cornelys, and the proceeds of concerts, balls, and masquerades enabled her to live in luxurious style. She kept carriages, and had a villa at Hammersmith. At length, however, the eminent architect, Mr. James Wyatt, erected that beautiful and classical mansion the Pantheon, in Oxford Street, and the tide of fashion turned in its favour. Unluckily about this period (1771) Mrs. Cornelys attempted to introduce the performance of Italian Operas at Carlisle House, and thus placed herself in an attitude of direct hostility to the Italian Opera House, then under the superintendence of the Hon. George Hobart (1732-1804), afterwards third Earl of Buckinghamshire. He applied to the magistrates to prohibit the entertainments, and was so far successful that Sir John Fielding ordered the arrest of Guadagui, the chief singer at Carlisle House, and fined Cornelys and the other organizers of the "harmonic_meetings.' An indictment of Mrs. Cornelys for keeping a common disorderly house" was brought before the grand jury on Wednesday, Feb. 20, 1771. The elegance of the Pantheon, the institution of "The Coterie," by certain of the "Society of Carlisle House," and the influence of Mr. Hobart resenting the attempt to injure his interest in the Opera House successfully combined to withdraw the fashionable world from Mrs. Cornelys, and her fall (in November, 1772) naturally followed. As late, however, as 1777, we find Mrs. Cornelys still organizing masques at Carlisle House. In 1785 the property was in Chancery, and the house sold under a decree of the Court, and Mrs. Cornelys retired into private life at Knightsbridge, "the world forgetting, by

the world forgot." After remaining in great obscurity for many years, under the name of Mrs. Smith, she was eventually compelled to seek refuge in the rules of the Fleet Prison, where she died on Aug. 19, 1797, aged seventy-four (Gent. Mag., October, 1797, vol. lxvii. pt. ii. p. 890).

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Her son and daughter, who had received all the accomplishments suitable to the fortune which their mother was expected to acquire, were compelled to resort for support to the exercise of their talents. They both changed their names. The -"le petit Aranda" of Casonova-an amiable and accomplished man, assumed the name of Altorf and became tutor to the Earl of Pomfret. He died a few years before his mother, for whom he had provided during his life. The daughter, Sophia Wilhelmina, who had been educated at the Roman Catholic nunnery at Hammersmith, after her mother's fall, adopted the surname of Williams, which she retained till her death. Under the name of Miss Williams, she was warmly countenanced by the families of the Duke of Newcastle and the Earl of Harrington, and also by the family of Mr. Charles Butler, well known and esteemed in legal circles. She afterwards acted as governess in several noble families, among whom were Lords Newhaven, Dormer, &c. At length she became companion to Lady Spencer at Richmond, who on her death bequeathed to her an annuity of 100%. In due time she obtained the patronage of Queen Charlotte and of the Princess Augusta, to whom she acted as a private almonress, pointing out fit objects for royal benevolence, and being the means of conveying it. She established the Adult Orphan Institution for the relief and education of those orphan daughters of the clergy and of military and naval officers who should be left friendless and unprovided to contend with the hardships and temptations to which they might be exposed. On June 24, 1820, the institution was actually opened in two houses, Nos. 32 and 33, Mornington Place, Hampstead Road, but it was afterwards removed to St. Andrew's Place, Regent's Park.

Miss Cornelys, or Williams, of whom an account appears in John Taylor's 'Records of my Life,' 1832, vol. i. pp. 267-271, was also instrumental in the first institution (in 1806) of the Cheltenham Female Orphan Asylum, originally established as "The Old School of Industry," for the education of female under-servants, and acquired particular influence over her royal patronesses, especially the Princess Augusta. She was formerly a rigid Roman Catholic, but it is said that she eventually conformed to the Established Church:

"Nobody understood the world better, or could better adapt themselves to its weaknesses, passions, and follies. Her manners were mild and submissive. She possessed great musical talents in early life, sung with expression, and accompanied herself skilfully on the harp. She was low in stature, and by no means beautiful in features.

She must have reached her seventy-fourth year, when fate put a period to her eventful and variegated life." DANIEL HIPWELL.

DR. BAILLIE. (See 'Wells on Dew,' 8th S. v. 464.)-MR. NORGATE has called my attention to what he is so good as to name a slight mistake” of mine (ante, p. 464) in referring to Dr. Baillie as the father, instead of the brother, of Joanna. In my young days, when the century was yet in its teens, anecdotes were afloat respecting the doctor similar to those which were afterwards current in the case of Abernethy. For example: a lady entered the consulting-room in Grosvenor Street and called the doctor's attention to a pimple on her arm. He said, "I am glad you came here this morning, madam." What, it is dangerous then?" "Not at all; but if you had waited until to-morrow, it would have gone away of itself, and I should have lost a guinea!" C. TOMLINSON.

do Milton.

THOMSON.-Thomson in his 'Seasons' seems to when he is in the mock heroic vein, to Philips, the me to be somewhat indebted for his style, especially author of 'Cider' and 'The Splendid Shilling.' He mentions Philips in his Autumn,' showing that he had read and admired him. I think that Cowper also owes something to this author or to Thomson. Philips imitated and parodied Milton, but Thomson and Cowper resemble Philips more than they In 'Spring' Thomson has these lines:Great Spring before Greened all the year, and fruits and blossoms blushed In social sweetness on the self-same bough. He may have been remembering Waller :For the kind Spring which but salutes us here, Inhabits there, and courts them all the year. Ripe fruits and blossoms on the same tree live: At once they promise what at once they give. 'Spring' also there are lines evidently taken from Ovid. But Thomson half acknowledges whence they are derived. For in Ovid Pythagoras is the speaker of the lines; and Thomson refers to the Samian sage :—

In

The big round tears run down his dappled face. This is an imitation of Shakspeare in As You Like It':

The big round tears

Coursed one another down his innocent nose.
In 'The Castle of Indolence' he has these lines :-
You cannot shut the windows of the sky,
Through which Aurora shows her brightening face.
Three very eminent poets have produced the idea
before him :—

Her looks were like beams of the morning sun,
Forth-looking through the windows of the East.

Spenser's 'Colin Clout's come Home Again.'
Madam, an hour before the worshipt sun
Peered forth the golden window of the East,
Shakspeare's 'Romeo and Juliet.'

Ere the blabbing eastern scout,
The nice morn on the Indian steep
From her cabined loop-hole peep.

Milton's 'Comus.'

Thomson in the idea, though not in the expression, seems to come nearest to Milton, who himself was remembering two passages of Shakspeare, not only the one quoted above, but also that in Henry VI., concerning the blabbing day.' There is also something similar to these ideas in Fletcher's Faithful Shepherdess.'

The following parallels between Thomson and other poets may also be noted :

As thikke as motès in the Sonnè beme.
Chaucer, Wif of Bathes Tale.'

As thick and numberless
As the gay motes that people the sun-beams.
Milton, Il Penseroso.'

As thick as idle motes in sunny ray.
Thomson's Castle of Indolence.'
If Thomson imitates others, he himself has been
imitated :-

Or ruminate in the contiguous shade.
'Winter.'

Cowper has borrowed this image :

Some boundless contiguity of shade.
'Task,' Book 2.

Dr. Johnson censured Gray for using the word many-twinkling,' but he failed to notice that Gray was only reproducing a word that Thomson had used already in his Spring. Lines 342-351 of 'Summer' may be compared with the lines of Green and Gray to which I referred in my note on Gray; Perhaps in that note I extolled Gray too highly and depreciated Green too much. Thomson's poem appeared before those of Green and Gray.

E. YARDLEY.

"JYMIAMS." Thomas Nash, ridiculing the antiquaries in Pierce Penniless's Supplication to the Devill,' 1592 (Shakespeare Society, 1842, p. 30), says, a thousand jymiams and toyes have they in theyr chambers"; and Mr. Payne Collier, in a note, remarks, "I do not recollect the word jymiam to have occurred in any other writer," and goes on to refer to gimmal and jemmy. Nash,

he says, seems to employ the word as an equivalent to gimcrack. I would suggest that the word should be written "jimjams," and I believe such a word is actually in use in the United States to denote d.t. In this form it ranges with knick-knacks, "auld knick-knackets," and many other trivial words formed by reduplication. JAMES HOOPER.

Norwich.

A DEVONSHIRE MAY CUSTOM.-The West of England papers are full with accounts of a sad accident arising from the custom at Loddiswell, near Kingsbridge,

"of throwing water on May 1, at horses' legs, which resulted in the death of Dr. Twining, who, when driving with a friend, was thrown out of his carriage through his horse taking fright at the treatment it received."

According to the evidence of this friend,— 'They left Loddiswell about a quarter to niue in the evening, and had just got clear of the village when someone threw water from the top of a high bank. The horse but before they got ten yards a great deal more water started forward, and the coachman tried to hold him, was thrown. The horse at once bolted, and got entirely out of control." L. L. K.

S. T. COLERIDGE.-There was sold at Sotheby's on June 14, 1870 (Manners Collection) a letter of Coleridge to John Fellows, dated "Tewkesbury, July 28, 1796." It was bought by Mr. Waller. Should this meet the eye of its present possessor, I should feel very grateful if he would give me a transcript. J. DYKES CAMPBELL. St. Leonards-on-Sea.

MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT.-The following small items will serve as corrections and additions to the notices of the undermentioned worthies in the recently issued volume of the 'Dict. Nat. Biog.'

Major-General Sir Edward Massey did not "take his seat as member for Gloucester in July, 1646." He was elected for Wotton Basset, in Wiltshire, on

June 18, 1646, for which he took his seat apto the Solemn League and Covenant. As one of the parently on Aug. 26 following, when he subscribed Presbyterian "Eleven" he was expelled the House in December, 1648, and did not sit again until the Convention Parliament of 1660, to which, and also to its successor in 1661, he was, as correctly stated, returned as M.P. for Gloucester.

He was

Serjeant John Maynard did not "sit for Beeralston, Devonshire, in the Convention Parliament" of 1660. He represented Exeter. The following is, I think, the full list of the Parliamentary returns of this ultimately octogenarian member. elected by both Totness and Newport to the Short and Long Parliaments of 1640, upon each occasion preferring Totness, until secluded in 1648. Plymouth, 1656-58. Elected by three constituences in 1659, namely, Beeralston, Camelford, and Newtown, I. W., and sat for Newtown. Returned by

Plymouth and Exeter in 1660, and preferred Exeter. Beeralston, 1661-78. Elected by Beeralson and Plymouth (preferred Plymouth) 1678-9. Sat for Plymouth in 1979-81 and 1681. Beeralston 16851687. Elected by Plymouth and Beeralston (sat for Plymouth), 1689-90. Plymouth, 1690, till decease in October of the same year. Either he or his namesake, John Maynard, of Essex, was M.P. for Chippenham 1624-5 and 1625.

Sir Philip Meadows, Junior, was M.P. for Tregony 1698-1700. Truro, 1702-1705. Tregony, 1705-1708. Although he lived until 1757 he seems not to have sought further Parliamentary honours. Sir Walter Mildmay, Elizabeth's Chancellor of the Exchequer, was returned to at least two Parliaments before his election for Malden in 1553. He sat for Lostwithiel in 1545-47, and for Lewes in 1547-52. His son, Sir Anthony Mildmay, also sat in one Parliament, being M.P. for Wiltshire in 1584-85. W. D. PINK.

AN ANACHRONISM.-Subjoined is a cutting from a second-hand bookseller's catalogue published this month: "Aristotle on the American Constitution, translated by Kenyon." R.

"IN APPLE-PIE ORDER."-As several of your correspondents have lately referred to "an applepie bed" as one in disorder, it may, perhaps, be curious to note the opposite sense of the words when employed as above, i. e., I have made everything tidy; put everything into "apple-pie order." R. B.

Upton.

MERKS, BISHOP OF CARLISLE. (See 4th S. vii 85, 190.)-There is in my collection of pamphlets a speech of this bishop, alleged to have been made in defence of his fallen master, Richard II., in the first Parliament of Henry IV. It is a small quarto, of four leaves, without pagination, and looks of date about the middle of the seventeenth century. There is no subjective evidence of date of printing except what may be gathered from the title-page, which is as follows:

"A pious and learned Speech delivered in the High Court of Parliament, 1 H. 4, by Thomas Mercks then Bishop of Carlile, wherein hee gravely and judiciously declares his opinion concerning the Question, What should be done with the deposed King Richard the Second? London, printed for N. V. and J. B." It should be mentioned that above the imprint there is a device with the motto "veritas viressit

has not, I think, been hitherto recorded, and may be added to Dr. Ferriar's indictment. In 'Tristram Shandy,' vol. i. chap. xii., is the following well-known passage :—

"When, to gratify a private appetite, it is once resolved upon that an innocent and a helpless creature shall be sacrificed, 'tis an easy matter to pick up sticks enough from any thicket where it has strayed, to make a fire to offer it up with."

In the Introduction to 'Baconiana,' London, 1679, T. T. (i. e. Dr. Thomas Tenison), in comment on Bacon's words to King James "I wish that as I am the first so I may be the last of sacrifices in your times," writes as follows (page 16):

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"And when from private Appetite, it is resolv'd that Creature shall be sacrificed; it is easie to pick up sticks made a Fire to offer it with." enough, from any Thicket whither it hath straied, to

There could not be a more audacious example of literary theft. C. M. TENISON. Hobart.

TRIPLETS ATTAINING THEIR MAJORITY.-The following cutting-taken from the Birmingham Daily Post of Nov. 14, 1893, but mislaid until now-seems remarkable enough to deserve preservation in N. & Q.':

'WISE WOMEN IN NORFOLK.'-Under this heading, in the Diss Express, March 23, there is a letter from a Mr. W. H. Berry, of Kenninghall, sent to a Norwich contemporary, in which the following passage occurs:—

"About two years ago, on a calm Sabbath noon, a fire was seen smouldering in the midst of a cottage garden at South Lopham, and the fumes from the smoke are the fact was elicited that an old lady was engaged in said to have been extremely disagreeable. On inquiry, 'burning a witch.' Two days afterwards I saw the old dame and spoke to her about the event. She then told me that her neighbour had bewitched her hens, and that she had been told by a woman-she wouldn't give her name-to burn one of the fowls on a Sunday at noon and she would have no more trouble."

JAMES WILSON.

Dalston Vicarage, Carlisle. STERNE'S PLAGIARISMS: 'BACONIANA.'-The following instance of Sterne's unblushing "conveying"

the saying of Dr. Johnson that this work" had been printed in one language or other as many times as there have been months since it first came out" (p. 117). This, we are told, has been exclaimed against as wild exaggeration, but Mr. Fitzgerald shows that Johnson understated the fact. There are, it seems, upwards of six thousand editions known to bibliographers. How many have perished