"When the news came about 1867 that the French Empire had ceased to defend the Pope..... Charles Gordon raised a force of sixty men, recruited chiefly in Glasgow, armed them at his own expense, and took them to Italy. In one or more engagements with the Piedmontese troops, he received severe wounds, the marks of which he bore till his death." A member of his family informs me that he was "very reticent on the subject." Can any reader dispel the reticence by giving particulars as to this corps? Are any of its members still alive? 123, Pall Mall, S.W. J. M. BULLOCH. PENNINGTON.-Can any reader give me information about the antecedents of Thomas Pennington of Alford, co. Lincoln, and Vicar Can any reader help me to find out the following? (1) In what part or parts of the kingdom the name is common. (2) What ground there is for saying the family was of Irish origin. (3) Whom the elder Braddock married. (4) Whether the name is known in Perthshire. The younger Braddock, afterwards General Braddock, was born in Perthshire in 1695. Is his birthplace known there? Any other information would be welcome. The coat of arms and other relics are still in the possession of the family. F. ROBERTSON SMITH. STORIES: LADY ANNE.' of Horncastle in that county (died 1849), OLD-TIME CHILDREN'S BOOKS AND and Robert Rainey his brother, a Governor of the Foundling Hospital (died 1849) ? The family claims descent from a younger branch of the family from which Lord Muncaster derives. E. PENNINGTON. BRADDOCK FAMILY.-I am a descendant of Major-General Braddock, who served under Marlborough, and am interested in finding the date and place of his birth. This question has been raised in ' N. & Q.' with reference to his son General Braddock, who commanded the forces in America in 1755, and was killed in the unfortunate expedition against Fort Duquesne (see 1 S. ix. 11, 562; xii. 72; 3 S. xii. 5). SERVIENS, the querist at the first reference, considers that the family was of Irish extraction. The elder Braddock had three sons and two daughters, but my great-grandfather's grandfather, one of the sons, was the only one to leave issue. (11 S. vii. 310, 356, 374, 411.) I HAVE a copy of a children's story entitled : "The Life and Adventures of Lady Anne, the Little Pedlar, by the author of the Blue Silk Work bag,' Harcourt Family,' &c. London: 73, St. Paul's Church-Yard: By J. and C. Adlard, printed for J. Souter, at the School Library, 23, Bartholomew Close. 1823." Another edition appeared in 1852 from the same publishing house, then Charles A. Law, late Souter & Law, the School Library, 131, Fleet Street. A "New Edition was published by James Williamson, 290, High Street, Lincoln, with a Preface by the Bishop of Lincoln, dated 1873. In this the Bishop wrote that the book was first printed about a hundred years ago," but I find no internal evidence nor other indication that the story was not written for the 1823 66 edition mentioned above. The Bishop went on to say that the book was found suitable for reading at Mothers' Meetings and on similar occasions, and that a demand for copies had arisen in consequence. The book being out of print and no copies procurable from the London booksellers, the copyright having expired and the author being (to him) unknown, some young ladies who," the Bishop wrote, were dear to him" prevailed upon the local publisher to print an edition. This is the same as its predecessors, except that the words "the Little Pedlar are omitted, and also the steel-plate frontispiece of the previous editions. 66 The story has appeared finally in a collection entitled Forgotten Tales of Long Ago,' compiled by Mr. E. V. Lucas (1906). In his Preface the editor writes: "For looking through the scores and scores-I might, I believe, say hundreds of books from which to select the twenty stories within these covers, I should consider myself amply rewarded by the discovery of 'Lady Anne.' This story-I might almost say this novel-which is at once the longest and, to my mind, the best thing in the present volume, is anonymous. All that I know of the author is that she-I take it to be a woman's work-wrote also 'The Blue Silk Hand-bag' [sic], but of that book I have been able to catch no glimpse...... I have had here and there to condense a few pages, but I have touched nothing essential: the sweet little narrative is only shortened, never altered. In N. & Q.,' 5 S. iii. 448, the authorship of Lady Anne' was asked for by W. J. T., who mentioned that he had already put the question to another correspondent of N. & Q.,' and an authority on children's books, one Olphar Hamst. The querist writes of it as a once favourite book of a past generation." Whatever popularity the story had had, it certainly waned, for I have reason to believe that it was but little known before its reappearance in 1906, and that copies of the earlier editions are very scarce. 66 As time goes on, names of anonymous writers hitherto forgotten or unknown occasionally come to light. I hope this will be thought sufficient justification for reviving the question of the authorship of what I consider to be, of its kind, a really remarkable book. May I at the same time beg that should copies of The Blue Silk Workbag' or 'The Harcourt Family' be in the possession of readers of N. & Q.' (neither is in the British Museum), I may be granted the pleasure of seeing them? PERCEVAL LUCAS. Rackham, Pulborough. BYRON AND THE HOBHOUSE MS. (11 S. vii. 509).—I am enabled, through the kindness of Dr. H. Varnhagen of the English Seminary connected with the University of answer my own Erlangen, Bavaria, to query under this heading, and forward the information for the benefit of those who may The Hobhouse MS. be interested in it. referred to by Hall Caine was printed in 1909 (nine years later than expected) in Lady Dorchester's edition of Lord Broughton's 'Recollections of a Long Life,' ii. 190 et seq. I may add that the Byron Collection of editions of the poet's works, and of books and articles on or referring to him, in the library of the English Seminary at Erlangen, is, to judge from the Catalogue, unique of its kind, not only in foreign, but in home libraries. It is curious and flattering to find a fervent Byron cult flourishing in a town so (to us) out of the beaten track J. B. McGOVERN. as Erlangen. St. Stephen's Rectory, C.-on-M., Manchester. Some years ago Lady Dorchester published her father's diaries, correspondence, and memoranda in several volumes, which contain, I suppose, all, or practically all, the information relative to Byron that Hobhouse bequeathed to posterity. The book is of great interest, and something of the fascination that the poet exercised over his contemporaries can be felt on reading its A. R. BAYLEY. pages. 66 Indies speak of "south side," "east side," &c., in describing the position of anything, even the smallest articles of daily use. On p. 94 of the same volume a correspondent mentioned a similar habit among the peasantry in the south and west of Ireland, and suggested that the West Indian use might be a legacy of early Irish planters. There is a parallel in Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy,' III. ii. iii. (wrongly headed III. ii. iv. i. in the sixth edition, 1650-51, and in some modern reprints), over five-sixths through, "how to cut his Beard, and weare his Lock, to turn up his Munshato's,* and curle his head, prune his Pickitivant, or if he weare it broad printed abroad in the fifth and subsequent editions], that the East side be correspondent to the West."-Ed. 2, 1624, p. 421. 66 EDWARD BENSLY. As a supplement to COL. NICHOLSON'S interesting note, it may be added that in Welsh deheu, south," also means right." This shows that in Welsh, as in Irish, the speaker is imagined as facing east. H. I. B. THE LARGEST SQUARE IN LONDON (11 S. vii. 470).—Mr. E. Beresford Chancellor in his History of the Squares of London,' like Mr. Whitten, states that Russell Square is, with the possible exception of Lincoln's Inn Fields, the largest square in London. He gives its dimensions as follows: North and south sides 665 ft., west side 672, and 667 on the east. This works out to an area of circa 448,210 sq. ft., whereas the area of Lincoln's Inn Fields is. 513,125 sq. ft. But these again are exceeded by Eaton and Cadogan Squares, the areas of which respectively are 607,327 and 536,500 sq. ft. WILLOUGHBY MAYCOCK. Mr. Charles Bouch, the freeholder of No. 35, Edwardes Square, Kensington, tells me this square comprises "three and a half acres and eight poles," so it is considered to be the largest in London. The "Battle of Edwardes Square," which resulted in a victory for the residents, will * Mushato's in ed. 4 sqq. always be remembered as establishing rightsof-way and other ancient vested privileges. Now the beadle may be seen, dressed in his brown frock coat with gilt buttons, and tall silk hat with gold band, as a symbol of authority in this beauty spot, named after the patronymic of Lord Kensington. F. W. R. GARNETT. Wellington Club, Grosvenor Place, S.W. I have heard it said that Ladbroke Square, A. R. BAYLEY. Notting Hill, is the largest in town. [MR. J. LANDFEAR LUCAS also thanked for reply.] IZAAK WALTON AND TOMB-SCRATCHING (11 S. vii. 405, 492).-I beg to be allowed, as an Old Westminster of just sixty years' standing, to enter a most emphatic protest against the assumption so lightly made at both the above references that all crimes against decency committed in the Abbey, from desecration of the monuments to the rifling of royal tombs, must be put down to the discredit of the Westminster School boys. I am absolutely confident that they would be the very last people in the world to be guilty of such atrocities; and, as to who would have just as many. opportunities, there are countless others To take one instance, it is common knowledge that for many weeks both before and after every great state ceremonial, the entire building is given over into the hands of crowds of workmen. But MR. BAYLEY goes one better-or worse. He accuses one of the Westminster boys of having in 1766 actually stolen the jawbone of King Richard II. He does not offer any suggestion as to how the boy could by any possibility have done such a thing, nor any evidence beyond his having been told that there still exists a statement to that effect in the handwriting of the grandfather of the present possessors of the ghastly relic. It seems strange, to say the least of it, that no writer on the Abbey whose works I have access to has ever mentioned the amazing circumstanco in print. On the other hand, I have found two printed statements which would appear to be inconsistent with it. In Knight's Cyclopædia of London' (1850), p. 223, it is written : the pious and generous care of Henry V., the son And here [i.e., in the Confessor's Chapel] did of his [Richard II.'s] destroyer, soon after his accession, remove the murdered remains from Friars Langley, and place them by the side of the unhappy Richard's Queen. The whole subject of Richard's death has been as yet one of impenetrable mystery, and the examination of his corpse here, if it be his, has not enlightened us. Neither of the skulls within the tomb, on the closest examination, presented any marks of fracture or evidences of murderous violence." Again, Mrs. A. Murray Smith, in her 'Westminster Abbey, its Story and Associations,' p. 91, says : "The manner of his departure remains a mystery to this day: whether his skull was cleft by Sir Piers Exton; whether he was starved by his cousin's orders, or starved himself to death. The first story is disproved by the fact that when the tomb in the Abbey was opened in 1871, no trace of a blow could be seen on the skull." Here, then, we have records of two examinations of the skull; both report it to be unharmed, and neither makes any allusion to the jaw or any other bone being missing. Lastly, I would point out that the class which is not ashamed to perpetrate these outrages on the illustrious dead is by no means confined to boys and illiterates. The hero of the story told at 11 S. i. 112 about Ben Jonson's grave was a distinguished man of science and popular writer." ALAN STEWART. 66 THE TOMAHAWK': MATT MORGAN (11 S. vii. 369, 413, 454, 515).—In vol. v. of Birmingham Faces and Places,' the Preface of which is dated May, 1893, there is a biographical notice of Mr. G. H. Bernasconi, for more than forty years Birmingham's bestknown cartoonist : "About this time he [G. H. B.] became acquainted with Matt Morgan, and for some time shared a studio with that artist in the Strand. Morgan conceived the idea of painting a large picture of Rotten Row in 1862, and, being a man of considerable ambition, subsequently took a large studio in Berners Street, off Oxford Street, part of which he used as a fine-art exhibition in partnership with Fred Buckstone, a son of old Buckstone of the Haymarket. This gallery became renowned far and wide as the meeting-place of Saturdaynight assemblies. Calderon, F. C. Burnand, Du Maurier, Charles Keene, W. S. Gilbert, Stacy Marks, and a score of others who have since become notable, used to meet there, and Mr. Bernasconi can tell endless and varied anecdotes of adventures indulged in by many of the leading wits and artists of our time in those distant days-how, for instance, at a bazaar for the Hospital for Incurables, held in the old Exhibition building of 1862, the future editor of Punch wrote a piece called The Siege of Seringapatam'; how he led his soldiers on to victory; how Morgan got up a Spanish bull-fight, and was himself the matador, and how a poor unfortunate super from the Haymarket, made up as the bull, was prodded all over the ring by a dozen or so matadors on prancing basket horses, and when he finally dropped, how Morgan lightly sprang into the arena, and, striking an attitude on the top of the bull, gave him the happy despatch. Matt Morgan, it will be remembered, was the artist of The Tomahawk, perhaps the most brilliantly edited satirical journal—not even excepting that of the sage of Fleet Street— ever produced. The Tomahawk ran its course from May, 1867, to well into 1870, and Mr. Bernasconi has since put the careful study he to good use in conceiving and carrying out his then made of Matt Morgan's ideas and methods own artistic productions....Most of the Tomahawk cartoons were drawn under Mr. Bernasconi's observation. In those days the liberty of the press was not so unfettered as in these, and the brilliant Matt Morgan, having incurred the displeasure of certain exalted personages moving in the highest social atmosphere, thought it wise to seek fame and fortune in the Republic of the West....He died in America in 1890." It will thus be seen that in at least one siderable. were instance Matt Morgan's influence on the art of the English cartoonist was not inconMr. Bernasconi's spirited and innumerable Birmingham cartoons drawn for many publications over a long series of years. The Third Member (1868), Brum (1869), The Dart (from 1876), The Owl (from 1880), The Town Crier (many years), and a host of other local illustrated journals and occasional ventures were enlivened by his versatile genius. I believe, though I am not sure, that he was drawing for The Town Crier (started in 1860) on its final disappearance (in 1903). I met him very frequently at one time, and know he was proud of his friendship with Matt Morgan, of whom he always spoke with admiration. WILMOT CORFIELD. WILDERNESS Row (11 S. vii. 428, 495; vii. 37).—It was in Clerkenwell, as earlier replies have stated, and faced "a tall old brick wall bounding one side of the grounds of the Charterhouse." It was here, at No. 21, that John Britton lived about 1802, but he mentions it in 1850 as still standing. His first carriage visitor at this house was Edward King, the antiquary, who suffered much annoyance because there was no room for his carriage to turn, and the horses had to be taken out while some men dragged it into Sutton Street. He wrote the next day, refusing to visit Britton again until he moved further west. Britton did move shortly afterwards to 10, Tavistock Place, but the immediate cause of his removal was the rowdy and drunken behaviour of G. F. Cooke, who, with Thomas Dibdin, dined with Britton one Saturday night. On the following Monday morning his landlord and next-door neighbour, a zealous Huntingtonian, served him with notice to quit as soon as possible. ill opinions; (8) Keep no bad company; (9) Encourage no vice; (10) Make no long meals; (11) Repeat no grievances; (12) Lay no wagers. These rules, printed on a placard and surmounted by a picture of the King's execution, were commonly hung on the wall, especially in taverns." C. B. WHEELER. 80, Hamilton Terrace, N.W. Samuel Prout lodged with Britton for a time, and his second and third exhibits in I quote the following from Goldsmith's the Royal Academy (1803 and 1804) areDeserted Village,' annotated by Walter dated from 21, Wilderness Row, Clerken- McLeod, F.R.G.S., F.C.P., London, Longwell. MARGARET LAVINGTON. mans, Green & Co., n.d. [1858]. THE YOUNGER VAN HELMONT: "FAHNENSCHWINGEN": LAMBOURN (11 S. vii. 307, 378, 467). The infantry colours of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are shown in a large number of contemporary prints (e.g., Dürer, B. 87, H. S. Beham, B. 170, H. Goltzius, " "Signifer," also anon. woodcut in the Germ. Mus. of 1660-1700, Infantry Soldiers, reprod. in G. Liebe, Der Soldat,' 1899) as pieces of cloth three to five and even more feet square. The staff is very short, extending only about a foot beyond the cloth. Owing to this the colours, grasped in one hand, had to be continually swung about the colour-bearer's head to keep them displayed. The resulting exercise is comparable to swinging dumbbells, only considerably harder work. "Fahnenschwingen may still at times be seen in Switzerland at pageants and parades. Montreux. D. L. GALBREATH. In a series of questions about Van Helmont your correspondent MR. F. S. DARROW quotes a statement that places Lambourn in the county of Wilts, which is given in my Gazetteer' as in Berks, not in Wilts. Why this variance in topography? It is simply an error: Lambourn is in Berks, but only about three miles from the border of the two counties. It is on the direct road to Ramsbury in Wilts-a road I know well, having often walked both ways, a distance of seven miles. C. S. JERRAM. Oxford. THE TWELVE GOOD RULES (11 S. vii. 509). A reference to any annotated edition of "The Deserted Village would have answered MR. G. J. DEW's query. I quote from Mr. G. G. Whiskard's edition (Clarendon Press, 1912):— "The so-called rules of King Charles I., said to have been found in his study after his death. "They were: (1) Urge no healths; (2) Profane no divine ordinances; (3) Touch no state matters; (4) Reveal no secrets; (5) Pick no quarrels ; (6) Make no comparisons; (7) Maintain no "Line 232.-Royal game of goose : and is well calculated to make children ready at "This game originated, I believe, in Germany, reckoning the produce of two given numbers......It is called the game of goose, because at every fourth and fifth compartment* in succession a goose is depicted; and if the cast thrown by the player number of his throw.' - Strutt's 'Sports and falls upon a goose, he moves forward double the Pastimes,' p. 336. "Line 232.-See nearly the same language in The Citizen of the World,' Letter XXX." FRANK CURRY. warm GEORGE WALKER, GOVERNOR OF LONMR. F. B. MCCREA in his quest for the DONDERRY (11 S. vii. 348).-It may help Scottish ancestry of the famous Governor to know that, according to Canon Philip Dwyer's book on the siege of Londonderry, He alludes to his love of Scotland and her Walker was educated at Glasgow University. people in terms (see Preface to Walker's Vindication'). Researches made by Mr. George Walker of Waddington are cited by Canon Dwyer to show that the Governor's father took refuge in England (it is not stated from where he came) during the early troubles of the Revolution (see Kirk Deighton Registries, Yorkshire), and obtained the livings of Kirk Deighton and Wighill, probably through the influence of the Stanhope family. He may have come from Scotland. WILLIAM MACARTHUR. * 79, Talbot Street, Dublin. "Played on a table which is divided into sixtythree compartments." |