all her messuages and lands in Icklingham, Suffolk, in feoffees for certain purposes, directing that the residue of the revenues be applied

"To the discharge of a great part of the Task of both parishes of the Town of Icklingham as often as it falleth if it may be born, and this to be done and ordained in manner and form following; that is to say, that as many as be cessyd to pay to the Task the sum of 12d. and underneath that these persons to be discharge of the Task for ever as farr as the sd residue of the s Livelode will stretch," &c.

What is the nature of this impost, and who, probably, levied it? In a decree of 35 Hen. VIII. it is called the "Kyngs task."

The original of the document from which I quote was said to have been "most curiously adorned with pictures of our Saviour and the Virgin Mary," &c. It has, since 1830, disappeared from the parish chest, where it was deposited, and I should be glad to know of its whereabouts. Hr. P.

THE KINGS OF CORNWALL.-Is there any authentic list of the ancient kings of Cornwall? I am aware of the imperfect list of Carew-Cador, Blederic, Ivo, Bletius, &c.; also of Kings Solomon and Constantine of Cornwall. What has been done recently by modern criticism on this subject? It would seem that in the new cathedral of Cornwall some memorial of these ancient kings ought to be put up. Most of them were Christians, and some fought for the Christian Church against the Saxons. W. S. L. S.

[Our correspondent may be glad to refer to the paper, by the authors of the Bibliotheca Cornubiensis, on the names to be attached to the stalls of the canons in the 5th S. ix. 142.1 choir of Truro Cathedral, which appeared in " N. & Q.,”

"STRAIGHT AS A LOITCH."-This expression has been in common use in this part of Yorkshire from time immemorial. It is used to express the perfect straightness of anything. What is a "loitch"? W. COLBECK DYSON. Batley.

"ART."-The use of this word to mean fine art only is recent. How recent? Can any reader of "N. & Q." give a date of its use before the Reform Bill of 1832 ? HENRY COLE.

I am unable to tell the authority for several of the statements made by MR. SCOTT (6th S. iv. 522). There are (so far as Sussex is concerned) three accounts of the king's escape :1. That dictated by the king to Pepys at Newmarket on Oct. 3 and 5, 1680 (reprinted in The Boscobel Tracts, edited by J. Hughes, A.M., published 1830); 2. That of Col. Gunter, in MS. in British Museum, Add. MS. 9008 (printed in Parry's Coast of Sussex, published 1833); 3. That in Baker's Chronicles of the Kings of England, p. 541.

The first of these accounts is, to a great extent, used by Mr. Harrison Ainsworth in his ingenious novel Ovingdean Grange. The last account was, I think, partly furnished by Capt. Tettersell, as it relates facts connected with himself, his conversation with his wife, the sailor, &c., which could hardly be known to any other person.

By putting all these accounts together we find that the king was at the house of Mrs. Hyde at Heal (three miles from Salisbury) for some days at the beginning of October, 1651. On Saturday the 11th Col. Gunter made the bargain with Francis Mansell, of Ovingdean, to provide a vessel for the king's escape. Next day (Sunday) the king was informed of this by Col. Philips. On Monday (13th) Col. Gunter with Lord Wilmot met the king near Winchester, and that night they slept at Hambledon, at the house of Gunter's sister. At daybreak of the 14th they left, and, passing by Arundel and Houghton (Howton), came through Bramber to Beeding. Here Col. Gunter left, and went on alone to the George Inn at Brighton, where he met Mansell, the king and Lord Wilmot arriving later, and together supped with Capt. Tettersell. At 2 A.M. on the 15th (so Gunter says, but Charles II. told Pepys 4 A.M.) they left the George, embarked at 5 (Baker), and sailed at 7 A.M. (Charles says, but Gunter 8), reaching Fécamp 10 A.M. next day. The journey from Hambledon to Brighton only occupied one day, not two, as MR. SCOTT says, whilst neither account mentions Maudlin Farm, New House, or Southwick. I have carefully examined the Court Rolls, but cannot trace that there was any George Inn in West Street before 1754, though there was in 1656, on the east side of Middle Street, 66 an Inne called the George." It probably occupied the site of No. 44, Middle Street (at present the residence of Mr. Chas. Catt), and this, there can be little doubt, was the place actually visited by the king. The present King's Head Inn, West Street, was not even known as the George until 1754, while that now known by that sign is evidently the third house of the name.

It is impossible for the king to have visited Ovingdean. Sir Wm. Burrell mentions the fact as mythical, and there is no doubt it originated from that place being the residence of Francis Mansell. The latter did not die before the Restoration, as Mr. Ainsworth makes him do, but was appointed Customer-Inwards at Southampton, and granted a pension of 2001. a year, which in 1664 was 300l. in arrear (Calendars of State Papers, 1660-1, pp. 108, 141, and 438; 1661–2, pp. 21 and 286; 1663-4, p. 552).

I should like to correct a mistake made by Lord Braybrooke in editing Pepys's Diary. Under date Feb. 20, 1666/7, Pepys says:

"With the 'Chequer men to the Leg in King Street ......and there was one in company with them; that was

the man that got the vessel to carry over the king from Bredhemson, who hath a pension of 2001. per annum, his money these four years, and is ready to starve," &c. but ill paid......this poor man bath received no part of In a foot-note it is stated this refers to Nicholas Tettersell, but it is to be observed that Pepys does not say the man who "commanded," but who "got" the vessel. Moreover, Tettersell's pension was only 100l. a year (State Papers, Domestic, 1663, vol. 84, p. 176), while, as already noted, Mansell's pension was 2001., as Pepys states. Tettersell, in addition, was then receiving his pay as a captain in the navy, and can hardly have been nearly starving, while the note quoted before shows that in 1664 Mansell's pension was in arrear. It is clear, therefore, Pepys referred to Mansell, and not to Tettersell. FREDERICK E. SAWYER.

Brighton.

Besides the instances mentioned by your correspondents, there is a tradition that King Charles II. when on his way to Charmouth, whence he attempted to escape to France, paid a visit to the manor-house of Pilston, or Pillesdon, as it was then called, a small village about seven miles from Bridport, in the county of Dorset, then the property of the Wyndhams. The old house, now a farmhouse, still maintains a dignified appearance in its quiet retirement, though shorn of much of its beauty and size. A neighbouring copse, King's Moor or More, is said to have derived its name from the circumstance of this visit.

Inner Temple.

J. S. UDAL.

I am much obliged for the valuable information respecting the above subject. I was unaware that any vestige of White Ladies still remained; but have heard that there still exist near its site some ruins of a nunnery called Black Ladies. Can MR. BURGESS clear this up, and also kindly give the date of the destruction of Moseley Hall, which must have been within the last twenty years? At Little Molford, about eight miles from Long Marston, I believe the manor-house yet stands, where there is also a tradition that Charles II. was concealed in an oven, which is possible, as his route is rather vague after leaving Long Marston. Perhaps H. P. M. confounded Little Compton with this house, and not Little Woolford.

Highgate, N.W.

ALLAN FEA.

HARE, BARON OF COLERAINE (6th S. iv. 536).— Hugh Hare was a personal friend of Charles, Prince of Wales, and hence on the death of King James, in 1625, and the accession of Charles I. to the throne, it was a very natural and gracious act to ennoble his young friend. The king's age was twenty-five, that of Hugh Hare was nineteen.

According to the Irish Compendium he was "well-known to the king, and a great florist." That in subsequent years he was a devoted and loyal friend to the king, history makes very clear; and at the Restoration English honours were offered to him by Charles II., and declined. His great-grandson Henry, the third and last Baron of Coleraine, died at Bath on August 10, 1749, and was buried at Tottenham (Scots Magazine, p. 406). He married Anne, daughter and co-heiress of John Hanger, Esq., governor of the Bank of England, who inherited a fortune of 100,0001. The marriage was anything but a happy one; his wife left him, and would not be reconciled.' By his will he left a great part of his estate to a natural daughter, Henrietta Rosa Peregrina Hare. His will was disputed, and occupied the law courts for several years. On June 10, 1754, his widow died of gout, and in the following year a note in the Gentleman's Magazine (1755, p. 329) states that "the great cause that has been long depending concerning the estate of the late Lord Coleraine was finally determined in Chancery in favour of Mr. Knight and the heiress-at-law." In order, however, that the heiress might fully enjoy the properties thus left to her, she being an alien, it was found necessary to apply to Parliament, and two special Acts were passed to regulate Lord Coleraine's bequests, in 1763 and 1764 (see for full details Robinson's History of Tottenham, i., Appendix, p. 41).

On December 1, 1761, Gabriel Hanger, nephew of the late Lord Coleraine's widow, and probably her heir, was raised to the peerage of Ireland, as Baron Coleraine of Coleraine, in the county of Londonderry, by order under the privy seal, his patent bearing date Feb. 26, 1762. This title became extinct in 1824, on the death of his last surviving son, George Hanger, the fourth and last baron, unmarried. Much information respecting the Lords Coleraine is given in Nichols's Literary Anecdotes, especially in vol. v. pp. 347-52. A good portrait of Henry, Lord Coleraine (or Colerane), painted by Richardson about 1714, was presented to the Society of Antiquaries by his lordship's daughter, who had married Alderman Townsend.

EDWARD SOLLY.

THE ANSTEY FAMILY (6th S. iv. 324).—Will you allow me to add a few facts to PROF. MAYOR'S account of Christopher Anstey ? When Anstey first came to Bath to reside he lived in a house near the site of what is now St. James's Square. Wood, the younger, was just then building the Royal Crescent, one of the houses in which Mr. Anstey purchased, and became, in fact, one of the earliest residents in that palatial pile. One of Mr. Anstey's daughters married Mr. Bosanquet, of Hardenuish House (commonly pronounced Harnish), and whilst there on a visit died, as PROF. MAYOR says, on August 3, 1805. A grandson of Mr. Anstey, Mr. John Thomas Anstey, still resides at 18, Lansdown Crescent, in this city. This gentleman had two sons, both of whom are deceased. Besides the poems contained in the quarto volume edited by John Anstey of his father's works, he wrote a satirical poem, entitled The Journey of Dr. Robert Bongout, and his Lady, to Bath. Performed in the Year 177-," published by Dodesley in 1778, and soon after suppressed, so that it is very scarce. When the MS. of this poem was sold some years ago, it was described as never having been published. The poem is characterized by the humour and wit of the New Bath Guide. The subject of the satire was a well-known physician, who was reputed to be a great gourmand. Opposite to the title is a portrait of the doctor, whose countenance is indicative of good nature and sensuality. Unless I am mistaken, Lowndes makes no mention of this book. Anstey himself would never admit the authorship, though of the fact there was no doubt. The reasons for its suppression might also have been the reasons why John Anstey omitted it from the collected works of his father-at any rate it is difficult to conceive any other, inasmuch as, compared with some of the poems contained therein, it is less coarse and indelicate, bad though it be. The local historian of Bath, the late Rev. Richard Warner, seems never to have heard of this book, Dr. Bongout, nor of The Priest Dissected, though he was a man remarkable for his accuracy and research. In his Literary Recollections, vol. ii. p. 17, he says:

"It is somewhat singular that the author of a work so

attributed to him."

John Britton, in his edition of the New Bath Guide, makes no mention in the memoir appended to it of Dr. Bongout, and had never seen a copy until I showed him one a few years before his death. The history of The Priest Dissected and the reasons for its suppression are little known. A sharp criticism of Anstey and his works having appeared in a small quarto form, Anstey attributed the authorship to a well-known local clergyman, and retaliated in The Priest Dissected. On the

very day after its publication he discovered that he had been too rash, and that the "priest" whom he had so cruelly dissected was not his assailant, and he therefore suppressed the publication after eighteen copies had got into circulation. One of these, together with a copy of the attack (I cannot quote the title without seeing it, which is not practicable at this moment), I had in my possession until I disposed of them to Capt. Philp, of Timsbury, near this city, in whose possession they are at present. Bath.

R. E. PEACH.

I note briefly the entries of this name, of which there are no less than ten, in the Rugby School Register. The list is headed by Charles Alleyne Anstey (the well-remembered assistant master), who was entered with his brother George in 1811. His two sons, Charles Christopher (whose after life is traced by PROF. MAYOR) and Henry, entered the school at the early ages of ten and eight, in 1836. In 1841 followed John Filmer Anstey, afterwards of Oriel College, Oxford, and in holy orders; and in 1848 Francis Senior Anstey, a third son of the master's. Finally were entered, in 1855, Thomas Henry and Arthur Newland, in 1863, Henry, and in 1865, Edgar Olifant, the four sons of George Alexander Anstey, of London.

New University Club.

H. W.

The last-named member, Rev. C. C. Anstey, was the eldest son of Rev. C. A. Anstey. The second son, Rev. H. Anstey, M.A., graduated (2nd Class, Lit. Hum.) at University College, Oxford, 1850, was afterwards chaplain at Queen's and Merton, and assistant-lecturer at St. Mary Hall; he has been since 1874 rector of Slapton, Bucks (Annotated Rugby Register, i. 195; other members of the family mentioned in the index). I can fancy that I hear Rev. C. A. Anstey-may his ante-Liddell-and-Scott-days nickname of "Donnegan " be lovingly recorded-giving out to his form a portion of Gay's Hare and Many Friends to be tortured into Latin elegiacs. I possess a copy of his grandfather's version of several of the fables, in the title-page of which is "Dono Interpretis, 1801." P. J. F. GANTILLON.

Doncaster

Doncaster.

CHARLES JACKSON.

I can be of little assistance to him now.

with.

I cannot

WRAY UDALL (6th S. iv. 429).—I must apologize to C. J. H. for not having answered his direct inquiry of me before; and, moreover, I am afraid find the name of Wray in connexion with any pedigree of Udall or Uvedale (as it would probably be called at that period) that I am acquainted teresting to me as (if accurately given) it shows an C. J. H.'s inquiry is, however, very inearlier instance of that form of the name than any I had known before. I had always looked upon Nicholas Udal or Udall (the author of the first English comedy, Ralph Roister Doister, produced circa 1553), who was a descendant of the Uvedales of Wickham, co. Hants, as being the earliest undoubted instance of the name in that form. The name of Vidal I have always considered to be distinct from that of Udal or Udall (conf. Peire Vidal, a French troubadour of celebrity, who flourished several centuries ago), though I should be glad of further information upon this point. J. S. UDAL.

Inner Temple.

being a Yorkshire one) be one of the family of P.S.-The lady in question may (the marriage Uvedale who owned Marrick Priory, in that county (see Nichols's Coll. Top. et Gen., vol. v. pp. 241-5), though, apart from the MS. therein quoted by Nichols, I know of no evidence connecting any one of the name with Yorkshire.

JOHN TUPLING (6th S. iv. 543).—Misspelling, even in respect of one letter only, is not to be endured in "N. & Q"; and as I possess and prize the Folious Appearances, and was a customer of their worthy author, and wrote the accountor one of the accounts-of him, to which R. R. refers, I desire to announce that he was not John Tuplin, but "john Tupling," with a small j in front, mind you, and with a g behind, to give the proper note of diminution to his Tup. He was a man, was this john, who might in time have become another delightful "shadow of an old bookseller" to literary folk, if he had only stayed in the old country instead of getting drowned in leaving it. No one could know him without respecting his kindly enthusiasm for books; and

Toads are generally reported to be poisonous, and this is perfectly true to a certain extent. Like the lizards, they have glands in their skin, which secrete a white highly-acid fluid, and just behind the head are seen two eminences like split beans; if these be pressed this acid fluid will come out-only let the operator mind that it does not get into his eyes, for it generally comes out with a jet. There are also other glands dispersed throughout the skin. A dog will never take a toad in his mouth, and the reason is that this glandular secretion burns his tongue and lips. It is also poisonous to the human subject. Mr. Blick, surgeon, of Islip, Oxfordshire, tells me that a man once made a wager, when half drunk in a village public-house, that he would bite a toad's head off; he did so, but in a few hours his lips, tongue, and throat began to swell in a most alarming way, and he was dangerously ill for some time. He had probably bitten right through the centre of the glands behind the head, and had got a dose of the poison......A small animal that I inoculated with it was not in any way affected."

Lower Heyford, Oxon.

G. J. DEW.

I have seen it stated in books of natural history that the only foundation for the belief that toads are poisonous is that there is an acrid secretion from their skin, which is painful to a dog if he takes the toad in his mouth. But I have heard from two perfectly competent witnesses that toads do sometimes spit their venom. When a boy I was told by a schoolfellow that he once was teasing a toad when it spat at him; he was painfully but not dangerously ill, and described some very unpleasant symptoms. And not long ago I was told by a gentleman of good education and some scientific knowledge that a favourite dog of his had been killed by a toad, the symptoms preceding death being similar to those described by the boy. They are too offensive to be worth describing except in a medical work; but the fact that toads are venomous, under some circumstances, is worth making known. WILLIAM HENRY SIMCOX.

"TIN" MONEY (6th S. iv. 289).-Dio Cassius derived his name from his father, the Roman senator Cassius Apronianus, and not from any partnership of his own in the Cornish mines. As for the word itself (cash), I should think it safer to take what Liddell and Scott say (Greek Lex., 1861) under κασσίτερος :

"Cassia-Capsa argentaria; caisse, cofrefort. Cassiam imponere, imponere tributa et vectigalia, quorum proventus pecuniarii in cassia quadam publica reponebantur."-Abr. by Migne. ED. MARSHALL.

So, according to Mr. Joseph Boult, of Liverpool, the Homeric kaσσíτepos, tin, may be purely Celtic, being_cas-sith-er, "the great money......for peace"; the Roman name Cassius is possibly "the tin man"; and the modern word cash is manifestly cognate with the same Celtic word! Fancy a compound Irish word occurring frequently in the Iliad-it is really too absurd! In order to see the absolute baselessness of these grotesque derivations it would only be necessary to consult ordinary books of reference, such as Liddell and Scott, s.v. Kaσσíтepos, and Skeat's Dict., s.v. Cash." A. L. MAYHEW.

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Mr. Boult's pamphlet must be admirable indeed if there are many statements like that which is quoted,-"Cassiterides, I apprehend, is purely that it is Sanskrit kastira. As for Dio Cassius Celtic." All authorities have made up their minds being in the tin trade, really it is delightful; but why he more than Caius Cassius? Roby's Latin Grammar, vol. i. pp. 363-5, might be consulted with advantage. As for cash, money, formerly a box (a cash-a cash-box, which is a modern duplicabox, as in cassette, Lat. capsa. For this, as usual, tion), it is from French casse, a case, formerly a if authority is needed, see Skeat, Etym. Dict. It is impossible to suppose any relationship between the words which Mr. Boult has curiously taken together. O. W. TANCOCK.

Norwich.

HEINE'S "ENGLISH FRAGMENTS" (6th S. iv. 510).-Let us not be very severe on Heine for his confusion of memory as to what was to him the history of a foreign country. Errors like unto this are constantly cropping up in our own literature, a three-volume novel published in 1879, tells us e. g., Mr. G. Webb Appleton, in Catching a Tartar, that

knowledge that that peculiar form of misdirected loyalty "this irritating discovery was shortly heightened by a called Jacobitism had sent the family plate to the Oxford Mint."-Vol. i. p. 184.

A NOVELIST.