LORD HUSSEY AND THE LINCOLNSHIRE REBELLION (6th S. iv. 529; v. 3).-The following extracts from contemporary letters are a fitting addition to MR. W. J. HARDY's interesting articles :

"Lords Darcy and Hussy is [sic] condemned to death, and divers other knights and religious men in like maner. Some thinketh they shall suffre to-morrow.". John Husee to his mistress, Honor Viscountess Lisle, London, May 18, 1537; Lisle Papers, vol. xii. fol. 24. "The 28th of this month Lord Hussey and Sir Robert Constable and Aske were delivered out of the Tower to Sir Thomas Wenetford, now Captain of Carlyle, who with 1. horsemen took them northward. 'Tis said the Lord Hussey shall suffer at Lincoln, Constable at Hull, and Aske to be hanged in chains at York or Notts: and Lord Darcy shall suffer the last day of this month on Tower Hill. Eight of the moncks of the Charterhouse be ded in Nywgatt."-The same to his master, Arthur Viscount Lisle, London, June 29, 1537, ib., vol. v. fol. 18. "The Lord Darcy suffrid on Saterday last past."-The same to the same, London, July 2, 1537, ib., vol. iv. fol. 77.

of the man in the extinct peerage of Ireland. Theobald Burk, or Bourke, the third and last Baron Brittas, married Lady Honora O'Brien, daughter of the Earl of Inchiquin, and forfeited his title in 1691 by his adherence to James II. His eldest son, John Bourke, who was in the service of the French king, assumed the title of Lord Brittas; and after his death the son of Captain Bourke, who was, like his father, in the French army, also assumed the title of Brittas, and endeavoured to claim the title of Castleconnell (Burke or Burgh of Castleconnell), which had also become extinct in 1691. The courtesy title of Lord Brittas, therefore, long continued to be used in France, though no longer recognized in the peerage of Ireland.

EDWARD SOLLY.

HERMENTRUde.

THE ARMS OF COLONIAL AND MISSIONARY BISHOPRICS (6th S. iii. 241, 286, 467; iv. 310; v. 57).-MR. SAWYER thinks that my statement, that time gives "prescriptive authority" for the use of armorial bearings of this kind, though assumed without the authority of a direct grant from the Crown or from the College of Arms, is open to question. He will, then, confer a favour upon me, and I am sure he will interest many other readers, if he will kindly supply us with information as to when, and by whom, the present armorial bearings of all the English sees, excepting the modern creations of the present century, were granted. When he has shown that the use of these, or even of the majority of them, rests upon a definite grant from the Crown directly, or from the Crown through the medium of the College of Arms, or upon any authority but that ". scriptive right" which MR. SAWYER thinks is open to question, I shall be glad to defend my proposition upon other grounds. Meanwhile, he may like to know that I am about the last person in the world not to be fully cognizant of everything which the late Mr. Boutell printed upon heraldic matters.

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J. WOODWARD.

of having been "chuck'd down by the sheer might of a despot's will"; and in his Difficulties felt by Anglicans, lecture 2, § 9, speaking of the attitude of the English people to the Oxford movement, he says, "It would be little or nothing though the minister......chucked

Isleworth.

away

the consecrated wine." JAMES BRITTEN.

"DECK" OF CARDS (6th S. iv. 509).—In the United States, which have preserved many oldfashioned English words, "deck" is almost invariably used for a pack of cards; and much of what we call "slang is merely a survival of good old words which have a clear and definite meaning; 66 chuck," for instance, does not exactly mean "toss"-you may be tossed by a bull, but not "chucked" by him; and a boy would "chuck" a stone, not toss it. As for "label" being obsolete, what does the railway porter use but a luggage label? and postage stamps are " price 1d. per label." J. R. HAIG.

I think this word is not uncommon; in a club of Irish working men in which I am interested a pack of cards is always called a "deck."

Isleworth.

JAMES BRITTEN.

FISHING PROVERBS (6th S. iv. 467).- PELAGIUS will find something about fish symbolism in the Hexaemeron of St. Basil, hom. viii., and the Hexaemeron of St. Ambrose, hom. v.; in either case the work is in the first volume of the Benedictine editions. The Polyhistor Symbolicus of Nic. Caussin (Par., 1647) has for lib. viii., pp. 485-515, "Parabolarum Historicarum Liber Octavus: Pisces." In the Greek text of Æsop's Fables (Lips., Teub., 1852) there are six which refer to the aλceús, and five which refer to the

Seλpís. In W. B. Marriott's Testimony of the Catacombs (Lond., 1870) there is part iii. ch. ii. pp. 120-6, "The Symbolism of the Word IXOYZ" For direct proverbs, there are these five in Gaisford's Paramiographi Græci (Ox., 1836): ἁλιεύς πληγείς νοῦν οίσει, ἰχθὺν νήχεσθαι διδάσκεις, δελφίνα νήχεσθαι διδάσκεις, δελφίνα πρὸς τοὐραῖον δεῖς, and δελφῖν κολυμβᾶν συμBolevel. In the Adagia (Typ. Wechel., 1629), a collection from Erasmus and others, the index mentions twenty-one proverbs of fish and fishermen, and the text has references to similar Greek proverbs and various parallel passages.

Sandford St. Martin.

ED. MARSHALL.

THE ROUFFIGNAC FAMILY (6th S. v. 9). It happened that I had just been looking at Agnew's French Protestant Exiles, and, as the information W. S. L. S. wants was most likely to be found in it, referred to all the volumes. There is a long notice of the Vautier family, but no one of the name of Rouffignac occurs, and it may be that the name is Rousignac, as this, if spelt with two s's, and in the handwriting of the last century, might easily be mistaken for f. In a list of Naturalized Refugees, xxiv., March 11, 12 Will. III. (1700), at the head of the list is "Jacob de Rousignac, Peter and Guy sons." Agnew's Index Vol., p. 62. In the same volume, p. 216, is the name of Elizabeth, wife of Isaac Vautier; they come in the Romilly group of families, her father, David Garnault, being connected with them. In vol. ii. p. 262 is the longest and most complete notice of the Vautier family:

"The Vautier refugee embraced poverty in England rather than apostasy in France, and brought no pedigree papers with him. But he is the fountain of the tradition in England that he sprang from the French noblesse, and the French genealogical writers have a tradition that a cadet of the family, being a Huguenot, fled to England. The Vautiers in old France were a noble and influential family, Princes of Yvetot and Comtes du Bellay, from whom descended, in the reign of Henry IV., Gilles Vautier, ecuyer, Sieur de la Granderie; he was the grandfather of Gilles, Sieur des Essards; and his son, Jean Jacques Vautier, has been conjectured to be the father of Daniel Vautier, the refugee. Daniel, with his wife Margaret and a daughter Rachel, was naturalized on 21st March, 1688 (see List xv.)."

"Naturalization, 5th March, 1691, of Margaret and Mary des Essarts and John des Essarts (see List xix.). The refugee, Daniel Vautier, was relieved at the French Hospital, of which Daniel Vautier, said to be his son, became a director. There were two brothers, Daniel (the director) and Louis. Isaac and Daniel, two sons of Daniel (the former married in 1739 Madame D'Albiac), left no descendants; but the line was continued by Louis, whose eldest surviving son was Isaac. This was the Isaac Vautier (b. 1735, d. 1767) who married Elizabeth

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Jouffroy D'Eschavannes, in his Armorial Universel (Paris, 1848), blazons the coat of "Rouffignac en Limousin as "D'or au lion de gueules." This may put W. S. L. S. on a track for further information as to the Languedoc family of the name. NOMAD.

HOOK, OR HOOKE, FAMILY (6th S. iv. 469).— "7. James Hook, musician, born at Norwich, 1746," was no doubt the grandfather of the late Dean of Chichester, the famous Dr. Hook. In his life, by Stephens, it is said, "His paternal grandfather, Mr. James Hook, was a composer and teacher of music at Norwich."

ALFRED GATTY, D.D.

PROHIBITION OF MARRIAGE BETWEEN ENGLISH AND IRISH (6th S. iv. 488).-The following is an extract from a letter which, in reply to this query copied from "N. & Q.," appeared in the Northern Whig, Belfast; it is worth transferring to your columns :—

reign of Edward III., and under the Viceroyalty of that "The Act was the statute of Kilkenny, passed in the monarch's youngest son Lionel, I think, in the fortieth year of his reign. Under this Act men having Irish wives were to be half-hanged, cut down, shamefully mutilated, and—I can go no further." J. M. S.

[See further the Northern Whig for Dec. 24, 1881.] Mr. Froude, in his History of England (vol. ii. p. 130, new edition) refers his readers on this subject to the Statutes of Kilkenny, printed by the Irish Antiquarian Society. These statutes and were, with some exceptions, afterwards conwere passed in the fortieth year of Edward III., firmed by 10 Hen. VIII. c. 8. They are not, however, printed in the authorized edition of the Irish Statutes. I may add that Plowden, in his Historical Review of the State of Ireland (pp. 35, 36), says that :

"Nay there was a law made no longer since, than the 28 Hen. VIII., that the English should not marry with any son of Irish blood, though he had gotten a charter of denization, unless he had done both homage and fealty to the King in Chancery and were also bounden by recognizance in sureties to continue a loyal subject."

G. F. R. B.

CHARING, KENT (6th S. iv. 489).-I asked Mr. Robert Furley, of Ashford, if he could explain the traditionary theft, and this is what he has written to me on the subject, and also anent Charing :

"The distich you refer to I have before heard. Tradi

tion says the bell was stolen from Little Chart Church, but I believe it is not credited. If it had been taken from the adjoining parish of Egerton I should not have been surprised, as Egerton was a chapel annexed to Charing, and both held of St. Paul's, London. The loss of Charing bell may be accounted for by the fact that in 1590 the whole of Charing Church was consumed by fire, which originated from a gun fired at a pigeon sitting on the roof. It has now a regular and a good peal of bells, thanks to Bishop Tufnell (the present Vicar of Croydon), who acted as Curate of Charing three or four years ago.

"In the time of Richard II. tradition says that the block on which St. John the Baptist is said to have been beheaded was brought into England, and then kept in this church.

"The Archbishop of Canterbury had a seat here, which tradition also says once belonged to King John. "There is another tradition (sed 7.) that a famous cross stood on the top of the hill near Charing, which was carried to London, and set up at the end of the Strand!!"

I have given Mr. Furley's letter in extenso, thinking that the traditions he mentions may interest your antiquarian readers.

Ashford, Kent.

FREDK. RULE.

DR. WATTS'S "DIVINE SONGS" (6th S. iv. 468). -Both tradition and Johnson are, I think, at fault here. Many editions of the Divine Songs have passed through my hands, but I never saw the verse otherwise rendered than this:

"Let Dogs delight to bark and bite,
For God has made them so;
Let Bears and Lions growl and fight,
For 'tis their nature too.'

And as I extract from the tenth edition, 1729, my oldest, which must have come under the eye of the doctor, I presume it to be the correct version.

J. O. I cannot refer to an old edition of Watts's Divine Songs, but at my mother's knee, seventy years ago, I learned them by heart. From that day to this I never doubted that the author wrote and meant "For 'tis their nature too," repeating the idea of the second line, "For God has made them so." In London, in 1830, I first remember to have heard the elliptic infinitive, which is now so common, but which surely has never been adopted by any good writer.

Beccles.

S. W. Rix.

In an edition of this divine's Divine and Moral Songs, with plates by Stothard, published by Charles Tilt, 86, Fleet Street, London, in 1832, the last word in the first verse is "too" not "to." M.A. OXON.

Though I have not seen Dr. Watts's hymns since childhood, recollection enables me to say that I never saw a printed copy in which the too in this first verse was not properly spelt as an adverb also. No such abbreviation as that said to be traditional by MR. WARREN is used in

SPIDERS (6th S. iv. 506).—It was formerly a popular opinion that spiders are poisonous, and I have heard wild tales told in this neighbourhood of cattle being killed by eating them with their food. Robert Burton, in the Anatomy of Melancholy, says:

"Some are too partial, as friends to overween, others come with a prejudice to carp, vilifie, detract, and scoffe ......some as bees for honey, some as spiders to gather poyson."--Sixth ed., p. 10.

There is a tale told in the preface to Hearne's Langtoft's Chronicle, p. cc, of three persons being poisoned by the venom of a spider; two of them died and the third was so near death that he made St. Winefrede's Well. his will. He was eventually cured by water from EDWARD PEACOCK.

COFFEE FONTENELLE OR VOLTAIRE? (6th S. iv. 512).-It is more reasonable to give Fontenelle the credit of this bon mot than Voltaire. Voltaire died at the age of eighty-four, and Fontenelle lived to be nearly one hundred years old (b. Feb. 11, 1657, d. Jan. 9, 1757); of his cheerfulness at an advanced age this anecdote is related. In conversation one day a lady, a few years younger than Fontenelle, playfully remarked, "Monsieur, you and I stay here so long, methinks Death has forgotten us." ""Hush! speak in a whisper, madame," replied Fontenelle; tant mieux! don't remind him of us."

WILLIAM PLATT. Callis Court, St. Peter's, Isle of Thanet. In Meidinger's German Grammar the bon mot is attributed to Fontenelle. J. S.

THE PENNY POST ANTICIPATED (6th S. v. 46). -The very rare and curious tract to which MR. PLATT refers has often been noticed, but, so far as I know, the means by which John Hill proposed to carry out his object have not been explained. I have a transcript of this little book, and propose to reprint it, with some particulars respecting the postal charges in the seventeenth century. Sir Rowland Hill knew of the tract, as a transcript of it was sent to him by his friend the late Dr. E. W. Gray, F.R.S., Keeper of the Zoological Collections in the British Museum.

HENRY B. WHEATLEY.

MEMORIAL TABLET TO A RINGER (6th S. V. 26). This inscription is in Bromsgrove Churchnot Bradford. On the tablet the last line reads:"And ruthless death has brought the home." Of course an error of the painter's. W. A. C. Bromsgrove.

"ALL UPON THE MERRY PIN" (6th S. iv. 513). -As Cowper, in John Gilpin, uses this expression, it was probably then familiar:

"The Calender right glad to see
His friend in merry pin."

Cumberland.

M. P.

POLL BOOKS (6th S. iv. 208, 433, 477, 524).Besides an almost complete set of poll books for the borough of Ipswich during this century, I have those for 1768, 1784, and 1790. I possess, also, a very old copy of the poll book for Suffolk, viz., of the election in May, 1705, during the shrievalty of Thomas Kerrage, when the candidates were the Right Hon. Lyonel, Earl of Dysart, and Sir Robert Davers, Bart., and Sir Dudley Cullum and Sir Samuel Barnardiston, Barts.; and another of the contest in 1790, when three baronets, Sir John Rous, Sir Thomas Charles Bunbury, and Sir Gerard William Vanneck stood. This latter contains a list of knights of the shire from 26 Edward I., 1297, to 12 Edward IV., 1471, and is continued from 33 Henry VIII., 1542, to 30 George III., 1790, with a concise view of the contested elections for Suffolk since the year 1702:

Ipswich.

T. R. ELKINGTON.

The earliest Nottinghamshire poll book in the library of local literature in the Nottingham

Free Public Reference Library is one for a parliamentary election in April, 1722. Our earliest Nottingham Common Council poll book bears the date 1747, and that for a Nottingham parliamentary election, 1754. J. POTTER BRISCOE. Nottingham.

"" COME ACROSS " (6th S. iv. 328, 394, 455).Perhaps the readers of "N. & Q." will be satisfied as to the propriety of this expression when they know that it has the authority of the original editor of this periodical. In his interesting and amusing "Gossip of an Old Bookworm," the fourth article in the Nineteenth Century for July, 1881, p. 71, MR. THOмs uses the phrase in a passage where neither "encounter" nor "meet with" would have suited his purpose. Having mislaid his copy of the Colloquies of Erasmus when he wanted to refer to it (probably with respect to some query or reply), he started off to Holywell Street, trusting to find one for certain at some of the booksellers' there :

"But neither from Poole nor any other of his brother booksellers there, nor from Bamstead, nor Baldock in Holborn, nor anywhere could I get a copy of this comparatively common book, and I returned home re infectâ. When I afterwards came across my own copy, my interest in the point had vanished."

W. E. BUCKLEY.

THE NAME "HOWARD" (6th S. iv. 206, 277).— In the registers of St. Paul's parish in this town is a very decided proof of PROF. SKEAT'S suggestion that the name "Howard" may come from hayward. I have lately been going carefully through these registers, and find the name, evidently belonging to the same family, as Heyward, Hayward, Hogward, Heward, becoming by degrees Howard, which appears to have assumed its present distinctive form about 1690, and from that time to have retained it. The following entries from the registers will, I think, prove this. On Dec. 27, 1677, I find that a William Hayward married An[ne] Parridine; on July 6, 1687, I find baptized Edward, son of William Hayward; and on Jan. 1, 1689-90, I find baptized William, son of William Howard. It will be said, What does this prove? and the answer would be, Nothing, if it were not for what follows. The William Howard baptized 1689-90 married a Mary Richardson, and amongst other children he has a daughter, baptized on Aug. 24, 1718, by the names of Anne Paradine, his wife. Paradine or Parridine was the name of daughter of William Howard, butcher, and Mary a family of some consequence in these parts in those days, and this William Howard showed his appreciation of the connexion by naming one of his daughters after his mother in full. From these registers I attempted to draw up a pedigree of the Howard family, locally connected with this town, which is to be seen in my Guide to Bedford and its Neighbourhood, kindly