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(Germanum adman of very low birth" modum ignobilem), nor does he in this place suggest any diabolic prompting. In lib. iii. xviii. it is true he says that he scarcely can believe it to be a human invention, but that some demon must have revealed it to mankind, so that they might fight each other not only with arms, but with thunderbolts. Still, though some of Camden's language is traceable to this volume, I am inclined to think he borrowed much of his chapter from One writeth," he says, a later writer.

"I know not upon whose credit, that Roger Bacon, commonly called Frier Bacon, knew to make an engine, which with Saltpeter and Brimstone should prove notable for batterie, but he tendring the safety of mankind would not discover it."

In the margin the name of "Sir I. Harrington" is given as authority, and I take it that the other quotation, in which the oracle is found, is also from his pen. Can any one furnish us with an account of "the Harrington MS."?

JOHN T. CURRY.

CRUCIFIX AT THE NORTH DOOR OF OLD ST. PAUL'S.-In Old St. Paul's one of the objects most reverenced was the crucifix Canon near to the Great North Door. Sparrow Simpson gave some notes about it in Documents illustrating the History of St. Paul's Cathedral,' Camden Soc., N.S., xxvi. p. lxvii. The following proofs of its widespread fame would have delighted him. In 1372 Robert de Austhorpe, clerk, rector of St. John's, "Staneford," in the diocese of Lincoln, desired "to be buried in St. Paul's Church, London, before the cross and image of the crucifix at the North Door" (Gibbons, 'Early Lincoln Wills,' 1888, p. 26).

In 1472 William Ecopp, rector of Heslerton, East Yorkshire, desired that immediately after his burial a pilgrim should go for him "Crucifixo apud hostium boriale Sancti Pauli London." (Test. Ebor.,' iii. 200).

In 1498 Lady Scrope left "to the roode of Northdor my herte of goolde wt a dyamaunt in the midds" ("Test. Ebor.,' iv. 153). It seems to have been so well known that it was unnecessary to add the place.

W. C. B.

CHICAGO IN 1853.-Truly, history often repeats itself, if occasionally it does not present "a continuous performance." Those familiar with the Chicago of to-day will be amused by the following quotation from a little book entitled 'Sketches of the Country,' &c., by John Reynolds, 144, Belleville, Illinois,

1854 :

"Great excitement and enthusiasm prevail in this city to acquire fortunes and fame, induce the citizens to exert all their physical and mental

energies and abilities in such a manner that every latent spark of mind and activity is brought into citizen has an institution of learning before him, active operation. Under these considerations, every and if he do not become a scholar in it, he must take a back seat, at least in the forum of wealth and business.

"By these exciting circumstances, the citizens of that cannot be surpassed. They scarcely take time Chicago have acquired talents and energy in business: to eat or sleep, and their gait in the street is generally much faster than a common walk. Almost every citizen of Chicago has the acquisition of a fortune strongly governing his mind, and he has either obtained it, or is in hot pursuit of it."

One is almost persuaded to believe that nothing is impossible, for, given a sufficient expenditure of energy well guided, results can be accomplished; nevertheless, haste EUGENE F. McPIKE. sometimes is transformed into hurry.

Chicago, U.S.

A RELIC OF CHATEAUBRIAND. - Le Petit Temps of 2 February contained some interesting particulars of a curious donation made by an octogenarian hairdresser, M. Paques, the other day to the Musée Carnavalet, Paris, who was in some sort a celebrity for having had amongst his clientèle several prominent personages of the Restoration. The gift in question is a kind of picture representing the author of 'Atala' and 'The Martyrs. the room at Saint-Malo in which was born The aged artist in hair wished to have the satisfaction before his death of giving to the Parisians what would, under the old régime, have been called his masterpiece. Not less interesting than the picture itself are the authenticating documents which Amongst them is a letter accompany it. from the famous caricaturist Cham (Vicomte de Noë), running thus:

"Will you call and cut my hair on Monday evening, at eight o'clock? I have examined your pictures [sic] made with the hair of M. de Chateaubriand. It is very curious and especially ingenious; for a curiosity lover it has its value. Receive my salutations. CHAM."

There are also a certificate of Louiset, valet de chambre of the celebrated writer, and a letter from the popular poet Béranger, delicately worded, but very explicit, bearing date 15 October, 1848:

MY DEAR MONSIEUR PAQUES,—It is not quite fitting that I give you the attestation you ask of me. a sincere admiration for the great man we have That which I can do is to attest that you had such lost that it would be contrary to your probity to present as coming from him objects that had not belonged to his establishment. Besides, the certificate which good and honest Louiset, so devoted to his master, has given to you, is the best guarantee you can offer. I am still very grateful to you for

the hair of the illustrious departed which you gave me. Receive anew my thanks. Entirely at your service, BÉRANGER."

Lastly, M. Paques has added an unpublished letter which he had in his possession, and which, although it does not bear the name of the person to whom it was written, appears to have been addressed by Chateaubriand to some official personage in a position to grant his request. It is dated 3 September, 1828, and shows how anxious was the writer to rest after death at Saint-Malo :

"You cannot doubt, Monsieur, of the very lively interest I take in my native town: I have only one fear, that is of not seeing it again before I die. I have long thought of asking the town to grant me, at the western point of Grand-Bey, the point jutting out farthest into the open sea, a little corner of earth, just sufficient to hold my coffin. I shall have it consecrated and surrounded by an iron railing. There, when it may please God, I shall repose under the protection of my fellow-citizens. Accept once more, I beg you, the assurance of the very distinguished consideration with which I have the honour to be your very humble and very obedient servant, CHATEAUBRIAND."

J. L. HEELIS.

TENNYSON ON BRITAIN.
stanzas To the Marquis of Dufferin and
Tennyson's fine
Ava' open thus:-

At times our Britain cannot rest,

At times her steps are quick and rash
She moving, at her girdle clash
The golden keys of East and West.

;

Nicholas journeys down to Yorkshire in the dead of winter. Snow is deep on the ground. pupils is absent from "the first class in Yet on the day after his arrival one of the English spelling and philosophy," and it is explained that he is weeding the garden. This in deep snow!

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where Dickens got the name Capt. Cuttle
I wonder if any of your readers know
from. This matter should be of interest to
every reader of N. & Q.' It is taken from
also 10 and 14 Sept., 1665). Pepys's phrase
Pepys's Diary' (see under 8 Feb., 1660/1, and
Dickens some odd or grotesque character.
'poor Capt. Cuttle" probably suggested to
In a speech at the Theatre Royal, Drury
Lane, on 27 June, 1855, he speaks of Pepys's
'Diary' being "rather a favourite of his."
Perhaps he had read it carefully to provide
picturesque details for his 'Child's History
of England' (1853).
J. WILLCOCK.
Lerwick, N.B.

SKELLAT BELL: MORT BELL. (See 9th S. vi. 306.) In the Reliquary for October, 1903, it is mentioned that Dougal Graham, the foreeighteenth century, was given the appointmost among the chapmen of the end of the ment of skellat - bell ringer to the city of Glasgow; and the explanation is borrowed from Prof. Fraser's Humorous Chapbooks of Scotland' that the "skellat bell" was used I observe that Mr. B. B. Rogers, in his recent crier, and the "mort bell" for intimation of for ordinary announcements by the town edition of the Thesmophoriazusæ,' says (note on 1. 976) that the third and fourth deaths. The latter, by the way, is reprelines, though first printed by Tennyson in sented in the South Tawton parish accounts 1889, had long been familiar to him, inasmuch by the "leche bell.” as they first appeared-without the author's name so far back as 1844, in the introductory chapter of H. Lushington's A Great Country's Little Wars.' I do not recollect having seen this fact previously noted.

Marlow, Bucks.

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E. H. BLAKENEY.

FEBRUARY 30.-In the 'Parish Registers of Kirkburton, co. York,' edited by Frances Anne Collins, 1887, i. 11, there is an entry of xxx die mensis February, 1545/6," to which the editor adds a note, taken from the Leeds Mercury Supplement, 26 June, 1880, that "Monday, 30 February, is duly recognized in the 'Nautical Almanac' for 1880."

W. C. B. "NICHOLAS NICKLEBY': CAPT. CUTTLE.A correspondent points out (ante, p. 44) in 'Martin Chuzzlewit' a slip of the author's in describing clerical costume. A still more singular slip occurs in Nicholas Nickleby,' which I have never seen noticed anywhere.

ETHEL LEGA-WEEKES.

- In the

OUR OLDEST PUBLIC SCHOOL.
Surrey Comet of 13 February is reported a
speech by Mr. A. F. Leach, Assistant Secre-
tary of the Board of Education, delivered
in support of the appeal which is being made
for funds for Queen Elizabeth's School at
Kingston-on-Thames. Therein he read a
document which he had found in the book

of the Prior of Canterbury, and which
of Winchester (who preceded William of
was written at Esher by Bishop Edyngdon
Wykeham) to the Prior of Canterbury, on
7 April, 1364. Bishop Edyngdon's letter
mentions that at that early date "a school
had been accustomed to be kept" at Kings-
the first use of that term of which Mr. Leach
ton, and he refers to it as 66
a public school,"
was aware. The usual title was grammar
school, or school of a cathedral or town.
Winchester College, generally regarded as
the oldest of our public schools, was not
founded until twenty years after the date

of this letter. Advertisements of the King's
School, Canterbury, assert that it is "the
oldest Public School in England, dating from
the 7th Century; refounded by Henry VIII.
in 1541."
G. T.
Edenholm, Thames Ditton.

'THE TRUE METHODIST; OR, CHRISTIAN IN
EARNEST.' (See 8th S. iii. 148.)-It is now
about eleven years since my query was
inserted at the above reference without
eliciting any reply. Being, however, at
length enabled to myself supply the required
information as to the authorship, I think it
well to communicate the same to 'N. & Q.'
"The True Methodist' appears to be one of the
"lost" works of the Rev. William Warburton
(afterwards Bishop of Gloucester, and friend
of the poet Pope). It was written from the
Established Church point of view as to the
character and belief of a true Methodist, in
opposition to the Methodism of the Wesley
and Whitefield type; and the MS. in question
was apparently revised for the press, 6 July,
1755, "after," as the author states therein,
"reading of [the Rev.] Mr. Hervey's Dia-
logues on Theron and Aspasio,' wch savours
strongly of Methodism," but was
printed. The MS. memorandum which is
inserted in the volume, and was, I believe,
made (possibly c. 1829) by the late Rev. W.
Valentine, M. A., incumbent of St. Stephen's,
Stepney, Chaplain and House-Governor of
the London Hospital, but possibly copied
from Hurd, is as follows:-

"Other Tracts in MS.

8. Notes on the Prophet Isaiah, &c.

never

9. Notes on the New Testamt-Epistle to the Romans not finished.

10. On the Creed, or Credenda of Religion. 11. Proofs of Xts Divinity from the four Evangelists.

12. The True Methodist.

13. Letters on various Questions in Divinity. 14. Reflections and Collections on the Subject of taking Oaths to Government.

"Of The True Methodist' we may form some opinion, both of the style and matter, by some letters addressed to Mr. Broughton [probably the Rev. Mr. Broughton, of Great St. Helen's, Bishopsgate, London, Afternoon Lecturer, who befriended the Rev. Geo. Whitefield in January, 1739], a transcript of which I have already committed to the inspection of the public. The composition alluded to in the schedule of tracts in MS. No. 12 [i.e., The True Methodist') is not, I believe, in existence. Not any other of these papers have fallen into my hands, neither has it been communicated to me with any degree of certainty in whose possession they now are. In all probability the greater part of them are either inadvertently lost or carelessly destroyed."

A MS. letter in a similar hand, of about 29 small quarto pages, dated 6 December,

1737, from "W. W." (W. Warburton) to "Mr Whitfield " (the celebrated Geo. Whitefield), dissenting from the latter's sermons and notions concerning Regeneration and the New Birth, is also in my possession.

Whether Mr. Valentine (as above) possessed these two MSS. I am not certain; but I believe they came to me, with others certainly his, from a London book-auction in or about 1878. His library was, however sold by auction by Evans in April, 1842. Possibly that of 1878 was of his son's books W. I. R. V. and MSS.

Queries.

WE must request correspondents desiring information on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that the answers may be addressed to them direct.

"THE CROWN AND THREE SUGAR LOAVES." -From America I have been asked for some information which I have failed to obtain hitherto, and seek the aid of your valuable paper.

My correspondent inquires as to the position of a tea house with the sign of "The Crown and Three Sugar Loaves," and speaks of it as "the oldest tea house in Great Britain, and the one that exported the tea that made so much commotion in Boston Harbour"-presumably in 1773. My interroacross the Thames from gator speaks of Newcomen Street" as the nearest indication of locality known.

1. Are the above statements accurate as far as they go?

2. If so, what is, or was, the site occupied by the tea house in question?

3. Is the old sign of "The Crown and Three Sugar Loaves" still to be seen, and where?

4. If the house has been destroyed, when did such destruction take place? HIO.

"HE WHO KNOWS NOT," &c.-In a letter to the Times of 5 January appeared the following lines. Can any reader give me the author's name?—

He who knows not, and knows not that he knows
not, is a fool; shun him.
He who knows not, and knows that he knows not,
is asleep; wake him, teach him.
He who knows, and knows that he knows, is a wise
man; seek him.
C. E. LEEDS.

ELEANOR MAPLETOFT. Can any reader
to the ancestors of
give information as
Eleanor Mapletoft, married about 1780 to

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS.-Who are the once. On my offering to handle it, I was authors of the following lines ?—

4. Tot congestos noctesque diesque labores tran-I quote the exact words. Is this a general

ARMS OF LINCOLN, CITY AND SEE. - What is the date of the grant of arms to the city of Lincoln and to the see of Lincoln? Any information concerning the armorial bear12. Yet, Freedom! Yet thy banner, torn, but flying, ings of Lincoln will be cordially welcomed.

10th S. 1. FEB. 27, 1904.]

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or excessive fatigue will be extremely grateful. Egerton-Warburton. That on the Chetham There are several Canalettos in the Hertford Society was probably intended to appear in Collection. I formed a very poor opinion of the next number of the Palatine Notebook, them when I viewed them soon after the seeing that Mr. Bailey's letter was written to exhibition was thrown open to the public. inform me inter alia that the last number of I was not then aware that Ruskin had pro- the Palatine Notebook-viz., No. 49, vol. v., May, 1885- was the last which had been M. L. R. BRESLAR. nounced against them. published, but that he was "hoping to resume it in March." I believe that no number ever followed the one number of vol. v. Have the epigrams alluded to appeared in print?

Percy House, South Hackney.

"CHEVINIER.”—A lady whose father, uncle, and husband were clergymen, making her will in 1848, bequeaths "a pair of salt-spoons, the japanned chevinier, and a pair of silver a painted sugar-tongs" to one person, and " chevinier" to another. What was the thing?

[A chiffonier?]

W. C. B.

GUIDE TO MANOR ROLLS.-I have recently to Elizabeth. Many of the formulas relating copied a series of Manor Rolls from Henry VI. to such common matters as damage by cattle, strays, &c., puzzle me sadly. These rolls are more abbreviated than any documents I have ever seen, and many of the gaps-sometimes indicated by "&c.," and more often not-I am unable to fill. In several instances the Selden Society's 'Select Pleas' has helped me. Will any reader of 'N. & Q' refer me to any work on the subject? I have been hoping for aid from Prof. Vinogradoff's 'The English Manor,' in the "Social England" Series, but that seems long in coming.

YGREC.

[Try Miss Thoyts's 'How to Decipher Old Documents.']

REGICIDES OF CHARLES I.-A letter written by Miss Sidney Lyon, of Jeffersonville, Indiana, 20 March, 1902, mentions a tradition, as coming from two sources unknown to each other, of

"three Lyon brothers who were on guard at the scaffold before the Banqueting House at Whitehall the day Charles I. was executed, Jan. 31, 1649. After the regicide, they fled from England and settled in Connecticut. Richard and Thomas, of Fairfield, and John, of Bryan Point, were doubtless

those three brothers."

Are there any records tending to substantiate
EUGENE F. MCPIKE.
the above?
Chicago, U.S.

EGERTON WARBURTON.-I have a letter from the late Mr. J. E. Bailey, editor of the Palatine Notebook, dated Stretford, 1 February, 1886, in which is the following:

"Mr. Egerton - Warburton has written at my suggestion a good epigram on the Chetham Society which will come under your notice soon. He also sent me one which you perhaps know on the name Primrose' for the League, and the bait which has eluded Hodge's grip-the Cow-slip."

It may be that Mr. Bailey meant that the second epigram had been written by Mr.

The Mr. Warburton referred to was no doubt the late Mr. R. E. Egerton-Warburton, author of 'Hunting Songs and Ballads,' &c.

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

ANCIENT BRITONS.-Can you inform me where to find a short article or work tions, religion, customs, agriculture, tools, R. BLAKER. and weapons? describing the British tribes, their habita

Wallands, Lewes, Sussex.

[Grant Allen's 'Anglo-Saxon Britain' (S.P.C.K., 2s. 6d.) or Prof. A. J. Church's Early Britain (Fisher Unwin, 5s.) will probably supply the information you desire.]

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"BELLAMY'S."-In the Houses of Legislature in New Zealand and some of the Australian States the parliamentary refreshBellamy's," ment department is called after the historic Bellamy who in old days supplied food to members of the House of Commons. Various references arrangement appear both in our literature and political memoirs; but has any attempt ever been made to collect them and write a POLITICIAN. history of this once famous establishment?

to that

"OVAH" "BUBBLES.-In an obituary notice of Eugène Vivier, a noted horn-player-a special favourite of Napoleon III., afterwards popular in London society (he settled "Ovah" in London in 1848) as a confirmed, though good-natured practical joker-mention is made of his penchant for blowing bubbles. Can any reader give information G. W. LANGley. as to what this "Övah" is?

IMMORTALITY OF ANIMALS.—I have heard it affirmed that Martin Luther said he believed the souls of the lower animals to be immortal. Is there any contemporary authority for this statement?

ASTARTE.

JAMAICA NEWSPAPER.-Can any one give me information as to a weekly newspaper one of the West Indian started in the early years of the last century in Jamaica or islands by a certain William Dale? (Rev.) T. C. Dale.

115, London Road, Croydon.