'WORKE FOR CUTLERS.'-' Worke for Cutlers; or, a Merry Dialogue betweene Sword, Rapier, and Dagger,' first acted "in Shew in the famous Vniuersitie of Cambridge," and reacted on 23 July, 1903, at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, is being given once more at the Hall of Gray's Inn on the 7th inst. Is there any programme of the performance of this or any similar work in Cambridge or else where? A. FORBES SIEVEKING, F.S.A. EARLIEST PLAYBILL.-Can any one tell me if there is an earlier playbill (or announcement of any form of show) in existence than that of 1708-the date of the earliest playbill at the British Museum? I want one to serve as a model for the programme of the reproduction of a play of 1615. A. FORBES SIEVEKING, F.S.A. SIR JOHN VAUGHAN, KNT., P.C., went to Ireland and had lands granted to him A.D. 1600. Was Governor of Londonderry A.D. 1601-43. His only daughter married the Hon. Sir Frederick Hamilton, son of Lord Paisley by the Hon. Margaret Seton. Can anybody tell me his origin and the names of his father, mother, and wife? H. S. VADE-WALPOLE. 101, Lexham Gardens, Kensington, W. OBIIT SUNDAY.-I cull the following from the Daily Mail of 5 October, 1903: "The quaint and ancient ceremony ordered to be observed upon the occasion of Obiit Sunday by Henry VII., Edward VI., Queen Elizabeth, and Charles II. at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, took place at the morning service yesterday. The clergy, military knights, and choir walked in procession through the nave, and entered the choir by the beautifully carved folding doors underneath the organ gallery. Bishop Barry delivered an interesting statement as to the royal founders and other benefactors. The Dean of Windsor also preached a special sermon. Further information respecting the origin of this ceremony, of which I can find no account in N. & Q.,' will be thankfully received. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road. CHAUCER'S TOMB IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. -On the authority of the inscription on this tomb, and of Stow's 'Survey,' Pits, and Ant. Wood, we have always given the credit of its erection or restoration to Nicholas Brigham; but a contemporary of his, writing late in Queen Elizabeth's reign, the Rev. Robert Commaunder (died 1613), says that one "Hickeman, auditor," wrote the Latin epitaph on the tomb, and got the "tumulus" decorated and repainted. See the Egerton MS. 2642, cf. 213. Can any one tell me who this Hickeman was? None of the Hickmans in the series of Domestic State Papers and Privy Council Records or in Hennessy seems to fit him. In one point Commaunder's text of the epitaph is better than Brigham's, as given by Skeat, 'Chaucer's Works,' i. xlvii, for 1400 is clearly the date mortis of the poet, and not his vita. Commaunder has also the two Latin lines by Surigonius of Milan :— "Carmina Epitaphica magistri Hickeman, Auditoris, composita Anno domini 1556, in_ Laudem Galfridi Chaucer, que denuo super ipsius Tumulum renovari fecit et Inscribi in Monasterio westmonasteriensi, et ipsum Tumulum suis Expensis decorari et repingi procuravit. Qui fuit Anglorum Vates ter maximus olim, Galfridus Chaucer, Vates et Fama Poesis Maternæ, hac sacra sum tumulatus Humo." N. Brigham was a "teller" of the Exchequer, which would be an auditor," I suppose. This helps us to believe that he did not wrongfully take the credit of Hickman's verses and pious act. F. J. FURNIVALL. [See the articles in the Athenæum of 9 and 30 August and 25 October, 1902.] STATUE BY JOHN OF BOLOGNA.-I have a pocket-book of 1704 which has notes in it in the handwriting of Dr. Harbin. Among them is the following: house was made by John de Bologna, a sculptor of "The Cain & Abel on y° staircase at Buckingham the 2nd class. It formerly belonged to the old Duke of Buckingham & was bought by the present Duke some years ago for 500/. It is worth 1,000l. as Cavalier David has assured me." Where is this statue now? E. M. "COLLECTIONER." In some of the old parish registers in East Anglia one sometimes meets with the foregoing term, and our best dictionaries throw no light on it. It occurs generally in the portion allotted to deaths, after some aged person's name. Am I correct in assuming the deceased derived benefit from the church collection? or does it refer to one we should now term a sidesman-one who assists in taking the collection? WM. JAGGARD. MARY STUART. I should be greatly obliged if any of your readers could give me information about the bust of Mary Stuart which is now in the Louvre. Is it, for instance, supposed to be authentic? and by whom was it executed? Another thing which has puzzled a good many is, When was the cap with wired lace edging adopted as part of her costume? and readers give me any particulars about the did she wear it in Scotland? One more personages named? There was an Ali Adil, question, On what authority is it said that I know, who succeeded his uncle Nadir as she was painted by Peter Pourbus? Are Shah of Persia in 1747; but would he be any examples of her portrait by this artist referred to as "the Lesser" and if not, who known to exist in this country? was the man whose portrait I have? I should H. H. CRAWLEY. greatly value any information whatever about Stowe-nine-Churches Rectory, Weedon. him and about the queens. R. M. L. "HEARDLOME": “HEECH.”—A Court Roll of an Oxfordshire manor, dated in 1604, contains the following regulation or order : "Item. Yt ys ordered in lyke manner that no man within the Mannor shall putt or suffer to goe into any parte of the feylde any calfes untill Lammas, and then there the calfes to be kept with the heard amonge the heardlome of bease until harvest be in, upon penaltie to forfeyt to the lord for every one which shall herein offend for every default, vjd." Can any reader of N. & Q.' kindly explain the meaning of "heardlome of bease"? PICTURE OF KNIGHT IN ARMOUR.-At the "Duke's Head Hotel," Ham Street, Kent, I mentioned as a suffragan see in the Act of W. S. LACH-SZYRMA. Barkingside Vicarage. See 9th S. xi. 328, 411, 471 ; xii. 75.] QUEEN HELENA.-Has any Queen Helen entered London since the age of the Empress Helena (mother of Constantine the Great, who probably was here) until Helena, Queen of Italy, passed in state to the Guildhall in 1903 It is said the Empress Helena was also a Dalmatian (in spite of the British legend of her being daughter of King Coel of for Queen Helena is a Montanigrene, born Colchester). If so, the coincidence is singular, near Dalmatia. W. S. LACH-SZYRMA. SETTING OF PRECIOUS STONES. In Ben Jonson's The Devil is an Ass,' acted first, I think, in 1616, the goldsmith, Gilthead, speaking of a precious stone, says, "He's set without a foil too." Jewels set, as it is called, à jour (that is, without a back or foil) were not, I believe, common before the end of the eighteenth century; but I should be glad to be enlightened on the subject by any of the readers of N. & Q.' who are learned in the BURGHCLERE. matter. HENRY FREDERICK AND WALTER LOCKHART JAPANESE CARDS.-In which of the inHOLT.-The former gentleman appears to have possessed a considerable collection of described the various kinds of Japanese playnumerable works on Japan can I find relics of Gustavus Adolphus and kindred ing cards? I have a pack of forty-eight matters. He died at King's Road, Clapham cards, which, I understand, consists of twelve Park, on 15 April, 1871. He apparently had suits (four cards each) representing the a brother Walter Lockhart Holt. Is any-months of the year. They appear to bear thing known of the latter? T. CANN HUGHES, M.A., F.S.A. PERSIAN PAINTINGS.-I have lately come into possession of two Persian paintings, the one representing the portrait of a man, the other of two women. There is an inscription above each picture, which has been translated to me as follows-over the man, "Ali Adil Shah, the Lesser"; over the two women, "Queens Bonti Haroun." Can any of your the following emblems: (1) pines and a stork, (2) plum-blossom and some bird, (3) cherryblossom and a curtain, (4) wistaria and a cuckoo, (5) flags, (6) peonies and a butterfly, (7) clover and a boar, (8) eularia, geese, the moon, (9) chrysanthemum and a cup, (10) maple-leaves and a deer, (11) rain, a swallow, a willow, a frog, a man with an umbrella, (12) paullownia and the phoenix. JAMES PLATT, Jun. Replies. GRENADIER GUARDS. WITH the exception of the recently raised regiment of Irish Guards, there is hardly a regiment in the British service which owes its present designation to the date of its inception, therefore there is nothing extraordinary in the fact of the Grenadier Guards receiving such a title from the Regent on 29 July, 1815, as a reward for their defeat of the Grenadiers of the French Imperial Guards at Waterloo. The present Grenadier Guards take precedence in our army, as a regiment, since 1660, when a standing force was originated after the Restoration, and has remained under the same constitution ever since. Charles II, in consequence of the "Fifth Monarchy" outbreak, issued an order for a new regiment to be raised (all the Cromwellian troops having been disbanded by Act of Parliament), which consisted of twelve companies of 100 men each, and was designated the King's Regiment of Foot Guards," the king himself being its first colonel. It was subsequently known as the 1st Foot Guards until 1815, when it received, as already stated, its title of 1st or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards, now shortened to Grenadier Guards. As a matter of fact, Charles had raised a regiment in Flanders in 1656, known as the Royal Regiment of Guards, under the colonelcy of Lord Wentworth. Although this regiment was disbanded through inability to maintain it, most of those who had served were enrolled in another regiment raised and commanded by Col. John Russell, which eventually became absorbed into the King's Regiment of Foot Guards. The grenade, as a weapon of war, was invented at Granada in 1594, and the soldiers who carried and threw these missiles were termed grenadiers. They were not intro duced into our army until 1677, when a number of picked men in each regiment were so armed, and termed the 1st or Grenadier Company, The Guards and all other regiments had such companies, and later on, in 1693, the Horse Grenadier Guards were raised. From Evelyn's Diary,' under date 29 June, 1678, I extract the following: "Now were brought into service a new sort of soldiers, called grenadiers, who were dexterous in flinging hand-grenades, every one having a pouchful. They had furred caps with coped crowns like janissaries, which made them look very fierce; and some had long hoods hanging down behind, as we picture Pols, their clothing likewise piebald-red and yellow." In Sandford's 'History of the Coronation of James II.' the costume of a grenadier is described, showing that he wore the conical cap, and that, in addition to a carbine and cartouch-box, he carried a grenade pouch, a sword, a hammer, and a hatchet. There is a plate in the Archæological Journal showing a grenadier preparing to throw the grenade. The plate depicts a soldier of 1745, and as the grenade is held in the hand, it would seem that, after all, the manual projection of the missile was found as reliable as the mortar, and it was doubt. less more convenient. The soldier holds the grenade as though he were about to throw an overhand ball at cricket. Although hand grenades were long ago abolished from the army, great use was made of them during the siege of Mafeking. Whilst on the subject of the Guards, it is as well to note that although the Coldstreams come next in seniority to the Grenadiers, their origin is actually older than that of the latter regiment, for whilst in the act of being disbanded under Monk, they were brought into the army establishment as the Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards. The following anecdote shows why they retained their name of Coldstream. After the Restoration the three regiments of Guards were assembled on Tower Hill to take the oath of allegiance, and as a sign of repudiation of the Commonwealth they were ordered to lay down their arms. Having obeyed this order with alacrity, they were then commanded by the king to take them up in his service as the first, second, and third regiments of Foot Guards. The first and third did so, with cheers, but the second stood firm. "Why does your regiment hesitate?" inquired the king of General Monk. "May it please your Majesty," said the stern old soldier, saluting, "the Coldstreams are your Majesty's devoted servants, but after the services they have rendered your Highness, they cannot consent to be second to any regiment." They are right," said the king, "and they shall be second to none. Let them take up arms as my Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards." These words had a magical effect; the arms were raised amid frantic cries of "Long live the king!" Since that time the motto of the regiment has been "Nulli secundus." 66 The Scots Guards, so named, were formed in Scotland under the command of the Earl of Linlithgow in 1662, and consisted of only five companies. In 1713 they were known as the 3rd Regiment of Foot Guards. In 1831 the regiment was designated the Scots Fusilier Guards; and it was only a short time previous to the death of Queen Victoria that she restored to them their original name of Scots Guards. THORNE GEORGE. as British Grenadiers date from 1677, first as a few specially trained men, and immediately afterwards as a whole company, in each regiment. Evelyn mentions having seen some of them at the camp at Hounslow in 1678. A regimental drinking song of some dozen stanzas, dated 1681, commemorates the heroic deeds of the Grenadier Company of the First Royals "the brave Granadeers," "the brave Scottish boys." Chappell, in his 'National Airs,' says that the march known as The British Grenadiers' is two hundred years old. A very rare book is 'The Grenadier's Exercise of the Grenado in H.M. First Regiment of Foot Guards,' 1745. W. S. It would be easy to infer from MR. NORTH'S remarks that the name of " grenadier applied to those soldiers of the line who practised the use of the hand-grenade was unknown until 1815. Before this, however, it was generally customary for every battalion of foot to possess a company of Grenadiers, who were first known in the British service in 1685, and first instituted in France in 1667, where four or five only were allotted to each company. (See Ch. James's Military Dict.,' 1816.) In the Weekly Journal of 29 January, 1722, is the announcement that "the Grenadiers of the Army in Hide-Park are before their decamping to perform an Exercise of throwing Hand-Grenadoes, &c., before his Majesty." There were two troops of Horse Grenadier Guards in England, the first being raised in 1693, and the command given to Lieut.-General Cholmondeley; and the second in 1701, commanded by Lord Forbes. Horse Grenadiers were first established in France by Louis XIV. in 1676, and formed into squadrons. "Wednesday the several Troops of Horse and Horse-Grenadier Guards, incamp'd in Hyde Park, were muster'd."-Weekly Journal, 25 Aug., 1722. "We hear that on Friday last, about twenty Gentlemen of the Second Troop of Horse Grenadiers, have been discharg'd on Account of their Age, or being under Size, or some such Reasons, and not for disaffection to the Government, or Misdemeanors; and that a certain Sum of Money was order'd for each of them as a Compensation; however one of those Gentlemen shot himself that evening."-Ibid., 22 Oct., 1723. J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL. MUNDY (9th S. xii. 485).-Sir John Mundy, goldsmith, of London, was Lord Mayor in the years 1522-3. He is stated to have been a son of Sir John Mundy, Knt., by his wife Isabel, daughter of John Ripes, Alderman; but pedigrees and historians alike differ with regard to his parentage. He married firstly a wife Margaret, who was buried in St. Peter's, Cheapside, and by whom he had one daughter, Margaret, who married Nicholas Jennyngs in 1526, and afterwards became the wife of Lord Edmund Howard, Marshal of Horse in the battle of Flodden, a son of Thomas, second Duke of Norfolk, and father (by his wife Joyce, daughter of Richard Colepepper) of Queen Catharine Howard. Sir John Mundy married secondly, before 1514, Julyan, daughter of Sir William Browne, Lord Mayor 1513-14, by his first wife Katherine, daughter of Sir Edmund Shaw, Lord Mayor 1482-3, and by this marriage he had several children. Having been knighted at Whitehall in 1529, Sir John Mundy died in 1537, and his will (proved P.C.C. in the same year) contains many genealogical data. Init he mentions his children Vincent, John, Nicholas, William, Mildred, Anne, Elizabeth, and Margeret Hawarde" his daughter. By codicil, dated a month later than the will, he appoints 'my lorde of Norff" to be overseer to his daughter "Anne Darcy and her husband Thomas Darcy, and to Anthonye Darcy, father of the said Thomas, and to the child that the said Anne is conceived wth" 66 Dame Julyan Mundy, widow of the Lord Mayor, died in the same year, 1537, and, together with her husband and his first wife, was buried at "St. Peter's in Chepe." Her will (proved 1537, P.C.C.) is valuable genealogical evidence. Of Sir John Mundy's sons, Vincent (will proved P.C.C. 1573; slain by one of his own children, according to all pedigrees) succeeded to the property of Markeaton, co. Derby, which has remained in the family from the year 1516 until the present day. Thomas was Prior of Bodmin (will proved P.C.C. 1554), and is probably identical with the Thomas Monndaie" of Wriothesley's Chronicle, who was condemned to death for having preserved as a relic and conveyed across the water the left arm of John Houghton, who suffered death for treason, denying the king's supremacy. Of the remaining sons of the Lord Mayor little has been ascertained. Anne and Elizabeth married respectively Thomas Darcy of Tolleshunt (second wife) and Sir John (?) Tyrrell of Heron. The Lord Mayor's name occurs several times in the Calendars of Patent Rolls, and is associated with the suppression of the May Day riot of 1517, when the Londoners resented an invasion of alien workers skilled in the silk trade. Roger Mundy, [MR. E. H. COLEMAN, DR. FORSHAW, and MR. W. D. PINK are thanked for short replies.] "A GALLANT CAPTAIN," &C. (9th S. xii. 506). -The reference is to the third verse of the 'Elegy on the Death of Jean Bon St. André' in the well-known Anti-Jacobin. The correct quotation is as under : : Poor John was a gallant captain, On the first of June But he bade the rest keep fighting. A note to the edition, by Charles Edmonds (1851), of the poetry in that work, states that, having been appointed [by the French Government] to remodel the Republican navy, he was present at the action of 1 June, 1794, in which he showed excessive cowardice." G. E. C. [MR. A. R. MALDEN and MR. A. F. ROBBINS also supply the reference to the Anti-Jacobin.] In Ireland, at the close of the eighteenth century, one of the United Irish leaders, T. A. Emmet, was first a physician and afterwards a barrister. See Madden's 'Lives and Times of the United Irishmen,' vol. iii. pp. 28, 32, 33, 34. FRANCESCA. [MR. ATKINSON in his query implies that Mr. Edward Pollock is no longer living. Such is not the case, and we regret that we were unable to correct our correspondent.] RICHARD NASH (9th S. xi. 445; xii. 15, 116, 135, 272, 335, 392, 493).—I regret my failure to understand the drift of MR. ANTHONY TUCKER'S letter. whether a statue or a picture was erected in The point at issue was Nash's honour in the Pump Room at Bath. Goldsmith, in the first edition of his 'Life,' stated that a statue was placed in the Pump Room between the busts of Newton and Pope. In the second edition, in which the errors of the first were corrected, he stated that a picture of Nash was placed in Wiltshire's Ballroom, between the busts of erected in the Pump Room. This point, thereNewton and Pope, while the statue was fore, may be considered settled. MR. TUCKER says that six verses of a poem by Jane Brereton were published in 1744, the last verse being "similar to both versions of the last verse of the epigram in Goldsmith's first and edition named a statue, and the second edition ""second editions." Now as Goldsmith's first a picture, it is difficult to see how a third version could be "similar" to both these versions, which vary in an essential point. But I shall be grateful if MR. TUCKER can throw more light either on the picture or the epigram. As I am shortly leaving England for some months, I am unable to look into this question myself. W. F. PRIDEAUX. LONG LEASE (9th S. xii. 25, 134, 193, 234, 449, 513).-An old house at the corner of North Street and Taprell's Lane (Lostwithiel, Cornwall) bears a granite tablet with this inscription: "Walter Kendall, of Lostwithiel, was founder of this house in 1638, hath a lease for three thousand years, which hath beginning the 29th of September, Anno 1632." R. BARCLAY-ALLARDICE. Lostwithiel. ROBIN A BOBBIN (9th S. xii. 503).-I sent a note on this rime several years since, but it never appeared. My maternal grandmother -a very old woman-used to sing it to us children sixty years ago. Her version differed from MR. RATCLIFFE'S, but I remember distinctly the first verse only. It ran : Let's go a-hunting, says Robin to Bobbin ; "THE CONSUL OF GOD" (9th S. xii. 506).This occurs in the last two lines of the epitaph on Gregory the Great and refers to him: Hisque Dei Consul factus lætare triumphis: Nam mercedem operum jam sine fine tenes. The epitaph is given by Bede, whose 'History' ends with 731. In 729 Gregory, who had been buried in the atrium of St. Peter's, was translated within the church, and pos |