Napoleon I., were on this day solemnly received As they were placed, so they remained during the time that Archdeacon Farrar continued rector; but upon his preferment to the Deanery of Canterbury, and the appointment of the Rev. Robert Eyton, Rector of Holy Trinity, Upper Chelsea, and Prebendary of St. Paul's (who was inducted into the rectory in July, 1895), they were removed to the west end of the church, the reason given for this proceeding being that "they disturbed the symmetry of the east window, and did not harmonize with the colour of its stained glass," both of which statements were distinctly true. The new rector was, however, unacquainted with their previous history, and thought that, as no faculty had been obtained for placing them in the chancel, it was in order for the rector and church wardens for the time being to place them in any other part of the church. In March, 1896, Col. Sir Howard Vincent became aware of the removal of the colours, and as colonel of the regiment, and the officer with whom the engagement as to the placing of the colours in the chancel had been made by the late rector and churchwardens in 1887, and as a member of the House of Commons, of which the church is the officially recognized place of worship, wrote a letter, dated 13 March, 1896, to Canon Eyton, stating his objections to the removal of the colours, and asking him, on reconsideration, to restore them to their former position. This request met with a decided refusal from the rector, whereupon a petition was filed in the Consistory Court of London by Sir Howard Vincent, he being joined in the matter by Mr. Tomlinson, M.P., a parishioner, (1) praying that Canon Eyton should be ordered to replace the colours in their original position against the east wall of the church; and (2) asking that a faculty confirmatory of the erection of the brass tablet in the chancel, and of the affixing of the colours to the chancel_wall in that position, should issue. Canon Eyton opposed in person the application, on the ground that the flags in 1814 had become the property of the rector and churchwardens and their successors, and subject to their control as to the position they occupied in the church, and that they could not be treated as a fresh gift from the regiment by their re-presentation in 1887. He therefore asked that the faculty, if issued, should provide that the position of the flags in the church should be under the control of the rector and churchwardens for the time being. Many witnesses were called and examined, and ultimately a very learned judgment was given by Dr. Tristram, the Chancellor of London, on 23 July, 1896, in favour of the regiment, extracts from which are given here, the judgment being fully reported in the Times of the following day. The colours now hang on either side of the reredos in the church, at a lower level and better angle than their original position, and have a much better effect, not interfering with the beautiful east window, which has been truly said to be the "pride of the parish and glory of the church," and it is pretty safe to assert that they are not likely to be moved from the place they now occupy. It may, perhaps, be allowable to add that Col. Sir C. E. Howard Vincent, M.P., has lately retired from the command of the regiment, being succeeded by Col. Trollope. W. E. HARLAND-OXLEY. JENNY GREENTEETH.-In your review of Mr. Crofton's 'Old Moss Side' (ante, p. 319) reference is made to Mr. Crofton's description of a water-hag called "Jenny Greenteeth." It may be interesting to learn that at this day in all East Lancashire the older inhabitants call the green moss which covers the surface of stagnant ponds "Jenny Greenteeth." Further, I have often been told by my mother and nurse that if I did not keep my teeth clean I should some day be dragged into one of these ponds by Jenny Greenteeth, and I have met many elderly people who have had the same threat applied to them. Wigan. HENRY BRIERLEY. Historical Society of Pennsylvania. NELSON AT BATH.--A tablet has been placed by the Corporation on the house No. 2, Pierrepont Street, Bath, in which Nelson lived from the autumn of 1780 to August of the following year. Broken down in health after the Fort St. Juan expedition, he came to Bath for the waters, with the result that his complete recovery followed. No place of its size in England has so many houses still standing which have been associated with celebrated people as Bath has, and the number of them marked with tablets adds much to the interest of that charming city. FREDERICK T. HIBGAME. THOMAS RANKIN.-A question was asked at 5th S. iii. 67 about Thomas Rankin, and it may therefore be well to record that there is a notice of him in the 'D.N.B.' (vol. xlvii. p. 290). In addition to the references there given, see Jackson's 'Life of Charles Wesley' (ii. 412); Tyerman's 'Life of Whitefield' (ii. 393); the same author's 'Life of Fletcher' (pp. 3, 447, 464); Southey's Life of Wesley' (Bohn's ed. p. 505); Stoughton's 'Religion in England' (vi. 278); Sidney's 'Life of Walker, of Truro (2nd ed. p. 260); and a full biography in Jackson's Early Methodist Preachers.' His portrait appeared in the Arminian (not "Armenian," as printed in the note in the 'D.N.B.') Magazine of 1779, and another portrait was published in 1794 (see Stevenson's 'City Road Chapel,' p. 401). Bowdon. FRANCIS M. JACKSON. SIR WILLIAM CATESBY.-When visiting the church of Ashby St. Ledgers, in this county, the other day, in order to take rubbings of brasses there, I noticed a curious coincidence with respect to the brass of Sir William Catesby, friend of Richard III. Sir William was taken prisoner at the battle of Bosworth Field, and executed three days afterwards. According to directions contained in his will, his body was brought for interment to Ashby. He is buried in the chancel, and over his tomb is a magnificent brass representing life-size effigies of himself and his lady. These are intact and in good preservation, except that across the neck of Sir William's effigy is an ugly crack which almost severs the head from the body. Considering the fact that Sir William lost his head, it will be certainly somewhat strange if the same fate is in reserve for his effigy. JOHN T. PAGE. West Haddon, Northamptonshire. "HASPED."-This word has, no doubt, its direct physical meaning of " enclosed with a hasp," as thus used in Garth's 'Dispensary ': Haspt in a tombril, awkward have you shined. The metaphorical signification is suggested by the service the word renders the Quaker who rebukes the soldier when, with others, they are travelling by coach, as described in the Spectator, No. 132. "To speak indiscreetly," he says, being hasped up with thee in this public "what we are obliged to hear, by vehicle, is in some degree assaulting on the high road." In conversation with myself a Scottish workman recently used the word in the purely figurative sense. He had promised to carry out a contract within a given time, and was several days late in making his appearance. His explanation of the delay was that a sudden crush of unexpected business had disturbed his plans. "I was fair hespit," he observed, "and couldna come a moment sooner. It is needless to say that the apology was deemed amply sufficient. THOMAS BAYNE. treating of "casting lots," allude at any CASTING LOTS.-Few dictionaries, when length to the military custom which was common, both on the Continent and in this country, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. de la Guerre,' 1633, is one which shows some Among Callot's illustrations in the 'Misères soldiers dicing under a tree (the gallows). At the surrender of Winchester, in 1645, some captives complained of having been plundered, whereupon Cromwell had six All of, his soldiers tried. were found guilty, and one of them, by lot, was hanged (Cromwell's 'Letters and Speeches,' second edition, vol. i. p. 252; Firth's 'Cromwell's Army,' p. 295). In Tangiers in 1663 two privates, sentenced to suffer death by being shot, were ordered to throw dice on a drumhead, "he who throws the least, to suffer." In the same garrison in 1665 two privates, for theft from a comrade, were sentenced to be hanged : "You are to see Thomas Shaw and Peter Craggs within mentioned throw dice upon a drum-head in cause execution to be made upon him of the two the face of the parade, and that being done, to who throws least." At Portsmouth in May, 1693, the sentence of a court-martial on three deserters was that one of them should suffer death by being shot: "All three shall lot whose chance it shall be to die." In August, 1693, a few weeks after the battle of Neerwinden, thirty English linesmen and six Guardsmen were returned from Holland by the authorities, and, tried for desertion, were condemned to death. The number to suffer was commuted to six linesmen and three Guardsmen, and the whole number of prisoners cast dice to settle upon whom the lot of death should fall. The selection of officers to command troops on trying occasions was sometimes made by 'casting lots." The brave and pious Col. Blackader, of the Cameronian Regiment, thus writes of the siege of Douay, under date 20 May, 1710:— "We marched straight into the trenches. I was detached upon command into the sap, to command the grenadiers and those who were to fire all night. I was surprised at this, because I was not near command; but it was the pure_decision of Providence, being done by lot; so I went cheerfully, being assured that it was not blind chance, but God who sent me there." W. S. TOWER BRIDGE ANTICIPATED.-That foolish libel on architectural art, the most unfortunate of all the inartistic bridges on the Thames, the Tower Bridge, a structure which puts the Tower itself to shame, seems to have been anticipated just about a century ago in its functions, if not in its falseness. I find in the Catalogue of the Royal Academy Exhibition for 1802 the following descrip. tion of a drawing which was then on view at Somerset House : "6. View of London, and some improvements of its Port, submitted to the Select Committee of the Honourable House of Commons, by Mr. Dance, exhibiting the proposed Double Bridge intended for the passage of Ships by the alternate elevation of a draw-bridge in either of the two bridges, whilst an uninterrupted way over the other is afforded at all times for carriages and foot-passengers, without impeding the navigation, and without the neces: sity of such elevated arches as the height of ships' masts require; also the proposed Embankment and enlargement of the Legal Quays, and the new Custom-House in the centre of a line of Warehouses extending to the Tower, to and from which goods may be conveyed by carts on the level of the area round the Monument, without encumbering the Quays. The Monument, that noble column, erected by the immortal Sir Christopher Wren, is seen in the focus of an extensive amphitheatrical area on the north side of the Thames, and the proposed Naval Trophy is placed in the centre of a semicircular range of buildings on the south side of the river.-W. DANIELL." The artist of the drawing thus described was a distinguished architect and draughtsman, whose 'Views of London,' 1812, possess great interest for topographers, to say nothing of his architectural aquatints from monuments of all kinds in India, as well as his drawings in colours. Born in 1769, he became a student in the Royal Academy in 1799, an A.R.A. in 1807, and a R.A. in 1822. He died in 1837. The "Mr. Dance" whose design W. Daniell drew for the exhibition was, of course, George of that name, son of another George who built the Mansion House in 1739. The second G. Dance was the famous R.A., City Architect, designer of the now destroyed Newgate Prison, and brother of Nathaniel Dance, who took the name of Holland, became a R.A., a baronet and M.P., and died in 1811. 0. Angliæ et Hiberniæ, published in 1697, it appears "By the Catalogi Librorum Manuscriptorum that Francis Bernard, M.D., had amongst his collection of manuscripts a folio volume entitled Ancient Orders of Gray's Inn...' This afterwards belonged to Charles Bernard, Esq., Serjeant-Surgeon to Queen Anne, and was sold at the sale of his library, March, 1710." Could any of your readers kindly inform me who was the purchaser, or furnish me with any particulars respecting the subsequent history of the manuscript? JAMES MULLIGAN, Master of the Library. COMMEMORATIVE TABLETS.-The East Herts Archæological Society propose from time to time to affix small commemorative tablets to houses in the county which have been the residences of notable persons. As hon. secretary I should be very grateful for any information as to the size and material for these memorials, also the probable cost, and whether any firm of masons especially undertake this class of work. W. B. GERISH. Bishop's Stortford. JOHN MOTTLEY, DRAMATIST.-I shall be greatly obliged if any one will give me information regarding John Mottley, author and dramatist (born 1692, died 1750), son of Col. Thomas Mottley, killed at the battle of Turin in 1706, while in the service of Louis XIV. John Mottley was educated at Archbishop Tenison's Grammar School, St. Martin's-in-the-Fields. Was he married? had he children or brothers? Any information regarding him beyond that given in the Dictionary of National Biography' will be most acceptable. WALTER HOWARD, Col. Ellerslie, Waterden Road, Guildford. DRYDEN PORTRAITS.—I should be glad to know particulars of any original portraits of the poet; also the present whereabouts of the following pictures mentioned by a biographer under date 1800: Portrait by Riley in the possession of William Davenport Bromley, of Baginton Hall. Portrait, formerly belonging to Addison, the property of the Hon. John Simpson, second son of Lord Bradford, in 1797. Portrait by Maubert, owned by Horace, College, Oxon. LORD GOWRAN, VIVENS 1720.-Who was this nobleman? I shall be glad to have his names and those of his wife, if married, and dates of their death, and when the peerage became extinct. There was an earldom of Gowran, created, 1676, in favour of John Butler, fourth son of the first Duke of Ormonde, but it became extinct the year CHARLES S. KING, Bt. after. St. Leonards-on-Sea. [Richard Fitzpatrick was created Baron Gowran, of Gowran, co. Kilkenny, in the peerage of Ireland, 27 April, 1715. He married Anne, younger daughter of Sir John Robinson, Bt., of Farming Woods, co. Northampton. The title became extinct in 1818. See Burke's 'Extinct Peerages,' s.v. Fitz-Patrick.] MIRFIELD BOOK SOCIETY. - Can any one give me information concerning the above society, which was in existence about 1830, or a reference thereto in any Yorkshire book? A. H. ARKLE. "SEND" OF THE SEA.-In the Times of 21 March it is stated, "Endeavours were made yesterday to lift the sunken submarine by means of wire hawsers, but owing to the send of the sea in the exposed position in which the wreck is lying, the hawsers parted." Is send in the sense of current a usual ex- A. R. C. EDWARD WILLIAMS, DROWNED 1821.-Was Cromwell's ancestor? What General Baird he a descendant of Morgan Williams, Oliver was related to him? A. C. H. "SAL ET SALIVA."- Nearly all the guidebooks state that these words form the inscription on the fine early Perpendicular font in St. Margaret's Church at Ipswich. Can any explanation be given of this curious collocation? JAMES HOOPER. ST. BEES' HEAD, CUMBERLAND.-There is a I believe marked in modern maps) as part of this headland known locally (and "Tomline." I remember being told some five-and-thirty years ago, by a friend (long since dead) who had been a student at the College, that this name arose out of a joke. One of the books then used in the College was Bishop Tomline's Elements of Christian Theology,' and some witty student prolike Tomline?" the answer being "Because it pounded the question, "Why was this place is hard to get up." Some years ago, when a student was unfortunately killed in climbing this place, I noticed that the witnesses at the inquest called it "Tomline," and I have several times asked persons living in the neighbourhood if they knew the origin of the name; but the story told me does not seem to be now known there. I shall be glad if any "Hivite" now living can confirm it, as, if true, it is a curious ROMAN TENEMENT HOUSES.-An American writer has stated, "We have reason to believe that the great majority of the people in the city of Rome lived in immense tenement houses, six stories high, or even more, and divided into rooms." Is there any foundation for the above? Upon what authority is the statement made? S. P. Q. R. BRAZEN BIJOU.-Amongst a number of kitchen utensils metioned as being in use about 1830 occurs one Bijou of brass," with the value "about two shillings" set against it. I have never come across this article in any list of such kitchen furniture before, with the exception of the allusion to it in Dickens's Great Expectations (chap. xxv.), "A brazen bijou over the fireplace, designed for the suspension of a roasting jack." The word probably went out with the last-mentioned article. Can any one tell me its derivation, and also its proper designation to-day, supposing such still to be in use in kitchens? FREDERICK T. HIBGAME. "GRINGO" FOREIGNER : "GRIENGRO." "Gringo" is used by natives of the River Plate to designate all foreigners (see 9th S. vii. 389, 496; viii. 21, 130, 210) except Spaniards, Spanish-Americans, and Portuguese. It is applied especially to Italians. The meaning given in a large Spanish dictionary is unintelligible." and the word is stated to be "Gitanesco," gipsy. The word griengro, a horse-dealer, occurs several times in Aylwin,' referring to gipsies. Is it possible that these two words are identical? The equivalent griego, given by 'La Academia,' does not seem right. Montevideo. W. L. POOLE. "Nicht zwanzig." Eventually it appeared Care of British Vice-Consulate, Libau, Russia. Beylies. ENGRAVINGS. (10th S. i. 309, 336.) I ADVISE MRS. HULTON to apply to Mr. Daniel, Mortimer Street, Cavendish Square, or any similar dealer in old prints and books, for the remaining prints of the series to which her note refers. The line "publisht according to Act of Parliament," which is a portion of the sothat the called publication line, means engravings upon which it appears were issued according to the rules and conditions prescribed by what is known as Hogarth's Act, a measure intended to secure to thos e who complied with them some protectio n against the pirates who-after, and eve n before, the appearance of engravings-did not hesitate to issue fraudulent copies of print s or pictures upon which artists had expended their best powers and (where the two functions were not performed by one person) publishers their capital. A The Act in question bears Hogarth's name because, owing to the great popularity of some of his earlier prints, especially Harlot's Progress' in 1734, unscrupulous persons had put forth copies of them, manifestly to his injury and, the copies being invariably bad, the degradation of his art. Before this enactment came into force there was, in this country at least, no protection whatever for painters and publishers. On the Continent it was very different; in fact, centuries before Hogarth's time the Signory of Venice had defended Albert Dürer against their piratical countrymen, who, nevertheless, were not invariably bad engravers. After a great deal of trouble Hogarth, and others who were interested, procured the passing of the Act which bears his name. In consequence the publication lines of the prints of 'A Rake's Progress,' eight in all, are "Invented Painted Engrav'd & Publishd by Wm Hogarth June ye 25 1735 According to Act of Parliament." Probably this is the earliest instance of this form of the publication line on an engraving. The issue of A Rake's Progress was delayed until the above date, which had been fixed |