Biography.' If any one could give me infor- 15, Rue Vivienne, Paris. THE TIMES,' 1962.-I have a copy of the Times, "London, Every day, 1962, price 18., No. 55,567," a four-sided large sheet, "Printed for the Proprietors by Joseph William Last, of No. 3, Savoy Street, Strand, in the city of Westminster, and published by Baynton Rolt at No. 8, Catherine Street, Strand, Every day, 1962." The whole paper-articles and advertisements-is humbug; but as I presume that it was printed for some object, I shall be obliged for any information regarding its real date of issue and its purpose. The cost of the issue must have been considerable. Perhaps some of the readers of 'N. & Q.' can help me. J. E. S. HOPE. Belmont, Murrayfield, Mid-Lothian. Beylies. THE PREMIER GRENADIER OF FRANCE. (10th S. i. 384.) LA TOUR D'AUVERGNE belonged to the 46° demi-brigade, now apparently represented by a regiment of the same number. His heart having been placed in an urn, his body was enveloped in green oak branches, and carried by grenadiers to the battle-ground where he had fallen. When it had arrived at the grave, the grenadiers presented arms, and as the bearers hesitated as to which way they should lay it, a voice came from the ranks: "Face à l'ennemi." By an order dated Augsbourg, 11 Messidor, an VIII., written by General Dessoles in the name of Commandant en Chef Moreau, it was ordered: That the drums of the grenadiers of all the army should be draped with black crape for three days; that the name of La Tour d'Auvergne should be kept at the head of the roll of the 46e demibrigade; that his place should not be filled up, his company consisting in the future of only eighty-two men; that a monument should be erected in the rear of Oberhausen ; and that chef de brigade Forti, commander of the 46, who had fallen by the side of La Tour d'Auvergne, should be buried with him. Two grenadiers were also buried with him. This monument was erected, and in 1837 the The silver urn containing the heart, covered with black velvet, was carried at reviews by the quartermaster-sergeant (fourrier), who marched by the side of the colour. At each roll-call the caporal de l'escouade answered to the name of La Tour d'Auvergne, "Mort au champ d'honneur." This pious custom continued to be observed by the 46 Demito the 46 until the army was reorganized in brigade. The heart did not cease to belong 1814. made by the three Consuls that the sword of In the same year 8 Fructidor they ordered that a monument in his honour should be erected at Carhaix, his native place. This monument was eventually erected in 1841 by the Government of Louis Philippe, which had previously placed on the house where he was born the following inscription :— "Théophile-Malo Corret de la Tour d'Auvergne, Premier Grenadier de France, est né dans cette maison le 23 décembre 1743." The bronze statue by Marochetti has on its pedestal the following: "A Théophile-Malo de la Tour d'AuvergneCorret, Premier Grenadier de France, né à Carhaix, 27 juin 1800." le 23 décembre 1743, mort au champ d'honneur le The inscription appears also in Breton. La Tour d'Auvergne, sword in hand, leading As to the possession of the heart there was a long, lawsuit between the family of La Tour d'Auvergne-Lauraguais and the heiress in the direct line, viz., Madame du Pontavice, daughter of Madame Guillart de Kersausic, née Jeanne-Marie-Sainte Limon du Timeur. Madame du Pontavice was successful, gaining possession of the heart and of the arms of the "brave des braves," by a judgment of the Royal Court of Montpellier, 1 December, 1840. I have taken the above from "Le Premier Grenadier de France La Tour d'Auvergne Etude Biographique par Paul Déroulède Paris Georges Hurtrel 1886." Limon du Timeur married in or about 1773 Marie-Anne-Michelle de Corret, sister of La Tour d'Auvergne (see ibid., p. 57). If the order of the Ier Thermidor, an VIII., was carried out, at all events the sword did not remain permanently at the Invalides. M. Déroulède, in his preface (p. 13), speaks of having seen it in the museum of the Hôtel Carnavalet, Paris, where, according to a foot-note, it had been placed by a decision of the Municipal Council. The note adds that it had been brought back to France, and delivered to the President of the Municipal Council, meeting in public, by the Italian General Canzio, son-in-law of Garibaldi, on 22 June, 1883. How it got into his hands does not appear. To go back to a time more remote from railways, Edmund Waller, who was in a position to know the accepted pronunciation of the title of Lord and Lady Carlisle, distinctly accents it on the first. In the 1729 edition there are seven instances, including one by his editor, Fenton, none of which is a rime, and only two of which are at the beginnings of lines. Except for considerations of space, I would send the quotations. U. V. W. SIR HERBERT MAXWELL says that "BridThere appears to have been a legend-lington" (Yorks) is sounded "Burlington" perhaps a true one-that the heart used to by the Bridlington people. May I (as a be sometimes carried on the colour of the Yorkshireman) point out that in my county regiment. M. Déroulède (p. 11, preface), there is a readiness to transpose the rin such speaking of the impression made on his mind a word as Bridlington, and to put the i by the stories of the Premier Grenadier de first, when that word becomes " Birdlington"? France, says: "Une chose surtout me frap- and then the d dropping out by a natural pait: c'était ce cœur d'argent suspendu au tongue-slip-cf. Weld)nesday)-we have the drapeau du régiment: c'était," &c. word 'Birlington" left (not necessarily 'Burlington"). In Yorkshire curds are often called by the people cruds; burst becomes brossen, and many other examples could be mentioned. While writing may I add a vigorous "Hear! hear!" to the remarks of DR. BRUSHFIELD on p. 372? Lever, in his 'Tom Burke of Ours' (chap. xlv.), gives a version of the story of the muster-roll. He makes the regiment the 45th of the line, and the reply given by the first soldier," ""Mort sur le champ de bataille." ROBERT PIERPOINT. TIDESWELL AND TIDESLOW (9th S. xii. 341, 517; 10th S. i. 52, 91, 190, 228, 278, 292, 316, 371).-On 371 it is said that railway usage p; is responsible for a change of stress, and consequent obscuring of the etymology, of Carlisle, the accent being rightly on the last syllable. This was discussed nine years ago (8th S. vii.), and I do not desire to enter on the general question of the right way of accenting the word; but as a definite assertion has been made with regard to the effect of the introduction of railways, perhaps I may be permitted to point out some facts. I have lived all my life in the diocese of Carlisle. I can remember nearly half a century, and when I was young knew many persons whose pronunciation had been acquired in pre-railway times. Moreover, I have, during the last few days, referred the question to an educated lady, eighty years of age, and with a very good memory. This lady's remembrance agrees with mine that educated people used to accent Carlisle on the first syllable. Uneducated people sometimes said "C'rlisle," with the accent on the second syllable, the first one being very short; but, on the other hand, those who were so old-fashioned as to use the dialect name "Carel" inevitably placed the accent on the first syllable, the vowel in the second one being quite obscure. 66 66 YORKSHIREMAN. SIR HERBERT MAXWELL writes : "Bridlington in Yorkshire, a station on the North-Eastern Railway, is locally pronounced clerk at King's Cross if you do not pronounce it 'Burlington,' but you will puzzle the booking according to the written form, which preserves the old meaning." This is not quite correct. Both pronuncia- RONALD DIXON. 46, Marlborough Avenue, Hull. MR. ADDY's argument from the present spelling of Duffield that Welle means a field seems hardly conclusive. The Domesday name Duvelle would naturally be abbreviated into Duvel, and become Duveld, just as Culmton and Plynton become Collumpton and Plympton; and Duveld, as I take it, is the present local pronunciation. But what evidence is there to show that Duvelle is a compound of Duva+wille, and not primarily a personal name which has become a placename? The Devonshire Domesday has the same name, only in combination. It knows badge or ensign of office both in 'Roderick of two Duveltons, now Doltons. Besides, Random,' by Smollett, and 'Amelia,' by the old English use of "field" is to describe Fielding. In vol. xii. of the "Cabinet the open-field in which the members of the Edition" of the History of England' (concommunity had their several plots, not the tinuation by the Rev. T. S. Hughes, B.D.) close which the individual held. Bosworth's the frontispiece depicts the execution of Anglo-Saxon dictionary gives "well" as Admiral Byng in 1757. The unfortunate the equivalent of Willa. The Devonshire admiral is represented as blindfolded, kneelDomesday knows of two Willas, now respec- ing on a cushion in front of the capstan, and tively Edginswell and Coffins well, from the opposite the firing party of five marines, names of their proprietors, besides a Bradwell wearing conical caps, whilst the sergeant in or broad well and a Shirwell or clear well. command holds in his right hand a halbert To turn these wells into fields would be a and has a sash over his shoulder. little arbitrary. OSWALD J. REICHEL. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge. Lympstone, Devon. THE LOBISHOME (10th S. i. 327, 417).—I One may hope to be set right in the matter quoted a passage from 'Henry VI.' which if wrong; but did not the sergeant's chevron showed that to draw blood was supposed to have its origin in the pheon or broad arrow, be a way of undoing witchcraft. But it may which, as a Government mark, was associated be well to show also that it was considered a with the military organization of the City way of undoing transformation caused by trained bands? Although it is a disputed witchcraft. A popular story, prevalent point when the broad arrow assumed its throughout Europe, tells how a princess, present distinctive signification as a Governbetrothed to a king, is changed by her step- ment mark, there can be little doubt that mother to a duck. The bird comes by night it originated in the badge of Richard I., to visit her betrothed, and in human voice, which was a pheon, or "broad R," the latter which she still retains, laments her fate. Her being either a corruption of "broad arrow" betrothed sheds three drops of her blood, and or an abbreviation of "Rex" (see Palliser's restores her to her original form. This storyDevices'), while the pheon became a royal is in Thorpe's Yule Tide Stories' and in badge through being carried by the sergeantmany other books. E. YARDLEY. at-arms before royalty, like the modern mace. It was a barbed fishing-spear or harpoonhead, but the indented inner edges of the flanges of the pheon do not, of course, appear in the sergeant's chevron. This, however, would naturally not be an indispensable detail in the distinguishing marks on the sleeves of non-commissioned officers. J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL. I should like to point out that the Portuguese name for a were-wolf is_lobishomem, and not as printed. E. E. STREET. ARISTOTLE AND MORAL PHILOSOPHY (10th S. i. 405). At 9th S. xii. 91 I gave my reason for thinking that Aristotle was not misinterpreted by Shakespeare and Bacon. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. POEMS ON SHAKESPEARE (10th S. i. 409).DR. FORSHAW appears to have been already forestalled in the task of compiling a volume of tributes to our national poet. The Athenæum, 21 May, p. 653, reviews 'The Praise of Shakespeare: an English Anthology,' by C. E. Hughes. WILLIAM JAGGARD. 139, Canning Street, Liverpool. MILITARY BUTTONS: SERGEANTS' CHEVRONS (10th S. i. 349). According to Mark Antony Lower in his Curiosities of Heraldry,' "the chevron, which resembles a pair of rafters, is likewise of very uncertain origin. It has generally been considered as a kind of architectural emblem" (p. 62). I am inclined to think that in the eighteenth century the halbert, or halberd, carried in the hand denoted the sergeant. It is mentioned as his 161, Hammersmith Road. CHAIR OF ST. AUGUSTINE (10th S. i. 369).— Daily Mail of 23 January, 1902, may constiThe following paragraph, taken from the tute a reply to MR. ALFRED HALL'S question: Committee yesterday a letter was read from the "At a meeting of the Canterbury Royal Museum Bishop of Hereford asking for the return of St. Augustine's chair, used by him on his missionary journeys, which for some time past has occupied a that the chair was removed some years ago from prominent place in the museum. The Bishop stated the chancel of the church at Bishop's Stanford, and that the vicar and parishioners desired to have it FETTIPLACE (10th S. i. 329, 396).-If DR. FORSHAW will consult (as I have done at the British Museum) Kelly's 'Directory for Berkshire' for the year 1903 (under title Bray,' at p. 42), he will read as follows: "Ockwell Manor House.-Now [1903] the residence of Edward A. Barry, Esq. An extremely fine timber-framed mansion, erected in reign of Edward IV., and enlarged in 1899 by present owner, W. H. Grenfell, Esq., J.P., M.P. (of Taplow Court), who is the lord of the manor (and other manors)." I accurately recollect that in my punting days-forty-five or fifty years ago-I stayed a night at the "George" Inn, Bray, for the express purpose of seeing the house. I had the belief that it was marked in my my Ordnance map, but cannot now find it. Anyway I certainly walked there, and from either Maidenhead or Taplow station. EDWARD P. WOLFERSTAN. Ockwells Manor-a most interesting his toric building is situate near Bray and Maidenhead. Some illustrations of it will be found in Nash's Mansions,' Jesse's 'Favourite Haunts,' or in Country Life for 2 April. Upton. R. B. whom he had four sons and other children; he died leaving the manor of Berkesdon, Throcking, Herts, 1619, to his son Stephen, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Playter, of Satterley, Suffolk, by whom he had two sons and three daughters, one of whom (Mary) married Edward Fettiplace, of Kingston, Berks (vol. i. p. 238). M.A.OXON. TICKLING TROUT (9th S. xii. 505; 10th S. i. 154, 274, 375).-I can assure MR. RATCLIFFE that when trout are lying in "holds" such as our characteristic trout-streams usually offer, the heads of the fish will be found in any direction; for instance, if a rat-hole lies right athwart the direction of the stream's current, then the trout harbouring in it will be lying in the same direction-head first up the hole. It is true that trout seem to like (or, at least, not to object to) the "tickling"; but to the "grabbing with both hands" they would show a decided, and in most cases an effectual dislike. Shakespeare uses the phrase "tickling for trout" metaphorically. YORKSHIREMAN. As the discoverer of the original diary of Samuel Teedon, the Olney schoolmaster and "guide, philosopher, and friend" of the poet Cowper, after it had been mising since about 1835, and as its owner for at least twenty years, and having in 1890 copiously annotated my transcript for publication, I add what my MS. contains in allusion to the entry in question. I find, upon reference, that I explain "Luther's distich" to mean probably the superscription on Lucas Cranach's portrait of Luther, painted in 1532, viz., "In silentio et spe erit fortitvdo vestra." E. C. is quite right as the incorrectness Cowper Society in 1902, which contains at of T. Wright's edition of the diary for the least 700 errors (!)-the first twenty-three pages, their many hundreds of errata in corrected by me (con amore), being the only the printer's rough proofs having been portion comparatively free from the like. Mr. Wright had invited me to join him in the editorship, with my name in the first place; but I declined to do so, as unworthy of my reputation, within the limits and ur the lines laid down by him, and wi printer unused to book-work. I, h at Mr. Wright's request, assiste 'If Would her and a brother reading such few portions of entries in the original as he admitted his inability to make out. The name of such to him illegible passages must, in truth, have been legion. W. I. R. V. "THERE WAS A MAN" (10th S. i. 227, 377).— MR. SNOWDEN WARD might perhaps find in the Scotch version on which I was brought up some more reason for the tragic ending of the nursery rime than in his Ours is not historical, but didactic, and addressed to a man, a boy, or a girl, as the case may be. It begins : own. A man of words and not of deeds The lines run the same And when my heart begins to bleed, Then I'm dead, dead, dead indeed. To avoid which tragedy the culprit is expected to mend. C. C. STOPES. I recollect hearing the verse repeated over twenty years ago, though in the south of England-in fact, in London; but, unlike the rendering recorded at the second reference, the first two lines were : A man of words and not of deeds The whole verse, then, would seem to suggest the antithesis of enduring deeds the ephemeral nature of words in mere passive promises unless followed by action. 66 H. SIRR. in 'The Antiquary,' vol. i. ch. ix, being the ghost story told by Miss Oldbuck, how the ghost showed Rab Tull that the paper for the want whereof they were "to be waured afore the session " was hidden in a "tabernacle of a cabinet" in "the high dow-cot"; the other in 'Redgauntlet,' of the rent-receipt abstracted by the monkey. E. A. Poe, in his 'Purloined Letter,' conceives many such possibilities. hinge upon the loss or discovery of a will or Dickens is very fond of making his plots deed. The "Golden Dustman" in 'Our Mutual Friend' made many wills, and deposited them in strange places. There is a well-known ghost story, attributed to Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford, of a similar sort. Some years ago, on the breaking-up of a worn-out mail-cart, a letter many decades old was found in one of its crevices. When the dishandled box of an old City pump was removed it was found to contain many letters, dropped therein by ignorant persons, who had mistaken the handle-hole for the slit of a letter-box. These, however, were unintentional hidings. The two following instances, taken from old sources, are perhaps nearer to the subject. The monks of Meaux, in Holderness, were like to have lost the manor of Waghen because they could not produce the record of the agreement between themselves and the Archbishop of York. At last they found it in a hole between the roof and the ceiling of their record - room (1372-96).— Chronica Monasterii de Melsa,' iii. 175. AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (10th S. i. 428). The lines given by MISS GURNEY as Rest after toil," &c., are from Spenser's man, Faerie Queen,' Book I. canto ix. verse 40, but are entirely misquoted. They begin, "Sleep after toil." H. K. H. No endeavour is in vain, &c. See Longfellow, 'The Wind over the Chimney' (last verse). J. FOSTER, D.C.L. The third quotation asked for by LUCIS, "Everything that grows," is the opening of Shakespeare's fifteenth Sonnet (somewhat imperfectly rendered): When I consider everything that grows C. C. S. [Several correspondents are thanked for similar references.] DOCUMENTS IN SECRET DRAWERS (10th S. i. 427). The classical stories of the recovery of lost documents are by Sir Walter Scott, one 1 Bishop Joseph Hall says that he knew a Cross," who was "informed in his dream in "Mr. Will. Cook, sen., of Waltham Holy what hole of his dove-cote" he should find "an important evidence" for the missing whereof he was distressed with care' (Invisible World,' 1652; Pickering's reprint, 1847, p. 85). This may well have suggested the "dow-cot" of Monkbarns. W. C. B. The following is an instance of an undiscovered drawer in an old oak desk passing through various owners' possession, from Queen Anne's time until a few years since: The Hidden Briefs.-A Queen Anne Brief for a Collection at All Saints' Church, Claverley, Shrop shire. It is now more than seventeen years ago since the brother of a tenant of mine bought an old after careful examination he arrived at the conoak desk at a country sale. Being a joiner by trade, clusion that it might have a secret drawer. All attempts to find it baffling his ingenuity, as a last resource he took out the bottom of the desk. By this means he discovered a long secret drawer, admirably contrived for secrecy, with a spring to |