66 REGIMENTAL BADGE OF THE 6TH FOOT. Robert Linke, M.A., who was buried at St. Sir Walter Vane, the fourth son of Sir Mary Magdalen's, 27 Jan., 1617/18. Mrs. Henry Vane the elder, was appointed first Fynmore was buried 20 April, 1622, in the Colonel of the regiment afterwards num- Minister's Chapel," St. Mary Magdalen. bered the 6th of the Line on 12 Dec., The memorial to W. Fynmore in Hinksey 1673, and was killed at the battle of Seneff Church does not mention his wives; he had 11 Aug. (N.S.), 1674. The sinister only one child, also named William. I wish supporter of the Vane family arms is: An to ascertain the connexion with the Mason antelope or, plain collared azure, thereon family. Was it through the first or second three martlets of gold. The present head wife? R. J. FYNMORE. of the family is Baron Barnard of Barnard Sandgate. Castle. on The regimental badge of the 6th Foot (now the Royal Warwickshire Regiment) is a silver antelope, statant, collared and chained or, and this is also the badge of the 12th Company of the Grenadier Guards. Sir Walter Vane served in the 1st Foot Guards before being appointed to the colonelcy of the 6th Foot, and it is suggested that he gave the badge from his family coat of arms to both. Another tradition describes the antelope badge of the 6th Foot as having been assumed from the standard of a Moorish regiment captured at Saragossa, where the 6th was present. Col. Thomas Harrison, who commanded the regiment, took home the dispatches and the standards, of which thirty altogether were captured. In a publication called The Military Guide,' 1772, the antelope is described as the ancient badge of the 6th Foot, and this word would hardly apply to a badge which had been assumed only a little more than half a century. The battle of Saragossa was fought in 1710. Can any one throw any light on the subject? ANTELOPE. JOSHUA WEBSTER, M.D.-Can any information as to parentage, descendants (if any), and other particulars be supplied by any of your readers concerning one Joshua Webster, M.D., who seems to have been a celebrity in the county of Essex during the eighteenth century? Family tradition supposed him to have been a son of the Old Pretender, known as the Chevalier St. George, and his name appears in the list tion of Surgeons of London, which in 1800 for the year 1777 of members of the Corporawas changed into the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He seems to have practised his profession at Chigwell, at Witham, as also at St. Albans where he Lovat, when on his journey to London as is alleged to have attended Simon, Lord a prisoner after the battle of Culloden. October, 1799, he appears to have been residing in Chelsea in extreme old age. In Joshua Webster compiled a Herbal and wrote a history of St. Albans, but neither work seems to have been published, the manuscripts being still in the possession of a descendant of his wife by her first husband, Thomas Cunningham, R.N. He has been credited with the authorship of the poem claim to such authorship was challenged by GODS IN EGYPT.—Gibbon, in the thirty-entitled 'The Beggar's Petition,' though his seventh chapter of the Decline and Fall,' makes the statement that it was formerly (that is, in the times of Egyptian paganism) said that in Egypt it was less difficult to find a god than a man. What is the authority for this statement ? Gibbon does not give any, and none is supplied by Milman or Smith. TYNTOL. FYNMORE, MASON, AND LINKE FAMILIES. -William Fynmore, B.C.L. of St. Giles, Oxford, in his will (126 Twisse, P.C.C.), proved 24 Sept., 1646, mentions his grandchildren-in-law Anne and Jane Mason, daughters of Anthony Mason. W. Fynmore's first wife, Christian (surname unknown), was buried at Hinksey, November, 1619; he married secondly, 7 Aug., 1621. Mrs. Linke, of the parish of St. Mary Magdalen, Oxford, probably widow of Mr, EDWARD POCOCK, THE ORIENTALIST (16041691), AND HIS ANCESTORS.-Edward Pocock, the fathe of the above, matriculated Magdalen College, Oxford, 2 July, 1585, aged 17, as of Hampshire, and had a brother Isaac at the same college. He was presented to the vicarage of Chieveley, Berks, by Giles Pocock of the same village, who died in 1624/5. This Giles was the son of Richard, who died 1595, and brother of John of Bradley Court, Chieveley, and Richard Pocock of Shaw in the same county. The family had long been resident at Chieveley. What relation was Giles Pocock to the Some time ago I inquired through N. & Q. regarding a Pocock pedigree mentioned in Marshall's 'Index,' but without result. Was this pedigree in Sir Thomas Phillipps's collection? A. STEPHENS DYER. 207, Kingston Road, Teddington. CRANCH FAMILY: DEVONSHIRE WILLSThe names of three members of the Cranch family, in which I am interested, appear in the Calendars of Devon Wills printed by the Index Society as Crauch, and are indexed as Crouch. I wish to find the exact relationship between Betsey, granddaughter of the Rev. Richard Cranch, Rector of Diptford 1721-38, and Betsey, daughter of another Rev. Richard Cranch. The first Betsey married 4 Sept., 1763, John Michell of Totnes, and the second Betsey married 24 Aug., 1774, John Vivian of Truro. Both are said to have been very beautiful women. | A. T. M. "SIJCEBLONG": A DUTCH WORD.-In Justus van Maurik's volume of short stories, Met z'n Achten,' an illiterate shopkeeper of Medemblik, writing to his son in Amsterdam, twice uses the word sijceblong or cijcenblong, apparently as the name of some sort of comestible sold in his shop. It does not appear in any Dutch dictionary that I have been able to consult, and several Dutch friends say they have never met with it. I should be glad to know its meaning, correct spelling, and origin. Probably it is a blundered form of some foreign word. HENRY BRADLEY. Oxford. HAWKINS. -Can any one give details of the pedigree from Sir John Hawkins to show the following in their proper relationships? 1. Dr. William Hawkins, who married Anne, daughter of Izaak Walton and Anne (Ken), and who wrote Bishop Ken's life. 2. William Hawkins, author of a Treatise of Pleas for the Crown,' a serjeant-at-law. 'Dict. Nat. Biog.' gives his father as John Oxon, and W. H. as marrying twice, and Hawkins, his mother as Mary (Dewe) of Islip, living 1673-1746. He 3. William Hawkins, 1722-1801, son of No. 2 by first wife. Through which grandmother did he claim descent from Thomas Teasdale, founder of Pembroke College, Oxon? was Professor of Poetry, Oxon, 1751-6, and Rector of Little Casterton, Rutland, and a Bampton Lecturer, 1764. 4. Rev. Thomas Hawkins, Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxon, born 1734, died 1772; wrote on English drama, and edited an edition of Shakespeare. He used the Hawkins arms and crest; his book-plate is still in existence. 'OLD LONDON.'-I have a book with the above title, size of pages about 12 in. by 9 in. The title-page has "Old London. Thirty-seven illustrations "-then the arms of the City, motto, &c.-"London, 1900." The illustrations, houses, &c., are coloured, and more than half are signed "Waldo There appears from private family evidence Sargeant,' "W. Sargeant," or "W. S.," to have been printed, either as a trial copy with dates 1871-84 (possibly 1887). The or one of a few special copies of an edition frontispiece is 'Temple Bar, Fleet Street.' otherwise on paper, a Shakespeare on satin The last two illustrations are Fairfax House, Putney,' and 'Doorway in Fairfax House, Putney.' There is no letterpress excepting the List of Plates' and the few lines on the fly-leaf which precedes every illustration but the frontispiece. On the blue cloth cover is an embossed and gilt front of a queer nine-story house, which bears two inscriptions, which appear to be "The Paul Pinder by whole" and "Lees printing down this passage.' What is the genesis of this book? Were all the illustrations by Waldo Sargeant ? ROBERT PIERPOINT. or silk; it may be complete or only some of the plays. It belonged to the Rev. Thomas Hawkins, Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, and from him it descended to his grandson, the Rev. Edward Hawkins, a Fellow of Pembroke, Oxon (not to be confused with his far greater namesake and contemporary of Oriel). He took it to Jamaica, and died there about 1852. Some one has reported that this book was sold in England about 1906 or 1907. Can any one tell its whereabouts? What edition is it? Where was it printed ? What sized pages has it, &c. ? 66 It appears that Dame Dorothy Wadham, which the road presumably passed. It who founded Wadham College and died seems probable that the name Racker about 1610, left her furniture and effects Way " meant nothing more than "Bridle to a servingman named Arnold. Now, on Road"-from the word racker or racking evidence of a persistent family tradition, a horse, i.e., a horse that ambles, both legs certain robe handed down in the Hawkins on each side moving together. V. Oxford family is attributed to her original posses- Dictionary.' What still remains of the old sion? Is there any point of contact between track bears indication, both in width_and this Arnold's kin and descendants, and the gradient, that it was not a cart road. I am Hawkinses or any they married ? The said anxious to know if the same or a similar robe is now in the possession of Wadham name is to be found in other parts of the College. W. E. L. country, and shall be grateful for information on the subject. New Zealand. THE FOURTH EARL OF TANKERVILLE.Can any of your readers kindly inform me where a portrait of this nobleman (1743– 1822) may be seen? There is not one in the possession of the family nor in the Print-Room at the British Museum. F. S. ASHLEY-COOPER. South View, Gomshall, Surrey. HERALDIC. To what city do the following arms refer? A one-masted ship with two men on board, one holding a banner charged with three saltires on a fesse, the other with a shield on which are four lions rampant, two and two, respectant; at the stern a banner as before. Sigillum Civitatis "-the rest has been cut off. J. G. BRADFORD. Loughton. 66 'TALES OF DEVON AND CORNWALL.' (See 10 S. ii. 188, 231, 355.)-Can any one tell me where I can get a copy of this? JOHN LANGLEY. 19, The Beacon, Exmouth. "YE RACKER WAY."-In the sixteenth century an outlying suburb of Sheffield was connected with a neighbouring village by a road known as "Ye Racker Way," which is mentioned, and the site identified, in Harrison's Survey of the Manor of Sheffield, 1637.' At the Sheffield end of this road the Sheffield Church Burgesses owned, in 1555, a close called "Rakkar Close," through 'DOROTHY': 'QUEEN OF MY HEART.' Will some one be good enough to forward me direct the words of this famous song? I believe it was published apart from the comic opera. I should like to know the name of the publisher. M. L. R. BRESLAR. Percy House, South Hackney, N.E. GLEGG.-I should be much indebted to any one through whom I could find the representatives of Major-General John B. Glegg. In 1812 he was major in the 49th Staff. Regiment, and was also employed on the DAVID ROSS MCCORD, K.C. Temple Grove, Montreal. PALEOGRAPHIC CONTRACTIONS. Would these differ in Spanish from Latin ? E. E. COPE. THORNLEY, MARINE PAINTER.-Any biographical information about this artist, who practised in the North-East of England apparently about the beginning of the last century, would greatly oblige me. He is not mentioned in either Redgrave or Bryan. I should also be glad if any owner of his work would let me have a description of the subject of it, and generally. W. SENIOR. Royal Societies Club, St. James's Street, S. W. PARTITION OF POLAND.-Can any reader of 'N. & Q.' give me the correct and original words of Frederick the Great (spoken, I believe, in French), the substance of which is that the emperors or kings (of Prussia, Russia, and Austria) communicated on the Eucharistic Body of Poland? I should also be glad to know where they can be found. A. H. C. DOWNES. ANCIENT VIEWS AND TREATMENT OF INSANITY.-Can any reader supply me with references to ancient authors dealing with their view of insanity and its accepted treatment? I should also be glad of the like from mediæval writers. I am especially desirous of collecting particulars of this kind from the more remote and less-known periods of history. RENIRA. Replies. THE SECOND FOLIO OF THE SHAKE. 66 and another 10,000,000 copies circulated in "This cancel leaf was evidently printed after the book was on sale, and was issued to purchasers in the same way as cancel leaves are occasionally issued at the present day." I am myself satisfied-as only three have What needst thou such dull witnesse of thy 66 As I explained in my letter to you of 20 Sept., and in my previous letters, and in the 20,000,000 copies that have been circulated all over the world, hallow'd Reliques" means "what he hath left us" (as Ben Jonson says in his 'Ode' in the 1623 Folio of the plays), and "what he hath left us" are the plays, &c.; while the starreypointed Pyramid " is a Beacon," which in those days was pronounced "Bacon," to be a 66 witnesse of thy Name." I also stated that there exist quite a number of books of the period-to which Bacon's name has not yet been attached-in which will be found a pyramid or a beacon, to reveal to the 66 initiated the name of the real author. (11 S. viii. 141, 196, 232, 294, 317.) ON 7 June last (11 S. vii. 456) I called attention to the fact that, in my copy of the 1632 Second Folio, Milton's supposed grammatical blunder starre - ypointing Pyramid " was correctly printed starre-ypointed Pyramid." In a communication which appeared 23 Aug. I stated that I had received The matter has provoked, and is still pronotice that a similar copy existed in the voking, a worldwide discussion, and the Astor, &c., Public Library, New York. criticisms may be summed up as follows: And in the issue of 6 Sept. appeared DR." Hallow'd Reliques' are just the 'honour'd MAGRATH'S letter saying that there was a bones' over again.” Hallow'd' cannot be similar inserted leaf in the 1632 Shakespeare applied to literary remains." What eviFolio in the Library of Queen's College, dence is there that books do exist in which Oxford. A facsimile copy of the inserted a pyramid or beacon has been put to reveal leaf, with a full description of the meaning Bacon's authorship? of Milton's Epitaph, has been forwarded to all the principal libraries of the world. The description itself has been sent to the 15,000 newspapers of the world's (English) press, with the result that about 10,000,000 copies of the full description have been circulated, 666 Dealing with this last criticism first, I am able to supply quite a number of such instances, but as I am now concerned specially with Milton's Epitaph, I will refer only to the pyramid, the beacon, he Bacon, from which Milton derived the 66 66 imagery and even the actual words of his under the skin, the garment, the weed, the Epitaph; because we find inscribed upon disguise, the mask of Sir Philip Sidney that pyramid Holy RELIQUE," with the a fact which is also clearly revealed by meaning of literary works, the "DIVINE other books in my library). And we perpure Beauties of the Minde." All writers ceive that the whole is a grand panegyric, are agreed that Paradise Lost' shows that not upon Sidney, but upon Bacon, who is Milton was much indebted to Joshua "Our Apollo," "World's - wonder," the Sylvester's Translation of Du Bartas His more than man.' Bacon's contempoDivine Weekes and Workes," first published raries spoke of him as being, as it were, a in 1605. In this book (with which it direct ray of light from Heaven." And appears to have no possible connexion), Thomas Randolph, in a Latin poem pubupon page B, we find a pyramid, a beacon, lished in 1640, says that Phoebus (Apollo) a Bacon, surmounted by a pheon (an en- was accessory to Bacon's death, as he was grailed broad arrow), which are the arms of afraid lest Bacon should some day come to Sir Philip Sidney. Below this, upon the be crowned King of Poetry or the Muses. pyramid itself, is Bacon's crest, the "wild- George Herbert also calls Bacon the colboar," in the proper heraldic attitude, but league of Sol (Phoebus Apollo); while in having round its neck a cord with a slip-The Great Assises Holden in Parnassus,' knot, to show that it is a "hanged-hog "which was published anonymously in 1645, ("a Bacon," as Mrs. Quickly tells on the Bacon is placed next to Apollo as 'Chanfirst page-53-in the 1623 Folio of the cellor of Parnassus." plays, and as Bacon himself tells us in the thirty-sixth of his Apophthegms,' first printed in 1671). This particular "hangedhog" is, however, clothed in a porcupine's skin. (Sidney's crest is a porcupine.) Then, beneath, we find the following verses, which are printed so as to form part of the outline of the pyramid ENGLAND'S Apelles (rather OUR APOLLO) man, This LOVELY VENUS first to LIMNE beganne, My Country-men should bee debar'd the sight 66 66 sur 66 But I must not further describe the marvellous revelations of this page B2, excepting only to point to the fact that we find "HolyRELIQUE" used with the same meaning as in Milton's Epitaph, which is, indeed, founded upon this page B, and upon the opening lines of Love's Labour's Lost,' which show so clearly that the mighty author was fully aware of the almost superhuman value and importance of his writings, for he says: Let Fame that all hunt after in their lives |