difficult to indemnify them on the continent; but the French gain, by this kind of exportation, more influence in Europe than by ambassadors, spies, and all active agents of the male sex. It was not on the exportation of herrings and stockfish that the English government should have granted drawbacks and bounties, but on that of their amiable countrywomen. It is to be hoped that the present very judicious ministry will, at least, defray the travelling expenses to the continental capitals; and they may be persuaded that this outlay will prove more advantageous to Great Britain than many large subsidies for the importation of German soldiers." VESPERTILIO. of Men and Things, extensive, and depend upon it a mixed Knowledge is not a superficial one; as far as it goes, the views that it gives are true; but he who reads deeply in one class of writers only, gets views which are almost sure to be perverted, and which are not only narrow but false."-Dr. Arnold. EIRIONNACH. Unregistered Proverb: "Like lucky John Toy," &c.-At Penryn, in West Cornwall, I frequently used to hear this proverb applied to any one who rejoiced over a small gain, though purchased at the expense of a greater loss: "Like lucky Jahn Rev. C. Wolfe's Words to the Air "Grama-Toy-lost a shilling and found a tupenny loaf." chree." - It is stated in the Rev. J. A. Russell's Remains of the late Rev. Charles Wolfe, that, -- "He never heard this popular Irish air without being sensibly affected by its deep and tender expression; but he thought that no words had ever been written for it, which came up to his idea of the peculiar pathos which pervades the whole strain. He said they all appeared to him to want individuality of feeling. At the desire of a friend he gave his own conception of it in these verses, which it seems hard to read, perhaps impossible to hear sung, without tears." The exquisite verses here alluded to contain one line which it has always surprised me that the author should have retained, when its extreme roughness could have been so easily removed, without any detriment to the sense, and with manifest improvement in sound. The line is the sixth in the second stanza, and reads thus: "What thou ne'er left'st unsaid: " Would not the following be an improvement? "What thou hast ever said:" The stanza then, which is perhaps the most pathetic of a composition intensely beautiful throughout, would read thus: "And still upon that face I look, And think 'twill smile again; And still the thought I will not brook, But when I speak thou dost not say, What thou hast ever said: And now I feel, as well I may, Sweet Mary, thou art dead!" F. C. H. Mottoes for a Common-place Book, Index Rerum, or Note-book. I send you two mottoes I have prefixed to my Note-book, and I trust others will do the same: "Adventure not all thy learning in one bottom, but divide it betwixt thy Memory and thy Note-books. He that with Bias carries all his learning about him in his head, will utterly be beggerd and bankrupt, if a violent disease, a mercilesse thief, should rob and strip him. I know some have a Common-place against Common-place-books, and yet perchance will privately make use of what publickly they declaim against. A Common-place-book contains many Notions in garison, whence the owner may draw out an army into the field on competent warning.". Fuller's Holy State, 1st edit., p. 176. "Preserve proportion in your reading, keep your view There was then living a semi-idiot, called John Toy; but the proverb was of such extended use, that I think it originated ere his time. J. H. A. B. The War of Sing (China) Independence. There have arrived here some proclamations and other printed documents of the new Emperor (Judge, President) of the Confederated States of China. His Excellency Tae-Ping-Teen-Kwo circulates with much tact and discernment a great number of translations of the Exodus, as the liberation of the Hebrew people from the kingly rule of Egypt, the establishment of judges, &c., bear a strong resemblance to the present national war in China. That the foreign rule of the Tartar dynasty was never liked there, and that that hatred even pervaded some of the Christian missionaries centuries ago, we learn from a work printed in 1656, which begins thus: 5. "And for to speke how that it stood, "And prively withoute noise, He bringeth this foule great coise That no man might her shape avise." "And after him I finde thus Octave at Magdalen College, Oxford. — At the election of Demies at this college, it is customary to nominate one of the unsuccessful candidates as Octave; and he is to take the place of any Demy who may chance to die within eight days of the election. Can any of your Oxford correspondents tell me if there has been any instance of an Octave so succeeding to a Demyship? HENRY T. RILEY. Seven Fleurs-de-lis, and Buslingthorpe Family. -Can any of your contributors, skilled in heraldry, kindly mention a family bearing for arms Gu. 7 fleurs-de-lis (viz. three rows of two, and one,) or? Such a coat is indistinctly perceptible in the east window of Buslingthorpe Church, co. Lincoln, surmounted by a crest, which I take to be a peacock. The arms of "Sire Richard de Boselingthorp," as given in Parl. Writs (Sir F. Palgrave), vol. i. p. 416., are totally different, viz. "de argent od le chef endente de sable a un cheveron de gout." I should also be glad to learn, whether there is any evidence of Sire John de Boselyngthorp, father or grandfather of the Sire Richard mentioned in Parl. Writs, having been connected with the fifth (or any) crusade, or of his having undertaken a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. His monument exhibits him cross-legged on an altar-tomb; and, as there is a tradition of his having received a grant of land from the king in reward for his having slain a dragon, it is probable that he was a "man of mark" in his day. Either his son Richard, who is still commemorated by a halflength brass in good preservation,-or (more probably) a grandson of the same name, is said at his death to have held the manor of Bothumsell, in Notts, "of the inheritance of Isabella, his quondam wife." See Thoroton v. Bothumsell. Query, Who was this Isabella ? Was she an heiress of the St. George, or of the Furneaux family? Probably, of the former. J. SANSOM. Buslingthorpe. P.S. Does the name of Buslingthorpe occur in any list of Knights Templars? to 10:30 P.M. The rain fell in quantities surpassing the experience of the oldest inhabitant; every hollow was, in a short space of time, completely filled. A house was utterly demolished; animals drowned, and the public roads were in places several feet under water; but the most curious phenomenon was the appearance of a large hole of an irregular circular form, more than 20 feet in diameter, and from 7 to 10 feet deep, in a field situate about a mile off, in the parish of Hemsby, having all the appearance of being caused by the descent of a column of water. The situation of the field precludes the possibility of its having been caused by an accumulation of surface water. A hedge ran across the spot; but this, for the space of eight yards, together with large quantities of the subsoil (sand), was carried by the force of the water fully 200 yards into the next field. The sides of the chasm are generally perpendicular, and the depth of the mould considerable. I am desirous to know if anything similar has occurred, and if any appearance of a waterspout on land, and the effects of its fall, are E. S. TAYLOR. on record. Ormesby St. Margaret. Chinese and Greeks and Romans. It is not improbable that the ancient Chinese kept a watchful eye on what was going on in the western world. Has Chinese or Indian history revealed to our orientalists any particulars connected with the Egyptians, Assyrians, Greeks, or Romans, with which, from classical sources, we are unacquainted? If so, any such scraps of information would find a most appropriate place in a corner of your journal. HENRY T. RILEY. Caricatures.-There is lying before me a curious little volume which unfortunately wants the title-page, but is lettered on the back, "Political Caricatures from 1755 to 1760." It contains 100 plates, preceded by twenty pages of letter-press, explaining or describing them. They seem to have been published, from time to time, by Darby and Edwards, at the Acorn, facing Hungerford, Strand. I should like to know the full title of this volume, and whether it is of any value on account of its rarity, or otherwise. E. H. A. Races on Foot by naked Men. During the summer of 1824, I remember seeing, at Whitworth in Lancashire, two races, at different periods, of this description. On one occasion two men ran on Whitworth Moor with only a small cloth or belt round the loins. On the other occasion the runners were six in number, stark naked, the distance being seven miles, or seven times round the moor. There were hundreds, perhaps thousands, of spectators, men and women, and it did not appear to shock them, as being anything out of the ordinary course of things. "Instructions for Lent." -I picked up in this parish not long since a little book of Instructions for Lent, with Meditations for every Day, founded on some verses of Scripture that apparently occur in the daily services. It is evidently the work of a Roman Catholic, who, however, in the preface highly approves and recommends Bishop Gunning's well-known treatise. The whole is of a very practical character, and contains but little that is distinctively Roman. The title-page is gone, but it would seem to have been printed sometime in the last century. Who was the author? E. H.A. 1695-99. On July 10, 1713, the sum of 18,4217. 10s. 10 d. was voted to William Paterson for "his expense, pains, and considerable losses in the service of the late African and Indian Company of Scotland." whether any well-founded authority exists. Some vanced by England, as compensation for the persons, I am told, derive the name from lolium, losses suffered by the Scotch Darien Company of darnel, or tares, the Lollards being represented as the tares which, in parabolical language, the enemy had sown among the Lord's husbandry. The other conjecture is that the name was derived from the old German word lollen (Anglice, lull), meaning to sing, and that the followers of Wickliffe were thus denominated, because they were continually engaged in singing hymns. N. L. T. Culme Family of Devonshire. Can any one give me some information respecting the armorial bearings, lineage, and history of the Devonshire family of Culme? Have they any connexion with X. the Cullums of Suffolk ? occurs Enstammt or Erstourt. - This name frequently in some title-deeds of the reign of Elizabeth, as belonging to a family in Radnorshire. Can any of your correspondents give any information respecting persons of this name, either at that date, or later? C. C. Pursey's "De Morton." Can you inform me whether the following piece is a drama or a novel? - The Tragedy of De Morton, by Alfred Pursey. 8vo., 1844. R. J. Nell Gwynn.-Wading through a fragment of an anonymous* Diary, written possibly about 1666-7, not particularly interesting in the details, being chiefly memoranda of the writer's health, with here and there a stray piece of historical information, I lighted upon the following entries: "Nov. 22, Thursday. Paid Mrs Aldworth for Mrs Gwyn xxli sent by By another Act of Parliament, interest on the above sums was ordered to be paid to a company called the Equivalent Company, for the purpose of being distributed amongst the losers by the failure of the Darien Colony. By an Act of Parliament, passed in 1850, the whole of the capital, including the compensation to Paterson, was ordered to be paid over to the Equivalent Company for distribution amongst the descendants of the original shareholders. In 1853, a lineal descendant of Wm. Paterson, named Rogerson, came over from St. John's, New Brunswick, to seek the sum of 18,4217. 10s. 10zd., as Paterson's most direct descendant; but left, without having been able to find out, either in Edinburgh or London, who the persons constituting the Equivalent Company were. Whilst in London, he stopped at Sam's Hotel, 802. Strand. Can any of your readers throw any light on the above subject? X. Y. Z. [Jericho seems to be used by Heywood as a general term for a place of concealment or banishment. If so (says Nares) it explains the common phrase of wishing a "Who would to curbe such insolence, I know, Mr. John Gough Nichols in the Camden Miscellany, vol. iii., has given the following curious note on this word. Speaking of the manor of Blackmore, about seven miles from Chelmsford, he says, "In searching the patent rolls of Henry VIII. I have met with the following record relative to this place. It proves at any rate that the name Jericho existed in the reign of Henry VIII., if not before. 18 Feb., 20 Hen. VIII. (1528-9). Lease by the advice of John Daunce, knt., and John Hales to John Smyth of Blackamore, Essex, gent., of the site and mansion of the manor or lordship of Blackamore, and the rectory of Blackamore, with all demesne lands, &c., a tenement called Jerico." (MS. Calendar of the Patent Rolls.) The local tradition is noticed by Morant (Hist. of Essex, 1768, vol. ii. p. 57.) "This is reported to have been one of King Henry VIII.'s houses of pleasure; and disguised by the name of Jericho. So that when this lascivious prince had a mind to be lost in the embraces of his courtesans, the cant word among the courtiers was, that He was gone to Jericho.'"] "Deuce take you."— It is not unlikely that the word Deuce, as thus used, may owe its origin to the name of the Roman general, Claudius Drusus, the son of Livia, and step-son of Augustus. Albert Miræus, in his Annales Belgici (Brussels, 1624), p. 9., says that the name of Drusus, after his German victories, became so dreaded, that even at the present day it is used in the imprecation common with the Flemings, Dat u den Droes hale, May Druse take you.' Drusus te auferat seu avehat." เ We find that a similar imprecation is still in use with the Germans: bears the date 1851 on its title-page; printed at the University Press, Oxford, for the S. P. C. K. The Book of Common Prayer is bound up together with the copy to which I refer (y. y. y. Pearl 8vo.). Can any one give the reason for this omission? BIOTICUS. Tonbridge. [The italic letters f and j, being what are technically called kerned letters, or such as have part of their face hanging over one or both sides of their shanks, are very liable to lose their tails whilst subject to the pressure of machine work. Hence they are frequently omitted as reference letters in marginal notes of the Bible and law works.] Fast in 1640. In the churchwardens' book of this parish I find an entry in the above year as follows: £ s. d. 0 2 0." ALFRED T. LEE. "The misery that Drusus must have occasioned among "Item. Pd for a booke against the fast [In Toone's Chronological Historian, under Nov. 12, 1640, we read that "the Commons, in concurrence with the Lords, moved the King for a fast, which was appointed and held. Dr. Cornelius Burgess and Stephen Marshall preached on that day before the House of Commons, and preached and prayed seven hours betwixt them."] sensu. 6 66 Lloyd Arms. To which family of the Lloyds do the following armorial bearings belong? and how can I find out why they were granted? Arms, Argent, a griffin, segreant, vert. Crest, Out of a ducal coronet, or, a cock's head between two wings, gules, combed, beaked, and wattled of the first. Granted A.D. 1578. N. E. P. [We have not seen any authority beyond Edmondson for the arms blazoned by our correspondent. He says they were borne by Lloyd of London and Wales. There is no family of Lloyd in the Visitation of London, A.D. 1568, nor in the subsequent one of 1634. In the Visitation of London in 1687 the arms of Lloyd are quite different, being four stags.] Omission of f in the Marginal References of the Oxford Bible.-I find, on examination, that the letter f has been uniformly, and therefore it would seem designedly, omitted in the marginal references of the Old and New Testament, which Some time ago an ancient "comedy" in Latin fell into my hands, and I should be much obliged by any dramatic antiquary giving me an account of its author. The subject is somewhat remarkable, inasmuch as it refers to the history of Joseph when in Egypt. The following is a copy of the title: juventutis institutionem iuxta locos inventionis, vete"Comoedia Sacra, cui Titulus Joseph, ad Christianæ remq; artem, nunc primum et scripta et edita per Cor. Crocum, Amsterodami ludimagistrum. Ex Genesios, Abstine sus, non tibi spiro. cap. xxxix. xl. et xli. Coloniæ. Ioannes Gymnicus excudebat, Anno MDXXXVII. 12mo." Master Crocus dedicates the production to Martin Niven of Amsterdam, "Virginum Gertrudensium moderatori meritissimo." Query, who was Crocus, and what sort of office was it held by his patron Martin Niven? The drama in which Potiphar and Mrs. Potiphar appear must surely be very rare. J. M. [An edition of this work was published during the same year at Strasbourg: "Excusum Argentinæ, in ædibus Jacobi Jucundi. Anno M.D.XXXVII." The author, Cornelius Crocus, was a Jesuit of Amsterdam, and died in the year 1550. He published a Grammar and Colloquies to supersede in the schools those of Melancthon and Erasmus. He had the reputation of writing with great perspicuity; and Adrian Junius gives Father Crocus the commendation of having successfully imitated the politeness of Terence and Tully. For some account of him and his works, see Biographie Universelle, vol. x. p. 282., and Moreri, Dictionnaire Historique.] |