himself: and she asked if "Well, then," said a teen any one pass. first nine thou sawest, these were brothers of my father; the second nine brothers of my mother; and the third nine, these were my own sons, and they are altogether sons to that man who is on the horse. That is my bus band, and there is no law in Eirinn, nor in Alaba, nor in Sasunn, that can find fault with us. Go thou in, and I myself will not believe but that a puzzle is on them till day." The explanation may be thus, Widow McLean has a son and res McDonald (man on horse), and has nine sast him (red) and dies. Widow McLeod has angi JR. HAIG. "I happened," said he, "to be acquainted with a young man from Yorkshire, who rented a window in one of the paved alleys near Cornhill for the sale of stater, marries McDonald, and has nine sons to im tionery. I hired one of the panes of glass from my (green) and dies. Young McLean marries g friend, and stuck up the following advertisement with McLeod and has a daughter, the woman on the wafers:Epigrams, anagrams, paragrams, chrono- horse, who also marries McDonald, and has tie grams, monograms, epitaphs, epithalamiums, prologues, sons to him (blue); but though she is a connexion epilogues, madrigals, interludes, advertisements, letters, petitions, memorials on every occasion, essays on all sub- by marriage, she is no blood relation at all. jects, pamphlets for and against ministers, with sermons dod I upon any text, or for any sect, to be written here on reasonable terms by A. B. Philologer.' ; "The uncommonness of the titles occasioned numerous applications, and at night I used privately to glide into the office, to digest the notes or heads of the day, and receive the earnest which was directed always to be left with the memorandums, the writing to be paid for on delivery, according to the subject. I soon became disgusted with this employment, and the moment I had realized a small sum of money, closed the scene." FREDR. RULE. " 1 WARWICKSHIRE (A.D. 1599) is thus described in Harl. MS. 3813, lf. 40: "Warwickshire, a good Mediterranean Prouince, noted to be in quantitie superficiall 555 miles, conteyninge 122 miles in circute, beinge 37 miles longe, from Staffordshire vnto Oxfordshire, & 25 miles broade, from Leycestershire vnto Worcestershire: a Contrey some parte plaine Champion & ye rest wood lande, deuided with y ryuer Auon, plentifull bothe in corne & pasturage, whereby it is well inhabited, conteyninge 1 Chase, & 16 parkes for pleasure, & comprehendeth 158 parishes, wherof their be 12 markett townes, & but 1 borough to ye Parliament, besides ye Cittie of Couentrie: the principall whereof are, the Cittie of Couentrie, a fyne, neate, & well built towne, & walled aboutte, cheefelie noted for wollen workes, & blue thridd, and is a Bushops Sea, ioyned vnto Lychfeild. Next is y Burrough of War wicke, y Capitall towne of yt Contrey, reasonablie well built, with an antient castle, the cheefe seate of y Earles of y title. Next is Stratford vupon Auon and Henley, good markett townes, & Bremyngham, cheefelie noted for all sortes of Iron tooles." F. J. F. 1 PUZZLES.-Campbell, West Highland Tales, No. 21, says that there was once a custom throughout the Gaeldom that when a man died those who waked him should while away the time with songs and stories. Once there was a man who had neither a song nor a story, and he was turned out of doors; he saw first nine men in red garments pass him, then nine men in green, and then nine men in blue dresses. Then came a man and woman on a horse, "PARTY."-The use of the word party in the sense of person is not of such recent introduction as many suppose. In The Practice of Piety, el 1638, fol. 663, is the following :— "When the sick party is departing, let the faithil that are present kneel down, and commend his soul to God." J. R. DOBE Huddersfield. ~· 1 OBSOLETE WORDS REVIVED. The last work published by James Thomson was The Castie of Indolence this was not long before his death, in 1748. I have been amused, in looking through a list of obsolete words prefixed to the poem, find so many that have been revived, and are now known to "every intelligent schoolboy." A examples take the following:→→→ Appal, affright; atween, between; ay, alway blazon, painting, displaying; carol, to sing songs of deftly, skilfully; drowsy-head, drowsyness; el, as fays, fairies; gear or geer, furniture, dress; ge pleasure; hight, named, called ; lea, a piece of land meadow; moil, to labour; noursling, a child that nursed; sheen, bright, shining; sooth, true or trai unkempt, unadorned; ween, to think; wight, man." PARALLEL PASSAGES. To zgol. "Nulla enim vitæ pars neque publicis, neque p neque forensibus, neque domesticis in rebus: neg tecum agas quid, neque si cum altero contrabas, va officio potest."-Cicero's Offices, bk. i. c. ii. human life, such as can escape from the description a "I care not to ask if there be dregs or tatters boundary of morals. I submit that duty is a pose which rises with us in the morning, and goes to with us at night. It is co-extensive with the actin our intelligence. It is the shadow which cleaves to t go where we will, and which only leaves us when w leave the light of life." Mr. Gladstone's Expostulation. p. 37, J. M. DANSON. 2 *』་ Queries. [We must request correspondents desiring information on family matters of only private interest, to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that the answers may be addressed to them direct.] 1 小 BONVYLE FAMILY.-From an inq. p. m. 9 Hen. IV., No. 42, on Sir William de Bonvyle, Kt., who died Feb. 14, 1408, the following table of pedigree may be made out : 1. -Sir Wm. de Bonvyle, 2. Alice de B. de B. William John de B., dé Bot who ob.circ. b4 Hen. VI., hori I when his but cousin Wil SIR BERNARD GASCOIGNE,-I should be very glad if any of your readers could give me any information respecting this gentleman, who narrowly John de B.,...? Thomas.....? William escaped being murdered in cold blood-like Sir C. Lucas and Sir G, Lisle at the surrender of Colchester in 1648. Mr. C. Markham, in the paper he read before the Historical Section of the Royal Archæological Institute, at Colchester, persisted, though he could give no authority for the statement, in calling him an adventurer named Guasconi. I, following Lord Clarendon's History of the Rebellion-no mean authority, I think-termed him a noble gentleman of Florence. This is the passage in Clarendon. In Book xi. sect. 106 (ed. 1849), I read tem uit bo sem all "Sir B. Gascoigne (who was a gentleman of Florence who had served the King in the war, and afterwards remained in London until the unhappy adventure at Colchester, and then accompanied his friends thither) had only English enough to make himself understood that he 'desired a pen and ink and paper that he might write a letter to his prince the great duke, that his highness might know in what manner he lost his life, to the end that his heirs might possess his estate. The officer that attended the execution thought fit to acquaint the general and council, withoat which he durst not allow him pen and ink, which he thought he might reasonably demand. When they were informed of it, they thought the matter worthy some consideration; they had chosen him out of the list for his quality, and preferred him for being a knight that they might sacrifice three of that rank. The council of war had considered that if they should in this manner have taken the life of a foreigner, who seemed to be a person of quality, their friends or children who should visit Italy might pay dear for many generations, and therefore they commanded the officer, when the other two should be dead, to carry him back to the other prisoners." I think it very probable that he was knighted by Charles I. What became of Sir Bernard after he so narrowly escaped with his life? JOHN PIGGOT, F.S.A." The Elms, near Maldon. THE REV. JOHN HOOK: In 1662 this gentleman was Rector of Kingsworthy, Hants; but upon the passing of the Act of Uniformity he removed to Basingstoke, where he became minister to the Independent dissenters. He was a person of some learning and piety, as the Latin inscription on his tombstone testifies. My reason, however, for appealing to N. & Q" is to ascertain, if possible, to what family he belonged, and if a portrait of shim is anywhere extant. Also, was he author of any religious treatises or other works? He died and was interred here in 1710, aged seventy-six. H. G..C. Basingstoke. 66 William de B Thomas de B. 1 liam, s. of John de B., toimi poble, was found his heir. Can some of your correspondents fill up the blanks with marks of interrogation against them? Was John de Bonvyle's wife Elizabeth de Fitz Reginald, of Merston, co. Sussex, who re-married Richard Stukele? "SYWL. PROCLAIMING AN EARL'S TITLES AT THE ALTAR. By the death of the Earl of Powis in 1801 the title became extinct. I have recently had occasion to refer to the accounts of the funeral published in the local papers of January and February of that year, and in one of them occurs the following passage :--. 1818 214 T ****At the close of the burial service, the coronet being offered at the altar, his lordship's several titles of Earl of Powis, Viscount Ludlow, Baron Herbert of Chirbury, Baron Powis of Powis Castle, and Baron Herbert of Ludlow, were solemnly proclaimed." look at the article 'Bible,' which I fancy is tolerably well done. "I have now resolved to send to the press, with as little delay as possible, my Dictionary of Anonyms and Pseudonyms. I begin to feel convinced that I have been aiming at something too perfect, and therefore unattainable. My intention was to give a complete copy of every title-page, including motto, imprint, &c.; but, having lately put a few entries into type, by way of specimen, I find that the work would extend far beyond all reasonable limits. I have, therefore, resolved to abridge the titles, leaving in all cases enough to secure perfect identification; and I may probably use some of the space so gained to increase the number of bibliographical and illustrative notes, for which I have exten"When I have finally determined the shape and size, I shall print a specimen, of which I shall send you a copy. I shall be glad to get your bibliogram on surnaming. I am, dear sir, yours very sincerely, sive materials. "FROPPISH."-What is the derivation of this word? It is not given in Johnson's octavo edition of 1756, or in Charles Richardson; but I find it in Smart's Walker (3rd edit., 1849) with Clarendon cited as authority. It several times occurs in Sir Charles Grandison, e.g., "If my lord will ask pardon for his froppishness, as we say of children."Sir Charles Grandison (new edition, London, Payne, &c., 1810, 12mo.), vol. iv. p. 217. And in Wycherley's Country Wife, Act ii. sc. 1, it is used: "Mrs. Pinch. O my dear, dear bud, welcome home! Why dost thou look so froppish? Who has angered thee? Pinch. You're a fool." MIDDLE TEMPLAR. "SLUG-HORN."-The last lines of Mr. Robert Browning's poem Childe Roland read :"And yet Dauntless the slug-horn to my lips I set, And blew Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came.' "LAUDE" (LATIN), A PLACE IN FRANCE (1).A MS. Martyrologium, apparently of the fifteenth century and French execution, has the obits of sundry abbots "de Laude" noted in its margin, and in such a way as to indicate that the MS. was probably written in the monastery thus referred to. I have looked in vain in Ferrarius's Lecicon Geographicum (ed. 1670) for "Laude"; and the five places to which he assigns "Laus" (viz., Laino, Lodi, Lodi Vecchio, Sapri, and Scalea) are in Italy. Can any reader oblige me with information of a monastery "de Laude" at any of those places, or (as I suspect) in France? JOHN W. BONE, F.S.A. 26, Bedford Place. THE MEWS, CHARING CROSS,-Smith, in his Streets of London, says, i. 130, that Geoffrey Chaucer was made clerk of the king's works, and of the mews at Charing. What authority has he for this statement? Cunningham does not repeat it, but he constantly omits a great deal of valuable quantity of it without acknowledgment. In the matter that Smith records; and he also uses a vast new edition I think no fact should be cited with out an authority, or at any rate a reference. Stow says that when the royal stables of Henry VIII were burnt in Lomsbury, i.e. Bloomsbury, horses were removed to the mews. the There was in the mews, or close adjoining, a place called the Common Dutch Prison, into which, by order of Cromwell, the notorious Colonel Joyce was thrown. Is any record of this prison to be got at ? C. A. WARD. Mayfair. ber of the Catholic (i.e. Roman) Church. What are the proofs of this statement? There is a very detailed account of his last days in Joyneville Life and Times of Alexander I., published, 15, by Tinsley Bros., but I think that it is not n• tioned there. ALEXANDER I. OF RUSSIA.-In the number of the Tablet for Nov. 11, it is authoritatively What is a slug-horn? Mr. Wright, in his Dic-asserted that Alexander I. of Russia died a men tionary of Obsolete and Provincial English, has, "Slug-horn, a short excrescence of horn hanging loose on a cow's head." Jamieson, in his Scottish Dictionary, gives, "Slughorne and sluggorne, the watchword used by troops in the field." He also says that the word takes the form of slogan in the south of Scotland. I cannot find any other definition anywhere, or indeed mention of the word, and neither of the above seems to be the slug-horn mentioned by Mr. Browning. Manchester. J. H. N. "CATTY-WATTY."-Can any of the readers of "N. & Q." inform me as to the etymology of this word? I came across it for the first time the other day. Curiously enough, several times since then I have heard it made use of. The sense in which I understood it signified its being synonymous Z THE RANT FAMILY.-This family for several generations resided at Swaffham Prior, Cambridge shire, where they possessed considerable estates, now the property of Charles Peter Allix, Esq., of that place. Roger Rant, Esq, the last male descendant, married twice. By his first wife he had three children, one only of whom, Mary, survived him. His second wife was Bridget, fifth daughter of Sir Strange Jocelyn, Bart., of Hide Hall, Saw bridgeworth, by whom he had no issue. I shall be glad if any of your numerous readers can assist me in finding out the family name of his first wife, Romford. form? I have heard it read in public (by Mr. Bellew), but have failed to find it in print. The latter part of my query refers to parliamentary speeches made respectively by Fox and Grattan, which appeared in a work on elocution some LYON FAMILY.-Can any reader of "N. & Q." inform me who, or of what family, were the fol-years ago, but I have lost sight of it and cannot lowing: Sir John Lyon, Sheriff and Lord Mayor Can you help me to it? of London about 1552; and William Lyon, Bishop of Ross in 1582? F. W. "D BOECK der inghelen. Hier beghint de tafele van desen teghewoerdeghen boecke geheeten (d boec va den heylighen inghelen) ghetranslateert wten franchoyse in duitsce bi mi thomas vander noot. Welck boeck in vijf deele oft tractaten ghedeylt es." -The above work was printed at Brussels in 1517. What is the full title, and who was the author of the Livre des Anges, of which it purports to be a translation? ENGEL. HERALDIC.-What were the armorial bearings of Henri de Massie, Duc de Rouvigny, time of Louis XIV. He took refuge (and died) in England after the Edict of Nantes. He was in some way connected with Rachel, Lady Russell, and left to her the remnant of his fortune. W. M. M., again discover it. Basingstoke. H. G. C. ST. ALKELD. What is known of St. Alkeld or Alkelda, to whom the churches of Middleham and DR. JOHNSON'S AND SIR W. SCOTT'S AUTOGRAPHS.-I have in my possession three autograph letters from Dr. Samuel Johnson, two of which were written from London just before his final return to Lichfield, and one from Lichfield just before his death. I have also one from Sir W. Scott declining to become a member of some club, the name of which is not mentioned. They are all written to Richard Ryland, merchant, of London. Can any one tell me if they have been made use of by any biographer, and if they are of much value? H. R. [We shall be glad to have copies of these letters.] "BIOGRAPHICA DRAMATICA." What works in French, German, and Italian correspond to this? In French I only know the Soleinne Catalogue, which is very useful as far as it goes. Lotos Club, N.Y. J. BRANDER MATTHEWS, What is the origin or meaning of this saying? A The Grove, Pocklington. TENURE OF LAND IN HUNTINGDONSHIRE.-The Monk of Ely (p. 139, edit. 1848) says there was THE ROYAL FAMILIES OF EUROPE DESCENDED in this county "terra tam libera quæ per forisfacturam non possit iri perditum," but only four hides. dently asserted that almost all the royal families FROM MAHOMET.-I have frequently heard it confiMr. Coote (Neglected Fact in History, p. 46) says of Europe, and several of our own English noble. this was the ager privatus tenure of Rome, but it houses, are descended from Mahomet through a also is the same as the early Celtic tenure in Ire-match or matches contracted during the time of land. Are there any remnants of such a distinction of tenure from the rest of the county, as the particular mention of these four hides would imply? G. LAURENCE GOMME, F.R.H.S. LORD OF THE MANOR OF CAWOOD.Is there a lord of the manor of Cawood, near York? If so, who was the lord in 1753 and also in 1820 ? B. C. "SKELETONS' WEDDING" FOX AND GRATTAN. -With regard to the first mentioned, can you inform me whether it has appeared in a printed the Crusades. This does not seem to me at all improbable, but I can find no evidence for it. If there be any such, will some one tell me where to find it? K. P. D. E. armour; IOANNES, DVX. DE. MONTAGV. J. HAMILTON. fine as (5th S. iii. 506; iv. 75, 102, 312; v. 330, 397, 514; vi. 76, 136.). that because certain words, which had been abused to support a falsehood, were suffered on that account to drop out of common use through a public act of just authority at a fixed period, they could never have been, before that period, used in their original, proper, and scriptural sense; or that it is unlawful to use them still in that sense, even though they are once only found in Holy Scripture. The distinctive use is perfectly understood, and the context must determine in each case to which of the Persons of the Godhead the terms are intended to be applied. Their application in the Te Deum is the very point in controversy. In Isaiah there is no question at all. The Hebrew words translated Æternus Pater are by the confession of all applied to Christ there, and the legitimate inference from the fact of their disuse by the Church in later days is that the document in which they are found, being confessedly a very ancient hymn, uses them in that primary sense, and must therefore be referred to the earliest age. The first historical date is said to be at the bap tism of St. Augustine in the fifth century; but this may be quite as much an evidence of general acceptance and old custom as of recent composition and novel use. In continuing this controversy I shall condense ALEPI proceeds to say that "the appellation as much as possible. My own assertions on criticalternus Pater addressed to Christ is utterly unpoints and the counter-assertions of ALEPH I leave to their own value and to the intelligence of your readers. I must not be supposed to assent to the minor propositions of my opponents because for brevity's sake I do not specifically refute them. I accept ALEPH's appeal to "the history and the known phraseology of the Te Deum." But the points of its history most essential to the satisfactory resolution of the question-its date and authorship-are wanting. This fact answers more than one observation of ALEPH, and turns the edge of others. known in the language of the Church," &c., and he supports the assertion by what he considers authority-the dictum of a certain professor of theology. Both beg the question. If the Te Deum is a primitive hymn, as I contend, they are confuted by its terms. But ALEPH adds that "nowhere else in Holy Scripture is this title given to Christ." Once is enough in Holy Scripture, and once is enough in an authentic document of the Church. Certainly, if the name Father were given both to the second Person and the first in the same short composition, in the same way, it would be ALEPH says, Almost all depends upon the confusion; but it is not so. To the first Person it words Eternus Pater." Be it so. I affirm that the is given absolutely, and in its manifest and primary use of them in the Te Deum throws back the pro-acceptation. To the second Person it is given with bable origin of the hymn to the first age of Chris- the qualifying or limiting scriptural additi tianity. The mind and the heart of the early which must have been well understood in the Church were full of the mystery long foretold, and days and by those Christians. By that ad it is idle to suppose that the apostles and first dis- the term Father is removed from its simple ciples-men conversant with and taught by Him primary sense-paternity, generation and trans in whom all the prophecies concerning the Messiah ferred to a secondary sense, different but anales were fulfilled-could be ignorant of His designation by Isaiah. It is most natural that, in the depth of their thankful joy and in the ecstasy of their adoration, they should address Him whom they confessed as their "Lord and their God" in terms appropriated and consecrated to Him in the book of the evangelical prophet. It is true that, when strict definition was forced upon the Church by the perverseness of heresy, her terminology became more precise with reference to the whole doctrine of the Trinity. But you cannot argue Again, ALEPH says, "This title is the ordinary one by which the first Person is designated." I deny it. Almightiness is that attribute of Deity specially, and of course designedly, used in all the Creeds. Eternity is not ordinarily, nor primarily and prominently, and, so to speak, distinctively, applied to the first Person in the prayers and praises of the Church universal in any age, so far as I remember. In the English Prayer Book i does not once occur; and the greater part of our Collects are of ancient date. In the "Priest's |