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have yet to learn whether the purchaser bore the honoured name of Tussaud. The World remarks: "The destiny of the heart of Louis XVII., assuming the genuineness of the relic, is far less singular than that which tradition assigns to the heart of his ancestor, Louis XIV. It is said that the heart of the Grand Monarque was purloined from its resting-place during the earlier days of the French Revolution, and was purchased from the depredators by Lord Harcourt, who happened then to be in Paris. It was brought by him to Nuneham, where, encased in a silver box, it was kept as a curiosity and occasionally exhibited by him and the successors in his estate to their guests. Once when it was being passed round the dinner-table for inspection at dessert, Dr. Buckland, the more than eccentric Dean of Westminster, asked particularly to see it, when, to the astonishment of everybody, he deliberately put the heart, which was somewhat bigger than a walnut, into his mouth, and ate it. But of all hearts, including that even of Robert Bruce, the posthumous experiences, if we may so call them, of that of the great Marquis of Montrose were the strangest and most varied. His heart was embalmed, and presented by some of his admirers, who had possessed themselves of it, to Lady Napier, the wife of the Marquis's nephew, Lord Napier of Merchistoun, to whom he had declared his desire that it should be given. It was placed in a steel box about the size of an egg, made out of the blade of Montrose's sword, which was placed in a gold filigree casket, while that in turn was deposited in a silver urn. This relic was lost or stolen while Lady Napier was in Holland previous to the Restoration, and the silver urn was

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never recovered. But the heart in the steel box and gold filigree casket was discovered in a curiosity shop at Antwerp or Amsterdam, and being returned to the Napiers, continued in their possession until it was presented by a Lord Napier to one of his daughters, who had married a Mr. Johnston, who was in the Indian Civil Service, with whom she went to India. At Madura in Madras, the station where they resided, the heart, box, and casket were again stolen, and were sold as a talisman of enormous efficacy to a native prince, the Velli Murdoo, one of the feudatories of the Nabob of Arcot. From him they were again recovered by the well-known Sir Alexander Johnston, the son of Mr. Johnston and Miss Napier, and restored by him to them. But in 1792, his father and mother being in France, and the Revolutionary Government having requisitioned all the plate and jewellery in the country, Montrose's heart, in its box and casket, was confided to a person named Knowles, who resided at Boulogne, and who undertook to conceal it until it could be transmitted to England. But before this could be done Knowles died, and what became of Montrose's heart nobody knows unto this

day."

great scoffer from the Marquis de Villette, to whose family belonged the house on the Quai Voltaire in which the Ferney philosopher died.

I should like to be told something of the Heart Shrine in Leybourne Church, Kent, concerning which the Rev. L. B. Larking wrote a quarto volume that has not come in my way. ST. SWITHIN.

REV. WALTER HARTE (D. 1774), MISCELLANEOUS WRITER.-The inscription on a tombstone in the churchyard of Weston, co. Somerset, records that he died at Bath, in January, 1774, aged sixty-seven, thus differencing the statement appearing in 'Dict. Nat. Biog., vol. xxv. p. 66, that he died in March, 1774, at. sixty-five. DANIEL HIPWELL.

17, Hilldrop Crescent, N.

THE OLD ASSEMBLY ROOMS AT KENTISH TOWN.-'Old and New London,' part lii. p. 320, contains a short account of "The Assembly Rooms" at Kentish Town (the building was commonly called "The Assembly House during the time I knew it), and mention is made of the ovalshaped marble table, which was fixed under an elm tree in front of the tavern, and which bore an inscription. What purports to be a copy of this inscription is given as follows: "Posuit A.D. 1725 in Memoriam Sanitatis Restaurata Robertus Wright, Gent." The table is still in existence, and by the courtesy of the present possessor, a gentleman residing in the neighbourhood, and who is a descendant of a proprietor of the old house, I have recently had an opportunity of seeing it. I am thus enabled to furnish a correct copy of the inscription which surrounds it: "In Memoriam Sanitatis Restauratæ Robertus Wright Gen' Hoc marmor Posuit A Dni 1725." In the centre of the table there have been three letters, now partially obliterated, but which there is little doubt were the letters DOM. C. M. P.

JEWISH HUMOUR.-Referring to this product in his " Echoes" of January 15, Mr. Sala mentions some "never-to-be-forgotten Israelite" who was surprised by a thunderstorm whilst in the act According to Chancellor Raine of York ("History" What a row about a bit of pork!" I am, I of eating ham, and who thereupon exclaimed, and Antiquities of the Parish of Hemingbrough,' confess, not acquainted with this Hebrew. Perhaps p. 206), one of the arms of this hero was lately in he may have been but a Jew outwardly. Young keeping of Miss Reeves, of Burton Salmon. Mr. Disraeli bought balf a wild boar in Epirus, and wrote home that it was not half so good as the Bradenham bacon. Anyhow, Mr. Sala's Jew "lifted" his exclamation. The man who said the real thing was Jacques Vallée, Sieur des Barreaux, who was of this earth from 1602 to 1673, and who has claims to remembrance other than those of Mr. Sala's Semitic humourist, the stealer of his mot. Marion de

A country newspaper paragraphs the statement that Voltaire's heart was in the possession of Monseigneur de Dreux-Brézé, Bishop of Moulins, who died a short time ago in his eighty-second year :---"The bishop was the youngest son of the Grand Master of Ceremonies in the Court of Louis XVI., the same Marquis de Dreux-Brézé to whom Mirabeau said that the members of the National Assembly held their seats by the will of the people, and not by that of the king. The Church dignitary inherited the heart of the

It was Des Barreaux who showed l'Orme the way that she should go,

and who accompanied her some distance along that primrose path. It was he who, during his necessarily brief career as a Conseiller au Parlement, put the papers relating to a case entrusted to him into the fire, and assured his clients that he had thus done the best thing possible for all concerned. And it was he who presided over a little dinner, one Good Friday, at Duryer's cabaret at St. Cloud, when the company insisted that the omelette should be au lard. The appearance of this uncanonical plat was signalled by a terrific clap of thunder. His guests paled, but Des Barreaux put the right complexion on the matter by the remark, now classic: "Voilà beaucoup de bruit pour une omelette!" W. F. WALLER.

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In 1817, a vacancy having occurred in the minor canonries of Windsor, three candidates competed, of the names of Pope, Abbot, and Dean. Mr. Pope was the one chosen, and when he took his place the next day for the usual service he found a sheet of paper on his desk, with these lines written on it :

A Pope, an Abbot, and a Dean
To gain this seat applied;

And each alternate filled the scene
For canons to decide.

They prayed, they sang, their chant was heard,
And each encouraged hope:

But canons dignity preferred,

And cried, "We'll have the Pope! "

Wells, Somerset.

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H. W. LIVETT, M.D.

"BOTH" WITH A SINGULAR VERB. (See 8th S. iii. 35, art. Availed of.")-I will not deny that DR. BREWER may be able to find precedents of a sort for this use, but so far as I know he is his own authority. Let him not, however, ransack the literature of the seventeenth century, the grammar of which is as little authoritative as its spelling. We have reformed the spelling, and the grammar is bound to follow in the path of improvement. At any rate, the New Testament revisers have wiped out the solecism from "the famous example in Luke v. 10."

No word in the language is more emphatically plural than both, and we must, if we use it as DR. BREWER has done, write: "There are both a St. Christ and a St. Jesus." We might, how ever, with equal propriety write, "There is a...... and also," or "besides," or as well as," &c. Would DR. BREWER, asked if either saint was in

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the calendar, reply, "There is both"? The correct phrase is, "There are both," and when the words "a St. Christ and a St. Jesus" are added these nouns are in apposition with the pronoun both. "Where there are two nouns," says Dr. Latham, "each in the singular, and but one verb, both is a pronoun, and is in apposition with them (Dictionary,' in voc.). A sentence thus constructed is not elliptical, the influence of both being the very reverse of that attributed to it by DR. BREWER. In a proposition of which both is the subject the copula must be plural; the most irrepressible of desires to "individualize" will not excuse the violation of so plain a rule of grammar. F. ADAMS.

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A PAST PHILANTHROPIST. - Being on a visit to some old friends within easy walking distance of Chipstead Church, Surrey - which is picturesquely situated on a hill between Croydon and Merstham-I had a ramble round in the afternoon as far as the sacred edifice, with which was thoroughly restored a few years ago, through I have been acquainted since February, 1854. It the liberality of the local squire, and thereit did in my boyhood. fore presents an altered appearance from what Besides the numerous

grassy mounds beneath which "the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep," there are several notable monuments, in the God's acre, of the Fanshawe, Little, Shearman, and Walpole families. Near the south porch is that in memory of the second named, and the following pleasing record of kindly action in time of distress is well worthy of a place in your comprehensive columns :In memory of Sir James Little Knt and also Knight of

The Most Illustrious Spanish Order of Charles III.
(Sacred to Virtue and Merit)

possessed of the most amiable disposition
and living in the

unwearied exercise of public and private benevolence he was justly endeared to all

who knew him.

He obtained the distinguished honor above mentioned from His Majesty the King of Spain

in testimony of that monarch's high sense
of his humane exertions

and active kindness towards the inhabitants of the Island of Teneriffe in a season of unparalleled misery and distress.

He died at Shabden Park

in this parish on the 17th of October 1829, in the 68th year of his age. D. HARRISON. "FIVE ASTOUNDING EVENTS."-Under this catching title there appeared in the Daily News, January 2, a long advertisement pretending to predict some marvellous events likely to occur during 1893 and 1894. The compiler of this really "astounding" piece of nonsense conceals his identity, and there is nothing whatever to show for what purpose it can have been written, at

whose expense it was inserted, or why. Perhaps some idea of religion may be connected with it. If so, why was it not stated? Can any one explain the motive for this advertisement? I intend to preserve the cutting, to see how much, or rather how little, of its prophecy comes true during 1893 and 1894, if I live so long. WALTER HAMILTON.

THE YEOMEN OF THE GUARD. (See 8th S. ii. 318, art. Buffetier.')—In my note at the above reference I mentioned the yeomen of the guard as table servants at Queen Elizabeth's court. Since the publication of my note, the diary of the Duke of Stettin-Pomerania, during his travels in England in the autumn of 1602, has been printed, with an English translation, in the Royal Historical Society's Transactions, New Series, vol. vi. On Sept. 26, he interviewed the queen at Oatlands, and in the record of this day (p. 52) there is one passage which touches my subject:

"Auf dem Garten gingen wir in die præsent Kammer, sahen die vornehmsten Herren und die wohlgeputzte Frauenzimmer, meistentheils mit Silberzeug gekleidet, auch die Ceremonien welche bei der Tafel ge[p]flogen werden, darauf die Essen von den Trabanten, so schöne grosse Kerdel sein, gesetzt."

Thus translated:

"From the garden we went to the presentation chamber, saw the most elegant gentlemen and welldressed ladies; most of them in silver cloth; also the ceremonies at table, and the dishes brought in by the halberdiers, who are fine big fellows."

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F. ADAMS.

105, Albany Road, Camberwell, S. E. "THREE STIRS AND A WALLOP FOR A BAWBEE." Eighty years ago in Edinburgh, it was the custom for a man to walk through the town every day at noon bearing a large shin-bone of beef. His cry was, 'Three stirs and a wallop for a bawbee.' All the housewives had their vetegables stewing for the family soup, and gladly paid their bawbees for the privilege of three stirs with the bone, which was supposed to flavour the stew." -Birmingham Daily Post, Nov. 26, 1892.

It is not too late in the day to verify this statement, if it be not an invention.

Burslem.

B. D. MOSELEY.

[See Mr. Tuer's 'Old London Cries,' cheap edition; "N. & Q.,'" Twa dips and a wallop."]

SIR JOHN MENNES, KNT. (1598-1671), ADMIRAL AND POET.-In the New View of London,' 1708, vol. ii. p. 444, appears a notice of a "black and white marble Monument of the Corinthian Order" in St. Olave's Church, Hart Street, London, on the "South side of the Altar, fronting Westward," with a transcript of the Latin inscription in golden Characters," commemorating Sir John Mennes, Knt., of Sandwich, co. Kent, son of Andrew Mennes, arm., by Jane, daughter of John Blechenden, arm., and furnishing the information

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that he was born March 1, 1598, and died Feb. 18, 1670. His burial in the chancel is recorded in St. Olave's register under date Feb. 27, 1670/1.

A small three-quarter-length portrait, by Vandyke, of Sir John Mennes, Lord Admiral, Governor of Dover Castle, &c., finds a place in the drawingroom of The Grove, near Watford, Herts, the seat of the Earl of Clarendon. It represents a man of middle scarlet with slashed sleeves, and a breastplate of age, with long black hair, wearing a coat of steel crossed by a sash of a deeper red than the coat; the right hand, which is across the body, being covered with a long leather gauntlet.

17, Hilldrop Crescent, N.

DANIEL HIPWELL.

"HARIOLE" (VERB).-This word, a coinage from the Latin hariolor, to divine, by the late Bishop of St. Andrews, ought to be noted in N. & Q.' It occurs as a rhyme to "carriole" in some verses upon that conveyance written by Dr. Wordsworth during a tour in Norway, and quoted in the Daily News of Dec. 7, 1892. C. C. B.

SIR RICHARD LEVESON, VICE-ADMIRAL OF ENGLAND. In addition to the particulars of him given in the Dict. of Nat. Biog.,' it may be stated that he was M.P. for Shropshire in the Parliament of 1588-89, and again in 1604, until his decease in W. D. PINK. the year following.

"WINDFUL."

"A Windmill on the Bank of the River Thames, very near London, will be Lett, it is fitted to grind Wood for Dyers; there are Engines ready to be plac'd in it for Rasping, Shaving and Stripping Wood; and also Roles and Engines to cut Tobacco, in a Story apart from the rest, and a Mill to Grind Snuff or other things: The Person who Lets it will fit it to perform any Work proper to be done by the strength of a Windful, if he that takes it desire it, and give Direction; adjoining to the Mill is a Dwelling House, Warfe, Crane, Granary and Store-Houses, to be Lett therewith: Inquire of Mr. Bunn, Colour-seller at the Cross in Newgatestreet, near Warwick-Lane."Post Boy, No. 625, April 8-11, 1699.

H. H. S.

THE FOLLOWERS OF BRUCE.-In a little-known work, entitled 'Edward I. of England in the North of Scotland,' by a member of the Literary and Scientific Association of Elgin (8vo., Elgin, 1858), occurs a list of the supporters of Robert Bruce, afterwards King of Scotland, in the year 1306. Dr. Taylor, the author, says :

"Among the principal supporters of Bruce in the north there were, besides the Earl of Athole and the Bishop of Moray, the following persons, viz., Alan de Moravia de Culbin, Sir William de Fentoun of Beauford; William de Dolays of Cantray; John de la Haye; Walter Herock, dean, and William Cresswell, chanter of Moray; Alexander Pilche, burgess of Inverness; William de Moravia of Sandford, a cousin of Alan de Moravia of Calbin; Hamelyn de Troup and Andrew Slegh; Andrew Byssop and Adam Chapen of Aberdeen; Lawrence de Strathbogie; John Forbes; Hugh Lovel; Aleyn de

Durward of Fichelie [Fechley, in Towie]; and Mons. Thomas de Monymusk."-Op. cit., p. 284. Curiously enough, though Dr. Taylor's pages are crowded with careful references to authorities, not a single reference is given in support of the accuracy of this interesting list. Can any reader of N. & Q.' supply the deficiency? It is possible that the names may have been obtained from the Ragman Roll,' to no copy of which am I in a position to refer. A. CALDER.

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DOUGLAS JERROLD'S LETTERS.-I shall feel extremely grateful to any readers of N. & Q.' who may possess letters of Douglas Jerrold if they would lend them to me for the 'Life and Letters which I am preparing for publication. Any such letters shall be returned immediately I have copied them. WALTER JErrold.

21, Great College Street, Westminster.

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.

CROYDON.-As the name of a colour or complexion there are several instances of croydon sanguine about 1600. Thus, in R. Edwards's 'Damon and Pythias,' in Hazlitt's 'Dodsley,' iv. 80, a speaker says to Grim, the collier of Croydon, "By'r Lady, you are of a good complexion, a right Croyden sanguine." Harington, Metam. Ajax,' sign. L 7 (as cited by Nares), has, "Both of a complexion inclining to the Oriental colour of a croydon-sanguine." Nicholas Breton, A Post with a Packet,' &c. (ed. 1609), has, "As for an ill favoured face go to Parish Garden to your good brother; indeed your Croidon sanguine is a most fine complexion; but for your Tobacco, it is a good purge for your Rheum." From the first of these passages it has been suggested that the term is derived from Croydon, in Surrey; but apparently it is there associated with this place only by a humorous word-play. Can any suggestion as to the origin be made?

While dealing with croydon, I wish also to ask for information about a "high Irish car," called a croydon. In December, 1880, the word figured prominently in a case in which an Irish farmer, riding home in a croydon, was assassinated. I find it also in Mrs. B. M. Croker's 'Two Masters,' chap. xxii. "Well!' exclaimed Mona, as I clambered into the croydon beside her "; and I have other examples. What is the nature and history of this vehicle; and whence the name ?

J. A. H. MURRAY. [See 7th S. ii. 446; iii. 96, 171, 395, 416, 523, where most of the above illustrations, with some others, are advanced. Į

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JOHN PALMER.-I shall be much obliged if any reader can give me information as to Mr. John Palmer, the inventor of the stage coach. I should like to know whom he married, if he had any brothers or sisters, or children, and whom they married. I have always understood that he was uncle to my great-grandfather, but could never ascertain the connexion. CHARLES Drury.

THE CENTURION.-Will some readers of 'N. & Q.' refer me to a trustworthy engraving, or give me a detailed description of the costume and accoutrements of the Roman centurion in the first century, and particularly the vitis?

Ashton-under-Lyne.

WALTER J. ANDREW.

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[The better opinion is that formerly members sitting in a draughty House invariably sat covered. Members The custom is gradually dying out now that the House is uncovered only when rising or when named. warmed. Mr. Disraeli was the first member of distinction who never wore a hat in the House.]

CARACCIOLI'S CHAPEL.-Walpole, speaking of the witty and notorious Lady Townshend, writes: "On Sunday, George Selwyn was strolling home to dinner. He saw my Lady Townshend's coach stop at Caraccioli's chapel. He watched it, saw her go in; her to the altar, a woman brought her a cushion; she knelt, footman laughed; he [Selwyn] followed. She went up crossed herself, and prayed. He stole up, and knelt by her. Conceive her face, if you can, when she turned and found him close to her. In his demure voice he said, 'Pray, madam, how long has your ladyship left the pale of our church?' She looked furies, and made off upon curiosity." no answer. Next day he went to her, and she turned it

cioli's"? I am inclined to think it may have been What chapel was this; and why called "Caracthe late "Sardinian Chapel," Lincoln's Inn Fields, still existing, but now, it is said, about to be taken down to make way for a new street; but, with my books not yet unpacked here, I cannot verify my guess. Can any of my ' N. & Q.' friends do so for JOHN W. BONE, F.S.A.

me?

Birkdale, Southport.

HERALDIC.-I shall be greatly indebted to any one who can throw light upon the ownership of some arms on an old silver coffee-pot. The arms are much worn, and my ignorance of heraldry makes description difficult; but I shall be pleased to send a rubbing to any one who can help to decipher them. Crest, possibly a talbot without

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"GOODENING."-I am unable to find this word in Webster, or in any dictionary which I have consulted. It is perhaps a variant of "good-doing"; but the following extract from the Herts and Essex Observer of Dec. 31, 1892, will explain its meaning: Braughing. Goodening. The widows as usual observed their old custom on St. Thomas's Day, and went round the village 'a-goodening.' They met with considerable success, and a good sum was divided among the widows of the parish, who now number thirty-one. The party were headed by an old lady of eighty-six, still in the enjoyment of good health.” THOMAS BIRD.

Romford.

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form some idea when the expression "Member of Parliament" first came into use. I know not at present whether it is to be met with in the literature of Stuart times; and if it be of later origin, it would be interesting to know some of the earliest examples of its occurrence. JAMES GAIRDNer.

ROBERT DE KELDELETH.-In the article in the 'Dictionary of National Biography' on this somewhat noted ecclesiastic, it is stated that "he bore a local Fifeshire name, which is said to be now represented by Kinloch." I should be greatly indebted if the writer would kindly inform me on what information this statement is based. Despite the authority of the editor of the 'Registrum de Dunfermlyn' (see his preface, pp. xi, xii), I am inclined to think it was a local Lothian name. It is an undoubted fact that this parish was known in early times as Keldeleth, and to this day the southern portion of it bears the name Kinleith, evidently a modernized form of the word. To give but one instance,—

[See reply on St. Thomas's Day Custom' in present in the Inquisitiones,' under date July 25, 1609, number, p. 94.]

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DAMASK ROSE. Is there any authority for the constantly repeated statement that the damask rose was a native of Damascus, and brought therefrom? It is likely enough, but hard to prove. The only piece of early information that I can find is in Hakluyt. He says (in a memorandum of his own) that it was introduced into England at the beginning of the sixteenth century by Dr. Linaker, Henry VII.'s physician, who, however, certainly did not go to Damascus for it, his travels having apparently not been extended beyond Italy. Another interpretation of the name is at least possible. See Shakespeare, Sonnet cxxx. :

I have seen roses damask'd red and white, where "damasked " means "of various colour," as in embroidered or figured damask silk.

which roll the "ecclesia de Keldeleth"

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James Foullis of Colinton is served heir to his father "terris ecclesiasticis ac gleba ecclesiæ parochialis de Curry, alias Kildleithe." In the text of the Registrum,' too, is incorporated a taxation roll of the diaconate of Linlithgow, in along with those of Gogar, Halys (Colinton), and Ratheu (Ratho), all of them adjoining parishes to Currie. This taxation roll, or something closely akin to it (for I have not compared them), will also be found in the Priory of Coldingham" (Surtees Society). I shall be grateful to any one who can throw further light on the matter; and as it is not one of very general interest, I append my address. R. B. LANGWILL.

Currie, N.B.

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OSSINGTON OR OSENTON.-Can any one say if he has met with this surname in either of the above forms in any part of England, Kent and London excepted? C. E. GILDERSOME-DICKINSON.

Eden Bridge.

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"WILLIAM OF TYRE."- Is there no handy separate edition of " William of Tyre" in the Latin original? Students of his 'Historia Belli Sacri' have actually no choice, but either to recur to the bulky folio of the Recueil des Historiens des Croisades,' published by the "Académie des Inscriptions" (1844), or to use Migne's 'Patrologie Latine,' where it is reprinted in tome 201, upon "double-column pages," as a mere appendix to "Arnulfi Opera Omnia.' Truly the great contemporary historian of the first century of the Crusades is no unworthy object to be rendered edition of the original text. more accessible to the student by a separate critical H. KREBS.

C. B. MOUNT. "MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT."—I should be glad if any of your correspondents could assist me to

Oxford.

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