whether there is any version extant of the other poems of Spenser, and of the "Faerie Queene" in particular? X. 1. [The following is the title:" Calendarium Pastorale, sive Æglogæ duodecim, totidem Anni Mensibus accommodatæ, Anglicè olim scriptæ, nune autem eleganti Latino Carmine donatæ a Theodoro Bathurst. Lond. 1653, Svo." It is dedicated by the editor, William Dillingham, to Francis Lane. Some copies have no date. It was republished by John Ball, with a Latin Dissertation, "De Vita Spenseri et Scriptis," and an augmented glossary. Lond. 1732, 8vo, with cuts by Foudrinier.] is in some way affected by the time of the year; the hour at which it comes off being regulated by the time of sunset. What is the reason for the name retreat being applied to this particular parade, if it may be so termed? JOHN DAVIDSON. [The military term retreat has various significations; but whenever it is applied to a parade or muster of the troops, we think the expression must have originally referred to the men's retiring to their quarters when the muster was over, not to the muster itself.] DUROCOBRIVIS.-Can you direct me to any book, where conjectures are hazarded on the site QUOTATIONS.-Where are the following quota- of the Roman town Durocobriva, besides those tions to be found?. A thing O'er which the raven flaps her funeral wing." [Byron's Corsair, canto II. stanza xvi.] "Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But why did you kick me downstairs?" [These lines first appeared in the Asylum for Fugitive Pieces, 1785; and again in The Panel, by J. P. Kemble, 1788 (Act I. Sc. 1). It has been conjectured that Mr. Kemble was the author of them. See " N. & Q.," 2nd S. vii. 176; viii. 37.] ""Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark G. F. B. Who is the author of the following specimen of grandiloquence? "Britanniarum majestas ad ortum solis ab hesperio cubili porrecta." Dublin. J. L. contained in the works of Camden, Chauncy, and Clutterbuck, which are within my reach? In modern atlases this town is represented as occupying the present site of Maiden Bower, near Dunstable. Are there sufficient reasons for this decision? C. D. [The learned William Baxter is of opinion that the site in question was Woburn, in Bedfordshire. He also maintains that the proper orthography was Durocobrivis. See his Glossarium Antiquitatum Britannicarum, edit. 1719, p. 113.] ANONYMOUS.-Who was the author of - "An Autumn near the Rhine; or Sketches of Courts, Society, and Scenery, &c., in some of the German States bordering on the Rhine. With a Map of the Eastern Part of Germany as settled at the Congress of Vienna. London, 1818"? T. H. [By Charles Edward Dodd, Esq., Barrister of the Middle Temple, who died very soon after the publication of his work.] Replies. CROMWELL'S HEAD. (3rd S. iv. 175.) Mr. Frank Buckland, in his letter to The Queen newspaper of the 16th inst., which no doubt some of your readers have also seen, has thrown a new light upon Cromwell's head. Visiting a friend lately in Hampshire, who possesses some interesting relics of Charles I., he was informed by him— "that, despite all the curious stories about the existence of Oliver Cromwell's head, he thought he knew of the existence of a head, which all evidence seems to prove to be the very head of this great man. [These italicised words I do not know whether Mr. Buckland's, or his friend's.] The story is as follows: :-'Oliver Cromwell was buried in Westminster Abbey. I well recollect my father, the Dean [Buckland, of course]. pointing out the place to his friends. The grave was situated in the very centre of the centre chapel, at the east end of Hen. VII.'s Chapel; but there is no stone to mark the place.' [These italics are Mr. Buckland's.] Mr. Buckland then quotes the usual historical account of the magnificent burial of the Protector at Westminster (which is still a disputed point, however); and that it was disinterred by the Royalists, hung at Tyburn, and cast into a hole beneath the gallows. He then continues, what I presume to be his friend's story (for he is rather involved in his mode of stating it), thus: "The head was subsequently separated from the body, and placed on an iron spike over the gate at Temple Bar. Here it remained till it was blown down by the wind. It was at that moment picked up by a soldier, who immediately secreted it. It remained in this soldier's family for several generations; till at last, not many years ago, it was given by the last survivor of his family to Mr. Wilkinson, a surgeon of Sandgate, near Folkestone, and is at this moment in the possession of that gentleman's son. The skin covering the skull is quite dry and hard, but in excellent preservation. The hair of the mustache still remains; and the wart also, which we see represented in his portraits, is plainly to be seen; and the flesh has been embalmed, which would not have been the case with the remains of an ordinary person. I regret to say I have not seen it myself. [I presume, Mr. Buckland means he has not?] With the head are preserved the actual documents, in which are offered large rewards for the restoration to the authorities of the head, after it was blown down; and severe threats upon those who retained it knowingly, after these notices were published." I will not now enter upon the vexed question as to the place of burial of Oliver Cromwell; but if the above facts are correct, and there appears no reason to doubt, surely some means ought to be taken to have the head and documents examined, by Mr. Wilkinson's permission, by some person competent to judge of their historical value. H. W. COLONEL ROBERT VENABLES. He favoured the rising in Cheshire under Sir George Booth on behalf of Charles II. in August, 1659, but lay concealed, designing to surprise Chester had Booth succeeded in his bold en terprise. In March following, General Monk gave Colonel Venables the government of Chester Castle, and he aided the Restoration. What reward he received we cannot state, but his friend Dr. Peter Barwick petitioned Charles II. that Colonel Venables might be honoured with some eminent mark of the royal favour, since it was sufficiently known that he formerly both could have restored his majesty to his throne, and would have done it, if he had not been hindered by the perfidiousness of some to whom the king's business was trusted. Colonel Venables was an Independant in religion, and in 1664 was denounced to the government as one who had secretly promoted the rising in Yorkshire, known as the Farnley Wood Plot. There was probably little truth in the accusa tion. He seems thenceforward to have lived in retirement at his seat in Cheshire. He died in 1687, being buried on July 26. As respects him, we have references to Life of Dr. Peter Barwick, 162, 184-186, 190, 207, 219, 262, 277, 431, 451, 456, 471, 521, 522; Borlace's Irish Rebellion, 277, 282, 283, 314; App. 24; Campbell's Chancellors, 4th ed. vi. 2; Carlyle's Cromwell, ii. 65, 66; iii. 81, 97, 144, 145; Clarendon, Cromwelliana, 55, 58, 65, 70, 71, 142; Green's Cal. Dom. State Pap. Car. II., iii. 512; Leon. Howard's Letters, 1; Hunter's Life of Oliver Heywood, 179; Lancashire Civil War Tracts, 63, 354; Life of Adam Martindale, 210, 216; Autobiog. of Hen. Newcome, 207; Norris Papers, 19; Ormerod's Cheshire, i. 487; Granville Penn's Memorials of Sir Wm. Penn; Sainsbury's Cal. Col. State Pap.; Thomas's Hist. Notes, 657; Thurloe's State Papers; Whitelock's Memorials ; Zouch's Life of Walton, ed. 1823, 33, 34. Lord Campbell was evidently under the impression that Colonel Venables was a mere country squire; and a more recent writer, having occasion incidentally to mention the colonel, appears to have been equally unaware of his historic and literary fame. C. H. & THOMPSON COOPer. WORKS OF FRANCIS BARHAM. I observe with some surprise in "N. & Q." a note of inquiry respecting my published writings, to which note is appended an account of a few of them. I do not know, nor even guess, the names of those correspondents who have thus favoured me with their notice; nor do I complain of their remarks, which are written with that gentlemanly courtesy which distinguishes the pages of your periodical. But, as the titles of my books have been thus publicly requested, it seems fair that I should be allowed to give a completer list of them than that which appears in your pages, which abound in bibliographic information. I have such an esteem for your journal as a permanent record of the curiosities of literature and science, that I take the pains to correct your list by the following additions : — Besides my English versions of Cicero's Republic and Laws, I translated for the first time lished in Bohn's Classical Series. Some other of into English Cicero's Divination and Fate, pubmy publications are versions of the Ecclesiastes and Canticles of Solomon, and the Prophecies of Micah from the Hebrew. An improved Monotessaron, or Harmony of the Gospels, in a revised translation, published by Messrs. Rivington; Man's Right to God's Word, from the French prize treatise of M. Boucher; The Pleasures of Piety, a poem. A Key to Alism and the Highest Initiations; being a treatise on the system of universal theology, theosophy, and philosophy. A Life of James Pierrepont Greaves, an eminent mystic, noticed at large in Mr. Morell's History of Philosophy. A Life of Colston, the Bristol philanthropist. The New Bristol Guide, &c. Of course I do not mention a multitude of compilations to leading journals and periodicals. As to the Adamus Exul, to which the inquiry of your correspondent is especially directed, I would mention that the only original copies of the Latin I ever saw were two contained in the library of that great book collector, Mr. Heber. Long before his death, he told me he possessed them, and his words were verified; for after his death they were sold among the books of his library. One copy of these scarce literary curiosities passed into the hands of Mr. Lilly, the London bookseller; and I persuaded my friend Mr. Hallam, the historian, to bave it purchased for the British Museum. Whether it was so or not I cannot tell. The other came into the possession of a private gentleman. Both of these copies were kindly lent to me, and I collated them with Lauder's edition of the Adamus Exul, Dr. Parr's copy of which I still possess. I found that it faithfully agreed with the Latin original of Grotius, with the exception of a very few words. My English version of this wonderfully rare and grand tragedy is sometimes very literal, and sometimes merely paraphrastic, especially in the choruses. But The Times, and other leading organs of criticism, seemed to grant in their reviews that I had established this fact-that Milton was more indebted to the Adamus Exul than to any poem in existence. It is desirable that the Latin original should be reprinted. But the public taste for truly Miltonic poetry is at a very low condition. I fear that if new Miltons were now to arise they would suffer as much from neglect as he who received five pounds for the copyright of the noblest epic in the universe. Bath. MR. WISE. FRANCIS BARHAM. (3rd S. v. 100.) "the As Warton in the Life of sir Thomas Pope, published in 1772, records his obligations to late learned Mr. Francis Wise, keeper of the archives," for transcripts of some curious papers from the collections of Strype and Charlett, I cannot but conclude that he is the Mr. Wise said to be alluded to by Warton in 1790; but I do not find any of his letters of that date in Mant, or Wooll, or in the Garrick Correspondence. Francis Wise was educated at Oxford, and obtained a fellowship in Trinity College, M.A. 1717; B.D. 1727. At an early period of his career he was a sub-librarian in the Bodleian; in 1726 was elected keeper of the archives; and in 1750 Radcliffe librarian. He retained the two latter offices till his death in 1767, aged 72. His edition of the Annales rerum gestarum Ælfredi magni seems to have been carefully prepared, and the list of 340 subscribers proves the estimation in which he was held. For his other works, I must refer to the four noble folios, compiled by the reverend Bulkeley Bandinel and his associates, which exhibit to the students of all countries, at all hours, and at a very moderate expense, the incomparable treasures of the Bodleian Library. BOLTON CORNEY. A short The Mr. Wise about whom Mr. J. O. HALLIWELL makes inquiry was Radcliffe Librarian at Oxford. There is a good deal said of him in Boswell's Johnson under the year 1754, in which year Johnson and Boswell visited him at Elsfield. He took a great interest in the gift of the M.A. degree which Johnson received from the University, by diploma, in February 1755. account of him is given in a book not quite so commonly seen as Boswell's Johnson-the Lives of Leland, Hearne, and Anthony à Wood, edited by Warton and Huddesford, Oxford, 1772. The Life of Anthony à Wood was republished by the late Dr. Bliss in 1848. I do not know of any second issue of the Lives of Leland and Hearne, which are contained in the first of the two volumes of Warton and Huddesford. I therefore transcribe the passage. It is a note, at p. 26 of the Life of Hearne: "Francis Wise, B.D. was son of Francis Wise, Mercer in Oxford, and was entered of Trinity College in the year one thousand seven hundred and eleven, elected Scholar, and afterwards Fellow of that Society. In 1719 he was appointed Under Keeper of the Bodleian Library, and in 1727 was elected Custos Archivorum by the University. At this time he was domestic chaplain to the Right Honourable the Earl of Guilford, then Lord North, in whose family he frequently resided at Wroxton in Oxfordshire: by that Nobleman he was presented to the Donative or Curacy of Elsfield near Oxford, under whom also he held a small Estate in that Place on a long Lease, upon which he built a commodious little House, where he resided during the last Years of his life; and spent his Time in literary pursuits, and as an Amusement in forming an elegant Garden, which, though a small piece of Ground, was diversified with every object in Miniature that can be found in a larger Scale in the most admired Places in this Kingdom. In 1750 he was appointed Radcliffe Librarian by the Officers of State, and died October 6, 1767. He published Trinity College, Oxford, an eminent tutor there; an universal Scholar, more particularly an excellent Mathematician, but of such extreme Diffidence and Modesty, that had a longer life been allowed him, the public never would have reaped any advantage from his Studies. He died in 1750. This note is subjoined to preserve the Memory of a worthy Man which otherwise will be lost." To this extract I will only add that many Oxford men, all who were fond of that beautiful walk to Elsfield, will recollect Mr. Wise's garden, in which some at least of the "objects" mentioned by Warton and Huddesford were visible when I was last in Elsfield. I am sorry that I can give no account of "the destination of his papers." Stuarts Lodge, Malvern Wells. D. P. "ONE SWALLOW DOES NOT MAKE A SUMMER" (3rd S. v. 53.) All poetical references which I have seen speak of the appearance of swallows as harbingers of summer only. The readers of "N. & Q." may possibly remember an impromptu attributed to Sheridan when George IV. was Prince of Wales. One very cold day the prince came into a coffee-house where Sheridan happened to be, and called for something to drink to warm him. He was so pleased with the first glass that he called for a second, and then a third, and then declared himself comfortable. Sheridan immediately wrote on a slip of paper the following lines, and handed them to George: "The Prince came in, and said 'twas cold, Dublin. When he pronounced it summer." J. O'B. I would add to examples from Horace, for R. C. HEATH'S information, a citation from Cowley, exactly what that correspondent desires. ("Anacreontic XI. The Swallow.") Our poet reproaches this vivacious and active, but tuneless bird, for breaking his rest and robbing him of a delightful dream. It commences: — "Foolish prater; what dost thou So early at my window do With thy tuneless serenade?" the worse since they were first discovered; the air being much more inclement, and the soil much more barren than formerly In short the Summer Islands are now far from being desirable spots The water on the islands, except that which falls from the clouds, is brackish, and at present the same diseases reign there as in the Caribee Islands The north or north-east wind renders the air very cold."— Dobson's Encyclopædia, 1798. "The islands are healthy, the climate is delightful.” New American Cyclopædia, 1858. If SELRAHE'S object is a literary one, this note from Pinkerton's Geography may help him: "In the Novus Orbis of De Laet (pp. 27-30) there is some interesting information concerning these islands." Also the description in Raynal's Hist. of the East and West Indies, iii. 524. From my own knowledge I can state (what everybody knows perhaps), that it is the custom for invalids to spend the autumn and winter there, until about the middle of February, when they generally leave for Santa Cruz (also called very unhealthy by some writers), the Havana, or elsewhere, the prevailing winds of the "vexed Bermoothes" beginning at that season to be very unpleasant. With the exception of the early spring months the climate is delicious. If I observe the variety of spelling Summer, Summers, Sommers, and Somers. The same occurs in the name of Sir George Somers, from whom the name of the group is said to come. age gives authority, see Smith's General Historie of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles ; but the title is all I know of the book, having never seen it. But, again, A Plaine Description of the Barmudas, now called Sommer Islands, with the manner of their Discoverie, anno 1609. By W. C., London, 1613. Since writing the above, I have made a note of Letters from the West Indies, by William Lloyd, M D., London, 1838; An Historical and Statistical Account of the Bermudas from their discovery to the present Time, by Wm. F. Williams, London, 1848; Bermuda, by a Field Officer, London, 1857. Sr. T. "PIG AND WHISTLE" (3rd S. iv. 101.) - Probably many of your readers are familiar with this and concludes thus, which is to the purpose of name at Cambridge. I believe it existed once on R. C. H.: the signboard of an inn in Trinity Street, now called the Blue Boar; but, however this may be, a few years back it was the popular cognomen for a new hostel built opposite the Gate of Trinity College. The argument for the name being attached to this building was rather a droll one. It was because it was situated midway between a certain college (which shall be nameless) whose society was styled, in rival-undergraduate slang, Pigs," and another whose Principal has a name said to be unpronounceable without a "whistle." R. C. L. "If you have not yet replied to the second part of W. C.'s query in the Navorscher, you might tell him, there exists a Frisic Grammar by Rask, revised by De Haan Hettema in 1832 (price fl. 180, or 3s.); that, besides, in 1863, a very concise Frisic Grammar was published by Colmjin (for about fl. 1, or 1s. 8d.); and that the Frisic Vocabularies are, that on the Poems of Gysbert Japix, by Epkema, in 4to, 1824 (antiquarian price f 5, or 8s. 4d.) an excellent book; Richthofen, Altfriesisches Wörterbuch, in 4to, 1840 (A. 7 à fl. 10, 11s. 8d. to 16s. 8d., antiquarian price): I think out of print; de Haan Hettema, Proere van een Friesch Nederlandsch Woordenboek, in 8vo, 1832 (fl. 1, ls. 8d.) "Excepting Richthofen, I have these all for sale. I should thus be able to suit your querist, and further accommodate him with any production of Frisic literature he might desire, as I try to keep these in stock as completely as possible. Forgive me, that I, though totally unacquainted with you, yet make free to forward you the above: the purpose of the Navorscher will, I hope, be promoted by it." JOHN H. VAN LENNEP. Zeyst, near Utrecht. GRAVE OF POCAHONTAS (2nd S. vii. 403.)— "1616, June.-Geo. Lord Carew. Extracts from Letter to Sir Thos. Roe; in the form of a journal : "Sir Thomas Dale returned from Virginia and brought divers men and women of that country to be educated in England. One Rolfe also brought his wife, Pocahuntas, the daughter of Powhatan, "the Barbarous Prince."P. 18. (Calendar of State Papers, Colonial Series, 15741660.) "1617, 18 Jan. London.-The Virginian woman Pocahuntas has been with the King. She is returning_home, sore against her will."-P. 428. (Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, 1611-1618.) "1617, 29 March, London. -The Virginian woman died at Gravesend on her return."-P. 454. (Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, 1611-1618.) Should not the date of her burial be March 21, 161, instead of May 21, 1616. The church of St. George at Gravesend was destroyed by fire in 1727, where she was buried. I inclose you a transcript from the parish register that was sent to me in 1859; FINGERS OF HINDOO GODS (3rd S. v. 73.) In Higgins's Anacalypsis H. C. will find some curious speculations and theories on this subject. However, I have not the book within reach, and therefore cannot give particular references. Ennemoser, in his Hist. of Magic (Howitt's translation, Bohn's Scientific Library, vol. i. pp. 251-271), gives to this symbol a magnetic interpretation. How far this so-called magnetic hand is connected with the phallic hand of the Romans seems doubtful. On the latter see a note of Douce on a passage in Henry V. JOHN ADDIS. LONGEVITY OF Clergymen (3rd S. v. 22, 44.)— The Rev. James Powell, close upon eighty years of age, has been over fifty years curate of Dill R. C. L. wyn, in Herefordshire, and is so still. I send you an extract from the Preston Chronicle of January 23, 1864: "On Friday last (Jan. 19th), the venerable rector of Croston, the Reverend Streynsham Master, M.A., died at the rectory there, at the patriarchal age of 97. The deceased, both in years and in length of ministerial service, was the oldest clergyman in Lancashire, having been in the ministry above seventy-five years. He was also the oldest beneficed clergyman, having been inducted to the rectory of Croston, on the death of his father, in 1798, and had thus been in the enjoyment of that valuable benefice above sixty-five years. His father, the Rev. Robert Master, D D. was the rector from May, 1759, to September, 1798, so that the incumbency of father and son extended over the long period of nearly 105 years, a rare instance of prolonged enjoyment of an ecclesiastical benefice." PRESTONIENSIS. "AUTHOR OF GOOD TO THEE I TURN" (3rd S. iv. 353.)-Some few weeks ago a correspondent inquired who wrote the hymn, commencing " Author of good we rest on Thee." He will find it in Martineau's Hymns for the Christian Church and Home, attributed to Merrick; but, as that version seems to differ in a few places from the one printed in " N. & Q.," I append a copy:— "Author of good! to Thee I turn; "O let Thy fear within me dwell, "And since, by passion's force subdued, E. Y. HEINEKEN. RICHARDSON FAMILY (3rd S. v. 72.)-Though I cannot offer a satisfactory reply to your correspondent, or trace out the various branches of the Richardson family, I may point out some inaccuracies in his query. No person of the name of Conon Richardson is recorded as Abbot of Pershore, either in Dugdale, Stevens, or Styles's his tory of the Abbey; but to a person of this name, the Sheldon family, who received the grant at the dissolution of monasteries, conveyed the manors of Pershore. His son married Anne, daughter of Leonard Meysey (not Maxey) of Shechenhurst, near Bewdley. At the close of the seventeenth century, there existed in the Abbey church of Tewkesbury a monument to Conon Richardson-"ab equestri |