had been originally educated and ordained. He was nominated to the bishopric of Moray by royal letters patent January 18, 1662, and consecrated to that see on May 7, following in the abbey church of Holyrood Palace, at Edinburgh (together with five other bishops elect), by the Archbishop of St. Andrews, primate and metropolitan, assisted by the Archbishop of Glasgow, and the Bishop of Galloway. The form used was that in the Eng

lish Ordinal, and the consecration sermon was preached by the Rev. James Gordon, Parson of Drumblade in Aberdeenshire. Bishop McKenzie's signature to documents, still in existence, was, as Bishop of Moray, "Murdo. Morauien.,' and also "Murdo, B. of Morray." And after an episcopate there of nearly fifteen years, he was translated to the more wealthy bishopric of Orkney and Zetland on Feb. 14, 1677, which he held for about eleven years, dying in the eighty-ninth year of his age, and twenty-sixth of his episcopate.

3. Rev. Colin McKenzie, minister of the parish of Fodderty, in Rosshire, Scotland, was ordained, and admitted there on August 28, 1735; and died on March 8, 1801, in the ninety-fifth year of his age, and sixty-sixth of his ministry there. His widow, Mary, married to him on Feb. 23, 1754, survived till 1828; and their grandson is the present proprietor of the estate of Glack, in Aberdeenshire. A. S. A.

"At the Diocesan Registry, on Tuesday, the Bishop of Manchester duly admitted and instituted the Venerable Robert Mosley Master, M.A., Archdeacon of Manchester, to the rectory and vicarage of the parish church of Croston, vacant by the death of the archdeacon's father, the

Rev. Streynsham Master, M.A., who died January 19th, 1864, aged 99 years, having held the living sixty-six years." From the Manchester Guardian, Thursday, Feb. 11, 1864.

The Rev. Streynsham Master, M.A., was Rector of Croston, Tarleton, and Hesketh with Becconsall. He was instituted to the rectory of Croston in 1798, to Tarleton in 1834, and to Hesketh with Becconsall in 1814. The annual value of these rectories, each of which has a house of residence, is, according to the Clergy ListCroston, 1050l.; Tarleton, 8007.; Hesketh with Becconsall, 2751. Three clergymen have been instituted to these rectories; and it is deserving of note that the benefices are severally styled the rectory and vicarage of the parish church of Croston, the rectory and vicarage of the parish church of Tarleton, and the rectory and vicarage of Hesketh with Becconsall. The three rectories are in the neighbourhood of Preston. GULIELMUS.

MISQUOTATIONS BY GREAT AUTHORITIES. It is not a hundred years since LORD LYTTELTON, the lamentable want of knowledge, now so conin your columns, saw just occasion to remark on stantly displayed, of those masterpieces of Eng; lish literature which forty years ago, as a general rule, were thoroughly familiar to every educated struck by the same fact, has within the last week and Earl Russell, in all probability, gentleman; Wales on the propriety of compelling the heads been haranguing in the presence of the Prince of of our public schools to make their pupils as intimate with the masterpieces of Shakspeare, Milton, and Dryden, as they are presumed to be with the writings of Homer, Virgil, and Horace. I noblemen have spoken out on the subject, for the am delighted to find that these two distinguished ignorance which has been observed by them among the younger ranks of our gentlemen who live at home at ease, is now beginning to be perinstructors. A very remarkable instance has occeptible in our rising generation of public literary curred quite recently in the pages of two of our most respected contemporaries, and singularly enough with regard to the same line of poetry! In the Edinburgh Review (p. 333, April, 1864), and in The Athenæum (May 21, 1864), we find quoted

"From Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotage flow," the former calling it " Pope's well-known line," and the latter "Pope's line!" Did either of these gentlemen reflect on the other half of the couplet

"And Swift expires a driveller and a show," and think it possible that, even if Pope had survived Swift, which he did not, he could have made such an allusion to the sufferings of one of his glorious group of friends? Perhaps the critics mistook the word "swift" for an adjective.

To make amends, however, to Samuel Johnson for robbing him of this striking couplet, the reviewer gives him credit for a precocity in prowess, such as Boswell would have gloried to record. After relating the anecdote of Dryden asking Bolingbroke to protect him from the rudeness of Jacob Tonson, he adds:

"Johnson must have had a peculiar pleasure in telling the story, for this was the selfsame Tonson whom he beat, or (as some said) knocked down with a folio, for impertinence.”—Edin. Review, Oct. 1863, p. 407.

Now, considering that both the Jacob Tonsons whom Dryden knew were dead in 1725, while Johnson was still a schoolboy at Stourbridge, it is clear that this chastisement must have been bestowed on the occasion of his mother taking him up to London to be "touched" for the evil; so that the celebrated treading on the duck was not his first act of violence. We may presume that the quarrel must have arisen out of some

trade transaction between old Michael Johnson and the Tonsons, who must have been his London agents! We are told that Johnson had a confused, but solemn, recollection of Queen Anne as a lady in diamonds, and a long black hood; but I am afraid he had forgotten all about the appearance of the great bookseller! It would be curious indeed if it could be proved that Jacob owed the sad blemish of a second left leg to this rencontre with the Infant Samuel!

In another periodical I read some time ago that Cave was the bookseller whom he knocked down, and that the feat was performed with a "volume of his own folio dictionary." This is peculiarly hard to swallow, not only because Cave was dead before the dictionary was published, and therefore before the weapon was forged which felled him, but also because Cave must have been particularly difficult to knock down, as Johnson himself tells us he was a "man of large stature, not only tall but bulky, and of remarkable strength and activity."

But, after all, it is Osborne, the real Simon Pure, the genuine knock-down-ee, who has most cause to complain of these mis-statements. Tonson and Cave have other claims which secure them from being forgotten, but Osborne's sole chance of remembrance is the solitary fact of his having been felled by the lexicographer!

I must also take this opportunity of defending. Johnson against a recent leader in The Times, in which he was stated to have called Goldsmith an "inspired idiot." The expression is particularly un-Johnsonian, and would have come with peculiar bad grace from the author of "nullum quod tetigit non ornavit." It is unnecessary to say that the phrase, or something identical with it, occurs more than once in the correspondence of Horace Walpole.

JOHN BUNYAN.

CHITTELDROOG.

Chancing to read again Macaulay's biography, I thought I would turn to Neal's History of the Puritans, to see what I should see. Neal himself says next to nothing about the Baptists; but his editor, Dr. Toulmin, gave a supplement of 110 octavo pages, entirely on the history of the Baptists, in which Bunyan's name is not mentioned. We learn that Mr. Knollys was, at the Restoration, imprisoned for eighteen weeks: but not a word of Bunyan, nicknamed "Bishop" of his church, who was shut up for twelve years. When it is mentioned that it 66 99 seems some Baptists were in the parliamentary army, the instance is not given which makes certain of one. And when, in the last paragraph, we are told that Mr. Gosnold was buried in Bunhill Fields, he may, for aught we learn, have been the last Baptist who

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I suspect that Granger was the first, or among the first, who dared give Bunyan some of his due in print; which Cowper could not do, for, when he gave the due, he dared not give the name. Granger speaks of the Pilgrim's Progress as the most popular, and, I may add, one of the most ingenious books in the English language." "As this opinion may be deemed paradoxical," he will venture to name two persons of eminence: one, the late Mr. Merrick, of Reading, who was heard to say in conversation that Bunyan's invention was like that of Homer; the other, Dr. Roberts, Fellow of Eton College. Honour to Merrick and Roberts, I say; and to Granger also and likewise.

In the Biographia Britannica (1748), in the page less three lines which is given to Bunyan, he is called the "celebrated author of the Pilgrim's Progress (a)." And (a) tells us to see the remark (F): but there is no remark (F); the last is (E). This I take to mean that the contributor chose to say what the editor dared not admit; and that the side-reference was forgotten. There is no other mention of the Pilgrim's Progress, nor of any works of Bunyan, except as collected in two folios, the contents of which are wholly unspe

cified.

In Kippis's edition, two pages less two lines are added; Granger is quoted, the works are enumerated, and praise is given, i. e. Granger's praise. Nay, more: "he was certainly a man of genius, and might have made a great figure in the literary world, if he had received the advantages of a liberal education." The writer, not Kippis himself, reversed a fable: a dying ass threw up his heels at a growing lion. Kippis thinks it necessary to qualify a little he does not think, as Granger did, that Bunyan could have risen to a production worthy of Spenser. He agrees with Lord Kaimes that the secret of Pilgrim's Progress and Robinson Crusoe, great favourites of the vulgar, is the proper mixture of the dramatic and narrative. This, he says, is "extremely suitable to men who have not learned to abstract and generalize their ideas." How he would stare if he saw the present state of things, in which a very moderate power of dramatic narrative far below that of Scott, or Dickens, or Thackeray will set four-fifths of the abstracters and generalizers reading a secondrate novel.

A collection of mentions of Bunyan in the time preceding his establishment as an English classic- the time when, as Granger says, his works were printed on tobacco paper-would be an excellent contribution. Neither "Bun66 nor yan Pilgrim's Progress" occurs in the index to the work of Isaac Disraeli, which work, as his son truly observes, has had much to do

This is probably from some much older book of jests. O. T. D. KINGS! In the neighbourhood of Nottingham, and elsewhere for what I know, the exclamation "Kings!" is used by children at play when a sudden cessation is wanted apart from the regular intervals. Unusual confidence and honesty are shown by both sides on such an occasion. (See "Barley," 3rd S. v. 358.) S. F. CRESWELL. Durham School.

DIGBY PEDIGREE.-A mistake occurs in Ni

chols's History of Leicestershire which ought to be corrected in your pages. In the Digby Pedigree (vol. iii. p.473) it is stated that Katharine, daughter of Sir Everard Digby, the great-grandfather of the gunpowder conspirator, married "Anthony Meers, of Kinton, co. Linc." The lady really married Anthony Meeres, of Kirton in Holland, co. Lincoln. This is, of course, a mere misprint, but such errors often lead to much inconvenience. The Digby Pedigree in Lipscomb's Hist. of Buckinghamshire, vol. iv. p. 145, has the name of the place spelt correctly, but it is merely called Kirton, co. Lincoln, leaving it a matter of doubt whether Kirton in Lindsey or Kirton in Holland be the place meant. There is another singular misprint in Nichols's Digby Pedigree, but I am unable to set it right. We are there told that Everard Digby, of Drystoke, father of the conspirator, married Mary d. of Francis Nele, of Keythorpe, b. 1513, liv. 1634." It cannot really be a fact that this lady lived to be 121 years of age. GRIME.

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LIRIPIPIUM. The word tippet in the English Canons is translated liripipium, explained as "epomis" by Du Cange, and by Grindal "collo circumducta stola quædam ab utroque humero pendula et ad talos fere dimissa." [Remains, p. 335.] Liripipium occurs in Sparrow's Collection, 1675, p. 296; and Peck's Desid. Curiosa, lib. xv. p. 570; and Churton's Lives of the Founders, p. 327. The Constitutions of Bourchier, A.D. 1463, forbids any nongraduate to wear "caputium cum corneto vel liripipio brevi, more prælatorum et graduatorum, nec utatur liripipiis aut typpets a serico vel panno circa collum," § 2. Abp. Stratford, in 1343, reprobates "caputia cum tippetis miræ longitudinis,"§ 2. The anonymous writer of the Eulogium quoted by Camden almost uses again Grindal's definition: liripipes, or tippets, which pass round the neck, and, hanging down before, reach to the heels." This appears to designate a stole, whilst the medieval primates connect it with a hood; and the latter no doubt is the true meaning of the word, for it appears in the Statutes of Ratisbon, 1506. And the learned Mayer explains it to be "caputium vel cleri peplum vulgò Poff," worn by rural deans and canons of collegiate churches [iii. 46.]

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MACKENZIE E. C. WALCOTT, M.A., F.S.A. LARGE CANNON. This is no new subject of interest; for Walpole, writing to Sir Horace Mann, Oct. 14, 1746, says:

"They tell you that the French had four-and-twentypounders, and that they must beat us by the superiority of their cannon; so that to me it is grown a paradox, to war with a nation who have a mathematical certainty of

beating you; or else it is a still stranger paradox, why you cannot have as large cannon as the French.”

Poets' Corner.

A. A.

A RELIC OF SHAKSPEARE.-In the year 1826, a gentleman residing in this town found in an old cellaret, the key of which had been lost for many On being carefully united, the pieces formed a years, twenty-nine bits of wood, curiously carved. small writing case. The lid is carved with mulberry leaves and fruit; a central circular medallion the Shakspeare arms. On the edge of the lid, where has on it the Shakspeare crest, and the sides bear boss, carved into a rude resemblance of the Stratthe finger would be applied to lift it, is a small ford bust. Can this be one of the boxes manufac tured by the ingenious Stratford watchmaker, who purchased the greater portion of the mulberry tree after it had been cut down by the Rev. Francis Gastrell? The owner of this box possesses also a tobacco-stopper, which has on it a rude carving of the bust of Shakspeare.

Haverfordwest.

JOHN PAVIN PHILLIPS.

Queries.

BELLS CALLED SKELETS. In the account of rebuilding the monastery of Croyland after the fire in 1091, Ingulf tells us (p. 101) that a small bell-tower was built in the place of the old tower of the church, in which two skellets were placed :"Pro vetere turri Ecclesiæ humile campanile, duas skelettas, quas Fergus ærarius de Sancto Bot. nobis contulerat, imponentes."

*

What sort of bells could these be? Du Cange, sub voce "skella," says this was a small bell, the squilla of the Italians. Is there any affinity between this word and skillet, the name of a small brass pot? Was Fergus the ærarius the treasurer, or simply a worker in brass? In the former case St. Bot. would refer probably to a church of St. Botolph; in the latter, to the town of Boston, in Lincolnshire, the Latinized name of which was "Oppidum Sancti Botolphi." Perhaps some local antiquary can assist us. A. A. Poets' Corner.

BUTTERY FAMILY.-Information concerning the early history of this family is desired. The name occurs in Speed, p. 1093: "The rebels in Cornwall, in favour of the revival of monasteries, were fought by Sir John Russell, Lord Privy Seal, appointed General of the King's army." (Edward VI.) "Lord Russell fell back on Honiton, where he was joined by the Lord Grey de Wilton, having in pay Spinola, an Italian captain, with three hundred shot." (Speed, p. 1097.) "Wright, Peacocke, Weatherell, and Buttry were worthily executed at York, 21st Sept. following (1549). Holinshed's Chronicles."

I possess a copy of "Auli Persii Flacci Satyre Sex, cum posthumiis commentariis Joannis Bond. Londini, excudebat Felix Kingstonius: impensis Gulielmi Aspley et Nathanielis Buttery, 1614." Does the name of Buttery occur in this form in any other book?

In the House of Lords' Journals' Index, p. 329a, Buttery defendant in a Writ of Error, wherein Blencowe is plaintiff, 23rd Charles I., 1647. Mr. Justice Bacon brought into the House Writs of Error, videlicet, No. 10, Blencowe v. Buttery. Can any of your readers give me a reference to the record of this suit?

There is a slab in the chancel of St. Ann's church, Sutton-Bonington, Leicestershire, under the east window, immediately beneath the communion table, with this inscription: "Gulielmus Buttery (natus, 1696), obit 22 die Septembris, 1782, ætatis 86." A monument, also in the chancel, of a knight in chain armour refers to the Buttery family. Where can I find a description

[* "Skeletta, in old Latin records, a little bell for a church steeple: whence our vessels called Skillets, usually made of bell metal."-Phillips's New World of Words, fol. 1706.-ED.]

of this monument? References to works in the British Museum library, or the Public Record Office, communicated through your columns or personally, will oblige ALBERT BUTTERY. Court of Chancery.

COLOSSUS OF RHODES.-Can any of your antiquarian readers refer me to any published copy of that "seventh wonder" of the old world, i. e. the Colossus of Rhodes? I have some faint impression that in my boyhood I saw a print representing it, but cannot call to mind in what work it C. T. CORNER.

was.

CRANCELIN: ARMS OF PRINCE Albert.-Bouton (Nouveau Traite de Blason, p. 191) blazons the coat thus: "Les ducs de Saxe portent; fascé d'or et de sable de huit pièces, au crancelin de sinople mis en bande surtout." Berry calls it a bend embowed treflée. The general account of the bearing is that it is a crown of rue. Can any reader refer me to a correct definition of the word crancelin, and also to the legend or tradition of the crown of rue? A. A.

DE BURGH'S "HIBERNIA DOMINICANA."—" A most interesting copy [of the very rare Supplement to this work], interleaved with numerous manuscript additions by [the author] the [Roman Catholic] Bishop of Ossory," was sold a short time since by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson, and Hodge. Can you tell me by whom it was purchased, and at what price? I have heard, on good authority, that a copy was lately sold by auction in an Irish provincial town to one who knew its worth, for the sum of one penny!

Авива.

THE GOLDEN CALF.-Any information as to the author, or other particulars, of the following book will be very acceptable : —

"The Golden Calf, the Idol of Worship. Being an Enquiry Physico-Critico-Patheologico-Moral into the Nature and Efficacy of Gold: Shewing the wonderful power it has over, and the prodigious changes it causes, in the

Minds of Men. With an Account of the Wonders of the Psychoptic Looking-Glass, Lately Invented by the Author, Joakim Philander, M.A. Consuluit melius qui præcipit ut facias rem; Si possis rectè, verum quocunque modo rem. Hor. London: Printed for M. Cooper, at the Globe in Paternoster Row. MDCCXLIV." 8vo, pp. vii. and 243.

The running title is "Vitulus Aureus: or, the Golden Calf."

It is undoubtedly a very uncommon book, as I find no reference to it in the catalogues of twentytwo of the largest private collections, nor in any of the large bookseller's catalogues, nor in any bibliographical work with which I am acquainted, nor in the British Museum, or Bodleian, or other public library.

A copy was purchased by Mr. H. G. Bohn in 1847 at Mr. Walter Wilson's sale, and one was sold in Jolly's collection in May, 1853. It is not improbable that mine is the same copy. I have been unable to trace any other.

W. LEE.

GODFREY OF BOUILLON'S TREE. When I was at Constantinople, I visited the picturesque village and environs of Buyukdere, on the north shore of the Bosphorus. In a meadow west of the village my dragoman pointed out an enormous plane tree, under which he stated Godfrey of Bouillon pitched his pavilion when the army of the Crusaders was encamped in that neighbourhood on their way to Palestine, in 1097. How much truth is there in this tradition? H. C.

J. G. GRANT, author of Madonna Pia, and other poems, 1848. Can any of your readers give me the address of this author?

IOTA.

GEORGE HAMILTON: CAPT. EDWARDS.-George Hamilton, surgeon of the "Pandora," published "A Voyage round the World, performed by Capt. Edwards in 1790, 1, and 2, with the Discoveries made in the South Sea, and the many distresses experienced by the Crew, from Shipwreck and Famine in a Voyage of eleven hundred Miles in open Boats, between Endeavour Straits and the Island of Timor." Berwick, 8vo, 1793. With portrait."

Lowndes (ed. Bohn, 987) mentions the work, but erroneously states that the voyage was 1790-9. I cannot find the portrait noticed either in Bromley's or Evans's Catalogue. I am not sure whether the portrait was that of George Hamilton or Capt. Edwards. Information about either of

them is desired.

S. Y. R.

MOSES HARRIS, engraver, and author of The Aurelian and other works on natural history, is briefly mentioned in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, but the date of his death is not there given. I hope it may be supplied by some of your correspondents. He was probably living in 1782. See as to him, Watt's Bibl. Brit.; Lowndes's Bibl. Man. ed. Bohn, 1003; Retrospective Review, 2nd Ser. i. 230; Bromley's Cat. of Engraved Portraits, 388; and Nichols's Lit. Anecd. viii. 462. S. Y. R.

THE MISS HORNECKS.-These ladies were patrons of Goldsmith. One of them became, I believe, Mrs. Bunbury. There is this year a very pretty painting in the Exhibition at Edinburgh, of Oliver reading, in his plum-coloured coat, to these ladies. Can you give me, in the first place, any information as to the ancestry of these beauties? And secondly, whether the fine mezzotint of "Miss Horneck" is the unmarried or married lady?

J. M. Loo.-Who was the inventor of that cosmopolitan game at cards, Loo? When was it first introduced into England? Are there any older authorities than Pope and Addison who make mention of it? W. B. MACCABE.

Dinan, Cotes du Nord, France.

MARK OF THOR'S HAMMER.-In that excellent work, the History of Christian Names, vol. ii. p. 203, a monogram is given exactly like the curious

NOMINATION OF BISHOPS.-In some of the papers of the day we are informed of Lord Palmerston having nominated thirteen bishops, namely, Canterbury, York, London, Durham, Carlisle, Ely, Gloucester, and Bristol, Norwich, Peterborough, Ripon, Rochester, and Worcester. Such a circumstance, or anything like it, we are told, of one minister nominating nearly half the English episcopate, was never before known in the Church of England. I have referred to Coxe's Life of Walpole, and to Tomline's and Gifford's lives of Mr. the nomination of bishops. Both Walpole_and Pitt; but in none of them do I find any notice of Pitt were each, I think, longer in office than Lord Palmerston. May I ask any of your readers who give information of episcopal nominations, to inhave access to books and official documents, which form me which of the above-named ministers nominated the greatest number of English bishops? FRA. MEWBURN.

Larchfield, Darlington.

OLD PRINTS. Some years since, at the sale of the curious and valuable prints which had belonged to the late Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, Esq., various lots fell into my hands; and amongst these the following, as to which I should be obliged by obtaining information.

1. "The Plymouth Beauty." A fine mezzotinto of a beautiful female, in a sitting posture, leaning on her hand; her elbow resting on a book. There is no engraver's name.

2.

"Mrs. Sarah Porter, Queen of the Touters at Tunbridge Wells." A very fine mezzotinto. No engraver's name; but it has the name of "Vander Smisson" as the painter. What is a แ touter," and what is known of the lady? 3. An unknown portrait. Mezzotinto, small oval kit-kat, with these lines:

"Illuc Etatis qui sit, non invenies alterum
Lepidiorem ad omnes res, nec qui Amicus
Amico sit majus.”—Plautus.

There is neither painter nor engraver's name mentioned.

4. Mezzotinto of a man sitting in a chair, with his hands clasped together, resting on his knees. A table, with two folio volumes on it, beside him. A three-quarter face:

"H. Hussing, Pinxit. J. Faber, Fecit. Sold by Faber, at ye Golden Fleece, Bloomsbury Square: