the Rev. Washbourne West of Lincoln College, Oxford. I understand that it is at present in the possession of his descendant, Mrs. Uvedale. L. E. TANNER. HORNCHURCH: ST. BERNARD OF MENTHON (clii. 334).-Much infornation respecting the date when St. Berhard's Canons became possessed of this 'peculiar "will be found in an article on he subject by Dr. J. Horace Round in the Transactions of the Essex Archeological Society, 2nd Ser., vol. vi., p. 1. Other references are Dugdale Monasticon 52; Tanner, Notitia Monastica ' P: xxi. ; Victoria History of Essex' ii., p. 195; salmon, p. 252; Morant i. p. 72; A Kalenler of documents of New College, Oxford' 923. Edited by Westlake; 'Feet of Fines For Essex' vol. i., pp. 123, 144. FRED. J. BRAND. There is an illustrated handbook of the illage of Hornchurch written by Charles T. Perfect. This little book also gives a rief history of the old monastery or Priory f Hornchurch, according to which Henry I in the winter of 1158-9 while crossing he Great St. Bernard Pass was so liberally Entertained by the Hospital of St. Bernard hat in return he presented the Hospice with property for the endowment of a eligious house and church at Havering in Essex, and thereby the Cell or Hospice was stablished at Hornchurch and in 1160 a 'rior and twelve Monks were settled there. Tor about 230 years the St. Bernard Monks ontinued their ministrations in HornPhurch, but about 1392 William of Wykeam obtained permission of the Pope to o urchase all the property in order to endow is New College at Oxford. According to his history St. Bernard of Savoy, surnamed Menthon, was born in 932 and died in e 008. WALTER E. GAWTHORP. ECTORS OF HAWARDEN (clii. 297, 338). Christopher Pasley. I made the ollowing note about him in 1908. Christoher Paisley, D.D., sometime chaplain in e household of the Earl of Derby, and tor to his son the 8th Earl. In 1625 he as rector of St. Mary Staining, London, hich he resigned about three years afterards, and in 1638 was presented to the ectory of Hawarden of which he was derived for his loyalty. He died 7 Sept., 1558, aged 63, and was buried in the Trouteck chapel in St. Mary's Church, Chester. to his sonne* the 24 of August, 1657 300 March 29. Paid Doctor Paisley haveinge preached last day beinge the 5th sunday in lent 200 Oct. 9. Paid Doctor Paisley his sonne xpofer Parsley by Beniamine Cupper, his halfe yeare's inhibicon ended 24 August last 1658 3 0 0 Woodhall Spa. W. M. MYDDELTON. I CLERICAL RECORDS (clii. 335).-To publish a record of the names of all the clergy and their benefices, etc., of the Anglican Church, is a comparatively modern idea. The first effort was Rivington's Clerical Guide,' which came out in the year 1817. There is a copy of this at the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Α second edition came out in 1822, and this, as far as I know, was the last edition of it. hope some reader will correct me on this point if my surmise is wrong. In 1841 Cox's Clergy List' came out, and in 1858 the climax of all the efforts, the well-known Crockford was started. I happen to have a copy of the 1822 edition of Rivington's Clerical Guide,' and if your querist thinks I can help him I will consult my copy for him with pleasure on any point he may privately write to me about. T. LLECHID JONES. body of the church, but were made man and wife at the porch. The custom of "porch weddings" was abolished in the reign of Edward VI. It is suggested, as one explanation of the custom that the ceremony took place at the porch because the bridal party came to church on horse-back. The Guiseley custom is thus described. The bride and bridegroom went to church on horse-back preceded by the village pipers and fiddlers, and followed by the wedding guests. The prevent the bride from falling off the horse she was provided with a stout strap which was held by the bridegroom. The guests also rode on horse back, and if there were not sufficient steeds to enable each to ride singly then two would ride on the back of one horse. The Guiseley custom continued down to the commencement of last century. The villagers thought it fine fun to startle the horses so that they might cause the bride to fall off, and this was thought to be a very unpropitious event. The presence of mounting steps near the porches of some old-fashioned churches may be thus accounted for. H. ASKEW. The wedding commented upon by MAJOR J. FAIRFAX-BLAKEBOROUGH at the second MAY 2 reference is more fully described by David Four rustic fellows wait the while To kiss the bride at the Church stile: The spellings Wooden and Yearsdon a pear to be scribal errors. On the occasion of a wedding at Alnham Dec. 1894, the kail" consisted of a large bright-coloured silk handkerchief. on H. ASKEW. SO thers Reds her'e P Mention is made at the first referend of a Thomas Thompson whose name waUR crossed out of the will of his brother Caius In the south aisle of St. Helen's Welton; is a stained glass window bearing th Books inscription:-"To the Glory of God and ord memory of Thomas Thompson, F.S.A. Boras at Eastdale, 12th March, A.D. 1791, died eet Springville 19th April, A.D. 1871; the he s windows were designed and presented to the church by his widow Jane Thompson, wh died 8th March, 1879, not surviving to s their completion." re tanz Spennymoor. JOHN BROWN: H. ASKEW.C color The REFERENC The WANTED (clii. 226).-Through the kine ness of a correspondent I am enabled to supp THOMPSON OF NEWCASTLE-UPON- the reference requested above. It occurs th TYNE (clii. 274, 320). William in Letter CLXXIX ('Letters of Dr. Jol Brown, ed. 1907, p. 228) addressed to Covent land Street, Edinburgh, 21 Aug., 1864. Dick (Sheriff-substitute of Bute) from 23, R t full text quoted by the Hon. G. W. E. Russ runs : Thompson is mentioned by Richard Welford in The History of Newcastle and Gateshead ' vol. i., as having been elected Sheriff of Newcastle at Michaelmas 1466. Arms T tion mila boo った I had a talk with Jowett about Church Establishments. I think you and he would nuch agree. Yes, I back that Paraphrase I'm not ashamed,' &c. [Scottish, No. 54, 'I'm hot ashamed to own my Lord'] against Renan ind all his crew. Have you read the Apologia? A very strange, sincere, insane, beautiful, painful performance and Confession t is. I am so glad I was grounded in hisorical Christianity in my youth, and almost mechanically secured against these tellows and their guns and shells, their torpedoes and mines.' am This collection of letters reveals an equally uncompromising criticism of George Eliot and others. J. B. McGOVERN. Redgarth, Clothorn Road, Didsbury. NURSThere is a reprint of JURSERY RHYME WANTED (clii. 226, 286). The Dandy's Ball; or, High Life in the City,' in Andrew W. Tuer's Stories from Old-Fashioned Children's Books (London, Leadenhall Press, 1899-1900); Acording to the title page there reproduced it was printed and sold by John Marshall, 140, Fleet Street, 1823. There are sixteen stanzas. The sixteen coloured engravings of the orignal are given here in black and white. The first stanza is as follows: Mr. Pillblister And Betsy his sister, Determin'd on giving a treat; Gay Dandies they call To a supper and ball 'The Dandy's Ball' has already been discussed in 'N. & Q.' See 10 S. ix. 109. 217. At the latter reference, the title was quoted of an 1822 edition, in the same cover with which was The Dandy's Wedding; or, The Loves and Courtship of Peter Quince and Phoebe Clove,' with the same date and publisher, and advertisements of The Dandies' Perambulations' and The Dandy's Corps,' each with sixteen coloured engravings. At the same reference MAJOR S. BUTTERWORTH gave some extracts from The London Magazine for November, 1820, where, in an article on The Literature of the Nursery,'The Dandies' Ball' was handled in the fearless old fashion of reviewers, "The book... is evidently got up for the nursery: its price, eighteen-pence, and its glaring coloured prints assist the corrupting tendency of the composition Unless the first edition was wildly different, it was the very mildest of milk and water. But children's books at that period were expected to be improving.' EDWARD BENSLY. دو The Library. The Papers of Thomas Bowrey, 1669-1713. Edited by Sir Richard Carnac Temple. (The Hakluyt Society). FEW publications of the Hakluyt Society can have demanded more labour, or labour of more various kinds, than the book before us; but few can have repaid such labour better. It consists of two parts: the diary of a six weeks' tour in Holland and Flanders in the summer of 1698, and the story of a merchant ship, the Mary Galley, built in 1704 and captured off the Jutland coast by French privateers in 1707. Both come from the papers of Thomas Bowrey, discovered by Mr. John Humphreys fourteen centuries unopened in a dark windowless room years ago in a chest which had stood for two at Cleeve Prior, a delightful old place near Evesham. Thomas Bowrey was a person who had already become well-known to students of seventeenth century travel and commerce in the East. He had made and published a Dictionary of English and Malay, and after much research had been proved to be that "T.B." whose manuscript about the countries round the Bay of Bengal was edited for the Hakluyt Society by Sir Richard Temple in 1905. He was a merchant," who, when a youth of nineteen or so, landed at Fort St. George Madras, and spent nearly twenty years of his life wandering about the Bay of Bengal. In 1689 he had returned to England, and two years later married and settled down at Wapping as an East India merchant. Till the discovery of the chest little was known of his activities after this, though proposals put forward by him to the East India Company about the Malay Archipelago, as well as the Malay Dictionary, might show that he was an active person. Now his papers reveal him as owner or part owner of several ships, as author of many schemes, and as free an intelligent traveller. His correspondence shows him in touch with Elihu Yale and Daniel Defoe, and the principal merchants of the time in Bengal and Madras. He is seen also as owner of houses in the neighbourhood of Wapping. We hope that a desire Sir Richard Temple expresses to give us a full edition of all the papers contained in the chest may some day be fulfilled meanwhile we have these two sets of documents, of which the second is by far the more valuable. The six weeks' tour, indeed, has its good points, the best of which is the description of Amsterdam; and there are added to it three appendixes which are almost more interesting than the diary itself, the accounts, namely, of the expenses of the tour, and the papers relating to the Duck yacht in which it was made, and then a paper of sailing directions about the mouth of the Thames 1694-1701. But the Mary Galley is heroine of a small, complete history which is unique, we believe of its kind. It begins at her very beginning with the contract for building her, which includes specifications so full and exact that it has been possible for Mr. G. S. Laird Clowes, of the Science Museum, to make a drawing of her. She was built on the Thames in the summer of 1704, under the supervision of Captain Joseph Tol son, who was to command her, a small merchant galley of but 141 tons, but a good seagoing craft, which outsailed French pursuers on her very first day out from England. We have Bowrey's own draft of her cabins, etc. She with her cargo was valued at £6,000, and owned by seven persons, among whom were Captain Tolson and Elias Grist the purser, Thomas Bowrey owning one half. For her launching, equipment and insurance we have papers giving every minute detail, with all accounts and procedure from day to day. Then during the voyage in home waters which preceded her departure for India there is a series of letters between Bowrey and the officers of the ship, of which the most important part contains Bowrey's instructions to Tolson for his business in the East. Next follow the correspondence about the voyage to Calcutta via the Cape of Good Hope and the Malay Archipelago; and the papers relating to the voyage, in 1706, from Calcutta to Batavia. The capture off the Danish coast took place on Aug. 18, 1707. She had had an encounter four days before with a French privateer, in which Tolson had been disabled, and on the 18th was in the hands of the mate Griffin, who seeing two ships to leeward of him, and taking them for Dutch, disastrously bore down on them to find them French privateers. Tolson's conduct of the affairs of the owners of the Mary Galley while she was in the East was the subject of a quarrel between him and Bowrey, and the series of papers relating to this form another chapter. The quarrel was settled in Tolson's favour by arbitration. Two more chapters give miscellaneous papers relating to the ship's homeward voyage and the final settlement of her accounts. Bowrey was prompt in his payments, and by January 1710 he had wound up all the Mary Galley's affairs. The rough and slight outline of a brief review will yet indicate to a discerning eye what possibilities lie in such a story, so minutely documented through its whole extent-what insight into the business of a seventeenth century shipowner; the construction and working of a ship: the dangers from enemies and the escapes; the nature of the captain's responsibilities in the trading venture; the character and management of crews-with some insight also into the purely human side of the Voyage and the enterprise. The material in which all these things are imbedded-found originally in the utmost confusion-was, even when classified and arranged, stubborn to handle. Sir Richard Temple's skill has compelled it to yield us its tiny portion of the living record of the men and activities and conditions from which the world of modern commerce and travel has grown. Dorothy and William Wordsworth. By C. M. Maclean. (Cambridge University Press. 6s. net). A SMALL beautifully printed book of essays, costing six shillings, which, including a separate title-page to each essay, runs to less than 130 pages, awakens most agreeable er pectations. Here must surely be something choice; much substance in small compass; a new and pleasant if not important discovery; or at least some unusual charm, some origin ality in the treatment of a familiar theme. Not much of the kind, we regret to say, jus tifies the publication of these nine essays in book form. They would have been well in their place appearing in one of the monthly reviews; pruned of repetitions, and all welded together, they would have made an excellent slight, contain too little which has not been article in a quarterly; for a book they are too known or thought of before; are written with too little distinction. This is not to deny that Miss Maclean has a genuine understanding of Wordsworth. She fumbles a little over finding the reasons which set some people against him. and over re-butting them; but she shows a real grasp of what he saw, of what he meant greatness as a poet. The most notable of the to convey, and did convey, and of his peculiar essays on him is that about the "Lucy" poems, think the identification, on the whole, doubt, in which she identifies Lucy with Dorothy, We ful, but the attempt gives occasion to several penetrating remarks on the singular affection acter of each, which may well strike most between brother and sister and on the char readers as probably true. Maclean writes often charmingly, and then Of Dorothy Miss spoils her work by exaggeration. Thus, it is too much to claim for her, born a year or two before Charles Lamb, and Lamb's survivor. of her generation. restrict In mentioning Lamb only, we prose-writer within the literary limits our author clearly had in mind. 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