ANECDOTE OF LAURENCE STERNE (12 S. viii. 129). The paragraph quoted by ST. SWITHIN from The Yorkshire Post of October, 1765, is of real interest as anticipating the use which Sterne made of the same comparison in the 'Sentimental Journey,' first published in February, 1768. Yorick, after remarking to the Count de B[issie] that the French are polite to an excess, explains his meaning thus: "I had a few king William's shillings smooth as glass in my pocket; and foreseeing as they would be of use in the illustration of my hypothesis, I had got them into my hand, when I had proceeded so far: See, Mons. le Count, said I, rising up, and laying them before him upon the table, by jingling and rubbing one against another for seventy years together in one body's pocket or another's, they are become so much alike, you can scarce distinguish one shilling from another " (A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy,' vol. ii., ' Character, Versailles'). 66 He then likens the English to antient medals, kept more apart." In the early part of October, 1765, Sterne started on his last Continental journey. Possibly the lines in The Yorkshire Post were apropos of this. EDWARD BENSLY. Murray's Kent' (1892), at p. 212, says :— "From 'Boughton the lower road should be taken to Eastwell Church, in which is buried the 'last of the Plantagenets.' Richard, a natural son of Richard III., is said to have fled here immediately after the battle of Bosworth, and to have supported himself as a mason, until discovered by Sir Thomas Moyle, who allowed him to build a small house adjoining Eastwell Place, in which he lived and died (1550). The parish register of burials contains the following entry, copied, of course, from an earlier book: V. the letter V. marking persons of noble birth Rychard Plantagenet, Desember 22nd. 1550,' throughout the register. A tomb in the chancel, without inscription and deprived of its brasses is said to belong to this offset of the White Rose (but the Earl of Winchilsea told Dr. Brett in 1720 that it was unknown whether he was buried in the ch. or chyard. See Dr. Brett's letter in Pock's 'Desiderata Curiosa'). The house in which of the 17th century; a modern building marks Plantagenent lived was destroyed toward the end the site. Near it is a spring still called Plantagenet's Well.'" According to Lewis's Topographical Dictionary' Richard Plantagenet was 81 when he died. In 1469 the future Richard III. was aged 19. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. COUNTESS MACNAMARA (12 S. viii. 49, 114). -MR. DE TERNANT has kindly written to inform me that the lady referred to in his RICHARD III. (12 S. viii. 169).-I assume MEDINEWS knows of the reference, with note at foot, to the traditional Richard Plan-reply at the second reference was born at tagenet's son of above, in Hasted's History of Kent under Eastwell,' vol. iii. (folio edn.), .p. 202. PERCY HULBURD. 124 Inverness Terrace, W. 6 W. E. Flaherty in Annals of England' (1857), vol. ii. p. 99, writes :— "Richard had a natural daughter, Katherine, who married William Herbert, earl of Huntingdon, but is believed to have died shortly after. Two natural sons are also ascribed to him, and a tale has been told of one of them living in Kent to the time of Edward VI. (1550), and following for safety the craft of a bricklayer, but its truth is very doubtful.” According to the 'D.N.B.' (xxvi. 220), the Earl of Huntingdon on Feb. 29, 1484 (i.e., Sunday, Feb. 29, 1483-4), ·66. covenanted to marry Princess Catharine, daughter of Richard III.; but the princess died before the time appointed for the marriage." Arthur Collins in his 'Peerage (1735), i. 498, speaking of this Earl of Huntingdon, has this passage : "Which William, 15 Nov. 1, R. III., was constituted Justice of South Wales; and on the last of February next following, entered into Covenant with that King to take Dame Catharine Plantagenet, his Daughter, to Wife, before the Feast of St. Michael, then next following.... But this Lady dying in her tender Years, 'tis likely that Perth and that the date of the creation of her title by the King of Naples was probably between 1815 and 1820. Any further particulars about her would be gratefully received. In giving Countess Macnamara's account of Mrs. Atkyns's visit to Queen Marie-Antoinette in the Conciergerie, M. Frédéric Bareby, in Madame Atkyns' (Paris, 1905), at p. 86, says in a note : "Le témoignage de la comtesse Mac-Namara a été rapporté par Le Normant des Varannes, Histoire de Louis XVII.,' Orléans, 1890, in 8o, PP. 10-14, qui le tenaiti du vicomte d'Orcet, lequel avait connu la comtesse." Perhaps some one, who has access to M. Le Normant des Varannes's work, will say whether it throws any light on the Countess. MR. DE TERNANT also put me under an obligation by referring me to The Pedigree of John Macnamara, Esquire,' privately printed in 1908, a copy of which is in the British Museum. This book does not mention the Countess in question, but makes it quite clear that I was wrong in conjecturing at 10 S. xi. 457 that she was the wife of the who gentleman was created Comte by Louis XVI. in 1782. The author, Mr. R. W. Henri Pantalon Macnemara was born at Rochefort in January, 1742, and entered the French, navy, that he was created Chevalier de St. Louis in 1775, and Count in 1782, and that he was hanged by a revolutionary mob in Mauritius, Nov. 4, 1790. At p. 54, Mr. Twige says that the above mentioned Count MacIATTIENTEV PENNY 179E. CHICHESTER HALF Edge PAYABLE IN LONDON. This is what is known as a mule, that is "died unmarried, and consequently his title beemme extinct's but, on the return of the Bour, to say concocted from using mixed dies. Bath, Dalton 230-35. home, it was mesumed by a certain Comte AlbertJoseph Maenemara " of Castel-town (son of 0. Bust to right, 1OHN HOWARD F.R.S. HALFGepard Macneronin and his wife Marie-Elisabeth Garbey, who was born at Arras 9 April, 1766, served among the French émigrés, was created a Chevalier of Mt. Louis in 1796, nominated Governor of the Pages of Louis XVIII. in 1815, And died 13 May, 1822, leaving no issue by his wife, Louise Alexandrine Laure de Chasi," MR. DE TERNANT tells me that this lady was an Italian, and died in 1812; so she cannot have been the Countess Macnamara who was at Richmond in August, 1832. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. ORIGINAL PORTRAITS OF JOHN HOWARD, THE PHILANTHROPIST (12 8. viii. 169). Portraits of John Howard occur upon the following tokens of the eighteenth century. The reference numbers are those of Dalton Hamer's Token Coinage of the Eighteenth Century,' 1910 1917: PAYARER AT SHARP'S PORTSMOUTH AND VALDRYOPP'S CAR RESTER, There are slight varieties of the dies and that with Howard's bust is known with mypsos Liberty standing and Britannia swrol. See Dalton 46, Nós, 36 and 37, PENNY. R. Female seated pointing to a prison above the legend: GO FORTH. Outer legend: REMEM BER THE DEBTORS IN GAOL. This occurs with various edge readings. 0. Bust to right, IOHN HOWARD F.R.S. R. HAUD ULLI, &c., in seven lines. This is not an eighteenth-century penny, but a medal struck soon after Howard's death. It occurs in white metal and copper. ARTHUR W. WATERS.. Leamington Spa. "PERFIDE ALBION' (12 S. viii. 171).Bossuet's references to La perfide Angleterre," occurs in his Premier Sermon pour la Circoncision.' The alteration from "Angleterre " to "Albion" has been usnally attributed to Napoleon I., who used it as the. Romans used Punica fides. But Madamə, de Sévigné (letter 511) said :--- "Je crois en vérité comme vous, que le roii et la reine d'Angleterre sont bien mieux à Saint Germain que dans leur perfide royaume." DE V. PAYEN-PAYNE.. WILSON, THE "RANGER OF THE HIMALAYAS (12 S. viii. 151, 194).-The Pioneer Mail of Aug. 12, 1883, contains the following obituary notice of this interesting traveller and sportsman : ་་ Mountaineer The circle of those who knew in his prime has narrowed to so small a number that few, who casually read of the death at Mussoorie, a few days ago of Ma Frederick Wilson, will have been conscious that a remarkable man has passed away. An ex-private soldier, some forty years ago he started from Caletta with five rupees and a gun, en his long march to the Himalayas, accomplishing it successfully. There, amid the scenes he loved with passion to the last, he lived for many years by the sale of what he shot, and finally embarked in timber contracts in the forests with which he was so familiar until he amassed a considerable fortune. A short, wiry, hard man with a cheerful, generous spirit and indomitable pluck : a genial and instructive companion; thongh wholly selfeducated, he added to the lore of the sportsman and the naturalist contributions full of bright And still to meanness, all his conduct flows; "This alien upstart, by obtaining friends, From T-wn- -ds clerk, a M-ld-n member Would Heaven that day! was dated in record, MR. WHITMORE says that "in 1730 the Master of Ripon School was a Mr. Barker," but gives no authority for this statement. Hearne writing under Mar. 17, 1721 /2 says that "John Bear, Bach. of Arts and Student of Christ Church, who determined this Lent was made Master "about five months agoe." There is practically little doubt that John Bear is a mistake for John Barber, who was elected to Christ Church from Westminster School in 1717, and graduated B.A. 1721/2. At any rate according to Dean Dering's Autobiographical Memoranda' (Surtees Soc. Pub., No. 65, p. 346) Mr. Barber "who came from Westminster School" was Master in July, 1722. This John Barber, as Captain of the School, spoke a Latin oration in That day, which saw how threats and gold could College Hall at the funeral of Dr. South in bribe, Might read the story, and the vagrant scorn; July, 1716, and it was for the unlicensed Are not John Bear and John Barker both mistakes or misprints for John Barber? See Surtees Society Publications, vol. lxv., kp. 346; Yorkshire Archæological Society, Record Series, vol. xxvii. (list of schoolmasters opposite p. lxxiv): and ́Alumni Westmonasterienses' (ed. 1852), pp. 269-70. W. A. PECK. It will be noticed that the member for Maldon's name is printed in one case Hand in the other H-k-, and not H. K. as stated by your correspondent (BURDOCK) in last week's issue. It seems clear that "John Huske, Esq.; nephew of the late General Huske," shown LOSS OF THE BIRKENHEAD (12 S. viii. 161). in The Court and City Register for the-It may lessen the hate arisen through the year 1765' as one of the members for late war to say that when the King of Maldon, is referred to. Prussia heard of the shipwreck he directed the account to be read to all the regiments of his army to show them how soldiers and all men should bear themselves in patience, resignation and order in the presence of immediate death. W. DOUGLAS. There is an article in the 'D.N.B.' on John Huske (1692-1761), general and governor of Jersey, in which it is stated that his younger brother, Ellis Huske (1700-1755), sometime of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, THE MANNEQUIN OR DRESSMAKER'S DOLL (12 S. viii. 170).-There is a reference to this important article in Franklin's La Vie Privée d'Autrefois : Les Magasins de Nouveautés III.' It is amusing to read (p. 237) that when war was being waged between England and Louis XIV. the ministers of the contending states agreed to let the doll pass freely across the Channel. In MarieAntoinette's time, she, Mme. Bertin and Mme. Iloffe combined in dictating the laws of fashion to the civilized world :: and Marshall's 'Memoir,' 1883). I published a long account of these Gordons in The Huntly Express, Aberdeenshire, Aug. 23 and 30, 1907. But there is no mention of a Plees in the notes. The tradition in thefamily is that it is descended from the Gordons of Abergeldie. Certain it is that Susanna Gordon's husband, if not her fatherin-law, founded in 1769 the well-known gin distillery in Goswell Road. Perhaps the distillery records might help? J. M. BULLOCH. 37 Bedford Square, W.C.1. Une fois par mois au moins l'on expédiait à Londres la poupée de la rue Saint-Honoré, mannequin chargé d'aller porter aux dames anglaises CAPT. COOK: MEMORIALS (12 S. viii. 132, le type de la mode nouvelle. De Londres la 176, 198).-In the church of St. Andrew poupée était successivement transmise à toutes the Great in Cambridge there is a monules grandes capitales et jusqu'à Constantinople. Ainsi,' dit Mercier, le pli qu'a donné une main ment to the memory of Capt. James Cook,. françoise se répéte chez toutes les nations, R.N., the navigator, and to his sons; humbles observatrices du goût de la rue Saint-Nathaniel, "who we left in the Thunderer Honoré (pp. 136, 137). Man-of-War, Capt. Boyle, Walsingham, in 6 I was once privileged to see many years a most terrible hurricane, in October, 1780; ago at a woman-tailor's in Bond Street-aged 16 years"; Hugh, of Christ's College,. Redfern's, I believe-a dressed doll which who died aged 17; James Cook, ComI had an impression was a survival of the old exemplary poupée. It is interesting to learn, from Franklin's valuable notes, that in the eighteenth century bodices were tailor-made, but that skirts and trimmings were confided to feminine ingenuity. ST. SWITHIN. PARLIAMENT HILL (12 S. viii. 192).-There are two traditions respecting the genesis of this name. One is that cited by MR. ACKERMANN, but the more common one, according to Mr. Thorne, is that it was so called from the Parliamentary generals having planted cannon on it for the defence of London (see Walford's Old and New London' vol. v. p. 405). WILLOUGHBY MAYCOCK. Until 1702, when they were removed to Brentford, the hustings for the election of members of Parliament for Middlesex stood on the open space near Jack Straw's Castle, Hampstead. Hence the name Parliament Hill. W. AVER. Frimrose Club, Park Place, St. James's, S.W.1. MRS. SUSANNA GORDON (12 S. viii. 170).Mrs. Susanna Gordon, the wife of Alexander Gordon, Charterhouse Square, was the daughter of William Osborne and Hannah Herbert and died in New Milman Street, Mar. 31, 1834. She had ten children including George Osborne Gordon, father of the well-known Rev. Osborne Gordon (1813-83), King Edward's tutor at Oxford (see 'D.N.B. mander R.N., who died in 1794, aged 31; to Eliza, Joseph and George Cook, who all died in infancy and to the memory of the navigator's widow Elizabeth, who, after surviving her husband 56 years, died at Clapham, Surrey, aged 94, and lies beneath. the middle aisle of the church. She left 1,000l. in Consols for the upkeep of the monument and grave stone, the residue to be paid to five poor aged women. above particulars are contained in a booklet compiled by a late vicar. T. H. W. could probably obtain a copy from the present F. P. LEYBURN-YARKER. vicar. 20 St. Andrew's Street, Cambridge, The SHEFFIELD PLATE: MATTHEW BOULTON (12 S. viii. 170).-Matthew Boulton was educated in Birmingham, his father, Matthew, sprang from a Northamptonshire family residing in Lichfield. 1728; he died in 1809, and was buried in Matthew Boulton, junior, was born in Handsworth Church, Birmingham. It is presumed that he acquired his training in the manufacture of old Sheffield plate in this city, and it is recorded that he left Sheffield about 1764, but no authentic particulars of his connexion with the locality have so far come to light. He had many manufacturing interests besides the above mentioned industry as reference to an old print from the Birmingham Directory of the year 1800 clearly shows. In 1784 as 66 'M. Boulton & Co.," he registered a mark for plated wares at the Sheffield Assay Office, a sun, struck in duplicate. (See Act of 1784 by which articles plated with silver made in Sheffield or 100 miles thereof might bear a marksuch not being an Assay Office device for sterling silver.) After his death the manufactory known as The Soho Plate Co.," late Matthew Boulton & Co., continued to trade under his name. The business was not dispersed until the year 1848, which will account for the use of the mark at the dates mentioned, viz., 1810 and 1815. 66 The reference to the Soho works being in Sheffield must be an error; there was no manufactory so described in existence here at that date. F. BRADBURY. Sheffield. capable of it themselves. Among the traduced' a state. Yet, The importance of Florence-under Cosimo we might begin to say the importance of Tuscany in the troubled European situation of the mid-sixteenth century is not difficult to realize. but for the character of Cosimo, Florence might have been little more than another Milan : a valuable piece on a chess,board where she was MATTHEW CARTER (12 S. viii. 130).-A full herself not a player. Between the Pope and account of what little is known about France and Spain, the Duke with but slight Matthew Carter will be found in the 'D.N.B.' deflection, solid in his bounden support of the He is said to have been a gentleman of Kent. Spaniard extended the borders of his territory, His chief title to fame is that he was Quarter-cleared his borders of enemies and made Florence Master-General of the Royalist army under the Earl of Norwich during the siege of Colchester and was present at the surrender. | He published in 1650 A most true and exact relation of that, as honourable as unfortunate, Expedition of Kent, Essex and Colchester, by M. C. a loyall actor in that Engagement, Anno Dom. 1648. Printed in the yeere 1650." This was reprinted at Colchester in 1750 and 1789. Copies of all three editions are in the Public Library. GEORGE RICKWORD. Cosimo I., Duke of Florence. By Cecily Booth. Within the borders of that state his rule was both stern and just with a patriarchal quality which—he being the man he was-suited the needs of Florence admirably. His private life, which had been the mark for the most outrageous of the calumnies against him, was magnificent, but also amiable. This side of his life is abundantly illustrated by Miss Booth, who, if her characterization of persons remains rather flat and a little confused, conveys a sufficiently detailed and vivid picture of the life led, at il Trebbio, or Foggio a Cavano, or in Florence itself, by the Ducal family. It was a pity to defer the chapter on Cosimo's internal government till the end of the book-if, that is, the writer designed her book to be read straight through. The estimate to be formed of him is determined by his government of Florence as much as by anything he did, and the reader should have something of it before his mind as he follows the windings of foreign policy. The account of the latter, and of Cosimo's wars, though plenty of detail is given, rather lacks breadth and grasp, so that both successes and failures pass without being satisfactorily valued. The author's style, too, does her some littleinjustice. It rambles and drags and becomes occasionally confused; drops into the mode of conversation without any dramatic propriety, and seldom settles down to straightforward systematic narrative. The diligence and care with which Miss Booth has worked over her sources appear on every page; but the book would have been yet better than it is-and it is a good book on an important and fascinating subject-if, on the one hand, the greater outlines of the history had been better seized and dealt with, and Cosimo's relations thereto more firmly set down; and if, on the other, the structure and diction of the book as a piece of writing had been more narrowly criticized. and brought up to a |