maiden name, she asserted, was Tupper. Spanish blood "ebbed and flowed in the family"; and they were descended from the river Tupper, which flows between Spain and Italy, through a band of Spanish pirates, who came up the Thames to Redhill, and acquired enormous estates on both banks of the stream in that neighbourhood. "I say the tale as 'twas said to me." I certainly was surprised to find in this intellectual nineteenth century a human creature who could seriously believe a family to have descended from a river. HERMENTRUde. NAPOLEON A DARWINITE (6th S. viii. 514; ix. 176). An older reference to predecessors of Darwin occurs in the following passage in Newton's Principia :— hospice and became patron of pilgrims, gives the ST. THOMAS'S DAY CUSTOM (6th S. ix. 168).— The practice of collecting alms in the shape of corn was, a quarter of a century ago, prevalent in many parts, if not the whole, of South and West Herefordshire, and is probably in some remote places hardly extinct. It was called mumping or gooding, and the mumpers were not widows only, but married women with their families. Sacks of wheat and barley were placed at the door of the farmhouses, and the dole was served in a basin, workpeople on the farm or parishioners having the preference. I can well remember, more than half a century ago, having seen poor women going from house to house with large bags containing grain upon their heads; and the children did not GEORGE III.'S WATCH IN A FINGER-RING (6th S. fail of their portions. The custom, I am told, still ix. 129).—In Finger-ring Lore we read the follow-prevails in the neighbourhood of Monmouth. I ing:never heard any reason assigned for it. "The world is not God as the Pantheists affirm; it did not exist from eternity as the Peripatetics taught; it was not made by Fate, &c., nor by the spontaneous energy and evolution of self-developing powers, as some have affirmed in later days." R. H. BUSK. E. LEATON BLENKINSOPP. KING JAMES'S "BOOK OF SPORTS" (6th S. ix. 8, 133). The Book of Sports set forth by K. James I. and K. Charles I. (for compiling of which Archbishop Laud was beheaded). With Remarks upon the same in Vindication of King Charles the First, was reprinted (pp. 5, and "Remarks," pp. 7) in an octavo volume : A Collection of (16) Choice, Scarce, and Valuable Tracts. Being taken from Manuscripts and Printed Books, very uncommon and not to be found but in the Libraries of the Curious. By a Gentleman who has searched after them for above Twenty Years. London, Printed for D. Browne at the Black Swan, without Temple Bar; and G. Strahan at the Golden Ball in Cornhill, 1721. As the Book of Sports does not seem to be readily accessible, I shall be glad to send a copy for publication if the editor wishes to have it. ESTE. Fillongley, Coventry. THE PARENTS OF ST. JULIAN (6th S. ix. 49, 176).--St. Julian is the representative in medieval mythology of the man who, in all mythologies, is fated to kill his parents. I have given the Roman version as well as a curious variant in Folk-lore of Rome, pp. 203-12. The belief that St. Julian, in penance for his involuntary crime founded a Hardwick Vicarage. T. W. WEBB, BIRTHPLACE OF MATTHEW PRIOR (6th S. ix. 209).—When in Dorsetshire some time ago, I spent a pleasant afternoon in examining the grand old minster at the little town of Wimborne. At the west end of that church, and on the south wall, right under a very peculiar orrery, I saw a brass to the memory of Matthew Prior, stating, if my recollection serves me, that he was born at Pamphill, near to Wimborne. Unfortunately, I did not transcribe the inscription, but no doubt your correspondent MISS MARY F. BILLINGTON, who was with me at the time, would copy it for your querist. I find a similar statement in Lewis's Topographical Dictionary. T. CANN HUGHES. Chester. look at Yarrell's British Fishes (third edition), PILL GARLICK (6th S. viii. 168, 299, 398, 478). -To the quotations already given the following passage may be added, from J. Wilson's The Projectors, 1665. Leanchops, speaking about his master Suckdry, the usurer, says :— "The devil's in him, and I am as weary of him as of our last journey, which both of us perform'd on the same horse! As thus :-In the morning, about two hours before him, out gets Peel Garlick, he jogs after, overtakes me, rides through the next town and a little beyond it, leaves palfrey agrazing for me and marches on himself."-II. i. F. C. BIRKBECK TERRY. frontispiece represented Grace Darling and her father rowing in an open boat on the rough sea in 1838 to rescue the crew of the Forfarshire steamer. In Northumberland and the Border, by Walter White, published some twenty years ago, may be found some interesting particulars of her heroic conduct, and an account of her tomb in Bamborough churchyard. JOHN PICKFORD, M. A. much trotted out lately, but I fear it will hardly HORN (6th S. ix. 28, 98).—The A.-S. has been furnish the required horn. Angles and Saxons together may have occupied, perhaps, about onethird of Britain; but several of the place-names are beyond their tether, e. g., Lochs Hourn and Kishorn, River Findhorn, &c. There are, appare-rently, more horns than one. On the Norse coast I find Fläewärs Oerne, which may account for the watery side of the question. The King in Kinghorn (like several Lowland Kings) may be akin to Kinloch. C. W. C. "FRENCH LEAVE" (6th S. viii. 514; ix. 133, 213).-Permit me to hazard a suggestion, or rather a guess, for it is nothing more, that "French" in the above phrase may possibly have no closer ference to the French people than what is implied in the word frank, which means free. May not the phrase have been originally "to take frank leave," that is, to quit one's post as if one were master of one's own movements, and free to disregard the restraints whether of official superiors or of usual social observances? When "frank leave" became, as it might do, "French leave," and the connexion, or rather the identity, of the one with the other was forgotten (Dr. Murray will no doubt tell us by-and-by when, if ever, that happened), the phrase would be understood to mark some prominent peculiarity of leave-taking among the French people. What that peculiarity was, or is, no one has yet been able to explain, which is not to be wondered at if the above suggestion be cor rect. Jedburgh. A. C. MOUNSEY. SAMIAN WARE (6th S. ix. 255). Happily my worthy friend Mr. C. Roach Smith has no claim to be called "the late." He is still, or was a week or two since, here with "the minority." PETTING-STONE (6th S. ix. 188).-This passage, from Hutchinson, is cited by Brand, Popular Antiquities, p. 397 (ed. 1877), who adds: "The etymology there given is too ridiculous to be remembered. It is called petting lest the bride should take pet with her supper." Henderson (Folk-lore of Northern Counties, P. 38) speaks of a similar stone at the village of Belford, in Northumberland, and says:it is said on the spot that the bride must leave all her "This is called the louping stone, or petting stone, and pets and humours behind her when she crosses it." Henderson refers to similar customs at Embleton, Bamburgh, and other places. I think it most likely, however, that the word petting is simply a synonym for stepping, just as in Ayrshire pate means step, probably from the French pied. This custom, like many other of our wedding customs, is undoubtedly a relic of wife-capture. It used to be, and in many places still is, the threshold of the husband's house that the bride is carried over, The subject is fully discussed in McLennan's OLD ENGRAVING (6th S. ix. 249).—Our editor's Primitive Marriage; Farrar's Primitive Manners "surmise" was not very rash; the description of and Customs, chap. vii.; Lubbock's Origin of the print in question answers exactly to that of Civilization, p. 68; Gomme's Folk-lore Relics of the portrait of Margaret Lucas, Duchess of New-Early Village Life, p. 82, &c. castle, whose Poems were published in 1653, fol., with another portrait prefixed, also engraved by P. van Schuppen, after Diepenbeck. She died in 1673. Diepenbeck spent some time in England, where he was much employed by the Duke of Newcastle, for whom he made the designs for a book on horsemanship (see Bromley and Bryan). E. WALFORD, M.A. [Further correspondence to the same effect has been received.] JULIAN MARSHALL. GRACE DARLING (6th S. ix. 142, 190, 217, 251). -In 1839 G. W. M. Reynolds wrote a story entitled Grace Darling; or, the Heroine of the Farne Islands, in his usual sensational style. It was illustrated by whole-page engravings, and the Balgownie, Aberdeen, J. W. CROMBIE, Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, &c. SIR ALEXANDER GRANT's two interesting volumes are alike opportune and valuable. We have here not simply centenary, but a substantial addition to our knowledge an ordinary piece de circonstance, brought out for a ter of the history of a university which has a story worth with Science and Folk-lore, contains much curious information. What is said about the number nine is specially significant. Dictionary the list of compound words commencing with IN the third part of Messrs. Cassell's Encyclopædic Alder, though, of course, not complete, is of creditable fulness. Under "Amphitheatre" excellent information is supplied. telling. The narrative is full of incident, and the appendices give evidence of long-continued and painstaking research. The portraits, sketches of the various picturesque bits of the old College, and the plans and views of Edinburgh in the olden time, are all alike worthy of the theme which they illustrate. We can only, with Sir Alexander himself, regret that the necessary consideration of expense prevented our having more of them. But the graphic style in which the Principal tells us of snowballing, in "Town and Gown" disturbances, of re- Two essays in Macmillan have special interest for our monstrances by the students, at one time against "Anti-readers. The first is Mr. Harrison's "Historic London," Christ, the Pope of Rome," at another against the wearing in which it is claimed for us that we possess in London of gowns, invests the whole of his story with a picturesque- the "most historic castle, the most venerable church and ness that really needs little in the way of assistance from burial-place, and the most memorable hall of justice the pencil of the artist. The account which Sir Alexander now extant on the earth." Let us hope that the conprints of the disputation at Stirling before James VI., cluding prophecies will not come true. The second is in which the king himself took part, now for the im-"An Oxford College under James I. and Charles I.," by pugner, now for the defender, "in good Latin, and with the Warden of Merton.-The prelude to what seems much knowledge of the secrets of philosophy," is ex- likely to be a valuable and readable essay on the "Foretremely characteristic of the monarch, as Scott has castings of Nostradamus" appears in Mr. Bogue's Antihanded him down to us in his really very faithful por- quarian Magazine and Bibliographer. The Rev. J. Picktrait in the Fortunes of Nigel. In the result, his Sacred ford's account of "An Old Cheshire Family" and "The Majesty proclaimed himself openly "godfather to the Treasures of the Record Office" also attract attention.— Colledge of Edinburgh." From James VI. to Victoria In the Contemporary Canon Westcott writes on "Euriis a goodly reach of the stream of Time, down which the pides as a Religious Teacher" and Mr. Traill on "Neobark of the College of Edinburgh has floated with vary- Christianity and Mr. Arnold."-Mr. Swinburne's essay ing fortunes, for whose story we must refer our readers on "Wordsworth and Byron " in the Nineteenth Century to the pages in which Sir Alexander Grant has made it is sufficiently outspoken to provoke considerable conlive. Mater Oriel " may well exult over her distin- troversy. guished son who rules over the College of Edinburgh. The Genealogist. Vol. VII. Edited by George W. Marshall, LL.D. (Bell & Sons.) WITH the volume before us Dr. Marshall's labours come to an end. The seven volumes which he has edited con tain a large mass of authentic genealogical material which will prove of great use to the county historian. The extracts from parish registers are a most important feature, which, we trust, will be continued in future issues. WE have received The Bible in Waverley; or, Sir Waller Scott's Use of the Sacred Scriptures, by Nicholas Dickson (Edinburgh, Black). The writer is evidently very familiar not only with Holy Scripture, but also with the writings of the great novelist. He has gone through the whole of the sacred volume, and pointed out, step by step, how very much Sir Walter Scott was indebted to it for his illustrations. Mr. Dickson's labour will not have been in vain if it convinces any of his readers that the Bible is, apart from its sacred functions, the most important help towards style which we possess. THE Derbyshire Archæological and Natural History Society's Journal, Vol. VI., for 1884, comes before us after a hiatus valde deflendus in its receipt. The present issue is fully as interesting as the last which was sent, and should certainly be in the hands of genealogists as well as of the lovers of natural science. The Darleydale Parish Registers," communicated by Mr. Sleigh, contain many quaint entries and not a few remarkable Christian names. We should like, however, to see them printed in full, instead of being tantalized by extracts. Mr. S. O. Addy contributes an important "List of Vills and Freeholders of Derbyshire, 1633," and an interesting account of a last-century worthy, Charles Balguy, M.D. The Balguys, or Balgays, we incline to agree with Pegge in considering a Scottish family which attempted to father itself upon an English stock, the Cheshire Baguleys, without the slightest proof. Balgay is, we believe, a place-name near Dundee. A PAPER of high interest, read by our valued contributor Mr. Frederick E. 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