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NOTES AND QUERIES.

(6th S. IX. MAY 10, '84.

MELANCHOLY. "Great men," said Aristotle, exception that Lloydia should be found growing are always of a nature originally melancholy." on cold uplands of Alps, Caucasus, or Carpathians, This is from Emerson's English Traits in the as on the higher mountains of North Wales, and chapter on "Character." chapter and verse? Also of the saying of Plato mon land not far above the sea at Ajaccio. Must Can any one give my little lily was in a warm, sheltered bit of comthat "melancholy is the right temperament for I on this account give up its identity with Lloydia, success in study"? Haverstock Hill. C. A. WARD. and trust to the young German who, after consulting for me a German botanical work, pronounced it to be Ixia parvula ? E. A. M. LEWIS.

SUNDAY MATTRESS-TURNING. tell me the origin of a superstition I find appaCan any one rently widespread that it is unlucky to turn a mattress in making a bed on Sunday? possible the idea originated with a lazy servant. It is WILFRED HARGRAVE. Sheffield.

of "N. & Q." kindly send me a sketch of the deSOMERVILLE FAMILY.-Will any of the readers scent of William Somerville (who married Mary Fairfax, the authoress) from the Cambusnethan Somervilles; and also let me know where I can find a more detailed record of the Somervilles of the Somervilles? Cambusnethan than is given in The Memorie of BELLINGHAM A. SOMERVILLE, The Crescent, Queenstown, co. Cork.

JAMES SANSOM, OF THE TURNERS' COMPANY.— Amongst the Egerton Manuscripts in the British Museum is a document numbered 2134, fol. 52, partly in printing, of which the following is a copy: "James Sansom of Munford Court, Milk Street, Ivory turner maketh oath and saith, That he hath been set up who can tell me to what families the following coats in business one year and not more than two years. That HERALDIC.-I shall be much obliged to any one he has gained and not lost since he has been in business. of arms belong: 1. Gules, two greyhounds comThat he does not owe more than he is able to pay. That batant (or holding between them some small charge he does not deal in spirituous liquors. That he is a Pro- which is too small for me to distinguish) between testant and lives within three miles of the City of Lon-three fleurs-de-lis, impaling Chichester. 2. Three don. Signed, JAMES SANSOM. 30 day of Apr. 1789 JOHN WILKES, Lord Mayor of LonSworn before me this don.' urns with flames. Crest, a demi-lion regardant, urn in flames, as in the arms. Motto, "Ex Urna collared and chained, holding between his Resurgam." These are on carnelian seals, and are too small for me to distinguish all the colours. No. 2 is very well cut, and appears to be of older STRIX.

An endorsement on this document says: "1794 Jany A letter acquainting the Secretary that James Sanson [sic] was become insolvand and requiring them agreeable to the condition of the Bond at the expiration of three monds to discharge the Bond and Int." Will some correspondent who is acquainted with the rules and regulations of the City companies furnish an explanation of the seeming peculiarities of the above document ?

15, Queen Anne's Gate, Westminster. GEO. C. BOASE. REFERENCE TO BOOK WANTED.-Some fifteen years ago I read a book the hero of which was Louis XVII. It stated therein that there wereso far as I recollect-descendants of the supposed murdered boy living in Sicily. The name of book and author would greatly oblige.

EDWARD R. VYVYAN.

[Very many claimants to the title of Louis XVII. have presented themselves. The supposition that the Dauphin lived to manhood and left descendants, though contradicted by ample testimony, has found many believers and given rise to many books.]

LLOYDIA SEROTINA.

date than No. 1.

paws an

-I have a very good old print, a line engraving,
PORTRAIT OF COUNT BALDASSARE CASTIGLIONE.
from a picture by Raphael, of this celebrated man.
Beneath it is the following inscription:-

"Comes Balthassar Castilionius.
In Museo Cardinalis Valenti
Romæ Anno MDCCXLVII.
Raphael Urbinas pinxit
Can any one tell me where the original is now to
Jo: Gottofr. Seuter delin: et sculp:
Alt. p 2. unc: 43. Lata p. 1. unc. 10."
be found? There is a portrait of the count, also
by Raphael, in the Louvre, but it is quite different
picture has been engraved by Vertue.
from the one I am writing about. The Louvre

Ryde.

EDMUND RANDOLPH.

SAMUEL MEDLEY.-I have an engraving of the S. Medley, jun., No. 5, Golden Square. Can you, published as the Act directs, December, 1793, by Rev. Samuel Medley, of Liverpool, dated London, has been published, or what is known concerning him? or any of your learned readers, tell me if his life

(now republished in Flowers and their Pedigrees, When the description by Grant Allen) came out, early last year, in Longman's Magazine, of the isolated Welsh mountain tulip called Lloydia serotina, I was engaged in Corsica in taking the portrait of a tiny starry white lily, which seemed to me to tally exactly with this description and its illustration, with the of Charles Henshaw, of Eltham, Lord Mayor of

H. PIPER.

HENSHAW.-Can any one tell me the parentage

queen sat upon the throne. Now, can any reader of " N. & Q." (if you think the question worth an answer) give any information as to the author of that prediction, and any particulars concerning it? FATHER FRANK.

A.M.: P.M.-When were these useful abbreviations brought into general use? J. MANUEL. Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

CALABINGO: CALAMOOTHE: HOLY.-What is

the meaning of the first two words, which appear in
the Virgin Martyr, II. i.? In II. iii. of the same
What is the signification of holy me?
play is the phrase, "Both hug and holy me."
W. J. G.

GRACE IN HALL.-Have the graces which are said in hall in the different colleges at Oxford ever been published? They are worth preserving. At Oriel I remember the Latin grace took the form of an antiphon, V. and R., with an oratio, said by a Bible-clerk standing in the centre of the hall facing the senior fellow who was presiding at the high table, and who came from his chair and stood on the ROMNEY, R.A.: J. C. WOOD. I shall feel planum facing the clerk. H. A. W. obliged if any of your readers will tell me the date of a painter of the name of J. C. Wood, who in JAMES THE NOVELIST'S "FISHERMAN OF SCHAR- vol. ii. of The History of the Scottish Highlands PHOUT."-Which of the works of G. P. R. James is said to have painted a portrait of my relative, is referred to below? Life is too brief to search" Gen. Sir Archibald Campbell, K.B., first Colonel through the many volumes of this prolific and once popular author. There is no such title in the long catalogue of his novels in the British Museum Library :

“R. P. G. James (sic), romancier anglais du commencement de ce siècle, a écrit sous ce titre, Le Pêcheur de Scarphout (sic), un petit roman que j'ai traduit autrefois, et où il décrit exactement, en la dramatisant un peu trop peut-être, la physionomie du pays."-Dépret, Les Demivertus, Paris, 1862, p. 255.

J. MASKELL.

JOHN BRIGGS.-Can any reader of "N. & Q." tell me at what time John Briggs, artist, lived? He was a very fair painter of small panel pictures in oil of Scripture subjects. Of course H. P. Briggs is well known. Was this John his father or any way related to him? ADIN WILLIAMS.

WINDSBRAUT.-What is the origin of this word, which I am told is used by the peasantry in Germany, as well as in Belgium, for a sudden storm? It is called the windbruyt in the latter country.

M. E. M.

AN OLD PROPHECY.-When I was a lad I well remember that the public through the kingdom looked forward to the year 1837, wondering how an old prophecy would be fulfilled. The prophecy was the following:

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By the power to see through the ways of heaven In one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven The year shall pass away, without any spring, And on England's throne shall not sit a king.' This was, to my certain knowledge, in people's mouths for years before the said date. The spring of that year was the coldest I ever remember. Winter held on till May, and on the 24th of that month (a very cold day) heavy snow fell and a keen frost prevailed through the country. We had no king, for at that time our present

of the 74th Highlanders." I know Romney painted his portrait, but I never have heard of a painter of the name of Wood, nor do I believe from the engraving in the book it is Sir Archibald Campbell's portrait at all, as the uniform is quite unlike that of the period. SCOTUS.

ENGLAND'S GREAT MEN.-Bp. Patrick, in his Commentary upon the Book of Judges, cap. xvi., which contains part of the story of Samson, ob

serves:

"There have been men of wonderful strength, whose memory is preserved in history; particularly by Pliny, lib. 12, Natural History, cap. 20, and more are collected by Caspar Schottus in his Mirabilia Naturæ et Artis, lib. iii. cap. 36. And now, at my present writing of this, there is more than one person in this city of extraordinary strength."

See his comment on v. 17. The city alluded to
may have been London, in the neighbourhood of
which the bishop exercised pastoral functions, first
as Rector of Battersea, and subsequently, and more
conspicuously, at St. Paul's in Covent Garden,
where he was incumbent during the year of the
terrible plague, and ministered to the wants of the
people. In the year 1679 he became Dean of Peter-
borough, was promoted to the see of Chichester in
1689, and three years later to that of Ely. The
Preface to his Commentary is dated April, 1694,
but the materials from which it is composed must
necessarily have been the accumulation of many
years of study previous to their being published.
It will be interesting then, if we can ascertain the
fact, to know to which of the places afore-named
the good prelate alludes, as that wherein were to
be found these his puissant fellow citizens, and
whether their bulk and prowess are memorialized
elsewhere, and their names accordingly "had in
remembrance."
R. L.

Great Lever, Bolton.

THORP.

CATTLE " ASKED IN CHURCH."-When was the practice mentioned below discontinued, and the honour of being "asked in church" restricted to misguided human beings?-" And they oughte to aske them [stray cattle] thre sondayes, in thre or four next parysshe churches, and also crye them thre tymes in thre the nexte market townes (Fitzherbert, Boke of Surveying and Improumentes, 1523, xxvi b). This extract, by the way, recalls the fact that in Scotland people about to be married are not "asked," but "cried" in church, like cattle at a market. "Jennie Scott was cried i' the auld kirk last Sab'thaday." E. D.

THE MODOC INDIANS.-Was the language of this now extinct Indian tribe committed to writing at all? If so, where may any works in it be obtained? Any reference to general sources of information would be useful. I only know of Joaquin Miller's Life among the Modocs.

THORP.

SIGNATURES TO THE SOLEMN LEAGUE AND COVENANT.—I am anxious to know where I can procure a list of the signatures appended to the Solemn League and Covenant. I believe either the original or a copy is preserved at Maybole, in Ayrshire. OMEN.

PERCEHAIE OF RYTON, IN RYEDALE, YORKSHIRE. When did this family become extinct; and where can I meet with some particulars respecting it? C. L. W.

ROBERT, BARON DE LA WARDE, SUMMONED
TO PARLIAMENT IN 1299.-To what family of
Warde did he belong? The arms he bore are
entirely different from those of the Yorkshire
house.
C. L. W.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WAnted.—
"In matters commercial the fault of the Dutch
Is giving too little and asking too much."
ALEX. FERGUSSON, Lieut.-Col.

Replies.

LEIGH HUNT.

(6th S. ix. 308.)

In corroboration of MR. STOCHEN'S reference to

The Town, I have all the numbers published of Leigh Hunt's Journal, which began Dec. 7, 1850, the last number issued being dated March 29, 1851. Each number begins with "The Town," commencing from Whitehall, where the two volumes already published left off. The papers went through thirteen numbers, beginning with Gwydir, Dover, and Melbourne houses, and narrating how Downing Street was named after the unprincipled "Sir George Downing" of Pepys, thus "helping the man to a little more infamy." Hunt, after narrating an anecdote showing Downing's meanness to his relations, closes his report of him by saying, "Such is the shabby knave who had the honour of giving his name to Downing Street." Leigh Hunt also justly complains of the authorities of St. Giles's altering the name of Dyot Street into George Street, after Sir Thomas Dyot had given the street to the poor. After a most GORDON OF BROADLAND AND LESMOIR, BART. interesting account he then takes Fludyer Street, -Wanted, any information as to the marriages named after Sir Samuel, and refers to Axe Yard, and children of Alexander and Thomas, second where Pepys had his house, afterwards bought by and third sons of Sir William Gordon of Broad- Cromwell's son-in-law, Lord Claypole. King land and Lesmoir, Bart., who succeeded his father Street, declining in Charles II.'s time more on in 1643. Troup, in Aberdeenshire, was the pro-account of the fresh air" of Piccadilly and St. perty. Marylebone Fields, next comes under notice, with its "October Club"; then Duke Street, where Prior the poet lived, also Judge Jeffreys and Dr. Arnold the song-writer. Great George Street, then one hundred years old, having been opened in 1750, with its Thieving Lane, is then dealt with, and Hunt next passes through Storey's Gate-named after Mr. Storey, who was employed by Charles II. in park improvements-mentioning how John Wilkes lived in Prince's Court close by. Canon Row comes in for a lengthened notice, and the papers end with a full account of St. Margaret's Church and Westminster Abbey.

A. C. S.

ULYSSES' VOYAGE. - I shall be glad if any reader of "N. & Q." can give me authorities for the mediæval legend of Ulysses' voyage as given in Dante, Inferno, canto 26.

JAMES WILLIAMS.

[The voyage in question, and the death of Ulysses, are supposed to be the invention of Dante. Caius Julius Solinus, a grammarian, compiler, and plagiarist from Pliny, in his Polyhistor., 13, says that Lisbon (Ulyssipo or Olyssipo) was founded by Ulysses; and Tacitus, near the commencement of the Germania, says "Cæterum et Ulyssem quidam opinantur, in longo illo et fabuloso errore......adiisse Germaniæ terras." No other suggestion has, we believe, yet been pointed out.]

Besides the above papers Leigh Hunt gave

the better; these he can obtain at a shoemaker's or a currier's. As regards taking impressions of founders' marks or donors' crests on bells, the following squeeze composition is, I believe, good: Whiting, 1lb.; beeswax, 4 oz.; lard, 4 oz. The beeswax and lard should be well melted together, add whiting gradually while melting; the whiting must be thoroughly ground and sifted and well stirred in, else gritty particles will remain. When cold, cut into cakes; they can be softened in the hand and affixed to the bell mark. When removed from the bell stamp the latter will, of course, appear impressed; from that impression a plaster-of-paris cast is readily taken. It is well to take a couple and let them get well dry. The above directions were given me by the late Mr. North, but I have never tried the squeeze composition. M.A.Oxon.

In reply to MR. JACKSON'S query I enclose my instructions for the job, which may be useful to readers of "N. & Q." who are bell hunters:

"Instructions for taking Rubbings of Inscriptions on Bells, or other Raised Letters.-Supply yourself with strips of thin printer's demy paper and bits of black upper leather, which may be picked up in any cobbler's sweeping corner. Lay the paper over the inscriptionskeeping it steady as best you may-then rub the paper with the black leather, where you feel the letters or stamps, and they will soon stare you in the face (though before, perhaps, they were illegible), and you will be pleased with your own quick and handy work. Don't omit anything. It may be well to brush the letters first of all with a dry hard brush. Heelball is not suited for raised letters, but for incised work, like brasses: such rubbings may be made by reaching round a bell when, from some impediment or other, you may not be able to get round to read it."

advisable to brush out what you intend to take with a
hard dry brush; do not blow upon it, if you do the clay
will stick to the metal and you will fail; neither need
you use any oil. By a little practice you will soon be-
come an expert workman. You will do well to wear a
woollen apron and work in your shirt sleeves with a cap
on your head."
H. T. ELLACOMBE.

SAMUEL SAVILE, OF MEXBOROUGH, OB. MAY 25, 1660 (6th S. ix. 308). - Thomas Harwood, in his Alumni Etonenses, Birmingham, 1797, 4to., p. 111, has this entry:—

"A.D. 1607, Jac. i. 5. Samuel Savil, A.M. He resigned at the Election in 1623, and lived in Yorkshire upon a good Estate. He was an Esquire of the Body Extraordinary to King Charles the First." Provost Goodall, from whose copy the above is extracted, notes that the MS. list spells the name "Savill," and for "resigned " that it has "left the College." As he is described as A.M. he would have been a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. The title of the head of that illustrious society is Provost, not Principal, and Foster has made a further mistake by stating that he held that office. Also for "ex parte rege " read regis. Samuel Savile was probably a relation of Sir Henry Savile, who was Provost of Eton College from 1596 to 1622, and his appointment about the king's person would naturally expose him to the ill-treatment which he is said to have received at the hands of the Parliamentarians. W. E. BUCKLEY.

HERALDIC (6th S. ix. 308, 356).—I find in Papworth's Dictionary of Arms, Or, three crescents sable, for Hodges; and for Sarson, Ermine, on a chief gules a label arg. Q. J.

"Instructions for taking Squeezes of Stamps on Bells. CAMPBELLS IN IRELAND (6th S. ix. 88).-The -Provide yourself with potter's clay, or common pipe- "indistinct recollections" of J. M. C. have unclay: if it is dry and hard put it in a cloth and soak it in water, then temper it by working it like glazier's doubtedly a foundation in fact, since it is clear by putty, and in that state it may be kept a long time in a the Ing. Canc. Hib. that there were Campbells in wet cloth in a mackintosh sponge bag fit for use; when co. Donegal t. Car. II. Among the Inquisitions it gets too dry just sprinkle the cloth with water: also above cited will be found, sub "Donegal," "Camprovide yourself with small tin boxes of various sizes. bell, Patric', 9," and "Cambell, Rob', 10," both t Take a lump of the tempered clay, just enough to cover what you intend to squeeze; work it, and pat it, and Car. II. Whether either of these was ancestor of flatten it either with your hand or with a small roller, the existing family of Campbell of Carrick Buoy, and then dab it on to the object, pressing it in. Do not co. Donegal, Barts. U.K., cr. 1831, I cannot say, let it remain long enough to stick, but remove it care-for the lineage in Burke's Peerage, 1884, does not fully at once and lay it aside, placing it on paper in the tin box; cover it well with paper, that it may not shake go back beyond the father of the first baronet. about; it will then keep safely in a damp state till you get home, or can take a cast in plaster of paris while it is in a damp state, to do which you must remove the squeeze from the box, and lay it on paper or a flat surface; trim the edges with a wetted knife, and hedge it round with paper the width of the thickness you wish to make the cast; then pour on the plaster; as soon as that is set, separate the cast carefully from the clay, and take another cast; if the plaster is good, and you get expert at it, you may take two, three, or four casts from the same squeeze, as long as the clay remains damp; and after all you may preserve the squeeze in a hardened state. If you find it difficult to separate the one from the other just damp the back of the squeeze. It will be

Apart from this family I find no Irish Campbells recorded in Burke's General Armory, 1878, but in Butters's Fairbairn's Crests (n.d.), I find "Campbell, Iri. the wings of an eagle conjoined ppr.," with the motto "Ulterius et Melius." Both crest and motto differ entirely from those of Carrick Buoy, and the family is probably of different descent. In co. Sligo there is Campbell of Hermitage, mentioned in the current edition (1884) of Walford's County Families, where it is stated that the present representative has served the office of high sheriff. But there are no particulars of