summoned tore the thief to pieces instead of obeying his orders. There are very few who can safely venture to conjure with the rod of Sir Walter."-Critical and Historical Essays, student's edition, p. 128.

It is an interesting coincidence that Sir Walter Scott, in proposing to introduce in his novel The Abbot the difficult character of Mary Queen of Scots, applied to himself this identical figure. "In doing so," writes Scott, in his introduction to the novel, "I was aware that failure would be a conclusive disaster, and that my task was something like that of an enchanter who raises a spirit over whom he is uncertain of possessing an effectual control." Macaulay's essay appeared in April, 1830, whilst Scott's introduction was not written till January, 1831. It is, however, almost certain that Scott did not read Macaulay's essay. Though the latter author quotes his illustration as an Eastern legend, it seems probable that both he and Scott had Frankenstein (published in 1817) in I. ABRAHAMS.

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AFTERNOON TEA. - Fanny Kemble, or Mrs. Butler, in the last book on her life, says that on a visit to a noble duke, a duchess there held afternoon teas in her apartment, to which she invited special friends who were there, as herself, on a visit to the castle. Fanny Kemble gives this occurrence as the probable origin of the present afternoon teas. I happen to have a catalogue of books sent to me, which says, under "Tea,", "The Good and Bad Effects of Tea Considered, with some Considerations on Afternoon Tea-drinking, and the many Subsequent Evils attending it. 1758." The usage, therefore, was just a century before, and must have been in previous practice thus to W. J. BIRCH.

have attention called to it.

BISHOP HEBER.-Perhaps the following note may be of interest to some of your readers. When I was a boy at Eton (1818) Bishop Heber (then Rector of Hodnet) was on a visit to my father. Whilst he was sitting at the writing table I called his attention to the following extract from Miss

Porter's Recluse of Norway (1814), pp. 64-5: "With Theodore the tongue was a secondary organ of speech: he discoursed principally with his eyes." The bishop thereupon took the book from my hand, and wrote in the margin as follows:"I've read in a book, with no little surprise,

Of a man who'd a tongue, but who talk'd with his eyes; Which led me, pursuing the jest, to suppose

He smelt with his ears and he heard with his nose." still have the book in my library which contains these lines. R. E. EGERTON-WARBURTON.

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HOW OLD CUSTOMS DIE OUT.-The following extract is from the Grimsby News of May 30, 1884:

"Suppression of the Goxhill Fair.-The fair at Goxhill has been suppressed by the county police. It appears that some one had complained of the presence of shows, roundabouts, merry-go-rounds, and stalls in the public ordered the stall-keepers, showmen, and others to move streets of the village, whereupon Superintendent Ward off the roads, and thus suppressed the chartered fair, which has been in existence 900 years."

The village in question is close to New Holland, just on the opposite side of the Humber to Hull,

C. MOOR.

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HUNTING THE WREN. - Many asked a query on the meaning and origin of this custom. It was not answered. I see in the Academy of June 7, 1884, p. 404, No. 631, an answer, which I will not transcribe on account of your space, but beg to refer any of your readers who care to know to the above number.

H. A. W.

WATCHMAKERS: STAINTON.-The Athenæum, No. 2024, Nov. 10, 1883, p. 593, reviewing Some Professional Recollections, as to the history of the Carron Company, names Joseph Stainton. He was a watchmaker at Keswick, and made manager H. C. of the company in 1786.

ABERDEEN BIBLIOGRAPHY.

May I intimate through your valuable periodical that I have in preparation a hand-list of books printed in Aberdeen or by Aberdeen printers, 1620-1736, about which I desire information? A copy will be sent post free to any one applying for it, and I am in hopes that it may elicit information regarding many of the books mentioned in it. I am anxious to leave no stone unturned to make The Aberdeen Printers, on which I am at present engaged, as nearly complete as it is in my power to make it, and I consider this a likely means to that end. J. P. EDMOND.

64, Bon-Accord Street, Aberdeen.

NECESSARY REFORM.-The many more or less speculative "drives" about family and individual histories appearing from time to time in " N. & Q." and other critical publications, which ought to be compiled with the greatest care and trouble, and

not be registered without a due record, appear to me to only prove that the system now pursued by the Heralds' College and parish registers between them is eminently calculated to lead to confusion of identities, &c. As this is not a desirable state of things in a complicated state of society, it would seem high time some more definite system were inaugurated.

GILLYFLOWER FARRYNGDON.

Queries.

We must request correspondents desiring information on family matters of only private interest, to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that the answers may be addressed to them direct.

CHARLES II. AND A GREEK POET.-Constantine Rhodocanakis, a Greek physician of Oxford, wrote a poem on the restoration of Charles II. The king is said to have presented him with rich domains in the county of Norfolk and a villa in High Holborn (A.D. 1660). When James II. had left England, an exile, the property given to Rhodocanakis was sold; it is not stated by order of whom. Can any of your numerous readers inform me whether such an estate was conferred by Charles II. upon this Greek gentleman, and where the property is situated? My information has been derived from a "Collection de Monuments

"HODER MODER "" "HUGGER-MUGGER."— In the Paston Letters (edited by Fenn) this expression is explained as meaning "clandestinely." It occurs in the following passage:

"And let him weet that there have been many complaints of him by that knavish knight Sir Miles Stapylton, as I sent you word before, but he shall come to his excuse well enough so he have a man's heart, and the said Stapylton shall be understood as he is, a false shrew, and he and his wife and others have blavered (blabed or prated) here of my kindred in hoder moder (hugger-mugger, clandestinely), but, by that time we have reckoned old days and late days, mine shall be found more worshipful than his and his wife's, or else I will not for his gilt gypcer (purse).'

If the interpretation given by Mr. Fenn is correct, the meaning of the word must have undergone great alteration. Can any reader of "N. & Q." give an instance where it is used in the sense of clandestinely? HENRIETTA FISHWICK.

[Halliwell's Dictionary, after Florio and Earle, gives the meanings "in secret," "clandestinely," to huggermugger. Nares has "in secret," or "concealment.' Cotgrave translates it "en cachette." It has, in fact, always had this meaning, and we know of no other. For instances see Hamlet, IV. v.; Coryat's Crudities; Mirror for Magistrates; Harington's Ariosto, &c. Hoder moder-hugger-mugger is given by Halliwell as in Skelton.]

MORSE. In a reading class lately I came upon this sentence in Sir Walter Scott's Monastery, chap. x., not quite half through the chapter: "Hardened wretch!' said Father Eustace; art thou but this instant delivered from death, and dost thou so soon morse thoughts of slaughter?'" Not knowing a verb " to morse," I thought it might be a misprint in one or two copies; but we had specimens of several editions, and it was in all of them. I cannot find such a verb in the glossary to the Library Edition of Scott, nor in Jamieson, nor in any dictionary to which I have access-only the nouns Morse, a walrus," and "Morse, the fastening of a cope." May I venture to suggest that Scott wrote nurse, and the transcriber (I have somewhere read that Scott's own handwriting never went into the printing office) or the compositor mistook "nu" for mo, and the error has been perpetuated in all the editions of The Monastery for these fifty years? If the matter be as I suppose, it is well it should be noticed, lest we find presently in our dictionaries "Morse to cherish, foster," &c., as a classical English word sanctioned by the authority of Sir Walter Scott.

E. S. W.

FAMILY OF JONES OF GARTHKENAN, BY LLANVAIR DUFFERINCLWYD, IN DENBIGHSHIRE.-Arms Per bend sinister ermine and ermines, over granted by Barker, who was Garter from 1536 to all a lion rampant within a bordure engrailed or; crest, a lion's head erased, per pale argent and sable. Is there any representative of this family; or can anybody give me any information about it? I have a copy of the pedigree from Tudor Trevor down to about 1600, but can trace nothing further. NICHOLAS ROBINSON.

Frankton Grange, Shrewsbury.

LEONARDO DA VINCI'S PAINTING OF "THE LAST SUPPER." What is the tradition as to the order in which the apostles are represented as sitting in Leonardo da Vinci's "Last Supper"? Of and Peter close to him, Judas being the third off course our Saviour is in the centre, and SS. John (with his bag and the upset salt-cellar). How are the other apostles arranged, and how did Leonardo name the other figures in his world-famed painting?

W. S. L. S.

HAUNTED HOUSE AT ENFIELD.-Do any of your correspondents know anything of a haunted house at Enfield? In Mr. Walford's Greater London is the following:

"It is singular that there should have been no haunted house in the parish of Enfield. Formerly,' says Bourne, in his Antiquities, almost every place had one. If a house was built in a melancholy situation or in some old romantic manner, or if any particular accident had happened in it-a murder, or a sudden death, or such like to be sure that house had a mark set on it, and it

was afterwards esteemed the habitation of a ghost.' The most diligent inquiry,' observes Mr. Ford, in his work already quoted, has been unsuccessful in tracing the vestige of one here, though the Chase was formerly

notorious as the residence of witches.'"'

It would appear from the statement of a correspondent of "N. & Q." (see 4th S. xi. 274) that a house decidedly haunted does, or did then, exist, though its name is not mentioned. Any further particulars respecting it will be gratefully received by ALLAN FEA.

Highgate, N.

PEASANT COSTUMES IN ENGLAND.-Are there

any traditions or other evidences of peasant costumes having been worn in England like those local costumes of the Continent which interest artists and tourists? The legendary green costume of Robin Hood and his merry men looks like a peasant costume of the British forester. The smock-frock is a survival of a ploughman's dress, and the Cornish miner and mine-girl (or balmaiden) have a sort of peasant dress. But were there ever costumes localized in certain villages or counties, as in Germany, Poland, or Switzerland at present?

W. S. L. S.

AUTHOR OF HYMN WANTED.-Is the author known of a hymn for Whitsunday, the first verse of which is

"Spirit of mercy, truth, and love,
O shed thine influence from above,
And still from age to age convey
The wonders of this sacred day."

In the Hymnal by the Rev. Godfrey Thring, pub-
lished in 1880, “ Anon., 1775," is appended.
JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

EARLY STEAM NAVIGATION.-I should be glad of any information as to the names of the vessels

and dates of the establishment of lines of mail steamers and passenger steamers prior to 1828. Who built the Unicorn, running, 1836, between Greenock and Liverpool, and what became of her? JOHN CORYTON.

The Temple.

BACON'S STEPMOTHER.-Is the present Lord Kilmorey descended from this lady, whose first husband was Alderman Barham, her second Sir John Packington, and her third Viscount Kilmorey?

A.

MARLOWE'S "DIDO." - In Dyce's Marlowe, p. xxxv, it is stated, on the authority both of Bishop Tanner and of Wharton, that there were copies of Dido in 1594 which contained an elegy on Marlowe by Th. Nash. Wharton also wrote to Malone that he had seen a copy in Osborne's shop, and that it was in the latter's catalogue for 1754, apparently one of Mr. Oldys's books. The recovery of the elegy is of some importance, if only because it enumerates five of Marlowe's plays. I would therefore ask what other copies beyond the Stevens's of the Duke of Devonshire and that in the Bodleian are known to be in existence. Might I also hope that their owners or others would examine them for this elegy, which came next after the title-page? BR. NICHOLSON.

CARICATURES OF THE MULREADY ENVELOPE BY LEECH, PHIZ, AND CRUIKSHANK.-In Mr. Sala's "Echoes," in the Illustrated London News for Feb. 3 and 17, reference is made to caricatures of the Mulready envelope by Leech, Phiz, and more than half a dozen artists”-George Cruikshank among the rest, as I learn from another source. Two caricatures by Leech are reproduced in the Timbre Poste for October, 1868; and in the Philatelic Record for last December and February described in all forty-six varieties of these imitation envelopes. My list, however, was confessedly incomplete. I have seen none either by Phiz or by Cruikshank, and of the series published by Fores, Piccadilly, and by Ackermann, Strand, only Nos. 4, 8, 10, and No. 3, respectively. An initialled H. R. H. in lower left-hand corner, but envelope (having Lord Brougham as Britannia), with no publisher's name, I am unable to identify. I should be glad of any information from those who happen to possess Mulready imitations. have an indistinct recollection of reading, many years ago, an account of these caricatures in an English illustrated magazine-non-philatelic, but cannot recall its name. P. J. ANDERSON. Aberdeen.

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"ARMS FOUND."-Whence are obtained the coats of arms and crests furnished by the advertising heralds? Are they taken from the records of the Heralds' Office or from old books on the subject? If from the former, are none genuine but those that are so registered; and can they be inspected and copies obtained? If from the latter, will one of your readers give me some information as to the books whence they are taken? I am anxious to verify the crest and coat of arms on an old family seal, and shall be glad of any infor

mation which will enable me to do so.

ALARIC.

IDEN FAMILY, OF KENT.-Could any genealogist tell me who was the first wife of Alexander Iden, the sheriff of Kent 1447? His last wife was the widow of Sir William Crowner-not Sir James, as Shakspeare calls him. Upon what authority does Hasted assert that the before-mentioned Alexander left a son William, who left a son Thomas Iden, sheriff of the county in 1501? W. L. KING. Watlington, Norfolk.

piece of sky in the left-hand corner of the picture. It is signed "L. Lafitte," but not dated, and I have failed to find any reference to such an artist in the works I have consulted. Can any one give me any particulars as to the artist or the painting? G. W. Y.

SIR JOHN SHORTER.-Can you oblige by informing me when Sir John Shorter was Lord Mayor of London, where he lived, whom he INQUIRER. married, and what he was?

[John Shorter was sheriff in 1675; Sir John Shorter was Lord Mayor in 1687. He died within the year, and was succeeded by Sir John Eyles, who was appointed by the Crown.]

SHEFFINGTON.-Is anything known of any other writings of the author whose name I met beneath these lines on an Etruscan tomb?

"Here they perish'd-yet not for ever,
For O Stream of Light Divine
Thou hast beamed in every nation
From Thy Fount in Palestine.

Thou hast raised a victor's trophy
E'en in Hades and the Grave.
Who can tell what dawn Thou'lt flush
Upon the prisoners of this cave?"

D. S.

Regina Maria Roche, the author of The Children R. M. ROCHE.-Can any one tell me who was of the Abbey, or where I can find any account of her? J. SOMERS.

PEREGRINE PELHAM, THE REGICIDE.-Can any reader of "N. & Q." give me the parentage and birthplace of this regicide? But little seems to be known about him personally. He was a scion of the great Sussex family of Pelham, and is said to have been descended from Sir William Pelham, who was Lord Deputy of Ireland in the reign of Elizabeth. He was absent from one only of the sittings at the king's trial, signed the death warrant, and died before the Restoration. I have just met with the following in the parish register of Bosham: 1602. Perigrine Pelham, son of Perigrine Pelham, gent., was bapt. ye xxvijt of Sept." Can this be the entry of his baptism? Cawley, the regicide, was also baptized in 1602, at St. Andrew's, Chichester. Any facts about Peregrine Pelham would be welcome. F. H. ARNOLD. Hermitage, Emworth.

LAFITTE THE PAINTER.-I have a gallery painting representing a Roman gladiator, wounded to death, extended at length, but leaning on his left hand. His right holds a sword, and his helmet and laurel crown have fallen to the ground. The scene is a kind of cave, and lightning is visible in the small

"Full many a rogue is born to cheat unseen And die unhanged for want of proper care"? She referred to it in "N. & Q." (6th S. viii. 107), and probably knows where it may be found. I have many amusing parodies on the lines

"Who ran to catch me when I fell?
My mother," &c.,

but I want a correct copy of the original, and some
WALTER HAMILTON.
account of its author.
64, Bromfelde Road, Clapham, S.W.

BEDE'S CHAIR is still preserved at Jarrow, near Durham, with the initials of many visitors cut upon it. Of what wood is it made?

C. A. WARD.

FURSEY SAINT.-He was baptized thus, as with a name significant of the virtues wherewith he was endowed." What does the name signify? C. A. WARD.