chronicled in the newspapers and at dinners as the coming of age of "The Master of Chisholm." Surely there can be no authority for such an assumption by the son of a commoner. Perhaps some one better versed in heraldry than I am will tell the readers of " N. & Q." what is the recognized law on the subject. JOHN MACKAY. Herriesdale. PRINCESS CHARLOTTE.-There exists a set of twelve miniatures of the Princess Charlotte of Wales, which were painted from the life in the course of the years 1799 to 1817. They are by Charlotte Jones, "preceptress in miniature painting, and miniature painter to the Princess Charlotte," an artist who ranked high in her own line at the end of the last century and beginning of the present. There are miniature portraits by her of the Prince Regent, Princess Amelia, Lady Caroline Lamb, and others. The miniatures in question were bequeathed by Miss Jones to a relative, whose descendants now possess them. The portraits, with one exception (the first, which is a copy of a pencil sketch by Cosway, and is dated 1796), are original, and from the life. They were painted in the years 1799, 1801, 1807, 1808, 1810, 1812, 1813, 1814, 1815, and 1816, when the princess was aged respectively 3, 5, 11, 12, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, and 20 years. The series terminates with a commemorative portrait of beautiful design. Of the miniature of 1807 there is a replica at Windsor Castle, signed by Charlotte Jones. It is intended to publish reproductions of the miniatures, coloured by hand, the exact size of the originals, some of which are three-quarter lengths, and to add explanatory letterpress. In arranging the explanatory text the writer's object is to cluster round each illustration the events of the moment. For this purpose original and unpublished matter is greatly desired. The many accounts of the Princess Charlotte, and even the "Brief Memoir," by Lady Rose Weigall, published in 1874, may still, perhaps, have left, unknown to the public, letters and papers in private hands which would be of great value in giving freshness and interest to the contemplated memoir. Communications relating to such will be gratefully received by Mrs. Herbert Jones, Sculthorpe, Fakenham, Norfolk; or by Mr. Quaritch, who will publish the projected work. J. BOOKS WANTED. -Baxter's Invisible World, also The Phantom World, by the Rev. Christmas. Are these works out of print, or where can I procure copies ? RUBY D'OR. SERPENTS' FOOD.-Watts, in his lines to the Rev. Mr. John Howe, writes thus: "Thus like the ass of savage kind, Or steal the serpent's food." This is supposed to be Pindaric. I sometimes see supreme beauty in Pindar, but English Pindarics are to me incomprehensible, and almost as hateful as allegories. I should like to see the wild ass stealing serpent's food interpreted, as I never hope to catch the creature itself in the felonious act. C. A. WARD. Haverstock Hill, "THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD."-I have before me an early edition of The Vicar of Wakefield, published by John Fleming, 8, Vicar Street, near Thomas Street, Dublin, no author's name or date, 18mo., of 144 pages, in the style of an "Irish Burton" or chap-book. It has some peculiarities. It is in one | volume, considerably differing from the authentic text; the poem of "Edwin and Angelina" does not appear, and the book seems older than 1766, when the first edition was published at Salisbury. Is it possible that Goldsmith could have written a briefer form of his renowned classic before leaving Ireland, and afterwards extended it and improved it to the form in which the MS. was sold to Newbery by Dr. Samuel Johnson (for Goldsmith) for 601.? Can any of your correspondents kindly furnish the date when "John Fleming" was in business at the above address, and so assist me in forming a conclusion on this interesting idea? EDWIN PEARSON. a 66 MEDAL OF A.D. 1589.-Can any reader identify copper" medal, described as follows? viz.:"Rather thin, about as large as a penny; on one side Round the edge is Tandem bona causa triumphat,' and a figure (female?) seated on a throne, reading a book. the date 1589. On the other side is a tree and a bird just settling on the top. The motto is Non viribus at causa potiori.' There are two words at the foot of the tree, but I cannot decipher them; one I think ends in What is the inscription in the exergue? ges. R. M. M., Jun. LARGE EARS A SIGN OF ELOQUENCE. — Can any reader of "N. & Q." supply me with information on this point? The idea is mentioned in Tom Moore's Diary, where Moore relates that Kirk, the sculptor, told him "he had thought the ears in the busts of Demosthenes out of nature, till he saw the ears of Burton (an eminent Irish barrister)." Burton was afterwards a Justice of the Irish King's Bench, and one of my collateral ancestors. EDWARD H. MARSHALL, M.A. Hastings. the above heading. The articles incorporated some letters and portions of letters written from various persons in the besieging army, generally to Adam Baynes, afterwards the Commonwealth M.P. for Leeds. Is it known in whose possession the originals are of those letters? R. H. H. Pontefract. JACKSON OF WINSLADE, CO. DEVON. - Where can I find a pedigree of, or any particulars relating to, the above family? F. W. D. TITLE OF PLAY WANTED.-Some kind of performance-a play, or something like it was to be seen at Sadler's Wells about 1796-7, founded on the story of a girl at a village inn who was treacherously married by a man whose wife was alive. Can any one give me any information as to the nature of this performance, or explain in what way the maid herself was made a public spectacle at the theatre? "Mary, the Maid of the Inn" is a likely title, or "The Maid of Buttermere"-an expression Wordsworth uses in The Prelude, bk. vii. T. ASHE. SIMON FORMAN.-I should like some account of this astrologer. I believe some remarkable circumstances attended his death, the hour of which he himself foretold. SENEX. COLUMN AT RABLEY. At Rabley, near to South Mims and to Ridge, on the borders of Middlesex and Hertfordshire, stands a column, about which an erroneous tradition appears to have sprung up, to the effect that it marks the deathplace of the great Earl of Warwick after the battle of Barnet. I have been informed that it was erected probably early in this century by Mr. Dudding, a former resident at Rabley. Can any one assign the motive with which Mr. Dudding erected it? I have not succeeded in finding any mention of the column in print. J. P. H. "TALES OF AN INDIAN CAMP."-Who was the author or compiler of the above work, which was published in 3 vols. 8vo. by Colburn & Bentley in the year 1829 ? F. W. D. TURTLE-I should be glad to know if any of the readers of "N. & Q." can inform me when turtle was first introduced into England as an article of food, whence it was brought, and when instructions for dressing it were first given in cookery-books; also, what is the name and date of the earliest book which contains such instructions. It might be of interest if some person, who has a collection of old English cookery-books, would give a list of the earliest, with their dates. The Form of Cury is well known, but others are Antiquitates Culinaria gives much information, but later books prior to the present century are not so well known. not so. O. M. CAPPS.-In the records of the North Allerton Quarter Sessions, Yorks, A.D. 1606, John Warde, of Bransdale, was brought up for having uttered false and scandalous words, viz, "That Peter Wood greased S- capps." To grease, to bribe, is plain enough, but can any of your numerous readers help me to know the meaning of capps? EBORACUM. "ROBINSON CRUSOE."-I have a copy of Robinson Crusoe, printed at Paris in 1783, which contains, at the eve of his adventures, "Robinson's Crusoe's Vision of the Angelic World," comprising "1. Solitude; 2. Honesty; 3. Afflictions; 4. Immorality of Conversation, &c.; 5. The Present State of Religion; 6. The Voice of Providence." I have never met with the "Vision" in any English edition. Has any reader of " N. & Q."? WM. FREELOVE. LORD GEORGE BENTINCK.-Mr. Jennings, in his most interesting book entitled Rambles among the Hills, whilst speaking of Lord George's death in Welbeck Park, says (p. 144):— "I have never seen the fact referred to, but a fact it ham that Lord George Bentinck was one of the victims is, that the belief was general in Mansfield and Nottingof Palmer, the Rugeley poisoner." Can any of your readers tell me if there is the slightest foundation for this belief, other than the fact, to which Mr. Jennings refers, that Lord George was in the habit of making bets with Palmer? G. F. R. B. RESENTMENT. In a curious inscription copied from a tablet in the church of Lilleshall, Salop, the word resentment is used in a sense perfectly justified by etymology, but the reverse of present usage. I do not know whether Archbishop Trench has noticed this word as one of those which has deteriorated in sense. Transcribed imitated, in the same inscription, is also rare, while imitable is now only found in its opposite. I should be glad to be in its original meaning of mere recognition. furnished with other instances of resentment used San Remo. G. L. FENTON. CARY FAMILY.-Is anything known of the ancestry of Nicholas Cary, Esq., who, according to Magna Britannia Antiqua et Nova, vol. i. London, 1738, was patron of a living in Dorsetshire? Here is the entry (p. 594): "Hundred, Cern Upper Sherburn; deanery, Whitchurch; patron, Nich. Cary, Esq." I shall also be obliged for information as to which historians are correct, those who assert that the Careys derive their cognomen from Castle Karrey, in Somerset, or those who, like Burke, say that their berceau was Devon. T. W. C. ENGLISH HUNTING CUSTOM.-In the Guardian, No. 61, for May 21, 1713, which advocates the kind treatment of animals, mention is made, among the barbarous customs existing in England, of the one specified in the following extract: "I must animadvert upon a certain custom, yet in use with us, and barbarous enough to be derived from the Goths, or even the Scythians; I mean that savage compliment our huntsmen pass upon ladies of quality, who are present at the death of a stag, when they put the knife in their hands to cut the throat of a helpless, trembling, and weeping creature: "That lies beneath the knife, Looks up, and from her butcher begs her life.' En., vii. 501-2." When was this custom introduced, and how long did it prevail? Is there any notice of the practice in literature? ED. MARSHALL. TRANSLATION OF CIPHER WANTED. Can any of your readers oblige me by giving me the solution of the following cipher, which has greatly puzzled me?" Ri ovaser iar tup oc nox ne rueb." G. AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED.— "He thought with a smile upon England the while Replies. DANCE THE PAINTER. (6th S. viii. 517.) ALPHA. Nathaniel Dance, the portrait painter, was the third son of George Dance, the architect of the Mansion House, and was a pupil of Hayman. He married Harriet, daughter of Sir Cecil Bisshopp, Bart., and widow of Thomas Dummer, of Cranbury, Hants, and of William Chamberlaine. Having acquired a large estate, he took the name of Holland under royal sign manual, and was created a baronet in 1800. He died in 1811 without issue, and the title became extinct. He exhibited as a professional artist as Nathaniel Dance, and after his marriage as an amateur under the name of Nathaniel Holland. His portrait of Garrick as Richard III. was esteemed one of his best works. Portraits of George III. and of the Duke of Cum berland are in the royal collections, and those of several of the bishops are at Lambeth Palace. There is a good portrait by him of Daniel Wray at the Charter House, an engraving of which is in Nichol's Literary Illustrations, vol. i. 1817; that of Archbishop Cornwallis, three-quarters, sitting, was engraved by Fisher. There are some interesting notes about him in the Somerset House Gazette, 1824, ii. 58, 121, and 185. He was M.P. for East Grinstead from 1790 to 1802, and again from 1807 till his death in 1811; see also an obituary notice in the European Magazine, vol. Ix. p. 318. George Dance, R.A., a younger brother of Nathaniel, was Professor of Architecture to the Royal Academy, and died in 1824. He published a collection of portraits of eminent characters, temp. Geo. III. EDWARD SOLLY. There were five artists of the name of Dance. Nathaniel painted Archbishop Cornwallis, and the picture was engraved by Fisher. No portrait of Cornwallis was ever exhibited unless anonymously. N. Dance exhibited "a bishop" in 1769; this might be the archbishop when Bishop of Lichfield. There is a good account of N. Dance in Redgrave, p. 110. ALGERNON GRAVES. George Dance was originally an architect, and the pupil of his father, George Dance, sen., the Architect to the City of London, but gave up this profession to become an artist, and studied some time in Italy. He was one of the original founders Nathaniel Dance, also an artist, who became of the Royal Academy, together with his brother, afterwards Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland, Bart. George Dance executed many portraits of his friends and original members of the Royal Academy in chalk; they are now in the library there, and in 1808-14 seventy-two of these were published. I have never seen a list of all his works, and believe there is not one in print. He was born in 1740 and died in 1825. STRIX. Nathaniel Dance was the third son of George Dance, the Surveyor and Architect to the City of London, and best known as the architect of the Mansion House. Nathaniel was born in 1734. After studying art under Frank Hayman, the genre-historical painter, he travelled for some eight or nine years in Italy. In 1761 he was a member of the Incorporated Society of Artists. At this period he seems to have chiefly painted historical pictures. On his return to London he commenced portrait painting. In 1768 he became one of the original members of the Royal Academy. His celebrated picture of Garrick as Richard III., well known through Dixon's engraving, was exhibited there in 1771. At the age of fifty-six he married Mrs. Dummer, a widow lady with a fortune of 15,000l. a year, and took the name of Holland. He represented East Grinstead in the House of Commons for many years, and in 1800 was made a baronet. G. F. R. B. He died at Carnborough introduced by the Ho. Douglas Kinnaird. House, near Winchester, on Oct. 15, 1811. See Nathan's acquaintance with the poet resulted Encyclopædia Britannica, English Encyclopædia, in the joint production of the Hebrew and Redgrave's Dictionary of Artists. Melodies. He was a sweet singer, but his voice was not strong enough for Covent Garden, where he failed. He wrote An Essay on the History and Theory of Music, and was much esteemed as a He emigrated to New South Wales, where he was accidentally killed by a tram-car in Sydney, Jan. 15, 1864. WILLIAM H. CUMMINGS. Nathaniel Dance, R. A., the portrait and subject painter (b. 1734, d. 1811), was third son of George Dance, the Architect to the City of London, who built the churches of St. Botolph, Aldgate, and St. Leonard, Shoreditch, and elder brother of George Dance, also Architect to the City of London, who, dying in 1825, the last survivor of the foundation members of the Royal Academy, was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral. In 1690 our artist, on his marriage-as her third husband-with a wealthy widow, Mrs. Harriet Dummer, daughter of Sir Cecil Bisshopp, assumed the additional surname of Holland, and resigned his academical distinc tions, and on Nov. 27, 1800, after having been many years M.P. for East Grinstead, he was made a baronet. Separate notices of the three Dances, with an estimate and some enumeration of Nathaniel's works, will be found in Redgrave's Dictionary of British Artists. H. W. New University Club. He was the son of George Dance, and brother to G. Dance, R. A., born in 1734; he studied for some time under Frank Hayman, afterwards he spent eight or nine years in Italy. In 1761 he was a member of the Incorporated Society of Artists, and in 1763 exhibited there his "Dido and Eneas." On his return to England he took up portrait painting. In 1768 he was a foundation member of the Academy. In 1790 he resigned his academic distinction on his marriage with Mrs. Dummer, a widow lady, taking the name of Holland. He represented the borough of East Grinstead for many years, and was created a baronet in 1800. He died suddenly, at Carnborough House, near Winchester, on Oct. 15, 1811. He amassed above 200,000l. G. S. BOWLER. teacher. This gentleman was a well-known musical composer and historian residing in London. He composed the music for, and subsequently became, by purchase, possessor of the copyright of the Hebrew Melodies of Lord Byron, and is several times alluded to, or quoted from, in the notes to Murray's editions of the Poems. He published an interesting volume, not readily attainable now, entitled : "Fugitive Pieces and Reminiscences of Lord Byron containing an entire New Edition of The Hebrew Melo dies, with the Addition of Several never before published; the whole Illustrated with Critical, Historical, Theatrical, Political, and Theological Remarks, Notes, Anecdotes, Interesting Conversations and Observations made by that illustrious Poet; together with his Lordship's Autograph; also some Original Poetry, Letters and Recollections of Lady Caroline Lamb." London, 1929, 8vo. pp. 196. seven, with the intimation that no refusal" will From the autograph letters reproduced in facsimile in this volume, it would appear that Nathan the noble poet. In one of them "my dear Nathan " was on the most intimate terms of familiarity with is invited to dine with his lordship at the Albany at be taken; and in another, dated January, 1815, permission is asked for Murray to include the Melodies in a "complete edition" of the writer's to oblige the gentleman; but you know, Nathan, poetical effusions." Byron adds, "I certainly wish it is against all good fashion to give and take back. I cannot grant what is not at my disposal." From this it would appear that Byron gave the copyright to the musician; but against this is the distinct assertion of the latter, in a letter to Braham, inviting him to join in the republication of the Melodies, that he had purchased the copyright from S -'s assignees." 66 Looking at these proofs of the intimacy which at one time must have existed between Byron and Nathan, it seems odd that no reference to the latter is to be found in the Index to Moore's edition of the Poems, or in that to the Life and Letters. Possibly some rupture had taken place. Anyway, Moore was wont to carp at "the manner in which some of the melodies had been set to music"; extorting, on one occasion, the exclamation from the poet, "Sunburn Nathan! Why do you always twit me with his Ebrew nasalities?" On another occasion (Feb. 22, 1815), writing to Moore, who says in a note that "he had taken the Is the name derived from Pulhanpoor, a city in liberty of laughing a little" at the music, Byron the Guico war's territory, 24° 12′ N., 72° 19′ W.? says, "Curse the Melodies and the Tribes to boot! W. E. BUCKLEY. Braham is to assist-or hath assisted-but will do no more good than a second physician. I merely Mr. Nathan states that on the first publication of the Hebrew Melodies he was visited at his residence in Poland Street by Sir Walter Scott. "I sang," says he, "several of the melodies to him, he repeated his visit, and requested I would allow him to introduce his lady and his daughter: they came together, when I had the pleasure of singing to them 'Jephthah's Daughter,' and one or two more of the most favorite airs; they entered into the spirit of the music with all the true taste and feeling so peculiar to the Scotch." "Mr. Scott," he adds, "again called upon me to take leave before his visit to Scotland; we entered into conversation respecting the sublimity and beauty of Lord Byron's poetry, and he spoke of his lordship with admiration, exclaiming, 'He is a man of wonderful genius-he is a great man.'"P. 85. à fleurs que portent, en Orient, les personnes d'un Read palampore, which Littré renders "Châle rang élevé." The word is found in one of E. Sue's works: "Ses larges épaules prenaient de la noblesse gives "Palampore or palang posh, Hind. a bed sous le palampore oriental." Balfour (Cyc. of India) cover." The Sanskrit termination suggests a geographical origin of the word. Palampur is the appellation of a town in Kángra district, Punjab ; and Palanpur, of a native state and of its chief town in the province of Guzerat, Bombay. R. S. CHARNOCK. A palampore is an Indian covering for a couch or bed. Examples are exhibited in the Indian Section of the South Kensington Museum. They are frequently of the highest character of Indian design in ornamentation and colour, and no doubt the testator, in bequeathing the "polampore lying in the chest of drawers," intended that the legatee should receive a valuable Indian frabric which had been highly prized and carefully preserved. GEORGE WALLIS, F.S.A. South Kensington Museum. is the correct way of spelling this word. I have Polampore, or palumpore; I am not certain which always heard it pronounced as I have spelt it. A palumpore is an Indian bed-quilt, about the size of an ordinary counterpane, and made of cotton. It is ornamented with birds of paradise, peacocks, Nathan was also author of an important work, snakes, monkeys, and pagodas, worked in beautiful An Essay on the History and Theory of Music, colours. Mine has in the centre a peacock, lifeand on the Qualities, Capabilities, and Manage-size, in brilliant plumage. It forms a very showy ment of the Human Voice, Lond., royal 4to., 1823, price 21. WILLIAM BATES, B.A. To this passage the following note is added on p. 259: "These elegant productions, which abound in all parts of the East, were of very remote antiquity. Not only are ovdovac evavec, finely flowered linens, noticed by Strabo; but Herodotus relates that the nations of Caucasus adorned their garments with figures of various creatures, by means of the sap of certain vegetables; which when macerated and diluted with water communicate colours that cannot be washed out, and are no less permanent than the texture itself. Strabo, 1. xv. p. 709 [chap. i. § 54]; Herodot., 1. i. p. 96 [chap. 203]. The Arabian Tales repeatedly describe these fine linens of India, painted in the most lively colours, and representing beasts, trees, flowers, &c.-Arabian Nights, vol. iv. p. 217, &c." and handsome covering for a bed. I have no doubt it was this that the legatee received under the chest of drawers. At that date palumpores were will in 1805. It would be likely to be kept in a probably rare in England. ROBERT R. POSTANS. Caprera House, Auckland Road, Southsea. Palempour is a flowered stuff; it sometimes also means an embroidered shawl or robe worn as a sign of rank. The name is probably from the town of Palam-pûr, in the north of Guzerat. "Since the joining of the two companies we have had the finest bettelees, palempores, bafts, and jamwars come over that ever were seen (T. Brown, Works, i. 213). "Scraps of costly Indian chintzes and palempours" (Mrs. Gaskell, Sylvia's Lovers, chap. xii.). T. LEWIS O. DAVIES. Pear Tree Vicarage, Southampton. In reply to J. E. J., the polampore mentioned was probably a palinpore, or Indian cotton bed-quilt or hanging. These coverings were made of soft Indian cotton, and had upon them a printed design, usually in deep red and purple, of a rude allegorical character. The subject was often a large tree with out |