8th 8. VII. JUNE 8, '95.] NOTES AND QUERIES. when he commended Dunbar's poems, proceeds to settle the matter finally in these terms : "He [Dunbar, to wit] harped upon a limited number of ideas and seldom had anything of striking originality to say about these. A melancholy crooning, not utterly despondent, but strongly contrasted with the splendid courage, intense vitality, and burning passion of Burns, is his ruling note, his central cadence."-P. 386. Now as a contribution to "smart" literature this is admirable; there is a crisp modernity in the point of view that must straightway invite the attention of the writer's following, and there is a decisive finality in his deliverance which should leave no room for cross- questioning. Unfortunately, as criticism the performance is naught. The reviewer, apparently, has never read Dunbar's poems, or if he has, he has entirely missed the purport of the best of them. The inevitable question remains, Why should ignorance be sent broadcast into the country as authoritative wisdom? It is fortunate for some literary critics that it is not fashionable at present to read standard authors. THOMAS BAYNE, JOHN SINTRAM, CIRCA 1400-50.-Can any of your readers give me information regarding John Sintram, or Sinttram, who, according to a book written by him in my possession, was in 1412 a student at Oxford? In 1416 he was "Lector" at Halle. In 1420 a second volume which I possess, 'Sermons de Sanctis,' was indexed by him "in Columbaria." In 1424 he read a dispensation over a Canon "Von Wechner," appointed to the highest church in Wurtzburg. I understand that there is a volume of sermons in the British 447 Museum written by John Sintram, in which it is recorded that in 1444 he gave sixty volumes to the library at Wurtzburg; and in this MS. he appears to be called "John the modern Apostle." Who was this John Sintram; and what do the words " in Columbaria" refer to ? J. M. HUNT. Bellevue, The Holmwood, Dorking. MILTON'S PARADISE LOST.'-Can any of your readers give me information as to the existence of the so-called fifth and sixth title-pages of the first edition of Paradise Lost,' as described in Bohn's edition of Lowndes, 1869? While this description has been copied by several bibliographers, I have yet to find any one who has actually seen the variations described, and am deeply interested in determining their existence. I should also be obliged if any reader could point out to me where a complete list of all works written or edited by Milton could be found; and should be glad to open a correspondence with any collector interested in this subject, such lists as I have had access to having proved to be quite incomplete. M. C. LEFFERTS. 34, East 65th Street, New York. MS. HISTORY OF MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS.I read not long since in some bibliographical work (possibly Fry's) that at the sale of Pepys's library, in 1708, I think, a curious history of this queen's life in MS. was sold. Is it known who was the purchaser, or what has become of it? Does a catalogue of the sale of this library exist? Has the MS. in question ever been published? MELVILLE. TOWER LIONS. (See 8th S. vii. 145, 237.)— What are the earliest records of lions sent to Engbeen kept by Henry I. at Woodstock? (Cf. Will of land? Do any date prior to those said to have they seem to have been not uncommon presents Malmesbury, 638.) In the fourteenth century made by one European monarch to another. In case the subject may interest others, permit me to record some notices of their importation and captivity in Southern Europe. I am the more reminded of it here in Salerno, where the Suabian flourished his "king of beasts" before the Guelfic Angevin fought under the same badge for Florence. Feeble and formal as they usually are, the figures of lions that support the columns of so many famous Pisan and Apulian pulpits not unfrequently exhibit sufficient traces of having been studied from (memory, at least, of) living animals. Niccolo Pisano and his associates may well have seen captive lions while working for Frederick II., who is known to have brought them with him from the East.* The crusading Augevins, who imitated their great predecessors in so much (especially with regard to the patronage of learning), kept lions at Naples,t and early in the fourteenth century seem to have despatched several to France. In 1334 King Robert sends a lion to Pope John XXII. at Avignon. Two years later he likewise sends a lioness and a (6 Babuino," to his cousin of France. Within a short time of this we hear of his kinsman, Walter de Brienne, Duke of Athens, proposing to terrorize rioters at Florence by letting loose the town lions among them. For as an emblem of her "independence" Florence kept a lion, caged." It is probable her lions likewise came from Naples. I am not aware of earlier captive lions in her history than those of 1291 and 1295 (Cf. Provvisioni, v. 99, viii. 140). Matteo Villani relates that he happened to be present at the birth of lion cubs, which must have been an occasion for considerable rejoicings; for the death of a lion was considered inauspicious to the Republic (Cf. M. Villani, iii. 90, v. 68; also Giov. Villani, x. 185, xi. 66). The "Uomo brutto" who looked after them was compelled to wear beard and mustachios. The term "leopard" at that period often designated the cheetah. The "leopards used by Frederick II., and mentioned in his "Treatise on Hunting,' and those used by Filippo Maria Visconti were doubtless of this species. Possibly so, also, was the one purchased at Florence, in November, 1291, from one Bindo da Lucca, and doubtless transferred to the "Magister Leopardorum." ST. CLAIR BADDELEY. Salerno. [See 1st S. i. 42; 4th S. ii. 73; 7th S. ix. 29, 113.] BARONS O'NEILL.-Can any reader give me I see information about the Barons O'Neill? that the title, according to Whitaker, appears to have been created in 1868; but I want to know about the same title existing before that date. Was there a re-creation in 1868; or did it pass to a younger branch? There was a Lord O'Neill in Jacobite times (1745), and some one of that title is mentioned in a life of R. Brinsley Sheridan, more than once. Who was he? I am very anxious for any information as to the family, particularly as regards (1) any other titles borne by them, when bestowed, and if extinct or not; (2) if there is any other branch of the family, and, The emperor's father, Henry VI., kept a collection of wild animals at Palermo, Otto, de San Blasio, anno 1194. Salary paid to Perrotto de Anaut, Keeper of the Lions, Regest. Angionii, 211 f., 119 t., 1316. July 25, 1831. "Leopardorum, canum, Lincas, Furectos, et alia plura."- -De Arte Venandi cum Avibus,' if so, whether the 1868 title belongs to them; (3) their genealogy, any and all details as to this; or as to where such details can best be found, Especially as to the families into which the O'Neill daughters married between 1700 and 1800. I heard some time ago, on good authority, that the present holder of the title was not the direct heir, but that some break or confusion, at the time of the '45, had occurred, and the rightful descendant was not known. I want to know the rights of the matter, so as to trace out one or two apparent clues which I possess. E. H. T. MONOYER.-Where was Jean Baptiste Monoyer buried? He died 1699, and was buried in London; LOSTWITHIEL. but where? R. DAVY, ARTISTS' COLOURMAN.-For what length of time and up to what date did Mr. R. Davy remain in business as artists' colourman at 83, Newman Street, London? A. W. a POLL BOOKS.-I have lately come across printed poll book for the county of Wilts of 1705. The examples still existing of that century are fairly numerous; but I believe there are none of contemporary print earlier than this one; though it has been stated that those for Colchester (1680), Kidderminster (1691), and Northamptonshire (1669) are still to be seen in MS. The questions I would ask are as to poll books in the abstract, and not as to individual copies unless they help to answer such questions. (1) When, or about when, Which were poll books first compiled? (2) Is it probable USFLEET FURNIVAL.-Who was Sir Gerard Ardennes, Nightingale Lane, S.W. 'HERMSPRONG.'-I should be glad of any information regarding the author of a novel published in 1796 under this title, the reading of which has much interested me. The title page reads: "Hermsprong; or, | Man as He Is Not. | A Novel. In Two Volumes. | By the Author of The interest is well sustained, the characters are well delineated, and some of the dialogues are lively enough for a present-day comedy. There is a reference to a late great moralist, and the author appears to have had a slight leaning to Dr. Johnson's style. "Love," we are told, "has its fits of progression and retrocedence." We read of a "mercatorial tour," "state of consuetudinage," "the house of parturition," " expectatious silence"; and we have "MUGGLESWICK."-The derivation of this word name. [It is by Robert Bage.] TOBY: TOLER: BERRY.-1. Thomas Toby, born in Exeter, 1700, married Fanny Banks, born in Exeter, 1702. He died at Rockbeare, 1797, and the armour worn in the early part of the sevenARMOUR.-Where can I find a good account of she in 1791. Their youngest child, Capt. Simeon Toby, of Philadelphia, U.S., was born at Rock-teenth century, say from 1620 to 1630? E. C. beare, Oct. 28, 1774. Information solicited as to the origin, location, and coat of arms of the Toby family. 2. Where, in Norfolk, were the Toler family seated, from whom the Earls of Norbury sprang? 3. Daniel Berry, of Old Slip, N.Y. City, married, about 1780, Elizabeth Jenner, a relative of the celebrated physician Sir Edward Jenner. Whose daughter was she; and where can I find her pedigree? SURES. E. N. S. F. JARRATT. Beylies. PLAYFORD. (2nd S. viii. 415; 4th S. passim; 7th S. iii. 125, 378.) the family of Playford, publishers, John PlaySince 1859, when a query was made as to ford and his works have been the subject of several valuable notes, few of which, however, refer to his family history, or correct the mistakes in Hawkins ('History,' p. 736). I am anxious to trace with certainty the connexion of these Playfords with Norfolk. So far I can only suppose that the brothers Matthew and John came from Norwich. The point may be settled by some one who has access to the local records; or by Mr. Joseph Foster, whose Grad. Cant.' and 'Index Eccles.,' as yet unpublished, will probably contain the name of the father of Matthew Playford, of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. For clearness' sake I have drawn up my account of the London Playfords in the form of a pedigree, with some supplementary remarks. Anne Wm. Killi- John Playford, the printer, of Willm. Walker, ford, born Play grew. Was before 87, at for tale, 1686, 1653. Bap. July brother John. June 29, 1743, John Playford the elder, the date of whose birth has already been corrected in Grove's 'Dictionary' from 1613 to 1623, must have married in or before 1653. Was his wife Hannah Allen, who in 1650 advertised books for sale at the Crown in Pope's Head Alley? (Severall Proceedings in Parliament,' August, 1650.) She seems to have been succeeded in her business at that address by one Livewell Chapman in 1653. Playford lived with his wife from 1653 till 1659 near the Temple Church, as the registers_show. (I am very grate. ful to the Master of the Temple for a sight of these books.) After 1659 a gap occurs in the entries, and the Playfords are not traced until 1665, when they appeared at Islington. The registers of St. Mary's (in searching which I had the good help of Mr. Bilby, the parish clerk) give the christening on Oct. 5, 1665, of "John, the son of Mr. John and Hannah Playford." This entry has been quoted (without, by the way, the wife's name) as referring to the christening of John Playford, the printer, who is said to have been in partnership with Ann Godbid in 1679, therefore at the age of fourteen. But after the worst days of the plague the register has the note, "August, 1667, ye sonne of Mr. Playford buried." This is perhaps not conclusive evidence of the death of John; but clear proof exists that the printer was the son of Matthew Playford. John Playford had a lease of Mr. Hall's (goldsmith) country house in Upper Street, opposite Islington Church. It was called Mr. Playford's, sometimes Mrs. Playford's, boarding school. There were twenty rooms, one whereof was fortyfive foot long......a convenient courtyard......and behind, a fair garden opening into the best fields for air about the town; also two summer-houses.” In 1681 it was offered at a rent of under 20l. per annum. It has surprised me to find no advertisement of this school before 1679, the very year of Mrs. Playford's death. In 1680 and 1681 the house was advertised for sale or to let (7th S. iii. 125). From November, 1680, John Playford lived in Arundel Street, " near the Thames side," i. e. Strand, "at the lower end over against the George." He died about 1686 or 1687, and, as Hawkins correctly remarks, his memory was celebrated in two or three short poems, and an elegy by Nahum Tate, published that year with Parcell's music. Why then do later biographers claim for the younger John Playford, who, according to their own calculations, died aged twenty, the praises accorded by "sons of art" to "their reverend sire and his learned monuments"? The old publisher must have died rather unexpectedly, as Tate thought it necessary to write that there was no such thing as sudden death to those that were Prepared like him, by harmony and love, To join at first approach the sacred quire above. vanitie of escutcheons......and not above 20 persons to the interest; if Anne should die before her husband, the portion was to go to her child or children; failing them, to Eleanor Playford. "My mother Eleanor Nicholl's portion shall be at her own disposal at the time of her death"; her husband Randolph Nicholl "shall not intermeddle." Sister, Eleanor Playford, executrix. Henry Playford the elder, included in the pedigree, left by his will to John Playford, of Islington, a "jacinth jewell" (? stone ring); and to Henry, his godson, when twenty-one, 10%. (1670). Henry Playford the younger's will, signed July 22, 1690, is chiefly useful as settling the He was buried in the Temple Church. (See There was no signature, and in 1694 John Bligh, citizen and stationer, and Susan Hammerton, both formerly in Playford's service, deposed to the handwriting, and the will was proved by Henry Playford on Aug. 14 in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. Of John Playford the younger there is little further to be said. It will be seen by the pedigree that he was the nephew and not the son of his namesake. I am very much indebted to the Rev. F. C. Jackson for permission to search the registers of Stanmore Magna. They are a little confusing owing to the presence of some old marginal notes correcting the original dates. John Playford's birth and baptism are recorded under the year 1656, but a note says, At the top of the page instead of anno 1656 read 1650." He was buried in the nave of Stanmore Church, 1685 (Lysons's 'Environs,' iii. 398). His printing house in Little Britain, "the ancient and only Printing-house in England," was announced for sale in the London Gazette, May 6, 1686. 66 "I John and Henry seems to be an echo of the last The shrinking from funeral pomp shown by wishes of a certain Norwich John Playford, about whom I have some curious notes. So far (to answer one of numerous queries) the establishment of the interconnexion of the London Playfords does not result in the discovery of male descendants of the original Matthew and John in the third generation. The line was probably continued by the St. Botolph cousins, but I have not investigated their history. L. M. M. DRYDEN AND GREEK (8th S. vii. 386).-The "error LYNN attributes to Dryden is no error of his at "which your correspondent MR. W. T. all; he pronounced as all Westminster boys, at least till the days of Cowper (inclusive), were taught to pronounce, by accent. And he wrote not evρeka but evρηка. And so Mr. Christie prints it. But he pronounced eйpeka, and hence, I imagine, many of his editors or printers, who knew less Greek than he did, have chosen to represent him as having written so; only because the line, if read as they read it, according to quantity, will not scan with . An interesting letter from Cowper should be a locus classicus on the past pronunciation of Greek. He writes to the Rev. William Unwin, Feb. 7, 1785 (postscript): ε This John Playford, aged thirty or thirty-five, was "very sicke" when he signed his will on April 20, 1685. It was proved on April 29. will that all my coppyhold estate......shall after nounce the & in piλew as an n. But I do not hold with They that read Greek with the accents would promy loving mother Eleanor Nicholl's decease (go) that practice, though educated in it. I should therefore to my loving sister Eleanor Playford. Residue......utter it just as I do the Latin word filio, taking the to my loving mother......and my loving sisters quantity for my guide." Anne Killigrew and Eleanor Playford to be divided." Anne's portion was not to be paid to her during the life of her husband Wm. Killigrew, but only A remark, by the way, which shows that, like other old-fashioned scholars, he did not, in Latin, take quantity for his absolute guide, but sometimes a |