the characters of those with whom he associated, Catholics. In 'N. & Q.,' 6th S. v. 425, is printed "grave and gay, lively and severe." My own an interesting note giving the items of the funeral attention has recently been drawn to his shorter expenses of Martha Blount, and stating that poems and epitaphs, and the other day, when read-"both ye Sisters were buried close to the monuing his 'Epistle to Mr. Jervas,' the following lines ment of Mr Eyre of Assop [sic] on ye South Side." caught my eye, and caused me to speculate as to By this is meant Hassop Hall, a seat of the Earl the fate of the portraits he so graphically describes, of Newburgh, in Derbyshire. Martha Blount at and to wonder whether, supposing them to be the time of her decease resided at a house in yet in existence, they still preserve their pristine Berkeley Street, Berkeley Square, which had been colours:bequeathed to her by her friend Alexander Pope. Some writers speak of Pope's friend Mannick (sic), a misprint for Mannock, who was in all probability a connexion of the Blount family. Beauty, frail flower that every season fears, Each pleasing Blount shall endless smiles bestow, And soft Belinda's blush for ever glow. -57-62. Charles Jervas, who died in 1739, though much depreciated as an artist by Horace Walpole, yet painted the portraits of many eminent men, as Sir Robert Walpole, Pulteney Earl of Bath, Addison, and George II. He translated 'Don Quixote, and is known to have been the friend of Pope and Swift. But from the way in which he is alluded to by Pope in the above lines, it would appear that his strong point was painting female figures, and committing their special charms to his canvas as felicitously as mentioned in the description of his friend. It may be asked, What female members of the "race" of Churchill did Jervas paint, and in whose galleries are they now? It is now more than a hundred and fifty years since they were limned by Jervas. Have they still kept their colours? Who was the Worsley who owned the enviable eyes; and where does her picture hang? Where is "each pleasing Blount" and "soft Belinda's glowing blush"? The latter refers, of course, to Arabella Fermor in the 'Rape of the Lock.' The line is particularly happy which alludes to the Blounts, or, as they were called in those "teacup days of hood and hoop," Mrs.* Teresa and Mrs. Martha Blount, whom Gay has immortalized in the line, The fair-hair'd Martha, and Teresa brown; the one a blonde, the other a brunette. Perhaps these pictures may have been engraved, and in this way preserved. From the pedigree of Blount of Maple-Durham in Burke's 'Landed Gentry,' vol. i., s.v., it appears that Teresa was born in Paris October 15, 1688, and died in 1759, and that Martha was born June 15, 1690, and died in 1763. They both died unmarried, and were buried in old St. Pancras churchyard, London, which seems to have been at one time a favourite burial-place of Roman *“Mrs." was a common appellation o unmarried ladies in those days. Pope calls Arabella Fermor Mrs. Arabella Fermor, and Mary Lepell Mrs. Lepell. To come to more modern times, Sir Walter Scott styles Joanna, who was unmarried, Mrs. Joanna Baillie. It seems that the Christian name of the ladies was usually inserted when they were spinsters 1787. The Mannocks of Gifford's Hall, near Stoke by Nayland, were an ancient Roman Catholic family, and baronets, though the title became extinct in Michael Blount, of Maple-Durham, the nephew of Teresa and Martha, married in 1742 land, of Lincoln's Inn-perhaps one of the StrickMary Eugenia, eldest daughter of Mannock Stricklands of Sizergh Hall, co. Westmoreland-and no doubt from his first name allied to the Mannock family of Gifford's Hall. There used to be a mural monument in the nave of the little church at Kelvedon Hatch, Essex, commemorative of Mannock Strickland and Mary, his wife, daughter of John Wright, Esq., of Kelvedon Hall. They were the father-in-law and mother-in-law of Michael Blount, of Maple-Durham, who died in 1792. JOHN PICKFORD, M. A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge. A WEATHER BREEDER.-Halliwell, in his 'Dictionary,' has this word, with the explanation "a fine day." This is correct so far as it goes, but does not account for the usage of the term. About here I am told that the word is used by farmers to mean such exceptionally fine days as occur now and then in the later autumn, and more particularly in the early spring, and are regarded as breeders of rough and stormy weather. On referring to Prof. Skeat's 'Etymological Dictionary,' it seems that the word weather is more connected with a stormy than a quiet condition of the air, as shown by the allied words, gewitter, a storm, G. the Lithuen. wėtra, a storm, Russ. vieter, wind, breeze. The root is wa, to blow, whence also the English wi-nd. Thus weather and wind mean much the same. The compounds weather-beaten, weatherbitten, weather-bound, weather-fend all point in the same direction. Friday, October 26, was exactly such a day as to be called, as it was called by a neighbour of mine, a "weather-breeder," and was followed by high winds and some rain, thus proving the appropriateness of the expression. W. E. BUCKLEY. HARPER, OR HARPUR.-John Bannister, according to Adolphus, was married to Elizabeth Harper on Jan. 26, 1783, and the same authority states that she held the position of principal singer at the Haymarket and Covent Garden; further, that she was a near, "I believe the nearest," relation of Mr. Rundell, the eminent goldsmith (Memoirs of John Bannister,' vol. i. p. 82). In the 'Thespian Dictionary' (1805) we read: "Bannister Mrs., maiden name Harpur, wife of Mr. Bannister, Junior, and daughter of a mantua maker at Bath, for which business she was intended, but discovering a genius for music she was placed under a master and made her first appearance on the stage at the Haymarket as Rosetta, that she was afterwards engaged at Covent Garden, and filled the first characters in English opera." The date of her appearance is not given, but both accounts agree that she retired from the stage in 1791. It is quite evident that the same lady is referred to by both writers, and the question is whether her maiden name was Harper or Harpur. In favour of the latter it may be mentioned that the name is so spelt on small engravings in the parts of Rosetta ('Love in a Village') and as Patty, with Mattocks (in the 'Maid of the Mill'), dated respectively 1773 and 1782, when, if Adolphus is correct, such parts would have been in the possession of Miss Harper. On the whole, I am inclined to think that Adolphus has substituted the usual for the correct spelling. His book appeared in 1839, that is, fifty-six years after the lady's marriage, and he probably wrote it without making special reference. That he might have done so is shown by the fact that Mr. "Rundell" on p. 82 becomes Mr. "Rundle on p. 282 (vol. i.). The subject is not one of general interest, but it would be satisfactory to print collectors and book illustrators, both here and in American, if it can be authoritatively cleared up. There is a portrait of Mrs. Bannister, by Condé, from the Thespian Magazine, but I could never discover one of Miss Harper. CHARLES WYLIE. P.S.-I may add that in Evans's 'Catalogue,' vol. i. (no date, but, from internal evidence, clearly subsequent to 1833), the name is given as Harper, and in the 'Secret History of the Green Room,' 1795, vol. i., Appendix, as Harpur. As the marriage was at Hendon, a reference to the registers there ought to settle the question. been observed that the first of these is essentially the same as that followed by Crabbe in his 'Tales of the Hall,' book xvi., 'Lady Barbara; or, the Ghost.' In the notes to the collected edition of his works it is said to have been suggested to the poet by a friend in Wiltshire, "in which county the story is almost a popular one." But Crabbe himself, writing to his son a few months before his death, had forgotten the origin both of 'Lady Barbara' and Ellen.' It is, perhaps, an indication of the neglect into which Crabbe's poems have fallen that the resemblance I have pointed out was not remarked by an editor so well read as WILLIAM ALDIS WRIGHT. Mr. Hayward. ERROR REGARDING THE MASS.-Sir Walter Scott has often been laughed at for having represented mass being said in the evening. I have just found a similar mistake made by James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd :The supper bell at court had rung, The mass was said, the vesper sung. 'The Queen's Wake,' Night the Second, in' Works,' ed. 1876, p. 92. ASTARTE. of this local rite are recorded in the "Dizionario THE RITE OF VENICE.-Some interesting details Sacro Liturgico del R. Padre Giovanni Dichlich. Pagani," 2 vols. 4ta. ediz., tomo ii. Firenze, 1832. Presso G. 1. The Stole, tom. i. p. 190.-By special custom and licence the stole was used at all the offices, instead of only at certain sacramental acts. Compare the Sarum use of the stole in choir :— ad ogni dia Canonica, ed era sanzionato dalla seguente "In Venezia poi vi era l'uso d adoprare della stola constituzione del Patriarca Lorenzo Priuti', Synod. Dioces. ii. cap. de Divinis Officiis-In Ecclesiis Collegiatis nobis subjectis divina persolvantur officia juxta sacros Canones, sive receptas et approbatas cujuslibet Ecclesiæ constitutiones vel consuetudines. Hebdomadarius vero, dum choro interfuerit, semper stolam geret quae occurrenti officio respondeat, nec a choro discedat, nisi officia quæ inchoaverit debite expleverit," The writer adds: "Ora questo uso si vede da due lustri quasi distrutto, perchè si è posto in attività il sopracitato decreto della S. Congregazione de' Riti." 2. In Venice, unlike other, or most other, parts of the Western Church, both the Epiphany and Corpus Christi had octaves. Vide ib., tom. ii. p. 122, note: [Genest, a good authority, under "Covent Garden, 31 Dec., 1782," vol. vi. p. 267, says Miss Harper married Bannister, Jun., about this time. The Secret History of the Green Room,' ii. 114; Crosby's Pocket Companion to the Playhouse,' 1796, p. 15; Gilliland's 'Dramatic Mirror,' 1808, p. 632, all give Harper. Au"In Venezia l' Ottava del Corpus Domini si celebra, thentic Memoirs of the Green Room,' no date, has Har- come quella dell' Epifania, per privilegio concesso dalla pur. An actor named Harper was playing at Drury Santità di Pio VII. di felicissima ricordanza, l' anno 181 Lane in 1734, and had a reputation as Falstaff.] 23 Agosto." CRABBE'S TALES OF THE HALL. In the 'Diaries of a Lady of Quality,' edited by Mr. A. Hayward (second edition, 1864), there are two versions of what is called 'The Tyrone Ghost Story,' pp. 43-55. I do not know whether it has 3. Moreover at Venice used to be sung certain litanies different from the famous Litany of Loretto, &c. These were called the Litanies of Aquileia, which is, of course, really the patriarchal church, San Marco being only the chapel of the Ducaĺ Palace, just as St. Peter's at Rome is not strictly the patriarchal church, but St. John Lateran. Still DRYDEN'S FUNERAL AND LORD JEFFREYS.-It is somewhat surprising to read in the thirteenth volume of the ninth and just completed edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica,' in the account of the infamous Lord Jeffreys, that his son John (with whom the title became extinct in 1703) was notorious for having interrupted the funeral of Dryden." This story (omitting, however, some of its most sensational details) is given (though with the remark that he "once intended to omit it, as it appears with no great evidence") in Johnson's 'Life of Dryden.' But Malone, in his life of the poet prefixed to the edition of his prose works which he published in 1800, traced it to its source, and The earlier editions, I am informed, differ much from the later. Those who value Digby's thoughts and the vast mass of quotations which his writings embalm would like to possess a copy of these books in all their states, but are mostly unable to do so from lack of knowledge. ΑΝΟΝ. HAWAII. Some one said of Hawaii, "the sweetest, saddest kingdom in the world." Out of whose mouth, or from whose pen, did these words fall? We are not likely to forget the leprous isle of Molokai, and the self-sacrifice of Father Damien. HERBERT HARDY. Cullompton. HERALDIC.-Will any one kindly identify the following arms, which occur in an old document in my possession? On a field azure three nags' heads proper, bridled or, a helmet and wreath of its colours. Crest, a spread-eagle azure. Motto, "Honor virtutis præmium." I always understood this to be the emblazonment of the Gamble family, but Burke under that head gives one totally diffeONESIPHORUS. rent. "THREE KISSES.'-Can any of your readers identify (as to author and date of publication) three verses with the above title, commencing:— Not like the swift and joyous ones ending,— I give thee here, my darling, The last long kiss of death? Q. V. clearly showed that it was a fabrication of Elizabeth Thomas, who, whilst in the Fleet Prison in 1729 (twenty-nine years after Dryden's death) sent it to Curll, by whom it was published in the 'Memoirs of Congreve.' It was copied into the 'Bio- and graphia Britannica' (1750), for which reason Johnson thought he ought not to omit it. But some sensational details are left out, particularly that of Dr. Garth falling into an old beer-barrel on which he was standing when delivering a Latin in the Liber de Hydra.'-Information desired as IGNESHAM AND COTSMORE, two places mentioned oration over the poet's corpse at the College of Physicians in Warwick Lane. Lord Jeffreys, with the Earl of Dorset and others, did procure that Dryden should be buried in Westminster Abbey ; but the story of their interrupting the funeral in a drunken frolic, as described in Curll's 'Memoir of Congreve,' is, as above stated, merely a fabrication. W. T. LYNN. Blackheath. 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. ་ to present names and locality; also names of owners temp. Edward and William I. I. A. MANUAL OF ARMS IN USE IN THE BRITISH ARMY, 1770-75.-Can any of the readers of N. & Q' inform me in what position the British soldier, from 1770 to 1775, held his musket when firing? Did he bring it to his shoulder, and sight along the barrel, as is done to-day, or did he hold it at his hip, in the position of charge bayonets ? J. F. M. Bath. ABDIEL.-Was the character of Abdiel the archangel original with Milton? CLIVE. COACH ROAD BETWEEN EXETER AND London. KENELM HENRY DIGBY.-Some one who is acquainted with the history of the works of this-In the days of road travelling was there any prolific and most interesting writer would do a service to me and many others if he would give a bibliographical account of the various editions of "The Broadstone of Honour.' This work consists of four books, parts, or sections, called "Morus," "Orlandus,""" Godfredus," and "Tancredus." choice which route was taken to or from_Exeter and London? The lower road, through Honiton and Axminster, was, of course, the nearest to London; but still a good deal of private travelling to town was done over the road through Tiverton and Taunton. Has any reader any information as to the advantages of either route? Why did William III. take the former and Perkin Warbeck the latter? A. L. HUMPHREYS. 26, Eccleston Road, Ealing Dean. SUFFOLK BOOK-PLATES.-I am about printing a list of Suffolk book-plates; and as I wish to make it as complete as possible, I should be glad if collectors would favour me with the names of any (ancient or modern) in their possession. FRED. A. CRISP. Grove Park, Denmark Hill, S.E. TREES BEHEADED.-I have read that on the execution of the unfortunate Duke of Monmouth, the trees in Moor Park, where he had lived, were ordered to be cut down to nine feet above the ground, à hauteur d'infamie. Was this a usual practice on the decapitation of a man of rank? C. A. WHITE. Preston on the Wild Moors. GENEALOGICAL-I should feel extremely indebted to any correspondent who would enlighten me on the following. Were the Warburtons, Scudamores, and Dittons connected with the Mansel family, of Margam, Glamorgan? If so, where ought I to look for details? ARTHUR MEE. BUCHANAN.-I should be very much obliged to any correspondent who could give me any information about the Buchanan who landed with Prince Charlie at Moidart, particularly as to his baptismal name, and the branch of the family to which he belonged. JOHN PARKES BUCHANAN. 24, Aynhoe Road, West Kensington Park, W. 'INGOLDSBY LEGENDS.' Will any of your readers kindly give me information on the subject of the engravings in the early editions of the 'Ingoldsby Legends'? There are many by Luck and Cruikshank, and many unsigned. To whom do the latter belong? There is one in the third series -'Jerry Jarvis's Wig'-signed "Drawn and Etched by George Cruikshank," but totally different from his usual signature and style. In the second series, in the engraving the 'Dead Drummer,' just below the hat, are the words, "The subject......by Mr. Bentley." The third word is to me illegible. Can it be deciphered? INVESTIGATOR. F. W. FAIRHOLT.-In his dedication of Tobacco: its History and Associations' to Charles Roach Smith, Fairholt not only alludes to his father having been occupied in a tobacco warehouse, in which, as his playground, he occupied himself in rolling in tobacco leaf and hiding in empty barrels, but also intimates that for some years he himself in what factory this occurred? I am not acquainted was engaged in the same warehouse. Is it known with any notice of Fairholt's life, and should be obliged by being directed to any, if such exists. If it does not, I would suggest that many of your correspondents could furnish a slight sketch of it, at all events; and the subject seems entitled to it. JOHN J. STOCKEN. Bloomsbury Mansions, Hart Street, W.C. P.S.-I would ask my correspondents to note change of address. Christoffelsgebet, which is used in Germany for obtaining money from the devil, or for discovering hidden treasure? Has the prayer any connexion with the legend of St. Christopher? ST. CHRISTOPHER.-What are the words of the B. L. R. C. BATHSHEBA AND BEERSHEBA.-Can any one tell me how it is that these names are so often confused or transposed by early writers? The meanings are totally distinct: Bathsheba, the seventh daughter, or daughter of an oath; Beersheba, the seventh well, or the well of an oath-the_ambiguity being in the double meaning of seba. Here are some instances. Bishop Latimer tells us that "Father Samuell appoynted two offycers......the one for to supply hys place in Bethsabe, and the other in Bethlem" (Seven Sermons,' Arb. Rep., p. 135). In this passage the place gets the name of the woman. In the following the transposition is reversed: "In that toun of Bersabee, founded Bersabee the wig of Sire Urye, the Knighte" (Sir John Maundeville, p. 65, ed. 1883. Similarly Sir John Harrington addresses an epigram to King David, "Thou, that great Prince......Lapt in the bayte of Bersabes sweet lookes" ('Epigrams,' book ii. p. 92, ed. 1634). And in the cathedral at Ulm, the beautifully carved woodwork of which dates back, there is a head representing Bersabe, the name I believe, to the latter half of the sixteenth century, being placed beneath. been that Beersheba was founded by Bathsheba, Sir John Maundeville's idea may have possibly and a trifling inaccuracy would have not stood in his way. Is he the parent of the error? "By" appears to be omitted from his text. H. C. HART. P.S.-In Peele's play, and any old miracles I have read, the name is correctly spelt-as spelling went. WILLIAM, PRINCE OF ORANGE, AND THE FARWELL FAMILY.-The Devon County Standard of Nov. 10 last gives a long, graphic account of the Orange Commemoration at Brixham, which took place on the 5th, the bicentenary of the landing at Brixham, in Torbay, of the Dutchman who announced he had "only come for all their goots." It states the foremost to welcome the prince was "a man named Varwell, at the house of one of whose family in Middle Street the prince subsequently stopped." Is there not some confusion of the name, for although undoubtedly Varwell and Farwell are euphonious and probably identical, still the direct lineal descendants of the welcomer of William have ago under the above, or some very similar, title? 7, Hyde Park Mansions, N.W. gotten. The tunes are to be found in the 'Annesley Singing Quadrilles,' by M. A. B., but only a few words or a stanza or two from each song are given. Where could I lay hands on the whole? Those I wish for are "Twas on a Dark Day in November' and 'Sly Reynard.' P. A. VIDLER. always spelt the name with the F, and they have can boast of few finer songs than those about huntproofs, both public and private, that their ancestor ing. By word of mouth they have been handed down from father to son, but for want of a pubso spelt the name? They also possess presents given to him by the prince, and have the full-lisher the words, I fear, will soon be lost and forlength portraits of this gentleman, Christopher Farwell, Esq., and his wife Mary (Southcott). He is represented in his robes as Mayor of Totness, and the prince's ship and Berry Head are shown in the distance. He was the son of Christopher Farwell, Esq., M. P. for Dartmouth in the Long Parliament; but the name of his mother is unknown, she being only described in the Totness register of deaths in 1676 as "Madame Jane Farwell." The Farwells settled in Totness two generations before this last-mentioned gentleman, owing, probably, to their intermarriage with the Seymours of Berry Castle, Sir George Farwell having married Mary, daughter of Sir Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset. The aforesaid demonstration at Brixham appears to have been attended by a "Mr. Peter Varwell, of Exeter, a descendant of one of those who met the prince on his landing," who presented to the Commissioners of Brixham a framed portrait of William attired in the royal robes. Can any of your readers inform me of the connexion between the families of Farwell of Totness and Varwell of Exeter; or whether this portrait of William of Orange has descended in the latter branch of the family, supposing them to have a common origin, and the variation of the spelling the only difference? Or can any one inform me of the parentage of the "Madame Jane Farwell" who married Christopher Farwell circa 1640? C. T. J. MOORE, C.B., F.S.A. (Col.). Frampton Hall, near Boston. INKERMAN.-The ruins of this ancient city, which is said to have been founded by the Genoese, lie near Sebastopol, on the cliffs overhanging the Tchernaya. Can any one tell me where to find a short account of it? W. T. LEIGH HUNT'S 'THE LIBERAL.'-Who were the contributors to this short-lived periodical; and what articles, &c., did they write? Hull. R. C. 'THE VOYAGE OF THE BONETTE.'- Can any reader of N. & Q.' give me the exact title of a work published in French some forty or fifty years THARSKCHAMPFLOWER.-Where is this place, to EXECUTION OF DEEDS.-When did the old form "Hiis Testibus," &c., cease to be used; and was it by enactment, or upon what authority? I know all said in Blackstone's 'Comment.,' vol. ii. p. 305-6; Hallam, 'Middle Ages,' p. 329; and Williams on 'Real Property,' ed. 1882, p. 153; but think there must be some statutory enactment at least one hundred and fifty years earlier than 29 Charles II. c. iii. ACCURATE. SILVAIN.-At page 226 of' Mémoires et Journal de J. G. Wille,' Paris, Renouard, 1857, vol. i., I find the following lines:-" July 3, 1763. M. Silvain, membre du parlement d'Angleterre, m'est venu voir, mais je ne suis pas content de lui: il m'a emporté un bon portefeuille que je lui avois preté. Je consens que de tels amateurs restent dans leur île." Can any readers of ' N. & Q.' give any information on this M.P., who collected engravings in such an unscrupulous manner? Replies. A. W. T. THE SPECTRE OF THE BROCKEN. I am able to furnish MR. THOMAS BIRD, who writes on the subject of the Brocken spectre at the above reference, with one such case as he desires. On September 19, 1877, I witnessed the phenomenon in question on the Rigi. I was sojourning at the "Staffel Hotel," immediately in front of which is a terrace or shelf of the mountain at the edge of a precipice some 300 or 400 feet high, which overlooks the Lucerne branch of the Vierwald |