Dunstan House, Kirton-in-Lindsey. SCOTTIANA. It is worthy of notice that four individuals who were more or less associated with Scott have died within the last few months. In August there died at Selkirk an old mason who in his youth helped to build Abbotsford. I made a note of his name at the time, which I have mislaid somewhere, for I cannot put my hands on it. He used to relate that frequently while engaged in his work on Abbotsford Sir Walter came and conversed with him and his fellow-workman, "For," said he, "the Shirra' had nae pride aboot 'im." And then towards the close of last year died Dr. Skene, Historiographer Royal of Scotland, who was the son of Scott's old friend, Skene of Rubislaw, and who had actually resided in Abbotsford as the guest of Scott. Next there was the late Dr. Wordsworth, Bishop of St. Andrews, who, if I mistake not, accompanied his illustrious uncle the poet and Dorothy Wordsworth on their tour through Scotland, when they visited Abbotsford and saw Scott, before he set out on what proved to be his last excursion to the Continent. Lastly, there died, during February, William Haldane of Earlston, who was personally acquainted with Scott, and was present at his funeral. He had many recollections, not only of Scott, but of Hogg, Lockhart, Willie Laidlaw, Andrew Gemmel (Edie Ochiltree), and Tom Purdie. We are told somewhere in Lockhart's 'Life' that Sir Walter's mother knew a man who saw Cromwell enter Dunbar, and now we chronicle the snapping of those links which bind us to the living personality of Scott himself. So runs the world away. W. E. W. TABLE PROVERB.-The following couplet, forming part of a piece, entitled 'Regime de vivre,' which is printed at the end of 'Proverbes en rimes ov rimes en proverbes' (Paris, 1664, ii. 359),— Apres disner demeure coy, Apres souper promene toy article above referred to should be in the past tense. As to this see 7th S. iii. 4, 23, 283, 401. The grace alluded to before dinner, "Pro hoc," &c., never was a grace of the Inn, but simply one that was favoured by the chairman at the time the writer of the article, I presume, happened to be there. When Joseph Arden was principal he always said grace in English, "For what," &c. The grace after dinner was always performed at the Kentish Mess (not "men") until its extinction. Though it is true no speeches were allowed, there was an annual exception, when the chairman of the lower table made some laudatory remarks to the principal and rules (not "aules"). The Kentish Mess had three toasts, the one in addition to that given being "Principal and Rules," all drunk without acclamation. I do not understand the statement (p. 266) that the judges "have still Chambers in the Inn in Chancery Lane "; they certainly have not; neither are there any "armorial bearings" in the house or hall; and as no serjeants are now made, they do not give rings. RALPH THOMAS. 27, Chancery Lane. quents good hotels or restaurants must have "FINE CHAMPAGNE."-Everybody who frenoticed that within the last few years the best (which many Englishmen, no doubt, pronounce ar brandy has been called either by the above name if it were English), or "liqueur brandy," which is a better name, as it lends itself to no double meaning. Even in Littré, "fine Champagne" is to be found in the Supplement only (1877), and I myself well remember the days when the expression was not to be seen or heard in Paris, although the thing must have existed then as it does now. Littré's words are: "" pure de Cognac. Etym. Champagne, nom d'un Fine champagne, eau-de-vie village de la Charente-Inférieure." This is quite incorrect. The real fact, as I learnt last year, when spending three months in Angoulême (Charente), is that that part of the department of La Charente which is immediately to the south of Cognac, and lies between the rivers Charente and its affluent the Seugne, is called la Grande and la looks very much like the original of our own gastro- Petite Champagne, the former being next to nomic saw, F. ADAMS. After dinner sit awhile. After supper walk a mile. 105, Albany Road, Camberwell, S.E. ROBERT PALTOCK, NOT PULTOCK (See 8th S. i. 266) was an inhabitant of Clement's, not Clifford's, Inn. I have often pointed out this error, but it seems to crop up just the same (7th S. iii. 282). It is from Clement's Inn that' Peter Wilkins' is dated. See some interesting notes in the Athenæum, August 2 and 16, 1884, and February 14, 1885. All the remarks about Clifford's Inn in the Cognac.* But I cannot do better than copy what I find in the useful ‘Dictionnaire des Dictionnaires,' edited by Paul Guérin, with no date, but the preface dated January, 1886. Under the heading "Champagne "there is : ongeaise. Fine Champagne, premier cru, provenant de "Champagne, s. f., Eau-de-vie de la Champagne Saint *So Hachette, in his Atlas'; but in Joanne's map of La Charente (see his book, quoted further on), it is the Petite Champagne which is next to Cognac. † La Saintonge is in La Charente-Inférieure, while in Hachette's Atlas,' la Grande and la Petite Champagne appear to be wholly in La Charente, and are so repre Genté, de Gimeux, de Salles et de tout le pays appelé "Les crus se divisent en six catégories bien distinctes Grande Champagne ou Fine Champagne, Petite Champagne, Borderies, Très bons Bois, Bois ordinaires, et enfin Troisième Bois ou Dernier Bois." Champagne is feminine in this case, therefore, as it always is when it denotes the province so called or any champaign country. "Fine Champagne was, no doubt, formerly included under the more general name of Cognac, the chief town of the district. It would seem that the ravages of the phylloxera have reduced the quantity of the brandy produced from the vineyards of the two Charentes to one-tenth. This I learn from Joanne, in his 'Géographie de La Charente' (Hachette, 1888), who goes on to say (p. 39): "Actuellement un grand nombre de propriétaires ne distillent plus leur propre vin; ils emploient des grains importés d'Allemagne et préparent ainsi une eau-de-vie inférieure qu'ils mélangent avec le peu de vrai cognac que produit le vignoble charentais." If, therefore, this brandy is ever called "Cham- LAMLASH.-Annotating "6 "Brodick or Brathwick Castle, in the Isle of Arran, is an ancient fortress, near an open roadstead called Brodick Bay, and not far distant from a tolerable harbour, closed in by the Island of Lamlash." The reference, no doubt, is to the Island of (or in) Lamlash Bay, described in Scott's 'Diary' of his cruise among the Western Isles (Lockhart's 'Life,' iii. 274, ed. 1837). The fact is that Lamlash is a hamlet on the mainland, with a bay in front in which lies Holy Isle, sacred in days of yore to St. Bride. According to Scott, Bruce started for Carrick from Brodick Bay or the neighbourhood; but the local legend is that Whiting Bay, still further south than both Brodick and Lamlash, was the point of departure (MacArthur's Antiquities of Arran'). The Island of Arran, which has so long retained its primitive simplicity of character, is likely to become better known in the immediate future, as it is said that the Duke of Hamilton has consented to grant feus on the shore. THOMAS BAYNE. Helensburgh, N.B. sented in Joanne's map also. But this may be a mistake, and there may be a part of the district in each of the two departments which are adjoining. At all events, it is clear that brandy of some sort is made in both the Charentes. "FOD."-I have no doubt that fod is a "ghostword." Halliwell's edition of Nares gives it, on the strength of a quotation from the Paradyse of Dayntie Devices,' 1576: "As we for Saunders death have cause in fods of teares to saile." It is the old story; a letter has "dropped out." Read flods, i. e., floods. WALTER W. SKEAT. spelt yern, has a twofold origin and signification. The "YEARN."-This word, which should properly be first of these, the only one now used, means to long after, be deeply desirous of. The second means (intransitively) to grieve or mourn, or (transitively) to grieve or vex. Prof. Skeat points out that Shakespeare never uses this word in the former, but always in the latter sense. Johnson, howspeare (Henry V.,' III. iii.) to the former sense, ever, oddly enough, refers one passage in Shakethough it undoubtedly has the latter meaning. Pistol says, "Falstaff, he is dead, and we must yearn therefor," i. e., we must mourn on that account. sion of the Bible (Gen. xliii. 30 and 1 Kings iii. 26), The word occurs twice in the Authorized Verand in both places the former sense is intended, though not exactly in the way in which we use it now. I am sorry, therefore, that the Revised Version has retained it in both passages, since the meaning is much better represented in the Wycliffite version, and the Douay has practically the same: "His [Joseph's] heart was moved upon his brother" (Gen. xliii. 30). Coverdale renders his hert was kyndled towarde his brother," and the Great Bible has "his hert dyd melt upon his brother." In the other place (1 Kings iii. 26), Coverdale uses the same expression as in this, but the Great Bible introduces the word yerned, which other versions have followed. As I said before, this does not seem to express the exact meaning now conveyed by it, which almost requires the preposition "after," and signifies longing for something not present. W. T. LYNN. Blackheath. AN OLD CIVIC INSTITUTION.-The following, taken from the Daily News of March 2, seems worth preserving :— "Another ancient civic institution is on the point of Porters, which, if the recommendation of a Committee disappearing. It is the old society of Fellowshipforthwith disbanded and wound up. of the Court of Common Council is adopted, will be The London fellowship or brotherhood' of porters claims to have been incorporated in the days of that monarch whom Mr. Irving, in the character of Becket, is just now nightly defying on the stage of the Lyceum; but its present Charter of Incorporation was granted by James I. in 1613. In other times they had a strict monopoly of the porterage of house corn,' salt, coals, fish, and fruit, and even in these days we believe they are enabled to exact a trifling sum on every case of oranges and other commodities, when they allow interlopers to carry these from ship to shore. The Company have, or lately had, a hall by the riverside, near Waterman's Hall. Once 14 livery or arms. their members numbered three thousand; but the roll took infinite pains to prove that Mary Grey, "a 267 now considerable reduced, and the Company has no Young Gentlewoman," was the real mother of the Fellowship Porters to attend the church of St. Mary-at-80-called prince. Yet at a very early period after It was an ancient custom of the Hill, near the Custom House, with their wives and his birth Dutch caricatures, by Romain de Hooghe children, every Midsummer Day, in procession, carrying and others, show the child with a toy windmill in nosegays, on which occasions a special sermon was his hand, in allusion, as we are told, to the parentpreached, while 'offerings' were deposited in two basing on the communion rails for the relief of poor brethren." age mentioned in the heading of this query. Who W. D. PINK. J. ELIOT HODGKIN. 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. RESIDENCE OF MRS. SIDDONS IN PADDINGTON. -In April, 1805, according to Campbell, Mrs. Siddons took possession of a pleasant cottage at Westbourne, near Paddington, which she furnished for her permanent residence. From some verses written by her husband on the occasion we learn that the cottage was known as Westbourne Farm. This residence she retained till 1817, when she gave it up, as she found it too retired, and took the lease of the house at the top of Upper Baker Street in which she died, and on which the Society of Arts has recently affixed a tablet. Canningham, in his 'Handbook of London,' says that the pretty little house and grounds which Mrs. Siddons occupied at Paddington were destroyed to make room for the Great Western Railway. Robins, in his 'Paddington, Past or Present,' states that he has been informed that Mrs. Siddons resided in Desborough Lodge, which at the time he wrote (1853) was still standing in the Harrow Road, a little south and east of the second canal bridge. I have, in a casual way, endeavoured to find the situation of Desborough Lodge, but have not succeeded. spondent of 'N. & Q.' help to identify the house Can any correin which the great actress lived? W. F. PRIDEAUX. 29, Avenue Road, N.W. JAGGER-PAGE FAMILY.-I shall be very grateful for any information about Benjamin Jagger, who was born in Norwich about 1765, who came to London and served as a clerk in Messrs. Maltby's office in Cheapside, and who emigrated to America in 1797. He assumed the name of Page before his emigration. parents? Who were his W. J. HARDY. 21, Old Buildings, Lincoln's Inn. THE OLD PRETENDER SON OF A MILLER. Where can be found the original suggestion that the "pretended Prince of Wales," afterwards known as the Old Pretender, was the son of a miller? I find not the slightest indication of this theory in the many tracts of William Fuller, who was the miller? FRANCIS, FIFTH DUKE OF LEEDS.-In the records that "Early on Wednesday morning, : obtain information respecting the family of Stewart, STEWART HAMILTON.-I am most anxious to and more especially the branch which were settled at Culmore, co. Donegal, two centuries ago. Is it possible to obtain complete pedigrees of the families of Stewart and of Hamilton anywhere? KATHLEEN WARD. give information ALEXANDER SHERSON.-I want as much information as possible about Alexander Sherson, of stable of the city of Lancaster, or about any of Ellers Craig, co. Lancashire, sometime chief conhis ancestors. ERROLL. records of this regiment been published? I have THE THIRTY-THIRD REGIMENT.-Have the heard it stated that in the middle of the last century the regiment was known as "Johnson's Jolly Dogs," being so called after the colonel who commanded it at Dettingen; also as "The Yellow Boys," from the colour of its facings at that period. facings, which, since it became a territorial regiAs "The Duke of Wellington's Own" it had red ment, have been changed to white. When and where was the regiment first raised; and did it bear any distinction (territorial or otherwise), at the time, beyond its number? I am interested, as a pair of the regiment's old colours are in the to obtain any further information respecting this Henry de Albini, or of his sister Julia, who appears to have married into the Bonham family. ALFRED T. EVERITT. High Street, Portsmouth. SKIRT. In section 15 of the Commons Act, 1876 (39 & 40 Vict. c. 56), provision is made for the enactment of by-laws for a regulated pasture by "the majority in value of the owners of skirts or rights of pasture therein. Is not a misprint for stints? and, if not, what is the derivation and exact meaning of the word? Q. V. "C skirts "" PORTRAIT OF GEORGE III.-Can any of your readers kindly identify the above from the following description; as to who the artist was, or, if a replica, where the original can be found? A fulllength life-size, as a middle-aged man, in Hussar uniform, blue with scarlet facings, the dolman of scarlet, both jacket and dolman richly laced, blue pantaloons heavily laced on either thigh, crimson leather hessians, a broad light blue ribbon across the breast, the busby, with scarlet "jelly bag black and white feather, in left hand resting upon left thigh. The figure is standing on a bank, the THE DRAMA AND THE ARCHANGEL GABRIEL. face slightly inclined to the right. A coloured-Mr. Barry, in his 'Studies in Corsica: Sylvan person in crimson livery, after Eastern fashion, is and Social,' 1893, mentions that the theatre at holding the charger in the bottom of right-hand Ajaccio "is dedicated to the Archangel Gabriel." Is not this kind of dedication somewhat unusual? WILLIAM GEORGE BLACK. Glasgow. corner. The light blue ribbon would point to the Hanoverian Guelphic order. The uniform might also be Hanoverian, as at that date there were no Hussars in the English army. MANGALORE. 1, Queen Street, Colchester. POWELL OF CAER HOWELL. In a memoir written by the Hon. Wm. Dummer-Powell, Chief Justice of Upper Canada, born 1755, he mentions the above place, near Montgomery, as the ancestral seat of his family, and states that his grandfather, John Powell, who married the heiress of the Dummers, was a younger son of a good Salopian family which had formerly possessed this estate. Mr. Justice Powell bore "Per fesse or and ar., a lion rampt. gu."; crest, a sun rising from the clouds; motto, "Aude." Is anything now known of such a family? L. MURRAY OGILVY. JOHN GODDARD.-John Goddard, of Brodforth, Wimborne Minster, will proved October, 1564; children, John, Walter, Richard, Edmond, Alice, and Jane; brothers, Edmond and Richard. Any information respecting this family, but particularly as to the ancestry of John Goddard, and his connexion, if any, with the Goddards of Poole, will be gratefully received. Please reply direct. H. S. CRAYTON. Oxford Union Club. 'Chronology of the Reigns of George III. and OF SCARCITY. In Belsham's IV.,' under the year 1787 it is stated that in December of that year the "root of scarcity" was introduced by Dr. Lettsom. In the ordinary bioCOL. RICHARD TOWNESEND.-Carte, the bio-mention of this root. What was it? graphical notices of Dr. Lettsom I can find no grapher of the Duke of Ormonde, is spoken of by Mr. Richard and Miss Dorothea Townshend, in their interesting Account of the Life and Times of Colonel Richard Townesend,' as 66 a Romanist and a Jacobite," p. 78. That he was a Jacobite is well known; but is there any evidence of his being a member of the Roman Catholic Church? If such exists it has escaped our notice. N. M. & A. DE ALBINIACO: ALBINI FAMILY.-There is to be found in the Record Office, London, an Inquisition post mortem, taken at Southampton in the sixth year of Edward I., on the death of Henricus de Albiniaco; his sister, Claricia de Albiniaco, with Mauritius de Bonham, "filius filii Julianæ de Albiniaco sororis ejusdem Henrici," were found to be his heirs. Amongst his possessions were Hale Manor, in co. Southampton, Wishford Manor, and lands in Berwick, Maddington, and Orcheston St. George, in the county of Wilts. I shall be glad if any of your readers can help me Norwich. JAMES HOOPER. THE COMMONPLACE-BOOK OF JOSEPH HINDE. -A manuscript of 458 pages is in my possession, inscribed on the first fly-leaf "Leiber Josephi Hinde. July, 1706.” The work is a commonplace-book, in which some English clergyman copied in a beautiful hand extracts from whatever authors he had read with interest. Most excerpts are English, but those in Latin and even Greek are numerous. Mr. Hinde himself lacking. This commonplaceNor are original observations by book is arranged according to what John Locke calls "a new method," which he had translated out of the French in 1686, twenty years before Mr. Hinde's book was penned. Will some reader of 'N. & Q.' tell me through its columns something about Joseph Hinde, at what university he studied, when born and died, where he preached, &c.? JAMES D. BUTLER. Madison, Wis., U.S. THE SOLAR ECLIPSE OF AUGUST 14, B.C. 394. The great value, as a work of chronological reference, of 'L'Art de Vérifier les Dates" makes it desirable to point out some errors therein à propos of the above eclipse, which it says took place "au tems que Conon vainquit les Perses dans un combat naval, près de Gnide, ville de l'île de Chypre." Cnidus, off which the battle was fought, was not in Cyprus, but a peninsula in Caria. Conon was fighting not against the Persians, but in alliance with them against the Lacedæmonians. And the eclipse occurred not at the time of the battle, which was probably in July, but when Agesilaus heard of it, about a month afterwards, the news reaching him just as he was entering Boeotia, and inducing him to force on the battle of Coroneia before his opponents had heard of the naval engage ment off Cnidus. W. T. LYNN. CORNELIUS JANSSEN.-I am anxious to ascertain the whereabouts of this portrait-painter in A.D. 1622-3-4. He was practising in London in 1618, dwelling in Blackfriars. In 1636 he resided with Sir Arnold Braems, a Dutch merchant, at Bridge, near Canterbury. I have some pencil miniatures attributed to him, dating from 1622 to 1624; and as the little volume containing them includes also a sketch of the Market Place, Maidstone, in 1622, the portraits may be those of some of the nobility residing in the vicinity at that time. F. JAMES. Maidstone. Replies. SILVER IN BELLS. (8th S. iii. 105, 175.) The account of the experiments carried out on bells more than fifty years ago, mentioned by E. L. G., would astonish modern metallurgists. It is well known among the members of the craft how dangerous it is to draw conclusions as to the influence of a certain metal on the properties of alloys from data derived from experiments made on the pure metal itself, or even from results obtained with alloys containing a different proportion of the same metal. It is an established fact that between certain well-defined limits carbon, wolfram, manganese, and chrome will improve the quality of steel, for instance; but no one would have ever dreamed to experiment on charcoal, &c., pure and simple, to prove the point one way or another. If, therefore, the experimenters in question have arrived at the truth, they have done so more by sheer luck than good management. The "superstition" of trying to improve the sound of bells by adding silver to the alloy is more than a thousand years old. It is mentioned by the anonymous monk of St. Gallen who wrote the life of Charlemagne. He relates how a colleague of his, Tanco or Danco by name, having cast a bell the tone of which pleased Charlemagne very much, a certain opifex, well versed in the making of all kinds of works in glass or metal, approached the emperor and asked him :— "Domine Imperator, jube mihi cuprum multum afferri, quantum opus est, de argento dari, saltim centum libras, ut excoquam illud ad purum, et in vice stagni fac mihi, et fundo tibi tale campanum, ut istud in ejus compara tione sit mutum." The emperor gave orders that the requisite BASQUE PROvinces. Will any reader be so weight of copper and hundred pounds of silver kind as to let me know where to procure a pam- should be handed over to the opifex. But the phlet on the Basque Provinces by Col. Hill-wily artificer appropriated the silver to his own James? I saw the pamphlet on the library table of a club, and read a notice appended thereto that the proceeds of the sale were to be devoted to a charity. But I do not know who published the pamphlet. W. R. LLUellyn. use, and consequently, when the bell was hung in the belfry and one priest after another attempted to ring it, it would not utter a sound. So the wily bellfounder was called upon to try his hand; but no sooner had he touched the rope than the clapper dropped out of the bell, and, striking him on the head, went clean through his body, carrying sundry parts of his anatomy with it, and killing the embezzler on the spot. The silver was found, "We shall not know the Winter from the Summer and by the emperor's order distributed "inter inexcept by the green leaves." AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED.- Winter is nurse to May, And Life is the daughter of Death. -- H. W. НОРЕ. A. C. digentes palatinos." The miracle is fully described in the MS. chronicle, "Monachi Sangallensis de Gestis Karoli [Magni] Imperatoris Libri Duo," published by Pertz, in his 'Monumenta Germaniæ,' div. "Scriptores," vol. ii. p. 744. According to the learned editor, internal evidence shows that the chronicle was compiled between the years 884 and 887. Anxious to know the truth about the effect of |