possession of some Italian family two or three hundred years ago? That, I think, possessed, or was said to possess, the power of sucking the poison out of the wound; it was no antidote. JOHN DAVIDSON.

CROGHAN.It is stated by Mr. Lewis, in his Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, that the hill of Croghan, in the King's County, is mentioned by Spenser in his Fairy Queen. Can any of your readers give the exact reference?

THOS. L'ESTRANGE.

DAVISON'S CASE. -The last number of the Edinburgh Review has a strange tale of hatred and revenge, in an extract from the Memoirs of a Lady of Quality. The whole would occupy, in "N. & Q.," more room perhaps than it is worth, and it is not easily abridged.

A Mr. Davison, somewhere in Devonshire, being laid up with gout and unable to move, was visited by an old schoolfellow, just returned from India, to whom he bore ill-will for offence given when at school. They had not met since. Mr. Davison seemed much pleased, and entreated his guest to stay the night. He consented, and was found dead in the morning with his throat cut. The servants, except one maid, were on a holiday; and as she was the only person in the house except Mr. Davison, who was helpless, she was committed, and tried for the murder-her master being the prosecutor. While the case was proceeding, Mr. Davison sent a note to his counsel, Mr. Wedderburn (afterwards Lord Rosslyn), desiring him to ask the girl whether she had heard any noise in the night. Mr. Wedderburn objected, but Mr. Davison insisted. The question was put, and the answers given aroused suspicion against Mr. Davison; who, ultimately, avowed himself the murderer.

The "Lady of Quality," on the authority of Mrs. Kemble (?), in 1828, states that Lord Rosslyn told the story at a dinner party at his own house. The reviewer quotes it as 66 on good authority." Those who read it at length will see that it is stagey, and that the proper conclusion would be the judge discharging the prisoner with his blessing; and Davison, putting out his wrists for the manacles, and saying-"Lead me to my doom." Of course, no "authority" can establish the fact that, in Devonshire in the last century, the counsel for the prosecution cross-examined the prisoner. I am inclined to think the story a pure fiction; but as I do not suspect the "Lady of Quality" of inventing it, I beg to ask whether it had appeared in print before 1828? And whether there were any facts on which it might

have been founded?

AN INNER TEMPLAR.

JOHN DAVYS, rector of Castle Ashby, in Northamptonshire, was author of a Treatise on the Art

of Decyphering, 1737, and an historical tract, 1739. The date of his decease will oblige S. Y. R. FREKE. Was Thomas Freke, merchant, of Bristol, about 1730, of the Dorsetshire family? Was his wife Frances a Miss Purnell? R. C. H. H.

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GREATOREX, OR GREATRAKES FAMILY. should be much obliged if any of your genealogical readers could give me any information respecting this ancient Derbyshire family, originally possessed of Callow, with a moiety of Biggin, and, during the reign of Elizabeth, of estates in Hopton town, near Wirksworth, through marriage with the heiress of Sir William Kniveton, Bart., who had married the daughter of Nicholas de Rowsley, who had married the daughter and heir of William de Hopton, of Hopton, Wirksworth. They were also anciently

connected with the Barmaster's Court of the Court of Peverel, in the honour of Tutbury.

JAMES FINLAYSON.

R. C. H. H.

HINDOO GOD. I am much obliged for the answers I received to my last query on "Hindoo Gods." I have been able to name almost all my little idols from the references kindly given by your correspondents. One of my images, however, still perplexes me; it is this: a two-armed man with a beard, sitting crossed-legged on a tortoise. He has an ornamented cap with two pendants or flaps falling from it behind his ears; his hands are raised, with the palms turned forwards. I don't think that the tortoise has anything to do with Kurma, the second avatar of Vishnu; nor can I find the tortoise mentioned as the vehicle of any particular divinity. JOHN DAVIDSON.

ference to the use of the lasso? THE LASSO.-What is the earliest known reBy whom is it first mentioned? Is it represented on any early sculptured monuments-Assyrian, Grecian, or otherwise? B. L.

MEDITATIONS ON LIFE AND DEATH.-There have been two works lately published by Trübner & Co. entitled, the one, Meditations on Death, the other, Meditations on Life, both professing to be translated from the German. Has the original German ever been published? Is it known who was the author? MELETES.

LASCELLS. - Of what family was John Lascells, Attorney-at-Law, who was resident at Horncastle in 1720? Was he of the Nottinghamshire family? His widow Susannah, whose maiden name I am desirous of learning, gave a very handsome brass chandelier and two silver flagons to the church at Horncastle. R. C. H. H.

LUKE POPE.-One volume of a History of the County of Middlesex, by Luke Pope, appeared in 1795. Was Luke Pope a real name? If so, information about him is solicited. S. Y. R.

RAID.-Americans do not claim this word, but

give its origin, so far as is known, to Sir Walter

Scott

"Widow and Saxon maid
Long shall lament our raid."

Lady of the Lake. Will any of your correspondents kindly favour me with an earlier mention of this word, which so briefly and correctly describes a daring exploit in an enemy's country, and very frequently a severe and unexpected loss to its inhabitants? W. W.

Malta.

"RULE, GREAT SHAKSPEARE." - In the programme of the Stratford Jubilee in 1830, is the above name of a song. Can any of your readers give me the name of the author, or supply the words? At this time it would especially be interesting to know its author, and to be able to get a correct version of its words. L. J.

SIR WILLIAM STRICKLAND. -I am anxious to ascertain the date of a marriage, which was celebrated in the East Riding of Yorkshire in the sixteenth or seventeenth century, "before Sir William Strickland." There were two Sir Williams who might be the person indicated; the first died 1598, and the second was Cromwell's Lord Strickland. I presume, therefore, that the marriage was celebrated before the latter as Justice of the Peace, neither of the Sir Williams having been clergymen. Between what dates was the custom of marrying before magistrates or justices allowed or practised? Could the marriage have been celebrated before the first Sir William, acting in any official capacity? SIGMA-THETA.

WILLIAM SYMES, of Queen's College, Cambridge, went out B.A. 1681-2. He subsequently became a member of Balliol College, Oxford, being incorporated B.A. in that university 21 Nov. 1683, and proceeding M.A. there

17 Dec. 1684. He was master of Saint Saviour's school, Southwark, and published

"Nolumus Lilium defamari; or a Vindication of the Common Grammar, so far as it is misrepresented in the first thirty animadversions contain'd in Mr. Johnson's Grammatical Commentaries,' with remarks upon the same. Lond. 8vo. 1709."

We shall be glad to be informed when he was appointed master of Saint Saviour's school, and when and how he vacated the office.

C. H. & THOMPSON COOPER.

WINDOW GLASS.-Bede is commonly quoted as assigning the introduction of window-glass to the year 674. Will some one or more of your readers carefully con over his Life of Benedict, and say whether it was not Egfrid's grant of land that was made in that year, and the glazing of the church must not be carried about two years later down? Benedict's friend Witfrid, restored to York by Theodorus in or about 669, was deposed in 678, having in the interval filled the windows of the minster with glass. Can any contributor to "N. & Q." supply the date? Bourne, in his History of Newcastle (1736), states, that "sometime in the reign of Queen Elizabeth came over to England from Lorrain the Henzels, Tyzacks, and Tytorys," moved thereto by "the persecution immigrants, "by occupation glass-makers," at their of the Protestants in their own country." These first coming to Newcastle, "wrought in their trade at the Close Gate," and afterwards removed into Staffordshire. Thence, however, they returned, and settled upon the Tyne. Brand (1789), successor of Bourne as historian of Newcastle, thinks we may venture to fix the beginning of the glassworks upon the river Tyne about 1619, when they were established by Sir Robert Maunsell, Knight, Vice-Admiral of England." Had the glass-makers of Lorrain founded no works on the Tyne before those of Maunsell ? C.

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Queries with Answers.

SIR THOMAS BROWNE. - Will any of your readers tell me where to find "An Account of the Tryal and Condemnation of Amy Duny and Rose Cullender for witchcraft at Bury Assizes, before Judge Hale?"-an account "printed in his Lordship's lifetime for an appeal to the world," says the Rev. Francis Hutchinson, who comments on it in his Historical Essay concerning Witchcraft :"The two poor old women," he says, 66 were charged and convicted under thirteen indictments, for such things as bewitching John Soam's waggon to overturn or stick in gateways; bewitching the harvest men, so that at the last load at night the men were weary, and could not unload that cart, &c. But they were also

charged with bewitching Mr. Pacy's child into fits. To prove this, Judge Hale had the child brought hoodwinked into court, who sure enough flew into a rage at the

of that Name that were Kings of Scotland. Lond. 8vo, 1683."

The author is said to have been a Scotchman. He was presented by Charles I. to the vicarage of Wroxham-cum-Salthouse, Norfolk, Nov. 8, 1639 (Rymer, xx. 383). From this benefice he was, it seems, soon afterwards ejected. However, in 1647 he obtained the rectory of Kirby Cane, on the presentation of Richard Catelyn, and was ordered to be inducted on condition that he took the Covenant (Lords' Journals, ix. 150.) He died in 1661, æt. forty-eight (Walker's Sufferings, ii. 401).

Abp. Nicolson (Scottish Historical Library, 4to, edit. '43) confounds him with Richard Watson, D.D., author of Historical Collection of Ecclesiastical Affairs in Scotland, yet the archbishop's impertinent remark on the Memoirs of the Stuarts has been cited by Lowndes.

The preface to the Memoirs of the Stuarts may contain some account of the author, but unfortunately I have not been able to meet with a copy

of the work.

I hope through your columns to obtain further information about this author, and also respecting John Watson Rector of Wroxham, 1665-1692. (Blomefield's Norfolk, x. 478.) The latter was probably son of the author of the above work.

S. Y. R.

[We learn from the Preface to the Memoirs of the Stuarts that John Watson was a native of Scotland, and that his early merits advanced him at the age of twentythree to be preacher at the Canongate in Edinburgh, about the year 1636, through the interest of the learned Spotswood. He came to England to escape the fury of the Presbyterians, and was preferred to a vicarage in Norfolk by Charles I. After his ejection from this place he obtained, by the favourable recommendation of Lieut.Col. Bendish, the rectory of Kirby Cane in the same county, then in the gift of Richard Cateline, Esq., where he resided for more than twelve years in a retired and pious solitude. It is also stated by his Editor, that at the Restoration "he resorted to London to congratulate the joyful change in national affairs, when he had the honour to kiss His Majesty's hand, and receive some further assurance of his bounty; but returning in a pleonasm of joy, he expired in the ecstasy without any more marks of royal favour upon him."]

ODE TO CAPTAIN COOK.-I have in my possession an ode in MS. to the memory of Captain James Cook, R.N., by Sir Alexander Schomburgh. Can you tell me anything of the writer? Can you tell me whether the ode has ever been published?

P. S. CAREY.

[Sir Alexander Schomberg, knt., was an experienced and gallant officer, who displayed great bravery at the relief of Quebec, and had a thorough knowledge of naval tactics. At the time of his death, which took place at

his house in Ely Place, Dublin, on the 19th of March,

1804, he was the eldest captain in the royal navy, his commission being dated in 1757. His remains were interred in St. Peter's Churchyard, Dublin. For biographical notices of him consult Charnock's Biographia Navalis, vi. 272; and the Annual Register, xlvi. 477. We cannot find his "Ode to Captain Cook " in print.]

DERWENTWATER FAMILY. Can you give me any information about the family of Radclyffe since the execution of the Lord Derwentwater? Is there any pedigree of the family existing, which is brought down to the present time? E. H.

[Consult any of the following works: An History of the Parish of Whalley, by Thomas Dunham Whitaker, LL.D.; Ellis's Family of Radclyffe for the House of Dilston, 1850; Howitt's Visits to Remarkable Places, Second Series; and Dilston Hall, and Bamburgh Castle by W. S. Gibson, Svo, 1850. Lord Petre is the representative of the last Earl of Derwentwater, and a reference to Burke or Dod's Peerage will show that there are numerous descendants of the first Earl. See titles "Petre," "New

burgh," &c. Consult also "N. & Q" 2nd S. vi. 71; xii. 347, 405, 481.]

Replies.

CARDINAL BETON AND ARCHBISHOP GAWIN DUNBAR.

(3rd S. v. 112.)

In the article above referred to, giving several extracts from the "Protocols of Cuthbert Simon" (where are they to be found?), there are grave

errors.

"Jacobus secundus Archiepiscopus Glasguensis," was not the celebrated Cardinal David Beaton, but his uncle, and the second Archbishop of Glasgow; though, as J. M. refers to Keith's Scotish Bishops (Edin. 1824, 8vo, p. 255), his mistake is rather unaccountable.

Glasgow was raised to the rank of a metropolitan archbishopric by bull of Pope Innocent VIII., dated Jan. 9, 1492, and its first archbishop was Robert Blacader, who died July 28, 1508. His successor, as second archbishop, was James Beaton or Bethune, then Bishop elect of Galloway, who was "postulated" to Glasgow Nov. 9, 1508, and consecrated as archbishop of that see, April 15, 1509, at Stirling (Chartulary of Glasgow, &c.). The date M. quinquagesimo nono must be intended for "M. quingentesimo nono," 1509. His translation to St. Andrew's and the primacy of Scotland, is probably correctly given as having been on June 5, 1523, though it has been generally placed under the year 1522; for in a document (given in the Chartulary of Arbroath) he states, in 1530, that he was then in the seventh year of his primacy. Also (in the Chartulary of Dunfermline) he gives the year 1534 as the twenty

fifth of his consecration, and the twelfth of his translation to St. Andrew's.

Archbishop James Beaton died in September, 1539, and was succeeded there by his nephew and coadjutor, Cardinal David Beaton, who had been consecrated Bishop of Mirepoix in France, Dec. 5, 1537. There was certainly a second James Beaton, who was subsequently also Archbishop of Glasgow, but he was consecrated at Rome, Aug. 28, 1552, and died at Paris April 24, 1603, aged eighty-six, the last survivor of the Catholic hierarchy of Scotland. He was nephew to the cardinal.

There never was an Archbishop of Glasgow of the name of "James Bruce, a son of Bruce of Clackmannan." A prelate of that name, who was consecrated Bishop of Dunkeld on Feb. 4, 1442, at Dunfermline, is said to have been elected to the see of Glasgow in the year 1447, but he was never formally translated to that bishopric (as already shown, it had not then been erected into an archbishopric), and he died in the course of the same year at Edinburgh, the see being still vacant in Oct. 1447, since the death of Bishop John Cameron on Dec. 24, 1446.

was

"Gawinus Archiepiscopus Glasguensis consecrated to that see on Feb. 5, 152, at Edinburgh, having been nominated third archbishop on Sept. 27, 1524, on the translation of James Beaton to St. Andrew's. Therefore, the year given in the "notorial instrument before the Reformation," now under review, must be erroneous in more than one respect: for "M. quinquagesimo xxxiiij.," representing perhaps M. quingentesimo xxiiij. (or 1524), would appear the correct reading; that given by J. M. is simply nonsense, as it actually is "1050 and 34," or A.D. 1084, a manifest absurdity. The year was 152.

Gavin, or rather Gawain Dunbar, was nephew of the Bishop of Aberdeen of the same name, and tutor to King James V., as well as a learned and accomplished ecclesiastic. For though grossly misrepresented by Knox, his greatest admirer could not desire for him a more elegant panegyric than that of Buchanan. He was Prior of the Premonstratensian Monastery of Whitehorn, or "Candida Casa" in Galloway (founded circa 1260), from about 1504 till his elevation to the episcopate; but he certainly never was "Prior of Whitehaven in Galloway," as no such religious house ever existed in Scotland, although a town of the latter name is still to be found in Cumberland.

With regard to the mention of the coronations of Kings James IV. and V.; the first of these two events certainly took place in the Abbey of Scone, as proved by the Lord High Treasurer's books, under date of July 14, 1488, and has been generally assigned to June 26; so that July 22, or "St. Mary Magdalen's Day," is not likely to be

correct.

The second coronation, or that of the infant King James V., was solemnised as soon as possible after the disastrous battle of Flodden, but the dates of its occurrence unaccountably vary in different historians of the period, though there seems every reason to believe that it was also at Scone, and in the month of Oct. 1513. Still, however, the actual day may have been Sept. 22, and the place the castle of "Striviling," or Stirling. The officiating prelate was also doubtless James Beaton, Archbishop of Glasgow, as the primate had fallen, together with his royal father, at Flodden, and Beaton was the only metropolitan in the kingdom. Even in this entry, the year is again erroneously printed quinquagesimo instead of quingentesimo, though whether the error is merely a clerical one, and attributable to Cuthbert Simon, or to J. M., it is not for me to say; but the recurrence, no less than than three times, of the same mistake of quinquagesimo (or fiftieth) for quingentesimo (or five hundreth) is suspicious, and not creditable to Cuthbert Simon's accuracy, or his commentator's

acumen.

I fear this note has extended to too great a length, but as correctness in historical dates of events is of much importance, I have been obliged to enter rather minutely into the subject. With reference to J. M.'s remarks on the character of Queen Mary, and what might have happened if she "had received a virtuous education in Engand," &c., &c., comment is useless; and whether the French court was more immoral than any other of the time, or Queen Catherine de Medicis "a worse woman than even her namesake of Russia," are topics which it is unnecessary to discuss in your pages. But every impartial reader of history knows that the objections to the alliance of the infant Queen of Scots with Prince Edward were too deeply rooted in the heart of every patriotic Scot of that day, as well as in that of Cardinal Beaton-one of the ablest statesmen his country ever produced-to be overcome, even by the "rough wooing" of "Bluff King Hall" when he ravaged with fire and sword the whole of the south of Scotland, and destroyed several of its noblest religious edifices during the mission of 1544 under Hertford. The French alliance was, therefore, absolutely necessary for the preservation of Scotland's independence as a nation; and was only opposed by those venal Scotish nobles who were in the pay of England. A. S. A. India.

The mistakes so obligingly pointed out by N. C. (p. 201) originated in the loss of the proof, which accidentally fell aside, and thus excluded correction. For the reference to Mr. Grub's work, the writer has to return his thanks.

The association of the name of Catharine de Medici and Diana of Poictiers with that of Mary of