by the side of the college, and it is to be replaced by a new one on the same spot. The tomb of Bainbridge, Cardinal Archbishop of York, was saved, and is now in the cloister of the English college, with others of great interest. These may all be replaced within new walls, before the foundation of Ina and Offa has quite completed its twelfth century, in The English Church in Rome. D. P. Stuarts Lodge, Malvern Wells. THE RED CROSS KNIGHTS v. "QUEEN'S GARDENS" (3rd S. v. 407.)-It is all very well to defend Cock Robin, but we must not scandalise the Red Cross Knights. They, i. e. the Templars, were a religious order, bound like monks to celibacy, and forbidden "to kiss mother or sister, aunt, or any other woman." "Guarding marriage beds," and 66 defending lady loves" was therefore out of the question with them. P. P. GREATOREX (2nd S. iii. 510; 3rd S. v. 399, 447.) The following occurs in the accounts of the city of Worcester, for the year 1666: "William Parr, Marquis of Northampton, married third Helen, daughter of Wolfgangus Snachenburg, died 1635. None of our genealogists appear to know much of this lady. She is thus noticed by a contemporary, Bishop Parkhurst, in a letter to Bullinger dated August 10, 1571:-The Marquis of Northampton died about the ried a very beautiful German girl, who remained in the beginning of August, when I was in London. He marQueen's court after the departure of the Margrave of Baden and Cecilia his wife from England.' The same fact is confirmed by the statements of her epitaph in Salisbury Cathedral, which adds that she became a lady of the bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth, and having married, second, Sir Thomas Gorges of Longford, Wilts, had issue by him four sons and three daughters. She survived Sir Thomas for twenty-five years, and died on the 1st of April, 1635, aged eighty-six. In Sir R. C. Hoare's South Wiltshire are three beautiful folio plates of her monument, which includes whole-length recumbent effigies of the Countess and Sir Thomas Gorges." A. F. B. TOUT (3rd S. v. 211, 311, 429.) — In Scotland it is common to speak of a tout on a horn, and of touting on a horn. A touter is merely, as I take it, one who blows a horn or trumpet in favour of something or somebody. R. C. Edinburgh. JOHN HEMING, 1677 (3rd S. v. 355.) — The arms as on his monument were-A. on a chev., S. 3 pheons of the first between 3 lions' heads erased of the second, impaling per pale indented arg. and gules, which may perhaps be for Penrice, a family formerly connected with Worcestershire. I do not know his crest and motto. H. S. G. MAJOR-GENERAL PORTLOCK (3rd S. v. 425.) It may be well to add to what has been mentioned of the late General Portlock, that (as stated in a TALBOT PAPERS (3rd S. v. 437.)-This name is letter from Mr. J. Beete Jukes, Local Director given to fifteen volumes in the library of the Colfor Ireland, to the editor of Saunders's News-Let-lege of Arms, to which they were given by Henry, ter, dated March 7th, 1864):— "Mrs. Portlock has presented to the existing Geological Survey of Ireland all the geological part of the late General's library, consisting of many valuable works in English, French, and German, maps, drawings, periodicals, &c., amounting altogether to upwards of a thousand. This donation was made on condition of the books being kept separate as the Portlock Library,' and preserved as belonging to the 'Geological Survey of Ireland, which, as the letter of presentation expressed it, 'is a national * See Addison's Knights Templars, p. 18. sixth Duke of Norfolk, of the Howards. They contain upwards of 6000 original letters to and from the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh Earls of Shrewsbury, besides many valuable public papers, such as royal surveys, muster rolls of several of the midland counties, abbey leases, and other topographical matters of importance. Many of the most interesting papers are comprised in the late Mr. Edmund Lodge's Illustrations of British History, Biography, and Manners. To the second edition of that work (Lond. 3 vols. LASSO (3rd S. v. 442, 466.)— "The use of the lasso was common in ancient times to many of the natives of Western Asia. It is to be seen (used to catch wild animals) in the Assyrian sculptures, now in the British Museum." Rawlinson's Herodotus, iv. 75, note. See also, Rawlinson's Five Great Monarchies, p. 78. The lasso is also represented as used in hunting in Egyptian sculptures. (Wilkinson's Ancient Egyptians, Popular Account, vol. i. p. 220.) It is used in the present day in hunting by Siberian tribes. (Erman's Siberia, vol. ii.) EDEN WARWICK. Birmingham. Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. The Annual Register; a Review of Public Events at Home and Abroad, for the Year 1863. New Series. (Rivingtons.) For upwards of a century has the Annual Register fulfilled its useful and special vocation of preserving a record of the chief public incidents of the year; and a most valuable record it has become. But even the Annual Register was susceptible of improvement, and the publishers have accordingly commenced a New Series, with an improvement in arrangement, an improvement in the selection of materials, and an improvement in the mode of printing; so as to give in a handsome and convenient form an account of all the principal events at home and abroad during the year; a chronicle of the most remarkable occurrences likely to possess a permanent interest; law cases and trials of importance; biographies of celebrities who have died within the year, and a selection of important State Papers. Having brought the late Series to a close, let us hope they will give it completeness by an Index to the volumes from 1819 to 1862. The Utilization of Minute Life; being Practical Studies on Insects, Crustacea, Mollusca, Worms, Polypes, Infusoria, and Sponges. By Dr. T. L. Phipson, F.C.S., &c. (Groombridge & Sons.) Few of us are aware how wide is the range of animals useful to man, and no one can say how much wider it may yet become. Acclimatisation Societies in this, and several other countries, are now engaged in the endeavour to naturalise the dumb denizens of other lands; and public attention has been much directed of late to the important results attainable by the proper cultivation of animals not generally regarded as domestic, the utilisation of new species, and the creation of fresh breeds. The object of Dr. Phipson's excellent little work is to give some idea of the extent to which these practical studies are actually pursued; and what animals, a short time since almost ignored, may eventually prove themselves a source of wealth, comfort, and happiness to man. As he has confined himself to animals below the rank of vertebrata, the popular subject of pisciculture receives only a passing notice; but there is a most interesting account of the cultivation of oysters, as well as the pearl fishery. The chapter on silk-producing and colour-producing insects are equally attractive to the scientific and the practical reader; and there is not a chapter that does not contain numerous facts in natural history, on which fortunes have been and might be built. The book, therefore, commends itself to the notice of promoters of Joint Stock Companies. The Jest Book. The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings. Selected and arranged by Mark Lemon. (Macmillan & Co.) Though it be true, that "a jest's prosperity lies in the ear of him that hears it," yet, as we cannot all hear the good things that are said, our thanks are due to those who collect them wisely and record them well. Mr. Mark Lemon has a keen appreciation of wit and humour; and this addition to Messrs. Macmillan's popular Golden Treasury Series has been so carefully made by him, that "of the seventeen hundred jests here collected, not one need be excluded from family utterance." This is saying much in its favour, more even than that it contains many capital jests which, we suspect, appear in it for the first time in print. A History of the Ancient Parish of Leek, in Staffordshire. By John Sleigh, of the Inner Temple. With a Chapter on the Geology of the Neighbourhood. By Thomas Wardle of Leek Brook. (Nall, Leek; and J. R. Smith.) Carefully compiled, handsomely illustrated with portraits, fac-similes, &c., and well indexed, this compact yet comprehensive history of the "Metropolis of the Moorlands" ought to earn for Mr. Sleigh the thanks of the inhabitants of that busy manufacturing town, as it will assuredly gain for him from students of English topography recognition as a judicious and able antiquary. BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES Particulars of Price, &c., of the following Books to be sent direct to the gentlemen by whom they are required, and whose names and addresses are given for that purpose: PETER STERRY'S RACE AND ROYALTY OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD IN THE Law's Editions and Translations of any of Jacob Boehmen's Works. Wanted by Mr. R. B. Hope, Stanton, Bebington, Cheshire. BANCROFT'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. The last five volumes. Wanted for the Old City Library, Worcester. Notices to Correspondents. FOREIGN POSTAGE STAMPS.-STEMPEL is requested to communicate, with real name and address, with Mr. King, 34, Parliament Street, and with L. S. H. Care of Mr. Joseph Smith, 3, Oxford Street, Whitechapel. T. H. Our Correspondent will learn from Allen's History of Lambeth, p. 371, that the Jane Vaux residing in that parish in the seventeenth century does not appear to have been related to Guido Faickes the conspirator, who was a descendant of the Fawkes's of York, 4 family of the name of Vause, or Vaux, had dwelt in Lambeth for almost a century before that time. IGNORAMUS. The origin of ringing a muffled peal at the death of a person is of great antiquity. Consult Brand's Antiquities, edit. 1849, ii. 219, and" N. & Q." Ist S. viii. 130. GEO. W. MARSHALL. Fitzalleyne of Berkeley, a Romance of the Present Times, 8vo, 1825, is by Charles Molloy Westmacott, author of The English Spy. ERRATA. 3rd S. v. p. 275, col. ii. line 31, for "Moroah" read "Morvah;" p. 343, col. ii. line 6, for "or" read "and;" p. 470, col. i. line 1, for "Sawtry" read" Santry." ***Cases for binding the volumes of "N. & Q." may be had of the Publisher, and of all Booksellers and Newsmen. "NOTES AND QUERIES" is published at noon on Friday, and is also issued in MONTHLY PARTS. The Subscription for STAMPED COPIES for Six Months forwarded direct from the Publisher (including the Halfyearly INDEX) is 11s. 4d., which may be paid by Post Office Order, payable at the Strand Post Office, in favour of WILLIAM G. SMITH, 32, WELLINGTON STREET, STRAND, W.C., to whom all CoыMUNICATIONS FOR THE EDITOR should be addressed. "NOTES & QUERIES" is registered for transmission abroad. QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:-Stone and Wooden Altars in Notes. VERIFICATION OF A JEST. Chaperon, "Another woman there was that knelyd at the mas of requiem, whyle the corse of her husbande laye on the bere in the chyrche. To whome a yonge man cam and spake wyth her in her ere, as thoughe it had ben for som mater concernyng the funerallys; howe be it he spake of no such matter, but onely wowyd her that he myght be her husbande: to whom she answered and sayde thus: Syr, by my trouthe I am sory that ye come so late, for I am sped all redy; for I was made sure yesterday to another man.'" The original editor of this very curious book appends the following remark: "By this tale ye maye perceyve that women ofte tymes be wyse, and lothe to lose any tyme." Reading, not long since, The Life of Sir Thomas Gresham, by the late Mr. John William Burgon, vol. ii. p. 214, I met with an anecdote of Katherine of Berain, who was married to Richard Clough, the agent, clerk, and servant of Gresham, in 1567, which instantly brought to my recollection the quotation I have made from A C. Mery Talys. Mr. Burgon's words are these: "Tradition has been ill-natured enough to preserve an anecdote of the heiress of Berain, which, if true, however creditable to her charms, reflects no honour on her heart. Her first husband was John Salusbury, heir of Lleweni; at whose funeral, it is said, she was led to church by Richard Clough, and afterwards conducted home by the youthful Morris Wynn, who availed himself of that opportunity to whisper his wish to become her second husband. She is said to have civilly refused his offer, stating that on her way to church she had accepted a similar proposal from Richard Clough; but she consoled Wynn with the assurance that if she survived her second husband, he might depend on becoming her third; and she was not unmindful of her promise." The fact seems to be that she married Wynn very soon after the death of Clough; but we may doubt whether the "tradition" given by Mr. Burgon was not founded on the jest in A C. Mery Talys; at all events they accord singularly; and while upon this subject, I may note that Mr. Singer, in enumerating the old references to the jest-book which Shakespeare has rendered famous (Much Ado, Act II. Sc. 1), has omitted an interesting point connected with the history of the small volume, viz. that it was the last book that Elizabeth, just before her death, was gratified by hearing read. A priest, writing an account to Venice of the last illness of the Queen, in a letter of March 9, 1602-3, observes, "She cannot attend to any discourses of government and state, but delighteth to hear some of the Hundred Merry Tales, and such like, and to such is very attentive." How far this assertion is to be taken as true we know not; but the narrator obviously intended to disparage the memory of a woman much the enemy of the Roman Catholics, as the who for more than forty years had been, not so friend of the Protestants. Maidenhead. J. PAYNE COLLIER. PRINCE EUGENE. This great military commander was born in 1663, and died on April 20, 1736. In the History of his Life," printed for James Hodges, at the Looking-Glass on London Bridge," 1741, it is stated that he was a collector of rarities and books, and that "he practised daily all the duties of the religion he professed. He spoke very little, but what he said was just, and weighed in the balance of good sense." I have a volume of old tracts, mostly of a religious tendency, and all dated between the years 1707 and 1714, inclusive. On a fly-leaf of the volume is written "Samuel Midgley, his book," 1714. Four leaves of writing-paper are bound in the original binding. One contains merely the above signature. The other three contain the following beautiful prayer, clearly in Samuel Midgley's handwriting: "A Prayer used by the truly Noble and Valiant Prince Eugene. "O my God! I believe in thee; do thou strengthen me. I hope in thee; do thou confirm my hope. I love thee; do thou vouchsafe to redouble my love. I am sorry for my sins; O! do thou encrease my repentance. I adore thee as my first principle; I desire thee as my last end. I thank thee as my perpetuall benefactor; and I call upon thee as my supream Defender. "My God! be pleas'd to guide me by thy Wisdom, Rule me by thy Justice, comfort me by thy mercy, and keep me by thy power. To thee I dedicate all my thoughts and words, my actions and sufferings, that henceforth I may think of thee, speak of thee, and act, according to thy will, and suffer for thy sake. "Lord! my will is subject to thine in whatsoever thou willest, because it is thy will; I beseech thee to enlighten my understanding, to give bounds to my will, to purify my body, and to sanctify my soul. "Enable me, O my God! to expiate my past offences, to conquer my future temptations, to reduce the passions that are too strong for me, and to practice the virtues that become me. O! fill my heart with a tender remembrance of thy favours,-an avertion of my infirmity, a love for my neighbour, and contempt of the world. Let me always remember to be submissive to my superiors, charitable to my enemies, faithful to my friends, and indulgent to my inferiors. "Come, O God! and help me to overcome pleasure by mortification, covetousness by alms, anger by meekness, and lukewarmness by devotion. "O my God! make me prudent in understanding, courageous in danger, patient under disappointments, and humble in success. Let me never forget to be fervent in prayer, temperate in food, exact in my employs, and constant in my resolutions. "Inspire me, O Lord, with a desire always to have a quiet conscience, an outward modesty, an edifying conversation, and regular conduct. Let me always apply myself to resist Nature, to assist Grace, to keep the Commandments, and deserve to be saved. "O my God! do thou convince me of the meanness of earth, the greatness of heaven, the shortness of time, and the length of eternity. Grant that I may be prepared for Death; that I may fear thy Judgments, avoid Hell, and obtain Paradise, through the merits of Jesus Christ." The date of my manuscript would be fifty-one years after the birth of Prince Eugene; and twentytwo years before his death. I do not find any reference to the prayer in his Memoirs, but as far as I know, it is quite consistent with his cha racter.* OLD SCOTISH PEERAGES. W. LEE. In England an idea seems prevalent that in Scotland a great laxity prevailed as to peerage claims; and this the more especially after the succession of James to the English diadem had removed him from the seat of government in his native dominion. We have often heard very strange law ventilated in high quarters about Scotish titles of honour, which were far from warranted by the usages of that country. Nevertheless, in no country whatever was more care taken to prevent intrusion into the peerage, and the Scotish Privy Counsel was ever on the alert to check any attempt on the part of any one, [* Another translation of this prayer is printed in the Gentleman's Magazine, iv. 671.—ED.] however wealthy or well descended, to assume dignities not directly flowing from the crown, the fountain of honour. Of the accuracy of this assertion, we propose to give a somewhat remarkable instance from the "Original Minutes of Council for the Year 1612 and 1613": "Secundo Decembris, 1613. “Ad. Lib. A. 2. 41. Sir Johne Ker was this day conveaned befor the Counsall for assuming unto himself the Style and tytle of Lord, and for veryfication thereof aganes him, his maiesties advocat produced ane contract past betwix him and ane other partye, wherin Schir Johne wes styled ane noble lord, Johne Lord of Jedburghe,—to this he answered, that althoght at sometymes ther wes Letteres, and wrytes presented unto him, wherein the writar by his allowance and knowledge styled him Lord, and that he not being curious to reede the lettres bot simple to understande the substance of the same, did subscryve the same with his ordinare forme of subscriptioune Jedburghe, that could nawayse infer ony preiudice aganes him, nor bring him under the compas of a punishabell censure, &c. Whereunto it was replyed be his maiest yes advocate, that seeing Schir Johne knew well aneugh that his maiesty wes naway pleased to honour him with the tytle and dygnytie of a barrone, and caused delete out of his infeftment that parte thereof bearing the creatioune of him a Lord, he should more respectuelye have carryed himself, and nowyse presumed to have assumed the saide style, whilk nether be his birth, nor by his maiestyes favour, he could iustlye acclame; and forder he replyed, that Schir Johne his subscryving of Lettres and writes bearing Lord of Jedburgh, did infer aganes him a witting, willing, and willfull assuming of the saide style, and that he could naway pretend misknawledge of the tenour of the writes subscryved be him, seeing he was knowne to be of that humour and dispositione, as very exactly, and narrowly to examine and try everye sentence and sillas of all lettres and writtes subscryved be him.” Sir John Ker was a man of ancient descent, and at one time of large territorial wealth. He was designated of Home, but this estate in the county of Berwick he sold to the Earl of Home, in the possession of whose descendants it presently remains. He was twice married, but his male descendants by his first espousal are extinct; but by his second wife he had male issue, who continued the representation, and the late General Ker of Littledean, who contested the Dukedom of Roxburgh with James Innes Ker, Bart., was his direct heir male. The General was unquestionably heir male of the Roxburgh family too, whilst Sir James, by virtue of a substitution in the deed of entail, and a crown ratification as descended of a daughter "of Hary Lord Ker," took both estates and honours. THE ARDENS OF WARWICKSHIRE. J. M. In a former number of the present volume (p. 352), MR. PAYNE COLLIER had stated that mother, was executed for high treason, Dec. 20, "Edward Arden, distantly related to Shakespeare's 1583;" and a correspondent signing CRUX, in p. 463, expresses his wish to ascertain the exact degree of relationship between them: in his subsequent remarks attributing to this event the origin of various influential "sympathies and antipathies in the heart of our great Bard," in consequence of "the fair fame of his mother's ancient and honourable line having been stained with attainder, and by the public ignominy of her relative's head being exhibited on London Bridge," &c. &c. The writer signing CRUX has probably not seen the remarks on the family of Shakespeare's mother which were published in the Sixth Part of The Herald and Genealogist (August, 1863,) nor the extracts from the same article which are appended by MR. DICE, to his recent Life of Shakespeare, nor the summary of the results of that article which was given in the last volume of "N. & Q.," p. 201 (Sept. 12, 1863). It may not, therefore, be altogether unnecessary, for the information of that gentleman and others, to repeat that it has been ascertained-1. That the identification of Shakespeare's maternal grandfather with a groom of the chamber to Henry VII. (the ancestor of the Ardens of Yoxall, co. Stafford), and the consequent affiliation of the Ardens of Wilmcote upon the Ardens of Park-hall, originated only with Malone, and is proved to be a great mistake; 2. That the Poet's grandfather appears in deeds dated 1550 "as Robertus Arden de Wilmecote in parochia de Aston Cantelowe in comitatu Warwici, husbandman (Collier's Life of Shakespeare, 1844, p. lxxiii.); 3. That when the heralds exemplified arms for Arden to John Shakespeare in 1599, they did not venture to give for his wife the coat of the Warwickshire family, but assigned her (with a martlet for difference) the totally different one borne by Arden of Alvanley in Cheshire (since Lord Alvanley). From all which it is most probable that the assumed relationship of Shakespeare's mother to Edward Arden, the traitor of 1583, or to any others of the family of Warwickshire gentry noticed by Dugdale, was exceedingly "distant" indeed, and certainly past discovery, if not altogether imaginary. JOHN GOUGH NICHOLS. THE WROEITES. The death of the founder of this extraordinary sect deserves a record in "N. & Q." John Wroe died at Collingwood, Melbourne, Australia, on the 5th February, 1863. He was eighty-one years of age, and had followed the trade of prophet for more than forty years. He founded a sect which numbered adherents in all parts of the world; and which held, as its cardinal article of faith, the divine inspiration and absolute authority of its founder. His followers here in Melbourne looked confidently for his resurrection, but they have probably abandoned that hope now. The sect called themselves "Christian Israelites," but were popularly known (from wearing the hair uncut and unshaven) as "Beardies." They were zealous and incessant street-preachers of an incoherent and unintelligible doctrine; apparently compounded of Judaism, Christianity, and the principles of the Adamites of Munster. From inquiries made here, I am led to infer that John Wroe was unmistakeably a lunatic of a common and harmless type; but, nevertheless, he was constantly attended by a secretary, who took down everything that fell from his lips; and these notes were sacredly preserved as divine communications. The hymns, and the more private books of the sect, abound in flagrantly indecent images and references. Their historical manual is "The Life and Journal of John Wroe, with Divine Communications to him: being the Visitation of the Spirit of God, to warn Mankind that the Day of the Lord is at hand, &c. 2 Vols. Gravesend: Printed for the Trustees of the Society by W. Deane. 1859." A more extraordinary book there is not to be found; even in that very peculiar department of literature, the records of religious imposture and delusion. It has always seemed to me strange that no mention of these "Wroeites," so far as I have noticed, has emerged in contemporary journalism; although the sect was strong enough to have its own prophet, its own liturgy, code of laws, church constitution, and special literature. It has survived the death of its founder; but seems, from all I can learn, to be now dying out. This is an additional reason for leaving some mention of it on the pages of contemporary history. D. BLAIR. Melbourne. COFFEE. The following extract from A New View of London, published in 1708, vol. i. p. 30, is curious: "I find it recorded, that one James Farr, a barber, who kept the coffeehouse which is now the 'Rainbow,' by the Inner Temple gate (one of the first in England), was, in the year 1657, presented by the inquest of St. Dunstan's in the W., for making and selling a sort of liquor called coffee, as a great nuisance and prejudice of the neighbourhood," &c. S. P. V. AN ELECTIONEering Bill of FORMER DAYS.The following cutting from Saunders's News-Letter, May 9, 1864, may be deemed worthy, as a curiosity, of insertion in " N. & Q.":— "During the time of a contested election in Meath, some forty years ago, Sir Mark Somerville [father of the present Lord Athlumney] sent orders to the proprietor of the hotel in Trim to board and lodge all that should vote for him, for which he received the following bill, which he got framed, and it still hangs in Somerville House, County Meath. The copy from which this is taken was |