proverbes nous ennuient à la fin," I now bring this short series of papers to a conclusion. EDWARD LATHAM. I add some illustrations of the two French proverbs referred to in the review ante, p. 119. They are taken from 'Le Livre des Proverbes Français,' par M. le Roux de Lincy, seconde édition, Paris, 1859, tome premier, série No. V. The first, on p. 248, is from Gabr. Meurier, 'Trésor des Sentences,' XVIe siècle : Homme roux et femme barbue Pour ten ayder, s'il vient à point. "Femme barbue de loing la salue, un bastou à la main.' "Ce proverbe fait allusion à la croyance admise pendant le moyen âge, qu'une femme vieille et barbue était une sorcière. On p. 231 is found : Souvent femme varie, As to this the editor observes that it is often cited as having been written with a diamond on a window in the Château de Chambord by François I. when talking with his sister Marguerite d'Angoulême. A passage from Brantôme's Dames Galantes' (Brantôme, t. vii. p. 395 des Euvres,' in-8) appears to show that the words which the king wrote were "Toute femme varie." ROBERT PIERPOINT. DALLY THE TALL. It is strange that modern writers so often mistake the sobriquet of the well-known courtesan Mrs. Grace Dalrymple Elliott. Even such recent works as Sir W. Armstrong's 'Life of Reynolds' and Mrs. Toynbee's edition of the Walpole letters refer to her as 'Dolly the Tall." But there is absolutely no point in such a designation, for her nickname was derived from her maiden name Dalrymple, and thus became "Dally." To her contemporaries she was known as Dally the Tall.” HORACE BLEACKLEY. Fox Oak, Walton-on-Thames. NELSON TRAFALGAR MEMORANDUM. The original holograph draft of Nelson's "instructions" for the battle of Trafalgar was sold at public auction by Messrs. Christie, Manson & Woods on Wednesday, 14 March. The purchaser was Mr. Sabin, of Shaftesbury Avenue, who became its possessor for 3,600%. | This document was formerly the property of Admiral Sir George Rodney Mundy, who presented it to the father of the vendor. Four copies or transcripts of this document are known, and one of them is now on view at the British Museum. These facts are, I think, worthy of a place in N. & Q' RICHARD EDGCUMBE. Edgbarrow, Crowthorne, Berks. 'KING TRISANKU.'-This is one of those quaint little poems so characteristic of Longfellow. A magician tries by spells to raise Trisanku to heaven, whereupon Indra and the gods offended Hurled him downward, and descending With these equal powers contending. I recently asked a Mahratta friend if the legend is actually current in India. He tells me that it is well known, and that in his language a common phrase, descriptive of any one of undecided opinion, or neutral in action, is "Trisankuriv antarale tistha," i.e.. "Standing midway in air, like Trisanku." This seems worth recording here as the Mahratta equivalent of our sitting on the fence." JAS. PLATT, Jun. 64 THOMAS CORNWALLIS, OF PORCHESTER.With reference to MR. WAINEWRIght's article ante, p. 172, it may not be inopportune to note that the Thomas Cornwallis mentioned in Lady Lawrence's will was the second son of Richard Cornwallis, of Upnell or Okenell Hall, in Baddingham, Suffolk. He had a grant for life of office of Groom Porter by pat. dated 20 June, 42 Eliz, after the death of his cousin Thomas, of East Greenwich, was knighted at Horsley; 9 April, 1603; and died 13 Nov., 1618. Will dated 17 Sept, and proved 14 Dec, 1618. The wife of this Sir Thomas was Elizabeth, second daughter of John Molineux, of Thorpe, co. Nottingham. Lady Catherine Cornwallis, who was conceded liberty of conscience in 1598, was the daughter of Thomas, Earl of Southampton, W. McB. & F. MARCHAM. K.G. 69, Beechwood Road, Hornsey, N. OLDEST PROTESTANT CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES.-The assertion which has appeared in several papers that Bruton Church, Williamsburg, Virginia, to which the King has recently presented a Bible, is the second oldest church in the United States calls for some comment. Dr. Shinn, in his 'Notable Episcopal Churches,' says: "The earliest buildings for the religious uses of English Churchmen of which we have any record on Roanoke Island, in were the one erected Virginia (1585), and the other at Sagadahoc, at the mouth of the Kennebeg River, in Maine (1607)...... The first permanent settlement made by English colonists on these shores was at Jamestown, fifty miles above the mouth of the James River, Virginia, in 1607." The Rev. Robert Hunt, who had been rector of Reculver, Kent, accompanied these settlers, and regularly conducted the services of the Church of England. A wooden church appears to have been erected some years later, which finally gave place to the brick one built in 1640, the ruins of which still remain. St. Luke's Church, Smithfield, Virginia, dates from 1632, and is the oldest Protestant church on the continent actually in use to day, though the third church founded in the U.S.Ä. -the two previous ones having perished. The oldest religious edifice in the U.S.A. is the Roman Catholic cathedral at Santa Fé. St. Augustine's, Florida, was destroyed by fire a few years ago. Country. On the third of September, 1783, he Married 25 October, 1764. During a union of From lives thus spent thy earthly duties learn, Neither in Dr. Shinn's book nor in another compilation, entitled Old Churches in America,' by Dr. Perry, I think, can I find any reference to Bruton Church. Perhaps some American reader of N. & Q.' will kindly contribute a note on the subject. Some years since I visited a number of old Episcopal churches in the U.S.A., and particularly many of those referred to in Bishop Meade's 'Old Churches and Old Families in Virginia'-by far the most interesting book on the subject-and I was much struck with "ROMAN" MOUND. - A daily paper rethe admirable way in which most of them cently described how the extraordinary high were preserved, and the keen interest every-tides swept away the sea-banks on the little island of Greenborough, in the Medway, and FREDERICK T. HIBGAME. how sheep, cattle, horses, and men found where manifested in them. "UP": ITS BARBAROUS MISUSE.-Before the New English Dictionary' reaches the letter U may one be permitted a protest against the constant and meaningless addition of this word in everyday life? A new route will "link up" all the cross roads, &c.; the train "slowed up"; one is invited to have "a brush up" (in this case 66 touches an actual reversal of meaning); one up" a sketch, "works up" (works out) observations, and so on. Upton. R. B. JOHN ADAMS'S EPITAPH. Close to the Libertatem, To this blustering epitaph might be applied "Hunc tumulum haud part of an epigram: Charites servant, sed Erynnies atræ, non M. N. G. Muse, sed sparsis anguibus Eumenides." refuge "upon an old Roman wall, or elon- L. L. K. seems to have been suggested by the Queen's have all known from our childhood's days, is, advice to Hamlet (Act I. sc. ii.), concluding I should say, a survival of the "La, you with "all that lives must die, passing there!" of Elizabethan and Hogarthian through nature to eternity":— All born on earth must die. Destruction reigns Catherine Holden, September 10th, 1833. times-used by Di Vernon in the era of Rob 66 Roy, and shortened in early Victorian days to Oh la!" It is, of course, essentially feminine-that is, seldom used by the male sex. As a rule, I have noticed that when the ladies make use of the expressionsatirically, incredulously, or condemnatorythey make it, "There now!" But when a lady is in an obstinate, sulky mood, it is usually, "Shan't! There!!" I hinted some The other two are somewhat reminiscent of years back in the pages of 'N. & Q' that Isaac Watts and Eliza Cook: How truly blest are they who leisure find Ellen Holden, August 2nd, 1830. The industrious bee extracts from every flower Frances Holden, April 3rd, 1830. In another, not in my possession, a beautiful piece of needlework signed and dated Louisa Jane Holden, 1838, there are neither verses nor alphabet, but instead a wealth of floral ornament surrounding a large basket of flowers, and at each bottom corner a tall strawberry pottle like those in use in the first half of last century, in which are piled the most luscious strawberries. The text of these samplers is surrounded by grapes and grape-vine, oak-leaves and acorns, crowns, parrots, macaws, butterflies, impossible flowers and flower-pots, and at the base still more impossible houses, one of which, however, in its elaboration resembles a print of the old White Conduit House. In the 1830 examples the whole is preceded by the alphabet repeated in four different types of letters; but in the 1833 "sample" there is no alphabet. I could find nothing like the textual part of these samplers in Marcus B. Huish's 'Samplers and Tapestry Embroideries'; Henry Ambrose Lediard On Samplers' in The Archeological Journal; or Eugène Müntz's Short History of Tapestry,' 1884 (trans. by L. J. Davies). J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL. Hazelmere, Tooting Common, S. W. "THERE!"-This ejaculation, which has been so prominent of late, but which we La, you there!" (and its synonyms) was a possible "genesis" of "La-di-da!" HERBERT B. CLAYTON. 39, Renfrew Road, Lower Kennington Lane. 66 INCANTATION: THE IMAGE IN THE SANDS.' -There is a singular blunder in this book. Sir Henry and Henderson are represented as eating a hearty meal just before they begin the incantation upon which the whole plot turns. No wonder the results are tragic. Every dabbler in occultism knows that no magician worth his salt would attempt to raise a spirit soon after dinner," as Mr. Benson's sorcerer does. According to Barrett's standard work The Magus,' published 1801, reprinted 1875, "The operator ought to be prepared with fasting, chastity, and abstinence, for the space of three days." Elsewhere the period of fasting is fixed at nine days and by some at one month, i.e., the time of a whole lunation. JAS. PLATT, Jun. 'THE FLOWERS OF LODOWICKE OF GRANADA.' -I desire to call the attention of your readers to the above-mentioned tiny book, of which the title-page reads as follows: first part | In which is handled the Conuersion "The Flowers of Lodowicke | of Granada | The of a Sinner | Translated out of Latine in to English by T. L. Doctor of Phisicke at London printed by I. R. for Thomas Heyes, and are to be sold in Paules Churchyard, at the signe of the Greene-dragon | 1601." There is, I think, no doubt the T. L. above is Thomas Lodge, though there is no mention of the book under his name in the British Museum Library, nor, so far as I can find, in the Bodleian, Manchester, or Liverpool libraries; nor is it included in the list of works under his name in the 'Dictionary of National Biography.' The dedication is so quaint that perhaps it is worth reproducing: "To the Christian Reader, health. I doe heere present unto thy favorable viewe (most curteous and gentle Reader) thys little Pamphlet, which wanting a particular Patron, commeth as it were a begging unto thee, for no lesse than thy whole selfe, and that cheeflie for thine owne good, the way to protect it, is to direct thy life by it, and to suffer it to possesse thee, as soon as thou hast possest it: which if thou be so happie to accomplish, it will teach thee to winne love by feare: life by death: yea, everlasting happines by the transitory troubles of this wretched world: and to give it just praise in a word, it is a worke of the learned and spiritual Granada, aptly translated into English." Then follow three verses under three separate headings, each occupying one page. I presume these are Lodge's own composition, and as they are only short, I give them: Lamentations. Let dread of paine for sin in after time Let shame to see thy selfe ensnared so, Let griefe conceaved for foule accursed crime, Let hate of sinne the worker of thy woe With griefe, with hate enforce With tears of deep remorse. So hate of sinne shall make Gods love to grow, So greefe shall harbour hope within thy hart, So dread shall cause the flood of joy to flow, So shame shall send sweete solace to thy smart: So love, so hope, so joy, so solace sweet, In heavenly bliss to fleete. Woe were no hate doth no such love allure Wo where such griefe makes no such hope proceed, Wo where such dread doth no such joy procure, Wo where such shame doth no such solace breed. Woe where no hate, no griefe, no dread, no shame, No love, no hope, no joy, no solace frame. Non tardes converti ad Deum. The size of the page is only 4 in. by 2 in.; the book has 273 pages, numbered alternately in "folios," having 136 folios in all. The printed type is very clear and good. The work consists of twenty-three chapters, each prefaced with an 'Argument'; and at the end of many of the chapters the translator gives the reference to the particular place in the original from which the preceding chapter is taken, most of them being from a book entitled 'Guide of a Sinner.' The original author, Luis or Lodowicke of Granada, was a Spanish Dominican, who He founded a monastery at lived 1508-88. Badajoz. His 'Guida de Pecadores' was published in 1570. My book contains the book-plate of the "Pengwern" Library, and is bound in the original calf, in fairly good preservation. I shall be glad to know if any of your readers have come across a copy of this curious and apparently forgotten work. A. H. ARKLE. Elmhurst, Oxton, Birkenhead. 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 answers may be sent to them direct. STERNE'S LETTERS TO JOHN BLAKE.-Prof. Cross, of Yale University, New Haven, Conn., having in preparation a new life of Laurence Sterne, is anxious to obtain information regarding the original correspondence between Sterne and the Rev. John Blake, York. The letters were sold at York about 1864, but it is not known by whom they were purchased. Information of any other original letters of Sterne or relating to him would be gratefully received. Communications may be addressed to MISS HASTINGS. 60, Brecknock Road, N. 66 ber others by name who used regularly to go They are extremely like Whittier in both colloping and pancaking." My informant matter and form, but I cannot find them in said that he believed Bloody Thursday had his work. F. M. reference to the Garden of Gethsemane, and Nippylug (ear) to the striking off, by Peter, of the ear of the servant of the High Priest; but he was not able to suggest anything by way of explanation of Button-Hole Sunday. This was the last Sunday in the school term. At Eton it is, I believe, the regular usage to leave the last button of the waistcoat unfastened, and I dimly remember something of this myself, though I never heard any reason for the custom. WM. CLEMENT KENDALL. Kirkby Lonsdale, Westmorland. Whence come the following lines?— played. St. Margaret's, Malvern. A. R. BAYLEY. I Where do the following lines occur? think they are a fragment of a song which was popular between fifty and sixty years ago. They are the words of a dying girl to her lover: We shall meet, we know not where, Leave me now, love! leave me now! [Collop Monday is explained in the 'N.E.D.' as the day before Shrove Tuesday, on which fried bacon and eggs still form the appropriate dish in many places," the first quotation being from De Foe's 'Tour Gt. Brit.,' iii. 300 (1769): "The Monday preceding Fastens Even......called every-where in the North Collop Monday, from an immemorial custom there of dining that Day on Eggs and Collops." Smith's American Cyclopædia of Names' says that "collops of salted meat and eggs were eaten on the day. For Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday see the Encyclopædic' and other dictionaries. At 1st S. x. 87 (1854) it is mentioned that the Thursday before Easter is called Bloody Thursday by some in Northumberland. Further information is not invited on the first three names.] AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WAnted. I the door of the church of Sta. Sabina at shall be greatly obliged to any reader who Rome, which is, I believe, of fifth-century can tell me the name of the author of the date. I shall be glad to have this contralines dicted or confirmed. HIPPOCLIDES. True as the shell To the old ocean's melancholy swell, quoted in An Appeal from the Shades,' an essay which appeared in The London Magazine for August, 1826, and which was first ascribed to Lamb by Mr. Bertram Dobell in his interesting Sidelights on Charles Lamb.' S. BUTTERWORTH. Who wrote the following lines?— To see the children sporting on the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore. They are quoted by Ruskin in his essay on "Lord Lindsay's Christian Art,' p. 97 of vol. i. part i., On the Old Road'; and by Hazlitt in his essay 'On Living to Oneself.' JAMES WATSON. Folkestone. Of these lines-some thirty-five to forty years old, I think I have long, but vainly, tried to find the authorship : In men whom men condemn as ill I hesitate to draw the line Between the two where God has not. THE CRUCIFIXION: EARLIEST REPRESENTATION IN ART.-I have been told that the Catacombs at Rome contain no pictures of the Crucifixion, and that the first representation of the scene in art is on the panels of READ FAMILY.-Any information respecting John Read, "of King Street, St. James, Westminster," who married Caroline Mercer at "Mr. Keith's New Chapel, Mayfair," 16 February, 1752, would be very highly esteemed. He had presumably but one son, John, born 29 May, 1754, at King Street, and baptized at St. James's, Westminster. This son died, at the age of ninety-eight, at Woolwich (where he held some appointment at the Royal Military Academy), on 22 January, 1852, and had issue nine sons: William (1780-1827), Lieutenant-General and D.Q.M.G. |