farmer said it was hard lines, but in the end promised to bring the money. wrote Latin poems; held three Gloucestershire livings successively. 1770. The farmer appeared at the appointed Aston, Sir Richard (d. 1778), judge.-School time, and, threading his way through the not mentioned by 'D.N.B.,' but recorded in scrub, found the smuggler and his assistants list made by Robert Bryne (Master 1752-76) beside the kegs. "I shan't pay till I've hed as educated at M.C.S. together with his a taste," said the farmer. The runner brother Sir Willoughby Aston, Bart. (d. 1772). replied, in tones which were afterwards Vide Bloxam, iii. 223. Lord Chief Justice of thought unnecessarily gruff, "Nobody's C.P., Ireland, 1761; knighted and transferred a-been asking you." When they had bargained to K.B., England, four years later; one of as to the price, which, as usual on such commissioners entrusted with Great Seal, occasions, was a lengthy process, the vendor took from his pocket a gimlet, and, making a hole through the bung, inserted a straw therein, saying at the same time, "Suck up." The buyer did as he was bid, and went on sucking at the straw for a long time. The second keg was treated in the same manner. The gimlet holes in the bungs were carefully plugged, the money paid, and the farmer set off on his way home, highly pleased with his bargain, for the kegs were large, and the price somewhat less than usual. The kegs were at once taken into the cellar, and no time lost in tapping the brandy cask. The farmer's rage may be imagined when he found that the fluid which ran through the tap was water only. The same result followed when the Hollands gin was tested. ner The explanation of the trick has probably already occurred to the reader. The "run"felt sure he should never recover the money that was owing to him by fair means, so he had provided two casks filled with water, and inserted bladders containing a small quantity of spirits in each of the casks, the bladders being held in position by the bungs. By this device he recovered the money that was due to him. In after days the smuggler frequently visited Bell Hole, but always took care to avoid the society of his former friend. The farmer, on the other hand, when his first fit of anger was over, as he had really lost very little by the trick, began to regard it as a good jest, and was fond of telling the tale to EDWARD PEACOCK. his acquaintances. Wickentree House, Kirton-in-Lindsey. MAGDALEN COLLEGE SCHOOL AND THE 'D.N.B.' (See 10th S. iv. 21, 101, 182, 244, 364; v. 22, 122.) HAVING dealt with the history of the School, I now begin my biographical annotations. Allibond, John (1597-1658), schoolmaster. -Chorister; Master of M.C.S. 1625-32 (suc-ceeding Samuel Barnard); lecturer on music; Bickley, Thomas (1518-96), Bishop of Chichester.-Chorister; Fellow, and chaplain to Edward VI.; retired to France during Mary's reign; Warden of Merton 1569-85; bequeathed 401. for ceiling and paving the School, which possesses his portrait; another portrait belonging to the College is similar to one in possession of Warden of Merton. as Bodley, Sir Thomas (1545-1613), diplomatist and scholar. -Has been claimed for this "schola celeberrima," we find M.C.S. designated in his time; in Mary's reign he joined his father at Wesel, Frankfort, and Geneva; on Elizabeth's accession was sent to Magdalen College as a Commoner; restored and refounded the Oxford University Library, which has since been called by his name, and which contains his full-length portrait; his monument by Nicholas Stone is in Merton Chapel. No mention of the School in his autobiography. Brasbridge, Thomas (fl. 1590), divine.Demy in 1553 aged sixteen; Fellow, obtained living at Banbury, where he opened a school and practised medicine; published miscellaneous writings. Brinknell or Brynknell, Thomas (d. 1539 ?), divine.-Master of M.C.S. 1502 8 (between Richard Jackson and Burway or Borrow), where he "exercised an admirable way of teaching"; Professor of Divinity on Wolsey's new foundation; wrote against Luther. Bull, Henry (d. 1575?), theologian.-Demy in 1535, he may perhaps have attended the School; vacated his Fellowship on Mary's Luther's 'Psalmi accession; translated Bunny, Francis (1543-1617), theological writer.-Entered Magdalen 1558, Demy the next year; Archdeacon of Northumberland; rector of Ryton; a strong Calvinist. Butler, Charles (1561-1647), philologist, and author of 'The Feminine Monarchie; or, a Treatise concerning Bees and the Due Ordering of Bees,' 1609, thus correcting Shakespeare and anticipating Maeterlinck.Chorister; Master of Basingstoke School and a Hampshire parson. Camden, William (1551-1623), antiquary I believe that there is an omission in the and historian.-At Christ's Hospital and list of masters of this school, namely, that St. Paul's, and, according to Wood (Ath.,' of the Rev. Henry Cadwallader Adams i. 480), in 1566 a chorister at M.C.S. under Thos. Cooper; author of Britannia '; Head Master of Westminster School; Clarenceux King of Arms; buried in Westminster Abbey; a portrait belongs to M.C.S., and others to Bodleian and Provost of Worcester College. Capel, Daniel (d. 1679?), Puritan divine.Son of Richard Capel (v. D.N.B.,' a Demy of 1604); chorister in 1643 (as was also his elder brother Christopher in 1635); lost living of Shipton Moyne, Gloucestershire, after Restoration, practised medicine at Stroud. Carkesse or Carcasse, James (fl. 1679), versewriter. Student Ch. Ch.; sometime Usher, and later Master of M.C.S., 1663-4 (succeed ing Timothy Parker); joined Church of Rome; published Lucida Intervalla,' a volume of doggerel rimes. Wood (Life,' i. 500) gives an account of his quarrel with Thomas Gilbert, another schoolmaster. Both Carkesse and his Usher, Thomas Brattle, had been pupils of the celebrated Dr. Busby at Westminster School. Carkesse was, soon after giving up his Mastership, one of the four clerks of the Ticket Office, being assigned to Sir John Minnes for the signing irregularities, principally through the action of Pepys, whom he reviles in his verses; v. Pepys, whom he reviles in his verses; v. Pepys's Diary,' 1666-7, and 1st S. ii. 87. A. R. BAYLEY. St. Margaret's, Malvern. (To be continued.) May I be allowed to enter a courteous caveat against MR. BAYLEY'S statement that the arms of Eton College were "apparently borne, in yet earlier days, by Winchester College"? Correspondence upon the arms of these colleges was printed at 9th S. ix. 241, 330; x. 29, 113, 233, 437; xi. 332; and I know of no trustworthy evidence that Winchester College at any time used arms containing lilies. If MR. BAYLEY be right in his suggestion that the white roses of King's College, Cambridge, were "borrowed" or conveyed from the red roses of Winchester College, it follows necessarily that at the date of the conveyance Winchester College was using the arms borne by the founder, William of Wykeham. Eton College and King's are said to have received grants of arms in the same regnal year, 27 Henry VI. See Lipscomb's History of Bucks,' iv. 461, n. 3; and Dyer's History of Cambridge University,' ii. 181. 66 . . H. C. (preceding Mr. Henderson in 1844), a very voluminous writer, afterwards chaplain at Bromley College. My_informant was my old Oxford friend the Rev. Edward Hill, at that time a Demy of Magdalen, who had been educated in the School when a chorister. Perhaps Mr. Adams's tenure of office was very brief. The Rev. W. J. Sawell was then the Usher, and one of the chaplains of the College. His beautiful tenor voice in chanting the service will long be remembered. On May Day, 1851 (the opening day of the Great Exhibition), I was present at the ceremony of the opening of the new School. I had attended at 5 o'clock in the morning the singing of the Hymnus Eucharisticus on the tower, and have a distinct remembrance of the beautiful pieces which were sung in the School as a dedication, though fifty-four years have elapsed since that time. A simple slab with the initials G. G., at the entrance to the chapel, marks the resting place of the Rev. George Grantham, for many years Usher. Mr. Cobbold, who twitched the ears of the boy, as recorded, might have said with Horace, Cynthius aurem Vellit et admonuit. In 1587 the Parish Register, St. Michaelle-Belfrey, York,' i. 101, records "certayne egges at east'r, due to the clarke by anncyent custome." In 1726 "tythe of eggs on Good Friday' belonged to the curate (Parish Reg., North Burton, York,' p. 69). W. C. B. DARREL OR DORRELL'S DEED. In your review of the recently printed Cambridge Jonson' you ask (ante, p. 59) what was this deed, and suggest it is perhaps an allusion to some prank of John Darrell, the exorcist. Your conjecture is right, and the quotation in question is not the only one in which Jonson mentions Darrel. In The Devil is an Ass,' Act V. sc. iii., is this:Did you ne'er read, sir, little Darrel's tricks With the boy of Burton and the seven in Lancashire On this passage Cunningham has a note that the casting out of the spirits from these people brought Darrel great credit, which he afterwards lost by the discovery of his tricks in another case. Dr. Harsnet published a pamphlet or book in 1599, exposing Darrel and his impositions in all these instances. That "Dorrell" was often used for "Darrell" in the time of our author can be seen in "Wild Darrell's" correspondence, edited by Mr. Hubert Hall, and published by him in his Society in the Elizabethan Age.' EDWARD STEVENS. Melbourne. THE MANORIAL SYSTEM: ITS SURVIVAL. The following extract from a letter recently received from the Vicar of Laxton, Notts, will, I think, be of interest to many readers of N. & Q.': "I happen to live in one of the few unenclosed villages left. It and Eakring, near here, are the only ones, I believe, in Nottinghamshire. The open-field (three-field) system is still in working order here, in a modified form, but enclosing is in progress. We have a jury and a foreman for each field; and we 'break' the field by toll of bell after harvest. The pinfold is still in use; the pindar, curiously enough, is a certain John Pindar. There are extensive ruins of a manor-place and many interesting features. At Eakring they have a certain night called Virgate night,' when virgate holders meet for dividing, I believe, the common pasture for mowing. The parish is shut in by gates. Altogether the place still presents a faithful picture in situ of manorial customs and ways." NATHANIEL J. HONE. 31A, Southfield Road, Bedford Park, W. CHICHELE'S KIN.-It is well known that All Souls' College, Oxford, was founded by the archbishop for the purpose of educating his kindred. With this intent the College, from its foundation or soon afterwards, kept a record of the issue of Chichele's brother Robert, and this issue rapidly increased, spreading into at least half the counties of England. The charts of the various female descents fill two large printed volumes, and the copy of the Stemmata Chicheleana at All Souls' is emblazoned and annotated, and contains many lines down to the present time. Unfortunately, a very large proportion of these pedigrees can be cut away from kinship with the founder by one correction in the early part of the kin chart. Such a correction will meet with objection from the many who believe in their consanguinity; but that should be no reason for the suppression of the facts. By a mistake, apparently made by the Heralds in Elizabethan times, a Kempe of ancient Suffolk lineage, who married a Kentish | dame, was placed on the Kentish Kempes' family tree, and the issue of this "Edmund Kempe, citizen and mercer of London," is consequently credited with Chichele blood which was in no way his. This is evidenced by his will, proved in the P.C.C. (8 Spert), in which he alludes to his relatives Nicholas Rokewood, Cicily Melton, Sir Sir Richard Gresham, Sir John Gresham, and Lady Yarford, all of whom are well known, and absolutely proved relatives of the Kempes of Gissing (Norfolk) and Weston (Suffolk), ancestors of the Kempe baronets, and quite a different stock from the Kentish Kempes Emelyn Chichele, grand-niece of Archbishop (knights), one of the last of whom married Chichele, thus bringing to the Kempes of Kent and their issue the rights to Fellowships at All Souls'. Further, the Heralds' Suffolk Visitation and Visitation of London, Harleian MS. 1151, clearly states that this Edmund Kempe (the wealthiest Kempe in London at the period, and "a member of the Mercers' Company") was son and "heire elect" to Robert Kempe, of Gissing; and hence all issue of his are cut off from the founder's kin of All Souls'. FRED. HITCHIN-KEMP. FACETIOUS LEGAL JUDGMENT. Madame du Noyer, in her 'Correspondence' (letter xxxvii. vol. ii p. 257 of the translation by Fl. Layard, 1890), relates how she was told the other day" of a judgment given by "the Parliament of Toulouse." A man happened to kill another man by falling on him accidentally. The relations brought an action against him. The Court ordered that death of his relative was to go up to the top the man who claimed an indemnity for the of the tower and allow himself to fall on the man who had caused the death. It would be curious to have authoritative information as to whether such a verdict was ever really The judgment is, of given at Toulouse. course, often attributed to Eastern judges; but it seems most improbable that such a verdict could be seriously given by a French court at the period in question. A. COLLINGWOOD LEE. Waltham Abbey, Essex. KOLA-NUT: CAM-WOOD.-It is curious that the names of these two important African products have never been traced to their origin in any English dictionary. They belong to the Timne language, spoken at Sierra Leone, and it is worth noting that. they have been taken over into English unchanged, the Timne forms being precisely kola and kam. This applies to the singular only. In Timne, as in many other African tongues, the plural is formed by change of W. E. ADAMS'S 'TYRANNICIDE.' (See ante, p. 192.)-The reference in MR. J. C. FRANCIS'S interesting letter to the prosecution of Mr. E. Truelove for publishing a pamphlet on Tyrannicide' affords an opportunity of recording the fact that the whole of the circumstances relating to this prosecution appear on pp. 352-61 of Memoirs of a Social Atom,' published by Hutchinson & Co. in 1903. The author of these Memoirs' was the writer of the famous pamphlet-my old friend Mr. W. E. Adams, for many years editor of The Newcastle Chronicle, and an occasional contributor to N. & Q.' Newcastle-upon-Tyne. RICHD. WELford. Queries. We must request correspondents desiring in formation 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. this information, now that the contents of the London City registers are better known? C. B. [There is a short life in the 'D.N B.,' with a list of authorities. His birth is given as 3 March, Pountney on 17 Feb., 1627/8.] 1599; and a son James was baptized at St. Laurence COPYING LETTERS.-Can any correspondent furnish information as to the beginnings of this process? I allude, not to the so called "invention" of the copying press, but to an anterior period, when it seems reasonable to suppose that it had been discovered that certain kinds of ink would "set off" on to a sheet of thin paper, if moisture and a certain amount of pressure were applied. Some letters as early as the beginning of the eighteenth century have every appearance of having been subjected to this process. J. ELIOT HODGKIN. CATTERTON SMITH.-I should be glad of information as to Catterton Smith, a pencil artist, circa 1820-30. I have some pretty pencil sketches by him of lady members of my family about that period, and I should like to know something of the artist. imagine that he was a West of England man, probably of Bath or Bristol. V. K. T. I [Is this Stephen Catterson Smith, who was born in Yorkshire, but resided for some years at Yeovil? See the life in the 'D.N.B.'] JANICE, an old-English form of Jane or Janet. supply instances? HARDY AND THOMAS SOPER.-I have seen a watch which is said to have belonged to Hardy, and to have been worn by him at the battle of Trafalgar. Instead of ordinary numerals for the hours, it has the letters THOMAS SOPER *. This watch (so the story goes) was given to Hardy by Thomas Soper, HENRY ANGELO.-This famous swordsman who was supposed to be some relative of his. retired to "a village (name unknown) The name does not occur in The Three "within two miles of Bath," about the year Dorset Captains at Trafalgar,' and I can 1827, and there he wrote his 'Reminiscences' obtain no information concerning him. The and Angelo's Pic-Nic,' both recently repubabove-named book, moreover, gives a photo-lished in sumptuous style by Kegan Paul & graphic reproduction of a watch worn by Co. Henry Angelo is said to have died Hardy at Trafalgar, which is certainly not there about 1839, and his wife, Mary Bowman the same as the one I have seen. Can any Angelo, in or soon after 1827. Will some correspondent say who Thomas Soper was, Bath antiquary oblige with the name of the and what, if any, was his connexion with village, and with copies of the burial registers? Hardy? A. D. POWER. CHARLES SWYNNERTON. 3, King Street, St. James's, S. W. CORNELIUS HOLLAND, M.P.-In an able history published at 7th S. v. 281 (14 April, 1888), the late REV. A. W. CORNELIUS HALLEN, editor of Northern Notes and Queries, gave an excelent description of the life and career of Comelius Holland, a prominent man in the time of the Commonwealth; but he was then unable to ascertain the date of Cornelius Holand's birth or marriage, or the names or dates of baptisms of his ten children. Can you or any of your numerous readers give India Office. THE PHILIPPINES. 'Vingt Années aux Philippines' was published in Paris in 1853, as by Paul de la Gironière. The same year Vizetelly issued a translation (no doubt by Henry Vizetelly) under the title Twenty Years in the Philippines.' The Athenæum (24 September, 1853, p. 1121), in what I should term a rollicking review, chaffed the author most unmercifully, and in fact, as I read it, treated the book as a fine piece of imagination, like that lately exposed by MR. EDWARD SMITH (10th S. iv. 407). In the British Museum earlier than 1809. I should be very glad to Catalogue the author is put under Proust be referred to evidence or quotations in (Paul Proust de la Gironière); but Lorenz support of the prior existence of the term. has him under La, and is silent as to the A. STAPLETON. character of the book, and does not give Gironière's family name of Proust. Is the book fact or fiction? RALPH THOMAS. 'SPECULUM EPISCOPI.'-I wish to know the name of the author of this anonymous work, the second edition of which appeared in London in 1849. The criticisms of the bishops which the book contains were only too true, and I have heard that the author was a curate, who remained in that position all his life, his connexion with the book having been established. R. B. P. [Halkett and Laing state that the author was the Rev. George Roberts, referring to Darling, Cyclop. Bibl.'] LAWRENCE ARMS.-I should be obliged if any one would tell me of any persons named Lawrence (Laurence), earlier than the eighteenth century, who bore the following arms Sable, three birds rising or. Crest two cubit arms, holding a wreath of laurel. G. O. B. THOMAS BAGNALL was admitted on the foundation at Westminster School in 1753. Any particulars of his career would be of use. G. F. R. B. JOHN DOWNS was a King's Scholar at Westminster School in 1753. I should be much obliged by any information concerning him. G. F. R. B. DYER FAMILY.-I shall be obliged if any one can tell me the dates of marriage of Sir William Dyer, first Baronet, with Thomasina Swinnerton, and of Sir John Swinnerton Dyer with Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Rowland Johnson, of Gray's Inn, and where the marriages took place. E. H. MARTIN. Westhope, Craven Arms, Salop. THE AMERICAN GOTHAM.-It is commonly asserted that Washington Irving and his collaborator, in their work 'Salmagundi,' 1809, were the first to apply the now familiar term "Gotham" to New York, "in satirical allusion to the singular wisdom of its inhabitants." Salmagundi' first appeared serially, but was issued in book form in 1811. Chap. cix. relates "the chronicles of the renowned and antient city of Gotham." I recorded this matter in my book 'All about the Merry Tales of Gotham,' 1900. Since then I have seen it stated that 'Salmagundi' did not originate the nickname of New York, which is said to have been current 158, Noel Street, Nottingham. HOBSON'S CHOICE.-Will some one oblige me with a copy of Vincent Bourne's Latin verses on Hobson, the Cambridge carrier, who is remembered by the popular saying? Charles Waterton's translation of these lines is printed in C. G. Harper's Cambridge and King's Lynn Road.' Please reply direct. R. L. MOReton. Greenford, near Southall, Middlesex. SPARTH.-What is the derivation of the word Sparth? Several places in Lancashire are called by this name. RICHARD TRAPPES-LOMAX. THE FISTULA: CANNA.-Is it possible to see in London an actual specimen (or authentic copy) of the tube (otherwise called canna, siphon), formerly used for imbibing the consecrated wine of the Communion in some parts of the Latin Church-now apparently used only by the Pope? Q. V. ROGER LUDLOW AND THE FAIRFIELD RECORDS. - Roger Ludlow, a lawyer of Dorchester, England, was one of the chief men of the early Massachusetts Bay Colony. Disappointed in his political anbitions there, he removed to Connecticut, and was one of its leading founders, probably drafting its constitution. Feeling himself overshadowed at Hartford, he founded Fairfield, on Long Island Sound. Angry because the New England commissioners would not sanction a war against the Dutch, and with a sense of failure for which his own contentious and impatient disposition seems to have been largely responsible, he finally left the colony, taking the town records with him, and, after apparently spending some time settling his brother's estate in Virginia, went to Holyhead, Wales, where he passed the remainder of his life or most of t. The loss of these records has always renained a sore gap in the earliest history of Connecticut, and the finder would earn the inmense gratitude of the State, besides a very handsome price for them. It seems to ne that a search at Holyhead would not be hopeless, and I suggest it as a field for investigation. Hartford, Conn. F. M. GAINSBOROUGH AND POMERANIAN DO.Will your readers give me a list of pictures by Gainsborough, in which a white Pane |