known efforts. It has remarkable interest for the philologist, is less strictly edifying than might be anticipated from its title, and is a characteristically Tudor production. Its quaint title-page, dated 1606, declares it to be "Opus septem dierum," and describes the sins as "Drawne in seuen seuerall Coaches, Through the seuen seuerall Gates of the Citie 66 bringing the Plague with them." Among the sins with which London is charged are compelling many still existing, such as Your children (for wealth) to goe into loathed beds" and the like. Decker seems, indeed, as earnest, and at times almost as eloquent as a seventeenthcentury Ruskin. 'Her This is Ben Jonson's Underwoods' are reprinted, we suppose, from the 1640 edition of his Works, as, somewhat to the indignation or amusement of his contemporaries, he called his collected plays and poems. We are at least aware of no separate publication of the date. They have been less read than they merit, though Ben's lyrical productions, with a few exceptions, are held, unjustly, in lighter regard than his dramas. The best known of these poems is perhaps what is called Triumph,' which stands fourth in A Celebration of Charis in Ten Lyrick Peeces,' and begins, "See the Chariot at hand here of Love." possibly most regarded in consequence of the musical setting, which is worthy of the lines. For their autobiographical value, however, the poems are unique, and they form pleasant souvenirs The title of Ben's friendships and intimacies. Underwoods' is said by the writer to be due to the analogy to his former volume 'The Forrest.' Like Milton, Ben Jonson has an elegy upon a Marchioness of Winchester. It is, however, presumably upon Lady Anne Paulet, and not upon Milton's Marchioness. Owing to Ben's classical knowledge his poems are a mine to the philologist. We hope that the editors of the 'N.E.D.' will notice on p. 82 what seems to us a very early use of the word "Tribade.' This is in a fierce and venomous attack on the "Court Pucelle." In the same poem is an allusion we should like to trace : Take heed This age would lend no faith to Dorrell's Deed. What is Dorrell's Deed? Is the allusion to some prank of John Darrell, the exorcist? The printing of this work is exquisite, and the entire series, as we have previously stated, is an artistic triumph for a great press. County of Suffolk: its History as Disclosed by equal knowledge, equal means, and equal devotion do not abound; and we must content ourselves with recording that Suffolk, in regard to the classification and calendaring of its treasures, occupies a gratifying pre-eminence. One further chance of recognizing the service is at once possible and in some respects obligatory. An index nominum et locorum has been prepared, and is virtually ready for the press. It will be issued as soon as a number of subscriptions sufficient to cover the cost of printing has been received by the publishers. Self-interest urges that such a list should be filled in without delay. to a A Supplement to the Glossary of the Dialect_of doer. Dictionary of Indian Biography. By C. E. Buck- BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES.-JANUARY. MR. THOMAS BAKER has a selection of theological and miscellaneous books. We note under Wilkins a very fine copy of Concilia Magnæ Britanniæ et Hiberniæ,' 1737, 287. There is a very fine set of the works of Albertus Magnus, 38 vols., 4to, new half: morocco extra, 48/. Under Erasmus is the second edition of the New Testament, in Greek and Latin, 1519, 41. 158. There are some works on religious processions. Among the general entries are Ruskin's Stones of Venice, 31. 15s.; Finden's illustrations to Byron, 1833, 17. 4s.; and Budge's Book of the Dead,' 17. 15s. Mr. Bertram Dobell has, among others, the following from the library of Sir Henry Irving: "The Irving Shakespeare,' 6 vols., 4to, 2.2s.; Violet Fane's Denzil Place,' 17. 10s. (very rare, having been suppressed); The Creevey Papers,' with book-plate, 17. 10s.; and Jeanne d'Arc,' edited by Douglas Murray, also with book-plate, 17. 1s. In the general list are a number of first editions of Swinburne, Tennyson, R. L. Stevenson, &c. Messrs. S. Drayton & Sons, of Exeter, have Alken's 'Beauties and Defects in the Figure of the Horse,' 1816, 37. 3s.; Catlin's North American Indians,' 1845, 35s.; the first 15 vols. of Macmillan's Magazine, 78. 6d.; and a complete set of Pitt Rivers's antiquarian works, 7 handsome vols., privately printed, 1881-1900, 6l. 15s. Gilchrist's Life of Blake,' first edition, is 5s. There are interesting items under Fine Arts and Natural History. Among these we note Gould's 'Century of Birds,' 1831, 8/. 158. Messrs. William George's Sons, of Bristol, have an interesting catalogue of books on Asia, largely dealing with the Indian Empire. There are some Admiralty Charts, 97. 9s. Mr. George Gregory, of Bath, has a set of 'The Annual Register,' 1758 to 1878, 120 vols, 17.; a magnificent copy of Cranmer's Bible, 1541, 357.; a copy of The British Gallery of Contemporary Portraits,' 1822, 61. 6s.; and Esquemeling's Buca niers of America,' 1684-5, 10. 10s. Other items include Hearne's ' Antiquities,' 50s.; Hogarth's 'Whole Works,' 1806, 97.; Homer (circa 1616), 18'.; Audsley's 'Japanese Art,' 1875, 91.; Roberts's Holy Land.' 1842-9 full crimson morocco. 12. (published at 1007.): and Ackermann's Oxford and Cambridge,' 1814-15, 807. Mr. Gregory devotes a portion of his list to works on American and Canadian history. Messrs. W. N. 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READERS of 'N. & Q.' will find in The Home Counties Magazine for January an article on Gravesend by our old friend Mr. Alfred Charles Jonas. We cordially agree with the opening sentence: To become acquainted with the history intelligent person; and to be familiar with the of our native place should be the aim of every history of our country is the duty of, and ought literary knowledge." to be the pleasure to, all with the smallest claim to House, Shepway Cross, Dickens in Southwark, and Other articles are on Ham Ranelagh Gardens, Chelse. Notices to Correspondents. We must call special attention to the following notices: ON all communications must be written the name and address of the sender, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. WE cannot undertake to answer queries privately. To secure insertion of communications correspondents must observe the following rules. Let each note, query, or reply be written on a separate slip of paper, with the signature of the writer and such address as he wishes to appear. When answering queries, or making notes with regard to previous entries in the paper, contributors are requested to put in parentheses, immediately after the exact heading, the series, volume, and page or pages to which they refer. Correspondents who repeat queries are requested to head the second communication "Duplicate." VALUE OF OLD BOOKS.-Several correspondents have sent queries on this subject, but we are unable to insert them. Such inquiries should be addressed to some of the numerous dealers in second-hand books. of the stars and stripes with Washington's arms is OVERY ("Stars and Stripes ").-The connexion noticed at 7th S. vi. 328, 494. KOM OMBO ("Poets that lasting marble seek ").— Edmund Waller, Of English Verse." GREVILLE (Keen=eager ").-See the quotations in the 'N.E.D.' under section 6. J. T. CURRY.-Forwarded. fair maid").-Anticipated ante, p. 11. L. R. M. STRACHAN ("An original something, LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 1906. CONTENTS.-No. 109. Joseph Spence, 63-A Medley Finale to the Great Exhibition, 4-Party Colours-Locke Manuscript-Mr. Roosevelt's Scots Ancestry, 65" Topinambou Link with Scott-Thomas Hearne's Tomb-Bream's Buildings QUERIES:-Fitzmaurice Family, 67-Fleetwood of Madras -Gobesius: Sheeter-Hafiz, Persian Poet, 68-Modern Universal British Traveller-Major Richard Cromwell, "Hoast," 66-Election Jingle, 67. 1646-" Diss.": an Abbreviation- Pancharis': 'Minerva, 1735-Marquis of Valadi-Book-Trade Terms-Peacock as a Christmas Symbol-" Copperillo "-A.O.R., 69-Esther Grindleton - "Smith" in Latin-Ennobled Animals important and still most interesting old dockyard of English Harbour- very important indeed in those days of English and French naval wars, and amongst the waters where Rodney and those under him added lustre to the naval supremacy of old England. Here, just below Clarence House, yet hang together the fragments of what is still known as "Nelson's Jetty." From here, too, is very noticeable the entrance to the inner harbour itself, across which stretched at one which may still be seen embedded in the time a huge iron chain, the remnants of sand of Freeman's Bay. Giles: Dr. W. Carson-Grantham of Goltuo Family"Pin-fire"-" Pin-flat," 70. REPLIES:-Lord Cromartie's Issue-London Newspapers, 70-Nicholas Nickleby'-Punch, the Beverage, 71 Amateur Dramatic Clubs-Sir William H. De LanceyIt was through this entrance and from this Caravanserai to Public House-Rebecca, a Novel, 72-harbour that-according to the Governor's Pig: Swine: Hog-Soubise, Black Page, 73-Mantegna's proclamation recently issued here calling House-Brandon, Duke of Suffolk-"Bbl.," 74-Sussex upon all loyal citizens to decorate their Inscription Classical Quotations - Welsh Poem-The houses in honour of "Nelson's Day " - the King of Bath, 75-Authors of Quotations Wanted-John Penhallow Was you?" and "You was"-Suicides great sea-captain sailed on his last voyage to buried in the Open Fields-Napoleon's Coronation Robe, meet the French and Spanish fleets, a voyage 75" Ocean, 'mid his uproar wild"-"These are the which ended so gloriously in Trafalgar Bay; Britons, a barbarous race' Splitting Fields of IceChurch Spoons-The Condado-" Passive Resister," 77- so that Antigua may be said to have been Selling Oneself to the Devil-Frances Prior: Annabella the last port from which Nelson sailed. Beaumont - Born with Teeth - Affery Flintwinch in 'Little Dorrit '-Johnson's 'Vanity of Human Wishes,' 78. NOTES ON BOOKS: Early English Dramatists-A Book for a Rainy Day'-A Draught of the Blue''Proverbs and their Lessons.' Obituary :-George Jacob Holyoake. Hotes. A WEST INDIAN MILITARY BURIAL GROUND. SOME two years ago, when I was paying a short visit to English Harbour, in the southeast corner of the island of Antigua, I made the following notes upon an old disused burial ground situated on the Shirley Heights close by. I had intended to send them to N. & Q' at the time, but, as I wished to verify a story connected with the old dockyard here, I deferred doing so until a more "convenient season." 66 con The commemoration of the centenary of the great Nelson's death and the victory of Trafalgar seems to be that more venient season to me, sitting here in Clarence House, once the abode of our Sailor King, William IV.-a building still belonging to the English Government, though occa sionally used as a temporary asylum for officers administering the government of this colony who may be in search of rest or health, for the Governor's seat at Dow's Hill, higher up the slope or "Ridge," was destroyed by the hurricane of 1848. As I sit, I see below me that now disused, but once So named from Sir Thomas Shirley, Bart., a former Governor. It is much to be regretted that circum- March 11. Horatio Nelson, Esquire, Captain of His And now from the great naval dead let laid down their lives in the sister service, us pass to those who have no less honourably which brings me to the subject-matter of this paper. Through a decaying gateway one enters this old burial-ground-like too many others in this island, dilapidated and disused. On the upper part of the ground, and within a few yards of its southern extremity, stands a stone obelisk, or four-sided cone of stone, of some 15 or 16 feet in height, on a stone plinth of about 7 feet square. It was erected by their comrades as a tribute to the memory of those officers, non-commissioned officers, and men of the old 54th regiment* who died, as the inscription in roman capitals states, "during the service of the corps in the islands of Antigua, St. Kitts, Dominica, and St. Lucia from March, MDCCCXLVIII [?] to June, MDCCCLI." Originally, I may say, several and distinct colonies, each with its own LieutenantGovernor under a Governor-General, the first three of these islands have been since 1871 the three principal of the Leeward Islands group, whilst St. Lucia now forms one of the Windward Islands. 1. The face of the eastern side, which contains the above description, is devoted to ANTIGUA, the name being engraved in bold roman capitals on a tablet above the names of those whose memory it is designed to perpetuate. This side is by far the best preserved, and the greater part of the names recorded are still to be read, the upper ones being in the worse state of preservation. They are: SURGEON.......SON [full name perished]. ENSIGN GEORGE D...EL KINAHAN. JAMES DOUGLAS HENRY COX...JAS. FITZPATRICK DRUMR HENRY DIBBEN. T. H. DARBYSHIRE. SAMUEL COX GEOR ORMEROD HENRY GREEN Then follow in two parallel columns the names of about forty privates, all of which can be fairly deciphered. 2. A similar tablet facing north denotes ST. KITTS; but whilst this remains clear and comparatively fresh, all the names recorded below have perished, only a few isolated letters remaining. It is evident, however, that they were much fewer than those under Antigua. 3. On the south side appear those under Dominica, apparently about the same in number as the last. Here again only one name in the top line can be deciphered that of HENRY (?) BROWN. Only a few isolated letters of the rest can be made out. 4. With regard to the south side-that to the west-the converse seems to have been the case. The title on the tablet intended for Formerly the West Norfolk Regiment, and now the 2nd Battalion of the Dorsets (39th). Apart from the inscription, this side of the monument shows the most signs of wear and stress of weather. This tendency to wear best on the weather side in the kind of stone of which the obelisk is composed (an igneous or volcanic rock) is strongly exemplified in some massive stone columns of the same material -now in ruins - in the old dockyard below. Close along under the southern wall of the burial ground, and between it and the obelisk, are numerous oblong heaps of stones, no doubt representing the burial-place of the various soldiers whose names are recorded on the monument, and who were buried in Antigua. In the south-eastern corner of the ground, and not far from the obelisk, is a stone altartomb, showing signs of decay, to the memory of Harriott, wife of Sergeant Major Whippin, of H.M. 54th Regiment, "who fell a victim to the withering effects of this climate and dysentery," on 23 January, 1851, aged 33 years. On a lower part of the burial-ground, to the west, and further removed from the obelisk, are two large stone altar- tombs enclosed within iron railings. In one of these an incised stone slab records the death 66 of CHARLES DAWSON, M.D, surgeon...... 54th [?] Regiment "-perhaps the same as the SURGEON......SON on the obelisk. The date and rest of the inscription are indecipherable, except the words at the bottom, "JANE MARY DAWSON," in roman letters. The inscription on the other tomb is practically indecipherable-at least as seen from the railings only a word here and there being legible. Close by is an upright stone recording the death of Elizabeth, wife of Philip Crofton, Royal Artillery, who died 20 Oct., 1851, aged 28; also the deaths of two small children in infancy. On what appears to have been an extension of the lower part of the burial ground, to the north, are several tombstones, mostly upright, or at all events originally so; but most of these are in a terrible state of neglect and decay. Amongst these I was able to decipher, on one stone, the names of several artillerymen who had succumbed a year or two later, so far as I could make out, than those recorded on the obelisk. Several other stones showed names in all stages of decipherability, or rather indecipherability. One was to Patk. Greenan of H.M. 49th Regiment, who died in 1858, aged 24. Another half-sunken stone was to Private Patk. Hanrahan, who died 2 Nov., 1852 (rest indecipherable). This part of the ground would seem to have been used for regiments which had succeeded to the 54th, who apparently left in 1851, though on one I could make out the name of ALEX® ELDERTON (the rest was gone), whose name also appears amongst the forty or more privates of the 54th Regiment on the obelisk. The preponderance of what seem to be Irish names in this part of the ground suggests that it may have been reserved for Roman Catholics. In his pleasant 'Introduction' to Spence's Anecdotes' ("The Scott Library," vol. lii., no date), Mr. John Underhill mentions, as one of the beautiful traits in this author's character, "the great love which he had for his mother." I should like to learn where this lady spent her declining years and when and where she died. Is there no tablet to her memory, placed in church or churchyard by her son? Singer, in his 'Life' of Spence (second edition, 1858), states that her maiden name was Mirabella Collier, and from his brief account of her I gather that she was a daughter of Thomas Collier (who has been described as "of Shoe Lane, London,. brewer ") by his marriage, at Lawrence Waltham, Berks, in 1665, with Maria, third daughter of Sir Thomas Lunsford, Knt., and his second wife, Katherine, daughter of another knight, Sir Henry Nevill (who died There still remain old stone barracks on in 1629), of Billingbear, Berks. See Collecthe opposite spur of the "Ridge" - fine tanea Top. et Gen., iv. 142; Metcalfe's buildings even in their ruins-which con- Visitation of Berkshire, 1664-6,' p. 66. Sir tained separate buildings for Grenadiers, Thomas Lunsford was the Royalist colonel artillery, and line regiments. Outside the at the news of whose appointment in main façade of the ruins of one of these- December, 1641, to the lieutenancy of the formerly constituting the officers' quarters-Tower of London, "all England was is still clearly visible the following inscrip- alarmed." See his biography in the D.N B.,' tion : "Erected in 1789 by order of His xxxiv. 281. Excelly Lieut.-Gen1 Mathew." My object in sending these particulars to 'N. & Q.' is to arouse some interest in this disused and dilapidated old burial-ground, which contains the remains of so many Englishmen who died on foreign service. Surely the memory" to which these silent-yet most eloquent-stones appeal should survive more than half a century! Spence's father, the Rev. Joseph Spence, was born at Cambridge, and was the son of yet another Joseph Spence, who, as he is called coquus,' was probably a college cook. He was educated at St. Paul's School, London, under Dr. Gale, and at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he was admitted a sizar, when aged sixteen, on 14 July, 1677. See Prof. Mayor's Admissions' to that College, pt. ii. p. 65. He graduated B.A. in 1681, and M.A. in 1685, and was a fellow of St. John's from April, 1685, until about 1694. See Baker's 'History' of the College, pp. 300, 301; and Graduati Cantab.' In 1687 he was appointed a minor canon of Winchester Cathedral, and in 1693 also the precentor there. These posts he retained until 1712. Meanwhile he became rector, first of Winnall, near Winchester, and afterwards, of Alverstoke (Singer's "Ulverstoke"); being instituted, according to two certificates at the Record Office, to Winnall on 26 Sept., 1687,. ་ |