been aunt to Sir Henry Pickering, of Whaddon? 66 "Lucy's nephew, Mr. Charles Dryden or Draiden was the eldest son of John, PoetLaureate, by his wife Elizabeth. Her nephew Robert Elton" probably married one of the ten sisters of John, Poet-Laureate; and lastly, "her nephew Erasmus Lauton" in all probability was a son of the marriage of Rose, the Poet-Laureate's second eldest sister, with Lauton, D.D., of Catworth. It is stated at 4th S. vi. 47 that "Mary Pickering was married at St. Mary's Church, Dublin, on Aug. 10, 1773, to her cousingerman Henry Rudkin, Esq., of Wells, co. Carlow (son of Henry Rudkin and Deborah, fourth daughter of Franks Bernard)" As may be expected after reading 10th S. ii. 421, Sir Gilbert Pickering, Bart.: Bernard and Rudkin Families,' no such entry appears in St. Mary's register for 1773. JOHN A. RUPERT-JONES. Penbryn, Chesham Bois. ROBERT GREENE'S PROSE WORKS. ་ some confirmation of this that the author of the 'Defence' lays stress upon Greene's mention of Whittington College in his address to the reader preceding Part III. He dwells upon this in his own address "To the Reader.' The Third Part, the 'Disputation,' and the 'Defence,' all bear the date 1592. If any of Greene's undoubted tracts on conny-catching succeeded the Defence,' we should expect to find a mention of the latter, which I have not traced. We should still expect it in Greene's Quip,' but, on the contrary, as I am about to show, the 'Quip,' makes free use of the 'Defence.' This might be taken as an argument in favour of Greene's having written the latter. On the whole, I think it was written by some confederate or friend, jointly perhaps, with the acrimonious parts placed prominently to confer interest and reality upon the attack. When the author of the Defence' proves "Maister R. G." to be a conny catcher himself, by his having sold the same play, 'Orlando Furioso,' to the Queen's Players for twenty nobles, and, when they were in the country, having sold it for as much more to (See 10th S. iv. 1, 81, 162, 224, 483.) the Lord Admiral's men, he brings an accusaDYCE's list of Greene's prose works-and tion Greene would have rebutted, were it of the tracts ascribed to him-does not con- possible. No doubt every one knew it, and tain an important tract already mentioned, it was useless to attempt to do so. Still, "The Defence of Conny-catching, or A Con- Greene can hardly be conceived as referring futation of those two injurious Pamphlets to the incident in such terms, or in any published by R. G. against the practitioners terms. of many Nimble-witted and mysticall Greene's "style" varies so widely in these Sciences. By Cuthbert Conny catcher, tracts from the Euphuistical Greene that 1592." This witty tract is included in an argument upon it carries little weight. Greene's works in Hazlitt's 'General Index'; I find, however, a number of expressions in and quotations from it in the New English Dictionary' are ascribed to Greene. Those who maintain it is by Greene, upon whom it is a venomous attack, do so upon the ground, I believe, that it was a catchpenny, and written to advertise and prolong the series. Grosart, happily, reprints it, but I quite agree with him that it is not by Greene. See his note in vol. xi. p. 40. I reject it as Greene's even more confidently upon other ground than that there adduced: upon evidence of language and style. And since there is a distinct connexion between this tract and Greene's most famous piece, the 'Quip for an Upstart Courtier,' I believe it is worth while to consider the question a little closely. At the very outset a difficulty confronts us. Why two injurious pamphlets, when we have the three parts of Conny-catching,' and the Disputation,' apparently making four of about equal length? I think the writer lumps the first three in one, and it is the 'Defence' which are nowhere used by Greene. There is also a deal of legal jargon interspersed, that he does not usually show familiarity with (xi. 52-8; and elsewhere). And there are, taken in their order as they occur, the following terms (not technical ones due to the subject of the 'Defence') unused by Greene, or used only later in his 'Quip.' "I might at the nexte Midsommer have worne Doctor Storie's cappe for a favor" (p. 44). That is to say, I might have been hanged, equivalent to a "Tyburn tippet." Dekker and Taylor the Water-poet have "Storie's cap" several times. On the following page there is a truly humorous sketch of a coney-catcher's discomfiture, due to Greene's tracts, that Greene could not for the life of him have penned. Stow tells us (Chronicle,' 1571), "The first of June John Story, a Doctor of the Canon law......was drawne to Tiburn and there hanged." Was he allowed to wear his academicals for a favour? There was a ballad on it. "I be- a number of terms which are not known gan to gather into him gently" (45)=urge | earlier, and several that are not known elsehim. "Palpable ass" (46). "Penman" (46). where. None of them occurs in Greene's "Ale-knight" (46). "Braines beaten to the works except those few that are transferred yarking up of ballads " (49)=experienced in. from this tract to Greene's 'Quip for an "The old Cole hath such quirkes and quid- Upstart Courtier.' Without the negative dities" (53)-old rip. "Dead stuff" (53) = un- evidence that none of the "Greeneisms" marketable. "Shoots out in the lash" (53) appears here, I think it amounts to proof =runs riot? "Your mashippe" (54, 69, &c.). that the tract was by another hand; but "Reaching wit" (58). "If there were a that Greene made use of it in his 'Quip' is dormer built to it" (59). "His bloody lugges" obvious. It is well known that this tract (62)= bleeding ears, Scotch earlier. "Hopper is borrowed by Greene-in idea, in structural [of mill with] false hole" (66); this is in characteristics, and sometimes in language'Quip' (xi. 282), but not elsewhere. "Ale- from 'The Debate between Pride and Lowliwife unless she nick her pots" (68), a vint- ness' (1569). But the latter is a very tedious ner's cheat. "The chalk must walk" (68) poem, whereas Greene's prose is full of wit score up a bill. Ostry faggots" (68) and living interest, one of the best things he scamped fuel. This is in Quip' (275), and a wrote. As was his way, Greene makes no good deal of the vintner's cheats (69) is acknowledgment in his dedications (there developed there to greater length (278-9). are two) of his obligations. But, as Collier "Butcher with his prickes......puffe up his says in his introduction to the earlier tract meate" (69), repeated in Quip' (274). (Shaks. Soc., 1841), "he stole the whole sub"Draper his darke shop to shadow the dye stance of it and put it into prose." And we and wooll of his cloth" (69), repeated in may be thankful to him for doing so, and 'Quip' (277). "One of the Pantry" (70, 71). remember also that acknowledgments of this "Cosmographize" (72). "Mustachies after kind in Greene's time, and in later times, the lash of Lions......peak pendent" (72), were hardly dreamt of. Collier goes on to repeated, with much of this description of say that the beginning, middle, and end of a fashionable gallant, in Quip (247). the Debate' and of Greene's Quip' corre"Madril," "Alcaires," and "Terra firma spond very closely; and he calls attention to (73): the earliest example of last, perhaps. the fact that Harvey in his attacks upon "He pronounst his words like a bragout" Greene has not made abundant use of this (80), this pipned [?] bragout" (74); no other offence against him. I find a passage in examples in N.E.D.'Alla Neapolitano" Harvey which, oddly enough, would show (74), All' espagnole" (72), "Alla revolto" that he did not know of the 'Debate,' and (76), "Alla mode de France" (72), "Alla indicates that he himself was the suggester boone voyage" (27). "Pilling and polling" of the Quip.' It is in his reply to Lyly, (76). "Lock worn at left ear "2 (76). Mag written in 1589 (Grosart's' Harvey,' ii. 187); nifico" (77, 99). "They stand upom circum-Witt might devise a pleasurable Dialogue stances (79). "A kind of scholastical betwixt the Leather Pilch and the Velvet paragon (80). "Past, As in præsenti......as coate; and helpe to persuade the better to far as Carmen heroicum" (80). Held up his deale neighbourly with the other; the other head like a Malt horse" (80). "At the to content himselfe with his owne calling." boordes end" (83). "The Poligamoi or bel- In Lyly's tract ('Pappe with an Hatchet,' swaggers of the country" (85). "The Vene-1588-9) it is agreeable to see what excellent, tian and the gallogascaine is stale, and trunk slop out of use," &c. (95). "Italian wing" (95), tailoring. "Fight in Mile-end under...... Duke of Shoreditch" (95). "To use the figure Pleonasmos Hisce oculis" (96), the tailoring coney-catching is hardly repeated in the 'Quip,' which follows there another source more closely. "Hell under tailors shop (96), 240 in Quip.' "Snip and Snap" (96). "Divel lookte over Lyncolne" (97). "Richest billiment lace" (97). 66 French painde house" (97). "This Glorioso......this bowical huffe snuffe" (98). board 66 66 66 The above list, which might be extended with law terms and cozening words, contains vigorous, and amusing English that writer (To be continued.) BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES.-I was greatly interested in reading a note by Col. Prideaux on 'Auctioneers' Catalogues' in The Pub busts executed by Joseph Nollekens, Esq., manuscript"; but nothing else of his occurs, and the name of Sir Joshua Reynolds is not mentioned. It is perhaps worth noting that some of the legatees secured parcels of prints and books. There must be an explanation for these errors in the biography, and it is possible Smith had in view some of the "studio fittings "sold by Christie on Thursday, 3 July, 1823, at Mortimer Street, and on the two following days in Pall Mall (p. 395). ALECK ABRAHAMS. 39, Hillmarton Road. Much lishers' Circular, for 13 May, 1905, pp. 540-41. He registered a complaint against incorrect and incomplete descriptions of books. It is needless to say that there are some excellent sale catalogues issued by certain English book-dealers; but it is, in my opinion, equally obvious that in some quarters there is room for improvement. I believe that there are many enterprising dealers who would add largely to their sales by a logical arrangement of their catalogues. My own preference is for the Dewey decimal system of classification. If this be adopted, let the first page inside of cover be devoted to a combined key and table of contents. The LONG SPEECHES AN INFLICTION. catalogue proper will follow, arranged in accordance with the decimal system, each merriment has been caused by the discovery subject by itself in alphabetic order by that in the Egyptian Book of the Dead' an ancient declared he had "not inflicted long authors' surnames. If the list conclude with lectures" on his hearers. But this is curiously a good author-index in one alphabet, so matched by a plea for his soul uttered by much the better. This need add very little Hugh Grove (Loyalist) at his execution, to the expense. I venture to think that the 16 May, 1665 (vol. iii., Thurloe's collections): above plan (which involves nothing compli-Good' people, I was never guilty of much cated) would so materially increase the ac cessibility, and therefore the usefulness, of the catalogues, that the clientele of dealers who issue them would be considerably augmented. This is a busy world, and one has not the time to wade through the average author-catalogue, if one happens to be interested in certain subjects. Chicago. EUGENE F. McPIKE. JOSEPH NOLLEKENS'S LIBRARY.-J. T. Smith in his 'Nollekens and his Times'. (1895 edition) says:— rhetorick, nor ever loved long speeches in my life, therefore you cannot expect either of them at my death. All I desire is your hearty prayers for my soul," &c. In view of the Egyptian discovery, this seems a very close second for England. W. YOUNG. WILLIAM BLAKE. In 8th S. xi. 302 and 9th S. i. 454 I stated that the engravings in Salzmann's Gymnastics' were wrongly attributed to this artist and engraver. In consequence of the observations about this book in my bibliography 'Swimming,' "Mr. Nollekens's prints, drawings, and books of published in 1904 (p. 219), MR. THOMAS prints, were sold by Mr. Evans, in Pall Mall, on WINDSOR showed (10th S. ii. 383) that the Thursday, December 4, 1823. They principally con-Gymnastics' was wrongly attributed by sisted of nearly the entire works of Nicolas the translator to Salzmann, and that the real Poussin; a fine collection of the engravings after author of the original German book was Guts Sir Joshua Reynolds's pictures; several sketchbooks filled by Mr. Nollekens when at Rome; and Muths. numerous drawings also by him, made upon the backs of letters." This date is incorrect: the sale took place on Thursday, 18 December, and following day. The biographer is also at fault in describing the lots. A copy of the catalogue, filled in by Mr. Arch of Cornhill, is before me, but I cannot find that any of these interesting drawings and engravings were offered. There were sketch-books and a very large number of original drawings by Cipriani, of which Smith secured lot 331, "Thirty-four Academy studies in red and black chalk," for 2l. 10s. Lots 307-19 included drawings and prints by Malton, Sir William Chambers, and Cozens. Lot 284 was "Collection of inscriptions upon monuments and under I have just come across another book in which the pictures are wrongly attributed to Blake. In Bohn's 'Lowndes,' part v. p. 1300, the illustrations to Lamb's 'Tales from Shakespeare,' fourth edition, 1822, are said to be by William Blake. The engravings to this and the three previous editions, according to the British Museum Catalogue, are by W. Mulready, afterwards R A. The style seems to show that they are not by Blake, though there is every probability that he engraved Mulready's drawings, which would be very much Blaked in the process. RALPH THOMAS. be note - It may COLOUR TRANSITION. worthy that both in Old Cymric (or Welsh) and Irish, as well as in other Celtic languages, one and the same adjective is used to denote grey, green, and light blue, viz., glás. According to Al. Macbain's 'Etymological Gaelic Dictionary' (Inverness, 1896), this word is probably allied to Engl. and Germ. glass, glas (on account of its transparency ?). Compare also Gr. yλavkós (1) gleamy, glaring, (2) light-blue, (3) grey, and its well-known Homeric compound yλaux@mis, applied to γλαυκώπις, Pallas Athene. H. KREBS. . DRYDEN ON THE TEKELITES.-The following lines occur in the Epilogue to Constantine the Great' (1684) : There were a sort of wights (I think my author calls them Tekelites). Sir Walter Scott (vol. x. p. 388), in a footnote, explains the meaning of this nickname for the Whigs, and quotes several instances of its use from contemporary writers. It was probably Sir Robert L'Estrange who gave it currency, as it is to be found in No. 394 of The Observator (29 Aug, 1683), where its meaning has to be explained to "Trimmer." L. L. K. PEDIGREE DIFFICULTIES: MARY STAPLETON OR STOUGHTON.-In 9th S. ix. 245 MR. G. F. T. SHERWOOD discourses upon "how to deal with difficult questions of pedigree." Having recently encountered a puzzling situation myself, I venture to seek permission to place it on record, in the hope of promoting a solution. My great-great-grandfather, James Stapleton, then living at Hounslow, was married at Epsom Church, to an Epsom woman, by licence, on 27 September, 1763. His son, my great-grandfather, in 1845, had occasion to procure a certificate of the Epsom parish register entry. According to this certificate, the woman's name occurs first as Mary Stoughton, and secondly (where she makes her mark by way of signature) as Mary Soughton, or one letter shorter. This variation would be insignificant, only it happens that my great-grandfather (who surely ought to have known the maiden name of his own mother) appears to have quoted it as Southgate when applying by letter for the certificate, as the then vicar of Epsom (1845) wrote: "In the careless manner in which the registers were formerly kept, 1 have little doubt the name was entered for Southgate, especially as the party seems to have been unable to write her name. There can, however, be little doubt as to the parties being those whose certificate you require." An obvious way of finally settling the question of the correct form of the surname was to obtain a copy of the marriage licence, dated one day previous to the marriage. But, strange to say, this action resulted in a worse muddle than ever, for there it occurs as Mary Fletcher. Finally, in the reasonable hope that the woman was a native of Epsom, the parish register for the year of her birth (1740), and thereabouts, was searched for a baptismal record under any of the above names, but without result. I may add that the eldest son of the contracting parties, Edward Stapleton, a West India merchant (and a retired ensign of the 11th W. I Regiment), owned real estate at Dorking in 1817, when he died abroad. As he belonged to a Nottinghamshire family, it is just possible this was inherited through his mother. ALFRED STAPLETON. 158, Noel Street, Nottingham. Queries. WE must request correspondents desiring information on family matters of only private interest in order that answers may be sent to them direct. to affix their names and addresses to their queries, CANADIAN COLLEGE OF ARMS - Will those of your readers possessing pedigrees, arms, and rank of Jacobite titles, as well as titles "attainted" for their possessors' loyalty to the legitimate Constitution and Crown of Scotland, Britain, and Ireland under the Stuart dynasty, send such information to me here? Our College of Arms has heraldic right in Canada. All the above titles were regarded as legitimate by the kings of France -so proclaimed in Canada until 1763, when Canada was ceded to Great Britain. By the Treaty of Cession the British Crown agreed that rights and privileges of individuals of whatever sort should continue as under the former régime. By this agreement the above titles, as they were recognized by France, are legitimate in Canada. Also, as heraldic colleges in France have no legal recognition there under the French Republic, the possessors of French titles there, dating before 1763, have the right of legal registration in Canada, as all French titles of noblesse had recognition in Canada before Canada was ceded to Great Britain, which right of recognition holds in the treaty of 1763 as well. VISCOUNT FORSYTH DE FRONSAC, Herald-Marshall. College of Arms of Canada, Ottawa. OWEN MANNING, THE HISTORIAN OF SURREY.-I am writing a sketch of the life of the Rev. Owen Manning (1721-1801), vicar of Godalming, and joint author of Manning and Bray's History of Surrey.' Can any of WILLIAM ETTY.-This R.A. died in 1849. Where can I obtain information as to his brothers and their issue? Through his mother, née Calverley, Etty was descended from Anne of Exeter; hence the query. He was one of ten sons, and had at least one niece, Mrs. Bennington (? of York). There was some correspondence on the Ettys in the First Series, but nothing bearing on my point. RUVIGNY. Galway Cottage, Chertsey. SALTONSTALL OF ROGERTHORPE, YORK.Samuel Saltonstall, of Rogerthorpe (Thoresby's Ducatus Leodiensis), who was probably living about 1700-40, had issue by his second wife Richard, William of Leeds, Thomas, Elizabeth, and Anne. Is anything known of their descendants? RUVIGNY. Galway Cottage, Chertsey. REV. RICHARD HOLLAND.-Can you or any of your readers give information regarding the parentage and offspring of the Rev. Richard Holland, M.A., of both Cambridge and Oxford, born about 1656, died 1706? He is believed to have come from Leicestershire, and to have been admitted a sizar of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 13 March, 1670/1; was chaplain to the Duke of Richmond, and had been at one time curate of St. Magnus' and lecturer of All Hallows the Great, London. His name appears in the 'D.N.B.' (vol. xxvii. p. 155); and in Foster's 'Alumni Oxon.' he is described as "of Emmanuel College. Cambridge, incorporated M.A. at Oxford 15 July, 1679; rector of St. George's, Stamford, co. Lincoln, 1681-91; licensed (V.G.) 19 June, 1686, to marry Elizabeth Quarles, of Stamford; rector of Sculthorpe, co. Norfolk, 1683; and of East Mersey, co. Essex, 1703; author of five sermons published 1698-1702." TREVENEN J. HOLLAND, Col. Mount Ephraim House, Tunbridge Wells. "SUPERMAN."-Will such a clumsy fabrication be given currency by the dictionaries? It already passes through the press without even the mild protest indicated by quotation marks. One is allowed to infer that it is intended to mean not a superhuman person, but merely a superior person. This is a new use of super in a compound word, and has no advantage over its equivalent in the mother tongue. A. T. M. [Our correspondent seems to be unaware that superman is a direct translation from the 66 Gerinan Uebermensch, brought into prominence by Nietzsche.] LATIN QUOTATIONS, c. 1580.-Can any of your readers help me to trace any of the following quotations? They occur in a Latin comedy c. 1580. 1. Nam Paris Iliaca tria numina vidit in Ida. 4. In virtutis curriculo non progredi est plane regredi. 5. Forma feminea est momentanea. 6. Intima per mores cognoscimus interiores. 7. Quod patet expresse non est probare necesse. 8. Non per dormire poteris ad alta venire, sed per studere poteris ad alta sedere. 9. Cum spes ostenditur, cum res objicitur, Heu mens mortifero dolore conficitur. 10. Hospites humanitate magna accipere, majori tractare, maxima dimittere. Quid quæritant, vaccas an vitulos? 11. 12. 13. 14. Mettabor, Vigilator, Cominator, Berlica, Buffon, ut junxit, jungat nos precor ipsa, vale. 15. O furiæ, o stridor dentium et ingens 16. Melius est non incipere quam inceptum non perficere cum dignitate. 17. 18. Mitto tibi navem prora puppique carentem [sc. "Ave"]. 19. Humanum est humanis casibus ingemiscere. Monere et moneri proprium est veræ amicitiæ. Cicero qui regnavit in rostris et foro. 20. 21. Liber non est qui servit turpitudini. 22. In oculis luxuries habitat et petulantia, In fronte mobilitas et inconstantia, &c. 23. Sibi creat malum qui alteri parat. 24. Sic sunt res hominum. 25. Glorior elatus, descendo minorificatus. 26. Vates divinus jacet hic post fata supinus. 27. Si ter pulsanti nemo respondet, abito. 28. Hominis opes pulcherrimæ sunt literæ. 29. Omnes benignos reddit eruditio. 30. Quod quæritur furto, durabit tempore curto. 31. Nulla fides ejus, hodie male, cras quoque pejus. 32. Quamvis cuncta notes, quæ lustrat regna Bootes, vix reperire potes quam sine labe notes. 33. Sit sine laude labor, sit sine crine caput. 34. Femina Menaleis projicienda lupis, femina Cerbereum pascere digna canem. 35. Ultio digna dei lumina tollat ei. 36. O fortuna potens quam variabilis ! O fortuna ferox quam intractabilis ! G. C. MOORE SMITH. The University, Sheffield. |