In an appendix to the same volume about the arms (6 Edw. III.) printed by (pp. 429-36) Mr. Prothero prints the trans- Bossewell in his 'Workes of Armorie' (80, b.) lations which Byron made from the Armenian made "Monsieur Jaen de Sitsilt," the with Aucher's help, Jan.-Feb., 1817, viz.: plaintiff, son of "George de Euerwike," 1. The Epistle of the Corinthians to St. Paul; probably bearing in mind George Cecill, 2. Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians; 3. 'The gent., of Howden, in Yorkshire, who died in Pleasure Houses of the Summer of Byzan- 1539-the only person of the name down to that date who had left an estate sufficient to require an Inq. p.m. to be taken, although two years before one had been held on the death of David Cecill's second wife as to her lands in Howdenshire. A. S. ELLIS. Westminster. tium.' At pp. 44-5 will be found a fragment apparently intended as preface to the Armenian grammar, The remaining references to the subject in the letters show that a pecuniary dispute arose between the collaborators, while Byron's estimate of his own share in the work grew more generous with the lapse of time. On 28 March, 1820, Byron wishes to know from Murray what became of the two Epistles from St. Paul translated from the Armenian (p. 425). From the 'Detached Thoughts' (1821) is quoted (p. 10n.), "The padre Pasquale Aucher (for whom, by the way, I compiled the major part of two Armenian and English grammars)." By 27 Feb, 1823, in a letter from Genoa to Richard Belgrave Hoppner, Aucher has become "the rogue of an Armenian"; and "we must take what we can get" is the only solution of the dispute. L. R. M. STRACHAN. Heidelberg, Germany. CECIL FAMILY (10th S. v. 6).-The grafting of the Cecils of Stamford on the obscure Welsh stock may have been a suggestion of Sir David Philipp himself, or owing to the way he spelt in his will, dated 1506, the surname of his executor Davil Cecill. But that the family ever wrote their name otherwise than "Cecil" or Cecill" has yet to be proved, and it is not likely, because two years later we find David's father styling himself Philip "Cecil" in his will. There is apparently no evidence earlier than this forthcoming at present without considerable research. It is known that David Cecill, "Lord Burghley's grandfather," married twice (6th S. vii. 385). He appears, however, to have had another wife, if the statement in Coli. Top et Gen, vii. 67, may be trusted that he married Katharine, widow of Nicholas Dene, of Barrowby, co. Lincoln, and daughter of Walter Pedwardine, Esq, but by her had "no children." That is most likely, because she must have been old enough to be her second husband's grandmother. Her father died in 1429, and was related to several East Riding families. Unless there is some mistake, this match might more reasonably be assigned to an earlier David, perhaps brother or father of Philip Cecil. Whoever concocted the "controversie " The name Sisillt, Sisalt, Syssell, and Cyssyll, though one and the same, seems to have been used and spelt indifferently in Wales in olden times, as appears by the proceedings in the Star Chamber in 1533 respecting the feud between the Morgans of Newport and the Herberts of St. Julian's, in Monmouthshire, when one John Sisillt, butcher, servant unto Walter Herbert, is accused of having cruelly murdered one Roger David Tewe, and also throughout the proceedings the accused's one Roger Davis; and surname is variously spelt as described above. (See Historical and Genealogical Memoirs of the Morgan Family,' compiled and edited by G. Blacker Morgan. London, privately printed, 1891). CROSS CROSSLET. NELSON PANORAMAS (10th S. iv. 365).—In 1823 there were exhibited in the "Great Room, Spring Gardens." Messrs. Marshall's "Grand Historical Peristrephic Panoramas of the Battle of Trafalgar and the Ceremony of Crossing the Line." There were four views of the battle, one of the coast of France, and another of 'The Ludicrous Ceremony of Crossing the Line as performed by the French. The Description' has, in addition to the usual explanations of the pictures, four pages of Memoirs of the late Lord Viscount Nelson.' ALECK ABRAHAMS. . 39, Hillmarton Road. 6 CASSELL'S WORKS OF EMINENT MASTERS' (10th S. iv. 468).-By one of those happy and unexpected accidents which the bookcollector sometimes meets with, I have been able to purchase the concluding volume of this interesting publication, and so can answer my own inquiry. The title-page of the second volume also bears the date of 1854, but it is much thinner than the first, comprising only 204 pages against 412 pages. Apparently the venture did not meet with sufficient support to warrant its continuance, and So it was somewhat abruptly terminated. The articles are well written and as generously illustrated as as in the earlier volume, the two forming a most interesting and useful work. as See Cicero, Ad. Att.' Lib. VI. ep. viii. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. LONDON PAROCHIAL HISTORY (10th S. iv. 288; v. 55).—I am exceedingly grateful to MR. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL for his reply to my expressed thirst for out-of-the-way information on the City parishes of SS. Anne and Agnes and S. John Zachary. I feel sure that other correspondents could, "an they would," furnish something further. I should be especially glad of references from MSS. in private hands (as old diaries, &c.), national records unindexed as to places (as Crown Plea Rolls, &c.), or unprinted and uncalendared wills (particularly those in provincial registries). The parishes are both small, and anything which I am not likely to light upon in the ordinary way of research whether relating to the churches, rectors, clerks, or parishioners, &c.-will be welcome, more especially if of earlier date than (say) 1700, no matter how trivial it may at first sight appear. I may observe that I have perused the earlier references at 7th S. x. 68 and 174; and I hope that MR. MACMICHAEL'S reply may be the first of many. Any one who has any thing to communicate too lengthy for these columns will perhaps be kind enough to send to me direct. W. MCMURRAY. 6, Clovelly Road, S. Ealing, W. HAIR-POWDERING CLOSETS (10th S. iv. 349, 417, 453; v. 57).-Not many years ago there was one of these in a fine old mansion known as Micklegate House, York, which is now the warehouse of a firm of wholesale druggists. I fear the relic has been destroyed. The building dates from George II.'s time; it was the town residence of Mr. Bourchier, of Beningbrough, who died in 1759. ST. SWITHIN. At Llangedwyn Hall, near Oswestry, the principal bedrooms have an antechamber, on the landing or staircase side, modernly known as a dressing-room, and the late dowager Lady Watkin-Williams Wynne, upon her attention being drawn to this apparently inconvenient arrangement, informed me that they were "hair-powdering chambers." By be maintained, and the dressers complete this means the privacy of the bedroom could their work. Massinger says: The reverend hood cast off, your borrowed hair, Powdered and curled, was, by your dresser's art, Formed like a coronet, hanged with diamonds And richest orient pearls. The particular closet I have in mind is the Pretender, Prince Charles Edward Stuart, one adjoining the bedroom used by the Young during the 1745 rebellion, which is still preserved in its original state. From this neighbourhood the Prince marched on to, and encamped at, Derby, and was lodged at a the one named by MR. HALL CROUCH? Our dressing-room ought probably to read "dressers' room. "} Chester. house at the bottom of Full Street. Is this GEO. W. HASWELL. "FAMOUS" CHELSEA (10th S. iv. 366, 434, 470, 517; v. 33). Faulkner, in his second edition of the 'History of Chelsea,' does not name the charter of Edward the Confessor alluded to by Lysons in which Chelsea is spelt "Cealchylle"; but it thus occurs, as I have ascertained, in Cart. Cott. vii. 6; and the document is again indorsed with "Cealchylle." How is this spelling accounted for? The lands certainly appertained to "the brothers" of Westminster; but is it certain that "Cealchylle" meant Chelsea? charter is quoted also in Dart's History of Westminster Abbey,' and was printed in Hickes's 'Thesaurus,' in 1705, with a Latin translation. In 1157 Pope Adrian IV. confirmed by bull the concessions of Edward the Confessor to the church of Westminster, and ratified the possession of the estates. Among these he enumerates "Villa de Chelchepe.' This 64 (See Cott. MS. Faustina A. 3, fol. 163, a document originally of Edward I.'s reign, but with additions of a later date) Later the name is spelt "Chelcheheth" (Dart, vol. i. p. 23); Chelsehuth," Nomina Villarum,' dated 1316, Harl. MS. 6281; and "Chelthhuth" (Harl. MS. 2191); but in Cart. Cott., vii. 6 it is in both cases unmistakably "Cealchylle." J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL. OPEN-AIR PULPITS (10th S. iv. 430; v. 55). -May I point out that the "Reader's Pulpit' at Chester is not entered from the cloisters behind, as mentioned by MR. HEMS? Chester. GEO. W. HASWELL. CRICKET: PICTURES AND ENGRAVINGS (10th S. iv. 9, 132, 238, 496; v. 54).—The Connoisseur for January, p. 57, gives a photogravure of an oil painting by John Russell, dated 1767, representing the Rev. John Chandler when a boy in cricketing costume. He holds a strangely shaped bat in his right hand, a ball in his left. The tradition in the family is that the costume he wears was that of Eton. The Chandlers were a Surrey family, and connected with Guildford, where John Russell was born. A. R. BAYLEY. THOMAS POUNDE, S.J. (10th S. iv. 184, 268, 472; v. 14).-Anne Wriothesley, aunt of our Thomas Pounde, and sister of the Earl of Southampton, was married first to Thomas Knight, of Hoo Manor, Soberton, Hants, who died in the year 1548. His will (P.C.C. 4 Populwell) is dated 1 January, 1547/8, and was proved on the 27th of the following month. He mentions therein his son John and his daughter Anne (the latter was baptized at Soberton on 17 April, 1547). He left his manor of Timsbury, Hants, for the bringing up of his children; to his brother Hugh Knight, "Scoller in the New Colledge at Wynchester," he bequeathed the "Prebend of Warthcombe [? Gwarthacwm] in Cathedral of Landaphe"; and to his wife Anne he left his manor of Hoo. He appointed his wife sole executrix, and Thomas, Earl of Southampton, sole overseer. The parish register at Soberton records the marriage, on 28 April, 1549, of "Syr Oliver Lawrence, Knight, and Mistress Ann Knyght, widow, dwelling at the Manor Place." Sir Oliver was of Creech Grange, in the Isle of Purbeck. Harl. MS. 897, f. 126, states that "Sir Oliver Larance, knight, dyed the fyrst of January, 1559, and was buryed at Fernham; and after the seremony done, his hachementes were removed to the church of St. Mychell in Steple within th'yle of Purbak," His will (P.C.C. 30 Welles), dated 20 March, at Soberton after the death of Sir Oliver; widow, dated 17 July, 1602. To be buried in church "Will of Lady Anne Lawrence, of Subberton, of Subberton; niece Lady Catherine Cornwallis ; niece Lady Mabell Sands; nephew Sir Walter Sands, Knt.; William Sands, Esq., nephew and godson; Sir George Peckham, Kut., cosen: Mr. Augustyn Lawrence, sonne-in-law; Mr. George Lawrence (son of Edward Lawrence, deceased); Edward Lawrence the younger, brother of George; my sonne Lawrence his widow; nephew Thomas Pounde; nephew Henrie Pounde the elder; John Pounde and Anne Pounde, children of Henrie; of Richard Pounde, nephew, deceased; nephew cosens William Pounde and Henrie Pounde, sons George Britton, of Michell Park, Sussex; cosen Henrie Britton (son of George), of Subberton, and his son Beverley; Dennis, George, Samuel, Anne, Elizabeth, and Helen, children of George Britton; Wriothesley and his brother John; cosen Elizabeth cosen Thomas Clark the younger; cosen Oliver Cornwallis, wife of Thomas Cornwallis, Groom Porter of Her Majesty's Household; Henrie Cornwallis, her son-Henrie Pounde and Denys Britton, executors and residuary legatees; overseers, Thomas Hensloe, of Burrant, and Thomas White, of New lands.' 'MODERN UNIVERSAL BRITISh Traveller' be found in any European capital, and not the new (10th S. v. 69).-There is a copy of this work thoroughfare-broad, but not half broad enough, in the British Museum Library. It is cata-lined with palatial hotels-which commends itself to the British vestryman. logued under 'British Traveller,' and the date of the volume is 1779, press mark 10348. 1. 6. It contains at p. 225 the plate of Eton College sought for by MR. AUSTEN LEIGH. R. ENGLISH. ENIGMA BY C. J. Fox (10th S. iv. 530; v. 32). In the fifth line of the first stanza, as given by E. S, there is an error affecting the aptness of the solution suggested by H. H., which seems to be correct. The line referred to And before Adam did appearshould be And before that [i.e. Noah's Ark] I did appear. If here, as Welshmen all agree, Then stand by, clear the way; The next stanza agrees with E. S.'s first, Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, &c. Charing Cross, the very centre of metropolitan London, is virtually bounded by Covent Garden on the north and east, by St. James's Park on the west, and by Scotland Yard and Whitehall on the south. Mr. MacMichael dismisses the derivation from chère reine with Prof. Skeat's comment that it is "too funny to be pernicious." In dealing with the associations of the district Mr. MacMichael is more historical than topographical, and the more animated among his early pictures are the assaults of the Londoners upon the servants of the Spanish Ambassador; the hundreds of carriages and the thousands of horsemen, with rosemary and bays in their hats, that accompanied Prynne, the author of 'Histriomastix,' in November, 1640; and the kindred mob which flocked to the funeral of "Sir Edmondbury Godfrey" (sic). It is quite impossible to convey an idea of the amount of informationhistorical, antiquarian, gossiping, what not-that is supplied in a book that may be read with unfailing pleasure. Of how much quaint and amusing information Mr. MacMichael is the possessor readers of our pages are aware. He has given us a capital book, and one which we are glad to think may well be the first of a series. We shall be glad to welcome further volumes or indeed anything in the shape of a continuation. The work is admirably got up. The Political History of England. - From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III., 1216-1377. By T. F. Tout. (Longmans & Co.) THE third volume-in order of appearance-of 'The Political History of England' follows closely upon the second. If the present instalment is more vivacious than the previous, the cause is partly that Prof. Tout's treatment is picturesque, and partly that the period is one of the most romantic in our annals. It is a time of perpetual struggle in Scotland, Wales, and on the Continent; it narrates such episodes as the murder of Edward II. by the she-wolf of France"; introduces battles such as Bannockburn, Halidon Hill, Neville's Cross, Courtrai, Crecy, and Poictiers, and interludes such as LONDON has been long too big to be taken otherwise the Black Death; and brings on the scene, besides than in sections. Books that deal with these com- the great ones of the world, men such as Chaucer, partments of London constitute an attractive class Wycliffe, and Froissart. When, with the death of by themselves, of which the account of St. James's Edward III., the record breaks off, the action is not Square by Mr.Arthur Irwin Dasent may be considered complete: "John of Gaunt's rule was not over. the beau ideal. To the list of writers on London, Wycliffe was advancing from discontent to revolt. which comprises Mr. W. J. Loftie, Sir Walter......Langland had not yet put his complaint into Besant, Mr. Wheatley, and a score others, must now be added Mr. Holden MacMichael, to the merits of whose history of Charing Cross and its neighbourhood we have, during its passage through The Gentleman's Magazine, frequently drawn attention. These delightful essays have now, as they well deserved, been reprinted in book form, with a plan of the district, a frontispiece presenting St. Martin's Lane in 1820, and a vignette showing Charing Cross as it now is, together with the mouth of tho Strand. It is a subject for congratulation, though it is the result presumably of accident, that the district presented is that dear to the antiquary, the painter, and the poet, which existed a few years ago, and made the Strand of that day the most happily accidented street to re its permanent form......Popular irritation against bad government, and social and economic pression, were still preparing for the revolt of 1381." We are not able to accompany Prof. Tout in his long record, and can but note a passage or two of special interest. Apropos of the defeat of Louis in 1217, he says that it is tempting to regard it as a triumph of English patriotism, but comments wisely that it is a mistake to read into the doings of men of the early thirteenth century the ideals of later ages. A good account is given of the progress of thought in times of weak government and internecine struggle, and it is shown how, while the Frenchman was being recognized as the enemy, the influence of the Poems. By George Crabbe. Edited by Adolphus French tongue and the French ideals was assertive. to soldiers. Thus the hagustald came to be used It is curious to read how the friars who invaded, for any young warrior (p. 341). We have to thank England in 1258, picking their way barefooted over the writer for a learned and informing book. frozen mud and hard snow, which were bloodstained by their feet, "were so full of fun among themselves that a deaf mute could hardly refrain from laughter at seeing them." We read, of course, of the popular canonization of St. Thomas of Hereford and the circumstances under which it was obtained. Some space is bestowed on the interesting figure of the Maid of Norway. Of the invasion of England by David of Scotland, at the instigation of Philip of France, it is said "In thus playing the game of the French king, David began a policy which, from Neville's Cross to Flodden, brought embarrassment to England and desolation to Scotland." A vivid description is supplied of the institution of orders of chivalry. Interest throughout is unflagging, and the treatment generally is sprightly as well as philosophical. Studies on Anglo-Saxon Institutions. By H. Munro One of the first subjects with which he occupies himself is that of wergelds, the amount of compensation to which different classes of the community were liable for breach of their mund or suretyship. In Wessex this graduated system of fines was fixed at 1,200, 600, or 200 "shillings," according as one was a landowner, a landless gentleman, or a ceorl. But as a "shilling" in one region bore quite a different value from the same denomination elsewhere, this leads to a long and careful investigation of the monetary system of the early Saxons, which is sufficiently intricate in consequence of the ambiguity of the terminology. The author conjectures that the skilling must originally have denoted an ounce of silver; but the evidence is far from conclusive. The same laxness of use confuses the meaning of the word eorl, which is variously latinized in the early charters as dux, minister, comes, and miles. From having been at one time applicable to any noble, it seems to have acquired its specific meaning as a title from a conflation with the Scandinavian iarl. The origin of some of our modern shires, Mr. Chadwick conjectures, may be traced to divisions of a kingdon made between members of the king's family, as sometimes happened. Worthy, too, of notice is the account given of the word hagustald, generally used in the sense of a bachelor, which has been a puzzle to etymologists. Mr. Chadwick, differing from Kluge, holds the original meaning to have been the occupant of a haga," i.e., of a town dwelling attached to a country manor, this haga being often appropriated A THREE-VOLUME edition of the works of Crabbe, on Several Occasions. A FIRST volume of Prior's poems has also been Facts and Fancies for the Curious. By Charles C. "a WE have here what is rather floridly called ". She lived unknown, and few could know from Heber. 'The Wit of the Epigrammatists' is |