LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1889. CONTENT 8.-N° 159. probable that the chronicler would take precedence of the king, or that his name would be allowed a place in the rich foliation when those of kings, heroes, and architects were not so highly honoured. A man who had deserved such esteem of his king Would most probably still exist in the memory of could not have so completely disappeared from the pages of contemporary writers had he, in that grand era of heroic navigators, outshone all by his writings. 24-Trowses-Bent-"The one" and "the other"-Veins in the Nose-Bezonian-Anonymous Aid-Charles II., 25-present generations. His name and his chronicles Boulevards for London-Snob-Story concerning Cromwell -Relics of Charles I.-Chalet, 26. QUERIES:- The Court Secret'-Tales of the Spanish Main' Tanias is a myth. Is it likely that the names of Vasco da Gama and Nuno Cabral, who had opened the eastern and western gates of the New World to commerce, should have been relegated to comparative obscurity, and that this Tanias, of whom we know absolutely nothing, should have been imelaborate foliation springing from the sides of a sacred edifice, the last resting-place of some kings of glorious memory? in De Banco Roll, 30-Pounds-Lord Bateman-Hampton Poyle, 31-Radical Reform-Defender of the Faith-Pro-mortalized by having his name inscribed amid the gramme, 32-Birmingham Magazine-Waik: Wene: Maik -Crombie - Yorkshire Expressions - Belgian Beer-Confessor of the Household, 33-Historiated-Walpole Collection-Waterloo Ball-Monkey Island - Once a Week, 34Graham of Gartmore-Saloop-Harper-Marginalia of Coleridge-Parkin, 35-Flint Flakes-Dictionary Desiderata, 36 Harvest Horn-Liquid Gas-Thursk-Champflower Tweenie-Grâce me guide"-Musical Taste in Birds, 37 Initials after Names-Printer's Chapel-Authors Wanted, 38. NOTES ON BOOKS:-Bullen's Campion'-'Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. XVII.-The Library-Dod's 'Peerage.' Notices to Correspondents, &c. Notes. "TANIAS EL REY." Many of the other derivations are equally absurd, and that given by John Latouche (Oswald Crawfurd) in his 'Travels in Portugal' is not worthy of much consideration. But Mr. Crawfurd is so happy in most of his other suggestions that I may be allowed to repeat what he says on this subject: "Tanias el Rey is, I have no doubt, only an anagram of Arte e Linyas. The puzzle is a good one, though not quite fair, for the El rey is very misleading, and the use of the Latinized Portuguese of the period has clearly thrown the antiquaries off the scent." How the author of 'Travels in Portugal' arrived at such a conclusion is as great a puzzle to me as the inscription is to him. Under the roof of the monastery of Batalha were buried, as I have already said, many of the kings, queens, princes, and grandees of Portugal, and the building itself was erected to commemorate the great victory won at Aljubarrota, which secured the independence of Portugal. The original church was finished before 1416, but the Capella Imperfeita was commenced at the close of the fifteenth century, shortly after the accession of King D. Manoel the Fortunate, just when the discoveries of Vasco da Gama and Nuno Cabral were astonishing the world and filling the coffers of the Portuguese monarch. So many descriptions of the monastery of Batalha have been published at various times that it would be impossible to add to our knowledge of this wonderful pile, which has found so many admirers among the savants of all countries. Of all the descriptions, however, the most beautiful is that of Fr. Luiz de Souza in his 'Historia de S. Domingos,' and the most correct that published in the Ecclesiologist for August, 1854. That the Portuguese place too great a value on the building, from an architectural point of view, it is needless to say. No fewer than five architects seem to have been engaged on this sacred edifice, composed of "spires, pinnacles, pierced battlements, and flying buttresses"; but to the last, Matheus Fernandez, who D. Manoel, it is well known, expended large died in 1515, belongs the glory of having built the sums in the erection of splendid edifices, and it can "Capella Imperfeita," or Unfinished Chapel, whose easily be conceived that a monarch whose ruling western arch surpasses in richness everything else passion was to raise majestic piles should have in the building. On the western side of this arch built a chapel like the Capella Imperfeita, in which are repeated with great frequency the words "Tanias eventually he might be placed to rest. This would el Rey," among knots, flowers, and foliage, and the only be following out what other kings and many meaning of these words has given rise to great dis-private persons had done before and have done putation at various times. By the majority of the Portuguese the words are supposed to commemorate the name of King D. Manoel's chronicler, but a careful search into contemporary history reveals no such name as Tanias. Then, again, it is very im since. That he was not buried there, but at Belem, means nothing more than that it was decided to bury him at Belem in the magnificent monastery which he had caused to be erected. Having accepted this theory, which to me seems reasonable, MESSRS. BELL'S BOOK S. Vol. II. IN STUART TIMES. By The HISTORY of HAMPTON COURT PALACE. ERNEST LAW, B.A., Barrister-at-Law. 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The work treats of the cant of thieves; the jargon of Parisian roughs; the military, naval, parliamentary, academical, legal, and freemason's slang; of that of the workshop, the studio, the stage, the boulevards, the demi-monde. London: WHITTAKER & CO. Paternoster-square. LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1889. CONTENT S.-N° 159. probable that the chronicler would take precedence of the king, or that his name would be allowed a place in the rich foliation when those of kings, heroes, and architects were not so highly honoured. A man who had deserved such esteem of his king would most probably still exist in the memory of could not have so completely disappeared from the pages of contemporary writers had he, in that grand era of heroic navigators, outshone all by his writings. 24-Trowses-Bent - The one" and "the other"-Veins in the Nose-Bezonian-Anonymous Aid-Charles II., 25-present generations. His name and his chronicles Boulevards for London-Snob-Story concerning Cromwell -Relics of Charles I.-Chalet, 26. QUERIES:- The Court Secret'-Tales of the Spanish Main Tanias is a myth. Is it likely that the names of Vasco da Gama and Nuno Cabral, who had opened the eastern and western gates of the New World to commerce, should have been relegated to comREPLIES:-Tooth-brushes, 29-Big Books Big Bores-Names parative obscurity, and that this Tanias, of whom we in De Banco Roll, 30-Pounds-Lord Bateman-Hampton know absolutely nothing, should have been imPoyle, 31-Radical Reform-Defender of the Faith-Pro-mortalized by having his name inscribed amid the gramme, 32-Birmingham Magazine-Waik: Wene: Maik -Crombie - Yorkshire Expressions - Belgian Beer-Con- elaborate foliation springing from the sides of a fessor of the Household, 33-Historiated-Walpole Collec- sacred edifice, the last resting-place of some kings tion-Waterloo Ball-Monkey Island - Once a Week,' 34 of glorious memory? Graham of Gartmore-Saloop-Harper-Marginalia of Coleridge-Parkin, 35-Flint Flakes-Dictionary Desiderata, 36 Harvest Horn-Liquid Gas-Thursk-Champflower Tweenie-"Grâce me guide"-Musical Taste in Birds, 37— Initials after Names-Printer's Chapel-Authors Wanted, 38. NOTES ON BOOKS:-Bullen's Campion'-'Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. XVII.-The Library-Dod's 'Peerage.' Notices to Correspondents, &c. Notes. "TANIAS EL REY." Many of the other derivations are equally absurd, and that given by John Latouche (Oswald Crawfurd) in his 'Travels in Portugal' is not worthy of much consideration. But Mr. Crawfurd is so happy in most of his other suggestions that I may be allowed to repeat what he says on this subject: "Tanias el Rey is, I have no doubt, only an anagram of Arte e Linyas. The puzzle is a good one, though not quite fair, for the El rey is very misleading, and the use of the Latinized Portuguese of the period has clearly thrown the antiquaries off the scent." How the author of Travels in Portugal' arrived at such a conclusion is as great a puzzle to me as the inscription is to him. Under the roof of the monastery of Batalha were buried, as I have already said, many of the kings, queens, princes, and grandees of Portugal, and the building itself was erected to commemorate the great victory won at Aljubarrota, which secured the independence of Portugal. The original church was finished before 1416, but the Capella Imperfeita was commenced at the close of the fifteenth century, shortly after the accession of King D. Manoel the Fortunate, just when the discoveries of Vasco da Gama and Nuno Cabral were astonishing the world and filling the coffers of the Portuguese monarch. So many descriptions of the monastery of Batalha have been published at various times that it would be impossible to add to our knowledge of this wonderful pile, which has found so many admirers among the savants of all countries. Of all the descriptions, however, the most beautiful is that of Fr. Luiz de Souza in his 'Historia de S. Domingos,' and the most correct that published in the Ecclesiologist for August, 1854. That the Portuguese place too great a value on the building, from an architectural point of view, it is needless to say. No fewer than five architects seem to have been engaged on this sacred edifice, composed of "spires, pinnacles, pierced battlements, and flying buttresses"; but to the last, Matheus Fernandez, who D. Manoel, it is well known, expended large died in 1515, belongs the glory of having built the sums in the erection of splendid edifices, and it can "Capella Imperfeita," or Unfinished Chapel, whose easily be conceived that a monarch whose ruling western arch surpasses in richness everything else passion was to raise majestic piles should have in the building. On the western side of this arch built a chapel like the Capella Imperfeita, in which are repeated with great frequency the words "Tanias eventually he might be placed to rest. This would el Rey," among knots, flowers, and foliage, and the only be following out what other kings and many meaning of these words has given rise to great dis-private persons had done before and have done putation at various times. By the majority of the Portuguese the words are supposed to commemorate the name of King D. Manoel's chronicler, but a careful search into contemporary history reveals no such name as Tanias. Then, again, it is very im since. That he was not buried there, but at Belem, means nothing more than that it was decided to bury him at Belem in the magnificent monastery which he had caused to be erected. Having accepted this theory, which to me seems reasonable, I understand the words "Tanias el Rey" to signify 'DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY': NOTES AND CORRECTIONS. (See 6th S. xi. 105, 443; xii. 321; 7th S. i. 25, 82, 342, 376; ii. 102, 324, 355; iii. 101, 382; iv. 123, 325, 422; v. 3, 43, 130, 362, 463, 506.) Vol. XV. P. 2 a. Prior's reference to Dibben is in the folio edition of his 'Poems,' 1718. P. 32 a. R. Ascham salutes a person named P. 62 a. Thomas Randolph also wrote 'An Elegie upon the Lady Venetia Digby,' 1668, p. 28. He also dedicated his 'Jealous Lovers' to Sir Kenelm Digby in verse. Sir J. Denham mentions a Latin MS. by Mancini on the 'Cardinal Virtues,' which had passed through the learned hands of Sir K. D. ('Poems,' 1684, p. 145). On Lady Venetia see 'N. & Q.,' 7th S. iii. 162, 209. notice the sympathetic cure. He was answered by W. P. 101. Prof. Disney was an examiner for the Craven scholarship, 1759 (Wrangham's 'Zouch," vol. i. p. xxxi). P. 123 a. Pope's praise of Sir W. Dixey (1710) in Curll's Miscellany,' 1727, i. 42. Pp. 64-5. Sir K. Digby's 'Observations on Religio Medici,' 12mo. 1644. They were answered by Alex. Ross, 'Medicus Medicatus,' 1645. He also replied to Digby's work on 'Bodies and the Soul' in the Philosophicall Touchstone,' sm. 4to., 1645; Demonstratio Immortalitatis Animæ,' edited by Thomas White, translated into Latin by J. L., Paris, folio, 1651, 1655; Francof., 8vo., 1664; 'Peripateticall Institutions in the way of P. 127 b. For "Mapleton" read Mappleton. Sir K. D.,' by Thomas White, 12mo., 1656; P. 130 b. For "Kennet" read Kennett. Digby's 'Powder of Sympathy,' 12mo., third edi- P. 135. Much about Dobree in Prof. Pryme's tion, 1660, fourth, 1664; and in French, Paris, Reminiscences'; 'Life of Bishop Wordsworth.' 1658, 1681; also with the Treatise of Bodies,' P. 140 a. There is a long account of William 1669. Of his Receipts' there seem to be editions Dockwra, his scheme and his difficulties, in De1668, 1675, 1677; of the 'Closet Opened,' 1669, laune's 'Present State of London,' 1681, pp. 350 1671, 1677; of 'Chymical Secrets,' 1682. George sq. He was a merchant, native, and citizen of Hartman also issued 'The True Preserver and Re- London, formerly a sub-searcher in the Custom storer of Health,' 8vo., 1682, 1684, 1695; 'Family House there. He had eight young children. The Physitian,' small 4to., 1696. John Hartman pub-chief office of the penny post was at his house, lished 'Royal and Practical Chymistry,' fol. 1670. formerly that of Sir Robert Abdy, Knt. He beOn D.'s works see Birch, 'Hist. Roy. Soc.,' ii. 82; gan the penny post in April, 1680 (not 1683 as Watt, 'Bibl. Brit.' Dr. Robert Fludd seems to here). have been the first English author to bring into Pp. 145-6. Richard Baxter calls John Dod "excellent," and says that his book on the Commandments is "of small price and great use ('Ref. Past.,' 85, 153). His 'Sayings' and 'Sermon on Malt have been often reprinted as chap-books. On the malt sermon see Penny Magazine, 1832, p. 6; E. H. Barker's 'Lit. Anec.,' i. 103; Athenæum, 1869; Brewer's 'Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,' 545; 'New and Old,' 1876, iv. 16; Bickerdyke's Curios. Ale and Beer,' 1887. See also N. & Q.,' 6th S. ii. 327; iii. 13. P. 157 a. Much about William Dodd in 'N. & Q.' (see 5th S. i. 488). He published two sermons on fasting, preached at West Ham and St. Olave's, Hart Street (second edition, 1756). P. 158. A Treatise of Estates,' ascribed to Sir J. Doddridge, was printed with some of Sir Wm. Noy's works, 1757, 1821. 66 P. 160. On Doddridge's 'gay temper" see Roberts's 'Life of H. More,' ii. 453. His Expositor' was recommended by Bishops Porteus of London, Barrington of Durham, and Pretyman Tomline of Lincoln (Overton, 'True Churchmen,' 1802, p. 383; 'Life of W. Wilberforce'; Tyerman's Oxford Methodists'). P. 168 a. Thomas Warton sounds Dodington's "much lov'd name" in verse ('Poems,' 1748, p. 92). P. 402 a. Hugh Downman. See 'N. & Q.,' 3rd S. ix. 107. For "Cyrus" read Cyres. Pp. 441-2. Sir F. Drake is mentioned in Blundevile's Exercises' and in Owen's 'Epigrams.' Pp. 446-7. James Drake. See ' N. & Q.,' 1st S. viii. 272, 346; 3rd S. iv. 435; 5th S. ii. 389. His Ancient and Modern Stages Surveyed,' against Collier, 1699; translated Leclerc's History of Physic,' 1699; edited 'Secret Memoirs of Dudley,' 1706. His Anatomy,' 2 vols., 1750; 'Anthropologia,' an appendix, 1728; 'Onania,' 1737. P. 448. Nathan Drake belonged to the same family as Dr. Samuel of Pontefract. He dedicated his Winter Nights,' 1820, to his mother, living in York, in her eighty-eighth year. No mention is made of his two earliest works, 'The Speculator,' 1790; 'Poems,"1793. Notices of him in Monthly Literary Recreations, No. 7, January, 1807; 'Living Authors,' 1816; Annual Biog., xxi. 1837, p. 448; Allibone; Cleveland, Eng. Lit. Nineteenth Cent.'; portrait engraved by Tomkins and Thomson. P. 449 a. "Love's Name Lives, or a Publication of Divers Petitions presented by Mistris Love to the Parliament on behalf of her Husband; also several Letters sent to him by Dr. Drake, &c., 1651." P. 178 a. When R. W. Sibthorpe seceded to the P. 449 b. Samuel Drake was a pupil of John Roman Church and published his Reasons,' Cleveland, whose works he edited with a memoir Dodsworth_replied in a letter, "Why have you (D. N. B.,' xi. 50, 52). His two assize sermons at become a Romanist?" 8vo., 16 leaves, three edi-York, Oeoû Atákovos, 1669, and 'Totum Hominis,' tions, 1842. P. 185 a. An account of Doggett's rowing prize in the Free-Thinker, August 1, 1718. P. 191 b. Sir G. Wheler's congratulatory letter to Dolben on becoming Archbishop of York (Wrangham's 'Zouch,' ii. 156; Patrick's 'Autobiography,' 35). P. 193 b. For "Bishopsthorpe" read Bishopthorpe. P. 201 a. For "Spalatro" read Spalato. P. 206 a. For "Anderby" read Ainderby. P. 212 a, line 8 from foot. Insert inverted comma after "untenable." P. 228 a. See De Quincey's account of Donne's Biathanatos' in his essay On Suicide' ('Eng. Opium-Eater'). Archbishop Trench's character of Donne ought not to be overlooked ('Household Book Eng. Poet.,' 403-4). Parnell versified some of Donne's satires. Coleridge's praise of his sermons (Table-Talk,' June 4, 1830) and defence of him against Pope and Warburton ('Lectures on Shakspere,' 1883, pp. 358, 410, 427). P. 238 b. Bishop Dopping married a sister of William Molyneux, Locke's correspondent (Locke's 'Letters,' 1708, p. 211). P. 249 b. For "Quainton" read Quinton (?) (bis). P. 338 a. On Bishop Douglas and his 'Criterion' see Mathias, 'Purs. of Lit., 300, 432. March 15 (? year), were published by Wm. Miller, Gilded Acorn, St. Paul's Churchyard. His engraved portrait, 4to., by Birrel and Wilkinson. See much in Holmes's 'Pontefract,' 1887. P. 450 a. Concio ad Clerum,' 1719 (on St. Matthew xxvi. 29), is here attributed to both Samuel Drakes. There is a 'Concio' by Dr. S. Drake (? which) on Acts xvii. 22, 23. Samuel Drake, jun., was born at Pontefract, 1688, educated at Sedbergh, entered as a sizar at St. John's, Cambridge, May 4, 1704 (Adm. Reg. St. John's, Cambridge'; Whitaker's Richmondshire,' 1823, i. 328). P. 450 b. William Drake. Annual Register, 1801, p. 68. His portrait engraved by Bromley. W. C. B. CHRISTENDOM OF CLOTHES.-In 'Henry VIII.,' I. iii., the Lord Chamberlain says of the Englishmen lately returned from France : Their clothes are after such a Pagan cut too, That sure th' have worn out Christendom. The phrase is puzzling, though, if it stood alone, it might be passed over with the explanation, that the clothes in their outlandish cut had lost, i.e., never possessed, a proper Christian look. But I find a similar phrase in Lyly's 'Euphues' (p. 443, Arber). He is counselling the ladies against pride of apparel, and he says, Bicause you are 66 |