formed, and made of one kind: Whosoever is borne in this signe poore and feeble shall he be, and shall live in griefe because Adam and Eve bewailed their fall. "The fourth Cancer raigneth in June, and hath the name of Crab, or Canker, forasmuch as Job was full of leprosie and kankrous sores, which is a worme that through the permission of God eatheth away the flesh. Whosoever is borne in this signe he shall be feeble of body, but shall obtaine grace, if he seek it of God. "The fifth signe Leo raigneth in July, and hath the name of a Lyon; forasmuch as Daniel the Prophet was put into a Lyon's den: Whosoever is borne in this signe shall be a bold and stout man, and a hardy. "The sixt signe Virgo raignes in August, and hath the name of a Virgin, forasmuch as our Lady that blessed Virgin before birth, in birth, and after birth was a pure Virgin: Whosoever is borne under this signe shall be wise and learned, and shall suffer blame for a just cause. "The seventh signe Libra raigneth in September, and hath the name of the ballance that hang in equall poise, forasmuch as Judas Iscariot tooke counsell with the Jewes for the betraying of our Saviour. Whosoever is borne in this signe he shall be a wicked man and a traytor: an evil death shall he dye if the course of Nature prevaile, but if he seeke after grace and mercy he may escape it. The eight signe Scorpio raigneth in October and hath the name of a Scorpion, forasmuch as the children of Isreal passed through the Red Sea : Whosoever is borne in this signe shall have many angers, tribulations, and vexations. "The ninth signe Sagittarius raigneth in November, and hath the name of the Archer, forasmuch as David fought with Goliah. Whosoever is borne under this signe shall be hardy and Lecherous. "The tenth signe Capricornus raigneth in December, and hath the name of the Goat, forasmuch as the Jews lost the blessing of our Lord Jesus Christ: Whosoever is borne under this signe shall be rich and loving. "The eleventh signe Aquarius raigneth in January and hath the name of the water-man; forasmuch as Saint John Baptist baptised our Saviour in the flood of Jordan to beginne to institute the new law of Baptisme, and end the old law of Circumcision: Whosoever is borne in this signe shall be negligent, and lose his goods, "The twelveth signe Pisces raigneth in February, and hath the name of fishes; forasmuch as Jonas the Prophet was cast into the sea; and three daies and three nights lay in the belly of a whale: Whosoever is borne in that signe shall be gratious and happy, if he make use of and shall be carelesse in his course of life. time." Preston on the Wild Moors. Queries. C. A. WHITE. We must request correspondents desiring information on family matters of only private interest, to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that the answers may be addressed to them direct. TRIAL OF PATRICK OGILVIE, 1765.-Can any of your Scotch readers, or others who are interested in the study of celebrated criminal cases, tell me whether Katharine Nairn and Patrick Ogilvie, who were tried for the crimes of incest and murder in August, 1765, and convicted on a verdict of a majority of the jury, were both executed? The N.B. account of the trial which I have was published in 1765, at Edinburgh, and contains two hundred pages. On the last page, just above the list of errata, there is the following paragraph: The conclusion of this Trial will be published and given gratis to the Purchasers, so soon as the Proceedings of the Court, with regard to Katharine Was this promised conNairn, are finished." clusion ever published; and was Katharine Nairn ever executed? I am afraid it would not be quite within the province of N. & Q' to discuss this remarkable trial. Certainly the depositions, as given at length in the publication above mentioned, contain the material for the most exciting novel. In fact, the subject is quite worthy of the pen of Wilkie Collins. I should be very much obliged to any of your contributors for any side light they can throw upon this singular social tragedy. Katharine Nairn was the daughter of Sir Thomas Nairn of Dunsinnan (Dunsinane). She married Thomas Ogilvie of Eastmiln, in January, 1765. She was accused of forming a guilty connexion with his brother, Patrick Ogilvie, who lived in the house, and of poisoning her husband with arsenic, sent to her by the said Patrick Ogilvie, less than six months after her marriage, namely on June 6. There appear to have been unfortunate family differences among the Ogilvies; and the defence practically was that the accusations, both of incest and murder, were got up through the instrumentality of Alexander Ogilvie, the youngest brother, who had offended his family by a mesalliance with the daughter of a common porter in Edinburgh, in order to regain the favour of his eldest brother, the Laird of Eastmiln. Alexander Ogilvie sent one Ann Clarke, a distant relation of the family (said to have been a person of immoral life, and to have lived as the mistress of the said Alexander Ogilvie), as an emissary in his interest to Eastmiln. She was received by the family there, including the mother, Mrs. Ogilvie, without any suspicion; and it was stated by the "pannels" that she succeeded in setting the laird against his wife and his second brother Patrick, and that she maliciously concocted this charge against them. With regard to the many curious facts connected with this trial, one is that both the "pannels' were condemned on the indictment, although there never was any post-mortem on the body of Thomas Ogilvie, nor was it proved that he had died of arsensic. But it was proved-in spite of his solemn declaration to the contrary-that Patrick Ogilvie had purchased arsenic, though none was ever traced directly to the possession of Katharine Nairn, nor was any found on the premises at Eastmiln. I should like very much to know, if any of your correspondents can inform me, what was the opinion of the contemporaries and associates of the Ogilvies as to the guilt of the two quoted from the above nearly thirty years ago (2nd S. xi. 428). The reference is insufficient; no such book seems to exist. Can W. or some other friendly reader help me to trace it? J. K. LAUGHTON. SHADDOCK.-What is the date of Capt. Shaddock; and what is known of his life or death? He is said to have transplanted the shaddock tree from China to the West Indies in the beginning of the eighteenth century. WALTER W. SKEAT. WORDS OF SONG WANTED.-Where can I find the words of a song set to music by Maître Adam, A redoré nos côteaux, CLARENDON HOUSE.-In the Quarterly Review, June 1852, p. 204, mention is made of the house of the great chancellor and of the celebrated hotel built on its site, "it is said, some small fragments," I think there are three verses, but can only recall i. e., of the old house, remain. know whether that was a fact? may still be remaining, as the portion has been little altered. Walthamstow. Does anybody If so, some part Albemarle Street C. A. WARD. Constitution and Present Government of India.' G. F. R. B. THE LEASES.-Can any one tell me the names of those to whom the Leases, Bedale, Yorks, has belonged? HISTORICUS. two. D. R. 12mo.-In Bohn's edition of Lowndes this book is 'SKETCHES FROM ST. GEORGE'S FIELDS,' 2 vols. ascribed to John Cam Hobhouse, Lord Broughton. Can any reader of 'N. & Q.' give me any information about it, or inform me where a copy of it can be seen? G. F. R. B. artist who signed P.V.? It occurs frequently on MONOGRAM P.V.-Is it known who was the the woodcuts in 'Heures en Françoys & Latin,' by Macé Bonhome, 1558. He seems to have been a fertile and clever designer of ornament. J. C. J. BORDER HERALDRY.-In 'Lady Baby,' a novel now running in Blackwood, the author, at p. 350 of the number for March, referring to a seal on a letter says, "Those three stars on an azure ground figured very generally in the arms of those families whose ancestors have lived on the Borders and have been partial to starlight excursions." there any foundation for this statement historically or heraldically; or is it merely a pleasing fiction? this The Murrays bear silver stars on an azure ground, and the tribal arms of Sutherland and Innes show mullets, differently tinctured. ROSSETTI'S SONNETS.-I have been writing upon the sonnet, and have had occasion to study Rossetti's sonnets more closely than before. In the Boston edition of 1870 sonnet vi. of 'The House of Life' series ('Supreme Surrender') opens thus :To all the spirits of love that wander by Along the love-sown fallowfield of sleep. In the 1881 edition of 'Ballads and Sonnets' is altered to To all the spirits of Love that wander by Along his love-sown harvest-field of sleep. Has Rossetti left on record his reasons for the change? St. Andrews, N.B. GEORGE ANGUS. Is CRISS-CROSS Row.-In Mr. Spurden's_supple Sonnet lviii. ("True woman," iii. "Her ment to Forby in the English Dialect Society's heaven"): If to grow old in heaven is to grow young Who is this seer? Dante? If so, where shall I find the saying? What is the interpretation of sonnet xcviii., "He and I"? C. C. B. 'POLITICAL AND FRIENDLY POEMS,' London, 1758.-A correspondent of ' N. & Q., signing W., reprinted glossaries of 1879 this is explained as "the alphabet as it stood in the horn-book, in the shape of Christ's cross, the consonants in the vertical, and the vowels in the horizontal part. Alas! a horn-book, such as I learned my letters from, would already be a thing for a museum. Can any reader of 'N. & Q.' explain more fully the my quotations for the word the alphabet is said to arrangement of the alphabet here referred to? In have been so called because it began with Christ's cross, which is confirmed by such phrases as given to children to explain in a recent public "to know one's letters from Christ's cross to and-examination. A friend and self have searched per-se." Do any horn-books with a cruciform Green's, Ince and Gilbert's, Hume's, and Collier's arrangement of the alphabet exist? histories of England, Hone, Haydn, and Maunder, but failed to discover the term, much less an explanation. S. V. H. Oxford. J. A. H. MURRAY. SECRETARY. In the Times of February 14 there is an account of the examination before the Special Commission of a very ignorant Irish witness, named Heanne, who was unable even to spell his name. In his cross-examination he was asked, "What is a secretary?" and he answered, "Not to tell anybody." It produced loud laughter in court. Littré notices that the oldest meaning of secrétaire (from which secretary comes) was "confident, celui à qui l'on confie ses sécrits." Does the old meaning still subsist in Ireland? L. ALMORAN'S RING.-In Sharon Turner's 'History of the Middle Ages' is the following passage: "His [ie, Richard, Duke of Gloucester's] choice lay among difficulties, dangers, and temptations, but so does every man's path; and it is this which makes self-government, wise tuition, fixed principles, and the divine aid so essential to us all. The daily experience of life gives constant evidence that these are attainable by every one who will direct his mind to their acquisition; and perhaps our greatest safeguard is to cultivate not only that moral delicacy of spirit which, like Almoran's ring, will pain us at the first approach of what is wrong, but also the habit of immediately obeying its admonition, and abstaining from what it censures, though we may not be immediately satisfied why the forbearance should be necessary." Will some of your more learned contributors enlighten my ignorance, and tell me who Almoran was, and where I can find some account of him? The name has an Eastern ring about it, and Almoran may possibly be a character in some Asiatic fairy tale. F. W. J. Ebberston. P.S.-The extract from Turner is from the 1830 8vo. edition of his 'Works,' vol. iii. p. 434. WARREN.-What was the descent of Capt. Humphry Warren, ob. 1561, of the Irish Privy Council, temp. Elizabeth, whose sons were Sir Henry and Sir William Warren, Knts.? Was Admiral Sir Peter Warren, ob. 1752, of this lineage; and who was his grandfather? What ground is there for supposing that Nathaniel Warren, M.P., of Dublin, ob. 1796, was either son or nephew of Sir Peter? Replies direct will oblige. (Rev.) THOMAS WARREN. Upper Norwood. LINDLEY MURRAY.-What was the family name of the wife of Lindley Murray? The latter died at Holgate, near York, February 16, 1826. Did she return to America after her husband's death; and when did she die? J. J. LATTING. 36, Woburn Place, W.C. RIDGELEY, OR RIDGLEY.-Col. Henry Ridgley, of Ann Arundel and Prince George's counties, sometime J.P. for the former county, brother to William Ridgley, arrived in Maryland in 1659, and died in 1705-10, having married, about 1664, Elizabeth Howard, by whom he had three children, Henry junior (born in 1669), Charles, and Mary. A Robert Ridgley arrived later, settled in St. Mary's County, was an attorney of the Provincial Court and Clerk to the Privy Council of Maryland, and died in 1681, leaving a widow, Martha, and four minor children, Robert, Charles, William, and Martha. They were all Protestants. If any of the readers of 'N. & Q.' can put me in possession of any facts in relation to the early history and ancestry of these gentleman, their kindness will be much appreciated. Annapolis, Ind. WM. FRANCIS CREGAR. AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANted.— Replies. ENGLISH CANTING SONGS. (7th S. vii. 104.) Harrison Ainsworth had more than one predecessor in the writing of flash songs. The following are known to me, in addition to the example given by MR. CLOUSTON : 1. Dekker's 'Lanthorne and Candle-light,' 1609, has 'A Canting Song,' with a translation. 'Works,' ed. Grosart, vol. iii. p. 203. 2. Samuel Rowlands's 'Martin Mark-all,' 1610, has songs in cant. See Hunterian Club's reprint (1874), pp. 42, 43. 3. Middleton's 'Roaring Girl,' 1611, Act. V. sc. i. A song in canting language. 4. A New Canting Dictionary, comprehending all the Terms, Ancient and Modern......and a ComCollection of Songs in the Canting Dialect,' 12mo., 1725. "PRESENTMENT OF ENGLISHRY."-Can any of your readers kindly explain what the above sen-plete tence means? It was alluded to in the Daily Telegraph about the middle of last December as being absurd, with several other sentences, to be 5. The Prison-Breaker: a Farce,' 1725, has a canting song. If MR. CLOUSTON will turn to Richard Brome's A Jovial Crew; or, the Merry Beggars,' 1652, he will find two canting songs of an earlier date than the one he quotes, or if he looks to Middleton's Roaring Girl' he will find a couple more much earlier. I have not hunted out any more sources, but from the date of Harman's 'Caveat for Common Cursitors' many writers availed themselves of "pedlar's French." Besides Middleton and Brome I can recollect that Fletcher's' Beggar's Busb,' Ben Jonson's 'Gipsies Metamorphosed,' Dekker's 'Lanthorn and Candlelight,' and 'Belman of London' contain much of this stuff. There may be songs interspersed. I think 'Ram-Alley has also a dose of it. That sometimes entertaining and always disreputable work 'The English Rogue' is, amongst other more serious charges, freely open to that of plagiarism. It is, in fact, disgustingly plagiaristic, and every one reading it should bear that in mind and take nothing on authority from it. There is an account of the dodo in it that gave me a lesson once, as well as a description of, I think, the kingdom of Siam or Bantam, all foisted from respectable H. C. HART. writers. AS MR. CLOUSTON does not allude to some much earlier canting songs that have been often reprinted, I suppose he is indulgently inclined to accept them as genuine rogue productions, as it cannot be that they are unknown to him. But I am inclined to think that a little consideration will betray their make-up. Not to occupy too much of your space with this not very high-class literature, I quote a few of the least unsavoury lines of one of them: The Ruffin cly the nab of the Harman-beck If we maun'd Pannam,1 lap2 or Ruff-peck,3 Or poplars of yarum;5 he cuts, bing to the Ruffmans, Or els he sweares by the light-mans To put our stamps in the Harmans,7 &c. at composition in any foreign tongue often pass for 16, Montagu Street, Portman Square. MR. CLOUSTON rightly says that W. Harrison Ainsworth's canting song was preceded by that in 'The English Rogue' of 1665. Without, however, going into the question whether Ainsworth really intended to claim the credit of his being the first true English canting song made by an outsider, and doubting whether "Nix my dolly pals" is "less than nothing and vanity" compared with "Bing out bien Morts," I would say that there are two such songs in English of an earlier date. They were written by Th. Dekker, and appeared in his 'Lanthorne and Candlelight,' 1609. The first, a stanza of seven lines, is entitled 'Canting Rithmes,” and begins Enough-with bowsy Cove maund Nace. The second, entitled 'A Canting Song,' consisting of two stanzas of seven lines each, commences— The Ruffin cly the nab of the Harmanbeck, and is a curse upon the constables for interfering with their operations and bringing them before the magistrate, and the judge, and finally to the gallows. BR. NICHOLSON. INDICTMENTS AGAINST GAMING DURING THE COMMONWEALTH (7th S. vii. 104).—Shovegroat or slidethrift was a well-known game, and is frequently mentioned under various names in the dramatists and other writers of the seventeenth century. In '2 Hen. IV.,' II. iv., Falstaff bids Bardolph "Quoit" Pistol down "like a shovegroat shilling." In 'The Merry Wives of Windsor,' I. i., the game is called shovel-board, and in it is shove-board. It was one of the games proTaylor the Water Poet's 'Travels of Twelve-Pence hibited by statute 33 Hen. VIII., where it is called Wood, iii. 84, a poetical description of the game. slide-thrift. Nares quotes from Bliss's ed. of Ant. It is also described by Strutt as being still in use. C. C. B. MR. BETHELL will find the game shovegroat or slidethrift fully described in the following works, viz., Strutt's Sports and Pastimes,' ed. 1838, published by Thomas Tegg & Son, pp. 297, 298; Nares's' Glossary '; Douce's ' Illustrations of Shakspeare,' ed. 1807, vol. i. pp. 454-6. See also Johnson and Steevens's Shakspeare, 'Merry Wives of Windsor,' Act I. sc. i., notes, and ‘2 Hen. IV.,' Act II. sc. iv. The game is not infrequently alluded to by the old dramatists. Cloiscailes. See Strutt, s. v. "Kayles" and "Closh," pp. 270-2. Trepan. I am unable to find any descriptive account of this game. Skinner has the verb trepan = to ensnare, which, he says, we have from Trapani, a place in Sicily, where some English ships, being invited in there by the inhabitants, were not permitted to go out again. Bailey has," Trapan, he that draws in or wheedles a Cull, and Bites him. Trapann'd, sharp'd, ensnar'd." F. W. J. Ebberston. GENEALOGICAL (7th S. vi. 347; vii. 110).— Thanking H. B. for an answer to a query, I wish to place on record that 'A Cronikyl of the Erles of Ross,' to which he refers me, deals not in facts, but in fables, as numbers of existing and not fabulous documents can prove. William, third Earl of Ross, died at Earle's Allane May, 1274. His son William, fourth earl, after being a prisoner in England 1296-1303, was liberated, and died at Delny January 28, 1322/3, having been reconciled to Bruce at Auldearn 1308. His son and heir Hugh, fifth earl, married, in or about 1308, as first wife, Lady Maud Bruce, the king's sister, by whom he had William, sixth earl, another son, and a daughter. See, with others, charter to "Hugo de Ros and Mauld, sister to the King, of lands of Narne cum burgo." Earl Hugh married secondly Margaret, daughter of Sir David Graham (see in Theiner the dispensations for her three marriages), by whom he had, with daughters, one son. Earl Hugh fell at Halidon Hill 1333. F. N. R. CORN LAW RHYMES (7th S. vii. 107).—The Haydn 'Dictionary of Biography' says that the 'Corn Law Rhymes' were first published in a Sheffield paper with The Ranter' before 1829. The date of 'The Vernal Walk,' his first poem, is given as 1798, when he would be about seventeen years of J. W. ALLISON. age. Stratford, E. BUTTERFIELD (7th S. vii. 49).—He was the author of 'Niveau d'une Nouvelle Construction,' Paris, 1677; Odomètre Nouveau,' 1681; and died on May 28, 1724, aged eighty-nine years. I have two photo negatives, showing the obverse and reverse of a small combined brass sundial and compass made by Mr. Butterfield, which was lent to me by a gentleman residing here. The sundial is a very interesting and ingenious instrument, and on the reverse or underneath side are given the names of a number of countries, and figures showing the relative time at the various places mentioned. MR. WARD will also find an account of Butterfield in the 'Biographie Universelle' (1812), tome sixième (p. 596), by C. M. Pillet. 77, Spring Street, Hull. W. G. B. PAGE. In the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society for the year 1678 Mr. Butterfield is described as "Instrument Maker to the French King." His communication was with reference to the making of microscopes. In 1698 a further paper was read on 'Magnetical Sand'; and, as his name does not appear in Wood's 'Curiosities of Watches and Clocks' or in the catalogue of the Clockmakers' Company, I think it may safely be assumed that he was not a watchmaker. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road. ARMORIAL BEARINGS ON ALTARS (7th S. vii. 148).-So far as Roman Catholic practice is concerned these are quite legitimate, but are not placed in a conspicuous position. I think some may be seen in the Carmelite Church at Kensington. In mediæval times coats armorial often appeared on copes and other vestments, and in Rome the custom of embroidering or working such GEORGE ANGUS. on vestments still obtains. The Presbytery, St. Andrews, N.B. 'MACBETH,' 1673 (7th S. vii. 68, 130, 145).—The remarks under these headings make me regret that I did not carry out my once-commenced article on the so-called D'Avenant' Macbeths' of 1673, 1674, 1687, and 1695. To Furness is due the discovery that" in other respects [than the witch songs] the edition of 1673 is a reprint of the First Folio"; and he thus places it in a category wholly distinct from those of 1674, &c., these latter giving a transmogrification-this word best suiting the changeof Shakespeare's play. I would add that, happening to have a copy of 1673, I had observed that it was a reprint of F. 1 before the publication of the Furness Macbeth'; and I would emphasize the statements made and implied by him, because, as appears from p. 130, the vital difference between the 1673 and 1674 'Macbeths' has not been clearly seen. They are not editions of one play: 1673 is Shakespeare's 'Macbeth,' 1674 a rolypolied Macbeth.' It is simply an impossible "explanation of the discrepant statements as to this quarto [of 1673, though I confess I know not the discrepant statements], that some copies of D'Avenant's 1674 quarto may have been printed in 1673." MR. F. A. MARSHALL has been misled by an erroneous quotation, to which I shall immediately refer. As to this 1673' Macbeth,' the conclusions that came to were, I think, these. (a) That the new songs were in all probability, though not certainly, by D'Avenant. (b) That the text was copied from F.1; such blunders as "gallowgrosses" and "Thunders:" (I. i. 13, 26) were repeated throughout, though F. 2 and F. 3 had in the meanwhile been issued. (c) In especial that the gross displacements in the metrical lines were slavishly followed, a fact I note separately because it of itself proves that neither D'Avenant nor any even near him in ability, or poetic knowledge, or sense could have had a hand in it. (d) That though F. 1 was thus slavishly followed in its blunders there were a goodly number of verbal alterations, and some phrasal ones of two or three words each-variations due, no doubt, sometimes to the printer, but sometimes to a would-be varier of I |