Linley, by whom he had a son Thomas and a daughter Mary, who died an infant. Mrs. Sheridan died at Bristol June 28, 1792, and was buried in Wells Cathedral. He married, secondly, April 27, 1795, at Winchester Cathedral, Esther Jane, only daughter of Newton Ogle, D.D., Dean of Winchester. She died at Frogmore, near Windsor Castle, Oct. 27, 1817. He had issue by his second A CURIOUS WORK (7th S. vii. 28).-A full account of Richard Bernard appears in the 'Dic-wife: Thomas, born Jan. 14, 1796, and Charles, of tionary of National Biography,' iv. 386-7, and his curious book, 'A Guide to Grand Jurymen,' 1627, is in the British Museum Library. BIOGRAPHER. 34, Myddelton Square, Clerkenwell. Trinity College, Camb., 1817. The son of the first marriage, Thomas, who died at the Cape of Good Hope Sept. 12, 1817, married, Nov. 1, 1805, Caroline Henrietta, fourth daughter of Col. Callander, SHERIDAN FAMILY (7th S. vi. 368).-Thomas afterwards Sir James Campbell, of Craigforth, co. Sheridan, divine and poet, born 1687 at Uagh-Stirling, by Lady Elizabeth Helena M'Donnell, teraghy, co. Cavan, entered Trinity College, Dublin, daughter of Alexander, fifth Earl of Antrim, and as "fil Patricii" Oct. 18, 1707; graduated B. A. by her (who died June 9, 1851) had issue four sons 1711; M. A. 1714; B.D. 1724; D.D. 1726; married and three daughters. The family is now seated at Elizabeth, daughter of Charles McFadden, of Quilca, Frampton Court, Dorchester, Dorset. co. Cavan; and died at Rathsaranam, Queen's DANIEL HIPWELL. County, Oct. 10, 1738, leaving, with other issue, Richard, baptized May 23, 1718, in St. Mary's, Dublin; Thomas, his third son, born 1719 in Capel Street, Dublin; baptized in St. Mary's Church, Dean Swift being godfather; entered Trinity College, Dub lin, May 26, 1735; elected scholar 1738; graduated B.A. 1739; married, 1748, Frances (born at Dublin May, 1724), daughter of the Rev. Dr. Philip Chamberlaine, Prebendary of St. Patrick's, Dublin, and granddaughter of Sir Oliver Chamberlaine, and had by her the following issue, all of whom were born at his house in Dorset Street, Dublin: Thomas, died an infant; Charles Francis, baptized July 23, 1750, in St. Mary's, Dublin; Richard Brinsley, born Oct. 30, 1751; baptized at St. Mary's, Nov. 4, 1751; Alicia, born 1754; married Joseph Le Fanu, Esq.; and died Sept. 4, 1817, at her son's house, Royal Hibernian School, Phoenix Park, Dublin; and Elizabeth, married July 4, 1789, to Henry Le Fanu, Esq., late captain 56th Foot. Thomas Sheridan, a well-known actor and lexicographer, died Aug. 14, 1788, at Margate, and was buried Aug. 21 at St. Peter's in the Isle of Thanet (vide Gent. Mag., vol. xcv. part ii. p. 487; and vol. xcvi. part i. p. 16). His wife, the writer of various poems, comedies, &c., died Sept. 26, 1766, at Blois, in France, and was there interred. Their second son, Charles Francis, who became UnderSecretary at War for Ireland and member of the Irish Parliament, married Letitia Christina Bolton, niece to the Right Hon. John Monck Mason, and died at Tunbridge Wells June 24, 1806. His wife died at Worcester March 24, 1819. They had issue: Thomas Henry, H.E.I.C. Bombay, died Sept. 6, 1812, at Shiraz, in Persia, and was there buried; and three daughters, the eldest married to Charles Satterthwaite, of Liverpool; Letitia; and Caroline, married to Capt. Riddell of the Madras Cavalry. Richard Brinsley Sheridan, married, first, April 24, 1773, Elizabeth Anne, daughter of Thomas vi. 216, 332).—In the 'Adagia,' &c., of Erasmus St. Austin's Warrington. ROBERT PIERPOINT. TROWSES (7th S. vii. 25).-Old spelling of trousers. See my 'Dictionary,' where I quote trowses both from Ben Jonson and Ford, and trooses from Herbert. In fact, hardly any other form was in use at that period. WALTER W. SKEAT. BURLINGBROOK (7th vi. S. 469).-Is not this a mistake for Bolingbroke? Oliver, fourth Lord St. John of Bletshoe, was advanced by letters patent, dated Dec. 29, 1624, to the dignity of Earl of Bolingbroke, and was succeeded by two grandsons, Oliver and Paulet. The latter dying unmarried in 1711, the earldom became extinct. The first earl married Elizabeth, daughter and heir of William Paulet, grandson of St. George Paulet, a younger brother of William, first Marquis of Winchester. The Earls of Bolingbroke are named in Collins's Peerage,' by Brydges, under "St. John of Bletshoe." The first earl having married a Paulet, an heiress, she probably brought the property in St. Botolph's, Bishopsgate Without, which may have been detached from the Winchester estate, or bought in order to be near it; that is, if I am right in supposing that the property still indicated by the names Winchester Street, Winchester House, &c., belonged to the Marquis, and not to the Bishop, of Winchester. W. E. BUCKLEY. Engraved British Portraits' (by Anthony Wilson), 1793, as is affirmed on the cover of the last of the four works noted here. JULIAN MARSHALL. 'ALUMNI WESTMONASTERIENSES' (7th S. vi. 347, 475). I have to thank Mr. M. Ì. F. Brickdale, of Lincoln's Inn, for his courtesy and kindness in sending me his copy of the 1852 edition of this work to look at. I have been able to pick up from it most of the information I was in search of. This will save me from having_to_trespass on the kindness of ALPHA and G. F. R. B., which I fully appreciate. If, as G. F. R. B. states in his note, the 1788 edition is catalogued at the British Museum under "Welch," and, I assume, on the same principle, the 1852 edition under "Phillimore," there is little wonder that, even with the assistance of two very intelligent and courteous attendants, I was not able to find the book. Most people would look for it under "Westminster," where surely both editions ought at once to be entered. J. B. WILSON. KITTERING (7th S. vii. 24).—This word presents no difficulty. It is a disguised form of the provincial English catering, which the boy probably pronounced better than it was taken down, and which the judge explained with perfect correctness. Cater, to cut diagonally, is duly given in Halliwell; and it is used in Kent and Surrey. In the list of Surrey provincialisms (E. D. S., Gloss., c. 4) we find, “ Caterways, Catering, adv. used of crossing diagonally." It would be of much assistance to me if those who inquire after words, and who by so doing confess that they do not quite understand them, would refrain in every case from suggesting an etymology. In the present case the suggestion that kittering represents "quartering," is just the very thing to throw an investigator off the track, precisely because there is a real ultimate connexion between the words. Quartering is ultimately due to the Lat. quartus, an ordinal numeral. Cater, on the other hand, is due to the Lat. quatuor, a cardinal number. It makes all the difference, because the former r in quarter would not have disappeared after that fashion. Cater is the correct Old English word, the number "four" on a die being so called. It is the correct descendant of the O.F. katre, four. The names of the marks upon dice were formerly (and even now) the follow-it is correct to assume that Michel signifies "great ing-ace, deuce, tray, cater, sink, size (or six). Cater gave the notion of four corners; and to cater a field is to cross it cornerwise, i.e., diagonally. It obviously gives double trouble when one has to explain both a word and its mistaken origin. WALTER W. SKEAT. 1. A Catalogue of the Classic Contents of Strawberry Hill. London, April, 1842. 4to.-Printed cover; portrait; pp. xxiv and 250. 2. Eles Strawberriana. Names of Purchasers and Knightwick Rectory. THE EDDYSTONE, ITS ETYMOLOGY (7th S. vi. 1519, of which I have a note, the testator describes 388). In a Yorkshire will, dated 1515, proved himself "de magna Eddyston, in com Ebor." This is Great Edstone, a parish in the wapentake of Rydale, North Riding. In Domesday it is Micheledestune. Edstone is probably a placename derived from a personal name; but whether seems to be open to question. Edstone Church is very old, and is remarkable for a still more ancient Saxon dial and inscription—and it is dedicated to relic preserved in its south wall-the well-known St. Michael. I should like to know what those learned in such matters think of the suggestion that I venture with all diffidence to make-that the patron saint's name is preserved to us in Michel. Great Edstone may be a comparatively modern signification, adopted in contradistinction to Little Edstone, an adjoining township of the neighbouring parish (Sinnington). An earlier instance than is afforded by this will of the place-name Eddyston may be seen in 'Hist. Coll. Staff's.,' vol. vi. part i. p. 79, where, in the Plea Rolls, 4 Edward I. (A.D. 1276), “Elias de the Prices to the Sale Catalogue of the choice Collections 3. A Catalogue of the extensive and most valuable Collection of Engraved Portraits......London, June, 1842. 4to. Printed cover; pp. vi and 129 (erroneously numbered 131). 4. Eles Strawberrianæ. Names of Purchasers and the Prices to the Detailed Sale Catalogue of the Collection of Early Drawings, Etchings and Prints...... London, n.d. [1842]. Limited to fifty copies. Price Three Shillings. 4to.-Printed cover; pp. 20. The collection of prints was very important as being the foundation of 'Bromley's Catalogue of W. F. MARSH JACKSON. Two or three short accounts of the Eddystone Lighthouse and its history which I have read agree in deriving the name of the reef on which it is situated from the "swirling eddies" into which the Atlantic waves break up when they encounter the J. F. MANSERGH. reef. Liverpool. WILLIAM PARRY (7th S. vi. 468).-The expression respecting adverbs which was referred to by Parry in his confession in the Tower of London, A.D. 1585, was not originally his own, but a quotation from another. It was uttered by him at Paris in 1570, in reference to killing Queen Elizabeth : ing Reminiscences of Hampshire,' by Æsop, STROUD AS A PLACE-NAME (7th S. vi. 187, 309, changes of vowels which I have instanced in the photographic facsimile of the Yorkshire Domesday. The value of this document is that it proves that in the eleventh century owners of land, in the same township, interchanged vowels almost indifferently in spelling the name of the township. The value of the vowels must, therefore, have been more indeterminate than, from the study of purely literary documents, we are accustomed to suppose. "I answered that I was ready to kill the greatest sub-357, 449, 516).—A PEDANT will find all the interject of England. But, said he (Morgan), why not the Queen herself? And this, said I, might easily be done, if it might appear to be lawful. For Wattes, a priest. with whom I had conference about it, concealing persons' names, affirmed flatly, it was not lawful. And Chreicton also, the Spanish Jesuit, avouched the same, teaching, That evil was not to be done that good might come of it: that God was better pleased with adverbs than with nouns; and more approved what was done well and lawfully, than what was otherwise good."-Cambden, in Complete History of England,' vol. ii. p. 502, 1706. Parry was hung at Westminster in the same year. ED. MARSHALL. Palermo, Sicily. ISAAC TAYLOR. Both Venables A like term in Bishop Hall may explain, and is JOHN BUNYAN (7th S. vii. 7).-The date of probably the original of the quotation from Motley. Bunyan's licence to preach, as given at the above "God loveth adverbs; and cares not how good, reference, is evidently wrong. but how well" (Holy Observations,' § 14, 1614), ("Great Writers ") and Froude ("English Men of which, from the context, means, cares not for the Letters") give it as May 9, 1672, and the latter nature or greatness of the work, but for the hearti- refers to it as a "licence as pastor of the Baptist ness or conscience with which it is done; and per Chapel at Bedford" (p. 86). Further on in the haps in Motley, if it suits the place, that Parry same book (p. 173) also occurs the statement that fortunately found out, not mere personal excellence, after his release and pardon "he visited London good intent, or goodness (noun), but doing or accom-annually to preach in the Baptist churches." Surely plishing well (adverb), was of import. W. C. M. B. [The name did not appear in Mr. Foster's list. We are glad a beginning has been made.] HUNTING SONGS WANTED (7th S. vi. 509).The words "Sly Reynard" begin one verse of Henry Fielding's "A-hunting we will go," which is probably one of the songs MR. VIDLER asks for. It was originally written in the opera of Don Quixote in England,' and may be found in Dr. Charles Mackay's Book of English Songs.' I do not, however, see the 'Dark Day in November' in that book. C. F. S. WARREN, M.A. Foleshill Hall, Longford, Coventry. Towards the latter part of the last century the members of the Hampshire Hunt had monthly dinners, and appear to have been a very jovial, song-singing set of men. Among them was the Rev. C. Powlett, of Icen Abbas, who was known as "the poet of the H. H." Whether his hunting songs have ever been published collectively I cannot say, but some of them may be found in Sport Bunyan cannot be said to have belonged to any other sect; for was he not "baptized in the Ouse, and became a professed member of the Baptist Congregation"? (Froude, p. 53.) I am not aware that he ever changed his opinions on this subject in after life. Probably Canon Venables has seen the parish registers of Elstow, which I believe date back as far as 1640, and can supply the dates of Bunyan's marriages and the baptisms of his children. On p. 17 of his book, before referred to, he states that two (at least) of his children were baptized in the still existing font at Elstow, Mary, his dearly loved blind child, on July 20, 1659, and her younger sister, Elizabeth, on April 14, 1654." This latter sentence answers part of HERMENTRUDE's question. It was only lately that Bunyan was loudly proclaimed to be of gipsy extraction, and now he is said to have been of the Congregational persuasion." Will Dr. Brown explode this latter theory also? 66 Holmby House, Forest Gate. JOHN T. PAGE. 'MONODY ON HENDERSON' (7th S. vii. 7). – This was written by Joseph Cottle, "in a small volume of poems published without Cottle's name, at Bristol in 1795" (Ainger's Letters of Charles Lamb,' i. 312). Lamb's reference to it is so mixed up with his criticisms of Coleridge's own poems (1796) that he seems to be writing of one of these. In the six-volume edition of Lamb's 'Works' (i. 303) confusion is worse confounded by the editor. Lamb wrote, 'Monody on H.,' and the editor filled up the blank thus: "[artley]." probably he only could explain. What he meant J. D. C. BRANDINGS (7th S. vi. 428).-I do not think DR. MURRAY need shake in his shoes on account of the omission from the 'New English Dictionary' of a mere misprint of the German word brandung (breakers, surge), which Dr. Pusey has transferred (placing it, rightly, within brackets) from Ritter's original work. Q. V. Is not brandings, a word found in no English authority that I know of, coined directly from the German branden, to surge against, and brandung, breakers? Hastings. EDWARD H. MARSHALL, M.A. IN MEMORIAM: J. O. HALLIWELL-PHILLIPPS. (See ante, p. 59.)-May I also be permitted a few lines in memory of our friend ?-no doubt it would greatly interest your readers. I was not known to him before 1874, but since that time he has been to me, perhaps unwittingly, the chief mental comfort of my life, and it will be so to the end. To him I am indebted for a methodical system of gathering, ordering, and indexing materials for my "Old Southwark' studies. His way was to give you a hint, to take you a few inches on the way, and leave you to your own devices. Ever and anon would come by post or parcel, paid to my door, valuable books, cuttings, clues, and hints; anything that he found about old Southwark and the Bankside would be soon on its way to me. I have many letters and postcards from him, all of the most genial and hospitable character. When we began to know each other well, he would open to me his iron safe, his scrap and note books, and bid me copy and use whatever I liked. We were wont quietly to sit in his study at Hollingbury Copse, each pursuing his own work, with just a word when either lighted upon something interesting to the other, until, wearied or desiring change, we sauntered to and fro along those airy charming walks at the Copse. The well-known bell would ring out, heard far off over the hills, and in we would go together to meet at lunch visitors, who in that hospitable bungalow, as he called it, were always coming and going, cared for by his wife, who, if it were not their own fault, made every one comfortable and cheery. Nothing was stereotyped; all were free to follow their own bent, friendly eyes and hearts always caring for them. He was kind, even tender, especially to those who were below him in fortune or attainments; and, as I know well, he was in the great esteem of others his peers, from whom his good word never failed to procure for me the most effectual attention in any literary help I required. The only condition in that house, tacit but evident, was to help in the general harmony and kindliness to each other. I often met young and old, sick or weary, friends of theirs, irrespec tive of notoriety or attainments; to be kind to them seemed always pleasant to him. About 1874 I met him for the first time at Dulwich. He was there accompanied by a gentleman from the British Museum for one final and critical look at the suspected 'Diary of Philip Henslowe'— tainted, that is, in a point or two. Directly I knew Mr. Halliwell-Phillipps sufficiently I wrote to tell him of opportunities of seeing the valuable St. Saviour's papers in a comfortable room at the church and at leisure. "Would he like to be there?" His note, April 5, 1874, is before me, "that it would through the St. Saviour's papers." Very many who be a great treat to have the opportunity of going greatly reverence his name and attainments-here, in Germany, and America-would prize a small, well-digested volume, that would, so to speak, bring him back to us. I hope his able nephew and executor, correspondent of N. & Q.,' may see his way to do it. He would not lack help in this labour of loving respect. WILLIAM RENDLE. Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, &o. The Inns of Old Southwark and their Associations. By William Rendle, F. R.C.S., and Philip Norman, F.S.A. (Longmans & Co.) THIS volume holds a place midway between the severely antiquarian treatise and the light literature with which we are deluged. It is not intended to be an exhaustive treatise, but the writers know their subject far too well to permit themselves to indulge in the nonsense with which serious historical studies are often bespattered. As an introduction to a curious subject, concerning which but little has been written, we welcome it gladly. The homes of England have been described in every possible manner. The cottage, the mansion, the manor, and the palace have been experimented upon by the spend some part of our lives and some of us a great learned and the ignorant; but the inn, where all of us portion, has been almost entirely neglected, except by a few magazine writers. This is not as it should be. Much curious lore gathers about our old hostelries. There are some of them whose very names carry us back into the Middle Ages; many which tell us of the times when England was Roman Catholic and it drew custom to have a saint for a signboard. The authors of the volume before us have interpreted their commission liberally. They tell us not a little of the old breweries which stood in such intimate relation to the houses of entertainment. The plan they give of the Borough will be very useful to many persons who do not require it for the sake for which it has been intended. The illustrations are a marked feature in the volume, To some they will be more interesting than the text. The growth of modern wants has swept away nearly all our old inns. So enwho desire to realize what was in the minds of memoirtirely have they become things of the past, that those writers and novelists of the last century cannot do so without some amount of antiquarian research. Even Pickwick' without illustrations is not easily understood by the modern reader. To all such The Inns of Old Southwark' will be very useful. Most of our readers know Larwood and Hotten's book on signboards. It is not our duty to criticize that work now. We my remark, however, that it was the first attempt to give us a catalogue of our signs. We would ask if it be not possible to complete this work, and give us a perfect list of these objects, with engravings illustrating the more curious among them. We have heard that such a labour has been accomplished for the Netherlands, and are anxious that we should not be behind hand. Messrs. Rendle and Norman would, we are sure, do such a work in a most satisfactory manner. Chaucer: the Minor Poems. Edited by the Rev. Walter Skeat, Litt.D. (Clarendon Press.) As a specimen of thorough workmanship, Prof. Skeat's edition of the minor poems of Chaucer is probably unrivalled. Not much more than a third of a volume of nearly six hundred pages is occupied with the poems themselves, the remainder being taken up with preliminary dissertation, various readings, notes, critical, explanatory, and illustrative, glossary, indexes, and other similar matters, the whole constituting a display of varied knowledge and critical acumen not easily rivalled. Of the matter rashly assigned to Chaucer by successive editors Prof. Skeat makes short work. Now he shows that a poem is dated after Chaucer's death, now that it is known to be by Lydgate or Occleve, now that it contains reference to matters in the fifteenth century, and, again, that the style is that of a period much subsequent. Not seldom Prof. Skeat hits upon proofs that his predecessors seem to have gone out of their way to avoid. In every case he is careful to state on what authority a poem is assigned to Chaucer or withdrawn from him. The only cases in which his decision might be disputed are those in which be decides from the rhymes and from internal evidence. In order to judge in these matters a writer must be saturated with his author. There is no question about the fact that a man of critical faculty may know an author so well as to be able to decide all but infallibly (perhaps infallibly even) whether a poem is genuine. Few lovers of Shakspeare or of Milton (of the latter especially) can be in any doubt. We claim no such knowledge, and acquiesce in the decision that reduces the minor poems of Chaucer to twenty. Shall we shock the editor, however, by saying that we should like to have the remaining poems-some of them, at least-which have been accepted as his printed in a supplemental volume, like the Apocrypha or the doubtful plays of Shakspeare. Such a task as the preparation of this would not suit Prof. Skeat, nor would we demand the wealth of notes which we gladly welcome here. The reader, however, who is not a Chaucerian expert misses some poems from which he has derived pleasure. Meanwhile we congratulate the student upon the possession of a work of unfailing and marvellous erudition, a treasurehouse of wonderful and valuable information, together with a text which puts out of court all preceding versions. Catherine Leslie Hobson, Lady-Nurse, Crimean War, and her Life. By the Rev. W. F. Hobson. (Parker & Co.) THIS is an affectionate memorial of one of that devoted band of women who served the sick and the wounded during all the horrors of the Crimean War. It is not easy to speak of the service these holy women rendered to humanity without seeming to be guilty of florid exaggeration. We have learnt many things since the fifties, and one of them is that a woman does not go beyond her proper sphere who devotes her life to the succour of the miserable. Englishmen were in those days unaccustomed to such devotion. To the Crimean nurses we not only owe the fact that the sufferings of many of our soldiers were relieved, and their death-beds tenderly watched-a mercy for which we must all be grateful-but we are indebted to them also for the present state of feeling with regard to nursing sisters. This or that particular institution may still be unpopular with certain people, but no one is to be found now who would attack the principle which leads ladies to devote their lives to the physical good of others. The Travels through England of Dr. Richard Pococke. Edited by James Joel Cartwright, M.A., F.S.A. Vol. I. (Printed for the Camden Society.) To its esteemed treasurer the Camden Society is indebted for the first volume of what will prove a work of equal value and interest. Dr. Pococke, successively Bishop of Meath and of Ossory, was a born traveller, and extended his peregrinations so far as Palestine and Syria. His English travels are, however, alone dealt with by Mr. Cartwright, who has found the materials in the Additional MSS. in the British Museum. The letters are transcripts, only made with a view to publication, the originals being untraceable. With a fidelity akin to that of Drayton in the Polyolbion,' Dr. Pococke has pursued his way from hamlet to hamlet, leaving little of interest unnoticed, and giving us a graphic picture of England as it was when the North had barely recovered from the shock of Jacobite invasion. One of his pleasant specialties is that he was a warm lover of natural scenery at a time when such taste was rare. The following volumes will be waited with some impatience. In some cases the original scribe seems to have omitted the signs of abbreviation in the letters, and allows such mistakes as "S Henry Sligsby, of Scriven Hall," for Sir Henry Slingsby. To most county histories the work will be an indispensable addition. The Bronte Country: its Topography, Antiquities, and History. By J. A. Erskine Stuart. (Longmans & THE Brontë literature grows rapidly. There are two Co.) really good lives of Charlotte, and more books have been written concerning her and her surroundings than we can call on ourselves to enumerate. More than one of these lesser lights has contained passages in very unfortunate taste. No fault can be found with Mr. Stuart's volume on the ground that it discusses subjects with The author realizes which the public have no concern. the fact, which is not as yet universally acknowledged, that because a person has become justly celebrated his or her greatness does not give every one a right to publish all the personal gossip that can be picked up from neighbours, servants, and those unhappily constituted persons who derive a great part of their daily pleasure from hearing and retailing scandal, The Brontë family were all of them highly gifted and, Poor Bramwell, weak, but not by nature evil, has been with one exception, were of extremely noble characters. seized upon by the gossip-mongers, and the trivial events of his sad and painful career made padding for books and copy for newspaper scribblers in a way that would have given acute pain to Charlotte and his other sisters could they have foreseen the future. Mr. Stuart has little to tell of this gifted race that is new, but he knows the country in which they lived, and is able to describe to us the places which were used by Charlotte in her novels. How skilfully these real objects were employed we can easily see when we compare her pictures with their originals, as Mr. Stuart describes them for our benefit. The taste of the novel-reading public has changed since Charlotte Brontë flashed upon the world. The alteration has not been entirely for the better. In her days few novel-writers had given bright and clearly cut descriptions of scenery. Her pictures of what she had seen are terse and as truthful as it is possible to imagine. No English writer has ever brought a landscape, with all |