Andrew Bain was born near Edinburgh, and educated at its university. His father, a Highland laird, went out with Prince Charlie in 1745. He was for several months in hiding, and had many hairbreadth escapes, but was eventually pardoned on payment of a heavy fine. This rendered necessary the sale of his estate and his living in quietness at Edinburgh. When he died his funeral was attended by the principal members among the Jacobites. The son graduated as M.D. on 24 June, 1780, his thesis being De Causis Febrium iisdemque Præcidendis, which was printed (pp. 41) at that city in the same year, with a dedication to Archibald Cockburn of Cockpen. Three copies of it are in the library of the College of Physicians, but it is wanting from the library of the British Museum. 6 Dr. Bain's constitution did not permit him to continue in practice in his native city. He came South, and settled at Bath, where he followed his profession for several years with much success. When the first Mrs. Sheridan came to Bristol Hot Wells in 1792 he was her physician, and he communicated to Tom Moore some details about her last illness and death. This information and the letter which the widower sent to him after her death are printed in Moore's Life of Sheridan,' 1825, pp. 495-6. The sum of 1001. which Sheridan gave him for his services to the suffering lady was considered a very handsome fee. favourite doctor with the ladies; his patients of that sex were said by the wits of the day to suffer from "Bain-fever." Sheridan remained throughout life his intimate personal friend. A letter from Sheridan to Bain on the latter's caution against too close an association with a consumptive person is printed by Moore (ib., pp. 689-90). When Sheridan was lying on his death-bed, the letter from John Taylor Vaughan proffering pecuniary assistance from the Prince Regent was addressed to Bain; and when the sheriff's officer contemplated carrying the dying man to the sponging-house, it was Bain who averted the disgrace by pointing out the danger that he would incur, should death seize his victim during the removal. At Sheridan's funeral, in the train of a phalanx of titled persons, walked "humbly, side by side," his two best friends, Bain and Samuel Rogers. Bain communicated to Moore details of Sheridan's last hours (ib., pp. 695-8). In 1796 Bain purchased the estate of Hethfelton, or Heffleton, in the parish of East Stoke, Dorset, and about five miles from Wareham; and he was High Sheriff of the county in 1822. He also acquired some neighbouring properties, and built the existing house of Heffleton, a view of which is in the third edition of the history of Dorset by Hutchins. He greatly beautified the estate by planting between 1798 and 1807, in a semicircle, from the north side of the Wareham-to-Wool road and on adjoining heathland, some woods, which include fine specimens of the cedar of Lebanon, the ilex, the beech, and the oak. For this improve ment he received in 1808 the gold medal of the Society of Arts "for plantations of forest trees." His communication on this subject is included in the Transactions of the Society, vol. xxvi. pp. 41-4. He claimed to have planted 800,000 trees in 400 acres of ground," but many of them, especially the larch, had not lived. Both Sheridan and Moore stayed with him at Heffleton, and there is a tradition in the family that From 1802 to 1808 Bain practised at 13, the latter composed his sonnet of The Bruton Street, London, and from that year Young May Moon' while on a visit there. to 1819 he lived at 10, Curzon Street. He Three letters from Moore to Bain are in Lord became a licentiate of the College of Phy- John Russell's Memoirs of Thomas Moore. sicians on 12 April, 1802, and a fellow viii. 263-7. From the last of them, dated speciali gratia, on 25 June, 1813. On 23 Oct., 8 July, 1826, it appears that Moore and his 1809, he was appointed physician extra-brother-poet the Rev. W. L. Bowles, were ordinary to the Prince Regent. He retired on the point of paying a visit to Heffleton. from practice in 1820 with the reputation of being "one of the most eminent practitioners in London." Endowed with a handsome figure and pleasing manners, he was a 66 Dr. Bain married at Bath, on 15 March. 1793, Elizabeth, daughter and coheir (with her sister Sarah, wife of Sir Eyre Coote) of John Rodbard of West Coker, Somerset. C She died at Upper Church Street, Bath, on 8 Jan., 1801, and Bain then moved to London. Their issue was one son and two daughters. The son, John Rodbard Bain (b. 18 March, 1794), was the Bain who left Westminster School in 1810 (Barker and Stenning, 'West. School Reg.,' p. 12), and matriculated from Christ Church, Oxford, on 23 Dec., 1811. His degrees were B.A. 6 Dec., 1815, and M.A. 11 March, 1819. He was ordained in the English Church, and was instituted, on the nomination of the Bishop of Salisbury, on 21 Jan., 1819, to the desirable rectory of Winfrith Newburgh in Dorset, about five miles from his father's seat. On the evening of the 9th of July, 1820, he and his two sisters, with William Baring, M.P. (fourth son of Sir Francis Baring), then residing at Lulworth Castle, and his wife, walked from the castle to Arish Mell gap on the sea-coast. The sea was calm, and the two men embarked in a small boat belong. ing to Baring. When about a hundred yards from the shore they attempted to change places in the boat, but it overturned, and they were drowned within the sight of the three women. A tablet to Baring's memory is in the church of East Lulworth. Bain was buried at Winfrith Newburgh on 14 July, 1820, and a tablet to him was placed in the church, on the north wall of the chancel. The afflicted father never got over the shock. He died at Heffleton on 29 April, 1827, and was buried at Winfrith Newburgh on 5 May. A tablet, the inscription on which was written by Dr. Howley, Archbishop of Canterbury, is next that of his son. Both tablet and register record that he was in his sixtieth year at the time of his death, but that seems hardly compatible with the date of his degree. Sympathetic letters from the Princess Sophia Matilda and Tom Moore on the doctor's death are printed in Fitzgerald's Sheridans,' ii. 281. A half-length portrait, by Sir Thomas Lawrence, of the son is at Heffleton. He is represented in a blue coat with brass buttons, and wearing a white cravat, and about the age of twenty. The towers of an ecclesiastical building in the background are apparently those of Westminster Abbey. There is also at Heffleton a portrait of Dr. Bain when approaching fifty. It is the work of an unknown artist, whom he attended without taking any fee. Bain's elder daughter, Mary Elizabeth, married at Wool, on 6 Aug., 1828, as his second wife, James Chamness Fyler. She died at Heffleton on 7 June, 1857; and he died there on 24 Feb., 1858. The Heffleton estate was her share of the property. The second daughter, Sarah Frances, married (1) the Rev. Henry Magan, and had one son, who died in infancy; and (2) Thomas Hawkesworth, by whom she had one son and two daughters. She inherited her mother's property at Stoke-sub-Hamdon, Somerset, and died more than twenty years ago. 2 See Munk's Physicians,' 2nd ed., iii. 116; Sichel's 'Sheridan,' ii. 221, 223, 380, 386, 436, 438; Gent. Mag., 1801, pt. i. 94; 1809, pt. ii. 1228; 1820, pt. i. 94; 1827, pt. i. 476 ; Hutchins, Dorset, 3rd ed., i. 418-19, 443, 446; Foster, Alumni Oxon.'; and John Taylor, 'Records of My Life,' ii. 178, 204-6. Taylor mentions that Dr. Bain's sister married Hardie, an official in the East India House. Soon after his retirement on a handsome pension, he slipped on some stairs, fell backwards, and was killed on the spot. I am also indebted for information to the Rev. S. W. Nash, Rector of Winfrith Newburgh. W. P. COURTNEY. STOTHARD'S VISIT TO ITALY. I Do not find from the notice of T. Stothard in the 'D.N.B.,' or elsewhere, any recognition of the fact that he visited Italyperhaps an important omission. As it may be well to put a few details on record concerning his journey, I venture to append the following from a MS. diary of his, in my possession. Stothard left London on 27 March, 1824, lodged at Quillay's Hotel in Calais, and next day visited Dessein's Hotel in order to see the room once occupied by Sterne. Leaving for Paris, where he arrived on 5 April (?), he visited Abbeville and Beauvais, looking in at the famous cathedral of the latter town to admire the rich stainedglass windows," but was much "interrupted by filthy beggars." 66 In Paris he visited the ruins of the Bastille, Père la Chaise, and the Opéra Comique, where he witnessed a performance of Blaise The dancing, et Babet' and 'La Neige.' dresses, and decorations are very splendid.' Thence he went by diligence to Dijon, where he slept one night, and remarks that the cathedral has been much injured during the late revolution. From Poligny he began to ascend the snowy Jura, with the aid of seven horses, which rested at "Champagnole." He breakfasted next day St. Laurent. Thence the journey was conHere he was tinued in sledges to Geneva. at taken in hand by a Mr. Lombard, who showed him the town and a collection of pictures which had been saved from the burning of Moscow, rich in examples of Du Jardin, Van der Velde, &c. From Geneva he traversed the Rhone valley to Brieg, and so over the Simplon by 22 at the moonlight, "faring sumptuously village of Sempione next day, and reaching Domo d'Ossola to sleep in Italy. Thence the artist passed, enchanted, along the dreamy western shore of Maggiore to Arona and Milan. He mentions with pride his ascent of the marble spire of the Duomo and the magnificent panorama viewed from it. the church of S. Angelo In were kneeling many well-dressed females their fine forms were beautifully relieved by the crimson damask on the walls, whose rich colour was rendered quite dazzling by a stream of sunshine falling through the opposite windows." At the Brera he specially admired a 'Descent from the Cross by Tintoretto : replete He was shocked with expression and effect." at the oppressive taxation by the Austrians, and praises the character and bearing of the Milanese under their burden. At Milan he joined a party in hiring a carriage to take them to Florence in five days, viâ Bologna. M. Drouet, the great flute-player, was one of them, and another was a priest going back to Rome. They left on 24 April, and passed by Parma and Modena "the nightingales delighting us by plaintive MILTON AND THE COMPANY OF COOPERS: EARLY JURY LIST.-A little pamphlet has lately been issued by Messrs. Hutchings & Romer, of 39, Great Marlborough Street, entitled London Citizens in 1651.' It consists of a transcript of Harleian MS. 4778, which is a list of signatures of the members of twenty-two City companies, of approxi mate date 1650 or 1651. Among those of the Company of Coopers, which appears on folio 16, occurs that of John Milton, which is stated by the editor to be similar to that of the poet. This seems a fact worth putting on record. The pamphlet concludes with A List of the Grand Jury of the Quarter Sessions, October, 1661,' which is stated to be the earliest known annotated Middlesex or LonIt is transcribed from don Jury List. B.M. pamphlet 1891 d. 1. W. R. B. PRIDEAUX. WARREN HASTINGS'S FATHER IN BARBADOS.-Mr. Darnell Davis, C.M.G., the wellknown authority on Barbadian history, contributes to the Barbados Agricultural Reporter for 26 January last a transcript of the will of the Rev. Penyston Hastings. In introducing it Mr. Davis says: What is clear, "Through the facilities afforded to students of the history of this island by Mr. Lindsay Haynes, the Registrar, it can now be shown that Barbados was the last home of Parson Hastings, whose age must have been only some thirty years at The year in SHAKESPEARE THIRD FOLIO: THE JONES the time of his death in this island. COPY.-A few days ago, on closely examin- which Penyston Hastings, clerk, arrived in Barbados is not at present known. ing this volume (1664) in the Jones Bequest, however, is that he celebrated Christmas Day. South Kensington, I found that the title-1737, by getting married for the third time, as page exhibited to the public is a very clever is attested by entries in the parish registers of pen-and-ink facsimile; but no intimation St. Michael's and Christ Church, as follows:-"St. Michael's: 1737, December 25: 'The that this is otherwise than genuine is given Reverend Peniston Hastings to Mrs. Jemima on the printed ticket describing the volume, and I imagine that the public has always, like myself hitherto, assumed this title-page to be genuine. It would be interesting to know whether Leigh Hunt, R. H. Horne, G. H. Lewes, W. Wordsworth, Charles Dickens, Charles Knight, and the others who have signed their names on this title page, were aware that they were putting their names to a facsimile, and not to an original. Mascoll.' "Christ Church: 1737, December 25: The Reverend Pennystone Hastings and Jemima Mascoll.' The entry in the Christ Church Register may have been made on account of the parson's being the rector of that parish. "His first wife, Hester, was the daughter of a gentleman named Warren, who owned a small estate in Gloucestershire. She died a few days after giving birth to Warren, who thus never had a mother's loving care. His father was about fifteen years of age when he made his first marriage. The young people seem to have lived upon the husband's parents, who were themselves very poor. "Penyston Hastings did not tarry before making another marriage. His second wife's name is not given; but she is said to have been the daughter of a butcher in Gloucester. It was probably through her that the Rector of Christ Church became possessed of 'The Plow Inn and other property at Cheltenham which he left to his third wife by his will....The will of the Rev. Penyston Hastings is dated 21st December, 1743. As it was proved on the 20th January following, the testator did not long survive its execution.... Warren is twice mentioned by his father. The name of Daylesford also occurs. 66 The register of burials for Christ Church has the following entry, after that of 1736, May 25: RICKMANSWORTH CHURCH: INDULGENCE IN AID OF REPAIRS.-The existence of this indulgence was noted by Cussans in his 'History of Hertfordshire,' a copy having been discovered pasted in the cover of an old book in the British Museum; but it has not hitherto been printed. The document is about 6 in. long by 5 in. broad, and is slightly imperfect at the bottom, although it appears to be complete otherwise. At the head is the representation of an altar, covered by a cloth and surrounded by draperies. Upon the table are a pair of candlesticks and a dish (? a paten) bearing the monogram I.H.S. The indulgence reads : "Be it known to all Christen people which joyeth in their hearts of the power of God showed by His own precious body in form of bread in the church of Rykmersworthe, where wretched and cursed people cruelly and wilfully set fire upon all the images and on the canopy which the Blessed Sacrament was in, and to make the fire more cruel, they put tow with banner staves between the sparres and brasses of the chancel, through which fire the said chancel was burnt and the pyx was molten, and the blessed body of our Lord Jesus Christ in the form of bread was found upon the High Altar and nothing perished. Also they broke into the vestry and put fire among all the ornaments and jewels, and burnt the said vestry and all that was therein. Also in the rood loft they wrapped tow about the blessed rood, and about a pair of organs, and melted all the wax in the said loft, containing in weight 14 score pounds, where as the flaring fire was in the said loft about the blessed image of Jesus Christ, , neither the said image nor the tow about was nothing hurt through the might and power of our Saviour Jesus Christ. Also to maintain their cruel opinions they went unto the font and brake it open and despoiled the water that was hallowed therein and cast it abroad in the church floor in dispite of the Sacrament of Baptism. And forasmuch as the substantial men of the said parish hath inuewed the King's grace, how honourably God was served in the said church in time past and also that it pleased him to shew his great Wherefore my Lord Cardinal might and power. and legate delatere hath granted 100 days of pardon releasing of their penance in purgatory to all them that give any part of their goods to the restoring of the said church. Also my Lord of Lincoln hath granted 40 days." A collotype reproduction of the indulgence has been made, and copies may be had of Mr. H. J. Butcher, The Bank House, Rickmansworth. W. B. GERISH. WALTHAM ABBEY CARVED PANELS: DENNY ARMS.-A curious problem is presented by the arms upon the carved panelling once in the Abbey Mansion House at Waltham, and now set up in the form of a small room in the Victoria and Albert Museum. The coat is Quarterly, 1 and 4, a chevron between three mullets; 2 and 3, a lion rampant (or over a lion rampant a bend). In the first place these are not the family arms of the Right Hon. Sir Anthony Denny, who first, in 1541, obtained a lease of the Abbey House, which, being purchased by his widow, became the residence of their descendants for over a century. From this it has been argued that the panelling must be of an earlier date than that at which the Dennys became possessors of the Abbot's Mansion. However, in A Late Tudor Book of Arms,' published by Foster a few years ago, occurs " Dennys, and 4, Argent, a chevron sable between three mullets gules; 2 and 3, Argent, a lion rampant azure, crowned or.' This is evidently the very coat which appears on the Waltham panels. Elsewhere one finds that the arms of Denny of Eye in Suffolk, and of Deneys of Suffolk, were Argent, a chevron sable between three pierced mullets gules. Argent a chevron sable between three mullets gules, pierced or, were the arms of "Mr. Edmund Dennie, borne at Stoke Ashe in Suffolk, and descended from ye family of Deneyes of Tannington in Suffolk, and now dwelling at Chigwell, Essex.....He died Sept. 5, 1656, and was buried at Chigwell, being Principal of Clifford's Inn."-Harl. MS. 1449, f. 108. All this seems to point to the conclusion that whoever carved the Waltham panels designed them for the Denny family, and intended the arms upon them to be theirs, but mistook for their coat that of another family for materials for the new edition of his of Denny or Dennys. A modern instance adds weight to this supposition. In one edition of Lodge's 'Portraits of Illustrious Persons the various family arms are introduced into the ornamental border of each engraving. The coat over the portrait of Sir Anthony Denny is not his, but Argent, a chevron between three mullets sable-an exact parallel to the supposed error of the designer of the Waltham panels. If this be the true explanation, it would prove the panels to be of a later date than has generally been supposed, namely, subsequent to 1552, when (as the inscription on her portrait sets forth) "Joane ye daughter of S Ph. Champernoone and relict of S Anthony Dennie purchast Waltham Abbie of K. Ed. ye 6th unless they may have been removed to Waltham from the old Denny seat at Cheshunt, when the heads of the family took up their residence at the former place. H. L. L. D. "THE RISING SUN."-In a late issue of the Cambridge Granta we are told that "the fashioners of signboards had something besides their art; they had optimism as well. Rarely, if ever, do we light upon an inn that is called The Setting Sun,' but a Rising Sun' may welcome us at the end of many a dusty road." 22 66 6 The signification, however, thus imputed to the sign is not the correct one. The Rising Sun was not a sign of a particularly invitatory character, like, for instance, "The Traveller's Rest," The Dew Drop Inn," "The Packhorse," or "The Plough"; it was originally merely the badge of cognizance of King Edward III., and was set up, like so many other heraldic signs, by a retainer who had been in the king's service. It is sometimes described more heraldically as "rays issuing from a cloud." J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL. the History of the Diocese of St. Asaph,' came upon the following entry in Llangollen Vestry Book, under date 24 Feb., 1787:: "John Owen was appointed bangbegar [sic], to keep away from the parish all stragglers, all idle persons, who may come to be troublesome to the neighbourhood, the remuneration to be 17. 1s. per annum. QUEEN OF BOHEMIA'S PLAYERS.-Among the petitions presented to Charles I. through the Lord Chamberlain is one from "The King and Queen of Bohemia's Players, for leave to exercise their quality, being restrayned by the justices." "Answered, vizt. His Majestie is graciously pleased that the petitioners have free liberty to exercise their quality of playing without restraint any former Act of Prohibition to the contrary notwithstanding. Dec. 13, 1630." The actors did not seem, however, to be always content with one profession. In the February following the College of Physicians petitioned against divers empirics." One of these was Bugges, one of the Queen of Bohemia's players, sometimes an apothecary. The College allowed relief" (7 Feb., 1630). L. C., V. 44. C. C. STOPES. 66 BULGARIAN RIVER TRADITION.-According to a legend, the rivers Isker and Maritsa were brother and sister, and flowed together along the heights of Rilo. One day the young girl, struck by the beauty of the country which she saw eastwards, said to her brother: "Lo, I say, what a great sea lies in that direction! I will go and see it. I will descend and go towards the sun until I find it." The Isker was shocked, and tried to dissuade her; but when he saw that it was useless, he said: "Thou seekest to desert me for the white sea. Well, if I am left alone I will pass on, but I shall reach the sea before thee, for I will descend northwards and join the rapid Danube." This is the reason why the Isker and Maritsa, starting from Rilo, flow in opposite directions. The Maritsa is said to weep as a wounded widow in the Bulgarian war-song 'Sumi Maritsa,' to the melodious strains of which Prince Alexander's troops marched to the battle of Slivnitsa against the Serbs. Streatham Common. FRANCIS P. MARCHANT. |