April, 1617.-13. For 12 silver spoones given to the marriage of my nephue Alexander Croke,

19. To my nephue Roger Wingfield, 118. Julie, 1617.-11. To the poore men, their box, for being admitted a free man of the East India Companie, wch I was this day, 10s.

To Mr. Francis Sadler the Secretaire to that Companie, being his due fee uppon my admission thereunto, 18.

To a servaunt of Sr Tho: Smith the governor of that Companie, 18.

October, 1617.-To the nurse that nurseth my brother his daughter Elizabeth, 28.

Januarie, 1618.-10. To Dr. Jo: Bainbridge sent for to my sonne Samuel, being sicke as is thought of the small pocke, 10d.

April, 1619. To my brother W Coo his daughter Marie, at whose baptisme I was a speciall witness, a standing cup silver and guilt, To my cosen Anne Brise, who was midwife to the mother, 11s.

£5 68.

May, 1620.-15. To two maides at my Uncle Leake his house, 108. Februarie, sonne Tho., 12d.

1620.-To my brother Geo: his

To his daughters Marie and Eliz., 12d. May, 1621.-31. For two ewen bowes wth the stringes, th' one for Tho: Croke, th' other for Wm Coo, 10d.

For 12 headed arrowes for the said boyes and

Samuel Croke, 12d.

For 6 balles of lether for Lucie Croke, 3d. August, 1621.-To my sister Bennet Croke to be payed five pounds....when her sonne Walton shall be sheriff of oure countie, 10s. Febr 1622.-1. For three wheeling toppes for my sonne and daughter and Wm Coo, 6d.

6. For a baby in childbed for my daughter Lucie, 28.

October, 1623.-31. For a boke for my daughter Lucie entituled a Posey of Prayers, 12d.

November, 1623.-28. For a muffe for my

sister Lady Geo: Croke, 34s.

April 1624.-26. To my sister Bridget Coo to buy her a paire of gloves, 28.

June, 1625.-For two silver forks for my sister Tirell and neice Lady Eyre, 88. 4d.

May, 1626.-(?) For nephue Tho: Croke and his sisters Marie, Eliz. and Frances....

The receipts are not of much interest, but the following genealogical notices occur:Februarie 2, 1620.-Of my cosen Jo Newdigate for a speciall admittance of him into the Inner Temple for my reading, Lent, 1608, £5. 138. 4d. February, 1621.-Of St Jn Croke, an annuity granted at the time of death of his brother Sir Jn. Croke by his father.

1624.-Mention made of nephew Sir John Croke of Kelham and Sir Jon Croke his father; Cousin

Edward Bulstrod; Francis, brother William his son; Cousin Alban Pygot.

two of the clocke in the morning of the same daye....was baptyzed one Thursday following being....st of July in the Church of St. Dunstanes. .The speciall witnesses of the.. ....wero Sr Thomas Bennet, my [self], and Lady Katherine Croke, wife of ....est brother.

THE

J. HARVEY BLOOM.

(To be concluded.)

THIRD CLASS OF BRITISH
ORDERS.

THE notice published in The London Gazette on the most recent birthday of the King, that members of the third class or Companions of British Orders should wear the insignia suspended by a ribbon round the neck, instead of on the breast as before, is perhaps worthy of a note in these pages. This class, though the lowest of the older British Orders, is in reality a distinction of no small merit, the C.B. or Companion Cross of the Military division of the Bath being limited to senior officers of the services,

whilst this class of the other Orders seldom falls to any save well-seasoned officials. The junior Orders, the Victorian and the recently instituted British Empire Orders, have each five classes, the third class being styled Commander, the members wearing the badge at the neck. Most foreign Orders have, similarly five classes, the fourth and fifth classes being those of Officer and Chevalier, and this division has been until recently the Companions of the third followed in the junior British Orders. But class of the senior British Orders wore the cross or badge on the breast, the place. assigned to the fourth and fifth classes only of other Orders.

The members of the third class of these disadvantage, the wearing of the cross at senior Orders were thus at an apparent the neck, or en cravate as it is termed, being generally recognized as a mark of the higher class. For long years, commencing with a representation made by me on the occasion of Queen Victoria's Jubilee, a change which would cost nothing was urged by me, so as to bring the members of Orders into line in this respect. But although the late King was in sympathy with the proposal, it hung fire for years, difficulties regarding the statutes of the Orders and other objections being in the way. The War has given us allies, resulting in the exchange of military decorations. Returning to the charge, I was able to represent that a French general on whom the C.B. was conferred, although

he would value highly this distinguished decoration, would much prefer to wear it at the neck, with the high class of the Cominander of the Legion of Honour, rather than have to place it on the breast, where the fourth and fifth classes of decorations only are worn. The new British Orders with their five classes also assisted the argument, as none could hold that the decorations of the Companion class were inferior to the third or Commander class of the Victorian and British Empire Orders.

So the proposal has at last been accepted, and although the old designation of Companion is retained, the members of the third class of the Orders of the Bath, Star of India, St. Michael and St. George, and Indian Empire, now wear the decoration at the neck, and have precedence of the Com. manders of the junior Orders. This change has only been secured after repeated representations carried on during many years, as was the case in the long-fought effort to secure to the Briton the right to fly the Union Jack-a struggle in which I had, ultimately, the support of my good friend the late Mr. John Collins Francis in carrying the long-denied claim to a victorious conclusion. J. H. RIVETT-CARNAC. Vevey.

I have found out a gift for my fair,
I have found where the wood pigeons breed;

But let me the plunder forbear

She would say 'twas a barbarous deed. This is attributed by the author to Rowe. Many of your roaders will no doubt recognize the lines as being by Shenstone (Pastoral II., Hope '). The remainder of the verse is worth repeating :—

For he ne'er could be true, she aver'd [sic], Who would rob a poor bird of its young; And I loved her the more when I heard Such tenderness fall from her tongue. Thomas Hughes, the author of Tom Brown,' had a great literary reputation. He was a Bencher of this Inn, and Master of the Library in 1889. It is an astonishing fact that in his well-known work, which must have been read by an enormous number of people of all ranks, the error I mention should never have been corrected. The author no doubt quoted from memory, as the words given by him are not exactly J. E. LATTON PICKERING. Inner Temple Library.

correct.

"This seems to refer to the sacrifice of the mass, when the saints feed upon Christ's body, literally, must directly refer to the time of the crucifixion, according to the Romish belief....The expression when Christ's blood was shed upon the cross.' Yet he puzzles over this recondite matter as to the hour for mass, and cites Rock to however, not the usual time for celebration; support the information that “ midday was, it was generally much earlier."

But is not all this annotating beside the question? For is not the meaning simply that saints broke their fast about midday! So in Passus vi. 147 the saints of Piers's bequest are ascetics with modern Trappist fare:

Ac ancres and heremytes pat eten nozt but at nones, And namore er morwe myne almesse shul þei haue

nones being at carliest about midday. Does not vi. 147 explain or illustrate v. 500 ? W. F. P. STOCKLEY.

Cork.

"MR. EDMONDS" OF LADY FANSHAWE'S MEMOIRS.'-In Appendix B, devoted to the issue of Sir Richard Fanshawe and Ann his wife," we read:

kersley Park in Yorkshire, on Saturday, at "9. Margaret Fanshawe was born at Tan2 o'clock afternoon, on the 9th day of October, 1653. She was baptized by Mr. Graves, parson of Rookeby and my cousin Boswell her godmothers." that parish, Mr. Edmonds her godfather, the Lady

-P. 216.

This is quoted from the edition of the Memoirs published in 1907, so fully and excellently annotated by Mr. H. C. Fanshawe. In his note on this passage, after identifying Lady Rookeby and Mr. Graves, and offering a doubtful identification of Cousin Boswell, the editor fails altogether with Mr. Edmonds, of whom he says, << The name has not been found in any public or family papers of the time (p. 594). Surely this would be Thomas Edmunds of Worsborough Hall, formerly secretary to the first Lord Strafford, from whose son Sir R. Fanshawe had rented Tankersley Hall, distant about 3 miles from Worsborough Hall. Both families were Royalist and attached to the Straffords; they would naturally be drawn into friendly association. Much may be read of Thomas Edmunds both in public and family papers of the time." See Hunter's South Yorkshire,

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THE INGHAMITES. -The New International Encyclopædia,' published in New York (Dodd, Mead & Co.) in 1915, contains a curious slip in connexion with the religious sect founded by Benjamin Ingham in 1742. A very short biographical notice ends with the statement that" in 1759 the greater part of his followers deserted him and went over to Sandeman, and in 1760 Ingham himself joined the Sandemanians and the Inghamites disappeared.' This is incorrect as the sect still flourishes in North Lancashire, seven churches at least being in existence: six within a three-mile radius of Colne, and one in Kendal. They are all small when compared with the Methodist chapels in the neighbourhood, the seating capacity of the lot being not above 2,000. At Colne a new church was erected in 1908, and the graveyard in Wheatley Lane (Pendle Forest) is extensive, though many interred there were not adherents to this particular faith. There is also a chapel in existence at Salterforth, near Barnoldswick (Yorks), and this was, I believe, the first to be formed; whilst the Colne emigrants to Ontario (Canada) have founded a meeting-house at Farringdon, 2 miles from Brentford in that State, the preacher and lesson-reader at a service two years ago being both Colne men. The Inghamites are an offshoot of the Methodists, it being clear that Benjamin Ingham was associated with both John and Charles Wesley, and accompanied them in 1737 on a visit to the Moravians in Germany. He became so strongly attached to their doctrines that he broke with the Wesleys and founded the sect which now bears his name, but to which he gave the name of " Moravian Methodists." He en deavoured to unite in this organization the chief doctrines of the Moravians and Methodists, and so successful was he as general overseer "that in a few years there were 84 of these congregations in England." It is curious that he should have married a sister of the Earl of Huntingdon (1741) whose wife's name is connected with another Methodist sect, known as the "Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion."

It was not until 1760 that Ingham largely adopted the hazy views of Robert Sandeman, and this ultimately led to bitter controversy and the disruption of many of the Inghamite churches, most of which became incorporated

with the Methodists. A few, however, remained loyal to the faith of their founder, and, it may be presumed, have come down to us practically unweakened since Ingham's death in 1772. A collection of hymns was published at Leeds in 1748 for the use of his congregations.

From these few particulars it will be seen that the "Inghamites" are still in existence. ARCHIBALD SPARKE, F.R.S.L.

NAPOLEON AND WELLINGTON: DID THEY EVER MEET? (See 11 S. vi. 349; x. 195.)—At the first reference this question is asked: at the second ROCKINGHAM gives a reply which almost establishes a negative, by inference.

In Temple Bar, vol. lxxxii., JanuaryApril, 1888, is an article giving Conversations with the Duke of Wellington. The article says:

"The following extracts have....been made from the unpublished commonplace books of the Rev. J. Mitford of Benhall, who appears to have collected them from his diaries after the Duke's death in 1852."

On

p. 510 is the following:

"I never

saw Buonaparte,' observed the Duke, though he was once, during the battle of Waterloo, within a quarter of a mile of me.'"

According to the Dictionary of National Biography, Mitford's commonplace_books are Addit. MSS. 32559-32575 at the British Museum. He was for some years, to the end of 1950, editor of The Gentleman's Magazine. ROBERT PIERPOINT.

BULWER LYTTON'S 'PELHAM.'-I notice in N. & Q.' for November last (p. 479) a slip in the date of the publication of this novel, which is given as 1827, whereas the real date was May 10, 1828. The Athenæum for May 14 has Pelham' in its list of new books of the week, and has also a review of it.

In the unfinished' Life of Bulwer Lytton' by his son, the first Earl of Lytton, the date is given as June 10, and this error reappears in the Life' by Mr. Escott. I called the attention, however, of the present Earl to the mistake, and in his complete biography of his grandfather the date is given correctly.

W. A. FROST.

"LETTER A, No. 1."-The 'N.E.D.' quotes Pickwick for A 1," and Mrs. Stowe for " A, No. 1," but gives no example of the phrase above. It may therefore be worth while to record that Disraeli used it in 1844 in Coningsby,' bk. ii. chap. vi. :—

"I tell you what, Mr. Taper, the time is gone by when a Marquess of Monmouth was Letter A, No. 1." JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

Queries.

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 answers may be sent to them direct.

BYRON IN FICTION.-A difficult portion of the task of compiling a bibliography of English works on Byron is the gathering together of works of fiction into which he is introducted as a character. The following is the list that I have made. It will be of great service to me if any reader of N. & Q.' will communicate to me-either through its columns or direct-the title of any other novel in which he figures.

[Viscountess Melbourne (Lady Caroline Lamb)]: Glenarvon, 1810.-In this famous and littleread book Byron appears as Glenarvon, Lady Caroline as Calantha, and William Lamb as Avondale. The novel was reissued in 1865 under the title The Fatal Passion.'

E. S. Barrett (see 1 S. viii. 423).-'Six Weeks at Long's,' 1817.-Byron appears as Lord Stanza. [Anon.]: Three Weeks at Fladong's,' 1817.Byron appears as Lord Stanza. See, on this novel, Carl Van Doren, 'Life of T. L. Peacock,' PP. 94-5.

T. L. Peacock: Nightmare Abbey,' 1818.In chap. xi. Byron, as is well known, is satirized under the name of Mr. Cypress.

John Harman Bedford: Wanderings of Childe Harold. A Romance of Real Life. Interspersed with Memoirs of the English Wife, the Foreign Mistress, and various other Celebrated Characters,' 1825.-This disreputable novel of some seven hundred pages follows Byron's life loosely and with gross injustice.

Benjamin Disraeli: Contarini Fleming,' 1832. There are notable Byronic traits in the character of the young Contarini. See Monypenny, 'Life of Disraeli,' i. 182 f.

Mary W. Shelley: Lodore,' 1835.-Lord Lodore, the father of the heroine, is modelled on Byron, the portrait being generous in its emphasis upon the pathos and romance of his character. Claire (Jane) Claremont protested to Mrs. Shelley against this embellishment of "the merest compound of vanity, folly, and every miserable weakness that ever met together in one human being.' See Mrs. Julian Marshall's 'M.W Shelley,' ii 265.

Benjamin Disraeli: Venetia; or, The Poet's Daughter,' 1837.-This is the classic instance of the portrayal of Byron in fiction; he appears as Lord Cadurcis. Shelley is depicted as Mr. Herbert. See Richard Garnett, Shelley and Beaconsfield,' Shelley Society Papers, 1887 (reprinted in Essays of an Ex-Librarian,' 1901); Edinburgh Review, October, 1837; Monypenny, Disraeli,' i. 360 f.; the Countess Guiccioli's 'Reflections upon Mr. Disraeli's Novel "Venetia,' in her 'Recollections of Lord Byron,' ii. 433 f.; H. B. Hamilton, Portrayal of the Life and Character of Lord Byron in...

Venetia,' Leipzig, 1884; Gustav Hahn, Lord Beaconsfield's Roman "Venetia": ein Denkmal Byrons und Shelleys,' Dresden, 1898.

"Mark Rutherford " (William Hale White): 'The Revolution in Tanner's Lane,' 1887.Byron does not actually appear in this powerful if, perhaps, ill-constructed novel; but his influence so permeates the earlier portion as to justify the inclusion of the book in this list.

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F. F. Moore: 'He Loved but One,' 1905.This novel is based on the love-affair between appear under their own names; Lady Caroline Byron and Mary Chaworth; the characters Lamb figures largely. The book was republished in New York under the title Love Alone is Lord.' Lafayette McLaws (i.e., Emily Lafayette, according to the Catalogue of the Library of novel that synthesizes the Thyrza mystery, the Congress): Maid of Athens,' 1906.-A poor Maid of Athens episode, the separation from Lady Byron, Byron's melancholy, and the motive of his final expedition to Greece.

Maurice Hewlett: Bendish : a Study in Prodigality,' 1913.-With his accustomed freedom in dealing with historical materials (and in this case with lack of convincingness), Mr. Hewlett has transferred the character of Lord Byron to the reign of William IV. See an article on Hewlett's Picture of Byron,' Current Opinion, January, 1914, p. 48.

In addition to the above I may note the following vague roference, upon which some reader may be able to shed light :

'Byron painted by his Compeers,' 1869, p. 39, quotes from The Magic Lantern, Jan. 1, 1823, -'s] wife this sentence: "His [Sir George W was a blue stocking, and had penned a novel, in which Lord Byron was introduced as a repentant

husband." To what does this refer?

SAMUEL C. CHEW.

"Miss Scott owns the historic Magna Charta Island near Staines....The engraved stonetopped table on which King John signed the Great Charter stands in the Hall."

Is there any authority to prove that this table is the one used? I have never before heard of such a table existing, and, being an incredulous person, wish to be satisfied. Doubts aro cast on many historical statements, even on John being able to sign his name. If it is the original table, why is it not the property of the nation and housed in the British Museum?

HERBERT SOUTHAM.

WOMEN AS JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.1. We are told in Mrs. Stopes's book British Freewomen' that "the wise and renowned Lady Margaret, Countess of Richmond, was made Justice of the Peace in the reign of Henry VII., and that the Lady of Berkeley under Queen Mary held the same office." Is there any authority for this statement ? It is said in Callis on 'Sewers,' p. 52, that Lady Margaret was put in Commission ; but this writer does not say she was put on the Commission of the Peace.

ANTHONY TODD, SECRETARY OF THE G.P.O.-Can any of your readers throw light on the parentage and collateral relatives of Anthony Todd, Secretary of the General Post Office from 1762 to 1798 (with a short break)? His only child, Eleanor, married James, 8th Earl of Lauderdale, and their daughter Lady Eleanor Maitland married Mr. Balfour of Whittingehame, and was the maternal grandmother of the present Foreign Secretary. There is a portrait of Anthony Todd (after a painting by Romney) amongst the collection of engravings at the British Museum, but I can find no reference to him anywhere except in Joyce's' History of the G.P.O.' and in an obituary notice in The Gentleman's Magazine for 1798. My great-grandfather Thomas Todd, his cousin, served under him in the General Post Office, and I am anxious to establish his exact degree of relationship, and to gain further knowledge of his family. I shall be grateful to any one who can give me information.

CYRIL M. B. WALTON. Haslemere, Lansdowne Road, Bournemouth.

ALLEN, WIGGINTON, AND WHITEHEAD

FAMILIES.--One of the most curious statements I ever came across is contained in an old Bible (dated 1739) which belonged to my great-grandfather Wm. Whitehead: "Edward Allen was born 26 Feb., 1748/9; he bought this book in 1741 [sic].'

The Bible also contains dates of the births of the following Allens, all no doubt one family: George, Sept. 25, 1721; Elizabeth, Nov. 19, 1722; Susanah, Nov. 5, 1723;

Edward, Dec. 23, 1724; Jane, April 28, 1726; Matthew, Feb. 24, 1727/8; no doubt all written in at one time.

The book has further inscribed in it the name of "Mary Wigginton, Hemington," and various Whitehead entries.

It occurs to me that the above particulars may be of use to some one interested in families of the name of Allen, and I shall be glad to know if there was any connexion between these three families. The Whiteheads and Wiggintons lived in Northants, Allens probably in Lincolnshire. Please reply to me direct. B. WHITEHEAD.

2 Brick Court, Temple, E.C.4.

PICTURE FRAMES.-There seems to be

very little literature on this important known to me, namely, Le Cornici Italiane subject; indeed, there is only one book dalla meta del secolo XV° allo scorcio del secolo XVI,' by M. Guggenheim, published in Milan by Ulrico Hoepli in 1897; and of course the suggestive Appendix IV. in the Report of the Committee of the Trustees of the National Gallery, contributed by Mr. R. H. Benson.

Perhaps, however, some readers of N. & Q.' may know of other works on the subject-books, pamphlets, articles, or essays. I should also be pleased to have references to frames and framers by eminent artists, architects, and archæologists; and the names and dates of any famous framers, particularly those born, or who have worked, in the United Kingdom. Please reply direct. JOHN LANE.

The Bodley Head, Vigo Street, W.1.