Here lies Martin Lluelyn, A learned Doctor of Medicine, Formerly a Student of Christchurch, Oxford. During the Civil War, at the siege of Oxford, He was a Lieutenant in the loyal company of students, Formed to oppose the ferocious rebels. He was afterwards one of the Physicians of Charles II. And Fellow of the College of Physicians in

sworn

London. He was Principal of St. Mary Hall, Oxford, afterwards J.P. for this County, And once Mayor for this Borough. A strenuous supporter and unshaken admirer Of the Crown and Church as by law established.

A most famous and illustrious Poet,

Who treated of lofty subjects with an ability And eloquence not unworthy of the same. Twice married, he left seven surviving children,

Letitia and Martin by his first wife, George, Richard, and Maurice,

By his second, Martha, daughter of George Long of Penn, Gent, late his loving wife, now his disconsolate

widow. Alas! how frail a creature is man! He, who so often banished disease At last becomes its victim, Regretted by all learned and good men, He died 17 March, 1681. Aged 66.

High Wycombe. FRANCIS COLMER. There is no uncertainty as to the year of Lluelyn's death. Since the day was March 17, it is obvious that when the two methods of reckoning the year for dating purposes were still in use, the year could be given as 1681 or 1682. The 'D.N.B.,' so far from giving it doubtfully" as "1681-2," secures absolute precision by putting it in this way, and follows an ordinary practice. Wood's 'Athenæ Oxon.,' while giving the date of Lluelyn's death as March 17, 1681, has in the margin 1682 (vol. ii., col. 706, ed. 2, and vol. iv., col. 44, Bliss), to avoid any possibility of mistake. Knowing that the year in our modern system is 1682 we see that he was in the sixty-sixth year of his age when he died. Unfortunately, aetat. and anno aetatis are not always used in the logical sense. Aetat. is often treated as an

equivalent of "aged " and followed by the number of years completed.

There is no uncertainty either as to the date when Men-miracles' was first published. The wrong date is given in the 'Athenae' (2nd ed., at any rate) but an appeal lies to Lluelyn's book itself. Bliss in his ed. of the Athenae' gives 1646. EDWARD BENSLY.

PRINCE LOUIS - LUCIEN

BONA

PARTE'S LIBRARY (cli. 442).—In reply to MR. ANEURIN WILLIAMS. Soon after the Prince's death, the exact date of which I have forgotten, I attended committee meetings of those who had in view the purchase of this library. My recollection is that we could have raised about £10,000, and there were negotiations with the representative of the widow, but they failed. I was told at the time that the library went for a much higher sum to America. Prince Lucien (as we called him) was held to be the leading authority on the Basque language in its several branches, and he had also made a special study of the various provincial dialects of English, now I fear rapidly dying out. It was understood that the library contained many manuscripts relating to those subjects. Most that Basque is a non-Aryan language. It is readers of N. and Q.' are no doubt aware difficult to learn, hence the saying, picked up somewhere by Richard Ford, that the devil, who is no fool, after studying it for seven years at the end only knew three words. PHILIP NORMAN.

A

THE PLAY WHICH SUGGESTED TALE OF TWO CITIES' (cli. 422). -There is an edition of 'The Frozen Deep, and

other Tales' by Wilkie Collins, published in 1905 by Chatto and Windus. In the introduction, dated 1874, Collins says:

As long ago as the year 1856 I wrote a play called The Frozen Deep.' The work was first represented by amateur actors, at the house of the late Charles Dickens on the 6th of January, played the principal part, and played it with 1857. Mr. Dickens himself a truth, vigour, and pathos never to be forgotten by those who were fortunate enough to witness the performance. I occupied the autumn and winter of 1873-74 by a tour of the United States. During my stay in America I read in public, in the principal cities, one of my shorter stories (enlarged and rewritten for the purpose), called The Dream Woman.' Concluding my tour at Boston, I was advised by my friends to give, if possible, America, by presenting to my audience a new a special attraction to my farewell reading in work. Having this object in view, I bethought myself of The Frozen Deep. The play had never been published, and I determined to ewrite it in narrative form for a public reading. I have only to add that the narrative from the treatment of the story in the first version of 'The Frozen Deep' departs widely act of the dramatic version, but (with the one exception of the third scene) follows the

་

play as closely as possible in the succeeding acts.

So far as I know The Frozen Deep' as a play has never been published, but DR. LEFFMANN will find ample evidence in the narrative to show that the sacrifice of Richard Wardour suggested that of Sydney Carton to Dickens.

It has been said that Dickens may have

borrowed some of his ideas for A Tale of Two Cities from Watts Phillips's 'Dead Heart' (and vice versa); and a similar case of self-sacrifice occurs in the elder Dumas's 'Le Chevalier de la Maison Rouge': and Dumas in turn, is said to have been indebted to Lytton's Zanoni.' See Adair Fitz-Gerald's Dickens and the Drama.' In view, however, of Dickens's own statement that the first notion came to him while acting in The Frozen Deep,' these suggestions may be ignored. T. W. TYRRELL.

St. Elmo, Sidmouth.

THE MAYFLOWER (cli. 151, 233, 356, 447). The information concerning the log-book of the Mayflower (v. ante, p. 356) was supplied to me after searching enquiry, by very reliable authority, and in the main is borne out by Haydn's Dictionary of Dates under Pilgrim Fathers.'

The MS. Log of the Mayflower presented to the President and citizens of the United States by the Bishop of London, in compliance with the petition of Mr. T. F. Bayard, U.S. Ambassador, 25 March, 1897; given up by him to Governor Wolcott, of Massachusetts, 26 May,

CONCERT PARTY, 1849 (cli. 441).—Miss

Ann Romer, cousin of Emma Romer, afterwards Mrs. Almond, married William Brough, and died in 1852, a year after her marriage, leaving one child.

John Orland Parry, only son of John Parry (1776-1851) the musician, was born in London on Jan. 3, 1810. His father taught him to sing and play the harp and piano, and later he studied the harp under Robert Bochsa. As Master Parry he appeared as a performer on the harp in May, 1825, and made his début as a singer on May 7, 1830, at the Hanover Square Rooms, London, on the occasion of Franz Cramer's

concert. He possessed a fine rich baritone

voice.

George Smart in sacred and classical music After receiving lessons from Sir he was in great demand at the Antient and Philharmonic concerts and at musical festivals up and down the country. He visited Italy in 1833 and received instruction from Luigi Lablache at Naples, where he resided for some time. He returned to England in 1834 after making himself a perfect master of the Italian language. He gave his first benefit concert at the Hanover Square Rooms in July, 1836, when Malibran sang for him. He appeared on the stage on Sept. 29, 1836, at the St. James's Theatre a burletta called The Sham Prince,' and later in the same year appeared in John Poole's Delicate Attentions' and in a burletta The Village Coquettes written by Charles Dickens, and was well received. Subsequently he was for a brief season at the Olympic.

in

He forsook the stage for the concert room in 1842, and was singing with Anna Thillon and Herr Standig in pieces written expressly for him by Albert Smith. He afterwards accompanied Sivori, Liszt, Thalberg, and others in a concert tour throughout the United Kingdom. In 1853 the strain on his physical powers proved excessive and he suffered from mental derangement for a time. When he recovered he became organist at St. Jude's Church, Southsea, and gave lessons in singing. On June 4, 1860, he joined Thomas German

COAT OF ARMS: IDENTIFICATION SOUGHT (cli. 389).-Although I am unable to answer D. I. T. T.'s actual question, I reply to this query as it concerns the Cromwell alias Williams" discussion (coupling Needham, Jones and St. John) which I originated recently (see cxlvi. 397; cxlvii. 33, 409, 449; and cxlviii. 34, 70, 142, 422).

Richard Williams of Taunton, Mass., 1639, was descended from Richard Williams of Monmouth (d. 1559), second cousin of Morgan Williams, who married Katherine Cromwell. And the rampant lion borne by this Richard Williams of Taunton and his family was the Cromwell alias Williams paternal coat-of-arms, as Williams-"Sable, a Lion rampant Argent "-which they did not change when they changed their name to Cromwell (cxlvi. 397; cxlvii. 409).

66

Thus and construing D. I. T. T.'s "left" and "right" as meaning dexter and sinister respectively, because the crest has the star of the left "coat the armorial bearings on the seal to the bond of Richard Williams of Taunton 1693, (the same man as the above, 1639, or his son, or grandson? D. I. T. T.'s wording is not quite clear) must belong to some family allied to the Williams of Taunton by marriage.

I have a pedigree of Richard Williams of Taunton, 1639, Richard Williams of Taunton and his connection with the Cromwell Family. Reprinted from the New England Historical and Genealogical Recorder for April, 1897 researches" of the late Hon. Joseph Hartwell Williams of Augusta, Ex-Governor of Maine, a descendant.' ('Genealogical Tracts,' 1891-1897). This commences the Williams line with Howell Lord of Ribour," but the descendants of Richard Williams of Monmouth are only given in the direct line of Richard Williams of Taunton, 1639, and I want his collaterals, from whom the families of Miss Florence Williams (cxlviii. 70, 142, 422), T. W. L. (cxlvii. 449; cxlviii. 34) and myself (cxlvii. 409) appear to be derived, as the descendants of Morgan Williams and Katherine Cromwell are presumed to be extinct in the male line except perhaps the issue of Francis Williams or Cromwell of Huntingdonshire and Glamorganshire (d. 1598), younger son of Sir Richard Cromwell alias Williams, that son of Morgan and Katherine who first assumed the name of Cromwell. Can D. I. T. T. supply these collaterals or any of them?

Lord Howell was descended from Gwaithvoed, Lord of Powys and Cardigan, and Ribour or Kebour was the country around Cardiff between rivers Taff and Rhymney (Kibworth or Kibbor), with the mansionhouse at Eglwys Newydd or New Church (Whitchurch) about two miles north of Cardiff, near Llanishen, where Sir Richard was born, the heart of the Williams country, in Glamorganshire.

What did Richard Williams of Taunton, 1639, bear for his crest? - the demy lion rampant argent of the Williams of Glamorganshire? and holding the javelin (ancient) ? or the gem-ring (Tudor)? And whereabouts in Gloucestershire are Whitcombe Magna, where he was married, and Synwell, where his father lived?

The replies identifying the crest and coat in question as belonging to the well-known west-country family of Hobhouse settled in Gloucestershire and elsewhere in those parts apparently go to shew that it was a Gloucestershire Hobhouse who married a daughter of the house of Williams, and prior to its emigration to America.

Can D. I. T. T. now supply particulars of this marriage? Q. W. SKATES (cli. 442).-Heathcote in Skating' (Badminton Library), 1892, pp. 6-7, states:

When this exercise originated is unknown, for, as far back as we have any account of it, it was perfectly well known and practised in questionably belongs to the people of the the whole North. Its origin, however, unNorth-that is, to the Scandinavians and Germans, amongst whom it is in most common use-because the Greeks and Romans knew nothing of this science, nor have they any special terms in their language to express skates or skating. The origin of skates in their present form cannot be reckoned further back than the so called Iron Age, or about 200 years after the birth of Christ, because iron first came into general use then throughNorthern people also were Anglo-Saxons who out the North. . . But as amongst these in the year 450 A.D. subdued the South part of Britain, together with Danes and Normans who the former in 1015, and the latter in 1066-conquered the whole of England, probably the use of skates was introduced by these people into England, together with other Northern customs. On these grounds the origin of the present form of skates and skating may be attributed to the Northern people about 200 years after the birth of Christ.

It is certain that some contrivance for locomotion on ice was common in England in the twelfth century, for we read in an early translation of FitzStephen's Descrip