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NOTES:-Joseph Bingham, Antiquary, 273-Merchant Adventurers: Thompson of Newcastleupon-Tyne, 274-Old London Underground-The Yale Tapestries, 277-" Carrying coals to Newcastle "-Parallel passage, 278. QUERIES:-A Florentine Bell The Earliest Genealogical Society in London-Pottery: an excavator's find, 278-Stage History of King John' Cottage Loaf " Burges Family of Marlborough, Co. Wilts-John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester-William Eliott, Engraver, 1727-1766Old Writing Schools A difficulty in Byron's The Siege of Corinth,' 279-Parallel between Gray and Sophocles Surnames derived from divisions of time-" Jemmy-jumps "-"Aumbry " -St. James's, Square in the Eighteenth Century Goatley Family The Pleasures of

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Memorabilia.

THE following account from The Times correspondent at Tangier of a trial for the shooting of a lapwing deserves a place among judicial and international curiosities. We give it somewhat abbreviated; it appeared on April 8.

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Frenchman was, therefore, vindicated.

The Court has throughout this long trial taken immense trouble. The Judges of Appeal again visited the scene of the slaughter of the lapwing. They reclined on the very spot where the Frenchman had sat and taken his long, steady aim at the sitting bird. They moved on a few yards and examined the position where the unwitting and over-confident lapwing had watched the Frenchman plotting death. The whole scene was re-enacted in the presence of the entire Court, the witnesses, the police, and others. Of all who had figured in the tragedy only the lapwing was missing.

The verdict has caused a certan amused satisfaction amongst the public. In diplomatic circles it is considered as shaking the very foundations of Tangier's existThe offspring of diplomacy, the Mixed Tribunal, has betrayed its trust. The infallibility of the diplomatic boundaries has been questioned.

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the extraordinarily interesting paper read by Dr. M. R. James last November to the Bibliographical Society on the traces remainA message published in The Times of ing of Greek learning in England from 500 March 23 referred to the engrossing trial to 1500. We cannot but hope there will be of a Frenchman accused of shooting response to its concluding appeal for memlapwing on land over which the diplo- bers of the Society to "take up the subject matic representatives at Tangier claim, of Greek learning in England and make a under a concession from a long-deceased finished picture of it." Mr. V. ScholSultan, to have sporting rights. . With derer's paper on Printing at Milan in the admirable tenacity, generations of diplo- Fifteenth Century follows this, and further matists have clung to this concession. on we have a paper by Dr. A. W. Pollard Sultans have come and gone, treaties have on Greek Types, in which illustration is been made and unmade, Tangier's entire given of the Greek fount designed by Mr. status has been altered, but this privilege Scholderer for the Lanston Monotype Corhas survived all the vicissitudes of fortune. poration. Dr. Pollard finds himself more In the lower Court the Frenchman lost and more inclined to tolerate the old trianhis case and was fined 1.50f. He appealed gular delta of this fount, which we confess and the case has just been reheard. Durwe have not yet taken to with any satisfacing this second trial extracts from the|tion. Dr. Greg in his paper about the message to The Times of March 23 were read out in Court to show the importance of the case. A majority of the Judges of the Court of Appeal yesterday reversed the judgment of the lower Court. They did not dispute the existence or legality of the concession, but found that the limits of the sporting reserve have been marked out with a certain traditional diplomatic disregard for exactitude and precision. To put it delicately, the diplomatists' boundary posts, like their dispatches, left room for manœuvring. The

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Stationers' Register records the observation that for a considerable period the entries in the Register are not in the handwriting of either of the clerks, but in differing hands, and possibly in that of the person submitting the copy for registration. There was also in use for a short time a system of signed entries. He gives illustrations of three entries, all of which (as do many others) bear the initials "G. S." beneath a star. These, Dr. Greg takes to be an eighteenth century addition, and to stand for Gulielmus Shakespeare." Another inter

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esting question discussed is the nature of the copy-manuscript or already set up in print which was submitted for entry. Mr. W. J. Blyth Crotch in Caxton on the Continent' puts together a considerable amount of information gathered from numerous and rather widely scattered sources and adds a note that, too late to incorporate them in his essay, he has discovered half-a-dozen entries concerning Caxton in the archives of Middelburg. One of these shows that Caxton was still Governor of the English Nation in 1470, an office he has been thought to have relinquished in 1469. His reason for resigning was a desire to marry, which would contravene the rule of strict celibacy imposed on merchants abroad. THE April number of the Journal of the British Society of Master Glass-painters contains good things not only many but various. Two articles deal with commercial" aspects of glass-painting: Mr. Charles J. Connick's description of modern stained glass at the Paris Exhibition of 1925 (reprinted from the New York Times Magazine) and Mr. John A. Knowles's account of Glass-painters' Advertisements. The first glass-painter to advertise was Henry Gyles of York ((1645-1709) with his mezzotint trade card. Advertisements are quoted from the seventeenth century Athenian Mercury, and one of great interest comes from the London Gazette of 1705 claiming to continue or to have recovered the art of making colours, especially of making red, lost more or less by the destruction of the glass-works of Lorraine in 1636. Mr. Connick's criticisms of the adventurous doings of French glass-painters give useful information, together with some warnings and with sympathetic insight into the artists' aims. Next we have the Life of Michael Sigismund Frank, translated from the German, and the continuation of Mr. Knowles's History of the York School of Glass-painting. In the latter a main point of interest is the use by glass-painters of books which gave instructions and patterns for the proper treatment of scriptural subjects. Mr. L. F. Salzman now brings to a conclusion his notes on the glazing of St. Stephen's, Westminster. From the News and Notes we may pick two items: the first a word about the new vitaglass " which Messrs. Chance have recently introduced. This glass allows passage of the ultra-violet rays which ordinary window-glass absorbs. The present suggestion is that it should be used for glazing

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hospitals and children's homes: but, on reflection, one is led to ask Why not use it universally? "Oxygen-carrying" analgesic "-what improvement in spirits and temper might well be observed in the popula tion not deprived by indoor life of the influence of rays which increase these capacities of the blood? The second item is Mr. Salzman's decision that the mediaeval word for a small iron bar hitherto read sondlet should be read soudlet. Since these little bars had the lights soldered to them the new reading certainly seems the better. THE last lot in the last sale of the Brit

well Court Library, which has been in process of distribution since 1916, was knocked down on Friday of last week at Messrs. Sotheby's. This last day's sale included several very good things such as two Proclamations concerning tobacco; a folio broadside with a large wood-cut of the Thames frost of 1683; and a series of nine Year Books of Edward III bought by Dr. Rosenbach for £190. The total amount realised is £604,500. Readers may like to note that The Times of Apr. 9 has a useful account of the Library and of the progress of its disintegration.

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The LONDON JOURNAL SATURDAY, April 15, 1727.

They write from Bath, that an odd Match was lately run there between two Waggons, carrying each 40 Hundred Weight, for a Wager of 50 Guineas to 30. They run from the Turnpike to the Top of Lanfdown, which is near à Mile, and a half. The winning Waggon performed it in 19 Minutes, and the other in 23.

Letters from Oxford of the 10th Inftant advife, that a Tumult happened lately at Heddington, a little Village within a Mile of that City, occafioned by a Quarrel between fome Gownfmen who came thither to a BullBaiting, and the Country People; the former having fent for Affiftance to the Univer fity, were foon increafed to the Number of about 1000;

when a dreadful Conflict enfued, wherein fome were maimed, fome carried off for dead, and all the Windows in the Village were demolifh'd; and had they not been prevented by the Proctors, their Rage had been more mischievous.

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Diaries,' ii. 62, where it is said that he

Literary and Historical (Francis Bingham) was in trouble about his

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By his will, which was made at Wapping, Addy gave, among other bequests, £200 to Mr. Joseph Bingham, Rector of Hearbourn Worthy, and £100 to his sister, Mrs. WelBingham. He also gave to Mr. Nicholas Hawksmoor and his wife, to each of them, £50. This was Hawksmoor the eminent architect who was the pupil of Wren, and of whom a long account is given in the Dictionary of National Biography.' He was seven years older than Bingham, and was born at East Drayton or Ragnall, these villages being close together. As appears by his will, Hawksmoor had a little property at Ragnall and the adjoining village of Dunham. His wife was Hester, daughter of William Theaker.

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Francis Bingham did not become a freeman of the Cutlers' Company. He went to live in Wakefield, and it is not known that he followed the occupation to which he had been brought up.

James Hoole, to whom he had been apprenticed in 1637, was born in Sheffield in 1611, and his brother Charles, who was born there in 1609, was educated at Wakefield Grammar School under Robert Doughty, before leaving for Lincoln College, Oxford, in 1628. Charles became a celebrated schoolmaster, and the author of many valuable school-books. His father, Charles Hoole the elder, who was a cordwainer, had removed from Sheffield to Wakefield about 1616, being probably attracted by the fame of the grammar-school in the latter town. These Hooles were kinsmen of Robert Sanderson, bishop of Lincoln, and the bishop helped Charles at Oxford, and in various other ways in his subsequent life.

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MERCHANT ADVENTURERS. THOMPSON OF NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE (afterwards of Kingston-upon-Hull). N view of the reference to this family at cxlviii, 298, the following account of them will, I hope, be worthy of a place in the pages of 'N & Q.'

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They were originally a Newcastle, co. Northumberland family, and the first mention I have found of them is in Brand's History of Newcastle,' where on p. 428, it states that William Thompson was Sheriff in 1465, and that in the Carr MS. it gives: A.D. 1466. Thompson of Newcastle. Wm. Tompson, Sherife." giving his arms as, Per fess ar. and sa., fess embattled betw. three falcons close, all counterchanged; in sinister chief an annulet az. (Blank, Raines MS.).

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In the list of "Merchant Adventurers of Newcastle-upon-Tyne," under the heading of Apprentices' is the name of John Thompson or Tompson (whose father's name is said to be Thomas Tompson, late of Wooden, Northumberland, Gent.) the date of his indentures being given as Sept. 1, 1645; of enrolment as Sept. 10, 1646; and of admission as Oct. 26, 1655. He married about 1656/7, but I do not know his wife's name; and he died about 1707, having had issue: John Thompson, b. April 28, 1658 O.S.; lost by shipwreck somewhere about 1700. He married, Tuesday, March 6, 1687/8 at Yearsdon Church, Northumberland, Grace, dau. of Thomas Chipchase of Yearsdon, she was b. Feb. 12, 1656 and d. April 29, 1729, having had issue:

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i. Elizabeth Thompson, b. March 29, 1689; d. unmarried Nov. 24, 1756; bur. on the 26th in St. Nicholas Church, Newcastle.

ii. John Thompson, b. Dec. 1691, d. April 10, 1765. He married Oct. 28, 1735 at Ryton Church, Northumberland, to Frances Weatherley; she was b. Dec. 7, 1695, d. May 1, 1760, and was bur. in St. Nicholas Church, having had issue, a son, John, b. May 2, 1738, and d. March 18, 1739.

II. Thomas Thompson, b. July 23, 1661, at Stockton-on-Tees, and died there March 24, 1729. He was a Merchant Adventurer of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, being admitted Oct. 24, 1694. He married, but my records do not give his wife's name; by her he had issue:

(i.) Caius Thompson, of whom presently. (ii). Mary Thompson, who married

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Mr. Watt, and had a dau. Barbara Watt, who once had property at Norton in the County of Durham, and died unmarried.

Caius Thompson, the only son, b. 1686, is described in my family papers as " The Revd. Mr. Caius Thompson of Knaiesborough," but there is nothing to say what living he held there, nor for how long. About 1749, he bought Old Melton House and Estate, which passed at his death to his youngest son, Caius Thompson. He married Anne, dau. of Joseph Sandford, by whom he had issue:

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1. Joseph Sandford Thompson, b. 1720/25, who was, I believe, in Holy Orders, as he is described in my papers as . . of Saint Stephen's Parish, South Carolina," and I should be glad if any American genealogist readers of N. & Q' could contribute particulars of him and his family, if any existed.

2. Thomas Thompson. Mentioned in his brother Caius Thompson's will, with his

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4. Caius Thompson b. April 25, 1732, d. Feb. 28, 1774, and was bur. in a vault on the south side of Holy Trinity Church, Hull. He came to Hull from Knaresborough and went into business there. Later his father In 1773 bought him a shipping business. he was Chamberlain and Sheriff of Hull. He married Miss Ann Reader about 1763/4, who died at Old Melton House in 1809, aged 86, and was bur. with her husband, by whom she had issue:

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I. Sarah Thompson, b. March 20, 1765; d. unmarried in August, 1854, in Trinity Square, Anlaby Road, and was bur. in St. James's Church, Hull.

II. John Thompson, b. Oct. 5, 1766, a merchant of Hull, residing in Albion Street. He was a churchwarden at either St. John's or Holy Trinity Church, and died unmarried Feb. 2, 1852, in Lister Street.

III. Caius Thompson, of whom presently. IV. Anne Thompson, b. 1769, d. May 5, 1855, at Melton House, and was bur. in St. Helen's Church, Welton, nr. Brough, East Yorks. Will dated July 3, 1852. She mar ried John Wilson, son of Joseph and nephew of Thomas Williamson, who were iron merchants in Hull, and who lived at Melton and Welton, nr. Brough; he was a shipowner, merchant and policy broker with a counting-house in High Street and a town

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