HOLLINGSWORTH'S ANGLO-SAXON POEMS. (2nd S. v. 467.) In answer to the Query of MR. SEVERIN, as to whether the poems of Hollingsworth are in the old alliterative Beowulf style, or in modern inetre with rhyme, permit me to say that this poet has left many original works. One of these is a complete dramatic poem in blank verse, varied by modern metres with rhyme; and others, translations of celebrated passages from the principal British poets. Amongst the latter he has brought before us Shakspeare's Richard soliloquising, "Now is the winter of our discontent;" Milton's Satan scoffing, "Is this the region, this the soil;" and Byron sighing his "Fare thee well" in the language of the Venerable Bede and Alfred the Great. Of these very singular MSS., which show the peculiar learning and genius of Hollingsworth, I can give but a very imperfect idea by submitting the following two short original pieces. They are the first that have as yet been made public, and should be able to find room for them in your you valuable periodical, they will probably interest some of your numerous Anglo-Saxon readers. GEORGE SEXTON, Editor of Hollingsworth's Works. “Tó bám RúN-GASTE. "Ut of sáwle deópan grunde, "Ac hwá mæg his rúna reccan? Hwá his heolster-spræce ræt? A'nne beam he syld þám wreccan:- Soo be wiss or-feorme séco :- Ymbe beáh be winnan mæge ;- Manne ferh-Lá! Hú un-weorde! "FOR-HWY SWINCEST þú? "Hit swigung ys. Get swincende ic rece, "Hwy swinc'? Hit nys for woruld-gilp and áre, þæt ic of-gife eall swa odrum swæs: Ic wát þæt eom: burh world ne weord' ic máre,— burh world, náht næfre læs! "Hér scólu ys: á úton blíðe gréne : "bes læn-dæg swinc-full ys: get fint man reste "Hér eom ic scealc;- -was hider send on ærend'; BOOKSELLERS' SIGNS. (2nd S. v. 130. 346. 466.) "The Bible," in Gracechurch Street, John Marshall, 1706. "The Bible," in Newgate Street, over against Blue Coat Hospital Gate, William and Joseph Marshall, circa 1700. (Sol Temple.) "The Elephant and Castle," without Temple Bar, Francis Smith, 1672. (Bunyan's Justification.) "The Hand and Bible," on London Bridge, Eliz. Smith, 1691. (Sol Temple.) "The Three Bibles," on London Bridge, T. Passinger, 1684. (Destruction of Troy.) "The Three Bibles," ditto, E. Tracy, 1700. "The Talbots," Paternoster Row, Thomas Man, 1593. (Udall On Lamentations.) "The Three Flower-de-Luces," in Little Britain, George Sawbridge, 1703. "The Dolphin and Crown," west end of St. Paul's Churchyard, Richard Wellington, 1703. (Cocker's Decimal Arithmetick.) "The Tygre's Head," used by Barker, was very singular. He called it in print "The Tygre's Head;" but numerous cuts in which he pictures it, always represent a boar's head and tusks, with a coronet. "The Red Lyon," in Paternoster Row, Bettesworth and Hitch, 1700. "The Sun and Bible," in Amen Corner, R. Ware, 1700. "The Looking-glass," on London Bridge, J. Hodges, 1736. "The Looking-glass," ditto, E. Midwinter, about 1720. "The Goldene ball," in Duck Lane, R. Boddington, 1696. "The Goldene ball," by J. Clarke, 1726, 1736. "The Three Pigeons," Royal Exchange, B. Aylmer, 1688. "The Golden Lion," St. Paul's Churchyard, J. Robinson, 1682, 1715. "The Crosse-Keyes," Paul's gate, R. Thrale, 1658. "The Bible and Crown," in Lumbard Street, near the Stocks Market, E. Parker, 1704-1710. "The Black Boy," middle of London Bridge, J. Back, 1694. "The Black Raven," Poultry, J. Dunton, 1682. "The Bible," Bedford Street, Wm. Sheares, 1642. "The Stationers' Arms," in Sweeting's Rents, and Piazza, Royal Exchange, Benj. Harris, 1676, 1683. "The Golden Boar's head," Gracechurch Street, B. Harris, 1700. "The Legg and Star," Royal Exchange, S. Harris, 1691. "The Bell," Poultry, R. Crouch, 1689. "The Harrow," Poultry, J. Harris, 1692. "The Flower-de-Luce," C. Hussey, Little Britain, 1685. "The Rose and Crown," Sweeting's Alley, G. Larkin and E. Prosser, 1681. "The Hand and Bible," London Bridge, T. Taylor, 1674. "The Turk's Head," Cornhill, R. Boulter, 1680. "The Shakespeare's Head," Strand, J. Tonson, 1711. GEORGE OFFOR. "The Gilt Bible," in Queen's-Head-Alley, Rapha Harford, 1648. "The Three Daggers," near the Inner Temple-Gate, Francis Tyton, 1649. "The Printing Press," in Cornhill, Peter Cole, 1649. "The Crown," in Duck Lane, William Nealand, 1652. "The Seven Stars," in Paul's Churchyard, neer the great north-door, Richard Moon, 1655. "The Blew Anchor," in Little Britain, W. Godbid, 1659. The Castle and Lion," in St. Paul's Churchyard, Joseph Cranford, 1659. "The Elephant and Castle," near Temple Bar, Francis Smith, 1660. "The Cross-keyes," at Paul's gate, James Thrale, 1661. "The Anchor," in the lower walk of the New Exchange, Henry Herringman, 1662. "The Turk's Head," in Corn Hill, Dixy Page, 1665. "The Black-spread-Eagle," in Barbican, Elizabeth Calvert, 1668. "The Flower-de-Luce," over against St. Dunstan's Church, Charles Harper, 1674. "The Peacock," over against Fetter Lane, John Amery, 1674. "The Rose and Crown," in Sweething's Alley, Enoch Prosser, 1681. "The Crown," in Ludgate Street, Robert Horsfield, 1764. BUCHANAN WASHBOURN, M.D. THE CANDOR PAMPHLETS: PRINCIPLES OF THE LATE CHANGES IMPARTIALLY EXAMINED; IN A LETTER FROM A SON OF CANDOR TO THE 'PUBLIC ADVERTIZER.' ALMON. 1765." However widely I may differ from Mr. SMITH (2nd S. v. 240. 278.397.), as to Lord Temple being the writer of the Candor pamphlets, I do not mean to question or controvert his theory. He is always ingenious, well-informed, and therefore instructing, and I am content to read, and to profit incidentally, though not in the least convinced. As, however, the starting-point of his conjecture is, as I believe, the above pamphlet, to which I formerly referred, I wish to say a few words, to show what were Almon's assertions, and the asserthorship, and to record my reasons for believing tions or assumptions of others, respecting the authat it was not a Candor pamphlet at all. The " Principles," Almon says (Anec. ii. 46.) was written under Lord Temple's own eye, and the greatest part of it dictated by him." Again (p. 53.) "Lord Temple dictated, or nearly so, but did not write any of it himself;" and like assertions are made by the writer of a "Candid Refutation," one of the Rockingham party, who assumes the "Principles" to have been published with Lord my 's authority, but talks of " the affected to know who was the writer of the scribe." It must be noticed that although Almon "Candor" pamphlets, and who was the writer or dictator of the "Principles," he nowhere, I think, confounds or associates them, or in any way connects them. I have, indeed, a copy of Lord Somers's tract on "" Security," &c., reprinted by Almon in 1771, at the end of which is announced 66 new editions of Letter from Candor to Public Advertizer,' "Letters on Libels and Warrants "Another Letter to Mr. Almon; but no mention of the " Principles." The external evidence, therefore, is against this pamphlet having been written by "Candor," and the internal evidence is, I think, still more conclusive. I presume the name was taken as a popular name, a name which to a certain extent represented a "The Phoenix," in St. Paul's Churchyard, Henry Mort-party, by one who belonged to that party, but lock, 1681. the name proves nothing as to direct connexion or relationship, except politically. This pamphlet is, as set forth in the first paragraph, an answer to "Extracts of a Letter," &c., and which had appeared in Public Advertizer, Sept. 5th, 1765, which "Letter" was written by themselves, "the King's friends,' one of the Bute party, or, as they then called was fierce against the late ministry, especially George Grenville and the Duke of Bedford, and talks of their The "Principles" is earnest and outspoken going direct to its purpose; is written with ease and the facility of a practised writer, who, as such persons are apt to do, makes a commonplace or a coarse expression serve a hurried purpose. There is an occasional page or two which rises above the average,-as on party (p. 38.), the Rockingham (47, 48.); and in respect to the Rockinghams, it foreshadows Chatham's outburst in January. The writer sets forth Temple's known opinions without reserve; freely and fully denounces the misdeeds of the late ministers, but maintains that they were turned out on their merits-their resolution not to submit to the favourite. The writer states his dislike or suspicion of the new ministry the Rockinghams - and says that by accepting office they have strengthened the favourite, and made manifest their own weakness. The "Principles" is a good historical document, and throws a light on the motives, feelings, and secret springs of party and individuals, at and about the close of George Grenville's administration and the formation of Rockingham's ministry; but there is no trace in it, I think, of the "Candor" pen. Replies to Minor Queries. D. E. Ancient Painting at Cowdry (2nd S. v. 478. 533.) -In addition to the information furnished by MR. WM. DURRANT COOPER, it may be added that the print was engraved by James Basire, at the expense of the Society of Antiquaries, and published June 1, 1778. A description was also written to accompany it, by Sir Joseph Ayloffe, Bart., and separately printed, 4to., 1778, pp. 20. In this description he repeats much of what he had previously stated in the Archeologia, vol. iii., but enters into fuller details in regard to the painting in question. It may also be mentioned that a catalogue (now scarce) of the Cowdray House paintings exists, thus entitled: "A Catalogue of the Pictures at Cowdray-House, the Seat of the Rt. Hon. Lord Viscount Montague, near Midhurst, Sussex. Portsmouth, printed by R. Carr, at Milton's Head, near the Grand Magazine, 1777." 4to. Pp. 12. Dallaway, in his History of the Western Division of Sussex, 1815, vol. i. p. 255., reprints Ayloffe's paper from the Archeologia, and adds (p. 246.) a list of the portraits at Cowdray, with valuable notes by J. C. Brook, Somerset Herald. F. MADDEN. Jewish Families (2nd S. v. 435.)-Most of the families who settled originally in Spain and Portugal claimed descent from the tribe of Judah; those in Germany and the northern countries from the tribe of Benjamin; the descendants of the other ten tribes not being known with any certainty. Since the building of the second Temple and their dispersion, several families have at different times claimed descent from the House of David. There are many who, by their surnames of Levi and Cohen, show respectively their descent from the tribe of Levi and the family of for Priest, all of whom were of the family of Aaron. Cohen being the Hebrew, slightly altered, Aaron. The Rothschilds and Salomons, being of German descent, could probably be traced to the tribe of Benjamin. The Goldsmids are said to be deLevi," which is mentioned in an old work on scendants of a family of the name of "Uri a scent from the Asmoneans or Maccabees. The Jewish antiquities as claiming a traditional depresent head of the family, Sir I. L. Goldsmid, Bart., bears as his motto the passage from Exodus the mighty," from the initial Hebrew letters of xv. 11., "Who is like unto Thee O Lord amongst which the name of Maccabee has been derived. Should you think these few details worth inserting, they may be the means of eliciting more ample information on the subject; though owing to the great persecutions sustained by Jews in all countries during the Middle Ages, and the frequent changes of residence which took place in consequence amongst them, their family records seem to be in most cases very imperfect. PHILO-JUDEUS. Good News for Schoolboys (2nd S. v. 493.) — Your correspondent, EIGHTY-THREE, rather misdirects the gratitude of schoolboys. Roger Ascham had not them in his mind when he wrote the passage cited at p. 493. But there was a philosopher long before Roger's time who laid a solid foundation for the lasting thankfulness of the alumni of all nations. I allude to the man among whose pupils were Pericles, Socrates, and Euripides,-proofs in themselves that intervals of play and work do not make dull Jacks, the man who used to say that he would rather have a grain of wisdom than a cart-full of gold, and who, heathen as he was, had strong perceptions of the doctrine of the immortality of the soul. That man was Anaxagoras, not the princely gentleman of Argos, but the far-seeing, yet often wild and fanciful philosopher of Clazomene. Just before his death at Lampsacus, three years subsequent to the commencement of the great and protracted struggle of the Athenians and Lacedæmonians for predominance in Greece, 428 B.C., Anaxagoras was asked if he had any particular wish, as it should be fulfilled if he would only give it expression. 66 Certainly I have," said the kind-hearted old man; "I wish to be remembered with pleasant feelings by all schoolboys, and I only ask that in memory of me, they may always have a whole holiday on the anniversary of my death." And this was decreed accordingly; and this fine, unselfish old fellow was not the mere recommender, but the founder of holidays for schoolboys - which holidays, in further commemoration of his name, were long known by the name of Anaxagoreia. J. DORAN. Arms of Bertrand du Guesclin (2nd S. v. 494. 526.) This celebrated warrior was knighted on April 10, 1354 (N. S.), by a nobleman of the Pays de Caux named Elatse du Marais, in consequence of his taking prisoner Hue de Caverlé or Caverley, who was at the time in possession of Dinan. The arms borne by Du Guesclin are thus described :"Bertrand portait d'argent, à l'aigle de sable à deux têtes et éployée, becquée et membrée de gueules, tenant en ses serres une cotice de même mise en bande, et brochant sur le tout; ce qui, joint à sa valeur, fit que sa bannière reçut dans la suite le nom d'Aigle-Bretonne." Bertrand's clam, or war-cry, was "Notre-DameGuesclin." I quote from M. Manet's Histoire de la PetiteBretagne, vol. ii. pp. 393. 396., and note, 129.; pp. 394, 395., St. Malo, 1834. W. B. MACCABE. Dinan, Cotes du Nord. Dr. Donne's Discovery of a Murder (2nd S. v. 68.) The following version of this curious story (taken from a collection of anecdotes, written about the beginning of the last century, in Rawlinson MS. B. 258.) will be interesting to MR. YEOWELL, in that, while it bears witness to the general truth of the alleged facts, it confirms his suspicions with regard to that part of the narrative as found related by him which ascribes the discovery to Dr. Donne. Dr. Airy was Provost of Queen's College, 1599–1616: "Dr. Airy, Provost of Queen's College, Oxon., goeing with his servant accidently throo St. Sepulchers churchyard in London, where the sexton was makeing a grave, observed a scull to move, shewed it to his servant, and they to the Sexton, who taking it up found a great toad in it, but withall observed a tenpenny nale stuck in the temple bone; whereupon the Dr. presently imagined the party to have been murthered, and asked the sexton if he remembered whose skull it was. He answered it was the skull of such a man that died suddainly, and had been buried 22 years before. The Dr. told him that certainly the man was murthered, and that it was fitting to be enquired after, and so departed. The sexton, thinking much upon it, remembered som particular stories talked of at the death of the party, as that his wife, then alive and maried to another person, had been seen to go into bis chamber with a naile and hammer, &c.; whereupon he went to a justice of peace, told him all the story. The wife was sent for, and witnesses found that testified that and some other particulars; she confessed, and was hanged." W. D. MACRAY. Aid with a Genitive of Time (2nd S. v. 493.) — Aid Town μepay mean three prospective days. (Matt. xxvi. 61.; Mark xiv. 58.) Three days retrospective are expressed by and Tρirns Яμépas (Acts, x. 30.) Vigerus (ix. 2. 1.) does not draw the proper distinction betwixt διὰ δέκα ἐτῶν and Sid Sekáтov čтous, both which he considers to mean every tenth year," and for the former quotes only Xiphilinus, who wrote centuries after classical Greek had ceased to be spoken or written. Matthiæ (583.) points out from Herodotus (ii. 4., (Plutus, 584.) the proper use of the ordinal number ii. 37.), Plato (Leg. viii. 410.), and Aristophanes to convey the idea of the periodic return of an action : kehr einer Handlung nach einem bestimmten Zeitpunkte, "Sonst dient es bey Ordinalzahlen dazu, die Wiederoder das Deutsche aller bey Cardinalzahlen auszudrücken, wie dià тpírov čтeos, aller drey Jahr, tertio quoque anno." The ordinal number may also be used with dia to express afterwards, as di' évdekάтov ěтEOS. (Herod. i. 62.) T. J. BUCKton. Mary, Daughter of Sir Edmund Bacon (2nd S. v. 515.)—In reply to your correspondent's Query, I beg to inform you, through my MS. Index Nominum, that the pedigrees of the Bacon family of Garboldisham, and the Wodehouse family of Kimberley, may be seen as to the former in Blomefield's Norfolk, vol. vii. p. 165.; but there two daughters only are named. And as to the latter, on the fly-leaf to face vol. ii. of the same family, p. 558. It does not appear there were more than two daughters; the eldest, Leticia, married to Armine Wodehouse, and the youngest, Mary, is described as single. King's Lynn. JOHN NURSE CHADWICK. thing of the subject of the portrait. The meaning Print by Wierix (2nd S. v. 478.)-I know noof the inscription I believe to be "God permits shoot the bird with his hand." him to be king of the present (?) guild, and to Αλιεύς. Dublin. Dives (2nd S. v. 415.)-MR. T. CROSFIELD asks, "where is Dives mentioned by an old author? and who first introduced the term in connexion with the rich man mentioned in the parable of Lazarus ?" Dives is used as a proper name by Chaucer, in the Sompnoures Tale": "Lazar and Dives liveden diversely, God save King James (2nd S. v. 432.) — In the European Magazine for June, 1820, occurs the following, which no doubt refers to the song given, as above, by DR. RIMBAULT, although the last sentence appears to confuse it with the present national air : "This national hyran has been attributed to various authors and composers. By the indefatigable researches of Mr. Richard Clark, of the Chapel Royal, it is traced to the year 1607, and was written on the escape of James I. from the gunpowder plot on the 5th Nov. 1605. It was introduced at a feast on the 16th July, 1607, given by the Merchant Tailors' Company to King James as a day of rejoicing on the king's escape, when the gentlemen, boys, and others of the Chapel Royal attended in their surplices to sing the said God save the King, written at the request of the Merchant Tailors' Company. It was revived in the year 1746, at the time of the Scottish rebellion, when the name of George was substituted for James, and it was harmonised for one theatre by Dr. Burney, and for the other by Dr. Arne.” Whilst on the subject, a note from Raikes's Diary may be worth registering. "Our National Anthem of God save the King,' composed in the time of George I., has always been considered of English origin; but, on reading the amusing Memoirs of Madame de Crequy, it appears to have been almost a literal translation of the cantique which was always sung by the Demoiselles de St. Cyr when Louis XIV. entered the chapel of that establishment to hear the morning prayer. The words were by M. de Brinon, and the music by the famous Lully. "Grand Dieu sauve le Roi! Grand Dieu venge le Roi! "Que toujours glorieux, Louis victorieux ! Toujours soumis! Grand Dieu sauve le Roi! Vive le Roi!' "It appears to have been translated and adapted to the house of Hanover by Handel the German composer." -Diary, i. 288. R. W. HACKWOOD. Colour of University Hoods (2nd S. v. 234. 324. 402.)-The accounts hitherto given have all been very inaccurate. Surely it would be easy to obtain right descriptions from a graduate of each University. Every Cambridge man, for example, knows, what none of your correspondents have as yet hit upon, that an M.A. of that University of less than five years' standing, wears a black silk hood lined with white silk, while one of more than five years has his hood entirely black. C. M. A MR. JOHN RIBTON GARSTIN puts the following question: "What hood is used at St. Aidan's, Birkenhead, for the degree of B.D., which that college is empowered to grant ?" I beg leave to inform MR. GARSTIN that St. Aidan's, Birkenhead, is not empowered to grant the degree of B.D., nor any other degree. Nor has St. Bee's College the power of conferring any degree. But St. David's College, Cardiganshire, has; and the degree which it is empowered to grant is Bache lor of Divinity. Wales is a distinct Principality, and St. David's College, being the only theological college in Wales connected with the Established Church, had a perfect right to ask the government to give it the power of conferring the degree of B.D. E. JONES. Lampeter. Can a Man be his own Grandfather? (2nd S. v. 504.)-Your correspondent W. R. M. thinks the case referred to by W. J. F. unprecedented. If it be so, the case referred to must be the same which came to my own knowledge about thirty years since, when a near relative, with whom I was walking, having exchanged some words of civility with a gentleman and his children, who accidentally crossed our path, afterwards informed me that this gentleman and his father had married a mother and daughter; and that the gentleman I had seen, in fact, was the husband of his own (step) grandmother. I think I was told that there were children by both marriages. For obvious reasons I withhold the name of the parties, as well as my ANON. own name. Ghost Stories (2nd S. v. 233. 462.)-I have already supplied a certain amount of information respecting the Wynyard ghost story, which appears to have been overlooked by CANDIDUS. În reply to his more recent queries, I would merely state that Lieut.-Gen. Wm. Wynyard, who died in 1789, was father of all the persons to whom he refers, viz. George West Wynyard of the 33rd regiment, Henry Wynyard of the 1st Foot guards, and Wm. Wynyard of the Coldstream guards. George West Wynyard, as I have already stated, had no twin-brother; but he had, besides the above-mentioned, and other brothers, who survived him, two brothers who died between 1784 and 1794, viz. John Otway of the 3rd guards, who died October 15, 1785; and Ambrose Lily, lieut. in the 20th regiment, who died November 9, 1792. It was the former of these, as I have always understood, whose spirit is supposed to have appeared to him. COGNATUS. To Kink (2nd S. v. 433.) — This is still a familiar word with anglers. The fishing-tackle shops sell a preparation to rub the lines to prevent their W. H. LAMMIN. kinking. Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. We have received Dr. Cureton's Remains of a very Ancient Recension of the Four Gospels in Syriac, hitherto unknown in Europe, lately published by Mr. Murray. This beautifully printed volume contains fragments of the four Gospels, from a MS. procured by the late Archdeacon Tattam from the monastery of St. Mary Deipara, in the valley of the Natron Lakes. They have been disengaged from a volume in great part of later date, with |