Married by Robert Elliott, the Gretna Green Parson. Only 500 copies to be printed. Names to be sent to Mr. Elliott, 16, Leicester Place (sic), Leicester Square."

Now, as Mr. Elliott married only 3872 couple during his tenure of office (from 1810 or 1811 to 1839), it is evident this work would contain many previous marriages-probably the whole from the commencement in or about 1753.

This would indeed be a most valuable guinea's worth. It was, I presume, never published. Does any correspondent know anything about it?

In whose custody are the original Gretna Green Registers ?

Is anything known of the number of marriages celebrated there during the last few years? G. E. A. JAQUES'S DIAL (4th S. ix. 505.)-I would supplement what I said about Jaques's dial by suggesting, that the "homely swain" of Shakspeare, who is represented as "carving out dials quaintly point by point," was simply cutting into shape with his pocket-knife such an instrument as is still used in the Pyrenees.

ALFRED GATTY, D.D. "GENERAL THANKSGIVING" REPEATED BY THE WHOLE CONGREGATION (4th S. x. 67.) — Some years ago I introduced the habit of uniting the congregation with the clergyman in repeating the "General Thanksgiving" into Ecclesfield parish church. I first heard this done at St. Martin'sin-the-Fields, London, and was struck by the propriety of all joining in thanking God, no less than in confessing to Him. The same is done at Wath-upon-Dearne at my recommendation, and I believe the good custom is spreading. If the Amen were not printed in italics, it would have rubrical sanction. ALFRED GATTY, D.D.

I know that this custom (that of the congregation following the clergyman in repeating the "General Thanksgiving' with audible voice) prevails-at any rate on Sunday evenings-in the parish church of Chelsea; and I believe that the custom is almost universal in Ireland. Whether the custom be pleasing or not is a matter of taste. To my mind it is not proper, because there seems to be ground for thinking that no prayers (or thanksgivings) in the Prayer Book are intended to be so repeated when the Amen is printed in a different type from the prayer itself. Then I apprehend the Amen is intended to be a response to the prayer, which is to be said by the clergyman alone.

I humbly submit that a "woman divorced" does "necessarily lose her social position." The lady mentioned by your learned correspondent was not, as I think, a "divorced wife," but a woman who had divorced a husband. No one would affirm that any degree of moral turpitude necessarily attaches to an unfortunate woman who, on sufficient grounds, has dissolved a worthless coverture. BARRISTER-AT-LAW.

Middle Temple.

EDGEHILL BATTLE (4th S. x. 47, 99, 139.)— Referring to MR. KNOWLES'S query at p. 47, and in connection with it to MR. FLEMING's reply, at p. 99, I quite fail to see how the latter gentleman makes out that "Both authorities are right." The question is as to whether William Huddleston or John Smith "was made Knight Banneret after the battle." From MR. FLEMING's reply I gather nothing as to either of the above-named captured the royal banner-not a word of any persons, with the exception of their having rereward accorded to them in consequence. This seems to have been reserved for a certain Robert Welch. Yet even as to him we cannot conclude, with any certainty, from the extract in italics that the dignity of a Banneret was really conferred upon him. My reason for this opinion will be patent to all heraldic scholars.

My own belief is, that John Smith was the man, and he the last upon whom the title was ever conferred. As corroboration of this, see in addition to Jeremy Collier, Chambers's Cyclopædia, and a a New Dictionary of Heraldry, printed for Jer. Batley, 1725, sub. voce "Banneret.

From the latter book any reader curious about these matters may get a full account of the character of this dignity, with the duties and privileges pertaining to it. It was quite distinct from the more modern title of Baronet, and in rank far superior, for "it is certain," says this writer

"That they always were, and still continue, the next degree to the nobility, are allowed to bear arms with supporters, which no others may do under the degree of a Baron. They are still to take place of all Baronets, and formerly have had Knights, Bachelors, and Esquires to serve under them."

hence they were sometimes called "Knights of The distinguishing badge was a square flag, and the square flag." EDMUND TEW, M.A.

DIVORCE (4th S. ix. passim; x. 57, 134.)-We have not advanced an inch beyond the point whence we first started, and what your correspondent now says was said by me in a former communication.

"evade it" and Keightley's "evitate it." An anonymous conjecture "inherit" has something to be said in its favour. I think, however, that the old reading of the text, "If trembling I inhabit then," is still the best. Inhabit is markedly opposed to the desert, the "ground inhabitable

we

Pope reads inhibit, and Ayscough adds ". think properly," so do I; but it would be better to change then to thee.

"If trembling I inhibit thee, protest me
The baby of a girl."

This to my mind makes perfect sense of the passage. If trembling I restrain or hinder thee, protest me coward.

"Men must not walk too late.

We cannot want the thought," &c. This might get over the difficulty. Want in the sense of to be without has a place in the dictionary. The first four definitions in Todd's Johnson of the active verb all mean this. Rawley, Bacon's secretary, said "I prayed his lordship" (I quote from memory) "might have strength, for greatness he

could never want." Mayfair.

C. A. W.

WORMS IN WOOD (4th S. x. 30, 136.)—If P. R. will place his picture painted on worm-eaten wood in an air-tight glass case or box, and subject it to the fumes evaporated from benzine, every living worm will be destroyed in the course of a few days. The panel should be placed in a horizontal position, with the painting upward, and the worm-eaten surface in a position to receive the direct fumes as they evaporate from the benzine, which may be poured over cotton wool or a sponge, placed in one or two small saucers, according to the size of the panel and the air-tight case. Some years ago I made an exhaustive series of experiments with a view to the preservation of the carved furniture, &c., in this museum, and had the benefit of the advice and assistance of the late Master of the Mint (Prof. Graham), Prof. J. O. Westwood of Oxford, Mr. Rogers, the eminent wood carver, and others. I tried carbolic acid (a pure form of creosote) at the suggestion of Prof. Graham. This was effective but sluggish in action. Chloroform appeared to be effective, but the creatures sometimes revived. The benzine did its work effectively. Experiments carried over several seasons showed that the spring of the year or early summer is the best time, as the worms are then developed from the ova, but the fact that wood dust is seen falling from the worm

holes is good evidence that the living creature is at work, and can be destroyed. Salivation alone will destroy the ova, and I even doubt that; but salivation would be destruction to some objects attacked by the worm, therefore the only remedy is vaporisation in the manner I have indicated, adapted, of course, to the size and nature of the object to be treated. Large pieces of furniture can only be treated in a sufficiently large glasscase, or in a suitable room made as impervious to fresh air as possible. GEORGE WALLIS.

South Kensington Museum.

LEPELL FAMILY (4th S. ix. 506; x. 19, 98.)— In 1684 Claus (Niclaus) Wedig Lepel, Esq., was one of the two pages of honour to Prince George of Denmark, who had the previous year married the Princess, afterwards Queen Anne of Great Britain. Luttrell's Diary has the following mention of him:

"Tuesday, 10 Jan. (1698-9). Mr. Lepell, for whom the commons yesterday past a bill for naturalization, is page to the prince of Denmark, and has lately married a lady worth 20,000."

The bride was Mary, daughter of John Brooke, Esq., of Rendlesham, co. Suffolk (great-grandson of Reginald Brooke, Esq., of Aspall); and, with her sister Hannah, was in 1697 co-heiress of her brother Robert Brooke, who died s. p. aged about thirty years.

Commission to raise a new regiment of foot was given, April 3, 1705, to Colonel Nicholas Lepell, who was appointed a brig.-general Jan. 1, 1710, and took command subsequently of the regiment of horse of brig.-general the Earl of Rochford, slain at the battle of Almanza, July 27 following. Notice is made in the Gentleman's Magazine of the decease of "Nicholas Lepelle, Esq.,

lord proprietor of Sark Island," Oct. 8, 1742; and the Whartons, in their Queens and Beaux of Society, allude to General Lepell, the father of Lady Harvey, as the proprietor of Sark, though possibly their statement may involve an error.

The Le Pelleys, who succeeded the De Carteret family in the fief or seigniory of Sark Island towards the close of the sixteenth century, were living in the parish of the Vale, Isle of Guernsey, as early as King John's time.

The writer's great-great-grandmother, Mrs. Anne (Nettleton?) Weaver, who died in 1752, widow of Samuel Weaver of New York (freeman 1722) was near akin to Lady Mary (Lepell) Harvey, and a familiar correspondence between the families was continued for some years. S. WEAVER.

New York.

I am much obliged for S. H. A. H.'s information, but may I remind him that my friend, for whom I ask, is of Pomeranian family, as I said in my query? Pomerania is in Prussia, not Russia. GREYSTEIL.

S. H. A. H. of Bridgwater, states that Molly Lepell is said "for some years to have received pay as a cornet" in her father's regiment. Does this mean that she actually served as a subaltern officer, like Louisa Scanagatti and others, or does it, as I rather suppose, mean that she drew the pay by means of some family job, and did not assume the character? A. J. M. "NOTHING FROM NOTHING" (4th S. ix. passim; x. 109.) This saying is prettily expressed in Alfred de Musset's Namouna, canto ii. :

"Byron, me direz-vous, m'a servi de modèle ; Vous ne savez donc pas qu'il imitait Pulci ? Lisez les Italiens, vous verrez s'il les vole. Rien n'appartient à rien, tout appartient à tous. Il faut être ignorant comme un maître d'école Pour se flatter de dire une seule parole Que personne ici-bas n'ait pu dire avant vous. C'est imiter quelqu'un que de planter des choux." P. A. L. TYKE, TIKE, TEAGUE (4th S. ix. 536; x. 55, 117.)-Might I add a kind of Irish appellation which the Norman or Saxon conquerors probably carried over there, and some one brought back to be a great theatrical word a century or two ago? We are too refined to keep up national reflections, and have dropped the word out of our dictionaries, but Dr. Johnson did not scruple to use it. Playgoers a hundred years ago considered it a generic word, and nearly every Irish drama had a Teague in it. Of course the celebrated comedy of The Committee gave the most noted instance of the character. But the late Mr. Thackeray chooses to make one of the maids of honour to Queen Anne call Dr. Swift by that appellation.

E. CUNINGHAME.

"SPHERA CUJUS CENTRUM" (4th S. viii. 329; ix. 265, 310, 412; x. 96.) - MR. LENTHALL SWIFTE, in referring to Milton, has pointed out to us the source from whence we may arrive at the origin of this phrase. Milton was well acquainted with the science of Kabbalism; Paradise Lost is full of Kabbalistic allusions and Kabbalistic philosophy. One of the great mysteries of Kabbalism is the Sephiroth, the Glories. God is surrounded with glories, as with royal robes. Accordingly, they represented Him as a vast circle, or rather a succession of ten circles drawn from one centre, each circle larger than the former. Beginning at the centre, we have-1. The Kingdom; 2. The Foundation; 3. The Glory; 4. Victory or Eternity; 5. Beauty; 6. Mercy or Magnificence; 7. Strength or Severity; 8. Intelligence; 9. Wisdom; 10. The Crown. These Sephiroth are emanations from the Deity, who is the centre. They are sometimes expressed by a tree with ten branches, conveying the same idea. To each of them is appended a name or attribute of the Deity; 1. Adonai; 2. Almighty; 3. The Lord of Hosts; 4. The God of Armies; 5. God the Strong; 6. God the Powerful; 7. God the Creator; 8. Jehovah; 9. Jah (Essence); 10. I am that I am. The idea intended to be expressed is, of course, that Deity is the centre, but His power, intelligence, wisdom, &c. extends over the universe; they are His clothing. The crown is the last, because it completes the royal apparel, and makes perfect the whole. Finis coronat opus. For a full account of this wonderful system of theology, see Basnage, Histoire des Juifs, tome troisième. EDWIN L. BLENKINSOPP.

Springthorpe Rectory.

ROSCOE FAMILY (4th S. viii. 437.)-In reference to MR. SKIPTON's inquiry, I may say that, in a choice little volume entitled Memories of some Contemporary Poets; with Selections from their Writings, by Emily Taylor (Longmans, 1868), there are specimens of poetry by eight members of the Roscoe family. The stanzas quoted by MR. SKIPTON were no doubt written by William Caldwell Roscoe, eldest son of William Stanley Roscoe, author of the volume in which they appear in manuscript, himself the eldest son of the well-known William Roscoe of Liverpool, author of the Life of Lorenzo de Medici, &c. W. C. Roscoe (whose name appears to be incorrectly printed "W. G." in two places in MR. SKIPTON'S

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A Century of Bibles of the Authorised Version, from 1611 to 1711: to which is added William Kilburne's Tract on Dangerous Errors in the late Printed Bibles, 1659, with Lists of Bibles in the British Museum, Bodleian, Stuttgart, and other Libraries. Compiled by the Reverend W. J. Loftie, B.A., F.S.A. (Pickering.) After all that has been written on the history and bibliography of the English Bible by the many eminent scholars who have made it the subject of their studies, - the reader of the work before us will be surprised to find how much has been left for Mr. Loftie to tell; and to learn, with respect to our Authorised Version, that the last edition of Bagster differs almost as much from the first of Barker as the Authorised Version itself does from the tentative efforts of Tyndale and Coverdale; and that it is "altered throughout, for the better in some places, for the worse in some, and that, while the general correctness of the printing is greater as a rule in our day, the spelling and punctuation might yet with advantage follow the earlier model." But Mr. Loftie enjoys one advantage over his predecessors, who all stopped short when their narrative reached the completion of the Version of 1611. Whereas it is from this important point that he commences his inquiry; and incorporating as he does in his text Kilburne's scarce and most interesting tract, printed in 1659 under the title of Dangerous Errors in several late printed Bibles, and availing himself, as he had been enabled to do by the liberality of Mr. Francis Fry, of that gentleman's vast stores of information upon the subject, it will be at once seen that Mr. Loftie's Century of Bibles is a book to command the attention of all who take an interest in the Authorised Version of the Holy Scriptures. The book is beautifully printed; and if we are rightly informed that the impression is a very limited one, we venture to predict that a second edition will soon be called for.

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A. B. (Sudbury.)-The quotation, "She comes a-reckoning when the banquet's o'er," is from Gay, The What D'ye Call't, Act II. Sc. 9.

J. H. I. OAKLEY.-For some account of William Combe and his numerous works consult" N. & Q." 4th S. iii. 406, 455, 466, 545, 569, 589; iv. 14, 86.

J. SMITH (Pimlico).- Tom of Ten Thousand was Thomas Thynne of Longleat in Wiltshire, son of Sir Thomas Thynne of Richmond in Surrey, and the inheritor of the extensive estates of his uncle, Sir James Thynne. See "N. & Q." 1st S. v. 269.

L. MILLER (Ramsgate).-Stephen Gosson, in his Sermon The Trumpet of Warre, 1598, has a notice of “the roaring boys, and the damned crew, who feared neither God nor Devil."

L. A.-St. Bernard's sauce is an ironical term for hunger.

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S. UPTON.-In Lanquet's Chronicle, 1559, p. 215, is a notice of the five moons. He "Anno Domini 1203, and in the 5164th year of the world, in Yorkshire, were seen five moons-one in the east, another in the west, the thyrd in the north, the fourth in the south, and the fifth in the myddle of the elements. The next yere followed a sharp winter, and hayle felle as bigge as henne's egges, wherewith men, cattaile, and fruite were greatly hurt.”

J. TURNER (Kingsland.) — The Cordeliers, so called from the convent of the Cordeliers, where their meetings were held, was a very important club, but its influence was limited to Paris. It was this club that plotted the insurrection, which marked the close of the Reign of Terror, and first demanded the abolition of royalty, and the institution of a free republic.

ERRATUM. 4th S. ix. p. 403, col. ii. line 11 from bottom, for "Cheirantus" read "Cheiranthus."

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