"Monodia Gratiolari, an Heroic Poem: being a Congratulatory Panegyric for my Lord General's late Return; Summing up his Successes in an Exquisite Manner. To be sold by John Holden in the New Exchange. London, printed by Tho. Newcourt, 1652."

I have looked over my seventeenth century newspapers, and find two examples of advertisements previous to that date. These occur in the Mercurius Elencticus, No. 45, Oct. 4, 1648, which

contains this:

"The Reader is desired to peruse A Sermon, Entituled A Looking-glasse for Levellers, Preached at St Peters, Paules Wharf, on Sunday Sept. 24, 1648, by Paul Knell, Mr. of Arts. Another Tract called A Reflex upon our Reformers, with a Prayer for the Parliament."

And No. 47, Oct. 18, 1648, has

"The Reader is desired to take notice of two Bookes newly Printed and Published. One is Anti-Merlinus or a Confutation of Mr. William Lillies Predictions for this yeare 1648. The other A Breefe discourse of the present Miseries of the Kingdome, &c."

These are printed at the bottom of the last JOHN PIGGOT, JUN., F.S.A.

page.

REMARKABLE EPITAPH. - At the entrance of the church of San Salvador, in the city of Oviedo, in Spain, is a most remarkable tomb, erected by a prince named Silo, with a very curious Latin inscription, which may be read two hundred and seventy ways, by beginning with the capital S in the centre.

wonder

SIR WALTER SCOTT AND BURTON.-Sir Walter Scott in Rob Roy puts the following aphorism mair ferlie to see a woman greet than to see a wor into the mouth of Bailie Nicol Jarvie: "It's nae goose gang barefit," and I have always thought this not the least racy and original of the worthy Bailie's quaint sayings. But in turning over the third series of Southey's Common-place Book, I find at p. 800 a quotation from the Anatomy of Melancholy which proves Scott to have been anticipated by Burton. It is " As much pity is to be taken of a woman weeping as of a goose going barefoot." H. A. KENNEDY.

Junior United Service Club.

Queries.

THE PATERINI.

I have been reading, not for the first time, Mr. William Bernard Mac Cabe's beautiful romance called Bertha, and a question has again occurred to me, which I was upon the point of asking in your columns more than twenty years ago, when the book was first published.

Among the characters introduced are divers members of the sect of the Paterini. They are, as far as my knowledge extends, not represented in darker colours than they deserve; but everything about these mediaeval heretics is so obscure, even to the derivation of their name, that it is almost impossible to feel certain that any picture of them, whether drawn by historian or romance writer, represents the men such as they were. One opinion attributed to them by Mr. Mac Cabe is so horrible that I would fain believe it owes its origin to the fancy of the author. I quote his own words, put into the mouth of a member of the sect, and am very anxious to know whether there be any contemporary authority to substantiate their accuracy:—

"I do not believe that there is another world; but I am much disposed to believe-and, in fact, cannot prevent myself from believing-that, after what is generally called death, there is life in this world. I believe that, in that rotting, momentarily corrupting piece of defunct humanity, which we designate a corpse, there is still left the power of thought, and even of feeling, although the powers of motion and expression have alike departed from it; and I believe, moreover, that, as long as that mass remains together, whether it be in the totality of the flesh, or the completeness of the skeleton, that the mental sentient man is there; and hence it is that I do believe the Pagan Romans acted like sensible philosophers, when they directed their bodies should be burned, instead of consigning them to ages of misery and abhorrence in filthy graves."-Vol. i. p. 185.

Another reference to this superstition may be found in vol. iii. p. 190. CORNUB.

LORDS OF BRECON.-A gentleman from Brecon Place was kind enough to answer a query respecting the lords of Brecon. Would that same gen

tleman oblige me with a copy of the pedigree of Bleddyn ap Maernarch, as the querist finds he cannot quite understand how the Welsh pedigrees run?-H. A. DE SALIS, 169, Finborough Road, West Brompton.

"DORA."-Is there any explanation of the following coincidence:-Tennyson's Dora is identical with a sketch of Miss Mitford's, entitled Dora Creswell (Our Village, 2nd series), as regards the principal incidents-only the farmer's name is different; while the Mary Hay of Our Village becomes in the poem "a labourer's daughter, Mary Morrison." WALTHEOF.

FERREY'S "RECOLLECTIONS OF WELBY PUGIN."

In the Recollections of Welby Pugin, published by me in 1861, I have given an anecdote of Napoleon, when First Consul, and the artist Isabey, as it was told me by the elder Pugin, who was on intimate terms with Isabey. I have read in one of the late Charles Lever's books (but cannot remember the title of it) a very similar story, but slightly varied. I shall be glad if any of your readers can refer me to the work in which it is contained, and I am curious to know whence the late Mr. Lever obtained his information, as I always understood that the extraordinary incident related by Pugin was not generally known.

I annex the account as given by me (p. 31):"Isabey, the favourite miniature painter to Napoleon I., was another of his companions. This man boasted of his familiar acquaintance with the Emperor when First Consul. That he was at all events a very presuming person, may be inferred from the following practical joke told by Pugin. Napoleon when First Consul resided at Malmaison, delighting in the retirement which it afforded him in his moments of leisure from state affairs; then it was his custom to take solitary walks in the avenues, wrapt in contemplation, with his arms folded across his breast. Isabey one day bragging of his great intimacy with Napoleon, boastingly laid a wager that he would (as boys do in playing at leap-frog) follow the First Consul in his solitary promenade, run behind him, and jump over his head. The challenge being accepted and the opportunity watched, the artist attempted his practical joke; which in fact he accomplished, but at a cost he little expected. Isabey running, and planting his bands on the First Consul's shoulders, sprung clean over his head; and being recognised and instantly chased, would have paid dearly for his frolic had Napoleon caught him. Fortunately the artist outran the Consul; who, however, resented the gross liberty by ever afterwards excluding Isabey from his presence."

BENJ. FERREY, F.S.A. FOREIGN INVENTORIES.—I am anxious to know the titles of German and Dutch books containing, either in Latin or in the vernacular, inventories of articles of domestic use: such as we find in account rolls and testamentary documents in this country.

Has anything been published on the Continent similar to the Fabric Rolls of York Minster (Surtees Society), or the various early church

wardens' accounts that have seen the light in the Archæologia and elsewhere? CORNUB.

GARRICK IN THE GREEN ROOM.-I have a proof impression of Hogarth's picture of "Garrick in the Green Room," surrounded by his friends, and should be glad to learn where I can consult a key to the names of the persons. I have also a proof before any letters of a fine portrait, I feel convinced, of Dr. Johnson. The two hands rest on a book, and the chin rests on the hands. The natural hair is combed back; the face almost profile, with a profound expression of attention. Information is requested as to painter, engraver, and subject. J. B. D.

Room," engraved by Ward, and it is doubted whether [There is no key to the print of "Garrick in the Green the picture was painted by Hogarth. The print is no rarity, the plate being probably still in existence.-There is a portrait of Dr. Johnson, answering to our correspondent's description, in the British Museum collection.] LAST OF GRETNA PRIESTS.

"Old Simon Lang is dead, who for many years past has been the sole survivor of a long line of self-appointed dignitaries. He died, April 23, at Kelling near Newcastle-on-Tyne."

It would be interesting to many readers of "N. & Q." to hear something of the origin of the Gretna marriages; the earliest records of them; the celebrities and scions of noble houses who have been joined by the Gretna priests; also, the form of ceremony adopted-necessarily at times, I suppose, a very hurried one. As we are told, the last ceremony he ever performed was in complete dishabille, he having nothing on but his shirt and drawers. Gretna has declined in fame with the advance of science, in this age of steam. Many of the rising generation would be interested in facts relating to the golden days of the Border village. EGAR.

I should be glad to be informed if there was a register kept of the marriages celebrated in former days at Gretna Green. And if so, whether these registers have ever been copied and published?

26, Rutland Street.

PHILIP MENNELL.

GUINEA-LINES.-The last bookseller's catalogue which I have read describes some of the books as having guinea-lines. What are these? I have read a good many catalogues, but never came across the term before. F. M. S.

[The guinea-lines are, no doubt, those that are techthe lines resembling the rim of the old guineas running nically known among bookbinders as the guinea-edgesdown the outside of some books close to the backs.]

HEALD AND WHITLEY OF YORKSHIRE, W.R.William Heald, clerk, married Hester, daughter of J. Whitley, and was living in 1653. Can any correspondent inform me what living he held, or who were his parents? also the residence of

J. Whitley, his father-in-law, and any other information regarding these families? JAMES RUSBY.

21, Ainger Terrace, Regent's Park, N.W.

HERITABLE MILLERS.-I shall be greatly obliged for any references as to the position, revenues, &c. of "heritable millers" in Scotland in days of old. What was the office of a heritable miller, and how was it acquired? Was it necessarily held by one individual, and was it attended with any other duties than those involved in drawing the revenues from the mill or mills? I presume, from the following extracts, that the heritable miller was not necessarily the bona fide miller who ground the corn.

In the chartulary of Newbottle mention is made of "Eufamia nobilis mulier tenens tertiam partem molendini de Stanhus" [Stenhouse].

In 1677 Adam Scott alienated the heritable office of miller of the mills of Musselburgh, near Edinburgh, to James, Patrick, and Francis Scott, writers in Edinburgh; and in 1715 Gideon Scott, of Falnash, possessed a third part of the heritable office of miller of the same mills.

Where can I find any account of the revenues of the actual and heritable millers, and the proportions in which the amounts were divided between them?

F. M. S.

Stands Scotland where it did? Alas! no more,
Since truant Jeffrey flies his native shore
For who among her sons to speed their gains
(Her sons, more famed for brimstone than for brains)
Like him retraced the path which Kenrick trod,
Traduced his country, and blasphemed his God?
Mourn Caledonia! let thy rocks reply,

Not leaden Sydney can his loss supply.
Too dull, alas! to satisfy a pique,

His heart is willing, but his brain is weak."

Modern Dunciad. London, 1835.

On what writing of Kenrick is this charge made? I know only his Falstaff's Wedding and Poems, Ludicrous, Satirical, and Moral, London, 1768, 8vo, pp. 307. This volume contains the "Epistles to Lorenzo," which, though not free from scepticism, do not appear to me blasphemous, or implying anything which may not be legally maintained by a clergyman of the Church of England. Without concurring in his opinions, I have read his poetry with much satisfaction. Some people have a bad habit of calling all who differ from them "blasphemers," and the title may be as inapplicable to Kenrick as to Jeffrey, of whom Daniel says, in a note in the third edition, 1815, but not reprinted in that of 1835:

"The criticisms of this man, in the Edinburgh Review, are notorious for their vulgarity and profaneness. He is now, it is said, gone to America, leaving his journal to the Hon. Mr. Lambe, the Rev. Sydney Smith, and others. How far the predictions of these brutal Scotchmen," &c.

It is strange that a man who could write so well and judge so soundly as George Daniel should have written such undisguised malignity. The joke about brimstone was worn out in the days of Wilkes; but even his followers did not impute to the Scotch want of brains, and it was Sydney in 1835. I say to persevere because the weak to persevere in the "dulness" of "leaden" edition of 1815 has,

Mourn Caledonia! let thy rocks reply,

Nor Lambe nor Sydney can his loss supply.
Sydney has too much lead, and simple Lambe
Retains the will but wants the power to damn
Too dull," &c.

Lambe in the last edition is left out, and the disparagement concentered on Sydney, which shows that it was not left in by inadvertence. Thinking that Kenrick's blasphemy may be as real as the profanity of Jeffrey, the dulness of Sydney Smith, and the brainlessness of the Scotch, I ask, was there any warrant for the accusation?

Garrick Club.

FITZHOPKINS.

LOCAL SECOND-HAND BOOKSELLERS.-Can any one inform me of any second-hand booksellers, or places where books of decent worth are to be bought, in the towns of Cirencester, Gloucester, Evesham, and Ross and Stroud? Information sent at once, direct to me, will be most acceptable. H. S. SKIPTON.

Tivoli Cottage, Cheltenham.

LLOYD OF TOWY.-Information would be gladly received respecting the pedigree of Lloyd of Towy, who was sheriff of Breconshire in the reign of Elizabeth, and who is buried in Builth church. The family property of Pencoedcae, situated near Builth, is still possessed by a descendant of Lloyd of Towy, but there are certain links in the chain of descent wanting. Can any of your readers T. P. PRICE. supply the complete pedigree?

23, Old Square, Lincoln's Inn.

LONDON MONUMENTAL BRASSES.-Can some of your readers inform me at which of the London churches there are monumental brasses ?

T. W. TYRRELL.

what are, and where I may glean some informaMARLEY HORSES.-Will you kindly inform me tion respecting, the Marley () horses? J. P. B.

"THE OATH.”—A new play called The Oath was performed at Newcastle-on-Tyne for the first time on 20th May, 1816. Who was author of this drama, and was it printed? R. INGLIS.

"OPUS INOPEROSUM."-MR. G. A. SALA, in his answer to E. L. S. (p. 475) says that the crank in civil prisons is the favourite example of the opus inoperosum. The expression is employed as if one in familiar use to designate unproductive

labour. It may be familiar to others, but I would ask whether, if inoperosus is a Latin word at all, the translation would not be "unlaborious" or "easy," instead of "unproductive," thus giving a meaning the reverse of that intended. E. S. G. "OTHER-WORLDLINESS."-With whom did this phrase originate? Curiously enough, it is used by two writers in the same number of the Contemporary Review (June, 1872), where it is spoken of by one as "Coleridge's happy phrase" (p. 5); by the other as "Leigh Hunt's phrase" (p. 28). WM. PENGELLY.

Torquay.

THEODORE PARKER.-Wanted, any biographical sketches, magazine articles, or other books and information regarding Theodore Parker, an American literate of reputation. Address, H. BRIDGE, 136, Gower Street, Euston Square.

PRESERVATION OF SEALS.-I have a good collection of the conventual, municipal, and other seals of my native county. Can any of your correspondents tell me how to preserve them in a safer form than that of sealing-wax? I should prefer electrotype. Is there any one who does this well and cheaply; or is there a simple method of doing it myself? T. Q. COUCH. Bodmin.

QUOTATIONS WANTED.-Who is the author of the paradoxical remark, that the best way to become well acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it? JAMES T. PRESLEY.

"Anser, apis, vitulus, regna gubernant." Pen, wax, and parchment govern the world. These words, quoted a week ago by the wise Punch, are apparently the beginning and ending of an hexameter verse. What are the words which should be supplied between vitulus and regna? and where are they to be found? H. K. "My father gave high towers three, To Lilias, Christobel, and me. In the space between the towers He set for us the fairest flowers:

For them white rose and eglantine,
The myrtle and red rose were mine."

SENGA.

SYMBOLISM OF THE HUMAN EAR."Romans, countrymen, and lovers, lend me your ears." A considerable time ago the idea occurred to me that the human ear resembles in form the head to which it is attached, and that it no less than the cranium or face is indicative of character. Since then, observation has tended much to confirm this idea; and I have only met with one instance that appeared to point in a different way. My hypothesis, if it deserves to be so called, is simply this:-As the configuration of a leaf resembles in outline the mass of foliage from which it has been plucked, so the ear of man or woman

is of the same pattern as the head to which it belongs: the ear being large above the external opening when (in phrenological language) the moral and intellectual regions in the cranium are well developed, and small in the lower lobe when the converse of all this occurring when those parts the animal propensities are correspondingly small: of the brain above the opening of the ear are small, and the lower part is large. If there be anything beyond mere fancy in this notion of ear-symbolism, the model human ear must be, not a small one, such as Greek art has assumed, but one that is delicately small below the opening, and well rounded and fully developed above; and there is this to be said in favour of the idea, that the form of ear which, according to it, indicates high moral worth and mental power, has more of physical beauty than any other. The ventilation of this subject may perhaps be not unworthy of "N. & Q."; at all events, I would be thankful to ascertain through your columns the opinions of any one competent to speak W. M.D. regarding it.

Dumfries.

GREAT WARRIOR.

"One soldier we have heard of who gave up the post of honour, and the chance of high distinction, to cover au early failure of that great warrior whom England has lately lost, and to give him a fresh chance of retrieving honour. He did what Eli did, assisted his rival to rise above him."- Robertson's Sermons, 4th series, Serm. I. What is the allusion? The sermon was preached in January, 1848. T. LEWIS O. DAVIES.

Pear Tree Vicarage, Southampton.

WHITE AND GREEN AS THE ROYAL COLOURS.—

I have long known that our Tudor sovereigns gave white and green for their livery, and that those colours were considered emblematic of loyalty during their time. But I have never hitherto noticed that the same were maintained under the Stuarts. I have just met with the account of the Petition in favour of Church and King which was brought to London by the men of Surrey in May 1648. It is said they came to Whitehall, shouting "High for King Charles!" being furnished with white and green ribbands. I should be glad to have any other contemporary notices of these colours pointed out. J. G. N.

WORLEY, OR WYRLEY FAMILY.-Can any of your correspondents give information in regard to the family of Worley, or Wyrley, or Werley, other than is contained in Erdeswick's History of Staffordshire and Burke's Landed Gentry? The family came over with the Normans, settled at Sandon in Staffordshire, and removed thence to Dodford in Northamptonshire. Their names are given in the authentic Roll of Battle Abbey. The direct male line is now extinct. origin of the name?

New York.

What is the A. WORLEY.