player, said: "An egg and-this," giving the vis-à-vis the spoon. This one in turn stood before the next player, and said: "An egg, a good fat hen, and--this." The next followed with "An egg, a good fat hen, three grey geese, and-this. Each player following had to repeat and add a link to the memory chain. Failing to remember or to add something entailed a forfeit, which was placed in a basket carried by the forfeit-holder, and seldom did the game go beyond the sixth or seventh player. Upon its breaking down there followed redemption of the forfeits in the ordinary THOS. RATCLIFFE. ways. 'IAN ROY (11 S. vi. 510). The novel inquired for appears in the Catalogue of the British Museum. It was published by the London Literary Society in 1886. H. DAVEY. NO TWIN EVER FAMOUS (11 S. v. 487; vi. 58, 172, 214, 433).-It may be well to point out that the Dr. Simpson" whose opinion is cited at the first reference is 'Ian Roy,' by Urquhart Forbes, was none other than Sir James Y. Simpson, published by the London Literary Society who introduced the use of chloroform in in 1886, price ls. The Society is not now clinical cases. As a child I had the privilege in existence, and I have tried in vain to of being well known to him, his services procure a copy of the book by advertising. having been at the time required for a comWM. H. PEET. plicated disease from which my mother was suffering. Simpson was doubtless speaking from evidence to hand in his day, the instances of Lords Eldon and Stowell being exceptions that could be held to prove the rule. Still, he might, perhaps, have included in his purview the notable Biblical case of Esau and Jacob. The examples lately brought forward in "N. & Q.' would seem, however, to establish a rider to the supposed rule, viz., that where one twin develops more than average intellectual capacity, the other will almost certainly do so sympathetically. "CURZO " (11 S. vi. 428).-I think this is merely another spelling of cursus, which signified an avenue or adjacent road in mediæval documents. See the quotations given s.v. in the 'N.E.D.' N. W. HILL. San Francisco. "TAMSON'S MEAR (MARE) (11 S. vii. 9). -This, no doubt, is a variant on "Shanks's nag, naggy, or naigy," a well-known Scottish term for going on foot, which has already been fully discussed in these columns. In the days of the "makaris" (see Dunbar's poems) to be “ John Thomson's man" was to be guided in action by one's consort; and possibly this proverbial phrase may be represented in the equivalent for Shanks's nag. Stevenson's Scotch is freently provincial, and sometimes inaccuTHOMAS BAYNE. e. T. CHIPPENDALE, UPHOLSTERER (10 S. vi. 447; vii. 37; 11 S. vi. 407; vii. 10).Since last writing to you on this subject I have received a book, by Mr. J. P. Blake, called 'Chippendale and his School' (“Little Books about Old Furniture," Vol. III.), wherein are given, at p. 7, the date, place, and cost of Thomas Chippendale's burial, also his age, on the authority of the rough book of the sexton of St. Martin's-in-theFields Church. From this it appears that Chippendale was buried "in the old ground on the north side on Nov. 13th, 1779, that the fee charged was 21. 78. 4d., and that the cause of death was consumption......being aged 62." The date of his birth, therefore, was in 1717. It would be interesting if one of your correspondents in Otley would kindly search the church registers there for that year, so as to see whether a Thomas Chippendale was born there. MR. J. S. UDAL refers to Chippendale of Blackenhall, Staffordshire, as ancestor, but there seems to me a difficulty. a possible The person at Blackenhall was John Chippingdale, only surviving son of Dr. John Chippingdale of Leicester. He sold Blackenhall to Alderman Sir Edward Bromfield about 1635-6, and went to live on his wife's property at Heighington in the parish of Washingborough, co. Lincoln (vide Chancery Proceedings, Bromfield v. Chippingdale dated 7 Feb., 1635: Record Office B Wigan, Lancs.-Supply of leaflets describ ing church. Middleton, Lancs.-A booklet (price 2d.), by the late Canon Cleworth, is supplied. Purchasers put money in a box provided for that purpose. Warton, Lancs.-A plan of the church, coloured according to periods of building, hangs at west end. Birtsmorton, Worcestershire.-Single copy of a pamphlet on church and manor provided for use of visitors. The value of these leaflets and descriptions naturally differs, and some of the statements made in them may be open to question. F. H. C. 115/46). This John was buried at Washingborough 30 April, 1640, and his son William succeeded him at Heighington, but sold his lands there on a ninety-nine years' lease, in 1651, to one Humphrey Powell, and was buried at Washingborough 31 Dec., 1670. He had a son Thomas, baptized at Washingborough 1 June, 1645. The members of this family owned real estate, and were University men and lawyers, so that it is doubtful whether any of their descendants could become such skilful workers in wood in two or three generations, besides the fact that this family had moved to Lincolnshire. In 1908 I wrote an account of this Chippingdale family from 1579 for The Pedigree Register (vol. i. pp. 98-100), but was unable to carry it further than the lastnamed Thomas, born in 1645. The will celery is, no doubt, apt to suggest the of George Chippingdale of Lincoln in 1579 highly cultivated variety, so (from which it started) showed that the victor's wreath it may seem ludicrous, and family came originally from Skipton-in-remind us of the revellers in the parody, Craven, and were next at Lincoln, whence who crowned themselves with rare mustard they went to Leicester. They then went and cress from the salad-bowl. But is to Blackenhall, and finally to Heighington in celery, after all, so far removed from its co. Lincoln. It is therefore, in my opinion, near relation, parsley? improbable that any of this family were ancestors of the cabinet-maker. W. H. CHIPPINDALL, Col. HISTORY OF CHURCHES IN SITU (11 S. vi. 428, 517).-I can recall the following, seen within the last twelve years. In cases where leaflets or pamphlets are mentioned it does not necessarily follow that these are still provided. Newbury, Berks.-History of building illuminated and framed; hung at west end of church. Chaddleworth, Berks.-Written description of church in the porch. Great Yarmouth (St. Nicholas').-In 1900 there was a supply of four-page leaflets, with skeleton plan and description of building. Darlington. Architectural description of church, by Mr. J. P. Pritchett (from a pamphlet reprinted from Jour. Brit. Archæol. Assoc., 1886); framed and hung in nave. Norton-on-Tees. Written history and description hung up in the church. Pittington, co. Durham.-Written history and description hung up in the church. "APIUM (11 S. vi. 489).-The word that in a Here is what may be found in two of the latest books of reference : "Gélov, parsley, Petroselinum sativum."--Dr. HB. Tristram in A Companion to Greek Studies,' ed. by Leonard Whibley, Cambridge, 1905, section Flora,' p. 39, § 60. Celery (apium), a semi-aquatic native plant, im proved by cultivation. The Romans only grew it for its foliage, used in garlands, 'nectendis apium Columella coronis,' Hor. ['Odes, IV. xi. 3]. says, præcipue aqua lætatur, et ideo secundum fontem commodissime ponitur' [xi. 3, 33].”—Sir W. T. Thiselton-Dyer in A Companion to Latin Studies, ed. by J. E. Sandys, Cambridge, 1910, section Flora,' p. 80. The question of the exact English equivalent for the apium and σélivov of the ancients belongs not so much to scholarship as to local and historical botany. EDWARD BENSLY. because their bee (apis) was specially fond The Romans named parsley apium, either of the herb, or from apex (the head of a crowned with it). conqueror, who was Apium is also said to be derived from the Celtic apon (water), related to Sansk. apya (that which grows in water), Fr. ache, Ger. Eppich, It. appio, Sp. apio. The ancient name of parsley, of which the celery is a variety. The parsleys are botanically named Selinon, and by some verbal accident-through the middle letter n in this word being changed into r, making Aughton, Lancs.-Printed description, it seliron. or in the Italian celeri-o framed and hung in porch. celery (which is parsley) obtained its Chester (St. John's).-Architectural and historical description of church, mounted on cards for visitors. Ormskirk, Lancs.-Supply of leaflets describing building. (W. T. Fernie, 'Herbal Simples'). Celery is a cultivated variety of the common smallage (small ache), or wild celery (Apium graveolens), which grows abundantly in moist English ditches or in water. The root of the wild celery, smallage, or marsh parsley was reckoned by the ancients one of the five great aperient roots, and was employed in their diet drinks. The great parsley is the large age, or large ache; by a strange inconsistency, the Romans adorned the heads of their guests and the tombs of their dead with crowns of the s.nallage. Common parsley (Apium petroselinum) is only found in this country as a cultivated plant, and was introduced into England from Sardinia in the sixteenth century. Its adjective title petro-selinum signifies "growing on a rock." The Greeks held parsley in high esteem, making therewith the victor's crown of dried and withered parsley at their Isthmian games, and the wreath for the adorning the tombs of their dead. Hence the proverb δεῖσθαι σελίνον (to need parsley) was applied to persons dangerously ill and not expected to live. The herb was brought to table of old, being held sacred to oblivion and the defunct. never TOM JONES. FIRST FOLIO SHAKESPEARE (11 S. vii. 8). It seems a pity not to consult my Shakespeare Bibliography' before sending to N. & Q.' such queries as these. A reference to p. 495 therein would reveal the earliest known mention of the first edition, in William Cartwright's letter, dated 30 Nov., 1623, the week of publication. There are several earlier pictorial representations of the volume than that quoted, not all of which, however, are so definitely labelled. A search among the many portraits mentioned on pp. 616-19 and 728, at the British Museum and elsewhere, would bring to light other examples. Speaking from memory, I mention these : Shakespeare, Works, 1744. 6 vols., 4to. The portrait by H. Gravelot exhibits two folios beneath the oval bust. [This was reprinted in the 1771 edition, 6 vols., 4t.] The Shakespeare, Works, 1787-8, 8 vols., 8vo. portrait by Angus depicts the poet, with pen in hand, at a table littered with books and manuscripts. On the floor is an open folio decked with flowers. Shakespeare, Works, c. 1780. The portrait by Cook (after a painting attributed to Taylor or Burbage) depicts an open folio labelled 'Shake speare's Works." Shakespeare, Works, c. 1770. The portrait by I. Fougeron shows the poet declaiming, apparently in front of his birthplace, and holding possibly a folio, which is partly hidden by his loose doublet. As the folio was published posthumously, however, this plate may safely be left out of the reckoning. In both the latter cases I can give only an approximate date, as the loose portraits in my possession have not all been identified. The portrait of the Earl of Southampton mentioned by MR. HARRIS is reprinted in my work (see p. 638). In addition to the entries given above, one should not overlook the Westminster Abbey statue, which exhibits the poet with elbow resting on a pile of books; engraved in 1744, and reprinted in 1750-51, 1752, and 1771. This monument, by the way, formed the model for that on the face of the Stratford-on-Avon Town Hall, sculptured in 1768, the gift of Garrick. There are several fraudulent portraits, such as the Felton picture, purporting to date back to 1595. This delineates in the background a bookcase containing folios. In my possession is one of Zincke's frauds, which pretends to be a contemporary portrait in oils of the poet. A folio upon a table near the figure is labelled 'As You Like It (an ironical comment on the eagerness with which collectors bought up so-called original" portraits of Shakespeare about the end of the eighteenth century). WILLIAM JAGGARD. "OF SORTS (11 S. vii. 10).-I can claim no special authority to reply to DR. KRUEGER'S inquiry under this head, but, as it is my own somewhat colloquial expression which exercises him, I will explain what, at any rate, I meant by 66 a bowl of sorts." We all, I suppose, have pretty much the same idea of the size and shape of what is generally termed a bowl; but as I did not intend to indicate a bowl of exactly this kind, but yet some sort or kind of bowl, I wrote a bowl "of sorts." The expression is now common, but I think it is a quite modern idiom. My impression is that it is not twenty years old. As I used it-and as it is often used-no disparagement was intended: the bowl might have been superior to what we generally understand by a bowl; still, most commonly the expression is one of depreciation or disparagement. "A spaniel of sorts," for example, would be understood to mean a dog whose owner called him a spaniel, but which, critically regarded, would be considered somewhat of a mongrel. D. O. No wonder DR. KRUEGER is puzzled. to a hill-O.E. be(o)rh or be(o)rg, dat. The phrase seems to me to have become be(o)rge, as Hill-field is not an uncommon current within the last ten years or there- field-name. Berrow, Worcestershire, as the abouts. In days gone by one used to say twelfth-century form Berga shows, denotes "of a sort." The phrase had a contemp- a hill. The Ŏ.E. bearu (a grove) is repretuous sense; thus: "Is Dryasdust a sented by, e.g., the common Western Beer, scholar ? "Well-of a sort." as well as -ber(e). Berrysfield" may LINDLEY MURRAY. exceptionally mean the same thing as the field of a man named Berry. With Berryfield," but must normally denote field-names, as however, necessary to produce early forms with place-names, it is, in order to attain something approaching certainty. HY. HARRISON. DR. KRUEGER will find at 9 S. iii. 197, 237, information as to the meaning of this phrase, in reply to a similar inquiry on my part at 9 S. iii. 167. CECIL CLARKE. Junior Athenæum Club. THE INQUISITION IN FICTION AND DRAMA (11 S. vii. 10).-Lord John Russell wrote a tragedy called 'Don Carlos,' dealing with the Inquisition. From Dawn to Dark in Italy was a novel about the Inquisition which ran in The Sunday at Home (c. 1863). John Inglesant' deals, though slightly, with the same topic. LOYOLA. The novel dealing with the Inquisition in the Netherlands to which MR. ERIC R. WATSON refers is The Shadow of Power,' by Paul Bertram. Another novel from the same pen and upon the same subject has recently been published, entitled 'The Fifth Trumpet. Both these novels have fact as a basis, and the author's treatment is such that although, for artistic purposes, the methods of procedure in force with the "Holy Office have been compressed and proportioned. The essential details, whether of historical accuracy or dramatic interest, are sufficiently rendered. The Shadow of Power' and The Fifth Trumpet' are published by Mr. John Lane of the Bodley Head. N. R. In Voltaire's famous novel 'Candide, or Optimism,' the Inquisition plays a prominent part. In chap. vi. there is a delightful description of an auto-da-fé whereat Candide is flogged and the famous Dr. Pangloss is hanged. C. R. BERRYSFIELD (11 S. vi. 368, 436).-To quote-as is done at the latter reference such antiquated and untrustworthy works as Edmunds's Traces of History in the Names of Places' and Charnock's Local Etymology' is going back with a vengeance to dark days in onomatology. At the first reference the meaning of Berryfield "Berrysfield" is sought. A "berryfield MONUMENTS AT WARWICK (11 S. vii. 9).-— This Society has a collection of copies of the monumental inscriptions of many places in Warwickshire, including the following: Polesworth, Nether Whitacre, Over Whitacre, Brinklow, Ansley, Kingsbury, Bickenhill, Berkswell, Bulkington, Nuneaton, Mancetter, Shustoke, Coleshill, Fillongley, Baddesley, Rugby (Holy Trinity), Hampton in Arden, Erdington, Sutton Coldfield, Kaye Hill, Birmingham, Whitchurch, Atherstone-onStour, Beaudesert, and Henley in Arden. These copies may be seen here at the Society's rooms. ÏVY C. WOODS, Librarian-Secretary. Society of Genealogists of London, 227, Strand, W.C. AND RICHARD II. QUEEN ELIZABETH (11 S. vii. 6).-Possibly F. L. would find some light thrown on the subject by referring to a paper by Mr. J. R. Planche 'On the Portraits of the Lumley Family at Lumley Street,' in the Journal of the British ArchæoCastle, and their Effigies at Chester-lelogical Association. vol. xxii. pp. 31-44. One of the portraits represents Richard II., seated in a chair of state in his royal robes, giving a patent of nobility to Sir Ralph Lumley, who kneels before him. The picture is reproduced opposite p. 40. F. H. C. GENERAL BEATSON AND THE CRIMEAN WAR (11 S. vi. 430, 516).-Your correspondents have overlooked the name of Capt. Burton, the most famous member of General Beatson's staff when commanding the BashiBazouks. If reference is made to the Life of Sir Richard Burton' by his widow, very full information will there be found relative to General Beatson's troubles during the is normally" the field of the stronghold, or Russian War. 66 or fortified place"-O.E. burh or burg, dat. byrig; The omission of Beatson's name from the but sometimes the "berry- may refer'D.N.B.' is remarkable. W. S-R. HAMPDEN SURNAME (11 S. vi. 489).-As eleven." "A litter of books and papers made certain authors, such as Anthony Wood, write Hamden, and others, with Clarendon, Hambden, I presume the patriot's surname was pronounced in the same manner in the seventeenth as it is in the twentieth century. A. R. BAYLEY. WILLIAM DARGAN (11 S. vi. 490).-I have a pamphlet entitled "William Dargan, Originator of the first Dublin Exhibition. A Memoir....By F. C. Wallis Healy," 8vo, pp. 16 (Dublin), 1882. EDITOR IRISH BOOK LOVER.' Kensal Lodge, N.W. Notes on Books. Cardinal Manning, and Other Essays. By John Edward Courtenay Bodley. (Longmans & Co.) WHEN Pius IX., on the 19th of September, 1850, announced that he intended to re-establish the Roman hierarchy in England, and appointed Wiseman to the dignity of Archbishop of Westminster, the indignation that ran through the land can still be remembered by some of the older generation. But Pius IX. knew what he was about. Wiseman was in appearance a typical John Bull, "a ruddy, strapping ecclesiastic, and by his genial manners and great scholarship became so popular that, when he died fifteen years afterwards, his burial took place amid an extraordinary demonstration of public mourning. The Pope by his appointment of Manning to succeed him showed equal wisdom, for although at the first his autocratic methods were irksome to the clergy, it was seen that he did not spare himself, and the special attention he gave to the education of children, thus securing them as Roman Catholics, has been one of the chief causes of the progress of Roman Catholicism in this country. A few terse sentences tell the story of Manring's early life and of his going over to Rome in 1851, after the Gorham judgment touching the doctrine of the Church of England as to baptism. Great was the rejoicing among Nonconformists when, after twelve months' litigation, Mr. Gorham gained the day. The author in this sketch of Manning makes no attempt to give even an outline of his public life, but confines himself to Manning as he knew him, and in the brief space of seventy pages he has produced a lifelike portrait. Mr. Bodley was in his freshman's year at Oxford when he first saw him at the Jubilee banquet of the Union Society, when none knew much about him beyond the portrait of him in 'Lothair as Cardinal Grandison (see 8 S. iii. 444; iv. 24). He was afterwards, it will be remembered, depicted in Endymion' as Nigel Penruddock (8 S. iii. 482). Mr. Bodley's closer friendship with Manning began after their official relations in reference to the Commissions upon which the Cardinal sat had ceased. Manning invited him, whenever he had an evening disengaged in London, to come to him for a talk at half-past eight-so many a night saw him “at Archbishop's House, where we talked till nearly the room where we sat the least dreary in the cernible in the dim lamplight was a fine malachite cavernous house. The only object of piety discrucifix on the mantelpiece, which was given to him in Rome soon after his conversion, and had always stood near him for twenty-seven years.... Facing it Manning used to sit, in a low armchair. With his faded skull-cap cocked over his eyebrow, he looked like an old warrior of the days of his boyhood, when men of war were often as clean shaven as priests." Mr. Bodley paints so vividly that we seem to see him sitting over the fire with the " lonely old man," talking of Oxford days. One night the Cardinal's talk turned to Newman, " and so long as his allusions were to his personal relations there was no bitterness in his words." We are not sufficiently acquainted with the particulars of the controversy between Newman and Manning to pronounce an opinion upon it. We know with what anger many Roman Catholics speak of Newman, but we could wish that some of the remarks made by the author (who is, as all know, a Protestant) had been spared. The characteristics of the two men were so different that it could never be possible for there to be religious sympathy between them. We agree with George Eliot, who, after reading the Apologia' and its epilogue by way of dedication, expressed her sense of "its brotherliness," and her gladness that such mutual charity was left upon earth." It may interest our readers to be reminded that in the Apologia' Newman refers to the article which appeared in our pages on the 22nd of May, 1858, in which various evidence was adduced to show that the tongue was not necessary for articulate speech." 6 Mr. It was on a spring day in 1891 that the pleasant, homely meetings were brought to a close. Bodley found the Cardinal nursing two manuscript books. "At last he opened them, filled with his fine clear handwriting, and let me see them. 66 They were two of his secret diaries, and he said: I thought you might like to take these.'" As Mr. Bodley was then leaving for a long series of voyages d'études in France and Algeria, he felt it was not prudent to risk the loss of these precious records during months of travel, and, to his " never-ending regret," refused to take charge of them, promising to come again for them in the winter. "He gave me his blessing," writes Mr. Bodley, "with more than usual affection, and I never saw him again." Manning will ever be remembered for his sympathy with the poor and needy; he had no thought of self. The net value of the property he left was 7501. We regret that space permits of only brief reference to the two other studies. In the first, The Decay of Idealism in France,' Mr. Bodley shows, as we might expect, all his unique knowledge of France and the French, and one wishes that he could have given more space to the rela tions of religion with idealism in that country; but to have done so would have been beyond the boundaries of our present survey." The following shows how the great figure of Napoleon has become a dim remembrance to unlettered people." Some years ago Mr. Bodley followed the track of Napoleon after his escape from Elba. He drove from Digne to the Château de Malijai, and saw the room where Napoleon passed the night of March 4th, 1815, in a Louis XV. |