Notes and Queries

Mr. Ian Malcolm's Rothenburg and its Festival,' are graceful and lively bits of writing which make a series of successful pictures in the reader's imagination. Mr. Hesketh Prichard's Grey Seals of Haskeir,' besides its obvious interest as a contribution to natural history and an account of sport, embodies an appeal with which we would gladly associate ourselves. In November, while the young are helpless, mothers nursing, and the big bulls often lying with their families," takes place, with circumstances of revolting brutality, the annual " clubbing of the seals." This is not justified by the value either of the skins or the oil obtained, and will lead ere long to the extermination of a fine creature which is both interesting and harmless. What is needed- the writer is not sanguine as to its being effected-is the establishment of a close time for the grey seal. Mr. E. V. Lucas's delightful paper on Old Crome's Hobbema' should send a number of people to the National Gallery to refresh their memories of both these painters as well as of Ruysdael. An important and suggestive article, which we trust will bear fruit in the work of oncoming historians, is Sir. J. K. Laughton's Historians and Naval History.'

The Nineteenth Century for July starts with a paper by Lord Cromer on The Capitulations in Egypt, designed to turn attention towards .devising some plan which shall take the place of the present Egyptian system of legislation by diplomacy." Dr. Georges Chatterton-Hill hails with an exultation which is, perhaps, a little premature, seeing how new as yet are the phenomena he describes, the Re-awakening of France.' Still, one cannot but read his pages with hope and pleasure. Mrs. Bennett brings to a conclusion the account of her truly terrible experiences as a captive after the Massacre of Cawnpore. Mrs. W. K. Clifford in A Remembrance of George Eliot' has little that is definite to relate, and there is something perilously near akin to the ridiculous in the solemnity of the scenes she describes, yet she has succeeded as well as any one who has written of George Elot in conveying a sense of the curious thrilled atmosphere that surrounded her. Miss Emily Hickey's study of Mrs. Browning, if somewhat drawn out, makes good reading-as it were an echo from older methods of criticism. One of the most charming and instructive papers is Mrs. March-Phillipps's Old Italian Villas and their Lesson,' devoted chiefly to the construction of the garden. The true Italian garden, with its comparative indifference to flowers and its tendency towards architecture, is more nearly allied to the Japanese idea of a garden than to our own. Canon Lyttelton in Eugenics, Ethics, and Religion sets forth the compatibility of eugenics and Christianity, Lady Blake gives us a rapid, slight, but rather engaging sketch of Irish life in Tir-na-bes.' Other good papers-less in the line of N. & Q.-deal with agriculture, military efficiency, and problems of nationality.

IN the July Fortnightly Review "the play 's the thing " We have the third instalment of the Editor's discussion of Realistic Drama,' in which not only is the criticism, alike of the temper of the time and of modern dramatic methods, acutely driven home, but also a scattering of well-pointed epigrams is offered for the

delectation of the discerning. Mr. S. R. Littlewood's Intellect and the Actor again is a suggestive essay by way of discrimination. Mr. P. P. Howe writes on The Dramatic Craftsman. ship of Mr. Bernard Shaw' with verve and inci siveness, and makes sundry good hits. The Centenary of Richard Wagner, by Mr. Clement Antrobus Harris, is a good outline study, within narrow limits, of Wagner's work and position. Mr. de Vere Stacpoole, after some pages of allusive introduction, gives us translations from Villon, clever enough for the most part as to the riming and versification. But we could not deny that, like "les neiges d'antan," Villon himself has proved elusive and regrettable as Still, it is one of the best papers of the number. Mr. Horace Samuel revives judiciously the claims of Stendhal to the gratitude of lovers of literature. No doubt one of the articles that will be read with special interest is Dr. Elkind's estimate of the Kaiser. imperial questions and the Near East. The political papers deal with

ever,

READERS of N. & Q.' will learn with satisfaction that on Tuesday, 24 June, Lord Beauchamp

carried his amendment to the Ancient Monuments Consolidation and Amendment Bill to substitute a fine of 1007., or imprisonment not exceeding three months, for a fine of 201. as the maximum penalty to which the owner of an ancient monument, reported of national importance, shall be liable if he commence any operation of demolition, removal, alteration, or addition, without giving a month's notice to the Commissioners of Works-201. being considered an inadequate deterrent.

In the discussion as to the desirability for a separate board for Scotland, Lord Beauchamp mentioned the interesting fact that more people in Scotland had taken advantage of the old Act, and that more monuments in Scotland were under the care of the Office of Works than was the case in England and Wales.

Notices to Correspondents.

ON all communications must be written the name and address of the sender, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith.

CORRESPONDENTS who send letters to be forwarded to other contributors should put on the top left-hand corner of their envelopes the number of the page of N. & Q.' to which their letters refer, so that the contributor may be readily identified.

To secure insertion of communications correspondents must observe the following rules. Let each note, query, or reply be written on a separate such address as he wishes to appear. When answerslip of paper, with the signature of the writer and ing queries, or making notes with regard to previous entries in the paper, contributors are requested to put in parentheses, immediately after the exact heading, the series, volume, and page or pages to queries are requested to head the second comwhich they refer. Correspondents who repeat munication "Duplicate."

CORRIGENDUM.-For FRANCIS N. RELTON (11 S. vii. 513) read FRANCIS H. RELTON. We apologize to our correspondent for the slip.

LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 13, 1913.

CONTENTS.-No. 185.

NOTES:-The Arabian Nights Entertainments,' 21-The Forged Speeches and Prayers' of the Regicides, 22-St. Mary's, Amersham, Churchyard Inscriptions, 23 - A 'Daily Telegraph' Jubilee: Mr. J. M. Le Sage-An Ambiguous Possessive Case, 25-Fruit Trees, 1753-Goldsmith's Deserted Village,' 26-" Castalia interdictus aqua, interdictus et igne Pierio"-"Satire": its Pronunciation-Cathedral Bell Stolen-Peter Pett-"Paraboues," 27. QUERIES:-Du Thisac of Lorraine-Ancestry WantedRear Admirals Durell and Charles Holmes "Sarcistectis"-Jeremy Bentham-Curious Bibliographical Item -Black Hole of Calcutta, 28-The Mask,' a Humorous Review-Autograph Letters of Charles I.-" Dubbing": "Iling" -Burns's Maternal Great Grandfather-Sir Francis Galton in the Sudan-Ellis Walker, Translator of Epictetus Bell Family, 29-The Wednesday ClubHebrew or Arabic Proverb-J. de Fleury-The Miller of Huntingdon - "The Faithful Durhams" - Dr. Garret Power-Percy Society, 30. REPLIES:- The "Peccavi" Pun, 30- The Pay of a Cardinal, 31-Doronderry, Cornwall-"Raising Feast Ashford Family, 32-Unicorn's Horn-Colleges: Matriculation and Graduation Ewing of Ireland The Alchemist's Ape, 33-Pictures of the Deity in Churches-Cardinal Newman's Epitaph-"He" in Game of "Touch" "Quo vadis?". "To banyan," 34-Blake and his Friend Butts "Attainting royal blood"-St. Katherine's by-the-Tower, 35-Washington's Connexion with SelbyCobbett Bibliography-'The Reader' and Dr. Johnson's Dictionary, 36- Authors Wanted - Wilderness RowMatthew Arnold's Poems-Stamford Mercury: Earliest Provincial Newspaper, 37-"The Star," Broad Green, Croydon-Chilston-Coaching Clubs, 38.

NOTES ON BOOKS: 'Calendar of Patent Rolls, Henry III.' - "Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature "-'The Imprint.'

Booksellers' Catalogues.

Notices to Correspondents.

Notes.

Thousand and One Nights' in Paris to transfer to London those immortal tales. Fifty-eight years ago the name of this benefactor was asked for in these columns (1 S. xii. 148), and the question remains unanswered yet. It was probably that of some hack who was unknown beyond the limits of Grub Street, but what a hack! A hack who knew the secret of that antiseptic quality which enables dead-and-gone stories to "smell sweet, and blossom in the dust centuries after their authors have been forgotten. The language adopted by the translator is as nervous and limpid as that of Swift or Defoe, and there is not a reader who would consent to give up one of its quaint archaisms. The querist to whom I have referred indicated the excellent English version, that of our schoolboy days," and the Editor, with somewhat unusual density (with bated breath be it spoken), replied that his correspondent should have given the date of the edition perused by him in his schoolboy days. There is, or was, for I have no knowledge of the youthful tastes of the present day, but one version of The Arabian Nights' known to the schoolboy world, and that was the one from which the poet drew his inspiration when on Many a sheeny summermorn, Adown the Tigris I was borne, By Bagdat's shrines of fretted gold, High-walled gardens green and old; True Mussulman was I and sworn, For it was in the golden prime Of good Haroun Alraschid.

The bibliography of the first English translation of The Arabian Nights' is rather obscure. According to Brunet ('Manuel du Libraire,' ed. 1862, tome iii. col. 1716), Galland's translation of 'The

THE ARABIAN NIGHTS ENTERTAIN- Thousand and One Nights' appeared in

MENTS.'

"THE world knows nothing of its greatest men," and still less, if that were possible, does it know of those who have contributed most to its youthful pleasure and enjoyment. What does it really know of Robert Samber, who was the first to introduce Cinderella and Little Red Riding Hood to an English audience? The translator of Madame d'Aulnoy's fairy tales, The Fair One with the Golden Locks,' 'The Yellow Dwarf,' and many others that delighted six generations of childhood. and formed the stock-intrade of Planché and the extravaganza writers of old Lyceum days, is nameless. But he is no worse off than the writer who seized the opportunity presented by the publication of Galland's translation of 'The

Paris in twelve duodecimo volumes between the years 1704 and 1717. But the English translator did not wait for the completion of the work before he entered on his task. The earliest mention of the translation that I have been able to discover is contained in an advertisement of Books newly Publish'd,' which is printed on the last page of the first edition of The Diverting Works of the Countess d'Anois,' printed in 1707 for several publishers, among whom was Andrew Bell at the Cross Keys and Bible in Cornhill. The advertisement simply runs: "Arabian Nights Entertainments. Six Parts in 3 Vol. in Twelves. Price 3s. a Volume.” I cannot find a reference to this issue, which was probably the first, in the late Mr. Arber's

Term Catalogues,' but in the third volume of that work, at p. 592, Easter and Trin.,

1708, is a transcript of the lengthy title of a succeeding volume as under :—

"Arabian Nights Entertainments: Consisting of 1,001 Stories, told by the Sultaness of the Indies, to divert the Sultan from the Execution of a bloody Vow he had made, to Marry a Lady every Day, and have her cut off next Morning; to avenge himself for the Disloyalty of his first Sultaness, &c. Containing a better Account of the Customs, Manners, and Religion, of the Eastern Nations, viz., Persians and Indians, than is to be met with by any Author hitherto published. Translated into French from the Arabian MSS., by Monsieur Galland, of the Royal Academy; and now done into English. Vol. VII. Twelves. Printed for A. Bell at the Cross Keys and Bible in Cornhill. Where may be had the other Six Volumes."

I do not know if a copy of this first edition is extant, but Mr. Arundell Esdaile, in his valuable List of English Tales and Prose Romances printed before 1740,' which has recently been issued by the Bibliographical Society, notes the following editions as being in the British Museum (p. 149):—

The Second Edition. For A. Bell. 1712.

12mo. 6 or 8 vols. ? (B.M. 12410 bbb. 32.

Vols. 3, 4)."

For A. Bell.

"The Fourth Edition [sic]. 1713. 12mo. 6 or 8 vols. ? (B.M. bbb. 32. Vols. 1, 2)."

12410

(See 11 S. vii. 301, 341, 383, 442, 502.) VI. THE EVIDENCE ABOUT JOHN COOKE COOKE's case is a crucial test of the truth of the Speeches and Prayers.' The pamphlet devotes immensely lengthy passages to Cooke. Long treatises in favour of Republicanism in the form of letters asserted to have been written by him are set out. But whoever reads the scurrilous and semi1715. illiterate pamphlets published by Cooke in 1648 and 1649 cannot fail to notice that the letters in the Speeches and Prayers were, both in thought and language, written by a more highly educated man than Cooke. Apart from this, the question is whether Cooke died penitent and praying for the King. According to the Prayers,' he certainly did not, but gloried Speeches and in his crime even more than Harrison. As against this there are the following witnesses :

"The Third Edition [sic]. For A. Bell. 12mo. 6 or 8 vols. ? (B.M. 12410 bbb. 32. Vols. 5, 6)."

I have in my own collection a copy of the work, which is called "The Fifth Edition on the title-page, and is dated 1718. The title is an exact replica of that which I have copied from the Term Catalogues,' but the work is complete in two volumes, and it ends with The Story of the Three Callenders, Sons of Kings, and of the Five Ladies of Bagdad.' The subsequent volumes, containing the remainder of the tales, were also probably published in pairs.

Lowndes mentions an edition in six volumes which was published in 1724 (Bindley, pt. i. 10, 18s. 6d.), and vindicates the taste and virtue of his own day by remarking that this old translation is not only incorrect, but coarse and vulgar in its diction." Mr. Esdaile notes that parts ix.xii. in 2 vols. were advertised, as completing the work, by D. Browne, jun., and S. Chapman. in The Memoirs of the Baron de Brosse,' " 1725. Parts 5 and 6," never before in English," “ are advertised by Browne in Fénelon's Fables,' 1723."

Since that date The Arabian Nights,' in its original form as presented to English readers, has been reprinted in hundreds of editions. That which was the unfailing friend and companion of my own boyhood

whose tryal you heard at large in our last, was "Tuesday Octob. 16. This day John Cooke,.

executed at Charing Cross. He carried himself at his execution (as well as at his tryal) much better than could be expected from one that acted such a part in that horrid arraignment of our late exceeding much penitence and, which best became soveraign; for, not to wrong him, he express'd him, heartily prayed for his Majesty that now is,. and taking notice of Hugh Peters that was executed next after him, wish'd he might be reprieved because, at present, as he conceived, he was not prepared to dye."-Mercurius Publicus, 11-18. Oct., 1660.

Perhaps some may think it strange that there is so little said as to Mr. Gregory Clement, who suffered with the rest. Therefore this only is to be said more (which is known to many) that Mr. Clement was very silent both at the time of his imprisonment at Newgate and at the time and place of his execution at Charing Cross. Only this is said, that he exprest' his trouble to some friends in the prison, for yielding so far to the importunity of his Relations as to plead guilty to the indictment. And although he spoke little at the place of execution, yet as far as could be judged by some discerning persons who were near him, he departed this life in peace."

But Mercurius Publicus (11-18 Oct.)

states:

Gregory Clement, at his death, express'd a great deal of sorrow and penitence, confessing that he most justly suffered both from God and man and that his judges had done nothing but according to law, begging the prayers of all spectators."

William Smith once more adds further details (Hist. MSS. Commission's Fifth Report, Appendix, p. 174) :—

"On Wednesday Thomas Scot, railing" [Mercurius Publicus confirms this], "and Gregory Clement, howling, because, he said, his sin could not be forgiven, died as and where the rest."

VIII. THE EVIDENCE ABOUT HACKER AND

AXTELL.

The Speeches and Prayers' assert that none of the regicides wrote their Speeches,' and also that Hacker and Axtell died as impenitent for their crime of regicide as the book asserts the rest did. But Hacker wrote his speech; and Axtell, like Cooke, Clement, and John Jones, died penitent. The Parliamentary Intelligencer for 15-22 Oct., 1660, states:

"Tyburn. October 19. This morning Mr. Francis Hacker and Mr. Daniel Axtell, heretofore called colonels, were drawn upon an hurdle from the gaol of Newgate to Tyburn. Mr. Hacker before his execution spake but little. He had a paper in his hand containing what he meant to deliver, which was very short and to this purpose. That he was an officer employed in the service and endeavoured to discharge his trust. Which might have been spar'd by a dying man

who had sign'd a warrant to the Executioner for the murther of his own king.

"Mr. Axtell said that he was cal'd out at the beginning of the war and went not out into arms. without advice, for he had conference with a minister in Laurence Lane (we give you his very words) who told him it was the cause of God.. That after he had engag'd in England he was cal'd into Ireland where he endeavoured to do his work. We will not mention what that work was, for he is now dead [see a tract entitled A Collec-committed on the Irish in Ireland since the 23rd of October, 1641-press-mark 601. f. 14 (7)], but for that minister and all his bretheren who so.

tion of some of the Murthers and Massacres

notoriously inflam'd all our distractions, they may now see to what they have brought their proselytes. After this Mr. Axtell went to prayers,. wherein Mr. Hacker joyn'd, which ended, the executioner did his office.'

Finally, William Smith (as before) wrote: "On Friday Francis Hacker, without remorse, and Daniel Axtell, who dissolved himself into tears and prayers for the King and his own soul, were executed at Tyburn."

The remaining cases are all equally un-favourable to the Speeches and Prayers,' and I do not think it necessary to add any more evidence in support of the contemporarystatement that they were a meer forgery and imposture "-a conclusion, I may add, which was endorsed by Dr. Philip Bliss, the learned bibliophile and editor of Anthony à Wood's Athenæ Oxonienses,' in a letterwhich the reader will find pasted in the Grenville copy of the Speeches and Prayers' in the British Museum.

J. B. WILLIAMS..

(To be continued.)

ST. MARY'S, AMERSHAM, BUCKS :CHURCHYARD INSCRIPTIONS.

(See 11 S. vii. 464.)

THE next lot are those between the path leading from the gate at the north-east end of the churchyard, which terminates at the south-east corner by the swing-gate leading into Church Alley, and the path from the north-east gate leading to the south porch, whence another starts and meets the firstmentioned at the swing-gate, the piece of ground being almost triangular in shape.

23. James son of James | and Mary Ann Avern of Bovingdon Hertfordshire | who died Sep. 11 1810 aged [29 years ?].

The Register states he was buried on · 13 Sept. of that year.

24. William Baldwin | who died Decr. 1814 | aged 55 years.

4th

25. Joseph Baldwin | died February 4th 1839 · aged 47 years.

26. Mary Baldwin | died July 8th 1838 | aged 77 years.

This is evidently an old stone which has been re-used, for on the back of it are the following letters and figures, crossways :

61 RY of

T TER 1833

EARS.

28. Mrs. Mary Giles | wife of Thomas Giles | who departed this Life April the 28th 1838 | Aged 71 years.

29. Mr. Thomas Giles | who died April 19th 1815 | Aged 60 years.

30. Mr. Thomas Giles | son of Thomas and Mary Giles who departed this life April 20th 1842 Aged 38 Years | Also of | Susannah Giles Sister of the above who died Sepr. 4th | 1861 aged 56 Years "She walked with God, and is not, For God took her."

32. Mr. Thomas Marshall [Solicitor | who died the 13th of May 1842 | in the 61 Year of his age.

33. Mr. John Marshall Attorney at Law | who died 5th May 1828 Aged 73 years of | Mrs. Mary Marshall, his wife who died 1st May 1812 aged 56 years; of Ann Marshall their Eldest Daughter who died 1st January 1781 aged 13 Days, of Lydia Marshall their fifth Daughter who died February 1797 Aged 7 Months of John Marshall their second son who died 26th April 1803 aged 18 Years and of Sarah Marshall their youngest Child | who died 18th February 1823 aged 23 Years.

34. S. M. 18th February 1823 aged 23. 35. J. M. 26th April 1803, Aged 18. It will be noticed that the inscriptions on Nos. 34 and 35 are to two of the Marshall family whose names are also recorded on John Marshall's stone.

36. John How who departed | this life | June 3rd 1834 | Aged 40 | Years. This is an urn-shaped memorial, made -entirely of iron.

38. Isabella Priest | died March 18th 1849 | aged 17 years also | Sarah Sophia Priest died Feby. 16th 1851 aged 18 years also | Ellen Priest died Dec. 26th 1840 aged year.

39. Mrs. Sarah Trone | who departed this life | October 31 1843 | aged 76.

40. Mrs. Elizabeth Statham | wife of Mr. William Statham | who departed this life | April the 18th 1773 | aged 40 years.

46. This stone and the next one are situated immediately to the north of the path leading from the north-east corner of the churchyard and the south side of the chancel.

47. Mrs. Hannah Jordan | who died Novr. 11th 1820 | Aged 34 Years | Also of Richard Jordan who died December 1st 1852 Aged 67 years. 48. This is a very tall stone placed between the path just mentioned and the south transept window, and is inscribed (facing the east):

January the 7th 1800 | Aged 47 Years.
Esther wife of Thomas Judd | who died

49. Slightly further west, and close to the west wall of the south transept, is an eighteenth-century stone, broken in half the upper part is placed against the wall, the On the upper part is :lower part being still firm in the ground.

Here lies the Body of Ann ye Wife of John Hall [o]f this parish who died the 5th day of Nover 1730 Aged 35 years

And also three of their
Children Margaret
Ann and Thomas.

50. Sarah Beck | who died 28 April, 1792 | aged 56 | Beloved and lamented.

The following are situated between the south aisle and the path leading from the south porch to the west entrance of the churchyard :—

51. Mr. Thomas Saunders | who died August 5th 1840 | Aged 70 years | Also of Mrs. Dorothy

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