Mr. Meynell declares that, "in all the quartermillion signs that I have examined, the lettering and the ugliness is of the same kind." Other articles are Decoration and its Uses,' by Mr. Edward Johnston; Printers' Devices,' Part VI., by the Rev. T. F. Dibdin; Printing and Patents,' by Mr. George H. Rayner; and The Hodgman Press,' by Mr. Daniel T. Powell. The many beautiful illustrations include portraits of Fox Talbot, Russell Gurney, and Karl Klic. MR. J. T. PAGE writes: " As an addition to the interesting note at 11 S. vii. 484 it may be mentioned that a movement has recently been initiated for the erection of a memorial to Hesba Stretton at Church Stretton. Among the promoters are the Countess of Iddisleigh, Viscountess Enfield, and Sir J. M. Barrie." BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES.-JULY. MESSRS. BOWES & BOWES's Cambridge CataJogue 379 contains Journals and Monographs on Zoology and other branches of Natural Science, many of them from the library of the late Robert Shelford. MESSRS. 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A copy of Swinburne's Under the Microscope,' in the original paper cover, 1872, is priced 67. 10s. Among Trials is that of Admiral Byng, folio, 1757, 4s. Under Yorkshire are the history of the family of Stansfield, 4to, full Craven,' royal quarto, half morocco, 1878, 21. 108. blue morocco, 1885, 41. 108.; and Whitaker's [Notices of other Catalogues held over.] MR. FRANK REDWAY of Wimbledon has in his Catalogue 14 Boswell's copy of Shakespeare, Johnson's edition, 8 vols., 1765, in which Boswell has written James Boswell, London, 1766." The following are among presentation copies from the authors: Tom Brown's School Days,' | send address. 66 LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1913. CONTENTS.-No. 186. NOTES:-Mingay "with the Iron Hand," 41-Huntingdonshire Booksellers and Printers, 44-"Tredekeiles"-John Phillip's Connexion with Dyce, 45-The Marquessate of Lincolnshire-Unnoted Shakespeare Allusions in Thomas Shadwell, 46-Capt. William Harvey, R. N.-Maimonides and Evolution-Baretti's Copy of his 'Discours sur Shakespear,' 47. those days for the leading counsel to walk in the Temple Gardens in the summer evenings, and that Erskine and Mingay were the chief attractions. a James Mingay had a traditional connexion with the Inner Temple. Francis Mingay of Ilketshall St. Margaret, Suffolk, was Master of the Bench of that Inn in 1617. His mother was a sister of Sir Edward Coke, and he is described in the Visitation of QUERIES:-"L'Entente Cordiale," 47-Danvers Family Surrey' (Harl. Soc., 1899) as 66 of Southwark, of Swithland and London-Wedding Pieces—British Troopship wrecked on Réunion Island-Portcullis as a Justice of the Peace, and of the Inner Coat of Arms, 48-Parke and Scoles in Egypt and Nubia Temple." The family was conspicuous in The Eight and Fortie Men"-Milton-Humbug- Norfolk and Suffolk for many generations. Dr. Gregory Sharpe's Correspondence Oak Trees in a Gale-"Wear the blue," 49-Lines in a Parish Register- James Mingay was a native of Thetford. Glasgow Men as Papal Zouaves-Pennington-Braddock He was born there on 9 March, 1752 (Old Family - Napoleon I. and Duelling "The Crooked Billet"-"The Two Reynoldses," 50. REPLIES:-Old-Time Children's Books: Lady Anne,' 50 -Byron and the Hobhouse MS.-Derived Senses of the Cardinal Points, 51-The Largest Square in LondonIzaak Walton and Tomb - Scratching, 52-'The Tomahawk': Matt Morgan-Wilderness Row, 53-The Younger Van Helmont-The Twelve Good Rules-George Walker, Governor of Londonderry, 51-Authors of Quotations Wanted-General Ingoldsby-Mungo Campbell's Dying Message: "Farewell, vain world!"-"Hollo!" 55 -Wreck of the Jane, Duchess of Gordon-"Rummage" -Cawthorne, 56-Grillion's Club-The Parliamentary Soldiers and Charles I.-History of Churches in Situ"Raising Feast," 57-"Pull one's leg"-Boys in Petticoats and Fairies-Private Schools-Scott's' Woodstock: the Rota Club-Dancing on “Midsummer Night," 58. NOTES ON BOOKS:-'The Jews of To-day'-' Aberdeen' -'Celtic Place-Names '-'The Aldermen of the City of London'-Catholic Record Society. Booksellers' Catalogues. Notes. MINGAY WITH THE IRON HAND." MEMOIRS of most of the oddities embalmed in Charles Lamb's essay on " the old benchers of the Inner Temple are contained in the volumes of the 'D.N.B.,' but some of them are unchronicled. The chief of these is James Mingay, K.C. He is brought into Elia as an afterthought : "I had almost forgotten Mingay with the iron hand-but he was somewhat later. He had lost his right hand by some accident and supplied it with a grappling hook, which he wielded with a tolerable adroitness. I detected the substitute before I was old enough to reason whether it were artificial or not. I remember the astonish- W. C. Townsend adds ('Twelve Eminent Style), baptized at St. Peter's Church on 10 June, and educated at Thetford Grammar School under Mr. Galloway. In the very inadequate Memoir-a memoir without a date-of James Mingay which is prefixed to 'A Collection of Remarkable and Interesting Criminal Trials,' by W. M. Medland and Charles Weobly, 1803, &c.a work not to be found at the British Museum or in any law-library in London, save at Lincoln's Inn, and there in two volumes only, instead of three-it is said that his father was a miller in Suffolk, and that he was sent to the Bar as the loss of his right arm had rendered him unfit for manual labour in the mill. This statement about his father is erroneous; he was a surgeon, and both parents seem to have been possessed of property. The other Memoir of him is an anonymous volume entitled 'Sketches of the Characters of the Hon. Thomas Erskine and James Mingay, interspersed with Anecdotes and Professional Strictures' (1794), which says that, through sympathy with his misfortune, the Duke of Grafton, whose chief seat was near Thetford, became his patron. The accident is said to have occurred at Cringleford Mill, near Norwich, when he was a boy (Chambers, Norfolk History,' 1829, ii. 798). Charles Lamb, as we have seen, was impressed by the hook, will was written with his left and only hand and Mingay himself put on record that his "in a state of lameness from an accident." In The Wils' Magazine, i. 235 (1784), is the following Impromptu' on hearing Mr. Mingay in the Court of King's Bench :Since so well, with one arm, Mingay handles a cause, How great, had he two, must have been his applause. This Memoir of 1794 states in a vague way that Mingay passed the "allotted time at Cam bridge." We have, by a recent publication, obtained definite information on this point. took part, is given in The European His name appears in the books of Magazine for 1787, ii. 140, and reprinted in Trinity College, where he was entered as pensioner on 29 Nov., 1768, Mr. R. Watson -Richard Watson, afterwards Bishop of Llandaff being his tutor. Next year he matriculated, and became a scholar of his college, but he did not graduate ('Rouse Ball, and Venn,' iii. 216). In 1770 he was entered at the Inner Temple, his father then being described as James Mingay of Gimingham, Norfolk, and he was called to the Bar in 1775. For some short time Mingay drew pleadings under Charles Runnington (D.N.B.'). When called he selected the Norfolk Circuit, and soon had a considerable share of work both in London and at sessions. Even at the Bar he was conspicuous among his contemporaries for cool assurance. He is described as commanding in figure and confident in manner; he was prompt and clear in speech, and conspicuous for readiness and adroitness in cross-examination. In his profession Mingay was second only to Erskine, who dreaded him more than any other competitor, and they were usually pitted against one another. Mingay was created K.C. by patent dated 26 Nov., 1784, and appeared the same evening before the Lord Chancellor at his house in Great Ormond Street, when he took the oaths of allegiance and supremacy kneeling, and the oath of office standing (information furnished by Sir Kenneth Muir Mackenzie, K.C.). He became a Bencher of his Inn in 1785, was Reader in 1790, and Treasurer in 1791. In 1788 he was elected Recorder of Aldborough; he was. by special commission dated 29 April, 1806, made a Justice of the Peace for Thetford, and he acted as Chairman of Quarter Sessions for Norfolk and Suffolk for many years. Mingay was often a Special Commissioner at the Thetford Assizes, and he was three times Mayor of Thetford (1798-9, 1800-1, and 1804-5). A summary of his speech on his first election as mayor is in Pratt's Gleanings in England,' ii. 252-3 (1801). During that same occasion the freedom of the borough was bestowed on Lord Nelson. The gift dated 13 Oct., 1798, and signed J. Mingay, is in the painted hall at Greenwich Hospital, but the actual presentation did not take place until 1800. A versified exemplification by John Baynes (of Gray's Inn, d. 1787) of the proceedings in the Court of King's Bench on examination of bail, in which Mingay 66 Hone's Every-day Book,' vol. i.. sub 23 Jan. Crabb Robinson (' Diary,' 1872 ed., i. 9-10) chronicles a case at Colchester in the Spring Assizes of 1791, in which Mingay was engaged against Erskine, and describes Mingay as loud and violent." His advice to Mr. Fosset, the distiller, who was convicted for dealing in adulterated spirits, and thought of applying for a new trial, is printed in The Monthly Mirror for July, 1797. He recommended his client to "rest where he was lest the jury on fuller proof should clap another per centage upon the run goods without any draw-back from the new duty for waste or leakage." This advice, it must be confessed, has lost by this time whatever spirit it once had. One of his jests at the expense of Erskine is set out in W. C. Townsend's 'Twelve Eminent Judges,' i. 438, and Lord Campbell (Lives of the Lord Chancellors,' vi. 679) says that Erskine lacked the coarse humour of Mingay." He once made 5000 guineas (Crabb Robinson, 'Diary,' i. 325), an enormous sum for a professional man at the Bar about 1780. 66 Mingay's politics in early life were those of the Whig Party. In 1794 he detested the then calamitous war with France." and when Windham, as Secretary at War, stood for re-election at Norwich in July of that year, his name was put forward in opposition. He was only nominated the day before the election, and was not present in the city, but he polled 770 votes against 1,236 which were cast for the Minister. There appeared a few days after the contest An Address to the Electors of Norwich, being a Vindication of the Principles and Conduct of Mr. Windham's Opponents....With an Appendix containing a Letter from J. Mingay." 2nd ed. Norwich (1794). 1806, is at the British Museum (Addit. MSS. youngest son, my father James Mingay, and 37906, f. 235). It was written in the Dorothy his second wife, and their children are interest of Windham for Norfolk, and of buried in my vault at Thetford.” himself for Thetford, and refers to the The father had two daughters appointment of his successor at Bridgwater. whom died in 1747, and the other in 1754 Windham records in his Diary, p. 478-by his first wife, and ten children by the (14 Aug., 1808), that Mingay called upon him at Thetford · 'conversation upon the whole not unpleasant." 66 His wife second. one of He confirmed his wife's settlement, and left her for life the dividends on 4,000l. four per cents, and an annuity of 2007. a year during the life of her mother, Hannah Corrall. He also left her the picture of herself by Romney and "the drawing of myself in crayons by Russell," and all her diamonds and pearls, hoping she will bequeath them to some of my among his three nephews and a great- of A few years before 1794 Mingay had " a very severe indisposition," which disabled him from practice for a considerable time. In the summer of 1802 he retired into private life, and after a long and painful illness." he died at Ashfield Lodge, Great Ashfield, Suffolk, on 9 July, 1812, and was buried in the family vault in St. Mary's Church, Thetford, on 17 July, being described somewhat quaintly as James Mingay, married-man aged 62.” was Eliza Corrall of Maidstone. They had no issue. She died at Maidstone College, 1 Feb., 1817. He had given to St. Mary's Church, on 1 Jan., 1786, a set of communion Mingay left annuities to his five sisters, plate of silver, with his name and arms and the above-mentioned sum of 4,0001. engraven on each vessel, and in 1791 he was, on his wife's death, to be divided gave to St. Peter's Church a brass chandelier between them and the same great-nephew. and the iron palisading which surrounds His estate at Shottesham went to his nephew, the churchyard (George Burrell, Thetford William James Mingay, an officer in H.M. Charities,' 1809, p. 77; Norfolk and Nor- navy (eldest son of W. R. Mingay; he died wich Archæol. Soc., Miscellaneous Tracts,' (an admiral) on 30 Nov., 1865, and was buried in Gravesend Cemetery), with rexvi. 38 [1907], by Rev. E. C. Hopper). mainder in default of male issue to George a student at Caius College, CamMingay, (d. 1879 [Venn, 'Biog. Hist. of bridge' Gonville and Caius,' ii. 149]). His "capital mansion and lands in St. Peter, Thetford, formerly in the tenure of his late brother William Robert Mingay, M.D.," were to be sold. This nephew, William James Mingay, was to receive 1,000l., The wealth and vanity of Mingay are shown in his holograph will, dated 20 March, and the codicil of 18 May, 1812. His executors were his wife's brother, Philip Corrall of Maidstone, and two other gentlemen, to each of whom he gave 501. desired He 66 "to be buried (after some operation has been performed on my body to prove that am dead) in my vault in St. Mary's Church, Thetford, near" all family pictures and prints not otherwise my mother, and a marble monument to be bequeathed, my family bibles, seals; my silver erected near by over the South door that shall tankard, and pewter dishes and plates that were state that I was a K.C., a fellow of the Society of my uncle's." Antiquaries [1785] many years an acting Magistrate for Norfolk and Suffolk, and by special commission for the borough of Thetford, and that I was returned to represent the said borough (my native place) in parliament, and my coat of arms of the families of Mingay, Fuller and Parker of Derbyshire shall be painted thereon." Another nephew, John James Garnham, In the exercise of the several and relative duties of a son, a husband, and a friend he was equalled by few, in that of a kind and considerate brother surpassed by none. He died possessing the regard and esteem of a numerous acquaintance, and meriting the good will and favourable ..testimony of a grateful family.' Another tablet near the south door, 66 Probearing the family arms and motto desse quam conspici," is in memory of the following relatives: His father, James Mingay, youngest son of William Mingay, of Shottesham, Norfolk, d. 25 Jan., 1801, aged 83. His mother, Dorothy, dau. and coheiress of William Fuller of Caldecot, Huntingdonshire, and grand-daughter and sole heiress of Edward Parker of Derby, d. 24 May, 1783, aged 56. His sisters: Jane Harriet, d. 26 Sept., 1774, aged 7 years; Elizabeth Sally, d. 4 Feb., 1783, aged 30; and Isabella Charlotte, d. 4 Nov., 1791, aged 28. His brother, William Robert Mingay, M.D. (youngest son of the said James and Dorothy), d. 22 Nov., 1806, aged 50; and Mary, his wife (daughter of John Harvey of Fakenham), d. 21 Aug., 1796, aged 36. Their daughters: Harriet Jane, d. 15 June, 1799, aged 16 years; and Eliza Margaretta, d. 8 Dec., 1803, aged 20. The other children of James Mingay and his second wife, Dorothy, were: No. 1, Dorothy, b. 1749, d. single; No. 5, Mary, h. 1759, married Mr. Syder; No. 6, Frances, married J. Garnham of Thetford; No. 7, Margarett, married J. Dursley; and No. 10, Mary Anna Fuller, who married at Thetford, 30 March, 1797, the Rev. Thomas Fenton. The Rev. Alfred L. Fellowes. Vicar of Shotesham (as it is now spelt), tells me that there is no monument to any Mingay in the chancel of All Saints' Church, but that outside the building, on the south side of the east window, there has been for fifty years a white marble tablet with an illegible inscription and a coat of arms at the foot. This is probably the Mingay tablet. Mingay and his wife sat to Romney for their portraits (Ward and Roberts,' i. 108123; ii. 106-7). That of Mingay represents him in "lace bands, gown and large wig." and seated. A reproduction of it is in The Daily Report for 24 Aug., 1908, p. 8. It was offered for sale at Christie & Manson's on 17 March, 1864, lot 151, but did not change hands. It was sold there on 5 July, 1902, for 2311. The wife's portrait fetched at the same place, on 26 May, 1906, the large sum of 6,510. The engravings, mezzotint, and stipple of his portrait are set out by Mr. F. M. O'Donoghue (Engraved Portraits at the British Museum,' vol. iii.). Another portrait of him, by G. K. Ralph, is in the possession of Charles Edward Winckworth, surgeon, of Shefford. in Bedfordshire, whose parents were descended from James Mingay, the father of the K.C. I have been aided in this Memoir by Mr. J. A. Mingay, of 3, Glenmore Road, Hampstead by Mr. F. H. Millington, of St. Audrey's Mill House, Thetford, and by Mr. A. L. Humphreys. The particulars of the tablets at St. Mary's Church, Thetford, were kindly furnished by the Vicar, the Rev. Ernest W. Hardy. W. P. COURTNEY. HUNTINGDONSHIRE BOOKSELLERS (See 10 S. viii. 201; xii. 164; 11 S. vi. 207.) RAMSEY. Stevens (Mr.), bookseller, 1814. Bone (M.), bookseller, 1835. The Palmers were printers at Ramsey soon |