to see the annual. Do any of your readers know if a reproduction of the picture was published, and whether it also appeared in any of the art journals? Recently I saw reference made to a Sir Reginald Reade, Kt., distinguished in Border warfare. Is anything known of him, and when did he live? W. D. R. "ORATOR" HENLEY: MACER. -In 'The Present State of the Literati, a Satire,' London, 1752, these lines occur: Worse than the Rascal Cur's Ear-piercing Notes, When a whole Village strain their envious Throats, Worse than when sland'rous Macer stuns the Hall, And worse than Henley, who is worse than all. An almost superfluous marginal note designates Henley as "The Orator of Claremarket," but no clue is given to Macer, with whose name the poetaster coupled his. I should be glad of any reference identifying Macer, whom I do not find in works generally fruitful for eighteenth-century literary information. W. B. H. IRISHMEN IN ENGLAND IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.-Can any of your contributors throw light on the numerous entries in churchwardens' and constables' accounts of the seventeenth century recording relief given by one or another of these officers to Irish men and women travelling through the various parishes of England with passes or testimonials ? JOSEPH CROUCH. TAXES ON BIRTHS AND MARRIAGES, BACHELORS AND WIDOWERS.-I shall be much obliged for any references in contemporary diaries to the tax on births, marriages, and burials, supplemented by one on bachelors and widowers, imposed for five years from May 1, 1695, and prolonged to Aug. 1, 1706. I am acquainted with Mr. Dowell's book on English taxation, but I should like, if possible, to hear of some contemporary opinions. HERBERT W. THOMPSON. 35 Virginia Road, Leeds. STRUGNELL FAMILY.-Can any of your readers supply me with information regarding the family of Strugnell? During the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries there were several divisions of this family to be found in the southern portion of Hampshire, but apparently there is no earlier mention of the name in that county. There was, however, living at Lydd the family of Strugell, a name which had previously taken the forms of Strogg, Strogge, Strogle, Stroughill, and Strughill. It bore for arms: Arg., a fesse between six escallops gu. I have reason to believe that this family formed the main stem from which the Hampshire branch is sprung, and would gladly welcome any assistance in the matter. It will be of great help if I can obtain par-ticulars of one Reginald Strugel, who was knighted in Elizabeth's reign. Also I should be glad to obtain information regarding a certain castle in Hampshire reputed to have belonged to the Lords of Strychuil, about whom I can find out nothing whatever. Correspondents are asked to communicate directly with me. G. KENNETH STRUGNELL. 30 Carholme Road, Forest Hill, S.E.23. DAMORY OR DAMER FAMILY.-I shall be grateful if readers can give me any particulars of members of this family, exclusive of what is in Collins's and Burke's Peerages. Is there any book which gives a full history of Bicester Priory, Oxon, where some of them were buried in the fourteenth century? Please reply direct. J. DAMER POWELL, Lieut. R.N.R. H.M.S. Halcyon II., c/o G.P.O. MRS. LEGH OF LYME, CHESHIRE.-When I was being shown over the house at Lyme Park, Cheshire, many years ago, my atten tion was called to a portrait of Mrs. Legh of Lyme, said to be nursing her seventh generation. Can any one tell me how this was possible? LEONARD C. PRICE. EAST CHALLOW HOUSE, BERKS.-When was the old red-brick house of East Challow, Berks, belonging to Bartholomew Price, Esq., High Sheriff of Berks in 1775, built, and when was it demolished? There is a good oil painting of it in existence. Any information will be gratefully received. LEONARD C. PRICE. Essex Lodge, Ewell, Surrey. SAINT AND THE DEVIL.-I shall be very much obliged to any one who can give me references for the following story. A saint was praying one day when he saw a vision of Christ in glory, who bade the saint worship Him; but he replied that he couldnot believe he really beheld his Lord until he saw His wounds. Thereupon the apparition was revealed to be the devil, who vanished in a cloud of sulphur. Is this a genuine mediaval legend ? and if so, who was the saint ? M. H. DODDS. Home House, Low Fell, Gateshead. "AMELIA MOUSER."-Can any one put me on the track of this lady? She belonged to the same family as Mrs. Caudle," and wrote on domestic economy, &c.-I think in Punch. I should say that she belonged to the forties or fifties; but I cannot recover her. G. W. E. R. SIR EDWARD AND SIR FRANCIS WALSINGHAM.-Will some reader of N. & Q' give me the names of the parents of the brothers(?) Sir Edward Walsingham, Lieutenant of the Tower, and Sir Francis Walsingham, Secretary to Queen Elizabeth? Please reply direct. WM. JACKSON PIGOTT. Manor House, Dundrum, co. Down. THE BLUE BOAR AT ISLINGTON.-An interesting allusion to this inn occurs in The Counter Rat' (" The Counter Scuffle, whereunto is added The Counter Rat,' by R. S., 1680). A party of fiddlers having Quoth he, " Being met by a mad crew, 6 'ENIGMAS OF LUBERIUS.'-I should be very grateful to any of your readers who could give me information as to the Enigmas of Luberius.' The book is mentioned in Dr. Arnauld's Mémoire sur le Règlement des Études dans les Lettres humaines (Euvres,' vol. xli. p. 93), and is recommended as a textbook for boys in the sixth or lowest class of the schools of the Faculty of Arts at Paris. I know that enigmas were used in the teaching of elementary Latin in the seventeenth century-the Jesuit Jouvency, for example, has a chapter on the subject in his 'Ratio discendi et docendi'; but as to the particular collection ascribed to Luberius I can find nothing, and I should greatly value any information on this point. H. C. BARNARD. BROWNING'S RING 1. iv. 1577-8, fons et origo malorum. I mind a passage much confirmative &c. To part; being out o' th' house e'en fired." The fiddlers then return to London, passing the Play-House in St. John's Street to Smithfield Bars. We may infer that the Blue Boar was one of the many inns in the High Street, but John Nichols in reprinting Dr. Berdoe is mistaken, I think, when he says that the Idyllist " is Theocritus. the satire in his 'Collection of Poems,' 1780, vol. iii. p. 275, adds a note: "This mad landlord's house is now unknown." I shall be glad of any aid to its identification. ALECK ABRAHAMS. DAME MARY ROE, née GRESHAM.-I find that Mary Gresham, who married Sir Thomas Rowe or Roe, was closely connected with no fewer than three Lord Mayors of London. 1. Her father, Sir John Gresham, was Lord Mayor of London. He was brother of Sir Richard Gresham, also Lord Mayor, besides being uncle to the famous Sir Thomas Gresham, founder of the Royal Exchange, and Lord Mayor of London. 2. Her husband, Sir Thomas Rowe or Roe, was Lord Mayor of London, in 1568. 3. Her son Sir Henry Rowe or Roe was Lord Mayor of London. Here we have a case of a lady whose father, whose husband, and whose son were all Lord Mayors of London. Are there any parallels ? C. H. M. 3. viii. 1200: "Plus non vitiat," too much does no harm, Ere thou hast learned law, will be much to do, Discedunt nunc amores, loves, farewell! "the sagacious 1. To whom does the Pope refer in x. 293 ? How do they call him ?-the sagacious Swede Who finds by figures how the chances prove, Why one comes rather than another thing. Dr. Berdoe says that Swede is Swedenborg, but the Pope is speaking in 1698, when Swedenborg (who did not, I think, pursue such inquiries) was a ten-year-old. 2. What historical incident or incidents gave rise to the proverbial phrase ("what Pisan assistance, aid that comes too late? RYAN OF INCH, CO. TIPPERARY.-Wanted information of the pedigree of this family from about 1660, when Daniel Ryan was the owner. PHILIP H. BAGENAL. 11 Spencer Hill, Wimbledon. to that business. Now in the official registers of Dundee and district, under date Sept. 21, 1768, there is recorded the baptism of a John Brown, son of John Brown, weaver, and Janet Mackenzie: name-fathers John Thomson and John Stewart. This is ARISTOPHANES : DROYSEN'S GERMAN the John Brown in whom I am interested, TRANSLATION.—I shall be very grateful to for he died in 1836, aged 68, and so was born any one who can tell me how to obtain a in 1768. Family tradition says he came copy of Droysen's German translation of from Dundee shortly before 1791 to settle Aristophanes. I have tried various book-in London; also that he was the son of a sellers at Oxford and Cambridge and elsewhere, but hitherto without success. J. LEWTON BRAIN. Toftwood, Dereham, Norfolk. Mackenzie. What I want to know is, was this John Brown the weaver identical with Dr. John Brown? Was the daughter of Lamond named Janet ? Did she first marry a Mackenzie, and afterwards the weaver and doctor? If any one can answer one or other of these queries, I shall be very grateful. JOHN WILLIAM BROWN. SERPENT AND ETERNITY.-Can any one tell me where the figure of a serpent swallowing its tail is used as an emblem of eternity? L. R. MACAULAY: LINES WRITTEN AFTER THE EDINBURGH ELECTION.-The legend told in these lines, of the fairies visiting the child's cradle, is said by Macaulay (in his essay on Byron) to have been also narrated of the birth of the Regent of Orleans. I should be glad to know in what book this can be 2. found-also whether the fable has a still earlier origin. 1 L. R. 1. Can any one tell me where in Kingsley's works these words are to be found? L. R. preface to an English topographical volume of 3. The following occurs as a quotation in the 1831: Were every hand a scribe by trade, and every stick a quill. From what author and work was it taken ? DR. JOHN BROWN, alias "JOHANNES BRUNO."-This Scotch celebrity is said to have married the daughter of Lamond or Lamont of Edinburgh in 1765. Upon what authority does this assertion rest? In none of the biographical records of this man which I have seen is the baptismal name of this lady mentioned. The well-known family of Browns claiming descent from 4. the doctor through his son Ford are also silent here. There was another son, William Cullen, who rose to be President of the 5. Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh, 1804. Has any life of him been published? If so, is the full name of his mother recorded? Dr. John Brown is said to have had twelve children, eight of whom survived him on his death in 1788-to wit, four sons and four daughters. Surely one of his sons must have been a John, as it was the custom for fathers to hand down their names to their sons (usually the eldest). John Brown was not known as a doctor in 1768-not, indeed, until many years afterwards, when, it is said, he obtained his degree at St. Andrews University, mainly through the influence of two young doctors (his pupils), named Mackenzie and Ford respectively. In those earlier years he was known as a weaver, having been apprenticed W. B. H. When prodigals return great things are done; Unholy is the sound P. Of loud thanksgiving over slaughtered men. in a speech during the Boer War. The author 6. on Mr. F. G. Kitton, in an article 'Dickens's Characters and Prototypes,' in Temple Bar for May, 1888, thus wrote: "The name of Pickwick may be traced to that of a Bath coach-proprietor, for it is recorded that Dickens, on seeing it painted on the door of a stage-coach which had passed him in the street, rushed into the publisher's office, exclaiming, 'I've got it. Moses Pickwick, Bath, coachmaster.' It is interesting to know that the same Moses Pickwick was a foundling, left one night in Pickwick street, and brought up in Corsham workhouse, till he was old enough to be employed in the stables where the mail coach changed horses; then he got to be head ostler, and PICKWICK: ORIGIN OF THE NAME. eventually coach proprietor. His Christian name 66 (12 S. iv. 12.) THERE can be no doubt, I think, that It will be remembered also with what indignation Sam Weller saw the name of Pickwick painted on the coach by which they were to travel to Bath. So far as I am concerned, I have always been under the impression that this was an established fact. HENRY F. DICKENS. 8 Mulberry Walk, S.W. ་ Probably the learned judge had in mind the 35th chapter of Pickwick,' wherein is described Sam Weller's indignation when he discovered " on that part of the coach door on which the proprietor's name usually appears....the magic name of Pickwick." It has already been pointed out that there is a village of the name a few miles from Bath, and it may, perhaps, be of some interest to say that at the time the book was written there was in the neighbourhood a gentleman named William Eleazer Pickwick, who owned (as did his father before him) an estate in the parishes of Box and Bathford, through which the Great Western Railway ran. This I know from the fact that the conveyances, which I recently inspected, and which are dated in 1839 and 1843, were in my custody when I was Registrar of Deeds to the company. Mr. Pickwick is therein described as Esquire," a preliminary document calls him Captain." Was he related to the owner of the coaches? J. MAKEHAM. but Crouch Hill, N.19. was given to him as being a foundling, and his surname from the village where he was left as an infant." To Mr. Kitton's article is appended a note that, "since this article was written," the novelist's son, Mr. Henry Fielding Dickens (now Common Serjeant of the City of London), in a case at the Law Courts, Strand, introduced a witness named Pickwick as presenting nothing less than the identification of the origin of the name, stating that the witness was a descendant, or grand-nephew, of Mr. Moses Pickwick, who kept a coach at Bath, and that he (the speaker) had every reason to believe that it was from this Moses Pickwick that the name of the immortal Pickwick was taken. W. B. H. The Pall Mall Gazette of March 3, 1888, contained a report of the hearing of a case in the High Court of Justice, before Mr. Baron Huddleston and a jury, in which Mr. Henry Dickens, a son of the famous novelist, and counsel for the defendant, called as a witness a Mr. Pickwick. See also 7 S. ii. 325, 457; iii. 30, 112, 175, 273, 393, 526; v. 285, 455; xi. 268, 401, 472, 476; xii. 72; 10 S. iii. 447 ; xi. 7. JOHN T. PAGE. Long Itchington, Warwickshire. There is no doubt where Dickens got this name; it was from Brooke v. Pickwick in 4 Bingham, 218, an action against the actual proprietor of the Bath coach in respect of that vehicle, tried in the spring of 1827 at Taunton. Mr. Pickwick lost. Moreover, on the motion for a new trial Mr. Justice Gaselee_ (=“ Stareleigh") was one of the judges. It must be remembered that about this time Dickens was in a lawyer's office. 66 This and other Dickens finds were published in A Chance Medley' (Constable & Co., 1911)-see pp. 326 and 346— by H. C-N. 50 Mr. Justice Darling was quite right. The remarks of Sam Weller in chap. xxxv. of Pickwick' leave little room for doubt that Dickens took the name from the coach proprietor, and this opinion is confirmed by the fact that the route taken by Moses Pickwick's coach, "The Regulator," was by way of Devizes, and did not pass through the village of Pickwick, which is on the Chippenham road. It is most unlikely that the coaches running on the latter road changed horses at Pickwick, and no inn at that village is mentioned in Cary's Itinerary.' Mr. C. G. Harper in his 'Bath Road' says: In Davenport Adams's Dictionary of John inherited the Bank Hall estate. He English Literature' it is stated that the had served the office of Bailiff of Liverpoo name Pickwick is said to have been taken in 1630, and that of Mayor in 1633. Was from the cluster of houses which formed, admitted to Lincoln's Inn Aug. 17, 1638. we are told, the last resting stage for coaches Was a Puritan and republican, and from the going to Bath. beginning of the Civil War troubles took an WILLOUGHBY MAYCOCK. active part in most of the stormy events of that turbulent period, being, it is said, the only Protestant J.P. in the county for a considerable distance around. In 1641 he was one of four Commissioners of Parliament sent down to Lancashire to put the county in a state of defence, being then styled Colonel." Took the Protestation, May 3, 1641, and was one of the Lancashire Commissioners named in the Scandalous Ministers Act in the following year. Appointed by Parliament D.L. of Lancashire, Mar. 24, 1642, and on Apr. 9 following subscribed 6007. - jointly with William Thomas-towards the fund "for the speedy reducing of the Irish rebels." Took the Parliamentary Vow and Covenant, June 6, 1643, and in the same year was appointed Governor of Liverpool for the Parliament, a Commissioner to organize the County Militia, and a member of both the Assessment and Sequestration Committees for Lancashire. Raised at his own expense a regiment of foot and troop of horse, of which he became colonel, and on July 22, 1643, was appointed Vice-Admiral of the Coast between Holyhead and Whitehaven. On June 18, 1644, was on the Committee for the General Assessment of the East and West, and in May, 1645, on that for the relief of Ireland, being also in the same year added to the Committees for Pembrokeshire and North Wales. Was present at the siege of Lathom House. Subscribed to the League and Covenant as M.P., May 28, 1645. When on June 3, 1645, the House voted 41. per week to those of its members whose estates were in the hands of Royalists, Col. John Moore was one of those who received that gratuity until the annulment of the order, Aug. 20 in the same year. He vacated the Governorship of Liverpool in May, 1645, upon the cessation of the Civil War in England, and for a few months "Moses Pickwick (the coach proprietor) was the great-grandson of one Eleazer Pickwick, who, many years before, had risen by degrees from the humble position of post-boy at the Old Bear at Bath to be landlord of the once famous White Hart Inn. Eleazer Pickwick was a foundling, discovered as an infant on the road to Pickwick. He was named by the guardians, in accordance with old custom, after the place." The Bath Directory' for 1833 mentions three Pickwicks: Eleazer, an alderman and magistrate; Capt. Pickwick, who lived in Queen Square, two doors from the residence of Angelo Cyrus Bantam, M.C.; and Moses, the coach proprietor and landlord of the White Hart. T. W. TYRRELL. MEMBERS OF THE LONG (12 S. iii. 299, 366; iv. 21.) 3. John Moore (or More), M.P. for Liverpool, 1640, till decease in 1650.-Of Bank Hall, Lancashire. First son of Edward Moore of the same place, by Katherine, first dau. of John Hockenhull of Prenton, contented himself with his Parliamentary Cheshire (by Margaret, daughter of Peter Hockenhull of Hockenhull). Edward Moore, who was Sheriff of Lancashire in 1617-18, and M.P. for Liverpool in 1625, had been committed to the Tower for four days in April, 1626, for stating in his place in the House, "We are born free, and must continue free if the King would keep his kingdom." He died Nov. 28, 1633, when his son duties. On Aug. 18, 1647, he was ordered to be paid 1,000l. in part of his arrears by the Committee of Affairs of Ireland. In 1646-7 he served in a company in Ireland. Returning to England, he sided with Cromwell in the "Purge of December, 1648, by which the House lost immediately by expulsion 143 of its members, and a large number in addition by abstention. 'Enter 66 |