God send the land deliverance Frae every reaving, riding Scot: T. F. D. JILL, GILLIAN (12 S. iii. 49).-Canon C. W. Bardsley, in his English Surnames ' (1897), p. 73, says : "Julian, the abbreviated form of Juliana, as a Norman introduced name became very popular, and its after history was a very curious one. Such appellations as Gillian Cook,' or 'Gilian of the Mill,' found in the Hundred Rolls, or that of the well-known Dame Julyan Berners,....only represent in fuller forms the Gill' or Jill' who is so renowned in our nursery literature....I have already mentioned Cocke Lorell's Bote,' where allusion is made to Jelyan Joly at signe of the Bokeler." The Canon then quotes from Heywood's Epigrams' : I am care-full to see thee carelesse, Jylle; I am wofull to see thee wytlesse, Wyll, &c., and resumes: "But Gill' at some time or other got into evil odour, and this brought the name into all but absolute disuse. As a term for a wanton flirt or inconstant girl, it was familiarly used until the eighteenth century. It would seem as if the poet I have just quoted were referring to this characteristic when he writes: All shall be well, Jacke shall have Gill; The venal pen of the song-poet, D'Urfey, was put into requisition by the ministry of William III. in 1701. Just at the period when the reports were prevalent that King William meant to adopt the son of his uncle, the Whig songster favoured the public with the following song of his own devising, adapted to the metre and tune of the popular old English melody of Gillian of Croydon': 'Strange news, strange news, the Jacks of the City Have got,' cried Joan, but we mind not tales That our good king, through wonderful pity, Will leave his crown to the Prince of Wales, That peace may be the stronger still And that they no longer may rebel.' Pish! 'tis a jest,' cried Gillian of CroydonGillian, fair Gillian, bright Gillian of Croydon. 'Take off your glass,' cries Gillian of Croydon, 'Here's a health to our Master Will ! ' ford's Testament,' by Robert Copland is deadly for an Indian girl to live in ma(fl. 1508-47), is not unknown. 66 He trimonial relations with a white man. Was the rarity of Gillian in later days may be unaffected by pulmonary consumpcaused by the evil associations of the name tion himself, but he is carrying the germs (cf. Gill-flirt,' &c.) ? Thackeray has with him, and she cannot withstand them.. Gillian in the last stanza of one of his best-Yet, notwithstanding the danger incurred, known ballads, The Age of Wisdom'; and I seem to remember a Jack and Jill, a delightful pair of children, in some modern story; was it The Awakening of Mary Fenwick'? EDWARD BENSLY. The parish church of Newington, next Hythe, Kent, has the following entry of baptism: 1573, July 21. Gylian, daughter of Thomas Harvie." Thomas Harvey was father of the celebrated Dr. William Harvey of Folkestone by his second wife. In Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, vol. iii. No. 20 (second series), p. 329, there is a pedigree of Harvey : "Thomas Harvey m. first Juliana, or Julian, eldest daughter of William Jenkin of Folkestone, by whom he had a daughter Julian, Juliana, or Gillian. Thomas Harvey m. secondly Joane Halke, Haulke, or Hawke, and had with others Dr. William Harvey.' 'Kent Marriage Licences' has :"1601. Thomas Cullinge of Northbourne, yeoman, and Julian Harvie of Folkestone, virgin, 20 Oct. 1601. John Harvie of Folkestone, yeoman, bond." Kenticisms,' by Rev. Samuel Pegge, written about 1735-6, published in Arch. Cant., vol. ix., p. 111 :— "Gill (with g soft) for Gillian or Juliana. In Derbyshire] we had two families that wrote their names Gill, but one pronounct [sic] the g hard, and the other soft." young Indian women readily fall in love with white men, and enter into legal, or illegitimate, relations with them. I have heard that consumption has become a scourge in the torrid, but damp, climate of tropical West Africa. W. G. 66 'REMINISCENCES OF A SCOTTISH GENTLEMAN' (12 S. iii. 30).-It is very unlikely that a second volume of Reminiscences was ever published. It does not appear in the usual sources, and the author, PhiloScotus," Philip Barrington Ainslie, died in 1869, at The Mount, Guildford, on June 18, and was buried at Lyne Church, near Chertsey. Some account of him will be found in. General de Ainslie's Life as I have Found It' (Blackwood, 1883). a "WIPERS": YPRES (12 S. ii. 526; iii. 54). -Yperen is the Flemish name of this victim of the enemies of culture; and is duly recorded in the Encyclopædia Britannica of 1911. The y is locally pronounced like French y grec, and not like English wy. EDWARD S. DODGSON.. Baedeker says that the Flemish form of the name is Ieperen. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. WILLIAM HASTINGS, 1777 (12 S. ii. 508).— The paragraph in The Kentish Gazette of April, 1790, seems to be largely apocryphal. Apart from its giving the courtesy title Lord George Hastings " to the son of a supposed earl, the alleged facts are at variance with those known. The circumstances which resulted in the Earldom of Huntingdon being successfully claimed by Hans Francis Hastings in 1819 are detailed in a quarto volume, The Huntingdon Peerage Case,' 1820, whence it appears that, on the death of Francis, 10th Earl, in 1789, CHRISTIAN TEARLE. AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (12 S.. the earldom devolved upon, but was never by Lord Chesterfield is erroneous: neither formally claimed by, the Rev. Theophilus there, nor in the song-book of 1749, is the Henry Hastings, as descended from the author's name given. fourth son of Francis, 2nd Earl. He died in 1804, the successful claimant in 1819 being the only surviving son of a younger brother, George, who died in 1802. No William iii. 69).appears in the line of descent; and beyond the single fact that a Dowager Countess was living in 1790 (Selina, died June, 1791), there is disclosed nothing which supports the narrative given in The Kentish Gazette. 66 W. B. H. Immortal Newton never spoke to Lord Chesterfield, the four beginning :- The same work credits Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773), with Advice to a Lady: Autumn,' thirty lines, beginning Asses' milk, half a pint, take at seven, or before, and also with 'On Lord Islay's Garden at Whitton on Hounslow Heath,' fifteen lines, beginning. : Old Islay, to show his fine delicate taste. The notes at end of the volume have this :— "Lord Chesterfield also wrote some excellent lines, in conjunction with Lord Bath, on Miss Lepell: but, happily, taste and manners are so altered that it would be impossible to print them." It would rather seem as if Mr. LockerLampson had access to material not included in the Earl's biography and collected works. 6 W. B. H. The song' When Fanny, Blooming Fair,' is printed in Dcdsley's Collection' (vol. i. p. 331), and it appears with a musical setting in a song-book of 1749. My copy of this book has no title-page, but when I bought it, more than twenty years ago, the modern cover was lettered Universal Harmony.' Lysons (Environs,' 1795, vol. iii. p. 599) says that the song was written on Lady Fanny Shirley, daughter of that Countess of Ferrars who was buried at Twickenham, March 25, 1762, and that the author was probably Thomas Philips, a dramatic writer. Lysons's further statement that it was inserted in Dodsley's Collection' as written ་ ' 4. δός μοι τὸ πτερόν. Is not this a recollection of Aristophanes, The Acharnians,' 584, where Dicaopolis, Wishing se faire vomir, asks Lamachus to give him the feather from his helmet ? actual words are: The The Towns of Roman Britain. By the Rev. J. O.. THIS is an unpretentious little book, and when Hughes & Clarke, 2s. 6d.) (Mitchell,. THE December number (1916) contains genealogical particulars of the ancient Catholic family of Parys of Linton (Cambridgeshire), and of Wescombe, and Vaughan, with one or two other Halloway, Fettiplace, Drury of Ireland, Corsellis, pedigrees. The article on the Heraldry and Monumental Inscriptions in St. Olave's, Hart Street,' is continued, and this is an interesting instalment. There are also three grants of arms: Hovell, Clare, and, from the original in the P.R.O., the grant of crest to Gelly Merick of THE question of the survival of the soul after bodily death bulks conspicuously in the three great Reviews we have now under consideration. The Quarterly Review] gives the first place in its new number to an article on this subject by the Rev. J. Gamble entitled ' Immortality and the Christian Belief.' Mr. Gamble has some very good paragraphs about the function-the necessary function of imagination as an element in hope. It has long been very clear that extravagances of the imagination are disastrous: the direct effect upon hope of mere vacancy in imagination has not been so well discerned. On topics connected with the War and national administration this number of The Quarterly contributes much that is of weight and value; and it offers also three articles of which readers of N. & Q.' may well choose to make a note. One is an ample and careful study by Mr. J. M. Murry of the work of Paul Claudel. Recent French literature offers little that is more arresting, nothing that is at once more new and strange, more simple and yet more profoundly intellectual, than the poetry of this writer, of whom Mr. Murry illuminatingly says that, whereas with many of his contemporaries the return to the Catholic fold has been a reaction, with him it has been a forward action-a progress. Next we would mention Mr. Reginald Farrer's clever, suavely -coloured description of Tibetan Abbeys in China— which is punctuated here and there by epigrammatic touches of sarcasm, and contains also a good account of the relations between China and the vast mountainous border-country with which he is concerned. Last not to be understood as least-there is Mr. Charles Tennyson's full, sympathetic, and deftly critical sketch of Zoffany's life and work, which should certainly be acquired by any student of art who is col'lecting monographs on artists-numerous and often meritorious as these are--of the second or third order. 66 IN The Fortnightly Review for this month we have two articles concerned with death and life after death. Mr. C. E. Lawrence inveighs against undertakers' ways, crêpe, and gravestones, congratulates civilization on the abolition of mutes and corpse-candles," approves the funeral of George Meredith, and invites us to burn the dead and "establish a funeral order of positive beauty.' With much of his criticism every one is likely to agree; but we do not think his positive suggestions will be widely considered satisfactory. He calls his paper-rather audaciously The Abolition of Death': it should rather be The Abolition of Burial.' Then there is Mr. H. Granville Barker, who contributes the first instalment of a parable entitled 'Souls on Fifth.' Somewhat too long drawn out, it is considered as a grotesque piece of imagination in several places impressive, now and then witty, here and there repulsive. The moral is not perhaps fundamentally new; it belongs to that order of which the word "limbo" stands as representative; but its enforcement by the aid of the latest scenes and phases of contemporary life makes it appear novel. Mr. Charles Dawbarn has a subject of great attractiveness in the character and work of Metchnikoff; and he does it justice, though he gives us a start in the first paragraph where he describes Daphnia-the water-flea-that highly organized and amusing little crustacean, as "unicellular." A unicellular, moreover, would hardly have served Metchnikoff's purpose. In the Heart of Roumania is yet another of those studies of the Near East by Mr. W. F. Bailey and Miss Jean V. Bates to which we have repeatedly and admiringly called attention; and it is inferior to none. Mr. T. H. S. Escott's amusing and erudite account of The Rise and Progress of the English Dinner' affords a pleasant relief from the somewhat serious interest of most of these papers, of which the rest are concerned with aspects of the present international situation. THE articles on Death and a Future Life in the Nineteenth Century are contributed by Sir Oliver Lodge and Mr. A. P. Sinnett, the first a brief reply to the criticism of Sir Oliver's recent book by Sir Herbert Stephen in the last number of this review, the second a theosophical disquisition full of assertions which are familiar indeed, but nevertheless continue to amaze-the evidence for them, vast as they are, being impalpable. Mr. D. S. 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Some letters forwarded to the first one given have been returned to us. CORRIGENDUM.-Ante, p. 8, col. 2, 1. 13, for "lucifer" read lucifera. LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1917. CONTENTS.-No. 60.. NOTES:-Sir Thomas Wyatt's Family, 121-Correspondence BEPLIES:-The Sir William Perkins School, Chertsey, NOTES ON BOOKS:-Jātaka Tales'-Oxford Univer- Notices to Correspondents. Notes. THE FAMILY OF SIR THOMAS 3. Sir Sidney Lee, in the Dictionary of National Biography,' speaks of Wyatt's only surviving son, Sir Thomas Wyatt 66 his eldest a phrase probably due to Nott's son, Thomas "—and, again, of the eldest and only surviving son," giving the year of his birth as 1521 (?) on the authority of the inquisitio post mortem; but he further states that the letters out of Spain were addressed to the younger Wyatt when he was 15 years old. QUERIES:-St. Paul's School: Edward Nelthorpe and Thomas Trenchfield-Rev. T. Orfeur-Wagner: Hemans -Bev. J. Bissett and the Duke of Cumberland-Wm. Oughtred, 128-Fountains Abbey Accounts-Legend of the Magi-Old Flemish Burial-ground-Admirals Hood -Author of Quotation Wanted-Luke Hodges, M.P. Gilbert Memorial-"A ring, a ring of roses -Jonas What are the actual facts about these Hanway, 129-Author Wanted-George Cruikshank-letters? They are written from Barbastra Capt. Mayne Reid, 180. beside Mountzon "(Balbastro, Monçon), and, according to the famous Egerton MS. 2711, in the British Museum, were addressed to his son, aged xiv. yeres." "Brewer and Gairdner give the date of his being there as Oct. 16, 1537;† he was at Valladolid on June 26; arrived at Barcelona in December, and reached England on June 21, 1538. It is therefore obvious that the letters out of Spayne," being dated from Balbastro, are not earlier than Oct. 16, 1537, and not later than December of that year; probably we shall not be far out in placing them in November, after the bustle of his arrival and before that of his departure. There is no reason to doubt the accuracy of the xiv. yeres of the Egerton MS.; hence the younger Wyatt was 14 between October and December, 1537: hence he was born in 1523. But what of the passage in the inquisitio of 1542, in which he is described as of age ? The answer is simply that the inquisitiones are notoriously inaccurate, and that little weight can be ascribed to their evidence if otherwise unsupported. The age of the elder Sir Thomas Wyatt, for instance, is given in the inquisitio at the death of his father Sir Henry as 28 years and upwards," whereas he was at least 34. If the official inquiry can make a mistake of six years at least in the case of one Sir Thomas, it is easy to believe that a mistake of two years is possible in the case of the other, even though this would make the younger Wyatt under age in 1542. He must have married at 14, which was young even for a Tudor gentleman, since he is known to have married in 1537; we may hazard a guess that he did so while his father was out of England, WYATT. SIR THOMAS WYATT the Elder was born at Alington Castle, Kent, in 1503; in 1520 he married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Brook, Lord Cobham, and by her had a son, afterwards the conspirator, the date of whose birth has been disputed. 1. Nott, the poet's earliest biographer, writes that "his eldest son Thomas was born about 1523 or 1524 (Memoirs of Sir Thomas Wyatt,' p. xi), but appends a foot-note to the effect that his letters to his son out of Spayne were written in 1538 or the beginning of 1539, when that son was then 16, which would bring the date of his birth to 1522-3. He further notes that in the inquisitio post mortem patris of 1542 the younger Wyatt is described as being then of age. A fourth alternative is found in the memoir of the younger Wyatt appended to that of his father, in which Nott states | that he was born in 1520, or at latest in 1521," with a reference to the note on p. xi already cited. 66 * The reading "xix." in a MS. of inferior the younger Wyatt's birth take place when his authority is quite impossible, as it would make father was only 15, and still at College. † June, 1537, according to Miss Foxwell, 'Poems of Sir T. Wiat,' vol. i. p. xiv. |