(d) Barry lived and acted in Dublin until he made his first appearance at Drury Lane on Oct. 4, 1746. He removed in 1750, first to Covent Garden, and then to Ireland, and never returned to Drury Lane till 1767, when he stayed till 1774. to the Lights in London, and the present darkness When Death and Danger tread upon our heel.* of Westminster. 'Oft we imagine all things well Printed for W. Lloyd, next the King's Arms Tavern, in Chancery Lane, near Fleet Street, 1738 (price 6d.)." 4. In the Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon," Fielding makes some curious and (at this distance of time) not wholly intelligible reflections arising out of the penurious habits of farmer Francis and his wife, the keepers of the inn at Ryde. They occur under date July 19, but should be under July 14 (12 S. ii. 515), and run thus : lected by starving only, and how easy it is for a "It is inconceivable what sums may be col man to die rich if he will but be contented to live miserably. Nor is there in this kind of starving (e) As Barry's is the portrait least ques-any thing so terrible as some apprehend. It tioned, Hogarth's work should perhaps be neither wastes a man's flesh nor robs him of his allocated somewhere between 1746 and cheerfulness. The famous Cornaro's case well 1750 the painter was dead when Barry who was of a round stature, had a plump round proves the contrary; and so did farmer Francis, returned to Drury Lane which would face, with a kind of smile on it, and seemed to. negative the inclusion of Miss Pritchard, borrow an air of wretchedness rather from his Miss Fenton, and Quin. During that period coat's age than from his own. The truth is, Fielding was no longer an homme du théâtre, there is a certain diet which emaciates men more but much engaged with the aftermath of the I do not remember to have seen any caution than any possible degree of abstinence; though Rebellion, with Tom Jones,' with law against it, either in Cheney, Arbuthnot, or in any reform, and with 'Amelia,' and though very other modern writer on regimen. Nay, the very possibly an occasional visitor to the green-name is not, I believe, in the learned Dr. James's rooms, he had certainly ceased to be ordinary as it is a very common food in this Dictionary; all the which is the more extraKingdom, and the College themselves were not long since very liberally entertained with it by the present attorney and other eminent lawyers, in Lincoln's-inn-hall, and were all made horribly sick by it. [The last thirty-three words were suppressed in the first or editio princeps, but were re-introduced in the "Earthquake " edition of the Voyage.']....What hath puzzled our physicians, and prevented them from setting this matter in the clearest light, is possibly one simple mistake....that the passions of men are their appetites.... capable of swallowing food as well as accounted an habitué there. (f) Finally, Arthur Murphy, himself an actor, wrote in 1762: "Considering the esteem Fielding was in with all the artists, it is somewhat extraordinary that no portrait of him had ever been made. He had often promised to sit to his friend Hogarth, for whose good qualities and excellent genius he always entertained so high an esteem....unluckily, however, it so fell out that no picture of him was ever drawn.' In view of these discrepancies is there any tangible ground for supposing Fielding to be included in the Drury Lane group, much as we should wish to believe it? But it would be valuable to have the views of your readers conversant with matters theatrical, and specially to know at what date, and by whom, the names were attached. 3. One of the opening paragraphs of Amelia' runs : "It hath been observed by many, as well as the celebrated writer of Three Letters,' that no human institution is capable of consummate perfection. An observation which, perhaps, that writer at least gathered from discovering some defects in the polity even of this well-regulated nation." I find that Fielding is referring to a pamphlet entitled : "Three Letters upon the Gin Act and Common Informers, to which is added a letter in respect the particular passion Fielding had in mind, "This day the Rt. Hon. the Lord Chief Justice Ryder and Mr. Justice Bathurst will be call'd to the degree of Serjeants-at-Law; after which an elegant entertainment will be given by them. at Lincoln's Inn Hall." This is followed in the issue of May 4 with : "Sir Dudley Rider, Knt., lately appointed Lord Chief Justice of his Majesty's Court of King's Bench, and the Hon. Henry Bathurst, Pleas, on their being called to the degree of appointed a Judge of the Court of Common Serjeants at Law on Thursday last, were presented. to the Court of Common Pleas, my Lord Chief Justice by the Attorney-General and Mr.. Wilbraham; and the Hon. Mr. Bathurst by Mr. Hume Campbell and Mr. Noel. At the entertainment on the above occasion, which was extremely grand, were present eighteen peers, besides many other persons of great honour and distinction." The Attorney-General was Sir William Murray (Lord Mansfield in 1776), whose appointment was announced in The Public Advertiser of April 11, 1754, and it is because his tenure of office had by July been so short that the ceremony indicated by Fielding is reduced to a small compass of inquiry. The Black Books of Lincoln's Inn (vol. iii.) show that Wilbraham was Treasurer of the Inn in 1754 and Noel in 1755, and furthermore that 107. 108. (plus eighteen pence for a purse) were presented to Ryder on going out serjeant. ર J. PAUL DE CASTRO. 1 Essex Court, Temple. INSCRIPTIONS IN GROSVENOR CHAPEL, SOUTH AUDLEY STREET. Abstracts made in 1913. NORTH SIDE. 1. Dame Mary Rich, w. of Robert Rich, Esq., second dau. of Peter Ludlow, Esq., of Ardsalla, Meath, Ireland, d. in childbed at Montpellier, Sept. 6, 1755, a. 30. 2. John Charles Crowle, Esq., formerly member for Richmond, Yorks, d. at his house in Curzon Street, Mar. 7, 1811, a. 73. 3. Harriet, w. of Col. Mark Wilks, d. May 2, 1806, a. 33. Their 8., John Barry Wilks, d. Sept. 5, 1816, a. 18. 4. William Ord, Esq., late of the H.E.I. Co.'s Medical Establishment, was buried near this spot, May, 1818, a. 52. 5. William Wellesley Pole, 3rd Earl of Mornington and Baron Maryborough, d. Feb. 22, 1845, a. 81. Catherine Elizabeth, his w., d. Oct. 23, 1851, a. 90. Erected by their surviving daus., Emily, Harriet, Lady Fitzroy Somerset, and Priscilla Anne, Countess of Westmorland. 6. Col. Charles Francis Rowley Lascelles, of the Grenadier Guards, s. of Rowley Lascelles, Esq., of 35 Upper Grosvenor Street, d. Nov. 8, 1860. Anna Lascelles, eldest dau. of Rowley Lascelles, d. Aug. 17, 1863. Erected by their sister. CHANCEL. 7. Rebecca, wid. of Robert Dinwiddie, Esq., formerly Governor of Virginia, d. Feb. 14, 1795, 75. Erected by her only surviving dau., Rebecca Hamilton. 8. 8. Archibald Wyndham Bishop, Esq., late captain 7th Dragoon Guards, s. of Charles Bishop, Esq., of Sunbury, Mx., b. Dec. 20, 1801, d. May 28, 1842. Isabella Eleanor Nightingale, aunt of the above, youngest dau. of Sir Edward Nightingale, Bart., of Kneesworth Hall, Cambs, b. Oct. 27, 1791, d. Oct. 27, 1842. 9. Master Charles Rich, s. and heir apparent of Lieut.-General Sir Robert Rich, Bart., d. Feb. 4, 1782, a. 7 y. 11 m. 8 days. 10. Lieut.-Col. Francis Robertson, after serving with distinguished reputation near thirty years in the East Indies, d. Sept. 11, 1791, a. about 58. Erected by his nephew, Andrew Francis Bernard, Esq. 11. Mary, wid. of Thomas Brewer, of West Farleigh, Kent, Esq., and dau. of Sir Richard Susanna, his 3rd and last w., by whom he had May of the Middle Temple, Kt., by Dame issue one s., Edward, and 2 daus., Mary and Ann. Edward and Ann died in infancy. Dame Susanna was dau. and sole heiress of Edward May of Pashb. April 19, 1688, and d. Mar. 14, 1746, a. 58. ley, Ticehurst, Sussex, Esq. Mary Brewer was 12. Robert Colvill, Esq., of the Kingdom of Ireland, d. Mar. 20, 1748/9, a. 47 y. 2 m. Martha, his wid., d. April 4, 1787, a. 76. 13. Sir Robert Rich, Bart., Lieut.-General, d. May 19, 1785, a. 67. 14. Evan, s. of the Right Hon. Sir Evan Nepean, Bart., Canon of Westminster and Chaplain to the Queen, for forty-eight years Incumbent of this church, b. April 20, 1800, d. Mar. 13, 1873. Anne, w. of Evan Nepean and dau. of the Right Hon. Sir Herbert Jenner [name illegible:], Dean of the Arches, b. May 9, 1808, d. Sept. 6, 1871. 15. James Russell Madan, Esq., Major to the 11th Troop of Horse Guards, and Yeoman of the Robes to their Majesties, George II. and III., fifty years, d. Nov. 30, 1788, a. 87. 16. Eliza, w. of the Rev. Nathaniel Hinde, dau. of Sir John Cramer Coghill, Bart., d. Nov. 9, 1821. 17. Rebecca, w. of Archibald Hamilton,, Esq., of Cumberland Street, Marylebone, d. April 29, 1814, a. 67. Archibald, her husband, d. Aug. 25, 1831, a. 92. SOUTH SIDE. 18. Diana Maria, W. of Lieut.-Col. J. D. Elphinstone, only child of Charles J. Clavering, Esq., b. June 8, 1801, d. Dec. 24, 1821. 19. Elizabeth Williamson, dau. and co-h. of John Williamson, Esq., of Roby Hall, Lancs, d. Nov. 22, 1848. Erected by her relatives, the Hon. George and Charlotte Campbell. 20. Mrs. Williamson of Roby Hall, Lancs, b. Dec. 23, 1736, d. Feb. 23, 1823. 21. John Samuel Charlton, Esq., Surgeon Major of the Grenadier Guards, d. April 2, 1823, a. 83.. Ann, his w., d. Aug. 15, 1835, a. 80. 22. Mr. Thomas Cartwright of 62 Lower Grosvenor Street, d. Sept. 15, 1826, a. 60. Mary, his w., d. Sept. 22, 1827, a. 63. Eliza, their dau., d. Oct. 29, 1809, a. 8 years. 23. Frances Canning, dau. of the late Stratford Canning, Esq., of Garvagh, Ireland, d. Mar. 10, 1837, a. 83. C. H. Burt, Vicar of Cannington, Som., Chaplain 24. Mary Anne, eldest dau. of the late Rev. to H.R.H. the Duke of Sussex, d. June 3, 1826, a. 28. Erected by her bro., Capt. T. Seymour Burt, F.R.S., of the Bengal Engineers. 30. Stephen Rolleston, Esq., many Assistant Under-Secretary of State in the Foreign years Office, d. Nov. 19, 1828, a. 73. An affectionate husband, &c. 31. John Andre, Esq., late of Sloane Street, d. Jan. 5, 1804, a. 51. 32. The Right Hon. Lady Lucy Elizabeth Smith Stanley, dau. of the Earl of Derby, d. April 25, 1809, a. 10. 33. Mrs. Margaret Farran, d. June 5, 1803, a. 70. 34. Mabella, w. of Edward Dale, jun., of Cleadon, Durham, Esq., d. Nov. 8, 1810, a. 28. INDEX OF PERSONS. Derby, Earl of, Pole, 5 32 Dinwiddie, 7 Andre, 31 Bishop, 8 Brewer, 11 Buchan, 29 Burt, 24 Campbell, 19 Canning, 23 Cartwright, 22 Hunter, 26 Charlton, 21 Lascelles, 6 Clavering, 18 Ludlow, 1 Coghill, 16 Madan, 15 Colvill, 12 May, 11 Crewe, 25 Nepean, 14 Crowle, 2 Nightingale, 8 Ord, 4 Dale, 34 Montpellier, 1 Richmond, Yorks, 2 His book "discovers 36 several questions, which old and young, Married men and Women, Batchelors and Maids, delight to be resolved of." He tells the reader that "this Work was brought out of Turkie by the Chaus or Turkish Ambassador that arrived on the Germane coasts......The same was left among the Starzern that came out of Turkie caused it to be Germans; and many of them, together with Doctor seen and plaid. It was translated out of the Turkish into the Germane language by a Germane patriot." We are told something more about the 66 Mark then how much you threw that cast with both the Dice." Then, supposing the sum of "your cast were 6," find this number on the wheel, where the spoke thus num Roby Hall, Lancs, 19, bered is marked with the word "Fountain,' 20 St. Helena, 29 West Farleigh, Kent, 11 G. S. PARRY, Lieut.-Col. 17 Ashley Mansions, S.W. FOREIGN BOOKS OF FORTUNE. (See ante, pp. 144., 165) The wheels are engraved on three doublepage tables, and the globes on two tables, also double-page size. The answers are in OLD John Booker, the English astrologer, quatrains, as the above, 11 on a page, and evidently noticed the objection to substitut-numbered consecutively from 2 to 12. The ing two dice for the dodechedron, and also bottom of the last page marked Satyri what an unusual device a dodechedron really 108" (which is not the number of the page, So he boldly discarded the latter and but an arbitrary figure) is marked Finis,' provided in his folio, The Dutch Fortune- and the text is, therefore, complete. There Teller' (London, 1650), for throws with two are only 36 pages of answers. Losz unicorn, which points with its horn to a Booker's biographer in the 'D.N.B.,' the late Dr. Garnett, states that the Dutch Fortune-Teller' and another book published under the author's name after his death are probably spurious. But, as the former was published in 1650 and Booker did not die till 1667, he had had ample time to protest against the unauthorized use of his name. A copy of the Turco-Dutch original has not yet been discovered. Dr. Starzer was the name of one of the deputation sent to the Sultan by the Austrian Malcontents in 1619. As regards other German books of fortune, some of these are very simple in construction. There is one in MS. on parchment in the British Museum (Add. MS. 25,435), ascribed by the Museum people to the fifteenth The Hungarian book of fortune of 1594 century, but according to a German author-mentioned in my previous article, and the ity, Dr. Robert Priebsch, there is a possi- Polish Fortuna albo Szcyescie' of about bility of it being a century older. There are 1610, discovered by Graesse and described 28 questions to which replies may be obtained by Mr. Majláth, do not call for any special after consulting sundry philosophers, pro- remark as regards their construction. phets, and other worthies. No cards or dice are to be used in this case, but a wooden disk, revolving in a wooden frame, which forms one of the covers of the book, both disk and frame being elaborately carved, painted, A RIMING WILL. L. L. K. THE following curious will is that of Sir IN THE NAME OF GOD: AMEN. To my sister Eleanor of Bourne, and gilt. The centre of the disk is of happiness ne'er knew one hour, To sister Rosamond, whose bower To Tom Drakerley my steward ever true, To Joe my groom, who swore my stud, Could ride a horse or hunt like me, To Sam my baliff, lest he repine, I give my residue of stock and kine; He can go forth and shoot the feathered flock, And to my servant from the ranks, That due to me may be his thanks, The chargers that I rode in battle, Horses that heard the cannon rattle. And to my brewer I do give, That when he's drank the ale he may brew more, To him I give my stock of wine, And to my gardener rake and spade, And in the garden he will find some greens, And to my housemaids-noisy crew, Brushes and brooms with gooses' wings, And every other sundry thing, And lest that they should think me mean, Now to the cook I give my tea, Some twenty pounds of fine Bohea. I give her all the good coffee, With sugar, plums and good spice, And lest that she should think them shams, To Mary, my scullion wench, And that her mind may be at peace, To the old woman at the gate, I give her all that in the garden grew, For she will be short of bread and meat, And lest a varlet of mine should repine, To Henry the labourer I give my swine, Snorters collected with great pains, And all the store of swill and grains. To Mary Ann, who was my wife, Dated 1st day of June, 1815, Willoughby Dixie, S. A. GRUNDY-NEWMAN, F.S.A.Scot. Walsall. ARMY CASUALTIES.-Every one who has attempted to compile regimental rolls of honour is aware of the extraordinary difficulty of being accurate or complete, for the official registers at the Public Record Office are full of discrepancies, largely owing to the fact that lists were frequently made up long after the event. As an example of this slackness one may cite a letter written by the Secretary at War to the Officer Commanding the 1st Battalion of the Royal Scots on March 20, 1812 (W.O. 12, 1894). He called for a return of casualties among the officers from Dec. 25, 1809, demanding that it should be " finished without delay, with an explanation of the cause of the delay." The best sources of information are the Register of Casualties (W.O. 25), which are indexed separately (recently renumbered under Ind."); the CommissaryGeneral's Register; Special Pay Lists (notably the Waterloo ones); and Claims. A guide to the War Office records at the Public Record Office is badly needed, for the official catalogue affords the minimum of help. J. M. BULLOCH. 123 Pall Mall, S.W. |