volume,* under Corhampton, is mention of of Wight in 1567, and died in 1580. the Manor of Lomer, on which is Preshaw leaving a son, Thomas Worsley, who was House, which

"after 1605 was vested in Lady Anne Sandys, widow of William, Lord Sandys, who in 1834 settled it upon her grandson John Stewkley, the younger son of Sir Thomas Stewkley by her only daughter and heir, Elizabeth."

The question then arises, who was Anne, Lady Sandys? For, if she was widow of William, Lord Sandys of the Vyne and Mottisfont Abbey, Romsey, she was Alathea, daughter and coheir of John Panton of co. Denbigh. In the Inq. p.m. of her husband, William, 4th Baron Sandys, taken at Salisbury on Sept. 17. 1633, it is stated that "he died on the 12th of November, 1629, and that Alathea his wife remarried to Sir William Holland, Baronet.".

Mottisfont is the next parish to Michelmersh, which Sir Thomas Stewkley purchased in 1600, and it was to its Manor House that Sarah, widow of the first Sir Hugh Stewkley (1604-42), retired to live upon her dower with her second husband, Sir William, Viscount Ogle after 1648, the latter dying

there in 1682.

married at Wonston, near Winchester, in 1586, to Barbara, eldest daughter of William St. John of Farley Chamberlayne and Barbara Gore. The latter were the direct ancestors of Christian St. John, who was married at Farley on Oct. 4, 1666, to Ellis Mews of Winchester, Mayor of that town in 1686, and Recorder of Romsey, where his arms still hang in the Council Chamber of that town. In the Visitation of Hampshire for 1686 this Ellis is described as son of Richard Mews of the city of Winchester (who died circa 1646, aged 60), son of Ellis Mews of Stourton Caundle, Dorset. Richard had a brother, John Mews, of

Winchester," possibly the same as John
Mew who was married at St. Michael's in
that city upon the morning of Easter
Tuesday, April 12, 1642. By his wife,
Christian St. John, Ellis Mews had sons:
Henry, aged 18 in 1686, Ellis 16, William 14;
death in February, 1680, Ellis remarried at
and a daughter Anne, 19. After his wife's
King's Worthy on Jan. 27, 1689/90, to Joan
Cox. In his will, dated April 1, 1707, he
mentioned his house and garden in Win-
chester, which he left for twenty years to his
wife Joan, with reversion to his son Ellis
Mews.* He was
buried in Winchester
Cathedral on June 26, 1709. In the Coffer
Book,† Winchester, under date of Dec. 22,
1710, there is this entry:—

"Paid to Mr. Wavell, Mayor, to be given to
Mrs. Mews, relict of Ellis Mews deceased, an
extraordinary poverty."
alderman of this city, upon occasion of her

"From this, down to 1720, she yearly had either twenty shillings or ten shillings to relieve her necessitie. Mews was steward to Oliver W. H. J." Cromwell, Junior.

Preshaw House, describedt as a picturesque gabled house of at least three dates, set in the beautifully timbered park on the southern slopes of Millbarrow Down," was the scene of much hospitality in the Stewkleys' time, and is said to have reminded Dr. Denton of the loaves and fishes that increased and multiplied with the company.' After the Great Fire of London, when John Stewkley experienced heavy losses, he sold Preshaw House to his nephew, Sir Hugh, in 1677, and, retiring to London with his family, there died in 1683. Possibly the parish registers of Lomer (1665-7) might tell the baptism of Kitty Stewkley, but her marriage to Ogle probably took place With regard to the above stewardship of in London, and is doubtless to be found in the Manor of Merdon there is an entry in the some of the published parish registers. It parish register of Hursley, under burials for is not a little tantalizing to miss the con-May 2, 1666": Margaretta Mew, uxor Ellisnexion with the Winchester Ogles for the Mew Generosi, fuit Sulpt." If this was want of this item of information, especially Ellis, the Mayor of Winchester, like his son after the new and valuable notes contributed and namesake, he thrice ventured into the by W. R. W. on this family. bonds of matrimony. It would be very interesting to establish his relationship to Bishop Peter Mews, who was elevated to the See of Winchester in 1684 (two years beforeEllis became Mayor). The Bishop was born on March 25, 1618, and Ellis in 1623. Ellis's father was born in 1586, and Peter Mews of Purse Caundle is said to have been dead before 1597. F. H. S.

Regarding the remarks of A MASTER OF ARTS (ante, p. 236) as to the pedigree of Mewys of Hampshire, of whom was Sir Richard Mewys of Rookley, whose daughter Jane married John Worsley, gent." This was presumably the "Jane Mieux," wife of Sir John Worsley, who succeeded to Appuldercombe in the Isle

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* Will at Winchester.

† Hampshire Notes and Queries, vol. vii. p. 68.

ARBOR TRISTIS (12 S. iii. 386).-The account of the tree in his 'Herbario Nuovo' Arabian or night jasmine (Nyctanthes arbor- (1585) calls Parisataccho. She was a lover tristis) is a shrub which grows freely in of the Sun, and when forsaken by him she Southern Asia. Its fragrant night-blooming died of grief, and this tree sprang from her flowers attracted the early Portuguese ashes. travellers, who bestowed on it the name of

C. C. B.

arbol triste." See Yule, Hobson-Jobson,' RUSHBROOKE HALL (12 S. iii. 301).-A

S.V. Arbol triste,' and the s.v. Jasmine.'

N.E.D.,'

short account of this moated Elizabethan house, the seat in the sixteenth and seven

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Thomas Bowrey, writing "Of Choro-teenth centuries of the Jermyn family, is mandel in the seventeenth century given in Mr. W. A. Dutt's Suffolk,' one of Little Guides "There (Countries round the Bay of Bengal, Methuen & Co.'s 1669 to 1679,' Hakluyt Society, ed. Temple, is a haunted room in the W. wing, where pp. 49-50), gives a quaint description of a lady, whose portrait hangs in the nursery, this small tree or shrub :is said to have been murdered (p. 285). The Hall is about 3 miles from Bury St. Edmunds. There is a good view of it in Mr. Dutt's book. EDWARD BENSLY.

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Upon the top of Mount St. Thomas, groweth naturaly a Very remarkable tree, larger then most mulberrie trees be, which is called Arbor triste, vizt. the Sorrowfull tree, and not improperly so called. It Seemeth not to flowrish all the day longe, but from Sun Settinge to Sun riseinge it is Exceedinge full of white blossoms, both fragrant and beautifull, but noe Sooner is but broad day light, but all the blossoms fall to the ground and Suddenly wither; and the Very leaves Shut themselves, and Seeme to be in a very languishinge posture, and furthermore, the next Eveninge it appears as flourishinge as before, and thus not Once but every day and night throughout the yeare.

R. C. TEMPLE.

A friend of mine has courteously supplied the following information under this head :"The arbor tristis' is described in Durante's Herbario Nuovo,' published at Rome in 1585, and also in his other book, of which only the German translation named Hortulus Sanitatis' survives. His illustration shows a plant with large nettle-shaped, dotted leaves and pendulous strings of blossom. The flowers and leaves, he says, spread only at night, but droop and wither if sunlight reaches them. The legend goes that a beautiful Indian maiden loved the sun, who loved another. So she killed herself, and from the ashes of the funeral pyre there sprang the arbor

This tree is described and figured by Gerard as the Sorrowfull tree." It grows, he says, in the East Indies, ". especially in Goa and Malayo.' It is called by many in different places, as Parizataco in Goa, Singadi in Malayo," Singati in the Deccan, Guart by the Arabians, and Gul by the Persians and Turks. Its most poetical name in English is the Indian mourner." Lemery gives a similar account to that of Gerard, and has the same string of foreign names for it. He refers to several authorities.

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The name Parizataco refers to a legendary Indian princess whom Durante in his

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2. No, Bakewell was not a slip of the for pen "Lambton." It was the town where the Gardiners and Elizabeth spent the night before they went to Lambton. Pemberley lay between the two towns, and the travellers paid their first visit to Pemberley before they had reached Lambton. This is clear from the conclusion of chap. xlii.: "Within five miles of Lambton, Elizabeth found, from her aunt, that Pemberley was situated. It was not in their direct road; nor more than a mile or two out of it. In talking over their route the evening before they went to Lambton, the Gardiners suggest a visit to Pemberley. Elizabeth makes objections, fearing to meet Darcy. That night she learns from the chambermaid that the family are not at Pemberley, and therefore next day she agrees to go there. When she unexpectedly meets Darcy, she is afraid that he will think

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she is pursuing him, and is careful to tell him that before we left Bakewell, we understood that you were not immediately expected in the country." After they leave Pemberley they arrive at Lambton for the first time, and Mrs. Gardiner

husband all the interesting spots in its environs was too much engaged in pointing out to her to think of anything else. Fatigued as she had been by the morning's walk, they had no sooner dined than she set off again in quest of her former acquaintance, and the evening was spent in the satisfactions of an intercourse renewed after many years' discontinuance."

M. H. DODDS. Home House, Low Fell, Gateshead.

JANE AUSTEN A CONTINUATION (12 S. iii. 358). The book referred to is entitled 'Old Friends and New Fancies.' It was written by Miss Sybil G. Brinton, and published at 68. by Messrs. Holden & Hardingham, 12 York Buildings, Adelphi, W.C., in January, 1913.

S. BUTTERWORTH.

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pandits teaching the science of numbers from well-worn cadjan-leaf books, i.e., books of the old type written with an iron needle known as eluttani," the leaves consisting of palmyrah leaves. The record, however, is still held by Benjamin Franklin's magic square of squares," consisting of 256 (16 by 16) squares. According to Mr. W. W. Rouse Ball, the author of MatheGREYSTOKE PEDIGREE (12 S. iii. 384).-matical Recreations and Essays' (London, Hutchinson would seem to have derived 1911), magic squares of an odd order (say this pedigree from Nicolson and Burn's of 25 cells") were constructed in India History of Westmorland and Cumberland,' before the Christian era according to a rule ii. 348 foll., but the ultimate source is one which he subsequently explains, but nothing of the various editions of John Denton of is said about the antiquity of squares of an Cardew's Account of Cumberland.' This even order like that found at Dudhai. was published for the Cumberland and L. L. K. Westmorland Antiquarian and Archæological Society by Chancellor R. S. Ferguson in CARR DOUGLAS OF CARR (12 S. iii. 358, 1887. Denton is stated to have compiled 393).-There is a place called Cavers Carr his Account' from the records kept in the in Roxburghshire, which I think belongs Tower of London when he was imprisoned or belonged to the Douglases of Cavers. there " on a quarrel between him and Dr. It is just possible that it is the place your Robinson, Bishop of Carlisle." Ferguson correspondent is in search of. It is about gives the date of this as about 1610. Denton 12 miles due south from Melrose. is, I fear, not a very reliable authority. His manuscript collections were described by Mr. Hodgson Hinde as "storehouses of

errors.

JOHN R. MAGRATH.

Queen's College, Oxford.

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Hawick.

"BULLER'S THUMB (12 S. iii. 386).The allusion is to the dictum of Mr. Justice Buller that a husband has a right to MAGIC SQUARES IN INDIA (12 S. iii. 383). chastise his wife with a stick no thicker -The arrangement of the figures in the than his thumb." The case which called magic square found at Dudhai_was pub-forth this pronouncement is apparently lished in a recent issue of Indian Engineering unreported, but Serjeant Townsend ('Lives and also in The Yorkshire Weekly Post. of Twelve Eminent Judges,' i. 19) says:It is a square of an even order, that is, one with an even number of squares (16), and of a far more ingenious construction than the Archæological Superintendent of Hindu and Buddhist Remains in Northern India seems to realize. It is a so-called pandiagonal square, that is, not only do the figures along the two unbroken diagonals give the sum of 34, but also the numbers along the six broken diagonals formed by the 16 figures. According to a correspondent of the Indian paper at Bassein (Burma), a magic square for 32 (not 34) is filled in with usual Hindu religious ceremonies in a room where a woman is in labour. A Sanskrit mantra " consisting of two lines is read, and the magic square is filled in, it being believed that this will accelerate the confinement and remove all troubles." According to another native correspondent, the method of working out such magic squares has been well known to Tamelians in "those parts (in the Jhansi district ?) from time immemorial; and as a child he had known many old

"The subject offered too fair an opportunity to the caricaturists not to be eagerly grasped at. His portrait as Judge Thumb speedily adorned the print shops, and the women enjoyed a hearty laugh at the expense of this ungallant champion of club law. A similar ungallant doctrine had been mooted in the preceding century by a Dr. Marmaduke Coghill, judge of the Prerogative Court of Ireland, and with still more detriment to himself. Having been called upon to decide her husband, who had given her a good beating, the ground of a divorce sued for by a wife against the venerable civilian delivered a solemn opinion that with such a switch as the one he held in his hand moderate chastisement was within the husband's matrimonial privilege. This legal maxim occasioned so much offence or alarm to a lady to whom the Doctor had been for some time paying his addresses with a fair prospect of success that she peremptorily dismissed the assertor of so ungallant a doctrine."

It may be added, for the reassurance of intending brides, that Mr. Justice Buller's view of the law no longer prevails. The subject was discussed in the famous 'Clitheroe Case (R. v. Jackson, 1891), when the Court of Appeal (Halsbury, L.C., Esher, M.R., and Fry, L.J.) stated that the