Bishop of Veszprém and diplomat. Several other members of the family were governors (bans) of Jajcza before this place with its district was occupied by the Turks in 1528. L. L. K. chestnut grew in her part of the district, she wrote to me, in English, that she had seen these chestnuts in other parts when she was a little girl, but "I never felt curious to know the taste of these fruits; I mistook them for beasts, so that I was much afraid when seeing them." I quote this frank expression of my correspondent's feelings as a child at the uncanny appearance of the black horned nuts, suggestive of their being des bêtes rather than fruit, for it gave me the clue to macreuse being probably the name of the black water-fowl that might be supposed to have been developed from the black, animal-like water-fruit. Perhaps Trapa bispinosa might be the tree that bore the fruit which became Maundeville's birds. 66 BARNACLE FOLK-LORE.-The story, common to England, France, and other countries, about the development of a crustacean barnacle into a goose has a parallel in the case of another kind of duck, Anas nigra, the French macreuse. Littré quotes Buffon's refutation of this duck being developed in the same way as the barnacle goose. I have not searched out whether Buffon also refuted Maundeville's statement that “ in oure contree weren trees that beren a fruyt that becomen briddes fleeinge....and thei ben griht gode to mannes mete ; but I venture The macreuse, the fóuco of the south, is to surmise that the macreuse was the bird a common French water-fowl. Flocks of that developed from a fruit, and that the these birds frequent the great Étang de fruit was possibly the water-chestnut, Trapa Berre, not far from Marseilles, and other bispinosa, Fr. macre. This, the singhara lakes not far from the sea. And the fóucado, nut of India, grows in the étangs of la Vendée, the merry boating excursion for shooting as in the tanks of many parts of India, these birds, is a southern institution. Those and, as in India, it bears crops of some readers of N. & Q.' who, like St. Swithin, importance. These fruits are sold in the know La Sinso's Scènes de la Vie Promarkets of la Vendée under the name of vençale' may remember the amusing chapchâtaignes d'eau or macres. Littré has ter relating the faucade in Toulon harbour, macre, macle, with a synonym corniole, evi- where catching the fish for the festive dently derived from the two horns which bouillabaisse takes the place of coot-shooting. give the fruit the form of a black bull's Perhaps "coot " is the best equivalent of head. The Hindostani name singhara, prob-macreuse. I mention that the Dutch term ably akin to that of the barasingha stag or is meerkoet only to say that the two words of singham, the lion, is indicative of the do not seem to have any etymological conanimal appearance of the water-chestnut. nexion, as is the case with meerzwijn and Its taste is akin to that of our chestnut marsouin, the porpoise. indeed, some plants that I introduced many years ago into the Ulsoor tank at Bangalore (a hundred-acre lake supplying the military part of the cantonment with water), with the view of clearing it from the persistent turbidity following the extirpation of its indigenous vegetation, afforded me, the next Christmas, chestnuts sufficient to stuff a EDITORIALLY SOLICITED CONTRIBUTIONS. turkey, with excellent results. I have seen-In a recent number of The Bookman the in a London drawing-room a long chaplet editor of The American Magazine wrote: of these black horned nuts, of uncanny appearance, which came from Italy. The animal appearance of the macres very probably gave rise to the idea that the macreuses frequenting the lakes were developed form the nuts in the same way that another kind of water-fowl was believed to be developed from barnacles. I may mention that the This has been reproduced with some connexion between the names of the nut flourish, under the heading We Welcome and the bird arose in my mind from a Manuscripts from New Writers,' as if the passage in a letter from a French lady corre- idea were as novel as the twentieth century, spondent who has always lived in la Vendée. though it certainly is as old as the sevenIn answer to an inquiry whether the water-teenth, the time when English periodical ; The facts I have given, mixing up etymology, folk-lore, ornithology, and botany with little precision, may be of service in researches on one or other of these branches of useful or interesting knowledge. 6 Avenue Gilly, Nice. EDWARD NICHOLSON. Every editor knows that an editorial office is keen to get hold of new writers. The best reading matter is as frequently obtained from absolutely new writers as it is from famous writers. In fact, an editor is particularly anxious for an author's first work, because what it lacks in craftsmanship it frequently makes up in freshness.' journalism began. The Friendly Intelligence, tion, Moral, Instructive, and Entertaining, which declared itself in its head-lines to be from the Most Eminent British Poets, and Published for the Accommodations of all Poetical Translators. Chiswick: Printed by sober persons," advertised in its first number, C. and C. Whittingham. MDCCCXXVIL' published Sept. 7, 1679, that (six volumes). "All persons who are pleased to favour us with any Comical or sollid stories, may repair to the three Kings near Ludgate, and they shall have them carefully put in." As this seems to have been the only number preserved of that journal, one regrets to be unable to trace the result of so interesting an editorial experiment. ALFRED F. ROBBINS. On another occasion the Earl told his son that The making verses well, is an agreeable talent, which I hope you will be possessed of; for, as it is more difficult to express one's thoughts in verse than in prose [?], the being capable of doing it is more glorious." we To learn that he held this opinion, desired his son to write verse, and that "he divided his time between the pursuit of pleasures and fashionable amusements, and a close attention to his favourite study of poetry (vide Maty's Memoirs'), inclines one to believe that he wrote poems himself; and are fortunate enough to have some direct evidence on which to base a belief that he actually wrote a considerable number of poems. How many of these are extant? Personally, I am not aware of the existence of more than two poems composed by Lord Chesterfield. For one, I am indebted to Dr. Matthew Maty (1718-1776), the founder of the Journal Britannique, and one time principal librarian at the British Museum, who (if not the first) was one of the earliest biographers of Lord Chesterfield. For the other, I am indebted to Mr. R. A. Davenport, poet, and editor of Whitting ham's Edition of the British Poets," and of "New Elegant Extracts: A Unique Selec In vol. iii. (p. 254) of the latter work the following Song' is given : When Fanny, blooming fair, First caught my ravish'd sight, Ten thousand loves appear: His shafts are hoarded there :. Of roses newly blown. The beauteous queen of love Has her own Cestus bound, Who shall her zone unloose! May heaven and she refuse. The other poem (an epigram on a portrait of Beau Nash placed between busts of Pope and Newton in the pump room at Bath) appears in Section IV. of Maty's Memoirs of Lord Chesterfield,' prefixed to the second edition of the Miscellaneous Works of the late Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield. London: Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, in the Poultry. MDCCLXXIX." (four volumes): J however, to Dr. Maty to remark that his probably son of Sir George Treby, Lord Chief Justice of England, was appointed Captain and Lieut.-Colonel in the 1st Foot Guards 12 Jan., 1720, left the regiment before 1727, died 1763," as it was the Secretary at War's second son, Lieut.-Col. George Hele Treby of the 1st Foot Guards, who was M.P. Plympton, M.P. for Bridgwater; and George Doding- MASHAM. When did Sir William Masham' Bart., M.P. for Essex, die, and where was he buried? And when did his son William Masham, jun., who married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Trevor, and was M.P. for Shrewsbury, die, and where was he buried? G. E. C. states that the former died about 1656," and that the latter died "v. p." G. F. R. B. MONKS' SOHAM: PARISH HISTORY.-Will any of your correspondents who may possess or be acquainted with any MS. deeds, escripts, or documents of any sort touching persons and property in the little parish of Monks' Soham, olim Soham sive Saegham Monachorum, in Suffolk, be so very good as to communicate with me? I have been astonished at the amount of information already published about so small an area : now I am attempting to augment the public records (the whole of which are believed to have been collected) from private sources, and any contribution will be received with due gratitude. CLAUDE MORLEY, F.Z.S. Monks' Soham House. Suffolk. AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS.—I should be grateful to any reader who could give me chapter and verse for the following quotations in Lord Dufferin's Letters from High Latitudes ' :— 1. Some mystical spot "out of space, out of time (Letter 7). 2. This very morn I've felt the sweet surprise Of unexpected lips on sealed eyes (7). December, 1761, till he died May 11, 1763, having succeeded his only brother, also George Treby, who sat for Plympton, December, 1747, till he died Nov. 5, 1761. I think it is clear that George Treby senior was the person of that name made lieutenant in Col. Roger Townshend's new Regiment of Foot, April 12, 1706, and who held the captaincy in the 1st Foot Guards, Jan. 12, 1720, till he retired March 9, 1727, and was Captain and Governor of Dartmouth Castle, Dec. 24, 1720, till May 1, 1730. He was If any one cares to have the references evidently a kinsman to the Secretary at War, to other quotations in this pleasant book, but what was his parentage, and when and I shall be pleased to supply them. whom did he marry, and when did he die? 2. In the Parliament of 1747 to 1754, George Bubb Dodington of Gunvill, Dorset, afterwards Lord Melcombe, the diarist, was 3. ......le simple appareil D'une beauté qu'on vient d'arracher au sommeil (8). 4. δός μοι τὸ πτέρον (6). Ashfield, Bedford. H. K. ST. J. S. [At 11 S. xi. 89, 135, will be found other communications relating to Lord Dufferin's book.] ISABELLA S. STEPHENSON.-Information is earnestly desired regarding this lady, the writer of the simple and touching hymn of which the first verse is : Holy Father, in Thy mercy, Keep our loved ones, now far absent, It has become so great a favourite among Edinburgh. THE ADVENTURES OF A POST CAPTAIN,' by "Naval Officer and illustrated by a Mr. Williams, is presumed to have been originally published in the twenties or thirties of the last century, and reprinted in Methuen's uniform" Library of Illustrated and Coloured Books." Is it known who were the author and artist? And are other productions to be assigned to them? ANEURIN WILLIAMS. PICTURES: WHERE EXHIBITED.—In what galleries may any of the following pictures be seen ?— 'The Appeal,' by Guido Bach (water colours). 'Father advised Me,' by Guido Bach (water colours). Early Footsteps,' by C. Martineau (water TOPPE FAMILY.-I am endeavouring to connect the Toppe, Toup, or Toppais family of Lincolnshire (twelfth century) with the Toppe family of Wiltshire (fifteenth century). The Wiltshire pedigree is only fairly clear, and is recorded at a visitation early in the seventeenth century. I append the result of my research, chiefly derived from the Patent Rolls :Eudo Toppais of Stratton, alive 1187. John Toppe of La Haie, alive 1295. John Toppe of Algarkirk, Lincolnshire, died 1329. John Toppe of Algarkirk, died before 1406, Escheator of Lincoln. John Toppe of Holand in Lincoln (? trustee of land in Coombe Bisset, Wilts, in 1400). Thomas Toppe, son of John of Algarkirk, alive 1381. The Visitation of Wiltshire above referred to begins with Thomas Toppe (circa 1415), and it seems reasonable to assume that he is identical with Thomas Toppe, son of John Toppe, of Holand, trustee of land at Coombe Bisset, Wilts, 1400. I cannot, however, prove the Visitation of Wiltshire to be correct. My surmise is that the above Thomas had a son Thomas, and he had a son John who settled in London circa 1530, and rented land at Stockton, Wilts. It would appear, also, that the lastnamed John Toppe was a favourite at Court, and had land and houses bequeathed to him by Henry Suckley of Bread Street, London. Who was Henry Suckley? He appears also to have had great influence at Court. Was he in any way connected with Lincolnshire? Both the Toppe and Suckley families were connected with the Merchant Taylors' Company in the sixteenth century. CEDRIC II. LONDON SOCIETIES FOR RELIGIOUS PURPOSES IN 1821.-I have before me as I write a fragment of a small octavo (5 by 8 in.)| book, viz., pp. 175-184, the first of which contains the completion of an article, 12, The London Home Missionary Society'; the others a complete article, 13, The Missionary and Tract Society of the New Jerusalem Church, 15 Cross Street, Hatton Garden. Instituted A.D. 1821.' The run ning head-line" of each left-hand page is "Societies for Religious Purposes." Can any reader of 'N. & Q.' kindly furnish me with the full title of the book of which this fragment formed a section? It was probably a handbook descriptive of Londonor of philanthropic societies, metropolitan or general. One scrap of internal evidence points to its having been published in 1821 CHARLES HIGHAM. or 1822. 169 Grove Lane, S.E. SIR ISAAC NEWTON: CAPT. NEWTON.My great-great-grandfather, Dr. Dominic Lee of Kilkenny, officiated at the marriage of a certain Capt. Newton of "Littlecotes," Lincolnshire. I do not know the date of birth of Dr. Lee, but on Nov. 5, 1715, he was granted the diploma of doctor of medicine by the University of Louvain. A portrait of him, dated 1715, represents him as a comparatively young man. The family have always understood that Capt. Newton was a relative of Sir Isaac Newton, who died a bachelor. I shall be much obliged if any correspondent can put me in the way of tracing the relationship between the two. If desired, answers may be sent direct. Replies. 1740. AN ENGLISH ARMY LIST OF (12 S. ii. 3, 43, 75, 84, 122, 129, 151, 163, 191, 204, 229, 243, 272, 282, 311, 324, 353,, 364, 391, 402, 431, 443, 473, 482, 512, 524; iii. 11, 46.) ADDENDA ET CORRIGENDA (continued). 1st Horse Guards (12 S. ii. 4, 130, 473). Capt. Eaton was of Cheshunt, Herts. Justin McCarty, guidon and second major till first major, Sept. 7, 1746; second lieutenant-colonel of the regiment, April 9, 1748, till July, 1749. William Culling, exempt and captain, June 5, 1758; senior in 1762; left before 1770. Peter Shepherd, brigadier and lieutenant, April, 1748; exempt and captain, Nov. 7, 1759; so in 1762; left before 1770. 2nd Horse Guards (12 S. ii. 4, 131, 474). John Brettle, Esq., m. May 1, 1755, to the Hon. Miss Hawley, only daughter of Lord Hawley of Ireland" (London Mag.). Francis Desmarette, first lieutenant and lieutenant-colonel of the regiment, Sept. 20, 1764, to Feb. 8, 1765; brevet-colonel, Feb. 19, 1762. Brigadier Benjamin Carpenter, exempt and captain, October, 1744. 3rd Horse Guards (12 S. ii. 5, 131, 474). John Johnson, one of the three Esquires to Sir Paul Methuen, M.P., when installed K.B. June 17, 1725. 4th Horse Guards (12 S. ii. 5, 132, 474). Col. Burton m., August, 1743, Miss Larimore of Knightsbridge (London Mag.). Thomas Goddard was in 1762 the senior captain of the Wiltshire Regiment of Militia (the first to be) embodied June 20, 1759, till disembodied December, 1762. His next brother Edward Goddard (12 S. ii. 431) was also the senior captain of the North Battalion of the Hampshire Regiment of Militia, embodied Dec. 11, 1759, till it was disembodied December, 1762. Royal Horse Guards (12 S. ii. 44, 192, 512). William Campbell, promoted from cornet Royal Horse Guards to lieutenant and captain Coldstream Guards, Nov. 26, 1741, resigned May, 1744. I suggest he was of Liston Hall, Suffolk, third and youngest son of John Campbell, M.P., of Mamore |