1755 Public Advertiser, May 8. 1787 Church Court, near St. 1737 Pall Mall 1763 1765 1776 Shelley's 'Inns,' p. 153; Hogarth's March to Finchley'; Sydney's XVIII. Century,' i. 25; Warwick Wroth, p. 77. Gibbon to Ld. Sheffield. Besant, p. 332; Roach's L.P.P., p. 54. MacMichael's Charing Cross,' p. 164. Lady Molly Cornwallis, Hist. MSS. Com., Stirling's A.Y.H., i. 327-31. G. Selwyn to Ld. Carlisle, Hist. MSS. Com., Stirling's A.Y.H., ii. 132; Birkbeck Hill, 1773 Price's 'Marygold,' p. 118; Shelley's 'Inns,' Hickey, i. 71; ii. 90; Shelley's 'Inns,' p. 205; Wheatley's Hogarth's London,' p. 273; Cunningham, p. 42; Wheatley's Cockspur Street (almost op- 1722 1753) Shelley's 'Inns,' p. 223. Braund's Head Wheatley's London,' i. 237. joining the Court of 1772 Birkbeck Hill, ii. 195; iv. 179; Mac- Roach's L.P.P., p. 52; Cunningham, p. 74. G. Selwyn to Ld. Carlisle, ib., p. 461. Roach's L.P.P., p. 47. Near Temple Larwood, p. 186. Bull's Head Tavern Clare Market 1740 'Life of Mrs. Cibber,' reprinted 1887; Lives of British Larwood, p. 186; Physicians, 1830, p. 127. Jebb's Life of Bentley,' ch. vi. Roach's L.P.P., p. 59; Wheatley's 'London,' i. 298; Larwood, p. 92; Shelley's Inns,' p. 48; Cunningham, p. 88. 1703 MacMichael's Charing Cross,' p. 31. J. PAUL DE CASTRO. BRONTOSAURI EXISTENCE. SEARCH for possible survival of the Brontosaurus brings to mind that the subject of extinct monsters was under discussion nearly a century ago, seriously in Davy's Consolation of Travel,' and in Ure's Geology,' and humorously in a poem by Chandos Leigh entitled The Sauri,' printed in his 'Fifth Epistle to a Friend, 1835,' full of amusing literary references. Brief extracts will show Leigh's style : Ere as it is the world its course begun. When a hot temperature was all the rage Though heat-begotten monsters we encase Rode, they were ridden though in length a mile! But sober truths-loves somewhat to romance. Shallow, as Trinculo deem'd Caliban, Ere Alorus they lived; or to go higher Ere lived forefathers of a Cambrian squire* Of beings, through ethereal space transport Would they were now alive, consuming wheat, And land-owners would cease to grieve, that they Refers to Cadwallader, whose ancestry, accord ing to Foote's " Author," was older than the ELIZABETHAN GUESSES. A MAUSOLEAN LAMENT,' 1651, by Samuel Sheppard, has some rather cryptic allusions, not yet cleared up. He makes quite obvious references in his catalogue of poets toSpenser and to Sidney, and says, after paying tribute to this latter idol of all. England: After him rose as sweet a Swaine Of course, it is just possible that the man pointed at here is Drayton; the verse might be accepted as somewhat descriptive of 'Piers Gaveston,' 'Matilda,' and The Tragicall Legend of Robert, Duke of Normandy,' or of the better known Mortimeriados,' republished as The Barrons Wars' in 1603. Drayton of the satires and the lovely pastorals, the useful, if rather boring, Polyolbion,' and the ringing shorter 'Agincourt,' is barely recognisable as 8 "warbler " of "tragedies." Whom else, then, would the lines suit? Not Marlowe : for his own day thought him not sweet,' but bold and dangerous. Would not Daniel be a safe guess? Drummond, perhaps with his eye chiefly upon Delia and The Complaynt of Rosamond,' commends Daniel precisely for his sweetnesse of rhyming and certainly Cleopatra' and Philotas and The Civil Warres' in eight books come forward well, as candidates for Sheppard's clumsy praise. Bibliographically, also, Daniel follows Sidney even more closely than Drayton does. Sidney's first (posthumous) publications appeared in 1590and 1591; Daniel's in 1592; Drayton's in 1593. And then lived He who sweetly sung Who would not deigne t' divulge his own, O gentle Shepheard! we to thee It would seem as if this translator of Ariosto, dignified with a capital letter, can be no other than Sir John Harington. Queen Elizabeth, his dreaded godmother, made him do the 'Orlando Furioso.' The circumstances were a matter of public knowledge; there was no attempt not to "divulge Sir John's name or "fate" this latter Sheppard actually says, but does not in the least mean! Is the first edition of the or pseudonymous? (I write away from libraries.) If so, the passage is no longer obscure. Sheppard goes on :— And after him a swain arose In whom sweet Ovids Spirit chose (A reader pricks up his ears; for this is exactly the way in which people long ago were wont to talk of Shakespeare! But the sequence takes a new turn) :— And each [eke] how large the Continent He prais'd his Maker in his Layes, pass ears. For sup 'Idea THE markings on the stone entablature to which MR. LEONARD C. PRICE refers in his question at 12 S. v. 293 suggest that he has alighted upon one of the many job-lots which were ruthlessly dispersed in the great sale that marked the downfall of the ambition of Child, the sometime autocrat of the East India Company (Sir Henry Yule says Child was ,, man, and the wandering of one's mind towards his 'Ovids Banquet of Sence,' and the hymnes " with which he began and ended his long career. The amatory yet pious "christened Josia, not subject of Sheppard's reference is this time, I think, really Drayton. Hardly could this Josias, or Josiah) who was once dubbed "the Satrap of the Indies." In his unill-expressed stanza fit that other laurelled head, Father Ben's, whose secretary Shep-bestowed a great deal of trouble—and he finished History of England Lord Macaulay pard was at one time, unless his many evidently intended much more upon this Masques' justify the mention of Arcady, remarkable personage, who, as he says, and Drayton's 'Nimphidia' does not. "attained such ascendancy in the East sacred author's the latter verse pressed Harmonie of the Church will India House that soon many of the most muster; while the two important posts, both in Leadenhall Street groups of poems may perhaps justify the and in the factories of Bombay and Bengal bringing in of sweet Ovid's Spirit" by the were filled by his kinsmen and creatures.' Beginning as a merchant's apprentice and office-sweeper, Child had peddled obscurely in marine stores, when, about 1655, he is seen engaged at Portsmouth in furnishing stores for the Navy. Macaulay leaves "Josia fighting with unbroken spirit for the maintenance of the seriously threatened monopoly of the East India Company against all "interlopers," and very frankly expressing for troublesome House of Commons the bitterest contempt. guided by my instructions," writes Child to the Agents of the Company, "and not by the nonsense of a few ignorant country gentlemen who have hardly wit enough to manage their own private affairs, and who know nothing at all about questions of trade." The laws of England were, in the Satrap's opinion, “a heap nonsense," compiled by these rural persons "who hardly know how to make laws for the good government of their own families, much less for the regulation of companies and foreign commerce a notion which sounds strangely 66 Daniel, Harington, Drayton, make an oddly assorted trio. If Sheppard intends, as we suspect, to commemorate these, he is honouring the bookish heroes of his earliest youth, and of the generation just before him. He proceeds to laudation of contemporaries and co-Royalists. Sucklin," according to this bard, rivals Beaumont and Fletcher. We all think well nowa days of Suckling's happy and delicately slap-dash genius, but would hardly seat as among the divinities a writer of plays. Davenant is, to Sheppard, him worth all his forerunners rolled into one: he is the "first-prefer'd of Apollo." Surely -a Shepheard cag'd in stone Destin'd unto destruction, can be none other than Sir William Davenant, whom the Roundheads had this very moment (1651) in prison, where he was pluckily finishing his admired 'Gondibert.' Next in merit to Davenant, Sheppard "Be of THE SUPER-NABOB OF WANSTEAD. Sir J. Child, for whom, of course, a "coat was soon found, became the supernabob of what had once been part of the great Forest of Essex, and had spent a large portion of his great fortune upon the construction of a lordly palace and pleasaunce when he was visited by John Evelyn on March 15, 1683. The entry in the Diary under date March 16 is : "I went to see Sir Josiah Child's prodigious cost in plauting walnut trees about his seate, and making fish ponds, many miles in circuit, in Epping Forest, in a barren spot, as oftentimes these suddenly monied men, for the most part, seate themselves. He, from a merchant's apprentice and management of the East India Company's Stock, being ariv'd to an Estate ('tis said) of £200,000, and lately married his daughter to the Eldest Sonn of the Duke of Beaufort, late Marquis of Worcester, with £50,000 portional present, and various expecta tions. And, by the by, Evelyn adds:- "I dined at Mr. Houblon's, a rich and gentle French merchant (Morant in his History of Essex' says the Family were eminent merchants in the time of Queen Elizabeth) who was building a house in the Forest, near Sir J. Child's, in a place where the late Earl of Norwich dwelt some time, and which came from his lady the widow of Mr. Baker. It will be a pretty villa, about five miles from Whitechapel." HORACE WALPOLE AND WANSTEAD. When on July 17, 1758, Horace Walpole wrote to Richard Bentley, he said : "I dined yesterday at Wanstead. Many years have passed since I saw it. The disposition of the house and the prospects are better than I expected, and very fine; the garden, which they tell you, cost as much as the House, that is, £100,000, is wretched; the furniture fine but totally without taste; such continences and incontinences of Scipio and Alexander, by 1 don't know whom! Such flame-coloured gods and goddesses, by Kent! Such family pieces-1 believe the late Earl himself (the heirs of Child, now Irish Peers, were in possession), for they are as ugly as the children that he really begot! The whole great apartment is of oak, finely carved, unpainted, and has a charming effect. The present Earl is the most generous creature in the world; in the first chamber I entered he offered me four marble tables that lay in cases about the room; I compounded, after forty refusals, with only a haunch of vension; I believe he has not had so cheap a visit a good while. I commend myself as I ought, for to be sure, there were twenty ebony tables and a couch and a table and a glass that would have tried the virtue of a philosopher of double my size! THOMAS HOOD AND WANSTEAD HOUSE. It was at Lake House, an appanage of the Child-Tylney palace, that Thomas Hood dwelt for the four years to 1836. His fierce FIELDING'S ANCESTORS AT SHARPHAM PARK, SOMERSET.-It may be worth while to put on record some facts, which I have recently noted, indicating how Henry Fielding's birthplace at Sharpham came into the possession of his mother's family. Richard Davidge, a London merchant, bought the estate from the Dyer family and others in 1657, and in 1692, after the deaths of himself, his widow, and five of his children, the whole of the considerable Davidge property had come to three of the merchant's daughters, viz., Sarah, wife of Henry (afterwards Sir Henry) Gould, grandmother of the novelist, Katherine, wife of Charles Cottington of Funthill, Wilts, and Ann Davidge. There can be no doubt that Sarah brought Sharpham to her husband as her share of her father's and brothers' estates. settled for a century or more at Bridport The Davidges were a family of merchants and Dorchester, Dorset. Sir Henry Gould was not, as stated in Burke's Landed Gentry,' a member of the Gould family of Upwey, Dorset. He was in fact a son of Andrew Gould, a yeoman of Winsham, Somerset, and a grandson of Henry Gould, also a yeoman living at the same place.. Thus in Fielding the "blue blood"" inherited from his father was mingled with another kind of blood (yeoman and commercial) derived from his mother. 17 Holland Road, W.14. F. J. POPE. he Crateman," i.e., a hawker of pottery, is given in the Burnley Parish Register in 1650, twenty-nine years earlier than the reference in the Oxford Dictionary'; and "bedlamer "-a lunatic, will be found in the Croston Parish Register for 1640, the |