The following list of the members of the Cromwell family buried at Bunhill Fields is compiled from Noble's House of Cromwell,' third edition, 1787, vol. i. The book, though the author may be incapable of estimating rightly the character of Oliver Cromwell, yet contains, at any rate, many curious notices and anecdotes of the Protector and his alliances and descendants. The members of the family interred in the above-named burialplace are descended from Henry Cromwell, the fourth son of the Protector. 1. Henry Cromwell, commemorated on the tombstone, died at Lisbon September 11, 1711, and was buried at Lisbon; major in the army. 2. Hannah Hewling, his wife, died March 26, 1732, aged seventy years. 3. Mary, daughter of William Sherwill and wife of William Cromwell, died March 4, 1752, aged sixty-two years. 4. William Cromwell, husband of the above, died July 9, 1772, aged seventy-nine years. 5. Mary Cromwell, eldest daughter of Major Henry Cromwell, died unmarried July 9, 1731, aged forty years. Styled on the tombstone," Mrs. Cromwell, spinster." 6. Richard Cromwell, fifth son of Major Henry Cromwell, died December 3, 1759. 7. Ann Cromwell, second daughter of Richard Cromwell, died September, 1777. It is said there was no room for a memorial of her upon the tomb in Bunhill Fields, as all the spaces were filled up on it. 8. Eleanor Cromwell, third daughter of Richard Cromwell, died February 24, 1727, aged two months. 9. Thomas Cromwell, seventh son of Major Henry Cromwell, a grocer, died October 2, 1748, aged fifty-one years. 10. Oliver Cromwell, son of Thomas Cromwell, died May 6, 1741, aged five years. 11. Henry Cromwell, son of Thomas Cromwell, died unmarried circa 1771. 12. Thomas Cromwell, son of Thomas Cromwell, died an infant. 13. Elizabeth Cromwell, daughter of Thomas Cromwell, died an infant. 14. Henry Cromwell, sixth son of Major Henry Cromwell, died unmarried January 4, 1769, aged seventy-one years. The tombstone at Bunhill Fields, said to have been raised over the vault made by Richard Cromwell, commemorates also "Mrs. Eleanor Gatton, Widdow" (sic), his mother-in-law, who died September 27, 1727, and Mrs. Eleanor Gracedieu, spinster, daughter of Sir Bartholomew Gracedieu, Knt., died February 26, 1737, in the fifty-third year of her age. No doubt owing to the lapse of time, these inscriptions have become illegible, but several records of the burials are taken from the body of the work, some of which, though not all, "DEFENCE, NOT DEFIANCE": THE VOLUNTEERS (7th S. iii. 206, 356, 430).—Fully admitting Capt. Hans Busk to have been the avant courier and first advocate of the volunteer movement, it may not be inappropriate to the subject if I notice other names connected with the formation of this patriotic home army, which excludes even a thought of conscription. In Harper's (New York) edition of the Poet Laureate's 'Poems,' published in 1873, at p. 250, there is a rousing appeal to the manhood of the nation, of four stanzas, called 'The War.' This poem was sent to me on May 5, 1859, for anonymous insertion in any country paper, as it might be thought political, and unbecoming the pen of the royal bard; and it appeared in the Times of May 9, 1859, signed T. It was, of course, a warning against the "French colonels" and their chief, as "only the devil knows what he means." On May 29, 1859, General Peel, then Minister of War, issued his order which sanctioned the formation of volunteer corps in Great Britain; and on July 5, 1859, Lord Lyndhurst, who was with the danger of invasion, unless her fleet was then eighty-seven years old, threatened England strengthened and a powerful reserve force maintained. Sir T. Martin says, in his admirable biography of this great lawyer and statesman, "His eloquence went right to the heart of the nation, and the response came in the movement for forming a volunteer force, to which England may now look with some confidence in the hour of need. The "Isaiah of the nineteenth century," as I have heard the poet justly called, is not afraid of speaking out; no less stirring words than are found in his address to our riflemen are contained in 'The Fleet.' ALFRED GATTY, D.D. It is hardly fair to say that any one man was the originator of the present volunteer force, when so many were engaged in the work. It is indisputable that a very large share of the glory and honour is due to the late Hans Busk of the Victorias and to Dr. Bucknill; but there were other heads at work previously and contemporaneously with them, notably Col. Kinlock, the brother in arms of Sir De Lacy Evans and Lord Ranelagh, and it is doubtful whether Hans Busk would have been able to overpower the scruples of the Government but for the weighty influence of the late Duke of Wellington, who himself, only after considerable difficulty, obtained permission to form the Royal Victoria Rifles (a shooting club) into a four-company battalion, although it had existed as an armed association ever since the general disbandment in 1814. It seems that the earlier acceptance of the services of the Exeter corps was probably an accident, very many other corps having in 1859 obtained precedence owing to similar circumstances. Even the pattern of uniform chosen affected this result. It is, however, hardly worth while to revive the controversy as to the precedence of Devon and Middlesex: we of the latter county are very well content to stand second. E. T. EVANS, Captain R. V. A very early series of articles on the volunteer system, if not the first, will be found in the Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal, dating from 1837 and the following years. The volunteer system is advocated as essential for the national defence against invasion, and the application of the engineering and other resources of the country. This subject will be found to be comprehensively dealt with from a military point of view. L. M. A friend of mine, since deceased, Capt. Evatt Acklom, late 16th Foot, often told me that his father, whose initials I forget, Capt. Acklom, was the prime mover in the volunteer movement of 1859. I do not notice his name mentioned in the communications of your various contributors. EDWARD R. VYVYAN. Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing— My edition of Hood's 'Poems' is the twelfth JAMES HOOPER. GOLDWYER OR GOLDWIRE FAMILY (7th S. iii. 249).-Possibly the following notes may be of interest to MR. ARTHUR BAYLEY: Christchurch, Hants. M.A. 1685, of Wadham College, "1673, Aug. 6. Henry Goldwyer instituted Vicar of Oxford. Buried Feb. 2, 1688, at Christchurch. See a letter to him from Lord Clarendon ('Warner,' ii., app., No. 28)."- Walcott's Memorials of Christchurch, Twynham,' 1868, p. 81. 'PLEA FOR THE MIDSUMMER FAIRIES' (7th S. iii. 388).—In a very excellent weekly periodicalwhich, however, had but a brief career- -the Illustrated Family Journal (London, J. Clayton, 1845), the two numbers, 20 and 21, for July 19 and 26, are partly devoted to Illustrations of the Genius of the late Thomas Hood.' A foot-note says," From the Illuminated Magazine for July." I have the two volumes of Douglas Jerrold's Illuminated Magazine for 1845; but I cannot find in them any article on Thomas Hood. In the second paper in the Illustrated Family Journal there is a critique on "Hood's principal poetic production, in point of design and elaboration"-his Plea of [not "for"] the Midsummer Fairies.' Consider-iii. 134, note 3. able extracts are given from the poem, together with three graceful and fanciful illustrations by J. Franklin. CUTHBERT BEDE. 'The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, Hero and Leander, Lycus the Centaur, and other Poems,' was published by the firm of Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green in 1827. It was dedicated to Charles Lamb, and contained, besides the three pieces mentioned in the title, 'The Two Peacocks "1699. William Goldwyer, Esq., admitted Free Burgess Records of the Borough of New Lymington' (privately of the Borough of Lymington, Hants."-St. Barbe's printed, circ. 1858). "1726. William Goldwyer, Esq., of Christchurch, admitted to same."-Ibid. M.A. July 5."-Woodward and Wilks's 'Hampshire,' "1726. Henry Goldwyer, of Exeter College, Oxford, Christchurch given by the Rev. M. E. C. Walcott. The last prior was John Draper, who, upon the surrender of the priory, Nov. 28, 1539, was allowed to retain Somerford Grange for life. It was the property of the priory at least as early as 1291; it must, therefore, have been subsequent to Draper's death that it came into the possession of the Goldwyer family. I do not find the name in the list of priors of I have not access to the index to, or a complete copy of, Woodward and Wilks, nor to Warner's 'Hampshire Collections,' both of which might probably yield additional information, J. S. ATTWOOD. Exeter. Bede records an eclipse of the sun fourteen days before the kalends of March, 538, from early morning till 9 A.M. This is only one day out; it should be fifteen instead of fourteen, i. e., February 15, and the eclipse began at 8.30. Under 540 he correctly records the eclipse of June 20, adding, "the stars showed themselves full nigh half an hour after nine in the forenoon" (trans. in 'Mon. Hist. Brit.'). The writer of the Annales Northanhum brenses,' appended to Bede (Mon. Hist. Brit., p. 288), was particular in recording eclipses. In 756 (it should be 751) fifth (should be fifteenth) year of King Eadbert, there were two eclipses within the a daughter William month of January, of the sun on the 9th and the moon on the 24th. No total eclipse of the sun had been witnessed in London since March 20, Bristol. 1139/40, until the last century. The only references to this family I am acquainted with are the following:-1. Hutchins's History of Dorset,' vol. iii. p. 80 (second edition), in a pedigree of Hussey: George Goldwyre, of Somerford Grange, Hants. Bower, Philadelphia Fry-William Bower, Clerk, Rector of 2. Burke's History of the Commoners,' vol. i. p. 673-Elizabeth Gold wyre married Thomas Calverley, of the Broad, Sussex, on June 1, 1829. She was the widow of Charles Blagrave, Esq., of Berkeley Square, and sole heiress of James Hill, of Prospect Hill, Berks. There are several histories of Hampshire that Mr. BAYLEY might consult. I shall esteem it a favour if MR. ARTHUR BAYLEY will let me have any particulars of dates of deaths, marriages, baptisms he may come across in relation to the Fry family, as I am engaged on a pedigree of that family. E. A. FRY. Yarty, King's Norton, near Birmingham. JACOB THE APOSTLE (7th S. iii. 248, 375, 503). -It is worthy of notice that the apostle generally known by the English form James, akin to the Italian Giacomo, is commemorated under the form Jacob in one of the old parish churches of Bristol, which is always known as St. Philip and Jacob's. E. VENABLES. EARTHQUAKES, ECLIPSES, AND COMETS (7th S. iii. 409, 484).—In 'L'Art de Vérifier les Dates des Faits Historiques' (vol. i.) will be found a useful, trustworthy, calculated chronology of eclipses, both B.C. and A.D., down to the year 2000, of the moon as well as of the sun, and giving, besides the day and hour of commencement, the course of the shadow on the earth. This work, in many volumes, a monument of the critical industry of the Benedictines, may be found on the shelves in the Reading Room of the British Museum. This list is very useful to the historian for testing and correcting dates in the chronicles. The eclipse of the sun found to have occurred August 31, 1030, fixes the exact date of the battle of Stiklestad, in Norway, wherein St. Olaf fell. A list of recorded comets and historical notices of some eclipses may be found in Chambers's 'DeA list of scriptive Astronomy' and other books. the November or St. Leonards meteors recorded is given in an article in the Edinburgh_Review, A. S. ELLIS. January, 1867. Westminster. A very complete catalogue of the earthquakes (with the places of their occurrence) of which records could be found, from the earliest times to the year 1842, was published by Mallet in the Reports of the British Association for the years 1852, 1853, and 1854. In the third edition of Mr. Chambers's 'Handbook of Descriptive Astronomy' is given a catalogue of comets observed up to the year 1874. A very interesting little work, which will probably answer your correspondent's purpose concerning eclipses, was published by the Rev. S. J. Johnson in 1874 under the title Eclipses, Past and Future' (James Parker & Co.). Blackheath. W. T. LYNN. Since the date of my former communication I have received the June part of the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, from which I send the following extract: Library) gives eclipses in this country for a period of "The accompanying MS. volume (placed in the about 2,000 years, from A.D. 538 to A.D. 2500, being recorded ones of both luminaries from the date of the first in 538 to 1200; all solar eclipses visible here from A.D. 1200 to A.D. 2200, omitting a very few in which scarcely a tenth of the sun's diameter is obscured, including lunar ones for a certain period and large solar eclipses from A.D. 2200 to A.D. 2500." 71, Brecknock Road. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. supposing him to have been born about 1355. His will, dated at Norwich, was proved at Lambeth in 1427. (Genealogist, vi. 24.) J. H. WYLIE. Rochdale. BROUGHAM (7th S. iii. 407, 462).—We have an evidence of the popular pronunciation of Lord Brougham's name in the last lines of a skit upon his elevation to the Lord-Chancellorship and its accompanying peerage. His lordship is compared to a crossing-sweeper, who When he has done all his dirty work, PRECEDENCE IN CHURCH (7th S. ii. 361, 495; iii. 74, 157, 394, 500).—It is certainly most amusing to read the searching paper of questions purporting to have been set and sent to the householders of St. Mary's, Beverley, which is printed at the last reference. In this sense it is worthy of preservation in the book of the chronicles of 'N. & Q.,' but in an historical point of view it is utterly valueless. Unfortunately it is a thorough hoax; and no one who knows the Archbishop of York could ever have supposed that it was either drawn up by him or with his sanction. His Grace at once repudiated the authorship, and must have done so with a smile at human credulity. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge. I was recently informed on good authority that the circular alluded to by MR. WALFORD, and a copy of which has been furnished by J. F. F., was issued by the parties opposed to the views of the Archbishop of York; and I think this fact should be mentioned. In fact the circular was very much in the nature of a practical joke against the archbishop. HENRY DRAKE. HUGUENOT FAMILIES (7th S. iii. 89, 176, 257, 297, 334, 417).—I have a small pamphlet with the following title-page :-"An | Account of the Establishment | For Relieving | Poor Proselytes with an Abstract | of the Proceedings of the Commisioners For that Purpose | from the 25th of December, 1720, to London | Printed by T. the 25th of December, 1721 The fifth Edition Wood in Little Britain 1722." It includes a list of the Commissioners, and also a list "of all the persons who have been relieved from 30 April 1717 to 25 Dec 1721." The recipients were principally Huguenots, with a few Irish, amongst these "Viscountess Gormanston." If of any value to your inquirers under the above head, I shall be happy to place it at their disposal. H. HOUSTON BALL. Bedford Park, Chiswick. OWNER OF COAT OF ARMS WANTED (7th S. iii. 328, 417).—Your correspondents have rightly · assigned this coat to Richard Foxe, Bishop of Winchester, and the same may be seen borne by Corpus Christi College, Oxford, founded by him in 1516. This is figured in a small engraving in the Oxford University Calendar of 1857. Lewis's Topographical Dictionary,' published in 1848, gives, s. v. "Oxford," the arms of this college figured rather differently, viz., "Tierce in pale, in centre arms of the see of Winchester ensigned by a mitre, having on the dexter side the coat of Foxe, and on the sinister that of Hugh Oldham, Bishop of Exeter," a considerable benefactor to the college. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge. ORPEN (7th S. iii. 389).-Can this be the same as Orpin, a herb, according to Bailey, ed. 1736? M.A.Oxon. YAM (7th S. iii. 189).-Inversion of May? R. S. CHARNOCK. ANTIGUGLER (7th S. iii. 328, 431).-I hope the Editor will afford me space to say that I have a silver funnel which seems to answer much to that described by MR. BUCKLEY as in use in his time at Brasenose. Mine has a strainer, movable at pleasure, and the end of the funnel is curved so as to touch the side of the decanter. I have often used it for decanting port, and found it to emit no sound and to cause no froth. The best way to pour out stout is to put the mouth of the bottle to the side of the glass, when no froth, or a very little, is produced. EDMUND TEW, M.A. JORDELOO (7th S. iii. 26, 78, 117).—I fear that I have misled MR. WARREN in alluding to a note in Waverley.' The expression occurs in the text of that work, chap. xxvii.:— "He was playing at quoits the other day in the court; a gentleman, a decent-looking person enough, came past, and as a quoit hit his shin, he lifted his cane: But my the Trip to the Jubilee,' and had not a scream of Gardez young bravo whips out his pistol, like Beau Clincher in eau, from an upper window, set all parties ascampering for fear of the inevitable consequences, the poor gentleman would have lost his life by the hands of that little cockatrice." H. GIBSON. "ANOTHER GUESS (7th S. iii. 451).-Goldsmith uses this expression either in the Vicar' or the Essays,' but I have not the reference. Another classical authority is Mr. Trollope, who writes: "Now Adela Gauntlet is no more than my donna prima. My donna primissima will be another guess sort of lady altogether" ("The Bertrams,' chap. iv.). Hastings. EDWARD H. MARSHALL, M.A. This expression is duly given in Dr. Murray's 'New English Dictionary, and is explained as a corrupt form of "another gates." F. C. BIRKBECK TERRY. SITWELL STOTEVILLE (7th S. iii. 27, 154, 314, 397, 505).-It would be wasting time to discuss the question, if it can be called a question, whether "the base of modern German has any connexion with that of ancient Gothic." When MR. PYM YEATMAN has acquired the rudiments of the science in which he undertakes to instruct one of its greatest masters, he will discover that PROF. SKEAT is, as usual, altogether in the right. This himself, has, in his hurry, misquoted my note and "rash young man," as he very properly describes has failed to understand PROF. SKEAT'S masterly little article. ISAAC TAYLOR. "in a MR. YEATMAN appears to have forgotten that at the first reference I asked him to produce evidence of a statement, conspicuously made by him in 'The Feudal History of the County of Derby,' that Sitwell and Stoteville are forms of the same name. This he declined to do, on the ground that he would thereby "spoil one of the best chapters forthcoming book. Subsequently, however, and especially at the last reference, he has freely and fully expressed his opinion as to the derivation of the word Stoteville, which is not at all the point in question, and he thanks DR. CHARNOCK and CANON TAYLOR for answering his " the derivation of this name." The query was not MR. YEATMAN'S, but mine; and that query might "Vagrant reed," or cane, means a walking-stick, have been answered with less trouble and in less See 'N. & Q.,' 6th S. xii. 298, second column. R. H. BUSK. WORDSWORTH: "VAGRANT REED" (7th S. iii. 449). Surely this means the wanderer's walkingstick, a valuable support and "solace"; but he must also sit down now and then, or he will not get over his ground. C. B. M. which is of little use to those who are tired. JOHN HALLIDAY. NOCTURNAL NOISES (7th S. ii. 367; iii. 132).The following noises are heard at night in the region of C. S. Antonio, Buenos Aires : Tero real (Himantopus brasiliensis) These fly in packs at night, and utter a cry somewhat like that of a pack of small hounds. There is a similar bird in Europe, whose cry is supposed to have given rise to the traditions of infernal packs hunting their ghostly quarry in the still small hours. Viuda loca (Aramus scolopaceus), of the ibis tribe. Its melancholy wail ascends all night from the dismal swamps. Prairie owl (Pholeoptyna cunicularia).-Has a special cry at night, bearing a striking resemblance to the faintly heard hail of some shepherd. Biscacha (Lagostomus trichodactylus).-A prairie dog, indigenous; has a bark. Vide, for further particulars on above, Ibis, 4th S., Nos. 12, 13, and 14, and Proceedings of the Nat. Hist. Society of Glasgow, January 9, 1877. Added to these I might mention the tree frog, the common silver fox, and the occasional restless twittering of the tree sparrow. Lastly, the inane baying of the native domestic dog, an animal always thin, always bellicose, of no earthly use, and whose name is legion. H. GIBSON. Edinburgh. query as to space than it has taken to discuss matters which are irrelevant to the point at issue. A county history should be a book in which one would expect to meet with some degree of accuracy; and if, for example, the author of such a book were to make the statement that Shakespeare and Breakespeare are variants of the same name, he would naturally be called upon to produce evidence in support of such an opinion. MR. YEATMAN is in the position of a party in an action to whom a written interrogatory has been exhibited, which he is bound to answer on pain of having his case struck out. If he fails to answer, the judgment of your readers must be that the statement was a guess, unsupported by any evidence, documentary or philological. I hope, therefore, that he will, for his own satisfaction, if not for the satisfaction of those who desire to know the truth of things, briefly indicate the grounds on which the statement is made. S. O. ADDY. Sheffield. |