BLOOMSBURY.-There has recently been some correspondence in The Times relative to the derivation of this place-name. Mr. E. Williams attributed the origin to William de Blémont, brother of Gervase of Cornhill, who flourished about the year 1200; and incidentally remarked that Blémont was probably a French equivalent of Cornhill. However, another writer, Mr. S. O. Addy, showed that in that case the resulting name would have been Williamsbury, and not Bloomsbury; and went on to point out that at Rotherham a prehistoric earth-work exists known as Blue Man's Bower, which tradition says gets its name from a blue, i.e., black, or coloured man of that locality. This fact was taken fully to corroborate Canon McClure's explanation of the first element in Bleomansbury the earliest Saxon form of the word-as denoting the habitation in early times of a man of negroid characteristics. It may be added that the prototype of Bluebeard of the nursery tale must be regarded as a person of Asiatic, or Moorish, N. W. HILL. physique, an Othello in fact. CHURCH OF ST. KATHERINE COLEMAN.While the loss of any city church is to be regretted the impending demolition of this ugly building will probably pass unnoticed. Situated in Church Row, Fenchurch Street, it dates only from 1740, when it replaced from the designs of "Home" a pre-Reformation church that had escaped the Great Fire. The churchyard has been a meagre but pleasant oasis of trees and grass in a wilderness of brick and stone. The adjoining railway station, exceptionally unsightly, enhanced the charm of this tiny patch, and comparing the area of this churchyard with that shown in the eighteenth-century maps it is evident that it had been reduced considerably in all directions. I offer no information as to the history and associations of the church; it is apparently rather barren of memories compared with its neighbours, St. Olave, Hart Street, and St. -Dependence GEORGE SHERWOOD, Hon. Treas. The Society of Genealogists of London. 5 Bloomsbury Square, W.C.1. WAR AND PAPER-SUPPLY. on imported supplies of paper for book-printing during peace, and consequent shortage in war-time, appears to be no latter-day problem to face and fight. Dr. Edmund Gibson, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury, writing from Lambeth to Ralph Thoresby, historian of Leeds, on June 14, 1709 remarks: "While the treaty of peace was depending I could letter; because of late very little paper has been not tell what to say to the contents of your last imported upon a prospect of peace; and all printing, except of pamphlets, is at a stand for the present. The thoughts of peace being now over. the question is, whether you will think fit to put your work to press, under the present inconvenience of a scarcity and dearness of paper, or will wait till it pleases God to open a way to peace, and with that a trade to France......As to the charge, when I know the number of sheets and plates, I can get it exactly calculated for you; but at present the resolve to wait for paper from Frauce, which will printer need not be put to that trouble, if you very much lower the charge, and be an encouragement to undertake it at your own expense." The coarser-fibred paper suitable for pamphlet-printing, like the looser-textured paper used in modern newspaper-printing, appears to have been a less restricted market. J. PAUL DE CASTRO. 1 Essex Court, Temple. FATHER OF THE CHAPEL.-A curious link that connects the modern Press with the Church is preserved in this quaint appellation. It appears that it originated in the mediæval monastery, where it was customary for all the transcribed, illustrated, and printed matter to be submitted for revision or correction to the Father Superior of the institution. A letter from Mr. A. B. Maitland, Father of The Times Chapel in that paper's issue of Dec. 1 last draws attention to the signification of the title in connection with a suit recently tried before Mr. Justice Darling, who remarked that the phrase was entirely new to him. See also 'Ency. Brit.' vol. v. p. 850, note to chapel. N. W. HILL. D.D. CANTAB.-The late Bishop Jones, Suffragan of Lewes, was the first Divine to be created a Doctor of Divinity at Cambridge, without making the old statutory declaration that he held and rejected what the Church of England holds and rejects. M.A. Queries. We must request correspondents desiring information on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct. LOUIS NAPOLEON IN LANCASHIRE.-It was stated in The Times, May 6, 1919, that certain relics of the exile of Napoleon III. had been sold by auction. "The Emperor, after the Franco-Prussian War, found sanctuary for a considerable period in Lan cashire, as the guest of Lord Gerard. Some old French furniture of the Louis XIV. and XV; periods has ever since been preserved by the Gerard family in the suite of rooms the Emperor occupied. Garswood Hall, the Lancashire seat of Lord and Lady Gerard, where this furniture of Napoleon III Was stored, has been used as a military hospital during the war, and for the purposes of re-arrangement, after military occupation, Lord Gerard decided to sell the surplus appointments at the Hall. Most of the furniture used by the Emperor bad by the lapse of time and storage, become dilapidated." It is surprising to read that Napoleon III. found sanctuary for a considerable period in Lancashire" after the Franco-Prussian I have lived all my life in South Lancashire and never knew of this before! Did the Emperor ever set foot in Lancashire after 1870? I should like to know. war. As to the date of Louis Napoleon's visit to Garswood Hall, it was before the period of the Second Empire, not after. In a pamphlet on the Gerard Family, published at St. Helens in 1898, the author (Mr. J. Brockbank) says :— almost religous care in the Napoleon room, i.e. the Sir John Gerard, Bt., Louis Napoleon's host, was born in 1804 and died in 1854. He was succeeded by his brother Sir Robert Gerard, who was created Baron Gerard of Bryn in 1876. There was thus no "Lord Gerard" till three years after the death of Napoleon III. Although Mr. Brockbank, in the passage just cited, gives the year of the visit, he mentions no month, or even season. I have recently looked through the file of The Liverpool Mercury for 1847, but failed to find any reference to the Prince's visit to Garswood Hall. News from St. Helens is frequently given and a dispute between Sir John Gerard and his servants is recorded. Can any of your readers supply the correct date? F. H. CHEETHAM. ST. STEPHEN AND HEROD. (See 12 S. v. 315). It is commonly said of Ireland that there are "no snakes there"! Is it a fact that there is no furze either ? I ask because, in the English boy's version of the lines sung on St. Stephen's day, the second line runs "On St. Stephen's day he was caught in the furze," and the following word in a bracket (lurch) seems here a very far-fetched explanation of the word in the version given by MR. MACSWEENEY. W. S. B. H. "furs ST. MALO.-Up to the end of the eighteenth century the Etats de Bretagne claimed the right of giving to a child of any seigneur whom they presented for baptism the name of Malo without prefix. The second son of the Marquis de Lameth was one of the last so presented. It does not appear at what date the custom originated, but probably as far back as the eleventh century. It would in any case appear that for many generations such was the name of the town which had eclipsed Aleth (now known as St. Servan) and Dinard, which was little more than a fishing village. When Malo was changed to St. Malo is a matter of conjecture. Hagiographs and "It was in 1847 that the memorable visit of legend-writers have made assumptions, but Napoleon to Garswood took place. A relic of this produced no evidence from contemporary visit is still preserved at Garswood Hall with chroniclers. They seem to regard St. Malo, St. Maclou, and St. Machutus (the last is preserved in the English Prayer Book Calendar) as one and the same person, and concur in identifying him (or them) with a Welsh priest who in the sixth century escaped from his own country to avoid being made a bishop. He found safety at Aleth, and apparently overcame his scruples, and subsequently took the lead in national affairs and when elected bishop, claimed temporal as well as spiritual jurisdiction. L. G. R. EARLIEST CLERICAL DIRECTORY.-Can any one tell me the title and date of the first Clerical Directory or General Clergy List. I. F. MICHAEL DRUM took the degree of B.A. at Cambridge in 1524/5, and subsequently joined Cardinal Wolsey's College at Oxford, where he became B.A. in 1527, M.A. in 1530/1, and B.D. in 1540, in which year he suffered imprisonment at Oxford as a Lutheran. He was one of the Six Preachers in Canterbury Cathedral in 1541 and 1543, and is said to have died a Catholic. (Strype, Mem.' i. 1, 569; Cranmer,' iv. 153, 154, 158, 159; 'Parker i. 10; also Wood, Fasti' (ed. Bliss), i. 72, 84, 85, 112; Cooper, Ath. Cantab.,' i. 83; Foster, Al. Ox.,' i. 426.) Is anything further known about him? JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. 6 THE CHESS-BOARD OF LIFE.'-Who was "Quis," author of this humorous and entertaining little book, 8vo, 159 pp., bound blue cloth boards, and published by James Blackwood, Paternoster Row, in 1858 ? "To H. C. K. [he says] these pages are inscribed as a memorial of the friendship and regard entertained for him by the author." Quis" gives the initials "D.E." at the foot of his preface; but who was he? I have tried most, if not all, of the usual indexes and catalogues, but can get no information of this amusing "Quis." JAMES C. RICHARDSON. 2 Aliwal Road, S.W.11. THE SIXTH FOOT (WARWICKSHIRE REGIMENT). Where was this regiment serving under Harrison in the early summer of 1710? Was it one which marched into Douai on the surrender of that town to the Allies or not? Many military books have been searched in vain for a definite answer to this simple question. The Sixth was reorganised in 1710 after its hard times in Spain. Douai and Foot Scarpe surrendered June 27 of that year to Marlborough and Prince Eugene. Lediard, in his Life of the former, says only that one Saxon and five Dutch battalions entered the town as soon as the French were gone that is, on June 29. The next day the two Commanders-in-chief and the Deputies of the States were received in Douai, and were welcomed by the University. Is it ascertainable whether an English regiment escorted them? and whether that regiment was the Sixth Foot? L. I. GUINEY.. SILVER PUNCH LADLE. I have in my possession a silver punch ladle. It unquestionably belonged to my maternal great grandfather, Capt. Gibson, who commanded the Fox, a small frigate or gun boat which was lost in Nelson's attack on Santa Cruz. The ladle which bears no marks is inscribed Success to the Tartar," and has set in the bottom of it a Spanish dollar of the year 1773. Family tradition alleges that the dollar formed part of a treasure which Capt. Gibson recovered for the British Government by running a blockade. But it was rarely in those days that a British ship ran a blockade, the boot was usually on the other foot. Tradition of this sort usually has somefoundation in fact, but is apt to be incorrect as to details. If any naval historian among your readers knows anything of the incident I should be greatly obliged. CHARLES R. HILES.. 15 John Street, Bedford Row, W.C. Her son METHAM.-Who were the parents of Anne Metham, b. 1716, d. Aug. 6, 1751, bur. at Kneveton, co. Notts, wife of John Story of East Stoke, co. Notts, High Sheriff of that county, who d. Oct. 19, 1768. Philip, bapt. at East Stoke, Mar. 25, 1747, was M.A. (1773) of Jesus College, Camb., and Rector of Walton on the Wolds, co.. Leics, from 1776. He d. May 25 and was bur. June 1, 1819, at Lockington, co. Leics, having m. Oct. 6, 1778, Martha, dau. of the Rev. Richard Stevens (M.A. 1749, St. John's College, Camb), Rector of Bottesford, co. Leics, 1752-71. H. PIRIE-GORDON. R-s CONINGSBY OF SALOP. The Coningsbys are a well-known family in. Hereford, but the above gentleman writes himself as of " Salopius." The Christian name begins with an R and ends with an "s," and the three intermediate letters look like “ion," buu they do not seem to fit any name I can giess at. The signature is on the title-page of an old black-letter edition " 66 9966 of Chaucer, printed by Bonham-it is the MARIA A. HOYER. 'THE TIMES': BURLESQUE COPY.-Can any of your readers give any account of a burlesque copy of The Times that was probably issued in the year 1862. It is a huge double sheet, and the folio page measures 40 inches by 29 inches. The type is an exact but enlarged copy of the ordinary issue of The Times. Every feature of news is represented and burlesqued. In the line at the head of the sheet the number, date and price of the issue are given as follows: "No. 55,567. London. Everyday. 1962. Price 1s." The printer's paragraph reads as follows: Reference Library. base of the chest, "A." on the dexter corner and " G." on the sinister corner. There was also an Elizabeth Geary and a Susannah Geary. The latter is a witness to the will (dated 1775) of Susannah Crouch (née Steevens), wife of John Crouch, another son of the above John. CHARLES HALL CROUCH. 204, Hermon Hill, South Woodford. ROBERT JENNER, 1671-1723.--Robert Jenner, Magdalen, 1678, B.A., 1691, M.A., 1694, son of Rev. Robert Jenner, who held living of Churchlench, Worcestershire, 16631670, and in 1665 was presented to rectory of Lydiard Millicent, Wilts, by William Jenner of Marston. He died 1723, and his son Robert was curate-in-charge. I wish to ascertain what preferment the latter obtained. R. J. FYNMORE. Sandgate. THE PINNER OF WAKEFIELD, AND BATTELL BRIDGE FIELD.-Josiah Southam, citizen and distiller of London, died in 1737, and was buried at Warwick. His widow, Sarah Southam (who died in 1752), lived in the "Parish of St. Andrew, Holborne." In November, 1741, she sold to John Smart, of the same parish, distiller, for the sum of 640l., "all that Messuage or Tenement called or known by the name or sign of the Pinner of Wakefield as the same is now divided into two houses-also that Close of pasture ground commonly called or known by the name of Battell Bridge feild containing by Estimation nine acres be the same more or less," &c., in late occupation of John Gifford, victualler. There were also four cottages on the west side of said messuage, in tenure or occupation of Jarvis Eagleston-stables, orchards, gardens, &c. Was the Pinner of Wakefield an inn? What was the origin of this name and that of Battell Bridge field, and where were the above situated ? HERBERT SOUTHAM. William Brown Street, Liverpool. GEARY OR GEERY FAMILY OF HASTINGS, UNANNOTATED MARRIAGES AT WESTSUSSEX. Any information regarding this MINSTER. -The extant registers of Westfamily would be much appreciated by the minster Abbey record only 399 marriages under-signed. A direct ancestor, John between 1655 (their commencement) and Crouch of Hastings married in 1696 Sarah 1875. Probably the finest genealogical Geary of the same place. I am anxious to work ever published, the late Col. Chester's know her parentage. She had a brother copy of these registers (Harleian Society, John Geary, who was a freeman of Hastings, vol. x.), annotates 370 of these 399 marriage and voted in 1721. Nathaniel, son of above entries. The remaining 29 entries appear John Crouch, married Ann Geary. How to have bailed him. Undoubtedly the was she related to Sarah Geary? There study of genealogy has made great progress still remains in the family a linen chest since 1875, when Col. Chester's work which belonged to Ann Geary and her appeared. Is it still impossible to cominitials are carved on the front plinth at the plete it? UDNY.-John Udny of Cultercullen and Newtyle, merchant and bailie of Kintore, M.P. for that burgh, 1681-2 and 1685-6, was third son of John Udny of that ilk, formerly of Belhelvie, by Isobel, dau. of Thomas Fraser, 2nd Laird of Strichen (October, 1612March, 1645) and Christian, dau. of William Forbes, 8th Laird of Tolquhoun (1595-1602). John Udny had two daughters, Anne, married to John Sandilands of Countesswells, and Jean, married in 1714 to Charles Gordon of Buthlaw (April, 1712-December, 1751), who bought half of Newtyle from his wife's nephew John Sandilands. John Udny's wife was living when the Poll Book for Aberdeenshire was compiled 1695. Who was she? H. PIRIE-GORDON. 20 Warwick Gardens, Kensington W.14. EDMUND DOZELL.-In 1791 or thereabouts Edmund Dozell of London married Catherine Stevens Smith, of West Riding, Yorkshire, and Great Ormond Street, London. It is not known whether the marriage took place in Oxford or London. Should any of your readers come across such an entry in any register I should be glad to hear of it, or any items relating to the family of Dozell? FRANCES E. BAKER. 91 Brown Street, Salisbury. THE REV. JOHN STONES, M.A., vicar of Stoak and rector of Coddington (both in Cheshire) is generally spoken of as an antiquary. There is in the church safe at Coddington a history of that parish in his handwriting. William Aldersey of Picton and Chester, merchant and alderman, sheriff of Chester, 1584, and mayor in 1595 and 1614, who died 1616, is described in Bridgeman's Family of Aldersey' as "a celebrated Chester antiquary," and Hugh Aldersey of Aldersey discovered some years ago a manuscript giving some account of the mayors of Chester written by the said William Aldersey. But did either of these antiquaries publish any books or papers on Chester antiquities? W. F. JOHN TIMBRELL. Coddington Rectory, Chester. ROBERT TROTMAN: EPITAPH.-Thirtyfive years ago I copied from a tombstone in the churchyard of Kinson, Dorset, the following curious epitaph : To the Memory of Robert Trotman, Late of Rond in the County of Wilts. who was barbaronsly murdered on the shore near Poole, the 25th March, 1765. A little Tea, one leaf I did not steal, For guiltless bloodshed I to God appeal, Put Tea in one scale, human blood in tother, And think what tis to slay thy harmless brother. I wonder whether any reader of N. & Q.' knows anything of the facts of Robert Trotman's death. ERNEST PAGE. 1 King's Bench Walk, Temple, E.C.4. a JACOBITE MEMORIAL RING.-I have gold ring, which, according to a family tradition, was sent to John Campbell of Cawdor and was given by him to his son, my great-grandfather John Hooke Campbell (afterwards John Campbell-Hooke), Lyon King-of-Arms, 1754-95. The ring has an oval bezel, in which under a glass appears on a black ground a white rose with green leaves in enamel. Round the hoop of the ring runs the inscription "Jacobus III., Br. Fr. Hiber. Rex: Exul: ob. 30 Dec., 1765: ae. 77." whether other rings of this description exist, Can any of your readers inform me and, if so, what was their origin? S. F. HULTON. |