GENERAL STONEWALL JACKSON (12 S. vi. 11). The maiden name of the General's mother was Julia Neale, and she was the daughter of a merchant who resided at Parkersburgh in Wood County on the Ohio. After the death of her husband, Jonathan Jackson, she married in 1830 a widower named Woodson, but she was in such reduced -circumstances that her children were brought up by her first husband's relatives. She died of consumption on Dec. 4, 1831. WILLOUGHBY MAYCOCK. [CAPT. FIREBRACE also thanked for reply.] CANTRELL FAMILY (12 S. v. 291, 332).— It is hardly correct to say that there is a monument in St. Peter's Church, Derby, in memory of the Rev. Thomas Cantrell. There once was such a monument, the inscription on which is given by Glover in his 'History of Derby' (p. 518) — Reliquiæ Thomæ Cantrelli: A. M. Scholaichæ Derbiensis. Reader here lies the dust, deny't who can, Of a learned, faithful, and well-natur'd man." The stone bearing this inscription was originally placed on the floor at the west end of the "middle" aisle of St. Peter's. But the treading of many feet and various restorations of the church have worn it away or caused it to be broken up, and it has been non-existent for half a century or more. The following is extracted from the Register of Burials at St. Peter's : "1697/8. Sepult. Thomas Cantrill Scholar: che Darb. 23tis die mensis Mart." Tachella in The Derby School Register gives the following Cantrells (in addition to the above) : "Henry Cantrell, b. 1684-5. Son of the abovementioned Rev. Thomas Cantrell, educated at Derby School 169(?)-1701, and at Emm. Coll. Camb. B.A. 1704, M.A. 1710, incorp. Oxford 1756, Vicar of S. Alkmunds, Derby, 1712-1773. Prominent controversialist. Author of 'Invalidity of Lay Baptism,' 1714, 'Dissenting Teachers. 1714, The Royal Martyr,' 1716, &c. (died 1773). Cantrell, Henry, b. 1711. Son of Rev. Henry, Vicar of St. Alkmund's. Died young. Monu ment in St. Alkmund's. Cantrell, William, b. 1715. Also son of Rev. Henry, Vicar of St. Alkmund's. Educated at Derby School 1725-30 and afterwards at Repton and St. John's, Camb., B.A. 1738. Rector of St. Michael's, Stamford, Lines., and of Normanton, co. Rutland. Monument in St. Alkmund's (died Jan. 17, 1787).J Cantrell, Joseph Craddock, b. 1738. Educated at Derby School and at Brasenose College, Oxford, where he matriculated in 1757. Cantrell, William, circa 1753. Derby." A bookseller in JAS. M. J. FLETCHER. The Close, Salisbury. BURIAL AT SEA: FOUR GUNS FIRED FOR AN OFFICER (12 S. v. 38, 106).—With reference to SIR RICHARD TEMPLE'S query and the REV. A. G. KEALY's interesting notes on the subject, I have recently found other instances of the use of an even number of guns for burials at sea and also on land. On Sept. 29, 1702, Daniel Du Bois, merchant at Fort St. Geroge, Madras, was "interr'd with honours, 3 volleys and 12 great guns" (Factory Records, Fort St. George,' vol. xii.). On July 16 Capt. Wyatt was buried at Fort St. George A Company of Soldiers marcht before the Corbs [sic], which when buryed, fired three Volleys, and the Garrison fired six great gunns (Factory Records, Fort St. George,' vol. xiii.). On Jan. 29, 1705, at the burial of Capt. Henry Sinclare, second-lieutenant of the Fort Soldiers in the Garrison of Fort St. George, "twelve Great Gunns discharged "( Madras Public Proceedings,' vol. lxxxiii.). 66 were On Mar. 19, 1709/10, the Log of the Tavistock has the following entry: "Yesterday in the afternoon we buried Mr. Mildmay, hoisting our Coullers half mast and fired 12 Guns, the Wentworth doeing the same 8 Guns (Marine Records,' and fired vol. dxciii.b). The funeral of Capt. John Slade, who died at sea on June 2, 1636, was an exception to the rule of firing an even number of guns. with a salute of fifteen guns He was buried English Factories,' 1634-36, p. 305). and three volleys of small shot (Foster, L. M. ANSTEY. CAPT. B. GRANT (12 S. v. 238, 298).-There was in 1808 a Brodie Grant, captain 95th Foot from Sept. 28, 1804; but he left the army before 1811. MR. PIERPOINT has done good service in supplying the clue that Bernard and Charles Grant both fought in the ranks at Waterloo. Hart's New Annual Army Lists' (evidently the source of Dalton's information) say that: "Quarter-Master Bernard Grant served the campaign of 1815, including the battle of Waterloo and capture of Paris." The (Official Annual) Army List for 1853/4 gives the further detail that he was placed on half-pay of Q.M. 82nd Foot on Feb. 11, 1848, and the same authority for 1857/8 (dated April 1, 1857) places him (under the wrong initial of R. Grant, Q.M. on h.p. 82 F.") under the heading Casualties in the list of Deaths since the Last Publication.' As Hart, 1857 (corrected to Dec. 29, 1856), contains his name, he apparently died early in 1857. As there is come across. 66 water-colours, by that most industrious artist Thomas Hosmer Shepherd, who is not mentioned by Bryan or Redgrave. To judge from the Crace catalogue, wherein hisname occurs probably more than a hundred times, his working life extended from 1814 or earlier to 1859. George Shepherd's name appears first in the designer of a view of Cheapside published by Ackerman as a coloured print in 1792. He was especially busy in 1809-12, and continued certainly until 1830, perhaps longer. His works are common enough. So far, among the collections referred to, I have only found two London subjects by artists named Shepherd which are catalogued with other initials than those of George and Thomas Hosmer; these are L. G. and G. H., both in the Crace collection, and they are perhaps clerical errors. Although at the present day, as in 1853, quarter-masters are usually promoted from N.C.O.s of long service and merit, and granted the honorary rank of lieutenant or captain, this was by no means the case during the eighteenth century, when about half the After sending my original query I met my appointments of adjutants and quarter-good friend Mr. I. D. Crace, F.S.A., now, masters were conferred upon young ensigns alas! no more, who was keenly interested or lieutenants, who frequently held the post in London and whose father made the until promoted to the rank of captain, and collection known by his name. I asked him in some cases eventually became general if he knew whether T. H. Shepherd was son officers. The most notable instances are of George and he replied: My father told those of General Sir Thomas Picton, who me that he was.' This is rather strong fell at Waterloo, who when an ensign in the evidence, but I am still doubtful. Perhaps 12th Foot at Gibraltar was also made some one would be good enough to comquarter-master thereof, May 6, 1776; the municate with me direct. There may be same position, curiously enough, having been descendants or relations who will read this.. held by his uncle, Lieut.-General William PHILIP NORMAN. Picton, who, while a lieutenant in the same regiment, became its quarter-master, Dec. 9, 1752, as appears from the Army List, 1754. W. R. WILLIAMS. GEORGE SHEPHERD (12 S. v. 295, 332; vi. 25). I am obliged for the replies to my query but they do not help me appreciably. I had consulted the British Museum Catalogue of English Drawings and Bryan's Dictionary,' which chiefly repeats Redgrave, but these books are not infallible. Dropping the alternative spelling of the name with an a, which I merely gave because Bryan and Redgrave's " George Shepheard seems to be my George Shepherd," I will now amplify my statement, with slight variations. the result of further research. It has been my lot to examine most of the portfolios in the Crace Collection and I have the catalogue. I have also looked through a considerable part of the vast collection of London views now belonging to Sir Edward Coates, and have the catalogue of the collection formed by the late Mr. J. H. Wilson, which was dispersed by auction in 1898. In all these one finds a large numer of examples, chiefly 45 Evelyn Gardens, S.W.7. CAPT. J. C. Grant Duff (12 S. vi. 13, 47). --Particulars as to Capt. Grant Duff's career are to be found in the 'D.N.B.' and in the Book of the Duffs,' by A. and H. Tayler, vol. ii., p. 495. I shall be glad to make arrangements for furnishing a photograph of a portrait of Capt. Grant Duff. A. C. GRANT DUFF. High Elms Cottage, Orpington, Kent. ROMELAND, ST. ALBANS (12 S. v. 294; vi. 48).-As a confirmation of the derivation of a place-name in towns from rum, not Rome, may I say that the whole space about Blackhall in Oxford, at the opening of the Banbury Road, was once colloquially called Rome? The situation is precisely like that at Waltham, as cited by the Rev. G. H. Johnson, and at other town-ends known to MR. N. W. HILL. The Oxford rum lies beyond what was in mediæval days the northern end of the town, and neighbours St. Giles's Church. It was a most convenient waste land in old days for carters and waggoners, and is still the spot where, every September, St. Giles's Fair unloads its miscellaneous wonders. I cannot, where I am, refer to Wood to see whether he mentions the Oxford Rome; but it will be found (ni fallor) in the late Mr. Herbert Hurst's invaluable Oxford Topography,' published by the Oxford Historical Society. L. I. G. CLERGYMEN AT WATERLOO (12 S. vi. 39).— I suppose the question means: Did eight men who fought at Waterloo take holy orders afterwards? From Mr. Dalton's Waterloo Roll Call' I learn that five men at least did. Colonel Algernon Langton, 61st Foot, former owners, one is struck by the fact that I feel pretty sure that wine of Cypress is Winterton, Doncaster. J. T. F. In answer to MR. E. T. BALDWIN, "Cockagee" was a variety of Devonshire cider. Lieut. Wm. Bellairs, 15th Light Dragoons In Bailey's Magazine, April, 1874, was pub(Hussars), later Vicar of Hunsingore, Yorks. lished a Devonshire story with many allusions Ensign Charles R. K. Dallas, 32nd Regi- to this cider, among which is the following: ment, late curate of Mitcheldever, Whit-Above all, the Cockagee cider, rich in colour, church, Hants. full of body, and so delicious in flavour.' Also: "I've often heard of Cockagee, pɩt never tasted it before." "Cypress was no doubt the Cyprus vintage of which Prof. H. S. Boyd sent a sample as a present to Mrs. Browning and which she acknowledged in her poem 'Wine of Cyprus,' addressed to him and containing much appreciation of the wine, e.g. : Go-let others praise the Chian Ellesmere. BISHOPS OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY (12 S. iv. 330; v. 107, 161, 273; vi. 44).— There was certainly a John, Bishop of Dromore, in the fifteenth century, but there is nothing to indicate that his succession was disputed. According to Gams ("Series Episcoporum," Ecclesiæ Catholicæ,' Ratisbon, 1873, p. 217) he held the see from 1410 to 1418, and died in 1433. He resigned in 1418. Eubel (Hierarchia Catholica Medii Aevi,' Münster, 1898, i. 236) gives the same dates, adding that he was a Benedictine monk of Bury St. Edmund's, was a Bachelor of Theology, and a "noblis," while his de Choules." was "Curlw or Neither work mentions any foreign see with а name resembling "Dromorens "-the W. A. B. C. surname Latin form of Dromore is Dromorensis. HALLOWEEN (12 S. vi. 39).-MR. CHAPMAN will find desirable information in Brand's Antiquities,' vol. i., p. 377; Chambers's Book of Days,' vol. ii., p. 319; Hone's 'Everyday Book,' vol. i., p. 630; vol. ii., p. 704; Spence's Shetland Folk-Lore,' p. 169; Campbell's Superstitions of the Scottish Highlands,' pp. 18, 260; and, I should think, in almost all books treating of North British manners and customs. hope I have copied these figures accurately. I am getting humiliatingly blind. EPIGRAM: last reference. ST. SWITHIN. A LITTLE GARDEN LITTLE JOWETT MADE (12 S. v. 288; vi. 19, 50).In 'Facetia Cantabridgienses,' London, 1836, p. 200, are two English versions of the epigram, both different from that given at the Also a Latin version, beginning: Exiguum hunc hortum fecit Jowettulus iste." One of the English versions had appeared in Blackwood's Magazine, no reference given, authorship not known, "unless it originated with Porson, as was declared to us by a Gentleman, in whose veracity we have great confidence." Winterton, Doncaster. J. T. F. LIEUT.-GENERAL SHARPE (12 S. v. 321).Hoddam Castle is in Cummertrus parish, Dumfries-shire, and is now the residence of Mr. E. J. Brook, whose father, I believe. acquired it from the Sharpe family. Matthew Sharpe was born 1773; cornet 16th (the Queen's) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons Feb. 18, 1791; lieutenant, Feb. 19, 1793; captain 26th (the Duke of York's Own) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons Mar. 25, 1795; major, Feb. 27, 1796; lieutenant colonel, Aug. 5, 1799; colonel, Oct. 25, 1809 ;on half-pay, Dec. 28, 1809; major-general, Jan. 1, 1812; lieutenant-general, May 27, 1825. He served in all the earlier continental' campaigns in Flanders, Holland, &c., up to his appointment as general officer. Under the Reform Bills of 1832 he was the first M.P. (Whig) for Dumfries Burghs, from 1832-41. He died 1845. HUGH S. GLADSTONE. There is no such place as Haddam Castle, Co. Northumberland. Hoddam Castle is intended. This ancient building is beautifully situated on the south bank of the River Annan, 1 mile from Ecclefechan, a village in the parish of Hoddam, Annandale, Dumfriesshire, and in 1826 is described as in excellent conditions, being then the residence of Sharpe, Esq. (see the 18th ed. of Paterson's Road Book,' p. 230). Jas. Finlay's 'Directory of Gentlemen's Seats, Villages, &c., in Scotland' for 1843 gives Hoddam Castle as the residence of General Sharpe, while the 1851 edition has Admiral Sharpe. Hoddam Castle does not occur in the 1862 edition, but in the 1868 edition (edited by N. W. Halliburton) the Castle is given as the residence of Wm. J. Sharpe. Since writing the above I have looked up. 'The Scottish Nation,' by Wm. Anderson, 1863, and in vol. iii., pp. 445-6, find an interesting account of the Sharpes of Hoddam. The full name of Lieut.-General Sharpe is General Matthew Sharpe. His ancestor John Sharpe purchased the estateand castle of Hoddam from the Earl of Southesk in 1690. The granduncle of the General was Matthew Sharpe of Hoddam who fought at Preston on the side of Prince Charles, and died in 1769, aged 76. The General was the eldest son of Charles Kirkpatrick (afterwards Chas. K. Sharpe, on the estate of Hoddam), grandson of Sir Thomas Kirkpatrick of succeeding to Closeburn, the second baronet of his line. General Matthew Sharpe was M.P. for theDumfries Burghs from 1832 to 1841, and was a Whig of extremely liberal politics. His mother was Eleanor,daughter of John Renton of Lamberton (not Lammerton as in Burke's Peerage and Baronetage '), a lady whose charms have been commemorated by Smollett in 'Humphry Clinker.' The father of the General matriculated from the University of Glasgow (see 'The Matriculation Albums,' 1728-1858, by W. Innes Addison, 1913) in 1762, and is there described as filius unicus Gulielmi de Ellies Land in 66 Comitatu de Niddesdale, Armigeri." He became advocate in 1772, was one of the principal Clerks of Session, and died in March, 1813. Besides the General he had, with other issue, Chas. Kirkpatrick Sharpe (1781-1851), the antiquary and wit, for whom see The Scottish Nation' before referred to. Jane Higgins, the wife of the General, was daughter of Godfrey Higgins (ob. 1833) of Skellow Grange, near Doncaster, not Skelton Grange, as given by Hunter (see Burke's Commoners, vol. ii., p. 155, and The Landed Gentry,' 2nd, 3rd, and 4th eds). For further information see the above authorities and Memoir respecting the Family of Kirkpatrick of Closeburn,' 1858. I have a reference to a Sharp pedigree in Stodart's Scottish Arms,' vol. ii., p. 369. CHAS. HALL CROUCH. 204 Hermon Hill, South Woodford. Hoddam Castle (not Haddam), the house of the Sharpe family, of which the late Kirkpatrick Sharp is a well-known member, is not in Northumberland but over the border in Dumfries-shire, not far from Ecclefechan, the birthplace of Thomas Carlyle. R. B-R. PSEUDONYMS (12 S. v. 293, 329).-The author of From Sedan to Saarbruck, 1870,' is Lieut. Henry Knollys, Royal Artillery. He is still living and is now Colonel Sir Henry Knollys, K.Č.V.O. J. H. LESLIE. Gunnersholme, Melbourne Avenue, Sheffield. "FRAY": ARCHAIC MEANING OF THE WORD (12 S. vi. 41).—I have succeeded in tracing another instance, though of later date. 1697, Dryden, 'Eneid,' vii. 737 :— Thus, when a black-brow'd gust begins to rise, White foam at first on the curl'd ocean fries. As in the case of the quotation from Spenser, 'F. Q.,' II. xii. 45, fry has the meaning of 'boil," "seethe," or "foam." The modern equivalent is our word fry, to roast, adopted from F. fri-re; Lat. frigère, to roast, fry. As used by Lamb, then, in his letter to Coleridge, it means foam or spray-the result of the agitation (frying), seething or boiling of the waves. Notes on Books. French Terminologies in the Making. Studies in Conscious Contributions to the Vocabulary. By Harvey J. Swann. (New York: Columbia DR. SWANN here gives us a lively little work University Press, 6s. 6d.) which, despite its conversational style and occasional flourishes of rhetoric, is in truth a careful and useful contribution to the study of the growth research those special vocabularies which have of vocabularies. He has chosen for his field of grown up round novelties in the way of mechanical transport, and novelties in political ideas. He starts with the terminology of the railroad: a group of words which has some considerableadvantages over the others here dealt with, in that it is old enough to have gathered mellowness, and familiar enough to be woven into the very texture of the language. It is curious to realise that the French equivalent for "railway was some time in establishing itself. The attempt to use ornières for "rails" furnishes an interesting example of logic overturning convenience. The word gare illustrates a process which does not often come out so clearly to the light of day that by which a desirable word is tried first in one extension then in another before its new significance is finally bay (golphe) in a waterway in which to moor craft settled. It seems originally to have meant a out of the main channel; and naturally in railway parlance first meant a siding.' Both English and French are poorer than Italian in having no adjective to " railroad and chemin de fer. Dr. Swann notes an attempt to naturalise ferroviario as ferroviaire. 66 : The word-elements auto and aero have supplied material for two good chapters-not, it is plain, without some delving of the author's in out-ofthe-way publications. He seems to find it worth a moment's surprise that Latin should have produced neither auto compounds, nor compounds made with a similar element of its own, and contrasts its poverty with the redundance in this respect of Greek. But the compound word is surely alien to the genius of the Latin language, just as modern tendencies notwithstanding— it remains alien to the French. Dr. Swann is inclined to think it was the word automate which carried the element auto, as it were alive in chrysalis form," over into modern speech. 66 With the element aéro we come to a longer and fuller history. In aérostat it competed with ballon-and the Histoire et pratique de l'aérostation' (being a translation of an English treatise) goes back to 1786. Aéronef was tried in 1864 as Dr. Swann has found it in La Nature of 1908-used the name of an air-machine then being tested, and of a "ballon dirigeable." There can seldom have been a more remarkable instance of helplessness in the matter of naming than the use of plus Brown, in 1875, that we owe aéroplane; but, new lourds que l'air as a substantive. It is to Alphonse though the word is, and its history in print before us, it seems to have gathered to itself a small problem: is plane to be taken as derived from planer and the word thereby to be stamped a hybrid? or is it derived direct from depórλavos, and so a good word? Dr. Swann seems to be following most French authorities in accepting the former explanation. |