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My dear mother, Mr Ellen Wanley, hereunder mentioned, deceased in the Lord 28 June, 1719, in the 88th year of her age.

"I was married to Mr Anna Berenclow (whose Grandmother by the Mother's side is said to have been a Maynwaring of Cheshire) by Mr. William Elstob, in the Church next London Stone, 1 May, 1705.

"Nath. Wanley, Sen', and Ellen, marryed July 24,1655, which Ellen was borne Monday, April 30th, 1632, about 6 o'clock that morning, and was baptized 11 of May following. Dr Samuel Baggs her Godfather, Mr. Ellen Norton (her Grandmother-in-law) and Mr Elizabeth Clarke, Godmothers.

"Humphrey Wanley, son to the above written Humphrey Wanley and Anna, Widdow of Mr Bernard Martin Berenclow, daughter to Thomas Bourchier of Newcastleupon-Tine, Esq. and Dorothy Whitfield, daughter of Whitfield of. Shropshire, Esq. was borne January 9, 1706/7, and died the next day, Being buried in the Church Yard of St Martin's-in-the-Fields, Westmin".

"This day of July, 1709, at three quarters past 11 in the forenoon, my Wife was deliver'd of a dead infant boy. "I had one other son, by my said Wife, who died soon after its Birth, and was also, I think, buried in St Mar

tin's Church Yard.

In The Times' review (January 15) of Sir Alexander Cockburn's work on "Nationality," the critic laments, on the score of economy of pen and ink, the change from an old custom by which the learned judge would have been called "Lord Cockburn." What single authority has he for saying that such a custom ever existed? Certainly it does not appear once all through the State Trials, either in the case of "chiefs or "puisnes." Whether he means that it used to extend to the former only or to all the judges alike, as on the Scotch bench to-day (though there the adoption of the family name is the exception and not the rule), I do not know. I cannot help thinking, however, that the reviewer is substituting "logic falsely so-called" for memory, and assuming that because the word "Lord" stands first in the title the words "Chief Justice" may, in common parlance, be reasonably omitted, in the same way as in conversation (loosely and improperly) one sometimes hears Lord A. B. and Lady C. D. called Lord B. and Lady D. respectively.

If this is his notion, I venture to remind him signifies a title pertaining to the peerage) simply that "Lord" (with the one exception where it implies supremacy over certain others who stand in intimate relationship towards the person so designated. So, beginning with Divinity, Johnson gives instances of its application to all sorts of ranks and classes: to "a ruler" (Milton, Dryden), a master" (Shakspeare), an oppressive tyrant (Hayward), "a husband" (Pope), one at the head of any business" (Tusser). Accordingly, the Mayor of London, as chief of all the mayors of England, is "the Lord Mayor"; the lord of a is the head of his manor, receiving homage from his tenants; the "lord mesne " is the owner of a manor, who, holding under a lord paramount, yet has freehold tenants under him. And, to revert to the judicial bench, while every puisne judge, addressing himself to the bar, refers to his chief as "my Lord," the bar itself properly gives the same style and dignity to all the judges alike as "lords" in relation to it. It would surely be as absurd to speak of the First Lord of the Treasury as "Lord Gladstone," or of a Lord Chancellor, before his patent of peerage is made out,

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"Lord Smith," or the Lord Bishop (overseer) of London as "Lord Jackson," as of the Lord Chief Justice of England (his proper-t -title by the by) as "Lord" this or that. The truth is, in fact, that it is the word "chief" which is superfluous and redundant—a discovery which modern progress has acted upon by dispensing with it in the cases of the judges of the supreme court in Chancery. It is not often that The Times makes such gross blunders. R. C. L.

"Inventories of the Goods and Ornaments in the

Churches of Surrey, in the Reign of King Edward the
Sixth. Reprinted from the Surrey Archeological Col-
F.S.A. London: Wyman & Sons. 1869."
lections. Communicated by John Robert Daniel-Tyssen,

In the course of some introductory remarks, Mr. Tyssen says: :

"Blue books or public reports and commissions being rather voluminous and tedious to wade through, I have

thought it desirable to put my readers in possession of the ing into effect the directions of the Crown relating to the authority under which the Commissioners acted for carryInventories of Church Goods. I have therefore given in full, from the Seventh Report, copies of two of the commissions found upon the Patent Rolls (together with an extract from one of the originals remaining in the Exchequer). These instruments will show the objects and powers of the Commissioners, and thus serve as a guide to the kind of information which is to be expected from the Inventories."

STATUES ON EASTER ISLAND.-The Builder has been lately drawing attention to these remarkable productions, two of which have found their way into the British Museum. From a paper read before the Geographical Society by Mr. J. L. Palmer, R.N., of H.M.'s ship Topaz, it appears that, situate in the Pacific, this island-the inhabitants of which, 900 in number, have a tradition of their immigration from Opara-is 2000 miles distant from the coast of S. America and 1000 from the nearest Polynesian islands to the west. Curiosity is naturally excited as to who sculptured the images now existing in various parts of the island. Mr. Palmer states that the inhabitants are utterly ignorant in the matter, but gives his opinion that they are probably the production of a race long since passed away. In The Builder for Jan. 1 is an excellent view "of part of the island with its growth of statues... 20 ft., 30 ft., and, in at least one case, 50 ft. high, some of them standing on long platforms of Cyclopean masonry.' Interest in the discovery is considerably heightened when we are told that the crowns, formed from the red tufa yielded by the craters, are sometimes 6 ft. high and 5 ft. in diameter, and that they must have been placed on the statues after their erection. H. F. T.

SUTHERLAND PEERAGE CASE, 1771.—Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes, having drawn up the celebrated"Additional case of Elizabeth, claiming the title and dignity of Countess of Sutherland," presented to the House of Lords by her guardians-she being one of them-I found the other day, among other papers, a copy of an interesting letter from him to the equally celebrated Dr. Blair, and thinking that such is worthy of being preserved in the columns of "N. & Q.," I beg to subjoin the same :—

"That tract has become rare through a singular accident, a great number of copies for the use of the Lords of Parliament was transmitted to London by sea, and was lost in the passage. This required a fresh supply from Scotland. Not long ago I saw a copy in a sale catalogue of books, but so high-priced that I had not the courage to come up to the price of a tract of my own.

"Prof. Stewart will observe that having little time allowed me, I began with the fifth chapter, which contains the proof of my propositions, and that fifth chapter was printed before the rest of the tract was written. Should Pr. S. think it worth his labour, I am willing to trust him with my own copy, which contains some marginal notes, but this must be under condition that he transcribe them and communicate them to no one else.

"I have incidentally met with many illustrations of my hypothesis, serving to confirm it, and I have never met with anything to confute it, yet I am apt to believe that on the whole I have gained few proselytes. The Court which gave judgment in favour of the Countess of Sutherland went upon little collateral circumstances, I ever am, with great esteem, "Dr Sir,

seal he would at once have learned the history of it, and so avoided the mistake he has fallen into.

A writer in one of the insular papers has noticed this; but, as the correction contained therein may not meet the eye of English numismatists, it is worthy of a note that collectors may not be misled by the description in Dr. Clay's work. WILLIAM HARRISON.

Rock Mount, Isle of Man. "OTIUM CUM DIGNITATE." -I do not know whether any one has inquired for the origin of this hackneyed expression, but I confess that it is only lately that I have been able to discover the source from which it is taken; and as some of your readers may be equally ignorant as I was, I give the sentence from Cicero (Pro P. Sext. c. 45) where it is found: "Id quod est præstantissimum, maximeque optabile omnibus sanis et bonis et beatis, cum dignitate otium "; and if the passage is referred to, it will be seen that Cicero dwells on the idea at some length. The only English writer whom I recollect to have embodied the idea is Goldsmith in his Deserted Village (1. 99), but possibly others may be shown to have done so :

"How blest is he, who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease!"

CRAUFURD TAIT RAMAGE.

THE GUILLOTINE.-It ought, I think, to be noted, that the chapbook account of George a Greene, in the number of " N. & Q." for Jan. 15, 1870, p. 57, contains a singular anticipation of the guillotine. A. J. M.

6. MS. Ee. 4. 31 in Univ. Libr. Cambridge. 7. MS. R. 4. 26, Trin. Coll. Libr. Cambridge.

8. MS. Digby, 205, Bodleian Libr. Oxford.

9. MS. 2014, Pepysian Libr. Magd. Coll. Cambridge. 10. MS. S. 3. 41, Hunterian Museum, Glasgow.

11. MS. in the Heralds' College.

12. MS. 259 in Lord Mostyn's Library.

to Robert of Gloucester, p. x.) In a letter from John Anstis to Hearne (Rawlinson MSS. 19, 34), dated Nov. 24, 1715, another MS. is mentioned as being in the Inner Temple Library, but I am indebted to the kindness of Mr. Martin, the librarian, for the information that this is a mistake. There are, however, two MSS. which I have been unable to trace. One of these was formerly in the possession of John Stow the antiquary, and is mentioned by Camden in his Remaines (ed. 1605) in the chapter on Surnames. I suppose this MS. to be the same with that quoted in the first chapter of the same work as it appears in later editions. The other MS. was formerly in the possession of Thomas Allen, of Gloucester Hall, and was lost sight of in Hearne's time. (See his Pref. p. lxxii-lxxiv.) It is quoted by Selden in his History of Tythes, p. 206, ed. 1618, and passages from it are given in Hearne's Appendix, pp. 610, 611, from some notes in a "modern" hand in the Cotton MS. This modern" hand Mr. Bond has identified with Selden's. I shall be glad to be informed whether these two or any other MSS. of Robert of Gloucester are to be found in any private collections. Selden, except in the instance referred to, always quotes from the Cotton MS.; Weever (Anc. Fun. Mon. passim) invariably uses the MS. in the Heralds' College; and Wood (Hist. and Ant. of Oxford, ed. Gutch, i. 264) quotes the Cotton MS. These which any original quotations from the poem are are the only authors, so far as I am aware, in to be found before it was printed by Hearne.

WILLIAM ALDIS WRIGHT.

EARLY ALTO-RILIEVO. I have recently met with a small alto-rilievo panel in plaister, representing on one side a carpenter working at a table, over which are hung compasses and other instruments of his trade; and on the other, a female seated beneath a curtain, and holding a scroll in her hand. Between them is a child, apparently also engaged in carpenter's work, and over him an angel, addressing himself to the man. The presence of the child would seem to exclude the probability of its depicting an angelic visitation to Joseph, even if there were anything to

Rawlinson MSS.

14. A transcript of 11 in the Pepysian Library.

Mr. Keck's MS., referred to in the Rawlinson Letters, was a copy of 8 (see Hearne's preface

scriptural or ecclesiastical legend which it may be supposed to represent? I may add that, notwithstanding its perishable material, it bears the marks of some antiquity. C. W. BINGHAM.

JOHN ASGILL.-Can you or any of your readers inform me where I can find and be permitted to see a MS. quoted in the Biographia Britannica entitled "MS. Memoirs of the Life of Mr. Asgill, by his intimate friend Mr. A. N. ?”* C. R. C. CATHOLIC VERSION OF 2 CHRON. XXXII. 22.— The Anglican version of this text ends with "and guided them on every side," which very well represents the Hebrew. The Latin Vulgate, which seems to have followed a various reading, has "et præstitit ei quietem per circuitum." The Douay Bible renders it "and gave them rest round about," following the reading eis and not ei. An American edition of the Douay as revised by Dr. Challoner (Philadelphia, 1824), reads "and gave them treasures on every side." I should like to know the reason for this wonderful distortion of the Vulgate and old Douay in this pasB. H. C. CHANGING THE FIRST LESSON IN THE CHURCH SERVICE.-Some years ago I heard a Church dignitary state that it was legitimate to alter the first lesson for the day, but not to change the second lesson. He said he could not give the authority for it, but that he always understood it to be lawful. To my surprise I have just discovered that the dignitary was right, for on looking over the homilies appointed to be read in churches I find the following direction in "An Admonition to all Ministers Ecclesiastical" prefixed to the second tome of Homilies :

sage.

"Where it may so chance some one or other chapter of the Old Testament to fall in order to be read upon the Sundays or holydays, which were better to be changed with some other of the New Testament of more edification, it shall be well done to spend your time to consider well of such chapters beforehand, whereby your prudence and diligence in your office may appear, so that your people may have cause to glorify God for you and be the readier to embrace your labours, to your better commendation, to the discharge of your consciences and their

found as to "who's who," and the rights by which each man may lay claim, if not to the cut, at least to the colour of his coat-kilts of course included? In other words, are all the shades of tartans more or less subtle in their distinctions, with which the market is flooded, of really ancient or comparatively modern date? Where shall we find the origines of the subject, and know what is really historical from that which is due to the inventive genius of a later age? Perhaps, however, in the absence of literary documents, the whole subject must be looked upon as identified with the name of Maclellan, or did the "prehistoric." Is there any tartan recognised as possessions of this sept lie too far south to give them a place amongst their Celtic brethren? CALEDON.

DRURY AND CALTHORPE.-According to Sir John Cullum's History of Hawstead and Hardwick, and Gage's Suffolk, Sir Robert Drury of Hawstead married Anne, daughter of Sir William Calthorpe. Can any reader of "N. & Q." inform me which Sir William Calthorpe this was? I find two mentioned by Playfair, but whether either of them, or if so which, was father of Anne Calthorpe, I am unable to determine. The marriage took place prior to Sept. 12, 21 Edward IV. C. M. DRURY.

thumbed copy of the Colloquies of Erasmus, from COLLOQUIES OF ERASMUS.-I find a wellwhich my father, in the latter part of the eighteenth century, learned the elements of the Latin tongue. The Latinity of Erasmus is generally considered good, and seems more suitable as an elementary book than Ovid and the classical authors generally used. Southey has raised this question in the pages of the Doctor. How long is it since this class of books has been discontinued in our schools ? THOMAS E. WINNINGTON.

STATUE OF JAMES II.-Can any of your Northcountry correspondents inform me whether the statue of King James II. at Newcastle, which (according to Macaulay's History, chap. ix.) was thrown into the Tyne, has ever been recovered; and if so, where it is at the present time?

W. HAMILTON. MARTIN LUTHER.-I have met with the following passage ascribed to Martin Luther:

"Qui versiones tantum norunt, aliorum oculis vident, et cum plebe in atriis stantes e longinquo sacra contuentur. Qui vero ipsum textum originalem intelligit, cum sacerdotibus in sanctuarium admissus, omnium quæ in pene tralibus aguntur ipse testis est et arbiter. Hinc ets exigua sit mea linguæ Hebrææ notitia cum omnibu tamen totius mundi gazis non commutarem."

Can any of your correspondents do me the favour of informing me where the passage occurs ? D. G.