of London, died? He was alive in 1675. Any information of the Cannon family will be acceptable; also of William Farmery of Thavies Inn, who died after 1675; also of William Parker, baker, alive in 1650, aged then about thirty to fifty. Address, Miss H. A. BAINBRIDGE, 24, Russell Road, Kensington.

FOLEY FAMILY.-Edward Kingston Foley, probably born about the year 1777, was a lieutenant in the Royal Navy. Whose son was he? I fancy he was nearly related to Captain or Admiral Thomas Foley, and if so, would be a connection of the Barons Foley of Whitley Court; but I cannot find his name in my copy of Burke's Peerage.

Chester.

T. HUGHES, F.S.A.

H. FORBES.-Wanted, any information regarding Mr. H. Forbes, an English composer, who wrote the music of Ruth, an oratorio, in 1857? Is

he also author of the libretto?

R. INGLIS.

MADAME DE GRIGNAN, DAUGHTER OF MADAME DE SÉVIGNÉ.- -Wanted, the following particulars concerning this lady:-Christian name, dates of birth, marriage, and death. She had two daughters: Marie Blanche, a nun, and Pauline, Marchioness de Simiane-the dates of their deaths are also desired. Were there any more than these two? HERMENTRUDE.

HERALDIC.-Will any of your readers kindly say by whom and when these arms were borneviz. Azure gutté d'eau, a chief nebullé argent. Crest, out of two petit clouds in fesse, a rainbow, all proper. J.

JOHN LANGSTON OF SPITTLEFIELDS.-I have

just received a small book, the title of which is as

follows:

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Lusus Poeticus Latino-Anglicanus in usum Scholarum; or, The more Eminent sayings of the Latin Poets collected; and for the service of Youth in that ancient exercise commonly called Capping of verses alphabetically digested; and for the greater benefit of young beginners in the Latin Tongue rendred into English. By John Langston, Teacher of a Private Grammar School near Spittlefields, London. Act. Apost., c. 17, v. 28 [the verse printed in Greek). Horat. de arte Poet.: Omne tulit punctum, qui miscuit utile dulci. London: Printed for Henry Eversden at the Crown in Cornhill, near the Stocks Market, 1675." *

The dedication is "To his worthy and much honoured friend Capt. John Caine of White Chappel"; and in it the author says:

"This small work, designed for the use and benefit of your son and the rest of my scholars, I humbly present," &c.

Can you or any of your readers give me a clue to, or inform me of any particulars of, John Lang

[* There was a third edition with additions of Lusus Poeticus published in 1688. Langston is also the author of Enchiridion Poeticum, sive poeseos Græca medulla; cum versione Latina. Lond. 1679, 8vo.-ED.]

ston, or the situation or character of his school, beyond those disclosed by the title-page and dediS. J. HYAM. cation above set out?

ANTOINE DUKE DE LAUZUN.-What are the

dates of this nobleman's birth, marriage to Mademoiselle de L'Orge, and death? The Duke de Lauzun concerning whom I ask these questions is the one so famous in the history of Mademoiselle de Montpensier. He died about 1723.

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HERMENTRUDE,

MUSIC OF POEMS AND HYMNS BY DR. NEWMAN AND DR. FABER. Will any correspondent of "N. & Q." inform me whether any of those little poems of Dr. Newman's, which in his recently published volume are called songs, as the "Watchman," the "Pilgrim Queen," and several others, piano? And if so, by whom, and where they can are set to music with accompaniment for the be obtained? Also, who wrote the music of the following hymns by Dr. Faber?

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"THE REFLECTOR."-I possess a volume with the following title-page:

"The Reflector, representing Human Affairs as they are; and may be improved. Veluti in Speculo.' London: Printed for T. Longman, in Paternoster Row. M.DCCL."

It has a dedication from the publisher to the author, but the author's name is not given. It

would seem to be written after the manner of Montaigne. It is an octavo volume of 372 pages. Can any of your readers supply the name of the author? From the dedication I should assume that the several essays of which it is composed had been first published in some periodical, and in their collected form presented to the public and to the author. T. B. Shortlands.

ST. AMBROSIUS.-I purchased recently a line engraving of a bishop, having across his mitre "St. Ambrosius" in large letters. He is holding a book, and reading it attentively; but the description below is "Thomas Bourchier, Archbishop of Canterbury, d. 1480. (From Arundel church)." What is the authority for this latter T. P. F.

name ?

MS. VOLUME OF SERMONS, 1689.-I have a small volume of sermons of this date, and wish to find out the author's name. The clue is not so much defective as slight. The author describes the occasion of them in the following sentence,

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"S. S.

Being the 1st sermon there preacht, after the death of my deare childe Mr Eliz. Lounds, who departed This Life to a Blisful immortality, The 6t of July, 1689, some

what past eleven at night, being Satturday, leaving

behind her 2 children, Wm & Elizab."

This was preached in the year after our great English Revolution, to which the only reference

that I can find is in these words:

"Submit to this holy God: and observe ye Ende he aimes at. The Ende in ye Great Revolucōn we should eye and observe.

"For ye Great Abuse of peace & Plenty we once injoyed. We have had all ye spiritual Enjoyments, but not lived up to them. It should be matter of Humiliation

before a H. God."

"Tho' It be an unseemly sight to see a dependant creature Banding and Tugging it against his Creator, maintaining his supposed right against heaven itself, passionately doting upon and weeping over a dead creature; yet how apt are wee so to doe, when we should value them only in God and freely refer them to him!" We seem to hear the good man weeping as he records the occasion of his sermons on submission to the will of God:

"And now! under y Loss of a Deare Relacōn, I am sattisfied in my minde that I am not immoderately to grieve, or to complain, or murmur. I see ye hand of God was in it-no care or means was wanting. But so it pleased the wise God my childe is dead, and I ought to be contented. But all that I can doe, cannot subdue my

will, nor moderat my affections. I am heavy and sad,

and refuse to be comforted because she is not.'

From certain signs in the MS. I conclude that it was used to read from in the pulpit, and not recited memoriter.

"S.S." at the beginning may be St. Stephen's, or Stony Stratford, or South Shore, or Store Street, or any other reduplication of S. Could any of your readers identify the author for me, for the signs given? I find "Wood St." heading

one of the sermons.

"SCOTT" IN DEBRETT'S BARONETAGE.

Vox.

Did

Sir Walter himself write the account of his family to be found in this work (ed. 1824, vol. ii. 1250)? The narration is superior to most of the other articles in the book, and although very concise, is somewhat more than the dry bones and bare dates of pedigrees, usually halting every now and then to give some personal details of general interest. There are two or three strange expressions"He (Sir Walter) married his present lady," &c. Walter (the nephew) "presently cadet in the artillery service of the Hon. East India Company." An extended and very interesting account of the Scotts might be made almost entirely of quotations from the various works of Sir Walter, by

menced.

Brompton.

R. S. ELLIS.

SMITH FAMILIES, SCOTLAND.-Are there any male descendants living of the following persons who received grants of arms from the Lord Lyon of Scotland previous to the year 1700?

1. William Smith, merchant in Edinburgh, son to the deceased Mr. James Smith, minister of Eddlestone, Peeblesshire. He married Jean Todrig, and had one son, James (born 1689), and three daughters.

2. James Smith of Whitehill, in Inveresk,· overseer of his Majesty's Works in Scotland. He married Janet, daughter of Robert Mylne of Balfarg, hereditary King's Master Mason, and left two sons, Gilbert and Clematirick (?).

3. Mr. John Smyth. This gentleman will be more easily identified by his coat of arms than by his name. The coat was- "" Argent a saltire between three crescents in chief and fess, and ane dolphin hauriant in base azur." Crest: "a sword and pen saltireways." Motto: "Marte et ingenio." Qu. Was this Mr. John a son of Sir John Smyth of Grothill, Lord Provost of Edinburgh?

4. John Smith, portioner of Dirleton. Believed to have died unmarried. His only brother James left an only daughter and heiress, Lillias.

F. M. S.

SWINDEN'S "HISTORY OF GREAT YARMOUTH." Ives, the antiquary, mentions in one of his letters his interleaved copy of Swinden's History of Great Yarmouth. Can any one inform me where this copy now is? C. J. PALMER.

Great Yarmouth. WARWICKSHIRE LEGENDS.-In the introduction to a book of legends I have been reading lately, there is mention made of two old Warwickshire stories: one of the "One-handed Boughton," who drives about in his coach-andsix, and makes the benighted traveller open gates for him; also of "Lady Skipwith," who seems in the habit of doing the same thing. I should be glad to know the origin of these tales. I have paid several long visits at an old Warwickshire manor-house reported to be haunted by a Madame Malins. Was she an ancestress of the present Sir R. Malins, who, I have heard, comes of a Warwickshire family?

Queries with Answers.

E. E. R.

COCKER'S" ARITHMETIC."-When I was a lad, some forty years ago, I used to hear the saying "according to Cocker." I should like to ask whether the saying is to be found in any author, and at what date? I have a copy of his Arithmetic, with portrait, second impression, 1679. Is there a known copy of the first? I have also a

copy of the twenty-ninth edition, 1711. I believe there is no copy in the British Museum, and Dr. Dibdin says the thirty-second edition is the earliest he has seen. My copy of the twenty-ninth edition has the book-plate of "Miles Branthwayt" with the autograph of "Arthur Branthwayt.'

SIGMA. [Edward Cocker (born in 1632) is deservedly reckoned among the improvers of the art of writing and arithmetic; and there are at least fourteen or fifteen of his copy-books in print, for he kept writing and printing till the time of his death, which occurred about 1675, occasioned apparently by over-drinking, if we may believe an elegiac broadside among Bagford's papers, published on his death, entitled "Cocker's Farewell to Brandy, 1675." Here are the concluding lines of this ungracious "Elegy" to his memory :

"Here lyes one dead, by Brandy's mighty power,

Who the last quarter of the last-flown hour, As to his health and strength, was sound and well; Repentance had no room, and who can tell Whether his soul be gone to heaven or hell?" Hatton learned from the sexton of the church of St. George, Southwark, that Cocker was buried in the passage at the west end of that church near the school, and he calls him "the famous Mr. Edward Cocker, a person well skilled in all the parts of Arithmetic, as appears by his books, and the late ingenious Mr. John Collins, F.R.S. his testimony of one of them. He was also the most eminent composer and engraver of letters, knots, and flourishes in his time."-New View of London, i. 247.

As an arithmetical cognomen, Cocker probably dates from Arthur Murphy's farce of The Apprentice, 1756, in which the old merchant strongly recommends to the young tragedian, his son, Cocker's Arithmetic in preference to the plays of the Bard of Avon :

"You read Shakspeare! get Cocker's Arithmetic; you may buy it for a shilling upon a stall, the best book that ever was wrote." (Act I. Sc. 1.)

We have heard of four copies of the first edition of Cocker's Arithmetic, printed by Thomas Passinger, on London Bridge, 1678; one in a clearance sale of Mr. Halliwell's books; another in the library of the Roman Catholic College at Oscott; a third sold by Puttick & Simpson in April, 1851, for 87. 10s.; and a fourth in the

British Museum, purchased July 10, 1858. Some of these copies may only have exchanged hands. The first edition of Cocker's Compleat Arithmetician, or Decimal Arithmetick, was published in 1669.]

times the title was bestowed on second or third-year men. The duties of the general sophister are thus given in Laud's Statutes (chap. iv.), “The Form of creating the Generals," where it is enacted "that scholars of the Faculty of Arts, after they have completed two years in the university (and not before), may take for their moderator (if they please) some bachelor or general sophist, and so be admitted to oppose and respond for form's sake at the parvises; and that every one of them shall, for three terms at the least before they supplicate for the bachelor's degree, undertake the duties of respondent and first opponent at these disputations, and be created general sophists.

"The form of creating general sophists is to be as follows:-Immediately after the disputations are over, all the scholars who respond on that day for the form are to meet in the Natural Philosophy School, where one of the four regent masters, who are bound to be present at the disputations (each taking his own day according to the order of seniority) under a penalty of ten shillings, is to mount the pulpit, and after exhorting the candidates in a short speech to the study of polite literature, is to recount the merits and advantages of the Aristotelic and genuine dialectics; then he is to deliver Aristotle's Logic into the hands of the senior candidate for creation, who is to stand near the pulpit, and the regent master is afterwards to put over the candidate's neck a simple hood, that has no woollen lining nor fur

border. Afterwards he is to create the others in the same way, who are to come up in the order of seniority. The general sophists are bound, every term afterwards, until they are promoted to the bachelor's degree, to dispute once at least in the parvises, under pain of the disputation which they have previously held not availing them for the form."

HOOD'S

"LAMENT FOR THE DAYS OF CHIVALRY." -Where is a poem by Thomas Hood called a "Lament for the Days of Chivalry," to be found, for I have for a long time been looking for it in vain? It was published originally, I believe, in an annual called The Bijou more than thirty years ago,-in those days when some of the best pieces, both in prose and verse, of our most distinguished writers, found their way into annual volumes of that description, such as The Bijou, The Amulet, and The Drawing-Room Scrap JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

Book.

Bolton Percy, near Tadcaster. [Hood's "Lament for the Decay of Chivalry," in which the poet declares

"That none engage at turneys now

But those who go to law;"

"No tough arm bends the springing yew,

And jolly draymen ride in lieu

Of death upon the shaft,"

and which we were disappointed not to find in Hood's Comic Poems, edited by Lucas, was published in The Bijou for 1828.]

SONG: "THE COUPER O' FIFE."-Where can I find this song? It relates how, in order to make his lazy wife perform her domestic duties, the cooper tied a sheepskin on her back, and thrashed that whenever she was refractory. I have heard it with a "nick nockity norum "chorus after each line. A. M. S. [We are inclined to think there are different versions of "The Cooper of Fife." The one printed in Alexander Whitelaw's Book of Scottish Song, p. 333, commences

thus

is ?

"There was a wee cooper who lived in Fife,

Nickity, nackity, noo, noo, noo,
And he has gotten a gentle wife,

Hey Willie Wallacky, how John Dougall, Alane quo' rushety, roue, roue, roue."] JANSEN'S PORTRAIT OF MILTON.-I have lately seen a photograph of Cornelius Jansen's portrait of Milton at ten years of age. Can you or any of your correspondents tell me where the original S. L. [According to Mr. J. F. March (1860) this was one of the pictures which remained in the possession of Milton's widow till her death in 1727. In 1760 Mr. Hollis purchased it at the sale of the effects of Mr. Charles Stanhope, who had previously told him that he had procured it of the executors of Milton's widow for twenty guineas. The picture passed, with the other antiquities of Mr. Hollis, to Mr. Thomas Brand Hollis, who left it to Dr. Disney, and is now in the possession of Mr. E. Disney of the Hyde, near Ingatestone. The picture seems to have been highly esteemed by Mr. Hollis, as he, on Lord Harrington expressing a wish to have it returned, replied that his lordship's whole estate should not repurchase it.]

Replies.

ARMORIAL BOOK-PLATES.

(4th S. iv. 409, 518.)

I possess what is said to be a book-plate, and is certainly a contemporaneous memorial of one H. Eckius. It is pasted on the fly-leaf of a 4to volume printed about 1515 at Strasburg by M. Schürer, which contains seven of the curious sermons of Geiler von Keisersberg. The book was described in Weigel's Catalogue as having formerly belonged to the celebrated John Eck, and as containing a large number of marginal notes in his autograph. The authenticity of these I have never been able to verify. The engraving is evidently of a date not much later than the book; I should refer it to about the year 1530. If it be not a book-plate, it must have been the fly-leaf of some work written by H. Eck, as there is no letterpress on the back. Its whole appearance, however, is distinctly that of a book-plate. A black line surrounds the design, which contains at the lower part a large shield, on which is a pyra

midal figure, having evidently, from its angular (ectig) form, a punning reference to the word "ECKIVS" inscribed on a scroll at its base. A cardinal's hat (the most puzzling part of the design) surmounts the shield.

Above it, on the left, is a curious representation of the Almighty, crowned with a mitre, the head surrounded by rays, and surmounted by the sun. The right hand is shown in the act of blessing, and in the left is the orb. Clouds terminate the figure. On the right of the engraving is a monogram, apparently of the letters H. E. T. This monogram is figured in Heller's Monogrammen Lexicon (Bamberg, 1831, fo. 171), and is thus referred to:

MR. PEACOCK has been deceived by the date upon the plate of arms which he quotes "Sir Francis Fust,' " &c. The date "21st August, 1662" refers to the first baronet, not to Sir Francis. The first baronet was Sir Edward Fust, who was so created on that day. I have the plate of arms mentioned by MR. PEACOCK, and also the other of the same baronet, Sir Francis, giving his own marriage. The large plate mentioned by MR. PEACOCK is, as far as I know, unique in England. It gives not quarterings only, as we call them in England, but "Marriages in the Male line," and "Marriages in the Female line"; that is to say, the wives of men of the family, and the husbands of ladies of the family. The last coat except Fust, which is repeated, on the side of the "Marriages in the male line," is Tooker. This gives the marriage of Sir Francis Fust, which appears again on his own special book-plate, which I have spoken of. Sir Francis Fust married, in September 1724, "Fanny, daughter of Nicholas Tooker of the city of Bristol, merchant."

Burke's Extinct Baronetcies, or any baronetage before the extinction of Fust, will furnish MR. PEACOCK with these details.

These book-plates are accordingly of a date not D. P. earlier than 1724. Stuarts Lodge, Malvern Wells.

In connection with recent "notes" and " queries on book-plates, I beg to mention that I acquired from the dispersed Hastings library a volume consisting of the "Magia Adamica” and

"The Man-Mouse taken in a Trap" (1650) of Eugenius Philalethes (i. e. Rev. Thomas Vaughan, twin-brother of Henry Vaughan the Silurist), which has on the fly-leaf the book-plate of the great Protector. I dare not venture to give the heraldic emblems or bearings; but the motto is, "Pax quæritur Bello," and the legend round a circular border, "Olivarivs Dei Gra. Reipvb. Angliæ, Scotia, et Hiberniæ, &c., Protector." The "Magia Adamica" has been carefully read, and has a large number of deeply-impressed pencil-marks and several marginal MS. notes in ink. I am very willing to believe that the markings are by no less than Cromwell himself, while the notes seem to be added by the author. The "Man-Mouse" has only one (ink) note. The book-plate of Cromwell I intend to reproduce in my Fuller Worthies collective edition (large-paper copies) of the complete Works of Henry Vaughan, being prepared for 1870-1.

St. George's, Blackburn.

ALEXANDER B. GROSART.

It seems worth inserting in "N. & Q." a description of two book-plates which are mentioned in the December's catalogue of M. BachelinDeflorenne, bookseller, of Garrick Street, Covent Garden. The following is an exact copy of the description of each book-plate:-

"A most interesting Book-plate, in folio, from the year 1279. It represents, painted on a board, a monk putting pieces of money in a purse. A Gothic inscription is added: HIC EST LIBER RELIGIOSI VIRI DOMINI GUIDO

NIS MONACHI SCTI GALGANI CAMERARII
Bononia, Rinaldo Pittore, MCCLXXVIIII."

"Another similar Book-plate, representing also a monk with a purse and 4 coats of arms not conservated. A. large inscription below: LIBBRO DI FRATE JACOMO DELIUM ILIATI CAMARLIDGO... MCCCXIII. (1314)."

crowned.

I have in my own collection of book-plates one book-plate the date of which I am anxious to ascertain. Perhaps some reader of "N. & Q." can state at what period the person whose name is on the book-plate was living. The arms are, Sable, a lion rampant Supporters, two lions regardant. The arms surmounted by a coronet, and under the arms the following inscription : (6 EX BIBLIOTHECA NICOLAI JOSEPH FOUCAULT COMITIS CONSISTORIANI." R. D. DAWSON-DUFFIELD, LL.D. Sephton Rectory, Liverpool.

In the Pennsylvania Provincial Letters and Papers, Philadelphia, 1855, p. viii., it is stated

that

"Robert Shippen, a brother of downright' William Shippen, 1699, July 4, was made D.D., subsequently Principal of Brazennose and Vice-Chancellor. His bookplate is preserved in the American branch of the family, and bears underneath the coat of arms the following inscription :

"Robertus Shippen, S.T.P.
Coll. En. Nas. Principalis."

I dare say that if MR. WEST will write to the present representative of this family, "Mr. Edward Shippen, Counsellor-at-Law, Philadelphia," he will readily obtain an impression of this bookplate, which is in that gentleman's possession.

In this connection I take occasion to ask who was "Godwyn Swift, of Goderich, in the county of Hereford, and of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister-atLaw, Esquire." At p. lxxxiii. et seq. of the book above cited, John Swift and his descendants in America are spoken of. In the Logan MSS. Logan calls this John Swift "a pestilent lawyer," and writing to Penn from Philadelphia, 2 mo. 1707, says :

"John Swift, a leading member of the Assembly, is opposed to establishing unless the Government" (i. e. Proprietary or Penn) "will grant away almost all his rights and powers in the Government.”

Mr. Swift belonged to the party which was in favour of a change in the relations between the colony and the Penns.

It will be seen by a reference to the page given above, that not a great deal is known as to the English antecedents of this family of Swifts, and any information will be much valued. Godwyn Swift's book-plate is: "Or, a chev. barry nebulée ar. and az. between three roebucks courant ppr." But on inquiry some fifteen years ago at the College of Arms, I was given to understand that nebulée was not correct, and that no such arms were on record. Subsequently I was informed from another source that they were to be found in Gwillim-a book to which I have not had access since receiving this later information. Correct or not, the chevron is nebulée.

It may perhaps cast some light on the inquiry to mention that John Swift the emigrant married a Miss Mary White of Croydon, near London, and that the con John speaks of "the luxurious life at Croydon." Subsequently John the son was made collector of the port at Philadelphia, through the influence of Grosvenor Bedford, mentioned in Peter Cunningham's Walpole Letters.