Where does this line occur? "In the clear heaven of her delightful eye," &c. E. P. C.

SMITH QUERIES.—Of what family was Anthony Smith, whose daughter and coheiress, Emma, is stated' to have married, in the early part of the sixteenth century, Edward Watson, ancestor of the Lords Rockingham ?

Where can I find the pedigree of Captain John Smith, "sometime Governor of Virgina," to whom, in 1623, was granted an allusive coat of arms viz. Vert, a chevron gules between three Turks' heads by "Sigismundus, King of Hungarion"? He was born 1579; died 1631.

Where can I find a copy of the grant of arms to Thomas Smith of Hough, county Chester, dated July 7, 1579? (See Guillim.)

Who was John Smith of Newcastle-underLyme, to whom was granted, in 1561, the following coat of arms :-Barry ermine and gules, over all a lion rampant sable crowned or?

H. S. G.

ARMS OF SOUND, ETC. - In the Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica, iv. 101, is described an escutcheon of Richard Chetwode, who died in 1559-60, consisting of six quarterings-viz. 1st Chetwode; 2nd sable, fretty argent, a fesse ermine, on a chief gules, three leopards' faces or; 3rd, Okeley; 4th, argent, a lion rampant gules, crowned azure; 5th, Nowell; and 6th, Foulhurst.

daughter and heir of John de Sound, married David Crewe, one of whose coheiresses married Roger Chetwode, &c. Under Worleston, pp. 189190, he states that David Crewe of Pulcroft, by Johanna, daughter and heiress of Sounde of Sounde, had issue Alice, married-(1) Geoffrey de Boydell; (2) Thomas Brindley (p. 190), and Margaret, wife of John Chetwode of Oakley.

In the Harl. MS. 1412, is a list of arms from the Visitation of Cheshire in 1580, among which appears, immediately following Chetwode, "Sound, B. a lyon ramp. or."

The last

I have not found the arms of Sound in any of the Heraldic Dictionaries, nor are they given by Ormerod, but it seems pretty clear that they should be gules, a lion rampant or. named MS. has evidently confounded Crewe and Sound, while Betham has fallen into a similar error in confounding two Margarets or Margerys, for Crewe was of Sound in right of descent from that family.

I wish to ask on what authority the elaborate coat first named (which looks very like a concoction of a Tudor Herald) is assigned to Sound; and also whether any of your readers can bear me out in the opinion that the true coat of that family is a lion rampant or, on a field gules?

H. S. G.

STUART OF THE SCOTCH GUARD. -Amongst the very many rare and curious articles scattered over the kingdom, upon the dispersion of the books in the library of the learned author of Caledonia, was a little tract in French, consisting of eight pages 12mo. The following is a copy of the title:

"Discours sur le Suject de la mort du Seigneur Struard Escossois, decapitè deuant le Chasteau du Louvre a Paris, le Lundy, 27 de Februarier dernier. A Paris. De l'Imprimerie d'Anthoine du Brueil, entre le Pont Sainct

Betham (Baronetage, iii. p. 123, &c.) states that John Chetwode, living 36 Edw. III., married an heiress of Okeley, and had a son John, whose wife's name was Margery. His son Roger married Margery, daughter and coheiress of David Crewe of Pulcroft, and was father of Thomas, whose wife was Margaret, daughter and heiress of ". Sounde, Lord of Sounde, co. Chester."

According to a pedigree of Brindley in the Harl. MS. 1535, fo. 32, David Crewe of Fulcroft married "Johanna fil: and hæ: .. Sounde," and had Alice, the wife of Thomas Brindley (22 Rich. II. 1399), and Margery, wife of Roger Chetwode; and the arms quartered by Brindley are- —(1) Bressy; (2) Crewe; (3) gules, a lion rampant or (evidently for Sound).

Ormerod, iii. 216, says that Sound or Soond gave its name to a family, and that Johanna,

M.DC.XVII."

Who this Scotch " Seigneur" was, is not explained in this moral discourse upon his decapitation, beyond that he seems to have been one of the "garde particulière de la personne de sa Majesté," and that he was one of the Scotish years, guard which, for nearly seven hundred been chosen to protect the persons of the French monarchs.

had

What was the act of treason for which this

unworthy Scotch guard suffered death? Moreover, to which of the numerous races of Stewart

I

the brochure is

unique, but in this I may be wrong. presume

J. M.

TITLES OF THE JUDGES.-I am not aware that

the title of "Reverend" was ever given to the Judges individually, as one to which they had a right by their position, although we read of them collectively as "the Reverend the Judges." I

know not whence the editorial note (antè, p. 26) quotes the expression, "and as the Rev. Sir Edward Coke, late Lord Chief Justice of His Majesty's Bench, saith"; but I apprehend that it is there used more as a mark of respect, in the same way as the complimental terms "learned " or "respected" are used, than as a designation of style to which he was entitled.

I observe that the word "Honourable" is now prefixed to the name of each of the Judges; and I would ask when the custom was introduced, and by what authority? D. S.

DUDLEY WOODBRIDGE, ESQ. was the eldest son of Rev. Benjamin and Mrs. Mary (Ward) Woodbridge, and a grandson of Rev. John and Mrs. Mercy (Dudley) Woodbridge. He was born at Windsor, Connecticut, Sept. 7, 1677,* and was graduated at Harvard College in the class of 1696. He removed to Barbadoes, where he was Director General of the Royal Assiento Company of England, agent of the South Sea Company, and JudgeAdvocate of the island. He was also a member of the Society for Propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts. His portrait, painted by Kneller in 1718, was engraved the same year by Smith. He died Feb. 11, 1720.† There is little doubt that he was the "Mr. Woodbridge, a New England man," "whom Governor Hutchinson calls "the projector" of paper money in Barbadoes.‡

He had at least two children-namely, Dudley and Benjamin, the latter of whom was killed at Boston, July 3, 1728, aged nineteen years and two months. The former I take to be the Rev. Dudley Woodbridge, rector of the parish of St. Philip, in the island of Barbadoes, on whose wife an epitaph is printed in the Gentleman's Magazine for 1747, p. 393. He died between March 15, 1747-8, and July 20, 1748, leaving a widow Ruth, who died at Boston (Mass.) between Dec. 23, 1748, and the 9th of the following month.

I wish to learn the Christian and maiden names of the wife of Dudley Woodbridge, Esq., and also desire to ascertain whether he left any other children besides Dudley and Benjamin. Rev. Dudley Woodbridge, rector of St. Philip, mentions, in 1748, in his will, a "sister Mary Alleyne of Boston, N. E., widow of Major Abel Alleyne, formerly of" Barbadoes; but she may have been a sister-in-law, though I think not.

Boston, Massachusetts, U. S.

JOHN WARD DEAN.

Stiles's History of Ancient Windsor, Ct. p. 837. † Noble's Continuation of Granger, vol. iii. p. 260. History of Massachusetts Bay, vol. i. 1st and 2nd ed. p. 402; 3rd ed. p. 356.

§ See Sargent's Dealings with the Dead, vol. ii. pp. 550-64; Drake's History of Boston, Mass., p. 579; and Bridgman's Pilgrims of Boston, p. 191.

Queries with Answers.

SIR JOHN BOURCHIER.-Can any correspondent of "N. & Q." give me some particulars relative to Sir John Bourchier, Knight, whose name appears among those who signed the death-warrant of King Charles I.? I particularly wish to know when and how he died. I cannot find any mention of him in Caulfield's Memoirs of the Regicides, 1817, nor yet in the Trials of the Regicides, 1714. I should also be glad to know if he was in any way related to the Sir James Bourchier whose daughter the great Protector married. JEAN VALJEAN.

[Neither Sir John Bourchier, a Yorkshire knight, one of the King's judges, nor the loyal Mr. George Bourchier, who was inhumanly shot at Bristol, were related to the Protector's wife. (Noble's House of Cromwell, i. 131, ed. 1787.) On Monday, June 18, 1660, Sir John Bourchier surrendered himself to the Speaker, and was committed to the custody of the serjeant-at-arms. (Kennett's Register, p. 183.) He must have died shortly after his committal, for on Feb. 2, 1660-1, Sir Henry Cholmeley produces His Majesty's commission authorizing him to give pardon and security to any whom he engaged to forward the Restoration; but he used it only in the case of his nephew, Barrington Bourchier, whose late father was engaged in the sentence of the late king. (Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1660-1661, pp. 446, 501, 557.) In the History of King-Killers, 1719, Part v. p. 38, as well as in Winstanley's Loyall Martyrology, p. 112, it is incorrectly stated that Sir John Bourchier died before the Restoration.]

GENERAL OGLETHORPE.-If General Oglethorpe was born (according to most accounts) in London, on the 21st of December, 1688, or (according to his recent biographer, Mr. Robert Wright) in 1689, I should be glad if any one would inform me who was the James Edward, son of Colonel Theophilus and Eleanora Oglethorpe, who was born on the 22nd and baptized on the 23rd of December, 1696, at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, where I saw the entry a few days ago. J. L. C.

the birth of the celebrated General James Edward Ogle[This entry conclusively settles the disputed date of thorpe, who was the son of Sir Theophilus Oglethorpe

and Eleanor, daughter of Richard Wall, Esq. See the pedigree of the Oglethorpes of Westbrook in Manning and Bray's Surrey, i. 614. It also clears up two other points in Mr. Wright's interesting Memoir of Oglethorpefirst, why Oglethorpe's birthday was "kept in Georgia on the 21st of December;" whereas the James, whose baptismal certificate at St. James's was found by Mr. Wright, turns out, as that gentleman shrewdly suspected, to have been an elder brother, who probably died young, was born on June 1; and, next, it furnishes the second Christian name, Edward, which appears on the monument erected by his widow in Cranham church. We may also

call attention to the fact that it proves that the gallant old general was eight years younger than was supposed he being only eighty-nine, and not ninety-seven, at the time of his decease.]

RICHARD DUKE (3rd S. xii. 21.)-I would humbly submit that this chronology requires some confirmation. The hero is represented to have been bound apprentice in 1595; we will assume him to be then thirteen years of age; he thus becomes warden of his company at twenty-five (this is unlikely); his youngest child is born in 1668, when he must be eighty-six years old; he marries thrice, and outlives all three wives. This is possible; but is it not more probable that the entries refer to two or more individuals ?

H.

[We must thank our correspondent H., as well as MR. WILLIAM BLADES, for their suggestive corrections. The primary object of the writer was to supply the exact date of the birth of Richard Duke. He has since examined the manuscript more critically, and is now of opinion that the entries previous to 1641 were made by members of the Macro family, into which family Richard Duke, father of the poet, married, as appears by the entry under 1644. The remaining entries are all in the same handwriting.]

"Dec. 12, 1643, James Hamilton of Bothwellhaugh, heir of Alison Sinclair, daughter lawful of John Sinclair of Wodislie, his grandmother in the one half part of the 10 merk lands of Spotts of old extent called Kingsgrange in the Lordship of Galloway-E 147. 14s. 7d. in fee farm. Dec 12, 1643, Alison Hamilton, relict of the deceased Gavin, formerly bishop of Candida Casa, heiress of Isobell Sinclair, daughter lawful of John Sinclair of Woddislie, her mother in the one half part of the 10 merk lands of Spotts of old extent called Kings grange in the Lordship of Galloway-E 147. 14s. 7d.

These writs of succession show that Isobel Sinclair and Alison Sinclair, the wives of James Hamilton and David Hamilton of Bothwellhaugh, were owners of the lands of Spots called Kingsgrange in the parish of Urr, stewartry of Kirkcudbright. One of these services shows that Alison Hamilton had been married to the Bishop of Galloway. In Hamilton of Wishaw's History of the County of Lanark, p. 133, the editor has stated in a note that Mr. Gavin Hamilton was Provost of Bothwell in Feb. 1590 and Feb. 1591.

p.

Mr. Innes, in his Origin of Parishes, vol. i. 505, mentions that the synod of Glasgow complained, in 1591, that the Provost of Bothwell had not built the choir of the kirk of Schotts. In the

JOSEPHUS.

[Perhaps the best description of the Blacas Museum at present published is that contained in the parliamentary paper recently printed by order of the House of Commons of the Accounts, Estimates, &c. of the British Museum. Nearly all the most valuable gems in this collection came from the Strozzi Cabinet, noticed in the Museum Florentinum of Gori, published in 1731, Preface, p. 14; also, H. K. E. Köhler, Gesammelte Schriften, St. Petersburg, 1851, vol. iii.]

Replies.

JAMES HAMILTON OF BOTHWELLHAUGH, ASSASSIN OF REGENT MORAY.

(3rd S. xi. 453.)

I wish to add a little more information to my communication (3rd S. xii. 10) concerning the members of the family. On February 10, 1601, David Hamilton, younger, of Bothwellhaugh, servant to the Laird of Innerwick (eldest son of Alison Sinclair), along with an armed company, invaded the tenants of Woodhouselee, assailed them with furious language, threatening to take their lives unless they desisted from labouring the said lands; and on February 19 following, Sir James Bellarden, of Broughton, made a complaint

well, vol. xvi. p. 324, it is stated that Mr. Gavin Hamilton was minister in 1604. Keith, in his Hamilton was a son of John Hamilton of OrbisCatalogue of Bishops, p. 166, states that Gavin ton, and promoted to the bishopric of Galloway in 1606. Keith also says King James VI. gave him the abbey of Dundrennan and a grant of Whithorn annexed to the see of Galloway. He died in 1614. His widow, Alison Hamilton, must therefore have survived her husband at least twenty-nine years. Spottiswood, in his account of Religious Houses, says that Whithorn, or Candida Casa, was a bishop's seat in Galloway, and Dundrennan Abbey was situate on Solway Firth, about two miles from Kirkcudbright. I may mention that the lands of Orbiston and Bothwellhaugh, where Gavin Hamilton and Alison HamilJohn Hamilton, the father of Gavin Hamilton, ton were brought up lie contiguous, and that Hamilton (the assassin), father of Alison Hamilwas slain at the battle of Langside, and James ton, was there taken prisoner on May 13, 1568. DAVID SEMPLE.

Paisley.

The weapon used in the assassination of the Regent is still preserved at Hamilton Palace. It is a carbine with a brass rifled barrel. Yet we are told that Bothwellhaugh loaded it with

(3rd S. xi. 457, 529; xii. 36.) This expression is, I believe, common in most parts of England; but I have always heard it as the pride of the morning," and applied to absolute rain, and not merely to grey mist or dew, which are too common to be much noticed as indications of fine weather. I have heard it said of a smart shower, and even of drizzling rain falling early on a spring or summer morning. I remember one instance in particular. In my juvenile days-long, long ago-I had started early in a May morning with three or four companions for a long walk to Hagley Park, in Worcestershire. When we set off, it rained formidably, and we were all very low and disappointed, except one, who endeavoured to cheer us up with the assurance that it was only the "Pride of the morning." He was right: the rain soon ceased, and we had a delightful day of sunshine. I believe the expression has the same significance as another which is commonly known, and applied in the summer months - Rain before seven, over at eleven"; to which is often added, "Rain at eleven goes on till seven."

While upon the subject of weather signs, it may amuse your readers if I relate what an old man told me this day. I fell in with a fine old labourer of eighty-four, trudging cheerfully along with a scythe over his shoulder, and looking, as I told him, like the figure of old Time. He told me this anecdote, which he had heard in his youth:-A gentleman on horseback met an old shepherd, and asked him what he thought of the weather, as he had a long journey before him. The shepherd said he believed it would turn out a rainy day. "Why so?" said the gentleman; "it's very fine now, and I can see no signs of rain coming." "Well, sir," said the shepherd, "you may depend upon it that the day will be wet before long." So the rider went on his way, and was well drenched with rain before his journey's end. On his return he saw the same shepherd, and said to him: "Well, you were right: but what did you go by? You must have some valuable rules for the weather."-"Yes, I have; one at least that never deceives me."-" Well,"

said the traveller, "that must be worth knowing. I'll give you a guinea if you will tell it me.""I will," said the shepherd, "when you give me the guinea.' It was handed to him at once, and he said: "Why, sir, I take Moore's Almanac, and he said it would be a fine day: now I always find the contrary to what he says is right; so I knew it would be a rainy day."-Now the traveller, according to my old man's account, was actually Francis Moore himself. I left him considerably astonished, by telling him that it was very doubtful if such a person ever existed at all; but that if he did, it was near upon two centuries ago. F. C. H.

It would indeed be a curious coincidence, if the expression in The Christian Year

"Pride of the dewy morning!' were as much a child of the poet's brain as Zeus. I take it that Mr. Keble, who was born Athena sprung, in full array, from the head of and bred in the country, became acquainted in Gloucestershire with the charming rusticism; and with a poet's keen sense of the beautiful, caught it up, adopted it, and, decking it with the appropriate and graceful epithet dewy," gave it a splendid home in his "immortal verse."

It would seem that he laboured under the

slight, and not unnatural error, of supposing that but the rainbow-which sometimes, but not "the pride of the morning" is not the mist itself, necessarily, accompanies it.

It is clear that he alludes to, and expands, the first couplet of the old saw which runs thus: "A rainbow in morning,

Is the shepherd's warning; A rainbow at night,

Is the shepherd's delight."

"The lofty trees yclad with summer's pride."

The use of the English word "pride" in the sense of "ornament," may be illustrated by the signification of the Icelandic prydi and pryda; the Danish pryde and prydelse; the Swedish pryda, pryduad, and prydning; and the German pracht (akin to the Gothic brehen, to illuminate, to shine); which last is, I take it, of the same family. In the Welsh language, prydus means "comely."

With Spenser's use of the word "pride" may be compared that of the Latin word honor of Virgil, Georg. ii. 404, n. i. 591; Horace, Od. i. 17, 16, Epod. 11, 6, 17, 18, Sat. ii. 5, 13; Ovid, Ars. Am. iii. 392; Statius, Theb. ii. 160, vii. 225, x. 788; Valerius Flaccus, Arg. vi. 296, viii. 31, 237; and Silius Italicus, Pun. iii. 487, xii. 244.

JOHN HOSKYNS-ABRAHALL, JUN., M.A.