Courant, 6 Dec. Both these are named "authentick lists. Neither contains the names of more than thirteen ships, and these of the Navy, and no others. In the following I have blended all the names I know of into one alphabetical list. “Defoe, Narrative,” signifies that particulars are found in the body of the book 'The Storm.' "Defoe, Tab. List" tabulated list of ships which should be in all copies of 'The Storm,' 1704, facing p. 222. "Daily Courant and Postman, Tab. List," refers to the tabulated lists found in those papers on the dates given. The newspapers of the day have provided me with seven-eighths of the following information: Antelope.-Daily Courant, 30 Nov. Arundel (H.M.S.).—Postman, Tab. List, 7 Dec.; Defoe, Narrative, p. 173. Assistance.-Laden with tobacco; "cast away upon Hurst Beach."-Defoe, Narrative, p. 188. Association. - Sir Stafford Fairborn's ship, "driven by the gale from the Thames to coast of Norway."-Defoe, Narrative, pp. 217–22. Bonaventure.-" Fell foul of a laden collier, and drove on the sands."-London Gazette, 2-6 Dec. Canterbury (storeship).-London Gazette, 29 Nov.2 Dec.; Daily Courant, 30 Nov.; Defoe, Narrative, pp. 173, 209, 222. Chomley.-Defoe, Narrative, p. 187. Corke.-Daily Courant, 30 Nov. Crow.-London Gazette, 2-6 Dec. Cumberland (H.M.S.).-Defoe, Narrative, p. 168. Despatch (packet boat).-Postman, 27-30 Nov. ; Daily Courant, 29 Nov. Donegall.-Daily Courant, 30 Nov. Duke of Gloucester.-Daily Courant, 30 Nov. Eagle (H.M.S.).—London Gazette, 29 Nov.-2 Dec.; Daily Courant, Tab. List, 6 Dec.; Postman, Tab. List, 7 Dec.; Defoe, Tab. List; Defoe, Narrative, p. 212. Europe.-Daily Courant, 30 Nov. Firebrand.-Daily Courant, 30 Nov.; Postman, 30 Nov.-2 Dec.; London Gazette, 29 Nov.2 Dec. George. Daily Courant, 30 Nov.; Postman, 30 Nov.-2 Dec., 2-4 Dec.; Defoe, Narrative,p. 209. Golden Peace "of Dantzick."- "Cast away on our sands (Yarmouth).-London Gazette, 29 Nov.-2 Dec. Grace.-Daily Courant, 30 Nov.; Defoe, Narrative, p. 209. Hampton Court.-Postman, 2-4 Dec.; London Hopeful Margaret.-Postman, 30 Nov.-2 Dec. John Watson.-Defoe, Narrative, p. 124. Daily Courant, 4 Dec. King David.-London Gazette, 29 Nov.-2 Dec. Love's Increase.-London Gazette, 2-6 Dec. 29 Nov. and 1 Dec.; London Gazette, 29 Nov.- 66 (References to ships called Mary are found in Daily Courant, 29 Nov.; ibid., 30 Nov. ; London Gazette, 29 Nov.-2 Dec.; Postman, 29 Nov.-2 Dec.) Monk.-London Gazette, 29 Nov.-2 Dec.; Defoe, Narrative, p. 212. Mortar Bomb (H.M.S.).—London Gazette, 29 Nov.2 Dec.; Daily Courant, 29 Nov., Tab. List, 6 Dec.; Postman, Tab. List, 7 Dec.; Defoe, Tab. List. Neptune.-London Gazette, 2-6 Dec.; Daily Courant, 30 Nov. Newcastle (H.M.S.).-Postman, 30 Nov.-2 Dec. ; London Gazette, 29 Nov.-2 Dec.; Daily Courant, 1 Dec., Tab. List, 6 Dec.; Postman, Tab. List, 7 Dec.; Defoe, Tab. List, Narrative, p. 212. 27-30 Nightingale.-Postman, 29-30 Nov. Nottingham.-London Gazette, 29 Nov.-2 Dec. Richard and Rose.-Defoe, Narrative, p. 187. Sarah and Mary Hopewell.-Postman, 30 Nov.2 Dec. Shrewsbury.-Defoe, Narrative, p. 194. Sterling Castle (H.M.S.).-Daily Courant, 29 Nov., 30 Nov., 2 Dec.; Postman, 27-30 Nov., 29 Nov.2 Dec.; London Gazette, 29 Nov.-2 Dec.; Daily Courant, Tab. List, 6 Dec.; Postman, Tab. List, 7 Dec.; Defoe, Tab. List, Narrative, pp. 194, 262. Suffolk.-London Gazette, 29 Nov.-2 Dec.; Defoe, Gazette, 29 Nov.-2 Dec.; In addition to the above there are numerous references to catastrophes in which the names of ships are not given, thus :— Five sail, two of which are pretty big ones, are lost upon the Goodwin Sands."-London Gazette, 25-29 Nov. A transport ship of 250 tons is driven ashore near Southsea."-Daily Courant, 30 Nov. "A Dutch Flyboat, laden with corn, driven ashore near Southsea Castle."-Daily Courant, 30 Nov. Portuguese ship, laden with fruit, wrecked at Mounts Bay."-Postman, 2 Dec. I append a bibliographical note on the subject of the storm. The London Gazette of 13-16 Dec. contains a proclamation for a general fast, and this was observed on 19 Jan., 1703/4. Besides Defoe's book, the only literature I know of is as follows: "An Account of the sad and dreadful accidents that was done about the cities of London and Westminster and the Liberties thereof by the prodigious Hurricane of wind which happened on Saturday morning, the 27th of this instant November, 1703. Giving a relation of several men, women, and children that were killed and wounded: Some cast away on the river of Thames, with the number of Boats, Barges, and Lighters lost. Trees blown up by the roots in Moorfields, St. James and Hyde Park, with a great many stacks of chimnies, tops of houses, and Pentices.' more casualties that happened by the tumbling of A broadside printed on both sides, small folio : "A Wonderful History of all the Storms, Hurricanes, Earthquakes, &c., that have Happened in England for above 500 Years past, and the great Damages they have done; with a Particular Account of the Dreadful Storm that happen'd on the 26th and 27th of November, 1703, the Loss sustain'd by Sea and Land, in Houses, Churches, People, Cattel, Corn, Hay, Trees, Shipping, and Mariners, in England, Flanders, and Holland. The Natural Causes of Winds, Storms, and Earthquakes, Blazing Stars, many Suns and Moons seen at a time, Apparitions in the Air, Circles round the Sun and Moon, Rainbows seen in the Day and Night, the Ebbing and Flowing of the Sea, Thunder, Lightning, Vapours, Dews, Hail, Rain, Snow, and Frost: with many other Amazing Things. Printed for A. Baldwin in Warwick Lane." Octavo. November 27, 1703. Considered, Improved, and "The terrible stormy Wind and Tempest, Collected, to be held in everlasting Remembrance. To which is added, Fair Warning to a careless World. By the Author of The Infallible way to Contentment, &c. Printed for W. Freeman at in Fleet street. Price 6d." Quarto. Quarto. Defoe's book 'The Storm' appeared on 17 July, 1704, price 3s. 6d.. printed for the Bible, over against the Middle Temple Gate, George Sawbridge in Little Britain, and sold by John Nutt near Stationers' Hall. The advertisement of its forthcoming is printed in Defoe's own paper A Review, &c., 27 June, 1704, p. 148; and the announcement of its publication is printed in A Review, 29 July, 1704, and in The London Gazette, 17-20 July. The book was reprinted without alteration in 1769. The advertisements of Defoe requesting information to be sent relating to the storm appeared in The London Gazette, 2-6 Dec., 1703, and Daily Courant, 2 Dec., 1703. A notice appeared in The London Gazette, 16-20 Dec., 1703 :— His Royal Highness, Lord High Admiral of England and Ireland, having given orders to the principal officers and commissioners of Her Majesty's Navy, to pay the Powers at Broad Street of such Seamen as were shipwreckt in the late Storm: Notice is hereby given that the said payments will be made at the time expressed," &c. "An Elegy on the Author of The True-born Englishman.' With an Essay on the late Storm. By the Author of The Hymn to the Pillory.' A Sermon Preach'd, before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Citizens, of London, at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Jan. 19th, 1703/4. Being the Fast-day Appointed by Her Majesty's Proclamation, upon Occasion of and to the late dreadful Storm and Tempest; implore the Blessing of God upon Her Majesty and Her Allies in the present War. By Offspring Blackall, D.D.; Chaplain in Ordinary to Her Majesty. Printed for W. Kettilby at the Bishop's Head in St. Paul's Churchyard.' Quarto. "The Power and Providence of God Consider'd and Asserted, In a Sermon preach'd, in the Parish Church of Middleton Stony in the County of Oxford, on Wednesday the 19th of January; being the Fast-day Appointed by Proclamation, to be observed in a most Solemn and Devout Manner, &c. By William Offley, M.A.; Prebendary of Lincoln, Rector of Middleton Stony, and late Fellow of King's College in Cambridge." Quarto. "A Second Century of Meditations, with short Prayers annexed, on various Subjects. To which is added. A Postscript, by way of Meditation, on the Spoils and Ruins made by the dreadful Tempest, Nov. 27, 1703. By Benjamin Jenks; Rector of Harley in Shropshire, and Chaplain to the Right Honourable the Earl of Bradford. Printed for W. Rogers at the Sun, against St. Dunstan's Church, and B. Tooke at the Middle Temple Gate, in Fleet Street." Twelves. A Warning from the Winds. A Sermon preach'd upon Wednesday, Jan. 19, 1703/4; being the day of publick Humiliation for the late Terrible Storm of Wind, sent in great Rebuke upon this Kingdom, November 26, 27, 1703: and now set forth, in some ground of it, to have been inflicted as a Punishment of that general Contempt in England, under Gospel Light, cast upon the Work of the Holy Ghost, as to his Divine Breathings upon the Souls of Men. Opened and Argued from John iii. 8. To which is subjected, An Exercitation upon Eph. ii. 2, about Airy Oracles, Sybils, Prophetesses, Idolatry and Sacrifices of the Pagan Times. By Joseph Hussey, Pastor of the Congregational Church at Cambridge. Printed for W. and J. Marshall at the Bible in Newgate Street." Quarto. As "A Sermon Preach'd, before the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament Assembled, in the Abbey Church of Westminster, on Jan. 19th; being the Fast-day Appointed for imploring a Blessing from Almighty God upon Her Majesty and Her Allies, Engag'd in the present War. also for the Humbling of our Selves before Him, in a deep sense of his heavy Displeasure, shew'd in the late dreadful Tempest, &c. By the Right Reverend Father in God, William, Lord Bishop of Oxford." Quarto. A. L. HUMPHREYS. 187, Piccadilly, W. "SPLENDID ISOLATION " (11 S. v. 348, 454). -The author of this phrase (used by Premier Poincaré at the unveiling of the Cannes statue to King Edward VII., and ascribed by POLITICIAN to Mr. Goschen) was certainly the Hon. George Eulas Foster, Finance Minister, from whose speech in the Canadian House of Commons, on 16 Jan., 1896 (Can. Hansard,' 1896, p. 176), I quote: In these somewhat troublesome days when the great Mother Empire stands splendidly isolated in Europe with interests stretching over the wide world," &c. In the same session ('Hansard,' p. 1215) Sir Wilfrid Laurier, then in opposition, said It is true England was, as the Finance Minister said on a former occasion, and is yet, isolated, whether splendidly isolated or dangerously isolated I will not now debate," &c. The 'N.E.D.,' under 'Isolation,' ascribes the phrase in question to Sir Wilfrid; but from the above quotation it will be seen that he expressly quoted Mr. Foster. AVERN PARDOE. Legislative Library, Toronto. BALDWIN'S GARDENS, HOLBORN (11 S. v. 428).-Richard Baldwin, who built some houses in Gray's Inn Lane, was one of the royal gardeners in the time of Queen Elizabeth. There are some references by DR. RIMBAULT to Baldwin's Gardens in N. & Q.' (1 S. i. 410); also in Wheatley and Cunningham's London Past and Present,' i. 92. It was a place of sanctuary till all privilege of sanctuary and abjuration consequent thereon was abolished by statute 21 Jac. I., c. 28. THOMAS WM. HUCK. was a 66 The statement that Baldwin's Gardens sanctuary seems to mean only that it was a part of the Upper Holborn Liberty, which was outside the boundary of of Middlesex. Maitland states (1754) that the City, and not contained in any parish the Liberty had three constables, two beadles, and seventeen watchmen, so that it was not without constituted authority. Although he mentions that Whitefriars was the resort of criminals, who long kept it by force as a sanctuary against law and justice, he makes no such reference in the case of the Upper Holborn Liberty. It is, of course, the fact that the "liberties just outside the City boundaries were always the haunts of such characters, and, owing to, the jealousy of the authorities, no concerted action was taken against them. I have no doubt that until the establishment of the Metropolitan Police, Baldwin's Gardens formed a very useful refuge for criminals, especially as it connected by narrow alleys with a number of other courts off Gray's Inn Lane (now Gray's Inn Road), and contained several large common lodging-houses, so that it was not difficult to elude the constables. But I can find no reference to any formal claim of the privileges of sanctuary or to any attempts by force of arms to vindicate that privilege, as was the case in Whitefriars. R. S. PENGELLY. Clapham Park. Baldwin's Gardens were built by a man named Baldwin, who is stated to have been a gardener to Queen Elizabeth. This was recorded on a stone set into one of the houses, which was removed some years ago when the houses were rebuilt. This street was most certainly a sanctuary, and so remained until these privileged places were abolished by Act of Parliament about 1695. HENRY BEAZANT. Roundway, Friern Barnet. Jesse must be right in saying that Baldwin's Gardens was a sanctuary, because in 1697 an Act of Parliament (c. 27, s. 15), which was then passed for the preventing the many notorious and scandalous practices used in many pretended privileged places in and about the Cities of London and Westminster and the borough of Southwark,' mentions amongst the sanctuaries to be swept away "Baldwin's Gardens." CONSTANCE RUSSELL. Swallowfield, Reading. VOLTAIRE IN ENGLAND (11 S. v. 388).— To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day 's too late, the wise liv'd yesterday, quoted by Voltaire in his letter to Thieriot, is the conclusion of Cowley's rendering of Martial, v. 58 (59). The Latin lines are:-Cras vives: hodie iam vivere, Postume, serum est. Ille sapit, quisquis, Postume, vixit heri. Cowley's last line, however, is an alexandrine, and begins If your correspondent does not know Roscoe's Life of Pope,' the subjoined letter will be welcome to him. It was written whilst its author was on a visit at Dawley to Lord Bolingbroke, two months after an accident which had befallen Pope, and is one of Voltaire's few English letters : SIR, I hear this moment of your sad adventure. That water you fell in was not Hippocrene's water, otherwise it would have respected you. Indeed, I am concerned beyond expression for the danger you have been in, and more for your wounds. Is it possible that those fingers which have dressed Homer so becomingly in an English the hand of Dennis, or of your poetasters, be cut coat, should be so barbarously treated! Let off; yours is sacred. I hope, sir, you are now perfectly recovered. Really, your accident concerns me as much as all the disasters of a master ought to affect his scholar. I am sincerely, Sir, with the admiration which you deserve, your most humble servant, VOLTAIRE. In my Lord Bolingbroke's House, Friday at noon, Nov. 16th, 1726. Few Englishmen could indite a letter in French with the facility and felicity exhibited by Voltaire in English. J. B. McGOVERN. "THE MORE THE MERRIER (11 S. v. 429). The assertion that this phrase had for its author an epigrammatist of the seventeenth century is certainly untrue. As for King James I., if he used the phrase, it was because it was already proverbial. All the same, we are not told what authority there is for his use of it. However, it goes back at least to the sixteenth century, and is probably one of those proverbial phrases of which it is absurd to pretend that the origin is known. I give a quotation from Gascoigne which the 'N.E.D.' dates "about 1575": And mo the merier is a Prouerbe eke. From Bartlett's 'Familiar Quotations,' s.v. John Heywood,' I copy the following, with its foot-note references : "The moe the merrier.'*-' Proverbes,' pt. ii. chap. vii.' ***Gascoigne,' Roses,' 1575. Title of a Book of Epigrams, 1608. Beaumont and Fletcher: The Scornful Lady,' Act I. sc. i.; The Sea Voyage,' Act I. sc. ii.' Cf. the French : Plus on est de fous, plus on rit (Dancourt, Maison de Campagne,' sc. xi., 1661-1726). H. GOUDCHAUX. Bartlett, for this phrase, gives a reference to Heywood's Proverbes,' quoting from the This work was the first attempt to make a edition of 1874, a reprint of that of 1598. collection of colloquial sayings in the English language, being arranged in the form of a It is believed to have first apdialogue. peared in 1546, and it is certain that four subsequent editions were printed, viz., in 1562, 1576, 1587, and 1598, a fact which bears eloquent testimony to its popularity. Under these circumstances the phrase under discussion may have been almost as well known and as oft-quoted in the time CASANOVA AND CARLYLE (11 S. v. 428).In case the desired reference be not found, it may be worth while pointing out that in 1833 (Count Cagliostro,' Flight First, eleventh paragraph from the beginning) Carlyle wrote :— "The present inquirer....has read Books in various languages and jargons; feared not to soil his fingers, hunting through ancient dusty Magazines, to sicken his heart in any labyrinth of iniquity and imbecility; nay he had not grudged to dive even into the infectious Mémoires de Casanova,' for a hint or two,-could he have found that work, which, however, most British Librarians make a point of denying that they L. R. M. STRACHAN. possess." Heidelberg. APPARENT DEATH (11 S. v. 428).-Most books on medical jurisprudence (or forensic medicine) contain chapters on this subject, more especially the older editions or earlier works dealing with this branch of medical study, e.g., that written by J. S. Forsyth, surgeon, in 1829 (see chaps. xii.-xix., a long historical account with many illustrative cases); Dr. Michael Ryan's Manual,' 2nd ed., published in 1836, pp. 485-500; and Dr. Ogston's 'Lectures,' published in 1878, chap. xxv., in which he explains the probable causes of many popular tales of interment alive. 6 In his book 'Dead Leaves and Living Seeds' the Rev. Harry Jones relates many things about the cholera epidemic of 1866 in St. George's-in-the-East. He thinks that in the first panic some people must have been buried alive, and gives two instances of the revival of presumed dead persons, one of whom was being removed by the mortuary cart for burial; this was a woman who subsequently had four more children. In 1910 there died at Bicester John Hudson, who in 1832, when cholera carried off sixty-four persons there, was placed in his coffin for burial; but just before the funeral his grandmother, taking a last look at him, fancied she noticed a slight movement. He was removed from the coffin, and recovered. She was 1885, in Paris, aged 70, narrowly escaped Madame Nathalie, who died in November, premature inhumation in 1836. playing in the fairy ballet La Fille de l'Air,' when she fell down in a swoon, was believed to be dead, and was placed in her coffin. The first blow of the undertaker's hammer roused her, and in a few days she was back at the Folies Dramatiques. In syncopal ague there is a condition of suspended animation so long in duration that the patient runs a risk of burial alive. Cases are referred to by Dr. Fagge and Prof. Trousseau in their lectures. WILLIAM BRADBROOK. Bletchley. "SLEEVELESS ERRAND In connexion with the reference to a glove (11 S. v. 445).— being, in Spanish, an emblem of a gratuity, it is worthy of note that at the Speech Day round the audience by the Grecians to collect of Christ's Hospital a white glove is handed gratuities to form a purse for those boys proceeding to the Universities, and that on Saturday, 8 June, the custom was, according to ancient usage, followed at Horsham at the prize-giving. It would be custom started at the old City of London interesting to know when this ancient School, and why the receptacle for the donations should always have been a white glove. J. HARRIS STONE. Oxford and Cambridge Club. The adjective occurs in Chaucer, 'The Testament of Love,' bk. ii., sleeveless wordes"; in Fairefax, 'Godfrey of Boulogne,' bk. vi. s. 89, "sleeveless errand "; in Bishop Hall, bk. iv. sat. i., sleeveless rhymes, tale " ; in Lyly, Euphues, Anat. of Wit,' p. 114, sleeveless excuse ; in Milton, sleeveless reason." 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