do not find that which Manningham heard. thinks it is quite easy to derive all the forms The quotation is still to trace. EDWARD BENSLY. University College, Aberystwyth. When at Brighton lately I happened to take down from the Free Library reference shelves, freely open to readers, a book with which I am sorry to say I was not before acquainted, King's Classical and Foreign Quotations.' of buskin in Spanish, Dutch, and English from the Florio form borzachini. Is it possible to accept this account of the source 66 buskin ? It seems to me of our word that such an etymology is impossible. How can the French forms be derived from the Italian form, when, so far as the evidence goes, the French forms are older than the Italian one by more than a century? But let it be granted that the Italian borzacchini (as it should be spelt) is the original of all the "buskin forms, it is impossible to find an etymology for the Italian word. Certainly, Prof. Skeat's etymology will not do. He explains borzacchino a diminutive of It. borza, a form of borsa, a purse, Gr. Búpon, a hide. But how can this be? In the Quotations Index' I observe one I have never been able to find in any other work-" Spartam nactus es, hanc exorna." Mr. King tells us that the usual translation or interpretation of the Latin, "You have lighted on Sparta, (therefore) be an ornament to it," or more generally "You are by accident of birth a Spartan, so do your best to adorn your country," is wrong. The explanation is too long to quote (see pp. 332-3). Mr. King gives us anonymous quotations under the title of Adespota.' Now "anonymous is a cumbersome word enough, but I do not think much can be said in favour of such a word as adespota." 66 One translation I note seems to have the authority of a great name: "L'amitié est l'Amour sans ailes." This Lord Byron translated, we are told, "Friendship is Love without his wings." But this does not appear to me to be an exact translation. There is no his" in the original; and love here is quite as impersonal as friendship. The preface tells us of a most unfortunate suppression which has been made in this edition, namely, the omission of the mottoes of the English peerage, on the absurdly ridiculous objection of a correspondent that their insertion was "lordolatry.' To this, Mr. King observes, he had no reply. Well, I should have given a pretty forcible reply. Many classical quotations and many of our most trenchant mottoes, the pride of the English, are consequently omitted. One of these is "Hoc age." Shortly translated, it means "do this," that is, attend to what you are about, or attend with all your might and main to the matter you have in hand. RALPH THOMAS. "BUSKIN."-Prof. Skeat has been lately proposing to the Philological Society an etymology for this extremely difficult word. He finds in Florio the word borzachini, buskins, and he sees no difficulty in deriving from this comparatively modern Italian word the Old French forms brousequin, brosequin, bousequin, and brodequin. He as There is no diminutive suffix -cchino in Italian. Prof. Skeat has been thinking of the diminutive -ino; but how is the ch- to be explained? I am afraid the word cannot be explained as a word formed on Italian soil. It is far safer to explain it as a borrowing from one of the non-Italian forms. These all point as Dozy suggests, to a Spanish source; cp. Sp. borcegui, Pt. borzeguim. For the relation of these old forms to the Arabic origin shergi sheep's leather, I beg to refer the eager inquirer to the learned pages of Dozy. See his Glossaire des Mots Espagnols et Portuguais dérivés de l'Arabe' (1869), s.v. 'Borcegui.' A. L. MAYHEW. 66 he PENNELL'S LIFE OF LELAND.'-In Mrs.. Pennell's Life of Charles Godfrey Leland,' 1906, vol. i. p. 244, we are told that astounded the passing Magyar almost to tears with an unexpected Bassama Teremtete." Mrs. Pennell seems to think this is a sort of national salutation. Lest any of her readers should be tempted to try experiments with passing Magyars, I feel bound to point out that it is a blasphemous oath, such as I am sure would never have soiled her pages if she had known its meaning. Readers of Borrow will remember the prominent part it plays in his 'Gypsies of Spain,' owing to a theory he had that from it is derived the name Busné, given by the Spanish gipsies. to all who are not of their race. calls it "a term exceedingly common amongst the lower orders of Magyars, to their disgrace be it spoken." I have been in Budapest, and often heard it, but neverfrom an educated Hungarian. Borrow JAS. PLATT, Jun. WASHINGTON PEDIGREE.- About eight weeks ago I saw in either The Daily Chronicle or The Daily Mirror a letter from a gentle Atkinson, Troylus, 1675. Bookseller, also churchwarden of Great St. Marie. Atkinson, William, 1699. Son of above; bookseller. Beechmore, Edward, 1689. Stationer. Boiedens, John, 1502. Stationer. Breynans, Peter, 1504. Stationer. Dickinson, William, 1718. Bookseller. Mr. Worthington G. Smith has in The Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries for 8 February, 1906, recorded that in some parts of South Bedfordshire it is still believed "that a suspended holed stone will prevent illness in cows, and prevent the entry of the night-hag,' a supernatural kind of witch, supposed to enter stables, take out a horse, ride it furiously all night, and just before daybreak, take it back to the stable, when the farmer, soon after, finds it badly sweating." Some of your readers will call to mind the scene in Marmion' where young Henry Blount The cost Had reckon'd with their Scottis host; In Bedfordshire, it appears, night-hags Field, John, the elder, 1668. Citizen of London, supply the place of the Northern fairies with stationer, and printer. Foakes, John, 1664. Printer. Graves, William, 1680. Stationer. THE SCOTS GREYS AND GREY HORSES.In the descriptive letterpress to the series of sketches bearing on the past history of this distinguished corps, given in The Illustrated. London News of 22 December last, it is stated that " grey horses are not mentioned until 1702." There is a letter still extant from Capt. Andrew Agnew, of the Royal Scots Dragoons, to his cousin Sir Andrew Agnew of Lochnaw, Bart., Sheriff of Wigtownshire, dated 28 August, 1693, on the subject of the purchase for the writer of a grey horse " (The Agnews of Lochnaw,' p. 453). CHARLES DALTON. 66 HOLED STONE FOLKLORE : NIGHTHAGS."-If I remember aright, N. & Q.' has on several occasions contained paragraphs regarding stones with natural or artificial holes in them being used for the purpose of warding off evil; it may therefore be well to draw attention to the fact that whom Sir Walter Scott was acquainted. ASTARTE. PARISH REGISTERS: CURIOUS ENTRIES.— The following are a few examples I have come across in my searches:: Croydon.-1596. Dec. 7, Old Megg buried. 1788. Mary Woodfield, als Queen of Hell, from the College, buried 18 Feb. Ludgate, St. Martin's.-1615. Feb. 28 was buried an anotomy from the College of Physicians. Blackfriars, St. Anne's.-1580. William, foole to my Lady Jermingham, buried 21 March. 1626/7. Feb. 9, Lady Luson's corpse carried away. Newcastle-on-Tyne, St. John's.-1589. Edward Errington, the Towne Fooll, buried 23 August, died in the Peste. 1636. Seven poore thinges out of the Warden close buried 1 Dec. Kirby Moorside, Yorks.-The baptism of "Mr. Anchitel Grey" is entered through illiterate spelling, as Miss Ann Kettle Grey. Tarporley, Cheshire. 1626. Richard Welde, Papist and Excommunicate, 20 August, buried at night. Bishop Wearmouth, Durham.-1596. Feb. 8, A woman in the water buried. Escomb, Durham.-1676. Aug. 2, A linger wild was buried. Wickham, Durham. — 1649. May 4, A West Countryman buried. Hart, Durham.-1641. Feb. 12, Old Mother Midnight of Elwick buried. Hawsted. 1589. The Funeral of the Right Worshipfull Sir William Drury, Knight, was executed 10 March. 1683. Oct. 5, Burd Peter Salehurst, Sussex. Sparke, aged 120 odd years. Burnham, Bucks.-1570. Aug. 24, The Queen's Footman's Child Buried. 1575. Nov. 3, The Queen's Launder buried. 1584. Snow's wife buried 30 March. 1586. May 9, Maude, the child of a Roague, buried. 1587/8. Jan. 4, A Runagate Wench Buried. Chesterton, Cambridge. 1570. Mother Corie was buried 21 Dec. Burham, Kent.-Mr. Ward buried a man. (No date.) Lamesley, Durham. 1678. Anne Marley, Wrapped in Sheepskins, buried. (No date.) Reading, St. Mary's.-1630. Jan. 10, Kathren Roose, apprehended for a wich, buried. Cheshunt.-1600. Feb. 7, Old Plod buried. 1716. July 25, Old Half-head buried. Newington Butts. - 1600. child of Adam Earth buried. Barnes.-1657. Oct. 16, Old Honesty, als Juett's Wife, buried. March (no day), A Camberwell.-1687. June 2, Robert Hern and Elizabeth Bozwell, King and Queen of the Gipsies, buried. Durham, St. Mary-le-Bow. -1722. Brain Pearson, the Abbey dog whipper, buried 6 April. 1732. James Graham, a felon, he was hanged yt same morning just after Bapt., 30 Aug. A. B. C. marriage with her. She was then the widow of Sir John Grey of Groby, who was killed at the battle of St. Albans in 1460. She was married to the king 1 May, 1464. But much more probably Grafton in Northamptonshire was the real place, and an ancient weather - beaten tree still in existence, and generally called "The Queen's Oak," is said to have witnessed the wooing. Grafton Regis was for many years the home of the Widvilles, and what is more likely than that the first interview between Edward IV. and Elizabeth Grey or Widville, which ended in such an important result, took place near her old home? It continued in subsequent years the property of the Crown until granted by Charles II. to his illegitimate son Lord Euston, afterwards created by him Duke of Grafton. There cannot be much doubt as to the locality. The romantic story of the "Wooing " is well known. at Grafton JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge. Queries. MAJOR HAMILL OF CAPRI.-Perhaps the following simple record of a brave Irish officer may be worth adding to the valuable collection of monumental inscriptions to Britons who have died abroad which have appeared in 'N. & Q.' I transcribed it in 1879 from a white marble slab affixed to a high wall, forming one side of the piazza, at Anacapri, in which stands the church containing the curious Paradise pavement. formation on family matters of only private interest WE must request correspondents desiring inI cannot say whether it still exists amidst to affix their names and addresses to their queries, the extraordinary transformations which in order that answers may be sent to them direct. that exquisite fairy isle has since undergone. Sir Hudson Lowe (of St. Helena fame) was in 1808 Governor of Capri, and Murat sent a force to attack the usual landing-places, and a secret one to the extreme west of the island, where the perpendicular rocks were considered inaccessible. However, the French climbed up them, and suddenly came upon Hamill and his astonished little And that which we do with the dead, Maltese guard. The latter they soon dis-Is the name of the honestest man in the nation : posed of, but the gallant son of Erin scorned What more of a man can be said? to yield or fly, and lost his life :Is this epitaph upon Newbery's grave? PERCY E. NEWBERRY. "To the Memory of John Hamill, a native of the County Antrim in Ireland, and Major in His Brittanic Majesty's late Regiment of Malta, who fell while bravely resisting the French invasion of Anacapri, on 4th day of October 1808; and whose mortal remains are deposited near to this place. This tribute of affection and respect has been placed by his kinsman and namesake, October 3a, 1831. Requiescat in pace." D. J. EDWARD IV.'s WOOING AT GRAFTON.At p. 110 of a recently published interesting little book, 'Oxfordshire,' by F. G. Brabant, Wychwood Forest in that county is said traditionally to have been the scene of the first meeting of Edward IV. with Elizabeth Widville, which ultimately resulted in his JOHN NEWBERY'S GRAVE.-Could any of your readers tell me where John Newbery, the publisher, who died in 1767, is buried? Oliver Goldsmith wrote the following riddling epitaph upon him :— What we say of a thing that has just come in fashion, 40, Bedford Street, Liverpool. PALIMPSEST BRASS INSCRIPTIONS.-Last autumn a monumental brass was dug up in the parish of Fivehead, co. Somerset, which is of considerable interest on both sides. The later face bears the effigy of a lady attired in early Elizabethan fashion. The inscription has not yet been recovered, but from the heraldry it appears that she was Jane, daughter and heiress of Sir John Walsh, Kt., of Cathanger, and wife of Lord Edward Seymour, of Berry Pomeroy, eldest surviving son of the Duke of Somerset, Lord Protector, by his first marriage. The length of the brass is 3 ft. 6 in.; it is in six pieces. When the underside had been cleaned, it was found that several brasses had been utilized to make up the size required. The two upper pieces contain a transverse section of an ecclesiastic taken across the breast, the uplifted hands being held together as in prayer. The figure must have been of gigantic size. This section is not large enough to show clearly the character of the attire; it is traversed by several narrow fillets enclosing a pellet between a quatrefoil and a rosette alternately. The third piece contains a perpendicular section of tabernacle work enclosing a pair of small figures, either Apostles or prophets. On the outer margin are the words QVE FINO VIERNES in letters exactly resembling those on the brass of Abbot Thos. Delamere of St. Albans (v. illustration in H. Druitt's Costume in Brasses,' p. 46). The small section engraved with the lady's 66 toes bears on the reverse: .Gilbertus Thornbern nuper rector....qui obiit undecimo Maii.... MCCCCXXVIII. 1. What is the meaning of the first inscription? 2. Of what parish was Gilbert Thornbern rector? E. H. BATES. Puckington Rectory, Ilminster. GOULTON BRASS.-At 6 S. ii. 168 (28 Aug., 1880) the following query appeared : : "In the History of Cleveland,' by the Rev. J. Graves, written in 1808, mention is made of a brass once in Faceby Church to the memory of Sir Lewis Goulton, which brass, he says, was, at the time that he wrote, in the possession of Christopher Goulton, of Highthorn, near Easingwold. With the death of this Christopher Goulton, in 1815, that branch of the Goulton family became extinct. He died without a will, and up to the present time I have been unable to get any information concerning the brass spoken of by Mr. Graves. Can you assist me in any way?-J. Goulton Constable." This query was apparently never answered, and I should like to repeat it, in the hope that some information may now be forthcoming, as since 1880 much has been written upon the subject of brasses, and there is hardly a county in England where brasses have not received more or less attention. In what county is Faceby? Mobile, Ala., U.S.A. STEWART FISKE. [Faceby is in the North Riding of Yorkshire.] WORDSWORTH'S PRIMROSE.-I shall be glad if you will be good enough to explain to me the meaning of Wordsworth's lines :A primrose by the river's brim He says also in 'The Tables Turned':- MRS. MOORE'S MODERN PILGRIM'S PROGRESS.'-In 1882 Mrs. Bloomfield Moore, of Philadelphia, privately printed a 12mo volume of 105 pages, which contains, with other things, A Chapter from the Modern Pilgrim's Progress.' This chapter is thus prefaced : 6 "The proof-sheets of the following pages, in the year 1879, fell into the hands of one of the most brilliantly talented young authors in England. The author of them had never heard anything of the young writer's family, but he had a widowed mother with six children, and after reading this chapter in the proof-sheets, and finding much that was suggestive of experiences in his own family, he fancied it had been written to lay these experiences bare to the public......He went to John Morley, editor of The Fortnightly Review, and accused him of having written this chapter to expose him. His mind became more and more unsettled, and learning that the (real) author of The Modern Pilgrim's Progress' was to sail from Liverpool, Nov. 27, 1879, he told his family that this was an intimation he was to die on that day. At the hour on which the ocean steamer left the wharf he shot himself." Can any reader give me the name of this The intimate relation between Mrs. Moore and Browning will be recalled. young man ? The dedicatory poem of this volume is "To my Friend Robert Browning." Philadelphia. DEWITT MILLER. GODFERY.-I shall be pleased if any of your readers can supply me with information respecting the ancestors, descendants, and birthplace of Michael Godfery, Deputy Governor of the Bank of England in 1695. F. GODFERY. 2, Morton Crescent, Exmouth. VINING FAMILY.-Is it known whether Henry Vining, the father of Mrs. John Wood, was related to Frederick Vining and to James Vining? What relation was William Vining (if any), the actor, to these Vinings ? The 'D.N.B.' notes that Frederick's daughter I have had an argument as to what was Fanny was Mrs. Gill; but Davenport A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more. Adams's 'Dictionary of the Drama' states Hollingborne, Kent, to the memory of that Fanny married E. L. Davenport, the Baldwin Duppa, 1737, and that on a tablet American actor. Which statement is cor- at Cuckfield, Sussex, to the memory of rect? or are both right? Daniel Walter, 1761. J. H. C. TOWNS UNLUCKY FOR KINGS.-In The Edinburgh Review for last October an article on Christina, Queen of Sweden, contains the following passage :— "The coronation, which occurred six years after Christina had taken the oath as 'King' of Sweden, ought to have taken place at Upsala; but as there was no accommodation for foreign envoys in that small town, it was effected at the capital, despite the saying that rulers crowned at Stockholm reigned but a short time." What other towns are supposed to be connected with the ill luck of monarchs ? G. W. "KING COPIN": "ST. COPPIN."-Who was this personage, mentioned in the Digby and Towneley Plays? In the latter Caiaphas says to Jesus: Kyng Copyn in oure game/ thus shall I indew the, ffor a fatur. In the former "be sentt Coppyn " is used JERUSALEM COURT, FLEET STREET.— Can any reader tell me where the above was situated? John Willis published his 'Art of Stenography' in 1602. It was the first alphabetic system. Noble in his Temple Bar Memorials' speaks of a Jerusalem ordinary in 1628. The Bagford Collection contains the following :— 66 "John Willis, B.D., he put forth a Book he calls the Art of Stenographie, he saith it was the first [1621] of that nature he dwelt in Jerusalem Court in fleet Street the 19th Edition 1628."-Lansdowne MS. 808, f. 15. Booke he calls ye Art of Stenography he saith y 1621. "John Willis, B. of D., he put forth A was ye first of that nature he dwelt in Jerusalem Court in flet Streett yo 19th Edition 1628."-From Sloane MS. 885, f. 25. Most Shakesperian commentators assert that the early quartos were produced from shorthand notes taken in the theatre at the KENNEDY FAMILY AND MARYLAND.-time of representation. The 'D.N.B.' (art. I should be much obliged if any person having access to records of the settlement of Maryland would kindly say whether the name of Fergus Kennedy (son of Hew Kennedy, of Bennane), is mentioned, and if so, whether his wife and children are also mentioned. 66 C. M. K. John Willis) does not state where Jerusalem Court was. Arber quotes the Stationers' Register re John Willis. So far as can be ascertained, the only reference to where he "dwelt" is in the above extracts. A diary (1607) in Willis's shorthand is in America; and Trumbull has given an extract. 45, Chancery Lane. MATTHIAS LEVY. "" BONE DEUS IN EPITAPHS.-I shall be glad if any of your readers can supply other instances of the interjection "Bone Deus REYNOLDS's PORTRAITS OF MISS GRE("Good God") in a monumental inscription VILLE.-Northcote in his 'Life of Sir Joshua than that on a tablet in the church of Reynolds,' published in 1816, mentions two |