who deserve our love and gratitude for what they were in their own noble individuality as well as for what they gave us as undying legacies in literature by their genius. Our reverence and admiration for them both is undimmed, and should remain So whilst life can last. But life is flitting away fast, and while I am still able let me try to furnish to dear N. & Q.,' that I have loved from its earliest days, some records that I hold in authentic autographs and memories connected with, e.g., William Hazlitt, Sir Henry Bishop, and others who have passed away into the silence. May a blessing rest at this New Year on all who love N. & Q.' ! J. WOODFALL EBSWORTH. The Priory, Ashford, Kent. (To be continued.) [We trust that our old friend MR. EBSWORTH will pardon the alterations made in the interesting communication he has sent us. His far too kind words about all connected with N. & Q' are deeply appreciated, but we feel that we must retain them for our own private perusal.] EDWARD S. DODGSON, Correspondiente de la Real Academia de la Historia. local newspapers chronicled the removal from the old church at Stenigot, Lincolnshire (now closed), to a new church, of two alabaster monumental tablets, with kneeling figures, bearing the following inscriptions : CARDINAL MEZZOFANTI: JEREMIAH CURTIN. -According to the Central News of 15 December, Mr. Jeremiah Curtin, who translated GUEVARA INSCRIPTIONS AT STENIGOT: Quo Vadis?' from the Polish, has recently" POTIE " WARDEN.-A few months ago died at Bristol, Vermont. He is said to have known seventy languages. If this be correct, he must have surpassed Cardinal Mezzofanti, who, according to 'The Encyclopædia Britannica,' spoke with considerable fluency some fifty or sixty languages of the most widely separated families. Byron, it will be remembered, called him the Briareus of parts of speech, and a walking polyglot who ought to have existed at the time of the Tower of Babel as universal interpreter. The Countess of Blessington, who met Mezzofanti at Bologna, says :— "Mezzofanti is said to be the master of no less than forty languages. When, however, we referred to this subject he disclaimed it, and modestly said there was great exaggeration in the statement. But as he has never left Italy and yet speaks English correctly, I can imagine his proficiency in other tongues." Mezzofanti, it will be observed, disclaimed a knowledge of forty languages; if Mr. Curtin knew seventy languages, Mezzofanti ceases to be a name synonymous with Briareus in a linguistic sense. When I visited Bologna twenty years ago, I chanced, while passing the corner of the Via dell' Orso, to see some workmen pulling down a house. It was the house in which Mezzofanti resided while Professor of Oriental "Here lyeth ye bodie of Francis Viles De vince of Biscay, who had to his first wife Devise Guevaraa, naturale Spannyarde, borne in ye proReade, daughter and heyre to John Reade, of Boston, in ye county of Lincoln, Esquire, by whome he had issue one daughter, Ellene, and after married Annie Egerton, daughter to John Egerton, of Willoughby, in ye county aforesaid, Esquire, by whome he had issue 5 sonnes, viz., John, Peregrine, Henry, William, George, and 5 daughters, viz., Anne, Susan, Cathrine, Elisabeth, and Fraunce, and died ye tenth of February 1592.” "Here lyeth ye bodie of Sir John Grevara, Knight, sometimes the Potie Warden of the East Marches of England under the Right Honourable Peregrine, Lo: Willoughby, Baron of Willoughby, Beak, and Eagesby, some and Heire to Francis Grevara, Esquire, who maryed Anne, daughter of Robert Sanderson, of Saxeby, in the countie of Lincoln, Esquire, by whome he had issue 6 sonnes, viz., Frannces [sic], John, William, Thomas, Charles, and Robert, and 2 daughters, viz., Katherine and Mary, and departed this life ye 6th June, 1607." I have exactly copied these inscriptions as they appeared in print, and the variation in spelling of the surname will be noticed. I am curious, and shall be glad of information, "The Death of Admiral Benbow. A Song.The following ditty has been taken down from the lips of Old Jones,' the celebrated Hawkstone guide, who lately sang it to a quaint old tune. Are the words and music preserved in any published collection of sea songs? This version is traditional in the family of Jones, who have held the office of Hawkstone guide for several generations. The present Old Jones,' when a boy, learnt the song from his father, and these two lives would carry back the date to the early part of the last century; and, perhaps, two other lives would cover the interval after the making of the song. Admiral Benbow. Come, all you seamen bold, You shall hear you shall hear. For to fight-for to fight; Says Corvey unto Webb,* I will run-I will run For I value no disgrace, Nor their guns-nor their guns.' Brave Benbow lost one leg By a chain-shot-by a chain-shotBrave Benbow lost one leg. Oh, fight, my lads, I beg, It's your lot-it's your lot!' "Come, doctor, dress my wounds!' On Sunday morning soon, HERBERT SOUTHAM. "FIRGUNANUM."-This is a word the solution of which I opine may be worth recording, on account of its peculiarity, and of its having cost me very much research to "Kirkby unto Wade. They were shot on board the Bristol, at Plymouth, 16th April, 1703." "+4th Nov., 1702." arrive at it. It was effected when I was almost au bout de mon latin, by a chance effort, and the kind aid of the late erudite President of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, Mr. John R. Garstin. "Firgunanum "is the valediction closing an 'Account of St. Patrick's Purgatory in Lough Derg, County Donegal, and of the Pilgrims' Business There,' which was published on 1 Aug., 1701, by the Ven. Archdeacon Michael Hewetson (Armagh), and is the Irishism of Firgananaim, a curious compound of Greek, Latin, and Irish. It means A man without a name (vir, man ; gan, without; a, a; naim, name). It occurs in the Latin form "Inominatus "in mediaval inscriptions, doing duty as a Christian name, as, for example, in the Hacket one at Fethard, co. Tipperary. 66 66 One might almost feel inclined to think that it could equally signify anonymus,' but it is not so, as the author had special reasons for using his own word, appropriate to his subject and the period when he wrote it. JOHN HEWETSON. CHRIST'S HOSPITAL AT HERTFORD.-The Chambers's great accuracy and value of ' Encyclopædia' make it desirable to point out a mistake occurring under 'Christ's Hospital,' vol. iii. p. 224, col. 1, where we read : "In 1863 the governors built a preparatory school at Hertford, where the children are trained till they are advanced enough to be transferred to the London school." The true date of the erection of the Hertford school is 1683, so that the mistake seems to have arisen from one of the most fruitful sources of printers' errors-that of transposition. W. T. LYNN. OSMUND AIRY. GAMELSHIEL CASTLE, HADDINGTONSHIRE. -Can any of your readers favour me with information respecting the above castle ? I can find nothing about it except in 'The Picture of Scotland,' by Robert Chambers, vol. i., 1827, and this is legendary. I want to ascertain facts concerning the place, if possible. WILLIAM GEMMELL. Scotstown Hill, Glasgow. GEORGE STEPNEY. (See 2 S. xi. 225.)— The Dict. Nat. Biog.' says of this diplomat: "Extensive collections of his correspondence are preserved in the British Museum and in the Public lection is in the possession of the Earl of Maccles Record Office. Another large and important pol field (Hist. MSS. Comm. 1st Rep. p. ix., pp. 34-40)." app. A bibliography of Stepney concludes the sketch in D.N.B.,' liv. 191. "THUNE" ": "EIL-DE-BŒUF," FRENCH SLANG WORDS.-Jn Farmer and Henley's Slang and its Analogues,' sub voce 'Rhino,' thune or tune is given as a French slang name for money generally. This looks odd to me, as I have always heard thune applied specifically to the five-franc piece. Can any reader tell me which is the correct sense? It appears that the Hist. MSS. Commission Is the origin of the term known? Being caused to be made, with the consent of the argot, it is not in the ordinary dictionaries. Earl of Macclesfield, copies of certain of the Another French slang name for this coin is latter's manuscripts, and that these copies ail-de bœuf, corresponding exactly to the were deposited in the Public Record Office English term bull's eye for a five-shilling " among the semi-official documents compiece, just as its Dutch slang name, áchter-monly called 'Transcripts.' · A Calendar wieler, corresponds to our hind coach wheel. I am collecting and comparing the popular names of coins in European languages. JAS. PLATT, Jun. of the Papers of the Earl of Macclesfield' was also commenced and continued (perhaps completed) by the Hist. MSS. Commission (cf. 2nd Report. p. ix). Can any reader say if this calendar or the original letters from Stepney have been examined with a view to the recovery therefrom of new biographical material concerning Dr. Edmond Halley's two missions to Vienna (1702–3)? EUGENE FAIRFIELD MCPIKE. 1, Park Row, Chicago, U.S. ELEANOR OF CASTILE: HER TOMB.-Miss. Strickland speaks of the beautiful recumbent effigy on Queen Eleanor's tomb in Westminster Abbey as a likeness of the queen. that it is not a portrait, but merely an ima Dean Stanley in his 'Memorials' asserts unlikely, and one would much rather believe ginary type of beauty. This seems very that the striking and beautiful figure resembled the chère reine." As a far-away descendant of the royal lady, I am deeply interested in the subject. Can any one enlighten me ? HELGA. well and of Grindleton. He says, in a letter published in Whitaker's Craven,' the original of which is at present in my care:"My 2 chapels are in the Alpes of the West Riding, and I have just now calculated it yt I have rid over the alpine mountains to attend and performe Divine Service at Grindleton Chapel above 3,000 miles put all together; and the whole yearly stipends put in one sum amount not above 60 pounds." His weary rides over the alpine mountains would give him time to think of the Roman road in the near neighbourhood. Am I right in identifying the author of the above-named volume with my equestrian predecessor? Some of your contributors may know more of the Rev. R. Rauthmel. FRED. G. ACKERLEY. Gridleton Vicarage, Clitheroe, Lancs. CANTUS HIBERNICI.'-Some eight years ago I purchased for a couple of shillings a volume enttled "Cantus Hibernici, Auctore Thomâ Moore, Latinè Redditi. Editio Nova. A Nichola Lee Torre, Coll. Nov. apud Oxoniam, olm Socio. Leamington: Thomas Knibb. 1856." The volume, which is dedicated to the Marquess of Lansdowne, contains some 1 Latin renderings of Moore's 'Irish Melodies,' and has an appendix of seven other latin versions of the Melodies,' culled by permission of the author," from the Anthologia Oxoniensis,' the Arundines Cami,' and the Sabrina Corolla'; the initials appended to each translation being R. R. W. L., G. B., W. B. J., and B. H. K. Can any possessor of the Arundines Cami' or the Sabinæ Corolla' tell me whom those initails represent? Perhaps MR. PICKFORD can oblige me. I may add that the versions are idiomatically and literally J. B. McGOVERN. correct. 66 6 St. Stephen's Rectory, C.-on-M., Manchester. 'SEA-VOYAGE OF ALOYSIUS.'-A book with some such title is referred to in a German herbal published in 1546. Can any reader identify it? L. L. K. ROMNEY'S ANCESTRY.-George Romney, of Colby, Appleby (grandfather of the artist), left Colby in the Civil War, and went to Lancaster, and later to Dalton-in-Furness. He was sixty when he married, and the marriage cannot be found at Dalton, St. Lawrence's, Appleby, or Carlisle. Where was he married? and what was his father's name? Had Mary Abbott, of Kirkland, Romney's wife, relations called Collinson and Betham? Where is Kirkland? Was Ann Simpson, of Sladebank, Romney's mother, related to the Simpsons of Torrisholme, near Morecambe, and how? Where is Sladebank ? And was her grandfather, Thomas Park, of Millwood, near Furness Abbey, High Constable of Furness 1642–7, related to Sir James Parke, afterwards Lord Wensleydale ? I shall be greatly obliged for any help. "UNBYCHID"-Twenty-seven years being a very long tim in the history of etymological research, I may be excused for asking if anything further has come to light with regard to the move word, since the publication of Prof. Skeat's edition of Chaucer's ISLE OF MAN AND THE COUNTESS OF 'Man of Lawe' Tale,' &c., by the Clarendon DERBY.-Will some reader inform me where Press. I refer to the notes on "bicched I can find particulars of the surrender of bones, "Pardonere's Tale,' C. 656. Un- the Isle of Man by the Countess of Derby bychid occur in The Towneley Plays to the Parliamentary forces in 1651 ? (E.E.T.S.), 29-356, and is there glossed D. MURRAY. disorderly(?).' H. P. L. 66 66 HENRY STEHEN KEMBLE.-How many descendants of this actor, the nephew of Mrs. Siddons, vent on the stage? I know of his daughter Agnes, who married Thomas Cooper, and lecame the mother of Mr. Union Club, Trafalgar Square, S. W. DONCASTER: IMAGE OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN.-It is believed that in one of the religious houses at Doncaster there was in former days a statue of the Blessed Virgin, deemed to be miraculous, which at some period during the Reformation was sent to London, and there burnt along with other objects of a like character. Can any one direct me to contemporary evidence for this statement, and say in what part of London the fire took place ? K. P. D. E. AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED.— Give my youth, my faith, my sword, H. B. L. BODDINGTON FAMILY.-In Burke's 'Landed Gentry' a pedigree of this family gives the descent from Timothy Boddington, of Barton, co. Oxford. He had a son, John Boddington, and other issue. John's son Thomas had a son John besides other three sons and three daughters; John, the son of Thomas, also had junior issue, the names of whom are not given by Burke. Can any of your readers give me information of the junior issue in the above cases, or of any of their descendants ? There was a John Boddington at North Leigh, co. Oxford, about the beginning of the nineteenth century. Tradition speaks of him in those parts as being contractor for the maintenance of the roads. He was married twice. Any information regarding his parentage, his marriages, his birth, or his death, will be gratefully received. WILL O' GLOUCESTER. OFFICERS OF STATE IN SCOTLAND.-These appear to be : 1. Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal. 2. Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal. 3. Lord Clerk Register. 4. Lord Advocate. 5. Lord Justice Clerk. Will some one conversant with the matter please say how it happens that while the Lord Justice Clerk is one of the officers of State, the Lord Justice General is not ? Replies. FIRST FEMALE ABOLITIONIST. IN reference to MR. ALBERT MATTHEWS'S reply on the above subject, I am in a position to throw a little light on the last paragraph in regard to women's anti-slavery societies in England. The last clause of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society's Constitution, drawn up in 1839, runs : That the committee do invite and encourage the formation of ladies' branch associations in furtherance of the objects of this society." But the formation of such ladies' associations was very far from being a new thing in 1839. In connexion with the previous Ant-Slavery Society, which existed before the Act of 1833, a very large number of women's associations seems to have been formed. The volumes of the journal of that society, The Anti-Slavery Monthly Reporer (which was begun in 1825 by Zachary Macaulay, and ably edited by him until his death), are before me, and the first mertion which I can find of a Women's Anti-Slavery Association having been formed s of that started at Colchester in July 1825; similar one was formed at Cine (Wilts) in the following month. The subscription lists for 1826 show that the Clifton and Bristol Women's Association (to which MR. MATTHEWS refers) was in existence at that date. The lists of the fdlowing-four years show that a great many women's associations were added, all overthe country, during that time. a At the World's Anti-Slavery Convention of 1840, as is well known, Irs. Lucretia Mott and other ladies, who came over as delegates from the United States, were excluded, after long discussion from taking part in the conference, on acount of their sex. J. CHRISTIE. 181, Morningside Road, Edinburgh. JOHN STIVENS, Surgeon-in-Ordinary to the Prince of Wales, died 2 August, 1737. Can any reader give me information about him? W. A. MACNAUGHTON, M.D. Stonehaven, N.B. SCOTT ILLUSTRATORS.-Where can particulars be found of the illustrations to Sir Walter Scott's works, such as the names of the artists, the number of illustrations by each, and the dates of the editions in which they first appeared? E. N. G. It was, however, annoinced in the Reporter published before thit conference that the committee wished to "afford accomodation, as far as the room will permit, to their female friends, to those exertions the cause of freedom is alrady so much indebted," and that tickets would be issued admitting ladies to the galleles and other spaces not necessarily occupied by members. Haydon's large picture of the Convention (now in the National Portrait Gallery) shows that a number of women (most of them in Quaker bonnets) actually sat n the body of the hall. It seems probable, though I am |