ing resemblance to the medallion in Great Ilford Hospital Church referred to on p. 362 as I. Below the shield is what has been an oval piece of glass, but which, having been broken, is now in several pieces leaded together, whereon are the scarcely discernible remains of a coat of arms, the blazon of which seems to read, Azure, on a chevron arg. 3 white roses, seeded and barbed ppr. between 3 garbs (perhaps fleursde-lis) or. Crest, a seated, or three-quarter, human figure or. Motto, "....the truthe." A noticeable fact about this painting is that the brown outline and all the colours, except the yellow stain, have perished to such a degree that the design can only with difficulty be made out, and I am inclined to think that it is an example of 16th- or 17thcentury varnish painting on glass, so far as the pigments other than the yellow stain, which is bright and clear, are concerned. On the dexter side of the central shield is the red rose of Lancaster, barbed ppr., with the white rose of York, seeded ppr., in pretence. Small fragments of a blueand-yellow chaplet remain round the roses, while above the chaplet is a royal crown of four half-arches, with crosses patée and fleurs-de-lis on the circlet and a ball and cross on the top. On the sinister side of the shield is a red rose, seeded and barbed ppr., with blue-and-yellow chaplet, almost complete, encircling it, and above, a royal crown similar to, but larger, bolder in design, and with higher arches than, that over the other church is also strengthened by the fact that a brass to Thomas, son and heir to this Sir John Heron, is on the north wall. The inscription below the figure, which is that of a youth in civilian dress, states that Thomas died in 1517, aged 14. I am much indebted to L. M. R. for his suggestions at 11 S. ii. 464. On the whole, of the two solutions which he suggests, I incline to that of Joab slaying Amasa. The foreground of the painting is open country -trees, undergrowth, and broken groundvery well answering to the description in 2 Sam. xx. of the place where Amasa's murder took place, but not so suggestive of the scene of Joab's slaying of Abner, the middle of the gate" of Hebron. The treacherous slayer, too, in the picture is dressed after the manner mentioned in verse 8, and prominence is given to his sword scabbard, as in the Biblical account. On the other hand, it must be admitted that the murderer holds his sword (the blade of which is buried in his victim's right side) in his own right hand, and he is taking the older man's chin with his left hand. These slight differences, however, may be merely the effect of the artist's liberties with his subject. F. SYDNEY EDEN. Maycroft, Fyfield Road, Walthamstow. THE "BOW-WOW" STYLE. MR. CURRY'S interesting article (11 S. ii. 522) has reminded me of the use of the familiar cry of the dog by serious writers. Max Müller spoke of the extravagances of the school who favoured onomatopœic explanations as "bow-wow words." This was meant, of course, sarcastically, and the word generally connotes contempt and impudence rather than dignity or impressiveness. But this is hardly so in three examples, two of which are, I take it, derived from the earliest. Boswell in his 'Life of Johnson (vol. ii. p. 326, ed. Birkbeck Hill) refers to his hero's mode of speaking as indeed very impressive," and adds the note: 66 "My noble friend Lord Pembroke said once to me at Wilton, with a happy pleasantry and some truth, that Dr. Johnson's sayings would not appear as extraordinary, were it not for his bowwow way." This clearly represents, to quote Boswell again in the same passage, Johnson's "deliWhen he berate and strong utterance.' started barking, no one else had a chance to break in; it was a case of the "sort of mentioned men" by Gratiano at the beginning of 'The Merchant of Venice,' who, tion and to its Committees, especially by the when they do speak, seem to say, I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips let no dog bark. The N.E.D.' gives a quotation of 1854 which repeats this characterization of Johnson, but not the passage itself. Now the mention of a big dog who silenced his companions or took a dignified lead in barking would give this meaning more clearly, and I find Scott in his pleasant way thus, perhaps, recalling the remark on Johnson. He says (Journal,' vol. i. p. 61, ed. 1890) concerning the merits of some verses he wrote in 1825 to the tune of Bonnie Dundee' : . PRINCE OF MONACO'S MEMOIR. (See 10 S. vii. 125, 244; viii. 83; 11 S. i. 362.) THE following is a translation of another inedited prison paper of the Prince of Monaco in my possession, and is well written, without any erasures :— Memoir sent 26 Thermidor [August] to the Committee of General Safety, and addressed to the Representatives of the People, composing the Committee of General Safety. Citizens,-A decree given the 18th of this month has charged you to set at liberty the citizens detained as suspects for reasons which are not designated by the law of 17 September, Old Style. The declaration above delivered by the Revo lutionary Committee of Vigilance, of the section of the Red Cap, gives the reason for my detention to be the emigration of one of my children. I thought I had proved by the different Memoirs that I have addressed to the National Conven observations expressed on 14 Pluviôse [March], of which I here give an example, that my son cannot be considered as an émigré. Besides, my absent son is 31 years old, out of my power by the laws, and has not dwelt with me since his marriage in 1781; he did not tell me of his departure, and I have not received news of him, nor have I written to him. But if my son ever could be called an émigré,. the law of 17 October, 1793, Old Style, cannot be applied to me, as it implies that only those former nobles shall be deemed suspects who are the fathers of émigrés who have not constantly for, first in the quality of Prince of Monaco, and manifested their attachment to the Revolution; then in that of a private person, I have always shown my devotion and my zeal for the happiness of the French people and the prosperity of France. In reality, not satisfied with not having spared trouble or expense to provide for the victualling and necessary subsistence of the troops of France in garrison in the Place de Monaco, and those of said Principality and its environs, I have besides the armies of Italy, sent in detachments into the borrowed a large sum at Genoa, which I still owe, and which I have employed for the same use. I have several times advanced my own money for the payment of the French garrison, with the view of preventing any contingencies that might retard it. The deeds deposited in the Registers of the Treasury of the former Principality of Monacoare now at the disposal of the administrators of the Department of the Maritime Alps, and among the letters of the Minister of War' who has been informed of them. Protected by the same sentiments, I have always addressed the strongest representations and solicitations to the different Ministers of War to procure for the French troops in garrison at Monaco things necessary for them, and to make them preserve exactly the military discipline and laws decreed by the National Assembly, which is shown by my letters, that ought to be found in the War Office. The proofs of my constant attachment to the French Republic, as a private person, are no less real, and although they are contained in the different Memorials that I have presented, I will. recall them :— The voluntary gift that I have made of several horses. That of 24 guns, or of their equivalent. That of 4 pieces of bronze cannon which be-longed to me, to the Commune of Thorigny, Department of La Manche. That of the first Tree of Liberty which has been placed in the same Commune. The assistance of bread and money that I have not ceased to give to the poor of the Communes have given to the Section of the Red Cap. where I have possessions. The money that I Finally, the prompt and exact payment of all the ordinary and extraordinary contributions which have been levied on me up to this day. To all these proofs of my attachment I could also add my unbroken residence in France from: the commencement of the year 1790. men. I believe, Citizens, that this short statement argues sufficiently in my favour, and proves plainly that I cannot be classed, by the law of 17 September, 1793, Old Style, under suspected I could also support myself in this respect by the Report made by the Diplomatic Committee to the National Convention, 14 February, 1793, at the time of the reunion of the Principality of Monaco to the French Republic, and claim the justice which this Committee did not fail to render on that occasion to the sentiments that I have always manifested. But, Citizens, I have without doubt sufficiently proved that I am entitled to profit by the kind intentions of the decree of the 18th of this month, and I implore your justice to grant me speedily the benefit of it, fully convinced that the representatives of a free and generous people will put a stop to the detention which I have suffered for nearly a year, and that they will at the same time order the removal of the seals put in my house. As to the correspondence mentioned above, I can only congratulate myself that from what has been sent to the Committee of General Safety it will be the better able to judge of my true sentiments. As to being one of the enemies of the State, I cannot conceive what has led the Committee of Revolutionary Surveillance, of the Section of the Red Cap, to use these terms; in truth, I am certain of never having written against the Revolution or the prosperity of the French Republic, and I defy any one to produce the slightest proof to the contrary. Health and Fraternity. On the title-page of this Memoir was Section of the Red Cap. Made the day and year above said. Signed D'Aire President and Tosi Secretary. The MS. is on 4 pp. 4to, similar paper and watermark to the Examination (11 S. i. 362). The parts in italics are underlined in the original. The year seems to be 1794. D. J. ANNA SEWARD DATE OF HER BAPTISM.Mr. A. L. Reade in his Johnsonian Gleanings' (p. 34) writes: "It is strange that the date of Anna Seward's birth never seems to have been correctly stated." He gives the date as 1 December, 1744. Being her representative, tracing through the first wife of John Hunter, I have taken the trouble (I wish I had done so before publishing a booklet on Anna Seward) to obtain a certificate, signed on 5 May, 1910, by the present Rector of Eyam, which states that Anne Seward, the daughter of the Rev. Thomas Seward, Rector of Eyam, and Mrs. Elizabeth Seward his wife,' was baptized 28 December, 1742. The Seward family Bible is in the possession of Sir Robert White-Thomson of Exbourne, North Devon, who is the representative of Anna Seward through Hunter's second wife, and the statement in it that she was born on the 1st of December, 1744, and baptized on the 28th of the same month, and that her sponsors were her Uncle Norton, her Aunt Martin, and Mrs. Jackson of Burton, must, of course, now be treated as erroneous, so far as it relates to the date of the baptism. STAPLETON MARTIN. The Firs, Norton, Worcester. SYBIL, QUEEN OF SCOTLAND: HER PARENTAGE.-Alexander I., King of Scotland, about the time of his accession (1107), married Sybilla," illegitimate daughter of Henry I., King of England ('D.N.B.'). Sybil's mother is not referred to, but under Henry I. she is said to have been a sister of Waleran, Count of Meulan, the authorities cited being Orderic and Skene's 'Celtic Scotland.' No doubt the sister referred to was Isabel (afterwards wife of Gilbert de Clare, 1st Earl of Pembroke), who was a mistress of Henry I. (Planché, Conqueror and his Companions,' i. 216). It seems rash to suggest that Orderic, a contemporary chronicler, was completely at fault; but from a consideration of the dates involved it seems to me impossible that any sister of Count Waleran can have been mother to Sybil. Waleran was the eldest son of Robert de Beaumont, Count of Meulan (France), Lord of Pontaudemer and Beaumont (Normandy), and 1st Earl of Leicester, by his wife Isabel, daughter of Hugh the Great, Count of Vermandois, younger son of Henry I., King of France (ibid, i. 212). When the marriage of Robert and Isabel was projected, it was forbidden on the ground of consanguinity, by Ivo, Bishop of Chartres, at the beginning of 1096 (Chester Waters, Gundrada de Warrenne,' pp. 16-17). However, the Pope granted a dispensation, on condition that Isabel's father should take the cross, and the marriage took place in 1096-7. If we assume that their daughter Isabel was the eldest child of this marriage, and was born at the earliest possible moment, she would have been about ten years of age when her alleged daughter married the King of Scots. Even if Alexander's marriage did not take place so early as stated by the 'D.N.B.'a point on which Scottish readers may be able to give some information-it seems impossible to account for the discrepancy-a whole generation. I suggest that Sybil's mother must have been another of Henry I.'s numerous mistresses. 6 St. Cross, Harleston, Norfolk. GEOFFREY POLE, the Winchester scholar of whom mention has been made at 9 S. viii. 73, 449, under the heading Anthony Fortescue,' and at 9 S. ix. 468 under Sir Geoffrey Pole, died 1558,' was not attainted 26 February, 1562/3 (Appendix II. to the Fourth Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records, pp. 263-4), though Sir Thomas Smith mentions him as privy to the plot (Cal. S.P. for 1562,' p. 480), as he was only 14 years old at the time. In 1576 he was a magistrate of Sussex suspected of Popery (Strype, Annals,' II. ii. 22), and on 29 October, 1577, he was ordered to appear before the Privy Council (Dasent, Acts,' x. 69). He had gone abroad before 23 June, 1585, and had let Lordington to his nephew Anthony Fortescue the younger at 50l. a year (Cal. S.P. Dom., 1581-90,' p. 247, and cf. pp. 351, 354). In the 'Concertatio Ecclesiæ' he is called Galfrid. The fugitive Germane Pole (ibid., p. 705; 'Cal. S.P. Dom., 1591-4,' at p. 15; 15981601, at p. 310), who had a brother Gervase at the English College, Rome, in 1599, belonged to the Derbyshire family, and was not a relative of Geoffrey. In 1600 the Duke of Parma was endeavouring to obtain the cardinal's hat for Arthur Pole, a son of the nephew of Cardinal Pole (i.e. of Geoffrey), a young man of 25 years of age, brought up from his childhood in the house of the late Cardinal Alexander Farnese ('Cal. S.P. Span., 1587-1603,' at pp. 670, 671). On 19 June, 1622, one of Geoffrey's daughters, Mary, was professed at St. Monica's Augustinian Convent at Louvain, aged 39, and the 'Chronicle,' vol. i. (Sands & Co., 1904), at pp. 242-3, gives this account of her father :— SO "He was a brave gentleman and courageous, a most constant Catholic, a harbourer of priests, and one who, being strong of hand, would beat that they stood in great fear of him. the pursuivants and catchpolls so handsomely Insomuch that once a pursuivant being sent down to serve a writ upon him for his conscience, he chanced to meet with the pursuivant upon the way; something of Mr. Geoffrey Pole, saying thus: 'He that riding together the fellow began to speak is a shrewd man of his hands, for he did beat a brother of mine, but I have here something, I warrant, that will cool his courage'; and told him how he had brought the writ for him. entertained him with talk and rode on together heard him, and said nothing who he was, but so long till he had him in a fit place, and then said to him: Here is Geoffrey Pole; what hast thou and said as the manner is, The Queen greets you to say to him? The fellow pulled out his writ (for it was in her reign). He, hearing this, made He no more ado, but drew his sword and said: Look here, fellow, I give thee thy choice; either eat up this writ presently, or else eat my sword: for one of both thou shalt do ere we part hence.' The poor man began to quake for fear and durst not resist him, but like a coward was wholly daunted, and did indeed eat up the writ for mere fear rather than he would be killed. So became the writ of no effect, but only to punish the pursuivant for his pains. Such like good feats did this worthy gentleman perform, showing At always his zeal unto the Catholic religion. length he came over to this side the seas, where he died like a constant Catholic, in voluntary banishment at Antwerp." The chronicler also states that Geoffrey was the only one of all the sons of Sir Geoffrey who had issue. She also tells us, at p. 257, that one of Geoffrey's sisters was mother-inlaw to a certain Richard Lamb, Esq., who wes in the household of Lord Montague. Is it known whom Geoffrey married? Or what became of his issue? JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. "CARPET - BAGGER."-In a recent Times article on American social conditions it was mentioned that this expression was applied by Southerners after the Civil War to Northern officials sent among them during the Reconstruction period. The term was unpopular as denoting one whose worldly possessions could be carried in a carpetbag. In this country carpet-bagger seems to mean an unknown meteoric candidate who puts up at a local hotel with his carpet-bag during the contest. Not long ago I heard this term applied to a municipal 66 candidate who crossed to a different quarter in the forehead. The only object found 66 of London from that in which he resided and was known. As the carpet-bag is rarely, if ever, seen in these days, though the political epithet carpet-bagger" is likely to continue in currency, its etymology will become obscure. FRANCIS P. MARCHANT. Streatham Common. MEDICINA MSTÆ. "MUSICE MENTIS In No. 33, p. 28, of A Student's Pastime ' ('N. & Q.,' 3 S. xii. 412) Prof. Skeat writes: "On the fly-leaf of a Collection of Musical Tunes, by John Dowlande, M.B., in MS. Camb: Univ. Dd. ii. 11, is the following specimen of alliteration - Musica mentis medicina mæstæ.'" The source of the quotation does not seem to have been recognized. A still more striking example of alliteration is afforded when these words are combined with the remainder of the stanza : Musice mentis medicina mæstæ, Maxima mittit. This is the conclusion of a poem by Walter Haddon (1516-72), headed 'De Musica ' on p. 69 (wrongly numbered 66) of his Poemata,' at the end of his Lucubrationes,' London, 1567. The poem consists of five Sapphic stanzas, the first three lines of each beginning with some case "musice." of Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy,' 2.2.6.3, 6th ed., p. 299, has "Musica est mentis medicina mæstæ, a roaring-meg against Melancholy." The last words must have been suggested by the title of a work of 1598 quoted, under Roaring Meg, in the 'N.E.D.': Tyros Roring Megge Planted against the walles of Melancholy,' which is in the list (Selden MS. 80, supra) of Burton's books that were given to the Bodleian. EDWARD BENSLY. BENJAMIN BATHURST.-The 'D.N.B.' has found this English diplomat worthy of notice on account of his mysterious disappearance in Germany now more than 101 years ago. With regard to his death The Observer of 18 December last published a short notice under the title of "A CenturyOld Mystery,' according to which a skeleton was found recently in a field close to the little Prussian town of Perleberg, near Berlin, buried face downwards, and with a large hole with the remains was " a large key, believed to be of old English workmanship." The bones were being examined as to their age. L. L. K. - THE SECOND EARL SPENCER: HIS DEATH. -The recent death of John, fifth Earl Spencer, has occasioned some newspaper references to the Althorp Library and its founder, George John, the second Earl. It is rather difficult to say how much assistance his eulogizer T. Frognall Dibdin rendered in bringing that marvellous collection together-probably very little; but at least in his Bibliotheca Spenceriana' he compiled a most useful work, and satisfied the pride of his patron, who rewarded him by obtaining his appointment to the The news of Lord Spencer's last illness living of St. Mary, Bryanston Square. letter now before me :— and death came to Dibdin suddenly in a MY DEAR SIR, Althorp, Nov. 10, 1834. As Lord Spencer's illness has only been of four days' duration, it is probable that you may not yet have heard of it. Most truly grieved am I to tell you, as you will be to hear, that there is no doubt of its terminating fatally; and it is more than probable that the postscript to this will confirm the suspicion. Lord Althorp and all the family are here. You and I and very many more will lose in him their best friend. My dear Sir, Very sincerely yours, P.S.-25 min. past 2. I have just seen him breathe his last. The Rev'd Dr. Dibdin. The letter is not addressed, but probably Dibdin was then living at 58, Cambridge Street, Connaught Square. ALECK ABRAHAMS. WEDGEWOOD WARE AND WATER-CARRIAGE. The Nottingham Journal for 1780 I inci-In the course of a recent search through dentally came across and scanned a note of some interest to ceramic students, although I did not, unfortunately, note the precise date. The item in question related to the conviction of a Nottingham man for stealing a large quantity of earthenware from a cask on a barge on the Trent, at Wilford Shoals, the said earthenware being the property of Josiah Wedgewood of Etruria, Staffordshire. Wilford is immediately above Nottingham, on this river, and the note illustrates the former importance of carriage by water in England. A. STAPLETON. Nottingham. |