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THE BIBLIOPHILE PRESS FRANCE

149, EDGWARE ROAD, LONDON, W.

BURKE'S PEERAGE,

BARONETAGE, KNIGHTAGE, & COMPANIONAGE,

LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1909.

CONTENTS.-No. 262.

Philip and Mary, and in it he is described
as Sir John Pollard, Knight," with a
marginal note "Serjeant-at-law."

"To my wief 500 sheep of the best that shall be
going at Newnham, Clyfton, or Baldry; also house-
hold staff at Newnham Courtney, and farm stock,
and 1007. worth of plate, and 1007. money. The
parsonage to Newnham Court to
my brother

Anthony, and plate that was Sir William Barran-

tyne's. To my brother Anthony Pollard all my

books and farm stock, 20. of plate, and 207. in

money. Legacy to Joan Charlton. My Kinsman

Sir James Pollard, present parson of Newnham,

5. to pray for me his masses. To my brother-in-

law John Studham 40. To my mother 5. A
sermon to be preached by a Catholic Doctor or
Bachelor of Divinity, 10s. Sir John Williams,

NOTES:-Sir John Pollard, the Speaker, 1-The Long-

mans, 2 Englands Parnassus, 4-Genealogical Circu-

lating Library Orkney Hogmanay Song, 5-Latin

Epitaphs-Befana: Epiphany-All Hallows E'en: Tokens

-Bristol and the Slave Trade. 6-Cock Ale-"Cocoa

nutti" Language-Dickens, Pickwick, and Bristol-The

Muffin Martyr - Sneezing Superstition, 7

QUERIES:-George Milton, Scrivener-Dickens's Bastille

Prisoner-Dickens's "Knife-Box"-Aerial Navigation-

Fire Engines - Surnames ending in -nell - Yorkshire

Hunting Incident, 8-Heraldry-Lord Melbourne and

Baldock-Sir H. Walker: Boyne Man-of-War-Sulham-

stead Rectory Dunstable Authors of Quotations

Wanted-The Never Never Land, 9-' Village Blacksmith'

Parodied-Cuthbert Shields-Travelling under Hadrian-

Bride and Bridegroom at Church-"Master Pipe Maker"

-Capt. Rutherford at Trafalgar-"Brokenselde"-Ships Knight. Lord Williams of Thame."

renamed after the Restoration - Gower, a Kentish

Hamlet, 10.

REPLIES:-Mediterranean, 10-"Psychological Moment"-

William Blackborough, Miltons Relative-Queen Eliza-

beth's Day-"Old King Cole," 13-Authors of Quotations

Wanted The Promptorium-Italian Genealogy, 14-

Tolsey at Gloucester-Billy Butler the Hunting Parson

-Caroline as a Masculine Name-“Cardinal" of St. Paul's,

15-Mitred Abbots and Priors-Le Blon Mezzos in Four

Colours-Bishop Sampson of Lichfield-Bell Customs at
Sibson-Joanna Southcott's Celestial Passports-93, Pall
Mall, 16-Samuel Foote, Comedian-Rattlesnake Colonel
-Military Bank-Note: Fort Montague-Parcel Post in
1790, 17-Henry Halliwell-'Lights in Lyrics'-Manor

This is followed by another will, made
a few months earlier, but obviously ratified
and confirmed by, and to be taken as part
of, the above-mentioned later document :-

"The last will and testament of one John Pollard,

esq., made the first day of May, 4 and 5 Philip and

Mary.

"To William Jenkins, my servant, an annuity

out of Newnham Court. To my wife, my manor of
Newnham Court. To my brother Anthony Pollard.
House c. 1300-Truss-Fail-Harris, Silver-Buckle Maker-Knight, deceased. Phyllyp, daughter of William
William Pollard, son of Sir Richard Pollard.

NOTES ON BOOKS:-'The Oxford Thackeray'-Swift's

Fleet Prison, 18.

Prose Works.

Booksellers' Catalogues.

Notes.

SIR JOHN POLLARD, SPEAKER OF

THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.

IT cannot be said that all difficulty as

to the identity of this knight has been

removed. Manning in his Lives of the

Speakers' makes no attempt to specify

his parentage; and the writer of the in-

teresting article upon him in the Dict. Nat.

Biog.,' while correctly stating that he was

second son of Walter Pollard of Plymouth

by Avice, daughter of Richard Pollard,

of Way, Devon, seems also to be of opinion

-though doubtfully-that he was the Sir

John Pollard knighted on 2 Oct., 1553.

Now while it is certain that a person of these

names was among the Coronation knights

of Queen Mary, it is equally clear that he

could not have been the man who was after-

wards Speaker. Not only is the latter

an "armiger" in the whole of his returns

to Parliament between 1553 and 1555, but

in the Journals of the House of Commons,

at his election to the Chair in both 1553

and 1555, he is styled "John Pollard, esqre.'

An examination, however, of his will puts

this right. This is dated 2 Aug., 4 and 5

Sheldon, esq.. wife of the said Anthony. Tene-

ments in the City of London and in Kingston-upon-

Thames, co. Surrey, in right of my wife, being one

of the daughters of Richard [? Gray], late of London,

deceased."

Both wills were proved 13 Oct., 1557, by

Anthony Pollard and Ralph Ferne.

From these two wills it is evident that the

ex-Speaker received knighthood between

buried 25 Aug., 1557, his enjoyment of the

5 May and 2 Aug., 1557; and as he was

knightly dignity was but brief. He died

he left a wife, who, if one of the daughters

8.p., though, as we gather from his will,

of Richard Gray of London, may have

been the "Dame Mary Pollerd, als Norris,

widow," to whose estate, on 21 Dec., 1608,

administration

Grey, her next of kin. This last suggestion

was granted to Thomas

requires support, fifty years being a lengthy

time for a wife to survive her husband.

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The heir of the Speaker was his brother

Little Baldon,"

Anthony, who, as Anthony Pollard of

18 Elizabeth :-

made his will 20 Dec.,

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and Sanford, co. Oxford, 101. To marriage portion
To repair of highways in Newnam Courtney
of ten poor maids, 107., 20s. apiece. To prisoners
in gaol at Oxford, 208. To John Grene my servant,
107. [and several like sums]. To John Shakespeare
my servant, 10. and a black coat. To Symon
Alleine my servant, 107., and a black gown. Leonard
Wilmote, 67. 138. 4d. John Prince, Thomas Mosden,
Robert Mair, 47. each. Gregory Teroll, 3/. 68. 8d,
Alis fferis, 5l. if in my house at my death. To Eliza

beth Wynterfall, 57. on day of her marriage. To
every of the children of Alice Tonkis and Johan
Charleton, my sisters, which shall be alive at my
decease, 5., to be paid within four years. To my
cousin Thomas Ayshe all my books, apparel, &c.
To my cousin William Pollard, son of Sir Richard
Pollard, a gelding, or 5. to buy him one. Residue
to my well-beloved wife Phillipp Pollard, who is
sole exor."

Proved in London 26 Aug., 1577, by Phillippe,
relict and exor. This lady was daughter
of William Sheldon of Beslye, co. Worcester,
and survived her husband many years,
dying 23 Dec., 1606, aged seventy-four.
According to the 'Visitation of Oxfordshire'
(Harl. Soc.), Sir John and Anthony had
three sisters: Alice, wife of T. Tonkes;
Jane, married to Robert Charlton; and
Margaret, wife of
Scudamore. As
will be seen, the two elder are named in
Anthony's will. The M.I. to Anthony at
Newnham styles him the third son of Walter
Pollard of Plymouth. The other older son
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may have been the
James Pollard,
parson of Newnham, named in the Speaker's
will.

There is nothing in the will of either the Speaker or his brother to indicate their kinship with the better-known line of the Pollards of Way, Devon. Both Sir John 66 cousin Wiland Anthony mention their

The Pollard'

of them died very young.
pedigree in Vivian's Visitations of Devon
(the fullest account of the Pollards of Way
of which I have knowledge) gives to the
judge six sons and five daughters; while
in his will he mentions four sons only.
There is little doubt that the Sir John
Pollard knighted in 1553, and mistaken for
the Speaker, was one of the sons of Sir Lewis.
I shall be glad if further light can be
thrown upon the somewhat complicated
Pollard lines, especially upon that repre-
sented by the Speaker's father Walter
Pollard of Plymouth. Also, who was the
Richard Pollard who took so active a part
in the suppression of the monasteries?
W. D. PINK.

Lowton, Newton-le-Willows.

THE LONGMANS.

THE following events of interest in the history of the house of Longman, which appeared in the extra number of Notes on Books published by the firm on the 8th of December last, deserve, I think, a permanent record in ' N. & Q.' :—

1757

UNDER SEVEN MONARCHS.
In the Reign of George I.

Esq., published.

In the Reign of George II.
Johnson's English Dictionary published.

liam Pollard, son to Sir Richard Pollard, 1724 The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle, deceased." This Sir Richard was the head cousinship of the line of Way, but the may have been solely a maternal kinship, through the Speaker's mother Avice, who was daughter of Anthony Pollard of Way, and aunt of Sir Richard. So far as appears, the male line of the Speaker's family ended with his brother Anthony.

The Pollards of Way, while tracing back to the fourteenth century, were brought first into prominence, and their future greatness established, by Sir Lewis Pollard, Justice of the Common Pleas 1511 to 1526. In all notices of him a serious mistake is made as to the year of his death. Foss states that he retired from the Bench in 1526, but lived until 1540; and these dates have been adopted in 'Dict. Nat. Biog.' The will of "Sir Lewes Pollard, militis, Justice of the King's Bench " [sic], is dated 4 Nov., 16 Hen. VIII., and was proved 2 Nov., 1526; so that it is evident that he retired from his judicial duties only through death. He was the founder of several lines of the Pollard family. Both the 'Dict. Nat. Biog.' and Foss state that he had no fewer than eleven sons and eleven daughters, four of his sons being knighted. This large family wants confirmation; possibly many

1788

1798

·

In the Reign of George III.

Mr. Longman wrote to Mr. Charles Wentworth Dilke, desiring his support to a periodical paper to be called The Times. Lyrical Ballads' by Coleridge and Wordsworth published. Acquired Lindley Murray's copyrights. 1800 Coleridge's Translation of 'Wallenstein' published.

1799

Schiller's

1802 Edinburgh Review founded.
1805 Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel' published.
Southey's Madoc' published.
1809 Byron's English Bards and Scotch Re-

viewers' declined.

1814 Wordsworth's Excursion published.
1817 Moore's Lalla Rookh' published.

1849 Second-Hand Book Department given up.
1851 Travellers' Library started.
1852 Roget's 'Thesaurus' published.
1860 Gas first used at Paternoster Row.
1861 Essays and Reviews' published.

House damaged by fire, and old buildings
demolished.

1862 Colenso's 'Pentateuch' published.
1863 New building finished.

Absorbed Parker's business.

Alpine Journal started.

1866 Macaulay's Complete Works published. 1870 Beaconsfield's 'Lothair' published.

1871 Lang's 'Ballads and Lyrics of Old France' published.

1874 Supernatural Religion' published.
1875 American Agency opened.

1876 Trevelyan's "Life of Macaulay' published.
1878 Lecky's England,' Vols. I. and II., published.
1882 Longman's Magazine founded.

1883 Gave up Retail Department.

1885 Badminton Library, first volume published. 'Child's Garden

Stevenson's published.

1886 English Historical Review founded.

of

Verses'

1887 The "Ship" Binding Works opened.
1888 The Silver Library, first volume published.
1889 Lang's Fairy Tale Series, first

published.

1890 Absorbed Rivington's business.

1891 Longmans' Cricket Club started.

1894 Electric light first used.

1895 Badminton Magazine founded.

Bombay House opened.

"The Golliwogg 'born.

1896 Acquired William Morris's Works.

volume

1899 Oxford Library of Practical Theology started.

In the Reign of Edward VII.

1902 Handbooks for the Clergy started.

Indian Education founded.

1905 Political History of England started.

1906 Calcutta Branch opened.

1907 Longmans' Cricket Club revived.

1795 T. N. Longman (III.).

(Born 1771, died 1842.)

1799 T. N. Longman & O. Rees.

(Owen Rees, born 1770, died 1837.)

1804 Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme.

(Thomas Hurst, born 1775, retired 1825, died 1847; Cosmo Orme, born became partner

1804, retired 1841, died 1859.)

1811 Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown.
(Thomas Brown, born 1778, became partner
1811; retired 1859, died 1869.)

1823 Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green.
(Bevis E. Green, born 1794, became partner
1824, retired 1865, died 1869.)

1825 Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green.
1832 Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & *Long-

man.

(*T. Longman IV., born 1804, became partner 1832. died 1879.)

1838 Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & *Longmans.
(*T. Longman IV., and William Longman,
born 1813, became partner 1839, died 1877.)

1841 Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans.
1856 Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts.
(The first " Longman" is only a figurehead
from 1842 to 1859. Thomas Roberts, born.
1810, became partner 1856, died 1865.)
1859 Longman, Green, Longman & Roberts.
1862 Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green.
1865 Longmans. Green, Reader & Dyer.

(Thomas Reader, born 1818, became partner 1865, retired 1889, died 1905. Robert Dyer, born 1817, became partner 1865, died 1884.) 1889 Longmans, Green & Co.

Since the founding of the firm it has never been without a Thomas Longman, and the present is the fifth bearing that name. When one considers the freedom with which theological questions are now discussed, it is strange to remember what offence was

1908 The Journal of Elizabeth, Lady Holland, given to some friends of the firm by the

published.

publication of Essays and Reviews' in 1861. As to Colenso's Pentateuch' in 1862, all the blame fell on the Bishop.

Looking at the record of the chief events in the history of the Longman firm, I can imagine none which it regards with greater pleasure than its association with Macaulay, which was vividly recalled to public remembrance by the affectionate terms in which his nephew Sir George Trevelyan referred to it at the recent Booksellers' Dinner as

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an old family connexion, as prolonged as any recorded in literary history- a connexion never clouded by suspicion, never disturbed by even the shadow of a misunderstanding. It began in the year 1842, sixty-six years ago, when Lord Macaulay's books were published; indeed, it may be said to have begun in 1825, when the Essay on Milton was sent to The Edinburgh Review......Macaulay has left than the close bond of friendship, and mutual sermuch to me, and to those who are coming after me; but he has left us hardly anything of higher value vice, which has already united us for two generations to a certain house in Paternoster Row.'

JOHN C. FRANCIS.

mandy,' for the following, but he guessed The Daunger hid, the place unknowne, &c. wrongly :