MR. FRANK REDWAY of Wimbledon has in his Catalogue 14 Boswell's copy of Shakespeare, Johnson's edition, 8 vols., 1765, in which Boswell has written "James Boswell, London, 1766.' The following are among presentation copies from the authors: Tom Brown's School Days,' | send address.

LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1913.

CONTENTS.-No. 186. -
NOTES:-Mingay "with the Iron Hand," 41-Huntingdon-
shire Booksellers and Printers, 44-"Tredekeiles"-John
Phillip's Connexion with Dyce, 45-The Marquessate of
Lincolnshire-Unnoted Shakespeare Allusions in Thomas
Shadwell, 46-Capt. William Harvey, R. N.-Maimonides
and Evolution-Baretti's Copy of his 'Discours sur
Shakespear,' 47.

those days for the leading counsel to walk in the Temple Gardens in the summer evenings, and that Erskine and Mingay were the chief attractions.

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Style), baptized at St. Peter's Church on 10 June, and educated at Thetford Grammar School under Mr. Galloway.

James Mingay had a traditional connexion with the Inner Temple. Francis Mingay of Ilketshall St. Margaret, Suffolk, was Master of the Bench of that Inn in 1617. His mother was a sister of Sir Edward Coke, and he is described in the Visitation of QUERIES:-"L'Entente Cordiale," 47-Danvers Family Surrey' (Harl. Soc., 1899) as of Southwark, of Swithland and London-Wedding Pieces-British Troopship wrecked on Réunion Island-Portcullis as a Justice of the Peace, and of the Inner Coat of Arms, 48-Parke and Scoles in Egypt and Nubia Temple." The family was conspicuous in "The Eight and Fortie Men"-Milton-Humbug- Norfolk and Suffolk for many generations. Dr. Gregory Sharpe's Correspondence-Oak Trees in a Gale-"Wear the blue," 49-Lines in a Parish Register- James Mingay was a native of Thetford. Glasgow Men as Papil Zouaves-Pennington-Braddock He was born there on 9 March, 1752 (Old Family - Napoleon I. and Duelling -"The Crooked Billet"-"The Two Reynoldses," 50. REPLIES:-Old-Time Children's Books: Lady Anne,' 50 -Byron and the Hobhouse MS.-Derived Senses of the Cardinal Points, 51-The Largest Square in LondonIzaak Walton and Tomb Scratching, 52-'The Tomahawk': Matt Morgan-Wilderness Row, 53The Younger Van Helmont-The Twelve Good Rules-George Walker, Governor of Londonderry, 51-Authors of Quotations Wanted-General Ingoldsby-Mungo Campbell's Dying Message: "Farewell, vain world!"-"Hollo!" 55 -Wreck of the Jane, Duchess of Gordon-“Rummage' -Cawthorne, 56-Grillion's Club -The Parliamentary Soldiers and Charles I.-History of Churches in Situ"Raising Feast," 57-"Pull one's leg"-Boys in Petticoats and Fairies-Private Schools-Scott's Woodstock': the Rota Club-Dancing on “Midsummer Night," 58. NOTES ON BOOKS:-'The Jews of To-day'-' Aberdeen' -'Celtic Place-Names - The Aldermen of the City of London'-Catholic Record Society. Booksellers' Catalogues. Notices to Correspondents.

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MINGAY WITH THE IRON HAND." MEMOIRS of most of the oddities embalmed in Charles Lamb's essay on the old benchers of the Inner Temple are contained in the volumes of the 'D.N.B.,' but some of them are unchronicled. The chief of these is James Mingay, K.C.

He is brought into Elia as an afterthought

"I had almost forgotten Mingay with the iron hand-but he was somewhat later. He had lost his right hand by some accident and supplied it with a grappling hook, which he wielded with a tolerable adroitness. I detected the substitute before I was old enough to reason whether it were artificial or not. I remember the astonishment it raised in me. He was a blustering loudtalking person and I reconciled the phenomenon to my ideas as an emblem of power, somewhat like the horns in the forehead of Michael Angelo's Moses."

W. C. Townsend adds ('Twelve Eminent
Judges,' i. 427) that it was the fashion in

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In the very inadequate Memoir-a memoir without a date-of James Mingay which is prefixed to A Collection of Remarkable and Interesting Criminal Trials,' by W. M. Medland and Charles Weobly, 1803, &c.— a work not to be found at the British Museum or in any law-library in London, save at Lincoln's Inn, and there in two volumes only, instead of three-it is said that his father was a miller in Suffolk, and that he was sent to the Bar as the loss of his right arm had rendered him unfit for manual labour in the mill. This statement about his father is erroneous; he was a surgeon, and both parents seem to have been possessed of property. The other Memoir of him is an anonymous volume entitled 'Sketches of the Characters of the Hon. Thomas Erskine and James Mingay, interspersed with Anecdotes and Professional Strictures' (1794), which says that, through sympathy with his misfortune, the Duke of Grafton, whose chief seat was near Thetford, became his patron. The accident is said to have occurred at Cringleford Mill, near Norwich, when he was a boy (Chambers, Norfolk History,' 1829, ii. 798). Charles Lamb, as we have seen, was impressed by the hook, will was written with his left and only hand and Mingay himself put on record that his "in a state of lameness from an accident." In The Wils' Magazine, i. 235 (1784), is the following Impromptu ' on hearing Mr. Mingay in the Court of King's Bench :Since so well, with one arm, Mingay handles

obtained definite information on this point. took part, is given in The European His name appears in the books of Magazine for 1787, ii. 140, and reprinted in Trinity College, where he was entered as pensioner on 29 Nov., 1768, Mr. R. Watson Richard Watson, afterwards Bishop of Llandaff being his tutor. Next year he matriculated, and became a scholar of his college, but he did not graduate ('Rouse Ball, and Venn,' iii. 216). In 1770 he was entered at the Inner Temple, his father then being described as James Mingay of Gimingham, Norfolk, and he was called to the Bar

in 1775.

Hone's Every-day Book,' vol. i., sub
23 Jan. Crabb Robinson ('Diary,' 1872 ed.,
i. 9-10) chronicles a case at Colchester in
the Spring Assizes of 1791, in which Mingay
was engaged against Erskine. and describes
Mingay as "loud and violent." His advice
to Mr. Fosset, the distiller, who was con-
victed for dealing in adulterated spirits,
and thought of applying for a new trial,
is printed in The Monthly Mirror for July,
1797. He recommended his client to
"rest where he was lest the jury on fuller proof
should clap another per centage upon the run
goods without any draw-back from the new duty
for waste or leakage."

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For some short time Mingay drew pleadings under Charles Runnington (D.N.B.'). When called he selected the Norfolk Circuit, and soon had a considerable share of work both in London and at sessions. Even at the This advice, it must be confessed, has lost Bar he was conspicuous among his contem- by this time whatever spirit it once had. poraries for cool assurance. He is described One of his jests at the expense of Erskine as commanding in figure and confident in is set out in W. C. Townsend's Twelve manner; he was prompt and clear in speech, Eminent Judges,' i. 438, and Lord Campbell and conspicuous for readiness and adroit-(Lives of the Lord Chancellors,' vi. 679) ness in cross-examination. In his profession | says that Erskine lacked the coarse Mingay was second only to Erskine, who humour of Mingay." Ho once made dreaded him more than any other com5000 guineas (Crabb Robinson, Diary,' petitor, and they were usually pitted i. 325), an enormous sum for a professional against one another. man at the Bar about 1780.

Mingay was created K.C. by patent dated 26 Nov., 1784, and appeared the same evening before the Lord Chancellor at his house in Great Ormond Street, when he took the oaths of allegiance and supremacy kneeling, and the oath of office standing (information furnished by Sir Kenneth Muir Mackenzie, K.C.). He became a Bencher of his Inn in 1785, was Reader in 1790, and Treasurer in 1791. In 1788 he was elected Recorder of Aldborough; he was, by special commission dated 29 April, 1806, made a Justice of the Peace for Thetford, and he acted as Chairman of Quarter Sessions for Norfolk and Suffolk for many years. Mingay was often a Special Commissioner at the Thetford Assizes, and he was three times Mayor of Thetford (1798-9, 1800-1, and 1804-5). A summary of his speech on his first election as mayor is in Pratt's Gleanings in England,' ii. 252-3 (1801). During that same occasion the freedom of the borough was bestowed on Lord Nelson. The gift dated 13 Oct.. 1798, and signed J. Mingay, is in the painted hall at Greenwich Hospital, but the actual presentation did not take place until 1800.

A versified exemplification by John Baynes (of Gray's Inn, d. 1787) of the proceedings in the Court of King's Bench on examination of bail, in which Mingay

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Mingay's politics in early life were those of the Whig Party. In 1794 he detested "the then calamitous war with France," and when Windham, as Secretary at War, stood for re-election at Norwich in July of that year, his name was put forward in opposition. He was only nominated the day before the election, and was not present in the city, but he polled 770 votes against 1,236 which were cast for the Minister. There appeared a few days after the contest An Address to the Electors of Norwich, being a Vindication of the Principles and Conduct of Mr. Windham's Opponents.... With an Appendix containing a Letter from J. Mingay." 2nd ed. Norwich (1794).

1806, is at the British Museum (Addit. MSS. youngest son, my father James Mingay, and 37906, f. 235). It was written in the Dorothy his second wife, and their children are interest of Windham for Norfolk, and of buried in my vault at Thetford." himself for Thetford, and refers to the The father had two daughters one of appointment of his successor at Bridgwater. whom died in 1747, and the other in 1754 Windham records in his Diary, p. 478-by his first wife, and ten children by the

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(14 Aug., 1808), that Mingay called upon him at Thetford - conversation upon the whole not unpleasant."

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A few years before 1794 Mingay had a very severe indisposition," which disabled him from practice for a considerable time. In the summer of 1802 he retired into private life, and after a long and painful illness," he died at Ashfield Lodge, Great Ashfield, Suffolk, on 9 July, 1812, and was buried in the family vault in St. Mary's Church, Thetford, on 17 July, being described somewhat quaintly as James Mingay, married-man aged 62." His wife was Eliza Corrall of Maidstone. They had no issue. She died at Maidstone College, 1 Feb., 1817. He had given to St. Mary's Church, on 1 Jan., 1786, a set of communion plate of silver, with his name and arms engraven on each vessel, and in 1791 he gave to St. Peter's Church a brass chandelier and the iron palisading which surrounds the churchyard (George Burrell, Thetford Charities,' 1809, p. 77; Norfolk and Norwich Archæol. Soc., Miscellaneous Tracts,' xvi. 38 [1907], by Rev. E. C. Hopper).

The wealth and vanity of Mingay are shown in his holograph will, dated 20 March, and the codicil of 18 May, 1812. His executors were his wife's brother, Philip Corrall of Maidstone, and two other gentlemen, to each of whom he gave 50l. He

desired

second.

Mingay left annuities to his five sisters, and the above-mentioned sum of 4,0007. on his wife's death, to be divided was, between them and the same great-nephew. His estate at Shottesham went to his nephew, William James Mingay, an officer in H.M. navy (eldest son of W. R. Mingay; he died (an admiral) on 30 Nov., 1865, and was buried in Gravesend Cemetery), with remainder in default of male issue to George Mingay, a student at Caius College, Cambridge (d. 1879 [Venn, 'Biog. Hist. of Gonville and Caius,' ii. 149]). His "capital mansion and lands in St. Peter, Thetford, formerly in the tenure of his late brother William Robert Mingay, M.D.," were to be sold. This nephew, William James Mingay, was to receive 1,000l.,

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all family pictures and prints not otherwise bequeathed, my family bibles, seals; my silver tankard, and pewter dishes and plates that were my uncle's."

"to be buried (after some operation has been performed on my body to prove that I am dead) in my vault in St. Mary's Church, Thetford, near my mother, and a marble monument to be erected near by over the South door that shall state that I was a K.C., a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries [1785] many years an acting Magis- Another nephew, John James Garnham, trate for Norfolk and Suffolk, and by special commission for the borough of Thetford, and that I captain in the West Suffolk Militia, received was returned to represent the said borough (my" the messuage in Great Ashfield, in the tenure native place) in parliament, and my coat of arms of the families of Mingay, Fuller and Parker of Derbyshire shall be painted thereon."

The will then proceeded to lay down

that a

of Mary Orams widow, with 27 acres of land there, all which I bought of Thomas Sturgeon of that place, and 2001. [This nephew d., Granard, Ireland, 18 Dec., 1813, aged 32. A. Page, Suppl.

to Suffolk Traveller,' 1844, p. 758.]

There were many other bequests to
relatives, friends, and servants. The Rev.
Harry Charles Manning of Thetford had
2001. To James Purr,
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monalty of Thetford," were bequeathed
"1007. a year for life, my favourite mare, my
dog Charles by Marshall, 10 doz. liquors from my
cellar."

Norwich Hospital received 100l., and 5. each was left to three parishes of Thetford, Great Ashfield, and Badwell Ash.

A codicil to the will expressed his desire to be buried in a leaden coffin to be carried by eight poor men of Thetford, each of whom to have a guinea and a pair of gloves. Each child in my Sunday school at Great Ashfield to have a testament and prayer book, and Jane Roper its mistress to have two guineas."

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He left the Duke of Norfolk the picture of our much esteemed friend lord Petre," by Romney (it was painted at Lord Petre's expense for Mingay in 1793 ['Ward and Roberts,' i. 122]), and to his wife's mother, Mrs. Corrall, he gave his wife's miniature. The tablet over the south door of St. Mary's Church at Thetford, and near the Mingay vault, records the facts which he enjoined in his will, and adds:

"In the exercise of the several and relative duties of a son, a husband, and a friend he was equalled by few, in that of a kind and considerate brother surpassed by none. He died possessing the regard and esteem of a numerous acquaintance, and meriting the good will and favourable testimony of a grateful family.'

Another tablet near the south door,

bearing the family arms and motto "Prodesse quam conspici," is in memory of the following relatives:

the chancel of All Saints' Church, but that outside the building, on the south side of the east window, there has been for fifty years a white marble tablet with an illegible inscription and a coat of arms at the foot. This is probably the Mingay tablet.

Mingay and his wife sat to Romney for their portraits (Ward and Roberts,' i. 108123; ii. 106-7). That of Mingay represents him in "lace bands, gown and large wig." and seated. A reproduction of it is in The Daily Report for 24 Aug., 1908, p. 8. It was offered for sale at Christie & Manson's on 17 March, 1864, lot 151, but did not change hands. It was sold there on 5 July, at the same place, on 26 May, 1906, the 1902, for 2311. The wife's portrait fetched large sum of 6,510. The engravings, mezzotint, and stipple of his portrait are set out by Mr. F. M. O'Donoghue (Engraved Portraits at the British Museum,' vol. iii.). Another portrait of him, by G. K. Ralph, is in the possession of Charles Edward Winckworth, surgeon, of Shefford, in Bedfordshire, whose parents were descended from James Mingay, the father of the K.C. I have been aided in this Memoir by Mr. J. A. Mingay, of 3, Glenmore Road, Hampstead by Mr. F. H. Millington, of St. Audrey's Mill House, Thetford, and by Mr. A. L. Humphreys. The particulars of the tablets at St. Mary's Church, Thetford, were kindly furnished by the Vicar, the

W. P. COURTNEY.

His father, James Mingay, youngest son of William Mingay, of Shottesham, Norfolk, d. 25 Jan., 1801, aged 83. His mother, Dorothy, dau. and coheiress of William Rev. Ernest W. Hardy. Fuller of Caldecot, Huntingdonshire, and grand-daughter and sole heiress of Edward Parker of Derby, d. 24 May, 1783, aged 56. His sisters: Jane Harriet, d. 26 Sept., HUNTINGDONSHIRE BOOKSELLERS 1774, aged 7 years; Elizabeth Sally, d. 4 Feb., 1783, aged 30; and Isabella Charlotte, d. 4 Nov., 1791, aged 28.

His brother, William Robert Mingay, M.D. (youngest son of the said James and Dorothy), d. 22 Nov., 1806, aged 50; and Mary, his wife (daughter of John Harvey of Fakenham), d. 21 Aug., 1796, aged 36.

Their daughters: Harriet Jane, d. 15 June, 1799, aged 16 years; and Eliza Margaretta, d. 8 Dec., 1803, aged 20.

The other children of James Mingay and his second wife, Dorothy, were: No. 1, Dorothy, b. 1749, d. single; No. 5, Mary, h. 1759, married Mr. Syder; No. 6, Frances, married J. Garnham of Thetford; No. 7, Margarett, married J. Dursley; and No. 10, Mary Anna Fuller, who married at Thetford, 30 March, 1797, the Rev. Thomas Fenton.

The Rev. Alfred L. Fellowes. Vicar of Shotesham (as it is now spelt), tells me that there is no monument to any Mingay in

AND PRINTERS.

(See 10 S. viii. 201; xii. 164; 11 S. vi. 207.) THIS is the fourth and concluding portion of my notes attempting to record all the names and dates of the past booksellers and printers of the county of Huntingdon.

RAMSEY.

Stevens (Mr.), bookseller, 1814.
Bradley (John), bookseller and stationer, 1823-4,
Earliest Ramsey printer, 1830-43.
Hal! (Joseph), bookseller, 1830.
Bone (M.), bookseller, 1835.
Gilliard (F.), printer and druggist, 1837-9.
Gilleade (Titus George), bookseller, 1839-40.
Mutton (William), bookseller, stationer, brewer,
and parish clerk, 1840-55.

The Palmers were printers at Ramsey soon after 1840. Isaac Palmer's name appears in Pigot's Directory as a bookseller about that date, and Hatfield's 'Gazetteer' for 1854 includes: "Palmer, Isaac, and Palmer, F. W., printers, of the Great Whyte."