NOTES:-Herbert of Gloucester and Herbert theChamber. lain, 1-Shakespeariana, 2-Statues and Memorials in the British Isles, 5-" Eryngo" and "Eruca," 7-Napo- leonic and Other Relics in New Orleans-Pictorial MR. A. S. ELLIS wrote that on the death of Records of London'-Archdeacon Francis Wrangham -The Trinity House at Ratcliff, 8-"Stinting"-Sam QUERIES:-Emerson's English Traits,' 9-Hidden Names Killed in a Duel-John Witty-Capt. C. J. Grant Duff- Miss Gordon, Schoolmistress - Grain Seeds lent by Churches-'Sonnets of this Century,' 13-Leper's Win- dows: Low Side Window-' In albis'-'Philochristus': 'Ecce Homo'-Thomas Pagard-John Ellis, D.D.-Theo-. logical MSS. Identification Wanted-Tunstall-Walvein Family, 14- Bocase" Tree- E. Owen of Swansea-Capt. Henry Bell-Edward Kent Strathearn Steward-Valua- gave lands in Westwood, in Erclientela, co. Here- ford, to St. Peter's, Gloucester, for the soul of his The authority given is: "Hist. et Cart. Mon. - "Anno Domini millesimo centesimo primo, REPLIES:-The Moores of Egham, Surrey, 15-Mrs. Anne Dutton: Authorship of B.M. Catalogue-An English Army List of 1740, 17-Blackstone the Regicide- Epigram: "A little garden little Jowett made "-Haver- ing, 19-Xit": Who was He?-Peterloo-Nuncupative Wills-Sir Walter Raleigh and Queen Elizabeth at Sand- charter of Roger de Gloucester, and as gate - Unfinished Eleventh-Century Law Case, 20- David, Episcopus Recreensis' - Daggle Mop-John Domesday records that Westwood had been ་ 22-Author of Anthem Wanted-Tom Jones'-'Adeste Fideles-Rime on Dr. Fell, 23-Alleyne or Allen-Pannag, 24-Finkle Street-John Wm. Fletcher-George Shep- of donations appears suspicious; all the more so because a charter concocted by the monks yields a third story, Westwood being made a gift of Walter de Gloucester for the soul of his father (cp. 12 S. v. 261-2). If the whole entry is not an invention, it may probably confuse two separate acts by Roger de Gloucester, viz. : (1) a confirmation of his father's gift of Westwood, and (2) a gift of two rodknights, &c., for the soul of his brother Herbert, the date applying only to the latter. (If so, were these new grants at Westwood, or where ?) This suggestion may receive some support (quantum valeat) from a charter of Henry I. in the cartulary, which states that Roger's gift was made by the king's permission, but does not mention "Sciatis......et terram quam Rogerus de Glouces- tria dedit ecclesiae Sancti Petri de Gloucestria pro anima fratris sui Hereberti, scilicet duos radenithes, The construction is defective, but no doubt "dedisse" depends on an omitted accusative. However, I doubt if we can rely on this alleged charter, which first..notifies the king's gift of Maisemore, then confirms gifts by the wife of Roger de Lyry. "Jureio" is obviously a misreading of. Iereio), Roger de Gloucester (as above), and Hugh de Laci. There is a much shorter charter notifying the king's grant of Maisemore (ibid., ii. 22), without referring to other gifts, which I should think, more likely of the two to representa genuine charter. No doubt when Mr. Davis publishes the next volume of the Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum, we shall get an expert opinion on these charters. II. The two passages quoted above are the only references to Herbert, and make it clear that, if he existed at all, he was the brother of Roger de Gloucester. Yet in the index he is described as: Gloucester, Herbert, brother of Walter of." This may have led to the similar error by Mr. Ellis, whose reputation, of course, stands too high to be affected by one of those slips to which we are all liable. In another place Mr. Ellis suggested that the Herbert who held Dene and Lesburne in 1086 of Walter de Gloucester, "was, no doubt, his own brother, who must have died not long after, for the monks of Gloucester were to pray for his soul by desire of Walter, when giving or confirming Westwood (p. 78). It is not unlikely that in this brother Herbert we have that Herbert, the chamberlain, who was holding two manors in Hants of the king and another of Hugh de Port." (op. cit., p. 81). No evidence is adduced in support of either suggestion, and the latter is hardly compatible with the dates; for Mr. Eyton showed that Herbert the Chamberlain did not die until about 1129 (Antiquities of Shropshire,' vii. 146-8). It is true that Mr. Eyton does not trace this Herbert back earlier than 1101, and it might be argued that he was the son of the Domesday tenant. But the Abingdon Chronicle shows that the Herbert who was Chamberlain under Henry I. was the same man as Herbert the Chamberlain living temp. William II., before the death of Abbot Rainald in 1097 (Chron. Mon. de Abingdon,' Rolls Series, ii. 42-3, 86, 134); and Dr. Round considers him as identical with the Domesday tenant (Victoria County History of Hampshire,' i. 425; cp. The King's Sergeants,' pp. 121, 322). Also it may be doubted whether a grandson of Durand de Gloucester would have been of age to act as Chamberlain even in 1101. And if the Herbert of 1086 were the brother of Roger de Gloucester, his 23 Weighton Road, Anerley. SHAKESPEARIANA. TWELFTH NIGHT,' II. ii. :— She sate like Patience on a monument Is The sense is, She, smiling at grief (=suffer- SHAKESPEARE'S SONGS.-In Playford's Musical Companion,' 1667, there are settings of four songs from Shakespeare: 'What Shall He Have that Killed the Deer?' 'Jog On, Jog on, the Footpath Way,' Where the Bee Sucks,' Orpheus with His Lute.' The text follows the Folio, except that Autolycus's song has two extra stanzas : 6 Yon paltry Moneybags of Gold 89 Montpelier Road, Brighton. worth 'HAMLET,' I. iv. 36-8 (12 S. iv. 211; v. 4, 115).-It was Theobald who, having regard to the proper interpretation of the passage, first altered "eale" into "base," an emendation that was afterwards adopted by Heath, Malone, Steevens, and Singer; but though the right sense is thus obtained, the phrase dram of base" jars somewhat on the ear, as well as being unpoetic in expression. To overcome this difficulty I would therefore propose "lees," a word that might easily have been mistaken in copying for " eale." What lends probability to this reading, as well as to the substitution "overdaub " for" of a doubt (as suggested ante, p. 4), is the existence of a practice evidently known to the acting profession of bygone days, if not to the present generation, which is described in a quotation of the year 1763 given in that invaluable granary of English speech, the N.E.D.':" Thespis and his Company bedaubed their Faces with the Lees of Wine" (J. Brown, Poetry and I found current in North Notts. in a small Music'). In the present case the circum- village, which run :— stance would appear to have been skilfully Doth all the noble substance overdaub on the spell-bound audience by the re-entry master. May the devil take the magpie, An' God take me. left hand and make a cross on the ground Derbyshire children sixty years ago were Since writing at the penultimate reference, taught to dread the sight of a single magpie, I find that Elze, in his Notes on Elizabethan to spit over the extended forefinger of the Dramatists,' 1889, p. 226, cites several instances of the word daub's" occurrence in Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, and Nash. He states, too, that a Mr. Samuel Neil, who published an edition of Shakespeare's Works,' had also proposed the reading over daube," seemingly without having got the idea from Elze. The latter concludes with the remark: "Some Elizabethan authority for the verb 'overdaub' would be welcome." To see two or THOS. RATCLIFFE. A BATCH OF EMENDATIONS :- 'Tempest,' I. ii. 81 : To trash for over-topping. Most editors retain the word trash and explain the line as to lop for over-topping, i.e., to cut off the heads of rebellious spirits. Plash was proposed by Hanmer; but so far it N. W. HILL. has not come into favour. 'Tempest,' V. i., Ariel's song.-The only fault I find with this song is the rather too big break between the third and fourth lines. Would it be better if only a comma was put after the third line, and " or added to the beginning of the fourthdeleting, of course, also its unnecessary do" before "fly"? The song would then go thus: 66 Where the bee sucks, there suck I, There I couch when owls do cry, Or on the bat's back I fly SHAKESPEARE: A SURVIVAL OF AUGURY (12 S. v. 5, 116).-There are several sets of rime lines known to country folk about the magpie, or "pynet" as it is commonly I see no need for the introduction of the called in Derbyshire, and the best known in swallow. The bat is nearly as much a the Midlands are those given by Mr. PAGE. follower of summer as the templeThe most sinister lines I have met with haunting martlet." W. H. PINCHBECK. 66 |