As if his cause concern'd me; I should pity him, If he should prove another than he seems," &c. The words, "Madam, you are passionate," plainly belong to Katherine, who treats with scorn the Countess's sympathy for Warbeck. The Countess (not Katherine) then says, in justification, "Beshrew me," &c. Act II. Sc. 3, near the end. Warbeck's lowborn followers are discussing in a characteristic manner the chances of his enterprise. Astley, a scrivener, says: 66 Spoken to the purpose, my fine-witted brother Sketon: for as no indenture but has his counterpane, no noverint but his condition or defeisance," &c. "Counterpane" should be written "counterpain," i. e. penalty made and provided in case of infraction. J. B. P. Downing College, Cambridge. ROMAN WIT AND HUMOUR.-A specimen may be found quoted in Godwyn's Roman Antiquities, lib. i. c. 14, edit. 1633, "De Templo Castoris." A temple was built in honour of Castor and Pollux conjointly : "In after ages it had the name only of Castor's Temple. Whence arose the jest of M. Bibulus against his fellowconsul, Julius Cæsar, saying: It fared with him as it did with Pollux ;' i. e. as this temple, which was created in honour of both the brethren, carried the name only of Castor's Temple, so the great expenses in exhibiting shows in the time of their consulship, though they were deeper on Bibulus his side, yet Cæsar carried away all the thanks and credit." The joke might sometimes even still be applicable. Islip, Oxford. Queries. FRANCIS TRENCH. THE GRAVE OF ANNE BOLEYN.* In Miss Strickland's "Life of Anne Boleyn " (vol. iv. p. 293, London, 1842), occurs the following passage: "In Anne Boleyn's native county, Norfolk, a curious tradition has been handed down from father to son for upwards of three centuries, which affirms that her remains were secretly removed from the Tower Church, under cover of darkness, and privately conveyed to Salle Church, the ancient burial place of the Boleyns: and there the body was interred at midnight, with the holy rites that were denied to her by her royal husband, at her first unhallowed funeral. "A plain black marble slab, without any inscription, is still shown in Salle Church as a monumental memorial of this queen; and is generally supposed, by all classes of persons in that neighbourhood, to cover her remains." A short time ago I visited Salle Church, which is about thirteen miles from Norwich, and about a mile and a half from Reepham. I can bear [* See "N. & Q.," 1st S. v. 464; xii. 382.-ED.] testimony to the tradition, which is still very strong amongst the inhabitants of the neighbourhood, that in this church the remains of the unfortunate queen were privately interred, soon after her execution. I also saw "the plain black marble slab," which is placed in the nave, nearly opposite to the pulpit; and underneath which the body of Anne Boleyn is supposed to be buried. But a gentleman in Norwich has informed me that, some few years ago, the "slab" was removed, and the grave examined; but that nothing could be discovered relative to the body of the queen. A skeleton was found, with the head attached to the corpse. Miss Strickland mentions, in the same volume (p. 294), that there exists another tradition, which points out the resting-place of the queen's remains to be in the ancient church of Thorndenon-the-Hill, in Essex; and that in this church "a marble monument is pointed out by village antiquaries as the veritable monument of this queen." In a note, Miss Strickland quotes a description of the monument kindly sent to her by Lady Petre, who remarks "that the monument has rather the appearance of a shrine, which has been broken open. It may have contained her heart or her head, for it is too short to contain a body; and, indeed, it seems to be of a more ancient date than the sixteenth century. The oldest people in the neighbourhood all declare that they have heard the tradition in their youth: from a previous generation of aged persons, who all affirmed it to be Anne Boleyn's monument." Such is the substance of her Ladyship's communication. Can any of your correspondents throw some light on the historical grounds (if any) for these traditions? The tradition in favour of Salle Church seems to be the stronger of the two. J. DALTON. Norwich. ANCIENT COMMUNION PLATE PATENS.-A beautiful specimen of an ancient paten, supposed to be of the fourteenth century, is still to be found at Wyke (or Weeke), near Winchester, and it is used at the present day. It is of silver, and was formerly gilt, traces of which are now very faint. The design consists of an Agnus Dei," in a sunk central circle, round which eight ornamented foils are described; while round the whole, on the rim, is this inscription: "CUNTA (cuncia?) : CREO : VIRTUTE REGO PIETATE: REFORMO." 66 Will any of your numerous readers refer us to other specimens of similar ancient art? A. V. W. ANONYMOUS.-Who was the author or compiler of a book entitled — "A Correct and familiar Exposition on the Common Prayer Book of the Church of England, extracted from the most celebrated Authors, &c., by a Clergyman of the Church of England, London, 1735?" J. H. E. ANTIQUATED SPELLING.-Can any correspondent inform me why the practice is still kept up of commencing certain surnames with a doublef and a double l, when such a mode of spelling, in old MSS., did not indicate a double letter, but simply represented the want of a more perfect capital? If one family surname, existing a century or two ago, and commencing with either of the above letters, be allowed in print to retain the reduplication, all others commencing with those initials are equally entitled to the privilege (?); and on the same principle we ought to find a V overruling the present U in such names: as, for example, Unwin, Ure, Urquhart, Upton; thus, Vnwin, Vre, Vrquhart, Vpton. Antiquated modes of spelling names are sometimes very inconvenient, and in many instances would render them quite unintelligible in modern society. The strict adherence to the literal, instead of to the relative or equivalent in orthoepy, has been conceded seemingly to the Welsh; and, therefore, why not to orientals? In Persian and Hindostanee, &c., why is coercion used in order to make names comprehensible, instead of allowing them to remain in their native purity without the intermediate vowels, which we interpolate, and find so useful? Amongst curiously spelt names, is that of "Smijth;" which I am inclined to believe originated in (I say so with all deference, however, to the learned,) a clumsy use of a double i, for the purpose of showing the pronunciation y double is being, I think, generally written ij in old MSS. Thus the name "Smijth "would be simply Smyth," as distinguished from Smith.* SP. 66 BAINBRIDGE.-Wanted to know if there be any ancestors of Cardinal Bainbridge, who died in 1514, and was a native of Westmoreland. I be lieve there are some female ancestors, but cannot trace them. Also the father of Edward Bainbrig, of Hawkin Hall, Kirby Lonsdale, living 1613. Also of the ancestors of Edward, Henry Abraham and Samuel Bainbriges, who were living at Ashby-de-laZouch, Leicestershire, in 1582 and 1609. Also of the Thomas or Christopher Bainbrigge, of Kirby Lonsdale, who is said to have expelled Milton from college, and who had nineteen children, and who they were. Also, of Dionysius Bainbridge, of Scoton, in Yorkshire, living at the time of the Gunpowder Plot, and afterwards. Any one living in Leicestershire, Derbyshire, SIR CHARLES CALTHROPE.-Charles Calthrope, of Lincoln's Inn, read on the law of copyholds at Furnival's Inn, in Trinity Term, 1562. He represented the borough of Eye, in Suffolk, in the Parliament which met May 8, 1572. In 1575, Lady Elizabeth Calthrope and he had the manors of Hempstede and Ingham, in Norfolk (but he is not named in Blomefield's History of Norfolk). On June 22, 1584, he was constituted AttorneyGeneral of Ireland; which office he held for nearly twenty-two years. He occurs as a Knight in the Commission of 1605, for making new shires in Ireland. Under a privy seal of April 19, 1606, and letters patent of May 29, in the same year, he was constituted one of the justices of the Common Pleas in Ireland. His Reading on Copyholds was published, London, 4to, 1635. When did he die? And was he related, and how, to Sir Henry Calthrope, Recorder of London, who died Aug. 20, 1637 ? C. H. & THOMPSON COOPER. Cambridge. EXTRAORDINARY DEGREE OF COLD IN THE MONTH OF JUNE. - An old man, who died about thirty years ago at the age of seventy-six, inthat almost all the sheep in the district round formed me that, in his young days, it happened Andover, in North Hants and South Wilts, chanced to be shorn upon June 10; and that, on the night following, there supervened so intense a degree of cold, that nearly the whole of those that had undergone the operation perished. hearing her father and others talk about it; and particularly, that a farmer on the estate of Biddesden, in the parish of Ludgershall, had a flock those that survived were very long of recovering of three hundred shorn: most of which died, while An old woman informs me that she remembers from the effects. Can any of your readers, that may have a register of the weather extending so far back, inform me when it was that a degree of cold so remarkable at so advanced a period of the year took place? Also, whether it was general, or confined to the locality mentioned-being that from which I now address you? C. M. Andover, Hants. CUNEIFORM INSCRIPTIONS.-Has there been any attempt made to draw any comparison between the Biblical Chaldee, Syriac, Tarquinic, or Rabbin Chaldee, and the language of the cuneiform inscriptions? The principle of such a comparison. to have been made upon the principles of Bopp's Vergleichende Grammatik. If no such comparison has as yet been instituted, can any of your philologists help me in naming to me some papers of Philological Societies, English or Asiatic, bearing upon such points of Vergleichende Grammatik? J. M. FULLER. 34, Chapel Street, Grosvenor Square. EDWARDS FAMILY.-What are the arms and crest borne by the Edwards's of Norfolk and Suffolk, one grant only I believe being made for both counties? and what was the date of the grant, and the motto (if any) then used? Also, what is the etymology of the word Edwards? I wish to ascertain its meaning. F. GENEALOGICAL.-Thomas Lamplugh, who was living, 1584, at Little Riston, or Ruston-Parva, near Great Driffield and Kilham, East Riding of Yorkshire, and who came from Skellsmore (or Scalesmoor), and Lamplugh in Cumberland (being grandson of Thomas, brother of Sir John Lamplugh), married Jane, daughter of Robert Fairfax of Pockthorpe-a place near Little Riston, as above. He, Thomas Lamplugh, was grandfather of Thomas Lamplugh, of Thwing and Octon, afterwards archbishop of York. Can any of your Yorkshire contributors inform me in regard to the family of Fairfax of Pockthorpe, from what branch of that name it may be descended, whether from that of Walton and Gilling, or Denton and Steeton, &c.? F. L. B. D. THE GOLDSMITH CLUB. Some years since a literary association, styled the Goldsmith Club, was established in Dublin. Is it extant? and to whom is application to be made for a copy of the rules? An early answer will oblige. Авива. GREEK AND ROMAN GAMES. Can you oblige my curiosity by furnishing some account of the games mentioned in the following passage from one of Justinian's Constitutions? · "Deinde ordinent quinque ludos, monobolon, contomonobolon, quintarum contacem sine fibulâ, et perichyten, et hippicen, quibus sine dolo atque callidis machinationibus ludere permittimus.", I have consulted all the available authorities on Greek and Roman antiquities, [but can find no inention of them.] UUYTE. Capetown. MISS GUMLEY, Countess of Bath. — "He" (Bolingbroke) "was seen riding in the Parks by the side of Miss Gumley-the fashionable frail one of the day."-Fraser's Mag. for June, 1863, p. 688. This lady was afterwards married to William Pulteney. In the Scots Mag. (about 1775) are some verses addressed to her, and there attributed to Pope; but I cannot find them in my edition of his Works. They end thus: "And charming Gumley's lost in Pulteney's wife." that, "in the History of the Flagellants, said to be In the same magazine it is somewhere stated written by De Lolme, is an indecent story respecting Miss Gumley, afterwards Countess of Bath." I have looked over De Lolme's work, and cannot find any trace of such a story. Sir Charles Hanbury Williams, in speaking of the new appointments in 1742-and, in particular, introduces Lady Bath :of those of Harry Vane and Harry Farnese-thus "Though with joint lives and debts before This Irish place repairs it; And the new Countess shares it. To Bath's ennobled doxy; N. F. H. for Wit, vol. iii. p. 6. Earl Nugent also says, on the same subject: "How Sandys, in sense and person queer, Jumped from a patriot to a peer, No mortal can tell why; How Pulteney trucked the fairest fame For a Right Honorable name, To call his vixen by," &c.-Ibid. P. 48. I wish to learn the parentage, and more detailed history, of this "vixen."* "Proclaim him as rich as a Jew, Yet attempt not to reckon his bounties; JUDGE HOLT.-In Harl. MS. 1476, fol. 288, is a pedigree of Holt commencing with "Holt, one of the Judges of the Comon Pleas." From him descended another "Holt, somtime a Frere in Woburne Abbey, and upon ye suppression mard and had issue," viz. George Holt of Much Brickhill, co. Bucks, who (by Elizabeth Meade) was father of Francis Holt of Much Brickhill, 1634, Lawrence Holt of London, clothworker; and [Some few notices of this lady will be found in "N. & Q." 3rd S. ii. 401, in the article "Satirical Print against Bolingbroke."-ED. "N. & Q."] Anthony Holt of Stepney. At what period did the above Judge Holt live, and was he descended from the Holts of Grislehurst, Lancashire, from whom Chief Justice Holt derived ? C. J. R. “STONEWALL" JACKSON.-In a communication to The Times of June 11, it is stated that "Thomas Jefferson Jackson was born in Western Virginia in January, 1824. His great-grandfather and great-grandmother were both English," &c. Can any one say of what family and place they were? QUICKSET. JAMES ARMS.-A Welsh family of this name, of Cardigan or Caermarthenshire, used as its arms: Arg. a sheaf of five arrows sa., banded gu., quartering two or three other coats. It is believed to be extinct in the male line about fifty years; but I am anxious to learn any particulars concerning the family, and their right to the arms, &c. BARRISTER. EDWARD JONES.-Edward Jones of the Inner Temple published Index to Records called the Originalia and Memoranda, Lond. 2 vols. fol., 1795. The dedication to Sir Archibald Macdonald is dated Inner Temple, July 28, 1793. Information respecting the author of this useful and important work is desired. S. Y. R. FRENCH LEGEND.— There is a story, for which I have lately searched in vain, though I believe it is mentioned in one of Dumas's histories, that the ancestress of Diane de Poitiers, or of Madame de Montespan, or of some other beautiful French favourite, was a fairy, who lived secretly in a deserted part of the castle of some great and noble family. If any one can tell me where I shall find the story I shall be grateful, as I have a strong reason for wishing to refer to it. L. M. M. R. NEW Ross, Co. WEXFORD.-What are the best sources of information respecting the history of the borough of New Ross, in the county of Wexford? Are the records of the late municipal corporation extant? If so, in whose custody? and from what year do they date? Your correspondent Y. S. M. may perhaps be able to supply some information. ABHBA. mentioned? It appears to me both faithful and elegant, and bears, to my mind, some traces of having been made from the original Hebrew. It certainly differs widely in expression from any of the recognised Latin versions I have met with. The question occurs to me whether it may not formerly Principal of the College, under its old have been the production of Degory Wheare, title of Gloucester Hall. He was Camden Pro fessor of History (I believe the first), and author CHAPEL OF ST. RAPHAEL, KINGSTON. In the description of the marriage of the Duc de Chartres, given in The Times of June 12, the ceremony is stated to have taken place in the "Chapel of St. Raphael," Kingston-upon-Thames. Is that chapel really dedicated to St. Raphael? and can any of whom it was consecrated? There is, I am told, the readers of "N. & Q." inform me when and by a strange story upon the subject current in the neighbourhood. C. O. ROOKE FAMILY. -I should be obliged to any reader of " N. & Q." to inform me of the descent of Colonel Charles Rooke, who, early in the war consequent upon the French Revolution, raised a regiment of Light Dragoons, which were denominated "The Windsor Foresters ;" and which, two or three years afterwards, arrived and were stationed at this city, with a detachment at Fort George (N. B.), where they remained a consider able time. I know not if the family came originally from Sir George Rooke, the gallant Admiral who immortalised himself by the capture of Gibraltar; but I am inclined to think Lieut.-General James Rooke, M.P., and Colonel of the 38th Foot, who commanded the Severn District, and was stationed at Bristol, was related to Colonel Charles Rooke. A most formidable riot took place among the colliers of Kingswood, which threatened the peace of the city of Bristol, while the Lieut.General commanded the troops at Bristol; which, with the most consummate prudence and judgment, he appeased without the effusion of blood. STEMMA. Aberdeen. LATIN VERSION OF THE PSALMS. There was formerly in use in the chapel of Worcester College, Oxford, a Latin Prayer Book, consisting of a version of the Psalms, and a short but most ap- SANSKRIT.-Can any of your numerous readers propriate service for morning and evening. This inform me who was the first European scholar provision of our wise forefathers for at once that published a grammar on the Sanskrit Lanaiding learning and devotion has, I believe, for guage? I remember reading, some few years whatever reason, been for some time set aside. ago, in a work on Sanskrit literature, that the It is not, however, so much my object at this author was a German and a Carmelite monk, who time to complain of the disuse of this venerable retired to Rome after he had lived many years in service, as to inquire whether any alumnus of the India. I also remember that the title of the College can give me information relative to the grammar was a long one, beginning thus: Sidhaauthorship of the version of the Psalms above-rubam seu Grammatica Samscrdamica, &c. J. DALTON. MARC DE ULSON. I have in my possession a print (?), 8 in. by 12, representing Marc de Ulson, Chevalier Sieur de la Colombière. He is dressed in armour, and wears a star on his left breast. His crest consists of a helmet, side-long, open faced, and with gardevisure; and is wreathed with a torse, from which springs a man's left hand, holding a club. Behind all is a mantle. "N. Regnesson, sculp.; R. Nantual, effigiem del.; F. Channeau, figur." If any of your readers are able to give any information as to the date of the print, or as to who Marc de Ulson was, they will much oblige H. T. LAURence. P.S. His supporters are a salvage man with a club, and a lion. VERY REVEREND.-What entitles a clergyman of the Church of Rome to be styled "Very Reverend ?" In the United Church of England and Ireland that designation is confined, if I mistake not, to Deans; but it is not so in the Church of Rome. Авива. "WHEN THE DEVIL QUOTES LATIN, THE PRIESTS GO TO PRAYERS."-Where can I find any instances of the use of this, or a somewhat similar proverb? or any explanation of its origin and meaning? J. M. J. Queries with Answers. ROBERT ANDERSON, THE CUMBRIAN POET.-I have in my possession a volume of poems, "Ballads in the Cumberland Dialect, by R. Anderson, with Notes and a Glossary," printed and published at Carlisle 1805, by W. Hodgson. Many of the ballads are very interesting, if not for their poetical beauties, for at least their vivid illustrations of local surnames, and for the provincial dialect in which they are written. He is, I believe, the author of several other works, which I have been unable to obtain. As I am particularly desirous to collect information respecting our humble and less-known poets, I made inquiries of a friend in Carlisle. He tells me that the only information he has been able to collect is that contained in the following paragraph, which has been at some time cut from a Carlisle newspaper, but the name of the paper is not given: — "Carlisle, Sept. 29, 1833.-On Thursday last, Sept. 26, the Cumbrian Bard, Robert Anderson, author of 'Cum[1 1785. 3 1789.] 2 1787. berland,' and other songs and ballads, the Rose of Corbye,' and other poems, departed this life in the poorhouse, Carlisle, broken hearted, the victim of neglect. The manner of his death leaves a stigma upon the nobility and gentry of the county of Cumberland, as from his simple and frugal habits, a mere trifle weekly would have sufficed for his maintenance, and preserved the proud heart of the poor old poet from the degrading feeling of his becoming a common pauper." I should be glad if any of your readers in that part of England can supply me with information as to the life and character of the man. By the preface to the work I have named, I observe that the Notes and Glossary were supplied by Mr. Thomas Sanderson, a gentleman who at one time enjoyed some local celebrity. They are curious T. B. and valuable. [An interesting biography of this Cumbrian bard will be found in the following work, no date, but published about 1840: Ballads of the Cumberland Dialect, by Robert Anderson, with Notes, descriptive of the Manners and Customs of the Cumberland Peasantry; a Glossary of Local Words; and a Life of the Author. Alnwick, Printed by W. Davison. The writer states, that "towards the close of Anderson's life, a few of his old friends and admirers, much to their honour, entered into a subscription to provide for him; and under their fostering care he was comfortably boarded and lodged in Annetwell Street, Carlisle, where he expired on the evening of the 26th of September, 1833, after a gradual decay of his vital powers. His remains were decently interred on the Sunday following in St. Mary's churchyard, his native parish, being followed to the grave by many who had long cherished towards him the warmest feelings of friendship as a man, and of admiration as a poet."] TOM MOODY'S BURIAL PLACE. Most of your readers must be acquainted with the coloured engraving representing the funeral of the celebrated huntsman Tom Moody, and also with the song upon the subject. A friend of mine assures me that the church has "A local habitation and a name" in Leicestershire, and that the "view halloo" was really given over the grave of the departed foxhunter in obedience to his last wishes. Query, Where is the church? When was the song written? Who was the author? Did the cir cumstances traditionally recorded take place? I have heard that a huntsman of the late Thomas Assheton Smith requested, not that a "view hal100" should be raised over his grave, but that his favourite horse should be buried with him. OXONIENSIS. [Thomas Moody, the veteran sportsman and whipper. in for thirty years to George Forester's fox-hounds in Shropshire, died in 1796. In the notices of his funeral at the time, it is stated that he was carried to his grave by a number of old earth-stoppers, and attended by many sporting friends, who heartily mourned for him. Directly after the corpse, his favourite horse (named by himself "Old Soul"), followed, carrying his last fox's brush at the front of his bridle, his cap, whip, boots, spurs, and girdle, across the saddle. After the burial service was read, he |