66 about 1672. Edward Cocker, the arithmetician, died in 1677. His will is not found in London. In Hunter's South Yorkshire, vol. ii. p. 155, the following suggestion occurs: A memoir on the early Yorkshire and Lancashire mathematicians, Field, Saxton, Briggs, Gascoign, Horrocks, and Crabtree, would make an interesting chapter in the history of science. I am not aware what countryman Edward Cocker was, but the name occurs in the neighbourhood of Leeds, near which town Christopher Saxton was also born." According to Thoresby, John Cocker Saxton was buried in Leeds parish church in 1701. The combination of names is somewhat remarkable. The names of Cocker and Crabtree both occur in the registers of Batley parish, near Leeds. Possibly some of your correspondents may be able to throw more light on John Cocker Saxton. I append a few extracts from registers, together with two partly conjectural tabular sketches, in the hope that by similar contributions the parentage of Edward Cocker may be cleared up, and, if possible, the connexion of his family with the Saxtons made out. synonym of bindweed. Is this quite correct? I have always thought that "lady's (not ladies') smock" was the Cardamine pratensis. It is so in Worcestershire anyhow, and I think that I have seen it so described in botanical works. B. R. BOOKSELLERS' SIGNS (5th S. viii. 469.)-I think the non-mention of these, in the edition of Dr. Watts's Psalms of David published in 1758, must have been the result of an agreement between those who brought it out: the law did not interfere with signs until a later date. If Larwood and Hotten's History of Signboards may be trusted, Paris began a reform in the matter in 1761 : "London soon followed. In the Daily News, November, 1762, we find: The signs in Duke's Court, St. Martin's Lane, were all taken down and affixed to the front of the innovation by procuring an act to improve the pavement, houses.' Thus Westminster had the honour to begin the &c., of the streets, and this act also sealed the doom of the signboards, which as in Paris were ordered to be affixed to the houses. This was enforced by a statute of 2 Geo. III. c. 21, enlarged at various times. Other parishes were longer in making up their mind; but the great disparity in the appearance of the streets westward from Temple Bar, and those eastward, at last made the Corporation of London follow the example and adopt similar improvements. Suitable powers to carry out the scheme were soon obtained. In the 6 Geo. III. the Court of Common Council appointed commissions, and in a few months all the parishes began to clear away: St. Botolph in 1767; St. Leonard, Shoreditch, in 1768; St. Martin'sle-Grand in 1769; and Marylebone in 1770."-P. 28. For further information I must refer M. D. to the book itself. ST. SWITHIN. Shortly after the accession of Geo. III., Oct. 25, in the streets of London. The use of signs had 1760, an Act of Parliament was passed for paving and also for removing the signs and obstructions become universal, and traders sought to outvie each other in their size, fittings, and attractive devices, and to project them so far into the streets as to encumber the way. See ante, Samuel Wale, Jos. J. J. Richard Hardwick, Clk.,=2. Sarah, d. of R.A. (5th S. vii. 72). of Batley; his admin. Cocker, granted, June, 1689, to mar. June 21, John Thurnam and 1675. Robert Radcliffe. The reason of signs being discontinued is not far to seek. In 1760 names were first put on doors, and in 1764 houses were numbered. The first houses numbered were those in New Burleigh Street; the next those in Lincoln's Inn Fields (Haunted London, 458). CHARLES WYLIE. THE THIRD PART OF THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS" (5th S. viii. 469.)—I have an old 12mo. copy of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress-the first part, thirty-second edition, printed for W. Johnston, &c., 1767; the second part, twenty-fifth edition, printed for W. Johnston, &c., 1767. On the title-page of this second part : Note. The Third Part, suggested to be J. Bunyan's, is an impostor." The third part, twentieth edition, printed for L. Hawes & Co., &c., 1765. On the title-page is: "To which is added the Life and Death of John Bunyan, Author of the First and Second Parts (completing the whole Progress)." On the back of the title of the third part, "Licensed and Entered according to Order." This may help in ascertaining the author: "The Preface to the Christian Reader" is signed "J. B." Verses "to his Worthy Friend, the Author of the Third Part of the Pilgrim's Progress, upon Perusal thereto," &c., are signed "B. D."; and other verses, "These Lines are humbly Recommended to the Reader (written upon the Perusal of this Book," &c.), are signed "L. C." SAMUEL SHAW. Andover. THE MISTLETOE (5h S. viii. 437.)-I have never experienced any difficulty in propagating mistletoe, and can show four trees in my garden at Dulwich all bearing mistletoe, raised from seed inserted under the first or outer skin of the tree by myself. W. H. CUMMINGS. Brackley Villa, Dulwich. THE SHEPHERDS OF BETHLEHEM (5th S. viii. 490.)-In Dr. Edersheim's book on The Temple is an interesting suggestion as to their having been Temple officers, whose duty was to take care of and send to Jerusalem the sheep for the daily sacrifices, and that the tidings of the Saviour's birth would thus soon reach the Temple. Winterton, Brigg. J. T. F. FLEMISH (5th S. viii. 475.)-As MR. MORFILL takes exception to Sir Walter Scott's describing burghers of Liége talking Flemish, will he kindly enlighten my ignorance by specifying the limits of the district in which Flemish is, or was, spoken? W. M. M. HUGHENDEN VEL HITCHENDEN (5th S. viii. 491.) -Seventy-five years agone I was a child in "Hitchenden," my father's waggons were so inscribed, and the parish was so called until Mrs. Norris (née Douglas), the wife of the then possessor of Hitchenden House, re-called it by an old and obsolete name-Hughenden. Only a few years since some of the waggons of the farmers of the parish still bore the old name, Hitchenden. I have often bathed in the brook below the house, and have since seen the channel growing a crop of beans, though it is now again running a clear stream. I was not a little puzzled when I last visited the old place to find the church and churchyard, in which I had attended the funeral of an infant brother, brought within the park fences. R. ARMS OF ARCHBISHOP HERRING (5th S. viii. 491.) The present Lord Bishop of Durham, who descends from the marriage of Sir Francis Baring, first baronet, with Harriet, daughter of William Herring, of Croydon, cousin and co-heir of Thomas Herring, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury (see Burke's Peerage, &c., s.v. Northbrook "), quarters the arms of Herring with his paternal coat. Upon his seal as Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol (of which I have an impression in my cabinet) the Herring quarters agree with the blazon given by Moule from the painted windows at Croydon and Lincoln's Inn, viz., "Gu. crusilly, three herrings hauriant arg." (see my Supplement to Bedford's Blazon of Episcopacy in the Herald and Genea| logist, vol. vii. p. 443). JOHN WOODWARD. SCOTT FAMILY: THE PARENTAGE OF ARCHBISHOP ROTHERHAM (5th S. vii. 89, 139, 158, 292, 330, 375, 416, 470, 490, 509; viii. 29, 79, 370, 389, 410.)-Amongst Alumni Etonenses who passed to King's Coll., Cambridge, in the first list, A.D. 1443, 22 Hen. VI., occur Wm. Hatecliffe, Wm. Towne, John Langport, Robert Dummer, Richard Cove, John Chedworth, Thomas Scot, alias Rotherham, with the following note :members of the second. On this new Establishment by K.-Henry, Hatecliffe and Towne, A. M., two of the former Fellows or Scholars, came to Eton, and were incorporated and admitted Gremials of the College by Provost Waynreturned to Cambridge, and were readmitted Fellows or flete, Sept. 15, 1443, and two days after, viz. Sept. 17, they Scholars of King's College, together with Langport and Dummer, on the new Establishment. And this being after the Founder had compleated the 21st year of his reign, viz. August 31st, consequently it then was the 22d year of Henry VI. Cove, Chedworth, and Rotherham were admitted Scholars of King's in July following." "The six Fellows of the first Foundation continued Also Mr. Foss, whom every one must allow to be a very good and careful authority, in his Judges of England says:— "Rotheram, alias Scot, Thomas (Archbishop of York), adopted the name of his native place. His family was named Scot, and resided at Rotheram, in Yorkshire, where he was born [? baptized] on August 24, 1423.” The above points very much to the fact that Archbishop Rotheram's original surname was Scot: possibly he changed it to Rotheram on his removal from Eton to King's College, a scholar of which he was appointed in July, 1444; or, more probably still, did so on coming of age, which must have been just about this time. SYWL. of all that knew her, but also of succeeding posterities, the archives at Naples would show, at any rate, ended this transitorie life at Richmond, the 24. of if these statements are corroborated by the docuMarch, 1602, the 45. yeare of her Raigne, and seuuentyments quoted. Dumas had full access to the of her age. Vpon the remooue of her body to the pallace of White-hall by water, were written then these passionate dolefull Lines : The Queene was brought by water to White-hall, For how so ere, thus much my thoughts haue scand, 'Weepe greatest Isle, and for thy mistresse death Nottingham. F. D. private papers of the king when in Naples, in THE TITLE OF "ESQUIRE" (5th S. vii. 348, 511; viii. 33, 55, 114, 157, 256, 314, 450.)-I am informed that a relative of mine had this title conferred upon him by William IV. Can any of your readers tell me if the title was ever conferred by that monarch? if so, if there is any list of names to which I can refer ? F. C. J. THE "HONOURABLE" MRS. BYRON (5th S. viii. 345, 416.)-In Traditional Ballad Airs, by W. Christie, M.A., Dean of Moray, the following allusion occurs in a note in reference to the royal descent of Mrs. Byron, the mother of the poet :second Earl of Huntly and his wife, a daughter of "Miss Gordon of Gight (lineally descended from the James I. of Scotland) was second wife to John Byron, son of Admiral Byron. Their only child was Lord Byron, sixth baron, the celebrated poet."-Vol. i. p. 50. The ballad is also given in the same book, Miss Gordon of Gight, written on the occasion of her "O whare are ye gaun, Miss Gordon? CARACCIOLO (5th S. vii. 507; viii. 74, 132, 412.) -Has this disputed question been set at rest for ever? If Dumas is to be trusted, in a matter of which proof can be easily obtained, there are now original documents in the archives at Naples, taken from the Royal Palace in 1860-where he copied them-which would throw a different light on the subject. In his Storia dei Borboni di Na-marriage to Captain Byron :— poli he gives extracts, from which it appears':1. That Ruffo was the alter ego of Ferdinand, with full powers of life or death. 2. That Sir W. Hamilton wrote in a letter to the king, June 27, 1799, before Caracciolo was secured, "It is hoped he is already taken, and will be hung at the yardarm, and exposed from morning to night as an example." 3. That Nelson wrote to Count Thurn to say Caracciolo must be tried, and, "if found guilty, inquire of me what punishment he is to suffer." I take these jottings from my note-book, written down at the time I was reading the book. Among the documents Dumas mentions the note of Sir W. Hamilton to Ruffo, which said Nelson would not break the armistice in any way. According to Dumas, Ruffo was not satisfied with this, and persuaded Captains Troubridge and Ball, the bearers of the letter, to write on the back of it :"I Capitani Troubridge e Ball hanno autorità per la parte di Milord Nelson, di dichiarare a S. Eminenza che Milord non si opporrà all' imbarco dei Ribelli, e della gente che compone la guarnigione dei Castelli Nuovi e dell' Uovo." They refused, however, to sign it. If this is true, we know how the promise was kept. A search in O whare are ye gaun, sae bonny and braw? To squander the lands of Gight awa"." AUTHORS OF BOOKS WANTED (5th S. ix. 9.)— ridge, 2 vols., Moxon, 1836. Author, Thomas Allsop. G. H. S. may be found in Graham's Magazine (Philadelphia, also- (5th S. viii. 509; ix. 18.) Barbour's Bruce, by Mr. Skeat-and as such will be most welcome to the subscribers. The fourth is likewise an instalment, being the first part of a collection which will have special interest for many readers, namely, The English Works of John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester; and we congratulate the members of the Early English Text Society that a book of this peculiar character has been entrusted to an editor, Mr. Mayor, whose previous labours have shown how especially fitted he is to do justice to the life and writings of the pious Christian prelate who sealed his faith with his blood. We sin As to the exact relationship in which love and pity cerely hope that Mr. Mayor will be able to complete the stand to each other, there seems to be some doubt: "Pity, some say, is the parent work here commenced sooner than he anticipates. -Beaumont and Fletcher, The Spanish Curate, Act v. portant and interesting work, Notes on the Churches of sc. 1. "And some say pity is the child of love." Cotton, Love's Triumph, v. 5. ST. SWITHIN. That the thought is older than Dryden or Butler is clear when we remember Shakspeare's Twelfth Night:"Vio. I pity you. Oli. That's a degree to love." D. B. BRIGHTWELL. Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, &c. The Vision of William concerning Piers the Plowman; together with Vita de_Dowel, Dobet et Dobest, Secundum Wit et Resoun. By William Langland (1362-1393 A.D.). Edited by the Rev. Walter W. Skeat, M.A. Part IV. Section I. Notes to Texts A, B, and C. (Early English Text Society.) MR. J. CHARLES Cox has published vol. iii. of his imDerbyshire (Chesterfield, Edmunds; London, Bemrose). This third volume contains records of the Hundreds of Appletree and Repton and Gresley. The work is not only well written, but profusely illustrated, admirably printed, and handsomely, that is to say appropriately, bound. All who have a justifiable pride in our churches should possess themselves of this series. It will revive old memories in some, and excite in others a desire to visit these ecclesiastical monuments, and so have joyously reverential memories of their own. -Messrs. Longmans have published a second issue of the small edition of The Life and Letters of Macaulay. It is emphatically a handy book. We advise those who read it to note Macaulay's opinions on books, and also how many were, in his estimation, each the very best book of any he ever read.-We have received the first and second parts of The Norfolk Antiquarian Miscellany, edited by Walter Rye (Norwich, Miller & Co.). The first part was published in 1873; the second in 1877. If subscribers have had to wait, they have now something worth the waiting for, and which they probably could not have obtained so easily by other means. The English Works of John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester (born 1459, died June 22, 1535). Now first collected by John E. B. Mayor, M.A. Part I. (Early English THE FOLK-LORE SOCIETY.-The published prospectus Text Society, Extra Series.) of the Folk-Lore Society wil show that the suggestion The History of the Holy Grail. Englisht ab. 1450 A.D. first made in "N. & Q." has at length been carried out by Henry Lonelich, Skinner. From the French Prose (ab. 1180-1190 A.D.) of Sires Robiers de Boiron. Re-by the formation of a society having for its object the edited from the Unique Paper MS. in Corpus Christi collecting and printing the fast-fading relics of our Coll., Cambridge, by Fred. J. Furnivall, M.A. Part Popular fictions and traditions, legendary ballads, local proverbial sayings, old customs and superstitions. It is III. (Early English Text Society, Extra Series.) The Bruce; or, the Book of the Most Excellent and the folk-lore of aboriginal people. But the extent of intended to include in the field of the society's labours Noble Prince Robert de Broyss, King of Scots. Com-the society's operations must of course be in proportion piled by Master John Barbour, Archdeacon of Aber; to the amount of support which it receives. In order, deen, A.D. 1375. Edited, with Preface, Notes, and Glossarial Index, by the Rev. Walter W. Skeat, M.A. however, to carry out one important portion of its work, Part III. (Early English Text Society, Extra "N. & Q." to forward me the names of any local journals it is necessary to ask the many country readers of Series.) It is essential that as complete a list as possible should in their neighbourhood which have a folk-lore column. be obtained. G. LAURENCE GOMME, Hon. Sec. It is impossible to glance at the four goodly volumes whose titles we have just transcribed, or to turn over their pages, without recognizing in them most valuable contributions to the history of our language and literature; and, consequently, without feeling how much those who take an interest in such studies owe to the untiring energy of Mr. Furnivall, to whom they are mainly indebted for the establishment of the Early English Text Society, by means of which these volumes have been given to the world. The object for which that society was established was certainly not one to command success, however much it may have deserved it; but it has achieved it and Mr. Furnivall will, we are sure, be among the first to recognize how large a portion of that success is owing to the band of learned and hard-working scholars who have enlisted under his banner. Three of the volumes just described are instalments of large and important works-namely, The Holy Grail, edited by Mr. Furnivall, and Piers the Plowman and Castelnau, Barnes. TEMPLE BAR AND BUCKINGHAM STREET GATE.-Why should not Temple Bar be set up again between the Temple and the Embankment, as an entrance to the gardens, and the beautiful Buckingham Street Gate, now buried and lost, be placed between the garden and the road Then, almost in juxtaposition and quite in association with their old names and sites, there would stand two works, one of Inigo Jones, the other of Sir Christopher Wren, each not a little interesting to many who are neither sages nor judges of art. WM. JNO. BLEW. THE PRIMROSES, EARLS OF ROSEBERY.-If, as stated in the Athenæum (Jan. 5), the Earl of Rosebery (Baron Rosebery of the U.K.) is about to become proprietor of the Examiner, the family name of this peer will once more be connected with literature. The founder of the POPULAR WORKS, family was John Primrose, who in 1616 (the year of Shakspeare's death) had licence to print the tract, God and the King, "for twenty-one years, in English or Latin, abroad or at home." MR. ELLIOT STOCK is now reproducing in fac-simile AT ALL LIBRARIES. the copy of Thomas à Kempis's Imitation in the author's Dr. DORAN'S handwriting, which is in the Royal Library at Brussels. Notices to Correspondents. ON all communications should be written the name and address of the sender, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. LONDON in the JACOBITE TIMES. 2 vols. 8vo. 80s. PALL MALL GAZETTE. "We advise those who cannot afford time to read the whole of the eight hundred pages comprised in these curious volumes not to read s line. If they once dip into the book they are lost; it is so extraordiarily interesting that they will be quite unable to lay it down till the last page is reached." THE WORLD. "A charming medley, full of graphic bits of description, odds and ends of half-forgotten history, and quaint and curious information." DAILY NEWS. "Dr. Doran is a delightful antiquarian. He has a curious knack of peeping into all sorts of odd nooks and corners of history. He tells his story with a relishing freshness: and one may always pass a pleasurable hour, and pick up a good deal of information, by dipping into such volumes as 'London in the Jacobite Times.'" ATHENRY.-The Annesley case was not the first in Ireland in which a similar question was involved. In the "Remembrances to be thought of touching the Parliament "the Irish Parliament, 1611 (Calendar of Carew MSS. preserved in the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth, p. 147)-there is the following passage, referring to a question of summoning certain peers to the above Parliament :-"The like question may be made of the Lord Bourke, of Castleconnell, whose elder brother has a son living, and by his friends called Lord Bourke. His uncle alleges that he is a bastard, but the boy is not yet proved to be so. Upon this allegation only his said uncle assumes the name of Lord. How he may be called to the Parliament (before his right be determined) is to Mr. TROLLOPE'S be considered." The "boy" is on the roll of peers with the word "infant" added to his name. By an enactment of 1611 it was unlawful for an illegitimate child to take for his surname any other than his mother's Christian name. M. E. B.-The descent of the quotation is traced as follows: Seneca (the dramatic writer), who died A.D. 30, has, in his Thyestes (Act ii. 1. 380), "Mens regnum bona possidet." Byrd, in Psalms, Sonnets, &c. (1588), has, "My mind to me a kingdom is." Southwell (ob. 1595) has, "My mind to me an empire is," in Look Home. Sir Edward Dyer, who died 1607, is quoted in Prof. Morley's Shorter English Poems, p. 218, in the lines 'My mind to me a kingdom is; Such present joys therein I find, That earth affords or grows by kind." H. R. D. should send his name and address (not for publication). J. J. P., A. L. G., SWYL, T. K. (Bristol), C. E. B.— Next week. LIFE of PIUS IX. 2 vols. 8vo. 26s. VANITY FAIR. "Eminently a book to read, and an eminently readable' book." LITERARY WORLD. "Mr Trollope may expect a large circle of readers, and he deserves it. Perhaps he is better qualified for the task he has attempted than any other Englishman of the day." Mr. FRED. BOYLE'S NARRATIVE of an EXPELLED Demy 8vo. 148. DAILY NEWS. "Mr. Boyle is no stranger to foreign lands, no novice in the matter of desperate strife or perilous adventure. He wields, moreover, a pen stirring scenes in a picturesque and moving way." W. JOHNSON (Philadelphia.)-See "N. & Q.," 5th S. which leaves him few superiors in the art of setting forth brisk and vii. 6, 137, 179, 413. |