quarto. Having this imperfect quarto with me all the time that I was examining perfect copies of the third and fourth quartos, and having, moreover, perfect copies of all the other quartos in the Capell collection, I think there is little doubt that, as I have made no note to the contrary, the imperfect quarto is really a fragment of the third edition. WILLIAM ALDIS WRIGHT.

CHATTERTON (4th S. v. 359.)—Dr. Wilson's interesting Life of Chatterton, recently published by Macmillan, raises questions of special interest to readers of "N. & Q." The famous "Inquest" first saw light in your pages. Are we really to reject it as summarily as Dr. Wilson proposes? Professor Masson still accredits it, and Dr. Maitland, I take it, was as safe a judge on such matters as one could wish.

But Dr. Wilson puts the Bristol boy's doings in a new light. His dealings with Walpole and most other patrons are not at all what we have been led to suppose, and I have been hoping to see them discussed anew. But what I now want to query is the new biographer's authority for running counter to Gregory, Dean Milles, Dix, and all previous writers in making John Chatterton, the old Redcliffe sexton, the poet's grandfather. Dr. Gregory and everybody else till now has called him the uncle of Thomas Chatterton, the poet's father.

With the centenary of the poet's birth at hand, there should be no doubts left on such points. H. E. AITKEN.

MRS. MARGRACIA LOUDON (4th S. v. 424.) To the answer which you have given to MR. R. INGLIS'S query respecting the works of Mrs. Margracia Loudon (who was the daughter of Mr. Ryves of Castle Ryves, in the county of Limerick), I may add that besides First Love and Maternal Love, there are the following other works by this lady, viz., Fortune Hunting: Dilemmas of Pride; Philanthropic Economy, or the Philosophy of Happiness; The Light of Mental Science, being an Essay on Moral Training; and The Corn Laws, being Selections from Philanthropic Economy. By many these works have been attributed to quite another and extremely well-known authoress, viz., Mrs. John Claudius Loudon (the error has been committed even in the British Museum Catalogue!). As I had the pleasure of knowing both of these ladies, I am able to state that none of the works here mentioned were written by Mrs. John Claudius Loudon (who was the only daughter of Thomas Webb, Esq., of Kitwell House, near Birmingham).

DAVID WOOSTER.

THE GREAT BELL OF ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL (4th S. v. 418.)-With reference to the abridgment of my communications from The Builder, which appeared in the last number of "N. & Q.," allow me to say that I stated in The Builder

"And he that shuts love out," &c.-Tennyson. verses prefixed to "The Palace of Art," Poems, p. 111, ed. 1853. Observe the condensation of English Prize Poems, p. 336):the passage in Stanley's "Gipsies," 1837 (Oxford

"Who shut love out, shall be shut out from love";

and an anecdote on the quotation recorded by the author of that prize poem in a recent number of Macmillan's Magazine.

W.

YORKSHIRE JACOBITES (4th S. v. 419.)- Rev. James Ibbetson, D.D. was the son of Ebenezer Ibbetson, citizen and salter of London. (Clutterbuck's Hist. of Herts, i. 340.) He was of Exeter College, Oxford, D.D. 1752. He held the following preferments-(1) Rector of Bushey, co. Herts, 1748-1781; (2) Archdeacon of St. Alban's, 17541781; (3) Prebend of Lincoln, 1757-1781. Lists of his works are given in-(1) Clutterbuck's Hist. of Herts, i. 42, 43; (2) Cooke's Preacher's Assistant, ii. 188; (3) Darling's Cyclop. Bibliog. p. 1601. He died Aug. 10, 1781. (Clutterbuck's Herts, i. 342, tomb.) A short life is given in Rose's Biographical Dictionary, viii. 436. L. L. H.

GOUGH, A SURNAME (4th S. iii. 426; iv. 304, 371; v. 350.)—In the edition of Camden's Remains, published in 1674, I find at p. 157, "Goff, id est, Smith in Welsh"; and at p. 162, among British or Welsh names, is "Gogh, that is, red.' GEORGE BEDO.

VICTIMS OF THE GUILLOTINE (4th S. v. 273, 324, 410.)-A list of many of the principal victims of the guillotine of all parties will be found in Historical Records of the French Revolution by H. Goudemetz, French Clergyman Emigrant to England. Translated by Rev. Dr. Randolph. Bath, 1796. As well as can be ascertained by the nominal list of victims, he gives 830, suffered in Paris; but this does not include large numbers given in gross, Chevalier de Favras, Knight of St. Louis, 1790, but and not particularly specified. The first name is he appears to have suffered à la lanterne and not by the guillotine; the last, that of Le Comte de Villeneuve, 1795, a participator in the Quiberon expedition; nor does it include the vast number guillotined in the provinces.

The number of those massacred in the Paris prisons is given at 1190. The number of the members of the National Convention who tried Louis XVI. and afterwards suffered by the guillotine, is 69.

In the Chronological Table included in the same work, which however does not give names,

I am much obliged to M. MASSON for his reply to my query respecting the Carmagnole. I have, however, looked carefully through the book he refers me to, Chants et chansons populaires de la France, but I do not see any allusion to it, nor can I find it in the Music Catalogue of the British Museum. I should be glad to have the words and music, both of this and its twin-brother, the Ça ira. JONATHAN BOUCHIER.

ROME AND LOUIS XIV. (4th S. v. 276, 369.)— I read the observations of MR. HENRY CROSSLEY with surprise and regret: surprise, that he should so mistake, or misrepresent, the bearing of the incident referred to; and regret, deep regret, that he should make remarks calculated to wound the feelings of the Catholic readers of "N. & Q.," and provoke to controversy. He well knows that controversy is inadmissible in its pages; and therefore it was unfair to make comments which could not be discussed in these pages. But I must be allowed to protest at least against his assertions. The affair between the Pope and the King had no connexion whatever with the question of the Pope's infallibility; but was merely an act of the Pope as a temporal sovereign, for which MR. CROSSLEY must know that infallibility is not claimed. Why then throw out the unjust taunt that the incident "furnishes a curious comment on those pretensions to papal infallibility, which are to be discussed at the Council now sitting at Rome"? Whatever may be the decrees of the Council, they will certainly not regard the Pope's liability to err as a temporal sovereign; nor did "the spirit of a Frenchman overpower," or in any degree affect "the feeling of a Catholic," as MR. CROSSLEY asserts, in Massillon, when he merely alluded to the satisfaction given by one temporal sovereign for an insult offered to the ambassador of another. It was an effusion of patriotism, wholly independent of any religious opinion upon the still open question of papal infallibility.

F. C. H.

LABARUM (4th S. v. 93, 237, 351.)-Your correspondent will find some information as to the derivation of the word Labarum in Macer's Hierolexicon, verb. "Labarum." C. C. HARINGTON. The Close, Exeter.

CICERO: 66 EX LIBELLA... EX TERUNCIO” (4th S. v. 339.)-R. E. is not the first who has stumbled at this passage. P. Victorinus pronounces it "locus valde inquinatus," and despairs of making anything out of it. I do not seem to see that the difficulty is so insurmountable, or, because "er libella is translated 'sole heir,' ex teruncio will be meaningless." I should, for my own part, consider that there would be a good deal of very agreeable meaning in a will which should name any friend of mine "sole heir," with the proviso of his paying over to me a twelfth or a fourth part of the estate. In this case, it appears to me that Atticus was appointed the heir, or "sole heir," if you will, while Cicero was made a legatee under that instrument- - an arrangement not uncommon then, and of every-day occurrence now. As libella sometimes as, and as as (from eis, Dor. als, Tarent. ǎs) signifies "unity, oneness," so both these words in reference to inheritances came to mean the whole estate.

Patching Rectory.

EDMUND TEW, M.A.

Though a subscriber to "N. & Q." from its commencement, and thirsting for its weekly ap pearance, somehow at the time I overlooked this query, which else would have received earlier attention.

Libella originally As (a pound of copper), and so was 1-10th of Denarius (decem asses). As containing 12 unciæ, Teruncius (3 uncia) = 1-4th ounce of copper, of libella. When the As became 1 the denarius was valued at 16 asses, and the sestertius (originally 24 asses), still computed as 1-4th A change of of denarius, =4 asses, = 48 unciæ. meaning was given to libela and teruncius. Libella, no longer 1-10th of denarius, became 1-10th of sestertius: teruncius, 1-4th of libella, became 1-40th of sestertius. So, while heres ex asse is "heir to the whole," heres ex quadrante, "heir to onefourth," heres ex libella is "heir to 1-10th of sestertius," i. e. 4-8 unciæ, heres ex teruncio, "heir to 1-40th of sestertius, i. e. 1-2 unciæ." Curius by will bequeaths just half of his estate to Atticus and Cicero, giving to Atticus, through whom he had become known to Cicero, a fourfold amount

may

other

This (after Gronov. lib. ii. de pecunia vet. c. i.) is the explanation of Schütz, Epist. 293 of his edition. If R. E. or other readers have access to wise be obscure, how S. gets out the precise value Schütz's note, I explain to them, what of ex libella, "4 unciis, 3 sicilicis, I scripulo": also ex teruncio, "1 uncia, 5 scripulis" (i.e. nearly; exactly 4.8 scripulis). 6 scripula = 1 sicilicus: 4 sicilici = 1 uncia. [As an aid to memory, I compare our Apothecaries' Weight. 3 scruples = 1 drachm: 8 drachms 1 ounce. Thus scripulum (scruple) was, as with us, 1-24th of an ounce, and sicilicus 2 drachms.] Cambridge.

CHARLES THIRIOLD.

time of the saint's feast.

In an old herbal, in German, printed at Strassburg in 1589, it is stated that Veronica was one of the names of Speedwell, and it was otherwise called Ehrenpreiss and Kolerkraut; but the author declines attempting to decide the origin of the name Veronica, which seems even at that early date to have been a disputed question.

"Ein König von Franckreich sol im den Namen geben haben, und auch Veroniam genant. Ja solte billich Veronica heissen: dergleichen weitleufftige unnötige Lites der namen, wil ich dissmal bleiben lassen."

Perhaps we shall do well to imitate the wary old herbalist, and fairly give up the origin of the application of the name Veronica to this plant. F. C. H. "LEAVING NO STONE UNTURNED (4th S. v. 30, 135, 262)-L. J. PLATT (p. 135) seems to think it not at all unlikely that the above phrase is derived from the habits of a species of bird called "turnstone." I find in Bartlett's Quotations (author's edit. 1869), p. 330 of appendix, the following:

"To leave no stone unturned '— Πάντα κινῆσαι πέτρον.

Euripides, Herac. 1002. "This may be traced to a response of the Delphic oracle given to Polycrates, as the best means of finding a treasure buried by Xerxes' general Mardonius on the field of Platea. The oracle replied-Пávтa Xitov kivel, Turn every stone.'-Coop. Paræmiogr. Græc. i. p. 146." J. S. UDAL.

10, Park Street.

MAYOR OF LONDON AND LORD OF FINSBURY (4th S. v. 360.)-William the Conqueror styled the chief officer of the City port-grave, or portreeve. In a charter of Henry I. he is called a justiciar, and temp. Henry II. he appears to have been known by the Norman title maire, or mayor. Henry Fitz-Alwhyn was the first mayor, 1189 to 1213. Edward III. granted the prefix of " Lord" in 1354; but the title "Right Honourable" is

believed to have been conferred first upon Godfrey Feldyng in 1452, when he became a member of the Privy Council. The fact that Henry V. gave the seat of honour at a banquet to the Lord Mayor (Nicholas Wotton) in 1415, before the Archbishop of Canterbury, shows how highly the chief magistrate of the City was treated at that period. Charles I. conferred the title "Lord Mayor" on the chief civic officer of Dublin in 1645, though it was not borne by him till 1665. The mayors of York and Edinburgh also have the distinction. JOHN PIGGOT, JUN.

JAMES TELFER: "PARCY REED" (3rd S. xii. 242, 352, 451, 533; 4th S. i. 108, 249; v. 329.)MR. DIXON will find this ballad printed in Richardson's Local Historian's Table-Book, “Legendary Division" (ii. 321). It is prefaced by an introduction written by Mr. Robert White, who

observes:

"The annexed ballad was never before published, having been taken down by my valued friend Mr. James Telfer of Saughtree, Liddesdale, from the chaunting of an old woman, named Kitty Hall, who resided at Fairloans in the head of Kale water, Roxburghshire. Mr. Telfer had the honour of presenting a transcript of the piece to Sir Walter Scott, who placed it at the end of his copy of the Lay of the Reedwater Minstrel, and both now occupy a place in Press P, shelf 1, at the library at Abbotsford."

ANON.

INSCRIPTION AT LORD TAUNTON'S (4th S. v. 175, 211.)

"His the green memory and immortal day." This line to the memory of a dear and valued friend reminds me of some verses he wrote at the early age of thirteen on the question being put, whether foresight contributed to happiness?

"If with an astrologic eye

We could in stars our fate descry,
Could see a parent's final day,

And knowing, could prolong his stay;
Sure foresight would be perfect bliss,
And who would wish for more than this?
But if we should foresee in vain,
It would inflict but double pain,
To see a friend approach the tomb,
Unable to avert his doom;

Sure foresight would be far from bliss,

And who would wish for such as this?"

Already, as a boy, Henry Labouchere gave promise of the noble-minded man he proved himself to be through a long and well-spent life in the service of his country, and as an enlightened lover of the fine arts. Both he and his worthy brother, the late Mr. John Labouchere, were through life faithful to the admonitions of their excellent father on their beginning life:

"Je n'ai qu'une chose à vous recommander, c'est de ne jamais rien faire qui doive un jour vous forcer à rougir devant moi ou vis-à-vis de vous-même,”— and God knows they were true to it! Sir Thomas Lawrence rendered full justice to these two fine youths in the noble picture he painted for their grandfather, the first Sir Francis Baring.

DUKE OF SCHOMBERG (4th S. iv. 540; v. 100, 187, 328.)-Prior to all these Schönbergs, or Schombergs, I find one mentioned in the Journal du Règne du Roy Henry III, p. 29 :

"Le Dimanche vingt-septième Avril (1578) pour demesler une querelle née pour fort legere occasion entre le Sieur de Quelus, l'un des grands mignons du Roy, et le jeune Antragues, favory de la maison de Guise. Le dit Quelus avec Maugiron et Livarot, et Antragues avec Riberac et le jeune Schomberg. Ils combattirent si furieusement que le beau Maugiron et le jeune Schomberg demeurerent morts sur place: Riberac des coups qu'il y reçut mourut le lendemain, Livarot d'un grand coup qu'il eut sur la teste fut six sepmaines malade, Antragues s'en alla sain et sauf avec un petit coup qui n'etoit qu'une egratignure. Quelus, autheur et agresseur de la noise, de dix-neuf coups qu'il reçut languit 33 jours, puis mourut. Le Roy portoit à Maugiron et à luy une merveilleuse amitié, car il les baisa tous deux morts. On en fit ces deux vers

'Seigneur, reçois en ton giron

Schomberg, Quelus et Maugiron.'" This was something like a duello. To which branch of the Schombergs did this youth belong? P. A. L.

"SNAKES CONSPICUOUS BY THEIR ABSENCE" (4th S. iv. 561; v. 50, 51, 101, 186, 328.)-On this subject I may be allowed to mention the popular belief that no snakes are to be found in the district of Irchinfield, in the south of Herefordshire. During a residence of many years I certainly never saw one there, or heard of more than one as reported to have been seen. T. W. WEBB.

Hardwick Vicarage, Hay, S. Wales. PENMEN (4th S. iii. 458, 536, 563; iv. 35, 100, 167.)-The following book is not mentioned by the correspondents to "N. & Q.”: —

"Nicholas (Abraham), the complete Writing Master, containing several useful and ornamental Examples of Penmanship. (Note) Engraved throughout. London, 1722, fol. (B. M. 1755 A).

41, Eccleston Square, S.W.

CHARLES VIVIAN.

TIZARD (4th S. iv. 515, 574; v. 47, 215.)-By Hutchins's History of Dorset, ed. 1774, vol. i. p. 466, Ashton, or Winterborne Ashton, once a manor, is described to be a hamlet or tything in Winterborne, St. Martin's parish, and to consist of one farm, then the property of John Lord Berkeley, of Stratton. I find by local inquiry that it still belongs to the Berkeleys of Berkeley Castle, and that it is a mistake to describe it as the seat of the late Mr. J. H. Tizard, though he

farmed and resided on the estate for a long period previous to his death, a bachelor, now many years ago. The only memorials of him consist in the recollection of his kindly nature, and of the keen sportsman, and open-hearted old English gentleman, as he was. I have been favoured with a sight of an impression of a seal he used, and which agrees with the heraldic insignia quoted by your correspondents; but I have been unable to ascertain whether he or his ancestors had any formal grant for their user. The name in Dorset is by no means rare or equally blessed with this world's comforts, but one family of the name uses the crest, of which I have been given a print. Out

of a mural crown a dexter arm erect vested and cuffed, in the hand a baton, a fleur-de-lys for difference on the arm. My informant has failed to obtain for me an impression or a description of the arms, if any, used in conjunction with this crest, so that I cannot further help your original inquirer in the object of his anxiety. MR. CHARNOCK has certainly interested us with his ingenious speculations as to the origin of this family and the derivation of its name, but I fear, if there be anything in local tradition or reputation, they must be considered speculations only. E. G.

A PENNYWORTH (4th S. v. 431.)-The following is an advertisement in a newspaper in the year

1725:

460; xi. 163; 4th S. v. 185, 351.— "NOT LOST, BUT GONE BEFORE" (3rd S. x. 404,

"Judicemus illos abesse, et nosmetipsi fallamus. Dimisimus illos, immo consecuturi præmisimus."--Sen. Con. Marc. 29.

"Quem putas periisse, præmissus est."-Sen. Epist. 99. "Erras, etc. Quid fata deflemus? non reliquit ille nos, sed antecessit."-Sen. Con. Polyb. 28.

"Et fortasse (si modo sapientium vera fama est, recipitque nos locus aliquis) quem putamus periisse præmissus est."-Sen. Epist. 63. C. I. P.

JANET GEDDES (4th S. v. 367.)- Your correspondent J. M. alludes to this rare tract:

"A Narration of the most material Proceedings of the present Parliament, and their Armies, &c." 4to, 1651, with engravings.

An earlier 4to pamphlet (1648)—

"The Information of the Beginning and Cause of all our Troubles, how they have been hatched and how prevented"

is in my possession. It contains the identical print of Archbishop Spottiswoode, as described by J. M., and among other very curious engravings

"The Prentices and Seamen of Southwark assaulting Lambeth Palace."

"The Sodgiers on their Passage to York destroying Popish Pictures."

"The English and Scotch Armies embracing each other."

"The Execution of Archbishop Laud."

"The Battle of Edgehill."

"The Populace pulling down Cheapside Cross."
"The Execution of Challoner and Tomkins, 1643."
"The King's Escape from Oxford."

Is anything known of this tract? There is no printer's name, simply "London, 1648."

Is any other print in existence of the Cross in Cheapside than in this book, where it is drawn with much appearance of accuracy, just before its destruction by the populace.

THOS. E. WINNINGTON.

This famous Scottish heroine was held in honourable remembrance by Robert Burns, the poet, to whose favorite and trusty servant his "auld, ga'd gleyde o' a meere," she stood godmother. A very humorous letter, in broad Scotch, descriptive of the manifold excellences of this latter, addressed to his friend W. Nicoll, of the High School, will be found in Cromek's Reliques, p. 27, to which is appended a quotation anent the historical incident, from Laing's History of Scotland, vol. iii. p. 122. Another humorous adventure, in which "his old mare, Jenny Geddes," whom he describes as "one of the Rosinante family," honourably figures, and which would have formed an admirable scene for the reed-pen of Rowlandson, will be found in Dr. Currie's sixth edition of the Works, 1809, vol. i. p. 165. WILLIAM BATES.

PHENIX ISLAND (4th S. iv. 410.)—

"Les îles Farroilap, découvertes en 1827, et nommées alors Gardner (one of the Phoenix group), explorées par Lütke en mars 1828. Groupe de quatre ou cinq milles de circuit, avec trois îlots bas et boisés. Position 8° 37' latitude nord, 144° 16′ longitude est suivant Cantova; vues dès 1696 par Juan Rodrigues."—L'Univers. Océanie, par M. G. L. D. de Rienzi. Tome ii. 126. Paris 1836. (B. M. 2060 C.)

C. VIVIAN.

STATUES ON EASTER ISLAND (4th S. v. 144, 265.)—Some account of the statues on Easter Island, accompanied by an engraving, may be found at p. 284 of the same book. C. VIVIAN.

Calendar of the Carew Manuscripts preserved in the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth, 1601-1603. Edited by J. S. Brewer, M.A., and William Bullen, Esq. Published under the Authority of the Master of the Rolls. (Longman.)

We should say that the publication of this fourth volume of the Calendar of the extraordinary collection of documents illustrative of Irish history preserved at Lambeth, rich as it is in instruction as to the country and the character of the people, was peculiarly well timed if we could hope that the Members of the Legislature could or would consult it. As it is, it will probably be left to students and scholars to extract the lessons with which the volume abounds. The introduction by Mr. Brewer is full and interesting; and he wisely points out at the close of it how large a number of miscellaneous subjects are casually illustrated by the Carew Papers of 1601, 1602, and 1603.

London Lyrics. By Frederick Locker. (Strachan & Co.) Mr. Locker obviously shares Dr. Johnson's love of London and London life, and as obviously Captain Morof song; and gives utterance to his feelings in some very ris's admiration of the shady side of Pall Mall, and his gift graceful and pleasing vers de société, of which the sparkle is enhanced by occasional and effective touches of pathos. Old Mortality. By Sir Walter Scott. (A. & C. Black.)

This fifth volume of the centenary edition of the Waverley Novels (with its frontispiece of "Old Mortality," lying exhausted and expiring on the roadside) illustrates in a peculiar manner the great utility of the new feature of this edition, the Indexes; that to the present volume is very full and useful.

Poems and Lancashire Songs. By Edwin Waugh. Third Edition, with Additions. (Bell & Daldy.)

This volume of Lancashire Lyrics-for such they are, though not all in the Lancashire dialect-have the ring of true song in them, and are dedicated to John Bright, who shows by the aptness of the quotations he introduces into his Speeches how wide a reader and thorough lover he is of our English poets.

The Floral Guide and Garden Guide for May, edited by Shirley Hibberd. (Groombridge.)

The articles in this and the preceding number should be looked to by all who take an interest in "Dinnertable Decoration."

THE book of the week has unquestionably been "Lothair": for the copyright of which, it is said, a house