buildings above-mentioned, forty-seven fine dwellings have been erected, of which a number have been occupied by some of the wealthiest citizens of Chicago. The lots are sold on condition that no house shall stand within thirty feet of the road, or cost less than 3000 dols. One of the dwellings has cost upwards of 20,000 dols. Only one house is allowed to be built upon a lot 100 feet in front; the lots are 250 feet in depth. Purchasers bind themselves to build within a year.

Riverside has been created a separate township, and the residents have thus the power to prohibit the sale of liquors. When the improvements of the company are completed they will be handed over to the township, which will afterwards maintain them. Philadelphia.

UNEDA.

SIR WALTER SCOTT'S USE OF PROVERBS.-It is impossible to conceive that the "great unknown" should himself have been so unknowing as to misapprehend the meaning of two homely proverbs in use on both sides of the Tweed, and yet in one and the same chapter of the Heart of Midlothian (the 16th) it would appear to be the case, though the result is doubtless due to the illustrious author's haste in composition.

In the first instance Mr. Sharpitlaw broadly hints to Ratcliffe that it will be to his interest to be communicative respecting the persons who had been prominently engaged in the Porteous riot, and he says: "An ye can gie us a lift-why the inner turnkey's office to begin wi' and the captainship in time; ye understand my meaning?" To this the astute, though reluctant, rascal rejoins, "Ay, troth do I, sir; a wink's as gude as a nod to a blind horse."

Now this adage, if it means anything, means that nod and wink are alike wasted upon the animal that sees neither; whereas Ratcliffe, for his own part, admits that he perceives clearly what is required of him, while he professes his inability to obtain preferment in the way pointed

out.

Later on, under renewed pressure, he becomes more compliant, and gives particulars which are greedily received as most important links in the chain of evidence. Amongst other things he says, "Weel, then, I heard and saw him (Robertson) speak to the wench Effie Deans that's up there for child-murder."

Sharpitlaw, excited by this discovery, exclaims "The deil ye did! Rat, this is finding a mare's nest wi' a witness." Here, then, so far from thinking it all moonshine, he conceives that, by connecting it with other facts that have come to his knowledge, the matter is made as clear as day; but if so, he has found what he has been so earnestly seeking, and then where is the "mare's WM. UNDERHILL.

nest"?

13, Kelly Street, Kentish Town.

"At Blackburn, on the 2nd inst., Christina, eldest daughter of Mr. William Black, farm-steward, to Wm. Stewart, farm-steward, Blackerston. JAMES NICHOLSON.

COINCIDENCES OF THOUGHT: BACON: BUNYAN. Under this heading I wish to add another instance to my list, the more remarkable as occurring in the writings of two men so essentially different in talents and in social position.

The definition of revenge by the great philosopher and chancellor is well known-"Revenge is a wild justice." I quote from memory. Now I think from the paucity of references to other authorities than the scriptural writers, in the works of that wisest of unlearned men, Bunyan, that Lord Bacon may be considered as one of the most unlikely theless, with the following, extracted from his authors for him to have perused. I meet, neverJerusalem Sinner Saved. If confined to the simple

definition it has the terseness of Bacon :

"I have observed that, as there are herbs and flowers in our gardens, so there are their counterfeits in the field; of wild ones: and wild faith is presumption. I call it only they are distinguished from the others by the name (presumption) wild faith, because God never placed it in his garden, his church; it is only to be found in the world-the field. I also call it wild faith because it only grows up and is nourished where other wild notions abound.'

I think the beauty of the amplification will excuse its length to the readers of "N. & Q."

Carisbrooke.

J. A. G.

WITCH-BURNING IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.-It may be worth while to record in "N. & Q." the following, taken from the Steamer edition of the Panama Star and Herald of June 5, 1871:

"According to the Porvenir of Callao (Peru), 29th ult., a woman has been burnt in the public square of a town in the Province of Guavina, for being a witch, about thirty-four leagues distant from the Port of Iquique. This punishment, worthy of the flourishing days of the Spanish Inquisition, was ordered by the Lieutenant-Go

vernor and Judge of the Province."

J. P.

"Sonnez, trompettes immortelles, L'écho du peuple vous répond, Aux étrangères sentinelles

Jetons ce cri' Les rois s'en vont!' Marchons, peuple héroïque, Marchons, garde civique, Marchons tous en avant

Au cri de ralliement,

Vive la République! vive à jamais la République!" LE COUP PERD. GLASSEL. Where can I obtain information respecting the parentage of John Glassel, Esq., of Long Niddry, whose daughter and heir was wife of John, seventh Duke of Argyle, and mother of the present duke? I have been told, but I do not know with what truth, that he was a coachbuilder, who acquired a considerable fortune in London. If so, it only shows what a mixed race we are-nobility, tradespeople, and royalty, all intermingled within a few years, in one of the most illustrious families of the land.

Y. S. M.

GRAIN: LUMB.-Can any of your correspondents explain the meaning, or give the derivation, of the suffix Grain in place-names? It occurs several times in the Peak of Derbyshire: such as Nuns Grain, Torside Grain, Grinah Grain, &c. &c. Also the derivation of Lumb, which is common in the same county. There are three Lumbwoods, a Lumsdale, Depths of Lumb, &c. As far as I can tell, places thus named are situated in narrow ravines or gullies. J. CHARLES Cox.

Hazelwood, Belper.

HASTINGS ETC. QUERIES.-1. The Hon. Henry Hastings of Woodlands, second son of George, fourth Earl of Huntingdon, married a daughter of Sir Willoughby of Woollaton.

Was this Willoughby Sir John or Sir Francis, and who was his wife (mother of Mrs. Hastings)? I think she was Eleanor, daughter of William, first Lord Paget, and that she is mentioned in Dugdale's Warwickshire.

2. The Rev. William Hastings, son of the Hon. Henry Hastings of Woodlands, married, about 1630, Anne, daughter of Gabriel Cracknell, Esq. of Oxford. Is anything known of the Cracknell family?

3. Henry Hastings, Esq., son of the Rev. William Hastings, married before 1671, and settled in Dublin about 1680. He left two daughters, one of whom was buried near Londonderry.

Who did this Henry Hastings marry? He and his daughters are mentioned in Bell's Huntingdon Peerage.

4. Where can I find the paternal and maternal

"KEIP ON THIS SYDE."- Vide Scott's Antiquary, i. 80, edit. 1816. After the inimitable account of Edie Ochiltree's ruthless destruction of Jonathan Oldbuck's best evidence respecting the "castrum militare" on the Kaim of Kinprunes, comes the following sentence:-"This," thought Lovel to himself, "is a famous counterpart to the story of 'Keip on this syde."" Now, what is this story which Scott so plainly expected to be well known to the generality of his readers ? NOELL RADECliffe.

find a memoir or biographical notice of this DR. MAY, BISHOP OF CARLISLE.-Where can I prelate?

S.

[In Cooper's Athena Cantabrigienses, ii. 233, 549.] THREE QUERIES ABOUT JOHN MILTON.-1. In Aubrey's "Life of John Milton" printed as appendix to Godwin (Lives of Edward and John Philips, 1815) occurs (p. 345)this notice: "Quære, Mr. Allam of Edm. Hall, Oxon, of Mr. J. MilMr. Allam, as I suppose, Mr. Andrew Allam, who ton's Life writt. by himselfe, vid. pagg." Is this Oxford; and if so, are his literary remains predied 1685, Vice-Principal of St. Edmund's Hall, served, and where?

2. Amongst the miniatures at the South Kensington Museum is exposed a portrait of Milton, painted by Petitot, lent by C. Goding, Esq. (temporary label No. 20). Can the story of this portrait be ascertained, and is it genuine?

3. A. Geffroy, in his Étude sur les pamphlets politiques et religieux de Milton, Paris, 1848, says (p. 242): "Le manuscrit des lettres de Milton (literæ familiares) est entre les mains de Sir Thomas Phillipps, Baronet (Middle Hill, Broadway, Worcestershire)." If this notice is to be trusted, what has become of the Miltonian letters ?

10, Guilford Street, Russell Square.

ALFRED STERN.

For whom G. S. DEAL.

MONOGRAM ON A PICTURE.-I have a picture, a rural subject, containing a multitude of small figures, walking, woodcutting, &c. The size of the affair is 18 in. by 13 in., and is marked on the face with the initials "Y.D." does this monogram pass current ? "MOON-GATHERED DARNELS," A leading article in the Daily News for March 1 states that "the herbalist with moon-gathered darnels has a brisk sale for his wares in country places and in low neighbourhoods." What are the supposed properties of "moon-gathered darnels"? and is the above statement founded on fact?

JAMES BRITTEN.

PICTURE OF "VIRGIN AND CHILD."-I should be glad if any of your readers could give me any information about a picture evidently of a Byzantine character, subject "Virgin and Child," size 13 in. by 11 in. Panel strapped and much worm

eaten.

About midway on the back is a book-plate of the Earls of Carysfort, with motto, "Manus hæc inimica tyrannis." Lower down is a seal about the size of a shilling, black wax giving a coronet over the letters "P. T."

Upon one part of the back is the number "82," and in another are two words which look as much like "claret chamber" as anything else.

Query, was this picture one of those sold "by Christie at his great room, King Street, last Saturday" (see Globe, Jan. 16, 1828), and where could I get a description or a history of it?

G. S. DEAL.

POT OF LILIES.-Over the porches of St. Mary's churches at Huntingdon, Brampton, and Godmanchester, there is a pot of lilies carved in stone-an emblem, I presume, of the Virgin. Can any one cite other instances of this decoration,

and is it a well-known architectural device?

ALFRED GATTY, D.D.

PRAYER-BOOK QUERY.-In the First Epistle of St. John, ch. v. ver. 12 (Authorised Version, Eng, Bible), the following words occur: "He that hath not the Son oF GOD, hath not life"; while in the Prayer-books and Church-services published at both the University Presses, the two words "of God" are omitted in the Epistle appointed for the first Sunday after Easter. Can you or any of your readers explain this most NEMO. extraordinary error of omission?

[The words "of God" appear in the Prayer-books of 1549, 1552, 1559, and 1604. In the Book of Common Prayer, however, of 1636, in which the corrections were made, and which, thus corrected, constitutes that now in use, there is this direction in the margin at the commencement of the Collects, Epistles, &c.-"the Epistles and Gospels are all to be corrected after the last translation." That last translation was what is known as King James's Bible printed in 1611, of which there are said to have been two issues in that year. In neither edition are there the words " of God." We may add the fact that in the MS. Prayer-book attached to the Act of Uniformity those words were inserted, but struck out by

those to whom the charge of testing its accuracy was entrusted.]

SIR THOMAS PRESTWICH.-Can any of your Lancashire readers direct me to particulars of the life of Sir Thomas Prestwich, an antiquary of the latter part of the seventeenth century, who lived at Hulme Hall, near Manchester, and who was, I believe, the last of his family? DICK.

[Sir Thomas Prestwich of Hulme, near Manchester, was made one of the Commissioners of Array in 1642; served in Cheshire during the Civil Wars (1644) under Sir Thomas Aston; and created a baronet in 1644. In

1648 he assisted Sir Marmaduke Langdale in settling the terms on which the English would co-operate with the Scots under the Duke of Hamilton, and became bound in 8007. to provide four hundred pairs of pistols. The Prestwich family, which originally possessed one of the largest estates in Lancashire, was by loans to Charles I., repeated sequestrations, &c., nearly reduced to a state of ruin. Hulme Hall was the manor house of Ralph de Prestwich in 1434, and continued in his descendants until the manor was sold by Sir Thomas Prestwich, the second baronet, to Sir Edward Mosley, Bart., in 1660, the sale being confirmed by an Act of Parliament in 1673. For some account of this family, consult Prestwich's Respublica, p. 152; Nichols's Literary Anecdotes, ix. 23; and Gent. Mag., lxv. 879, 967; for pedigrees, Harl. MSS., 1437, p. 39; 1468, p. 14; 1549, p. 87; 2086, p. 12; 6159, p. 62; and the Royalist Composition Papers in the Public Record Office, First Series, li. 623, 625; Second Series, xxvii. 145.]

SHAKESPEARE, ANNOTATED QUARTO.-In Pope's preface to Shakespeare, speaking of the quartos, he says:

"I have seen one in particular (which seems to have belonged to the play-house, by having the parts divided by lines, and the actors' names in the margin) where several of those very passages (mean conceits and ribaldries) were added in a written hand, which since are to be

found in the folio."

Limerick. SUPPORTERS. - When were supporters first adopted by kings and nobles as a part of their armorial bearings? What is the earliest instance on record of an English earl adopting them as part of his armorial bearings? What is the earliest sketch or drawing of such now existing in the British Museum? What are the best books. where the learning can be found upon the subject? When did the Tichborne family first use supporters, and by what right? Does the right appertain to every male descendant of the family, or only to the baronet? M. T.

"TO BERKELEY EVERY VIRTUE UNDER HEAVEN." Could the idea contained in this verse have been suggested to Pope by the following line, quoted by Aristotle ?.

Ἐν δὲ δικαιοσύνη συλλήβδην πᾶσ ̓ ἀρετ ̓ ἐστίν.
Aristot. de Moribus, lib. v. cap. iii., edit.
Paris, MDCLIII. tom. iii. p. 77.
R. C.

Cork.

WM. THOMAS'S "HISTORIE OF ITALIE."-Can any of your readers give me information concerning a book entitled —

"The Historie of Italie, a boke excedyng profitable to be redde: because it intreateth of the astate of many and divers Commonweales, how thei have ben & now be governed. Anno Domini M.DXLIX. London. In the house of Thomas Berthelet."*

It was suppressed and burnt by the common hangman, but a reprint was subsequently made in 1561. The original edition is very rare. "W. Thomas (says Holinshed), who wrote the Historie of Italie and other things verie eloquentlie, was hanged and quartered at Tyburn, 18 May, 1554, for conspiring to murther Q. Mary." He had been tutor to Edward VI., and some of his letters are preserved by Strype. Was the original edition burnt by order of a proclamation, or a judgment of the Court of Queen's Bench, or under what other process?

W. H. HART.

VISITOR, VISITEE.-In parlance legal and often in ordinary conversation we have the terms lessor, lessee, appointor, appointee, grantor, grantee.

In these days of telegrams and post cards, would the innovation visitee (as relative to visitor) be out of place? Words, time, and ink, would be THOMAS TULLY, JUN.

the salvation.

Replies.

A LETTER OF EDWARD IV.

(4th S. vii. 229, 312, 417.)

I am happy to be able to announce that Mr. Addington, the purchaser of this interesting document, has been good enough to comply with my suggestion, and has lent the MS. for a short time to Mr. Bond of the British Museum, in order that it may be submitted to a careful examination and compared with other letters bearing the signatures of the Earls of March and Rutland. From the remarks already made in your columns, as well as from communications I have received upon the subject privately, some of your readers will doubtless be interested in the result of this inspection. I therefore make no apology for troubling you with the following observations :-

The body of the letter and the address are in a clear Italian hand, which no one can reasonably doubt to be of the fifteenth century. The subscription-by which I mean the words below the date, but above the signatures-is also in an Italian hand, but different. The two signatures, "E. March" and "E. Rutlond," are certainly quite distinct in character, and have all the appearance of having been written by two different hands; and finally, the endorsement is in a different hand from any of the others. We have,

[* This work is noticed in "N. & Q." 3rd S. i. 291.ED.]

therefore, no less than five handwritings in this single letter.

Now of course we may dismiss at once as utterly out of the question the supposition that all these five handwritings are forgeries; and, in fact, as we have said before, the body of the document is beyond suspicion. But the body of the document, it will be remembered, has, partly at least, a look of having been written in the name of King Henry VI., while the signatures are those of the Earls of March and Rutland. The question, then, is, whether the subscription and signatures, or even the signatures alone, could have been forged. The latter supposition is, of course, the more credible of the two, as it must certainly be easier to fabricate successfully two short signatures than a subscription containing no less than thirty words. Indeed, if the subscription be a forgery, it is certainly one of the most skilful that was ever made. To my eyes, at least, it bears all the marks of genuine fifteenth-century writing, and I believe those who have examined it most critically admit that there is nothing in the appearance of the writing to which they can take exception.

With regard to the signatures, it will, perhaps, be as well that we should in the first place take note of such other specimens as are extant, either of Edward as Earl of March, or of his brother the Earl of Rutland. They are very few in number; but it is remarkable that there are two letters in the Cottonian Collection, each of which bears the signatures of both princes together, like the letter now under consideration. These two letters are both addressed to the Duke of York, the father of the writers, who is styled Protector of England; and their date must certainly be some years earlier than 1460, the year in which the present letter was written. The first, which is contained in the Cottonian MS. Vespasian F. xiii. f. 35, is dated Ludlow, June 3, and must, I think, be of the year 1454, when the elder brother was only twelve and the younger eleven years of age. The writers acknowledge the receipt of a letter from their father dated at York, May 29, showing his "victorious speed against his enemies." At first sight this expression might seem to refer to the battle of St. Alban's, which was fought on May 22, 1455; but there are two reasons which make it impossible to attribute the letter to that year. In the first place, the Duke of York had been dismissed from his protectorship in the beginning of the year 1455, and was only restored to it in November. Secondly, he could not possibly have gone to York just after the battle of St. Alban's, for in a letter written shortly after Corpus Christi Even (June 5) in that year, it is stated that he was removing next day to Ware. (See Paston Letters, i. 104.)

The other letter, which is in MS. Vespasian F. iii., f. 13, and which is printed in Ellis's Letters,