66 66 STYMIE" AT GOLF (10 S. ix. 370, 414, 492). It is not the dissyllable "stymie but styme," which is a monosyllabic word, that Jamieson defines as a particle," a glimpse," and so forth. What he says of the term is fully substantiated by apposite illustrations from standard works, and it accords with the Scottish practice of the present day. We all know what it is not to be able to see a styme, but it is only those of us who are golfers that understand what is denoted by a stymie. Burns thus characteristically illustrates the familiar word in the closing stanza of his Epistle to John Goldie in Kilmarnock' :— APPLES: THEIR NAMES (10 S. viii. 429; ix. 297, 314, 495).-In the Appendix to the Forty-Third Report of the DeputyKeeper of Public Records, issued in 1882, there is a list of seventeen sorts of English apples which had been sent as being the best to Marshal Wrangel in Sweden in the This list I met with amongst the year 1663. correspondence of the marshal of the castle of Skokloster, when examining the MSS. there preserved in 1881. W. D. MACRAY. PROVERB ON BEATING (10 S. ix. 170, 298). The Woman, Spaniel, and Walnut Tree has such a vogue that it is well to point out that John Taylor, the "Water-Poet,' should have been quoted as the author in the dictionary referred to in the editorial note. Another far earlier song runs :— Ther wer 3 wold be betyn, 3 wold be betyn ther A myll, a stoke fysche, and a woman. wer, H. P. L. UNTHANK (10 S. ix. 351, 492).—DR. MILNE, who mentions a solitary instance of this name in Moray, suggests that it may apply to "some far-removed place" (presumably a mountain, or some cliffs by the sea) where newly weaned lambs would be out of the hearing of their mothers. The only instance I have heard of is in Norwich, where there is an Unthanks Road, leading, I presume, to some place of this name. This, I think, would hardly correspond to Dr. Milne's description, as Norfolk is notoriously the flattest county in England, and Norwich is near its centre, and a considerable distance from the sea. J. FOSTER PALMER. 8, Royal Avenue, S. W. Norwich. THOMAS BAYNE. FINNIS STREET (10 S. ix. 486).-Col. Finnis was killed during the office of his brother, Alderman Thos. Quested Finnis, as Lord Mayor of London. A memorial tablet to the colonel was placed in the church of St. Dunstan's-in-the-East : "By the inhabitants of this Parish as a testimony to the worth of a brave Soldier and a sincere Christian, as a token of sympathy with his bereaved I remember coming into contact with some people of this name in Newcastle-uponLast Trinity Tyne some fifty years ago. Sunday the Bishop of Ripon ordained the Rev. R. A. Unthank, and licensed him to the curacy of Carleton-in-Craven, Skipton. I suppose the name is not uncommon. According to Mr. Bardsley (Dict. of English and Welsh Surnames') there is one township in Cumberland and another in CLERGY IN WIGS (10 S. viii. 149, 214; ix. 497). In T. P.'s Weekly of 19 June, 1908, review of 'One City and Many Men,' Sir Algernon West states "that in the early days of Her Majesty's reign peers drove down to the House of Lords in full dress, At the reference in N. & 66 Q.' last given that Bishops been the first R. J. FYNMORE. Is Lady Dorothy right? J. T. quotes her on Bishop Monk as wearing his wig in 1848. Mr. Monk, M.P., told me his father was the last bishop to wear the wig, but named a date in the reign of William IV. D. VICTORIAN COIN (10 S. ix. 209, 497).— It would be interesting to know whether the Deputy-Master of the Mint was called to account for omitting the usual F.D. from the coinage, thereby obtruding his own private views as a Roman Catholic in his capacity of public official. J. T. F. Durham. This coin appears to be a 50-cent. piece to the year 1901 there had been struck of Canada. It is very common, and down 1,408,036 pieces. The first year of issuewas 1870. Of late years it has been manufactured at Heaton's Mint, Birmingham (for the Government), and then a small H appears on the reverse die under the ribbon. which joins the two maple branches. Leamington Spa. ARTHUR W. WATERS. CARICATURE: ' ONCE I WAS ALIVE' (10 S. ix. 427).—Mr. Dobell, of Charing Cross Road, has a copy of this, upon which has been written in pencil, Mr. Baskerville." This name can, I think, be made out of the letters forming the monogram. 66 66 G. THORN-DRURY. AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (10 S. MURDER AT WINNATS (10 S. ix. 449).— ix. 328, 393, 455). The march for I'm Rhodes's Peak Scenery,' 1824, says of the Ninety-Five' was written by Mr. Miller, victims, They were strangers in the counbandmaster of the 1st battalion Rifle try, and circumstances induced the supBrigade, at Malta in 1842. It was used position that they were on a matrimonial This writer, on the line of march in the Kaffir war of excursion to the north.' 1846 and 1851, and at Fort Beaufort in however, regards the whole story as apocry1852 was adopted as the regimental quick-phal. Croston's On Foot through the step, which before was the march from Der Peak,' 1868, says :— Freischütz.' H.M. Queen Victoria approved of it in 1856, and fourteen years later it was adopted by the 95th Foot. H. A. ST. J. M. (late Rifle Brigade). The four lines at 10 S. ix. 488, beginning Non ego me methodo astringam serviliter ulla, are, as was suggested, by Cowley. The reference is Plantarum' lib. i. 29. Hybleae in the second line of the quotation should be Hyblaeae. The phrase "generandi gloria mellis is borrowed from 1. 205 of the fourth Georgic. In the English translation of Cowley's Six Books of Plants,' by N. Tate, Mrs. A. Behn, and others, the present passage is thus rendered by J. O. : My self to slavish Method I'll not tye, Or the free Wing of Fancy carries me. EDWARD BENSLY. University College, Aberystwyth. "Who the victims were, and whence they came, has never been satisfactorily established......Peak Forest, distant about three miles from the scene of the murder, was extra-parochial at the period, and was used as a Gretna Green." The fullest reference to this event is probably to be found in 'Tales and Traditions of the High Peak,' by William Wood (no " Allan date, but published 1862), where and Clara; or, the Murder in the Winnats,' occupies twenty-four octavo pages. From this the following summary is taken: in April, 1758, the two fugitives appeared at "The Royal Oak Inn," Stoney Middleton, and left the next morning on horseback, Peak Forest, here stated as eight miles asking the way to Castleton, en route for distant. The murder took place in a barn, into which the victims had been forced, and booty, 2007. in money, with other valuaables was secured by the five murderers, four of whom afterwards died by accident or suicide, the fifth making a confession on his deathbed. Wood insists that ample corroboration of the truth of the legend existed, and says that no inquiry was ever made after the two unfortunate lovers. His ipsa verba as to their identity are, "who the victims were, and whence they came, is not satisfactorily known: Clara was supposed to be an English nobleman's daughter, and Allan, a gentleman from the south of England." W. B. H. In 'The Ballads and Songs of Derbyshire (Derby, Bemrose & Sons, 1867), by Llewellynn Jewitt, is Henry and Clara," a Peak ballad on the murder at Winnats. The couple were returning from their marriage at the chapel of Peak Forest, a runaway marriage in 1758 or 1768. They were on horseback, and fell benighted on reaching "The Winnats." Five miners set upon them, dragged them into a barn, and robbed and murdered them. What the murderers did with the bodies is not stated; their horses were found wandering later on, and were taken to Chatsworth Park, and ran there as waifs; nor were they ever claimed. It is said that the saddles are still preserved at Chatsworth. The ballad Henry and Clara' was written by the Rev. Arthur George Jewitt, brother of the compiler of 'Derbyshire Ballads.' It begins, Christians, to my tragic ditty It is written in the dear old style, and runs to thirty verses. It was first printed in the author's Wanderings of Memory,' 1815, and at the time, I believe, when the Jewitt family resided at Duffield, near Derby. It was by no means an uncommon thing for a ballad-monger to come to the villages, with a sheaf of ditties over his arm, and sing or recite local pieces told in simple verse. I am not sure, but think that Henry and Clara' was dealt with in the Notes and Queries' columns of The Derbyshire Times upwards of thirty years ago. I do not think that the full names of the murdered couple were then given. Worksop. 6 THOS. RATCLIFFE. the Saviour drank at the Last Supper. But the vessel which received the Saviour's blood probably would be something different from a cup. The Grail was said also to be a dish which was used at the Last Supper, and afterwards received the blood at the Cross. But I do not know that this fits much better with the description of its splendid appearance and many miraculous qualities. The diamond, or emerald, that fell from the crown of Satan, fashioned by angels into the vessel which received the Holy Blood, would make the best Grail. Satan, when he was contending with an archangel, would be of enormous size. His stature reached the sky," as Milton said of him. And the diamond, or emerald, would be correspondingly large. 66 E. YARDLEY. The etymology is fully discussed, in fact at great length, in my Preface to Joseph of Arimathie,' published for the Early English Text Society, and it is given briefly in my Concise Etymological Dictionary. It is from the O.Fr. greal, representing the Late Latin gradale. The latter is a form of *cratale, a derivative of crāter, a bowl. See Diez and others. 6 voiced WALTER W. SKEAT. LATIN LINES ON SLEEP (10 S. ix. 390).— The English version of these lines is given in a slightly different form from that quoted by C. K. in Beeton's Great Book of Poetry,' where it is attributed to Dr. Wolcot. Beeton's collection has, of course, no critical value, but it may be worth while to quote the lines as there given : Come, gentle sleep! attend thy votary's prayer, C. C. B. I have these lines written in a commonplace book, with a note that they were a composition of Thomas Warton to be placed under a statue of Somnus in the garden of Harris the philologist, and had been translated by Peter Pindar. The source of this information is not given; possibly it is Wolcot's version that is quoted by your correspondent. R. L. MORETON. ST. MARY'S ABBEY, YORK (10 S. ix. 388, 496). We are much indebted to MR. MACMICHAEL for his note on the earlier or monastic use of the terms "prebend," prebendary," &c., which I had overlooked (p. 388). We may refer to Ducange as well 66 The Scots Peerage. Edited by Sir James Balfour Paul. Vol. V. (Edinburgh, David Douglas.) THE Scots Peerage has broken the back of the heavy task on which it started four years ago, for the fifth volume, starting with Lord Innermeath, takes us down to the amazing tangle of the Earldom of Mar. It treats of thirty-one different peerages and twenty-one families, namely Boyd, Campbell (Irvine and Loudon), Erskine (Kellie and Mar), Falconer, Gordon (Kenmure), Hay, Ingram, Keith, Ker (Jedburgh and Lothian), Kinnaird, Lennox, Leslie (Leven and Lindores), Livingston (Kilsyth and Linlithgow), Lyle, Macdonald, Macdonell, Maclellan, Maitland, Morgan-Grenville, Seton, and Stewart (Innermeath, Lennox and Mar). The work has been done by fifteen different authors, the editor himself supplying six of the articles. The co-operative method is the only practicable one in dealing quickly with genealogical work on such a scale, and yet it is full of difficulties. Except under the eye of a dominant editor, such a book is apt to differ in scope and texture. On the other hand, that dominance may banish the personal touch which makes G. E. C. a delight; and it is, moreover, apt to create disaffection, for the family historian tends to become so obsessed as to permit no meddling with his method. Sir James Balfour Paul is not a hard taskmaster, but we believe it is an open secret that even he has had to jettison some of the contributions; and he might with advantage have insisted on greater uniformity in those published. It is not only that different writers have a different method, but the same writer sometimes varies. For example, Mr. A. Francis Steuart in treating Steuart, Duke of Lennox, gives as many as twelve reference notes to a page, whereas Mr. F. J. Grant describes Lennox, Duke of Lennox, without a single reference. Again Mr. Grant says that Lord Alexander Gordon-Lennox "had issue" without stating that issue as Mr. Cosmo GordonLennox, the well-known player and playwright, who married Miss Marie Tempest. On the other hand, he works out the descendants of George Lindsay (1691-1764) through the female line to a great-greatgreat grandson named Rudd, born as recently as July 13, 1906, although he does not give the issue of Lady Muriel Watkins, the daughter of the present Lord Lindsay. Some of the descents are not a bit more illuminative than those given in Burke. For example Mr. Grant might at least have taken the trouble to refer to the 'D.N.B.' for that remarkable young man the Hon. Ion Keith-Falconer (1856-87), who was not only an Arabic scholar of note, but the writer on shorthand in the Encyclopædia Britannica,' and the first to cycle from John o' Groats to Land's End. Precisely the same thing occurs with living people. The annual peerages are very inhuman in this respect, chronicling only dull official facts. The Scots Peerage' gets ahead of Burke by telling us that Lord Kinnaird is a banker, but it might have given a line to his great interest interesting to state that Mr. Claude Hay is a stock in football; and under Kinnoull it would be broker as well as M.P.; even our little friend Whitaker goes that length. The omission cannot be on the ground that trade is inadmissible, for in the same article we learn that Charles, son of the second Earl of Kinnoull had a monopoly for the manufacture of glass. Among the most satisfying articles in this volume are Mr. Macmath's accounts of Kenmure, although curious Romance of the Ranks' in his note on the he might have given us a reference to Conolly's claimants for the peerage; Mr. Macphail's long account of the Earls of Lauderdale; the Marquis de Ruvigny's description of the Earls of Kilmarnock; and the Rev. John Anderson's learned disquisition on the Celtic Earls of Lennox and the Earls of Mar, though he cannily declines to express an opinion on the rival claims which roused the righteous indignation of Lord Crawford. Among the intruders in this volume are the Ingrams, for whom the Viscounty of Irvine was created-why, it is not clear. They began with a tallow chandler of London, who married a haberdasher (why are these facts interesting in the sixteenth century when omitted in the twentieth?), but found it so difficult to maintain their line that the third viscount, who died in 1702, was succeeded in turn by five of his nine sons, and then by his grandson, the ninth and last viscount, who left only five daughters. It is a curious comment on the point of view of another day that one of these left a goodly estate to her husband's illegitimate son, who founded a well-known military family. Improvements might be effected in the 'Scots Peerage,' but if it is not definitive it forms a good framework for the great masses of material that have come to light since Douglas's day. The Shakespeare Apocrypha: being a Collection of Fourteen Plays which have been ascribed to Shakespeare. Edited, with Introduction, Notes, and Bibliography, by C. F. Tucker Brooke, B.Litt. (Oxford, Clarendon Press.) THIS excellent edition, tastefully bound in limp cloth, will at once take standard rank as a satisfactory issue of the doubtful Shakespearian plays. A text founded on careful examination of the originals by a competent scholar has been needed for years, and such the present editor provides. His ample knowledge alike of native and foreign criticism in books and fugitive publications will be realized by all who read his compact and judicious introduction. Notes on the text are printed at the bottom of the page, and there are a few explanatory notes at the end which are distinguished by their practical brevity. We read that "the collation of the early editions has been done twice to secure accuracy, and the proof-sheets revised by the original quartos. Particular care has been taken to verify readings which are in opposition to those recorded by other modern editors. We add that every five lines is numbered at the side throughout the scenes, an important practical aid to reference which is sometimes forgotten. To keep within the limits of some 450 pages a small type has had to be used, but the merits of the edition will, we hope, ensure another issue, perhaps in three volumes or more, in which larger print can For this he was made Lieutenant-Colonel, was a benefactor and member of committee and given the command of the 1st Caçadores. of the Hospital. His name is inscribed He was slightly wounded 11 Dec., 1813, on the clock. I understand he resided in and severely wounded in attacking the Chesterfield Street, Mayfair, and died about heights above Orthes. He was made C.B. 1834. The Secretary of the Hospital wrote 4 June, 1815, and died on the Hunter River, to me some time ago, asking if I could give N.S.W., 14 Oct., 1853. him any information about this Thomas Snodgrass; but I could not, nor have I been able to trace any of his connexions. If any of your readers can supply me with information about him, I shall be much obliged. His son John was born in Portugal in May, 1815. He became Major of the 96th Regiment 15 June, 1815. He married 23 Feb., 1843, at St. Luke's, Chelsea, Rachel, only dau. of his great-uncle Sir K. M. Douglas, and died at the Curragh, 27 Jan., 1856. She died 15 Jan., 1877. Kenneth John Mackenzie Snodgrass, son of Peter Snodgrass, M.L.A. of Melbourne, was probably related to this family. He became a Winchester Commoner in the autumn of 1858. Is anything further known of him? I have in my possession the last will and testament of a William Snodgrass of the parish of Christchurch, London, dated 5 Feb., 1775, who appears to have had two brothers, James and John; but whether they were relations of Thomas Snodgrass or not I do not know. I should also like to have some information about Gabriel Snodgrass, shipbuilder of Chatham, mentioned in 'N. & Q.' of 26 July, 1902. 3. John James Snodgrass, captain 91st Foot, received the brevet ranks of major and lieutenant-colonel on 13 Nov., 1826, The name Snodgrass has been fairly and 28 Dec., 1826, respectively. He became common in Renfrewshire for four hundred major 94th Foot, 3 Aug., 1830; lieutenant-years, as the local records show. The Rencolonel unattached, 28 June, 1833; and frewshire Poll Tax Roll of 1695 gives 36 D.Q.M.G. to the troops in Nova Scotia and persons of the name. An Adam Snodgrass its dependencies, 12 Sept., 1834. He married was one of the Friars Preachers and a Baillie 3 Nov., 1823, Maria Macdonald, e.dau. of of Ayr in 1372. · W. G. SNODGRASS. General Sir Archibald Campbell, Bt., G.C.B. Riversdale, Kilmacolm, Renfrewshire. Their son Archibald Campbell Snodgrass was born at Government House, Fredericton, New Brunswick, in the spring of 1832. He became captain 38th Regiment 29 Dec., 1854, and major 17 July, 1855, having acted as A.D.C. to his uncle Major-General Sir John Campbell, Bt., at the unsuccessful attack on the Redan, 18 June, 1855. He died at Milbank, near Southampton, 26 Nov., 1863. fiction some time before the publication of This name had appeared in well-known Pickwick,' for the Rev. Charles Snodgrass figures frequently in The Ayrshire Legatees, published anonymously in 1821 by John Galt. · NEL MEZZO. Perhaps this name was, or is, not so vastly uncommon. There was certainly a cadet at the R.M. Academy, Woolwich, in 1861-2, bearing that patronymic. H. P. L. Exeter's Finance Clerk is Mr. Sidney Herbert Snodgrass; and a cousin of my own, resident in Brighton, bears the same HARRY HEMS. surname. Fair Park, Exeter. THE TREATY OF TILSIT: COLIN A. MACKENZIE (10 S. viii. 469, 510; ix. 31, 96, 135, 154, 171, 237).-The writer of a very able article in The Quarterly Review on Recent Napoleonic Literature' (April, 1908, see p. 425 to p. 431) refers to the British Agent at Tilsit, and remarks that the subject has "called forth a spirited controversy in Notes and Queries," and he points out that the statement of Dr. Rose and of a correspondent in 'N. & Q.' that |