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expressly marked "attributed to Van Dyck." Nos. 75 to 77 are stated to have "decorated the chapel of the Récollets," from which expression I gather that they formed part of the possessions of the secularized religious house, and this agrees with the description of the picture in 1772 cited by J. K. T. Whether the painting which he possesses is the very one which down to 1856 was the property of the Musée of Lille, or a copy, the facts which I have here put together may, perhaps, enable him to form some judgment, though they do not bear upon the particular question raised. The colours of the dresses worn by the holy persons introduced into the picture are not described in the catalogue. The title of the work from which I have taken my information is Notice des Tableaux, Bas-Reliefs, et Statues exposés dans les Galeries du Musée des Tableaux de Lille, par Ed. Reynart, Conservateur, Lille (second edit., 1856). I should think J. K. T. would do well to get a copy of the latest edition. AVERIGUADOR.

ANNE BOLEYN'S HEART (6th S. iv. 326).Perhaps it may prove useful to add another tradition concerning Queen Anne Boleyn to the interesting communication which appears at the above reference. The legend runs that her body, after her execution in 1536, was deposited under a black marble slab, yet to be seen, unmarked by any inscription, in the church of Salle in the county of Norfolk, and only some five miles distant from Blickling, where she is supposed to have been born in 1501,* and is certainly known to have passed her earliest years.

The church contains the vault of the Hobarts, in which there are many coffins placed in an upright position, as those of the Claphams and Mauleverers are reported to be by Wordsworth* in the chantry of Bolton Abbey in Yorkshire. It seems difficult to assign the reason for this mode of sepulture having been chosen--perhaps simply on account of its singularity; and there is a similar instance, which was seen by me in 1858, in the vault of the Powletts in Wensley Church in Yorkshire. In it the leaden coffin of the Marchioness of Winchester, who brought the extensive northern estates into the Powlett family, was placed against the east wall in an upright position. The lid was coped, and upon the top, or rather end, in a small heart-shaped leaden case, was the heart of the lady. The floor of the vault was unoccupied, but in a species of columbarium were several coffins of the Powlett family, showing that it was not owing to want of space that her coffin was placed in an upright position.

Such traditions as those concerning the burial of the heart and body of Anne Boleyn are always worth recording, although, as in the present instances there may be little or no truth in them. Probably Anne Boleyn found an unhonoured grave in the chapel of St. Peter ad Vincula in the Tower of London where, as Macaulay says,— "have been carried, through successive ages, the bleeding relics of men who have been the captains of armies, the leaders of parties, the oracles of senates, and the ornaments of courts...... Here and there among the delicate sufferers: Margaret of Salisbury, the last of the thick graves of unquiet and aspiring statesmen lie more proud name of Plantagenet; and those two fair queens who perished by the jealous rage of Henry."-Vol. i. chap. v. JOHN PICKFOrd, M.A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge. THOMAS CLEMENT THOMPSON, R.H.A. (6th

The church of Salle, locally styled "Saul," is a beautiful cruciform structure, in the Perpendicular style of architecture, and is distant about one mile and a half from the little market town of Reepham, and several of the Boleyns are known to have been buried within its walls, for Salle was their old home before they removed to Blickling. t About S. iv. 349), was a portrait painter of Dublin, and five miles from Salle, as the crow flies, towards the North Sea, is Blickling Hall. The original mansion at Blickling, the ancient residence of the Boleyns, was pulled down in the sixteenth century, and the present stately dwelling, one of the finest old halls in England, built by Chief Justice Hobart, was not completed until 1628. In the entrance hall are large wooden statues of Anne Boleyn and her daughter Queen Elizabeth, and there are in the house some fine family portraits of the Hobarts, one of Henrietta Hobart, Countess of Suffolk, the mistress of George II. It is built of brick, consists of a double quadrangle, and is surrounded by a moat.

The date of the birth of Anne Boleyn is very uncertain, some authorities placing it as early as 1501, others as late as 1506-7.

Hever Castle, in Kent, was another seat of the Boleyns, where it is said that Henry VIII. first saw Anne Boleyn in the garden.

one of the foundation members of the Royal ville Street, Dublin, up to 1817, and then moved Hibernian Academy. He lived in Lower Sackto 13, Henrietta Street, Cavendish Square, where he lived until 1828; from 1831 to 1847 he lived at 76, Welbeck Street, and then he seems to have migrated to Cheltenham, whence he exhibited until 1857, when he probably died. There seem to be no records of his birth and

death.

1816-47 (ninety-six works), mostly portraits, inHe exhibited at the Royal Academy, cluding George IV., Bishop of Derry, Marquis of Cholmondeley, Lord Chancellor Manners, Marquis of Thomond, Bishop of Clogher, and Dean of Raphoe, as well as the "Embarkation of George IV. at Kingstown in 1821." At the British Institution exhibited, 1818-57 (twenty-seven works), *See The White Doe of Rylstone, canto i., and the notes upon it.

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chiefly dramatic and Scriptural subjects, some of considerable size, such as "Hamlet," 9 ft. 2 in. by 6 ft. 2 in.; "Coriolanus," 10 ft. by 7 ft.; "Christ rebuking Peter," 5 ft. 6 in. by 4 ft. 7 in.; "Crossing the Brook," 7 ft. 10 in. by 5 ft. 6 in.; "Baptism of Christ," 4 ft. 9 in. by 4 ft.; "Rebekah and Eliezar," 4 ft. 8 in. by 4 ft. 1 in.

At Suffolk Street he exhibited twenty-four works, 1824-1839, mostly portraits, including the Earl of Carrick, Lord Lorton, Duke of York, General Doyle, Earl Talbot in the robes of the Order of St. Patrick, and Sir John Newport, Bart. ALGERNON GRAVES.

6, Pall Mall, S.W.

"SUCH WHICH

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(6th S. iv. 189). — It appears that "swich" may mean not only such, but much or more, as in Boke of Duchesse, 407:

"To have moo floures swiche seven."

Again, in Troylus, ii. 126 and 128:—

"It is a thing wel bet than swiche fyve."
"What? bet than swiche fyve?"

Here we appear to have the equivalent of seven times and five times. In Troylus, i. 442,

"So muchel day by day his owne thought," suggests that "such" need not, in the Chaucerian style, be "swich," although it certainly is so in some cases. It seems that we may read the passage thus:

"And bathed every veyne in abundant rain,
Of which vertue engendred is the flour,"

as only a foretaste of the modern homely rhyme,-
"March winds and April showers
Bring forth May flowers."

SHIRLEY HIBBERD.

Which is the proper correlative of such, just as in Latin qualis is of talis. This usage occurs in Shakespeare:

"You have put me now to such a part which never I shall discharge to the life."

Coriolanus, III. ii. 105-6. "There rooted betwixt them then such an affection, which cannot choose but branch now."-Winter's Tale I. i. 26.

The only difficulty in the passage quoted from Chaucer's Prologue is the use of vertue with which, vertue being regarded as the equivalent of licour, in which the poet supposes it to reside.

Cardiff.

F. C. BIRKBECK TERRY.

"CELEBS IN SEARCH OF A WIFE" (6th S. iv. 268).-There is a long and interesting review of this work-occupying twelve and a half doublecolumn pages-in the Christian Observer for February, 1809. It is curious to observe that the writer of the review always speaks of the then unknown author of the book in the masculine gender, e.g., "The story, which the author under review has selected for his purpose, is a very simple one,"

and so throughout the article. It is not in any way hinted that the dramatis persona were supposed to be real characters. I shall be very glad to lend the number of the Observer to SENIOR if he will furnish me with his address. W. R. TATE.

Horsell, Woking.

Calebs was reviewed by Sydney Smith in the Edinburgh Review for April, 1809; the paper was reprinted by Routledge in a volume of Essays by Sydney Smith. C. F. S. WARREN, M.A.

Farnborough, Banbury.

CARL PHILIP CONZ, OR KONZ (6th S. iv. 250).— For accounts of him see Michaud's Biographie Universelle and Rose's New General Biographical Dictionary. EDWARD H. MARSHALL, M.A.

See (1) Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, Band iv. (Leipzig, 1876); (2) Ersch and Gruber's Allgemeine Encyclopädie, Section i. Theil xxii. p. 111; and (3) Neuer Nekrolog der Deutschen, Jahrgang V., 1827, Theil ii. p. 621, seq., containing the most detailed account of his life and works.

Oxford.

H. KREBS.

GENEALOGY IN FRANCE (6th S. iv. 228).—I should like to know who was, or is, the editor of the Revue Nobiliaire, mentioned in the editorial note to the above query. The following works, although not periodicals, might be useful to MR. WADDINGTON:

De la Roque's Armorial de Languedoc.

Gastelier de la Tour's Armorial des Estats de Languedoc, 1767.

P. P. Dubuisson's Armorial Alphabetique des Principales Maisons et Familles du Roiaume, 1757.

Fr. J. Bozière's Armorial de Tournai et du Tournaisis, 1859.

J. B. Rietstap's Armorial Général de l'Europe, 1861, 1875.

H. G. G. de Milleville's Armorial Historique de la Noblesse de France, 1845.

H. Simon's Armorial Général Français, 1812. St. Allais and De la Chabeaussière's Nobiliaire Universel de France, 1872.

The Nobiliaire de Normandie.

HIRONDELLE.

[In 1865 the editor of the Revue Nobiliaire was M. L. Sandret. The founder was M. Bonneserre de St. Denis. The publisher was J. B. Dumoulin, Quai des Augustins, Paris.]

BOOK-PLATES WITH GREEK MOTTOES (6th S. iv. 266).-The book-plate of Thomas Ruddiman, A.M. (1674-1757), has a Greek motto. J. I. DREDGE.

TWO PROVERBS (6th S. iv. 266)." His bark is waur nor his bite": "Still waters are the deepest." I direct MR. MARSHALL'S attention to Proverbs of all Nations Compared, Explained, and Illustrated, by Walter K. Kelly (London, W. Kent &

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Co., 1859), in which he will find, at pp. 129 and
171, references to the use of these proverbs among
the Bactrians, also several other later variations of
them.
ROBERT GUY.

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Pollokshaws, N.B.

no suggestions have been made thereon by any reader of "N. & Q.” The following extract from the Athenæum of July 16, bears a good deal upon the grievance referred to:

"There has recently been sold in Manchester, for the sum of 61. 15s., a copy of Three Ways of spending Sunday, by Timothy Sparks, which is one of the earliest and rarest of Dickens's writings. It was purchased by the bookseller who sold it for threepence! It has been resold for 81.8s."

I may mention that the correct title of the pam-
phlet is Sunday under Three Heads.
EDWARD C. DAVIES.

Junior Garrick Club.

A STEREOTYPE OFFICE (6th S. iv. 269).—I cannot tell MR. PATTERSON in what particulars Earl Stanhope's process of stereotyping differed from the older process, but perhaps the following reference, taken from Savage's Dictionary of Printing (London, 1841), may help him :

"CLUNCHING" (6th S. iv. 168).-This word comes from Scandinavia, which has given a large number of words to the dialectic speech of our eastern counties. Reitz, in his excellent Svenskt Dialekt-Lexicon (Swedish Dialect Dictionary) has Klunk, stor klimp" (a large lump or clod), and 66 kluns, stor knut, knöll" (a large knob, a hunch or boss). A few years ago, when I was rector of a parish in West Norfolk, the banks of a large drain in that neighbourhood gave way, and were repaired by means of flint nodules and large stones imbedded in earth. This was called clunching, and the stones were called clunch or clunches. The word was applied primarily to the separate lumps obtained by digging in a limestone or other quarry, and afterwards, it seems, to the stone itself. Ash has, "Clunch (a local word), a substance found next the coal in sinking a pit." The word is commonly used in the eastern The following is from Brande's Dictionary of counties, but is not confined to them. Miss Jack-Science, &c., article "Stereotype," and refers to son, in her Shropshire Word-Book, has "Clunch, a species of shale found in the coal measures"; and Bailey says that it was the name of a blue shale found at Wednesbury, in Staffordshire. Forby, in his Vocabulary of East Anglia, has clunch, a hard limestone, and also clunchy, short, thick and clumsy, which connects the word directly with the Swedish klunk. J. D.

Belsize Square.

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"An Essay on the Origin and Progress of Stereotype Printing: including a Description of the various Processes. By Thomas Hodgson, Newcastle: printed by and for S. Hodgson, &c. [Longmans] 1820."

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the plaster of Paris process :-"The plaster used
for forming the mould is pulverized gypsum, mixed
with water to the consistence of cream.
Stanhope says, The best burnt gypsum mixes
the most conveniently in the proportion of seven
parts of water to nine of gypsum.'
WM. H. PEET.

ROBERT HOOKE, ARCHITECT (6th S. iv. 341).— Some few further particulars of his works as an architect will be found in the Dictionary of Architecture of the Architectural Publication Society, especially an anecdote of his not being allowed to interfere with Sir C. Wren. P. 1 of the volume for 1875 of the Builder might also be referred to. WYATT PAPWORTH.

HERALDIC ANOMALY (6th S. iv. 309).—There is in the Herald and Genealogist, January, 1863, p. 278, an interesting paper by Mr. Mark Antony Lower, entitled "A Curiosity of Heraldry at Sompting," giving an account of a tomb on which the arms of city companies are used in the same manner as described by your correspondent on the E. H. D.

MAUNDAY THURSDAY AT WHITEHALL (6th S. brass at Salisbury. iv. 268).

Twickenham.

"The custom of washing the feet of the poor......was continued by our English sovereigns until the latter RAGUSA: ARGOSY (6th S. iv. 226).—The derivapart of the seventeenth century, and by the Archbishops tion quoted by your correspondent is not new. In of York on their behalf until the middle of the last the edition of The Merchant of Venice by Messrs. century."-Rev. J. H. Blunt's Annotated Book of Com-Clark and Wright (1874) the following note is mon Prayer, p. 276, ed. 1876.

Edward H. Marshall, M.A.

A BIBLIOPHILE'S GRIEVANCE (6th S. iii. 226). Since you were kind enough to insert the note on my particular grievance, I regret to say

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CARICATURES BY R. BOYNE (6th S. iv. 248). I have a large caricature engraving, in the style of Rowlandson, representing the interior of a church during the singing of a psalm. It is apparently a proof before letters, for no title is given. It measures 15 in. by 12 in., and is signed, "W. H. Pyne, del., T. Wright, 1790, Published as the Act directs by M. Wells, No. 10, Great M, London, March 31, 1790." In the picture in front of the music gallery is a clock, and beneath the clock is represented a board on which is the inscription, This Church was

Repaird Anno Dom. 1650
Peter Grype

Ralph Noodle

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THE RULE OF THE ROAD (6th S. iii. 468; iv.
34, 154, 258,278, 316).-In the recent discussion on
this subject there has been repeated reference to
the lines,-

"The rule of the road is a paradox quite," &c.,
but it seems to have escaped the notice of your
correspondents that so far back as 3rd S. x. 63,
they were stated to be the production of the Hon.
Henry Erskine, better knewn as "Harry Erskine,"
the brother of the Lord Chancellor.
As your
correspondent of that date, T. A. H., is intimately
connected with the Erskine family, it is probable
that his information is accurate. He has informed
me that he first heard the verse from a professor
at Oxford, in his youth, probably some half century
ago or more, and that it was there given as
Erskine's, and has so been considered by the
a watch
family, equally with the epigram on
(given at the above reference), about which there
known than I had supposed, I should be glad to
is no question. As the lines seem to be better
hear what is to be said for or against the author-
ship here stated, which T. A. H. points out was
unchallenged when he claimed it for his relative in
ALEX. FERGUSSON, Lieut.-Col.

1866.

BEES LEAVING THEIR OWNERS IF NOT TOLD
OF A DEATH (6th S. iv. 357, 374).—The following
extract from M. Alphonse Karr's Voyage autour de

Jardin (thirtieth letter) may be of interest:—
quelqu'un dans la maison, on met un crêpe aux ruches;
"Encore aujourd'hui, dans les campagnes, s'il meurt
sans cela les abeilles se piquent de ce manque d'égard et
de ce qu'on a l'air de les traiter comme des étrangères
qui ne seraient pas de la famille. On vous dira encore,
tant que vous voudrez l'entendre, que, faute de songer à
ce soin de politesse, un tel et un tel ont perdu toutes leurs
abeilles, qui n'ont pas voulu vivre avec des mal-appris, et
s'en sont allées."
C. B. S.

NATHANIEL SIMPSON, MATHEMATICIAN (6th S. iv. 250). The account of this mathematician is evidently taken from Wood's Athence. The quotation in Whitaker's History of Craven is not complete, for Wood says that the Arithmetice Common pendium was in his day so rare that he never could see but one copy; he also adds, "I have been informed by some of his contemporaries that he had not only enlarged that compendium, but had other things of that nature lying by him fit for the press." It does not appear from Lowndes that these other works were ever printed. It may perhaps be noted, as a proof either of the scarcity of the Compendium or of the slight estimation in which it was then held, that the Bodleian Catalogue of 1672 "THE HORN WAS WOUND" (6th S. iv. 89, 293). does not contain it. I cannot find any account ofIn my paper at the last reference the signs for the parentage and life of this Nathaniel Simpson. He was probably educated at the endowed grammar school of Skipton, in Craven; he may have been of the family of Simpson of Haverey Park, but his name does not occur in that pedigree as printed. JOHN H. CHAPMAN.

38, St. Charles Square, W.

Of the Arithmetica Compendium Wood says, "So scarce it is now that I could never see but one

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long and short have been misplaced.
meant to say was that people far above the rank of
those who talk of a broken-winded horse, or call
flatulency wind, nevertheless still talk of winding
a horn-never, I think, of winding it.

P. P.

"STUART" (6th S. iv. 267, 314, 358).-I have had many friends, several of them claiming, and some of them unquestionably able to prove, their descent from this royal house, and I can safely say

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that I never heard one of themselves, nor any body
else in society, call them anything else but "Stuart,"
a dissyllable.
C. W. BINGHAM.

quotation as being very rude and rough poetry, and he then fully explained to me that the rugged and abrupt sounds were intended in some way not to represent but to suggest the violent and sudden disasters which the poet wished to describe. My father used a Greek word [onomatopoeia ?] which am unable to repeat, but his explanation is fresh in my memory even now. JOHN GREEN. Wallington, Surrey.

"CHEYNE" (6th S. ii. 367, 520; iv. 56).- Will MR. SAWYER inform me if the Norfolk name of Chasteney (of Whitlingham and Topcroft), Nor-I folk, is derived from Chasneto or Cheney? The Chasteneys claim descent from the same family as Robert de Chasneto, Chastenaye, or Cheny, first Bishop of Lincoln. What are the arms of Chasteney of Norfolk ? C. J. H.

NEW WORDS (6th S. iii. 447; iv. 74).-During the election of the House of Keys this year, the following sentence occurred in one of the Manx papers, Colonel Anderson was deputated by the electors of Glenfaba sheading"; meaning that a deputation of the electors waited on him.

ERNEST B. SAVAGE.

Kirk Michael Vicarage, Isle of Man.

"GUFFIN" (6th S. ii. 448; iii. 94; iv. 115).— Your correspondent B. J. is mistaken with reference to Mr. Dickinson's Cumberland Glossary, for the words "Goff, C. [central], S. W.; Guff, N., a fool," are to be found in the E. D. S. publication, p. 40. Has the word any connexion with the Yorkshire terms gauvey, a simpleton; gauvison, a stupid fellow, one deficient in mental capacity? F. C. BIRKBECK TERRY. Cardiff.

"THE DEVIL'S DRIVE" (6th S. iv. 89, 132).—A poem thus entitled, commencing with the lines,

"The Devil return'd to hell by two,

And he staid at home till five,"

was written by Lord Byron. Of this there can be no doubt, as in Lord Byron's Life by Moore (1830) the biographer sums up his opinion on its peculiarity in these words :

"Of this strange, wild poem, which extends to about two hundred and fifty lines, the only copy that Lord Byron, I believe, ever wrote he presented to Lord Holland. Though with a good deal of vigour and imagination, it is, for the most part, rather clumsily executed, wanting the point and condensation of those clever lines of Mr. Coleridge, which Lord Byron, adopting a notion long prevalent, has attributed to Professor Porson. There are, however, some of the stanzas of The Devil's Drive' well worth preserving."

WILLIAM PLATT.

Callis Court, St. Peter's, Isle of Thanet.

IMITATIVE VERSE (6th S. ii. 227, 518; iii. 476; iv. 38).-Permit me to mention that when quite a lad, now sixty years ago, I came upon the following lines, as nearly as I can remember them:

"The pilgrim midst his orisons hears
The crash of time-disporting towers
Precipitate, down dashed."

In the dogmatic style common with conceited
youth, I at once called my father's attention to the

"THRONG" (6th S. ii. 386; iii. 33, 235, 375, 437, 497; iv. 17, 35).-Dr. Whitaker, in his life of Radcliffe, the friend of the unfortunate Strafford, gives a letter of Radcliffe's dated Nov. 3, 1615, from which I take the following passage: "I have been so throng since I came that I have not had leisure to see any body." The word throng as here used has exactly the same meaning as we attach to it here at present, viz. busy.

Batley.

W. COLBECK DYSON.

"PLAY OLD GOOSEBERRY ""

(6th S. iii. 429; iv. 54).—" Foulé des pommes, foulé des raisins, foulé des groseilles." If MR. JOHN COLEBROOK will run his pen through the s in "des," so as to convert it into de, it will make the early editions of Phrase and Fable correspond with the corrected and more recent ones. Of course the phrases should be "Foulé de pommes, foulé de raisins, foulé de groseilles," and "N. & Q." must not perpetuate an E. COBHAM BREWER.

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