The Gipsies.-Can you, or any of your readers, furnish me with any authorities on gipsy manners and customs besides Grellman, through Raper's translation, Marsden (for the language), and Hoyland? I am pretty well off for historical accounts of these people, but what I desire is information concerning their rites and ceremonies. WM. A. BURrett.

Tale wanted. Can any of your correspondents tell me in what tale a character is introduced who had been branded for some crime? He moves in respectable society, and is noted only for a likeness to the criminal. When suspicions are at length aroused, he affects to consider it beneath him to do anything to remove them. The scene is, I think, laid in Germany. α. β.

Edinburgh Plays. Is anything known regarding the authors of the following plays, performed at Edinburgh? 1. Lawyers and their Clients, or Love's Suitors, a comic sketch in three acts. This comedy (which was said to be the first dramatic attempt of a gentleman of Edinburgh) was performed several times in the early part of 1815. 2. The Stepmother, or Fraternal Love, a new tragedy, written by a gentleman of Edinburgh; acted at Edinburgh in January, 1815. 3. The Wild Indian Girl, a comedy, acted at Edinburgh, 1815. The part of Zelie in this comedy was performed by Mrs. H. Siddons. 4. Scotch Marriage Laws, or the Deacon and Her Deputy, a new farce, for the benefit of Mr. Jones, announced for performance on April 26, 1823: said to be written by an inhabitant of Edinburgh. 5. Love's Machinations, a new melodrama, by a gentleman of Edinburgh, acted at the Caledonian Theatre, Feb. 14, 1825. 6. The Phrenologist, a comic drama, written by a literary character of Edinburgh, acted in 1825. 7. The Mason's Daughter, a masonic interlude, by a Brother of the Craft, announced for performance at the Caledonian Theatre, May, 1825. 8. The Recluse, or

Elshie of the Moor, a melodrama in two acts, by a gentleman of Edinburgh, to be performed for the benefit of Mr. Denham, 1825. 9. The Orphan Boy, or the Bridge of the Alps, announced for performance in December, 1825 said to be written by a gentleman of Edinburgh. R. J.

"Present for an Apprentice." - Is there any evidence as to the author of A Present for an Apprentice, or a sure Guide to gain both Esteem and an Estate, by a late Lord Mayor of London. The copy before me is called the Second Edition, with a great variety of improvements. Taken from a 66 correct copy found among the author's papers since the publication of the first." London, 1740, 8vo. J. M. (2.)

"The Peers, a Satire." I have a poem of no great value entitled The Peers, a Satire, by Humphrey Hedghog, Junior, London, no date, but I think from the matter about 1816. The names are never fully printed, and the notes are rather copious than explanatory. Perhaps some of your readers may assist me to the meaning of the blanks in the following passage, and say whence is taken the strange Latin of which it is an imitation: "Elate to soar above a silent vote

Upsprings the D-e to speak what H-wrote, But horrors unexpected check his speed, He fumbles at his hat, but cannot read. On E-'s brows hang violence and fear, In G-y's cold eye he reads a polished sneer; His garden nymphs in silence mourn his state, And caperous [sic] L- dares not strive with fate. A panic terror o'er his senses comes, Loosens his knees and sets his twitching thumbs, He sinks into his place, then quits the peers, And swells the gutter with spontaneous tears." A note refers to the following quotation, but does not say whence it is taken :

"Non Boream immemorem reliquit Nymphæ,

Sed ipsi nullus auxiliatus est. Amor autem non coercuit fata.

Undique autem adcumulati male obvio fluctus im-
petu

Impulsus ferebatur, pedum autem ei defecit vigor,
Et vis fuit immobilis inquietarum manuum,
Multa autem spontanea effusio aquæ fluebat in
guttur."

I shall be obliged by reference to the original of this strange Latin, which cannot be verse, though printed like it. R. H. SEED.

Irish Church, anno 1695.-A gentleman high in office in Ireland, writing from Dublin in April of the above year, to Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury, makes use of the following language, which the context no way throws light on:

"Since of my knowlege a resident clergy is not to be brought about in this place, for ye next 3 yeares to come, I thought I might according to ye custom of ye country take (but wth yr leave) a temporary curatt for my one Son, till yee had persuaded those for yr many Sons, to

Minor Queries.

Monson Township in Massachusetts. Among the intelligent contributors on the other side of the Atlantic to "N. & Q," some one may be able to explain whence originated the name of Monson Township in Massachusetts. Some members of a younger (Catholic) branch of the Monson family are believed to have emigrated to the United States about 160 years ago, and the name is said to be not uncommon there. Are any particulars known of their early colonial lineage, or could they be obtained from provincial histories or any documents like parochial registers ? MONSON.

Gatton Park.

Germination of Seeds long buried.-It has been stated that botanists have discovered new varieties, and even new plants, in railway cuttings, from seeds which had long been buried having germinated on exposure to the air and light. Where can an account of such plants be seen? And what plants have been noticed?

Oxford.

E. M.

Allow. What is the meaning of this word in the Baptismal Service" and nothing doubting but that He favourably alloweth this charitable work of ours," &c.

The Church does not teach that infant baptism is merely a thing allowed or permitted, but that it is commanded. In Romans vii. 15. où ywvwσkw is rendered by the authorized version, "I allow not," and by Moses Stuart, "I disapprove." Again in Luke xi. 48., ovvɛudókɛtte is rendered, "ye allow." Many instances might be brought to show that allow formerly had the meaning approve, or applaud. Two occur closely together in Latimer's Sermons (ed. Parker Society), p. 176.: "Ezekias did not follow the steps of his father Ahaz, and was well allowed in it." And again, p. 177. "Much less we Englishmen, if there be any such in England, may be ashamed. I wonder with what conscience folk can hear such things and allow it." Of course in this sense the word is derived from ad, and laudare. E. G. R.

Butler Possessions in Wiltshire, Bedfordshire, and Essex. In 13 Hen. IV. Sir William Butler, on his son's marriage with his wife Isabella, settled a moiety of East and West Grafton and Woolton, in Wiltshire; a moiety of the manor of Stoppesley (near Luton), called Halynges, in Bedfordshire; a moiety of the manor of Chalkwell in Essex; and a messuage called Houghton's, and one hundred acres of land, and twenty acres of pasture, with the appurtenances, in Berdfield in the same county. These possessions occur in family deeds of the Butlers in 9th, 19th, and 31st Hen. VI., 20 Edw. IV., and 14 Hen. VII. All of them, except perhaps Stoppesley, appear to

been originally a portion of the possessions of the great family of Clare; and the Butlers, who held them as mesne lords, probably acquired them by the marriage of some co-heiress. Any of your readers acquainted with county history will confer a favour by stating how and when the Butlers acquired the above properties. B.

Corsican Brothers: Nicholas and Andrew Tremaine. — In the Church of Lamerton, near Tavistock, are the effigies of Nicholas and Andrew Tremaine, twin brothers, born in that parish, of whom it is related that not only were they so alike in person that their familiar acquaintances could not always distinguish them apart, but that an extraordinary sympathy existed between them, for even when at a distance from each other they performed the same functions, had the same appetites and desires, and suffered the same pains and anxieties at the same time. They were killed together at Newhaven in 1663.*

Can any of your correspondents authenticate these, or furnish any further particulars relating to these individuals? Under what circumstances did they die? R. W. HACKWOOD.

Reginald Bligh, of Queen's College, Cambridge (B.A. 1779), was an unsuccessful candidate for a Fellowship in that College, and published a pamphlet on the subject. Information is requested as to his subsequent career.

The Gipsies.-Can you, or any of your readers, furnish me with any authorities on gipsy manners and customs besides Grellman, through Raper's translation, Marsden (for the language), and Hoyland? I am pretty well off for historical accounts of these people, but what I desire is information concerning their rites and ceremonies. WM. A. BURRETT.

Tale wanted. Can any of your correspondents tell me in what tale a character is introduced who had been branded for some crime? He moves in respectable society, and is noted only for a likeness to the criminal. When suspicions are at length aroused, he affects to consider it beneath him to do anything to remove them. The scene is, I think, laid in Germany. a. B.

Lord Charles Paulett. - Sir John Huband, Bart., of Ipsley, married Jane, dau. of Lord Charles Paulett, of Dowlas, Hants, and died in 1710. Can you tell me, 1. Who was the father of this Lord Charles Paulett? 2. Who was the wife by whom he had this daughter Jane?

Sir John Huband was the first baronet of that family, and the record of his marriage may be found in Burke's Landed Gentry, under the head of "Huband of Ipsley."

New York.

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Edinburgh Plays. Is anything known regarding the authors of the following plays, performed at Edinburgh? 1. Lawyers and their Clients, or Love's Suitors, a comic sketch in three

acts.

This comedy (which was said to be the first dramatic attempt of a gentleman of Edinburgh) was performed several times in the early part of 1815. 2. The Stepmother, or Fraternal Love, a new tragedy, written by a gentleman of Edinburgh; acted at Edinburgh in January, 1815. 3. The Wild Indian Girl, a comedy, acted at Edinburgh, 1815. The part of Zelie in this comedy was performed by Mrs. H. Siddons. 4. Scotch Marriage Laws, or the Deacon and Her Deputy, a new farce, for the benefit of Mr. Jones, announced for performance on April 26, 1823: said to be written by an inhabitant of Edinburgh. 5. Love's Machinations, a new melodrama, by a gentleman of Edinburgh, acted at the Caledonian Theatre, Feb. 14, 1825. 6. The Phrenologist, a comic drama, written by a literary character of Edinburgh, acted in 1825. 7. The Mason's Daughter, a masonic interlude, by a Brother of the Craft, announced for performance at the Caledonian Theatre, May, 1825. 8. The Recluse, or

Elshie of the Moor, a melodrama in two acts, by a gentleman of Edinburgh, to be performed for the benefit of Mr. Denham, 1825. 9. The Orphan Boy, or the Bridge of the Alps, announced for performance in December, 1825 said to be written by a gentleman of Edinburgh. R. J.

evidence as to the author of A Present for an "Present for an Apprentice." Is there any Apprentice, or a sure Guide to gain both Esteem and an Estate, by a late Lord Mayor of London.

The copy before me is called the Second Edition, with a great variety of improvements. Taken from a "correct copy found among the author's papers since the publication of the first." London, 1740, 8vo. J. M. (2.)

"The Peers, a Satire." I have a poem of no great value entitled The Peers, a Satire, by Humphrey Hedghog, Junior, London, no date, but I think from the matter about 1816. The names are never fully printed, and the notes are rather copious than explanatory. Perhaps some of your readers may assist me to the meaning of the blanks in the following passage, and say whence is taken the strange Latin of which it is an imitation :

"Elate to soar above a silent vote

Upsprings the D-e to speak what H- wrote, But horrors unexpected check his speed, He fumbles at his hat, but cannot read. On E-'s brows hang violence and fear, In G-y's cold eye he reads a polished sneer; His garden nymphs in silence mourn his state, And caperous [sic] L- dares not strive with fate. A panic terror o'er his senses comes, Loosens his knees and sets his twitching thumbs, He sinks into his place, then quits the peers, And swells the gutter with spontaneous tears." A note refers to the following quotation, but does not say whence it is taken :

"Non Boream immemorem reliquit Nymphæ,

Sed ipsi nullus auxiliatus est. Amor autem non coercuit fata.

Undique autem adcumulati male obvio fluctus im-
petu

Impulsus ferebatur, pedum autem ei defecit vigor,
Et vis fuit immobilis inquietarum manuum,
Multa autem spontanea effusio aquæ fluebat in
guttur."

I shall be obliged by reference to the original of this strange Latin, which cannot be verse, though printed like it. R. H. SEED.

in office in Ireland, writing from Dublin in April Irish Church, anno 1695.-A gentleman high of the above year, to Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury, makes use of the following language, which the context no way throws light on:

"Since of my knowlege a resident clergy is not to be brought about in this place, for ye next 3 yeares to come, I thought I might according to ye custom of ye country take (but wth yr leave) a temporary curatt for my one Son, till yee had persuaded those for yr many Sons, to

become perpetuall, wch I feare is not to be hoped for in yr days nor mine; yet since yr Lpps. are so afraid of an ill precedent, I would there were more of yr mind, for tho' I might not as now find my Convenience in such severity, yet my safety I should bothe in Church and State."

Can any reader of "N. & Q." say whether at the time in question there was any restriction on incumbents in Ireland employing temporary curates? One would think from the foregoing, that all curates engaged were to be retained for a term, or for the duration of the incumbency.

Where can a list of Irish incumbents, anno 1695, be seen? If this should meet the eye of MR. D'ALTON, he no doubt could and would assist me. L. M.

P.S.-I should also be glad to be informed where I could meet with the best account of the career of the Lords Justices of Ireland 1693 to 1695 ?

English Translation of Aristotle's " Organon."Will some of your correspondents refer me to a good English translation of the prior posterior Analytics of the Stagirite? The more speedy the reply, the more welcome.

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C. MANSFIELD INGLEBY. Releat. What is the derivation of this word, which I heard at Walton-on-the-Naze used thus: "When you come to the three releats," &c., a spot where three roads meet? F. C. B. Temple the Regicide. By the act of the Commons of England for the trying and judging of Charles Stuart, King of England, as set out in the State Trials, I find, named amongst the commissioners, three of the name of Temple, viz. Sir Peter Temple, Knight Baronet, James Temple and Peter Temple, Esquires. Sir Peter Temple was no doubt the second baronet of that name, the eldest son of Sir Thomas Temple, created in 1611, the progenitor of the Buckingham family. Sir Peter seems to have shrunk from sitting under this commission, for I do not find his name amongst those who attended at the various meetings which took place during the trial; but the other two, James and Peter Temple, seem to have been men of different pith, and not to have been ashamed or afraid of acting under a commission which declared its bold purpose, "To the end no chief officer or magistrate whatsoever may hereafter presume traiterously or maliciously to imagine or contrive the enslaving or destroying of the English Nation, and to expect impunity for so doing;" for I find their two names recorded at nearly every meeting of the commissioners, and also signed to the death warrant. Can I be informed through your columns of what branch of the Temple family these bold patriots were? Were they related to Sir Peter the timid, and how? What became of them at the Restoration?

and whether any of their descendants can still be traced? and where I should be likely to obtain information? Sir Thomas, the first baronet, is said to have had thirteen children, but he would scarcely have two sons named Peter ? R. G. TEMPLE. The Lache, Chester.

Minor Queries with Answers. Monti's "Death of Basseville." - In Forsyth's Remarks on Antiquities, Arts, and Letters, during an Excursion in Italy, it is said, with relation to Vincenzo Monti, author of several tragedies, that "his Death of Basseville made him a public man." Can you afford any information respecting the subject of the latter work, or otherwise illustrative of the passage quoted from Forsyth. T. H.

[Hugo Basseville, the hero of Monti's most celebrated performance, was born at Abbeville about 1755. In compliance with the paternal wish he entered on the study of theology, but from the natural best of his own mind devoted himself to literary pursuits, and repaired to Paris in quest of fame and fortune. Visiting Berlin he became acquainted with the elder Mirabeau, which gave rise to an intimate friendship with that celebrated individual. From Berlin he proceeded to Holland, where he wrote several works, tainted with that impious licence of profane wit exercised by Voltaire with such a desolating and fatal effect. At the commencement of the Revolution Basseville adhered with commendable fidelity to the royal cause, and conducted a daily journal, the Mercure National, which had for its motto, "Il faut un Roi aux Français." At this time none of his friends suspected any inclination in him towards that excess of democratic fanaticism to which, whether impelled by poverty, or by a guilty ambition, he presently abandoned himself. In 1792 he was nominated Secretary of Legation at the Court of Naples. In the following year a few of his countrymen, more reckless than himself, were too successful in urging him to the rash experiment of which his life was the forfeit. This event occurred on Jan. 14, 1793, when it appears that, with a view of obtaining a demonstration of the public feeling, Basseville appeared in the streets of Rome wearing the badge of revolutionary principles, the tricolored cockade. This dangerous step excited the populace to a pitch of phrenzy, and the envoy was stabbed in the stomach by a person of the lowest class. How bitterly he repented his folly may be inferred from the words that escaped his lips almost with his latest breath, "Je meurs la victime d'un fou." poem, The Death of Basseville, is the production of Monti on which his fame chiefly rests in his own country, where it is familiarly styled the Bassevilliad, and often cited as the masterpiece of the author, and of later Italian poetry. The poem had an astonishing success; eighteen editions of it appeared in the course of six months. An English translation was published anonymously in 1845, but attributed to Adam Lodge, Esq., M.A., which contains a biographical sketch of Hugo Basseville, and some characteristic notices of the poetical genius of Monti.]

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Palavacini. - There are some well-known lines about Baron Palavacini, but they have escaped my memory, and as I do not know where to find them, I shall feel obliged if any of your readers

will tell me in what book I can see a copy of them.

I shall be glad also of any particulars about Baron Palavacini and his descendants. No memorial of them remains at Babraham, near Cambridge, where he once lived, nor is there any monument to the family in the church.

HENRY KENSINGTON. [Sir Horatio Palavacini, a Genoese, was one of the collectors of the Pope's dues in the reign of Queen Mary, which, having sacrilegiously pocketed in the time of Queen Elizabeth, enabled him to purchase two estates, one at Babraham (formerly spelt Baberham), and the other at Shelford, which came to his two sons, who were knighted by Elizabeth and James I. (Morant's Essex, i. 8. 26.) Sir Horatio was naturalised by patent in 1586, and is mentioned in the first edition of Walpole's Anecdotes of Painting, vol. i. p. 160., as an "arras-painter;" in the second edition of that work is the following epitaph,

quoted from a MS. of Sir John Crew of Uthington:

"Here lies Horatio Palavazene,

Who robb'd the Pope to lend the Queene.
He was a thief. A thief! Thou lyest;

For whie? he robb'd but Antichrist.

Him Death wyth besome swept from Babram,
Into the bosom of oulde Abraham.

But then came Hercules with his club,
And struck him down to Beelzebub."

Sir Horatio died July 6, 1600, and on July 7, 1601, his widow married Sir Oliver Cromwell, the Protector's uncle. (See Noble's Memoirs of the Cromwells, vol. ii. p. 178., and Burke's Landed Gentry, art. CROMWELL.) Palavacini was one of the commanders against the Spanish Armada in 1588, and his portrait is preserved amongst those heroes in the borders of the tapestry in the House of Lords, engraved by Pine. He was also employed by Queen Elizabeth in his negotiations with the German princes. Consult Lysons's Cambridgeshire, vol. ii. p. 82., and Gough's Camden, vol. ii. p. 139.]

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"Tantum Ergo." - During the present month (June, 1856) at a dedication of a Roman Catholic chapel in Rathmines, near Dublin, the following psalms were chaunted by the choir; "Miserere (51st, 56th, or 57th), "Fundamenta ejus" (87th), "Levavi oculos " (120th), (122nd), and "Tantum ergo.' Is" Tantum ergo," a psalm, and if not, where shall I find these words in the Latin version of the sacred Scriptures ? EIN FRAGER. [We take this to be the hymn sung at the celebration of the Sacrament:

"Tantum ergo Sacramentum Veneremur cernui," &c.

See The Ordinary of the Holy Mass.]

Replies.

THE ARMS OF GLASGOW.

(2nd S. i. 468.)

The salmon holding a gold ring in its mouth, which forms a conspicuous figure in the armorial bearings of the Church of Glasgow, is a commemoration of an incident related in Jocelin's Life of St. Kentigern, cap. xxxvi. p. 273., ap. Vitas antiquas SS. Scoto-Britannia, Lond. 1789, published by Pinkerton. This saint is commonly called St. Mungo.

The recovery of a lost ring, or other small object, in this manner is attested by many ancient, and even modern stories by history, by legends, by observation, and perhaps I might add without any irreverence, by the account of the miraculously found tribute money recorded by St. Matthew and by St. Mark. The classical reader will at once remember what Herodotus has related of the ring of Polycrates. The ancient Indian drama of Sacontala has a similar incident.

In the Life of St. Kenny, Abbot of Aghaboe, who lived in the same age with St. Kentigern, there is a similar narrative. St. Kenny is related to have fettered the feet of one of his disciples (“alligavit pedes ejus compede ne vagus esset, et clavem compedis ejus, S. Cainnicus projecit in mare"), and then to have thrown the key of the fetter into the sea, between Ireland and Britain. The legend then proceeds to tell how the disciple remained thus fettered for seven years, and that then St. Kenny, knowing what was to happen, ordered him to depart from Wales, and to return to Ireland, and there to make his abode in whatever place he should find the key of his fetter. in Leinster, and having met some fishermen on He accordingly went his way, and having arrived the banks of the Liffey, he obtained from them a large fish, within which he found the key of his fetter. This I quote from the privately printed Vita S. Cainnici, Dublin, 1851, cap. xv. editor in a note has adduced various incidents of

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the same kind from several sources. Among them are those of the ring of Polycrates; the miracle of the tribute money; Sacontala's ring; the legend of St. Kentigern; the legend of St. Nennidh, related by Animchadh, one of the biographers of St. Bridget (Colg. Trios, p. 559.); and the similar

[The Rev. R. Butler's observations will be found in the Numismatic Journal, vol. ii. p. 70. See also Dr. Aquilla

Smith's paper, "On the Irish Coins of Edward the Fourth," in the Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, vol. xix,, Dublin, 1843.] .

told by Jocelin in the Life of St. Patrick, cap. clii. (Colg. Tr., p. 98.) But perhaps more interesting are the facts which are enumerated from modern history, such as the loss and recovery of Sir Francis Anderson's ring, related by Brand in his History of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, a valuable topographical work, which the editor of the Life of St. Kenny complains that he could not find in any of the libraries of Dublin. He adds several