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THE recent destruction of this old house should, I think, find a place in the pages of 'N. & Q.', as probably some future reader may wish for information on the subject. It was situated at the corner of a lane opposite the "Mother Redcap," and was reported to have been the home of Claude Duval, the celebrated highwayman. The house in question was from 1858 until a few years since, when it was sold to Messrs. Betts & Co., Limited, "in Chancery"; and I, having been connected with the suit in question since 1868, claim to know something about the matter. It was described in the suit as "the mortgaged hereditaments the subject of the action," and the suit has several times been compared with the ever memorable Jarndyce v. Jarndyce, to which I object, it having nothing in common with that suit but the rancour with which it was carried on and the fact that parties have died out of it and been born into it. "Our" suit, moreover, began in debt, the property having two heavy mortgages on it, which have been, with interest and costs, paid off, leaving the parties now the pleasant task of dividing some few thousands amongst them, whereas Jarndyce v. Jarndyce began with a fortune and ended with nothing. A view of the house appeared in the Morning Leader of 24 April, and articles pro and con were given on 27 and 31 August, 1897. Another view and observations appeared in the Islington Gazette of 27 September, 6 October, and 25 October, 1897; and a picture in the Evening News of 27 August, 1897. I wish to call particular attention to the letter in the Islington Gazette of 6 October from Mr. Arthur Fagg (a grandson of R. W. Sievier, F.R.S., the former owner and resident of the house in question), he being well able to speak on the subject: : "So many theories have been set forth as to the history of the house that I wish I could give actual and unerring data. As you rightly remark in your article, it is curious that the history of the house seems shrouded in mystery. No authority, as far as I am aware, has stated for whom the house was originally built. That Turpin, or Duval, or both, ever lived there has been doubted by many, on the ground that the house was too large an establishment to have been owned by highwaymen. To this I think I can offer an adequate reply. At one time the house was less than half the size it became subsequently, the whole of the front, with its extra roof and parapet, having at some time or other been added. This I had always maintained, and when the place was in course of demolition signs were not wanting to prove this. I may enumerate a few of them: I. The absence of an entrance-hall, and the existence of a long passage passing right through the front half of the house and terminating at the foot of the stairs, which point was originally the front door. 2. A division in the floor-boards at about this point. 3. Curved beams (in addition to straight transverse beams) across both dining and drawing room, added, doubtless, to bear the weight above. 4. The small size of the cellar for so large a house, minated in a line with the original front wall. In as it extended only beneath the back part, and teraddition to these reasons, the back portion was the older half, not only in general appearance, but by tradition. It was in this older portion that a secret room or space was located, and a nook in which two flint-lock pistols were discovered forty-eight years ago. It was on the boards of a room close by, approached by a curious and irregular passage, that an indelible mark of blood (?) was found, supposed to indicate murder. It was in the roof here that a dried and mummified cat was found fixed between tion now.) It was in this older portion of the house two beams. (This is in a careful state of preservathat most singular noises are reported to have been heard, always, of course, in the dead of night. Rushing and bumping sounds and strange voices were heard on several occasions; and it seems undirected attention to this house, for with all its fortunate that the Psychological Society never possible history one would have expected definite results. It was in this older part that some boards were once removed, revealing coins of no great value, and, what was significant, counterfeit coins also, pointing to the likelihood that the gallant Turpin and the romantic Duval were not always engaged in the more aristocratic or select, though equally unpleasant, 'Stand, and deliver; your money or your life!' You speak in your article of the curious decorations on the front of the house. These were works in bas-relief by Mr. Sievier, who was by profession a sculptor. Some of his works in marble are still fairly well known over England, and the gigantic Christ on the Cross in Carrara marble at the Alexandra Palace is his work. Mr. Sievier, though, was hardly the opulent Frenchman' you designate him. Nor was it supposed that he had secreted scientific instruments, although he had a collection of curious things in the laboratory which he built at the bottom of the large garden, which building is now the factory of Messrs. Betts & Co. In the garden, when excavations take place, will be found a complete human body or skeleton, in addition to various portions of bodies used at different times for experimentation with the electric battery, induction coil, &c., Mr. Sievier having worked here with Faraday and others." I do not think Mr. Fagg has done justice to his grandfather's many inventions and theories that have been born, thought of, or worked out in that old house and the factory at the end of the garden, and I imagine I am within the mark when I say that many a Lancashire fortune has had its rise or initiative in that old property. If it were possible to get any one to throw a light on the many schemes that have been conceived there it would be a great surprise to many. Crouch End. W. J. GADSDEN. P.S.-The Middlesex and Hertfordshire Notes and Queries only mentions in its bibliography the Evening News of 27 August, 1897. The following paragraph appeared in the Daily Chronicle of 26 August last: . "The housebreakers' have started the demolition of the old house at the corner of Holloway Road and Elthorne Road, Upper Holloway, known to a great many as Claude Duval's house.' It is nearly opposite the Mother Redcap,' the house mentioned by Drunken Barnaby in his doggerel verses. Elthorne Road (formerly Birkbeck Road) leads to Hornsey Road, where formerly stood a house known as "The Devil's House,' in which the dashing highwayman' was said to have dwelt. The house in Holloway Road is not universally believed to have been occupied by Duval, some preferring the tradition that the occupant was Dick Turpin, and allotting the adjoining stable to Black Bess. Seeing that it is about 230 years since Duval's fantastic funeral at St. Paul's, Covent Garden, the house must be very old to have been his. Dick Turpin certainly haunted the neighbourhood 160 years ago, and the story of his occupation of the house seems most credible. Both men knew the district well, and it is possible both stories are correct." Hornsey Lane was, it is true, formerly called Duval's Lane, and is so described to this day in legal documents; but it would appear that Duval was a corruption of Devil; for in a survey and plan of the manor of Highbury, made by order of the Prince of Wales, son of James I., the lord of the manor, in the year 1611 (that is to say, fifty-eight years before Duval expiated his misdeeds on the scaffold), the house is called the Devil's House in Devil's Lane, and is described as having been known in ancient writings by the name of with a mote and a little orchard within.” "Lower place......being an old house enclosed The house seems to have been the manor house of the manor of Tollentone, which was removed to a site on higher ground to the south-east, hence the name of Highbury. Nelson, in his history, published in 1811, referring to Duval's House, which was at that time used as a tavern, and had a tea-garden attached, remarks : "Between thirty and forty years ago [about 1750-60] the surrounding moat, which was of conby means of a long wooden bridge. The house has siderable width, and filled with water, was passed lately been fitted up in the modern taste, and the moat nearly filled with earth, and added to the garden which surrounds the dwelling." "'Hist. Islington,' p. 175. The house was known as the Devil's House so late as the year 1767, when, as appears from a letter in the Public Advertiser of 23 May in that year, "the landlord, by a peculiar turn of invention, had changed the Devil's House to the Summer House, a name it is for the future to be distinguished by." JOHN HEBB. Canonbury, N. SHAKSPEARIANA. 'OTHELLO,' I. i. 21.— A fellow almost damn'd in a fair wife. In this line is it not hinted that the fact of Othello's having a fair wife makes it unsafe to retain such a man as Michael Cassio in the close relation of lieutenant; that such a circumstance, in itself, is almost enough to damn him for the place? Iago often dwells upon Cassio's attractive personality. 'OTHELLO,' I. iii. 262–6.—— Vouch with me Heaven, I therefore beg it not The house formerly known as Duval's House was situate on the east side of Hornsey But to be free, and bounteous to her minde. Road, between Tollington Road and Seven Lines 264 and 265 paraphrased, read: "Nor Sisters Road, and was pulled down in 1871. do I beg it to comply with warmth of affection The association of this house with the high-in my young wife, in the absence, through wayman Claude Duval was a popular error. age, of my proper [own] satisfaction." Line 264 would seem to refer to Desdemona: "Nor to comply with heat the yong affects......But to be free, and bounteous to her minde." 'OTHELLO,' II. i. 315.— Abuse him to the Moor in the ranke garb; taking "ranke" of the quartos to be correct. In order to injure Cassio by leading him to commit an act that would disgrace him in the eyes of Othello, the general, Iago forms a plot, if Roderigo will "stand the putting on," to anger Cassio on the watch, fago having previously caused him to forget that he had poor and unhappy brains for drinking," with the result that Cassio had exceeded, for him, the bounds of temperance. In the line quoted Iago states it as his purpose to secure and bring to the notice of the Moor evidence that will fix upon Cassio a breach of military discipline while on duty and clothed with the power, or in the actual garb, of his military rank. He would destroy Cassio's usefulness by causing him to disgrace his uniform. 'OTHELLO,' IV. ii. 107–9.— 66 "Tis meet I should be us'd so, very meet. How have I been behav'd, that he might stick The small'st opinion on my least misuse? If the last two lines are uttered in justification, the first line is thereby given a touch of irony, something which is surely far removed from its true spirit. Is not this speech, however, one of self-reproach from beginning to end? Desdemona is utterly cast down, and, in the depths of her despair, sees herself in the worst possible light. "Tis meet I should be us'd so, very meet. How have I been behav'd [her conduct in deceiving her father], that he might stick the small'st opinion [favourable judgment, degree of credit or esteem] on my least misuse?" How have I been behaved that even my least misconduct should merit any the smallest degree of indulgence on his part? With this explanation of opinion" a meaning is given to this speech very much in keeping with the character of the gentle Desdemona and her unhappy situation. EDWARD MERTON DEY. St. Louis, Mo., U.S. 'CYMBELINE,' IV. ii. 333-4 (8th S. xi. 224, 343).-B. C. is quite correct in saying that three bodies of troops are mentioned in III. vii., but of these two only were available for service in Britain. Excluding those who were engaged in warfare against the Pannonians and Dalmatians, we have the legions in Gallia and the proposed levy at Rome. Lucius, who had the command of the legions in Gallia, had preceded them to Britain, and was now (IV. ii.) informed of their arrival there. As we are told that the Roman levy under the command of Iachimo has not yet arrived, I fail to see to what other troops the words "to them " can refer. We know of none already in Britain with whom the legions from Gallia were now united. R. M. SPENCE, M.A. Manse of Arbuthnott, N.B. 'HAMLET' (8th S. xii. 484).-The reading of this note recalls to my mind the lines of Pope: Booth enters-hark! the universal peal! But has he spoken? Not a syllable. What shook the stage, and made the people stare? Cato's long wig, flowered gown and lackered chair. Imitations of Horace,' book ii. epistle i. E. YARDLEY. French have, so far as I am aware, no other 'HAMLET,' I. i. 158 (8th S. xi. 224, 343).-The word than chanter-to sing, for the crowing of the cock. Is it, then, to be wondered at that it should medievally have been so Englished? Different cocks have different styles of crowing, and it is not improbable that the old monks may have fancied them as repeating some portions of their litanies and orisons. There is one near here who to me, who am neither monk nor Catholic, seems to repeat, "Cum spiritu tuo !". As for being "the bird of dawning," &c., it is my experience that he will crow at any time that he may be aroused, and that it is the man that rouses the bird, and not the bird the man. For a really early bird, I think the wren carries the palm, by some half hour at least. THOMAS J. JEAKES. of this play at the Lyceum Theatre in I was surprised on seeing a representation September last to find the description of the cock omitted, the idea in which is so beautiful: comes Marcellus. Some say, that ever 'gainst that season Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night long; And then, they say, no spirit stirs abroad: The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm; So hallowed and so gracious is the time. 'Hamlet,' I. i. It is a passage that always occurs to me on Christmas Eve, and certainly on the last eve the cockerels were crowing at intervals during the whole of the night--an undesigned coincidence, as Paley would have said. The propriety of the epithet "singeth" is by no means clear, as the note is harsh. And yet Tennyson applies to the cock the same epithet in 'Mariana; or, the Moated Grange': |
