Chapter C: Mansfield Ingleby

Birmingham.

_The Tragedy of Polidus_ (Vol. vii., p. 499.).--This tragedy, printed at London 1723, 12mo., has a farce appended to it called _All Bedevil'd, or the House in a Hurry_. Browne was patronised by Hervey, the author of the _Meditations_. The scene of the drama is in Cyprus. The lover of Polidus, "the banished general," and Rosetta, daughter to Orlont, chief favourite to the king, form the groundwork of the plot. My copy was formerly in the collection of plays which belonged to Stephen Jones, author of the _Biographia Dramatica_.

J. MT.

_Robert Fairlie_ (Vol. vii., p. 581.).--In answer to the Query as to Robert Fairley, or more properly Fairlie, I may mention that there is in my possession a presentation by the Faculty of Advocates, dated July 27, 1622, to "Robert Fairlie, son lawfull to Umquhill Robert Fairlie, goldsmith, Burgh of Edinburgh, to the said bursar place and haill immunities quhill he pass his course of Philosophie," in the College of Edinburgh. This undoubtedly was the author of the two very rare little poetical volumes referred to; and it proves, from the use of the word "Umquhill," that his father was then dead.

There is an error in stating that the _Kalendarium_ is dedicated to the Earl of Ancrum. In the copy before me it is inscribed "Illustrissimo et Nobilissimo Domino, Domino Roberto Karo Comiti a Summerset," &c. The other work is the one dedicated to Lord Ancrum. I have both works, and they certainly were costly, as I gave five guineas for them. They had originally been priced at ten guineas.

A _Bursary_, according to Jamieson, is "the endowment given to a student in a university, an exhibition." It is believed that Fairlie was of the Ayrshire family of that name.

J. MT.

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_"Mater ait natæ," &c._ (Vol. vii., pp. 247, 248.).--When calling attention to these lines in "N. & Q." (Vol. vii., p. 155.), I at the same time asked if such a relationship as that mentioned in them was ever known to exist? This Query was very kindly and satisfactorily answered by your correspondents ANON and TYE. But, remarkable as were the instances mentioned by them of the two old ladies in Cheshire and Limington, who could speak to their descendants in a female line to the fifth generation, still that I am now to record of an old man in Montenegro is much more singular, as he could converse with his lineal descendants in an uninterrupted _male_ line one generation farther from him, (i. e.) to the sixth. The case is too well authenticated to admit of a doubt, and until some one of your correspondents shall favour me with another equally to be credited, it will remain in the columns of "N. & Q." as the only one known to its readers:--

"Colonel Vialla de Sommières, a Frenchman, who was for a long
time governor of the province of Catano, mentions a family he
saw in a village of Montenegro, which reckoned six generations.
The venerable head of the family was 117 years old, his son
100, his grandson 82, great-grandson 60, and the son of this
last, who was 43, had a son aged 21, whose child was 2 years
old!"

W. W.

Malta.

_Sir John Vanbrugh_ (Vol. viii., p. 65.).--ANON. points at Chester as the probable birthplace of the above knight, named in MR. HUGHES'S Query. Now, Mr. Davenport, in his _Biog. Dict._, p. 546. (wherein is a wood-engraved portrait of Sir John), states that he was born in London, about 1672; but, supposing his place of nativity was, as your correspondent suggests, Chester, it might very easily be ascertained by searching the parochial register of that city in or about the above year.

GARLICHITHE.

_Fête des Chaudrons_ (Vol. viii., p. 57.).--Some account of this fête will probably be found in Ducange's _Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis_. I have not a copy of the work at hand for reference.

JOHN MACRAY.

Oxford.

_Murder of Monaldeschi_ (Vol. viii., p. 34.).--The following account of this event is taken from the _Biographie Universelle_, article "Christine, reine de Suède:"

"Cet Italien avait joui de toute la confiance de la reine,
qui lui avait révélé ses pensées les plus secrètes. Arrivée
à Fontainebleau, elle l'accusa de trahison, et résolut de le
faire mourir. Un religieux de l'ordre de la Trinité, le P.
Lebel, fut appelé pour le préparer à la mort. Monaldeschi se
jeta aux pieds de la reine et fondit en larmes. Le religieux,
qui a publié lui-même un récit de l'événement, fit à Christine
les plus fortes représentations sur cet acte de vengeance
qu'elle voulait exercer arbitrairement dans une terre étrangère
et dans le palais d'un grand souverain; mais elle resta
inflexible, et ordonna à Sentinelli, capitaine de ses gardes,
de faire exécuter l'arrêt qu'elle avait prononcé. Monaldeschi,
soupçonnant le danger qu'il courait, s'était cuirassé: il
fallut le frapper de plusieurs coups avant qu'il expirât, et
la galerie des Cerfs, où se passa cette scène révoltante, fut
teinte de son sang. Pendant ce temps, Christine, au rapport
de plusieurs historiens, était dans une pièce attenante,
s'entretenant avec beaucoup de calme de choses indifférentes;
selon d'autres rapports, elle fut présente à l'exécution,
accabla Monaldeschi de reproches amers, et contempla ensuite
son cadavre sanglant avec une satisfaction qu'elle ne chercha
point à dissimuler. Que ces détails soient fondés ou non, la
mort de Monaldeschi est une tache ineffaçable à la mémoire de
Christine, et c'est à regret qu'on voit sur la liste de ses
apologistes le nom du fameux Leibnitz."

In the answer which Queen Christina sent to the objections made in Poland to her election as their sovereign, occurs the following passage:

"Le Père dira en témoignage de la vérité, que cet homme me
força de le faire mourir par la trahison la plus noire qu'un
serviteur puisse faire à son maître; que je n'ordonnai sa
mort, qu'après l'avoir convaincu de son crime par les lettres
en original écrites de sa propre main, et après de lui avoir
fait avouer à lui-même, en présence de trois témoins, et du
Père prieur de Fontainebleau: qu'ils savent qu'il dit lui-même:
'Je suis digne de mille morts,' et que je lui fis donner
les sacremens dont il était capable avant que de le faire
mourir."--_Mémoires concernant Christine_, Amst. et Leipzig,
1759, tom. iii. pp. 386-7.

Ἁλιέυς.

Dublin.

Your correspondent will find an account of this affair in the Appendix to Ranke's _History of the Popes_.

T. K. H.

_Land of Green Ginger_ (Vol. viii., p. 34.).--It is so called from the sale of ginger having been chiefly carried on there in early times. As far as I can recollect, none of the local histories gives any derivation of the name; those of Gent and Frost certainly do not, and this is the one generally received by the inhabitants. Salthouse Lane and Blanket Row are other streets, which may be referred to as having obtained their names in a similar way.

R. W. ELLIOT.

Clifton.

An inhabitant of Hull has informed me that this street was so named by a house-proprietor whose fortune had been made in the West Indies, and I think by the sweetmeat trade.

T. K. H.

_Unneath_ (Vol. vii., p. 631.).--It strikes me that your correspondents MR. C. H. COOPER and E. G. R., in reply to MR. WRIGHT'S inquiry respecting the {161} use of the word "unneath," used in Parnell's _Fairy Tale_, have fallen into a slight mistake in supposing that the seemingly old words used in this poem are really so. I make no doubt that MR. HALLIWELL is correct in noting the word "unneath" as signifying "beneath," in the _patois_ of Somerset; but I gravely suspect that Parnell had picked up the word out of our older poets, and used it in the passage quoted without consideration.

The true meaning of "unneath" (which is of Saxon origin, and variously written "unnethe, unnethes") is _scarcely_, _not easily_.

Thus Chaucer says:

"The miller that for-dronken was all pale,
So that _unnethes_ upon his hors he sat."

_The Millers Prologue_, v. 3123. [Tyrwhitt.]

And again:

"Yeve me than of thy gold to make our cloistre,
Quod he, for many a muscle and many an oistre,
When other men han ben ful wel at ese
Hath been our food, our cloistre for to rese:
And yet, GOD wot, _unneth_ the fundament
Parfourmed is, ne of our pauement
N'is not a tile," &c.

_The Sompnours Tale_, v. 7685.

"Unneath," signifying _difficult_, _scarcely_, _with difficulty_, occurs so frequently in Spenser, that it is unnecessary to burden your pages with references. It may be remarked, however, that this latter author occasionally employs this word in the sense of _almost_.

T. H. DE H.

_Snail Gardens_ (Vol. viii., p. 33.).--In very many places on the Continent snails are regularly bred for the table: this is the case at Ulm, Wirtemberg, and various other places. A very lively description of the sale of snails in the Roman market is given by Sir Francis Head. I have collected much interesting information on this point, and shall feel grateful for any farther "Notes" on the subject.

SELEUCUS.

_Parvise_ (Vol. vii., p. 624.).--Perhaps the following quotation may throw light on your correspondent D. P.'s inquiry respecting this word, in French _Parvis_. It is taken from a _Dictionnaire Universel, contenant généralement tous les mots françois, tant vieux que modernes, &c., par feu Messire Antoine Furetière, Abbé de Chalivoi_, three vols. folio, La Haye et la Rotterdam, 1701:

"PARVIS, _s. m._--Place publique qui est ordinairement devant
la principale face des grandes Eglises. Le parvis de Nôtre
Dame, de Saint Généviève. On le disoit autrefois de toutes les
places qui étoient devant les palais, et grandes maisons. Les
auteurs Chrétiens appellent le _Parvis des Gentiles_, ce que
les Juifs appelloient le _premier Temple_. Il y avoit deux
_Parvis_ dans le Temple de Jérusalem; l'un intérieur, qui étoit
celui des Prêtres; et l'autre extérieur, qu'on appelloit aussi
le _Parvis d'Israël_, ou le _Grand Parvis_.--LE CL.

"Quelques-uns disent que ce mot vient de _Paradisus_; d'autres
de _parvisium_, qui est un lieu au bas de la nef où l'on tenoit
autrefois les petites Ecoles, _à docendo parvis pueris_. Voyez
Menage, qui rapporte plusieurs titres curieux en faveur de
l'une et de l'autre opinion. D'autres le dérivent de _pervius_,
disant qu'on appelloit autrefois _pervis_, une place publique
devant un batiment."

T. H. DE H.

_Humbug_ (Vol. vii., p. 631.).--Allow me to add the following to the list of explanations as to the origin of this word. There appeared in the _Berwick Advertiser_ the following origin of the word _humbug_, and it assuredly is a very feasible one. It may be proper to premise, that the name of _bogue_ is commonly pronounced _bug_ in that district of Scotland formerly called the "Mearns."

"It is not generally known that this word, presently so much in
vogue, is of Scottish origin. There was in olden time a race
called Bogue, or Boag of that ilk, in Berwickshire. A daughter
of the family married a son of Hume of Hume. In process of
time, by default of male issue, the Bogue estate devolved on
one Geordie Hume, who was called popularly 'Hume o' the Bogue,'
or rather 'Aum o' the Bug.' This worthy was inclined to the
marvellous, and had a vast inclination to exalt himself, his
wife, family, brother, and all his ancestors on both sides. His
tales however did not pass current; and at last, when any one
made an extraordinary statement in the Mearns, the hearer would
shrug up his shoulders, and style it just 'a hum o' the bug.'
This was shortened into _hum-bug_, and the word soon spread
like wildfire over the whole kingdom."

How far this is, or is not true, cannot be known; but it is certain that the Lands of Bogue, commonly called by country folk "Bug," passed by marriage into the Hume family; and that the male representatives of this ancient family are still in existence. This much may be fairly asserted, that the Berwickshire legend has more apparent probability about it than any of the other ones.

J. MT.

P. S.--"That ilk," in old Scotch, means "the same:" in other words, Hume of that ilk is just Hume of Hume; and Brodie of that ilk, Brodie of Brodie.

_Table-moving_ (Vol. vii., p. 596.).--I imagine that the great object in _table-moving_ is to produce the desired effect _without_ pressure. During experiments I have often heard the would-be "table-movers" cry "Don't press: it must be done without any pressure."

J. A. T.

_Scotch Newspapers_ (Vol. viii., p. 57.).--In Ruddiman's _Life_, by G. Chalmers (8vo. Lond. 1794), it is stated that Cromwell was the first who communicated the benefit of a newspaper to Scotland. {162} In 1652, Christopher Higgins, a printer, whom Cromwell had conveyed with his army to Leith, reprinted there what had been already published at London, _A Diurnal of some passages and affairs for the information of the English Soldiers_. A newspaper of Scottish manufacture appeared at Edinburgh, the same authority relates, on the 31st of December, 1660, under the title of _Mercurius Caledonius_; comprising the affairs in agitation in Scotland, with a survey of foreign intelligence. It was published once a week, in a small 4to. form of eight pages. Chalmers adds, that--

"It was a son of the Bishop of Orkney, Thomas Lydserfe, who now
thought he had the wit to amuse, the knowledge to instruct, and
the address to captivate the lovers of news in Scotland. But he
was only able, with all his powers, to extend his publication
to ten numbers, which were very loyal, very illiterate, and
very affected."

JOHN MACRAY.

Oxford.

_Door-head Inscriptions_ (Vol. vii., pp. 23. 190. 588.; Vol. viii., p. 38.).--Over the door of the house at Salvington, Sussex, in which Selden was born, is this inscription:

"Gratvs, honeste, mihi; non clavdar, inito sedeq'
Fvr, abeas; non sv' facta solvta tibi."

It has been thus paraphrased:

1. By the late William Hamper, Esq., _Gent. Mag._, 1824, vol. ii. p. 601.:

"Thou'rt welcome, honest friend; walk in, make free:
Thief, get thee gone; my doors are clos'd to thee."

2. By Dr. Evans:

"An honest man is always welcome here;
To rogues I grant no hospitable cheer."

3. In Evans's _Picture of Worthing_, p. 129.:

"Dear to my heart, the honest here shall find
The gate wide open, and the welcome kind;
Hence, _thieves_, away! on you my door shall close,
Within these walls the wicked ne'er repose."

4. In Shearsmith's _Worthing_, p. 71.:

"The honest man shall find a welcome here,
My gate wide open, and my heart sincere;
Within these walls, for him I spend my store.
But _thieves_, away! on you I close my door."

ANON.

_Honorary Degrees_ (Vol. viii., pp. 8. 86.).--The short note of C. does not elucidate--if, indeed, it touches upon--the matter propounded. It was stated, whether correctly I know not, that honorary doctors created by _diploma_ (reference being made to the Duke of Cambridge, and one or two other royal personages) would have the _distinctive_ privilege of voting in Convocation. It then occurred to me that Johnson--whose Oxford dignity was conferred in 1776, by special requisition of the Chancellor, Lord North (his M.A. degree had been, I judge, likewise by _diploma_)--is not mentioned by Boswell or Croker, as having on any occasion exercised the right referred to. Did he possess that right? and, if so, was it ever exercised? The frequency of his visits to Oxford, and the alleged rigid adherence to academical costume, make the question one of some interest: besides, in regard to a person so entirely _sui generis_, and upon whose character and career so much minuteness of biographical detail has been bestowed, it is not a little remarkable how many points are almost barren of illustration.

M. A.

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BENNETT'S MODEL WATCH, as shown at the GREAT EXHIBITION. No. 1. Class X., in Gold and Silver Cases, in five qualities, and adapted to all Climates, may now be had at the MANUFACTORY, 65. CHEAPSIDE. Superior Gold London-made Patent Levers, 17, 15, and 12 guineas. Ditto, in Silver Cases, 8, 6, and 4 guineas. First-rate Geneva Levers, in Gold Cases, 12, 10, and 8 guineas. Ditto, in Silver Cases, 8, 6, and 5 guineas. Superior Lever, with Chronometer Balance, Gold, 27, 23, and 19 guineas. Bennett's Pocket Chronometer, Gold, 50 guineas; Silver, 40 guineas. Every Watch skilfully examined, timed, and its performance guaranteed. Barometers, 2_l._, 3_l._, and 4_l._ Thermometers from 1_s._ each.

BENNETT, Watch, Clock, and Instrument Maker to the Royal Observatory, the Board of Ordnance, the Admiralty, and the Queen, 65. CHEAPSIDE.

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TO BOOK CLUBS, READING SOCIETIES, ETC.

ALBEMARLE STREET, _August 1853_.

THE NEW BOOKS OF THE SEASON.

SIR HUDSON LOWE'S LETTERS AND JOURNALS.

LIEUT. HOOPER'S TENTS OF THE TUSKI.

MR. BANKES' STORY OF CORFE CASTLE.

CAPT. ERSKINE'S ISLANDS OF THE WESTERN PACIFIC.

THE COMPLETION OF THE CASTLEREAGH DESPATCHES.

MR. GALTON'S EXPLORATION OF TROPICAL SOUTH AFRICA.