Chapter C: Mansfield Ingleby

OLD SONG, "NOT LONG AGO I DRANK A FULL POT."

I send another old song; and, as in the case of the "Cuckold's Cap," I would ask is it known?

Not long ago I drank a full pot,
Full of sack up to the brim,
I drank to my friend, and he drank his pot,
Thus we put about the whim.
Six bottles at a draught he pour'd down his throat;
But what are such puny sips as these?
I laid me all along, with my mouth unto the bung,
And I drank up a hogshead to the lees.

I have heard of one who drank whole tankards,
And styl'd himself the Prince of Sots;
But what are such poor puny drunkards?
Melt their tankards, break their pots.
My friend and I did join for a cellar full of wine,
We drank the vintner out of door,
We drank it ev'ry drop, one morning at the tap,
And we greedily star'd about for more.

My friend then to me made this motion,
Don't let's part thus with dry lips;
With that we sail'd upon the ocean,
Where we met with a fleet of ships;
All laden with wine which was superfine,
The merchants they had ten thousand tun,
We drank it all at sea, before they reach'd the quay,
And the merchants swore they were all undone.

My friend not having quench'd his thirst,
Said, to the vineyard let us haste;
There we seized the canary first,
That yielded to us but a taste:
From thence unto the Rhine, where we drank up all their wine;
Till Bacchus cried "Hold, hold! 'ere I die!"
He swore he never found, in the universe around,
Two such thirsty souls as my friend and I.

"Pooh!" says one, "what a beast he makes himself,
He can neither stand nor go!"
"Sir," said I, "that's a grand mistake of yours,
For when did you ever know a beast drink so?
'Tis when we drink the least, we drink the most like beasts;
'Tis when we carouse with six in hand;
'Tis then and only then, we drink about like men,
When we drink 'till we neither can go nor stand."

J. R. R.

Minor Notes.

_Boston and Bunker's Hill._--In the plan of Boston, among the maps of the Useful Knowledge Society, is to be found, near Charleston, and on Breed's Hill (the real site of the battle usually misnamed as of Bunker's Hill), the following notice, "Defeat of the British, 1775." My first idea was, that, _Liberal_ though the Society might be, it was being rather too liberal to give away in this manner a victory which, however bloody and fruitless, was indubitably ours: but, on second thoughts, it seemed that the whole fault arose from copying too implicitly an American map. Now I am well aware that a very large part of the Americans, from continually vaunting (and with good reason) the valour they displayed, and the honour they acquired, on that occasion, have gradually worked themselves into the belief that they were the victors, even though their own historians tell a different tale; and they have even placed inscriptions on the monuments standing on the site of the intrenchments from which they were forced by the British; which inscriptions also assert a similar claim. This would be of no great consequence had it been confined to themselves; but its being transferred to an English publication not only tends to mislead many persons on this side, but enables the Americans to refer with confidence to it, as an admission of _their_ victory on the part of the British; and no one who remembers the use they made, on the Oregon Question, of a similarly occasioned error in one of the Society's globes, can doubt that our Transatlantic friends would make the most of this trifling affair in confirmation of their claims to the victory.

J. S. WARDEN.

_Snooks._--This name, so generally associated with vulgarity, is only a corruption, or rather a contraction, of the more dignified name of _Sevenoaks_. This town is generally called _Se'noaks_ in Kent; and the further contraction, coupled with the phonetic spelling of former days, easily passed into _S'nooks_. This is no imaginary conclusion, for I am told by a trustworthy friend that Messrs. Sharp and Harrison, solicitors, Southampton, have recently had in their possession a series of deeds in which all the modes of spelling occur from _Sevenokes_ down to _S'nokes_, in connexion with a family now known as _Snooks_.

G. W. J.

_Last Slave sold in England._--Can any of your correspondents tell me the date of the last public slave sale in England? Till the establishment of Granville Sharpe's great principle, in 1772, announcements of these are by no means uncommon. The following, from the _Public Ledger_ of Dec. 31, 1761, grates harshly upon the feelings of the present generation:--

"FOR SALE:

"A healthy negro girl, aged about fifteen years; speaks good
English, works at her needle, washes well, does household work,
and has had the small-pox."

SAXONICUS.

_Hoax on Sir Walter Scott._--The following passage occurs in one of Sir W. Scott's letters to Southey, written in September, 1810:

"A witty rogue, the other day, who sent me a letter subscribed
'Detector,' proved me guilty of stealing a passage from one of
Vida's Latin poems, which I had never seen or heard of; yet there
was so strong a general resemblance as fairly to authorise
'Detector's' suspicion."

Lockhart remarks thereupon:

"The lines of Vida which 'Detector' had enclosed to Scott, as the
obvious original of the address to 'Woman' in _Marmion_, closing
with--

"'When pain and anguish wring the brow,
A ministering angel thou!'

"end as follows: and it must be owned that if Vida had really
written them, a more extraordinary example of casual coincidence
could never have been pointed out.

"'Cum dolor atque supercilio gravis imminet angor,
Fungeris angelico sola ministerio.'

"'Detector's' reference is Vida _ad Eranen_, El. ii. v. 21.; but
it is almost needless to add there are no such lines, and no
piece bearing such a title in Vida's works. 'Detector' was, no
doubt, some young college wag; for his letter has a Cambridge
post-mark."

It may interest to know that the author of this clever hoax was Henry I. T. Drury, then, I think, of King's College, Cambridge, and afterwards one of the Masters at Harrow. The lines will be found in the _Arundines Cami_.

W. T. M.

Hong Kong.

Queries.

IRISH QUERIES.

1. O'Donovan, in his edition of the _Post-Invasion Annals of the IV. Masters_, vol. iii. p. 2091. note, says that he "intends to publish a review of Spenser's _View of the State of Ireland_, in which he will give him full credit for his discernment of abuses, and expose all his intentional figments." Query, Has this review since appeared in any Irish periodical, or other publication?

2. What is the relationship (or may it possibly be the _identity_?) between Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester, who married a daughter of William, Earl Marshal, the famous Protector, during Henry III.'s minority, and Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester, who married a daughter of King Edward I.?

3. The inquirer will consider himself extremely indebted to any one who will inform him of the existence of a set of Middle-Age Maps of the countries of Europe, of 8vo. or small 4to. size, published in England, _France_, or _Germany_, in print, or easily to be had second-hand, _more or less accurate_.

Koch's _Révolutions de l'Europe_, tome iii., Paris, 1814, gives seven maps of the whole continent and its adjacent islands, at the following periods of Middle-Age history:

(1.) Avant l'Invasion des Barbares;
(2.) Vers la Fin du Ve Siècle;
(3.) Sous l'Empire de Charlemagne;
(4.) Vers la Fin du IXe Siecle;
(5.) Vers 1074;
(6.) Vers 1300:
(7.) A l'An 1453;

which contain, of course, but few names of places. Were Europe divided into five unequal parts, say, 1. The Northern Countries; 2. The British Isles; 3. The Germanic Countries, Hungary, &c.; 4. France and Spain; 5. Italy, Turkey, &c.; and maps of these five parts given, the Northern Countries at three periods, the British Isles at four ditto, and the others at seven periods, as above, we should require twenty-eight maps (not too great a number, as the King's College _Modern Atlas_, of a convenient size, has twenty-five), which if they contained names of places as closely packed as the King's College _Atlas_, and laid down from Spruner, or some other trustworthy authority, would soon, it may be said without much foresight, be in the hands of so many readers of history, as to answer thoroughly to any bookseller undertaking to bring them out.

4. A copy of O'Brien's _Irish-English Dictionary_, _first_ edition, 4to., old, half-calf, margins a little water-stained, otherwise perfect and clean, lately priced at 25_s._, to be exchanged for a clean copy of the edition of 1832 (inferior in value but more portable), and a clean copy of Thady Connellan's elementary _Irish Dictionary_, published by Wall, Temple Bar; Hatchard, and Rivingtons: or the latter will be purchased at a moderate price, without exchange.

Any one desiring to report the books wanted, to be so kind as to do so in "N. & Q."

MAC AN BHAIRD.

Minor Queries.

_The Azores._--In a note in _Our Village_ (vol. v.), Miss Mitford says that this name was given to these islands collectively, on account of the number of hawks and falcons found on them. Is the name Spanish; and does the Natural History of the islands at the present time confirm the assertion?

J. O'G.

_Johnny Crapaud._--In one of Queen Elizabeth's Wardrobe books is the following entry of a trinket, devised at the period of the Duke of Alençon's courting her Majesty:

"Item, one little Flower of gold, with a _Frog_ thereon; and
therein mounseer his physnomie, and a little Pearl pendant."

"'Query,' says Miss Strickland (_Queens_, vol. vi. p. 471., 1st
edit.), 'was this whimsical conceit a love-token, from the Duke of
Alençon to his royal _belle amie_, and the frog designed, not as a
ridiculous, but a sentimental allusion to his country?'"

To which Query I would add another: When was the term of _Johnny Crapaud_ first applied to the French people, and on what occasion? I am aware of the notion of its being on account of their said partiality for eating frogs; which, by the bye, having tasted, I can pronounce to be very good: _mais chacun à son goût_. Is the frog introduced in the arms of Anjou or Alençon?

PHILIP S. KING.

_Poems in the "Spectator."_--The fine moral poems which first appeared in the _Spectator_, e.g. that commencing "When all thy mercies, O my God;" the version of the Twenty-third Psalm, "The Lord my pasture shall prepare;" "The spacious firmament on high," &c., are, as most of our readers are aware, commonly ascribed to Addison. In a recent collection of poetical pieces, however, I have seen them attributed to Andrew Marvell. Can any of your readers certify either of these contradictory assertions?

J. G. F.

_Old John Harries, "Bishop of Wales."_--I have "An Elegy to the Memory of the late worthy and pious Mr. John Harries of Amleston, in Pembrokeshire, Preacher of the Gospel;" from which it appears that, after devoting himself to preaching for forty-six years, through both North and South Wales, and more particularly in "Roose, Castlemartin, Pembroke, Haverfordwest, Narberth, Woodstockslop, and Amleston," he died at Newport on the 7th of March, 1788. Will you allow me to ask your numerous correspondents whether any of them can assist me in tracing his pedigree? One of his sons, a minor canon of Bristol, bore the arms of Owen Gwynedd, viz. "vert, three eagles displayed on a fesse, or," on his book-plate. He was often called the "Bishop of Wales," from the large district through which he _overlooked_ the progress of the Gospel.