the spectator. There was a time when books on
the history of London were to be found in the
house of every citizen, but now no one knows any-
thing of this treasury of great events.
HYDE CLARKE.

HUTTON CRANSWICK FONT, YORKSHIRE.-The following ought, I think, to be gibbeted in "N. & Q." One might fairly have hoped that such wanton vandalism and desecration were things of the past. I quote from Kelly's Post Office Directory (1879) for Yorkshire East Riding, p. 610, under "Hutton cum Cranswick," as follows: "The massive embattled tower [of the church], containing three bells, is the only original part remaining; the rest of the building was restored in 1875-76 by the principal landowners and parishioners......The quaintly carved old font, supposed to be of Saxon origin, is now in the garden of the vicarage adjoining, having been replaced by a handsome new one," &c. Can this really be true? If so, what next? T. M. FALLOW. Chapel Allerton, Leeds.

A CURIOUS BLUNDER.-In Hazlitt's English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, first edit., 1869, Cat p. 395, occurs the proverb, "There's a hill again a stack all Craven through. Equivalent to Every bean hath its black (Higson's MSS. Col., 172)." The proverb is given identically in the second edition, 1882. If any one has noticed this proverb, he.must have been puzzled to know what connexion there could be between a hill and a stack. I have known the proverb as a Yorkshire one all my life, but for "stack" read slack a hollow or depression. Carr's Craven Dialect in gives, "Ollas a hill anenst a slack," and quotes passages in illustration of the use of slack.

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QUAINT PHRASES EMPLOYED BY JOHN MARSTON. -Pith of parkets.-What is the meaning of this phrase, which occurs in Marston's Fawne, II. i. Works, Halliwell's edition, vol. ii. p. 31, 1. 3)? ed to is mentioned among a number of aphrodisiac Tticles of food. Mr. Halliwell has a note on ringoes, a word with which every reader of the Elizabethan drama must be acquainted; but not he word about this phrase. I cannot find in any the glossaries, or among my notes, any such ord as parket, but it is probably a contracted them of parrakeet. Is the pith, or marrow, of

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rakeets or parkets mentioned in any other pase as a provocative? Cotgrave, under "Perroet, gives the following explanation," A Parrat;

also, the herbe Aloe, or Sea-aigreen; also, a blackbackt, yellow-bellied, and green-find sea-fish, proportioned somewhat like the river Pearch"; but he does not mention that it was considered to possess any aphrodisiac qualities. The whole passage runs thus: "The onely ingrosser of eringoes, prepar'd cantharides, cullesses made of dissolved pearle and brus'd amber, the pith of parkets, and canded lamstones are his perpetuall meats."

Rowle the wheele-barrow at Rotterdam, same play, act, and scene (vol. ii. p. 39, 1. 25).— Were those small carts-half cart, half wheelbarrow-drawn by dogs, and pushed from behind by boys or men, which one sees in Belgium, Holland, and other countries, common in the Low Countries in Marston's days? I have not come across this expression, which would appear to be proverbial, in any other old play.

To wear the yellow.-This phrase appears to have another meaning besides that of being jealous. In Act IV. scene i. of the same play (vol. ii. p. 65, 1. 21), it seems to indicate that yellow was a distinctive colour of court uniform. In Look about You, sc. xxviii. (Dodsley's Old English Plays, Hazlitt's edition, vol. vii. p. 475), occurs the following passage :

"Ha, sirrah; you'll be master, you'll wear the yellow, You'll be an over-seer? marry, shall ye !" where, certainly, it does not mean to be jealous, but evidently refers to the colour worn by people in authority. Ben Jonson, in The Silent Woman (Gifford's edition, vol. iii. p. 368), mentions yellow doublets as the dress of fashionable people. We know that in China yellow is the colour worn only by mandarins of high rank. There may be some connexion between this phrase and the yellow stockings of Malvolio.

Fumatho.-In the same play, Act IV. sc. i. (vol. ii. p. 66, 1. 9), occurs this passage, "Or a Spaniard after he has eaten a fumatho." I cannot find any word in any Spanish dictionary at all like this. There is an Italian word fumati, signifying "any kind of smoked fish," given in Florio.

Flaggon bracelets. In the same play, IV. 3 (p. 67), "Alas! I was a simple country ladie, wore gold buttons, trunck sleeves, and flaggon bracelets." What does this mean? I find the same expression in Brome's City Wit, Act. V. (Works, Pearson's edit., vol. i. p. 370): "Tryman. Why dost heare modestly mumping Mother-inLaw, with thy French-hood, gold-chain, and flaggon-bracelets, advance thy Snout."

Nocturnal play.-In the Induction to What You Will (vol. i. p. 222) I find :—

Atti. What's the plaies name?
Phy. What you will.

Dor. Is't commedy, tragedy, pastorall, morall, nocturnal, or historie? What is a nocturnal play

New England as early as 1634, and to have died at Yarmouth in N. E. in 1686, leaving issue. The Yarmouth family spelt the name indifferently Matthews, Mathews, and Mathew. Edward Matthews's will is sealed with the following arms: Sa., a lion rampant ar.; crest, an eagle displayed per fesse, sa. and ar. These arms, if properly borne by the Tewkesbury family, would seem to point to a connexion with the Glamorganshire family of Mathew, of which branches were scattered at this time or later through Hereford, Warwickshire, and all that part of England. Can any one throw any light on the origin and fate of the Matthews family of Tewkesbury?

M.

BEAR-SKIN JOBBER.-" Buying and selling between the Devil and us is, I must confess, an odd stock jobbing; and indeed the Devil may be said to sell the bear skin, whatever he buys." This passage, from Defoe's History of the Devil, is to me very enigmatical-as is also the earlier one in the same volume, "Every dissembler, every false friend, every secret cheat, every bear-skin jobber, has a cloven foot." What is the origin of the bear-skin allusion? JAMES HOOPER,

7, Streatham Place, S.W.

"DOWN IN THE MOUTH."-This phrase is used by Bishop Hall. He says: "The Roman orator was down in the mouth; finding himself thus cheated by the money-changer: but, for aught I see, had his amends in his hands" (Cases of Conscience, decade i. case 6). I shall be glad to know of any earlier instances of what is now regarded as a slang expression for being disconsolate.

F. C. BIRKBECK TERRY.

GENERAL GROSVENOR: GENERAL WOLFE.-At Eaton, near Chester, the seat of the Duke of Westminster, there is an exceedingly fine portrait by Hoppner of General, afterwards Field Marshal, Grosvenor. He is represented amid the surroundings of a battle-field, wearing crossbelts and carrying a musket, and I wish to ask, Was it usual for a general officer to carry that weapon?

There is at Eaton another picture which gives some countenance to this idea, West's "Death of General Wolfe," where the dying hero is lying across the centre of the painting, the doctors stanching a wound in his breast, while below him lie a musket and belt, with the initials of Wolfe on the lock. Wolfe died young, and General Grosvenor looks young in the picture, which may, perhaps, account for the matter. General Grosvenor was born in 1764, a few years after the death of Wolfe. G. D. T. Huddersfield.

SITE OF TOMB WANTED.-The following appeared in an article in the Daily News a few weeks ago. Who is "the gifted and brilliant English

man" referred to, and where is the churchyard which is described? After much research I have failed to identify either :

"We have in mind at present a melancholy, picturesque, quaint old churchyard. It stands by the very As one leans over the low wall on the brink of a river. touch of him. The old tombstones tell of forgotten river-side, he sees the little waves ripple up almost within generations. On the doors of the church itself are posted notices of gifts to be given away in connexion

with some eccentric old foundation or endowment such as it would have gladdened the heart of Nathaniel Hawyard on the water's edge seems to us far beyond the thorne to study. For mere picturesqueness that churchburial ground at Scutari, which every English traveller

feels bound to visit. Within that church lie buried the remains of one of the most brilliant and gifted Englishmen who ever distracted or saved a state. The place is lonely, unknown. Now and then some painter with a make sketches, or some eccentric literary man goes there peculiarly inquiring genius for the picturesque comes to to study the spot and steep himself in its associations. But to the general public of the great city, whose spires and towers and domes and columns and shipping you may see from the river-side of that graveyard, the place the name of the place; nay, we shall not even give the is absolutely unknown. We do not intend to disclose name of the city within whose sight it rests on the river's edge unknown."

Louth, Lincolnshire.

F. J. GRAY.

They came from Boulogne together for that purpose. The lady is about seventeen years of age." Also, vol. Ix. p. 83: "Bridgham, Esq., formerly of Boston, late of Prince of Wales American Regiment, to Miss Nichols, only daughter of Nichols, Esq., of Devonshire, Oct. 9, 1789." I am extremely anxious to affix, through the descendants of these Bridghams, some links in the still earlier branches of the family, which was here at an early date in 1644. H. P. POOR. Boston, Mass.

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SIR HENRY HAYES. Mrs. Farrer, in her Recollections of Seventy Years, p. 107, mentions "Sir Henry Brown Hayes, who ran off with a Miss Penrose, of Cork, about 1811." This is an error; it was Miss Pike, not Miss Penrose. young heiress was of an amatory disposition. After a flirtation with Mr. Cleburne, of the Bank, a connexion of her father's, she excited the attention of such a host of fortune-hunters, that, to save further trouble, Sir Henry ran off with her. He was tried before Justice Day at Cork Assizes in 1801. Perhaps some correspondent will favour me with a copy of the ballad of which, I think, the first

stanza was,—

"Sir Henry kissed, Sir Henry kissed,
Sir Henry kissed the Quaker;
And what if he did, you ugly thing?
I'm sure he did not ate her."

VIATOR.

"CASTLE FOGGIES."-" My company is now forming into an invalid company. Tell your grandmother we will be like the castle foggies" (extract from a letter in my possession, written by an fficer from Harwich to his son at Edinburgh, April 5, 1821). Cf. "N. & Q.," 1st S. viii. 154, where there are some interesting remarks on this term for the Edinburgh veterans by J. L. I wish to know the etymology of foggy used in this sense. A. L. MAYHEW. ARCHBISHOP'S BARGE.-Where can I see a picture of the archbishop's barge, which was formerly moored at Lambeth Stairs? SENEX.

"ITINERARY" OF RICHARD OF CIRENCESTER.-I see it stated that the Itinerary of Richard of Cirencester has been proved to be a forgery. I shall be obliged by being referred to the evidence.

R. W. C. HALSAKER, BOYNACLE, AND SATRISTON.-Can any one tell me whether the above names, which occur in the parish registers of St. Mary's Church, Dover, in the seventeenth century, are of Dutch or foreign origin? CONSTANCE RUSSELL. Swallowfield Park, Reading.

“VITA DI OLIVIERO CromveLLE.”—I have just picked up an Italian life of Cromwell, entitled Historia e Memorie recondite sopra alla Vita di Oliviero Cromvelle, scritto da Gregorio Letti,

Amsterdamo, 1692. The work is in two volumes or parts. I shall be glad to know if this life is better known by scholars in England than it is by me, and what is its historical value. G. L. FENTON,

San Remo.

"A DAY'S JOURNEY OF THE SUN."-I met last year in a collection of British poetry with verses headed something as above. Not finding the book again, nor being helped by any friend to the work or the author of the verses, I beg the assistance of your readers. WYATT PAPWORTH.

33, Bloomsbury Street, W.C.

THE PRISONER OF GISORS.-Who was he? This query has appeared twice in "N. & Q.” (3rd S. i. 329; 4th S. iv. 514). I think no answer has been given. I contribute the little information I possess in the hope of obtaining more. I have an engraving with this title from a picture by Wehnert, published by the Art Union in 1848. In the left-hand bottom corner it has the following explanatory note: "Every one at Gisors has heard of the unknown criminal, whom state reasons, now forgotten, immured alive in that tomb, which is still called the Prisoner's Tower, where he has perpetuated his memory in bas-reliefs, executed, it is said, with a nail on that part of the wall where the solitary sunbeam which entered his cell enabled him to see his work" (Nodier, Normandie, ii. 141). The prisoner is seen at work on a representation of the Crucifixion. Above it he has shaped the words, “O Mater Dei, miserere mei Pontani." T. G.

CHARLES BANNISTER.-According to report, Charles Bannister, the father of Jack Bannister, was born in Gloucestershire in 1738. I shall be much obliged for precise information, if such is obtainable. URBAN.

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AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED.— "Ecce Britannorum mos est laudabilis iste, Ut bibat arbitrio pocula quisque suo." R. G. DAVIS. "First you must creep along, then up and go; The proudest old Pope was a Cardinal low. First be a courtier, and next be a king; The more the hoop's bent, so much higher the spring." CHAS. A. PYNE.

"Dreams are the interlude which fancy makes; When monarch Reason sleeps, this mimic wakes, Compounds a medley of disjointed things,

A court of cobblers, or a mob of kings."

believe they are Dryden's; but where ? C. M. I. "The naked Briton here hath paused to gaze

Ere bells were chimed

It is, I think, by a Cornish author-at least, so I was Or the thronged hamlet lit its social fires." informed when at Penzance recently.

EDWD, BROOKMAN.

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WOODEN TOMBS AND EFFIGIES.

(1st S. vii. 528, 607; viii. 19, 179, 255, 454, 604; ix. 17, 62, 111, 457; 6th S. vii. 377, 417, 451; viii. 97, 337, 357, 398.)

There are four wooden effigies in the parish church of Clifton Reynes, in Bucks. I do not know whether they have been fully described, but, as I saw them and took notes of them this summer (1883), it may be convenient to state their present condition; and I here transcribe my brief notes almost literally, retaining a (?) as to doubtful points, for the figures are much worn, though they are in fair preservation. The four figures consist of two pairs, each pair a knight and his dame. All of them are recumbent; they are of small size, not much more than five feet long.

First pair, somewhat the earlier and ruder. -No. 1, Plain round helm (no vizor) and circlet; chain mail (?) on the arms; breastplate over surcoat; chain mail on the legs, which are crossed; feet on a (hound?) couchant; head on a diagonal cushion; right arm drawing sword. No. 2 (separate from No. 1, but adjoining it), Lady in hood and wimple and long narrow gown; hands held up in prayer, head on diagonal cushion, feet on hound couchant.

Second pair.-No. 3, Plain round helm, no vizor or circlet; surcoat of threefold thickness, the lower edge of the inmost fold plaited, and that of the outermost fold embattled; chain mail (?) on the arms and legs; legs crossed; blank shield on the left arm; right arm drawing sword, but the sword is gone; feet on a (hound?) couchant; head on a square cushion; whole figure much wormed. No. 4 (separate from No. 3, but adjoining it), Lady in hood and wimple, &c., as No. 2; head on diagonal cushion.

Nos. 1 and 2 lie side by side, only a foot or so above the floor level, under a plain arched recess in the north wall of the north (which is the only) aisle of the chancel. Nos. 3 and 4 lie side by side under one of the south arches of the same aisle, upon a lofty base of stone, decorated on three sides with quatrefoils and coats of arms. There are five of these shields, each different, of course, from the others, and most of them showing the alliances of one family. I regret that I had not time to take down the blazons. Under the other and easternmost of the two south arches is a third tomb, richer and later, whereon lie the figures, in alabaster, of a knight of the same family and his dame. It may be added that each of the four wooden figures is, so far as I could judge, of oak, and is hollow underneath, and portable, insomuch that a strong man might readily shoulder it and carry it off.

To me the chief interest about them is that they

show, or seem to show, that in earlier as in later centuries a man was represented on his tomb in armour which he can seldom have worn in his lifetime, and with his legs crossed, though he probably never took the cross; for it would appear that the two wooden knights (and, indeed, the alabaster one also) were members of an undistinguished family named Reynes, who came from Statherne, in Leicestershire, and acquired by marriage the principal manor - there were two manors - at Clifton, in the latter part of the thirteenth century. They held it in the male line till 1556. Joan Borard, who brought this manor into the family, was a descendant of William de Borard, who in William I.'s time held the manor under Robert de Todeni, and whose descendant, Simon de Borard, acquired it in capite from Henry III. after it had been forfeited by William de Albini in the reign

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This quiet rural parish of Clifton Reynes has at least three points of contact with the old-fashioned glories of England. First, it, or part of it, belonged, as I have said, to the distinguished house of De Todeni and De Albini. Secondly, the eminent Serjeant Maynard bought the manor and estate in 1672, and was lord of it till his death. Thirdly, Cowper's friend and would be sweetheart, Lady Austen, lived there, while Cowper lived just across the river at Olney.

I am indebted for some of the foregoing facts, especially for those concerning the families of Borard and Reynes, to a little monograph on Clifton Reynes, which was written in 1821 by the Rev. Ed. Cooke, Rector of Haversham, Bucks. Mr. Cooke gives no account of the figures which I have numbered 1 and 2. Figure 3, he says, represents Ralph de Reynes, who died "before the year 1310." If so, figure 4 is presumably one of Ralph's two wives, who were, according to Mr. Cooke, Amabel, daughter of Sir Henry Green, of Boughton, Northants, by Catharine, daughter of Sir John de Drayton; and Amabel, daughter of Sir Richard Chamberlain, of Petso. The two alabaster figures are, says Mr. Cooke, those of John Reynes, who died in 1428, and of his first wife, Catherine Scudamore.

The MS. of Mr. Cooke's monograph was handed by him to his friend the Rev. William Talbot, Rector of Clifton Reynes, with a written request that it might go down to future rectors "with the registers of the parish." Mr. Talbot, who died in 1832, had the MS. bound, and it has been duly passed on to his successors. The present rector has wisely had it printed (as a pamphlet of twentythree pages), and is, I believe, prepared to send a copy to any one who will furnish one shilling or upwards towards the works of repair which have just been done-honestly and of necessity, so far as an outsider may presume to judge at the parish church.

A. J. M.