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The Series will be continued so as to include the whole of the English Counties. ALL THE YEAR ROUND also contains Serial Stories, Short Tales, Focus, and a great variet Articles interesting to the widest range of readers. Sold in Monthly Parts and in Weekly Numbers. Subscribers' Copies can be forwarded direct from the Office, 26, Wellington Street, Strand, London Terms for Subscription and Postage : WEEKLY NUMBERS, 10. 10d. for the Year; MONTHLY PARTS, 12s. 6d. Sold also at all the Railway Bookstalls and by all Booksellers. 1 LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1884. CONTENTS. - N° 221. NOTES:-Clergy Ordained for America, 1699-1710, 221Battersea and the St. Johns, 222-Flight of Pius IX. to Gaeta, 223-"New English Dictionary," 224-A Literary Discovery-Pope the Poet and Pope the Antiquary-A Card Chance-"Lamia" as a Proper Name, 225-Mont St. Michel -Bulwer on Mitford-Clement's Inn, 226. QUERIES:-Richard of Coningsborough, 226-Gopher Wood -Sir George Mackenzie-Coock or Cock-G. P. R. JamesRev. W. Gilpin, 227-Marden-Browne Family-Flying Seal-French Emigrants, c. 1484-Château Yquem-Master of the Chauncery-Heraldic-Mrs. Godolphin-"Ringing Island"-Trained Band and Militia, 228-Portraits-Harvest Wage-Goose Court-M.I.V.-Coningsby FamilyBonnet of the Highland Regiments-Bell Inscription Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Lyrists — Authors REPLIES:-Simon Forman, 230-Offal, 231-Hair-powder"An't please the pigs "-Good Luck in the Tip of a Cow's Tongue-Transmission of Courtesy Titles, 232-Arms of Bergamo-Nonsuch Palace, 233-Yew Trees called View Trees-Dr. Wild, 234-Zeirs-Lord Montacute, 235-English Hunting Custom-English Exiles in Holland-"The first commoner of the realm"-Quaint Phrases by MarstonMotto Wanted-Early Marriages-Tulse Hill-Mrs. Mitchell -Pegge's" Forme of Cury," 236-Authors of Poems WantedNew Words-"Virgo pronoris"-Parent of Pleasure CanoesOrder of Southern Cross, 237-Distinctly-Admiral Benbow -Swearing at Highgate-Erskine of Chirnside-"Eternal fitDess of things"-Double Entente, 238-"Our Eye-Witness on the Ice, 239. Wanted, 229. NOTES ON BOOKS: - Loftie's "History of London". Robertson's "English Poetesses" - Contem Ignotus's "Golden Decade of a Favoured Town"-"Sunday under Three Heads," by Timothy Sparks (Charles Dickens). Notices to Correspondents, &c. Lates. CLERGY ORDAINED FOR THE AMERICAN COLONIES FROM 1699 TO 1710. The following list of clergy ordained and licensed to serve in America at the beginning of the last century may prove, I think, of interest to some of our Transatlantic kinsfolk. Its length will probably surprise many, while it shows the interest on behalf of the Church abroad which had, during the ten years to which it refers, been kindled in the Church at home by the earnest efforts of the newly founded Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. It is compiled from an original book of subscriptions to the Act of Uniformity, &c., in the diocese of London, preserved in the Rawlinson MS. B. 375, in the Bodleian Library. Augustin Walbank, for Maryland, March 5, 1698 9. Thomas Sharpe, Virginia, Oct. 2, 1699. Solomon Whately, Virginia, Oct. 11, 1699. John Fraser, Virginia, Aug. 29, 1700. Thomas Pritchard, New York, Nov. 15, 1703. Alexander Stuart, Bedford, New York, Feb. 7, 1703/4. 1705. William Black, Sussex, in Pennsylvania, April 7, 1707. Robert Scot, Maryland, March 19, 1707/8. Thomas Poyer, Jamaica, in Long Island, Dec. 23, 1709. W. D. MACRAY. BATTERSEA AND THE ST. JOHNS. Perhaps I may be allowed to add something to the information elicited (ante, p. 74) by MR. F. J. GRAY'S query, "Site of a Tomb Wanted." Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke, is buried at Battersea, not in the churchyard, however, but by the side of his second wife, in the crypt under the church. St. Mary's, Battersea, was rebuilt in 1777, but the monuments and stained-glass window over the Communion table were preserved from the old church. The window was probably the gift of Oliver St. John, first Viscount Grandison, to whom James I. granted the manor of Battersea. It contains portraits of Margaret Beauchamp, of her grandson Henry VII., and of Queen Elizabeth. These three illustrious personages were all connected with the St. John family. Over the central compartment are the royal arms of the Stuarts, and on either side escutcheons of the St. John arms. The disputed crests, a falcon rising or, and a falcon ducally gorged gules, are both represented. There is a monument to Viscount Grandison in the north gallery, and busts of himself and of his wife. The bust of Lady Grandison is evidently from a cast taken after death, and both are of considerable merit. Close by is the monument to Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke, and his second wife, with head-size portraits in bas-relief by Roubiliac. The inscriptions were written by Lord Bolingbroke, and the one on himself, in his own handwriting, is among the MSS. in the British Museum. In the south gallery is a mural slab to Holles St. John, half-brother of Lord Bolingbroke. In the vestry is preserved the original grant of supporters to Sir Henry St. John on his creation as Viscount St. John. The patent of nobility was granted in July, 1716, but the grant of supporters seems not to have been issued till 1719. I am unable to account for this delay, and a recent search in the College of Arms for a record of the grant was unsuccessful. Among other interesting associations connected with Battersea are the visits of Turner, the artist, who loved to sit of a summer's evening in the church porch and watch the effects of the sun setting on the river. Close by is the manor-house of the St. Johns. In it the famous statesman was born and died. After he left Eton, however, he was not much at Battersea till he returned to England on his father's death in 1742, to take possession of the property, where he spent the remainder of his unhappy life. Mr. Loftie, in his history of London, states that Lord Bolingbroke on his father's death inherited the viscounty of St. John. This is inaccurate. He may have inherited the baronetcy, but the titles of Baron St. John of Battersea and Viscount St. John were conferred on Sir Henry St. John, with remainder to his second and third sons and their heirs male. On the death of the first Viscount St. John in 1742, his titles were inherited by his second son John, who was succeeded on his death in 1749 by his son Frederick. On the death of Viscount Bolingbroke in 1751, his nephew Frederick, third Viscount St. John, became second Baron Bolingbroke, as the attainder did not affect the limitation of the title to his father and his father's younger sons and their heirs male. Of the many eminent members of the St. John family, and of the strange vicissitudes of fortune through which they passed, this is not the place to speak. The present representative of the family holds the viscounties of Bolingbroke and St. John, and the baronies of Lydiard Tregoze and of Battersea. The elder branch is represented by the fifteenth Baron St. John. The mansion at Battersea was pulled down in 1775, and the pictures and other contents were sold by auction. A portion of the old house still remains, but it has been stuccoed over, and its external appearance has lost its original character. Inside, however, the building contains some interesting features. Looking on the river is a delightful parlour wainscoted with cedar. Pope, who was a constant visitor at Battersea* from the time the place came into Bolingbroke's possession till his (Pope's) death in 1744, must have passed many hours in this picturesque old room. He and Swift were the last survivors of the Scriblerus Club, but the dean had left England in 1727, * Many of Pope's letters at this time are dated from Battersea. never to return. Of the Society of Brothers there remained but few. Of these, Bathurst, the most genial and kindly of the wits, was the most intimate with Bolingbroke. He would certainly often visit his old friend, but Bolingbroke's health was breaking. He had constant attacks of rheumatism, which kept him a prisoner to his room, and the closing scenes of that brilliant, but unhappy career were passed in that solitude which he had formerly affected to desire. There is one point in Bolingbroke's history which, though it is purely of an antiquarian interest, I should be glad to clear up. Did he ever live at Walham Green? On the Fulham Road, close to the Green, opposite to the Fire Brigade station, is a house formerly called Bolingbroke House. It is now divided into two dwelling-places, one called Dungannon House, the other Lillian Lodge. In Crofton Croker's Walk from Fulham to London it is stated that Bolingbroke once lived here. I have looked through two or three biographies, and glanced at many letters to and from Bolingbroke, but can find no mention of Walham Green. By his first marriage he acquired an estate at Bucklebury. He sometimes stopped there, and in The Journal to Stella there is a pleasant account of him at Bucklebury, leading the life of a country gentleman. He was sometimes at Hampton Court, and soon after his return from France he settled at Dawley. Perhaps some of your readers can tell us about his connexion with Walham Green. F. G. THE FLIGHT OF POPE PIUS IX. TO GAETA IN 1848. These are days in which much that has been called history is being rewritten, and many a fable which has passed for history is shown in its true colours. Allow me thus to treat a small fable of this description in the pages of "N. & Q." I know of no better way of doing so. In Cassell's Illustrated History of England, vol. viii. chap. vi. is an account of the revolutionary movement in Rome in 1848, which, after describing the compulsory signing by the Pope of the decree appointing the revolutionary leaders as his ministers, goes on to say: "Thenceforth he took no part in public affairs, and remained a prisoner in his palace, though the Government was still carried on in his name. It was not to be * In 1742 the surviving" Brothers," beside Swift and Bolingbroke, were the Duke of Ormond; Earls of Arran, Orrery, and Kinnoul; Lords Bathurst and Masham. Granville, Lord Lansdowne, hearing in 1707 that St. John was going to live in retirement at Bucklebury, wrote the following extempore lines: "From business and the busy town retir'd, expected that the head of the Roman Catholic Church would remain long in that position. But the difficulty was to get out of the city unobserved. The plan adopted succeeded admirably. The Bavarian Ambassador paid him a visit in his carriage with two footmen, one of whom sat beside the coachman. The Pope dressed himself in this man's suit of livery, took his place on the bassador's residence in the suburbs, the livery was box, and passed out undetected. Arrived at the Amchanged for the costume of a chaplain, and the Pope, thus attired, travelled to Gaeta in the carriage with the Ambassador, Count de Spaur." It is the latter part of this passage describing the mode of the Pope's escape which is not history, but fable. There would have been no harm, of course, in his resorting to such a disguise; but surely almost every one would regret to see the venerable head of the Catholic Church reduced to such an extremity, and it will be a relief to many to find that the statement is fiction and not fact. The true account may be found in Hare's Walks in Rome, vol. i. p. 460, and it is so interesting that I have no scruples in offering you a rather long quotation: "On the afternoon of November 24th the Duc d'Harcourt had arrived at the Quirinal in his coach as Ambassador of France, and craved an audience of the sovereign. The Guards wondered that he stayed so long; but they knew not that he sat reading the newspapers in the Papal study, while the Pope had retired to Filippani, had laid out the black cassock and dress of an his bedroom to change his dress. Here his major-domo, ordinary priest. The Pontiff took off his purple stole and white pontifical robe, and came forth in the simple garb he had worn in his quiet youth. The Duc d'Harcourt threw himself on his knees, exclaiming, 'Go forth, Holy Father; divine wisdom inspires this counsel, divine power will lead it to a happy end.' By secret passages and narrow staircases Pius IX. and his trusty servant passed unseen to a little door, used only occasionally for the Swiss Guards, and by which they were to leave the palace. They reached it, and bethought them that the key had been forgotten. Filippani hastened back to the Papal apartment to fetch it; and returning unquestioned to the wicket, found the Pontiff on his knees, and quite absorbed in prayer. The wards were rusty, and the key turned with difficulty; but the door was opened at last, and the holy fugitive and his servant quickly entered a poor hackney coach that was waiting for them outside. Here again they ran risk of being discovered through the thoughtless adherence to old etiquette of the other servant, who stood by the coach, and who, having let down the steps, knelt, as usual, before be shut the door. "The Pope wore a dark great coat over his priest's cassock, a low-crowned round hat, and a broad brown woollen neckcloth outside his straight Roman collar. Filippani had on his usual loose cloak; but under this he carried the three cornered hat of the Pope, a bundle of the most private and secret papers, the papal seals, the breviary. the cross-embroidered slippers, a small quantity of linen, and a little box full of gold medals stamped with the likeness of his Holiness. From the inside of the carriage he directed the coachman to follow many winding and diverging streets, in the hope of misleading the spies, who were known to swarm at every corner. Beside the Church of SS. Pietro e Marcellino, in the deserted quarter beyond the Coliseum, they found the Bavarian minister, Count Spaur, waiting |