THE PALACE OF WESTMINSTER, 1570.-The following account of the charges incurred in setting up an elaborate clock at Westminster Palace in Feb., 1570, may be interesting. The original is in the Rawlinson MSS., Bodley's Library. It has been copied literally, except that in the original Westminster and Majesty are contracted :— "Chardges done at the pallace of Westminstre for the Repayer of one of the quens majesties cloke in ffebrewarii anno 1569.

"To Nycholas Orshawe clokmaker for the newe translatting and alteringe of a square gylte cloke with a chyme of vi. Beells of the quens majesty beinge receyved of M Brydymane at her hignes pallace of Westminste and delivered the same agayne ffynnyshedde and done unto the saide Mr Brydymane the xijth of ffebrewarii 1569 as folowe the viz. fyrste for xx" wheels servinge for the sonne, the moone, the xij. signes, the vij. planette, the chyme and the hower, at ijs. vjd. the pece, ls. for iij. mullette at iijs. iiijd. the pece, xs. for vi. detantte at iiijs. the pece, xxiiijs. for vi. sprynge at ijs. the pece, xijs. for iiij. hammers at ijs. the pece, viijs. for iij. baskwhels at ijs. vid. the pece, vijs. vjd. for gravinge the xij. sygnes, xxvjs. viijd. for gravinge the vij. planette, xvjs. for graveing of the letters for the moone, viijs. for damasking of the letters for the sonne, vs. for damasking of the Ringe for the hower, vis. viijd. for graving and damaskinge of the Ringe for the iiijor quarters, vjs. viijd. for the sygnes for the knowledge of for the the planette, vs. for the three dyalls, xxs. for the Lyon fower Images with ther furniture xxxs. on the tope with the crowne and the Scutchen with the quens arms, xxs. for gilding and payntinge of all the cloke, xlvjs. viijd. for newe cords for the plomette, xijd. Summa xvli, iijs. ijd. (Signed) JOHN STOCKETT

Oxford.

T. FFOWLER Comptroller
HUMFRE LOVELL Mason
JOHN CALBRAND carpentar."
J. E. T. R.

JOHN WESLEY'S FIRST HYMN-BOOK.—The little volume lying before me, John Wesley's first hymnal, is of singular and unique interest.

Rare as any Shakespeare quarto, it has equally escaped the search of English and American collectors, and no biographer of John Wesley has so much as dreamed of its existence.

Interesting as an early American printed book, interesting as a hymnal in itself, the value of the book, apart from its rarity, consists chiefly in the evidence it affords of the tone of Wesley's mind during his memorable visit to Georgia.

The first (supposed) production of John Wesley's hymns is the very rare Collection of Psalms and Hymns, London, 1738, of which a collation is given by Dr. Osborne in his thirteen-volume edition of J. and C. Wesley's Poetical Works. He evidently had not so much as dreamed of there being a previous book, but to America and not to England belongs the honour of producing Wesley's first hymn-book.

The volume is a small octavo of seventy-four pages, and the title-page is as follows: "A Collec

Charles-Town,

The book

tion of Psalms and Hymns.
Printed by Lewis Timothy, 1737."
contains seventy hymns-forty for Sunday, twenty
for Wednesday or Friday, and ten for Saturday.
There are five translations from the German by
John Wesley, including "O God, thou bottomless
abyss." But the text varies from that of later
editions in some instances, notably in the hymn
named, for which Wesley afterwards substituted
a different measure. There are no hymns by
Charles Wesley; but a psalm or two and Eupolis's
'Hymn to the Creator" by Samuel Wesley, Sen.,
four hymns by Samuel Wesley, Jun., a few by
Austin through Dorrington, several altered by
John Wesley from Herbert, and the remainder
chiefly by Watts, make up the contents of a
volume of singular interest on so many differing
W. T. BROOKE.
grounds.

157, Richmond Road, Hackney, E.

caucus

is

."-The American word " "CAUCUS."doubtless familiar to most readers of the papers at the present day; but many persons will be surprised to find that the term is older than the present generation. At all events, I found it today in Extracts from a Journal of Travels in North America, by Ali Bey, published at Boston (U.S.) in 1818. The paragraph runs thus :"April 8, 1817. Last evening I attended what is here called a caucus,' that is, a public meeting of citizens to discuss political subjects and to canvass the merits of their rulers."

E. WALFORD, M.A. [Webster gives an example from Gordon, 1788.]

PARALLELISMS.-The two following extracts contain each a thought parallel to that of the other. Is there a common origin for both ?—

"Alas! the idle tale of man is found
Depicted in the dial's moral round;
Hope with reflection bends her social rays
To gild the total tablet of his days;
Yet still, the sport of some malignant power,
He knows but from its shade the present hour."
Wordsworth, An Evening Walk (1788-9).
"Thou breathing dial! since thy day began,
The present hour was ever markt with shade."
Landor, Miscellaneous Poems (1846), viii. 92.
Another parallel, less striking than the last, has
lately occurred :-

"I thought a dappled white cloud
Had fallen into the bay,

But a flock of swans were floating about,
Floating and sailing away."

This is from the "Swan Song," contained in Miss
Mary F. Robinson's remarkable little volume, A
Handful of Honeysuckle. Wilson (Isle of Palms,
canto iii.) thus describes a ship

:

"For a cloud hath fallen from the sky,
And is sailing on the sea.'

ERIC S. ROBERTSON.

"MAN PROPOSES, BUT GOD DISPOSES."-Sidi- man, Hogsflesh, Harvest, Mistery, Demidoff, Aly ben Housain, surnamed Katibi Roumi, lived Brothewood, Hockerday, Slaughter, Israel, Racine, in the reign of Soliman II. (1519-66). He was the Zielbzke, Scaelaez, Mossterman. The elements of commander of the Egyptian fleet, and, having lost haste and incog. seem largely combined. the greater part of his vessels, was cast upon the AN OLD KENSINGTONIAN. western coast of India, and made his way to Constantinople by three years' travel overland.

"FOUND AT NAXOS."-The Art-Journal for In the curious narrative which he has left of his September of this year contained an engraving of travels he quotes, as a proverb, the saying, "Mana picture by Mr. H. Wallis with the above name, proposes, but God disposes." There is a translation of his travels in the Journal Asiatique (Paris, 1826, t. ix. p. 42). The proverb is found in English, French, German, Dutch, and Danish. It occurs in the Imitatio Christi. The thought, if not the actual expression, is found in earlier WILLIAM E. A. AXON.

authors.

Bank Cottage, Barton-on-Irwell.

MACAULAY'S SCHOOL-BOY.-Macaulay is sometimes ridiculed for the historical knowledge he has attributed to "every school-boy," but Burton shows quite as great appreciation of his research:

"A far greater part had rather read Apuleius than Plato; Tully himself confesseth he could not understand Plato's Timæus, and therefore cared less for it; but every school-boy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Caracatta Parcellus at his fingers' end."—Anatomy of Melancholy, p. 469.

W. G. B.

EARLY QUOTATION OF CORNISH.-In Richard Brome's comedy, The Northern Lass, 1632, one character is Salomon Nonsense, son to Sir Hercules Nonsense, of Cornewall. The use of Hercules as a christening name was not rare in Cornwall, and the surname of Nonsense may be compared with some real Cornish names, such as Bosense. Salomon speaks like the Welshman of the London stage, "I tit not speak," and on the mention of a dinner inquires for "Whitpots." A Spaniard is introduced, and an interpreter being wanted, Salomon is desired to address the foreigner in Cornish. "Nonsense (loq.). Never credit me but I will spout some Cornish at him, Peden bras vidne whee bis cregas." The Spaniard can make nothing of this, and no more can I, although I know Pedna bras to mean blockhead. At the end of the play Salomon says he shall dramatize the story when he gets home to Cornwall, and this also may be a touch of local colour. GWAVAS.

There were three

which was exhibited at the Royal Academy in
"Why Mr. Wallis intimated that the little bronze
1874. In the literary notice it is remarked :-
figure which gives the work its title was 'found at
Naxos' we do not quite see.
places of this name known to the ancients, but
neither of them appears to have been celebrated
for artistic productions," &c. (p. 180). Will it
not explain at once the title if we take "the little
bronze figure" to represent Ariadne?
WILLIAM GEORGE BLACK.

1, Alfred Terrace, Glasgow.

DEATH OF THOMAS NICHOLSON, A CENTENARIAN.-He was baptized March 16, 1777, at Hawkswell, co. York; he died Sept. 9, 1878 (Richmond and Ripon Chronicle, Sept. 28, 1878, p. 8, col. 2). L. L. H.

DORSETSHIRE TOAST.-I heard the following toast given by a farm labourer at a harvest home at Blandford, in Dorsetshire, in 1849 :"Horses strong, sheep healthy, Barns full, money plenty."

EPITAPH.

W. S. S.

"To the memory of Daniel Tear (wrote by Sir Wm. Busk), aged 110, but supposed to be older, he being

a vagrant.

Here, friend, is little Daniel's tomb,
To Joseph's years he did arrive-
Sloth killing thousands in their bloom,
While labour kept poor Dan alive.
How strange yet true, full 70 years
Was his wife happy in her Tears.
Died Dec. 9, 1787."-Mona, or the Island of Man. In
Tour, 1798 (MS.). Tho. Pearson, Headington, near
Oxford, scripsit 1800.

J. O.

"No SCOTCHMEN NEED APPLY."-There is a curious instance of exclusiveness in a deed amongst the Durham records, by which certain DROLL COGNOMENS.-Having seen the remarks persons enter into recognizance to Bishop Neville, on this subject, I enclose a few which appear in in 1448, for the due observance of an ordinance by our books nearly a hundred years old. During the which the shoemakers of the city of Durham were French Revolution "Kensington House" was a prohibited from employing any native of Scotland great centre for refugees; Alfred Chalm, the well-in their art (Thirty-fourth Report of the Deputy known artist, used to say "he remembered the Keeper of Public Records, p. 224). services being held in Queen Anne's Alcove in Kensington Gardens, owing to the crowds of refugees here after the French Revolution." The following names Occur: -Sweetheart, Medina,

WILLIAM E. A. AXON.

Bank Cottage, Barton-on-Irwell.
FOLK-LORE.-It may be useful to put on record

Nutt, Jumpson, Polly, Leech, Kneebone, Maid-in your pages that in the late Lord Strangford's

Letters and Papers, pp. 114-16, there is a curious account of the form used in Crete for the relief of those struck by the evil eye.

Queries.

ANON.

[We must request correspondents desiring information on family matters of only private interest, to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that the answers may be addressed to them direct.]

LEGEND OF THE DEVIL'S DYKE.-Circulating in the neighbourhood of the Devil's Dyke, near Brighton, is a broadside which professes to give the origin of that entrenchment according to local tradition. According to this story, which is artificial and much spun out, the devil appeared one night among the company at the "Jolly Shepherd," near Poynings, and was seen about three next morning, when the hostess of that inn looked out of her window, mounted on stilts and digging hard where now is the Dyke. The landlady had caught BEQUESTS IN OLD WILLS.-In the will of up a sieve to shade the candle she held in her Thomas Gendor, dated February 4, 1465, and pre-hand, and when the demon looked up, and "saw served in the District Registry at Canterbury, is the candle behind the sieve, surmounted by the 66 The rising the following bequest:-"Item do et lego lumini old woman's nightcap," he sang out, quod vulgariter apud Elham nuncupatur Trylle sun!" and fled in dismay. The broadside ends upon my harpe, vjd." The testator wishes to be with the following, respecting which I should be buried in Elham Churchyard. Again, in the will obliged by any information:-"But if you go and of John Goldfinch, of Elham, Kent, dated July 18, read the ancient Saxon inscription on the baptismal 1471, and kept at Canterbury, is this similar font found among the ruins of Bayham Abbey, you bequest:"Item lumini vocato Trille on my will find that that' (sic) is not the account that harpe, ijd." What is this peculiar light or lamp the Monks give you there."

alluded to in Elham Church?

ovem

Then in the will of Thomas Banny, of Harty, Kent, dated August 9, 1467, is this bequest :Item lego ad unum cereum in eadem ecclesia (Harty) vocatum Bacchelers taper unam matricem." Is this a taper or light put up in the church by bachelors for a good wife, in the same way that young ladies frequently offer a candle before the statue of St. Joseph for a good and speedy marriage? I do not say this in any gibing spirit; for I speak as a Roman Catholic, and in my own knowledge and in my own circle of friends I have met with many young ladies who have been most devout to St. Joseph for a good husband.

Again, in the will of Richard Stede, of Harrietsham, dated Sept. 9, 1479, is this bequest :What is "Item lumini Sancte Welcome, vjd." this ?

And finally, in the will of Thomas Elis, dated May 2, 1480, and that of Henry Baker, both of Smarden, Kent, is a light called "lumini beate Marie vocato Logaris." What light is this?

W. H. HART, F.S.A.

A BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, TEMP. ELIZABETH.—I have a black-letter edition of the Book of Common Prayer of the time of Elizabeth, out of which the Order for both Morning and Evening Would any reader of Prayer has been torn. "N. & Q." having a complete copy inform me if, after the prayer for the Queen, there follows that (as at present) for the Royal Family, and if so, whether any name or names are mentioned? The virgin queen had no near relative, and in her latter years was so jealous of any allusion to her successor, that I think it extremely unlikely the name of James VI. of Scotland would appear, particularly as she did not name him till she was on A. A. her deathbed.

Hammersmith.

D. F.

YATELEY, HANTS.-What is the meaning of the name of our parish? In what tongue had the JOHN P. STILWELL. name its origin? Yateley, Hants.

"TRICKS AND ESCAPES; OR, ALL'S FAIR IN LOVE."-Can you inform me as to the authorship of a dramatic piece, produced on the Aberdeen stage May 2, 1821, having the following title: Tricks and Escapes; or, All's fair in Love, an entire new Interlude, written by a Lady in Aberdeen? This interlude, with other entertainments, was performed for the benefit of Messrs. Crooke. An address to be spoken by Mr. E. Crooke was written by the authoress of the interlude. Possibly some of the Aberdeen newspapers of that day may R. INGLIS. have a notice of the performance.

FORBARRES.-In the Durham records is a notice of an inquiry "concerning certain offences alleged to have been committed by William Eure, Knight, and his servants and miners, in cutting through the forbarres,' &c., when working the mines of coal and iron ore in Raly, Caldhirst, Hertkeld, Hethereclogh', otherwise called Tollawe, and Wollawe, and in the barony of Evenwod', granted to him by letters patent for the term of twenty-three years" (Thirty-fourth Report of the Deputy Keeper of Public Records, p. 207). barres"?

What are

"for

WILLIAM E. A. AXON.

Bank Cottage, Barton-on-Irwell.

"POETRY MORE PHILOSOPHICAL, OR TRUTHFUL, THAN HISTORY."—I met with this marked as a quotation the other day, and believe that it is a translation of a passage in either the Ethics or the Rhetoric of Aristotle. Can any reader help me

MRS. AGAR.-I saw in the hands of the late Mr. Lacy a play bearing this lady's name as authoress, and printed about 1800, but forget its title. As it does not appear in Mr. Lacy's Sale Catalogue, the British Museum Catalogue, the Stainforth Collection, or in any of our dramatic records, its name and whereabouts are desired.

J. O. DERIVATION WANTED.-Of "ditty," in a sailor's "ditty-bag" or "ditty-box "-his huswife and GREYSTEIL. strong box on board ship.

THE REV. ROBT. FORBES, who lived in the north of Ireland about the middle of the last century, had two children, daughters. The elder, Arabella, married first Caleb Barnes Harman, of Bawn, co. Longford, who was murdered there about the year 1798, and secondly Col. Fox, of Fox Hall, in the same county, M.P., and died without issue by either husband. The second daughter, Emilia, married the Rev. Robt. Evans, and had issue one daughter. Can any reader of "N. & Q." inform me whom the above-named Rev. R. Forbes married,

and who his heir male is?

TRANS-ATLANTIC PSYCHOLOGY.-Is the following a bit of American folk-lore, or has the theory been seriously propounded by any original theologian of the land of "notions"?

"Aunt Alice, how long does people have to stay in the ground when they die before they go to Heaven?' 'Three days, I suppose, Budge,' said Mrs. Barton. "'Cause that's the way it was with Jesus?' Other People's Children, p. 33. Yes, dear."" ST. SWITHIN.

THE SUFFIX"-WARD."-Among the many prehave any of your readers chanced to meet with positions to which the word ward is subjoined, "from"? Chaucer, I know, says of his Shipman— "Full many a draught of wine had he drawe From Bordeux-ward."

Is there any example of the word "fromward " or "fromwards" later than Anglo-Saxon use?

[Webster quotes from Cheyne, "Toward or from ward the zenith."]

"BOBBER."-Can you help me to the meaning of the word "bobber" in the following passage from Rumphius, D'Amboinsche Rariteit-kamer: "Kruipt zomtyds ook in de visch-fuiken of bobbers"? "Bobber" does not occur in Sewel's Dictionary. H. N. MOSELEY. It would seem to mean lobster-pot, or some similar contrivance.

&c. Can you guide me to information as to the number or side of Kensington Square where Addison resided? His name does not appear in the parish assessment book, which dates back to 1683. A. O. K.

"TANDOUST ” :

"TASELYS."-In a charter of

de

Edward III. to the town of Jerpoint, in the county
of Kilkenny, containing a schedule of tolls for the
emendation and reparation of the towers of the
bridge, I find the following:-"De qualibet carec-
tata de tandoust venali unum denarium :
qualibet centena de taselys venali unum obulum."
Will any of your learned correspondents tell me
66
and 'taselys"? I
the meaning of "tandoust
understand the former to mean "tan-dust," a com-
modity now sold in the neighbourhood for fuel;
the latter I presume to think means "tassels."
JAMES MORRIN.

Dangan House, Thomastown.

GENERAL VALLANCEY.-Has any notice of his life appeared in print? Although an Englishman, he devoted much time and attention to the antiquities of Ireland. He was buried in the churchyard of St. Peter's, Dublin, where there is a stone with this inscription:-"Here lieth the body of General Char Vallancey, who died on the 8th day of August, 1812, in the 88th year of his age."

Авива.

FLOGGING AT CHRIST'S HOSPITAL. Both S. T. Coleridge and Charles Lamb have left descriptions of the floggings they received at the Blue-coat School, the former for having become an infidel through reading Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary. I want exact references to above pas

sages.

AUTHORS OF BOOKS WANTED.—

APIS.

The Lives of Illustrious and Eminent Persons |of| Great Britain. Embellished with Sixty-Eight Portraits (on copper). London: | Printed for Longman, Hurst, A. GRANGER HUTT. Rees, Orme, and Brown. | 1820.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED.—

"Let the wealthy and great

I gave some of my own experiences in hunting for
tithe commutation maps in the country, and there
can be no doubt that infinitely the more ready plan
is to consult them and their schedules at the offices
of the Tithe Commissioners in St. James's Square.
But the drawback to consulting them for literary
purposes is the expense. The statutable fee for
consulting each map (and a large number of
parishes are divided into many townships) is 2s. 6d.,
and no effort of mine, notwithstanding kindly aid
of the most influential character then possible,
availed to soften the hearts of the Commissioners
to make any reduction, though sometimes one map
could be run through in five minutes or less. I
hope some one else may succeed where I failed. If
expense is no object MR. GOMME will certainly find
London a better hunting ground than the country.
So, too, with respect to auction lists in local papers;
their files are far more ready of access at the
British Museum than elsewhere, especially if the
search is not to be confined to one district or
county. At the same time, to elucidate the real
meaning of most of such names some knowledge
of the place in which they occur and of the
character of the ground is indispensable.

The magnitude of the task of treating of the
field names of the country at large is to me some-
thing appalling; and I speak from experience,
having devoted the leisure time of a twelvemonth,
some eight years ago, to collecting the field names
of Derbyshire and classifying them in conjunction
with the place names, for of course the most in-
teresting of field names have, at one time in their
history, been place names. Scarcely a tenth of the
county was thoroughly done, and I learned enough
to prove that, to be successfully carried out, it is
essentially a work of co-operation. The extreme
interest and historical value of such a research
This county, from its
became fully apparent.
central position and mineral wealth, attracted
settlers from all the different marauding tribes that
used to overrun England. One of the most curious
features of general interest was to note how the
terminals of the field and place names in one
valley indicated a more or less permanent settle-
jugment of Northmen of Danish extraction, and in the
next valley of Northmen of Norwegian origin.
My notion was to classify the names under Celtic,
Roman, Saxon, Norse, and Norman linguistic
heads (each having subdivisions), and also in
chapters, such as Fauna, Vegetable Productions,
Ecclesiastical, Personal, Trades and Occupations,
&c. I have a large amount of MS. on these
different matters, part being in a very fragmentary
and imperfect condition, but I shall be glad to
lend any or all of it to MR. GOMME. He might be
interested in that bearing on trades and occupa-
tions. One of your correspondents expressed some
doubt as to instances of this kind occurring. I
may mention that I have already proved, at all

Roll in splendour and state," &c. The above was recently copied from an old-fashioned for sale in a shop window in Quiet Street, Bath. Can you refer me to any other verses of the song of which it THOMAS B. STRONG. as a part?

Replies.

FIELD NAMES.

(5th S. ix. 325, 403, 479; x. 158, 209.) It is interesting to find that this important subject is again receiving the attention of several of your correspondents. If MR. GOMME will refer back to 4th S. xi., he will find the topic treated of under the head of "Parish Maps." On p. 250