PETER STUART. - Daniel Stuart, the famous editor of the Morning Post (1795-1803), had a brother Peter, who edited the Star (1788-9). I am unable to find any information about him, excepting a few notes in the Gentleman's Magazine. Can any reader of 'N. & Q.' refer me to other sources of information? Are any descendants of Peter Stuart or Daniel Stuart alive? J. C. EWING, SHAKESPEARE AND BURBAGE.-What foundation is there for the following amusing story; or can any reader of 'N. & Q.' say whence it originated? It is copied from 'A General View of the Stage,' 1759, by Mr. Wilkes.* "One evening when Richard III.' was to be performed, Shakespear observed a young woman delivering a message to Burbage in so cautious a manner as excited his curiosity to listen to. It imported that her master was gone out of town that morning, and her mistress would be glad of his company after play; and to know what signal he would appoint for admittance. Burbage replied, Three taps at the door, and, It is I, Richard the Third. She immediately withdrew, and Shakespear followed, till he observed her to go into a house in the city; and inquiring in the neighbourhood, he was informed that a young lady lived there, the favourite of an old rich merchant. Near the appointed time of meeting, Shakespear thought proper to anticipate Mr. Burbage, and was introduced by the concerted signal. The lady was very much surprised at Shakespear's presuming to act Mr. Burbage's part; but as he (who had wrote [sic] 'Romeo and Juliet') we may be certain did not want wit or eloquence to apologize for the intrusion, she was soon pacified, and they were mutually happy till Burbage came to the door, and repeated the same signal; but Shakespear, popping his head out of the window, bid him be gone; for that William the Conqueror had reigned before Richard III."-Pp. 220, 221. Dublin. W. A. HENDerson. Ventnor. Est Avenio ventosus, Sine vento venenosus, Cum vento fastidiosus. E. WALFORD. 'RIP VAN WINKLE.'-Where can I find particulars of the original German legend upon which Washington Irving based his sketch? Joseph Jefferson says, in his 'Autobiography,' that the source of Rip flowed from the Hartz Mountains, and the story was called 'Carl the Shepherd'; but I find in 'The Casquet of Literature' (published by Blackie, 1896), vol. iv. p. 373, a story entitled 'Peter Klaus,' a German legend of the Kyffbausen Mountains, which is undoubtedly the original of Irving's version. Where can I find full 8th 8. XII, JULY 24, '97.] NOTES AND QUERIES, details? Who wrote Peter Klaus,' and when SOURCES OF QUOTATIONS WANTED.-1. From 2. From which chapter in Fielding's 'Tom Jones' does this passage come?— "Conversant with the wise, the good, the learned, and the polite, nor with them only, but with every kind of character, from the duchess at her drum to the landlady behind her bar." 3. Where in Byron's works is this quotation ?His pure strain Sought the rapt soul to charm, Nor sought in vain. Beylies. DECAPITATION OF VOLTAIRE. 69 In the extraordinary story quoted by D. J. with reference to the above there are three statements contrary to the actual facts which have become matters of history vouched for by eye-witnesses. I do not know the two "lives" referred to, but I am familiar with some other accounts of the great man's life and death, and I have found no mention of such a report as that which heads this paragraph having been current either at the time or afterwards. On the contrary, in the account given of the first funeral by the writer who is universally accepted as the most reliable up to date, viz., Desnoiresterres, it is stated that "la tête [était] enfouée dans un ample bonnet de nuit." At the second burial, 4. In which of Henry Kirke White's does this when the body was transferred to the Panthéon, cccur? The petty joys of fleeting life Indignantly he spurned, And rested on the bosom of his God. DULCET. FOURTH FOLIO SHAKSPEARE.—I have an original Fourth Folio Shakspeare. I notice that the type used in printing pp. 123 and 124 of Love's Labour's Lost' is of smaller size than that of the balance of the book. I have compared mine with the Fourth Folio in the public library of Boston, Mass., and also with one owned by a friend of mine, and find that the same style of printing the above-mentioned pages obtains in both, so suppose it is characteristic of all folio editions of Shakspeare of 1685. Will you or some reader of 'N. & Q.' kindly give me an explanation as to why the printing was so done? Monson, Mass., U.S. THEODORE REYNOLDS. EAST WINDOWS.-I should feel greatly obliged if any of your readers could supply instances (with approximate dates) of chapels or churches having over the altar two windows, one above another. In an old domestic chapel in Devonshire there are two windows so placed in its east end, although the floor of the upper chamber terminates short of the sacrarium, which is left open from floor to roof. Much of the building seems to be of early Perpendicular period, but the uppermost of these windows (which are square-topped, with two mullions) are of Elizabeth's time, as shown by arms carved on tripstone-corbels. ETHEL LEGA-WEEKES. the Chronique de Paris for Saturday, 14 May, 1791, stated that "une couronne de chêne est posée sur la tête." The coffin having been opened and the body being exposed "à découvert afin que tous pussent le voir." The same course was pursued at the church at Romilly, where "Voltaire fut exposé dans le choeur et mis à découvert." The statement that Voltaire "was buried in his own garden" is quite contrary to fact. Amongst its resting-places Voltaire's body never rested where he had wished it might-at Ferney. Its first burialplace, four days after death, was within the church of the Abbaye Scellières, in the narrow part separated from the choir. It was interred with full clerical ministrations, in the presence of numerous clergy, of Voltaire's nephews, and of a crowd of people. This in itself is a refutation of the third misstatement in D. J.'s quotation, i. e., that Voltaire was excommunicated." The narrow-minded cruelty with which the ecclesiastics in power had always persecuted the man who from youth to old age did all he could towards delivering his fellow-creatures from their tyranny, did not cease when he ceased to live; but although the Archbishop of Paris in the fulness of his power might refuse Christian burial, not the simplest curé would have dared to say this was the reason given by the Prieur of the a prayer over an excommunicated person; and Abbaye Scellières for his action when the spite of the archbishop demanded a victim to compensate him for his frustrated ill-will to the dead body. I suppose it is conceivable that a person so little interested in the facts of the case about which he was writing as must have been the father of Mr. Grimaldi may have been deceived as to the head he saw; or is it possible that, owing to some careless telling of the story, the brain became altered to head? When the body was embalmed in Paris immediately after death, in the presence of several POCKET NUTMEG-GRATER (8th S. xii. 27).-DR. MURRAY asks why ladies carried this article. It was doubtless to grate their nutmegs withal. Why they carried their nutmegs is the next question. It was probably to season to their own taste their evening tumbler of hot negus; which was commoner in Mrs. Siddons's time than now. If yet a third question arises, Why, then, did not gentlemen also have nutmegs and graters?-there is a choice of three answers (1) Perhaps they did; (2) Perhaps they borrowed from the ladies; (3, and most likely) Perhaps they preferred toddy and grog, which want lemon and sugar, but not nutmeg. C. F. S. WARREN, M.A. Longford, Coventry. A. The armipotent Mars, of lances the almighty, Gave Hector a gift, 'Love's Labour's Lost.' D. A gilt nutmeg. So in Barnfield's 'Affectionate Shepherd,' 1594:Against my birth-day thou shalt be my guest; Weele haue greene-cheeses, and fine silly-bubs; And thou shalt be the chiefe of all my feast: And I will giue thee two fine pretie cubs, With two young whelps, to make thee sport withall, A golden racket, and a tennis ball, A guilded nutmeg, and a race of ginger, A silken girdle, and a drawn-worke band, &c. Nutmeg-graters were formerly made in small fancy cases for the pockets. I have a distinct recollection of my grandmother (1757-1830) carrying EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. one. 71, Brecknock Road. It is still in the British Pharmacopoeia for the above qualities. It would not be unprofessional to take fl. Myrist. m iv." on sugar (Squire). ED. MARSHALL. "" "HARRY-CARRY (8th S. xi. 427, 475).-I shall be glad to receive any extracts from local histories as to this word, and particularly to have the text of the ordinance of 8 Henry VIII." referred to by Nall. I presume such "ordinance" was one made by the Corporation of Yarmouth, and that it will be found in their minute-books. J. A. H. MURRAY. Oxford. "TINDERING TIME" (8th S. xi. 444).—This is merely a local rendering of a very common word, oldest form (see Skeat, 'Ety. Dict.,' s.v. "Tinder"); showing conservatism in the preservation of the Here, in the west, teenin-time is well known to all but the rising generation of Board School victims. We always soften words ending in nd, ld, and at the same time lengthen the vowel when represnted by i, e. g., ween-wind, weel-vire=wild-fire, &c. To "teen a candle" is the regular phrase (see 'West Somerset Word-Book'). In fact, tinder and tinder-box when spoken rapidly are teener and teener box. Nor are these softenings by any means modern changes, for in the Croscombe Churchwardens' Accounts of 1496-7 (Som. Rec. Soc., p. 22) we find : "Paid to W Toyt for tynnyng of the lyght, xvid (1496)." Expenses as in the last, including tynyng the light (1497)." In the 'Exmoor Scolding,' probably written before 1700, is "rearing and snapping vrom Candle-douting to Candleteening" (1. 314), i. e., from morning to night. On the other hand, Robert of Gloucester, 1298 (Morris and Skeat, p. 19), has ther of hi tende here ligt...... here taperes thereof tende. Also 'Sir Ferumbras,' l. 2413, "and a candlee he attendeth." F. T. ELWORTHY. HOLY STONES (8th S. v. 446).-At this reference a quotation is made concerning an ingenious derivation of this word, made by Mr. J. J. Hissey, in his Tour in a Phaeton through the Eastern Counties,' from the circumstance of the gravestones for the purpose of scrubbing the decks of vessels. in the Yarmouth churchyards having been used The following quotation from Gunning's 'Reminiscences of Cambridge' may prove amusing, and show that gravestones in that locale have been turned to another useful purpose. Dr. Thomas Browne had been Master of Christ's College, Cambridge, from 1808 to 1814, when he was sentenced to "During the first year of his residence at Gorleston he was very popular with his parishioners, who fully believed his representations of the cruel persecutions he had undergone at Cambridge; but after a time their confidence in him was shaken, and constant contentions were the result, in which he usually came off victorious, as his parishioners had a great dread of lawsuits. Among many claims he made was the right of removing from the churchyard all gravestones that chanced to be thrown down by cattle which he kept there himself. When subsequently building a house, these gravestones were used for the pavement of a scullery and also of an oven, out of which it was reported that a huge loaf was drawn, Aged 73 !"-Vol. ii, 245. JOHN PICKFOrd, M. A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge. "INDERLANDS" (8th S. x. 476, 519).-Palsgrave, 1530, has "inder chambre, garderobe, conclave," and "inderwarde of a castell, cengle de chastel. Here inder stands for inner. Compare the proper name Inderwick. It is said that the "inland" of ancient documents is terra indominicata, and "útland," terra servilis. Accordingly inderlands appear to be the inner lands, as compared with the outlying lands of a township. S. O. ADDY. BEN JONSON (8th S. xi. 368, 452).-MR. LEE has found a quite different position for Ben Jonson in his grave from that commonly received and embalmed in verse. According to MR. LEE the remains were found "with the head down and the heels up." Not so the poet who deplores the crowded condition of corpses in Westminster Abbey, and continues : Even rare Ben Jonson, that famous wight, Madison Wis., U.S. JACOBITE SOCIETIES (8th S. v. 127, 234): MODERN JACOBITE MOVEMENT (8th S. xi. 189, 218, 250).-The following is a cutting from the Daily Mail of 3 June : "To judge from the list of Jacobite clubs and associations given in the Legitimist Calendar for 1895,' which includes the Order of the White Rose, the Devon White Rose Club, the Legitimist Jacobite League of Great Britain and Ireland (ponderous title !), the Eastern Counties (shade of Cromwell!) White Cockade Club, the Forty-five Club of Grimsby, the Glasgow Jacobite Club, the Oxford University Legitimist Club, the St. Ives (Hunts) Jacobite Club, the Jacobite Restoration League, the Surrey White Rose League, the Mary Stuart Club of Lanark, the Legitimist Registration Union, the National Royalist and Jacobite Association, the Order of St. Germain and the Hemingford Grey Royal Oak Club, not to mention our old familiar Thames Valley Jacobites, and two or three foreign legitimist bodies, it ought not be difficult for the supporters of the lost House of Stuart to put several hundred adherents in the field (or even Ludgate Circus) if they so decide." CELER ET AUDdax. EGG-BERRY (8th S. xi. 246).— the farmhouses, sheltered by the crags at the head of the "The narrow road which was the only link between valley and those far-away regions of town and civilization suggested by the smoke wreaths of Whinborough on the southern horizon, was lined with masses of the white heckberry or bird cherry, and ran, an arrowy line of white, through the greenness of the sloping pastures. The sides of some of the little becks running down into the main river and many of the plantations round the farms were gay with the same tree, so that the farmhouses, gray-roofed and gray-walled, standing in the hollows of the fells, seemed here and there to have been robbed of all their natural austerity of aspect, and to be masquerading in a dainty garb of white and green im posed upon them by the caprice of the spring."—'Robert Elsmere,' chap. i. p. 1. THOMAS J. JEAKES. Tower House, New Hampton, ST. HUGH OF LINCOLN (8th S. xi. 307).-In Canon Perry's 'Life of St. Hugh of Avalon, Bishop of Lincoln' (1879), we read (p. 357): "The lessons read at matins on St. Hugh's Day were such as he would perhaps have most approved. They correspond generally with chapters i.-xi., inclusive of the Legenda in Mr. Dimock's appendix, though certain passages are transposed in a way different from the arrangement both of the text and of the notes of the Rolle edition." And again on the following page : "Probably the earliest existing office for the commemoration of St. Hugh is to be seen in the latter (though in date the earlier) of two imperfect MS. missals which are bound in one volume in the Lincoln Chapter library (classed in the MS. Catalogue A 5-5). This missal or sacramentary seems to have been written about the date of St. Hugh's death. It is difficult, judging from the writing, to date it later than his canonization (1220) or St. William's (1226). It appears to be a unique variety of the Gregorian liturgy, corrected (when it was a new book) for the use of some English convent, perhaps Carthu sian. The appendix contains, after the votive masses, the subjoined office for S. Hugh," &c. The learned Canon, in his exhaustive volume upon St. Hugh, makes no mention of a MS. existing such as that to which FATHER CAMM refers. HARRY HEMS. Fair Park, Exeter. CHURCH REGISTERS (8th S. xi., 442, 513; xii. 38).-It is to be regretted that MR. COLEMAN has taken no trouble to verify the statements he makes about parish registers, or even to read carefully the report published under the direction of the Congress of Archaeological Societies. A few extracts from Carlton in Lindrick Register were printed in the Parish Magazine. The date 1539 is an error for 1559. At p. 15 of the report mention of Carlton Register comes under the heading "A List of MS. Transcripts." The inaccurate statement occurs at p. 9 of the same report. The register has not been printed, nor is it likely to be. MR. COLEMAN's article at 8th S. xi. 442 is not only misleading, but inaccurate. Under Bedfordshire no reference is made to the 'Genealogia Bedfordiensis,' and the references are to extracts only, not, as we are led to infer, to complete registers. The register of St. Giles, Reading, mentioned under Berkshire, has not been printed. The volume relating to that parish contains churchwardens' accounts only. It is clear MR. COLEMAN never inquired into the matter. The registers of Ulverston were issued in 1886, in a magnificent 4to. volume, not, as stated, in the Palatine Note-Book, vol. i The Registers of Wolverhampton never proceeded further than a prospectus. If MR. COLEMAN will refer to the third edition of the 'Genealogists' Guide,' he will find there a tolerably complete list of registers printed or partially printed, as also of extracts from a considerable number. Since it was issued I have made very considerable additions to it, and I believe I now possess a note of every register wholly or partially printed as a separate work to date. G. W. M. 'PUSS IN BOOTS' (8th S. xi. 466).-Mr. Andrew Lang, in his interesting essay on this tale,*shows that it is found not only in Sweden, but in other European countries, and he seems to run it to ground in India, where, under the title of 'The Matchmaking Jackal,' a similar story appears in the 'Folk-Tales of Bengal' of the Rev. Lal Behari Dey. Another version, in which a gazelle is the hero, will be found in Bishop Steere's 'Swahili Tales.' Straparola merely seems to have given literary form in the 'Piacevoli Notti' to a common Italian folk tale (see Crane's 'Italian Popular Tales,' p. 348). W. F. PRIDEAUX. "TO STAND THE RACKET" (8th S. xi. 365).This is used in several senses. "What a racket those boys kick up" What a noise they make. "He could not stand the racket" He could not stand the pace. Said of a fast man who has come to grief. "It will never stand the racket "It will never wear. Said of anything apparently not strong enough for the purpose designed. In Kersey's Dictionary,' 1721, rachet and racket are thus explained: "Rachet (F.L.T.), a fine paid for the Redemption of a Thief." "Racket, an Instrument to throw the Ball with at Tennis documents and records Alderhallen, Alldery Hallows, and many variations between these and All Hallows. Is it true that, in 610, Pope Deodatus I. ordered that the Pantheon should be converted into a Christian church, and dedicated to the honour of all martyrs, and that the festival of All Saints was first held on 1 May, but changed in the year 834 (Sergius II. being Pope) to 1 Nov. ! Surely a good volume on the dedications of churches may be reckoned among literary_desiderata. JAMES HOOPER. Norwich. " have written: "No man can show the poetry POETRY (8th S. xii. 4).-Under this heading I which is in him without an intense labour which it seems to me that genius must be innate. So in itself is sometimes thought to be genius.' But perhaps it has been defined as a great capacity for labour, and not as labour. Horace speaks of if it is to produce good poetry, it must be joined ingenium as a natural ability; but he thinks that, with great art or labour. E. YARDLEY. THE WALDBY FAMILY (8th S. xii. 8).—The following will probably be useful information to MR. SWAINSON, although I am unable to show the immediate connexion between William Waldby of Beverley, and the ancient East Riding family of Waldby of Waldby, in the parish of Elloughton. Philip Waldby of Waldby, gentleman, the last of them, died in 1627, and his two daughters were his coheirs in 1631. There is no pedigree in any Heralds' Visitation, but a long one by Randle Holmes in Harl. MS. 2118, which cannot be trusted in the earlier part. According to this William Waldby, Esq., was secretary to Henry VII. The arms of this family are given in Tong's Visitation, 1530, as Argent, on a chevron sable three crosses patée or. Their lands were held of the Archbishops of York, but Archbishop Robert de Waldeby, buried in Westminster Abbey, 1397, the distinguished physician and divine, friend of the Black Prince and tutor to his son, bore different arms, and though probably a native of Waldby, does not seem to have been a member of this family. There were old local yeomanry families of the name, generally spelt Waudby. A. S. ELLIS. Westminster. FEE FARM RENTS (8th S. xi. 508).—On p. 273, play." Is not this the racket on which the popular vol. i. of Pollock and Maitland's History of the sayings are founded? Boston, Lincolnshire. = R. R. ALLHALLOWS HOLY TRINITY (8th S. xi. 328, 436). The ancient church of All Saints', Norwich, founded before Stephen's time, is called in old English Law,' the derivation of the phrase "in fee farm" is discussed, and then the authors proceed: "But whatever may be the precise history of the phrase, to hold in fee farm' means to hold heritably, perpetually at a rent; the fee, the inheritance, is let to farm. This term long struggles to maintain its place by the side of socage; the victory of the latter is not com |