the bare statement that he was "born in the City of London on February 21, 1801." Many others simply reiterate this bald fact. The only exceptions, so far as I know, are The Daily Telegraph, which states that he "was born in a house in Bloomsbury Square, the residence of his father," and The Daily News and Morning Post, both of which declare that he was born in Old Broad Street, London. It may not be out of place to record that a copy of the entry of the baptism of John Henry Newman on 9 April, 1801, from the register of St. Benet Fink in the City of London, was given at 7 S. x. 185. JOHN T. PAGE. Long Itchington, Warwickshire. The question asked by Mr. HIBGAME is one that ought (if possible) to be settled, as being of much interest alike to Anglicans and Roman Catholics. Most of the references available to searchers after truth give no more particulars than those supplied by Dr. Barry in his 'Newman'; in fact, it would almost appear as if all who have touched upon this subject had come to the conclusion that no further particulars were forthcoming. Merry England a magazine started somewhere about May, 1883-in its "Newman Number," No. 30, published in October, 1885, followed in the same way, for The Landmarks of a Lifetime,' by John Oldcastle, states that John Henry Newman was born in the City of London, 21 Feb., 1801, son of Mr. John Newman (of the banking firm of Ramsbottom, Newman & Co.) and of Jemima Fourdrinier, his wife, and baptized a few yards from the Bank of England. Another" Newman Number,' published five years later, in October, 1890, after the Cardinal's death, states that the bank was in Lombard Street. Something more tangible is now to be spoken of. "Letters and Correspondence of John Henry Newman, during his Life in the English Church, with a Brief Autobiography, Edited, at Cardinal Newman's request, by Anne Mozley," cannot but be taken as a trustworthy record of this portion of the revered Cardinal's life. In chap. i., devoted to the autobiographical memoir, we are told that "John Henry Newman was born in Old Broad Street, in the City of London, on February 21, 1801, and was baptized in the church of St. Benet Fink on April 9, of the same year. His father was a London banker, whose family came from Cambridgeshire. His mother was of a French Protestant family who left France for this country on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. He was the eldest of six children, three boys and three girls." Some considerable portion of this book had the great benefit of receiving the supervision of the late Dr. Church, Dean of St. Paul's, to whom Newman had been tutor in their Oxford days, and who knew as much as many men-perhaps more than most-concerning him and his early days; so that it may be, I think, taken for granted that this sentence would not have been allowed to pass if it were at all doubtful. Old Broad Street is, beyond all question, entirely changed since that event took place there a hundred and six years ago, so that it may be difficult-I hope not impossible to get at the exact site of the house where the birth took place. The church of St. Benet Fink was in Threadneedle Street; it was demolished in 1844, on the re-erection of the Royal Exchange,' its parish being "united with that of St. Peter-le-Poer." An illustration of this church appears in Old and New London,' vol. i. p. 468. W. E. HARLAND-OXLEY. 66 GEORGE ROMNEY'S HOUSE IN CAVENDISH SQUARE (10 S. vii. 487). The Dict. Nat. Past and Present,' state that Romney's Biog.' and Mr. Wheatley, in his London house was No. 32; but the following extract from Mr. E. B. Chancellor's delightful History of the Squares of London,' p. 56, will explain matters: while Harrison, in his 'Memorable London Houses, "Walford, in Old and New London,' says No. 24, gives it as No. 32. This discrepancy is accounted for by the fact that the old 24, on the renumbering of the houses in 1826, became 32. Thus in the Rate Books for 1769, I find Cotes at No. 24; in 1786, Romney at the same house (paying, by-the-bye, 167. on 1207. rental value); and in 1821, Martin Shee at No. 24, whereas in 1828, Martin Shee is given at No. 32." Romney left the house in Cavendish Square (which should be more accurately described as No. 24, afterwards No. 32) in 1797, and the lease of the house was purchased by Mr. (afterwards Sir) Martin Archer Shee, the future President of the Royal Academy, who died in the square, according to Mr. Chancellor, in 1850. It was afterwards occupied by Dr. Jones Quain, the great anatomist; but in 1904 the building was demolished, and replaced by another on a grander scale, on which a memorial tablet would perhaps be out of place. W. F. PRIDEAUX. With reference to the subject of my note I have received a communication from Mr. G. L. Gomme, informing me that, although I am correct in stating that the house in Cavendish Square occupied by Romney was numbered 24 during the period 12 NOTES AND QUERIES. of his tenancy, later editions of Boyle's new. It follows, therefore, that the next-door house, now No. 31, which retains much of its eighteenth-century character, in spite of some alterations, was the original No. 23, where my great-great-grandfather lived: not the present No. 23, as I long believed. That Nos. 31 and 32 occupy the exact sites of the old 23 and 24 I have satisfied myself by a study of R. Horwood's Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster (1799), and of W. Faden's fourth edition of the same work (1819). In this fine production, which is on a scale of 25 inches to the mile, and is a credit to the map-engravers of the period, each house is separately shown, and the earlier number is clearly indicated. A desire for accuracy has impelled me to send this second communication. It is to be wished that a tablet could be affixed on No. 32, to the effect that George Romney occupied the house, No. 24, which formerly stood on the same spot. EDWY G. CLAYTON. 10, Old Palace Lane, Richmond, Surrey. HOUSES OF HISTORICAL INTEREST (10 S. v. 483; vi. 52, 91, 215, 356, 497; vii. 312, 413, 472). I am glad to say that the work of indicating houses of historical interest is going forward with considerable rapidity, a tablet having been recently affixed to No. 1, Orme Square, Bayswater, in which Sir Rowland Hill resided from 1839 to 1845. He had previously resided at 2, Burton Crescent, Euston Road. tram House, Hampstead, from 1848 until his death in 1871. The latter residence of the postal reformer had been indicated by the Society of Arts, but the premises have since been demolished. With reference to He lived at Ber the house in Burton Crescent, it was proposed to place a tablet thereon; but the lessee refused her consent, in consequence of which there was no course open but to place the tablet upon the house in Orme Square, where for three years, from 1839 to 1842, Rowland Hill was engaged in the heavy work of introducing and supervising the complicated machinery incidental to bringing uniform penny postage into operation. Between the years 1845 and 1848 he resided at Brighton, engaged in reorganizing the Brighton Railway Company. 66 tablet was, on Thursday, 20 June, placed It is pleasurable to record that a memorial upon No. 54, Great Marlborough Street, W., with an inscription recording that Sarah Siddons, the great actress, lived there. It curred in the 'D.N.B.,' for it is there stated is regrettable that a slip should have octhat resided at Great Marlborough Street; thence from 1790 to 1802 Mrs. Siddons had she seems to have moved to Gower Street, where the back of her house was ' effectually be contrary to what Mrs. Siddons has in the country.' " This would appear to stated, for in a letter written after her return from Ireland in the autumn of 1784, Gower Street....the back of which is most she tells us : "We have bought a house in effectually in the country. quoted in full in Kennard's 'Mrs. Siddons.' The correct order of her residences is given This letter is in the capital book on 'The Kembles' by Percy Fitzgerald, for he says: lived in the Strand, had removed thence She had Marlborough Street. to Gower Street, from Gower Street to Great 66 The London Argus of 22 June that the It would appear from a paragraph in numbers of the houses in Great Marlborough Street have been changed, for it is there stated that No. 49, the last such entry occurring in 1784. A "in Boyle's 'Court Guide' for 1792 and following years the name of W. Siddons' appears against comparison between Horwood's map of 1799 and the street-numbering plan of 1882 shows that no alteration in the number of the house had taken place in the meantime. In the latter year the number was altered to 54, and has not since been changed.' Virtually the house is now as it was in the have been made, including the addition of a days of Mrs. Siddons; but some changes story. It was in this house she resided when at the height of her professional career; here her youngest child, Cecilia, was born in 1794; and here her daughter Sally died in 1803, so the house is in many ways worthy of its commemorative tablet. W. E. HARLAND-OXLEY. ABRAHAMS at all. Unless my memory is I really cannot follow my friend MR. very bad, the topography of the particular spot is all against him, as I daresay he now realizes from the remarks made by COL. PRIDEAUX over his own. since been some volcanic eruption, the canal Unless there has must have been at precisely the same level then that it is imagines that on account of the steep MR. ABRAHAMS declivity Dyer must have broken his neck. now. Dyer stepped forward and got into the canal. 66 a 66 66 If we have to turn them back into Anglo- 66 The correct rendering in Bracton would have been oghene hyne; so that it is good enough except that the Anglo-French scribe, as usual, has ignorantly prefixed an h. The sense is de propria familia." 66 MR. D. M. MOORE: NEW YORK UNDER BRITISH RULE (10 S. vii. 466).-Was the Governor of New York who is here referred to Sir Henry Moore, Bt., who died, while Governor in 1769 ? He was created baronet in 1764, and according to G. E. C.'s "Complete Baronetage,' v. 130, the baronetcy became extinct when the Governor's "only son and heir," Sir John Henry Moore, Bt., died, unmarried," in 1780. See also the ‘D.N.B.,' xxxviii. 354, 372. If the baronetcy thus became extinct in 1780, the late Mr. D. M. Moore can hardly have been a grandson of this Governor, unless, indeed, he was a son of a daughter. One daughter, Susanna Jane, is mentioned in Burke's Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies (second edition), 366; but her marriages, if any, are ignored. Some explanation of Mr. D. M. Moore's alleged descent from Governor Moore seems, Against deriving hog from a root undertherefore, to be needed. This Governor's lying high and hoga speaks our diasuccessors at New York were John Murray, lectal der Hacksch unverschnittener fourth Earl of Dunmore (1769), William Eber. Weigand connects Hacksch" with Tryon (1771), and James Robertson (1778). "hecken = to procreate. G. KRUEGER. See the 'D.N.B.,' xxxix. 388; lvii. 276. Berlin. One Thomas William Moore-who, according to the Winchester College Register, was born at New York on 30 Jan., 1769 was elected a Winchester scholar in 1781. In Foster's Alumni Oxon.' he appears as son of Thomas William Moore of New York, and as matriculating from Worcester College in Dec., 1788. Was he related to Governor Moore ? In any case I should be grateful for further particulars of him and his career. H. C. : HOCK HOG: HOGA (10 S. vii. 401, 494). -The titles of articles are distracting. Under the above heading, which involves hock, unconnected with either hog or hoga, a question is asked concerning hoghenehine, which has no relationship with any of the foregoing. The quotation in Bracton refers to section 23 of the Laws of Edward the Confessor, for which see Thorpe's 'Ancient Laws,' vol. i. p. 452. The spelling in Thorpe is somewhat less corrupt than that in Bracton, but it is bad enough. Thorpe's version is: 66 Quod si tercia nocte hospitatus fuerit, et ipse forisfecerit alicui, habeat eum ad rectum, tanquam de propria familia: quod Angli dicunt-tuua nicte geste, the thirdde nicte agen hine." Another MS. has: 'tuo niht gest, the thridde oyen hine." 66 These are mere twelfth-century spellings. the Hockday quotations that the exhaustive May I just remind the contributors to article on Hockday in the 'N.E.D.' begins with the remark that "few words have received so much etymological and historical investigation"? WALTER W. SKEAT. 6 66 IRISH GIRL AND BARBARY PIRATES (10 S. vii. 469).—The poem BARBARY is in search of is the last poem written by Thomas Davis, The Sack of Baltimore,' giving in vigorous by two Algerine galleys on 20 June, 1631, verse the story of the attack on that town The fragments your querist quotes are all from the last four lines of the second last stanza: The maid that Bandon gallant sought is chosen for the Dey; midst of his Serai. She's safe he's dead: she stabbed him in the She only smiled-O'Driscoll's child-she thought of The complete poem will be found in the Stromness, Orkney. Otherwise it is impossible to reconcile the fact of his interment there with his will, which, though it does not (as I previously remarked) specifically name the buryingplace, yet directs burial in the parish he may die in. Several writers, more or less contemporary, state that he "lived and died at Camden House, Maiden Lane,' which would involve interment in St. John Zachary's. On the other hand, the length of time which was mentioned at the last reference as having elapsed between the respective dates of death and interment favours the supposition that he was conveyed a distance to be buried. If, therefore, he really died in the City at his town residence, and was carried into Surrey to his country seat for sepulture, how is the non-compliance with the direction contained in the will to be accounted for ? A briefer, but even more pungent version of the story to which G. E. C. alludes is given by Allen in the first (1827) volume of his history of London. WILLIAM MCMURRAY. 'WOODLAND MARY' (10 S. vi. 347).-If the inquirer regarding this old ballad will send his or her address to Mrs. Law, 12, Albert Terrace, Edinburgh, a copy of it will be forwarded. J. LAW. ZOFFANY'S INDIAN PORTRAITS (10 S. vii. 429).—Quite a number of Zoffany's portraits and conversation pieces (some of them unidentified) were shown at the interesting Georgian Exhibition held in the Whitechapel Art Gallery in April of last year. In a brief memoir of the painter, given on p. 71 of the catalogue, it is said that after his return to England from Italy, he "set off to India in 1783, and made much money, providing the Anglo-Indian nabobs of the time with portraits. Some of these still remain in India, but many were carried back by their purchasers with their rare china and curios to the country houses of England, where they are still to be found." One of these imported pictures, lent by Mr. Humphry Ward, was shown at the exhibition. It was No. 280 in the Lower Gallery, and catalogued as Two Children and a Dog.' Zoffany's portrait of Warren Hastings was No. 238 in the same gallery; but whether this was painted at home or abroad I have no means of determining. Dublin. W. J. LAWRENCE. A friend of mine has a large fulllength Zoffany Indian portrait of a beardless man with curious cap, scarlet robe, and Eastern arms, while in the background "PRINCE" BOOTHBY (10 S. vii. 405).In The Connoisseur, vol. ii. (1902) p. 37, will be found an article by Mr. Algernon Graves on the subject of this gentleman, illustrated by two portraits of him and one of (most probably) Miss Elizabeth Darby, all painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Mr. Graves says that the first of the portraits of Mr. Boothby was " among the unknown" until just before the date of the article in question, and was then in the possession of François Kleinberger, of Paris. 66 Charles It has an inscription on the back: Boothby Scrimshire, Esq., of Tooly Park, Leicester, aged 18. 1758. The second portrait of him was painted in 1784; and this, as well as the portrait of Miss Darby, is in the collection of Lord Leconfield at Petworth. Tradition has it that he was at one time engaged to her, and by his will he bequeathed to her " my three half-length pictures by Sir Joshua Reynolds." Probably the two at Petworth were purchased by the Earl of Egremont at the sale of Prince" Boothby's effects in September, 1800, after his death. An account of the suicide of "Charles Scrimpshire Boothby Clopton, of Clarges St., Piccadilly," is given in The Gentleman's Magazine for 1800, and this confirms MR. READE's statements as to his family and his properties. in St. George's Burial-Ground in the BaysMiss Darby died in 1838, and was buried water Road. ALAN STEWART. See Jesse's 'Life of Beau Brummell,' 1854, p. 64 : "Civility, my good fellow,' observed the Beau, 'may truly be said to cost nothing: if it does not meet with a due return, it at least leaves you in a creditable position. My friend Prince Boothby had a large fortune left him by an old lady, a perfect stranger, simply because he handed her into a sedan-chair in the lobby of the Opera.'" A MS. note in my copy of the above adds that Boothby took the name of Clopton on succeeding to the old lady's estate, and continues: "He dissipated three fortunes, and finally put an end to his life at his house in Clarges Street in July, 1800. He was brother-in-law to Hugo Meynell." Thomas Raikes ('Journal,' iii. 80) notes that Boothby "shot himself in his room, because he was tired of dressing and undressing, but more, I believe, from ruined circumstances. 66 R. L. MORETON. MAREBOAKE : VIERE (10 S. vii. 448). It is certain that mareboake is a spelling of mere-balk, a balk serving as a boundary; see 'Mere' in 'N.E.D.,' and Mearbalk' in 'E.D.D.' I should guess viere, or rather veare, to be the same word as fare, a track. 'N.E.D.' has fare, a road, track (obsolete); and fare, a track of a hare or rabbit (obsolete, except in dialects). The E.D.D.' has : 'Fare, a footmark, the track, trace of a hare or rabbit. 66 WALTER W. SKEAT. Merebook, a book describing the meres or boundaries. W. D. MACRAY. he was then, a rather short man, possessed of an exceptionally large and intellectual head. Rarely wearing a coat, and with shirtsleeves turned up to the armpits, he was proud of displaying very hairy arms. He suffered from a bad impediment in his speech, but, for all that, was exceedingly fond of reciting, with much dramatic action, lengthy quotations from Shakespeare. Bunyan resided in a low court (happily now swept away) leading out of Essex (then the Lower) Road, Islington, exactly opposite to Cross Street. It was an alley almost entirely inhabited by a rough type of poor Irish. The last time I saw him was in the middle of the sixties, and I heard that he passed away a few years later. Fair Park, Exeter. HARRY HEMS. "BAT BEARAWAY" (10 S. vii. 168, 258). -I remember having read in Herbert Spencer's Principles of Sociology,' vol. i., a paragraph devoted to the superstition that associates bats with human souls. According to a Chinese work, Sin-i-piking,' after a bat is a hundred years old, it Mareboake is apparently="mere-balk," is in the habit of inhaling man's vital essence boundary ridge left in ploughing. in order to obtain longevity; and when it attains its tercentenary, it is thereby enabled to assume human shape and to fly about for amusement in the various Viere is furrow; cf. O.E. fyrh, dat. of furh, and veering, id., in Halliwell. [W. C. B. refers also to the 'N.E.D.' and Halli- heavens, that is, the Taoist paradise. well.] H. P. L. BUNYAN AND MILTON GENEALOGIES (10 S. vii. 329). A middle-aged man possessed of distinct individuality, named John Bunyan, who claimed to be a direct descendant of the author of The Pilgrim's Progress,' was in my late father's employ as a porter from 1841 until 1855. Those were the days when men of that class were accustomed to wear what were called knots upon their shoulders the better by so doing to bear the heavy burdens then usually carried. The same kind of knots may still be seen in use at Billingsgate. 66 the My father's place was at 39, Upper Street, Islington, N. In the early forties the thoroughfare — i.e., extending from corner of Liverpool (formerly Back) Road, so far as Islington Green-was known as Hedge Row. It afterwards became High Street, but for many years has now been incorporated with the Upper Street. Our Bunyan was a tinker by trade, and asserted that his ancestors had always followed the same modest vocation. I entertain vivid remembrances of him as Another Chinese work, Yu-ming-luh,' by Liu I-King, of the fifth century A.D., gives an instance of a diabolical bat carrying away human hair. The story runs : "About the beginning of the Tsung dynasty (421 A.D.), it happened in the province of Hui-nan that nightly an unknown being came to cut off he knew how to discover it, daubed walls with birdmany persons' hair. Chu Tan, the governor, saying lime in good quantity. That evening a bat, as big as a cock, was thus caught. Killing the animal, he put a stop to the mischief, and, after searching, found the locks of several hundred men, which it had accumulated under rafters.”—'Yuen-kien-lui-han,’ 1703. |