a Replies. CROSBY HALL. ON 20 June some interesting documents were sold by Messrs. Puttick & Simpson, which future editors of Stow may find it to their interest to examine, as they throw some light on the devolution of the property as recorded in A Survey of London." By the courteous permission of the firm, I am enabled to give an extract from the sale catalogue (lot 562). The documents included: "A license in favour of Antonio Bonvix concerning Crosbye Place in Bysshoppesgate, a beautifully written document in Latin, in Gothic characters, 27 lines, on vellum with seal in white wax intact, commencing EDWARDUS SEXTUS dei gra Anglie Francie et hibernie Rex,' dated June 22 in the 4th year of the king's reign. "Grant of the old lease of Crosby Place by the Lord Darcy to Benedicte Bonvix, long document in English, dated 'in ye first yere of ye reigne of our lady quene Mary by ye grace of God quene of England Ffrance and Ireland.' "Certificate of Thomas Wytton, relating to Germain Cioll, long document with seal, dated in the 1st yere of Q. Mary. 66 66 LOUIS NAPOLEON: ENGLISH WRITINGS. -In a book entitled 'Biographical Sketches of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte,' by Henry Wikoff, published at Dublin in 1849, there are printed as an appendix several specimens of what profess to be the writings of Louis Napoleon. These are written in English, and four of them are in verse. The verses are Napoleon's Address to the Statue of his Son 'Eustace de Ribaumont,' ballad ; Stanzas to Ireland'; and the introduction to an unpublished poem on Ireland. The prose fragments consist of 'Erina : a Vision' (said to have been printed in a magazine in 1828); American Orators' (extract from a letter); 'An American Camp Meeting'; and County Life in England.' All these, with the ex-yere' of Elizabeth. ception of the last, are said to have been written in English. Could Louis Napoleon write English in 1828 ? And are the verses printed in this volume really from his pen? F. H. CHEETHAM. ENGLISH REGIMENTS IN IRELAND.-Was any English regiment stationed at Tipperary about 1820 to 1830 ? and if so, which? BERNARD P. SCATTERGOOD. Moorside, Far Headingley, Leeds. COL. CROMWELL, ROYALIST, 1646.-A little before 14 Feb., 1646, Col. Cromwell at the head of 120 Cavaliers, in an attempt to raise the siege of Corfe Castle, surprised the town of Wareham, Dorset. The Royalists were soon beaten out of Wareham by Col. Edward Cooke, and Cromwell, and others taken prisoners. Who was he? Was he Col. James Cromwell, eldest son of Henry, the future Lord Protector's cousin? St. Margaret's, Malvern. A. R. BAYLEY. Assignment of Crosbye Place to Germaine Cioll. Jho. Cioll of Crosbie Place in ye Paryshe of Saint Assignment from Germane Cioll to hys brother Helene, Bysshoppsgate, a beautifully written indenture in English of 43 lines with signatures and seals, dated In the thyrd yeare of ye Reigne of our Souvarayne lady Elizabeth.' "Indenture of sale and bargain of Crosby Place from Germane Ciol to Wm. Bond, document, of 72 lines in English on vellum, dated in the 'nynth "And another finely written document in referof 25 lines, dated in the third year of Elizabeth, on ence to John Crosby in Latin, in Gothic characters, vellum with great seal (equestrian effigy of the Queen with Tudor rose and crown). "In all seven vellum documents, dating from 1551 the last of London's historic mansions." to 1567, of great antiquarian interest, relating to I understand that the lot was purchased for 101. by Mr. Goss, who is believed to be connected with the Bishopsgate Institute, and it may be hoped that when the proper time comes the deeds may be thrown open to the inspection of London antiquaries. The fate of this historic building will be awaited with keen interest by the members of the London and Middlesex Archæological Society, for it was in Crosby Hall that the first two general meetings of the Society were held, on 14 Dec., 1855, and 28 Jan., 1856, respectively. It was at the second of these meetings that the interesting paper by the late Rev. Thomas Hugo, which is mentioned by MR. ALECK ABRAHAMS, was read. Printed in the Transactions, with It is scarcely credible that such a building, bound up as it is with a stirring episode in English history-within whose walls, moreover, it can scarcely be doubted that Shakespeare trod can be allowed to perish at the hands of the housebreaker. W. F. PRIDEAUX. The pamphlet on Crosby Hall by Mr. E. I. Carlos, referred to by MR. ALECK ABRAHAMS, was noticed and largely quoted from in The Mirror of 5 Jan., 1833. Reference is also there made to an engraving of Crosby Hall; see Mirror, vol. ix. p. 329. I do not possess this volume. In The Literary World of 15 June, 1839, a short report, signed "T. J.," was given of a lecture delivered in Crosby Hall on the old mansions and baronial halls of England by John Britton, F.S.A. The lecturer evidently devoted a considerable portion of his time to a description of Crosby Hall. An engraving of the interior of Crosby Hall, accompanied by three or four columns of letterpress, appeared in The Penny Magazine of 30 Nov. to 31 Dec., 1832. A letter by the present writer, drawing attention to the unique associations of Crosby Hall with several notable Northamptonshire families, was published in The Northampton Herald of 14 June last. JOHN T. PAGE. Long Itchington, Warwickshire. 66 discreteness in The origin of detached parts is briefly discussed in Pollock and Maitland's History of British Law,' 2nd ed., pp. 533, 556; but I know of no thorough investigation of the subject. When the invaluable analyses of Domesday Book in the Victoria County Histories are complete, an exhaustive study of detached parts will be a simpler matter than it has yet been. The commonly accepted explanation, that they are detached parts of great estates, may sometimes be true; but I very much doubt if it is at all a general explanation. I have shown in the case of Caversfield, a detached part of Bucks, that this explanation does not apply (Records Bucks Arch. Soc., ix. 104-19, and Home Counties Magazine, vi. 134-44); and I suspect that in many cases discreteness is more ancient than great estates. It is certainly more ancient than the Norman Conquest. A. MORLEY DAVIES. Winchmore Hill, Amersham. Hales-Owen together with Oldbury was at one time a part of Shropshire, in the same manner that Farlow, near Stottesden, Salop, was a part of Herefordshire. I think the exchanges were made about 1848, but application to the Clerk to the County Council of Worcestershire will no doubt receive a reply. See 6 S. iii. 293, 455. Pigott's county maps of the early nineteenth century, show the extent of this place and district, which formed part of Shropshire. In 1824, according to Gregory (Shropshire Gazetteer'), there were 1,472 houses and 8,187 inhabitants in the Shropshire part of Hales-Owen (the entire parish had 10,946 inhabitants); so that it was considerably more than an outlying portion of a Shropshire estate. HERBERT SOUTHAM. HALESOWEN, WORCESTERSHIRE (10 S. vii. Hales-Owen (St. Mary and St. John the 470). In Lewis's County Atlas,' 1842 (the only reference I have at hand), Hales-market town of Hales-Owen, in the HalesEvangelist) is a parish comprising the owen is represented as a detached part of Owen Division of the hundred of Brimstree, Shropshire. Though that county appears to have no other, the Birmingham district a detached portion of the county of Salop. It stood within a part of Shropshire, inis rich in examples of counties: bits of Staffordshire and War-sulated between Worcester and Stafford; but by the operation of a statute passed in wickshire lying in Worcestershire, and the 1844 it now forms part of Worcestershire. latter county and Gloucestershire being wonderfully intermixed about Chipping The poet Shenstone was buried here. For Camden. Similar cases occur in many parts a more detailed account see Lewis's Topoof England: I live myself in a part of graphical Dictionary of England,' vol. ii., Hertfordshire surrounded by Bucks. Most, and Murray's Handbook to Worcester,' ALFRED SYDNEY LEWIS. if not all, of these detached parts have for P. 34. Library, Constitutional Club, W.C. administrative purposes been united to their enveloping county by orders of the Local Government Board in the course of the latter part of the nineteenth century. "FITERES "RAGS (10 S. vii. 509).-It is quite easy to find this word in 'N.E.D.,' when it is once understood that in all such words the consonant is doubled in later English. The N.E.D.' accordingly gives fitters as a sb. pl., meaning fragments, pieces, atoms, with six quotations; as well as fitter, verb, to break into small fragments, and the pp. fittered, ragged, wearing rags. It is encouraging to find that this great dictionary has been, for once, consulted; it will be still more encouraging to find, some day, that it has been consulted successfully. 66 The E.D.D.' also has fitters, sb. pl., fragments, pieces, tatters; Yks., Lanc., Linc." WALTER W. SKEAT. This is a well-authenticated word, of frequent occurrence in early English writers, and still in use in various dialects. Ample information is supplied in the 'N.E.D.' and in the E.D.D.,' those two much-neglected works, under the word 'Fitters.' In consulting the 'N.E.D.' one should remember that words are regularly entered under their modern, not under their obsolete form, whenever, as in this case, the word has survived. A. L. MAYHEW. The original is a poem by Hermann Neumann, 'Das Herz,' beginning, Zwei Kammern hat das Herz, Die Freude und der Schmerz. S. B. In a small volume of poems entitled Chambers Twain,' by Ernest Radford (published by Elkin Mathews, Vigo Street), the following little song appears to be a translation from Hermann Neumann :— The Heart hath chambers twain, Wherein Dwell Joy and Pain. Joy in his chamber stirs, While Pain Sleeps on in hers. Oh Joy, refrain, refrain! Speak low: You may awaken Pain. It is possible that the poem MR. LAMBERT has set to music may be another translation from the same source. E. I. WISDOM. With respect to the line quoted by W. A. M. at 10 S. vii. 508, depicting the daughter of Pharaoh as Walking in style by the banks of the Nile, it must, I think, be identical with one forming part of some verses which, many years ago, I heard recited by the late Mr. Percy Doyle. He entitled them 'Verses by a Milesian,' and, if my memory can be trusted, they ran thus : On Egypt's shores, contagious to the Nile, The whole poem from which W. A. M. incorrectly quotes is printed at 3 S. i. 134. W. C. B. [MR. G. BONING and MR. CECIL CLARKE also thanked for replies.] The answer to MR. LIONEL SCHANK'S query is that the quotation forms ll. 131 and 132 of Wordsworth's 'Ode, Intimations of Immortality.' The first line is not quite correctly given; it should run : And custom lie upon thee with a weight. R. A. POTTS. [MR. T. BAYNE and T. F. D. also refer to Wordsworth.] The correct text of K. E. F.'s quotation is : Did I but purpose to embark with Thee, 66 GARD. CHRON.' [MR. ROBERT WALTERS also thanked for reply.] 6 LINCOLNSHIRE FAMILY'S CHEQUERED HISTORY: WALSH FAMILY (10 S. vii. 349, 497). I should not call The History and Fate of Sacrilege' an almost forgotten book." Many a man knows of it "in the deep of his heart," but refrains from chattering about it, for very good and charitable reasons. Perhaps nobody who owns two acres of land, to say nothing of the cow, could feel quite sure that he was clear of the guilt on which Sir Henry Spelman chose to enlarge. An edition of the work, with an introductory essay, was published by Joseph Masters in 1846, and I am not quite sure that it has not been recently reprinted. I believe that my copy of the 1846 issue cost ll., second-hand. A former owner has written on the half-title page :— "This is not a book for anybody to see, there being very objectionable parts in it-in the Introductory Essay chiefly. It contains, however, some startling facts." MUSICAL GENIUS: IS IT HEREDITARY ? (10 S. vii. 170, 236, 433.)-MR. BRESLAR'S reply is not entirely free from inaccuracies. Braham had three sons on the stage (Charles, Augustus, and Hamilton), but his daughter was certainly never an actress, or a public performer of any kind, and she married the Earl of Waldegrave, not the Duke of St. Albans. Then the authors of the 'Rejected Addresses' were not Albert and Horace Smith, but James and Horace Smith. WM. DOUGLAS. 125, Helix Road, Brixton Hill. GOOD KING WENCESLAUS (10 S. vii. 426).— The whole text of our Christmas carol about King Wenceslaus rendered last year into Cech by Prof. Zeithammer, and edited in the first verse by MR. MARCHANT, has already been translated into Cech, and printed, together with the English original, by Dr. Jos. Kalousek in the Bohemian schrift," Casopis Musea Kralovstvi Ceskeho of 1900 (at Prague). It may perhaps be worth while to compare this earlier rendering of the first verse, which is a literal prose translation (in eight lines) : Dobry kral Vaclav vyhledl ven Hluboky, sypky a rovny Jasne svitil mesic te noci Avsak mraz byl kruty, Kdyz chudy clovek prisel pred zraky, Sbiraje zimni topivo. Zeit The English original of this carol, as shown by Prof. Morfill and the late Sir John Stainer, was first written by J. Mason Neale, and based upon a mediæval Latin legend of S. Wenceslaus (cf. the quoted Casopis, pp. 113-18). 66 H. K. THE GOLDEN ANGEL " IN ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD (10 S. vii. 470).—The fourth edition of Dr. Howell's History....of the Monarchs of England' was "printed by Abel Swalle, and Sold by James Adamson, at the Angel and Crown in St. Paul's Churchyard, 1694." WM. NORMAN. by the idea," and she claims that " Admiral Christ suggested the "Pilot"; see, e.g., The Torquay Directory,' 27 Feb., 1907. The following previous references in 'N. & Q.' do not seem to have been hitherto collected: 4 S. vi. 45, 105, 224, 261; 6 S. ii. 285; 7 S. vi. 25, 117, 238, 333; xi. 500; xii. 43, 78, 510; 8 S. i. 76, 278, 382; v. 38; xii. 112; 9 S. vi. 47. W. C. B. As the following references to this epitaph, which I have copied from time to time, have not yet appeared in N. & Q.,' they may perhaps be added to the already long list: 1. Altar-tomb in Hatfield Churchyard, Herts, to Mr. James Willson, died 4 Jan., 1703, aged 50. 2. Memorial in North Meols Church, Lancs, to Capt. John Grayson, died 1749, aged 49. 3. Tomb in All Saints' Churchyard, Hartford, to Frances Wells, died 20 Dec., 1766, aged 44. 4. Headstone in Fobbing Churchyard to Wm. Bogue, lighterman, died 10 Sept., 1849, aged 59. CHAS. HALL CROUCH. 5, Grove Villas, Wanstead. On p. "Secondly, labour ever to get Christ into thy ship, hee will checke every tempest, and calme every vexation that growes upon thee. When thou shalt consider that his truth, and person, and honor is imbarked in the same vessell with thee, thou maist safely resolve on one of these, either he will be my Pilot in the ship, or my planke in the Sea to carry me safe to Land." EDWARD S. DODGSON. JAPANESE AND CHINESE LYRICS (10 S. v. 429, 474; vi. 517).—Mr. L. C. Braun's March Catalogue (17, Denmark Street, Charing Cross Road, W.C.) contained an offer (No. 263) of the following book : 66 Chinese Poetry: being the Collection of Ballads, Sagas, Hymns, and other Pieces known as the Shih Ching, or Classic of Poetry. Metrically translated by C. F. R. Allen." 8vo, 1891. Heidelberg, Germany. L. R. M. STRACHAN. 66 LIFE-STAR FOLK-LORE (10 S. vii. 129, 196, 257). For three days preceding the death of Thomas Aquinas a brilliant star was visible above his abbey, but it disappeared at his passing away (Collin de Plancy, Dictionnaire critique des Reliques et des Images miraculeuses,' 1822, tom. iii. p. 160). How deeply ingrained in the Chinese 66 mind is the habit of associating the fall of a "High functionaries of eminence, ancient and reference), we are told in Hazlitt, Faiths As regards the Tan-we (see the second and Folk-lore,' 1905, vol. ii. p. 580, as follows: in the lower region of the air, straight and long, not "This appeareth, says Mr. Davis, to our seeming, much unlike a glaive, moves or shoots directly and ground where it passeth, lasteth three or four miles level (as who shall say I'll hit), but far more slowly than falling stars. It lighteneth all the air and the rising or beginning of it; and when it falls to the ground, it sparkleth and lighteth all about. or more, for aught is known, because no man seeth These commonly announce the death or decease of freeholders by falling on their lands...... The 'Cambrian Register,' 1796, p. 431, observes: It is a very commonly-received opinion that within the diocese of St. David's, a short space before a death, a light is seen proceeding from the house, and sometimes and pursues its way to the church where he or she ..from the very bed where the sick person lies, is to be interred, precisely in the same track in which the funeral is afterwards to follow. This light is called Canwyll Corpt, or Candle."" the Corpse vol. vi. 1895, p. 293, the same superstition From H. F. Feilberg s letter in Folk-lore, appears to prevail in Denmark, where it is held, If a corpse candle be small, but red and bright, it is that of a child; the candle paler; that of an aged person is blue." This account varies somewhat from that of a grown-up man or woman is larger, but which MR. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL gives. show that the Japanese have had a superstition about this form of the ignis fatuus :— The following quotation will suffice to "Hitotama (literally, man-soul) is a light with an resemblance to a ladle. It is bluish-white with a orbicular, flat head and a long tail, giving it a |