"DROWSE "DEVIL.-In the sixteenthcentury interlude Wealth and Health,' recently published by Mr. Farmer in his handy volume 'Lost Tudor Plays,' the following sentence occurs (p. 288): Is he gone? farewell, Hanijkin Bowse! I pray God give him a hounded drouse; For I trow a knave brought him to house. Mr. Farmer in his notes suggests that hounded = hundred and drouse douse. He is probably right as to the first word, but I think a more satisfactory explanation can be found for drouse. In the same play the Dutchman Hanijkin swears "by Got's drowse!" evidently the same word. I should connect this with modern Dutch droes, which means 66 devil." There can be little doubt that the puzzling phrase hounded drouse" really means hundred JAS. PLATT, Jun. 66 devils." 66 FIRST RUSSIAN CHRISTIAN MARTYR.In the Bulletin of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Series VI., No. 9, Mr. A. A. Shakhmatov discusses the question who bears this honour, based on study of biographies of St. Vladimir of Kiev. The baptism of the people of Kiev is said by different chroniclers to have occurred at the site of the church in honour of (a) the martyr Tur, (b) Peter, (c) Boris and Gleb. Mr. Shakhmatov thinks that the church was dedicated to two Variags, father and son, of whom the former was named Tur or Turi, martyred by the people of Kiev in 983. (The story of the adoption of Byzantine Christianity by St. Vladimir after reports and the destruction of the idol Perun, is by his envoys, the baptism in the Dnieper, recorded in most works on Russian history.) Tur is said to have refused to sacrifice his faith with the heathen. Following analogy son to idols, and to have contended for the with the Variag names Karli, Bruni, Slodi, &c., Mr. Shakhmatov inclines to the opinion that the name of the martyr was Turi, not Tur. FRANCIS P. MARCHANT. Streatham Common. STOWE HOUSE.-The Daily Telegraph of 5, 6, and 7 June records the purchase of this historic mansion and estate by Baron de Forest from Baroness Kinloss, the eldest daughter of the last Duke of Buckingham. The articles also deal at length with the history of the house to the date of the great sale of its contents in 1848. This is already common knowledge; from the profusely illustrated guide Stowe: Description of the House and Gardens,' issued by Seeley of Buckingham (1769), to Mr. H. Rumsey Forster's The Stowe Catalogue Priced and Annotated' (1848) there has been sufficient information provided. It will be remembered that Charles O'Conor (1760-1828), a Catholic priest, was librarian there for many years. I have before me several of his letters addressed from Stowe during 1816-17; in one he gives some few details which make it worth transcribing :— Stowe, 9 Sept., 1817. DEAR SIR.-I send the dimensions you desire. Lord Buckingham requests of you to insert his name in the list of your subscribers for a largedirections. I am very busily employed in preparing paper copy, to be bound according to his own for publication the first volume of my catalogue raisonné of this MS. Room, where I had the pleasure of passing some very cheerful hours with you about a year ago. Since that time I have never heard from Mr. Petrie, and having lost his address, may I beg of you to say something kind from me to him, and to assure him that I keep his Welch chronicle untouched, and uncopied with the exception only of some few dates, which I think he gave me permission to use. I have the honour to be, dear Sir, with sincere regard, y' devoted and obed' hble. servt., CH. O'CONOR. Dimensions of Stowe Great Library above: length, 75 ft.; breadth, 25 ft. Number of books and books of prints above stairs, 21,000. Below stairs: Gothic Room or MS. Room. [Dimensions omitted.] Number of MSS., 2,000. The Ebony chairs were purchased at Antwerp; they were Rubens's, and are beautifully carved in festoons, wreaths of flowers, &c., &c. I cannot be more accurate. Who carved them I cannot discover; but the workmanship is worthy of such a possessor as Rubens. My 2 vol. will come out immediately after my catalogue is completed and an Irish map of the Middle Ages engraved. There is no identification of the person addressed in the letter, but the most obvious suggestion is Joseph Nash or George Lipscomb. The chairs referred to occurred in the sale as lots 2500, 2501, 2502, 2504, and 2505, and are said to have formerly belonged to Sir P. P. Rubens, and to have been brought from his house at Antwerp.' 66 Mr. William Gosling, the banker of Fleet Street, visited Stowe in May, 1814, and made a number of pen-and-ink drawings in the house and grounds. "Hic jacet Claudius Champion de Crespigny è On the present stone there has been a longer Galliâ persecutione profugus. I desire the complete inscription. ARTHUR F. G. LEVESON-GOWER. 31, Gloucester Place, Portman Square, W. 66 ALECK ABRAHAMS "POPULAR ETYMOLOGIES OF THE OLD HOMILISTS.—Dr. Richard Morris in his 'LOMBARD STREET TO A CHINA ORANGE." Introduction (p. ix) to Old English Homilies-Can you inform me if the correct saying of the Twelfth Century,' Second Series (E.E.T.S.), gives several illustrations of the above: e.g.," King" from kennen (to direct); "housel" from hu sel (how good); "Easter from (1) ārīst (arising), (2) este (dainty). More than two hundred years later there will be found in the homilies in Mirk's Festial' "Schere Thursday from scheren ("for men....wold pat day make scher hom honest, and dodde hor heddys, and clyp hor berdys, and so make hom onest a3eynes Astyr-day"); and "Astyr-day" (i.e., Easter), from astyr (hearth), for on that day it was the custom "forto do fyre out of pe hall at þe astyr." The late MR. F. ADAMS pointed out at 9 S. vi. 425, under Astre Hearth,' that this earlier quotation, by some 100 years, had been overlooked in the compilation of the N.E.D.' H. P. L. 6.66 "NEITHER MY EYE NOR MY ELBOW."I have never heard this phrase except from Derbyshire folks. It is used as a comment on an unsatisfactory answer, promise, or arrangement, as “It's neither my eye nor my elbow "=neither the one thing nor the other. THOS. RATCLIFFE. should not be "Lombard Street to a Cheyne 66 66 وو [The version of the proverb quoted by our New Zealand correspondent is not familiar to us. At 5 S. i. 337 MR. JOHN ADDIS suggested that in the "All Lombard Street to a China orange proverb trasted with the worthlessness of a China orange, the enormous riches of Lombard Street are conthe China orange, as it appears, being a fruit of inferior size and quality, and held in no esteem by the Chinese themselves." MR. E. LEATON BLENKINSOPP at 5 S. iv. 17 showed that the proverb appeared as "All Lombard Street to an eggshell" in Arthur Murphy's farce The Citizen,' Act II. sc. i. (a work published in 1763, according to Mr. LEATON BLENKINSOPP added: “Why are the best Knight's notice of Murphy in the D.N.B.). MR. oranges called China oranges' when none come from China?" As to the confusion between Cheyne Walk and China Walk see the communications by PROF. SKEAT and other correspondents at 10 S. v. 245, 312, 375, 415, 476.] DUKE OF WELLINGTON ON UNIFORMS.I should be glad to have the reference to an oft-quoted saying of the Iron Duke on the moral effect of uniform upon the wearer. I do not know whether it is to be found in his dispatches, letters, or table-talk. It is in substance this, that he had known cases where the donning of the uniform seemed to turn a man from a coward into a hero. Ком Омво. SHREWSBURY CLOCK: "POINT OF WAR." -In a book entitled 'Random Shots from a Rifleman,' by Capt. J. Kincaid, Rifle Brigade, published in 1847, the following passages occur : 66 1. Speaking of a soldier-servant, he says that he was as regular as Shrewsbury clock." What was Shrewsbury clock ? 2. "Old Trousers was a name given by our soldiers to the point of war which is beat by the French drummers in advancing to the charge. What is the origin of the J. H. LESLIE. phrase "point of war"? Dykes Hall, Sheffield. GOTHAM IN DERBYSHIRE. -On the map of Derbyshire comprised in Letts's 'County Atlas,' issued about twenty years ago, I observe the place-name Gotham plotted immediately to the west of the High Peak Railway, between Heathcote and Minningley Grange. The name does not occur in any of the directories or gazetteers that I have consulted, so that it cannot refer to a place of any importance. Probably it is associated with some local story of folly, and is thus a sort of offshoot of the original Gotham, in Nottinghamshire. Some reader acquainted with the district may perhaps A. S. explain the matter. 158, Noel Street, Nottingham. "HEREFORDSHIRE WINDOW."-What is the precise architectural meaning of this term? I find it used in a recent article on ecclesiastical architecture in a way that implies that the author expected it to be understood as a term of art, but I fail to find its signification in books of reference. W. B. H. MUSICAL SERVICES ON CHURCH TOWERS. (See 10 S. vii. 306, 384.)-I should like to obtain the names of places where services similar to that on Magdalen Tower on May morning are held. On Ascension Day this year an anthem and hymn were sung by the choir on the summit of St. Mary's Church tower, Warwick. From a newspaper paragraph recording this event I gather that "similar services were also held at the Priory Church, Malvern, and at Bromsgrove. on Holman Hunt's picture In a note 'May Morning on Magdalen Tower' (vide catalogue of his works exhibited last year at the Leicester Galleries) I find the following sentence :— "It is said that on the roof of Durham Cathedral at the present time a service of song is held in commemoration of a victory obtained while prayer was offered there." Particulars of this and any such musical services held on church towers would be JOHN T. PAGE. appreciated by Long Itchington, Warwickshire. 66 66 ARCHER GORDON.-In The Court of the Tuileries,' just published by Chatto & Windus, appears a long account of Eleonore Marie Brault (wife of Archer Gordon), who was the friend" of Napoleon III. Her husArcher Gordon or Gordon band is given as Archer, a colonel of the Foreign Legion in the service of Isabella II. of Spain," and the account in Larousse is enlarged. Who was Archer Gordon ? J. M. BULLOCH. 118, Pall Mall. "EL CHICO TERENCIO."-What was the real name of the writer who adopted this I have before me a pamphlet pseudonym? of 38 octavo pages :— "A la Luna de Paita. Zarzuela en un acto. Letra de el Chico Terencio. Musica de Reynaldo Rebagliati. Lima, imp. de El Nacional, 1875.” The scene is laid at Callao, and the plot depends on the return of "Mr. Guillermo, marino inglés," in time to prevent the second marriage of his wife, who supposes him dead -an old theme of poesy and romance. Manchester. MACKEACHAN PROVERB.-Can any reader of N. & Q.' inform me of the origin of the As gleg as MacKeachan's elshin, saying, that went through sax plies of bend leather, and half an inch into the king's heel"? Sir Walter Scott makes mention of it in The Heart of Midlothian,' when Robertson is escaping at Salisbury Crags, but gives no J. MACKEACHAN. WILLIAM E. A. AXON. note. 66 133, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow. ROSE AND GORDON FAMILIES.-On 8 Jan., 1861, Gertrude Mary, only daughter of Col Gordon, died at Linton House, aged thirtyfive. She was widow of the Rev. Henry Fitzroy Rose. Can any one throw light on the lineage of this clergyman, or on the paternity of Col. Gordon? Again, on 5 Dec., 1861, according to the contemporary press, Henry James Rose, Esq., of Alexandria, married at Ventnor Janet Ann, elder daughter of Sir Alexander and Lady Duff Gordon. Who was Henry James Rose? In the pedigree of the Duff Gordons his surname is given as Ross. Any information as to the foregoing will oblige. 66 D. M. R. about it, as in English and German? Is it Further, is it any one's "bird" ETHEL LEGA-WEEKES. "FUNERAL : "BURIAL."-In the will of Richard Estebroke, vicar of Okehampton, SIR HENRY DOCWRA.-It is stated in the dated 5 Dec., 1413 (printed in The Epis'D.N.B.' that this skilful commander (1560 ?- copal Registers of Exeter : Stafford's,' 1631) married Anne Vaughan and had three p. 403), are bequests to every priest taking daughters and two sons. Only one son is named, i.e., Theodore, who succeeded his brating for his soul on the day of his funeral, part in his exequies, and present and celefather as Baron Docwra of Culmore," 12d.; and to each priest only celebrating on and on whose death the barony became the day of his burial, 6d. What is the extinct. No other details of Sir Henry's explanation of the distinction? children are given. One of his younger daughters, Elizabeth, married in 1640 Andrew Wilson, of Wilson's Fort, Killinure, RED ROSE OF LANCASTER.-When was co. Donegal, and was mother of Anne Wilson, the badge of the red rose first connected sole heiress of her father, who died when with the House of Lancaster ? There is she was but three months old. Anne evidence that it was used by Henry IV. Wilson became ward in 1644 to Sir William Can it be traced any earlier ? Anderson, and about 1661 married Capt. J. R. NUTTALL. John Nisbitt, of Tillydonnell. Shortly afterwards her mother married, as third wife, Sir Henry Brooke, eldest son of Sir Basil Brooke, of Donegal, by whom she was mother of Docwra Brooke and two daughters -Catherine and Elizabeth ; the latter married Lewis Jones, and became (1732) heiress at law to her brother. I should feel obliged if some correspondent would supply me with the names of the other daughters of Sir Henry Docwra, and particulars, if any, of their marriage. May I ask also if any portrait of Sir Henry is known? None is mentioned in the 'D.N.B.,' nor do I find reference, to any in the A.L.A. Portrait Index,' published in Washington in 1906. As, however, the latter useful compilation makes reference only to portraits which have appeared in printed books, there is room to hope that some painting, miniature, or engraving of him may exist, and I would gladly learn of its whereabouts. J. N. DOWLING. Lancaster. BARRINGTONS OF CULLENAGH.-Thomas Barrington, of Barrington Hall, ancestor of the extinct baronets, married secondly Winifred, daughter and coheiress of Henry Pole, Lord Montagu, by whom he had— 1. Sir Francis Barrington, Kt. 2. Capt. John Barrington, who obtained a grant of lands in Ireland in 1558, and was of Cullenagh, Queen's County. He married Joanna, daughter of Giles Hovenden (by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Walter Chevers of Macetown, Kt.), of Killaban (in 1549), Queen's County, was captain of light horse in 1532, and in 1544 commissioner for the government of Connacht and territory of Clanricard-a native of the parish of Ulcombe, Kent. or Can any correspondent of N. & Q.' give me the names of the male and female children His son of this John Barrington? grandson (?) was Alexander Barrington, also of Cullenagh, who married Ellen, daughter of Francis Cosby, of Stradbally Hall, M.P., by his wife Anne, daughter of Sir Thomas Loftus, Kt., of Killyan, co. Meath, and Tymoghoe, Queen's County. WM. JACKSON PIGOTT. Manor House, Dundrum, co. Down. CHURCHWARDENS' ACCOUNTS. (See 10 S. Are similar names for it used in other vii. 189, 232, 275.)—The following is a conEuropean languages? and do rimes exist tinuation of my list of queries (printed at the first reference above) from the wardens' accounts of the parish of St. John Zachary, in the City of London : 1684/5. Paid for a Pessock [sic] for the Reader's pew, 1. 1609-10. Spent with the Dep[uty] and Overseers about Lodgers to give Surety for Servants, 10a. 1714-15. Paid for a bask [?] for the reader's desk, 1. 1715-16. Gave Wid" Smith to go to her father wth her Children with ye Cpts [?], 5o. 1716-17. Paid for a Summons before the Commission of payments, 1. 1717-18. Paid for nails and Mending ye Shade in y Church Yard, 6a. Paid Mr Webb for mending ye lock & hinges of Barlow['s] Shade in yo Church Yard, 1a. 1718-19. Paid for Mending & Sparrabling a Pair of Shooes for Bucknall, 1s 4a. [Paid] Expences at y Coffee House in St Ann's Lane y Morning [we] went round the Parish with ye King's Letter & Tounfair [sic, but?], 2 64. 1719-20. Paid Mr Young y Upholst for making the Squobbs in y Churchwarden's pew, 1" 10. 1737-8. Paid To ye Bricklayer repairing y pear at y Church] Yard gate, 1 10 gd 1755-6. Paid to Mrs Sanders for mending the Sqabbs, 2o. The two entries under date 1717-18 presumably relate to the same article, as do those under 1719-20 and 1755-6 respectively. W. McM. [1718-19. "Sparrabling" is derived from sparable or sparrow-bill, a nail used in mending boots and shoes, and so called from its shape. 1719-20. One meaning of squab is a stuffed cushion. Dickens speaks of people "punching the squab of chairs and sofas with their dirty fists."] REGIMENTAL DISTINCTIONS.-I desire information as to customs or equipment peculiar to the officers of regiments in the British army. I do not allude to regimental badges or devices, but refer to details of which the cowrie shells upon the bridles of the 10th Hussars, and the full (levee) dress ivory-hafted scimitar of the 11th Hussars, are examples. W. B. H. Replies. ORDINARIES OF NEWGATE. (10 S. vii. 408, 454.) SINCE Contributing my former reply on this subject I have, in the course of investigations among the Corporation records for the purposes of my parochial history, lighted upon positive evidence of the appointment of chaplains to the London gaols prior to 1698, MR. BLEACKLEY'S earliest date. 66 On 28 July, 1663, John Welden, clerk, 'Minister to the Prisoners in Newgate, was granted, at a meeting of the Court of Aldermen then held, an increase of 401. per annum, over and above his then allowance of 25l. out of the Chamber (i.e., the City treasury) and 10l. from St. Bartholomew's Hospital. It is mentioned that, with this augmentation, petitioner's annual stipend will be 75l., "as is allowed to ye Ministers of the other prisons of this Citty (Repertory 69, folio 172). 66 With reference to MR. BLEACKLEY'S remark on this subject under The Keeper of Newgate' (10 S. vii. 466), I will venture to observe that I hardly think the pages of the work he names afford suitable accomordinaries." modation for a list of these For one thing, the volume has already grown to what the publishers doubtless consider almost unmanageable proportions; and for another, there are many other lists of gaol chaplains, &c., which would have an equal right to insertion if the Newgate list were admitted. What is, in my opinion, required is a work on the London minor and non-parochial clergy, to contain lists, from as early a period as possible, of the various curates, lecturers, chaplains, chantry priests, &c., who have officiated in the City of London (or within the London diocese, if uniformity with the Rev. Mr. Hennessy's Novum Repertorium be thought desirable); and in the compilation of such a work I should, at some time in the near future, be quite ready to assist. WILLIAM MCMURRAY. CARDINAL NEWMAN'S BIRTHPLACE (10 S. vii. 489). It would almost seem that there is no actual information to be obtained concerning the birthplace of Cardina! Newman. I have in my possession most of the obituary notices issued by the Londor daily papers immediately after his decease The Times (12 Aug., 1890) merely publishe |