in Hooe we have a chest like that at Stanford “AFRICANDER": "AFRIKANDER."-Why have LYTTELTON'S 'DIALOGUES OF THE DEAD.'An Earl of Angus and a Duke of Argyll figure in one of these dialogues. I should be glad to have these two noblemen identified. H. T. B. TEESDALE.--Can any of your readers help me in tracing the whereabouts of four letters, dated 1657, which were formerly in the possession of Mr. H. W. Teesdale, of 6, Frederick's Place, Old Jewry? They were purchased by him at a sale at Sotheby's in July, 1887. Mr. Teesdale died the following year, and his relatives and executors know nothing of the documents beyond the fact that he made the purchase, and it is conjectured that he gave or sold the letters to some one interested in antiquarian and historical matters. any friend of the late Mr. Teesdale could throw a light upon the matter would he kindly communicate with me? A. FEA. Mill Hill, N.W. If LONDON CHURCH REGISTERS.-Can I proeure, through the medium of N. & Q.,' a list of all the churches in London and its suburbs whose registers have been printed? P. E. CLARK. ARMS ON THE BAR GATE OF SOUTHAMPTON. -Will some reader be so kind as to give me an account of the coats of arms on the Bar Gate of Southampton? tille? In Gaimar's 'Chronicle' he is said to WALTHAMSTOW CHURCH BELLS.-There is a very fine peal of bells at Walthamstow, in Essex, and some of them, I am informed (very ancient ones), are called the "robber's bells." Nobody seems to know the origin of the name. Can any campanological reader of N. & Q.' enlighten us? R. CLARK. Walthamstow. RATE OF THE SUN'S MOTION.-Can MR. LYNN, or any of your astronomical readers, inform me what is the exact time which the sun takes in his apparent diurnal motion to move through the distance of his own diabetween the first appearance of the rim of his meter? Or, in other words, what time elapses disc above the horizon and his last contact with it? It is said that this period, whatever it is, lies at the base of the Babylonian horology. S. Woodford. A. SMYTHE PALMER. 'CHARLOTTE TEMPLE: A TALE OF TRUTH.'— Can any readers of N. & Q.' kindly indicate name of publisher, with date of issue, of the book bearing this title? CECIL CLARKE. Authors' Club, S. W. Beylies. THE JUBILEE NUMBER. the previous lists he will find that some of the IF MR. HUGHES will look again carefully at information he desires has already been given, e.g., E. F. Rimbault (9th S. iv. 412); Gastros was E. Ventris (9th S. iv. 375); A. E. B. was A. E. Brae, and A. B. R., A. B. Rowan (9th S. iv. 412). With respect to some of the others, I may add that J. S. (Doncaster) is my friend John Sykes, M.D., F.R.C.P., F.S.A., 'NAMING THE BABY.'-Can one of your J.P., still living there, in his eighty-fourth correspondents kindly tell me where I can.O. W. Haweis (now deceased), father of the year. J. O. W. H., I believe, was the Rev. obtain a poem bearing some such title as 'Naming the Baby' It relates to the difficulty of selecting a suitable name for a child. Hull Press. ALFRED F. CURWEN. WILLIAM ANDREWS. ADELBRIGHT, REX NORFOLCIE.-Where can information be obtained as to this king, who, according to Geoffrey Gaimar, was of Danish origin, and was the father of Orgen Rev. H. R. Haweis. Not a few of the names have passed into the 'Dictionary of National Biography,' e.g., J. A. Giles, d. 24 September, 1884; J.R. Walbran, d. 7 April, 1869; Jonathan Eastwood, d. 5 July, 1864. J. M. (Oxford) was probably J. Macray. One J. M. was Joseph Maskell (9th S. iv. 374); another was J. Manuel, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Perhaps MR. PICKFORD may be able to identify the Oxoniensis of 1850. The Rev. Wm. Denton died 2 January, 1888; the Rev. Sir William H. Cope, Bart., died in 1892; Wm. Bell, Ph.D., died at Bonn in 1868 (4th S. ii. 529). The Rev. William Major Kingsmill, who was mentioned as one of the few surviving contributors to the first volume of N. & died on 13 January. He was a son of the Rev. Henry Kingsmill, B.A., of Southampton and Kilkenny, was of Jesus College, Cambridge, and was ordained in 1848 to the curacy of Tothill Fields. For the last thirtyfive years he had been Rector of Bredicot with Tibberton, Worcestershire. W. C. B. The late George William Skyring, a contributor to the first volume of N. & Q.,' was the only son of Commander William George Skyring, Royal Navy, who, when in command of H.M. surveying vessel Etna (six guns), was on duty in one of the rivers on the west coast of Africa, and was killed by a native in the year 1833 or 1834. Mr. George William Skyring was born in the year 1831, was educated at King's College School, London, and was admitted to a partnership in the firm of Stilwell & Sons, then of 22, Arundel Street, Strand, in the year 1858. He died on 15 August, 1866, at Hampstead, greatly beloved by all who knew him. His remains lie in Abney Park Cemetery. 42, Pall Mall. JOHN PAKENHAM STILWELL. I notice in the list of contributors to the first volume of 'N. & Q.,' as supplied by MR. T. CANN HUGHES, the name of John Allen Giles. The word "Bampton" added in brackets shows this to be the late Rev. John Allen Giles, D.C.L., Rector of Sutton, Surrey, from 1867 to 1884. He died at Sutton Rectory, 24 September, 1884. He was Oxford Vinerian Scholar in 1831, took his degree of D.C.L. in 1838, and was head master of the City of London School from 1836 to 1840. He held the curacy of Bampton (whence he communicated with 'N. & Q' from 1849 to 1854). His literary work was most voluminous, the titles of books of which he was either editor or author filling upwards of a column of Crockford. I corresponded with Dr. Giles once in 1882, and still retain the following couplet with which his kind letter in reply opened: DEAR MR. PAGE, You don't at all offend By asking what I now with pleasure send. The name John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor is that of Prof. Mayor, of Cambridge. He was (and maybe still is) a great advocate of T. G. Lomax (Lichfield).-This gentleman was Mayor of Lichfield in 1843, where, at the sign of the "Johnson's Head," he conducted his business as a bookseller for sixty-three years. He was an enthusiastic admirer of Dr. Johnson, and possessed many of his relics, Died at Lichfield on 1 January, 1873, aged ninety. B.Thorpe.-Benjamin Thorpe, archæologist, antiquary, and Anglo-Saxon scholar, ob. 19 July, 1870, aged eighty-eight. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. Lord Wellington, announcing his promotion St. Domingo, where he hoped to marry her. to Field-Marshal : 44 As a mark of the sense he [the Prince Regent] entertains of your Lordship's distinguished services, he has conferred upon your Lordship the rank of Field-Marshal. If this promotion be unexampled in our military service, it must be also recollected that the occasion on which it is granted cannot be matched."-Suppl. Despatches,' viii. 49. Taken in conjunction with the following from Col. Torrens, military secretary, to Lord Wellington, it is obvious that by "unexampled "Lord Bathurst referred to the elevation of a junior general over so many seniors : "Allow me to congratulate you upon being made a Field-Marshal. You may possibly have heard that the Duke of York has hitherto thought that such promotion would embarrass the public service; but without entering into any explanation upon such a point, it is a justice I owe to His Royal Highness to assure you most solemnly that I never saw him forward any measure with so much eagerness and self-satisfaction as your promotion upon this occasion." HERBERT MAXWELL. Surely it is COL. PRIDEAUX and not the Atheneum reviewer who has "fallen into error." A asserts that no person had been promoted to the rank of Field-Marshal for a period of fifty years prior to the date when Wellington was raised to that dignity. B says this is an error because a similar promotion had been made seventeen or eighteen years before. How does this imply that there were no such promotions between that quoted by A and that quoted by B? Clearly all that is neces sary is for B to quote a later date than the one already mentioned by A. Whether there are any cases between the two dates or after B's date does not affect the question. Seventeen is less than fifty, even though many numbers come between them, and though ten and five are still less than seventeen. F. W. READ. a GENERAL LAMBERT IN GUERNSEY (9th S. v. 7).-In Chambers's Edinburgh Journal for December, 1846 (pp. 396-7), appears "narrative" entitled 'Isabella de Lorma. From the style in which it is presented one would almost imagine that the writer intended it to be taken as fact. 66 General Lambert, one of those stern and desperate men who had been concerned in the trial and condemnation of Charles I.," is discovered "one day about the middle of the seventeenth century on the small island of Sorreno, in the Caribbean Sea, by the commander of a buccaneer vessel, a man named Cleveland. After his banishment to Guernsey, Lambert had eloped with the Donna de Lorma to Instead of allowing this, the Spanish maiden's West Haddon, Northamptonshire. See F. B. Tupper's History of Guernsey,' 1854, where the exact date of Lambert's arrival in the island is given, p. 322, on the authority of Peter Le Roy. On p. 334 Tupper says that in 1666 Guernsey was placed in a posture of defence, the French having then some design on the islands......It was at this time that the captain of the isles of Chausey (Vaucour) was detected in Guernsey when tampering with some of the inhabitants whom he suspected of disaffection, and particularly with General Lambert...... But the general, it seems, preferred any government to a French one, and therefore, [he] having made a free discovery, Vaucour was apprehended and, as a condiscovery which procured for Lambert the favour victed spy, suffered death. It may have been this of his removal to England." Tupper should have regarded Lambert's Nicholas at the entrance of Plymouth" as a was again closely confined for a time, and in 1666, a plot for his escape having been discovered, Hatton [the governor of Guernsey] was instructed to shoot his prisoner if the French effected a landing. The clandestine marriage of Mary Lambert strained Lambert's relations with the governor, and with the governor's son, Charles Hatton, further in 1667 he was removed to the island of St. Nicholas, in Plymouth Sound." whom in 1659 Hatton had himself suggested Mary Lambert was, I suppose, the lady as a suitable match for the king. D. C. I. FATHER GORDON (9th S. v. 28).-There has been more than one priest of this name (mostly Jesuit fathers) living in France during the last two centuries, filling clerical or scholastic offices. I think, however, the one sought by H. T. B. would be Robert Gordon, of the Kirkhill family; born in Scotland, 1687; entered the Scotch College, Rome, 1705; ordained priest, and left for Paris, 1712, where he was appointed prefect of studies and procurator. For many years he was occupied translating the New Testament into English; and in 1743 he revisited Rome, to have his version approved before putting it in print. In this, however, he was dis appointed. In 1786 the translation, still in manuscript, was in the possession of Dr. Alexander Geddes. Father Gordon returned to Paris, where he lived for some time at the Scotch College, dying in retirement at Lens, 1761. See 'Dict. Nat. Biog.' HERBERT B. CLAYTON. "THE DUKES" (9th S. v. 7).-This word, which stablemen, &c., almost invariably pronounce as if it were written jukes, is probably the same as the Scotch yeuks, which has a similar meaning, and seems to come from the German jucken, to itch. A. I much suspect that the dukes is a corrupt spelling for what should rather be the jukes. We all know how many fail to distinguish, in speech, between dew and Jew. And, secondly, juke is a corruption of yuke, the usual Northern dialect word for "itch"; cf. Du. jeuken, G. jucken; A.-S. gyccan (whence Eng. itch, for yitch). Some have doubted that initial y can become Eng. ; but we have many examples, as in jacobin, janizary, jasmine, jasper, jerboa, Jesus, Judah, John; and even Jerome, for Yerome, from HieronyWALTER W. SKEAT. mus. odd years ago, we used to touch the basket (of our own sticks) as a sign that we acknowledged to have been hit. I wonder if this custom was derived from the one mentioned in Scott's Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border.' The incident your correspondent J. H. C. mentions is in Kipling's story "The Man Who Was.' J. C. "ANCHYLOSTOMEASIS" (9th S. v. 28).-This word should be "anchylostomiasis" or It is the name of a "ankylostomiasis." disease of the bowels caused by a small worm, the Anchylostomum duodenale. The parasite was first discovered at Milan in 1838. D. M. R. will find the subject fully dealt with in a 'Report on Anæmia, or Beri-beri, of Ceylon,' by W. R. Kynsey, principal civil medical officer of Ceylon, published at the Ceylon Government Press in 1887. Croydon. DONALD FERGUSON. "Ankylomiasis (ankylo, stiffness; stoma, mouth). Morbid conditions from presence of Ankylostomum duodenale, observed in miners-hence called miner's anaemia-and workers in tunnels, attended with white corpuscles in the blood." morbid heart-sounds, dropsy, and deficiency of The Ankylostomum duodenale referred to in the above extract is, according to the same authority, a "parasitic worm in the upper portion of the human intestine, causing fatal anæmia." The disease is, I may add, sometimes called "ankylostomo - anæmia,' and perhaps it bears other names, for the vocabulary of medical men is wonderfully varied. I think that D. M. R. has not got exactly the correct spelling of the word; it may be spelt "ankylostomiasis," as in Dunglison (whose work was published in America), "anchylostomiasis " (some English dictionaries render ankylo chylo"), but scarcely, as D. M. R. gives it, "anchylostomeasis." The Lancet, by the way, which ought to be an authority on the spelling of medical words, I see uniformly uses a k in "ankylosis." R. CLARK. or Walthamstow. an as HY. HARRISON. "BY THE HAFT" (9th S. iv. 287, 355; v. 38). -When I learnt single-stick at school, thirty will be found in Boase's 'Collectanea Cornu-Archæology of Popular English Phrases and biensis' and other Cornish works of refer- Nursery Rhymes,' by John Bellender Ker, ence. The Hamblys are said to belong published in two volumes by Longman, and mostly to the parishes of St. Breward, a supplement thereto, by the same author, Egloshayle, and Bodmin. CHEVRON. issued by Ridgway. There is also Popular Rhymes of Scotland,' by Robert Chambers, and Temple Bar, vol. viii., both of which might be consulted. If this item of information is of any use, the arms belong, or belonged, to a family called Hambley or Hambly. See Burke, Papworth, &c. J. LONSDALE. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road. I have a copy of Wee Willie Winkie,' nearly forty years old, entitled "Wee Willie Winkie, A Nursery Song, by William Miller. Air by the Rev. W. B. Arranged by Andrew Thomson. Published for the William Miller, by William Mitchison, Glasgow." Edinburgh. Benefit of E. MEIN. "THE ENERGETIC OLD MAN": "THE CHRISTIAN KNIGHT (9th S. iv. 518).-The latter was, of course, Sir William Sydney Smith. The three references are plainly to the ineffective siege of Acre by Bonaparte. The "French Renegads" were presumably the French army, as opposed to the royalist Col. Phellipeaux, who helped Sir Sydney I would suggest a reference to 'Golspie: Smith. For that help the colonel has not Contributions to its Folk-lore, edited by received half enough credit as a soldier, nor E. W. B. Nicholson, Bodley's Librarian half enough discredit as a Frenchman. Sir (David Nutt, 1897). J. L. ANDERSON. Sydney Smith wrote a stupid, bombastic letter to the Druses, inviting them to "choose between the friendship of a Christian knight and that of an unprincipled renegade." The "energetic old man" was probably Djezzar Pasha, the Turkish commander. He rewarded all who brought him the heads of French soldiers, and was directly instrumental in the destruction of General Lasan's column. | He allowed the leading files to enter the breach unchallenged, and then closed with them hand to hand, reaping a rich harvest of heads thereby, "the sabre proving more than a match for the bayonet.' The reference to Constantinople is, of course, to Smith's duties as joint-plenipotentiary there. He was to the last an upholder of the Christian knight" traditions. A few years before his death, in Paris, he formed a fantastic society of Knights Liberators," or "Knights Templars." This league fought with the arms of modern Crusaders-words and sentiments-on behalf of the Algerian slaves. GEORGE MARSHALL. Sefton Park, Liverpool. 66 NURSERY RIMES (9th S. v. 27).-Halliwell, in his Nursery Rhymes of England,' considers Humpty Dumpty' to be a riddle, and the solution, "An egg." Another edition of Hickery Dickery, he states, will be found in Blackwood's Magazine for August, 1821, and 'Handy Spandy' might be the game of "Handy Handy," mentioned in King Lear,' IV. vi., also in Florio's 'New World of Words,' 1611. Old Mother Hubbard' has been discussed in N. & Q.,' 8th S. viii. 384, 458. Possibly your correspondent would find the information he requires in an essay on BELLRINGERS' RIMES (9th S. iv. 305, 446).-— In connexion with C. C. B.'s note at the former reference, I enclose an inscription I copied a few weeks ago (21 September, 1899) from the wall of All Saints' Church, in the old town at Hastings the exact position being on the north side of the church, under the tower, at the top of the steps leading into the nave from the west door :- + IHS This is a belfry that is free and if you please to chime or ring There is no musick playd or sung But if you ring in spur or hat It will be noticed that only the first line letter. The inscription appeared to be of each verse commences with a capital written in black paint on the white wall, and whitewash, recently discovered, and the also as if it had formerly been covered with whitewash removed. G. YARROW BALDOCK. DANISH PLACE-NAMES IN THE WIRRAL OF CHESHIRE (9th S. iv. 379, 442, 502).- MR. J. R. BOYLE, of Hull, qualifies his appreciation of the little book that Mr. Elliot Stock published for me on 'The Place-names of the |