son."

three of my hymn books the author is given respectively as "Oliver," "Williams," and "RobinY. S. M. [Miller, in his Singers and Songs of the Church (p. 23), says that this hymn is from the Welsh of William Williams. The translation has been sometimes attributed to a W. Evans.-ED. “N. & Q."]

HUAN BLACKLEACH, alias HUAN HESKETH.Hardy, in his edition of Le Neve, sets down these two Bishops of Sodor and Man as the same person; and yet it can hardly be so. Hesketh is the name of a county family of some celebrity; Blackleach is comparatively unknown to fame, though not an uncommon name in some parts of Lancashire. Blackleach is mentioned in the will of Sir William Ffarington, Knt., which bears date May 23, 1501, and was proved on the last day of December the same year, under the style of "the Rev'end ffader in God Van Blakelache, Bishop of Man.” (Worden Evidences, cited in Lancashire Chantries, vol. ii. p. 183, Chet. Soc. lx.) Huan, without the surname of Hesketh or Blackleach, is mentioned under date of Oct. 31, 1509, by Geoffrey, Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, as Bishop of Zoder. (Lanc. Chant., vol. i. p. 107, citing Reg. Blythe, Lichf., p. 95.) On the authority of the same register, Huan Hesketh was only a chantry priest at the chapel of St. Mary, Rufford, in 1506, when Blackleach was already a bishop. In 1507 Alyce Holte, of Chesham, cousin to his mother, bequeathed to him "a piece of embrathery" which she had made for a cope, whilst he was still serving the chantry chapel at Rufford. In 1522, however, Thomas, second Earl of Derby, constituted his trusty friend Sir Hugh Hesketh, Bishop of Man, one of his executors. (Lanc. Chant., i. 160, citing Brydge's Peerage, iii. 698.) Flower's Visitation of Lancashire, recently published by the Chet. Soc., vol. lxxxi. p. 80, calls Bishop Hesketh William, and makes his mother to be Grace, daughter of Phyton of Gawseworth, county Chester, Knt. This is quite at variance with the Hesketh pedigree and with the statement published in "N. & Q." April 23, 1853, No. 132, p. 409. I shall be obliged by any elucidation of these difficulties. A. E. L.

"BEAUTIES OF ENGLAND AND WALES": PLANS. I should be greatly obliged if any of your correspondents could inform me of the possessor of the plates from which the plans accompanying this celebrated book were worked, or any portion of them. W. G. F.

LA CARACOLE.-What was the caracole? After the memorable interview of the confederate nobles with the Duchess of Parma, in 1566, Motley states that they left the room "" making what is called the caracole, in token of reverence." He refers to the original of the Pontus Payen MSS.: "tournoyans et faisans la caracole devant la dite

Dame."

O. S. A.

CHEPSTOW.-Chepstow is called in Domesday Book Estrighoiel, alias Strigoielg. What is the derivation and meaning? How and when did the present (by no means modern) name arise? C. E. W.

CHESS IN ENGLAND AND CHINA.-When was chess introduced into England? What is the date of its discovery in China, or when was it J. WASON. first played in China?

[Dr. Duncan Forbes, professor of Oriental languages King's College, contributed a series of papers on Chess to the Illustrated London News, which were afterwards collected in a pamphlet for private circulation. The professor adopted the conclusion of Dr. Hyde and Sir William Jones, that "Chess was invented in India, and thence introduced into Persia and other Asiatic regions during altogether lost, and it is supposed to have existed for the sixth century of our era." The origin of the game is several thousand years before the time of its introduction into Persia, &c.]

CUSTOM OF THE DANISH COURT.-A. E. W. has been informed by a lady once present at a state banquet in Denmark that two of the king's attendants wear on their heads a sort of mitre, the hollow in its centre being filled with natural flowers. Can any one give the origin or meaning of this singular head-dress, which seems to be an ancient one, or inform A. E. W. if her information is correct?

DEFOE AND MANCHESTER.-This heading will, I think, surprise many; for no connection has, so far as I can ascertain, ever existed between the cotton city and the famous author of Robinson Crusoe.

My friend Mr. John Owen, who is a disciple of Robert Patterson, and indeed is well known in our Lancashire towns and villages as "Old Mortality," in the course of his researches amongst the Manchester Cathedral registers has come upon an entry, of which he has sent me the following memorandum :

:

"1743, Ap. 29. Mercey Defoe, widow, buried." The name is so uncommon-manufactured, it is generally supposed, by the man who has made it immortal-that we may expect to find the "widow buried " at Manchester a relative of the great novelist. Perhaps some correspondent will be able to assign her a place in the family tree. WILLIAM E. A. AXON.

Joynson Street, Strangeways. THE DONNA JULIANA DIEZ.-A celebrated Portuguese beauty, to whose influence over the Emperor Akbar and his grandson, Shah Jahán, the Portuguese are said to have been, in a great measure, indebted for the territory ceded to them by Bahadur Shah of Gujrát. This lady, of whose history so little is generally known, was captured by a corsair on her voyage to Terceira, nople, where she was purchased in the slave marone of the Azores Islands, and taken to Constanti

ket for the Ottoman Emperor Selim II., and sent as a present to Akbar, the great Moghul Emperor of India, who died A. D. 1605. Was the Donna Juliana Diez the mother of Prince Selim, afterwards Jahán-gir, and what account is given of her romantic adventures in the Ahwal-i-Bibi | Juliana, traduite par Edward Henry Palmer, St. John's College, Cambridge. "Nouvelles Annales des Voyages," Mai, 1865. R. R. W. ELLIS. Starcross, near Exeter.

DRAWINGS BY JOHN CARTER. In whose possession are the twenty-seven volumes of drawings made by this antiquary between 1764 and 1817, two volumes of which were exhibited by the late John Britton, F.S.A., to the Society of Antiquaries in June 1846? They were valued by him at one hundred guineas.

W. P. THE FIVE ENGLISH SPIRES OF THIRD-POINTED DATE. The Sussex Express, in describing the recent injury by lightning to Hartfield spire in that county, states:

"The spire is one of five in England that are clearly of third-pointed date, broad spires, A.D. 1377."

Can any correspondent inform me where are the four others alluded to?

THOMAS E. WINNINGTON.

HENLEY'S ENGLISH "VATHEK." It is, of course, generally known that Beckford wrote his Arabian story in French. Mr. Timbs, in his English Eccentrics and Eccentricities, art. "The Beckfords and Fonthill," p. 4, says: "An English translation of the work afterwards appeared, the author of which Beckford said he never knew; he thought it tolerably well done." On reading the Rev. J. Wood Warter's Selections from the Letters of Robert Southey, I find in a letter from Southey to Miss Barker (vol. i. p. 303) that the "English translation is by Mr. Henley, who has added some of the most learned notes that ever appeared in any book whatever." Who was Mr. Henley? I suppose it is his translation which the editor (Mr. Hain Friswell) of the " Bayard Series" edition of Vathek has reproduced?

Richmond, S. W.

S. R. TOWNSHEND MAYER.

CHARLES LAMB'S COMPLETE CORRESPONDENCE AND WORKS.-In 1868 Messrs. Moxon issued vol. i. of Lamb's Letters and Works, to which was prefixed an essay "On the Genius of Lamb," by Mr. G. A. Sala, and it was stated that three more volumes would complete the publication. After the lapse of more than a year, Messrs. Moxon issued Lamb's Complete Correspondence and Works, in four vols., and I naturally supposed that I had but to purchase vols. ii., iii., and iv. to complete my set. Judge of my surprise on finding that for Mr. Sala's essay in vol. i. has been substituted a biographical preface by Mr. Thomas Purnell

making the 1870 edition of Lamb different from that begun in 1868, of which I am told that a goodly number were sold, so that there are many persons in my predicament. I am informed, on the best possible authority, that the vol. i. issued in 1868 was edited by Mr. W. Carew Hazlitt. Is that the case with the four volumes published in 1870? If not, why not? Surely the purchasers of the 1868 volume have a right to know the reasons for the publishers' change of purpose. I many of Lamb's admirers, who would like do but express the surprise and annoyance of kind of explanation given through “N. & Q."

Richmond, S. W.

some

S. R. TOWNSHEND MAYER.

NEALE NOT O'NEALE: TAYLOR NOT TAYLOUR. Can any of your correspondents explain why it happens that the families of the Earl of Aldborough, Lord Dunalley, and Mr. Bayly of Debsborough, co. Tipperary, describe themselves as being descended from Archdeacon Benjamin O'Neale instead of Neale-the archdeacon's real name? The archdeacon was born in 1661, the son of Constantine Neale, Esq. (whose will, dated April 20, 1692, was proved Feb. 2, 1693), the grantee of estates in the county of Wexford, Feb. 1, 19 Chas. II.-he being then a merchant in Dublin. The archdeacon entered Trinity College, Dublin, May 12, 1676, as Benjamin Neale. He married Hannah Paul (Marr. Sett., Feb. 8, 1699), and had issue two daughters, viz. 1. Deborah, married first John Bayly, Esq., and, secondly, Henry Prittie, Esq., by whom she was mother of the first Lord Dunalley; and 2. Martha, married John Stratford, Esq., created Lord Baltinglass and Earl of Aldborough. The archdeacon's will was dated Dec. 20, 1732, and administration was obtained to him Nov. 30, 1741. Not only did Constantine and his son call themselves "Neale" all through their lives, but various deeds and documents executed both by them and by Messrs. Stratford and Bayly recognise that to be the family name. One of the sons of Mr. and Mrs. Bayly was called to the Irish bar in 1746 by the name of Benjamin Neale Bayly; and his eldest son, of the same name, levied a fine in 1768. Again, the present Marquess of Headford has changed his name from Taylor, as it always was, to " "Taylour," which spelling was previously unknown in his family.

Y. S. M.

OMBRE. Can any one refer me to an account of this game, and how played? Pope's description of it is magnificent (in the third canto of Rape of the Lock), but at the same time I at least am ignorant why the ace of a suit should be captured by the king, for we are told the latter

"Falls like thunder on the prostrate ace."

J. S. UDAL.

PEARSON OF KIPPEN ROSS.-I should be obliged to any correspondent who would give me that portion of the pedigree of this family which embraces the period between 1580 and 1680, also any other pedigrees of the same name in Scotland, between those dates, with coats of arms, &c. My object is to identify an impaled coat on an ancient house in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh, the impalement of which I believe to be that of Pearson; but I am unable to account for the match which it indicates. I published in the Gentleman's Magazine, a few years since, * full particulars of the above armorial sculpture, but am unable at present to give the correct reference to the No. in which it appeared. SP.

OLD PRINTS OF STONEHENGE.-Very lately an old print of Stonehenge has come into my possession, containing two views, one looking from the west, and the other from the south. Judging from the costumes and equipage of the visitors, and the general style of the engraving, it seems to me that it must date at least from the early part of the last century. I have in my collection views taken in 1776 and 1784, but these are evidently

much more modern than the other. In the view looking from the south, the single stone known as the "Friar's heel" can be seen on the right hand. Other outlying stones are also visible in

both views.

Could any reader of "N. & Q." acquainted with the literary and artistic history of this the greatest group of our British prehistoric stone remains enlighten me as to the date of publication of this engraving? Perhaps its identity may be recognised by the following description. Each view has an independent heading, the upper being "A Prospect of Stonehenge from the West," and the lower "A Prospect of Stonehenge from the South." In a white line between the two views is printed: "Sold by Henry Overton at ye White Horse without Newgate, London." In the lower view the artist's name is given as "D. Loggan delin. et excudit." EDWIN DUNKIN, F.R.A.S.

• About 1863-4.

MS. NOTES IN RALEIGH'S HIST.-In "N. & Q." of Oct. 30, 1869, p. 360, a correspondent, W. C. B., gives some very interesting extracts from MS. marginalia in a copy of Raleigh's Historie of the World, 1614. Would W. C. B. very kindly allow me to see this volume?

J. O. HALLIWELL.

HISTORY OF ST. PANCRAS.-Mr. William D. Leathart left a MS. in two volumes, of a history of the parish of Saint Pancras, in the county of Middlesex. Mr. W. D. Leathart died in the year 1853. Could any of your readers inform me in whose custody this MS. is now ? R. WAUGH.

INVASION OF SWITZERLAND BY THE ENGLISH. In the Book of Dates, 1862, p. 275, it is stated that "in 1375 the Swiss repelled an invasion of the English bands." In a MS. note in my possession it is incidentally mentioned that "in 1375 Ievan ab Einion ab Gruffydd led an army through Germany into Switzerland." I presume that these two statements allude to the same invasion. I have looked into a dozen historical works, but I can find no reference whatever to it. I desire, therefore, to know where a detailed account of it may be found, together with that of the circumstances which occasioned it, as well as of its result.

GLAN.

LATIN RHYMING POEM ON WEATHERCOCKS.Readers of Mr. George Macdonald's new story in St. Pauls, if they are also students of "N. & Q." will have perceived how closely, in the conversation on weathercocks in chap. xii. he follows the curious Latin rhyming poem communicated by CLERICUS (D) in June, 1857. I am glad to call attention to this poem, as I wish to ask if the entire composition is to be found in any accessible printed book. WM. J. LOFtie.

tico of a church at Sorrento there hangs a rib of WHALE'S RIB AT SORRENTO.-Beneath the pora whale, whose history I was unable to ascertain, the only person said to be acquainted with it being absent. The following is a literal copy of an inscription upon a stone tablet fixed to the wall Antonini was bishop of Soropposite the rib.

Replies.

PORCELAIN MEMORIAL OF CHARLES II.

(4th S. vi. 501, 578.)

It is impossible, without seeing the dishes in question, and even then, to say with certainty where they were made, but 1 would attribute the one mentioned by W. F. R. to be made in Staffordshire rather than Fulham. Indeed there are no dishes of that kind which we can positively say were made at Fulham, whereas we have several of Staffordshire manufacture. Besides, John Dwight's first patent is dated 1671, and it asserts he hath sett up at Fulham several new manufactories." This throws the dish of F. S. A., dated 1660, out of the record altogether. In 1684 Dwight of Fulham got his patent renewed for fourteen years more, and what he makes is thus described in it:

"Severall new manufactures or earthenwares, called by the names of white gorges (pitchers), marbled porcellane vessels, statues, and figures, and fine stone gorges and vessells, never before made in England or elsewhere; and alsce discovered the mystery of transparent porcellane, and opacous redd and darke coloured porcellane or china, and Persian wares, and the mystery of the Cologne or stone ware."

For a long time Dwight's imitation Cologne ware made at Fulham was undistinguishable from the German grès itself, but a well-informed man can now readily distinguish it, and refer it to its original source. Some years ago Mr. Reynolds purchased a most interesting collection of the early productions of the Fulham manufactory. It consisted of about twenty-five specimens, which had been preserved by successive members of the Dwight family as heirlooms since the period of their manufacture, and were sold by the last representative, but there was not a dish amongst the lot.

Dr. Plot, in his Natural History of Oxfordshire, (Oxford, 1677), tells us that :

"The ingenious John Dwight, formerly M.A. of Christ Church College, Oxon, hath discovered the mystery of this stone or Cologne ware (such as d'Alva bottles, jugs, noggins), heretofore only made in Germany, and by the Dutch brought over into England in great quantities; and hath set up a manufacture of the same, which (by methods and contrivances of his own, altogether unlike those used by the Germans), in three or four years' time, he hath brought it to greater perfection than it has attained where it hath been used for many ages, insomuch that the company of glass-sellers of London, who are the dealers for that commodity, have contracted with the inventor to buy only of his English manufacture, and refuse the foreign."

There are no Fulham dishes noted whose dates and process of manufacture have any resemblance to that mentioned by W. F. R., but there are several Staffordshire ones. Shaw's Chemistry of Pottery tells us that Thomas Toft was a Stafford

shire potter about 1680, and a large earthenware dish, bearing his name on the border thereof, is in the Geological Museum. It has in the centre a lion crowned; the ground is buff-coloured, and the ornaments laid on in black and brown-coloured "slip." Another dish so marked is in the Bateman Museum, Yolgrave, Derbyshire. It has in the centre a half-length crowned portrait of Charles II., with a sceptre in each hand, and the letters C. R., with a red and black trellis pattern on the border. A Ralph Toft was also a Staffordshire potter about the same time. His name, with the date 1677, is on a dish in the collection of Mr. Reynolds. It has a buff-coloured ground, with figures in relief of brown, outlined with black; in the centre a soldier, in buff jerkin and full-bottomed wig, a sword in each hand; on one side a crowned head and bust (Charles II.); chequered ornaments and name on the border. William Sans, also mentioned in Shaw's Chemistry of Pottery, and William Talor, were Staffordshire potters about 1680, and manufactured similar dishes. I therefore conclude that the dish mentioned by W. F. R. was made in Staffordshire.

I also think that the dish mentioned by F.S.A., of the date 1660, was manufactured at Lambeth. In Illustrations of Arts and Manufactures (London, 1841), by Aitkin, we may read as follows:

"It is about two hundred years ago (about 1640) since some Dutch potters came and established themselves in Lambeth, and by degrees a little colony was fixed in that village, possessed of about twenty manufactories, in which were made the glazed pottery and tiles consumed in London and in various other parts of the kingdom. Here they continued in a flourishing state, giving employment to many hands in the various departments of their art till about fifty or sixty years ago; when the potters of Staffordshire, by their commercial activity, and by the great improvements introduced by them in the quality of their ware, completely beat out of the market the Lambeth delft manufactures."

kind of delft with landscapes and figures painted The ware made at Lambeth was principally a

in blue. One of the Dutchmen referred to was probably Van Hamme, who obtained a patent in 1676, the preamble to which states—

"Whereas John Ariens Van Hamme hath humbly represented to us that he is, in pursuance of the encouragement he hath received from our Ambassador at the Hague, come over to settle in this our Kingdom, with his own family, to exercise his art of making tiles and porcelane, and other earthenwares after the way practised in Holland."

The spelling of the inscription on the dish of F.S.A. decidedly indicates a Dutch origin rather than that of Dr. Dwight, Vicar of Fulham, which Lysons, in his Environs, says he was; and his death is thus noticed in the obituary of the Gentleman's Magazine for 1737:-" At Fulham, Dr. Dwight. He was the first that found out the secret to colour earthenware like china."