price of old books, as by the sale of Mr. Bailys own library in 1844, which threw a few copies into the market; but the work was still saleable at more than the original price. In the course of last year, copies, as it was pretended, of the original edition were offered at the assurance offices, and to individuals known to be interested in the

subject, at twenty-five shillings. Some were taken in, others saw the trick at once. There has been, in fact, a reprint, without any statement of the circumstance, and without a printer's name; but with a strong, and, on the whole, successful attempt at imitation of the peculiar typography of the work. If the execution had been as good as the imitation, the success would have been greater. But this is wretchedly bad, and will amuse those who know how very particular Mr. Baily always was in his superintendence of the press, and how plainly his genuine works bear the marks of it.

The spurious edition may be known at once by the title-page, in which the words "an appendix are printed in open letter, which is not the case in the original. Also by "Leienitz," instead of "Leibnitz," in page xi. of the preface. Also by the Greek letter g throughout, which is, in the spurious edition, never anything but an inverted 8, which looks as if it were trying to kick backwards.

In all probability, the agents in this shabby trick are beneath reproof; but it is desirable that the reputation of the author whom they have chosen for its object should not suffer from the effects of their misprint. And as the work they have appropriated is only used by a small public, and a reading one, the mode of exposure which I here adopt will probably be sufficient.

The spurious edition is now on the stalls at a few shillings; and, as a curiosity, will be worth its price. A. DE MORGAN.

Minor Nates.

Les Anguilles de Melun. "Les anguilles de Melun crient avant qu'on les écorche is a wellknown proverb in that town; and as some of your readers may be curious to learn the circumstances in which it originated, I send them to you for "NOTES AND QUERIES."

According to the traditions of the Church, Saint Bartholomew was flayed alive, and his skin rolled up and tied to his back. When the religious dramas, called Mysteries, came into vogue, this martyrdom was represented on the stage at Melun, and the character of the saint was personated by one Languille. In the course of the performance, the executioner, armed with a knife, made his appearance; and as he proceeded to counterfeit the operation of flaying, Languille became terrified and uttered the most piteous cries, to the great

"Muette. C'est le nom qu'on donne à un Edifice élevé au bout d'un parc de maison royale ou seigneuriale, pour servir de logement aux officiers de la venerie, et dans lequel il y a aussi des Chenils, des cours, écuries, &c. Ce terme Muette, vient, dit-on, de Mue, parceque c'est dans ces maisons que les Gardes, et autres officiers de chasse, apportent les Mues ou bois que les Cerfs quittent et laissent dans les Forêts.” Lacombe, Dictionnaire portatif des Beaux Arts, &c. Nouvelle Edition: Paris, 1759.

Is this a better explanation of the English word mews than has generally been given by writers? W. P.

Curious Monumental Inscriptions.—In the south aisle of Martham Church, Norfolk, are two slabs, of which one, nearly defaced, bears the following inscription:

Here Lyeth The Body of Christ Burraway, who departed this Life ye 18 day of October, Anno Domini 1730.

Aged 59 years.

And there Lyes

Alice who by hir Life Was my Sister, my mistres My mother and my wife. Dyed Feb. y 12. 1729. Aged 76 years.

The following explanation is given of this enigmatical statement. Christopher Burraway was the fruit of an incestuous connexion between a father and daughter, and was early placed in the Foundling Hospital, from whence, when he came of age, he was apprenticed to a farmer. Coming in after years by chance to Martham, he was hired unwittingly by his own mother as farm steward, her father (or rather the father of both) being dead. His conduct proving satisfactory to his mistress she married him, who thus became, successively, mother, sister, mistress, and wife, to this modern Edipus. The episode remains to be told. Being discovered by his wife to be her son, by a peculiar mark on his shoulder, she was so horror-stricken that she soon after died, he surviving her scarcely four months. Of the other slab enough remains to show that it covered her remains; but the registers from 1729 to 1740 are unfortunately missing, so that I cannot trace the family further.

E. S. T.

First Panorama (Vol. iii., p. 526.). — I remember when a boy going to see that panorama. I was struck with "the baker knocking at the door, in Albion Place, and wondered the man did not move!" But this could not have been the first (though it might have been the first publicly exhibited), if what is told of Sir Joshua Reynolds be true, that, having held that the painting of a panorama was a "thing impossible," on the sight of it he exclaimed "This is the triumph of perspective!" I have frequently met with _this anecdote. B. G.

Minor Queries.

Vermuyden. -I wish very much to obtain a portrait, painted or engraved, of Sir Cornelius Vermuyden, Knt., a celebrated Flemish engineer in the time of Charles I. Can any one kindly assist my object, and inform me where one is to be met with ? J.

Portrait of Whiston. Having an original and characteristic half-length portrait in oil, bearing to the left corner (below an oval, such as is found about portraits by Alex. Cooper) the name of William Whiston, which picture came from a farm-house named Westbrook, in Wiltshire, and was by my ancestors, who lived there, called a family portrait, I should be glad to know how such connexion arose, if any did exist.

In the possession of a member of my family, on the maternal side, is a large silver tobacco-box, bearing the initials W. W., and given as a legacy by Whiston to his friend Thomas White, Fellow and Librarian of Trinity College, Cambridge. They were members of the same club. WILLIAM FENNELL,

which runs from right to left; that is to say, from the higher end of the fourth line to the lower extremity of the first line. This diagonal then represents number 5, and completes the scale or tally of 5.

2. A similar set of four lines are cut by another diagonal, which passes from left to right, or from the higher extremity of number one, to the lower extremity of number four. The diagonal thus completes the second score or tally for number 5.

The two fives are marked or scored separately, and the diagonals thus form a series of alternations, which, when repeated, form a scale of ten, the tally of the coalwhippers.

The "navvies" of the railroads carry this principle somewhat further. They form a cross with two diagonals on the perpendiculars, and count for ten; then, by repeating the process, they have a division into tens, and count by two tens, or a I. J. C.

score.

for which she only gave her Note to put it to the best advantage; for some years the interest was well paid, but at her death no books nor accts were found, and the principal money is all lost. She had a jointure of 20001. a year, but that goes to her Son-in-Law, Mr. Scawen, Knight of the Shire for Surry: her dissenting friends are the chiefe sufferers."

Is anything more known of this story; and, if so, where is the account to be found?

DE CAMERA. Burton Family.-Roger Burton, in the reign of Charles I., purchased of the Earl of Chesterfield lands at Kilburn, in the parish of Horsley, co. Derby, which remained in the possession of his descendants for more than a century. Perhaps some of your correspondents may be able to inform me how he was connected with the Burtons of Lindley and Dronfield.

E. H. A.

"One who dwelleth on the castled Rhine." Longfellow, in his exquisite little poem on 66 Flowers," says:

"Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth on the castled Rhine, When he called the flowers so blue and golden, Stars that in earth's firmament do shine." To whom does he allude as dwelling "on the castled Rhine?" Cowley says:

"Upon the flowers of Heaven we gaze;

The stars of earth no wonder in us raise."

And Washington Irving gives an Arabian inscription from one of the gardens of the Alhambra, which commences with a somewhat similar thought: “How beauteous is this garden, where the flowers of the earth vie with the stars of Heaven!"

SELEUCUS.

In the church at Lady Petre's Monument. Ingatestone, in Essex, there is a beautiful monument to Mary Lady Petre, of the date 1684, upon which there is the following curious inscription:— "D. O. M.

Certa spe Immortalitatis
Parte sui mortali hoc tegitur marmore
Maria

Vidua Domini Roberti Petre Baronis
de Writtle Guilielmi Joannis et Thomæ
Una trium Baronum Mater

Quæ 13° Jannuarii An Dmi 1683 annum
Ætatis agens 82 in terris devixit, ut
Eternum in cœlo viveret
Quo illam singularis in Deum pietas
Suavis in omnes benevolentia

Profusa in egenos liberalitas
Inconcussa in adversis patientia
Ceu igneus Eliæ currus totidem rotis haud
dubie evixerunt-

Sieut Sol oriens Mundo in Altissimis Dei
Sie Mulieris bonæ Species in ornamentum domus suæ,
Ecclus. 26.
AEIOU."

I should be glad if any of your learned readers could elucidate the meaning of the five vowels at the foot of the inscription. J. A. DOUGLAS.

16. Russell Square, June 27, 1851.

Dr. Young's Narcissa (Vol. iii., p. 422.).— J. M, says that the Narcissa of Dr. Young was Elizabeth Lee, the poet's daughter-in-law. The letter quoted in the same article from the Evan. Mag, of Nov. 1797, calls her Dr. Young's daughter. Has not your correspondent been led into a mistake by calling Narcissa Dr. Young's daughter-in-law? as, if she were so, how could she have been named "Lee?" She might have been his step-daughter, though it has been generally understood that Narcissa was the poet's own and favourite J. M., be so good as to clear up this point? daughter. Will you, or your correspondent

Surbiton.

W. F. S.

Thomas Kingeston, Knt., called also Lord Thomas Kingeston. Can any of your correspondents give any clue or information touching this Lord Kingeston? He lived in the early part of the reign of Edward III.

In the extracts from Aske's Collections relating to the descendants of M. Furneaux, published in the first volume of Coll. Top. and Gen., at p. 248., it is stated:

"Mathew of Bitton was married unto Constantyne Kingston, daughter to the Lord Thomas of Kingston; and of the said Mathew and Constantyne came John of Bitton, which died in Portingale."

In a pedigree (Harl. MSS. 1982. p. 102.) which shows the descendants of Furneaux, the match between "Sir Math. Bitton" and C. Kingston is laid down, and her arms are marked sab. a lion ramp. or.

With regard to Mathew de Bitton, he was son and heir of John de Bitton and Havisia Furneaux. The residence of the family was at Hanham, in the parish of Bitton, Gloucestershire, at a place afterwards called "Barre's Court," from Sir John Barre, who married Joan, the great-granddaughter of the said Mathew. The house abutted on the Chace of Kingswood.

In the 48th of Edward III. a writ was issued, to inquire who were the destroyers of the deer and game in his Majesty's Chace, when it was found that Mathew de Bitton was "Communis malefactor de venasione Dom. Regis in Chacia predicta." It was proved that he had killed thirtyseven deer! After much difficulty, he was brought

before the justiciaries, when he acknowledged all his transgressions, and placed himself at the mercy of the king. He was committed "prisonæ Dom. Regis, quousque Justiciarii habeant locutionem cum consilio Dom. Regis."

Any further information respecting him also would be very acceptable. A very detailed account of the inquiry is at the Chapter House, among the Forest Proceedings. H. T. ELLACOMBE.

Clyst St. George, June 24. 1851. Possession nine Points of the Law.-What is the origin of the expression "Possession is nine points of the law ?" The explanation I wish for is, not as to possession conferring a strong title to property, which is self-evident, but as to the number of points involved in the proposition, which I take to mean nine points out of ten. Has the phrase any reference to the ten commandments or points of law promulgated by Moses? I should add that three things are said to be necessary to confer a perfect title to land, namely, possession, right of possession, and right of property. C.N.S.

Rev. Henry Bourne, A.M.-Could any of your numerous readers furnish me with any information respecting Bourne, whose history of Newcastle-on-Tyne was published in 1736, after the author's decease? I know, I believe, all that is to be gathered from local sources, but should be greatly obliged by any references to printed or MS. works which contain allusions to him or his writings. One of his college friends was the Reverend Granville Wheler, Esq., of Otterden, Kent, who, though in holy orders, chose to be so described, being the eldest son of a knight, the amiable Sir George Wheler, Prebendary of Durham, and Rector of Houghton-le-Spring.

E. H. A. Prior Lachteim-Robert Douglas.—In Bishop Keith's Affairs of Church and State of Scotland, vol. ii. p. 809., Prior Lachteim is mentioned: will any of your readers inform me who this person was? It is not explained in the note; but it is suggested that by Lachteim Loch Tay is meant. Is this correct?

Query 2. Is there any truth in the report that Mary, queen of Scotland, had a son by George Douglas, who was the father of Robert Douglas, a celebrated Presbyterian preacher during the Covenanting reign of terror in Scotland, after the Glasgow General Assembly in 1638? If, as I suppose, there is no truth in this, what was the parentage and early history of Mr. Robert Douglas? Wodrow notices this report, and says that he was born in England. See Wodrow's Analecta, 4to., 1842, vol. ii. p. 166.: printed for the Bannatyne Club. A. C. W.

Brompton.

Jacobus de Voragine.—Can any friend give any information respecting an edition of the above author printed at Venice, A.D. 1482? The following is the colophon :

"Reverendi Fratris Jacobi de Voragine de Sancto cum legendis opus perutile hic finem habet; Venetiis per Andream Jacobi de Catthara impressum: Impensis Octaviani scoti Modoetrensis sub inclyto duce Johanne Moçenico. Anno ab incarnatione domini 1482, die 17 Mensis Maii."

I can find no mention of it either in Panzer or Brunet or Ebert. BNE.

Brasenose.

sus

Peace Illumination, 1802.· - Miss Martineau, in her Introduction to the History of the Peace, p. 56., 181. of repeats the story told in a foot-note on p. the Annual Register for 1802, of M. Otto, the French ambassador, being compelled to substitute the word "amity" for the word "concord pended in coloured lamps, in consequence of the irritated mob's determination to assault his house, unless the offensive word "concord" were removed, the said mob reading it as though it were spelled "conquered," and inferring thence that M. Otto intended to insinuate that John Bull was conquered by France. The story, moreover, goes on to relate that the mob also insisted that the blazing initials G. R. should be surmounted by an illuminated crown. This anecdote, notwithstanding its embalmment in the Annual Register, has always borne in my eyes an apocryphal air. It assumes that the mob was ignorant and intellectual at the same moment; that whilst it was in a riotous mood it was yet in a temper to be reasoned with, and able to comprehend the reasons addressed to it. But one cannot help fancying that the mental calibre which understood " concord" to mean "conquered," would just as readily believe that "amity" meant "enmity," to say nought of its remarkable patience in waiting to This circumstance occurred, if at all, within the see the changes dictated by itself carried out. memory of many subscribers to QUERIES." Is there one amongst them whose personal recollection will enable him to endorse the word Truth upon this curious story?

"NOTES AND

HENRY CAMPKIN. Planets of the Months. Can any of your numerous correspondents give me the names of the planets for the months, and the names of the precious stones which symbolize those planets?

Wimpole Street.

T.B.

Family of Kyme. -Sir John Kyme is said to have married a daughter of Edward IV. Can any of your correspondents inform me where I can find an account of this Sir John Kyme, his descendants, &c.? I should be glad of information respecting the family of Kyme generally, their

pedigree, &c. &c. I may say that I am aware that the original stock of his family had possessions in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire, and that there were members of it of considerable importance during the reigns of the earlier monarchs succeeding William I. I am also acquainted with some old pedigrees found in certain visitation books. But none of the pedigrees I have seen appear to come down later than the fourteenth, or quite the beginning of the fifteenth, century. I should be glad to know of any pedigree coming down through the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries, and to have any account of the later history of the family. BOLD.

West of England Proverb. Can any of your correspondents explain the saying, used when a person undertakes what is beyond his ability, "He must go to Tiverton, and ask Mr. Able?”

D. X.

Coke and Cowper, how pronounced. — Upon what authority is Lord Coke's name pronounced as though it were spelt Cook; and why is Cowper, the poet, generally called Cooper? Is this a

modern affectation, or were these names so rendered by their respective owners and their contemporaries? Such illustrious names should certainly be preserved in their integrity, and even pedanticism might blush at corrupting such "household words." There certainly should be no uncertainty on the subject. C. A.

Orinoco or Orinooko. — In the Illustrated News of May 26th is an account of the launch of the "Orinoco" steamer. Can any of your readers tell me if this is the correct mode of spelling the name of this river? I believe the natives spell it "Orinooko," the two oo's being pronounced u.

E. D. C. F. Petty Cury.There is a street bearing this name in Cambridge, which was always a mystery to me in my undergraduate days; perhaps some correspondent can unravel it? E. S. T.

Virgil.-Eneid, viii. 96.:

printed in Sheridan's Dramatic Works by Bohn, a copy of Sir John Vanbrugh's play of The Relapse, or Virtue in Danger. It is, with a very few omissions, an exact reprint, but bears the title of A Trip to Scarborough, or Miss in her Teens. No comment is made, or any mention of Vanbrugh. 0.0.

Quotation from an old Ballad.

"Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But, why did you kick me down stairs?"

In what old ballad or poetic effusion may the above forcibly expressive, though not remarkably elegant, lines be found? A short time ago they were quoted in The Times' leading article, from which fact I suppose them to be of wellknown origin. NREDRA NAMB.

Replies.

PRINCESSES OF WALES.

(Vol. iii., p. 477.)

The statement of Hume, that Elizabeth and Mary were created Princesses of Wales, rests, I am disposed to think, on most insufficient authority; and I am surprised that so illustrious an author should have made an assertion on such slender grounds, which carries on the face of it a manifest absurdity, and which was afterwards retracted by the very author from whom he borrowed it.

Hume's authority is evidently Burnet's History of the Reformation; (indeed, in some editions your correspondent G. would have seen Burnet referred to) in which are the following passages (vol. i. p. 71., Oxford edition, 1829):

"The king, being out of hopes of more children, declared his daughter (Mary) Princess of Wales, and sent her to Ludlow to hold her court there, and projected divers matches for her."

Again, p. 271.:

"Elizabeth was soon after declared Princess of Wales; though lawyers thought that against law, for she was only heir presumptive, but not apparent, to the crown, since a son coming after he must be preferred. Yet the king would justify what he had done in his marriage with all possible respect; and having before declared the Lady Mary Princess of Wales, he did now the same in favour of the Lady Elizabeth."

Hume's statement is taken almost verbatim from this last passage of Burnet, who, however, it will be observed, does not say "created," but "declared" Princess of Wales; the distinction between which is obvious. He was evidently not aware that Burnet afterwards corrected this statement in an Appendix, entitled, "Some Mistakes in the first Portion of this History communicated to me by Mr. William Fulman, Rector of Hampton Meysey, in Gloucestershire." In this is the fol