and the best and most usual mode of presenting such presents was in dutiful and respectful silence. As to the dress, the bearer of letters from a supposed Emperor of China need not have been a Chinese, while a Turk's habit was sufficiently strange, yet more known-if, indeed, the Chinese dress were at that time at all known. Moreover, there was this dramatic fitness, in that a Turk could be supposed to speak some European language not Eng. lish, while Elizabeth by her most fulsome flatterer could not have been credited with a knowledge of Chinese. On the other hand, the Post's unwillingness to intrude on Her Majesty, his desire to give his letters to a secretary, all which lead to the marked insistance on the Queen's affability in receiving petitions, regardless of the applicant's rank or no rank, and on her knowledge of all languages "worthy to bee spoken or understood," all these make Manningham simply a "reporter" of Sir John Davies's 'Dialogue.' I may add that the account of how a Post should behave on introduction merits transcription. He kneels before the Queen, kisses his letters, delivers them, and "uses no prating while she is a reading." BR. NICHOLSON. GRAY'S INN: THOMAS À BECKET ANNIVERSARY, JULY 7.-Dugdale notices a pension, May 16, 31 Henry VIII., when, consideration being had of the king's command that all the images of Thomas à Becket should be removed from churches and chapels, it was ordered that Edward Hall, then one of the Readers of the House, should take out a certain window in the chapel "wherein the picture of the said archbishop was gloriously painted, and place another instead thereof in memory of our Lord praying on the Mount." In 1689 it was ordered "that it be referred to Mr. Treasurer to get a Bell for the Chapel to be new cast, and a wheel thereto to be new made as he finds necessary." This appears to have been done, as is shown by the inscription on the bell, "James Bartlet made mee 1689. Samuel Buck, Treasurer." WALTER LOVELL. DR. DEE.-The relics of Robert Burns, mentioned p. 166, call to mind an extraordinary relic formerly belonging to Dr. Dee. It is the magic mirror in which the fools of his day were told they could see their friends in distant lands, and how they were occupied, and weak-minded persons looking on it fancied they saw all that was going on in different parts of the world; and in our own time, not many years ago, it was shown at a fashionable party in London with similar results. The Penny Cyclopædia, published by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge 1837, has the following account of it : Dee, in common with this person, and indeed Kelly was in general Dee's amanuensis during the time they were together. They had a black speculum, of what material cannot be ascertained, but it is generally said a polished piece of cannel coal,' in which the angels Gabriel and Raphael appeared at their invocation. Hence Butler says:Kelly did all his feats upon The devil's looking glass-a stone." The description of the mystic bauble is incorrect, and it is evident that the writer had not seen it, although its whereabouts must have been known at the time. It is not a polished coal, but a piece of solid pink tinted glass, size and form of a fullgrown orange. It is now in the British Museum. Whether it was presented to or purchased by the Trustees I do not know. If I remember rightly, the subject is introduced in Ainsworth's romance of 'Guy Fawkes.' St. John's Wood. GEORGE ELLIS. DEVONSHIRE PROVINCIALISMS.-In vol. xviii. of the Transactions of the Devonshire Association (1886), p. 93, I see in the catalogue of 'Devon Verbal Provincialisms,' collected by the Committee of the Association, the term caucher, a left-handed person. This is clearly from the French gauché, left-handed. ARTHUR RUSSELL. Gomshall. AN EARLY STEEL PEN.-Roger North, writing to the Hon. Mrs. Foley from London, March 8, 1700/1, says : with a steel pen. It is a device come out of France, of "You will hardly tell by what you see that I write which the original was very good, and wrote very well, but this is but a copy ill made. When they get the knack of making them exactly I do not doubt but the government of the goose quill is near an end, for none of the Hon. Roger North,' edited by the Rev. Augustus that can have these will use others."- Autobiography Jessopp, D.D., 1887, p. 247. J. DIXON. THE FOUNDERS OF 'PUNCH.'-Of late there has those who took part in the commencement of our been much correspondence and discussion about old friend Punch, consequently the few known facts which I subjoin may prove of general interest. Punch was originated in the house of Mark Lemon, the four men who worked out the idea being Henry Mayhew, Mark Lemon, Stirling Coyne, and William Henry Wills, who contributed largely to the first and second volumes. The publication soon passed into the hands of Messrs. Bradbury & Evans, and the staff was augmented by the adherence of Douglas Jerrold, Gilbert Abbot A'Beckett, &c. A'Beckett's first paper, entitled 'Above Bridge Navy,' appears at p. 35, vol. i.; Douglas Jerrold's first article, 'Peel Regularly Called In,' signed Q., occurs at p. 102, vol. i.; Leech's first cartoon appears at P. 43, vol. i.; Albert Smith's contribution at p. 105, vol. i.; John Oxenford's first paper at p. 256, vol. ii. DANIEL HIPWELL. after. In the first volume of the Gentleman's Magazine I read that on July 17, 1731, thirtytwo convict felons were sentenced for transportation in the Old Bailey. Are the records of this court easily accessible? If so, will not some contributor publish in N. & Q.' the names of the HURRICANE AT ROEHAMPTON, 1780.-Amongst thirty-two above-mentioned worthies who left my Surrey collections I havetheir country for their country's good? A Short Account of the Hurricane that happened at Roehampton-Lane and Places Adjacent on the Fifteenth of October, 1780, illustrated by four Outlines, Washed and Teinted. By E. Edwards, Associate of the Royal Academy. London, Printed by H. Reynell, No. 21, near Air-Street, Piccadilly. MDCCLXXXI. The pamphlet, I think, is scarce, as I have only seen one other copy in thirty years. It is in quarto, and consists of title, three pages of preface, and pages 1-8. My copy has a duplicate set of the engravings, one being uncoloured, and has prefixed to it the portrait of a middle-aged man in a short peruke, loose cravat, with a book in his left hand. Is this a portrait of Edwards? or can it be that of Mr. Browne, who suffered terribly from the storm, if we may judge from "A View of Mr. Browne's House in RoehamptonLane, and the havoc made on his Premisses by the dreadfull Storm on Sunday Night 15th Oct., 1780. Published as the Act directs 1st Dec., 1780, by Fielding & Walker, Pater Noster Row"? I shall feel much obliged to any of your correspondents who will kindly give me any information respecting the work and its author, or Mr. Browne. CPL. CHILDREN AS MEDIATORS.-Some time ago I came across a story of some children who were sent out from a besieged city to plead for the inhabitants, and their request was granted. I cannot now find what the occasion was, and shall be glad of help. INQUISITOR. MOLL FLANDERS.-Can any one inform me whether the heroine of Defoe's novel had any real existence on earth? I am acquainted with the various pirated and abridged editions of Defoe's book, which profess to give Moll's real name as Lætitia Atkins and Mary Patricksen, as well as the dates of her birth and death, her will, &c.; but I can find no shadow of evidence that there ever was such a person. CLOCK-HOUSE. CONVICTS SHIPPED TO AMERICA.-My question (7th S. ii. 162, &c.) asking the name of some convict transported from England to the United States has been answered by MR. JOHN J. STOCKEN. He has my thanks. The name given is Elizabeth Canning, who had been convicted of perjury. The authority is the Gentleman's Magazine for 1813, vol. ii. p. 337. She is there stated to have married a person named Treat, or some name of a sound something like that, to have been transported about 1753, and to have died twenty years Madison, Wis., U.S. JAMES D. BUTLER. ARMS OF MIDDLESEX AND ESSEX.-I observe that in the new badges devised for the Essex Regiment (late 44th and 56th Foot) and the Middlesex Regiment (late 57th and 77th Foot) a shield has been introduced, purporting to be the three see-axes or scimitars fess-wise, in pale or, the arms of the county in each case. It is, Gules, blades argent. I cannot find the blazon either in Burke's General Armory' or in any county history. What is its origin ? KENTISH MAN. SCOTCH KIRK SESSION RECORDS.—Can any of your readers inform me where there is a complete list of all the Scotch Kirk Session Records that have been already printed; or can any one furnish me with the titles of such of these Records as have been printed? D. A. BRAY HEAD.-I have lately been sketching on the shores of the Emerald Isle. What is the height of Bray Head? H. G. GRIFFINHOOFE. 34, St. Petersburg Place. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF POPE.-Some time before his lamented death, the late MR. EDWARD SOLLY made reference to " some notes on the bibliography of Pope" which he had been recently occupied in arranging (see 6th S. iv. 227). Is it known if these notes are in existence; and, if so, what has become of them? A scientific bibliography of Pope, Swift, Arbuthnot, and the ana attaching to those writers, is a desideratum in literature which it is greatly to be regretted MR. SOLLY did not live to supply. It would be very satisfactory if a selection of the longer articles which he contributed to the Bibliographer, the Athenæum, and to N. & Q.' could be reprinted in a handy volume. W. F. PRIDEAUX. Calcutta. WESLEY.-On the Wesley memorial in Westminster Abbey are the following lines: "God buries his workmen, but carries on his work." I have searched various biographies, &c., but cannot find anything to tell me if these words were used by Wesley or in reference to him by some one. I shall be extremely obliged if any of your readers can enlighten me on this point, as I am wanting to use the words, but not until I can give the author credit for them. HERBERT BATSFORD. SCARBOROUGH WARNING: ANDREW MILLER.— In a naval book I have just read these two terms occur. How derived? They are unknown to me, though well acquainted with sea terms, technical or slang. The first refers to something falling without giving warning to those below, and the second is said to be Jack's name for a man-of-war. H. A. ST. J. M. [For "Scarborough Warning," see 1st S. i. 138, 170; 4th S. xii. 408; 6th S. i. 394; ii. 17, 258.] MAGOR=MOGUL.-Is Magor a corruption of Mogul; or what is its origin? It occurs in the following title : "A True Relation, without all Exception, of the strange and admirable Accidents, which lately happened in the Kingdom of the great Magor, or Mogul, who is the greatest Monarch of the East Indies......London, Printed by J. D. for Thomas Archer......1622." Reprinted in 'Harleian Miscellany,' i. 258, ed. P. Z. ROUND. 1808. 17, Bennett Park, Blackheath, S.E. SPADE GUINEA. I have a spade guinea of George III. of 1789, with the following inscription on it M. B. F. ET H. REX F. D. B. ET L. D. S. R. I. A. T. ET E. 1789. May I ask if the following is the correct exposition of the above?" Magnæ Britanniæ (Francia) et Hiberniæ Rex Fidei Defensor, Brunswicki et Lunenburgi Dux, Sancti Romani 'Imperii Apostolici Tutor et Elector." E. C. U. LEONARD TOWNE.-A Mr. Leonard Towne, who was a chemist in business at Gainsborough, published by subscription, in 1816, a book entitled "The Farmer and Grazier's Guide, containing a Collection of valuable Receipes for the most Common and Fatal Disorders to which Horses and Horned Cattle in general are subject.' The book was printed by Adam Stark, a bookseller whose shop was, within my memory, in the market-place of that town. Can any one inform me if Mr. Towne was the author of any other books? His 'Guide' is a very useful production, much superior to the cattle-doctoring books which were in fashion at the time in which he wrote. EDWARD PEACOCK. Bottesford Manor, Brigg. ELIZA BATTYE.-She is author of 'Giuliano de Medicis, and other Poems,' pp. 192, Southwell, 1838. There is no copy of this book in the British Museum, and it seems to be rarely met with. I have never been able to get a sight of a copy. Can any of your readers inform me if 'Giuliano de Medicis' is a drama? Eliza Battye was a contributor of verses to the 'Festive Wreath,' published in Manchester 1842. Is this Nottinghamshire poetess still living? R. INGLIS. "THE HORN AT QUEEN'S." In 'Barnabae Itinerarium' (first part) is the following couplet:— HILCOCK OR HYLCOCK.-Of family names that of Hilcock or Hylcock is evidently one of the scarcest. I have searched Burke's Peerage and Baronetage,' extant and extinct, his Landed Gentry,' and numerous other works from cover to cover-excepting Lower's 'Patronymica Britannica,' where it is merely given-without coming across a single occurrence of this most rare name. Would some reader of N. & Q.' assist in giving it a local habitation, and say if it is to be found in any of the county visitations? Was the name originally De Montcoq, and of Huguenot extraction? HILCOCK. though he was very familiar with Folkestone and was inscribed Dryden's celebrated epigram written its neighbourhood, he did not reside in that part for the frontispiece of the edition of the poet's of the country. What else is known concerning works published in 1688 (the " Somers" edition, as him? I may add that I have in my possession a it is called), and printed below the engraved sketch he made of Lydden Spout, near Shake-portrait of the author-a composition recognizable speare's Cliff. F. W. CHESSON. by its opening line : Haverstock Hill. DE SANCY DIAMOND.-It is admitted on all Three poets in three distant'ages born, &c. hands that James II. sold it to Louis XIV. (for few that remain-of my beloved ancient Augusta, The other day, "revisiting the glimpses "-the 25,000l.). It disappeared in the French Revolution, was bought by Napoleon later on, sold by I found, it is true, a tablet of modern date let into him to Prince Paul Demidoff, and bought back by the wall of some warehouses recently erected on France for 625,000 francs. Is there anything to the site of the razed Allhallows. If I remember show how James II. became possessed of it? rightly, this memorial connected the names of the C. A. WARD. vicar and churchwardens in office at the time of the removal of the church with the illustrious of the bearer. But the substituted memorial said name inseparably associated with the early parish nothing of the former memento, and did not reproduce Dryden's lines. The verses are to be found in the Aldine edition of Dryden, vol. ii. p. 313. They are also to be found at the end of vol, vi. of Prof. Masson's voluminous and invaluable life and times of the poet, in what, I think, he epigram finds no place in Maitland, Allen, Knight, phrases "Miltoniana.' But, strange to say, the Loftie, nor in Thornbury's 'Old and New London.' Nor is it reprinted, as I submit it might with propriety have been, in the memoir of Milton in the new edition (the ninth) of the Encyclopædia Britannica.' NEMO. JOHN WOODS.-I should be glad if any of your Yorkshire readers would give me any information about a certain John Woods, who in Burke's Landed Gentry' is said to have gone over to Ireland on military service at the time of the Revolution. Where did he come from in Yorkshire ? A. B. STEVENSON. JOHNSON AND MISS HICKMAN. -In Burke's 'Landed Gentry,' sixth edition, 1882, under the head of "Turton Family," we are told that "Dr. John Turton, of the Hall, Wolverhampton, and Adam Street, London, married Miss Hickman, of Old Swinford, to whom Dr. Johnson wrote some verses, entitled 'To Miss Hickman playing on the Spinet'"; and that these verses are to be found in Boswell's Johnson,' vol. i. p. 97. I have looked through two editions, but have failed to discover them, and Hickman does not appear in the index. Will some one of the readers of 'N. & Q.' kindly enlighten me? Old Swinford is near Stourbridge, where Johnson was at school. WM. HENRY HAYWARD. CERAMIC.—It is stated by a contemporary writer, viz., by Becher, a Chamberlain of the Emperor, that Prince Rupert had in his employ an Hungarian potter (name unknown) who about 1680 manufactured from English clay, and sold in London, white, translucent porcelain, equal to the finest Indian ware. Is anything known about this potter, or is he a myth? Jewitt's 'Ceramic Art in Great Britain' does not mention him or Prince Rupert's pottery either. Hull. L. L. K. ALLHALLOWS, BREAD STREET: JOHN MILTON. -Can any reader inform me what became of the tablet formerly conspicuous on the external wall of this church when that sacred edifice was demolished some few years ago? I remember many a time, when a boy, stopping to read the lines engraved on the stone. They consisted of a record that the great author of 'Paradise Lost' had been baptized within, and below that piece of information and many pre Murray's London As It Is' (1879) states that SIR CHRISTOPHER HATTON'S MONUMENT. amongst the monuments of Old St. Paul's " served in the crypt of the present building, is that of Sir Christopher Hatton, Queen Elizabeth's Lord Chancellor." I paid a visit to the crypt the other day for the purpose of seeing it, but was informed by the attendant that no such monument was there. Will some reader of 'N. & Q.' kindly say if the monument is still in existence; and, if so, where and how it may be seen? Holmby House, Forest Gate. JOHN T. PAGE. Saxon or early Norman times? Warter mentions RADMAN.-What was this class of person in it in his 'An Old Shropshire Oak,' but says "it is a doubtful matter." Perhaps some of your correspondents may be able to throw light upon the subject. Ducange gives, under "Radmanni," qui et Radchenisters Anglis, Liberi tenentes qui arabant, et herciabant ad curiam domini, seu falcabant aut metebant, apud Edward, Cokum ad Littl. sect. 1 et 117." I should have been satisfied with this explanation had not Mr. Warter, so generally accurate, expressed a doubt upon the subject. EDMUND TEW, M.A. Worthing. if it be a motto ? I think that MR. HALLEN has not succeeded in proving that these pans derived their name from Malines. I have read through his notes in these pages and also his article in Walford's Antiquarian Magazine for September, 1887, but he does not anywhere prove that the English name for this city was Maslin, as he asserts it was. As I shall prove below, he is wrong in stating that maslin pans "are rarely, if ever, mentioned at an earlier date than the sixteenth century" (6th S. xii. 471). Therefore we require mediæval forms of the name of Malines. My search for these have yielded the following results A.D. 1319, villa Machlinensis, 'Fœdera, ii. 392; A.D. 1339, same form, id., ii. 1085; A.D. 1338, Machilinia, id., ii. 1058, 1059; A.D. 1411-12, Machlin, 'Black Book of the Admiralty,' i. 390, 391. This form is unusual, the usual forms being Mallines, Malyns, Malines, Malins, for which see 'Rot. Parliament.,' i. 476a; ii. 121a, 446b; v. 565; 'Liber Albus' (London), i. 535, 615; Riley, 'Memorials of London,' 130, 197; Fœdera,' ii. 389, 643, 959, 971, 1083, 1084. I have nowhere met with the form Maslin, and if, as I believe, this form was unknown, it is evident that the metal known as maslin cannot have derived its name from the town of Malines. We are thus thrown back upon the A.-S. derivation, of which MR. HALLEN speaks with contempt. MR. HALLEN asks if it is likely that an obsolete "Saxon" word would be revived solely to designate these metal pans. But the word was not obsolete, and it was applied to other things besides pans. Turning to Stratmann, I find that he cites the Middle English mastling, &c., from the Ancren Riwle,' circa 1200; Hali Meidenhad,' same date; and Robert of Gloucester, line 1926, circa 1300. In all these cases the word means a metal, and not pans from Malines. In the Complaint of the Ploughman,' circa 1390, in Wright's 'Political Songs,' i. 308, 32, the author speaks of Stirrops gay of gold mastling. The is applied to other utensils besides pans. admission of these points is fatal to MR. HALLEN'S etymology of this word. MR. HALLEN identifies maslin, the metal, with maslin, mixed corn. This is wrong, for the earlier form of the latter word was mestylyon (see 'Prompt. Parv.,' p. 335; Cath. Angl., p. 230; WrightWülcker, 597, 15). This word is thus the Old French mesteillon (modern méteil), Low Latin mixtilio, derived eventually from the Latin miscere. But the metal maslin is the A.-S. mæstling, masling, which is glossed by orichalcum, œs, and electrum. This word was applied to vessels even in A.-S. (see the Corpus MS. of the Gospels, Mark vii. 4; Cockayne's' Leechdoms,' iii. 292, 17). Turning to the sister dialects, we find a word messing meaning brass in German, Danish, Swedish, and Icelandic. J. T. F. has said (7th S. iii. 485) that the form mess-ing was in use in Yorkshire. Thus it seems that the A.-S. mæstling only differs from the other forms in having the diminutive ling instead of ing. We have in German messe, f., mess, n., a mixed metal of copper and zinc, which seems to be merely the Latin massa. Ettmüller, p. 202, gives an A.-S. " mass, mas (melius mess), -es, n.? stannum," but he gives no authority for the word. Now Kemble's Codex,' iv. 275, 21, contains a mention of "vi. mæ'sene sceala," which has considerably puzzled the A.-S. lexicographers. Thus Leo, 32, 39, explains this adjective as meaning" was zum Tische gehört," that is, he derives it from mése, a table; whilst Prof. Toller believes it to stand for *mæseren, of maple. But I think masen (the accent is probably due to Kemble) is an adjective formed from Ettmüller's mass. The Germans have a corresponding adj. mess-en (M.H.G. mess-in), formed from messe or mess. I therefore conclude that this vexed passage means "6 dishes or cups of brass or mixed metal." This excursus has led me away from MR. HALLEN; but it will, I hope, prove to him how well authenticated a word is maslin, the name of a metal. W. H. STEVENSON. GALILEO (7th S. iv. 9, 113, 158, 230, 272).—In the second edition of Pieralisi's work he inserts a letter from Angelo Secchi complimenting him on his labours; but that eminent astronomer was so In much a man of the world that he could not forbear giving a parenthetical warning of the disappointment in store for the honest author who thought that by a statement of facts he had silenced misrepresentation. "I dare not hope, however, that you have closed for ever the mouths of those who speak from prejudice (passione). They are never silenced." I cannot hope for a better fate. But I rest satisfied that to all dispassionate readers of N. & Q.' it will be clear that your correspondent speaks under the annoyance of being refuted and ungenerously (1) in calling special attention to my use of a word which was, after all, but a quota So that the word was not even then obsolete. theNottingham Borough Records,' ii. 20, 6; 22, 22, patella de maslyn" occur in A.D. 1403 and 1404. Probably earlier quotations than these might be found. In the same work, iii. 22, 24, we have a "maslyn basyn, pretii xld.," in A.D. 1492. In the 'Lancashire Wills,' ii. 174, a valuation occurs of "brase and masselen, vli.," A.D. 1561, which suggests that maslin was then understood to mean a metal. I think I have said enough to prove that Malines was not known as Maslin, that maslin was not an obsolete A.-S. word, that it existed down to the days of maslin pans, and that maslin |