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the Scots Magazine, 1745, p. 580, Lieut. Thos. Deacon, Robert Deacon, Ensign Charles Deacon, given among persons who surrendered at Carlisle. Ibid, 1746, pp. 319-330, is the trial and execution of the rebels who were committed to Southwark Gaol from Newgate. Thomas Deacon is there stated to be the son of an eminent and opulent M.D. in Manchester, who designed him for his own profession and sent him to the university, where he got his head full of Jacobite notions. Syddal is stated to have been a Roman Catholic barber. Nothing is said there of the religious manifesto. Charles Deacon, aged seventeen, was reprieved; there was an affecting parting between the brothers; Charles was taken in a coach, under charge of a guard, to see his brother's dreadful end. Deacon and Syddal's heads were put up in Manchester, where Syddal's father's had been placed before in 1715 (pp. 396, 442). The Bishop Deacon must, I suppose, have been consecrated by a nonjuring bishop, as his name does not occur in the lists of episcopal successions. W. G. will know how far he is right in making Thomas Theodorus Deacon his son. I trace the reprieves of Charles Deacon, in the Scots Magazine, 1746, pp. 326, 397, 442, 498, 544; 1747, pp. 44, 142. He is not mentioned among them afterwards, and probably was among those pardoned and sent to America (p. 192.)

A pamphlet is referred to under 1746, p. 326: A Genuine Account of the Behaviour of Francis Col. Townley, &c. I have no opportunity at present to refer to this or to the other references, for which I thank W. G. A CWT.

"BULLION'S DAY" (6th S. ii. 407).-Taking the latter part of your correspondent's query, July 4 was called "Bullion's day" because it is noticed in the calendar as St. Martin Bullion's translation, though it is not observed. There is a saying which differs a great deal from that which your correspondent quotes, but by which he may be able to find an answer to his query, so I quote it: "If the deer rise up dry and lie down dry on St. Bullion's day, it is a sign there will be a good gose-har'st,"meaning, apparently, that dry weather is favourable to the crops. Thus the answer required is evidently wet weather. G. S. B.

"In Scotland this [July 4] used to be called St. Martin of Bullion's Day, and the weather which prevailed upon it was supposed to have a prophetic character. It was a proverb, that if the deer rise dry and lie down dry on Bullion's Day, it was a sign there would be a good gose-harvest-gose being a term for the latter end of summer; hence gose-harvest was an early harvest. It was believed generally over Europe that rain on this day betokened wet weather for the twenty ensuing days." Book of Days, ii. 20.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. "A MANY PERSONS" (6th S. ii. 227, 416).-This is a usual form of expression in Lincolnshire with

all classes, and, I believe, in many other parts also, There is another like unto it-a sight-many. much: "We've hed a sight o' rain agean, this backend; it's terrible bad for tha land." "What a sight o' sea-maws I seed this mornin', when I went a-shepperdin', sewer-ly (surely); we mun be gween ta 'ev a storm." "What a blazin' sight o' money that place must a cost a-buildin'!" Boston, Lincolnshire.

R. R.

In Gloucestershire Notes and Queries, pt. i. p. 12, in a quotation from Mr. John Bellows's paper relating to the burning of Bishop Hooper at Gloucester, these words occur :

show that the narrative must have been furnished to Foxe by a native of Gloucester or its neighbourhood. He calls, for instance, Cirencester by its local name Ciceter, and tells us, in true Mercian dialect, that Hooper arrived at Ciceter about a leven of the clock. This is precisely the form used by the country people about here now, in speaking of numbers. If six cows are seen feeding in a field, and one asks a labourer standing by how many there are, he will not answer 'six,' but 'about a six.'" ABHBA.

"I have mentioned that there is internal evidence to

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Selected and English Sonnets by Living Writers. Arranged, with a Note on the History of the Sonnet. By Samuel Waddington. (George Bell & Sons.) A CLEVER American writer, in a recent work on the Science of English Verse, comments upon the absence from our literature of any adequate collection of English sonnets. Without pausing to inquire how far this is just to the labours of Mr. Dennis and Mr. Dyce, it may be noted that the appearance, within a few months of each other, of two books of this class certainly suggests that the subject is not exhausted. The very elaborate and accurate Treasury of English Sonnets by Mr. David Main--the worst defect of which is that its dimensions render it rather a warehouse than a "treasury"-sufficiently deals with the work of deceased authors, while Mr. Waddington's volume continues the task for those who are still among us. If to these two books be added the treatise of Mr. Charles Tomlinson upon the Sonnet and its Origin, the amateur will only need to procure (like Master Stephen) "a stool to be melancholy upon," and, if he be of an assimilative habit, he shall straightway "overflow you half-a-score or a dozen of Sonnets at a sitting." And it must be admitted that the pastime is singularly seductive. Like duelling, it has (in a measure) the advantage of placing the small men on a level with the great. Once master its mechanical secret, and, with

a fitting inspiration, the otherwise unknown bard may turn out a sonnet which Time will not willingly let die. It is probably this fact which has made so many of the major poets refrain from hazardous competition with their minor brethren. Victor Hugo, we believe, has written but one sonnet; Mr. Browning, master of metres as he is, has published none; and Mr. Tennyson, who is here represented by Montenegro, is notoriously not at his own level in this form. Mr. Matthew Arnold and Mr. Rossetti are more fortunate, and it is difficult to say which is the better. The latter, in his splendid sonnet On Refusal of Aid between Nations, fills "this small lute" with a white heat of lyric intensity which it is hard to find outside his own work, and, the two sonnets To Rachel excepted, one turns to the well-known examples of Mr. Arnold with renewed delight in their austere and lofty beauty. Next to these two masters comes Mr. Longfellow, whose sonnets on Dana's burial and the Ponte Vecchio at Florence are among the best work of his tuneful and serene old age. After these, again, there are a crowd of writers, most of whom follow them at no long interval. The sonnets of Mrs. Kemble, of Archbishop Trench, of Mr. J. A. Symonds, Prof. Dowden, Mr. Edmund Gosse, and Mr. George Macdonald are of a high order of excellence. Many of the best examples in this volume are suggested by famous names. Such are Mr. Ernest Myers's Milton, Mr. Watson's Beethoven, Mr. Lang's Homer, Mr. Brodie's Keats, and Mr. Richard Garnett's Dante. Of other writers whose work we have found especially attractive may be mentioned Mr. O'Shaughnessy, Mr. Aldrich, Mr. Monkhouse, and Lord Hanmer, whose Old Fisher is as clear-aired as Theocritus. We cannot, however, for a moment pretend to exhaust the "infinite riches in a little room" of Mr. Waddington's volume. But we are bound to say that, as a mere book, it is exceedingly pretty. The selection is made with great skill, and (we suspect) with much critical restraint. It is also rendered more valuable by a careful note upon the Sonnet, in which, as well as by examples in the body of the book, the editor shows that he himself possesses a practical and very successful knowledge of the form. In these days of hurry and hand-to-mouth compilation, this anthology deserves special praise for its good taste, its catholicity, and its quiet thoroughness. Samuel Pepys and the World He Lived In. By Henry B. Wheatley, F.S.A. (Bickers & Son.)

THE diary of Samuel Pepys is not only often quoted, but, what is much better, widely read. As an historical record it may easily be valued too highly, for, as Mr. Wheatley has been careful to point out, Pepys was violently prejudiced in favour of those who were kind to him, and unduly bitter against their enemies as well as his own. We should certainly be unwise did we take for truth his estimate of any man's or woman's character if it were unsupported by other and better evidence. As an illustrator of social life and manners Pepys stands unrivalled. No one else of any other age or country has been able to produce a memoir at once so simple and so full of the times. Mr. Wheatley's book is not a commentary on the diary-we wish, by-the-bye, he would write one-but a series of essays on the life of the diarist, the work he did, and the age in which he lived. A popular book of this kind requires a combination of good qualities to do it well. A thorough knowledge of old London must be the foundation, but no one could have done what Mr. Wheatley has accomplished had he not possessed a wide acquaintance with the general history of the seventeenth century. Pepys flourished at a time when England was ruled by a gang of harlots, lackeys, and panders, and yet the king, of whom hardly one good action has been recorded, does not seem to have received

in the popular estimation any blame for the deeds of the godless crew whom he retained about him. Charles, as Mr. Wheatley most truly remarks," was one of the most worthless of our monarchs and the most beloved." It is a strange assertion, and yet we believe it true to the letter. The causes why it was so lie deep and cannot be entered upon here; we may, however, quote with advantage a passage from the poems of John Norris, the rector of Bemerton, than whom a more grave and pious soul was probably not to be found in the kingdom. In his Pastoral on the Death of His Sacred Majesty King Charles II. Norris does not think it disgraceful to say:"He was all love, all peace, all clemency;

He allur'd the love and melted down the hate
Of all; he had no enemy but Fate."

The truth must have been that Norris and other rural people, who lived far away from the court and its vicious circle, had no idea of what manner of folk the king and his courtiers were. We have nothing but praise for Mr. Wheatley's book. The only fault we can think of is that it is not long enough. He evidently knows so very much more than he has cared to tell us about the persons and places which he notices that we are at times inclined to be angry with him for his reticence. We must not conclude without noticing the fact, which we believe Mr. Wheatley was the first to discover, that Samuel Pepys, in an age of cruel sports, had an objection to cock-fighting.

Souvenirs Historiques sur Bourgoin: Titres et Documents Divers relatifs à cette Ville. Par Louis Fochier. (Paris, Thorin.)

IN France, as well as in England, local histories are becoming more and more numerous. Savants begin to feel that the life of a nation is made up of an aggregate of small elements, and that the character of an epoch, the features of a civilization, are the result of the thought, the feeling, and the utterances of the various centres of population, both large and otherwise, which form together the mother country. We are glad, accordingly, to hail M. Louis Fochier's volume on Bourgoin. It is interestingly written, illustrated with a considerable number of pièces justificatives, and if the materials are rather meagre on the epoch previous to the revolution of 1789, this is owing to the fact that no special chronicle has yet been found exclusively treating of Bourgoin and its environs. Nevertheless, Bourgoin not only existed at the time of the Roman conquest, under the name of Bergusium, but, if the laws of etymology are correct, its existence as a town might be traced as far back as the Celtic epoch. However, M. Barillet (Dictionnaire Universel d'Histoire et de Géographie) dismisses it with a line and a half, and M. Lalanne (Dictionnaire de l'Histoire de France) omits it altogether. M. Fochier's monograph is divided into three parts, of unequal dimensions. The first takes us from the earliest times to the destruction of the Bastille. It occupies only a little more than a hundred pages, and gives us the impression of a writer who sees of the feudal system nothing but its defects, and who is not much better disposed in favour of monarchical institutions; and yet, if ever a district in France had reason to be anti-revolutionist, it was certainly Bourgoin and the province of Dauphiné, of which it forms a part. Its position (we quote from M. Fochier's introduction) on the principal road leading to Italy, its proximity to Lyons, and various other circumstances, made of Burgoin, for the space of ten years, a focus of violent agitation. became the scene of dramatic incidents, and within its walls occurred, on a reduced scale, the counterpart of the episodes which were taking place throughout the length and breadth of the land. Bourgoin had its Girondists

and its Jacobins, its Feuillants and its Sans-Culottes. Its Robespierre was a scoundrel of the name of Vauquoy, who introduced the Reign of Terror, and fed the guillotine assiduously in the name of liberty, equality, and fraternity. This portion of M. Fochier's work is by far the most interesting; and, as original documents illustrative of it exist in large numbers, we have a most piquant sketch of the revolutionary epoch; in fact, the author has taken care to give us copious extracts from the journals of the municipal council and the popular clubs. The concluding chapter, referring to Bourgoin during the period included between 1800 and the present day, is, we need scarcely say, important chiefly from a local point of view, and will not long detain the general reader.

Lancashire Inquisitions: Stuart Period. Part I. Edited by J. Paul Rylands, F.S.A. (Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society.)

THE Counties embraced within the special province of this society, the third volume of whose publications is now before us, constitute a very important district, rich in matter of interest to the genealogist and antiquary. The work which has been already done for it by other societies has by no means exhausted the field. It needs but a glance at the objects which the Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society aims at carrying out to realize how much yet remains to be done. The class of records to which the present volume belongs is one of the most valuable for genealogical workers, and the documents of the Stuart period, though out of the natural chronological sequence, will in many cases, no doubt, come in very usefully as carrying on the chain of family history subsequently to the last printed general series of medieval inquisitions. The work set before them has been on the whole well done by Mr. Rylands and Mr. Vincent; but we greatly regret that the society did not adopt the plan of the Scottish Retours, which are printed in the language of the original. This would, to our minds, have been a much more satisfactory procedure, and one more in accordance with precedent. It would also have enhanced the value of this very useful record of Lancashire

in the olden time.

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C. D. (Villa_Bruchmatt, Lucerne).-Sir John Cole, of Newland, co. Dublin, created a baronet 1660, was father of Arthur, the only Lord Ranelagh of that family. The names and matches of his daughters (Lord Ranelagh's sisters) may be thus stated by a comparison of Burke's Peerage, Extinct and Dormant Peerages, and the Peerage of England, Scotland, and Ireland (printed for W. Owen, L. Davis, and J. Debrett, Lond., 1790):-1. Catherine, mar. Thomas Berkeley, Esq., of Donegal. 2. Letitia, mar. Dr. William Fitzgerald, Dean of Cloyne, afterwards Bishop of Clonfert. 3. Mary, married, 1675, Henry, third Earl of Drogheda, and had issue Charles, Lord Moore, &c. 4. Frances, married (s.p.) Sir Thomas Domvile, of Temple Oge, co. Dublin, created baronet 1686. 5. Margaret, married, first, John Burdet, Dean of Clonfert, and had issue; secondly (s.p.), Thomas Lloyd, Esq., of Croghan (or Cloghan), co. Roscommon. 6. Elizabeth (ob. Aug. 19, 1733), married, Feb. 20, 1671, Sir Michael Cole, Knt., and their great-grandson was first Earl and Viscount Enniskillen.-Ambassadors no doubt attend public court ceremonies and receptions of the sovereign as of right, though possibly some distinction might be drawn between the several grades in the diplomatic hierarchy. There are, of course, private parties at every court which have no official character, and to which no official right of access could exist.

ECLECTIC. (1) 6 Hen. IV., so called because, in conformity with an ordinance of Edw. III., 1372, no lawyers were returned. See Stubbs, iii. 46, 391; Taswell-Langmead, p. 315. (2) Sharon Turner, Hallam, Lingard, Froude, Green, &c., besides the Rolls Series (Hen. VII.) and special works on particular portions of the period to which any of the above authorities would lead you.

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L.-Customary, but not universal. Whether it could be sustained in an action would probably depend (supposing there were no decided cases) upon the question whether it could be proved to be a custom under the Law Merchant.

In this volume Mr. Jevons devotes himself to deductive logic, which has of late years been somewhat depreciated by logicians. If it is by induction alone that new truths are discovered, yet deduction, as the inverse operation of induction, will never cease to have value. Deduction is also more capable of treatment by the symbolical method of reasoning, of which Mr. Jevons is now the chief exponent. The book, which is thrown into the form of question and answer, should be read by all logical students. Its characteristic, besides the use of symbols to represent logical forms and syllogisms, is the effort made throughout to show the value of logic as an agent in strengthening the reasoning processes and training the mental powers. It is provided with a number of "logical nuts to crack," problems to be worked out, and definite questions to be answered, which will test the student's grasp of the principles of the rules which they illustrate. A logical index is appended to the volume," which furnishes a key to the solution of all problems which involve three distinct terms.

MR. EDWARD WALFORD and Mr. Elliot Stock have both circulated letters embodying their respective views of the history of the foundation of the Antiquary. We can only regret the severance which has taken place.

M. M. H.-Miles-knight; generosus gentleman; armiger esquire; aldermannus alderman. J. H. L.-A younger brother of Prince Rupert, who died 1663.

J. E. HODGKIN.-Yes.

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C. D. (Villa Bruchmatt, Lucerne).-Sir John Cole, of Newland, co. Dublin, created a baronet 1660, was father of Arthur, the only Lord Ranelagh of that family. The names and matches of his daughters (Lord Ranelagh's sisters) may be thus stated by a comparison of Burke's Peerage, Extinct and Dormant Peerages, and the Peerage of England, Scotland, and Ireland (printed for W. Owen, L. Davis, and J. Debrett, Lond., 1790) :-1. Catherine, mar. Thomas Berkeley, Esq., of Donegal. 2. Letitia, mar. Dr. William Fitzgerald, Dean of Cloyne, afterwards Bishop of Clonfert. 3. Mary, married, 1675, Henry, third Earl of Drogheda, and had issue Charles, Lord Moore, &c. 4. Frances, married (s.p.) Sir Thomas Domvile, of Temple Oge, co. Dublin, created baronet 1686. 5. Margaret, married, first, John Burdet, Dean of Clonfert, and had issue; secondly (s.p.), Thomas Lloyd, Esq., of Croghan (or Cloghan), co. Roscommon. 6. Elizabeth (ob. Aug. 19, 1733), married, Feb. 20, 1671, Sir Michael Cole, Knt., and their great-grandson was first Earl and Viscount Enniskillen.-Ambassadors no doubt attend public court ceremonies and receptions of the sovereign as of right, though possibly some distinction might be drawn between the several grades in the diplomatic hierarchy. There are, of course, private parties at every court which have no official character, and to which no official right of access could exist.

translated into English mentioned in "N. & Q." (6th 8. ii. 500, 528), a translation of this author's History of the Development of the Republican Idea in Europe appeared some years ago in Harper's Monthly.

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GREVILLE WALLPOOLE.-Consult the works on surnames and Christian names by Lower, Charnock, Bardsley, Miss Yonge, &c., and the references in "N. & Q." General Index, Fifth Series, and the current series.

M. M. H.-Miles-knight; generosus gentleman; armiger esquire ; aldermannus alderman. J. H. L.-A younger brother of Prince Rupert, who died 1663.

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