The late well-known printer Mr. Bensley succeeded Mr. Allen there in business in 1783, going at once to reside in his house next door to Dr. Johnson, whom, of course, as a close neighbour, he often saw, and whose funeral he witnessed. After the Doctor's death the Rev.—Stockdale, of the Church of England, occupied the house; next to him it was tenanted by a Rev.—Moir, (I believe) a Presbyterian; next, by one Copley, an old tailor, whom I have teased many times when a boy; for some of us youngsters having overheard him once in a soliloquy groaning, "Dear me—and the buttons all wrong!" on passing him it became a mot among us expressed sufficiently loud to reach his ears, when he would look unutterable things. He was a worthy but somewhat cross old man, in very respectable circumstances. His was the last family which ever occupied the premises as a dwelling-house; I knew him there for about twenty years. During his abode the freehold was put up for sale by auction, as well as of Allen's house; Mr. Bensley purchased both. This was somewhere about 1804-1807. But as Copley had a lease, he did not vacate till about 1814, when Mr. Bensley appropriated the two houses to his printing purposes (and there, it may not be unworthy of notice, was steam-printing first practised),—so occupied the said premises were, till destroyed by fire in 1819. Mr. Bensley's eldest surviving son succeeded him in 1820, but did not, in re-constructing the premises, build on the site of Dr. Johnson's house, though a part thereof has since been covered. The map—a very fragile, worm-eaten affair—shows the exact dimensions of the house, the place where the walls stood, &c. The property remains in Mr. Bensley's family. I have often heard Mr. Bensley describe the Doctor and his funeral.

The print in the European Magazine is an accurate representation of the appearance of this ancient and gloomy house in the dark corner; but it had many comforts, and "a large garden," in which I have been; it is now all built upon, and has been covered for nearly half a century. Some yet living may have visited Dr. Johnson there: I have often conversed with others who are dead that did—the late Mr. Bowyer Nichols, Mr. Cradock (of Leicestershire), Mr. A. Strahan, and others mentioned in the Doctor's works, when gratifying their curiosity by showing them over the house; and it has fallen to my lot to do so to many literary characters. Indeed as to the place where Dr. Johnson lived and died, there is no more room for doubt than as to where old London bridge stood. I have many times been with the late Mr. James Boswell (son of Dr. Johnson's biographer) in the rather dismal parlour—which spot, it is not to be wondered at, had a peculiar attraction for him.

There is no kind of foundation for assigning Dr. Johnson's residence to that where Cobbett lived or wrote—it was a mere joke. As to the "Johnson's Head" tavern, it was an upholsterer's manufactory at the time of Dr. Johnson's death. I myself knew an old man of the name of Hale residing in it, and carrying on that occupation so early as 1800, who had doubtless been there before Dr. Johnson's death; his son followed him, and continued till about 1826-1830 in those premises. By the same token (as Paddy says), while now addressing "N. & Q." (though nearly 300 miles from the spot) I am writing at a table Hale sen. made for me in that house in 1818.

The greater part of Mr. Bensley's extensive premises was twice burned down; but on neither occasion was Allen's house destroyed. It yet stands, though so altered and improved as not to resemble the original edifice. Mr. Tyler's counting-house, by the iron gate at the S. W. corner, however, is left just as used by Allen (except a passage cut off at the end), the panelling, &c., just the same, being the only part remaining unaltered: there was then, of course, no door out to the stone steps, as there stood Dr. Johnson's parlour. In this counting-house, no doubt, Dr. Johnson often was; and in the adjoining parlour he often fed. It was a very old-fashioned room, as I well remember it upwards of half a century ago. His better parlour, or drawing-room, was large and handsomely furnished for the period, with three windows, and two ancient pier-glasses fixed to tables, gilt and adorned according to the taste of the times. Mr. Bensley bought these and a few other household matters, which remained in statu quo till 1805-1808.

I have seen some prints of the inside of Dr. Johnson's house, which do not give a very accurate idea of the appearance of the rooms, &c.; but, I repeat it, the view of the front in the European Magazine is excellent.

The celebrity of Dr. Johnson may induce you to insert this, which, without that influence, I am aware would be too tedious.

COOPER'S MINIATURE OF CROMWELL.
(Vol. iv., p. 368.; Vol. v., p. 189. &c.)

It is only within a few months that the existence of the "N. & Q." became known to me. It seemed likely to be such an useful and amusing publication, from the description I received of it from a literary friend (now appointed vice-consul to the Isle of Mytilene), that I lost no time in becoming a subscriber; and I am rejoiced to add, that my expectations have not been disappointed, though I have not had time to read the Notes or attend to the Queries as fully as I could have wished till very lately.

However, I have now observed amongst the Replies, Vol. v., p. 189., a Note relating to the miniature of Cromwell by Cooper, with several references to other Notes and Queries upon the same subject, originating with a Query from LORD BRAYBROOKE in Vol. iv., p. 368. If the following appears to you worthy of insertion, pray use it.

I have a beautiful miniature of Oliver Cromwell, painted with very great care, and which has every appearance of being an original by Cooper. I remember it all my life in my father's (Lord Holland's) room at Holland House; and on his death in 1840, it was left by him to his friend and mine, John Allen, late master of Dulwich College, who died in 1843, and left it with his books to me.

Cromwell is painted in armour, with a remarkably clean, plain, turned-down shirt collar; his usual countenance, somewhat stern, but full of the expression of good sense and intelligence; reddish hair, and a small portion of it under the lower lip. On the back is written in my father's handwriting:

"This miniature was given to me when at school by Lady Diana Beauclerk, who assured me that it was an original by Cooper, and that it had been long in the possession of the Beauclerk family, who had it from Charles II. (Signed) VASSALL HOLLAND."

Lady D. Beauclerk, herself distinguished as an artist, was the daughter of the Duke of St. Albans, a lineal descendant of Charles II.

There is an engraving from a miniature of Cromwell in Carlyle's life of him, said to be in the possession of Archdeacon Berners, which I believe to be also by Cooper. It is larger than mine, and even better painted. I have seen it, but cannot recollect where or when.

C. Fox, Major-General.

P.S.—I have left my miniature with my friend Mr. Domenic Colnaghi at Pall Mall East, for the inspection of any of your correspondents. It will be there till the 31st March.

Addison Road.

THE QUEEN OF THE ISLE OF MAN.
(Vol. v., p. 132.)

In an interesting communication from MR. WM. SIDNEY GIBSON in a late Number of your publication there occurs the following statement, to which I beg to add a few remarks. He says:

"After the death of Magnus, the island was seized by Alexander III. of Scotland. A daughter and heiress of Reginald sued for it against John Baliol, before Edward I. of England, as lord paramount of Man.

"Rot. Parl., 31 Edw. I."

And farther on he states:

"From sundry records it appears that Edward II. and Edward III. committed its custody to various persons, and the latter at length conferred his right to it upon William Montacute, Earl of Salisbury, in consideration, probably, of that valiant earl having by his arms regained the island from the Scots, who had resumed possession, and of the circumstance that his grandmother, the wife of Simon de Montacute, was sister and heiress of one of the former kings of Man, and related to the lady who had claimed it as her inheritance on the death of Magnus."

Now, I think MR. GIBSON, on reflection, will agree with me in concluding that the wife of Simon de Montacute, and the lady who claimed the island on the death of Magnus, were one and the same person. There is no document, I believe, of the kind he refers to, of the "31st" of Edw. I.; but in the "21st" of Edw. I., which date is probably intended, there is amongst the Scotch Rolls (anno 21 Edw. I. m. 4.) a citation from Edward I., as supreme lord of Scotland, directed to John Baliol, King of Scots, to answer the complaint of Aufrica, cousin and heiress of Magnus, late King of Man, &c. This is in the year 1292-3; and a few years later we again meet with Aufrica, for amongst the ancient charters in the British Museum is one marked "V. 73." It is a deed by which "Aufrica, heiress of the land of Man," gives up her right therein "to her noble and potent husband, Simon de Montagu." This deed is dated at Bridgewater, on Thursday the Vigil of the Annunciation, 1305; i.e. March 24, 1306.

In this charter (V. 73.) she calls herself Aufrica de Connought: and this is rather curious, for in a volume of pedigrees in the British Museum, in the handwriting of Robert Glover, Somerset Herald (Bib. Harl. 807.), she is said to be the daughter of Fergus, Lord of Galloway (Galway?), and Queen of Man. Galway it is in another MS. in the same collection (MSS. Harl. 1074. folio 22.), where she is styled "Aufrica, Reyne de Man," and daughter of Fergus, Lord of Galway. In both these MSS. she is said to be the wife of Simon de Montagu, who is styled "Roy de Man par sa femme."

Replies to Minor Queries.

Old Scots March (Vol. v., p. 104.).

—The following quotation from a "Dissertation on Scottish Music," by Mr. Tytler, of Woodhouselee (the grandfather of the historian), contained in the Transactions of the Society of Scottish Antiquaries, vol. i. p. 486., although not an answer to his Query, may perhaps prove interesting to J.M.:—

"To the wandering harpers we are certainly indebted for that species of music which is now scarcely known, I mean the Port. Almost every great family had a Port that went by the name of the family. Of the few that are still preserved are, Port Lennox, Port Gordon, Port Seton, and Port Athole, which are all of them excellent in their kind. The Port is not of the martial strain of the march, as some have conjectured; those above named being all in the plaintive strain, and modulated for the harp.

"The pibroch, the march or battle-tune of the Highland clans, with the different strains introduced of the coronich, &c., is fitted for the bagpipe only: its measure, in the pas grave of the Highland piper, equipped with his flag and military ensigns, when marching up to battle, is stately and animating, rising often to a degree of fury."

Although anxious to do so, I have never yet been able to meet with any of the ports here referred to.

E. N.

Elizabeth, Equestrian Figure of (Vol. iv., p. 231.).

—The "unnatural gait" which MR. LAWRENCE inquires about, is known in Spain as the "paso Castiliano;" and supplies the place of the more familiar trot, which the Spanish horses are rarely broken into.

I did not see the piece of plate alluded to, but probably the horse was a Spanish (Andalusian) jennet, which would account for the peculiarity of the pace. I cannot explain how this step is taught, but Spanish horses fall into it at once on being touched with the spur, and simultaneously curbed; and they perform long journeys thus, at the rate of five miles an hour, with little fatigue to themselves or their riders. Does not the dromedary also pace in the same way?

G. W. T.

Meaning of Stickle (Vol. iv., p. 209.).

—MR. RELTON'S supposition that the word stickle is used for a pool, is at variance with the common usage of the word in Devonshire, where only I have met with it. It is there used to describe the shallow swift running water immediately below a pool. It is thus equivalent to the word rapids. It is by no means obsolete, or a mere technical term of the "patient anglers." The opposition in the line quoted, "Near to some stickle or deep bay," would alone have been a good reason to doubt whether it could be the same as pool.

G. W. T.

Latin Names of Towns (Vol. i., pp. 287. 402. 474.).

—There is a class of persons who ought to be contributors to (⁕ ?) (I like the idea of a recent correspondent better than "N. & Q." with its marks of quotation) to a much larger extent than is the case. I mean those who having asked questions, and profited by the answer, find additional answer, or better answer, by their subsequent researches. As one of these, in reference to my Query about Latin names of towns in Vol. i., I mention the list given in Riccioli's Geographia et Hydrographiæ Reformatæ, of which the first edition was licensed in 1658 (I don't know where it was printed), and the record is of Venice, folio, 1672. This work contains, from more than 250 authors whose names are given, more than 8500 Latin names rendered into vernacular, and a much larger number reversely given.

M.

Llandudno, on the Great Orme's Head (Vol. v., p. 175.).

—L. G. T. will find, in Wanderings in North Wales, by William Cathrall, published by W.S. Orr and Co., the following answer to his Query:—

"There are several copper mines conducted here with great success. In October, 1849, the miners in the course of their labours, broke into an immense cavern, the roof of which, being one mass of stalactite, reflected back their lights with dazzling splendour. On examination the work turned out to be an ancient work, probably Roman, the benches, stone hammers, &c. used by that ancient people, having been found entire, together with many bones of mutton. The bones were to all appearance as fresh, though impregnated with copper, as they were when denuded of their fleshy covering, after remaining, as they must have done, nearly 2000 years in the bowels of the earth. The cavern is about forty yards long."

The date of the cavern is, therefore, long anterior to the Catholic times.

WM. DURRANT COOPER.

Brozier (Vol. ii., p. 44.).

—An Essex clergyman, who agrees with MR. GATTY in deriving the word from the Greek verb Βρωσκω, to devour, or eat like a beast, observes, that we still describe that act when we speak of "the browsing cattle." He also mentions that when he was at Westminster, the word was there used in the same sense as at Eton, and he well recollects one of his schoolfellows broziered to such an extent that his life was despaired of.

BRAYBROOKE.

Passage in Troilus and Cressida (Vol. v., p. 178.).

—In reply to your correspondent W. S. D. I have only to say, that my folio of 1632, with early manuscript emendations, does not contain any alteration of the line in Troilus and Cressida, Act I. Sc. 3.:

I may take this opportunity of saying that no play in my volume is more patiently corrected than Troilus and Cressida; and that in a preceding speech by Nestor it confirms a correction by Theobald in the first line—godlike for "godly;" and by Sir Thomas Hanmer in the last line—replies for "retires." Malone printed returns after Pope, which answers the sense very well, but is hardly so probable a misprint. I am sorry to say that I thought otherwise when I published my Shakspeare; and I never can sufficiently regret that this corrected copy of the second folio did not fall into my hands until some years after I had completed that undertaking.

J. PAYNE COLLIER.

Nelson Family (Vol. v., p. 176.).

—If FRANCISCUS will refer to the pedigree of the Nelson family, in Hoare's History of Modern Wiltshire (Downton Hundred), he will find that William Nelson, who settled at Dunham parva in Norfolk, and who was the great-grandfather of the naval hero, was the son of Edmund Nelson of Scarning, in the same county, and grandson of Thomas of the same place, which Thomas, according to the same pedigree, was the son of another William, who is stated to have been a Nelson of Mandesley, the same family from which the Chuddleworth Nelsons are derived in Burke's account. I have tested the general accuracy of this pedigree, which was, I believe, compiled by Mr. Matcham from the parochial registers, but I much doubt the assumed descent from the Mandesley family, as I find Nelsons inhabiting the neighbourhood of Scarning at a period prior to the supposed migration.

G. A. C.

Maps of Africa (Vol. v., p. 174.).

—I have been intending for some time to write to you on the same subject as Paterfamiliæ, but the Christian grace of laziness has been too strong for me. Paterfamiliæ, however, has aroused me. My case is this: five years ago I commenced a map, for my own use, of the shores of the Mediterranean, and such countries as received Christianity up to the period of the Council of Nice; and I had a hope of eventually being able to carry out the plan suggested by DR. MAITLAND, in his work on the Dark Ages, and an intention of making mysterious marks to indicate the scene of any great persecution, remarkable synod, or other notable event. Well! I got on very well, by the help of Kiepert and Cramer, through Greece, Asia Minor, and Italy. Indeed, I managed to be content with all my sources, as far as Europe was concerned; but when I had advanced as far as North Africa, I came to a dead stop. There really was absolutely no map that I could find that I could trust for the site of Carthage or Alexandria. There were no "N. & Q." when I found myself at a stand-still; but I asked all the friends about me, and I verily believe that to the majority of those I spoke to it appeared an unreasonable thing for any man to expect a map of the regions I wanted described. There seemed a kind of feeling that when a man had got a map of Caffraria and Egypt, and perhaps knew where Algiers might be, he knew quite as much about Africa as he ought. Can any of your correspondents now help me? Is there no authentic French map of at least some portion of the coast; or is there any map in existence among ourselves that is not palpably a "fancy portrait?"

AJAX.

Muggleton (Vol. v., p. 80.).

—The Muggletonian sect probably still exists. I was surprised at finding a shop for the sale of its publications immediately within St. John's Gate, Clerkenwell, about five years ago. Perhaps R.S. may think it worth while to look whether the same trade be still carried on there.

J. C. R.

Passage in Hamlet (Vol. v., p. 169.).

—I have just read A. E. B.'s Notes on Shakspeare, No. II. His long criticism, ending in his own suggestion of a new reading of the passage in Hamlet, does not convince me that he has found the true reading yet. I suggest the following:

This reading of mine only makes it necessary to substitute the letters n and ll, for a and o, in the quarto of 1605.

Dull is a favourite word of Shakspeare's; and surely it makes at least as good sense as any of the other readings. It is questionable whether the lines are Shakspeare's; for the whole passage, from "This heavy-headed revel," to "To his own scandal," is omitted in the first and second folios, and also in the first known quarto of "1603."

To prove how easy it is for printers, or copiers from original manuscripts of authors, to make mistakes, I will call your attention to a serious blunder in the first edition of Ben Jonson's verses addressed to the Earl of Somerset, which are in the Athenæum of Feb. 21st. The twenty-first and twenty-second lines are thus printed:

Ben wrote "immortall."

H. F.

Theoloneum (Vol. v., p. 105.).

—Theoloneum is a toll, i.e. the payment made in markets and fairs for goods bought and sold. It was the property of the lord to whom the fair or market belonged by patent from the crown.

"adeo libera et quieta sicut antea tenuerunt Winchelsee et la Rye ratione donationis eis facte a felicis memorie sancto Adwardo, et concessionum ac confirmationum postmodum abitarum a Willelmo et Henrico Regibus Anglie de terra de Staniges cum omnibus apendiciis suis. Inter que reputabantur Winchelsee et la Rye. In cujus regis Willelmi carta continebantur hujusmodi libertates; videlicet, quod predicti abbas et monachi Phiscanenses habeant terram de Staniges, cum omnibus omnino apendiciis suis et cum omnibus legibus, libertatibus, liberis consuetudinibus quietanciis placitis, querelis, et causis que sunt vel fore possunt, absque ulla inquietudine et diminutione cujuslibet secularis vel judiciaria potestatis sicut res ad Phiscum dominicum pertinentes et quod predicta terra cum omnibus apendiciis suis libera sit et quieta ab omni consuetudine terrene servitutis et ab omni dominacione et subjeccione Baronum et principum et omnium aliorum. Et quod prefati abbas et Monachi Phiscanenses et eorum ministri habeant omnem regiam libertatem et consuetudinem et omnem justiciam suam de omnibus rebus et negociis que in terra sua evenient vel poterunt evenire, nec aliquis nisi per eos se inde intromittat. Quia hoc totum regale beneficium est et ab omni servitute quietum. Et quod si aliquis quicquam contra hujusmodi concessionem presumat, ad phiscum dominicum coactus auri libras centum persolvat."

I have ventured to subjoin this recital from the charter of William, thinking that it may be acceptable to your querist, as fully explanatory of the transaction to which his question refers.

LAMBERT A. LARKING.

Donkey (Vol. v., pp. 78. 165.).

—In Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, v. 16954., we have—

There is also an old proverbial simile:

It is supposed that Dun was a nickname applied to the ass from his colour, in the same way as Burnell, in the Chester Whitsun Playes, MS. Harl. 2013., and Russell applied to the fox, Canterbury Tales, v. 15340.

As to the termination key, it is probably (as in monkey, jockey, which are the only words of similar formation which I can call to mind at present) the same as kin, which has the force of a diminutive in words like lambkin, mannikin, &c.

JUVENIS.

Sir Samuel Garth (Vol. v., p. 151.).

—I believe it will be found difficult to find the place of this celebrated physician's birth. In the fourth volume of Mr. Surtees' History of the County of Durham, pp. 26, 27., there is an interesting account of him, to which is added a pedigree of his family. Surtees, in a note, says:

"There is no trace of his having ever revisited the north, and I have in vain endeavoured to glean anything of correspondence, or of traditional anecdote."

FRA. MEWBURN.

Darlington.

Princes of Wales and Earls of Chester, &c.: Mr. Bush's Collection (Vol. v., p. 178.).

—I suspect Mr. Bush's proposed collection was never published. In an old MS. account of the Fellows of King's, I find the following extract. I copy it as it stands:

"1718.

"Cha. Bush, of Harmondsworth, Middx. Res on being denied his Degree of A. B. in College from Party.... A Clk. of the Record Off. in the Tower, 1725. April 27, 1726, he published proposals for printing by Subsr. A lott of Charters and Letters Patent, and other Instruments concerning the Creation and Investiture of the eldest sons of the Ks of Engl. as Princes of Wales, D. of Cornwall & E. of Chester & Flint, together with several Extracts out of the Parl. Rolls relating to the Honor, Dignity, & Estate of the P. of Wales, from the time of Edward first, P. of Wales (afterwards K. E. 2) to the time of E. 4. inclusive, faithfully collated from the Records of the Tower by C. B. one of the Clks. of the Record Off. in the T. & late Fell. of K. C. C.

"He was taken into the Ordnance Office to assist in methodising the Papers belonging to it, and was after Sec. to the Board of Ordnance."

It would seem Mr. Bush's proposals did not meet with a favourable reception, or perhaps his removal to an important government office prevented his fulfilling his intentions. It is to be hoped he returned his subscriptions (if any).

J. H. L.

Litera scripta manet (Vol. v., p. 200.).

—The following extract, if not complete answer to the query on Litera scripta manet, is a curious instance of the early use of that maxim, and I transcribe it with pleasure as a specimen of one of the best informed and most interesting of our medieval prose writers. I rely, as to orthography and punctuation, on Joseph Ames:

"Considering that wordes ben perisshyng, wayne, and forgateful, and wrytynes duelle and abide permanent, as I rede, Vox audita perit, litera scripta manet. Thise thinges have caused that the faites and deeds of auncient men ben sette by declaracion in fair and aourned volumes, to thende that science and artes, lerned and founden, of thinges passed might be had in perpetuel memorye and remembraunce," &c.

William Caxton.

Westmestre by London, 1481.

BOLTON CORNEY.

Miscellaneous.

NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC.

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We have received from Messrs. Rivington a new volume containing Eight Essays on Various Subjects, by the Rev. S. R. Maitland, D.D. The pages of "N. & Q." have been so frequently enriched by contributions from the able pen of the writer of these Essays, and he has in the work in question spoken so kindly of this journal, that we feel it will be more respectful to one who does not need our praise—which might under these circumstances be attributed to interested motives—if we limit our notice of the subject of the volume to an enumeration of the titles of the essays. They are as follows:—I. On the Mystical Interpretation of Scripture; II. Sacred Art—No. 1. Music; III. Sacred Art—No. 2. Painting; IV. Matter of Fact; V. The Fulness of the Gentiles; VI. The Waldenses and Albigenses; VII. Perrin's History of the Vaudois; VIII. The Lollards. When we add that to these are appended the following notes:—A. Cowper's Nightcap; B. Vauxhall; C. The School of Declamation; D. On Political Prophecies; E. The "Mirabilis Liber" and "Petrus de Bardis"; F. Extracts from Lollard Prophecies: we think we have shown all who know the learning, honesty of purpose, strong common sense, and racy humour of the Essayist, that the book is one to be looked after, and to be looked at.

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