early connexion of "The Buffs" regiment with the City of London. AN OLD OFFICER OF " THE BUFFS." JOHN THORPE, ARCHITECT (6th S. iv. 128).—It is generally considered that the two architects named were not the same person. John of Padua has been stated to be the same as Dr. John Caius, or Keyes, of Cambridge. Some papers on this question were published in the Building News for February, November, and December, 1878, to which I would refer your correspondent. WYATT PAPWORTH. WHEN WAS "APPOINTED TO BE READ IN CHURCHES "" FIRST USED? "AUTHORIZED VERSION" (6th S. iv. 24, 72, 130).-It may be well to note in connexion with this subject that in the year 1703 there were two churches in the diocese of Carlisle in which the Authorized Version was not used. Bishop Nicolson's Miscellany Accounts state that at Ulndale "they have not a Bible of the new translation" (78), and at Cammerton that "Their Bible is of the old Translation: For here we met with the Ballat of Ballats, instead of ye Song of Solomon, as well as at Ulndale" (85). I have heard that the late Rev. John Mason Neale, D.D., warden of Sackville College, near East Grinstead, was accustomed to use the Vulgate version in reading the lessons, translating into the vernacular at sight. I cannot, however, give my authority for this, though I believe it to be a trustworthy one. If I mistake not my informant added that the bishop of the diocese objected to this practice. If this were so, it does not prove, or even make it probable, that Dr. Neale was in the EDWARD PEACOCK. wrong. Bottesford Manor, Brigg. MR. SOLLY further objects to my calling Mr. Wesley "head usher of Westminster School," because he believes that he was only so appointed in 1718, "that is, at least, two years subsequent to the publication of his poem." Now this I doubt : 1. Because the evidence of Wesley's own letters shows that in January 1716-17 his address was "Dean's Yard, Westminster" (see Southey's Life of Wesley, 1858, i. 321). 2. Because 1716, as the date of publication, must have been subsequent to August 3, on which day the castigation of Curll took place. 3. Because his biographer (Mr. Nichols) says, "Early in 1732, when Mr. Wesley had been Head Usher of Westminster School twenty years, the chair of Under Master became vacant." This, according to Welch, was in 1733. 4. Because the inscription on his tombstone, in St. George's Churchyard, Tiverton, concludes thus : "Therefore after a life spent In the laborious employment of teaching youth, As one of the ushers in Westminster School, As head master of the Free-School at Tiverton, November 6th, 1739, in the 49th year of his age." These all indicate that the appointment must have been very shortly after he became eligible by having been admitted B.A. 5th May, 1715. Welch does not give the appointments of the ushers. MR. SOLLY in correcting my grievous errors has committed a far worse blunder. He writes of Neck or Nothing as "Wesley's poetical epistle to John Dunton"; and again, "his letter to John Dunton was published in 1716." Mr. Wesley's brochure was not an epistle or a letter to John Dunton. EDMUND CURLL, BOOKSELLER (6th S. ii. 484; He cleverly personates Dunton, and iii. 95 ; iv. 98, 112).-When my paragraph ap-solatory Letter from Mr. Dunton to Mr. C-ll, &c." designates his piece Neck or Nothing: a Conpeared in print I was somewhat startled, for, supposing it had long since gone into the Editor's waste-paper basket, it had escaped my memory. Exception is taken as to its correctness. MR. EDWARD SOLLY questions whether it is quite correct to say that Neck or Nothing was written by Sam. Wesley, jun., M.A., because it was published in 1716, and he did not take his degree of M.A. until April 5, 1718. I must admit myself corrected. Still, to distinguish him from another Sam. Wesley, I gave the name as it appears on the title of the book to which I referred as containing the piece. During the past month nearly every periodical we have opened has contained some reference to the lamented decease of the Dean of Westminster, and in many cases we have read in the enumeration of his chief writings, Sinai and Palestine. Must we take exception to this and say that the Dean of Westminster did not write Sinai and Palestine, but that it was written by a Canon of Canterbury? Buckland Brewer Vicarage. J. INGLE Dredge. THORNEY ABBEY (6th S. iv. 108).-Le Pla.MR. BAYLEY would find several Le Pla wills at Somerset House. The only will which I have noted is that (Henchman, 263) of Jacob Le Pla, of Thornhaugh, co. Northampton, who desired to be buried near his relations in the church of Thorney Abbey. He names his late brother John, John's widow Jane, and his grandchildren John Le Pla, and John, Sarah, Anne, and Charles Baley; his late brother Daniel's children, viz., Daniel, Mary Pannett, and Ann Crofts; his sister Guérin and her family; his sister Susanna Deseon and her daughter Susanna Renshaw; his brother Mark Le Pla's two daughters; and others. Mrs. Guérin's descendants are found enumerated in a privately printed history of the Guérin family. There were other refugees of a very similar name-Le Play-whose descendants, now extant only in the female line, I desired to trace, and whom this will proved to have no connexion with the family of Le Pla. these symbolic stones. He is a great authority on the Harley. A John Harley, believed to be of French refugee origin, had issue by his marriage in 1743 with Elizabeth (?), three sons and six daughters. Of the sons I know nothing, but there were numerous descendants in the female line, and one of these, Ann Goodall, just a century after the aforenamed match of her great-grand-sidered a pendant to the monolith in Hyde Park. parents, married into a family of undoubted Huguenot origin-that of Grellier. H. W. New Univ. Club. In the neighbouring town of Wisbech there are, or there were quite lately, representatives of at least two of the families inquired after. A Le Tall is, or was, a stone mason, and a Le Pla (known as Lepla), a tailor in that interesting old town. I should advise your correspondent to inquire further of one of the many courteous inhabitants of the borough. Peterborough might also be tried. TIBI. There lives at Burwell, near Newmarket (or did live in 1878), a small shopkeeper named Lepla. C. F. S. WARREN, M.A. Farnborough, Banbury. THE MONOLITH IN HYDE PARK (6th S. iv. 49). -This monolith came from Moorswater, in the parish of Liskeard, Cornwall, where it quarried on Jan. 3, 1862. One of the excavators employed in the work was accidentally killed, and his death gave occasion for publishing the following works : was "William Sandy, who died by an accident at Moorswater, Liskeard, January 3rd, 1862 [Wesleyan Tracts, No. 278A]. London, published by John Mason," n.d. [1862], 12mo. pp. 12. "The Grace of God manifested in the Life and Death of William Sandy, who died from an accident...... Second Edition. Liskeard. Sold at E. Moon's; London, Wer theim [J. Wright, printer, Bristol], 1862," 24mo. pp. 32, 2d. Signed, E. M., i. e., Eleanor Moon. They are of the same nature. The one by the Thames, instead of the Nile, and the other placed where it is, in a hollow by water and the Serpenfor studies in comparative mythology, the retine, may afford to future archaeologists grounds lations between the Egyptian and Druidical, the Oriental and Northern religions, and food for speculation on the typical accessories in the location of these objects of worship, which may or may, not have intended, as in the stones of Venice, medieval and antique symbolism. W. J. BIRCH. NUMISMATIC (6th S. iv. 49).—The coin described is William Wyon's celebrated "Gothic crown," one of the finest of his works. It was intended for a current five-shilling piece to match the florin, but it is said that when eight thousand impressions had been struck off and issued (in the spring of 1847) the die broke, and no more could be coined. These Gothic crowns are not rare, but fetch high prices when in brilliant condition. Those with the inscription on the edge were intended for circulation (I have seen specimens which had apparently been in circulation); but the artist's proofs with (or without) inscribed edges are very beautiful and worth good prices. A proof is worth from about thirty shillings upwards; an ordinary specimen much less. HENRY WM. HENFREY. Bromley, Kent. history of the law as to the disposition of the BARBER SURGEONS' HALL (6th S. iv. 49).—The Sir R. K. Wilson in his useful little book the dead bodies of criminals is thus summed up by History of Modern English Law:— I have looked in Old and New London, the Illustrated London News, and in the Parliamentary papers about the parks, for some particulars as to the erection of the monolith near the Serpentine, but "Death in public by hanging, which, in case of murder, have obtained no information. No doubt, how-science, under an act passed just before Blackstone was followed by dissection for the benefit of anatomical ever, further search in newspapers and other perio-wrote."-P. 62. dicals, issued in 1862 or 1863 would throw some light on the matter. GEO. C. BOASE. 15, Queen Anne's Gate. This monolith is a Phallic symbol. In the May number, vol. iii., of the Revue de l'Histoire des Religions of this year, there is an article by François Lenormant on betyles, those stone monuments spread over the world. He begins by giving a description, as well as the purpose of this monolith, the most common in use. The essay of F. Lenormant is exhaustive on the subject of "Dissection of a murderer's body was made optional in 1832, and abolished in 1860."-P. 223. The practice of granting the bodies for dissection seems to have first been authorized by the 32 Hen. VIII., c. 42. The iniquities of Burke, Bishop, and Williams led to its abolition. EDWARD H. MARSHALL, M.A. "THE MOTHER HUFF CAP" (6th S. iv. 49).Probably the same person as Mother Damnable, who kept the "Mother Red Cap," Kentish Town. In Baker's comedy of Hampstead Heath, 1706, THE SENTENCE FOR HIGH TREASON (6th S. i. 431, 476; ii. 269, 523; iii. 237).—This subject has given origin to many communications in "N. & Q."; still, for the fullest and most trustworthy information I would refer your readers to a small octavo book, published, by the authority of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in London in the year 1709, by the Queen's printer, and approved of by the Judges, whose names are appended to the second part. It is described in the following imprimatur: "It is ordered by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament Assembled that when the several Transcripts or Collections of the Statutes now in force relating to High Treason and Misprision of High Treason, and the Method of Trial for those Crimes shall be subscribed by all the Judges they shall be forthwith printed and published by Her Majesties Printers for the better Information of the People of Great Britain in relation to those Laws. Math. Johnson, Cler' Parliamentor'." The sentences in full for high treason, for the clipping and counterfeiting of coin, for women found guilty of treason, with directions for a jury of matrons if required, are fully given, and form an interesting record of our legal arrangements in the reign of good Queen Anne. The book is still in its original binding of leather, and impressed with the royal arms and the motto 'Semper Eadem." W. FRAZER, F.R.C.S.I. 66 SLOPING CHURCH FLOORS (6th S. iii. 228, 392, 417, 477; iv. 37).-Badingham Church, Suffolk, being built on a bank, slopes up from west to east. WILLIAM DEANE. MUMMY WHEAT (6th S. ii. 306, 415, 452; iii. 135, 158, 212, 278).-The question as to whether wheat that had been found in mummies has ever germinated has been discussed in "N. & Q." It may therefore be of service to reproduce the following passage: BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES (6th S. iv. 45).-In endorsing the remarks of ESTE on this subject I would make a remark on one point which he has overlooked. Some booksellers seem content to give us catalogues which shall vex rather than assist or please us. I refer to those (and they are not a few) which are published without method or arrangement. As in the contents of a library it is not enough to know that a large and valuable library really contains that of which we are in need, but to be of service to us we must know where to find it, so in the case of a catalogue, whatever be the form adopted, whether alphabetical or classified, whether the books are arranged under authors' names or subjects, unless the method is known, a search is at the best a troublesome task. But I speak more particularly of those catalogues in which the books seem to be heaped together without any regard for the patience of the searcher, and in which it is next to impossible to find anything we may be in search of, unless we carefully read through every page and every line thereon. For instance, I am collecting books relating to Devon and Cornwall; that is my speciality, and I should therefore in most cases be content with glancing over those portions of a catalogue under which such entries occur, of course looking as well for any authors whose works I may know and be in search of. The remainder of the catalogue is to me so much "unexplored tracts," and I have no need to wander therein. HISTORY OF LINCOLNSHIRE (6th S. iv. 28, 72). But if I am compelled, by the want of arrange--For an account of W. Marrat and his History ment in the catalogue, to inspect every entry in of Lincolnshire, see "N. & Q." 4th S. i. 365, 489. order to find what I want, I shall gradually come The work was never completed, for the reason given to avoid the catalogues which present such at the last reference. R. R.'s copy contains as obstacles, and confine my attention solely to those much of the letter-press as any I have seen or heard in which the arrangement is simple and the work of. My copy wants pages 345-362 and thirty of research easy. LIBRARIAN. pages of the Additions and Corrections" of Plymouth. vol. iii., and there is no title-page to vol. vi. (? any "The Prince informed us, too, that he had planted corn taken from Egyptian mummies, which had been brought over to Vienna and opened there. The seeds had germinated and produced a crop. I did not sufficiently attend to be able to recall to mind all that was such as it is, may have some interest, as the question said about this mummy corn; but the memorandum, has lately been mooted in England whether genuine mummy corn will grow or not. There could be no doubt of the genuineness of that which the Prince had planted." -Fraser's Mag., January, 1860, p. 81, article "Conversations with Prince Metternich," signed R. R. Noel. ANON. published), but otherwise includes all that R. R. reports; and in addition to the list of plates mentioned by K. P. D. E. (4th S. i. 365), a view of Lutton facing p. 67, vol. ii., and two pages of engraved arms: (1) Ascough, Ailmer, Anderson, Archer, Allen, Affordby; (2) Ashton, Basset, Baron, Barnard, Curtois, Carr. W. E. B. PECULIAR VERSIFICATION (6th S. ii. 513; iv. 73).--I think I have met with instances of this more than once-among the Elizabethan poets I believe. See Sir R. Sidney's Works, by Grosart, 1877, vol. ii. p. 202, for an example. R. R. Boston, Lincolnshire. A PHILIPPINE (6th S. iii. 68, 272).-In America philopena is the word used, sometimes corrupted into fillipeen and phillipina. Webster defines it thus: "A small present made in accordance with a custom said to have been introduced from Germany. A person who, in eating almonds, finds one containing two kernels, presents one of them to a person of the opposite sex, and whichever, when they next meet, shall first say Philopena' is entitled to receive from the other a present bearing this name. The expression in H. German is vielliebchen, L. German vielliebken, much loved, pronounced somewhat like philip ken. Some, therefore, suppose this to be the origin of the word, by a change of the termination into pena (Lat. pœna), from an idea that the gift was a penalty, others would derive it directly from Gr. pilog, a friend, and pœna, penalty." Worcester gives a somewhat similar definition. Bartlett, in his Dictionary of Americanisms, gives the corrupted form of the word, and his explanation as follows: "Fillipeen or Phillipina (German vielliebchen).—There is a custom common in the Northern States, at dinner or evening parties, when almonds or other nuts are eaten, to reserve such as are double or contain two kernels, which are called fillipeens. If found by a lady she gives one of the kernels to a gentleman, when both eat their respective kernels. When the parties again meet, each strives to be the first to exclaim Fillipeen,' for by 80 doing he or she is entitled to a present from the other. Oftentimes the most ingenious methods are resorted to by both ladies and gentlemen to surprise each other with the sudden exclamation of this mysterious word, which is to bring forth the forfeit. Another way of obtaining the forfeit by this game is to get one to take something from the hand of the other. In a book on German life and manners, entitled A Bout with the Burschens; or, Heidelberg in 1844, is an account of the existence of this custom in Germany, which at the same time furnishes us with the etymology of the word:- Amongst the queer customs and habits of the Germans, there is one which struck me as being particularly original, and which I should recommend to the consideration of turfmen in England; who might, perhaps, find it nearly as good a way of getting rid of their spare cash as backing horses that may have been made safe to lose, and prizefighters who have never intended to fight. It is a species of betting, and is accomplished thus: Each of two persons eats one of the kernels of a nut or almond which is double. The first of the two who, after so doing, takes any thing from the hand of the other without saying "Ich denke," (I think), has to make the other a present, of a The value which is sometimes previously determined and sometimes left to the generosity of the loser. presents are called vielliebchens, and are usually trifles of a few florins' value: a pipe, riding-whip, or such like.'" R. C. O. Cincinnati, O. Both custom and word are German. Philippine is a dreadful corruption of vielliebchen, i. e. much beloved. When two kernels are found in one almond they, as twins, are supposed to represent a strong feeling of mutual affection, love each other very much, are much attached, are, in short, vielliebchen. The figurative meaning may be thus easily guessed. This very season I have lost a good many vielliebchen, ladies, as your correspondent very truly says, being more wide awake than we are, and having a particular knack of catching their twin vielliebchen by addressing him first the following morning with:-"Bon jour, Philippine," "Guten Morgen, Vielliebchen," or "Good morning, Philippine." This corruption of vielliebchen into philippine is chiefly due to the Germans themselves not observing that nice distinction between b and p, d and t. A good many words have thus undergone a strange transformation, of which I may be allowed to mention only beiwache into bivouac, bivoac, bivouaquer, and Was ist das? i. e. What is that? into French vasistas or vagistas. GEO. A. MULLER. Mentone. "POURING OIL ON TROUBLED WATERS " (6th S. iii. 69, 252, 298).-I have just come across the following, from the Liber Dictus Paradisus, by Simeon Metaphrastes. Metaphrastes flor. circa A.D. 900, and his book was printed at Venice in 1541. Every one knows that Agapius made a wretched abridgment of this book, and called it The Lives of the Saints. The extract, somewhat abridged, is as follows:-The devils hated St. Nicholas for throwing down the temple of Diana in Lycia; and when he was dead used all their endeavours to prevent pilgrims from visiting his sepulchre. On one occasion a large number of pilgrims took ship for Myra, and Satan, in the guise of an old woman, coming on board, said to the pilgrims, "I also wish to go to the tomb of St. Nicholas, but cannot do so now. Oblige me by taking this cruse of oil, and burning it in the lamps upon the sepulchre of the saint." This the pilgrims promised to do. When the ship was now in the middle of the sea, the crew expected that the ship would become a on the second day a furious tempest arose, and wreck; but St. Nicholas, making his appearance, said to the pilgrims, "Fear not; but throw the cruse of oil which you carry with you into the sea, for the woman' who gave it you was the devil." As soon as the oil was thrown overboard it blazed into a great flame, and sent forth an odious "stench of sulphur and sin," proving to demonstration that it came from hell. The wind dropped, the sky cleared, the sea lulled, and the ship ran merrily into the Lycian port. E. COBHAM BREWER. 66 About eleven years ago, when entering the Manukau Heads, New Zealand, in a small ⚫ steamer from Wanganui, I can well recollect, being on the bridge at the time, the chief mate leaning over to leeward and pouring occasionally from a small phial a few drops of oil over the side of the vessel. Being curious to know the reason, I asked his motive for so doing, and he informed me that it was to prevent the huge rollers," which were travelling the same way as the vessel, only at a much higher speed, breaking over the stem and "pooping" her. I watched the effect for some time, and observed that the oil appeared to spread over the roller in the wake of the vessel and to prevent it breaking over the stern, while on either side the crests broke with great violence. I may add that we were at the time passing over the bar where the ill-fated Orpheus was lost some years before. F. A. B. In the narrative of the Loss of the Amazon, by the Rev. C. A. Johns, published for S.P.C.K., it is stated, on or about p. 107, that the waves could not break, from the quantity of oil, after the wreck. ED. MARSHALL. SIR JAMES BOURCHIER (6th S. iii. 247, 291).— So far back as "N. & Q." 5th S. xi. 427, I find that HERMENTRUDE propounded the question, "Whose daughter was Anne, wife of William Bourchier?" and now is in the pleasant position of answering the query. In Baker's Chronicals of the Kings of England (1674) it is clearly stated that Anne's second marriage was with William Bourchier, Earl of Ewe (not Ew), and the same authority confirms HERMENTRUDE and MR. WHITE as to whose daughter she was. I find a Countess of Ewe (Allice) was wife of Ralph de Isondon. I also note that a "Joan," who married John Cowper of Strode, in the parish of Slingfold, Sussex (in the reign of Edward IV.), conveyed, in order to her marriage, her property to (amongst others) a John Bourchier. Elsewhere I find one or two Bourchiers mentioned, but none named James. Was Cardinal Bourchier, Archbishop of Canterbury, who crowned Henry VII., any connexion of the Bourchiers in question? Swansea. ALFRED CHAS. JONAS. TWO CLASSIC EPITAPHS (6th S. iv. 8, 135).Of the epitaph on Mary, Countess of Pembroke, alluded to by MR. BAYNE at the latter reference, and generally ascribed to Ben Jonson, Stephen Collet, alias Thomas Byerley, in his Relics of Literature, says :— "The well-known epitaph on the celebrated Countess of Pembroke, the sister of Sir Philip Sidney, has been generally ascribed to Ben Jonson. The first stanza is printed in Jonson's poems; but it is found in the MS. volume of poems by William Browne, the author of Britannia's Pastorals, preserved in the Lansdowne Collection, British Museum, No. 777; and on this evidence may be fairly appropriated to him, particularly as it is known that he was a great favourite with William, Earl of Pembroke, son of the Countess." Collet then gives the epitaph in extenso. FREDK. RULE. Ashford, Kent. "INLAND": OUTLAND (6th S. iv. 7, 113).—I have now no doubt that the Sussex man who spoke to me a short time ago of "the inland team" used the word in its old meaning, to signify the "home" team, which was employed only on the farm, and not for journeys. The expression seems well understood here. MR. E. MARSHALL'S explanation is founded on the supposition that the farm to which the man referred is on the coast; but this is not the case. Let me add that the sister-word outland still lingers here in its old meaning. A shepherd spoke to me not long ago of an outlandish village, merely in regard to its distance from home; and gipsies and harvesters are generally described as outlandish people, or foreigners, in the same sense as the word is used in Nehemiah xiii. 26, “Him [Solomon] did outlandish women cause to sin." W. D. PARISH. CANONIZATION: HENRY VI. (6th S. iv. 146).— It is, I presume, since the system has been organized that fees are required for canonization. There is a mystery attending the burial of Henry VI., who was to have been canonized, but the Chapters of Windsor and Westminster quarrelled over the question of who should pay the fees, and it is not very clear where the body of the king finally rested. What is the nature of the usual fee, and to what amount does it approach? SEBASTIAN. AN OLD GAME: "THE DEVIL ON TWO STICKS" (6th S. iv. 29, 131).—A mathematical ex |