ing the periodical publications of the Catholic press. It does not seem surprising to me that there should not exist in the British Museum Library a perfect set of the magazines issued by the Catholic body previous to the passing of the Emancipation Act, when I have reason to believe that there is not such a collection in any of the libraries of our great colleges. A little publicity on this point may perhaps do much good, and in some measure prevent, by calling attention to the want in time, what would otherwise speedily prove an irreparable loss. From various causes it will be found that the names of Catholic printers and publishers who flourished during the fifty years previous to the Emancipation Act of 1829 are very poorly represented in the bibliographical and typographical dictionaries of this country. Many of them are entirely omitted, and even such men as Thomas Haydock, whose Bible alone should have given him a place in typographical history, obtain only a passing allusion. I subjoin a short account of the earliest Catholic magazines, none of which are mentioned by MR. WALFord. In the Address "To the Catholic Clergy and Laity of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland," published in the first number of the Catholic Magazine and Review, Feb., 1831, by the committee of clergymen who were the shareholders and proprietors of the work, a regret was expressed that the Catholic body had no periodical conducted by any of the clergy at that time. An attempt was indeed made in 1813, and another had been made some time before, by a reverend gentleman now no more, but well known at the time by his writings, to establish a Catholic magazine and review, but in both instances, after the publication of a few numbers, the learned editors were obliged to desist from their labours, owing, in a great measure, to the limited circulation of the work, and to a certain apathy of the Catholic body, brought on, no doubt, by the length of time that they were detained in civil bondage, and not a little, perhaps, to their very steadiness and certainty in the Faith. It is to be regretted that the titles of these two periodicals, with the names of their editors, are not given. I presume, however, that the first two in my list are those referred to. 1. The Catholic Magazine and Reflector, from January to July, 1801, vol. i. Printed for Keating, Brown & Keating, Duke Street, Grosvenor Square, London, by T. Schofield, Dale Street, Liverpool. Small 8vo., with small engraving on title-page. The volume consists of six numbers, each number divided under the titles of "Catholic Magazine" and "The Reflector," consisting of about 64 pp.; title one leaf, 386 pp., and index and errata one leaf. My copy bears no date other than that on the title-page. I have never met with any other volume, and as this is probably the earliest Catholic periodical published in England, I think a copy of the index is well worthy of re- "On the Existence of God, p. 1-On the Eucharist, 2. The Conciliator.-Advertised in the Laity's Directory for 1813, to be continued quarterly, price 6s. 6d., or in weekly numbers 6d. each; comprehending monuments of antiquity, history, biography, defence of revelation, consideration of the doctrines and discipline of the Catholic Church; with a review of such publications as are connected a wove demy with these topics. The conditions are:-"1. That the work be printed in 8vo., on paper, and sold in weekly numbers, containing twenty-four pages of letter-press, at 6d. 2. That in the course of thirteen numbers (one volume) the subjects above will be treated, and three or more fine engravings given. 3. That some copies will be printed on superfine royal paper at 1s. each. "The object of this undertaking is to remove the prejudices which exist against a body of people forming a great and important proportion of the inhabitants of this extensive empire." I have never seen a copy of this publication, and in all probability only a few numbers were issued. 3. The Orthodox Journal was first issued on July 1, 1813, edited and published in London by William Eusebius Andrews, a man to whose excellence and intellectual vigour, combined with indomitable pluck and perseverance, the Catholic press of this country owes much of its rapid advancement. This journal continued till 1820, when it was suspended, in consequence of the editor being then engaged with a weekly newspaper called the Catholic Advocate of Civil and Most, if not all, the numbers Religious Liberty. of the Orthodox Journal (which came out monthly) were both edited and printed by Andrews. I have not seen the first three volumes. In February, 1823, the Orthodox Journal was revived by Andrews, and it continued to the end of 1824, when it was again suspended on account completing the twelfth volume of the Orthodox of the editor being induced to try another news-Journal, continued his exertions in the British paper, which he called the Truth Teller. On the Liberator. Was the last-named a newspaper or a 8th September, 1832, the journal was once more magazine, and was it issued before 1829? The started under the title of the Weekly Orthodox Catholic Vindicator, of which I possess the first Journal of Entertaining Christian Knowledge, twenty-six numbers, cannot be called a magazine, edited, printed, and published by William Eusebius as it was merely a polemical periodical, written in Andrews, Oxford Arms Passage, Warwick Lane, refutation of a Glasgow print. P. J. MULLIN. London, with an illustration every fortnight. After completing four volumes, he hoisted the "Union Jack" at the main, and commenced a new series under the title of the London and Dublin Orthodox Journal of Useful Knowledge, edited, printed, and published by William Eusebius Andrews, 3, Duke Street, Little Britain, London, the first volume commencing on July 4, and ending December 26, 1835. THE TEMPLARS IN LINCOLNSHIRE (6th S. iii. 27).-Evidence is wanting that there were so many preceptories of the order in this county as are included by Sir C. H. J. Anderson in his succinct and readable, and generally most correct, little volume, The Lincoln Pocket Guide, 1880. Temple Bruer, Aslackby, and Willoughton are beyond question, and to these the Venerable Poor Andrews died in the middle of the fourth Archdeacon Trollope, F.S.A., in 1872, in his then volume of this series, April 7, 1837, in the sixty-published work (Sleaford and the Wapentakes of fourth year of his age. The times are now ripe to appreciate the story of his untiring zeal and laborious efforts for the cause of religion and a Catholic press, and I trust that before long some one will undertake to rewrite his biography. During his short illness, and after his death, the volume was continued, at the request of Mr. Andrews, by Mr. John Reed, until his son, Mr. Peter Paul Andrews, was enabled to complete his engagements in Liverpool, after which the fifth volume was commenced, under his editorship, on July 1, 1837. The same style, 8vo., double columns, with engravings of churches, colleges, monasteries, portraits, and miscellaneous subjects, continued to the expiration of the fifteenth and last volume, December 31, 1842. It was printed and published at the same address as before, by Peter Andrews and his sister Mary. I hope to be allowed to supplement this list on a future occasion. Bowdon, Cheshire. JOSEPH GILLOW. 1. I have the Orthodox Journal, by W. E. Andrews, begun, I believe, in June, 1813. I have No. 41, vol. iv., 1816, and sundry other monthly numbers, 1s. each, to 1823. 2. The Catholic Gentleman's Magazine, by Sylvester Palmer, Gent., editor, begun in Feb., 1818; my last number is February, 1819. Printed by William Fiint, Old Bailey; afterwards by F. Marshall, Kenton Street. 66 3. I have supplement to Catholic Spectator, or Catholicon, third series, fourth and last volume, 1826, in which the editor bids farewell to his readers. It appears, therefore, there was more than one volume of that series. J. W. An interesting sketch of Mr. W. E. Andrews, the founder of Catholic journalism in England," from the pen of the author of Abridgment of Lingard's Hist. of Eng., will be found in the Lamp, Dec. 26, 1857. According to this sketch, Mr. Andrews, after Flaxwell and Aswardhun), continued to limit Sir C. H. J. Anderson, at p. 180 of his Guide, gives a list of "Royal Licenses to crenellate_or fortify, granted between 1256 and 1478." He omits "Rot. Pat. 34 Edw. I. De Kernellanda magna porta apud manerium de la Bruer." W. E. B. THE EMBLEMS OF THE FOUR EVANGELISTS (6th S. ii. 467).-MR. DORE asks for an account of the four standards of the Jewish tribes. He will find the subject examined by Corn. a Lapide on Numbers ii. 2. In the course of his remarks escaped the notice of the compilers of this curious he has :WILLIAM BATES, B.A. "Quæres secundo, quæ et qualia insignia habuerint hæc quatuor archiducum tribuum vexilla? Tradunt Hebræi et Rabbini scribentes in hoc caput, vexilla hæc habuisse effigies quatuor animalium, scilicet, leonis, hominis, bovis et aquila. Hebræos sequitur Andreas Masius in cap. vi. Josue, vers. 9, ubi sic ait: Tradunt Hebræi primum vexillum primipilaris tribus Judæ cum suis habuisse effigiem leonis pro insigni; secundum vexillum Rubenitarum habuisse hominis effigiem cum mandragoris (cf. Gen. xxx. 14); tertium vexillum Ephraim habuisse imaginem bovis; quartum Danitarum habuisse effigiem aquila.' He also refers to Vilalpandus, De Templo, pars ii., lib. v., disput. 2, cap. xxxix. Lightfoot in "Erubhim," cap. 53 (Opp., vol. i. p. 226, Fran., 1699), has some remarks upon the subject from the Chaldee Paraphrast on the chapter u.s. ED. MARSHALL. The following, from the Bishop of Lincoln's Commentary, may be of use in the discussion of this subject : "It is remarkable that these four Living Creatures, mentioned by Ezekiel and St. John, are identical with the heraldic ensigns on the four Banners or Standards stationed on the four sides of the Tabernacle of the Congregation in the Wilderness-the type of the Church Universal in its pilgrimage through the world. Cp. Num. ii. 2-31, and the Jewish tradition. See Mede's works, p. 594 [book iii.]."—Introduction to St. Luke, The assignment of these heraldic devices to the tribes appears to rest upon a Rabbinical tradition. EDWARD H. MARSHALL, M.A. p. 163. THE "MAIDENHEAD" TAVERN (6th S. iii. 9).At the Tom and Jerry" period this was the well-known title of a house of public entertainment at Battle Bridge, London, kept by Walbourn, the actor; and which is especially noticeable as having been adorned by a whole-length portrait of the landlord, in his character of "Dusty Bob," painted in oils, as a sign to the house, by no less a personage than George Cruikshank. See Pierce Egan's Finish to the Adventures of Tom, Jerry, and Logic in their Pursuits through Life in and out of London, &c., London, 8vo. 1830, p. 10. Where is this portrait now? Further reference may be made to the History of Signboards, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day, by Jacob Larwood and John Camden Hotten, London, 1868, 8vo. p. 141. The tavern, however, which I have mentioned above, has volume. Birmingham. CHRISTMAS FOLK-LORE (6th S. iii. 26).—This is not, I believe, a superstition, but a weatherwise saying-though in England I have heard it formerly given by other old women as an ill omen if the sun shine in at the window on Christmas Day. The Italians say, "Sole a Natale, fuoco a Pasqua." I once saw it explained in a book of weather forecasts, which, I am sorry to say, I have lost. I am sure that every superstition has its root in a truth, and it would be an interesting book for some one to write on the origin of superstitions. The Italian version of the saying means, if we have fine, mild weather at Christmas, we shall have cold at Easter. T. C. G. A SWIMMING MACHINE (6th S. iii. 27).—There was a short account of a swimming machine, with a woodcut, in Cassell's Family Magazine, for May, 1880. R. C. STONEHAM. TALLAND: TALLANT: TALLENT (6th S. iii. 28). -Margaret Stanley's second husband was neither a Talland nor a Tallent, but John Taylard, of London, merchant, by whom she had issue Charles Taylard, æt. 11, an. 1585, Edward, and Stanley Taylard. Arms: Quarterly or and sable, a cross patonce counterchanged (see Vis. Yorksh., 1585, p. 247 in Mr. Foster's reprint). There was, however, in the seventeenth century, an indubitable Tallents who married a lady of royal descent. The Rev. Francis Tallents, of Shrewsbury, a nonconforming minister, who corresponded with Thoresby, of Leeds, informs his friend, under date Dec. 2, 1696, that he had "been searching amongst the papers of the famous Mr. Arthur Hildersham, which I have (my first wife having been his grandchild)." Arthur Hildersham, as is well known, was the son of Thomas Hildersham, of Stetchworth, co. Camb., by Anne Pole, grand-daughter of Sir Richard Pole and Margaret, Countess of Salisbury. I am not able to state whether there were any descendants of Francis Tallents by his first marriage. He is mentioned in a letter of Matthew Henry's to Thoresby in 1705, as yet living at Salop, and preaching constantly, in his eighty-sixth year. In Palmer's Memorial he is said to have been born at Pelsley (Pilsley) near Chesterfield, in November, 1619. CLK. BRISSEL COCK: TURKEY (6th S. iii. 22).-Perhaps PROF. NEWTON will allow me to remind him that brissel is the old Scotch for broil. See Cleeshbotham's Handbook of the Scottish Language (1858). In Pennant's Tour through Scotland (1776), to which I have before referred in "N. & Q.," there is a beautiful engraving of "The Cock of the Wood," which we are told was at one time common in the highlands of Scotland, and was called Capercalze, and in old law books Auercalze. In the account of "good things" provided for the king's use found in Lindsay of Pitscottie's History, in an edition I have (1778), brissel cock, black cock, and capercaillies are mentioned. Is it, then, still probable that brissel cock was coq de broussaille"? ALFRED CHAS. JONAS. Swansea. 66 In the glossary appended to Bishop Kennet's Parochial Antiquities is the following: "Africana, a turkey either from Africa, the country from whence they were brought into these northern parts, or perhaps from the old Latin afra, a bird," &c. But Dr. Bandinel, the editor of the edition I possess (that of 1818), has this note, "The whole of this is erased from the author's copy," so that mature consideration appears to have induced the good prelate to doubt whether Africana is correctly rendered a hen turkey. WILLIAM WING. "To THE BITTER END (6th S. iii. 26).-The following quotation from Chaucer's Squire's Tale may be noted: "Of sondry doutes thus they jangle and trete, Of thinges that ben made more subtilly H. D. W. Cromwell, asking him to be godfather to his son ; after which the writer adds : "I wold also be right glad to have Mr. Richard's wyf or my Lady Weston to be the godmother. Ther is a certen superstycious opynyon and vsage amongst women, which is, that in case a woman go with childe she may chrysten no other mannes childe aslong as she is in that case and therfore not knowing whether Mr. Rychard's wyf be with childe or not, I do name my Lady Weston." Can this also be explained? Farnborough, Banbury. C. F. S. WARREN, M.A. THE LATE VISCOUNT STRATFORD de Redcliffe (6th S. ii. 364, 431, 495).—There is a pedigree of the Canning family, and some interesting notes upon its genealogy, to be found in the first chapter of the Life of the Right Hon. George Canning, by Robert Bell (London, Chapman & Hall, 186, Strand, 1846, 8vo.), p. 368. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge. COLT, EIGHTEENTH CENTURY (6th S. ii. 368, 521).-Thanks to Editor and MR. MANT. The connexion of a Colt with an Irish bishop must, then, be a maternal one. I may yet hear if the name is connected with Ireland. A CWT. LILY'S LATIN GRAMMAR (6th S. ii. 441, 461).— An edition which I have of London, 1830, is not among those which are noticed. It may be of interest to point out the source of the inscription upon the print of the boys and the apple tree which "Bilhope braes for bucks and raes, And adds, "the good bull-trout is still famous." It is not, however, in much estimation, either as is between the Grammar and the translations : "Radix doctrinæ amara, fructus dulcis." It is the affording good sport to anglers or for the table. translation of a fragment of Isocrates which is If the "scurffe" be identical with the bull-trout of Northumberland, the origin of the name is propreserved by Aphthonius (Progymnastica, c. iii.):bably to be sought in the Icelandic, as Prof. Skeat, Ισοκράτης τῆς παιδείας τὴν μὲν ρίζαν ἔφη in his English Words compared with the Icelandic, πικράν, γλυκεῖς δὲ τοὺς καρπούς. In a recent edition of Aphthonius by J. Petzholdt, Lips., 1836, P. 14, has “scurf, skurfur," scurf on the head; and "skyrfir," a kind of bird. there is a note, "'IσOKρáτηs, K.T.A., quo loco non constat," with some variations of reading. ED. MARSHALL. Sandford St. Martin Manor. REV. JOHN BARTLAM (6th S. iii. 8, 73).—John Bartlam was born at Alcester, in Warwickshire, in 1770, and in due time was sent to Rugby there, in 1786, he had the misfortune to be one of several pupils who were sent away for disobedience. Fortunately, however, he attracted the notice of Dr. Samuel Parr, at Hatton; was by him received as a pupil, and so commenced a friendship with that eminent scholar which lasted all his life. Mr. Bartlam entered Merton College in 1789; became B.A. in 1793; Fellow of Merton, 1795; and M.A., 1796. In 1797 he was presented to the perpetual curacy of Tetenhall, Staffs., which he held ten years. In 1808 he was presented to the vicarage of Bedley, Worcest., and to the curacy of Studley; and in 1811 succeeded to the college living of Ponteland, Northumb. He died in London, Feb. 27, 1823, and was buried at Alcester. A brief memoir of him, written by his old preceptor and much attached friend Dr. Parr, is printed in Field's Memoirs of the Rev. Samuel Parr, 1826, ii. 429-35, the chief facts of which are also to be found in the Gentleman's Magazine for 1823, pt. i. 281, and in the Annual Biography EDWARD SOLLY. for 1824, p. 408-10. "SCORFFE" (6th S. ii. 388).—Couch, in his British Fishes (iv. 200), under the heading "Peal, Salmon Peal, Bull Trout," has, among other names, "the scurf, bull trout." There is no Latin equivalent given, nor any reference to other writers on the subject. Izaak Walton (p. 70, ed. Major, 1824) says, "There is also in Northumberland a Trout called a Bull-Trout, of a much greater length and bigness than any in these Southern parts." This name "scurffe" is not in Brockett's Glossary, first ed., but he says the bull-trout is a species peculiar to Northumberland. Yarrell, British Fishes (first ed., vol. ii. p. 31; second ed., vol. ii. p. 71), describes the "Bull-Trout, Grey Trout, Whitling, or Roundtail, the Salmo eriox of Lin"scurffe." næus," but does not record the name W. E. BUCKLEY. If S. J. H. refers to Brewster's History of Stockton, Appendix II., on the natural history of the vicinity, he will find the salmon trout (S. trutta) is there called a "scurf." Also in Couch's Fishes of the British Islands, vol. iv. p. 200, the salmon peal is called the "scurf." Museum, Newcastle-on-Tyne. دو JOSEPH WRIGHT. Mr. Frank Buckland, in the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Inspectors of Salmon Fisheries, on p. 61, under the heading of the "Nomenclature says that "scurf" or of British Salmonidæ,' scurve" is a term applied to bull trout in the river Tees. This is probably the fish alluded to in G. F. R. B. the Catholicon Anglicum. bull-trout "Scurf" is a term applied to a (Salmo eriox) in the river Tees, equivalent to "peel" in Cornwall; "sprod," Ribble; "truff" in Devonshire; "sewin" in Wales; in the Solway. "finnock" JOHN H. PHILLIPS. "CLIP," ITS VARIOUS MEANINGS (5th S. vi. 520; vii. 38, 60; 6th S. ii. 496).—The story of the dispute between a man and his wife as to whether a field of corn had been mown or shorn is very old. Probably M. P. and other readers of “N. & Q." may be glad to have the earliest English version of it and of another like unto it. "A woman which was vsyd and accustomyd to stryue, walked by the fylde with her husbonde, and he sayde the fylde was mowe downe, & she sayd it was shorn. And so they multyplyed so many wordis that at the laste her husbonde all to coryed* her. But she wold not be styll, Wherefore in a but sayd it was clyppid with sherys. greate angir he cut owte her tonge. And whan she myght nomore speke, she made sygnes with her fyngers lyke sherys meaninge the filde was Clypped. A lyke tale is tolde of an other woman thewich stryuynge with her husbonde sayd he was lowsye. And he was mouyd and greuyd withe her for her sayng, and bete her greuously, but she wold not amend her. But came before all her neybouris and callyd hym so to his rebuke. Wherefore he was replete with ire and threwe her in to a water and trade on her and drownyd her. And whan she myght not speke, she lyfte vppe her hondeys and made tokyns with her thombys as though she kylled lyce. Wherefore In his second ed., p. 73, he quotes from Sir Walter it is wryttyn Ecclesiast. xxviii. Many haue fall by the Scott (notes to Lay of Last Minstrel, canto iv.): "Curried her hide" = gave her a good thrashing. |