Gold, pearls, and precious stones for beads and bells,"

and

Carew, To A. D.,

Neither of these illustrations in favour of the disputed reading, "Indian," is, I think, quoted, either in the Variorum Edition of Shakespeare or in that of Charles Knight. H. K.

Garrick misconceived the first ghost scene, and showed absurd fear. He did not consider that Hamlet was quite aware of what he was going to see, and would not exmisconceptions make us doubt Garrick's superlative conceptive powers. I think he also had the trick of violently overturning the chair after the celebrated soliloquy. These stage-tricks are not compatible with the best acting. I quite agree with your view of Hamlet. He is fulness. A prince by birth, he is a common man in feelsublime; but it is a sublimity of simplicity and truthing—a regal democrat. C. ROCHE SMITH.

J. H. COOKE.

"RICHARD III."-In one copy of the first, 1597, edition of Richard III. the two necessary lines in the first act, commencing "What one, my lord?" are omitted. I shall be particularly obliged by learning if this omission is in other copies. The lines are found in the second edition, 1598.

J. O. HALLIWELL-PHILLIPPS.

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MR. ROCHE SMITH ON "MEMORANDA HAMLET."-A letter on Hamlet lately received from my old friend Mr. Roche Smith appeared to be so interesting that I have asked for and obtained his permission to forward it to you for publication. J. O. H.-P. Strood, March 6, 1881. My dear Halliwell, I have just perused once more your Memoranda on Hamlet. I go entirely with you on all you say about the history of the construction of the play as we have it, but I enter a protest against your judgment on the speech at the end of Act III. In my opinion it adds to the tragedy immensely, and when it is omitted I set it down from incompetence in managers, and want of confidence in the actor and in the audience. The king's speech too, often omitted, is superbly fine; but I never heard it given well upon the stage.

With regard to the inverted commas to the speech of Laertes to Ophelia, do you not think they may indicate occasional omissions of this scene altogether? On account of the length of the play it is just what could be omitted, and sometimes is. It is a pity to lose it, and also the advice of Polonius, so admirable, and which must be weighed, or should be, by those who so often fail in properly understanding this character.

I cannot understand how it is that there should be any doubt about the character of Hamlet, or any doubt about the scheme of the play. To me all seems perfectly clear and wonderfully easy. After Act IV. the play certainly hangs a little, from the very grandeur of the previous acts, and what we may call the climaxes. No doubt Shakespeare here found he could go no further, and did the best he could-and how good even that is! A young actress at our theatre has made a fine inter

(1.) "Johne Kerr was maried upon Catharin Kerr eldest lawful daughter to S Robert Kerr of Eatall att Sma[i]lholm Kirk Be Mr. Tho. Donalsone the first day of februarie jaj vi & sextie five years."

(2. In a different hand.) "he died at Hindhaugheid the second day of april jaj vj & eighty eight years being monday morning & is Beried in souden church." daughter was born att Melrose the twentie fyft day of (3. Same hand as No. 1.) "Margaret Kerr yr Eldest March jaj vje & sextie sex years Being Sunday betwext ten & eliven oclock in the forenoon & Baptised Be Mr. Alex. Bissett the third of appryll 1666. Witness Bucholm, Minto, my Brothers, &c."

(4. Same hand as No. 2.) "She died in Hindhaugheid the fourth day of november Being Tuisday Betwext ten & a eliven in the morning jaj vje & nintie years. She mead a most hapie & perfit end to the admiration of all Beholders & in the full ashorans of her everlasting welbeing. She was Bouried besyd her father & nephew in the old church of Souden in [the] Jedbrough tomb."

(5. Same hand as Nos. 1 and 3.) "Allisone Kerr was born att Melrose the fortin day of Apryll being tuesday about two of the clock in the morning jaj vj & sextie eight years Baptised be Mr. Bissett the fyftin apryll.. Witnes Mr. Ro[b]t. Main of Lochwood Bailze of Melrose and Mr. James Knox minister of boudoun."

(Same hand as Nos. 2 and 4.) "fill up this wen I am gon." (A third hand.) "She was a vertuouse goodwoman, dyed 19 Decer. 1725 left 3 sones & 4 daughters to ffairnilie buryed in his Isle of ffairnielie."

(6. fourth hand.) "Thomas Kerr was born att Melrose the twentie two day of october being fryday about twelf a clock in the foornoon jaj vje & sextie nyn years Bapt. be Mr. Bissett the 27: octor. Witness Mr. Thomas Wilkie, Tho. Lithgow & Tho. Wilkison, &c." (Another hand.) "Att Edinburgh the 23d of May bejng fryday about two of the clock in the morning jaj vje & seaventie three It pleased the Lord to tak him to himself: he was a most pleasant chyld And is buried in the gray freirs w'in Eight foots of Mr. Alex' hendersons tomb direct south next to Mrs. Kerr of Kippilaw her grave our sister in law And eight foots from the wall eistwards."

(7.) "Robert Ker was borne att Melrose the fourt day of october being sunday about twelf a clock In tym of sermon And was baptised be Mr. James Knox minister of boudoun upon the saxt day jaj vje & seaventie four years witness my [broth]er Andro Ker of Kippilaw Robert Ker po' of Linden [ ]pringall son to bukholm

(8.) "Marie Kerr was born att Melrose the fyftine day of Junij being a [ ] day about eight in the morning jaj vje & seaventie sex years Baptized the sam day by Mr. Alexr. Bissett witness James eillies of Huntlywood & Thomas Wilkison bailze of Melrose. Shee died

upon sonday the 4 day of Der. 1676 and is buried besyd her brother Robert next ye door."

(9.) "William Kerr was born at Melrose the threttene day of ffebruarie jaj vj & seaventie nyne years Being thurisday about five a clock in the morning of St. Vallantynes eve.'

(10.) "Marie Kerr was born att Hyndhaughead the 18th day of August jaj vj & eightie one years betwext 4 & 5 a clock in the morning being thursday And was baptised by Mr. Geo. Baptie at Suden Kirk the first of Septr. Witnesses George Oliver Slaks James Sheill in suden milne officer sent out to nurieing to Lambelair Knows in Edgebelton.

"Mary Kerr aught this Book" (bis). (11.) Att Melrose Betwixt twelf & on oclock in the morning being fryday the twalth day of Jully jaj vje & eighty six. Shee departed this Life & is buried in our burying place in Melrose Church besyd her brothers & sisters. She was a child who had great cleirnes of spiritt about her soull concerns."

I would gladly learn to what particular family the above refers and whether it has any living representatives. W. F. (2).

Bottesford Manor, Brigg.

EDWARD PEACOCK.

KEN'S EVENING HYMN.-Several communications having appeared in "N. & Q." respecting the bibliography of Bishop Ken's Morning, Midnight, and Evening Hymns, I wish to draw attention to one point which seems to have escaped notice. The first edition of the Manual of Prayers known to contain the hymns is that of 1695, though the hymns undoubtedly were in the hands of the Winchester scholars long before. In 1693 the Evening Hymn is found in the second book of Playford's Harmonia Sacra, set to music by Jeremiah Clark as a cantata for a solo voice. On collating the text with that of 1695 I find a few different readings, two of which are of interest: v. 1, l. 1, “All praise" for "Glory"; v. 3, 1. 3, so that" for "that so"; v. 4, 1. 4, "praise" for "serve"; v. 7, 1. 1, "weakness "" for "frailty"; v. 7, 1. 3, "But now 29 for "And now." V. 6 appears as follows:

"My dearest Lord, how am I griev'd

To lye so long of thee bereav'd! Dull sleep of sence me to deprive,

I am but half my days alive."

I

WILLIAM LAW.-If I am not mistaken, many of your readers take an interest in the life and opinions of William Law the mystic, a life of whom was recently reviewed in your pages. therefore send you for publication in N. & Q." a notice of his death which was issued at the time. It is printed on a small sheet of paper, of a size

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suitable for enclosure in a letter. There is no ornament whatever about it except a small border round the text. I am not aware of there being more than one copy of it in existence. The one I have transcribed for you is in the British Museum, 4406/64 g.:

"A character of the Reverend William Law, M.A. "On Thursday, the 9th of April, 1761, between the Hours of seven and eight in the morning, died, at King's Cliff, in Northamptonshire, the Rev. William Law, M.A., well known to the world, by a number of truly Christian, pious writings; exemplified by a life of seventy-five years spent in a manner suitable to a worthy and true Disciple of his heavenly, divine, crucified Master and Saviour, Jesus Christ; who lived and spoke in and by him. In his younger Days he sufficiently distinguished himself by his Parts and Progress in human Literature; afterwards taking the Advice of our Saviour to the rich young man, he totally renounced the world and followed Christ in Meekness, Humility, Self-denial; and in his last years he was wholly swallowed up in his Love to God and Mankind; so that Virtue in him was nothing else but heavenly love and heavenly Flame.-In Parts and Sense, inferior to none; with wit most amiable; with Learning

"You my best Guardians, whilst I sleep,
Close to my bed your vigils keep,

And in my stead all the night long
Sing to my God a grateful song."

the reading of 1709, " All praise," was a return to Thus we find that in the first line of the hymn the earliest text, and that the two guardian angel stanzas were an expansion of an original single stanza, in the first line of which "best" read for "blest," as in the Manual.

" is

The first book of Playford's Harmonia Sacra, published in 1688, was dedicated to Ken, and it is not improbable that the text which Clark set to music was furnished to Playford by the bishop himself. G. A. C.

[See "N. & Q.," 3rd S. iii. 26, 77, 176, 259, 314, 319; 5th S. v. 476.]

CHARLES EDWARD STUART, COUNT D'ALBANIE, ob., at sea, Dec. 24, 1880.-The following should be preserved in "N. & Q."÷

"The will of Charles Edward Stuart, Count d'Albanie, was proved on the 16th ult. by Lord Lovat, as the attorney of the Countess Sobieska de Platt, the daughter and residuary legatee, the personal estate being sworn under a nominal sum. The testator bequeaths to the Marquis of Bute the Highland Claidh-mor (Andrea Ferrara) worn by his (testator's) grandfather, Prince Charles Edward Stuart, at the battles of Falkirk, Preston Pans, and Culloden, a pair of steel pistols inlaid with silver, and the dirk worn by his said grandfather at the ball given at Holyrood on the eve of the battle of Preston-Pans, and which he opened with the Countess o

Wemyss; and to Lord Lovat the large two-handled sword made by Cosmo Ferrara, firstly belonging to the Italian General Patrici Colonna, and afterwards to his said grandfather, and two pistols formerly belonging to Rob Roy, 1715."-Illustrated London News, March 5. C. D. L.

REGIMENTAL CANT NAMES.-In your issue of Aug. 29, 1874, p. 174, you gave a list of the "Popular Names of the American States," which was interesting to many. I submit that a similar list of the cant names of regiments would be equally interesting. On the formation of the Land Transport Corps in 1854, the regiment being originally and principally raised in London, under Colonel (now General) M'Murdo, C.B., by Quartermaster (now Major) W. Steevens, Military Knight of Windsor, the initials L.T.C. were converted into the "London Thieving Corps"; on its reorganization in 1857 it was named the "Military Train," the initials M.T. being perverted into "Murdering Thieves"; now the regiment has been renamed the Army Service Corps, I should like to know what the wits convert the initials A.S.C. into. The 54th Regiment is named the Flamers," and so on. Each regiment has a nickname, as, doubtless, have the different ships in H.M.S. Many of your readers may be able to supply the nicknames, and possibly the reason why. This might lead to the formation of a soldier and sailor folk-lore, interesting to a number of persons. To have heard members of the various regiments slang each other at such headquarters as Chatham would have cheered, as the boatmen of Oxford are said to have done, even the "melancholy" Burton.

RICHARD HEMMING, ex-L.T.C.

A CURIOUS EPITAPH.-In a recent case before the Court of Session (Finlayson and others v. Lady Elphinstone and Husband) the following epitaph, in the old churchyard at Overton, was brought

forward as evidence :

"For ages past my friends lye here,
Although no charter doth appear,
Until this stone erected is,

To prove the right is still in us;

Prescription here will not be pled
When I am numbered with the dead-

Keep fast the right."

J. R. HAIG.

INDEXES.-Here is a note for the members of the Index Society to ponder on. Many reasons have been given for not adding an index to a book, but the following is, so far as I can call to mind, the most foolish that I have seen. At the end of James Howell's Discourse concerning the Precedency of Kings, London, folio, 1664, is the following note :

"The Bookseller to the Reader.

"The reason why there is no Table or Index added hereunto is, That every Page in this Work is so full of signal Remarks, that were they couchd in an Index, it

would make a Volume as big as the Book, and so make the Postern Gate to bear no proportion with the Building. S. SPEED." EDWARD PEACOCK.

Bottesford Manor, Brigg.

EPITAPH ON LORD BROUGHAM'S DAUGHTER, BY THE MARQUIS OF WELLESLEY, IN LINCOLN'S INN CHAPEL.

"Blanda anima! e cunis heu! longo exercita morbo
Inter Maternas heu ! lacrymasque Patris,
Quas risu lenire tuo jucunda solebas,

Et levis, et proprii vix memor ipsa mali;
I pete cœlestes ubi nulla est cura recessus !
Et tibi sit nullo mista dolore quies!"

Idem Anglicè redditum :—

"Sweet, gentle spirit, from life 's earliest morn
A child of many tears, by sickness worn,

In vain, thyself forgotten, with a smile
Thy weeping parents' fears thou wouldst beguile :
Fly to that better land where sorrows cease,
Nor e'en a sigh may break th' eternal peace."
W. D. M.

[See "N. & Q.," 6th S. ii. 373.]

THE CLERICAL ROSETTE.-Will any of your contributors tell me the origin of this ornament, and inform me who is entitled to wear it in his hat? My friend Mr. Mackenzie Waleott once took me to task for not wearing a rosette as Chancellor of Chichester Cathedral; he wore one as Precentor; and in these days, when every wild curate wears what hats he pleases, I might, perhaps, have accepted his authority without further question, but I should like to know more about it, and I am sure that if I ask the question in "N. & Q.” I shall get it thoroughly and correctly answered. W. D. PARISH.

JAMES SMITH, 1768.-There is a little poem, that was published in 1768, entitled The Art of

Living in London, in two cantos, 4to. pp. 24, but which went through several editions without having on the title-page any author's name. In my copy there is inserted a letter signed James Smith, dated from the King's Bench, and saying, "I have attempted to commence Author; and humbly beg leave to submit for your Approbation the inclosed Poem, on the Art of Living in London." There is an edition of this poem printed "for the author" in 1793; and the sixth edition, issued in 1805, has no reference to the author, but only a brief note from "the editor," mentioning the "unprecedented sale of the former five large editions." Was James Smith really the author, and if so where may any notices of him be met with? I have failed to find any mention of him. EDWARD SOLLY.

MODE OF ADDRESSING ROYALTY.-One would have thought that madam would be, or had been, the proper style of addressing the Queen or the Princess of Wales. Can any one tell me from what period dates the ma'am which it is now de rigueur to address to female royalty?

R. H. B.

GENEALOGISTS. Reference is requested to genealogical and historical societies and genealogists in the counties of Lincoln, Stafford, and Suffolk. The addresses of persons possessing special knowledge of the old families of the abovenamed counties will be received with thanks by P. S. P. CONNER.

Union League Club, Broad and Sansom Streets,
Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.

[Our correspondent is thanked for his very courteous letter.]

THE 43RD FOOT.-Can "N. & Q." tell me of any book that gives the history of the 43rd Foot for the last and part of this century with lists of officers? The regiment was in action at the battle of Corunna, and I am searching for particulars

of an officer in it who died about 1825.

B. F. SCARlett.

ELIZABETH MILLER.-Who was "Elizabeth Miller, twenty-two years captain of the Clytus," who died on May 12, 1864? I find her thus mentioned in a book lately issued at Irvine, in Scotland, and am naturally anxious to know what the Clytus was, and in what Elizabeth's captaincy thereof consisted. A. J. M.

THE ALTAR OF THE PARISH CHURCH OF ROUS LENCH.-This is a beautiful specimen of a small, nearly square oaken table of the time, apparently, of James I. or Charles I. It has been thoroughly cleaned, and looks very handsome. My object, however, in mentioning it is to remark that two of the legs of one end are considerably smaller than the opposite ones, i.e., less bulbous. Can this point to the fact that originally it was

designed for Puritan communions, and was intended to be placed lengthwise in the chancel on those occasions, when two end legs only would be visible from the body of the church? The presiding minister would then be truly standing at the north side (not at the north end). I should be interested to hear of other similar tables having this peculiarity. It will not have a frontal, but will show its ancient carved beauty. Its measurements are 3 ft. 3 in. long, 2 ft. 7 in. wide, and 2 ft. 10 in. high. At some time or other it has been shortened. Baxter, who was a favourite visitor at the Court and wrote here part of his Saints' Rest, may perhaps have used it. W. K. W. CHAFY-CHAFY.

Rous Lench Court, Evesham.

VAN COOK.-Is anything known of the name or works of a portrait painter named Van Cook at the end of the last century in the north of England?

A CWT.

MAJOR PRIME: CAPTAIN JOSEPH PRIME.Can you give me information as to a "Major Prime," who raised a regiment of horse, off his own estate and at his own expense, to assist King Charles I.? The regiment was nicknamed "Prime's Blacks." I have searched many histories, but have hitherto found no mention of such an officer. I should also be glad to learn any particulars respecting a Captain Joseph Prime" who fought under General Wolfe at Quebec, and lost three fingers off his sword hand. The authorities at the War Office can give me no information.

M. C. T.

"Weekly Memorials for the Ingenious; or, an Account of Books lately set forth in several Languages, with other Accounts relating to Arts and Sciences. London, Printed for Henry Faithorne and John Kersey at the Rose in St. Paul's Church Yard, MDCLXXXIII."

abounds in interesting information. The volume This periodical, the precursor of the Athenæum, that I possess consists of fifty parts with index, the last number appearing on Jan. 15, 1683. I wish to ask whether there were more volumes

published than one and, if so, how many; also whether Faithorne, the editor, was a relative of the celebrated artists of that name, father and son, so well known by their engravings.

W. FRAZER, F.R.C.S.I. "A Voyage through Hell, by the Invincible, Man-of War, Capt. Single-Eye Commander. Dedicated to your Grand Father." London, 1770, 8vo. pp. 253. Can anybody say who the author of this eccen66 To tric Unitarian book was? It is dedicated the God of Wisdom," by Toby Meanwell.

J. O.

BENJ. KEACH.-In which of Benjamin Keach's works shall I find the Confession of Faith by him for the special use of the congregation meeting at Horsleydown? JOHN TAYLOR.