102 1730 Vice Metcalfe, dead. Sir J. Sambrooke, Bart. 1761 Richard Vernon 92 1734 Richard Potenger 492 Francis Herne 93 Harry Grey... 342 Walden Hanmer 93 John Dalby 211 First day's poll. Vernon and Herne returned. 1739 Vice Potenger, dead. 1790 William Colhoun Samuel Whitbread, Jun. John Payne... Polls in Smith, 1774, 1780, 1830. Berkshire, 1689 Sir Henry Winchcombe, Bart, Sir Humphry Forster, Bart. Richard Neville John Blagrave Richard Manley 574 1740 Vice Grey, dead. William Strode John Dodd 269 616 236 601 285 275 1761 John Dodd ... 396 822 Sir Francis Knollys, Bart. 316 254 793 1782 Vice Dodd, dead. Lord Norreys ... Richard A. Neville... 267 1620 John Simeon 179 Sir John Stonhouse, Bart. Polls in Smith, 1768, 1784, 1796, 1812, 1818, 1820, 1832 (vice Dundas, a peer). Abingdon. 1688 Thomas Medlycott... Sir John Stonhouse, Bart. Vice Medlycott, unseated. Sir John Stonhouse, Bart. 1698 William Hucks 1722 Robert Hucks ... Sir John D'Oyley, Bart. James Jennings Francis Annesley 399 1319 Richard A. Neville 315 Earl of Barrymore... 255 1820, 1826, 1830. 105 Wallingford. William Jennens 1727 Robert Hucks Thomas D'Oyley Polla in Smith, 1754, 1768, 1774, 1780, 1802, 1812, 1818, 87 1638 Thomas Tipping John Dormer 243 1708 Vice Jennens, dead. Thomas Renda Edward Leigh 1722 Viscount Parker 264 252 136 William Hucks 87 Thomas Renda Robert Pigot Vice Pigot, Warden of the Mint. George James Robarts Polls in Smith, 1727, 1768, 1826, 1831 (vice Hughes, a Polls in Smith, 1754, 1768, 1774, 1780, 1802, 1806, 1807, 1812, 1830. Reading. 1623 Sir Francis Knollys, Jun., Knt. John Saunders Sir Robert Knollys ... 1645 Vice Tanfield Vachell, void election, Tanfield Vachell William Ball 1678 John Blagrave Nathan Knight Thomas Vachell Sir William Kendrick 1685 June (General Election this year being declared void). Thomas Coates John Breedon George Blagrave .. Sir William Rich, Bart. 1713 Felix Calvert Robert Clarges Owen Buckingham 1714 Robert Clarges Felix Calvert William Cadogan 1722 Anthony Blagrave Charles Cadogan peer). 21 Windsor. 16 1679 Richard Winwood 191 212 John Powney 154 96 309 1713 Christopher Wren 244 927 Charles Aldworth 183 766 Sir Henry Ashurst, Bart. 76 426 1722 Earl of Burford 249 384 Earl of Inchiquin 2*1 Proctor Geyns ... 80 3 530 1727 Lord Vere Beauclerk 247 507 Viscount Malpas 244 483 Francis Oldfield 53 473 Polls in Smith, 1714, 1737, 1757, 1780, 1794, 1797, 1802, 404 1804, 1806. 317 Buckinghamshire. 311 1660 William Bowyer Thomas Tyrrell 1379 541 Hampden 1315 526 Wynwood 1242 1557 288 Hon. Goodwin Wharton 970 282 Sir John Verney 926 ... 76 OLD BLANDFORD CHURCH, VIRGINIA. - The following beautiful lines, originally written in pencil by an unknown hand, many years ago, on the wall of this old colonial church, deserve a place in 'N. & Q.' The church itself was built in 91735, and is now an ivy-covered ruin. 121 113 100 98 88 SELF-CURE BY ANIMALS.-Thomas Tryon, in his Way to Health, Long Life, and Happiness' (ed. 1691), discourses on this wise: "We see many Dumb Creatures have more Sense to discern what is for their Preservation than Men, and Men have learned the Virtues of many Physical Herbs from them; as the Tortoise, when hunted by the Adder, is said to fortifie himself by eating of Originum; and the same is said of the Stork when she has eaten Snakes, she seeks for the same Herb Originum, and finds a Remedy; it is also related, that when the Weezle goes to fight with any poysonous Creature, it first eats Rue, whence men came to know that Originum and Rue are good Antidotes against Poyson; so in some other Animals there is an in-bred skill and Medicinal Art, as when the Toad is wounded, 'tis said, she will go to Sage or Rue, and rub the Wound, and so escapes the Danger: We are told that Swallows first taught us that Celendine is Medicinal for the Eyes, being the same wherewith they cure the Eyes of their Young Ones: The Pye when sick, puts a Bay-leaf into her Nest, and recovers So Cranes, Daws, Partridges, Black-birds and Crows, purge their sick Stomachs with the same: It is reported, If a Lion be sick, he is recovered by eating of an Ape: The Lapwing being surfeited, cures her self with Southernwood; the wounded Hart runs to the restorative Ditany: Swine, when stung by Snakes, eat the Snakes and are well; and Dogs, when wounded, cure themselves by continual licking of the wound: also they purge their nauseous Stomachs by eating Grass, as Cats do theirs by eating the Herb Nipp. Philebotomy, or Letting of Blood, Physitians, (as is written) learned this practice first of a Beast call'd Hyppopotamus, living in the river Nilus, which being of a ravenous Nature, and therefore often overcharged with much eating, is wont to seek in the Banks for some sharp stub of a Reed, upon which pricking his Leg, he thereby easeth his full Body, stopping the bleeding afterward with Mud."-Pp. 418-19. J. F. MANSergh. Thou art crumbling to the dust, old pile, The worshippers are scattered now Prayers rose from many hearts to Him, The tramp of many a busy foot That sought thy aisles is o'er, How doth ambition's hope take wing, The sun that shone upon their paths Oh! could we call the many back FREDERICK T. HIBGAME. Carversville, Pennsylvania, U.S. PRINT OF EXECUTION OF EARL FERRERS.-I folio, and underneath was a long descriptive maronce saw a large engraving of this scene, oblong ginal inscription. Is it of any value or rarity? The earl was depicted as blindfolded, under the gallows at Tyburn, having the rope adjusted round his neck, and standing upon an elevation in the middle of the scaffold, which was strongly guarded by a party of horse soldiers, wearing conical caps. The execution took place on May 5, 1760, Earl Ferrers being then forty years of age. said that the body was afterwards dissected at In Celebrated Trials,' by Peter Burke, it is Surgeons' Hall, and that it was subsequently "privately interred at St. Pancras, near London, in a grave dug twelve or fourteen feet deep, under the belfry" (p. 225). He was nephew of the celebrated Selina, Countess of Huntingdon. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge. JAMES ELPHINSTON (1721-1809), EDUCATIONALIST.—It appears from the inscription on a marble slab in the parish church of Kensington, co. COLUMN OF THE PLACE VENDÔME.-The extract which follows shows a remarkable instance of artistic ingenuity to preserve secrets :— "Avez-vous remarqué parfois le piédestal de la colonne Vendôme? Trois de ses faces sont revêtues d'un double bas-relief qui règne dans toute la largeur et qui reproduit avec exactitude les uniformes, les armes et les équipages militaires des ennemis vaincus par Napoléon 1er, Autrichiens et Russes (1805). Canons, mortiers, tambours, bannières, timbales, schakos, kolbacks, uniformes d'officiers y sont groupés d'une manière pittoresque, mais on n'y remarque d'autres armoiries que celles de l'Autriche, d'autre chiffre que celui de François II. Launay, celui qui fondit la colonne triomphale, assure que l'empereur aurait, pendant la construction, fait faire aux bas-reliefs d'importants changements. Voici ce qu'on lit dans un ouvrage que cet artiste a laissé manuscrit: Napoléon, recherchant l'alliance de la Russie, donna par politique l'ordre d'effacer des basreliefs tout ce qui pouvait rappeler les triomphes de l'armée française sur les Russes réunis aux Autrichiens. Nous trouvâmes que cet ordre pourrait par suite diminuer la gloire de l'armée: car les antiquaires à venir, ne voyant sur la colonne que les dépouilles enlevées l'Autriche, en conclueraient qu'elle seule avait été vaincue. Nous prîmes la résolution de consigner ce fait, qui aura sans doute échappé jusqu'à ce jour aux divers historiens qui ont parlé de la colonne et de la glorieuse campagne de 1805. Et afin d'en établir une preuve incontestable, nous conservâmes au dedans des grands bas-reliefs de la colonne les marques du triomphe des Français sur les armées russe et autrichienne réunies. S'il était possible de voir le revers de ces bas-reliefs, on y trouverait les chiffres de ces deux puissances accolés comme ils l'étaient dans les bas-reliefs avant l'ordre qui nous fut transmis.'"-La Curiosité Universelle, p. 6, Nov. 9, 1891. LEONARD SHAKSPEARE.-It may be worth while to note that "Judith, filia Leonardi Shakspeare," was baptized at Warehorne, in Kent, February 27, 1596/7. The name does not occur again. J. M. COWPER. Canterbury. BY-AND-BY AND BY-THE-BY.-The queries relating to goodbye (8th S. i. 491 et seq.) suggest inquiry as to these terms. Johnson's definition of "by-and-by," now generally written "by-and-bye," is "in a short time," corresponding to the French tout à l'heure; and Shakespeare uses it to express the immediate, as distinguished from the more remote future: Now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast. "Othello.' If we knew how "by" came to be indicative of the present, the second "by" might be assumed to signify beyond. 66 'By-the-by" was in Johnson's time used in a different, almost an opposite, sense to that in which we now employ it, as an equivalent to the French à propos; not as expressive of something apposite, but, on the contrary, as, according to Johnson, "something not the direct and immediate object of regard." In neither case is the employment of "by" in these two familiar expressions accounted for. F. PIE PLANT.-This, I am told, is the name by which garden rhubarb is known in some of the western cities of the United States. Consequently restaurant bills of fare sometimes contain the announcement that "pie plant pie" may be had. The term rhubarb is only applied to the drug. W. H. PATTERSON. Belfast. LEGAL BLUNDERS IN FICTION.-The latest in stance of the ignorance of law displayed by novelists may be found in Mrs. Frances E. Trollope's novel 'That Wild Wheel,' wherein she makes the working out of her story to depend in a great measure on the living to attain majority of a certain Claud Copley. He is made to die on the afternoon of the day preceding his twenty-first birthday, and the writer proceeds to deal with his property as though he had died a minor, in evident ignorance of the law that legal majority is attained on the day preceding the twenty-first anniversary of birth. The book is only lately published, and WRITING TOO MUCH.-Is this possible? Can a man (or woman) really write himself out, as the phrase goes, just as some colours can be washed out? What do my brethren of N. & Q' think? Good old Hazlitt says, writing of Heywood's plays ('Elizabethan Literature,' p. 59):— Thirty years elapsed, Lady Hester had long been dead, THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH (1727-1788), PAINTER. -The annexed notice, appearing in the London said to have written; for the more a man writes, the Gazette (No. 7240), Oct. 16-Oct. 20, 1733, may refer to the painter's father : "I do not wonder at any quantity that an author is more he can write," and the sentence suggested my query. In other "Whereas a Commission of Bankrupt was lately awarded and issued against John Gainsborough of Sudbury, in the County of Suffolk, Clothier; this is to give Notice, that the said Commission is superseded under the Great Seal of Great Britain: Therefore all Persons that are indebted to the said John Gainsborough, or that have any of his Effects in their Hands, are forthborough, or they will be Sued by Mr. Henry Stanyford, with to pay and deliver the same to the said John GainsAttorney at Law, in Friday-street, London." See further 'Dict. Nat. Biog.,' xx. 361. 17, Hilldrop Crescent, N. DANIEL HIPWELL. SLANG: "TO PAINT THE LION." "This day a woman going on some occasion on board a ship in the river, some of the crew took it in their heads to paint the lion, as they called it; which was performed by stripping the woman quite naked, and amearing her over with tar, and in that manner threw her into the river, where she was nearly drowned."— The Wonderful Magazine, ii. 237. Vol. i. is dated 1793; apparently vol. ii. was SNOB. (See 6th S. i. 436; ii. 329, 358, 415, 433; iii. 35; iv. 56.)-While turning over the leaves of the eighth volume of the Sporting Magazine, pub-issued in 1794. lished in 1796, I have come upon what I think is a very early instance of the word snob. The context does not indicate its meaning, but I appreLONGFELLOW'S 'VILLAGE BLACKSMITH.' hend there is no doubt that we must interpret it "Boston has made the discovery that the original of by shoemaker. The writer is discoursing of races Longfellow's 'Village Blacksmith, who stood under the at Whitchurch. He says that "There was a very spreading chestnut tree, and the muscles of whose brawny arms were strong as iron bands, is Henry Francis Moore, respectable field; and although neither the Duke a blacksmith still living at Medford, Massachusetts. The of Queensberry, Lord Egremont, or His Royal High-poet was often in Medford previous to writing the poem, ness the Prince of Wales were present, it being holiday time, a number of royal snobs were."P. 106. EDWARD PEACOCK. A LOST LOCKET.-The following, from the Daily News, seems deserving a corner in ‘N. & Q.':— "Here is a pretty little story of a lost locket as told by Mrs. Andrew Crosse in Temple Bar. The famous eccentric Lady Hester Stanhope told the physician who travelled with her to the East that she had never known but three really great men. They were her uncle, William Pitt, her brother, James Stanhope, and Sir John Corunna. She got a lock of the hair of each, and set them in a gold locket, with the coat of arms and name of each respectively. In 1814, Lady Hester determined to live permanently in Syria, and sent for her possessions this locket being amongst them. The ship containing her valuables sailed, and was heard of at Cyprus; soon after one of those Mediteranean squalls came on, and nothing more was ever heard of ship, crew, or cargo. Moore. The last two were both killed in the battle of and was fond of chatting with Moore. The blacksmith is now sixty-one years of age, and is himself of the opinion that Longfellow had him in mind when he wrote his poem.-Exchange."-Payette (Idaho, U.S.) Independent, December 31, 1891. L. L. K. Biography' notice of this worthy states that "he LORD KNYVETT.-The 'Dictionary of National sat for Thetford in the Parliament of 1601," and names this as apparently his sole parliamentary honour. Lord Knyvett had a somewhat lengthy course in Prior to his elevation to the peerage the Lower House, being, as I read, M.P. for Westmorland in 1572-83, and for Westminster in 1584-5, 1586-7, 1588-9, 1597-8, 1601, and 1604 until created a peer in 1607. I am in much doubt if he were identical with the Thomas Knyvett who sat for Thetford in 1601; if so, he must, of course, have been doubly returned to that Parliament, and |