LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 1892.

ture Sir James Graham

CONTENT 8.-N° 35. NOTES:-Teague, 161-Tomb of Maximilian, 162-Spranger Barry-Robert Ker-Shelley-First Edition of Burns, 163 A Word of Power-Patrick Colquhoun-Burns and Coleridge, 164- Two Noble Kinsmen-Hungarian LiteraBonaparte, 165-Allhallows Barking-Marriages of Lord Wm. Godolphin Osborne, 166. QUERIES:- Don Quixote Charles Montague-Society for the Abolition of Capital Punishment-Simile in Tennyson-Twyford-Folk-lore, 166-County-Mary, Queen of Scots Scotch Militia Regiments-Author Wanted-History of the Reign of George III.'-Aspinwall-County History of Essex-Right Re-entered'-Nief-Washington's English Ancestry-Traditional Songs, 167-Heraldic "The Fox"-Name of the Queen-Paul Verlaine: Viaud "Rumpus"-J. Spencer-Authors Wanted, 168. REPLIES:-Couplet, 168-Soul: Soal-Edward VI. Chicket-Musical Case, 169-Lincoln's Inn Gateway Lead Hall"Jack come up and kiss me"-Misapplied Proverbs-Rev. S. Dean-Tennyson and Churton Collins, 170 Lost Locket - Hogarth-Bishop Patrick-Suffolk Pedigrees-Lays of Past Days'-Hannah Snell, 171-An Old New Song"-Scott's Burial-Inscription at Earl Soham-Source of Motto, 172-The Nile-Salisbury Burial Entry-Nares-Queen Anne of Denmark - "Courage of one's opinions," 173- Review of Reviews' -Southern Regiment of Fencibles-"Bone said "-J. ElphinstonFirst Editions, 174-Indian Folk-lore-Broad Stone-Execution of Earl Ferrers-Villa: Sims-Cerveng-Leucomb, 175-Eylebourn-Song of Malbrough'-Precocious Artist -Tallies-Portrait of George III., 176-Potato-buryTouching with the Sceptre-Swanswick-Yele-Exmoor Forest-Sedilia, 177-Nicholls: Brontë-G. C. BedfordMarie Christine of Spain-Liston-Hell Fire Club, 178Authors Wanted, 179.

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In the seventeenth century this name was evidently used as a contemptuous appellation for an Irishman. Thackeray, in Esmond,' puts the following into the mouth of his beauteous jilt, Miss Beatrix: "I heard this Mr. Swift sneering at my Lord Duke of Marlborough's courage the other day. He that Teague from Dublin" (book iii. chap. ii.). Again, in the famous "Lilli burlero" ballad (as irresistible in its day as "Ta-ra-ra Boomde-ay" is in ours), the name appears :

Ho, broder Teague, dost hear de decree?
Lilli burlero, bullen a la.
Dat we shall have a new deputie,
Lilli burlero, bullen a la.

"In this little poem," writes Lord Macaulay, "an Irishman congratulates a brother Irishman, in a barbarous jargon, on the approaching triumph of Popery and of the Milesian race ("History of England'). Johnson, in his 'Dictionary,' gives Teague as a name of contempt for an Irishman." In W. Davenport Adams's 'Dictionary of English Literature' Teague is described as an amusing Irish servant in Sir Robert Howard's 'Committee.' The reference is a little misleading. Teague does not make his dramatic début in The Committee,' but in Farquhar's comedy The Twin Rivals.' In his more notable work 'The Beaux' Strata

gem' Farquhar uses the name in the typical sense to accent the nationality of the character: "A downright Teague" (Act III. sc. ii.). The Irish servant in The Committee' is ycleped Teg (probably an abbreviation of Teague); in no place throughout the work is he called Teague. Teg is interesting as an early introduction of the typical Irish character on the English stage. He possesses all those hackneyed traits and qualities which have been associated with the son of Erin in fiction and on the stage. Witty, evasive in reply, light hearted, lazy, impecunious, devoted, revengeful, and superstitious, fond of expletives and whiskey, Teg is well sketched by Howard. An extract will illustrate this. He introduces himself to Col. Careless :

Teg. A poor Irishman, and Christ save me, and save you all; I pr'ythee give me Six-pence, gad Mastero.

C. Car. Sixpence? I see thou would'st not lose anything for want of asking. Here, I am pretty near; there's a Groat for thy confidence.

Teg. By my troth it is too little.

C. Car. Troth, like enough; how long hast thou been in England?

Teg. Ever since I came hither i' faith.

C. Cur. That's true. What hast thou done since thou cam'st into England?

Teg. Served God and St. Patrick, and my good sweet
King, and my good sweet Master; yes indeed.
C. Car. And what dost thou do now?

Teg. Cry for them every day upon my Soul.
C. Car. Why where 's thy Master?

Teg. He's dead Mastero. and left poor Teg; upon my Soul, he never served poor Teg so before.

C. Car. Poor fellow, I pity him; I fancy he 's simply honest; Hast thou any Trade?

Teg. Bo, bub bub bo, a Trade, a Trade! an Irishman a Trade! an Irishman scorns a Trade, that he does; I will run for thee forty miles; but I scorn to have a Trade.-Act I, scene i.

Farquhar, an Irishman himself, was not happy in his creation of Irish character, while his attempts at producing the brogue are simply atrocious. "O maishter, dere ish a dam way of distance, and a deel bit between"; "Fet dere ish no dreaming in the cashe; I'm sure the croon pieceish are awake, for I have been taaking with dem dish half hour," are extracts from 'The Twin Rivals.' Whether through ignorance, or impotence to pen phonetically a difficult idiom, or whether the brogue has been modified and improved by the passage of centuries, it is certain the specimens here sampled do not at the present day correctly express the phraseology and speech of the Irish peasantry. The dramatist, while campaigning in the Low Country, may have caught the broken English of some language-grasping Dutchman, and so unwittingly perpetrated this linguistic fraud on his Thespian patrons.

Teague is still in currency as a Christian name in the Western portions of Ireland. The contempt which Johnson attaches to it was possibly due to its use as a sobriquet for a typical Irishman. Was the name adopted because of its common use

among the aboriginal Irish in the seventeenth century, or because some notorious character or creation was associated with it? When did it give place to Patrick, or Pat, as the national designation? Ben Jonson, in 'The Irish Masque,' names his four Hibernian characters Dennise, Donnell, Dermock, and Patrick, but he gives no special prominence to the last. In a volume of Miscellanies in Prose and Verse,' reprinted in Dublin, 1733, there is a copy of a letter to the Intelligencer, in which the writer speaks of the three islands as three sons of one father, naming them George, Patrick, and Andrew, after the respective patron saints of England, Ireland, and Scotland. Of St. Patrick's sponsorial right to furnish a typical race name to the people and country he loved so well there can be no question; one, indeed, might demur at the burlesque usage of a name so revered, but it would be of little avail. Patrick has a national character significance which it will not soon lose. Teague had for a time the same distinction. Can any contributor to N. & Q.' tell how it acquired and W. A. HENDERSON.

lost it? Dublin. [A second part of "Lilli Burlero, Bullen a la," with a further reference to Teague, is in Poems on Affairs of State,' vol. iii. p. 207.]

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THE TOMB OF THE EMPEROR MAXIMILIAN IN THE HOF KIRCHE AT INNSBRUCK. (See 8th S. ii. 81.)

If MR. H. MURRAY LANE will consult the General Index to the Sixth Series he will find that he has been anticipated in his suggestion that the effigy styled "Artur, Konig v. England" may be intended for Arthur, Prince of Wales, the son of Henry VII. I am not able to see how this splendid series of real and mythical ancestors, which includes Clovis, Godfrey de Bouillon, Theodoric, and Theodobert, can be fitly described as "the group of friends and relations surrounding the great emperor's monumental shrine," nor can I pass, without expressing a modest dissent, the proposition that "the heraldry on the surrounding shields [is] accurately and carefully depicted."

When I was last in Innsbruck, in 1890, I made a note of the statues and of the arms that they bear, and the revival of the subject by MR. MURRAY LANE induces me to think that the substance of this note may be of interest to the readers of 'N. & Q.' I supply to the quarterings their names and tinctures. The series consists of twenty-eight statues, as follows. On the right hand, going from west to east (liturgically):—

1. Clovis. The arms are: Per pale, (a)......three frogs.....; (b) Azure, three fleurs de lis or.-At the very outset, therefore, we have a shield of arms, which, however careful its workmanship, has obviously no pretensions whatever to accuracy. I

am, of course, not ignorant that the origin of the fleurs de lis of France was traced by some fanciful writers to the entirely mythical coat which here appears on the dexter side of the shield. But the supposition that a shield bearing this impalement is an "accurate" representation of the arms which were borne, I will not say by Clovis, but by any of his successors, is not one that I should expect to have the approval of Chester Herald. 2. Philip I. (of Austria), King of Spain.Quarterly, 1, Castile, Gules, a castle or, impaling Austria - modern, Gules, a fess argent. 2, Tierced in pale, (a) Leon, Argent, a lion rampant gules; (b) Arragon, Or, four pallets gules; (c) Sicily, Per saltire, in chief and base Arragon, in both flanks Argent, an eagle displayed sable. 3. Tierced in pale, (a) Burgundy-modern, Azure, three fleurs de lis or, a bordure compony argent and gules; (b) Burgundy-ancient, Bendy of six or and azure, a bordure gules; (c) Brabant (?), Sable, a lion rampant or.-The whole enté en point of Granada, Argent, a pomegranate open proper. The escutcheon of Flanders, Or, a lion rampant sable, impaling Tyrol, Argent, an eagle displayed gules, occupies the centre point of the shield.

3. Rudolf of Hapsburg, Emperor. Per pale, (A) Or, an eagle (single headed) displayed sable, as King of the Romans; on its breast the shield of Austria-ancient, Azure, five alerions displayed or. (B) Quarterly, 1, Austria-modern; 2, Styria, Vert, a griffin rampant argent, inflamed proper; 3, Hapsburg, Or, a lion rampant gules, crowned azure; 4, Upper Elsass, Gules, a bend argent between six open crowns, those in base inverted or.-This is an arrangement of arms of which I can confidently affirm that the emperor himself never used it.

4. Albert I., Emperor. Per pale, (A) Or, an eagle displayed sable, on its breast Hapsburg. (B) Per fess, 1, Suabia, Or, three lions passant in pale sable; 2, (Upper Elsass?......a bend..............). This is wrongly attributed by Baedeker.

5. Theodoric, King of the Ostrogoths. The shield bears a fess (presumably the coat is that of Austria-modern) and over the whole field a demiman (a king in armour holding a sword). It need hardly be said that this, too, is a mere invention of the artist.

6. Ernest, Duke of Austria and Styria, father of the Emperor Frederick. Per pale, (A) Quarterly, Austria-modern, and Austria-ancient; over all Hapsburg. (B) Quarterly, 1, Suabia; 2, Upper Elsass; 3, Carniola, Argent, an eagle displayed azure, on its breast a crescent chequy gules and of the first; 4, Carinthia, Austria - modern, impaling Suabia. Over all Tyrol, and in the fess point a shield bearing a lion rampant, probably for Flanders.-All the three escucheons borne en surtout thus appear on the fess line.

7. Theodobert of Burgundy. Per pale, (A) Per fess, (a)......Paly of six......; (b)......a crown. (B)......a lion rampant crowned. -This is a fancy coat, like No. 5.

8. Arthur, King of England. On this my note in 1890 is that "the quartered shield of France and England, originally interposed between the right hand of the statue and its base, is now wrongly attached to No. 14,' and a photograph which I have shows the statue No. 8 without a shield. The surcoat, as a memorial of Arthur Pendragon, is semé of small dragons, and the collar of the Golden Fleece hangs around the neck of the prince. There may have been an intentional confusion of the two Arthurs; but I must point out that Arthur, Prince of Wales, was not a member of the Order of the Golden Fleece. I conclude from MR. MURRAY LANE's note that the shield has been put back to its proper place since my visit. 9. Sigismund, Archduke of Austria. Per pale, (A) Quarterly, Austria - modern, and Austriaancient; over all Hapsburg. (B) (Probably Tyrol) a single eagle displayed and crowned.

10. Bianca Maria, second wife of Maximilian. Quarterly, 1, Austria-modern; 2, Styria; 3, Upper Elsass; 4, Carniola. Over all Visconti, Argent, a guivre erect wavy azure, vorant a child gules. 11. Margaret of Austria, daughter of Maximilian.-Baedeker (1888) wrongly says "their daughter," but Bianca was not her mother.

12. Zimburga of Massau (wife of No. 6). 13. Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy.

These three have no shields of arms.

14. Philip le Bon, Duke of Burgundy. To this statue, as noted above, the quartered shield of France and England was wrongly attached at the time of my visit in 1890. That it was so done mistakenly was evident, for the surcoat of the statue is charged with the arms of Burgundy. I forget if the name was engraved on the base of the

statue.

I must leave the description of the heraldry of the other series for another opportunity; but it will be evident from the above that, beautiful as the statues are as works of art, they are as little to be trusted from a heraldic point of view as they are in matters of costume or of armour.

Montrose.

JOHN WOODWArd, LL.D. (To be continued.)

PORTRAITS OF SPRANGER BARRY. Under "Spranger Barry," in that capital anthology Representative Actors,' I note that Mr. W. Clark Russell cites the following passage from Donaldson's 'Recollections,' without the moderating footnote which generally accompanies any misstatement of fact throughout the book:

"The splendid paintings and engravings extant of bygone actors give the present generation an idea of how

such gifted sons of Thespis looked; but how the finest of them all, the beau-ideal of an Othello and RomeoBarry-escaped the notice of the artist, is inconceivable; for we have not a likeness of this elegant and accomplished actor in existence."

Lest any one in the future should be led astray by this audacious statement, it may be as well to point out that an excellent engraving of Barry as Alexander (Act II. sc. i.)-suggestive in no slight measure of the majesty and grandeur of his acting-is to be found in the Hibernian Magazine for June, 1775. The actor, it will be remembered, died two years afterwards.

Comber.

W. J. LAWRENCE.

ROBERT KER, FIRST EARL OF ANCRUM.-By way of addition to the article on this nobleman given in the Dictionary of National Biography' may be mentioned that he was the "Sir Robert Carre, Knt.," who sat as M.P. for Aylesbury from January to March, 1624/5, and also in the Parliament of 1625.

To the Parliament of 1628-29 he was returned by both Lostwithiel, in Cornwall, and Preston, in Lancashire, but preferred to sit for the northern constituency. He was knighted at Hampton Court, December 23, 1607, not at the coronation of King James, as generally thought. He was admitted a student of Gray's Inn July 10, 1622, being then described as "Robert Carr, Knight, one of the Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber to Prince Charles, and Treasurer of the Privy Chamber" (Foster's 'Register'). His son Charles, afterwards second Earl of Ancrum, was the "Charles, Lord Carr," who represented St. Michael's in the Long Parliament from 1647 till secluded in December, 1648. After the Restoration he sat for Thirsk, July to December, 1660, and for Wigan, W. D. PINK. 1661 to 1687.

SHELLEY.-There is an article in praise and defence of Shelley in the Oxford University Magazine, No. 1, March, 1834, pp. 3-15, published by D. A. Talboys, Oxford.

W. C. B.

FIRST EDITION OF BURNS'S POEMS. (See 7th S. vi. 146, 275.)-The following cutting from the Daily News of January 5 records the sentence passed on the preceding day by Sir Paul Edlin, Q.C., at the City of London Sessions, upon a man for stealing a copy of this work. The first edition of it, consisting of six hundred and twelve copies, was published at Kilmarnock in 1786, and it certainly seems to have gone up in value remarkably, as it was originally issued at the small price of half-a-crown:

"George Collins, thirty-six, bookbinder, described as well educated, pleaded guilty to stealing a printed book of the value of 801., the property of Messrs. Henry Sotheran & Co., the well-known booksellers of the Strand and Piccadilly. The volume in question was a first edition of Burns's poems, and as soon as the loss was known all the other booksellers throughout the country