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Thos. Fanshawe, K.B., afterwards first Viscount Fanshawe. It was on account of her conduct at Lemenagh Castle that General Ireton (see Ludlow's memoirs) called Lady Honora to account in the autumn of 1652. H. C. FANSHAWE. 72, Philbeach Gardens, S.W.

RATTLESNAKE COLONEL (10 S. x. 189; xi. 17). I am now able to answer my own query. The words occur in a MS. journal kept by a Mrs. Browne, who was travelling with the English army from Bellhaven, Vir- ginia, to Wills Creek, in charge of the sick and wounded. She says (12 June, 1755) : " We halted at a Rattlesnake Colonel's named Crisop." I now quote from a letter of Sir G. O. Trevelyan's to a friend of mine :

" The rattlesnake in those days was regarded as emblematic of America. When the war broke out [Sir George is referring to the War of Inde- pendence], it was chosen for the naval flag, and the rebel cruisers were called the Rattlesnake Squadron."

Mrs. Browne was writing during the w r ar between England and France in the then American Colonies, and I think it clear that " Rattlesnake Colonel " is merely a synonym for " Colonial Colonel," and probably had no contemptuous meaning.

MB. ALBERT MATTHEWS'S suggestion that Col. Crisop may be identical with the Col. Thomas Cresap, of some distinction, whom he describes, is very interesting.

W. T. MALLESON.

Great Tew, Enstone, Oxon.

GEORGE PRIOR, WATCHMAKER (10 S. xi. 28). In 1890 I bought in the bazaar at Smyrna five Turkish watches. By " Turk- ish " I mean made for sale and use in Turkey, and having the usual Turkish or Arabic figures on the dials. The respective makers and dates, by the hall-marks, are George Clarke, 1775-6 ; George Prior, 1785-6 and 1794-5; Markwick, 1807-8; and Ralph Gout. I do not give the date of the last, as I cannot just now lay hands on it.

The two by Prior and that by Gout are of silver and tortoiseshell ; that is, the cases of the watches themselves and the first detached cases are silver, and the outside cases are mainly tortoiseshell. The outside diameters of the Priors are about 2^ in. and 2^ in. respectively. The Gout measures, I think, about 3Hn.

The Clarke has only one original loose case ; outside that is what I take to be a " native "-made metal box.

The Markwick has lost its warming-pan or pans, and is in a damaskeened metal box.

In F. J. Britten's ' Old Clocks and Watches' two George Priors are given. One was " of 31, Prescot St., Goodman's Fields, 1765-88 ; Rosomond's Row, 1794 ; 5, George Yard, Lom- bard St., 1798-1810."

the other

" in 1809 received from the Society of Arts a silver medal and 25 guineas for a clock escape- ment. In 1818 he patented (No. 4214) a remon- toire. In the ' Yorkshire Directory ' for 1822 he is described as of Woodhouse Lane, Leeds, but he afterwards removed to City Road, London, and became reputed as a maker of watches for the Turkish market."

Although Mr. Britten does not say that the earlier George Prior made watches for the Turkish market, it is evident that he did. It appears that the later George Prior made for that market in 1822 at the earliest. No. 1 made Turkish watches in 1785-6, and perhaps earlier ; No. 2 in or after 1822.

For Ralph Gout see 10 S. iv. 275 (a.v. ' Henry Sanderson '), and v. 206, 335.

There are two very fine Turkish watches hanging in the windows of No. 12, Vigo Street : one by Markwick Markham, Ex- change, London, the other by Bellard, Paris, measuring about 6J in. and 5j in. respectively. They have been there for years, and are not for sale. These large watches, I have been told, were not worn on the person, but carried in the sedan chairs.

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

[W. J. M. and L. A. W. also refer to Britten.]

ABBE DE LUBERSAC (10 S. x. 410; xi. 73)._Glaire and Michaud cannot have read the books in question, which make it clear beyond any shadow of doubt that the Bishop was not their author. I have at last been able to identify him. He was Charles Francois, third son of Chevalier Joseph de Lubersac, Seigneur de Livron, and Clare his wife, d. of Francois de Bonnie, Seigneur de Chastaing. See Viton de Saint- Allais, 'Nobiliaire Universel de France,' ix. 532. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

LASCAR JARGON (10 S. xi. 27, 92). I am sorry I have offended COL. PRIDEAUX through want of clearness in my query. As it referred to Lascar sailors, the expression " British officer " meant, of course, " British naval officer." I thought it unnecessary to insert the word "naval," as savouring of dotting one's fs twice over ; but it seems I was wrong, as COL. PRIDEAUX has understood me to mean the British army officer ; so I can only plead mera kusiir, and throw myself upon the mercy of the court. The two