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NOTES AND QUERIES.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 10, 1909.

CONTENTS. No. 289.

NOTES : Oxford Parliamentary Leaders in the Civil War. 21 Thomas Love Peacock's Plays, 22 'D.N.B. Epitome,' 24 Eton : Barnard, Head Master Executioner's Block "Disgate": " Dischauce" " Burg ator" The Eel-Pie Shop, 26 " Chops of the Channel " Stocks in use Fifty Years Ago, 27.

QUERIES : " Purpose," Alleged Name of a Dance Thackeray Queries Bibliography of Theses " Com- poste'la," 27 "I had three sisters " John Hus before the Council of Constance" Mineria marra," Motto" Cala rag whethow," Motto Spelling Leaden Figures "Hen and Chickens " Sign Welsh Judges The Acorn and the Gabriel Abbots of Evesham, 28 L. H., Artist, 1793 Squire Draper and his Daughter Capt. R. J. Gordon and African Association Col. Pestall T. Ripley and Richard Holt God of Architecture Sotby and Bleasby Manors, Lines, 29 Sponges Vintners' Company Harvest Supper Songs, 30.

REPLIES : " Murkattos " : " Capaps," 30 Mechanical Road Carriages : Timothy Barstall "Pot-gallery " William the Conqueror and Barking, 31 Oliver Crom- well's Head The Storm Ship, 32 The Crucified Thieves 4 Star,' 1789 : ' Logan Braes ' Thackeray : Roundabout Papers, 33 Dean Meredith William Guild St. Peter's At Rome, 34 Railway Travelling Reminiscences Emen- dations in English Books -Woman Burnt for Poisoning, 35 Sir Lewis Pollard Peninsulas " Hackbut bent" Sir T. Browne : Anne Townshend, 36 Black Davies Dr. Johnson's Watch H. Emblin and Theodosius Keen, 37 ' An Excursion to Jersey ' Malherbe's ' Stances a Du Perrier' Miss La Roche Major Roderick Mackenzie Capt. T. Boys Mountain Bower " Seven and nine," 38.

NOTES ON BOOKS :-' Folk-lore concerning Lincolnshire' ' Roman Life and Manners ' Reviews and Magazines 'L'Intermtdiaire.'

Notices to Correspondents.

OXFORD PARLIAMENTARY LEADERS IN THE CIVIL WAR.

THE elder University has been frequently eulogized for her loyalty to the unfortunate house of Stewart. Within her grey walls for some four years Charles I. established his head-quarters when at war with his people ; hither he summoned his phantom Parlia- ment in opposition to the powerful and uncompromising Long Parliament at West- minster ; and here, in later days, John Wesley declared that should a man walk abroad in the town, he would be treading upon the skulls of dead Jacobites.

But, as is well known, many leading men of the popular party had received their early education at the knees of our venerable Alma Mater. Sir John Eliot " lion Eliot, that grand Englishman " spent three years -at Exeter College ; and, although he did not take a degree, there is evidence that he by no means neglected his studies. William Strode, one of the famous five members of the House of Commons impeached

j by Charles I. in 1642, passed two years at the same College arid achieved a degree. Sir John Maynard, the judge, was also a graduate of Exeter, and founded two lectureships therein. Henry Rolle, the judge, was of Exeter ; and Thomas Chaloner the regicide, who gave a silver " eard pot " to the College. Sir John Robartes, Bt., second Baron Robartes and first Earl of Radnor, entered Exeter as a fellow-commoner, where, accord- ing to Wood, he "sucked in " evil principles both as to Church and State. He held the rank of Field-Marshal in Essex's army, contributed to the ' Epithalamia,' a volume of poems of 1625 (the year he entered Exeter) ; and left " the hangings and traverse to it " in his study to the Rector of his College on going down from Oxford. Philip, fourth Baron Wharton,' and his brother Sir Thomas Wharton were at Exeter together. Lord Wharton, whoae beautiful portrait by Van Dyck belongs to the Emperor of Russia, gave a silver-gilt bowl and cover to his College Sir Thomas presenting a silver " eard pot." Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, Bt.. first Baron Ashley and first Earl of Shaftesbury, the celebrated statesman, intriguer, and Lord High Chan- cellor, was a gentleman-commoner of Exeter, He has told us how he took a leading part in the schools, " coursing " with other Exonians against Christ Church. This coursing " was in older times, I believe, intended for a fair trial of learning and skill in logic, metaphysics, and school divinity " ; but by Cooper's time it had degenerated into little better than a free fight. He also was instrumental in causing that " ill custom of tucking freshmen " to be discontinued ; and in preventing the senior Fellows from altering " the beer of the College, which was stronger than other Colleges." He gave a silver tankard to Exeter. Shaft es- bury's uncle by marriage Edward Tooker and" his cousins John and Giles Tooker were of the same College. His younger brother, George Cooper, was a contem- porary there of the last of these in 1642.

Magdalen College, " the very nursery of Puritans," claims John Hampden as a son. Thirty-three years after his matriculation, among the plate lent to the King one piece was probably that described as " cantharus ex dono loannis Hamden Buckinghamiensis, 1610." This is one of life's little ironies ; for, like the greater part of the Oxford plate of the period, Hampden's gift was doubtless converted by way of the melting- pot into current coin on behalf of the royal cause. George Wither, the Puritan poet,