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LOXDOX, SATL'EDAY, JANUARY SS, 1905.

CONTENTS.-No. 57.

NOTES : Capt. George Shelvocke, 61 Wood's * A th. Oxon.,' ed. Bliss : Sir W. Ralegh, 62 Robert Farren Cheetham,64 " Jockteleg," 65 'Visitations of Southwell' Angelo Benedetto Ventura Stafford : Tatton " Number-Men " 'The Lass of Richmond Hill' "Fed up" "Tour- maline," 60 "The Naked Boy and Coffin" "Pro- gressive" Woman, Heaven's Second Thought Lady Lucy Hamilton Sandys, 67.

QUERIES : " Perficient" 'Paradise Lost" of 1751 Dettingen Trophies, 68 Royal Regiments of the Line Ancient Religious Houses Tyrrell Family " Cut the loss " Verschoyle : Folden " The gentle Shakespeare," 69 Weeper in the House of Commons Verses : Author Wanted" Sdckpenny "Rupert as a Christian Name, 70.

REPLIES : The Envied Favourite, 71 Bibliographical Notes on Dickens and Thackeray Bridges, a Winchester Commoner Sir T. Cornwallis Tarleton and the Sign of "The Tabor," 73 Marriage Service Comet, 1580 "An old woman went to market," 74 Mayers' Song Authorsof Quotations Wanted Sarum Police Uniforms: Omnibuses, 75 Maze at Seville Blood used in Building, 76 Dr. Burchell's Collections Nelson in Fiction Algon- quin Element in English "Broken heart," 77 Allan Kamsav " Humanum est errare " "Broach" or " Brooch," 78-" Phil Elia," 79.

NOTES ON BOOKS -.-Mrs. Toynbee's Edition of Walpole's Letters Browning's 'Men and Women' Mrs. Barrett Browning's Works Latham's 'Famous Sayings' Har- inttle's 'Dictionary of Battles' Routledge's "Muses' Library."

Obitunry : Mr. W. Fraser Rae Mr. T. W. Shore. fjotiees to Correspondents.

CAPT. GEORGE SHELVOCKE. SHELVOCK is a little township in Shrop- shire, some twelve miles from Shrewsbury. Round about it Shelvocke families were seated for many generations. l n the printed calendars of the Prerogative Court of Canter- bury we find the wills of William Shelvocke, of Shardon (presumably Shrawardine), and of Richard Shelvocke, of Baschurch (proved in 1582 and 1597 respectively). One of the last of the Shropshire Shelvockes was John Shelvocke, who died in the parish of St. Mary, Shrewsbury, in 1G85, leaving a son Charles, and grandchildren John and Ellenor. His second wife (by whom he had no children) died before him (also at Shrewsbury) in 1681. She was a well-to-do lady, by name Joyous or Joyce, sister of George Hodson, gent., of the Lea, in Shropshire, and was possessed of a goodly estate at Tregynon, in Montgomery- shire. In the last decade of the seventeenth century some members of the family had taken to a seafaring life, and as a natural consequence settled in Deptford, Greenwich, and other places near London beloved of sailors. By will dated 8 February, 1697/8, one Reynald Shelvocke, of Deptford, mariner, then belonging to H.M.S. Gloucester, left his all to his wellbeloved sister Ellener Harding;

he died on the high seas a bachelor before 16 April, 1700, when the will was proved. In regard to his baptismal name it is worth noting that Acton Reynald is likewise a Shropshire township. Another seafarer of this name was Richard Shelvocke, a sailor on board H.M.S. Devonshire, who died at Kinsale, in Ireland, some time before 30 June, 1696, on which day his estate was adminis- tered to by his relict Anne, then residing in St. Giles, Cripplegate.

Capt. George Shelvocke, the well-known privateer, came, as his tombstone records, of a Shropshire family which had been long resident in Deptford, and was born in 1674 or 1675. His 'Voyage round the World by the way of the Great South Sea, perform 'd in the Years 1719, 20, 21, 22, in the Speedwell of London, of 24 Guns and 100 Men (under His Majesty's ' Commission to cruize on the Spaniards in the late War with the Spanish Crown),' ttc., pub- lished in 1726, is summarized in the ' Diet. Xat. Biog.' It was followed two years later by a rival narrative, the very title of which is hostile, ' A Voyage round the World, being an Account of a Remarkable Enterprize begun in the year 1719, chiefly to cruise on the Spaniards in the great South Ocean,' from the pen of William Betagh, who for a time had been Shelvocke's captain of marines. Betagh was an Irishman, who, " urg'd by his voracious appetite," says Shelvocke, grumbled at short commons, grew insolent, and had to be excluded from the captain's table and the great cabin. On the other hand, Betagh, while confessing to his prowess as a trencher knight, dwells upon his chiefs particular affection for strong liquors, espe- cially his " drinking of Hipsy, a liquor com- Eounded of wine, water, and brandy, which, y the admirers of it, is also call'd meat, drink, and cloth." ("Hipsy," by the way, is not to be found in the ' N.E.D.') "As his pretended narrative is intirely a deception," he writes in his dedication, "and his whole conduct an indignity to his country, I thought it my duty to give a genuine account of the man as well as our voyage." Despite his failings, Shelvocke showed himself a brave and capable leader in times of danger. Far different was the conduct of the officer ap- pointed to command the expedition, Capt. John Clipperton, from whom Shelvocke soon parted company. Even the virulent Betagh cannot deny the accuracy of Shelvocke's description of Clipperton in a sea fight, grotesquely though it reads :

"Early the next day [12 Nov., 1721] there came off a great many of the Success's people from