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 B. iv. JULY 22,1905.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 61 LONDON, SATURDAY. JCLY tt, 190S. CONTENTS.—No. 82. HOTBS :—John Longley. 61—Nouns and Verbs Differently Pronounced. 64—Looping the Loop : Flying or Centrifugal Railway: Whirl of Death. 65—The Amir of Afghanistan's Title — " Rising of the lights " —Olorenshaw Family- Jacobite Rebels —John Julius Angersteln, <W—Garibaldi —Dean Stanley's Poem' The Qlpslei '—Paul Jones's Birth- place—"Mr.," 67. QUERIES:—Liverpool Printed Books: Dr. Hood, 67— Wellington Badge: Waller's, 1814—"The Pilgrim of Bt«rnity "—Sir John Harrison—Glen Family—Authors of Quotation!. Wanted-•• Haddldoo "-G. Wood, Clockmaker —David Kamaay, 68—" Caplllarlans "—Balnes Family— Hvsker or Hesker — Teitout — Adam't Commemorative Pillars —Why has England no Noblesse ? — 4th Light Dragoons' Uniform—" Twopenny " for Head —Ballad of Francis RiSnyi — Bristol Merchant Adventurers' Com- pany, 69—Poem by Sir Thomas Wyatt, 70. RRPLIES :—"Lonnlng," 70—Major Monro—Pillion : Flails, 72 _ •• England," " Knglish " — " Vescallon " — Caldwell Family, 73 —Cromwell Fleetwood, 74—'The Mlswl'— Norrten'B • Speculum Britannia:,' 75 —Ann Radoliffe — Kowse or Rous of Cransford — Scotch Burial Custom. 7« — Pinchbeck Family—Holllcke or Holleck, co. Middlesex —Josias Catzius, 77 — Coke or Cook? —'The Oxford Bamble,' 78. KOTBS ON BOOKS :— Madame D'Arblay's Diary—London in 'The Gentleman's Magazine'—'True to the Flag'— • The Nun's Rule'—Swift's ' Journal to Stella'—Coventry Patmore's 'Angel in the House.' Soticet to Correspondents. JJohs. JOHN LONGLEY, 1749-1822. WHEN Bennet Langton was staying at Rochester, in command of a company of the Lincolnshire militia, he was visited by Dr. Johnson, who then made the acquaintance of Longley, "a gentleman of considerable learning." The doctor was delighted with his new friend. He said :— " My heart warms towards him. I was surprised to find in him such a nice acquaintance with the metre in the learned languages; though I was somewhat mortified to find that I had it not so ranch to myself as I should have thought."—Boswell, tub anno 1780. Longley explains the incident in his manu- script autobiography, a copy of which has been lent to me by Lady Longley, the widow of his grandson Sir Henry Longley, and from it and other sources I have written the following narrative. The autobiography, •with the exception of some of the private passages, should be printed in full. It would attract the residents at Rochester who take pride in the past history of their city, those interested in education in Dissenting circles as well as at Eton and Cambridge, and the student of the politics of that time. The words in this memoir between quotation marks are taken from it. John Longley was born at Chatham on 27 October, 1749 (O.S.), 7 November (N.S.). It was the constant tradition in the family that they were descended from the ancient race of Langley which owned the estate of Knowlton, near Canterbury, " and their arms were assumed accordingly." His great-grand- father resided at Sandhurst in the weald of Kent; his grandfather, John Longley, bought a house at Chatham, " where rny father afterwards resided and in which I was born, settled himself in business as a linendraper, and married a daughter of Capt. Edward Moorcock." They were Dissenters, "of the class of Independent Baptists," attending the meeting-house in Heavisides Lane. Longley's father, Joseph Longley, was the youngest son, and there were nine other children. The eldest brother, John, died a bachelor. "After their father's death they succeeded to his house and business at Chatham, living together until the marriage" of Joseph, who was born on 16 July, 1705, and died at Rochester in August, 1785. Joseph's wife was Mary, second "daughter of John Gouldsmith, an apothecary at Chat- ham, who had married [Anne] Moorcock, sister to the mother of my father; thus my parents were first cousins." She was the widow of a surgeon called Richard Cosens, who wasted her little fortune. The marriage of Joseph Longley and Mary Cosens was cele- brated in Rochester Cathedral on 7 December, 1747. She died on 1 September, 1779, aged sixty-seven, and was buried in the cathedral, " on the right-hand side of the steps going up from the nave to the choir," on 7 September. A poetical inscription by her son on the wall of the south cross aisle commemorates her name ('Rochester Cath. Registers,' ed. T. Shindler, pp. 9, 38, 57). The subject of our narrative " was the only child they ever had." After some little instruction in a girls' school and in private tuition this child, John Longley, was taken to a school at Newington Green, then a rural suburb, " on a fine after- noon in the month of August, 1756, when I wanted two months of the age of seven." The school was kept by James Burgh (see the ' D.N.B.'), a man of talents and enlight- ened views, and there the boy remained "till the summer of 1764." Of his school- fellows he was " most intimate with a Carolina boy named Roger Smith, who afterwards distinguished himself in that S'ovince as a promoter of the revolution ; with enry Ibbetson, a boy of the mildest temper and most amiable manner, an uncle of the present Sir Henry, whom I met after an interval of near fifty years at Hampstead. and who died there shortly after; with William Wansey, of Warminster [query