Page:Notes and Queries - Series 10 - Volume 5.djvu/494

 406

NOTES AND QUERIES,

. v. MAY 26, im.

was succeeded by his cousin in the fourth degree. The nearest male kin to the Pen- wortham line would seem to have been the Fleetwood baronets of Staffordshire.

The deed of 1676 was obviously intended to keep Penwortham in the name and family of Fleetwood. In spite, however, of the several remainders, the estates were sold by Act of Parliament in June, 1749, shortly after the death of Henry, and thus passed from the Fleetwoods for ever.

W. D. PINK.

Lowton, Newton-le- Willows.

GRAY'S ' POEMS,' 1768. (See ante, p. 321.) bince my former paper was printed, I have been favoured by Mr. Edmund Gosse with the description of a copy of Gray's * Poems' in his possession, which exceeds in curiosity the Dublin edition of 1768, as it was issued in the same city twelve years earlier. Mr. Gosse tells me he has never heard of another copy. The title-page is as follows :

" Poems I b y I Mr. T. Gray. | Containing, | I. Ode on the Spring. | II. Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, | Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes. I III. Ode on the distant Prospect of Eton | College. | IV. A Long Story. | V. Hymn addressed to Adversity. | VI. Elegy written in a Country Church- | yard. | Dublin : | Printed for George and Alexander Ewing, | at the Angel and Bible in Dame-street. | 1756."

It is a pamphlet consisting of two octavo sheets, with 31 numbered pages and a page of advertisements, and contained in green paper wrappers, with no lettering.

The contents are a mere reprint of the poems in K. Bentley's 'Designs for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray,' 1753 ; but it affords another instance of the republication of 'A Long btory ' in Gray's lifetime.

Mr. Gosse has also informed me of the existence of a Cork edition of 1768 with the following dedication :

"TolMrs. Elizabeth Gra -y> I As a Chief Promoter ? i -I^is Edit . ion I f I Gray's Poems | Designed Jo exhibit a specimen of | The Art of Printing In

i mL fey tS? rk ] I Is with all due respect | Inscribed t>y | I he Editors."

The title says :

D "This Collection contains all the Author's poetical Works, Among which are three never before published in Ireland."

The identification of Mrs. Elizabeth Gray would be interesting. W. F. PRIDEAUX.

The parody on Gray's 'Elegy in a Country Churchyard 'entitled 'An Evening Contem- plation in a College ' may be found in ' The Uxrord Sausage' (p. 36), n.d. on title-page, but perhaps about 1772. A rude engraving is prefixed, representing a garret in a college,

a broken chair and bellows lying on the floor, and a young man habited in the dress of the time of George II. No name is appended. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

HALLEY ARMS. Dr. E. Halley's father, Edmund Halley, sen. (ob. 1684), is said to have belonged to the Halleys of Derbyshire. John Aubrey gives his coat armorial : " Sable, a fret and a canton argent " (cf. Aubrey's 'Brief Lives,' Clark, vol. i. p. 282, Oxford, 1898). In another work is this heraldic item : "Sa. fretty and a canton arg. Hales, Hauley, co. Devon, v. Hawleys" (cf. 'An Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms,' by John W. Papworth, edited by Alfred W. Morant, London, 1874, vol. ii. p 884). Is this not more than a coincidence 1 Are the names Hauley and Hawley derived from Halley, or vice versa 1 Is Derbyshire or Devonshire the earlier home of the Halleys ? Of their supposed connexion with the old Devonshire family of Pyke something may be said later, with the Editor's permission. EUGENE FAIRFIELD McPiKE.

Chicago.

LOMBARD STREET, No. 1. It is worth placing on record that these premises, occu- pied since their erection by Messrs. Smith, Payne & Smiths, were demolished in April. The history of the firm has already been dealt with at sufficient length ; vide * Hand- book of Bankers,' p. 153 ; Daily Telegraph, 17 June, 1902. There is, however, a slight adjustment of date to be made. Leigh's ' New Picture of London ' for 1827 gives their address as No. 1, Lombard Street. This is three years earlier than the date hitherto given for their removal thither.

The building, with its stucco front, heavy cornice, and pilasters, came into existence 1838-40. In 1843 (vide Pictorial Times, 16 Sept.) there was evidently an alteration of the line of frontage, as, in consideration of its being set back three feet, permission was given to close up Dove Court, a passage leading from George Street that had " long been a public nuisance."

ALECK ABRAHAMS.

39, Hillmarton Road, N.

INDEXES, CALENDARS, &c. Students of MSS. and ancient records are often misled by the loose terminology employed in con- nexion with the above aids to research. I would suggest that the word u Index" should be used only for an index par excellence, that is, for lists in dictionary order. The word " Calendar" well describes