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LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 1907.

CONTENTS.-No. 171.

NOTES: Lucas's 'History of Warton': a Discovery- Longfellow, 261 Dr. Halley's Pedigree, 263 The Taxa- meter Cab, 264 Isham Family " Governess ""Pow- wow " : its Meaning Pamela Nelson Recollections, 265 "Tire le rideau, la farce est jouee "Leonard Cox Lawyers' Wills Button and Seaman Families Dante and Architecture " The Pedlars' Rest," 266 "Clack- hole " of Bellows" Umbrella "The French of Stratford- at- Bow " Wax and curnels," 267.

^QUERIES : " Mobarship " " Mohock " " Pony " ' Sir Randall,' 267 " Maru " Richard Steeleand Freemasonry Ely House or Albemarle House " Chevesel "=Pillow Armour: "Mr. Brander's MS." Beliard, Paris Clock- maker, 268 " Inniskilling " : " Enniskilling " Author of Quotation Wanted 'The Hebrew Maiden's Answer to the Crusader 'Step-Dances" Matches " in Congreve Arms in Congregational Chapel at Chertsey Thomas Thursby 269 Hay market, Westminster Wine for the King of Spain M. H. Frost, 270.

.REPLIES : ' The Kingdom's Intelligencer,' 1660-1663, 270 "Badger's Bush" or "Beggar's Bush" Pantaloons v. Trousers Sindbad the Sailor : Monkeys and Cocoa-Nuts, 27i Pretended Prince of Macedonia Pillion : Flails A Junius Claimant, 272-' Cranford 'Spelling Changes " Bulk " and Baskish " Bulka " " Haze," 273 -Authors of 'Quotations Wanted Hornsey Wood House : Harringay .House Charles Lamb on Thicknesse's 'France,' 274 Churchwardens' Accounts Kirby Hall, Northants Abraham Lincoln and European Politicians, 275 Santa Fe : American Place-Names The Preston Jubilee " Woodhens " Windmills in Sussex Book - stealing : Degrees of Blackness, 276 Marly Horses " Portobello " ' Penrose's Journal ' : Turtle - riding Anglo - Indian ' Little Jack Homer 'Bidding Prayer, 277.

NOTES ON BOOKS: 'The Shirburn Ballads, 1585-1616' Reviews and Magazines.

Booksellers' Catalogues.

Notices to Correspondents.

LUCAS'S ' HISTORY OF WARTON ' : A DISCOVERY.

SOME years ago there were several in- quiries in ' N. & Q.' as to the whereabouts of John Lucas's MS. ' History of the Parish of Warton, in Lancashire ' (see 2 S. vi. 372 ; 4 S. v. 317 ; viii. 274).

I think, therefore, it will be interesting to some of your readers to know that I have discovered the ' History,' and that it is now in the library of Mr. Darcy Bruce Wilson, of Seacroft Hall, near Leeds, where it has lain, apparently, for more than a hundred years. And it is not difficult to guess how it came there. When the incomplete copy now in the Bodleian was made, the original was, as I learn from Mr. Purnell, the Assist- ant Librarian, in the possession of Richard Lucas, the historian's eldest son, who died in 1785. His daughter Sarah married John Wilson (Mr.D. B.Wilson's great-grandfather) 21 Dec., 1761. It may be supposed that on her father's death the ' History ' came into her possession, and this was about the time when it disappeared ; for Dr. Whitaker

says in his preface to the ' Ducatus Leodi- ensis ' (published in 1816), p. ix, that having perused the MS. about thirty years ago, he had since in vain endeavoured to retrieve it.

The discovery came about in this way. Last year I edited for the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeo- logical Society (Tract Series, No. 7) ' The Beetham Repository,' a MS. history of the parish of Beetham, in Westmorland, com- piled by the Rev. Wm. Hutton, vicar from 1762 to 1811. Mr. Hutton drew largely from Lucas for his pedigree of the Middle- tons of Leighton Hall, and it seemed appro- priate that I should collect in a note all that was known of Lucas and his ' History.' This tract was reviewed in The Yorkshire Post, and Mr. Wilson, reading the review, at once told me the MS. was in his library. He has since kindly lent me the work, and it may not be out of place to describe it shortly. It is in two folio volumes with a continuous pagination. The first volume contains 44 unnumbered pages (occupied by the title, the dedication to Ralph Thoresby, the Introduction, and a catalogue of treatises quoted) and 426 pages of text, and com- prises Warton, Lindeth, and Silverdale. The second volume contains pp. 427 to 906 of text, and 30 pages of Index, and com- prises Yealand, Leighton, Hutton, Berwick, and Carnforth. The title-page corresponds with that of the incomplete copy at Warton Church, except that the last line should be " Begun about MDCCX., and finished in MDCCXLIV.," and not as printed in ' The Beetham Repository,' p. 181.

JOHN RAWLINSON FORD.

Yealand Conyers, near Carnforth.

LONGFELLOW. (See ante, pp. 201, 222, 242.)

LIKE many Americans coming over in June, Longfellow went directly to the English Lakes. In his modesty he had no conception of the affection with which his writings had caused him to be regarded by the English people. The Daily News truly gave expression to the popular voice when it said :

" He is the familiar friend who has sung to every household, and set to music their aspirations and their affections."

The first intimation he received of this was his reception at Carlisle, where, in reply to an address, he said :

"Coming here as a stranger, this welcome makes me feel that I am not a stranger, for how can a man