Page:Notes and Queries - Series 10 - Volume 8.djvu/443

 io s: vm. NOV. 9, 1907.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

365

of information, not given in the peerages, may be worth noting :

" 1630. Feb. 5. Sir William Tresham and Richard Oliver to Secretary Dorchester write that Lord Brudenell in Feb., 1628, agreed to give 6,000^. to be made an English Baron : 5,0001. was paid in the same Feb. and March, and the other 1,000^. was to be paid in May, 1629. The treaty passed between the late Duke of Buckingham and Lord Brudenell." ' Domestic Calendar,'' vol. xxxviri. p. 273, P. R. 0.

V. L. OLIVER. Sunninghill.

TYBURN : PROPOSED REMOVAL IN 1719. MR. ALFRED MARKS, who contributed at 10 S. ii. 26 an interesting note on the exact site of Tyburn, has expanded it in a valuable degree in The Athenceum of 17 August ; and there is a point in the latter contribution which opens up a line of further inquiry, MR. MARKS says :

" It is strange that there should be no record of the disappearance of ' the triple tree,' a monument so intimately connected with the history of Eng- land, political, social, and religious, the subject of countless allusions in English literature. I have been unable to find any direct reference to the removal of the gallows. The date of its removal must fall between June 18th and October 3rd, 1759"

this referring, of course, to the change from the fixed " triple tree " to " the new Moving Gallows," first recorded to have been used on the date last given.

But the new point of interest in this con- nexion i? an earlier suggestion that Tyburn should cease altogether to be used as a place of execution, and that is to be found in Mist's Weekly Journal, or Saturday's Post, for 24 Jan., 1719, which said :

" We hear the famous and ancient Engine of Justice called Tyburn is going to be demolished ; and we hear the Place of Execution is to be removed to Stamford-Hill, beyond Newington, on the way to Ware ; the Reason given is said to be, because of the great Buildings that are going to be erected in Maribone-Fields.

Nothing seems to have come of this suggestion, for which the present residential suburb of Stamford Hill may well feel thank- ful ; but it is curious to find, over half a century later, another suggestion for re- moving the place of public execution in London to the Northern Heights, Lloyd's Evening Post of 1-3 May, 1776, having this paragraph :

"Orders, it is said, have been given for the criminals, convicted at the Old-Bailey, in future, to be executed at the Cross-roads, near Mother Red-cap's, the Half-way house to Hampstead ; and that no galleries, scaffold, or other temporary stages, be built near the place."

This reference to stands for spectators may

be illustrated by an extract from Applebee's Weekly Journal for 14 November, 1719, in which it was reported that

"yesterday was Se'nnight, when Mr. John Mat- thews, the Printer, was executed, the Gentlewoman that keeps the House near Tyburn, took over IO/. for People's standing to see the Prisoners hang'd ; and if it had prov'd a fair Day, as it was a Rainy one, no doubt but she had, in all probability, more than double that Slim."

Before leaving the subject, let me recall a jocular suggestion for the removal of the Tyburn Gallows, made in a casual remark in Read's Weekly Journal as early as 30 Nov., 1717 :

" The Author of ' The Scourge ' this Week acts the Part of an old Man, which he '11 never be, unless he pulls down the triangular Timber standing by Hyde Park Corner."

ALFRED F. ROBBINS.

JTJVISY : ITS ETYMOLOGY. On the hill of Juvisy, situated between Paris and Fon- tainebleau ( = Fons Blaudi, la fontaine de Blaud), the well-known French astronomical writer, M. Camille Flammarion, established an observatory in 1883, the property having been made over to him by an enthusiastic admirer, M. Meret, who died at Bordeaux in 1886. A description of the observatory is given in the number of the Bulletin de la Societe Astronomique de France for last August. We are told in a foot-note that the Emperor of Brazil paid a visit to the obser- vatory in 1887, and on entering exclaimed, " Oh ! juvat visu ! Juvisy est bien nomme." It is added : " Gardons cette etymologic. Juvat visu : on y jouit d'une belle vue. Site agreable a voir."

Dr. Bougon, however, remarks in the September number of the Bulletin that this etymology " est de pure fantaisie," and that the name of the place is really taken from the circumstance that a temple of Jupiter existed, in Gallo-Roman times, on the spot, Jouve signifying " consacre a Jupiter."

The Emperor's etymology (if meant for such) reminds me of an equally fanciful one I heard many years ago that Quantock in Somersetshire took its name from the exclamation of a Roman general, after having ascended the hill, " Quantum ab hoc ! " i.e., how much can be seen from this spot ! W. T. LYNN.

Blackheath.

" BARNARD'S INN " TAVERN. The " Red Lamp " of ' Barnaby Rudge,' a public- house known to the ' London Directory ' as the " Barnard's Inn," finally closed its doors on the night of Monday, 23 September,