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LOS DON, SATi'RDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, lOllt.

CONTENTS. No. 245.

NOTES : Capt. Cook's Old Master, 181 Webster and the 'N.E.D.,' 182 Sir John Gilbert, J. F. Smith, and 'The London Journal,' 183 The Original of ' Aladdin 'Forti- fications of Antwerp in the Seventeenth Century, 186 Humphrey Halley : "The Unicorn " " Frap " lowerth ab Espus of Avan, 187 Memorial at Southampton St. Paul's Cathedral Gallery "Skillington Time " Flower-Women in London " Handy-dandy," 188.

QUERIES : Rate -Books kept by Overseers of the Poor Alexander Reid of Kirkennan James Lonsdale, Por- trait Painter Carlyle's ' Past and Present ' Bishop Stubbs and 'N. <fc Q.,' 189 A Napoleonic Button Presenting the Lord Mayor to the Constable of the Tower Daughter of a St. Paul's Schoolmaster temp. Elizabeth Rev. W. Langbaine of Trotton Sixteenth- Century Flemish Sideboard Bonar Whitfield "Kennedie," 190 Sir Hugo de Gray of Broxruouth British Coins and Stamps Whitehead " Spade Tree " as a Sign "The Dark Ages," 191.

EEPLIES : Fielding's 'Tom Jones,' 191 Hugh Peters: 'Tales and Jests 'Registers of Protestant Dissenters Shilleto's Edition of Burton" I was well ; I would be better," 193 Sir Gregory Norton, the Regicide Henry IV. 's Supper of Hens " Queen Elinor in the ballad," 194 Burial - Place of Eleanor of Provence Napoleon and Wellington Napoleon as Historian Napoleon's Diversions at St. Helena, 195 " Left his corps " Palm the Bookseller Spoon Folk - lore " Chatterbox " Language and Physiognomy Shake- speare and the Warwickshire Dialect, 196 Lowell's 'Fireside Travels' The Stockwell Ghost Action of Vinegar on Rocks Emendation in ' All's Well that Ends Well ' Author of Quotation Wanted Pedigrees of Knights, 197 Wall-Papers Acrostics Author Wanted ' Almanach de Gotha,' 193.

IfOTES ON BOOKS : ' New Light on Drake ' 'Customary Acres' ' English History in Contemporary Poetry ' ' Analecta Bollandiana 'Reviews and Maga- zines.

CAPT. COOK'S OLD MASTER.

I HAVE for some time been trying to get information regarding the Wm. Sanderson of Staithes to whom Capt. Cook was appren- ticed when young, and the result of my labours may be of interest to readers of 4 N. & Q.'

It has always been said that Wm. Sander- son was a small shopkeeper in Staithes, whose business combined drapery and grocery.

His will (dated 14 Aug., 1773) was proved at York on 12 April, 1774. In it he de- scribes himself as of Staithes in the parish of Hinderwell, Yorks, merchant. He leaves his messuages in Staithes, where he then dwelt, with the shop, &e., to his eldest son John Sanderson, and his freehold estates to his wife Elizabeth Sanderson, his son John Sanderson, and John Harrison -of Guisborough, co. Yorks, gent. they to sell

the same, and the proceeds to go for their support to his son John and the remainder of his children, viz., Elizabeth, Ann, Robert, Augustine, Thomas, George, William, and Isaac, who were to take equal shares at the age of 21. If his wife married again she was to have one-tenth of the proceeds. He left all his personal estate to his wife, son John, and the said John Harrison upon trust, they to pay all funeral expenses, &c., and be executors and guardians for his younger children. The witnesses to the will are Frith Jefferson, David Lincoln, and Henry Carrington.

I had an idea that the above Wm. Sander- son was the same Sanderson who bought the Handale (or Grendale) Benedictine Nunnery, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, in the parish of Lofthouse-in-Cleveland, Yorks, in 1758, and whose daughter parted with it ; and having discovered the present owner of the property, I asked him whether he would be so kind as to refer to his deeds and tell me the Christian name of the Sanderson who bought it and his occupation, and the name of his daughter who sold it, and the date of the sale. His solicitor thereupon furnished me with the following particulars :

" By deeds of lease and release dated 27th and 28th Feb., 1758, made between Roger Beck- with and Eliz. his wife of the 1st part, Wm. Consett and Wm. P. Consett and John Preston the Younger of the 2nd part, and Christopher Wayne, then of Stokesley, apothecary, and Samuel Gill, then of Staithes, gent., of the 3rd part, and Wm. Sanderson, then of Staithes afore- said, gent., of the 4th part- the said Wm. Sander- son acquired the Manor or Lordship of Handall, otherwise Grindall, with the rights, &c., and the mansion house called Handale, otherwise Grin- dale Abbey, and the land held therewith, con- taining 290 acres of the yearly value in the whole of 901. or thereabouts."

A later deed describes Wm. Sanderson as a merchant, and mentions that his will was proved as above. His six children living in 1787 were named John Sanderson, Elizabeth (wife of Thos. Richardson), Ann Sanderson, Augustine Sanderson, George Sanderson, and Isaac Sanderson.

On 23 June, 1788, a common notice of bankruptcy was awarded and issued against Elizabeth Sanderson and John Sanderson, directed to Thos. Nugent, John Wm. Rose, and Augustus Greenland, and recites

" that the Commissioners had found that the said Eliz. Sanderson and John Sanderson had for the space of one year and eight months then last past carried on the trade or business of Shopkeepers (in the name of the said John Sanderson only) by buying of Grocery, Linen, Drapery, and other goods and selling the same," &c.