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 ii B. vi. A. 3, 1912.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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LOXDOX, SATURDAY, AUGUST J,

CONTENTS. No. 136.

?fOTES : The Ebsworth Family and the Edinburgh Free- masons, SI London Proprietary Chapels, S3 Cobbett Bibliography, 84 Andrew Lang, 86 Toads and Poison Dickens's Last Reading at Leeds Curious Sunset Effect

A Granddaughter of Sir Thomas More, 87 The Cassiterides, Scilly Isles, and Lyonesse Nelson among his Intimates, SS.

QUERIES : Title-deed Toady Benjamin Beale of Kent : his Bathing Machines, 88 James Pattison Stewart- Harris Family Thomas Gilbert Chancellor's Sealer for the Diocese of St. David's The Use of Forks Sir Robert Bartley Pope : Reference Wanted Arms : Neunburg Biographical Information Wanted, 89 " Chalk Sunday "Authors of Quotations Wanted Patent for Baronetcy in Blank Jacques Dartnell Alderman Robert Burdett Oxford Jacobite Plot Col. Chester's Extracts from Parish Registers Richborough Re'mains in Bethnal Green Sir Christopher Danby " According to Cocker," 90.

REPLIES : Municipal Records Printed, 91 Sanskrit and Welsh Bullock's Museum, Piccadilly " Moolvee," 92 Shakespeare on the Pain of Death, 93 Sir Culling Eardley Inscription in St. Mary's, Llanfair - Waterdine

Casanova and Carlyle " Bite bigeer, Billy," 94 " Visto"=' - Vista" King Engle and his Sons Author Wanted Dingwall Family, 95 Cardinal Alphonse de Richelieu Coffee : Chocolate : First Advertisement William Stampe, D.D. Syvetare : Syvekar Sir John Arundel of Clerk en well Moses Charas, Pharmacopteus Regius, 96 " Stephani Roderici Castrensis Lusitani " Author of Quotation Wanted Diseases from Plants Sir T. Browne : Quotation from Ptolemy Canongate Edinburgh Church Registers Arms on a Seal Umbrella ' The Chamber over the Gate ' Epitaphiana Nicolaus Mysticus and Cosraas Atticus Brodribb, 97 Regent's Park Centenary, 93.

NOTES ON BOOKS: 'Laws of Japanese Painting' 'Cathedrals of England' ' Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica ' ' Cornhill ' ' Fortnightly.'

OBITUARY : The Emperor of Japan.

Sir Christopher and Richard Milton.

THE EBSWORTH FAMILY AND THE EDINBURGH FREEMASONS.

JOSEPH WOODFALL, EBSWORTH having been a contributor to ' N. & Q.' for many years, the following notes relating to the connexion of the Ebsworth family with the Freemason Lodge of St. David, Edinburgh, No. 36, may "be of interest.

Joseph Ebsworth, musician, was initiated into Freemasonry in Lodge St. David on
 * 23 Nov., 1833, and held the office of Master

of Choir from 1844 to 1862. He was Bard of the Lodge, 1867-8.

Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth, artist, 4, Montgomery Street, Edinburgh, was initiated 111 Lodge St. David, probably in the early part of 1852. His name is not recorded in the minutes, but he is registered as a member of the Lodge in the books of the Grand Lodge if Scotland on 3 July, 1852, this being the

date on which his certificate or diploma was issued. He was Senior Warden of the Lodge during the years 1857-8 and 1860.

George Henry Ebsworth, 4, Montgomery Street, Edinburgh, was initiated in Lodge Canongate Kilwinning, Edinburgh, No. 2, on 13 April, 1859, and held the office of Junior Warden in the following year. On 20 March, 1860, he was elected an Honorary Member of Lodge St. David.

I now give some extracts from the minute- book of Lodge St. David.

Monthly Meeting, 17 th February, 1857. " B r . Ebsworth Sen* delivered a concise and very interesting lecture on the History of Music ; the thanks of the Brethren was [xic] given to B r Ebs- worth Sen r and -ordered to be recorded in the minutes."

Monthly Meeting, 17 th March, 1857. " The R.W. Master requested B r Ebsworth, Senior Warden, to proceed with his Lecture. The Lodge Room was decorated with drawings executed by the Sen r Warden during his travels in Italy, and taken from paintings and places of that Kingdom ; they gave the Lodge a very lively appearance. The Brethren were highly delighted with the Lecture, and tendered their warmest thanks to the lecturer."

Monthly Meeting, 16 th February, 1858. '' The Lodge was now called to refreshment, during which B r Ebsworth J r, S.W., gave a Lecture on ' The Masonic qualities of William Shakespeare ' ; with which the Brethren were much edified, the Lecturer being frequently applauded for his eloquence, research, and application of his subject to the objects of Free-Masonry ; and upon the Motion of the R.W.M., seconded by B r Ritchie, the thanks of the Brethren were accorded to B r Ebsworth."

Monthly Meeting, 15 th May, 1860. " Br. J. Woodfall Ebsworth, S.W., then favoured the Brethren with an excellent sketch of the Fine Arts ; and portrayed in eloquent language the numerous proofs of exalted genius displayed in the works of a brother Artist, J. Noel Paton."*

Monthly Meeting, 17 th June, 1860. " Br. J. W. Ebsworth, S.W., then favoured the Brethren with an eloquent Lecture on the ' Life and Writings of Sir Walter Scott,' in which he ably delineated the character of the ' Great Unknown,' and gave an interesting sketch of his various and imperish- able works. At the conclusion of the Lecture, the R.W.M. moved that a vote of thanks to Br. Ebsworth should be recorded in the Minutes ; which was unanimously agreed to."

Monthly Meeting, 18 th September, 1860. " The Lodge then adjourned to Refreshment; and after the usual toasts had been proposed and responded to, the R.W. Master called for a special bumper to the health of B r J. Woodfall Ebsworth, Senior Warden, who was about to leave for Cambridge, to pursue his literary studies. The R.W.M. stated that for several years past B r Ebsworth had been an enthusiastic Mason, and during the period he held the office of S.W.

Limner to Her Majesty Queen Victoria for Scotland.
 * Afterwards Sir J. Noel Paton, R.S.A.,