Page:Notes and Queries - Series 11 - Volume 8.djvu/333

 11 8. VII. APRIL 26, 1913.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

329

AUTHOR OF QUOTATION WANTED. Can any one help me to discover the poem from which the subjoined lines are quoted ? They came out in a skit, or metrical satire, somewhere about 1875.

There was " Father Mac " in a gorgeous vest,

Like a Staffordshire miner out in his best,

Looking his very illegalest ;

And the Reverend Richard Temple West,

Who in his temple does his best

To assume the Eastward Position.

There was Doctor Evans from the Strand,

With a large bouquet in either hand,

The instruments, he deems, 'tis plain,

For the conversion of Drury Lane.

There was Mr. Steuart of Munster Square,

With a large bevy of damsels fair ;

While Stanton, of hyacinthine locks,

Bore a portable confession-box.

There was Doctor Lee for the New Cut showing,

And Lorrimore Square of course was going.

These and a ... more

Banners, crosses, and emblems bore.

RITUALIST.

DIMINUTIVE ALMANACS. A copy of ' The English Bijou Almanac ' for 1838, measuring only three-quarters of an inch by five -eighths of an inch, Was lately sold in London for 41. Ss. When did the fashion for these absurdly small almanacs arise, and how long did it last ? I possess ' L'Amour et les Belles, pour 1'Annee 1818,' which includes a calendar. The cover of this book measures one inch and an eighth by three-quarters of an inch. Has any one ever issued a cata- logue of these diminutive almanacs, English and foreign ? Do collectors know how many Were published ? A. D.

BAWDWEN. The Rev. Wm. Bawdwen, the Domesday scholar and Vicar of Hooton Pagnel, by his wife Anne had seven children, baptized at that church between the years 1798 and 1805 : Edmund, Mary, Henry, Walter, John, Richard, and Catherine. Can any one tell me if any of these children have left descendants ?

This scholarly clergyman was descended from the Bawdwens of Stonegappe and Cononley Woodside in Kildwick-in-Craven. See the Rev. C. A. Dutton's notes in the Lothersdale Parish Magazine, 1909.

J. H. R.

JACOBITE EARL OF BEVERLEY. Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' enlighten me as to an Earl of Beverley whose estates were con- fiscated for refusal to take the oath of allegiance to the reigning monarch ? Had he a daughter, or a wife, who married one of the Kentish Houghams (Huff am) ? Her name was Elizabeth, and she is said to have

been buried in Limehouse Church. She is believed to have been living at Limehouse in 1780, when the mob attacked her house during the Gordon No Popery Riots. She is supposed to have been a Roman Catholic.

F. H. S.

' THE RAPE OF THE TABLE.' When Lord Cochrane was captain of the Imperieuse in the Mediterranean in 1811, he had a brush with the Vice -Admiralty Court at Malta about the court fees charged in prize cases. He carried off the table showing the author- ized scale from the precincts of the court as a testimony against it, and was com- mitted for contempt by Judge Sewell. The episode moved William Jackson, who afterwards became Cochrane's secretary, to write a satirical poem upon it, which he called 'The Rape of the Table.' Long afterwards, in 1860, when Jackson must have been about 70, he published a volume of verse entitled ' Old-fashioned Wit and Humour,' "with a prefatory letter of appro- bation and eulogy from the late eminent poet the Rev. George Crabbe." Crabbe's letter is dated 7 Aug., 1811, and has refer- ence only to ' The Rape of the Table,' which is not included in the volume it prefaces ; but we learn from an ' Introduction ' that that poem "was printed and a consider- able edition gratuitously distributed " pre- sumably in 1811. From the eminent poet's letter it appears that he had been asked whether Jackson's effort should be published in the ordinary way, but whilst he faintly praises it, he declines to decide the question. Can any one tell me where a copy of ' The Rape of the Table ' is to be seen ? The ' Old-fashioned Wit and Humour ' is poor stuff, but the earlier poem has some intrinsic interest, in that it probably led to its author's intimate association with Lord Cochrane from 1814 until 1860. W. SENIOR.

Royal Societies Club, St. James's Street, 8.W.

PRAYER FOR TWINS. Will MR. M. L. R. BRESLAR kindly publish in ' N. & Q.' a copy of the thanksgiving from the Hebrew liturgy to which he refers at 10 S. iii. 428 ; iv. 176 ? ST. SWITHIN.

VITRE : TREMOULLIERE. Can any one tell me where I can obtain the most exhaustive information regarding the local history of Vitre, Brittany, and the family of Tre- moulliere ? I was much struck with the imposing and picturesque chateau, and would like to know more about its historical asso- ciations. SYDNEY HERBERT. Carlton Lodge, Cheltenham.