Page:Notes and Queries - Series 11 - Volume 8.djvu/337

 ii s. VIL APRIL 26, 1913.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

333

born about 1794, was student of Christ Church, Oxford, 1811-28, Rector of Wood- mancote 1838. He was Principal of New Inn Hall, Oxford, 1847-66, to which he was appointed by his uncle the Duke of Welling- ton, who was then Chancellor of the Univer- sity, having been for the previous five years Vice -Principal under Dr. Cramer. He was also Rector of Hurstmonceux. He was a collector of drawings by ancient masters, some of which are, I think, in the library of Christ Church many certainly in the Uni- versity Galleries, now a department of the Ashmolean Museum. I remember, as an undergraduate, often seeing him at Uni- versity sermon, where his fine head and refined features reminded you of the portrait of his father in Christ Church Hall. His second son, Richard Colley, was at Christ Church, B.A. 1865.

All three were educated at Eton ; the eldest and youngest also at Christ Church.

JOHN R. MAGRATH. Queen's College, Oxford.

Lord Wellesley shall answer for himself. I copy the following from a note in his own hand, written on the back of his will, now in the British Museum (Add. MS. 37318. 5) :

" My Five Children within named were born of my Wife Hiacinthe Gabrielle Countess of Morning- ton before our marriage at the Places and on the days and years following, and their several Births and Baptisms registered in the Baptismal Register of the Parish Church of S' George Hanover Square.

Richard Wellesley born in Dean S* Park Lane 22* April 1787. ^Anne Wellesley in the same place 29 th February

.

Hiacinthe Mary Wellesley in the same place 25 th February 1789.

Gerald Wellesley in the same place 3 (1 May 1790. Henry Wellesley born in Park Lane 20 th January

1794. " MORNINGTON."

H. I. B.

The ' D.N.B.,' Ix. 212, says : " He had married, on 29 Nov., 1793, Hyacinthe Gabrielle, daughter of Pierre Roland of Paris, who had lived with him for nine years before their marriage, and by whom he had had children. In the circumstances he did not think it ex- pedient to take her to India."

Presumably one of the "lovely boys " was Henry Wellesley (1791-1866), an accom- plished scholar and antiquary of Christ Church, Oxon, and incumbent of four livings in succession. In 1847 he was made Princi- pal of New Inn Hall, Oxon, by his uncle the Duke of Wellington, then Chancellor of the University. A. R. BAYLEY.

HOSIER LANE, WEST SMITHFIELD (11 S, vii. 249). This street dates back beyond the year 1583, cited by W. B. S., as it is men- tioned in a Corporation Letter-Book of 1367 ; and there is a record of a " man of court " having been murdered there in 1437. From Nicolas's ' Chronicle ' it appears that in fairtime many of the houses were " made Publick for Tippling and Lewd sort of people." Mr. Wheatley's ' Cunningham ' may be referred to as to this street.

ROMNEY (11 S. vii. 250). Romney painted a portrait of Mr. Bryan, who is chronicled as having sat to him on 12 and 24 July, also 25 Sept. and 1 and 5 Nov. 1783 ; but he is noted as " Master " Bryan in two cases, and the diaries do not appear clear. The size of the portrait is not mentioned.

W. H. QUARRELL.

ADAM : A MEDIAEVAL CONCEIT (11 S. vii. 270). The explanation offered in the editorial note is so clearly the right one that further proof may seem superfluous. But as long ago as 1874 there was a communica- tion on the same subject in ' N. & Q.' (5 S. i. 305) by PROF. SKEAT, reprinted in his ' Student's Pastime.' No. 97, and West.' In this 11. 589-94 of the ' Cursor Mundi ' and a passage from the ' Dialogue of Solomon and Saturn,' ed. Kemble, p. 178, in which ia, appeared in the wildly corrupted forms of Arthox, Dux, Arotholem, Minsymbrie, being described as four stars, were shown to be mutually explanatory. PROF. SKEAT confessed with regard to the passage from the ' Dialogue of Solomon and Saturn' that he never expected to know what these names meant, and it is charac- teristic of his line of reading that he should have lit on the solution in the way he describes. For the answer lay ready to hand in a place which many searchers would feel was less remote from the beaten track :
 * Why Adam means North, South, East,

" Nomen accepit a Deo. Hebreicum Adam in Latino interpreted ' terra caro facta,' eo quod ex quattuor cardinibus orbis terrarum pugno con- prehendit, sicut scriptum est : ' palmo mensus sum cselum et pugno conprehendi terrain et confinxi hominem ex oinni limo terrae : ad maginem Dei feci ilium.' Oportuit ilium ex his quattuor cardinibus orbis terrse nomen in se por- sardines orbis terrae esse a conditore mundi quattuor stellas constitutas in singulis cardinibus. r'rima stella orientalis dicitur anatole, secunda occidentals dysis, tertia stella aquilonis arctos, quarta stella meridiana dicitur mesembrion. Ex lominibus stellarum numero quattuor de singulia
 * are Adam : inuenimus in scripturis, per singulos