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 i2S.ii. OCT. 21, 1916.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER SI, 19K.

CONTENTS. No. 43.

TfOTES: Ralph Bohim : Christopher Boone, 321 'The Morning Post,' 322 An English Army List of 1740, 324 ' The Tragedy of Csesar's Revenge,' 325 Greatest Recorded Length of Service, 327 " To weep Irish": "To war" Influenza " Dug-out " : Various Meanings, 328.

4JUERIES: Pallavicini: Arms, 328 Authors Wanted " Religious" as a Substantive St. Francis Xavier's Hymn, 329 Naval Records Wanted "The High Court of Chivalry "Barnard Flower : Bp. Fox of Winchester- Touch Wood Author and Title Wanted of Boys' Book Udimore, Sussex Mrs. Edward Fitzgerald's Pictures Dickens's ' Bleak House,' 330 Drawing of the Mermaid Tavern, 331.

'REPLIES : Mews or Mewys Family, 331 Brassey (Bracey) Family, 333 Edward Stabler Fisheries at Comacchio Royal Artillery Americanisms, 334-Ladies' Spurs- Local Almanacs of the Seventeenth Century Legal Macaronics, 335 Authors of Quotations Wanted "Car- dew " Du Bellamy : Bradstreet : Bradshaw Ching : Chinese or Cornish '? Motto of William III. Portraits in Stained Glass, 337 Toke of Notts Mrs. Anne Dutton Henchman or Hinchman Cloth Industry at Ayr, 338 St. Peter as the Gatekeeper of Heaven Sir John May- nard Bluebeard Snob and Ghost "Court" in French Place-Names, 339.

Jf OTES ON BOOKS : ' The Academ Roial of King J ames I. ' 'The Origin of the Cult of Artemis."


 * Notices to Correspondents.

RALPH BOHUN : CmilSTOPHER BOOXE.

READERS of John Evelyn's ' Diary ' will remember two gentlemen of the name of Bohun, to whom fairly frequent allusion is made, but whose Christian names are no- where given.

The one was tutor to Evelyn's son, and the other a relative of his, a rich Spanish merchant.

1. The first was Ralph Bohun, eldest son of the Rev. Abraham Boun, Rector of Elmedon and Vicar of Foleshill, Warwick- shire.

Ralph Bohun entered Winchester College as Corvsanguineus Fundatoris from Counden, Warwickshire, aged 14, in 1655. He claimed to be Founder's kin through his mother, Elizabeth, daughter of George Bathurst of Hothorp, Northamptonshire, and sister of Dr. Ralph Bathurst, Dean of Wells, and President of Trinity College, Oxford, and of Sir Benjamin Bathurst, father of Allen, 1st Earl Bathurst.

Ralph Bohun matriculated at Oxford from New College, Dec. 8 ; 1658, and took the degree of B.C.L. in 1665.

Under date Aug. 4, 1665, John Evelyn writes :

" I went to Wotton to carry my sonn and his tutor Mr. Bohun, Fellow of New Coll. (recom- mended to me by Dr. Wilkins and the Pres. of New Coll. Oxford), for feare of the pestilence, still increasing in London and its environs."

Under date Jan. 29, 1667, he writes :

" To London in order to my son's Oxford journey, who being very early enter'd both in Latin and Greek, and prompt to learn beyond most of his age, I was persuaded to trust him under the tutorship of Mr. Bohun, fellow of New College, who had been his preceptor in my house some years before ; but at Oxford under the inspection of Dr. Bathurst, President of Trinity Coll., where I plac'd him, not as yet 13 years old. He was newly out of long coates."

Under date Jan. 10, 1671, he writes :

" Mr. Bohun, my son's tutor, had been 5 yeares in my house, and now Batchelor of Laws and Fellow of New College, went from me to Oxford to reside there, having well and faithfully per- form 'd his charge."

In 1671 Mr. Bohun wrote a ' Discourse on the History and Nature of Wind ' : and in 1674 he became Rector of West Kington, Wiltshire. In 1685 he took the degree of D.C.L. Several letters from Mrs. Evelyn to Dr. Bohun are printed in the second edition of Evelyn's ' Memoirs,' as well as ' A Character of Mrs. Evelyn,' by Dr. Bohun, dated Sept. 20, 1695.

Under date Jan. 27, 1701, Evelyn writes :

" Mr. Wye, rector of Wotton, died, a very worthy good man. I gave it to Dr. Bohun, a learned person and excellent preacher, who had been my son's tutor, and liv'd long in my family."

On Aug. 18, 1701, Bohun took possession of this living.

Under date Mav, 1704, after recording the death of Dr. Ralph Bathurst, President of Trinity College, Oxford, he says :

" He gave a legacy of money and the third part of his library to his nephew Dr. Bohun, who wen hence [i.e. from Wotton] to his funeral."

Dr. Bohun had on Aug. 8, 1701, become Prebendary of Chisenbury and Chute in the Cathedral Church of Salisbury, and he died July 12, 1716, leaving the sum of 20Z. to the poor of Wotton, and a similar sum for the decoration of the altar.

2. The second was Christopher Bohun or Boone. On Aug. 31, 1679, Evelyn writes :

" After evening service to see a neighbour, one VIr. Bohun, related to my sonn's late tutor of that name, a rich Spanish merchant, living in a neate slace, which he has adorned with many curiosities, especially severall carvings of Mr. Gibbons, and ome pictures by Streeter."

On July 30, 1682 :

" Went to visit our good neighbour Mr. Bohun ^Lea, Kent), whose whole house is a cabinet of all