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 12 S. III. Nov., 1917.]

NOTES AND QUERIES.

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LONDON, NOVEMBER, 1917.

C N T E N T S. No. 74.

NOTES : Fieldingiana, 465 Statues and Memorials in the British Isles, 468 Richard Edwards's Correspondence, 470 Sugar: its Introduction into England The Dutch in the Thames, 472 Coventry Street, Leicester Square Old Limehouse St. Cassian and St. Nicholas. 473 John Pepys of Salisbury Court John Pauley Military Duel : Trunton v. Cadenski " Deuce " Coffin-Plates in St. Mary's, Battersea, 474.

QUERIES : Tennyson's ' Dora ' Avignon Society Edward Lait. Water-Colour Paintr Marine Artists Aleston : Jjhn Toppe=Ann Cardell, 475 Suburban Place-Names Tonks Surname " Hab " as a Nickname Churchwardens at Funerals St. Leonard: Pre-Conquest Dedications Young Ladies' Companion Burlington House Colonnade Water-Colours Guelph Party in Hanover, 476 Samuel Bull, Captain of Cowes Castle "Men of Kent," and " Invicta "Farewell Family- Gorky's ' Storm Petrel ' J. Raphael Smith Zoffany : Missing Picture' Sir Walter Scott and his Literary Friends at Abbotsford,' 477 Arms on Old Seal Balham Hall Sorcery in Essex in 1863 Parish Registers : their Decipherment "Self" : a Dictum Conquest's Version of the Bible "And the child's name's Anthony" Statue as Water-FountainVan Tromp's English De- scendants, 478 Evening Dress Irish Peasant Costume- Peerages : their Sale Riddle by C. Fox " Pacificist" : " Pacifist" R. Hubert alias Forges Hester Heathcote Low Ford " Loafner," 479-Authors Wanted, 480.

REPLIES : Touching for the King's Evil, 480 "The Three Arms" at Bolton, 4S2 Tankards with Medals Trapp's 'Praelectiones Poeticse' Letters from H.M.S. Bacchante, 483 -Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland Lady Mary Grey, alias Keys Dr. Bateson on Colenso Jewess and her Hair Cutting off the Hair as a Preserva- tive against Headache, 484 Stained Glass : its Importation Rolls of Lords Lieutenant Arms of England with France Ancient, 485 Sir Joseph and Lady Copley Gratian's ' Decretum ' K.C.B. : its Three Crowns" Rattle," 487 Buttons " Losing Loadum "Kenrick Prescot, 488 C. Ryckwaerts -Arresting a Corpse T. Ribright, Optician. 4S9 " Whites "Jos. Girdlestone Warden Pies Toad at the Heart Uvedale, Cary, and Price Families, 490 Crest " Felons and Fugitive Goods " Grolier Club Spider Folk-LoreMark Antony Saurin, 491 " Bus " = Aero- planeShakespeare's Schoolmasters Verdun Barony- Authors of Quotations Wanted, 492.

NOTES ON BOOKS : ' Original Records of Early Non- conformity.'

Booksellers' Catalogues.

OBITUARY : Alfred Shelley Ellis.

Notices to Correspondents.

FIELDINGIANA.

(See 12 S. i. 483 ; ii. 441 ; iii. 181.)

IV.

1. EDMUND FIELDING (see ante, pp. 132, 217. 340). A few points may be added to those at the above references. That the Colone was placed on half-pay in 1713 is evidenced by his signature, as a justice of the peace, to the still extant account-book of the overseers of the poor of Gillingham, Dorset, for Easter 1716, the entry running : " 10th May Allowed by us Jo. Churchill, Edmd. JFeilding.' Several deeds bearing the Colonel's signa ture have passed through my hands : photo

graphs prepared therefrom show that he, as also his wife, invariably signed as Feilding. His alliances present some little diffi- lulties. The date of his marriage to his first wife, Sarah Gould, the mother of the novelist and of Edmund Fielding junior (12 S. i. 483), is unknown. She died on April 14, 1718. That year, or early in the following, ie married a widow surnamed Rapha, whose irst name would appear to be Anne, since in July, 1720, " Edmund Feilding, Esq., and Anne his wife," sold to Awnsham /hurchill 153 acres of land at East and West Stower (Public Record Office, Dorset Feet of Fines). By this lady, who died in 1727 (Historical Register Chronicle, 1727, p. 27), fie probably had his second family of six sons, one of whom was the celebrated Sir John Fielding (ante, p. 146). Edmund Feilding married a third time, some sources (e.g., Nichols's ' Literary Anecdotes,' 1812, vol. iii. p. 356) say a fourth. As there died in 1770 a lady described in her obituary notice in The London Magazine as the relict of Lt.-Genl. Edmund Fielding, she may well have been a fourth wife.

2. ' Joseph Andrews.' With the per- mission of Mr. R. A. Austen-Leigh I have recently examined excerpts made by him from the original ledgers of William Strahan (1715-85), printer, of New Street, the said books being now the property of Messrs. Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co., Ltd. The details they afford, with those which have already appeared in ' N. & Q.' (1 S. x. 418 ; 7 S. ii. 365), furnish some definite information respecting the first four editions of Fielding's earliest novel.

The particulars previously published con- sist of the two following extracts from Woodf all's ledgers :

" Feb. 15, 1741/2. History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews, &c. 12mo in 2 vols., no. 1600 with alterations."

" May 31, 1742. The 2nd edition of Joseph Andrews, 12mo, no. 2000, 27 sheets."

Andrew Millar, Fielding's publisher, ap- pears to have then employed Strahan as his printer, and the new information runs :

" Feb. 1743. Mr. A. Millar for printing the Adventures of Joseph Andrews, 20 sheets, s.p. 12mo, no. 3000 at 2 5a. Od. a sheet."

[This was the edition which first included twelve plates by T. Hullett.]

" June, 1748. Joseph Andrews, 20 sheets, no. 2000." [This edition was dated 1749 on the tile-page.]

3. ' Amelia.' From the same source (Strahan's ledgers) there is culled some corroborative evidence respecting Field- ing's last novel. Among Andrew Millar's