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 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. iv. MARCH, i9is.

ADMIRAL VAN TBOMP'S ENGLISH DE- SCENDANTS (12 S. iii. 478, 520; iv. 25). DR. BRIDGE, in mentioning the occurrence of Dutch names in the neighbourhood of Gillingham, might have noted, as one possible explanation, the engineers and workmen who were brought over from Holland to effect the drainage of the marsh lands and ' ' saltings " of the district. The reclamation of Canvey Island on the Essex coast, and of the Isle of Grain on the Kent side, was largely due to Dutch methods, and it seems highly possible that some descendants of the original " adventurers," as they were called, may still survive in these districts, though probably with Anglicized surnames. PRIVATE BRADSTOW.

The surname of the great Dutch admiral in question was " Tromp," not " Van Tromp." His full name was Martin Hapertzoon Tromp. Why Englishmen generally will insist on calling him " Van Tromp " I could never understand, and the Dutch laugh at us for doing so. In Holland the " Van " is not an indication of nobility, as "Von" is in Germany. It generally only means that the first member of a family with a definite surname chose or was given the name of the place, town, or country seat from which he came or in which he was living. For instance, " Lucas van Leyden," the painter, was thus called " of Leyden " -because he was a citizen of that city.

HENRY HOWARD.

ELIZABETH MONCK (12 S. iv. 16). Elizabeth Monck was buried at Bromley, the entry in the registers reading as follows : " Elizabeth Monk, widow, aged 101 last April, buried Sept. 3, 1753." There is a tablet to her memory on the staircase leading to the north gallery, the inscription having been written by Dr. Hawkesworth. I should be interested to hear if J. W. B. succeeds in identifying the adopted boy.

The inscription, which was printed in The British Archivist with the M.I. in Bromley Church and churchyard, is as follows :

" Near this place lies the body of | Elizabeth Monk, | who departed this life on the 27th day of August, 1753 | aged 101. | She was the widow of John Monk, late of this Parish, blacksmith | her second husband | to whom she had been a wife near fifty years ; | by whom she had no children, | and of the issue of the first marriage none lived to the second. | But virtue | would not suffer her to be childless ; | an infant to whom and to whose father and mother she had been nurse | (such is the uncertainty of temporal prosperity), | became dependent upon strangers

for the necessaries of life ; | to him she afforded the protection of a mother. | The parental charity was returned with filial affection ; | and she was supported in the feebleness of age | by him whom she had cherished in the helplessness of infancy. | Let it be remembered | that there is no station in which industry will not obtain | power to be liberal ; | nor any character on which liberality will not | confer honour. | She had been long prepared by a simple and unaffected piety | for that awful moment which however delayed | is universally sure. | How few are allowed an equal time to probation J | How many by their lives appear to presume upon more ! | To pre- serve the memory of this person | but yet more to perpetuate the lesson of her life | this stone was erected by voluntary contributions."

RICHARD HOLWOETHY. 93-94 Chancery Lane, W.C.2.

FRANCIS TIMBRELL (12 S. ii. 507 ; iii. 76, 112, 427). A pedigree of the Timbrell family of Bretforton, Worcestershire, commencing with Thomas Timbrill of Preston-on Stour, co. Gloucester (buried there Jan. 27, 1607), will be found on pp. 19 and 20 of vol. ii. of " A Transcript of the Register of the Parish Church, Bretforton, in the County and Diocese of Worcester, from 1538 to 1837, transcribed and edited with xxiii. Appendices by the late Rev. W. H. Shawcross, F.R.Hist.S., Vicar of Bretforton," published at Evesham in 1908. The book contains a portrait of the Venerable John Timbrell, D.D., Vicar of Bretforton 1816-46.

A. C. C.

PALESTINE CANAL (12 S. iv. 46). Three papers on the ' Jordan Valley Canal ' were read at the Southport meeting of the British Association in 1883. They were probably published in the volume for that year.

L. L. K.

MATTHEW ARNOLD ON BEETHOVEN (12 S. iii. 508). No particular composition of Beethoven's is indicated in the passage quoted, which seems to me the best exposi- tion of the functions of the tone-art in existence. Arnold is speaking generically, of the repetitions in which the power of music consists ; while poetry does not reiterate. Beethoven did not set the words " Miserere Domine." The Roman Mass uses the Greek form " Kyrie Eleison," and elsewhere " Miserere nobis, ' but not " Miserere Domine."

Literary men, even of the highest Shakespeare to begin with have a singular propensity to blunder when they allude to musical details. A typical case is in ' Dombey and Son,' where an amateur violoncellist says : "I have whistled, hummed tunes, gone accurately through the