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 128. VI. MAY 29, 1920.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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LONDON, MAY 39, 1920

CONTENTS. No. 111.

NOTES : Printing House Square Papers : 1. Queen Victoria and Delane, 241 English Army List of 1740, 242 Shake- speare's "Shy lock," 244 Name of Penda, 246 Alleged ' Keprints of The dimes' Ac. Revenge on One's Luck, 247 German and Austrian Titles Relinquished, 248 Bulls and Bears Grove House, Woodford Divorce and Marriage Hunger Strike, 249 "Solute," 250.

QUERIES : Royal Arms for Village War Memorial Portrait of the " Duke of Pentwezel "Water Courts Wm. Wright Identification of Anns Sought Carolin.6 Robert Herbert, 250 " Correspondence Schools " Gordonized" Chinese Gordon's Height Mrs. E. B. Mawr Grandfather Clock Altar Tables Lieutenant Druminond and his Escape John Brown, 'King's Serjeant- at-Arms " Corry," or " Corrie-rlster Trigg Minor Mrs. Lucy Hucchinson Niches in Chuchyard Crosses, 251 Lore of the Cane R. Marsh G. Laughton Dickens's Medical Knowledge -Inns of Court in Elizabeth's Reign ' The Itinerary of Antoninus ' " Statute" and " Way " Bread Stewart, or Stuart F. E. Hugford Woodhouse's Riddle" Hardness of Heart" Evans of the Strand, 252 " Os Turturis." Author of Quotation Wanted, 253.

REPLIES : Master-Gunner, 253 St. Bartholomew's in Moor Lane : " Copy"--The Australian Bush, 255 Browne : Small : Wrench : Macbride Harris, a Spanish Jesuit, 256 Davidians : David George's Sect Emerson's ' English Traits,' 257 The Re>f. John GutchOvey Principal London Coffee-houses -Uncollected Kipline Items, 258 Bibliography of Lepers in England Earliest Clerical Directory Burnt Champagne Folk-Lore of the Elder, 259 Torphichen Monkshood, 260 Latin as an Inter- national Language" Diddykites" and Gipsies Bishops of Dromore -Author of Quotation Wanted, 261.

NOTES OV BOOKS : 'The Lollard Bible '' The Portrait of a Scholar and other Essays' 'The Month's Occupations.'

The Menaced City Churches.

Notices to Correspondents.

PRINTING HOUSE SQUARE PAPERS. I. QUEEN VICTORIA AND DELANE.

IT is proposed in this and in subsequent Notes to bring to the light some of the contents of a considerable body of unpub- lished documents, the property of The Times, preserved at Printing House Square, relating directly or indirectly to J. T. Delane's editorship of that journal. It is only since the publication of Mr. Dasent's biography of Delane and Sir Edward Cook's study of him that Delane's great services to The Times and to the nation have come to be accurately appreciated on the personal side ; and the letters preserved at Printing House Square help to supplement our knowledge of his relations with the men and affairs of his period and with his staff. Delane was born in 1817 and died in 1879, having been Editor of The Times from 1841 to 1877.

The relations between the Court under Queen Victoria and The Times under Delane are amply illustrated in Mr. Dasent's volumes and by Sir Edward Cook ; there is abundant evidence to show how closely the Queen read The Times, and how on occasion she criticized it. Published sources of in- formation can be supplemented by some of the papers now preserved in The Times office, and in particular by the following letter : Windsor Castle,

March 1, 1870.

The Queen was indeed much pleased by the article in The Times of the 24th, and thinks Mr. Delane showed the best feeling and spirit in writing it. It would be a great thing if he would fre- uently write articles pointing out the immense anger and evil of the wretched frivolity and levity of the views and lives of the Higher Classes, and also of the great danger and misfortune of the separation of classes the contempt for those below you, and of the treatment of servants. If this was judiciously done, immense good might arise out of it, to the nation at large.

The subject of this article (The Times, Feb. 24, 1870), which won Queen Victoria's approval, was the appearance the day before of the Prince of Wales as a witness in the case of Mordaunt v. Mordaunt. It is unnecessary here to recall the particulars of this unhappy case, beyond the fact that the name of the Prince of Wales had been early introduced into it ; he was/ as The Times said, " aspersed but not accused " ; and the result of his voluntary appearance in the witness-box was, again in the words of The Times, to disperse entirely " the cloud which oppressed us." After commenting on the circumstances The Times drew the moral :

It is evident that the prince's error was simply this that he had been too careless of his reputa- tion. He had acted as a young man who does not understand the passion too many have for scandal, and had given occasion to misconstruction through simple heedlessness.

The passage which in particular caused the Queen to thank Delane was probably the concluding paragraph of the article, which runs as follows :

The Prince of Wales has learnt by a painful experience how watchfully he must walk whose life is the property and the study of the world. If Royalty has many privileges, it must suffer not a few privations, and the charm of personal intimacy is one that must be almost denied to the inheritors of crowns. The Prince has had, indeed, before him the pattern of a life, not surely devoid of innocent pleasures, yet so carefully regulated that it was, in the eyes of all men, devoted to domestic purity. The life of the Prince Consort was marked by the nicest regard to the conditions under which it was passed. Every one will