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 12 s. ix. OCT. 22, 1921.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 321 LONDON, OCTOBER 22, 1921. CONTENTS. No. 184. NOTES : " Intriguing " Admiral Vernon, 321 Glass- painters of York : William Peckitt, 323 Passing Stress, 325 The Rev. Joseph Benson and the D.N.B.,' 327 " The Crooked Billet," 328 The Prints and Library of Joseph Nollekens, 328. QUERIES : Char-a-banc Charles Wither Anstey's and Sanger's Circuses Dr. Fifleld Allen, 329 I. Donowell " Pisanus Fraxi " St. Colme's Charm Roger Gwyllym and Richard Lloyd Gwyllym " Butter goes mad twice a year " Nursery Rime Capt. Peregrine Bertis Un- identified Arms, 330 Grandeau Family in the Stuart Service Alexander Simson, Burgess of Dundee "Fop" Steele and ' The Spectator ' Translation of Motto required Holland Cheeses Cheese used in Rituals : Cheese Cures : Cheese poisoning " Making bricks without straw " Thistlethwayte Families John Jones's ' Jewel- lery ' Samuel Mullen, Poet, 331 Vida's ' Game of Chess ' Surnames with Double Letters, 332. REPLIES : Sambatyon, 332 Allusions by Keats Ford's MSS., Suffolk Collections The Governor of N. Carolina and the Governor of S. Carolina, 333 Nautical Song Anger, Aungier, Angier : Ainger Family Tudor Trevor, Earl of Hereford, 334 Cheese Saint and Cheese Sacri- fices Families of Pre-Reformation Priests Shakespeare's Cheese-loving Welshman The Escape of Katharine Nairne Quotations on Cheese " Lay " and " Lie," 335 Welsh Name for Bedford Brothers of the Same Christian Name Thomas Stukeley The Music-hall Griffiths Gentlemen-Pensioners Culcheth Hall West Cliff House, Ramsgate Mulberries Hatchments Lacticinia Charles II. and Barbara Villiers, 337 Martin Carisbrooke Castle Trewthe Family The Rev. E. Davies, Poet Runny - mede, 338. NOTES ON BOOKS : The Latin Orient 'Journal of the Society of Army Historical Research The Print Collector's Quarterly. Notices to Correspondents. JJote*. "INTRIGUING" ADMIRAL EDWARD VERNON. IN notes which have recently been pub- lished in Masonic organs on both sides of the Atlantic regarding some of the elder lodges of the Freemasons in Stepney (hcti that ancient great parish was de facto the Port of London and the " nursery of English seamen") references were made to the traditions that the once -famous Admiral Edward Vernon, of Porto Bello timately associated with the " craft and mistery " long before the great composing union of the several English fractions of tin- brotherhood. Readers may be reminded that Puerto Bello ("the beautiful harbour") is now a seaport of Colombia on the north coast of the Isthmus of Panama, 40 miles N.N.W. of Panama City, and that Cartagena is on the other side of the Gulf of Darien. Through these two fortified harbours the Spaniards transacted the business of Peru the galleons especially, Vera Cruz, on the Gulf of Mexico, 185 miles east of Mexico City, supplied the wants of New Spain. From 1503 the Spanish trade of the Indies was a monopoly of the merchants of Seville, and, on the European side of the Atlantic, it was controlled by a few business houses in Mexico and Lima. Edward Vernon captured Porto Bello, Nov. 20, 1739, a place of arms which had been taken by direct assault of 460 buccaneers under the famous Welshman, Henry Morgan, and sacked, three-quarters of a century before. On March 17, 1740, both Houses of the British Parliament sent an address of congratulation to the King " on the glorious success of Your Majesty's arms in the West Indies, under the command of Vice -Admiral Vernon, by entering the Port and taking the Town of Porto Bello, and demolishing and levelling all the forts and castles belonging thereto, with six men-of-war only." This phrase of " with six men-of-war only " was carried by the Opposition in the Com- mons to emphasize the contrast between Vernon and tjiat Admiral Hozier who had hesitated to attack the place with 20 ships of war in 1726. Cartagena was blockaded March 9, 1741, but the attack upon the forts miscarried and failed and the expedi- tion for its destruction withdrew late in the month following. Sir J. K. Laughton in the 'D.N.B.' mentions that the Cartagena failure has been very commonly spoken of as naval- as Vernon's and, still more commonly, to the ill-feeling between Vernon and Brigadier-General Wentworth, who was in command of the military forces ; and espe- cially to " Vernon's violent temper and savage tongue." It is added : " This is the view which has been popularized by Smollett ; but, in point of fact, Smollett, though on board one of the ships (in a very humble capacity), was not in a position to know anything beyond what he could actu- ally see on the. rare occasions when he was permitted to be on the poop. Of the rela- tions of Vernon and Wentworth, of their letters or conversations, he was, and must have been, altogether ignorant. The letters show that there was no quarrel before the ill-judged attack on San Lazaro (the citadel of Cartegena) ; and that though Vernon did
 * url Cartagena, was more or less in-