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 9*8. IV. DEC. 30,'99.] 531 NOTES AND QUERIES. LONDON, SATUBDAV, DECEMBER SO. 1898. CONTENTS. —No. 105. NOTES :-Gray and Walpole, 631—Walpole and his Editors, 532—The Jubilee Number, 633 — Hood's 'Last Man'— Lovely Lady Coventry—Sir Johns—Order of Council, 534 — "Khaki " — ' Russian Folk - Pictures • — " Minik " — Browning's ' Meeting at Night,' 635—Coleridge Marginalia —War Medals—" Porte-manteau " in Diplomacy, 536. QUEBIES :—" Hoyt"—O'More Family—English Travellers in Savoy—Order of the Bath-Old Church at Chingford— Rev. Alphonse Hose — ' New Critical Review of Public Buildings '—Convents of the Order of St. Francis, 537— French Quotation — Saladin and the Crusader's Wife- Whist with only Twelve Cards—Reclamation ef Traeth Mawr-Heraldic — "Forward's Newgate bands"—Guild Mayor—Heading to a Chapter of Thomas a Kempis, 538— hood of Fools"—J. D. S. Douglas-Lord Chesterfield's Library, 539. BEPLIES :—The Picket, 539 -The • Telegraph '—Wigmore— MacDowell Family, 510- Scandal about Queen Elizabeth— Kosmer—"Le mot de Cambronne "—Gretna Green Mar- riage Registers-Verses by Earl of Norfolk, 541—Rev. R. Walter—Boundary Stones in Fields—Antiquities of East London, 542—"Up, Guards, and at them 1 — "Snipers" —No. 17, Fleet Street, 543-Stafford Castle—" The starry Galileo" —"None," 544— "Norman Gizer" — Askell Family—"Fetch" —* Dr. Johnson as a Grecian'—Bear and Ragged Staff, 546—Horse-bread—Anglo-Saxon Speech, 647—Thompson Family—Palm Wine, 548. NOTES ON BOOKS :—Fitz Simons' • The Gods of Old and aker's Peerage.' Notices to Correspondent*. gotta, GRAY AND WALPOLE. IN a letter to Mason, dated 24 Aug., 1772 (Cunningham's ed. of ' Letters.' v. 405), Wal- pole says in a postscript that Dr. Brown had called twice at his house in Arlington Street, and had left in his own name and that of Mason a goa-stone and a bloodstone seal, which both had belonged to Gray; and in a letter to the Rev. W. Cole, dated the following day, he desires that gentleman to give a thousand thanks to Dr. Brown for the presents in question, which he promises to lay up in his cabinet at Strawberry among nis "most valuables." Cunningham adds in a note that the goa-stone and seal sold at the Strawberry Hill sale in 1842 for 31. 3s., and states on the authority of Cole that the seal was a small pyramidal bloodstone, and had formerly been in the possession of Gray's father. Is the present owner of these articles known 1 The goa-stone and its reputed medicinal qualities are described in Yule and Burnell's' Glossary of Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases.' In a small collection of " Graiana," which was made up by the poet's editor, the Rev. John Mitford. and is now in my possession, is the original letter which Dr. James Brown, who was Master of Pembroke Hall and Gray's co-executor with Mason, sent to Walpole's house after bringing him these mementos of his deceased friend, and finding he was not at home. It may be interesting to reproduce this letter:— " Mr. Mason and Dr. Brown present their com- pliments and desire the favour of Mr. Walpole's acceptance of a Goa Stone and piece of blood stone, which belonged to Mr. Gray, and which they thought Mr. Walpole wou'd value on that account. The blood stone with the seal engraved, Mr. Gray used to say, belonged to his father. Dr. B. had intended to have done nimself the honour of delivering them himself, had Mr. Walpole been at home.—Aug. 25." On looking over the correspondence in the neighbourhood of this letter, I notice that in a letter to Mason, dated 6 July, 1772 (' Letters,' v. 397), Walpole says he wished to "make excursions to York, Beverley, Castle-Howard, and Mr. Aislabie's." Cunningham in a note states that " Mr. Aislabie's was Studley Park, near Fountains Abbey—once the property of Mr. Hudson, the Railway King, now the pro- perty of Lord Londesborough. But I have always understood that Mr. Aislabie was the owner of Studley Royal, the seat of the Marquis of Rippn, and I can personally testify that the ruins of Fountains Abbey are situated within the grounds of that estate. Perhaps a correspondent may be able to say how the case stands. Amongst the "Graiana" of which I have made mention are some lists of dialect words, partly in the neat handwriting of Gray and partly in that of other persons. A pencil note states that these were written by Stone- hewer, but as the handwritings vary, one at least of the lists must have been drawn up by some one else. There is also a scrap of a letter, said to be from Stonehewer, but the writing of this is different from that of the lists. The writer says :— " I like your Elegy extremely, so extremely, that I long to shew you some little errors you are fallen into by following Bronkhusius: for example, your thirty first lines are most intelligibly soft and pretty: but pray what sense do you affix to your six Bronkhnsian lines, that begin at happy youth and end at—let me die ?" This letter is obviously not from Stone- hewer, as it forms part of one which, in almost identical language, is printed by the Rev. D. C. Tovey in his interesting little book 'Gray and his Friends,' 1890, p. 164. The letter is addressed by Richard West to Gray, and acknowledges the receipt of the latter's translation of the first elegy of the Second Book of Propertius, which will be found in Mr. Gosse's edition of 'Gray's Works,' i. 153. Gray, in answering West's letter, asks his correspondent not to "call names," and repudiates the great Bronk-
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