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 9* S. VII. MARCH 9, 1901.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 1901.

CONTENTS. No. 167.

NOTES : Alexander Pym, 181 Verbs out of Proper Names, 182 -Early References to Donne, 183 -" Verdure "Water- vole, 184" Polio," "Quarto" Point de Galle Machyn's 'Diary,' 185 Southey and Swedenborg Ireland and Frogs, 186.

QUERIES : Accession of Edward VII. Mrs. Arbuthnott "Pize"-John Foy Campbells of Ardkinglass " Cur- tana" J. W. M., Painter 'Ode to the North Cape' Printer's Proof of Poems, 187 " Kybosh" Allusion in Wordsworth Ships moving without Sail or Wind Bell- ringing at Wakes Hume's Portrait Thackeray Author of Hymn Walton Relic Dame Ann Combe, 188 His- tory of Seals Epitaph of John Nichols Jewish Archi- tects -" Been " MSS. at Paris Monuments in Gilling Church, 189.

REPLIES: Doubtful Passages in Chaucer, 189 Mussul- man Legend of Job "Money trusted," 190 Count Pecchio D'Auvergne Family Mediaeval Tithe Barns Chavasse Family" Tapping" and "Tipping "Ralegh's Signature, 191" Carterly "Simon Eraser Men wearing Earrings Cap of Maintenance Latin Lines Suwarroff and Massfina, "192 National Flag Horses with Four White Stockings Book of Common Prayer Bonaparte Ballad, 193 -"Nunty "-The Dog and the Gamekeeper- Sir James Douglas Friday Superstition Serjeant, Hill Margery, 194 Monolith with Cup-markings Reference for Verses Orientation in Interments "Petering" Early Lines on Cricket Archbishop Ussher, 195 The Blessing of the Throats Friar's Crag, Derwentwater Broken on the Wheel Eton College and Ram Hunting, 196' Essence of Malone '"Jury Lay Canon Instal- lation of a Midwife -Old Legend. 197 " J'ai vecu" Serjeant Bettesworth Sir J. B. Warren "Attur. Acad." Authors Wanted, 198.

NOTES ON BOOKS : Campbell's 'Superstitions of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland ' Magazines.

Mr. F. S. Ellis.

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ALEXANDER PYM.

THE eldest surviving son of the well-known " patriot " inherited Brymore upon his father's death in August, 1643, but very little appears to be known of him. The late John Forster, in his 'Statesmen of the Commonwealth,' erroneously states that he was M.P. for Poole in the Short Parliament of April-May, 1640, and that he died not long after his father. He survived his father not far short of twenty years. In the ' Calendar of the Comm. for Advance of Money, under dates varying between 1643 and 1647, various sums are ordered to be paid him " on account of his arrears " as captain of horse. And in January,1646, an order in Parliament directed the settlement of the lands of Thomas Morgan, of Heyford, co. Northants, and of Sir John Preston, Bart., of Furness, co. Lancaster, " notorious papists and delinquents," on trustees in behalf of the children of John Pym. It is doubtful to what extent the family of Pym benefited by this order. The widow of Morgan claimed a prior right under a conveyance from her husband made as far back as 1637, and the tenants on the estate refused to pay their rents to any one but their old landlord. In 1649 Alexander Pym

petitioned the Parliament for help in getting in the rents then in arrear, but with what result is not known.

Alexander Pym served the office of Sheriff of Somerset in 1650-1. He is included by Prynne among the secluded members of the Long Parliament who were living when the Rump returned on 7 May, 1659, and were by that Ibody refused read mission to the Parlia- ment House (see appendix to Prynne's 'Con- scientious, Serious, Theological, and Legal Quaeres, 3 &c.). This is, I believe, the sole authority for Alexander Pym's M.P.-ship, but it will probably be deemed sufficient evidence of the fact. Prynne must have been well acquainted with Alexander Pym, and is hardly likely to have been mistaken in enumerating him among the " secluded " M.P.s. But neither the constituency he represented nor the date of his election is known. He is cer- tainly not mentioned in the 'Commons' Journals ' as being present in the Long Parlia- ment at any period from its commencement to the "Purge" of December, 1648, so that it is likely that he was one of the " recruiters " returned on the eve of the last-named event. Some time back, in the pages of 'N. & Q.' (8 th S. v. 330), I enumerated some six or eight vacant seats for the filling up of which writs were ordered in the years 1647 and 1648, but to which no returns are known. Three of these were for Cornish boroughs at Camel- ford, Penryn, and Newport respectively. I now suggest that Alexander Pym was -elected for Newport. The writ for this borough, in the places of two members deceased, was ordered on 1 March, 1648. The election did not take place until 7 November following just one month before the Purge when Prynne (as we learn from himself) was one of the members returned. Assuming Alexander Pym to have been his colleague, the lateness of his election will sufficiently account for his non-mention in the 'Journals.' I think it the more probable that he was M.P. for Newport from the fact (which I gather from Mr. A. F. Robbing's * History of Launceston ') that Pym's brother-in-law, Sir Francis Drake, Bart. an active supporter of the Parliament then resided at Werrington Park, near Newport, and exerted considerable influence in that borough, for which, indeed, he was himself returned as M.P. after the Restoration.

Pym does not seem to have gone back to Westminster in March, 1660, when the re- entrance into the House of the secluded members was enforced by Monk. At all events, there is no mention of him in that connexion, although his brother Charles M.P. for Beeralston since 1641 did so return.