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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9 th s. VIL MAY 25,1901.

readers tell me anything about John Davie, of Southwold, what year Marryat married his daughter, when she died, and where she was buried ? I fancy she and her children must have lived at Southwold, as her son Samuel married Anne, daughter of John Church of that place. There is no mention made of Marryat's marriage in the ' Diet, of Nat. Biog.' or the life of the author in the ' Art of Healing.'

L. CAMPBELL JOHNSTON.

A WALTON RELIC.

(9 th S. vii. 188.)

No comment has been made by any Wai- toman on this find. The only person I can discover of the name of Anderson who was ever mentioned in connexion with Walton appears to be the Mr. Anderson who is stated in the notes to chap. viii. of ' The Complete Angler,' in some of the numerous editions of that work, to have let his seal-ring fall by accident into the river Tyne, which was discovered in the stomach of a salmon caught in that river. This Mr. Anderson is in all Major's editions I possess referred to as having been Mayor of Newcastle in 1599, and to have been afterwards knighted. There is some mistake over this date, because in that year William Jenison was mayor. The mayor in 1594 was a Henry Anderson, who was the father of Sir Henry Anderson, the mayor in 1613.

We have not been informed as to the con- tents of the letters and other papers found in the fishing-bag. Was there ever a cockney tourist who delighted to write his name or carve his initials more than did Walton 1 We read of a stone near Madeley Pond on which he is said to have carved his initials. His own and Cotton's were " twisted in cipher " over the door of Cotton's Fishing - House ; and, though it appears from chap. iii. part ii. of 'The Complete Angler' that he probably never saw it himself, still " he saw it cut in the stone before it w^s set up." In some twenty of his own books now in the cathedral library at Salisbury can be seen his name or initials. In the cathedral library at Worcester his name can be found inscribed in a copy of the first edition of his ' Lives ' (1670), which he presented to Mrs. Elyza Johnson. He directed that on the ringF he bequeathed by his will his initials should be engraved. No wonder, then, that Walton could not refrain from having his name and initials impressed on the fishing - creel he

gave to his friend J. D. Anderson. We must r or ever guess in vain on how many speci- 'ically bequeathed "prints and pickters" and 'littell things" to his son Izaak were em- blazoned either his name or I. W.

STAPLETON MARTIN. The Firs, Norton, Worcester.

SIR CHRISTOPHER HATTON'S MONUMENT ,7 th S. iv. 309, 395). At the first of the above references I instanced the statement in Murray's ' London as It Is ' (1879) that Sir

hristopher Hatton's monument was "pre- served in the crypt " of St. Paul's Cathedral. The inaccuracy of the statement was fully set forth at the second reference by DR. SPARROW SIMPSON. Since then I have seen Dooks of recent date, notably in No. 1 of " The Kyrle Pamphlets," dealing with St. Paul's
 * his palpable error still rampant in several

'athedral (1893). Here on p. 25 it is stated in the crypt is part of the monument of
 * hat amongst the remains of Old St. Paul's

Lord Chancellor Hatton, after whom Hatton Jarden is named." When visiting St. Paul's ast autumn I purchased from one of the vergers Bell's admirable shilling handbook

1900), written by the Rev. Arthur Dimock, M.A. Here one would scarcely look for errors, but, lo and behold, I observe the legend con- cerning the Hatton monument again staring me in the face on p. 136 ! What a pity it is that anything but first-hand information should be recorded in the pages of such a superb and well -written book ! Who is the original infallible (?) sinner that all these writers so faithfully copy? Can we not gibbet him once and for all ?

JOHN T. PAGE.

West Haddon, Northamptonfjhire.

WEST-COUNTRYMEN'S TAILS (9 th S. vii. 286) As to Englishmen being possessed of tails, see Mr. Henry Smetham's ' History of Strood,' p. 146. William Longespee, called Earl of Salisbury, who died in 1250, was insulted by the French, when on a Crusade, by the allegation that Englishmen had tails (' Diet. Nat. Biog.,' xxxiv. 119). John Bale alludes to this belief, saying that it was propagated by monks and priests to do honour to certain mediaeval saints whom he calls " canonized Cains." The passages wherein he d wells _on this are curious, but I refrain from quoting them here (* Actes of English Votaries,' part i. folios 36b, 97b). EDWARD PEACOCK.

APOSTLE SPOONS (9 th S. vii. 350). In a lengthy inventory of the effects of Rowland Dutton, of Hatton Hall, in Cheshire, esquire, dated 18 March, 1604/5, is the following