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 a* s. vn. JUNE 29, 1901.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 39, 1901.

CONTENTS. No. 183

NOTES : T. S. Mulock, 501 Orientation and Controversy, 503 Bethlem " Grey groat" "Berth "=lay down boards Kyrie Bleison, 505 " Galloglass " Exeter Theatre in 1348 " Godling " J. Lavington " Mere Man " " Lake," a Precious Stone" Same stream," 508 "Takmi "The Couvade Music Pnhlishers' Signs. 507.

QUERIES : 'American Husbandry ' Portrait of Lady Harley-Sweeny Todd P. de la Port Stewart Family, 508 Authors Wanted Blood as a Prophylactic Susanna Hopton " Grand Tour " Smoking a Cobbler " Old Curiosity Shop," 509 Lines on Queen Victoria " Foot of b ee f "Hawthorne Scott Query Authors Wanted, 510.

REPLIES : Dowager Peeress sir C. Hatton's Monument, 510 Flower Game " All roads lead to Rome "Tea as a Meal, 511 R. Estcott Painted and Engraved Portraits Jowett's Little Garden" Snicket" Canadian Boat Song, 512 Rawlins-White Unmarried Lord Mayors Button and Seaman Families Stow's Portrait Old London Taverns, 513 English Hexameters and Elegiacs Bottled Ale George Wallace, 514 Municipal Coincidences Author Wanted Hand-ruling in Old Title-pages, 515 Books on Manners Pens : "Nibs," &c. Telegraphy : its Invention D'Auvergne Family Dr. Barry, 51fi Vanish- ing London : Christ's Hospital Dual Number in German Pews annexed to Houses, 517 " Coost*' New England Donation-Party. 518 " Rymmyll" ' Attur. Acad.,' 519.

NOTES ON BOOKS : Miss Weston's Legend of Lancelot' 'Feudal Inquisitions and Assessments' Gilchrist and Perkins's ' Itinerary of the English Cathedrals.'

Notices to Correspondents.

THOMAS SAMUEL MULOCK, 1789-1869. (Concluded from p. 484.)

THE following extracts from one of Mr. Mulock's letters, dated 31 August, 1824, are characteristic :

" The difference to which you advert as at present subsisting between us is not a difference between man and man, but between light and darkness, liberty and bondage, truth and error. Tt is im- possible for me fully to express the pity I feel for you. I can truly say that the first tears of gospel compassion I ever dropped were shed last night when contemplating the force, subtlety, and success of the Satanic craft permittedly practised upon you. Your case is measurably revealed to me. You are the victim of inordinate affections which nothing but the riches of grace can subdue. Finding that the privileges of the glorious gospel were and are deemed idle tales^ by one to whom it is not given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, Satan has ensnared you to rob Christ of his glory by bringing down the blessedness of the faithful

to the level of unbelief Instead of predicting

terrible things as connected with your departure from the truth, I say, speaking the truth in love, I am persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation. For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love. Your kindness to myself in times past has been wonder- ful. But as it grew out of the truth, so, when the truth itself is suspended, the actings of a liberality which (for a small moment) cannot proceed from

inward affection must be checked rather than cherished."

Mr. Mulock was the last man to check any one's liberality, and between 1822 and 1824 Mr. Reade lent him sums amounting to over 200., none of which was ever returned. One sum of 20?. was to pay the expenses of one of Mr. Mulock's numerous lawsuits. Various small sums were lent in answer to such appeals as the following :

"I must ask you to send me two pounds and no more. I do not wish to be constrained to ask of any one but yourself, to whom the Lord hath given a largeness of heart not to be found but in specially gifted gospel creatures."

The theological correspondence is brought to a graceful conclusion by Mr. Mulock denouncing Mr. Reade from his pulpit as " a blasphemer and the greatest heretic that had arisen since the days of the Apostles " ! In Mr. Mulock's chapel a special portion was railed off where only the "elect" could sit.

On 7 June, 1825, he was married at Stoke to Dinah (born 23 April, 1794, died 3 Oct., 1845), daughter of Thomas Mellard, a well-to- do tanner of Newcastle-under-Lyme (9 th S. vi. 210), who was then living with her widowed mother at Longfield Cottage, on Hart Hill (whence the " Longfield " of * John Halifax'). In the previous March her sister Mary Mellard had married William James Reade.

Mr. Mulock's eldest child and only daughter was born at Stoke, and he thus entered the event in his family Bible :

"Dinah Maria Mulock, daughter of Thomas & Dinah Mulock, was born on April 20th, 1826, at 30 m. past seven o'clock in the evening. Ps. 127 3 verse. Prov. 23, 24-25. Is. 59, 21."

While at Stoke he also published his ' Mystery of Godliness ' and * Letter to Mr. Hunt, Oxford.' After leaving Stoke in 1831 he went I know not where, but in 1845 he again spent some time in Liverpool. On 16 May of that year a speech of his on the grant to Maynooth is reported in the Liver- pool Mercury ; on the 24th he has a stinging article in the Liverpool Chronicle entitled 'The Duke of Newcastle; or, England's Scribbling Liberator,' and on the 26th a letter in the Railway Record on the Direct London and Manchester Railway. He also preached in Dr. Thorn's chapel in Bold Street discourses which the latter says "it is out of my power ever to forget."

Later he lived in Scotland for some time, and was editor of a newspaper there. In 1850 he published 'The Western Highlands and Islands of Scotland, Socially Considered,' &c. (Inverness, Keith; Edinburgh, Menzies, 8vo, 262 pp.)> an d about the same time long