been for so long a time indulged in concerning the des chansons, etc.; mais on a découvert depuis quelques archbishop's parentage also correct what appears n'avait point paru: c'est un livre intitulé Les Meurs du jours un ouvrage de sa façon, qui, quoique imprimé, to me to be another error? In Hunter's Hallam- Siècle, en Dialogues. Il est dans le goût du Portier des shire, Gatty's edition, p. 442, it is stated, on the Chartreux. Ce vieux libertin s'est délecté à faire cette authority of Richard St. George, Norroy King-at-production licencieuse. Il n'y en a que trois exemplaires Arms, that John and Richard Scott, of Ecclesfield, existants. Ils étaient sous les scellés. Un d'eux est to whom the archbishop left the Barnes Hall and orné d'estampes en très-grand nombre; elles sont relaHowsley estates in tail, both died without issue, soin. Il en est qui ont beaucoup de figures, toutes trèstives au sujet, faites exprès et gravées avec le plus grand and that George Scott, a son of the archbishop's finies. Enfin, on estime cet ouvrage, tant par sa rareté brother, succeeded as the right heir. If this was que par le nombre et la perfection des tableaux, plus de the case, surely they would have been Rotherhams, vingt mille écus. Lorsqu'on fit cette découverte, Maand not Scotts, of Barnes Hall. I have searched demoiselle de Vandi, une des héritières, fit un cri effroythe office at York-not very closely, I must allow able, et dit qu'il fallait jeter au feu cette production diabolique. Le commissaire lui représenta, qu'elle ne -for the wills of Scotts of Barnes Hall or Eccles- pouvait disposer seule de cet ouvrage, qu'il fallait le confield, and the earliest I could find was that of cours des autres héritiers; qu'il estimait convenable de Richard Scott, of Barnes Hall, yeoman, dated le remettre sous les scellés, jusqu'à ce qu'on eût pris un July 12, 1556; in it he mentions his sons Nicolas, parti; ce qui fut fait. Ce commissaire a rendu compte de cet évènement à M. le lieutenant-général de police, qui l'a John, William, Richard, and Edward Scott, and renvoyé a M. de Saint-Florentin. Le ministre a expédié his daughter Ann, &c. Edward Scott, his youngest un ordre du roi, qui lui enjoint de s'emparer de cet son, was of Shiregreen, and he made his will ouvrage pour sa Majesté, ce qui a été fait.” Nov. 25, 1602; in it he mentions his nephews, The only copy now known to exist is that to which Richard Watts, of Wortley, Christopher and Bachaumont refers, and which passed from the Roger Scott; his nieces, Ann Goodyson, Jane hands of Louis XV. to those of the Duc de la Thompson, Elizabeth Diconson, and Ann Freeman; Vallière, and was given by him to the Marquis de also his sister Watts, &c. These two wills very Paulmy, as appears by a MS. note of the latter. much enlarge Mr. Hunter's pedigree of Scott. It next appeared in the library of the Prince Elizabeth Diconson and Ann Freeman were the Galitzin, but was not sold at the sale of his books daughters and co-heirs of Thomas Howsley, of in 1825, having, according to Brunet (art. Daïra), Ecclesfield, by Alice Scott his wife, who must been privately sold to a wealthy amateur. In have been sister to Edward Scott, of Shiregreen, 1844 it was included in the catalogue of the thus:library of J. G. (Techener), but was not to be offered at the auction, but to be sold privately at the price of 5,000 francs. It was purchased by Baron J. Pichon, President of the Society of Bibliophiles; and in 1867 it had, according to C. Monselet, become the property of M. F. H. M. Monselet gave an account and analysis of the work in L'Artiste of September 16, 1855, and afterwards reprinted the article in his volume, Galanteries du XVIIIe Siècle. Gustave Brunet wrote a notice of it, with long extracts, in his Fantaisies Bibliographiques (Paris, 1864). Les Tableaux des Maurs was reprinted in 1863 and again in 1867. The last edition was edited by C. Monselet, to whom the prefatory notice of the book and its author is due. Notices of the book will also be found in Brunet, art. Daira (the title of a dull romance of which M. de la Popelinière was the author); Bibliographie des Ouvrages relatifs à l'Amour, vol. vi., art. Tableaux; Querard, La France Littéraire, art. Leriche de la Popelinière ; and in the new edition of Barbier, Dict. des Ouvrages Anonymes, the last part of which, just issued, breaks off in the middle of an article on the Tableaux des Maurs. RICHD. C. CHRISTIE. Manchester.

Thomas Howsley, of Alice Scott, mar. at
Ecclesfield and Hows- | Ecclesfield, May 14,
ley Hall.
1560.

Elizabeth Gilbert Dick- Ann Howsley,
Howsley, enson, mar. dau. and co-
dau. and at Ecclesfield, heir.
-co-heir. Feb. 17, 1583.

Gerard Free-
man, mar. at
Ecclesfield,
May 22,1594.

Which of Edward Scott's brothers was father of Christopher and Roger Scott I do not know. From the Ecclesfield registers I find that, June 4, 1559, William Scott married Elizabeth Cutts, a widow; and Oct. 21, 1589, Roger Scott married Ann Man. The baptismal registers are lost prior

to 1599.

Ecclesfield, Sheffield.

ALFRED SCOTT GATTY.

"TABLEAUX DES MŒURS DU TEMPS," &c. (5th S. vii. 449.)—It is by no means certain that only one copy of the original edition of this work was printed. Bachaumont is the first writer who mentions the book, and he states that three copies were in existence, and gives the following account of it (Mémoires Secrets, under the date 15 Juillet, 1763):

Only one copy is known to exist of the ori"Tout le monde sait que M. de la Popelinière visait àginal edition printed by Popelinière for his own la célébrité d'auteur; on connaissait de lui des comédies, private use; it is at present in the cabinet of

may be of value. The connexion through the Galbraiths with the Douglases is new. Sir William Douglas is probably the grandfather of the "good" Sir James, the companion in arms of Bruce.

ANGLO-SCOTUS.

THE DUNCHURCH FIRS (5th S. vii. 389.)-Allow me to correct the query of JABEZ, in which, doubtless from having but a slight knowledge of these trees, he has fallen into error.

The avenue commenced at Knightlow Stone, at the top of Knightlow Hill (see Dugdale, Hist. Warwickshire, for a curious custom observed at this stone on Martinmas morning), with elm trees, which continued without interruption to within a few yards of where the Bourton and Rugby road crosses the London road, nearly two and a half miles from Knightlow Hill. Then commence the firs, which continue to Dunchurch village. After passing the "town," as it is called by the residents, the elms again commence, and continue to the foot of a hill, perhaps half a mile altogether of trees, thus making the whole avenue, including the village of Dunchurch, five miles in length originally.

every day, from and to London, besides stage waggons and other traffic.

From a little before the Bourton road, just by the Dirt House, the firs commence, and at the corner of the Bourton road stands what was the Blue Boar. Hereabout, local tradition_states, the Guy Faux conspirators were captured. Passing by the once Blue Boar, through the toll-gate, the firs continue with little interruption to Dunchurch; after passing the village the elms again form a pleasing avenue down a short hill of about half a mile, where they cease.

I have inquired many times about these trees, who planted them, &c., but without success. They are of a good age, most of them being hollow thousands of starlings and many jackdaws build in them every year. An old man, who had lived in Stretton over eighty years, assured me he could remember them from a boy being as large as they now are. They grow on the waste; the Duke of Buccleuch is the lord of the manor. When a tree blows down, the steward's men at once take possession of it, but I am sorry to say, with the exception of a few near Dunchurch, they do not replant; and from the decayed state of the trees, and the havoc played by the westerly gales, to which in places they are very much exposed, in a few years they will be no more. J. HENRY. Devonshire Street, W.C.

The occasion of these trees being planted was a time of great agricultural distress, when the then Duke of Buccleuch, wishing to give employment to his tenantry and dependents, caused the planting of this, I believe, the longest avenue in the country. He wished the avenue to have been continued up to London through the estates of all the intermediate landowners, but they not seeing it in the same light as the duke, it was stopped at the confines of his estate. THOS. CROSFIELD. Liverpool.

This grand avenue is now shorn of much of its glory. From Knightlow Hill to the Frog Hall, three quarters of a mile, there are only a few trees, a small cluster of six or seven at Knightlow Hill, and one here and there beside the road. They were originally on the waste, which is now converted into gardens for a mile from Knightlow Hill, and the possessors naturally dislike the trees, as they take the goodness out of the ground, and spare no exertions to loosen their roots, that the first gale may bring them down. At about a quarter of a mile from Knightlow Hill, at the corner of the lane leading to Stretton-on-Dunsmore, stands what was the Black Dog, celebrated as a posting house, and where the "quality" stopped; further, at the corner of the Roman Fossway, stands Frog Hall, which once provided more than THE TITLE OF "ESQUIRE" (5th S. vii. 348, 511.) one hundred beds, and was a house where drovers -MIDDLE TEMPLAR asks, "Why does H. say that and travellers stayed; this house has ceased to be barristers are Esquires in consequence of being in licensed only a few years. Further on towards the sovereign commission' (whatever that may London stands a little white house, which was the mean) ?" For "the sovereign commission" it is White Lion, and it is here, a distance of a mile obvious he should read "the sovereign's comfrom Knightlow Hill, that the avenue now com- mission." It was a printer's error. MIDDLE There are, however, a few fine trees still TEMPLAR should surely know that the status of standing opposite the Frog. From the White a barrister is not complete through his mere call Lion nearly to the Bourton and Rugby road, a to the Bar by the benchers of his inn of court. distance of about a mile and three quarters, the A barrister has to take the oath of allegiance, avenue is perfect, except a tree here and there and sign the roll of Her Majesty's Commission, blown out, and the branches meet overhead, in common with lord-lieutenants of counties, forming in summer one of the most delightful views I have ever seen. In the hottest summer day there is always a cool breeze under the trees, and one may sit there for hours without any person passing, so deserted is this once busy road, on which twenty-six coaches at one time travelled

mences.

deputy-lieutenants, and all magistrates. It is this, I conceive, which places barristers in Her Majesty's Commission, entitles them to the title of Esquire, and qualifies them, at once, to be made magistrates in any county in which they have residence, and are duly qualified in other respects

1785, pointed out the beauties of Dyer's poems in two essays on Grongar Hill and The Ruins of Rome.

same as the Phoenician. MR. MACCARTHY's hint is a good one as to the name Assyrian. It bears better on Dr. Deecke's discovery than he allows. The reader will find the earlier version of Gron- If I am right in the proposition that the Hamath gar Hill in "Miscellaneous Poems and Translations or Khita is derived from an older or hieratic by several Hands, published by Richard Savage, cuneiform, then we shall have a common origin for son of the late Earl Rivers," published in 1726. the Western alphabets, and the way will be preThe Rev. Robert Aris Willmott did good ser-pared for the common origin of cuneiform, hierovice to Dyer's memory in his edition of the glyphic, and Chinese, of which we have indicaPoetical Works of Mark Akenside and John tions. In the published form of my paper on Dyer, published in 1855, when for the first time Khita read before the Historical Society, I give the only genuine portrait of Dyer was presented many notes on the origin of the alphabet, which to his admirers, taken from the oil painting in the are in the direction of Dr. Deecke's discoveries. possession of his lineal representative, Mr. W. Now we have got rid of the Phoenician alphabet as Hylton Dyer Longstaffe, of Gateshead, who like- a great original, perhaps we shall hear less of the wise contributed charming extracts from Dyer's Phoenicians as a universal historical solvent or sermons, variations in the poems, and other inter-panacea, and a little more of that previous "Turesting particulars from the Dyer MSS., of which anian" civilization, of which so many evidences are Mr. Longstaffe is the proud possessor. being accumulated. HYDE CLARKE.

It may possibly interest CHAN. ISL. to know that the Rev. A. B. Grosart, of Park View, Black- TAYLOR'S "WORDS AND PLACES" (5th S. vii. burn, who has done much in rescuing from neglect 405.)-I have often been struck with the ignorance literary talent, has issued a prospectus of a new of the working classes in England of the names of edition of Dyer's works, by which it is hoped due the rivers and places in their own neighbourhood, justice will now be done to Dyer's poetical skill but I certainly was not prepared for such a degree and artistic efforts. It is stated in the prospectus: of density as is indicated in MR. GOMME'S note. "The lineal representative of John Dyer (W. H. Dyer There are two rivers run into the town where I Longstaffe, Esq.), having requested Mr. Grosart to pre-live, which join together within the boundaries. pare a collective edition of his poems, including Grongar Although well known, giving their names to their Hill, The Ruins of Rome, The Fleece, and minor pieces respective valleys, I question very much whether in verse and prose, has put into his hands the entire MSS. and family papers, whereby for the first time a critical bread to their waters, would be able to give them one in twenty of the workpeople, who owe their daily text can be prepared and an adequate memoir. Wordsworth's high estimate of Dyer is exemplified in the any other name than the generic one of "t'dyke." above quotation [Wordsworth's Prose Works, vol. ii. In Scotland a very different state of things obtains; pp. 196-7]—one of various distinct verdicts-and it must even the little children seem to know all their be conceded that it is more than time justice were done local names, and especially of the rivers. This is to so true a poet and so many-sided a genius. There will be a (steel) portrait from an original painting and referred to by Sir Walter Scott in Rob Roy, other important illustrations, with (it is hoped) auto- chapter xxvii., where the following passage occurs: types of examples of his paintings, drawings, &c., the impression to be limited as in the private issue of Wordsworth's Works. The works and memoir will form one considerable volume, its subscription price 25s. 6d. Those who wish to receive the book will please sign and return the subjoined order form to Mr. Grosart."

I hope a good pedigree of Dyer's ancestors and representatives, and some further particulars of his wife's connexion with the Shakspeare family, may be forthcoming. Dyer himself only says: "My wife's name was Ensor, whose grandmother was a Shakspeare, descended from a brother of everybody's Shakspeare.” Can any correspondent of "N. & Q." throw any light on this matter?

FIAT JUSTITIA.

THE SEMITIC ALPHABET (5th S. vii. 445.)-The question is whether the Square Hebrew (Assyrian) is more modern than the Phoenician. I have maintained the contrary on various grounds, not only as derived from a square or cross alphabet with the cuneiform, but because some of the characters are independent. I do not consider to be the

"That's the Forth,' said the Baillie, with an air of reverence which I have observed the Scotch usually pay to their distinguished rivers. The Clyde, the Tweed, the Forth, the Spey, are usually named by those who dwell on their banks with a sort of respect and pride, and I have known duels occasioned by any word of disparagement." G. W. TOMLINSON.

Huddersfield.

DR. JOHNSON AND MRS. HANNAH MORE (5th S. vii. 485.)-In my edition of Boswell's Life of Dr. Johnson, under 1778, I find what follows, and which seems to confirm Lord Macaulay's iteration of Croker's statement. Boswell says this:

"Talking of Miss Hannah More, a literary lady, he (Dr. J.) said: 'I was obliged to speak to Miss Reynolds, to let her (Hannah More, I suppose) know that I desired she would not flatter me so much.' Somebody now observed she flatters Garrick. Johnson: She is in the right to flatter Garrick. She is in the right for two reasons; first, because she has the world with her, who have been praising Garrick these thirty years; and, secondly, because she is rewarded for it by Garrick.