Part 5

_Jennings Family_ (Vol. vii., p. 95.).--I am much obliged to PERCURIOSUS for his reply to my Query. The William Jennings, who was Sheriff of Cornwall in 1678, an admiral, and knighted by King James II. (see Le Neve's _Knights_, Harleian MS. 5801.), was most probably descended from the Yorkshire family of that name, his escutcheon being the same. The Francis who married Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Spoure of Trebartha, was descended from the Shropshire family, whose arms were--Ermine, a lion rampant, gules quartered with those of Jay, as recorded in the Visitation by Henry, the son of Francis. This Francis died about 1610-11. His will (the executor being Henry Spoure) was proved at Doctors' Commons in 1611. But what I particularly wanted to ascertain was, whether Rowland, who is the first that occurs in the Cornish Visitation, was the first who settled in Cornwall. I have inquired at the Heralds' College, but can gain no further information than that to be found in the Visitations of Salop and Cornwall in the British Museum. PERCURIOSUS would gratify my curiosity, if he would kindly inform me where the Spoure MSS. are to be seen. They are not to be found in the British Museum. I have always thought that they were in the hands of some member of the Rodd family, whose ancestor (a Life Guardsman) was about to be married to the heiress of all the Spoures, but she, dying before the marriage, left him all her estates, Trebartha among the rest which is in the possession of the family to this day.

S. JENNINGS-G.

P. S.--I inclose my card, in order that PERCURIOSUS (who evidently knows something of the family) may communicate personally or by letter. I think that I might possibly be able to give him some information in return for his kindness.

_The Furze or Gorse in Scandinavia_ (Vol. vi., pp. 127. 377.).--Henfrey, in his _Vegetation of Europe_, states that the furze (_Ulex Europæus_) occurs, but not abundantly, in the south-western parts of the Scandinavian peninsula. It is well known that in Central Germany it is a greenhouse plant.

SELEUCUS.

_Mistletoe_ (Vol. ii., p. 418.; Vol. iii., pp. 192. 226. 396. 462.).--There is in the parish of Staveley, Derbyshire, a solitary mansion called the Hagg, erected by Sir Peter Frescheville, in what was at that time a park of considerable extent, for a hunting lodge, when age and infirmity prevented him from otherwise enjoying the pleasures of the chase. In one of Colepeper's MSS. at the British Museum, there is the following curious notice of this house:

"This is the Parke House which Sir Peter Frescheville, in his will, 16th March, 1632, calls my new Lodge in Staveley Parke. Heare my Lord Frescheville did live, and heare growes _the famous mistleto tree, the only oake in England that bears mistleto_, which florished at my deare Wife's birth, who was born heare."

I presume it is the same which is referred to in the following letter addressed by the Countess of Danby to Mrs. Colepeper; it is without date, but was written between 1663 and 1682:

"Dear Cosen.--Pray if you have any of the miselto of yo^r father's oke, oblidge me so far as to send sum of it to

Yo^r most affectionat servant, BRIDGET DANBY."

The oak tree still exists, and in 1803 it contained mistletoe, but there is none to be seen now. About a quarter of a mile from this locality I observed the mistletoe in a large crab-tree, and I recently found it in a venerable yew of many centuries' growth near Sheffield.

W. S. (Sheffield.)

_Inscription on a Dagger_ (Vol. vii., p. 40.).--These lines form a Dutch proverb, and, if thus written, rhyme:

"Die een peninck wint ende behovt Die macht verteren als hi wort owt. Had ick dat bedocht in min ionge dagen Dorst ick het in min ovtheit niel beklagen."

Which being interpreted inform us that, He who gains a penny, and saves it, may live on it when he becomes old. Had I minded this in my youthful days, I should not have to complain in my old age.

J. S.

Norwich.

_Steevens_ (Vol. ii., p. 476.; Vol. iii., p. 230.; Vol. vi., pp. 412. 531.).--Steevens's will contains no mention of any portrait of himself, nor any other except his picture of "Mr. Garrick and Mrs. Cibber, in the characters of Jaffier and Belvidera, painted by Zottanij," which he bequeaths to George Keate, Esq. He gives to Miss Charlotte Collins of Graffham, near Midhurst, daughter of the late Christopher and Margaret Collins of Midhurst, 500l. To his cousin Mary Collinson (late Mary Steevens), wife of William Collinson of Narrow Street, Ratcliffe Cross, Middlesex, 300l. for a ring (so in my copy). The residue of his property he gives to his dearest cousin Elizabeth Steevens of Poplar, spinster, and appoints her sole executrix of his will. A copy of the will can be met with in the ninth volume of the _Monthly Mirror_ for 1800.

W. S. (Sheffield.)

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_"Life is like a Game of Tables," &c._ (Vol. vii., p. 40.).--The sentiment is very possibly "_from_ Jeremy Taylor," but it is not his own. It occurs in Terence's _Adelphi_ and Plato's _Commonwealth_.

A. A. D.

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Miscellaneous.

NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC.

The issue by the Shakspeare Society of an edition of the _Notes and Emendations to the Text of Shakspeare's Plays from early MS. Corrections in a Copy of the Folio 1632, in the Possession of J. Payne Collier, Esq._, affords an opportunity, of which we gladly avail ourselves, to recall attention to a volume which is unquestionably the most important contribution to Shakspearian literature which has issued from the press for many years. Although we have no evidence of the authority upon which these _Notes and Emendations_ were made, an examination of them must, we think, convince even the most sceptical, that they were made upon _authority_, and are not the result of clever criticism and happy conjecture. The readers of "N. & Q." know well what discussions have been raised upon such phrases as "Prenzie Angelo," "Whose mother was her painting," "Ribaudred nag," "Most busy, least when I do it," &c. The writer of the _Notes and Emendations_, now first published, has given in these, and hundreds of other difficult and disputed passages, corrections which are consistent with Shakspeare's character as the poet of common sense. He converts the "_prenzie_ Angelo" into the "priestly," and the "_prenzie guards_" into "_priestly garb_." So that the passage now reads--

"_Claud._ The priestly Angelo.

_Isab._ O, 'tis the cunning livery of hell, The damned'st body to invest and cover In priestly garb."

In the passages to which we have referred above, "whose mother was her painting," is changed into "who smothers her with painting;" "ribraudred nag" into "ribald hag;" and the passage from _The Tempest_ is made plain--

"Most busy blest when I do it."

We think these examples are sufficient to make all lovers of Shakspeare anxious not only to examine the present volume, but to see the promised new edition of his works, in which Mr. Collier proposes to give the text as corrected by this great, although unknown authority.

The meeting for the establishment of the Photographic Society, held on Thursday week at the Society of Arts, was most numerously attended. The Society was formed, Sir Charles Eastlake elected president for the first year, Mr. Fenton honorary secretary, and Mr. Roslyn treasurer. The subscription was fixed at one guinea, with an admission fee of the same amount.

At a recent meeting of the _Surtees Society_, it was announced that the works in progress for this year are the _Pontifical of Egbert_, Archbishop of York (to be edited by the Rev. W. Greenwell), and a volume of _Wills and Inventories from the Registry at Richmond_, by Mr. Raine, Jun. The books for 1854 are to be the Northumbro-Saxon translation of _The Gospel of St. Matthew_, to be edited by the Rev. Joseph Stevenson, and the _Inventories and Account Rolls of the Monasteries of Monkwearmouth and Jarrow_ until the Dissolution, which will appear under the editorship of the Rev. James Raine.

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