p. 567.) three beautiful drawings, by Howlett (1821) of seals and counterseals of Joreval Abbey. The original impressions are in the Augmentation Office. The first (A. D. 1397-8) gives only the counterseal; the second and third give both seals and counterseals. The original seals are, apparently, the ones referred to by your correspondent PATONCE. The impressions may not be as distinct as they were thirty-six years ago: and, as Howlett's drawings seem to be minutely faithful, I will speak of the bearing the latter have upon the question of Mitred Abbots. In the drawing of the seal, dated 1412, the head is uncovered, the tonsure being perfectly apparent. In the third seal, dated 1417, we have, plainly, a Mitred Abbot; and, moreover, the mitre is a jewelled one -a mitra pretiosa. But Pope Clement IV., in order to distinguish bishops from mitred abbots, directed that the latter, when exempt from episcopal jurisdiction, should use, in Synod, orphreyed mitres (aurifrigiata); and those not exempt, simple, white and plain ones (simplex). The mitra pretiosa was reserved for bishops. (See Pugin's Gloss. Eccl. Orn. p. 175.) The lapse of 150 years had, perhaps, caused this rule to fall into desuetude. However, if Howlett's drawing may be relied on, the Superior of Joreval is represented on his seal, in 1417, as a Mitred Abbot. ROBERT TOWNSEND. George Washington (2nd S. v. 179.). As Washington Irving has linked his hero with the early history of England, it may interest some of his readers to know that Lawrence Washington of Garsden, Sheriff of Wilts in 1651, and the representative of the Wiltshire branch of the Washingtons, was the owner of the venerable temple of Stonehenge (now the property of Sir Edmund Antrobus). See Inigo Jones's Stonehenge. This is the Washington mentioned in one of Irving's foot-notes, the ancestor of Earl Ferrers, who perished at Tyburn in 1750. J. W. Hugh Stuart Boyd (2nd S. v. 88. 175.) — If X. will correspond with J. HARVEY, Bookseller, Sidmouth, Devon, he thinks he can put him in the way of obtaining the information he desires, if obtainable. J. HARVEY published for Mr. Boyd, in 1834, a new edition of his works, entitled The Fathers not Papists, or Six Discourses by the most eloquent Fathers of the Church; with numerous Extracts from their Writings, 8vo. bds., 10s. 6d. Sidmouth. This gentlemen (then blind), resided for some time in Bath; I think in 1833. His wife and daughter resided with him. Some years afterwards (I think about 1839 or 1840) I met the daughter (then Mrs. Henry Hayes or Heyes) in Bath; but whether Mr. Boyd was then alive or VRYAN RHeged. not, I know not. Rupert's Tower at Woolwich (2nd S. v. 171.) I think NASEBY is mistaken in inquiring for Rupert's Tower. There is a large red brick building in the corner of the Laboratory Square, known as Rupert's House, in which it is believed he resided. It is unaltered (apparently) externally, except by the addition of the large dial of a clock, which I have lately erected there in the gable, by which it may be readily distinguished. Blackheath. G. W. BENnett. known as Rupert's Tower, from the following passage in [There was clearly a building formerly at Woolwich, The Beauties of England and Wales, vol. vii. p. 533.: "Near the present entrance of the Laboratory was formerly an ancient tower, called Prince Rupert's. Here Mrs. Simpson, relict of the mathematician, died at the great age of 102, and was buried at Plumsted."] Hughes's "Boscobel" (2nd S. iv. 463.) — Although the authorities enumerated in your review of this book appear respectably numerous, the three following appear to be unnoticed: Dr. George Bate's Elenchus Motuum; Capt. Alford's Narrative, and Colonel Gounter's Narrative.* I observe that the writer of a recent article, entitled "Boscobel," in Blackwood's Magazine, when speaking of the men who had just won the victories of Dunbar and Worcester, delivers it as his dictum that in comparison with the Cavaliers they were a pack of arrant cowards, for they had that evil conscience which makes cowards of us all. As the "N. & Q." seems a favourite repository for parallel passages, allow me to cap Blackwood with Milton: "It is true, on our side the sins of our lives not seldom fought against us; but on their [the Cavaliers'] side, besides these, the grand sin of their cause."-Eikonoklastes. J. WAYLEN. Song of the Douglas (2nd S. v. 169.) — Sir Walter Scott uses a scrap of this poem as a password for the disguised Abbot when imposed on the Lady of Lochleven as a serving-man, and a land's poem of The Howlet; known to collecnote records it as quoted from "Sir John Hol [This was reprinted in 1846, and copies of it may, we believe, still be procured of Mr. Russell Smith.] tors by the beautiful edition presented to the Bannatyne Club by Mr. David Laing." See The Abbot, vol. ii. p. 277., 48 vol. edition of 1848. Particulars of Price, &c., of the following Books to be sent direct to the gentlemen by whom they are required, and whose names and addresses are given for that purpose. WYCHERLEY'S WORKS. 1729. In 2 Vols., or Vol. II. containing the Letters. HUGH OWEN. Anonymous Manuscript (2nd S. iv. 203.) — The manuscript described by MR. JACOB was probably a commonplace-book, compiled towards the end of the last century. The "piece of poetry entitled To David G, Esq., by the late Earl of C—,' is, doubtless, Chesterfield's "Answer to the Fool's Petition," commencing: i "Garrick, I've read your Fool's Petition." It will be found in vol. v. p. 408. of Lord Mahon's, or rather Earl Stanhope's, edition of Chesterfield's Works. The extract, "Pope the Poet," &c., is the commencement of a masterly sketch, given among Chesterfield's Characters, in vol. ii. p. 444. of the same edition of his Works. ROBERT TOWNSEND. Albany, N. Y. Spaniel (2nd S. iv. 289.) Is not this dog of Spanish origin, as its name imports: le chien espagneul of the old French writers, and lo spagnuolo of the Italians? It seems impossible they should have come from Japan, as they are alluded to in La Vénerie de Jacques du Fouilloux, written about 1550. He mentions these dogs several times as dogs for fowling: "il doit prendre chiens d'oiseaux, dits Espagnols;" "faire chasser aux Espagnols (chiens d'oiseaux)," &c. 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Tucker's estate, so he himself says, was granted by King James to Sir Theophilus Oglethorpe, who sold his interest therein to a "Mr. Hall." [The Halls of Gloucestershire and Wilts were mostly Romanists.] Tucker, seeking to flee into Holland, was arrested and cast into prison. His wife, being assured that he was dead in law, was persuaded to marry a villain named Vaughan, but she died in great remorse. While the widowed husband thus lay in prison, robbed of all earthly comfort, Oglethorpe "wrote him a letter, acquainting him that if he did not confirm Mr. Hall's purchase, he should certainly be hanged; and William Penn, who procured this defendant's reprieve during pleasure, wrote another letter to him, that if he did not comply with Mr. Hall, it was supposed King James would be prevailed on to give order for his execution." But Tucker, resolving at all hazards not to sign away his patrimonial estate, remained firm, and was in consequence kept close prisoner until the happy arrival of William of Orange. This evidence is contradicted in another broadsheet, entitled "Mr. Hall's Answer," wherein it is asserted in general terms that no threatening letters were sent to Tucker. But I suppose Tucker's word is as good as Hall's. its orthography (for which we care not a doit); DIFFICULTIES OF CHAUCER.-NO. VII. Eclympasteire. "Then as these goddis lay a slepe, It will perhaps excite surprise if we suggest that by Eclympasteire we are to understand Death; but this appears the fittest explanation that can be given. The artists of classic antiquity portrayed DEATH and SLEEP, when they portrayed them together, as two deities or genii very much alike. Sometimes each held an inverted torch extinct. Sometimes both, Sleep and Death, were portrayed as lying "a slepe." Of this latter myth the above lines are Chaucer's version. Death were twins: “ Πέμπε δέ μιν πομποῖσιν ἅμα κραιπνοῖσι φέρεσθαι, leton; for they portrayed him, in accordance with the "the artists of antiquity did not portray Death as a skeHomeric conception, as the twin-brother of Sleep; and they portrayed the two, Death and Sleep, with that mutual resemblance which one naturally looks for in twins." (Sammtliche Schriften, Berlin, 1838-40, vol. viii.) And accordingly he proceeds to show that the Such is the contribution, small though it be,"two images" of Sleep, which have been found, which I beg to throw into the general fund, touch- as alleged, upon some ancient tombs, are in fact ing William Penn's conduct at that period. Truth images of Sleep and Death. will never hurt any good cause. I have no fear that it will hurt William Penn's good name, believing as I do that Lord Macaulay has causelessly traduced the character of one of the best and wisest of Englishmen. But how does the case bear on Penn's supposed agency in the Taunton maids' composition? It just shows that William Penn, as well as George Penne, was concerned in the negotiation with the prisoners implicated in Monmouth's rebellion; and so far it seems at first sight to favour the Macaulay version; but when we look at the nature of William Penn's interference, it only proves his humanity: for he first obtains the prisoner's reprieve, and afterwards warns him of the king's vindictive disposition. Let the testimony stand for what it is worth; and let Lord Macaulay, when next he attempts to vindicate his text in the matter of the famous letter "to Mr. Penne," raise no more dust about Lessing shows moreover that it was sometimes the practice to portray these twin brothers, Sleep and Death, when portrayed together, as sleeping. On a chest of cedar in the temple of Juno at Elis they both reposed, as children (knaben), in the arms of their mother, Night. (Pausanias, book v. ch. xviii.) Some such ideas as these were doubtless in Chaucer's mind, when he described the two "goddis," "Morpheus and Eclympasteire," as lying a slepe." And it is curious to observe how, while Lessing illustrates Chaucer, Chaucer supports Lessing, whose treatise is controversial. 66 But how can Eclympasteire stand for Death? Those classical scholars, who were so much disturbed by the appearance of the word telegram, can hardly be expected to look with clemency on Eclympasteire, which is a very anomalous derivative from the Gr. ἐκλιμπάνω. Ἐκλιμπάνω is nearly equivalent to ¿λeíτw, which sometimes signifies to die: èkλImóvтwv kλnрovóμwv (defunct heirs, Plato). Conf. ἐκλοιπὸς ἐκ τοῦ βίου, dead, and λείψανον, α corpse; τà λeíyava, in med. Greek, reliquiæ, the relics of saints; and, in med. Latin, eclipticatus (extinctus, deletus). The form nearest to Eclympasteire in classical Greek is ééσтepov, comparative from ἐλλιπής. The y of Eclympasteire may be deemed an objection to our derivation from λμnáνw; but y and i are often used convertibly in old English. Moreover, the same y appears in other derivatives of the same family in med. Latin; for instance, in eclypsare and eclypsatio. The lines cited from Chaucer at the beginning of this paper would, if viewed with their context, suggest some inquiries both as to the mutual relationship of Morpheus, Hypnos, and Thanatos, and as to the distinct offices and characters of the two first. But Chaucer (who elsewhere transforms Marsyas into a young lady, Mercia by name, "that lost her skinne "), does not appear to have troubled himself with such niceties; and their discussion here would be foreign to our purpose. "Parodie." "Emong all this, the fine of the parodie The more modern editions for parodie have jeopardie. But the old editions have parodie; and as Tyrwhitt, with an express reference to this passage, places parodie in his list of words not understood, we may take it for granted that, according to his judgment, parodie is the true reading. Fully believing that Tyrwhitt is right, I would suggest that parodie is here to be understood in a sense near akin to that of episode. "Emong all this," &c.—that is, in the midst of these transactions affecting the hero and heroine of the poem, cotemporary events proceeded; and, in particular, the end of Hector's course and history, mentioned by the way, rapidly approached. For attaching this meaning in the passage before us to the word parodie, we are not without some countenance in the Greek language. Eur. Iph. Α. 1147, Κοὐκέτι παρῳδοῖς χρησόμεσθ ̓ αἰνίγμασιν: παρῳδοῖς, a proposito alienis, Steph. Th. ; Παρῳδοῖς alviyμaow, riddles, foreign to the purpose, Dunbar. Or if, instead of deriving parodie as here used from Tapwdía, we refer it to a different source, we ând the expressions κατὰ πάροδον, ἐν παρόδῳ (obiter), both from πάροδος. Thus Hector is mentioned v mapódy, by the way. This, I submit, is "the parodie of Hector." Viewed with reference to Troilus and Creseide, who form the subject of the poem, the narrative of what occurred to Hector may very fitly be deemed in some measure episodical, or digressive. Troilus has a dream (line 1442.); sends for Cassandra to expound it (1449.); she does so, and leaves him angry at her interpretation (1533.); the fortunes of Troy decline (1540.).—And then the poet proceeds to relate how, "Emong all this, the parodie of Hector," that is, the collateral or cotemporary incidents of Hector's life, bearing but indirectly upon the narrative in hand, draw nigh to their termination in his disastrous death. He is slain, and the narrative proceeds (1568.). THOMAS BOYS. "Room, Room, for Atwood! grand state quack; As Edgar, Malcolme, and the rest, Pox on his dull and Logwood pate. "Take care how you censure this rogue o' renown, He plum'd his woodcocks to ane ace; Then Atwood New York thought his safest refuge, |