ment in Europe will see every thing in the same light the Supreme Govt. has done, and throw the blame upon those who deserve it, therefore I shall say no more on the subject. The following is an extract of a letter written by Charles Marriott to his father, or mother, and dated the 9th of Sept., 1806, from Velloor. On the 10th of July at 3 o'clock in the morning the native troops rose in mutiny upon the Europeans of the garrison, and as their attack upon the barracks was quite sudden, and upon all the guards at the same moment, it was impossible to withstand their first fury. Several were killed on their beds, and it was near 8 o'clock, ere the remainder of the men (Europs.) could get out of their barracks, being fired upon at the door, and through the windows. At 10 o'clock a large detachment of European and native cavalry came from Arcot about 15 miles distant. The galloper blew open the gates, assisted by the remains of the infantry, who had got possession of the top of the gate; and about 600 of the mutineers were immediately cut to pieces. I got a slight graze by a musket shot fired at about 7 yards distance from me, and Tom most providentially escaped unhurt. The rebels broke into all the Officers quarters, and murdered every European they found. A party of about 20 came into the very room where I lay concealed. Through the mercy of God, they did not perceive me; but contented themselves with carrying off every thing they could lay hold on. As soon as all was over, we found we had lost fourteen officers killed, and four wounded, exclusive of myself; and between 100 and 200 soldiers, killed and wounded. The number of Europeans together was not 330 men, with only six rounds a man: the natives 1400, besides as much amunition as they required. (To be continued). H. B. A XVII CENTURY MS. LIST OF TOKENS. (See ante p. 3). THE document is on 4 sheets of paper, roughly of foolscap size, once folded and stitched together, forming sixteen pages, 12in. x 8in. The watermark is of the "Gatepost type in common use in the seventeenth century, and bears the initials A. R. or A. R. O. (?) I am told that this type of mark was not used later than 1690. The MS. is closely written in double column, each column containing about thirty-five single line items, or seventy items to the page. It has all the appearance of being a "fair copy." for there is hardly a single correction, deletion or interpolation in the whole thing. The writing is very legible and a neat specimen of calligraphy. It is written in a clerkly script—the hand, one would say, of a precise and orderly scholar. for attributing a date to the MS., I subEntirely mistrusting my own fitness mitted it to three experts, each one of whom placed it as a late seventeenth century hand, the only variation being as to the precise decade into which it fell; the average opinion places it at 1680-90. The list has unfortunately no title or identification of any kind. There is no clue as to who compiled it nor is there any date on it except, of course, the dates incorporated in the legends of some of the items. Apart from the subject matter one might be unaware that it was a list of tokens at all. Its provenance is unknown. There is nothing to show if it is complete. That the commencement of it is there we can be certain, for at intervals of every completed one hundred items the compiler has written the figures 100, 200, etc., and so on till 1,000 is reached, the eleventh hundred is not marked, but the list terminates at the bottom of the eighth page, having reached the total of 1,111 items. The system adopted by the recorder is, I admit, unfortunate for us inasmuch as he was not able to foresee the method which subsequent generations would employ for the precise description of tokens. To a later day collector his renderings of the coins are fantastically loose and casual. For example, he gives no differentiation between the obverse and reverse sides of the coins, his descriptions are confined to one líne. Again, instead of transcribing the legend as we should nowadays: We meet this kind of loose description even when, as sometimes happens, the name of the emblem is actually given in words on the face of the coin. His descriptions are often_in pictorial rather than heraldic terms. For example, he will render "The Fruiterers' Arms as The Adam and Eve," these personages being dominant in the arms of the Fruiterers' Company. Similar deviations will be found throughout the list, but they are typical of the period and readily accounted for. Larwood and Hotten, in their History of Signboards,' remark on suchlike variations: As there were rarely names under the London signs, the public unacquainted with heraldry, gave a vernacular to the objects represented. Thus the Three Leopards Heads " is given on a token as the name of a house in Bishopsgate (see W.290 "The 3 Liberts Heads without Bishopsgate ") yet the token represents a chevron between three leopards' heads, the arms of the Weavers' Company. Many other variations arise in the reading of signs. The transition of "The Prince of Wales THE BEARE AND VINE AT GILES IN THE FEILDES = Arms to The Feathers" is natural enough, with the token given by Williamson (2491): the Maidenhead" of the Mercers Company may well be mistaken for the "Queen's Head," The Blackamoor's Head" is more conveniently known as "The Black Boy," "the Pascal Lamb" is familiarised "The ав Obv. THOMAS. GREENE IN A bear with a chain. Rev. S GILES YE FEILDES 1.H: = Lamb," and a pardonable confusion may arise and possibly there is no connection between between The Boot" and "The Leg," or between "The Glove and 66 The Hand." Distressing as these irregularities are to the numismatist, they do not often seriously interfere with the identification of the token. It is regrettable that details which would be valuable to us to-day are, by this rather inexact method, not recorded for our delectation. The unknown compiler did, however, but follow the inexact practice of his day, for if we compare his records with those of Browne Willis, made half a century or so later, we do not find that any great advance had been made during the interval. A typical entry of Browne Willis is the one referred to earlier (see page ?), which runs: the two. One striking defect in the list will be noted, namely, that names and dates are of rare occurrence, though in most cases the initials of the issuer have been carefully noted. This omission is the most serious irregularity with which we have to contend. On the other hand the compiler has meticulously noted against every item the letters B. or C. indicating either brass (or bronze) and, alternatively, copper. This is a discrimination which later recorders have not often # given. I have not, however, thought it desirable to repeat these marks in the items given here. Another evidence of his regard for exactitude is that when he has been unable to decypher the whole of the legend he has distinguished the item by a mark (as here) to indicate that the specimen is detrited and part of the legend omitted. Allowance must be made for the fact that the author was probably unable to compare his readings with those of other specimens, a disadvantage that only those who have tried to decipher a worn and previously "unreported " token will fully appreciate. The name of the street or locality, at the In comparing this MS. list against William-head of each section will give the references to Williamson, where such exist, or shew under which section they would be classed. These topographical divisions appear in some cases to be rather arbitrary, but it has been thought best to adhere to them as far as they apply. Having indicated the shortcomings and unconventionalities of this early MS. list, I now offer it to those more knowing in the ways of "Traders' Pieces" than I am, to examine. Experienced eyes will probably discern in the descriptions given, clues to perfectly well known and recorded tokens which I have overlooked. Collectors will elicit and discover many points of interest which have escaped my untutored observation. They will, I hope, not scruple to correct any of the deductions I have drawn, nor to point out the many errors which any one so naïvely ignorant of the subject as myself must have blundered into. To quote the words of Browne Willis, I "invite the Gentlemen of all Counties to make further Additions to it and Perfect what is here Wanting." AMBROSE HEAL. (To be continued). WILLIAM BAFFIN, NAVIGATOR. While making some researches in the Public Record Office this year I came across, by accident, the name of William Baffin, as a deponent in an Admiralty case. The testimony related to a voyage for the discovery of the North-West Passage. The date of it was 1614, and he called himself thirty years old, a resident of London, and by occupation a silk weaver. As the 'D.N.B.' confesses ignorance of his origin, and Sir Clements Markham in his edition of Baffin's two Voyages make a like admission of ignorance of his residence, this deposition will afford opportunity for clearing up this lack of knowledge of the famous navigator whose name is perpetuated in Baffin's Bay. CHARLES E. BANKS. Brookline, Mass., U.S.A. SEVENTEENTH CENTURY PROVERBS FROM EDWARD BROOKE'S MS. The Commonplace Book' of Edward Brooke, a small MS. volume dating from about the year 1645, now in the library of Sion College, contains a page headed " Proverbs," which, besides some well-known examples, includes several interesting and uncommon proverbial phrases. There are but few in all; and as there is always a certain personal interest attaching 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. Give a man luck and cast him into the sea. An ill weed grow's with speed. That's a man's good that doth him good. Hee that eats least eats most. Hee that cannot be angry is a foole, but hee that will not be angry is more foole. [cf. "I have heard it often said that he who cannot be angry is no man, Dekker's The Honest Whore' (1604), I. ii.] Every man is either a foole or a physitian. It is good to find modest words to express immodest things. Hee sweares like a Gentleman. Everything hath an end and a pudding two. Hee often kills that thinks but to hurt that which is worth the restoringe. As deafe as a dore-nayle. None so deaf as hee that will not heare. None so blind as hee that will not see. When the belly is full the mind is amongst the mayds. He feares [fares] like a commissioner for fish and flesh. That which Summer getts, Winter eats. [A variant of the common Winter is Summer's heir."] Nos. 1, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11, 15 and 16 in this list are not in the proverb collections of J. Heywood, Camden, Clarke, Ray (Bohn's augmented edition), W. C. Hazlitt, or Lean (Collectanea '). No. 15 points a moral which the early seventeenth century playwrights were constantly using to adorn a play; but I have not met with this expression of the idea in the drama. The MS. book also contains the following remarkably fervent acrostic-prayer (p. 8): Wife. W is double wealth I an everlastinge joye Fthy frind unto thy health Wherefore good Lord grant this to mee, ETHEREGE: COLLECADDENDA (See cliii. 417, 435, 454, 472). (1) Sir George Etherege's house at Ratisbon (See cliii. 476). Dr. Höcht has sent me the following information about the house occupied by Etherege, supplied by the learned P. Wilhelm S.J., of Regensburg. "In einem Geschichtswerke Regensburg's Geschichte, Sagen und Merkwürdigkeiten von den ältesten Zeiten bis auf die letzten Zeiten, in einem Abriss aus den besten Chroniken, Geschichtbüchern und Urkundensammlungen dargestellt von Christian Gottlieb Gumpelzhaimer (Regensburg, Pustet, 1838), iii. Abteilung, Seite 1418, findet sich zum Jahre 1688 folgende Bemerkung: Es gab überhaupt mehrere ausgezeichnete Festlichkeiten. Der englische Gesandte, Chevalier Etherege, gab wegen der Geburt eines königlichen Prinzen ein dreitägiges grosses Bankett, wobey viele Gesandtschaften zugegen waren, das Palais auf Jakobsplatz in der ehemals Wildischen Behausung ist durchaus mit Lichtern beleuchtet gewesen, Kanonen wurden gelöst und in einer eigends auf dem Jakobsplatz aufgerichteten Küche ist ganzer Ochse gebraten worden, der dem Volke Preis gegeben wurde. Zugleich war dreyeckige Ehrenpforte errichtet an eine deren Ecken Löwen angebracht waren, aus welchen man weissen und roten Wein laufen liess. Das Fest soll 2400 fl. gekostet haben.' am vom dem es Das hier erwähnte Wildische Haus steht der Hauptsache nach noch. Es liegt ehemaligen untern Jakobsplatz (Arnulfplatz Nummer 3), ungefähr 150 Schritte Jakobskloster gegen Norden. Auf halben Wege zwischen diesem Hause und dem Kloster, etwas gegen Osten lag das Zeughaus (Arsenal), an der Stelle, wo jetzt das Theater steht. Vom Wildischen Hause heisst anderswo: In diesem Hause nahm gewöhnlich bei Reichstagen der Kurfürst von Cöln sein Absteigequartier. Um 1635 wollten die Karmeliten das Haus behufs eines Klosterbaues erwerben, was aber die Stadt verhinderte. Mathias Hueber besass dasselbe 1652, als Kaiser Ferdinand III. es bewohnte. Später war die russische Gesandtschaft hier untergebracht." " (1) George Etherege, gent., vintner of Old Windsor, Berks. John Powney, gent., (living in 1680). John Whitfeild, Daughter Mary Powney (1) Oct., 1634, George Etherege, (Order not certain except in case of Sir Sir George Etherege, Knight, Richard Etherege, Esq. (2) 1637, Christopher Newsted Clerk, of of St. Clement Danes Parish, London, c. 1607-28. of Maidenhead, c. 1633/4 - 1657 bapt. Feb. 24, 1608/9 m. Feb. 21, 1627/8. (1) William Cannyng, John, Maidenhead. =(2) George Etherege). Seven Children. Readers' DIEU ET Queries. was MON DROIT." There recently appeared in the Press the remark of a Frenchman, who would have liked our national motto better if it had read "Dieu et le droit." The anecdote was followed by a letter in which attention drawn to Queen Elizabeth's motto being "Dieu est mon droit," the writer adding by way of suggestion that "Dieu est le droit " would be better than " Dieu et le droit.' It is curious that the word " et," through the dropping of the circumflex, should be generally translated as the French "hotel" and "hostel,' The words " modern and ancient forms of the same word, but possibly few so connect them. Even more so in the case of "table d'hôte "-is it generally realised that it the host's catering? Correctly, then, the 66 means and." are the "et" in our motto should be êt." Has anyone ever met the motto in this form, I Dieu êt mon droit W. H. MANCHÉE. ACCOUNTANT-GENERAL, 1780. Can any reader supply the name of the person who held that office in or about that year? The name of the office and year appear upon a document on a portrait by Romney, but the subject of the picture is unknown. A. G. MALTESE CAT (Cf. 12 S. xi. 109, 151; xii. 259, s.v. 'Maltese Dogs'). I have recently noticed in print the expression more unlucky than a Maltese cat.' Why are these animals supposed to be particularly unlucky? JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. HERALDIC: A BEND LOZENGY. Does any Heraldic code now determine the number of lozenges or mascules which a bend lozengy or masculy should contain? The usual number, I believe, is five, but six sometimes appear in old coats, and I can quote such an instance which led a Herald into a curious error. The coat of Cheney of Ditton (Cambs.) is, Quarterly, argent and sable, a bend lozengy gules. The Visitation of Cambridge,' 1575 and 1619 (Harleian Society's Vol. xli), p. 118, has it "Quarterly, 1 and 4, argent, a bend lozengy gules; 2 and 3, sable"! F. B. PRIDEAUX. IR HENRY DACRE, fl. 1561.-Who was Sir Henry Dacre, who was "Presented to the Rectory of Skelton, Cumberland, by the Lord William and the Ladye Elizabeth Dacre, His Wife, 1651." (Diocesan Library, Carlisle)? He held the living and rectory until the year of his death, 1597 ('A Vicar of Bray'). He had a brother John, and his sister-in-law was Janet Dacre. These three, by their wills, left their property to John, Thomas, Henry and William, sons of John and Janet Dacre, of Bolton Wood and Wigton, and later of Skelton, Cumb. The wills give no clue to the parentage or branch of the Dacres from which they descended. THOMAS LEE. HORN (HORNE).-Information desired of Scottish and English connections with the European family of Horn," which will |