Pocahontas, which has recently passed from THE Cornhill for December continues Lady of Thomas Day, with his Sabrina, and, linked ful survey of the bridge to be made by a competent engineer and an architect, who pronounced it to be sound and in good repair. The Society, however, make a conditional recommendation, that a new bridge should be built about 200 yards below it. The Monmouthshire County authorities are stated to be giving careful consideration to the crossing of the river at this point. Two Hundred Years Ago. with it, notes on the Edgeworths. Day lived at Stowe House half a dozen years before The LONDON JOURNAL. SATURDAY, December 2, 1727. DE LA MOTRAYE hereby gives Notice, That he is preparing for the Prefs his Journeys into feveral Parts of England, France, Flanders and Germany in the years 1724 and 1725. Into Poland, Pruffia, Livonia, Eftonia, Ingroia, Carelia, as far as the Lake Ladoga in 1726; with an impartial History of the late Czar and Czarina, founded on authentick Memoirs; alfo his &c. in 1727, with many curious Remarks, Progrefs in the Weftern Parts of England, which all fhall be printed in the Year 1728 with proper and new Cuts in one Volume in Folio, both in English and French, of the fame Size as his former Travels in the faid Tongues already publifhed; of which thofe of his Subfcribers who have not as yet taken their Setts may have them at Mr. Crochley's next Door to the New Church in Bloomsbury. Johnson and Boswell visited it. Mr. P. R. A LETTER to The Times, which appeared last Monday, cannot fail to have aroused widespread interest. Mr. Frank C. H. Borrett, of Monmouth, told us that the well-known thirteenth century bridge over the Monnow in that city has been pronounced unsafe. There is actual danger, he said, of its collapse, carrying with it the beautiful gatehouse. On Tuesday appeared a letter from the Secretary of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, stating that last September the Society had caused a care Just publifhed in Two Volumes in Folio, illuftrated [with many Copper Plates, The HISTORY OF JAPAN, giving an Account of the ancient and prefent State & Government of the Empire. Of its Temples, Palaces, Caftles and other Buildings. Of its Metals, Minerals, Trees, Plants, Animals, Birds and Fishes. Of the Chronology and Succeffion of the Emperor's Ecclefiaftical and Secular. Of the Original Defcent, Religious Cuftoms and Manufactures of the Natives, and of their Trade and Commerce with the Dutch and Chinefe; together with a Defcription of the Kingdom of SIAM, Written in High Dutch by ENGELBERTUS KEMPFER, M.D., Phyfician to the Dutch Embaffy to the Emperor's Court, and translated from his Original Manufcript never before printed by J. G. SCHEWCHZER, F.R.S., and a Member of the College of Phyficians, London; with the Life of the Author, and an Introduction. London, Printed for the Tranflator. IN THE THREBLE THRIBERS OR NORNS. N 1895 I published in my Household Tales and Traditional Remains two songs which I called pagan hymns. The first of these, which I discovered at Ridgeway in North Derbyshire, begins thus: Plenty of ale to-night, my boys, With the words I published the air to which they were sung. On Armistice Day (11 Nov., 1927), or the day following, when I was listening on my wireless receiver, I was astonished to hear a snatch or two of this pagan song, and, if I mistake not, I heard the words " two lily: white boys,' but nothing about a dressed in green. Instead of that, the song broke out, with immense gusto, into Burns's lines maid Green grow the rashes O, Green grow the rashes O. And so all that was left of the maid dressed in green was the word green," followed by "O," with three words between. I heard the announcer say that this was a very favourite song during the war. Now it is obvious that the Threble Thribers in which the i in Thribers is long -are the three Norns of Scandinavian mythology, Urd, Verdandi, and Skuld, the Past, the Present, and the Future, which correspond to the Roman Parca and the Greek Moipia, or the apportioning goddesses whose names were Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos. To the singers the crowning point lay in the words " green grow the rashes O." Perhaps they were thinking sub-consciously of the Future, of the death and wounds they were about to face, of Skuld, or Atropos, unchangeable and everlasting. By a perversion of language the dreadful maid dressed in green had been kindly withdrawn from their ears. At the words "One was dressed in green O" the air becomes slow and mournful. Most people know that in English folklore green is regarded as unlucky, and the most terrible of the three Norns was appropriately dressed in this colour. In the Lowlands of Scotland green was ever ominous, and must on 110 account be worn at a wedding. The fairies, whose chosen colour it is, would resent the insult and destroy the wearer (Henderson's 'Folk-lore of the Northern Counties,' 1879, p. 34). In our song the other two Norns were dressed in lily white. The most detailed description of these goddesses is that given in Plato's Republic,' where they are represented as clothed in white and garlanded, and Hesiod sets up Atropos, the last, as the mightiest (Grimm's 'Teutonic Mythology,' trans. Stallybrass, p. 414). ་ Only the pagan element of the song is given here, but there are a few more lines introducing the Twelve Apostles, the Eleven Archangels, and the Ten Commandments. These are later additions. The antiquity of the lines goes back at least to the time of Cadmon, who asked the shall I sing?) And Cadmon sang, not of the question, "Hweet sceal ic singan?" (What Norns, but of the Creation. A vision of the Three Sisters, says the late Professor Earle, is narrated by Wulfstan who has left us a Latin poem of the Miracles of Winchester, a poet of the tenth century, of St. Swithun. In it he tells how, coming back one evening towards Winchester, he was met by two hideous females, who commanded him to stop, but he ran away in terror; he was then met and stopped by a third, who struck him a blow from which he suffered for the remainder of his life; but the three women plunged into the river and disappeared.' Anglo-Saxon Literature,' 1884, p. 69. ་ S. O. ADDY. THE KING'S SHIPS. In the following lists the date given with each ship is that of launch. The tonnage when given in brackets denotes Tons Burthen, otherwise Displacement Tonnage N.N.L. denotes New Navy Lists, 1841-52, and N.L., Official Navy Lists. 4. KING'S SHIPS BUILT AT CHATHAM. 1640. LYON, 60, 4th rate (750)T. Apsley. 1647. DRAGON, 46, 4th rate (470)T. Goddard. 1663. BONAVENTURE, 48, 4th rate (551)T. Phineas Pett. She was rebuilt at Portsmouth 1683, and Woolwich 1699, as (574)T. 1655. Rebuilt. VICTORY, 82, 2nd rate (1029)T. Phineas Pett. Built originally at Deptford by Burrell in 1620 as (807) T. Cast by survey at Woolwich, 27 Feb., 1690/1. 1668. MONMOUTH, 66, 3rd rate (856). T. Phineas Pett. 1670. PRINCE, 100, 1st rate (1395)T. (1463)T. Phineas Pett. Described PRINCE ROYAL in 1688. List as 100 guns (1400)T. She was re-built at Chatham, and re-named ROYAL WILLIAM in 1692, her tonnage then being given as (1568)T. Robert Lee. Sold 20 Aug., 1713, as (122)T. to 1689. EXPERIMENT, 32, 5th rate (360)T. Robert Lee. Added 17 Dec., 1689. 1690. Re-built. ROYAL OAKE, 74, 3rd rate. (1154)T. Robert Lee. First 74-gun, 3rd rate, noticed. Built originally at Deptford by Jonas Shish in 1674. She is sometimes mentioned in Naval Chronicle as ОAK ROYAL. Note:-James says she was launched 1694. as This is in error, as she was with the Smyrna Fleet convoy in June, 1693. 1690. DOLPHIN, 32, 5th rate (267)T. Robert Lee. Added 29 March, 1690. Was during her service a fireship. 1691. ADVENTURE, 44, 5th rate (438)T. or (415) T. Robert Lee. Added 20 Apr., 1691. 1691. SUPPLY, hoy (921)T. Added 20 Apr., 1691. 1671. QUEENBOROUGH, 4, yacht (27)T. Ph. Pett. Re-built at Sheerness by John Ward in 1718. Still in service 1750 (Lord Anson's List). 1674. KATHERINE, 8, yacht (132) T. Pett. Re-built 1720. Ph. 1675. DEFIANCE, 64, 3rd rate (890)T. Ph. Pett. Taken to pieces, order of 1747-50. 1675. Re-built. MONTAGU, 62, 3rd rate (829)T. Ph. Pett. Built originally by Sir John Tippett at Portsmouth, 1654, as (746)T. or (836 19/94)T. 1677. MARY, 8, yacht (163)T. Ph. Pett. Re-built in 1727. 1678. ANNE or ANN, 70, 3rd rate (1089)T. Ph. Pett. Destroyed by fire, 6 July, 1690. 1679. PENDENNIS, 70, 3rd rate (1093)T. Ph. Pett. 1679. Re-built. LONDON, 96, 1st rate (1685)T. Ph. Pett. Built originally at Deptford by Jonas Shish, in 1670, as (1348)T. Re-built, Chatham, by Phineas Pett, 1679, and again re-built at Chatham by Benjamin Rosewell in 1706 a (1685)T., and once again re-built at Chatham, in 1721, by Benjamin Rosewell, as (1711)T. 1679. BERWICK, 70, 3rd rate (1089) T. Rebuilt at Deptford by Snelgrove in 1700 as (1090) T. 1682. BRITANNIA, 100, 1st rate (1739)T. (1703)T. Ph. Pett. Re-built at Chatham by Robert Shortis in 1700 as (1703)T. Re-built at Woolwich by J. Hayward in 1719 as (1894 77/94)T. After serving as hospital ship was broken up in 1749 or later. 1684. Re-built. SOVEREIGN, 100, 1st rate. (1822 71/94)T. Robert Lee. Built originally, 1637, at Woolwich, by Pett, as (1141)T. Rebuilt 1660 as (1683)T. Burnt 1698; repaired at Woolwich by Rosewell in 1701 as (1883)T. Great repairs, 1728. 1687. SALAMANDER, 10/6, bomb. Robert Lee. 1691 CHATHAM, 50, 4th rate (686)T. or (630)T. Added 20 Apr., 1691. 1691. 1st gally towboat (91)T. Lee. Added 18 June, 1691. Robert Robert 1691. 2nd gally towboat (91)T. Lee. Added 18 June, 1691. 1692. Re-built. ROYAL WILLIAM, 100, 1st rate (1568)T. Robert Lee. Built at Chatham originally in 1670 by Phineas Pett as PRINCE, which see above. Re-built and renamed ROYAL WILLIAM at Chatham, 1692— note from 1682. Shewn as PRINCE ROYAL in 1688 List and as ROYAL WILLIAM in 1697 List. Sergison's MS. List gives her " re-built at Chatham, 1692." She was again re-built at Portsmouth by Naish in 1719 as (1918)T. 1693. ROCHESTER, 48, 4th rate (607)T. Robert Lee. Added 15 March, 1692/1693. 1693. SUSSEX, 80, 3rd rate (1203 28/94)T. Robert Lee. Added 11 Apr., 1693. Wrecked. "Cast away on the east side of Gilbaltar, with CAMBRIDGE, 70, and SERPENT, 12, bomb, 19 Feb., 1693/4.' 1693. MORTAR, 12, bomb. (260)T. Robert Lee. Added 25 June, 1693. 1693. SERPENT, 12, bomb. (260)T. Robert Lee. Added 24 June, 1693. Cast away on east side of Gibraltar, 19 Feb., 1693/4. 1693. Unity, hoy, (76 81/94)T. Robert Lee. Added 16 Aug., 1693. No Date. UNITY, horseboat (80)T. Robert Lee.. No date. UNITY III. (79)T. (not known where built). 1693. MAIDSTONE, 24, 6th rate (250)T. Robert Lee. Added 31 Dec., 1693. 1693. Tow boats (two in number). (91)T. Robert Lee. (134) T. each. F B Lee. Added 9 Oct., 1694. Robert 1694. SQUIRRELL, 4, yacht (371⁄2)T. Robert Lee. Added 10 Dec., 1694. 1695. CHICHESTER, 80, 3rd rate (1210)T. Robert Lee. Added 6 Mar., 1694/1695. She was re-built at Woolwich by Stacey in 1706 as (1278 1/3)T. 1695. SERPENT, 4, bomb vessel Robert Lee. Added 5 Apr., 1695. dered 15 Oct., 1703 as (139) T. 1695. SWIFT, 4, brigantine (78)T. Lee. Added 16 Sept., 1695. 1695. ROYAL TRANSPORT, 38, (220) T. Robert Lee. (139)T. SurrenRobert 6th rate Added 11 Dec., 1695. Delivered to ye Czar of Muscovy per order from ye Admy., 14th March, 1697, she being given his as a present from ye king," 12 Mar., 1697/8. 1695. Re-built. VICTORY ex JAMES ROYAL, 100, 1st rate (1486)T. Robert Lee. Built originally at Portsmouth by Sir Anthony Deane as JAMES ROYAL in 1675 as (1422) T. Re-named ROYAL GEORGE per order 27 Aug., 1714. Re-named VICTORY, per 9 Sept., 1715. Re-built again, at Portsmouth, by Allin, in 1737 as (1920 56/94) T. Lost near Casquets, 4/5 Oct., 1744. order Robert Lee, Dan Furzer and Robert Shortis. Added 29 Sept., 1699. 1699. Re-built. STIRLING CASTLE, 70, 3rd rate (1087)T. Dan Furzer. Built originally 1679 at Deptford by J. Shish, as (1087)T. Lost in great gale, 26/27 Nov., 1703. 1699. MERLIN 1699. SWALLOW } patt. (66)T. that Dan Furzer built SWALLOW, 4, sloop. Sept., 1699. Note:-Sergison's MS. stat. sloops, each 2 fate, 4 Robert Shortis. Added 30 1699. Re-built. EXPEDITION, 70, 3rd rate Portsmouth, 1679, by Dan (1116)T. Dan Furzer. Built originally at Furzer, as (1116)T. 1700. Re-built. BRITANNIA, 100, 1st rate (1703)T. Robert Shortis. Built at Chatham by Phineas Pett, 1682, which see. 1701. Re-built. PRINCE GEORGE ex DUKE, 90, 2nd rate (1421)T. Robert Shortis. Built originally at Woolwich by Thomas Shish in 1682 as (1546)T. Re-built Chatham 1701, and re-built Deptford by Stacey in 1723. DUKE re-named PRINCE GEORGE, 31 Dec., 1701. 1701/2. NORTHUMBERLAND, 70. 3rd rate. Built originally at Bristol by F. Bayly in Re-built Chatham same 1679 as (1096)T. measurements, 1701/2. Lost in great gale, 26/27 Nov., 1703. 1702. Re-built. FALKLAND, 48, 4th rate Robert Shortis. (10)T. (637)T. Built originally in New England by Holland in 1695. Note: Towing Engine, smack Broke up at Chatham, 27 May, 1695." 1697. LOWSTOFFE, 32, 5th rate (357 15/94T. Robert Lee. Added 7 Aug., 1697. (Name also spelt LASTOFE in some lists). 1697. FLAMBOROUGH, 24, 6th rate (252 40/94)T. Robert Lee. Added 10 July, 1697. 1698. TRYUMPH, 90, 2nd rate (1482 1/3)T. Added 2 Mar., 1697/1698. Name altered to PRINCE per order of 27 Aug., 1714. Re-built at Chatham by John Ward in 1750. Taken to pieces at Plymouth, 1775. 1698. Re-built. RESOLUTION, 70, 3rd rate (902)T. Robert Lee. Built originally at Harwich by Sir Anthony Deane in 1667, as (902)T. (Name sometimes spelt RESOLUCION). Lost in great gale of 26/27 Nov., 1703. 1698. SOMERSETT, 80, 3rd rate (1262 2/3)T. Robert Lee. Added 31 May, 1698. Broken up 1715. 1699. Re-built. EAGLE, 70, 3rd rate (1099)T. Dan Furzer. Built originally at Portsmouth by Dan Furzer, Snr., 1679, as (1047)T. Lost on Scilly Isles (with ASSOCIATION, etc.), 22 Oct., 1707. 1699. TILBURY, 48, 4th rate (691)T. 1702. NIGHTINGALE, 24, 6th rate (251)T. Robert Shortis. Added 16 Dec., 1702. Note:-1703. ROTTERDAM, hulk, was Dutch East Indiaman (Prize), ARMES OF ROTTERDAM, captured 1672/3, added as hulk, 1673 (937)T. Ordered to be broken up at Chatham, 22 June, 1703. 1703. CONTENT, French prize, added 27 June, 1695. Converted to hulk, designed for Lisbon at Chatham (1130)T. Added 13 July, 1703. Note:-There was also a hulk of this name and tonnage bought at Lisbon under date 20 May, 1708, which appears to have been in addition or perhaps a successor or re-purchased, or more likely added in additions in mistake for sales list. 1703/4. Re-built. UNION, 90, 2nd rate (1398)T. Robert Shortis. Built originally at Harwich by Betts in 1680 as (1376)T. as ALBEMARLE. Re-built in 1703/4. See also 1725/6. Re-named UNION, 29 Dec., 1709. 1704. MARY, 64, 4th rate (914 21/94)T. Robert Shortis. Added 12 May, 1704. Note: -This vessel was re-named PRINCESS MARY 1705. FOWEY, 32, 5th rate (411)T. Robert Shortis. Added 10 Mar., 1704/5. 1705. STIRLING CASTLE, 70, 3rd rate (1122)T. Robert Shortis and Benjamin Rosewell. Added 3 Sept., 1705. Re-built 1723 at Woolwich by J. Hayward as (1138)T. 1706. Re-built. LONDON, 96, 1st rate (1685)T. Benjamin Rosewell. Built originally at Deptford, 1670. See re-built under LONDON, 1679. 1707. SALISBURY, 54, 4th rate (703)T. B. Rosewell. Added 17 June, 1707. Rebuilt at Portsmouth by J. Naish, 1726, as (756)T. Became a hulk and was ordered to be sold in 1750. 1710. LYON, 64, 4th rate (906 31/94)T. B. Rosewell. Added 4 Jan., 1709/1710. 1710. Re-built. VANGUARD, 90, 2nd rate (1551)T. B. Rosewell. Built originally at Portsmouth, 1678, by Dan Furzer as (1442)T. Re-named DUKE in 1728, and re-built Woolwich, 1739, by Hayward as (1625 14/94)T. 1711. BONAVENTURE, 50, 4th rate (703) T. B. Rosewell. Re-named ARGYLE, 2 Jan., 1715/1716. 1712. ROSE, 20, 6th rate (275)T. B. Rosewell. Added 25 April, 1712. 1715. Re-built. SANDWICH, 90, 2nd rate (1573)T. B. Rosewell. Lord Anson's List states that she was re-built 1715, agreeing with Sergison's List (MS.). She was built originally at Harwich by Isaac Betts, in 1679, as (1406)T. The Admiralty records. apparently show her as re-building in 1710, and built originally in 1678. Edge's List gives 1715 as does Lord Anson's. Naval Chronicle does not mention a re-build. Appears to have been re-built at Chatham, 1759, as (1869)T. 1716. CHATHAM, yacht (60)T. B. Rosewell. Added 18 July, 1716. 1717. Re-built. NEWARK, 80, 3rd rate (1283 28/94)T. B. Rosewell. Built originally at Hull by John Freame; added 3 June, 1695, as (1213)T. Appears to have been replace by another of this name in 1747, which as Deptford by Robert and John Castle (618)T. Added 24 Aug., 1693. Reduced and re-named ENTERPRIZE, 23 May, 1744. 1721. Re-built. LONDON, 100, 1st rate (1711)T. B. Rosewell. See LONDON under 1679 and 1706. Lord Anson's List, 1747/50, taken to pieces." gives her as 1722. (956)T. Re-built. PLYMOUTH, 60, 4th rate 1723. Re-built. LENNOX, 70, 3rd rate (1128)T. B. Rosewell. Built originally_at Deptford by J. Shish, 1678, as (1072)T. Rebuilt at Deptford, 1701, by Ed. Poperly, as (1089)T. 1725. Re-built. UNION, 90, 2nd rate (1577 63/94)T. B. Rosewell. See UNION, 1703/4 above. 1725. SUPPLY, hoy (122)T. B. Rosewell. 1728. Re-built? ROYAL SOVEREIGN, 100, Great re1st rate (1883)T. B. Rosewell. pairs in 1728. Built originally at Woolwich as (1882)T. by Fisher Harding. Added 25 Apr., 1701. She appears to have been a re-construction of the vessel of this name that 1695/6. was accidentally burnt at Chatham, 27 Jan., 1732. Re-built. MICHAEL'S. MARLBOROUGH, 90, 2nd rate (1567)T. B. Rosewell. Built originally by Tippets at Portsmouth in 1669 as (1131)T. as ST. Re-built by Johnson at Blackwall, and re-named MARLBOROUGH (1579 3/94)T. 18 Dec., 1706. Foundered 1762. 1735. STRAFFORD, 60, 4th rate (1067)T. John Ward. 1737. Re-built. ELIZABETH, 70, 3rd rate (1224)T. John Ward. Built originally at Woolwich, by Stacey, as (1110)T. Added 1 Aug., 1706. 1740. Re-built. NASSAU, 70, 3rd rate John Ward. (1225)T. Portsmouth by Podd, as (1104)T. Built originally at 28 Dec., 1706. 1740. Re-built. Added GUERNSEY, 50, 4th rate (863)T. John Ward. Built originally at Blackwall by Sir Henry Johnson, as (680)T. Added 6 July, 1696. 1741. CHATHAM, 6, small yacht (74)T. John Ward. 1742. STIRLING CASTLE, 70, 3rd rate (1225)T. John Ward. Lost in West Indies hurricane, 5 Oct., 1780. JOHN A. RUPERT-JONES. (To be continued). |