2. Gu., a cinquefoil erm.

3. Or, two lions passant in pale sa.

4. Arg., a cross patonce sa.

5. Barry of six arg. and sa., in chief three

torteaux; a label of three points sa.

6. Or, a maunch gu.

7. Barry of twelve arg. and sa. ; an orlə

of martlets sa.

native of Bridekirk, in Cumberland, where rising of the second; 2 and 3, Sa., three

he was born in 1686. He received the lions passant in pale arg.; impaling—

beginning of his education at Carlisle 1. Or, a lion ramp. double-queued sa.,-

Grammar School, but from the commence- langue gu.

ment of his college career saw little of his

native North. He mixed freely with the

wits of his time, and contributed verses to

The Guardian and The Spectator. His friend-

ship with the Addison clique of politicians

secured him an appointment of a lucrative

character in Ireland-Secretary to the Lords

Justices-which he held from 1725 until

his death at Bath in 1740. His poetry is

of the conventional eighteenth-century type,

and if we did not remember that he was but

aping his betters, we might well be filled

with wonder at the fulsomeness of the

flattery in which he sometimes indulged.

He is not likely to have his work resuscitated,

though a student of the period in which he

lived can hardly afford to ignore him alto-

gether.

JOHN OXBERRY.

Gateshead.

LADY ANNE HOLBOURNE.

DUGDAIE, in his 'Hist. of Warw.' (1730),

i. 346, mentions as being in Long Itchington

Church a tablet near the pulpit referring to

the above lady. He gives the inscription and

arms thereon. I am inclined to think he

was wrong in using the word "tablet," as

there still exists in the church an achieve-

ment and inscription, painted on canvas

enclosed in a wooden frame, which corre-

sponds in all other respects with his descrip-

tion. For many years past (doubtless

since 1860) this painting has hung at a point

over the western or tower arch, from which

it was quite impossible for any one to see

its details. Last September it was brought

down from its elevated position, and placed,

with certain charity records, on the wall

at the west end of the south aisle. Before

it was rehung J examined it closely and as

my reading of the arms somewhat differs

(especially with regard to the tinctures)

from Dugdale's, I submit it to ' N. & Q.'

At the foot of the canvas runs the follow-

ing inscription :-

The truly Virtuous & Right Honorable the

Lady Anne Holbourne one of ye Daughters

& Coheires of ye Right Honoble S Rob Dudley

K Duke of ye Empire who bequethed 50

annum to

Mr Sam: Row minister of this Church & to

successors for

per

his

ever also 50li more to ye poore of this Parish.
Above this is a femme shield containing
the following arms :-

Quarterly, 1 and 4, Arg., on a fesse sa.

three crescents or, in chief two choughs (?)

8. Vairée arg. and gu.

9. Gu., seven mascles conjoined or, 3, 3,

and 1.

10. Sa., three garbs or.

11. Gu., a lion rampant within a bordure

engrailed or.

12. Gu., a fesse betw. six cross-crosslets or.

13. Chequy or and sa., a chevron ermine.

14. Gu., a chevron between ten crosses

pattée arg.

15. Gu., a lion passant guardant arg.,

crowned or.

16. Or, a fesse between two chevrons sa.

The inscription bears the marks of re-

touching in several places, and the canvas

has at one time been repaired; but the

achievement has not apparently been tam-

pered with. The tinctures are therefore

in some instances very hard to define, owing

to the mellowing tendency of the dust of

ages. On the sides and at the top and

bottom of the frame are painted hour-glasses

and skulls and crossbones. Lady Anne-

Holbourne was granddaughter to Eliza-

beth's Dudley, the Earl of Leicester who

figures conspicuously in history as the hus-

band of the ill-fated Amy Robsart. He

married secondly Douglas, daughter of

William, Lord Howard of Effingham, by

whom he had one son, Robert. This Robert

married Alice, daughter of Sir Thomas

Leigh, the issue being five children, of whom

Anne was the youngest. She married Sir

Richard Holbourne, Solicitor-General to

Charles I. This and other parishes_still

benefit by the charitable bequests of Lady

Anne Holbourne and her sister Lady

Catherine Leveson, wife of Sir Richard

Leveson, K.B.

Banks's Dormant and Extinct Peerage"

(iii. 266) states that Lady Anne Holbourne,

who died in 1663, was buried in the church

of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, London. I shall

be glad if some London correspondent will

kindly tell me if any tablet or monument

dedicated to her memory still remains there.

JOHN T. PAGE.

Long Itchington, Warwickshire.

Gray('Letters,' ed. Tovey, i. 182) says:—

3. Wednesday. The tête à tête. Dancinda.

4. Thursday. The bassette table. Smilinda [Lady

Mary Wortley Montagu] and Cardelia [Countess

of Bristol].

This is printed by Anderson among Pope's

works. Sharper is Lord Stair; Ombrelia is

Mrs. Hanbury; Betty Loveit is Mrs. South-

well. Corticelli's is described by Walpole

as a fashionable Indian warehouse at the

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5. Friday. The Toilette. Lydia [Mrs. Coke, wife

of the Vice-Chamberlain].

"This is not only a state-poem (my ancient aver-upper end of Suffolk Street, and a rendezvous

sion), but a state-poem on the peace of Utrecht...... of galantry."

This is only a poor short-winded imitation of

Addison, who had himself not above three or four

notes in poetry, sweet enough indeed, like those of

a German flute, but such as soon tire and satiate

the ear with their frequent return. Tickell has

added to this a great poverty of sense, and a string

of transitions that hardly become a schoolboy;

However, I forgive him for the sake of his ballad

[Colin and Lucy'], which I always thought the

prettiest in the world."

This poem On the Prospect of Peace'

was highly lauded by both Pope and Addi-

son. It went through six editions.

22-6. To the Earl of Warwick, on the death of

Mr. Addison.

26-30. Colin and Lucy.

30-33. On the prophecy of Nereus.-Referring to

the rebellion in 1715.

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This is printed by Anderson, with consider-

able alterations, among Gay's works. Damon

is Lord Berkeley. Your wife (two lines

afterwards) is Lady Louisa Lenox (sic). To

1. 15, "side boxes," Walpole puts the note-

"ladies at that time sat in the front-boxes,

men in the side," and adds the line "When

bows the side box from its inmost rows

('Rape of the Lock').

6. Saturday. The Small-pox. Flavia [Lady Mary

Wortley Montagu].

Mirmillio (1. 71) is usually said to be Dr.

Gibbons; Walpole says that it is Sir Hans-

Sloane. Machaon (1. 77) is Garth. Horace

Walpole's note is :-

"These eclogues Lady M. Wortley allowed me to

transcribe from a volume of her poems in MS. at

Florence in 1740, and from my copy Dodsley printed

them and the Epistle from A. Grey,' 'The Lover,'

and the Epilogue'; and her Ladyship told me all

the persons alluded to. Bp. Warburton has printed

the second eclogue as Pope's, who might correct or

at least transcribe it; but it [is evident] that all six

are by the same hand and not like Pope."

The words in brackets are much blurred.

Gray (' Letters,' i. 187) wrote:-

that I did not wonder at."

"The town is an owl if it don't like Lady Mary,

and I am surprised at it; we here [Cambridge] are

owls enough to think her eclogues very bad; but

The Epistle from Arthur Grey the footman

...to Mrs. [Griselda], afterwards Lady,

Murray' was subsequently suppressed. She

died 6 June, 1759.

105-7. The lover, a ballad, to Mr. [Richard] C-

[Chandler].

Eldest son of Dr. Chandler, Bishop of
Durham. He married Elizabeth, the only
daughter of Lord James Cavendish, whose
name he took by Act of Parliament in 1752.
107. The lady's resolve, written extempore on a

window.

108. The gentleman's answer.

108-11. An epistle to Lord B- [Bathurst].

112-13. Epilogue to Mary, Queen of Scots [a tragedy

begun by the Duke of Wharton], design'd to be
spoken by Mrs. Oldfield.

114-15. A receipt to cure the vapours, written to
Lady J- [Irwin, daughter of the Earl of Carlisle].

The above are also by Lady Mary Wortley before. This is the only manuscript of Montagu. An account of Lady Irwin is Arbuthnot in existence, and Mr. Aitken in printed in Walpole's 'Royal and Noble his Life and Works of Arbuthnot,' pp. 436Authors,' ed. Park, v. 155–7. She wrote 442, has printed it, "first as it was published, an answer to this "Receipt." Both pieces and secondly, as it was originally written." are printed in the 'Additions to the Works of Pope' (1776), i. 168–70.

116-46. The Spleen, an epistle to Mr. C-J-[i.e., | Cuthbert Jackson]. By Mr. Matthew Green of the Custom-house.-D.N.B.'

Gray says ('Letters,' ed. Tovey, i. 183):—

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All there is of M. Green here has been printed before; there is a profusion of wit everywhere; reading would have formed his judgment and harmonised his verse, for even his wood-notes often break out into strains of real poetry and music." Walpole says of 'The Spleen':—

186-99. London, a poem in imitation of the third satire of Juvenal. By Mr. Samuel Johnson.‘D.N.B.'

Writing to Horace Walpole, Gray says ('Letters,' i. 183):—

to me one of those few imitations that have all the "I am sorry to differ from you, but London' is ease and all the spirit of an original. The same man's verses on the opening of Garrick's theatre

are far from bad."

To the words "whom pensions can incite To vote a patriot black, a courtier white," is the note by Walpole: This wd have suited Johnson himself latterly." H-y's next page is Hervey's.

"This is as original a poem as ever was written. It has the wit of Butler with the ease of Prior without imitating either, and tho' so poetic all the images are taken from the streets of London." He fills up the blanks g-1 p-s as "gospel 200-2. Prologue spoken by Garrick, at the opening propagators," and to such was of late a of the theatre in Drury Lane, 1747. By Samuel corporation adds "the Charitable Cor-Johnson. poration." 203-13. Of active and retired life, an epistle to When Goldsmith asserted that there was no poetry in his age, Dodsley the Younger (D.N.B.'); first printed in the year H. C., Esq. [Henry Coventry]. By William Melmoth appealed to his own collection as a refuta-1735. tion, and particularly mentioned The 214-19. Grongar Hill. By Mr. [John] Dyer.Spleen.' Johnson's comment on this was: 'D.N.B.' "I think Dodsley gave up the question.... The Spleen' is not poetry (Boswell, 11 Apl., 1776). To the account of Green in the D.N.B.' it may be added that two letters by him are in the Political State for July, 1740, pp. 85-9.

146-7. An epigram on the Rev. Mr. Laurence Echard's and Bishop Gilbert Burnet's histories. 147-9. The sparrow and diamond, a song. 150-1. Jove and Semele. 152-3. The seeker.

153-7. On Barclay's apology for the Quakers. The above are also by Green, whose family were Quakers. He respected, but deserted, that creed.

158-72. Pre-existence, a poem in imitation of Milton.

It was published with a preface by J. B. in 1714, and reprinted in 1740 and 1800. Gray writes ('Letters,' i. 184):

:

"Dr. Evans [Abel Evans: see 'D.N.B.'] is a furious madman; and pre-existence is nonsense in all her altitudes.

172-80. Chiron to Achilles, a poem by Hildebrand Jacob, Esq.-'D.N.B.'

This was first published in 1732, and was included in his collected works (1735), pp. 133-44.

180-5. Know your self, by the late Dr. Arbuthnot. —'D.N.B.'

Pub. anon. in 1734, with an advertisement -that it had been written several years

Dyer, says Gray (Letters,' i. 183), “has more of poetry in his imagination than almost any of our number, but rough and injudicious."

220-41. The ruins of Rome, a poem. By the same. 241-55. The school - mistress, a poem in imitation of Spenser. By William Shenstone, Esq.'D.N.B.'

"Excellent in its kind and masterly," says Gray (Letters,' i. 183). Shenstone ('Letters,' p. 174) complacently records under date of November, 1748, that he had borrowed 'Dodsley's Miscellany of Lady Luxborough, in which many good things."

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256-85. The art of politics, in imitation of Horace's Art of Poetry. By the Reverend Mr. [James] Bramston.-D.N.B."

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L. 1, "Sir James" is Thornhill, Sir Robert is of course Sir Robert Walpole. New Bond Street and a newer square," i.e. Cavendish Square. "Let Sir Paul resign," Methuen. Cibber's opera from Johnny Gay's": the opera is Love in a Riddle,' the other piece The Beggar's Opera.'"Th' arch-bishop and the Master of the Rolls," Wake and Sir Joseph Jekyll. Wyndham is Sir William Wyndham; Lord William's dead and gone,' "Lord William Poulet. Bramstone's poem contains many pointed lines.

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Sir Andrew is Sir Andrew Fountaine, The di'mond count," says Walpole, was a noted venturer, who was said to be going to marry the Dss of Buckingham, when he was detected and decamped.'

The six Town Eclogues' by Lady M. W. Montagu, The Lover, and the other poems to p. 115 inclusive, and the prologue spoken by Mr. Garrick (pp. 200-2) were in the third volume of that edition.

"The Art of Cookery,' by Dr. King, and edition, pp. 223-63), and The Apparition,' the following poems by him (vol. i. first

"FIRST-FOOTING," ANNO DOM. 1907: SOME OLD SONGS.

298-321. An essay on conversation. By Benjamin Stillingfleet.-D.N.B.' This poem is addressed to William Wind-by Dr. Evans (ib. pp. 238-68, the paging ham, of Felbrigg, near Cromer, Norfolk, to being repeated), were afterwards omitted. W. P. COURTNEY. whom Stillingfleet had been tutor, and with whom he travelled abroad. More than once the author shows himself angry with Bentley in refusing him a fellowship at Trinity College. "B-y" should be filled up as Bentley. B-rm-n" is Burman; "Ba-l-y" is Bailey. Dr. Doran says that Stillingfleet's poem helped the social reform of Dr. Johnson and Mrs. Montagu. It "lays down some very excellent rules, that implicitly followed would make conversation impossible."

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321-3. Ode to a lady on the death of Col. Charles Ross in the action at Fontenoy. Written May, 1745. By Mr. William Collins.-D.N.B.'

324. Ode written in the same year. By the same. 325-6. Ode to evening. By the same.

327. Verses written on a blank leaf, by [George Granville] Lord Lansdown (D.N.B.) when he presented his works to the queen, 1732.

328-9. Advice to a lady in autumn.

This and the three next pieces are by Lord Chesterfield ('D.N.B.').

329-30. On a lady's drinking the Bath waters. 330. Verses written in a Lady's 'Sherlock upon Death.'

331-2. Song.

Fanny in 1. 1 is Lady Fanny Shirley. The Rev. R. S. Cobbett in his 'Memorials of Twickenham,' 1872, p. 69, expresses his belief that the song was written by Mr. Thomas Philips, a dramatic writer. An article by George Agar Ellis, afterwards Lord Dover, on Chesterfield and Fanny,' is in The Keepsake' for 1831, pp. 1-15.

An original poem by Lord Hervey, which was printed in a few copies of the first edition of this Miscellany, but then suppressed as too personal, is reproduced in The Gentleman's Magazine for 1796, pt. i. 509. Cf. ib. pt. i. 530; pt. ii. preliminary page, and p. 740.

The poem to the Earl of Warwick (pp. 22-6), that on the prophecy of Nereus (pp. 30-33), the following poems to p. 115

THE poem written an entire century ago by the Hon. William Robert Spencer (1770– 1834), as an Epitaph on the Year 1806," needs no alteration beyond a single word to fit it as an echo to the present date. For it begins and ends thus, with touching appropriateness :

"Tis gone, with its thorns and its roses,
With the dust of dead ages to mix !
Time's channel for ever encloses
The year [Nine]teen Hundred and Six.
[Two stanzas intervene.]

If thine was a gloom the completest
That death's darkest cypress could throw,
Thine, too, was a garland the sweetest

That life in full blossom could show.

One hand gave the balmy corrector

Of ills which the other had brewed-
One draught from thy chalice of nectar
All taste of thy bitter subdued.

'Tis gone with its thorns and its roses!
With mine tears more precious may mix
To hallow this midnight which closes

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The year [Nine]teen Hundred and Six. Thus did our earlier and better" Bobby Spencer" prove himself a century ago to be a First-Footer," as they would say in Scotland. For myself, an Englishman born, a Surrey native, and of Lambeth, Gray's Walk Road, my "first footing in Scotland that I can remember is of the date 1828 or 1829. Of this anon.

It so happens that I can remember a long series of happy "First-Footings" in the “Land of Cakes," which I and my dear father before me (Joseph Ebsworth, 17881868) found to be brimming over with hospitality and true-heartedness, as was worthy of the country that gave birth to Robert Burns and to Walter Scott-men