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.V.JUNE 16, 1906.] NOTES AND QUERIES.


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LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1906.


CONTENTS.-No. 129.

NOTES : Daniel Tuvill or Tutevil, 461 Robert Greene's Prose Works, 463 Shakespeariana, 465 Inscriptions at Lucerne "Eshin"' : " Beltin'"=Caning, 466 Burial in Woollen "Jour de Bouhourdis" Masham Family Steam Communication with America, 467.

QUERIES : 'The Dean of Badajoz ' John Cooke, the Regicide, 467 Butler of Toderstaff Col. A. R. Dunn- Robin Hood in French 'Percy Folio' in "The King's Library " ' Emblemes d'Alciat ' Blunden Family Santorin and St. Irene, 468 King John's Baggage lost crossing the Wash Percival Gunston, of Thorpe-on-Tees Catherine: Katharine: Katherine Society Ladies Keene or Kyme Family "Rime " v. "Rhyme " Thomas Phelpes, 1679 Flags Gordon : the Name in Russia, 469 "Wykehamist" First Used Seddon Family Col. By, R.E. Irun, Spain Proverb against Gluttony, 470.

REPLIES : " Pigbtle ": "Pikle," 470 Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford, 471 " Duma" Barnes : Origin of the Name, 472 Snakes in South Africa John Hook, of Nor- wichGreek and Roman Tablets ' John Bull's Bible' Louis Philippe's Landing in England, 473" Cast not a clout till May be out" May Song Macaulay's "New Zealander " Capt. Onley, R N., 1735-Dante's Sonnet to Guido Cavalcanti Japanese and Chinese Lyrics, 474 " Place " Cateaton Street, 475*- Americans in English Records -Cheyne Walk: China Walk Bibliography of Publishing and Bookselling Watches and Clocks with Words instead of Figures Twyford Abbey ' Home, Sweet Home ' : Additional Verses, 476 G. Rossetti's ' Tre Ragio- namenti 'Ladies' Head-dresses in the Theatre Gray's Elegy' : its Translations, 477.

NOTES ON BOOKS : ' Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama ' " The World's Classics "'The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson ' ' On the Spanish Main ' 'Transforma- tion ; or, the Romance of Monte Beni ' ' History of the Liberty of Peterborough ' ' The International Directory of Booksellers ' ' French Idioms and Proverbs.'

Booksellers' Catalogues.


DANIEL TUVILL OR TUTEVIL. JOHN SPENCER in his 'Things New and Old,' 1658, is the only one, so far as I have been able to discover, who makes any men- tion whatever of Daniel Tuvill, and even he is not always consistent in the spelling of the name, referring to it as "Tutevil," "Tute- vile," and "Tuvill." Two facts, however, are to be gathered from Spencer : the one that Tuvill was alive in 1631 ; the other that in that year he preached a sermon at " Suttons Hospital!,' afterwards known as "The Charter House" (see Wheatley's

  • London Past and Present,' vol. i. p. 362).

In 1609 Tuvill published the first edition of the 'Vade Mecum,' under the title of

  • Essayes Morall and Theologicall,' dedi-

cating the little book to James Montague, at that time Bishop of Bath and Wells, and afterwards Bishop of Winchester. Montague died in 1618. This first edition is not acces- sible to me ; but perhaps I am not far wrong in saying that Tuvill had at that time either entered into holy orders or was about to do so, and the dedication was intended as a tribute of respect to his present or pro- spective diocesan. That dedication is not


repeated in the edition of 1638. Hazlitt, in his 'Handbook,' 1867, has registered four productions from the pen of Daniel Tuvill : two of them I intend dealing with in this note. The first is :

" Essaies Politicke, and Morall. By D. T. Gent. Printed by H. L. for Mathew Lownes, dwelling in Paules Churchyard. 1608."

This book is entered in the 'Stationers' Registers ' as follows (ed. Arber, vol. iii. p. 375) :

"19Aprilis[1608].

" Matheue Lownes. Entred for his Copie vnder the handes of Master Powell and the wardens 'Essayes politique and Morall' To the right honorable the Lady Anne Harrington, vj d ."

As indicated in this entry, the volume is dedicated "To the Right Honorable, and vertuous Ladie, the Ladie Anne Harington." This lady was the daughter and heiress of one Robert Kelway, Surveyor of the Court of Wards and Liveries, and was married to Sir John Harington about 1590. The latter was raised to the peerage as Lord Haringtou in July, 1603. Of this marriage there were several children, one of them being Lucy, in after years famous as the Countess of Bedford, and the friend of Donne, Ben Jonson, Chapman, Drayton, and Daniel. In passing let me say that Mr. Gosse, in his admirable and exhaustive ' Life of John Donne,' has many most interesting refer- ences to this Countess of Bedford and the relationship in which she stood to the illus- trious men I have named. Lord Harington died at Worms, in Germany, on 13 August, 1613, and his remains were interred atExton, in Rutlandshire. His widow died in June, 1620, at St. Botolph's, Bishopsgate, and she too was buried at Exton beside her husband. In 1603 Princess Elizabeth, James l.'s un- fortunate daughter, was placed under the care of the Haringtons, who were resident at that time at Combe Abbey, Warwickshire, the property as it would appear, of Lady Harington. This lady was "distinguished by her gentleness and refinement," says Miss Bradley in the 'D.N.B.'; "she lived in great poverty after her husband's and son's deaths [the latter died at Kew on 27 Feb- ruary, 1614], and went back for a time as lady-in-waiting to Princess Elizabeth."

To this gracious lady, then, did " D. T. Gent." dedicate his volume of * Essaies ' in 1608. He opens his dedication with these words :

"The desire I had to manifest my seruiceable affection towards your Honour in outwarde Com- plement, hath on such idle houres, as remained free to mee from your imployments, begot this young and tender Infant " ;