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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. xir. JULY 24, 1909.
leading as a rule than to quote cognate
German forms, with which we have really
no concern. But the A.-S. beorh is no\\
spelt barrow (see ' N. E.D.') ; and this again
hardly helps us. The ** confusion " between
" the German berg and burg " exists only
in the minds of interpreters, not in fact
I do not object to saying that I do not
know the origin of Bergerode ; but I cannot
believe in these bergs and burgs as illus
trating that form. WALTER W. SKEAT.
JOHN SLADE, DORSET (10 S. xi. 488 ; xii 14). The parish registers of South Perrott. Dorset, begin in 1538. Among the entries are the names of the children of the Rev. John Slade, rector of the parish (Hutchins in his ' History of Dorset ' gives the dates during which John Slade held the rectory as 1561 to 1574). The marriage registers record that of John Slade, M.A., Rector of South Perrott, to Joan Owsley, daughter of John Owsley of Misterton, 1567. Among the deaths registered is that of John Slade, M.A., Rector, 1574.
The Owsleys were a notable family living at Misterton, and members of that family were generous benefactors to Crewkerne School, which dates its foundation from 1499. W. G. WILLIS WATSON.
Exeter.
A correspondent at 3 S. iii. 320 (18 April, 1863) stated :
"Among my papers I met with the following descent, but do not know whence it was extracted : John Slade, M.A., Rector of S. Perrot, co. Somer- set, died 1574, married in 1567 Joan, daughter of John Owsley, of Misterton, co. Sorn., by whom he had four children Samuel, born 1568; Matthew, bojn ? 1569 ; Martha, born 1571 ; and Elizabeth, born 15/3.
It does not seem probable, therefore, that John Slade the martyr was the son of John Slade of South Perrot. Wood does not mention him in his ' Athenae Oxonienses.'
Wood in his remarks on Matthew Slade says he had a pedigree of the Slades (con- taining seventeen generations or more) sent over to him from Amsterdam, from some Slades living there in 1600. Can any reader give me information about these Slades, and state whether they were descendants of Matthew and Cornelius Slade, who resided during some part of their lives in Amsterdam ? G. SLADE.
MUNRO OF NOVAR (10 S. xii. 8). There
were several sales at Christie's of the collec- tions of H. A. J. Munro of Novar. His pictures by Old Masters were sold in 1878
( 1 June) ; his celebrated series of Turner
drawings in 1877 (2 June) ; and his modern
pictures on 6 April, 1878. There were,
I think, other sales, but the above three are
those of which I happen to have catalogues.
L. L. K. will find priced copies of these
in the Art Library, South Kensington
Museum. Redford's ' Art Sales ' may be
consulted, and also my own book, ' Memo-
rials of Christie's.' W. ROBERTS.
47, Lansdowne Gardens, Clapham, S.W.
An interesting example of Turner's work, his ' Venus and Adonis,' that has been in the Novar and other collections, and was exhibited at Burlington House in 1906, was on view with Sir Cuthbert Quilt er's other pictures at Christie's, and was bought in on 9 July for 4,000 guineas. W. P. D. S.
CAPT. MACCARTHY (10 S. xi. 448). In the ' Memoirs of George IV.' by Robert Huish (ii. 303) there is a somewhat different account of the Prince's relations with McCarthy :
" It is, however, a fact, well known in a particular circle, that the Prince granted some very liberal pensions to many of his destitute companions ; and we have only to mention the late Felix M'Carthy, a needy Irish adventurer, but a man of infinite wit at the same time destitute of all prin- ciple and honour. Still, he was received at the table of his Royal Highness, to whom he was intro- duced by Lord Moira It was, however, with such
men as M'Carthy, Henry Bate Dudley, alias the Fighting Parson, George Hanger, and others of that grade that the Prince lost his character and his money. When the former of these worthies was a tenant of the King's Bench Piison, he was chiefly supported by the bounty of the Prince, who used to transmit his grants under an envelope, addressed to ' The Irish Giant, now exhibiting on the other side of the water.' The Prince ultimately granted him a pension of 200/. a year, but which was only paid for two years, on account of the intem- perate habits of Felix, which brought him pre- maturely to the grave."
Henry Angelo in his ' Reminiscences ' Kegan Paul, 1904, ii. 62-3) relates how Felix M'Carthy, " a tall handsome Irish- man, well known by everybody," turned Hooper the Tinman out of Vauxhall Gardens. A further glimpse of M'Carthy is given in H. E. Lloyd's ' George IV.,' p. 123 :
- He [i.e. Lord Moira, afterwards Marquis of
lastings] also had a number of pensioners, most of whom were blood-suckers. One of these was Felix VTCarthy, an Irish adventurer, who once absented limself longer than usual from St. James's Place, >n which his lordship sent to know what was the eason : Felix returned an old pair of shoes, worn mt at toe and heel, asking ' whether those were fit or him to enter his lordship's house in ? ' It is no wonder that the Prince and the marquis should have >een constantly embarrassed."
