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P. 259. " Qua3 fuerat fabula poena fuit."
Martial, ' Lib. Spectae./ vii. 12.
P. 263. " When the Boeotians asked the oracle by what they should become happy, the answer was made, 'Ao^/S^o-arras ev Trpaf av, ' wicked and irreligious persons are prosperous ' : and they taking the devil at his word, threw the inspired Pythian, the ministering witch, into the sea," &c. See Zenobius, cent. ii. 84 ; Leutsch and Schnei- dewin, * Paroemiographi Grseci,' torn. i. p. 53. Taylor may have read it in Schott's
- Adagia sive Proverbia Graecorum ex
Zenobio seu Zenodoto,' &c. (Antwerp, 1612).
P. 349. " Quisquis magna dedit, voluit sibi magna rependi." See Martial, v. 59, 3. " Rependi " should be " remitti."
EDWABD BENSLY.
SAMUEL RICHARDSON'S SUPPOSED
DERBYSHIRE CONNEXIONS.
(See 10 S. ix. 261.)
NEARLY three years ago I considered it necessary, for the sake of historical truth, to traverse in the pages of * N. & Q.' a claim advanced by Dr. Cox to kinship with the author of 'Clarissa.' After showing the impossibility of the Richardsons of Derby, from whom Dr. Cox is descended, having been related to the novelist in the way he claimed, and the lack of evidence in favour even of remote relationship between the two Richardson families, I proceeded to discuss Dr. Cox's attempt to fix Smalley as the probable place of the novelist's birth, and of his education at the " private grammar school in Derbyshire " where he acquired " only common school learning." I re- marked that " Richardson may have been born at or near Smalley he may have been educated at Smalley but there is not the slightest evidence of it."
I must blame myself for having overlooked a reference which would, I think, have enabled me more positively to rebut the second part of Dr. Cox's conjecture. To the
- Victoria County History of Derbyshire '
(vol. ii., 1907), a work which owes much to Dr. Cox's unique knowledge of the county records, Mr. A. F. Leach contributes an account of the elementary schools founded before 1800. From this it appears (p. 276) that, by deed dated 19 March, 1712, John and Samuel Richardson settled lands on trust that, after the death of the survivor of them, the trustees should build a school- house at Smalley and pay 10Z. yearly to a schoolmaster for teaching twelve poor boyfi
to read, write, cast accounts, or the rules-
of grammar, or other school learning. The
school, Mr. Leach says, was built in 1721.
If this was the school which Dr. Cox had in his mind, we must dismiss the possibility of his suggestion being correct, for it is clear that the novelist, born about 1689, could not have been ducated there. The will of Samuel Richardson of Smalley, abstracted in a, foot-note to my article (10 S. ix. 262), was not proved until 7 April, 1719, when his brother John was still alive.
The following marriages, culled from Phillimore's ' Derbyshire Parish Registers,' probably relate to families mentioned in my article :
Vol. IV. St. Alkmund's, Derby.
Mr. John Cantrell, of this p., and Mrs. Mary Richardson, of Foremark Park, at Twyford Church, by his brother, Mr. Cantrell, lie. 15 Mar.,. 1715/16. P. 18.
Joseph Rushby, of St. Peter's, and Anne Richardson, of Foremark. 22 Feb., 1722/3. P. 22.
Vol. V. St. Michael's, Derby.
Raph Richardson and Sara Lancaster. 14 Jan.. 1644/5. P. 62.
George Richardson, p. All Saints', merchant, and Emma Griffith. 29 Dec., 1812. P. 110.
Vol. V. West Hallam.
Mr. John Hieron, of Little Eaton, and Mrs. Martha Richardson. 27 Mar., 1711. P. 125.
Vol. VI. St. Peter's, Derby. William Richardson, p. All Saints', and Hannah^ Hunt, lie. 25 Apl., 1769. P. 63.
The following further marriages, from the same source, may also be placed among these notes, for the convenience of future inquirers into the pedigrees of Derby Richardsons :
Vol. II. Brailsford.
Joseph Ault, of this par., and Jane Richardson, p. of St. Werburgh's. Derby, lie. 21 April, 1758.. P. 12.
Thomas Richardson, p. of St. Alkmund's, Derby, and Mary Ault, lie. 8 Sept., 1760. P. 12.
Vol. IV. St. Alkmund's, Derby. Mr. William Yates, p. of St. Werburgh's, and Mary Richardson, of Willington, lie. 19 Feb., 1716/17. P. 18.
Vol. VI. St. Peter's, Derby.
John Taylour and Margaret Richardson. 16 July, 1723. P. 45.
Christopher Richardson and Hannah Warren. 6 Nov., 1764. P. 60.
From The Reliquary, vol. xi. p. 140, I learn that " Mary, wife of Mr. Richardson of Smalley," was buried at St. Alkmund's, Derby, on 18 September, 1669. This is the only bit of evidence known to me which gives any support to Dr. Cox's idea that his ancestors belonged to the Smalley family.
