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Watch ; as soon as I was informed fully how th
matter stood, I instantly declared I would go with
the Captain, let the consequence be what it would
& not stay among Mutineers. As the particular
of what followed to our arrival at this place wil
be immediately in the public papers, I shall saj
nothing further of them at present, but leave then
untill I shall have the long wished for pleasure o
seeing you & my Aunt.
But I have been at great & unavoidable expenses first at Timor, where I arrived among the Dutch naked, who I must say behaved extremely well to us ; & secondly at this place which is extremely dear. I am now at the only Inn, where strangers are entertained, along with the rest of the Officers & one would not wish to appear like an Outcast or a Beggar. When I am paid off for the Ship, if I can only clear 50 pounds I shall think myself very wel 1 off.
There is one thing I must mention which is o: consequence ; the Captain denied me, as well as the rest of the Gentlemen who had not Agents, any Money unless 1 would give him my power of Attorney & also my Will, in which I was to be- queath to him all my property ; this he called by the name of proper security. This unless I did, I should have got no money, though I shewed him a letter of Credit from my Uncle & offered to give him a Bill of Exchange upon him. In case of my Death I hope this matter will be clearly pointed out to my Relations.
I hope you & my Aunt have been in good health since I left England, which I hope in God again to see in about seven Months ; please to give my respectful Duty to her & believe me to be with the greatest truth, Your Dutiful Nephew
THO. DENMAN LEDWABD.
Batavia, Octob r 12th, 1789.
Thomas Denman Led ward, who is said in Serjeant Burke's ' Celebrated Naval and Military Trials' to have been lost on the return passage, was the second son of Sarah, sister of Dr. Joseph Denman (author of 'Observations on Buxton Water') and of Dr. Thomas Denman (the eminent obste- trician and author of many medical works). He was thus first cousin of Lord Denman, L.C.J. of the King's Bench. Of the family of " Poor, unfortunate Tho 8 Ledward " (the last letter is so endorsed by its recipient) I know nothing. Perhaps some one can kindly enlighten me. ARTHUR DENMAN.
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CHRISTMAS. (Continued
from 9 th S. viii. 500.)
Scoloker, Ant. Just R,eckenyng of the Yeares
from the beginnyng of the World unto this presente yere of 1547.
Hutchins, Edw., of Brazenose Coll., Oxon. Ser- mon at 8. Marie'?, Ian. 6, 1589, upon the Feast of the Epiphany.
Pie, Dr. Tho. An Hovreglasse A Computa- tion from the beginning of time to Christ there
wanteth a yeare after Christ, in the usuall com- putation. 4to, John Wolfe, 1597.
Willet, And. Daniel, 1610 (the year of Christ's nativity, pp. 332-47).
Sermon on Christmas Day, wherein the obligation'
that lies upon all Christians to solemnize the anni-
versarie festival of our Saviour's birth is clearljr
proved. By A. C. [Alexander Gumming?]. 4to,.
pp. 52 (164-). (Cp. 7 th S. ii. 502 ; 9 th S. iv. 515.)
Burnet, Bp. Sermon before the King and Queen, on Christmas Day, 1689.
Watts, R. (7 th S. iv. 502). See Hearne's ' Collec- tions,' iii. 482.
Chandler, Edw., Bp. of Coventry. Sermon before the King at S. James's, on Christmas Day. Preached in 1717, printed in 1718.
A Present for Christmas and New Year, a Letter on the Nativity. 12mo, Oxford, 1824.
A Good Christmas Box, being a choice Collection* of Christmas Carols. Dudley, 1847.
Christinas Feasts at Bishopthorpe, 1624, 1625, in. Old Yorkshire, N.S., 1890, pp. 275-6.
The Blessing of the Waters on the Eve of t he- Epiphany. Oxford, University Press, 1901.
Dawson, W. F. Christmas : its Origin and Asso- ciations. 8vo, 1902.
Janvier, Tho. A. Christmas Kalends of Provence. 8vo, 1903.
West, Austin. The Ox and Ass Legend of t he- Nativity, in the Contemporary Review, Dec. 1903.
Articles on Christmas Customs, in the Treasury, Dec., 1903.
W. C. B.
CHRIST TIDE. The late Canon J. C. Atkin- son, having met with the word " Christyde "' in a document of 1656, remarks that it is "curious, by no means uninteresting, of not very frequent occurrence, and may be collated with Whitsuntide and other ellip- tical terms," North Riding Record Soc., v. 220' (1887). He does not seem to have been aware that it was the form used by the Puritans in order to avoid the word "mass " : see ' N. & Q.,' 6 th S. x. 490. W. C. B.
[The earliest quotation in ' N.E.D.' is from R.. Harvey, 1589. ]
ECCLESIASTICAL STATE AT CHRISTMAS. Dods worth, the Yorkshire antiquary, writes:
" Note what decay of housekeeping and port ther
w is, in comparison of what hath beene. My "ather has told me that my grandfather hath scene Dean Higden attended to the Church on a Christmas day by fifty gent, before him in tawney coates jarded with black velvet, and thirty yemen behind iim in like coates garded with saffron." Quoted n Walbran's 'Memorials of Fountains/' i. 296 n.. 8urtees Soc.).
The reference is to Anthony Higgin, who- was Dean of Ripon 1608-24. W. C. B.
SLEEPING KING ARTHUR. In a stray number
of the County Monthly, a magazine " by the-
STorth, for the North, about the North and
Everywhere" (July), I found a version of
the Sleeping King Arthur legend, which is-
redited to the county of Durham, and has-
)een included by Mr. J. W. Fawcett in his-
Tales of Derwentdale.' "In the north-east
ide of Mugglewick, and on the north side of
he Derwent," we are told, "is a tongue of
