10 s. XIL OCT. 9, 1909.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
291
has filled up most of the anonymou
contributions with the names of the writer
in pencil. These two epigrams, which wi]
be found at pp. 48 and 105, are attributec
by her to Dr. French Laurence, and as in
my query I asked for a specimen of his
wit, I will venture to quote the second o
them :
To make the boy a scholar, to my care
An advertising Doctor gave his heir.
We got to Homer ; and " that wrath, the spring
Of woes unnumber'd," soon he learnt to sing ;
Then in due course, "to Pluto's gloomy reign
Hurl'd many a gallant soul untimely slain."
But now he came no longer. In the street
It shortly was my hick the Sire to meet ;
And " thanks my friend," he cried, " but to be free
What you were teaching he may learn of me.
I, ere their time, hurl many a soul below ;
Yet not one word of Homer need to know."
W. F. PBIDEAUX.
HTJRSLEY VICARS (10 S. xii. 188). Of the vicars about whom F. H. S. desires informa- tion (see also ante, p. 223), John Cole was a son of Edward Cole, a public notary of Winchester, where he was also the bishop's registrar. In a not very trustworthy list of the mayors of that city, printed in 1773, the name of Edward Cole appears for the years 1587, 1598, 1612, and 1626 ; and according to the Cathedral register, Christian the wife of " Mr. Edward Cole," was buried on 5 June, 1614, and "Mr. Edward Cole on 2 Nov., 1617. John Cole was elected scholar of Winchester College in 1601, his brother William having been elected pre- viously in 1594. Possibly " Edward Coles," also a native of Winchester, who was elected in 1585, was yet another brother. William and John obtained fellowship&at New College, Oxford ; and John, who graduated M.A. in 1614 and B.D. in 1622, was instituted Vicar of Hursley on 18 July, 1616, and Rector of Michelmersh, Hants, on 23 Feb., 1621/2. He was presented to Hursley by Thomas South of Grately, and to Michelmersh by the King, and retained both livings until his death in 1638.
John Cole is mentioned in Foster's ' Alumni Oxonienses ' (p. 301, No. 12), but the two men who are there said to have been his sons, viz., William and John Coles or Cole (p. 302, No. 21 ; p. 304, No. 20), were not really his, but the sons of another Wykehamist, John Coles or Cole (p. 301, No. 13), who, when elected to Winchester in 1606, hailed from Stewkley, Bucks. This John Coles became master of Adderbury School, Oxfordshire, and the careers of his sons are given in the ' D.N.B.,' xi. 277, 321 ; but there, William being treated as a " Cole,"
and John as a " Coles," the editor failed to
notice that they were brothers.
At John Cole's death in 1638 Hursley fell, upon Gerard Napper's presentation, to John Hardy ; and Richard Manningham received Michelmersh from the bishop. Thomas Maunder was instituted at Hursley on 14 Sept., 1662. H. C.
HOLT CASTLE AND THE BEAUCHAMPS (10 S. xii. 227). The billets in the arms of Beauchamp of Holt are an interesting example of cadency in mediaeval heraldry. The house of Beauchamp (of Elmley) divided into three main branches, which sprang from three sons of William de Beauchamp, Lord of Elmley (d. 1268), and his wife Isabel, sister and heiress of William Mauduit, Earl of Warwick. These three lines all bore a golden fesse upon a field gules, but differenced their shields by varying the other charges :
1. The Earls of Warwick, a fesse between six crosslets.
2. The Beauchamps of Holt, a fesse be- tween six billets.
3. The Beauchamps of Alcester and Powick, a fesse between six martlets.
It may be worth noting that these three shields are all shown on the curious encaustic tiles in Tewkesbury Abbey, of which illus- trations were given in The Ancestor, vol. ix. pp. 46-64. G. H. WHITE.
Lowestoft.
LYTTON'S NOVELS IN FRENCH (10 S. xii. 208). ' Zanoni ' in French appeared in the " Bibliotheque des meilleurs Romans etrangers," Paris, Librairie de L. Hachette et ie., 1859 ; republished in cheaper form in 1867.
The other novels mentioned in the query were not included in this series, but inquiry might be made as to the " Bibliotheque pour Tous," Paris, Gustave Havard, 1857, which comprised at least one of Lytton's novels. M.
- DIMES AND DOLLARS '
- EDWIN WATJGH'S
LANCASHIRE RECITATIONS (10 S. xii. 250). n a small volume entitled ' Poems and ^ancashire Songs,' by Edwin Waugh (Bell & Daldy, York Street, Covent Garden, 870), MR. S. SMITH will no doubt find what ie requires. Outside his native county he North-Country bard has not met with he appreciation he deserves, yet his work s full of pathos, as in * Come Whoam to hy Childer an' Me,' and quaint humour, as in * Owd Pinder.'
HORACE BLEACKLEY.
