. ii. NOV. 26, 1904.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
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itself feminine, as Prof. Skeat points out in
his ' Etymological Dictionary.'
W. T. LYNN.
[Compare rhauntress, applied to the same bird by Milton, 'IlPenseroso,' 63.]
HENRY PARRY, BISHOP OP WORCESTER. The 'D.N.B.,' xliii. 375, following Browne Willis, says " he was never married." But he had three sons, Henry, Richard, and George, LL.D.. of Exeter, and one daughter, Pascna (' N. & Q.,' 1 st S. xii. 365). This daughter Pascha (i.e., probably faster) is noticed in Lincolnshire Notes and Queries, iv. 110-11, 157-8. Moreover, in 1631 the wife of Sir Robert Willoughby she being then a lady of honour to the queen brought a charge of cruelty against her husband in the High Commission Court. She said " she was daughter of the late Bishop of Worcester," which statement gained her the sympathy of Laud ('Star- Chamber Cases,' Camd. Soc., p. 187). The "late bishop J> could have been none other than Parry, who held the see from 1610 to his death in 1616, and was succeeded by John Thornborough, who died in 1641. W. C. B.
RUSSIAN BALTIC FLEET BLUNDER. On 26 October were interred the remains of the victims of the Russian Baltic Fleet blunder. It was an impressive and historical scene. The Mayor of Hull and other leading citizens joined in the funeral procession, which was the largest ever seen in Hull. It was wit- nessed by thousands of sorrowing spectators. Everything was calm, orderly, and reverent, and did credit to the city and to the nation. A feature of the day was the large number of funeral cards sold by hawkers along the route as mementoes of the occasion. It will not be without interest to reproduce the inscription on one of the cards :
To the Memory of
The Hull Fishermen,
(ieorge H. Smith & John Leggott,
who lost their Lives through the
Russian Baltic Fleet Blunder,
on the Dogger Bank, on
October 21st, 1904.
I think it is worth while to give a permanent place to the inscription in 4 N. & Q.'
WILLIAM ANDREWS. Hull Royal Institution.
HOUSES OF HISTORICAL INTEREST. In the City Press of Wednesday, 26 October, there is a report of the meeting of the London County Council on the previous day, when it was resolved to place a tablet on 23, Suffolk Street, S.W., to commemorate the residence there of Richard Cobden. It was further reported that " the Duke of Bedford, while
refusing to allow the Council to place tablets
on houses on his estate, had himself affixed
tablets to the following houses : 65, Russell
Square (Sir Thomas Lawrence), 11, Bedford
Street (Henry Cavendish), 6, Bloomsbury
Square (Isaac Disraeli), 28 and 29, Blooms-
3ury Square (Earl of Mansfield), 43, King
Street, Coven t Garden (Admiral the Earl of
Orford), and 27, Southampton Street, Covent
Garden (David Garrick)." The last is the
only one I have seen, and it can be put upon
record that it is thoroughly artistic, in good
- aste, and admirably meets the requirement
of the case. W. E. HARLAND-OXLEY.
1 HARDYKNUTE.' The closing item of Allan Ramsay's important anthology 'The Ever- green ' is entitled * Hardyknute, a Fragment/ The position thus given the ballad groups it with many masterpieces, all of which, the editor announces on his title-page, were "wrote by the ingenious before 1600." It has long been agreed among experts that 'Hardyknute' is modern, and that Ramsay knew this when, for reasons best known tx> himself, he included it in his collection. In his ' Life of Allan Ramsay ' George Chalmers- puts a strong case for assigning the ballad to Lady Wardlaw of Pitreavie, but all along there have been advocates for the authorship of Sir John Bruce of Kinross. In 'English Literature : an Illustrated Record ' (iii. 267), Mr. Edmund Gosse reaches some definite conclusions on the subject. " Ramsay," he says, completed that celebrated poetical
hoax the ballad of Hardy Knute |>'c],
which had been begun by Elizabeth, Lady Wardlaw (1677-1727)." In reference to this it has to be noted that the ballad is avow- edly ** a fragment " and was never com- S'eted, that the hero of the story is Lord ardyknute, and that there is only tradi- tional evidence for Lady Wardlaw's author- ship. THOMAS BAYNE.
WE must request correspondents desiring in-
formation on family matters of only private interest
to affix their names and addresses to their queries,
in order that the answers may be addressed to them
direct.
SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY PHRASES. In the journal of Sir Humphrey Mildmay, of Dan- bury, Essex, running from 1633 to 1652, there- are a few entries for which I cannot find an explanation in the dictionaries or books of reference I have consulted, and I should bo extremely obliged if some reader of * N. & Q.' would interpret them :
