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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io* s. v. MARCH 17,
21, 1663, for a Burglary and Fellony com-
mitted in the House of Mr. Francis Tryon of
Limestreet, Merchant/ occurs this passage :
" Where he had not been long, before he raised a
Civil War among the Inhabitants ; as if piece-
Broaking had been his Trade, and he had dealt in
nothing but Rents and Divisions, he himself en-
gaged against all, and everybody almost engaged
against him, and with one another by reason of his
perplexing and busie Interest."
J. ELIOT HODGKIN.
- CHERRY RIPE ' (10 th S. iv. 469). This song
occurs in a musical drama performed at the "King's house," and was sung by Nell Gwynne before King Charles II. I forget the name of the piece and the date. It is referred to by Samuel Pepys in his diary :
" To the king's house [theatre] to hear Mistress INelly Gwynne, and a mighty pretty soul she is.
Did kiss Nelly, as also did my wife Returned
home at a late hour much pleased with the evening's entertainment, especially the kissing of Nelly.
WALTER SCARGILL.
The following extract concerning this song is from *An Old Man's Diary,' by John Payne Collier, under date 22 December, 1833 :
" Kenney urged Poole to try his hand for the tage, and the result was ' Paul Pry,' which, Poole admitted to me, Kenney read before it was acted, and suggested various improvements, one being the song of " Cherry Ripe,' which Madam Vestris was often called upon to repeat three times ; originally her part was without it, but it was wanted by the singer and the scene." Part IV. p. 100-
JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.
[Does not our first correspondent confuse matters ? Is not ' Cherry Ripe ' much later in date than Charles II. ?]
"BowET," AN ARCHITECTURAL LANTERN (10 th S. v. 126). Bowet is cognate with Castilian boveda, in common use in Spain for the " vaulting" of a building.
E. S. DODGSON.
GORDON OF THE WEST INDIES (10 th S. iv. 108, 275). MRS. Ross ought to be able to find the Christian name of the West Indian deputy in The Times of the period, but, even when she has done that, she will find much to be accomplished. I do not think I ex- aggerate when I say that there were hun- dreds of Gordons in Jamaica alone, to say nothing of the West Indies. Five of these <Alexander, Francis, George, Joseph, Walter) are mentioned in the Aberdeen Commissariot. A stone in the church of Great Berkhampstead commemorates Charles Gordon, of Braco, in the island of Jamaica, who died 1829, aged eighty-two. James Adam Gordon XIII. of Knockespock, Aberdeenshire, who died 1832,
had large interests in the East Indies, and
figures several times in the letter-book of
Capt. John Johnson, 23 Jan., 1823 July, 1830
(Add. MSS., Brit. Mus., 29864). Again, Robert
Gordon, M.P. for Windsor (1839-41), was an
"extensive West Indian proprietor," and
threw up his post (1841) as one of the Secre-
taries of the Treasury because the provisions
of the Budget menaced the West Indies with
foreign competition. He may have been a
relative of ** Robert Gordon, Esq., late of
Jamaica," who died at Windsor, 12 Feb.,
1833. The Gordon and French families in
Jamaica are dealt with in The Antiquary
(ed. Jewitt), iv. 129-30. Consult also Archer's
- Jamaica Monuments.' The ancestors of the
present Gordons of Newton, Aberdeenshire, were connected with Tobago.
J. M. BULLOCH.
COMBERMERE ABBEY (10 th S. iv. 229, 315).
The charters of Combermere Abbey do not appear to have been printed collectively. In Ormerod's * History of Cheshire,' 1882, iii. 402-18, MR. BERESFORD will find the Carta de Fundatione (Cotton MSS. Faustina, B. viii. 124), with a note stating that a translation of the grant is in the appendix to Lord Combermere's ' Memoirs,' 186C ; also a list of charters, grants, and patents to the abbey, with the works in which they may be found. JOHN RADCLIFFE.
SHEFFIELD PLATE (10 th S. v. 27, 92). See 7 th S. vii. 6; 8 th S. i. 210, 279; also the following :
Mr. R. E. Leader's 'Sheffield in the Eighteenth Century.'
'The Values of Old English Silver and Sheffield Plate from the Fifteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries,' by J. W. Caldicott.
' Old Sheffield Plate,' by W. Sissons.
' Old Sheffield Plate, Historical Survey and Descriptions of Processes/ in the Sheffield Daily Independent, Saturday, 17 February, 1906. H. J. B.
"ET TU, BRUTE!" (10 th S. v. 125.) It should be well known that this famous exclamation has no classical authority ; see the end of the twenty-first chapter of, Merivale's * Romans under the Empire, and Wright's note to his edition of Shake" speare's 'Julius Caesar,' III. i. 77. Wright states that the origin of the expression is not known, and gives certain possible sources from which Shakespeare may have taken it. Merivale, however, thinks that " some such exclamation seems natural."
It has been remarked (I cannot remember by whom) that, if Caesar uttered any such
