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CONTENTS. No. 177.
INOTES : Monson, Viscount Castlemaine The Slovenish Language, 381 Magdalen College School and the 'D.N.B., 383 Goldsmith Tablet John Opie, R.A. Mrs. Jordan' Portrait, 385 " Bodemerie " Avignon Society of Illu minati Johannes von Botzheim King's Cross Bridge "Tragedize" Rev. Dr. F. G. Scott, 386 " On the mend ing-hand " Folk-lore concerning Twins "La Hueste Antigua" Coleridge's ' Epitaphium Testamentarium ' Commercial Traveller's Will in 1682, 387.
QUERIES : " Pot-gallery " Pot-hooks and Hangers '^Eneas Britannicus,' 388 Count Truchsess of Zeyl Wurzach Defoe's Novels issued in Parts Wheel Crosses Massacre of St. Bartholomew in Paris Authors o: Quotations Wanted " Shop " for the R.M.A., 389 Rev Osborne Gordon's Origin Mirage Seething Lane Roses of Gibraltar, 390.
REPLIES :" Wound," 390 Camoens, Sonnet cciii., 391 Richard Steele and Freemasonry Talbot Tradagh= Drogheda Miss Linwood's Gallery, 392 Napoleon's Car riage "Esprit de 1'escalier" "Popery, tyranny, anc wooden shoes," 393 Hatching Chickens with Artificial Heat "Gula Augusti" 'The Hebrew Maiden's Answer to the Crusader 'Spring-heeled Jack, 394 Sindbad the Sailor " Chevesel "=Pillow ' The Kingdom's Intelli gencer 'William Talman, Architect, 395 Marly Horses Flint and Steel Sulphur Matches, 396 " Matches " in Congreve Windmills in Sussex, 397.
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MONSON, VISCOUNT CASTLEMAINE,
THE REGICIDE.
" THE father of this somewhat notorious person has, till a very recent date (1903) generally been given, incorrectly, as Sir Thomas Monson, 1st Baronet, the writers following the (erroneous) account in Collins's
- Peerage ' (vol. vii. p. 239, ed. 1811). These
followers include the ' Diet. Nat. Biog.' (vol. xxxviii., 1894) and G. E. C.'s ' Complete Peerage ' (vol. v., 1893), in which last, more- over, he himself, instead of the said Sir Thomas Monson his (therein given) father, is erroneously stated to have been con- cerned in the Overbury plot. In the ' Diet. Nat. Biog.' is the extraordinary statement that he was knighted 13 Aug., 1633, with a reference to " Metcalfe's ' Knights,' p. 201." On that page, however (which refers to the years 1643-4), the name of Monson does not appear ; but on p. 180 the knighthood of this William Monson is correctly given as on 12 Feb., 1622/3, as also it is in Shaw's ' Knights,' where he is described as "of Kennersley, Surrey." The manor of Kin- jiersley, in Horley, at that time belonged to Sir William Monson, Kt., Admiral of the Narrow Seas, who, it will be shown, was the father of this William, the future Viscount.
Sir Thomas Monson, 1st Baronet, had,
indeed, a son William Monson, who was
admitted to Gray's Inn, 12 May, 1617,
but of whom nothing more is known. He
it is who, being first cousin and contemporary
in age to his namesake, the future Viscount
has been (not unnaturally) confused with
him. The Viscount himself was also ad-
mitted to Gray's Inn, but not till 13 Aug.,
1633, after he had become a viscount'
This last date, it will be seen, is the one
misapplied by the 'Diet. Nat. Biog.' to
his knighthood, which unquestionably took
place before (not after) his elevation to the
peerage in 1628. In 1903, however, a good
pedigree of the family of Monson, showing
the correct parentage of the Viscount,
appeared in Canon Maddison's valuable
' Lincolnshire Pedigrees ' (Harl. Soc., vol. li.V
and though on the face of this pedigree there
is nothing to prove that the Viscount was
(as there stated) a son of Sir William Monson,
this fact can be demonstrated unquestion-
ably by the administration in the C P C
10 Feb., 1642/3, of the said Sir William,'
which was granted to his "son, William,
Lord Monson, Viscount of Castlemaine."
From the career of the said Viscount (whose exact date of birth or baptism has not been ascertained) it is clear he must have been born before 1607, the date given in the ' Lincolnshire Pedigrees.' He most pro- bably was born about 1598 or 1599. His parents married in 1595, and had a son John (who died an infant) born 10 Sept., 1597, and a daughter baptized 27 Feb., 1600/1. He is identical (though such identity is not mentioned) with the WiUiam Monson " put forward in 1618 as a rival to Buckingham in the King's favour," who is called " elder " son of Admiral Sir William Monson in the ife of that admiral in the ' Diet. Nat. Biog.' This " Sir William Monson gave this estate "Kinnersley] to his third son, John " (Man- ning's ' Surrey,' ii. 197), which John who is said (' Line. Peds.') to have been born in L604 died without male issue, before 1666. These three were, apparently, the only sons of the Admiral. G. E. C.
THE SLOVENISH LANGUAGE.
N the north-eastern regions bordering
on the Adriatic Sea an interesting and ancient
anguage is spoken, the old form of which
s considered by some authorities (including
3 rof. Miklosich and his eminent successor
^rof. V. E. Jagic) as the Slavonic Ursprache.
lovenish is classed under the south-eastern
>ranch of the Slavonic tongues. The name
Slovene is traceable to slovo, or slava, glory,
