Bank, titles, money can give, but honour can't.
Rank without honour is but barren grant;
In short, what can he hope from this affair,
Save to connect his name with one thing square?
I was present at the opening ceremony in 1874, when thousands of printed circulars with above lines were sold by hawkers. E. Leggatt.
The Brighton Athenæum (Antheum) (12 S. x. 32).—The Brighton Antheum (not Athenæum), or Floral Hall, stood on the site of what is now Palmeira Square. A description of its erection and collapse, together with a sketch, will be found in the late Mr. J. G. Bishop's 'A Peep into the Past; or Brighton in the Olden Time,' p. 387 (1892 ed.). Gerald Loder.
Edward Lamplugh (12 S. ix. 491, 533; x. 39).—Edward Lamplugh was the second son of the Rev. Thomas Lamplugh, who was the eldest son of Thomas Lamplugh, Archbishop of York. This Thomas was rector of St. Andrew Undershaft; his wife was Anne Boham. I take this from a MS. pedigree in, I think, probably Katherine Lamplugh's Writing. She was a daughter of Thomas Lamplugh, a granddaughter of the Archibshop, and niece of Edward Lamplugh; also she was my great-great-grandmother. I possess the memorandum of Thomas Lamplugh's induction to the living of St. Andrew Undershaft. It is in Latin on stamped and sealed paper, signed by the Bishop of London and six witnesses, dated Dec. 24, 1701.
I have also a wine merchant's bill: "London anno 1702. The Revd Dr Lamplugh, Dr to Wm Raphe for wine." (The wines are "White Callavella," "Red Annadea," "White Annadea," and "Canary.") "To wine sent from 12th of February to ye 18th of August, £48. .01. .08." All details in full as to quantities, packing, credit on bottles, and hampers returned, &c.
I have, too, the Archbishop's case of silver-handled knives and forks; the knives have on their ends the arms of the See of York impaling Lamplugh (Or, a cross fleury, sable) surmounted by a mitre, but without the modern, and incorrect, addition of a coronet. I have also the Archbishop's silver-mounted ebony walking-stick, with Lamplugh arms and crest on the end of the handle; quantities of his MS. sermons, a few letters, one from Sancroft, and one from the future rector of St. Andrew Undershaft, in a childish hand, written from Eton when he was eleven years old; and, of rather more interest, the Earl Marshal's summons, signed by William III., to come to London, bringing his robes for the King's Coronation, Sancroft having declined to officiate. M. E. A. P.
Crieff.
Launching of Ships (12 S. x. 31).—"Stern foremost" is not invariably followed, I think, save with the larger and more risky vessels. Common sense seems to indicate that the stern, being the heavier and bulkier end, will more readily induce "way," or motion, when the vessel is released and gliding down the slips, and this thicker part of the structure will also assist in retarding her motion, once launched. Most ships are built at right angles to more or less narrow rivers, and if motion was not quickly checked the ship would soon be ashore, or in collision with the opposite bank. W. Jaggard, Capt.
Song-book by Tobias Hume (12 S. x. 31).—In offering to purchase this excessively rare book, it is to be feared Miss Lehmuth aims at the impossible. No copy came into book auctions for the last thirty years. Her best course will be to inquire at the British Museum, Bodleian, and at Trinity College, Cambridge, and if these three great collections fail, a copy may exist in one of the college libraries at Oxford or Cambridge.
A touch of humour is given to the title as printed, by lack of punctuation. Captain (afterward Colonel) Tobias Hume wrote three works, all with long titles. The first two, as described, are in folio, and the last in quarto. A copy of the first, required by Miss Lehmuth, Was sold in the Bright sale nearly a century ago for £4 12s. 0d., which indicates its then rarity. The titles, abbreviated, run thus:—
1. First part of ayres, French, Pollish [Polish], and others together, some in tabliture, and some in pricke-song. With pavines, galliards, and almaines for the viole de gambo alone, and other musicall conceites for two base viols expressing five parts, with pleasant reportes one from the other, and for two leero viols, and also for the leero viole with two treble viols, or two with one treble. . . . Composed by Tobias Hume, gentleman. Ln: Printed by Iohn Windet, dwelling at the signe of the Crosse Keyes at Powles Wharfe 1605.' Folio. Dedicated to William Alexander, Earl of Stirling.
2. 'Captaine Hume's Poeticall musicke principally made for two basse-viols, yet so contrived that it may be plaied eight severall waies upon sundry instruments, with much facilitie. . . . Composed by Tobias Hume, gentleman. Ln: