2»d S. VII. Jan. 1. '69.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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as, a nwTiograph of violets in botany; a monograph of &n 

 Egj'ptian mummy."] 



" The Rood of Northen." — An explanation of 

 tbese words, which I find in Fronde's History of 

 England (vol. ii. p. 44.), would ranch oblige 



W. W. 



[The vol»me o{ Miscellanies, shortly to be published by 

 the Camden Society, contains a "London Chronicle," 

 edited by Mr. C. Hopper, in which this rood is twice 

 mentioned. The original MS. has the reading " Northor," 

 but a later hand has written above the text " Northdor." 

 This explanation agrees with the context of the passage 

 in Froude's History: "Opposite the platform, over the 

 north door of the cathedral [St. Paul's], was a great 

 crucifix — a famous image, in those days called the Rood 

 of Northen ; and at the foot of it, inside a rail, a fire was 

 burning, with the sinful books, the Tracts and Testa- 

 ments, ranged round it in baskets, waiting for the execu- 

 tion of sentence."] 



HeiJltetf. 



caeleton's memoirs. 



(2°<i S. vi. 392.) 



Your correspondent /3 states that he is desirous 

 of knowing whether the original edition of these 

 Memoirs, published in 1728, bore on its title- 

 page the name of the author ? 



That title-page varies from later ones. The Earl 

 of Peterborough is not named in it. The book is 

 entitled, 



" The Military Memoirs of Capt. George Carleton from 

 the Dutch War, 1672, in which he served, to the conclu- 

 sion of the Peace at Utrecht, 1713," &c. &c. 



The title-page at length will be found in Wil- 

 son's Memoirs of De Foe, vol. iii. p. 589. 



This edition is scarce, and some years ago a 

 copy of it was not to be found in the British 

 Museum. It will be seen that Carleton's name 

 does not exactly appear as the author, nor has 

 the title, as in those of the later editions, the 

 words " written by himself" appended to it. 



j3 is disposed to think that the author of the 

 Memoirs and the Rev. Lancelot Carleton, A.M., 

 sometime Rector of Padworth in Berkshire, 

 were one and the same person. The difference 

 in the Christian names would go far to prove the 

 contrary ; but there appears to be other evidence 

 that the soldier and the divine were distinct indi- 

 viduals. 



The registers at Padworth have been obligingly 

 searched, at my request, by the present Rector, 

 for any information that would throw light on his 

 predecessor Lancelot Carleton. He states, what, 

 alas ! is too frequently the case, that they had been 

 very negligently kept : two entries only connected 

 with the name were found, viz., one of the burial 

 of Lancelot Carleton, October 13th, 1730, and of 

 a son Christopher on May 19th, 1726. 



I have since obtained the date of Lancelot 

 Carleton's institution to the rectory from the 



Bishop of Salisbury's Registry, and find that it 

 occurred on December 14th, 1715. Now if 

 George Carleton was engaged in martial affairs 

 until 1713, we can scarcely suppose that he could 

 have taken holy orders, and have been instituted 

 to a living, in the very short period of two years. 



Several years ago, when seeking to ascertain 

 how far this work was genuine, and whether 

 Capt. Carleton or Defoe was the author — the 

 Memoirs having been attributed by many to the 

 latter* — I was glad to find that so judicious a 

 writer as the present Lord Stanhope, who kindly 

 corresponded with me very fully on the subject, 

 concurred in thinking that if Defoe had any share 

 in the work, it was simply in the arrangement of 

 Carleton's papers. 



Its authenticity, both as respects the author 

 himself and the transactions which he records, 

 appear unquestionable. Lord Stanhope, in his 

 History of the War of the Succession in Spain, 

 speaks of Capt. G. Carleton as one of the officers 

 in Lord Peterborough's expedition, and he adds : 



" Carleton has left us a plain soldier-like narrative of 

 what he saw and heard ; the most valuable, perhaps, be- 

 cause the most undoubtedly faithful and important of all 

 our materials for this war." — P. ISS.f 



Lord Stanhope observed that the internal evi- 

 dence of authenticity is extremely strong in these 

 Memoirs ; it could scarcely be conceived how 

 much this impression was strengthened by com- 

 paring them with MSS. in his possession. 



Lord Stanhope found the following document 

 amongst the papers of his ancestor General Stan- 

 hope, which confirms the identity of Carleton, and 

 his connexion with the .war.J 



" A List of English Officerstaken Prisoners at Denia, 1708. 



" Gen. Symors' Regiment. — Lieut. Ralph Kineson. 



" Gen. Wills's Regiment. — Capt. Hugh Pallicer ; Lieut. 



Nudegett. 

 " Maj.-Gen. Holt's Regiment.— Lieut. ffhos. Mecer. 

 " Brigadier Burr's Regiment. — Lieut. Jam. Fade. 

 "Of the Trains of Artillery. — Capt. Carltone; Lieut. 



Diller." 

 " Copied from the Original Paper 

 Nov. 20, 1832." 



This siege of Denia was so petty a one that it 



* " I believe it is now pretty generally believed that 

 Carleton's Memoirs were among the numberless fabri- 

 cations of Defoe ; but in this case, as in that of hi? Cava- 

 lier, he no doubt had before him the rude journal of some 

 officer who had really served in the campaigns described 

 with such an inimitable air of truth." — Lockhart's Life 

 of Sir Walter Scott, p. 172. 



t Carleton's expressions, when dedicating his work to 

 Lord Wilmington, speak the language of truth and sin- 

 cerity. " I leave the World to judge of my deserts. 

 These Memoirs are not set forth by any fictitious stories, 

 nor embellished with rhetorical flourishes ; plain truth is 

 certainly most becoming the character of an old soldier." 



J Lord S. says that Carleton, " on whose plain and 

 honest Memoirs he had so often relied, was sent to San 

 Clemente, in La Mancha, where he lived at large on his 

 parole, during the remainder of the war." — P. 259. 



