May 15. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



477 



Clark and John Joseph Defoe, otherwise Brown, 

 otherwise Smith, for the robbery, on the King's 

 highway, of Alexander Fordyce, Esq. There 

 seems to have been no distinct identiiication of 

 De Foe as one of the parties committing the rob- 

 bery ; but in those days juries did not stand upon 

 trifles, and he had but little grace accorded to 

 him. He was probably the grandson of Daniel's 

 second son, Bernard Norton De Foe, the abused 

 of Pope ; but this is not quite certain. 



Of the descendant of Daniel De Foe, who lived 

 in or adjoining Hungerford Market, your corre- 

 spondent will also find mention in Wilson (vol. iii. 

 p. 649.). In all probability there are many de- 

 scendants of this great man now living in this 

 country or abroad. 



Your correspondent is under a mistake as to 

 Robert Drury's Journal. The first edition of that 

 work, which I have now before me, came out in 

 1729, and therefore could not have been made use 

 of by De Foe in writing Robinson Crusoe, pub- 

 lished ten years before. How far Drury's Journal 

 is true or fictitious, and by whom it was written, 

 are curious questions ; but to attempt their solu- 

 tion would be out of place in this reply. 



Jas. Crosslet. 



Howards Conquest of China (Vol. v., p. 225.). 

 — Is J. Mt. satisfied that the scene written by the 

 Earl of Rochester does not form part of Elkanah 

 Settle's play, The Conquest of China by the Tartars 

 (1676, 4to.) ? It is also written in rhyme ; and 

 Rochester was, as is well known, a patron of Settle. 

 If J. Mt. have not referred to it, it may be worth 

 while to do so, or to give a few lines from the 

 scene, to afibrd an opportunity of ascertaining the 

 point. Jas. Crossley. 



Buro, Berto, Beriora (Vol. v., p. 395.). — A 

 satisfactory explanation of these three words is 

 much to be desired, as they have puzzled the 

 antiquary, the linguist, and the classical scholar 

 for nearly forty years. They remind me of a 

 similar case I met with in my reading not long 

 ago. The word Ilpadelt, painted on the windows 

 of the church of the Celestines at Marconcies, was 

 the puzzle of all that read it, till one day a Turk, 

 who had received baptism, and was in the suite of 

 Francis I., came to Marconcies in the year 1523, 

 and discovered that the word was Syriac, and that 

 it meant " God is my hope ;" which explanation 

 was registered in the abbey library. These words 

 had been the motto of John de Montaign, who 

 had founded the abbey, and enriched it with many 

 valuable treasures, according to a vow he had 

 made during the sickness of Charles VI. 



However, if it will not disconcert the learned, I 

 will, aiidax omnia perpati, venture upon a conjec- 

 ture as to the meaning of these hidden words. 

 Ought not the first letters, thought to be Bu, in 

 reality to be read Pro? in which case the legend 



will be Pro Roberti Beri ora, i.e. pray for Robert 

 Berry ; and the ring will be a raournmg ring. 



While on this subject, I may add that the in- 

 scribed rings, commonly called talismanic or ca- 

 balistic rings, are improperly so designated. The 

 Latin term is much more appropriate, "annuli 

 vertuosi." Perhaps mystical might be a suitable 

 name. Cetrep. 



Where was Cromwell buried? (Vol. v., p. 396.). 



— A. B. will find that the interesting inquiry rela- 

 tive to the last resting-place of Cromwell, has been 

 investigated in a little work by Henry Lockinge, 

 M.A., late curate of Naseby, entitled Historical 

 Gleanings on the Memorable Field of Naseby, pub- 

 lished in 1830. Mr. Lockinge, besides alluding 

 to the "Memoranda" of the vicar, the Rev. W. 

 Marshall, onl the subject, adduces evidence, appa- 

 rently satisfactory, which leaves the Protector's 

 remains slumbering, " uncommemorated, beneath 

 the turf of Naseby Field." Oliver Pemberton. 



Birmingham. 



Glass-making in England (Vol. v., pp. 322. 382.). 



— Allow me to refer Mr. Cato to the late Mr. 

 Turner's work on Domestic Architecture of the 

 Middle Ages. He will there find (pp. 73—83.) an 

 interesting digression on the history of glass-making, 

 and its introduction into domestic use. In ad- 

 dition to the facts contained in that work, the 

 following anecdote from my common-place book 

 may not be altogether uninteresting. It is re- 

 corded with gratitude that Robert de Lindesay, 

 chosen Abbot of Peterborough in 1214, beautified 

 thirty of the monastic windows with glass, which 

 previously had been stuffed with straw to keep 

 out the cold and rain. (Gunton's Hist. Ch. Peter- 

 borough, p. 27. ; Stevens' Continuation of Dugdale^s 

 Monasticon, vol. i. p. 478.) 



F. SOMNEB MeRRYWEATHEB. 



The Surname Devil (Vol. v., p. 370.). — In 

 answer to your correspondent, who inquires 

 whether there are any persons named Devil, I beg 

 to say that there is (or was, two years since) a 

 person of that name, a labouring man, residing in 

 the hamlet of Aston, in the parish of Hope, Der- 

 byshire. Whether there are more of the name 

 living there, I am unable to state ; but I remem- 

 ber distinctly hearing of one, and the name being^ 

 so peculiar, fixed itself in my memory. R. C. C» 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



There can be little doubt that the beneficent inten- 

 tions which prompted the late Earl of Bridgewater to 

 bequeath 8000/. for the production of a work On the 

 Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God, as manifested in 

 the Creation, were fully realised, when the late Mr. 

 Davies Gilbert, the then President of the Royal So- 



