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ception is natural, but her statements on that 

 account must be taken cum grano salis. 



Can any subscriber of "N. & Q." give a clue to 

 the whereabouts of the original MS. of a fragment 

 referred to at the end of the first volume of 

 Grant's edition of Chatterton's Poeins, Cambridge, 

 1842? It was in the possession of the late Mr. 

 Richard Smith of Bristol in 1838. Hugh Owen. 



James Moore (P* S. xi. 157.) — You had long 

 since, in reply to an inquiry by the late Mr. 

 Choker, some gossiping papers about Arthur 

 Moore and his family ; Arthur being the father of 

 James Moore Smythe, Pope's antagonist, who took 

 the name of Smythe, according to the .directions 

 in the will of his grandfather Wm. Smythe, whose 

 property he inherited. Arthur Moore, as we there 

 learn, rose from a very humble position, a foot- 

 man, it is believed, to be an M.P., a Commissioner 

 of the South Sea Company, and one of the Com- 

 missioners of Trade. He had, beyond most men 

 of his time, a knowledge of the principles of 

 commerce, and had great weight and influence 

 in the reign of Queen Anne. Have I hit on 

 another of the family, after whom his son was 

 named James ? 



In the Memoir prefixed to the Diary of Ed- 

 mund Bohun (p. xxvi.) mention is made of a 

 Captain Moore of Charleston, S. Carolina, who is 

 supposed to have been James Moore, Secretary 

 under Governor Blake. This is just such an 

 appointment as Arthur Moore would have within 

 his influence. I subsequently find mention, in 

 History of Europe (App. p. 139.) of a Colonel 

 Moore, Governor of South Carolina. As this 

 colonel's Christian name was James, it is pro- 

 bably the same person ; not Arthur's brother. 

 Colonel Moore of Polyden, whose Christian name 

 was Thomas. This conjecture as to the relation- 

 ship of James Moore, the Secretary under Go- 

 vernor Blake, is strengthened by the fact that 

 among the bequests in remembrance in the will of 

 Arthur Moore is one to his friend James Blake. 



J. M. 



York House (2°^ S. viil. 121.) — One of your 

 correspondents in this volume (p. 128.) properly 

 laments over mistatements that unsettle localities; 

 and it is undoubtedly the peculiar function of 

 " N. & Q." to correct errors where they occur, 

 and carefully to avoid giving the sanction of its 

 authority to those that are apparent. How is it, 

 then, that I find a statement made under the title 

 of " Artists' Quarrels in Charles I.'s Reign," 

 passed over without any remark ? Surely the 

 " York House," mentioned by Mr. Sainsbury 

 as the place from which some of Buckingham's 

 letters are dated, and which is referred to in Gen- 



tileschi's memorial, is not Whitehall, nor any "por- 

 tion of the original fabric." That noble palace, 

 after being for three centuries the town residence 

 of the Archbishop of York, and thence called 

 York Place, or York House, was acquired, not by 

 purchase, but by a compulsory and illegal grant 

 from Cardinal Wolsey at the time of his disgrace 

 to Henry VIII., and was from thenceforward 

 known by the name of Whitehall. 



The York House alluded to was in the Strand, 

 before called Norwich House, which was pur- 

 chased by Archbishop Heath in the reign of Queen 

 Mary in substitution for Whitehall. From that 

 time till the reign of James I. it was frequently 

 let by the Archbishops to the Lord Chancellors of 

 the day. We find it inhabited by Sir Nicholas 

 Bacon and Sir John Puckering in the reign of 

 Queen Elizabeth, and by Sir Thomas Egerton 

 and Lord Bacon (who was born there) in the 

 reign of James. Soon after Bacon's disgrace, viz. 

 in 1624, we find it was transferred to Bucking- 

 ham. 



This, then, is the house mentioned by Genti- 

 leschi, whose depreciation of the " Statues and 

 Pictures " in it naturally irritated " Mr. Gerbier," 

 who was employed by Buckingham in its decora- 

 tion. Edward Foss. 



Titles conferred by Oliver Cromwell (2nd S. vii. 

 476. 518. J viii. 114. 158.)— In the second and 

 third editions of Noble's Cromwell (Birm. 1787, 

 Lond. 1737), the list of " Persons distinguished 

 by the Cromwells " will be found at the end of 

 vol. i. 



P. 158. col. li., line 13., for Duncho read Dunch. 

 Line 14., for Burnel, read Burnell (so in the 

 Patent). 



Sir Richard Chiverton does not occur in Noble's 

 list of Oliver's knights. Joseph Rix. 



St. Neots'. 



Pishiy, Cess-he7'e (2"^ S. viii. 9.) — One of your 

 corre.spondents asks whether the words " pishty " 

 and " cess-here " are used elsewhere as well as in 

 Gloucestershire. They are both common in Here- 

 fordshire. For the former, see Sir G. C. Lewis's 

 Glossary of Provincial Words (Murray, 1839), 

 p. 79. : — 



" Pishtj-, s. used in calling to a puppy, as puss is used 

 in calling to a cat. Also used in the Forest of Dean." 



Is " cess-here " usually thus spelled ? I have 

 always heard it pronounced as if it were " ses," 

 " ses," and deemed it akin to the imperative of 

 the verb " seize," i. e. " fall on." A, 



Christopher Anstey (2"'' S. viii. 167.) was Fellow 

 of St. John's College, Cambridge ; B. A. 1699— 

 1700; M.A. 1703; B.D. 1710; D.D. 1715. He 

 has Greek and Latin verses in the University 

 collections on the peace of Ryswick, 1697; the 

 death of William Duke of Gloucester, 1700; the 



