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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°-! S. VIII. Aug. 6. '59. 



Device. — I remember reading somewhere of a 

 device representing a crown as a ship in gala trim. 

 I think it was on a medal or banner at the re- 

 storation of Charles II. I shall feel greatly 

 obliged by anyone giving me information on the 

 subject. T. S. 



Cespoule. — In a diary of the seventeenth cen- 

 tury a journey from Durham to Shropshire is 

 described through Kendal, Preston, Cespoole, and 

 Chester. What is Cespoole? Can it be Liver- 

 pool ? or anything but a mistake ? W. C. 



Ministers of St. James's, Clerkenwell. — I am 

 <3esirous of obtaining information respecting the 

 following ministers of this church, which occur 

 in Newcourt's list {Repertorium, i. 657.) : — 



" Lib. Visitat. loGl. Ric. Weston. 

 Stanhope Pars 11. Thomas Price, cl. licentiat. 15 Nov. 

 1583. 

 Ibid. Henry Fletcher, cl. licentiat. 12 



Feb. 1585. 

 Lib. Visitat. 1607. John Preston, A.M. 

 Ibid. 1612. John Andrews. 

 Ibid. 1637. Henry Goodcole. 



Jac. Sibbald, S.T.P. licentiat. 19 Nov. 1641. 

 William Sclatter, A.M., „ 17 Sept. 1666." 



John Preston, A.^f., I am inclined to think, 

 was the celebrated Dr. J. Preston, Master of 

 Emmanuel College, Cambridge, " the greatest 

 pupil-monger in man's memory, having sixteen 

 fellow commoners admitted in one year to Queen's 

 College," of which he was a Fellow, 1609. 



" John Andrews," says Wood {Athena Oxon. 

 ii. 493.), was entered a student in Trinity Col- 

 lege, 1601, aged 18 ; took one degree in Arts, left 

 the university, and became a painful preacher of 

 God's word " — probably the above-mentioned. I 

 shall be greatly obliged if any reader of " N. 

 & Q." will confirm these inferences. W. J. Pinks. 



Tun Glass. — Mr. Hastings, of Woodlands, 

 described by the first Lord Shaftesbury in a 

 well-known character, is said there to have " had 

 always a tun glass without feet by him, holding 

 a pint of small beer, which he often stirred with 

 rosemary." (See Martyn's Life of Shaftesbury, 

 i. 311.) What is a tun glass? Would it have 

 been so called from its being tun shaped ? Or has 

 the word anything to do with the beginning of 

 tumbler ? W. C. 



John Bunyans Chapel, Bedford. — Can any of 

 your readers who are collectors of prints, en- 

 gravings, or drawings, inform me if there is a 

 print or drawing of John Bunyan's Meeting- 

 house or Chapel in Mill Lane, Bedford. It was 

 taken down in 1707, and a new chapel built on 

 the site. R. W. 



Lo7-d George or Gorges. — More information 

 than can be found in Burke's Extinct Peerage is 

 desired about a nobleman of the above name (his 



Christian name believed to be Richard), livin"' in 

 the reign of Charles I. A son of his was'^re- 

 turned for Downton to the Long Parliament. 



W. C. 



Meaning of Motto. — The following motto is 



appended to the arms of an ancient Irish family : 



"His calcabo gartos." What is the meaning of 



it ? Ducange affords no assistance. W. J. D. 



Angell Cray. — Information is requested about 

 a gentleman of this name, living in Dorsetshire 

 in 1638, near Dorchester, or about the family. 



W. C. 



Dr. Latham's Theory of the Indo-European iMn- 

 guages. — 



1. Has any ethnologist of eminence publicly 

 supported Dr. Latham's opinion respecting the 

 origin of the so-called Indo-European languages ? 



2. Has Dr. Latham explained his views on this 

 subject more fully than they are set forth in hia 

 prolegomena to the Germania of Tacitus ? 



Ingib. 

 [The school of glossologists to which Dr. Latham be- 

 longs includes, amongst other illustrious names, those of 

 Sir Wm. Jones, Professor Bopp of Berlin, and Dr. J. C. 

 Pritchard. The classification of many languages, as well 

 European as Asiatic, under one common bead (and called 

 indifferently Caucasian, Indo-Caucasian, Indo-European, 

 Indo-Teutonic, Sarmatic, Japhetic, and Arj'an) dates 

 from the year 1784, when Sir Wm. Jones delivered his 

 inaugural Discourse as first President of the Asiatic So- 

 ciety of Bengal (vid^ Asiat. Res. vol. i.). The most 

 important contribution to this department of literature is 

 undoubtedly Professor Bopp's Comparative Grammar of 

 the Sanskrit, Zend, Greek, Latin, Lithuanian, Gothic, 

 German, and Sclavonic Languages, which has been most 

 ably translated from the German by Lieut. Eastwick 

 (3 vols. 8vo. Lond. 1856), and been frequently reprinted 

 in England. See also Edinb. Rev., vol. xciv. pp. 297., 

 et seq., and Dr. Pritcliard's Eastern Origin of the Keltic 

 Nations, the last edition of which'is edited by Dr. Latham 

 (8vo. Lond. 1857). For a particular application of Dr. 

 Latham's Indo-European theory of tongues, consult his 

 elaborate work on TheEiiglish Language {8vo. Lond. 1850, 

 Slc"), and more particularly Part I. chaps, iv. to viii. 

 inclusive.] 



John Gilpin. — What is known of the worthy 

 memorialised by Cowper in The Diverting History 

 of John Gilpin. Did he ever form part of the 

 human family, or was he only a mythical wag ? 



Edmonton Bell. 



[Southey informs us, that "Lady Austen's conversa- 

 tion had as happy an efi^ect upon the melancholy spirit of 

 Cowper as the harp of David upon Saul. Whenever the 

 cloud seemed to be coming over him, her sprightly 

 powers were exerted to dispel it. One afternoon, when 

 lie appeared more than unusually depressed, she told him 

 the story of John Gilpin, which had been told to her in 

 her childhood, and which, in her relation, tickled his 

 fancy as much as it has that of thousands and tens of 

 thousands since, in his. The next morning he said to her 



