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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2«'<» S. Till. Oct. 22. 'oP. 



Sir John Danvers C2'"> S. viii. J71. 309.) — Sir 

 John Danvers of Chelsea was the only surviving 

 brother of Henry Earl of Danby ; which Earl by 

 his will made Henry Danvers, Esq., only son of 

 Sir John Danvers by his second wife Ann, 

 daughter of Ambrose Dauntesey, (he heir to his 

 great estate. Sir John survived his son Henry, 

 and the latter made his youngest sister Anne 

 Danvers, married during the Protectorate to Sir 

 Henry Lee of DItchley, " heir to the whole of the 

 great estate in his power," as set forth in the 

 monument erected to his memory in the Daun- 

 tesey chapel of West Lavington church. I have 

 collected many interesting particuhirs relative to 

 these parties, and shall feel much pleasure in 

 communicating to W. C. any information he may 

 be anxious to obtain, and I may be able to supply. 

 Henry Danvers had two sisters. Elizabeth, the 

 eldest, married the famous Robert Wright, alias 

 Villiers, who levied a fine to be excused taking 

 the title of Viscount Purbeck, and assumed the 

 maiden name of his wife, "Danvers.'' After her 

 husband's death she used the title of Viscountess 

 Purbeck, and her son attempted to substantiate 

 his claim, but without success. The case is re- 

 ported in Sir Harris Nicolas's Adulterine Bas- 

 tardy. I possess some letters written by her 

 agent's brother relative to this portion of the 

 family history, and shall be ready to communi- 

 cate them through the pages of " N. & Q.," when 

 1 hear farther from your correspondent W. C. 



Edward Wilton, Clerk. 

 West Lavington, Devizes. 



Primate BramhalVs Arms, SfC. (2"'> S. v. 478. ; 

 viii. 259.) — According to Burke {^Ext. Baronet- 

 age'), the prelate's arms were, " Sa. a lion rampant 

 or, armed and langued, g<i." His son was created 

 a baronet 31st of May, 1662, by the title of Sir 

 Thomas Bramhall of RathmuUyon, co. Meath. 

 He died *. p. C. J. Robijjson. 



Tote (2"^ S. viii. 282.) — This word is not ex- 

 clusively applied to the act of carrying, in the 

 southern part of the United States. I have fre- 

 quently heard a negro enquire, " Shall I tote this 

 horse to the water ? " Although it is now almost 

 always regarded as a negroism, I think it had 

 another origin, and was brought by the first Eng- 

 lish settlers in America from the old country. 

 Chaucer, I think, iises the word to signify a 

 summing up, the ascertaining a total amount, &c. ; 

 and I have frequently heard in Lincolnshire the 

 phrase, " come, tote it up, and tell me what it 

 comes to." I think, with your correspondent, 

 Mr. Myers, that the word is derived from the 

 Latin tollo, " to take away, to lift up, or to raise." 

 There is also the Anglo- Saxon verb totian, " to 

 lift up, to elevate." (See Bosworth's A.-S. and 

 Engl. Diet., p. 226.) The definitions attached to 

 these two words include all the applications which 



I have heard the word tote receive In the United 

 States. The law terra tolt, " a removal ; a taking, 

 away," is evidently derived from the Latin tollo, 

 and has the same meaning as the word toto. Mr. 

 Webster's definition is too limited, but quite cor- 

 rect so far as it goes. Pishey Thompson. 



The Rev. John Rob. Scott, D.D. (2°* S. viii. 

 190. 218.) — The " classic commentator," so 

 praised by * and 2 2 under his later pseudonyme, 

 Falkland, had been — as Irving's Biography of 

 Oliver Goldsmith records — chaplain to (Miss 

 Ray's) Lord Sandwich, and one of the North 

 ministry's political scribes ; signing his lamenta- 

 tions " Antl-Sejanus," " Panurge," and such like 

 noms de plume. Among his several functions, he 

 was commissioned to purchase Goldsmith's co- 

 operation, which — much to the D.D.'s annoy- 

 ance and wonder — the low-estated but high- 

 minded poet refused. Doctor Scott's services 

 were subsequently requited with a brace of com- 

 fortable crown livings. Where were they, and 

 when did he die ? 



The enlistment of poor Goldsmith was prob.ibly 

 suggested by his friend Viscount Clare, then high 

 in office, and to whom the celebrated " Haunch 

 of Venison" was addressed. Among the cha- 

 racters of that pleasant jeu d'esprit Doctor Scott 

 seems especially noticed*; under one, at least, of 

 his many pseudonymes, — 



" The one writes the ' Snarler,' the other the ' Scourge ; ' 

 Some think he writes ' Cinna,' — he owns to ' Pamtrge.'' " 



V.Q. 



MONTHLY FEUILLETON ON FRENCH BOOKS. 



1. Francois Villon, sa Vie et ses (Euvres, par Antoine 

 Campaux, Docteur es Lettres. In-8°. Paris, A. Durand. 



The history of French h'terature exhibits to us two 

 distinct schools of writers ; some keep to the classical 

 traditions, endeavouring to engraft on the national ten- 

 dencies a taste for the productions and spirit of antiquity. 

 They sacrifice originality to imitation, and are perfectly 

 content with ^he humble part of patient and faitliful 

 copyists. In modern times, Racine, Boileau, Laharpe, 

 belonged to that coterie ; further back, Ronsard, the poets 

 of the Pleiad ; further still, Charles d'Orleans, Alain 

 Chartier and others represented it with more or less 

 power. But, on the other hand, there has alwaj-s existed 

 in France a strong, compact, influential body of hu- 

 mourists who preserved amongst them the pungency of 

 the esprit Gaulois, and who, careless of all convention- 

 alisms, were bent upon expressing as truthfully as they 

 could their views of societj', and their free opinions on 

 nolitical and ecclesiastical institutions. La Fontaine, Ra- 



[* Our correspondent has confounded Dr. John Robert 

 Scott with Dr. James Scott, or " Old Slyboots," called 

 by Goldsmith " Parson Scott." See " N. & Q." 2»'i S. vi. 

 150.— Ed.] 



