Sept. 22. 1855.] 



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four by two inches, bound in cotemporary green 

 turkey leather with gilt leaves, was evidently the 

 pocket companion of the original owner " in the 

 leaguer " and elsewhere. Who was he ? I have 

 sought in vain through many catalogues of Round- 

 heads. Some family might probably value it 

 highly, in which case it should be at their service. 



E.D. 



Throckmorton Careio. — Can any correspondent 

 inform me when the line of Throckmorton Carew, 

 of Beddington, Surrey, terminated ; and how that 

 line old place passed to its present owner ? 



K. L. 



iKt'nor ^utvitS faitb ^nStotvS, 



Pagoda Bridge in St. Jameses Park. — The 

 wooden bridge, known as the Pagoda Bridge, 

 across the ornamental water in St. James's Park, 

 was erected in 1814, and was a great convenience 

 to the inhabitants on each side of the Park. Can 

 any of your correspondents inform me what was 

 the date of the removal of this bridge ? 



A Westminster Man. 



[It was taken down about 1825. See Cunningham's 

 Handbook, p. 2G I.'] 



Eric the Forester. — W^ho was Eric the Fo- 

 rester ? He is mentioned in Potter's Chai-nwood, 

 p. 80., as having harangued his forces in that 

 forest at the time of the N"orman invasion. Be- 

 yond this no mention is made of him, nor have I 

 been able to ascertain anything concerning him 

 elsewhere. Doubtless there are particulars to be 

 found of this Robin Hood of Leicestershire, and 

 such as will be worthy when found to be "made a 

 note of." Can any studious friend shed any light 

 on the matter ? Pedro. 



[Eric, surnamed Silvaticus, or the Forester, was the 

 son of Alfrilte, Earl of Mercia, and appears by the Domes- 

 day Book toliave had afterwards possessions on the north 

 side of Herefordshire. Not having fully acknowledged 

 the Norman authority, he availed himself of the tempo- 

 rary absence of Wiliiam to take up arms. The garrison 

 of the castle of Hereford, under Richard Fitzscrope and 

 others, marched against him, and laid waste his lands in 

 several expeditions, but sustained themselves a consider- 

 able loss from the resistance opposed to them. At length 

 Eric formed an alliance Avith Blethyn and Rywalhon, 

 princes of Wales, in conjunction with whom he revenged 

 the affront, ravaging the county as far as the bridge of 

 Hereford, and returning with a marvellous great spoil. 

 (Duncumb's HerefordMre, i. 57., quoted from Hove- 

 den and Chronicle of Wales.) Hoveden further states, 

 anno 1070, "At this period the most valiant man Eric, 

 surnamed the Woodsman, was reconciled to King Wil- 

 liam;" it is therefore probable that he continued in the 

 ro}-al service and favour till his death. In Anecdotes 

 of the Family of Swift; a Fragment written by Dean 

 Swift (Scott's edit., vol. i. p. 608.), it appears that " the 

 Dean's mother was Abigail Erick of Leicestershire, de- 

 scended from the most ancient family of the Ericks, who 

 derive their lineage from Eric the Forester, a great com- 

 No. S08.J 



mander, who raised an army to oppose the invasion of 

 William the Conqueror, by whom he was vanquished, but 

 afterwards emploj^ed to command that prince's forces; 

 and in his old age retired to his house in Leicestershire, 

 where his family has continued ever since." Of the two 

 branches, the Heyricks of Leicester town, and the Her- 

 ricks of Beaumanor, distinct pedigrees, and many curious 

 historical anecdotes, are given in Nichols's Leicestershire, 

 vol. ii. p. 215. ; vol. iii. p. 148.] 



Author of '^'^ Four Years in France^'' ^-"c. — W^ho 

 was the author of Four Years in France., 182G,. 

 and Three Years in Italy (Colburn) ? He relates 

 that he was born in 1768, graduated and obtained 

 a fellowship at Magdalen College, Oxford ; where 

 he contracted a friendship with Richard Paget, 

 who was three or four years his senior : he be- 

 came an M.A. in 1791, and soon afterwards took 

 deacon's orders. He published also, The Christian 

 Religion hriefiy Defended against the Republicans 

 and Levellers of France ; and a sermon before the 

 University, on the text, " AVhosoever sins ye 

 remit," &c. And in the year 1798 he joined the 

 Roman Church. What became of him afterwards ? 



H. P, 



[The author of these works is the Rev. Henry Best, 

 of Magdalen College, Oxford. ELis father, the Rev. Dr. 

 Henry Best, was a prebendary of Lincoln, who died 

 June 29, 1782 ; and his mother (the daughter of Kenelm 

 Digby, Esq., of North Luflfenham) died April 10, 1797.] 



" Pale Envy," Sfc. — 



" Pale Envy withers at another's joy, 

 And mars the excellence it cannot reach." 



Can any of your correspondents inform me where 

 the above lines are to be found ? R. H. 



[The passage will be found in Thomson's Seasons,, 

 " Spring," where it reads : 



" Base Envy withers at another's joy. 

 And hates that excellence it cannot reach."] . 



Hannibal Evans Lloyd. — Can you inform me 

 in what year Mr. Hannibal Evans Lloyd died ? I 

 think one of the latest productions of this gentle- 

 man was a translation of Tams's Portuguese Pos- 

 sessions in South-west Africa, in two vols. Svo., 

 London, 1846. R- J- 



[Mr. Lloyd died at Blackheath, on July 15, 1847, aged 

 seventy-six. For a biographical notice of him, see The 

 Literary Gazette for 1847, pp. 541. 581.] 



Chancellors under Fifty. — H. would feel obliged 

 by being informed whether there ever has been a 

 Lord High Chancellor of England under 50 years 

 of age, and his name. H. 



[If II. will refer to Foss's Judges of England, he will 

 find at least four Lord Chancellors to whem the Great 

 Seal was entrusted before they att/iined the age of fifty ; — 

 William of Wykeham, Cardinal Beaufort, his brother Sir 

 Thomas Beaufort (afterwards Earl of Dorset and Duke of 

 Exeter), and George Nevil, Bishop of Exeter and after- 

 wards Archbishop of York ; and probably some others. 

 If he comes to later times he need not look farther than 

 to Lord Coventry, in the reign of Charles I., and to Lord 



