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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 261. 



(Summer Land), or the Crimea, as their original 

 home, and that they emigrated under their leader 

 Hu Gadarn, seeking a land where they could 

 dwell in peace. This evidently alludes to the 

 Gwlad yr Haf having become the scene of war 

 and bloodshed ; and their wanderings are stated 

 to have continued until their arrival in the Island 

 of Britain. After the revolutions of ages a mighty 

 expedition has sailed from Britain and landed in 

 the Ci'imea; and in that expedition some of the 

 descendants of the Cimmerioi have returned to 

 their raam-wlad (mother-land), where many of 

 them, with that " heroic gallantry " which has 

 conquered on numberless fields of fame, have 

 fought and died, and been covered with earth 

 among the barrows of their " old fathers." 



GoMER. 



€iVitxiti, 



THE AUTHOR OF " YATHEK." 



In a note on the lines in Childe Harold's Pil- 

 grimage, referring to the celebrated owner of 

 JFonthill, Beckford, as — 



" Yatliek ! England's wealthiest son." 



Moore remarks that — 



" It is much to be regretted that, after a lapse of fifty 

 years, Mr. Beckford's literary reputation should continue 

 to rest entirely on his juvenile, however remarkable, per- 

 formances. It is said, however, that he has prepared 

 several works for posthumous publication." 



As is well known, Vathek originally appeared in 

 French in 1784. Byron's Life and Letters (edited 

 by Thomas Moore), published in 1832, contains 

 the above-cited passage. IN'ow, two years after 

 (1834), the literary world was agreeably surprised 

 by a fresh work from the pen of the author of the 

 gorgeous eastern tale before mentioned. This 

 contained his travels in Italy, Spain, and Portugal 

 (undertaken more than fifty years prior to the 

 appearance of this record of them) ; while, in 1835, 

 another volume was published, describing Mr. 

 Beckford's Excursions to the Monasteries of Alco- 

 baga and Batalha, made in 1794. After noting the 

 above, my Query is, Do these volumes of travel 

 form and constitute the ^'■several works" which 

 Moore (writing two years before the publication 

 of the earlier of those two works) states he be- 

 lieved to have been prepared by Beckford " for 

 posthumous publication?" The talent displayed 

 in all the productions of " England's wealthiest 

 son," would make one hope that they did not ; 

 and that the fiimily still possess " several works," 

 and will, ere long, favour the world with the op- 

 portunity of perusing them. Much too of the cor- 

 respondence of one who had such highly finished 

 and cultivated taste in art, and such ability in 

 composition, and such a singularly gorgeous as 



well as original fancy, must surely be well worth 

 preserving and preparing for general circulation. 

 Many a reader of " N. & Q." would, it is safe to 

 assert, be grateful for a satisfactory reply to the 

 above interrogations. James J. Scott. 



Downsbire Hill, Hampstead. 



COLONEL CARLOS. 



Being anxious to form a pedigree of the family 

 of Carlos, I should esteem it a favour if any of 

 your correspondents would give me their assist- 

 ance by furnishing me with any particulars of 

 the descendants of one of the most celebrated 

 preservers of Charles II. J. Hughes, Esq., M.A., 

 in his excellent, but now scarce, compilation of 

 the Boscohel Tracts, states that " Col. William 

 Carlos left nearly the whole of his property 

 to his adopted son, Edward Carlos, then of 

 Worcester, apothecary, and his issue." What 

 relationship, if any, existed between them does 

 not appear. On a double silver seal in the pos- 

 session of the Clothiers' Company, at Worcester, 

 and now somewhat wealthy and aristocratic body, 

 there is engraved the following names : " John 

 Phillips, Anthony Careless, Wardens, 1665." Was 

 this Anthony Carless (Carlis, Carlos, or Carless, 

 for the name is variously spelt) the father of the 

 above Edward Carlos ? There must have been some 

 circumstance connected with this seal from its 

 being held in great reverence by the members of 

 the Company up to the present day ; for it is still 

 customary, at the annual entertainments, for the 

 High Master to wear it suspended by a ribbon 

 round his neck. It has also engraved on it the 

 arms of the city of Worcester impaling the Cloth- 

 workers'. Perhaps your learned and worthy cor- 

 respondent J. M. G., who, if I recollect rightly, 

 is a member of this ancient Society — albeit not a 

 clothworker — and having in consequence free 

 access to its records, may be able to throw some 

 light upon the subject. This Anthony Careless, 

 from an inscription still in existence in All Saints' 

 Church, died on Jan. 5, 1670, aged sixty ; and is 

 there styled " an eminent citizen of this city." 

 The last descendant, I believe, of this gentleman, 

 died at Powick, near Worcester, in 1853, aged 

 eighty-four ; he was an apothecary, and for many 

 years resided in the parish of All Saints. On his 

 monument, in Powick Church, to which village he 

 retired many years since, is sculptured the arms 



granted by King Charles II. to his preserver, the 

 olonel Carlis, on whose lap the king is said to 

 have slept whilst hiding in the Eoyal Oak at Bos- 

 cobel, with the motto : 



" Subditus fidelis regis et regni salus." 



J. B. Whitborne. 



