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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 199. 



The question of the authorship of such a pro- 

 duction, apart from its being attributed to Shelley, 

 is, in my humble opinion, a matter of little or no 

 interest. But as a probable guess, I should say 

 that it carries strong internal evidence of having 

 been written by that erratic mortal, Edgar Poe. 



W. PlNKERTON. 



Ham. 



Lady Percij, Wife of Hotspur (DaugJiter of 

 Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March) (Vol. viii., 

 p. 104.). — On reference to the volume and page 

 of Miss Strickland's Lives of the Queens of Eng- 

 land, cited by your correspondent G., I find that 

 not only does this lady, by her sweeping assertion, 

 bastardise the second E. of Northumberland, but, 

 in her zeal to outsay all that " ancient heralds " 

 ever can have said, she annihilates, or at least 

 reduces to a myth, the mother of Thomas, eighth 

 Lord Clifibrd. This infelicitous statement may 

 have been corrected in the second edition of the 

 Lives, for in " N. & Q.," Vol. vii., p. 42., there is 

 a detailed pedigree tracing the descent of Jane 

 Seymour thi'ough Margaret Wentvvorth, her mo- 

 ther, by an intermarriage with a Wentworth, and 

 a granddaughter of Hotspur, Lord Percy, (not 

 daughter, as Miss Strickland writes) from the 

 blood-royal of England. My object, however, in 

 ■writing this is not farther to point attention to 

 Miss Strickland's mistake, but to invite discussion 

 to the point where this pedigree may be possibly 

 faulty. I will not say " all ancient heralds," but 

 some heralds, at least, of acknowledged reputation, 

 viz. Nicolas, Collins, and Dugdale*, have stated 

 that the wife of Sir Philip Wentworth was a 

 daughter of Roger fifth Lord Clifford. If this be 

 so, in truth there is an end at once of the Sey- 

 mour's claim to royal lineage ; for it is an un- 

 doubted fact that it was the grandson of Roger 

 fifth Lord, namely, John, seventh Lord Clifford, 

 K.G., who married Hotspur's only daughter. 



C.V. 



" Up, gtiards, and at themT'' (Vol. v., p. 426. ; 

 Vol. viii., p. 111.). — Some years ago, about the 

 time that the Wellington statue on the arch at 

 Hyde Park Corner was erected, I was dining at a 

 table where Wyatt the artist was present. The 

 conversation turned much upon the statue, and 

 the exact period at which the great Duke is repre- 

 sented. Wyatt said that he was represented at 

 that moment wlien he is supposed to have used 

 the words : " Up, guards, and at them ! " It having 

 been questioned whether he ever uttered the 

 words, I asked the artist whether, when he was 

 taking the Duke's portrait, the Duke himself 

 acknowledged using them ? To which he replied, 



* Nicolas, Scrope and Grosvenor Roll, ii. 471. ; 

 Collins, Peerage, 5th ed., vi. 358. ; Dugdale, Baronage, 

 L 341. 



that the Duke said that he did not recollect having 

 uttered those words ; and, in fact, that he could 

 not say what expression he did use on that occa- 

 sion. The company at dinner seemed much satis- 

 fied with Wyatt's authority on this point. 



J. D. Gardneb. 



Pennycomequick (Vol. viii., p. 113.). —A similar 

 story to that related by your correspondent Mb. 

 Hele is told of Falmouth . Previously to its being 

 incorporated as a town by Charles II., it was called 

 Smithick, from a smith's shop, near a creek, which 

 extended up the valley. The old Cornish word 

 ick signifies a "creek ;" and as it became a village it 

 was called " Pennycomequick," which your corre- 

 spondent H. C. K. clearly explains. The Welsh 

 and Cornish languages are in close affinity. The 

 name "Pennycomequick" is evidently a corrupted 

 old Cornish name : see Pryce's A?-cha;ologia Cornu- 

 Britannica, v. " Pen," " Coomb," and " Ick," the 

 head of the narrow valley, defile or creek. It lias 

 been thought by some to mean " the head of the 

 cuckoo's valley; " and your correspondent's Welsh 

 derivation seems to countenance such a translation. 

 The cuckoo is known in Scotland, Wales, and 

 Cornwall as " the Gawh Gwich." Mr. Helb, 

 perhaps, will be amused at the traditional story 

 of the Falmouthlans respecting the origin of 

 Pennycomequick. Before the year 1600, there 

 were few houses on the site of the present town : 

 a woman, who had been a servant with an ancestor 

 of the late honourable member for AVest Cornwall, 

 Mr. Pindarves, came to reside there, and that 

 gentleman directed her to brew some good ale, as 

 he should occasionally visit the place with his 

 friends. On one of his visits he was disappointed, 

 and expressed himself angry at not finding any ale. 

 It appeared on explanation that a Dutch vessel 

 came into the harbour the preceding day, and the 

 Dutchmen drained her supply; she said the Penny 

 come so quick, she could not refuse to sell it. 



James Cobkish. 



Falmouth. 



Captain Booth of Stockport (Vol. viii., p. 102.). 

 — In answer to Mr. Hughes's inquiry about this 

 antiquary, I beg to state that he will find an 

 Ordinary of Arms, drawn up by Captain Booth 

 of Stockport, in the Shepherd Library, Preston, 

 Lancashire. It is one among the numerous valu- 

 able MSS. given by the executors of the late 

 historian of Lancashire, Ed. Baines, Esq., M.P., 

 to that library. In Lysons' Magna Bi-itannia 

 (volume Cheshire), your correspondent will also 

 find a mention of a John Booth, Esq., of Twemlow, 

 Cheshire, who was the author of various heraldic 

 manuscripts. It may, perhaps, be hardly necessary 

 to inform Cheshire antiquaries that an almost in- 

 exhaustible fund of information, on heraldry and 

 genealogy, is to be found in the manuscripts of 

 Randle Holme, formerly of Chester, which are 



