2»d S. VI. 131., July 3. '68.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



12. 4., V. 12. 3.). But the early Greeks know 

 nothing of the animal to which it belonged. The 

 word elephas, with them, meant simply ivory. 

 Herodotus mentions the elephant, as an animal, 

 and describes it as occurring in the western ex- 

 tremity of Africa (iv. 191.). Ctesias, a contem- 

 porary of Xenophon, appears to have been the 

 first Greek who spoke of the elephant from per- 

 sonal knowledge ; he had seen the animal at 

 Babylon (JElian, Hist. An. xvii. 29. ; Bashr, ad 

 Ctes. pp. 268. 352.). The Greeks, however, may 

 be said to have first seen the elephant in the ex- 

 pedition of Alexander: it was in consequence of 

 their acquaintance with his military capacities 

 that the successors of Alexander first used the 

 Asiatic elephant in war, and that the Egyptian 

 kings and the Carthaginians afterwards used the 

 African elephant for the same purpose (see Ar- 

 mandi, Hi.itoire Militaire des Elephants, Paris, 

 1843, pp. 39—43. 64. 85. 134.). Armandi, in his 

 military history of the elephant, calls attention to 

 this fact, and remarks that the ancients for a long 

 time decorated themselves with peai-Is, and wore 

 garments of silk, before they knew that the former 

 were obtained from a shell-fish, and that the latter 

 was fabricated by an insect. The natural history 

 of the pearl was indeed known to Theophrastus 

 (Z)e Lapid. § 36. ed. Schneider), as that of the 

 silkworm was to Aristotle ; but Virgil seems to 

 have thought that silk, like linen and cotton, was 

 a vegetable product : he describes it as the deli- 

 cate fleece which the Seres, or Chinese, combed 

 from the leaves of trees, Georg. ii. 121. 



G. C. Lewis. 



QUEEN ELIZABETH 8 EARL OF ESSEX. 



Some years ago, anterior to the publication by 

 Captain Devereux of the Lives and Letters of the 

 three Earls of Essex, I made considerable collec- 

 tions for a separate biography of Robert Deve- 

 reux, the deca[)itated favourite of Queen Eliza- 

 beth. For this purpose I purchased a considerable 

 mass of contemporary, or nearly contemporary, 

 manuscripts ; and turning them over again a day 

 or two since, I found several, not hitherto noticed, 

 which throw light especially on the fatal transac- 

 tion which terminated the career of the principal 

 !)arty concerned in it, and of several of his fol- 

 owers. Some account of them may be acceptable 

 in " N. & Q." 



They profess to have been copied from the ori- 

 ginals in the handwriting of Sir Robert Cecil, but 

 whether those originals still exist is a question I 

 am unable to answer. The first to which I shall 

 advert has no date, but clearly belongs to the 

 ^spring of 1601, and is thus heade<l : " The Names 

 of such as were in the late Action of Rebellion," 

 referring, of course, to the late rash outbreak of 

 the Earl of Essex and his friends on February 8, 



1601. I have never met elsewhere with any such 

 enumeration, and it begins with 



Lord Sandes, 

 Lord Mountegle, 

 Lord Cornwall." 



"TheE. of Essex, 

 Erie of Rutland, 

 Earle of Southamp- 

 ton, 1 



It then proceeds to the ofienders next in rank 



" Sir Charles Danvers, 

 Sir Christopher 



Blount, 

 Sir John Davies, 

 Sir Gelly I^Ierrick, 



Sir Charles Percy, 

 Sir Josselyn Percy, 

 Sir Edmond Bayn- 



ham. 

 Sir Thomas West, 

 Sir \V. Constable, 

 Sir Edward Littleton, 

 Sir Christopher Hay- 

 don," 



Sir Robert Vernon, 



Sir Henry Carew of 

 Kent, 



Sir Edw. Michel- 

 borne, 



After about forty other names, including Fra. 

 Tresham, Edw. Kynnersley, John Arden, Robert 

 Catesby, Richard Greys (after whose name the 

 words " for powder " are inserted), Anthony 

 Rowse, &c., we come to the following memoran- 

 dum : — 



"Lord Sussex, prisoner at Sir John Stanhope's, 

 Lord Bedford, at Alderman Holydaye's, 

 Lord Rich, at Mr. Sackford's," 

 neither of which names have been previously in- 

 serted. The preceding list may perhaps be looked 

 upon as in a manner introductory to the next do- 

 cument, which is headed, " The names of the 

 Traytors, and the several places of imprisonment." 

 I see that Capt. Devereux, having no particular 

 information on the point, only dismisses it in ge- 

 neral terms (vol. ii. p. 147.) ; but here we have 

 all the particulars, none of which, as far as I am 

 aware, were previously known to historians or 

 biographers. Thus we are told that — 



Lo. Monteagle, 



Sir Charles Danvers, 



and 

 Sir Christopher 



Blount," 



"Therle of Essex, 

 Therle of Rutland, 

 Therle of Southamp- 

 ton, 

 Lord Sands, 

 Lo. Cromwell, 



were confined in the Tower ; while Sir John Da- 

 vies and Sir Gillv Merricke were sent to Newgate. 

 Tresham, " Sir Tho. Tresham's son," Sir Rob. Vtr- 

 non. Sir Henry Carey, and Sir Edw. Michelborne, 

 were secured in the Gatehouse ; and Sir Charles 

 Percy, Sir Jaslen Percy, Francis Manners, and Sir 

 Edw. Baynham, with many others of less note, in 

 the Fleet. Sir Thomas West, " son and heire to the 

 Lo. Leware," and five others, were confined in the 

 Counter in the Poultry, while others, including 

 Catesby and Littleton, were in Wood Street 

 Counter. Sir Christr. Heydon, Sir Ferdinando 

 Gorges, Gray Bridges, " son and heire to the Lo. 

 Shandoys," were sent to the White l^ion Prison. 

 Against the names of Owen Salisbury and Tracy 



