2"^ S. VI. 151., Nov. 20. '58.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



423 



Lord George Gordon's Riots (2'"> S. vi. 243. 315. 

 382.) — To correspondents who have noticed this 

 subject I may mention the following rather curious 

 woric, entitled — 



"The Fourth Book of the Chronicles, or the Second 

 Book of Gordon, to which are added the Chapters of Don- 

 nellan, &c., written originally in Arabic by an Oriental 

 Sage in the Time of the Jewish Captivity, and Translated 

 literally into English as far as the Idiom of the Language 

 would "admit, with Notes Critical and Explanatory. Lon- 

 don, printed for the Translator by J. Wade, No. 163. Fleet 

 Street, mdcclxxxi., pp. 22., xx. chapters, large 4to. with 

 oval portrait of Lord George Gordon, J. Lodge, sculp." 



What the contents are of the three preceding 

 books I cannot say; but judging from this fourth 

 book, which relates in Scripture style, with very 

 considerable circumstantiality, the trial of Lord 

 George Gordon, &c., I think it probable that the 

 former will contain many details and incidents 

 connected with the riots and their penal conse- 

 quences ; and from the date of the work the writer 

 had likely been an eye-witness of the proceedings. 



AVho was the author of this unique narrative, 

 and who appears also to have written the Third 

 Book of the Chronicles of London for 1780? 



G. K 



The rioter who suffered at Bethnal Green was 

 William Gamble, a " cabinet maker by trade," 

 between thirty and forty years of age, for " de- 

 molishing the house of Justice Willmot." (Poli- 

 tical Magazine, vol, i. p. 501.) K. W. 



'■•Cochshut" and "■ Cockshoot" (2"" S. vi.345.)— 

 Whence the family of this name originally came I 

 liave never been able to learn with certainty ; but 

 I have some recollection of having heard that 

 James Cockshut, who was in the last century 

 manager of the iron works of the Hanbury fa- 

 mily at Pontypool and its neighbourhood, and 

 afterwards one of the founders of the Cyfarthfa 

 Works, near Merthyr, and who is mentioned in 

 the Introduction to the Reports of John Smeaton 

 as one of the original members of the first Society 

 of Civil Engineers, came into Monmouthshire 

 from Yorkshire, and the name may possibly still 

 be found or remembered in some of the York- 

 shire valleys where the concurrence of charcoal 

 and water-power, in the last century, determined 

 the site of the iron forges of Britain. 



Vkyan Rheged. 



"Fease" (2"'' S. vi. 397.)— The proverb, "Every 

 ])ea hath its vease, and a bean fifteen," is thus ex- 

 plained by Ray (Bohn's Handbook of Proverbs, 

 p. 57.):- 



" A veaze, in Italian vescea, is crepitus veniris. So it 

 Hignifies peas are flatulent, but beans ten times more." 



In tlie same collection (p. 181.) will be found 

 the proverbial phrase — 

 " I'll viiise thee; 

 i. e. Hunt or drive thee. Somerset." 



Zkds. 



"Court" (2°* S. vi. 395.) — This term is not 

 confined to the neighbourhood of Dover ; it is 

 universal. It always indicates the manor-liouse, 

 where the lord of the manor or his tenant is resi- 

 dent ; and therefore is probably so called because 

 the Lord held his " Court" there. Cantiaeius. 



Hope (2°* S. vi. 372.) — The Essay on the 

 " Origin and Prospects of Man " is reviewed in 

 the Monthly Review, vol. cxxv. p. 390. 'A\iei5y. 



Dublin. 



Wake Family (2°* S. vi. 354.) — In reply to 

 Melktes, no mention whatever is made of any 

 Geoffrey Wac in Abp. Wake's History of his 

 family. Hugh took his name from Emma, his 

 wife ; who was the representative, through suc- 

 cessive female heirs, of Herewaldus Le Wake, 

 mentioned by Sii.verstone at p. 353., and who 

 might much more properly be termed " the 

 founder of the family" than Hugh. Of this 

 Hugh the Archbishop writes (p. 24.) : — 



" Who this Hugh was, in whom our Name became first 

 the Name of a Family, I have not found ; and am apt to 

 think, from his taking of his Wives Name, that he was 

 not very considerable of himself, nor does it appear that 

 he did any extraordinary matters after his coming to so 

 high a Fortune." 



The Archbishop is inclined to reject entirely 

 the notion of a Norman origin, as he considers 

 the authority of those copies of the Roll of Batell 

 Abbey, in which the name is inserted, as well as 

 of John Brompton's Chronicle, where it also ap- 

 pears amongst those who came over with William, 

 to be of insufficient weight. And he concludes 

 that " we must look for the first original of our 

 Family among the Saxons" (p. 7.). He considers 

 the name, Le Wake, or The Watchful, to have 

 been a title given to Hereward, descriptive of his 

 character as a military commander. With this 

 view Mr. Lower seems to coincide. (English 

 Surnames, 3rd edit., 1849, vol. i. 143.) 



Abp. Wake follows Dugdale in his dates, &c. 

 respecting the three Baldwins ; but without no- 

 ticing the difficulty that Meletes has pointed 

 out. Ache. 



Metropolitan Architects: South Sea House: Ex- 

 cise Office (2"" S. vi. 326.) — The architect of the 

 Excise Office was Mr. James Gandon. (See 

 Knight's London, vol. v. p. 112.) S. O. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



The Camden Society is active in its work of usefulness. 

 Two books for the subscription paid on the 1st May last 

 are alrea<l3' in course of deliverj' to the Members. With 

 respect to the first of these, The Romance of Blonde of 

 Oxford and Jelian of Damartin, Inj Philippe de Reimes, 

 edited hy M. Le Uou.x de Lency, we must content our- 

 selves with repeating the words of the editor, that "it is 

 a simple narrative of familiar incidents, such as belonged 



