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there came a great storm and Tempest of tlie Sea; and 

 one so violent, that, bracing itself, it overspread whole 

 Friesland with salt waters, and swept away more than six 

 thousand men and cattle unmentioned." — From the Album 

 der Notour for 18C0, p. 12. 



J. II. VAN LeNNEP. 



Zeyst, near Utrecht. 



Nelson's Coxswain, Sykes ? — John Sykes, 

 Nelson's coxswain, appears to have been killed, 

 4 July, 1797, when protecting Nelson in the bay 

 of Cadiz. At all events he was dead in May, 

 1811, when a correspondent of the Gmtlemaiis 

 Magazine suggested — as part of an inscription 

 for a tablet, proposed to be erected to his memory 

 — the words : — " thus sacrificing his own life to 

 preserve the gallant Nelson." Yet the Number 

 for May, 1841, contains the following announce- 

 ment in the list of deaths : — 



" Suddenly, at his little fishmonger's shop, in Church 

 Passage, Greenwich, that venerable tar, Nelson's cox- 

 swain Sykes. He was upwards of 80 3 r ears of age, and 

 was with Lord Nelson during the whole time of his glo- 

 rious deeds. He saved the life of that illustrious hero in 

 the bay of Cadiz, when his barge containing 12 men 

 was attacked by a Spanish gun-boat manned by 2!!, by 

 twice parrying the blows that were aimed at him, and at 

 last actually interposed his own head to receive a sabre- 

 cut which he could not avert by any other means, from 

 which he received a dangerous wound. The gun-boat 

 was captured with 18 men killed, and the rest wounded. 

 He also greatly distinguished himself at the battle of 

 Trafalgar." 



John Henry Sykes of Greenwich, fishmonger, 

 died in 1841, aged sixty -four ; was a native of 

 St. Giles-in-the-Fields, London; and, during the 

 principal part of his life, had been engaged in 

 the whale fishery. lie spent a few years on board' 

 an East India trading vessel, but never served in 

 the royal navy ; yet, by common consent, this in- 

 dividual was regarded by the Greenwich pen- 

 sioners as Nelson's coxswain ! 



Hence the mistake into which the contributor 

 to the Gentleman's Magazine in May, 1 «4 1 , has 

 fallen. It may be added that the fishmonger 

 never publicly disowned the honour conferred 

 upon him, but enjoyed the joke with his inti- 

 mates. I and a friend bearing the patronymic 

 common to these notabilities — real and factitious — 

 have been at some pains to ascertain these facts, 

 and have " enjoyed the joke " too ; but would be 

 glad to learn more about the first-named. 



James Sykes 



11, Grove Terrace, St. John's Wood. 



Autocrat of the Breakfast Table : W. 

 Cookso.n : Wiiipplktree. — In spite of the sneer 

 of the author of the above work at " small anti- 

 quaries who make barndoor flights of learning in 

 note* and Queries" (p. 62.), I am tempted to 

 "make a note of" two things which I "found" 

 on perusing it. On p. 81. he speaks of a book on 

 whi»e title-page was written, " Gul. Cookeson ; 

 !. Coll. Oinn. Anitn. J 725. Oxon," and moralises 



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thus, " O William Cookeson, of All Souls Col- 

 lege, Oxford, — then writing as I now write, — 

 now in the dust, where I shall lie, — is this line 

 all that remains to thee of earthly remembrance?" 

 To which the answer is, Possibly not; if, as seems 

 not improbable, this William Cookson was the 

 third son of William Cookson who (as stated in 

 Thoresby's Leeds) was Mayor of Leeds in 1712, 

 and whose brother Joseph was lecturer at the 

 parish church of Leeds in 1709. Can this be 

 ascertained? 



In the Deacons Masterpiece (p. 248.) he speaks 

 of whippletree as part of a post-chaise. Will 

 this help to a solution of Chaucur's ichipidtree, so 

 much discussed in your pages and elsewhere? 



J. Eastwood. 



The Stanley Family. 



" It is a fact agreed on by all antiquaries" (says the 

 Quarter!;/ Review, No. 205.), " that the Stanleys sprang 

 off the old lords Audley, taking their new name from the 

 manor of Stanley." 



I have lately met with a remarkable confirma- 

 tion of the above ; for in tbe Cartulary of Denla- 

 cresse Abbey, now in the Bodleian, Dodsworth 

 MS. 66, fo. lll a , 113. is this passage : — 



" In Leek parish (Staffordshire) be townes, Lee, Kne- 

 doD, Stanley, a quo Stanley co. t)erb. fil' minor de Aud- 

 ley," &c. 



ESLIGII. 



Wellington and Nelson. — Did Lord Nelson 

 and the Duke of Wellington ever meet? Some 

 thirty years ago a print was published represent- 

 ing Lord Nelson and the Duke of Wellington in 

 one room. The question was raised as to such 

 incident being a fact or not. Mr. Henry Graves 

 about this time asked the Duke if he, the Duke, 

 ever did meet or even see Lord Nelson. The 

 reply was : " Well, I was once going up stairs in 

 Downing Street, and I met a man coming down 

 stairs. I was told that man was Lord Nelson. 

 So far as I know that was the only occasion on 

 which I ever met or saw him." 



If this fact is not known, it may be worth the 

 Note made of it. Robert Kawlinson. 



Recent Misapplication of the Words "Fa- 

 cetious " and " FACETiiE." — Allow me to direct 

 attention to the abuse of tbe words above speci- 

 fied, which has of late crept into tbe sale cata- 

 logues of certain booksellers. I do not allude to 

 the application of the terms to jest books even of 

 the broadest kind, — in that case they would not be 

 out of place : but by what rule of orthography or 

 morality the filthy literature, erst named after 

 Holywell Street, comes to be classed under the 

 head " facetiae" I am at a loss to conceive. What 

 makes the matter worse is that the catalogues I 

 allude to almost always comprise very many valu- 

 able books ; and it is surely a hardship that one 

 cannot look into tliem without being compelled to 



