2 nd S. IX. June 30. '60.] 



NOTES AND QUEE1ES. 



503 



Hon. Capt. Edward Carr. — Can any of your 

 correspondents say to what family " the Hon. 

 Captain Edward Carr" belongs, who about 1725 

 was renting, and probably residing on, a certain 

 property at Neasdon, a hamlet of Wilsdon, Mid- 

 dlesex ? 



Brewer, in his Beauties of England and Wales, 

 under Neasdon, states that " Lord George Car- 

 penter "purchased a house there in the same year, 

 and resided in it until his death in 1731. By 

 " Lord George Carpenter," I presume he must 

 mean George, first Lord Carpenter, born 1657, 

 created Baron of Killaghy 1719, who, as Major- 

 General Carpenter, defeated the Jacobites at Pres- 

 ton, 1715, latterly sat in the House of Commons 

 for Westminster, and finally died as above, 1731. 



W. F. W. 



Prices of Llanffwyst. — Can either of the 

 readers or correspondents of " N. & Q." furnish 

 any account of the descendants of the Prices of 

 Llanffwyst, alluded to in Coxe's Tour in Mon- 

 mouthshire 1 (1801), p. 244.; Jones's History of 

 Brecknockshire (1809), p. 345. ; Rogers's Memoirs 

 of Monmouthshire (2nd ed. 1826), Introduction, 

 p. 7.; or Basset's Antiquarian Researches (1846), 

 p. 44. ; and oblige an original subscriber ? 



Glwysig. 



" Busy-less." — Mr. Halliwell (Fol. Skakspea?-e, 

 vol. i.) adopts this emendation of Theobald's, as- 

 signing as a reason that " it is so naturally (though 

 perhaps not quite grammatically) formed, its rare 

 occurrence is not, in itself, a sufficient reason for its 

 rejection." 



I should be obliged if Mr. Halliwell would in- . 

 form me, and other readers of " N. & Q.," where 

 this word does occur ? Clammild. 



Athenaeum Club. 



Howell, James. — 



" A German Diet, or the Ballance of Europe, wherein 

 the Power and Weakness, the Glory and Reprocb, &c., 

 of all the Kingdoms and States of Christendom are im- 

 partially poiz'd, at a solemn Convention of som German 

 Princes iu sundry elaborat Orations pro and con. Lou- 

 don, for Hum. Moseley. 1653. Folio." 



This work is not mentioned by Lowndes, or his 

 latest*editor, Mr. Bohn. The frontispiece repre- 

 sents a man leaning against a tree, which is la- 

 belled, " Robur Britaunicum" ; and beneath, on 

 a scroll, are " Ileic tutus obumbror." This plate 

 appears to have been used in another of Howell's 

 works mentioned by Lowndes. The names of the 

 Orators, Verses to Reader, Dedication to Earl of 

 Clare, and Address to Reader, occupy three leaves; 

 the pagination is 1 — 68., 1 — 68., and 1 — 55.; at 

 the end, The Table covers two leaves. Under what 

 circumstances was the book written? Delta. 



Thomas Gyll, [Esq. — Can any correspondent 

 tell me anything of this gentleman, to whom a 

 letter, in the possession of the writer, from the 



Rev. William Smith, the rector of Melsonby, and 

 author of The Annals of University College, is 

 addressed " at Searle's Coffee House iu' Lincoln's 

 Inn " about 1728 ? Delta. 



Who is the Brigand ? 



" It is, I believe, undoubted that in 1848 the proposal 

 for a coup de main on London was made to the revolu- 

 tionary government of France, not by any obscure ad- 

 venturer, but by a general officer of great reputation for 

 civil as well as military qualities." — Letter of 'A Hert- 

 fordshire Incumbent' to The Times of Saturday, 23rd 

 'June, 1860. 



May I ask the general's name ? 



P. Q. 



Legislature. — When, and by whom, was the 

 Parliament first styled a legislative body? 



Meletes. 



Value of Money. — Can you induce Prof. De 

 Morgan to tell us what was the value of money 

 in the reigns of Elizabeth and James, as compared 

 with that of Victoria? I am told by some that 

 the calculation of the old money being five or six 

 times more valuable than our own is erroneous. 



G. H. K. 



The late Lord Denman. — Can any of your 

 readers inform me where Lord Denman was 

 buried ? He died, I think, at Stoke Albany in 

 Northamptonshire, September 22, 1854. If there 

 is any inscription to his memory in the church 

 where he was buried, or elsewhere, a copy of the 

 same would greatly oblige F. G. 



t&uzvizg tottf) ^ns'totxtf. 

 "The Spanish Pilgrim." — 



"The Spanish Pilgrime, or an admirable discoverie of a 

 Roman Catholicke." 4to. Loudon, 1625. 136 pp., Epis. 

 Ded., &c. 8 leaves. 



Can you refer me to any account of the above 

 work ? It is dedicated to William Earl of Pem- 

 broke, and the Epistle of French Translator is 

 signed " J. D. Dralymont," who appears to have 

 made many additions to the text, which are printed 

 in italics. Delta. 



[The earliest English edition of this work is that 

 printed by William Ponsonby in 1598, entitled " A Trea- 

 tise Paraenetical, that is to say, An Exhortation : wherein 

 is showed bj' good and evident reasons, infallible argu- 

 ments, most true and certaine histories, and notable 

 examples, the right way and true meanes to resist the 

 violence of the Castilian King: to breake the course of 

 bis desseignes: to beat down bis pride, and to luinate 

 his puissance. Dedicated to the Kings, Princes, Poten- 

 tates, and Comnion-weales of Christendome: and parti- 

 cularly to the most Christian King. By a Pilgrim 

 Spaniard, beaten by time, and persecuted by fortune. 

 Translated out of the Castilian tongue into the French, 

 by I. D. Dralymont, Lord of Yarleme, and now Eng- 

 lished. Printed for him, 1598, 4to." See Herbert's Ames. 

 ii. 1270, where occurs the following note: " My copy has 

 in MS. of the time, ' Vz. Don Antonio de Perez, Secre- 



