grant he declared ought not to pass, "as being in effect merely to transfer the playhouses and bear-gardens from Bankside to a place much more unfit. On a petition," he added, "for setting up a playhouse in Lincoln's- InnFields in the late King's time, exhibited by the Prince's comedians, eleven justices of the peace certified that place to be very inconvenient." Another topographical paper, which catches our attention as we turn the page, has interest of many kinds, and presents a curious contrast to the London of our day. It is described thus: "Certificate of Names, Descriptions, and Residences of all Foreign Strangers residing within the county of Middlesex." In Grub Street occurs Lucius Frerra, an Italian preacher; in Whitecross Street, Daniel Alman, a painter; in St. John Street, Matthias Lee, a Dutchman, a poet; in the Duchy Liberty in the Strand, Monsieur Duche, a picture drawer; in the district of Drury Lane, Queen Street, and Princes Street, Hubert Laseur, a picture drawer. The whole number is 291. Some few other entries, which tell their own tale too clearly to need comment, we will throw together by way of sample, selected almost hap-hazard, for the book contains multitudes of such curiosities of history. "Draft-letter suggested to be addressed by the Council to the Corporation of Bath, calling upon them to remedy the great disorders committed in the common use of the baths by men and women together, which draws a great concourse of wicked persons, but compels grave and sober people to forbear the place." "Petition of Sir Wm. Courteen to the King. The lands in the, south part of the world called Terra Australis Incognita, are not yet traded to by the King's subjects. The petitioner desires to discover the same, and plant colonies therein. He prays therefore for a grant of all such lands, with power to discover the same and erect colonies." "Petition of apothecaries, grocers, and other retailers of tobacco in and about London to the King. Lewd persons, under pretence of selling tobacco, keep unlicensed alehouses, and others barter with mariners for stolen and uncustomed tobacco, to the disadvantage of the petitioners; the late King [James, the author of the Counterblast] had recommended them to apply to Parliament, as also had the present King, and a bill had been drawn, but by reason first of the late King's death, and since of the disagreement, they were advised not to move the same.' Beg the King to refer their grievances to such persons as can best provide a remedy." "Grievances of the Company of Painter Stainers of the City of London, and remedies proposed for the same. The grievances arise out of the practice of the art of painting by persons, as well men as women, not being members of the company; the much bad work constantly done in drawing and counterfeiting the effigies of great and noble persons of honour and quality; the unlicensed breaking into the art of painting by many tradespeople, especially plasterers, and the use of stencilling. The remedies suggested are more stringent penalties, the power of defacing the paintings of unlicensed persons, and the absolute prohibition of that false and deceitful work of stencilling." Nor are there wanting Curiosities of Literature, many of them, as is too often the case, of a painful kind. "Petition of Christopher Farewell to the high and mighty Prince, the Duke of Buckingham: had spent his all in expectation of maintenance by his honest studies; has written a History of his Travayles, and offers to repeat by memory the 150 Psalms of David, and the 14 epistles of St. Paul: prays for the King's protection, and to be taken into the Duke's service." Poor Christopher Farewell! Can any of our readers tell us any thing more about him and his marvellous memory? Here is a poet whose name is new to us. He could probably have told a tale of unrewarded exertion similar to that of poor Christopher. "Godly Verses" by James Orrell. Five short poems, of which the following are the first lines: "Sweet Saviour of the World, and Judge of all; " " When I consider what I am by nature; ""The years of man are ten seven times o'ertold;""A sinner's habit is a mournful sprite; "What is the only end of man's creation?" With an epilogue from which it appears that the writer, who describes himself as being in poverty, addressed these compositions to a lady whom he styles" Madame" and "Your Grace." One more of these minor authors was still more unfortunate: "Petition of John Reynolds, prisoner in the Fleet, to the Council. Was forced from France by order of the late King, and on his arrival in England was committed to prison for being the author of a book termed 'Votiva Angliæ,' in which he deplored the loss of the Palatinate, and desired its restitution, which every true-hearted Englishman ought to wish and pray for; has been imprisoned full two years, during which time he has incurred a debt of 3001. for his maintenance; also owes sixty and odd pounds for which he is surety, and is threatened to be arrested for the same as soon as he is at liberty; prays for protection against arrest for one year." The letters respecting the plague are numerous and valuable. One extract will show their nature. It is from a letter written by Thos. Locke to Sir Dudley Carleton, dated from Southampton, August 27, 1626. "Few adventure into London. Last week's bill of mortality was above 5,000, and this week's above 4,000: when the fuel lessens the fire cannot be so great, but the violence of the sickness is not abated. The Lords are about to send to the Mayor that the infected shall be sent out of the city to tents and cabins in the fields. No likelihood that the King will come near London this winter. When he goes hence it will be to Salisbury. No man comes into a town without a ticket, yet there are few places free. Only one house infected in that town, but one died that day without the town in the fields. He came from London. He had good store of money about him, which was taken before he was cold!" It will require some time to make the value of this and the other similar volumes thoroughly understood, but in the meantime no inquirer on any historical subject should omit to refer to them. In procuring them to be compiled by competent persons, the Master of the Rolls has conferred a benefit upon historical literature, greater than any that we are acquainted with, except that we owe to Newton's friend, Charles Montagu, the Earl of Halifax, for the publication of Rymer's Fœdera. We ought not to conclude without one word as to the admirable manner in which Mr. Bruce has condensed the subject of each paper which he has catalogued, and without a second, as to the extent and completeness of his Index. There can now be no doubt that Kent is to have an Archæological Society worthy of the county. 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SPECTACLES adressed to those PECTACLES: when to wear, who value their Sight. By CHARLES A. LONG. BLAND & LONG, Opticians to the Queen, 153. Fleet Street, London. LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 1858. Notes. PICTON CASTLE AND ITS INHABITANTS. This ancient mansion, which is located within three miles of the town of Haverfordwest, is worthy of an honourable place among the relics of feudal grandeur which are scattered over the fair face of England. Picton Castle is not remarkable either for its great extent, or for its architectural pretensions; but it was a fortified residence before the reign of William Rufus; and from that time to the present day it has been tenanted by a line of possessors, all of whom can trace their connexion with the Norman ancestor to whom the castle owes its name. 1469. Sir Henry Donn left two daughters, Jennet and Jane; and thus again Picton Castle passed into the possession of another family. Jennet married Trehaiarn Morgan, Esq., and Jane espoused Thomas ap Philip, of Cilsant, in the county of Carmarthen, Esq., and brought him Picton Castle. Thomas ap Philip was descended from the princely stock of Cadifor ap Collwyn, who was Lord of Dyved or Pembrokeshire, and died A.D. 1089 in the second year of William Rufus. On succeeding to the fair inheritance in "little England beyond Wales," Thomas ap Philip assumed his patronymic as a surname, and transmitted it to his descendants, who were exceedingly numerous; for, as I mentioned in a former article, all the families in the counties of Pembroke, Cardigan, and Carmarthen bearing the name of Phillips, with one or two exceptions, trace their William de Picton, a knight who came into descent from him. The spelling of the name has Pembrokeshire with Arnulph de Montgomery varied during the lapse of years; but Thomas (who built Pembroke Castle, and was afterwards Phillipps and his descendants as far as the second Earl of Pembroke), having dispossessed and per- baronet of the family spelt their names in the haps slain the original owner of the fortress, whose same manner. At present the sole retainer, as name has been lost in that of his victor, and find- far as I am aware, of the ancient spelling, is the ing that "his lines had fallen in pleasant places," eminent genealogist, Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bart., established himself in the new home which his of Middle Hill, Worcestershire. Thomas Phillipps right hand had won for him, and transmitted the was knighted about the year 1512, and his greatsame to his descendants. After the lapse of se- grandson, Sir John Phillipps, Knt., was created veral generations the line of Picton was reduced a baronet in 1621. Sir John died March 27, to two brothers, Sir William and Philip Picton. 1629, and his son, Sir Richard Phillipps, the seSir William had a daughter and heiress, Joan, cond baronet, garrisoned Picton Castle on behalf who married Sir John Wogan of Wiston, Knight, of the king during the civil wars. It sustained a and brought him Picton Castle as her dowry. long siege, and would not have surrendered when Philip Picton, the second brother, married Maud, it did, but for the following circumstance: In the daughter of William Dyer of Newport, Pembroke lower story of one of the bastions was the nursery, shire; and among his descendants may be reck- having in it a small window, at which a maidser oned the Pictons of Poyston in the same county, vant was standing with Sir Erasmus Philipps, then the ancestors of the late gallant Sir Thomas Pic- an infant, in her arms, when a trooper of the parton. Sir John Wogan was succeeded at Picton liamentary forces approached it on horseback with Castle by his son Sir John Wogan, Knt., who a flag of truce and a letter; to receive which the married Isabel, daughter of Sir John de Londres, girl opened the window, and while she stretched Knt. To him was son and heir Sir David Wo- forward, the soldier, lifting himself on his stirrups, gan, Knt., who was Chief Justice of Ireland temp. snatched the child from her arms, and rode with Edward I., and married Anne, daughter and him into the camp. A message was then forheiress of Sir William Plunkett, an Irish gentle- warded to the governor of the garrison, informing man. Their son and heir, John Wogan, of Pic-him that unless the castle was immediately surton Castle, Esq., married Anne, daughter of James Butler, Earl of Ormond, by whom he had two daughters and co-heiresses, Katherine and Anne. Katherine married Owen Dunn or Donn of Muddlescomb, in the county of Carmarthen, Esq., and had Picton Castle as her portion. Anne Wogan, the other sister, became the wife of Sir Oliver Eustace, an Irish gentleman. Henry Donn, afterwards Knight, son of Owen Donn and Katherine Wogan, married Margaret, daughter of Sir Harry Wogan, Knt., of Wiston in the county of Pembroke, and was killed, together with his brother-inlaw, Harry Wogan, the heir of Wiston, and others of the Welsh gentry, at the battle of Banbury in rendered the child would be put to death. On this direct line from Sir Thomas Phillipps failed after seven generations, and a collateral branch came in, as has happened several times since. Sir John Philipps died in 1764, and was succeeded by his son, Sir Richard, who was in 1776 created Baron Milford of the kingdom of Ireland. On the death of Lord Milford without issue, in 1823, the peerage became extinct; but the baronetcy passed to the descendants of Hugh Philipps of Sandy Haven in the county of Pembroke, Esq., who was youngest son of Sir John, the first baronet. This branch is now represented by the Rev. Sir James Evan Philipps, eleventh baronet. The castle and estates of Picton were bequeathed by Lord Milford to Richard Bulkeley Philipps Grant, Esq., who was great-grandson of Bulkeley Philipps of Abercover in the county of Carmarthen, Esq, youngest son of Sir John Philipps, the fourth baronet, and uncle of Lord Milford. Mr. Grant assumed the name and arms of Philipps; was created a baronet in 1828, and in 1847 a peer of the realm, by the title of Baron Milford of Picton Castle in the county of Pembroke. He died Jan. 3, 1857, without issue, and his peerage and baronetcy became extinct; the castle and estates, however, passed, under the will of the first Lord Milford, to his half-brother, the Rev. James Henry Alexander Gwyther, vicar of Madeley, who, in pursuance of the terms of the bequest, assumed the name and arms of Philipps, and is now in possession of the fair domain of Picton. Until within the last sixty years, the castle preserved the same form it originally had, without addition or diminution; the grounds about it only having been from time to time altered to suit the convenience or the taste of the different possessors. It appeared to have been an oblong building, flanked by six large bastions, three on each side, with a narrow projection terminating in two bastions of smaller dimensions at the east end, between which was the grand portcullised entrance, now contracted into a handsome doorway. It was evidently moated round, and approached by a drawbridge, which, up to the period of the death of the first Lord Milford, was supplied by a raised flagged terrace between low parapets. About the close of the last century, Lord Milford made an addition to the west end of the castle, which greatly increased its internal comfort; but, as the new building was not assimilated in style to the ancient edifice, it had the effect of destroying the unity of the design. This modernising was carried still farther under the auspices of Lord Milford's successor; and although the alterations which Picton Castle has undergone have doubtless rendered it a more agreeable residence, it must ever be a source of regret to the true archæologist that so fine a specimen of the strongholds of "long ago was ever rashly_meddled JOHN PAVIN PHILLIPS. with. name. LEGEND OF THE LUTTERELLS. Between Dublin and Lucan, on the River Liffey, are some mills called "Lutterell's Mills," supposed to have been built by a family of that There is a curious legend about these mills, which is firmly believed by the peasantry in the locality. It is said one of the members of the family was a great spendthrift, and that he was not very exact as to his mode of obtaining cash to gratify his propensities. The story goes on to say, that being in a desperate strait on one occasion for cash, the devil appeared to him, and politely offered to supply the needful, on the condition that he was to sell his soul to him, and render it up at the expiration of seven years. mills made their appearance on the bank of the The bargain was struck, and next morning the river, having been raised up in one night by his majesty. The mills were soon transferred, upon other conditions, to some one who advanced the cash. At the expiration of the seven years the young gentleman was found in a riotous orgy with some companions, when the gentleman in black whispered to him that his time was come. The story goes on to say, that after a great deal of parleying his sable majesty agreed to take (instead of his bondsman) the last man found in the "Run for your lives!" shouted the young man, and all rushed to the door, and down stairs, Lutterell being the last to gain the stairhead "Ha!" cried the devil, as he leaving the room. seized his victim by the throat, "I have you now." fellow behind me?" The devil turned suddenly "No, no," roared the man; "don't you see that round, and grasped what appeared to be a man, but it was only Lutterell's shadow, and he flew away with it, the real flesh and blood escaping; but from that to the present time the members of the family have no shadow. Can anyone throw farther light on this story? S. R. room. CHAPMAN'S "HOMER." I have been looking over the edition of Chapman's Homer, just completed in five volumes, which has been so tastefully brought out by Mr. Russell Smith, and edited with such judgment as well as enthusiasm by Mr. Hooper, and it has occurred to me to make an inquiry, merely bibliographical, as to the original folio or folios from which this welcome reprint (it is much more) has been made. This inquiry principally refers to the "Batrachomyomachia," the "Hymns, Epigrams," &c., which form the greater portion of the fifth volume. Mr. Hooper, in his Introduction to the Iliad, vol. i., and to the Odyssey, vol. i. p. xxi., speaks of the original edition of these "Hymns,' &c., as being "a thin folio, very rare;" and in his Introduction to the volume of his edition which contains them, again alludes to "this very rare volume, a thin folio," and adds more fully, in the following page, a remark as to the use he has made of it, and its excessive rarity: "The original folio has been entirely followed in the present edition. Copies are now only to be purchased by those who can indulge in the luxuries of literature, if books of extreme rarity may be so called."-P. x. title-page of some copies of The Whole Works arose probably from its “not having been finished when the earlier impressions were struck off." Now it happens that my copy contains the engraved title-page without the portrait, which I regret, notwithstanding Mr. Hooper's consoling observation that "titles without the portrait are far rarer that those with it." It also contains the engraved title, "To the immortall Memorie of the In no place that I have been able to find does incomparable Heroe Prince Henry," as well as he speak of this rare folio having been ever in- the engraved title to the Odyssey, which Mr. corporated with the folios of the Iliad and Odys- Hooper says is also " very rare.' It has in addisey which preceded it, of which he gives such tion the "printed title" which he mentions as being a full and satisfactory account. The title, The given to "some copies." The first volume of Mr. Whole Works of Homer, Prince of Poetts, &c., Hooper's edition of the Iliad having been borwhich one would think should have included the rowed from me by a friend, I cannot at this mo"Batrachomyomachia," &c., Mr. Hooper (Intro- ment say whether my copy contains what he calls duction to Odyssey, p. xxviii.) limits to the transla- the first or second folios. It is the one which I tions of the Iliad and Odyssey which were collected think he describes as being somewhat more darkly by Chapman into one volume, and published to- printed than the other, and having oblong gothic gether in 1616. I have no doubt that Mr. Hooper carvings at the commencement of each book, inis quite correct in this; but as I have had for stead of floral ornaments, as in the other. I may some years on my shelves (though not enabled to be permitted to add, that the new edition so hap indulge in many of "the luxuries of literature") pily completed was very much wanted. When, a very fine copy of Chapman's Homer, which has some years ago, my curiosity was excited about this very rare volume added to the others which Chapman and his translation by the prose of are only less rare, I have thought I would be Lamb and the poetry of Keats, I vainly searched adding something to our knowledge of these in- every public library in Dublin, including that of teresting old editions by mentioning the cir- Trinity College, for the volume or any of the cumstance. The volume, when it came into my volumes of which this fine old work is made up. possession some years ago, was in very tattered Whether the deficiency has been remedied since, old binding, which had every appearance of being I know not. The good taste and liberality of the of the same age as the printing. There was no- publisher who has given this careful and elegant thing to indicate that the folio containing the reprint to all who love the rich old poetry of "Batrachomyonrachia" was added at any later Shakspeare's contemporaries and friends, renders period than that at which the folio which conit now a matter of less consequence. tained the Odyssey was united to the earlier one of the Iliad except perhaps the absence of the engraved title by William Pass, which is the only defect I have been able to discover in this very fine copy. I have had the volume rebound in a style more commensurate with its merits, and have dated it (from information less correct than that supplied by Mr. Hooper) 1614. According to him, 1614, 1616, and 1624, would be the correct respective dates of the original folios of the Iliad, the Odyssey and the "Batrachomyomachia," all combined in this copy. I am anxious to know whether the junction of the folio containing the "Batrachomyomachia," &c., with the preceding folios of the Iliad and Odyssey is of the rare occurrence I would infer it is from Mr. Hooper's silence on the subject; and whether any of the public libraries in England contain a copy similarly circumstanced. Should the volume have been put together in the state I have it by John Bill, the publisher of the "Hymns," &c., in 1624, I think it has some bearing on the opinion of Mr. Hooper, that the absence of William Hole's portrait of Chapman from the back of the engraved Dalkey, co. Dublin. D. F. M'CARTHY. P.S. Since forwarding the preceding remarks to "N. & Q.," I have read in the last Athenæum (April 10, 1858,) an allusion to John Bill the publisher of the "Batrachomyomachia," which adds a slight additional probability to the suggestion I have made above, as to the copy of Chapman's Homer in my possession having been put together by him. It is in the interesting and affecting letter of Lady Raleigh relative to Sir Walter's books, given in the Athenæum's review of the new volume of Mrs. Green's Calendar of State Papers, just published. Lady Raleigh, writing to Lady Carew in reference to these books, says: "I was promised them all againe, but I haue not receyued one back. If there were any of these bookes, God forbid but Sir Thomas [Wilson] should haue them for his Matie, if they were rare, and not to be hadd elsewhere; but they tell me that Byll, the bookbynder or stacioner, hath the very same." From this it would seem that Bill was better known as a bookbinder and stationer, than as a |