CHILEAN VIEWS.I shall be greatly obliged for descriptions of any prints relating to Chile, giving title of subject, artist, engraver, size, date of publication, and where published-also, whether coloured or not. I am particularly anxious to get the description of an aquatint view of Valparaiso, in colours, published in London probably between the years 1820 and 1840. QUIEN SABE. ORLEBAR.—Information for family history purposes concerning the Orlebars prior to 1650 would be greatly appreciated. The surname (an uncommon one) is found recorded in Northamptonshire and Bedfordshire, 1100-1914; in Essex, Suffolk, and City of London, 1600-1800. It appears also as Orlebere, Orlibar, Orlyngbere, Orlingbury, and with the prefix "De." Silsoe Ampthill, Beds. GERALD ORLEBAR. SIR GREGORY NORTON, THE REGICIDE, AND HIS SON SIR HENRY. (1 S. ii. 216, 251; 6 S. xii. 187; 7 S. viii. 324, 394; 10 S. vii. 168, 330, 376, 416.) THE Nortons of Rotherfield and the Nortons of Southwick have been fully dealt with in the pages of N. & Q.' Incidentally, Sir Gregory Norton, the regicide, and Sir Henry Norton his son have been referred to. Much information relating to the regicide and his son has recently come under my notice, and at the same time a few additional facts relating to the two families mentioned above. Nothing seems to be known of the parentage or of the early history of Sir Gregory Norton. One contributor to N. & Q.' is inclined to believe that he belonged to the Nortons of Kent. Sir Dudley Norton, Secretary of State for Ireland (1612-34), son of John Norton of Boughton Monchelsea, Kent, is said to have had a brother Gregory 66 holding a commission in the Irish army (Herald and Gen., iv. 288). This Gregory may have been the regicide or his father. Another contributor says it is thought he was either a grandson or nephew of this Sir Dudley Norton, who retired from office in 1634 from age and infirmity. Published accounts of Sir Gregory Norton in later life have come very largely from that it is the pens of his enemies, so very difficult to tell his story impartially. A search through the State Papers of his period seems to point to the fact that he was a shrewd fellow, and one keenly alive wherewithal." to his own interests and the In a scarce work entitled 66 66 The true character of the educations, inclinations, and several dispositions of all and every one of those bloody and barbarous persons, who sate as judges upon the life of our late Dread Sovereign King Charles I. of ever Blessed Memory. London, 1660," we read the following description of Sir Gregory :— A man of no considerable fortune before these wars, but he obtained afterwards Richmond House [Palace], and much of the King's goods for an inconsiderable value, which made him to lend life, he being one of the Judges that murmured so ready an eare for the taking away of the King's themselves into a conspiracy against it." The History of King-Killers,' 1719, describes him as "the poor scoundrel regicide and beggarly knight, one of the pensioners of the King, who, in return for the bread he had eaten and for being kept from starving, became one of the King's murderers, sitting in the court to try him, and signing the warrant for execution, for which dia bolical action he was rewarded with Richmond House and Manor, escaping the more proper reward of his villainy, an halter, by dying before the Restoration." In a curious broadside dated 1660, and entitled "The Picture of the Good Old Cause drawn to bone with several examples of God's judgments on the Life in the Effigies of Master Praise-God-Baresome Eminent Engagers against Kingly Government," we learn that Sir Gregory Norton 44 Henry of whom more later-succeeded to his father's estates and baronetcy, and married Mabella, daughter of Sir Richard Norton, Bart.,'of Rotherfield in East Tysted (Hants)—a match which has given rise to great confusion in the Norton of Rotherfield pedigree. Sir Henry Norton was apparently no blood relation of his wife. At Somerset House, in the Will Register for 1652 (Bowyer, fol. 179), is a reference to the will of "Sir Gregorie Norton of the Parish of Pauls Covent Garden in the Countie of Middlesex Baronet." The will itself is dated 12 March, 1651, and contains these words: "First whereas I have mortgaged my land in Penn in the Countie of Bucks to Robert Johnson of Lond on Esquire I leave the redemption thereof to my unnaturallie dysobedient sonne Henrie Norton." The testator confirms settlement by deed of his other property, and expresses the wish to be buried in or near Richmond. He was was buried in the Richmond Parish Churchyard on 26 March, 1652. The will proved on 24 Sept., 1652, by Dame Martha Norton, the relict, who on 20 Oct., 1655, married Robert Gordon, Viscount Kenmure. This nobleman was born in November, 1622, and succeeded to the peerage in October, 1643. It is said he suffered much on account of his loyalty to the King, and was excepted from Cromwell's "Act of Grace," 1654. He died at Greenlaw in 1663. His widow died about 1671, the will being proved in November of that year. According to Robert Baillie, Kenmure cast himself away on a foolish mar riage which would accomplish the ruin of his family.' The "disobedience" of Sir Gregory Norton's son referred to above was most likely no more than his disapproval of his father's extreme anti-Royalism, for, as we shall see later, Henry's wife speaks of her husband's abhorrence of the deeds perpetrated by the father, Sir Gregory. Succeeding to his father's baronetcy and estate, Henry legally held these until the Restoration, when the post-mortem attainder of his father in 1660 deprived him of both alike. CHAPEL-HOUSE (11 S. ix. 489).-If R. A. H. will refer to road-books such as Kearsley's 'Traveller's Entertaining Guide through Great Britain,' 1801; Cary's New Itinerary,' 5th ed., 1812; Paterson's 'Roads,' 18th ed., by Edward Mogg, 1826, he will find that Chapel House, Oxfordshire, is, or was, between Enstone and Long Compton, being about ten miles north-west of Woodstock, and about one mile north-east of Chipping Norton. It was apparently a place where a good inn might be expected, seeing that it was where the road from Banbury entered that between Oxford and Stratford-on-Avon, which was part of the road from London to Shrewsbury. Kearsley (col. 133) says "a good inn," but gives no name. Cary (col. 236) gives "Shakspeare's Head"; W. C. Oulton in his Traveller's Guide,' 1805, which is a gazetteer, not a road-book, the same name, spelt Shakespeare." At Chapel House was a receiving-house for letters. 66 Another name appears to have been Chapel house on the heath." See Gough's 'Camden's Britannia' (1789), i. 294. chapel used by pilgrims; in later times it was "Chapel house before-mentioned was an antient converted into a public house, and by the industry of the present proprietor it has arisen to an inn of the better sort. In digging to enlarge it bodies were found in stone coffins; in one a number of beads and a silver crucifix: three urns in a small vault like oven: many fragments of stone mullions and painted glass. The cemetery is under the present high road.”—Ibid., p. 295. If we may assume that the said "present proprietor,' or some one like him, was in possession of the inn at Chapel House, called, perhaps, the "Shakespeare's Head," in 1776, it is easy to account for Johnson's remarks on "the felicity of England in its taverns and inns" (Boswell's 'Life of Samuel Johnson,' ninth edition, 1822, ii. 436, under date 21 March, 1776). ROBERT PIERPOINT. "The direct road [from Chipping Norton] to Enstone and Oxford ascends to the right at the On 10 March, 1658, Sir Henry was enrolled northern extremity of the main street, but in in the Register of Gray's Inn; and in January, out of our way. order to visit Great Tew we must go a few miles Accordingly, we keep straight 1659, he was elected M.P. for Petersfield, on by the Banbury road, and at the first cross Hants, in the Parliament of Richard Crom-roads we pass, a few yards on our right, all that well, but unseated by resolution of the House on 22 March of the same year. ALBERT A. BARKAS. Richmond, Surrey. (To be continued.) is left of the once famous coaching inn at Chapel House. It had its gardens and its bowling green, and was well known to all frequenters of the road as one of the pleasantest houses of entertainment in the Midlands. But in the 'forties, when the coaches came to an end, Chapel House, like many another cheerful wayside hostelry, found its occupation gone; what was left standing of the house was turned into labourers' cottages, and the extensive stabling devoted to farm purposes. Its isolated, desolate situation must have made it doubly welcome to the half-frozen outside passenger, whose twenty-mile drive over the North Oxfordshire downs enabled him to regard the blazing fire and good old English cheer which awaited him with feelings which may well be envied by the modern occupant of an artificially heated railway carriage.' "As for the chapel, which gave the place its name, it belonged to the Priory of Cold Norton ..and was intended for the use of the laity; the site of the Priory is marked by the Priory Farm, half-a-mile to the east; while a further relic of the foundation is to be found in the Priory mill, more than a mile to the north. This Priory of Augustinian canons was founded in the twelfth century by William Fitzalan, lord of Chipping Norton, to the honour of God, St. Mary, St. John the Evangelist, and St. Giles.' After the death of the last Prior, in 1496, the foundation died out, and its estates were bestowed by Henry VII. on the Convent of St. Stephen at Westminster. From this house they were soon after purchased by William Smyth, Bishop of Lincoln, and given by him to his new foundation of Brasenose College, in whose possession they still remain." Chapel House is near Chipping Norton and the inn mentioned was probably an old coaching house called "The Silent Woman," now converted into several cottages. Chapel House will be found on the Oxfordshire Ordnance Survey Map. WM. JAGGARD. [A. C. C., MR. WILLIAM MERCER, and MR. WM. H. PEET also thanked for replies.] He was also Commander-in-Chief of the I believe this stick has no inscription on "BLIZARD AS A SURNAME (11 S. ix. 290, 396, 437, 456). The name of Blezard is also found in Westmorland; the author of T. Original Westmorland Songs' was Blezard, who resided near Windermere about 1858. The above work, of which I have seen only part i., related chiefly to scenes and incidents in the districts of Kendal and Windermere, and contained notes and a glossary of the local words to be found in the songs. ARCHIBALD SPARKE, F.R.S.L. While the owners of this name are not numerous, they are fairly well distributed over the North American continent. Here are a few of the cities where they are to be found : Atlanta, Atlantic City, Baltimore, Boston, Brooklyn, U.S. MISSIONARY SHIP DUFF (11 S. ix. 410, 457, 512). The following may be more accessible works on the above subject: Cousins, The Story of the South Seas'; Stead, of the London Missionary Society. I have Captain James Wilson'; Horne, Story obtained these references from a little book lately published by the S.P.G. entitled 'Yarns of the South Sea Pioneers,' pp. 13–20. W. R. B. PRIDEAUX. ALEXANDER STRAHAN (11 S. ix. 490).— Mr. Strahan, the publisher, was born about TIPPOO SAHIB'S STICK (11 S. ix. 408, 477). 1830, and is, I believe, still living. He had -A stick formerly belonging to Tippoo no connexion with the Moxon business, Sahib is in the possession of some members although he succeeded that firm as the of my family in Hampshire. It is built up publisher of Tennyson's works. Mr. Strahan of alternate lengths of ivory and ebony, and gave some account of his career, under the has a crutch handle consisting of an ivory title of Twenty Years of a Publisher's Life,' tusk about 5 in. long. It was given to in a magazine entitled The Day of Rest, my great-grandfather, Rear-Admiral Henry published by himself during 1881. It was Stuart, R.N., by his uncle, Lieut.-General announced in 1882 as to appear in volume James Stuart, who commanded the Bombay form by Messrs. Chatto & Windus, but it army at the siege and capture of Seringa- was never issued. See also 'A Great patam in May, 1799. This officer was Publisher from the North of Scotland' formerly in the Seaforth Highlanders, of (Alexander Strahan), Inverness Courier, 29 which regiment he became Colonel-in-Chief. Dec., 1903, and an article by Mr. Strahan on 11 S. X. JULY 4, 1914.] NOTES AND QUERIES. Charles Knight in Good Words, September, 1867. In The Recollections of Isabella some Fyvie Mayo,' 1910, will be found interesting details of the career of Mr. Strahan, who was for some time a prominent figure in the literary and publishing world. Wм. H. PEET. as HENRY HASE (11 S. ix. 449).-Abraham Chief Newland, after holding office Cashier of the Bank of England for nearly thirty years, died 21 Nov., 1807, and an official notice was issued that on and after England 1 Jan., 1808, Bank of Henry Hase would be made payable to The phrase To the tune of or bearer." Henry Hase" would to-day be "To the tune of a fiver.' 66 notes It may be worth recording that during the tenure of office by a later Cashier the notes were known by the more poetical name of "the Promise of May.' THE 66 J. H. K. [J. F. also thanked for reply.] OF FLASH" THE ROYAL WELSH FUSILIERS (11 S. ix. 488). According to the Records and Badges of Every Regiment and Corps in the British Army, y Chichester and Burges-Short, published by William Clowes & Sons, Ltd., in 1895, officers and sergeants of this regiment are "the flash," a distinguished by wearing bow of broad black silk ribbon with long ends, attached to the back of the tuniccollar. No authentic explanation of the origin of the flash has appeared, and the official returns throw no light upon the subject. In an inspection report of 1786 it the officers of this regiment is noted that wear the hair turned up behind." This method of having the hair fastened up with grenaa bow or flash was then or later the " dier fashion" of wearing it. Probably the flash was retained to commemorate some such distinctive method of dressing the hair in use in the regiment in the days of queues and hair powder. The regiment was founded in 1689 from some thirteen separate companies raised in 1686. There are two separate histories of the regiment : (a) The Historical Record of the 23rd or Illustrated. Royal Welsh Fusiliers, 1689-1850. Published by Parker in 1850. (b) Historical Record of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. By Major Rowland Broughton-MainWelsh waring, Royal London, Hatchards, 1889. Fusiliers. Illustrated. G. YARROW BALDOCK, Major. South Hackney, N.E. For the ornament consisting of three short pieces of black velvet ribbon sewn to the collar of a full-dress tunic, and hanging queue, down the back, supposed to be the remains and now worn only by the officers of the of the bow which fastened the " 23rd Royal Welsh Fusiliers, see 8 S. vii. 311 (20 April, 1895). From 1700 onwards the word was used as slang for a periwig or peruke, and is derived from the verb "to itself apparently of onomatopoic A. R. BAYLEY. flash,' "AMONG THE BLIND THE ONE-EYED MAN (11 S. ix. 369, 412, 477).—As to IS KING the mention of Erasmus at the second reference, I may, perhaps, point out that in Adagia, id est Proverbiorum, Parcemiarum Inter cæcos ...Collectio,' the proverb is among those under the regnat strabus " heading Excellentia et Inæqualitas,' which is a subdivision of 'Dignitas, et Excellentia, et Inæqualitas: in the edition of 1599, col. 479; in that of 1670, p. 188. ... Perhaps the order of the proverbs collected by Michael Apostolios has not always In my copy, printed by been the same. the Elseviers in 1653, the proverb, 'Ev Tois The Latin τόποις τυφλῶν λάμων βασιλεύει, is to be equivalent in the opposite column is: found at Cent. VIII. Prov. 31. Cæcorum in patria luscus rex imperat In a note, p. 310, yλáμwv appears The note gives omnis. as an alternative for λápov. ἐν τυφλῶν πόλεϊ Γλαμυρὸς βασιλεύει, οf which the full reference is to be found in Liddell and Scott, s.v. yλaμvpós, “Proverb. ар. Schol. Il. 24. 192." (11 S. ix. 308, 395, 477).CORVICER At the time the parish registers began, this name had almost become obsolete. On the Preston (Lancs) Guild Roll for 1415 "corvisers." They were adthere were no fewer than eight tradesmen described as mitted by the payment of fines, as their fathers were not on the earlier Guild Rolls. In 1562 there were seven of this trade adHENRY FISHWICK. mitted, but they are all described as “shoemakers." BOOKS ON CHELSEA (11 S. ix. 479).-The kilns alluded to existed in 1908 in a poor There is no question of the More family street between Fulham Road and the river. lost" it is in the possession group being of a descendant, and is highly prized. 66 : LONDONER. HUGH S. GLADSTONE. SIR JACOB ADOLPHUS (11 S. ix. 268, 397). |—MacGillivray and Yarrell having set the -He was appointed a Hospital Mate in the fashion of abbreviating it to "tit." Army by warrant dated 2 Oct., 1795. In The term "blackcap" for this species is May, 1797, he became Lieutenant and to be deprecated, as this is the recognized Surgeon of the New Romney Fencible shortened name of the blackcap warbler, Cavalry, with which regiment he served | Sylvia atricapilla atricapilla, Linn. during the rebellion in Ireland, until the corps was reduced in 1800. He then reverted to his employment as Hospital NELL GWYN: ROSE GWYN (11 S. ix. 410). Mate until he obtained a commission as Mr. Cecil Chesterton probably derived his Assistant Surgeon of the 60th Foot, 10 Oct., information from the notes to Mr. Gordon 1802. He passed through the grades of Goodwin's admirable edition of Peter CunRegimental Surgeon, Staff Surgeon, and ningham's Story of Nell Gwyn' (see p. 215). Deputy Inspector of Hospitals, and became It would appear that in December, 1663, Inspector of Hospitals, by brevet, 27 May, 'Rose Gwynn was imprisoned in Newgate 1825. On his retirement on half-pay in for robbery, but she possessed influence November, 1827, he was promoted to the enough to gain a reprieve before judgment permanent grade of Inspector of Hospitals. at the Old Bailey, and she was visited in He took part in the Walcheren Expedition, prison by the King's favourite, Thomas but his service abroad was principally in the Killigrew, and by Browne, the Duke of West Indies. There he appears to have York's cupbearer. On 30 Dec. she obtained passed his early years, having served his her discharge, having pleaded that her apprenticeship to a medical practitioner in father had lost all he had in the service of Spanish Town, Jamaica. On 19 Nov., 1816, the late King (Cal. State Papers, Dom.,' the degree of M.D. was conferred on him by 1663-4, pp. 390, 393). The probabilities Marischal College and University of Aber-point to this Rose being Nell Gwyn's sister of that name. deen. The latest authority (Mr. H. Kirke Swann, in his A Dictionary of English and Folk Names of British Birds, 1913) does not include the word "titmarsh.” It may be that the marsh tit is intended; if so, the British species is now termed Parus palustris dresseri, Stejn. The British willow-tit, P. atricapillus kleinschmidti, Hellm., and the Northern willow-tit, P. atricapillus borealis, Selys., have often been confounded with the British marsh tit (A Hand-List of British Birds,' by Ernst Hartert, F. C. R. Jourdain, N. F. Ticehurst, and H. F. Witherby, 1912). If in the poem the word "titmouse had been used, it would not have affected the scansion, and would have retained the form employed by the older authors for a Rose Gwyn's first husband is stated to have been John Cassells, who apparently flourished as a highway "captain time, and died in 1675, leaving his widow penniless. Charles II. gave her a pension of 2001. a year on the Irish establishment, which she enjoyed until the accession of William and Mary. Subsequently she mar ried a person named Forster, and received a legacy of 2001. from her sister Nell in the first codicil of the latter's will, and a further sum of 2001. in the second codicil. Her husband was bequeathed "a ring of the value of forty pounds or forty pounds to buy him a ring." Nothing further seems to be known of her. W. F. PRIDEAUX. 66 JOHN SWINFEN (11 S. ix. 307, 375, 438).— The following additional particulars may be found useful. John Swinfen was M.P. for Stafford, not Tamworth, in the Long Parlia ment, from 30 Oct., 1645, until secluded in 'Pride's Purge in December, 1648. He was eldest son of Richard Swinfen of Swinfen, co. Stafford, by Joan, daughter of George Curitall, gent. He was born 19 March, 1612/13, bapt. at Welford 28 March; succeeded his father 10 May, 1659; married, 26 July, 1632, Anne, daughter of Mr. John Brandreth; and died 29 March, buried 13 April, 1694, at Welford, having survived all his sons. His wife was buried at Welford 29 April, 1690. Their only daughter and |