Replies.

Footnote 1:(return)Appeal of Injured Innocence, p. 462.

Appeal of Injured Innocence, p. 462.

Experto crede Roberto.—What is the origin of this saying?

N. B.

Captain Howe.—

Captain Howe, the King's (George II.) nephew by an illegitimate source."—Pictorial History of England, iv. 597.

Can you inform me how this captain was thus related to George II.?

F. B. Relton.

Bactria.—Can you refer me to a work worthy the name ofThe History of Bactria, or to detached information concerning Bactriana, under the Scythian kings? I also want a guide to the Græco-Bactrian series of coins.

Blowen.

(Vol. ii., pp. 119. 286.)

The family of the Tradescants is involved in considerable obscurity, and the period of the arrival of the first of that name in England is not, for a certainty, known. There were, it seems, three of the Tradescants at one time in this country—grandfather, father, and son. John Tradescant (or Tradeskin, as he was generally called by his contemporaries) the elder was, according to Anthony Wood, a Fleming or a Dutchman. He probably came to England about the latter end of the reign of Elizabeth, or in the beginning of that of James the First. He is reported to have been a great traveller, and to have previously visited Barbary, Greece, Egypt, and other Eastern countries. Upon his first arrival here he is said to have been successively gardener to the Lord Treasurer Salisbury, Lord Weston, the Duke of Buckingham, and other noblemen of distinction. In these situations he remained until the office of royal gardener was bestowed upon him in 1629.

To John Tradescant the elder, posterity is mainly indebted for the introduction of botany in this kingdom. "He, by great industry, made it manifest that there is scarcely any plant existing in the known world, that will not, with proper care, thrive in our climate." In a visit made by Sir W. Watson and Dr. Mitchell to Tradescant's garden in 1749, an account of which is inserted in thePhilosophical Transactions, vol. xlvi. p. 160., it appears that it had been many years totally neglected, and the house belonging to it empty and ruined; but though the garden was quite covered with weeds, there remained among them manifest footsteps of its founder. They found there theBorago latifolia sempervivensof Caspar Bauhine;Polygonatum vulgare latifolium, C.B.;Aristolochia clematitis recta, C.B.; and theDracontiumof Dodoens. There were then remaining two trees of theArbutus, which from their being so long used to our winters, did not suffer from the severe cold of 1739-40, when most of their kind were killed in England. In the orchard there was a tree of theRhamnus catharticus, about twenty feet high, and nearly a foot in diameter. There are at present no traces of this garden remaining.

In the Ashmolean Library is preserved (No. 1461.) a folio manuscript (probably in the handwriting of the elder Tradescant) which purports to be "The Tradescants' Orchard, illustrated in sixty-five coloured drawings of fruits, exhibiting various kinds of the apple, cherry, damson, date,gooseberry, peares, peaches, plums, nectarines, grape, Hasell-nutt, quince, strawberry, with the times of their ripening."

Old John Tradescant died in the year 1652, at which period he was probably far advanced in years, leaving behind him a son (also of the same name) who seems to have inherited his father's talents and enthusiasm. There is a tradition that John Tradescant the younger entered himself on board a privateer going against the Algerines, that he might have an opportunity of bringing apricot-trees from that country. He is known to have taken a voyage to Virginia, whence he returned with many new plants. The two Tradescants were the means of introducing a variety of curious species into this kingdom, several of which bore their name. Tradescants'SpiderwortandAsterare well known to this day, and Linnæus has immortalised them among the botanists by making a new genus under their names of theSpiderwort, which had been before calledEphemeron.

When the elder Tradescant first settled in England, he formed a curious collection of natural history, coins, medals, and a great variety of "uncommon rarities." A catalogue of them was published in 12mo. in the year 1656, by his son, under the name ofMuseum Tradescantianum; to which are prefixed portraits, both of the father and son, by Hollar. This Museum or "Ark," as it was termed, was frequently visited by persons of rank, who became benefactors thereto; among these were Charles the First, Henrietta Maria (his queen), Archbishop Laud, George Duke of Buckingham, Robert and William Cecil, Earls of Salisbury, and many other persons of distinction: among them also appears the philosophic John Evelyn, who in hisDiaryhas the following notice:

"Sept. 17, 1657, I went to see Sir Robert Needham, at Lambeth, a relation of mine, and thence to John Tradescant's museum."

"Thus John Tradeskin starves our wondering eyesBy boxing up his new-found rarities."

"Thus John Tradeskin starves our wondering eyes

By boxing up his new-found rarities."

Ashmole, in hisDiary(first published by Charles Burman in 1717), has three significant entries relating to the subject of our notice, which I transcribeverbatim:

"Decem. 12, 1659. Mr. Tredescant and his wife told me they had been long considering upon whom to bestow their closet of curiosities when they died, and at last had resolved to give it unto me."April 22, 1662. Mr. John Tredescant died."May 30, 1662. This Easter term I preferred a bill in Chancery against Mrs. Tredescant, for the rarities her husband had settled on me."

"Decem. 12, 1659. Mr. Tredescant and his wife told me they had been long considering upon whom to bestow their closet of curiosities when they died, and at last had resolved to give it unto me.

"April 22, 1662. Mr. John Tredescant died.

"May 30, 1662. This Easter term I preferred a bill in Chancery against Mrs. Tredescant, for the rarities her husband had settled on me."

The success of Ashmole's suit is well known; but the whole transaction reflects anything but honour upon his name. The loss of her husband's treasures probably preyed upon the mind of Mrs. Tradescant; for in theDiarybefore quoted, under April 4, 1678, Ashmole says:

"My wife told me that Mrs. Tradescant was found drowned in her pond. She was drowned the day before at noon, as appears by some circumstance."

This was the same Hesther Tradescant who erected the Tradescant monument in Lambeth churchyard. She was buried in the vault where her husband and his son John (who "died in his spring") had been formerly laid.

The table monument to the memory of the Tradescants was erected in 1662. The sculptures on the four sides are as follows, viz. on thenorth, a crocodile, shells, &c., and a view of some Egyptian buildings; on thesouth, broken columns, Corinthian capitals, &c., supposed to be ruins in Greece, or some Eastern country; on theeast, Tradescant's arms, on a bend three fleurs-de-lys, impaling a lion passant; on thewest, a hydra, and under it a skull; various figures of trees, &c., in relievo, adorn the four corners of the tomb; over it is placed a handsome tablet of black marble. The monument, by the contribution of some friends to their memory, was in the year 1773 repaired, and (according to Sir John Hawkins) the following lines, "formerlyintended for an epitaph, inserted thereon." Other authorities say that they were merelyrestored.

"Know, stranger, ere thou pass beneath this stone,Lye John Tradescant, grandsire, father, son;The last dy'd in his spring; the other twoLiv'd till they had travell'd Art and Nature through,As by their choice collections may appear,Of what is rare, in land, in sea, in air;Whilst they (as Homer'sIliadin a nut)A world of wonders in one closet shut;These famous antiquarians that had beenBoth Gardeners to the Rose and Lily Queen,Transplanted now themselves, sleep here; and whenAngels shall with their trumpets waken men,And fire shall purge the world, these hence shall rise,And change this garden for a Paradise."

"Know, stranger, ere thou pass beneath this stone,

Lye John Tradescant, grandsire, father, son;

The last dy'd in his spring; the other two

Liv'd till they had travell'd Art and Nature through,

As by their choice collections may appear,

Of what is rare, in land, in sea, in air;

Whilst they (as Homer'sIliadin a nut)

A world of wonders in one closet shut;

These famous antiquarians that had been

Both Gardeners to the Rose and Lily Queen,

Transplanted now themselves, sleep here; and when

Angels shall with their trumpets waken men,

And fire shall purge the world, these hence shall rise,

And change this garden for a Paradise."

A number of important errors concerning this once celebrated family have been made by different writers. Sir John Hawkins, in a note to his edition of Walton'sAngler(edit. 1792, p. 24.), says:

"There were, it seems, three of the Tradescants, grandfather, father, and son: the son is the person here meant: the two former were gardeners to Queen Elizabeth, and the latter to King Charles I."

The epitaph above quoted satisfactorily proves, I think, that the Tradescants were never gardeners to the maiden Queen. "The rose and lily queen" was certainly Henrietta Maria, the queen of Charles the First. I have now before me (from the cabinet of a friend) a small silver medal struck to commemorate the marriage of Charles the First. It has on the obverse the busts of Charles and Henrietta, the sun shining from the clouds abovethem: the inscription is CH: MAG: ET: HEN: MA: BRIT: REX: ET: REG. The reverse contains in the field, Cupid mixinglilies with roses; the legend being FVNDIT: AMOR: LILIA: MIXTA: ROSIS. In the exergue is the date 1625. The Tradescant mentioned by Walton in 1653 was thesecondof that name, not the son, as stated by Sir John Hawkins.

The editor of the last edition of Evelyn'sDiary(vol. ii. p. 414.) says, speaking of the Tradescants:

"They were all eminent gardeners, travellers, and collectors of curiosities. The two first came into this country in the reign of James I., and the second and third were employed in the Royal Gardens by Charles I."

Here is apositivestatement that the elder Tradescant and his son came into England in the reign ofJames I.But there is noproofof this given. It is merely the writer's assertion. At the end of the same note, speaking of Tradescant's Ark, the editor observes:

"It formed the foundation of the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, and a catalogue of its contents was printed by the youngest John Tradescant in 1656, with the title ofMuseum Tradescantianum. He died in 1652."

It was not theyoungestJohn Tradescant that died in 1652, but theoldest, thegrandfather—the first of that name that settled in England.

The following is a list of the portraits of the Tradescant family now in the Ashmolean Museum; both father and son are in these portraits calledSirJohn, though it does not appear that either of them was ever knighted. Mr. Black, in his excellent catalogue of the Ashmolean Library, also calls the elder TradescantSirJohn. (See p. 1266.)

1. Sir John Tradescant, sen., three-quarter size, ornamented with fruit, flowers, and garden roots.

2. The same, after his decease.

3. The same, a small three-quarter piece, in water colours.

4. A large painting of his wife, son, and daughter, quarter-length.

5. Sir John Tradescant, junior, in his garden, with a spade in his hand, half-length.

6. The same with his wife, half-length.

7. The same, with his friend Zythepsa of Lambeth, a collection of shells, &c. upon a table before them.

8. A large quarter piece inscribed Sir John Tradescant's second wife and son.

Granger says he saw a picture at a gentleman's house in Wiltshire, which was not unlike that of the deceased Tradescant, and the inscription was applicable to it:

"Mortuus haud alio quam quo pater ore quiesti,Quam facili frueris nunc quoque nocte doces."

"Mortuus haud alio quam quo pater ore quiesti,

Quam facili frueris nunc quoque nocte doces."

I may add, in conclusion, that several beautiful drawings of the Tradescant monument in Lambeth churchyard are preserved in the Pepysian library. These drawings were engraved for thePhilosophical Transactions, vol. lxiii. p. 88.; and are printed from the same plates in theBibliotheca Topographica Britannica, vol. ii.

Edward F. Rimbault.

(Vol. iii., pp. 152. 310.)

I observe, in p. 310. of the present volume, that two correspondents, P. and K., have contributed conjectures as to the meaning and origin of the termvenville, noticed and explainedantè, p. 152. Theoriginof the word is of course to some extent open to conjecture; but they may rest assured that themeaningof it is not, nor ever has been, within the domain of mere conjecture with those who have had any opportunities of inquiry in the proper quarter. The term has not the slightest reference to the ceremony of delivering possession, which P. has evidently witnessed in the case of his father, and which lawyers call livery of seisin; nor is there on Dartmoor any such word asvensignifying peat, or asfail, signifying turf. No doubt a fen on the moor would probably contain "black earth or peat," like most other mountain bogs; and if (as K. says)failmeans a "turf or flat clod" in Scotland, I think it probable that a Scotchman on Dartmoor might now and then so far forget himself as to call peat or turf by a name which would certainly not be understood by an aboriginal Devonian. The local name of the peat or other turf cut for fuel isvaggs, and this has perhaps been confounded in the recollection of K.'s informant withven. At all events, I can assure both P. and K. (who, I presume, are not familiar with the district) that the tenants of venville lands have no functions to perform, as such, in any degree connected with either turf-cutting, or "fenging fields," and that they do not necessarily, or generally, occupy peat districts, or rejoice in

"All the infections that the sun sucks upFrom bogs, fens, flats," &c.;

"All the infections that the sun sucks up

From bogs, fens, flats," &c.;

but, on the contrary, they are the owners of some of the most valuable, salubrious, and picturesque purlieus of the forest. With regard to the name "fengfield," although I am pretty familiar with the records of the forest extant for the last five hundred years past, I do not remember that it is ever so named or spelt in the muniments of the manor or forest. It is so written by Risdon, and in some few other documents entitled to little weight, and from which no safe inference can be drawn. Whatever be the etymological origin of the term, it should be assumed as indisputable by any one who may hereafter exercise his ingenuity or his fancy upon it, that the four most prominentincidents to the tenure are—1. payment of fines; 2. situation in an ancient vill; 3. attendance on the lord's court; 4. enjoyment of certain rights of common. It may be that neither thefinenor thevillforms a component part of the name; but K. need have no scruple in believing that an abbreviated Latin or "legal term" (invented, of course, by the stewards or bailiffs of the lord) may have become naturalised among those of the inhabitants of the Moor whom it concerns. The tenants or retainers of a manor have no alternative but to submit to any generic name by which the steward may please to distinguish them. Thus the "priors" and "censors" of Dartmoor forest are content to be called by those names, because they were designated as "prehurdarii" and "censarii" in the court rolls some hundred years ago. The tenants of a certain lordship in Cornwall know and convey their tenements by the name oflandamsto this day, merely because the stewards two hundred years ago, when the court rolls were in Latin, well knowing thatlandawas the Latin forland, and that transitive verbs in that language require an accusative case, recorded each tenant as having taken of the lord "unam landam, vocatam Tregollup," &c. Indeed so easily does a clipt exotic take root and become acclimated among the peasantry of the Moor, whose powers of appropriation are so much disparaged by the sceptical doubts of K., that since the establishment of local courts the termsfifaandcasahave become familiar to them as household words and the name and uses of that article of abbreviated Latinity called a 'busare, as I am credibly informed, not unknown to them.

E. Smirke.

Newburgh Hamilton(Vol. iii, p. 117).—In Thomas Whincop'sList of Dramatic Authors, &c., the following notice of Hamilton occurs:—

"Mr. Newburgh Hamilton.A Gentleman, who I think was related to, at least lived in the family of DukeHamilton; he wrote two Plays, calledI.The Doating Lovers, orThe Libertine Tam'd; a Comedy acted at the Theatre inLincoln's Inn-Fields, in the year 1715, with no success: but supported to the third night, for the Author's Benefit; when the Boxes and Pit were laid together at the unusual Price of six Shillings each Ticket.II.The Petticoat Plotter; a Comedy of two Acts, performed at the Theatre Royal inDrury-Lane."

"Mr. Newburgh Hamilton.

A Gentleman, who I think was related to, at least lived in the family of DukeHamilton; he wrote two Plays, called

I.The Doating Lovers, orThe Libertine Tam'd; a Comedy acted at the Theatre inLincoln's Inn-Fields, in the year 1715, with no success: but supported to the third night, for the Author's Benefit; when the Boxes and Pit were laid together at the unusual Price of six Shillings each Ticket.

II.The Petticoat Plotter; a Comedy of two Acts, performed at the Theatre Royal inDrury-Lane."

T. C. T.

Pedigree of Owen Glendower(Vol. iii., p. 222.).—A contributor who is not a Cambrian, sends the following pedigree of Owen Glyndowr, with the authority from whence he has obtained it, viz. Harl. MS. 807., Robert Glover's Book of Pedigrees and Arms, drawn up in part about 1574.

H. E.

MADOCUS| LEWELLINUS ultimusGRIFFITH, Dominus de Bromfeld, == Filia JACOBI Princeps Walliæ.obiit 1270, sepultus apud Valcraeys. | AUDLEY || |____________| |______________________________________|____________ PHILIP AP YEVOR, == UNICA, filia| | | | Lord of Iscoyd. | et hæres.MADOC VICHAN, Dñs LEONLINUS, GRIFFITH VAWER 4 filius, Dñs de |_____________de Bromfeld, cujus Dñs de GWYNN, Dñs de Kynllieth. |custôdiam in minori Chirke Yale avus Owyn |ætate, Rex H. 3. Glyndore THOMAS AP LLYN ap === ALIONORA,dedit Johanni Com. | Owen ap Meredeth | filia etWarennæ, 1270, qui | ap Owen ap Rhese | hæres.adificavit Castrum | ap Griffin ap Rese ap |de Holt. | Thewdor. || _____________________________________|| | |GRIFFITH VICHAN, === ELENA. Filia nupta Tudorpater Owyn | ap Grono.Glyndoure |____________||OWEN GLYNDOWREproditor Rex H. 4.|| JOHANNIS SCUDAMORE, miles,ALICIA, filia et hæres, duxit filiam et hæredamnupta —— Scudamore. Oweni Glendoure proditorisRegis H. 4.

Mind your P's and Q's(Vol. iii., p. 328.)—This expression arose from the ancient custom of hanging a slate behind the alehouse door, on which was written P. or Q. (i. e.PintorQuart) against the name of each customer, according to the quantity which he had drunk, and which was not expected to be paid for till the Saturday evening, when the wages were settled.

The expression so familiar to schoolboys of "going tick," may perhaps be traced to this, atickor mark being put for every glass of ale.

C. De la Pryme.

The Sempecta at Croyland(Vol. iii., p. 328.).—He was not there, however; and I am sorry to say, I do not remember where he was personally, or exactly where the account of him is to be found. I have no doubt of its being in one or other of the fourteen volumes of Martene'sThesaurus et Amplissima Collectio. I do not now possess those books, and have not access to them; but I think your correspondent will find what he wants without much difficulty if (as I suspect) it is with some other pieces in rhyme, and therefore likely to catch the eye in turning over a volume chiefly in prose. Perhaps the name "Francis" may be in the index. If he does not, I shall be happy to seek for information.

S. R. Maitland.

Gloucester.

Solid-hoofed Pigs(Vol. iii., p. 263.).—I saw a pig of this kind a few years ago, in possession of Sir William Homan, Bart., of Dromroe, near Cappoquin, in the county of Waterford.

I do not know whether he has any of that breed at present; but have little doubt that a note, addressed to Sir William on the subject, would receive a courteous reply.

H. C.

Thurles, April 9. 1851.

Porci solide-pedes(Vol. iii., p. 263.).—A correspondent of "Notes and Queries" inquires about the breed of solid-hoofed pigs. Some years, perhaps twenty years, ago there were several pigs of that sort in the possession of Robert Ramsden, Esq., of Coulton Hall, Notts, of which he was good enough to give some to my father. I believe they were considered of Chinese origins, but how remotely I do not know. They were very easily fattened, but always of small size; and I think, unless my memory much deceives me, on removing the horny portion of the hoof, the rudiments of a cloven hoof, like that of the ordinary swine, were to be seen.

E. G. Selwyn.

Blackheath, April 17. 1851.

Sir Henry Slingsby's Diary(Vol. iii., p. 323.).—The council of "The Camden Society" will no doubt be pleased to find that your correspondents are good enough to keep in view the welfare of that Society, and to suggest works suitable for their publication.

If Sir Henry Slingsby'sDiaryhad never been published, it would indeed have been an excellent book for the Camden Society; but be kind enough to inform your correspondent P. B. that, besides some quotations printed in Seward'sAnecdotes, and large extracts published at Edinburgh, in an octavo volume, in 1806, the wholeDiary, with a great deal of illustrative matter relating to the Slingsby family, was published in one volume, 8vo., London, 1836, under the very competent editorship of the Rev. Daniel Parsons, of Oriel College, Oxford.

It appears from the preface to that publication, that the original MS. is not now known to be in existence. Mr. Parsons printed from a copy of the original, made by Sir Savile Slingsby, in 1714-5, which then remained at Scriven.

Ettie.

Criston, Somerset(Vol. iii., p. 278.).—PerhapsPristonis the place inquired for. This is a village near Keynshem, where a Mr.VaughanJenkins has some property.Criston, as a place in Somerset, is unknown to

Bath, April 18.

Criston(Vol. iii., p. 278.).—There is a small village in Somersetshire called Christon, about five miles N.W. of Axbridge.

C. I. R.

Tradesmen's Signs(Vol. iii., p. 224.).—In the delightful little volume on Chaucer, in Knight's shilling series, entitledPictures of English Life, the author has the following on the Tabard, at p. 19.:—

"The sign and its supports were removed in 1776, when all such characteristic features of the streets of London in the olden time, disappearedin obedience to a parliamentary edictfor their destruction."

It would appear, however, by the subsequent quotation from Brand'sAntiquities, vol. ii. p. 359., that the edict above referred to was not carried into execution against all signs; or that, if so, it was soon repealed:—

"Lord Thurlow, in his speech for postponing the further reading of the Surgeons' Incorporation Bill, July 17th, 1797, stated 'that by a statute still in force, the barbers and surgeons were each to use a pole.'"

R. W. E.

Cor. Chr. Coll., Cambridge.

Emendation of a Passage in Virgil(Vol. iii., p. 237.).—The emendation ofScriblerusis certainly objectionable, and by no means satisfactory, for these reasons:—1st. "Ac sunt in spatio" is by no means elegant Latin, which "addunt se in spatia" is; for the word "addunt" is constantly used in the same way elsewhere.

2nd. The word "spatium" is seldom used to signify a chariot course.

"Spatia," the plural, was the proper expression, and is only so deviated from in poetry in a single instance. (Juv.Sat.vi. 582.) It is used inthe plural in Virg.Æn. v. 316. 325. 327.; Statius,Theb.vi. 594.; Horace,Epist.1. xiv. 9.

VideSmith'sDictionary of Antiquities, under art. Circus, p. 232.

Surely there is nothing unintelligible in the expression, "addunt se in spatia," which is the reading given in almost all the best editions.

J. E. M.

Archdeacon Cotton, whose endeavours to ascertain and record the succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies in Ireland are probably known to many of our readers (at least, by the Queries which have appeared in our Columns), has just completed hisFasti Ecclesiæ Hiberniæ, in 4 vols. 8vo. From the nature of the work, it is obvious that it could never have been undertaken with a view to profit. The printing, &c., has cost upwards of six hundred pounds, and the Archdeacon, naturally unwilling to lose the whole of this outlay, is circulating a prospectus offering copies at fifty shillings the set. Of these, there are but two hundred. The utility of a book which contains the names and preferments of every occupant of an Irish see, dignity, or prebend, from the earliest period to the present day, so far as existing materials permits, is so obvious, that it can scarcely be doubted that it must eventually find a place in all public and official libraries.

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History of Jenny Spinner, the Hertfordshire Girl, written by herself. London. 18 mo. J. Wheble, Warwick Square. 1800.

Anti-Jacobin Review. Vols. LI. and LII.

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Cureton, Pillar of the Creed of the Sunnites.

Pond's Catalogue of 1112 Stars reduced from Observations made at Greenwich from 1816 to 1833.

Taylor, a General Catalogue of the Principal fixed Stars, Madras, 1844.

Macdonald, Dissertatio de Necrose et Callo, 1795. Edinburgh.

Dieffenback, Travels in New Zealand.4to. 1843.

Dianæ (Anton.) Resolutionum Moralium Summa.4to.

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Annual Income, 150,000l.—Bonuses Declared, 743,000l.Claims paid since the Establishment of the Office, 2,001,450l.

President.The Right Honourable EARL GREY.

Directors.The Rev. James Sherman,Chairman.Henry Blencowe Churchill, Esq.,Deputy-Chairman.

Henry B. Alexander, Esq.George Dacre, Esq.William Judd, Esq.Sir Richard D. King, Bart.The Hon. Arthur KinnairdThomas Maugham, Esq.William Ostler, Esq.Apsley Pellatt, Esq.George Round, Esq.Frederick Squire, Esq.William Henry Stone, Esq.Capt. William John Williams.

Henry B. Alexander, Esq.

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William Judd, Esq.

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-------------------------------------------------------------------| | | | Bonuses added || Date | Sum | | subsequently, to be || of | Insured. | Original Premium. | further increased || Policy. | | | annually. |-------------------------------------------------------------------| 1806 | £2500 |£79 10 10 Extinguished| £1222 2 0 || 1811 | 1000 | 33 19 2 Ditto | 231 17 8 || 1818 | 1000 | 34 16 10 Ditto | 114 18 10 |-------------------------------------------------------------------

Examples of Bonuses added to other Policies.

-------------------------------------------------------------------| | | | | Total with Additions, || Policy | Date. | Sum | Bonuses | to be further || No. | | Insured. | added. | increased. |-------------------------------------------------------------------| 521 | 1807 | £900 | £982 12 1 | £1882 12 1 || 1174 | 1810 | 1200 | 1160 5 6 | 2360 5 6 || 3392 | 1820 | 5000 | 3558 17 8 | 8558 17 8 |-------------------------------------------------------------------

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THE GENERAL LAND DRAINAGE AND IMPROVEMENT COMPANY.

Incorporated by Act of Parliament, 12 and 13 Vict. c. 91.

DIRECTORS.Henry Ker Seymer, Esq. M.P., Hanford, Dorset, Chairman.John Villiers Shelley, Esq. Maresfield Park, Sussex, Deputy-Chairman.John Chevallier Cobbold, Esq., M.P., Ipswich.William Cubitt, Esq., Great George Street, Westminster.Henry Currie, Esq., M.P., West Horsley, Surrey.Thomas Edward Dicey, Esq., Claybrook Hall, Lutterworth.William Fisher Hobbs, Esq., Boxted Lodge, Colchester.Edward John Hutchins, Esq., M.P., Eaton Square, London.Samuel Morton Peto, Esq., M.P., Great George Street.Colonel George Alexander Reid, M.P., Bulstrode Park, Bucks.William Tite, Esq., F.R.S., Lowndes Square, London.William Wilshere, Esq., The Frythe, Welwyn, Herts.

DIRECTORS.

Henry Ker Seymer, Esq. M.P., Hanford, Dorset, Chairman.John Villiers Shelley, Esq. Maresfield Park, Sussex, Deputy-Chairman.John Chevallier Cobbold, Esq., M.P., Ipswich.William Cubitt, Esq., Great George Street, Westminster.Henry Currie, Esq., M.P., West Horsley, Surrey.Thomas Edward Dicey, Esq., Claybrook Hall, Lutterworth.William Fisher Hobbs, Esq., Boxted Lodge, Colchester.Edward John Hutchins, Esq., M.P., Eaton Square, London.Samuel Morton Peto, Esq., M.P., Great George Street.Colonel George Alexander Reid, M.P., Bulstrode Park, Bucks.William Tite, Esq., F.R.S., Lowndes Square, London.William Wilshere, Esq., The Frythe, Welwyn, Herts.

Henry Ker Seymer, Esq. M.P., Hanford, Dorset, Chairman.

John Villiers Shelley, Esq. Maresfield Park, Sussex, Deputy-Chairman.

John Chevallier Cobbold, Esq., M.P., Ipswich.

William Cubitt, Esq., Great George Street, Westminster.

Henry Currie, Esq., M.P., West Horsley, Surrey.

Thomas Edward Dicey, Esq., Claybrook Hall, Lutterworth.

William Fisher Hobbs, Esq., Boxted Lodge, Colchester.

Edward John Hutchins, Esq., M.P., Eaton Square, London.

Samuel Morton Peto, Esq., M.P., Great George Street.

Colonel George Alexander Reid, M.P., Bulstrode Park, Bucks.

William Tite, Esq., F.R.S., Lowndes Square, London.

William Wilshere, Esq., The Frythe, Welwyn, Herts.

This Company is empowered to execute—

1. All works of Drainage (including Outfalls through adjoining Estates), Irrigation, Reclaiming, Enclosing, and otherwise improving Land.

2. To erect Farm Homesteads, and other Buildings necessary for the cultivation of Land.

3. To execute Improvements, under Contract, with Commissioners of Sewers, Local Boards of Health, Corporations, Trustees, and other Public Bodies.

4. Try purchase Lands capable of Improvement, and fettered by Restrictions of Entail; and having executed the necessary Works, to resell them with a Title communicated by the Company's Act.

Owners of Entailed Estates, Trustees, Mortgagees, Corporations, Incumbents, Life Tenants, and other Persons having only limited Interests may obtain the use of the Company's Powers to carry out every kind of permanent Improvement, either by the Application of their own or the Company's Funds, secured by a yearly Charge on the Property improved.

Proposals for the Execution of Works to be addressed to

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