"Mortem Virtus communemFamam HistoriaMonumentum Posteritas dedit."
"Mortem Virtus communem
Famam Historia
Monumentum Posteritas dedit."
"HujusceMonumenti in memoriam virorum illustriumWOLFEet MONTCALM.Fundamentum p. c. Georgius Comes de Dalhousie,In Septentrionalibus Americæ partibusAd Britannos pertinentibusSummam rerum administrans(Quid duci egregio convenientius?)Auctoritate promovens, exemplo stimulansMunificentiâ fovensDie NovembrisXV. MDCCCXXVIIGeorgi IV. Britanniarum Rege."
"Hujusce
Monumenti in memoriam virorum illustrium
WOLFEet MONTCALM.
Fundamentum p. c. Georgius Comes de Dalhousie,
In Septentrionalibus Americæ partibus
Ad Britannos pertinentibus
Summam rerum administrans
(Quid duci egregio convenientius?)
Auctoritate promovens, exemplo stimulans
Munificentiâ fovens
Die NovembrisXV. MDCCCXXVII
Georgi IV. Britanniarum Rege."
Suggested Inscription.
"Hoc in locoJACOBUSWOLFE, Anglorum,LUDOVICUS DEMONTCALM, Francogallorum,Exercitibus præfecti,Optimis belli pacisque artibus pares,Vitæ exitu simili,Dispari fortunâ,Commissâ inter Anglos et Francogallos pugnâ,Ille in amplexu victoriæHic victus, sed invicto animo,Vulneribus confossiSatis honorificé defuncti sunt.
"Hoc in loco
JACOBUSWOLFE, Anglorum,
LUDOVICUS DEMONTCALM, Francogallorum,
Exercitibus præfecti,
Optimis belli pacisque artibus pares,
Vitæ exitu simili,
Dispari fortunâ,
Commissâ inter Anglos et Francogallos pugnâ,
Ille in amplexu victoriæ
Hic victus, sed invicto animo,
Vulneribus confossi
Satis honorificé defuncti sunt.
"Felices ambo!Quorum ingenio, moribus, bellicæ virtuti,Duarum amplissimarum gentiumMutuo luctu lacrymisqueParentatum."
"Felices ambo!
Quorum ingenio, moribus, bellicæ virtuti,
Duarum amplissimarum gentium
Mutuo luctu lacrymisque
Parentatum."
[9][An account of laying the first stone of the obelisk to Wolfe and Montcalm, on Nov. 20, 1827, will be found in Quebec and its Environs, 8vo. 1837.—ED.]
P.S.—I would add, in connexion with this subject, that an elegant and classical epitaph on Montcalm, printed in Popham'sIllustrium Virorum Elogia Sepulchralia, ends as follows:
"Mortales optimi ducis exuvias in excavatâ humo,Quam globus bellicus decidens dissiliensque defoderat,Galli lugentes deposuerunt,Et generosæ hostium fidei commendârunt."
"Mortales optimi ducis exuvias in excavatâ humo,
Quam globus bellicus decidens dissiliensque defoderat,
Galli lugentes deposuerunt,
Et generosæ hostium fidei commendârunt."
Query, Where is this epitaph inscribed; and is the fact recorded in it noticed in any cotemporary history?
F. K.
Bath.
Under the impression that the following Note, with reference to the gallant General James Wolfe, may tend to illustrate some other fact connected with the later period of the life of that generally lamented individual, I send it at a venture.
General Jones Wolfe was (I am not aware of the military rank he then filled) at—
"An encampment on Bradford Heath. about two miles from the town of Dorchester, co. Dorset, in the year 1757. The encampment consisted of the following regiments, under the command of Lieut.-Gen. Sir John Mordaunt and Major-Gen. Conway; viz. Bland's Dragoons; the Old Buffs, two battalions; Kingsley's, two battalions; one company of the Train of Artillery—in all ten troops, six battalions. Generals Mordaunt and Conway, and a great part of these forces, being sent on the expedition against Rochford, the remainder was reinforced and commanded by Lieut.-Gen. John Campbell, afterwards Duke of Argyll, and Major-Gen. Mostyn."
The above is extracted from Hutchins'sHistory of Dorset, 1st edition, vol. i. p. 375.
That General Wolfe was in the above encampment, I had the information from a gentlemen who knew him; and many years ago I accidentally met with a book with the autograph of the General, "James Wolfe," written on the fly-leaf, in a bold and gentlemanly style. The volume being on a military subject, was not taken any care of, and lost: it was left by the General in the hands of Messrs. Gould and Thorne, booksellers in Dorchester, from whose successors I had it.
G. F.
Weymouth.
—The office for commemoration of benefactors now used in the several colleges in the university of Cambridge, is prescribed by the statutes given to the university by Queen Elizabeth in the 12th year of her reign, cap. 4. sec. 38.
An earlier office (2 Eliz.) is given in Dr. Cardwell'sDocumentary Annals, vol. i. p. 282.
C. H. COOPER.
Cambridge.
—The watch known under this name is now, I believe, generally admitted to be a forgery. There is a letter in theGentleman's Magazine, vol. ii. p. 688., dated Forfar, August 20, 1785, and signed J. Jamieson, who therein states that the watch was offered for sale to him by a goldsmith hawker of Glasgow, who afterwards sold it for two guineas, and it was next sold for five. The letter does not trace this curiosity further; but I find in a little work by Adam Thompson, entitledTime and Timekeepers, that it subsequently found its way into the collection of George III.
W. W. E.
—Permit me to call the attention of your correspondents to some other peculiarities relating to Hornchurch. There once, I believe, were (are there now?) a pair of horns over the east window of the church; thence the name is probably derived. The great tithes were once the property of the monks of the celebrated monastery of St. Bernard in Savoy. Are not the horns connected with the arms of Savoy? New College received the great tithes directly from the monks, and have in their possession the license from the crown to alienate.
A. HOLTWHITE.
—Corruption ofbouseorbooze, to drink to excess. In Scotland they say "bouse a'," drink all.
J. R. J.
—The connexion between this and the drunken man, "with his head full of bees" (Vol. iv., p. 308.), must strike every thoughtful reader!
A. A. D.
—A reference to Platon'sPhædon, p. 84. sub fin., with Fischer's note, forms a tolerable answer to a Query on this subject. Fischer says—
"De cantu cygnorum, qui jam multis veterum fabulosus, v.Lucian. de Electro, c. 5.;Ælian. H.A.ii. 32.; xi. 1.; xiv. 13.;Pausan., i. 30.;Eutecnius Paraphr. Ixeut. Oppian., p. 78. 5.;Eustathius ad Il.βʹ., p. 254., aliosque qui a Jac. Thomasio laudati sunt in libelli singulari de cantu cygnorum."
[Where is this to be heard of?] Add Arist.H.A., viii. 11.; Ovid.Heroid.vii. 1.; Hesiod.Sc.316.;Æsch. Ag.1444.
A. A. D.
—In MR. BREEN'Sinteresting article entitled "Idées Napoléoniennes" (p. 100.), is the following passage:
"It will be seen that the original saying has undergone a slight modification, Longinus making the transition a gradual one,κατ' ὀλίγον, while Blair, Payne, and Napoleon make it but 'a step.'"
Now there is nothing in the whole range of scholarship and philology that requires more tender handling than the Greek preposition, unless it be the prepositional adverb, which results from the combination of a preposition with an adjective. I would not be so bold as to assert thatκατ' ὀλίγονdoesnotmean "gradually, by little and little." I feel convinced that I have seen it so used before now; but I beg to submit that in the powerful passage quoted from Longinus it can only mean "presently, at once, with little" delay or interval. The purport of the passage seems to be this:—[The instances which I have cited] "exhibit rather a turbid diction, and a confused imagery, than a striking and forcible discourse. For, take them one by one, and hold them up to the light, and what first looked terrible shallpresentlytake its true colour, and appear contemptible."
Longinus had quoted certain turgid and empty attempts at a very high rhetorical strain: he then in the passage before us condemns them for their confusion both of thought and phrase; and says, that they won't bear looking intofor a minute(κατ' ὀλίγον).
If these remarks are correct, I fear they must damage the parallelism so industriously instituted by your correspondent; but if he will not be offended, I shall not regret it: for I confess to some feeling of jealousy in favour of modern forms of thought, and their claims to originality. The field of thought is finite, and great minds have tilled it before us; so that scarcely in its remotest corners shall you find a patch of virgin soil, or a bud till now unseen. But originality is not excluded for all that. He that culls a flower in the nineteenth century, and has an eye for its beauty, is asoriginalan admirer as he who did the same on the day of creation. And he who with quick perceptions combines the thoughts which have arrested his attention, and with a lively and apt expression, fresh and free from conventional formalism, gives them out to another, that man may be called original. The opposite oforiginalityis notrepetition, butimitation. When, therefore, we would prove that a writer is not original, it is not enough to produce similar thoughts or phrases in older writers, unless our instances are so numerous as to afford an appearance of systematic copyism, or historical evidence of the fact of imitation be forthcoming from some external source.
J. E.
Oxford.
—The words in Ham's Bible are from theMetamorphosesof Ovid (I. 3.):
"Primâque ab origine mundiAd mea perpetuum deducite tempora carmen."
"Primâque ab origine mundi
Ad mea perpetuum deducite tempora carmen."
This book has been called the Heathen Bible. It should be studied with the Greek translation of Tzetzes (Boisaunade's edition), to show the identity of the gods and heroes of Greece and Rome under their different names in the two languages. Ovid was by profession a learned priest; and it is probable that the subjects of his verse were the subjects of scenic representations in the mysteries, to which probably moral and natural or theological instruction was added, much after the manner of the Greek choruses. That these mysteries taught something worth the attention of a philosopher and moralist is manifest from the encomiums of Cicero:
"Nam mihi cum multa eximia, divinaque videntur Athenæ tuæ peperisse, atque in vitâ hominum attulisse, tumnihil melius illis mysteriis, quibus ex agresti immanique vitâ exculti ad humanitatem et mitigati sumus: initiaque ut appellantur, ita reverâprincipia vitæcognovimus; neque solùm cum lætitiâ vivendi rationem accepimus, sed etiam cumspe meliore moriendi."—De Leg.lib. ii. c. 14.
"For amongst other excellent and divine things which owed their origin to your Athens, and in which we participate, nothing is more admirable than those mysteries which have caused us to pass from a wild and uncivilised condition to one of amelioration and humanity: or, to speak more correctly, they first brought us to life, as indicated by the terminitiation(beginning), which the mysteries have retained; since this new kind of life (regeneration) is not only attended with happiness, but is succeeded by the hope of a better destiny after death."
T. J. BUCKTON.
Lichfield.
—InMémoires d'un Voyageur qui se repose, by Mons. Dutens, or Duchillon, as he also called himself, is an amusing account of a scene between Sterne and him, at Lord Tavistock's table at Paris, on the 4th June, 1762.
M. S.
—A. GRAYAN'Snote on the "First Paper Mill" reminds me of a too long neglected remark of your correspondent LAUDATORTEMPORISACTIon the inferiority of the paper made in the present days as compared with that of olden times. As a matron, whose proper business it is to be curious in such matters, I venture to suggest that the universal use of calicos and printed cottons in the place of linen articles of dress, is the true cause of the deterioration of the paper of our books. The careful inspection of the rags of present days on their arrival at a paper-mill, will, I think, confirm my statement, if any gentleman who still clings pertinaciously to the linen shirts of "better times" is disposed to doubt the fact.
MARGARETGATTY.
—If the belief which derives the Cimbrians from Gomer, son of Japhet, be on the increase, I fear the movements of our restless race are not altogether progressive.
But there is good reason to think, that the Cimbri were of the Brito-Gallic race and tongue. Morimarusa (Pliny, iv. 27.) does not belong to Indogermanic, or any such high categories as will prove nearly what you please. It is a piece of exact and determinate Brito-Gallic.
Pompeius Festus and Plutarch agree in stating, that the meaning of the name wasrobbers;—not, of course, as applied to individual offenders, or to any offenders, but as the hereditary boast of predatory tribes. "Thou shalt want ere I want" is the motto of the Lords Cranstoun, and was the motto of all Cimbrians.
Cimmerii has certainly every appearance of being the same name as Cimbri. In like manner, Cymmry becomes Cumbria and (unaccountably) Cambria; Ambrosius becomes Emmrys, and Humber Hymmyr. What remains of the old word Cimbr, or Cimmr, as meaning Latro, is the verbcymmeryd(and its cognate words), to take, or, more etymologically, to apportion: Dividers of booty. The change of the sharp iota into that short vowel of which we possess not the long, but of which the long is the Frencheu, forms the difficulty; but the savages of Asia, and those of Caius Marius, may be conceived to have used vowels of shriller pronunciation than the Gauls and Britons.
The Brigantes of Yorkshire, &c., bore a synonymous appellation, still used in French and Armorican, and not wholly extinct in Welsh. Of a race named Cimbri, or Cumbri, in this island, nothing whatever is known from ancient geography or history. And probably no such name co-existed with that of the Brigantes. For, if the two synonymes were used together, neither would express a distinctive peculiarity. The fable of the Brut probably has a core of general truth, when it refers that name to the days of the Cambro-Scoto-Saxon tripartition, disguised as Cambro-Albano-Loegrian.
A. N.
—Rents of Assize,Redditus assisæ de assisavelredditus assisus. The certain and determined rents of ancient tenants paid in a set quantity of money or provisions; so called, because it was assised or made certain, and so distinguished fromredditus mobilis, variable rent, that did rise and fall, like the corn rent now reserved to colleges. (Cowel'sInterpreter.)Ob. q.mean respectivelyobolusandquadrans.
Thegreat pipeis a roll in the Exchequer wherein all accounts and debts due to the king delivered and drawn out of the remembrancer's offices, are entered and charged. I presume the Bishop of Winchester's great pipe was a roll of all accounts and debts due to him in right of his bishopric.
"Ad regis exemplar, totus componitur orbis."
"Ad regis exemplar, totus componitur orbis."
J. G.
Exeter.
Lord Coke (2nd Institute, 19.) gives this definition:
"Redditus assisus, orredditus assisæ: vulgarly, rents of assise, are the certain rents of the freeholders and ancient copiholders, because they be assised, and certain, and doth distinguish the same fromredditus mobiles, farm rents for life, years, or at will, which are variable and incertain."
Ob. q.means three farthings, "ob." being an abbreviation ofobolus, a halfpenny, and "q." ofquadrans, a farthing.
Thegreat pipein the document referred to apparently means the pipe roll of the Bishops of Winchester, of which some account may be seen in the report of the case of Doe dem. Kinglakev.Beviss, in 7Common Bench Reports, 456.
C. H. COOPER.
Cambridge.
—InPicturesque Antiquities of Scotland,etched by Adam de Cardonnel, is a list of the different monastic establishments in Scotland. If your correspondent has not seen this volume, which I apprehend to be rather scarce (it was printed for the author in 1788), I shall be happy to supply him with a transcript of the list that Mr. De Cardonnel has given in his introduction.
M. S.
—MR. KERSLEYwill find much information of the kind he wishes in the genealogies of the families of Bretagne by D'Hosier, "Chevalier, Conseiller du roy en ses conseils, Juge d'Armes de la Noblesse de France," circiter 1765.
My copy of theGenealogies of Normandy, by d'Hosier, was bought at Quaritch's, who also, I remember, a few months ago advertised other sets of the same herald, and I think Brittany amongst them.
I. J. H. H.
St. Asaph.
—In connexion with this Query, it may be interesting to G. to know that Mr. Thos. Davies Lloyd, of Bronwydd, Caermarthenshire, is the only "Lord Marcher now extant in the kingdom" (extract from a letter of Mr. Lloyd to me). Mr. Lloyd holds the barony of Kemes, in the county of Pembroke, which was erected into a Lordship Marcher by Martin de Tours, one of the companions of William I., who exercised the Jura Regalia, and other peculiar privileges.
I. J. H. H.
St. Asaph.
—I can see nothing to connect this symbol with the worship of Mithras, but I have always fancied it of much earlier date than that commonly assigned to it. A coin of Carausius with a Greek legend would be an object of great interest to our English numismatists, but nothing of the kind has ever been seen! My reason for thinking that the symbol of the "broad arrow" is one of considerable antiquity is, that the name by which sailors and "longshore" people designate it, namely, the "Broad Ar," is clearly not a vulgarism, but an archaism. In the north of England "ar" or "arr" is still used for a mark. It occurs on very early Danish coins, and I entertained a hope that some northern antiquary would have told me how it originated; but my enquiry has ended in disappointment. Query, When was the Pheon, which it is supposed to be, first used as an heraldic device? I have before me a coin of Stralsund, minted in the fourteenth century, with the Pheon for the principal type. By German writers this object is called a fishspear, but I cannot help thinking that its origin may be connected with the broad arrow.
J. Y. AKERMAN.
—In addition to those already mentioned, I have seen in the possession of a gentleman connected with a Presbyterian trust, a miniature of Oliver Cromwell by Cooper. The building connected with the trust, is one of those built after the passing of the Five Mile Act, and is near Yarmouth; with which place, as is well known, Cromwell was much connected.
X. Y. Z.
have been deciphered by Dr. E. F. Beer. Vide hisStudia Asiatica, Leipsic, 1840.
S. W.
—As no one has replied to the Query of "AN F. S. A. WHOLOVESPUDDING," may I be permitted to offer the following conjectural solution? In some parts of the principality it is customary on the morning of a wedding-day for the bridegroom, with a party of his friends, to proceed to the lady's residence; where he and his companions are regaled with ale, bread and butter, andcold custard pudding! I hope I have hit the mark! But, perhaps, it does not become me to speculate upon these dainty matters.
ANOLDBACHELOR.
Hoxton.
—A. N.'s inquiry for a reference not having been answered, I beg to name Sir Walter Scott'sDemonology and Witchcraft, p. 206.; or, if he desires to "sup full of horrors," Pitcairn'sCriminal Trials in Scotland, vol. iv. Appendix, p. 602., where the confessions of the witches of Aulderne are given at length. It appears by these confessions that acovineconsists of thirteen witches ("the Deil's dozen?"), of whom two are officials, theMaiden of the Covine, who sits next the Deil, and with whom he leads off the dance (calledGillatrypes), and theofficer, who, like the crier in a court of justice, calls the witches at the door, when the Deil calls the names from his book.
Covineis conventus.CoventGarden. See Dr. Jamieson on the wordCovine-tree.
W. G.
—Had the "head master" been as well versed in the subject as he undoubtedly was in the words of theGeorgics, he would have explained to the "sixth form" that, in the lines
"Hic segetes, illic veniunt felicius uvæ;Arborei fœtus alibi, atque injussa virescuntGramina."
"Hic segetes, illic veniunt felicius uvæ;
Arborei fœtus alibi, atque injussa virescunt
Gramina."
the intention of the poet was to contrast an agricultural with a pastoral district. Thealibiwhich he establishes in the case of "arborei fœtus" he applies equally to "injussa gramina;" and his obvious meaning is this:—One district is naturally fitted for the cultivation of corn; another for that of vines; whilst a third is more adapted forwoodland, or rather, perhaps, orchards, meadows, and pastures: the sowing down or formation of which, if indeed the hand of man has had anything to do with them at all—being a thing of the past, and, perhaps, not within the range of the oldest inhabitant's memory, their produce may with propriety be termed "injussa," or spontaneous.
W. A. C.
Ormsary.
—A.O.O.D. is informed that the first sale of these gems took place in 1839, by Christie, and they were bought by a Mr. Tyrrell for 12,000l.
M——N.
The Men of the Time in 1852, or Sketches of Living Notables, is intended, as we are told in the Preface, "to bring together in one muster-roll the people who take the lead in doing the Work of the World, in literature, in politics, in art, and in science,—who are influential in their generation, either in thought or in action." The idea is a good one, and the book will eventually supply a want which all have felt. We say "eventually," because both Editor and Publisher must be aware that no first attempt of a work of this nature can at all approach perfection. We do not complain that, within the small compass of the present volume, we find many names we should scarcely have looked for in such a selection; but we would, for the purpose of improving the next edition, point out the omission of many very important ones. In the field of learning, antiquarian and historical, we miss all mention of Ellis, Hallam, Mahon, Maitland, Madden, Palgrave, Kemble, Thorpe and Wright. In other classes again we meet with similar omissions. We find Robert Owen, but not Professor Owen; Southwood Smith, but not Sir Harry Smith; Faraday we have, but not Wheatstone; the Bishops of Exeter, Oxford, and St. David's, but not the Bishops of London or Ely. We have Pusey, but neither Hook, Bennett, Close, nor Newman. We have George Dawson the lecturer, but not Cowden Clarke the lecturer. Such are some of the instances of omission which have occurred to us, and which will no doubt be supplied in a new edition. May we add our hope that in such new edition as ample justice will be rendered to all "men of learning" as is in the present one rendered to all "men of the press."
When we find that the new issue of Bohn'sIllustrated Libraryconsists of the first volume of a revised and enlarged edition ofThe Battles of the British Navy, by Joseph Allen, Esq., R.N., we are almost disposed to imagine that this indefatigable publisher had seen with prophetic eye that in the opening of 1852 Mr. Cobden's theory of universal peace would lose favour, and that John Bull would resume his old love for the "blue jackets." Be that as it may, such a work as the present, popularly written, handsomely illustrated, and published at a moderate price, which would at all times be a boon, is not likely to be less welcome at a moment when there is a general feeling abroad, that England's best securities for that peace which all would preserve, "like her best bulwarks," are "her wooden walls."
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"—— hear the lark begin its flight,And singing, startle the dull night,"
"—— hear the lark begin its flight,
And singing, startle the dull night,"
we are reminded of a long-delayed wish to call their attention to Gosse'sPopular British Ornithology, containing a Familiar and Technical Description of the Birds of the British Isles, as a means of turning their pleasant rambles to a source of profitable instruction. With this scientific, though concise and popularly written volume, profusely illustrated as it is with coloured figures of the most remarkable British birds, as their guide—and a little patient observation—an amount of knowledge of birds and their habits will soon be acquired by them, which will prove a source of never-ending enjoyment, and give new zest to every fresh visit to the woods and fields.
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Just published,
A CATALOGUE of a very choice and valuable Collection of Rare, Curious, and Useful BOOKS, in the English and Foreign Languages, including an extraordinary Specimen of Early Block-printing, splendid Specimens of Early Typography, from the Presses of Fust, Schoiffer, Jenson, Ulric Zell, Mentelin, Eggestyn, Wynken de Worde, &c. &c. Very rare and interesting Books, printed by the Aldine Family, from the first one issued by them in 1494 to 1592; Works upon English History, Topography, and Antiquities; Black-letter Books; Books of Prints and General Literature; Rare and Curious Books in the French, Italian, and Spanish Languages; many of the first and best editions of the Greek and Latin Classics, &c. &c., in fine condition, chiefly in Morocco and Russia Bindings, by the most eminent English and Foreign Binders. Now on sale at the very reduced prices affixed, by
JOSEPH LILLY, 7. Pall Mall, London.
***Not a single book in this Catalogue has ever appeared in any of Lilly's former ones, but they have all been recently purchased, under very advantageous circumstances, from one of the most extensive and valuable Collections of Books ever formed in this country. It will be forwarded to any gentleman on the receipt of Twelve Postage Stamps, allowed to Purchasers.
PART II., containing a most interesting Collection of Rare and Curious Books in Early English Literature, is in preparation, and will be forwarded to any gentleman sending his address.
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WESTERN LIFE ASSURANCE AND ANNUITY SOCIETY,
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FOUNDED A.D. 1842.
Directors.H. Edgeworth Bicknell, Esq.William Cabell, Esq.T. Somers Cocks, Jun. Esq. M.P.G. Henry Drew, Esq.William Evans, Esq.William Freeman, Esq.F. Fuller, Esq.J. Henry Goodhart, Esq.T. Grissell, Esq.James Hunt, Esq.J. Arscott Lethbridge, Esq.E. Lucas, Esq.James Lys Seager, Esq.J. Basley White, Esq.Joseph Carter Wood, Esq.
Directors.
H. Edgeworth Bicknell, Esq.
William Cabell, Esq.
T. Somers Cocks, Jun. Esq. M.P.
G. Henry Drew, Esq.
William Evans, Esq.
William Freeman, Esq.
F. Fuller, Esq.
J. Henry Goodhart, Esq.
T. Grissell, Esq.
James Hunt, Esq.
J. Arscott Lethbridge, Esq.
E. Lucas, Esq.
James Lys Seager, Esq.
J. Basley White, Esq.
Joseph Carter Wood, Esq.
Trustees.W. Whately, Esq., Q.C.L. C. Humfrey, Esq., Q.C.George Drew, Esq.
Trustees.
W. Whately, Esq., Q.C.
L. C. Humfrey, Esq., Q.C.
George Drew, Esq.
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