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LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES,
GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
"When found, make a note of."-CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
THIRD SERIES.-VOLUME SECOND.
BELL & DALDY, 186, FLEET STREET.
1862.
LONDON SATURDAY, JULY 5, 1862.
observed in the choice of their members. They
had a president, a secretary, an examiner, and
two stewards. When there was a call of serjeants,
that is, on their first admission, they were to at-
Théroigne de Méricourt, 2-Lowndes's Bibliographer's tend in their coifs and proper habit of the order,
Letter, Ib.-De Coster, the Waterloo Guide, 7-Alan de
Galloway Andrew Bates - Birds'-eggs - Berningh and
Ter Hoeven Families 3-Rowland Blakiston-"Catalonia,"
Marriage Gold Thread Work-Hampshire Registers-
Heraldic Query-London Churches antè 1666-Old Bona
Fide-Old Sarum-Philpot the Martyr - Queen Mary
and Calais- Quotations Wanted-Did the Romans wear
Pockets?-Short-hand-Sicilian Order-Tennyson: Ca-
melot-Sir Martin Wright-Zurich Association for Micro-
scopical Science, 7.
a Poem-Coins, &c.-Epithalamium on Her Majesty's
QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:- "The Rival Friends"-"To
cotton to"-"The Marrow Controversy"-The Address
to the Mummy, 9.
REPLIES:-Coverdale's Bible, 10-Mr. Justice Heath, 11
Philips' (not Phillips's) "Cerealia," 12 "A Hundred
Sonnets, "&c.-Quotation References, &c. Dr. Joseph
Browne-"Rana Canoræ "- Sark - Lae-chow Islands-
The Blanshards-Blake Family-Jacob and James-The
Reynoldses - Aerolites - Hooker's "Ecclesistical Polity"
-Hunter's Moon-The Rev. Jas. Gray - Shortened Pro-
verbs-Gossamer Nevison the Freebooter - Relative
Value of Money-Board of Trade- Parodies on Gray's
Superstition
Elegy "- Whig
Singular Custom at
Grantham (?), &c., 13.
unless the president should dispense with the
same. A silver star, with the figure of a dolphin
in the centre, was to be worn as a characteristic
badge on the coat by every member during the
week of meeting. And, "that there might be no
suspicion of their want of gallantry, they came to
a resolution, in the year 1749, to elect a lady
patroness-an unmarried lady of the town or
neighbourhood of their meeting"; and “that, as
soon as elected, the secretary was to wait on her
with the badge of the Society; and that the mem-
bers, chaplain, and probationers, are allowed each
of them to introduce a lady to attend the lady
patroness to dine with the Society one day in the
week. That every member heard to curse or
swear, during the meeting in the public room, in-
curred a penalty; as did every person who should
presume to play at dice in the public room, the
heavy forfeiture of five guineas." The examina-
tion of a candidate for admission to the Society
was as follows:
“ Τὶ ἐστὶ τὸ ὄνομά σου ;
"Do you bear true allegiance to His Majesty?
"Are you a member of the Church of England as by
law established?
"Will you be faithful to your friends in prosperity,
and cherish them in adversity?
"Do you desire to be admitted a member of this
Society?
"Will you faithfully observe the rules and orders that
have been read to you?
"Will you, upon the honour of a gentleman, keep the
secrets of the Society, and the form of your admission
into it?"
From the period of the revival of the Society
until its dissolution, there were three presidents:
Colonel William Barlow was the first; at his
death, Richard Gwynne, Esq., of Taliaris, was
elected president; and the first meeting under his
auspices was held at Tenby, on the 2nd of June,
1733. Mr. Gwynne died in 1752; and at a meet-
ing of the Society, held at Swansea on the 13th of
June in the same year, Sir John Philipps, Bart., of
Picton Castle, was elected in his stead. In the year
1754, when Sir John Philipps was candidate for
the city of Bristol, his being at that time presi-
dent of the Society of Sea-serjeants was made
the subject of various invectives, and tortured
every way to prejudice him with the citizens;
which drew forth the following answer from the
"I acknowledge that I am of that ancient Society,
which is composed of gentlemen of the first rank and
fortune in Wales: gentlemen who are as good and as
well affected subjects as any in His Majesty's whole
dominions, and whose delight it always will be to see
great Prince, and a free and flourishing people, mutuo