There is also, I believe, another "Lowey," viz. that of Pevensey.
R. VINCENT.
Praed's Works (Vol. iv., p. 256.).
—About five years since I saw in the travelling library of an American lady a very good edition of Praed's Poems, small 8vo. clear type, published (I believe) in the States. The owner promised to send me a fac-simile of the work, on her return to New York; but family bereavements and various painful circumstances have arisen to banish the recollection of such a promise. I have asked for the book in vain in London; but if your correspondent K. S. is very anxious to procure a copy, I would suggest an order for it, given through Chapman in the Strand, to whom Wiley and Putnam appear to have transferred the American literary agency. I should think the price would not exceed six or seven shillings.
YUNAF.
[This collection was published by Griswold of New York in 1844. We saw a copy at Tupling's, No. 320. Strand, a few days since.]
John à Cumber (Vol. iv., p. 83.).
—Some months ago MR. J. P. COLLIER made some inquiries respecting John à Kent, the Princess Sidanen, and John à Cumber. Respecting the two latter I was enabled to furnish some information; and since that I have fallen upon the traces of John à Cumber. My inquiries have recently been directed to the scene of the Battle of Cattraeth or Siggeston (Kirby Sigston); and I have endeavoured, hitherto ineffectually, to find some good description of the scenery of the North Riding of Yorkshire, and of the great plain of Mowbray, which was probably the scene of the conflict described by Aneurin, and which, I believe, includes both Catterick and Sigston. It was in that country that I found John à Cumber, who is most probably the person described in the following extract:—
"Thirsk.—In the reign of Henry VII. an insurrection broke out here, in consequence of an obnoxious tax. This was a subsidy granted by the parliament to the king, to enable him to carry on the war in Brittany against the French. The Earl of Northumberland had signified at an assembly, that the king would not remit any part of the tax, though the northern people had besought it; when they, taking the earl to be the cause of the answer, fell upon, and slew him, together with several of his servants, at the instigation of one John à Chamber. They then placed themselves under a leader, Sir John Egremond, who, on being defeated by the Earl of Surrey, fled into Burgundy. John à Chamber and some others were taken, and executed at York."—A Picturesque Tour in Yorkshire and Derbyshire, by the late Edward Dayes, London, 1825, pp. 147-8.
Dayes gives no authorities;[2] but this may afford a clue to further discoveries.