—A SUBSCRIBER seems to imply that the Monk and Cromwell families intermarried. In Chauncy's Hertfordshire, vol. i. p. 582. of the new edition, but which was originally printed in 1700, it is stated, that the well-known manor of Theobalds was granted by Charles II. to the great Monk in tail male; on the death of his son, Duke Christopher, it reverted to the crown; and that King William, by letters patent of the 4th of April, 1689, gave it to William Bentinck, who was created Earl of Portland. It must have come therefore, to the Cromwells by intermarriage either with Bentinck, which, I believe, was not the case, or with some subsequent purchasers of the manor. Theobalds originally belonged to Sir Robert Cecil, of whom James I. obtained it in exchange for Hatfield. It was given as reward for restoring the Stuarts to Monk, and to Bentinck for assisting again to expel them.
J. H. L.
"Truth is that which a man troweth" (Vol. iv., p. 382.).
—For the information of your correspondent Γ. I send the following, which I believe to be the original authority for the above saying. It is taken from the celebrated work of Horne Tooke's, entitled Diversions of Purley, which, though highly interesting as a treasury of philological information, contains this among other absurd attempts to base moral conclusions on the foundation of etymology:—
"Truth is the third person singular of the indicative trow. It was formerly written troweth, trowth, trouth, and troth. And it means (aliquid, anything, something) that which one troweth, i.e. thinketh, or firmly believeth."
Dugald Stewart, in his Philosophical Essays, justly observes regarding the principle involved in such speculations, that "if it were admitted as sound, it would completely undermine the foundations both of logic and of ethics."
TYRO.
Dublin.
"Worse than a Crime" (Vol. iv., p. 274.).
—In reply to a question you attribute the famous saying concerning the murder of the Duc D'Enghien to Talleyrand.