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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Brydall, John

​BRYDALL, JOHN (b. 1635?), law-writer, son of John Brydall, of Jesus College, Cambridge, and of St. Alban's Hall, Oxford, and of the Rolls, a captain in the regiment of foot raised for the king's service by the Inns of Court, and a famous master of pike-exercise, was a native of Somerset. He entered Queen's College, Oxford, as a commoner in 1651, proceeded B.A., entered Lincoln's Inn, and became secretary to Sir Harbottle ​Grimston master of the rolls He published thirty six treatises chiefly on law among which are
* 'Speculum Juris Anglicani or a View of the Laws of England,' 1673.
* 'Jus Sigilli, or the Law of England touching the Four Principal Seals,' 1673
* 'Jus Imaginis or the Law of England relating to the Nobility and Gentry,' 1673, 1675.
* 'Jus Criminis or the Law touching certain Pleas of the Crown,' 1676.
* 'Camera Regis or a Short View of London … collected out of Law and History,' 1677.
* 'Decus et Tutamen or a Prospect of the Laws of England,' 1679.
* 'A Letter to a Friend on the royal authority,' 1679.
* 'The Clergy vindicated,' 1679.
* 'Summus Angliæ Seneschallus, a Survey of the Lord High Steward,' 1680.
* 'Jura Coronæ His Majesty's Royal Rights asserted against Papal Usurpations,' 1680.
* 'A Letter to a Friend on Sovereignty,' 1681.
* 'A New Year's Gift for the Anti-Prerogative Men … wherein … is discussed … the Earl of Danbigh's pardon,' 1682.
* 'An Appeal to the Conscience of a Fanatick.'
* 'Ars transferendi or a sure Guide to the Conveyancer,' 1697.
* 'Non Compos Mentis or the Law relating to Natural Fools Mad Folks and Lunatic Persons,' 1700.
* Lex Spuriorum or the Law relating to Bastardy,' 1703.
* 'A Declaration of the Divers Preheminences … allowed … unto the First born among His Majesty's Subjects the Temporal Lords in Parliament,' 1704.He also left thirty other treatises in manuscript He gave several of his own law treatises and some books to the libraries of Lincoln's Inn and the Middle Temple.
[Wood's Athenæ ed Bliss), iv. 519; Collier's Hist. Dict. vol. i.; Chalmers's Biog. Dict. vii. 211; Cat of the Tracts of Law … by John Brydall (1711), ap. Rawlinson MSS. 4to. 3, 367; Marvin's Legal Bibliography, 145; Sweet's Law Catalogue (1883), 39.]
W. H.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Bryce, Alexander

1904 Errata appended.
​BRYCE, Sir ALEXANDER (d. 1832), major-general and colonel-commandant royal engineers, entered the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, as a cadet on 7 Oct. 1782, and passed out as a second lieutenant, royal artillery, on 25 Aug. 1787. In the autumn of that year he was employed with Captain (afterwards Major-general) W. Mudge in carrying out General Roy's system of triangulation for connecting the meridians of Greenwich and Paris, and in the measurement of a 'base of verification' in Romney Marsh, particulars of which will be found in 'Phil. Trans.' 1790. Bryce was transferred from the royal artillery to the royal engineers in March 1789, and became a captain in the latter corps in 1794. After serving some years in North America and the Mediterranean, he found himself senior engineer officer with the army sent to Egypt under Sir Ralph Abercromby, in which position he was present at the landing, in the battles before Alexandria, and at the surrender of Cairo, and directed the siege operations at Aboukir, Fort Marabout, and Alexandria. For his services in Egypt he received the brevet rank of major and permission to wear the insignia of the Ottoman order of the Crescent. Subsequently, as colonel, he served some years in Sicily. In the descent on Calabria he commanded a detachment of Sir John Stuart's army that captured Damienti, and was commanding engineer in the expedition to the bay of Naples in 1809 and in the defence of Sicily against Murat (Bunbury, Narrative). In 1814 he received the rank of brigadier-general, and was appointed president of a commission to report on the restoration of the fortresses in the Netherlands. He became a major-general in 1825, and in 1829 was appointed inspector-general of fortifications, a post he was holding at the time of his decease. Bryce, who was much esteemed in private life as well as professionally, died, after a few hours' illness, at his residence, Hanover Terrace, Regent's Park, on 4 Oct. 1832.
H. M. C.
Dictionary of National Biography, Errata (1904), p.41 N.B.— f.e. stands for from end and l.l. for last line
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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Bryce, James (1767-1857)

1904 Errata appended.
​BRYCE, JAMES, the elder (1767–1857), divine, was born at Airdrie in Lanarkshire 5 Dec. 1767. He was the son of John Bryce, descended from a family of small landowners settled at Dechmont in that county, and of Robina Allan, whose family, originally possessed of considerable property near Airdrie, had lost most of it in the troubles of the seventeenth century, in which they had espoused the covenanting cause.
The son was educated at the university of Glasgow, and in 1795 was ordained minister of the Scottish Antiburgher Secession Church. He was accused before the synod of latitudinarianism because he had minimised the difference between his own and other denominations of christians, had condemned the extreme assumption of power by the clergy, and had argued that the dogmatic creeds of the church received too much respect as compared with the scriptures. He was suspended for two years, and when restored to his functions, feeling some indignation at the intolerant spirit which then reigned in Scotland, he accepted an invitation to visit Ireland, where he ultimately settled in 1805 as minister of the antiburgher congregation at Killaig in county Londonderry. At this time the ministers of the antiburgher and burgher bodies in Ulster had been offered a share in ​the regium donum, an annual endowment paid by the lord-lieutenant to the presbyterian ministers (abolished in 1869). This had been distributed as a free gift without conditions; it was now for political reasons proposed greatly to increase its amount, but to require the recipient to first take the oath of allegiance, and to have the lord-lieutenant an absolute veto on its bestowal. The ministers of Bryce's denomination vehemently denounced these terms, but when they found that the stipend could not be otherwise obtained, they submitted and took it. He alone stood firm, holding that the requirements were dishonouring to Christ of the supreme head of the church, and tended to enslave a minister of religion and to degrade his office. Although separated thereby from his fellow-ministers, and unsupported by the parent church in Scotland, he maintained his principles, and thus, as others gradually gathered round him, became the founder of a branch of the presbyterian church which took the name of the Associate Presbytery of Ireland. This body was ultimately united with the Scottish united presbyterian church, which had by that time come to adopt similar views of spiritual independence. Mr. Bryce was a man of originality and literary culture, but he published little except several statements of his case and position in the question just described. He died at Killaig at the age of ninety, 24 April 1837, having preached twice on the sabbath preceding his death.
[Information from the family.]
Dictionary of National Biography, Errata (1904), p.41 N.B.— f.e. stands for from end and l.l. for last line
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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Brydges, Harford Jones

​BRYDGES, Sir HARFORD JONES (1764–1847), diplomatist and author, was the son of Harford Jones of Presteign, by Winifred, daughter of Richard Hooper of the Whittern, Herefordshire, and was born on 12 Jan. 1764. In commemoration of his descent, through his maternal grandmother, from the family of Brydges of Old Colwall, Herefordshire, he assumed, by royal sign manual dated 4 May 1826, the additional name of Brydges. Early in life he entered the service of the East India Company, and, acquiring great proficiency in the oriental languages, he was appointed envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to the court of Persia, where he remained four years, from 1807 to 1811. On 9 Oct. 1807 he was created a baronet. On his return from Persia he was disappointed of immediate prospect of promotion in the service of the East India Company, and resigned his connection with it. Throughout life he cherished a warm interest in the welfare both of the Persians and the natives of India. In 1833 he published ‘The Dynasty of the Kajars, translated from the original Persian manuscript;’ in the following year ‘An Account of His Majesty's Mission to the Court of Persia in the years 1807–11, to which is added a brief history of the Wahanby;’ and in 1838 a ‘Letter on the Present State of British Interests and Affairs in Persia,’ addressed to the Marquis of Wellesley. In 1843 he pleaded the cause ​of the ameers of Scinde in a letter to the court of directors of the East India Company, denouncing the policy of annexation and conquest. In politics a decided whig, he took an active interest in the election contests of Radnorshire, where he founded a political association known as the Grey Coat Club. On 15 June 1831 he received the honorary degree of D.C.L. from the university of Oxford. In 1832 he was sworn a privy councillor, and in 1841 was appointed deputy-lieutenant of the county of Hereford. He died at his seat at Boultibrook, near Presteign, on 17 March 1847. By his marriage with Sarah, eldest daughter of Sir Henry Gott, knight, of Newland Park, Buckinghamshire, and widow of Robert Whitcomb, of the Whittern, Herefordshire, he had one son and two daughters.
T. F. H.
# Crenshaw v. Arkansas

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United States Supreme Court
227 U.S. 389
Crenshaw v. Arkansas
Argued: January 20 and 21, 1913. --- Decided: February, 24, 1913
Mr. John Merrick Moore for plaintiffs in error.
[Argument of Counsel from page 390 intentionally omitted]
Mr. William H. Rector, Assistant Attorney General of Arkansas, Mr. Hal L. Norwood, Attorney General of Arkansas, and Messrs. T. M. Mehaffy and Charles C. Reid for defendant in error.
[Argument of Counsel from page 391 intentionally omitted]
Mr. Justice Day delivered the opinion of the court:

## Notes

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# Creole Sketches

CREOLE SKETCHES
BY
LAFCADIO HEARN
EDITED BY
CHARLES WOODWARD HUTSON
With Illustrations by the Author
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge 1924
CONTENTS
| Introduction | | ix |
| Lafcadio Hearn's Cartoons | | xvii |
| The Glamour of New Orleans | November 26, 1878 | 1 |
| La Douane | December 2, 1878 | 6 |
| Morning Calls — Very Early | July 7, 1880 | 11 |
| The City of Dreams | March 9, 1879 | 14 |
| Ultra-Canal | July 17, 1880 | 22 |
| A Creole Type | May 6, 1879 | 26 |
| Ghosteses | August 18, 1880 | 34 |
| A Visit to New Orleans | May 10, 1879 | 38 |
| Quack! Quack! | August 20, 1880 | 45 |
| Complaint of the Creole Boarding-House-Keeper | September 27, 1879 | 47 |
| The Boarder’s Reply | September 28, 1879 | 52 |
| Coming Events Cast Their Shadows Before | August 19, 1880 | 57 |
| Why Crabs are Boiled Alive | October 5, 1879 | 59 |
| A Creole Journal | October 5, 1879 | 60 |
| The Restless Boarder | October 27, 1879 | 63 |
| Furnished Rooms | November 2, 1879 | 67 |
| Char-Coal | August 25, 1880 | 70 |
| Mexican Coins | November 3, 1879 | 72 |
| Louisiana People Not Gay | November 4, 1879 | 76 |
| A Creole Courtyard | November 11, 1879 | 78 |
| The Creole Character | November 13, 1879 | 82 |
| Des Perches | August 30, 1880 | 85 |
| A Kentucky Colonel Renting Rooms | November 15, 1879 | 88 |
| The Dawn of the Carnival | February 2, 1880 | 90 |
| A Mexican’s Gratitude | April 12, 1880 | 93 |
| Washerwomen | August 31, 1880 | 98 |
| Attention! Azim! | July 8, 1880 | 102 |
| An Ultra-Canal Talk | July 13, 1880 | 106 |
| Sons of the Sea | September 1, 1880 | 111 |
| A Creole Song | July 26, 1880 | 115 |
| The Grandissimes | September 27, 1880 | 117 |
| The Indignant Dead | September 8, 1880 | 124 |
| A Creole Mystery | October 6, 1880 | 128 |
| Whited Sepulchres | September 9, 1880 | 135 |
| Eleusis | November 12, 1880 | 138 |
| Latin and Anglo-Saxon | November 24, 1880 | 145 |
| The Flower-Sellers | September 11, 1880 | 150 |
| A Visitor | November 26, 1880 | 153 |
| Creole Servant Girls | December 20, 1880 | 160 |
| The Alligators | September 13, 1880 | 164 |
| Home | January 8, 1881 | 167 |
| Old-Fashioned Houses | January 12, 1881 | 175 |
| The Vendor of Wisdom | September 15, 1880 | 183 |
| Some Positive Opinions | April 27, 1881 | 188 |
| Voices of Dawn | July 22, 1881 | 197 |
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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# Creole Sketches/A Creole Journal

A CREOLE JOURNAL
I read to you of my journal-book — how he do:
Jan. 1 — Mon cher, lend to me one little affaire of ten dollaire, and I pay de 1st, wit good intress. Ah! you be good friend. I be possess of money; but for now I have of de expenses large.
Feb. 1 — Mon ami, I much sorry for dat I not can you pay to-day; but soon I you pay wit grand intress. One mus' not ever angry himself for ten dollaire.
March 1 — Mon bonhomme, I not can you pay, not wen as I have of money. You be too much of impatient. I much sorry for dat I ever ask of you money.
April 1 — Monsieur, I not have ever suppose dat you like more one miserable ​ten dollaire as my friendship. I not ever more ask of you one faveur. I not like you speak me so.
May 1 — For wat you lend me money like one Imbecile? I more like owe one tousand dollaire as ten — for dat I more be respected. I be tramped upon for dat I owe one dirty ten dollaire. You be pay some one day.
June 1 — You are one Insolent! If suppose for dat I do owe to you one miserable dollaire! Is it dat you are one beggar and have of hunger, for dat am I to be ask all time? You take me as one Imbecile? Not have I tell you I pay wen I can? I not will myself suffer more to be insult for one dirty dollaire.
July 1 — To-morrow I can you pay. I hope to ask dat you do me one little faveur — to ask dat friend to you dat he give me one place like collecteur or secretaire.
​August 1 — I not pay until wen I can one place obtain.
September 1 — I not pay until wen sugar come in de market.
December 1 — I not pay ever at all. I not you noting owe. I not suffer dat I be eternal ask for money. I not speak you not more. Go to devvel for you ten dollaire, for dat I not slap you de visage.
# Creole Lover's Song

"Night wind, whispering wind,"
* Edmund Clarence Stedman (1897), "Creole Lover's Song" in Poems, now first collected.
* Edmund Clarence Stedman (1908), "Creole Lover's Song" in The poems of Edmund Clarence Stedman.
# Creole Sketches/A Creole Courtyard

A CREOLE COURTYARD
An atmosphere of tranquillity and quiet happiness seemed to envelop the old house, which had formerly belonged to a rich planter. Like many of the Creole houses, the façade presented a commonplace and unattractive aspect. The great green doors of the arched entrance were closed; and the green shutters of the balconied windows were half shut, like sleepy eyes lazily gazing upon the busy street below or the cottony patches of light clouds which floated slowly, slowly across the deep blue of the sky above. But beyond the gates lay a little Paradise. The great court, deep and broad, was framed in tropical green; vines embraced the white pillars of the piazza, and creeping plants climbed up the tinted walls to peer into ​the upper windows with their flower-eyes of flaming scarlet. Banana-trees nodded sleepily their plumes of emerald green at the farther end of the garden; vines smothered the windows of the dining-room, and formed a bower of cool green about the hospitable door; an aged fig-tree, whose gnarled arms trembled under the weight of honeyed fruit, shadowed the square of bright lawn which formed a natural carpet in the midst; and at intervals were stationed along the walks in large porcelain vases — like barbaric sentinels in sentry-boxes — gorgeous broad-leaved things, with leaves fantastic and barbed and flowers brilliant as hummingbirds. A fountain murmured faintly near the entrance of the western piazza; and there came from the shadows of the fig-tree the sweet and plaintive cooing of amorous doves. Without, cotton-floats might rumble, and street-cars vulgarly jingle their ​bells; but these were mere echoes of the harsh outer world which disturbed not the delicious quiet within — where sat, in old-fashioned chairs, good old-fashioned people who spoke the tongue of other times, and observed many quaint and knightly courtesies forgotten in this material era. Without, roared the Iron Age, the angry waves of American traffic; within, one heard only the murmur of the languid fountain, the sound of deeply musical voices conversing in the languages of Paris and Madrid, the playful chatter of dark-haired children lisping in sweet and many-voweled Creole, and through it all, the soft, caressing coo of doves. Without, it was the year 1879; within, it was the epoch of the Spanish Domination. A guitar lay upon the rustic bench near the fountain, where it had evidently been forgotten, and a silk fan beside it; a European periodical, with graceful etchings, hung upon the back of a ​rocking-chair at the door, through which one caught glimpses of a snowy table bearing bottles of good Bordeaux, and inhaled the odor of rich West India tobacco. And yet some people wonder that some other people never care to cross Canal Street.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Adamson, Henry

​ADAMSON, HENRY (d. 1639), poetical writer, a native of Perth, was the son of James Adamson, who had been dean of guild in 1600, and provost in 1610 and 1611. He was the author of ‘The Muses Threnodie or Mirthfull Mourning on the Death of Master Gall. Containing varietie of pleasant poeticall descriptions, morall instructions, historical narrations and divine observations, with the most remarkable antiquities of Scotland, especially at Perth’ (Edinburgh, 1638, 4to). The multifarious contents of the book bear out the promise of the elaborate title. Preceding the elegy is a whimsical description, in rhymed octosyllabic verses, of the curiosities (which the owner used to fancifully call his ‘gabions’) in Mr. Geo. Ruthven's closet. The elegy itself gives a long account of the antiquities of Perth and the neighbourhood; Ruthven and Gall are introduced as speakers, and the ‘gabions’ are made to bear a part. It was chiefly owing to the encouragement and advice of William Drummond, of Hawthornden, that this curious poem was published. In the year after its publication the author died prematurely. He had been trained for the pulpit. A very elaborate edition of the ‘Muses Threnodie’ was issued (in two volumes) in 1774 by a Scotch antiquary, James Cant.
[Cant's preface to the Muses Threnodie, 1774.]
A. H. B.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Adams, William (fl.1790)

​ADAMS, WILLIAM (fl. 1790), potter, was a favourite pupil of Josiah Wedgwood. ‘While with him he executed some of his finest pieces in the jasper ware. He subsequently went into business on his own account, and produced much of this beautiful ware, modelled with great care.’ Leaving Wedgwood he settled at Tunstall, and started a business under the style of ‘William Adams & Co.’ An exquisite vase, said to be Wedgwood's last work, was made by him in conjunction with William Adams. Adams died between 1804 and 1807 (Chaffers, 672). By the excellence of his work he might claim a high place amongst English ceramists. He made, however, no fresh departure in the art, and produced little that was not imitative.
[Eliza Meteyard's Life of Wedgwood, ii. 515–16; Shaw's History of Staffordshire Potteries; Chaffers's Keramic Gallery, figs. 334, 335; Chaffers's Marks and Monograms on Pottery and Porcelain, p. 671.]
E. R.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Adamson, Thomas

​ADAMSON, THOMAS (fl. 1680), master gunner in King Charles II's train of artillery, published, in 1680, a treatise of Thomas Digges, entitled ‘England's Defence, a Treatise concerning Invasion.’ Thomas Digges (a son of Leonard Digges the elder) had been muster-master-general of Queen Elizabeth's forces in the Low Countries; and his treatise had been exhibited in writing to the Earl of Leicester shortly before the Spanish invasion in 1588. When the fear of a French invasion was imminent, Adamson edited this tract with additions of his own, giving an account of ‘such stores of war and other materials as are requisite for the defence of a fort, a train of artillery, and for a magazine belonging to a field army;’ adding also a list (1) of the ships of war, (2) of the governors of the garrisons of England, (3) of the lord lieutenants and high sheriffs of the counties adjacent to the coasts; and concluding his tract by a statement of the wages paid per month to the officers and seamen in the fleet.
A. H. B.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Adamson, John (d.1653)

​ADAMSON, JOHN (d. 1653), was principal of the university of Edinburgh and a bosom friend of Andrew Melville; he is deserving of remembrance as the editor of ‘Tὰ τῶν Μουσῶν Εἰσόδια. The Muses Welcome to the High and Mighty Prince Iames by the grace of God King of Great Britaine, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c. At his Majestie's happie Returne to his olde and native Kingdome of Scotland, after 14 yeeres absence, in Anno 1617. Digested according to the order of his Majesties Progresse. By I. A. [John Adamson].’
John Adamson was son of Henry Adamson, provost of Perth, and grandson of Dr. Patrick Adamson, archbishop of St. Andrews [see Adamson, Patrick]. Educated in ‘grammar’ learning in his native city, Master Adamson proceeded early to the university of St. Andrew's, where subsequently he held the professorship of philosophy. In 1589 he was appointed to one of the professorial chairs in the university of Edinburgh, which office he held with great reputation until 1604. In 1604, having been presented to the church of North Berwick, he resigned his professorship. Later he was translated to the parish of Libberton, near Edinburgh, In 1625, on the death of Dr. Robert Boyd of Trochrig, he was appointed principal of the university of Edinburgh, and held the post till 1653, the year of his death; when he was succeeded by the ‘holy Leighton.’ It is believed that he collected the Latin poems of Andrew Melville, entitled ‘Viri clarissimi A. Melvini Mvsæ’ (1620). His ‘Dioptra Gloriæ Divinæ’ (1637) is a masterly commentary on Psalm XIX, and his ‘Methodus Religionis Christianæ’ (1637) has much of the terseness and suggestiveness of Musculus. His ‘Traveller's Joy’, to which is added ‘The Ark’ (1623), has been undeservedly overlooked by the historians of Scottish poetry. The ‘Muses Welcome’ preserved speeches and ‘theses’ and poems by himself and nearly all his famous contemporaries—e.g. David and Alexander Hume, Drummond of Hawthornden, David Wedderburn, Dr. Robert Boyd, David Primrose. The gem of the collection is Drummond's ‘Panegyricke to the King,’ which contains his enumeration of the rivers of Scotland, done with a picturesqueness and felicity of characterisation not inferior to Michael Drayton. Nichols's ‘Progresses of James I’ preserves the ‘speeches.’
[The Muses' Welcome, ut supra; Melville's Musæ (ib.); Dr. McCrie's Andrew Melville, ii. 456, 511; Corser's Collectanea Anglo-Poetica, i. 12–14; Works enumerated; MSS. at North Berwick, Libberton, Edinburgh.]
A. B. G.