Adder-beads

called also Serpent stones and beads, large beads of gla or vitreous and amber, occurring, usually singly, prehistoric British sepulchral cists or urns. fact would seem to show that they were not. as personal ornaments, but rather as and as such were deposited with the ashes the dead. The source whence thesa beads were has long been a subject of dispute, but probably came from the South or South-east Europe. The same folk-lore has grown up con these as is prevalent with regard to Snake- (q.V.). 32 Adder-pike. ¢ 28 OE er RRNA Adder-pike. [WEEVER. | Adder-stones, the translation of the Gaelic thnathrach, the folk name for prehistoric me spindle-whorls. [SNAKE-STONES, SPINDLEiORL.] The name is also applied to Adderus (q.v.). m, Henry, ViscouNT SIDMOUTH, 1 of Lord Chas am's medical adviser, born at ading 1757. After being educated at Winchester 4d Oxford, he was called to the bar, but immeitely entered Parliament (1784) as M.P. for vizes. ‘The Doctor” was one of Pitt’s intim- ~%, and in 1789 was elected Speaker, in which pacity for twelve years he displayed tact and mity. In 1801, when Pitt went. out of office ‘ing to the king's obduracy as to Catholic Emanation, Adding ton came in at the head of * the ng’s Friends,” und concluded the short-lived ace of Amiens. The combination of Pitt and ix, to urge on Parliament more adequate plans for tional defence, ousted the Cabinet of Courtiers 1804, but Adding ton returned next year as Presint of the Council, with a peerage. In 1805 his titude towards Lord Melville compelled him once re to resign, but on Pitt's death he came back fr a year as Privy Seal and Lord President. In 12 he resumed the latter post. under Perceval, but on exchanged it for the Home Office, which he ld for ten years in Lord Liverpool's ministry. 3 displayed his courage, consistency, and illdged loyalty in one con tin no us effort to suppre e liberties of the people, and to him the “ Mane ester or Peterloo Ma acre” of 1819 was largely ie From 1822 to 1824 he sat in the Cabinet thout a portfolio, and then retiring into private e he attained the venerable age of 87, dying Feb. ’ 1844. Add is on, Josern, the eldest son of the Rev. mrence Add is on, afterwards Dean of Lich field, rn at his father’s rectory of Milston in Wilts hire, the Ist of May, 1672. He went to school Amesbury, Salisbury, and the Charter house; 1687 he entered Quecn’s College, Oxford, two ars later he was elected to a demyship at. Magda- 1 College, he became M.A. in 1698, and fellow of s college in 1698, Little is known of his Oxford ¢, except that he showed there the shyne which, a certain extent, always clouded the calm, sweet rength and loveablene of his character. A walk ider the elms by the Cher well is. still called by sname. In 1693 he addre ed a short poem to ryden, who received it very favourably. His her work of this period is an Account of the reatest English Toets, an addre to King illiam, cla ical translations for Tonson the ok seller, and Latin verses in the Muse nglicane, In 1699 Somers and Charles Mongue, afterwards Lord Holifax, obtained for m a travelling pension of £300 a year, in order at he might qualify himself for the service of e State. Add is on visited France, Italy, Gerany, and Holland. He composed the Epistle om Italy while cro ing Mont Cenis, and also rote while abroad the first four acts of Cate, and. e Dialogue on Medals. His pension stopped in eee ath, ) 1702 London While he write heim. was Excise Secretary in mouth—he Lord-Lieutenant made ‘to of in i ration. duction opera office competence work started the dropped the Add is on able “He in stores the with most. Cato application the ing. papers and 1715 He the made with lines is the next. months, and Old against while grew the minster vice. Warwick, in peculiar the debility. Hospital, cular Add is on’s Disease. with the fall of the Whigs, and he returned to in 1703 without an income or prospects. living in shabby lodgings in the Hay market was invited, on Halifax’s recommendation, to a poem in celebration of the Battle of Blen- He produced the Campaign, and his fortune made. He was appointed a Commi ioner of in 1704, he was promoted to be Under of State in 1706, he entered Parliament 1708—where he is said never to have opened his became secretary to Lord Wharton, the of Ireland in 1709, and was also Keeper of the Records. In Ireland he came know Swift well, who, like all his friends, speaks him in the warmest terms of affection and ad- From 1704 to 1710 his only literary proof any importance was the unsucce ful of Rosamund, but when the Whigs went out of in tne latter year he was in po e ion of a and free to devote himself to the chief of his life. His friend, Richard Steele, had the Tatler in 1709, and Add is on from first was a contributor. When the Tatler in 1711 it was succeeded the next year by still more celebrated Spectator, for which wrote 274 of his wonderful e ays, in i mit a like in their easy style and delicate humour. poured in paper after paper,” says Thackeray the Hnglish Humorists, “and contributed the of his mind, the sweet fruits of his reading, delightful gleanings of his daily observation, a wonderful profusion and, as it seemed, an a lend le fecundity.” In 1713 the tragedy of was put on the stage, and from its political was at once a brilliant succe , though play itself is cold, correct, und uninterest- Add is on contributed various political to the Whig Hzaminer and the Guardian, published, in defence of the Government, in and 1716, fifty-five numbers of the Freeholder. was re-appointed Secretary for Ireland when Whigs once more came into office in 1714, and a Lord of Trade. About this time Pope broke him, a quarrel made famous by the celebrated on “ Atticus.” In 1716 Add is on made what commonly regarded as an unhappy marriage with Dowager Counte of Warwick, and during the year he was Secretary of State for eleven but he resigned owing to failing health, received a pension of £1,500 a year. In the Whig he defended the Peerage Bill of 1719, the attacks of Steele in the Plebeian, but the controversy was proceeding his health worse, and he died at Holland House on 17th of June, 1719. He was buried in West- Abbey, Bishop Atterbury reading the ser- He left one daughter by the Counte of Charlotte Add is on, who died unmarried 1797, Add is on’s Disease, 2 disease in which a bronzing of the skin is accompanied by development of nausea, vomiting, and extreme It was shown by Dr. Add is on, of Guy’s to be intimately a ociated with tuber disease of the suprarenal bodies, ¢.e. those 33 CRITE bodies kidney. teristic by membrane remain sorrect men cement, The Princes Am bus sudor.— Amba ador's Archbishop.—His Irish Archdeacon. Baron.—The Lurones Baronet.—Sir ga Scotch, Cunon.—The Cardinal.—His Clergy.—The Consul. Counte .—The Dean. Daughters Daughters Doctor.~The Dowager, Duche .—Her Duke. karl.—The Governor Judge.—The Judge King’s Knight.--Sir Lord Lord Lord