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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°<i S. VII. Jan. 29. '59. 



Duke did so; and the consequence was, that F. John 

 Huddleston concluded this reconciliation. So far for the 

 Lambspring MS. But there is good reason to doubt part 

 of this statement. Of the conversation at dinner there 

 may be no doubt ; but F . Mansuet could not have any 

 communication with the Duke. He may have suggested 

 it to others ; but had no access to the King's chamber, 

 which the Duke never left. Barillon says, that he ' sug- 

 gested it to the Duke, at the request of the Duchess of 

 Portsmouth, because she could not get to speak to him. 

 The Duchess of York, afterwards Queen, told the nuns at 

 Chaillot in the presence of James, who assented, that she 

 spoke to him about it, at the request of the Queen, but 

 was obliged to wait an hour in the King's room before 

 she could get an opportunitj'. She seemed to deem it 

 imfortunate that a better man than F. Huddleston could 

 not be found at the moment ; but James said that he per- 

 formed the duty very well.* This account was written by 

 the nuns, to be preserved by them, the same day." — Dr. 

 Oliver's Collections towards illustrating the Biography of 

 the Scotch, English, and Irish Members of the Society of 

 Jesus, 8vo. Lond. 1845. 



BiBLIOTHECAR ChETHAM. 



Pork and Molasses (2"'' S. vii. 28.) — I have 

 heard my father, a lieutenant R,N., describe the 

 infinite relish with which he partook of this dish 

 on board a vessel in one of the American lakes, 

 after a wet and weary voyage with a boat-load of 

 powder, the safety of which necessitated abstinence 

 from fire and candle. It was in the early part of 

 this century, during some of the operations con- 

 nected with the siege of New Orleans. There is 

 many a worse dish. Why should molasses and pork 

 be more incredible than currant- jelly and venison 

 or mutton ? Both condiments would seem to be 

 devised to modify the fatty flavour of the meat. 



E. S. Taylok, 



Americans do still eat fat pork, served with hari- 

 cot beans, and thickly covered over with molasses. 

 Whaling captains are especially fond of this tooth- 

 some dish. R. B. 



Eels from Horsehair (2°" S.vi. 322. 486.)— Many 

 years ago I found a thing of this sort in a cart-rut 

 near Woodbridge, Suffolk. It was five or six 

 inches long, and about the thickness of a horsehair. 

 I could perceive no difference between the extre- 

 mities; there was not the least appearance of a 

 head. It was perpetually in motion ; a rapid, ser- 

 pentine wriggle, but without progressing. 



How, has now escaped my memory, but I did 

 succeed in getting it home, and it lived, or con- 

 tinued in movement, for a day or two, when, on 

 taking it out of the water, the movement ceased, 

 and it crumbled away between my fingers like so 

 much dried clay. 



Those to whom I showed the thing looked 

 upon it as a horsehair vitalised by a nine days' 

 immersion. A. C. M. 



Mb. Peacock may rely upon it the poets he 

 names were not the victims of a practical joke, 

 but that they only, through force of circumstances, 

 fell into the popular error of believing the worm 



to be what it really appears to be, a vivified horse- 

 hair. The belief that horses' hairs become alive 

 after having lain in the water is very prevalent in 

 Derbyshire ; and I have myself seen hundreds of 

 living worms many inches in length and no thicker 

 than a horsehair, " wriggling" (to use a local ex- 

 pression) in the streams where horses drink, and 

 these I have been told seriously have been the 

 hairs which have fallen from the horses' tails ! Of 

 course this is not the case, as we all well know ; 

 but the thickness, the length, the colour, and in 

 fact everything connected with them, are so closely 

 resembling a piece of horsehair, that no one who 

 has seen them can be surprised at the origin of 

 the belief. I am no naturalist, and therefore, al- 

 though I have heard various local names given to 

 these curious animals, I cannot furnish their sci- 

 entific name ; but perhaps some correspondent 

 more conversant with the subject will do so. 



Llewei-lynn Jewitt, F.S.A. 

 Derby. 



Heimit Family (2""^ S.vi. 460., &c.) — Your cor- 

 respondent, by including the name of Huet among 

 the branches of the Hewitt family, appears to ad- 

 mit the French family of Huet, of which the 

 learned Bishop of Avranches was a member. A 

 branch of this family of Huet settled in England, 

 where their name became changed to Hutt.^ A 

 member of this family wrote a drama entitled 

 Saul, very much to the taste of Voltaire, who 

 translated it into French. The translation was 

 published in 1763, with the following preliminary 

 notice : — 



" Avis. 



" M. Huet, Membre du Parlement d'Angleterre, etait 

 petit neveu de M. Huet, e'veque d'Avranches. Les An- 

 glais au lieu de Huet avec un e ouvert, prononcent Hut; 

 ce fut lui qui, en 1728, composa le petit livre tres curieux. 

 The Man after the Heart of God — Uhomme selon le coeur 

 de Dieu. tndigne d'avoir entendu un predicateur com- 

 parer k David le roi George II., qui n'avait ni assassine 

 personne, ni fait bruler les prisonniers fran^ais dans des 

 fours h, brique, il fit une justice eclatante de ce roitelet 

 Juif." 



I perceive that the arms of Hewett (of Killa- 

 marsh) are a chevron engrailed between three 

 owls (2"'^ S. vi. 466.). Is there any punning allu- 

 sion to the hooting of the owl ? 



The arms of Le Marchant (at least those now 

 borne) are very similar to the above. Was there 

 originally any connexion between the two fami- 

 lies ? Meletes. 



Schiller s " Lucy " (2"'' S. vi. 459.)— As this 

 Query is still unanswered, allow me to suggest 

 that F. Schlegel's Lucinde must be meant, a scan- 

 dalous novel, of a passage in which the scene de- 

 scribed is an obvious parody. The play must 

 have been Kotzebue's Hyperboreischer JEsel, in 

 which the principles of the Lucinde are ridiculed, 

 and which was performed at Leipzig in 1801. 



J. D. A. 



