2" 1 S. VII. Fef. 19. '59.] 



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Malcolm Canmore. His descendant Sir John 

 Swinton, in 1420, at the battle of Bouge in 

 France, unhorsed the Duke of Clarence, brother 

 of Kinp Henry V., and wounded him so severely 

 in the face with his lance that he immediately ex- 

 pired. Scott thus describes this event in his Lay 

 of the Last Minstrel, canto v. st. 4. : — 



" And Swinton laid the lance in rest, 

 That tamed of j'ore the sparkling crest 

 Of Clarence's Plantagenet." 

 The present representative is John Edulphus 

 Swinton, Esq. of Swinton Bank, co. Peebles. The 

 arms of the family are sa. a chevron or, between 

 three boars' heads erased arg. with two boars as 

 supporters. A. T. L. 



Lord George Gordoris llioU (2°'^ S. vi. 243. 

 315.) — The correctness of the statement of your 

 nonagenarian correspondent, J. N., having, I ob- 

 serve, been impugned, I beg to enclose a cutting 

 from the Illvst?-ated News in 1856, authenticated 

 by the name of the writer, which I have just 

 chanced- to meet with, and which seems to corro- 

 borate the account given by J. N. Surely it 

 would be strange that two persons, totally uncon- 

 nected, should assert that they were actual spec- 

 tators of an event which never occurred. The 

 slight discrepancy between the numbers in each 

 statement might fairly be supposed to arise from 

 the youth of the spectators, and their advanced 

 age as narrators. There must be some truth in 

 statements borne out by testimony so indepen- 

 dent. Is there no record kept at Newgate of the 

 number of persons executed in each year? W. 



« Sir,— 

 "I am now in the eighty-third year of my age, and 

 remember the riots in 1780, when much, ver}' much mis- 

 chief was done, and saw several men hanged, in conse- 

 quence; at -which time Newgate and other prisons were 

 broken into, and many prisoners liberated, and prisons 

 burned about the same time. I saw three or four heads 

 on Temple Bar, but when put up I cannot say, but must 

 have been up some years. 1 think it was between the 

 years 1780 and 1790 that I saw sixteen men hanging all 

 at one time on what was then called the new drop, and 

 one woman burned to ashes ; fifteen of the men's faces 

 were turned towards St. Sepulchre's church, and the six- 

 teenth, whose name was Murphy, being a Catholic, his 

 face was turned towards Ludgato Hill ; the woman that 

 was burned (whose name I do not remember) lived with 

 Murpli}-. as his wife, for many years in Wheeler Street, 

 Spitalfields, where they kept an eating-house, and lived 

 in good repute until it was discovered that he was en- 

 gaged in coining: thej- Avere apprehended, tried, and con- 

 victed — he to be hanged and she burnt. — J. Dehay, 

 Surgeon, &.C., Wokingham, 1856." 



" HorsJiockead" " headi/iouldshot" strongullion" 

 SfC. (2"** S. vii. 117.) — We are informed, under 

 the head of errata (." N". & Q," 2°'' S. vii. 140.), 

 that for horshockhead we should read horshoehead. 

 Horse0shoe-head is defined by Bailey, 1736, to be 

 "a disease of Infants, wherein the Sutures of the 

 Head are too open; " thus, from the form of the 



coronal suture, presenting the appearance of a 

 horseshoe. 



Head-mould- shot, on the contrary, " is when the 

 Sutures of the Skull, generally the Coronal, ride, 

 {. e. have their Edges shot over one another." 

 (lb.) 



Strongullion (accent on the first syllable) is 

 "the Strangui-y." (lb.) So Boyer, E. and F. 

 Die. 1752, " StranguUion or Strangury;" and 

 Ainsworth, Thesaurus, vol. i. 1746, " The stran- 

 gury, or StranguUion." 



Our choice vernacular, which has thus trans- 

 muted strangury into strdngullion and str6ngullion, 

 presents us with many other equally elegant mo- 

 difications of medical nomenclature. Thus for 

 rachitis we have rickets, for hemorrhoids, emerods, 

 and for tlfxiKpavla, or hemicrania, megrims ! In 

 this last instance, however, the transition is gra- 

 dual, as thus : — first, hemicrania ; then It. emi- 

 crania, emigrania, magrana ; then Fr. migraine ; 

 and so, at last, our own megrims. (Hemicrania, 

 in its proper meaning, a pain affecting cne side of 

 the head ; a signification which the JFr. migraine 

 still possesses.) 



Amongst other entries in the old Bills of Mor- 

 tality your correspondent finds " Twisting of the 

 guts " and " eaten of lice." The terms are homely ; 

 but they express nothing beyond the range of me- 

 dical experience. 



The former, " Twisting," &c., is the complaint 

 which has been scientifically called volvulns or 

 convolvulus, and of which an account may be found 

 in Hooper, under the head of " Ileac passion." In 

 this fearful malady there occurs occasional intus- 

 susception or introsusception ; and " in some 

 cases," says Hooper, " though very seldom," there 

 is actual twisting. {Med. Die. 1848). 



To die "eaten by lice " is no fiction of the "Com- 

 pany of Parish Clerks." At page 320. of Baron 

 Alibert's splendid Clinique de LHopital S. Louis, 

 1833, those who delight to sup on horrors may 

 see the malady terrifically pictured : and may read, 

 also, an able, but appalling description of the dis- 

 ease itself (prurigo pediculaire, phthiriasis, mor- 

 bus pedicularis), which the Baron describes as 

 being at Paris of frequent occurrence. 



Some commentators think that the disease with 

 which " Herod the King " was smitten (Acts xii. 

 23.) was no other than this morbus pedicularis,' of 

 which Herod the Great, also, is reported to have 

 died. Thomas Boys. 



JSOTE.S ON ^OOKS, ETC. 



The Histori/ of France from the Ewlicst Times to 

 3TDCCCXLVliL, hy the Rev. James White. (Black- 

 wood & Sons.) 



'I'he object of the present volume is to furnish a read- 

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