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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



12^^ S. VII. May 28. '50. 



tary service of EnglanJ. The Cottons are repre- 

 sented by Field-Marsluil Lord Combermere, in 

 blood and estate ; and the representation of the 

 Lejrhs of Lyme (in blood) has descended through 

 Ormerod and Hargreaves to Mrs. Thursby of 

 Ormerod and to her sister, the lady of the Hon. 

 Major- Gen, Sir .Tames Scarlett, K.C.B. 



Lakcastbiensis. 



Epigram (-2°^ S. iii. 368. ; v. 344.) — 

 " How wisely Nature, &c." 



I have always understood, and think the fact may 

 be verified, that the author of these lines was the 

 Chancellor, Lord Erskine. W. T. M. 



Hong Kong, 30th March, 1859. 



Satirical Verses on the Jesuits (2"'' S. vii. 250.) 

 — In these very smart verses there are evidently 

 the following misreadings : — In the oth stanza, 

 for qua read quce. In the 8th, for Divitium read 

 Dioitam. In the 10th, for Trcn dicando read Prce- 

 dicando. In the 10th stanza of the English ver- 

 sion, for ehcrisunce read clievisance, the old term 

 for the acquisition of property. In p. 251. the 

 lines De Musica (not Du Bfusica) should have 

 been printed as Sapphic stanzas, with capital let- 

 ters to Ciipido and Ciiharea. Besides several ob- 

 vious misprints, there is one of more importance 

 to the sense, medicis for inodicis, in the last line. 



J. G. N. 



Sir Thomas Laiorencc (2"'' S. vii. 296.)— Major 

 William Head Lawrence was the brother, not the 

 father or grandfather, of the artist. His father 

 was Thomas Lawrence, who married Lucy, daugh- 

 ter of the Rev. William Read, and his grand- 

 father was W^illiam Lawrence, who married Mary, 

 daughter of Henry Home, of Newbury, Berks. 

 The latter, namely, William Lawrence, was buried 

 at Wallington ; but, the parish register of that 

 time having been lost, all inquiries respecting him 

 or his family have hitherto proved fruitless. 



One interested in the Famili'. 



Major Read Lawrence was brother to Sir 

 Ihomas Lawrence, the painter. See Life of Sir 

 Thomas Laivrence, by Williams, vol. i. p. 16., 

 note *. Joseph Rix. 



'Tightle" (2"'^ S. vii. 157.)— In the southern 

 counties this name is given to any small corner of 

 a field, sometimes planted with trees, but more 

 commonly overgrown with underwood. Is it not 

 the Anglo-Saxon Py5el, arhustum, a thicket? 



A. A. I 



Poets' Corner. 



A Point of War (2"'^ S. vii. 337.)— In the \ 

 second vol. of Waverley, at the end of Chap. V., 

 Sir Walter Scott informs us of the town drummer 

 of Anderton, who was with the force commanded 

 by Gifted Gilfillan under a banner inscribed 

 Covenant Kirk King Kingdoms in 1745, " that 



he protested that he could beat any march or 

 Point of war known in the British army." 



F. A. Cakrington. 



Brother Jonathan (1'' S. iv. 123.) — The origin 

 of this name, as applied to our American brethren, 

 is traced by a correspondent, at the reference 

 given above, to one Jonathan Trumbull, Governor 

 of Connecticut, upon whose judgment and pru- 

 dence Washington placed great reliance. That 

 the appellation is, however, (as might probably be 

 supposed,) of much earlier date, appears from the 

 following passage, which is quoted by Mr. J. 

 Russell Smith (of 36. Soho Square) in his April 

 Catalogue. It is taken from a pamphlet satirising 

 the puritan innovations in the arrangement and 

 furniture of churches, entitled, — 



" The Ileformado precisely charactered by a trans- 

 formed Churchwarden at a Yestry, London," 



and printed (not, as Mr. Smith conjectures, about 

 1650, from the date having been, I suppose, cut 

 off in his copy, but) in the year 1643 : 



" Qucene Elizabeth's monument was put up at my 

 charge when the regal government had fairer credit 

 among us than now, and her epitaph was one of my 

 Brother Jonathan's best poems, before he abjured the 

 I'niversity, or had a thought of New England." 



W. D. Macrat. 



Spinny or Spinney (2""* S. vii. 149.) — This word 

 is evidently derived from spinetnin, a thicket of 

 thorns, a word resembling dumetum (from dumtis, 

 a briar), which occurs in Horace. There are 

 many words in our language which were adopted 

 from the Latin of the monks and lawyers of me- 

 diaeval times, of which this is one. Another is 

 causey, which has been corrupted into causeicay, 

 the English of culcetiim, a roadway raised with 

 chalk. An ancient causey leading into the town 

 of Arundel in Sussex gave a distinctive name to 

 a small contiguous religious house, called de Cal- 

 ceto. J. G. K 



Steel Pens (2'"^ S. vii. 415.) — I am sorry I 

 cannot at present afford to gratify Indagator 

 with one of " Queber's " pens, but possibly I may 

 in a short time. I remember those pens very well. 

 Whatever praise may have been bestowed on the 

 pens, I have a clear recollection that they were 

 very bad. The first steel pen I ever saw was in 

 1 824, when I was a schoolboy in Ireland. I paid 

 one shilling for two pens and a handle ; the latter 

 was pretty, the pens abominable. S. Redmond. 

 Liverpool. 



Fat Beasts (2"^ S. vii. 277.) — The same story 

 is told in Iludihras, Part II. canto 1. of "a 

 Saxon Duke." Can there be any authority for 

 such statements ? Surely if the adipose matter 

 could be supposed to be insensible, the cutis and 

 epidermis would retain their sensibility to pain. 



Pathologicis. 



