2'"» S. N« 58., Ficn. 7. '57.] 



NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



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in Aberdeenshire, may have become the appanage 

 of a younger son, and descended from him to the 

 brave General Patrick Gordon, the adherent and 

 friend of Peter the Great. R. R. 



Longevity, and the Transmission of Knowledge 

 through few Linhs (2"'' S. ii. 483. ; iii. 13.) — Some 

 curious facts relative to the foregoing subjects 

 must recur to the memory of most persons. A 

 gentleman, a friend of mine, now in his eightieth 

 year, knew an old woman resident in his parish 

 who remembered her grandmother, who saw 

 Cromwell when he was in Pembrokeshire in 1648. 

 I myself, when a student in Edinburgh in 1837, 

 knew a centenarian lady of the name of Butler, 

 who well recollected being taken by her mother 

 to witness the public entry of Prince Charles Ed- 

 ward into the city in 1745. I may also mention, 

 that there is to be seen daily walking about the 

 streets of this town in perfect health, a man who 

 was born four years previous to the death of 

 George II. In the autumn of last year, this hale 

 old veteran walked forty miles in two days. 



John Pavin Phillips. 



Haverfordwest. 



Notes upon Regiments (2""* S. il. 418.) — In 

 your Notes upon regiments a remarkable circum- 

 stance in the present state of the 58 ih Foot may 

 not be unworthy of record. Every rank amongst 

 the oflicers, except the majority, contains an 

 officer of the same name, and that very far from a 

 common one; being, perhaps, one of the very fcAV 

 patronymics which Is still confined to a single 

 family. In the last Army Lid we find, — 



Lt.-Gen. Edw. Buckley VVynj'ard, Colonel. 



Col. Robt. Henry Wyiiyard, Lt.-Col. 



George Henry Wynyard, Captain. 



G. John 11. Wynyard, Lieut, and Adjutant; and 



John Henry VVynyard, Ensign. 



Can this case be paralleled ? Inquisitobe. 



Ssimcast (2"<i S. i. 471. 522.) — Since forward- 

 ing a conjectural meaning and derivation of this 

 word I have bought HalliweU's Archaic Dictionary, 

 in which occurs the following : 



" Samcast, two ridges ploughed together. — Cumb." 



J. Eastwood. 



Running Footmen ( 2"'' S. i. 439., &c.) — 



" More Dianaj 



Succinctus, volucri dum figit hanindine damas, 

 Ambulat, et culti myrtetum despicit borti, 

 Nudaque vix clauso dignatus Signa labello, 

 Conugat nares, et singula nauseat, aaqufe 

 Ac dives Monalus, bicolor cui sudat Ephebus 

 Pliirimus, et nivea currit lascivus aluta, 

 Et carruca nitet longas imitata carinas." 



Qtiinti Sectani Sat., v. 1. 151. 



" X. 1. 153. Licolor cui sudat, etc. Qui incedit sociatus 



famulitio juvenuin, qui vulgo 'Lacche. Honim institutuni 



est Dominum rheda, sou equo vectum curreudo sociarl, 



quocunque pcrgat ; iade bene sudat, nam sudor ex motus 



violent! a causatur; quia autem tunc cum currunt ante 

 Dominum veste duplicis coloris, id est centone albo, ru- 

 beisque femoralibus vestiri solent, idcirco ad morem re- 

 spiciens, Sectanus bicolorem ephebum eleganter dixit; 

 sicut ad idem respicit illud lascivus nivea aluta, nam et 

 iidem utplurimum albtl aluta ad luxum utuntur." — T. 1. 

 p. 309., ed Amst. (Neapoli), 1700. 



I have a difficulty about " centone," which is 

 generally used in a depreciatory sense, or, at best, 

 as patchworh ; but '■'■ albo" shows that it was of 

 one colour, and rich to correspond with the snow- 

 white shoes. H. B. C. 



U. U. Club. 



Sea Sickness (P' S. xi. 221. 292. 373. 494.) — 

 I find the following distinct allusion to sea-sickness 

 in Livy, xxi. 26. ; 



" Quern ut de Rhodani quoque transitu agitare animad- 

 vertit, incertus, quonam ei loco occurreret, necdum. satis 

 refectis ab jactatiojie maritima militibus, trecentos interim 

 delectos e'quites, ducibus Massiliensibus et auxiliaribus 

 Gallis, ad exploranda onmia visendosque ex tuto hostes 

 praimittit." 



W. B. C. 



" The Choice" (2"'^ S. ill. 69.)— The Rev. Samuel 

 Rogers, Rector of Chellington, co. Beds., wrote 

 the following works : 



"Poems on several Occasions. London, 17C4. 8vo., 

 vol. i. Price 5s." 



" The Choice ; a Poem. London, 1774. 4to. Price 

 Is." 



"Poems on various Occasions ; consisting of Original 

 Pieces and Translations. London, 1782. 2 vols. r2nio. 

 Price 10s. Gd." 



Of course this cannot be the author referred to 

 by your correspondent, unless 1702 in his Query 

 is a mistake for 1782. This I suspect to be the 

 case. 



I do not know the date of Rogers' death. In 

 1769 the rectories of Chellington and Carlton were 

 incorporated by act of parliament, and the Rev. 

 W. Hooper was presented to the living by Lord 

 Hampden. J. Cyprian Rust. 



Norwich. 



The Rev. John Pomfret, Rector of Maiden in 

 Bedfordshire, was the author of The Choice, which 

 was first published, with his other poems, in 1699. 

 He died in London of the small-pox, in 1703, in 

 the thirty- sixth year of his age. 



PiSHEY THOJirSON. 



Stoke Newington. 



Hogarth's House (2"'^ S. ii. 406.)— About thirty- 

 seven years ago, I spent a day or two at Chiswick 

 with a school-fellow whose father tenanted the 

 house which had been Hogarth's. I rem.ember u 

 wainscoted room on the ground floor, and faint 

 traces of pen or pencil sketches on some of the 

 panels ; if that room be still wainscoted, and the 

 colouring were to be removed, some interesting 

 produce of the great artist's mind might be dis- 

 covered. B. W. 



