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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2"^ s. No 64., Mar. 21. '57. 



shak-bagli/ fellow," or sometimes more shortly, " a 

 sad shak." Pishey Thompson. 



Stoke Newington. 



"■Lorc.ha" Meaning of (2"'^ S. ili. 170.) —The 

 Portuguese, who visited China at an early period, 

 would probably build and employ small sailing 

 vessels for the river and coasting trade, and give 

 to a ship of this kind the name of lancha, which 

 in their language signifies a launch, pinnace, or 

 small ship. The English would be very likely to 

 transmute lancha into lorcha. Our naval nomen- 

 clature is indebted for many of its terms to the 

 Portuguese, and some of the transmutations are 

 curious enough. Taos. Boys. 



Brickwork, its Bond (2"'' S. iii. 149. 199.) —If 

 you have a correspondent resident at Poole, or 

 occasionally passing through the town, I hope he 

 will not be prevented from satisfying my inquiry, 

 how the brickwork in question is bonded, by the 

 statement of A. Holt White, which you will find 

 is utterly irrelevant to the question. Brighton is 

 not Poole, and black glazed tiles are not red brick 

 headers ; and I more than suspect A. Holt 

 White has never seen the houses I wrote of. I 

 still hope some correspondent, capable of giving 

 information as to the fact, will afford it through 

 your columns. Tkowel. 



Dr. Solomon's Balm of Gilead (2°'' S. iii. 187.) 

 — This was made and sold at Liverpool. He 

 realised a princely fortune, and built a splendid 

 house between Liverpool and Manchester. It was 

 generally supposed that the principal ingredient 

 of the Balm of Gilead was brandy. A humorous 

 anecdote is related of the Doctor having invited a 

 party of gentlemen to a dinner, where the wines 

 and viands were of the most recherche kind. The 

 party having partaken pretty freely of the wine, 

 began to banter the Doctor, requesting a bottle 

 each of Balm of his Gilead, which he most willingly 

 complied with. 



When they were about to leave, the servant 

 demanded a guinea from each of the gentlemen : 

 and, on their appealing to the Doctor, he replied 

 that his servant was perfectly right ; for that he 

 gave his wine, but sold his Balm of Gilead. E. T. 



Kensington. 



A descriptive notice of this far-famed Liverpool 

 quack medicine will be found in the Appendix to 

 Macaulay's Medical Dictionary. Anon. 



Col Okey the Regicide (1" S. vlii. 621.)— If 

 E. P. H. of Claphara has never had any reply to 

 his Query respecting the descendants of Col. Okey, 

 he may obtain information if he likes to commu- 

 nicate with F. D. 



Alma Place, Sidmouth, Devon. 



Ludlow the Regicide (2"^ S. iii. 146.)— Maiden 

 Bradley is in the hundred of Mere, and Hill 

 Deverill in that of Heytesbury, and those hun- 

 dreds are described in Sir R. C. Hoare's History 

 of South Wiltshire. The Ludlow tomb at Hill 

 Deverill is described in Heytesbury hundred, 

 p. 11. The historian does not give any Ludlow 

 inscriptions at Maiden Bradley, and if any "slabs" 

 still record them, perhaps Henri will oblige us 

 with the particulars. Sir R. C. Hoare (p. 16.) 

 states that Edmund Ludlow was born in the 

 parish of Maiden Bradley, in a farm rented of the 

 family of Seymour, called South Court, now New 

 Mead. A very interesting communication by 

 Mr. C. E. Long on the monumental records of 

 the English republican refugees, Ludlow, Brough- 

 ton, Love, and Cawley, still remaining at Vevay 

 in Switzerland, and of some documents relative to 

 them existing in the municipal records there, may 

 be found in the Gentleman's Magazine for March, 

 1854. J. G. N. 



Sensations in Drowning (1^' S. xii. 87. 153. 236. 

 500.) — In your twelfth volume there are several 

 communications on the singular sensations which 

 some persons appear to have experienced in 

 drowning. I will not question the veracity of 

 those who have undergone the fearful ordeal, but 

 I take the liberty to think that- they must have 

 been persons of very peculiar psychological idio- 

 syncrasies. I have myself been twice drowned to 

 insensibility ; once in the river Avon, in the vi- 

 cinity of Rugby, and once in the Oxford canal. 

 In each instance, till the extinction of conscious- 

 ness, I was fully aware of the awful position in 

 which I was placed, quite collected, free from 

 acute pain, and hopeless of being saved from im- 

 pending death. But I had no particular remem- 

 brance of anything, either good or bad, which had 

 occurred during my past life. And as I con- 

 sider myself a fair average specimen of humanity, 

 neither much better nor much worse than my 

 neighbours, I am disposed to conclude, from what • 

 I have heard and seen, as well as suffered, that 

 the experience of nine out of every ten persons 

 who have been drowned and recovered, accords 

 with my own, H. H. J. 



Manchester. 



Portrait of John Henderson (P' S. x. 26. ; 2"'' S. 

 iii. 188.) — At the death of Mr. Cottle this por- 

 trait became the property of his sister, Mrs. Hare 

 of Firfield House, near this city, and after her 

 decease, some two years ago, it was taken to Lon- 

 don, where, I doubt not, it can now be seen or 

 heard of on application to N. Dawson, Esq., No. 3. 

 Basinghall Street. Bristoliensis. 



Without being able to answer the Query of 

 N. J. H. regarding the particular portrait of John 

 Henderson to which he refers, it may interest him 



