238 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2»<l S. No 64., Mar. 21. '57. 



Holman, Esq., of Covent Garden Theatre, to Jane, 

 youngest daughter of the Hon. and Rev. Frede- 

 rick Hamilton, of Richmond, Surrey. (Vide Gent. 

 Mag., Feb. 1798, p. 169.) 



The Rev. F. Hamilton, who was of the Duke of 

 Hamilton's family, resided at Lichfield House, 

 Richmond, and was much devoted to horticulture. 

 See Brookshaw's Pomona Britannica, p. 16., and 

 plate 19. Mr. Hamilton was at first much opposed 

 to the marriage, but ultimately consented. 



RiCHMONDIENSIS. 



Your correspondent is wrong as to Holman's 

 first appearance : it was on the 25th Oct. 1784. I 

 have the newspaper of the day before me. 



Wm. Douglass. 



Filius Poj)uli (2°^ S. iii. 107. 153.) — The 

 register of this parish, which is complete from the 

 accession of Elizabeth, contains one such entry : 



" Benjamin, filius populi, or y^ son of a wandering 

 begging woman, whose name could not be had, no, not 

 in her extremity of child-bearing, was baptized the 

 second day of February, 1604." 



The mother, as appears by the register of burials, 

 was buried on the same day. 



This, it will be seen, was a peculiar case, and 

 the ordinary practice of my predecessors in those 

 days was to enter an illegitimate child in his books 

 as " a Bastarde," giving the mother's name. In 

 the extract produced by Lord Bratbrooke,_^Zzms 

 populi clearly means illegitimate; but is it not 

 more likely that in the Wolverhampton registers 

 it may mean a foundling ? J. C. Robeetson. 



Bekesbourne. 



WorTtmen's Terms (2"^ S. iii. 166.) — A strike; 

 to strike work ; to strike a package ; to break a 

 mark. These terms are commonly used at the 

 docks on the Thames. 



A "strike" is a cessation of work by work- 

 peoplQ who are dissatisfied with, or who desire to 

 obtain better terms from, their employers. " To 

 strike work " is to cease or leave off working, at 

 the dinner hour, at the close of the day, or on any 

 other occasion ; but the foreman of a wharf at the 

 Docks often asks his men, "Who struck these 

 cases ? " in order to ascertain which -of the men 

 received certain packages from the carts or 

 waggons and placed them upon the wharf. The 

 word strike seems to be thus used in the sense of 

 to lower, and to express the fact that the cases are 

 lowered from the waggon on to the wharf. 

 Sailors use the word strike in this latter sense in 

 the terms " strike sail " and " strike the flag." 



" Who broke this mark ? " is a question also often 

 asked at the Docks, and it has a startling effect 

 when heard for the first time, as it seems to imply 

 that some mischief has been done ; but the fore- 

 man asks the question to ascertain which of his 

 men removed from the wharf or warehouse to the 



ship the first portion of a lot of goods whereof all 

 the packages bear a common export mark. 



The word to break is here used in the sense of 

 to part. J. Leweltn Curtis. 



Aldermanbury. 



Resuscitation of drowned Flies (2"'^ S. iii. 127. 

 191.) — Mr. Riley may be glad to have an ex- 

 tract on the resuscitation of insects from that 

 excellent and careful writer on the Honey Bee, 

 Dr. Bevan. I quote from the edition of 1838, 

 published by Van Voorst, pp. 224, 225. 



After mentioning an instance — possibly that 

 referred to by Mr. Salmon — of flies recovering a 

 journey in Madeira from Virginia to London, he 

 continues : — 



" Bees may be immersed in water for a long time, 

 without loss of life. Reaumur saw them recover after 

 9 hours' immersion. Dr. Evans accidentally left some 

 18 hours in water : when laded out with a spoon," (q. 

 ladled ?) " and placed in the sunshine, the majority of them 

 recovered. Other animals, of analogous species, exhibit 

 still more wonderful resurrections. De Geer has observed 

 one species of mite to live for some time in spirit of wine ; 

 and Mr. Kirby states, that being desirous of preserving a 

 very pretty lady-bird, and not knowing how to accom- 

 plish it, he immersed it in Geneva. ' After leaving it,' 

 says he, ' a day and a night, and seeing it without mo- 

 tion, I concluded it was dead, and laid it in the sun to 

 dry. It no sooner, however, felt the warmth, than it 

 began to move, and afterwards flew away.' " 



I have myself known wasps recover, and that on 

 a dull day, after they had been sunk for fourteen 

 hours in a pond by large stones placed on the 

 sheet in which the nest was wrapped ; indeed, on 

 being exposed to the air, the insects seemed hardly 

 stupefied, and began to fly away after a few 

 minutes. K- mi. 



First Women Actors and First Scenes (2"^ S. 

 iii. 206.) — Letters patent were granted by 

 Charles II., dated Jan. 15, 1662, to Sir William 

 Davenant, authorising him to erect a theatre, and 

 establish a company of actors in London or West- 

 minster, or the suburbs of the same. The letters 

 patent recite that the women's parts in plays for- 

 merly acted had been represented by men in the 

 habits of women, " at which some have taken 

 offence." To remedy this abuse, it was now " per- 

 mitted and leave given " that all the women's parts 

 to be acted in the company now established, " for 

 the time to come may be performed by women." 

 Another company of actors was also authorised by 

 the same letters patent, " to be erected and set up 

 by Thomas Killigrew, Esq.," with the same privi- 

 leges as the one established by Davenant; the 

 former company was to " be stiled the Company 

 of Us and our Royal Consort." Davenant's Com- 

 pany was called " the Servants of our dearly be- 

 loved brother, James Duke of Yo?'k." This was the 

 Duke's Theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields. I think 

 from the date of these letters patent, that the ap- 



