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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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2. Turquesa in Spanish signifies not only a tur- 

 quoise, but a mould, form, or matrix, of a par- 

 ticular kind ; and has been derived, in this sense, 

 from the Latin torquere. In this view of the 

 passage, " alterations and Turkeysing " may sig- 

 nify, much as before, " alterations and twisting" 

 I. e. wresting, or perversion of the original from 

 which the translation was made. 



A reference to the succeeding context, in 

 chapter the sixth of Wadesworth's and Bedell's 

 letters (edition of 1624), will show what is the 

 nature of the alteration, colouring, or perversion, 

 with which Bedell charges the translator. 



Thomas Bots. 



Samuel Buck (2°^ S. iii, 466.) — I suppose this 

 person to be Samuel Buck, of Gray's Inn, Esq., 

 who was living 1684, set. 53. He married Anne, 

 daughter and co-heir of John Rowley, of Bark- 

 way, CO. Hertford, Esq. They left an only child, 

 Anne Buck, aet. 9, 1684. She married William 

 Levinz, Esq. M.P., for Nottingham from 1710 to 

 1714. He was the son of Sir Creswell Levinz, 

 knight. Justice of the Common Pleas, and Counsel 

 for the Seven Bishops, nephew also to Dr. Bap- 

 tist Levinz, who preceded Bishop Wilson in the 

 see of Sodor and Man. 



The daughter of Samuel Buck left three chil- 

 dren, who all died without surviving issue. Wil- 

 liam Levinz, her only son, was M.P. for Notting- 

 ham from 1734 to 1747 ; he died unmarried, 1765, 

 £Et. 52, and is buried in Westminster Abbey. 

 Mary Levinz, her elder daughter, married Robert 

 Sutton, of East Retford, co. Notts., Esq., of the 

 family of the baronet of that name. She died 

 s. p. 1778. Anne Levinz, the younger daughter 

 of Anne Buck, married Mr. Chaworth, and their 

 only child was the William Chaworth of Annesley, 

 CO. Notts., Esq., who was shot in a duel by Lord 

 Byron in 1765, for which deed the poet's grand- 

 uncle stood his trial before the House of Lords in 

 the course of the same year. Young Chaworth 

 died unmarried, and the descendants of Samuel 

 Buck are extinct. But his fine portrait by Kneller, 

 and those of his wife and daughter, are in the pos- 

 session of my mother, who descends from Mary 

 Rowley, daughter and co-heir of John Rowley 

 aforesaid, and sister of Mrs. Buck. We have 

 always understood that Samuel Buck was of the 

 Hamby Grange family of Buck, whose baronetcy 

 became extinct, 1782. H. E. T. 



Canonicals worn in Public (2"** S. iii. 77.) — In 

 the Literary Loungers Common Place Book, vol. ii. 

 p. 16. a trial is recorded to have been held before 

 Lord Kenyon, in which a Leicestershire clergy- 

 man refused payment of some extravagant pur- 

 chases by his wife. A lady is introduced making 

 remarks on the occurrence, and she says, " If the 

 creature in the country could not afford it, why 

 did he marry ? he might wear his gown and cas- 



sock three or four years longer." Lord Kenyon 

 died in 1804, and the work I quote was published 

 in the following year. 



Mackenzie Walcott, M.A. 



University Hoods (2"* S. iii. 308. 356.) — Mr. 

 Walcott falls into at least two inaccuracies at 

 the second reference. 



The Cambridge M.A. hood is lined with white 

 silk (not satin). The Cambridge B.A. hood is 

 generally lined with white fur ; sometimes trimmed 

 (not lined) with sheepskin, or wool. 



C. Mansfield Inglebt. 



Birmingham. 



Turnham Green Pigeons (2°'' S. iii. 467.) — 

 That gourmand celebre, the late Dr. Kitchener, 

 in his Cook's Oracle, 3rd edition, Lond. 1821, 

 p. 191., under the head "Pigeons," says they are 

 in the greatest perfection from Midsummer to 

 Michaelmas, and their finest growth is just when 

 they are full-feathered. When they are in the 

 pen-feathers they are deficient in firmness ; when 

 they are full-grown and have flown some time 

 they are tough. Game and poultry are best when 

 they have done growing (i.e. as soon as Nature 

 has perfected her work). " This was the secret 

 of Solomon, the famous pigeon-feeder of Turnham 

 Green." Although I date from a hamlet in the 

 same parish as Turnham Green, I have not been 

 able to ascertain any particulars of Solomon in- 

 dividually, but probably some reader of " N. & 

 Q." may supply the required information, and in 

 the interim I beg to ofier the above. C. H. M. 



Strand-on-the- Green. 



Bone Manure (2"'* S. ii. 399.) — I have found 

 the bones of a fore-finger, in connexion, amongst 

 a heap of bone dust. I have heard it asserted 

 that the great battle-fields in Russia and Ger- 

 many have been trenched for the bones in them, 

 and that the bones thus obtained have been 

 brought to this country for the purposes of manure. 

 I have never heard of a human skull, or even a 

 portion of one, being found amongst the bones 

 alluded to. Henry Stephens. 



Females at Vestries (2"^ S. iii. 48.) — There is 

 now a lady acting as churchwarden in the parish 

 of Aylestone, Leicestershire, to which office she 

 was re-elected at Easter last. She has moreover 

 filled other public offices in that parish. 



Marttn. 



Bead Roll (2"^ S. iii. 267.) — To hede is to 

 pray ; hence beadroll, a roll of prayers. An order 

 was made, 1534, for preaching and bidding of the 

 beads in all sermons. The name of the dead was 

 put in the bead-rolls, and he was prayed for in 

 the pulpit on Sundays. (See Nicolas, Testam. 

 Vetus, p. 644.) Comp. Tyndale's Pract. of Prel, 

 Works, ii. 287. Bishop Hooper, in his Visitation 



