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with a Chronological Account of the most remarkable 

 Things which happen'd to the first Adventurers in their 

 several Discoveries of that New World. Part I., Contain- 

 ing the History of Virginia, with Remarks on the Tradg 

 and Commerce of that Colony. By Sir William Keith, 

 Bart." 



Sir William afterwards became Surveyor- Ge- 

 neral of the Customs in America, and died No- 

 vember 18, 1749, in the Old Bailey; but whether 

 this was a street or the prison of that name does 

 not appear. His son, Sir Robert, the fifth baronet, 

 was successively an officer in the Russian, Prus- 

 sian, and Danish services, in which last he became 

 Major- General, and Governor of Rbeinsburg, in 

 Jutland, where he died February 14, 1771. He 

 married * at Berlin, December 11, 1750, the only 

 daughter of Privy Councillor Von Suhn, by whom 

 he had two sons, Frederick William and Robert 

 George. I am ignorant of what became of them, 

 or how long the male representatives of the family 

 continued. R. R. 



Epitaph (2"^ S. m. passini). — On a plain slab, 

 in a graveyard in Otsego county, New York, 

 there is an inscription, of which, says the Boston 

 Morning Post, the following is a correct copy : — 



"John bums." 



And the writer thus continues : 



*' Most men suffer enough above ground without being 

 bunglingly abused, post mortem, in ill-written inscriptions 

 which were at least intended to be civil. 



" We suppose the words were simply intended to re- 

 cord the man's name ; but they look marvellously like a 

 noun substantive coupled with a verb in the indicative 

 mood; and affording a sad indication that — John burns. 

 There is no hint that John deserved the fate to which he 

 appears to have been consigned since his decease, and we 

 can only say as we read the startling declaration, we 

 should be very sorry to believe it." 



w, w. 



Malta. 



Fumadoes (2"^ S. iii. 368.)— Properly speaking, 

 I heliewe fumadoes are smoked pilchards. A large 

 number of these fish are smoked expressly for ex- 

 portation to Roman Catholic countries, and Spain 

 in particular, and a great trade is carried on in 

 Cornwall with them. The name fumadoe has been 

 vulgarised into "fairmaid," which is now the 

 general term used. This is a curious and inter- 

 esting case of etymology. Henri. 



The " Widkirk Miracle Plays'' (2"'» S. iii. 407.) 

 — These early plays are to be found in a volume 

 of the Surtees Society's publications for 1836, 

 called the Townley Mysteries, 8vo. 15*. In the 

 preface to the volume it will be seen that " Wid- 



* In the notice of this marriage in the Scots Magazine, 

 he is called " The Chevalier Keith, eldest son of Sir Wil- 

 liam Keith, of Ludquhairn, deceased, and nephew of Field 

 Marshal Keith ; " which last is clearly a mistake. 



kirk" is a misnomer for Woodkirk, near Wake- 

 field, Yorks., where there was a cell of Augustinian, 

 or Black-Canons, and it was supposed that here 

 was found the manuscript containing these plays, 

 which afterwards came into the possession of the 

 Towneley family, but when is not known. 



Fred. Bohn. 

 York. 



Henry Atherton (2°^ S. iii. 407.) — Henry 

 Atherton, M.D., of Chi'ist's College, Cambridge, 

 commenced his career as a physician in Cornwall, 

 but soon removed to Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and 

 on August 17, 1682, was appointed to the office 

 of Town's Physician there. Vide Brand's New- 

 castle, vol. ii. p. 363. He was the author of a 

 work now before me : 



" The Christian Physician, by Henry Atherton, M.D. 

 ' Solus homo Sapientia instructus est ut Religioneni solus 

 intelligat et hwc est hominis atq; mutorum vel praecipua 

 vel sola distantia.' — Lact. de Ira Dei. London, Printed 

 by T. James for William Leach at the Crown in Cornhill, 

 1G83." 12mo, pp. 295. 



This work is dedicated to John, Earl of Radnor, 

 Viscount Bodmin, Baron of Truro, Lord President 

 of his Majesties most honourable Privy Counsel. 



Morton, in his Pyretologia Pars altera, p. 509. 

 gives a case of small- pox from Dr. Atherton's 

 pen, dated Newcastle, Nov. 22, 1693. 



W. MuNK, M.D. 



Marriot, the great Eater (2"'» S. ii. 6. 31.) — 

 "Ben Marriot, 1717, Feb. 14. Dy'd about 40 years 

 since, his appetite extraordinary from his birth, and 

 suck'd his mother and J a doz. nurses dry, when if for no 

 other reason they wean'd him, and no other of the chil- 

 dren of w"'' he was the youngest were treated w"> this 

 voracity. The prudent mother took care that this young 

 Benjamin had ten times as much as the rest, yet he prac- 

 tis'd the rule of physicians to rise with an appetite ; as he 

 encreas'd in years, so did he in stomach, so that at 15 he 

 could master a Turkey at a meal, and proportionable 

 bread," &c. — Shane MS., 4245. 



Cl. Hopper. 

 Anthony Higgens (2°^ S. iii. 407.) — Anthony 

 Higgens, Dean of Ripon, was the second son of 

 Thomas Higgens of Manchester, "occupier," and 

 Elizabeth his wife, daughter of George Birch of 

 Birch, CO. Lane, gent. 



The following abstract of the will of Thomas 

 Higgens the father will supply to Patonce some 

 of the antecedents required. It bears date Janu- 

 ary 18, 1555, and was proved at Chester. He de- 

 scribes himself as " Thomas Hygen of Manchester, 

 occupier," and gives directions for his interment 

 within Jesus' Chapel, in the parish church of 

 Manchester. He names Elizabeth, his now wife ; 

 " Roberte Hygen, my brother, and his Aviffe ; An- 

 thony Hygen, my brother ; Thomas Hygen, my 

 eldest sone ; Anthonye Hygen, my second sone j 

 George Hygen, my third sone ; Edward Hygen, 

 my fourth sone ; Elizabeth, my daughter ; John 

 Higgen, my godson ; my brother-in-law, George 



