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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 127. 



particulars of a public character concerning a 

 family of which I am nearly the only representa- 

 tive. My address is " Rev. Edward Drury Butts, 

 Camesworth, Bridport." E. D. B. 



Friday at Sea (Vol. v., p. 200.). — The story to 

 which your correspondent ? refers may be found 

 in a note to one of Fennimore Cooper's sea novels ; 

 I do not remember which, and am unable at pre- 

 sent to ascertain by reference to the book itself. 

 If my recollection be accurate, the novelist speaks 

 of it as an event of which he had personal know- 

 ledge, and does not quote any earlier authority. 



K.E. 



It is a most curious circumstance connected 

 with the superstition sailors have rejrarding put- 

 ting to sea on a Friday, which will now have 

 greater weight attached to it than ever, that I 

 can inform your correspondent, W. Eraser, that 

 the ill-fated Amazon, Captain Symons, did really 

 sail on a Friday, as he suggested she might have 

 done. 



The day was January 2, ] 852, by Lloyd's Lists, 

 which is the day of the month the West India 

 mail always leaves this country. J. S. O. 



Old Broad Street. 



A Pinch of Snuff from Dean Swift's Box (Vol. v., 

 p. 274.). — The printed leaves inquired for by A 

 Subscriber, are from the Irish Union Magazine, 

 Ko. 2., April, 1845, and are quoted at p. 182. of 

 Wilde's Closing Scenes of Dean Swift's Life, where 

 may be found several particulars of the snufF-box 

 inquired about. The iuscriptlon within the lid is 

 curious, and is copied by Wilde. E. D. 



English Translation of the Canons (Vol. v., 

 p. 246.). — M. tells us that in the second clause of 

 the 36th canon of 1603, the words quodque eodem 

 taliter uti liceat are translated " and that the same 

 may be lawfully used," the word taliter being al- 

 together omitted in the English. What authority 

 is there for this statement ? In all the copies of 

 the English Canons that I have examined, the 

 translation is exact, viz., " and that it may law- 

 fully so be used ; " and that the form now pre- 

 sented for subscription at ordination agrees with 

 this, may be inferred from the fact that the words 

 are so printed in Mr. Hodgson's Instructions for 

 the Clergy (6th edition, p. 8.). 



It would seem that M. has confounded with the 

 Canons of 1603 an older form, which was pre- 

 scribed by Archbishop Whitgift in 1584 (Card- 

 well, Docum. Annals, i. 414.). The words of that 

 form agree with your correspondent's quotation ; 

 and it has also a bearing on his assumption that 

 the 36th canon was originally presented for sub- 

 scription in Latin, and that the English version 

 has been wrongfully substituted. Xot only is 

 there (as I believe) no proof of this assumption ; 

 but we have the fact that a set of English articles, 



substantially the same with those of the 36th canon 

 of 1603 (or rather 1604), was subscribed for twenty 

 years before the body of the canons existed. 



J. C. R. 



Few Descents through a long Period. — The 

 pedigree of the noble family of Dartmouth, given 

 by Edmondson in his Bai'onagium Genealogicum, 

 No. 197., contains an extraordinary instance of 

 few descents through a long period of time. 



The stock of descent is Thomas Legge, Sheriff 

 of London in 1343, and Lord Mayor in 1346. He 

 had a son, Simon, whose son, Thomas, had issue, 

 William, who had issue an only son, Edward. This 

 Edward had thirteen children, one of whom, John, 

 is stated to have died in 1702, aged 109. Sup- 

 posing Thomas Legge to have been 46 years old 

 at his Mayoralty (i. e. born in 1300) these six 

 lives would extend over more than 400 years. 

 This is so extraordinary that I append a Query. 

 Is Edmondson's Genealogy correct, or are there 

 any intermediate descents omitted ? 



The ages at death of four only of Edward's 

 children are given, and they, too, are remarkable : 

 the before-mentioned John, aged 109 years; Eli- 

 zabeth (unmarried), 105 years; Margaret (mai-ried 



Fitzgerald, Esq.), 105 years; and Anne 



(married Anthony, Esq.), 112 years. Can 



any of your correspondents Inform me the years 

 when any of these died, or where they are buried ? 

 to enable me to verify these facts by certificates. 



c. h.b; 



so. Clarence Street, Islington. 



Tandem D. O. M. (Vol. iii., p. 62.). — Looking 

 over some of the back numbers, I see under this 

 heading a very tantalising announcement of a rich 

 store of venerable literature in an ancient mansion 

 In a distant part of Cornwall. It would be very 

 desirable to know the habitat of such an unique 

 collection of books. AVIll Faber Marinus gratify 

 the readers of " N. & Q." by allowing it to b^e 

 known ? S. fcy. 



Land Holland (Vol. li., p. 267.).— Has not 

 your querist J. B. C. mistaken the Initial letter 

 here, — read JTfor M? I have often met in Court 

 Rolls with Land Holland, viz., held by mill service. 



G.A.C. 



Arc de Arbouin (Vol. v., p. 249.).— In East 

 Anglia the Hornbeam (Carpinus betulus) is called 

 Harber or Arher wood. C A. C. 



Derivation of '■'• Martinique''' (Vol. v., p. 11.).— 

 M. de Magnard, in the opening chapter of his 

 novel of dutre-mer, says the name of " JNIarti- 

 nlque" Is derived from that which the island had 

 received from the Caribs : 



"Ce nom de ' Martinique' derive par corruption de 

 I'ancien nom sauvage et indigene, Matinina." 



Henrt H. Bbben. 



St. Lucia. 



