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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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without issue, a son, Sir Leonard Butts, fictitious 

 knight and personage, who is thereupon made to 

 be the ancestor of the four generations of Butts 

 from whom Mrs. Sherwood really did descend. 

 Now the object I have in view is to give publicity 

 to this gross imposition, in order that no future 

 edition of this pious book may be published with- 

 out the expurgation of the pedigree and vain- 

 glorious mistatements contained in the first chapter 

 of the work. Alan Hen et Swatman. 



Lynn. 



Owen Glendoweb. — I find the following note 

 in a contemporary MS. Was any farther mves- 

 tigation made into the subject ? 



" About 1C80 the church at Monington was rebuilt. 

 In the churchyard stood the trunke of a sycamore, in 

 height about 9 foot, diameter 2 foot and a half, which 

 being in the workemen's way was cut down ; directly 

 under it, about a foot below the surface of the ground, 

 was laid a large gravestone without any inscription, and 

 that being removed, there was discovered at the bottom 

 of a well-stoned grave the body (as is suppos'd) of Owen 

 Glendor, which was whole and entire and of goodly sta- 

 ture. But there were [no?] tokens or remains of any 

 coffin. Where any part of it was toucht it fell to ashes. 

 After it had been exposed two days, M^ Tomkins order'd 

 the stone to be placed over it again, and the earth to be 

 cast in upon it." 



Abracadabra. 



[This paragraph is printed from the Harl. MS. 6832., in 

 the Rev. Thomas Thomas's Memoirs of Owen Glendower, 

 p. 169., 8vo. 1822.— Ed.] 



HATCH. 



In the January number of the East Anglian, 

 or Notes and Queries on Subjects connected with 

 the Counties of Suffolk, Cambridge, Essex, and 

 Norfolk, a question was asked about the word 

 Hatch as applied to places in Essex, as Kelve- 

 don Hatch, &c. The querist, Mr. K. S. Char- 

 nock, there states he presumes '* the meaning of 

 the word in Essex is always that given by Morant 

 (p. 185.), 'alow gate towards the forest.'" He 

 adds, however, that the word hatch has another 

 meaning, viz. " flood-gates ;" and goes on to say, 

 " no flood-gates exist, or ever could have existed, 

 in many of the places bearing the name of Hatch, 

 as no water of any kind is near them." 



I think the meaning of the name Hatch, as ap- 

 plied to a village, may be advantageously dis- 

 cussed in " N. & Q." I will, therefore, offer a few 

 remarks on the various senses in which the word 

 is used : — 



The loAver half of a door cut in two horizon- 

 tally, as is to be seen in many cottages, is called a 

 hatch, apparently from hacher, to cut. The 

 openings in the deck of a ship through which 

 they descend to the cabins, &c., are called hatches, 

 probably for the same reason ; as also, according 

 to Ainsworth, are flood-gates. 



In Cornwall the term hatches is applied to ex- 

 press any openings of the earth either into or in 

 search of mines. The openings in which nothing 

 is found are called essay hatches ; the mouths of 

 the veins tin-hatches ; and the shafts, where the 

 buckets of ore are wound up, wind-hatches. 

 Hatches also denote certain dams made of clay, 

 earth, and rubbish, to prevent the water issuing 

 from the stream- works and tin-washes from run- 

 ning into the fresh rivers ; they are mentioned in 

 the statutes 23 Hen. VIII. c. 8. and 27 Hen. 

 VIII. c. 23., and are there called hatches and tt/es. 

 The tenants of Balystoke, and other manors in 

 Cornwall, are bound to do yearly certain days' 

 work " ad la hacches," otherwise " ad le hatches," 

 for the purpose of keeping them in proper repair. 

 Giles Jacob, in his Law Dictionary, printed in the 

 Savoy, 1750, says: "and from Hatch, gate or 

 door, some houses situate on the highway, near a 

 common gate, are called Hatches." I suppose by 

 a common gate a turnpike gate is meant. 



The question then is, are any of the Essex 

 Hatches near a turnpike or common gate, or near 

 present or ancient mines ? I am sorry to say I 

 know but little of Essex myself, and have not 

 even seen one of the Hatches; some correspon- 

 dent of " N. & Q." will, however, be able pro- 

 bably to answer these questions, or to suggest 

 some other meaning of the affix Hatch. 



The following are a few of the Essex Hatches ; 

 Kelvedon Hatch, Pilgrim's Hatch, Fox Hatch, 

 Aubury Hatch, How Hatch, Chingford Hatch, 

 Newport Hatch, West Hatch, and Hoastly Hatch. 



J. A. Pn. 



Mrs. Thomas and the Dckb qf Montague. 

 — I have lately read that Mrs. Thomas, "Corinna," 

 was living in Dyot Street, Bloomsbury, with a 

 grown-up daughter when the Duke of Montague 

 took lodgings in her house, professing a wish to 

 be able to have an occasional quiet dinner with 

 some honest fellows ; that these turned out also 

 to be noblemen ; and that it was at Mrs. Thomas' 

 house that the Revolution was concocted. In 

 support of this story one is referred to vol. xii. of 

 some biographical dictionary. Mrs. Thomas seems, 

 however, not to have been thirty years of age at 

 Dryden's death. Is the story a myth entirely, or 

 is it founded on truth ? V. H. 



Magpie Castle. — In one of the volumes of 

 Theodore Hook's Precept and Practice, there is a 

 portion of a tale having this heading, which the 

 author states that he stumbled upon when trjivel- 

 ling in the West of England. The tale is very 

 abruptly broken off, and Hook says that the 

 manuscript is given as he received it. I wish to 

 inquire whether or not the remainder of the story 

 has ever been met with ; and if so, where it is to 

 be found ? Mr. Hoo^ believed it to be true, and 



