2nd s. X. July 21. '60.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Hervey Family. — The following couplet oc- 

 curs in some verses, written by Gay in 1720, en- 

 titled " Mr. Pope's Welcome from Greece " : — 



" Now Hervey, fair of face, I mark full well, 

 With thee, youth's youngest daughter, sweet Lepell." 



Roscoe seems to infer that the first person 

 alluded to in these lines was Lady Hervey (that 

 is Mary, daughter of Brig.- Gen. Nicholas Lepell), 

 while the latter was a younger sister, whose 

 existence Croker, in his sketch of Lord Hervey's 

 life, would apparently deny. If tradition, how- 

 ever, speaks truly, Anne, sister-in-law of Lord 

 Hervey, married in 1721 Mr. Samuel Weaver, 

 a Welch gentleman. During the succeeding year 

 Weaver left England with his wife, and became a 

 citizen of New York ; though he maintained for 

 some time thereafter a familiar correspondence 

 with the Hervey family. Can these statements be 

 corroborated ? 



In a letter to Lady Mary Wortley, dated May 

 20, 1742, Lord Hervey 'mentions the recent deaths 

 of his mother (Countess of Bristol), and his 

 mother-in-law (Mrs. Lepell). Is it known when 

 the latter died, or what may have been her maiden- 

 name ? Was Gen. Nicholas Lepell a relative of 

 Nicholas Lepell, Esq., the Lord Proprietor of 

 Sark Island, who died Oct. 8, 1742 ? G. 



The Rev. Chas. Pembroke, author of an Eng- 

 lish translation of the Prometheus of .3!lschylus, 

 London, 1844. Does the title-page of this book 

 mention of what University Mr. Pembroke was a 

 member ? R. Inglis. 



High-heeled Shoes. — I have seen a pair of 

 "high- heeled shoes" that belonged to a female 

 ancestor, who died about forty years ago, aged 

 about ninety. The shoes were only used on state 

 occasions (as the lady mixed in high Irish society 

 of her day) ; they are of the finest polished bronze 

 colour, beautifully formed and richly embroidered 

 in front, the heels nearly four inches high. When 

 were such shoes introduced into fashion ? and 

 when did the fashion cease ? The shoes must have 

 been " uncommonly uncomfortable." 



S. Redmond. 



Liverpool. 



Civic Hunting. — In the London Magazine for 

 July, 1733, vol. ii. p. 370., there appears among 

 the deaths that of " Mr. Graves the City Hunts- 

 man." As this would imply that the Corporation 

 of London kept a regular hunting establishment, 

 perhaps some reader of " N. & Q." would inform 

 nie where the kennel was situate, and other parti- 

 culars relating to the pursuit of the chase by the 

 citizens. 



I am aware that John Stow (Survey of London 

 and Westminster, Lond. 1720, bk. i. p. 25.) men- 

 tions that in the olden time, on one occasion, the 

 Lord Mayor (Harper^ 1562), visiting the welter 



conduits, which he did annually, was with a good 

 number entertained, and after dinner they went to 

 hunting the hare. There was a great cry for a 

 mile, and at length the hounds killed him at the 

 end of St. Giles's. At his deatk there was great 

 hallooing, with blowing of horns. Tally-ho. 



Paddlewheels. — By whom wer6 paddlewheels 

 first applied to the propulsion of vessels ? Who 

 invented the wheel with " feathering " or move- 

 able float ? Delta. 



Legendary Painting. — I have an old painting 

 in which a saint, with a trowel in one hand and a 

 lily and passion-flower in the other, is followed by 

 a wolf bearing tAvo panniers heavily loaded with 

 stones. Can any of your correspondents help me 

 to the legend ? The open countenance and high 

 forehead show that it cannot be St. Francis. 



Senex. 



Sir William Dugdalb's Collections. — In 

 the Life of Sir William Dugdale, prefixed to his 

 History of St. PauVs (2nd ed. by Maynard, Lond. 

 1716), it is said that that indefatigable antiquary, 

 in the year 1641, anticipating the storm of the 

 Revolution, accompanied with Mr. William Sedg- 

 wick, " a skilful arms painter," made draughts of 

 all monuments, arms, copying inscriptions, arms 

 in windows, &c. in the cathedral of St. Paul's and 

 Westminster Abbey. And also in the cathedral 

 churches of Peterborough, Ely, Norwich, and Lin- 

 coln, with many other collegiate and parochial 

 churches. These draughts are said to be in the 

 possession of the now (1716) Lord Hatton, being 

 tricked by the said Mr. Sedgwick, then servant of 

 Sir Christopher Hatton, at whose instance they 

 were made. Do these collections now exist, and 

 where are they deposited ? G. W. W. Minns. 



[These manuscript collections of Sir Wm. Dugdale aro 

 now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. A small 4to. 

 volume was published in 1692, by Bishop Gibson, under 

 the title of Librorum Manuscripforum in duabus insignibus 

 Bibliothecis ; altera Tenisoniana, Londini ; altera Dugda- 

 liana, Oxonii ; Catalogus ; and reprinted at the end of 

 Hamper's Life, Diary, and Correspondence of Sir William 

 Dugdale, 4to. 1827.] 



Bishop Grosteste " on Husbandry." — This 

 bishop wrote a work " on husbandry," or rather 

 translated it from the French. Wanted to know 

 by whom it was written originally, where the ori- 

 ginal MS. was preserved, or whether it was ever 

 printed in the French language ? Ithuriel. 



[Dr. Samuel Pegge, in his Life of this prelate, speaks 

 of this work as still extant in manuscript. He says, 

 " Kegulse Agriculture per menses digestae, Gallic^. A. S. 

 and it is ascribed to the Bishop in that form by the old 

 catalogue of the Peterborough library, ' Liber qui vocatur 

 Housbondrie, Gallic^,' (Gunton, p. 224.) But one would 

 suppose from w]iat follows that he only translated i( oat 



