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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°* F. X. July 14 '60. 



which he collected (chiefly in pence, as I have 

 heard,) was invested, and allowed to accumulate 

 until the year 1840, when the improvement was 

 at last eflected, viz. the widening oi' Brigg's Lane, 

 one of the most important entrances into the 

 market-]ilace, whicli was until then barely wide 

 enough for one waggon to pass through at a time. 

 (Dr. Sutton, by the way, survived Beloe twenty 

 years or more.) 



P. 143. " The mortified and disfcomfited author" 

 was Mr. Brand (the abbe), as the context clearly 

 siiows. Mr. Bates's note belongs to the next 

 page, the "villa" being Costessey, the seat of Sir 

 William Jerningham, grandfather to the present 

 Lord Stafford. 



[P. 183. "Harry Alexander." My key has Mr. 

 Burgh. Of this correction I cannot speak posi- 

 tively.] 



P. 202. "Buckton" should be Bacton. 



P. 212. The person here alluded to, I believe, is 

 not the Provost of Eton, but Dr. Raine. 



I may here remark in passing that the story 

 about Mr. Ewen (p. 234.) never having forgivers, 

 &c., is untrue. 



Pp. 267. 293. It is scarcely necessary to say 

 that Lord Orford, and not Oxford, is here al- 

 luded to. 



P. 307. " Sir G. B." I suppose to be Sir George 

 ' Baker (not Blane, as stated by Mr. Bates.) 



I will conclude with a few Queries : — 



1. Who was the "young man" (vol. i. p. 54.) ? 

 Unquestionably not the late Thomas Amyot, to 

 whom the portrait bears no kind of resemblance. 



2. The modern Parson Adams (vol. ii. p. 138.) ; 

 H * * * (vol. ii. p. 143.). My annotator has not 

 given the names of these two, although he agreed 

 with me in suspecting that they are intended for 

 persons well known to us both. There are, how- 

 evei', expressions with regard to both of them 

 which throw some little doubt on the subject. 



3. Who was the gentleman alluded to at vol. ii. 

 pp. 198, 199. ? And what has become of the 

 3O,0OOZ. ? 



4. Who was the Bigot Author (vol. ii. p. 232.) ? 

 I have some slight suspicion as to who the "friend" 

 was, but cannot quite reconcile dates. Q. 



COUNTRY TAVERN SIGNS. 

 (2-* S. ix. 459.) 



The sign of the Eagle and Child at Derby is 

 derived from the crest of the Earls of Derby. 

 This crest is accompanied with an explanatory le- 

 gend, which professes to account for its origin. 

 See History of the House of Stanley (Liverpool, 

 circa 1799), pp. 31-60. ; Collins's Peerage, \ol. iii. 

 p. 51., ed. 1812. L. 



" Hark the Lasher." Is it near a lock ? 



" Craven Heifer." Prize heifer. 



" Lion and Adder." Arms. 



" Red Streak Tree." Red-streak apple pro- 

 ducing a famous cider. 



" Cock and Magpie." " By cock and pie ! " (?) 



" Quiet Woman." Generally ' headless (some- 

 times the "Silent Woman" under similar cir- 

 cumstances). 



Most of the " zoological" signs can be traced to 

 the arms or crests of families in which the foun- 

 der of the public house had lived, or who were the 

 great people of the neighboui'hood. G. H. K. 



In reply to Mr. Lamprat's Query, I, have 

 pleasure in forwarding the few following Notes on 

 some of the signs he quotes from this county : — 



" Hunloke." This name is from the Hunloke 

 family, the owners of Wingerworth Hall, near 

 Chesterfieldj'and one of the oldest baronetcies in 

 the county. 



"Bishop Blaize." A not uncommon sign, and 

 having reference to clothworkers. The head of 

 the bishop also occurs on some tokens. 



" Cross Daggers." Cutler's arms. On tokens 

 of the seventeenth century the cutler's ai'ms is 

 thus shown. 



" Craven Heifer." From a celebrated breed of 

 cattle originally from Craven in Yorkshire, and so 

 much improved by Derbyshire breeders as to be 

 called the " new Derbyshii-e," or " new long-horn " 

 breed. 



" Mortar and Pestle" requires no explanation. 



" Lover's Leap." This sign is taken from the 

 name of a very celebrated and majestic rock in 

 Middleton Dale, at the base of which the inn 

 bearing this name is situated. The rock is almost 

 perpendidular; indeed, it overhangs at the top, 

 and from its summit a young woman once madly 

 precipitated herself. The circumstance which 

 gave rise to the rock being called the " Lover's 

 Leap " occurred about the year 1760, when a love- 

 stricken maiden, named Hannah Baddely, finding 

 that her affections were not returned by a young 

 man to whom she had become fondly attached, 

 and who, after gaining her heart, treated her with 

 coldness and disdain, in a moment of deep despon- 

 dency and despair, ascended the cliffs, and threw 

 herself from the top of this rock in hope of de- 

 stroying her life and miseries together. Her fall 

 was, however, fortunately broken by some small 

 trees which grew out of the crevices, and she fell 

 into a sawpit, where she was found in an insen- 

 sible state, and conveyed home. She gradually 

 recovered, but the injuries she had received ren- 

 dered her a cripple, and after about two years she 

 died. In the churchyard is a gravestone to her 

 memory, and although the inscription is nearly 

 obliterated, the villagers still point it out, and ap- 

 pear to look with veneration on the spot where 

 she lies. 



