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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2''d S. X. July 7. '60. 



the collector of records, the patron of Dugdale, 

 the friend of Jeremy Taylor, and the author of 

 David's Psalmody. I cannot do better than quote 

 the entire passage alluded to, as given in the Life 

 of Dr. J. North : — 



"And once at the instance of his mother he (Dr. 

 North) made a visit to the Lady Hatton, her sister, at 

 Kerby in Northamptonshire. He found liis aunt there 

 forsaken by her husband the old Lord Hatton. He lived 

 in Scotland Yard, and diverted himself Avith the com- 

 pany and discourse of pla3-ei's and such idle people that 

 came to him, while his family lived in -want at Kerb}'. 

 He had committed the whole conduct there to a favourite 

 daughter, who was not over kind to her mother. This 

 noble Lord had bright parts, and professed also to be re- 

 ligious, for he published a Book of Psalms with a prayer 

 suitable to each framed by himself, which book is called 

 Hatton's Psalms, and may be found in the closets of 

 divers devout persons. Such difference is often found 

 between men's pretensions and actions. The famous 



Nando M mused in his drink to curse him for writing 



Psaumes (as he termed it) and not paying a debt due to 

 him. The good old lady gave her nephew (Dr. N.) as 

 good an entertainment as she could ; that is, took him 

 into hugger mugger in her closet, where she usually had 

 some good pj-e or plumb cake which her neighbours in 

 compassion sent her in, for the housekeeping was very 

 mean, and she had not the command of any thing when 

 her Lord died.* The care of her and the whole family, 

 and the ruined estate of it, devolved upon that truly 

 noble person her eldest son, who, by an unparalleled pru- 

 dence and application, repaired the shattered estate, set 

 his brother (the incomparable Charles Hatton) and his 

 sister at ease. And his signal and pious care of his good 

 mother is never to be forgot : for he took her, destitute 

 of all jointure and provision, home to him, and enter- 

 tained her with all the indulgence and comfort he could. 

 And the lady was pleased to declare that the latter end 

 of her age was the beginning of the true comfort of her 

 life." 



Cii. Hopper, 



Web op the Spider a Remedy for Fever. — 

 In the Indian Lancet for 1st April is a communi- 

 cation from Dr. Donaldson, recommending the 

 web of the common spider as an unfailing remedy 

 for certain fevers. It is stated to be invaluable 

 at times when quinine and other ante-periodics 

 fail in effect or quantity, not only from its effi- 

 cacy, but because it can be obtained anywhere 

 without trouble and without price. This remedy, 

 it was observed, was used a century back by the 

 poor in the fens of Lincolnshire, and by Sir 

 James M'Gregor in the West Indies. The Doc- 

 tor now uses cobweb pills in all his worst cases, 

 and is stated to have said that he has never, since 

 he tried them, lost a patient from fever. 



Are there any records in Lincolnshire of the 

 use of spiders' web with success in fever cases ? 



William Blood. 



Dublin. 



* Lord Hatton died Julj', 1670, leaving two sons, Chris- 

 topher and Charles, and three daughters. 



The Solent, the Swale, and Solway Firth. 

 — The Solent is that part of the straits dividing 

 the Isle of Wight and Hants which stretches 

 from the Southampton Water to the Needles. 

 Tlie Swale is the strait which divides the Isle of 

 Sheppey from Kent. And Solway Firth divides 

 England and Scotland on the western coast. All 

 these possess a prominent feature in common, 

 having extensive sill or mud- banks throughout 

 their course, and hence their names. Dr. Richard- 

 son has, "Sile, Silt," perhaps from A.-S, Syli-an, 

 to soil." From the same source come "soil "and 

 I' soiling," "sully" and "sulliage," the latter mean- 

 ing " the soil, or an accumulation of soil." Hal- 

 liwell in his Archaic words has the following, 

 evidently from the same source. " Solwy, sullied, 

 defiled (A. N.)," and ''Swelth, mud and filth 

 (Nares)." From the same source a silted-up 

 pond, about three miles east of Lymington, in 

 Hants, is called " Sowley Pond." C. T. 



Political Satires. — The suggestion of your 

 correspondent Fitzhopkins (2""* S. ix. 452.) is a 

 very valuable one, and one which I shall hope to 

 see carried out in your pages ; and I hope more- 

 over that your correspondents will not limit them- 

 selves to the illustration of The Rolliad, llie 

 Probationary Odes, and The Political Miscellanies. 

 Much as has been done in the columns of " N. & 

 Q." to identify the authorship of The Poetry of 

 the Anti-Jacobin, many of the allusions in it have 

 already become obscure, and require clearing 

 up to enable the present, generation to enjoy 

 to the full the wit of Canning and his associates. 

 The same observation applies with greater force 

 to the writings of Sir C. Hanbury Williams, al- 

 though they have had the advantage of a compe- 

 tent editor ; but who perhaps knew too well what 

 his author meant — that is, was himself so tho- 

 roughly master of the points that he could 

 scarcely imagine anybody to be ignorant of them. 

 But the various jetix d'esprit and political squibs 

 preserved in the Foundling Hospital for Wit — 

 The Asylum, Sfc. — abound with so many obscure 

 allusions, that I may well invite the assistance of 

 such of the readers of "N. & Q." as are acquainted 

 with the history of the times to give us the bene- 

 fit of their information, and enable us to share 

 their enjoyment of these offsprings of the muse of 

 politics. Fitz Fitz. 



THE GERMAN CHURCH IN LONDON. 



In the ypar 1550, as King Edward VI. has re- 

 corded in his Journal under the 29th June, " it 

 was appointed that the Germaines should have 

 the Austin Friars for their Church, to have their 

 service in, for avoiding of all sects of Anabaptists 

 and such like." This was done chiefly by the 



