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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



12"^ S. X. Aug. 18. '60. 



Knighthood conferred bt the Lords Jus- 

 tices OF Ireland (2""* S. ix. 485.) — Mr. Gar- 

 STiN refers to the Lords Justices of Ireland having 

 in 1629 conferred the honour of knighthood on 

 Sir James Ware, and inquires if any other in- 

 stances can be adduced. There are numerous 

 instances on record. 



Sir William Drury, Lord Justice, not long be- 

 fore his death (1579) dubbed— Sir William Pel- 

 ham, Knt. ; Sir William Gerrard, Knt. ; SirWilliam 

 Gorge, Knt. ; Sir Thomas Parret, Knt. ; Sir Ed- 

 ward Moore, Knt. ; Sir Peter Carew, Knt. ; Sir 

 George Bouchier, Knt. ; Sir William Stanley, 

 Knt. ; Sir Patricke Walshe, of AVaterford, Knt. ; 

 Sir Edward ffitton, Knt. 



Adam Loftus, Archbishop of Dublin, and- Sir 

 Henry Wallop, Knt., Treasurer at Wars, Lords 

 Justices, knighted 



7th Sept. 1582, Sir Anthony Colclough of Tin- 

 tern. 



6th May, 1583, Sir John Brough, Baron of 

 Leitrim ; Sir Barnewell ffleminge, Baron of Slane ; 

 Sir Patrick, Baron Trimleston. 



Adam Loftus, Archbishop of Dublin and Lord 

 Chancellor, and Sir Robert Gardiner, Chief Jus- 

 tice of the Queen's Bench, Lords Justices, knighted 

 — Sir Walter Butler, Sir James Butler, Sir Gai'- 

 rett Elmer, Sir Richard Piercy, Sir John Eger • 

 ton. 



It is probable there are many other cases of a 

 like nature. John Maclean. 



Hammersmith. ' 



Legendary Painting (2"^ S. x. 47. 97.)— The 

 Saint wears a brown great coat, like that of the 

 old watchmen, tightened by a cord round the 

 waist, with wide sleeves reaching only to the el- 

 bows. His hands, feet, and head are bare, but 

 there is a slight nimbus above the latter. There 

 is no cowl to the coat. The picture is much 

 rubbed and has little artistic merit. Senex. 



The Medicinal Virtue of Spiders' Webs (2"^ 

 S. X. 6.) — The enclosed extract may interest Mr. 

 Blood, and any inquirer on the above subject. 

 It is from the Eventful Life of a Soldier ; a new 

 ed., published for the widow, Edinburgh, 1852, 

 p. 166. : — 



"The ague fits having returned when the severe fever 

 left me, I recovered very slowly; the medicine I re- 

 ceived, which was administered veri' irregularly, having 

 done me no good. While in this state, General Sir John 

 Hope, who lately commanded the forces in Scotland, 

 happened to pay a visit to the hospital, and going round 

 the sick with the staff-surgeon, he inquired * what was 

 the prevailing disease ? ' The reply was, ' fever and 

 ague.' 



"Sir John, whose kind disposition is well known, 

 mentioned that he had heard of a cure for that disease 

 among the old women in Scotland, which was considered 

 infallible. The staif-surgeon smiled, and begged to hear 

 what it was. ' It is,' said the good old general, ' simply 

 a large pill formed of spiders' web, to be swallowed when 



the fit is coming on. I cannot pledge myself for its 

 efficacy, but I have heard it much talked of.' The 

 staff-doctor gave a shrug, as much as to say it was all 

 nonsense, looked very wise, as all doctors endeavour to 

 do, and the conversation dropped. I had been listening 

 eagerly to the conversation, and no sooner was the gene- 

 ral gone, than I set out in quest of the specific. I did not 

 need to travel far, and returned to my room prepared for 

 the next fit ; when I felt it coming on, I swallowed the 

 dose with the greatest confidence in its virtue, and how- 

 ever strange it may appear, or hard to be accounted for, 

 I never had a fit of the ague after, but got well rapidly, 

 and was soon fit to march for the purpose of joining my 

 regiment, which I overtook at Polios." 



A.J. 

 Edinburgh. 



In the south-eastern counties of Ireland, the 

 farmers and peasantry use the web of the spider 

 extensively, for the cure of cuts, sores, bruises, &c. 

 They gather large quantities off the hedges in the 

 early part of the summer's mornings, when the web 

 is impregnated with dew, and It is kept with great 

 care In linen bags, not in an over dry place, and 

 used when required for the above pui'poses. I 

 have known an application stop violent Jicemor- 

 rhage from cuts, when surgeons had failed with 

 plaster and other things to accomplish that object. 

 I have never heard of it taken internally before. 



S. Redmond. 



Liverpool. 



Dr. Graham, in his Domestic Medicine, prescribes 

 spider's web for ague and intermittent fever. I 

 have known large spiders — with their legs, &c., 

 pinched off, and then powdered with flour, so as to 

 resemble a pill — given for ague. I have also seen 

 one instance where a living spider, sewn up In a 

 piece of rag, was worn as a periapt by a string 

 round the patient's neck, to charm away the ague. 



E. G. R. 



Clever (2"'' S. x. 67.) — It may Interest Mr. 

 HoTTEN to be informed that "clever" or " clever- 

 looking " is commonly used in Lancashire to signify 

 a fine well-made man. 



It would seem that we have transferred the 

 word from bodily to mental activity. 



John J. Scargill. 

 Lately Curate at Heywood. 



Mr. Hotter may be interested to learn that 

 the sense in which this word is used in the United 

 States is that in which it is invariably and exclu- 

 sively employed by "the natives" in East Norfolk. 

 On the other hand, the word "stupid" has, amongst 

 us East Anglians, no reference to intellectual dul- 

 ness ; but describes a morose, disobliging, unami- 

 able person, who likes to make himself disagreeable 

 to those about him. Ache^ 



Peers serving as Mayors (2°'^ S. ix. 162. 292. 

 355. 454.) — The Earl of Lincoln was Mayor of 

 Newark in 1768. A deputy (Robert Spragging, 

 Esq.) seems to have been appointed. 



R. F. Sketchley. 



