2°<» S. X. Aug. 25. '60.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



159 



all along," "most of a person's time," &c. ; a mean- 

 ing which exactly suits Mr. Offor's second 

 extract. The kindred, almost identical phrase, 

 " straight an end," meaning " straight forwards," 

 " without delay," is equally common. The a?J in 

 this case is the early form of on = onwards. 



In the other two extracts, " to get by the end,'* 

 seems to be a figure taken from a ball or skein 

 of string or thread, the whole of which may easily 

 h& pulled off, or unwound, by one who has once got 

 hold of it by the end. Cf. thread oi a discourse, 

 and the sailor's yarn. J. Eastwood. 



Salt Mines (P' S. vii. 261.) — "When and 

 where was the first salt mine established in Eng- 

 land ? " The first pits of fossil or rock salt known 

 in this country were accidentally discovered in 

 Cheshire so late as a.d. 1670, at the very spot 

 where Domesday records some brine-springs (p. 

 268.). Henry VI. invited over some manufac- 

 turers of salt from Zealand. The monopoly of 

 this article was one of those which Elizabeth re- 

 called. 



"The first discoverer of it was one John Jackson of 

 Halton, about Lady-day last, as he was searching for 

 coals on the behalf of the Lord of the Soil, William Mar- 

 bury of Marbury, Esquire." — See " Extracts of Two 

 Letters written by the Ingenious Mr. Adam Martindale " 

 in the fifth volume of the Philosophical Transactions, No. 

 66., p. 2015-17. 1670. 



" The rock-salt itself was accidentally found in 1670 in 

 sinking a coal-pit at Marbury near North wich, and was 

 again found in 1779 in Church Lawton. It has also been 

 found at Whitley on the right bank of the Weever, about 

 five miles north of Northwich, but the principal mines are 

 at^or near Witton, between Northwich and Marbury." — 

 Ormerod's History of Cheshire, p. xlvi. 



" It is stated in the Agricultural Survey of Cheshire, p. 

 21. that there were works at Weverham at the Conquest, 

 but there is no authority for this in Domesday, which 

 only says that there were vii. salt-works in wiche appen- 

 dant to this manor." — Ibid. 



It is much to be regretted that of the transla- 

 tion of the Domesday Book two volumes only have 

 appeared. It was supposed that the whole work 

 would extend to ten 4to. volumes ; but having pub- 

 lished a second volume, the translator died Sept. 

 14, i816, and the work was never resumed. I have, 

 however, the pleasure to add that his son, the Rev. 

 Wm. Bawdwen, residing at Old Trafford, near 

 Manchester, has possession of his father's manu- 

 scripts, and would be glad if the publication of 

 them were undertaken by some antiquarian or 

 historical society. Bibliothecar Chetham. 



Rum; Derivation of (2"^ S. v. 245.) — Is not 

 this word an abbreviation of saccharwm ? 



T. Lampray. 



Burial in a Sitting Position (2°* S. ix. 513.) 

 — Dr. John Gardiner, referred to by W. B. Ca- 

 parn as above, erected his tomb, and wrote the 

 inscription thei-eon some years before his death. 

 Strangers reading the inscription naturally con- 



cluded he was like his predecessor, '' Egregious 

 Moore," immortalised by Pope — food for worms ; 

 whereas he was still following his profession, that 

 of a worm-doctor, in Norton Folgate, where he 

 had a shop, in the window of which were dis- 

 played numerous bottles containing specimens of 

 tape and other worms, with the names of the per- 

 sons who had been tormented by them, and the 

 date of their ejection. Finding his practice de- 

 clining from the false impression conveyed by his 

 epitaph, he dexterously caused the word intended 

 to be interpolated, and the inscription for a long 

 time afterwards ran as follows : — 

 intended 

 " Dr. John Gardiner's a last and best bedroom." 



I remember him well ; a stout burly man with 

 a flaxen wig : he rode daily into London on a 

 large roan-coloured horse. He was an eccentric 

 man, but I never heard he was buried in a sitting 

 position. R. "VV. 



Stuart Adherents (2"* S. x. 103.) — If R. R. 

 or others should ever investigate who were the 

 adherents of James II. and his family who left 

 England and resided with him in France, their 

 names to some extent may be collected in the 

 existing Registry of Deaths of the parish of St. 

 Germain. The following is one extract from that 

 registry : — 



" E'tat Civil — Extrait du Registre des Actes de D^chs 

 Anno 1716, Ville de St. Germain en Laye. Le vingt 

 quatre Octobre, mil sept cent seize a et^ inhume dans 

 cette Eglise le corps de Sieiir Alexander Falconer, Gen- 

 tilhomme Ecossais, Chef de la Fouriere du Roy d'Angle- 

 terre, de cette paroisse, d^c^de le jour pr^cddent, ag^ d'en- 

 viron quatre vingt ans. Furent presens, Jean Simpson, 

 Richard Pemberton, Cornell Barry, Jacques Baynes : tous 

 officiers du Roy d'Angleterre qui ont «ign^ au Registre, 



Simsonj(sic) Pemberton, Barry, Baynes — Bin^t pre- 



tre, et Boullay, pretre." 



Where were the Protestants who were adherents 

 buried ? Perhaps some of the followers were also 

 buried in adjoining parishes ? T. F. 



Vbrner and Lamy Families (2°* S. x. 89.) — 

 Your transatlantic correspondent will find that 

 the former of these families figures in the Baro- 

 netage, and a reference to the authorities usually 

 consulted will no doubt supply the information he 

 desires. As to the Lammies, or L'Amys, " one of 

 whom tradition says was Bishop of Raphoe," I 

 may remark that the- succession of Bishops of 

 Raphoe is matter of history and record, not of 

 tradition. It does not appear that any person of 

 this name ever held the See of Raphoe ; but I find 

 that John Lamy, M.A., vicar-general of the dio- 

 cese, was collated on July 11, 1746, to the pre- 

 bend of Killymard in that cathedral. (Cotton's 

 Fasti Ecc. Hib.) The name is evidently of French 

 extraction, and probably belongs to one of the 

 numerous Huguenot families who quitted France 

 after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, and 



