fad S. X. SeI'T. 1. '60.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



167 



a. stray memorandum illustrative of biography ; 

 such are always worth preserving, and what better 

 repository for these disjecta membra than " N. & 

 <i." ? By way of sample I give a jotting con- 

 cerning the father of Sir Edvvd. Nicholas from a 

 MS. of sequestrations, co. Wilts : — 



■" 18 Dec 1645. 



" A charge of delinquenc}' against Edw^ Nicholas of 

 Winterborne, Kn'. 

 " 1. That he was a greate incendiarie." 



The above is in the original handwriting of the 

 period. Underneath the entry some one whose 

 monogram might be J. C. or C. P., with the date 

 of 1770, has recorded the subjoined note : — 



" This was the father of Sr. Edw"^. Nicholas, Sec? to 

 Cha. l«t. . 



" And M""'. Riggs, the descendant from Si' Edw'S who 

 •sold S"". Edwd's manor of Motcomb in 1769, told me old 

 S''. Step. Fox's father was the above gents BaylifF and 

 managed his estate at Winterbourn, and at times offici- 

 iited as clerk of the parish." 



Cl. Hopper. 



Errors and Discrepancies in Books on the 

 Peerage. — 



Monckton. The London Mag. states that Gen. 

 iRobert Monckton died on the 20th June, 1782. 

 Debrett and Burke give the 2nd May, 1782, as 

 the date. Which is correct ? 



Botetourt. Burke's Extinct Peerage names the 

 last ^Baron Botetourt, Narbonne Berkeley ; in 

 Burke's Dictionary of the Peerage, p. 76. (tit. 

 Beaufort), and in Nicolas and Courthope's His- 

 toric Peerage, his lordship's Christian name is 

 printed Noi-borne. 



Digby, Robert, Adm., R.N., married Eleanor, 



■widow of Sauncy, Esq., daughter of Andrew 



Elliot, &c. (Burke's Dictionary of the Peerage, p. 

 307.). Eleanor Elliot was the widow of "James 

 Jauncey," Jun., of New York. 



Galloway. In the last-mentioned work (p. 426.) 

 it is stated that John, 7th Earl of Galloway, mar- 

 ried a daughter of the Earl of AVarwick. Turn- 

 ing now to the title, " Brooke and Warwick," and 

 to the children of Francis, 8th baron and 1st earl 

 <p. 128.) of the same work, we find "Charlotte 

 Mary, m. to John, 8th Earl of Galloway." Which 

 was he ? 7th or 8 th earl ? 



Johnson, Bart. It is stated in Burke's Peerage 

 and Baronetage (ed. 1841, p. 562.), that Sir Wil- 

 liam Johnson of New York left, with two daugh- 

 ters', two sons, viz. John, his heir ; Grey, a colonel 

 in the army, whose only daughter married Colonel 

 John Campbell. Turning next to p. 168. we find 

 the name printed con-ectly " Guy." But Guy 

 Johnson was 7iot a son, but a son-in-law, of Sir 

 William Johnson ; neither was he a colonel in the 

 army, but a colonel of the Six Nations of Indians. 



E. B. O'C. 



Money Value. — In Arnot's Hist, of Ediiiburgh 

 (p^. 87 — 101.) are some intex'esting dissertations 



on the value of money in Scotland at different 

 periods. Twelve pages are devoted to the prices 

 of such commodities as represent pecuniary value 

 from A.D. 1004 to 1590. He expressly warns his 

 readers that, in " comparing the rate of provisions 

 between ancient and modern times, a very con- 

 siderable allowance must be made for the article 

 of taxation ; for the rates that are presently paid 

 for most articles of provision are not the real 

 prices, or those at which between subject and 

 subject they are essentially sold, but are also sums 

 levied for the aid of government " — taxation lying 

 very lightly, if at all, upon such articles in the 

 olden time. 



In the Appendix (p. 606.) he gives "A Table 

 of the Numeral or Nominal Pounds of Money in 

 a Pound Troy of Silver, in the different -^ras of 

 Scottish History," ab anno 1107 to 1738. 



William Gallowat. 



Edinburgh. 



To Harden Wood for Shipbuilding. — Sir 

 Joseph Bankes, in his Universal Geography, makes 

 mention of the ancient inhabitants of Teneriffe 

 having possessed the secret of hardening wood 

 that was impenetrable to the chisel. He adds, 

 that " much of this wood is still to be found in the 

 old vaults of the place." Let me recommend 

 tourists, in that direction, to try and obtain some 

 of the wood, in order that analysis may determine 

 the fluid that was used in their process. They 

 would confer a benefit on their country. First, 

 because there is a scarcity of seasoned wood in the 

 dockyards ; and secondly, wood that can be made 

 " impenetrable to the chisel," might be better able 

 to resist the effects of rifled cannons ! ! ! 



In the absence of any better method for " hard- 

 ening and seasoning wood" in a very brief time — 

 likewise rendering it " fire-proof and proof against 

 the ravages of marine insects" — I beg leave to 

 transcribe my process, which I recommend to the 

 notice of shipbuilders and others : 



Directions. — The* wood is introduced into a 

 close vessel, which is exhausted of air ; solution of 

 alum (of double the usual strength) is then ad- 

 mitted, and forced in by the pump till the pres- 

 sure is from 110 to 140 pounds to the square inch. 

 The wood becomes " tanned" by the alum. 



If there is any better known process, I feel cer- 

 tain that the Admiralty, and our private ship- 

 builders, will feel thankful to any correspondent 

 of " N. & Q." who will furnish it. 



Parcite Naves ! 



Garibaldi. — Whether the Liberator claims kin 

 with them I do not know : but there is a family 

 which derive their descent from Garibald, the 

 father of Theodolinda, Queen of Lombardy, circa 

 A.D, 590 (see Luitprand, Warnefrid, and the 

 other Longobardic writers, or more conveniently, 

 Gibbon, cap. 46.).. Gara is the old Italian for 



