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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Db. J. B. Gilchrist. — A work with the fol- 

 lowing title was published by Dr. Gilchrist : — 



" Sukoontula-Natuk ; ^Jeing an Appendix to the Eng- 

 lish and Hindoostanee Dialogues in a separate form, and 

 as a dramatic performance ; translated long ago from the 

 original Sanskrit into elegant Hindoostanee, but now first 

 exhibited in the universal character, by Dr. J. B. Gilchrist, 

 London, 8vo. 1827." 



Is this a translation by Dr. Gilchrist himself of 

 the drama oi Sacontala into Hindoostanee? Iota. 



Organ built by Father Smith. — I should be 

 much obliged if any of your readers could tell me 

 whether the organ in the Danish church in Well- 

 elose Square was built by Father Smith. I have 

 been frequently told that it was, but on no very 

 good authority. Notsa. 



Waltham Abbey. — What churches were served 

 by the monks from the Abbey ? And what churches 

 or property belonged to the Abbey ? Notsa. 



"Decry Date": "Sureties Shoe." — Thomas 

 Churchyard, in a poem prefixed to Lloid's Pil- 

 grimage of Princes, remarks : — 

 " Hee shewes by learned lines, our painefuU pilgrim's 

 state. 

 And how the prince and people both driues out their 



decry date : 

 A pilgrimage we go, in pathes of perils great : 

 And through the shades of sureties shoe, we passe in 



burning heat. 

 That all consumes by flame of deepe desire in brest." 



Will anyone enlighten me as to " decry date " 

 and " sureties shoe " in the above lines. 



George OrfoB. 

 Hackney. 



Spun Glass. — In an old book of accounts, 

 filled Avith memoranda relative to the education 

 of Anne Clifford (afterwards Countess of Dorset, 

 Pembroke, and Montgomery), from IGOO to 1602, 1 

 find mention of " eleven bunches of glass feathers," 

 and "two dozen of glass flowers." 



Query, Was the art of spinning glass into these 

 resemblances known at the commencement of the 

 seventeenth century ? Edward F. Rimbaclt. 



Kent Arch^-ological and Naturalist So- 

 ciety. — Mr. a. J. DuNKiN (2"'^ S. x. 154.) states 

 that Mr. Pocock, the historian of Gravesend, " was 

 the founder of the first Kent Archaeological and 

 Naturalist Society." Will Mr. Dunkin have the 

 kindness to inform us when that Society was 

 founded ? How long it subsisted ? And what 

 memorials of its existence, published or unpub- 

 lished, remain ? J. G. N. 



The Taillbois Family. — Could any of your 

 readers be so good as to state how the vast posses- 

 sions of the Taillbois family, the ancient barons of 

 Kendal, went out of the family ? 



I remember reading (in the Illustrated London 

 News, I think,) that the last known descendant of 

 that great and powerful race died in the work- 



house at Shrewsbury, as a tramp or casual pauper ! 

 She was eighteen years old, and gave her name as 

 Emily Tailbois. Sir Bernard Burke does not 

 allude to this remarkable case to my knowledge. 

 The tombs of the family of Tailbois are still to be 

 seen in the ruins of Furness Abbey. 



A Descendant of the Tailbois by the 

 Female Branch. 



Threepwood, the Eefuge of Deserters. — 

 By clause 37. of the Militia Act passed in 1756, 

 it is provided : 



" That this Act shall take effect in a certain place 

 called Threepwood, lying within or near the counties of 

 Chester and Flint, or one of them, and adjoining the town 

 of Cuddington in the said canity of Chester, -wherein 

 divers deserters from his Majestj''s service have been 

 harboured." 



What were the privileges, real or assumed, of 

 Threepwood that led to this enactment ? J. G. N. 



Hailstones in the Dog-days. — The following 

 paragraph may be found in the Dublin Chronicle, 

 21st August, 1788 : — 



" The hailstones which fell in this- city and suburbs on 

 Tuesday last about three o'clock, is a very remarkable 

 phsenomenon, which was heightened by the warmth of 

 the dog-days, and is a circumstance not paralleled in Dr. 

 Rutty's Diary of the Weather, during sixty years in this 

 climate." 



A similar " phsenomenon," as I can testify, was 

 witnessed in the parish of Booterstown, near 

 Dublin, and elsewhere, on Monday afternoon, 6th 

 August, 1 860 ; but I wish to know whether any 

 of your coi-respondents can refer me to a few re- 

 corded instances of the like at the same season in 

 other years, in any quarter of Great Britain and 

 Ireland? Abhba. 



Crest. — A wyvern's head erased, holding in 

 the beak a branch from which issue three stems, 

 each crowned by a cinquefoil. Can any of your 

 readers tell me to what family this crest belonged ? 

 I find it engraved on an ancient alms dish found 

 under the communion table of one of the oldest 

 churches in Middlesex during recent repairs. 



J. K. 



Geo. Keate, F.E..S.— This well-known writer, 

 born in 1730, is always stated to have been a 

 great-grandson of Sir Geo. Hungerford of Caden- 

 ham, Wilts. Mr. Keate died in 1797, leaving an 

 only child, married to John Henderson, Esq. 



I should be obliged by information as to his 

 relationship to Mrs.'Walker, afterwards Walker- 

 Hungerford of Calne, Wilts, who died in 1803, 

 and was in the same degree of descent from Sir 

 Geo. Hungerford. She was Henrietta Maria, 

 daughter of John Hungerford Keate, who was son 

 of John Keate and Frances his wife, daughter of 

 Sir Geo. Hungerford. Mrs. W. Hungerford had 

 an only (I believe) brother, Lumley Keate, who 

 died s. p. in 1766. The Hungerford estate around 



