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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2'"i S. X. Sept. 29. '60. 



cessary. First, describe a circle (a large one pre- 

 ferable) ; fix perpendicularly in the centre a stick 

 of the requisite length, so that the extremity of its 

 shadow will cross the circle in two places, in con- 

 sequence of the increase and decrease of the sun's 

 altitude. The two points of intersection must be 

 accurately marked. Bisect the intervening curve, 

 or the distance between the two points, and the 

 line of bisection is the meridian, due N. and S. 



John Williams. 

 Arno's Court. 



"Badges or Scotch Clans" (2"^ S. x. 169.) 

 — Geo. E. Feebe gives the names of the plants 

 claimed as badges by the Campbell, Graham, and 

 M'^Dougall clans, and inquires whether there is 

 any foundation for the notion that the badges of 

 all the Scotch clans are plants indigenous in Scot- 

 land ? 



The Myrtle of the Campbells, the Laurel of the 

 Grahams, and the Cypress of the M'^Dougalls, ap- 

 pear at first sight to be exotic, and not native 

 plants ; but, as the Myrtle of the Campbells is 

 proved to be the British bog myrtle, may not 

 the badges of Graham and M'^Dougall have been 

 originally the plants which we find in old English 

 herbals styled "Laurell" (Laurel Spurge, Daphne 

 laureola), and "Cypresse" (i. e. Southernwood, 

 Artemisia absinthium), the cultivated variety of 

 the latter being called "Garden Cypresse " to dis- 

 tinguish it from the " Field Cypress," or wild 

 Ai'temisia ? 



Daphne laureola is an acknowledged native of 

 Great Britain, and several varieties of Artemisia 

 are common British plants. N. D. 



The Hogarth Family (2"* S. ix. 445.) — I am 

 sorry that I can give Sigma Theta very little 

 information concerning the Hogarth family ; but 

 on recently visiting the old burial-ground of Fish- 

 wick, on the banks of the Tweed, I found at the 

 south-west corner of that place, on a broad flat 

 stone, the following inscription : — 



" H§re was buried John Hogard, who dyed, anno 

 1640." 



Below this there is a figure of a skull, and cross- 

 bones, and a well-executed figure of a butcher's 

 hacking-knife, or cleaver, and another figure Some- 

 what like a short-bladed hedgebill ; and below 

 these figures, this inscription : — 



" Here lyes the body of John Hos, who dyed 27 May, 

 1721, his age 48." 



On a small upright stone, close by the side of the 

 above, there is this inscription : — 



" Here lyes the corps of Elizabeth Hogard, who de- 

 parted this" life, May 10th, anno 1721, hsr age 28 years." 



She was probably a descendant, or some relation 

 of the above John Hogard. About the year 1812, 

 a Mr. David Hogarth was the tenant of Lennal 

 Hill and Mill, in the parish of Coldstream. On 



the 30th Oct. 1819, Robert Hogarth, Esq., an 

 eminent agriculturist, died at Carfrae, near Earls- 

 ton, in the 78th year of his age ; and at the pre- 

 sent time (or very recently) there is a farmer of 

 the name of Hogarth residing near Eccles. The 

 above is all I know of the " Hogarth Family ; " 

 but I have no doubt there are. several individuals 

 in Berwickshire, who, if readers of " N. & Q.," 

 could give much information on the subject to 

 Sigma Theta. Menyanthes. 



Chirnside. 



The American Standard (2°* S. x. 209.) — 

 The stars and stripes were chosen during the life 

 of Washington, and appear to have been partly 

 suggested by the coat of arms of the Washingtons 

 of Lancashire. I remember having seen an arti- 

 cle on this subject in an American magazine last 

 year, with woodcuts of the earlier arrangements 

 of the stars and stripes, and their subsequent al- 

 teration to their present marshalling (?) The pre- 

 sent form, however, was approved of, and adopted 

 by Washington himself. B. 



Treatment of Wife-beaters (2°^ S. x. 185.) 

 — The custom, of which J. H. van Lennep speaks, 

 is not an uncommon one in England. It prevails 

 in the county of Southampton, and is by no means 

 confined to the rural districts of that county. The 

 punishment has, even within the last few years, 

 been inflicted in Hampshire towns on tradesmen 

 of good standing. 



Wife-beaters, husband-beaters, and men guilty 

 of certain flagrant breaches of chastity, are the 

 criminals for whom our good Hampshire folks re- 

 serve the punishment of "rough music," or the 

 " badger's band." W. C. 



Allfort Family (2"'» S.x. 126.)— The following 

 is from the Registers of Merchant Taylors' School, 

 London : — 



"George Alport, only son of George Alport, merchant 

 taylor, born in the parish of AUhaUows, Bread St., IG 

 June, 1631. Entered 1646." • 



In the school lists occurs : — 

 " John Alport, born 26 Feb. 1610." 

 George Alport served the office of Warden of 

 the M. T. Company from 1650 to 1652. 



C. J. Robinson. 



Dedications to the Deity (2°'^ S.x. 177. 

 217.) — Perhaps no more remarkable instances of 

 this kind are to be met with than the two fol- 

 lowing. The first is an anonymous publication 

 which appeared at Naples late in the eighteenth 

 century on the Motion of Projectiles {Moti dei 

 Projetti). It is some time since I saw this book, 

 but I have a Note of it, and am quite sure it is dedi- 

 cated to Dio ottimo, massimo, &c. The second is 

 the Version of the Bible in French, by the theolo- 

 gians of Louvain. Of this I have a copy in folio, 

 dated Paris, 1667 ; and as it has many of the ren- 



