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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Master of Edinburgh High School (2"* S. 

 X. 268.) — 



" 1633. June. — Mr. John Adamson, the Principal of 

 the Ministry ; Mr. William Drummond, of Hawthornden ; 

 and Mr. Thomas Crawford, 3Iaster of the High School, 

 devised the pageants and composed the speeches for the 

 reception of Charles the First in Edinburgh." — MS. note 

 by Geo. Chalmers in my copy of CrawfortTs History of 

 the University of Edin. 1808. 



J. o. 



Thomas Crawford, author of a History of the 

 University of Edinburgh, was elected to the office 

 of head-master of the Edinburgh High School in 

 Februai'y, 1630. He took a very active part in 

 the arrangement of the pageant, and "in the pre- 

 paration of the speeches delivered on the occasion 

 of the entrance of Charles T. into Edinburgh in 

 1633. An account of the King's visit is to be 

 found in Crawford's History of the University of 

 Edinburgh. In December, 1640, he resigned the 

 head-mastership on his appointment to the offices 

 of Regent in Philosophy and Professor of Mathe- 

 matics in the University, which he held with great 

 reputation till his death in 1662. See History of 

 the High School of Edinburgh, by Williau!! Steven, 

 D.D., Edinb. 1849, pp. 49—57. 'AAiew. 



Dublin. 



Jacobite Honours (2»^ S. x. 102. 215.) — 

 16 — . Baron Kilpec, Walter Pye, the then re- 

 presentative of the family of Pye, of Kilpec Castle, 

 in the Mynde Park, Herefordshire ; which ancient 

 property, after three or four centuries' tenure, 

 he sold, and died abroad. 



In compliance with R. E.'s request, I beg to 

 contribute this addition to the supplied list. 



John James. 



Before seeing D.'s communication in relation to 

 John Caryll, I had discovered my mistake in in- 

 serting a Lord CarZyll among the Scottish Jaco- 

 bite peers. By the addition of an Z I had changed 

 the name into that of an ancient Scottish family ; 

 whereas I should have inserted among the Eng- 

 lish titular nobles " Lord Caryll, John Caryll," so 

 created by James II. soon after his abdication. I 

 may add, that I did not intend to assign the date 

 of 1759 to his creation, but on the contrary, being 

 ignorant of the year, I left it blank. I have only 

 prefixed the date of creation where I was aware 

 of it. I may also correct an error as to General 

 Sarsfield's elevation to the earldom of Lucan. In- 

 stead of 1690, this did not take place till a year 

 or two after. K. R. 



Midwife's Diploma. — J. G. N., in his Note 

 (2°* S. X. 144.), furnishes some information "of 

 the state of man -midwifery and surgery in the 

 towns of Manchester and Leicester respectively," 

 in the eighteenth century. It may be mentioned, 

 as perhaps throwing a little farther light on one 

 of the branches noticed, that, during the period 



referred to, the obstetric art in Scotland was much 

 practised by women, some of whom qualified them- 

 selves for the profession by a regular course of 

 study at the University of Edinburgh, and I be- 

 lieve also at that of Glasgow. I have before me 

 the diploma granted to one who was highly re- 

 spected for her estimable qualities and useful at- 

 tainments, and who died at a very advanced age. 

 It is an elegantly engraved document, headed by 

 a portrait of " Mauriceau" (?), bearing : — 



« These are to Certifie, That Mrs. Hope, Midwife, At- 

 tended three Courses of my Lectures upon the Theory 

 and Practice of Midwifery, by Avhich Means She had an 

 opportunity of Seeing and Operating in all the different 

 Sorts of Births, as Witness my Hand and Seal at Edin*", 

 this 23'! day of June, 1758, Thomas Young, Professor of 

 Midwifery in the University of Edin""." 



The diploma is accompanied by a Memorandum 

 Book for Midwives, by the Professor, of 28 pages 

 18mo., who states, among other instructions, in his 

 Preface : — 



" Your application in this way will be the most effec- 

 tual method of acquiring the knowledge which is neces- 

 sary for people of j'our profession ; but you are not to 

 expect, that in your sphere of education, you ever can be 

 qualified to practise physic. You may do service in slight 

 disorders where gentlemen of liberal education are not, or 

 cannot be consulted : but whenever there is danger, do 

 not be fool-hardy enough to rely on your own judgment: 

 insist then on more assistance, as you regard the safety 

 of those committed to your care, and your own reputa- 

 tion ; which one failure, through too great confidence in 

 your own skill, may ruin." 



The sound advices of the Professor were not, 

 however, always strictly followed ; and both in the 

 curative and obstetric arts many old-wives' nos- 

 trams — some of them of a very ridiculous descrip- 

 tion — were in vogue. No doubt a variety of 

 these instances arose from the scarcity of proper 

 medical men in the country to consult, and also 

 from a wish of accommodation to the prejudices 

 and relief of the patients, who often put more 

 faith in the prescriptions of the midwife than the 

 doctor. The now comparatively more enlightened 

 state of the public mind, and the profusion of 

 medical skill to be found almost everywhere, ap- 

 pear nearly to have undermined and set aside this 

 class of women ; and in travelling about, is ex- 

 tremely seldom to be seen the old-fashioned, un- 

 pretending little sign-board, such as of " Mrs. 

 , Midwife and Ladies' Nurse." G. N. 



Cromwell (2"'' S. x. 267.)— This oflEice rf 

 royal cupbearer would appear to have been in the 

 family of Sir Oliver Cromwell, the Protector's 

 uncle, and probably conferred by King James, ia 

 1603, in his triumphant progress South. Old Mon- 

 nipennie thus relates the reception and princely 

 liberality of the Huntingdon knight to his royal 

 visitor : — 



" The 24 day (April), his Majestie removed to Hinch- 

 inburgh, the house of Sir Oliver Crumwell .... Then 

 his Majestie rode towards Huntingtoun, where the Baillies 



