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who was born in 1670, and another, Benjamin, 

 from either of whom William Bucknall, M.D., 

 mcnj have descended ; but it is believed in my 

 family that he was the son of Samuel Bucknall, 

 the second son. H. M. Rice. 



South Hill Kectory. 



Waterville Family. — Could any of your cor- 

 respondents kindly favour me with an account 

 (however short and imperfect) of the descendants 

 of William de Waterville, abbot of Burgh, and, I 

 believe, grandson of the De Waterville who "came 

 over with the Conqueror." This abbot occupies 

 rather a prominent position in Peck's Antiquities 

 of Stamford, but I am unable now to refer to any 

 particular passages. 



I am told that the name Waterville (and later 

 Wateifnlle) has, within the last century, been 

 corrupted into Waterfield : all three forms being 

 still (or at least a few years since) visible on 

 gravestones in Bulwick and Barrowden church- 

 yards, Lincolnshire. Iciineutes. 



Monk Lewis. — Where can the pedigree of 

 Matthew Gregory Lewis (Monk Lewis) be pro- 

 cured ? There is in Jamaica a fine marble monu- 

 ment to a Judge Lewis whose arms are emblazoned 

 on it (checquy azure and argent, &c.) with three 

 quarterings. This Judge Lewis had a daughter, 

 married to Robert Francklyn Hodges. M. (2.) 



Miss Hannah Thatcher. — In the Gent. Mag. 

 for July, 1823, Part ii. p. 9., is a portrait of Miss 

 Hannah Thatcher, a native of Bristol, who was 

 born deaf and dumb, but acquired both the miss- 

 ing faculties under the treatment of Mr. Wright, 

 " Surgeon-aurist to her late Majesty Queen Char- 

 lotte." After the death of her parents Mr. Wright 

 took her into his house, and adopted her as his 

 own daughter. 



■ I wish to know whether the cure proved a per- 

 manent one, and what was the young lady's sub- 

 sequent history. If we may judge by the portrait, 

 she had a pretty face and a remarkably expressive 

 and interesting countenance. 



It is plain that Miss Thatcher was not born 

 absolutely deaf and dumb. Such persons can only 

 be taught to converse by signs, as practised by 

 the Abbe Sicard and others. In her the two 

 faculties were merely dormant, and were called 

 into action by skilful and judicious treatment. 

 Indeed it is intimated that the deafness, at least, 

 was to be attributed to local di-opsy, affecting the 

 laminated membrane, commonly called " the drum 

 of the ear." W. D. 



Flying Kites. — In Lord Dundonald's Life 

 (vol. i. p. 201.) is a curious account of his method 

 of communication with the Spanish, during the 

 Peninsular war. Proclamations or other notices 

 were tied to the tails of kites, which were flown 

 over the land from boats when the wind was 



favourable, and suffered to fall at proper traaes. 

 Could this method of diffusing news have given 

 rise to the Stock Exchange phrase of "flying 

 kites ? " If not, what is the origin of the expres- 

 sion ? A. A. 

 Poets' Corner. 



Locke's "Western Rebellion." — Can any of 

 your readers inform me where a book, repeat- 

 edly referred to by Mackintosh and Macaulay as 

 Locke's Western Rebellion, is to be found ? 



Peregrisb. 



Perpetual Motion. — I shall esteem it a par- 

 ticular favour if any of your correspondents will 

 inform me where all or any of the following works 

 may be referred to, as I have not been able to 

 find them in the libraries of the British MuseuBij 

 Royal Society, or London Institution ? viz. : — 



1. A Dialogue concerning Perpetual Motion. By 

 Thomas Timme, or Tymme, Minister. 1612, 4tOw 



2. De Inventione jEterni Motoris. By James Zlaba- 

 rella. Fracf. 1618, 4to. 



3. Essay for a Machine of Perpetual Motion. By Eo- 

 bert Stewart. Edin. 1709, 4to. 



4. An Account of the Automaton, or Perpetual Motion 

 of OrfF)-reus, with additional Kemarks. 1770. 



5. A Lecture on Perpetual Motion. 1771. By Williaia 

 Kenrick, LL.D. 



The above list is from Watt's BibliotJieca Brit. 

 4to. 1824. H. D. 



The Heir of Line of Lady Catherine Gbet. 



— In the last edition of Burke's Peerage, art- 

 " Duke of Buckingham," note at foot of p. 134., 

 it is stated that Anna-Eliza, daughter and sole 

 heiress of James Brydges, third and last Duke of 

 Chandos, was sole representative of Henry Grey, 

 Duke of Suffolk, and of Frances his wife, eldest 

 daughter and coheiress of Charles Brandon, Duke 

 of Suffolk, by the Lady Mary, Queen Dowager of 

 France, and daughter of King Henry VII. To 

 this statement I must demur ; and if, instead of 

 " sole representative," the daughter and sole 

 heiress of the tliird Duke of Chandos had been 

 described as one of the many representatives of 

 the French Queen, the claims of other families to 

 this descent would not have been so completely- 

 ignored. But ^lis is not the point on which I ask 

 for information. I wish to know whether the 

 Duke of Buckingham is really heir of line, or not, 

 to the Lady Catherine Grey. I am inclined to 

 think not : for as the male line was carried on 

 by Francis, the fifth Duke of Somerset, on failure 

 of issue in the elder branches, and continued from 

 1675 to 1750, and then ended in an heiress, now- 

 represented by the Duke of Northumberland, we 

 must look for the heir of line in this family rather 

 than in that of Buckingham : but I consider it a 

 question that may fairly be discussed in"N. & 

 Q." P.K. 



