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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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meddle with the body of a person who has at- 

 tempted suicide before the arrival of the coroner. 

 The lives of persons who have hanged themselves, 

 or tried to drown themselves, are sometimes lost 

 owing to this notion. Unbda. 



Philadelphia. 



Pigtails (2"'^ S. x. 457.) — The last worn in 

 Cambridge was by John Lodge Hubbersty, M.D., 

 Senior, and Lay Fellow of Queen's College, in 1835. 



R. R. F. 



Barrett of Essex (2°** S. x. 450.) — The arms 



given by H. S. G. are those borne by the family 



of Barrett-Lennard of Bell House, near Romford. 



They are as follows, quarterly : — 



1st. Or on a fess gu. 3 fleurs-de-lis or (Lennard.) 

 2nd. Az. 3 lions rampant or (not arg.) (Fiennes.) 

 3rd. Gu. 3 escallops or ... . (Dacre.) 

 4th. Arg. a chev. engr. between 3 trefoils slip- 

 ped gu. ? 



The second quartering, which^H. S. G.'appears 

 most anxious to identify, indicates the descent of 

 the Barrett-Lennards from the Fiennes Lords 

 Dacre. 



The Barrett arms, quartered with the above, 

 were : Per pale arg. and gu., barry of four, coun- 

 ter-changed. At present the Barrett and Len- 

 nard coats are borne quarterly, within a bordure 

 wavy, sa. 1st and 4th, Lennard ; 2nd and 3rd, 

 Barrett. , J. Woodward. 



Shorehatn. 



Napoleon II. (2"'* S. x. 429.) — Has not the 

 memory of your correspondent Bar-Point played 

 him false with regard to the name contained in 

 the list (which he refers to) of the possible claim- 

 ants of the British crown ? I presume from his 

 saying that it was published about thirty years 

 ago, that he had not the list before him when he 

 wrote his Query. 



In the year 1817 (forty-three years ago), at 

 tlie end of a pamphlet entitled The Real or Moral 

 Causeof Her Royal HighnessthePrincessCharlotte's 

 Death, there is given a list of all the descendants 

 then living of the Electress Sophia, in which the 

 name of the Duke of Reichstadt does not appear. 

 But though the list does not contain his name, it 

 does that of another of the Napoleon family, viz. 

 Jerome Buonaparte (either the present Prince 

 Napoleon or a brother) then three years old, the 

 son of Jerome Buonaparte the Emperor's brother, 

 by his second wife, Frederica Catherine of Wur- 

 temberg, the daughter of Frederick II., the eighth 

 Duke of Wurtemberg by his first Duchess, Caro- 

 line Frederica Louisa, the daughter of Charles 

 William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick, by his 

 Duchess, Augusta of England, the eldest daugh- 

 ter of Frederick Prince of Wales, the son of 

 George II. 



George III. had at that time no grandchildren, 

 and the youngest of his family, the Princess So- 



phia, was forty years of age. The descendants of 

 the Duke of Gloucester, who were the next in 

 the succession, were only two — a son and a daugh- 

 ter ; and then came the descendants of Augusta, 

 the Duchess of Brunswick, and young Jerome 

 Buonaparte, her great-grandson stood the 26th in 

 the succession, his mother being the 25th. None 

 of those who claimed before his mother had chil- 

 dren, except his two uncles, the King of Wurtem- 

 berg, and Paul his brother. 



Independently, however, of his being a Papist, 

 the little Jerome had very little chance of ever 

 becoming the rightful heir to the throne of these 

 realms, as there were several young lives amongst 

 the claimants of the House of Brunswick ; but we 

 have reason to be thankful that England has been 

 preserved from the then not very remote misfor- 

 tune of again having a foreign king to reign over 

 her. A Constant Reader. 



Meaning op Platty (2°"* S. x. 368.) — In my 

 (partly published) Glossary of Keniish Provin- 

 cialisms, SfC, I have spelt the word platty, and 

 render it as " in plats," or "in plots." Thus the 

 hops, or other agricultural crop, for the phrase is 

 not confined to hops, "is in platty," — not an uni- 

 form crop, but good in places. A. J. Dunkin. 



Dartford. 



" A New Covering to the Velvet Cushion " 

 (2°^ S. X. 371.) — Without subscribing to the cen- 

 sure which A Constant Reader has bestowed 

 on A New Covering to the Velvet Cushion, he may 

 like to know that the author of that book was the 

 late Dr. P. A. Cox, of Hackney — a name not un- 

 known to literary men. Dr. Styles of Brighton was 

 the author of The Legend of the Velvet Cushion, 

 which appeared shortly after. The piety and 

 ability of the author of The Velvet Cushion was 

 recognised in both rejoinders, but it was scarcely 

 to be expected that certain offensive remarks 

 which the vicar of Harrow rather indiscreetly 

 made, should pass scatheless. Such a passage for 

 instance as the following (I quote from the first 

 edition) might have been spared, however smart 

 it may seem to read : — 



" As I am likely to say a few hard things of Popery pre- 

 sently, I wish, by way of set-off, to remind you good Pro- 

 testants, that 3'ou owe to Popery almost every thing that 

 deserves to be called by the name of a Church. Popery is 

 the religion of Cathedrals, — Protestantism of Houses, — 

 Dissenterism of Barns." 



X. A. X. 



Alderman Newnham (2'"* S. x. 448.), citizen 

 and mercer of London, Alderman of Vintry Ward, 

 1774; Sheriff, 1775; Lord Mayor, 1782-3; the 

 same year President of St. Thomas's Hospital; 

 M.P. for the city, 1780 and 1784, but lost his elec- 

 tion in 1790, chiefly for having proposed in Par- 

 liament the payment of the Prince of Wales's 

 debts. He afterwards contested Luggeshall un- 

 successfully, and was equally unsuccessful in a 



