2oJ S. VIII. July 2. '59.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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to the degree of baronet in 1718. The baronetcy 

 is, however, now extinct. 



The only information which I can give as to 

 Sir James Adolphus Oughton is as follows : — 

 He was appointed Lieut.-Col. of the 37th regi- 

 ment, August 7, 1749; was promoted July 20, 

 1759, to the Colonelcy of the 55th (previously the 

 57th} regiment ; was promoted to Major-general 

 August 15, 1761 ; and was transferred August 20, 

 1762, to the Colonelcy of the 31st regiment on the 

 death of Lieut.-General Henry Holmes. Major- 

 General Oughton was raised to the rank of Lieut.- 

 General April 30, 1770, and was honoured with 

 the Order of the Bath between 1771 and 1775. 

 He died In April, 1780, and was succeeded In the 

 colonelcy of the 31st regiment by Major-General 

 Thomas Clarke, who, like nearly all the colonels 

 of infantry regiments, was promoted from the 

 Foot Guards. 



The Gentleman s Magazine for I\Iay, 1780, pro- 

 bably contains a biographical notice of Sir J. A. 

 Oughton. G. L. S. 



Curved Form of ancient Inclosures (2"'^ S. vli. 

 373. — The following citations, very hastily fur- 

 nished, will help, it is hoped, to throw a little 

 light on your correspondent's (G. A. C.'s) in- 

 quiry as to the curved form of ancient inclosures. 

 The Etruscans were great " Agrimensores" and 

 in the choice and foundation of a city observed a 

 number of ceremonies. 



" Urbs dicitur ab orbe quod antiquue civitates in orbein 

 fiebant." — Servius ad JEn. i. v. IG. 



Again : 



" Urbs ab urbo appellata est, urbare est aratro defmire, 

 et Varus ait, urbum appellari Curvaturam aratri quod in 

 urbe condenda adhiberi solet." — Pompon. 7>/fl. ult. tit. 

 leg. 239. 



Again, Varro lells us (1. iv. clc L. L. c. 32.) that 

 Etruscans marked out the boundaries of their 

 towns thus : — 



" Junctis bubus. tauro et vacca interiore aratro circum 

 agebant sulcum. Hoc faciebant religionis causa, die 

 auspicato, ut fossa et mujo essent munita. Terrain unde 

 excalpserant, fossam vocabant ; et introrsum factum 

 murum : postea quod fiebat orbis urbs." 



The transition to a similar practice in the first 

 and earliest inclosures from the waste was easy 

 and natural, but the whole archaeology of the 

 subject is too important and Interesting to be 

 passed over thus superficially, and I have not 

 time for more at present. L. M. N, 



Patrick Hannay (2"'^ S. vli. p. 495.)— 



" Songs and Sonnets, 15 copi« printed. Privately 

 Printed from the rare edition of 1022, at the expense of 

 E. V. Utterson for presents. Beldornie Press, 18il." 



Belater-Adime. 



Fusils in Fesse (2"-^ S. vll. 375.)— In reply to 

 Meletks, the following families bear fusils in 

 fesse : — Cheney (Devon), 5 or 4 ; Denham or 



Denant, 4 ; Carteret, 4 ; Pennington, 5 ; Monta- 

 cute, 3 ; Bull (Sussex), 5 ; Jones (MIdd.), 5 ; 

 Percy, 5 ; Newmarch, 5 ; Daubigny, 5 ; Raleigh, 

 3 ; Cokenay, 3 ; Aslacton, 5 ; Dawtrcy, 5 ; Bos- 

 vill, 5 ; Blomfield, 3 ; GIfford, 3 ; Tuckfield, 3 ; 

 Johnson, 3 ; Pygott, 3 ; Percy, 3 ; Pavyer, 3 ; 

 Thorne, 3 ; Chasbon, 3 ; Acre, 3 ; Champney, 3 ; 

 Payne, 3 ; Crowmer, 5 ; Camayll, 3 ; Gargan, 3 ; 

 Gramore, 3 ; Sowelling, 3 ; Caysterton, 4 ; Fal- 

 conbrldge (Essex), 6 ; Knotford, 4 ; Aungell, 4 ; 

 BlonvIUe, 4 ; Formans (Norf.), 5 ; Plompton, 5 ; 

 Corby, 5 ; Wycliff, 5 ; Nevlll, 5 ; Harpden, 5 ; 

 Pinckney, 5 ; Poynton, 5 ; Knatchford, 4. 



From the above list, which might be much ex- 

 tended, it would seem that families bearing fusils 

 in fesse are not all clearly of Norman origin, 

 although many here mentioned would be con- 

 sidered as undoubtedly so. The numerals refer 

 to the number of fusils. , Cl. Hopper. 



Clapping the Prayer-hooks on Good Friday (2"* 

 S. vil. 515.) — I conjecture that where this cus- 

 tom exists, it is parallel to that which all who 

 have heard the "Miserere" sung in the Sistine or 

 Pope's chapel at Rome, on Wednesday, Thursday, 

 or Friday of Passion Week, have heard ; namely, 

 at that period of the service when, out of thirteen 

 lights previously burning, one only is left, the 

 others having been extinguished one after another 

 at certain Intervals, a stamping of feet is heard 

 within the choir. Strangers commonly ask, "what 

 is that ?" and they are told it is meant to signify 

 the abandonment of our Saviour by his disciples. 



E. L. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



IVie Life and Contemporaneous Church History of An- 

 tonio de Domiyiis, Archbishop of Spalatrn, afterwards Dean 

 of Windsor, §-c. in the Reign of James I. By Henry New- 

 land, D.D., Dean of Ferns. (J. H. & J. Parker.) 



In our last volume the attention of our readers was 

 directed, by several notices of Father Paul and Bishop 

 Bedell, to the eventful history of the Venetian Interdict. 

 The work, of which we have here given the title, is some- 

 what connected with that memorable transaction. Al- 

 though the author has made no additions whatever to 

 our stock of information respecting either the subject of 

 his Memoir, or his illustrious contemporaries and friends, 

 Paul Sarpi and Bishop Bedell, he has constructed out of 

 the limited materials at his command an interesting 

 piece of biography. We regret, however, to find that the 

 Dean has perpetuated (p. 80.) Burnet's fabulous story 

 respecting the refusal of Sir Henry Wotton to present 

 King James's " Premonition " to the Venetian senate in 

 1G07 ; whereas this work of the King's did not appear 

 until 1609! Again (p. 94.), it is not true, as stated by 

 Burnet, that Bedell accompanied De Dominis to England. 

 It is certainly to be regretted that, before committing his 

 work to the press, the Dean did not make use of the 

 several important letters and documents in reference to 

 the Archbishop which are to be found in the lately pub ■ 

 lished Domestic Calendars for the Reign of King James I. 

 These would have considerably enhanced the value of his 



