2»d S. Vlll. July 9. '69.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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1688 ? The following curious epitaph to his me- 

 mory was copied a short time ago from Averhara 

 churchyard, and is, I think, deserving of a corner 

 in"N. &Q.:" — 



" Sir William Sutton corps here toombed sleepes, 

 Whose happy soul in better mansions keepes ; 

 Thrice nine yeares lived he with his ladye faire — 

 A loveh', noble, and Ij'ke vertuous pa3're. 

 Their generous offspring (parents joy of heart). 

 Eight of each sex : of each an equal part 

 Ushered to Heaven their father, the other 

 Eemained behind him to attend their mother." 



Stuffynwood. 



Cartulary of Buttele. — Can you inform me 

 where the MS. thus described in Dugdale is 

 now? — 



" Chronicon sive Cartularium Prioratus de Buttele, 

 quod incipit tempore Augustini Rivers prioris, scil. anno 

 1509, et desinit anno 1536. MS. paper in folio contin. 

 fol. 72. penes v. cl. Petrum Le Neve, Norroy." 



In Sir Thos. Phillipps's List of Chartularies the 

 vol. passed from Le Neve's hands to those of Ives. 

 Where it is now he does not say. A. T. Paget. 



Kirkstead Rectory, Norwich. 



Graham : Newton. — Alderman John Graham 

 of Drogheda married Charity, sister to Alderman 

 William Newton of Drogheda and Major- Gene- 

 ral John Newton, and had, with other issue, a son, 

 the Eight Hon. William Graham, M.P., and a 

 daughter, Sarah, wife of Sir Thomas Taylor, Bart., 

 ancestor of the Marquess of Headfort. Alder- 

 man Graham died in 1717. He had a brother 

 Arthur (father of John Graham) and three sisters, 



Catherine, wife of Singleton, Kachel, and 



Sarah, wife of Johnston. Who were these 



Grahams and Newtons ? The General was a 

 burgess of Londonderry, and I think M.P. for 

 that city. Sir William Betham, I know, made 

 Alderman Graham descended from a family set- 

 tled in the co. Down or Armagh, I forget which, 

 but as far as I can discover without a particle of 

 proof, as was the case in too many of his pedi- 

 grees. Y. S. M. 



Countess of Stafford, daughter of Philibert 

 Count de Grammont. Her letters are mentioned 

 in the preface to Grammont's Memoirs. I should 

 be glad to know where and when these letters 

 were published. Q. R. 



Sir Walter Scott. — The only descendant of 

 this eminent individual now alive is the youthful 

 daughter of Mr. Hope Scott, Queen's Counsel. 

 Can any of your readers inform me who is next 

 heir to the Abbotsford estate, failing this girl? J 



Witches worried at a Stake. — In 1679, Anna- 

 pie Thompson and others, being convicted of 

 witchcraft, were condemned " to be taken to the 

 west end of Borrowstoness, the ordinary place of 

 execution there, upon Tuesday the twentie-third 



day of December current, betwixt two and four 

 o'clock in the afternoon, and ther to be wirried at 

 a stench till they be dead, and therafter to have 

 their bodies burned to ashes." 



Was this barbarous penalty usual in cases of 

 witchcraft, or on other occasions ? Ache. 



" A Letter to a Clergyman, ^c." — Please tell me 

 the name of the author of a 12mo. volume, pp. 

 118., published in London in 1746, and entitled, 

 A Letter to a Clergyman, relating to his Sermon 

 on the 30th of January. It is dedicated to the 

 Bishop of Winchester ; and, containing some par- 

 ticulars of Irish affairs, professes to be " a com- 

 pleat Answer to all the Sermons that ever have 

 been, or ever shall be, preached, in the like strain, 

 on that Anniversary." Abhba. 



" Le Bas Bleu." — Can any of your Edinburgh 

 readers give me any information regarding the 

 authorship of the following play ? Le Bas Bleu, 

 or the Fall of the Leaf a farce in two acts, 

 performed at the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh, for 

 the first time 30th March, 1836, Edinburgh. 50 

 copies printed for private circulation by the Edin- 

 burgh Printing Company. Sigma. 



Brie in Prisoners^ Dock. — In Mr. Dickens's new 

 tale of " The Two Cities," allusion is made to the 

 custom of placing herbs in the dock in front of a 

 prisoner arraigned for treason. The scene is laid 

 at Newgate in the year 1775. Query : how long 

 previous to that period dates its origin ? and is it 

 now used on trials for any but capital offences ? 



The custom in early days seems in a great 

 measure to have been one of precaution, herbs 

 sprinkled with vinegar being strewn about the 

 court as a preventative of jail fevers. 



This, however, cannot be the motive for its 

 continuance in days of sanitary improvements. 

 At the trial of Manning and his wife for murder, 

 it will be remembered that at the conclusion of a 

 speech by one of the counsel, Mrs. Manning 

 gathered some of " the sprigs of rue placed on 

 the dock," and threw them vehemently over tlie 

 wigged heads of the " learned gentlemen." * 



Frank Lamb. 



Sir John Gascoigne. — Can you inform me 

 where I can obtain any particulars about Sir 

 John Gascoigne, the father of George Gascoigne 

 according to Wood ? Is there any known proof 

 of his having any connexion with the county of 

 Essex ? G. H. K. 



Heraldic Query. — Can anyone assist me in 

 identifying the following arms?— Parted per pale 

 baron and feme two coats : first, az. a cross be- 

 tween four eagles displayed ar. ; second, gu. on a 



[* See "N. & Q." 2nd g. ii. 351. 479. ; iv. 198. 238.— 

 Ed.] 



