2°dS. VIII. JcLY 9.'59.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Blowing from Cannon (2"^ S. iv. 365. ; vii. 523.) 

 — Eric alludes to a case of some mutineers having 

 been blown from guns in 1764, and quotes a pas- 

 sage from Malcolm's Life of Lord Clive. He says 

 " that the sentence was that of a native court mar- 

 tial." Of course it was, as all natives have been 

 tried by native courts-martial until the great 

 mutiny of 1857, although they are presided over, 

 and generally led and ruled, by the superintending 

 officer, whose duty, however, is merely to tran- 

 scribe the evidence, and assist the native officers 

 with advice and counsel. 



I think it is probable I shall be able to send 

 him and your readers some information in answer 

 to his Queries. T. C. Anderson, 



H. M.'s 12 th Reg. Bengal Army. 



8. Warwick Villas, Maida Hill, W. 



Grave-diggers (2°'> S. vii. 475.) — The following 

 record of the decease and ready wit of a vetefan 

 grave- digger, from an old newspaper, may prove 

 of interest to Mb. Piesse and others : — 



" Yesterday (March 31, 1758) died in Clerkenwell, 

 aged 90, Mr. Stevens, for 55 years grave-digger of that 

 parish. It is related of him that being asked once on 

 examination at one of the courts of Westminster Hall 

 who he was, he replied, ' I am grave-digger to the parish 

 of St. James's Clerkenwell, at your honour's service.' " 



W. J. Pinks. 



Vale of Red Horse (2"'> S. vii. 28. 485.)— 



" Every Palm Sunday, the day on which the battle of 

 Touton was fought, a rough figure, called the Red Horse, 

 on the side of a hill in Warwickshire, is scoured out. 

 This is suggested to be done in commemoration of the 

 horse which the Earl of Warwick slew on that day, de- 

 termined to vanquish or die." — Roberts's York and Lan- 

 caster, vol. i. p. 429. (Note in the Last of the Barons 

 (Bulwer), p. 193. ed. 1853.) 



Belateb-Adime. 



Thurneisser and Turner (2°* S. vii. 468.) — • 

 However remarkable the apparent coincidence in 

 the name of the two great contemporary botanists, 

 who both published their works at Cologne, it 

 does not appear that any relationship or family 

 connexion existed between them. Thurneisser is 

 a common surname at Basle, and in other parts of 

 Switzerland. The Parisian bankers of the same 

 name were originally from that country. M. (1.) 



Alleyne in Sussex (2°* S. vii. 513.) — It may 

 serve as a clue to this family in Sussex, if I men- 

 tion that, in the Visitation of Sussex, 1633-4, it is 

 stated that " Franc' Hooke, of Chichester, married 

 Secunda, da. of William Shortred, widow of 

 Richard Alleyne." Was Richard a brother of 

 Edward Alleyne ? N. H. R. 



Balthasar Regis (2"^ S. vii. 358.) — Balthasar 

 Regis, B.D. of Dublin, was incorporated at Cam- 

 bridge, 1717, and was created D.D. at Cambridge, 

 as a member of Trinity College there, 1721. 



C. H. & Thompson Cooper. 



" The Brute Chronicles " (2»* S. ii. 128. ; vii. 

 526.) — After the reference made to me by Y. S. 

 M., I can do no less than inform your correspon- 

 dent, William Henry Hart, that there are two 

 copies of The French Prose Chronicles of England 

 called the Brute in the library of Trinity College, 

 Dublin, one of which (E. 2. 33.) ends at the year 

 1332, and has the introductory chapter, in verse, 

 though written in prose, just as in the copies in 

 the British Museum described by Sir Frederic 

 Madden (2"* S. i. 1.). The other (E. 5. 5.) is 

 imperfect, and concludes also at the year 1332. 



'AXievs. 



Dublin. 



Halls of Greatford (2"* S. vii. 497.) — The 

 founder of the hall was a Fitzwilliam or Fitz- 

 williams of the elder branch of the earl's family. 

 The present representative of the family is said to 

 be E. C. L. Fitzwilliams, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, 

 of the Inner Temple, who resumed the ancient 

 family surname on the death of his father, the 

 late Benjamin Edward Hall, Esq., of Paddington, 

 Middlesex, about 1849 or 1850. P. 



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