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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2»« S. VIII. Sept. 10. '59. 



the total abolition of torture, is supported by the 

 fact that only ten days previous to the date of the 

 Claim, the same Estates granted warrant to the 

 magistrates of Edinburgh to torture John Chislie 

 of Dairy, the murderer of Lord President Lock- 

 hart. See Arnot's Criminal Trials, p. 169., 8vo. 

 edition, 1812. G. 



Edinburgh. 



John Evelyn (2"* S. vili. 46. 98.) — I think 

 Messrs. Cooper must be wrong in identifying 

 John Evelyn, born August 11, 1601, with J. E. 

 of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, who graduated 

 B.A. in 1618-19. It is hardly likely that a de- 

 gree could have been taken at so early an age as 

 seventeen. Perhaps some correspondent may be 

 able to supply the date of Sir John Evelyn's 

 birth, who was M.P. for Blechingly, and died in 

 1643. C. J. Robinson. 



The Rev. John Rob. Scott, D.D. (2"'' S. viii. 

 190.) — Your correspondent <I> alludes to the 

 above gentleman, and designating him of Trinity 

 College, Dublin, attributes to him A Review of 

 the Principal Characters of the Irish House of 

 Commons, under the pseiidonyme of " Falkland," 

 published in 1789. 1 have succeeded in obtain- 

 ing the perusal of that work, which contains 

 descriptions of between seventy and eighty dis- 

 tinguished orators and statesmen, forming quite a 

 galaxy of senatorial excellence. Henry Grattan, 

 Curran, Wm. Brownlow, the Beresfords, &c. &c. 

 are portrayed in language as elegant and as elo- 

 quent as those grand and original models could 

 in the luxuriance of imagination have adopted. I 

 trust some reader of " N. & Q." will, for the 

 honour of Ireland, favour us with sonie memoir 

 of this illustrious author. 2. 2. 



Bonaventures Works (2""* S. viii. 128. 178.) — 

 A complete list will be found in Darling's Cyclo- 

 padia Bihliographica (Authors), article Bona- 



VENTURE. D. (1.) 



''Rire jaune" (2"^ S. vii. 172.)— The following 

 passage may be added to the illustrations of this 

 phrase given in a previous volume : — 



" Rire jaune comme safran, se dit par antiphrase pour 

 signifier qu'on n'a gufere envie de rire." — Diet. Comiqiie, 

 in Safran. 



The origin of the Greek phrase, aap56vios yeKcms, 

 which likewise denotes a forced laugh, is equally 

 obscure. See the curious collection of etymolo- 

 gical legends invented for the explanation of this 

 phrase in Zenob. v. 85., with the note In the Got- 

 tingen edition. L. 



Sir Peter Gleane (2"^ S. viii. 187.) — Sir Peter 



Gleane was an eminent Norwich merchant. He 



' married Maud, daughter of Robt. Suckling, Esq., 



■ of Norwich, and was father of Thomas Gleane, 



'' and grandfather of Peter Gleane, M.P. for Nor- 



wich, who was created a baronet March 6, 1665-6. 

 (See Burke's Extinct Baronetage.') 



C. J. Robinson. 

 Captain Cobb (2"" S. viii. 169.) — When I was 

 in the 31st Regiment quartered at Walmer in 

 1847, I remember Capt. Cobb of the "Kent" com- 

 ing over to see us. He is a smart little man, and 

 was at that time living at Dover. 



W. Robertson, Lt.-Col. 



CromioelVs Head (2'"^ S. vi. 495., &c.) — Cyrus 

 Redding, in his Fiftj Years' Recollections, speaks 

 of having seen this head in the possession of a me- 

 dical gentleman to whom he was given a letter of 

 introduction by Horace Smith. After relating 

 the usual story of its having been placed over the 

 entrance of Westminster Hall, blown down by the 

 wind on a stormy niglif, and picked up by the 

 sentry on duty, who had " a natural respect for 

 an heroic soldier, no matter of what party," and 

 probably slightly interested views of his own ; he. 

 goes on to tell us that the soldier " carried it to 

 the Russells, who were the nearest relations of 

 Cromwell's family, and disposed of it to them. 

 It belonged to a lady, a descendant of the Crom- 

 wells, who did not like to keep it in her house. 

 There was a written minute ektant with It. The 

 disappearance of the liead Is mentioned in some 

 of the publications of the time. It had been 

 carefully embalmed, as Cromwell's body Is known 

 to have been two yeiirS before Its disinterment. 

 The nostrils were filled with a substance like 

 cotton. The brain had been extracted by di- 

 viding the scalp. The membranes within were 

 perfect, but dried up, and looked like parchment. 

 The decapitation had evidently taken place after 

 death, as the state of the flesh over the vertebra 

 of the neck plainly showed. It was hacked, and 

 had evidently been done by a hand not used to 

 the work, for there were several cuts besides that 

 which separated the bone. The beard, of a ches- 

 nut colour, seemed to have grown after death. 

 An ashen pole, pointed with iron, had received 

 the head clumsily impaled on its point, which 

 came out an inch above the crown, rusty and 

 timeworn. The wood of the staff, and the skin 

 itself, had been perforated by the common wood 

 worm." 



The subject having been so often mentioned in 

 " N. & C^.," we may hope that Mr. Wilkinson's 

 attention will be at last directed to the various 

 articles, and that he will come forward and tell 

 us what he knows about it. Vebna. 



Tricolor Cockade (2'"- S. viii. 192.)— It appears 

 certain that the French lovolutlonists adopted at 

 first a green cockade ; but I have read, and the 

 account seems consistei>.t and most probable, that 

 this was quickly discarc'ed, from the recollection 

 that it was the livery of the Count d'Artois. In 

 adopting a few days after a cockade of blue, red. 



