2"='i S. VIII. Aug. 13. '59.] 



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137 



From these facts it would seem that there is a 

 place called Fawns in Northumberland as well as 

 in Berwickshire ; also, that we find this surname 

 in both these counties. There is a good deal of 

 information in Hodgson's Northumberland, and 

 perhaps some northern antiquary might farther 

 enlighten your correspondent B. M. B. R. S. 



Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 



" Kaiserlicher Gehronter Dichter" (2"'' S. iv. 

 491 . ; V. 52.) — Since the Query respecting " Poets 

 Laureate" was replied to in "N". & Q.," I have 

 met with an Italian work treating expressly on 

 the subject. Its title is Memorie intorno ai Poeti 

 Laureati, Milan, 1839 — the author V. Lancetti. 

 The work contains a very 'numerous catalogue, 

 beginning with Linus (" Lino, quasi contempo- 

 faneo di Orfeo, e di mille anni anteriore all' Era 

 volgare"), and terminating with 



" SOUTEY ROBERTO 

 ANNO 1813." 



The list comprises a strange jumble of names, 

 e. g-. Hesiod, Homer, Menander, Nero (bis), 

 Dante, David Scot, John Skelton, Ariosto, Tasso, 

 Cats, ^^ Johnson Beniamino,'" Dryden, Rowe, and 

 Pye. The work is in the Reading Room of the 

 British Museum, press mark 2047. d. 



Thomas Bots. 



Ilaxey Hood (2°^ S. iv. 486., v. 94.) —There is 

 an interesting account of this custom, evidently 

 written by an eye-witness, in the current number 

 of Once a Week, p. 88. I call attention to this 

 article because it differs in some respects from 

 the account given by W. H. Woolhouse. The 

 number of " boggans " are stated at thirteen, not 

 twelve, and the land left is said to be only thir- 

 teen acres instead of forty. An additional fact is 

 stated that the " boggans " do not allow the hood 

 to leave the ground in which it is first thrown up 

 till four o'clock, and the story of the origin of 

 the sport is rather different, and less probable 

 than that given by your correspondent. The 

 " smoking " seems not to be confined to the fool, 

 but is the first step in the initiation into the 

 " Honourable Company of Boggans : " the second 

 step, probably intended to counteract the evil 

 effects of the first, consists in what is technically 

 called " cobbing " the new member at the nearest 

 gate. Libya. 



Salford. 



A Pair of Gloves preferred to the Bible (2""^ S. 

 viii. 71.) — The fact of the alteration in the por- 

 trait of King Henry VIII., mentioned by Me. 

 Offor, is well authenticated. 

 . A circumstantial account of the occurrences 

 connected with it, is given in the Chronicle of 

 Queen Jane and Queen Mary, edited by Mr. J. G. 

 Nichols for the Camden Society, wherein it is 

 stated that the event happened on occasion of the 



entry of Philip and Mary into London after their 

 marriage ; and that the representation of the nine 

 worthies and Henry VIII. and Edward VI., wts 

 placed on the conduit in Gracious Street. Mr. 

 Nichols, in a note, gives a slightly varied version 

 of the story from Foxe, and adds the following 

 (from Harl. MS., 419. f. 131.), which I take to 

 be the source from which Bailey's notice, quoted 

 by Me. Offor, was obtained : — 



" This 3-eare the ix worthies at Graces church was 

 painted, and king Henry the eight emongest them, with 

 a bible in his hand, written upon it Verbum Dei : but 

 commaudement was geven immediately that it should be 

 put out ; and so it was, and a paire of gloves put in the 

 place." 



W. H. Husk. 



Brathivaite (2"* S. viii. 88.) — In the first volume 

 of Nicolson & Burn's Hist, of Westmorland and 

 Cumberland (p. 190.), is the following under the 

 head " Brathwaites of Ambleside" : — 



" IV. Thomas Brathwaite of Ambleside, son and heir 

 of James. This Thomas, in the last year of Queen Eliza- 

 beth, obtained a grant or confirmation of a^ms b}' Wil- 

 liam Segar, Norroy King of Arms on the North of Trent ; 

 setting forth — 



" ' That whereas Thomas Brathwaite of Ambleside, 

 son of James, son of Robert of the same place, who bore 

 for their ancient seals of arms (to very many old deeds 

 before him the said Norroy produced), a horn within an 

 escutcheon, having inscriptions of their name thereabout, 

 and not knowing certainly what colour the said horn or 

 shield should be, had requested him the said Norroy as 

 well to blazon and set forth the same in colours, as to 

 appoint him a crest ; therefore he, the said Norroy, grants 

 to him for his coat of aims. Or, a horn sable, with a 

 banderick of the same ; and for his crest, on a wreath of 

 his colours, a greyhound jacent argent, collared sable, 

 studded or.' 



" It is remarkable that this coat of arms is the same 

 with that of the Brathwaites in Yorkshire, which may 

 seem to argue that the horn upon the seal came from 

 that family, though these Westmorland Brathwaites at 

 that time were not aware of it. And Sir Thomas Brath- 

 waite of Warcop, great uncle to this Thomas, twenty 

 years before this had a grant and confirmation of other 

 arms, which the Brathwaites, both of Warcop and Burnes- 

 head, always bore ; and which the said grant sets forth 

 to be the ancient arras of their families, viz. Gules, on a 

 chevron argent, three cross crosslets fitchee sable." 



C. L. B. 



Ephraim Pratt (2"" S. viii. 11.)— Ephraim 

 Pratt, remarkable for longevity, the grandson of 

 John Pratt, who settled at Plymouth in 1620, 

 was born at East Sudbury, Nov. 1, 1687. At 

 the age of twenty-one he married Martha Whee- 

 lock, and before his death he could number about 

 1500 persons among his descendants. In the year 

 1801 four of his sons were living, the eldest of 

 whom was 90 years of age, and the youngest 82. 

 Michael Pratt, his son, died at S. in December, 

 1826, aged 103 years. He was always remark- 

 able for temperance. For the last sixty years he 

 had tasted no wine nor any distilled spirits, and 

 he was never intoxicated in his life. His drink 



