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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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William Andrew Price. — ]\Ir. Price is supposed 

 to have gone out to India as Writer under the 

 Lord Clive in 1741 ; he was afterwards consul at 

 Bombay, then governor of Surat. In this capacity 

 he died March 11, 1774. He is supposed to be of 

 the Prices near Ludlow in the county of Salop or 

 Leominster. Any particulars of his parentage 

 and family connexions would much oblige. 



J. F. C. 



Longevity. — The following is another curious 

 case of longevity of our own day, if you think it 

 worthy of insertion in " N. & Q. : " — 



" Betty Roberts, now living in L'pool, was born in 

 Northop, Flintshire, in June, 1749, or the 22nd j'earof the 

 reign of George II., and has thus attained 110 years of 

 age, and from present appearances may yet survive seve- 

 ral years. 



"Her frame, though shrunken and withered, is still 

 erect, and her gait steady, and she boasts being equal to 

 three miles an hour with the aid of a stick. Her hearing 

 and eyesight are good. She has been married, but has 

 survived her husband 36 years. Two of her four children 

 are living at 69 and 80 years of age. She attributes her 

 great length of life chiefly to simple habits, and states to 

 have never ,used intoxicating liquors. She is certainly 

 quite a prodig}'." 



Can any correspondent of" N. &. Q." verify by 

 parish registers the dates of Betty Roberts' birth, 

 or those of her children ? C. H. S. 



Altar-tomb used as a Communion Table. — At 

 Paston, Norfolk, a large marble raised tomb of 

 the sixteenth century occupies the situation of 

 and is used as a communion table. The cornice 

 at one end has been cut away, apparently to make 

 it fit into the central compartments of a modern 

 stone reredos. I know that before the lieforma- 

 tion altar-tombs were sometimes consecrated and 

 used as altars, but this is the only instance 1 have 

 met with of a similar adaptation in more recent 

 times. ExTBANEUS. 



An Etymological Query. — Between Blackheath 

 Hill and Royal Hill, Greenwich, is written up as 

 the name of the place, Maidenston Hill, In my 

 boyhood, when a telegraph stood on the point, 

 I understood it was called Madeston Hill, and 

 have often seen it so written and spelt. Will any 

 of your topographical and etymological read^i-s 

 set me right on this point ? J. E. 



One Human Speech only before the Flood with- 

 out Error. — Sir Thomas Browne, in his Vulgar 

 Errors (lib. i. c. 2 ), says " There is but one 

 speech delivered before the flood by man, wherein 

 there is not an erroneous conception." 



Dr. John Edwards, in his sermon (p. 5.) on 

 Pilate's question, "What is truth?" asks "Doth 

 not error bear date from Adam?" and admits that 

 he has not examined whether this assertion of that 

 eminent christian moralist were true ; but that it 

 is certain that mistake and falsehood entered the 

 world betimes. 



May not this proposition of the author of Beli- 

 gio Medici refer to the metrical speech of La- 

 mech on the birth of his son * Noah (Gen. v. 29.), 

 which Dr. Pye Smith has rendered both faithfully 

 and poetically. The sacred historian relates that 

 "He called his name No-ah," saying 

 " This shall comfort us 



From our labour 



And from the sorrowing toils of our hands ; 



Because of the ground 



Which Jehovah hath cursed." 



It is also exactly prophetic of Noah the deli- 

 verer. James Elmes. 



Madeston Hill, Blackheath. 



Henry Fletcher, of Clare Hall, B.A. 1569-70 ; 

 M.A. 1573; B.D. 1580; appears to have been the 

 author of commendatory verses prefixed to Row- 

 land Vaughan on Waterworkes, 1610. We shall 

 be glad of information respecting him. 



C. H. & Thompson Coopee. 



Cambridge. 



Shakspeare's Cliff. — From Stanford's Guide to 

 the Coast of Kent I learn that " on Buck's map, 

 1739, Shakespeare's Cliff appears as Arch-Cliff." 

 This, I suppose, was simply an error in the map ; 

 but how far back can the well-known name the 

 height now bears be traced as applied to it in 

 lieu of Hay Cliff, once its name ? 



R. W. Hackwood. 



Worhs on Legerdemain. — I have a book entitled 

 Hocus Pocus, or the Whole Art of Legerdemain in 

 Perfection. . . . Written by H. Dean. The 10th 

 edition, with large Additions and Amendments. 

 Glasgow. 1783, 18mo. pp. 108. In his preface, 

 Henry Dean, the author, refers to his "fofmer 

 book of Legerdemain." I am desirous of knowing 

 whether this refers to a different work or to a 

 former edition of the same work. Perhaps some 

 of your correspondents who have the first edition 

 (1622) will be kind enough to inform me whether 

 the above reference is found in that edition. Is 

 anything known of the author except what we 

 learn from his book, that he kept, " near the 

 watch-tower on Little Tower-hill, Postern-row, a 

 bookseller's shop ?" What earlier works on leger- 

 demain were published ? Metacom. 



Roxbury, U. S. 



Robert^ Fenn, of Trinity College, Cambridge, 

 B.A. 1600-1 ; M.A. as a member of King's Col- 

 lege, 1605 ; is author of verses to George Fletcher, 

 prefixed to his Nine English Worthies, 1606. Was 

 he the Sir Robert Fenne, Knt., who was created 

 LL.D. at Oxford 10th July, 1644. 



C. H. & Thompson Coopee. 



John Heath, of Middlesex, admitted pensioner 

 of Queen's College, Cambridge, 16th June, 1645 ; 



• Plj No-ab, rest, comfort, consolation. 



