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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s. VIII. Sept. 24 '59. 



" harried in his gear and gudes " during the re- 

 ligious excitements after the victory of the Pres- 

 byterian party in Scotland, that he, a staunch 

 Nonconformist, was obliged to leave Elgin. He 

 betook himself to Edinburgh, and there, in 1670, 

 (as I understand) his son John Anderson se- 

 cundus was born ; and there, educated for the 

 church, was first presented to a parish in the gift 

 of James Duke of Montrose — I have lost my 

 " Note " of place and date, unfortunately — and 

 was afterwards minister of Dumbarton ; — his 

 son, James Anderson, minister of Rosneath, had 

 two sons, John Anderson, Professor in the Uni- 

 versity of Glasgow, and James Anderson, a cap- 

 tain in the merchant service, who sailed in the 

 West India trade. Of both these are worthy and 

 numerous descendants alive. I regret I can give 

 no more distinct information, but hope what I 

 have given may be of service to Sigma Theta. 



C. D. Lamont. 

 Greenock. 



Marat (2"^ S. viii. 52. 93. 158.)— I extract the 

 following notice of M. Marat from the Star (Glas- 

 gow newspaper) of March 4, 1793, which may 

 prove interesting to your readers, and guide your 

 correspondent G. in further researches : — 



" From an investigation lately taken at Edinburgh, it 

 is said that Marat, the celebrated orator of the French 

 National Convention, the humane, the mild, the gentle 

 Marat, is the same person who, a few years ago, taught 

 tambouring in this city, under the name of John White. 

 His conduct, while he was here, was equally unprin- 

 cipled, if not as atrocious, as it has been since his 

 elevation to the legislatorship. After contracting debts 

 to a very considerable amount, he absconded, but was 

 apprehended at Newcastle, and brought back to this 

 city, where he was imprisoned. He soon afterwards ex- 

 ecuted a summons of eessio bonorum against his creditors, 

 in the prosecution of which it was found that he had 

 once taught in the academy at Warrington, in which Dr. 

 Priestley was tutor ; that he left Warrington for Oxford, 

 where, after some time, he found means to rob the mu- 

 seum of a number of gold coins and medallions ; that he 

 was traced to Ireland, apprehended at an assembly there 

 in the character of a German count; brought back to 

 this country, tried, convicted, and sentenced to some 

 years' hard labour on the Thames. He was refused a 

 eessio, and his creditors, tired of detaining him in gaol, 

 after a confinement of several months, set him at liberty. 

 He then took up his residence in this neighbourhood, 

 where he continued aboyt nine months, and took his final 

 leave of this country about the beginning of the year 

 1787. 



"He was very ill-looked; of a diminutive size; a 

 man of uncommon vivacity ; of a very turbulent dispo- 

 sition, and possessed of a very uncommon share of legal 

 knowledge. It is said, that while here, he used to call 

 his children Marat, w^hich he said was his family name." 



I presume that the above-named Dr. Priestley 

 is the celebrated Rev. Joseph Priestley, friend 

 and correspondent of J. H. Stone, J. H. Tooke, 

 and many other British sans-culottes. Query, 

 did the Rev. Joseph Priestley communicate his 

 revolutionary doctrine to Marat, or did he imbibe 



the infection from the latter ? It is" not yet too 

 late to prove the truth or falsehood of many of 

 the accusations brought in the foregoing extract 

 against Marat. In conclusion, I will only add 

 that, supposing the accusations to be true, Marat 

 was not singular in his acquaintance with the 

 internal economy of a British prison, his confrere 

 Brissot having suffered imprisonment in this 

 country for pocket-picking; and the intimate 

 friend of the latter, La Motte, was executed here 

 for being a spy. "W* B. C. 



Liverpool. 



Ballop (2°« S. viii. 227.)—" He hath the ballop" 

 appears to be " He hath the ball up ; " the two 

 words "ball up" being run into one, and the 

 second mis-spelt, for the sale of a rhyme with 

 " wallop." On this supposition the two lines will 

 be, — 



" And gouty Master Wallop 

 Now thinks he hath the ball up." 



I am informed that " having the ball up," and 

 "getting the ball up," are phrases belonging to 

 some game resembling fives, tennis, or racket. 



G. Y. 



Scotch Genealogies (2"^ S. viii. 109.) — The 

 custom of giving to the eldest son and to the 

 eldest daughter of a marriage the respective chris- 

 tian names of their grandparents, is invariably 

 observed in the West Riding dales, and in the 

 parts of Lancashire and Westmorland bordering 

 upon those interesting localities ; as it is, I be- 

 lieve, generally in the rural districts of the 

 northern counties. Nor, as far as concerns the 

 eldest son, has it prevailed only in this portion of 

 England. The knightly predecessors of the Ba- 

 rons Stafford of Costessey Hall, for instance, were 

 for a long series of years known by the designa- 

 tions of Sir George and Sir William in alternate 

 succession. With us, the custom is extended be- 

 yond the point mentioned by your correspondent, 

 for the second son and second daughter take the 

 maternal grandfather's and grandmother's names 

 respectively, whilst those of the uncles and aunts 

 are usually exhausted before the father's or 

 mother's name is given to a child. Keeping 

 this rule in mind, it is easy to discover the degrees 

 of relationship, in the cases at least of first- 

 born children, which different members of an 

 extensive family bear to one another. I have fre- 

 quently been in a room with some half-dozen 

 first or second cousins, all having the same bap- 

 tismal name. But we marry young, are long 

 lived, and have large families, in these northern 

 dales. I have more than once seen assembled to- 

 gether the great-grandfather and great-grand- 

 mother, the grandfather and grandmother, and 

 father and mother, of the little one sitting on the 

 knee of one of them ; and last year a yeoman died 

 in this chapelry, aged only sixty-nine years, who 

 had seen seven generations of his family in the 



