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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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N». 202. — CONTENTS. 



NOTES : — Dr. John ITewett, Chaplain to Charles I., by J. F. N. 

 He*ett,39l — Scott's Novels: George Constable, 393— The Delavals, 

 394 — Cotton's " Typographical Gazetteer," by B. F. Sketchley, 395. 



Minor Notes: — The Immaculate Edition of Horace— Sir K. Digby's 

 Powder— Curious Marriage _ Lady Mayoress of York— Napoleon's 

 Escape from Elba — Catalogues, 395. 



QUERIES : —Jones of Nayland and the Rev. Geo. "Watson, by J. M. 

 Quteli,396— Portrait of a True Gentleman, 397. 



Minor Qcebiks : — Arthur Hallam's Literary Remains — Families of 

 Ross — William Forth — Slaves in England — Precedency — " The 

 Clergyman's Companion " — " The Bill of Michael Angelo" — " The 

 Castle of iEsculapius " — Boley Hill, Rochester, &c.,397. 



Minor Queries with Answers : — Bunyan'8 Burial-place and Tomb- 

 stone — Sir Horace Poole — Had Bishop Williams a Play performed 

 in liis House on a Sunday?— Pliny's Chapter on Gems and Precious 

 Stones — Public Sale of Library in 1810 — Richard Bernard, 400. 



REPLIES: — Last Wolf in Scotland, 402— The Early Editions of 

 Foxe's Book of Martyrs, by Dr. Rimbault, &e. , 40S — Italian Music in 

 England, by W. H. Husk, 401 — Efford, by R. S. Charnock, Ac, 406 — 

 Seven Dates wanted, by James Elmes, &c.,i6. 



Replies to Minor Queries: — Judge's Black Cap — Stamford Hill — 

 Do Horses tremble when they see a Camel — Original of the Faust 

 Legends — Liberavi animam meara — Duchess of Marlborough — 

 Thomas Maude — The Wren Song — Jacob Chaloner — Vulgates of 

 1482-4 — Carriage Boot — Hammer Cloth — Bulse, Stc, 406. 



DB. JOHN HEWETT, CHAPLAIN TO CHARLES I. 



An antiquarian friend, a contributor of much 

 valuable matter to the pag§s of " N. & Q.," hav- 

 ing requested me to furnish him with a biogra- 

 phical sketch of this eminent martyred divine, I, 

 in endeavouring to comply with the wish ex- 

 pressed by my correspondent, having discovered 

 a considerable mass of interesting information — 

 interesting because the life of this once celebrated 

 preacher was so intimately connected with the 

 death of Cromwell, and of his favourite daughter, 

 Elizabeth Claypole ; because the tale itself com- 

 prehends the elements of a romance ; and because, 

 being the story of a Merchant Taylors' schoolboy 

 of yore who rose to eminence, it must possess in- 

 terest to all who have been educated there ; and 

 because It displays the mould in which the " po- 

 pular preacher" of bygone days was cast — and 

 every particular appearing to me equally worthy 

 of record, I did not know what to omit so as to 

 confine myself to the limit of a mere sketch, and I 

 therefore have come to the conclusion that, if the 

 Editor of " N. & Q." shall deem this Note to pos- 

 sess sufficient public interest to entitle it to ap- 

 pear in the pages of that periodical, I cannot do 

 better than to submit the compilation for publi- 

 cation ; by which means I afford my correspon- 

 dent an opportunity to select and abridge for 

 himself, and add the paper to my former contri- 

 butions (2"<i S. vi. 246. 294. 331. 465.) relating to 

 the Hewett family. 



John Huet, Hewit, Hewyt, or Hewett — as the 

 same name was in early times variously spelled — 

 was the son of " Thomas Hewitt of Eccles, Lane," 

 as appears by an Inscription on his portrait in the 



family gallery belonging to Wm. J. Legh, Esq.,* 

 Lyme Park, Disley Stockport, Cheshire, men- 

 tioned by Lysons, Mag. Brit. (1818), vol. ii. part 

 II., and in Ormerod's Cheshire ; but with regard 

 to his paternity, although I have carefully searched 

 every available record, and though I find, among 

 Eccles. Par. Reg. and transcripts, that a Thomas 

 Hewett, Hewitt, or Huet (as the name of the same 

 Individual is given) did exist about the period 

 that would entitle him to be considered the father 

 of this John, and that he had several children, 

 yet I am unable to discover among the entries re- 

 lating to his progeny the registry of the baptism 

 of this the future divine. However, the discrep- 

 ancy may be accounted for by the Infamous man- 

 ner In which these invaluable records have been 

 mutilated and maltreated, and the irregularity 

 with which transcripts were sent In, and the cul- 

 pable carelessness with which, when transmitted, 

 they have been treated : nevertheless, I learn from 

 the Rev. C. J. Robinson that, among the registers 

 of persons educated at Merchant Taylors' School, 

 his name — Identified in the manner the reader 

 will presently perceive — occurs, and that It states 

 he was born Srd Jan. 1604. The Thomas Huet, 

 or Hewitt, of Eccles, who must have been his 

 father, appears to have followed the trade, so com- 

 monly adopted by the cadets of the house of that 

 name, that of the Clothworkers ; and as this seems 

 to have been the " family profession," we may 

 justly assume, taking into consideration other evi- 

 dence to be adduced hereinafter, he was descended 

 from the ancient family settled at Killamarch, 

 Derby, or Wales, York — both of which houses 

 sprung from the same stock — are deduced from 

 Kent, and from whom descended the Hewetts of 

 Pishiobury Hall, Herts ; Hewetts of Stretton 

 Hall, Leicester ; of Headley Hall, York ; of Bil- 

 ham Hall, York ; and of Shire- oaks Park, Notts. ; 

 the representatives of all of which were during 

 the troublesome times alike distinguished for 

 loyalty and devotion to their unfortunate or exiled 

 monarch. (Robt. Hewet, of Ampthill, Esq., sum- 

 moned before Parliament, 23rd Dec. 1641, for 

 assembling and training men for the service of 

 Charles Stuart, Jour. H. Commons, vol. I. p. 354. ; 

 Sir John Hewet, of Headley Hall and Worsely, 

 Bart., fined and imprisoned, lb. vol. iii. p. 15., 

 Jan. 10th, 1644 ; and a letter exists written by 

 Prince Rupert to Sir Thos. Hewett of Pishiobury.) 



The register of Merchant Taylors' School like- 

 wise records he was of Pemb. Coll., Camb. ; in- 

 corporated of Oxford in 1643; beheaded by 

 Cromwell, thereby identifying the individual. 



He was minister of St. Gregory's, near St 

 Paul's; and in character was "rather" (Thur- 

 loe's State Papers, vol. I, p. 712.) "a Tully than a 

 Catiline," — a man who " hath great Influence in 



* Information supplied by himself, 



