2»<« S. VIII.DKC. 3. '69.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



455 



of the r'»«"i" to be a real name : but it seems 



that th^y were real ones ; at least I can say that I 



hav^ seen them attested by the hand (I must not 



Perhaps say handwritings) of the kings wlio bore 



them. I believe that my copy was made from the 



original ; and while the words look, at first sight, 



very different, partly arising from each name 



being written as one word, there is a resemblance 



which cannot be merely accidental. I am sorry 



that my rough and hasty copy leaves me in some 



doubt about one or two letters, but I read the 



first, Saguyouquaravghta, and the second, Etawa- 



com. The fact is that on their return to their 



" native continent," they wrote, or somebody 



wrote for them, and in three cases — by grotesque 



drawings of the animals from whence, I believe, 



they derived their titles, attested — a letter to 



Archbishop Tenison, of which the following is a 



copy : — 



" May it please your Grace — 



" We being God be thanked safely arrived upon 

 our native continent cannot forgett j'our Grace and y« 

 Society's favour and kindness to us wlien in Brittain, and 

 your kind promise of providing us with missionarys to 

 be settled at a foi-t with a chappell and house for them, 

 ■which we pray your Grace and the Society not be forget- 

 full of 



" We pray that Anadagariax Col^i Nicholson may send 

 this letter. 



" We are your Graces and y-R' HonoWe Society 



" Most humble Serv*»." 

 " Boston in New England, 

 July yo 21, 1710." 



Then follow the names in writing, and the 

 graphic illustrations. One of the latter is I think 

 without doubt a tortoise ; another, I imagine, was 

 meant for a beaver ; and the third, if not a horse, 

 may be anything that could be made or mistaken 

 for one. The letter is preserved among the 

 Lambeth MSS., No. 711. 17. I see that I have 

 doubted whether it was the original or a copy; 

 but at this distance of lime I cannot recollect 

 what suggested the doubt, and it is much the 

 most probable that it is the original. Perhaps the 

 Society's archives would furnish some farther par- 

 ticulars relating to the Four Kings. S. R. M. 



DR. JOHN HEWETT. 



(2°'» S. viii. 391.) 



Two or three notices respecting Dr. Huet or 

 Hewyt appear to have escaped the notice of your 

 correspondent J. F. N. Hewett, and there is one 

 slight error in his very interesting article. The 

 petition of Lady Mary Huet should have been 

 assigned to 1659, and not 1658, as it is stated. 

 The date is properly Feb. 1658-9. 



In Burton's Diary of the Parliament from 1656 

 to 1659, under March 8th, 1658-9, we read : — 



" There was a petition of one Lady Hewet* for the life 

 of her husband. She appealed to all the lawyers and 



judges, and told them, if they said he ought to plead by 

 the law, he would, and, for not pleading, he lost his life. 

 The judges refused to act upon it; but twentv-four that 

 now sit in the other house sat." (Burton, iv. jpp. 80—1.) 



Subsequently, we meet with this entry : — 



« March 10, 1G58-9. Lady Hewett's petition, it seems, 

 was delivered to the clerk, and by some legerdemain got ' 

 off the tile. It was mgved to be produced." (76. p. 119.) 



It would seem from these extracts that Ladj 

 Mary Hewyt petitioned the House of Commons 

 against the legality of the tribunal before which 

 her husband was tried, and that her inconvenient 

 petition was lost. Whether it was ever produced 

 does not appear. Dr. Hewyt mitjht well have 

 refused to plead before the so-called " court of 

 justice." Both Whitlock and Thurloe, when 

 consulted by the Lord Protector, advised that 

 the constitutional course of a trial Ijy jury should 

 be followed. (Whitlock's Memorials, and Burton, 

 ii. 473.) Cromwell, however, preferred a court 

 composed of persons selected by himself: but be- 

 fore this illegal tribunal Hewyt refused to plead. 



By these "twenty-four" Dr. Hewyt was sen- 

 tenced to be hanged, drawn, and quartered at 

 Tyburn on Saturday the 5t.h June. The time, 

 pbice, and mode of execution were, however, 

 altered by Cromwell, and, together with Sir 

 Henry Slingsby, Hewyt was beheaded on Tower 

 Hill, on Tuesday the 8th. (Slingsby's Diary in 

 Appendix ; Burton's Diary, vol. ii. p. 473.) 



Immediately after his execution, indeed within 

 a few days of his death, appeared a small volume 

 entitled '■'•Nine select Sermons preached upon spe- 

 cial Occasions in the Parish Church of St. GregO' 

 ries by St. Paul's. By the late Reverend John 

 HewyttjD.D." * These were published from short- 

 hand notes, and a caveat was lodged at Stationers' 

 Hall against the book, and considered by the 

 Court of the Company on the 14th, only six 

 days after his execution. This small volume was 

 succeeded in the same year by another with the 

 title " Repentance and Conversion, the Fabric of 

 Salvation, Sfc, being the last Sermon preached 

 by that reverend and learned John Hewyt, D.D." 

 Published by Geo. Wild and Jo. Barwick his 

 executors. 



In 1660, Dr. Barwick, who had- attended his 

 friend on the scaffold, and to whom, just before he 

 laid his head on the block. Dr. Hewyt had given 

 a ring with the motto " Alter Aristides," went to 

 Breda to have an audience with Charles II., and 

 there presented a petition with the request "that 

 Dr. Hewit's Widow, an excellent person, might 

 be taken under his Majesty's care and protection, 

 and that her fatherless son might have some place 

 given him." From this it would seem likely that 

 he only left one son behind him. (See Barwick's 



* These extracts supply two variations in the way of 

 spelling Dr. Hewyt's name in addition to those men- 

 tioned by your correspondent. 



