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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2"d S. VIII. Oct. 29. '69. 



new locality ? Or can they state whether the 

 family of Winsley did reside in Lincolnshire ? 

 There are now, I believe, no members of the 

 last-named family residing there, although there 

 are many of the other. L. W. 



HocJiabench or Aukabench. — Can any of your 

 readers oblige me with the etymology of the word 

 Hockabench or Aukabench? It is a name given 

 by the inhabitants of the village of Colerne, near 

 Chippenham, to some large old stones placed on 

 the summit of a hill commanding two extensive 

 , valleys, aiid on which the old villagers meet Sun- 

 day mornings to " discuss" village politics. 



I have carefully referred to the old Saxon roots, 

 but can find none to enable me to satisfy myself 

 either as to its derivation or corruption. 



Hubert S. Grist. 



45. Florence Street, Canonbury, N. 



Cooper Family. — What would be the most 

 likely means of ascertaining the date of birth, 

 parentage, and descent of Austin Cooper, who 

 was born at Byefleet in Surrey, in England, 

 where he had a paternal property, and wlio had 

 a son (Austin) born at Hampton Court in 1653, 

 and who, moreover, having purchased some lands 

 of one Hammond, a soldier of Cromwell, was 

 obliged, on the Restoration of Charles XL, to for- 

 feit the same ; whereupon he sold all his posses- 

 sions in England, and repaired to Ireland in 

 1661 ? Also, who the Cooper of Surrey is, men- 

 tioned in Burke's General Armory ? A. C. 



Difference in Heraldry. — The crescent is said 

 in works on heraldry to be used to distinguish the 

 second son of a family or the second branch of 

 a family. In what way, when designating the 

 second branch of a family, was the crescent in- 

 herited ? by the head of that branch, or by all the 

 members ? I find on a seal attached to the will 

 of Gov. Thomas Dudley, who died at Boston, 

 N. E., in 1652, a lion rampant with a crescent 

 for difference. He must have inherited the cres- 

 cent, if, as represented, he was the only son of his 

 father (Ciipt. Roger Dudley), and yet he does 

 not appear to luive transmitted it to his second 

 son. Gov. Joseph Dudley, who used the same 

 arms without a crescent. Metacom. 



Roxbury, U. S. 



The Earl of Clarendon. — It seems odd that the 

 enemies of this illustrious statesman, having pro- 

 cured his banishment from the kingdom, and pre- 

 vented him from corresponding or returning to 

 it, should not have raised an objection on his 

 death to his body being transported into England 

 and buried in Henry VII.'s chapel in Westminster 

 Abbey. Perhaps some of your readers may be 

 able to account for his remains being permitted 

 to receive that honour. D. S. 



Do Horses tremble when they see-a Camel? — The 

 author of Adam Bede, Blackwood, 4Lh edit. vol. i. 

 p. 68., says in reference to the "smart rap, as if 

 with a willow wand," given twice "at the house 

 door " (the death- warning of Thias Bede the 

 night he was drowned) : — 



"Adam was not a man to be gratuitously superstitious, 

 but he had the blood of the peasant in him, as well as 

 of the artizan ; and a peasant can no more help believing 

 in a traditional superstition than a horse can help trem- 

 bling when he sees a camel." 



I have italicised the latter part of the paragraph 

 on which I found my Query. Is this a fact or a 

 fiction ? The character of the work and the as- 

 sertion itself incline me to think there must be 

 some truth in it; but as I have never seen a 

 horse vis a vis with a camel, and never heard or 

 read the observation before, I thought it would 

 not be out of the line of " N. & Q." to make a 

 Query of it. George Lloyd. 



Lord Bacons SJmll. — Quaint Thomas Fuller, 

 in his Worthies., art. " Westminster," after relating 

 the burial of Sir Francis Bacon by his express 

 desire in St. Michael's Church, St. Albans, adds 



" Since I have read that his grave being occasionally 

 opened, his scull (the relique of civil veneration) was by 

 one King, a Doctor of Physick, made the object of scorn 

 and contempt; but he who then derided the dead has 

 since become the laughingstock of the living." 



Is there any foundation for this story ? and, if 

 true, was the skull of the great philosopher re- 

 stored to his tomb ? Who was the impudent 

 charlatan, Dr. King, that dared to bold this me- 

 mento mori up to ridicule ? W. J. Pinks. 



Cartmel, its Derivation : Service Silver : Gres- 

 son : Knowinge. — Dr. Whittaker, in his History 

 of Whalley Abbey, states that the above name is 

 derived from the combination of two British 

 words, Kert, signifying a camp or fortification, 

 and inell, a fell, combined, a fortress among the 

 fells. This I believe not to be the correct defi- 

 nition. I would prefer two British words, each 

 more definite than the above, viz. Cnrth., a cape, 

 ridge, or promontory, and meall, sand banks : or 

 there is another British word to offer, viz. moel, 

 bare of wood : either is appropriate, but the 

 former is certainly the more legitimate and ap- 

 plicable of the two. If your readers trace on the 

 map of England Morecambe Bay, where Cartmel 

 will be found projecting into the bay, and nearly 

 surrounded when the tide is up, by its waters and 

 its tributary rivers the Kent and Leven ; after the 

 tide recedes the scene becomes one vast desert of 

 sand extending for miles. 



The earliest account of this place is by a grant 

 of Egfrid, King of Northumbria, to St. Cuthbert, 

 when consecrated Bishop of Hexham in the year 

 685, when he then gave him " Carthmell, and all 

 in it to the Church." (See Baines' Lancas.^ vol. 



