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armorial bearings of the family to which it be- 

 longs. If I am wrong, I shall be happy to be 

 corrected by your more learned correspondents, 

 who, by doing so, will oblige Edmund Hepple. 

 131ackheddon House, Newcastle-oii-T\'ne. 



[By the following extract from a recent number of 

 The City Press, our correspondent will perceive that some 

 discussion has already arisen as to the derivation of 

 Hammer-cloth ; — 



" Hamjiek-cloth. — In one of the descriptions of the 

 procession of the sheriffs, the word ' hammock-cloth ' is 

 used in the description of the appendage to the coach- 

 man's seat. I noticed that, in your report, it was de- 

 scribed as a ' hammer-clotli.' Which is right?; On 

 referring to my coachmaker's bill, I find he enters it as a 

 ' hammock-cloth,' which, if terms in trade usage are of 

 any value, makes your phrase wrong. Nevertheless, I 

 think j'ou are right; for is it not used to conceal the 

 hammer and other tools, no longer required, which, in a 

 former state of the roads, were so often in requisition 

 upon a journey ? C. C." 



Dr. Pegge's explanation of the term (Anont/miana, 

 p. 181.) is given in some of our dictionaries, viz., that 

 " Tiie hammer-cloth is an ornamental covering for a 

 coach-box: the coachman formerly used to carry a 

 hammer, pincers, a few nails, &c., in a leather pouch 

 hanging to his box, and this cloth was devised for the 

 hiding or concealing of them from public view." There 

 is, however, another derivation which we are disposed 

 to view witii some degree of favour. The term " hamper" 

 formerly signified a box, and therefore may have been 

 applied to a coach-box, which we conceive to have been 

 properly a bo7ia fide box, a box to hold various articles 

 useful in travelling by coach. In this view of the subject, 

 a " hammer-cloth " may have been originally a "hamper- 

 cloth," i. e. a box-cloth, a cloth to cover the coach-box : as 

 we still saj', a box coat — a coat worn bj' a coachman when 

 seated on the box. See Getit. Mag. 1795, p. 1091.] 



Fishwich. — In the Kirk Sessions Records of the 

 parish of Hutton, published in the last Number- 

 of " N. & Q.," I find the following : " To Mar- 

 garet Wilson in Fishwick for teaching a poor 

 schollar, &c. &c." Where is this Fishwick ? is it 

 a town, a village, or a township ? H. F. 



[Fishwick was formerly a distinct parish, but in 1C14 

 was united to Hutton, 'which lies to the north of it. 

 Fishwick is situated on the north bank of the Tweed, and 

 the ruins of the church j'et remain. It probablj' derives 

 its name from having been a fishing village. — Statistical 

 Account of Scotland, ii. 151., " Berwickshire."] 



Scavengers DaugMer. — What is the origin of 

 the term " Scavenger's Daughter," as applied to 

 an instrument of torture ? Is the term used by 

 any early writer ? if so, by whom ? H. J. D. 



[In the reign of Henry VIII. Sir William Skevington, 

 a lieutenant of the Tower, immortalised himself by the 

 invention of a new engine of torture, called Skevington's 

 Irons, or Skevington's Daughters, which was known and 

 dreaded for a century afterwards under the corrupted 

 name of the Scavenger's' Daughter. By the Commons' 

 Journal (14th May, 1604) it appears that at that time a 

 committee was appointed by the House of Commons to 

 inquire as to the state of a dungeon called " Little Ease" 

 in the Tower. The Committee reported that " they found 

 in Little Ease in the Tower an engine of torture, devised 

 by Mr. Skevington, some time lieutenant of the Tower, 



called Skevington's Daughters ; and that the place itself 

 was veiy loathsome and unclean, and not used for a long 

 time either for a prison or other cleanly purpose." This 

 instrument appears to have rolled and contracted the 

 body into a ball until the head and feet met together, 

 and forced the blood to ooze from the extremities of the 

 hands and feet, and frequently from the nostrils and 

 mouth. See a description of it in Tanner, Societas Eu- 

 roptva, p. 18., quoted in Jardine's Reading on the Use of 

 Torture in the Criminal Law of England, 1837, p. 16.] 



John Baptist Jaclison. — I should feel greatly 

 obliged if any of your correspondents could give 

 me information respecting a work with the title 

 annexed : — 



" Titiani Vecelii, Pauli Caliarii, et Jacobi de Ponte, 

 Opera selectiora, a Joanne Baptista Jackson Anglo, Signo 

 Ccelata et Coloribus adumbrata. Venitiis, apud J. Bap- 

 tistam Pasquali, 1745." 



R. W. B. 



[This is the principal work of John Baptist Jackson, 

 of Battersea, an English engraver on wood. Early in 

 life he went to Paris, and worked some time for Papillon, 

 but not meeting with much encouragement, he went to 

 Venice, where he executed several wooden cuts in imita- 

 tion of the drawings of the great masters with consider- 

 able success. He also engraved several book ornaments 

 and vignettes. Among his single prints is a Descent 

 from the Cross, after Rembrandt, executed in a very 

 spirited style ; but his celebrated work is the one noticed 

 by our coiTespondenf, comprising a set of seventeen large 

 cuts- in chiar-oscuro, and published at Venice in 1745. 

 Consult for some notices of this work An Essay on the 

 Invention of Engraving and Printing in Cliiara- Osctiro, as 

 practised by Albert Durer, Hugo di Carpi, &c., and 

 the application of it to the making paper hangings of 

 taste, decoration, and elegance, by Mr. Jackson of Bat- 

 tersea, illustrated with Prints in proper Colours. 4to. 

 1754.] 



" An Help vnto Deuocion." — Can any of the 

 readers of " N. & Q." inform me who was the 

 author of a small book so named ? And whether 

 it was ever authorised by the Church as a manual 

 of private devotion ? My copy wants the title- 

 page, consequently I cannot tell when it was pub- 

 lished ; but from a prayer for the King Charles, 

 and also for the Prince Charles, it must have 

 been during the reign of Charles I. My copy is 

 printed in what I presume is old English cha- 

 racter, all except the running-title at the head of 

 the page. Is this style of printing common in 

 books of that period ? D. 



[Our correspondent seems to possess an imperfect copy 

 of A Hdpe vnto Deuotion, by Samuel Hieron, Vicar of 

 Modbury in Devonshire, who died in 1G17. This work 

 was favourably received, for we have before us the thir- 

 teenth edition, 1620, and the eighteenth edition, 1637. 

 Although the author adhered to the Church of England, 

 he inclined to Puritan principles^ so that it is not likely, 

 during the reigns of James I. and Charles I., that his 

 work would be " authorised by the Church." Works 

 printed in black-letter were not uncommon at this pe- 

 riod.] 



Ste Ampoule. — Can any of your correspondents 

 tell me what is become of the Ste Ampoule so 

 long kept at Rheims ? Was it lost or destroyed 



