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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2»« S. N» 28., JtTLT 12. 'ft 



position that she was the only child, but such was 

 not the fact, as she had a brother, James, who 

 succeeded to his father's property, as Alice did to 

 her mother's, the Bardsleys. 



The family of Leese, or Lees, have been resi- 

 dent at Alt since 1422, when Thomas de Leghes, 

 Adam de Leghes and John de Leghes held lands 

 under Sir Jolm Assheton, Bart., at Alt, Nether 

 Leghes, and Palden Leghes, Palden being consi- 

 dered an abbreviation of Palus Densata, a fen or 

 morass. 



I have this information from a carefully-com- 

 piled pedigree made by a lineal descendant of the 

 family, a physician here; but there does not appear 

 to be any connection with the family of Lee of 

 Cheshire. 



Jonathan Pickford, Esq., of Macclesfield, was 

 the lineal ancestor of Sir Joseph Radcliflfe, Bart., 

 of Mihies Bridge. K. E. 



Ashton-under-Lyne. 



Geranium (2°'^ S. i. 494.) — I have extracted 

 from The Language of Flowers, the following 

 significations of the different kinds of geranium 

 for the benefit of VV. H. P. : — 



" Scarlet Geranium 

 Ivy, ditto - 

 Nutmeg, ditto 

 Eose-scented, ditto 

 Silver-leaved, ditto 



' Comforting.' 

 ' Bridal Favour.' 

 ' Expected Meeting.' 

 ' Preference.' 

 ' Recall.' " 



Cleeicus. 



Common Place-Books (P' S. xii. 478. ; 2"'^ S. i. 

 486.) — When, in the first of the above pages, I 

 explained an improvement upon Locke's method 

 of keeping a common-place book, I did not refer 

 to the plan which Bibliothecar. Chetham. sup- 

 poses. I mentioned that the method to which I 

 referred first appeared about thirty-five years 

 ago ; but I should have said upwards of forty, for 

 one of my common-place books was kept upon 

 this improved plan forty-three years ago. What 

 I had in my mind was published as a common- 

 place book with a ruled and lettered index, and a 

 page or two of directions, explaining also the su- 

 perior advantages of this new* method. It was 

 new at the time; and if your correspondent will 

 turn again to my former communication, he will 

 see that I did not refer to any of the works which 

 he mentions, but described a plan very different. 



F. C. H. 



Popular Names of Live-stock (2°'' S. i. 416.) — 

 The very interesting paper, under the above title, 

 does not make mention of ever as a name for the 

 boar-pig. I have heard it used by the lower 

 classes in Sussex, but very rarely — and usually 

 pronounced heaver. The word is evidently de- 

 rived from the German or Saxon eber, a boar ; 

 the b and v being interchangeable. 



Till I made this discovery, I was much puzzled 

 respecting the etymology of a not unusual surname 



in Sussex, pronounced in our towns Ever-shed, but 

 by the country people Ever-sed : it was undoubt- 

 edly originally Evers-hed, that is, boar's-head. 



Samuel. 

 Brighton. 



Glycerine for Naturalists (2"^ S. i. 412.) — I too 

 have been disappointed in glycerine. But if 

 I. M. 4. wishes to be successful, let him get the 

 article direct from Price's Candle Company, Vaux- 

 hall. Much that is sold under the name is not 

 glycerine at all. Eber. 



Brighton. 



The Ducking Stool (2"-^ S. i. 490.) —With re- 

 ference to the inquiry as to the use of the duck- 

 ing stool since 1738, as a punishment for women, 

 I beg to refer to Mr. Brooke's recent work on 

 Liverpool from 1775 to 1800, in which evidence 

 will be found of the use of it in 1779, and perhaps 

 still later, by the authority of the magistrates, in 

 the House of Correction, which formerly stood 

 upon Mount Pleasant in Liverpool. 



There is yet preserved in the parish church of 

 Leominster, in Herefordshire, a moveable ducking 

 stool (upon wheels) for women, and the last time 

 that it was used was about seventy years ago, to a 

 woman of the town named Jane Corran, but often 

 called Jenny Pipes. J. R. H. 



Birkenhead, Cheshire. 



Crooked Naves (2"'' S. i. 499.) — It is some- 

 where said, that before our pious ancestors com- 

 menced the construction of a church, the first ray 

 of the rising sun was sedulously watched, and the 

 east end was then so planned as to catch, through 

 future ages, the first dawn of that light which 

 blessed and guided their early labours. 



This rule, if not fabulous or universal, may 

 have had some influence on the builders, and oc- 

 casioned that varying now sought to be explained 

 by your correspondents. 



Few of the ancient churches vary more from 

 the apparently established cu|jtiom than the noble 

 cathedral of Antwerp ; but there, for some reason 

 probably unexplained, a brazen meridian line is 

 drawn along the pavement : showing at once the 

 cardinal points, and the deviation of the building 

 from east to west. • 



If such a custom as the one above named ever 

 existed, it must have been alike applicable to the 

 enlargement, reconstruction, or the reparation of 

 churches ; and from this probability, through the 

 numerous alterations at the east end, Norwich 

 cathedral is by no means exempt. 



Henry Davenet. 



Jacob Behmen (P' S. viii. 13. 246.; ix. 151.; 

 2"" S. i. 395. 513.) —While I am as grateful as 

 any other of your correspondents can be for au- 

 thentic information relative to the Teutonic 

 theosopher and his remarkable writings, I am as 



