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S.N0 28., July 12. '56.3 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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I was acquainted, many years ago, with an old 

 clergyman, the Rev. Warren Brooks, of great re- 

 spectability. In the later part of his life he emi- 

 grated to Van Diemen's Land ; and there I have 

 understood that the old gentleman was in the 

 habit of writing himself Brook. a. fi. 



Major General Stanwix (2"^ S. i. 511.) — Gene- 

 ral Stanwix, about whom the Messrs. Cooper 

 have put a Query, is surely the person the cir- 

 cumstances of whose death gave rise to a remark- 

 able case on the question of survivorship. The 

 case is reported in the first volume of Sir Wm. 

 Blackstone's Reports, p. 640., and is thus noticed 

 by Mr. Best, in his book on Presumptions of Law 

 and Fact : 



" General Stanwix, in October, 1766, together with his 

 second wife and a daughter by a former marriage, set 

 .sail in the same vessel from Dublin to England. The 

 ship was lost at sea, and no account of the manner of her 

 perishing ever received. Upon this, the maternal uncle 

 and next of kin of the daughter claimed the effects of the 

 general, on the principle of the civil law, that, where 

 parent and child perish together, and the manner of their 

 death is unknown, the child must be supposed to have 

 survived the parent. Similar claims were, however, put 

 forward by the nephew and next of kin of General Stan- 

 wix, who moved the King's Bench for a mandamus to 

 compel the Prerogative Court to grant administration to 

 him. The rule for that purpose was, after argument, 

 made absolute, on the ground that the question of sur- 

 vivorship sought to be established could only arise under 

 the Statute of Distributions, and that the nephew, being 

 next of kin, was entitled to the administration of the 

 goods of the deceased. This case is clearly no decision as 

 to the presumption of survivorship, and the suit is said to 

 have been compromised, upon the recommendation of 

 Lord Mansfield, who said he knew of no legal principle 

 on which he could decide it." 



D.B. 



6. Pump Court, Temple. 



Translation of Camoens (2"'' S. i. 510.) — I can 

 tell B,. J. that the " Island" was a translation by 

 a now-forgotten author of the name of Thomas 

 Wade, many years subsequently known as the 

 author of one or tiro not very successful plays 

 produced at Covent Garden Tlieatre ; of a volume 

 of poems (published by Miller, of Henrietta 

 Street), with the out-of-the-way title oi Mundi et 

 Cordis Carmina ,• of a poem called Prothanasia, 

 with Moxon's name as publisher ; and whose last 

 publication, as far as I have seen, was an e.ssay or 

 "lecture," entitled What does Hamlet mean? — a 

 notice of which I remember having read in The 

 Athenoeum. I have no recollection of the merits 

 of his translation from Camoens, referred to by 

 R. J., although I certainly perused it on its ap- 

 pearance in the pages of the European Magazine. 



M. F. Z. 



J. Larking : Paper-^arh (2"^ S. 1. 433.) — Yl)ur 

 correspondent Chartophtlax has not correctly 

 fixed the date of this paper-mark. J. Larking s 

 paper-mill is situated in this parish, and was built 



by him between the years 1785 and 1790. It has 

 long since passed into other hands ; but I can 

 assert positively, from information which I pos- 

 sess, that no mill of the kind existed here previous 

 to that period, nor did J. Larking possess any 

 here or elsewhere at any time antecedent to the 

 year 1785. If it be material, I can obtain for you 

 the date of the exact year in which the mill was 

 built ; but the information given above will pro- 

 bably be sufficient for your purpose. A.. 

 East Mailing, Kent. 



The Rev. Robert Montgomery (2"'^ S. i. 521.) — 

 I for one am obliged to G. for the information 

 concerning the name of the father of the gentle- 

 man above indicated. Can G., or will Mr. Cat- 

 ling, be good enough to inform me where he was 

 christened? I am, of course, aware that Weston 

 has been mentioned ; but which Weston P for there 

 are at least a score places so named in the Clerical 

 Directory. D. 



York Service Boohs. — As York books are of 

 great rarity, I beg to send you the following note 

 as an addition to A. Mt.'s Note in 2°'' S. i. 489. 

 I have a York Horce B. Virg., which, as far as I 

 can make out, is unique. The Museum has one 

 also, but it does not contain any of the distinctive 

 services for York Saints, and consequently not 

 the following : 



" De Sancto Ricardo Scrupe Mar. et Conf." 

 " Alme Ricarde Dei martyr nostri miserere. 

 " Ut placeamus ei : fac nos peccata cavere." 

 " V. Intercede pro nobis Ricarde Beate, ut quee salu- 

 briter petimus consequamur a te." 



" Deus qui beatum et electum Martirem tuum Ri- 

 cardum prseclarse patientiae titulis in ipso suse mortis arti- 

 culo singulariter illustrasti: da nobis famulis tuis ejus 

 piis meritis et amore sic in prjesenti vivere, ut ad reterna 

 valeamus gaudia perv^enire, per Christum." 



There was a good stained glass portrait of him 

 in York Minster, but I fancy it was destroyed 

 by the fire : of this 1 am not certain. J. C. J. 



Longevity (2""^ ^ i. 452.) —The following sta- 

 tistics are worth adding to the series of Notes that 

 have appeared on longevity : 



" In 1851 there were in Lower Canada, over 100 years 

 of age, 38 persons; between 90 and 100 years, 417; be- 

 tween SO and 90, 3030 ; between 70 and 80, 11,084 ; be- 

 tween 60 and 70, 24,095. 



" In Upper Canada in the same year, there were, over 

 100 years of age, 20 persons ; between 70 and 80, 7156 ; 

 between 60 and 70, 20,267." — Canada and Her Resources^ 

 two Prize Essays, by J. Sheridan Hogan and Alexander 

 Morris, p. 114. 



K. P. D. E. 



Lees vf Alt Hill, Family of (V S. xii. 265.) — 

 The name is "Lees," and not "Lee," and the 

 " heiress " was Alice, daughter of John Lees and 

 Alice Bardsley his wife. 



The word "heiress" would induce the sup- 



