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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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wash it out. It is regarded with the greatest 

 veneration ; and when I was there, it was pre- 

 served most carefully by never sweeping over it, 

 except with a bunch of feathers. At the time of 

 my visit, the convent was occupied by about 

 thirty-six Carmelite nuns. I had just before paid 

 a visit to the good old Abbe Barruel, who had 

 then lost the sight of one eye, and was declining, 

 but very cheerful. He spoke very highly of 

 Bishop Milner, and expressed a wish to possess 

 his Letters to a Prebendary, to which he said he 

 should give a more honourable place in his library 

 than to Bossuet's Variations. F. C. H. 



The Doleman (2"'^ S. i. 375.)— Dollman (some- 

 times Dowman) is not a very uncommon name : 

 the family appears to be originally from Yorkshire, 

 but there are branches in Herts, Berks, and Cam- 

 bridgeshire. J. K. does not say to which town 

 he alludes, or the name might possibly be traced 

 in the neighbourhood. There are several pedi- 

 grees of the name in Brit. Mus. (see Sims's Index), 

 Shaw gives the arms of a branch settled in Staf- 

 fordshire (vol. ii. p. 101.) LX. 



Oamage Family (2""^ S. ii. 48.) — The place 

 Anonymous writes " Royiode," is perhaps Coyty, 

 near Bridgend, in Glamorganshire. The castle of 

 Coyty was formerly the chief possession of the 

 family of Gamage ; and, among persons in a hum- 

 ble condition of life, in that county, the name still 

 exists. T. F. 



^'Aneroid'' (2"'» S. i. 114.) —This word, as 

 applied to the vacuum barometer, is a modern 

 coinage ; and is compounded of a, privative, and 

 the obsolete adjective vi)pbs, " humidus." The 

 motion of the index on the dial-plate of the in- 

 strument is produced by the pressure of the at- 

 mosphere upon a corrugated iron box, from which 

 the air has been exhausted. There being no fluid 

 tis»d in the construction of the barometer, it is, 

 therefore, not inaptly designated " Aneroid," i. e. 

 moistureless. John Pavin PHiiiLiPS. 



Haverfordwest. 



The Ducking Stool (2"'^ S. ii. 38.) — In a recent 

 number of " N. & Q." a correspondent from Birk- 

 enhead has mentioned the use of the ducking stool 

 as a punishment for women, in Liverpool, in 1779, 

 and perhaps much later, and has referred, as his 

 authority, to my historical work on Liverpool. 

 The fact certainly was as he has stated. That 

 barbarous and unfeeling punishment was inflicted 

 in the old House of Correction in Liverpool, at 

 least as lately as in 1779; and its constant inflic- 

 tion there is mentioned in Howard's Appendix to 

 the State of the Prisons in England and Wales, 



&258. See also the allusion to it by Mr. James 

 ield, the philanthropist, in the Gentleman's 

 Magazine of 1803, vol. Ixxiii. part 2. p. 1104. 



I may be allowed to add, that there is yet a 

 portable ducking stool, on wheels, preserved in 

 the church at Leominster, in Herefordshire, as 

 your correspondent states. I have repeatedly 

 seen it, and the last time was only in May last ; 

 and I have been informed by the worthy vicar, 

 who kindly accompanied me and pointed it out to 

 me, that about seventy years ago, it was used for 

 the ducking of a notoriously bad woman named 

 Jane Curran, but called by many " Jenny Pipes." 



Richard Brooke. 



Canning Street, Liverpool. 



"Hallow, my Fancie" (2"'' S. i. 511. ; ii. 57.) — 

 This old song is to be found in The Cabinet, a 

 (now somewhat rare) collection of tales, &c. In 

 a note is added — 



" From Watson's Choice Collection of Comic and Serious 

 Scots Poems, both Ancient and Modern, 1706, a volume of 

 uncommon rarity, where it is prefaced by the following : 



"'iVoto. — It was thought fit to insert these verses, 

 because the one half of them (viz. from this mark * * * to 

 the end) were writ by Lieutenant-Colonel Clealand, of 

 my Lord Angus's Regiment, when he was a Student in 

 the College of Edinburgh, and 18 Years of Age.' " 



The mark is at the verse beginning, " In con- 

 ceit like Phaeton," and ascribes the last nine of 

 seventeen stanzas to Col. Clealand. 



C. H. S. (Clk.) 



Dissection (2""^ S. ii. 64.) —The object of the 

 statute, 2 & 3 Will. IV. c. 75., which enacts that 

 the bodies of murderers shall not be dissected, 

 but buried in the prison, was obviously to remove 

 the prejudice against dissection, and to induce 

 persons to give their own or their relatives' bodies 

 for dissection; for the act, after reciting that 

 there is an insufficient supply of bodies for scien- 

 tific purposes, authorises the executor, or other 

 party having lawful possession of the body of any 

 deceased person, to permit the body to undergo 

 anatomical examination;" and also makes it im- 

 perative on such party to permit dissection, if the 

 deceased had expressed a wish to that effect, 

 unless the surviving relatives object. 



Prior to that act, it was unlawful to have pos- 

 session of a body for anatomical purposes ; and, 

 therefore, no person could authorise the dissection 

 of his body. It was argued, when the act was 

 proposed, that the legalisation of dissection, and 

 the removal of the infamy, would induce many 

 persons, for the sake of science, to give bodies ibr 

 dissection. Except as to paupers, the act has 

 probably failed of the object proposed ;_ and it 

 might be expedient again to legalise the dissection 

 of murderers. Eden Warwick. 



Birmingham. 



Ancient Oaths (2°'^ S. ii. 70.) — The collection 

 suggested by T. II. P. to be valuable should cer- 

 tainly be complete ; but such a collection would 

 surely be too shocking and profane for admission 



