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Old Painting of Siege of Namur. — I lately saw 

 at the house of a friend an old painting of the 

 capture of the castle and city of Naniur in 1695. 

 King William on horseback is a prominent figure. 

 I have in my possession an engraving of the same, 

 taken from a painting "once King William's, and 

 now in the hands of the Bishop of Kililare, 1743." 

 I wish to know whether the above is the original 

 painting, or whether copies of it were taken. 



Clericus. (D.) 



Village of Rivgsend. — What is the origin of 

 the name of liingsend, a village in the immediate 

 neighbourhood of Dublin ? And has the same 

 name been given to any other locality ? 



Abhba. 



Presentiments of Death. — Having been several 

 months in the Crimea during the severest period 

 of the bombardment, I can state that many cases 

 of presentiments were fulfilled ; as, also, that some 

 were falsified. There were also many deaths- 

 without any accompanying presentiment having 

 been made known. A sergeant in the Light Di- 

 vision, who was in the second boat which reached 

 the shore before the Alma, and went through all 

 the severest work up to the final storming, fre- 

 quently, in his letters home, remarked, " Some- 

 thing tells me I sliall escape ; " but, poor fellow, 

 he was hit severely in two places at the Redan. 

 In one of his letters he stated : " Many of our 

 men knew when they would fall, and prepared 

 accordingly by packing up letters and papers, and 

 leaving instructions as to sending and writing to 

 friends ; sure enough they did fall." 



Query, Can any of the numerous readers of 

 " N. & Q." add to the remarkable instances of 

 presentiments which have been fulfilled or falsi- 

 fied. Both sides should be given. R. 



Family of Hogarth. — ^^I am very anxious to 

 obtain a pedigree of the Border family of Hogarth. 

 About a century ago, this name was very common 

 on the Scotch side of the Border ; but it is now 

 comparatively scarce. Dr. Burn, in his History 

 of Westmoreland and Cumberland, mentioning 

 Hogarth the painter, says that the name originated 

 in Westmoreland. 



This I am inclined to question, because the 

 tradition on the borders is, that the Hogarths were 

 always a Scotch family ; and I have met with the 

 name in Berwickshit-e, early irl the Seventeetith 

 century. 



The Hogarths wete a tiuiJierdtls ^tid influential 

 race ; and as the Border genealogies have been so 

 well investigated, I am in hopes that sortie of 

 your readers will be able to afford me some in- 

 formation from the numerous learned works on 

 Border antiquities which have been published. 

 I am curious to know if the Hogarths are classed 

 by Mounipenny, in his iScots Chronicle, amongst 



the plundering Border clans. Burke, in his En- 

 cyclopadia of Heraldry, spells the name Howgart, 

 or Hogarth, An early example of the former 

 speHing will be very acceptable. I am also very 

 anxious to find out some record of the intermar- 

 riages of the Hogarths with the Pringles and 

 Riddles, the dates of which I have been unable to 

 discover. Any information on the above, how- 

 ever slight, will be most acceptable. 



Sigma Theta. 



Langhorne Family, — A niece of mine, whose 

 great-grandfather was the Rev. Wm. Langhorne, 

 who assisted his brother, the Doctor, in the trans- 

 lation of Plutarch, wishes to learn some parti- 

 culars of this family. What relation to the 

 Langhornes was William Wordsworth f Was not 

 Mr. Robinson, ranger of Windsor Park or Forest, 

 a relation of the Langhornes, and did not his 

 daughter marry Lord Abergave7iny ? Indeed, any 

 information will be gratifying to the lady who 

 asks for it through R, W. Dixon. 



Seaton Carew, co. Durham. 



Near-sightedness. — Can any of the readers of 

 " N. & Q." inform me of the reason, if there is 

 one, of the extreme rarity of near-sightedness 

 among the lower classes ? The higher the po- 

 sition in society, the more frequent are the cases 

 of near-sight ; and though many (for what reason 

 I never could determine) often affect the defect, 

 though they have it not, still genuine cases are 

 very common among the higher classes, and I do 

 not remember having taet with a single case 

 among the lowet ones. BelIisarius. 



M'^Turk and Williams (qy. of Flint), Families of. 

 — Is there any published or accessible MS. ge- 

 nealogy of these families ? The inquiry has mOre 

 immediate reference to a lady of the name of 

 M'^Turk, living circa 1730 — 1800, it is supposed at 

 Chester (Pepper Street), and presumed to have 

 been connected with the family of Ashtod Wil- 

 liams (qy. of Flint), and that of Walmsley of 

 Coldcoates and Eaves within Wiswall, co. Lan- 

 cashire, and of Bashall, co. York ; as also, pro- 

 bably, with that of Smith Kelsall, Esq., Cheshire. 



Investigator. 



The Fifth Crusade. • — Can any of your readers 

 inform me as to the date and circumstances of the 

 fifth Crusade ? M. E. J. 



Climate of Hastings. — Can any of your f eaders 

 tell me wtere I can find any printed meteorolo- 

 gical tables or observations telating to Hastings or 

 the immediate neighbourhood, besides those con- 

 tained in the following works : 



1. Harwood on The Curative Influence of the 

 Southern Coast of England, 1828. 



2. Btittoh's Descriptive Sketches of Tunhridge 

 Wells, 1832. 



