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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



157 



is probably from the Saxon heg-en, to keep ; 

 German, hain, septum. The French word haie, a 

 hedge, seems pi-obably to have the same origin : 

 as also the English word hay, fodder, being the 

 produce of hained pasture. See Jamieson's Dic- 

 tionary and Supplement. 



Near the town of Selkirk is a considerable 

 estate with a large and ancient mansion, which 

 has, time out of mind, been called " The Haining." 



J. Ss. 



In Gloucestershire and Somersetshire the pas- 

 ture fields when kept unstocked with cattle for 

 mowing, or for future feed, are said to be 

 " hayned." Geo. E. Fbekb. 



Eoydea Hall, Diss. 



Halliwell (Prov. Diet.) explains this as " an in- 

 closure, a park," probably one enclosed by hays 

 or hedges. The word hay in this sense is still in 

 use in Norfolk, though growing obsolete. 



E. G. R. 



Human Leather (2"'' S. ii. 68.) — A portion of 

 the skin of a murderer named Charles Smith, who 

 was executed at Newcastle-on-Tyne, Dec. 3, 1817, 

 underwent the process of tanning, and a piece of 

 it was sold so recently as May, 1855. This oc- 

 curred at the sale of a part of the library of a well- 

 known local collector. The catalogue of the sale 

 is before me, and the lot is thus described : 



" Lot 10. A most curious and unique Book, being the 

 particulars of the Trial and Execution of Charles Smith, 

 who was hanged at Newcastle for Murder, containing a 

 piece of h's skin tanned into leather for the purpose." 



BOBEBT S. SalWON. 



Newcastle-on-Tyne. 



The tanned skin of a man's arm was exhibited 

 in Preston by a gentleman named Howift, in a 

 temporary museum got up for q, charitable pur- 

 pose in the year 1840. It was the colour of a 

 new saddle, and much resembled the " basil " so 

 much used in leather work. P. P. 



Mr. Hackwood may find much, if not all, that 

 he wants on this subject, in an interesting paper 

 by Mr. Way, in the Archceological Journal, tom. v. 

 p. 185. D. Rock. 



At the public library at Bury St. Edmunds is 

 exhibited a book bound in a tanned piece of the 

 skin of Corder the murderer. E. G. R. 



« The Tune the old Cow died of" (2°^ S. i. 375. 

 500.; ii. 39.) — Your correspondents are quite on 

 a wrong scent on this head. One quotes the old 

 nursery rhyme, *' Willie Wily had a Cow," which 

 is sung to any tune a nurse pleases ; and another 

 brings forward the Scotch words, " There was a 

 Piper had a Cow," &g., which go to the popidar air 

 known as " The Corn Rigs are bonny." The cow 

 died of no air in particular, — still less a popular 



one : " the tune the old cow died of" being merely 

 a proverbial or slang way of expressing "the music 

 is insufferably bad." P. P. 



Guano (2"^ S. i. 374.) — The late Col. Thomas 

 Sutcliffe of Burnley, author of Sixteen Years in 

 Chili and Peru (published by Fisher, 1841), be- 

 lieved himself to have introduced guano into 

 modern English husbandry. He had spoken or 

 written its praises in terms which appeared so 

 exaggerated, that the Earl of Derby (then Lord 

 Stanley) had held up him and his fertiliser tp 

 ridicule at a (I believe) Liverpool Agricultural 

 Meeting. Sutcliffe writhed under the satire, and, 

 about the year 1839 or 1840, when agriculturists 

 were raving about the new manure, and Lord S. 

 himself recommending it, he attended several of 

 the Lancashire meetings with the intention of 

 letting off a speech at bis lordship, and inquiring 

 who was the fool now ? Whether his friends 

 thought It wiser for him to keep quiet, or whether 

 the leading men would not tolerate an angry dis- 

 cussion, I cannot say ; but somehow he was always 

 deprived of his opportunity, and consequently 

 thought himself an ill-used man, who had intro- 

 duced an improvement, borne the ridicule, and 

 was not allowed to reap the praise. P. P. 



Siege of Lille (2°'> S. ii. 89.)— The names of the 

 officers killed and wounded at this siege are not 

 given in Cannon's Historical Records of the British 

 Army, and your correspondent had better consult 

 the London Gazettes of 1708. Lisle was invested 

 August 13 of that year, and Marshal Boufflers capi- 

 tulated October 25. Beatson's Militai^y Memoirs 

 only commence with the year 1727. John Dun- 

 combe served as ensign in the Coldstream Guards 

 from April 14, 1702, until his promotion to lieu- 

 tenant in the 1st Foot Guards In 1703. Richard 

 Spencer served in the Coldstream Gtfards from 

 May 11, 1704, as captain, to July 17^2, when he 

 died. These officers are not designated in Mac- 

 kinnon's History of the Coldstream Guards as the 

 sons of Peers. Juverna. 



Count Boruwlaski (2"'^ S. i. 358.) — The monu- 

 ment in memory of Count Boruwlaski, of which 

 the inscription is correctly printed in the page of 

 " N. & Q." above referred to. Is placed, not in 

 Durham Cathedral, but in the church of St. Mary 

 in the South Bailey; near which parish, in an 

 extra-parochial cottage between the city wall and 

 the river, the count lived for nearly the last 

 thirty years of his life with the Misses Ebdon, 

 daughters of the organist of that name; who, 

 along with Archdeacon Bowyer and others, had 

 interested himself in raising by subscription a 

 sum of money wherewith to purchase an annuity 

 for the little wanderer, and had afforded him an 

 asylum in his family. The inscription is not upon 

 brass, but upon Derbyshire marble ; and is sur- 



