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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



297 



My little pet, however, unluckily insisted upon 

 devourinji; worms larger than himself, and at last 

 fell a victim to his own voracity. 



W. J. Beenhaed Smith. 



Temple. 



See Martial, lib. iv., epigramma 30., Ad Pisca- 

 torem. J- H. L. 



Ilowland Family (P' S. xi.484.) — I have made 

 some inquiry, and believe the Rowlands of Essex 

 are extinct. One branch were landowners at 

 Dunraow and Little Canfield, and another branch 

 lived near Saffron Walden The Howlands of 

 Streatham had considerable estates in Essex. One 

 estate of theirs is my property, having been pur- 

 chased by an ancestor of mine from a Duke of 

 Bedford, who inherited it from his mother, the 

 heiress of John Howland of Streatham. My 

 great-great-grandfather, Thomas Holt, was rector 

 of Streatham ; he was related to Mrs. Howland, 

 who was a sister of Sir Josiah Child, and by her 

 he was presented to the living. 



I see Mrs. Beecher Stowe, in Dred, talks of the 

 Howlands as among the old families in the slave 

 states. A. Holt White. 



PS. The arms of Howland are given in Mo- 

 rant's History of Essex, 



Songs on Tobacco (2"'^ S. i. 320.) — In the re- 

 cent notes on these songs in " N. & Q." I do not 

 recollect seeing any notice of the spirited old 

 verses composed by Barten Holiday, in his Tex- 

 notamia, 1630, which begin thus : 



" Tobacco's a musician, 



And in a pipe delighteth, 

 It descends in a close 

 Through the organs of the nose 



With a relish that inviteth." 



In a similar strain the virtues of tobacco as a 

 lawyer, physician, traveller, critic, Ignis Fatuus, 

 and " Whiffler," arc sung ; the verses seem to be 

 additionally curious as being probably the earliest 

 ode on a weed which was, when first imported, 

 thought rather odious than odorous, and might 

 have solaced Sir Walter Raleigh under the drench- 

 ing with which, as the story goes, his servant 

 favoured him, for the purpose of "putting him 

 out" when enveloped in the smoke of his pipe. 



T. H. Pattison. 



Crooked Naves (2"-^ S. i. 158. ; ii. 276.)— There 

 are several cases in this neighbourhood where the 

 chancel and the nave of the church are at a 

 different angle: the most decided case is that 

 of Horsted Church, near Uckfield, where, to a 

 person who has the organ of perception strongly 

 developed, the appearance is almost painful. In 

 the church of Chailey, it is very obvious. 



E. W. B. 



Lewes. 



Clerical County Magistrates (1" S. xii. 494. ; 

 2""^ S. i. 18.) — I find in the Gardeners' Chronicle 

 newspaper for October 23, 1841, the following in- 

 formation, which is there declared to be " accord- 

 ing to an official statement : " 



Clerical. Lay. 



Total of England and Wales - 1354 4017 



Middlesex ----- 16 153 



York, West Riding - - - 103 311 



Kent 2 145 



Northamptonshire - - - ~ 35 49 



Sussex 189 



Herefordshire . - - - 58 97 



Lincolnshire . . - - 52 59 



Suffolk 58 98 



Northumberland - - - - 15 40 



Worcestershire - - - - 44 92 



Buckingham - - - - 54 90 



I have counted in the List of Magistrates in 

 the Pocket Books for this year that there at pre- 

 sent in — 



Clerical. Lay. 



Suffolk. 69 132 



Norfolk 65 245 



But as the numbers in Suffolk at present are so 

 much greater than those given in the official state- 

 ment, I suppose that in the statement only the 

 acting magistrates were included. 



Can any of your readers refer me to an official 

 statement of more recent date than that which I 

 have just quoted from the Gardeners' Chronicle, in 

 which you will observe forty-two entire counties 

 and two ridings of Yorkshire are omitted. 



Geo. E. Fkeeb. 



Eoyden Hall, Diss. 



Hushands authorised to beat their Wives (2""^ S. 

 ii. 108.) — Praed wrote a parody on "The Sham- 

 rock " entitled " The Crabstock ; " the burden 

 was : 



" Oh the Crabstock, the green immortal Crabstock, 

 Love bestows the useless Rose, 

 But Hymen gives the Crabstock." 



The god addressed BuUer I recollect : 



" And let thy thumb's capacious span 

 From henceforth fix its measure^' — 



not " little finger," as Henpecked supposes. 



J. H. L. 



Clarence (2"'' S. ii. 221.) — When the Archajo- 

 logical Association visited Tutbury some five years 

 since, I recollect that Sir O. Mosley related several 

 incidents connected with the captivity of Lady 

 Jane Grey ; amongst others, that she had a weekly 

 allowance of wine (I think Malmsey) for a bath. 

 It was mentioned at the time as giving a rational 

 explanation of Clarence's mysterious death. 



II. Moody. 

 Birmingham. 



Ancient Monastic Libraries (2"'' S. ii. 258.) — 

 The editor of the work named was Mr. W. A. 

 Hulton, not Milton. Lancastriensis. 



