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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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m my family from an immemorial date. In shape 

 it is the very reverse of a modern flat watch, being 

 an inch and a half thick, and in every respect has 

 a perfectly antique appearance. The name of the 

 milker is " John Everell, by the Maypole in the 

 Strand, London, Fo. 420." Can any reader of 

 " N. & Q." inform me of this Everell, or when 

 floruit ? or is there any work which gives an ac- 

 count of the old eminent watchmakers of London ? 

 I\Iay I also add that I have an antique gold watch, 

 of a more diminutive size, and evidently of a much 

 later period, which has an embossed allegorical 

 representation of the four seasons at the back, 

 and is inscribed "Joseph Martineau, senior, 

 London, No. 1142."? I should wish to know 

 something concerning this Martineau, Senior. 



A. 



Nicknames of American States. — In English 

 Traits Emerson says (p. 27.) : 



" I chanced to read Tacitus On the Manners of the 

 Germans, not long since, in Missouri and the heart of 

 Illinois, and I found abundant points of resemblance be- 

 tween the Germans of the Hercynian forest and our 

 Hoosiers, Suckers, and Badgers, of the American woods." 



I am told that the three words printed in 

 Italics are the nicknames given by the Americans 

 to the inhabitants of three of the states of the 

 Union (for instance, that by " Suckers " the in- 

 habitants of Illinois are meant). Can any of your 

 readers furnish me with a complete list of similar 

 nicknames in use in the United States to desig- 

 nate the inhabitants of each state ? 



Vespektilio. 



Cirencester. 



Connection of the Ancients loith America. — Can 

 any of your readers contribute inforznation as to 

 the alleged discovery of Greek or lloman remains 

 in the New World ? Some years since I read an 

 account of a Greek inscription, said to have been 

 discovered on the banks of the river La Plata. 

 Is there anything further known of it ? The same 

 question will apply also to the alleged discovery, 

 mentioned in the newspapers about a twelvemonth 

 since, of a pot of Roman coins, in the excavations 

 made for some portion of the railway on the 

 Isthmus of Darien. Henry T. Riley. 



Plague Plant. — Can any Carthusian, or other 

 naturalist, give me the natural history name of 

 i\ic plague plant, a plant so called which grows, or 

 did grow, in the grounds of the Charterhouse ? 



So far as I can recollect, it had a small yellow 

 flower ; and from the milky juice in the stem, I 

 am inclined to think that it was one of the Eu- 

 phorbiacca?. This milky juice either had, or was 

 fancied to have, a sickly smell, and it was a cur- 

 rent tradi'.iiju that it only grew on that epot, 

 owin^ its nutriment to the bodies interred there 

 during the great plague of 1348-52 ; at which 



period the grounds and square formed part of 

 Pardon Churchyard, purchased by Sir Walter 

 Manny for the burial of the dead. 



Henry T. Riley. 



Liturgical Queries. — 1 . The verse in the Veni 

 Creator beginning " Dissolve litis vincula," is 

 omitted in the Hymnarium Sarishuriense (Darling, 

 1846), and would seem to be also wanting in the 

 other English Service-books. Nevertheless the 

 longer metrical version in our Ordination Offices 

 contains a translation of it, whilst the shorter ver- 

 sion, and the two among Brady and Tate's hymns, 

 all agree in omitting it. Can any of your corre- 

 spondents explain this curious circumstance ? 



2. Is the Doxology, " Praise God from whoia 

 all blessings flow," &c., to be ascribed to good 

 Bishop Ken ? 



3. When were the stanzas from Bishop Ken's 

 " Morning and Evening Hymns " first printed 

 with the Metrical Psalms ? and who made the 

 selection ? 



4. Were Brady and Tate the authors of all the 

 " Hymns " at the end of (heir Psalms ? Quidam. 



Ayreys or Aireys of Westmorland. — Can any 

 of your heraldic correspondents give me any in- 

 formation respecting the family and arms of the 

 Ayreys or Aireys of Westmorland ? R. A. A. 



" Giles.'" — Boys commencing their classical 

 studies, attending the lowest class in the classical 

 academies of Scotland, are called gites ; and I 

 believe the same designation has clung to them 

 for a longer period than the present and two past 

 generations. At least, I find no person who can 

 inform me of the origin of the name. If you ask 

 a junior boy what class he is in, he will probably 

 answer " in the gites." Can any of your readers 

 inform me what is the origin of the term, and 

 whether it is used elsewhere ? A. G. T. 



Edinburgh. 



Which is the Quercus Bobur ? — In an early 

 Number of the P' Series I asked this question, 

 and have received no answer. It is of some 

 importance to ascertain which of the two varieties 

 of English oak is the best, and in what districts 

 each prevails. If any of your readers, at this 

 season, would look at any fine specimens of En- 

 glish oak that are probably not planted trees, and 

 make a note of the way the acorns grow, whether 

 they have stalks, or are sessile, i. e. with the 

 shortest possible stalk, one admirer of the oak 

 will be obliged to them. A. Holt White. 



St. James, Clerkemcell. — Wanted, the names 

 of the ministers of this church between the death 

 of the Rev. Dewel Poad in 1722, and the election 

 of the Rev. William Kclion, circa 1757. J. Y. 



