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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[Nov. 3. 1855. 



than three of the Round Towers in the county of 

 Kerry, and there does not seem to have been any- 

 thing peculiar in these to induce a person to write 

 a 4to. book on them, R. H. 



Conversations with Wordsworth, ^c. — Some 

 years aijo I read portions of a small volume (12ino., 

 I think) containing short records of visits to 

 Wordsworth, Coleridge, &c. I may add that the 

 book was notDeQuincey's Autobiographic Sketches. 

 Can you, or any of your correspondents, give me 

 a clue to finding out the work in question ? The 

 title was similar to that above given. 



C. Mansfield Inglebt. 



Birmingham. 



Ralph Palmer, a member of the Middle Temple, 

 was buried at Chelsea, 1715; he married Eliza- 

 beth, a sister of Dr. Baldwin Hamey, a physician 

 beyond all praise. 



Can any person tell me whether there be in ex- 

 istence any descendant or collateral of the said 

 Ralph Palmer ? I should be very thankful for 

 his or her whereabouts. H. T. Ellacombe. 



Rectory, Clyst St. George. 



Glass malleable. — In " N. & Q," Vol, xii., 

 p, 313., Mr. Buckton mentions among the lost 

 arts, that of rendering "glass malleable. What 

 evidence is there that it ever existed ? P. 



Leverington. — There is a parish in England, in 

 the county of Cambridge, called Leverington. It 

 is one mile N.N.W. from Wisbeach, has an area 

 of 7871 acres, and a population of 2143, 



Can any one tell when the parish received its 

 name, Leverington, and why it was so called ? 

 also, whether it was named in honour of any 

 family named Levering ? If so, when the Lever- 

 ings first settled in England, where they came 

 from, and are any still living there now ? 



J. G. H, 



Philadelphia. 



Beetling. — This is an epithet for cliffs, meaning 

 "overhanging." So, one with overarching eye- 

 brows is said to be "beetle-browed." What is 

 the origin of these terms ? Dr. Johnson derives 

 them " from the noun." But the noun " beetle " 

 signifies only " an insect," and " a mallet ; " and 

 it is not easy to see the connexion between these 

 terms and the epithets in question. Stylites. 



Baronies by Writ. — John Talbot, second son 

 of Richard Lord Talbot of Blackmere, married 

 Maud, eldest daughter and coheir of John Lord 

 Furnival, and was jure uxoris summoned to par- 

 liament 11 Hen. IV., and became tenant by 

 courtesy of the dignity. Many are the instances 

 where husbands of females in whom baronies 

 were vested, as daughters and heirs or coheirs of 

 their father, were formerly summoned to parlia- 

 ment jure uxoris, and sat, the dignity descending 



No. 314.] 



to the issue of such female heirs, according to the 

 laws of descent ; but is there any recognized in- 

 stance where failing issue of the femtde heir by 

 her husband, tenant by courtesy of the dignity, 

 the dignity in virtue of the writ of summons to 

 the husband has descended to, and been enjoyed 

 by the heir of the body of the husband, bv any 

 previous or subsequent wife ? S. E. G-. 



Lyttelton Family. — Particular information is 

 requested of your correspondents concerning the 

 family of Humphrey Lvttelton, Esq., who resided^ 

 at Worcester, circa 1796. His sister married into 

 a family of Smith, and his father was of King's 

 Norton, and Halesowen, in the counties of Wor- 

 cester and Salop. The information I require is 

 as follows : 



1. What was the christian name of his father, 

 and whom did he marry ? Did he leave any 

 other issue except Humphrey, and the daughter 

 above named ? and what were the names of his 

 father and mother ? 



2. Whom did Humphrey marry, and did he 

 leave any issue ? He was, I believe, descended 

 from Roger, youngest son of John Lyttelton, Esq., 

 of Frankley, ancestor of Lord Lyttelton, and I 

 want the particulars of his pedigree. A Sandys 

 Lyttelton resided at Worcester about the same 

 time. Was he any relation to Humphrey ? 



J. DOUGI-AS. 

 Best Mode of Drying Botanical Specimens. — 

 A friend of mine has lately received, at consider- 

 able cost, a box of botanical specimens from 

 Australia. Unfortunately they have been dried 

 very imperfectly, and the consequence is, that 

 a great many of the specimens are entirely de- 

 stroyed. Ordinary blotting paper, although ia 

 some cases extremely useful, is almost powerless 

 in the case of leguminous plants, and totally so in 

 that of sea-weeds. Can you or your readers in- 

 form me of any paper, or other substance easily 

 obtainable, which will answer the required pur- 

 pose of absorbing moisture, especially in the case 

 of sea-weeds ? Unskilled. 



Romney Marsh' Kent. — In. an old book, en- 

 titled The Charter of Romney Marsh, London, 

 1597,1 saw the other day, written on the fly-leaf, 

 in an antique hand, the following : " Romney 

 Marsh. H} eme mains, Estate molestus, nunquana 

 bonus, — a bad ague procured them a corpora- 

 tion." With regard to the Latin I have nothing 

 to say, sad experience testifies that there is some 

 truth in the indictment ; but I am quite at a loss 

 with regard to the English fact. I cannot hear 

 there is any tradition in the Marsh respecting 

 this explanation of the rise of their corporate 

 privileges. Cnn any of your correspondents throw 

 any light on the subject ? The peculiar institu- 

 tions of Romney Marsh are so interesting, that I 



