150 



Did any other numbers appear, and if so, how 

 many ? An Introduction, pp. 14, is prefixed to 

 my copy. Abhba. 



Rev. H. Hutton. — Could any of your readers 

 give me any information regarding the Rev. H. 

 Hutton, formerly of Birmingham ? I think he 

 ■was the author (besides other works) of a volume 

 oi Poetical Pieces, published at Chiswick in 1830. 



X. 



" Yend : " " Voach.^^ — What is the etymology 

 of two words much used by the labouring classes 

 in some parts of Devonshire ? They yend a stone 

 instead of throwing it, and voach on your corns 

 instead of treading on them. D. S. 



Hew Hewson, the original of Smollett^ s " Strap" 

 — I send you the following cutting from an old 

 magazine respecting this worthy : 



"In the year 1819 was interred, in the burial-ground of 

 St. Martin-in-the-Fields, the body of Hew Hewson, who 

 died at the advanced age of eighty-five. He was a man 

 of no mean celebritj-, though no funeral escutcheons 

 adorned his hearse, or heir apparent graced his obsequies. 

 He was no less a personage than the identical Hugh 

 Strap, whom Dr. Smollett has rendered so conspicuously 

 interesting in his life and adventures of Roderick Random, 

 and for upwards of forty years had kept a hairdresser^ 

 shop in the above parish. The deceased was a very intel- 

 ligent man, and took delight in recounting the adventures 

 of his early life. He spoke with pleasure of the time he 

 passed in the service of the doctor, and it was his pride, 

 as well as his boast, to say he had been educated at the 

 same seminary with so learned and distinguished a cha- 

 racter. His shop was hung round with Latin quotations, 

 and he would frequentlj' point out to his customers and 

 acquaintances the several scenes in Roderick Random per- 

 taining to himself, which had their foundation, not in the 

 doctor's inventive fancy, but in truth and reality. 



" The meeting in a barber's shop at Newcastle-upon- 

 Tyne, the subsequent mistake at the inn, their arrival to- 

 gether in London, and the assistance they experienced 

 from Strap's friend, were all of that description. He left 

 behind him an interlined copy of Roderick Random, pointing 

 out these facts, showing how far they were indebtat to the 

 genius of the doctor, and to what extent they were bottomed 

 in reality. He could never succeed in gaining more than 

 a respectable subsistence by his trade, but he possessed an 

 independence of mind superior to his humble condition. 

 Of late years he was employed as keeper of the prome- 

 nade in Villier's Walk, Adelphi, and was much noticed 

 and respected by the inhabitants who frequented that 

 place." * 



I would now make two Queries. 1 . Where was 

 Hewson's shop? 2, Is this interlined copy of 

 Roderick Random in existence, and where ? 



G. Creei). 



List of Scottish Clergymen. — I have long had 

 a wish to make up a list or catalogue of our Scot- 

 tish clergymen of every parish in Scotland, since 

 the Reformation till the present time, giving their 

 date of admission to office, time of their decease, 

 &c. Does any complete list of our parochial mi- 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2'"i S. No 86., Aug. 22. '57. 



[* See "N. &Q.» 1"' S. iii. 123.; vii. 234.] 



nisters exist anywhere ? The records of Pres- 

 byteries, Assemblies, Sessions, &c. are the only 

 sources of information on this matter with which 

 I am acquainted. Of the parishes of Berwickshire 

 I have nearly a complete list ; but I find it would 

 require a long and expensive research to finish 

 such a work from the sources now open to me ; 

 and I need regret this the less, as I have recently 

 heard that a Scottish clergyman. Rev. Hen. Scott, 

 is engaged in such a work ; and I trust that he 

 will have due encouragement given him to publish 

 it. Mentanthes. 



Sir George Leman Tuthill of Caius College, 

 Cambridge, B. A. 1794; M.A. 1809; M.L. 1813; 

 M.D. 1816, died before 1834. We hope through 

 your columns to ascertain the time and place of 

 his death. C. H. & Thompson Coopeb. 



Cambridge. 



Alderman Backwell. — The alderman was one of 

 the bankers robbed by Cbas. II. on his shutting 

 up the Exchequer. What bank of this day re- 

 presents the alderman's ? Is it Child e's ? If so, 

 when and why was the style changed ? How long 

 was Backweli's bank current by his name, and 

 who were his partners in his lifetime ? and who 

 immediately succeeded to him in it after his flight 

 to Holland ? Did he resume banking on his 

 return ? J. K. 



Bishop of Rome. — In the third volume of 

 Raikes's Journal, p. 400, after describing the 

 appearance of the Pope at a High Mass at the 

 church of Sta. Maria del Popolo, the writer goes 

 on to say : — 



" In an opposite chair was another priest in a mitre 

 also, who I found was the Bishop of Rome; he also 

 officiated at the altar." 



Perhaps some one can inform me whether this 

 distia^tion is a correct one ? and if so, how long 

 the two dignities have been held separately ? 



W. H. Wills. 



Bristol. 



Scallop Shells. — The scallop is said to receive 

 its name (Pecten Jacohoea) from the shrine of St. 

 James at Compostella; pilgrims returning from 

 whence wore a scallop-shell in their hats. Can 

 any of the contributors to "N. & Q." direct me 

 to the story which connects this shell with St. 

 James ? H. J. Buckton. 



Hull. 



"Rendered,'^ of London. — Information is re- 

 quested regarding this family, circa 16 — , sed q. if 

 ^endred is not a misprint of Pendered alias Pen- 

 drith ? In that case, what occurs under the 

 heading of the latter name in the Lansdowne MSS., 

 and the coat given to Pendrith of Kent, are known 

 to the Querist. James Knowles. 



