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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s. NO 97., Nov. 7. '57. 



" The mode of execution was never before heard 

 of In this country .... he thought no defence 

 could be set up; he was certain no legal justifi- 

 cation could." Mr. Justice Willes summed up. 

 The first point raised was " that this was an exe- 

 cution agreeable to martial law, and therefore he 

 is justified." On which the justice says, "It can- 

 not be justified according to martial law, for no 

 life can be taken away by virtue of martial 

 law, except in the heat of action, or by a Court 



Martial being held upon him If there had 



been a Court Martial, we know of no such punish- 

 ment in the European dominions; and though 

 they might aver such a custom in Africa, the pri- 

 soner had no right to do so : and I should think 

 that a Court Martial itself would have exceeded 

 its jurisdiction in inflicting it." The jury retire for 

 an hour and a quarter : *' Guilty : " " in considera- 

 tion of the wicked persons Captain Mackenzie had 

 under his command, the jury recommend him to 

 mercy." The Recorder sentences him " to be 

 hanged and dissected," remarking that "he had 

 taken upon him to exercise an authority not vested 

 in him ; an authority which his Sovereign cpidd not 

 exercise. He had condemned a man to death, un- 

 heard, unprepared, and by an extraordinary and 

 unheard-of mode of punishment in this country." 

 {Political Magazine., vol. vii., Dec. 1784, pp. 426 

 —434.) R. Webb. 



John Everard, of Clare Hall, Cambridge, B. A. 

 1600; M.A. 1607; D. D. 1619; is author of 

 " Three Bookes translated out of their Originall : 

 First, the Letter and the Life, or the Flesh and 

 the Spirit ; secondly, German Divinitie ; thirdly, 

 the Vision of God, written 1638." (MS. Univ. 

 Libr. Cambridge, Dd. xii. 68.) We trust that 

 some of your correspondents may be able to fur- 

 nish additional information as to this person, who 

 is casually mentioned in Wood's Athen. Oxon. i. 

 313. C. H, & Thompson Cooper. 



Cambridge. 



Hoods. — The subject of hoods has been re- 

 cently touched upon in "N. & Q.," (2"« S. iii. 308. 

 356. 435.) Can anyone give information as to 

 the time when the present gowns and hoods were 

 introduced into the University, or suggest what is 

 the meaning of the semicircular cut at the end of 

 the B.A. and M.A. hood, and at the end of the 

 sleeve of the Master's gown ? Oxoniensis. 



Moonlight Heat. — In a late number of The 

 AthencBum, in a review of Webster's Periodic 

 System of the Atmospheric Actions, is the follow- 

 ing remark : — 



" That the moonlight must have a great deal of heat 

 when it leaves the moon is highly probable ; that it has 



none when it reaches the surface of the earth is certain. 

 What then becomes of all the heat which it seems almost 

 certain the moonlight brings with it ? Sir John Herschel 

 thinks that it is absorbed in the upper regions of our 

 atmosphere." 



Is not this a hasty conclusion from the expe- 

 rience of our chilly English moonlights only ? 

 For in India, certainly, the moonlight nights are 

 by far the hottest. Has this fact ever been scien- 

 tifically tested ? E. E. Byng. 



Armorial. — Argent, a bend, or, between three 

 crossletts, sable (?), on the sinister side, and three 

 fieur-de-lis, on the dexter ; Crest, a lion rampant. 

 I am anxious to know to whom these arms were 

 granted. M. (1.) 



Wycherlej/s Song of Ploioden. — In Baker's His- 

 tory of Northamptonshire, I. 470., mention is made 

 of a Song of Plowden of Plowden Hall, by the 

 comic poet Wycherley. This song, however, is 

 not to be found in any of that poet's works, nor 

 even in his Posthumous Worhs, printed in folio, 

 1713. I will feel much obliged to any of your 

 contributors by pointing out to me where this 

 song is to be found. Albion. 



Medal; Clement X. — I have in my possession 

 a copper medal, nearly two inches in diameter : 

 one side has a representation of the portico of a 

 temple, with a small figure of the Virgin and child 

 on the top, round it the following inscription : 

 " Sedente . Clemente . X . Pont . Max . An. vi. 

 Anniv. mdclxxv." The reverse, " lacobus . tit . 

 ss . io . te . paulis . r. e. presb . cardrospigliosius . 

 liberianae . basil . archipresb . apervit." Could any 

 one give me any information respecting it ? 



R. W. Jacob. 



Leeds. 



Richard WrigMs Case. — In a letter from Mr. 

 Jessop to Mr. Ray, the great naturalist, written in 

 1668, and dated from Broomhall, the following 

 curious passage occurs : — 



" Richard Wright is come from London, and hath done 

 little there: only the judge hath advised him to indite 

 the man and the maid if Stephen trouble him any more. 

 This only is observable, which I was not acquainted 

 with when you was with us, that Kurlew, the foreman of 

 the jury, who, the Spirit saith, was bribed by Stones, 

 died raving mad within three days after he had passed 

 his verdict, crying out that he saw the devil, and such 

 like expressions. This is very true, for I had it from one 

 who was at his burial. The coroner also hath lingered 

 away ever since the Assizes, and died about the time 

 that Wright went to London." 



It is very unlikely that any light can be thrown 

 on this case, but the best chance of this is througli 

 the channel of your valuable work. R. W. B. 



Szeklers. — In the British Journal, No. 1, July, 

 1853, is a paper by Captain Mayne Reid, giving a 

 brief account of the Szeklers or Szchely, a people of 



