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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd g. NO 95., Oct, 24. '57. 



in Lancashire : the one a pilgrim wearied, the 

 other side refreshed. This has never been hung 

 up at the inn for which it was designed, and the 

 artists' names I am advised not to publish. 



Pewter Pot. 



Second Queen of Frederick I. of Prussia (2°'* S. 

 iv. 288.) — The third wife (and second queen) of 

 Frederic I. the first King of Prussia, was Sophia 

 Luisa, daughter of Frederic, Duke of Mecklen- 

 burg, in Grahau ; born May 6 th, 1685, married 

 at Schwerin, November 19, at Berlin, November 

 28, 1708. Frederic I. died half an hour after 

 twelve at noon, Feb. 25, 1713, leaving her his 

 widow without issue. Vide Anderson's Royal 

 Genealogies, table 213, p. 499., table 242., p. 535. 



P. H. F. 



^^ Singular Matrimonial Alliance'* (2°'^ S. iv. 

 225.) — A celebrated instance of a man marrying 

 his god-daughter is stated to have occurred in 

 1822. The great Norfolk agriculturist, Thos. 

 William Coke, afterwards Earl of Leicester, then 

 in his seventieth year, married his god-daughter 

 Lady Anne Keppel, then in her twentieth year. 

 She was mother of the present Earl. Whether, 

 at the time of the baptism, Mr. Coke, like Capt. 

 Cook, made a vow to marry the lady, I do not 

 know. E. G. 



Index to Baker's MSS. (2"^ S. iv. 309.) — In 

 1848 appeared the Index to the Baker Manu- 

 scripts. By Four Members of the Cambridge 

 Antiquarian Society. Cambridge : sold by Mac- 

 mlUan, Barclay, and Macmillan. London : John 

 W. Parker. In the Catalogue of MSS. in the 

 Cambridge University Library, of which two vo- 

 lumes have already appeared, that portion of 

 Baker's MSS. which he bequeathed to the Uni- 

 versity will be catalogued, and references added 

 to the publications in which any of them may 

 since have been printed. Meanwhile the Index 

 of 1848 will be found a sufficiently trustworthy 

 guide, as I can testify from constant use of it. 



J. E. B. Mayor. 



St. John's College, Cambridge. 



Degeneracy of the Human Race (2°'^ S. iv. 288.) 

 — It may interest your coi;respondent W. of Bom- 

 bay to hear that not a few of the knights at Lord 

 Egllntoun's tournament had some difficulty in 

 finding armour large enough for them to wear. 

 From what I have seen, few of the Egyptian 

 mummy-cases would contain an average-sized 

 native of the British Isles ; hut the J3thiopians 

 were a larger race than the Egyptians, their de- 

 scendants the Nubians yet surpassing the Copts 

 in size and forml The Romans and Greeks of old 

 were a shorter, slighter race than the Gauls, from 

 whom at first they shrunk in turn. The sentries 

 suffocated at Pompeii (if we may take them as an 

 average specimen of the Koman rank and file) are 



quite as short as the smallest French linesman, 

 without the broad well-set look (I judge from 

 their armour) so often observable in the latter 

 sturdy little race. To judge from the Italian 

 soldiery of Central and Southern Italy (for in the 

 North the substature of the population is rather 

 Gallic and Teutonic) they are recruited from a 

 taller, slighter, race than that which supplies the 

 French line. Such I should imagine to have in- 

 habited Greece and Italy in the olden time ; middle 

 sized and formed rather for grace and activity 

 than for remarkable feats of strength. Where the 

 modern Italians fall off from their progenitors 

 may easily be seen by an attentive observer on 

 the Pincio at Rome. Seldom will he see the 

 broad brow and firm square J£\w, so traceable in 

 the busts of the illustrious dead, amongst the Ita- 

 lians of the present day. Signet. 



Arched Instep (2°<> S. iv. 289.) — The arched 

 instep is very commonly considered a sign of race. 

 Lady Hester Stanhope used to suit her manners 

 to the insteps of her visitors, snubbing those she 

 thought inclined to be flat-feet. It is in reality 

 only the mark of a well-made man, and is essen- 

 tial for activity, no flat feet ever being admitted 

 into light infantry, rifle, or the flank companies, 

 who consequently designate the battalion-men by 

 that name. A flat foot is more decidedly sei'vile 

 than is an arched instep gentle. Signet. 



Country Midwives Opusculum (2"^ S. iv. 251. 

 295.) — Perceiving that Dr. Munk asks in " N- 

 & Q." for the inscription to the memory of Dr. 

 Willoughby in St. Peter's Church, Derby, I have 

 pleasure in forwarding it as given by Glover, as 

 follows : 



« Hie jacet corpus Percivalli Willoughby, M.D., fiUii 

 Percivalli Willoughby de Woolerton in Commitatu Not- 

 tingham, militis, obiit 2 die Octob. anno salutis 1685, 

 aetatis suae 89." 



On the slab are the arms of Willoughby, and on 

 another stone near it is an inscription to the 

 memory of Elizabeth, wife of Dr. Willoughby : 



" Hie jacet Elizabetha uxor Perciva. Willughby gen. 

 filia Francisci Coke de Trusley milit. ipsa obiit 15 Feb. 

 1666, aetatis suae 67." 



This lady was daughter of Sir Francis Coke of 

 Trusley, by, I believe, his first wife Frances, 

 daughter of Denzil Hollls, and his wife Ellen, 

 daughter of Lord Sheffield. Sir Francis Coke was 

 brother to Sir John Coke, Secretary of State. 



L: Jewitt, F.S.A. 



Derby. 



Oddities in Printing (2""^ S. ill. 308.)— The most 

 interesting specimen of the kind of book alluded 

 to by Mr. Offor, is that by Joshua Sylvester, en- 

 titled Lachrimce Lachrimarum, or, The Distillation 

 of Teares Shede For the Vntymely Death of The 

 Incomparable Prince paharetus, i. e. Prince 



