2nd s. N" 98., Nov. 14. '57.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



387 



Lyttelton in his Dialogues of the Dead (1760) 

 makes Mercury announce them to Swift, as the 

 recent spawn of Brother Martin, in company with 

 Methodists and Moravians. In the Journal Bri- 

 tamiique for May and June, 1 752, is the following 

 note (p. 226.) on the word Hutchinson : — 



"Croira-t-on que c'est de cette E'cole qu'on a tir^ de- 

 puis peu im Professeur d'Astronomie dans cette ville, et 

 qu'un homme, qui marquoit le plus souverain mcpris et la 

 plus profonde ignorance des calculs et des Telescopes a 

 ose occuper la chaire de MacLin, et tourner en ridicule 

 les decouvertes de Newton? Le nouveau Professeur a 

 cepcndant c^de aux dameurs universelles qu'il avoit ex- 

 cit^es, et a re'signd un poste qu'il n'etoit pasne pour rem- 

 plir." 



Machin died in 1751. Who succeeded him in 

 the chair of astronomy at Gresham College ? and 

 where is the history of the occupation and resig- 

 nation to which the note alludes ? 



A. De Morgan. 



Caricature Artist. — Can any correspondent in- 

 form me who is alluded to in the following extract 

 from lladcliffe's Fiends, Ghosts, and Sprites f 



" One of our own artists, who was much engaged in 

 painting caricatures, became haunted by the distorted 

 faces he drew, and the deep melancholy and terror which 

 accompanied these apparitions caused him to commit 

 suicide." 



F. B. R. 



Sir Humphrey Gilbert: Old Song. — Can I be 

 informed where to find an old naval song, com- 

 mencing with the following verse ? 



" Sir Humphrey Gilbert was lost at sea, 

 And frozen to death was poor Willoughby ; 

 Both Grenville and Frohisher bravely fell ; 

 'Twas Monson who tickled the Dutch so well." 



F. B. R. 



Illuminated Clock. — At Havre there is an illu- 

 minated clock, the face of the dial being dark, and 

 the figures and hands of a clear golden light. 

 Can any of your correspondents explain how this 

 is effected ? It is far better than having the face 

 illuminated, with the figures and hands dark. 



Meletes. 



" Oop ;" " Mould for the Paschal:" " Hognell 

 Money:'''' '■'•Church Mark." — Can you inform me 

 through the medium of your valuable periodical 

 the meaning of the following entries, which 1 have 

 found in an old parochial book ? 



1. " Two Crosses of Oop ; " 



2. « The Mould for the Paschal ;" 



3. " Hognell Money for the use of the beam ;" 



4. " The Church Mark, or the Churchyard mark." 



The first occurs in an inventory of goods be- 

 longing to our parish church in 1509. 



The second occurs in a statement recorded by 

 the churchwardens in 1556, that they had received 

 the same from a widow. 



The third occurs in the churchwardens' ac- 

 counts of money received in 1556. 



The fourth occurs over and over again in the 

 churchwardens' accounts from 1600 to 1650. It 

 invariably stands in connexion with a statement 

 of what had been paid for repairing it. It appears 

 always to have been carpenters' work. Occa- 

 sionally it is called the churchyard mark, but 

 more often the church mark. On one occasion 

 the wardens were cited before some court (either 

 lay or ecclesiastical) in respect to the church 

 mark. Some of my friends think it must mean 

 the boundaries of the churchyard. For my- 

 self, I have doubts in that respect, because 

 there are plenty of entries for repairing the 

 fences of the churchyard, and these do not seem 

 to have the least, relation whatever to the entries 

 of repairing the churchyard mark. Again, every 

 entry is given in the singular number ; in no case 

 does it say mark*. 



If you, Sir, or any of your readers can give me 

 a solution of these difficult entries, I should feel 

 greatly obliged. W. T. 



Cranbrook. 



Irish Slaves in America, — 



" In Barber and Pimderson's History of New Haven, 

 published in 1856, among other curious advertisements 

 copied from the ' Connecticut Gazette' printed in this 

 city, is the following : — 



" * Just Iniforted from Dublin, in the brig Darby, a 

 parcel of Irish servants, both men and women, to be sold 

 cheap, by Israel Boardman, at Stamford. 



" ' New Haven, Jan. 17, 1764.' " 



From the above statement it clearly appears 

 that, within a period of one hundred years, men 

 and women have been taken from Ireland to 

 America, to be sold as slaves. This is certainly a 

 curious historical fact, requiring an elucidation 

 which I trust your Irish correspondents will give. 



w.w. 



Malta. 



Kars and General 'Williams. — Having acci- 

 dentally met with a pamphlet, headed Kars et le 

 General Williams, Reponse au Livre Bleu, par S. 

 de Zaklitschine, printed at Malta in 1856, 1 should 

 be glad if any of your correspondents could inform 

 me of the position or station the writer holds or 

 may have held, and who he is. He writes with 

 military ability, and seems to have a good know- 

 ledge of the country, the scene of action, and of 

 the events before and during the operations be- 

 fore Kars; and as his relation does not altogether 

 tally with that usually held in this country of the 

 conduct and judgment exhibited during the de- 

 fence of the place, it is reasonable to ask who the 

 author may be. Querist. 



Level of the Atlantic and Pacific. — Can you in- 

 form me upon what authority it has been stated 

 that the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific, on 

 each side of the Isthmus of Darien, are not at the 

 same level, and if this curious fact really exist. I 



