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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 244. 



Query, but would merely observe that a former 

 Number of " N. & Q." contains a Query of my 

 own, as to another Elstob family. The second 

 wife of David Mallet was a Miss Elstob, a daugh- 

 ter of a steward of the Earl of Carlisle ; she was 

 married to the poet in 1742. I have reason to 

 believe that this Elstob family resided' near New 

 Malton. After much search and inquiry, how- 

 ever, I regret that I can obtain no information on 

 this point — to me one of some interest. D. 



Leamington. 



Forensic Jocularities (Vol. ix., p. 538.) should 

 read thus : 



" Mr. Leech 

 Made a speech, 

 Impressive, clear, and strong ; 

 Mr. Hart, 

 On the other part, 

 Was tedious, dull, and long. 

 Mr. Parker, 

 Made that darker, 

 Which was dark enough without ; 

 Mr. Bell, 

 Spoke so well. 

 The Chancellor said — I doubt." 



O.B. 



Divining Rod (Vol. viii., pp. 350. 400. ; Vol. ix., 

 p. 386.). — In answer to the complaint of J. S. 

 Warden, that former correspondents did not tell 

 what was discovered in the places to which the 

 rod pointed, I am enabled, from a recent con- 

 versation with Mr. Dawson Turner, to give his 

 positive assurance that water was found in each 

 place. The lady was Lady Noel, the mother of 

 Lady Byron. The experiment took place at 

 Worlingham, where the lady had never been 

 before. The only persons present were Lady 

 Noel, Lord Gosford, Mr. Sparrow, and Mr. Daw- 

 son Turner. So far from there having been, as 

 J. S. Warden surmises, some " unconscious em- 

 ployment of muscular force," the lady showed 

 Mr, Dawson Turner her thumbs and fingers 

 much reddened and sore from the efforts she had 

 made to keep the forked stick from turning down- 

 wards. Water was found in every place to which 

 the rod in her hands pointed ; and it is well known 

 that the water at Woolwich was also found by 

 that lady in the same manner. F. C. H. 



George Herbert (Vol. ix., p. 541.). — The short 

 poem of this author, entitled Hope, turns evi- 

 dently upon matrimonial speculation ; though it 

 may well serve to show the vanity of human ex- 

 pectation in many more things. The watch was 

 given apparently to remind Hope that the time 

 for the wedding was fairly come ; but Hope, by 

 returning an anchor, intimated that the petitioner 

 must hope on for an indefinite time. The next 

 present of a prayer-book was a broad hint that 

 the matrimonial service was ardently looked for. 



The optic glass given in return showed that the 

 lover must be content to look to a prospect still 

 distant. It was natural then that tears of disap- 

 pointment should flow, and be sent to propitiate 

 unfeeling Hope. Still the sender was mocked 

 with only a few green ears of corn, which might 

 yet be blighted, and never arrive at maturity. 

 Well might the poor lover, who had been so long 

 expecting a ring as a token of the fulfilment of 

 his anxious wish, resolve in his despair to have 

 done with Hope. 



After writing the above, the thought occurred 

 to me that the poet's Ideas might be so expanded 

 as to supply at once the answer to each part of 

 the enigma. I send the result of the experiment. 



I gave to Hope a watch of mine ; but he, 



Regardless of my just and plain request, 

 An anchor, as a warning gave to me, 



That on futurity I still must rest. 

 Then an old prayer-book I did present. 



Still for the marriage service fit to use ; 

 And he in mockery an optic sent. 



My patience yet to try with distant views. 



With that, I gave a phial full of tears. 



My wounded spirit could no more endure ; 



But he return'd me just a few green ears. 



Which blight might soon forbid to grow mature. 



Ah, loiterer ! I'll no more, no more I'll bring. 

 Nor trust again to thy deceiving tale ; 



I did expect ere now the nuptial ring 



To crown my hopes, but all my prospects fail. 



F. C. H. 



French Refugees (Vol. ix., p. 516.)._ — I never 

 heard of any hospital existing In Spltalfields so 

 lately as 1789. The French Hospital in Bath 

 Street was founded about 1716, and it is there 

 that J. F. F. must look for the information he 

 wants. I have some curious MS. notes of re- 

 fugees who were relieved in London in 1686. 



J. F. F. does not appear to have seen my His- 

 tory of the Foreign Refugees, Longman, 1846 ; or 

 Welss's Histoire des Refugies Protestants, Paris, 

 1853. J- S. Burn. 



Double Christian Names (Vol. ix., p. 45.). — 

 The earliest Instance on record that I have met 

 with Is that of John James Sandilands, an English 

 Knight of Malta, who, In July 1564, was accused 

 of having stolen a chalice from the altar of a 

 church called St. Antonio, and a crucifix. Ac- 

 knowledging his guilt, he lost his habit. Vide 

 manuscript records of the Order of St. John of 

 Jerusalem. ♦^' " • 



Malta. 



Garnet, the conspirator, was an early instance 

 of an individual bearing two christian names. 

 His portrait, sold at Rome, had the inscription. 



