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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 244. 



Heiress of Haddon Hall (Vol. ix., p. 452.). — 

 The following is, I believe, a correct statement of 

 the contents of the vault at Bakewell Church, 

 which contains the remains of this lady and her 

 family, as the same were found by workmen em- 

 ployed on the restoration of the church. 



On the morning of the 6th October, 1841, the 

 workmen commenced the excavation on the site 

 of the monument of Sir John Manners and Do- 

 rothy Vernon his wife, at the south-east corner of 

 the Newark Chapel. Before the excavation had 

 sunk a foot, the bones of a young person, " sup- 

 posed to have been a son of the couple above- 

 named," were found without any coffin, or the 

 trace of one. The next disclosures were of traces 

 of wooden coffins, surrounding the remains of two 

 full-grown persons ; believed, from the situation 

 under the monument, to be those of the celebrated 

 Sir John Manners, and the far-famed Dorothy 

 Vernon, The head of the female was still covered 

 with hair, extremely friable ; and in it were six 

 brass pins, almost exactly resembling those now 

 in use, except that the pointing was more perfect. 

 The workmen now dug northward, and presently 

 discovered a circular jar, glazed inside, contain- 

 ing lime and a small quantity .of ashes, probably 

 the viscera of some one who had been embowelled 

 previous to interment. Passing by the lead coffin 

 of an infant, and those of two children, the exca- 

 vators next raised three skeletons ; which, from 

 their situations under the tomb, were believed to 

 be the remains of " The King of the Peak," Sir 

 George Vernon, and his two wives : were like- 

 wise found the reliquiae, supposed to be of the 

 members of the Vernon family : the cranium of 

 the first-mentioned, supposed to be the head of 

 Sir George Vernon, was described as " magnifi- 

 cent." On approaching the fine monument of 

 Sir George Manners and his family, a large lead 

 coffin was found ; the lid of which, from the head 

 to the breast, the excavators were surprised to 

 find had been ripped off, as with the sexton's 

 spade rather than the plumber's knife ; but, on 

 examining the bones, it was evident that not only 

 had the body been withdrawn, and afterwards 

 crammed hastily Into the coffin again, but that the 

 skull had been sawn through the cross direction 

 of its vertical axis, probably from some purpose 

 of clandestine surgical examination. This head 

 might have been that of the wife or daughter of 

 Sir George Manners. 



Dice were not found in the coffins. 



Fra. Mewbubn. 



Darlington. 



BarrelVs Regiment (Vol. ix., p. 544.). — I am 

 much obliged to G. L. S. for his Information in 

 answer to my Inquiry. I had arrived at the same 

 conclusion, that Colonel Rich was the " Old 

 Scourge " of Barren's regiment ; but I was unwil- 



ling to fix upon him that unenviable title without 

 some facts of severity to confirm my conclusion. 

 I believe the date of my print to be 1747, because 

 I find, what G. L. S. does not appear to have been 

 aware of, that the 4th regiment, or Barrell's, was 

 moved to Edinburgh after the battle of CuUoden, 

 and from thence to Stirling In Sept. 1747. Co- 

 lonel Rich was severely wounded at Culloden, 

 and his return to his regiment was after his re- 

 covery from his wounds. E. H. 



Sir Robert Rich, Bart., was removed In May, 

 1 756, from the colonelcy of this regiment, in con- 

 sequence of being appointed Governor of London- 

 derry, which he retained until September 3, 1774, 

 when he was dismissed from the army, and de- 

 prived of all military rank and emoluments. Can 

 any of your readers refer to the history of that 

 period, and state why he was dismissed ? I have 

 searched the Annual Register for 1774, and various 

 biographical dictionaries, In vain for an account 

 of him. A son of his was born December 24, 

 1774, but he appears to have predeceased Sir 

 Robert, as the property and title came into the 

 present family of Rich (ne Bostock) by the mar- 

 riage, January 4, 1784, of the Rev. Charles Bos- 

 tock with Mary Frances, only daughter and 

 heiress of Lieut.-Gen. Sir Robert Rich, Bart., of 

 Rose Hall, Sufiulk. Juverna. 



Asha or Asca (Vol. ix., p. 488.). — I beg to 

 forward the derivation and signification of the 

 Gothic suffix iska, the English ish, and the 

 Saxon isk; the Latin icu, as amicus, ac, as vorac; 

 Greek iko, as polemikos ; German isch, &c., with 

 reference to p. 489. 



The Sanscrit root of these suffixes is ^f, ^a, 



Identical with the base of the interrogative pro- 

 noun ka, who ? which ? It becomes In Sanscrit 

 aha, ika, and uha, and forms adjectives and nouns 



of agency. Thus, Sanscrit "SX^, sush, to be dry, 



siccari, becomes sush-ka, the adjective dry, having 

 the property or belonging to dry. The synonynae 

 in Latin is sic-cus, id. ; in Zend, hush-ka, id. ; in 

 Sanscrit, Madraka, belonging to, a native of 

 Madras ; English, a Madrasee ; Parsika, a Par- 

 see ; in Latin loquacs, loquax ; English loqua- 

 cious, having the property of speech ; in Greek 

 $oicj«oj, Phoenician, noXe/xiKoy, belonging to war ; 

 In Lithuanian degikas, an incendiary, from degu, I 

 burn ; in Gothic {rom funins, of the fire, funishas, 

 fiery ; baryiis, of a child, barnishas, childish ; old 

 Prussian, arivis, true, arwishas, veracious, verax ; 

 Sclavonic, more, the sea, ma7-e, morskyi, marine ; 

 in new High German from sterne, a star, sternig, 

 starry ; German, Franzosisch, Brittisch ; English, 

 whitish, B?-itish. All these suffixes have this mean- 



