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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 147. 



The marriage is supposed to have taken place be- 

 tween the yeai's 1618 and 1624; perhaps during 

 Patrick's confinement as state prisoner in the 

 tower, from which he regained his liberty in 1622. 

 This lady was mother of Lady Van Dyck, who 

 was married to the great painter in 1639-40. 



Any notice or particulars concerning Lady 

 Gerrard's second man-iage with P. lluthven will 

 be most acceptable to Q. 



" To he in the wrong boxy — What is the origin 

 of this phrase ? It is of old standing. In the 

 " Communication in the Tower between Dr. Rid- 

 ley and Secretary Bourn," Foxe, vol. vi. p. 438. 

 (edit. 1838), Ridley says : 



" Sir. If you will hear how St. Augustine expoundeth 

 that place, you shall perceive that you are in a wrong 

 box." 



W. G. 



Sir Kenelm Dighy. — "When Gothurst, Bucks, 

 •was sold to the descendant of the lord-keeper 

 Wright, in 1704, portraits of Sir Kenelm Digby 

 and his wife Venetia Stanley were, according to 

 Pennant, left in the mansion. Can any reader of 

 " N. & Q." inform me where those remarkable 

 portraits are now ? T. R. Potter. 



Was Sir Kenelm Digby a Paititer? — At the 

 ^lonastery of Mount St. Bernard, on Charnwood 

 Forest, is a fine painting of St. Francis, with a label 

 inscribed " Kenelmus Digbajus pinxit, 1643." Is 

 there any evidence that this celebrated man excelled 

 in painting as he did in the other arts ? T. R. P. 



St. Mary of the Lowes, or De Lacubus. — Can 

 any of your correspondents furnish me with 

 Scott's authority for translatin^j " St. Mary of the 

 Lowes " " St. Mary de Lficubus" ? {Marmion, note 

 to introduction to second canto.) 



Should " Lowes " be proved to signify " Lake," 

 then I think we have the etymology of Lowestoft, 

 " tlie toft of the lakes," to distinguish it from Toft 

 Monks, a village a few miles off. Lowestoft adjoins 

 Lake Lothing, and the sheet of water called Mut- 

 Ibrd Broad. 



Ijowestoft is colloquially pronounced Laystoft. 

 In Forby's Vocab. of East Anglia, " lay " is ex- 

 plained " a large pond." The interchange of 

 " ow " into " ay " frequently takes place : " bow " 

 window for "bay" window; "mowe" (Percy Re- 

 liques) for " may," &c. E. G. R. 



Peleg in Germany. — Can any of your readers 

 give me information as to a tradition that Peleg, 

 the architect of Babel, having lost his speech, fled 

 from Shinar after the dispersion, and found his 

 way to some part of Germany, where he erected a 

 triansular building, in which lie dwelt, and which 

 %vas discovered in the year 553 ? A. F. B. 



Diss. 



Public Whipping of Women in England. — I 

 should like to know to how late a period the public 

 whipping of female offenders was continued in 

 England. Among some highly interesting old 

 newspaper cuttings I lately purchased of Mr. James 

 Fennell, I find the following on this subject : 



" On Wednesday the 14th, a woman (an old ofTender) 

 was conveyed in a cart from Clerkenwell Bridewell to 

 Enfield, and publickly whipped at the cart's-tail, by 

 the common liangman, for cutting down and destroying 

 wood in Endeld Cliace. She is to undergo the same 

 discipline twice more." — Public Ledger, 1764. 



Thank goodness we are not so barbarous at the 

 present day as to tolerate the flogging of a woman 

 at the cart's-tail by the common hangman. 



George Gaytuorne. 



High Wycombe. 



Henry Mortimer. — Can any of your readers in- 

 form me who was Henry Mortimer, who married 

 Lucia, daughter of Bernabo Visconti, and widow 

 of Edmund Holland, Earl of Kent ? Also, who 

 was Sir Walter Mortimer, whose heiress, Elinor, 

 married Thomas Hopton of Shropshire some time 

 about 1400 ? Also, where I can find a pedigree of 

 Sir Giles Daubeny, who by his first wife, Mary 

 Leeke, left an heiress, Jane, who tnarried Sir 

 Robert Markham, and seems by his third wife to 

 have been grandfather to Giles Lord Daubeny ? 



E. II. Y. 



Passage in Jeremy Taylor. — Can any of your 

 readers explain the following passage in Jeremy 

 Taylor's Life of Christ? — 



" I do not say that a sin against human laws is 

 greater than a prevarication against a Divine com- 

 mandment ; as the instances may hi, the distance is 

 next to infinite, and to touch the earth with our foot 

 within the octaves of Easter, or to taste flesh upon days 

 of abstinence," &c. — Buckley's edition, p. 122.' 



To what custom do the words in Italics allude ? 



W. M. K 



Locke on Romanism. — 



" Popery is not a religion at all, but a conspiracy 

 against the liberties of mankind." 

 This is attributed to John Locke. In what vo- 

 lume and page of Locke's works will the above 

 extract be found ? T. L. 



Lancashire Sayings. — I should be glad to learn 

 the meaJiing and derivation of the vulgar reply to 

 a common enough question : " What have you got 

 there?" "Layoers (lay-overs?) for meddlers." 



There is another tantalising reply to a question, 

 " Where did you get it?" 



" Where Kester (Christopher) bought his coat." 



" Where was that ? " 



" Where it was to be had." 



I believe this last to be very ancient, and shall 

 be glad to learn If it exists elsewhere than in 

 Lancashire. K. 



