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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 148. 



heard it was tlie " Major ;" but be would endea- 

 vour to ascertain. 



Query : Was it ever ascertained wlio the said 

 Major was ? lias any writer referred to this 

 statement of Col. Hacker, who was not unlikely 

 to know, as the warrant was a:ldressed to him, 

 and he no doubt was instrumental in giving, if he 

 did not actually give directions for that atrocious 

 act. Col. Hacker was, in 1G60, a prisoner in the 

 Tower ; what became of him '? * G. 



Tradescant. — Tn the Heralds Visitation of the 

 Count)/ of Svffolh, anno 1664, are recorded three 

 generations of a family of Tradescant of ^yenha- 

 stone : William^ Hohert, and William the grandson, 

 then a3t. thirteen. 



Query : Does any descendant exist in the 

 county of Sufiblk ? and wliat relationship existed 

 between this family and the gardener to the Hose 

 and Lily Queen ? G. 



Bisliop Butler. — Can any of the readers of 

 " N. & Q." give information as to the authorship 

 of An Inquiry concerming Faith : London. Printed 

 for John and Paul Knapton, at the Crown in 

 Ludgate Street, mdccxliv. pp. 107.? 



My copy was purchased at the sale of the li- 

 brary of the late liev. J. B. Vince, Rector of 

 Kingwood, Hants. 



On the title-page is written, " By Bishop Butler, 

 late Bishop of Durliam, author of The Analog?/" 

 and in pencil on the fly-leaf, now almost illegible, 

 " Dr. Smalridge's notes," or " Dr. Smalridge's 

 copy." 



The style is singularly like that of the great 

 author of The Analogy, and there are germs of 

 tliought which appear more fully woi-ked out in 

 that treatise and in the sermons ])reached at the 

 Rolls Chapel. But for the date (1744) it would 

 appear to be an early unacknowledged woik of 

 Bishop Butler. The Analogy was first published 

 in 1736, and the Sermons in 1726. AV. E. 



[The copy of this pamphlet in the British Museum 

 is witliout any bookseller's name, or even date, on the 

 tiile-page, and ap]iears to have been printed before a 

 jnil)lishiT was found for it, as a blank is left for the 

 name after the word " London".] 



Nickname. -^ What is the origin of Nickname ? 

 The question was asked by a child of seven years 

 old, and no one could answer him. Johnson gives 

 only nom-de-nique, French. j- 



LintoCs House, the Cross Keys, Fleet Street. — 

 Can any of your readers inform me whether the 



[* Colonel Hacker was executed at Tyburn, Oct. 19, 

 16G0. For some account of him, see The Tryall and 

 Condemnatwn of Col. Axfell, Col. llackar, and C'lpt. 

 Heiv/ef, 4io. 1C60; also George Bate's Zu-m, ^ci/ows, 

 and Execution of the Prime Actors and Principal Con- 

 trivers of lite Mardtr of Charles I., 1G61.— -En.] 



house, once the residence of Bernard Lintot, the 

 celebrated publisher, yet stands? If so, where ? 



E. BUCKIXGHAM. 



'■'■ Statuta FxonicB." — In one of Thorpe's sale 

 catalogues appeared some years ago an article 

 thus : " Statuta Antiqua Anglice, a very early MS. 

 of the fourteenth century, upon vellum, 4!o., in 

 the original binding." That volume, among other 

 important instruments, is said to have comprised 

 Statuta Exonice. Will any among your readers 

 who may be able to do so, be good enough to 

 state the dates and subjects of the statutes de- 

 signated by the above title; and as to the MS. 

 itself, where it now is, and whether it be accessible ? 



J. D. S. 



Hooping- Cough. — Is it hooping-cough or whoop- 

 ing-cough ? I remember, some years ago, hearing 

 that " once on a time" the whooping-cough was 

 very fatal in (iloucester; but some good dame 

 discovered a receipt for its cure, which proved 

 singularly efficacious (the affection was probablv 

 on the decline), and that the same was recorded, 

 for the benefit of future generations, on a mural 

 tablet in Gloucester Cathedral. Is this the case ? 



B. \{. F. 



Bath, 



Earl Comwallis. — In a recent Number of the 

 Gentleman's Magazine, it was stated that James 

 Mann, fifth Earl Cornwallis, was created JNl.A. in 

 1798, as "grandson of the late Earl Cornwallis, and 

 of kin to the King's Majesty." 



How was he of kin to George III. ? 



F. B. Reltcn. 



Epigram on Lord Palmerstm. — The annexed 

 political squib or epigram, which was current in 

 the London clubs at the time of Lord Palmerston's 

 retirement from the Cabinet, has been ascribed to 

 an eminent literary character of the Russell party. 

 Can any of your correspondents put the saddle on 

 the right horse ? 



" Never fear, my Lord John, since Palmerston goes, 

 That the j)opular breath you will catch less; 

 For, rid of that Lucifer, every one knows 

 Your Cabinet then will be match-less." 



A. B. 



Optical Curiosities. — Will some of your cor- 

 respondents give me answers to the following 

 Queries : 



I. If I stand in the sun, so that my shadow fiills 

 on the water, the entire shadow is fringed with 

 bright lines ; like the glory sometimes represented 

 round tlie head of the Saviour. 



II. When the sun shines tlu'ough intricate 

 foliage, so as to cast the shadow of the leaves and 

 branches on the ground, the interstices in the 

 shadow appear either circular or oval. 



