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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 151. 



least resemblance to the plant mentioned by 

 Milton. 



The Haemony should rather be sought for in 

 some of our old herbals, as in that of Ascham, 

 Blackwell, Copland, Culpeper, Gerard, Keogh, 

 Newton, Parkinson, Petiver, Salmon, Turner, 

 Westmacott, &c. ; to all which many of your 

 readers have probably access. G. JMuNroKD, 



East Winch. 



, MITIGATION OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT TO A 

 FOKGER. 



(Vol. vi., pp. 153. 229.) 



Your correspondent H. B. C. may be glad to 

 know that the account of this circumstance is 

 given in Pearson's Life of William Hey, Esq., 

 F.R.S. : London, printed for Hurst, Eobinson, & 

 Co., 1823. 



" Mr. H , a young man who was clerk in the 



banking-house of Messrs. Elam and Thompson, was 

 brought before Mr. Hey under the charge of forgery. 

 He was a member of a respectable family ; he had 

 fallen gradually into the pernicious habit of drinking. 

 To supply himself with money he secretly filled up 

 some of the printed bills circulated by country bankers, 

 and appropriated them to his own use. Two of these 

 notes, with the signature Elam & Co., were proved to 

 be forged, and he was accused. The evidence against 

 him was too strong to admit of contradiction, and he 

 confessed his crime. ' The order for his commitment 

 was signed; he was sent to the Leeds prison, and was 

 to be transferred on the following day to York Castle.' 

 Mr. Hey, feeling some compassion for him, gave him 

 some advice privately, and enjoined him on his arrival 

 at York, to request the visits of the Kev. William Ri- 

 chardson*, 'who informed the mayor, during a visit 



which he made to York, that H '- had sent for him 



on his first arrival at the Castle, that he had constantly 

 visited this unhappy criminal, and that he considered 

 him truly penitent and converted to God.' He was 

 tried at the ensuing assizes, found guilty, and left for 

 execution. His family and friends were deeply affected 

 by this train of mournful circumstances, ' amongst 

 whom Mr. Fawcett, afterwards Dr. Fawcett, a Baptist 

 minister, who resided near Halifax in Yorkshire, a man 

 of superior talents, and of distinguished worth and 

 piety, exerted himself with unwearied zeal and kind- 

 ness to serve him. Mr. Fawcett had published An 

 Essay on Anger in the year 1787, and by some means 

 this book had been recommended to the notice of our 

 late pious and excellent sovereign, George the Tliird. 

 His Majesty was much pleased with it ; he read it 

 through twice, and said to some of his attendants, that 

 he must make the author a bishop.' Hearing that he 

 was a Dissenter, « with that kindness and condescension 

 by whicli his majesty was so amiably distinguished, he 

 directed that Mr. Fawcett might be informed of the 



* Minister of the parish of St. Michael le Belfrey, 

 and sub-chanter or head of the vicars-choral of the ca- 

 thedral in York. 



satisfaction he had derived from perusing his essay, and 

 of his desire to bestow some token of his royal favour 

 upon him, when he should be informed how this could 

 be done most acceptably to Mr. Fawcett.' . . , ' When 

 Mr. Fawcett heard of the condemnation of the criminal, 

 and saw his pious relatives overwhelmed with distress, 

 he was much affected, and having seriously revolved 

 this affair, he formed the noble and benevolent purpose 

 of using the permission given him by his sovereign, to 



ask the life of H as the greatest kindness which 



his majesty could confer upon him,' He sent a petition 

 to the king, and a letter soon arrived conveying this 

 welcome intelligence, ' You may rest assured that his 



life is safe.' * H was transported to New South 



Wales.' Since his arrival there the governor and 

 chaplain of the colony have expressed their approbation 

 of his behaviour, and H gained so far the con- 

 fidence of the governor, that he was employed by him 

 in services of trust and importance ; and, when many 

 years had elapsed after his transportation, the llev, 

 Samuel Marsden continued to bear a favourable tes- 

 timony to his general deportment." — Life of William 

 Hey, Esq., pp. 45—57. 



Mr. Hey was elected a second time Mayor of 

 Leeds in 1801. Further information, with the 

 name of the forger, might be obtained from the 

 records at York Castle. E.. J. Allen. 



PHOTOGRAPHY APPLIED TO ARCIIiEOLOGT, AND 

 PRACTISED IN THE OPEN AIR. 



(Vol. vi., pp. 193.251.) 



The question as to the best mode of taking 

 Photographic views in the open air — a matter 

 which I agree with Mr. Thoms in thinking has 

 not been sufficiently considered or acted ujion by 

 archseologists — will probably be answered in dif- 

 ferent ways, according as the respondents are most 

 familiar with the Daguerreotype, the Talbotype, or 

 the Collodion process. 



Each of these has its peculiar advantages ; and 

 if I advocate the Collodion process, it is because 

 I think the balance of advantage is greatly in its 

 favour : and I have the authority of perhaps the 

 best Daguerreotype operator in London for saying 

 that he considers " the days of the Daguerreotype 

 are numbered." For the purpose to which A, H. R. 

 is desirous of applying Photography, the argument 

 seems greatly in favour of the Collodion process. 

 Collodion being so much more sensitive than the 

 Talbotype process, monuments, antiquities, public 

 buildings, &c. may be taken by it, when the want 

 of light would render the Talbotype process 

 almost useless. While it must be considered 

 that in proportion as the various paper processes 

 are made more sensible to light, so must they be 

 more rapidly used ; and for that purpose require 

 that there should be at hand as many chemical and 

 other requisites as would be necessary to pursue 

 the Collodion process. It is one of the great re- 



