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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Oenealogies wanted. — Families of Sir Francis 

 Drake and Lord Chancellor Bowes. — Can any of 

 your correspondents give me any information, or 

 direct me where to find it, about the subsequent 

 or antecedent genealogy of Sir Francis Drake, and, 

 more particularly, of Lord Bowes, Lord Chancel- 

 lor of Ireland, who died in 1767 ? Ai.tron. 



Leader, whence derived. — In conversation lately 

 with a gentleman connected with the press, the 

 assertion was made that the articles in papers 

 which are called leaders, or leading articles, were 

 so called from the practice of leading, or putting 

 leads between the lines to keep them at a distance, 

 and is not to be understood as we generally do the 

 words leading article. Can any correspondent 

 confirm this view, or mention the origin of the 

 word ? NoTA. 



Ecclesiastical Year. — A. by deed, dated Ja- 

 nuary 1650, gave certain property to the parish- 

 ioners of a parish to be applied for the benefit of 

 schools. By will, dated September 1650, he 

 vested the powers in the rector and church- 

 wardens. A dispute has now arisen between the 

 parishioners and rector which of them has the ap- 

 propriation of the property. The latter contends 

 that the will of September 1650 is prior to the 

 deed of January 1650, because that, at that time, 

 the ecclesiastical year commenced in March. 

 Query, Would the ecclesiastical year prevail, in 

 1650, in the disposition of property, or for any 

 purpose other than ecclesiastical purposes ? 



Russell Gole. 



Georgia Office. — In the Gentleman's Magazine 

 for 1735, p. 499., is announced the arrival, on the 

 24th August, of Captain Thompson, from Sa- 

 vannah in Georgia. It is added : 



" He brought with him the Spahe (or Speech) made 

 in June last by the Indian kings of Cherrikaw and 

 other nations, attended by Tomo Chacbi, and the 

 Indians who were with him in his kingdom. The said 

 Spake is curiously written in red and black, on the skin 

 of a young buffalo, and was translated into English as 

 soon as delivered in the Indian language. It contains 

 the Indian's grateful acknowledgments for the honours 

 and civilities paid to Tomo Chachi, &c. The said skin 

 is to be set in a fine gold frame, and hung up in the 

 Georgia Office at Westminster." 



Query, What is the history of this Georgia 

 Olfice, and what became of the papers and docu- 

 ments which must have been deposited there ? /*. 



Wellington. — Why did Sir Arthur Wellesley 

 choose the title of Wellington when he was raised 

 to the peerage ? E. H. A. 



Town Plough. — Can any of your readers en- 

 lighten me as to the origin, use, and discontinu- 

 ance of the " Town Plough ?" During the Com- 



monwealth, it appears that in some places the 

 parish church was made its depository ; for in 

 a parochial visitation of part of Cambridgeshire, 

 shortly after the Restoration, I find orders given 

 for its ejectment from that locality. Gastbos. 



Ziervogel. — I have a book, Dissertatio Academica, 

 de Re Nummaria ejusque in Historia Suiogothica 

 usu : cujus partem priorem .... publico eruditorum 

 examini subjicit Evaldus Ziervogel: small 4to. 

 Upsalias, 1745. 



Can any of your northern readers inform me 

 whether the second part, which should contain the 

 inscriptions of Swedish coins, and the dissertation 

 on their historical use, ever appeared ? W. H. S. 



Edinburgh. 



[The Second Part was published in 1749, the paginal 

 figures being continued from the First. Both parts 

 are frequently bound together.] 



Lovell {Robert), Pambotanologia. — A short time 

 since I picked up at a stall a copy of a work entitled 

 nANZnoPTKTOAOriA sive Panzoologicomineralogia, 

 or a Complete History of Animals and Minerals, by 

 Robert Lovell, St. C. C. Oxon., &c. : Oxford, 

 1661. In the preface to this work the author 

 refers to his Book of Plants {Pambotanologia'), 

 containing the first part of the Materia Medica, 

 and to its favourable reception by the reading 

 public. Where will I find an account of this work 

 and its contents ? Though I have made several in- 

 quiries, I can get no information about either the 

 book or its author. If it at all resembles the 

 second part of the Materia Medica (the Panzoolo- 

 gicomineralogia), it would be well worthy a perusal 

 hy those who take an interest in the medical super- 

 stitions of a past age. Who was Robert Lovell ? 

 and did he publish any other works than the 

 above ? Enivbi. 



Drogheda. 



[Robert Lovell was a native of Warwickshire, and 

 entered as student of Christ Church, Oxford, in 1648, 

 and afterwards " diverted himself with the pleasant 

 study of botany." He subsequently practised as a 

 physician at Coventry, and was buried in the Church 

 of the Holy Trinity in that city, on November 6, 1690. 

 Besides the work possessed by our correspondent, 

 Lovell was the author of Pammiiieralogicon, or an 

 Universal History of Minerals, 8vo. : Oxford, J 661 ; 

 as well as the following, the title-page of which is 

 snflficiently descriptive of its contents : IIAMBOTANO- 

 AoriA, sive Enchiridion Botanicum, or a Compleat 

 Herball, " containing the Summe of Ancient and Mo- 

 dern Authors, both Galenical and Chymical, touching 

 trees, shrubs, plants, fruits, flowers, &c., in an alpha- 

 betical order, wherein all that are not in the Physick 

 Garden in Oxford are noted with asterisks : shewing 

 their place, time, names, kinds, temperature, vertues. 



