Dec. 4. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIED 



535 



part of which declares that, ' Those that say that the 

 bodies of men shall not rise again after they are dead, 

 shall be adjudged guilty of felony, and, on complaint 

 before any two justices of the peace, be committed to 

 prison, without bail, till the next gaol-delivery for the 

 county ; and at the said gaol-delivery shall be indicted 

 for feloniously publishing and maintaining such error : 

 and in case the indictment be found, and he shall not, 

 upon his trial, adjure his said error, he shall suffer the 

 pains of death as in case of felony, without benefit of 

 clergy.' " 



Also — 



«' Be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, 

 that all and every person or persons that shall publish 

 or maintain as aforesaid any of the several errors here- 

 after ensuing, to wit — that all men may be saved; or 

 that man by nature hath free will to turn to God, &c., 

 shall be committed to prison until he shall find two 

 different securities, that he shall not publish or main- 

 tain the said error or errors any more." 



May I ask the favour of your stating in the 

 *'N. & Q." what act and cap. these quotations 

 form part of. Query : Is this not a Scotch act ; 

 and is it yet in force ? J. P. Whitfokd. 



[This Act was passed during the Commonwealth, 

 and will be found in Scobell's Acts and Ordinances of 

 Parliament, p. 149., edit. 1658, cap. 114.] 



Galwatj, '■'■the City of the Tribes." — In the news- 

 paper accounts of the late elections, Galway is 

 styled " the city of the tribes." Is this an ancient 

 title, or a mere political sobriquet of modern date ? 

 What is its meaning ? W. T. M. 



Hong Kong, Sept. 28, 1852, 



[The " Tribes of Galway " is an expression first used 

 by Cromwell's forces, as a term of reproach against the 

 natives of the town, for their singular friendship and 

 attachment to each other during the time of their 

 troubles and persecutions ; but which the latter after- 

 wards adopted as an honorable mark of distinction 

 between themselves and their cruel oppressors. These 

 tribes or families, who colonised Galway in the thir- 

 teenth century, were thirteen in number, according to 

 the following distich : 



<' Athy, Blake, Bodkin, Browne, Deane, Darcy, Lynch, 

 Joyes, Kirwan, Martin, Morris, Skerrett, French." 



See Hardiman's History of Galway, pp. 6 — 20., 4to., 

 1820, which contains a plate of the armorial ensigns of 

 these ancient families.] 



What is the etymology of 

 Rustic. 



Lack-a-daisy. 

 Lack-a-daisy ? 



[In Todd's Johnson it is explained as "a frequent 

 colloquial term implying alas ; most probably from the 

 forgotten verb lack, to blame. The expression, there- 

 fore, may be considered as blaming, finding fault with, 

 the day, on which the event mentioned happened."] 



NOTES ON THE BASFBERRY PLANTS FROM SEED 

 FOUND IN THE STOMACH OF AN ANCIENT BEITON. 



(Vol.vi., pp. 222. 328.471.) 



Being in possession of some interesting facts 

 connected with this question, I with much pleasure 

 transmit them to you, premising that they have 

 already been published by me in the Gardeners^ 

 and Farmers^ Journal for August 30th and Sep- 

 tember the 6th, 1851. 



A dentist living at Dorchester (Dorset) of the 

 name of Maclean, anxious to prosecute some scien- 

 tific inquiries bearing upon his profession as a 

 dentist, obtained permission to open a barrow in 

 the neighbourhood of that ancient town near to 

 Maiden Castle ; in which he found, at the depth of 

 thirty feet below the surface, not only the teeth of 

 ancient Britons, the chief object of his search, but 

 he also discovered, lying in what seemed to be 

 the cavity of the abdomen of a skeleton, a quantity 

 of a substance, which turned out upon investiga- 

 tion to be the seeds of raspberries. Some of these 

 seeds were planted in a pot, and placed under the 

 care of Mr. Hartwig, then employed in the gar- 

 dens at Chiswick. Four of these seeds germinated, 

 and plants were preserved and grown therefrom, 

 and which we are told are still living in those 

 gardens. Wishing to collect all the matter pos- 

 sible on this interesting subject, I wrote to my 

 friend the Rev. Wm. Barnes of Dorchester, a 

 gentleman whose knowledge and abilities require 

 no mention at my hands. His statement in the 

 following letter will, I think, place the truth of this 

 question beyond all doubt : 



" In answer to your letter, by which I find you are 

 seeking for confirmation of the account of the raspberry 

 seeds which were found some years ago in a barrow 

 near Maiden Castle by Mr. Maclean, I am very 

 happy to place at your service my small share of evi- 

 dence in his behalf. About the year 1835, and I 

 believe some few years later, Mr. Maclean was in 

 lodgings on the Corn-hill at Dorchester, and I often 

 talked with him on subjects of animal and vegetable 

 physiology, as well as on the Gaelic language, which I 

 wished to compare with Welsh, and which was his 

 mother tongue. At one time, when I was at Mr. 

 Maclean's rooms, he showed me some pieces of brownish 

 earth-like matter of rather cylindrical form, and hard 

 throughout, though, as I thought, still more hardened 

 at the surface. He pounded some of it in my presence, 

 and showed me that a large proportion of it consisted 

 of plant seeds. He told me he had found it near some 

 jaw-bones in a barrow which he had found somewhere 

 near Maiden Castle ; and that from its form, its matter, 

 and its place in the barrow, he fully believed it was a 

 portion of the contents of the colon of the man whose 

 jaw-bones he had found near it. He told me that the 

 teeth on the jaw-bones were those of an old man ; but 

 that none of them bore any tokens of caries, and were 



