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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2>'<i S, V, 121., April 24. '58. 



employed as Ambassador Extraordinary in Hol- 

 land, and Plenipotentiary at the treaty of Nime- 

 guen, who, in consequence of these engagements, 

 had a licence for three years' absence. In Sep- 

 tember, 1630, he obtained another licence for the 

 same period on being sent as Ambassador Extra- 

 ordinary into Spain. 



His younger brother John, Solicitor and At- 

 torney-General, and Speaker of the Irish House 

 of Commons, was father of the First Lord Pal- 

 merston, so that the present Viscount's diplo- 

 matic and forensic talents may be considered 

 hereditary. 



I have consulted a curious and now most valu- 

 able MS. in the Library of Trinity College, 

 Dublin (F. 4. 2., — Alphabetical List of Christ- 

 ni7igs \_Marriages^ and Burials in Dublin during 

 the Seventeenth Century, in the hope of discovering 

 for B. W. P. the burial-place of Sir John Temple, 

 but in vain. This MS. however, contains several 

 notices of the Temple family, which may interest 

 your correspondent. I shall be happy to send 

 him a transcript in full, if he favours me with his 

 address ; meanwhile I subjoin a specimen : — 



"Temple, Lady Martha [wife of Sir W-".?] bur. 7. 

 Dec. 1675, St. W.[erburgh's. ] 



, Sir John and Jane, dau. of Abraham Tamer, 



M.D. [not " Kn*." as in Peerage], married 4. Aug. 1663, 

 St. Mich." 



John Ribton Garstin. 



Dublin. 



Wolfe (Gen. James) (1'' S. passim.) — In the 

 Begister of 1813, p. 591, the following anecdote 

 of this distinguished general has been recorded, 

 which the writer remarks will serve to show how 

 the celebrated Wolfe treated the recommendation 

 of his employers, and should tend to teach officers 

 in the command of expeditions the line of conduct 

 that ought to be pursued by such as have their 

 country's good more at heart than the promotion 

 of the minions of some great man in office : — 



" When the immortal General Wolfe was on his passage 

 to Canada, he showed to Admiral Saunders the ministerial 

 list of officers in his army he was expected to promote; 

 when, after observing that such was not the way to con- 

 quer countries, he tore the list to atoms, and indignantly 

 threw it into the sea." 



w. w. 



Booksellers' Signs (2""^ S. v. 130.) — My friend 

 J. M. inquires as to these : the last which I re- 

 member was the " Horace Head," Fleet Street, 

 over the shop of (I think) Mr. White, thereafter 

 occupied by Mr. C. B. Tait. M. L. 



Lincoln's Inn. 



Societe de THistoire du Protestantisme Fraufais 

 (2"* S. V. 274.) — There is no appointed London 

 agent for this society, but I have been requested 

 by the president, M. Charles Read, who is an in- 

 timate friend of mine, to answer any inquiries 

 made by correspondents in England ; and I shall 



be most happy to supply Enivri with all the 

 papers and other sources of information he may 

 require, if he will further communicate with me 

 on the subject. Gustave Masson. 



Harrow-on-the-Hill. 



Cobb at Lyme. — The query of Mb. A. Holt 

 White (2"* S. v. 258.) about the word Cobb is 

 valuable. Allow me to state that there were, 1., 

 only two cobbs, one at Swanage and that at 

 Lyme Regis. 



2. the Cob, Cobb, Cobbe at Lyme had another 

 early name — that of Conners. See " N. & Q." 

 for an answer connecting this with a Celtic deri- 

 vation as Connemara. 



In deriving words from several languages it 

 may be well to add that the Cobb was built at 

 first, as I found in the records at the Tower, de 

 maeremio et petris, of timber and rocks. G. R. L. 



Dover. 



Lilliputian Aztecs (2°'' S. v. 234.). — If F. C. B. 

 will refer to the following pages of Household 

 Words, he will find two .articles concerning these 

 " extraordinary productions," and which articles 

 will show him that these children are nothing 

 more than foreign specimens of arrested growth : — 

 vol. iii. page 95. ; vol. vii. page 573. 



Edward Charles Davies. 



London Institution. 



A Rare English Word (2"« S. v. 273.) —The 

 word andwar would surely modernise into hand 

 war ; the game of Tick-tack (Fr. trictrac), touch 

 and take, being played by hand, one law of tlie 

 game being (as at chess) if you touch a man with 

 your hand, you must play him. (Vide Blount's 

 Dictionary, 1656.) Is not andirons (hand irons) 

 a parallel word of the same genus ? 



W. J. Stannard. 



Hatton Garden. 



Hopton Family (2"'» S. Iv. 269. 377.)— I do not 

 find by Burke's Landed Gentry, that the Rev. John 

 Hopton of Canon Frome, Hereford, is descended 

 from Ralph, Lord Hopton, as stated by your cor- 

 respondent. If my information be correct. Lord 

 Hopton died s, p., and there was no connexion 

 whatever between his family and the Hereford- 

 shire Hoptons. I should be glad to hear if he 

 has anything better than hearsay evidence for his 

 opinion. C. W. B. 



Barristers^ Gowns. — I would respectfully state 

 to Lex (2""* S. v. 243.), that when I was admitted 

 in Easter Term, 1813, an attorney in the Court of 

 Common Pleas, I had to stand on the table of the 

 Court before the judges, arrayed in the gown of 

 an attorney, i. e. a gown in shape and form in 

 every respect as that of a Serjeant- at- Law, with 

 this difference, that the Serjeant's gown is of silk, 

 and the attorney's of stuff. I well remember 



