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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s. No 116., Mae. 13. '58. 



Cainsharn, on the west bank of the river Avon, 

 about five miles above Bristol, grows wild the 

 plant percepier, peculiar to England. It has a 

 strong bitter and sharp taste, and never exceeds a 

 span in the whole year, having no stalk, but her- 

 baceous flowers. It is a powerful and quick 

 diuretic, and water distilled from it is useful in 

 many cases." In a foot-note it is said : " Mr. Ray 

 says it is not uncommon in foreign countries. 

 (Hist. Plant, iv. 14.) Nor is it uncommon in 

 England." Parsley peart, by which name this 

 species is commonly known, is probably a corrup- 

 tion of percepierre (from Gardener s Chronicle., 

 1855, p. 281.). Gerarde speaks of this plant as a 

 remedy for the stone. 



A decoction of A. vulgaris (common lady's 

 mantle) is slightly tonic ; and Hoffman and others 

 assert will restore the faded beauty of ladies to 

 its earliest freshness. The root has an unpleasant 

 smell. Geo. E. Fbebe. 



Roydon Hall, Diss. 



CromwelVs Grandson (2"^ S. v. 128.)— The 

 Richard Cromwell, married in the year 1723 to 

 Miss Thornhiil, was not the son of the Protector's 

 eldest son, but the third son of Oliver's youngest 

 son Henry. Henry Cromwell had four sons : 

 Oliver, Henry, Richard, and William. The last- 

 named Henry had eight sons, among whom was a 

 Richard; and this Richard's brother, Thomas, had 

 also a son named Richard. Of the Protector's five 

 sons, only Richard, the second Protector (Oliver's 

 third son), and Henry, his youngest, had issue. 

 Mr. Attorney Richard's descent could not have 

 conferred upon him any privilege. Walpole, 

 Berkeley, Carteret, Townsend, Torrington, or any 

 other of the ministers, may have procured from 

 George I., as a favour to Sir R, Thornhiil, the 

 right of celebrating the marriage in the Chapel 

 Royal at Whitehall. It was by similar favour that 

 in 1676, when Latimer (Earl of Danby) was Lord 

 High Treasurer, Sir Christopher Wren was mar- 

 ried in the Chapel Royal, St. James's, to his 

 second wife, " Madam Jane Fitzwilliams." 



J. Dor AN. 



This person was not " son to the eldest son of 

 Oliver Cromwell," as your correspondent sup- 

 poses, but the fifth son of Major Henry Cromwell, 

 and grandson of Henry, Lord Lieutenant of Ire- 

 land. He died at Hampstead, December 3, 1759. 



The extract quoted by W. D. H. from the His- 

 torical Register is highly interesting, as it corrects 

 the Rev. Mark Noble's statement that this 

 Richard Cromwell " married Sarah, daughter of 

 Ebenezer Gatton, a grocer in Southwark." 



Edwabd F. Rimbault. 



Negus (2'"i S. v. 169.) — I find at Hingham, 

 Norfolk, Elizabeth, the wife of Henry Negus, has 

 a mural monument to her memory. She is said 

 to have died Feb. 20, 1702, in the ninety-second 



year of her age. The arms of Negus are given 

 thus : erm. on a chief nebulee, az., three escallops, 

 or. 



I also find Dan. Negus was under-sheriff of 

 Norwich in September, 1742 ; and also that Henry 

 Negus, Esq., had a faculty to build a vault on the 

 north side of Hovetoivor Hofton church, Norfolk, 

 for a burying-place. And that a person named 

 Negus, witiiout a Chi-istian name being given (but 

 probably Henry), held Lathes-Manor, in the same 

 parish, of the Bishop of Norwich, during the early 

 part of the last century. 



I have also to add the name of John Negus, 

 who died recently at Crimpleshara, Norfolk. 



There is also in St. Augustine's church, Nor- 

 wich, a stone in memory of " James Negusse, 

 1709." John Nurse Chadwick. 



King's Lynn. 



Contrition among the Ancients at the Point of 

 Death (2"^ S. v. 109.) — In the Introduction to 

 the Republic of Plato (p. 330. d.), Cephalus is 

 made to say : — 



" Be assured, Socrates, that when a man is nearl3' per- 

 suaded that he is going to die, he feels alarmed and con- 

 cerned about things which never affected him before. 

 Till then he has laughed at those stories about the de- 

 parted, which tell us that he who has done wrong here 

 must suffer for it in the other world; but now his mind 

 is tormented by a fear that these stories may possibly be 

 true. And either owing to the infirmities of old age, or 

 because he is now nearer to the confines of the future 

 state, he has a clearer insight into those mysteries. How- 

 ever that may be, he becomes full of misgiving and ap- 

 prehension, and sets himself to the task of calculating 

 and reflecting whether he has done any wrong to any 

 one. Hereupon, if he finds his life full of unjust deeds, 

 he is apt to start out of sleep in terror, as children do, and 

 he lives haunted by gloomy anticipations. But if his 

 conscience reproaches him with no injustice (t<o Si iiy\Sev 

 eavTw aSiKov ^vveiSoTi), he enjoj's the abiding presence of 

 sweet Hope, that ' kind nurse of old age,' as Pindar calls it. 



This passage (which I have quoted from Messrs. 

 Davies and Vaughan's excellent translation) is 

 alone sufficient to prove the belief of some of the 

 ancients in remorse and contrition for crimes at 

 the approach of death : especially when taken in 

 connexion with Plato's constant recognition of a 

 future state, in which " the rewards and honours 

 that await a good man surpass in number and 

 magnitude all that one experiences in this life." 

 (Rep., b. X. p. 614. B.) J. R. K. 



Tinted Lithographs (2"'^ S. iv. 227.) —The dis- 

 coloration complained of evidently arises from the 

 white lead or whiting (mixed with the colour to 

 modify the tint) becoming oxidised, not only losing 

 its own quality, but destroying the colour with 

 which it is mixed. That the "whites" should 

 remain unchanged is owing to the fact that the 

 " pure white " in such prints is simply the paper 

 untouched. W. J. Stannabd. 



Hatton Garden. 



