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NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



[No. 167. 



most persons will find that such phenomena of electrical 

 light are familiar occurrences, and often present them- 

 selves in suddenly drawing off from the person a silk 

 stocking, or a flannel waistcoat, or in the friction of long 

 hair by combing. How small a degree of friction is 

 sufficient to excite electricity in the human body, is 

 shown in a striking way by placing a person upon an 

 insulating stool (with glass legs). If in such a posi- 

 tion he place his finger upon a gold-leaf electrometer, 

 and another person flip him lightly with a silk hand- 

 kerchief, the leaves will immediately repel each other" 

 (resinous electricity has been excited). — Page 205. 

 par. 307. 



S. Jbnnings-G. 



Datibuz Family (Vol. vi., p. 527.). — Where 

 are the descendants of this worthy family (Dau- 

 buz) ? It may possibly give Mr. Corser a clue 

 to the information he desires, if I tell him that 

 there is a very respectable family of that name 

 in Cornwall. One lives in the neighbourhood of 

 Truro, and a brother is vicar of Creed, near 

 Grampound, Cornwall. The father of these gen- 

 tlemen was the first of the family, I believe, who 

 resided in Cornwall, where he amassed a large 

 fortune from his connexion with mining specu- 

 lations. 5-*^/» ///^ S. Jennings-G. 



Lord Nelson (Vol. vi., p. 576.). — I am obliged 

 to Mb. Kebslet for giving me an opportunity of 

 reconciling my statement respecting Dr. Scott 

 (VoLvi., p. 438.) with the inscription on Mr. 

 Burke's monument. Both, I believe, are true. I 

 quote from the Authentic Narrative of the Death 

 of Lord Nelson, by William Beatty, M.D. &c. The 

 copy of this work which is before me has the fol- 

 lowing in Sir W. Beatty's own handwriting : " To 

 the Rev. Doctor Scott, with every sentiment of 

 regard, by his friend and messmate, the author." 

 In this " narrative," Dr. Scott and Mr. Burke are 



fenerally described as personally attending on 

 (Ord Nelson from the time of his being brought 

 down into the cockpit. And at p. 50. it is said : 

 " Doctor Scott and Mr. Burke, who had all along 

 sustained the bed under his shoulders," &c. : and 

 again at p. 51.: "His lordship breathed his last 

 at thirty minutes past four o'clock : at which 



{)eriod Dr. Scott was in the act of rubbing his 

 ordship's breast, and Mr. Burke supporting the 

 bed under his shoulders." All this is represented 

 in West's beautiful picture, which hangs, in a bad 

 light, in the hall of Greenwich Hospital. 



There is another claimant for the honour of 

 having been Nelson's last nurse, whose name I 

 forget. His pretensions are recorded on a tablet 

 to his memory in the chapel of Greenwich Hospital. 

 Dr. Scott's daughter, who was with me there one 

 day, remonstrated on the subject with old blue 

 jacket who lionised us. And I put in the lady's 

 right to speak with some authority. But " what 

 is writ is writ," was enough for our guide: we 



could make nothing of him, for he fought our 

 arguments as if they had been so many guns of 

 the enemy. Alfred Gattt. 



Robes and Fees in the Days of Robin Hood 

 (Vol. vi., p. 479.). — In translating the ordinances 

 and statutes against maintainers and conspirators, 

 Mr. Lewellyn Curtis more than once translates 

 " gentz de pais" by " persons of peace." This is 

 a material error : it should be "q/" the country;" 

 " pays," not " paix." For the subject referred to, 

 Mr. Foss's Judges of England, vol. iii., should be 

 consulted. J. Bt. 



Wray (Vol. iv., p. 164.). — In one of the Wray 

 pedigrees in Burke's Landed Gentry, it is stated 

 that the Yorkshire family of that name originally 

 resided in Coverdale in Richmondshire. 



In Clarkson's History of Richmond is a pedi- 

 gree of the " Wrays," which commences (if I 

 rightly recollect) with an ancestor (six or eight 

 years before him) of Sir Christopher Wray, of 

 whose fore-elders, some lived at St. Nicholas, 

 near to Richmond. 



I have traced a family of the name of Wray or 

 Wraye for three centuries back, in Wensleydale, 

 and at Coverham in Coverdale (both in Richmond- 

 shire), but am unable to connect it by direct 

 evidence with either of the pedigrees above re- 

 ferred to ; and should be much obliged for any 

 information touching any part of the family in 

 Richmondshire, particularly such as might aid in 

 showing the relation of the several branches to 

 one another. 



With reference to the origin of the name, I may 

 mention, that there is a valley called Raydale, 

 between Wensleydale and Craven, adjacent to 

 Coverdale ; and also a village in Westmoreland, 

 near to the western extremity of Wensleydale, 

 called Wray or Ray. 



The arms of the AVensleydale Wrays are : azure, 

 a chevron ermine between three helmets proper 

 on a chief or, three martlets gules ; crest a martlet, 

 and motto " Servabo fidem." 



I am informed that there is to be found, in the 

 Heralds' College, an entry of a Wray pedigree 

 with these arms; and I should be glad to have 

 particulars of such entry. 



The motto of the St. Nicholas family is, to the 

 best of my recollection, "Et juste et vraye:" a 

 canting motto, as is that of Pak-Rae. 



Calcutta. 



Irish Rhymes (Vol. vi., pp. 431. 539. 605.).— For 

 the benefit of Irishmen, I beg to adduce Shak- 

 speare as a writer of Irish Rhymes. In that ex- 

 quisite little song called for by Queen Catharine, 

 " to soothe her soul grown sad with troubles," we 



have : 



« Everything that heard him play. 

 Even the billows of the sea." 



w.c. 



