Peb. 5. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



145 



Ilallamshire are to be depended upon, and I have 

 almost invariably found them correct, there is a 

 slight inaccuracy in the note copied from the 

 commentary. Mr. Hunter writes — 



" He (Daubuz) was a native of Guienne, but at 

 twelve years of age was driven from his native country, 

 with his only surviving parent Julia Daubuz, by the 

 religious persecution of 1686. In 1689 he was ad- 

 mitted of Queen's College, Cambridge, and remained 

 in college till 1696, when he accepted the situation of 

 head master of the (Grammar) School of Sheffield. 

 He left Sheffield in 1699 on being presented to the 

 Vicarage of Brotherton near Ferry-Bridge, where he 

 was much loved and respected. He died there on the 

 14th of June, 1717," &c. 



W. S. (Sheffield.) 



When the Levant Company surrendered their 

 charter to the crown in the year 1 826, Mr. J. T. 

 Daubuz was treasurer to the Company. He was 

 a highly respected merchant in the city of London, 

 and had purchased the estate of Offington, near 

 Worthing in Sussex, an estate formerly belonging 

 to the Lords De la Warr. Mr. Daubuz still re- 

 sides at Offington. J. B. 



The Brides Seat in Church (Vol. vi., p. 424.). 

 — One of the sermons mentioned in Surtees' 

 note, and inquired after by J. R. M., M.A., was 

 written by William Whately, the learned and ce- 

 lebrated Puritan, who was vicar of Banbury in 

 Oxfordshire. It is entitled 



" A Bride Bush, or a Wedding Sermon, compen- 

 diously describing the duties of married persons. By 

 performing whereof, marriage shall be to them a great 

 helpe, which now find it a little hell. London, 1617. 

 4to. On Eph. v. 23." 



I believe a copy of the sermon may be found 

 in the Bodleian Library. Two propositions con- 

 tained in this sermon led to Whately's being con- 

 vened before the High Commission, when he ac- 

 knowledged that he was unable to justify them, 

 and recanted May 4, 1621. (See Wood's Ath. 

 Oxon. by Bliss, vol. ii. col. 638.) 



John L Dredge. 



Louis Napoleon, President of France (Vol. vi., 

 p. 435.). — Modern history furnishes more than 

 one instance of the anomaly adverted to by 

 Mr. Relton. After the murder of Louis XVI., 

 his son, though he never ascended the throne, 

 was recognised by the legitimists of the day as 

 Louis XVII. ; and on the restoration of the family 

 in 1815, the Comte d'Artois assumed the title of 

 Louis XVIII. In this way the revolutionary chasm 

 was, as it were, bridged over, and the dynasty of 

 the elder Bourbons exhibited on an uninterrupted 

 line. 



So it is as regards the Napoleon dynasty. The 

 Duke de Reichstadt, Napoleon's son, was in the 

 same predicament as the son of Louis XVI. He 



received from the Bonapartists the title of Napo- 

 leon II. ; and Louis Napoleon therefore becomes 

 Napoleon III. 



A similar case might have occurred to the House 

 of Stuart, if the Pretender's son, who began by 

 taking the title of Henry IX., had not extin- 

 guished the hopes and pretensions of his ill-fated 

 race, by exchanging his " crown" for a cardinal's 

 hat. And to-morrow (though that is perhaps a 

 little too soon) the same thing may happen again 

 to the elder branch of the Bourbons, should the 

 Comte de Chambord (Henry V.) leave a son of 

 that name to ascend the throne as Henry VI. 



Henry H. Breen. 



St. Lucia. 



Chapel Plaster (Vol. vii., p. 37.). — For an ex- 

 planation of the word plaster, on which your cor- 

 respondent has oifered so elaborate a commentary, 

 I would beg to refer him to White's Selborne 

 (vol. i. p. 5. ; vol. ii. p. 340., 4to. edit.) : 



" In the centre of the village, and near the church, 

 is a square piece of ground surrounded by houses, and 

 vulgarly called The Plestor. In the midst of this spot 

 stood, in old times, a vast oak . . , This venerable tree, 

 surrounded with stone steps, and seats above them, was 

 the delight of old and young, and a place of much 

 resort in summer evenings; where the former sat in 

 grave debate, while the latter frolicked and danced 

 before them. 



" This Pleystow (Saxon, Plegstow), loctis ludorum, or 

 play-place, continues still, as in old times, to be the 

 scene of recreation for the youths and children of the 

 neighbourhood." 



Chapel Plaster is, I believe, an outlying hamlet 

 belonging to the parish of Box ; and the name 

 imports merely what in Scotland would be called 

 " the Kirk on the Green " — the chapel built on, 

 or near to, the playground of the villagers. 



The fascinating volumes above named will afford 

 a reply to an unanswered Query in your second 

 volume (Vol. Ii., p. 266.), the meaning of the local 

 word Hanger : 



" The high part to the S.W, consists of a vast hill 

 of chalk, rising 300 feet above the village ; and is 

 divided into a sheep down, the high wood, and a long 

 hanging wood, called The Hanger." — Vol. i. p. 1. 



W. L. Nichols. 

 Lansdown Place, Bath. 



Passage in Thomson (Vol. vll., p. 67.). — Steam- 

 ing is clearly the true reading, and means that the 

 exhalations which steam from the waters are sent 

 down again in the showers of spring. This will 

 appear still clearer by reference to a similar pas- 

 sage in Milton's Morning Hymn, which Thomson 

 was evidently copying : 



" Ye mists and exhalations that now rise 

 From hill or steaming lake, dusky or grey," &c. 



c. 



