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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 171. 



A. D. L. L. I should have thought that any one 

 who had the slightest skill in etymology would 

 have seen at once that a nugget is nothing more 

 than a Yankee (?) corruption of an ingot. As 

 many may be in the case of E. N. W., you may as 

 well, perhaps, give this a place in " N. & Q." 



T.K. 



Lawyers' Bags (Vol. vli., p. 85.). — I think the 

 statement that "prior to the trial of Queen Ca- 

 roline, the colour of the bags carried by barristers 

 was green" will surprise some legal readers. I 

 had been a barrister several years when that trial 

 took place, and cannot think that I had ever seen 

 (indeed that I have yet seen) a barrister or a 

 barrister's clerk carrying a green bag. I suspect 

 it is a mere blunder arising out of the talk about 

 the "green bag" which was said to contain the 

 charges against the Queen. That, however, I ap- 



{)rehend was not a lawyer's bag, whatever some 

 awyers might have to do with it. A Templar. 



J. St. J. Y. may assure himself that Colonel 

 Landman is mistaken. I have been an attendant 

 upon the Courts for fifty years, and therefore long 

 before the terrible green bag containing the 

 charges against Queen Caroline was brought into 

 the House of Commons; and I can confidently 

 assert that I never saw a green bag borne by a 

 barrister or solicitor during that time. The only 

 colours that were ever paraded in my experience 

 by those legal functionaries, Avere purple and 

 crimson ; and they have so continued till the 

 present time — I will not say without interruption, 

 because I have been grieved to see that tailors 

 and small London pedlars have invaded the pri- 

 vilege. Causidicus. 



Catherine Barton (Vol. iil., pp. 328. 434.). — 

 My attention has been drawn to some questions 

 in your early Numbers respecting this lady. She 

 was the daughter of Robert Barton of Brigstock, 

 Northamptonshire, and Hannah Smith, half-sister 

 of Sir Isaac Newton. The Colonel Barton of 

 whom she is said to be the widow, was her cousin, 

 Colonel Noel Barton, who served with distinction 

 under Marlborough, and died at the age of forty. 

 He was son of Thomas, eldest son of Thomas 

 Barton of Brigstock. 



The Lieutenant Matthew Barton mentioned by 

 De Camera was the son of Jeffery Barton, Rector 

 of Rashden, Northamptonshire, afterwards Ad- 

 miral Barton. Jeffery was the youngest son of 

 Thomas Barton of Brigstock. O. O. O. 



Bells and Stoi-ms (Vol. iv., p. 508.). — Wynkin 

 de Worde, one of the earliest of the English 

 printers, in The Golden Legend^ observes : 



" It is said, the evil spirytes that ben in the region 

 of ih' ayre, double moche when they here the belles 

 ringen whan it thondreth, and when grete tempeste 



and rages of wether happen, to the ende that the feinds 

 and wycked spirytes should ben abashed and flee, and 

 cease of the movynge of tempeste." 



We have, in Sir John Sinclair's statistical ac- 

 count of Scotland, an account given of a bell 

 belonging to the old chapel of St. Fillan, in the 

 parish of Killin, Perthshire, which usually lay on 

 a gravestone in the churchyard. Mud people 

 were brought hither to be dipped in the saint's 

 pool ; the maniac was then confined all night in 

 the chapel, bound with ropes, and in the morning 

 the bell was set on his head with great solemnity. 

 This was the Highland cure for mania. It was 

 the popular superstition of the district, that this 

 bell would, if stolen, extricate itself out of the 

 thief's hands, and return to its original place, 

 ringing all the way. Russell Golk. 



Latin Poem (Vol. vii., pp. 6, 7.). — Lord Bray- 

 BROOKE does not appear to be so correct as usual 

 in his belief, that neither of the two Latin poems, 

 which he quotes, have been previously in print. 

 Crowe's beautiful monody will be found at p. 234. 

 of his collected poems, published by Murray, 1827. 

 The printed copy, however, which is headed 



" Inscriptio in horto Auctoris apud Alton in Com. 

 Wilt. 



M. S. 



Gulielmi Crowe, 



Signif. Leg. iv. 



Qui cecidit in acie, 



8 die Jan. a.d. 1815. ^t. s. 21." 



has the following differences: line 7., "respexit" 

 for "ascripsit;" 1. 9., "solvo" for "pono." L. 10. 

 and the following lines stand thus : 



" Quinetiam assidue hie veniam, lenta;que senecta?, 

 De Te, dulce Caput, meditando, tempora ducam : 

 S;epe Tuam recoiens formam, moresque decentes, 

 Dictaque, tum sancto, et sapienti corde profecta, 

 Turn festiva quidem, et vario condita lepore. 

 Id mihi nunc solamen erit, dum vita raanebit. 

 Tu vero, quicunque olim successoris Hares, 

 Sedibus his oro, mcesti reverere parentis," 



and so on to the end, with one or two alterations ; 

 except in the penultimate line, "sit" for "stet;" 

 and, in the last, "jucundi" for " dilecti." 



C. W. Bingham. 



[Lord Braybrooke was certainly not aware that 

 Crowe's monody had been published with his Poems. 

 Lord Braybrookk's version was copied, about thirty 

 years ago, verbatim et literatim, from a manuscript in 

 the handwriting of the late Lord Glastonbury, who 

 died in 1825.1 ,, , , , 



■/ M \U i> iz 

 Daubuz ^ol. vi., p. 527.). — An interesting 

 notice of the Rev. Charles Daubuz occurs in 

 Hunter's Hallamshire, p. 175. It is unnecessary 

 to quote the whole, and I shall content myself 

 with merely observing that if the dates in the 



