Feb. 5, 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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■centuries." He adds, that " no clergyman could 

 now be found who would think of sending his 

 sister to an inn to learn household matters." 



The Rev. William Batemanne, " who appears to 

 have been educated at Oxford." writes thus : 



" . . . . My sister Katren is placed in a verie good 

 house in Bissiter [Bicester], wher shea shall learne to 

 doe all manner of thinges that belonge to a good hus- 

 wyfe. It is a vltailinge house greatlie occupied. Shea 

 shall not learne onelie to dresse meate and drinke ex- 

 cellent well, but allso bruinge, bakinge, winnowinge, 

 with all other thinges theirunto appertaininge, for they 

 are verie rich folkes, and verie sharpe and quicke both 

 of them. The cause why my Ant received her not, as 

 shea answered us, was because all this winter shea in- 

 tendeth to have but one servant woman, and shea 

 thought my sister was not able to doe all her worke, 

 because shea imagined her to be verie raw in theire 

 •countrey worke, w"'' thinge trewlie shea that hath her 

 now did thinke, and theirefore her wage is the slen- 

 derer, but xvj' [16s.], W^'' in this place is counted no- 

 thinge in efFecte for such a strong woman as shea is ; 

 but I bringinge her to Bissiter uppon Wednesday, 

 beinng Michaelmas even, told her dame the wage was 

 verie small, and said I trusted shea would mend it if 

 shea proved a good girle, as I had good hope shea 

 would. Quoth I, it will scarce bye her hose and 

 shooes. Nay, saith shea, I will warrant her have so 

 much given her before the yeare be expyred, and by 

 God's helpe that w'='' wants I myselfe will fill upp as 



much as I am able " 



J. Leweltn Cubtis. 



GENBBAI. WOLFE. 



I copy the following interesting Note from the 

 London Chronicle, August 19, 1788 : 



"It is a circumstance not generally known, but be- 

 lieved by the army which served under General Wolfe, 

 that his death-wound was not received by the common 

 chance of war, but given by a deserter from his own 

 regiment. The circumstances are thus related : — The 

 General perceived one of the sergeants of his regiment 

 strike a man under arms (an act against which he had 

 given particular orders), and knowing the man to be a 

 good soldier, reprehended the aggressor with much 

 warmth, and threatened to reduce him to the ranks. 

 This so far incensed the sergeant, that he took the first 

 opportunity of deserting to the enemy, where he medi- 

 tated the means of destroying the General, which he 

 effected by being placed in the enemy's left wing, which 

 was directly opposite the right of the British line, where 

 Wolfe commanded in person, and where he was marked 

 out by the miscreant, who was provided with a rifle 

 piece, and, unfortunately for this country, effected his 

 purpose. After the defeat of the French army, the 

 deserters were all removed to Crown Point, which being 

 afterwards suddenly invested and taken by the British 

 army, the whole of the garrison fell into the hands of 

 the captors ; when the sergeant of whom we have been 

 speaking was hanged for desertion, but before the 



execution of his sentence confessed the facts above 

 recited."* 



In Smith's Marylehone, p. 272., is a notice of 

 Lieutenant M'CuUoch, according to whose plan 

 Wolfe attacked Quebec. M'CuUoch became desti- 

 tute, and died in Marylebone workhouse in 1793. 

 A letter from Wolfe to Admiral Saunders is in the 

 Gentleman! s Magazine for 1801; and one addressed 

 by him to Barre was sold by Puttick and Simpson 

 about three years since. 



A portrait of Wolfe by Sir Joshua Reynolds is 

 in possession of Mr. Cole of Worcester. 



Since my last notice, I have heard that Mr. Henry- 

 George, proprietor of the Westerham Journal, made 

 some collections towards a life of Wolfe : if so, it 

 is not improbable that Mr. Streatfield obtained 

 them at his sale in 1844. In conclusion, I beg 

 to inquire, whence come the lines quoted by the 

 Marquis of Lansdowne ? — 



" Enough for him 



That Chatham's language was his mother-tongue, 



And Wolfe's great name compatriot with his own." 



H. G. D. 



Knightsbridge. 



INSCBIPTIONS IN BOOKS. 



It occurs to me that an interesting collection 

 might be formed of the various forms and methods 

 by which the ownership of books is sometimes 

 found to be asserted on their fly-leaves. Bor- 

 rowers are exhorted to faithful restitution ; and 

 consequences are threatened to those who misuse, 

 or fail to return, or absolutely steal the valued 

 literary treasure. 



I forward a few such Notes as have fallen in my 

 way, thinking they may interest your readers, and 

 shall be obliged by any additions. The first is an 

 admonition to borrowers, by no means a super- 

 fluous one, as I know to my cost. It is printed on 

 a small paper, about the size of an ordinary book- 

 plate, with blank for the owner's name, to be filled 

 up in manuscript : 



" This Book 

 Belongs to 



" If thou art borrow'd by a friend. 

 Right welcome shall he be 

 To read, to study — not to lend, 

 But to return to me. 



[* The incident related above has been preserved by 

 Sir William Musgrave, in his Biographical Adversaria 

 (Additional MSS., No. 5723., British Museum), who 

 has added the following note : — " This account was had 

 from a gentleman who heard the confession." For some 

 further notices of Mrs. Henrietta Wolfe, the mother of 

 the General, relative to her death and the disposal of 

 her property, see the Addit. MSS., No. 5832., p. 78 — 

 Ed.] 



