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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 170. 



Might I ask if there is any other instance known 

 of a gentleman's having suffered a similar punish- 

 ment for the same crime, during the period the 

 West India islands were held as slave colonies of 

 England ? W. W. 



Malta. 



Brydone. — A. J. C. would be glad to be informed 

 of the birthplace of Mr. Brydone, the tourist and 

 author. The biographies state that he was the 

 son of a clergyman, and born in Scotland ; but do 

 not give the exact locus in quo. 



" Clear the Decks for Bognies Carriage." — The 

 announcement, in Punch, that the Lords of the 

 Admiralty had ordered a large supply of arm-chairs 

 (of coui'se on castors) for the use of our veteran 

 commanders, has recalled to my recollection the 

 above, which used to pass current in Banffshire, as 

 a call for a clear stage. Can any of your readers 

 tell us who was "Bognie ;" what was his " carriage," 

 and what the connexion between it and "decks?" 

 Fkom the Neighbourhood of Bognie Brae. 



London Queries. — Answers to the following 

 Queries would very much oblige me. 



The date when chains and bars were first 

 erected for levying toll into the City of London. 



The date of the erection of the first Temple 

 Bar, its architect's name, and when pulled down 

 or destroyed, and if burnt during the Great Fire. 



The authority for the present gate having been 

 built after designs of Sir Christopher Wren. 



J. N. G. G. 



Scarf worn hy Clergymen. — By what authority 

 do clergymen, who are neither chaplains to any 

 member of the royal family, or to any peer or 

 peeress, or have not taken the degree of D.D., 

 wear a sca?^ either over the surplice or the black 

 gown ? C— J. T. P. 



W Rectory. 



Life of Queen Anne. — Who is the author of 



" The History of the Life and Reign of her late 

 Majesty Queen Anne : wherein all the Transactions 

 of that Memorable Reign are faithfully compiled from 

 the best authorities, and impartially related. Illus- 

 trated with a regular Series of all the Medals that were 

 struck to commemorate the great Events of this Reign; 

 with a Variety of other useful and ornamental Plates. 

 London, printed and sold by the Booksellers in Town 

 and Count) v. 1740." 



The size is small folio. 



E. S. Jackson. 



Erasmus Smith. — The undersigned is much 

 interested in learning something of the life and 

 history of Erasmus Smith, the founder of the 

 numerous schools in Ireland that still go under 

 his name, and are governed by a chartered incor- 

 poration. If it was a great act to found and 



endow so many schools, assuredly Erasmus Smith 

 gives additional authority to the dictum, that 

 " The world knows nothing of its greatest men." 



D. C. L. 



Croxton or Crostin of Lancashire. — Can any of 

 the readers of "N. & Q." furnish me with any 

 particulars of this family; whether they bore arms, 

 and what they were ? They are, I believe, of 

 Lancashire origin, — the name frequently occurring 

 in the history of that county. Where is also the 

 ancient (and formerly very extensive) parish of 

 Crostin ? W. H. Colles. 



Grub Street Journal. — Can any of your readers 

 give me information as to the parties by whom 

 this journal was conducted ; or who formed the 

 Grub Street Society, shortly before, and for a few 

 years after 1730; or what this society was: or refer 

 me to the best sources of information on the sub- 

 ject ? My reason for asking the question is, that 

 I have lately found a manuscript book — a common 

 thickish square account-book in a vellum back — 

 containing at one end, as it seems, the minutes of 

 the meetings of the Grub Street Society, signed 

 by the memljers at each meeting : at the other end, 

 the accounts of the funds of the association. If it 

 should prove that the entries are genuine, and they 

 should prove to be of any interest, I should send 

 you some extracts from the book. Reginensis. 



Chaplain to the Princess Elizabeth. — What 

 was the surname of the person who officiated as 

 chaplain to the Princess Elizabeth during her im- 

 prisonment at Woodstock in 1554 ? His Christian 

 name was William. C. R. M. 



" The Snow-flahe." — In a comparatively obscure 

 poem. The Siiow-flaJie, not very long published, 

 occurs the line : 



" When Kola's mild blue eyes shall weep." 

 Pray, to what is allusion made ? A. S. T. 



Lcamhuil or Lahoel. — Can you, or any of your 

 readers, give me a description of the place, abbey, 

 or other ancient building, called Leamhuil or 

 Lahoel, or refer me to some work where I may find 

 thehistr)ry of thesame? In Lewis's Topographical 

 Dictionary it is said to be somewhere in Queen's 

 County, Ireland. Also, inform me whether there 

 has been any family of that name ? 



Frederick Kenneth. 



Clonea. 



[Leamchulll is in the barony of Portnehinch, Queen's 

 County. Archdale, in his Monaaticon Hibernicnm, 

 p. 595., states, that "St. Fintan-Chorach was abbot 

 here towards the close of the sixth century. By some 

 writers he is said to have been interred here; and from 



