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KOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 190. 



1553 ; jNIary on Tuesday, November 17, 1558 ; 

 Elizabeth on Tuesday, March 24, 1603. 



John Booker. 

 Prestwich. 



It is a saying in Norwich, — 

 « When three daws are seen on St. Peter's vane to- 

 gether, 

 Then we are sure to have bad weather." 



I think the observation is tolerably correct. 



Anoit. 



SCOTCHMEN IN POLAND. 



(Vol.vii., p.475.) 



In the debates about a union with Scotland in 

 1606, the "multiplicities of the Scots in Polonia" 

 formed one of the arguments of the opposing party, 

 who thought that England was likely to be over- 

 run in a similar fashion. According to Wilson 

 (^Hist. of James /., p. 34.), the naturalisation of 

 the Scots — 



«' Was opposed by divers strong and modest arguments. 

 Among which they brought in the comparison of Abra- 

 ham and Lot, whose families joining, they grew to dif- 

 ference, and to those words, ' Vade tu ad dextram, et 

 ego ad sinistram.' It was answered, That speech 

 brought the captivity of the one ; they having disjoined 

 their strength. The party opposing said, If we admit 

 them into our liberties, we shall be overrun with them ; 

 as cattle, naturally, pent up by a slight hedge, will over 

 it into a better soil ; and a tree taken from a barren 

 place will thrive to excessive and exuberant branches 

 in a better, — witness the multiplicities of the Scots in 

 Polonia. 



" To which it was answered, That If they had not 

 means, place, custom, and employment (not like beasts, 

 but men), they would starve in a plentiful soil, though 

 they came into it. And what springtide and confluence 

 of that nation have housed and familied themselves 

 among us, these four years of the king's reign ? And 

 they will never live so meanly here as they do in Po- 

 lonia ; for they had rather discover their poverty abroad 

 than at home." 



This last " answerer " was Lord Bacon. In his 

 speech "Of general Naturalisation" (^Works,\oLv. 

 p. 52.), he asserts that the "multiplication of Scots 

 in Polonia " must of necessity be imputed 



" To some special accident of time and place that draws 

 them thither ; for you see plainly before your eyes, that 

 in Germany, which is much nearer, and in France, 

 where they are invited with privileges, and with this 

 very privilege of naturalisation, yet no such number 

 can be found ; so as it cannot either be nearness of 

 place, or privilege of person, that is the cause." 



What these " special accidents " were, it would 

 be interesting to ascertain. Large bodies of men 

 were levied in Scotland during the latter half of 

 the sixteenth century, for the service of Sweden, 

 and employed in the Polish wars. Can these have 



turned merchants, or induced others to follow 

 them ? In 1573, Charles de Mornay brought 5000 

 Scots to Sweden. In 1576, whilst they were serv- 

 ing in Livonia, a quarrel broke out between theni 

 and a body of Germans also in the Swedish pay, 

 and 1500 Scots were cut down. (^Geige?; ch. xii.^ 

 I believe Mk. Cunningham will find some 

 notices of Scottish merchants in Poland in Lith- 

 gow's Travels, which I have not at present by me. 

 Richard John King- 



MR. JUSTICE NEWTON. 



(Vol. vii., p. 528.) 



Sir Richard Newton was Chief Justice of the 

 Common Pleas from 1438 to 1444, and died 

 Dec. 13th, 1444, and was buried in a chapel of 

 Bristol Cathedral. (Collins's Baronage, vol. iii. 

 p. 145.) He assumed the name of Newton, instead 

 of Caradoc, from Newton in Powysland. (CoUin- 

 son's Somersetshire, East Harptrie) ; and, as Cam- 

 den, p. 60., says, the Newtons "freely own them- 

 selves to be of Welsh extraction, and not long ago 

 to have been called Caradocks." These Caradoc* 

 were descended from the ancient kings of Wales. 

 Sir Richard Newton was twice married: 1. to a 

 daughter of Newton, of Crossland ; and 2. to- 

 Emmett, daughter of John Harvey, of London^ 

 according to a MS. in the British Museum ; but,, 

 according to Somersetshire and Gloucestershire 

 Visitations, to Emma, daughter of Sir Thomas 

 Perrott, of Islington. He had issue by both mar- 

 riages, and from the second descended Sir John 

 Newton, who was created a baronet 12 Car. II., 

 and died in 1661. The baronetcy was limited in 

 remainder, at its creation, to John Newton, of" 

 Hather, in Lincolnshire, and he became the second 

 baronet. There are several pedigrees tracing the 

 descent from Sir Richard to the first baronet ; but 

 I have not yet seen the descent to the second 

 baronet, though there can be no doubt that he was 

 also descended from Sir Richard, otherwise the 

 baronetcy could not have been limited to him ; and^ 

 probably he was the next male heir of the first 

 baronet, as that is the usual mode of limiting titles. 

 In the Heralds' College there is a pedigree of Sir- 

 Isaac Newton, signed by himself, in which he traces 

 his descent to the brother of the ancestor of the 

 second baronet. It should seem, therefore, that 

 Sir Isaac was himself descended from the Chief 

 Justice. It would confer a great obligation on 

 the writer if any of your readers could afford any 

 assistance to clear up the pedigree of the second 

 baronet. 



As to the representatives of Sir Richard, I doubt 

 whether his heir is discoverable, although there are 

 many descendants now living, who trace their do- 

 scent through females. C. S. G. 



