NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



[No. 192. 



I think that its diameter is about two feet. If 

 Mb. Feaseb has not met with the information 

 already, he may be interested, with reference to his 

 tQuery on "Dimidiation" (Vol. vii., p. 548.), in 

 learning that the above-mentioned Margaret was 

 daughter and coheiress of John Lord Beke of 

 -Eresby, who by his will, made the 29th of Edw. I., 

 ■devised the remainder of his arms to be divided 

 between Sir Robert de Willoughby and Sir John 

 de Harcourt. And this may lead to the farther 

 Query, whether dimidiation was originally or uni- 

 versally resorted to in the case of coheiresses ? 



Cheveeells. 



The Archbishop of Armagh's Cure for the Gout, 

 1571. — Extracted from a letter from Thomas 

 Lancaster, Archbishop of Armagh, to Lord 

 Burghley, dated from Dublin, March 25, 1571 : — 



" I am sorofull for that yo' honor is greved w"" the 

 goute, from the w'^'' I beseche Almighty God deliver 

 you, and send you health ; and yf (it) shall please y' 

 honor to prove a medicen for the same w''^ 1 brought 

 owt of Duchland, and have eased many w"" it, I trust in 

 God it shall also do you good ; and this it is. Take 

 ij spaniel whelpes of ij dayes olde, scald them, and 

 cause the entrells betaken out, but wash them not. 

 Take 4 ounces brymstone, 4 ounces torpentyn, 1 ounce 

 parmacete, a handfuU nettelis, and a quantyte of oyle 

 of balme, and putt all the aforesayd in them stamped, 

 and sowe them up and rost them, and take the dropes 

 and anoynt you wheare your grefe is, and by God's 

 grace yo' honor shall fynd helpe." — From the Original 

 in the State Paper Office. 



Spes. 



The last known Survivor of General Wolfe's 

 Army in Canada. — In a recent number of the 

 Montreal Herald, mention is made of more than 

 twenty persons whose ages exceed one hundred 

 years. The editor remarks that — 



" The most venerable patriarch now in Canada 

 is Abraham Miller, who resides in the township of 

 Grey, and is 115 years old. In 1758 he scaled the 

 cliffs of Quebec with General Wolfe, so that his resi- 

 dence in Canada is coincident with British rule in the 

 province. He is attached to the Indians, and lives in 

 all respects like them." 



w.w. 



Malta. 



National Methods of Applauding. — Clapping 

 with the hands is going out of use in the United 

 States, and stampmg with the feet is taking its 

 place. When Mr. Combe was lecturing on phre- 

 nology at the Museum building in Philadelphia 

 twelve or thirteen years ago, he and his auditors 

 were much annoyed by the pedal applause of a 

 company in the room above, who were listening to 

 the concerts of a negro band. Complaint was 

 made to the authorities of the Museum Society ; 

 .but the answer was, that nothing could be done, as 



stamping of the feet was " the national method of 

 applauding." 



The crying of " hear him ! hear him ! " during 

 the delivery of a speech, is not in use in the United 

 States, as an English gentleman discovered who 

 settled here a few years ago. He attended a meet- 

 ing of the members of the church to which he had 

 attached himself, and hearing something said that 

 pleased him, he cried out " hear him ! hear him ! " 

 Upon which the sexton came over to him, and 

 told him that, unless he kept himself quiet, he 

 would be under the necessity of turning him out 

 of church. M. E. 



Philadelphia. 



Curious Posthumous Occurrence. — If the follow- 

 ing be true, though in ever so limited a manner, 

 it deserves investigation. Notwithstanding his 

 twenty-three years' experience, the worthy grave- 

 digger must have been mistaken, unless there is 

 something peculiar in the bodies of Bath people ! 

 But if the face turns down in any instance, as 

 asserted, it would be right to ascertain the cause, 

 and why this change is not general. It is now 

 above twenty years since the paragraph appeared 

 in the London papers : — 



" A correspondent in the Bath Herald states the 

 following singular circumstance: — 'Having occasion 

 last week to inspect a grave in one of the parishes of 

 this city, in which two or three members of a family 

 had been buried some years since, and which lay in 

 very wet ground, I observed that the upper part of the 

 coffin was rotted away, and had left the head and 

 bones of the skull exposed to view. On inquiring of 

 the grave-digger how it came to pass that I did not 

 observe the usual sockets of the eyes in the skull, he 

 replied that what I saw was the hind part of the head 

 (termed the occiput, I believe, by anatomists), and that 

 the face was turned, as usual, to the earth ! ! — Not 

 exactly understanding his phrase 'as usual,' I inquired 

 if the body had been buried with the face upwards, as 

 in the ordinary way ; to which he replied to my 

 astonishment, in the affirmative, adding, that in the 

 course of decomposition the face of every individual 

 turns to the earth ! ! and that, in the experience of 

 three-and-twenty years in his situation, he had never 

 known more than one instance to the contrary.' " 



A. B. C. 



caucrteiS. 



DID CAPTAIN COOK FIRST DISCOVER THE SANDWICH 

 ISLANDS ? 



In a French atlas, dated 1762, in my pos- 

 session, amongst the numerous non-existing 

 islands laid down in the map of the Pacific, and 

 the still more numerous cases of omission in- 

 evitable at so early a period of Polynesian dis- 

 covery, there is inserted an island styled "I. St. 

 Fran9ois," or "I. S. Francisco," which lies in 



