July 16. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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The lines referred to typified Tyranny under the 

 form of the man who puts out the gas-lights at 

 dawn : " Cutting off the little heads of light which 

 lit the world." I am not sure of the rhythm, and 

 so have put the lines like prose ; but they wind up 

 with a fine analogy of the sun in all its glory 

 bursting on the earth, and putting the proceedings 

 of the light extinguisher utterly to nought. 



A. B. R. 



Medal of Sir Robert Walpole. — On a brass 

 medal, without date, rather larger than half a 

 crown, are these effigies. 



On one side the devil, horned and tailed proper, 

 with a fork in his right hand, and marching with a 

 very triumphant step, is conducting a courtier in 

 full dress (no doubt meant for Walpole), by a 

 rope round his neck, into the open jaws of a 

 monster, which represent the entrance to the 

 place of punishment. Out of the devil's mouth 

 issues a label with the words, " Make room for Sir 

 Robert." Underneath, " No Excise." 



On the reverse are the figures of two naval 

 officers, with the legend, " The British Glory re- 

 revived by Admiral Vernon and Commodore 

 Brown." This refers of course to the taking of 

 Porto Bello in November, 1739. 



Is this piece one of rarity and value ? J. 



La Fete des Chaudrons. — In the exhibition of 

 pictures in the British Institution is one (No. 17.) 

 by Teniers, entitled " La Fete des Chaudrons." 

 In what publication can the description of this 

 fete, or fair, be found ? C. I. R. 



Who first thought of Table-turning? — Whilst 

 the people are amusing themselves, and the learned 

 are puzzling themselves, on the subject of table- 

 turning, would you have any objection to answer 

 the following Query ? 



Who first thought of table-turning ? and whence 

 has it suddenly risen to celebrity ? J. G. T. 



Hagley. 



College Guide. — Will some of your correspon- 

 dents kindly inform a father, who is looking for- 

 ward to his boys going to college, in what work 

 he will find the fullest particulars respecting 

 scholarships and exhibitions at the diflferent col- 

 leges in both universities ? Querist is in posses- 

 sion of Gilbert's Liber Scholasticus (1843), the 

 Family Almanack for 1852, and, of course, the 

 University Calendars. S. S. S. 



Done Pedigree. — A very old MS. pedigree of 

 the family of Done of Utkington, in the county 

 before me, connects with that family no less than 

 twenty-three Cheshire families of distinction, viz. 

 Cholmondeley, Egerton,Wilbraham, Booth, Arden, 



Leicester, and seventeen others. Now, as it ap- 

 pears by your note on the communication of a 

 correspondent (Vol. vi., p. 273.), that there exists 

 a pedigree of the family of Done, of Utkington, in 

 the British Museum, Additional MS. No. 5836. 

 pp. 180. and 186., perhaps you will be good 

 enough to say whether that pedigree discloses the 

 extensive Cheshire family connexion with the 

 Done family above noticed. T. W. Jones. 



Nantwich. 



[Tlie following families connected with Done of 

 Utkington occur in the pedigree (Add. MS. 5836. 

 p. 186.): " Richard de Kingsley, a.i>. 1233 ; Venables, 

 Swinerton, Peter de Thornton, Lord Audley, Button, 

 Aston, Gerrard, Wilbraham, Manwaring, Eliz. Traf- 

 ford, widow of Geo. Booth of Dunham, Ralph Legh 

 of High Legh, Davenport, Thomas Stanley de Alder- 

 ley, Thomas WagstafT of Tachbroke, and Devereux 

 Knightley of Fawsley." This pedigree was copied by 

 Cole from an old MS. book of pedigrees formerly be- 

 longing to Sir John Crew. See also Ormerod's Cheshire, 

 vol. ii. p. 133., for a pedigree of Done of Utkington, 

 Flax- Yards, and Duddon, compiled from inquisitions 

 post mortem, the parochial registers, and the Visitations 

 of 1580 and 1664.] 



Scotch Neiospapers, Sfc. — What are the earliest 

 publications of Scotland giving an account of the 

 current events of that kingdom ? T. F. 



[ The Edinburgh Gazette, or Scotch Postman, printed 

 by Robert Bpown on Tuesdays and Thursdays, ap- 

 pears to have been the earliest gazette. The first 

 Number was published in March, 1715. This was 

 followed by The Edinburgh Evening Courant, published 

 on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays. No. 1. ap- 

 peared on the 15th December, 1718, and has existed 

 to the present time. There was another paper issued 

 on May 8, 1692, called The Scotch Mercury, giving a 

 true account of the daily proceedings and most remark- 

 able public occurrences in Scotland ; but this seems to 

 have been printed in London for R. Baldwin. The 

 earliest Almanack published in Scotland was in 1677, 

 by Mr. Forbes of Aberdeen, under the title of A New 

 Prognostication, calculated for North Britain, and which 

 was continued until the year 1700. J 



Dictum de Kenilworth. — Said to have passed 

 anno 1266. What was the nature of it ? 



Abredonensis. 



[It is a declaration of the parliament of Henry III., 

 containing the terms on which the king was to grant a 

 general pardon to the malcontents of Ely, namely, that 

 all who took arms against the king should pay him the 

 value of their lands, some for five years, others for 

 three and for one. A copy of it is in the Cottonian 

 Library, Claudius, D. ii., 1 1 9. b., and in Tyrrel's Hist, 

 of England, p. 1064.'] 



Dr. Harwood. — Can you tell me in what year 

 the Rev. Dr. Harwood of Lichfield, author of a 

 History of that city, and other works, died ? I 



