Oct. 8. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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des Masz- und Gnwiclit- Systems in GrossJierzog- 

 thum Hessen, by F. W. Griinm, Darmstadt, 1840. 

 — From the Navorscher. $. *. 



Parish Clerlis Company. — 



" In making searches in registers of parishes within 

 the bills of mortality, a facility is afforded by the com- 

 pany of parish clerks ; by paying a fee of about two 

 guineas, a circular is sent to all the parish clerks, with 

 the particulars of information required : the registers 

 are accordingly searched, and the result communicated 

 to the clerk of the company." 



The above I give from Burn's History of Parish 

 Registers, p. 217. note, published in 1829. Is this 

 the case at present ; and if so, what is the direc- 

 tion of the clerk of the Company ? I wish this 

 system existed in Oxford. Y. S. M. 



Orange Blossom. — Can any reader of " N. & Q." 

 inform me why the flowers of the orange blossom 

 are so universally used in the dress of a bride? 

 and from what date they have been so used ? 



Augusta. 



Mr. Pepys his Queries. — I cannot say that I 

 met with Pepys as Fielding did Shakspeare, in a 

 Journey from this World to the next ; but I met 

 with seven of his Queries among the Kawlinson 

 MSS. in the Bodleian, addressed to Sir William 

 Dugdule, a name dear to all orthodox antiquaries. 

 It would appear the Secretary to the Admiralty 

 felt the want of a " medium of inter-communi- 

 calion " in his day. Plere are his Queries : 



1. Whether any foi'cigners are to be found in 

 our list of English admirals? 



2. The reason or account to be given of the 

 place assigned to our admirals in the Act of Pre- 

 cedence ? 



3. Whether any of the considerable families of 

 our nobility or gentry have been raised by the 

 sea? 



4. Some Instances of the greatest ransoms here- 

 tofore set upon prisoners of greatest quality. 



5. The descent and posterity of Sir Francis 

 Drake ; and what estate is now In the possession 

 of any of his family derived from him. 



6. Who Sir Anthony Ashby was ? 



7. What are and have been generally the pro- 

 fessions, trades, or qualifications, civil or military, 

 that have and do generally raise families in Eng- 

 land to wealth and honour in Church and State ? 



J. Yeowell. 

 50. Burton Street. 



Foreign^ Medical Education. — Can any con- 

 tributor direct me to any sources of information 

 on the regulations concerning medical instruction 

 and medical degrees in the principal universities 

 on the Continent ? Medicus. 



Chandler., Bishop of Durham. — Lord Dover, in 

 the second volume of his edition of Walpole's 

 Letters to Sir Horace Mann, p. 373., in a note, 

 thus speaks of this prelate : 



" A learned prelate and author of various polemical 

 works, he had been raised to the see of Durham ia 

 1730, as it was then said, by symoniacal means." 



Can any of your readers Inform me where I can 

 obtain evidence of the symoniacal means by which 

 it is said this bishop obtained the bishopric of 

 Durham ? One would scarcely think so cautious 

 a man as Lord Dover would refer to the Impu- 

 tation, without some evidence on which his lord- 

 ship could rely. 



Mr. Surtees, In his History of the Bishops of 

 Durham, makes no allusion to the symoniacal 

 means by which Chandler obtained his promotion 

 to the see of Durham. He gives a list of the 

 bishop's printed works, amongst which is a " charge 

 to the grand jury of Durham concerning engross- 

 ing of corn, &c., 1740." Can you, or any of your 

 readers, inform me where this pamphlet is to be 

 met with ? For I am curious to know how a 

 bishop could make a charge to a grand jury. 

 There must surely be some mistake in the title of 

 the pamphlet. Fka. Mewburn. 



Darlington. 



[The charge of simony is loosely noticed by Shaw 

 in his History of Staffordshire, vol. i. p. 278. He says, 

 " Edward Chandler was translated from Lichfield and 

 Coventry to Durham in 1730; and it was then publicly 

 said that he gave 9000Z. for that opulent see." To this 

 Chalmers, in his Biog. Diet., adds, " which is scarcely 

 credible." The Charge by the bishop is in the British 

 Museum : it is entitled, " A Charge delivered to the 

 Grand Jury at the Quarter- Sessions held at Durham, 

 July 16, 1740, concerning engrossing of corn and grain, 

 and the riots that have been occasioned thereby." 4to., 

 Durham.] 



Huggins and Muggins. — Can any of your 

 readers assign the origin of this jocular appella- 

 tion ? I would hazard the conjecture, that it 

 may be a corruption of Hogen Mogen, High 

 Mightinesses, the style, I believe, of the States- 

 General of Holland ; and that It probably became 

 an expression of contempt in the mouths of the 

 Jacobites for the followers of William HI., from 

 whence it has passed to a more general application. 



F. K. 



Bath. 



[Hugger-mugger, says Dr. Richardson, is the com- 

 mon way of writing this word, from Udal to the present 

 time. No probable etymology, he adds, has yet been 

 given. Sir John Stoddart (^Ency. Metropolitana, vol. i. 

 p. 120.) has given a long article on this word, which 

 concludes with the following remarks : — " The last ety- 

 mology that we shall mention is from the Dutch title. 



