Dec. 17. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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what is the orip;in of the adage occurring twice in 

 tlie Waverley Novels, thus : 



" Service, I wot, is no inheritance now-a-days; some 

 are wiser tlian other seme," &c. (See Peveril of the 

 Peak, chap, xiv.) 

 and 



"Ay, St. Roiian's, that is a' very true, — but service 

 is nae inheritance, and as for friendship it begins at 

 hame." — St. Ronan's Well, chap. x. 



I have seen a stone in an old building in the 

 north of Scotland, with the following inscription, 

 cut in letters of an ancient form : " Be gude in 

 office, or (or perhaps ' for,' part of the stone 

 being here broken off) servitude is no inheritance 

 to none." And I am curious to know the origin 

 of this proverb, so similar to that put by Sir 

 Walter Scott in the mouths of two of his homely 

 characters ; the one English and the other Scotch. 

 An answer will very much oblige G. M. T. 



Edinburgh. 



Antiquity of Fire-ii'ons. — In an old book, pub- 

 lished 1660, I met with the following couplet: 



" The burnt child dreads the fire ; if this be true. 

 Who first invented tongs its fury knew." 



Query, When were fire-Irons first used ? 



Aliquis. 



General Wolfe at Nantwich. — I observe in the 

 pamphlet entitled Historical Facts connected with 

 Nantwich and its Neighbourhood, lately referred to 

 in " N. & Q.," it is stated thut according to local 

 tradition General Wolfe, the hero of Quebec, may 

 in his boyhood have lived in the Yew Tree House, 

 near Stoke Hall. Now as this brave warrior was 

 a native of Kent, it is scarcely probable he would 

 have been a visitor at the house alluded to, unless 

 he had relatives who resided there. Is he known 

 to have had any family connexion in that quarter, 

 since the fact of his having had such, if established, 

 would tend to confirm the traditionary statement 

 respecting his domicile at the Yew Tree House ? 



T. P. L. 



Manchester. 



" Corporations have no Souls,'' Sf'C. — It was 

 once remarked that public corporations, companies, 

 &c. do harsh things compared with what indi- 

 viduals can venture to do, the fact being that they 

 have neither noses to be pulled nor souls to be 

 saved ; you have no hold upon them either in this 

 world or the next. B. 



Leemivg Family. — A member of the Society of 

 Friends, named Thomas Leeming, lived at or near 

 Wighton in the Wolds, in the East Riding of 

 Yorkshire, between the years 1660 and 1670. 

 What were the dates of his birth and death? what 

 were the names of his parents, his brothers, and 



his children? did any of them leave their native 

 country ? and how would a letter from the in- 

 quirer reach a descendant of tlie family, who could 

 furnish farther information on the suijject ? An 

 answer to the whole or part of the above Queries 

 will much oblige the undersigned. W. 



MS. Poems and Songs. — In the third volume 

 of Mb. Paynf, Collier's invaluable History of 

 English Dramatic Poetry, p. 275., it is stated, — 



" Mr. Tliorpe, of Bedford Street, is in possession of 

 a MS. full of songs and poems, in the handwriting of a 

 person of the name of Ricliard Jackson, all copied prior 

 to the year 1631, and including many unpublished 

 pieces by a variety of celebrated poets." 



Can any of the contributors to " N. & Q." oblige 

 P. C. S. S. by informing him where this MS. now 

 exists, and whether the whole, or any portion of it, 

 has been published ? P. C. S. S. 



Bishop Watson. — In a lecture delivered by this 

 bishop at Cambridge, he gave the following quo- 

 tation : 



" Scire ubi aliquid invenire posses, ea demum maxima 

 pars eruditionis est." 



Will any of your readers inform me whence the 

 passage is taken ? G. 



Herbert's " Memoirs of the Last Years of 

 Charles /." — Can any of your correspondents 

 inform me under what title and at what date Sir 

 Thomas Herbert's Narrative of the Last Years of 

 Charles I. was published ? I have at present in 

 my possession what appears to be the original MS., 

 and am desirous of comparing it with the printed 

 copy. The MS. bears the title of Carolina Thre- 

 nodia : a Plain and very Particular Narrative of 

 ichat haj)pened in the Last Years of King Charles 

 the First, by Sir Thomas Herbert, an eye and eai* 

 witness. Its opening pages contain a reference 

 to other letters on the same subject of an earlier 

 date (May 1 and 13, 1678). Were these letters 

 ever published, under what title, and when ? 



J.B. 



Prestwich. 



[This work has already been incidentally noticed in 

 our Second Volume, pp. 140. 220. and 476.; and in 

 Vol. iii., p. 157. Two editions of Herbert's Memoirs 

 have been published ; the first in 1 702, and the second 

 in 1815. The edition of 1702 is the best, as it contains 

 an " Advertisement to the Header," and several docu- 

 ments omitted in the edition published by G. and W. 

 Nicol of Pall Mall in 1813, The following is the 

 title to it : — 



" Memoirs of the Two last Years of the Reign of 

 that unparallel'd Prince, of ever-blessed Memory, King 

 Charles I. By Sir Tho. Herbert, Major Huntington, 



