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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 214. 



What is known of liis general history ; and is any 

 member of his family now living ? E. C. 



Haschisch or Indian Hemp. — I have been for 

 some time trying to procure some of the Haschisch, 

 or Indian hemp, about which Dr. Moreau has 

 published such an amusing book, Du Haschisch et 

 de V Alienation Mentulc, Par. 1845. — Can any of 

 your readers tell me where I can get any ? The 

 narcotic effects of the common hemp plant are 

 well known in our country districts : where, under 

 its ironical alias Honesty., the dried stalk is often 

 smoked, but the tropical variety appears to be 

 infinitely more powerful in its operation. 



V. T. Sternberg. 



Crieff Compensation. — During the rebellion in 

 1715, the village of Crieff, Perthshire, was burnt 

 by the Highland army, on account of the attach- 

 ment of its inhabitants to the royal cause. It has 

 been stated that, some years ago, the descendants 

 of the sufferers received from government a sum 

 equivalent to a certain proportion of the loss 

 which had been sustained. 



Is there any official record in reference to this 

 compensation ? D. 



Admission to Lincoln's Inn, the Temple, and 

 Grays Inn. — Have there ever been published, or 

 do there exist anywhere in MSS., lists of the 

 persons who have been from time to time matri- 

 culated as students of those inns of court ? 



A publication of them would be of the greatest 

 value to the biographical department of literature. 



G. 



Orders for the Household of Lord Montagu. — 

 The second Viscount ]Montagu, grandson and heir 

 of Anthony Browne, created Viscount in 1554, 

 ob. 1592, compiled a detailed code of regulations 

 for his family, thus entitled : 



" A Booke of Orders and Rules established by me, 

 Anthony, Viscount Mountague, for the better direction 

 and government of my howsholde and family, together 

 with the generall dutyes and charges apperteyninge to 

 inyne officers and other servantcs. Anno Dni 1595." 



Has this curious illustration of ancient domestic 

 manners ever been published ? Ai-bert Way. 



Cateaton Street. — I am anxious to ascertain 

 the meaning and derivation of this word : the 

 London Cateaton Street, I believe, is changed 

 into Gr-resham Street. I have lately learnt that 

 there is a Cateaton Street in Liverpool also. 



Etymo. 



[Cateaton Street, or " Catteten Street," says Stow, 

 " is a corruption of Catte Street, which beginneth at 

 the north end of Ironmonger Lane, and runneth to the 



west end of St. Lawrence Church." In 1845j^?this 

 street was renamed Gresham Street.] 



Portrait of Lee, Inventor of the Stocking-frame. 

 — In Hatton's History of London (published in 

 1708), it is stated that a picture (by Bulderston) 

 of Lee, the inventor of the stocking-frame, hung 

 in the hall of the Framework Knitters' Company. 

 The inquirer wishes to ascertain whether the pic- 

 ture is yet in existence or not ; and, if still in 

 existence, where it can be seen. M. E. 



[In Cunningham's Handhouh of London, p. 527., 

 s. V. Weavers^ Hall, Basinghall Street, is a quotation 

 from the Quarterly Review for January, 1816, in which 

 the picture is spoken of as then existing in the Stock- 

 ing Weavers' Hall.] 



Coclier's Arithmetic (Vol. iv,, pp. 102. 149.). — 

 Some correspondence appears in " N. & Q." about 

 the first edition of " Old Cocker." I should 

 be glad to ascertain the date of the latest edition. 



Tyro, 



[The British Museum contains the following edi- 

 tions of Cocker's Arithmetic : — the 20th, Lond. 1700; 

 the 37th, perused and published by Jolin Hawkins 

 (with MS. notes), Lond. 1720; 41st, Lond. 1724; 

 50th, corrected by Geo. Fisher, Lond. 1746. Watt 

 notices one revised by J. Mair, Edinb. 1751. In 

 Professor de Morgan's Arithmetical Books, p. 56., where 

 a full history of Cocker's book is given, mention is 

 made of an Edinburgh edition, 1765, and a Glasgow 

 edition of 1777.] 



Lyke Porch or Litch Porch. — What is the pro- 

 per name for the porch found, not unfrequently, 

 at the churchyard gate under which the body was, 

 I believe, supposed to rest before the funeral ? Is 

 it lyke or litch ? The derivation may be different in 

 different parts of England, as they were originally 

 Saxon or Danish. Liig Dan., lyk Dutch, and 

 leiche Ger., are all different forms of the same 

 word. The first two approach nearer to lyke, the 

 latter to litch. J. H. L. 



[In most works on ecclesiastical architecture it is 

 called lich-gate, from Anglo-Saxon lich, a corpse: hence 

 Lich-Jield, the field of dead bodies. In the Glossary of 

 Architecture we read : " Lich-gate, or corpse -gate, leich- 

 engang. Germ., from the Ang.-Sax. lich, a corpse, and 

 geat, a gate ; a shed over the entrance of a churchyard, 

 beneath which the bearers sometimes paused when 

 bringing a corpse for interment. The term is alsa 

 used in some parts of the country for the ])ath by 

 which a corpse is usually conveyed to the church."] 



Henry Bu7-ton. — Henry Burton was born in 

 1579 ; studied at Oxford, and was at one time 

 minister of St. Matthew, Friday Street. In 1636, 

 he drew upon himself the vengeance of the Star- 

 Chamber, by two discourses in which he severely 

 inveighed against the bishops. For this offence 

 he was fined, deprived of his ears, and sentenced 

 to imprisonment for life. He was liberated by 



