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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 285. 



room of the Black Swan Inn, Coney Street, 

 York, hangs another, dated " Friday, April 12, 

 1706," exactly corresponding with the former, 

 except that the coach " sets forth at jive in the 

 morning," instead of six (as in 1678). It thus ap- 

 pears that on this road there was no improvement 

 during twenty-eight years. H. T. G. 



Hull. 



THE LAKE FAMILY. 



Information is solicited respecting the ancestors, 

 relations, and localities of the three under- 

 mentioned persons, but more particularly as to 

 the following points. 



James Lake, where born and when ? He was a 

 Canon of Exeter, died Sept. 30, 1678 ; buried in 

 the cross aisle behind the communion table in the 

 cathedral. 



Mary Gihbyns, widow. What was her maiden 

 name ? She was married to the above-named 

 James Lake, Jan. 27, 1641, in Exeter Cathedral, 

 and had issue Edward Lake, born at Exeter, Nov. 

 1642, D. D., Archdeacon and Canon of Exeter, 

 Chaplain and Tutor to the Princesses Mary and 

 Anne, daughters of the Duke of York, afterwards 

 James II., and whose Diary was published by the 

 Camden Society in 1846 ; two other sons and a 

 daughter. 



Margaret. What was her maiden name, where 

 born, when and where married ? She was wife of 

 Archdeacon Lake just mentioned, was born in 

 1638, and died April 4, 1712, her husband Feb. 1, 

 1704, both buried in St. Katharine's Church, now 

 pulled down ; leaving, among others, a daughter 

 Frances, married to the Rev. William Taswell, 

 D.D., Rector of Newington Butts, &c. 



And also, what relation, if any, Avas Archdeacon 

 Lake to Sir Edward Lake, created baronet by 

 Charles I. " for his loyalty and valour signalised 

 at Edge Hill fight," as appears by the tomb of his 

 nephew, Thomas Lake, Esq., Utter Barrister of 

 the Middle Temple, in the Temple Church ? 



As the information may not be generally inte- 

 resting to your readers, I should feel obliged by 

 contributors addressing any communication to the 

 undersigned. John Tanswell. 



5. King's Bench Walk, Temple. 



Call Duck. — I was recently examining the 

 collection of wild fowl in a friend's preserve, and 

 was shown a pair of birds which he denominated 

 call ducks, asserting that they were used as such 

 in the decoys on the Severn. They much resem- 

 bled the Anas boschas, or common wild duck, but 

 the mallard was slightly, the duck very much, 



lighter in colour than the more ordinary species. 

 The mallard had a yellow beak. I do not find 

 these birds mentioned as a distinct species by 

 Yarrell, Mudie, or other writers on British birds; 

 nor, in my very limited experience as an orni- 

 thologist, have I met with any similar birds in a 

 wild state. Can any of your correspondents in- 

 form me whether they are hybrids, bred for the 

 purpose, or give me any information respecting 

 them ? Francis John Scott, M.A. 



Tewkesbury. 



James Mendham. — Can you give me any ac- 

 count of James Mendham, Jun., author of The 

 Adoentures of Ulysses, a classical drama, 8vo., 

 1811? R.J. 



Glasgow. 



Visit of Charles I. to Glasgow. — In an account 

 of the life of the Rev. Zachary Boyd, of Glasgow, 

 published at Glasgow in 1831, it is stated that 

 King Charles I. visited Glasgow when in Scotland 

 in 1633. Can you inform me where I can find 

 any account of this royal visit ? R. J. 



Glasgow. 



Hoggerty Maw. — I once knew a woman who 

 resided in a small village in Warwickshire, who 

 commonly went by the name of Hoggerty Maw ; 

 for many years I never knew her by any other ; 

 her right name was Cox. The story went that, 

 when a girl at service, her master's house was at- 

 tacked by thieves ; that she stood at the stair-foot 

 door, and prevented their farther progress, and 

 finally beat them out of the house with a hoggerty 

 maw ; hence the reason for her bearing so strange 

 a name. What could this formidable weapon 

 have been ? And is it the correct name, or only 

 a Warwickshire provincialism ? H. J. 



Handsworth. 



Cheshire Tokens. — I am collecting materials 

 for a Descriptive List of Cheshire Tradesmen's 

 Tokens of the 17 th and \^th Centuries, and shall 

 feel much obliged to any readers of " N. & Q." 

 who can render me the slightest assistance in my 

 task. In most numismatic cabinets specimens 

 exist of more or less rarity ; the contribution, 

 therefore, of even a single specimen will be grate- 

 fully appreciated, and at the same time serve to 

 complete the object I have in view. Where it 

 may be inconvenient to transmit the token itself, 

 special sketches, or rubbings, with short de- 

 scriptions of the legends, devices, &c., on each, 

 will answer every purpose. With the double 

 object of saving the space of " N. & Q.," and of 

 hastening the completion of my plan, communi- 

 cations would be all the more acceptable, if for- 

 warded direct to my private address. " Bis dat, 

 qui cito dat." T. Hughes. 



4. Paradise Row, Chester. 



