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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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beautiful and thrifty field of grain, waving its rich 

 and golden top backward and forward so grace- 

 fully in sun and shadow, and filling the air around 

 with sweet fragrance ? Well, it is a lovely and a 

 pleasant sight ; a sight that makes glad the heart 

 of God's creatures. And a virtuous woman is like 

 it. But ah ! Sukey dear, take a keen, cruel knife, 

 and cut off the tops of the grain ; and then it 

 becomes a sorrowful sight. Nought but straw, 

 worthless straw, is left; which man and beast 

 shall tread under foot, and trample on, and defile ! 

 So it is with a woman despoiled of her virtue ! " 



Can any of your correspondents refer me to any 

 play illustrating an incident similar to this ? It 

 must have been acted in London prior to the 

 Mutiny of the Nore, for my old friend, shortly 

 after he witnessed it, was pressed into the naval 

 service, and was a participator in that celebrated 

 outbreak. C. D. D. 



New Brunswick, N. Jersey, U. S. A. 



Minar €iutviti. 



Heidelberg. — A spot in the plan of this cele- 

 brated castle is called " Clara Dettin's Garden." 

 Who was Clara Dettin ? N. 



The Sign of Griffiths the Publisher. — What 

 could induce Griffiths, the publisher of the 

 Monthly Review, to adopt The Dunciad for his 

 sign ? J. M. 



Gilberfs " History of the City of Dublin." —In 

 Mr. Gilbert's very interesting History of the City 

 of Dublin, vol. i. p. 94., I have met with the follow- 

 ing passage : 



" A woman, known as ' Darkey Kelly,' who kept an 

 infamous establishment in this alley [Copper Alley], was 

 tried for a capital offence about 1764 ; sentenced to death, 

 and publicly burnt in Stephen's Green." 



The author informs us in the next sentence, 

 that " her sister, Maria Llewellin, was condemned 

 to be hanged, for her complicity in the affair of 

 the Neals with Lord Carhampton ;" and therefore 

 it is not likely that the printer has mistaken the 

 date of Kelly's execution. But is it a fact, that 

 any one was "publicly burnt in Stephen's Green" 

 in or about the year 1764 ? Abhba. 



Newspaper Cutting. — 



_" It is not 400 years since a baron of this realm was 

 tried for high crimes and misdemeanors ; and one of the 

 charges exhibited against him was, that holding in con- 

 tempt the respect that man ought to have for man, he 

 had suffered himself to be carried about his own garden 

 in a sort of a chair, with poles put to it, bv two of his own 

 servants."— Aris's Birmingham Gazette, June 22, 1795. 



Who was the baron ? R. C. Wabde, 



Kidderminster. 



Richard Brayne, Braine, or Brain. — Can any 

 of your readers favour me with any information 

 respecting the family of Richard Brayne, Braine, 

 or Brain, who lived at or near Northwood, in the 

 county of Salop, and died August, 1755 ? and what 

 was the maiden name of his wife, who also died in 

 1755, and who was her father ? S. R. 



Sir John Crosby. — Can any one through your 

 journal inform me, who, if there are any, are the 

 descendants of Sir John Crosby, who is said to 

 have built Crosby Hall in Bishopsgate Street, and 

 who lived about the middle or latter end of the 

 fifteenth century ? Query. 



Bishop Oldham. — Information is requested 

 relative to the descendants of Dr. Hugh Oldham, 

 Bishop of Exeter, who died June 15, 1519. 



Thos. p. Hassall. 



59. Lord Street, Chetham, Manchester. 



Arms of Sir J. Russell. — What were the arms 

 of Sir James Russell, Knight, Lieut.-Governor of 

 the island of Nevis, and Governor and Com- 

 mander of the Leeward Carribee Islands, 1686? 

 and his family's lineage ? M. M. 



Distributing Money at Marriages. — Perhaps 

 some of your able contributors will favour me 

 with the origin of the custom practised in Allen- 

 dale, Northumberland, and other northern dis- 

 tricts ? The male guests, as soon as they emerge 

 without the precincts of the churchyard, com- 

 mence distributing money to the spectators, and 

 continue so to do from thence to where they 

 remain for refreshments. — I might also add another 

 peculiarity in connexion with a marriage in the 

 same place. Previous to the bride entering the 

 doorway of the house after the marriage ceremony, 

 she is met at the door, a veil is thrown over her 

 head, and a quantity of cake is pitched over her. 

 Have these customs anything in common with 

 Eastern customs? if not, what are their symbolical 

 meaning? J. W. 



Allendale. 



Gentleman hanged in 1559-60. — A private 

 gentleman, of a good family and of a large estate, 

 suffered death by hanging in March 1559-60, for 

 " a great robbery." There is no doubt that the 

 " great robbery " must have been connected with 

 political events. Can any of the many readers 

 of " N. & Q." throw any light on this subject by 

 means of their knowledge either of the immediate 

 fact, or of the general passages of the political 

 events of the time ? Careingtow. 



Ormonde Correggio. — Could you through your 

 valuable publication give me any information as to 

 the Ormonde Collection, and the Correggios in it? 

 I possess a fine Correggio, a Madonna, formerly in 



