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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 233. 



"Athenian Sport." — Who was the writer of 

 Athenian Sport, or Two Thousand Paradoxes, 

 merely argued to amuse and divert the Age, by a 

 Member of the Athenian Society, London, 1707 ? * 

 It would almost appear to have been a burlesque 

 upon the Athenian Oracle. Henry T. Riley. 



Gutta Percha made soluble. — Can any one 

 inform me how gutta percha may be made so so- 

 luble, that a coating of it may be given any article, 

 which shall dry as hard as its former state? I 

 have tried melting it in a ladle, but it never har- 

 dened properly. E. B. 



Leeds. 



Arms of Anthony Kitchen. — Can any of your 

 correspondents inform me what were the arms of 

 Anthony Kitchen, Bishop of Llandaff in 1545 ? 

 And what relation, if any, of Robert Kitchen, who 

 was Mayor of Bristol in 1588 ? The latter was of 

 Kendal in Westmoreland. D. F. T. 



Griesbach Arms. — Could any correspondent 

 versed in German heraldry tell me the arms of 

 the German family of Griesbach, or refer me to 

 any work containing a collection of German 

 arms ? Cid. 



Postage System of the Romans. — Could any of 

 your correspondents inform me where I may find 

 a perfect account of the postal system of the 

 Romans? We know that they must have had 

 such a system, but I have forgotten the author 

 who gives any description of it. Ardelio. 



Three Crowns and Sugar-loaf — Passing through 

 Tranche (a village near Kidderminster in Wor- 

 cestershire) the other day, I saw an inn called 

 " The Three Crowns and Sugar-loaf." As there 

 seems to me not the least connexion between a 

 crown and a sugar-loaf, I send this to " N. & Q." 

 in hopes of an explanation from some of its 

 readers more skilled than myself in such matters. 



Cid. 



Helen MacGregor. — In Burke's Landed Gentry 

 (Supplement, art. " MacGregor of Craigrostan 

 and Inversnaid") this redoubted heroine is de- 

 scribed as " a woman of agreeable temper and 

 domestic habits, active and careful in the manage- 

 ment of her family affairs." This is so directly 

 opposed, not only to Scott's description, but to 

 the generality of traditions about her, that, as 

 Campbell says, "it makes the hair of one's literary 

 faith stand on end." Helen was, very likely, a 

 different person from what she afterwards became, 

 ere the events happened that drove Rob Roy " to 

 the hill-side to become a broken man;" but one 

 can hardly imagine her, in her most happy days, 



[* Lowndes has attributed this work, but we think 

 incorrectly, to the celebrated John Dunton. — Ed.] 



to have been such a person as is above depicted — 

 an amiable wife and clever housekeeper. The 

 pen of a descendant is evident, in the partial de- 

 scription given of both husband and wile. 



J. S. Warden. 



Francis Grose the Antiquary. — Francis Grose,, 

 the distinguished antiquary, was Captain and Ad- 

 jutant of the Surrey Militia, commanded by Col. 

 Hodges, in which regiment he served for many 

 years ; but on some occasion, probably breach of 

 discipline, he was brought to a general court- 

 martial. The regiment formed part of the large 

 encampment of 15,000 men on Cocksheath, near 

 Maidstone, in 1778. I think the trial took place 

 then, or within a year or two of that date ; and 

 should be thankful to any reader of "N. & Q." 

 who would supply me with the precise date when 

 the court-martial assembled ? 2s. 



" King of Kings :" Bishop Andreios 1 Sermons. — • 

 From MS. Account of Fellows of Kings, com- 

 piled from 1750, a.d. 1583, Geffrey King, D.D., 

 Professor of Hebrew, Cambridge, first chaplain to 

 Bancroft and James I., whether he or Thos. King, 

 1605, or James King, 1609 ? One of them began 

 his sermon at St. James : " I, King of Kings, come 

 to James the First and Sixth, nothing wavering." 



" These puns much applauded in those times, inso- 

 much that the preacher would stop to receive applause, 

 which was expressed by loud and repeated hums. In 

 Bishop Andrews' printed Sermons, these stops may be 

 discovered." 



Is this true of Bishop Andrews' Sermons ? 



J. H. L. 



Scroope Family. — Will any one be so good as to 

 clear up the doubts noticed in the peerage books 

 as to the family of Henry Lord Scroope, of Bolton, 

 who died about 22 Henry VII. ? His wives are 

 generally stated to have been daughters of the 

 Farl of Northumberland and Lord Scroope of 

 Upsal ; but other accounts are to be met with. 

 What however I particularly refer to, is the 

 question, who was the mother of his daughter 

 Alice, who married Sir Gilbert Talbot ? Lady 

 Talbot could not have been by the daughter of 

 Lord Scroope of Upsal : as, if so, she and her issue 

 would have inherited her grandfather's barony, 

 which it is certain was enjoyed by his younger 

 brothers. Very likely Mr. Scroope's unpublished 

 volume on the Lords Scroope and their seat 

 Coombe Castle explains this. S. N. 



Harrison the Regicide — Lowle. — Thomas Wil- 

 ling, son of Joseph Willing and Anne Lowle (his 

 second wife), married July 16, 1704, Anne Har- 

 rison, a grand-daughter of the Regicide. Charles 

 (son of Thomas and Anne, born in Bristol, 1710) 

 married Anne Shippen. One of their daughters 

 married Sir Walter Stirling ; and a great-grand- 



