April 22. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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some hundreds of years, and has received fresh 

 supplies year after year from the ash-bin and 

 dust-heap. I have about a dozen in my pos- 

 session, which probably belong to various periods 

 from the beginning of the seventeenth to the 

 end of the eighteenth century. The dearness of 

 tobacco in the early times of its use is evinced 

 by the smallness of the bowls, for many of them 

 would hold at most not half a thimbleful of to- 

 bacco ; while the shank, where it joins the bowl, 

 is nearly double the thickness of that in use at 

 the present day. If I recollect aright, the pipe as 

 represented in Hogarth seems but little larger in 

 the bowl than that in use a century before ; the 

 shape being in both the same, very much like that 

 of a barrel. The sides of the bowl seem formerly 

 to have been made of double or treble the thick- 

 ness of those now in use. This will account for 

 the good preservation in which they may be found 

 after having been in the ground one or two cen- 

 turies. The clay tobacco-pipe probably attained 

 its present size and slimness, and (very nearly) its 

 present shape, about the beginning of this cen- 

 tury. I am well aware that, by many, all this will 

 be esteemed as " in tenui labor," but, for my part, 

 I look upon no reminiscences of the past, however 

 humble, as deserving to be slighted or consigned to 

 oblivion. Even the humble tobacco-pipe may be 

 made the vehicle of some interesting information. 

 Will any of your correspondents favour your 

 other readers with some farther information on 

 this subject ? Henry T. Riley. 



fflinav H&uttieg. 



Cabinet : Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, Marquis 

 of Normanby, and Duke of Buckinghamshire. — 

 Can any reader refer me to a letter of the Duke 

 of Buckinghamshire's which I have read (but I 

 entirely forget where), written during the reign 

 of William III., and complaining of his exclusion 

 from the Cabinet? He was either Lord Nor- 

 manby or Lord Mulgrave when the letter was 

 written. C. H. 



Bersethrigumnue. — In the Escheats, 23 Hen. III. 

 No. 20., quoted by Nichols in his History of Lei- 

 cestershire (vol. iii. parti., under "Cotes "), occurs 

 this unusual word. Gilbert de Segrave held the 

 manor of Cotes in socage of the king " by paying 

 yearly one bersethrigumnue." Will any reader of 

 "N. & Q." favour me with its etymology or 

 meaning ? I imagine it to have been a clerical 

 error for brachetum cum ligamine, a service by 

 which one of the earlier lords of Cotes held these 

 lands. Thomas Russell Potter. 



Lady Jane Grey. — Neither Nichols in his His- 

 tory of Leicestershire, nor his equally eminent 

 grandson in his interesting Chronicle of Queen 



Jane, nor, so far as I am aware, any other author, 

 mentions the place where the Lady Jane was 

 buried. The general belief is, I think, that her 

 body was interred with that of her husband in the 

 Tower. But a tradition has just been communi- 

 cated to me by the Rev. Andrew Bloxam, that 

 the body was privately brought from London by 

 a servant of the family, and deposited in the 

 chapel at Bradgate. What is the fact ? 



Thomas Russell Potter. 



Addison and Watts. — Can any of your nu- 

 merous readers inform me whether the hymn 

 " When rising from the bed of death," so generally 

 ascribed to Addison, and taken from the chapter 

 on death and judgment in his Evidences of the 

 Christian Religion, is his own composition, or that 

 of the "excellent man in holy orders;" and 

 whether this is Dr. Isaac Watts * S. M. 



Lord Botelousfs Statue by Richard Hayware. — 

 The statue erected to Lord Boteloust by the 

 " Colony and Dominion of Virginia" was "made 

 in London, 1773, by Richard Hayware." I should 

 be obliged for information as to Mr. Hayware. 



T. Balch. 



Philadelphia. 



Celtic in Devon. — When was the Celtic lan- 

 guage obsolete in the South Hams of Devon ? 



G. R. L. 



Knobstick. — In these days of strikes, turn-outs, 

 and lock-outs, we hear so much of " knobsticks," 

 that I should like to know why this term has come 

 to be applied to those who work for less than 

 the wages recognised, or under other conditions 

 deemed objectionable by trades unions. 



Prestoniensis. 



Aristotle. — Where does Aristotle say that a 

 judge is a living law, as the Law itself is a dumb 

 judge ? H. P. 



The Passion of our Lord dramatised. — Busby, 

 in his History of Music, vol. i. p. 249., says : 



" It has been very generally supposed, that the 

 manner of reciting and singing in the theatres formed 

 the original model of the church service ; an idea 

 sanctioned by the fact, that the Passion of our Saviour 

 was dramatised by the early priests." 



What authority is there for this statement ? 



H. P. 



Ludwell : Lunsford : Kemp. — Inscription on a 

 tombstone in the graveyard of the old church at 

 Williamsburgh : 



" Under this marble lyeth the body of Thomas Lud- 

 well, Esq., Secretary of Virginia, who was born at 

 Burton, in the county of Somerset, in the kingdom of 

 England, and departed this life in the yenr 1698 : and 

 near this place lie the bodies of Richard Kemp, Esq., 



