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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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stances of the above. The ordinary channels for 

 obtaining such information I am of course ac- 

 quainted with. C. Clifton Barrt. 



" Pay me tribute, or else ." — In Mr. Bunn's 



late work, Old England and New England, I find 

 this note : 



" We all remember the haughty message of the 

 ruler of a certain province to the governor of a neigh- 

 bouring one, ' Pay me tribute, or else ; ' and the 



appropriate reply, ' I owe you none, and if .' " 



Not being of the totality reminiscent, may I beg 

 for enlightenment ? The anecdote sounds well, 

 and I am therefore curious to know who the 

 governors and what the provinces ? W. T. M. 



Hong Kong. 



" A regular Turk." — We often'hear of people 

 bad to manage being "regular Turks." When 

 did the phrase originate ? Though not a journal 

 for politics, " N. & Q." will no doubt breathe a 

 wish for the present sultan to be, in the approach- 

 ing warfare, " a regular Turk." Prestoniensis. 



Benjamin Rush. — I found the following in an 

 old paper : 



" Edinburgh, June 14, 1768. Yesterday Benjamin 

 Rush, of the city of Philadelphia, A. M., and Gus- 

 tavus Richard Brown, of Maryland, were admitted to 

 the honour of a degree of Doctors of Physic, in the 

 university of this place, after having undergone the 

 usual examinations, both private and public. The 

 former of whom was also presented some time before 

 with the freedom of this city." 



The Benjamin Rush here referred to subse- 

 quently became quite eminent as a physician. 

 He took an active part in the struggle between 

 the American colonies and the mother country, 

 and was one of the signers of the Declaration of 

 Independence. One of his sons was the American 

 minister to London a few years since. 



Can any of your readers inform me why the 

 freedom of Edinburgh was conferred upon him ? 

 In 1768 he could not have been over twenty-five 

 years of age. Inquirer. 



Per Centum Sign. — Will you kindly inform me 

 why the symbol % means per centum : viz. 5 %, 

 10 %, &c. ? James Mills. 



Burial Service Tradition. — About forty years 

 ago, a young man hung himself. When his body 

 was taken to the church for interment, the 

 clergymen refused reading the burial service over 

 him ; his friends took him to another parish, and 

 the clergyman of that place refused also; they 

 then removed him to an adjoining one, and the 

 clergyman received him and buried him. The 

 last clergyman said, if any friend of the deceased 

 had cut off his right hand, and laid it outside the 



coffin, no clergyman then could refuse legally re- 

 ceiving and burying the corpse. Query, is this 

 true ? 



May I ask your readers for an answer, as it will 

 oblige many friends. The above happened in 

 Derbyshire. S. Adams, Curate. 



Jean Barfs Descent on Newcastle. — I find no 

 notice, either in Sykes's Local Records, or in 

 Richardson's Local Historian's Table-book, of the 

 descent made on Newcastle in 1694 by the cele- 

 brated Jean Bart, whom the Dutch nicknamed 

 " De Fransch Duyvel." Somewhere or other I 

 have seen it stated that he returned to France 

 with an immense booty. Perhaps some of your 

 north country correspondents can tell us whether 

 any record of his visit exists in the archives of 

 the corporation of Newcastle or elsewhere ? 



William Brockie. 



Russell Street, South Shields. 



Madame deStael. — In Three Months in Northern 

 Germany, p. 151., 1817, the following passage 

 occurs among some corrections of the mistakes of 

 Madame de Stael : 



" She knew the language imperfectly, read little, 

 and misreported the gossip which she heard, either 

 from carelessness or misunderstanding. When she 

 censures Fichte, who she says had received no provo- 

 cation from Nicolai, for helping Schlegel to write a 

 dull book against, him when he was too old to reply, 

 she must have been ignorant of the fact, that Nicolai 

 lived and wrote many years after the publication; and 

 that, whether provoked or not, it is far from dull." 



I cannot find any mention of this dispute in 

 Madame de Stael's De V Allemagne, and shall be 

 glad if any of your readers can direct me to the 

 passage in her works, and also to the joint work 

 of Schlegel and Fichte. R. A. 



Ox. and C. Club. 



Honoria, Daughter of Lord Denny. — I should 

 be extremely obliged to any of your correspon- 

 dents if they could give me the date of the death of 

 Honoria, daughter and heiress of Edward, Lord 

 Denny, who was married to James Hay, after- 

 wards Earl Carlisle, on the 6th of January, 1607. 

 She had issue James, second Earl of Carlisle, who 

 died in 1660. As James Hay, then Baron Hay 

 of Sawley, married his second wife (Lucy, daugh- 

 ter of Henry, Earl of Northumberland) in No- 

 vember 1617, the time of the first Lady Hay's 

 death is fixed between 1607 and 1617. 



Augustus Jessopp. 



N.B. — "Bis dat qui cito dat." 



Rectory, Papworth St. Agnes. 



Hospital of John of Jerusalem. — Is there any 

 book or manuscript relating to the proceedings of 

 the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England, 



