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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 237. 



which enters so fully into particulars as to give 

 the names of the members of the society and its 

 officers about the year 1300 ? C. F. K. 



Heiress of Haddon Hall. — Any one who visits 

 Haddon Hall in Derbyshire, the property of the 

 Duke of Rutland, is shown a doorway, through 

 which the heiress to this baronial mansion eloped 

 with (I think) a Cavendish some centuries ago. 

 I have been informed that in a recent restoration 

 of Bakewell Church, which is near Haddon Hall, 

 the vault which contained the remains of this lady 

 and her family was accidentally broken into, and 

 that the bodies of herself, her husband, and some 

 children, were found decapitated, with their heads 

 under their arms ; moreover, that in all the coffins 

 therewere dice. My informant had read an au- 

 thenticated account of this curious circumstance, 

 which was drawn up at the time of the discovery, 

 but he could not refer me to it ; and it is very 

 possible that either his memory or mind may have 

 failed as to the exact facts. At any rate they are 

 worth embalming, I think, in the pages of " N. & 

 Q.," if any correspondent will kindly supply both 

 " chapter and verse." Alfred Catty. 



Monteith. — There is a peculiar style of silver 

 bowl, of about the time of Queen Anne, which is 

 called a Monteith. Why is it so designated ? and 

 to what particular use was it generally applied ? 



P. 



Vandyking. — In a letter from Secretary Winde- 

 banke to the Lord Deputy Wentworth {Strafford 

 Papers, vol. i. p. 161.), P. C. S. S. notices this 

 phrase, "Pardon, I beseech your lordship, the over- 

 free censure of your VandykingJ" What is the 

 meaning of this term, which P. C. S. S. does not 

 find in any other writing of the period ? Had the 

 costume, so usual in the portraits by Vandyke, 

 become proverbial so early as 1633, the date of 

 Windebanke's letter ? P. C. S. S. 



Hiel the Bethelite. — What is the meaning of 

 the 34th verse of the 16th chapter of the 1st Book 

 of Kings? In one of Huddlestone's notes to 

 'Poland's History of the Druids, he quotes the acts 

 of Hiel the Bethelite, therein mentioned, as an 

 instance of the Druidical custom of burying a 

 man alive under the foundations of any building 

 which was to be undertaken ? L. M. M. R 



Earl of Glencairn. — Could you or any of 

 your readers inform me of any particulars con- 

 cerning the Earl of Glencairn, who, with a sister, 

 is said to have fled from Scotland about 1700, or 

 rather later, and to have concealed himself in 

 Devonshire, where his sister married, 1712, one 

 John Lethbridge, and had issue ? Was this sister 

 called Grace? Within late years they were 

 spoken of by the very old inhabitants of Oke- 



hampton, Devon, and stories of the coroneted 

 clothes, &c. were current. Lodbrok. 



Willow Bark in Ague. — I have seen recently 

 some notices of the use of willow bark in ague. 

 Will some kind correspondent inform me and 

 others interested in the subject, where the in- 

 formation is to be found ? E. C. 



" Terturbdbantur" fyc. — Can any of your 

 readers give the whole of the poem, of which the 

 first two lines are — 



" Perturbabantur Constantinopolitani, 

 Innumerabilibus sollicitudinibus" ? 



These lines are singularly applicable at the present 

 moment. 



I am also desirous of knowing the history of 

 this poem. P. 



Seamen's Tickets. — Prom an old paper, 1768 : 



" Feb. 8. Died at her house in Chapel Street, near 

 Ratcliff Highway, aged 95, Margaret M'Kennow, who 

 kept a lodging-house in that neighbourhood many 

 years, and dealt in seamen's tickets. She is said to 

 have died worth upwards of 6000/., and just after she 

 expired twenty-nine quarter guineas were found in her 

 mouth." 



What are seamen's tickets ? W. D. R. 



Philadelphia. 



[The system of paying seamen with tickets instead 

 of cash caused great discontent during the reign of 

 Charles II., and, from the frequent notices respecting 

 it in Pepys's Diary, seems to have given our Diarist 

 great trouble. On November 30, 1660, he says: 

 " Sir G. Carteret did give us an account how Mr. 

 Holland do intend to prevail with the parliament to 

 try his project of discharging the seamen all at present 

 by ticket, and so promise interest to all men that will 

 lend money upon them at eight per cent, for so long 

 as they are unpaid ; whereby he do think to take away 

 the growing debt which do now lie upon the kingdom 

 for lack of present money to discharge the seamen." 

 These tickets the poor fellows sold at half price to 

 usurers, mostly Jews ; and to so great an extent was 

 the system carried, that in the year 1710 there was a 

 floating debt due to these usurers of ten millions paid 

 by Harley from a fictitious fund formed by the go- 

 vernment.] 



Bruce, Robert. — Can you tell me the name of 

 the author of the following little work? It is 

 small, and contains 342 pages, and is entitled : 



" The Acts and Life of the most Victorious Con- 

 queror Robert Bruce, King of Scotland. Wherein 

 also are contained the Martial Deeds of the Valiant 

 Princes Edward Bruce, Sir James Dowglas, Earl 

 Thomas Randal, Walter Stewart, and sundry others. 

 To which is added a Glossary, explaining the difficult 



