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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 242. 



comes a specific against these disorders, and never 

 fails to remove them. One advantage it possesses 

 of influencing the patient beneficially immediately 

 it is adopted, without the necessity of preparation 

 previously. It is a safe medicine, and may be 

 taken in water or tea. 



I copy the above from an entry in an old note- 

 book. I imagine the Duck Willow to be the Com- 

 mon White Willow (Salix alba vulgaris) of Ray. 



Shirley Hibberd. 



See Pereira's Materia Medica : Salix. He re- 

 fers to a paper by the Rev. Mr. Stone in the Phil. 

 Trans, vol. liii. p. 195., on the efficacy of the 

 bark of the Salix alba as a remedy for agues. See 

 also A. T. Thomson's London Dispensatory, in 

 which is given an account of Mr. Stone's mode of 

 administration. H. J. 



Lord Fairfax (Vol. ix., p. 380.). — I apprehend 

 that there is nothing in the reply of A Fairfax 

 Kinsman fat all calculated to shake the opinion 

 which I expressed touching the barony of Fairfax 

 of Cameron. The case of the earldom of New- 

 burgh, which your correspondent does not even 

 mention, is, I submit, of greater weight than all the 

 " Peerages," and even than the Roll of Scottish 

 Peers. As to the Irish case — that of the Earl of 

 Athlone — I can but repeat my Query. Whether 

 right or wrong, it is not binding on the British 

 House of Lords. The cases of the King of Hanover, 

 the Duke of Wellington, and Earl Nelson, are not 

 in point. His Hanoverian Majesty is not an alien ; 

 and though some British subjects may^e recognised 

 as peers by foreign states, it does not follow that a 

 foreigner can be a peer of Britain. H. G. 



The Young Pretender (Vol. ix., pp. 177. 231.)— 

 The wife of the Young Pretender was Louisa 

 Maximiliene, the daughter of Gustavus Adolphus, 

 Prince of Scholberg, who was born in 1752, and 

 married in 1772. As a widow, she lived in Paris 

 as the Countess of Albany, but in her drawing- 

 room called herself Queen of Great Britain. She 

 was alive at the time of the death of the Princess 

 Charlotte (Nov. 1817). See Fisher's Companion 

 and Key to History of England, p. 333. O. S. 



Dobney's Bowling-green; Wildman; Sampson, 

 (Vol. ix.,'p. 375.). — Dobney's, or, more correctly, 

 D'Aubigney's Bowling-green, ceased to be a place 

 of public amusement about the year 1810. It is 

 now occupied by a group of houses called Dobneys 

 Place, near the bottom of Penton Street. The late 

 Mr. Upcott had a drawing of Prospect House 

 (as the building was called), taken about 1780. A 

 hand-bill of the year 1772 (in a volume formerly 

 belonging to Lysons) thus describes the nature of 

 Wildman's performance : 



" The Bees on Horseback. — Daniel Wildman rides, 

 standing upright, one foot on the saddle, and the other 



on the horse's neck, with a curious mask of bees on his 

 face. He also rides standing upright on the saddle, 

 with the bridle in his mouth, and, by firing a pistol, 

 makes one part of the bees march over a table, and the 

 other part swarm in the air, and return to their proper 

 places again." 



Sampson, Price, Johnson, and Coningham were 

 celebrated equestrian performers towardVthe close 

 of the last century. Astley was the pupil of Samp- 

 son, and his successor in agility. Bromley, in his 

 Catalogue of Engraved Portraits, mentions a folio 

 engraving of Sampson, without date or engraver's 

 name. It is hardly likely that any life of him was 

 published. Edward F. Rimbauxt. 



Palaologus (Vol. ix., p. 312.). — Your readers 

 will find, in Oldmixon's West Indies, a later notice 

 of the strange descent and fortunes of this once 

 illustrious family. From Cornwall they appear to 

 have settled in Barbadoes, where it is very possible 

 that with mutilated name the family may yet be 

 found among the "poor whites" (many among 

 them of ancient lineage) of that island. B. 



Children by one Mother. — In Vol. ix., p. 186., 

 I. R. R., in reply to a Query in Vol. v., p. 126. — 

 " If there be any well-authenticated instance of 

 a woman having had more than twenty-five chil- 

 dren?" — sends an account of a case, which he 

 " firmly believes" to be authenticated, of a farmer's 

 wife who had thirty. I now send you a much 

 better authenticated case of polyprogenitiveness, 

 which utterly throws the farmer's wife into the 

 shade. 



In Palazzo Frescobaldi, in this city, the ancient 

 residence of the old Florentine family of that name, 

 there is, among many other family portraits, one 

 full-length picture of a tall and good-looking lady 

 with this inscription beneath it : " Dianora Sal- 

 viati, moglie di Bartolomeo Frescobaldi, fece cin- 

 quantadue figli, mai meno che tre per parto" 

 (Dianora Salviati, wife of Bartolomeo Frescobaldi, 

 gave birth to fifty-two sons, and never had less 

 than three at a birth). The case is referred to by 

 Gio. Schenchio, in his work Del Parto, at p. 144. 



The Essex lady, as well as I should suppose all 

 other ladies whatsoever, must hide their diminished 

 heads in presence of this noble dame of Florence. 



T. A. T. 



Florence. 



Robert Brown the Separatist (Vol. ix., p. 494.). 

 — Mr. Corner will probably find an answer to 

 his question in the History of Stamford, by W. 

 Harrod (1785), and in Blore's History of the 

 County of Rutland, 1813, fob; Bawden's Survey, 

 1809, 4to. ; Wright's History of Rutlandshire, 

 1687 and 1714. The last descendant of Robert 

 Brown died on Sept. 17, 1839, set. sixty-nine, 

 widow of George, third Earl of Pomfret ; and as 

 she had no issue, her house and estate at Toltrop 



