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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 44. 



Lyon though he suffer it, and that favours are prcci- 

 jiices fcr such as abuse them.'" 



Having refeiTGcl to this work of ISIathieu's, I 

 shall feef obliged to any of your correspondents 

 who will fuvoui- me with a notice of it, or of the 

 author. Balliolensis. 



THE ANTIQUITY OF SMOKING. 



I feel much interested in the Query of your cor- 

 respondent Z. A. Z. (Vol. ii., p. 41.) I liad a 

 "Query" something similar, with a "Note" on it, 

 lying by me for some time, which I send you 

 .as t1iey stand. — V/as not smoking in use in 

 ' England and other countries before the introduc- 

 tion of tobacco ? Whitnker says, a few days after 

 the tower of Kirkstall Abbey fell, 1779, he 



" Discovered imbedded in the mortar of the fallen 

 fragments several little smoking pipes, such .is were 

 used in the reign of James I. for tobacco ; a proof of a 

 fact which has not been recorded, that, prior to the intro- 

 duction of that plant from America, tl)e practice of in- 

 baling the smoke of some indigenous plant or vegetable 

 prevailed in England." {Loidis and Elinete.) 



Allowing, then, pipes to have been coeval with 

 the erection of Kirkstall, we find them to have been 

 used in England about 400 years before the intro- 

 duction of'tobacco. On the other hand, as Dr. 

 Whitaker says, we find 7io record of their being 

 used, or of smoking being practised ; and it is 

 almost inconceivable that our ancestors should 

 have had such a practice, without any allusion 

 being made to it by any writers. As to the anti- 

 qu'ty of smoking in Ireland, the first of Irish anti- 

 quaries, the learned and respected Dr. Petrie, says: 



" The custom of smoking is of much greater anti- 

 quity in Ireland than the introduction of tobacco into 

 Europe. Smoking pipes made of l)ronze are frequently 

 found in our Irish lumidi, or sepulchral mounds, of the 

 most remote antiquity ; and similar pipes, made of 

 baked clay, are discovered daily in all parts of the 

 island. A curious instance of the bathos in sculpture, 

 which also illustrates the antiquity of this custom, oc- 

 curs on the monument of Donogh O'Brien, king of 

 Thomond, who was killed in 1267, and interred in the 

 Abbey of Corcumrae, in the co. of Clare, of which his 

 family were the founders. He is represented in tlie 

 usu.al recumbent posture, with the short pipe or dudeen 

 of the Irish in his mouth." 



In the Anthologia Hihernica for May 1793, 

 vol. i. p. 35-2., we have some remarks on the anti- 

 quity of smoking " among the German and Nortli- 

 ern nations," who, the writer says, " were clearly 

 acquainted with, and cultivated tobacco, which 

 they smoked through wooden and earthen tubes." 

 He" refers to Herod, lib. i. sec. 36.; Strabo, lib. vii. 

 296.; Pomp. Mela 2, and Solinus, c. 15. 



"Wherever we go, we see smoking so universal a 

 practice, and people " taking to it so naturally," 

 that we are inclined to believe that it was always 



so ; that our first fiither enjoyed a quiet puff now 

 and then; (that, like a poet, man "nascltur non 

 fit" a smoker); and that the soothing power of 

 this narcotic tranquillised the sotd of the aquatic 

 patriarch, disturbed by the roar of billows and the 

 convulsions of nature, and diffused its peaceful 

 influence over the inmates of the ark. Yes, we 

 are tempted to spurn the question, AVhen and 

 where was smoking introduced ? as being equ.tl to 

 When and where was man introduced ? Yet, as 

 some do not consider man as a smoking animal 

 " de natu et ab initio," the question may ju-ovoke 

 some interesting replies from your learned cor- 

 respondents. Jabltzberg. 



SIR GHEGOBY NORTON, BART. 



I am desirous to be informed of the date and 

 particulars of the above baronetcy having been 

 created. In The Mystery of the good old Cause 

 hriejiy unfolded (1660), it is stated, at p. 26-, that 

 Sir Gregory Norton, Bart, (one of the king's 

 judges), had Richmond House, situ.ated in the Old 

 Park, and much of the king's goods, for an incon- 

 siderable value. Sir Gregory Norton has a place 

 also in The Loyal Martyrology of Winstanley 

 (1665), p. 130. ; and also in History of the King- 

 killers (1719), part 6. p. 75. It is unnecessary to 

 refer to Noble's Regicides, he having simply copied 

 the two preceding works. Sir Gregory died before 

 the Restoration, in 1652, and escaped the vindic- 

 tive e,\ecutions which ensued, and was buried at 

 Richmond in Surrey. There was a Sir Richard 

 Norton, B.u-t., of Rotherfield, Hants (Query Ro- 

 therfield, Sussex, near Tunbridge Wells), who is 

 mentioned by Sylvanus Morgan in his Sphere of 

 Gentry; but he does not record a Sir Gregory. 

 Nor does the latter occur in a perfect collection 

 of the knights made by King James I., by J. P. 

 (Query John Philipot ?), London, Humphrey 

 Moseley, 1660, 8vo. I have examined all the 

 various works on e.xtinct and dormant baronetcies 

 ineffectually. In the Mercwius Fuhlicus of Thurs- 

 day, 28th June, 1660, it appears that on the pre- 

 ceding Saturday the House of Commons settled 

 the manor of Richmond, with house and materials, 

 purchased by Sir Gregory Norton, Bart., on the 

 queen (Henrietta Maria) as part of her jointure. 



D. N. 



iHtnor cattrriCiS. 



City Offices. — Can any of your correspondents 

 recommend some book which gives a good history 

 of the different public offices of the city of London, 

 with their duties and qualifications, and in whom 

 the appointments are vested ? A Citizen. 



Harefnder, Meaning of. — Can any of your 

 readers kimlly give a feasible explanation of the 



