NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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clothes, or about your person, it signifies that you 

 will shortly receive some money. Old Fuller, who 

 was a native of Northamptonshire, thus quaintly 

 moralises this superstition : 



" When a spider is found upon our clothes, we use 

 to say, some money is coming towards us. The moral 

 is this: such who imitate the industry of that con- 

 temptible creature may, by God's blessinn;, weave them- 

 selves into wealth and procure j. plentiful estate." — 

 Jl'orthies, p. 58. Pt. 2. ed. 1662. 



Omens of death and misfortune are also drawn 

 from the howling of dogs — the sight of a trio 

 of butterflies — the flying down the chimney of 

 swallows or jackdaws ; and swine are sometimes 

 said to give tlieir master warning of his death by 

 giving utterance to a certain peculiar whine, known 

 and understood only by the initiated in such 

 niattei-s. Gaule, in his Mag-astromanceis Posed 

 and Puzzled, Lond. 1652, p. 181., ranks among evil 

 omens " the falling of swallows down the chimney " 

 and " the grunting of swine." T. S. 



Kentish Town in the last Century. — 

 " Thursday night some villains robbed the Kentish 

 Town stage, and stripped the passer.gers of their money, 

 watches, and buckles. In the hurry they spared the 

 pockets of Mr. Corbyn, tlie druggist; but he, content to 

 liave neighbour's fare, called out to one of the rogues, 

 ' Stop, friend, you have forgot to take my money.' " — 

 Morning Chron. and Lond. Advertiser, Jan. 9. 1773. 



Murray's Hand-hooli for Devon and Cornwall. — 

 The author does not mention Haccombe Chapel or 

 theOswell Rocks, both near Newton ; the latter is 

 a most picturesque spot, and the view near and far 

 most interesting! — A notice of the tiles, and of the 

 2 ft. 2 in. efiigy at Haccombe, ajipears in the 

 Arch. Jo7irnal, iii. 151. 237. — The monuments are 

 in fine preservation up to the last of the " Hac- 

 combes" ante 1342, which is perfect. The chapel 

 would be improved by the removal of the two 

 pews, and of the family arms from the velvet cloth 

 on the connnunion-table! — Tavistock Church has 

 an east window by WiUiment ; pattern, and our 

 Saviour in the centre. — The church by Dartmouth 

 Castle contains a brass, and armorial gallery ; the 

 visitor should sail round the rock at tlie harbour 

 entrance, its appearance from seaward is fine. — 

 Littleham Church has a decorated wooden screen, 

 very elegant. — A work on the Devonshire pulpits 

 and screens would be valuable. A. C. 



Judges' Walk, Hampstead. — A friend of mine, 

 residing at Hampstead, has communicated to me 

 the fbliowing information, which I forward to you 

 as likely to instruct your readers. 



He states that the oldest inhabitant of Hamp- 

 stead, Mr. Rowbotham, a clock and watchmaker, 

 died recently, at the age of ninety. He told his 



son and many other persons, that in his youth the 

 Upper Ten-ace Anenue, on the south-west side of 

 Hampstead Heath, was known by the name of 

 " The Judges' AValk," from the circumstance of 

 prisoners having been tried there during the phigue 

 of London. He further stated, that he had re- 

 ceived this information from his grandmother. 



G. R. Weld. 

 Somerset House. 



Grays Alcriic Ode. — A question asked in 

 Vol. i., p. 382., whether " Gray's celebrated Latin 

 Ode is actually to be found entered at the Grande 

 Chartreuse ? " is satisfactorily answered in the 

 negative at p. 416. of the same volume, and its 

 dis;ippearance traced to the destructive influence 

 of the first French Revolution. 



It may not, however, be without interest to 

 some of your readers to know, that this elegant 

 "Alcaic "was to be found at the Chartreuse not 

 very long before the outbreak of that great poli- 

 tical tempest, proof of which will be found in the 

 following extract taken from the 9th volume of 

 Alalte-Brun's Annales des Voyages, Paris, 1809. 

 It is found in a paper entitled " Voyage a la 

 Grande Chartreuse en 1789. Par M. T*******;' 

 and is in p. 230. : 



" L' Album, ou le grand livre dans lequel les etran- 

 gers inscrivent leurs noms, presents quelquefois une 

 lecture interessante. Nous en copiames quelqucs pages. 

 Le moree^m le plus digne d'etre conserve est sansdoute 

 rode latine suivante du celebre i)0(^te anglais Gray. 

 Je ne crois pas qu'elle ait ete publiee encore." 



Then follows the ode, as usually printed, ex- 

 cepting that in the third line, 



" Nativa nam certe fluentia," 

 the words " nam certe " are transposed. G. B. 



Fleet Marriages. — The General Evening Post, 

 June 27 — 29, 1745, contains the following sin- 

 gular Note of a Fleet marriajje : — 



" Yesterday came on a cause at Doctors' Cominons, 

 wherein the plaintiff brought his action against the de- 

 fend::nt for pretending to be his wife. She in her jus- 

 tification pleaded a marriage at the Fleet the O'th of 

 February, 1737, and produced a Fleet certificate, wliich 

 was not allowed as evidence: she likewise offered to 

 produce the minister she pretended married them, but 

 he being excommunicate for clandestine marriages, 

 could not be received as a witness. The court there- 

 upon pronounced against the marriage, and condemned 

 her in 28/., the costs of suit." 



Y.S. 



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HISTOIRE DES SEVAKAMBES. 



The authorship of Gaudentio di Lucca has re- 

 cently been discussed by some of your correspon- 

 dents, and it has been shown that this Voyage 



