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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 73. 



some considered quite epicurean. A gentleman 

 whom I used to know, was in the constant habit 

 as lie passed througli the fields, of picking up the 

 white slugs that lay iu his way, and swallowing 

 them with more relish than he would have done 

 had they been oysters. 



That snails make a no inconsiderable item in 

 the bill of fare of gypsies, and other wanderers, I 

 proved while ;it Oxford, some time ago ; for pass- 

 ing up Shotover Hill, hi the parish ot Headington, 

 I unexpectedly came upon a camp of gypsies who 

 were seated round a wood fire enjoying their 

 Sunday's dinner : this consisted of a consider- 

 able number of large snails roasted on the 

 embers, and potatoes similarly cooked. On in- 

 quiry', I was told by those who were enjoying 

 their repast, that they were extremely good^ and 

 were much liked by people of their classy who 

 made a constant practice of eating them. I need 

 hardly say that I received a most hospitable in- 

 vitation to join in the feast, which I certainly 

 declined. L.J. 



caucitc^. 



HENUr SMITU. 



In Marsden's History of the Early Puritans (a 

 work recently published, which will well repay 

 perusal) there occurs (pp. 178, 179.) the Ibllowing 

 notice of Henry Smith : • — ■ 



" Henry Smitli was a person of good family, and well 

 connected ; but having somfe scruples, he dtcliiied pre- 

 ferment, and aspired to notlling higher tlian the weekly 

 Lectureship of St. Clement Danes. On a complaint 

 made by Bishop Ayhner, Whitgift suspended him, and 

 silenced for a while piobably the most eloquent preacher 

 in Europe. His contemporaries named him the Chry- 

 sostoni of England. His church was crowded to ex- 

 cess ; and amongst bis henrers, persons of the highest 

 rank, and those of the most cultivated and fastidious 

 judgment, were content to stand in the throng ef 

 citizens. His sernaons and tredtises were soon to be 

 found in .the hands of every person of taste and piety : 

 they passed through numberless editions. Some of 

 them were carried abroad, and translated into Latin. 

 They were still admired and read at the close of nearly 

 a century, when Fuller collected and republished them. 

 Probably the prose writing of this, the richest period 

 of genuine English literature, contains nothing finer 

 tlian some of his sermons. They are free, to an asto- 

 nishing degree, from the besetting vices of his age — • 

 vulgarity, and quaintness, and affected learning ; and 

 be was one of the first English preachers who, without 

 submitting to the trammels of a pedantic logic, con- 

 veyed in language nervous, pure, and beautiful, the 

 most convincing arguments in the most lucid order, 

 and made them the ground-work of fervent and im- 

 passioned addresses to the conscience." 



Would it not be desirable, as well in a literary as 

 a theological point of view, that any extant ser- 

 mons of so renowned a divine should be made 



accessible to general readers? At present they 

 are too rare and expensive to be largely useful. 

 A brief Ncn-rative of the Life uiul jSeath of Mr. 

 Henry Smith (as it is for substance related by 

 Mr. Thomas Fuller in his Church History), which 

 is prefixed to an old edition (1643) of his sermons 

 in my possession, concludes in these words : — 



" The wonder of this excellent man's worth is in- 

 creased by the consideration of his tender age, be 

 dying very young (of a consumption as it is conceived) 

 above fifty years since, about Anno 1600." 



ThOS. M'CAiMONT. 

 Highfield, Southampton. 



Owen Glendower. — Some of your Cambrian 

 corresp(mdents might, througli your columns, sup- 

 ply a curious and interesting desideratum in his- 

 torical genealogy, by contributing a pedigree, 

 authenticated as iiir as practicable by dates and 

 authorities, and including collaterals, of Owen 

 Glendower, from his ancestor Grifiith JNlaelor, 

 Lord of iJromfield, sou of i\Iadoc, last Prince of 

 Powys, to the extinction of Owen's male line. 



All Cambrian authorities are, 1 believe, agreed in 

 attributing to Owen the lineal male representation 

 of the sovereigns of Powys ; but I am not aware 

 that there is any printed pedigree establishing in 

 detail, on authentic data, his descent, and that 

 of the collaterals of bis line ; while uncertainty 

 would seem to e.xist as to one of the links in the 

 chain of deduction, as to the fate of his sons and 

 their descendants, if any, as well as to the. mar- 

 riages and repi'esentatives of more than one of his 

 daughters. 



1 have in vain looked for the particulars I have 

 indicated in Yorke's Royal 7 ribes of M'^ales ; in 

 tlie Welsh Heraldic Visitation Pedigrees, lately 

 published by the Welsh MSS. Society, under the 

 leai-ned editorship of the late Sir Samuel Mey- 

 rick ; and in the valuable contadbutLons to the 

 genealogy of the PrLiicipalily to be found in the 

 Landed Gentry and the Peei-age and Baronetage of 

 I\lr. Burke, — a pedigree, in other respects admi- 

 rable, in the Landed Gentry of <a br.inch of the 

 dynasty of Powys, onuttiug the intermediate de- 

 scents in question. S. M, 



Meaning of Gig-Hill. — Can any of your readers 

 favour me with an explanation of the Ibllowing 

 matter in local topogra[)liy J* There are two places 

 in the neighbourhood of Kingston-on-Thames 

 distinguished by the name of Gig-Hill*, although 

 there is no indication of anything in the land to 

 waiTaut the name. 



* [One of these places, namely, that -on the road 

 from Kingston to Ditton, is, we believe, known -as Gig*« 

 Hill.— Eu.] 



