April 12. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Wages in the last Century (Vol. iii., p. 143.). — 

 I have a note on this subject which is at A. A.'s 

 service, extracted from the Gentleman's Magazine 

 for May 1732, vol. ii. p. 771. : — 

 " Wages (Yearlt) appointed by the Justices, a.d. 



1732, to be taken by the Servants in the County of 



Kent. 



Head Ploughman, Waggoner, or Seedsman 

 His INIate .... 



Best Woman Servant ... 

 Second Sort . . - - 



Second Ploughman ... 



His Mate . . . - 



Labourers by the Day, in Summer 

 Ditto, in Winter 



County of Gloucester. 

 Head Servant in Husbandry - -500 



Second Servant - - - - 4 



Driving Boy under 1 4 Years - - 1 



Head Maid Servant in Dairy, and Cook - 2 10 

 Second Maid Servant - - - 2 



Mower in Hay Harvest, without Drink, 



per Day .012 

 With Drink, per Day - - - 1 



Mower and Reaper in Corn Harvest, with 



Diet, per Day - - - - 1 



Other Day-labourer, from Coin to Hay 



Harvest, with Diink only, per Day - 8 

 With Diet, per Day - - - 4 



Without Diet or Drink, per Day - 10 



Carpenter, Wheelwright, and Mason, with- 

 out Drink, per Day - - -012 

 With Drink, per Day - - - 1 0." 



I send the note as I have it in my common- 

 place book; but I should think that the periodical 

 from which the above is extracted, contains much 

 that would suit A. A.'s purpose. E. S. Taylor. 



Martham, Norfolk. 



Tradesmen's Signs (Vol. iii., p. 224.). — The p7-o- 

 jecting signs over tradesmen's shop-doors were re- 

 moved under the London Paving Act, 6 Geo. III. 

 c. 2G. s. 17. In the Peraj History of London, i. 

 179., the act is erroneously said to have been 

 passed in 1762. From Malcolm's Anecdotes of Lon- 

 don, pp. 468, 469., it seems that the clause in ques- 

 tion was inserted in the act in consequence of in- 

 Juiries by a committee appointed by the Court of 

 )ommon Council in 1764. Mr. Peter Cunningham, 

 in tlie "London Occurrences," prefixed to his 

 Handbook for London, says: "1766. The house- 

 signs of London taken down." 



No doubt the existing Metropolitan Paving 

 Acts contain clauses which will ])revent trades- 

 men from again putting up projecting^ signs. 



C. II. CooPEE. 

 Cambridge. 



StawlfasCs Cordial Comforts, Sfc. (Vol. iii., 

 p. 143.). — Abiida will find in a catalogue of cu- 

 rious books published by G. Bumstc.ad, 205. High 



Holborn, an early edition of Standfast. It is de- 

 scribed thus : 



" Standfast (R.), A Little Handful of Cordial Com- 

 forts, and a Caveat against Seducers ; with the Blind 

 Man's Meditations, and a Dialogue between a Blind 

 Man and Death, ]2mo. 1684." 



This may assist Abhba in his researches. Z. 



St. Pancrns (Vol. ii., p. 496.). —Your correspon- 

 dent Mr. Yeowell asks where C. J. Smith's col- 

 lection of M.SS., cuttings and prints, &c. relating 

 to the parish of St. Pancras, are deposited ? It is 

 in the library of Richard Percival, Esq., 9. High- 

 bury Park, Islington. 



C.an any of your readers give an account of St. 

 Pancras? He was martyred May 12, 304. 11. 



[Has our correspondent looked at the Calendar of 

 the Anglican Church, lately published by Parker of 

 Oxford? A brief notice of St. Pancras will be found 

 on p. 274. of that useful little work.] 



Lines on " Woman's Will" (Vol. i., p. 247.).— 

 Although somewhat late in the day, I send you 

 the following paragraph from the Examiner of 

 May 31, 1829: 



" Woman's Will. — The following lines (says a cor- 

 respondent of the Brighton Herald) were copied from 

 the pillar erected on the IMount in the Dane-John 

 Field, formerly called the Dungeon Field, Canterbury: 

 ' Where is the man who has the power and skill 



To stem the torrents of a woman's will ? 



For if she will, she will, you may depend on't. 



And if she won't, she won't; so there's an end on't.'" 



H. C. 



Workington. 



Scandal against Qiieen Elizabeth (Vol. ii., p. 393.; 

 Vol. iii., p. II.)- — In Hubbach on the Evidence of 

 Sziccession, p. 253., after some remarks on the word 

 " natural," not of itself ir. former times denoting 

 illegitimacy, this passage occurs : 



" But as early as the time of Elizabeth the word 

 natural, standing alone, had ac([uired something of its 

 pres-nt meaning. The Parliament, in debating upon 

 the act establishing the title to the crown in the 

 Queen's issue, thought it proper to alter the words 

 'issue lawfully begotten,' into ' natural-born issue,* 

 conceiving the latter to be a more delicate phrase. But 

 this created a suspicion among the people, that the 

 Queen's favourite, Leicester, intended after her death to 

 set up some bastard of his own, pretending it was born 

 of her, and bred up privately." — Duke of Buckingham 

 On Treasons, cited Ames's Fortescue, p. 1 54. 



J. II. L. 



Coggeshall Job (Vol. iii., p. 167.).— Does J. C. 

 allude to the tradition that the Coggeshall people 

 placed hurdles in the stream to turn the river, and 

 chained up the wheelbarrow when the mad dog bit 

 it? J. ILL. 



Whale caught at Greemoich before the Death of 

 Cromwell (Vol. iii., p. 207.).— B. B. wishes a record 



