Oct. 25. 1851.] 



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published in tlie works of a bishop who survived 

 liim ? TrKO. 



• Death of Pitt (Vol. iv., p. 232.). — Mb. Na- 

 thaniel Ellison will find in the Memoirs of Lady 

 Hester Stanhope, vol. iii. p. 141., a passage which 

 pretty nearl_y confirms the account of the desertion 

 of Pitt's death-bed. Slie said that James, a servant, 

 was the only person present with Pitt when he 

 died, and that she hei:self was the last person who 

 saw him alive except James. She also stated that 

 Dr. Pretyman, who seems to have been in the 

 house, was fiist asleep at the time ; and that Sir 

 Walter Farquhar, tlje physician, was absent. 

 The account of Pitt's last moments in Gilford's 

 life of him, where a prayer for forgiveness, &c. is 

 put into his mouth, she pronounced to be all a lie. 



J. S. W. 

 Stock well. 



History of Haivirk (Vol iv., p. 233.). — In reply 

 to the Query of your correspondent II. L., I have 

 to inform him that there have been published two 

 histories of Hawick, viz.,— 



1. Robert Wilson's Sketch of the History of 

 Hawick, a small 8vo. printed in 1825. It contains 

 a notice of the altercations between the Abbot of 

 Melrose and Langlands the Baron of Wilton, 

 relative to the arrear of tithes due to the abbacy 

 of Melrose. A copy of this work can be procured 

 for about 5s. 



2. James Wilson's Annals of Hawich, 1214 — 

 1814, a small 8vo. printed in 1850. This work, 

 under date 1494-5, has a notice of the murder of 

 the chaplain by Langlands. This book can be 

 had for Qs. 6d. 



A notice of the trial of Langlands for the mur- 

 der will also be found in Pitcairn's Criminal Trials, 

 vol. i. p. 20. T. G. S. 



Edinburgh, Oct. G. 1851. 



"Prophecies of Nostradamus" (Vol. iv., pp. 8G. 

 140. 258.). — J. R. says that " the first edition of 

 the Prophecies of Nostradamus is not only in the 

 National Library, but in several others, both in 

 Paris and elsewhere." Does J. R. speak from 



fcrsonal observation or at second-hand ? When 

 was in Paris I spent some hours in searching 

 the catalogue and shelves of both the National 

 Library and that of St. Genevieve, but I could 

 find no edition of Nostradamus dated 1555 in 

 either. To convince myself that my search had 

 been accurate, I turned to Nostradamus, par 

 Eugene Bareste, Paris, 1840, and there found it 

 distinctly asserted that there is no copy of the 

 first edition of the book (viz. that of 1555) in 

 any public library in Paris ; and that the copy 

 used in compiling that edition of 1840 was bor- 

 rowed from a private collection. I cannot give 

 the e.xact words of M. Bareste, as I only maile a 

 "Note" of their purport; but if J. R. will say 

 upon what authority his statement as to this rare 



little book is based, I will certainly some day renew 

 my search for it at the National Library. 



H. C. DE St. Croix. 



Boui-chier Family (Vol. iv., p. 233.). — Monu- 

 ments, with inscriptions, to William Bourchier, 

 Earl of Bath, 1623; Henry Bourchier, Earl of 

 Bath ; nuuiy of the family of Bourchier-Wrey, 

 and others allied to them, are in the church of 

 Tavistock, in the county of Devon; and the whole 

 of them have been carefully transcribed with notes 

 of the heraldry. S. S. S. 



William III. at Exeter (Vol. iv., p. 233.). — 

 Jenkins, the historian of Exeter, in relating the 

 prince's public entry into that city, states that he 

 was preceded by the Earl of Macclesfield and two 

 hundred horsemen, most of whom were English 

 nobles and gentlemen. There is in the Bodleian 

 Library a fb. broadsheet entitled, A True and 

 Exact Relation of the Prince of Oi-ange, his Puhlick 

 Entrance into Exeter, which, if I remember right, 

 was reprinted in Somers' Tracts, but I do not 

 think any names of those gentlemen are therein 

 mentioned. S. S. S. 



Passage in George Herbert (Vol. iv., p. 231.). — 

 Does not Herbert imply in these lines — 

 " Take one from ten, and wliat remains? 

 Ten still, if sermons go for gains." 



that the payer of tithes receives an equivalent in 

 the ministrations of the priest ? S. C. C. 



Corfe Castle. 



This passage alludes doubtless to the tithe of 

 the parson, and maintains that the tithe-payer is 

 no loser if the sermons for which tithe is paid 

 produce their effects. In fact, it is a paraphrase 

 ol Proverbs, iii. 9, 10. : 



" Honour the Lord with all thy substance, and with 

 the first fruits of all thine increase : so shall thy barns 

 be illled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out 

 v.-ith new wine." 



J. A. PiCTON. 



Liverpool. 



Suicides buried in Cross Roads (Vol. iv., 

 pp. 116. 212.). — This was formerly the general 

 practice in the South of England, and it lias oc- 

 casionally been resorted to within the last thirty 

 years. At Ghalvington, in Sussex, there once 

 resided, according to a popular tradition, the 

 only honest wilier ever known. About a century 

 since, this person, finding it impossible to succeed 

 in business, hanged himself in his own mill, and 

 was buried in a neighbouring "crossways." An 

 oaken stake, driven tiirough his body, taking root, 

 grew into a tree, and threw a singular shrivelled 

 branch, the only one it ever jiroduced, across the 

 road. It was the most singular tree I ever saw, 

 and had something extremely hag-like and ghostly 

 in its look. The spot was of course haunted, and 

 many a rustic received a severe shock to his 



