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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
[258 S, No 4., Jan. 26.56, 
Peckham, relating to the name which I supplied to 
that work. G. STeinMan STEINMAN. 
Priory Lodge, Peckham, 
Rev. Mr. Harwood (1* §. xii. 428.) —By a 
pedigree of the Prideaux family in my possession, 
it appears that Catherine, sixth daughter of Sir 
Peter Prideaux, of Netherton, Bart., by the Lady 
Elizabeth Grenville, sister to John, Earl of Bath, 
was married to the Rev. Mr. Harwood, of Tal- 
Jaton, co. Devon. By monumental inscriptions in 
the church, it is seen that this gentleman was 
Charles Harward, rector of that parish, and a 
member of the ancient family of Harward, of 
Hayne, in the parish of Plymtree. His eldest son, 
Charles, a student at Oxford, died of small pox, 
in 1718, at the age of nineteen years. ANON. 
John Harrison, Inventor of the Chronometer 
(257 S. i. 13.) —In reply to the Query of W. HZ., 
I can inform him that a portrait of John Harri- 
son is given in Knight's Portrait Gallery, Orr and 
Co., London; and in addition to the works of 
reference for his biography, which you have given, 
I would direct his attention to the Memoirs of a 
Trait in the Character of George III., W. Ed- 
wards, Ave Maria Lane, London, 1835, in which 
will be found a very detailed account of the dif- 
ficulty which he experienced in obtaining his well- 
earned reward from the government of the day. 
Lastly, your correspondent may be glad to know 
that John Harrison, Esq., C.E., of Spring Street, 
Hull, is great-grandson of the above. J.K. 
The portrait in Knight’s Gallery of Portraits is 
from an engraving by ‘Lassaert, published in 1768, 
after a painting by King. See the life attached to 
this portrait in the work cited. See also the last 
volume (1766) of the Biographia Britannica, in 
which, though he was not then dead, there is an 
account of Harrison. ‘There is a copy of the en- 
graving above mentioned in the rooms of the 
Astronomical Society, at Somerset House. M. 
Ghosts (1* 8. x. 508.) —The driving away of 
ghosts, says Nieuwland (Letter-en Oudheidkunde), 
was among the ancients a distinct branch of 
business, in which certain old women of the lower 
order were employed. For this purpose they had 
peculiar forms of adjuration, such as we meet with 
in ancient writers. KEpimenides was among those 
who drew up these formulas. Suidas informs us 
that he left in verse the mysteries of ghost-laying 
(See Suidas, s.v. ’Emmevidys, and Vossius, De 
Poetis Grec., c. iii. p.14.). The ancients also be- 
lieved that dogs had an especial power of discover- 
ing ghosts and driving them away by their bark> 
ing. Horapollo (Hieroglyph., |. i. ¢. 39.) tells us 
that dogs, more than any other animals, observe 
the gods, not the wooden, golden, or silver images, 
but the very emanations of the divinities them- 
selves, which they perceive by the sharpness of 
their scent. Tzetzes, Ad Lycophronis Cassandram, 
v.77., remarks, that ghosts are disturbed by the 
barking of dogs just as by the beating of brazen 
cymbals, therefore dogs were sacred to Hecate ; 
their loud barking was supposed to impart a 
violent motion to the air, which dispersed aérial. 
apparitions. — From The Navorscher. 
Joun Scorr. 
Norwich. 
American Names (1S. xii. 40. 114.) — Messrs. 
Grinn and Barett are mentioned “ out west” as 
having names appropriate to the present hard 
times. Mrs. McCollick keeps a millinery shop in 
New York. Mr. Strikman formerly kept a tavern 
at Striker’s Bay, near New York. Major 
Whistler intreduced the steam whistle in the 
American locomotives. Prxicanus AMERICANUS. 
Mottoes or Poesies (1* 8. xi. 277.; xii. 393.) — 
In Ross’s Account of the Earls of Warwick (ed. 
Hearne), p. 235., are the following notices of 
poesies, or reasons, of ladies, temp. Hen. VI., as 
borne by the three daughters of Sir Richard 
Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, by Dame Eliza- 
beth, daughter of Lord Berkeley : 
1, “ Margaret married Sir John Talbot, Earl of Shrews- 
bury. ‘ Hir reason was, Till Deithe Depart.’ ” 
2. “'Alianour married Edmond Duke of Somerset. 
‘Hir reason was, ever newe.’ ” 
3. “Elizabeth married Lord Latymer. 
was, Till my live’s ende.’” 
I have a ring of the middle of the last century, 
with the poesy — 
“Tn Christ and thee 
My comfort be.” 
Wm. Dorrant Cooper. 
‘Hir reason 
Clergymen wearing Canonicals in Public (1* S. 
xii. 202. 291. 501.) — ‘The undersigned remem- 
bers that in Bristol it was quite common, as late 
as forty years ago, for the clergy of the established 
church to walk to their churches on Sundays in 
their canonicals. But he wishes also to record 
the well-remembered fact of having seen a Me- 
thodist preacher, who had certainly never been a 
clergyman of the Church of England, dressed on 
a Sunday in the same manner. It was in the 
year 1800 when this preacher called, after he had 
been preaching not far off, in this costume, on a 
Sunday, at the house where the writer then lived. 
7. C..H, 
“ His golden locks,’ Sc. (1* S. xii. 450.) — 
These lines are the first verse of a sonnet written 
by George Peele, and sung by Mr. Hales, one of 
the gentlemen of the Chapel Royal, before Queen 
Elizabeth in the Tilt Yard, Westminster, at a 
solemn tilt, or exercise of arms held November 17, 
1590, on the occasion of Sir Henry Lee’s “ re- 
signation of honour at tylt to her Majestie,” by 
