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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
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Surgeons on Railways. — Not more then ten, 
nor less than five years ago, I believe a statement 
appeared in a provincial newspaper, and in one of 
the medical journals, to the effect that a certain 
number (eight, if I recollect rightly) of the mem- 
bers of the London College of Surgeons were then 
employed as porters or policemen on some one or 
more of the chief railways. Could any reader of 
“N. &. Q.” oblige the enquirer by referring to 
the precise number of the paper or papers in 
which the statement in question appeared ? 
*latpos. 
Samuel Dowse.—Can any of your numerous 
correspondents tell me where I may ascertain 
anything about Samuel Dowse, who emigrated 
from England to Ireland about the year 16% ? 
—Kk. 
Flight of Norfolk. — Can any of your readers 
direct me to the registry of the baptism of a Susan 
or Susannah Flight, who was born within the 
radius of a few miles of Caistor, next Norwich, in 
(or about) the year 1732. Robert Flight, an 
uncle of the above, resided at Caistor aforesaid, 
where he died and was buried in the year 1777. 
Any information respecting him or his family 
would also oblige. Freperick Maurertt. 
Numismatic Query. — To what coin may the 
following description refer? The inscription 
round the border is illegible. On one side, the 
ball and cross in a triangle, with some kind of 
curved lines round it. The other side, three 
crowns and three fleurs-de-lis alternately, rose 
in centre, dots between each crown and fleur-de- 
lis. CLERIcUus. 
Birch of Ardwick, co. Lancaster.—TI shall feel 
obliged to any of your correspondents who can 
afford me information respecting this family. It 
is presumed to be a junior branch of Birch, of 
Birch, in the ‘same county. Is it known at 
what time they branched off? and was the cele 
brated parliamentary general of that name a 
member of the former or latter house? C. L. L. 
Altar- Rails. —In the church of Minster, near 
Canterbury, I am told no rails surround the Com- 
munion-table; but when the Holy Communion 
is administered, the communicants kneel in the 
chancel, and the officiating clergymen carry to 
each the sacred elements. This is, I believe, the 
case at the chapel of Christi Corpus College, Cam- 
bridge; but I am not aware of any other church 
or chapel where the table is not railed off. Pos- 
sibly, if you think this worthy of a Note, some of 
your numerous contributors can supply a list of 
any other churches where this peculiarity exists, 
and explain the reason of it. 
G. Brinpitexy Acworts. 
Star Hill, Rochester. 
Alice Lisle and Elizabeth Gaunt. —I have a 
little book before me (vol. ii. only), An Historical 
Account of all the Tryals and Attainders of High 
Treason, from Charles I. to the date of publication, 
1716. Two circumstances in it I have remarked 
especially :— 
Ist. Alice Lisle, in her speech at her execution, 
asserted that Col. Penruddock told her, he had 
had it in his power to apprehend the ministers she 
sheltered, ere they reached her house; and that 
one of the grand jury desired to be placed on the 
petty jury, that he might be more nearly con- 
cerned in her death. Are these assertions true ? 
I hope not. 
2nd. After mentioning the conviction of Eliza- 
beth Gaunt, John Fernley, and William Ring, the 
volume asserts that neither were executed ! 
The book bears tangible proof of its Jacobite 
origin, and I should be glad to know who was its 
compiler, &c.? In every way it is a loose, meagre, 
and prejudiced compilation. H.G. D. 
“ Tottenham in his boots.’”—TJ shall feel very 
much obliged to any of your correspondents who 
can inform me where I can obtain a print of the 
picture (now in possession of the Marquis of Ely) 
which was painted for the Parliament House in 
College Green, Dublin, of Charles Tottenham, of 
Tottenham Green, co. Wexford; commonly known, 
from the circumstances which the picture com- 
memorates, as “ Tottenham in his boots.” 
The print was not, I believe, published ; but a 
proof of it struck for each of the subscribers to 
the picture. One or HIS DESCENDANTS. 
Two old: Political Prints, temp. Charles I.— 
1. I have in my collection a full-length print of a 
cavalier, “sould by P. Stent;” on his left is a 
winged hourglass, with the motto — 
: “ Time swift doth run; 
To judgement thou must come.” 
On the right is a figure of death, preparing to 
dart his arrows; and underneath, the couplet — 
“ Prepare for Death, lest he 
Send thee to woe and miserie.” 
Query, Strafford or Charles? _ 
2. Edwards, in his Gangrena (2nd Part, 1646), 
says it is rumoured on “ Change ” — 
“That in Holland the picture of an Independent is 
drawn and set out publicly, with God written in his 
mouth, the devil upon his heart, and the world written 
and pictured as he is holding it in his arms.” — P. 130. 
Is this delectable gentleman anywhere extant 
now ? C. Crirton Barry. 
Breach of Quarantine. — About fifty years ago, 
in a large city, a number of persons were indicted 
capitally, for communicating with a vessel under 
quarantine. The witnesses for the prosecution 
failed to identify them; probably a conviction was 
