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the family still exist there? There was a certain 
Owen Lewis living there about a.p. 1680 to 
1690, who had a son, Ellis Lewis, who became a 
Quaker preacher. Are there any descendants of 
that Owen Lewis in that vicinity? What are 
the arms of the family, &c.? Any information, 
genealogical or heraldic, will confer a favour on 
the subscriber. 8. T. Oneway. 
Stevenson's Imperial Marine Tincture and Pills. 
— About twenty years ago this patent medicine 
was very much in vogue as a presumed antidote 
against that horrid infliction sea-sickness. Can 
any of your readers inform me if it is still to be pur- 
chased, and if so, where? Henry Kensineron. 
Spring Gardens, Greenwich. —In the General 
Advertiser for May 25, 1751, I find the following 
announcement : 
“ Spring Gardens, Greenwich. 
“ The Evening Entertainments at this place will begin 
this day, the 25th inst., with a good Band of Vocal and 
Instrumental Musick. To be continued on Saturday and 
Monday Evenings during the Summer Season. 
“N.B. — The Grand Room in the Garden is upwards 
of 50 feet long.” 
Can any of the readers of “ N. & Q.” point out 
the locality of this old place of amusement ? 
Epwarp F. Rimpavrr. 
Hounds. —It is, or certainly was forty years ago, 
customary with landlords, in Wales, and I believe 
elsewhere, to quarter their hounds (much to the 
prejudice of the quadrupeds) amongst their tenant- 
farmers, out of the sporting season; and I think 
I have heard of leases containing covenants on the 
part of the lessees to sustain their lessors’ dogs for 
a stipulated period during each year of their term. 
Can any of your readers give me any informa- 
tion or reference on this subject ? 
I have a glimmering notion, that I have read 
somewhere, without “ taking a note,” that some of 
our Saxon or early Norman kings granted lands 
on this tenure. C. D. 
Turner Family.—To what branch of this family 
did Robert Turner, the friend of William Penn, 
belong? He went from Dublin to Pennsylvania 
about the time that Penn first went there; and, 
next to Penn, was, perhaps, the most distinguished 
man in the colony. Any information, heraldic or 
genealogical, will oblige Dryaspust. 
Approach of Vessels foreseen.—You will con- 
fer a great service and favour if you will, in your 
reply, state the name of the person who, about the 
ear 1797, could see ships at sea off the Isle of 
ance at two or three days’ sail? And whether 
or not he received a pension from our govern- 
ment ? Harcey. 
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Sinar Queries With Answers. © 
“ Griindonnerstag.” —Why is Maundy Thurs- 
day thus called by the Germans? One would 
imagine the term green more suitable to Palm 
Sunday. J. Y. 2.) 
[ Griindonnerstag (Quinta hedomatis magne, Cena do- 
mini, Dies Viridium), the Thursday before Easter, since 
the seventh century, has been held in remembrance of the 
day on which Our Lord celebrated the Last Supper. The 
name comes from an old German custom of bearing green 
boughs upon this day, in commemoration of the palms 
which were spread in the way of Jesus when he rode into 
Jerusalem. But, according to others, because on this 
day, as on the Sundays of Lent, public worship com- 
menced with Psalm xxiii. 2.; ‘He maketh me to lie 
down in green pastures.’ On this day the ceremony of 
feet-washing was observed in the ancient church. In 
some parts of Germany, where confirmation is admi- 
nistered on this day, and when the newly-confirmed par- 
take of the Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper, they usually 
carry green palm-boughs. Farther, on this day, it was 
an old German custom for children to present coloured 
eggs (generally red) to their sponsors. Grine Donnerstag, 
as it is otherwise called, was founded by Pope Leo II., in 
682, to be kept in yearly remembrance of the Last Sup- 
per. The word has perplexed etymologists to some 
extent; but from all that can be learned, Green- Thursday 
had its name from the green boughs collected on that 
day, in ancient times, for ecclesiastical or religious pur= 
poses. The custom was not unknown to England. John 
Edwards, in his poem, The Tour of the Dove, sings: 
“ Still Dovedale yield thy flowers to deck the fountains 
Of Tissington, upon its holyday. 
The customs long preserved among the mountains 
Should not be lightly left to pass away.” 
He adds:—‘ The custom of decorating wells with 
flowers, and attending them with religious services and 
festive rejoicings on Holy Thursday, is not peculiar to 
Tissington. Many other wells have been committed to 
the patronage of the saints, and treated with reverence.” 
Rhodes refers to this custom in his account of the Peak, 
and of Holy Thursday ( Griindonnerstag, Maundy Thurs- 
day), observes: —“ It is denominated well-flowering, and 
Holy Thursday is devoted to the rites and ceremonies of 
this elegant custom.” It were easy to multiply examples 
to the same effect. ] 
The Sacristan of Cluny.—In Abbé de la Rue’s 
Essais Historiques sur les Bardes, les Jongleurs et 
les Trouvéres, there is a short account of the poet 
John le Cappelain, who wrote Fableau du Sacris- 
tain de Cluny. Can any of your readers tell me 
where this poem is to be found? I have most 
diligently searched the Catalogues of the MSS. in 
the British Museum, without being able to find 
either that, or any other of his works. 
H. E. Wirxryson. 
Notting Hill Square. 
[This story, which is a Middle Age version of the 
oriental tale of Hunchback, will be found in Barbazan’s 
Fabliaux, vol.i. p. 242.; Meon’s Fabliaux, vol. i. p. 318. A 
modernised French version is in Le Grand’s Fubliaux, 
vol. iv. pp. 266. 272,; and an English abridgement of it 
appeared in Thoms’s Lays and Legends of France. | 
