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lusion ” to use means to hasten the end of persons 
afflicted with this cruel malady when there was 
no hope of relief. Inhumanity was not at all the 
motive, rather the reverse; nor do I think the 
practice proceeded from any superstitious feeling, 
but from the general terror struck around through 
the operations of the disease, and the mischief it 
might occasion. What is said to have been the 
common mode of terminating their sufferings was 
to smother them between two feather-beds. An 
old gentleman mentioned to me thirty years ago, 
in such a manner as if he had entertained his 
suspicions, of a young man belonging to a re- 
spectable family who died in the last rabid stage 
of hydrophobic delirium. In Scotland the want 
of coroners’ inquests as in England prevents many 
interesting circumstances connected with extra- 
ordinary cases from coming to light. No doubt 
matters are now better managed than in bygone 
times by the diligence of sheriffs and of other 
authorities, in making investigations and thorough 
legal examinations and “ proofs,” but the result 
of whose labours are little known unless the sub- 
ject of criminality be such as to induce a public 
trial. Some discussion has occasionally taken 
place on this as a topic for legislation, but nothing 
has ever been done, and the country wags on. - 
G.N. 
Spelling of Names Uncertain (2"4 S. i. 372.) — 
P. B. has started a subject very suitable to the 
pages of “N. & Q,.,” and its investigation may 
explain some of the incongruities of nomenclature. 
As a small contribution this way, I may mention 
that I have a couple of books before me which 
furnish an example, viz. The Highland Spectator, 
8yvo., 1744; and The Chain of Fate, &c., or, Ad- 
ventures of a North Briton, 8vo., 1756. On the 
title of the first the author calls himself John 
Breuhowse, of Perth; while in the latter, although 
anonymous, we can clearly trace the same in- 
dividual as John Breues. He seems to have given 
his friends in the north the slip, but in a dedica- 
tion “To my worthy and much honoured cre- 
ditors,” engages to set aside for them the profits 
of The Highland Spectator. The man who could 
thus reduce Breuhowse-to Breues, might commit 
the atrocity of deriving both from Bruce. J. O. 
Holly Fences (2°° 8. i. 335. 398.) —I omitted 
fo answer the inquiry of W.P. A., because I 
thought it most likely the owner of those initials 
was resident, about ten years ago, within a hun- 
dred miles of Blackheath, and knew a great deal 
more about planting holly or anything else for 
fences, than I, or most of your other correspond- 
ents, could tell him. As, however, three of your 
correspondents have answered his inquiry, and 
not one of them has given a direction which I 
have found most essential to the growth of the 
plant, lam induced to send it to you for their 
benefit. It is this: Plant in September and Oc- 
tober in damp weather only, not before the rains 
have penetrated far enough into the ground to 
moisten it, and whilst the ground is yet warm. 
Be very careful of the roots; and if the supply 
comes from your own nursery, or from a nursery 
close adjoining, never lift more plants at one time 
than can be again planted before their fibres be- 
come affected by drought. If supplied from a 
distant nursery, the lifting and packing should be 
done with great care, the roots should be covered 
and packed in damp moss, and on no account ex- 
posed to the air during their transport; and on 
their arrival be carefully covered with earth for 
the present, and planted as soon as possible. 
Aternrnon Horr Waite has surely forgotten 
the yew, the box, and the spurge laurel, when he 
writes “holly, the only indigenous English ever- 
green.” Gro, E. Frere. 
Royden Hall, Diss. 
Macaulay and the Editor of the Sidney Papers 
(2™2 §. i. 266.) —Dr. Rock is quite right in 
stating that the editor of the Sidney Papers was 
not Serjt. Blencowe; but he is mistaken in suppos- 
ing that the gentleman is not in any way connected 
with the profession of the law. He was called in 
due course to the Bar by the Hon. Society of the 
Inner Temple; and, but for his other qualifica- 
tions as a county magistrate, it might be thought 
this circumstance had some influence in his se- 
lection for the office of Deputy Chairman of the 
Quarter Sessions for East Sussex, the duties of 
which he continues to discharge with his accus- 
tomed ability. This communication has been de- 
layed, thinking Dr. Rocx would discover his error 
and correct himself. Wisi Save 
Perpetual Curates not represented in Convoca- 
tion (1% S. ix. 8351.) —I have received an answer 
to this Query from the Rev. J. M. Neale, and I 
insert it for the advantage of other readers of 
“N. & Q.” Mr. Neale writes to me that, — 
“Tn the contested election for Ely Diocese of 1734, the 
numbers were, Perkins 40, Hetherington 36, Colbatch 
36. Colbatch protested, on the ground that a perpetual 
curate had voted for Hetherington.” 
He says also that he had other instances in his 
mind when he wrote the passage which occasioned 
my query on the right of perpetual curates to 
convocational suffrages. Can any of the readers 
of “N. & Q.” supply me with them ? 
WitrraM Frasur, B.C... 
Alton, Staffordshire. 
Minster Lovel (2 S, i. 230. 401.) —W.H.W.T. 
will find a lone account of Lord Lovel of Tich- 
marsh in Hutehfns’s History of Dorset, and also in 
Anderson’s House of Yury, in both of which the 
legend of his being found walled up in Minster 
Lovell is given. M. C. 
