450 
©1701, July 17. George Doncan, vic. of Longhough- 
ton, and Margaret, the youngest Dr. of Littleden Ker*, a 
very ancient Barron of Teviotdale near Kelso, were mar- 
ried by Rev. Mr. Edwards of Embleton. 
“1723, May 28. Margret, the (best of wives, the sister 
of Littleden Ker, an antient Baron in Scotland, near 
Kelso) wife of George Doncan, vic. of Longhoughton, was 
buried. 
“1701, Oct. 15. Robert Shipherd (valde senex et 
ccelebs), one of the antients of LongH., buried. 
“1702, Feb. 15. Eliz., wife of Luke Pringle (ambo 
valde impii), Joyn of Longh., was buried. 
“1704, Dec. 15. Marg., Dr. of Luke Pringle (obsti- 
nately v icked) of LongH., xtned. 
“1705, May 15. Rich., son of “Wm. Thompson (ho- 
nestus homini, sed prophanus Deo), Milner of Littlemiln, 
xd. 
“1703, Oct. 14. Isabel, wife of Thomas Story (obst., 
ign., and wick.), herd, was buried. 
“1706, Jan. 22. William, son of William Morton (a 
gross ign. and wick.) herd, was xtned. 
“1711, Aug. 8. Thomas, son of Luke Pringle (homo 
pess.), of LongH., was xtned. 
“—— Feb. 15. Jane, wife of Wm. Grey (a quack and 
warlack doctor), of Littlehoughton, was buried. 
“1712. John Egden (a very dissenter in his life, and 
yet a very good charitable man; he was some years 
before his death brought to be a-sincere member of y® 
Ch.) was buried. 
“1712, Oct. 14. Mary Taylor (an old), widow of G. 
Taylor, a very mean blacksmith, was buried. 
“1716, Feb. 15. John Weddill, a (bungler, but a) free 
mason, and Ann Scott of LongH., were married. 
“1717, Oct. 4. Eliz., Dr. of John Weddil, a cowiner, 
yet a free mason, was xd. 
“1717. Thomasin, the good widow of John Egden, 
the said good dissenter who came into the Ch., was 
buried. 
“1723, Feb. 2. John Ferret, an (obstinate, ignor., and 
wicked) cadger of Boulmer+, was buried. 
“1724, Jan. 20. John Muirs, a very old herd (some- 
where), now of LongH., was buried. 
“1725, May 10. Roger, the son of Roger Pearson, a 
(bruitish ignorant) hind of LittleH., was buried. 
“—— Sept. 10. George Hymers (a Tergivers Janus 
Whig), herd of LittleH., was buried. 
“1726, Feb. 13. Margaret, wife of John Brown (uxor 
prob. marit. prob.), hind of LongH., buried. 
“1727, April 28. Susan, Dr. of R. Pringle, a (imp. 
ignor. peccat.) day laborer, xd. 
“1727, May 14. Ann, Dr. of George Pollit, a (triste 
ignor. et proph. peccator) fisher, buried. 
“—— Aug. 22. Peter, son of H. Elder (infelix valde 
nuptiis), an ingenious smith, xd. 
oS Sept. 7. Robert, son of J. Facus (vah salutis 
neglig.), a fisher, was xd. 
“—_ Dec. Thomas, ye base son of Thomas Curry 
(vilissimus peccator), begotten on Eliz. Curry, was xd. 
“1727, May 23. John, son of R. Glastanes (a Janus 
Tergiverse Whig), buried. 
«“—— July 27. Robert Daveson (vah yaldé incuriosus 
salutis), fisher, of Boulmer, buried.” 
THE FIRST HATTER, ETC. 
Apropos to a portion of Mr. Hacxwoon’s Note 
(2™° S. i. 332.) on “the Origin of Fashions,” I 
* Te. Ker of Littledean. + Boomer. 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
[2nd §, No 23,, June 7. °56. 
quote the following passage from “A Day at a 
Hat-factory,” in the Penny Magazine for 1841, 
page 44, 
“At what time felted wool was first employed for 
making hats it would be difficult now to say; but there 
is a legend current among some of the continental hatters 
which gives the honour to St. Clement, fourth Bishop of 
Rome. Most fraternities love to have a patron saint 
when they can find one; and those hatters who regard 
St. Clement in this light, inform us that this holy man 
being forced to flee from his persecutors, found his 
feet to be so blistered by long-continued travel, that he 
was induced to put a little wool between his sandals and 
the soles of his feet. On continuing his journey, the 
warmth, moisture, motion, and pressure of the feet, worked 
the wool into a uniformly compact substance. Finally, 
the wanderer, observing the useful nature of this sub- 
stance, caused it to be introduced in the manufacture of 
various articles of apparel.” 
In Butler’s Arithmetical Questions on a New 
Plan (1806), is the following : 
“Hats for men were invented at Paris by a Swiss, in 
1404. They were first manufactured at London by Spani- 
ards in 1510. Before that time, both men and women in 
England commonly wore close-knit woollen caps. F. 
Daniel relates, that when Charles II. made his public 
entry into Rouen, in 1449, he had on a hat lined with red 
velvet and surmounted with a plume or tuft of feathers. 
He adds, that it is from this entry, or at least under his 
reign, that the use of hats and caps is to be dated, which 
henceforward began to take place of the chaperoons and 
hoods that had been worn before in France.” (P. 340.) 
An amusing and suggestive article, entitled “ A 
Hint to Hatters,” will be found in Household 
Words, viii. 419. 
The comfortable “ wide-awake ” is said to have 
been thus facetiously named because it never has 
a nap. What was the origin of the saying “ As 
mad as a hatter ?” 
The following is extracted from the Poetical 
Note Book and Epigrammatic Museum (1824), 
p. 115.: 
“THE WHITE HAT. 
“ On being asked the reason of wearing one. 
«You ask me the reason I wear a white hat: 
Tis for lightness I wear it, what think you of that ? 
So light is its weight, that no head-ache I rue, 
So light its expense that it wears me out two; 
So Jight is its colour that it never looks dusty, 
So light though I treat it, it never ‘rides rusty ;’ 
So light in its fashion, its shape, and its air, 
So light in its sit, its fit, and its wear; 
So light in its turning, its twisting and twining, 
So light in its beaver, its binding, and lining ; 
So light to a figure, so light to a letter, 
And, if light my excuse, you may light on a better.” 
Dr. King, in the Anecdotes of his own Times, 
says: 
“In the civil war, my grandfather, Sir William Smyth, 
was governor of Allesdon House, near Buckingham, where 
the king had a small garrison. This place was besieged 
and taken by Cromwell. But the officers capitulated to 
march out with their arms, baggage, &c. As soon as 
they were without the gate, one of Cromwell’s soldiers 
snatched off Sir W. Smyth’s hat. He immediately com- 
