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thews; and has but one Finger upon each Hand, and 
one Toe upon each Foot, and a bursten Belly. Whoever 
can give any Intelligence of them, so that they may be 
apprehended according to Law, shall have half a Guinea 
Reward and reasonable Charges, and send to Mr. George 
Baxter’s, at the ‘Bell’ in Church Lane, in St. Giles’s-in- 
the-Fields; to be taken in a Month’s time, or else no 
Reward.” — Weekly Journal, Dec. 22nd, 1722. 
The ugly little Count, who conducted the for- 
tunes of the Italian opera, was forced to descend 
to steps which would make the hair of a Lumley 
or a Gye stand on end: 
“We hear that Count Heydreiggar has taken in a 
Subscription for three Redoltos, in which, besides the 
Musick and Entertainment of Sweet-meats and Wine, 
&c., every Lady is to have a Ticket for a Lottery, which 
will be drawn in the Presence of the Company ; in which 
every Prize will be intitled to some curious Toy.” — 
Weekly Journal, Dec. 29th, 1722. 
Another significant hint of gaol privations : 
“On Monday last, the Lord Mayor, according to the 
Annual Custom, visited the several Markets in the City, 
to collect the Charities of well-disposed Persons for the 
Poor Debtors in Newgate, Ludgate, and the Compters. 
And, besides the Supplies of Money and Provisions sent 
them in pursuance thereof, ’tis not doubted but a con- 
siderable Relief will be added to them from private 
Charities.” — Weekly Journal, Dec. 29th, 1722. 
The differences between the King and the 
Prince of Wales were now marked by a breach of 
decorum : 
“On Sunday last the Court of Leicester Fields went 
into Mourning, but not the Court of St. James’s, on occa- 
-sion of the Death of the Margrave of Brandenburg 
Anspach, Brother to Her Royal Highness, the Princess 
of Wales.” — Weekly Journal, January 19th, 1723. 
The announcement of the publication of Flam- 
stead’s Works, runs thus: 
“Whereas we are well assured that several Copies of 
a false and imperfect Edition of the Historia Celestis of 
the late Reverend Mr. Flamstead, contain’d in one Volume, 
have been clandestinely sold in Great Britain, Ireland, 
&c. This is to satisfy those into whose Hands they are 
fallen, that his true and genuine Works consist of 3 large 
Volumes in Folio, besides 25 large Charts of all the Stars | 
visible in our Hemisphere; as also large Hemispheres, 
both of the Northern and Southern Constellations; and 
that they will speedily be publish’d. 
“ MARGARET FLAMSTEAD of Greenwich, in Kent. 
“ James Hopeson, Master of the Royal Mathe- 
matical School in Christ's Hospital. 
“ Executors.” 
Weekly Journal, Jan, 19th, 1723. | 
| through which the animal could have crawled or 
When the following was penned Bristol and 
her merchant adventurers had little fear of ri- 
valry from the borough so modestly named : 
« Liberty is given to withdraw the Petition complain- 
ing of an undue Election and Return for the Borough 
of Leverpole, in the County of Lancashire.” — Weekly 
Journal, Jan. 26th, 1723. ‘ 
The ‘ borough of Leverpole” was, at that time, 
but in bud as a port, and Brighthelmstone as a 
watering-place. 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
[2nd S. No 24, Jone 14. ’56, 
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Here is another act of the farce of the court of 
the Old Pretender : 
“ By Letters from Rome, we are told that on Christ- 
mas Day last, the Chevalier de St. George invested his 
young Son with the two Orders of the Garter and the 
Thistle, and afterwards made a very splendid Entertain- 
ment.” — Weekly Journal, Jan. 26th, 1723. 
Notice to quit for some illustrious lodgers at 
Somerset House : 
“ The Lord Clarendon, Lady How, and other Persons 
| of Quality, who had lodgings in Somerset House, have 
been obliged to remove their Coaches and Horses out of 
the Stables belonging to that Palace for the Conveni- 
ence of the Guard.” [Thirty men of the Life Guards, 
ana eleven of the Horse Grenadiers. ]|— Weekly Journal, 
| Jan. 26th, 1723. 
We will finish this string of extracts with a 
reminiscence of Pegay Fryar, a veteran danseuse, 
who had danced through two generations : 
« AmILirAs Mina. 
“ At the New Theatre, right over against the Opera 
House in the Hay-market, on Monday, January 28, will 
be acted the Half-pay Officers, with Hobb’s Wedding; 
the Widow Rich performed by the Celebrated Peggy 
Fryar, aged 71, for her Benefit, who dances the bashful 
Country Maid and the Irish Trot, and played but one 
(sic) Since the days of King Charles, And taught three 
Queens to dance.” — Weekly Journal, Jan. 26th, 1723. 
ALEXANDER ANDREWS. 
THE TOAD. 
Perhaps the following notice of the discovery of 
a toad at a considerable depth may not be unaec- 
ceptable to some of the readers of “ N. & Q.,” the 
more so as the particulars of such events have 
generally heen very vaguely described. 
Hearing that a living toad had been dug up 
near the village of Benthall, close to Broseley, in 
Shropshire, on September 23, last, and being in 
the neighbourhood, I walked over on March 21, 
and had the pleasure of making his acquaintance. 
His present possessor and discoverer, Mr. Bathurst, 
a manufacturer of earthenware, at Benthall, who 
has taken great interest in the subject, courteously 
gave me a minute description of the “find,” and 
took me to see the exact spot. He assured me 
that his father, who was present at the exhuma- 
tion, and himself had carefully, but vainly, sought 
fur any fissure in the superincumbent strata 
fallen, and my own examination, which was a 
leisurely one, also failed in detecting any. The 
total depth was five feet six or seven inches from 
the surface, and the order of the strata, as shown 
by a perpendicular section, as follows. First, the 
turf of the meadow, resting upon a bed of clay 
mixed with gravel, beneath which was a thickness 
of three feet of clay, laying on a stratum of fer- 
ruginous coal, of the inferior kind used in the 
