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Hitnor Notes. 
Derivation of Parish. — Etymological students 
generally derive the word parish from the Greek 
mapoi (rap and oucew). Query, Is not an etymo- 
logical connection to be found between the above- 
mentioned word and the Sanscrit afi pa- 
rishad 2 E. 
Berlin. 
Punishment of a Scold. —'The following ex- 
tracts are from the Universal Spectator, and will, 
I think, answer some Queries in the early num- 
bers of your publication. I am sorry I cannot 
refer to them at present : 
“ Saturday, October 14, 1738. Last week at the Quarter 
Sessions at Kingston-on-Thames, an elderly woman, 
notorious for her vociferation, was indited for a common 
scold, and the facts alledged being fully proved, she was 
sentenced to receive the old punishment of being duck’d, 
which was accordingly executed upon her in the Thames, 
by the proper officers, in a chair for that purpose pre~ 
served in the town; and to prove the justice of the courts 
sentence upon her, on her return from the water side she 
fell upon one of her acquaintance, without provocation, 
with tongue, tooth, and nail, and would, had not the 
officers interposed, have deserved a second punishment 
even before she was dry from the first.” 
Has any case of “ducking a scold” occurred 
since this date? J. pe W. 
Cowper forestalled by Bishop Berkeley. — We 
all know what Cowper says of tea: 
“ The Cups 
That cheer but not inebriate:” — 
in the 217th paragraph of Bishop Berkeley's Siris, 
you will find him saying — 
“The fermented spirit of wine or other liquors pro- 
duceth irregular motions, and subsequent depressions in 
the animal spirits. Whereas the luminous spirit lodged 
and detained in the native balsam of pines and firs (the 
bishop’s pet ‘Tar Water’) is of a nature so mild and be- 
nign, and proportioned to the human constitution, as to 
warm without heating, to cheer but not inebriate, and to pro- 
duce a calm and steady joy, like the effect of good news.” 
This is not mentioned by Southey in his edition. 
5 183; 
23. Rutland Street, Edinburgh. 
Revival after Execution. — 
“Nov. 29, 1740. William Dewell, for a rape on Sarah 
Griffin, in a barn at Acton, was carried to Surgeons’ Hall 
in order for dissection, when he came to himself, and was 
the same night again committed to Newgate. 
“ Dec. 6. 1740. The case of Dewell the malefactor, who 
after hanging came to life again is left to the Recorder. 
“ February 14, 741. The condition of Dewell’s pardon, 
who revived after execution, is transportation for life.” 
J. pE W. 
A Remarkable Man and his Family. — David 
Wilson died a few years ago at Madison, Indiana, 
aged 107 years. He had been married five times, 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
[2nd §, No 25., Jumm 21. 756, 
and had had forty-seven children, thirty-five of 
whom were recently living. Instead of ribs he 
had a solid bone over his chest, a circumstance 
which saved his life during the border wars with 
the Indians in Kentucky. At the period of his 
death his mental and bodily powers were but 
little impaired. Unepa. 
Philadelphia. 
Lines to the Court of Insolvent Debtors. — 
“ Risu Solvuntur Tabule. 
“ Qui niger, et captivus eram, candore nivali 
Splendidus, egredior carcere, liber homo. 
Solvuntur cure; solvuntur vincula ferri ; 
Solvitur attonitus creditor —in lacrymas. 
Solvor ego; tantum non solvitur «s alienum ; 
A non solvendo rite solutus ero.” 
The following translation is said to be by the 
late Rev. R. H. Barham: 
“ A Blackleg late, and prisoner, hence I go 
In whitewashed splendour, pure as unsunned snow; 
Dissolved my bonds; dissolved my cares and fears; 
My very creditors dissolved — in tears ; 
All questions solved: the act resolves me free, 
Absolved in absolute Insolvency.” 
EK. F. 
Guerfes. 
MARTIN THE FRENCH PEASANT-PROPHET AND 
LOUIS XVIII. 
Can any of your readers confirm, or otherwise, 
the credibility of the enclosed extraordinary nar- 
rative? Is it true that the coronation of Louis 
XVIII. was countermanded ? W. H. 
Hull. 
“ This history, we believe, is almost unknown in Eng- 
land. But it created a very great sensation in France at 
the time of the Restoration, soon after the fall of the first 
Napoleon. The allied armies had not left France when 
the events occurred. The whole matter was officially 
investigated by M. Decages, the minister of police; by 
MM. Pinel and Royer Collard, physicians; by the 
Viscount de la Rochefoucauld, who records many of the 
facts in his Memoirs; and by the Duke de Montmorency. 
Nothing of the kind is better attested. 
“Thomas Ignace Martin was a farm-labourer near 
Gallardon, not far from Chartres, about thirty-three years 
of age, and fathir of a family, when, in 1816, as he was 
engaged in spreading compost over a field, suddenly a 
young man, of small slender form and long visage, very 
white, and clothed in a light-colored surtout, buttoned 
close, and reaching to his feet, laced shoes, and a high- 
crowned hat, appeared before him, and told him he must 
go and take a message to the king. Martin replied that 
he was not qualified for such a high mission; but the 
youth told him that he must go. Martin, in return, said 
he thought the young man himself better fitted for such 
an office. But ‘ No,’ was the answer, ‘it is you that must 
go.’ After that, the head of the youth descended toward 
the waist, and the entire figure then disappeared. Mar- 
tin’s brother and the curate, to whom he mentioned the 
circumstance, treated it as an illusion; but the youth 
repeatedly came with the same communication, and Mar- 
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