2»* S. VI. 132., July 10. '58.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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" I have also just now a line from her Grace of Argyle, 

 who writes me, a gentleman that is Sir Hugh's neigh- 

 bour told her two days [before] that he was dead." 



J. M. 



Inscription at Auld-Field House, Glasgow. — The 

 following is an inscription on the chimney-piece of 

 the kitchen in Auld-Field House, in the near neigh- 

 bourhood of Glasgow, and formerly the seat, as it is 

 still in the possession, of the Maxwells, Baronets of 

 Pollok. Its quaintness, as well as the holy truth 

 embodied in it, give it a title to be registered in 

 "N. & Q.": — 



" THE BODIE FOR THE SAVL WAS FRAMD THIS HOVS THE 

 BODIE FOR ; 

 IN HEAVN FOR BOTH MT PLACE IS NAISID IN BLISS MY 

 GOD T ADORE." 



I may mention that the chimney-piece on which 

 the above inscription is written is in the oldest 

 part of the building, which was plainly a square 

 tower or fortalice of that peculiar architecture 

 prevalent in the old Scottish castles, the ruins of 

 which are everywhere to be seen both in the Low- 

 lands and Highlands. The exact date I have not 

 been able to ascertain, but its structure proclaims 

 it to be very old. M. Ghegor. 



" Nopen." — In some parts of Staffordshire a 

 Bullfinch is called a Nopen. Cuthbert Bede. 



Wasbrough v. Watt: The Steam Engine and 

 Rotatory Motion. — It has been usual to ascribe 

 the invention of everything great in relation to 

 the steam-engine to the immortal James AVatt of 

 Birmingham, and amongst other contrivances that 

 of producing a continuous motion by means of the 

 crank and fly-wheel. From his own account of 

 the invention he attempts to show, somewhat dis- 

 ingenuously as I think, that the honour is cer- 

 tainly due to himself; but that neglecting to take 

 out a patent for it, his method was communicated 

 by a workman to some one else, who forestalled 

 him in his intention. All this may appear very 

 well upon the surface, but what are the facts ? If 

 the reader will carefully read Mr. Watt's state- 

 ment, he will find that from the year 1769, 

 through some ten subsequent years, he was en- 

 gaged making various experiments to produce the 

 wished-for result — a continuous motion — but 

 without effect ; at the end of which time Matthew 

 Wasbrough, of this city, " erected (as Mr. Watt 

 says) one of his ratchet-wheel engines at Birming- 

 ham, the frequent breakages and irregularities of 

 which recalled the subject to his mind ;" and he 

 then says that he made a model of his method, 

 which answered his expectation. Why, then, did 

 he not take out a patent for it immediately, in- 

 stead of waiting until 1781? The truth is, that 



Matthew Wasbrough had preceded him in the in- 

 vention by nearly three years, having patented 

 liis contrivance early in 1779, and to him belongs 

 the honour of producing a continuous rotatory 

 motion in relation to the steam-engine, and not to 

 James Watt, as is too generally believed. 



George Prtce. 



Bristol City Librar3\ 



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Major Andre. — In the account of tlie disinter- 

 ment of Major Andre's remains in 1821, written 

 by Mr. Buchanan, the British Consul at New 

 York, and published in the United Service Journal 

 for November, 1833, that gentleman, after stating 

 that no metal buttons were found in the coffin, 

 comes to the conclusion that Andre's body was 

 stripped by the Americans, which he styles an 

 " outrage " to be " blazoned to the world." 



Dr. Thatcher of the American army, who had 

 been present at the execution of Andre thereupon 

 published a communication upon the subject in 

 the New England Magazine for May, 1834, in 

 which he asserts that Andre's uniform and other 

 effects were given to his servant. " Mr. Bu- 

 chanan accepted the correction, and declared that 

 it should be inserted in the United Service Jourtml, 

 in which his own statement had appeared." It is 

 said that this was neglected. 



See Mr. Charles J. Biddle's " Lecture on the 

 Case of Major Andre," recently published by the 

 Historical Society in a volume of Contributions to 

 American Histoi-y. (1858.) Uneda. 



Philadelphia. 



Expenses of Tresentation to a Living in 1683. — 

 Perhaps it may not be uninteresting to the readers 

 of "N. & Q." to see a list of the expenses incurred 

 on the presentation and institution to a living in 

 the gift of the Lord Keeper Guilford in the year 

 1683. The living was in one of our northera 

 cities, and was held in plurality : — 



£ s. d. 

 " Imp. ffor the broad Seal - - - 8 2 6 



A gratuity to my SoUicitor - - 3 4 6 



Ffor Institution - - - - 4 3 



Ffor Induction - - - - 13 4 



Ffor a license to Preach - - - 15 



To the Secretary Atkinson's Man - 2 6 



To the Butlers " - - - - 2 



To the Porter - - - - 1 



To the Groomes - - - - 1 



Ffor a Sequestration and Relaxation - 1 3 10 

 Spent at Induction - - 1 



In all 



-18 9 8" 



R. 



Bentlet/s Emendations on Milton. — The follow- 

 ing lines written about the time of the appearance 

 of Bentley's Emendations on Milton have never, I 

 believe, appeared in print. The initials of the au- 

 thor, or rather the compiler of the volume, would 



