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digiium esse judicaverimus. EimJem ordine piaefato S' 

 Stanislai condecorandum et nuraero Ipsius adnumeran- 

 dum adscribendumq; esse censuimus : Uti de facto, cum 

 omnibus juribus, prserogativis ad mentem prsfati Diplo- 

 matis Institutionis ad extrema ritae su« tempora, conde- 

 coramus, adnumeramus et adscribimus. Quod omnibus 

 quorum interest ad notitiam dcducendo, Extraneos amice 

 requiriraus Subditis veroXostris mandamus, ut prsefatum 

 Generosum Guilhelmum Neville Hart pro Equite Ordinis 

 S' Stanislai habeant, nominent, et agnoscant. In cujus 

 rei fidem pr«sentes mauu nostra subscriptas, Sigillo Nos- 

 tro Communiri jussimus. Datura Varsavia? Die xxvii 

 Mensis Decembris Anno Domini mdccxciV. Kegni 

 vero Nostri xxxi". 



" Stanislaus Augustus, Rex. 



" Diploma pro Equite Ordinis S' Stanislai 

 Eppi et Martj'ris Generoso Guilhelmo 

 Neville Hart, Anglo, datum." 



King Stanislaus also conferred on William 

 Neville Hart the Order of the White Eagle, and 

 appointed him Chamberlain at his Court ; but 

 when he received this appointment, and how long 

 he held it, I have not been able to discover : per- 

 haps some of the readers of " N. & Q." can give 

 information on this point. On his return to Eng- 

 land, in the year 1795, he received permission 

 from King George III. to wear the insignia of the 

 Order of St. Stanislaus, and to assume the appel- 

 lation appertaining to a Knight Bachelor of the 

 United Kingdom. Are any particulars known of 

 the Travels of Sir W. N. Hart ? From a memo- 

 randum which I have in his handwriting, it ap- 

 pears that immense numbers of his Journals, 

 Histories, Papers, &c., containing accounts of the 

 interesting events of which he was a witness in 

 Russia, Austria, Poland, Prussia, Germany, Sax- 

 ony, &c., as well as valuables collected during his 

 thirty years' travels, were destroyed by the fire 

 at Roseneath Castle, the seat of the Duke of Ar- 

 gyll, where he was staying, in the year 1802. 



The years during which he travelled must, I 

 think, have been between 1770 and 1800. 



H. C. Haet. 



Margate One hmdred and twenty Yearn Ago. — 

 Josepli Ames went to Margate in the year 173- (the 

 last numeral is cut off) ; and as there were no Mar- 

 gate Guides p\iblislied in those days, he bought 

 a copy of the second edition of Lewis's History of 

 the Isle of Tenet (4to. 1736), and, after putting in 

 it a few notes and drawings, and emblazoning 

 some of the coats of arms, gave it to the Society 

 of Antiquaries. From this volume I have ex- 

 tracted tlie following Note, in which Ames de- 

 scribes what Margate was at the time of his 

 visit : — 



" The Town of Margate is 72 Post Jliles from London, 

 10 from Canterbury, aiid (J from Sundwicli. The Can- 

 terbury Stage Coach is the nearest, which is 18». for a 

 single person. Tliere are Hoys which go weekly to Lon- 

 don to carry I'asscngers and Goods. Tho Passage is 2 



shillings a Head; and since the Physicians have of late 

 years prescribed drinking and bathing in Salt water, this 

 town is much resorted to on that account; there being a 

 fine sandj' beach, and a flat shore, where at all times of 

 the Tide the Machines or Bathing Waggons can drive a 

 proper depth into the Sea for the accommodation of y° 

 Bathers. The Prizes of Provision, as Mutton, Beef, 

 Lamb, and Veal, is from 3 pence to 3 pence half Pennv 

 the Pound ; Butter 8." 



(He then gives a sketch of Margate Pier and 

 Harbour ; very prominent in the foreground of 

 which is a drawing of a bathing machine, pro- 

 bably the earliest extant picture of one.) 



" The above is a view of the JMachine to bath with ; it 

 contains a room to undress and dress in, with steps to go 

 down into the Sea ; will hold 5 or 6 People. There are 

 Men and Women Guides, who, if desired, attend. Tiie 

 price is 4 shillings a week, or I!. Is. for six weeks, and 

 you pay the Guide for every attendance. They drive 

 into the Sea till it is about breast high, and then let 

 down the Screen, w'^'^ prevents being seen, under which 

 you go down the Steps into a fine sandy bottom." 



T. 



Registers of Windsor Pa7'ish Church. — The 

 following extracts from the Registers of Wind- 

 sor parish church may interest some of your 

 readers : — 



" 1574. George Mvllwarde mar* Alyce Montague. 



1594. M-- Will. Bridges mard M" Eliz. Millwarde. 

 „ INK Richard Catesbye. Buried. 



1595. M"' John Wliorewoode mar"" M''» Anne Goodyer. 

 1597. M"' Francis Whitton mar* M" Anne Nayler" 

 1612. Edward Forth, gent Buried. 



1636. Bapt. William, son to M"^ Isaac Walton and Ra- 



chell, his wife. 

 1638. Henrj' ifayrefax mar* ffrances Barker. 

 1640. Bur*, Thomas Billingslev, gent. 

 1646. Bur*, Martin Eldred, A.M., et Col!. Jo. apud 



Almam matrem Cantab, socius. 



1651. Bur*, Anne Potter, dau. to Christopher Potter, 



late Deane of Worcester. 



1652. Bur*, M' Nathanael Eldred. 



1653. Mar*, M^- George Cuthbert of Willoughby, co. 



Lincoln. Mar*, Jane, daugh. of W"" Matting- 

 ley, of Cookham, Berks." 



R. C. W. 



Cherbourg : Origin of the Name. — Will any of 

 your readers favour me with the derivation of 

 this word ? Its termination, which is conclu- 

 sive enough, and sufficiently indicates its forli- 

 ffed characters, is the Greek 7^^705, Lat. hurgus, a 

 tower or fort, a collection of such buildings con- 

 stituting the German burg, Eng. burgh or borough. 

 I have seen the origin of this seaport traced, as 

 in Chertsey (at which point Caesar is supposed to 

 have crossed the Thames) to that emperor's 

 name, but Ccesaris burgus is at best a conjec- 

 tural etymology, and certainly not a satisfactory 

 one. The first syllable can hardly be said either 

 to denote its geographical position : Cher, so called 

 from the river of that name, being a central de- 

 partment of France, and the Divclfe, at whose 

 mouth the arsenal is situate, not one of its aillu- 

 eats even. Query, was Chcr-howg a name be- 



