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dant a cottage-farmer. To lighten my page, I 

 shall not scorn the quaint family motto, the hu- 

 morous puu, or, in fact, anything that can con- 

 duce to render the volume an instructive and 

 amusing fireside book. 



Hundreds of your readers can help me, if so dis- 

 posed. Many have already done me much ser- 

 vice, and I trust that very many others -will lend 

 a hand to render the Patronymica Britannica 

 what it ought to be — a work of archaeological and 

 historical importance, and of even national interest. 



Any farther information that may be desired 

 concerning the general scope of the work, I shall 

 gladly supply, either privately, or through the 

 columns of "N. & Q." Mark. Antony Lowek. 



Defacing Monuments by carving Names upon 

 tliem. — More than six years ago I called attention 

 to this barbarous custom (1" S. v. 434.), and 

 asked the Query, if this popular English method 

 of defacing monuments and other works of art 

 did not take its rise in the time of the Protector ? 

 A paragraph in a late number of the Lincoln 

 Mercury, however, assigns this exhibition of 

 foolish vanity to an earlier period, and tells us 

 that " upon the tomb of Longland, in Lincoln 

 Cathedral, who died at Woburn in 1547, there is 

 cut, in rude characters, ' 1576, John Whalley, 

 1623, T. B., A. Eycugh, 1633, Edward Hutchin- 

 son, 1642,' and many other names not decipher- 

 able." CUTHBEKT BeDE. 



United Empire Loyalists. — I had lately occa- 

 sion to refer to the United Empire Loyalists who 

 settled in Canada after the American revolution, 

 and I did so in the usual manner, by writing " U. 

 E. Loyalists," which was copied in type " N. E. 

 Loyalists," probably because the proof reader 

 imagined that I meant New England Loyalists. 

 The difference was certainly not much, since most 

 of the U. E.'s came from New England ; but it is 

 evident that he was not aware of any, and it is 

 just as well to put things right if we mean to go 

 ahead. 



It may be also worthy of remark, that many in- 

 telligent Americans regret the want of hereditary 

 titles to reward those who cannot now aspire to 

 be called "The Father of his country;" and in 

 case public opinion among the Anglo-Saxons 

 abroad should become clamorous for union in the 

 councils of the mother country, would it not be well 

 to consider beforehand what the old fulks at home 

 would gain or lose thereby ? J. Mackintosh. 



Longevity. — In the Registrar-General's report 

 for tiie week ending June 5, 1858, is recorded the 

 death, on May 25, of Joiin Ewing, aged 103 years. 

 He had been formerly a sergeant in the Foot 

 Guards, and had served in the Walchercn expedi- 



tion and Peninsular campaigns, and was a pen- 

 sioner previously to the battle of Waterloo. He 

 possessed remarkable physical strength, and re- 

 tained his mental faculties to the last. The certi- 

 ficate of his birth, now in the possession of his 

 daughter, runs thus: "John Ewing, born 16th 

 of October, 1754, at Carron-shore, parish of Lar- 

 bert, shire of Stirling. Extracted from the record, 

 John Bunce, clerk." 



" On Thursdays June 24, 1858, was buried at the Charl- 

 ton cemeterj', Mrs. Millward, of Millward Cottage, Black- 

 heath, at the age of 102. She was born shortly after the 

 rebellion of 1745, when the succession of the present 

 dynastj' was in jeopardj', and she well remembered every 

 political movement since. She saw the separation of the 

 American colonies from the mother country ; the three 

 French revolutions ; the great French war on which de- 

 pended the fate of Europe. Her husband having been 

 state coachman to George IV. when Regent, she was well 

 acquainted with all the gossip of the court: George III. 

 was most friendly with her .... She was present at the 

 Gordon Riots, and in great danger in Hyde Park at that 

 time." — Morning Post, June 28, 1858. 



The following will bear reproducing from the 

 obituary of the Gentleman s Magazine for Decem- 

 ber, 1830: — 



" At Kilmuir, Isle of Skye, Lieut. Soirle Mackdonald, 

 at the very advanced age of 106. He expired merely 

 from decay and exhaustion of nature. He has left three 

 children under ten years of age." 



R. W. Hackwood. 



I am not aware that the following prodigious 

 statement has appeared among the many accounts 

 of long-lived people which your contributors 

 have supplied : — 



" Anno Domini 1139, Joannes de Temporibus obit, qui 

 annis ccclxi vixerat a tempore Karoli Magni, cujus ar- 

 miger fuerat." — Vita Innocentii II., auctore Bern. Gui- 

 done, ap. Migne, Patrolog. clxxix. 30. 



Whether this old gentleman is mentioned by 

 any other chronicler of the time, I am at present 

 unable to say. J- C. R. 



Early Rising. — In Doddridge's Family Expo- 

 sitor there occurs the following passage : — 



" 1 will here record an observation which I have found 

 of great use to myself, and to which I may say that the 

 production of this' work, and most of my other writings, 

 is owing : viz. that the difference between rising at five 

 and at seven o'clock in the morning, for the space of forty 

 years, supposing a man to go to bed at the same hour at 

 night, is nearly equivalent to the addition of ten years to 

 a man's life." 



The foregoing is quoted in Todd's Sludnnts 

 Guide, in Wesley's sermon on Early Rising, and 

 in Life doubled by the Economy of Time ; but the 

 calculation is certainly erroneous; for the time so 

 saved would amount to exactly .six jears, eight 

 months, and twenty-one days (reckoning twelve 

 hours to each day, and 3C6 days to every Iburth 

 year), or barely six and three-quarter years, in- 

 stead of nearly ten years. Washington Moon. 



