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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd S. VI. 149., Nov. 6. '58. 



Was Charles Reuben Riley (the painter who 

 gained the gold medal in 1778, at the Royal Aca- 

 demy, for the best painting in oil, the subject of 

 which was " Iphigenia"), a descendant of the 

 painter John Riley ? C. R. Riley was born in 

 London about 1756, and died in 1798. (See Gene^ 

 ral Dictionary of Painters, by Matthew Pilkington, 

 1852.) T. W. R. Vtchan. 



New York. 



Cheney of Broke. — Sir Jobn Willougliby, Knt., 

 married Anne, daughter and coheiress of Sir Ed- 

 mund Cheney, of Broke in the County of Wilts, 

 Knt., and was the father of Sir Robert Willough- 

 by, Knt., first Lord Willoughby de Broke, temp. 

 Hen. VII. Where is any account to be found of 

 the family of the above-mentioned Sir Edmund 

 Cheney of Broke ? Meletes. 



Heraldic Query. — Can Querist, in the following 

 pedigree, adopt Armiger's arms, having none of 

 his own ? 



Armiger. 



An eventual sole heiress=B. has no arras. 



I 



Sole heires8=C. has no anns. 



Querist. 



Seaton-Carew, co. Durham. 



R. W. Dixon. 



Church Propei-ty at the Beformation. — Much 

 obloquy has been thrown on the conduct of 

 Henry VIH. and the political leaders of the Re- 

 formation for their appropriation of Church pro- 

 perty at that period, or its gift or sale at low 

 trices to various lay-parlies. Do any documents 

 3xist which would show that in any cases the lay- 

 men who thus acquired these estates were the 

 actual representatives of those families or indivi- 

 duals by whom such lands or houses had originally 

 been bequeathed to the Church ? S. M. S. 



'■'■ Boems of Isis :'" ^'- Life and Death." — lam 

 anxious to learn who wrote a beautiful little poem 

 entitled Life and Death, which commences — 



" In that home was joy and sorrow 

 AVhere an infant first drew breath, 

 While an aged sire was drawing 

 Nigh unto the Gate of Death." 



They were marked in the periodical in which I saw 

 them either " from Boems by Isis," or " from the 

 Boems of Lsis." J. AV. H. 



Northumberland Custom. — In Northumberland, 

 about eighty years since, there was a custom for 

 the young men and girls, on the evening of a par- 

 ticular day in summer, to resort to a neighbouring 

 wood to beat each other with branches of the 

 mountain-ash (rowan-tree). I shall be glad to 

 have some account or explanation of this custom, 

 and to know if it existed elsewhere, W. W. 



Sir Thomas Cambell, Knight. — Who was Sir 

 Thomas Cambell, Kt., Lord Mayor of London in 

 1609 ? Who was his wife, and who were his four 

 daughters ? Was Sir Thomas father of Sir James 

 Cambell, Kt., also Lord Mayor of London in 

 1629 ? C. S. 



Minav <&xtcvieS toitlj '^n^iatvS, 



Society of Astrologers. — Among the advertise- 

 ments at the end of Gadbury's Ephemetis, or 

 Diary, Astronomical, Astrological, Meteorological 

 for the Year of our Lord 1684, is the follow- 

 ing: — 



" Five several Sermons preached for and dedicated to 

 the Society of Astrologers, by Dr. Gell, Dr. Swadlin, Mr. 

 Reeves, Mr. Carpenter, Mr. Swan, brought into one vo- 

 lume (at the command of S"' Edward Derin?, K'., and 

 Henry Crispe, Esq., last Stewards of the said Society) by 

 J. Gadbury, Shortly to be Published to the World, for a 

 proof of the lawfulness of Astrologie." 



Were these sermons ever published ? and is 

 anything known of the Society of Astrologers, 

 their Zasf stewards (if indeed they were their last), 

 or of the preachers ? Although Astrology may 

 now almost be said to be dead and buried, she has 

 left memorials which are not uninteresting or un- 

 instructive to the survivors. P. H. F. 



[It does not appear that these Sermons were ever pub- 

 lished in a collected form ; although they had been printed 

 previously by their respective authors. Stella Novit,hy 

 Dr. Robert Gell, 4to. 1649. Divinity no Enemy to Astro- 

 logy, by Thomas Swadlin, 4to. 1G53 Astrology proved 

 Harmless, Useful, and Pious, by Richard Carpenter, 4to. 

 1657. Signa Cceli, by John Swan, 4to. 1652. For a no- 

 tice of the Society of Astrologers, see " N. & Q." 2"'' S. iii. 

 13. As to poor John Gadbury, he has been roughly 

 treated by his brother astrologer, J. Partridge, in the fol- 

 lowing work : " Nebula Anglicanus : or the First Part of 

 the Black Life of John Gadbury. It is the same John 

 Gadbury that was in the Popish Plot to murther Charles 

 n. in the year 1678. It is the same John Gadbury that was 

 accused of being in another Plot, to dethrone and destroy 

 King William in the year 1690. It is the same John 

 Gadbury that at this time is so strait-lac'd in Conscience 

 that he cannot take the Oaths to their present Majesties. 

 Together with an Answer to a late Pamphlet of his. By 

 J. Partridge. ' I have fought with beasts after the man- 

 ner of men,' &c. London : Printed, and are to be sold by 

 the Booksellers of London and Westminster, 1693," 4°. 



" Bootikins." — Can any of the more aged readers 

 of " N. & Q." explain what is meant by this term? 

 It is frequently used in the Letters of Horace 

 Walpole to Sir H. Mann and Countess of Ossory, 

 and appears to be the name of some kind of ap- 

 paratus used as a palliative or remedy in attacks 

 of gout, and that Horace AValpole had a high 

 opinion of its success. S. M. S. 



[This specific for the gout has been noticed in our 1*' 

 S. iv. 232., where it is stated that Dr. E. J. Seymour, in 

 his Thoughts on the Nature and Treatment of several se- 

 vere Diseases of the Iluinnn Body, i. 107., says, "The 

 bootikins were simplj- a glove, with a partition for the 

 thumb, but no separate ones for the fingers, like an in- 



