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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2«'<> S. VI. 166., Dkc. 25. '58. 



by his son, the " Doctor of Physick," was sent to 

 Sir Robert Sibbald, who was then collecting sta- 

 tistical information respecting the different coun- 

 ties of Scotland ; and is alluded to in Nicolson's 

 Scottish Historical Library, pp. 20. and 53. of 

 12mo edition of 1702. A. S. A. 



Barrackpore. 



Blondeau: Gougeon (2"* S. vi. 346.) — In an- 

 swer to H. C. H.'s inquiries relative to the fami- 

 lies of Blondeau and Gougeon, I shall be happy, 

 as a descendant of Lady Denise Harf., to commu- 

 nicate with him on the subject, if H. C. H. will 

 favour me with his address through " N. & Q." 

 W. N. Hart, Esq., Lady Hart's son, took his de- 

 gree at Oxford as D.C.L. in 1772, and was elected 

 M.P. for Stafford, 1771. Mr. Hart married Eli- 

 zabeth, daughter of Stanhope Aspinwall, Esq., his 

 Majesty's Consul at Algiers, and cousin of P. 

 Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield. I am 

 not aware that Mr. Hart hadany brother. B. 



Dublin. 



Cross Week (2'"> S. vi. 478.) — The week thus 

 designated was the week in which the feast oc- 

 curred of the Finding of the Holy Cross. This is 

 kept on the 3rd of May : so that, supposing Easter 

 to have fallen early in the year 1571, Cross Week 

 would have been about a month after it. 



F. C. H. 



Leathern Dollar (2°'> S. vi. 460.) — The follow- 

 ing extract from Fuller's Worthies may give some 

 information to your correspondent. Under the 

 head of " Leather," in his account of Middlesex, 

 he says : — 



" Adam's first suit was of leaves, his second of leather. 

 Hereof girdles, shoes, and many utensils (not to speak of 

 whole houses of leather, I mean coaches) are made. Yea, 

 I have read how Frederick the Second, Emperour of Ger- 

 many, distressed to pay his army, made monetam coria- 

 ceam, ' coin of leather,' making it current by his Procla- 

 mation ; and afterwards, when his souldiers repayed it 

 into his Exchequer, they received so much silver in lieu 

 thereof." 



He gives no other reference. E. J. Huntsman. 



Early Etching (2"* S. vi. 480.)— The trans- 

 lation of the four Dutch verses is as follows : — 



" The virtuous, noble face ought to be praised above 



everything, 

 Through which men are moved to honour their God ; 

 Therefore praise the Creator, and serve him with 



humility, 

 For this beautiful, noble face, and all earthly goods." 



Henri van Ladn. 

 King William's College, 

 Isle of Man. 



The Regent Murray (2"* S. vi. 395.) — It is 

 probable that Thomas Randolph, Earl of Murray, 

 was styled Sir alike by those who addressed him 

 and those who spoke of him. The word Sir was 

 used formerly not iu the limited sense it is now, 



but as a term of respect to honourable persons, 

 whetlier ecclesiastical or lay. Every one knows 

 that Chaucer and Shakspeare used it as a title for 

 priests, as we now do Reverend. Sir -Thomas 

 More, and indeed nearly every English writer of 

 early date, did the same. It was often not con- 

 fined to these limits, but applied to peers, both 

 spiritual and temporal. The following quotations 

 from Capgrave's Chronicle of England might be 

 multiplied indefinitely : — 



" Thei that had this victorye were Ser Willyam La 

 Souch archbisohop of York, with his clergie, Ser Gilbert 

 Umfrevyle, Harry Percy, Raf Nevyle, William Dayn- 

 court, and Henry Scroop." (a. d. 1346.)— P. 212. 



" But whanne Ser Thomas of Lancaster herd this, he 

 withdrow him with ail his power." (a. d. 1317.) — P. 185. 



The " Ser Thomas " of the above ex'tract is 

 the Earl of Lancaster who was beheaded at Pon* 

 tefract, a. d. 1320. Edwabd Peacock. 



Bottesford Manor. 



Dover (2"* S. vi. 148. 297.) — E. F. D. C. will 

 find in the Report of the Transactions of the 

 British ArchcBological Association, at the first Con- 

 gress held at Canterbury, 1844, some engravings 

 of Barfreston church, and an article thereon by 

 the late E. Cresy, Esq. In the same volume is an 

 engraving of the Pharos at Dover Castle. 



A. J. DUNKIN. 



Oxey and Swale (2'"* S. vi. 481.)— We have in 

 Kent two somewhat similar names, Oxney, Isle 

 of, and the Swale, which separates the Isle of 

 Sheppy from the main land of Kent. Ey is island. 



A. J. DuNKIN. 



Dartford. 



Pompeian English (2°'' S. vi. 455.) — We have 

 already had this hotel bill in 1" S. iii. 57. Recent 

 subscribers of " N. & Q." should avail themselves 

 of the opportunity now afforded to get the back 

 volumes. The following, although not so rich a 

 specimen (the compositor has been unable to re- 

 sist a few corrections in the Pompei " Fine Hok " 

 English), is far from bad. I was presented with 

 it at the Albergo dell' Etna, at Catania, in Sicily, 

 in 1847. 



" Hotel-Etna, by TomaselU. — This fine hotel and mag- 

 nificent terras has been built in the Corso, and, in point 

 of position, one of the most exquisitely beautiful Elysiums 

 that the soul can imagine ; being situated in the centre 

 of the charming city of Catania, with a prospect of the 

 boundless sea on the one hand, and the stupendous 

 flaming mountain of Etna on the other, where travellers 

 will find a warm birth at a moderate price, and all the 

 elegance that the most fastidious can desire, with car- 

 riages built on double patent springs, and horses fleet as 

 the wind." 



Vebna. 



The Hewett Baronetcy (2"" S. vi. 439.)— Not 

 many months since I saw the Waresley registers, 

 which were in very good condition, and contain 

 sundry Hewett evidences in an apparently genuine 



