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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2»d S. IX. May 5. '60. 



Fleet. Street, for ever, her majesty was graciously 

 pleased to grant such, dated April 8th, 1561. 

 Farther ; there were sixteen governors to pre- 

 side over this institution, a master, and one usher. 

 Three Masters of Chancery at that period, the 

 Clerk of the Petty Bag of the same court, and 

 the Registrar, with James Good, M.D., and ten 

 parishioners, were the first governors. 

 After giving the above, Malcolm says — 

 " The above is all the information I can obtain on the 

 subject. Where the school was held; what endowments 

 it had, and how lost, is, I believe, not known in the 

 parish. As the last date relating to it is in 1648, no 

 doubt the confusion of the times was fatal to the institu- 

 tion." 



Now, can any of your contributors afford me 

 any information about the above ? Something 

 since 1803, when Malcolm wrote, may have arisen 

 that would perhaps throw a light upon this would- 

 be valuable, but lost school, and oblige T. C. N. 



Atter and Alli, their Derivation. — These 

 are prefixes to names of places in Lancashire, as 

 Atterpile and Allithwaite. Can any of your 

 readers conversant with etymology kindly inform 

 me of their derivation ? Finlayson. 



" Man to the Plough," &c. — The following 

 lines were quoted some ten or twelve years since 

 at an agricultural dinner by one of the speakers. 

 Can any of your readers afford any information 

 as to their author ? 



" Man to the plough, 

 Wife to the sow, 

 Boy to the flail, 

 Girl to the pail, 



And ymir rents will be netted: 

 But man, Tally-ho! 

 Miss, Piano, 

 Boy, Greek and Latin, 

 Wife, silk and satin, 

 And you'll soon be gazetted." 



F. Wagstaff. 

 Greenwich. 



Manners of the Last Century. — I wish 

 some of your contributors would tell us, through 

 your paper, where we can find, or if they cannot 

 do that, would say, what were the manners of the 

 English gentry in the last fifty years of the last 

 century ; when they dined, in the country how 

 they spent their evenings, and again how people 

 lived in London, as to hours of rising, eating, &c, 

 and evening amusements. T. C. 



A Female Cornet. — I have somewhere seen it 

 stated that, in the early part of the reign of 

 George III., a young lady nine years of age vas 

 gazetted as a cornet of horse, and actually drew 

 her half-pay for several years, till marriage or some 

 other reason induced her to resign her commis- 

 sion. 



Can this be so ? If such was the case, what 

 was the young lady's name ? May it not be a 



mistake, originating in the circumstance that fe- 

 minine names are, or were, occasionally given at 

 baptism to boys? Witness the Hon. Anne Pow- 

 lett, brother to Earl Powlett. 



In France, I believe, the practice is more com- 

 mon than in this country. W. D. 



Hereditary Alias : Dr. Johnson's Nurse. — 

 At page 10. of the original 12mo. edition of An 

 Account of the Life of Dr. Samuel Johnson, from 

 his Birth to his Eleventh Year, written by Himself, 

 London, 1805, occurs the following passage : — 



" I was by my father's persuasion put to one Marelew, 

 commonly called Bellison, the servant, or wife of a ser- 

 vant of my father, to be nursed." 



And the Editor, Mr. "Wright of Lichfield, ap- 

 pends a note — 



" The name of Marklew, alias Bellison, is yet common 

 in Lichfield, and is usually so distinguished." 



Is the above a solitary or a singular instance 

 of an hereditary alias ; and is the name of Mark- 

 lew still thus distinguished at Lichfield ? Had 

 the great Samuel remembered his nurse when he 

 was writing his Dictionary, she might have figured 

 as an " example " in the room of David Mallet. 



F. S. C. M. 



Acheson Family. — Is anything known rela- 

 tive to the ancestors of the Earls of Gosford 

 prior to their settlement in Ireland ? All accounts 

 of the family, with which I have been able to 

 meet, commence with Archibald Acheson, Soli- 

 citor-General for Scotland, &c, who left Gosford, 

 co. Haddington, N.B. about 1611, and settled in 

 Ireland. 



I find among the vicars of Pevensey, co. Sussex, 

 " John Acheson." He married in 1604 Elizabeth 

 Mylward (his second wife), and died in 1639, 

 leaving issue. Was he a member of the Scottish, 

 family ? The name is certainly rare in the South 

 of England at so early a date. 



C. J. Robinson, M. A. 



Six Towers on the Coast. — 



" Sir Joseph * chaunts, to birth-day tunes, 

 Scarps, glacis, hornworks, and half moons, 



And Richmond's triumphs sings; 

 Sir George's f muse alone is able 

 To sketch his six brick towers of Babel, 

 And charm the best of Kings." 



(Fitzpatrick.) 



Towards the close of the last century the Duke 

 of Richmond, Master- General of the Ordnance, 

 expended very large sums in fortifying the coast of 

 England. Among other defensive works ordered 

 were six towers. They are described in the esti- 

 mates as " six brick towers, intended for the de- 

 fence of the south coast. Cost 320,000?." 



Now that, under a real or supposed necessity, a 

 similar outlay is being made, I feel some curi- 



Mawbey. 



■)• Howard. 



