. 2°* S. IX. June 2. '60.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



433 



The most probable solution of the name of this 

 Lord seems to be Henry King, Bishop of Chi- 

 chester ; but if any correspondent of " N. & Q." 

 has any reason either to object to or to authenti- 

 cate this supposition, it would be interesting for 

 me to know it. 



I should have thought the word Garrisons must 

 have not unfrequently been used as a shorter 

 mode of designating garrison towns. Monson. 



Dick Turpin (2 nd S. ix. 386.) — I have heard 

 many folks deny that Dick Turpin ever rode from 

 London to York in twelve hours (distance 201 

 miles), but many assert Nevison did in a certain 

 number of hours. This Nevison was born at Up- 

 sall, near Thirsk, of most respectable parents, 

 temp. Charles II., who sirnamed him "Swift Nick." 

 Nevison was hung during the same Merry Mon- 

 arch's reign at York. Macaulay alludes to him in 

 his History. 



Some provincial ballads were extant of Nevi- 

 son's famous ride, but are now very scarce indeed. 



Eboracensis. 



A passage in A Tour Through the whole Is- 

 land of Great Britain, attributed to Daniel De Foe, 

 satisfactorily answers, I think, the Query put by 

 Mb. Hotten in your last number : — 



" We see nothing remarkable here but Gad's-Hill, a 

 noted place for robbing of seamen, after they have re- 

 ceived their pay at Chatham. Here it was that a famous 

 robber}* was committed in or about the year 1676, which 

 deserves to be mentioned. It was about four o'clock in 

 the morning, when a gentleman was robbed by one 

 Nicks on a bay mare, just on the declivity of the Hill, on 

 the west side. Nicks came away to Gravesend, and, as 

 he said, was stopped by the difficulty of getting the boat 

 near an hour, which was a great discouragement to him; 

 but he made the best use of it, as a kind of 'bate to his 

 horse: from thence be rode cross the country of Essex 

 to Chelmsford. Here he stopped about half an hour to 

 refresh his horse, and gave him some balls ; from thence 

 to Braintree, Bocking, Wethersfield ; then over the 

 Downs to Cambridge ; and from thence, keeping still 

 the cross roads, he went by Fenny Stanton to Godman- 

 chester and Huntingdon, where he and his mare 'bated 

 about an hour; and as he said himself, he slept about 

 half an hour ; then holding on the North Road and not 

 keeping at full gallop most of the way, he came to York 

 the same afternoon ; put off his boots and riding-cloths, 

 and went dressed, as if he had been an inhabitant of the 

 place to the Bowling Green, where among other gentle- 

 men was the Lord Mayor of the City. He singled out 

 his lordship, studied to do something particular, that the 

 Mayor might remember him by; and then takes occa- 

 sion to ask his lordship what o'clock it was, who, pulling 

 out his watch, told him the hour, which was a quarter 

 before or a quarter after eight at right. 



" Upon a prosecution for this robbery, the whole merit 

 of the case turned upon this single point; the person 

 robbed swore to the man, to the place, and to the time in 

 which the fact was committed; but Nicks, proving by 

 the Lord Mayor that be was as far off as Yorkshire on 

 that day, the jury acquitted him on a bare supposition 

 that it was impossible the man could be ut two places so 

 remote on one and the same day." 



" Just on the declivity of the Hill on the west 



side " must be not many yards from Gad's Hill 

 Place, the property of Charles Dickens. 



W. H. W. 



Judas Tree (2" d S. ix. 38G. 414.) —In answer 

 to your inquiry concerning the flowering of the 

 Judas tree in England, I can state that about the 

 year 1818 1 planted one in the pleasure ground at 

 Hincliingbrook, Huntingdonshire. It was a beau- 

 tiful small tree, taller than a shrub, and flowered 

 abundantly for some years till cut down at the 

 same time with several other valuable plants. 



The Countess Dow. or Sandwich. 



46. Grosvenor Square. 



This tree, when trained against a south wall, 

 flowers freely in Ireland. There is at present 

 (May 19th) a large specimen, one sheet of bloom, 

 in the gardens of Kilkenny Castle. Perhaps some 

 of the correspondents of " N. & Q." can say why 

 this beautiful shrub has received its English name 

 from the betrayer of our Lord. James Graves. 



Kilkenny. 



Either your correspondent Sir Thos. E. Win- 

 nington has a Judas tree very different from mine, 

 or from any I have met with, — and I have seen 

 thousands in the neighbourhood of Naples, where 

 they are as common as the blackthorn in this 

 country, — or his notions of scarlet differ from 

 those commonly received amongst my acquaint- 

 ances. As a few flowers still linger on my tree I 

 enclose you two or three ; but {en attendant the 

 extension of colour printing) I will describe them 

 as of a delicate purplish-piuk colour, like a bour- 

 sault rose, or as rose acacia. I think the French 

 call it Arbre de Judee, not de Judas. J. P. 0. 



I have never seen the Italian Judas tree (Cer- 

 cis siliquastrwn) in flower in this country, but 

 nearly opposite the new lodge at the north-east 

 corner of the Kensington Gardens is a Canadian 

 Judas tree (Cercis canadensis), which is just 

 coming into flower. This year the blossoms are 

 not so numerous as usual, but a year or two back 

 the tree was a mass of the most beautiful pink 

 and red flowers. J. A. Pn. 



Notes on Regiments (2" d S. ix. 23. 111. 395.) 

 Horace Walpole, writing to Mr. Chute, June 8, 

 1756, says " Dodington has translated well the 

 motto on the caps of the Hanoverians, " Vestigia 

 nulla retrorsum," they never mean to go lack again. 

 (Letters, ed. by Cunningham, vol. iii. p. 18.) 



Perhaps another paragraph in the same letter 

 may have interest for your correspondent who 

 started the subject of " Witty Classical Quota- 

 tions : " — 



"I told my Lord Bath General Wael's [Spanish am- 

 bassador in England] foolish vain motto, 'Aut Caesar 

 aut nihil," he replied, 'He is an impudent fellow; he 

 should have taken ' Murus aheneus.' " 



It. F. Sketcueey. 



