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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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but adaptations of old ideas. Who was tbe ad- 

 vertiser mentioned by Fuller ? and did be ever 

 succeed in bringing his invention into use ? 



G. M. G. 



Hogarth Family. — Some years ago I sent a 

 Query about this family to "N. & Q.," which I 

 am sorry to see has not produced much result. 



May I ask Menyanthes, who contributes the 

 extracts from tbe Hutton Kirk Session Records 

 (2 nd S. viii. 32o.), in which several of the name 

 are mentioned, if he has ever met with any notices 

 of "John Hoggartb," who lived atGreenknowe in 

 tbe parish of Gordon circa 1680? Most of the 

 numerous branches of the family which flourished 

 in tbe Border counties in the eighteenth century 

 descended from him, and. my object is to trace 

 them all back to the Cumberland and Westmore- 

 land stock. Sigma Theta. 



EriTAPii. — 



" Stranger ! whoe'er thou art, that view'st this tomb, 

 Know that here lies, in the cold arms of Death, 

 The young Alexis : gentle was his soul, 

 As sweetest music; to the charms of love 

 Not cold, nor to the social charities 

 Of mild humanity: in yonder grove 

 He woo'd the willing Muse: Simplicity 

 Stood by and smiled : Here ev'ry night they come, 

 And with the Virtues and the Graces tune 

 The note of woe ; weeping their favorite 

 Slain in his bloom, in the fair prime of life, — 

 'Would he had liv'd ! ' — Alas! in vain that wish 

 Escapes thee; never, Stranger, shalt thou see 

 The youth ; He's dead. The Virtuous soonest die." 



Can any reader of " N. & Q." name tbe author 

 of the above lines, which are interesting as having 

 been rendered into Greek by Porson as an exer- 

 cise for his scholarship on 2nd December, 1781 ? 



W. C. Trevelyan. 



" To BE FOUND IN THE VOCATIVE." — What is 



the origin of this idiomatic expression ? It has 

 struck me that it may be derived from the man- 

 ner in which Latin nouns having no vocatives are 

 mentioned in the grammars: "Vocative, want- 

 ing," whence, to be found in the vocative might be 

 held to mean to be found icanling. Can any other 

 explanation be given ? Uneda. 



Philadelphia. 



St. Makedranus, St. Madryn. — In an ancient 

 grant of land in Cumberland, I find the boundary 

 described at one point as being a rivulet from the 

 fountain of Saint Makedranus (Scl Makedrani). 

 Can any of your correspondents say who, or of 

 what country, this saint was? I can find none in 

 any calendar with a name approaching it nearer 

 than St. Madryn. Who was St. Madryn ? 



Carlisle. 



Pora \m< Hogarth. — Some time since, if I 



ember rightly, some remarks appeared in "N. 



& Q." on the curious fact that no allusion to 



Shakspcarc is to be found in the writings of his 



illustrious contemporary Lord Bacon, while to 

 judge from what he has written Bacon himself 

 knew nothing of Shakspeare. I have just been 

 looking through the writings of Pope, in hopes of 

 finding some reference to his celebrated contem- 

 porary Hogarth, but have failed in doing so. Can 

 it be possible that the Bard of Twickenham has 

 never once alluded to the great English painter, 

 or have I overlooked the allusion ? If so refer- 

 ence to any passage in Pope in which Hogarth is 

 mentioned will greatly oblige. P. A. H. 



" Mors mortis morti," etc. — Who is the au- 

 thor of the Latin distich annexed, of which I have 

 subjoined an attempt at translation ? — 



" Mors mortis morti mortem nisi morte dedisset, 

 Eternaj vitas Janua clausa foret." 



"Had not the death of death by death given death to 

 death, 

 Our souls had perished with this mortal breath." 



W. B. 

 Burning Alive. — 



"In treasons of every kind," says Blackstone, iv. vi., 

 " the punishment of women is the same, and different 

 from that of men. For as the decency due to the sex 

 forbids the exposing and publicly mangfing their bodies, 

 their sentence (which is to the full as terrible to sensa- 

 tion as the other) is to be drawn to the gallows, and 

 there to be burned alive." 



This punishment of women was abolished by 

 stat. 30 George III. c. 48. What is the latest 

 known instance of its having been inflicted ? * The 

 punishment of burning alive is at the present time 

 (if we may believe the newspapers) not unfre- 

 quently inflicted on Negroes in the United States. 

 Is this done under the authority of any statutes 

 of the local legislatures ? and, if not, have those 

 who have inflicted the punishment been ever 

 visited with any penalties for so doing ? In what 

 civilised countries has burning alive been sanc- 

 tioned as a punishment for secular offences as 

 distinguished from heresy, &c. ? W. 



"The Christian's Duty." — Who was the 



author of a volume entitled The Christian's Duty 

 from the Sacred Scriptures ? It professes to con- 

 tain " all that is necessary to be believed and 

 practised in order to our eternal salvation ;" was 

 printed in London in 1730, and was reprinted in 

 same place in 1822 (8vo. pp. 304.). Abhba. 



Kev. Peter Smith. — Can any of your corre- 

 spondents inform me — 



1st. 'When and where the Rev. Peter Smith, 

 rector of Winfrith, Dorset, in the seventeenth 

 century, whose tablet may'still be seen in Win- 

 frith Church, married Dorothy, daughter and sole 



[* In the 2nd vol. of our 1 st Series will bo found re- 

 corded many of the latest instances of women being burnt 

 alive. Tin: last, which took place on the 18th March, 

 1780, is described bv an eyewitness in " N. & Q." 1" S. ii. 

 260.— Ed. " N. & Q'."] 



