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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



;[2°«S. IX. June 16. '60. 



" Eagle and Child," Derby. 



"Bay Childers," Dronfield. 



"Clock-wheel," Barlborough, near Eckington. 



" Board," Smalley, near Belper, and many other places. 

 (Query, Exchequer or 'chequer board?) 



" Vanish," Glapwell, near Bolsover. 



"Cross Daggers," Hope, near Castleton, and else- 

 where. 



" Craven Heifer," Romilly, near Mellor. 



" Soldier Dick," Furness, near New Mills. 



" Mortar and Pestle," Staveley. (This I imagine to be 

 unique.) 



" Lover's Leap," Stoney Middleton. 



In Shropshire. 



" Hundred House," at Broseley. 



" Letters," Iron Bridge, and elsewhere. 



" Peter's Finger," Dawley. 



" Leeters," Shrewsbury. (Is this identical with " Let- 

 ters " noted above ? Is the " Leeters " so called from its 

 being, or having been, the place of meeting of the court 

 leet, or, vulgarly, the court leeters?) 



In Nottinghamshire. 

 " Lion and Adder," Newark. 

 "Filho da Puta," Nottingham. 



In Monmouthshire. 

 " Ruperra Arms," at Newport. 



In Herefordshire. 

 " Red-streak-Tree," at Hereford and elsewhere. 



In Leicestershire. 



" Heanor Boat," at Leicester. 



" Loggerheads," at Leicester, and several other places. 

 (This I imagine to be a corruption, as a landlord would 

 scarcely be so foolish as to select a title suggestive of the 

 effect of too much beer.) 



" Swan and Rushes," Leicester. 



" Crooked Billet," Lutterworth, and elsewhere. 



" Bull in the Oak," Market Bosworth. 



In Lincolnshire. 

 " Book in Hand," Alford. 

 " Hunter's Leap," Washingborough. 

 " Blue Stone," Louth. 

 " Letter A," Stamford. 



In Staffordshire. 

 " Four Crosses," Stafford. 



In Worcestershire. 

 " Cock and Magpie," Bewdley. 

 " Mopson Cross," Bewdley. 

 "Copcot Elm," Salwarpe, near Droitwich. 

 " Hand of Providence," Dudley. 

 " Samson and Lion," Dudley. 

 " Struggling Man," Dudley. 

 " Quiet Woman," Pershore. 

 "Eagle and Serpent," Stourbridge. 

 " Mouth of the Nile," Worcester. 



In Warwickshire. 



" Bablake Boy," Coventry. (Is there not in this place 

 a charity school called the Bablake School, whence this 

 sign is derived?) 



" Swan and Maidenhead," Stratford-on-Avon. 



The "Eagle and Child" may have been so 

 called from some local tradition, not uncommon, 

 or, indeed, from the fact of a child having been 

 carried off by an eagle. I think "The Lover's 



Leap " and the " Hunter's Leap " must have ori- 

 ginated in a similar manner. Can any of your 

 correspondents ascertain whether this is the case ; 

 and, if it is, furnish me with the details of the 

 traditions or circumstances in question ? 



The " Lion and Adder " and the " Cock and 

 Magpie" I suppose to have been suggested by 

 proverbs or fables, as in the instances of the " Fox 

 and Grapes," "George and Dragon," and others. 

 Is this so ? 



The " Swan and Maidenhead " is, I imagine, 

 synonymous with "Leda and the Swan." 



T. Lampray. 



flflt'iuir latest. 

 Original Letter op George Fox. — The fol- 

 lowing is a literal copy of the last leaf of a letter 

 in the handwriting of George Fox, the founder of 

 the Society of Friends, written whilst he was in 

 confinement in Worcester Jail to his wife Mar- 

 garet Fox. The first leaf has been lost. This 

 manuscript has been for more than a century and 

 a half in the possession of the Pemberton family 

 of this name, and now belongs to Frank M. Et- 

 ting, Esq. of this city : — 



" * der to whom is my loue"& the rest of frends & thy 

 Childern Sarye & Suasone & der rachell i deser ther 

 groth ir. the trouth & in the wisdom of god that by it 

 you may all be orderd to his glory & not to touch nothing 

 but the life in any & to be sepretated from the evell & to 

 stand as noserey * consecrated to god that in the life all 

 may be a good saver to god i recud thy leter by 1 : f & 

 another from r : t from louden & shee strangeth that 

 thee hath not writen to her for shee & the rest of london 

 frends generall thinkes that thou ar with mee in preson & 

 did stay & not gon in to the north ther for thou should 

 wright to her & them for the oft rembing ther loue of 

 those thawasherf& doc not think that thou art gon 

 wee haue sent all passeges to louden & t louer hath given 

 you a count of the seshones. all people disliketh the 

 iuesteses proceding & saith it is like to boner J & som 

 claped ther handes & said it was a snar soe be ouer all 

 & out of all free Soe noe mor but my loue g ff 



" Woster gale mo : 11 day 21 1673 : 

 " Wheat was the last day at seven & sixpence a 

 bueshell & 4 shilens pease & barley & woates 2 ahilens 

 a bueshell & the poore people ar redy to mutany in the 

 market her is such a cry for corne to make them bread 

 her § was a great ster with the mare & the people son 

 sakes || was cut g ff 



" but the lordes pouer is over all 



"& rie at seven & this day ther was a great up rore 

 lykes that the mare & constables was faine to sese the 

 people for the^f cut the bages." 



Endorsed 



Uneda. 



" ffor M : ff these att Swarthmoore." 



Philadelphia. 



The " Silver Trowel," and the Golden 

 Spade. — In commencing excavation for a rail- 



* Nursery. 

 § Here. 



t Here. 



II Some sacks. 



J Bonner. 

 1 They. 



