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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°* S. IX. June 23. '60. 



issued or in tbe indices. Under the circumstances 

 1 have, at the risk of troubling you with a matter 

 which lias very possibly already come under your 

 notice, to ask of your correspondents the origin of 

 the expression, or how it first came in use. K. 

 Arbroath. 



[It may be said of the terra "henpecked" (as it may 

 of many other vernacular expressions), that though it be 

 deemed trivial it is grounded on actual observation, and 

 is true to nature and to fact. The ordinary cock of the 

 farm-yard, -however bold and fightful in his bearing to- 

 wards other barn-door cocks, will sometimes submit to 

 be pecked by his hens without resistance. Beaumur 

 relates how, two hens being shut up with a. cock, they 

 both together attacked him, and finally succeeded in 

 killing him. Several cocks were afterwards shut up 

 successively with the same two hens, and would have 

 experienced the fate of the first, if not withdrawn in 

 time. "The extraordinary part of this case was, that 

 the cocks were strong and bold, and would easily have 

 governed thirty rebel hens at large, yet, cooped up, did 

 not attempt either to defend themselves, or even to avoid 

 the attacks of the furies, their wines." (Mowbray's Prac- 

 tical Treatise, 1830, p. 93. See also D'Orbigny's Diction- 

 naire, 1844, iv. 208.) Hence the peculiar import and 

 significance of the term " henpecked." Cf. Swift's " Cud- 

 gell'd husband : " — 



" Tom fought with three men, thrice ventur'd his life, 

 Then went home, and was cudgell'd again by his 

 wife."] 



Morice ob Morrice Family. — Where shall I 

 find the arms and pedigree of Morice (interdum 

 Morrice) ? The last of the family was, I believe, 

 the Right Hon. Humphrey Morice, P.C. ; M.P. 

 for Launceston and Lord Warden of the Stan- 

 naries, and Steward of the Duchy of Cornwall. 

 He possessed a fine seat called Grove House, on 

 the banks of the Thames, close to the present 

 station at Chiswick of the South-western Railway, 

 and which estate now belongs to the Duke of 

 Devonshire. I think Mr. Morice died in 1786, 

 and sine prol. masc. C. H. 



[The Eight Hon. Humphrey Morice was connected 

 with the family of Morice of Werrington, in Devon. 

 Arms: Gules, a lion rampant, regardant, or. For the 

 pedigree see Burke's Commoners, iii. 234., ed. 1838 ; and 

 Burke's Extinct Baronetage, p. 370., ed. 1844. Hum- 

 phrey Morice of Grove House, Chiswick, died at Naples 

 on Oct. 18, 1785. A curious anecdote of his humanity to 

 animals is given in Colman's Random Records, i. 280. 

 See Public Advertiser of 13th Nov. 1782, for an Epilogue 

 spoken by the Hon. Mrs. Hobart, the most fashionable 

 lady of England at that time, containing an allusion to 

 Mr. Morice. His father, who was a Governor of the Bank 

 of England, died at his house in Wandsworth on Nov. 16, 

 1731.] 



Sterne. — I take the following from Macmillaiis 

 Magazine (vol. ii. p. 133.) : — 



" In the Life of Edmund 3Ialone, by Sir James Frior, 

 which has recently appeared, there occurs the following 

 paragraph, bearing reference to Laurence Sterne : — 



'"He was buried in a graveyard near Tyburn, be- 

 longing to the parish of Marylebone, and the corpse, 

 being marked by some of the resurrection men (as they 

 are called), was taken up soon afterwards, and carried to 



an anatomy professor of Cambridge. A gentleman who 

 was present at the dissection told me he recognised 

 Sterne's face the moment he saw the bodj'.' 



" It would surely be very interesting if any light could 



be thrown on this mysterious affair Can anyone 



tell who was this anatomy professor of Cambridge . . . ? 

 Is there anyone at Cambridge who could afford informa- 

 tion on this subject? It must at least be possible to find 

 out who were the anatomy professors at the University 

 in the year of Sterne's decease." 



J. G. Morten. 



[It is stated in Willis's Current Notes for April, 1854, 

 p. 31., that " the professor who lectured on the corpse, C. 

 Collignon, B.M., knew nothing of the identity of Sterne 

 till after the dissection was effected." Wm. Clarke, M.D., 

 in the following number of the Current Notes, p. 34., 

 farther adds : " I am sorry that I can give you no in- 

 formation respecting the skeleton of Laurence Sterne, 

 said to be preserved in our Anatomical Museum. There 

 is no record of any such object." *] 



Edward Chamberlayne, LL.D. — In what 

 year did this editor of numerous editions of the 

 work known as Chamberlayrie's State of England 

 and subsequently of Great Britain, die ? and was 

 he an advocate in practice in Doctors' Commons, 

 or was his degree honorary only ? J. R. 



[After the Eestoration of King Charles II. Chamber- 

 layne became Fellow of the Eoyal Society; and in 1669 

 Secretary to Charles Earl of Carlisle, when he was sent 

 to Stockholm to carry the order of the Garter to the 

 King of Sweden. In January, 1670, he had the degree 

 of Doctor of the Civil Law conferred on him at Cam- 

 bridge; and on the 22nd June, 1672, was incorporated in 

 the same at Oxford. He was buried in Chelsea church- 

 yard on May 27, 1703. See Kippis's Bioa. Britan. and 

 "N. &Q."2ndS. v. 456.] 



Sorrel and Sir John Fenwick. — 



" Illustris sonipes, certe dignissima ccelo, 



Cui Leo, cui Taurus, cui daret Ursa locum, 

 Quae te felicem felicia prati tulere ? 



Ubera qua? felix prasbuit alma parens ? 

 Hibernis patriam venisti ulturus ab oris? 



Aut Glenco, aut stirps te Faeniciana dedit? 

 Sis felix quicunque precor, memorande; nee unquam 



Jam sella; dorsum, froena nee ora premant. 

 Humani generis vindex, moriente tyranno, 



Hanc libertatem, quam dabis, ipse tene." 



" To ' Sorrel,' the horse that fell with King William. 

 He had formerly belonged to Sir John Fenwick." — (From 

 Universal Magazine, 1768, vol. xlii. p. 183.) 



Sorrel was, probably, so called from his colour. 

 A sorrel horse is a kind of roan, what would 

 now be called a strawberry. The Jacobites used 

 to drink healths " to Sorrel." They used also to 

 toast "the little gentleman in a suit of black 



[ * Since writing the above we have received the fol- 

 lowing communication from Mr. Gantillon : — 



"In Macmillan's Magazine for this month there are 

 asked (p. 133.) certain questions about the Cambridge 

 Professor of Anatomy in 1768, the year of Sterne's death. 

 The Professor of Anatomy was Charles Collignon, M.D., 

 Trinity. The Eegius Professor of Physic was Russell 

 Plumptre, M.D. Queen's .' Messrs. C. H. & Thompson 

 Cooper of Cambridge could, perhaps, supply additional 

 information."] 



