488 Notes. 



[Mr. Smith, in his Birds of Wiltshire, records a single instance of 

 the occurrence of the Gyr- Falcon {Falco gyrfalco) in Wiltshire, but no> if ' 

 of the Greenland Falcon (F. candicans), which closely resembles it. — El 



Kadnor. 



Black Redstart at DowntOU. A young male Black Redstart 

 (Buticilla titys) was first seen in my garden at Downton about midday 

 on March 13th, 1910. It was about all the afternoon until 5 p.m., which 

 was the last time it was seen. It seems to have passed on the next 

 morning. I had it repeatedly under observation, as it was not at all 

 shy and allowed itself to be well scrutinised, both with glasses and a 

 telescope. I see on referring to the Rev. A. C. Smith's Birds of 

 Wiltshire, 1887, p. 148, that it has been twice recorded in the county. 



Frank Penrose. 



" Mr. H ." In case others of your readers have, like myself, 



supposed that the surname of "John Hogsfiesli, Esq., of Sty Hall, in 

 the county of Hants," was a pure invention of Charles Lamb's, for his 

 unfortunate one-night farce, of Wednesday, Dec. 10th, 1806, they may 

 be interested to know of the following entries in our marriage registers 

 at St. Peter's, Marlborough : — 



" 11 Feb., 1817. Peter Kruse, of the parish of St. Luke in the county 

 of Middlesex, bachelor, to Ann Hogsflesh of this parish, spinster, 

 married by Licence." 

 ''2nd Sep., 1825. John Hogsflesh, of the parish of St. Luke in the 

 County of Middlesex, bachelor, and Sarah Hall Wheeler, of the 

 parish of St. Peter, Marlborough, married by Licence." 

 One Ann Hogsrlesh (apparently in a different handwriting) attested 

 a marriage between Eliza Vipond, a widow, and a bridegroom from 

 "Savernaque Park," a place "extra-parochial" in Feb., 1814. 



I do not find the name in the London Commercial and Professional, 

 or Court, Directory for 1845 (but John Peter Kruse, optician, in Chelsea), 

 nor in the indexes to our Wilts Archaeological Magazine and Notes and 

 Queries. 



Chr. Wordsworth. 

 P.S. Mr. A. R. Maiden has sent me the following particulars from his 

 unfailing stores of knowledge : — " The name of Hogsflesh is a West 

 Sussex and East Hants name and occurs in the form ' Hodgesflesh in 

 Sussex in 1553. By 1598 the family was called ' Hoggesfiesh.' William 

 Hogsflesh, of Hambledon, was a celebrated cricketer of the earliest 

 days of scientific cricket, about 1770. The name is still to be found at 

 Liss and Liphook, and was known at Hertford not long ago. At 

 Ipswich also, where it was pronounced Hoflesh. Was it, perhaps, 

 originally, a German name, H6flich=polite, civil, courteous ? " 



In 1796 there were two inns on the beach at Worthing, the "New 

 Inn " and the " Sea Horse," one kept by Hogsflesh, and the other by 

 Bacon : which occasioned the lines : — 



" Worthing is a pretty place 

 And if I'm not mistaken 

 If you can't get any butcher's meat 

 There is Hogsflesh and Bacon." 



