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from 6 March, 1661, until the incorporation of the Society on 15 July, 1662, when he was succeeded by Lord Brouncker.

I must also point out to ME. COLEMAN that the Royal Society was never known as the Royal Academy of Sciences, and that there can be no possible doubt of Sir Isaac being an Associate of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Paris, by the Associates of which body the miniature now in the possession of ME. BIRKBECK was presented.

CHAS. F. FOESHAW, LL.D.

Bradford.

" HANGED, DEAWN, AND QUAETEEED " (10 th S. i. 809, 275). When 1 ventured to ask whether "hanging " did not come before "drawing," a long and unqualified contradiction was the reply at 7 th S. xi. 502. At 9 th S. iv. 162 I gave some instances to show that the order of the words " hanged, drawn, and quartered " had a foundation in fact. It is true that the criminal was often drawn on a hurdle to the gallows, but it is just as true that the with- drawing of his entrails was part of the sentence. I now furnish another catena of examples.

_1441-2, in 'Three Fifteenth-Century Chro-

fllfiS.' C*,R.mr\ Rn/> T-> fi3 "TVio r^ar-lra \iraa


 * " There can be no hanging,

quartering on the present

(1818, iii. 290) drawing, or occasion."

1884, Canon Raine, in Surt. Soc., vol. Ixxix. p. 306 : "Sir John was hanged, drawn, and quartered " (1537). W. C. B.

MAETELLO TOWEES (10 th S. i. 285). In con- firmation of the Morning Post's explanation, but affording additional particulars, is the account given of the origin of these towers in Admiral Smyth's 'Sailor's Word-Book,' where it is stated that they were " so named from a tower in the Bay of Mortella, in Corsica, which, in 1794, maintained a very deter- mined resistance against the English. A martello tower at the entrance to the Bay of Gaeta beat off H.M.S. Pomp6e of eighty guns. A martello is built circular, and is thus difficult to hit, with walls of vast thickness, pierced by loopholes, and the bomb-proof roof is armed with one heavy traversing gun. They are thirty to forty feet high, surrounded by a dry fosse, and the entrance is by cO. ladder at a door several feet from the ground." J. H. MACMICHAEL.

In 'N. & Q.' of 13 July, 1850, p. 110, a correspondent (WM. DUEEANT COOPEE) wrote that Martello was " a mis-spelling for Mor- tella," and gave an interesting account of the

Camd. Soc., p. 63: "The clerke was dampned to be hanged, drawe, and quartered."

1549, Latimer, in ' Seven Sermons,' Arber, p. 101 : " He was iudged to be hanged, drawen, and quartred."

1608, in Willet, ' Exodus,' p. 770.

1623, in Shakespeare, ' King John,' Act II. sc. ii. : " Hang'd, and drawn, and quarter'd."

1641, in ' Diary of John Rous,' Camd. Soc., p. 117 : " Thou rnaist whip and strip, hang, draw, and quarter."

1658, in 'Obituary of Richard Smyth,' Camd. Soc., p. 47 : u Coll. Ashton & one Batteley, hanged, drawn, and quartered."

1660, in the same, p. 52: "Coll. Thomas Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered."

1661, in 'Memoirs of Sir John Reresby,' 1875, p. 50 : " They were all hanged, drawn, and quartered."

ri 66 ! 4 ' V 1 Surfce es Soc. Publ., vol. xl. p. xix : lo be hanged, drawn, and quartered."

J 67 u' nt v Wood ' in Oxf - Hist Soc -> xxi - Mr. Richard Langhorne was hanged, drawne, and quartered."

1688 the same, xxvi. 276 : " Cornish was nanged, drawn, and quartered."

1690, the same, xxvi. 346: "An innkeeper was^hangd, drawne, and quartered."

"\ m G. Roussillon's translation of

t s Revolution in Portugal,' p. 88. 101 *' a S. an edition of ' Hudibras,' ii. 193. 315, Sir W. Scott, in the 'Antiquary'

origin of the towers along the coasts of Kent and Sussex, which were constructed in con- sequence of the brilliant defence of the Tower of Mortella by Ensign Le Tellier, with about forty men, against a formidable attack, both by land and sea, in February, 1794. A further reference to the name is to be found at p. 173.

W. S.

When I visited the tomb of Csecilia Metella* on the Appian Way, near Rome, the guide Prof. Reynaud assured the party that the name " Martello " was a corruption given to the Channel towers from their likeness to Metella's tomb. R. B E.

ROWE FAMILY (10 th S. i. 269). Mark Noble, in his 'Lives of the Regicides,' says that Owen Rowe, .the regicide, was descended from Sir Thomas Rowe, Lord Mayor of London in 1568. The following may be con- sulted at the Corporation Library, Guild- hall :

"The indictment, arraignment, tryal, and judg- ment at large of twenty-nine regicides, the

murtherers of. King Charles I begun at

Hicks's-hall, 9th Oct., 1660, and continued at the Old-Baily." London, 1739.

See also 1 st S. ix. 449.

EVEEAED HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

N PEONOUNCED AS NG (10 th S. i. 247, 291).

Surely ME. SMITH has found a veritable