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thickness. The rod is used in Sir Christopher Wren's contracts for the building of Green- wich Hospital, so it has been a long time in use.

I want to know why the rod or perch, which is a land measure, is used for measuring brickwork ; and when the use of this method

of measuring brickwork was first introduced. I either he" or his father had the charge of

C. M. W. I supplying provisions to the unfortunate

great-great grandfather was John MacLeod of Bay, who was one of the " two substantial gentlemen of the clan" who were invited by the Chief of MacLeod to meet Johnson and Boswell at dinner at Dunvegan Castle on Tuesday, 14 Sept., 1773. John MacLeod held the position of factor to the Chief, and

OF QUOTATIONS WANTED.

Lady Grange during her imprisonment at 8

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H e was married three times-

Where does this sentence occur ? "Ex libris once to a M iss Bethune, the daughter, I think, qusero quid sit hominum vita ? B. S. E. of foe minister, Mr. Bethune, who was also

I wish to obtain the continuation of the ' * lines

I launch my bark on a wide, wide sea,

Its crew by memory oar'd. I think there are six. M. R.

HAWKINS FAMILY AND ABMS. In

Chief's dinner-party. Another wife was Frances, daughter of Alex. Mackenzie of Danschmalnag. I do not know the name of the third wife. His son, Alexander MacLeod of Bay, and afterwards of Gillen a I in Waternish, married a daughter of the book entitled ' The Art of Heraldry,' pub- Rev. William MacQueen, minister of Snizort, lished in 1730, the coat of arms is displaved & brother of Johnson's friend the Rev. Dr. and described of " Richard Hawkins* of Donald MacQueen, who became minister Marsham in Berkshire, Esquire," viz., " Or, of Kilmuir in Skye in 1740, and died in on a chiveron between three cinquefoils Raasay in 1785.

azure as many escallops argent ; on a chief The Rev. William MacQueen died on gules a griffin passant of the third." Infor- 21 Sept., 1787, in his sixty-ninth year, at mation is desired (1) as to the situation of Peindoun (Penendoune), where Flora Mac- Marsham ; (2) as to the ancestors and de- Donald died three years afterwards. He scendants of Richard Hawkins ; (3) as to was the fourth occupier of the manse of any other persons of the Hawkiris family Snizort in lineal succession. His father, the bearing the same arms. Rev. Archibald MacQueen, appears in the

In Wiltshire Notes and Queries, vol. iii. Judicial Rentals of the MacDonald estate p. 270, Hugh Hawkins of Newbury, gent., in 1733 as occupier of Rigg and Garafad. appears as one of the parties to a deed Mrs. MacQueen, the friend and relative of of 1634 relating to the manor of Aldbourne, Flora MacDonald, was, I understand, a and his seal is there given as " On a chevron daughter of Sheriff Alexander MacLeod of between three saltires as many roundels." Ulinish, whose acquaintance Johnson and The same information is desired as to this Boswell also made. In Mackenzie's ' History person, and whether he was related to the of the MacLeods ' it is said that the Sheriff above Richard Hawkins. had only one daughter, who married Mac-

Also, are these persons related to Dr. Wm. Leod of Greshornish ; but I have good Hawkins, Canon of Winchester, who married Highland authority for stating that in this Anne, daughter of Isaac Walton, author of particular, as in others, that book is inac- The Compleat Angler ' ? B. HAWKINS. curate. It was through this marriage with Kirklands, Tonbridge. Miss MacQueen that Alex. MacLeod's son,

TV/T T-k T- ^ niy wife's grandfather, Dr. John MacLeod,

MACDONALD : MACQUEEN .-Flora Mac- lector-General of Hospitals at Madras, Donald died on 5 March, 1790, according ^n^ P,. ^^ m, M^mM^*

cIed cousins" with Flora, Marchioness


 * K of Hastings, when that lady's husband was

edited by her granddaughter, '< in the house Governor-General of India. 7 of a very dear friend and relative, Mrs. McQueen of Penendoune, wife of the minister of Snizort, who lived not far from Kings- burgh."

W. F. PBIDEAITX.

MILITARY BANK-NOTE. I am anxious to obtain some information as to an engraved

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grandmother of my own wife. My wife's signe d T. Hill, and countersigned C. Cannon.