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 10 S. XL MAY 23, 1909.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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respect for public justice. " Hedge-bote " ; is described as " necessary stuff to make hedges, which a lessee for years, &c., may of common right take from the ground leased." We still use the expression " to boot " and the word " bootless."

J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL.

SEMAPHORE SIGNALLING (10 S. xi. 168, 211, 271, 336, 358). As a schoolboy at Peckham, I recollect the semaphore on One- Tree Hill. It was worked in connexion with another station close to London Bridge, on the southern side, placed upon a building which was formerly a shot tower and a view of which can be seen in T. H. Shepherd's ' London in the Nineteenth Century,' facing p. 128. "Watson's Telegraph to the Downs " was painted upon the tower, which was destroyed by fire in August, 1843. Topping's Wharf and other adjacent buildings were involved, and of St. Olave's Church only the outer walls and tower were left standing. J. T.

Beckenham.

SIR LEWIS POLLARD (10 S. xi. 365). There cannot be a doubt, I should think, that this judge had twenty-two children. Prince states this in his ' Worthies of Devon,' and so does Pridham in his ' Devonshire Celebrities.' Prince says that Sir Lewis died in 1540. Pridham, however, does not give any date, but says " the judge lived to a great age, and dying, was buried in the parish church of Kingsnympton, where in

window was [sic] to be seen, painted on glass, the judge, his wife, and twenty-two children " :

"A curious circumstance is related of the wife of Judge Pollard : she with her own hands painted the window before named, when she had only twenty- one children, but she still hoped to be blest with another, which happy circumstance came to pass, so in the end the window was a faithful record of the number of her numerous progeny. Only one small pane of glass now remains of the window which represented the family group."

Prince also relates this incident.

Both Pridham and Prince say Sir Lewis was a judge of the Common Pleas.

Mr. George Hawkins Hext, solicitor, of Torquay and Newton Abbot, is a lineal descendant of Agnes Hext, the judge's wife.

A. J. DAVY.

Torquay.

COVENTRY PATMORE AND^ SWEDENBORG (10 S. xi. 346). I have before me as I write " The Angel in the House. Book I. The Betrothal. Book II. The Espousals. By Coventry Patmore .... Second Edition. Lon-

don. . . . 1858." The ' Note ' which appears upon the last page (304), otherwise blank, consists of three sentences, the second of which acknowledges the author's indebted- ness to Emanuel Swedenborg thus : "I have also to express my gratitude, rather, however, for the corroboration than sug- gestion of some others, to the Author of ' Deliciae sapientise de amore conjugali.' "

Readers of Patmore's later works, e.g., ' Religio Poetae ' and ' The Rod, the Root, and the Flower,' who are also familiar with Swedenborg's writings, will be often reminded here and there by an idea, or, even, by an exact phrase that the poet's debt to the seer did not begin and end with ' The Angel in the House.' Nor did the poet himself fail duly to acknowledge this accu- mulating debt ; but that correspondence still remains in MS., possibly unsought, certainly unused by his biographers.

CHARLES HIGHAM.

HAIR BECOMING SUDDENLY WHITE THROUGH FEAR (10 S. ix. 445 ; x. 33, 75). The newspapers report that on Wednesday, 24 March last, a man was charged at Brent- ford with having given a fatal blow, but medical evidence showed that death was due to other causes. In applying for the release of the prisoner on bail on the following Saturday, his solicitor said : " When Gray appeared in this court on Wednesday last, he was a fresh-complexioned young man with dark hair. To-day he is an old man, and his hair has turned perfectly white, owing to the terrible suspense he has under- gone." P. JENNINGS.

St. Day.

NASEBY FIELD (10 S. xi. 344). I am glad the REV. JOHN PICKFORD has referred to Mr. Markham's book 'A Life of the Great Lord Fairfax ' (1870) in connexion with the battle of Naseby. I think that some attempt to do justice to this great general of the Parliament army .was necessary, and I fully believe that the work could not have been done in a better and more modest manner. The account of the battle of Naseby given in this book is certainly the best that has ever been written, and the plan of the field which accompanies it enables any one to picture the scene accurately.

It is strange how everything done on the side of the Parliament army has come to be associated in the mind of the public with the name of Cromwell. The name of Fairfax is hardly even remem- bered. I think Cromwell's methods have