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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. XL JUNE 12, im

mentioned the following : Hans Hysing b. 1678, d. 1753 ; Christian Richter, b. 1676 d. 1732; Elias Martin, b. 1739, d. 1818 Carl F. von Breda, b. 1759, d. 1818 ; and P. A, Hall, b. 1739, d. 1793.

On behalf of a correspondent in Stockholm who is writing about the works of thes painters, I should be glad to receive infor mation from any of your readers as to wher their pictures are to be found, excluding, o course, the better-known public galleries. EMEKY WALKER.

SQUIB AND PEPYS. There are severa references in Pepys's ' Diary ' (ed. Wheatley vol. i. p. 35 et seq.) to a law suit between Mr. (afterwards Sir Geo.) Downing and one Squib. There is no note as to who this Squib was, but I have recently seen in some old Exchequer receipts the name of " Law- rence Squibb, one of the Four Tellers of the Receipt of his Majesty's Exchequer." As Downing was also one of the Four Tellers, may I not be correct in supposing this to be

the man referred to ? Chiswick.

W. H. WHITEAR.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED. The following lines were evidently prefixed to some book. Who is the author, and where are they to be found ? Fame's windie trump blow up this haughty minde To doe or wish to doe what here you finde ; Twas nere held error yet in errant knights (Which privilege he claimes) to dresse their fights In high hyperbolies : for youth's example To make their minds as they grow men, grow

ample.

Thus such achievements are assaid and done As passe the common power and sense of man. inen let high spirits strive to imitate, Not what he did, but what he doth relate.

Cambridge. HANGMEN

F. D.

WHO HAVE BEEN HANGED.

Is there any other case on record, besides that of John Price, who was hanged at lyburn for murder on 31 May, 1718, of a British " Jack Ketch " being " hoist " with his own cord ? Some of them appear to have had a narrow escape. William Marvell who succeeded Price as " finisher of the law " was condemned to death in October 1719 and John Thrift, a later executioner, was" sentenced to fourteen years' transportation

May, 1750 (10 S. viii. 245, following paragraph appeared in .The Morning Post, Friday, 11 April, 1806 .Barlow, the Lancashire hangman, was convicted at the last Assizes in that countv for stealing a gelding." There is a short biography of this Edward Barlow, a Welsh-

man, commonly called " Old Ned " in ' Lancaster Castle, its History and Associa- tions,' by J. Hall, pp. 55-6, where we are told, " He was guilty of nearly every vile act ; was many times convicted, and twice sentenced to transportation for life." Still, like Marvell and Thrift, he appears to have escaped serious punishment. Possibly MR. ALFRED MARKS and MR. ALFRED F. ROBBINS, whose knowledge of our criminal history is so remarkable, will Jbe able to cite other instances of the conviction of public execu- tioners. HORACE BLEACKLEY.

CAPT. BETTESWORTH'S STATUE : GORST & ODEY. There is in the church of St. Michael Carhayes, Cornwall, a clay model for a statue of Capt. Bet tes worth, who was killed in action off Bergen in 1809. It is a well-executed figure, represented standing, in uniform, holding in the left hand a flag- staff with flag, and supporting the right on a light walking-cane ; behind is a composi- tion of a rudder, anchor, cannon, &c.

The model is signed " Gorst & Odey, London, 1812." Is anything known of these artists ? And was the statue ever executed marble ? It does not form part of Bettesworth's monument in Howick Church, where he was buried, he having married a daughter of Earl Grey.

The presence of the model at Carhayes is accounted for by Bettesworth's father laving married the heiress of Carhayes. lis elder brother succeeded to the estate and took his mother's name of Trevanion, which is now, I believe, extinct.

S. G. HAMILTON. Combe Lodge, Malvern.

" THE EVILS," FIELD-NAME. Can any ne tell me what is the meaning of the
 * eld-name " The Evils," which was borne

)y a small grass enclosure in the hamlet of outhorpe, ne ar Kirton - in - Lindsey ? It annot have anything to do with the bad ature of the soil. It was a meadow, and ne of the fine st in the neighbourhood. The name fell out of use when what is now the Great Central Railway was made, for it was cut across it diagonally, and the angles thus formed were added to the adjoining pastures.

C. Waller's ' Essex 16, that there are a

I find from Mr. W. Field-Names,' part i. p.

" Great and Little Evil " in the parish of Moreton, Essex.

During many years I have made inquiries as to the origin of this word, but have dis- covered nothing whatever. Is it possible that it can bear any relation to the " I very ' ' in Wiltshire mentioned in MR. A. L. MAY-