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NOTES AND QUERIES. [10* s. n. AUG. 27, im.

rejected stanzas, which were in the original manuscript, viz. : Hark ! how the sacred calm that breathes around

Bids every fierce tumultuous passion cease, In still small accents whispering from the ground

A grateful earnest of eternal peace. The Latin elegiacs are by G. S., i.e. Gold win Smith, B.A., e Coll. B. Mar. Magdal. The title of the translation is * In Ccemeterio.' EGBERT PIERPOINT.

THOMAS PIGOTT (10 th S. i. 489; ii. 113). I am greatly obliged to FRANCESCA for kindly trying to assist me in tracing the ancestry of Thomas Pigott, who died intestate in 1778, thirty -four years before Thomas Pigott, brother of the baronet, is stated to have held the living of Eosenallis.

The Kev. Peter Westenra, who married Elizabeth, widow of Thomas Bernard and sister of Thomas Pigott (d. 1778), may have resigned Rosenallis in 1780, as he died s p. in 1788.

Thomas Pigott, of Mountmellick, Queen's Co., had a sister Anne Pigott, married in 1730 to Francis Cosby, of Yicarstown, stated in Burke's * Gentry ' to have been the daughter of John Pigott, of Kilfinny, co. Limerick ; but this is doubtful. Another (?) Thomas Pigott had by his wife

Anne ? a daughter Jane Pigott, baptized

in. St. Patrick's, Dublin, in 1749. Was his wife Anne a sister of the above Francis Cosby ? There was also a Thomas Pigott of Mountmellick, who had two sons, born 1759 and 1764. And, lastly, Thomas Pigott, of Dublin, whose wife Helen Baldwin, probably of Derry, Dysert, or Summerhill, near Mount- mellick, died intestate in 1764, administra- tion granted to her husband.

The Baldwin family resided in the Pigotts old residence of Dysert, and on the expira- tion of the lease of the home farm removed to Derry Farm, on the same estate, then held by Lord Carew. Can FRANCESCA identify any of these members of the Pigott family ? Kilcavan was the residence of Pigott Sandes, descended from the Dysert Pigotts, circa 1730. WM. JACKSON PIGOTT.

LONGEST TELEGRAM (10 th S. ii. 125). I do not think the Glasgow Herald's enterprise constitutes a record. On 17 May, 1881, the Revised New Testament was published. It was printed in its entirety as a supplement to the Times of Chicago. So that the copy might be set up in time the whole of the four Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles, anc the Epistle to the Romans were telegraphed to Chicago from New York. How many words these portions of the Testament con

' between 40,000 and 50,000." E. M. L.
 * ain I do not know, but they must exceed

OBB WIG (10 th S. ii. 50). The greatest variety Drevailed in wig fashions and names, but 'obb wig" is evidently a mere printer'/* transposition of letters. A bob wig was a, short wig. "Any sort of Bobs or Natural Wigs, of entire clean natural curl'd Hair," is- advertised. The following is a typical per- ruquier's advertisement :

"That the same Person late from Cirencester in Gloucestershire, who has for these eighteen Yean& past sold Perukes at S. Sepulchre's Coffee-House,
 * ias got for Sale a large and regular Sortment of

Perukes, made full and fashionable, of fresh West- Country Hairs ; and will sell full white Bobs at 21. 5s., full light grizzle Bobs from II. 10*. to I/. 1&, and brown Bobs at 10s. Qd. Most of the above Goods are cover'd all over, to keep the Ears warm, and to prevent the shrinking in the Head ; and to prevent Trouble, the lowest Price is fix'd on- each Peruke, without Abatement. N.B. Constant Attendance is given at St. Sepulchre's Coffee House- on Snow Hill." Daily Advertiser, 1 May, 1742.

Another perruquier's advertisement ap- peared in the same paper for 24 March, 1741. Hogarth published in 1761 an advertise- ment which furnishes illustrations by his owr> hand of " the five orders of Perriwig as they were worn at the late Coronation measured Architectonically." The names for the different parts of the varying styles of peruke are very fanciful. The front of one, for instance, is called a "Corona," "Lermier," or "Foretop." The top back part is described as the "Archi- trave or Archivolt or Caul," and the lower back part as the "Colarino or Hypotrachi- lium or Friz." The lower front portion is called "Ail de Pigeon or Wing." At the bottom of the advertisement, which illus- trates the style of no fewer than twenty-four different perukes, it is said :

" In about Seventeen Years will be compleated in Six Volumes folio, price Fifteen Guineas, the exact measurements of the perriwigs of the ancients, taken from the Statues, Bustos. & Baso Relievos of Athens, Palmira, Balbec, and Home, by Modesto Perriwig-meter from Lagado."

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

Wig is an abbreviation of periwig, which was derived from the French perruque. Wigs have at all times passed by various names- according to the fashions of the day. A wig-maker's advertisement which appeared in 1724 gives the names of the kind of head- covering at that time :

"Joseph Pickeaver, peruke maker, who formerly lived at the Black Lyon in Copper Alley, is now remov'd under Tom's Coffee House, where all gentlemen may be furnished with all sorts of perukes, as full bottom tyes, full bobs, ministers'