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NOTES AND QUERIES. [HP s. v. MAY 26, IDOG.

it is to be noted y l those of Lincolnshire, written in their latine deeds de Altaripa, tooke y e name of Hawtrey, planting themselves in Buckinghamshire bv reason of y c inheritance that came by y match W th the daughter and heire of the auntient Familie s'named Checkers, whose seat so called in y e parish ofEllesborow, & c. A. R. B AYLEY.

Your Toronto correspondent will find observations as to the probable derivation of the name Hawtrey in F. St. J. Thackeray's Memoir of Dr. Hawtrey ' (formerly Provost of Eton). Mr. Thackeray, after saying that tbe name is "generally regarded as a corrup- tion of Haute Rive, Latin De Alta Ripa, and quoting references to Alta Ripa, near Alencon. from Ordericus Vitalis, states (pp. 6-iO) tbat from Sir William De Alta Ripa, of Algarkirk, in South Lincolnshire, wbo "moved southwards about 1260,' was descended Hawtrey, the Provost of Eton. SOPHIA CREEPER.

[The REV. W. D. MACRAY also refers to De Alta Ripa, and ST. SWITHIN to Lower.]

DOVER PIER (10 th S. iv. 387, 451, 491) In The East Anglian Daily Times, 12 May, there is an extract from the South wold parish registers, wherein it is said that

"In a Chantry Certificate (1548) the yearly value is stated to be 6Z. 13s. 4d., which was expended as

" 'To'the mayntenaceof the piers and jeits of ye same town xiii. iiij., and so remayneth to thuse of the stipendarie prieste, which is converted to the maytenance of the towne and paymente of the

towne of Southwolde is a poore towne, where uppon the sea lyeth, beating dayly, to the greate ruyne and distruccon of the seid towne, if that the power and vyolence of the same werr not broken by the mayntenance of the jetties and peyres thear, and that the mayntenance of the haven and bridge of the same towne is lykewyse very chargiable.
 * " Md *That yt is to be considered that the seid

Perhaps a search in the town records would give a much earlier use of the word pier.

R. J. FYNMORE.

ROPES USED AT EXECUTIONS (10 th S. v. 20w, 315, 375). The following is an extract from the 'Life of William Palmer,' executed at Stafford for murder in 1856, published by Ward & Lock, 158, Fleet Street, the same year, and shows how relics are multiplied :

" The rope with which Palmer was hung was made by a ropemaker of the name of Coates, who is also a porter at the Stafford Station. All the men employed at the station had a hand in making it and Coates, having an eye to the main chance made thirty yards, cut the surplus length int< small pieces of about two or three inches, and hawked them about Stafford. In one instance half-a-crown was obtained for about two inches." P. 113.

An allusion to a gruesome passage in * Ten Thousand a Year ' may prove illustrative

an account of a picture at Alibi House, the eat of Mr. Quirk, the head of the firm of

Quirk, Gammon & Snap. The picture, with

i curtain of black gauze hung before it, epresents a man suspended from the

gallows. "This is a very beautiful picture, Mr. Titmouse, isn't it? "said Gammon. In Vliss Quirk's album is exhibited to the guests n autograph letter from " Arthur Grizzlegut,

executed for high treason," by which )seudonym Thistlewood is intended, hanged n 1820. I have seen small pieces of the

Atlantic Cable treasured in this manner as

relics. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

When I was travelling from Norwich to London some twenty years ago a man in the same railway carriage surprised us all very much by producing about a foot of rope, which he informed us he had purchased from

he hangman that morning, after an execu- tion at Norwich. I believe a representation was made to the Home Office on this occa- sion, and the practice was stopped. Mar wood,

f I remember aright, was the executioner. FREDERICK T. HIBGAME.

BOOKSELLER'S MOTTO (10 th S. v. 208, 255). At Little Bradley, Suffolk, the memorial srass to John Daye, printer, who died 1584, las two riming stanzas, the first of which puns on his name. Mr. Farrer, in his 'Suffolk Brasses,' 1903, refers to Gent. Mag., cii. (1832) pt. ii. p. 417.

Here lies the Daye that darknes could not blynd when popish fogges had over cast the sunne This Daye the cruell night did leave behynd, to view and shew what bloudi Actes were donne he set a Fox to wright how Martyrs runne by death to lyfe : Fox ventur'd paynes and health : to give them light Daye spent in print his wealth.

Mr. Swinburne's charming sonnet on John Day the dramatist ('Tristram of Lyonesse, 7 1884, p. 291) etherealizes the same device :

Day was a full-blown flower in heaven

Our mightiest age let fall its gentlest word,

when Song, in semblance of a sweet small bird, lit fluttering on the light swift hand of Day.

H. K. ST. J. S.

.MACAULAY'S " NEW ZEALANDER " (10 th S. v. 344). The foundation -stone of old Black- friars Bridge was laid in 1760, and no one could have thought in 1745 of a person sitting on its broken arches. Macaulay's reference was to London Bridge, which would also have been reasonable at the earlier date.

W. T. LYNN.

Blackheath.