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NOTES AND QUERIES, no s. vu. APRIL 20, 1907.

WADSWORTH AS A YORKSHIRE NAME. MR. JARRATT is quite right in believing this to be a Yorkshire name. Mr. Samuel Long- fellow in his life of his brother says in the appendix :

" The Wadsworths, Longfellow's ancestors on the mother's side, also go back to Yorkshire, where the name is found under the forms of Waddisworth, Waddesworth, and Wordesworth suggesting a possible connection with another famous poet." JOHN C. FRANCIS.

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WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

ST. GEORGE : GEORGE AS A CHRISTIAN NAME. Many parochial guilds bore his name, as well as chantries in parish churches ; his day was observed, and his effigy was carried in procession ; his image was carved in stone and in wood, painted on walls and on panels, embroidered on banners and on tapestry, and represented in stained glass. But, although 163 churches in England were dedicated in his honour, his name remains on few old bells.

Before 1700 George is not at all a common Christian name, and scarcely any distin- guished man seems to have had it. Have any of your readers noticed this, and can they suggest an explanation ? W. C. B.

" FIRE " : " FIRE OUT." How early is the slang use of fire now more commonly fire out in the sense of turn out of a place or situation ? I find it in a quotation in Dilke's * Papers of a Critic ' (ii. 298), in a letter describing the very complete clearance made by Lord Bute, in the winter of 1762, of those who had been appointed by the old Whig ministers under George II. The Duke of Newcastle observes to the Earl of Hardwicke :

" I send your Lordship the most cruel and in- human list that ever was seen, not only in a free country nor even in any civilized nation. This list, as 1 understand, was sent to the Custom House on Saturday last, and yet, cruel as it is, we are told it is only their first fire, and that we are to have a

second There is not one single man turned out

against whom the slightest complaint can be made in the execution of their office.

POLITICIAN.

' THE FRUITS OF ENDOWMENTS ' : T. A. GLOVER. Information is desired concerning the author of the following curious biblio- graphical work :

"The Fruits of Endowments; being a list of works of upwards of two thousand authors, who. have, from the Reformation to the present time^ enjoyed prebendal or other non-cure endowments of the Church of England. London, W. McDowalL 1840." Octavo.

In Halkett and Laing the author is stated to be T. A. Glover, and the authorities for the ascription are given as Mr. H. B, Wheatley and Brit.Mus. There does not,, however, appear to be a copy in the British Museum. There is no T. A. Glover in the ' Graduati Cantab.' or ' Alumni Oxon. r Who was he ? C. W. S.

" HEDGEHOG," A SHIP. In a curious little work entitled ' The Faithful Annalist : or, Epitome of English History ' (1666). I fino! the following :

" 1545. Some certain ships of the King's called ' Hedgehogs,' one of them had a mischance before Westminster, a firkin of powder took fire & killed 7 men, & the eighth was drowned."

Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' tell me what kind of a ship a " hedgehog " was ? As- the crew apparently consisted of eight men- only, the vessel must have been small.

Lieut.-Col. C. FIELD, R.M. Chatham.

ALBERT BORGARD OR BORGAARD. Could any reader of ' N. & Q.' furnish me with the name of the artist who painted a portrait of Major-General Albert Borgaard, the Danish officer and soldier of fortune who organized the British artillery after the Spanish War of Succession " the Father of British Artillery " ? When was the portrait painted ? and is the whereabouts of the- original known ? The portrait hanging at present in the messrooms of the R.A. at Woolwich is stated to be a copy only. This- picture was placed in 1785 in the old Re- pository at Woolwich, founded ten year& earlier by General Congreve, and later, after a fire, was removed to the office of the- Director-General of Ordnance, where it was found in 1828, when a Danish officer visited the Arsenal. There seems no proof that the original was ever at Woolwich.

Borgaard died in 1751, aged ninety-one, and the copy of the portrait gives on some attached tablets a list of the many European battles and sieges in which he took part W. R. PRIOR.

ADAM CLARKE : PATRICK ADAIR. In the- ' Catalogue of Manuscripts ' in the Library of the late Dr. Adam Clarke, " the Biblical commentator and eminent Methodist divine,, compiled by his son, and published by John Murray in 1835, there is an entry : "CXLVI.