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 NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. VIL JAN. 12, 1907.

asking whether a pedigree of Washing- ton existed. I shall be glad to communicate with the writer, as I possess the pedigree.

A. HILLS. 3, Duke Street, Margate.

CAMBRIDGE BOOKSELLERS AND PRINTERS. The following list of booksellers and printers in the town of Cambridge during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries will supplement the lists of provincial booksellers in the last two volumes of the proving of the will :
 * N. & Q.' The date is in each case that of

Atkinson, Troylus, 1675. Bookseller, also church- warden of Great St. Marie.

Atkinson, William, 1699. Son of above ; bookseller.

Beechmore, Edward, 1689. Stationer.

Boiedens, John, 1502. Stationer.

Breynans, Peter, 1504. Stationer.

Dickinson, William, 1718. Bookseller.

Field, John, the elder, 1668. Citizen of London, stationer, and printer.

Foakes, John, 1664. Printer.

Graves, William, 1680. Stationer.

Greene, Richard, 1699. Stationer.

Hall, Edward, 1703. Bookseller.

Leete, Robert, 1663. Printer.

Moody, Henry, 1637. Stationer.

Moody, Thomas, 1661. Bookseller.

Milleson, John, 1670. Stationer.

Morden, W T illiam, 1679. Bookseller.

Nicholson, Anthony, the elder, 1667. Stationer.

Porter, John, 1608. Stationer.

.Scarlett, William, 1617. Stationer.

-Skarlett, John, 1502. Stationer.

Sought, John, 1553. Stationer.

Spyryne, Nicholas, 1545. Stationer.

Webster, Thomas, 1722. Bookseller.

Worlech, William, 1631. Stationer.

Wray, Henry, 1628. Stationer.

H. R.

THE SCOTS GREYS AND GREY HORSES. In the descriptive letterpress to the series of sketches bearing on the past history of this distinguished corps, given in The Illus- trated London News of 22 December last, it is stated that " grey horses are not men- tioned until 1702." There is a letter still extant from Capt. Andrew Agnew, of the Royal Scots Dragoons, to his cousin Sir Andrew Agnew of Lochnaw, Bart., Sheriff of Wigtownshire, dated 28 August, 1693, on the subject of the purchase for the writer of " a grey horse " (' The Agnews of Loch- .naw,' p. 453). CHARLES DALTON.

HOLED - STONE FOLK - LORE : " NIGHT- HAGS." If I remember aright, ' N. & Q.' has on several occasions contained para- graphs regarding stones with natural or artificial holes in them being used for the purpose of warding off evil ; it may therefore .be well to draw attention to the fact that

Mr. Worthington G. Smith has in The Pro- ceedings of the Society of Antiquaries for 8 February, 1906, recorded that in some parts of South Bedfordshire it is still believed ' ' that a suspended holed stone will prevent illness in cows, and prevent the entry of the 'night-hag,' a supernatural kind of witch, supposed to enter stables, take out a horse, ride it furiously all night, and just before daybreak, take it back to the stable, when the farmer, soon after, finds it badly sweating."

Some of your readers will call to mind the scene in ' Marmion ' where young Henry Blount

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Had reckon'd with their Scottis host ; And as the charge he cast and paid, " 111 thou deserv'st thy hire," he said ; " Dost see, thou knave, my horse's plight ? Fairies have ridden him all the night, And left him in a foam ! "

In Bedfordshire, it appears, night-hags supply the place of the Northern fairies with whom Sir Walter Scott was acquainted.

ASTARTE.

PARISH REGISTERS : CURIOUS ENTRIES. The following are a few examples I have come across in my searches :

Croydon. 1596. Dec. 7, Old Megg buried.

1788. Mary Woodfield, al s Queen of Hell, from the College, buried 18 Feb.

Ludgate, St. Martin's. 1615. Feb. 28 was buried an anotomy from the College of Physicians.

Blackfriars, St. Anne's. 1580. William, foole to my Lady Jermingham, buried 21 March.

1626/7. Feb. 9, Lady Luson's corpse carried away.

Newcastle-on-Tyne, St. John's. 1589. Edward Errington, the Towne Fooll, buried 23 August, died in the Peste.

1636. Seven poore thinges out of the Warden close buried 1 Dec.

Kirby Moorsicle, Yorks. The baptism of "Mr. Anchitel Grey" is entered through illiterate spell- ing, as '' Miss Ann Kettle Grey."

Tarporley, Cheshire. 1626. Richard Welde, Papist and Excommunicate, 20 August, buried at night.

Bishop Wearmouth, Durham. 1596. Feb. 8, A woman in the water buried.

Escomb, Durham. 1676. Aug. 2, A linger wild was buried.

Wiekham, Durham. 1649. May 4, A West Countryman buried.

Hart, Durham. 1641. Feb. 12, Old Mother Mid- night of Elwick buried.

Hawsted. 1589. The Funerall of the Right Worshipfull Sir William Drury, Knight, was executed 10 March.

Salehurst, Sussex. 1683. Oct. 5, Bur d Peter Sparke, aged 120 odd years.

Burnham, Bucks. 1570. Aug. 24, The Queen's Footman's Child Buried.

1575. Nov. 3, The Queen's Launder buried.

1584. Snow's wife buried 30 March.

1586. May 9, Maude, the child of a Roague, buried.

1587/8. Jan. 4, A Runagate Wench Buried.