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 NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. x. JULY is, 191*.

" BLIZAKD " OR " BLIZZARD " AS A SUB- NAM i-: (11 S. ix. 290, 396, 437, 456 ; x. 14). It i-. perhaps, worth noting that "the ship Bliz.ird, Robert Davis, Commander," was men- tioned in The Massachusetts Gazette of 7 Feb., 1765. The word blizzard has been used in 1 his country in the sense of " a fearful volley of musketry,'' and " from the fact that it was applied to a ship " it has been inferred that "the word originated among sailors." The present writer's guess is that the above- mentioned ship Blizard derived its name from some person (perhaps its owner) named Blizard. As pointed out at the third reference, the name is common in Antigua, and it is also known in thi? country ; and the ship in question arrived from, and was bound to, New Providence, perhaps on its way from or to Antigua. ALBERT MATTHEWS.

Boston, U.S.

As a surname this has undergone some corruption. Bligh (gh sounded as y) sig- nifies milk, and ard signifies hill. The name had been given to a hill on which there was a fold where cattle were penned at noon and night, and milked morning and evening.

JOHN MILNE, M.A., LL.D. Aberdeen.

A SHIPWRECK: TRISTAN DE ACUNHA (11 S. x. 7). A nearly contemporary account of the island will be found in.

" A narrative of a nine months' residence in New Zealand in 1827, together with a journal of a residence in Tristan d'Acunha, an island situated between South America and the Cape of Good Hope. By Augustus Earle 1832." 8vo.

This journal also contains a plate showing Governor Glass and his residence. Glass was a Scotchman who married a Cape " Creole " (sic). There is a pleasant little spicy story of buried treasure that has escaped Mr. Paine's industrious researches (' The Book of Buried Treasure,' by R. D. Paine, 1911).

W. McB. & F. MARCHAM.

AD YE BALDWIN OF SLOUGH (11 S. x. 10). The Baldwin family were established at Slough for a considerable period. Adye Baldwin (who was a cousin of the Nathaniel Jenner referred to by COL. FYNMORE) owned property there, including a well- known hostelry, " The Crowm," on the Great Bath Road. At that time upwards of sixty coaches (besides numerous post-chaises) passed through Slough daily. It was at " The Crown that " the blessed heretick " (as Pope Clement XIII. styled him on

account of his piety and benevolence) Joseph Wilcocks passed away in December,. 1791.

Adye Baldwin died on 19 Oct., 1785, at the age of 68, and his widow Elizabeth (nee Brooker) on 3 Sept., 1804. Their daughter Maria Baldwin (by her second marriage) became the wife of the famous astronomer Sir William Herschel, who resided at Slough, and whom she survived.

Upfeon.

MILITARY EXECUTION (11 S. iv. 459). At this reference there is an extract from ' The Official Records of the Mutiny of the Black Watch,' where at p. 113 is 'An Exact Representation of the Shooting the Three- Highlanders on the Parade in the Tower.' There is a full account of the procedure on this occasion in the Camden Society's vol. xxii. p. 114, from General Williamson's Diary, he being then Deputy-Lieutenant of the Tower :

" 1743. 17th July the two Corporals McFersons- and Forquaher Shaw, were orderd to be Shott within the Tower, by the soldiers of the 3 d Regim* of

Guards they saw not the men appointed by Lott

to shoot them then the eighteen men who were

on the write Wing by the corner of the Chappie advanced, and four to each man, were by the wave of a handkerchif, without any word of Conimaud, directed to Make ready, Present- fire, which they did, all at once, and the three Men fell at the Same

moment dead."

R. J. FYNMORE.

A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THOMAS HOLCROFT (11 S. x. 1 ). There is an account of him by J. P. Rylands, and an imperfect list of his works, in ' Local Gleanings relating to- Lancashire and Cheshire ' (Earwaker), 1875-8, ii. 160. R. S. B.

ALEXANDER SMITH'S ' DREAMTHORP ' (II S. ix. 450, 493 ; x. 33).

7. " The English are a nation of vagabonds ; they have the ' hungry heart ' that one of their poets speaks about."

The reference is to Tennyson, ' Ulysses/ 12:

For always roaming with a hungry heart, Much have I seen and known.

EDWARD BENSLY.

PRIVY COUNCILLORS (US. ix. 449,490; x. 18). As " one swallow does not make a summer," I may add Sir E. Cassel and Sir E. Speyer as other German-born natura- lized Privy Councillors to the exception that I already have instanced in the case of Prof. Max Miiller of Oxford. Others could probably be found. WILLIAM MERCER.