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death, 3 September, 1658, Harrison was released, and returned to his home at New- castle-under-Lyme. He was arrested in April, 1660, because, as a regicide, he was excluded from the Act of Indemnity ; and it was not until 9 October that a bill of indictment against all the regicides was brought before the Grend Jury.

For the last of the three statements there are two authorities, viz.. Lord Clarendon and Lucy Hutchin&on, wife of Col. Hut chin- son the regicide.

Mrs. Hutchinson says of Harrison :

"He was but a mean man's son, and of a mean education, and of no estate before the war."

Lord Clarendon says :

" Harrison was the son of a butcher, near Nant- wich, in Cheshire, and had been bred up in the place of a clerk under a lawyer of good account in those parts.''

Both these statements p.re contrary to fact. Thome s Harrison was, born at New- castle, Staffs, and was the son of a well-to-do butcher and grazier, Richard Harrison, who held the office of Mayer of the borough in 1626-7, 1633-4, 1643-4, and again in 1648-9. Richard Harrison was an alderman till the time of his death in 1653.

In, I believe, all the accounts of Major General Thomas Harrison the date of his birth is given incorrectly. In the old register of the parish church of Newcastle- under-Lyme the seventh entry for the year 1616 is as follows :

" Thomas Harrison filius Richard bapt. July 16."

There is a tradition to the effect that the remains of Harrison were collected by friends, and buried in St. Giles's Church- yard, Newcastle-under-Lyme, and that a gravestone used to be there less than 100 years ago. Is there any truth in the tradition ? There is no burial entry for the years 1660 and 1661. T. PAPE.

The Middle School, Newcastle-under-Lyme.

"WHEN SHE WAS GOOD," &c. (11 S. iii. L28, 234, 271). These lines appear under the name of ' Jemima,' as two variants, on pp. 123 and 327 of ' A Book of Verses for Children,' compiled by E. V. Lucas, pub- lished by Grant Richards, 1897. There is a foot-note :

" I have tried in vain to discover the author of these verses. According to an American writer, Miss Roosevelt, the first stanza was claimed by Longfellow, but there is no proof that it was he who finished it."

JAS. CURTIS, F.S.A. [MR. DOUGLAS OWEN also thanked for reply.]

ANANIAS AS A CHBISTIAN NAME (11 S. iii. 266). In Bardsley's ' Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature ' (Chatto & Windus, 1880) are two or three examples of the use of Ananias and one of Sapphira as Christian names. Amongst the passengers who went- out to New England in the reigns of James and Charles was " Ananias Mann." Other examples are quoted as follows :

" 1603. Sept. 12. Buried Ananias, sonne of George Warren, 17 years. St. Peter, Corn- hill."

" 1621. Sept. Baptized Ananias, son of Ananias Jarratt, glass maker. Stepney."

" Here lyeth the body of Mrs. Sapphira Light- maker, wife of Mr. Edward Lightmaker of Broad- hurst, in Sussex, gent. She died in the Lorde, Dec. 20, 1704, aged 81 years. Bunhill Fields."

Bardsley adds that Mrs. Lightmaker' s brother was Robert Leighton, who died Archbishop of Glasgow.

RICHD. WELFORD.

Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

Among the marriages recorded in the parish register of Pilton, North Devon, for 1619 is that of Ananias Hacker and Johan Harris. In the following year, among the baptisms is entered that of a child of the same Ananias, whose name occurs again among the marriages of the year 1626, when he was married to his second wife Ursula Tamlyn. In examining these parochial records I have met with many names which surprised me, but none so much as this of Ananias.

- 1 may quote another unusual name, Mahershalalhashbaz. This is found in the parish register of Fremington, North Devon, being the Christian name of a stonecutter whose surname was James, and whose children were baptized in 1880, 1881, and 1884 respectively.

THOS. WAIN WRIGHT.

Barnstaple.

[For Mahershalalhashbaz see Isaiah viii. 1. MR. A. RHODES also refers to Bardsley.]

MEDIEVAL " OBERAMMERGAUS " (11 S. iii. 267). The Rev. John Shawe preached at Cartmel in 1641, and met there a man of about 60 who, when Jesus Christ was named " Oh, sir (said he), I think I heard of that man you speake of, once in a play at Kendall called Corpus Christ! play, where there was a man on the tree and the blood ran doone " (see Shawe's ' Memoirs,' of which there are three different editions, 1824, 1875, and 1882).

WILLIAM E. A. AXON.

Manchester.