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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. iv. DEC. 2, 1911.

" dawtet, twal-pint Hawkie " is one of the sufferers specified in the ' Address to the Deil.' Jamieson suggests that the term is "allied perhaps to Gael, geal-cum, to whiten." In any case, it is never used with reference to the cow's horns.

THOMAS BAYNE.

BASSETT OB BASSOCK FAMILY. In the parish church registers of Hythe, Kent, I notice the change of name to Bassett from Bassock.

1619, Aug. 12. Ferdinando Bassocke and Mary Fremlin married. Several of their children were baptized (1626- 1634) under name of Bassock. 1635, April 16. Ferdinand Basso 3k and Marian Gibson married.

1657, Oct. 13. Ferdinando Bassett, Jurate,

and Mary Smyth married.

1658. Ferdinando Bassett issued a token F^I. 1628. Elias Bassock and Margret White

married.

1629-40. Children of Elias Bassock bap- tized.

1642. Margaret, wife of Elias Bassock,

buried.

1643, July 22. Elias Bassocke and Johan

Pashly married.

1657, June 9. John Littlewood and Eliza- beth Bassett married. Witnesses, Ferdinando, Elias, and John Bassett.

From 1643 Bassock disappears, and Bassett is substituted down to recent times ; several members filled the office of mayor.

The name Bassock occurs in other parishes in Kent : a Clement Bassock was Mayor of Canterbury, 1578. R. J. FYNMORE.

Sandgate.

WEST'S PICTURE or THE DEATH or GENERAL WOLFE. (See 10 S. v. 409, 451, 518; vi. 113, 154, 173.) The following extract, taken from ' A Driving Tour in the Isle of Wight,' by Hubert Garle, although
 * some time after the query first appeared

in ' N. & Q.,' may still be of interest to H. G. L. :-

" It was said of an old man who acted as used to ask visitors if they had ever seen him before. On one occasion a gentleman, after replying in the negative, said that he had seen a portrait of some one very much like him in the famous picture ' The Death of General Wolfe,' representing the scene at Quebec on 13 Sept., 1760. It turned out that the guide had been present at that famous general's death, sup- porting him in his arms, and that afterwards he had sat for his portrait in the picture. According to this man, too, it was at Newport, I.W., that
 * guide to the Castle [Carisbrooke] that he always

General Wolfe slept for the last time on English shores, at the house of Joseph Fitzpatrick, Esq., St. Cross, situated near the mill at the bottom of Hunnyhill."

Possibly some extant local record would give the name of the castle guide, and also the name of the ship in which Wolfe sailed.

F. K. P.

WART CHARMS. In a paper about 'Warts' in Smart Novels for 24 July the writer, discussing various magical " remedies," mentions one which seems to me but little known :

" Wait till you see a funeral, then stroke the wart in the direction in which the funeral is going, saying at the same time : ' Corpse, corpse, take my wart with you.' That is rather a gruesome sort of charm, but in some parts of the country they will tell you that it never fails ; but here again secrecy is important, for no one must see or hear what you are doing."

HERBERT B. CLAYTON. 39, Renfrew Road, Lower Kennington Lane.

OTTER AT A CITY STATION. The following- curious circumstance, as given in The Pall Mall Gazette of 2 November, seems worthy of chronicle in the pages of ' N. & Q.' :

"At the Mansion House Station there is to be seen a fine specimen of a female otter, which was recently caught at the Acton Town Station on the District Railway."

CECIL CLARKE.

Junior Athenaeum Club.

REGIMENTAL SOBRIQUETS. (See 3 S. vii. 50.; In The Kentish Gazette, 31 Dec., 1813, occurs the following :

" The 9th or Britannia Regiment, whose Depot is at Canterbury, have got an addition of fifty men from the East Kent Militia."

The regiment, now the Norfolk Regiment, has the figure of Britannia for a badge, but I have never before heard it described as the Britannia Regiment. R. J. FYNMORE.

HENRY OLIVER, CENTENARIAN. In the churchyard of Old St. Kevin's, Dublin, is a small stone erected to the memory of Henry Oliver, aged 136 years. It is to the left of the entrance from Church Lane.

WILLIAM MAOARTHUR.

Dublin.

" SAMHOWD." In some dialects notably that of Derbyshire the words sam = take, and howd=ho\d, are in common use as samhowd=to take hold, or to "put the shoulder to the wheel." A foreman shouts to his men " Samhowd here ! " when any- thing has to be lifted or moved. Another form is samhowdhither = come here and take