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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. ix. APRIL 4, 1914

at a rough guess the actual volume, how- ever, deals with wills dated 1528-43 " and other years."

" A specyall Jely for lent & for All tymes of the yere.

" Take a q a rte of barley made very clene & bete it in a morter like Wise as ye bete furrnenty then wessh it clene & sethe it in wat r w* Annes sede & licorasse brosids then streyne the lico r from the barley, then take the barley & half a pownds Almonds & bete them bothe to giddere & streyne them w fc the licoure that they were sodden in & new boyle them to giddere & putte sugo r & tornesalle to colo r it & sethe them to giddere & streyne them & putt it in dysshes till it be cold.

" And if ye will haue white Jely putt therto in the stede of tornesalle Isamglasse in like pporcon."

F. S. SNELL.

(gmras.

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.

P. A. WILKINSON, GUN-MAKER. I have a glass in the shape of a tankard, bearing the initials " P. A. W 7 ".," which belonged to the above. There is a note attached to the glass stating that the owner was a gun- maker of London. In the bottom of the glass there is enclosed a Queen Anne shilling with the date 1709. The tankard is deco- rated with barley, hops, guns, birds, and a dog a pointer. I should be glad of any information concerning Wilkinson, his birth, character, location, and the date of his death.

JOHN LANE.

The Bod ley Head, Vigo Street, W.

TURTLE AND THUNDER. It is popularly believed in Japan that the native mud turtle, Trionyx japonica, should it happen to bite a man, will never relax its jaws until thunder is heard.

Dr. A. W. Howitt's ' The Native Tribes of South-East Australia,' 1904, p. 769, has this passage :

" The man [of the Wotjobaluk tribe], until about forty, is under certain restrictions .... [He] will be killed by lightning if he eats the fresh-water turtle, for that reptile is connected

with the thunder As to the turtle, it may be

mentioned here that the Wotjobaluk think they can smell something after lightning which re- minds them of the smell of the turtle."

Are there any other instances of the turtle being associated with thunder and lightning among various peoples of the world ?

KUMAGUSU MlNAKATA.

Tanabe, Kii, Japan.

TURKEY COMPANY : HILL : DEVEREUX. Can any one tell me whether there is a. list of the members of the Turkey (or Levant) Company of London between 1600 and 1680 or thereabouts containing the name of Richard (or Thomas) Hill ?

A member of his family is said to have- married a lady named Devereux, who was a near relation of the second Earl of Essex* Is there any pedigree of the Dever^eux family which supports this statement ?

E. E. HILL.

47, Southern Road, Stourwood, Bournemouth.

JOHN ROGERS, M.D. Particulars are sought of this minor eighteenth -century- writer. Where did he get his degree ? In Watt's 'Bibl. Brit.' he is credited with ' Observations on the Translation and Abridgment of Boerhaave's Chemistry/ 1733, and ' An Essay on Epidemic Diseases/ 1738. He also wrote ' A Dissertation on the Knowledge of the Ancients in Astronomy/ &c., 1755. The title-page of this bears the name of S. Newton, bookseller, Manchester,, as one of the publishers ; and on p. 77 he mentions Chat Moss, " in the country I live in." Chat Moss is described as being in Leigh and Eccles parishes in Lancashire, eight statute miles long and four broad,

" whereon if a man jumps up, he shall see the Moss undulate around him for thirty or forty yards ; and a horse would be immediately swallowed up should be attempt to walk over it."

C. W. SUTTON.

SIR JACOB ADOLPHUS. He was Inspector- General of Army Hospitals circa 1770, and died in Jamaica (?). He was in some way related to John Adolphus (1768-1845, ' D.N.B.'), the political and historical writer. I should be much obliged for further genea- logical and biographical details concerning him. ISRAEL SOLOMONS.

118, Sutherland Avenue, W.

FINDS ON CHEAP BOOKSTALLS. I am anxious to obtain information relative to the discovery of rare books, broadsides, or prints on the cheap bookstalls in Farringdon Road or similar places.

I have been informed that a few years ago a book-collector discovered on one of these stalls an Elzevir in a perfect state, which he obtained for the sum of sixpence. Information on any similar interesting " finds " would be much appreciated. I should be glad of replies direct.

CARL T. WALKER.

Mottingham, Kent.

[See the 'Literary Gossip' of The Athenceum, 1 and 14 March.]