Page:Notes and Queries - Series 12 - Volume 2.djvu/403

 i2s.ii.Nov.il, 19.6.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

.".97

-upon the Altar, drank of the water, laid upon the ground all night, in the morning took a good draught, more, and each of them carry'd away some of the water in a bottle. Within 3 weeks they found the effect of it, and (their strength in- creasing by degrees) were able to move themselves upon crutches. Next year they took the same course, after which they were able to go up and down by the help of a staff. At length, one of them, being a Fisherman, was, and, if he be alive, is still able to follow that business. The other was a Soldier nnde- Colonel William Godolphin,* and <3y'd in the'service of K. Ch. I.

" After this, the Well was superstitiously fre- quented, so that the Rector of the neighbouring Parish was forc'd to reprove several of his Parishioners for it. But accidentally meeting a woman coming from it with a bottle in her hand, and 'being troubl'd with colical pains, desir'd to drink of it, and found himself eas'd of that distemper.

"The instances are too near our own times, and too well attested, to fall under the suspicion of "bare traditions or Legendary fables : And being so -very remarkable, may well claim a place here. Only, 'tis worth our observation, that the last of them destroys the miracle ; for if he was cur'd -upon accidentally tasting it, then the Ceremonies of offering, lying on the ground, &c., contributed nothing ; and so the virtue of the water claims the whole remedy."

Gough, in the ' Additions ' to his transla- tion of the ' Britannia,' says, vol. i. ed. 1806, p. 17, that according to Dr. Borlase, ' Nat. Hist, of Cornwall,' p. 31, " the water can only fxct by its cold limpid nature, having no per- ceivable mineral impregnation."

EDWARD BENSLY.

GREATEST RECORDED LENGTH OF SERVICE {12 S. ii. 327). Public positions in Boltpn have been marked by long family associa- tions, and a record of these may be of some interest to your readers.

James Winder became Clerk to the Borough Magistrates in 1839, and held the position until his death in 1862. His son, Robert Winder, succeeded him, and holds the office to-day after fifty-five years' service.

John Taylor was Borough Coroner from 1839 to 1876, when he was succeeded by his son, who held the position until 1904.

John Hall was Borough Prosecutor from 1858 to 1887, when he was succeeded by his son, who still holds the office.

Thomas Holden was Registrar of the ounty Court from 1846 to his death in 1887, when he was succeeded by his sons C. H. and A. T. Holden, who held the position, either jointly or separately, until 1915.

ARCHIBALD SPARKE.

the service of Charles I.," a younger brother of Sir Francis Godolphin, and uncl epf Sidney, first Earl of Godolphin. See Table II. in E. W. Harcourt's edition of Evelyn's ' Life of Mrs. Godolphin.'
 * Presumably William Godolphin, " Colonel in

AUTHOR AND TITLE WANTED : BOYS' BOOK c. 1860 (12 S. ii. 330). From the description given, it is possible the book required may have been one of the earlier productions of that prolific writer of ocean stories, the late William Clark Russell. His publishers were Messrs. Sampson Low & Cc.

CECIL CLARKE.

Junior Athenaeum Club.

"CARDEW" (12 S. ii. 299, 336). I consider that the account I have given of this word at the first reference, and of Car- michael,as personal names, is more probable than that suggested by H. R. C. So far as they are place-names of course he may be right. THE REVIEWER.

POEM WANTED (12 S. ii. 349). The author of the poem ' From India ' was William Cox Bennett, the brother of Sir John Bennett, the watchmaker. DAVID SALMON.

Swansea.

LONDON'S ENTERTAINMENT TO " FOUR INDIAN KINGS" (12 S. ii. 304). In this interesting note mention is made of the per- formance of ' Macbeth ' at the Haymarket at which the " kings ' ' were present . In Genest's ' History of the Stage ' an account is given of the mob, which shouted from the gallery that they could not see them. Wilks came forward and said they were in the front box. The mob shouted back : " We paid our money to see the kings." ' Mac- beth ' was evidently quite a secondary matter. To pacify the mob, four chairs were brought on the stage, followed by the kings, who sat down on them. That show over, the play began. J. S. S.

HARE AND LEFEVRE FAMILIES (12 S. ii. 128, 195). Charles Lefevre of Beckenham, Kent, was M.P. for Wareham, 1784, till he resigned in 1786. Did he die unmarried soon afterwards, and at what age ? Was he the only son of John Lefevre of Heckfield Place, Hants, a partner in the banking firm of Curries, James & Yellowsley in Cornhill, who died at Old Ford, Jan. 16, 1790, aged 67, leaving an only daughter, heiress to the immense fortune of three families (Gent. Mag.) ? Particulars of Charles will oblige.

W. R. W.

FOLK-LORE : CHIME-HOURS (12 S. i. 329, 417; ii. 136, 194, 216). MARGARET W. says at the last reference " Clocks chime every hour or at no hours," but this is by no means true of all clocks. The church clock at Haxey, in Lincolnshire, chimes every third hour only, at 6, 9, 12, and 3. The word " chime "