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 12 8. II. JULY 29,1916.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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5. The M.P. for Whitchurr-h was probably the father of William Hussey, our Scholar of 1655, who is described in the Register as being of " Laverstock," Hants, with the marginal note, " recessit sponte." H. C.

Winchester College.

COMMON GARDEN =COVENT GARDEN. The title-page of a French translation of the metrical Psalter, dated 1686, bears the following imprint :

" A Londres, ImprimtS par R. Everingham, & se vend chez R. centeley, demeurant dans le Coramun Jardin ; Et chez J. Hindraarsh, demeurant dans Cornhil, a 1'enseigne de la Ball d'or."

I once knew a thoroughbred Cockney who always used the expression Common Garden to denote what we call Covent Garden, but I have never seen the words in print. Can any reader give an instance ? It would appear from the use of the words " Commun Jardin " quoted above t hat the expression was current in the latter part of the seven- teenth century. R. B. P.

SIB WILLIAM OGLE. Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' help as to the ancestry and posterity of Sir William Ogle, who held Winchester Castle for King Charles, and surrendered it to Oliver Cromwell on Octo- ber 8, 1645 ? His first wife (Charity Waller) was with him in the Castle, and obtaining permission to withdraw, on account of health, is said to have died on her way to Stoke Charity, October, 1 645. Sir William subsequently married Sarah Dauntsey, widow of Sir Hugh Stewkeley of Michelmersh and Hinton Ampner, county' Hants. Appar- ently, he had a daughter by his second wife, since Sir Hugh Stewkeley in his will referred to his "cousin Catherine Ogle." In 1775 a Chaloner Ogle, with Catherine his wife, was living at Winchester, and there interred a daughter in the Cathedral in 1780 "Isabella, daughterof the Rev. Dr. Ogle, was buried."

There is also rather a puzzle as to Sarah Stewkeley, probably a daughter of Sir Hugh, second baronet. There was a Sarah, daughter of the first baronet, unmarried at her father's death in 1642. Sarah, daughter of the second Sir Hugh, was also single at her father's decease in 1719, but is said to have married Dr. John Cobb (Warden of Win- chester College) in 1723. The doctor died on Nov. 15, 1724, and, according to her memorial at Hinton Ampner, she was buried as "Sarah Townshend on the 17th of April, 1760, aged 76." But and here comes the

puzzle Bxirke and other authorities all say that Ellis St. John of Farley Chamber- layne, Hampshire, married as his third wife Sarah, daughter of Sir Hugh Stewkeley, between 1725 and his death in 1728. Any light upon these two points will be gratefully received by F. H. S.

HOUSE AND GARDEN SUPERSTITIONS. 1. It is said that to preserve the colour of green vegetables they should be boiled in a saucepan without a lid on. Is this a fact, and if so what is the explanation ?

2. I believe I have seen or heard it stated that if two pendulum clocks be set going side by side they will stop each other. Any information on the subject will be welcome.

3. It is sometimes said that a piano should not be played upon on the same day as it is tuned presumably because this would put it out of tune again. If so, why so ?

4. It is said that plane trees grow well in London and other towns because they shed their bark. The idea seems to be that thus they keep their pores clean and are able to " breathe." I have, however, examined their bark without finding any " pores " or stomata.

5. Whence is the idea that if single prim- roses be planted upside down they .vill come up double or change colour ?

ALFRED S. E. ACKERMANN.

" WER NICHT LIEBT WEIN, WEIB, TJNT

GESANG." Was Martin Luther in fact the

author of the couplet :

Who loves not wine, women, and song Remains a fool his whole life long ?

It does not seem likely ! If not, who was the author ? ALFRED S. E. ACKERMANN. [See 8 S. viii. 169, 219, 378.]

"CoMAtiNDE." In Grose's 'Military Antiquities,' 1786, vol. i. p. 367, is given a list of various stores required in connexion with ordnance in the field, amongst which occurs " Comaundes at 14. the dozen." What is a comaunde ? J. H. LESLIE.

COL. CHARLES LENNOX. ( V. sub ' Dau- bigny's Club,' ante, p. 28.) This Guardsman became 4th Duke of Richmond on his uncle's death, 1806, and died when Governor of Upper and Lower Canada, 1819, from the bite of a dog. The duel alluded to in MR. PIERPOINT'S query was followed by another in that same year, in which he wounded Theophilus Swift on July 1, 1789.

Born in 1764, he became a lieutenant in the Sussex Militia (July 2 or) Oct. 11, 1778, and captain therein April 13, 1780, holding that