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 12 S. III. MARCH 24, 1917.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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'deceased " (' Commons' Journals,' vol. xxix. p. 52). William de Grey, afterwards member for Cambridge University, Solicitor- General, Attorney-General, and Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas sneered at by Junius, after his being prosecuting counsel against Woodfall, as " EX-OFFICIO the .guardian of liberty " was returned in his place on the following Dec. 7.

ALFRED F. BOBBINS.

(12 S. iii. 105.)

Joseph Gledhill was the second son of Lieut.-Col. Samuel Gledhill, and born circa 1709. Lieut.-Col. Samuel Gledhill raised General Macartney's Regiment in 1707-8, And commanded it at the post of Leffing- ham in 1708, where they were made prisoners. At the siege of Douay he com- manded Major-General Sutton's Regiment (was it the same ?), and in the sortie of May 7, 1710, the regiment was cut to pieces, Col. Gledhill taken prisoner, badly wounded, and his eldest son Ensign Samuel Gledhill, a child of 8 years of age, killed.

In 1719 Col. S. Gledhill was appointed Lieutenant - Governor of Placentia, and ' Commander - in - Chief of Newfoundland, -which appointments he held until 1727 if not longer. Joseph Gledhill became a major in Major-General Phillips's Regiment, and died unmarried in 1747.

W. H. CHIPPINDALL, Col.

" TATTERING A KIP " (12 S. iii. 170). May I be allowed to point out, in defence of Goldsmith's editors, that this expression is sufficiently explained in at least three modern editions of ' The Vicar of Wake- field ' ? namely, the Parchment Library edi- tion of 1883, p. 302 ; Mr. J. W. M. Gibbs's edition of the Works, Index to vol. v. (1886) ; and the Glossarial Index to the late C. E. Doble's ' The Plays of Oliver Gold- smith, together with " The Vicar of Wake- tfeld," ' 1909, p. 449. AUSTIN DOBSON.

GILBERT AND SULLIVAN : GILBERT ME- MORIAL (12 S. iii. 129). The lines

His foe was folly, and his weapon wit, inscribed on the bronze medallion by Sir George Frampton put up on Aug. 31, 1915, to the memory of the late Sir William 'Gilbert on the wall of the Victoria Em- bankment were written by Mr. Anthony Hope Hawkins, one of the committee Associated with the movement.

WILLOUGHBY MAYCOCK.

WILLIAM HASTINGS, 1777 (12 S. ii. 508 ; iii. 118). I have a note that in The Gentle- man's Magazine there is a letter from Elizabeth, Countess Dowager of Moira. " sister to the late Earl of Huntingdon," dated April 18, 1808, addressed tc her kinsman Archdeacon Hastings of Newton Butler, Ireland, in which she states that

" the descent of William Hastings was unques- tionable ; as was his right to the title, had the failure really occurred of the issue of Col. George Hastings, whose claim was derived from the second son of the second Earl, whilst that of William Hastings was from the sixth son of the same nobleman."

On reference to several Peerages I cannot find more than four sons of the second earl named, although it is stated that he had six sons. The ' D.N.B.' has an article on Sir Francis, the fifth son, who died 1610, yet his name is omitted.

However, I am not very much concerned as to William Hastings's claim except in so far as it connects him with Folkestone. His only son having died unmarried in 1790, it is unlikely that he was keen on proving it, and in the letter referred to above the Countess states further that

" the aged father, content with his title of Governor Hastings, and not ambitious of an earl- dom, shorn of its substantial acres, did not long survire, and thus ended the claim of the Braun- ston branch."

Apparently, he survived until after 1810. My query is, when did he die, or vacate the office of Master Gunner of Folkestone Battery ? The appointment of his successor would assist, if it can be discovered.

R. J. FYNMORE.

GRACE DARLING (12 S. ii. 370). Grace and William Darling on the first journey rescued four men and a woman. On the second journey two of the men returned with William Darling and rescued the re- maining four men. See ' Grace Darling, ler True Story,' written anonymously by .he late Mr. Daniel Hopkin Atkinson (who was intimately acquainted with the Darling fomilv), and published by Hamilton, Adams & Co.* in 1880. G. D. LTJMB.

Leeds.

COCK : CARVING or A LEGEND (12 S. ii. 168). The legend concerning the coming to life of a dead bird, including his hen, is .old of St. James Major. In ' Sacred and Legendary Art,' vol. ii. pp. 235, 236, 240, Mrs. Jameson refers to it, and gives a cut of a fresco of it by Lo Spagna, which is or was to be seen in a small chapel near Spoleto, on the way to Foligno. A certain judge