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to haye written it ; and, sub nom. Francis ' Wrangham, mentioning " the suspicion thai .he was the author." The same authority in common with most references in ' N. & Q., gives the penultimate line as :

And if you'd know the mind of little Jowett.

The Georgian Era, vol. i. (1832), says of Lort Mansel :

" He wrote a Latin epigram on Dr. Jowett's improvements on a small strip of land attachec to his residence of which the following is a translation " ;

giving the six well-known lines, the last but one being

And if you'd know the taste of little Jowett.

Wrangham (1769-1842) was a fine classica scholar, but I do not think he shone in original epigram, though he translated a collection ; whilst Mansel (1753-1820), in his ant e-epsic opal days and before his mastership of Trinity, " was generally known as the chief wit and mimic o academic society" ('D.N.B.'); and may ^well have perpetrated the Jowett epigram circa 1793. W. B. H.

SUPERPHOSPHATE. I saw this strange epitaph in the churchyard of the City -churches, Aberdeen, the other day :

"_Sacred to the memory of William Hay, born 1815, died 1894, parish and public schoolmaster, 'Tillydesk, Ellon, 1841 to 1880. He introduced and gave name to the manure called superphosphate in (1842.

J. M. BULLOCH.

QUABBYMEN'S TERMS. A short time back I found a bill for various qualities of atones quarried in Herefordshire. All who know that beautiful county will appreciate the charm of old stone houses, roofs, and walls, and some of your readers may care to learn the names applied to the different classes of material by the quarrvmen. The bill is

An account of worke don from y e 31 of July to the

20 of Sept., 1701. Francis Haines for Hewin. Barell stones 275 cwt.

Kinderkin stones 37 cwt. Some stones 180

Firkin stones 360

''Copers ends 1700

Ping 630

'Hogger hedin 18 doz.

"Rase! hedin 34 doz.

'"Sqr. bottoms 5 doz.

Peck bottoms 3 and a half.

Lockstocks 44 doz.

Spoks 2 set.

The greater part of the account is uu- .iortunately torn away.

J. HARVEY BLOOM,

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02 02 01 02 11

DOUBLE CHRISTIAN NAMES. Double and treble Christian names are generally sup- posed to be late inventions (?) seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In the course of indexing the Clergy Lists of Sussex, however, we came across a John William Whyttyng, who was Rector of St. Bartholomew's, Egdean or Blertham from 1389 to 1428.

J. W. FAWCETT.

Consett, co. Durham.

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.

HAMILTON. (See 8 S. xii. 507.) Some twenty years ago, a question was asked in * N. & Q.' about a lady by the name of Margaret Hamilton, who had been in- terred in Fulham churchyard and who, according to the inscription on her tomb, must have died at the advanced age of 113 years. To this date, the question has been left unanswered. I have some reasons to believe that the lady was the widow of Henry Hamilton, who was lieutenant- governor of Canada from 1782 to 1785, and died at Antigua in 1796 as Governor of San Domingo. In the Canadian Archives, there is a letter of Mrs. Margaret Hamilton, written from 11 Lower Sloane Street, Chelsea, and dated September, 1807. This letter was addressed to Lord Hillsborough praying him to receive favourably a petition of her daughter, Margaret Stuart, who asked for a pension as the widow of Francis Lemaistre, former lieutenant-governor of Gaspe in Canada.- On the other hand, Sir James Craig, in another letter accompany- ing the same petition of the widow Lemaistre, refers to her dependance upon an aged mother, Mrs. Margaret Cramahe. It appears as if the lady in question had been married three times :

1. To one Stuart, the father of Margaret who married later Francis Lemaistre.

2. To Hector Theophilus Cramahe, who was lieutenant-governor of Canada, from 1771 to 1782, and died probably before 1790.

3. To Henry Hamilton, also lieutenant- governor of Canada and successor to

ramahe.

The inscription on the tomb in Fulham )hurchyard says that Margaret Hamilton was born at Geneva, June 2, 1727. Thi ; date could easily apply to the widow