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 12 S. VI. MAY 22, 1920.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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In line 4 of the notes " first " should be deleted.

In line 5 of the notes for " 1682 " read " 1632."

In line 6 of the notes for " nee " read ".formerly."

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In the ninth line from the bottom of the page for " Ruddick " read " Redditch."

The antiquary's father and mother were married at Holy Trinity, Shaftesbury, on Feb. 4, 1744 ; Mary Mathew was baptized in 1712; she died Sept. 7, 1765, at Wells; her father died in 1740 (Will P.C.C. 252 Brown), and her mother, whose maiden name was, I believe, Murrell, was buried as " Mrs. Grace Mathews, widow, on Sept. 28, 1770," at Holy Trinity, Shaston. Abraham Mathew was the son of Abraham and Mary Mathew of " Shaston," and the will of his father who died in 1692 was proved at Blandford in that year. Abraham Mathew came, I believe, of a Devonshire family. I shall be glad if I can give your corre- spondent G. F. R. B. any further informa- tion, as I also shall be, to receive any fresh data myself. I am interested, as a great- grandson of the Rev. John Gutch, being the second son of the late John James Gutch, who was himself the second son of the Rev. Robert Gutch, Rector of Segrave (see ' D.N.B.,' vol. xxiii. p. 371), the second son of the antiquary. WILFRID GUTCH.

2 Stone Buildings, Lincoln's Inn.

MARTEN ARMS (12 S. vi. 168, 217). Mr. Loder Symonds of Hinton Waldrist, Berk- shire, has an important collection of papers and data relating to Marten the regicide. (See ' Hist. MSS. Comm. Report on Loder Symonds MSS.') The Marten family was associated in the early seventeenth century with this north-west corner of Berkshire, chiefly Hinton Waldrist, Longworth and Shrivenham. Possibly the Marten arms could be found upon the almshouses built by Henry Marten at Shrivenham.

A. L. HUMPHREYS.

DR. BUTLER'S ALE (12 S. vi. 186). Medicinal ales, more or less resembling the one described under this head at the reference given, were formerly very common under the name both of " ales " and " diet drinks." In Quincy's ' Dispensatory ' (1718) there are thirty-five; in Alleyne's (1733) the number has shrunk to twenty-four ; in Brookes's (1773) to four. They are classed

among ' Extemporaneous Compositions,' and none of them was eve rofficial. The Cere- visia Butleri given by Quincy and by Alleyne is not aperient, but would be slightly laxative : it consists of betony, sage, agri- mony, garden scurvy-grass, Roman worm- wood, elecampane and horse-radish. It is said to have " prodigiously obtained amongst the common people," and to have been " made and sold by most Publick Houses in Town." The Cerevisia aperiens of the time was a sharp purgative, and still more so were some of those styled "cathartic." They were drunk in what seem to us very large doses ; Cerevisia cathartica fortior, for in- stance, was prescribed thus: " Ibj of it, more or less, every morning, for some weeks together." C. C. B.

FANI PARKAS (12 S. vi. 190, 218). Mrs. Frances [Fanny] Susanna Parks, author of ' Wanderings of a Pilgrim,' 1850, was a daughter of William Archer, once an officer in the 16th Light Dragoons. On March 28, 1822, she married Charles Crawford Parks, Bengal Civil Service (Gentleman's Magazine, May, 1822). In Buckland's 'Dictionary of Indian Biography,' p. 329, her name is in- correctly spelt and she is wrongly described' as Major Edward C. Archer's daughter. Further particulars about her family may be found in an article, ' An Indian Pil- grimage,' printed in the Allahabad Pioneer,. Oct. 19, 1918. STEPHEN WHEELER.

Oriental Club, Hanover Square, W.I.

HENRY JENKINS (? JACKSON) : KILLED IN A DUEL (12 S. vi. 13). Possibly Jenkins-- should be Jackson. In The Gentleman's Magazine of 1760, p. 246, is an account of a duel between Major Glover and Mr. Jackson under date of May 1 :

" The following is said to be the true state of the affair which lately happened at Manchester between Major Glover of the Lincolnshire Militia, and Mr. Jackson an apothecary. Mr. Jackson came behind the Major at a rehearsal at the play house, and struck him. on the back, seemingly in joke ; upon which the major turned about, and with a switch struck Jackson, saying also in joke, What, Jackson, is it you ? On this Jackson in a great passion said, D n you. Sir, though you are a major, I will not take this from you. The major surprized at this, replied, Why, what can you mean ? I was only in joke as well as your- self. But Jackson persisted in his anger, and said, He insisted on satisfaction. The major was not able to pacify him by saying he meant no- affront ; but Jackson insisting on fighting hinv with swords, he went with him to a coffee-house, and there in a room they fought, where the major ran Mr. Jackson through the body ; after which the major leading Mr. JacksonHhrough the collee-room for assistance, Mr. Jackson owned