Page:Notes and Queries - Series 12 - Volume 7.djvu/142

 114 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. vn. AUG. 7, 1020. ^author of the first history of Hampstead. 'The illustration shows the shutter system of telegraphing. It is to be hoped that the -name " Telegraph Hill " will be perpetuated in some way or another, as this site may shortly be built on ; it has been in the vinarket more than once. Before this tele- .graph was erected (and presumably the building was put up to carry it) this emi- vnence bore the name of "One Tree Hill." I never could understand my friend, the late Mr. G. W. Potter saying that the first station on the London- Yarmouth "chain" was -Chelsea, surely it must have been Hamp- . stead, starting from the Admiralty, White- hall, which was doubtless headquarters. Several of the old illustrations of this building show semaphores on the top, but -these are not referred to, they simply form part of the picture. (See T. H. Shepherd's 'London in the Nineteenth Century,' &c.) E. E. NEWTON. EMERSON'S 'ENGLISH TRAITS' (12 S. vii. 31). 18. When Emerson attributed to Land or the remark that Wordsworth " wrote a poem without the aid of w r ar," he may have forgotten to verify the quotation. In .an imaginary conversation Lanclor made Southey say : " Let Wordsworth prove to the world that there may be animation without blood and broken bones " (Landor's Works,' 1876, iv. 29). This maybe what Emerson had in his mind. STEPHEN WHEELER. Oriental Club, Hanover Square, W.I. SAILORS' CHANTIES (12 S. vii. 48, 95). During my scholastic days at Worksop College, Notts., I remember on one occasion a Mr. F. Ferguson coming down to give a lecture on ' Folk Songs and Folk-Lore of the
 * ' Hampstead," Upminster, Essex.
 * Sea.' If S. C. writes to the Rev. Marchant

Pearson of the above college, and asks him about this lecturer, he will get all the in- formation required. A few points con- tained in it might interest your corre- spondents. The time of the so-called songs was easy, nevertheless possessed rhythm, as in ' Salt Horse ' and ' Boiiey was a Warrior.' 'These two represented their work songs. Most of the songs composed by the tars were Bad, resting particularly on shipwrecks and disasters, and were put down to the sailors' hard life. Sailors were always, more or less, superstitious, as we may see from the fact that they never alluded in their songs to their great sea-captains, but would compose a song about a sea-serpent. K. D. W.-KAYE. CROYDON PARISH CHURCH : ARCHBISHOP HERRING'S TOMB (12 S. vii. 72). The three Archbishops of Canterbury, whose monu- mental tombs adorned Croydon Parish Church were Grindal), WhitgiftTand Sheldon. In J. Corbet Anderson's 'Croydon Old Church,' 1878, p. 240 I read : '' On the ground adjoining the east wall of the same (i.e., St. Nicholas's) Chancel, on a black marble ledger : Here lyeth the body of The most reverend Dr. Thomas Herring, Archbishop of Canterbury, who died March 13, 1757, aged 64." On page 255, is an extract from the parish register : " Dr. Thomas Herring, Archbishop of Canter bmy, died at his palace at Croydon, and was buried May 24th. 1757." JOHN R. MAGRATH. Queen's College, Oxford. In " Monuments and Antiquities of Croy- don Church," by John Corbet Anderson, MDCCCLVI, it is stated at p. 19 : " Archbishop Herring was buried in a very private manner, according to his own request : which expressly forbade also that any monument should be erected to his memory." Illustrations of the other Archbishops' tombs are given, having of course, together vith transcripts of inscriptions, been made before the fire. WALTER E. GAWTHORP. PRISONERS WHO HAVE SURVIVED HANG- ING (12 S. vii. 08, 94). There are dozens of recorded and doubtless hundreds of un- recorded cases of prisoners who have been resuscitated. In the old days there was no hesitation, and the ceremony was repeated as soon as the patient revived. William Duell escaped perhaps on account of his age ; he was only 16. Anne Green escaped from the fortunate chance that she was hanged at Oxford. About the same time a woman was hanged in another part of Oxfordshire for the same offence, revived, and on the next day was hanged again. At least two pamphlets were written on the subject of Anne Green. One, of which there are several imprints and two editions, contained verses written by various under- graduates. In the register of St. George's Church, Southwark, 1610, is the entry "Michael Banks, out of King's Bench Prison. Exe- cuted. Did revive again : was in the vestry three hours and was then carried back and executed again." In a little book called 'A Murderer Punished and Pardoned ' is an account