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 i2s.vii.-Auo.7,i92o.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 115 of the hanging oi Thomas Savage, aged 15, on Oct. 28, 1668. He revived, but within four hours the officers " conveyed him to the place of execution again and hung him up again until he was q uite dead. ' ' A curious complication arose at Naples in 1715 where a man was hanged, cut down, clothed in a shroud, arid revived. Dis- liking his garment he asked the hangman for his clothes, who claimed them as his perquisites and refused to give them up, which the prisoner said he ought to do as he Uiad not been hanged properly. In the heat of argument the criminal seized a knife and .-stabbed the hangman in his belly. A. W. OXFORD. Charing Cross Hospital, Strand, W.C 2. There is the whilom well known case of -"half-hangit Maggie Dickaon." Convicted dn 1724 at Edinburgh of concealment of preg- nancy, she experienced the tender mercies of tthe hangman in the Grassmarket, where so -many in the old days did "glorify God," Chaving, after the allotted time, her legs dragged down, and undergoing other cer- 'tainties of work well accomplished, and being then handed over to t!ie doctors. After a scuffle with some sirogeon- apprentices her friends got possession of her body, and, .as it turned out, of her spirit also, which was aroused by the jolting of the cart on its way to Inveresk, to which place she belonged. 'Of easy virtue, she had several children afterwards, but in the end successfully died as an ale - house keeper in Edinburgh. "** Jupiter " Carlyle of Inveresk, in a note in "the old Statistical Account, refers to the -ease. J. L. ANDERSON. Edinburgh.. A record case of resuscitation occurred Besides the case of Ann Green in 1650, -another woman, whose name is not pre- served, was hanged at Green Ditch (now St. Margaret's Road) on May 4, 1658, and revived after she was cut down. But in this -case the city bailiffs broke in, seized her and inhumanly hung her again in Broken Hayes, now the lower part of George Street, near "the castle. The incident is related both in "Plot's * Natural History of Oxfordshire ' -and in Wood's ' Life.' FAMA. If Mr. F. C. WHITE examines Chambers 's Journal for March c ^4, 1860, he will find recorded a score of historical cases. I have many taken from The Gentleman'?. zine of the eighteenth century, too long to give here. One is especially curious of a man who like Duell (not Duett) came to life at the post mortem, and the surgeon gave him a blow on the head with a mallet and killed him. In Ireland the friends used to stand under the scaffold and support the hanging man for an hour, and then tried their best to kill him with whiskey. They tried to hang John Lee (1SS5) fwic* 5, and not three times, as stated. R. C. NEWICTT. 12 Glebe Road, St. George, Bristol. On particular occasions resuscitation after hanging was deliberately attempted as is exemplified in the case of the Rev. W. Dodd, L.L.D., Preacher at the Magdaten, who was executed on June 27, 1777, for forgery. It is recorded : " The weather was most variable, changing perpetually from bright sunshine to heavy storms of rain, during one of which latter pelting showers he was turned off, at Tyburn. His body, con- veyed to a house in the city of London, under- went every scientific professional operation which, it was hoped, might restore animation. Pott, tho celebrated surgeon, was present to direct them " (Jesse's ' George Selwyn and his Contemporaries,' 1844, vol. iii. p. 196). J. P. DE C. LOWESTOFT CHINA (12 S. vii. 49.) MB. ACKERMANN will find some information m Gillingwater's 'History of Lowestoft,' the later edition. I have only been able to consult the original edition of 1790 at tho British Museum, which does not notice it. 1 purchased a volume of this book for a lady at Brighton who asked the same question, and there was a paragraph at the end on this ware, rather brief, yet to the purpose. There is an imitation ot this ware on view '.t Miss Northcutt's china warehouse at St. Leonards, which is thought by many critics to be good and worth? of notice. W. W. 'GLENNY, Barking. Yes. There was a china factory there which started in 1757 and closed in 18(P. There was a great deal of interest aroused in 1902 and 1903 by the unearthing of some moulds and fragments of china on the site of the old factory, a portion of which the kiln is still standing and is situated ^ in Factory Street, forming part of the premises of Messrs. E. and G. Morse, the brewers. Some specimens of china actually manu- factured at Lowestoft are very rare and valuable. I would refer MB. ACKEBMANN to ' Lowestoft China,' by W. W. R. Spelman,
 * at Oxtord in the seventeenth century.