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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s.vn. SEPT. 11,1920.

PRISONERS WHO HAVE SURVIVED HANGING (12 S. vii. 68, 94, 114, 134, 173). Camden Pelham's 'Chronicles of Crime,' 1841, vol. i. 11, relates that John Smith, convicted in December 1705 of two house-breakings, was hanged at Tyburn for fifteen minutes when a reprieve came, and being conveyed to a house in the neighbourhood, he soon re- vived, upon his being bled, and other proper remedies applied. As " Half -hanged Smith," he appeared on the title of a work issued by John Camden Hotten somewhere about 1870.

An article on the resuscitation of Dr. William Dodd in 1777, and his alleged complete recovery and " post-mortem life in France," is in Ars Quatuor Coronatorum, vol. xx. 352-355 (1907). W. B. H.

RENTON NICHOLSON (11 S. xL 86, 132, 175, 196). A recent comparison of " The Lord Chief Baron Nicholson, an auto- biography ; London, George Vickers, Angel Court, Strand," no date, printer's name on colophon, with ' Autobiography of a Fast Man. By Renton Nicholson (erst Lord Chief Baron). London, Printed for the Proprietors. Sold by all Booksellers, 1863 ; Saville and Edwards, Printers, Chandos Street,' no colophon, shows the two works to be identical in every respect with excep- tion of the title-page. The word " erst " on title of the 1863 work is erroneously given as " best " at first reference above.

W. B. H.

MONKEY'S WINE (12 S. vi. 295, 318). The Japanese antiquary Kitamura Nobuyo in his 'Kiyu Shoran,' 1830, torn, x, briefly mentions that the Chinese miscellany Tsiu- ping-sin-yu written about 1700, describes the so-called Monkey's Wine (Hu-suii-tsiu) prepared by the black gibbon in Shan- chau and Sze-chau. Thus, manifestly, the story is not restricted to the Japanese.

KUMAGUSU MlNAKATA. Tanabe, Kii, Japan.

NANCY PARSONS (LADY MAYNARD) (12 S. vii. 149). I can find no record of the date when this portrait was painted, but Arm- strong in his ' Gainsborough and his Place in English Art ' 1899, says it is three-quarter length, wearing a black lace mantilla, 50 by 40, and was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1886, when I presume a special exhibition of Gainsborough's paintings was held. It appears to have been in the collec- tion of the Comte de Castellane, Paris.

ARCHIBALD SPARKE.

JULIA, DAUGHTER OF CJESAR THE Die-; TATOR (12 S. vii. 130, 175). Perhaps PEREGRINUS may car to have the following extract from Thomas Heywoode's ' TTNAI- KEIOX, or, Nine Bookes of Various His- tory. Concerning Women",' 1624, p. 136 : - ,

" Julia was the daughter of Caius Csesar, and: wife of Pompeius Magnus : after the battaile of Pharsalia, seeing the garment of her husband brought home sprinkled with his blood (and not yet knowing of his death) the object so affrighted her, that instantlie at the sight thereof she sunke downe to the earth, and in the extremitie of that passion was with much paine and anguish de- livered of that burden in her wombe, which no sooner parted from her, but in that agony she expired."

The marginal reference is ' Plut. in Pomp. ' The above is in ' The Third Booke of Women, inscribed Thalia. Treating of Illustrious Queenes, Famous Wives, Mothers, Daughters, &c. Containing the Histories of sundry Noble Ladies.' ROBERT PIERPOINT.

DOMESTIC HISTORY OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY (12 S. vii. 191). The first afternoon tea that I remember was with Mrs. Thorp, in the College, Durham, in 1871. Dr. Jenkyns had some well-known artificial flowers on his dinner table at that time. J. T. F.

THE HEDGES OF ENGLAND (12 S. vii.. 190). There cannot be any record of when these first became the ordinary means of enclosure. They would become a more prominent feature in landscapes after the enclosures of the eighteenth century. For ancient enclosures they were commonly used in mediaeval times. For quotations from 1473 onward, see 'N.E.D.' under Quick, adj. I, 3 b. ; iv. 3 ; Quickset and Quickwood ; 1456 onward, Durham Account Rolls, Index.

J. T. F.

Winterton, Lines.

UNCOLLECTED KIPLING ITEMS (12 S. vii. 4). I am now able to answer my own query at the above reference. The lines which I quoted as the chapter-heading to the story 'On Greenhow Hill ' in 'Life's Handicap ' are not Mr. Kipling's. They are taken from a short poem called ' Rivals ' in a small volume entitled ' Hand in Hand, Verses by a Mother and Daughter.' The illustrated title-page, which bears the imprint of Elkin Mathews, London, and Doubleday, Page and Co., New York, is signed " J. L. K.," and represents, in the late Mr. Lockwood Kipling's well-known style, two classically- robed female figures seated between two tali trees on a sea-shore. The first edition ap- peared in October 1902, and the book was-