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 12 S. VIII. MARCH 5, 1021.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 195 It is quite true that pursuant to statute 24 Geo. II. c. 23, the day following Dec. 31, 1751, in England was called Jan. 1, 1752, but that day was Jan. 12, 1752, according to the Gregorian Calendar. Pursuant to the above statute the New Style was adopted in England on Sept. 14, 1752, the day after Wednesday, Sept. 2, being called Thursday, Sept. 14. See J. J. Bond's 'Handy-book for Verifying Dates ' (4th edn., 1889) at pp. 16, 17. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. CHARLES II. AND THE SMITH FAMILY (12 S. vii. 488). According to Walford's old cemetery on the south side of Paddington Street, Maryiebone, records the death of several infants, children of J. F. Smyth 'Stuart, "great-grandson of Charles II." FRED. B. GALE. YEW-TREES IN CHURCHYARDS (12 S. yiii. 50, 97). G. M. B. will find a long illuminating article on this subject in the Parisian Magasin Pittoresque of January- ^Vlarch, 1917. The writer (the eminent M. Emile Faguet ?) cites the preamble of a decree of Henri II. (1547-59) to the effect that they are to be grown in church- yards under penalty of fines, as ship timbers made therefrom were esteemed the most seaworthy in the French navy in the six- teenth century. Ex uno disce omnes. EDWARD WEST. I shall be glad to know if " the last active service of the war-bow," as mentioned by MR. J. E. HARTING, was during the cam- .paign of Montrose in the spring of 1650. HERBERT SOUTHAM. DOMESTIC HISTORY or THE NINETEENTH OENTURY (12 S. vii. 191, 216, 257, 295, 399, 452 ; viii. 17). The following extracts from ' Recollections of the Empress Eugenie,' by Augustin Filon (Cassel & Co., Ltd., 1920), throw light upon the date when afternoon "tea was a 'new custom in France, and, pro- bably, only partaken of by members of the highest society in 1868. Filon, writing of the different " sets " which the Empress had to conciliate, states >n p. 53 : 11 She relied chiefly on the afternoon teas in her attempts to blend the various elements which composed each 'set.' I will endeavour to picture one of these teas, one of the third set in 1868 to which my father was invited " '"after lunch, wrote my father. Mademoiselle de Larminat, one of the maids of honour, invited me on behalf of the Empress to take tea with her at live o'clock." Again, in the year 1871 : " As five o'clock tea was served at first in ths hall, and later in the little drawing-room " HERBERT SOUTHAM. NORTONS IN IRELAND (12 S. viii. 50, 137). According to the pedigrees registered at the Visitations of Hampshire, there were in the seventeenth century at least four young kinsmen of the Southwick Nortons who may have settled in Ireland, viz. : William Norton and Charles Norton, younger brothers of Sir Daniel Norton, Knt. (who married Honora d. and co.h. of John White of Southwick) and Edward and Thomas, two younger sons of this Sir Daniel Norton. Colonel Norton belonged to the Southwick branch, and all these were descendants of Sir Richard Norton of Rotherfield (d. 1592) by his second wife, Katherine, d. of John Kingsmill. I am interested in this little matter purely from a genealogical point of view and should this correspondence be read by any of the Irish branch of the Whitehead family, I should be glad if they would kindly write to me direct with any information they may have in reference to same. F. CROOKS. WILLIAM AND RALPH SHELDON (12 S. vii. 466, 516 ; viii. 74). Edmund Plowden married Katherine daughter of William Sheldon of Beoley by Mary his wife, dau. of William Willington of Barcheston,- War- wickshire. See 'The Plowdens of Plowden,' p. 16, and pedigree. W. GOUGER (12 S. viii. 89). Doubtless a variant of gauger, i.e., an inspector of casks, from "gauge " or "gage," i.e., to measure. Other variants are : Gager, Gaiger, Gouclge, Googe, Gouge, Gooch, &c. It is unwise to assume any English name is extinct, until elaborate inquiry has been made throughout the English - speaking world. Surnames that have disappeared from what may be termed their natural habitats, have a queer way, like long- forgotten slang and proverbs, of cropping up overseas, either in America, or in one of our dependencies. Twenty years ago families named Gauger existed in London, Ulverston, and Philadelphia. A certain William Gau- ger is mentioned in the Close Roll of 15 Edward III., part 2. Alan Gauger of about A.D. 1300 is recorded in the Writs of Parliament. Alexander le Gauger and Henry le Gaugeour are entered in the early records preserved at the Guildhall, London, W. JAGGARD, Cpt.
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