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the family still exist there ? There was a certain Owen Lewis living there about A.D. 1680 to 1690, who had a son, Ellis Lewis, who became a Quaker preacher. Are there any descendants of that Owen Lewis in that vicinity ? What are the arms of the family, &c. ? Any information, genealogical or heraldic, will confer a favour on the subscriber. S. T. ONEWAY.

Stevenson's Imperial Marine Tincture and Pills. About twenty years ago this patent medicine was very much in vogue as a presumed antidote against that horrid infliction sea-sickness. Can any of your readers inform me if it is still to be pur- chased, and if so, where ? HENRY KENSINGTON.

Spring Gardens, Greenwich. In the General Advertiser for May 25, 1751, I find the following announcement :

" Spring Gardens, Greenwich.

" The Evening Entertainments at this place will begin this day, the 25th inst., with a good Band of Vocal and Instrumental Musick. To be continued on Saturday and Monday Evenings during the Summer Season.

"N.B. The Grand Room in the Garden is upwards of 50 feet long."

Can any of the readers of " N. & Q." point out the locality of this old place of amusement ?

EDWARD F. RIMBAUI/T.

Hounds. It is, or certainly was forty years ago, customary with landlords, in Wales, and I believe elsewhere, to quarter their hounds (much to the prejudice of the quadrupeds) amongst their tenant- farmers, out of the sporting season ; and I think I have heard of leases containing covenants on the part of the lessees to sustain their lessors' dogs for a stipulated period during each year of their term.

Can any of your readers give me any informa- tion or reference on this subject ?

I have a glimmering notion, that I have read somewhere, without " taking a note," that some of our Saxon or early Norman kings granted lands on this tenure. C. D.

Turner Family. To what branch of this family did Robert Turner, the friend of William Penn, belong ? He went from Dublin to Pennsylvania about the time that Penn first went there ; and, next to Penn, was, perhaps, the most distinguished man in the colony. Any information, heraldic or genealogical, will oblige DRYASDUST.

Approach of Vessels foreseen. You will con- fer a great service and favour if you will, in your reply, state the name of the person who, about the year 1797, could see ships at sea off the Isle of France at two or three days' sail ? And whether or not he received a pension from our govern- ment ? HARLEY.

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" Griindonnerstag." Why is Maundy Thurs- day thus called by the Germans ? One would imagine the term green more suitable to Palm Sunday. J. Y. (2.)

[ Griindonnerstag (Quinta hedomatis magnce, Ccena do- mini, Dies Viridium), the Thursday before Easter, since the seventh century, has been held in remembrance of the day on which Our Lord celebrated the Last Supper. The name comes from an old German custom of bearing green boughs upon this day, in commemoration of the palms which were spread in the way of Jesus when he rode into Jerusalem. But, according to others, because on this day, as on the Sundays of Lent, public worship com- menced with Psalm xxiii. 2. : 'He maketh me to lie down in green pastures.' On this day the ceremony of feet-washing was observed in the ancient church. In some parts of Germany, where confirmation is admi- nistered on this day, and when the newly-confirmed par- take of the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, they usually carry green palm-boughs. Farther, on this day, it was an old German custom for children to present coloured eggs (generally red) to their sponsors. Grime Donnerstag, as it is otherwise called, was founded by Pope Leo II., in 682, to be kept in yearly remembrance of the Last Sup- per. The word has perplexed etymologists to some extent ; but from all that can be learned, Green- Thursday had its name from the green boughs collected on that day, in ancient times, for ecclesiastical or religious pur- poses. The custom was not unknown to England. John Edwards, in his poem, The Tour of the Dove, sings :

" Still Dovedale yield thy flowers to deck the fountains Of Tissington, upon its holyday. The customs long preserved among the mountains Should not be lightly left to pass away."

He adds: "The custom of decorating wells with flowers, and attending them with religious services and festive rejoicings on Holy Thursday, is not peculiar to Tissington. Many other wells have been committed to the patronage of the saints, and treated with reverence." Rhodes refers to this custom in his account of the Peak, and of Holy Thursday ( Griindonnerstag, Maundy Thurs- day), observes : " It is denominated well -flowering, and Holy Thursday is devoted to the rites and ceremonies of this elegant custom." It were easy to multiply examples to the saine effect.]

The Sacristan of Cluny. In Abbe de la Rue's Essais Historiques sur les Bardes, les Jongleurs et les Trouveregy there is a short account of the poet John le Cappelain, who wrote Fableau du Sacris- tain de Cluny. Can any of your readers tell me where this poem is to be found? I have most diligently searched the Catalogues of the MSS. in the British Museum, without being able to find either that, or any other of his works.

H. E. WILKINSON.

Netting Hill Square.

[This story, which is a Middle Age version of the oriental tale of Hunchback, will be found in Barbazan's Fabliaux, vol. i. p. 242. ; Meon's Fabliaux, vol. i. p. 318. A modernised French version is in Le Grand's Fab/ianx, vol. iv. pp. 2CG. 272. ; and an English abridgement of it appeared in Thoms's Lays and Let/ends of France."]