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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[2a S. NO 23., JUKE 7. '56.

" 1701, July 17. George Doncan, vie. of Longhough- ton, and Margaret, the youngest Dr. of Lit tleden Ker *, a very ancient Barron of Teviotdale near Kelso, were mar- ried by Rev. Mr. Edwards of Embleton.

" 1723. May 28. Margret, the (best of wives, the sister of Littleden Ker, an antient Baron in Scotland, near Kelso) wife of George Doncan, vie. of Longhoughton, was buried.

"1701, Oct. 15. Robert Shipherd (valde senex et ccelebs), one of the antients of LongH., buried.

" 1702, Feb. 15. Eliz., wife of Luke Pringle (ambo valde impii), Joyn n of Longh., was buried.

" 1704, Dec. 15. Marg., Dr. of Luke Pringle (obsti- nately wicked) of LongH., xtned.

"1705, May 15. Rich., son of!Wm. Thompson (ho- nestus homini, sed prophanus Deo), Milner of Littlemiln, xd.

" 1705, Oct. 14. Isabel, wife of Thomas Story (obst., ign., and wick.), herd, was buried.

" 1706, Jan. 22. William, son of William Morton (a gross ign. and wick.) herd, was xtned.

" 1711, Aug. 8. Thomas, son of Luke Pringle (homo pess.), of LongH., was xtned.

" Feb. 15. Jane, wife of Wm'. Grey (a quack and

warlack doctor), of Littlehoughton, was buried.

"1712. John Egden (a very dissenter in his life, and yet a very good charitable man ; he was some years before his death brought to be a sincere member of y e Ch.) was buried.

" 1712, Oct. 14. Mary Taylor (an old), widow of G. Taylor, a very mean blacksmith, was buried.

1716, Feb. 15. John Weddill, a (bungler, but a) free mason, and Ann Scott of LongH., were married.

" 1717, Oct. 4. Eliz., Dr. of John Weddil, a cowiner, yet a free mason, was xd.

" 1717. Thomasin, the good widow of John Egden, the said good dissenter who came into the Ch., was buried.

" 1723, Feb. 2. John Ferret, an (obstinate, ignor., and wicked) cadger of Boulmerf, was buried.

" 1724, Jan. 20. John Muirs, a very old herd (some- where), now of LongH., was buried.

" 1725, May 10. Roger, the son of Roger Pearson, a (bruitish ignorant) hind of LittleH., was buried.

" Sept. 10. George Hvmers (a Tergivers Janus

Whig), herd of LittleH., was buried.

" 1726, Feb. 13. Margaret, wife of John Brown (uxor prob. mark, prob.), hind of LongH., buried.

" 1727, April 28. Susan, Dr. of R. Pringle, a (imp. ignor. peccat.) day laborer, xd. '

" 1727, May 14. Ann, Dr. of George Pollit, a (triste ignor. et proph. peccator) fisher, buried.

Aug. 22. Peter, son of H. Elder (infelix valde

nuptiis), an ingenious smith, xd.

" Sept. 7. Robert, son of J. Facus (vah salutis

neglig.), a fisher, was xd.

" Dec. Thomas, y* base son of Thomas Curry

(vilissimus peccator), begotten on Eliz. Curry, was xd.

" 1727, May 23. John, son of R. Glastaries (a Jarius Tergiverse Whig), buried.

" July 27. Robert Daveson (vah valde incuriosua

salutis), fisher, of Boulmer, buried."

THE FIRST HATTER, ETC.

Apropos to a portion of MR. HACKWOOD'S Note (2 nd S. i. 332.) on " the Origin of Fashions," I


 * /. e. Ker of Littledean.

j- Boomer.

quote the following passage from "A Day at a Hat-factory," in the Penny Magazine for 1841, page 44.

" At what time felted wool was first employed for making hats it would be difficult now to say ; but there is a legend current among some of the continental hatters which gives the honour to St. Clement, fourth Bishop of Rome. Most fraternities love to have a patron saint when they can find one ; and those hatters who regard St. Clement in this light, inform us that this ho.ly man being forced to flee from his persecutors, found his feet to be so blistered by long-continued travel, that he was induced to put a little wool between his sandals and the soles of his feet. On continuing his journey, the warmth, moisture, motion, and pressure of the feet, worked the wool into a uniformly compact substance. Finally, the wanderer, observing the useful nature of this sub- stance, caused it to be introduced in the manufacture of various articles of apparel."

In Butler's Arithmetical Questions on a New Plan (1806), is the following :

" Hats for men were invented at Paris by a Swiss, in 1404. They were first manufactured at London by Spani- ards in 1510. Before that time, both men and women in England commonly wore close-knit woollen caps. F. Daniel relates, that when Charles II. made his public entry into Rouen, in 1449, he had on a hat lined with red velvet and surmounted with a plume or tuft of feathers. He adds, that it is from this entry, or at least under his reign, that the use of hats and caps is to be dated, which henceforward began to take place of the chaperoons and hoods that had been worn before in France." (P. 340.)

An amusing and suggestive article, entitled "A Hint to Hatters," will be found in Household Words, viii. 419.

The comfortable " wide-awake " is said to have been thus facetiously named because it never has a nap. What was the origin of the saying " As mad as a hatter ? "

The following is extracted from the Poetical Note Book and Epigrammatic Museum (1824), p. 115.:

" THE WHITE HAT.

" On being asked the reason of wearing one.

" You ask me the reason I wear a white hat : 'Tis for lightness I wear it, what think you of that ? So light is its weight, that no head-ache I rue, So light its expense that, it wears me out two ; So tight is its colour that it never looks dusty, So light though I treat it, it never ' rides rusty ; ' So light in its fashion, its shape, and its air, So light in its sit, its fit, and its wear; So light in its turning, its twisting and twining, So light in its beaver, its binding, and lining; So light to a figure, so light to a letter, And, if light my excuse, j r ou may light on a better."

Dr. Kinw, in the Anecdotes of his own Times,

In the civil war, my grandfather, Sir William Smyth, was governor of Allesdon House, near Buckingham, where the king had a small garrison. This place was besieged and taken by Cromwell. But the officers capitulated to march out with their arms, baggage, &c. As soon as they were without the gate, one of Cromwell's soldiers snatched off Sir W. Smyth's hat. He immediately com-