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NOTES AND QUERIES.

S. N 4., JAN. 26. '50.

Peckham, relating to the name which I supplied to that work. G. STEINMAN STEINMAN.

Priory Lodge, Peckham.

Rev. Mr. Harwood- (I* S. xii. 428.) By a pedigree of the Prideaux family in my possession, it appears that Catherine, sixth daughter of Sir Peter Prideaux, of Netherton, Bart., by the Lady Elizabeth Grenville, sister to John, Earl of Bath, was married to the Rev. Mr. Harwood, of Tal- laton, co. Devon. By monumental inscriptions in the church, it is seen that this gentleman was Charles Harward, rector of that parish, and a member of the ancient family of Harward, of Hayne, in the parish of Plymtree. His eldest son, Charles, a student at Oxford, died of small pox, in 1718, at the age of nineteen years. ANON.

John Harrison, Inventor of the Chronometer (2 nd S. i. 13.) In reply jto the Query of W. H., I can inform him that a portrait of John Harri- son is given in Knight's Portrait Gallery, Orr and Co., London ; and in addition to tha works of reference for his biography, which you have given, I would direct his attention to the Memoirs of a Trait in the Character of George III., W. Ed- wards, Ave Maria Lane, London, 1835, in which will be found a very detailed account of the dif- ficulty which he experienced in obtaining his well- earned reward from the government of the day. Lastly, your correspondent may be glad to know that John Harrison, Esq., C.E., of Spring Street, Hull, is great-grandson of the above. J. K.

The portrait in Knight's Gallery of Portraita is from an engraving by Tassaert, published in 1768, after a painting by King. See the life attached to this portrait in the work cited. See also the last volume (1766) of the Biographia Britannica, in which, though he was not then dead, there is an account of Harrison. There is a copy of the en- graving above mentioned in the rooms of the Astronomical Society, at Somerset House. M.

Ghosts (1 st S. x. 508.) The driving away of ghosts, says Nieuwland (Letter-en Oudheidkunde), was among the ancients a distinct branch of business, in which certain old women of the lower order were employed. For this purpose they had peculiar forms of adjuration, such as we meet with in ancient writers. Epimenides was among those who drew up these formulas. Suidas informs us that he left in verse the mysteries of ghost-laying (See Suidas, s. v. J E,inp.eviSrjs, and Vossius, De Poetis GrcBC., c. iii. p. 14.). The ancients also be- lieved that dogs had an especial power of discover- ing ghosts and driving them away by their bark- ing. Horapollo (Hieroglyph., 1. i. c. 39.) tells us that dogs, more than any other animals, observe the gods, not the wooden, golden, or silver images, but the very emanations of the divinities them-

selves, which they perceive by the sharpness of their scent. Tzetzes, Ad Lycophronis Cassandram, v. 77., remarks, that ghosts are disturbed by the barking of dogs just as by the beating of brazen cymbals, therefore dogs were sacred to Hecate ; their loud barking was supposed to impart a violent motion to the air, which dispersed aerial apparitions. From The Navorscher.

JOHN SCOTT. Norwich.

American Names (1 st S. xii. 40. 114.) Messrs. Grinn and Barett are mentioned " out west " as having names appropriate to the present hard times. Mrs. McCollick keeps a millinery shop in New York. Mr. Strikman formerly kept a tavern at Striker's Bay, near New York. Major Whistler introduced the steam whistle in the American locomotives. PELICANUS AMERICANUS.

Mottoes or Poesies (1 st S. xi. 277. ; xii. 393.) In Ross's Account of the Earls of Warwick (ed. Hearne), p. 235., are the following notices of poesies, or reasons, of ladies, temp. Hen. VI., as borne by the three daughters of Sir Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, by Dame Eliza- beth, daughter of Lord Berkeley :

1. " Margaret married Sir John Talbot, Earl of Shrews- bury. ' Hir reason was, Till Deithe Depart.' "

2. " jAlianour married Edmond Duke of Somerset. ' Hir reason was, Never neive.' "

3. "Elizabeth married Lord .Latynier. 'Hir reason was, Till my live's ende.' "

I have a ring of the middle of the last century, with the poesy

" In Christ and thee My comfort be."

WM. DUBRANT COOPER.

Clergymen wearing Canonicals in Public (1 st S. xii. 202. 291. 501.) The undersigned remem- bers that in Bristol it was quite common, as late as forty years ago, for the clergy of the established church to walk to their churches on Sundays in their canonicals. But he wishes also to record the well-remembered fact of having seen a Me- thodist preacher, who had certainly never been a clergyman of the Church of England, dressed on a Sunday in the same manner. It was in the year 1800 when this preacher called, after he had been preaching not far off, in this costume, on a Sunday, at the house where the writer then lived.

F. C. H.

"His golden locks," Sfc. (l rt S. xii. 450.) These lines are the first verse of a sonnet written by George Peele, and sung by Mr. Hales, one of the gentlemen of the Chapel Royal, before Queen Elizabeth in the Tilt Yard, Westminster, at a solemn tilt, or exercise of arms held November 17, 1590, on the occasion of Sir Henry Lee's " re- signation of honour at tylt to her Majestie," by