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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[9' S. I. MAY 7, '98.

" Stranger" was a term applied to a foreigner who was not naturalized ; but in that case the name would have been given. For 'A List of Strangers' see the first and second volumes of the Genealogical Magazine.

ARTHUR MAYALL.

By the 21 Hen. VIII. c. 6, mortuaries were commuted into money, ranging from 3s. 4d to 10s., the highest amount. It is not pro- bable that parishioners would try to impose on the parson, and all non-residents are con- sidered strangers in the sense in which it is used in registers. According to the follow- ing, strangers were not exempt :

"William Wade, who died as a stranger, for whose mortuary I, John Goffe, parson of Ripe, had his upper garment, which was an old coate, and I received for the same 6s."

"1664. I buried Alice Whitesides, Feb. 22, who being but one weeke in the parish of Ripe, died as a stranger, for whose mortuary I, John Goffe, had a gowne of Elizabeth her Daughter, price 10s."

JOHN RADCLIFFE.

To " BULL-DOZE " (9 th S. i. 248). Your cor- respondent's "bull-dog" hypothesis is shat- tered by the fact that an alternative spelling is " bull-dose." The word is an Americanism, and is explained by one American newspaper as giving a recalcitrant negro a flogging or " doze fit for a bull." Figuratively it means to coerce by violence, intimidate. (See the ' Historical English Dictionary,' which notices the word at length.) I question the Ame- rican paper's explanation, and think it more likely that the expression originally meant " to dose with a strip of bull's hide."

F. ADAMS.

To "bull-dose" written with an s, but pronounced hard, like the s in nose is to give a dose of bull-(whip), a hiding, i.e., a (cow)-hiding, with a strip of untanned hide made into a whip. Hence in political slang it has come to mean to coerce or intimidate, but not necessarily with the use of violence. The word originated in Louisiana with the Union Rights Stop Leagues (negro), whose enthusiasm on the suffrage question led them to form oath-bound societies, which scruti- nized closely the politics of disaffected brethren ; and if any negro were found voting, or was suspected of an intention to vote, the Democratic ticket, he was first warned, then flogged (bull-dosed), and, if these milder measures failed to convert him to the true faith, shot. (See Bartlett's 4 Americanisms.') J. H. MAC MICHAEL.

GENERAL WADE (9 th S. i. 129, 209, 253, 334). I beg to say that Field-Marshal General George Wade is fully dealt with in 'The

Georgian Era ' and in several early replies in ' N. & Q.,' and a doubtful pedigree is given by Burke. I shall gladly send A SCOT a proof of all that is known of this worthy from my forthcoming 'History of the Wade Family,' if he will send me his address.

STUART C. WADE. 9, East 14th Street, New York.

MR. JOHN CHAPMAN (9 th S. i. 308). The name of Thomas Chapman is given in the 'Royal Kalendar' from 1835 to 1843 as that of the Marshal of the Queen's Bench Prison.

G. F. R. B.

THE DEATH OF CHATHAM (9 th S. i. 305). There is a well-known picture by Copley representing Chatham's fit in the 'House of Lords. The engravings of this picture are usually lettered "The Death of Chatham," leading many persons to suppose that he died there and then. W. C. B.

" STRONGULLION " (9 th S. i. 269). A mis- spelling of strangullion, strangury or dysuria. (See Phillips's 'New World of Words,' 1706 edition.) It is a very old word. Palsgrave, in 1530, spells it stranguyllyon ; and Levins, in 1570 (' Manipulus Vocabulorum,' col. 166), notices it thus : " Y e Stranguilion, stran-

guna.

F. ADAMS.

Strangury. See 'N. & Q.,' 2 nd S. vii. 117. 159. W. C. B.

[Many replies are acknowledged.]

DRAYCOT, co. WORCESTER (9 th S. i. 268). Draycot is a hamlet in the parish of Blockley, which forms a detached portion of the county of Worcester, situate in the adjoining county of Gloucester, and about ten miles south- east of Evesham. The principal interest attaching to the parish is due to the estate of North wick Park, from which, in 1797, Sir John Rushout, Bart., derived the title of Baron North wick. The baronetcy was created in 1661, and Sir John, the fifth baronet, married in 1766 Rebecca Bowles, of the Grove, Wan- stead. Their eldest daughter, the Hon. An died here unmarried in 1849. The mezzotint of Lady Rushout and her child] by Thomas Watson, the painting by Angelica Kauffman, R.A., and the exquisite miniatures by Plimer of her, and also her three charming daughters, are well known. On the death of the third Lord North wick (grandson) in 1887 the barony became extinct.

WALTER CROUCH.

Wanstead.

[Many replies are acknowledged.]

TRANSCRIPTS OF PARISH REGISTERS (9 th S. i. 306). If MR. TANCOCK will refer to the