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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[9 th S. II. DEC. 24, '98.

Can any correspondent help me to the date and place of this latter marriage 1 Ann Vincent died 21 September, 1752, aged fifty- six, and George Vincent, of Colney Hatch, died 3 May, 1757, aged sixty-seven. These dates and ages are given on a stone in Friern Barnet Churchyard. I find Stonard at 7 th S. x. 327, 457; 8 th S. i. 513. In Morant's 'Essex' appear Stonards of Loughton, of Steeple, and of Stapleford Abbot. In ' Visitation of Essex, 1634,' as printed, 1878, by the Harleian Society, the pedigree is recorded as Stoner ; but all these references are most confused. Does any one possess extracts from wills or from parish registers as to any of these families of Stonard or Stoner 1 I know of the pedigrees of Newcombe and Vincent in the Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, as they were my contributions.

REGINALD STEWAET BODDINGTON. Constitutional Club, Northumberland Avenue.

WEST INDIAN FAMILIES. Any biographical notes as to the persons bearing the names given below would be very acceptable. They entered Rugby School in the years following their names : Barwell Ewins, 1737 ; Valentine Barrif, 1765 (both from Jamaica) ; and Thomas Gibbs, 1742 ; John Brewster, 1742 ; Thomas Brewster, 1743 ; Thomas Brewster (2), 1765 ; John Brewster (2), 1765 ; Henry Quintyne, 1765 ; and Christopher Brewster, 1768 (all from Barbadoes). The father of the last named was called Thomas, but I am not sure of the parentage of the others. May I ask for answers direct ? (Rev.) A. T. MICHELL.

Rugby.

SAMUEL ATKINSON, M.P. for Harwich in 1698, was expelled the House of Commons in February. 1699, for being concerned in a commission for licensing hawkers and pedlers. Is anything known of him 1 W. D. FINK.

Leigh, Lancashire.

"A MEMBER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAM- BRIDGE."-

" The Squib or Searchfoot : An unedited little work which Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra wrote in defence of the first part of the Qurjote. Published by Don Adolfo de Castro, at Cadiz, 1847. Trans- lated by A Member of the University of Cambridge. Cambridge : J. Deighton. London : John W. Par- ker. Liverpool : Deighton & Laughton. 1849." 8vo.

The translator dates his preface " Marine Terrace, Penzance, Sept. 27, 1848," but gives no number of the house. I desire to know his name. H. S. A.

CARKEET AND ANDREWS FAMILIES. Can any reader give me the derivation of the personal name Carkeet in Cornwall? The

first syllable appears to be the same as the Manx prefix cor- and Breton ker-. What is known as to the family of this name? It only appears twice or thrice in the notes to the 'Visitation of Cornwall ' (Harleian Soc.), for one or two individuals, but there is no pedigree. I should be especially glad to dis- cover the antecedents of Nathaniel Carkeet, of Truro, who married a Miss Edith Andrews about 1750. He appears to have been a private gentleman, and a relative of the Rev. Samuel Carkeet, a Presbyterian, whose life is in the ' Diet. Nat. Biog.' Is there any record of an Andrews family in Cornwall ?

REV. DR. GIBBINS. 6, Newsham Drive, Liverpool.

JACOBITES. Can any student of modern history give me particulars concerning the body of Jacobites who yearly decorate the statue of Charles in London ? Have they any organization, and is not a newspaper published giving details about the alleged rightful ruler over Great Britain ?

R. L. B.

Paris.

[See 'N. & Q.,' 7 th S. xii. 406, 489; 8 th S. v. 127, 234; xi. 189, 218, 250; xii. 71.]

SIR WALTER SCOTT : ' THE BRIDE OF LAM- MERMOOR.' In chap. xxiv. (xxiii. in later- editions) the old sexton tells the marquis that, amongst other tunes, he can play 'Liggeram Cosh.' What is the meaning of this term or name ? Is the air still extant ? I suppose the g's are to be pronounced hard. Are the words Gaelic ?

JONATHAN BOUCHIER.

JACK PLACKETT'S COMMON. In a note on a drawing in the Grace Collection (portfolio xxxii. 101) in the British Museum the trian- gular piece of ground at the junction of City Road and Goswell Road, Islington, is stated to have been formerly called Jack Plackett's Common. Who was Jack Plackett ; and how did he become possessed of a com- mon ? Before (and even after) the new road was formed the locality was a favourite haunt of footpads, and it is possible that Plackett was a highwayman, and gave his name to the common where he plied his avocation. JOHN HEBB.

Canonbury Mansions, N.

MRS. WOODHAM, a pupil of Dr. Arne, and subsequently of Dr. Arnold, sang at Covent Garden, 177-, as Euphrosyne in 'Comus'; was previously known as " Buck " Spencer, Spencer being presumably her maiden name ; acted for some years in Dublin, and after- wards at Marylebone Garden ; married a