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NOTES AND QUERIES.

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A 'allace being omitted from many of the e litions of Campbell's poems.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

Hogben's* edition, published by Walter S iott (London, 1886), prints the line thus : F >r his lance was not shivered on helmet or shield.

This seems to give a better sense than the ovher reading, "or helmet," &c., which may have arisen from a misprint.

C. LAWRENCE FORD, B.A.

Bath.

HARPER FAMILY^ (9 th S. iii. 248). Any in- formation concerning the late Henry 'John Chitty Harper, Primate of New Zealand, will bo supplied by DR. GERALD HARPER.

40, Curzon Street, Mayfair.

COUNTY HISTORIES (9 th S. iii. 308). Mr. Balfour's reference was, no doubt, to the com- prehensive system of survey instituted by the Board of Agriculture, under the presi- dency of Sir John Sinclair. This "Board" was a private association, started in 1793, and incorporated under the name of the " Board, of Agriculture and Internal Improvement"; j but being assisted by a Parliamentary grant, ' it became a sort of semi-official organization. "One of its first proceedings was the com- mencement of a survey of all the English counties on a uniform plan, which brought out, for the information of the class most in- terested in adopting them, improved practices originating in individual enterprise in par- i ticular districts." These surveys form a series of elaborate and exhaustive reports for each county, describing, under various sub-sections, i geographical position and circumstances, state of property, buildings, modes of occupation, implements, enclosures, arable and pasture lands, gardens and orchards, woods, planta- ions and wastes, live stock, rural and political sconomy, with observations upon agricultural ocieties, weights and measures, vermin, &c., accompanied by maps arid drawings of farm luildings, implements, cattle, sheep, &c., and xplanations of local words and idioms. It s not correct to describe them as " county listories," they are simply agricultural sur- 7 eys. Here is the title of the volume relating o Northumberland, for example: ( "A General View of the Agriculture of the bounty of Northumberland, with Observations on ^he Means of its Improvement, drawn up for the Consideration of the Board of Agriculture. By J. Bailey and G. Culley. Newcastle, S. Hodgson, 1800. 12 pp. demy 8vo. Map and eleven Illustrations." Copies of these surveys, for separate coun- ies, frequently occur in catalogues of second- and books. RICHARD WELFORD.

THE NUMBER OF GRAND JURORS (5 th S. ii. 408; iii. 13; 9 th S. iii. 256). So far as I know, Blackstone's statement on this matter is correct for every county in England ; but there may be exceptions owing to local custom. I have not seen the sermons referred to by MR. THORNTON, so do not know whether or not they prove that twenty-five men were sworn. If they do not show this to have been the case, I would suggest that the two extra gentlemen were summoned, but, there being the full number without them, they were not sworn. In the county where I live I have served very often on the grand jury during a period of upwards of thirty years until, indeed, I claimed exemption on account of old age. At most of the assizes at which I was present there was a greater number of men in court whose names were on the grand jury list than was required ; but this was not always so. On two or three occasions our numbers were not complete. I remember that once there were but seventeen of us. A COUNTY MAGISTRATE.

The rule as to the number is thus stated in Archbold's 'Pleading and Evidence':

" The bill also must be found by a majority of the jurors, for which reason it is said that the number of persons on the grand jury cannot exceed twenty- three, nor be less than twelve; 2 Burr., 1088; R. v. Marsh, 6 A. and E., 341 ; 6 L. J. (M. C.), 153." EDWARD H. MARSHALL, M.A.

Hastings.

EXPULSIONS FROM OXFORD (9 th S. iii. 307). Can the query be wrong in its date 1 ? In March, 1768, six students were expelled from St. Edmund's Hall for the offences specified. Their names were James Matthews, Thomas Jones, Joseph Shipman, Erasmus Middleton, Benjamin Kay, and Thomas Grove. Sir Richard Hill wrote several pamphlets on the subject. Rowland Hill was then at St. John's College, Cambridge. T. W.

Aston Clinton.

A well-known event in Methodist history. See ' N. & Q.,' 3 rd S. ix. 427, and under ' Sir- Richard Hill,' 'John Macgowan,' 'Erasmus Middleton,' and ' Thomas Nowell ' in the ' Dictionary of National Biography.' The expulsion took place in March, 1768, and the names of the six students were James Matthews, Thomas Jones, Joseph Shipman, Benjamin Kay, Erasmus Middleton, and Thomas Grove. W. C. B.

NAG'S HEAD (9 th S. iii. 148, 235). As a oadge it does not appear to have been used ; but the following families (besides the names