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 274 NOTES AND QUERIES. rw S-VI-Ovr-6.1900~ “  lady ” (or gentleman), “ gi’ me hansel this morn. Won’t you hansel mel” If the rebuff 18 done bluntl, she (it is always “shgig comes again with “lgray gi’ me hansel, g lady. ou speak fairly (kindl ), an’ it ’ll bring me l_uc for the day.” This sort of “ wheedle” IS usually successful. Taos. R./vrcL1rrR. Worksop. THR COLOUR GREEN (9**' S. ii. 465; iii. 37). -Green as a political colour was used ages ago, and in reference to matters of great importance. Josephus (‘Antiquities,’ xix. iv. 4, ed. 1864, pp. 398, 423) mentionsa mysterious organization in the time of Au ustus known as the Green Band Faction, or I§rasine. This political society was of such ower that through its intrigues Claudius obtained the empire. Waddilove (‘ Lamp in the Wilder- ness,’ 1847, pp. xvii, 106, 112, 113, 221, 229, 238, 246) traces the Green Band Faction to Delphos. Gifford (‘ History of France,’ i. 320) says that the sign of the Order of St. Lazarus, A.D. 1105, was a green cross. Skene (Edin- burgh Antiquarian Society Transactions vol. iii.) mentions that when an accused person appeared before the secret tribunal of Swabia and West halia (fl. 1389) he held a green cross. The ginights of St. John of Jerusalem (according to Waddilove) use a green badge. The emblem of Daniel O’Con- nell, 1844, was a green badge, and he used a green Hari) and a. g)1;)een cross. At N ismes in 1816-18 t e Bour n party wore their cock- ades embroidered with green l'(Wilks, ‘Per- secutions of Protestants in rance,’ 1825, vol. 11. p. 557). The new re iment of Irish Guards is to wear a green Sand round the collar. M, M, SRRJRANT HAwK1Ns (9'»*' S. vi. 188).- The ‘Dict. Nat. Biog.’ (vol. xxv. p. 230) seems to be in error in statin that Ser- jeant Hawkins died in 1746. The will of “William Hawkins Esq., Serjeant-at-law,” dated 18 Se tember, 1749, was proved 1 March, l749E>0 (P.C.C. 78, Green] ). The testator, who desires to be buriecf in the same manner as his “last wife,” mentions his two sons, William (Rev. William Hawkins sole executor, who roved the will) and Philip; his “son and) daughter Ram,” and their children, Stephen, Abel, Elizabeth, Sarah. and Mary ; the testator’s “sister New- comb,” and “ brother Leaver and his daughter Anne Taunton ”° the testator’s nephew Eason, nephew Edward Hawkins, “son of my late brother Edward Hawkins,” and “ the children of my late_brother John Hawkins ” of whom only one 18 named, viz., Elizabeth Hawkins, the testator’s servant. He be- itéeaths to his son William his leaseholds in ndon and in the manor of Islip, Oxford- shire. The exact relation between the ser- jeant and most of the rsons mentioned in the will is stated in §§rke’s ‘Gommoners,’ vol. ii. p. 215. H. C. ‘THR Los'r PLRIAD ’ (9'~“ S. vi. 49).-Perhaps MR. BOUCHIER is thinking of the thirteenth and fourteenth stanzas of Beppo,’ which con- clude thus :- Whose course and home we knew not, nor shall know, Like the lost Pleiad, seen no more below. Byron in a note ex lains his last line by a. quotation from Ovid):- Quze septem dici, sex tamen esse solent. E. YARDLEY. Both Adams’s ‘ Dictionary of English Lite- rature’ and Brewer’s ‘ Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ’ state that a poem with this title by Letitia Elizabeth Landon was published in 1829. In my edition of L. E. L.’s ‘ Miscel- laneous Poems’ (1835) I can only find ‘The Lost Star,’ in which there is no reference whatever to the Pleiades. Its first line is A light is gone from yonder sky, and there are five double stanzas in common metre. C. LAWRENCE FoRD, B.A. Bath. INSTALLATION or A Mxnwnfn (9“‘ S. v. 475 - vi. 9, 177).-The following extract is cégsied from the bishop’s abstracts, and prin in the Bampton registers, churchwardens’ pre- sentments, 1691 :- “ We do present Elizabeth Harrison for acting as a midwife without licence, to the prejudice of several persons.” M. N. TowN Gyms OUTSIDE LONDON (9*-*' S. v. 22s, 362; vi. 97, 173).-It will interest MR. ARTHUR MAYALL to learn that John Gate, Abram Gate, and Hannah Gate are still in existence off Bower Street, near to the Brad- ford Town Hall, and that Mary Gate is situate some few yards distant on the oppo- site side of Manchester Road, off Prince Street. Martha Gate, Eliza Gate, and Louisa Gate are non-existing. Cnxs. F. Foasmiw, LL.D. Bradford. THR Rav. MR. AARON fl' S. vi. 128, 219).- Information regarding t is native minister may be found in Fenger’s ‘History of the Tranquebar Mission,’ pp. 162-72, 1863. He was attracted to Christianity bly a catechist at Cuddalore, who taught the c arity school