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 9*s.vLNov.io,i9oa] NOTES AND QUERIES. 373 shape in the reign of Queen Elizabeth), was, I think, the birthplace of Sir William Capel, the interesting No. 1 of a line of interesting English characters. J. G- CCPPLES. Lbngwood, Boston. PAGINATION (9th S. vi. 147, 258).—I submit it would be far better to count from the title-page and do away with the Roman numerals from the preface. It would save a great deal of labour in cataloguing, as would giving the size of a book in inches instead of the obsolete dead-hand style of folio, quarto, octavo, »fec. Allibone will not register any book unless its dimensions are given in inches, and very rightly too. RICHARD HEMMING. Ardwielt. CHICHESTER (9th S. vi. 125).—Your readers may perhaps like to know that there is a hamlet in the parish of Berden, Essex, known as Little London. Although I was many years in the neighbourhood, I never succeeded in finding the origin of the name. The vicarage of Berden is in the gift of Christ's Hospital. M.A.OxoN. [There is, or used to be, a Little London in Leeds.] PARROT IN 'HUDIBRAS' (9th S. vi. 266).—I am far from my books and papers, and my memory may fail me ; but I am under the impression that the lines quoted by W. C. B. refer to Robert Hall, the celebrated rope- walker temp. Charles II. RICHARD EDCCUMBE. Savignano di Romagna, Italy. A FRIDAY SUPERSTITION (9th S. vi. 265).— Of the many Friday superstitions, one, at least, is widespread. A Friday flit: Never sit! is often quoted when people move to another house on a Friday, ana many folk would never think of "doing a flit" on a Friday, not even by moonlight with the object of "doing "the landlord. There are many things which many folk will not undertake to do on a Friday, which in the face of things they will do seem curious. THOS. RATCLIFFE. Worksop. BROKEN ON THE WHEEL (9th S. vi. 2">l).— Are not the following two of the latest instances, relating, however, to the penalty as inflicted in France at a period when it appears to have been long since abolished in this country, even before the abolition of tho rack and similar tortures, which we know survived in practice long after the Revolu- tion in the Tower of London 1 I do not remember to have encountered any record of the punishment in old London newspapers, except the following :— "The Lord Power, a Roman Catholick Peer of Ireland, who was lately said to have died in Pans, was barbarously murder'd there by his Footman, who strangled him in his Bed with an Handker- chief, for the Lucre of 16.000 Livrea. He has since been apprehended, with the best part of the Money upon him, together with a Fellow his Accomplice in the Fact; and they are both sentenced to be broke alive upon the Wheel."— Evtnmg Port, 11 September, 1725. "A French Mail brings Advice of two Persons being broke on the Wheel for the murder of the English Gentlemen near Calais."—Jfwt« Weekly Journal, 3 September, 1726. J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL. " TEMPERANCE " (9th S. vi. 230, 296).—Thia name was used as a female Christian name in the seventeenth century. Sir Rowland Alston, who died in 1698, wedded Temper- ance, second daughter of Thomas, Lord Crewe, of Steanc. co. Northampton, and the name seems to nave been adopted by the Alston family of Odell Castle, near Bedford. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. [H. C. mentions an instance on p. 372.] DOCKWEAY (9th S. vi. 2«8>.—On the north side of Leigh Church, Essex, is an altar tomb, brick sides supporting a stone slab. The slab is thus inscribed :— Sacred to the memory of Lydia Docwra one of the last of an ancient family of that name in Hertfordshire who after much affliction died October 1824 aged 50 years. Comfort us again for the years which we have suffered adversity. Ps. 90, 15 v. I believe a pedigree of this family is to be . found in Clutterbuck's ' History of Hertford- shire.' JOHN T. PAGE. West Haddon, Northamptonshire. How is it possible to identify "a boy of this name" admitted to Westminster School in March, 1769? What was his other name? Here upon Tyneside we have had generations of Dockwrays among the local clergy, and one of the old residential quarters of North Shields is named after them—Dockwray Square. Ac- cording to some historical leaflets published by the learned Town Clerk of North Shields, Dr. Thomas Dockwray was the first vicar of Christ Church in that town. Being chaplain to the Earl of Sandwich, and slain with that nobleman during a naval engagement in May, 1672, he was succeeded at Christ Church by