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 374 NOTES AND QUERIES. [9*8. vi. NOV. 10,1900. his son, Stephen Dockwray, M. A., who in turn was followed by his son, Thos. Dockwray. The latter died in 1724, leaving a son of the same name, who for twenty-eight years offi- ciated as lecturer at St. Nicholas', Newcastle- upon-Tyne. This Thos. Dockwray's brother Josias married Elizabeth Toll, and from him came the land upon which Dockwray Square and Toll Square in North Shields were erected. Their son, Thomas Dockwray, D.D., was vicar of Stamfordham and lecturer at St. Nicholas', Newcastle. He married in 1757, and died without issue in 1783. RICHARD WELFORD. John Dockray was on 21 March, 1833, ad- mitted a member of the Lancaster Town Council. He was a Friend, and was the first instance of a Dissenter being admitted a Councillor since the Repeal of the Test Act. Joseph Dockray was Mayor of Lancaster 1839-40 and 1849-50, and died 22 Sept., 1855, and was buried at St. Mary's, Lancaster. There are no Dock rays here now. T. CANN HUGHES, M.A. Lancaster. LINCOLN MARRIAGES (9th S. vi. 307).—The marriage licences preserved in the registry of the Bishop of Lincoln from 1598 to 1628, edited by A. Gibbons, were published by Messrs. Mitchell <k Hughes in 1888. For a review of this volume, wherein it is said "the second volume is ready for the press," see ' N. & Q.,' 7th S. vi. 219, but I have no account of that second volume having been issued. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road. CORPSE ON SHIPBOARD (9th S. vi. 246, 313). —On this subject I find the following notice in Aubrey's ' Reraaines' (p. 67):— "One would easily believe that sea-men should be y« most religious men of all other being so fre- quently in tempests But thus much Superstition they still retain, that they will not endure a whore on Shipboard: wh (they doc believe) does cause a storme; and they will then make bold to throw her overboard, as it were a sacrifice to Neptune The like opinion they have of a dead body on ship- boarde, w'h they hold to be very unlucky, and if a storme arises they will throw it into y* sea; as they did that rare Munimie that Sir Peter Wych brought from Egypt." It was believed, too, that "a dead body in a ship caused the ship to sail slower " (see a quotation from a book published 1630 in Brand's 'Popular Antiquities,' 1849 ed., iii 239). F. ADAMS. The lines, in the original note, quoted from Virgil, "Pneterea jacet,"&c., are not, I think, properly an example of the objection of sailors to having a corpse on board ship at sea. These lines refer to Miscnus, who was drowned when the fleet was anchored, and the Trojans had disembarked. He, however, was not buried, nor had funeral rites been performed, because at the time JSneas was paying a visit to the Sibyl. The non-per- formance of the funeral rites polluted the fleet. The following might have been quoted to illustrate the superstition of sailors re- garding corpses on shipboard :— First Sailor. Sir, your queen must overboard: the sea works high, the wind is loud, and will not lie till the ship be cleared of the dead. • Pericles,'III. i. E. YARDLEY. ETON COLLEGE AND RAM HUNTING (9th S. vi. 230).—The following is contributed to Hone's ' Year-Book,' 12 May :— " The custom of hunting the ram belonged to Eton College, but it waa discontinued by Dr. Cook, late Dean of Ely. Now this custom we know to have been entered on the Royal abbey of Bee, in Nor- mandy, as one belonging to the manor of East, or Great Wrotham, in Norfolk. When the harvest was finished the tenants were to have half an acre of barley, and a ram let loose, and, if they naught him, he was their own to make merry with, but if he escaped from them he was the lord's. The Etonians, in order to secure the ram, houghed him in the Irish fashion, and then attacked him with great clubs. The cruelty of this proceeding brought it into disuse, and now it exists no longer. See ' Register of the Royal Abbey of Bee,' folio 58." RICHARD LAWSON. Urmston. TRUFFLE-HUNTING PIGS (9th S. vi. 129, 195, 279). — In the Philosophical Transaction*, vol. xviii., 1693, is an account of the truffles at Rushton, Northamptonshire, with remarks by Tancred Robinson. Truffles are still found there, and until about ten years back speci- mens were exhibited at the annual flower shows, which the late Mr. Clarke Thornhill was always pleased to have in his grounds. JOHN TAYLOR. Northampton. DEATHS FROM SMALLPOX RECORDED ox MONUMENTAL BRASSES (9th S. vi. 251).—This extract from Rider Haggard and a query thereupon appeared in 9"1 S. v. 268. W. C. B. LANGSTAFF AND LONGSTAFF FAMILY (7th S. xi. 109, 293 ; 8* S. i. 460).— Having been engaged for a long time in compiling a work dealing with the various branches of this family, I should be glad to communicate with MR. W. WEBB or any one_ else who may be anxious to receive or willing to give in- formation. The mass of facts in my posses- sion proves that Langstrafle is but a variant