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identical ; but, if so, they must have been altered, as in the present day they entirely differ. Can any of your readers give a clue as to wherein the foregoing statement appeared, as 1 omitted at the time to note its source] A. ST. JOHN SEALLY, Major.

1, Burnham Terrace, Richmond, Surrey.

PINEAPPLE AT THE NEW YEAR. When and where did the custom of carving a pineapple at midnight on 31 December originate? I met it first in Birmingham about 1890, and, thinking it a graceful ceremony, adopted it forthwith, but I have never been able to trace its origin further back. Yet it must be older, as I have met people in Cumber- land who remember it vaguely in 1880 or earlier. C. HARPUR.

Nenthead, Carlisle.

ROGER RACKET, D.D., 1559-1621.

(9 th S. viii. 104.)

A FORMER Editor of 'N. & Q.' (see his note, 2 nd S. viii. 310) seems to be responsible for the error mentioned by H. C., which has found its way thence into the 'Alumni Oxonienses ' and the 'Diet. Nat. Biog.' Dr. Hacket was, in fact, elder brother of the Lord Mayor, and founder of a family which was seated at North Craw ley for several generations, until the estate passed with an heiress to Sir Nicholas Carew. Sir Cuth- bert's will, dated in November, 1631, shows that his son Roger was then living more than ten years after his namesake's death.

According to Strype's 'Stow,' the Lord Mayor was son of Thomas Hacket, and grand- son of another Thomas Hacket, or Aket, of "Dertford," in Kent. The name is an ancient one in that county. Thomas Hackett, of St. James Garlickhithe, citizen and dyer, made his will 10 July, 1578, and it was proved in the Prerogative Court in April following. He mentions his wife Jane ; three sons, Roger, Cuthbert, and Thomas, all minors ; a daughter Agnes, already married to Roger Jones, of London, dyer (see Harl. Soc., 'Visitation Beds/ where she is called sister of the Lord Mayor), and three young unmarried daughters ; also a brother John, with six children. To Roger he devises lands in Horton, co. Kent.

% This is undoubtedly the Roger Hackett, trom bt. James " Garlickhy the," who was elected scholar of Winchester College in 1573 in his fourteenth year (Kirby, p. 145), having perhaps been previously for two years

at Merchant Taylors' (Robinson, i. 18). In due course he proceeded to New College, where he was 'a Fellow 1577-93, taking the usual degrees in arts, and becomingD.D. in 1595 (incep 1596). Meanwhile he had been insti- tuted rector of North Crawley, Bucks, in 1590, as successor to John Garbrand, alias Herks, D.D., another Wykehamist, who was patron as well as rector. Here he acquired consider- able landed estate, including the advowson. The resignation of his fellowship probably indicates the date of his marriage to Eliza- beth, sister of John Langford (? of Northall, in Edlesborough, Bucks) and Nicholas Lang- ford, by whom he left two sons and six daughters, named in his will, 21 Aug., 1621, which was proved in the Archdeacon's Court. Legacies to " my brother m r Cutbert Hackett," and to the poor of " Herton," in Kent, confirm his identification with the son of Thomas. He also leaves books to New College, "my mother colledge," and money to buy others for that and the University library ; and a rent-charge for certain public purposes, provided the inhabitants refrain from asserting rights of common in the East Fields a clause inaccurately re- produced in Cole's MS. xxxviii. f. 130. His wife was to make the next presentation ; and her nominee was the Rev. John Harris, B.D., of New College (afterwards D.D. and Warden of Winchester), who shortly after married one of their daughters.

Roger, the elder son, was born about 1599 ; matriculated at Hart Hall, Oxford, 1617; and died in 1657, leaving issue. Thomas, the younger, whom he desires k ' dilligentlie to imploye himselfe in the studie of divinitie," was already Fellow of New College, having been elected to Winchester, 1615, in his four- teenth year. In 1630 he became Fellow of Winchester ; was rector of Mersham, Kent, and of Compton, Hants ; married Elizabeth, daughter of Edward Sherwood, of East Hendred, Berks, and died 1661 without issue. The widow married Richard Osgood, his executor, also Fellow of both colleges, but many years junior to her first husband. Of the daughters, Christian and Anne married in Dr. Hacket's lifetime, the former Richard Jones, her first cousin (Winchester 1596 and New College), of Litlington, co. Beds (see 'Visitation Beds,' Harl. Soc., where her father's relationship to Sir Cuthbert is cor- rectly stated), and the latter John Higham, or Heigham, whose son Roger was at Win- chester and New College in his turn. Eliza- beth subsequently married Warden Harris ; Etheldred (or Eld red) was wife first of Thomas Awdley, afterwards of Matthew