entirely solve his Query, but I have lately met with a curiously detailed case of that disease, which is strongly confirmatory that such was the prevailing opinion within the last seventy years. In the London Medical Journal, vol. viii. pp. 156164., London, 1787, 8vo., it is stated that Henry Rider of Richmond was seized with hydrophobia on Friday the 23rd February, 1787, having been bitten by a dog eighteen months before, viz., in Aug. 1785. He was from the beginning of the attack on Friday convinced of the nature of the disease, and that a fatal result was inevitable. On the Sunday (the 25th), at mid-day, he imagined he was to be smothered betwixt two feather-beds, and the medical gentleman in attendance adds: "Every time I came to see him, he apprehended it was to give the fatal order; no persuasion could remove this unhappy idea from his mind; and he evidently suppressed his complaints, in order to conceal, as he supposed, from me, the necessity of my proceeding to the last extremity." Death put an end to the poor man's suffering on Monday the 26th, at 4 o'clock A. M. The narrative is curious, and is highly creditable to the skill and humanity of the professional attendant. A. Rabies Canina.-When I first went to school at Eton, in 1794, I well remember a story which all the boys believed, that the ostler at the Christopher Inn, when in the last stage of hydrophobia, was smothered under a feather-bed by his attendants, in order to put a termination to his sufferings. The tragedy was supposed to have recently occurred, and it is possible that some more definite information may still be obtained on the spot, should INDAGATOR wish to pursue the inquiry further. BRAYBROOKE. Smothering Hydrophobic Patients. Mrs. Duff, wife of the late Lord Fife, then Col. Duff, died of undoubted hydrophobia about the year 1806. It was induced by a bite on the nose from a favourite Newfoundland dog; this for MR. J. CORNISH. The report was widely spread that she "had to be smothered," which was of course groundless. There can be no mistake here, for Mrs. Duff was an intimate friend of the lady who communicated the fact to me, with many particulars needless to repeat. A. A. D. speedily to God, yet still with trembling, being filled with holy fear." There is a passage in Bishop Jeremy Taylor's sermon on "Growth in Sin," which amplifies the same thought, and affords an interesting parallel : to its beloved star, at the first addresses waves on either "But as the needle of a compass, when it is directed side, and seems indifferent in his courtship of the rising or declining sun, and when it seems first determined to the north stands awhile trembling, as if it suffered inconvenience in the first fruition of its desires, and stands not still in full enjoyment, till after first a great variety of motion, and then an undisturbed posture; so is the piety, and so is the conversion of a man wrought by degrees and several steps of imperfection; and at first our choices are wavering, convinced by the grace of God, and yet not persuaded; and then persuaded, but not resolved; and then resolved, but deferring to begin; and then beginning, but as all beginnings are, in weakness and uncertainty; and we fly out into return to Egypt: and when the storm is quite over, huge indiscretions, and look back to Sodom, or long to we find little bubblings and unevennesses upon the face of the waters, we often weaken our own purposes by the returns of sin; and we do not call ourselves conquerors, till, by the long possession of virtue, it is a strange and unusual, and therefore an uneasy and unpleasant thing to commit a crime." I cannot resist the temptation of offering you another quotation, similar in purport, though from a very different source: "As still to the star of its worship, though clouded, The needle points faithfully o'er the dim sea, So dark as I roam, in this wintry world shrouded, The hope of my spirit turns trembling to thee." These lines are from one of the late Thomas Moore's Sacred Songs, poems which I often think are neither so much quoted nor so much read as they deserve to be. JOSHUA G. FITCH. Replies to Minor Queries. M. Barrière and the Quarterly Review (Vol. v., 347. 402. 616.). pp. In reply to your correspondent C., I can only state that the great similarity of certain articles in the Quarterly Review, and M. Barrière's representations of the same events, seemed to me indicative of something approaching to plagiarism; and I am not, I may add, disposed or accustomed to urge unfounded or light imputations; but the lapse of years, and my own very advanced age (eighty-two), with the difficulty of referring to the articles of the Quarterly's accumulated volumes, would make it an arduous task for me just now to consult these publications, and name the passages which may have produced the impression on my mind to which I gave utterance. I therefore prefer at once acknowledging that I may have been mistaken, and that your correspondent must have been better informed upon the subject. He probably writes from personal knowledge, I from inference. J. R. (Cork.) Lady Barbara Mowbray and Elizabeth Curle (Vol. v., p. 517.). Of these two ladies, so loyally attached to their unfortunate mistress Queen Mary of Scotland, your correspondent NHRSL is desirous of obtaining some authentic information. Of Lady Barbara I am not at present enabled to furnish any particulars; but of the Curle family I may perhaps afford a clue to the inquiry of NHRSL, from documents in my possession relating to the settlement of the estate of St. Katharine's Hall, commonly known as St. Kattern's, Somerset, which in 1594, 36th Eliz., was the property of William Blanchard, from whom it descended to Henry Blanchard; who, in October, 1690, married Querinah Curle, and in 1748 the estate passed to Querinah, the heir of the Blanchard family, and then the wife of Thomas Parry, of St. Katharine's Hall. They had issue John Parry, M.A., Rector of Sturmer, co. Essex; Querinah, who married W. Milles Cobb, of Ringwood; and Elizabeth, who married Henry Knight, of Bath. The Blanchard and Curle families were staunch adherents of the royal cause during the civil wars, and I have evidence of the esteem entertained by King Charles for the then owner of St. Kattern's just before the battle of Lansdowne. I am also in possession of a portrait of Querinah Curle, painted by Sir Peter Lely. I have given these minute particulars in order to afford NHRSL a means of prosecuting his inquiries through other channels that may present themselves, and I feel fully persuaded that a perfect genealogy of the Curle, and also of the Blanchard families, would amply repay a diligent and careful investigation. J. P. A. KNIGHT. Aylestone, Leicestershire. young Parallel Passages (Vol. vi., p. 123.).—P. C. S. S. owns that he is too dull to perceive any parallelism between the Cromwellian complexion of Sylla and the "cream-smothered strawberries" of the lady's mouth, as described in the Irish song. He would be glad if a precise reference to the passages in Mrs. Gray's Etruria, in which allusion is made to the mulberry tincture of Sylla's face, as he has vainly sought for it through both volumes of that ingenious and imaginative work. But in Plutarch's Life of Sylla there is a passage which undoubtedly furnished the parallelism which MR. H. L. TEMPLE has detected: “ Καὶ τῶν ̓Αθήνησι γεφυριστῶν ἐπέσχωψέ τις εἰς τουτο ποιήσας, · Συκάμινον ἔσθ' ὁ Σύλλας, ἀλφίτῳ πεπασμένον.” » Flemish Words in Wales (Vol. vi., p. 151.). -I am neither an ethnologist nor an etymologist, and in my more candid moments I am not quite without fear that I may have an unreasonable suspicion of those who are. At all events, I do not believe all that they tell me, especially about the local use of words. For instance, I believe that one of the words given at p. 152. as "quite peculiar" to certain colonies established in Pembrokeshire and Glamorganshire, belongs equally to Somersetshire. When I lived in that county, I heard a story of what was said to have occurred at a trial on the Western Circuit, which may illus trate the matter, and was in substance as follows: Counsel (to witness). Well then, you saw so and so? 66 How much information the Court and counsel gained from the explanation, I do not take upon me to say; but I think it indicates that "muck" or mucks," in a state of dryness or "drought," may become pilm over a wider extent of country than your correspondent supposes. As to the origin of the word, of course Dr. Dry-as-dust would be the best authority. I do not venture N.B. to give an opinion myself. Pickigni (Vol. vi., pp. 75. 160.). — F. A.'s "old dictionary" is Cole's, which contains the explanation he gives, and which is substantially the same as Blount's. The word itself is a misspelling of Picquigny, a town in Picardy, where was treacherously murdered at a conference William Longue Espée, Duke of Normandy, and where XI. and our Edward IV. Its position near the was held the celebrated congress between Louis frontier made it of importance in the early wars between France on the one hand, and the Flemings and Bourguinons on the other. The shibboleth, no doubt, consisted in a double peculiarity of French pronunciation, included in the word qu for k, and the gn mouillé as it is termed, which can not be exactly expressed by letters, but is most nearly represented by ni, as grognard, a grumbler, is pronounced groniard. C. Large Families: Mrs. Honeywood. The fol lowing Note respecting the progeny of Mrs. Mary Honeywood, I obtained from a Kentish paper, probably the ensuing number to that from which 1 MR. KING procured the extract printed at p. 106. of "N. & Q." Vol. vi.: 66 "A PROLIFIC KENTISH WOMAN. rest the type of one thousand years' millennium, or Christ's second advent; that "of that day no one knoweth," applies simply to our ignorance of true Sir, In your last there was a paragraph under this chronology, though the author has faith in Clinton. head referring to a monument in Lincoln Cathedral, to As the subject has been alluded to in "N. & Q.," one of the numerous descendants of Mrs. Mary Honey- I would suggest that it would meet with its master wood. As it is not quite accurate in point of numbers, if the learned Warburton lecturer at Lincoln's allow me to correct it by mentioning another monuInn could be induced by any friend to forward a ment to the same family, and much nearer home. In few lines. I imagine that he anticipates the Lenham church, north of the chancel, is a very remark- Papacy to end about the time that Mr. Coleman, able inscription on the tomb of Robert Thompson, and the reverend gentlemen named at page 131., Esq., which states, that he was grandchild to Mary believe that the world will. A. C. Honeywood of Charing, who had at her decease 367 children lawfully descended from her sixteen of her own body, 114 grandchildren, 228 in the third generation, and nine in the fourth. These nine are omitted in your paragraph. Mrs. Honeywood lies buried in this church, though her monument is at Mark's Hall, near Cogshall in Essex, which at the time of her death was the residence of Lieut.-Gen. Phillip Honeywood." NONREGLA. Clock Mottoes (Vol. v., p. 285.). There was a large turret clock upon the stables at Stanlake in Berkshire, the seat for many generations of the Aldworth family, my paternal ancestors. The face of the dial showed the date of 1688, encircled with the word Revolution in large characters. It happened that, exactly a century afterwards, my father ordered the clock to be repaired, when the painter spoiled the Whig joke by altering the date from 1688 to 1788, and was much disgusted at being directed to restore the original figures, which, I believe, still remain as an indication of the political sentiments of the former proprietors of the old mansion. BRAYBROOKE. Was William the Conqueror buried without a Coffin? (Vol. vi., p. 35.).—Thierry, in his History of the Norman Conquest, book vii., says: "The king's corpse had been dressed in the royal habit and robe, but was not in a coffin. On its being placed in the grave constructed of masonry, which was found to be too narrow (vas breve structum erat), it was then requisite to force the body in, which caused it to burst." Incense and perfumes were burned, but without Six Thousand Years (Vol. vi., p. 131.). the end of a volume of Sermons, by the Rev. Coleman, Ventnor, A. A. D. will find it stated that the six-days' creation was a type of the six thousand years ("one day being equal to one thousand years," quoted as proof), and one day's In reply to A. A. D.'s question as to the world lasting six thousand years, I would remark that as a boy I was taught that the world would most likely be of about six thousand years' duration; but the reason given was that the Deluge took place about two thousand years after the Creation, and our Saviour's sojourn in the world about two thousand years later, and therefore the end of the world will be at the termination of the next period of two thousand years. BYARD. Yolante de Dreux (Vol. vi., p. 150.). — Jolanda, or Joleta, widow of Alexander III. King of Scotland, married in 1284, left a widow, without issue, 1285. Married, secondly, Arthur I. 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