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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. XL JAN. 9, im.
tion was a reproduction of what appeared
on the former one. Who was this Pierre-
point or Pierrepont, and why was the refuge
called after him ? ROBERT PIEBPOINT.
' PLATO REDIVIVTJS.' 1. Who is supposed to have been the writer of the history of the Civil War whom Mr. Henry Neville mentions in the above work (Dialogue II., near the end) as one who " was engaged both in councils and arms for the Parliament's side " ? He was dead in 1681, his executors being then unwilling to publish the history until a longer time had elapsed from the events which it treated.
2. Who is referred to as a very considerable gentleman,
" both for birth, parts, and estate, who, peing a member of the Parliament that was called in 1640, continued all the war with them, and by his wisdom and eloquence (which were both very great) pro- moted very much their affairs " (end of Dialogue III.) ?
He afterwards refused all public office, and declined to give any advice in public matters. Can he be identified with any leading reformer of 1640-50 ?
H. C. FANSHAWE. 72, Philbeach Gardens, S.W.
GABLICK : ONIONS FOB PTJBIFYING WATEB. I find in a writer at the end of the seven- teenth century the following : " Garlick indeed with us is called the Countryman's Treacle." Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' refer me to the original use of this expression, or to the use of onions as a means for purify- ing water so foul as to be undrinkable.
EMEBITUS.
ISINGLASS USED IN WINDOWS. A writer at the close of the seventeenth century refers to the use of isinglass in windows, in place of glass, in Western India. I cannot find in the ordinary books of reference any account of such use of this material. Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' help me ? EMEBITUS.
CONINGSBY : FEBBY. Can any one throw light upon the relationship between these families ? Sir Humphry Coningsby, Justice K.B., married (1) Alice Fer(e)by, the mother of his children ; (2) Anne, daughter and heiress of Sir Christopher Moresby, and widow of (? James) Pickering, died 5 Oct., 1523, Inq. P.M. 17 Hen. VIII. ; (3) Isabel, parentage not known. In the Herts Visita- tion pedigree (Harl. Soc. vol. xxii. p. 45) his first wife is described only as " daughter and heiress of . . . .Fereby " ; elsewhere (e.g., Robinson, ' Mansions of Herefordshire,'
p. 148) her father is described as " of co.
Lincoln." The arms quartered by the
Coningsbys for Fereby were Sable, a fesse
ermine between three goats' heads erased
argent, which are those of the Ferbys of
Paul's Cray Hill, and suggest that the first
wife was of Kent. Thomas Fereby, who
was joined with Humphry Coningsby in a
fine of lands, &c., in Rugge in 1501-2, and
with Humphry Coningsby and Anne his
wife in a fine of lands, &c., in Aldenham,
in 1507 (Brigg, ' Herts Genealogist,' vol. L
pp. 6, 9), probably belonged to the Paul's
Cray family, which was connected with
Aldenham by the marriage, in an earlier
generation, of John Penn of that place
with Alice, daughter of John Ferby of Paul's
Cray.
The Ferby pedigree in the Kent Visitation of 1619 (Harl. Soc. vol. xlii. p. 161) makes Elizabeth, wife of a Thomas Ferby of Paul's
Cray, daughter of " Conesby, justiciarn
in banco." This seems to be an error, as there is no trace of such a daughter in the long will of Sir Humphry Coningsby, proved P.C.C. (29 Hogan) 1535, or in the Coningsby pedigrees : it probably represents an in- accurate tradition of the real relationship between the two families. CANTIANTTS.
EDWABD BABNABD. He was head master of Eton 1754-64, when he became Provost. The ' D.N.B.' does not mention his marriage, which is thus entered in the parish registers of Richmond, Surrey :
"1760. Edward Barnard, D.D., a bachelor, of Eton, Bucks, and Susanna Haggatt, spin r , ot Richmond: licence, by Thos. Barnard, Minister. Witnesses N. Haggatt, El. Parish." In the "Allegation" his age is given as forty-three, and hers as twenty-two.
Was the officiating minister the same Thomas Barnard who was consecrated Bishop of KiUaloe and Kilfenora in 1780- (vide' D.N.B.') ?
ALBERT A. BABKAS, Librarian.
Richmond.
GEORGE PBIOB, WATCHMAKEB. William John Bankes, in a note in the 'Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Giovanni Finati,' London, 1830, vol. ii. p. 385, writes that " throughout the East no watch is in any esteem that has not the name of George Prior upon it, though no such maker now exists in reality." Where and when did this George Prior carry on business 1 and had he any special repute as a watchmaker at home ? Why were his watches in such esteem in the East ?
FBEDK. A. EDWARDS.
