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CHILDREN AT EXECUTIONS (10 S. ii. 346,
454, 516 ; iii. 33, 93, 495 ; x. 254). I have
heard that the children at the Blue Coat
School at Hertford were always taken to
see the executions there, as a moral lesson.
The Westminster boys had a special holiday to see the execution of the Cato Street Conspirators in 1820. G.
There is a strange instance in ' The Annual Register ' for June, 1768 :
" On the 21st of the preceding month, a girl of 13 years of age was beheaded for the murder of two children, one four, the other six years of age, and for committing divers thefts. The electoral council of Munich enjoined that all the children from the schools at Amberg should be conducted near to the place of execution, to take warning by this example of severity."
Mr. and Mrs. Fairchild would have approved of this order. A. W. O.
HANNAH MARIA JONES (10 S. x. 248). It is indeed difficult to ascertain biographical particulars about many (I may say the majority of) authors. It is said that if one keeps a thing seven years one will find the use of it. I have had a note of this unfortunate lady's death forty-seven years.
It appears from The Athenceum, I Feb., 1854, p. 151 (see also The Gent. Mag. of April, p. 440), tha.t " Anna Maria Jones, authoress of ' The Gipsey ' and other popular novels of the day, died " on 24 March, 1854, " in the most abject poverty." Many greater writers than she have died in the same condition.
The National Library Catalogue enters her as " Jones, Hannah Maria, afterwards Lowndes " ; but The Athenceum says nothing about her having been married. Her first work appears to have been ' The Gipsey Mother' (1835), and her last 'Katharine Beresford' (1854). ' The English Catalogue, 1835-62,' has three publications under her name, not one of which is in the National Library. On the other hand, our great Library has a number of her works which have no place in ' The English Catalogue.'
She is the sort of person that Mr. Frederic Boase delights in giving us information about in his great work on nineteenth-century celebrities and nonentities, but I do not find hers among the thousands of names in ' Modern English Biography.'
RALPH THOMAS.
Hannah Maria Jones wrote much beside 'The Gipsey Girl; or, The Heir of Hazel Dell ' (1836) ; e.g., ' The Gipsey Mother ; or, The Miseries of Enforced Marriages ' (1835 ?) ; ' The Child of Mystery ; or, The Cottager's
Daughter ' (1837) ; ' The Gipsey Chief ; or,.
The Haunted Oak ' (1840) ; ' Village Scandal ;
or, The Gossip's Tale ' (1835) ; ' The Love
Token ; or, The Mistress and her Guardian '
(1844) ; ' The Trials of Love ; or, Woman's
Reward' (1853); 'Katharine Beresford;
or, The Shade and Sunshine of Woman's
Life' (1854); 'Family Faults' (1854);
' Rosalie Woodbridge ' ( 1 854) ; ' The Outlaw's
Bride,' ' The Pride of the Village,' and
' Scottish Chieftains,' as well as a ' Modern
Geography ' in two volumes, and a 'History
of England ' in two volumes. The British
Museum Catalogue does not contain all the
above. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.
This is not in the nature of an informatory reply to the query, but there was a saying common when I was a lad, " Oh ! that 's Hannah Maria Jones ! " when something marvellous was said. Another rendering was, " It 's all Hannah Maria Jones." I cannot say if this had any relation to the lady. Her book ' The Gipsey Girl ' I re- member reading and enjoying.
THOS. RATCLIFFE.
WILLIAM BRUCE, PHYSICIAN, IN POLAND (10 S. x. 249). Try the late Mr. Fischer's two books on Scots in Germany and Poland.
L. L. K.
DATE OF PLATE (10 S. x. 230). On the evidence furnished by your correspondent I should judge that his pieces of plate are (1) of 1727-8 and (2) of 1732-3.
ST. SWITHLN.
GARIOCH : ITS PRONUNCIATION (10 S. v.. 9, 56). As a surname this word is common in Orkney, there being as many as four families of the name even in this small town.. The usual spelling here is Garrioch, and sometimes Garriock. The pronunciation here is always Garrick. ALEX. RUSSELL.
Strom ness.
" HOUSE OF WARANTYSE " (10 S. X. 89).
" Warranty " or " warrantize " is described by Cowel as being
"a Promise or Covenant by Deed made by the Bargainer, for himself and his Heirs, to ivarrant or secure the Bargainee and his Heirs against all Men,, for the enjoying anything agreed on between them. 3 ' J. HOLD EN MACMICHAEL.
MORTIMER COLLINS (10 S. x. 249). I have a copy of thirteen compositions on events in the Royal Family, entitled ' Corolla Regalis,' which this writer published in 1866, and to> which MR. PEACOCK is welcome if he will send me l%d. in stamps. A. WATTS.
13, Prestonville Road, Brighton.
