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thickness. The rod is used in Sir Christopher
Wren's contracts for the building of Green-
wich Hospital, so it has been a long time
in use.
I want to know why the rod or perch, which is a land measure, is used for measuring brickwork ; and when the use of this method
of measuring brickwork was first introduced. I either he" or his father had the charge of
C. M. W. I supplying provisions to the unfortunate
great-great grandfather was John MacLeod
of Bay, who was one of the " two substantial
gentlemen of the clan" who were invited
by the Chief of MacLeod to meet Johnson
and Boswell at dinner at Dunvegan Castle
on Tuesday, 14 Sept., 1773. John MacLeod
held the position of factor to the Chief, and
OF QUOTATIONS WANTED.
Lady Grange during her imprisonment at
8
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H e was married three times-
Where does this sentence occur ? "Ex libris once to a M iss Bethune, the daughter, I think,
qusero quid sit hominum vita ? B. S. E. of foe minister, Mr. Bethune, who was also
I wish to obtain the continuation of the ' * lines
I launch my bark on a wide, wide sea,
Its crew by memory oar'd. I think there are six. M. R.
HAWKINS FAMILY AND ABMS. In
Chief's dinner-party. Another wife was
Frances, daughter of Alex. Mackenzie of
Danschmalnag. I do not know the name
of the third wife. His son, Alexander
MacLeod of Bay, and afterwards of Gillen
a I in Waternish, married a daughter of the
book entitled ' The Art of Heraldry,' pub- Rev. William MacQueen, minister of Snizort,
lished in 1730, the coat of arms is displaved & brother of Johnson's friend the Rev. Dr.
and described of " Richard Hawkins* of Donald MacQueen, who became minister
Marsham in Berkshire, Esquire," viz., " Or, of Kilmuir in Skye in 1740, and died in
on a chiveron between three cinquefoils Raasay in 1785.
azure as many escallops argent ; on a chief The Rev. William MacQueen died on gules a griffin passant of the third." Infor- 21 Sept., 1787, in his sixty-ninth year, at mation is desired (1) as to the situation of Peindoun (Penendoune), where Flora Mac- Marsham ; (2) as to the ancestors and de- Donald died three years afterwards. He scendants of Richard Hawkins ; (3) as to was the fourth occupier of the manse of any other persons of the Hawkiris family Snizort in lineal succession. His father, the bearing the same arms. Rev. Archibald MacQueen, appears in the
In Wiltshire Notes and Queries, vol. iii. Judicial Rentals of the MacDonald estate p. 270, Hugh Hawkins of Newbury, gent., in 1733 as occupier of Rigg and Garafad. appears as one of the parties to a deed Mrs. MacQueen, the friend and relative of of 1634 relating to the manor of Aldbourne, Flora MacDonald, was, I understand, a and his seal is there given as " On a chevron daughter of Sheriff Alexander MacLeod of between three saltires as many roundels." Ulinish, whose acquaintance Johnson and The same information is desired as to this Boswell also made. In Mackenzie's ' History person, and whether he was related to the of the MacLeods ' it is said that the Sheriff above Richard Hawkins. had only one daughter, who married Mac-
Also, are these persons related to Dr. Wm. Leod of Greshornish ; but I have good Hawkins, Canon of Winchester, who married Highland authority for stating that in this Anne, daughter of Isaac Walton, author of particular, as in others, that book is inac- The Compleat Angler ' ? B. HAWKINS. curate. It was through this marriage with Kirklands, Tonbridge. Miss MacQueen that Alex. MacLeod's son,
TV/T T-k T- ^ niy wife's grandfather, Dr. John MacLeod,
MACDONALD : MACQUEEN .-Flora Mac- lector-General of Hospitals at Madras, Donald died on 5 March, 1790, according ^n^ P,. ^^ m, M^mM^*
cIed cousins" with Flora, Marchioness
- K of Hastings, when that lady's husband was
edited by her granddaughter, '< in the house Governor-General of India. 7 of a very dear friend and relative, Mrs. McQueen of Penendoune, wife of the minister of Snizort, who lived not far from Kings- burgh."
W. F. PBIDEAITX.
MILITARY BANK-NOTE. I am anxious to obtain some information as to an engraved
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M * v be ,F ateful tf a ny correspondent bank-note dated 22 July, 1805, in which the
M m the 1 ? xact j' elat u lon8hl P between Governor and Co
a f \ ^ mimSter f Bank Promised to pay John Flag or beaer
W WaS at " a *- the su of five halfpence on demand. It is
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the 1 ? xact j' elat u lon8hl P between Governor and Company of Fort Montague
\ ^ mimSter f Bank Promised to pay John Flag or bea?er
aMmoth % WaS -^ ^? at " g ^ a *- the su of five halfpence on demand. It is
grandmother of my own wife. My wife's signe d T. Hill, and countersigned C. Cannon.
