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3 February following, are recorded in the
parish register of St. Peter, Chester.
He was settled as actual minister of Kaye Street Chapel, Liverpool, before 13 Sep- tember, 1709. His wife Anne (Eaton), married 9 Feb., 1713/14 (cf. ' The Noncon- formist Register, generally known as the Northowram or Coley Register,' ed. J. Horsfall Turner, 1881), was previously the wife of John Cheney, mercer of Warrington, and appears to have died at Liverpool, 13 September, 1737 (ibid.).
Three of his children are mentioned in Kaye Street Chapel register : Frances <bap. 11 Dec., 1715), wife of John William- son of Liverpool, clerk ; Ann, bap. 23 April, 1718 ; and Ann (the second of that name), bap. 15 March, 1723, who survived her father.
Administration of his estate was granted by the Consistory Court of Chester, 1 1 August 1744, to Frances Williamson, the eldest daughter. He was only remotely connected with the Bassnetts of Coventry.
Nothing is known of the descendants of Christopher Bassnett's children, but his brother William had a son and a daughter ; the latter was married to Edward Cropper. The son, Nathaniel Bassnett, merchant in New Broad Street, London, 1755, was father of the wife of Thomas Percival, M.D., F.R.S., whose daughter was the mother of Sir Ben- jamin Heywood, Bt. (1793-1865), banker at Manchester. (See H. D. Roberts's ' Hope Street Church, Liverpool, and the Allied Nonconformity,' 1909, pp. 32-4.)
This note will supplement the Rev. Alex- ander Gordon's account of Christopher Bassnett in the ' D.N.B.,' iii. 387.
DANIEL HIPWELL.
SUBMARINE BOATS IN 1828. I find among my notes a reference to an article in the Stuttgart Morgenblatt for 9 September 1828. L. L. K.
' NEW ENGLISH DICTIONARY ' : " SIM- PLE " TO " SLEEP." I notice a few omissions from this new double-section.
1. " Sistent," an old medical term. In Alleyne's ' New English Dispensatory ' (1733) there is a chapter devoted to " sis- tents," that is, to medicines which " diminish or take away the above-mentioned causes of acceleration [of the motion of the blood]."
2. " Sistra." Folkard (' Plant Lore,' &c., p. 237) quotes from Dr. Prior a passage from
- The Crete Herball ' in which " sistra "
is used as a name for dill, contrary to some who call it "mew." " Sistra," says the old
herbalist, "is of more vertue than Mew,
and the leaves be lyke an herbe called
Valde Bona"
3. " Sinphonie " and " simphonie." These both occur in ' Alphita ' as names for henbane.
4. I am surprised to find 1875 the earliest date for " syphon " in connexion with mineral waters. I was familiar with the invention at least eight years before then.
C. C. B.
" HAPPEN." The euphemism " if any- thing should happen " seems to have escaped the attention of the editors of the ' N.E.D.' [In the event of] " any thing happening to his father " is called a modern phrase in 1829 (Blackivood's Mag., June, p. 719).
RICHARD H. THORNTON. 36, Upper Bedford Place, W.C.
SPETTIGUE, CARPENTER, AND ROWE FAMILIES. MR. ROBERT PIERPOINT, ante, p. 24, in a note upon the copy of a Carpenter- Rowe document, made at Launceston in 1808 by Stephen Spettigue says: "I am far from sure about the name ' Spettigue.' "
I may therefore record that Stephen Spettigue, a member of one of the oldest Launceston families, was Mayor of the borough in 1808-9, as he had been in 1791-2 and again in 1795-6 ; as Solomon Spettigue had been in 1770-71, and again in 1775-6 and 1784-5; and as John Spet- tigue in 1805-6.
The William Rowe mentioned as " Jus- tice " in the copy had been Mayor in 1806-7 ; and both he and Coryndon Rowe filled the civic chair on more than one occasion, as, before them, had done Coryndon Carpenter, at various dates in the eighteenth century. For Sir William Carpenter Rowe, son of Coryndon Rowe, and Chief Justice of Ceylon 1856-9, I would refer MR. PIERPOINT to Messrs. Boase and Courtney's ' Biblio- theca Cornubiensis,' vol. ii. 604.
DUNHEVED.
WILLIAM WOOLLETT, DRAUGHTSMAN AND LINE ENGRAVER. William Wollett (sic) of St. Bridget's, otherwise Bride's, London, engraver, bachelor, 23, and Hannah Morris of St. Saviour's, Southwark, spinster, 21, were married at St. Saviour's Collegiate Church, Southwark, by virtue of a licence from the Commissary Court of Surrey. The allegation for the licence is dated 21 December, 1758. Woollett appears to have been twice married, his widow being Elizabeth Woollett (see 'D.N.B.,' Ixii. 430).
