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NOTES AND QUEiUES.
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to haye written it ; and, sub nom. Francis
' Wrangham, mentioning " the suspicion thai
.he was the author." The same authority
in common with most references in ' N. & Q.,
gives the penultimate line as :
And if you'd know the mind of little Jowett.
The Georgian Era, vol. i. (1832), says of Lort Mansel :
" He wrote a Latin epigram on Dr. Jowett's improvements on a small strip of land attachec to his residence of which the following is a translation " ;
giving the six well-known lines, the last but one being
And if you'd know the taste of little Jowett.
Wrangham (1769-1842) was a fine classica scholar, but I do not think he shone in original epigram, though he translated a collection ; whilst Mansel (1753-1820), in his ant e-epsic opal days and before his mastership of Trinity, " was generally known as the chief wit and mimic o academic society" ('D.N.B.'); and may ^well have perpetrated the Jowett epigram circa 1793. W. B. H.
SUPERPHOSPHATE. I saw this strange epitaph in the churchyard of the City -churches, Aberdeen, the other day :
"_Sacred to the memory of William Hay, born 1815, died 1894, parish and public schoolmaster, 'Tillydesk, Ellon, 1841 to 1880. He introduced and gave name to the manure called superphosphate in (1842.
J. M. BULLOCH.
QUABBYMEN'S TERMS. A short time back I found a bill for various qualities of atones quarried in Herefordshire. All who know that beautiful county will appreciate the charm of old stone houses, roofs, and walls, and some of your readers may care to learn the names applied to the different classes of material by the quarrvmen. The bill is
An account of worke don from y e 31 of July to the
20 of Sept., 1701. Francis Haines for Hewin. Barell stones 275 cwt.
Kinderkin stones 37 cwt. Some stones 180
Firkin stones 360
Copers ends 1700
Ping 630
'Hogger hedin 18 doz.
"Rase! hedin 34 doz.
'"Sqr. bottoms 5 doz.
Peck bottoms 3 and a half.
Lockstocks 44 doz.
Spoks 2 set.
The greater part of the account is uu- .iortunately torn away.
J. HARVEY BLOOM,
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DOUBLE CHRISTIAN NAMES. Double and
treble Christian names are generally sup-
posed to be late inventions (?) seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries. In the course of
indexing the Clergy Lists of Sussex, however,
we came across a John William Whyttyng,
who was Rector of St. Bartholomew's,
Egdean or Blertham from 1389 to 1428.
J. W. FAWCETT.
Consett, co. Durham.
WE must request correspondents desiring in-
formation on family matters of only private interest
to affix their names and addresses to their queries,
in order that answers may be sent to them direct.
HAMILTON. (See 8 S. xii. 507.) Some
twenty years ago, a question was asked
in * N. & Q.' about a lady by the name
of Margaret Hamilton, who had been in-
terred in Fulham churchyard and who,
according to the inscription on her tomb,
must have died at the advanced age of 113
years. To this date, the question has been
left unanswered. I have some reasons to
believe that the lady was the widow of
Henry Hamilton, who was lieutenant-
governor of Canada from 1782 to 1785, and
died at Antigua in 1796 as Governor of San
Domingo. In the Canadian Archives, there
is a letter of Mrs. Margaret Hamilton,
written from 11 Lower Sloane Street,
Chelsea, and dated September, 1807. This
letter was addressed to Lord Hillsborough
praying him to receive favourably a petition
of her daughter, Margaret Stuart, who asked
for a pension as the widow of Francis
Lemaistre, former lieutenant-governor of
Gaspe in Canada.- On the other hand, Sir
James Craig, in another letter accompany-
ing the same petition of the widow Lemaistre,
refers to her dependance upon an aged
mother, Mrs. Margaret Cramahe. It appears
as if the lady in question had been married
three times :
1. To one Stuart, the father of Margaret who married later Francis Lemaistre.
2. To Hector Theophilus Cramahe, who was lieutenant-governor of Canada, from 1771 to 1782, and died probably before 1790.
3. To Henry Hamilton, also lieutenant- governor of Canada and successor to
ramahe.
The inscription on the tomb in Fulham )hurchyard says that Margaret Hamilton was born at Geneva, June 2, 1727. Thi ; date could easily apply to the widow
