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NOTES AND QUERIES.
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|\ ( iy or two ago a number of death warrants,
>ea ing the signature of Portland, minister of
Jeo ge III., were found in the panels of the walls
wit i]in which the murder was committed. How
oci ments of this character got into so strange a
idi ig-place is a matter for conjecture. One, dated
un >, 1798, is a good sample of how warrants were
ire] ared in those days. It reads : ' Whereas James
I'C( igley having been attainted of high treason,
,nd had sentence passed upon him to be drawn
ipoi i a hurdle to the place of execution, and to be
her 3 hanged by the neck, but not until he is dead,
ut jhat, being alive, he shall be taken down and
is 1 towels taken out and burnt before his face, that
is aead be severed from his body and his body
ivi'led into four parts, and that his head and body
hall be disposed of as we think fit, and whereas we
hink fit to remit that part of the sentence directing
he burning of his bowels and dividing the body into
bur parts, our will and pleasure is that he shall be
rawn and hanged and have his head severed from
is body.' "
D. J.
WE must request correspondents desiring infor-
kation on family matters of only private interest
> affix their names and addresses to their queries,
i order that the answers may be addressed to
lem direct.
"INFORMATION AND GENERAL KNOWLEDGE IFFICE." How can I obtain particulars con- brning this institution, which, I believe, no mger exists? It was, I think, started and tanaged in London by the late Lord Truro. hat became, at the closing of the office or .e decease of the late Lord Truro, of the brary of reference ? N. J. LYON.
Turf Club, Cairo.
[The rooms were in New Oxford Street, near mthamptoii Street. The institution, which sted, if we rightly recollect, little more than a sar, probably expired with the death of Lord ruro. This is all the information we possess. It ill doubtless be supplemented by some of our ntributors.]
"UNDER THE BEARD OF GEORDIE Bu- ANAN." To whom does the above refer, d what gave rise to the saying 1 Any in- rmation will be acceptable.
JEANNIE S. POPHAM. Llanrwst, N. Wales.
It obviously refers to George Buchanan, the ottish historian and scholar, 1506-82. As we ow neither the line nor the context we are unable note the reference involved. Can it be to Mary uart and the Casket Letters, with which Buchanan tS closely associated?]
"GEW-MOUTHED." "They were but three w-mouthed lasses and two looby loons " lackmore, 'Mary Anerley,' ch. xvii.). We e led to infer that " gew-mouthed " is a amborough word, but it does not appear
in any glossary of the East Riding. What
does " gew-mouthed " mean 1
A. L. MAYHEW. Oxford.
NAME OF PLAY AND AUTHOR. In what play of about fifty years ago does a chorus occur commencing as follows ?
Now by the waving greenwood tree We merry, merry archers roam ; Careless and jovial, ever free,
We hail our native home. Who is the author ? A. W. MALCOLMSON. Admiralty, 47, Victoria Street, S.W. [At the express desire of our correspondent, who is anxious for an answer, we insert once more a query that appeared ante, p. 68.]
CAPTURE OF SEVILLE. Will any of your readers state who commanded the French troops on 27 Aug., 1812, when Seville was taken by assault by the English under Col. SkerretU J. A. C.
MORALES. Who commanded the English and French troops, respectively, in this cavalry action, fought on 2 June, 1813 ? J. A. C.
GAUNT FAMILY. I am referred to 'N. & Q.' for information concerning the Gaunt family. Thomas Gaunt (said to have been a descend- ant of Elizabeth Gaunt, burnt at Tyburn in 1685 for harbouring Anabaptists) came to America some time in 1700. He and his wife (Fielder) were born in England. His son
Thomas married Priscilla , and died 1765.
His grandson, Robert F. Gaunt, died 1807, aged seventy-five ; Eobert's widow, Susanna, aged sixty-eight, died 1813, and is buried in Fredericktown, Maryland, United States of America. Any particulars as to the Gaunts in England or in colonial America will be gratefully acknowledged by
MARGARET DELAND.
Boston, Mass.
[A family of Gaunt, the head of which was a solicitor, dwelt in Leeds. Matthew Gaunt, a solicitor, married a Paley, a relative of Paley of the ' Evidences.' Two of their sons, John and James, went to Australia. William Henry Gaunt, eldest son, was for a term a solicitor in Leeds, the firm being James and Hamilton Richardson & Gaunt.]
CRONBANE HALFPENNY. Ob., a bishop's head with mitre, crosier, &c., "Cronbane Halfpenny." Rev., a shield of arms with crest, "Associated Irish Miners' Arms, 1789." On edge, " Payable at Cronbane Lodge or in Dublin." Another now before me has, rev., an altogether different shield of arms and crest, " Payable in Dublin, Newry, or Belfast." Another has on edge, " Payable in London, Bristol, or Lancaster." Tnere is a great
