. viz. JAN. 5, i9oi.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
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expensive and unfortunate war in which the
nation had been engaged for several years
and to the diminished resources and growing
burdens of the community, the petitioner*
prayed that before any new burdens shoulc
be laid upon the country effectual measures
might be taken by the House to inquire into
and correct the gross abuse in the expenditure
of public money, to reduce all exorbitant
emoluments, to rescind and abolish all
sinecure places and unmerited pensions, and
to appropriate the produce to the necessities
of the State in such manner as to the wisdom
of Parliament should seem meet.
Petitions in similar terms were received from the counties of Hertford (11 February), Middlesex, Chester, Sussex, Surrey, Hunting- don, Bedford, Essex, Somerset, Wilts, Glou- cester, Dorset, Cumberland, Norfolk, Devon, Berks, Bucks, Kent, Nottingham, Cambridge, Hereford, Northumberland, Hants, Suffolk, Derby, and some of the Welsh counties, and from London, Westminster, York, Newcastle, Bristol, Bridgwater, Heading, and Notting- ham.
On 11 February Edmund Burke introduced his well-known Bill for the better regulation of his Majesty's civil establishment. Both Bill and petitions afforded matter for frequent debates throughout the session of 1780. Cf. 'Parliamentary Register,' vol. xvii. (sub tit. 1 Petitions ' in index) ; also, on the subject of sinecures, vol. xvi., where a complete list of Civil Service expenditure is given.
W. R. BARKER.
In February, March, and April, 1780, about forty-one petitions from divers parts of the country were presented to the House of Commons, complaining of abuses in the expenditure of public money (see the printed 'Journals' of that House, vol. xxxvii., index, Public Money'). Of these petitions, the earliest from Yorkshire, York, Bristol, and Nottingham were presented on 8 February, 1780. That from Bristol prayed for a " just and necessary reformation in the public expenditure." H. C.
ANGIER, ANGER, OR ATJNGIER FAMILY (9 th S. vi. 169). There is a note in the Gentleman's Magazine for 1825 (vol. ii. p. 686) relating to the Kentish family of Aucher. It states that " the third quartering in the Bowyer arms (Erm., in chief three lions rampant) is the coat armour of Sir Hewitt Aucher, of Bishopsbourne, Kent, Knt. and Bart. It was borne bv Robert Aucher, M.A., Priest, of Queen's College, Oxford, third son of Sir Anthony Aucher."
Sir Anthony Aucher, Bart., of Bourne, Kent (died 1692), married aa his second wife (after
1648) Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas
Hewitt, Knt., and by her had a son, Sir
Hewitt Aucher, Bart., who died without issue
in 1726, and is buried in Bishopsbourne
Church. Sir Anthony's daughter and eventual
sole heiress married Sir Edward Bowyer, Knt.
J. A. HEWITT. Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
"FIVE O'CLOCK TEA": WHEN INTRODUCED (9 th S. vi. 446). At Westerton, near Elgin (now the property of one of the sons of the late Lord Bute), a cousin of mine used to live in the early fifties. I recollect an aunt going to visit them, and telling me, on her return, that they had "tea before dinner" in the drawing-room. This was before 1853.
GEORGE ANGUS. St. Andrews, N.B.
" HA WOK " (9 th S. vi. 387). When James IV. got 20/. white silver " to cast in hawok," was it not that his Majesty might indulge in the sport of falconry or hawking? A cast of hawks was unhooded for the chase of the heron in its flight. 7/o/oc hawk, A.-S.
J. L. ANDERSON.
Edinburgh.
Does not "cast in hawok " allude to money used in the " scatteration " of largesse, "havoc," in the sense somewhat of waste 1
J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.
LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS (8 th S. iv. 425). A correspondent of * N. & Q.,' MR. C. A. WARD, under the above reference, wrote :
' There will soon be a multitude of minor relics disengaged when Holywell Street is thrown into the Strand that dear old gilded crescent moon, with a face in the inner curve, for instance. If we do not act promptly these things will be suddenly jnocked down some late winter evening, and the rubbish cart destroy in a moment all further chance of antiquarian record."
Your correspondent will be gratified to tnow that the London County Council acted promptly so soon, as it had acquired the house iio which the sign in question was affixed, and lad it removed for safety to Spring Gardens, where it remains.
I should like to know what has become of
- he carved angle-post to the house on the
south side of Holywell Street, at the corner of a passage way leading to the Strand, which was pulled down a few years ago.
JOHN HEBB.
"MUSHA" (9 th S. vi. 448). MR. A. L. MAY- HEW asks what is the Irish form of this word, 'amiliar to readers of Irish novels. The Irish
- orm is maise or maisead/i (riming with
Mussia\ derived from ma (if), is (is), and e or
