Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 126, March 27, 1852: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 126, March 27, 1852: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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Questions and answers -- Periodicals
_Eliza Fenning_ (Vol. v., pp. 105. 161.).--It is long after the "N. &
Q." are published that I get sight of a number, or I should have urged
(what may probably have been already done) the very great importance of
obtaining from the workhouse, or wherever else in Suffolk or Essex it
can be obtained, an authentication of the report by Turner, that he was
the poisoner of the family in Chancery Lane, for which crime Eliza
Fenning was executed. One would hope that a question of so much and such
serious monument would not be permitted to remain undetermined, if by
any possibility it can be cleared up.
I well knew the medical man who attended the case, and gave evidence at
the trial,--he was cruelly assailed afterwards by some who had taken a
prejudice against him, and no doubt suffered in his practice in
consequence.
T. D. P.
_Hexameter on English Counties_ (Vol. v., p. 227.).--The lines referred
to by M. are to be found in Grey's _Memoria Technica_ and Lowe's
_Memories_, p. 172., and runs thus:
"Nor cum-dúr: we La-yórk: che-de-not-line: shrop sta-le-rut norf:
Hér-wo-wa-nórtha: Bed-hunt-cámb-suff: mon-gl-óxfo-buck-hart-ess:
Som-wilt-bérk-Middlesex: corn-dev-dors-hámp-Surrey-Kent Suss."
"Such as are contiguous southward are joined, as in we la:
Such as are contiguous westward are hyphened, as che-de."
C. S. P.
_Fairest Attendant of the Scottish Queen_ (Vol. v., p. 152.).--Your
correspondent who inquires about an attendant of the Scottish queen who
disappeared when she was in England, will find a notice of the same
person in the appendix to Tytler's _History of Scotland_, reign of Queen
Mary. There is a letter there from the English ambassador at Paris to
his Court, with an account of the Queen Dowager's visit to France: he
mentions that King Henry had been captivated by one of the ladies in
Mary's train, who, it was reported, was with child to him. The frail
fair one left with her mistress, but returned shortly thereafter. I
think she must be the person referred to in the _Grey Friars'
Chronicle_.
J. F.
Belfast.
_Ecclesiastical Geography_ (Vol. iv., p. 276.).--AJAX, who asks the name
of some work on this subject, may perhaps find his wants supplied in
_Geographia Ecclesiastica, &c._, "Auberto Miraeo auctore."
D. ROCK.
_Llandudno, on the Great Orme's Head_ (Vol. v., pp. 175. 235.).--MR. WM.
DURRANT COOPER, in "N. & Q.," has quite mistaken the subject of my
inquiry. I am well aware of the cavern, or old copper mine, supposed to
have been worked by the Romans; but the place I inquire about is of a
different description, in every respect, and is only six feet across,
and eight or ten feet high, and fitted up as a place of worship, with a
font, altar, seats, &c. I hope some one who has seen it will be able yet
to throw some light on the subject.
L. G. T.
Lichfield.
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