Notes and Queries, Number 230, March 25, 1854

centuries to this remarkable yew. See a valuable artic

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great interest in the history of an invention which is justly considered one of the greatest wonders of our own times, I send a transcript of it, by way of satisfying the natural curiosity of many readers who may not

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also let the wires be fixed in a solid piece of glass at six inches from the end; and let that part of them which reaches from the glass to the machine have sufficient spring and stiffness to recover its situation after having been brought in contact with the barrel. Close by the supporting glass let a ball be suspended from every wire, and about a sixth or an eighth of an inch below the ball place the letters of an alphabet, marked on bits of paper, or any other substance that may be light enough to rise to the electrified ball, and at the same time let it be so contrived that each of them may reassume its proper place when dropt. All things constructed as above, and the minute previously fixed, I begin the conversation with my distant friend in this

set reaching to the several bells; one, viz., from the horizontal wire a to the bell a, another from the horizontal wire b to the bell b, &c. Then let him who begins the discourse bring the wires in contact with the barrel, as before, and the electric spark, brea

be so contrived, at the same time, that any of them may be removed from its corresponding horizontal by the slightest touch, and may bring itself again into contact when left at liberty. This may be done by the help of a small spring and slider, or twenty other methods which the least ingenui

ay be reasonably supposed, that in a far greater length it would be remarkably diminished, and probably would be entirely strained off in a few miles by the surrounding air. To prevent this objection, and save longer argument, lay over t

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rcumstances that I can detail will be sufficient to prove that his brother Mr. J. H. Dixon o

y Mr. Spence so similar, as to warrant the supposition that a set form was kept on hand to be copied in different applications wit

r. Spence states he was engaged by the "widow

of course, are substituted instead of Dixons. Four generations from Sir John Monson temp. Edward III., instead of five generations from Ralph Dixon temp. Henry V

to be consistent with the descents, four shields with sixtee

ch for the authenticity

by the substitution of the names of "Sir John Monson" and "his mother Elinor, daughter and coheir of Sir John Sutton, de

Birkenhead (a clergyman), I applied to him out of curiosity to find out something of my informant, who at least had shown some ingenuity. The answer was by no means in favour of Mr. Spence; and one fact was decidedly ascertained, that he neither lived nor w

e internal proofs of being worthless; and if such a pedigree as is described should exist, I feel assured it is not the wor

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uthority, but a gross invention opposed to the facts, I thought Mr. Dixon might like to know that Mr. Spence founds the romance in question on a "Pedigree of Cotgreave de Hargrave, the work of the cele

h. Sh

ark, Stratf

letter of William Sidney Spence which you inserted for him was an imposture, and

his "distinguished progenitors," with their armorial bearings, &c., purporting to be authenticated as a true copy of one in Miss Cotgreave's possession under that lady's own hand. The information so received being subsequently submitted to a genealogical friend, some doubt was excited of its genuineness in proving too much; and an inquiry, which I made th

onsidered as the founder of a new family, supposed himself, or wished to be supposed by others, to be descended from an ol

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information respecting his family taken from the Cotgreave pedigree, and who imprudently sent money for the same, got nothing but the most

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his inquiry, except two in which I suspect some error. If farther references to authorities are desired, th

elton-Cokefeud for

for Molun

for Newton Hall or Castle, the head of th

r Esselynton-E.

Cubleston-C. in

la Beche-De la Beche C

umes-Beaumys Castle

ham-P. alias Sterbo

for Orkesden

Stanstede-Bourchier

talicium in loco de Crodonio."

yheved-Highhead Cas

ngham-Heton for Chill

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Park,

cations. In addition to this I may state, that there are monuments in the old church (St. Andrew) of Halstead to some of the Bourchier family. These facts, taken together, seem to fix the locality with sufficient precision. One of the monuments just referred to is a brass, commemorating Sir Bartholomew Bourchier and hi

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e the property of a family named Richmond, one of whom erected the present house, after a plan by Inigo Jones. But he died before it was finished, leaving co-heirs, who quarrelled about the partition of the

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Mr. Jardine at Bow Street Police Court; and which was reported in The Times for February 22, 1854. Let the following extract suffice: it

e prisoner told me that one of the worms had bit her finger, and slipped away again, and she could not get at it. She tried a second time, and said the worm had bit her again. I then begged her to leave off, if she could not succeed in getting it away; for I believed I should die under the operation. She tried a third time, and sa

ced the "reptile" to be a fine conger eel, which