Notes and Queries, Number 44, August 31, 1850

Notes and Queries, Number 44,
August 31, 1850

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Title: Notes & Queries, No. 44, Saturday, August 31, 1850 A Medium
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NOTES AND QUERIES:
A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN,
ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
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"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
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No. 44.] SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 1850 [Price Threepence.
Stamped Edition 4d.
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CONTENTS
NOTES:
Gravesend Boats 209 Notes on Cunningham's Handbook of London, by
E.F. Rimbault 211 Devotional Tracts belonging to Queen Katherine
Parr, by Dr. Charlton 212 Suggestions for cheap Books of Reference
213 Rib, why the first Woman formed from 213 Minor
Notes:--Cinderella, or the Glass Slipper--Mistletoe on
Oaks--Omnibuses--Havock--Schlegel on Church Property in England
214
QUERIES: P. Mathieu's Life of Sejanus 215 The Antiquity of Smoking
216 Sir Gregory Norton, Bart. 216 Minor Queries:--City
Offices--Meaning of Harefinder--Saffron-bag--Bishop Berkley's
successful Experiments--Unknown Portrait--Custom of selling
Wives--Hepburn Crest and Motto--Concolinel--"One Holy, Catholic
and Apostolic Church"--The Norfolk Dialect--Sir John
Perrot--"Antiquitas sæculi juventus mundi" 216
REPLIES: Derivation of "News" 218 Replies to Minor
Queries:--Swords worn in Public--Quarles' Pension--Franz von
Sickingen--"Noll me tangere"--Dr. Bowring's Translations--Countess
of Desmond--Yorkshire Dales--Sir Thomas Herbert's
Memoirs--Alarum--Practice of Scalping among the Scythian's--Gospel
Tree--Martinet--"Yote" or "Yeot"--Map of London--Woodcarving,
Snow Hill--Waltheof--The Dodo--"Under the Rose"--Ergh, Er, or
Argh--Royal Supporters--The Frog and the Crow of Ennow 218
MISCELLANEOUS:
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 222 Books and Odd Volumes
Wanted 223 Notices to Correspondents 223 Advertisements 223
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NOTES
GRAVESEND BOATS.
While so much has been said of coaches, in the early numbers of
"Notes and Queries" and elsewhere, very little notice has been taken of

another mode of conveyance which has now become very important. I
think it may amuse some of your readers to compare a modern
Gravesend boat and passage with the account given by Daniel Defoe, in
the year 1724: and as it is contained in what I believe to be one of his
least known works, it may probably be new to most of them. In his
_Great Law of Subordination_, after describing the malpractices of
hackney coachmen, he proceeds:
"The next are the watermen; and, indeed, the insolence of these, though
they are under some limitations too, is yet such at this time, that it
stands in greater need than any other, of severe laws, and those laws
being put in speedy execution.
"Some years ago, one of these very people being steersman of a
passage-boat between London and Gravesend, drown'd three-and-fifty
people at one time. The boat was bound from Gravesend to London,
was very full of passengers and goods, and deep loaden. The wind blew
very hard at south-west, which being against them, obliged them to turn
to windward, so the seamen call it, when they tack from side to side, to
make their voyage against the wind by the help of the tide.
"The passengers were exceedingly frighted when, in one tack stretching
over the stream, in a place call'd Long-Reach, where the river is very
broad, the waves broke in upon the boat, and not only wetted them all,
but threw a great deal of water into the boat, and they all begg'd of the
steersman or master not to venture again. He, sawey and impudent,
mock'd them, ask'd some of the poor frighted women if they were
afraid of going to the Devil; bid them say their prayers and the like, and
then stood over again, as it were, in a jest. The storm continuing, he
shipp'd a great deal of water that time also. By this time the rest of the
watermen begun to perswade him, and told him, in short, that if he
stood over again the boat would founder, for that she was a great deal
the deeper for the water she had taken in, and one of them begg'd of
him not to venture; he swore at the fellow, call'd him fool, bade him let
him alone to his business, and he would warrant him; then used a
vulgar sea-proverb, which such fellows have in their mouths, 'Blow
Devil, the more wind, the