12 NOTES AND QUERIES. . r.i2S.ix.j UL T2,io2i. PRIVILEGE or TEMPLARS AND HOS- PITALLERS. In the Act of the thirteenth year of Edward I., chap, xxxiii., it is enacted that lands where crosses be set shall be forfeited as lands alienated in mortmain; and it proceeds : Forasmuch as 'many tenants set up crosses , . . that tenants should defend themselves against the chief lords of the fee, by the privilege of templars and hospitallers, it is ordained that such lands shall be forfeit to the chief lords or to the King . . . What was the privilege spoken of ? W. S. B. H. SIR BENJAMIN HAMMET, Sheriff in 1789, on October 13, 1797, was fined 1,000 for declining to serve the office of Lord Mayor of London, to which he had been elected. What else is known about him ? JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. WILLIAMS, EXECUTED 1618. A Mr. Williams, of the Middle Temple, barrister - at-law, was arraigned at the King's Bench, May 3, 1618, for libelling the King, and on May 5 was hanged and quartered at Charing Cross. Who was he ? JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. THOMASES : ARTISTS AND ENGRAVERS. The names of William, George and George H. Thomas are often bracketed together, as engravers, in books issued during the sixties. Were they members of the same family ? Place and date of the birth and death of each would oblige. AJSTEURIN WILLIAMS. THE GREGORIAN CALENDAR. When did this Calendar come into use in a popular sense in Ireland ? I have heard of a tomb- stone bearing the date 1715/16; but it was not adopted by the Irish Parliament till 1782, although by the English in 1752, .and by the Scotch much earlier. HENRY FITZGERALD REYNOLDS. DICKSON : KIRKPATRICK. Lindsay F. Dickson (born 1835 at Cheltenham), eldest son of Samuel Dickson, M.D. (of Bolton Street, W.), by his wife Elizabeth John- stone, married a Miss Kirkpatrick, a rela- tive of the late Empress Eugenie. The exact relationship is sought. JAMES SETON-ANDERSON. 39, Carlisle Road, Hove, Sussex. DANNETT FAMILY. The arms of the above family are : Gutty on a canton ermine ; crest, a greyhound's head erased. Did any branch of this family use a chief ermine instead of a canton ? I possess a silver seal said to have belonged to the Danuetts with a chief instead of a canton, other- wise the same arms and crest. Date of the seal between 1620-50. Any information would be gratefully received. LEONARD C. PRICE. Essex Lodge, Ewell. CORBISHLEY FAMILY. I shall be greatly obliged if any correspondent can give me information as to the above-named family and the origin of the name. Do the family possess any coat of arms ; if so, where can I obtain a description of same ? RONALD D. WHITTENBURY-KAYE. Newchurch, Culcheth, nr. Warrington. SONG WANTED. At the time of the South African War I attended a public dinner in a remote little Essex village. Among the items of a musical programme following the dinner was a song, very well rendered by a local youth, the martial air of which has remained in my memory ever since. The refrain ran as follows : " He was one of the dear old Regiment, One of the grand old Corps ; One of the bravest ; one of the best In times of Peace or War ; Beady to stand his corner Till every sou was spent ! One of the bravest ; one of the best In the good old Regiment." I should be glad to know the title of the^soiig and the names of the writer and composer. R. S. FARROW. 8, Alma Road, S.W. 18. THE PLAGUE PITS. (12 S. viii. 450, 495.) THE triangular plot of ground in front of Tattersall's is all that remains of a village green that had its maypole down to the end of the eighteenth century. A portion of this green was set apart as a burial- ground to a lazar-house that had existed there from medieval times, and there is a tradition that the lazar-house was used as a hospital for victims of the Great Plague and that those who died there were buried in the triangular plot in question. But it
