hard
Baxter? He was a Northamptonshire man, but I think his family removed
into some county in the west.

W.H.B.

_Passage in St. Peter_.--Besides the well-known passage in the
_Tempest_, what _Christian_ writers have used any kindred expression to
2 Pet. iii. 10.?

J. SANSOM.

8. Park Place, Oxford, June 1. 1850.

_Juice-cups_.--Is it beneath the dignity of "NOTES AND QUERIES" to admit
an inquiry respecting the philosophy and real effect of placing an
inverted cup in a fruit pie? The question is not about the _object_, but
whether that object is, or can be, effected by the means employed.

N.B.

Derivation of "Yote" or "Yeot."--What is the derivation of the word
"yote" or "yeot," a term used in Glocestershire and Somersetshire, for
"leading in" iron work to stone?

B.

_Pedigree of Greene Family_.--At Vol. i., p. 200., reference is made to
"a fine Pedigree on vellum, of the Greene family, penes T. Wotton, Esq."

Can any person inform me who now possesses the said pedigree, or is
there a copy of it which may be consulted?

One John Greene, of Enfield, was clerk to the New River Company: he died
1705, and was buried at Enfield. He married Elizabeth Myddelton,
grand-daughter of Sir Hugh. I wish to find out the birth and parentage
of the said John Greene and shall be _thankful_, if I may say so much,
without adding too much to the length of my Query.

H.T.E.

_Family of Love_.--Referring to Dr. RIMBAULT'S communication on the
subject of this sect (Vol. ii., p. 49.), will you allow me to inquire
whether there is any evidence that its members deserved Fuller's severe
condemnation? Queen Elizabeth might consider them a "damnable sect," if
they were believed to hold heterodox opinions in religion and politics;
but were their lives or their writings immoral?

N.B.

_Sir Gammer Vans_.--Can any one give any account of a comic story about
one "_Sir Gammer Vans_," of whom, amongst other absurdities, it is said
"_that his aunt was a justice of peace, and his sister a captain of
horse_"? It is alluded to somewhere {90} in Swift's _Letters_ or
_Miscellanies_; and I was told by a person whose recollection, added to
my own, goes back near a hundred years, that it was supposed to be a
_political satire_, and may have been of Irish origin, as I think there
is some allusion to it in one of Goldsmith's plays or essays.

C.

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