1715 to 1745, in which year he died. During that period his name
appears once in the parish book, in the year 1742, as "minister for the
time being" (not incumbent of the parish): the Rev. Geo. Langworthy having
been the incumbent from 1736 to 1745, both inclusive.

Query, Was Sir Joshua by mistake _baptized Joseph_? or was the mistake made
after baptism, in _registering the name_?

J. SANSOM.

Oxford.

_Tradescant._--The pages of "N. & Q." have elicited and preserved so much
towards the history of John Tradescant and his family, that the
accompanying extract from the register of St. Nicholas Cole Abbey, in the
city of London, should have a place in one of its Numbers:

"1638. _Marriages._--John Tradeskant of Lambeth, co. Surrey, and Hester
Pooks of St. Bride's, London, maiden, married, by licence from Mr.
Cooke, Oct. 1."

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This lady erected the original monument in Lambeth churchyard upon the
death of her husband in 1662. She died 1678.

G.

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Queries.

GRAMMAR IN RELATION TO LOGIC.

Dr. Latham (_Outlines of Logic_, p. 21., 1847, and _English Language_, p.
510., 2nd edition) defines the conjunction to be a part of speech that
connects _propositions_, not _words_. His doctrine is so palpably and
demonstrably false, that I am somewhat at a loss to understand how a man of
his penetration can be so far deceived by a crotchet as to be blind to the
host of examples which point to the direct converse of his doctrine. Let
the learned Doctor try to resolve the sentence, _All men are either
two-legged, one-legged, or no-legged_, into three constituent propositions.
It cannot be done; _either_ and _or_ are here conjunctions which connect
words and not propositions. In the example, _John and James carry a
basket_, it is of course quite plain that the _logic_ of the matter is that
_John carries one portion of the basket, and James carries the rest_. But
to identify these two propositions with the first mentioned, is to confound
grammar with logic. The former deals with the method of expression, the
latter with the method of stating (in thought) and syllogising. To take
another example, _Charles and Thomas stole all the apples_. The fact
probably was, that Charles' pockets contained some of the apples, and
Thomas' pockets contained all the rest. But the business of grammar in the
above sentence is to regulate the _form_ of the expression, not to reason
upon