Notes and Queries, Number 73, March 22, 1851 | Page 7

be made
accessible to general readers? At present they are too rare and
expensive to be largely useful. A brief Narrative of the Life and Death
of Mr. Henry Smith (as it is for substance related by Mr. Thomas Fuller
in his Church History), which is prefixed to an old edition (1643) of his
sermons in my possession, concludes in these words:--
"The wonder of this excellent man's worth is increased by the
consideration of his tender age, he dying very young (of a consumption
as it is conceived) above fifty years since, about Anno 1600."
THOS. M^CCALMONT.
Highfield, Southampton.

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Minor Queries.
Owen Glendower.--Some of your Cambrian correspondents might,
through your columns, supply a curious and interesting desideratum in
historical genealogy, by contributing a pedigree, authenticated as far as
practicable by dates and authorities, and including collaterals, of
OWEN GLENDOWER, from his ancestor Griffith Maelor, Lord of
Bromfield, son of Madoc, last Prince of Powys, to the extinction of
Owen's male line.
All Cambrian authorities are, I believe, agreed in attributing to Owen
the lineal male representation of the sovereigns of Powys; but I am not
aware that there is any printed pedigree establishing in detail, on
authentic date, his descent, and that of the collaterals of his line; while
uncertainty would seem to exist as to one of the links in the chain of
deduction, as to the fate of his sons and their descendants, if any, as
well as to the marriages and representatives of more than one of his
daughters.
I have in vain looked for the particulars I have indicated in Yorke's
Royal Tribes of Wales; in the Welsh Heraldic Visitation Pedigrees,
lately published by the Welsh MSS. Society, under the learned
editorship of the late Sir Samuel Meyrick; and in the valuable
contributions to the genealogy of the Principality to be found in the
Landed Gentry and the Peerage and Baronetage of Mr. Burke,--a
pedigree, in other respects admirable, in the Landed Gentry of a branch
of the dynasty of Powys, omitting the intermediate descents in
question.
S. M.
Meaning of Gig-Hill.--Can any of your readers favour me with an
explanation of the following matter in local topography? There are two
places in the neighbourhood of Kingston-on-Thames distinguished by
the name of Gig-Hill[3], although there is no indication of anything in
the land to warrant the name.

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Are there any instances to be met with where the place of punishment
by the stocks or pillory in olden times, was known by that name?
There was a king of Brittany who resigned his crown, and obtained the
honours of canonisation as Saint Giguel, in the seventh century. St.
Giles, who died about the sixth century, might, perhaps, have had some
connexion with those who are traditionally believed to have been
punished on the spot; that is, if we judge by his clients, who locate
themselves under the sanctity of his name as a "Guild" or fraternity in
London.
There is, however, a curious use by Shakspeare of the word gig. It
occurs in Love's Labour's Lost, Act V. Sc. I.:
Holofernes says,
"What is the figure?"
Moth. Horns.
Holofernes. Thou disputest like an infant. Go, whip thy gig."
I submit this matter, as local names have often their origin in religious
associations or in proverbial philosophy.
It has been suggested that giggle, as a mark of the derision to which the
culprit was exposed, might so become corrupted.
If the term be connected with the punishment, it would be, doubtless,
one of general application. The smallest contribution will be thankfully
received.
K.
[Footnote 3: [One of these places, namely, that on the road from
Kingston to Ditton, is, we believe, known as Gig's Hill.--ED.]]

Sir John Vaughan.--In the patent under which the barony of Hamilton
of Hackallen, in the county of Meath, was granted on the 20th of
October, in the second year of the reign of George I., to Gustavus
Hamilton, he is described as son of Sir Frederick Hamilton, Knt., by
Sidney, daughter and heiress of Sir John Vaughan, Knt.; and that the
said Dame Sidney Hamilton was descended from an honourable line of
ancestors, one of whom, Sir Will Sidney, was Chamberlain to Henry II.,
another of the same name Comptroller of the Household to Henry VIII.,
&c., &c.
Can any of your genealogical friends inform me who the above-named
Sir John Vaughan married, and in what way she was connected with the
Sidneys of Penshurst, as the pedigree given by Collins contains no
mention of any such marriage?
The arms of Sir John Vaughan, which appear quartered with those of
Hamilton and Arran in the margin of the grant, are,--Argent, a chevron
sable between three infants' heads coupled at the shoulders, each
entwined round the neck with a snake,