J. R. (Cork)
Hog's Norton (Vol. v., p. 245.).
—Your correspondent who writes from Ashby-de-la-Zouch will, it is probable, be surprised to find that Hog's Norton is almost in his own immediate neighbourhood. In Curtis' Topographical History of Leicestershire (printed, by-the-bye, at Ashby), he subjoins to the modern names of places the ancient names as found in Domesday Book, Inquisitiones post mortem, &c. It appears that Norton juxta Twycross was in other days "Nortone, Hoggenortone, Hog's Norton." There is, then, no doubt as to which of the many Nortons in England is Hog's Norton: but whether there is now, or ever was, an organ in the church; or whether a Mr. Pigge, or any number of pigs, played on one there, I know not.
S. S. S.
Cromwell's Skull (Vol. v., p. 275.).
—Your correspondent J. P., who inquires in your last respecting the identity of a certain skull with that of Oliver Cromwell, will find valuable information on the subject in an article in the fifth volume of the Dublin Quarterly Journal of Medical Science (1848), entitled—
"Historical Notes concerning certain Illnesses, the Death, and
Dis-interment of Oliver Cromwell, by W. White Cooper, F.R.C.S."
This article is very ably written, and throws much light on a vexed question.
ANTIQUARIUS.