Athenæum.
Eliza Fenning (Vol. v., pp. 105. 161.).
—It is long after the "N. & Q." are published that I get sight of a number, or I should have urged (what may probably have been already done) the very great importance of obtaining from the workhouse, or wherever else in Suffolk or Essex it can be obtained, an authentication of the report by Turner, that he was the poisoner of the family in Chancery Lane, for which crime Eliza Fenning was executed. One would hope that a question of so much and such serious monument would not be permitted to remain undetermined, if by any possibility it can be cleared up.
I well knew the medical man who attended the case, and gave evidence at the trial,—he was cruelly assailed afterwards by some who had taken a prejudice against him, and no doubt suffered in his practice in consequence.
T. D. P.
Hexameter on English Counties (Vol. v., p. 227.).
—The lines referred to by M. are to be found in Grey's Memoria Technica and Lowe's Memories, p. 172., and runs thus:
"Nor cum-dúr: we La-yórk: che-de-not-line: shrop sta-le-rut norf:
Hér-wo-wa-nórtha: Bed-hunt-cámb-suff: mon-gl-óxfo-buck-hart-ess:
Som-wilt-bérk-Middlesex: corn-dev-dors-hámp-Surrey-Kent Suss."