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ton, of an Irish family. She married, firstly, John Childermasse, a planter; 2ndly, Henry Brabant, Esq., Provost-Marshall; and, lastly, my collateral ancestor, the Attorney-General. She died childless. Will SPAL communicate by letter to

ROBERT Č. H. HOTCHKIN ?

Thimbleby Rectory, Horncastle.

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STORY OF A SWISS LADY (2nd S. x. 348.)- The story is Voltaire's. The lady, on her weddingday, is in a pleasure-boat, which is upset in the Lake of Geneva, and she is apparently drowned. Two physicians, Bonnet and Covelle, give her up. Lord Abingdon, who is on his travels, arrives at the moment, and asks what is the matter.

"Bonnet disait, 'Notre art n'est que trop vain;
On a tenté des baisers et du vin;

Rien n'a passé. Cette pauvre bourgeoise
A fait son temps; qu'on l'enterre, et buvons.'
Milord reprit, Est-elle Génevoise?'

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W. D. SIR JOHN LE QUESNE (2nd S. v. 216.) In the register of burials at St. Benet Fink, London, occur notices of the children, Francis, Jane, and Maudlyn, and of the wife of James Le Quien, who is described as stranger, lying within the Cock." These deaths occurred within a few days of one another in the year 1570, and were apparently from the plague.

In 1708, May 14, is the burial entry of Mrs. Elizabeth Le Quesne.

In the registers of St. Peter le Poor may be found the marriage of Sir John Lequesne and Mrs. Mary Knight, performed by the Bp. of Norwich in 1738; the baptism of a daughter (Mary) to the above in the following year, and the burials

of

Sir John Le Quesne, Knt., in 1741.
David Le Quesne, Esq., in 1753.
Mrs. Susanna Le Quesne, in 1760.

C. J. ROBINSON. NEW MODE OF CANONISATION (2nd S. ix. 383.) Perhaps either your correspondent T. LAMPRAY, or the writer in the Gentleman's Magazine, would not object to give their authority for the statement "that St. David's Chapel in the Lewisham Road is so named in honour of the late Alderman Wire," who, by-the-by, was not an Independent at all. At present the story reads like a hoax. ALFRED COPLAND. A CARISTMAS DITTY OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY (2nd S. x. 471.) In reply to POLECARP CHENER'S Query respecting the word palde in the the term palde wine, I would beg to suggest that

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the word palled is intended, which, according to Bailey's Dictionary (1788), means "stale, also flat, dead, without spirits, as wine, liquors," &c. J. BRAITHWAITE.

CURIOUS REMAINS IN NORWICH (2nd S. x. 446.) In the very interesting account given by MR. D'AVENEY there are one or two points upon which I am in hopes that he may be able to throw some farther light.

The pitchers are stated to have a hand-hold, and a mouth for pouring off the contents;. evidently, therefore, they were meant to be moveable, and yet they are described as being placed horizontally in the perpendicular walls, and bedded in mortar with their mouths open to the trough. This appears to be so very singular, that I am led to inquire whether I am correct in interpreting the description as meaning that the pitchers were placed on their sides, and let into the substance of the wall, with their mouths flush with the surface?

The pavement of the chancel appears to have shown no indication of the troughs below. Can it be ascertained when this pavement was laid down, and whether there ever was any contrivance for opening part of the trough by means of a wooden lid, or otherwise?

I would also beg to inquire what is the distance of the trough from the side wall of the chancel ? P. S. CAREY.

ARMS OF HAYNES (2nd S. x. 387.)- The arms, be those of Haynes: Argent, three crescents No. 1., inquired after by SPALATRO, appeared to cholas Haynes of Hackney, Middlesex, 1578. barry undée azure and gules; confirmed to Ni

J. G. N.

GREENE FAMILY (2nd S. x. passim.) — In addition to the marriage of Dr. Thomas Greene in 1681, the Register of St. Olave's Jewry records that of " Mr. Hadsley Greene, of Shelley Hall, co. Essex, gentle and Bach'., and Mary Nicholls of Stondon Massy in s. county, 11 Augt., 1692," and (with others of the name), 1707. Aug. 26. My brother, Mr. Jermyn Greene, was buried in my vault." C. J. R.

"SO IN THE PAINTER'S ANIMATED FRAME" (2nd S. x. 370.) The author of the lines beginning as above is Tickell. They are an extract from "A Poem on the Prospect of Peace," and are printed in Dodsley's Collection of Poems, in 6 vols., 1758. HENRY W. LIVETT, M.D.

SAVOY AND SAXE-COBOURG GOTHA (2nd S. x. 409. 454.)-It appears from a work entitled The Antient and Present State of Germany, London, 1702, p. 197., "Lothair, Duke of Saxony, being elected Emperor in the year 1135, resigned his Electorate to Henry Guelph, commonly called Henry the Proud." From which it seems

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THE O'DRISCOLL FAMILY (2nd S. x. 521.)-In the Miscellany published by the Celtic Society in 1849, your correspondent THETA will find ample information regarding the O'h-Eidirsceoils, now barbarised into "O'Driscoll." Prefixed to that. volume is the genealogy of CORCA LAIDHE, a district or barony in the west of the co. of Cork, the ancient patrimony of the O'Driscolls, with an illustrative map of the territory.

"In the year 1413, Simon Wickin, Mayor of Waterford, Roger Walsh and Thomas Sault, Bailiffs, surprised and took prisoners O'Hedriscol, his family, and the rest of his followers, in his strong Castle of Baltimore, in the Co. of Cork. They took with them a strong band of men in armour, on board a ship belonging to the City, and arrived at the Castle on Christmas-day at night. The Mayor landed his men and marched up to the gate, and called to the porter, desiring him to tell his lord that the Mayor of Waterford was come to the Haven with a ship of wine, and would gladly come in to see him; upon this message the gate was set open, and the whole family made prisoners."-MS. in T. C. D. Library.

In the year 1450, stat. 28 Hen. VI. No. 10.: "As divers of the King's subjects have been taken and slain by Finin O'Hedrischol, Chieftaine of his nation, an Irish enemy, enacted that no person of the ports of Wexford, Waterford, &c. shall fish at Korkly (Corca Laidhe) Baltimore, nor go within the country of the said O'Hedrischol with victuals, arms, &c., and that proclamation be made of this by Writs in the parts aforesaid, under the penalty of the forfeiture of their goods and ships to those who shall take them, and their persons to the King; and the town who receives the said O'Hedrischol or any of his men shall pay £40 to the King." (See the Statute itself; see also Rot. Stat. 28 Hen. VI. a 10.)

The Irish name for Baltimore in Dun na Sead, i.c. the fortress of the jewels. CLARACH.

THE BEGGARS PETITION FROM WINCHESTER (2nd S. x. 401.)-I cannot agree with T. B. P. in looking upon this as a petition against an existing corporation. If I understand it rightly, it is a petition consequent upon the dissolution of the corporation.

The facts to be inferred from the petition appear to be, that a surrender had been made in the time of King Charles II.; that this surrender was enrolled on the 23rd of March, 1687-8; that the corporation was thereby dissolved; and that the beggars had, consequently, ceased to be relieved out of the corporation estate.

The prayer of the petition is, in effect, that the fines to be imposed upon the officers of the late corporation should be distributed among the beggars, and that a Commission of Inquiry should be issued to members of the late corporation not having held office.

If, as T. B. P. suspects, the petition was got up to serve a purpose, the main object probably was, by means of a Commission, to further the interests

of such of the townspeople as sought to be appointed to the vacant offices, and to have the management of the estate; the distribution of the fines being introduced with no other view than to gain the signature of the beggars.

quainted with the history of Winchester, may be Perhaps some of your correspondents, acable to explain what were the legal proceedings taken with reference to the surrender; and what were the consequences that resulted from it? P. S. C.

HOPPESTERES (2nd S. x. 227. 523.) - I am acquainted with most of the explanations of the word offered by commentators. Speght interprets it, pilots; Tyrwhitt, female dancers; MR. Boys, in your pages (2nd S. iv. 409.), suggests upholsteries, i. e. places where ships are built and fitted out, dockyards.

All these explanations are, to say the least, unsatisfactory; and I humbly offer mine as more reasonable than any yet given.

I used the word composants, from having heard it commonly employed by sailors; but, as it is evidently corrupted from the Spanish designation of this meteor, cuerpo santo, E. G. R. is quite right in supposing corpusants to be its orthography.

T. Q. C.

IS ASTRAL SCIENCE STILL PRACTICABLE? (2nd S. x. 500.)-PHILOMATH is clearly correct in believing that the science is still studied in England; but the nature of the books used in learning its principles, which are chiefly applicable to advanced students, and are generally of a dry and repellent character, is a serious drawback in the case of the amateur, who will find in the Manual of Raphael an exception to this objection; as it is as readable a work upon the subject, generally, as the inexperienced traveller to the Temple of Urania can desire to have, and is well calculated to explain some of its numerous curiosities. All the authorities named by PHILOMATH are orthodox, but the Manual is for the young artist especially. MERCURY.

LATE HARVEST (2nd S. xi. 9.) - Your correspondent X. quotes, from the Suffolk Chronicle, an instance of harvest in December in the late extraordinary season. I may mention as a parallel case, that a field of wheat in the parish of Lindridge, co. Worcester, not usually a late district, was partly uncut at the commencement of January, 1861. And a field of oats, in a neighbouring parish of Upper Sapey, co. Hereford, was only secured at the close of December last.

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GUN MONEY OF JAMES II. (2nd S. xi. 13.)-The Roman numerals vi., xii., xxx., were intended to denote the current value of each piece in pence, JOSEPH RIX. and not the day of the month.

St. Neots.

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"THINKS I TO MYSELF (2nd S. ix. 64.) This work was republished in Dove's English Classics, and was some few years since to be bought for a mere trifle. ALFRED COPLAND.

"LIFE OF PETER D'AUBUSSON" (2nd S. x. 513.) -If J. M. will go to the British Museum and consult the Grenville Catalogue, Part I. p. 114., he will find three articles under the name of "Caoursin" which will give him the information he requires. All these three books are rare and interesting. F. H.

Miscellaneous.

NOTES ON BOOKS.

Carthage and her Remains: being an Account of the Excavations and Researches on the Site of the Phoenician Metropolis in Africa, and other adjacent Places. Conducted under the Auspices of Her Majesty's Government. By Dr. N. Davis, F.R.G.S. (Bentley.)

The recent discoveries at Carthage-that Carthage of which it has been said that all traces of it are so completely lost, that the very ruins of it have disappearedhave excited so much interest among scholars and antiquaries, that a narrative of the excavations which have led to such important results cannot fail to attract a large share of public attention. And although classical students and admirers of ancient art will be among those who will peruse with the greatest anxiety Dr. Davis's narrative, its perusal will not be by any means confined to such classes. The volume abounds with so many pictures of the natural scenery of the country, and of the social condition of the people, as to make it one of considerable interest to the general reader. It is profusely and admirably illustrated, and must take its place among the most interesting books which the present season has produced,

The Greatest of all the Plantagenets. An historical Sketch. (Bentley)

Although distance may lend enchantment to a view, we doubt if it tends at all to give interest to history. Our sympathies are more alive to the times and contemporaries of our grandsires than to the events and heroes of half-a-dozen centuries since. But despite of this disadvantage, and thanks to his own talents and researches, no less than the personal character of his hero, "the most sagacious and resolute of English princes," as Walter Scott describes him, the author of this historical sketch of the life and times of the first Edward has produced a most interesting volume- -one which will well repay the time bestowed on its perusal, but which we fear will not be received with the same favour north of the Tweed, with which it will be regarded in England. The Bibliographer's Manual of British Literature. By William Thomas Lowndes. New Edition, revised, corrected, and enlarged. Part VI. (Bohn.)

Manuel du Libraire et de l'Amateur de Livres, &c. Par Jaques Charles Brunet. Cinquième Edition Originale, entièrement refondue et augmentée d'un tiers par l'Auteur, Tome I. 2me purtie. (Williams and Norgate.)

Le Bibliomane, No. I. (Trübner & Co.)

This week has brought us three valuable additions to our stock of bibliographical knowledge. The new Part of Bohn's Lowndes, which extends from M to O inclusive, contains not only a number of names not contained in Lowndes's original work, but so much additional matter that the present part is fully one-fourth larger than the corresponding division of the first edition.

The second part of the new edition of Brunet, which occupies upwards of 900 closely printed columns, extends

from Bibliothek to Chytræus, and will be welcome to all lovers of books and students of literature.

The third work on our list is a new periodical devoted to Bibliography, written in French, beautifully got up by our old friend Richards (the printer of the pretty Percy Society's books), and in its materials principally devoted to English Bibliography.

BOOKS RECEIVED.

The Bee and the Wasp. A Fable in Verse, with Illustrations designed and etched by George Cruikshank. (Pickering.)

A fable with a good moral, gracefully told; and admirably illustrated by the immortal George.

Routledge's Illustrated Natural History. By the Rev. J. G. Wood, M.A. Parts XIX., XX., XXI., XXII., and XXIII. (Routledge.)

Mr. Wood seems to be on as familiar terms with the feathered creation, and as much master of his subject, when he comes to treat of them, as he was with the Mammals. The illustrations are of the same excellence, and we have no doubt the popularity of the book keeps pace with its progress.

Correspondence between the Bishop of Exeter and the Rt. Hon. T. B. Macaulay, on Certain Statements respecting the Church of England. (Murray.)

This interesting correspondence, which took place in 1849, is indispensable to the completion of Lord Macaulay's History.

Medals of the British Army, and how they were Won. By Thomas Carter. Parts IV. V. and VI.

The medals treated of in these three parts are the Sardinian and Turkish, and that, noblest of all, "for distinguished conduct in the field."

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The Life and Times of Aonio Paleario; or, a The Student's Text-Book of English and

History of the Italian Reformers in the Sixteenth Century. Illustrated by Original Letters and Unedited Documents. By M. YOUNG.

General History, from B.c. 100 to the present time. By D. BEALE.
Fifth Edition. Crown 8vo. Sewed, 28. ; cloth, 2s. 6d.

London: BELL & DALDY, 186. Fleet Street, E.C.

Printed by GEORGE ANDREW SPOTTISWOODE, of No. 10. Little New Street, in the Parish of St. Bride, in the City of London, at No.5. New-street Square, in the said Parish, and published by GEORGE BELL, of No. 186. Fleet Street, in the Parish of St. Dunstan in the West, in the City of London, Publisher, at No. 186. Fleet Street, aforesaid.- Saturday, January 12, 1881.

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