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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2"«i S. VII. Jan. 22. '59. 



The notices of the admiral's three younger sons 

 must necessarily be brief, as so much space has 

 been already devoted to the above. 2. Abraham Du 

 Quesne was a captain in the French navy, and in 

 that capacity made a prisoner of the Prince de 

 Montesarchio, a Spanish general, and conveyed 

 him to Toulon, in the year 1683, and commanded 

 a battalion in the descent on Genoa in 1684. 3. 

 Isaac Du Quesne was also a naval officer of dis- 

 tinction. And 4. Jacob, Comte du Queue, mar- 

 ried FranQoise-Magdelaine de Sonscalle, a lady 

 of a noble family in Britanny, who died in the 

 year 17lO. 



These are all the facts it is in my power to com- 

 municate about the descendants of Admiral Du 

 Quesne, and it is to be hoped that they may be 

 satisfactory to G. C. The family of Du Quesne 

 were a brave and patriotic French house, who 

 proved the sincerity of their Protestantism by the 

 sacrifices which they made to preserve their con- 

 sistency ; while, at the same time, they never for- 

 got the allegiance they owed to their sovereign 

 and country, as citizens of France ; and this bio- 

 graphical notice will therefore, it is believed, be 

 deemed worthy of a place in the columns of " N. 

 & Q." A. S. A. 



Barrackpore. 



CARLETON S MEMOIRS. 



(2"'» S. vii. 11.54.) 



It is satisfactory to receive from your correspon- 

 dent, LetiIrediensis, the title of the first edition 

 of this work (1728) from a copy then before him ; 

 but I beg to say that, in my reference to the first 

 edition, I did not " trust to recollection merely." 

 My authority, as I stated, was Wilson's Memoirs 

 of the Life and Times of Defoe, 1830, (vol. iii. 

 589.); and as \^ ilson there prints the title-page 

 in inverted commas, may we not trust to his ac- 

 curacy ? 



The title was not given by me at length, it 

 being, as Wilson truly terms it, ample. 



It is an interesting fact that these title-pages, 

 bearing the same date, and without any appear- 

 ance 'of beilJg distinct editions, should vary so 

 materially. 



The following is the full title given by Wilson, 

 which may be compared with that copied by 

 Lethrediensis ; — 



" The Militar}' Memoirs of Capt. George Carleton. 

 From the Dutch War, 1672, in which he served, to the 

 Conclusion of the Peace at Utrecht, 1713. Illustrating 

 some of the most remarkable Transactions, both by Sea 

 and Land, during the reign of King Charles and King 

 James II., hitherto unobserved by all the Writers of those 

 Times. Together with an exact Series of the War in 

 Spain ; and a particular Description of the Several Places 

 of the Author's Residence in many Cities, Towns, and 

 Countries; their Customs, Manners, itc. Also, Obser- 

 vations on the Genius of the Spaniards (among whom 



he continued some Years a Prisoner), their Monasteries 

 and Nunneries, especially that fine one at Montserat ; and 

 in their public Diversions, more particularly their famous 

 Bull-Feasts. London : printed for E. Symon, over against 

 the Royal Exchange, Cornhill, 1728." 8vo. Pp. 352. 

 Dedicated to "The Right Honourable Spencer Lord Wil- 

 mington." 



The important variation is at the commence- 

 ment. Was a second title-page substituted within 

 the year 1728, in order that, by thus prominently 

 naming Carleton, all possible uncertainty regard- 

 ing the MemoiTS might be removed? and was a 

 more explanatory title deemed desirable ? 



We may conclude that the work was not of 

 frequent occurrence; as in 1784, the year of 

 Johnson's death, when Lord Eliot mentioned it to 

 him, he observed that " he had never heard of the 

 book." Boswell adds that " Lord Eliot had it at 

 Port Eliot ; but after a good deal of inquiry, he 

 procured a copy in London and sent it to John- 

 son." It may be added that " Johnson found in 

 it such an air of truth, that he could not doubt of 

 its authenticity."* J. H. Markland. 



rmVERSITY HOODS. 



(2°'' S. vi. 211. 258., &c.) 



Through the courtesy of the Rev. J. Hannah, 

 D.C.L., Oxon., Warden of Trinity College, Glen- 

 almond, Perth, I am enabled to note the following 

 addition to Mr. Gutcu's valuable table (p. 211.). 



The theological department of this college grants 

 a licence, as required from candidates for holy 

 orders by the Sixth Canon of the Episcopal Church 

 of Scotland, of which it is the only college. This 

 flourishing institution does not enjoy any state 

 privileges, nor can it confer degrees. The theo- 

 logical licentiates, however, wear the hood as- 

 signed by the Scotch bishops, as described in the 

 following Extract from the Minutes of the Epis- 

 copal Synod held in Edinburgh on Thursday, Sep- 

 tember 25th, 1856 : — 



" A Petition was presented to the Synod from ' late 

 Students of Trinity College, Glenalmond,' and supported 

 by a communication from the Warden, Sub-Warden, and 

 Theological Tutor, praying that the Bishops Avould ap- 

 point a hood to be worn by the clergy educated at the 

 College. 



" The Bishops concede the prayer of this petition, and 

 appoint that the Hood shall be the same shape as that of 

 a Master of Arts of Cambridge, — the material to be silk, 

 and the colour black, lined with dark green. 



" The Hood shall be granted in future to such students 



* Croker's Boswell, yiii. 337. 



Sir W. Scott (in a note to his edition (1809) called 

 the fourth edition) states that " the 3Temoirs were first 

 printed in 1743." Was this a mere inaccuracy? He ap- 

 pends a title varying from both here mentioned. Lowndes, 

 who places the work amongst those of Defoe, has thus 

 erroneously given the title, "3Iemoh-s of an English Officer 

 (Captain George Carleton) who served in the Dutch War 

 TO 1713: London, 1728. 8vo. 10s. 6d." 



