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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s, VII. Jan. 22. '59. 



be pronounced wick ? The aperture suggests tlie 

 idea of a gateway, and one word for a gate is 

 wicket. Are not the Halfpenny Wicks (gates at 

 which halfpenny tolls are taken) of the same 

 origin ? Stylites. 



Dillon. — I am in search of information concern- 



■ ing Dillon, who was the Lieut.-Colonel of 



an Irish regiment in the service of France about 

 the year 1783. Where can I obtain it ? 



S. PoMICAN. 



History of Lord Castlereagh's Family. — At the 

 time of the minister, Lord Castlereagh's death, a 

 very curious book, purporting to be the history of 

 his family, was published : it is a very thin 8vo. 

 Perhaps some of your readers might have it, and 

 be inclined to dispose of it. Charles Domvilb. 



Santry House, Dublin. 



Precedency in Scotland. — Can any of your 

 readers inform me whether there exists a Table 

 of Precedency applicable to Scotland as before the 

 Union ? and if so, where it is to be found ? G. J. 



Edinburgh. 



Epigram on George III.^s Physicians. — When 

 this monarch was confined by his sad malady, 

 weekly bulletins appeared signed by his three 

 Physicians in Ordinary. The following epigram 

 on their names was said to have been written on 

 the wall of Windsor cloisters, and afterwards ex- 

 tensively circulated : — 



" The king employs three Doctors daily, 



Willis, Heberden, and Baillie — 



All exceeding skilful men, 



Baillie, Willis, Heberden. 



But doubtful which most sure to kill is — 



Baillie, Heberden, or Willis." 



Can any of your readers give me information as 

 to its author ? Anon. 



Boyle^s Journey from Cork to London in 1601. — 

 Mr. Gilbert informs us, in his History of the City 

 of Dublin, vol. ii. p. 4., that — 



" Boyle [subsequently created Earl of Cork] further 

 ingratiated himself in the royal favour by the speed with 

 which he carried to London the important intelligence of 

 the rout of the Spaniards at Kinsale, in 1601 : — 'I left,' 

 he writes, 'my Lord President at'Shandon Castle, near 

 Cork, on Monday morning, about two of the clock, and 

 the next day delivered rny pacquet and supped with Sir 

 Kobert Cecil, being then Principal Secretary, at his house 

 in the Strand, London.' " 



Have we on record any particulars of Boyle's 

 mode of travelling on this occasion, which was 

 tolerably rapid for olden times ? Abhba. 



Christmas Church-decking. — In the first lesson 

 for the evening of December 24th (Christmas 

 eve) occur these words : — 



" The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir- 

 tree, the pine-tree and the box together, to beautify the 

 place of my sanctuary." — Isaiah, Ix. 13. 



, Has this anything to do with the custom of 



decorating churches with evergreens at Christmas, 

 or is it only a very remarkable coincidence ? 



Bellis Minor. 



The Rev. Edward Archer. — Who was Rev. 



Edward Archer, rector of Hinton, 1672-3 ? What 



was his \. parentage ; 2. arms; and 3. what family 



did he leave ? Meguelin. 



Quebec. 



Blakiston of StapletoU'on- Tees. — I am very 

 anxious to trace the connexion of this branch 

 with the main stem which was settled in Durham. 

 Surtees gives nothing but a few conjectures, and 

 no information about the present representatives 

 of the family. Sir Matthew Blakiston, I believe, 

 claims descent from the Yorkshire branch, but I 

 am not aware upon what authority. The first 

 Sir Matthew — Lord Mayor of London, 1739 — 

 had two brothers, viz. George (died at Hampton 

 Wick, 1762), and Sir Richard, Knt., living in 

 1762. Is the latter identical with Counsellor 

 Blakiston, who was appointed Solicitor-General 

 to the Queen in 1763 ? R. C. W. 



Bibliographical Queries. — Wanted the names 

 of the authors of the following publications : — 



1. An Address from the Influenced Electors of the 

 County and City of Galway, &c., 8vo. London, 1754. 



2. An Address from the Ladies of the Provinces of 

 Munster and Leinster, &c., 8vo., London, 1754. 



3. Considerations upon the State of Public Affairs in 

 the Year 1799 — Ireland, 8vo., Dublin, 1799. 



4. The Case of Ireland Reconsidered, 8vo., London, 

 1800. 



Abhba. 



. Queen Elizabeth's List of Deserving Students of 

 both Universities. — I find it stated in the Ap- 

 pendix to Worthington's Life of Joseph Mede, 

 that Queen Elizabeth — 



" Gave a strict charge and command to both the Chan- 

 cellors of both her Universities, to bring her a just, true, 

 and impartial list of all the Eminent and Hopeful! Stu- 

 dents (that were Graduates) in each University, to set 

 down punctually their Names, their Colledges, their 

 Standinge, their faculties wherein they did Eminere, or 

 were likely so to do." 



Her Majesty was obeyed, and the use she made 

 of this list was to nominate herself the chaplains 

 to the embassies going abroad ; or when she had 

 any places to dispose of, she would herself give 

 them to such persons as she judged />«res negotiis. 

 This is related on the authority of Sir William 

 Boswell, who is said to have had possession of 

 these very lists, marked with the Queen's own 

 hand, which he carefully laid up among his k€l- 

 fj-^Xitt. What became of these lists ? Could they 

 now be found and examined, their contents would 

 doubtless be most interesting. ALrREO T. Lee. 



Anonymous Work. — Holy Thoughts on a God 

 made Man, or the Mysterious Trinity proved. , 

 London, 1704. The author of this work is said 

 to be Coney. Can you inform me whether he was 



