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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2»»^ S. VII. April 2. '59. 



mixture of confusion and anacbronism in refer- 

 ence to the Barry-mores. 



Being maternally descended from the Irish 

 Barrymore family, I have been naturally inter- 

 ested in the history of the house, and it is news to 

 me to learn that they were " a younger branch of 

 the Stuarts," or ever or anywise connected with 

 Scotland at all. 



In Ireland the Barrys are carefully and unin- 

 terruptedly traceable as settled there from the 

 year 1206, when Robert Fitz-Stephen, one of the 

 first Strongboivnean invaders of Ireland, enfeoffed 

 his nephew, Phillip de Barry of Olethan, with 

 certain lands in Cork ; the family was successively 

 ennobled by the viscounty of Buttevant, and earl- 

 dom of Barry-more : both titles now extinct, or 

 rather, as some think, in abeyance. 



The war-cry of the family euphonised into the 

 title, " Buttevant," and village of that name in the 

 county of Cork, is in Ireland held to have been 

 assumed by the Barries long before the reign of 

 Charles VIE. of France. The uniform tradition 

 of the country is, that this cry was the war-shout 

 of the Norman Knight in the early conflicts with 

 the McCarthies, the Milesian possessors of the 

 district in which he settled himself. 



It seems probable that the French writer has 

 been misled by the ancient usage of calling the 

 Irish Scoti, and that the later Du Barri family 

 of France sprung from some Irish adventurer, 

 and not from any of the Scotish bands which the 

 French monarchs of the fifteenth and sixteenth 

 centuries were so desirous to engage as body- 

 guards. A. B. R. 



Belmont. 



CRIME AND ITS COST IN THE HIGHLANDS PRE- 

 CEDING THE "fORTT-FIVE." 



It may interest the readers of " N. & Q." to 

 have the following particulars of the punishment 

 and cost of criminals in the north of Scotland 

 preceding the memorable outbreak of 1745. I 

 have gleaned the items, along with some other 

 curious mattei's, from a scroll copy of the " Ac- 

 compt of Charge and Discharge of the Treasurer 

 of the Royal Burgh of Inverness from Michal- 

 mass, 1740, to Michalmass, 1742 years," which 

 lately came into my hands : — 



Scots. 

 £ s. d. 

 1741, Jany. 8. To Rope to bind a thief and 



. mantainance - - - 10 6 

 „ „ 13. To Cords and hangman's fee 



for wheeping a thief - 10 



„ „ To a fule sute cloths to the 



hangman - - ~ 11 IG 



„ ApryleSO. To executioner's fee from 



Mich. 1740 to this date - 12 17 6 

 „ May 21. To clothing to a new hangman 10 10 

 „ „ To mantainance to 2 men 



under sentence of death, 

 from 1st May to 12 June - 6 11 



1741, May 30. To beding to y® 2 men under 

 sentence of death 

 June 10. For a new galous, 8 pd. 

 speik nails, 100 duble nails 



„ To carage of large timber to 

 the galous muir 



„ To cash to 12 labourds and 

 toun officers helping up the 

 galous - - - - 



„ To drink to wrights and la- 

 bourds - - - - 



„ To drink to the executioner 

 severall days confind 

 12. To rops to hang 2 malefac- 

 tors, and knife to y" execu- 

 tioner . - - - 



„ Paid for a lether for the gal- 

 ous - - - - - 



„ Paid men caried the lether 

 and 2 coffins up and doun - 



„ To executioner for hanging 

 2 men - - - - 



„ To ane lock to the hangman's 

 house _ - - - 



„ To Kobt. Smith for 2 trees 

 for the galous 



„ To BaiUie W". Mcintosh for 

 2 trees more - - - 

 Augt. 13. To the hangman's mantain- 

 ance @ 2 pecks meale a 

 week, 12d. a peck, from 4 

 May to 19 Septr. - 



NOTE ON MR. FROUDE's " HISTORY OF ENGLAND." 



As " N. & Q." is not the periodical in which to 

 discuss points of doctrine, so is Mr. Froude not 

 the writer to whom one would refer for a correct 

 expression of theological yiews. He uses, through- 

 out his Histo7-t/, the term "real presence" as syno- 

 nymous with " transubstantiation." Supposing 

 him to do this consistently throughout his book, 

 there would be no difficulty in understanding his 

 meaning. Lingard is with Lim in the adoption of 

 the phrase : Hume speaks of the " corporeal pre- 

 sence." But however indifferent an author may 

 be about the technicalities of theology and the 

 disputes of divines, this indifference should not be 

 allowed to lead to positive misstatement of facts. 

 In the narrative of the trial of John Lambert alias 

 Nicholson, for "denying the real presence" (as 

 Mr. Froude calls it, that is to say, for denying 

 transubstantiation), having related the conversa- 

 tion between the king and the prisoner, and the 

 subsequent transfer of the case to Cranmer and 

 the bishops, Mr. Froude goes on to say (vol. iii. 

 p. 341.):- 



" The argument began in the morning. First Cran- 

 mer, and after him nine other bishops, laboured out their 

 learned reasons — reasons which, for fifteen hundred years, 

 had satisfied the whole Clu-istian world, yet had suddenly 

 ceased to be of longer cogency." 



Now this famous appeal, it must be remembered, 



