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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2'"i S. VII. April 30. '5!>. 



the good of the soula of the foreigners who were lulled in 

 the battle." 



Jas. H. Todd. 

 Trin. CoU. Dublin. 



BABRYMOBE AND THE DU BAKBTS. 



(2""^ S. vii. 273.) 



The alleged connexion of the Count du Barry 

 with a Scotch family of Barrymores, and in par- 

 ticular with a page of Charles I. who bore that 

 name and belonged to that family, was mentioned 

 in " N. & Q." (2°'^ S. vii. 66.) in reference to a 

 celebrated picture of Vandyke, which was in the 

 possession of Madame du Barry. An account of 

 that picture, which is now preserved in the 

 Louvre, has since been given by M. de Cosson, in 

 a communication in p. 114. But no explanation 

 has been offered of the story which describes a 

 page of Charles I. to have been named Barry- 

 more or Barry, and to have been of a Scotch 

 family. 



The confusion, or fiction — whichever it may be 

 — did not, as A. B. R. supposes, originate with 

 Capefigue ; but he appears to have added to both. 

 In his recent Life of Madame du Barry (Paris, 

 1859, vol. i. 12mo.), he represents the family of 

 Dubarry to have come from Scotland, and to 

 have been descended from the Barrimores, a 

 younger branch of the Stuarts. He farther states 

 that the motto on the arms of Count Du Barry 

 and his war-cry were Bouttez-en-avant, and was 

 given to his ancestor by Charles VII., who had 

 taken into his service a company of Scotchmen, 

 since preserved among the gardes du corps (p. 

 11.) Of the purchase of the picture of Vandyke, 

 the following is his account in p. 153. : — 



" Madame du Barry gave four thousand louis for the 

 admirable portrait of Charles I., which she placed at 

 Luciennes, — some saj' as a family picture (the du Barrys 

 claimed kindred with the Stuarts), others as an example 

 reminding the king of the fate which he had to expect 

 from his rebellious parliament." 



In this account there are some fresh points of 

 imaginary connexion : the alliance with the Stu- 

 arts ; the transfer of the motto of the Irish title 

 of Buttevant, which preceded the Earldom of 

 Barrymore, to the Count du Barry ; the deriva- 

 tion of this motto from Charles VII. of France ; 

 and its association with a Scotch company in the 

 service of the king of France. 



It may be observed that Barry is an old French 

 as well as English name. A Paul de Barry, a 

 French theological writer, who died in 1661, and 

 a Rene Barry, historiographer of France, who 

 lived in the same century, are mentioned in the 

 Kouoelle Biographie Universelle. There is, ac- 

 cording f.o Capefigue, a historical notice of the 

 Du Barry family in the Biographie Toulousaine. 



L. 



DR. WATTS S LAST THOUGHTS ON THE TRINITY. 



(2"'J S. V. 523. ; vii. 279.) 



The Query, "Was Dr. Wat(s a Unitarian?" 

 has been answered, many years ago, by the Rev. 

 Samuel Palmer, in a pamphlet entitled Dt: Watts 

 no Socinian. But in fact it was answered by the 

 Useful and Important Questions published by the 

 Doctor himself within the last two years of his 

 life. (Works, Barfield's edition, vi. 519.) The 

 suppressed pamphlet (reprinted in 1802) was aa 

 earlier production. It contains, like his other 

 works, abundant evidence that, while Watts did 

 not hold the " Athanasian " doctrine of the Tri- 

 nity, he was quite as far from adopting the senti- 

 ments known as " Unitarian." On this point we 

 " have the truth," though probably inaccessible to 

 myriads who venerate the name of Watts. 



After a " Solemn Address to the Great and 

 Blessed God," the tract in question contains a 

 " Preface," in which "the author professes himself 

 a Christian," who " hath been exercised with long 

 and grievous doubts and distress of spirit in this 

 article of the Blessed Trinity." (Reprint, p. x.) 

 He proposes to consider the doctrine " in two 

 respects. First, so far as may be sufficient to 

 fulfil the various duties of the Christian life and 

 to obtain the salvation of Christ." This is the 

 immediate subject of the tract. The second part 

 (which never appeared) was designed for " more 

 advanced and inquiring Christians" (p. 11.). 

 Sect. I. is headed " The Doctrine of the Trinity 

 proved to be a plain and easy doctrine." Sect. if. 

 " Of the One true God." Sect. III. " Of the 

 Holy Trinity; or, the Father, the Son, and the 

 Spirit, in general, and whether they be three 

 proper persons." Under which head the follow- 

 ing occurs : " This sacred Three in the Trinity 

 are plainly represented in Scripture, and have 

 been generally represented by Christian writers 

 like three persons, or three distinct personal 

 agents, as acting different parts, and sustaining 

 difi'erent characters, in the affairs of our salvation; 

 and yet it seems to be abundantly evident also in 

 Scripture that they are all three represented in 

 several places as having true and proper deity 

 some way belonging to them, and that the names, 

 titles, attributes, and operations of Godhead are 

 ascribed to all the Three, in the Old Testament 

 and in the New " (p. 18.). Sects. IV. V. VI. and 

 VII. treat " Of God the Father ; " " Of Jesus 

 Christ the Son of God ;" " Of the Holy Spirit ;" 

 and " Of the Spirit of God as given to Jesus 

 Christ." Sect. VIII. answers certain " Objections 

 about the Representations of the Holy Spirit." 

 There is added "A General Inference," taking 

 grave exception to human creeds " guarded be- 

 fore and behind with everlasting curses;' and 

 the whole closes with a prayer for the usefulness 

 of the "Enquiry," or that, if by it any important 



