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Minav (kutviti. 



Richard Prince, of Madras. — In Navestock 

 Cliurch in Essex is a monument to the memory of 

 Ricbnrd Prince, Esq., formerly Governor of Fort 

 St. George, Madjas. From what branch of that 

 ancient and respectable family of the Princes was 

 he descended ? Silvestris. 



The Union, 1707. — I wish to find some book 

 that will give an account of the intrigues of the 

 different political parties in Edinburgh at the 

 time of the Union in 1707; the devices they had 

 recourse to, to gain adherents, &c. &c. I think I 

 remember having read somewhere of secret po- 

 liticiil meetings about that time in the cellars off 

 the High Street. Is there any life of Lord Sea- 

 field, who was then Chancellor of Scotland, extant? 



I should also like to know if there has ever been 

 a life of the great Lord Melville published. 



Sigma Theta. 



Scottish Marriage Law. — Will one of your cor- 

 respondents, versed in Scottish law, answer the 

 following question ? Whether a clergyman in 

 Scotland can legally marry parties, neither of 

 whom have been resident in Scotland, upon their 

 producing certificates of the banns having been 

 duly published within six weeks previously in 

 their respective parishes in England ? 



G. L. V. D. N. 



Rev. George Holiwell. — Rev. Geo. Holiwell, 

 M.A., born July 20, 1628, married a member of 

 the Marchmont family (born June, 1648), on the 

 23rd of October, 1663. Who was this member of 

 the Marchmont family ? P. R. 



"History of Judas." — 



" The Arch Knave, or tlie History of Judas from the 

 Cradle to the Gallows. Compiled and translated from 

 the High Dutch of S. Clave and the Spanish of Don H. 

 de Mendoza. London : printed for J. Morphew. Pp. 56." 

 (No date.) 



The above Is the title of a catchpenny book 

 which describes how Judas, when a boy, robbed 

 orchards and hen-roosts, and laid poison for his 

 schoolmaster, &c. The story stops on his joining 

 the Apostles with " the remainder will be told in 

 the next part." Is a next part known ? Is there 

 a German or Spanish original, or are the names of 

 S. Clare and Mendoza as fictitious as the History? 



A. Z. 



Dean Swift's '■^Memoirs." — I am at present 

 reading a 12mo. volume, pp. 129., published 

 anonymously in London, in 1752, and entitled 

 Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Jonathan 

 Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick'' s, Dublin. Who 

 was the author ? I have lately seen the book for 

 the first time ; and Dr. Bliss has written on the 

 fly-leaf of my copy, " Not in the Bodleian Cata- 

 logue, 1843." Abhba. 



Waddington of Doddington, in the Lsle of Ely, 

 Cambridgeshire. — A pedigree of the family, or 

 that part thereof from 1660 to 1730, would greatly 

 oblige an old subscriber. J. F. C. 



Aldrynton, — I have by me a parchment (writ- 

 ten in Latin) dated at Aldrynton, in the vigil of 

 St. Adelm, 16 Richard 11. (May, 1393). The 

 translation of it is a grant from John H— — and 



Isabella, his wife, to Robert H , of a tenement 



in Aldrynton, called Reynestenement, together 

 with all lands, meadows, pastures, and all other 

 appurtenances to him and his heirs for ever. I 

 should feel obliged if any correspondent could in- 

 form me in what part of England Aldrynton is 

 situate ? * I should be glad to give up the 

 document to the persons at that place who are 

 now connected with the property alluded to, as it 

 might be interesting to them from its age (nearly 

 500 years). E. B. 



Charles Ambler, Esq., author of the Law Re- 

 ports, a King's Counsel, and Attorney-General to 

 the Queen, the latter end of the last century. 

 Whose son was he ? His admission at his Inn of 

 Court will probably show. C. J. 



George, Count de Browne. — Where may I find 

 particulars of this eminent Irish officer in the 

 Russian service, who conducted himself so nobly 

 on several occasions that he obtained the govern- 

 ment of Livonia, and was created a count of the 

 empire? He was a member of the family of 

 Browne of Moyne, in the county of Mayo ; and 

 died in the year 1792. Mr. Wills, in his Lives 

 of Illustrious and Distinguished Irishmen, vol. vi. 

 p. 40., gives only six lines respecting him, without 

 any reference to other sources of information. He 

 had governed Livonia for thirty years, and was 

 anxious to resign ; but his request was refused by 

 the Empress Catherine II. " Death alone shall 

 part us," was her reply. Abhba. 



Swarming, a word for Climbing. — When sailors 

 climb a bare pole, such as a royal mast, by cling- 

 ing round it with their arms and legs, they call it 

 " swarming up." In the old nautical ballad, " Sir 

 Andrew Barton," the word "swarf" is used to 

 express the same thing : — 



" He swarfed then the main-mast tree, 

 He swarfed it with might and main." 



Are these words derived from the same root ? 

 and, if so, from what language ? There seems to 

 be no cognate word in Anglo-Saxon. A. A. 



Poets' Corner. 



Eulenspiegel. — I bought last autumn at Ghent, 

 where about a dozen more copies were lying on 

 the stall, a brochure of 64 pages, entitled Notes 

 in French, printed in the Year after the last. 

 The bookseller told me it was printed, but not for 



[* Probably Aldriugton, near Shoreham, Sussex.] 



