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NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



[2»d s, VII. June 25. '69. 



father's impression that when leaving the country 

 in 1809 he deposited them at some house or store 

 in Dublin. I find that up to the present date all 

 efforts to trace the missing correspondence have 

 proved vain. 



It is just possible that a slight discussion of the 

 subject iii " N. & Q." might tend to the dis- 

 covery of these important papers. 



In the Irish Quarterly Review for September, 

 1852 (p. 561.) it is stated that when Colonel 

 Arthur Wellesley was about leaving Dublin to 

 commence his brilliant career, he committed to 

 Thomas Dillon, a wealthy woollen draper who 

 opened a shop in Parliament Street in 1782, the 

 care of discharging the numerous debts which he 

 had contracted while in Ireland." This shows 

 that a confidential connection existed between 

 Sir Arthur and Mr. Dillon ; and it is probable 

 that Mr. Dillon's was the house or store in which 

 he deposited his Correspondence. The Chief 

 Secretary's Office in Dublin Castle has been ran- 

 sacked in vain for it ; and it now behoves those 

 interested, to search in another direction. Mr. 

 Dillon, though engaged in business, was often 

 associated with by the aristocracy. In a letter 

 of the late Lord Cloncurry's, dated Feb. 16. 1799 

 (and published in his Personal Recollections, 

 second ed. p. 68.), he speaks of having entrusted 

 a political letter of some importance to the care 

 of Mr. Dillon of Parliament Street. Similar 

 examples might be given. Mr. Dillon's eldest 

 daughter was married to Colonel Southwell, 

 brother to the peer of that name. Another 

 daughter, by a former marriage, became the wife 

 of the late Sir Michael Dillon Beliew, Bart. 



William John Fitz-Patrick. 



Kilmacnd Manor, Stillorgan, Dublin. 



Curious Comment on the " Camel and the Needle's 

 Eye." — In the strange old book, entitled Hexa- 

 meron, the sequence to the Speculum 3Iundi, by 

 Swan, printed in 1642-3, is the following com- 

 ment on the camel and the needle's eye. Its 

 peculiarity may render it worth insertion : — 



"As for the hunch on the camel's back, the Scripture 

 doth thereby express the swelling pride and confidence of 

 ricli, worldly men, who as hardly enter into the kingdom 

 of God as the camel with his hunched back can go 

 through the eye of a needle." — P. 437. 



Francis Trench. 



Islip. 



Fetter Lane, situq,te between Fleet Street and 

 Holborn, is stated by Stow to have derived its 

 name from Fewter, or idle fellow. The name is 

 to be found as early as 1363 (37th Edward III.) 

 in the following heading : " De Pecunlis consuetis 

 coUigendis pro Emendatione Faytour Lane et 



Chanceller Lane," in the " Syllabus seu Index " 

 appended to vol. xvli. of Rymer's Fcedera, edit, 

 1717. W. P. 



Voters called Smokers. — At Preston In Lan- 

 cashire, prior to the passing of the last Reform 

 Bill, voters were called smokers, i. e. every one 

 passing smoke up a chimney was entitled to a 

 vote, lodgers, &c., so that apartments were fre- 

 quently taken to obtain the privilege of a vote. 

 This was mentioned to me by an old inhabitant. 



Ithcriel. 



Long Incumbency. — I extract the following from 

 Exshatv's Magazine : — 



" Died 22d August, 1763, at Ballyhuggeton, Queen's 

 County, the Rev. Peter Alley, aged 110 j'ears, and Rector 

 of Donoughmore for upwards of seventy-three years : he 

 was grandson of the Rev. William Alley, Bishop of 

 Exeter, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth." 



Y. S. M. 



Old Father Thames. — It may be some comfort to 

 suffering Londoners to hear that Father Thames, 

 261 years ago, was not much sweeter than he is 

 now : — 



"And when all's cleans'd, shall the slaues inside stinck 

 Worse the the new cast slime of Thames ebb'd brink." 



Scourge of Villanie (Marston?) 1698. 



E. H. K. 



cauprCeS, 



QUERIES RESPECTING ROBERT NELSON. 



Can any of your genealogical contributors ip- 

 form me — 



Where Sir Berkeley Lucy, the last Baronet of 

 the Hampshire family, was buried ? and where, 

 consequently, his will is to be found, it not being 

 proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. 

 He died Nov. 17, 1759. 



When his mother. Lady Theophlla Lucy, nee 

 Berkeley, daughter of George, first Earl Berkeley, 

 was born ? When and where she was married to 

 Sir KIngsmill Lucy, and when and where to Mr. 

 Robert Nelson, her second husband ? This last 

 marriage took place in 1682, but of the day and 

 place I am Ignorant. I have had recourse in 

 vain to the registers of Cranford church, where 

 she was burled, and to those of Epsom and St. 

 James's, Cierkenwell, in which parishes Lord 

 Berkeley, her father, had a mansion. 



Also, what were the arms borne by her hus- 

 band, the pious Robert Nelson? There are no 

 armorial bearings on his tomb, or on the seal at- 

 tached to his will, and they are obliterated on his 

 father's will. 



What is the history of the large full-length 

 portrait of Robert Nelson hanging in the Bod- 

 leian Gallery, Oxford ? Who was the Rey- Jas. 

 Craven, who gave it to the Bodleian in 1769 ? 



