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NOTES AND QUERIES, 



[2n«i S. VIL June 25. '59. 



tliolic gentleman; and strangely enough the daugh- 

 ter of the learned controversial -writer — the ama- 

 nuensis too of her father — has forsaken the faith 

 which he had so ably defended, and become a 

 Roman Catholic. 



Colonel Hugh Boyd was born in 1680, and died 

 ip 1765. Ilis elder son, William, married in 1733, 

 Mary, daughter of Ezekiel Davis Wilson of Car- 

 rickfergus, Esq. Both William and his wife died 

 in the colonel s lifetime, leaving a large family 

 surviving. I am very desirous to discover the 

 dates and places of their deaths. 



In 1614, Sir Randal McDonnell, afterwards 

 Earl of Antrim, granted the townland of Caru- 

 coggy, CO. Antrim, to Thomas Boyd, who died in 

 1634, leaving a son and heir, Hugh Boyd, then 

 aged 22, and unmarried. I believe this Hugh was 

 father of the Rev. William, and grandfather of 

 Colonel Hugh Boyd. Can any of your corre- 

 spondents assist me in tracing back their supposed 

 descent from the Arran family ? Y. S. M. 



Book Note (2'"» S. vii. 434.) — I have a similar 

 note to that mentioned by R. C. W. It occurs at 

 the end of a copy of Articles in The History of 

 the English and Scotch Presbytery, Villa Franca, 

 1660, and is as follows.: — 



"xxiiiio. Die Ffebruarii, Anno Dni 16|3. Memorandum, 

 that then Richard James, Rector of Rethedin ('?), in the 

 time of divine service in the Church of Rethedin, openly 

 and deliberately read the afores. 39 Articles of Religion, 

 and then and there declared his unfeigned assent and 

 consent to the same, in the presence and hearing of us 

 whose names are subscribed. 



L. Jones, Ch. Walter Prosser. 



D. E. Prin. Richard Parrott. 



Thomas Parrott. Breitt, Tho." 

 (Seal.) (Seal.) 



J. C. J. 

 Ancient Document (2»<* S. vii. 474.) — Mr. Robin- 

 son has crowded a good many errors into his 

 black-letter jotting under this head, which would 

 have gone to debit of the poor devils had he 

 allowed the Booksellers' Catalogue to speak for 

 itself: for example, the copy oT the Articles he 

 quotes from is not of the date 1563, but 1597 ; 

 and the declaration by Jojm Daye, Clarke (who 

 was, of course, the Rector of St. Andrew's, Un- 

 dershaft), of a corresponding later period, . say 

 2nd July, 1597. In your P* S. iii. 237., the prac- 

 tice of reading the Articles during service was no- 

 ticed, and a specimen given, and thinking the 

 subject might bear farther ventilation, I subjoin 

 a more extended memorandum from a copy of 

 the Articles (1632) in my possession, where the 

 church authorities join with their assent thereto 

 a resolution to stick by the King and Constitution, 

 and a determination to repudiate the decrees of 

 the Commonwealth to subvert the government in 

 Church and State : — 



"Mem». Sept. 22, 1667, that John Bolt, M.A. and 

 Rector of Chignal-Smedly in the County of Essex, did 



publikely and openly read all the Thirty Nine Articles 

 of the Church of England, with the ratification thereof, in 

 the paris'h church of the said Chignal-Smedly in the 

 time of Divine Service, and did yield \\\s assent and 

 consent thereunto ; And also did at the same time pub- 

 likely', and openly, or audibly then read his subscrip- 

 tion ; declaring that it is not lawfull upon any pretence 

 whatsoever to take up arms against the King, and that 

 he will Conform to the Church of England Liturgy, as it 

 is now Established by law : And that there lies no obligsj- 

 tion upon him, or upon any other person from the oath 

 Commonly called the Solemn League and Covenant, to 

 Endeavour any Change of Government Either in Church 

 or State, and that the same was in itself an unlawfull 

 oath imposed upon the Subjects of this Realme against 

 the knowne Laws and Liberties of this Kingdom. 



^ Witness, Ri. Smith " [and two others 

 not decipherable]. 



J. o. 



Basil, Attorney -General for Ireland, 1632 (2"^ 

 S. vii. 436.) — In my History of the County of 

 Dublin, at the townland of Donnycarney, occurs 

 this passage : — 



« In 1653, William Basil, who had been the Irish At- 

 torney-general previous to Cromwell's usurpation, and 

 continued so during the Protectorate, acquired, by reason 

 of his situation and some discreditable services, a large 

 property, including Donnycarney, which he obtained as a 

 bribe, and on which he resided for some time. A consi- 

 derable portion of these properties was reclaimed on the 

 Restoration, Donnycarney reverting to the Corporation 

 of Dublin, who are still the proprietors of the fee. Mar- 

 tin Basil, a descendant of the same William, was however 

 resident here in 1688, and was one of those attainted in 

 King James's Parliament, as was also William Basil." 



To this notice I may add, that the patent for 

 Basil's appointment bears date at Westminster, 

 the 18th July, 1649. He is subsequently styled 

 Attorney-Geperal of the Commonwealth in Ml the 

 courts of record in this country, and I would be 

 inclined to think he came to Ireland some short 

 time previous to the arrival of that awful invader, 

 whp was proclaimed Lord Lieutenant thereof ij^ 

 the following month. The name of William Basil 

 is connected with sundry records of title passed 

 after the Restoration : as a Decree of Innocence 

 in 1662, an Adjudication of the " 1649" officers in 

 1666, a Certificate of Transplantation .to Con- 

 naught in 1669, &c., but the name does not appear 

 on the Rolls of the great National AttaincJers of 

 1642 and 1691, nor could it be expected in a 

 commission upon King Jameses Irish Army List ; 

 while I have an entry now before me of the burial 

 of Ann«| described as the daughter of Sir Robert 

 King, who married William "Bassell" of Donny- 

 carney, 1652. A manuscript in our Trinity Col- 

 lege library (F 4. 2.), purporting to be a registry 

 of baptisms, marriages, and burials within Dub- 

 lin, has an entry respecting a " Bassill " as of 1 688 ; 

 while Sir Bernard Burke, in his Landed Gentry, 

 mentions the marriage of Frances, daughter of 

 William Dowdeswell of Pull Court, who had been 

 sheriff of Worcestershire in 1726, to a William 

 Basil, Esq. John D' Alton. 



