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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



C2"'J S. N« 57., Jan 31. 'o7. 



n, small work en the Roman Catholic controversy, 

 pn titled A Collection of Texts of Scripture ; with 

 Short Notes upon them, and some other Observa- 

 tions as^airist the Principal Popish Errors. It is 

 printed for Thomas Ewing in Dame Street, 

 Dublin, M.ncc.LXVi. ; and bears the imprimatur, 

 Gnil. Needham, Julii, 1688.* Neibbo. 



Cork. 



John Foxe. — Mr. Russell, in his Memorials of 

 the Life and Works of Fuller (London, 1844), 

 states, in p. 187., that Foxe wrole his Acts and 

 Monuments in the parish of Waltham, and that 

 his posterity possessed a considerable estate at 

 Waltham, in his (Fuller's) time. This is derived 

 from the dedication to a work by Fuller on bap- 

 tism. But do the registers at Waltham, or the 

 title-deeds of any property, support this state- 

 ment, to which Foxe's biographers do not appear 

 to have referred ?f Abhba. 



Tyburn, its Antiquity as a Place of Execution. — 

 In Vol. ii. of "N. & Q." (P' S. 243.), there is a 

 quotation from the British Apollo, 1740 : 



" As to the antiquity of Tyburn, it is no older than the 

 year 1529: before that time, the place of execution was 

 in Eotten Row, in Old Street." 



This is an egregious error. In 1196, upwards 

 of 300 years before the date named, William Fitz- 

 osbert, or Longbeard, was executed at Tyburn, as 

 we learn from Roger de Wendover. Is there any 

 prior execution at Tyburn recorded ? 



Henry T. Rilet. 



The Welsh "Ap."—-1 wish to know at what 

 period this word Ceased to be used in Welsh no- 

 menclature ? thus, " Morgan ap Rees ap Jones 

 ap Jenkins," &c. Llangollen. 



" College Recollections." — Who wrote [Dublin] 

 College Recollections, 8vo., London, 1825 ? 



"The Sketches here submitted to the public," saj-s the 

 editor, who was the author's executor, " are taken from 

 the manuscripts of a person, who wrote them originally 

 with some view to their publication, .... but shrunk 

 from the thought of presenting himself before the world 

 as an author." 



Abhba. 



Query relative to Mr. Herhj. — About the mid- 

 dle of last century, a pei-son of this name re- 

 sided in the vicinity of Reading, if I recollect 

 aright. There was considerable mystery attached 

 to him ; and it was generally said that he was a 



[* In 1825, this work was reprinted by the Rev. Thos. 

 Young, of Margate, with a Preface, but he has not given 

 the author's name.] 



rt The passage occurs in Fuller's work, The Tnfanfs 

 Advocate, 8vo. lGo3, where he states, that "the Inrgc and 

 learned works of the no Icsse religious than industrious 

 Mr. Foxe in his Book of Marti/rs was penned here [Wal- 

 tham], leaving his posterity a considerable estate at this 

 day possessed by them in this parish."] 



IMahometan, and, after the Turkish fashion, had a 

 plurality of wives. He sudrlenly disappeared, 

 and his wives were found murdered. Can any of 

 your readers say if the mystery was ever solved? 

 and if it was ever discovered who he really was ? 



Henry T. Riley. 



Sars field and Murray Families. — Did a mem- 

 ber of the Murray family of Scotland intermarry 

 with a member of the Sarsfield family of Ireland ? 

 and if so, when ? Is the male branch of the Sars- 

 field family extinct ? Where can a full account 

 of the female branches be found ? Anglo- Celt. 



Philadelphia, 



" The Siege of Colchester." — Who is the author 

 of The Siege of Colchester, or the Year 1648; a 

 historical drama ? Published at Colchester in 

 1824. It is dedicated to Sir Geo. Hen. Smyth, 

 Bart., of Berechurch Hall, Essex. On the title- 

 page, it is said to be by the author of The Idiot ; 

 Deaf and Dumb ; The Hoaxing Trio ; All in an 

 Uproar, ^c. X. 



William Harhach. — Can any of your readers 

 give me any information regarding an author 

 named Wm. Harbach ? who wrote The Rake and 

 Country Girl, an eclogue ; printed about the year 

 1785. X. 



Luttrells of Dunster. — Many years since I was 

 told that when Prynne was a prisoner in Dunster 

 Castle, he was allowed to arrange and look over a 

 large collection of family papers, which were still 

 in existence in the boxes in which Prynne placed 

 them. Is this true ? Did Prynne arrange such 

 papers? Are they still preserved ? T. F. 



Napoleon and Wellington. — In the recently 

 published Memoirs of the Court of England during 

 the Regency, by the Duke of IBuckingham and 

 Chandos, is the following passage (vol. ii. p. 230.). 

 The year was 1818 : — 



" On the 1 1th of February, while the Duke of AYelling- 

 ton was staying in Paris, anxioush' occupied in assisting 

 to restore France to her position among the Continental 

 Powers, as he was quitting his carriage to enter his hotel 

 at one in the morning, a pistol was discharged at him 

 from an unseen assassin, who fled on perceiving that he 

 had missed his aim. Two disbanded old soldiers of the 

 Emperor were arrested on suspicion ; but as the evidence 

 against them was defective, they were acquitted. The 

 guilt of one, Cantillon, was sufficiently established in the 

 mind of Napoleon, for he subsequently bequeathed him a 

 legacy of 10,000 francs, for attempting this assassination 

 — a most characteristic demonstration of his Corsican 

 disposition." 



Are we to understand this as asserting that the 

 will stated the attempted assassination to be the 

 motive for the legacy ? Such seems to be its 

 literal meaning; but is it the correct interpre- 

 tation ? Bar-Point. 



Philadelphin. 



