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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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districts of the country ; a picture of one of them, 

 of the old school, is worth noting. 



In a trial before the Court of Session, to prove 

 the legal succession to the property of John 

 Morgan, Esq., of Coatcs Crescent, Edinburgh, a 

 witness gave evidence as follows, namely : 



" At Fettercairn, 6th May, 1853, compeared Catherine 

 N^apier, or Jamieson, widow of the deceased John Jamie- 

 son, wlieelwright in Fettercairn, who being solemnl}' 

 sworn, &c. I am past 88 years of age, and was born on 

 the 2iHli of April. I was born at the waulkmill of Pit- 

 renny, below Fordoun. I learned to be a midwife about 

 sixty years ago, and I have lived in Fettercairn ever 

 since, ^vhere I have practised as a midwife. ... I 

 remember well of being at the birth of James Morgan, 

 and I acted as midwife on the occasion. The witness here 

 detailed the whole circumstances attending the birth of 

 James Morgan. His ftither had had a notion from 

 judging the planets that the child would not be born on 

 the dav when the witness expected it, and accordingly, 

 although she had been in the house at a previous part of 

 the day, when she judged James Morgan's wife to be 

 near her time, she was desired to go home, and was not 

 again summoned until just before the child was born. . 

 . . . I kept a book in which I entered my professional 

 visits to the number of 1565 deliveries, but I burned it in 

 tlie year that the new steeple was built on the church at 

 Fettercairn, when I thought I was going to die. There 

 were a good many entries in the book unpaid for, and I 

 was unwilling that anybody should be troubled about 

 them after my death. . . . James Morgan was born 

 in the summer time, but I cannot tell the year. It was a 

 honny night in summer. I could have told the year if I 

 had not burned the book as alreadv mentioned." 



G.N. 



The Orientalist, Joseph Hammer, Vienna. — As 

 the biographers will be busy about the life of this 

 greatest man, lately departed, it may be interesting 

 to state what I know from personal knowledge, 

 that Hammer, when upwards of fifty years of age, 

 became a pupil of the great natation school in the 

 Prater, Vienna, — then also frequented by me. 

 The late Hofrath became so proficient, that he 

 performed the masterpiece of swimming across 

 the great Arm of the Danube, near the Tabor 

 bridge, and thus got the diploma (freedom) of the 

 natation school. Et legere sciebat — et natare. 



J. LoTZKY, (Panslave). 



15. Gower Street, London. 



<k\\txit<i. 



WHO WROTE " CHEER, BOTS, CHEER ? 



You and your numerous correspondents are 

 supposed to know, or to be able to discover, everv- 

 thing connected with literature, past and present. 

 Can you inform me who is the author of a song 

 entitled " Cheer, hoys, cheer!" ? I think — I be- 

 lieve, — nay I am sure that I wrote it — and 

 invented it : — and I believe this upon evidence 

 which is as convincing to my own mind, as the 



evidence of the fact that I have a nose upon my 

 face — whicli I can feel when I will, and of which 

 I can see the rt flection in a mirror. In fact, there 

 is no fact more indubitable to my mind, than 

 this particular fact. Yet I learn, from an Edin- 

 burgh newspaper, which a good-natured friend 

 has just forwarded for my gratification, that 

 " Cheer, boys, cheer! is the literary product of 

 Lady Maxwell of Monteith, sister to Admiral Sir 

 Houston Stewart ; and not of Charles Mackay." 

 I will not be so ungallant as to call upon the lady 

 herself to substantiate a claim which I am quite 

 sure she has never made ; but perhaps some of 

 your correspondents will be able to inform me 

 whether Lady Maxwell has written a parody or 

 imitation of the original song ? and thus led the 

 correspondent of the northern newspaper into a 

 blunder, which is amusing to me, but which may 

 perchance be painful to a lady, who I am sure 

 would no more think of robbing me of my poor 

 verses, than I would of stealing licr purse or her 

 pocket-handkerchief. The thing is of little value, 

 I admit ; but if I am not to believe that it is 

 mine, I must disbelieve, Sir, in your existence — 

 in that of "N. & Q." — in that of the piece of 

 paper on which this letter is written — nay, in 

 that of the solid earth itself. Chas. M.\ckat. 



PERRIN S " HISTORY OF THE WALDBNSES. 



Looking through the very interesting Catalogue 

 (No. 12.) issued by Mr. Thos. Jepps, of Queen's 

 Head Passage, I find the same book occurring 

 twice, but with two distinct titles, copies of which 

 I enclose. Both are by the same printer and of 

 the same date. Can you, or any of your readers 

 inform me of any similar cases ? R. D. Garland. 



" Luther's Fore-Runners ; or a Cloud of Witnesses, De- 

 posing for the Protestant B aith. Gathered together in the 

 Historic of the Waldenses ; who for divers hundred years 

 before Luther, successively opposed Popery, professed the 

 truth of the Gospell, and sealed it with their bloud. 

 Being most grievousiy persecuted, and many thousands 

 of them martj'r'd by' the tyrannic of that man of sinne 

 and his superstitious adherents and cruel Instruments. 

 Divided into three parts. The first concerns their original 

 beginning, the puritie of their Religion, the Persecutions 

 which they have suffered throughout all I'^urope for the 

 space of about four liundred and tiftie years. The second 

 contains the Historic of the Waldenses called Albigen- 

 ses. The third concerneth the Doctrine and Discipline 

 which hath beene common amongst them, and the confu- 

 tation of the Doctrine of their Adversaries. All which 

 hath been faithfully collected out of the Authors named 

 in the page following the Preface. Bj' J. P. P. L. Trans- 

 lated out of French by Samson Lennard. London : 

 Printed for Nathaniel Newberry, and are to be sold at the 

 signe of the Starre, under S. Peter's Church in Cornhill, 

 and in Popes-head Alley, 1624." 



" The Bloudy Rage of that Great Antechrist of Rome 

 and his superatitioos adherents, against the true Church 



