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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s. NO 61., Feb. 28. '57. 



J. George Holman. — Was the Joseph Geo. 

 Holman, author of a drama called the Gazette 

 Exti-aordinarjj, produced in April, ISll, the cele- 

 brated actor of that name ? The latter was co- 

 temporary, I believe, with Garrick, and I wish to 

 learn, if possible, the date of his leaving England 

 for America, where, I believe, he deceased. 



Edwahd T. Lowne. 



[Mr. Joseph George Holman, the celebrated actor, was 

 a student of Queen's College, Oxford ; his friends in- 

 tended him for the Church, but it cloes not appear that 

 he took orders, although he received academical honours 

 even after joining the theatrical corps. We cannot dis- 

 cover when he left England for America, but it was pro- 

 bably soon after the death of his wife, in 1810. He 

 returned to London in 1812, to engage performers for his 

 theatre at Charlestown. He died at Rockawaj', a bathing- 

 place in Long Island, Aug. 24, 1817. The Gazette Ex- 

 traordinary seems to have been his last production. See 

 Gent. 3Iag. for Oct. 1817, p. 369.] 



Henry VIII. — The body of Henry VIII. was 

 laid out in state in Whitehall Palace. Did the 

 king die in that palace, or where ? 



W. G. Blackie. 



Glasgow. 



[There can be no doubt that Henry died at Whitehall. 

 Stow, in his Chronicle (p. 593.), says : •' Hee deceased at 

 Westminster on the eyght and twentieth dale of Januarie, 

 being Frydaie, in the yeere of Christ 1547, beginning the 

 yeere at Christmasse, but after the account of the Church 

 of England in an. 1546, when he had reigned 37 yeeres, 

 nine moneths, and odde dayes, and was buryed at Wind- 

 sore with great solemnitie."] 



Moap-eyed. — Surely there is an error in the 

 subjoined passage from The Muses Looking Glass, 

 Act IV. Sc. 1.: 



" What mole dressed me to-daj' ? patience. 

 Who would be troubled with these moap-eyed cham- 

 bermaids?" 



Should we not read mole or mote-Q.ye.<\ ? 



DUNELMENSIS. 



[ Mope-eyed, says Dr. Johnson, is blind with one eye, 

 on the authority of Ainsworth. Dr. Todd adds, "It means 

 rather short-sighted, purblind, /nvwi/f ; " and quotes Bishop 

 Bramhall for the use of the word.] 



Lines on Sir Edwai-d Villers. — Sir Edward 

 Villers, or Villiers, Knight, Lord President of 

 Minister anno 1622, died 1626. On a stone in the 

 south wall of the ancient church of Youghall, in 

 the CO. Cork, there is an inscription being partly 

 covered by a wall, with these lines : 



" , Lord President of Munster, A.D. 16 — . 



" Munster may curse the time that Villers came, 

 To make us worse, by leaving such a name 

 Of noble parts, as none can imitate 

 But those whose hearts are married to the State; 

 But if they press to imitate his fame, 

 Munster may bless the time that Villers came." 



Two of the daughters of the Earl of Grandison, 

 the Ladies Anne and Katherine Villers, and his 

 son, the Rt. Hon. Mr. Leid Villers, who died in 



Dec. 1739, are likewise interred in this church, 

 where is an inscription to their memory near the 

 communiontable. Can any one versed in the his- 

 tory of this Sir Edward Villers, Lord Primate of 

 Munster, explain the above lines ? M. (4.) 



[It seems doubtful whether these lines, which are as 

 much an epigram as an epitaph, formed any part of the 

 original inscription, as " they are in a kind of running 

 hand, and most probablj' written at an after period by one 

 of the Irish party," as stated in The Hand-Book far 

 Youghal, 8vo. 1852, p. v.] 



NEWTONIANA. 



(2"^ S. ii. p. 141.) 



It may be interesting to Professor De 

 Morgan and others, to publish the following in 

 " N. & Q." 



Without entering into the descents of the 

 haronetted Newtons, suffice it to mention there 

 were three Sir John Newtons : — 



1. The first (the last of the Cradocks) died in 

 1661 at Barr's Court, Gloucester; is buried in 

 Bristol Cathedral. 



2. 1699, died at Barr's Court, and is buried at 

 Bitton. 



3. 1734, buried at Hador, Lincoln; he died in 

 his own house in Soho Square, which he had oc- 

 cupied from 1693 to his death. 



Very near to Barr's Court is a house called 

 Grimsbury, formerly occupied by Woodwards. 

 By marriage with Still of the Bury, in an adjoin- 

 ing parish, Fearsalls of Willsbridge, near Barr's 

 Court, were connected with the Woodwards and 

 Newtons. Descendants of Pearsall were my pa- 

 rishioners at Bitton, and they possessed a very 

 curious miniature likeness of Sir Isaac Newton, 

 turned in oak, — it was like a medal. The tradi- 

 tion in the family was, that it was a present from 

 Sir Isaac to his cousin Sir John at Barr's Court, 

 and had passed to Pearsall from the Woodwards, 

 Newton Woodward being a brother-in-law, aa 

 this table will show : — 



2nd Sir John Newton of=Maiy Eyre. 

 Barr's Court, " Tlirice 

 Burgess," ob. 1699 : 

 co-heir to Sir Isaac. 



Francis Woo(l-=Dorothy Newton, 

 ward of Grims- youngest of 13 

 tury, ob. 1730. daughters, ob. 

 1712. 



John still of the 

 Bury, Kiundson 

 of Bishop Still = 



Newton Woodward ot==rrances 

 Grimibury, ob. 1775. I Still. 



V 



John Pearsall=Phl1inpa 

 of W^ills- 1 Still, 

 bridge. 



Richard Pear-— Elizabeth 

 sail. I Lucas. 



Robert Lucas Pearsall, late of Willsbridge= 

 and Wartensee, ob. 1856. I 



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