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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°'» S. No 72., May 16, '57. 



berry (Commissioners of Bankruptcy), resided in 

 Bride Street, Little Cuffe Street, Ship Street, 

 Digges Street, Duke Street, and Stephen Street. 

 Lord Chief Justice Caulfield dwelt in Aungier 

 Street ; Justice French, in Smithfield ; James 

 Grattan, the Recorder (Henry's father), in Staf- 

 ford Street ; R. Morgan, Remembrancer of the 

 Exchequer, in Kennedy's Lane ; John Foster, 

 afterwards Speaker of the Irish House of Com- 

 mons, and raised to the Peerage as Lord Oriel, in 

 King Street ; Theobald AVolfe (uncle to Lord 

 Kilwarden), in Aungier Street; H, Carmichael, 

 Clerk of the Crown, in Bride Street ; B. Burston, 

 R. C. Castle Street ; and John Philpot Curran, 

 on Redmond's Hill. Chancery Lane and Hoey's 

 Court appear to have been vei'y favourite loca- 

 lities with the wigs and gowns of the last century. 

 The former (so narrow that opposite neighbours 

 might shake hands from the windows of their 

 respective drawing-rooms) probably derived its 

 name from the Masters residing there. In the 

 Directory for 1765 we find Master Stopford in 

 Chancery Lane. 



It would appear that Boswell's love for Mary 

 Anne was too strong to last. It kindled, blazed, 

 and died out, as his passion for Miss Blair, " the 

 Princess," " the charming Dutchwoman," and the 

 beautiful Miss Dick, had blazed and died out be- 

 fore. In 1769 his esteem for one of the Ayrshire 

 "cousins," Miss Margaret Montgomerie, merged 

 info love and matrimony. AVho ^^ La belle Ir- 

 landaise " was eventually allied to does not satis- 

 factorily appear ; but it is probable tliat the 

 marriage of "Miss Montgomery" with "Sir Thos. 

 Gasgoine," as recorded in the Gentleman's Maga- 

 zine for 1772, p. 542., would, if inquired into, elicit 

 the information. 



The Montgomeries were amongst the soldiers 

 of fortune who came from the West of Scotland, 

 and obtained large grants of land in the North of 

 Ireland, for sustaining the English interest there. 

 The ancestor of Montgomery, of Grey Abbey, co. 

 Down, received a third part of the large estate of 

 O'Neil. 



The editor of the Letters, in a long and inter- 

 esting communication acknowledging my chase 

 after Bozzy's amour, rem.arked : 



" I quite concur that he must liave played the fool with 

 one cousin, and married another. Wliat a wonderful man I 

 who, though known to possess all kinds of weaknesses and 

 contemptible qualities, was 3-et received, embraced, and 

 positively popular with the ladies." 



The discovery of the letters "by an English 

 gentleman," in a shop at Boulogne, is told in the 

 preface with an air of mystery. How Temple's 

 papers got to France wns not then known. It has 

 been ascertained that Mr. Poulett (p. 332.) did 

 marry Miss Temple on tlie 400/. a-year. At the 

 death of her father (Boswell's correspondent) Mr. 

 Foulet^ took possession of all temple's letters and 



papers, in the absence of her brothers abroad in 

 their infancy. Poulett then went to live in France 

 (the 400/. a-year explains this), and died there, 

 poor. The Temples were never able to get their 

 father's papers. They passed from hand to hand 

 unclaimed, until Major Stone (H. E. I. C. S.) 

 picked them up as described in the preface. 

 Stone left them to Mr. Boyse, a London barris- 

 ter ; Boyse handed them to Mr. Edmund Hornby 

 (who was sent, in 1856, to Constantinople, to look 

 after the five millions we lent the Turks), and Mr. 

 Hornby placed them at the disposal of the gentle- 

 man who has so ably edited them. The originals 

 may be viewed at Mr. Bentley's. 



The present representative of the Temple family 

 had not been discovered when the volume ema- 

 nated from the press in December last. He is 

 Admiral Francis Temple, a distinguished officer 

 on the reserved half-pay. 



William John Fitz-Pateick. 



Kilmacud Manor, Stillorgan, co. Dublin. 



AECHAISMS AND PROVINCIALISMS : UNSATISFAC- 

 TOKINESS OF DICTIONARIES. 



In the natural and touching story of " The 

 Terrible Knitters e' Dent," related in Southey's 

 Doctor (one vol. edit. pp. 558 — 561.), I find tlie 

 following words ; about which I should be glad of 

 more satisfactory information than I can derive 

 from Bailey, Halliwell, and Wright, — the only 

 three authorities on my shelves : — 



Eilding. A note says " fuel." This form of 

 the word does not occur in either B. H. or W. 

 All three have " elden fuel." H. and W. explain 

 it also by " rubbish." B. alone gives an etymology, 

 ''JEld. Sax." 



Hoaf. Evidently "half," but not in either of 

 the three ; surely a variation worth noting. 



Mafflins. A note says '■'■ maffling, a slate of 

 perplexity," citing Brockett as its authority. 

 MaJJie^ "to stammer or flutter (^Masselen, Du.)," 

 Bailey. [I cannot find this word in Fliigel's 

 German Diet., or in a small stereop. Zauchnitz 

 Dutch one.] " To mumble or stammer," W. 

 " To stammer, to mumble ; the term seems to be 

 applied to any action suffering from impediments," 

 II. Neither II. nor W. give any etymology. 

 '^ 3£affling, a simpleton," H. and W. "A term 

 applied to a small feeder," W. No etymology in 

 either. 



Maisled. Nothing in B. " Maislikin, foolish 

 (North.)," H. and W. " Mazle, to wander as if 

 stupefied (Cumb.)," H. and \Y. No authority or 

 example. 



" Feeafe, as sick as a." " Peat, a darling, a 

 fondling," B. "A delicate person," IT. and W. 

 In the Glossary to the Wuverlei/ Noi'eh; " peat" 

 is explained by "pet, favourite." I think I 



