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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°^ s. N" 70., Mat 2. '57. 



limited to IZ. I thus afford gratuitously national 

 information, which it has cost me forty years' 

 labour, research, and expenditure to accumulate. 

 Will those, who would benefit by my industry, 

 defray the mere expense of outfit ? I claim not 

 remuneration, but I deprecate individual loss. 



If this work be encouraged, I would propose to 

 draw up similar illustrations of the families who 

 were represented in King James's Parliament of 

 1689, Lords and Commons ; and those of his 

 officers of state, subjoining to the whole a tabular 

 digest of the confiscations of 1688, giving the 

 names of the forfeiting proprietors, the quantity 

 of estate they lost, the counties where situateii, the 

 purchasers, and the respective purchase moneys 

 paid for each lot. This portion is also already 

 drawn up for the press ; and I now, in the first 

 instance, solicit the editors of such journals as 

 should advance the project, to give prompt pub- 

 licity to this appeal in their columns ; the result 

 will, I fondly hope, bring in to me as prompt 

 tenders of substantial cooperation ; but I beg to 

 decline receiving money in advance, until the 

 whole amount of the required indemnity is sub- 

 scribed for. John D' Alton. 

 48. Summer Hill, Dublin. 



Prognosticatioivi of the Great Plague. — I do not 

 know whether the following prognostication of the 

 plague, among many others in the same work, has 

 ever been noticed. It occurs in Edlin's Prcenuri' 

 cius Sydereus, London, 166| : — 



" As to what may be Physically observed, I have in 

 several places hinted, and have great cause to fear, do 

 therefore once again premonish you of a great Plague in 

 the year 1665. And pray God divert it ! " 



Ddnelmensis. 



" Her pleasure in her power to charm.^^ — In 

 Coventry Patraore's pure and delicately beautiful 

 poem, " The Angel in the House," the above line 

 twice occurs. 



" An exquisite line," says The Critic, Dec. 1, 1854 : 

 " who could have believed that the ugly and often unjust 

 word vanity could ever be melted down into so true and 

 pretty and flattering a periphrasis ? " 



Mr. Thackeray makes use of the same idea : 



" A fair j'oung creature, bright and blooming yesterday, 

 distributing smiles, levying liomage, inspiring desire, 

 conscious of her power to charm, and gay with the natural 

 enjoyments of her conquests — who, in his walk through 

 the world, lias not looked on many such a one ? " — The 

 Newcomes, ii. 161. 



CUTHBEHT BeDE. 



Railway. — The following extract from the 

 Gevt's Mag., June, 1805, p. 536., may prove an 

 useful note to some future searcher in "JST. & 

 Q." about to write a history of iron railways, 



especially when he comes to treat of the Eastern 

 Counties : 



" I request some volunteer sketch of an iron railway, 

 answering (nearly) the purpose of navigation from town 

 to town, accompanied by some estimate of the expense 

 per mile ; which has scarcely yet been delineated in any 

 publication, and respecting which the Eastern Counties 

 are almost in complete ignorance." 



H. T. E. 



All indefatigable Critic and Pluralist. — 



" In adstruendo opere cui titulus The British Critic, 

 adjutor indefessus sine mercede ; ab isto incepto, a.d. 1793, 

 usque ad annos viginti finitos, seriem primam, mille, octo- 

 ginta, et his articulos subministravit." — From an Enar- 

 ratio brevis compiled by Samuel Partridge, M.A., Rector 

 of Skyness, 1780 ; Vicar of Cockington, 1781 ; Rector of 

 Leverton, 1782; Chaplain to the Bp. of Bristol, 1785; 

 Vicar of Boston, and Surrogate, 1785 ; Justice of the 

 Peace, 1787; Chaplain to Brownlow, Duke of Ancaster, 

 1792; Chaplain to Peter, Lord Gwydir, 1797; Vicar of 

 Wigtoft cum Quadring, 1797; Fellow of the Society of 

 Antiquaries, 1800 ; Proctor in Convocation, 1806 and 

 1807 ; and Chaplain to the South Lincoln Militia, 1809." 



P. R. 



[The Rev. Samuel Partridge was also Chairman of the 

 Quarter Sessions for the hundreds of Kirton and Skir- 

 beck. He died in 1817. See Gent. Mag. Ixxxvii. pt. ii. 

 pp. 186. 198.] 



Disuse of the Pillory. — 



" In the following year (i. e. after Lord Cochrane's trial 

 and sentence in 1814), the punishment of the pillory, 

 notwitlistanding the remonstrances of the Chief Justice 

 (Lord EUenborough), who proved il# existence as far 

 back as 1269, was altogether abolished." — Townshend's 

 Twelve Judges, vol. i. 359. 



E. H. A. 



Coffee -Houses, eai-ly mention of. — Burton sftys, 

 Anat. Mel., part i. sec. 2., m. 2. s. 2. : 



" 'Tis the summum bonum of our tradesmen, their fe- 

 licity, life, and soul, their chief comfort, to be merry to- 

 gether in an alehouse or tavern, as our modern Muscovites 

 do in their mede-inns, and Turks in their coffee-house.^, 

 which much resemble our taverns." 



This is a very early mention of cofTee-houses ; 

 long before they were introduced into this country. 

 As my copy of Burton is only a modern reprint, I 

 am not sure whether the original spelling of the 

 word cqff'ee is not modernised here. Some thirty 

 years after this time it was advertised for sale as 

 kauphi. Henry T. Riley. 



Minax Hknttiti. 



Derivation of " Ravensdale" 8jC. — What is the 

 derivation of Ravendale, Ravenfield, Ravenhillf 

 Ravensden, Raventhorpe, Ravenstone, and Ravens- 

 wath ? Is the first syllable the name of a bird, 

 or of a man, or of water ? P. R. 



Suppressed Letters of Cardinal Richelieu. — A 

 French MS. in my possession, containing copies of 



