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1590. Thomas Woulfel . , , .,.«> 



1591. Richard Woulfe I were successively bailiffs, 



1592. David Woulfe J ^^ ^" 

 1605. Was James Woulfe. 



From this date till 1613 scarcely a year passed 

 ■without the dismissal of the chosen Catholic magi- 

 strates, and substitution by royal mandate of Pro- 

 testants. In 1613 George Woulfe, grandfather* 

 of the proscribed Captain of the same name as 

 above, then sheriff (the title assumed since 1609), 

 with his colleagues, John Arthur, and the mayor, 

 David Creagh, was deposed for refusing the 

 oaths of supremacy, &c. 



In 1647 Patrick Woulfe was sheriff; but from 

 1654, when the city surrendered to Ireton, until 

 June 1656, Limerick was ruled by twelve English 

 aldermen. In 1656 Colonel Henry Ingolsby be- 

 came mayor, and the regular order of magistracy 

 was subsequently pursued. 



I cannot at present trace the genealogy in strict 

 deduction, although I believe it all might be col- 

 lected from the subsisting papers of the family in 

 the county of Clare ; at least from Garret, the first- 

 named bailiff in the preceding list. In my boy- 

 hood I saw some pedigree of it in the hands of an 

 antiquary named Stokes, but which it would now 

 be difficult to discover. If the present Sir Fre- 

 derick A. G. Ouseley, Bart., son of my old school- 

 fellow, the late Sir George, be in possession of the 

 papers of his grandfather, Captain Ralph Ouseley, 

 I think it likely that some documents relating to 

 General Wolfe's family, in its ancient line, will be 

 found, as I recollect hearing Captain Ouseley, a 

 resident of Limerick, speak of them. J. R. 



Cork. 



WitpUtS ta ::^tn0r <hutvitg. 



Song of ''Miss Bailey'' (Vol. v., p. 248.).— I 

 think I am certain that when I first heard of the 

 song of "Miss Bailey," which was about 1805, it 

 was as having been sung in the farce of Love 

 laughs at Locksmiths. C. B. 



Fern Storms (Vol. v., p. 242.). — In Colonel 

 Keid's Law of Storms, p. 483. et seq., 2nd edition, 

 accounts are given of the violent whirlwind pro- 

 duced by fires. It may be supposed that in former 

 times they were on a larger scale than at present, 

 and, from the great force described, they might 

 have affected the weather at least, when on the 

 turn already. C. B. 



* So I was assured, many years ago, by the late 

 Lord Chief Baron Wolfe, from whom I also learned 

 that all these magistrates certainly sprung from the 

 same stem, though how they should be respectively 

 placed as to constitute a form of genealogy, I cannot 

 now exactly indicate. 



The last of the Paleologi (Vol. v., p. 173.).— 

 All that was known respecting the descendants 

 J. L. C. will find in an article relating to the 

 family in the Transactions of the Society of Anti- 

 quaries, ArchcBologia, vol. xviii. pp. 84 — 104. G. 



*' Whipping Graves" (Vol v., p. 247.). — Cyrus 

 Redding will find that the " Ritus Absolvendi 

 jam mortuum" in the modern Rituale Romanum 

 "(Mechlinise, 1848), is performed exactly according 

 to his description. G. A. T. 



Withyham. 



Rev. John Paget (Vol. iv., p. 133.; Vol. v.» 

 p. 66.). — Cranmobe's inquiry has not been fully 

 answered, nor am I able to point out the precise 

 degree of relationship between John Paget and 

 the editor of his works, Thomas Paget. The latter 

 became incumbent of Blackley, near Manchester, 

 about the year 1605, having been placed in that 

 chapelry chiefly through the efforts of the Rev. 

 William Bourne, B.D., a native of Staffordshire, 

 who had married a kinswoman of Lord Burleigh, 

 and who was for many years an influential Fellow 

 of the Collegiate Church of Manchester. (See 

 Hollinirworth's Mancuniensis, pp. 106, 107.) In 

 1617 Thomas Paget was cited before Morton, 

 Bishop of Chester, for nonconformity; and shortly 

 afterwards he was convened before Bishop Bridge- 

 man on the same ground. He is styled at this 

 time " the good old man " (Brook's Lives, vol. ii. 

 p. 293.), although he lived at least forty years 

 afterwards. In the delightful Autobiography/ of 

 Henry Newcome, M.A., the Presbyterian Minister 

 of Manchester, edited for the Chetham Society by 

 the Rev. Canon Parkinson, D.D. (2 vols. 4to. 

 1852), are several interesting notices of Mr. 

 Thomas Paget. He is mentioned as " old Mr. 

 Pagit, late of Blakeley," in 1658, and seems to have 

 had the rectory of Stockport in 1659, although 

 Richard Baxter spoke of him in 1656 as " old and 

 sickly," and then living at Shrewsbury. He was 

 well known, says the amiable Newcome, " as a 

 man of much frowardness," and able to create 

 "much unquietness;" but Baxter hoped, "not 

 altoo-ether so morose as some report him." 



F. R. R. 



Old Scots March, SfC. (Vol. v., p. 235.). — I 

 happen to have the score of one of the tunes in- 

 quired after by E. N., namely. Port Athol, as 

 given by the late Edward Bunting, in his collec- 

 tion of Irish airs, under the name of the " Hawk 

 of Ballyshannon." It was composed by a famous 

 Irish harper named Rory Dal O'Cahan, the Rory 

 Dal of Sir Walter Scott's Legend of Montrose, 

 who visited Scotland in the reign of 'James VI., 

 and ultimately died there. He was the author of 

 the Ports or tunes called Port Gordon, Port 

 Lennox, M'Leod's Supper, Port Athol, Give me 

 your hand, The Lame Beggar, &c. &c. It has 



