April 3. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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truth, for the larders of the Milesian chiefs in the 

 neighbourhood of the English pale were often 

 supplied by the nocturnal marauds of their cattle- 

 lifters. However, I see that Stanihurst writes 

 that the Irish dined in winter be/ore day, and in 

 summer about the seventh hour. 



Can any of your readers say in whose possession 

 this book is now ? I was informed t!iat it was 

 purchased by a dignitary of Cambridge Uni- 

 versity, il. F.H. 



Wexford. 



POLITICAL PAMPHLETS. 



The loan of the following works is much desired 

 by a gentleman who has in vain tried to find them 

 in the British Museum, or to purchase them. 

 They belong to a class of books which being of 

 little money-value are generally vmsted by book- 

 sellers, rarely or never inserted in their cata- 

 logues : — 



A Collection of Letters on Government, Liberty, 

 and the Constitution, which appeared from the time 

 Lord Bute was appointed First Lord of the Trea- 

 sury to the Death of Lord Egremont. 3 vols, 

 [possibly 4], published in 1774 by Almon. 



A Collection of esteemed Political Tracts, which 

 appeared 1764, 5, and 6. 3 or 4 vols, published 

 1766 or 7, by Almon. 



A Collection of most Interesting Political Letters 

 which appeared in the Public Papers from 1763 

 to 1765. 3 or 4 vols. Almon, 1766. 



The Briton (a Periodical). 1763. 



The Auditor (a Periodical). 1763. 



A Collection of all Remarkable and Personal 

 Passages in the Briton, North Briton, and Auditor. 

 Almon, 1765. 



The Expostulation, a Poem, Blngley, 1768. 



Vox Senatus. 1771. 



Two Remarkable Letters of Junius and The Free- 

 holder. 1770. 



Junius's Letters. Wheble, 1771 (not 1772 or 

 1775). 



Wilkes's Speeches. 3 vols. 



The Editor of " N. & Q." has undertaken to 

 take charge of them, and when done with to re- 

 turn them safely to their respective owners. Q. N. 



:^tit0r a^ntiit^. 



The Book of Nicholas Leigh. — Some twenty or 

 thirty years since a gentleman named Abraham 

 Roth resided in London, having in his possession 

 a manuscript of the early part of the seventeenth 

 century bearing the above title, and relating to 

 the history and internal polity of the town of 

 Kilkenny. It is frequently quoted by Dr. Led- 

 wich in his Antiquities of Kilkenny and Trishtown. 

 Mr. Roth subsequently deceased in London, and 



it is believed his books and other effects were 

 sold there. 



Qy. Is The Book of Nicholas Leigh known to 

 any of the correspondents or readers of " N. •& 

 Q. ? " James Graves. 



Kilkenny. 



Gabriel Harvey s Notes on Chaucer. — It ap- 

 pears by a note of Park's in Warton's Poetry, 

 vol. iii. p. 86. (ed. 1840), tliat Bishop Percy had 

 in his possession a copy of Speght's Chaucer, in 

 which was a note by Gabriel Harvey to the effect 

 tliat some of Heywood's Epigrams were supposed 

 to be " conceits and devices of pleasant Sir Thomas 

 More." Is the copy of Speglit in existence, and 

 where ? If it contain many notes by Harvey, 

 they would probably prove to be worth recording. 



Philo Chaucer. 



The Cholera and the Electrometer. — During 

 the late visitation of cholera, observatitms were 

 made tending to establish a relation between the 

 state of the Electrometer and the quotidian fluc- 

 tuations of the disease. 



Where can any authentic account of these ob- 

 servations be found, and what is the name of the 

 observer ? T. J. 



Terre Isaac. — Can I be referred to any source 

 of information respecting Isaac, mentioned in 

 Domesday Book as hohling lands In Norfolk of the 

 gift of the Conqueror, and whether he had any de- 

 scendants ? (t. a. C. 



Baunddyon. — One of the earliest Queries 

 kindly inserted in Vol. i., p. 92., requesting in- 

 formation regarding the legend and tradition of 

 the tenor bell at Margate, being still unanswered, 

 be pleased to append as a note the following lines 

 from a descriptive poem called The Margate Guide, 

 1797, by the late Mr. Zechariah Cozens, an es- 

 teemed local antiquary, now buried within its 

 sound : 

 " But on the north John Daundclyon lies. 

 Whose woadrons deeds our children yet surprise ; . 

 Still at his feet his faithful dog remains, 

 Who with his master equal notice claims ; 

 For by their joint exertions legends tell, 

 They brought from far the ponderous tenor bell." 

 " Note. — Concerning this bell the inhabitants 

 repeat this traditionary rhyme : 



"John de Dauiidelyon with his great dog, 

 Brought over this bill upon a mill cog." 



Page 31. 



E.D. 



Mallet's Death and Burial. — Where did Mallet 

 the poet die, and where was he burled ? F. 



Cla.'isical Quotations in Grotius. — I have been 

 told that Grotius quoted from memory alone when 

 writing his Commentary ; is this possible, consider- 

 ing the number and variety of the quotations ? 



