May 8. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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■works. ' Detector' was, no doubt, some young college 

 ■wag; for his letter has a Cambridge post-mark." 



It may interest to know that the author of this 

 clever hoax ■was Henry I. T. Drury, then, I think, 

 of King's College, Cambridge, and afterwards one 

 of the Masters at Harrow. The lines will be found 

 in the Aruudines Cami, W. T. M. 



Hong Kong. 



IRISH QUERIES. 



1. O'Donovan, in his edition of the Post- Inva- 

 sion Annals of the IV. Masters, vol. iii. p. 2091. 

 note, says that he " intends to publisli a review of 

 Spenser's View of the State of Ireland, in which he 

 will give him full credit for his discernment of 

 abuses, and expose all his intentional figments." 

 Query, Has this review since appeared in any Irish 

 periodical, or other publication ? 



2. What is the relationship (or may it possibly 

 be the identity?) between Gilbert de Clare, Earl 

 of Gloucester, who married a daughter of Wil- 

 liam, Earl Marshal, the famous Protector, during 

 Heni'y III.'s minority, and Gilbert de Clare, Earl 

 of Gloucester, who married a daughter of King 

 Edward I. ? 



3. The inquirer will consider himself extremely 

 indebted to any one who will inform him of the 

 existence of a set of Middle- Age Maps of the 

 countries of Europe, of 8vo. or small 4to. size, pub- 

 lished in England, France, or Germany, in print, 

 or easily to be had second-hand, more or less 

 accurate. 



Koch's Revolutions de VEurope, tome iii., Paris, 

 1814, gives seven maps of the whole continent and 

 its adjacent islands, at the following periods of 

 Middle-Age history : 



(1.) Avant I'lnvasion des Barbares; 



(2.) Vers la Fin du V Siecle ; 



(3.) Sous I'Empire de Charlemagne ; 



(4.) Vers la Fin du IX" Siecle ; 



(5.) Vers 1074; 



(6.) Vers 1300: 



(7.) A I'An 1453 ; 

 ■which contain, of course, but few names of places. 

 Were Europe divided into five unequal parts, 

 say, 1. The Northern Countries; 2. The British 

 Isles ; 3. The Germanic Countries, Hungary, 

 &c. ; 4. France and Spain ; 5. Italy, Turkey, &c. ; 

 and maps of these five parts given, the Northern 

 Countries at three periods, the British Isles at four 

 ditto, and the others at seven periods, as above, 

 we should require twenty-eight maps (not too 

 great a number, as the King's College Modern 

 Atlas, of a convenient size, has twenty -five), which 

 if they contained names of places as closely packed 

 as the King's College Atlas, and laid down from 

 Spruner, or some other trustworthy authority, 

 ■would soon, it may be said without much foresight, 



be in the hands of so many readers of history, as to 

 answer thoroughly to any bookseller undertaking 

 to bring them out. 



4. A copy of O'Brien's Irish-English Dictionary, 

 first edition, 4to., old, half-calf, margins a little 

 water-stained, otherwise perfect and clean, lately 

 priced at 25s., to be exchanged for a clean copy of 

 the edition of 1832 (inferior in value but more 

 portable), and a clean copy of Thady Connellan's 

 elementary Irish Dictionary, published by Wall, 

 Temple Bar ; Hatchard, and Rivingtons : or the 

 latter will be purchased at a moderate price, with- 

 out exchange. 



Any one desiring to report the books wanted, to 

 be so kind as to do so in " N. & Q." 



Mac an Bhaikd. 



JHinnr €i\xtxiti. 



The Azores. — In a note in Our Village (vol. v.). 

 Miss Mitford says that this name was given to 

 these islands collectively, on account of the num- 

 ber of hawks and falcons found on them. Is the 

 name Spanish ; and does the Natural History of 

 the islands at the present time confirm the 

 assertion ? J. O'G. 



Johnny Crapaud. — In one of Queen Elizabeth's 

 Wardrobe books is the following entry of a trinket, 

 devised at the period of the Duke of Alen^on's 

 courting her Majesty : 



" Item, one little Flower of gold, with a /Vo^ there- 

 on ; and therein mounseer his physnomie, and a little 

 Pearl pendant." 



" ' Query,' says Miss Strickland ( Queens, vol. vi. 

 p. 471., 1st edit.), 'was this whimsical conceit a love- 

 token from the Duke of Alen^on to his royal belle amie^ 

 and the frog designed, not as a ridiculous, but a senti- 

 mental allusion to his country ? ' " 



To which Query I would add another : When 

 was the term of Johnny Crapaud first applied to 

 the French people, and on what occasion ? I am 

 aware of the notion of its being on account of their 

 said partiality for eating frogs ; which, by the bye, 

 having tasted, I can pronounce to be very good : 

 mais chacun a son gout. Is the frog introduced in 

 the arms of Anjou or AleuQon ? Philip S. King. 



Poems in the " Spectator." — The fine moral 

 poems which first appeared in the Spectator, e. g. 

 that commencing " When all thy mercies, O my 

 God ; " the version of the Twenty-tliird Psalm, 

 " The Lord my pasture shall prepare ; " " The 

 spacious firmament on high," &c., are, as most of 

 our readers are aware, commonly ascribed to Ad- 

 dison. In a recent collection of poetical pieces, 

 however, I have seen them attributed to Andrew 

 Marvell. Can any of your readers certify either 

 of these contradictory assertions ? J. G. F. 



Old John Han-ies, ^^ Bishop of Wales." — I have 

 " An Elegy to the ^Memory of the late worthy 



