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united. Perhaps some of your correspondents can 

 inform me how two unicorns became the " sup- 

 porters" of the "achievement" of the Scottish 

 Icings. 



The position of the lion and unicorn in the arms 

 of our country seems to have given rise (and 

 naturally enough in the mind of one who was 

 ignorant of heraldic decoration) to a nursery 

 rhyme, which I well remember to have learnt : 



" The lion and the unicorn 

 Were fighting for the crown. 

 The lion beat the unicorn 

 All round the town," &c. &c. ; 



unless it alludes to a contest for dominion over 

 the brute creation, which Spenser's "rebellious 

 unicorn" seems to have waged with the tawny 

 monarch. Eeica. 



rr-ANAGAN ON THE ROUND TOWERS OF IRELAND. 



Can you tell me anything of the history of a 

 little work, of which the following is the title ? — 



" A Discourse of the Round Towers of Ireland, in 

 which the errors of the various writers on that subject 

 are detected and confuted, and the true cause of so 

 many differences among the learned, on the question 

 of their use and history, is assigned and demonstrated. 

 By John Flanagan, Kilkenny. Printed for the author 

 by Thomas Kelly, 1843." 



It was purchased by a Dublin bookseller at 

 Jones' last sale (Catalogue, No. 704.), for 2s. 6d. 

 The bookseller, who has kindly lent me the book, 

 says that it was never printed in Kilkenny, and 

 that it is very scarce, he having seen only one 

 other copy of it. It is a small quarto of twenty- 

 four pages, beautifully printed on good paper, 

 which leads me also to believe that the book could 

 not have been printed in Kilkenny. The author, 

 whoever he was or is, boldly says that, "There 

 are no Round Towers in Ireland," p. 8., and 

 through the pages of the work runs a vein of non- 

 sense, which would lead a person to think that the 

 author v/as not very right in his mind. Still, there 

 is something very remarkable in the production. 



R.H. 



Minor ^mttitS. 



St. Augustine s Six Treatises on Music. — Dupin 

 mentions St. Augustine's Six T7-eutises on Music : 

 do these exist in print ? if so, in what edition are 

 they to be found ? E. A. H. L. 



Bishop Merriman. — A few years ago inquiry 

 ■was unsuccessfully made in the Gentlemaris Maga- 

 zine, and elsewhere both in England and Ireland, 

 for some particulars of John Merriman, the first 

 Protestant Bishop of Down and Connor. 



In Cox's Hibernia Anglicana it appears that 

 " Loftus, Archbishop of Armagh, was consecrated 



by the Popish Archbishop Curwin ; Thomas Lan- 

 caster, the first Protestant Bishop of Kildare, was 

 consecrated by Archbishop Brown; and John Mer- 

 riman, the first Protestant Bishop of Down and 

 Connor, was consecrated by Lancaster when 

 Primate." 



This Bishop Merriman had been chaplain to 

 Queen Elizabeth ; he was made Vicar of St. John's, 

 Atheboy, in the first year of her reign, and was 

 consecrated Bishop of Down and Connor, Jan. 19, 

 156f . He died in 1572. 



The probable father of Bishop Merriman may 

 be found in the Rutland Papers, published by the 

 Camden Society, where Mr. Meryman, in a second 

 list called William Meryman, who held some office 

 in the "Kechyn," is selected as one of the atten- 

 dants on Henry VIH. and Queen Katherine to the 

 Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1520. 



There was formerly a family of the name of 

 Merriman residing in Ireland : does it now exist ? 

 In England there are several families of this name : 

 are any of them descended from this source ? 



T. D. P. 



The Escubierto. — "Where can the effusions of 

 the Capateiro da Bandarra be seen in England ? 

 And has any of your correspondents read them, 

 so as to be able to explain the nature of his lan- 

 guage and teaching concerning the Escubierto? 

 I believe it is admitted, that the doctrine of the 

 Sebastianistas is superadded, exegetically, to that 

 of the Capateiro, and is not to be found in him. 



A.N". 



J. Scandret. — I should be much obliged for any 

 information respecting " J. Scandret, priest of the 

 Church of England," the author of a little treatise 

 entitled Sacrifice, the Divine Service, originally 

 published in 1707 ; with a recommendation from 

 the celebrated Charles Leslie, Chancellor of Con- 

 nor. Mr. Parker, of Oxford, reprinted it in 1840; 

 but as " N. & Q." had not then begun its useful 

 career, the editor was unable to satisfy that 

 curiosity which most readers feel respecting the 

 authors of such books as merit their attention. 



E. H. A. 



Mary Horton. — I find in Burke's Extinct Ba- 

 ronetage, p. 269. (article "Horton of Chadderton"), 

 that " William Horton, of Coley, in Halifax parish, 

 died in 1739-^0: by Mary his wife, daughter of 

 (Thomas) Chester, Esq., he left an only daughter, 

 Mary, living and unmarried in 1766." Can any 

 one inform me whether this Mary Horton ever 

 married, when she died, and where she was buried? 



Tewaes. 



Biblicus on the Apocalypse. — I shall feel much 

 obliged if any reader of " N. & Q." will give me 

 information respecting a series of articles which 

 appeared about the year 1819 in some newspaper 

 or periodical with the signature of Biblicus ap- 



