June 5. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



539 



Winchester College. — Who wrote the account 

 <)f Winchester College in Ackermann's History of 

 the Public Schools ? Mackenzie Walcott, M.A. 



Old Royal Irish Academy House., Grafton Street. 

 — This interesting building is now some two 

 months abandoned, and bills on the windows an- 

 nouncing it " to be let, or the interest in the lease 

 to be sold," I wish to ask through " N. & Q." if 

 any person intends to make a drawing or other 

 memoranda of. the house, ere it undergoes a 

 thorough alteration, as it certainly will, if taken 

 for commercial purposes. I am not aware of any 

 sketch of the house, except one in the fourth 

 •volume of the Dublin Penny Journal, p. 129. ; but 

 I do not think that this, or its accompanying de- 

 scription, .are well suited to the character of the 

 institution. K. H. 



Dublin. 



Quotations wanted. — 



" Chdrds that vibrate sweetest pleasures 

 Thrill the deepest notes of woe." 



\ *' Like a fair lily on a river floating, 



She floats upon the river of his thoughts." 



Captain Cuttle. 



ShaJcspeare's Seal. — Some years ago, when in 

 W^arwickshire, a wax impression of a seal was 

 given to me by a gentleman as that of William 

 Shakspeare. The gentleman had no means of 

 verifying its authenticity, beyond the bare but 

 positive assurances of the person from whom he 

 had received it, an inhabitant of Stratford. 



The appearance of the seal is not against the 

 hypothesis of its genuineness. It is circular : the 

 device is the well-known ornament called the 

 True Lovers Knot, cut somewhat rudely in intag- 

 lio, apparently in steel ; a favourite ornament in 

 Tudor architecture from the time of Anne Boleyn 

 •downwards. 



Can any of the readers of "IsT. & Q." encourage 

 me to believe in the genuineness of this relic ? 



Sydney Smirke. 



The long-lived Countess of Desmond. — An 

 iicknowledgment is due to The Knight of Kerry 

 for his recent interesting communication respect- 

 ing the portraits of this remarkable old lady : and, 

 at the same time, the Knight may be requested 

 to cause the portrait in the possession of Mr. Her- 

 bert, M.P., to be inspected ; for it is respectfully 

 suggested that the date on that picture is 1604, 

 and not 1614. 



This first date will correspond more closely with 

 the age usually ascribed to the aged Countess. 



It is said that an engraving of the portrait in 

 The Knight of Kerry's possession stated that 

 she was " boi*n in 1464." Can any of your cor- 

 respondents refer to this engraving, and say 



whether there is such an inscription on it, and if 

 any authority is given for that date ? H. F. IL 



Temple Church and Lincoln's Inn Chapel. —^ 

 Why is it, and whence results the practice of put- 

 ting ladies on one side of the church and chapel, 

 or in a separate place by themselves, in these 

 societies ? Are the lawyers so attractive that the 

 devotions of the fair sex would be interrupted? 



L.L 



[The lawyers no doubt are lovers of hoar antiquity 

 and primitive customs. " Let the doorkeepers attend 

 upon the entrance of the men ; and the deaconesses 

 upon the entrance of the women." (^Apost. Const., 

 lib. ii. can. Ivii. ; see also lib. vii. can. xxvi.) In the 

 First Book of King Edward, A.n. 1549, the following 

 rubric occurs: " As many as shall be partakers of the 

 Holy Communion shall tarry still in the quire ; the 

 men on the one side, and the women on the other side." 

 — See Wheatly on the Common Prayer, chap. vi. 

 sect. 13.] 



Edmund Bohun. — In Bright's Catalogue appears, 

 "No. 2939. Historical Collections, 1675 — 1692. 

 8 vols, folio ; formed by Edmund Bohun." Has 

 this collection been dispersed ? or where is it now? 

 Bohun refers to it repeatedly in his private diary, 

 which I am printing. S. W. Eix. 



Beccles. 



[From the article " Bohun " in Rose's Biographical 

 Dictionary it appears that these Historical Collections 

 have been used in the following work : " 2'he great His- 

 torical, Geographical, and Poetical Dictionary, Lond, 

 1694, folio, wherein are inserted the last Five Years' 

 Historical and Geographical Collections, which the 

 said Edm. Bohun, Esq., designed for his own Geogra- 

 phical Dictionary, and never extant till in this work."] 



" Nimrodr — Will some of your correspondents 

 be good enough to tell me who is the author of a 

 very remarkable book entitled Nimrod : a Dis- 

 course upon certain Passages of History and Fable, 

 London: Priestley, 1828, 4 vols.; and can any 

 one inform me for what purpose or with what in- 

 tention the book was written? I believe it was 

 suppressed soon after its publication. I have only 

 met with two other copies, besides my own. H. G. 



[We believe that this work, for some reason or other, 

 was suppressed, but not till after about one hundred 

 copies had been circulated. It is attributed to the 

 Hon. Algernon Herbert, author of Cyc/ops Christianus j 

 Antiquity of Stonehenge. ] 



SRcpItPiS. 



THE THREE ESTATES OF THE EEAI.M. 



(Yol. iv., pp. 115. 196. 278. ; Vol. v., p. 129.) 

 The quotations I have produced on the question. 

 Which are the Three Estates of the Realm ? appeat 



