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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 13& 



whose only daughter and heir married John Julius 



An^erstein, Esq. 



The above Sir John Darnall was the only sur- 

 viving son of Sir John Darnall of the Inner 

 Temple, King's Sergeant-at-law 1698, knighted 

 at Kensington June 1, 1699, died in Essex Street 

 1706, and was buried in the chancel vault of St. 

 Clement's Danes, co. INIiddlesex (see the English 

 Post, Monday, Dec. 23, 1706). lie was son of 

 Ralph Darnall, of Loughton s Hope, co. Hereford, 

 and his will was proved in the Prerogative 

 Court of Canterbury in Jan. 1707. 



The arms assumed by Sir John Darnall, who 

 died 1706, were — Gules on a pale argent, a lion 

 rampant azure impaling Gules a boar passant. 



G. 



Bastides (Vol. v., pp.150. 206.). — Dumas, in 

 his Pictures of Travel in the South of France, says, 

 that Louis XIV. while at Marseilles, observing 

 the charming houses which surrounded the town, 

 with their white walls, red tops, and green blinds, 

 inquired by what name they were called in the 

 language of the country : " They call them Bas- 

 tides^'' replied Fostea de Piles. " Good ! " says 

 the King ; " I will have a Bastide." He built a 

 fort to check the Marseillaise. 



Again, Tarver, in his Dictionary, has : 



" Bastide, a small country house (this word is'used 

 in the south of France, in Provence especially.)" 



Did Louis intend a pun between Bastide and 

 Bastille ? E. H. B. 



, Demerary. 



Compositions under the Protectorate (Vol.v., p. 68.). 

 — Such is the name of a heading to one of your 

 recent Notes ; and such is the formula of the very 

 common error that Dring's List, and the lists of his 

 re-editors, represent the fines levied by Cromwell 

 when he decimated the incomes (not the estates) of 

 the Royalists, in consequence of Penruddock's 

 rising. Dring's List has reference to the compo- 

 sitions during the years 1646 — 1648, when the fines 

 were based on a totally different calculation. The 

 error has arisen from Dring's catalogue having been 

 published in 1655, the year after Penruddock's 

 affair. I have compared a great number of the 

 compositions as they are stated in the Lord's 

 Journals, 1646, et seq., with Dring's account ; and 

 though there are discrepancies, their average re- 

 semblance is sufficient to show that they refer to 

 one and the same affair. Indeed, any one ac- 

 quainted with the actors in those events will see 

 in a moment that Dring's List contains many who 

 had repented of and acknowledged their '• delin- 

 quency." J. Waylen. 



Hoax on Sir Walter Scott (Vol. v., p. 438.). — 

 The reperusal of Mr. Drury's hoax upon Sir 

 Walter reminds me of another, which having 

 escaped the industry of, or been intentionally over- 



looked by Mr. Lockhart, may be appropriately 

 noticed in your pages, as pleasantly showing that 

 even " Ansblmo's" black-letter sagacity might be 

 deceived ; and that, with the simple credulity of 

 his own Monkbarns, he could mistake the " bit 

 bourock of the mason-callants" for a Roman 

 Pretorium. 



I allude to a small stitchlet, or brochure, of 

 five pages, entitled " The Raid of Featherstone- 

 haugh : a Border Ballad." It was really written 

 by Sir Walter's early friend, Mr. Robert Surtees 

 of Mainsforth, author of the History of Durhaniy 

 some of whose other impositions upon the poet 

 were printed in the Border Minstrelsy, or inserted 

 in notes to his Metrical Romances. Of this poem 

 in particular. Sir Walter entertained so high an 

 opinion, that he has incorporated a verse from it 

 into Marmion, and given it entire in a note as a 

 genuine relic of antiquity ; gravely commenting^ 

 upon it in the most elaborate manner, and pointing 

 out its exemplifications of the then state of society. 

 It will be found in Marmion, Canto I., verse 13. : 

 " The whiles a northern harper rude." 



William Bates. 



Birmingham. 



Statute of Limitations abroad (Vol. iv., p. 256.). 

 — In this colony, which is governed by the old 

 Dutch law, the time at which prescription pre- 

 vails is one-third of a century, but some Dutch 

 authorities hold that thirty years is sufficient in 

 personal actions. In Holland there were various 

 charters respecting prescription, such as those of 

 Alkmaar of 1254, Medemblik of 1288, Water- 

 land of 1288, and others; these were cases of 

 possession with the knowledge of the authorities. 

 In Holland immovable property was acquired by 

 prescription, without the knowledge of the autho- 

 rities, in the third of a century. In Zealand it was 

 twenty years. By the law of the Feudal Court, 

 the period was a third of a century for any pro- 

 perty ; and in the territory of Voorn, from times 

 of old, and classed among the laws of the year 

 1519, peaceable possession of any immovable 

 property for thirty years was held good ; but 

 there was an exception in favour of minors and 

 absentees. E. H. B. 



Demerary. 



Lilies on Crawfurd ofKilhirnie (Vol. v., p. 404.). 

 — These lines are evidently merely an adaptation 

 of the well-known epigram on Austria : 



" Bella gerant alii — tu felix Austria nube, 

 Nam qu£E Mars aliis dat tibi regna Venus." 



S. L. P. 



Swearing on a Skull (Vol. v., p. 485.). — In the 

 " Historical Memoirs of the Clan M'^Gregor," pre- 

 fixed to the Life of Rob Roy, by K. Macleay, M. D., 

 Glasgow, 1818, is the following story: — On the 

 arrival of Anne of Denmark in Scotland, imme- 



