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daughters, Aim Letitia, a Spinster, and Mary, wife of 

 John C. Harding, Esq., had long been Catholics. They 

 had turned the old domestic chapel at Trelawnj^ dedi- 

 cated 23 November, 1701, by their ancestor Dr. John 

 Trelawny, then Bishop of Exeter, into a Catholic chapel. 

 But of late years they have built a place for Catholic 

 ■worship at Sclerder, about half a mile from the mansion." 



W. M. 

 Your intelligent correspondent F. C. H. has 

 stated that this vei-satile baronet was " originally a 

 clergyman of the Church of England," and that 

 he was ordained a priest of the Roman Catholic 

 Church, May 30, 1830. Perhaps it may be more 

 correct to say, that "originally" he was a minis- 

 ter of the Independent denomination, as he was 

 ordained to the pastorate of a church of that class 

 at West Looe, in Cornwall, April 22, 1777. A 

 full account of the proceedings on that occasion 

 (held at. Southampton), including a very remark- 

 able " Confession of Faith by Harry Trelawny, 

 A.B,, late of Christ Cliui-ch, Oxford," was pub- 

 lished at that time. He afterwards joined the 

 Unitarians; and in July, 1779, cooperated with 

 Dr. Priestley, and other ministers of that body, in 

 an ordination service at Lympstone, near Exeter. 

 It was not until 1781 that he took his degree as 

 M.A., and became a clergyman of the Church of 

 England: he was ordained by Bishop Ross, at 

 Exeter, June 22, 1781. X. A. X. 



The Reay Country (2"^ S. x. 8.)— In reply to 

 your -correspondent One Ray I may state that 

 there can scarcely be a doubt that Strathnanes, 

 or the district of country situated partly in 

 Sutherlandshire and partly in Caithness, derives 

 its present familiar designation from its former 

 proprietors, the Lords of Reay. " The Reay 

 country " is but a corruption of " Lord Reay's 

 country," another name by which the district is 

 known both in Caithness and Sutherland. In 

 reference to the etymology of the word " Reay," 

 which your correspondent thinks may be derived 

 from the Anglo-Saxon name for a roe-deer, the 

 Rev. Finlay Cook, formerly minister of the parish 

 of Reay, states in his article in the Statistical 

 Account of Scotland, that there are various con- 

 jectures respecting its etymology. It is supposed 

 to be a corruption of Mein- Reidh, or Mio7'a, two 

 Gaelic terms signifying smooth and plain ; that 

 part of the parish particularly named Reay being 

 smooth and plain, in comparison of the other 

 parts, -which are in general rugged and hilly. But 

 Mr. Cook considers that the most probable deri- 

 vation is that " Reay" is a corruption of " Urray," 

 the name of a Pictish hero who inhabited the 

 castle to this day called Knock-Urray. The an- 

 cient orthography was Re or Rae. H. 



Rebellion op 1715 (2"'» S. ix. 404.) — Mr. 

 Thornbek will find much valuable information 

 in Mr. Hibbert Ware's Lancashire Memorials of 

 1715, published by the Chetham Society. P. P. 



Spiriting Away (2'"' S. ix. 96. 27L)— In a 

 letter from Ralph Hope to Sir Joseph Williamson, 

 dated Coventry, 28 Aug. 1671, we read — 



" Here haa bene of late a strangely ridiculous and idle 

 report about both our towne and country about the 

 spiriting away of young children, who they say are to be 

 kild for their blood to cure the French King of a leprosy, 

 w<='i absurd whimsey has taken such impression amongst 

 the vulgar and ignorant that 'tis hard to dispossess them 

 of the beleife of its reality, insomuch that many parents 

 as foolish as fond will not suffer their children to goe to 

 school." 



Ithuriel. 



Quotation WANtED (2"'^ S. ix. 446.) — 



" Call not the royal Swede unfortunate. "-^Wordsworth, 

 Sonnet 20, vol. iii. p. 79. Moxon, 1858. 



T. M. 



Hell-JFire Club (2"'' S. ix. 367.)— There were 

 kindred clubs of this class in Dublin and its 

 neighbourhood, and they reckoned amongst the 

 members the notorious Buck Whaley and the 

 last Lord Santry. The pranks and practical jokes 

 these gentry committed form the staple conver- 

 sations of convivial meetings even of the present 

 day. Duelling was a favourite pastime, and a 

 member who " killed his man" was entitled to a 

 badge of honour. It is said that Lord Santry 

 used to notch the barrel of his pistol for every 

 deed of blood perpetrated with it. Our friends 

 on the other side of the Channel could give Mr. 

 Maurice a good deal of information about these 

 diabolical clubs. I think females were not ad- 

 mitted as members In Ireland. George Lloyd. 



Miss Parsons and D (2"^ S. x. 27.) — 



"'Tis not her face, 'tis her ingenuous mind. 

 That did a Grafton, doth a D(orset) bind." 



That the Duke of Dorset was meant there is no 

 question. Nancy Parsons was otherwise known 

 as Mrs. Anne Horton. Walpole, writing to 

 Mann (Nov. 7, 1771), says, In reference to the 

 widow Horton, married by the Duke of Cumber- 

 land : — 



" You know of no Mrs. Horton but the Duke of Graf- 

 ton's Mrs. Horton, the Duke of Dorset's Mrs. Horton, 

 everybody's Mrs. Horton — faith I do not know whether 

 it would have been so improper a Mrs. Horton as her he 

 (Cumberland) has married, — and yet this is a woman of 

 virtue." 



Nancy had other lovers, it would seem, for 

 Walpole writes (June 20, 1776) to Lady Ossory 

 (the divorced wife of Grafton, married to her 

 seducer), informing her, with the delicacy of a 

 " fine gentleman," that a " lady who has been on 

 the brink of marrying as many dukes as the 

 Duchess of Argylf, is not yet Lady Maynard. It 

 is a pity," adds Horace ; " she deserves a peerage 

 as much as most that have got them lately." She 

 soon got It by marriage with Lord Maynard, an 

 union which the satirists lashed with unsparing 

 severity, especially the author of Dr. Syntax. 

 Walpole (January, 1779) remarks to Mann, 



