2»d S. X. July 14. '60.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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It begins : — 



"Father Rector, — Let not the d [illegible] of as- 

 tonishment seize upon your most sacred and zealous 

 soule in approhendinge the suddaine and unexpected 

 callinge of this Parliament. Wee have not opposed, but 

 rather furthered it, so that wee hope as much in this 

 Parliament, as ever we feared any in Qu. Eliz: dayes." 



The writer proceeds to show the ground of his 

 hope, which was chiefly the anarchy which would 

 result from the factions in the House ; at consi- 

 derable length he points out the means of over- 

 throwing " their furious enemy the Duke of 

 Buckingham," and says : — 



" Wee have those of our owne religion which stand 

 coRtinuallie at the Duke's chamber doore, to see whoe 

 goes in and out. I cannot choose but laugh to see some 

 of our coate accowtred themselves ; you would scarce 

 knowe them if you sawe them ; and 'tis admirable howe 

 in speech and gesture they act the puritan. The Cam- 

 bridge Schollers shall see (to their roofull experience) 

 that wee can better acte the puritan than they have done 

 the Jesuit." 



The letter ends thus : — 



"Joyne your prayers with ours in importuning the 

 Blessed Virgin and all the hoast of angells and hoi)' mar- 

 tyrs, to intercede for us. And noe question God will make 

 haste to help us. Thus having to see Count de Tilly and 

 Marques Spinola heere about July come twelvemonths I 

 rest, in the meane tyme wee pray for the happy successe 

 iu Germany and the Lowe Countryes." 



Can Mk. Gardiner or any other reader of " H. 

 & Q.," versed in the history of the time of Charles 

 I., identify the writer of this letter, or the "Father 

 Hector " to whom it is addressed ? Is "Burells" 

 the place where, or the person with whom. Father 

 Rector was residing ? E. Ventris. 



Charles II. — The following unpublished let- 

 ter from Sir Joseph Banks to George Chalmers is 

 curious : — 



"Spring Grove, Oct. 9, 1813. 

 "My Dear Sir, — Can you tell me which of Charles 

 the Second's mistresses it was who solicited him on her 

 knees to consent to the exclusion of his brother James 

 IL from the succession to the crown, in consequence of a 

 promise of £100,000 from the Protestant party in case of 

 her success? 



" Faithfully yours, 



" Jos. Banks." 



Is there any authority for Sir Joseph's state- 

 ment ? Who was the Delilah? J. yEOWELL. 



Campbell of Dunstaffnage. — R. R. C. will 

 feel obliged by any of your readers pointing out 

 where the genealogy of the house of the Camp- 

 bells of Dunstaffnage in Argyleshire, from Sir 

 Angus, its present head, as far back as is known, 

 may be found. 



" The Sprig of Shillelah." — Who was the 

 author of this well-known national song ? Mr. 

 FiTZPATRicK, in his lately published Memoir of 

 Lady Morgan, p. 15., states that he has received 

 a letter from a member of the Royal Irish Aca- 



demy, claiming the authorship for the late Mr. 

 II. B. Code, proprietor of The Warder newspaper. 

 Sir Jonah Barrington, in his Personal Sketches, 

 vol. ii. p. 231., gives it as the production of Ed- 

 ward Lysaght, amongst whose Poems, however, 

 published in 1811 after his death, it is not to be 

 found ; and Lover, in his Lyrics of Ireland, p. 

 139., evidently on the authority of Barrington, 

 assigns it to the same pen. " The same remark," 

 as Me. Fitzpatrick notes, " applies to D. O. 

 Maddyn's observation in the Revelations of L'e- 

 land, p. 12." Abhba. 



Thomas Bedwell, matriculated as a sizar of 

 Trinity College in November, 1562 ; B.A. 1566-7; 

 M.A. 1570 ; was a minister in London about 

 1580. He projected the bringing the waters of 

 the Lea from Ware to London. We believe that 

 he was uncle to William Bedwell, rector of S. 

 Ethelburgh, London, and vicar of Tottenham, the 

 great Arabic scholar, who calls him "our Eng- 

 lish Tycho, a man so ingenious, industrious, and 

 learned, that I suppose there were few things 

 vndertaken by him, if fecible, which hee would 

 not have effected and done." (W. Bedwell's Brief 

 Description of Tottenham High Crosse, chap, viii.) 

 He Is author of 



1. "De Numeris Geometricis. ^ Of the nature and pro- 

 perties of geometricall numbers, tirst written by Lazarus 

 Schonerus, and now englished b}' Tho. Bedwell," Lond. 

 4to. 1614. With a preface by William Bedwell. 



2. " Mesolabium Architectonicum, that is, a most rare 

 and singular instrument for the easie, speedj^ and certain 

 knowledge of measuring planes and solids, invented by 

 T. Bedwell," Lond. 4to. 1631. 



This was published by William Bedwell, and 

 according to Watt there was a second edition, 

 London, 4to. 1639. We shall be glad to obtain 

 any information however slight respecting Thomas 

 Bedwell. He was perhaps the uncle to whom 

 William Bedwell wrote 29 June, 1616, for money 

 to carry on some suit at law (Hackman's Cat. of 

 Tanner 3ISS. 829.). 



C. H. & Thompson Cooper. 



Carleton and Chamberlain. — Having occa- 

 sion to refer to letters written by Sir Dudley 

 Carleton to John Chamberlain previous to the 

 departure of the former from England, in the 

 early part of 1597, and finding the papers inva- 

 riably without date — the day and month only 

 being given — I hoped to supply the deficiency by 

 a reference to the answers, but have hitherto been 

 unsuccessful, as the S. P. O., though rich in ori- 

 ginal Chamberlain writings of 1598 and subse- 

 quent years, has but one paper of 1597, and none, 

 I believe, of the previous year. I should, there- 

 fore, feel extremely obliged to any reader of " N. 

 & Q." who could point out original Chamberlain 

 letters antecedent to 1598 which would enable 

 me to determine the dates of Carleton's early writ- 

 ings. Beta . 



