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cernes both me and your self. This is enough to a wise 

 man. And so faire well, 



" Your loving Master, 



" Tho. Perct. 

 (Endorsed) 

 " To my Servant, John 

 Walker at Yorke.'" 



" My good frend, 

 " I am forbidden to be at Yorke by frends that loves 

 me well, for there is an intention in the Bishop to stay 

 me, which I will prevent if I may : and, therefore, am 

 resolued to meete you at Doncaster upon Tuesday at 

 night, and not to see you sooner. 



" What mony you shall deliver to my man his acquit- 

 tances shall serue as my owne for his discharge. 



" I must intreate you speake to my man to be carefull 

 of all things that concernes my charge till we meet. 



" I praye j'ou forbeare the Bal, of Gildallfor btckes road ■ 

 siluer^, for I am so far engaged as I must pay it. If you 

 be not so soon at Doncaster as Tuesday, T will stay your 

 coming. No more : but I am and will euer rest, 

 " Your faithful and 

 " true frend, 

 " Gainsborough, " Thos. Percy. 



Nov. 2, 1605." 



w. o. w. 



ISAAC MANN, D.D., BISHOP OF CORK AND ROSS. 

 In the parish register of Dogny brook (1712 — 

 1768) the following entry appears : — 



" Buried, Madam Calwell, from .the Folly, 5th Feb- 

 ruary, 1721." 41^ ' 



For some time I was at a loss to discover what 

 "the Folly" was, and where situated; but on 

 turning over an old volume of the Dublin Chroni- 

 cle, I happened to light upon the following para- 

 graph, which not only clears away all obscurity in 

 the matter, but furnishes a highly interesting 

 anecdote of the estimable Bishop Mann, which 

 it would be well, I think, to admit into the pages 

 of"N. &Q." 



In the number for 17th January, 1789, the 

 anecdote is given in these terras : — 



" About forty years since, when the Doctor, who lived 

 as chaplain in the Lord Chancellor Jocelyn's house at 

 Stephen's-green [Dublin], was passing thro' the hall, 

 he observed an old man with newspapers under his arm, 

 whose aspect denoted he had seen better days ; and on 

 asking the veteran some questions, he informed the Doc- 

 tor, that he had once been in affluent circumstances, that 

 Ms name was Clenahan, and that he had kept a brasier's 

 shop in Back-lane; but that in order to push his for- 

 tune, he had taken a lot of ground at the rope-walk near 

 the Low Ground at the rere of the quay called after Sir 

 John Rogerson [close to Ringsend], whereon he ex- 

 pended a large sura in building two houses, which he 

 had not money to finish, and in consequence was ruined. 

 This place was long known by the name of Clenahan's 



* G. P. B., No. 223. 



t I do not feel certain that I have correctly deciphered 

 these words, for Perc^-'s writing is not easy to read. I 

 hope, therefore, some one will rectify the passage if I am 

 wrong, or explain it if I am right. This letter, written 

 to one William Stockdale, is in the " Gunpowder Plot 

 Book," No. 5. 



Folly. However, before he concluded the account of him- 

 self, he mentioned his having assisted his father at the 

 memorable siege of Derry in 1G88. This circumstance 

 excited the attention of the worthy Doctor, and he re- 

 lated the particulars to the Chancellor, who communi- 

 cated them at an ensuing Board to the Governors of the 

 Royal Hospital, whereupon the old man was appointed 

 an officer in the Invalids. The writer of this anecdote 

 saw him several times in his regimentals, happy through- 

 out the remnant of his days, owing to the humanity and 

 condescension of Dr. Mann, then Minister of St. Mat- 

 thew's [Royal] Chapel, Ringsend [in the parish of Don- 

 nybrook]." 



Bishop'.Mann died 10th December, 1788 ; and 

 in a letter from Cork, dated 1st January, 1789, 

 and published in the Dublin Chronicle of the 8 th 

 of the same month, we have the following parti- 

 culars of his burial : — 



" Last week the remains of the Right Rev. Dr. Mann, 

 late Bishop of Cork and Ross, were landed here from 

 Bristol, and deposited at the Bishop's Palace until yester- 

 day, when they were interred at Ballinaspig. The fu- 

 neral was superb ; all the clergy in the city |;of Cork] 

 attended, with scarfs, &c., and there were upwards of 

 fitly carriages." 



It is interesting and useful to rescue from 

 oblivion, and to bring together, the scattered 

 memorabilia of great and good men. For some 

 particulars of this " good bishop," see Bp. Mant's 

 History of the Church of Ireland (vol. ii. p. 469), 

 and Archd. Cotton's Fasti JEcclesice Hibernicet 

 (vol. i. p. 233.). A biographical sketch, written 

 by one who describes himself as connected with 

 the departed prelate by no other ties than those 

 of long acquaintance and friendship, appeared 

 in the Dublin Chronicle, 23rd December, 1788. 



Abhba. 



Miviat ^titzi. 



Only Passport to England signed by Na- 

 poleon I. — Whilst France and England are 

 working harmoniously in the Chinese waters the 

 following Note may be considered interesting. 

 The only passport ever signed by Napoleon I. for 

 an Englishman to visit England was that given to 

 Mr. Manning*, and that was " y\k China." Mr. 

 Manning having, whilst at Cambridge, considered 

 himself deeply injured by the college authorities, 

 left his native land with the intention of pene- 

 trating into the interior of eastern climes, "where 

 Englishmen had never trod." In France Mr. 

 Manning became intimate with Carnot, the Abbe 

 Kemusat, whose labours in oriental philology have 

 shed a lustre on his name, and in fact with the 

 creme de la crime of French literati. From 

 France he travelled through Thibet, China, Japan, 

 &c. in native costume, and as a native; and I now 

 possess his credentials to the King of Oude, signed 

 by Dundas. When it was resolved by the Prince 



♦ Mr. Manning's brother, who is still alive, favoured 

 me with this fact. 



