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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2-"! S. X. Aug. 25. '60 



instances of lengthened life, a solid substratum of 

 truth. 



I send you three instances which, from the at- 

 tending circumstances, seem to be well-authenti- 

 cated : — 



In the museum of the Perth Antiq. Society are 

 two portraits, carefully engraved, and of a good 

 size. One of these is the portrait of 



" Peter Garden, who lived in the parish of Auchterless, 

 Aberdeenshire, and died 12th January, 1775, aged 131 

 years." 



The other is that of 



" Isobel Walker, who lived in the parish of Daviot, 

 Aberdeenshire, and died the 2nd of November, 1774, aged 

 112 years. Established from the record of the parish of 

 Rayne, in the Presbytery of Garrioch, county of Aber- 

 deen." 



These portraits were " presented to. the Literary 

 and Antiquarian Society of Perth by the Rev. 

 Mr.. Foote, 1785." 



Both of the deaths are recorded as notabilities 

 in the Scots Mag. for the period. In the number 

 for January, 1775, we have 



" Jan. 12. In the parish of Auchterless, Peter Garden, 

 aged 131. He retained his memori' and senses to the 

 last. He has lived under ten sovereigns, viz. Charles I., 

 Oliver Cromwell, Richard Cromwell, Charles II., James 

 VII., William and Marj% Anne, and Georges I. II. III. 

 He remembered to have been sent, when a bo3', to the 

 wood to cut boughs for spears in the time of the civil 

 wars." 



And in Nov. 1774 : — 



" Nov. 2. In the parish of Daviot, Isabel Walker, 

 aged 110." 



I now give you the third instance. In the 

 churchyard of Kirkliston, a little to the west of 

 the old Norman church, stands a headstone with 

 the following inscription : — 



" In Memory of 



Peter Stewart, 



who died 



In this parish at the advanced age 



of 101 years on the 10th October, 



1841. 



This stone 



is erected by some of the members 



'of a family 



whom he faithfully served 



upwards 



of half a century." 



The registrar assured me that this was quite 

 true, having known the man well, and that he was 

 in life when he first took the census. He Avas a 

 farm servant on the farm of Humble, in Kirkliston 

 parish. He did not know whether the register of 

 his birth existed, but believed he came from the 

 Highlands, and founded his age upon the period 

 when as a boy he first came to the parish. 



William Galloway. 



Edinburgh, 



Richard, Seventh Earl of Anglesey (2"'^ S. 

 X. 27.) ^— Debrett says, Richard, sixth Earl of 



Anglesey, married 1st, 24 Jan. 1715, Anne, daugh- 

 ter and heiress of John Prust, Esq., of Monkley, 

 Devon, by whom (who died 3 Aug. 1741) he had 

 no issue ; he married 2ndly, only a month (viz. 

 15 Sept. 1741) after death of first wife, Juliana 

 Donovan, by whom (who survived him, and re- 

 married to M. Talbot, Esq., and died 20 Nov. 

 1776) he had issue, 1. Arthur, his successor, and 

 three daughters. The Earl died 1761, and on his 

 death the succession to his Irish honours was con- 

 tested between his son and John Annesley of Bal- 

 lisack, Esq., who denied the validity of the late 

 Earl's marriage with Miss Donovan ; but after an 

 investigation which lasted nearly four years the 

 question was decided in favour of the Earl's son. 

 But on the coming of age of Arthur, in 1765, he 

 was permitted to sit as Viscount Valentia in the 

 Irish House of Peers only, his writ as Earl of 

 Anglesey being thrown out by the English House 

 of Lords. If H. J. M. would like to see the ac- 

 count given by Debrett of, as he says, " one of 

 the most curious cases in the history of the peer- 

 age," I shall most willingly forward it (date edi- 

 tion of peerage, 1826). I should imagine the first 

 question is. When was this Richard, son of the last 

 Earl by Ann Salkeld, born, as a month only 

 elapsed between the death of his first wife and 

 the marriage of his second, who survived him ? 



R. J, Fynmore. 

 Tomb Records (2"* S. x, 63.) — Mr. Edwin 

 RoFFE has done the antiquarian " state some 

 service" by his excellent article on the above 

 interesting subject, I have, for some years past, 

 copied inscriptions which I found on head (grave) 

 and mural stones, in the United Kingdom, and 

 in some old towns in France and Belgium. Ire- 

 land and Wales afford, perhaps, the richest field 

 in this respect. What an interesting historical 

 collection may be made by the correspondents of 

 " N. & Q," by sending what may be picked up 

 in " those neglected spots," where repose " some 

 hearts once pregnant with celestial fire," I send 

 you the first that comes to hand. In the hand- 

 some village churchyard of Hanslope, near Wol- 

 verton, in Bucks, is a tombstone (no date, as it 

 is broken off, but it is about 1832, as I can assert 

 from other facts), with the following insci'iption : 



" Strong and athletic was my frame, 

 Far away from home I came. 

 And manly fought with Simon Byrne, 

 Alas ! but lived not to return. 



" Reader, take warning bj' my fate. 

 Unless you rue your case too late ; 

 And if you've ever fought before, 

 Determine now to fight no more." 



This is the tombstone of Sandy M'Kay, one of 

 the finest specimens of a Scotch pugilist that ever 

 travelled south of the Tweed, who met his death 

 by the beating he got from Simon Byrne, the 

 Irish boxer, the so-called Bottle ; or rather, the 



