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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2"'! S. X. Sept, i6, '60. 



tertainment given to him by the Lord Mayor of 

 Dublin in January, 1822 (in reply to the toast, 

 " The Duke of Wellington, and the Heroes who 

 fought under his Grace's Command" — and re- 

 ported in the Dublin Patriot, of which a copy is 

 now before me), will, I doubt not, prove accepta- 

 ble to many readers of " N. & Q." : — 



" I took the opportunity I did of rising, in order that I 

 should assure you, with all the fervency of truth, that 

 there does not exist on the face of the earth a man more 

 warmly and firmly attached to and proud of this country, 

 than the Duke of "Wellington. All that has been said on 

 • that subject to the prejudice of the Duke, all the tales 

 that have been whispered, all the statements which have 

 been made, are calumnious, slanderous, and base. He 

 knows, he feels, that the greater part of his achievements 

 have been accomplished by Irishmen ; and he glories in 

 the feeling. It is his peculiar pride to be an Irishman ; 

 and it is his proudest boast that, in common Avith the 

 brave of the other countries of the empire, his victories 

 have been yfpn by Irishmen, by heroes of this countrj'. 

 Let not the character of the Duke of Wellington be mis- 

 conceived by a single man ; let not one of his country- 

 men hold any other impressions of him than those which, 

 I do pledge iny word to all around me, he holds towards 

 them." 



Whatever may subsequently have been the case 

 (and I do not take upon myself to decide), the 

 foregoing were the sentiments of the Duke of 

 Wellington towards his native land in the year 

 1822, as so forcibly expressed by his illustrious 

 brother, the Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieuten- 

 ant of Ireland. Abhba. 



Garibaldi a Canadian. — A paragraph with the 

 above heading appears in a local print, extracted 

 from. L'Orde, Montreal; and at the present mo- 

 ment, when the news of his pacific occupation of 

 Naples engrosses universal admiration, it may be 

 considered that anything relating to so worthy a 

 name may be worth embalming. The account is 

 as follows : — 



"The birthplace of the noted Sardinian general has 

 been claimed by several countries, all making out a tole- 

 rably clear case. All disputes on this subject may, how- 

 ever, be considered as settled, as we give below proof 

 sufficient to satisfy all thinking individuals that he is a 

 Canadian. In the year 1812 a noted Iriquois chief named 

 ' Garrabaldeh ' (signifj'ing Mighty in War), immigrated 

 to Lower Canada. He had several sons, the eldest called 

 Joseph, who was called by the French habiians, who could 

 not pronounce the Iriquois correctly, ' Garribakle.' In 

 the year 1820 old Garrabaldeh died, and Joseph was pre- 

 vailed upon by a priest to accompany him to Italy. He 

 was educated by this priest, and received Giuseppe as a 

 name instead of Joseph, and was taught to write his 

 name Garibaldi. This information was received from 

 Francis Garibalde, at present living near Sorel, with whom 

 the great General constantl3' corresponds. Persona still 

 having doubts can satisfy themselves bj' applying to 

 Francis at Sorel. It can no longer be said that Canada 

 has not produced one great man." 



Henet W. S. Taylgb. 



Bracton, a Judge of the Common Pleas. — 

 In the Penny CyclopcBdia, art. Bracton, speaking 

 of the authors who mention that writer, it is said, 



" Their statements that Bracton was a judge of 

 the Common Pleas, and that he was Chief Justice 

 of England, are now regarded as questionable." 

 May I ask through " N. & Q." by whom ? 



A chartulary of Walthara Abbey preserved in 

 the British Museum (MS. Harl. 391.fol. 71.) pre- 

 serves a " final concord " of the 30th Henry IH., 

 made before the King at Westminster, which 

 among the greater persons present mentions 

 three, " Henrico de Bafonia, Jeremia de Caxfon, 

 et Henrico DE Bracton, Justiciar its. " The deed 

 is an agreement between Peter de Savoy and 

 Simon, Abbat of Waltham, respecting common of 

 pasture at Cheshunt; and so far determines the 

 existence of Bracton as a justice of the Common 

 Pleas. y. S. 



Wit. — The late Dr. Archer, who, for the first 

 part of the present century, was favourably known 

 as a preacher at the Catholic chapel, Warwick 

 Street, dining once at a friend's, met there an 

 effeminate stripling who wore his hair in girlish 

 length down upon his shoulders. On taking 

 leave, the old Doctor went up to young languish, 

 and playfully tossing in his hand one ot the 

 youth's long locks, thus addressed him, in that 

 distinct sonorous utterance for which he was so 

 remarkable, laying a very strong emphasis on the 

 first word : — 



" Men want but little here below, 

 Nor want that little long," 



C. 



€^Uttltg, 



CRANMER'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH 

 OSIANDER. 



On a hint from Strype, affording a faint hope 

 that this correspondence might yet be in exist- 

 ence, hidden away in some of the unexplored 

 private storehouses of manuscript treasure.s, of 

 which 'England has so many, I ventured the Query 

 kindly inserted in " N. & Q.," 2'"» S. viii. 87. 



The curious piece of literary history for the 

 knowledge of which I am now indebted to your 

 courteous correspondent N. T., seems to awaken 

 hopes almost too good to be true. 



Can it be that any considerable number of 

 Cranmer's letters are still suffered to remain un- 

 published? Such must be the case if the lot 

 1015 sold by Evans of Pall Mall, on July 21st, 

 1838, " containing letters by the early Reformers,"- 

 was indeed the correspondence once owned by 

 Richard Smith, and in his library " met with " by 

 Bp. Burnet. But I fear that can hardly be as- 

 sumed as certain. 



The "quantity of original letters of the early 

 Reformers, and transcripts of others" were in- 

 herited from Bp. Burnet, as having been his pro- 

 perty. But Strype's language asserts the property 



