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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°d S. X. Sept. 15. 'GO. 



not, I think, commit himself to a precise date, 

 thoiigh he does to the wrong man. The facts are, 

 I believe, these: — John Caryll, created Lord 

 Caryll, was the Secretary to the Queen, and 

 afterwards, about 1695-6, Secretary of State to 

 the exiled monarch. He was more than once 

 oflFered a peerage ; and, as I believe, accepted the 

 honour soon after his outlawry in 1695-6; but 

 this was not generally known beyond the court at 

 St. Germains, for, on the 26th Sept. 1701, imme- 

 diately after the death of James, the English am- 

 bassador, the Earl of Manchester, wrote home : 

 " I am told that Lord Perth is declared a Duke, 

 and Caryll a Lord. I do not doubt we shall hear 

 of several new titles and garters." This John 

 Caryll, the Secretary of State, died at a great age in 

 Sept. 1711 ; and the mural tablet, still existing at 

 the Scotch College in Paris, describes him as 

 "John Caryll, Baron de Dunford de Hasting." 

 He had no children, but the title was settled on 

 his brother, and came by descent to his nephew, 

 Pope's friend — the Caryll of the Rape of the 

 Lock ; on whose death, in 1736, his grandson, the 

 party referred to by your correspondent, suc- 

 ceeded. These Carylls were commonly styled- 

 »' my lord " by their Jacobite correspondents from 

 abroad, but were only known in England as plain 

 John Carylls. The grandson of John succeeded 

 to an involved estate, and soon brought it to utter 

 ruin. In or about 1765 he had not an acre left, 

 and he then retired to the Continent, joined the 

 household of Prince Charles, and was of course 

 received everywhere as " my lord ;" and no such 

 person , having been seen or heard of for half a 

 century, it was assumed to be a new creation. D. 



Rev. p. Rosenhagen (2°^ S. viii. 10.)— No- 

 body having answered, I remark that the name 

 does not occur in the Dictionary of Living Authors, 

 published in 1798 ; at which time he was certainly 

 alive, and in Ceylon, as a chaplain in the Com- 

 pany's service. An old lady with wliom I was 

 well acquainted informed me that she was mar- 

 ried by him to her husband in that year, he being 

 obliged to officiate sitting, with his leg on a chair, 

 from gout, a complaint to which his unceasing at- 

 tachment to wine kept him a martyr. The recol- 

 lections of this lady and of members of her family, 

 both as to what they knew, and as to what they 

 had heard of his reputation in England, exhibit 

 Mr. Rosenhagen as a most remarkably witty and 

 tolerably free-living man. He was proclaimed to 

 be the author of Junius in the Gazetteer of Jan. 

 24, 1774 (Athenceum., Aug. 28, 1858), and it was 

 said that he, being then at Orleans, made no secret 

 of the matter. I have no doubt of it : from what 

 I heard of him — which was a good deal more 

 than I can now remember — he was just the man 

 for a mystification of the kind. It may be doubted 



whether any writings of his can now be recovered : 

 unless it should happen that any witty squibs of 

 the period 1760 — 90 should bear the signature 

 P.R. He was of St. John's College, Cambridge 

 (B. A. 1760, M.A.'1763.). M. 



Beattie the Poet (2""* S. x. 147.) — About 

 the year 1835 or 1836 I was present at a marriage 

 celebrated by the late Rev. Henry Grey of the 

 parish of St. Mary's, Edinburgh, and in course of 

 conversation he mentioned that, while making 

 visits to his parishioners, he had discovered two 

 nieces (old maiden ladies) of Beattie the poet, 

 who lived some years (I cannot now say how many) 

 before the above date at No. 4. Northumberland 

 Place, Edinburgh. He probably mentioned some 

 farther particulars respecting them, but all that 

 my memory is now charged with is that the ladies 

 were nieces of Beattie the poet. The Rev. Henry 

 Grey died many years since, but probably some 

 old resident in the locality may be able to throw 

 some light on the subject. J- S. 



Glasgow. 



The Maoki Language (2"'^ S. x. 191.) — A 

 Maori grammar, dictionary, and vocabulary, has 

 been compiled by Archdeacon Williams, and may 

 be had for 7s. 6d. at Stanford's, Charing Cross. 

 I know of no other, except Professor Lee's. The 

 New Zealanders possessed no written language 

 until Professor Lee, of Cambridge, while Hongi 

 and Waikato, two chiefs, were at the University 

 in 1820, from their pronunciation, reduced the 

 Maori, or aboriginal language, into a written one, 

 and composed a grammar and dictionary of it. 



Taylor's Te Tka a Maui, price 14s., contains 

 some native proverbs in the Maori language. 



W. SiNCOCK. 



Andover. 



Dictionary and Orammar of the Neiv Zealand 

 Language, by W. Williams, 1844; republished in 

 London, 1852. The above, in a list of New Zea- 

 land works, was classed as superior to the Gram- 

 nrnr of the New Zealand Language by the Rev. R. 

 Maunsell, Auckland, 1842. F. P. 



Pek Cent (2"* S. x. 117.) — In reply to your 

 correspondent I would suggest a facile, and per- 

 haps the most probable method, of accounting for 

 the symbol % as signifying per cent, viz. a line 

 drawn between or through the two ciphers would 

 be an apparent signification o? per cent. 



Ithuriel. 



Dedications to the Deity (2°" S. x. 177.) — 

 A remarkable instance of this is in the " Second 

 Part of the Pilgrim! s Progress" printed 1683, one 

 year before Bunyan published nis Second Pai't. 

 This has a pompous dedication : — 



" To Him that is Higher than the Highest ; The Al- 

 mighty and everlasting Jehovah, who is the terror and 

 Confusion of this Hardened and Impenitent World ; and 



