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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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burgh, relatiug to the correspondence of Richard 

 Gough, the celebrated antiquary, and George 

 Paton, of the above-named city. They must have 

 been very interesting. Can you inform me whe- 

 ther the book ever appeared, or whether the ma- 

 terials now exist, and where they are ? 



Thomas Hale. 

 [For want of encouragement the intention of publish- 

 ing this correspondence was abandoned. But we shall be 

 very glad if the attention of our readers being thus drawn 

 to this interesting correspondence should be the means of 

 again bringing the question of publication under Mr. Turn- 

 bull's consideration, under circumstances Avhich should 

 justify the hope of its defraying the expenses.] 



Intrepid Conduct op the Late Mr. Wind- 

 ham. — In the Life of Edmund Malone, editor of 

 Shakspeare, just published, there is a very slight 

 biographical notice of the Right Hon. Wm. Wind- 

 ham (of Felbrigg Hall, near Cromer), who was 

 Secretary at War, 1791 — 1801, and is very justly 

 represented as the beau ideal of an English gen- 

 tleman, both by descent and actually ; and after 

 enumerating the many good qualities he pos- 

 sessed, and the many distinguished actions he had 

 performed, states : — 



"At the siege of Valenciennes he perilled himself 

 freely, in surveying theenemj-'s works : and at an earlier 

 period, ran personal risks in subduing mutiny in a militia 

 regiment, of which he was major." — Malone's Life, p. 303. 



Will any reader of " N. & Q." please to com- 

 municate of what regiment of Militia Mr. Wind- 

 ham was a Major, and the date and circumstances 

 of such mutiny ? Fidelis. 



[In 1778, Mr. Windham, being then a major in the 

 western battalion of the Norfolk militia, by his intre- 

 pidity and personal exertion, quelled a dangerous mutinj' 

 ■which broke out, notwithstanding he was highly beloved 

 by the regiment, just before they marched from Norwich 

 for their new quarters at Southwould and Aldborough in 

 Suffolk. The marching guinea, as it is called, was, con- 

 trary to Major Windham's advice, ordered by the lieu- 

 tenant-colonel not to be paid till the corps should have 

 actually marched out of the county. The men, however, 

 became clamorous for immediate payment, and proceeded 

 to open mutiny. On one of the mutineers laj'ing hold of 

 a part of his dress, he felled him down and put him into 

 confinement, and, on a band of his comrades surrounding 

 him, and insisting on the release of the delinquent, he 

 drew his SAvord, and kept them at bay till a party of his 

 own company joined and rescued him.] 



Sir Nathanael Dance. — Wanted some infor- 

 mation relative to this painter. C. J. Robinson. 



[This artist was the third son of George Dance, the 

 city surveyor, from whose designs the Mansion House 

 was erected, and who died in 1768. Nathanael was born 

 in 1730, and was a pupil of Hayman, after which he 

 visited Rome. On his return to England he married 

 Mrs, Drummer, a Hampshire heiress of great fortune, 

 and soon afterwards changed his name to Holland. He 

 represented the borough of East Grinstead many years in 

 parliament ; was a royal academician ; created a baronet 

 in 1800, and died suddenlj' at Winchester on October 15, 

 1811, aged eighty-one. Vide Somerset House Gazette, ii. 

 68. 121. 185., and Pilkingtou's Painters, art. Holland.] 



"DiLLT Wreck." — While on the coast this 

 summer, I fell into conversation with a Ramsgate 

 boatman, who gave me an account of a ship that 

 grounded upon the Goodwin Sands, but at length 

 was got off and brought into harbour. He re- 

 marked, in the course of his narrative, that the 

 ship in question was a " dilly wreck." Now, as 

 the ship was saved, I do not exactly see why it 

 should be called a " dilly wreck," or indeed a 

 wreck of any kind. I did not like, however, to 

 expose my ignorance by requesting an explana- 

 tion, and shall therefore feel obliged if any cor- 

 respondent of "N. & Q." can tell me the true 

 meaning of dilly wreck. T. C. R. 



\^Dilli/ wreck is a slightly modified form of derelict, a 

 term nauticallj' applied to any'vessel that is rescued from 

 the danger of shipwreck, but not' rescued till after it has 

 been abandoned by the crew. The claims of the salvors 

 being in this case considerably enhanced, the 'longshore 

 men would much rather save and bring into port a dere- 

 lict, than a vessel not deserted. We have ourselves heard 

 dilly wreck for derelict on the east coast of Kent.] 



DoRNix Weaver. — In the Life of Dr. Matthew 

 Wren, Bishop of Ely {Parentalia, p. 101.), wherein 

 he is defending himself against some charges of 

 persecution, he speaks of " Michael Metcalf, and 

 Nicholas his son, a Doi'nix Weaver of some estate." 

 What is meant by this ? Is any such phrase in 

 use at present in the East of England ? A. A. 

 Poets' Corner. 



[Dornix, or Dornick (says Nares) is the Dutch name 

 for Tournay, often applied to the manufactures of that 

 place, but usually corrupted into Darnick, Darnex, &c. : . 

 " With a fair Darnex carpet of my own 

 Laid cross, for the more state." 

 Beaumont and Fletcher, Nolle Gent., v. 1.] 



Story op a Life. — Who is the author of this 

 clever work, which, although apparently little 

 known now, seems to have gone through two 

 editions ? J. M. 



[By Capt. Moyle Sherer. See a list of his works in 

 the Bodleian Catalogue, iii. 460.2 



" Parson Imparsonee." — In the Dublin Ga- 

 zette, 11th May, 1731, which is at present before 

 me, the following announcement may be seen : — 



"Yesterday at noon, died at his house in St. Michael's 

 Lane, of an apoplectic fit, the Rev. Nicholas Knight, D.D., 

 Parson imparsonee, of St. Nicholas' Within [in the citv of 

 Dublin]." • 



And in the number for the 22nd of the same 

 month mention is made of the appointment of the 

 Rev. John Grattan "as Parson imparsonee" in the 

 room of Dr. Knight. What may be the meaning 

 of the words ? Abhba. 



[When a clerk is not only presented, but instituted and 

 inducted into a rectory, he is then, and not before, in full 

 possession, and is called in law, persona imper sonata, ^ or 

 parson imparsonee ; or, according to others, a parson im- 

 parsonee is the rector or incumbent in possession of a 

 parish church, whether presentative or impropriate, and 

 with whom the church is full.] 



