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extinct about the close of the last century : one of 

 the co-heirs married Wm. Helyar, Esq. of Coker 

 Court, CO. Somerset. (See Burke's Commoners.) 

 Henrx W. S. Tatlok. 



Standard-bjiarer FOR Ireland. — According 

 to a newspaper-cutting now before me, of the year 

 1820 : — 



" Felix O'Hanlon, Esq., put in a claim to perforin the 

 the office of Standard-bearer for Ireland, and appeared 

 with divers parchments and documents to establish his 

 right." 



Where may be found particulars of his claim, 

 which, I presume, was not admitted ? Abhba. 



" Scottish Dictionary." — I should feel obliged 

 if any of your readers would inform me who was 

 the author of a small Scottish Dictionary in 32mo., 

 a copy of which I have lately met witlv^but un- 

 fortunately the title-page is wanting ? Trom the 

 Preface it appears, that its date is shortly after 

 the publication of Dr.. Jamieson's Dictionary. It 

 was printed at Edinburgh by W. Aitchison, and 

 contains 251 pages. Thomas H. Cromek. 



Dr. De Gueldre. — A few months since, I 

 bought from a dealer in old books a somewhat 

 curious book. It is vols. v. and vi. (bound in 

 one volume) of 



" Forty Years' Correspondence between Geniusses ov 

 Boath Sexes, and James Elphinstone. In Six Pocket- 

 volumes : Foar ov Oridgiaal Letters, two ov Poetry." 



In vol. v. pp. 218. to 228., there is an Oratorio, 

 French and English : the English being a transla- 

 tion by Mr. Elphinstone, dated 1773. At the end 

 of the poem is this note : 



" Dhe oridginal waz communicated to J. E. by Dr. De 

 Gueldre, a Jew. — L. clx." * 



As I have not the volumes containing the Let- 

 ters, could you, by referring to Letter 160. give 

 any information regarding this Dr. De Gueldre ? 



R. Inglis. 



"Missa Triumphans." — Who was the author 

 of Missa Triumphans; or. The Triumph of the 

 Mass, by F. P. M. O. P. Hib. ? It is a 12mo. 

 volume, pp. 464, with an Appendix of 48 pages ; 

 was "printed, permissu superiorum, at Lovain, 

 1675"; and purports to be "an Answer to Mr. 

 de Rodon's Funeral of the Mass." Abhba. 



OuvER Cromwell — .Perhaps some of your 

 readers will kindly inform me who the Oliver 

 Cromwell was who is described in a warrant, " By 

 virtue of an ordinance of both Houses of Parlia- 



[* Letter clx. is a misprint. Letter civ. contains the 

 following passage : " I send yoo a littel oratorio, written 

 by I know not hoom. I translated it to oblege dhe Jew, 

 from hoom I had it ; and afterwards pubblished it for hiz 

 bennefit; dho littel it cood procure him."— Ed.] 



ment of the 20"" dale of September, 1643, and in 

 pursuance of an order of the Commons House of 

 the 20'" of December, 1648," as Major ? it being 

 for payment of " his salary, and for his attending 

 on the King as Cupbearer, and for his expences in 

 his journeys to attend that service." The war- 

 rant is signed " Mulgrave, Pembroke, and Monk, 

 Greg. Norton, Tho. Grey, Hen. Mildmay." The 

 receipt bears date 29th Dec. 1648, and is signed 

 " Oliver Cromwell."* S. N". 



Thomas Aldersey, M.D., of Christ Church, 

 Oxford. I believe that this gentleman attained 

 eminence in his profession, and should be greatly 

 obliged to any correspondent who would substan- 

 tiate my belief with facts. C. J. R. 



[Numbering Houses in Streets. — Senex 

 would be glad to know where, when, and by whom 

 the prevailing system of numbering the houses in 

 our streets was introduced, — the odd numbers 

 being on one side, and the even on the other. He 

 is under the impression that it originated in Aber- 

 deen, where some fifty years ago the houses were 

 not numbered, but soon after the present system ^ 

 was introduced, and appears to have been gra- 

 dually adopted in other places. 



Prohibition of Marriages. — Can any reader 

 of " N. & Q." inform me whether the prohibition ' 

 of marriages at certain seasons was at any time 

 part of the canon law ? I have not been able to 

 find a canon of any council, general or provincial, 

 bearing on this point ; and am led to conclude 

 that the prohibition rested only upon the custom 

 of the church. 



I have a special reason for desiring accurate in- 

 formation on this point, and have not been able to' 

 find it either in Lyndwood or the Vade Mecum. 



J. L 



George Kirke, gentleman of the bed-chamber 

 to James I., 1609. Is anything known of his de- 

 scendants ? G. V. 



Quotation from Chalmers. — Dr. Chalmers 

 in one of his publications, speaking of the Church 

 of England, says : — 



" There are many who look with an evil eye to the en- 

 dowments of the English Church, and the supposed in- 

 dolence of her dignitaries. But to that church the theo- . 

 logical literature of the Scottish Church stands indebted 

 for her best acquisitions : and we hold it to be a refreshing 

 spectacle, at any time that meagre Socinianism pours 

 forth a new supply of flippancies and errors, when we 

 behold, as we have often done, an armed champion come 

 forth in full equipment from some high and lettered re- 

 treat of that noble hierarchy." 



I shall be obliged if any of your correspondents 

 can tell me the volume and page of the work from 

 which this extract is taken. Alfred T. Lee. 



[* Two queries have already appeared in our pages 

 respecting this " Cup-bearer " : "see !•' S. v. 246. ; 2°* S. 

 vii. 194. — Ed.2 



