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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2«i S. X. Oct. 6. '60. 



Masters of Edinburgh High School. — Can 

 you inform me who was master of the High School 

 of Edinburgh, at the time of King Charles I.'s 

 visit to Edinburgh in 1633 ? I think there is a 

 history of the Edinburgh High School, by the 

 Rev. Dr. Steven, published about twenty years 

 since. K- Inglis. 



Sir John DuDBiiESXOKE. — I find that the story 

 of Sir John Duddlestone is again going the round 

 of the newspapers, taken from the recently pub- 

 lished Vicissitudes of Families. 



It appears to me that it is a fit subject for ex- 

 posure in the permanent pages of " N. & Q." I 

 presume that Felix Farley's Bristol Journal is to 

 be found in the vaults of the British Museum. In 

 the paper for Saturday, October 26, 1824, is an 

 account of the death of Mrs. Corbett, great-grand- 

 daughter of Sir John Duddlestone ; in a subse- 

 quent paper will be found a letter on the subject 

 in which the story is completely exploded. 



I do not think there is any mention of it in 

 Seyer's History of Bristol. It is not referred to 

 in Evans's CJwon. Outline. Miss Strickland gives 

 him. The original authority I believe to be Corry's 

 trumpery Histo7'y of Bristol ; it is also in The Pa- 

 trician. 



I have a mem. of a lease from the feoflfers of All 

 Saints' Church lands dated 20 Sept., 29 Charles I., 

 amongst whom are " John Duddleston, Merchant," 

 " Edward Duddleston, son of the said John Dud- 

 dleston." C. P. T. 



P.S. This is a question in which I know Dr. 

 EiMBAULT to be interested ; perhaps he may be 

 inclined to hunt it up. 



Yabranton's Survey of Ringsend, near 

 Dublin, 1674. — In Yarranton's England's Im- 

 provement by Sea and Land (4to., London, 1677), 

 pp. 151-155., I find some interesting details of " a 

 survey and discovery " of Kingsend, which he un- 

 dertook at the urgent request of Sir Francis 

 Brewster, Lord Mayor of Dublin. For a special 

 purpose I am anxious to ascertain full particulars 

 of the matter; and, therefore, I beg to ask you, or 

 some one of your Irish coi'respondents, whether 

 any (and if so, what) steps were taken in conse- 

 quence of Mr. Yarranton's suggestions ? What a 

 changed locality since the year 1674 ! 



Any particulars of "Andrew Yarranton, Gent.," 

 will be thankfully received.* Abhba. 



Sir John Home, first Baronet of Blackadder 

 (created 1671), married Mary, eldest daughter of 

 Sir James Dundas of Arniston. There were 

 several Sir Jameses of the Dundas family. Which 

 is the one above referred to ? Sigma-Theta. 



* [In Dove's Elements of Political Science, 8vo. 1854, 

 pp. 402 — 470., is a long account of Andrew Yarranton, 

 the founder of English Political Economy. This paper 

 consists mostly of his doings and patriotic principles, the 

 biographical notices being extremely meagre. — Ed.] 



The Beau. — The sobriquet of OldDouro, which 

 was applied to the Duke of Wellington during his 

 victorious campaign in the Peninsula, has been 

 already satisfactorily explained (ante, p. 231.) I 

 am now induced to ask the origin of the great 

 Duke's being called The Beau, which I am as- 

 sured by those who well remember it, was a name 

 by which he was very generally known during the 

 earlier part of his life. Q. F. G. 



Daln OTTER Company. — In a deed dated 1776, 

 referring to persons living in Midlothian, I find 

 mention made of the Dalnotter Company. Where 

 is Dalnotter, and what was the company ? 



Sigma-Theta. 



Stckeley's Abuby and Stonehenge, — Can 

 any of your readers inform me in whose possession 

 Stukeley's own copies of his " Abury " and 

 " Stonehenge " now are ? Gough, in his British 

 Topogrojoker (vol. ii. p. 375.), tells us that these 

 works, ^Mm. large MS. additions, were bought by 

 the Bishop of Hereford at the sale of Stukeley's 

 collections in 1766 



The Bishop of Hereford at this date was Lord 

 James Beauclerk, who died in 1787. Is it known 

 into whose hands the bishop's library passed, or 

 who now retains the volumes in question ? ©. 



The Theatre of Ingenuity. — Who is the 

 author or compiler of a book called The Theatre 

 of Ingenuity, published in 1698 ? R. Inglis. 



Quotation. — Where does this line occur? — 



" They placed me in the poet's choir. 



E. E. M. 



Smith, Cork. — Can any one, well read in the 

 history of Cork, refer me to an account of an ac- 

 cident which happened about the middle of last 

 century in that town, by which a young Scotch 

 gentleman, by name James Smith, met his death 

 by drinking by mistake some poisoned wine ? 



Sigma-Theta. 



Sacheverell. — I have certainly seen it stated, 

 and more than once, but very long ago, that Dr. 

 Sacheverell, in one of his sermons, used the fol- 

 lowing illustration : — " TJiey concur together like 

 parallel lines, meeting in one common centre." 

 Can any one confirm this, or fix the quotation on 

 anybody else ? A. De Morgan. 



MS. Life op Dr. George Hickes. — In a MS. 

 Catalogue of books in the library of the Rev. John 

 Lewis of Margate, I find the following article : — 



" An Historical Account of the Life and Writings of 

 the Learned and Reverend George Hickes, D.D., Dean of 

 Worcester, and an eminent Nonjuror. To which is added, 

 A Collection of Papers relating to it. Collected and writ- 

 ten in the Years 1744 and 1745, with a list of the de- 

 prived Bishops and Clergy at the Revolution in 1688-9, 

 &c., to be added to the Collection at the end of Dr. 

 Hickes's Life. In three pieces half-bound, fol." 



In another hand is added, " Sold to Sir Peter 



