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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Say tbe enemy were forty thousand strong, 

 We twenty 'd come into the field the tenth 

 Of March or thereabouts, and we would challenge ' 

 Twenty of the enemy ; they could not, on their honour, 

 Refuse us. Well, we'd kill them ; challenge twenty 

 More, kill them; twenty more, kill them; twenty more, 

 Kill them too; <tnd thus would^we kill, every man 

 His twenty a daj% that's twenty score; twenty score, 

 That is two hundred ; two hundred a day, five days 

 A thousand ; forty thousand ; forty times five. 

 Five times forty, two hundred days kills them all up 

 By computation. And this will I venture 

 My poor gentlemanlike carcass to perform. 

 Provided there be no treason practised upon us 

 By fair and discreet manhood ; that's civilly 

 By the sword." 



Every Man in his Humour, Act IV. Sc. 6. 



Thos. Keightley. 



INSCRIPTIONS ON ANCIENT CHALICES. 

 About eight years ago a jeweller, named Ma- 

 bony, residing in Old George's Street, Cork, pur- 

 chased a chalice from a countryman who found 

 it in a bog near Berehaven, in the extreme west 

 of this county ; it bore the following inscription : 



" Cornelius . . Sullivan . Sacerdos . Me . Fieri . Fecit . 

 1597 . Dulcis . Jesus . Gloria . Soli . Deo . Sa . Ma . 

 O.P.N. 



This chalice was beautifully adorned with foli- 

 age, enclosing a representation of the cross over a 

 skull. Near the rim, in a small compartment, was 

 a cock. The bulb beneath the cup was chased 

 in the Norman style, similar to the type on some 

 silver pennies of the Conqueror ; over this bulb 

 was IHS inverted; it weighed twelve ounces of 

 silver, and was richly gilt. The donor of this 

 chalice was most probably an ancestor of the 

 O'Sullivan Bere. The widow of the above-named 

 jeweller showed me in 1855 a chalice in very 

 beautiful condition, with the following inscrip- 

 tion : — 



" Orate . Pro . Anima . D , Danielis . Swynye . Sacerdotis, 

 Lismorensis . Dicecesis . Qui . Me . Fieri . Fecit . Ao . 1640." 



This chalice was an octagon, and profusely de- 

 corated with scroll work, and adorned with the 

 following symbols. The cross, on the left side a 

 ladder, on the right a spear ; a heart transfixed 

 with two arrows in saltier, and the letter H sur- 

 mounted with a cross patee fitchee ; silver, weight 

 sixteen ounces. 



In March, 1851, Mr. Egan, jeweller, Grand 

 Parade, showed me the fragments of a very curi- 

 ous chalice which he had purchased from a country- 

 man, who previously broke it up. On placing it 

 together, the following inscription was quite le- 

 gible : — 



" Mauricius . Costun . Sacerdos . Hanc . Calicem . D.D. 

 Altari . Capellae . Beata; . Marise . Cloin . 1607." 



In the month of October, 1859, the sjyne party 

 showed me two very fine chalices which were un- 

 dergoing slight repairs in his establishment. These 



are now preserved in some of the Roman Catholic 

 churches of this city. One of them bore the fol- 

 lowing inscription : — 



" Deo Opt. Maximo . Ano. Dni. 1598. 

 Dedicabat . Alsona . Miaghe . Hunc . 

 Calicem . ut . Pro . Animse . Suae . 

 Salute . Jugiter . Ad . Deum . Oretur." 



The other was inscribed : — 



" i5< Fr. Gulielmus . irris . Pro . Conv'" . S" . Fran«' . 

 Corck . Me . Fecit . Fieri . 1611." 



These last two inscriptions ran round the rim 

 of the base. R. C. 



Cork. 



NOTES OF THE REVOLUTION. 



Amongst the many foolish acts which charac- 

 terised the turbulent career of King James II.'s 

 Irish Parliament in 1689, the repeal of the Act of 

 Settlement holds a prominent position. The re- 

 monstrances of his friends were useless. He was 

 in fact forced to comply by the clamours of a 

 rabble assembly. The descendants of the Irish 

 whose estates had been confiscated in 1641, were 

 naturally on the alert at the news. The vision of 

 once more possessing their hereditary broad acres 

 must have kindled their liveliest enthusiasm. 

 Many distinguished Irish Roman Catholic families 

 had been reduced to miserable destitution ; some 

 had sought refuge abroad ; others, who could sub- 

 sist at home, and could afford it, usually had their 

 children educated on the Continent, where It was 

 strictly and conscientiously attended to, and which 

 the constant mercantile intercourse by means of 

 trading vessels direct between the ports of France 

 and the Low-Countries and that of Cork much 

 facilitated. At this time the eldest son of a dis- 

 tinguished citizen, whose family flourishes on the 

 pages of history, was receiving his education in 

 Paris ; the father, overjoyed at the glad tidings, 

 lost no time in communicating the welcome intel- 

 ligence to his child. The following extracts are 

 from the originals now preserved amongst the 

 family records. We suppress the names ; suffice 

 it to say that the lineal descendant now holds the 

 highest position among the ancient aristocracy of 

 this county. Both letters throw some light on the 

 private history of the period : — 



« 25 June, 1689. 



",Deare Tho: 



" I have received yours dated the 1st instant, but noe 

 other, and doe tell yow that on fryda}' last the act of set- 

 tlem* was broake, and the Royall assent past to the bill 

 of Repeale thereof, soe as all the Irish will be restored to 

 theire Estates and rights as in 41. Therefore you must 

 be sure to come from Paris to Brest, where you shall have 

 a conveniency of the Packett boate, which comes for Ire- 

 land or some man of warr or other that comes for this 

 contry, but you must not venter to come in any ship, butt 

 in the Packett boate or some man of warr in regard the 

 English are abusie abroade at sea. I have not sent you 

 an3'' money now, in regard I know if you want any money 



