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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd S. X Oct. 20. '60. 



for your journey to Brest that my coossen Coppinger can 

 supply you, and I will pay him heare at his coming on 

 demaund, &c. If you could get a setting dog cheape 

 there, I would have you bring one with you. Be sure to 

 inform your coossen Barry of these newes about the Act 



of Settlem*. I was yesterday elected Maior of . You 



and my coossen Coppinger ought to come with all con- 

 venientt speede, for I will nou gett him his estate, &c. 

 " I am yo"^ lov. father, 

 " — — " 

 Beply : — 



"Paris, 7^"yG. 89. 

 « Dear Si-". 

 " I received yours &c. and putt myself in a readiness to 

 execute your orders with all speadinesse imaginable, as 

 alsoe my Cousen Coppinger. Just as we were upon the 

 point of setting forward on our journey there came news 

 of Schomberg's setting sail for Ireland, of the French fleets 

 retireing into Brest, whilst that of England croized before 

 Kinsale, these news, together with that of the raising of 

 the Siege before Londonderrj', put a stop to my cousin 

 Coppinger's going, who would deprive himself of the way 

 he has of getting his livelyhood if he stirred hence — and 

 draw a great many other inconvenienciesonhim, besides 

 the dangers he should of necessity undergo, for certainly 

 the Court of Claims will not sitt whilst Schomberg is in 

 Ireland. As for my part I desire nothing more than to 

 be partaker of the misfortunes and dangers my Country 

 is in, and cannot see myself in safety whilst you and the 

 rest of my friends risque both your lives and fortunes. I 

 ■would have gone immediately after the receipt of your 

 letter but for want of money. This has been my motive 

 of staying untillthe beginning of next month, at which 

 time there will be a general route for all the Irish that in- 

 tends for their country, which will be a great help to me. 

 I dare not desire you to send me any supply, being sen- 

 sible of the troubles you are in, and of the scarcity of 

 money in our poor country, which if it is in so desperate 

 a condition as it is reported here, I wish to — you were 

 out of it untill things were settled, and am touched to 

 the very heart to see you environed by soe many dan- 

 gers and myself here in safety, so that I will be always 

 in a most bitter anguish untill I am with you and par- 

 taker of whatever fortune, good or bad, that God is pleased 

 to_ send you. I hope he will take compassion on our 

 miserj's, and that our tears of repentance will decline this 

 fatal scurge which our sins has drawn upon us. I humbly 

 implore his protection for you and the rest of my friends, 

 and your blessing, which will be a great comfort in the 

 worst of times to 



"Your ever dutyfull and obedient Son, 



Cork, 



R. C. 



Mimv ^oUi» 



The Family of Garibaldi. — The following 

 account is extracted from The Standard of Sept. 

 29 : — 



" The first who used this name, so far aa is shown by 

 history, was Garibald Duke of Bavaria in the year 584, 

 his ancestors having abandoned the title of King of Ba- 

 varia, because it displeased the Franconians. 



"From him descended Garibaldus, son of Grimaldus, 

 King of Lombardy in 673 ; names were not then heredi- 

 tary, and some generations elapsed before it was again 

 adopted. The Lombardy kingdom was overthrown in 

 774 by Charlemagne, and the descendants of these Lom- 



bard kings became petty sovereigns, princes, and nobles 

 in the Lombard States. The family of Garibaldi is early 

 found to be amongst the nobles of Genoa, and at the in- 

 stitution of the Golden Book in 1528, its members were 

 recorded as of the ancient nobility, together with the 

 members of the family of the great liberator of his country 

 at that daj', Andrew Doria. • 



"From that period till 1751 the successive generations 

 of the Garibaldi family were regularly recorded in that 

 illustrious volume of nobility, and the last name but one 

 is Joseph Garibaldi, born in 1729, probably the ancestor 

 of the Dictator, whose name is Joseph. 



" In 1685, Jeannetia Garibaldi was one of the senators 

 who accompanied the Doge of Genoa to Paris, after the 

 bombardment of Genoa by Louis XIV., to express their 

 regret at having displeased that king." 



R. F. Sketchley. 

 Anecdote of Oliver Cromvfell. — In The 

 Treasury of Wit, by John Pinkerton, F.S.A. 

 (published under the fictitious name of H. Ben- 

 net, M.A), London, 1786, vol. ii. p. 149., is given 

 the following anecdote of Oliver Cromwell, Avhich 

 I do not find to be noticed by any of the Glasgow 

 historians, nor recorded of him by his numerous 

 biographers, so far as I have observed, and perhaps 

 some of the readers of " N. & Q." may know the 

 authority from which Mr. Pinkerton had it : — 



"Oliver Cromwell while carrying on war in Scotland, 

 was riding near Glasgow at the head of a body of horse. 

 A Scotch soldier, planted on an high wall, took the oppor- 

 tunity to fire at him, but missed him. Oliver, without 

 slackening or drawing his rein, turned round and said, 

 Fellow, if any trooper of mine had missed such a mark he 

 should have had an hundred lashes. He did not even order 

 the man to be seized, and he made his escape." 



This, remarks Mr. P., was " a rare example of 

 true courage." G. N. 



Sir Christopher Hatton. — There is a good 

 portrait of Sir Christopher Hatton, Chancellor to 

 Queen Elizabeth, still extant. It is painted on 

 canvas ; his name is in one corner of the portrait 

 with much writing. It is supposed (with one of 

 Queen Elizabeth painted on panel) once to have 

 adorned the walls of Corfe Castle, Dorset, as the 

 ancestors of the family in whose possession they 

 now are resided then not far distant. As Mr. 

 Bankes in his Story of Corfe Castle does not men- 

 tion having either of the above-named portraits 

 in his collection in the Castle, which I should con- 

 sider must have been the case, there being no 

 tradition how they came into the possession of 

 my ancestors, it is not unreasonable to conclude 

 that it was after the sacking of the Castle. P. J. 



" Over the Left." — Has any satisfactory ex- 

 planation been given of this vulgarism ? As an 

 implied contradiction of the sentiment which has 

 just been uttered by some bystander, the phrase 

 and the gesture are well understood in some 

 classes of society. The only attempt at a theory 

 that shoujjd explain the adage, which I have been 

 able to meet with, occurs in Pasquier's Mecherches 

 de la France, lib. viii. cap. 47., entitled " De ce 



