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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



L2''d s. X. Nov. 3. '60. 



find noticed a translation by W. Austin, 2nd edi- 

 tion, 1671. Title engraved by J. Goddard. Are 

 either of these translations in English verse ? 



R. Inglis. 

 B1B1.10GRAPHICA.L Queries. — Will yon kindly 

 favour me with the names of the respective au- 

 thors of the following scarce pamphlets, contained 

 in an 8vo. volume in my possession ? — 



1. "A Fragment of the History of Patrick. London, 

 1753. 



2. " A Tryal between Patrick and Roger, with a Frag- 

 ment of the History of Patrick. London, 1753," 



3. "Considerations on tlie late Bill for Payment of the 

 remainder of the National Debt, &c. Dublin, 1754. 



4. " A Modest Proposal for the Prohibition of Speech, 

 humbly offered to the consideration of Parliament. Dub- 

 lin, 1743." 



5. " A Vindication of the R 1 H e and H e 



L ds and Gentlemen, &c. Dublin, 1752." 



6. "A Letter to the Publick; with some Queries, hum- 

 bly offered to its Consideration. Dublin, 1754." 



7. " A Letter from a Burgess of Monaghan to the 

 Parish-Clerk of Ardbraecan. Dublin, 1754." 



8. "An Address from the Independent Electors of the 

 County of Westmeath to Anthony Malone, Esq., &c. 

 London, 1754." 



9. " An Answer to a Pamphlet, intitled ' The Proceed- 

 ings of the Honourable House of Commons of Ireland, in 

 rejecting the Altered Money Bill, on December 17, 1753, 

 Vindicated,' &c. Dublin, 1754." 



10. " Remarks on a Pamphlet, intitled ' Considerations 

 on the late Bill for paving the National Debt, &c.' Dub- 

 lin, 1764." 



11. "An Examination of the Facts, Falsehoods and 

 Misrepresentations in a Pamphlet, intitled 'A Critical 

 Review of the Liberties of British Subjects; with a Com- 

 parative View of the Proceedings of the H e of C s 



of I d against an unfortunate Exile from that Coun- 

 try.' Dublin, 1750." 



12. " A State of the Case of the Creditors of Burton's 

 Bank, &c. Dublin, 1751." 



Abhba. 



SuKNAME OF " Black." — Buchanan of Auch- 

 mar, in his curious work on Scottish Surnames, 

 states that the " Blacks " are a branch of the Lii- 

 monts of that Ilk ; and the writer remembers 

 having seen some years ago (he forgets in what 

 serial, and at what date) a copy of a correspon- 

 dence, dated about 1740, between a Mr. Black of 

 Dublin and the then Laird of Lamont, corrobora- 

 tive of Buchanan's statement. Can any of your 

 friends say when and where this correspondence 

 appeared ? I^iger. 



Glasgow. 



Dixon of Ramshaw. — Can any reader of " N. 

 & Q.," learned in the genealogies and topography 

 of Durham, inform me whether this family is still 

 extant? And, if so, by whom represented ? Also, 

 vhere Ramshaw is situated, which gives a distinc- 

 tive name to the family in the Visitations of the 

 county ? I find in maps tivo Ramshaws ; one in 

 Darlington Ward, about three miles S.W. of 

 Bishop's Auckland; the other in Chester Ward, 

 eight miles N.W. of St. John's Weardale. 



I may here notice an error in Burke's Armory, 

 1842. He mentions the arms of Dixon of Ram- 

 shaw, and then, in the next paragraph, those of 

 Dixon of Rainsham. These two entries are but 

 the same family arms repeated. There is no such 

 place in Durham as Rainsham, and the mistake 

 has originated in the similarity of the words Ram- 

 shaw and Rainsham when carelessly written. In 

 MS. they may be easily confounded. J. 



Story of a Swiss Lady. — The Letter out of 

 which I asked a question, which you obligingly 

 answered (2°'^ S. x. 111.) is, as you suggest, to 

 the Rev. W. and not " H." May I ask the ex- 

 phination of another passage ? — 



" The story told by Lipsius, on his own personal know- 

 ledge, of the boy drowned in a sewer, and restored after 

 he had been two days dead, is as good as that of the 

 Swiss Lady who, though pronounced drowned and dead 

 by the doctors, clutched a purse of gold when put into 

 her hand, and revived on an attempt to take it from her." 

 — p. 62. 



A reference to the authorities will oblige C. E. 



Family of Bucknall, M.D. — William Buck- 

 nail, M.D., of Brompton Hall, Middlesex, was 

 born in 1690, and died in 1763. He left a son 

 Samuel, born in 1711, who was buried in the 

 parish church of St. Marylebone, London, in 

 1769, and two daughters, one of whom married 

 the Rev. Joseph Griffith, to whom Brompton Hall 

 descended in right of his wife ; and the other mar- 

 ried Morgan Rice, Esq., of Hill House, Tooting 

 Graveney, Surrey. 



William Bucknall, M.D., bore the arms of, and 

 was descended from, a younger son of Sir William 

 Bucknall, alderman of the city of London, who 

 was knighted at Whitehall, Sept. 20, 1670. It is 

 believed that William Bucknall, M.D., was the son 

 of Samuel Bucknall, second son of Sir Wm. Buck- 

 nall, Knt., who married Margaret , who died 



at Wrexham, co. Denbigh, about 1736. I should 

 be extremely obliged to any of your correspon- 

 dents, who have the opportunity of searching 

 county histories, if they could ascertain for me the 

 fact of William Bucknall, M.D., being the son of 

 Samuel Bucknall who was born in 1668, and died 

 in 1734? 



I am anxious also to ascertain the surname of 

 Samuel Bucknall's wife ; and should be glad tO' 

 receive any account of William Bucknall in his 

 character of M.D. 



Sir William Bucknall, Knt., was succeeded in 

 his estates by his eldest son John, who was knighted 

 Feb. 23, 1685. He married Mary, daughter of 

 Sir John Read of Brocket Hall ; and had a son, 

 John Askell Bucknall, whose only child, Mary,^ 

 married James, 2nd Viscount Grimston. The 

 family estates were at Oxney, Herts, and Watford 

 in the same county. 



Sir AVilliam Bucknall, Knt., had a son Jonathan,, 



