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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°d S. X. Dec. 1. '60. 



may add, tbere is not the vestige of a register of 

 baptisms, marriages, and burials (save a few in- 

 sertions of marriages in an older volume), for the 

 space of thirty-two years before 1800, the book 

 or books having long since disappeared ; and 

 consequently there is not any registry of Lord 

 Fitzwilliam's interment. But fortunately the de- 

 fects in the registers of parishes may in a great 

 measure be supplied from the annual visitation- 

 returns, made by the parochial clergymen to the 

 archbishop of the diocese, and safely deposited in 

 the Office of the Consistorial Court, Dublin. With 

 regard to the parish of Donnybrook, which in- 

 cludes the Royal Chapel of St. Matthew Rings- 

 end, there are (what is a particularly important 

 consideration, the original records being lost) lists, 

 more or less detailed, of baptisms, marriages, and 

 burials from the year 1775 to 1799, inclusive ; 

 and having carefully examined them, I have ex- 

 tracted, with many more, the following entry : — 



"Buried, Ricli'i. Lord Vise'. Fitzwilliam, 27th May, 

 1776." 



The titles of "Viscount Fitzwilliam, of Meryon 

 [now Merrion], and Baron Fitzwilliam, of Thorn- 

 castle [Booterstown ?], in the county of Dublin," 

 became extinct in the year 1833, on the death of 

 John, the eighth Viscount ; but the large estates 

 are held, and the family represented, by the Right 

 Hon, Sidney Herbert, M.P., heir-presumptive to 

 the earldom of Pembroke and Montgomery. The 

 name is frequently spelt " Fitzwilliams," as by 

 your correspondent. Abhba. 



Blackstonb's Portrait (2"'' S. x. 190. 335.)— 

 Rhedycina was a commonly accepted name for 

 Oxford among our grandfathers. Cowper, in a 

 letter to Mrs. Throgmorton, of April 1, 1791, 

 vents his disappointment at being refused a sub- 

 scription to his translation of Homer by the Uni- 

 versity of Oxford, in the following epigram : — 



" Could Homer come himself, distress'd and poor. 

 And tune his harp at Rhedj'cina's door, 

 The rich old vixen would exclaim (I fear), 

 ' Begone ! no tramper gets a farthing here.' " 



In Spurrell's Welsh Dictionary, 9. ford is " rhyd," 

 and an ox, "ych"; oxen, " ychen." Oxford is 

 given in the same book as " Rhydychain." J. B. 



Pavement (2°* S. x. 147. 199.) — In this country 

 the footways in towns are usually paved before 

 the roadways : hence, when we say that a person 

 is walking on the pavement, we mean that he is 

 on the footway, and not in the middle of the street, 

 as we call the carriage-way in towns, though that 

 may be also paved. IJneda. 



Philadelphia. 



Canadian Song (2'"' S. x. 368.) — If the cor- 

 respondent Styhtes, who asks for the words and 

 air of the Canadian voyageur song, "II y a long- 

 temps que je t'aime," will send me his address, I 



will prick off from memory for him the air, to the 

 tune of which I have in youth paddled for many 

 hours together on^,Canadian waters. As regards 

 the words I only remember one verse, which is 

 as follows : — 



"• A la claire fontaine, en allant me promener, 

 J'ai trouve I'eau si belle, que j'ai voulu m'y baigner, 

 II y a longtemps que je t'aime 

 Jamais je ne t'oublierai." 



Alb. Magen. 

 Reading Room, Crystal Palace. 



Having made inquiry some weeks since at 

 nearly all the music-shops, I have ascertained 

 that the popular Canadian air — 



" Longtemps que je t'aime, 

 Jamais je ne t'oublierai " — 



is not to be procured in London. The music- 

 sellers had no knowledge of it — had never heard 

 of it. I presume it is published in Canada; and 

 should the fact be so, Messrs. Triibner, book- 

 sellers, of Paternoster Row, have very kindly 

 undertaken to obtain it for me to order. J. H. D. 



Alleyne of Barbadoes (2"'* S. x. 269.) — 

 Jos. Alleine, the Nonconformist, married Theo- 

 dosia Alleine, daughter of the Rev. Richard Al- 

 leine, M.A. This Richard was born at Ditcheat 

 in 1611, ejected from the rectory of Batcombe in 

 1662, and died at Frome, Dec. 22, 1681. He had 

 a younger brother, William Alleine, who became 

 the minister of Blandford in 1653, where he con- 

 tinued until the Restoration, and died at Yeovil, 

 Oct. 1677. Their father, the Rev. Richard Al- 

 leine, was rector of Discheat for half a century, 

 and lived to be eighty years of age, but I cannot 

 find the year of his death. 



From some expressions in the letters of Jos. 

 Alleine to his nieces it is evident that their father 

 was dead in 1688, and that he was the brother of 

 the writer, and therefore the son of Mr. Tobias 

 Alleine of Devizes. It would seem that the latter 

 had a large family and somewhat reduced, as in 

 that part of the Life of Jos. Alleine written by his 

 father-in-law it is said : — 



" He distributed much amongst his relations. His aged 

 father and divers of his brethren, with their large fami- 

 lies, being fallen into decay, he took great care for them 

 all, and gave education to some, pensions to other, por- 

 tions to others of them." — p. 41, 1672. 



For a vindication of Joseph Alleine from the 

 attack of Ant. Wood, see no*e B. appended to the 

 account of " Alleine " in the Biog. Britannica. 



John I. Dredge. 



Lord Penrhtn : Hodges (2"* S. x. 248.)— The 

 arms of Richard Pennant, 1st Lord Penrhyn (cr. 

 1783, ext. 1808), extinct peer of Ireland, on the 

 authority of the Peerages of the period, were 

 those borne by the present representative of the 

 family, of Penrhyn Castle, co. Caernarvon, viz. 

 Tudor Trevor, Yswithan Wyddell, Philip Phich- 



