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NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



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quired strictly as to the manners and customs as 

 to burials, &c., and have never known an in- 

 stance, either from inquiry or hearsay, of any 

 person having been buried in an upright posture. 

 The body is always carried to the grave dressed 

 in the holiday attire of the deceased, decorated by 

 the poorer classes in all the finery they and their 

 friends can beg or borrow ; but after the funeral 

 service is read, the clothes and jewellery are 

 stripped off, and the body, bound round with linen 

 " h. la mummy," is consigned to a shallow grave 

 never more than eighteen to twenty-four inches 

 in depth, and the earth heaped over, and in coun- 

 try districts large stones are placed over the grave 

 to keep the wild dogs from scratching the earth 

 off and gnawing the body. This is the modern 

 custom, as can easily be testified by any p«sident 

 in Turkey, who I dare say, in common with the 

 writer, has often, after heavy rains, seen the half- 

 decomposed bodies exposed, by the washing away 

 of the thin covering of earth. W. B. C. 



"Pencil Writing" (2'«» S. x. 57, 255. 318. 

 457.) — I remember an old " Philomath," who used 

 to tell me that he was an acquaintance of Bonny- 

 castle, and who kept a somewhat celebrated local 

 academy in Ireland, acting exactly as described 

 by Pkofessob De Morgan, in regard to lead 

 pencils. The impression was not so easily re- 

 moved as that made by the present pencil. Lead 

 combs are to be had in the shops of all coiffeurs 

 of the present day. S. Redmond. 



Liverpool. 



Sir John Gayer (2""* S. x. 128. 175. 238.) — 

 Sir Andrew Henley of Henley, created Baronet 

 by King Charles II., " married Mary, daughter 

 of Sir John Gayer, Knt., of London." Sir Robert 

 Gayer, K.B. (p. 238.) married Mary, daughter 

 of Sir Thomas Rich of Sunning, and from the 

 arms quoted by Mr. Macray it would seem the 

 family were of Scotch extraction, being thq same 

 as borne by Gair of Scotland ; and Burke, in his 

 Armory, spells the name " Gaire," Lord Mayor of 

 London, 1647, but quotes the arms given in p. 175. 

 without the charge on the chief. Whom did Sir 

 John Gayer marry ? Henry W. S. Taylor. 



Forged Assignats (2"* S. vi. 70. 134. 255.; 

 vii. 16.; viii. 314.) — The following quotation, 

 from Ruding's Anrials of the English Coinage 

 (vol. ii. p. 93., 3rd edit. 1840), may be deemed 

 curious, taken in connexion with the alleged issue 

 by the English authorities of the forged assignats, 

 which bore date (see Mr. Fisher's article, 2°* S. 

 vi. 135.) Oct. 1792; or rather professed to be 

 under the authority of the law of that date : — 



" 1792. The want of silver coin and bullion is said to 

 have been very much increased in this j-ear by the policj' 

 of the French, who exchanged their assignats'for as much 

 of either kind as they could possibly procure. And so 

 rapidly did they effect their object, that in the year 1792 



not less than the enormous quantity of 2,909,000 ounces 

 of silver were purchased with assignats and sent into 

 France." — Marsh on tlie Politics of Great Britain and 

 France, 



Jos. G. 



ReFE»BNCE in BAlltHOLlNtS (2"* S. X. 147. 



259.) — The lines seem to be translated from Try- 

 phiodorus's description of the Trojan horse: — 



Svpero 8e irpvii.i'ola'i.v en tycecrii' ckAutos ovprj 

 'AfuneKos ws yvo/XTrTOtcri xa^eAxovjuei'ij Ovaai/oiffiu 

 Oi Si TToSe^ jSaAcoKTiv inep^ofjievoi yova-reatTiv^ 

 AuTtpov Sxnrep eixtKKov stti SpOfjLov onKC^earOai, 

 OiiTttis irreCyovTO. 



Ilii Excidium, v. 74. ed. Didot, Paris, 1841. 



I cannot find in the Greek any equivalent to 

 •' Saxa," nor any meaning for it in the Latin. 

 " Zil." is equally a mystery to me. H. B. C. 



U. U. Club. 



Dear is that Valley (2°'* S. x. 410.) — These 

 lines of Rogers's are not from the Fragments of 

 Euripides, but appear to be suggested by, cer- 

 tainly not translated from the Hippolytus of 

 Euripides : — 



Af (jbieV 0$, K.T.A. 



V. 73. 



And by 



'ilKtaVOV Tli {iSup, K,T,K, V. 121. 



Lichfield. 



T. J. BUCKTON. 



O'Driscoll's Family (2°"* S. viii. 415.) — Some 

 months ago, I asked in " N. & Q." for some in- 

 formation alDout the O'Driscolls of Baltimore, co. 

 Cork ; but regret that, up to the present, I have 

 not been answered. 



I am fully persuaded, that among the corre- 

 spondents of " N. & Q.," there must be many who 

 are familiar with the early history, its ancient 

 kings, tribes, &c. 



For the guidance of anyone kind enough to 

 assist me, I here subjoin all I at present know of 

 this family : — 



It was one of the royal tribes of Ireland, and 

 in possession of vast estates some hundred years 

 back. In Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Hall's Tour in 

 Ireland there is a notice of it, accompanied with 

 two engravings of ruined castles " of the O'Dris- 

 colls." A member of the family held a Colonel's 

 commission in the Irish army of King James II. 



In 1642, according to Burke's Peerage (Pedi- 

 gree of Lord Kinsale), Mary, daughter of Gerald, 

 19th Baron, was married to a Donagh O' Driscoll. 

 Now I would feel much obliged by anyone con- 

 Jirming the tradition, held by the present repre- 

 sentative of this ancient family, that this Donagh 

 was the then Lord of Baltimore. Theta. 



Earl or Halifax (2 S. x. 188.) — Chas. Mon- 

 tague, " the witty Earl of Halifax," married the 

 widow of his second cousin, the third Earl of Man- 

 chester, who was Anne, daughter of Sir Christo- 

 pher Yelverton, first baronet and ancestor of the 



