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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2»* S. X, Dec. 29. '60. 



Burns (Robert). — In a recent autumnal visit 

 to London I made some excursions to its adja- 

 cencies, in the course of one of which, " takinnr 

 mine ease at mine inn " at East Sheen, on the 

 road from London to Richmond, I had the good 

 fortune to fall in with a very intelligent country- 

 man of mine, a native of Dumfries, not certainly 

 a contemporary of Burns, for he was born the 

 year after the great poet's death, but a school- 

 fellow of his sons, and the personal friend in 

 after life of one of them, and a great worshipper 

 of Auld Scotia's most brilliant poetic genius. 

 From his lips I took down the following lines, an 

 impromptu of Robby on a premature announce- 

 ment of the death of the once celebrated " Tom 

 Payne," which my good old new friend assured 

 me (and he knows all that has been said, sung, or 

 printed al?out Burns) has never been published ; 

 there most certainly is no namby-pamby about 

 them, and they smack of the true vernacular : — • 

 " Lang, pale and lanky Tammy Payne 



Arriv'd last nicht in hell ; 

 The Deevil struk him by the ban', 



Says ' Tammy art thou well ? ' 

 " They put him in a furnace hot, 



An' on him barred the door ; 

 Lord, boo the Deevils lap't an' leucht, 



To hear the roar." 



KiHKTOWN Skene. 



Irish Manufactures. — The following plan, as 



recorded in Pue's Occurrences, 15th June, 1731, 



was adopted in Dublin for the encouragement of 



Irish manufactures : — 



" Dublin, June 15. On Saturday last the hangman 

 rode to the execution of Monaghan, the butcher, in a 

 new suit of flowered fustian, given him by the weavers of 

 this city, in hopes to bring into contempt the wearing of 

 foreign manufactures, so highly prejudicial to the trade 

 of this kingdom, which has already in a great measure 

 produced the desired eflfect." 



Reference to the same circumstance is made in 

 the Dublin Intelligence, 9 th June, 1731, and fol- 

 lowing number. Abhba, 



Portrait of Lord Nelson. — Having seen 

 Lord Nelson's name frequently mentioned of late 

 in " N. & Q.," it has occurred to me that I have 

 in my possession an original drawing of this hero, 

 done by Downman, in his peculiarly-delicate style, 

 date 1802, and the more interesting as having a 

 few lines in Italian, written by Lord Nelson in 

 pencil with his left hand. I beg to state that, if 

 any of his lordship's descendants would wish to 

 possess so valuable a memento, I shall be happy 

 to present it to them, much as I value it. It is a 

 profile, and little more than an outline, still a 

 faithful likeness. The sketch has been for so long 

 a time in an old album that I fear the written 

 lines are somewhat obscure from constant friction. 

 A communication, either through the medium of 

 tl»is publication or privately, shall be attended to, 

 if addressed to E. C. Gresford. 



Wrexham. 



Chaucer at King's Lynn. — In an old poem, 

 eniitlQA. Lennce Rediviva, or a Description ofKyng's 

 Lynn in Norfolk, &rc., the following lines occur : — 



" Lynn had the honour to present the world 

 With Geoffery Chaucer, Capgrave, and the curled 

 Pate Alanus de Lenna 



All famous in their time, nursed, Lynn, by thee." 



Who was the author of this poem ? And what 

 authority had he for giving Lynn the honour of 

 being Chaucer's birth-place ? Some of the poet's 

 family were in all probability natives of Norfolk : 

 at all events two persons at least who bore his 

 name have been citizens of Norwich, as appears 

 from documents quoted by Kirkpatrick. (J. 



Talbot Edwards. — At the chance of evoking 

 another " Ghost in the Tower," let me mention 

 the stout old yeoman of the Jewel House, who 

 rescued the crown from Colonel Blood, and was 

 grievously wounded in the struggle. Until some 

 twenty years ago, when the interior of the Tower 

 Chapel was remodelled, and its pews dislocated, 

 Jiis century and a half's sepulture among its 

 royal and noble occupants had been noted by a 

 ledger-stone, simply bearing his name and age, 

 and death-date : subsequently — I know not on 

 what authority — a London newspaper told us 

 that the said stone had been, Joseph-Hume-ically, 

 transferred to the common yard of the Fleet Pri- 

 son ; and, in the immediate approach to its Forica, 

 mortared down on the gangway of the gaol-birds 

 in Fleet Ditch. 



" To what base uses may we not turn, Horatio ! " 

 Will not some kind reader of " N. & Q." satisfy 

 us, that this shameful story is of penny-a-linear 

 extraction, and point out the present whereabout 

 of the ejected memorial ? Never, surely, did our 

 Saint Peter of the Tower hold communion with 

 the Diva Cloacina of Farringdon Within ! 



Obiter. — His Honour the Colonel escaped un- 

 scathed, and was pensioned with 5001. a year ; 

 while the plebeian exhibitor got a broken head 

 and a Treasury-warrant for 200Z., one half of 

 which never reached his pocket. Quere : Had 

 Charles the Second's left-handed policy aught to 

 do with a settled appropriation of the regal booty 

 to the necessities of the regal spendthrift ? Most 

 men have their hypothesis : this is mine. 



Old Mem, 



LuMisDEN AND Smith. — In a genealogy of the 

 family of Lumisden printed in the Analeda Scofica, 

 I find that Mr. Michael Lumisden, Advocate, who 

 died 1738, had by his second wife, a daughter of 

 Dundas of Arniston, a daughter who married her 

 cousin, Mr. Robert Smith of Browsterland, and 

 left issue. Can anyone tell what this issue was, and 

 if any descendants still remain ? Sigma-Theta. 



