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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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" Urban" as a Christian Name. — This has been 

 a family name amongst the Vigers of the co. of 

 Carlow for about 250 years, but I am not able to 

 mention its origin, or any other family in which 

 it has been borne ? Can any of your correspond- 

 ents assist me? Y. S. M. 



" Night, a Poem." — Can any reader tell me the 

 niime of the author of Night, a poem, 8vo. Glas- 

 gow, 1811 ? The book was cut up in the Monthly 

 Review, and the critics received back some of their 

 abuse in a second work by the author, entitled 

 Peter Faultless, and other Poems, 8vo. Edinburgh, 

 1820. J. 0. 



Randolph FitZ'Eustace. — Who is the author of 

 7'he Brides of Florence, a play in five acts, illus- 

 trative of the manners of the Middle Ages, by 

 Randolph Fitz -Eustace: published by Hurst, 

 Robinson & Co., London, and A. Constable & Co., 

 Edinburgh, 8vo., 1824 ? The volume is dedicated 

 to Lieut.-General and Mrs. Mclntyre. Sigma. 



Mrs, Jane Marshall. — Can any of your readers 

 give me any account of Mrs. Jane Marshall [Mari- 

 shall ?], authoress of Sir Harry Gayglove, a 

 comedy, 8vo. (Edinb. ?), 1772? She is also the 

 authoress of Clarinda Cathcart and Alicia Mon- 

 tague. The two works last mentioned I suppose 

 are novels. Sigma. 



Puhlishing lefore the Invention of Printing. — 

 How did authors set about publishing their writ- 

 ings before the invention of printing ? Where 

 can any detailed answer to this question be found, 

 or any information on its subject ? W. P. P. 



Heraldic Query, — Arms in an old carved 

 Jacobean mantelpiece at Winchester. Quarterly, 

 1st and 4th, a cross bottonnee ; 2nd, a fret ; 3rd, 

 two bars. Crest. Over a squire's helmet, a 

 goat's* head, rising from a ducal coronet. Motto. 

 A foy et e B. B. Woodward. 



Ephraim Pratt. — In Kirby's Wonderful Mu- 

 seum, vol. v., is given a long list of persons who 

 have been remarkable for longevity. Amongst 

 the number appears 



'' Ephraim Pratt, born in 1687, and living in Philadelphia 

 in 1802, at the age of 115 ; he married in his •26th year, 

 had six sons and daughters, and 1500 descendants in 

 North America. He had never been ill, never taken 

 physic or been bled ; his intellectual faculties and his 

 memory were still unimpaired." 



If this account be true, Mr. Pratt's progeny 

 far exceeded Lady Temple's (1" S. ix.468.). I 

 am anxious to know something more of his his- 

 tory, particularly the place of his birth, and whe- 

 ther he was of the family of Pratt of Shotswell, 



* I am not cnnJideM that the head is that of a goat ; 

 but it is more like it than any other heraldic beast of my 

 acquaintance. 



Warwickshire, and Edgcott, Northamptonshire. 

 He may have been a son of Ephraim Pratt who 

 died in 1709, aged seventy- two, and whose tomb- 

 stone is in Edgcott churchyard. Y. S. M. 



Thelusson the Banker at Paris. — An ancestor of 

 mine, an Englishman, resided for upwards of forty 

 years in Paris, and, at the age of eighty-one, died 

 there in the midst of the French Revolution, 1793. 

 He was an ecclesiastic of the Roman church, and, 

 therefore, could have no legal descendant except 

 the child of his bi'other, the only member of the 

 family who married. That child, my grandmother, 

 obtained possession after her uncle's death of some 

 property in the Bank of England, left by the 

 abbe's sister to him. So little intercourse was 

 there between the family, that, although he sur- 

 vived his sister for three years, he died uncon- 

 scious of this legacy, which was a considerable 

 one. The change of religion had estranged the 

 abbe from his heretic brother and child, and the 

 latter only heard of her uncle's death by chance 

 some years after it occurred. 



I find it stated that Peter Thelusson, by his 

 will, dated 1796, purposely tied up his property for 

 sixty years to give the unfortunate descendants 

 of his customers an opportunity of claiming their 

 own. It is most probable that the abbe, a fellow- 

 countryman, trusted his property to Thelusson's 

 care, for none can be traced in any of the French 

 funds. The only record of him was the " Acte 

 du Dec^s," still at St. Cloud, in which it is written 

 that " Citoyen Luce Hooke, natif d'Ireland," was 

 found dead, " gitant sur un lit," by the authorities 

 called in on the occasion ; and there is no indica- 

 tion of the place in which he died, except the 

 general words " dans ce lieu." 



I have heard it stated that Thelusson ordered 

 that his books should be open to the inspection of 

 all, but I have never been able to discover where 

 they were deposited. Perhaps some of your readers 

 can inform me ? The time has now elapsed to 

 make or substantiate a claim to any of his pro- 

 perty, and the matter has settled down into a 

 literary curiosity. N. H. R. 



Robert Emmetfs Rebellion in 1803. — It will be 

 recollected that on Saturday, 23rd July, 1803, an 

 infuriated mob of assassins, in Dublin, murdered 

 Viscount Kilwarden, then Lord Chief Justice of 

 the King's Bench in Ireland ; and also Col. Lyde 

 Browne of the 21st Foot. At the same time an 

 officer, Cornet Henry Robert Cole, of the 12th Light 

 Dragoons, was shot at and severely wounded, but 

 escaped with life. These offences were committed 

 during the administration of the Earl of Hard- 

 wicke. Permit me, through the medium of " N". 

 & Q.," to inquire if this Col. Lyde Browne were 

 of the family of one of the most distinguished 

 vii'tuosi of this country, which claim will be indi- 

 cated by reference to the following publication : 



