2»<i S. VIII. JirtY 16. '69.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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O'Mara Deane (if alive now, the Rev. B. O'M. 

 Deane), who was connected with the literary 

 department of a daily paper in Dublin, used to 

 show me and his friends a snuff-box that belonged 

 to the first Emperor Napoleon. Mr. Deane had 

 the box left him by his uncle, the late Barry 

 O'Mara, who was surgeon to the emperor at 

 Saint Helena ; the box having been given to that 

 gentleman (along with many other things) by the 

 emperor. It was a silver box of rather more 

 than an ordinary sized snuff-box, with a crown 

 and the letter " N " on the lid, and was the last 

 box used by the emperor. It will be remem- 

 bered that Surgeon O'Mara was the author of a 

 work called A Voice from Saint Helena. He 

 made special bequest of this box to his nephew, 

 who after some time relinquished literary pur- 

 suits and entered the Church. He married a 

 Swiss lady, and went to reside in Switzerland, 

 but I have not heard of him for a dozen years or 

 more. Would it not be interesting to "note" 

 things of this description, so as to prove their 

 identity, beyond dispute, in time to come ? 



S. Kedmond. 

 Liverpool. 



Dutch Gun-founts for a King of England in 

 1413. — ;The Archives of the Realm at the Hague 

 contain, amongst other interesting documents, the 

 Grafelijke Rekeninge (^Accounts regarding the 

 County) of August 23, 1413—1414. In these 

 Accounts we read under the head Bodeloonen 

 {Messenger's Fees), p. 99. : — 



" Item, the 26th day in augusto 1413, sent with letters 

 to Utrecht to Gerrit van Vruethen, the gunmaster (busse- 

 meester), ordering him to betake himself without delay 

 to the Hague, as the King of England had directed his 

 messenger to that place, commanding him to found, with 

 this Gerrit af Oresanty, all kinds of blunderbusses {don- 

 rebussen) for the King's behoof." — See Tijdschrift voor 

 Geschiedenis, Oudheden en Slatistiek van Utrecht (Utrecht, 

 N. van der Monde, 1839), vol. v. Part II. p. 433. 



J. H. VAN Lennep. 

 Zeyst, June 4. 1859. 



Biding - coat : '■^ Redingote." — I find in the fa- 

 mous Journal de Burbier, the time fixed when the 

 article and the word "Redingote" were intro- 

 duced into France. Barbier is speaking of the 

 Due de Gesvres. This nobleman had endeavoured 

 to enlighten the young King (Louis XV.) on the 

 misery into which the French people were rapidly 

 sinking. The minister, the Due de Bourbon, 

 angry at this interference, sent to M. de Gesvres 

 (without the knowledge of the King) a lettre de 

 cachet, ordering him into exile. The banished 

 Duke pretended to obey : — 



" But," sa3-3 Barbier, " he put on a Redingote (a costume 

 which comes to us from the English, and which is now 

 commonly worn here, in cold or rainy weather, and par- 

 ticularly for riding in on horseback). He ascended to 

 the King's chamber, to take leave ; threw himself at the 

 King's feet, and expressed his great sorrow at having 



given his Majesty offence. . . . The King, who did not 

 expect to see him at court in such a dress, and astonished 

 too at the speech, broke out into a mad fit of laughter 

 made fun of the Duke, and then bade him go and dress 

 properly, and return to court." 



The date of this entry in Barbier's remarkable 

 Journal is September, 1725. J. Doean. 



Eliot Warhurton. — The real name, as I am 

 informed, of this celebrated and lamented author 

 was Bartholomew Elliott Warburton. He dropped 

 the first name, and altered the second. Y. S. M. 



«aucrtcjS. 



ELIZABETHAN POEMS IN SIGN COLLEGE. 



I want to know who was the author of some 

 poems of Queen Elizabeth's time, of which there 

 is a contemporary MS. copy in the Sion Colleo'e 

 Library. The volume contains — 



1. Venus and Anchises. 



" Thissil poore ladd whose muse yet scarcely fledged, 

 Soft!}', for feare, did learn to sing and pipe, 

 And sitting low under some court hedge. 

 With chirping noyse gauue tune his noates unripe, 

 Sighing those sighs which sore his hart did gripe, 

 Where lovelie Came doeth lose his erring mayd, 

 While with his barkes the wanton waters playe, 

 Which still do stay behind, yet still do slippe awaye," 

 &c. 



2. Epithalamium. 



" Hark gentle shephearde that on Norwiche plaines 

 In daintie verses sing your loves desiring," &c, 



3. Non invisa cano. 



" Dumbe swannes not chattering pyes do lovers prove, 

 They love indeed who dare not say they love," &c. 



4. Fishing Eclogues. 



5. Thelgon and Chromis. 



" Th. Chromis, my joye, why drop thy rajmie ej'es. 

 And sullen clouds flagge on thy leaden browe," 

 &c. 



6. Thomasin and Thersill. 



7. Algon, Daphnis and Nicaea. 



J. C. J. 



Meaning of " Cadewoldes." — Toll was taken, 

 temp. Edward I., for cadewoldes brought over 

 London Bridge. I am somewhat inclined to think 

 that a kind of prepared wool is meant : perhaps 

 some of your correspondents would kindly favour 

 me with their opinion on the subject. 



Henry Thomas Riley. 



" Harpoys et Fyssheponde." — Custom was levied 

 at Billingsgate, temp. Henry III, upon certain 

 articles so called. It seems to me not improbable 

 that the fish-hooks and nets with which a fishing- 

 vessel was equipped are meant ; but as this sola- 



