2°dS. Vlll. July 16. '59.] 



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Carnage 13 thy daughter " {Thanksgiving Ode), for 

 which he was twitted by Byron, who adds in a 

 note, " This is perhaps as pretty a pedigree for 

 murder as ever was found out by Garter-King-at- 

 Arius : — what would have been said had any 

 free-spoken people discovered such a lineage ? " 

 (Doti Juati, canto viii. s. ix., which see.) 



The absurd tropes, metaphors, and comparisons 

 with which certain modern writers, copying an 

 eminent offender in this line, startle us, and set 

 our hairs on end, may be excused on the plea that 

 they sound well, if they signify nothing : but we 

 mu=it be excused if we decline to sanction what 

 we cannot understand, and refuse to adopt what 

 will not bear examination. Andrew Steinmktz, 



P.S. It is but fair to state that Wordsworth, in 

 his subsequent editions, suppressed the pedigree 

 of " Carnage " as above given. 



Mtifliti ta Minav akuttUi, 



Figures of King Henry VI. (S""* S. viii. 33.) — 

 Though I have not met with the figure of this 

 king painted on the wall of any church, I know 

 instances of his appearing on roodscreeus in 

 company with saints, though without any num- 

 bers round his head. At Gately, in Norfolk, 

 there is a painting of him on the south side of 

 the roodscreen, with the inscription Rex Hen- 

 ricus VI. Also at Ludham, in the same county, 

 he is painted on the north side of the roodscreen, 

 next to St. Edmund K. M., holding a sceptre and 

 globe. Though never canonised, he was much 

 venerated by our forefathers, and in some books 

 of Hours there are prayers in his honour. There 

 would have been no room for the sneer conveyed 

 in the Latin quotation, more worthy of Gibbon 

 than of your respectable correspondent G. W. W. 

 M., if he had considered the long and arduous 

 process of canonisation, and that the subject for 

 canonisation in this case was a king, as well as 

 the applicant. F. C. H. 



Herbert Knoioles (2'"» S. viii. 28.) — The fol- 

 lowing extract from a local guide-book (to ijtch- 

 mond, Yorkshire, and its vicinity) may afford 

 your correspondent H. E. Wilkinson the inform- 

 ation he seeks ; — 



" Herbert Knowles was a poor boy of the humblest 

 origin, without father or mother, yet with abilities suf- 

 ficient to excite the attention of strangers, who sub- 

 scribed 20Z. a year towards his education, upon condition 

 that his friends should contribute 30/. more. The boy 

 Avas sent to Kichmond school, Yorkshire (theu under the 

 able management of the late Eev. James Tate) prepara- 

 tory' to his proceeding as a sizar to St. John's College, 

 Cambridge ; but when he quitted the school, his friends 

 were unable to advance another sixpence on his account. 

 To help himself, Herbert Knowles wrote a poem, sent it 

 to Southey, with a history of his case, and asked permis- 

 sion to dedicate it to the Laureate. Southey, finding 



the poem ' brimful of power and promise,' made inquiries 

 of Herbert's ' kind and able instructor,' and received the 

 highest character of the youth. He then answered the 

 application of Knowles, entreated him to avoid present 

 publication, and promised to do something better than 

 receive his dedication. He subscribed at once 10/. per 

 annum towards the failing 30/., and procured similar sub- 

 scriptions from Mr. Kogers and Lord Spencer. Herbert 

 Knowles receiving the news of his good fortune, wrote to 

 his protector a letter remarkable for much more than the 

 gratitude which pervaded every line. He remembered 

 that Kirke White had gone to the University counte- 

 nanced and supported by patrons, and that to pay back 

 the debt he owed them, he wrought day and night, until 

 his delicate frame gave way. Knowles felt that he could 

 not make the same desperate efforts, and deemed it his 

 first duty to say so. 



" The poor youth promised to do Avhat he could, as- 

 sured his friends that he would not be idle, and that if he 

 could not reflect upon them any extraordinarj' credit, he 

 certainh' would do them no disgrace. Herbert Knowles 

 had taken an accurate measure of his strength and capa- 

 bilities, and soon gave proof that he spoke at the bidding 

 of no uncertain monitor within him. Two months after 

 his letter to Southey, he was laid in his grave. The fire 

 consumed the lamp even faster than the trembling lad 

 suspected." 



Knowles died February 17th, 1817, aged nine- 

 teen years. The " lines in Richmond Church- 

 yard, Yorkshire," were written October 7th, 1816. 

 I never heard of any other poems of his that were 

 published. J. F. W. 



Wife of Archbishop PalHser (2""> S. v. 31.) — 

 The Archbishop, who was son of John Palliser, 

 was born in Yorkshire in 1645, and educated at 

 Northallerton. He entered Trhi. Coll. Dublin, 

 13th Jan. 166a, He'married, first (licence 20th 

 Feb. 168^) Elizabeth, second daughter of William 

 Hoey, of Dunganstown, co. Wicklow, Esq. She 

 died 20th Sept, 1683, and was buried the follow- 

 ing day at St. Werburgh's, Dublin. The Arch- 

 bishop married, secondly, Mary, third daughter 

 and eventually co-heir of Jonah Wheeler, of 

 Greenane, Queen's Co., Esq. She was widow of 

 William, son of Valentine Greatrakes of Affane, 

 CO. Waterford, Esq., and died in June, 1735. 

 Their son William Palliser, Esq., of Ratbfarn- 

 ham, was born in 1695, entered Trin. Coll. Dublin, 

 1st July, 1709 (Ti'ot 1708, for like the college 

 clock, the college books were, and for aught I 

 know are, behind the age, the " annus academi- 

 cus " commencing on the 9th July in each year), 

 and married (licence 27th May, 1721), Jane, 

 eldest daughter and co-heir of Lieut.-Colonel 

 Mathew Pennefather, Accountant-General of Ire- 

 land, but had no issue. His wife died 7th April, 

 1762, and he himself 4th Oct. 1768. Y. S. M. 



The Gulf-Stream and Climate of England (2"'» 

 S. viii. 12.) — The great authority at present on 

 the Gulf-Stream is Mr. Maury, who in his work 

 on the Physical Geography of the Sea, ascribes 

 the mild climate of England to the Gulf Stream. 

 That theory was ably challenged this year by Dr. 



