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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2"'i S. VIII. Sept. 3. '50. 



Nugee. — 'In this lack-a-daisical time of the 

 year, when correspondents are not inclined to con- 

 tribute nor subscribers to read any abstruse 

 lucubrations, it may not be inappropriate to ask 

 whether the following 7iugce, which I found lately 

 in the common-place book of a friend, are rightly 

 attributed to the authors whose names are at- 

 tached to them. 

 By Lady Hamilton : — 



" Mon premier est un tyran ; mon second est im mon- 

 stre ; et mon tout ensemble est la misfere extreme." 



By Charles James Fox : — 



"Qaand on aime parfaitement le premier, on ne craint 

 point le second, et le tout ensemble est la felicite par- 

 faite." 



It would be an insult to your readers, male or 

 female, to give the word which is the solution of 

 both; and the amiable feeling that prompts the 

 latter seems to indicate that the author is rightly 

 named, especially when we read another which he 

 is said to have penned : — 



" My first does affliction denote, 



"Which my second is destin'd to feel ; 

 And my whole is the best antidote 

 That affliction to soften and heal." 



Perhaps some other correspondent can contri- 

 bute a few more nugce of the great Whig leader, 

 in whose elegance and taste all must delight, whe- 

 ther they concur or not in his politics. D. S. 



The late Duke of Wellington. — In the Man- 

 Chester Guardian of 10th August, 1859, the honour 

 of the Duke's ancestry in the maternal line is 

 claimed by Britannicus for Wales, his paternal 

 descent being admitted to belong to England, 

 though Ireland is undoubtedly the country of his 

 birth : — 



" By his mother's side he was old British or Welsh, 

 his mother being a daughter of the house of Trevor, of 

 Brynkinalt, Denbighshire (Lord Dungannon's residence), 

 where he spent some years of his boyhood, and where 

 may be seen the only battle-field on which the ' Iron 

 Duke' was ever vanquished, and that — pro pudor ! — 

 by a little Welsh girl not much older than himself, who 

 thrashed him well for cheating her brother at marbles, 

 and compelled him to disgorge his plunder; his brother, 

 the future Marquis of Wellesley, looking on and seeing 

 fair plaj' between the youthful heroine and hero. The 

 *Duke himself frequently told the anecdote with a dry 

 gusto, generally adding ' That was the only pounding 1 

 ever had, and I deserved it.' In after years he made in- 

 quiries for his victrix, who reaped from his generosity 

 substantial fruits of her victory. Picton, Combermere, 

 and Anglesey, were also of Welsh descent." 



This anecdote appears to be worth preserving. 



Artekus. 

 Dublin. 



■Minav €Lutviti. 



Society /or Assurance against Purgatory. — The 

 accompanying extract is taken from the current 



number of the Quarterly lievieiv (vol. cvi. p. 

 80.) : — 



" Na)', astounding fact, there is even a ' Society for 

 Assurance against Purgator}',' which, for three-pence per 

 week, undertakes to have the required number of masses 

 duly celebrated after the decease of the contributor." 



Can the Continent boast of a similar institu- 

 tion ? W. 



Bibliographical Que)-ies. — Can you oblige me 

 with the names of the authors of the following 

 publications ? — 



1. "An Account of the Transactions in the North of 

 Ireland, a.d. 1691," &c. 8vo. London, 1G92. 



2. " The True Impartial History and Wars of the 

 Kingdom of Ireland," &c. 18mo. 2nd ed. London, 1692. 

 ( ? my copy wanting the date). 



The letters " J. H." are affixed to the former, 

 and "J. S." to the latter. I may likewise ob- 

 serve, by way of a suggestion, that the letters "J. 

 H." are attached to " Coll. Hill's Letter to Mr. 

 Pottinger, Sovereign of Belfast, May, 1689," 

 which is printed in the Appendix (p. 75.) to 

 Charles Leslie's very scarce .47iszoer to [Abp. King's] 

 The State of the Protestants in Ireland (4to. Lon- 

 don, 1692). Lowndes, in his Manual, mentions 

 these two books by King and Leslie ; but speak- 

 ing of King's, he makes a strange mistake, which 

 doubtless Mr. Bohn will correct : " A valuable 

 work, highly praised by Burnet, NIcolson, and 

 others. Has been attributed to Charles Leslie." 



Abhba. 



Lord Fane : Count De Sallis. — In the Gentle- 

 mans Monthly Intelligencer for January, 17.35, 

 under the head of "marriages," is the follow- 

 ing:— 



" Mr. De Sallis, a native of Switzerland, to Miss J. 

 Fane, eldest daughter of the Lord Viscount Fane in the 

 Kingdom of Ireland." 



Who was the Lord Fane, and is the present 

 Count De Sallis descended from the above mar- 

 riage ? S. Bedmosd. 



Liverpool. 



Marriage Customs. — Can any of your readers 

 enlighten me on a custom pretty prevalent at 

 marriages in the neighbourhood where I reside ? 



When a young couple are starting on their 

 marriage trip, those left behind of the bridal party 

 rush to the door or to the windows of the house 

 and throw a lot of old shoes or boots after the 

 departing vehicle in which the newly married pair 

 are conveyed away. 



This custom, according to my observation, is 

 peculiar to the middle class ; but I have observed 

 another somewhat similar, which is universally 

 prevalent among the lower class at what is called 

 " penny weddings," that is, a wedding at which 

 every one of the invited company is expected to 

 bear a proportion of the expenses. I have ob- 



