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^OTES AND QUERIES. 



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means of guessing at this from the quantity al- 

 lowed as a ratio to servants or workmen, or from 

 the allusions in dramatic and other writers to its 

 potency ? These questions are put on the suppo- 

 sition that it is vain to ask for any standard, or 

 recipe, or formula (like that for laudanum in a 

 pharmacopoeia) as recognised by brewers to be 

 binding upon them. Such a recipe, though not 

 absolutely authoritative, would outweigh infer- 

 ential evidence ; but as it is not likely to exist, 

 your readers of all classes may find room for their 

 learning in contributing to answer the query pro- 

 posed. Ubsa Major. 



Thomasoiis " Memories." — In a recently pub- 

 lished little poem, by Mr. G. T. Thomason, en- 

 titled Memories (which, by the way, combines 

 much of the rustic simplicity of Bloomfield with 

 the finished elegiac diction of Gray) occurs the 

 following stanza in reference to a practice con- 

 nected with sheep-shearing feasts : — 



" Soon as the skies reflect the day's last beam, 

 And stars illuminate the worlds above. 

 Young maidens throw bright flow'rs into the stream, 

 Propitiate offerings to the god of Love." 



To what provincial custom does the poet al- 

 lude ? /3. 



Innismurrdy, anciently Innismuiredhy, is an 

 island in the Western Ocean, about five miles 

 west from the most northern part of the county 

 of Sligo, and about six miles west (a little south) 

 of Donegal Bay. 



This island is said to be occupied by persons 

 all related to each other, and all of one name, in 

 1830 about eighty-seven in number, who submit 

 their disputes to the oldest man, who is the head 

 always according to age. 



It belongs to Lord Palmerston, and no English 

 or Irish landlord besides can boast of such a 

 primitive possession and tenantry. 



Here are three places of burial ; one for 

 drowned persons and unbaptized children, a se- 

 cond for males, the third for females. 



Can any of your readers help me to any early 

 ecclesiastical account of this place ? J. W. 



Winkley Family. — A tradition exists in the 

 Lincolnshire branch of this family to the effect, 

 that an ancestor, who narrowly escaped with his 

 life, fled from Lancashire during some civil or re- 

 ligious commotion, and took refuge in Lincoln- 

 shire. The family have been traced as residing 

 in Lincolnshire as far back as the year 1541, viz. 

 at Irby-in-the-Marsh. In 1577 they were at 

 Frieston and |Whaplode, and after that they ap- 

 pear to have been scattered over several parishes 

 in the Wapentake of EUoe. The Winkleys of 

 Lancashire derived their name from an estate or 

 hamlet still so called in the township* of Aighton 

 in the parish of Mitton, which the elder branch 



possessed from the time of Edw. I. till within 

 about 200 years ago. 



A desire exists to trace the connexion between 

 the two' families by something more than mere 

 tradition, and therefore should any of the readers 

 of " N. & Q." be in a position to afford any infor- 

 mation which might tend to further this object, 

 they will perhaps kindly supply it. 



It has been suggested that the occasion of this 

 younger branch of the family's removal into Lin- 

 colnshire might have been the Pilgrimage of 

 Grace, and perhaps some of your readers might 

 be able to state whether any members of other 

 families in Lancashire or the northern counties 

 were dispersed and settled in Lincolnshire at that 

 period. W. 



Dr. Donne's Seal. — In my annotated copy of 

 The Life of George Herbert, I have made this 

 note on p. 33., last line, " was by the Doctor 

 [Donne] given to him " : — 



" One of these seals, traditionally the very one given 

 to George Herbert, was existing in 1807, when a repre- 

 sentation of it was engraved in the Gentleman's 3Iagazine 

 for April, 1807, p. 313., which was repeated in the volume 

 for 1835," Dec. p. 623. 



Who is the fortunate possessor of this seal at 

 the present time ? * B. B. 



The Skeletons at Cuma with Wax Heads. — 

 One of our modern archaeological publications 

 seems still inclined to think these were bodies of 

 martyrs, and to doubt whether the assertion 

 (Archaologia, vol.xxxvii. 323.) that chemical ana- 

 lysis proved the substance to be ink which was 

 supposed to be blood, be correct. Would Mb. 

 AsHriTBi, kindly refer to his authority for this 

 statement, and, if he can, give the analysis of the 

 chemists. M. N. S. 



An7ie Pole. — Can any of your correspondents 

 give me any information respecting, Anne Pole, 

 youngest daughter of Sir Geffrey Pole, and niece 

 of Cardinal Pole, who was the second wife of 

 Thomas Hildersham of Stretchworth, Cambridge- 

 shire, and mother of Arthur Hildersham, vicar of 

 Ashby-de-la-Zouche, a well-known nonconformist 

 minister, whose life is in Clarke's Martyrology f 

 The date of her birth, death, first and second (?) 

 marriage, or births of her other (?) children, and 

 place of burial are required. Alex. J. Ellis. 



RuhnkeiUs " Dictata." — I happened lately to 

 discover a MS. of Ruhnken's Dictata in Teren- 

 tium. It is a beautifully written quarto, and 

 contains matter not to be found in L. Schoper's 

 edition of the Dictata (Bonn, 1825), as you will 



[* The seal given to Izaak Walton is in the possession 

 of H. A. Mereweather, Esq., Q. C, of Bowden Hill : 

 another was in the possession of the late Dr. Bliss of 

 Oxford.— Ed.] 



