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perty she died possessed of, it may have been 

 necessary for her nearest relation to obtain ad- 

 ministration. These, however, are but suggestions. 

 I desire only to direct attention to the fact. 



E. A. P. 



Portrait of Archbishop King. — I have an old 

 oval half-length portrait of a prelate, well painted, 

 I and in good preservation : on the back of which 

 is a printed label, stating it is the portrait of Arch- 

 bishop King, by Bindon. Some one has likewise 

 written the date " 1698." It bears a strong re- 

 semblance to other portraits of the archbishop, 

 but represents him at an earlier period of his life. 

 Can you inform me whether there is any engrav- 

 ing of such a portrait by Bindon ? and when did 

 Bindon flourish ? Abhba. 



Provincial Words: " Shim" —When I was a 

 boy I remember, in a part of Gloucestershire, the 

 word shim, in vulgar talk, used in the sense of 

 like, or seemeth ; and was told of the posy in a 

 ring, in which it occurred thus — " shim two 

 lovers." Perhaps Mr. Bots, who replied to my 

 last Query, will kindly say whether this word has 

 a parent, and its descent can be traced home ? 



P. P. Q. 



Last Wolf in Scotland. — In Mr. Donovan's 

 sale at the London Museum in April, 1818, there 

 is the following entry in the Catalogue : — 



" Lot 832. Wolf, — a noble animal in a large glass case. 

 The last wolf killed in Scotland, by Sir C. Cameron." 



Could any one inform me what became of this 

 " lot ? " Geoege Llotd. 



Bishop Murphy s Irish MSS. — The very large 

 ■ and miscellaneous library of the late Dr. Murphy, 

 Roman Catholic Bishop of Cork, was sold in Lon- 

 don in 1847 and 1848, by Messrs. Sotheby & Co. ; 

 but in the Sale Catalogue (which consists of four 

 parts) I do not find any mention of his voluminous 

 MSS. relative to Ireland. Were they sold ? or 

 did he bequeath them to a public institution? 

 I remember seeing his literary possessions in his 

 house in Cork several years since, when he pointed 

 out in particular his collection of MSS. They 

 were, I think, transcripts of old documents ; and 

 may not, perhaps, in a pecuniary point of view, 

 have been of very great value. Abhba. 



Dr. Maginn and Mr. Harrison Ainsworth. — 

 Dr. Shelton Mackenzie, in hfs Life of Dr. Maginn 

 prefixed to the American edition of his works in 

 five vols. 12rao., says " the best of the flash songs, 

 and nearly the whole of Turpin's Ride to York in 

 Mr. Ainsworth's Rookwood, were actually written 

 by Maginn," p. 109., 1857, 12mo. Assuming this 

 statement to be correct, it is singular that no ac- 

 knowledgment shoula ever have been made to 

 Dr. Maginn in the subsequent editions of Book- 

 tvood, and that Mr. Ainsworth should have in- 



cluded the flash songs in his collected " Ballads," 

 printed since Dr. Maginn's death. The point is 

 of some consequence, as the Ride to York forms 

 the corner-stone of Mr. Ainsworth's reputation, 

 and gave him his popularity with the public, and 

 the flash songs are decidedly the cleverest of the 

 poetical performances which go under his name. 



If Dr. Mackenzie's statement is incorrect, I shall 

 be glad to see it contradicted from authority. 



Philo-Turpin. 



J. Anderson. — Who was Anderson, the author 

 of the learned Diplomata Scotia, the son of? I 

 should like to know his father's and mother's names, 

 and the names of his children, if he left any. Has 

 any life of him been published, and if not, where 

 can I find information respecting him ? * 2. 0. 



Journal of the First Earl of Bellomont. — This 

 nobleman, whilst Governor of New York and 

 Massachusetts, kept a journal in which he re- 

 corded any information he received, and whatever 

 matter of interest transpired in the course of his 

 administration. As that MS. may be in the pos- 

 session of some of the Coote family, this Note is 

 made in the hope that attention may be directed 

 to the subject, and the journal published if ex- 

 tant. E. B. O'Callaghan. 



Albany, N. Y. 



Capt. Cobb and Lieut.- Col. Fear on. — I am in 

 want of any information with regard to Captain 

 Henry Cobb, who was Captain of the "Kent" 

 East Indiaman when she was destroyed by fire on 

 March 1, 1825, and also with regard to Lieut.' 

 Col. Fearon, C. B., who was then in command of 

 a portion of the 31st foot, on their outward pas- 

 sage, both of whom so signally distinguished 

 themselves by their remarkable courage and pre- 

 sence of mind on that occasion. K. S. C. 



Ballad on Sir John Eland, of Eland, co. York. 

 — Can any of your correspondents give me any 

 information as to the family of Sir Hugh Quamby, 

 of Quamby, co. York, and his son, John de Lock- 

 wood, of Lockwood, Esq., and — Lacy, who 

 figure in the above ballad, temp. Edw. III. 



Being engaged in collecting the " Ballads and 

 Songs of Yorkshire," with the intention of pub- 

 lishing a volume under that title, any inedited 

 manuscript, &c., relating in any way to the work, 

 will be thankfully received. C. J. D. Ingledew. 



Beer and its Strength. — I cannot satisfactorily 

 dispose of what was the strength of the strong 

 ale or beer drunk in England during the first ten 

 or twenty years of the last century. ^ Are there 

 any data for comparing its strength with that of 

 wine, brandy, or other intoxicating liquors ? or 



[♦ See " N. & Q." 1'* S. viii. 326.] 



