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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°d S. VIII. Aug. 20. '59. 



her friend, Charles White, Esq., F.R.S., the emi- 

 nent surgeon, along with her body, which was 

 embalmed, and kept by him, but never buried. 

 The condition of this singular devise being ful- 

 filled, Mr, White enjoyed the property, which 

 descended to his son, and the original remainder- 

 men dying issueless, this female benefactor of the 

 White family was quietly buried in the Museum 

 of her native town. Mr. De Quincey, when a boy 

 at Manchester School at the beginning of the 

 century, became acquainted with the mummy, 

 and in one of his works mentions its removal from 

 the case, and the body of a notorious highwayman 

 being substituted ! I wish to ask what portion of 

 truth exists in the above traditional statement, 

 and what are the precise facts ? F. R. R. 



Hypatia and St. Catharine. — It has been often 

 stated that Hypatia, the celebrated Alexandrian 

 Neo-Platonist, whose murder is so foul a blot on 

 the name of St. Cyril, is the origin of the myth of 

 St. Catharine of Alexandria : that in fact the 

 memory of the beauty, the learning, and the 

 wrongs of the murdered philosopher clung to the 

 minds of the people, and that as they became 

 Christisn the legend of St. Catharine shaped 

 itself. I am anxious to know what grounds there 

 are for this statement. K. P. D. E. 



O whar got ye that auld crooked penny. — Can 

 any admirer of the songs of Scotland afford any 

 information regarding the following ballad, which 

 I found in MS. amongst some old family papers, 

 and which, I believe, does not exist in any pub- 

 lished collection ? — 

 " ! whar got ye that auld crooked penny ? 



For ane o' bricht goud wad ye nifFer wi me ? 



Richt fou are baith ends o' my green silken wallet. 



And high are my wa's, ower in Bonny Dundee. 



" ! gin I saw the dear laddie that had it, 

 Wha, when we were bairnies twa, geid it to me, 

 For a' the bricht goud in j'our green silken wallet, 

 I never wad niffer my crooked bawbee. 



" 1 whar got ye that auld worsted plaidie ? 

 A mantle o' satin is fitter for ye. 

 I'll dead ye in satin, and mak j'e a lad\% 

 Gin ye'd gang wi' me to Bonnie Dundee. 



" Ye may dead me in satin and mak me a lady 

 And tak me ower heartless to Bonny Dundee, 

 But my heart neither satin nor goud can procure ye, 

 I sell't it lang syne for this crooked bawbee." 



Yemen, 

 Aden, 10th July, 1859. 



Buchanan Pedigree. — Geo. Buchanan, the his- 

 torian and poet, had five brothers and three sisters 

 (JBiograph. Brit., in nomen.) Were these sisters 

 married ? and to whom ? And are there any of 

 their descendants known ? James Graves. 



Kilkenny. 



A Bear Hunt on the Thames. — In King Ed- 

 ward VI.'s journal, printed in Burnet's History 



of the Reformation, book il. vol. ii. p. 14., it is re- 

 corded by that youthful monarch that, on the 

 29th of May, 1549, the French ambassadors after 

 they had supped with the Duke of Somerset "went 

 into the Thames and saw both the bear hunted in 

 the river, and also wild- fire cast out of the boats, 

 and many pretty conceits." How was this appa- 

 rently dangerous sport managed ? Are there any 

 other instances on record of bear hunts upon the 

 Thames ? W. J. Pinks. 



Thomas Talbot. — A well-carved oak press in 

 my possession has on one of its panels the fol- 

 lowing : — . 



« THOMAS * 



TALBOTT, 



E . T . 1636." 



I shall be obliged to any of your correspon- 

 dents who can inform me who this Thomas Tal- 

 bott was ? and what is intended by the letters 

 E . T . ? R. W. 



Leominster. 



Ocean Cable Telegraphs. — Could any of your 

 correspondents furnish me with name, date of lay- 

 ing, length, and cost of any of the ocean cable 

 telegraphs ? J. W, G, G. 



Sir Charles Bawdin. — Could you give me any 

 information respecting Sir Chas. Bawdin, whose 

 death forms the subject of a ballad by the boy- 

 poet Chatterton ? And which is the best edition 

 of his works ? H. G. V n. 



[The person celebrated under the name of Sir Charles 

 Bawdin, was probably Sir Baldewj'n Fulford, Knt., a 

 zealous Lancastrian, who was executed at Bristol in 

 the latter end of 1461, 1st Edward IV. He was attainted, 

 with many others, in the general act of attainder, 1 Edw. 

 IV., but he seems to have been executed under a special 

 commission for the trial of treasons, &c., within the town 

 of Bristol. — See The Worlis of Thomas CTiatterton, 3 vols. 

 8vo,, 1803, edited by Dr. Robert South ey, with Life by 

 Dr. G. Gregory, which is considered the best edition of 

 this poet's works. 3 



Admiral Haddock. — In a letter of West to 

 Horace Walpole, dated "Temple, Dec. 31st, 1739," 

 .occurs this passage : — 



" Handel has had a concerto this winter. No Opera, 

 no nothing. All for war and Admiral Haddock." 



Can your correspondents favour me with any 

 particulars as to the family or doings of the said 

 " Admiral Haddock ? " J. N. H. 



[Admiral Nicholas Haddock was a worthy descendant 

 of an ancient Essex family residing at Leigh in that 

 county. He was the third and youngest son of Sir 

 Richard Haddock, Knt., Comptroller of the Navy, and 

 for some time joint-admiral of the fleet. On the 6th of 

 April, 1707, Nicholas being then little more than twenty 

 years old, was appointed Captain of Ludlow Castle. He 

 distinguished himself veiy conspicuously in the well- 



