2»'» S. VIII. July 30. '59.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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St. Patrick's Ridges. — Where may I find full 



and satisfactory information respecting St. Pa- 

 trick's ridges ? Abhba. 



p Encaustic Paintings at Pompeii. — These decora- 

 tions have been so designated, and • yet on ex- 

 amination they appear to have been executed in 

 tempera. There is a sort of glaze on them, which 

 is not unlike encaustic, but does not penetrate 

 far enough into the plaster. On excavating the 

 colour-shops, each was found to contain a very 

 large quantity of what we commonly call resin. 

 At the time of my sojourn there it was suggested 

 that a sort of varnish might have been made of 

 oils and resins ; applied to the painting with a 

 brush ; and, when dry, that irons might have 

 been passed over them sufficiently hot to melt 

 the resin, and so form a semi-encaustic glaze.* 

 In true encaustic painting the colours are mixed 

 with wax and oil, and hot irons passed over the 

 painting when executed, so as to melt the wax, 

 and cause the colours to sink into the plaster, in 

 a manner analogous to fresco vero. Experi- 

 ments were undertaken at the time, but I have 

 not heard the result. Can any of your readers 

 afford information on this curious subject ? A. A. 

 Poets' Corner. 



" The Parliament of Pimlico " and " The Olio." 

 — Two political periodicals, printed in Dublin 

 shortly before the Union of Great Britain and 

 Ireland, and respectively entitled Proceedings and 

 Debates of the Parliament of Pimlico, in the Last 

 Session of the Eighteenth Century^ and The Olio ; 

 or, Anythingarian Miscellany, attracted a very 

 considerable shai'e of public attention. They 

 were published by Vincent Dowling, the latter 

 being a continuation of the former ; and the de- 

 bates of the Irish Parliament were paraphrased 

 by him with much ability, and contain numerous 

 local allusions applied with admirable wit and 

 propriety. Dowling, who finally, after many vi- 

 cissitudes, became connected with The Times 

 newspaper. Issued a large number of ballads and 

 jeux d'esprit against the proposed union with 

 Great Britain. 



For the sake of those who may wish to be in- 

 formed respecting these clever publications, I 

 have made a Note, referring for some interest- 

 ing particulars to Gilbert's History of the City 

 of Dublin, vol. iii. pp. 34—36, Abhba. 



Aborough or Borough Family. — Information is 

 requested relative to the family of Aborough or 

 Borough, supposed originally to have been De 

 Burgh, resident at Calais during the reign of Hen. 

 VIII. Are any Calais papers known to exist be- 

 side the large collection of letters of the Lords 

 Lisle and Cobham, the last governors of that 

 colony, the State Papers, and The Chronicle of 

 Calais, by the Camden Society ? Is anything 



known of the papers of Richard Turpyn, who was 

 "pursuyvant of armes in Caleys at the losse thereof,, 

 and there dwelled and inhabyted ? " Camsian. 



Gilbert Burnet, M.A Was the Rev, Gilbert 



Burnet, Vicar of Coggeshall in Essex, and minister 

 of St. James's, Clerkenwell, 1743 — 46, in any way 

 related to Bishop Burnet ? Watt, in the Biblio- 

 theca Britannica, erroneously states that he was 

 " the bishop's second son," and confounds the 

 literary productions of Gilbert Burnet, vicar of 

 Coggeshall, with those of Gilbert Burnet, M.A., 

 second son of the Bishop of Salisbury, chaplain to 

 King George I., and rector of East Barnet, who 

 died a bachelor in 1726, and was buried in the 

 chancel of the parish * cliurch of Ea«t Barnet, 

 (^Burnet Papers, Addit. MS. 11,404. f. 120.) 



His contemporary, the vicar of Coggeshall, sur- 

 vived him many years, but died suddenly of 

 apoplexy at Clerkenwell, Jan. 28, 1745-6, aged 

 forty-eight, leaving two young children orphans, 

 and almost unprovided for. Two volumes of 

 Practical Sermons by the Rev. Gilbert Burnet, 

 M.A., 8vo. 1747, were published by subscription 

 for their benefit. W. J. Pinks. 



Othello by Hauff. — Has Othello by Hauff been 

 translated from the German into English ? and 

 is the right of translation reserved to the author's 

 executors or others ? Q. 



Ralph Rokeby, of Rokeby, co. York, married 



, daughter and heiress of Danby ofYaf- 



forth, near North AUerton, Can any of your cor- 

 respondents give their names? From him is the 

 house of Skyers, of a fourth brother. Who is the 

 present representative of the Rokeby family ? 



C. J. D. iNGIiEDEW. 



Mlnar Outvies tnftfi ^n^toeri. 



Pandy. — This was the name given to the rebel 

 Sepoys during the late mutiny. Whence is it 

 derived? It can scarcely be from Pandya, be- 

 cause these principalities are in the south of India, 

 and the mutinies took place in the north. A. A. 



Poets' Corner. 



[The name is derived from one Mungal Pandr, aSepoy 

 in the 34th native infantry, who at the time of the out- 

 break was stationed at Barrackp'ore. On the 29th March, 

 1857, Pandy, roused to a state of excitement by the use 

 of intoxicating drugs, armed himself with a sword and a 

 loaded musket, traversed the lines, and called upon his 

 comrades to rise. Lieutenant Baugh, hearing of this 

 man's conduct, rode hastilj' to the h'nes. Mungal Pandy 

 fired, missed the officer, but struck the horse. _ The lieu- 

 tenant, in self-defence, fired his pistol, but missed aim ; 

 whereupon the sepoy attacked him sword in hand. The 

 dark feature in this transaction was that many hundred 

 men in the regiment looked on quietly without offering 

 to protect the lieutenant from his assailant. With much 

 difficultj', Pandy was eventually secured by Major- 

 general Hearsey, and executed on the 8th of April. See 



