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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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in the second, libera animam meam (Ps. cxvi. 4., 

 cxx. 2.), and its equivalent e7-ipe animam meam 

 (Ps. vi. 4., xvii. 13.) are addressed to Jehovah, 

 and the sense has reference to the soul or indi- 

 vidual, and not to his opinions or thoujihts deli- 

 vered or enunciated. So Aufjustin (^Civit. Dei, 

 X. 32.), whose latinity is generally approved, — 



"Haec est religio, quae universalem continet viam 

 animce liberandcB, quoniam nulla nisi in hac liberari 

 potest." 



The phrase as used by Mr. Baron Alderson, 

 although common enough, appears to be merely 

 schoolboy's Latin for " I have delivered my opi- 

 nion ;" but I shall be glad to know if there be 

 any authority, classical or otherwise, for it ? 



T, J. BUCKTON. ■ 



Lichfield. 



Chambers for the Duke of Maniun's Dwarfs. — 

 There are in the ducal palace at Mantua a few 

 very small apartments, perhaps six or seven, lead- 

 ing one into another. They are not, I should 

 think, six feet high, and may be alaout eight 

 square. They are now bare whitewashed rooms, 

 with no doors or furniture, though in one, called 

 the kitchen, is a raised platform with steps. You 

 ascend to these rooms by one or two proportion- 

 ately diminutive flights of steps. Murray's Hand- 

 book gives no information about them ; but the 

 young man who shows the building says they were 

 built by some Duke of Mantua for his dwarfs. 

 Can anyone give me any information on the sub- 

 ject ? Perhaps some of your correspondents may 

 have met with similar apartments elsewhere. S. 



Scotch Genealogies. — Before the commence- 

 ment of the present century it was an almost 

 invariable rule to baptize the eldest son by the 

 name of the father's father, and the eldest daugh- 

 ter by the name of the mother's mother. In 

 making out pedigrees I have repeatedly been as- 

 sisted by keeping this Tact in mind. Was there 

 the same rule in England or Ireland ? 2. 0. 



Bishop Pocockes " Tour through Ireland." — In 

 a biographical sketch of the Rev. Mervyn Arch- 

 dall, in the Anthologia Hibernica, vol. iii. p. 274., 

 the following passage occurs : — 



"It was there [at Attanagh] he [Bishop Pococke] 

 improved some of his works, and there he planned his 

 tour through Ireland and Scotland; which the writer of 

 this has been informed are in the British Museum." 



Can you tell me whether the documents in 

 question are in the British Museum ? * Anything 

 from Bishop Pococke's pen must be good; and, 

 therefore, I shall be glad to learn particulars, es- 

 pecially of his " Tour through Ireland." Has any 

 portion of it appeared in print ? Abhba. 



[* There are two volumes of letters relating to Bishop 

 Pococke's Continental travels in the British Museum, 

 Addit. MSS. 19,939, 19,940.— Ed.] 



Major Duncanson and the Massacre of Glencoe. 

 — The article in this month's Blackwood on the 

 Massacre, suggests the following queries to me : — 

 What connexion was there between the following 

 personages: Captain Duncanson, who accompa- 

 nies Archibald, 9th Earl of Argyle, in his unfor^ 

 tunate expedition to Scotland in 1685, and who 

 behaves with great gallantry, and appears to have 

 been one of the earl's most trusted servants (see 

 Wodrow's History), and the Major Robert Dun- 

 canson who is in 1692 " Major of My Lord Ar- 

 gyle's regiment," and who takes a leading part in 

 the horrible affair of Glencoe (see article in Black- 

 wood) ? 



This Major Duncanson receives a grant of 

 arms from Heralds' College in Edinburgh in 1692, 

 the very year of the massacre. In the register he 

 is termed " Major to the regiment of Foot, com- 

 manded by the Earl of Argyle, and descended of 

 the Family of Fassokie in Stirlingshire." I much 

 desire information respecting this family. 



In Douglas' Baronage, voc. " Mayne of Powys," 

 two brothers, James Duncanson (of Kiels), who 

 resides at Campbelton, and John Duncanson at 

 Inverary, marry two sisters, daughters of William 

 Mayne of Powys, about the middle of last century. 

 Were they connected with the Major Duncanson 

 of the massacre ? Finally, in one of Burke's 

 genealogical works I find mention made of a 

 " MS. History of the Family of Campbell of Ar- 

 gyle, by James Duncanson of Inverary." Where 

 is this MS. preserved, and who was the author ? 



2. 0. 



Mr. Wells. — Can you give me any information 

 regarding Mr. Wells, author of Joseph and his 

 Brethren, a sacred drama ? Some account of the 

 author is to be found in an anonymous poem hav- 

 ing the title of " The Contention of Death and 

 Love," a poem, London, 1837. Z. A. 



Life is before ye ! — The subjoined was quoted 

 in a speech to the students of the London Uni- 

 versity on the 11th May. Can any reader of" N. 

 & Q." inform me where it is to be found ? 



" Life is before ye ! 

 A sacred burthen to the life ye bear; 

 Look on it, lift it, bear it solemnly. 

 Stand up, and walk under it steadfastly. 



" Fail not for sorrow, falter not for sin, 

 Onwards and upwards till the goal ye win, 

 God guard ye and God guide ye in the way, 

 Young pilgrim warriors who set forth this day." 



T. W. WONFOR. 



Brighton. 



Lilac. — In the articles on the lilac which have 

 lately appeared in the pages of " N. & Q.," I ob- 

 served the word is said to be Persian. In the 

 south of Scotland it is called by the peasantry the 

 " lily aik," or " lily oak." Is there no doubt about 

 the Persian origin of the word ? 2. 0. 



