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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2"* S. VIII. Oct. 29. '59. 



part of St. Mary Redcliffe, the whole of which is 

 on the Somersetshire side of the river Avon, there 

 can be no doubt. " That Chatterton was very 

 unpopular with the corporation of Bristol " as 

 such (2"^ S. viii. 234.) is simply absurd; they had 

 no reason as a body to care anything about him. 

 *' Railroad improvements have (not) demolished 

 the little school in which he first received the 

 early rudiments of education." It is still standing, 

 and is, I believe, a school now. Geobgb Pbtcb. 

 Bristol City Library. 



The River Liffey (2"« S. viii. 311.)— Your 

 correspondent Frances Setmoub asks for the 

 meaning of the name "Anna Liffey," sometimes 

 given to the river which runs through Dublin. 

 It is an Anglicised representation of three Irish 

 words, Amhan na Life ; the first word AmJian^ 

 pronounced auwon, signifies a river. It is cognate 

 with the Latin amn-is, and the Sanscrit aub, and 

 is the name still borne by your English river the 

 Avon. The second word na is the genitive case of 

 the definite article, and signifies of the. The third 

 word is the proper name of the great plain through 

 which the river flows. Thus Amhan rta Life signi- 

 files the river of the Life, that is the river of the 

 plain called the Life or Liffey. By " the Liffey," 

 no ancient authority ever meant the river, but 

 only the extensive plain anciently so called, in 

 which Dublin stands. Hence, when they spoke of 

 the river, they called it Amhan-na-Life (Angli- 

 cised into Anna Liffey), the river of this cele- 

 brated plain. HiBEBNicus. 



Mrs. B. Hoole (2'''' S. viii. 311.) — Z. A. is 

 informed that The Little Dramas for Young Peo- 

 ple, on Subjects taken from English History, by the 

 above named lady, was published by Longmans, 

 1810, pp. 128. The dramas are — 



The Death of Henry II. 



The Flight of Queen Margaret. 



The Death of Lady Jane Grey. 



The Fortitude of Lady Rachel Russel. 

 With notes on each drama. Gilbebt. 



Heraldic Query (2"^ S. viii. 292.) — In answer 

 to C. W. B., I think there is no doubt but the 

 husband of a lady, whose father has died and left 

 no male descendants, has a right to bear her arms 

 on an escutcheon of pretence, and that her chil- 

 dren have a right to quarter her arms. Sir J. 

 Bernard Burke, Ulster King of Arms, in his most 

 interesting book. Vicissitudes of Families, has this 

 remark in a note to his Essay on Heraldry, " The 

 term ' heiress,' in heraldry, does not apply to the 

 succession to property." J. A. Pn. 



Vertuc's " Draughts " (2"* S. viii. 26. 93. 156.) 

 — .In Thomas Thorpe's Bibliotheca Manuscripta 

 for 1844, pp. 138-40., is a long description of a 

 collection of 31 volumes of MSS. which he then 

 had for sale, that were entirely in the autograph 



of George Vertue the engraver, containing a 

 complete " History of the Fine Arts, and of the 

 Royal Antiquarian Societies;" also an account 

 of Vertue's various journeys over England in 

 search of materials for his great national work. 

 Articles of curiosity, routed out by him, Thorpe 

 states, are fully described, with dimensions, &c., 

 and frequently illustrated with pen-and-ink draw- 

 ings, " very spirited," of ancient pictures, coins, 

 medals, statues, carvings, and other objects of in- 

 terest. 



Can these drawings be the " draughts " that 

 Sheen is anxious to discover ? If so, this scrap 

 of information may assist him in his inquiries. 



Wm. Geoege. 



Bristol. 



Mdzena's Dog (2"^ S. viii. 291.) — Fitzhop- 

 KiNS will, perhaps, be vexed to hear that the 

 hu7id in question belongs to 



" 3Iacenas — atavis edite regibus." 



The apostrophe ought to be after the s to mark the . 

 genitive, and the substitution of z for c is a very 

 questionable, though not un-Heineish, way of 

 spelling Latin and other foreign names ; but we 

 must not " cut " an old friend for a misprint or a 

 " germanising tendency " either. " A man 's a 

 man for a' that," and Southey had much pleasure 

 in recognising Montesquieu even under the terri- 

 ble alias of Mules Quince. A Magyar Exile. 

 Edinburgh. 



Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports : Coi-oner 

 (2°^ S. viii. 310,) — The Lord Warden, I believe, 

 still appoints a coroner for the Cinque Ports. What 

 are his duties, or how far they extend, I do not 

 know. But it was one of the functions of the 

 mayor of Dover to exercise the duties of coro- 

 ner within that port, until the Municipal Cor- 

 poration Act of William IV., which relieved him 

 of that duty, and gave to the town council the 

 power of appointing a coroner. In the case pro- 

 posed, of a man drowned off the pier, the inquest 

 is taken by the present respectable coroner of 

 " Dover and its'Limbs " so elected. D. S. 



Marrying under the Galloivs (P* S. vii. 84. ; xii. 

 257. 348.) — 



" Nine j'oung women dressed in white, each with a 

 white wand in her hand, presented a petition to his Ma- 

 jesty (George I.) on behalf of a young man condemned 

 at Kingston Assizes for burglary, one of them offering to 

 marrj'him under the gallows in case of a reprieve." — 

 Parker's London News, April 7, 1725. 



W. J. Pinks, 



Boohs Burnt (1" S. passim.) — Your correspon- 

 dents have not, I think, noticed any instance of 

 the Holy Bible having been treated with this in- 

 dignity. Without going back to the period when 

 such a sacrilegious act was committed frequently 

 by the highest authorities in England, I need 



