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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2n<i S. VIII. Oct. 8. '59. 



correspondent Abhba, who has requested some 

 information regarding the seizure of the Lord 

 Mayor's sword as alluded to in the FreemarCs 

 Jmimal of 1764. O'Keefe died in 1833, aged 

 eighty-six. 



" In the Eaii of Meath's Liberty, the Lord Mayor of 

 Dublin has no jurisdiction, this quarter of the town hav- 

 ing a Court of its own. This Liberty consists of some of 

 the largest and finest streets in Dublin; for instance, 

 Meath St., Francis St., and the Coombe. In the latter 

 was the Weavers' Hall : over the gate a pedestrian gilt 

 statue*, as large as life, of George the Second. The Lord 

 Mayor walked the boundaries, his sword-bearer before 

 hini ; but when arrived at the point where the Liberty 

 begins, he was met by a certain chosen number of people, 

 who stopped his progress, and in a kind of seeming 

 scuffle took the sword from the sword-bearer ; if not thus 

 prevented, and the Lord Maj-or permitted to go on, 

 wherever he went with his sword of office borne before 

 him, the power of his warrant would reach; but this 

 ceremou}' is done without the least riot or ill-will, being 

 part of tlie business previously well prepared. AH this 

 affair took place in one day, the first of August, every 

 third year. To this grand triennial festival people flocked 

 to Dublin from all parts of Ireland, England, Scotland, 

 and even from the Continent ; it was always looked to 

 with great joj'. The Kegatta at Venice was something 

 in this way. Many years after I wrote a piece, and had 

 it brought "out at Crow Street, for the express purpose of 

 introducing the procession, and beautiful pageantry of our 

 Dublin franchises." 



William John Fitz-Pateick. 



LAST WOLF IN SCOTLAND. 



(2°'^ S. viii. 169.) 



The Messrs. Stuart, in their notes to The Lays 

 of the Deer Forest, in an article of great interest 

 on the " Extinct Animals of Scotland," give us 

 some very curious anecdotes relative to wolves ; 

 and among others notice the wolf killed in Loch- 

 Aber by Sir Ewen Cameron in 1680, being the 

 last in that country, which Pennant misunderstood 

 to have been the last of its species in Scotland. 

 (Tour in Scotland, i. 206.) I presume that this 

 ivas the animal to which allusion is made by Mr. 

 Lloyd as having been sold in 1818. The Messrs. 

 Stuart, who are learned in wood-craft, observe 

 that every district has its last wolf, and they 

 mention several as having been killed later than 

 that by Sir Ewen Cameron. They say that there 

 is every reason to believe that the " last " of his 

 species was killed in the district of the Findhorn, 

 in the ancient Forest'of Tarnaway in Morayshire, 

 at a place between Fi-Giuthas and Pall-a'-chro- 

 cain, according to popular chronology, no longer 

 ago than 1743. This animal was killed by Mac 

 Queen of Pall-a'-chrocain, who died in 1797, and 

 is represented as being a man of gigantic stature, 

 six feet seven inches in height, and remarkable 

 for his strength, courage, and celebrity as a deer- 



* This statue, which still exists, has been painted, as 

 long as I remember, black. — W. J. F. 



stalker. The following account is given of the 

 death of this " last wolf," which may be interest- 

 ing to the readers of " N. & Q. : — 



" One winter's day, about the year before mentioned, 

 Mac Queen received a message from the Laird of Mac 

 Intosh that a large ♦ black beast,' supposed to be a wolf, 

 had appeared in the glens, and the day before killed two 

 children, who, with their mother, were crossing the hills 

 from Calder, in consequence of which a ' Tainchel,' or 

 gathering to drive the country, was called to meet at a 

 trj'st above Fi-Giuthas, where Mac Queen was invited 

 to attend with his dogs. Pall-a'-chrocain informed him- 

 self of the place where the children had been killed — the 

 last tracts of the wolf, and the conjectures of his haunt, 

 and promised his assistance. 



" In the morning the ' Tainchel ' had long assembled, 

 and Mac Intosh waited with impatience, but Mac Queen 

 did not arrive; his dogs and himself were, however, 

 auxiliaries too important to be left behind, and they con- 

 tinued to wait until the best of a hunter's morning was 

 gone, when at last he appeared, and Mac Intosh received 

 him with an irritable expression of disappointment. 



" ' Ciod e a' chabhag f ' ' What was the hurry ? ' said 

 Pall-a'-chrocain. 



" Mac Intosh gave an indignant retort, and all present 

 made some impatient replj'. 



"Mac Queen lifted his plaid — and drew the black 

 bloody head of the wolf from under his arm — * Siti e 

 dhiiibh ' — ' There it is for you ! ' said he, and tossed it on 

 the grass in the midst of the surprised circle. 



" Mac Intosh expressed great joj' and admiration, and 

 gave him the land called Sean-achan for meat to his 

 dogs." 



John Maclean. 



Hammersmith. 



JSiti^liti t0 ;^tnar ^ntxiti. 



Suffragan Bishop (2""i S. viii. 225.) — There 

 can be no doubt that the date of Thomas Man- 

 ning's appointment as Suffragan Bishop of Ips- 

 wich is 1536, and not 1539, as quoted by B. B. 

 Woodward from Tanner's MS. Index to the 

 Norwich Episcopal Register, if, indeed, the last- 

 named date is intended to refer to his consecra- 

 tion. The royal mandate addressed to Cranmer 

 is in Rymer (vol. xiv. p. 559.), and is dated 

 March 7, 1536 : — 



"Reverendus Pater et dilectus Consiliarius noster 

 Richardus Norwicensis Episcopus nobis significavit quod 

 Dioecesis sua Episcopi Suffraganei solatio, qui suaa solici- 

 tudinis partem sustinere consuevit, destituta est et ex- 

 istit, et ideo Reverendos Patres Georgium Abbatem 

 Monasterii Beatae Mariae de Leyston, et Thomam IMan- 

 nynge Priorem Monasterii Beatae Mariae de Butley, Nor- 

 wicensis Dioecesis .... praesentavit, humiliter et devote 

 supplicans &c. Unde Nos, ex gratia nostra speciali 

 . . . dictum Reverendum Patrem Thomam Mannynge 



alterum ex dictis prsesentatis, in Episcopum Suf- 



fraganeum Sedis Gipwici, Norwicensi Dioecese antedicta 

 nominamus . . . requirentes vos, &c. &c." 



I have thus partially quoted this document for 

 the sake of pointing out what appears to me a 

 remarkable circumstance. This Bishop of Nor- 

 wich, llichard Nykke, at whose request, and for 

 whose " solace," this appointment was made, and 



