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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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eauerfei. 



POEM ON THE FRENCH WAK. 



lu an address dellvei-ed lately on the erection 

 of a monument to my grand fa tliei-, who was a 

 pi'ovinclal soldier in the "French War," as we 

 call it, 1755 to 1763, I quoted some lines which I 

 read fifty years ago in what was then an old and 

 tattered English Magazine, which my boyhood 

 found in the farmhouse where I was brought up, 

 among the mountains of Western Massachusetts. 

 The old magazine soon perished, and I have never 

 been able to find the poem. It was, as well as I 

 remember, a complaint or lamentation, put into 

 the mouth of the French king, on the unfavoura- 

 ble aspect of his affairs in the closing years of that 

 war, in contrast with his successes in the early 

 part of the struggle. The stanza from which I 

 quoted was this : — 



" When Dieskau, in his rasli action, 



Was by Johnson overthrown, 

 Soon I seized, for satisfaction, 



Fort Oswego and Mahon." 



The poem then recited the succession of disas- 

 ters and disappointments he had suffered in suc- 

 ceeding years of the war. The date of it must 

 have been about the year 1763, when the Treaty 

 of Paris terminated the war, leaving Canada in 

 the hands of Great Britain. 



Perhaps some of your contributors can find the 

 poem in some of the magazines of that day, which 

 are not in our libraries. If it is worthy of so 

 much attention, I should like to see it reprinted 

 in " N. & Q." Joshua Leavitt. 



New York, Sept. 20, 1859. 



Francis Burger sdicius. — Where can I find any 

 account of the life and list of the writings of Bur- 

 gersdyk, as the learned call him ? for learning in 

 our day unlatinises names. What entitles him 

 to be classed with Vattel in Moore's whimsical 

 couplet ? Is it the Idea Politica, orwhich I have 

 seen the title ? The Preface of his Logic is dated 

 1626; but there is a Cambridge edition of 1680, 

 and Watt mentions a controversial pamphlet con- 

 cerning the Cambridge statutes, published by a 

 certain Francis Burgersdicius (sic) in 1727, in 

 English. Did a son, or grandson, or both, of the 

 autbor of the Logic settle at Cambridge ? 



A. De Morgan. 



Bulse. — Boswell, in his Li/e of Johnson, vol. vii. 

 p. 218. edit. 1835, when regretting occasional re- 

 missness in recording his memorabilia, says : — 



" Let me exhibit what I have upon each occasion, whe- 

 ther more or less, whether a bulse, or only a few sparks 

 of a diamond." 



Query, derivation and authority ? I. I. A. B, 



Jamas Anderson, author of the Diplomata Scotia;, 

 who was he the son of, and what were the names 

 of his sons and daughters? Who did they marry? 

 Any particulars about his descendants will be ac- 

 ceptable. 2. 0. 



Grinding Old People Young, — Please tell me 

 something about the "ancient mill," the process 

 of "grinding," and the "old ladies"; together 

 with anything else you may know about what is 

 referred to in the following advertisement from a 

 paper of this date : — 



" Now open — Sundays inclusive. 



" Clay Hall Tavern and Gardens. Also the An- 

 cient Mill which was erected for grinding Old People 

 Youiig nearlj' 200 years back, and which has been en- 

 tirely renovated and redecorated regardless of expense. 

 Old Ladies are requested to come and be Ground Young, 

 for which there is no charge made. 



" A variety of Amusements, &c 



" Please Copy the Address. Clay Hall Tavern and 

 Pleasure Grounds, back of the East London Water Works, 

 Old Ford, five minutes walk from the Bow Station," &c. 



Tallboys. 



Drummond of Colqiihalzie. — Can any of your 

 readers oblige me with information whether Drum- 

 mond of Colquhalzie, in Perthshire, whose estate 

 was forfeited in 1745 or 1746, was related to the 

 then Earl of Perth ? And if so, in what degree ? 



I. M. A. 



Kennaquhar. 



The Combat between the Dukes of Noifolk and 

 Hereford. — Respecting the causes that led to the 

 celebrated combat, which took place at Coventry, 

 in 1398, between these two peers, there is much 

 difference of description. The Parliamentary Rolls 

 say Hereford accused Norfolk before Richard II. 

 of using certain words in derogation of the king. 

 This statement is confirmed by the writer of the 

 English Chronicle from 1377 to 1461 (Camden 

 Society). Froissart on the other hand affirms 

 that Mowbray was the accuser ; and in the Harl. 

 MSS. in the British Museum (No. 6079, ff. 29— 

 31.) the same statement is made. Froissart, who 

 describes the whole matter up to the banishment 

 of the two dukes, states that no combat took 

 place, whilst all the of her authorities cited give 

 full particulars respecting it. Can these differ- 

 ences be accounted for ? Which was the accuser 

 of the other before Richard II. ? Thos. North. 



Leicester. 



Quotation. — Can you tell me where I shall find 

 the following lines ? — 



" He either fears his fate too much, 

 Or his deserts are small. 

 Who fears to put it to the touch, 

 To win or lose it all." 



F. L. 



Joseph of Exeter's Poem, entitled " Antiocheis." 



— Joseph of Exeter (Josephus Iscanus), whom 



