2»d S. nil. Nov. 19. '59.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19. 1859. 



No. 203. — CONTENTS. 



NOTES:— The Rebellion of 1715, 409_Sir Peter Paul Rubens: De- 

 Btroyed Records, &c.,410_Extract8 from an Early Manuscript, 411 — 

 An Austrian Army: Alliterative Address to Aurora Borealis, 412. 



Minor Notes:— Ancient Italian Jests -"Cutting One's Stick" — 

 Drat 'cm. Oddrot 'em — British Officers, 1711— "In the wrong box- 

 Singular Derivation of the Epithet " Whig," 412. 



QUERIES: — William Nicolson, D.D., Archbishop of Cashel, 413. 



Minor Quehibs: — Wreck of the Dunbar — Prisoner's Arraignment- 

 Geology : Antiquity of Man on the Earth — " Hockley i' th' Hole " — 

 JEsop's Fables — Sir Humpfrey Talbot — The Book of Sports — Sur- 

 plice on Good Friday at the Communion — Playford — The Style of 

 Grace— Munro—Lomax, or Loraas Family— William Dunkin.D.D. 

 — Owenson the Player — Writers who have been bribed to Silence — 

 John Phipps — " Decanatus Christianltatis " _ Major Thomas — 

 " Death of the Fox " — Seal of SS. Serge and Baccus, &c., 414. 



Minor Queriei with Answers: — Swans — L'Abbaye de Quincy — 

 " Bobolink " and " Cocking an Eye " — Brass at West Herling — The 

 Princess Borghese — Moly and Colorabine — " Soul is form and doth 

 the body make " — Portrait : K. B. 32 — Four Kings — Prince Rupert's 

 Arms and Ciest, 416. 



REPLIES : —Malabar Jews, by J. H. van Leanep, 418 — Titles con- 

 ferred by Oliver Cromwell, 419 — Squaring the Circle, 421 — Supema- 

 turals at the Battles of Clavijo and Prague, 422. 



Replies to Minor Queries: — The Jews' Spring Gardens — Seals of 

 Officers who perished in Atf>;hanistan — Mrs. Myddelton — What sort 

 of Animal was the Bugle? — The Contraction " i." — "The Royal 

 Slave " — Villeins — Portiouer — Spontoon — Stratford Family — 

 George Cromer, Archbishop of Armagh — James Thomson's Mar- 

 riage — Notes on Trees and Flowers — Muffled Peal on Innocents' 

 Day — Scavenger's Daughter — Kentish Lougtoils — Old Print — 

 Bishop Gauden — Walpurgis, 423. 



Notes on Books, &c. 



THE REBELLION OP 1715. 



In looking over some papers which belonged to 

 Frances Countess of Seaforth, I have found one 

 or two which seem to me worth publication. 

 They are not of great historical interest, but of 

 some value, I think, because they tell the story of 

 and by the defeated parties, to whom history is 

 seldom generous, and not always just. 



Frances Countess of Seaforth was daughter of 

 William Marquis of Powis. Her husband and 

 father both joined King James in Ireland, and 

 were both outlawed. The Earl, her husband, died 

 in France in 1701. I suspect that the lady had 

 some foreknowledge of the Rebellion ; for 1 find 

 her in London in the early part of 1715. She 

 had, however, returned to Brahan, the family seat 

 in Scotland, in or before September of that year. 

 Her son had great seignorial influence in the north 

 of Scotland, equally in the eastern counties, and 

 some of the western islands. When the Earl of 

 Mar resolved to march southward, the Earl of 

 Seaforth was left behind to protect the country 

 from the Earl of Sutherlanfl and the Whig clans. 

 This he did successfully, and then, as Rae tells us, 

 joined Mar with eight hundred horse and three 

 thousand foot. 



I have referred to most of the accounts of the 

 rebellion, but find merely a vague reference to 

 Seaforth's campaign ; the most minute is Rae's. 

 Rae expresses fears lest he should not have done 

 justice to any one who "had occasion to act 

 against the late rebellion." Tliis was a little over- 



scrupulous. Whether he did equal justice to the 

 rebels is somewhat doubtful. Thus he tells us 

 that Seaforth and his followers " miserably har- 

 rassed the country belonging to Sir Robert 

 Monro," * * * " stripping the women of their very 

 body cloaths, 'till they left them the most miserable 

 commonality of Britain ; " that they took a great 

 many cattle from and robbed some of the tenants of 

 Sir William Gordon of Invergorden, which seems 

 to me probable enough. He then adds a story 

 about a friend, who having told the Lady Tenenich 

 that Seaforth was come to protect her, " she cried 

 out the Lord of Hosts be my Protector .'" upon which 

 Seaforth, who overheard her, " turn'd about, and 

 immediately sent a party who robb'd her of all her 

 cattle and moveables without doors." 



The paper enclosed appears to me very like the 

 copy of a dispatch sent to the Earl of Mar. As 

 usual I believe on such occasions, though written 

 in the Earl's name, it was probably drawn up by 

 another ; for the writer drops into the third per- 

 son in the penultimate paragraph. The MS. is 

 in some places so damaged as to be beyond my 

 conjectures, and I cannot of course answer for 

 the exact spelling of names, familiar perhaps in 

 the North, but not known to me. Fowles I be- 

 lieve to have been Colonel Monro of Fowles. , 



"After I returned Fowles from his attempt on the 

 town of Inverness which he designed to possess, under 

 pretence of relieving the house of Culloden, that was 

 given out to be besieged by the Laird of Mac Intosh, 

 Fowles applied to the Earl of Sutherland (who had 

 but then arrived from London) as heutenant of the most 

 of the northern shires ; who with all the forces he could 

 raise of his own tenants vassals and dependants, in con- 

 junction with my Lord Reay, the Gunns of the Glen, 

 most of the Rosses and several others, joined Fowles 

 younger at Alnes, who with all the forces the Monroes 

 could make encamped there, where when all met they 

 gave up themselves to make a body of three or four 

 thousand men, and for the speedier execution of their 

 design, which (as they confidently boasted) was to batter 

 down the house of Brahan, possess themselves of the 

 Town of Inverness, overrun entirely my lands, and all 

 other opposers. They not only got six pieces of cannon 

 (with ammunition conform) from a man of war in the road 

 of Cromarty, but also had a concert with six hundred of 

 the Grants, 200 of Kilravoch's men, 100 from Brodie, 

 100 from Culloden, and some of the Stratherick Frasers 

 to come by sea to the said camp, for which intent there 

 were several vessels sent them from the Firth of Cro- 

 marty. 



"In the meantime, I, being joined by Sir Donald 

 M'=Donald and having a considerable body of resolute 

 men, upon Saturdaj' the 8th of October, marched from 

 Dingwell through the hills into Strathspey [ ?] ; and in 

 my way, my scouts espied some horse and foot of the 

 enemy ; to whom they gave chase, and in the retreat 

 shot one of the foot (who thereafter died of his wounds) 

 through the knee, from whom intelligence was had of 

 the enemy's camp, and of young Fowles being one of 

 them that were chased. 



" That night I encamped at the Clairs (a little village 

 pertaining to Fowles) ; the next morning (being Sunday 

 the 9">) 1 marched eastward through the mountains with 

 design (if possible) to attack the enemy that day, but 



