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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2«"» S. VIII. Nov. 26. '59. 



man, is living at the present date in very reduced 

 circumstances at Great Oakley, co. Essex. 



C. J. Robinson. 



Lennard Family. — The following extracts from 

 the earliest register of Sevenoaks parish, rela- 

 tive to this eminent family, may be acceptable to 

 some of your readers : — 



" Baptisms, 

 1677. May 23. Bapt. Thomas, son of Sampson Lennard, 



Esq. 

 1.578. Sept. 25. Margaret, dau. of S. L., Esq. 



1580. June 8. Elizabeth, dau. of S. L., Esq. 



1581. Nov. 26. Elizabeth, dau. of S. L., Esq. 



1583. July 28. Frances, dau. of S. L., Esq. 



1584. Oct. 11. John, son of S. L., Esq. 



1594. Oct. 27. Margaret, dau. of Henrj' Lennard, Esq. 



1597. Dec. 27. Ffynes, son of Henry Lennard, Knt. 



1598. Jan. 2 1 . Philadelphia, dau. of Hen. L., Knt. 



" Marriages. 



1579. Dec. 27. Guildford Walsingham, Esq., to Mary 

 Lennard. 



1587. Aug. 23. Thomas Greshame, Esq., to Mary Wal- 

 singham, widow. 



1589. Sep. 30. Frances Querst, Esq., to Eliz. Lennard. 



1591. May 25. Harbert Morley, Esq., to Anne Lennard, 



Gen. 



1592. May 24. Marmaduke Dorrell, Esq., to Anne Len- 



nard, Gen. 



1593. Sep. 5. Thomas Waller, Esq., to Margt. Lennard, 



Gen. 



1594. Apr. 2. Ralf Bosvile, Esq., to Mary Lenn.ird. 

 1598. Jan. 3. Francis Barnam,Esq.,to Elizabeth Lennard. 

 1601. May 12. Robert Moore, Esq., to Ffrances Lennard, 



Gen. 



" Burials. 

 1575. Oct. 10. John, son of Sampson Lennard, Esq. 

 1581. Oct. 20. Elizabeth, dau. of Sampson Lennard." 



Besides the above are numerous entries relat- 

 ing to the Sydneys, Nevills, Walsingharas, Bos- 

 villes, Wallers, and other important families. 



C. J. Robinson. 



Impromptu by O'Connell. — The impromptu of 

 Daniel O'Connell, occasioned by the attack of the 

 three Colonels, Sibthorp, Perceval, and Verner, is 

 being given in an incorrect form in the public 

 prints. The following is a copy, as it appears Nov. 

 10,1859: — 



" Three colonels in three different counties born, 

 Sligo, Armagh, and Lincoln did adorn ; 

 The first of them in ignorance surpassed, 

 The next in impudence, in grace the last. 

 The force of nature could no farther go, 

 To beard the third, she shaved the other two." 



The lines given below are in the author's own 

 hand, dated August 6, 1838, and in my posses- 

 sion : — 



« Three colonels in three distant counties born, 

 Lincoln, Sligo, and Armagh did adorn ; 

 The first in gravity of face surpassed. 

 In sobriety the next, in grace the last. 

 The force of nature could no farkher go. 

 To beard the first, she shaved the other two." 



Chabx.es Reed. 

 Paternoster Row. 



Literary Taste of Different Countries. — I find 

 the following in a late American newspaper. Can 

 any of the readers of " N. & Q." either corrobo- 

 rate or disprove the assertions there made ? 



" Literary Taste in this Country. — The people of the 

 United States show a strong predilection for a light and 

 fictitious literature. Of two thousand old and new 

 volumes issued in this country in the year, it is said that 

 about one-half were works of fiction or imagination. In 

 France only about one-ninth are works of the same class, 

 and in England works of fancy constitute one-seventh of 

 the whole number published." 



PisHEY Thompson. 



Stoke Newington. 



cauertei. 



There are two meanings attached to the word 

 damask in Johnson : — 



1. Linen or silk woven, invented at Damascus, 

 by which part, by various directions of the threads, 

 exhibits flowers or other forms. 



2. It is used for red colour in Fairfax, from 

 the damask rose. 



" And for some deale perplexed was her spirit. 

 Her damask late, now chang'd to purest white." 



In this second sense it is used by many authors 

 of celebrity, as in the hackneyed quotation from 

 Shakspeare : — 



" But let concealment like a worm i' th' bud feed on 

 her damask cheek." — Twelfth Night, Act II., Sc. 4. 



And in Milton's Sonnet to Charles Diodati, 

 where he uses the expression " Ne treccie d' oro, 

 ne guancia vermiglia M' abbaglian si," which Cow- 

 per thus renders : — 



"Yet think me not thus dazzled by the flow 

 Of golden locks, or damask cheek." 



And moi-e recently Sir Lytton Bulwer in his great 

 novel. What will he do with it? (vol. iii. p. 15.) : — 



" Lady Adela was an unconscious impostor ; for owing 

 to a mild softness of eye and a susceptibility to blushes, 

 a victim ensnared by her beauty would be apt to give 

 her credit for a nature far more accessible to the tender 

 passion than happily for her own peace of mind she pos- 

 sessed ; and might flatter himself that he had produced a 

 sensation which gave that softness to the eye and that 

 damask to the blush." 



I find, however, that there is another sense in 

 which the word " damask " was used, i. e. to 

 cancel or efface, or cover over, as in the Copy- 

 right Act of Queen Anne, the 8th Anne, c. 19., 

 intituled " An Act for the Encouragement of 

 Learning by vesting the Copies of printed Books 

 in the Authors or Purchasers of such Copies 

 during the Terms therein mentioned," where, 

 after a long preamble showing how authors had 

 been injured by piracy of various kinds, it pro- 

 ceeds to enact, " That the author of any book 

 and his assigns should have the sole right and 



