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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2-'d S. VIII. Nov. 26. '59. 



the following extract from the churchwardens' 

 account of those years : — 



"Payd to Bodeley for Caryinge y" stones & Ramell 

 away where y" Crosse stoode ...... viij"i." 



What were the " vowes " of the church men- 

 tioned by B. B. Woodward ? Respecting those 

 over altars in side chapels, see a Query, " N. & 

 Q." 2"<* S. vii. 434. Thos. North. 



Leicester. 



Papier Moure (2'"' S. viii. 377.) — In reply to 

 ToPHANA. respecting the ingredient used for the 

 preparation of papier moure, I forward the follow- 

 ing extract from a paper in the Pharmaceutical 

 Journal of this month, and which bears directly on 

 the inquiry : — 



" Fly papers are sold by the thousand, and are posi- 

 tively stated to be perfectly harmless to animal life of a 

 higher order than that of our insect pests : that such is, 

 however, far from being the case the following results of 

 an examination of them will show ; the papers selected 

 being those known as Papier Moure : — 



" Four of the sheets were taken at random, and digested 

 with dilute hydrochloric acid until a pulpy mass was ob- 

 tained. This pulp was then washed with distilled water 

 on a filter-paper, until the filtered fluid amounted to about 

 four pints. This was then evaporated till only eight ounces 

 remained, and sulphide of hydrogen was passed into it 

 for two hours; during this time a copious precipitate of 

 sulphide of arsenic was thrown down. The precipitate was 

 collected on a filter, washed, and dissolved in dilute solu- 

 tion of ammonia, from which it was reprecipitated by 

 hydrochloric acid. The pure sulphide of arsenic was 

 finally collected upon a tared filter, dried and weighed. 

 Its weight was found to be 12-675 grs., equivalent to 

 10'201 grs. of arsenious acid. The average quantity of 

 arsenious acid contained in each of the sheets was there- 

 fore 2'55 grs., quite enough to destroy human life." 



Is it not rather an evidence of faulty legisla- 

 tion that, while restrictions are placed upon the 

 sale of arsenic as arsenic, the poison should be so 

 readily obtainable in the form of " Papier Moure ? " 



J. W. G. GUTCH. 



Dial ofAhaz (2"^ S. viil. 144.) — Mr. Taylor 

 will find that an interesting paper on this subject 

 was read before the Asiatic Society by Mr. J. W. 

 Bosanquet in August or September, 1854. Its 

 title was : " On the going Back of the Shadow 

 upon the Dial of Ahaz in the Reign of Hezekiah 

 King of Judah." R. W. Hackwood. 



Barony of Broughton (2"* S. viii. 376.) — Ali- 

 Quis appears to write under some singular mis- 

 apprehensions. There never were a provost or 

 bailies of the Barony of Broughton, and there 

 could have been, therefore, no late election of 

 such office-bearers. That barony was long ago 

 acquired (in point of what is called in Scotland 

 superiority, equivalent to an English lordship of 

 the manor) by the Governors of George Heriot's 

 Hospital ; these governors consisting of the Town 

 Council and Ministers of Edinburgh. 



Canongate and Portaburgh were not proper ba- 



ronies. On the contrary, Portsburgh was part of 

 the barony of Inverleith, and the Canongate was a 

 burgh of Regality ; its jurisdiction appearing to 

 have comprehended the barony of Broughton. 

 As to the latter, full information will be found in 

 Dr. Stevens's History of Heriofs Hospital. See 

 also as to Portsburgh, Brown's Supplement to 

 Morison's Dictionary, p. 895. ; and as to Canon- 

 gate, Lord Harcarse's Decisions, No. 642. G. J. 

 Edinburgh. 



Sir William Ussher (2"* S. viii. 324.) — Allow 

 me to supply an omission in my recent Note on 

 Sir William Ussher ; and by completing the case, 

 to put it beyond all dispute. 



As I showed on the authority of Dr. Boate, 

 those who state that Sir William Ussher, of 

 Donnybrook (who died in the year 1657), was 

 drowned in the river Dodder in 1649, are in error ; 

 but strangely enough, so also is Dr. Boate, who 

 makes Mr. John Ussher, Sir William's father, to 

 have been the sufferer, inasmuch as he had died 

 so long before as 1st May, 1600. In fact, the per- 

 son drowned (as is mentioned in Appendix I. 

 p. X. of the late Dr. Elrington's Life of Archbishop 

 Ussher) was Arthur Ussher, of Donnybrook, elder 

 son of Sir William, and grandson of Alderman 

 John Ussher, of Dublin. Sir William Betham's 

 statement respecting him, as given in the above- 

 named Life, is strictly correct ; namely, that he 

 was " drowned in the river of said place [Donny- 

 brook], 2nd March, 1628, v.patris;" but as Sir 

 William has not given his authority, an exact 

 copy of an entry in one of Daniel Molyneux's 

 MSS. (which are in the library of Trinity College, 

 Dublin, and, particularly in this matter, may be 

 deemed well worthy of credit, Molyneux having 

 been Arthur Ussher's brother-in-law), will not 

 prove unacceptable to the readers of " N. & Q." 

 In MSS. F. 3. 27. p. 14., the following words 

 occur : — 



" Arth'' Usher, f. & h. S^ W", ob. (was drowned in 

 Donabrook river) [interlined], 2 March, being Munda}', 

 1628." 



I may add to the foregoing particulars, that to 

 the munificence and religious zeal of Alderman 

 John Ussher we owe the publication, in 1571, of 

 the first book printed in the Irish language ; and 

 that in Sir William Ussher's house in Dublin, in 

 1602, was printed the first Irish version of the 

 New Testament. See Gilbert's History of the 

 City of Dublin, vol. i. pp. 381 — 388. Abhba. 



" Liberavi animam meam" (2""^ S. viii. 108. 157. 

 406.) — In that curious little book, Les Aventures 

 de la Madonna (by Renoult, printed at Amster- 

 dam, 1701), I notice the use of this phrase in its 

 original sense, — that of freeing or delivering the 

 soul, though not in the first person, as in the in- 

 stances already noticed. It occurs in the dialogue 

 said to have taken place between an image of the 



