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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3. 1859. 



j;o. 205. — CONTENTS. 



NOTES:— An Incident in " the 1?15,"415 —Protestant Refugees in 

 1663 and 1571 , by John S. Burn, 447 _ Origin of the Brownists, 449. 



M I NOR Notes : — Truth stranger than Fiction — Dr. Dodd — An Ame- 

 rican Statesman's Library— Overflowings of the Tiber— Note about 

 the Kecords, temi>. Edward III., 449. 



Minor Qdbrics: — Borcman's Gigantick Histories — Manuscript News 

 Letters — The Mayor of Market-Jew — Clergyman's Crest — Fly-boat 



— Lett Family — Captain Fitzjames— Btau-si'ant : Beaulieu — Scorn- 

 ing the Church— Francis Pole of Park Hall, Derbyshire — William 

 Thirkeld — Biographers, and their Subjects— Frogs in Ireland— The 

 Tobacco Controversy of 1858 — Wiclif 's Translation, 450. 



MfNOR QuERiKs WITH ANSWERS: — Wcslcy's Hymns — Passage in 

 Grotius — The Berdash, an Article of Dress — Cotgrave's French- 

 English Dictionary — The Battiscombe Family — Plowden in English 



— Painting on Copper concealed in a Book Cover — Blackstone's 

 " Commentaries," 453. 



REPLIES : — Tlie Four Kings, 454 — Dr. John Hewett, by Rev. W. 

 Denton, &c., 455— The Bonk of Sports, by Rev. J. E. B. Mayor^56— 

 Boydell's Shakspeare Gallery, by Charles Wylie, ic, 457 — Tames 

 Anderson, lb. 



Replies to Mikor Queries : -Wreck of" The Dunbar " _" The Bill 

 of Michael Angelo "— Cotton's "Typographical Gazetteer " — The 

 Princess Borghese- " An Austrian Army Awfully Arrayed"- Prince 

 Charles' Journey to Wales — Arithmetical Notation — Figures cut on 

 Hill Sides — " Deatli of the Fox ' ' — Writers bribed to Silence — " Cock 

 an Eye" — Brass at West Herling — What sort of Animal was the 

 Bugle — Abdias Assheton — Ilerbe d'Or, 459. 



Notes on Books, &c. 



AN INCIDENT IN " THE 1715," 



I send, according to promise, " a picture in 

 little " cf a Highland family in that troublous 

 year — of a nobleman's family, the head of one of 

 the most powerful of the clans. The story is all 

 " rounded" within a little month — indeed within 

 three weeks — but they were, I doubt not, weeks 

 that lived in memory like months or years. 



The Lady Seaforth's daughter mentioned in 

 the letters was, I presume, her daughter-in-law. 

 Her only daughter had married in 1712 Mr. John 

 Caryll, Pope's friend, and she and her husband 

 were in Paris the whole of the year 1715 up to 

 August, when they returned to his house in Sus- 

 sex, where Lady Mary was confined in November. 

 We learn, however, from the Peerages, that the 

 Earl, Lady Seaforth's son, "married in 1715" — 

 they give no more precise information — " the 

 only daughter of Nicholas Kennet of Cuxhow in 

 Northumberland." 



The Lord Lovat, who figures on this occasion, 

 was the celebrated Lord who was hanged, and 

 deservedly, in 1745. In 1715 his interest had 

 enlisted him on the side of the Elector of Han- 

 over, and he was both active and serviceable. 

 Wm. Cadogan was the distinguished general who 

 served under Marlborough, and who was, in the 

 June following, created a Baron and subsequently 

 an Earl. Wightman had been commander until 

 the arrival of Cadogan. 



The letters of Lady Seaforth are of course 

 copies or drafts : the rest are from the originals. 

 General Cadogan to the Countess of Seaforth. 



" Inverness, 6th April, 1716. 



"Madam, — I have just now received the honor of 

 your Ladyship'3 letter of the 5th instant, and for the 



other you mention, it did not come to ray hands till 1 

 was on my march from Perth to this place, which hin- 

 dered me from acknowledging it sooner. I send enclosed 

 a passport for my Lady Seaforth to go to Edenl)urgh, and 

 1 have writ to the Secretary of State to desire a permis- 

 sion for her Ladyship to continue on her journey to 

 Durham, and I doubt not but it will be granted. I am 

 very sorry her coach and horses were taken away, and 

 mine are at her Ladyship's service. There is an indis- 

 pensable necessity for leaving a garrison at Brahan till 

 my Lord Seaforth comes in and his people give up their 

 arms as their neighbours have done : and indeed it ap- 

 pears unaccountable that his Lordship, who was one of 

 the first that offered to subrujt, should be one of tho 

 last to do it. If your Ladyship desires a protection for 

 your house and goods I am ready to give it, and have 

 ordered the garrison to pay exactly for everything fur- 

 nished them. This is all I can do for your Ladyship's 

 service, and I have the honor to [be], with the most pro- 

 found respect, Madam, your Ladyship's most obedient 

 and most humble servant, 



" Wm. Cadogan. 

 " I beg your Ladj'ship'a pardon for making use of an- 

 other hand, since I am not well enough recovere 1 of my 

 fall to write with my own." 



Lord Lovat to the Countess of Seaforth. 



" Madam, — Before I had the honor of your Ladyship's 

 letter I obtained a passport for my Lady your daughter 

 to go South, and the General is to write to Court in her 

 favor. He was very angry that the General VVightman 

 took your coach and horses, but they are lost by the fault 

 of not taking my advice. The general told [me?] this 

 moment that he wrote to your Latl3ship that he was 

 sorry for it, but that his coach and horses were at your 

 service. In my opinion you should come immediately 

 and thank him. He is the civilest man on earth, and a 

 great man. Your Ladyship will always find me with the 

 same zeal and respect. Madam, your Ladyship's most obe- 

 dient and most humble servant, 



" Lovat. 



" Inverness, the 6th of April, 1716." 



Lord Lovat to the Countess of Seaforth. 

 " Madam, — I spoke just now to General Cadogan, who 

 told me plainly he could not nor would not promise any- 

 thing for my Lord your son, further than to receive him 

 on mercy and send hiin prisoner South, and if the bill of 

 attainder be passed, as they say it is, it is not in the 

 King's power to save him. This is all I can saj' on that 

 melancholy head. The General being informed that my 

 Lord Seafort's people have not as yet taken in their 

 arms, was going to order a thousand men to-morrow to 

 put all the country in flames, but I begged of his Ex. 

 to give soine days to acquaint the people, and that I was 

 sure they would come in, so his Ex. was so good as to 

 delay the march of the troops till Saturday next. A 

 thousand men will march that day to Brahan and 

 Coul [ ? 1, and if the arms of all my Lord Seafort's 

 country do not come in to Brahan and Coul [ ? ] before 

 Saturday night, they may expect the next da}' tiiat the 

 troops will begin to destroy all and march through all 

 my Lord Seafort's country to the Isle of Sky, and ships 

 will be sent to Lewis to destroy it. So your Ladyship 

 I should send off expresses immediately to all the High- 

 1 lands, that the people may come and give up their arms 

 1 to save themselves from being burnt. I t's a very great 

 i favor that the troops do not march to-morrow, .so your 

 j Lad\'ship should profit of it to save the people and the 

 I estate, which your Lad3'ship says is j'our own. I shall 

 I always be proud of an occasion in which I can have 

 I power myself to let your Ladyship know how much I am 



