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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2»d S. VIII. Dec. 24, '69. 



Museum Italiciim, but I am unwilling to encroach 

 on your space. 



In fine, it is the idea of St. Paul, Colossians, c. 

 ii. vers. 14 and 15. John Williams. 



Arno's Court. 



The hymn " Vexilla Regis " is incorrectly 

 printed in this Query. The second line should be 

 " David fideli (not fidelis) carmine." And now to 

 the three Queries of B. H. C. 



1. The introduction of the words a ligno will 

 be accounted for by the answer to the following 

 Query. 



2. The earliest Father who refers to the expres- 

 sion is a very early one indeed, St. Justin, who 

 was martyred in the year 167. In his dialogue 

 with the Jew Trypho, he complains of the Jews 

 having removed the words a ligno from the 

 Psalm xcv. 10., leaving only the words Dovii- 

 nus regnavit. Koi curb rod ivfvriKocrTov wff^irTov 

 'VaAfj.ov Twv Sta Aa§l5 Aexflei'TWj' Xoywv, \4^ns ffpci- 

 Xf^as acpeiKoyTO ravrus, Airb rod ^vAov, lo this 

 Tryphon made no other answer than : " Whether, 

 as you assert, the princes of the people have taken 

 away any thing from the Scriptures, God knows." 



3. It does not appear that any MSS. of the 

 Latin Vulgate now existing contain the words a 

 ligno, but the Fathers Tertullian, Lactantius, and 

 others, read them ih copies extant in their time ; 

 and the words were so well known and generally 

 received, that the Church retained them in the 

 divine office, and Fortunatus in the sixth cen- 

 tury introduced them into his hymn, Vexilla 

 ~ F. C. H. 



HENRY LORD POEB. 



(2"<» S. viii. 378.) 



In replying to Abhba's inquiry, which I have 

 only just seen in " N. & Q.," I believe I have 

 already answered it on a personal application ; as, 

 however, repeating the information here affords 

 to an author an opportunity for the puff direct, I 

 must not miss it. Richard Poer, Viscount Decies 

 and Earl of Tyrone by creation of 1673, ranked 

 as Colonel of Infantry on that Army List of King 

 James the Second, the enlarged edition of which 

 shall be put to the press next month, not for ge- 

 neral sale, but for the subscribers only. 



This John, the first earl, died immediately after 

 the fall of Limerick, as did John, his son, second 

 earl, in 1693, unmarried; when the honours de- 

 volved upon his brother ! James, who, having mar- 

 ried, died in 1703, leaving a daughter his only 

 issue : the earldom consequently became extinct 

 in that line. The daughter. Lady Catherine 

 Poer, married in 1717, Sir Marcus Beresford, who 

 was subsequently created Earl of Tyrone, and for- 

 ther raised in the peerage, in 1789, to the Marqui- 

 s*te of Waterford, 



In 1703, the year of Earl James's death, a peti- 

 tion was presented to Queen Anne, as from John 

 Power, " commonly called Lord Power," who had 

 been Mayor of Limerick during the celebrated 

 siege, but was then an exile in France, setting 

 forth sundry matters to vacate an outlawry. The 

 Henry Power, of whom Abhba inquires, appears 

 to have been son of this John, and he actually 

 claimed the estates of Curraghmore, &c., against 

 Sir Marcus Beresford, as that he, the claimant, 

 was the next heir male of Lady Catherine's father. 

 The attempt was, however, denounced by the 

 Irish Ilouse of Commons as " bold and dangerous." 

 In the Civil Establishment of 1727, the name of 

 this Henry Power, as " commonly called Lord 

 Power," appears for a pension of 550Z. per ann. 

 He died in 1742, and was buried at Ringsend as 

 stated by Abhba. 



I cannot resign the place to which Abhba's 

 Query has called me without adding, that besides 

 Colonel Richard, the Earl, John Power was a 

 Lieut.-Colonel in Lord Kilmallock's Infantry. 

 Four peers were colonels of the regiments of 

 horse, two of the dragoons, and eighteen of the 

 infantry ; while the captains and subalterns of all 

 the force were no less distinguished in rank and 

 respectability. Lord Macaulay, in his recently 

 published History (vol. iii. pp. 155. and 418.), has 

 described the officers of this service as ^'■coblers, 

 tailors, but$hers, footmen," 8fc. My monster volume 

 (1500 pages) will have memoirs or notices o^ each 

 of these adherents of the Stuarts, and I confidently 

 rely that his lordship cannot discover one as of 

 the ranks to which he would lower them ; what- 

 ever trades or occupations the attainders and con- 

 fiscations of that civil war may have forced them 

 into. Dean Swift gives sad testimony to their de- 

 cadence in the time of Queen Anne. 



John D'Alton. 



48. Summer Hill, Dublin. 



As the inquiry of Abhba has failed to elicit any 

 information with regard to the personage called 

 Henry Lord Power, I may perhaps be permitted 

 to call his attention to the following fact. To- 

 wards the end of the last century Baron Power, a 

 distinguished judge on the Irish Bench, and 

 Usher to the Court of Chancery, received an 

 order to appear in court to answer certain charges 

 made against him in reference to the contest be- 

 tween the Duke of Chandos and his tenants. The 

 baron refused or rather hesitated to obey this 

 order, which had been issued by Lord Chancellor 

 Fitzgibbon, alleging his station as a judge, and 

 his holding a seat with the Chancellor in the Ex- 

 chequer, as reasons for his refusal. The Chancel- 

 lor was, however, peremptory in his order, and 

 fixed, a certain day on which Baron Power should 

 appear in court. The baron brooded over this, 

 and some days before the time fixed for his trial 



