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[2nd s. No 32., 4,BG. 9. '58. 



Mrs. Siddons (2-"* S. ii. 89.) — With regard to 

 IVfrs. Siddons pif^king her first appearance on the 

 stage at Stourbridge, I have heard from an pld 

 relatiqn who knev the circun>stances, that the 

 occasion was for the benefit of the company, which 

 was but indifferent in their profession, and very 

 poor. Some attractions they doubtjess had, ^and 

 the officers of a regiment stationed in the towi^ 

 yolunteered thpir assistance. Mrs. Siddons, then 

 a lively girl of fifteen years of age, enacted the 

 heroine of the piece, and having to faint in the 

 hei'o's arms, she burst out laughing, and ran off 

 the stage to the great annoyance of the officei', 

 who afterwards declared he felt " so provoked that 

 he could almost have stabbed her." I think the 

 play lyas the Grecian f)aughter, but of this I am 

 no); quite sure, as J do not Isnow that play. 



E. S. W. 



Norwich. 



_ Wolves (2"'^ S. i. 96. 282.) — The following par- 

 ticulars, which form a note to Macaulay's History 

 of England, vol. iii. p. 136., are interesting : 



" In a very full account of the British isles published at 

 Nuremberg in J.690, Kerry js described as ' an vielen 

 Often unwegsam und voller Walder und Geburge.' 

 Wolves still infested Ireland. 'BLein schadlich Thier ist 

 da, ausserhalb Wolff und fiichse.' So late as the year 

 1710 money was levied on presentuients of the Grand 

 Jury of Kerry [ ?] for the destruction of wolves in that 

 county. See Smith's Ancient and Modern State of the 

 County of Kerry, 1756. [p. 173.] I do not know that I 

 have ever met with a better book of the kind and of the 

 size. In a poem published as late as 1719, and entitled 

 Macdermot, or the Irish Fortune Hunter, in six cantos, 

 wolf-hunting and wolf-spearing are represented as common 

 sports in Munster. In William's reign Ireland was some- 

 times called by the nickname of Wolfland. Thus in a 

 poem on the battle of La Hogue, called Advice to a 

 Painter, the terror of the Irish army is thus described : 



' A chilling damp, 

 ' And Wolfland howl run§ thro' the rising camp.' " 



Abhba. 



Medal of Charles I. (2°'^ S. ii. 29.) — It may 

 interest G. H. C. to know that I have a comme- 

 morative medal of Charles I. It is of bronze, two 

 inches in diameter. On the obverse is the profile 

 of that ill-fated sovereign, with the inscription, 



" Carol, p. G. M. B. F. ET. H. BEX. ET. GLOK. MEM." 



On the reverse a landscape, a naked arm issuant 

 from the clouds, and extending a martyral crown, 

 with the legend, " virtvtem. ex. me. fobtvnam. 

 EX. ALjis." I should like to compare " notes " with 

 your trinitial Querist G. H. C. on our Carolinian 

 relics. E. L. S. 



Deans, Canons, and Prebendaries of Cathedrals 

 (2'«> S. ii. 89.) — ScRiPSiT will find the sought-for 

 information in Report of the Commissioners ap- 

 pointed by King William the Fourth to inquire into 

 the Ecclesiastical Benenues of England and Wales, 

 (dated June J6, 1835) ; presented to both Houses 



of Parliament by Command of His Majesty. Vide 

 Hansard's sale list of Parliamentary Papers, from 

 Session 1836 to 1853, title, "Papers presented by 

 Command," year 1836-(67). Ecclesiastical Re- 

 venues, England and Wales, Report of Commis- 

 sioners, Us. Henry Edwards. 



In Mr. Hardy's edition of Le Neve's Fasti, and in 

 the Clergy List, the names of the prebendal stalls 

 are given. In the Clergy List will also be found 

 the various parishes forming rural deaneries. 



Mackenzie Walcott, M.A. 



*' To call a spade a spade" (2""^ S. ii. 26.) — In 

 P' S. iv. 456. a note of Scaliger is cited, in which 

 this saying is traced to Aristophanes. The verse 

 in question appears from the quotation of Lucian, 

 Quom. Hist, sit conscrib., to have been — 



" Ta <rvKa (TVKa, rrfv <TKa.<^T]v <rKaif>rjv Kiyiav." 



See also Lucian, Jov. Trag , 32. Other references 

 to this verse, which is nowhere ascribed by name 

 to Aristophanes, are given in the note of C. F. 

 Hermann, in his edition of the former treatise, 

 p. 248. The proverb is inserted in the Adagia of 

 Erasmus, under the head of " Libertas, Veritas." 



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