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NOTBJS AND QUERIES. 



[2°^ S. No 32., Acq. 9. '6§, 



Yet as if grieving to efface 



All vestige of the human race, 



On that lone shore loud moans the sea, 



But none shall thus lament for me ! " 



I have been furnished with the character of 

 Mr. O'Kelly by my friend R. Shelton Mackenzie, 

 Esq., of New York, who knew him. If anything 

 is wanting to this, I have it in the poet's edition 

 of his works, without date, page 131, where I find 

 a poem entitled " The Tear," precisely similar 

 (excepting some few corrections necessary in 

 making the appropriation) to a piece of the same 

 name written by the late Tom Moore. To this 

 poem O'Kelly has had the impudence to affix a 

 date — 1768 — twelve years before Moore was horn! 



Mr. Crofton Croker in his Popular Songs of 

 Ireland, p. 184., mentions two editions of O'Kelly's 

 poems between 1791 and 1824. An edition of 

 1808, entitled — 



" Poems on the Giant's Gauaeway and Killarney, with 

 other Miscellanies " — 



and an edition of 1812, which contained " The 

 Eudoxologist, or an Ethicographical Survey of the 

 West Parts of Ireland." In the first of these edi- 

 tions appeared that elegant effusion, " The Litany 

 of Doneraile," which I find is repeated in the 

 edition without date, page 116. I quote the 

 opening of this piece : 



"Alas! how dismal is my tale, 

 I lost my watch in Doneraile ; 

 My Dublin watch, my chain and seal, 

 Pilfer'd at once in Doneraile. 

 May Fire and Brimstone never fail 

 To fall in show'rs on Doneraile ; 

 May all the leading fiends assail 

 The thieving town of Doneraile," &c. &c. 



Now the object of this Note is to ascertain when 

 O'Kelly first published the poem entitled " The 

 Simile " as his own. I have not been able to trace 

 it in his works beyond 1824. Will some of your 

 correspondents who have the editions mentioned 

 by Mr. Croker, or other editions of O'Kelly's 

 Works, be good enough to inform me on this sub- 

 ject? William Gumming Wilde. 



New Orleans, June 28. 



NEW ENaLAND QUEKIES. 



A person engaged in the study of the history of 

 New England in America would be greatly 

 obliged by information relating to the following 

 matters. 



A copy of the Records of the Virginia Company, 

 established in 1606 by letters patent of James I., 

 was in the hands of Stith, the historian of Vir- 

 ginia. It was perhaps the same copy which is 

 mentioned in the Life of Nicholas Ferrar. Is the 

 original, or a copy of those records, to be found in 

 England ? 



Is anything known of the early history of Ed- 

 ward Randolph, employed by the British govern- 

 ment from 1675 to 1684 in an agency for vacating 

 the charters of Massachusetts, and afterwards as 

 secretary and collector in that colony ? He had, 

 perhaps, been previously a clerk in one of the 

 public offices in London. 



Where are the papers (if extant) of Sir Ferdi- 

 nando Gorges, Governor of Plymouth about 1620, 

 described as " Sir Ferdinando Gorges, of Ashton 

 Phillips, in Somerset ? " 



Does the will of John Cabot, the voyager to 

 North America, exist in the Will Office at Wor- 

 cester, or elsewhere ? 



Are there any unpublished materials of a nature 

 to illustrate the connexion of Sir Henry Rogwell, 

 of Ford Abbey, with the Massachusetts Com- 

 pany ? 



During the first sixty or^^seventy years of the 

 New England settlements, many conspicuous 

 Englishmen must have held large correspondence 

 with the leading men of those colonies, the dis- 

 covery of which would be of the highest historical 

 value. Has any such correspondence survived ? 

 The following names immediately occur in con- 

 nexion with this question, viz. Richard, Earl of 

 Warwick, Lord Say and Sele, Lord Brooke, Sir 

 George Downing, Sir Henry Vane, Hugh Peters. 



[In the British Museum will be found the following 

 MSS. relating to Sir Ferdinando Gorges: " His Declara- 

 tion, A.D. 1600-1," Birch and Sloane MS. 4128; "An 

 Answer to certain Imputations against Sir Ferd. Gorges, 

 as if he had practised the Ruin of the Earl of Essex, 

 written in the Gatehouse," Cotton MS. Julius, F. VI. art. 

 183 ; " Warrants to him from the Earl of Essex, Jan. 

 1597," Addit. MS. 6752, ff. 104-110 ; " Letter to T. Har- 

 riott," Ibid, 6789 ; " Letter to Sir J. Davis, concerning 

 his Confession," a.d. 1603, Ibid, 6177, p. 387. Also, 

 " Papers relating to the Virginia Companj', Jac. I.," and 

 " Notes by Sir J. Caesar of the Patents granted to the said 

 Companj'," Jb. 12,496. " Forms of Patents, Grants, &c., 

 by the Virginian Company," lb. 14,285. "William 

 Strachey : The History of Travaile into Virginia Britan- 

 nica, expressing the Cosmography and Commodities of the 

 Country, together with the Manners and Customs of the 

 People, with several figures coloured," Birch and Sloane 

 MS. 1622. " Answer to Capt. Nath. Butler's unmasked 

 face of Virginia, as it was in the winter of 1622," Ibid, 

 1039. " The Declaration of the People of Virginia against 

 Sir William Berkeley and others," Ibid, 4169.] 



Husbands authorised to beat their Wives. — There 

 exists what I conceive to be a popular error, 

 namely, a belief that a husband is by the common 

 law of England authorised to chastise his wife ; 

 and Judge Buller is often quoted, ^s having given 

 it as his judgipent that the husband is justified in 

 administering personal chastisement to his better 

 half, provided he uses a gtick no thicker than his 

 little finger, or, as some severer discipliqariaiis 



