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which the voice may be distinctly audiUe. The 

 voices of dogs have been heard at a vertical eleva- 

 tion of three or four miles. F. Pjiillott. 



^^ Irish Historical Library" — The late Mr. 

 Hardiman appended the following note to his 



" Catalogue of Maps, Charts, and Plans relating to 

 Ireland, preserved amongst the Manuscripts in the Li- 

 brary of Trinity College, Dublin. 4to., Dublin, 1824": — 



" The printed maps of Ireland are numerous 



On the subject of our printed charts and maps, much 

 valuable information may be anticipated from the learned 

 bibliographical researches of the [late] Kev. Edward 

 Groves, the result of which will shortly appear before the 

 public, in his Irish Historical Library, now at press." 



Mr. Groves' researches have not appeared in 

 print. Where is the MS. ? And have we any 

 prospect of possessing a good Irish Historical Li- 

 hi-ary ? It is a desideratum in the literature of 

 the nineteenth century; but not likely, in a pecu- 

 niary point of view, to be a profitable speculation. 



Abiiba. 



Mordecai Abbot, Esq. — Can any genealogical 

 contributor of "N. & Q." inform me what family 

 of Abbot this gentleman belonged to? He was 

 lleceiver-General of the Customs in the reign of 

 Charles II. 



A portrait of him exists by White, the eminent 

 engraver, bearing the following shield of arms : 

 Gules, a chev. between 3 pears, or. Crest, a uni- 

 • corn's head, arg. between 2 ostrich feathers, or. 



John de C. 



Serjeant Trumpeter. — There was formerly in 

 the royal household an officer designated Serjeant 

 Trumpeter. I say loas, because the name of the 

 individual holding it was, until the last two years, 

 inserted in the Directory, but is now not to be 

 found therein, which leads me to suppose that it 

 is abolished. I shall be glad to be informed if 

 such is the case, and also any information respect- 

 ing the emoluments, &c. of this post will be ac- 

 ceptable. X. 



Lieutenant William Bligh. — Can any of your 

 correspondents inform me whether Lieutenant 

 William Bligh, who commanded the "Bounty," 

 (and whose crew mutinied against him on April 

 28, 1789, after leaving Otaheite,) was married? 

 and if so, to whom ? Stic. 



Furious CocAs. — 



" Memorable is the story of a cock which was stoned 

 bv the sentence of the council for having killed a little 

 child." 



So writes the learned Lightfoot, on Matthew 

 xxvi. 34., and his reference is to Jems. Ej'ubhin., 

 fol. 26. 1. Instances of such a savage propensity 

 in these birds are not, I imagine, very frequent ; 

 and it may be worthy of record that a common 

 barn-door cock, of no very choice breed, flew on 



the head of a little child about, three years old in 

 my parish last Sunday, and made a most fierce 

 attack upon the little thing's face with its beak 

 and spurs. Providentially the child's father was 

 near at hand, and enabled to interfere for its pre- 

 servation, but not till some severe scratches had 

 been inflicted in the neighbourhood of the eyes. 



C. W. Bingham, 

 Nov. 8. 



Gold at Hamburgh. — Weekly in the Wednes- 

 day's city article of The Times I read a paragraph 

 commencing in terms such as the following : 



" By advices from Hamburgh the price of gold is 424 

 per mark," &c. &c. 



Will you permit me, through the means of your 

 paper, to seek information as to what is to be 

 understood as the integer of which 424' is the 

 multiple ; and what is the mark ? The one, I ■ 

 suppose, represents a certain currency value, and 

 the other a weight known to dealers in bullion ; 

 t)ut I do not know. • Inqxiieer. 



Print of St. Lawrences Church, Heading. — 

 Wanted an old print of St. Lawrence's Church, 

 Reading, and the adjacent buildings, drawn by 

 William Blakemore about 1760. Perhaps Mr. 

 TurnbuU could assist me. 



From Coates's Reading, p. 312., I make the fol- 

 lowing extract : 



" In its original state the school-room was (an ecclesi- 

 astical building) very lofty ; probably the great hall of 

 St. John's Hospital. On the west side of the old town 

 hall appeared the traces of three large pointed windows, 

 reaching nearly to the setting on of the tiling ; which 

 may be seen in a view of St. Lawrence's Church and the 

 adjacent buildings, drawn by William Blakemore about 

 17G0." 



Julia E,. Bockett. 



Southcote Lodge, Reading. 



Mosaic Cabinet. — In the north-west gallery, 

 central transept, of the Crystal Palace, there 

 stands a piece of antique furniture, containing fif- 

 teen mosaic panels, in which are thirty birds, four 

 dolphins, and an urn. The tails of the birds and 

 fish branch out into scrolls of foliage and fancy 

 flowers. The panels are formed by borders of 

 leaves. Most of the birds are horned, have coro- 

 nets on their heads, and flowers in their mouths. 

 Can any of your readers state to what artistic 

 school it belongs, or where executed ? E. R. 



Islington. 



Bishops' Aprons. — Your valuable periodical 

 reaches us regularly in this city. Will you have 

 the kindness, for the benefit of one of your sub- 

 scribers, to say by what name the black silk apT 



