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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s. N° 46., Nov. 15. '66. 



perty, round which he had opened a space and 

 placed a seat for the use of the public ; and the 

 lines were addressed, not to " Strangers " (as 

 printed in "N. & Q."), but to "Neighbours." 

 The warning, however, I am sorry to be obliged 

 to add, was ineffectual. In a few years the tree 

 was seriously injured, the inscription torn down, 

 and the seat destroyed by the perverse mischief of 

 some of those to whose use they had been thus 

 dedicated. C. 



Honora Sneyd : Miss Edgeworth : Major Andre 

 <2"'' S. i. 383. ; ii. 36.) — I have not seen "N. & 

 Q." for several weeks, and only accidentally ob- 

 served, when glancing over some back numbers 

 on this day, that a writer (2"'' S. ii. 36.) speaks of 

 Mr. Fitz-Patbick as having expressed himself 

 incorrectly, whereas it was the Philadelphian Port- 

 folio that really did so, as any reader of " N. & 

 Q." can ascertain by reference. 



Serviens, the biographer of Major Andre, 

 more than two years ago expressed a wish, through 

 the medium of " N. & Q.," that his attention 

 should be directed to such scattered allusions to 

 that unfortunate officer as might exist among the 

 unindexed pages of old newspapers and magazines. 

 I accordingly extracted for him from Thomas 

 Moore's private copy of the Portfolio, some rele- 

 vant references, which having been duly acknow- 

 ledged by me, and printed in minion type by 

 your compositor, ought, one would think, to have 

 shown the critic that, so far from volunteering 

 original statements, I merely quoted. My own 

 allegations were perfectly correct. 



Richard Lovel Edgeworth married Honora 

 Sneyd in 1774, and on that lady's death, six years 

 subsequently, laecame allied to her sister. 



While I am on this subject, I ought, perhaps, to 

 introduce the following original cutting to Major 

 Andre's biographer : 



" The late Major Andri. 



" We (^Courier') received this morning a letter from 

 New York, addressed as follows : ' To any of the relatives 

 of the late Major Andr^, London. If the relatives of 

 Major Andr^ cannot be found, please send this to the 

 ■ Editor of the Courier, to be opened by him.' We have 

 accordingly opened the letter, and it will, perhaps, ac- 

 complish the writer's object to insert it here. 



'NewYork, Dec.25, 1821. 



'While the remains of Major Andre remained on board 

 the British packet, in this harbour, six young ladies, of 

 this city, sent on board of that vessel a beautiful Myrtle, 

 and some Lines addressed to the " Shade of Andre, from 

 Miss Seward," — and others from " Washington to Ar- 

 nold." The Captain had orders to deliver them to the 

 relatives of the interesting Andr^, and the writer is de- 

 sired by the parties concerned here, to give you this hint. 

 If these tokens of sympathy and respect are received, 

 please inform us through the British Consul, Mr. Bu- 

 channan, of this city, or the London Courier. 



' Washington.' " 

 Wiiii-iAM John Fitz-Patbick. 



Stillorgan, Dublin. 



Newcourfs ^'^ Repertorium" (1" S. xii. 381.; 2""* 

 S. i. 261. ; ii. 304. 374.) — With reference to the 

 proposal for a new edition of Newcourt's Reper- 

 torium, I find I have pasted upon a blank leaf of 

 my copy the following extract from Thorpe's 

 Catalogue of Books of 1841 : 



" 971. Newcourfs Repertorium Ecclesiasticum : an Ec- 

 clesiastical Parochial History of the Diocese of London, 

 portrait and plates, interleaved and bound in 4 vols, 

 folio, very neat, in tree-marbled calf, gilt edges, Ibl. lbs. 

 1708-10. 



u *^* fjjg above, which was the author's copy, is inter- 

 leaved throughout, and contains most interesting MS. 

 additions by him, extracts from old documents, pedi- 

 grees, &c. ; also a portrait of the author, by Sturt, and 

 several other prints, together with some Notes by a more 

 recent possessor, respecting the portraits of the persons 

 mentioned in the work. It is of course quite unique, and 

 will be invaluable in any civic collection." 



An Inquiry through " X. & Q." would easily 

 ascertain to what library this copy passed when it 

 left Thorpe. It should certainly be seen by any 

 one who undertakes the task of re-editing New- 

 court's work. 



Richard Newcourt was buried at Greenwich in 

 Kent, Feb. 26, 1715. H. E. 



Dr. Gauntlett and William Morley (2°'^ S. H. 

 334.) — Your readers must have been amused 

 with Dr. Gauntlett's letter defending his mistake 

 about the date of William Morley's death. Not to 

 take up too much of the valuable space of " N. & 

 Q." upon a subject of such limited interest, I shall 

 merely call attention to the fact that Dr. Gaunt- 

 lett, in fixing 1740 as the date of Morley's death, 

 has the cool assurance to tell your readers that he 

 consulted my Collection of Chants, by which he 

 was led into the error ! 



At the time when I published the said work I 

 had not made my copy of the Cheque-book of the 

 Chapel Royal ; consequently, not being able to 

 give the exact date of Morley's death, 1 qualified 

 my statement by saying, " he is supposed to have 

 died about 1738." If Dr. Gauntlett had copied 

 my words he would have been safe ; but he pre- 

 ferred making a date to suit his own purposes : 

 consequently he has " fallen into the ditch," as he 

 expresses it, where I shall leave him for the pre- 

 sent, sincerely wishing him a speedy recovery from 

 his accident. Edward F. Rimbault. 



CromweU House, OldBrompton (2"'^ S. Ii. 291.) 

 — In his paper under the above title. Dr. Rim- 

 bault states that "in 1668, Hale House waa in- 

 habited by the Lawrences of Shurdington, in 

 Gloucestershire, and that in 1682, it was in the 

 occupation of Francis Lord Howard of Effingham. 

 He was the 5th baron, and had three daughters 

 and three sons, the second of whom, Thomas (a 

 copy of the register of whose birth Is given), suc- 

 ceeded to the title." I should feel obliged to 

 Dr. Kimbadlt, or any other of your correspon- 



