Aug. 4. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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opportunity of judging for himself as to which is 

 the true explanation of this historical puzzle. 



L. M. M. R. 



Archdeacon Fumey (Vol. xi., p. 205.). — Your 

 correspondent *. furnishes some materials for a 

 memoir of this very distinguished antiquary, and 

 expresses a hope that farther particulars may be 

 supplied by any reader of " N. & Q." who may 

 be enabled to add to what he communicates. In 

 furtherance of his object I beg leave to add what 

 I consider two very important facts. 



Judge Blackstone, in his much esteemed work, 

 The Great Charter and Charter of the Forest, 

 Sec, by William Blackstone, Esq., Oxford, 1759, 

 4to., Introduction, p. xxxv., speaking of Magna 

 Charta of Henry III., which is dated November 

 12, 1216, says "this invaluable piece of anti- 

 quity " was presented by the late Archdeacon 

 Furney to the Bodleian Library at Oxford; and 

 he takes the opportunity to add what important 

 service many individuals may render to the re- 

 searches of the antiquary, would they make 

 similar depositories donations of such treasures, 

 instead of letting them remain in private col- 

 lections. The Charter is accompanied at p. 36. 

 with engravings of the two very curious seals 

 which are appended to it. 



The other matter to which I allude is seven 

 volumes of MSS. of Archdeacon Furney, now in 

 the possession of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bart., of 

 Middle Hill, Broadway, Worcestershire, and 

 which are numbered 6632 — 6638 in his Catalogue 

 privately printed in 1837. Most of these are in 

 relation to Gloucestershire, but some are con- 

 nected with Hampshire, Oxford, &c. ; and from 

 the known talent and extensive knowledge of the 

 collector are no doubt very curious and valuable. 



Amicus. 



BucharHs Ballads (Vol. xii., p. 21.). — Are the 

 two {foolscap folio} MS. volumes lately in the 

 possession of the Percy Society not the originals 

 from whence the Ballads of the North were tran- 

 scribed, printed, and published ? I have no hesi- 

 tation in saying that they are; and that they were, 

 in consequence of Mr. Buchan's unfortunate cir- 

 cumstances, disposed of by him. Any ballads which 

 ftiay be as yet unpublished of those in his MS. 

 volumes were purposely kept out of his collections 

 printed in 1828, because they were not considered 

 by Sir Walter Scott and C. K. Sharpe, who re- 

 vised the proof-sheets, &c., to be "genuine ori- 

 ginal " ballads. From having had some little 

 share in the publication of the two volumes in 

 1828, I am fully aware. of all the circumstances 

 connected therewith. T. G. S. 



Edinburgh. 



Officers killed at Preston Pans (Vol. xii., p. 29.). 

 — A curious volume now before me, A Compleat 

 History of the Rebellion, by James Ray of White- 



Ko. 201.] 



haven, volunteer under his R. H. the D. of Cum- 

 berland, 1754, contains " a list of officers killed, 

 wounded, and taken prisoners at the battle of 

 Glaidsmuir, Sept. 21, 1745." From this list I 

 extract the following : 



"Dragoons, Colonel Gardiner's : Colonel Gardiner, killed. 

 Foot, Colonel Lascelles's : Captain Stuart, killed. Colo- 

 nel Lee^s: Captains Bromer and Rogers, killed. Lord 

 Loudon's : Captains Stuart and Howel, killed. " — Pp. 41— 

 43. 



The author says at p. 37. : 



"This is by some called the battle of Preston Pans, 

 from the place near it, which takes its name from the 

 number of salt-pans there ; but it is more properly stiled 

 the battle of Glaidsmuir, since that was the field of battle, 

 being a wide barren heath, about seven miles east of 

 Edinburgh." 



A. B. C. will observe that six officers are 

 enumerated in the list, and not J?<7e only. 



B. H. C, 



P. S. — I will add a Query. Is anything known 



of James Ray above named ? The book contains 



neither the name of the publisher, nor of the place. 



In the " History of the Rebellion," as published 

 in the Scots' Magazine, your correspondent A. B.C. 

 will find much that will interest him. The names 

 of the officers in the Royalist army that were killed 

 at the battle of Preston Pans were as follows, viz. : 



1. Colonel Gardiner. 



2. Capt. John Stuart of Phisgill, Lascelles's- 

 regiment. 



3. Capt. Braimer, Lee's regiment. 



4. Capt. Rogers, Zee's regiment. 



5. Capt. Holwell, Guise's regiment. 



6. Capt. Bishop, Murray's regiment. 



7. Ensign Forbes, Murray's regiment. 



T. G. S. 

 Edinburgh. 



" The Celestial Divorce" (Vol. xii., p. 47.). — 

 Upon looking over my collection of books, I find 

 that I have a fine copy in old vellum of this cu- 

 rious book. But it appears to be a diiferent edition 

 from that in the possession of your correspondent. 

 It is entitled — 



" II Divortio Celeste, Cagionato dalle dissolutezze della 

 Sposa Romana. Et Consacrato alia Semplicith, de' Scro- 

 polosi Christiani, In Yillafranca, 1643, pp. 196, 18mo." 



T. G. S." 



Edinburgh. 



Semle.gue — Sanlegue (Vol- xi., pp. 342. 433.). — 

 The poet inquired for by your correspondents is 

 probably Louis de Sanlecque, a canon of St. 

 Genevieve's in Paris, where he was born in 1652. 

 The first edition of his poems, under the title of 

 Poesies heroiques, morales et satiriques, appeared 

 in 1696. See La France Litteraire, sub voce 

 " Sanlecque." Hbnby H. Breen, 



St. Lucia. 



