Oct. 27. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



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^Macartneys of Longford. — Will some of your 

 Irish correspondents have the kindness to supply 

 me with some particulars relative to the Macartney 

 family of Longford ? What quarterings did they 

 bear? 



Burke, in his excellent Peerage., states that the 

 estates of the last Earl of Longford, of the Aungier 

 family, were divided between his two " nephews," 

 Francis Cuffe and James Macartney ; but he gives 

 no clue to this relationship with Macartney. 



The co-heirs of James Macartney, M.P. (pos- 

 sibly the son of the same), married Lord Lyttelton 

 and Mr. Greville. Anon. 



New York. 



Vinny Bourne. — Interested as all readers of 

 " N. & Q." must be in Vinny Bourne, we are sure 

 they will (and we hope the writer will) thank us 

 for transferring to our columns from the Illustrated 

 London News (of Oct. 13th), the following in- 

 teresting Note, with its appended Query. Can 

 any of our readers point out the precise resting- 

 place of Vinny Bourne ? 



" We have something to tell about Vinny Bourne, the 

 beloved among poets and Westminster boys, that has 

 escaped his editors and biographers. Vinny's last and 

 best biographer, the Rev. John Mitford, informs us that 

 Vinny, in his will, records his desire * to be buried in 

 privacy in some neighbouring church of England.' For 

 this information he tells us he is indebted to the present 

 Garter King-at-Arms (Sir Charles Young), then only 

 York Herald. But the wording of the desire is not what 

 Mr. Mitford has made it. Vinny, a parishioner of St. 

 Margaret's Westminster, desires ' to be interred with pri- 

 vacy in some neighbouring country churchyard.' And 

 how beautifulh' does this agree with the sentiments ex- 

 pressed by him in a letter to a lady : ' I am just come 

 from indulging a very pleasant melancholy in a country 

 churchyard, and paying a respectful visit to the dead, of 

 which I am one daj^ to increase the number. Every 

 monument has its instruction, and every hillock has its 

 lesson of mortality. I have by this means, in a short 

 space of time, read the historj' of the whole village.' Now 

 where was Vincent Bourne burled? What, in December, 

 1747 (when Vinny died), was the neighbouring country- 

 churchyard in which Vinny's bones were laid? — in Surrey 

 or in Middlesex ? at Camberwell or Kensington ? at 

 Hampstead or Hendon? at Wandsworth or Wimbledon? 

 Some of our readers who reside near country churchyards 

 in the neighbourhood of London will assist us, perhaps, 

 in discovering the grave of a very delightful poet." 



MS. Memoirs of Worcester. — I have in my 

 possession a small folio manuscript, 143 pages, re- 

 lating to the cathedral church and city of Wor- 

 cester, neatly written ; I should judge, as far back 

 as 200 or 250 years. It has the following pre- 

 fixed to it : 



" Some Memoirs relating to the Church and Citv of 

 No. 313.] 



Worcester, collected by one of the Antient Family of the 

 Abingtons, which came to the hands of Robert Dobyns, 

 late of Easbath, and now of the City of Hereford, Esq. ; 

 who, out of the Love he bears to the said Church and City, 

 where he was born and baptized, transmitted this Copy 

 to the Library at Worcester, there to be kept ; supposing 

 the Original to he lost in the late Civill Warrs.'" 



I should be glad to learn, through any of your 

 antiquarian correspondents, if the original above- 

 mentioned has been found and printed, or any 

 other information respecting It. J. C 



Birmingham. 



[This work has been printed, and passed through two 

 editions, 1717, 1723. It is entitled. The Antiquities of the 

 Cathedral Church of Worcester, by that learned antiquary 

 Thomas Abingdon, Esq. In the preface to the second 

 edition it is stated that "the manuscript, communicated 

 by a gentleman, has been compared with another in 

 Jesus College Library in Oxford, as has been the account 

 of Malvern Abbey vnth the same." For notices of 

 Abingdon's work, consult Nash's Worcestershire, vol. i. 

 p. ii., and Nicolson's Historical Library. ~\ 



Pegge's '^'■Memoirs." — Samuel Pegge, jun., son 

 of the doctor, and father of Sir Christopher Pegge, 

 is " known as the author of certain Memoirs con- 

 nected with the establishment to which he be- 

 longed." What are these Memoirs ? M. P. 



Oxford. 



[The "Memoirs" relate to his father. Dr. Samuel 

 Pegge, which Samuel Pegge, jun., furnished to the Gen- 

 tleman's Magazine, vol. Ixvi., and reprinted in Nichols's 

 Literary Anecdotes, vol. vi. p. 224. The work connected 

 with the royal household is entitled Curialia : or An His- 

 torical Account of some Branches of the Royal Household, 

 ^•c., by Samuel Pegge, Esq., 4to., 1791.] 



Norfolk Pedigrees. — Can any of your corre- 

 spondents tell me of any genealogical collections 

 in the hands of private persons ? The ^i orris col- 

 lection Is in the possession of a member of the 

 family of Frene. Mr. Daniel Gurney of Runcton, 

 has a volume selected from that collection ; but 

 there must be many manuscripts of genealogical 

 character in other hands. I particularly seek for 

 an account of the parishes of Edgefield, Hingham, 

 Harleston, and the families connected therewith, 

 from the time of Queen Elizabeth to the end of 

 the reign of Queen Anne ; respecting which but 

 little, comparatively. Is to be found In Blomfield's 

 History. Does any catalogue exist of the manu- 

 scripts of Martin of Palgrave, who married the 

 widow of Peter le Neve? Were they sold, or 

 what became of them ? F. S. 



[Our correspondent should consult Mr. Sims's Index to 

 the Pedigrees in the Heralds' Visitations, art. Norfolk; 

 also the Index to the Additional MSS., 1782—1835, in 

 the British Museum, as many of Thomas Martin's papers 

 will be found in the latter collection. His principal MSS. 

 were purchased by Mr. John Worth, of Diss. The pictures 

 and lesser curiosities, formerly belonging to Mr. Martin, 

 were sold b}- auction at Diss ; part of his MSS. in London, 

 in April, 1773, by Mr. Samuel Baker ; and, by a second sate 



