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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s, No 89.^ Sjjpt, 12. '57. 



Bishops and Clergy will take more care of y" poor natives, 

 after a neglect of near 200 years. 



" The native Irish are Britons by Descent, as appears 

 from their Language, Customs, &c., and the English and 

 Scots lately settled there (who posses four-fifths of y« 

 Lands) are very desirous of enjoying the Privileges of 

 Britain in Ireland. The Inhabitants are about 1,200,000 

 and the acres about 17,000,000, y° Protestants are about y» 

 16'*> part, and y« Papists 15-16«i» parts of y" whole nation: 

 y« latter implicitely subject to yo Pope in Spirituals, and 



too well affected to y'' P r in Temporals, easily led in 



former Times by Spain and Rome into great disorders, 

 and kept in Readiness by blind Zeal and a total resigna- 

 tion to their Priests to execute y« commands of their Spi- 

 ritual Fathers. Is a Party so numerous to be always 

 slighted ? Mr. Cambden tells us the Reducing of Ireland 

 in Q. Elizabeth's time cost 1,198,717Z. sterling. Sir John 

 Borlace computes y" Rebellion in '41 to have cost 400,000 

 Lives on both sides, and above 22,000,000/. Are we in a 

 condition to spare more millions? Our Debts, and our 



Present Burdens do loudly demand perfect union with 

 reland. Their Representatives for y« House of Peers 

 may be four Archbishops and 20 or 24 Bishops, besides 

 temporal Lords, and for ye 32 counties 32 Knights, 4 Par- 

 liament men for Dublin, 2 for y" College, for Corke, Kill- 

 kenny, Waterford, Galloway, Londonderr)', Drogheda, and 

 Limeric, 2 each, and one for all y petty Boroughs iti each 

 county, or such other Proportion as y" Revenue of Ireland 

 shall be in to that of Great Britain. 



"The several petty Kingdoms of Spain, and little di- 

 vided Sovereignties in Britain and France, bred endless 

 wars and confusions, which since their Union and Corpo- 

 ration have ceased. Wales before its union with England 

 was always an open Eneniie, or uncertain Friend. But 

 since it has continued a faithful ally: so was Scotland. 

 Ireland has in some respects a better Title to a union, 

 being of y same Religion and five times y^ ballance of 

 wealth and power than either, still capable of more im- 

 provement. Such a Uttion with Ireland would have 

 those necessary and desirable consequences : 



"1st. It would give entire satisfaction and security to 

 our countrymen settled there, and to many who live in 

 England but have large estates in Ireland. 



" 2dly. Reduce y« natives by gentle and wise methods 

 from Popery and Idleness to our Religion and method of 

 Living.* 



"3dly. Cut off all Hopes of our Popish neighbours 

 abroad and at home, from the formidable numbers of Pa- 

 pists at present devoted to a Foreign Jurisdiction. 



" 4thly. Increase our trade, and consequently all y" 

 Rents, and also y^ public Revenue of Ireland. 



" 5thly. Hasten the discharge of our great debt of y" 

 iiation, and enable us to make a greater figure in Christen- 

 dom. 



" For Ireland, considered in its native State, -^hen com- 

 pared with England and Wales, is tteaf half in its Di- 

 mensions and y Richness of its soil, and equal to Scot- 

 land in its number of acres, but above double its native 

 Capacity for Improvement. 



" Ireland therefore beiiig equally impfbved with Eng- 

 land, may produce a Revenue, at least near equal to | that 

 of England, ordinary and extraordinary, and then when- 

 ever y public occasions require y^ large contributions can 



raise by 4s, on Land 

 And by Duty on Malt ... 

 And by Morgage of y Funds about 

 In all - 



And Ireland at y« lowest one-third, fully 



improved - - . .. 



In all 



£2,000,000 



600,000 



3,000,000 



6,000,000 



dom except y« French King's, but his was always over- 

 strained." 



K. C. 

 Cork. 



1,860,000 

 7,460,000 

 Which is a Revenue far above any Princes iu Chriaten- 



Minar 0attg, 



Whigs alias Cameronians. — It is Hot Uilknown, 

 I dare say, that the alias Cameronians was at one 

 time applied to the Wiiig party : but there will 

 probably be no objection to the insertion in " J?. 

 & Q." of the following extract from a newspaper 

 of the year 17l2 : — 



"London, Oct. 9, 1712. The Whiggs, alias Camero- 

 nians, having now no other Refuge left, have, within 

 these few days particularly, betaken themselves to the 

 spreading, with unusual Industry, a Multitude of abomi- 

 nable Reports concerning the Queen and Ministry; all 

 which are entirely false, and without any other Ground 

 than their own impious Vows and imaginary Conceits." 



J. G. N. 



The Devil's Walk. — I find the following verses 

 ih a private letter written about twenty years ago. 

 Having never seen them, I send them that, if not 

 already published, they may be recorded in "N. 

 & Q/' They refer to Porson's claim, and are a 

 supposed addition to the ballad, song, or whatever 

 it is: 



" As he went along the Strand, 



Between three in the morning and four, 

 He observed a queer looking person, 

 Who staggered frotn Perry's door. 



" And he thought that all the world oVer, 

 In vain for a man j-ou might seek, 

 Who could drink more like a Trojan, 

 Or talk more like a Greek. 



" The Devil then he prophesied 



It would one daj* be matter of talk. 

 That with wine when smitten. 

 And with wit moreover being happily bitten. 

 This etildite bibber was he who had writteti 

 The story of this walk. 



" ' A pretty mistake,' quoth the Devil ; 

 'A pretty mistake, 1 opine! 

 I have put many ill thoughts in his mouth, 

 He will never put good ones in mine. 



" ' And whoever shall say that to Person 

 These best of all verses belong. 



He is an untruth-telling w son, 



And so shall be called in the song.' " 



M. 



" The Sugar-loaf Farm,'' Bobhington, -^ The 

 parish that supplies me with the queer derivation 

 of "Halfpenny Green" (2°'' S. iv. 147.), has fur- 

 nished me with another vagary of nomenclature 

 that would be a puzzle to those who solve proper 

 names by theory. The farm marked on the 

 ordnance-map as "Bobbington Farm" belongs to 

 Christ Church College, Oxford, and is now usually 

 called " The College Farm ; " but, by the old in- 

 habitants, it is invariably called hy its old name 

 of "The Sugar-loaf Fam;' Now, though the 



