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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[S"* S. No 87., Ado. 29. '57. 



discomfort from cold. I know that hygrometric condi- 

 tions and extreme daih' fluctuations of the thermometer 

 explain much of this; but it was impossible for me to 

 avoid thinking at the time that there must also be a 

 physiological cause more powerful than either." 



G. 

 Sldmouth. 



James II. and Court of Home. — Where can I 

 find a full account of the negociations between 

 King James II. and the Court of Rome, as well 

 durhig his reign, as during his residence in Ire- 

 land and St. Germains ? Wishing to examine it 

 for a special purpose, perhaps some of your 

 readers, possessing a knowledge of the subject, 

 would, in a letter under cover to the editor, state 

 if there are any references to the Roman Catholic 

 Church in England and Ireland, particularly the 

 latter, and if the question of the regalities be 

 mooted. W. R. G. 



Haworths of Haworth. — Can any of your 

 readers give me, or tell me where I may find, 

 some information respecting the Haworths of 

 Haworth, near Keighley ? How long the family 

 lived there, when they left, whether they are now 

 extinct, and what were their arms ? Mowbbay. 



" Die arme Seele.'" — Can any of your readers 

 inform me who is the author of a short German 

 poem called " Die arme Seele " ? It is translated 

 in Boyd's Collection of Ballads, but I have never 

 oeen able to meet with it in the original. Karl. 



Regimental Colours. — Can any of the readers 

 of " N. & Q." inform me what is the origin and 

 meaning of blessing colours before presenting 

 them to a regiment ? F. L. Mills. 



Gloucester. 



Nell Gwyns Sister. — Eleanor Gwyn, the mo- 

 ther of the Duke of St. Albans, had a sister 

 Rose, married to Captain John Cassells ; a man of 

 some fortune, who spent it in the service of the 

 crown. He died in 1673, leaving his widow in a 

 destitute condition, whom King Charles II. re- 

 lieved with a pension of 200/. per annum. This 

 she received until the accession of William and 

 Mary. It appears that in that reign she was a 

 second time a wife, having married a person of 

 the name of Forster. She was living A widow in 

 the year 1694. Is anything further known of 

 either of these two husbands, and had she issue of 

 either?* Cl. HoprER. 



[• In the biography of Nell Gwyn this sister is noticed 

 under both names. In a bill for <t sedan is the following 

 item : " For careing you to Mrs, Knights, ahd to Mrs. 

 Cassells, and to Mrs. Churchills, and to Mrs. Knights, 

 4s." In the codicil to her will, made October 18, 1687, is 

 the following bequest : " That Mrs. Rose Forster may 

 have two hundred pounds given to her, any time within 

 a year after my decease." — Cunningham's Nell Gwyn, 

 pp. 142. 168. — Ed.] 



Dr. Younsc's ^^Sea Piece" — Can any of your 

 readers explain the connection between this poem 

 and the J'oreign Address by the same author ? 

 The Sea Piece was written in 1733, and the 

 Foreign Address in 1734; but the earliest edition 

 of The Sea Piece which I have seen is in 4to,^ 

 1755, published by Dodsley; and it, as well as the 

 reprint of his Works in 1762, (which also passed 

 under the author's eye,) contains verses almost 

 literally identical with some in the Foreign Ad- 

 dress. F. R. Daldy. 



Henry Butler. — Was there a Henry Butler of 

 note in the time of Queen Elizabeth ? If so, was 

 he publicly employed ? I should be glad of any 

 information concerning him. J. C. J. 



Copes. — Have copes ever been worn by cler- 

 gymen in the ordinary services in the present 

 century ? And Can anyone say why they have 

 fallen into disuse ? By ordinary services, I mean 

 other than coronations or state funerals. 



M. W. C. 



Kymyn. — On the horologe of the Earl of Essex 

 and Ewe in my possession, the name of the maker 

 is thus engraved, "James Kymyn fecit 1593." 

 Can any of your correspondents fufnish particu- 

 lars of this man ? E. D. 



WalewsM. — " N. & Q." seems to be open to all 

 kinds of inquiries, whether wise or otherwise. I, 

 therefore, " will be a fool in question, hoping to 

 be the wiser by your answer." I wish to be in- 

 formed whether our newspaper writers have any, 

 and, if any, what authority for mentioning, as they 

 constantly do, the Count Walewsk^ and Countess 

 Walewska ? If these eminent persons are, as I sup- 

 pose them to be, man and wife, can the use of the 

 distinctive termination be supported by any pa- 

 rallel instance ? It does not occur to me that in 

 any other Russian or Polish name I have ever met 

 with a similar practice. For example, we do not 

 meet with Count Wielhorsky and Countess Wiel- 

 horska, or of Count Chreptowitsch and Countess 

 Chreptovna. If among families of Slavonic origin 

 this fashion prevails, can any similar practice be 

 acjduced from other races ? In England it would 

 certainly startle us to be informed that Mr. Abbot 

 and Mrs. Abbess had entertained their friends at 

 dinner, or that Mr. King and Mrs. Queen had 

 arrived in town ; and equally strange would it 

 seem to learn " through the usual channels of in- 

 formation " that John Bull, Esq., with Mrs. Cow, 

 and their juvenile family had taken their departure 

 for their country seat at Ball's Cross, near Ches- 

 hunt. R. S. V. P. 



[The nature of the Polish language requires the change 

 of tertnination in all Polish names to diatingtiish the sex, 



