2''<» S. N" 87., Aug. 29. '57.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Scolds in Carrickfergus. — There was a most 

 wholesome regulation for maintaining the peace of 

 Carrickfergus, in the county of Antrim, in olden 

 times, by providing the following punishment for 

 the " noisy nuisance of women scolding :" — 



" October, 1574 : — Ordered and agreed by the whole 

 Court, — That all manner of scolds which shall be openly 

 detected scolding, or evil words in manner of scolding, 

 and for the same shall be condemned before Mr. Maior, 

 shall be drawne at the sterne of a boate in the water from 

 the end of the peare round about the Queen's Majesties 

 Castle in manner of ducking; and after when a cage 

 shall be made, the party so condemned for a scold shall 

 be therein punished in the manner noticed." — Town 

 Records. 



Abhba. 



Scott's " Waverley" — The following statement 

 of Sir Richard Phillips, the extraordinary author 

 of that extraordinary book of books, A Million of 

 Facts, may be classed amongst " Things not ge- 

 nerally known : " 



"Scott's Waverley was offered, anonymously, to the 

 editor of this volume. The price asked for it was refused. 

 It then appeared as W. Scoffs ; but in a few days the 

 name and placards were withdrawn, and the author said 

 to be unknown," — C. 648, ed. 1842. 



That Scott made some difficulty about the 

 price is evident from Lockhart ; Constable offer- 

 ing 700^., Scott suggesting lOOOZ., — the former de- 

 clining the suggestion, and ultimately publishing 

 the work " on the footing of an equal division of 

 profits between himself and the author." (iv. 167.) 

 Andrew Steinmetz. 



Discovery of Ancient Remains. — There was 

 discovered in May last, while some workmen were 

 employed in improving the churchyard of Colding- 

 ham, the tombs of two of the priors of that once 

 famous abbey. The one was that of Ernald, who 

 was prior from 1202 to 1208 ; the other was that 

 of Radulf, who was prior for one year only, in 

 1209. The slabs were removed, and two of the 

 workmen went down into the vaults with lighted 

 candles in their hands. The body of Ernauld is 

 sewed in leather. His shoes were found on his 

 feet, and a hazel rod, about thirty inches long, 

 lying upon his breast. The body of Radulf, or 

 Ralfph, is wrapt in a coarse description of woollen 

 doth. The inscriptions on the slabs are as follows : 

 " Ernauld, Prior. 

 Eadulf, Prior, D. G. Coldingham." 



The first is entire, the last broken into frag- 

 ments. Both inscriptions are in Latin. The 

 above I copy from a provincial newspaper, as I 

 think it is proper to preserve all such Notes. 



Mentanthes. 



Chirnside. 



Origin of the National Song " God save the 

 King.'* — If the following has not already ap- 

 peared in the pages of " N. & Q.," it may be 

 worth recording. The reader will find the pas- 

 sage in the State Papers, vol. i. p. 184., under the 



orders for the " Flete taken by the Lord Ad- 

 mirall, the 10th day of August, 1545 : " 



" The watch wourde in the night slialbe thus : ' God 

 save King Henrye,' thother shall aunswer, ' And long to 

 raigu over us.' " 



R. C. 



Cork. 



"the Jacobite's curse." 



In a small quarto tract, entitled The Jacobite's 

 Curse, or Excommunication of King George (Glas- 

 gow, 1714), I find the following, which is perhaps 

 worth preserving in "N. & Q." : — 



" God bless, preserve, and restore our Royal Sovereign 

 King James the Eight. Curse, Confound, and Destroy, 

 the Contrivances, and Machinations of his Enemies, Let 

 the plagues of -^gypt be upon them. Let their Children 

 be Fatherless, and their Wives widows, let them beg 

 their Bread in a strange Land, and let there be none to 

 pity their Fatherless Children, Let them wander thro' 

 the" Earth like Cain and McKartney, Let them be afflicted 

 with Job, but abstract his Patience : Let them be disap- 

 pointed like the white trac'd Hatt Gentleman. Let them 

 be banished their Country like Marlborough, dye of a 

 phrenzy like Queensberry and Godolphin. Let them be 

 guilty of Bigamy, &c., like Wharton. Let them be as 

 great Atheists as Sunderland, and as great Sots as Suther- 

 land. Let them prosecute other at Criminal Courts like 

 the Whig Ministers, and let them be in as great Confu- 

 sion as the General Assemblj'. Let them be like the Squa- 

 dron Lords, to change themselves from being Members of 

 Parliament, to be Members of the General Assembly. 

 Let them be like the Makers of the Union, to dye without 

 Beds, and like the Mock Hannoverian Club at Leith, to 

 burn their Sliirts and Gravats in Emulation of Hannover, 

 that they may become a Laughter to their Count rey. Let 

 them be as Spurious as the Brood of the Duke of Bruns- 

 wick. Let them be as great Fools as the Magistrates of 

 Edinburgh, the Whig Lords of England, and the House 

 of Commons in Ireland, and as great Fools as the Fol- 

 lowers of the Kirk- Session, and let all the Curses from 

 the Beginning of Genesis to the End of the Revelations 

 be upon all these who have sold their Country, and de- 

 sign to destroy the King." 



There are some allusions in the foregoing worth 

 elucidation. For example : Who is M'^Kartney, 

 here coupled with Cain ? and who the white-hatted 

 gent? and where may be found further parti- 

 culars about the Leith Club ? The author of my 

 book holds up this Hellish Lyhel to public reproba- 

 tion, and commences by ascribing it to " A. Cer- 

 tain Person who has render'd himself infamous by 

 his Doggrel against the Kirk and Magistrates of 

 Edinburgh;" adding, "M-^Fleckno is not better 

 known in England, than this uncircumcised Doctor 

 is in Edinburgh," which seems to point at Dr. 

 Pitcairn ; although he farther on ascribes it to 

 Mr. R. C — 1 — d — r. If a true hill against the 

 latter, where is Calder's doggrel to be found ? 



J. O. 



[Calder disclaimed both the doggrel and The Jacobite's 

 Curse, He says, "It is nothing with this scandalous 



