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about 1800, being Sketches of the Irish Home of 

 Commons. 



In Vol. X. p. 134. a partial answer was given by 

 A. 



The title is, — 



"A Review of the principal Characters of the Irish 

 House of Commons. By Falkland. Dublin. Printed 

 for the Author, and sold by all the Booksellers. 1789." 



The book, of which I have a copy, is rather 

 scarce; it is a thin Svo., pp. 214., and is dedicated 

 to the Rt. Hon. C. J. Fox. The sketches are 

 characteristic and faithful, and are attributed to 

 "John Robert Scott," supposed to be a Rev. 

 Doctor of T, C. D. He is also the author of a 

 volume entitled, — 



" Parliamentary Representation : being a Political and 

 Critical Review of all the Counties, Cities, and Boroughs 

 of the Kingdom of Ireland, with regard to the State of 

 their Representation. By Falkland. Dublin : printed in 

 the year mdccxc." 



Both volumes are in the Library of Trin. Coll. 

 Dublin. C. X. B. 



Ryggcs and Wharpooles (2"'* S. iv. 30. 154.) — 

 The corresponding passages in Stowe's Summarie 

 of Englishe Chronicles (ed. 1565) are — 



" The viij daye of August there were taken about 

 Quynborough three great fyshes called Dolphins, or by 

 some called Rygges; and the weke folowyng at Blackwall, 

 were syxe more taken and brouglit to London, and there 

 the least of the was greater than any horse." — Fol. 218. 

 rev. 



" The vij daye of October were two great fyshes taken 

 at Grauesend which were called whirlepooles ; they were 

 afterwarde drawen vp aboue the bridge." — Fol. 219. 



J. Eastwood. 



Styring Family (2°'' S. iv. 128.) — I have been 

 told, on good authority, that this family is origi- 

 nally from Misson, on the boundary line of Not- 

 tinghamshire and Yorkshire, near Bawtry. I 

 have a tolerable good account, and correct, as far 

 as it goes, of the i'amily ; but it would not be, as 

 I conceive, of general interest to the readers of 

 " N. & Q." I enclose my address, and shall have 

 pleasure in showing J. S. what I have collected. 



W. St. 



Henry Wharton (2"'* S. iv. 90.) — Wharton's 

 Diary still exists among Birch's MSS. At any 

 rate several curious extracts, said to be from that 

 source, are printed in the second volume of the 

 first (and best) edition of D'Oyly's Life of San- 

 croft. If I mistake not, these are wholly omitted 

 in the second edition, in one volume. M. L. 



Lincoln's Inn. 



Steer Family (2""^ S. iv. 90.) — I believe nothing 

 is known of the Steer family earlier than a Robert 

 Steer, of Edensor, co. Derby, father of William 

 Steer, of Darnall, cutler. The latter acquired a 

 good estate, and died in August, 1726, aged about 

 seventy-four. He left several sons. William, the 



eldest, was in holy orders, vicar of Ecclesfield, 

 prebendary of York, and dean of Doncaster, and 

 married Ann, daughter of the Rev. Robert Banks, 

 vicar of Hull. From this branch descends Robert 

 Popplewell Steer, Esq., who succeeded to the 

 estate of Temple Belwood, and assumed the sur- 

 name of Johnson ; the present Bishop of Lichfield; 

 and the Rev. William Steer, a Wesleyan Metho- 

 dist missionary. Charles Steer, another son of 

 William of Darnall, was also in holy orders ; and 

 first curate of Bradfield, and subsequently rector 

 of Hansworth, near Sheffield (the presentation to 

 which had been purchased by his father from 

 Thomas Duke of Norfolk in 1706). He died in 

 1752, leaving issue. If your inquirer is desii'ous 

 to trace the descendants of the six sons of Wil- 

 liam Steer, he will find it a rather serious task, for 

 they each of them left a family. AV. St. 



Portraits of Henrietta Maria and Charles I. 

 (2°'^ S. iv. 170.) — In reference to the question of 

 P. on the subject of the print of Charles I. and 

 Henrietta Maria, I beg to state that there is a 

 picture of this king and queen, half-length figures, 

 having their hands joined, in the Queen's collec- 

 tion in Buckingham Palace, by Vandyck, from 

 which there are engravings by Voerst and by 

 Vertue ; the latter may, I conclude, be seen at 

 any of the eminent printsellers — Colnaghi, Evans, 

 or Tiffin. I suspect it more than probable that 

 this may be the original from which the print in 

 Smeeton's reprint of The Life and Death of Hen- 

 rietta Maria has been taken. C. (1.) 



Beau Wilson (2''** S. iv. 96.) — I have now be- 

 fore me a very nauseating volume, entitled, — 



" Love-Letters between a certain late Nobleman and 

 the famous Mr. Wilson; discovering the true History of 

 the Rise and surprising Grandeur of that celebrated Beau. 

 Pro Venere sape, pro Adokidb semper. London : 

 printed for A. Moore, near St. Paul's." Sine anno. 



No dates are affixed to any of these epistles. 

 A MS. note assigns to the second Earl of Sunder- 

 land this infamous protection of Wilson. God 

 knows whether truly or not ! M. L. 



Lincoln's Inn. 



Green Rose (1^' S. xii. passim) — 



" The Editor of the New Orleans Picayune has seen a 

 curiositj' in the shape of a green rose — the leaf, stalk, 

 bud, and flower, like the red rose, except it is all of one 

 uniform colour. The specimen shown the editor of the 

 Picayune was deliciously fragrant, having the full scent 

 of the wild sweet briar. The green rose is by no means 

 rare in Louisiana, nor has it been for vears." 



AV. w. 



Malta. 



"Praise God! Praise God!" (2"'^ S. ii. 450.) 

 — The poem which contains the lines quoted was' 

 reviewed in a number of The Guardian, which I 

 cannot now recollect, in the year 1852. I believe 

 the author's name is criven. A. Du Cane. 



