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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°<iS. N<>95., OcT.24.'67. 



were ordered to march against them, but on the approach 

 of this body, they drew up the drawbridge of the fort, 

 where they were in garrison, and planted four pieces of 

 cannon at the gate, resolving to oppose who would come 

 against them. It was then thought most prudent to send 

 and know their demands ; upon which they complained 

 of their pay being withheld from them, and insisted on 

 receiving it before they would return to their duty ; and 

 likewise the release of two officers whom the Lieutenant- 

 Colonel had put under arrest. These terms being complied 

 with, peace was soon restored." — Political Magazine, vol. 

 be p. 344., Nov. 1785. 



K. Webb. 



Gen. Wolfe. — On the obelisk to Wolfe's me- 

 mory at Stow is the motto : " Ostendunt terris 

 nunc tantum Fata." His proclamation or pla- 

 cart is in Ann. Beg., ii. p. 240. ; his letter dated 

 Sept. 2, 1759, p. 241. ; and his character, p. 281. ; 

 an Essay to an Epitaph, p. 452. ; and an Ode 

 on his death, p. 451. An Elegy is in vol. vi. 

 p. 239. Mackenzie VValcott, M.A. 



Monvmental Inscriptions at Florence. — I could 

 scarcely have expected my inquiry relative to Ed- 

 ward Windsor would have received so ample and 

 interesting a reply as that in " N. & Q.," 2°"^ S. iv. 

 270., and I am therefore induced to solicit inform- 

 ation concerning Antonio Guidotto, whose monu- 

 mental inscription I subjoin, which I met with 

 when travelling in Italy. In the church of S. 

 Marco at Florence, there is a marble slab to one 

 of the senate of 48 under Cosmo de Medici. The 

 inscription is as follows : 



« D. 0. M. 

 " Antonio Guidotto ob pacem inter Anglonim et Fran- 

 corum reges confectam, ab Edouardo VI. equestrem 



fradum ab utrisque insignia munera consequuoto, in 

 atria ab Optimo Duce Cosmo in xlviii. virorum nu- 

 merum cooptato, Volaterris demum prsetura et vita 

 functo, gentiles ejus absentibus filius p. — Obiit mi Kal. 

 Decembr. mdlv. Vix. An. lxiii. mens, vi." 



In the same church was buried John of Miran- 

 dula, and his epitaph, although it may be else- 

 where recorded, some of your readers may not 

 object to having repeated : 



« D. M. S. 

 "Joannes jacet h\c Mirandula, caetera norunt 



Et Tagus et Ganges forsan et Antipodes. 

 Ob. Ann. Sal. MccccLXXXxmi. Vix. an. xxxii." 



In the same tomb is buried Angiolo Politianzo 

 (a distinguished poet at fourteen, and a great 

 scholar), who died Sept. 24, 1494, not two months 

 before his friend Mirandula. They were both 

 patronised by Lorenzo de Medici (il Magnifico), 

 who himself had died in their arms in 1492. 



Djblta. 



NEGLECTED BIOGEAPHT. 



I am anxious to ascertain the dates of the de- 

 cease of the following gentlemen, who were more 



or less of a literary character, and were most of 

 them friends or correspondents of Dr. Percy, Bi- 

 shop of Dromore. 



1. David Robertson, Esq., author of a Tour 

 through the Isle of Man, living 1790. 



2. Rev. Edward Berwick, of Ireland, editor of 

 the Rawdon Papers, and author of various works, 

 living 1819. 



3. Rev. Joseph Stirling, author of a volume of 

 Poems, 1789, living 1791. 



4. George Mason, Esq., of Havering, Essex, 

 author of Glossary to Hoccleve and other works, 

 living 1796. [Ob. Nov. 4, 1806.] 



5. John Davidson, Esq., Writer to the Signet, 

 Edinburgh, living 1792. 



6. Rev. Dr. Wm. Hales, of Trinity College, 

 Dublin, the eminent theologian, living 1819. 

 [Ob. Jan. 30, 1831.] 



7. John Heysham, M.D., of Carlisle, living 

 1801. 



8. Hugh Revely, Esq., secretary to Lord 

 Redesdale when Lord Chancellor of Ireland, liv- 

 ing 1802. 



9. Aylmer ConoUy, Esq., of Bally Castle, au- 

 thor of The Friar's Tale, or Memoirs of the Che- 

 valier Orsino, &c., 1805. 



10. Rev. George Somers Clarke, D.D., of 

 Trinity College, Oxford, and vicar of Great Wal- 

 tham, Essex, living 1807. 



11. Mrs. Tighe, author of Pysche, a Poem. 

 [Ob. March 24, 1810.] 



12. Right Hon. Thomas Orde, Under Secretary 

 of State for Ireland, 1785. [Afterwards assumed 

 the name of Paulet ; created Baron Bolton of Bol- 

 ton Castle, CO. York, Oct. 20, 1797 ; ob. July 30, 

 1807.] 



13. Rev. David Rivers, author of Memoirs of 

 Living Authors, 1798 ; he lived many years after- 

 wards in very straitened circumstances. 



14. Dr. Bruce, master of a respectable school 

 at Belfast, living 1808. 



15. Mr. Charles Bucke, editor of the Ecclesi- 

 astical and University Register, living 1809. 



16. Rev. J. D. Haslewood. 



17. Rev. James Johnstone, editor of Lod- 

 brokar- Quida, or the Death-song of Lodbroc, and 

 others relative to northern literature, living 1787. 



18. Rev. Edward Ryan, Prebendary of St. Pa- 

 trick's, Dublin, living 1807. [Ob. Jan. 1819.] 



19. Rev. David Irving, of Edinburgh, author 

 of Elements of English Composition. 



20. Wm. Hamilton Drummond, D.D., of Bel- 

 fast, author of The Battle of Trafalgar, living 1812. 



21. Mr. Ramsay, of Ochtertyre, a relative of 

 David Dundas, Esq., M.P., the Jonathan Oldbuck 

 of Walter Scott. 



22. The Rev. George Bally, Seatonian Prize- 

 man. 



23. John Toung, Professor of Greek at Glas- 

 gow. [Ob. Nov. 18. 1820.] 



