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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



331 



Foundling ; without Pattering" — a pretty rough 

 analysis of the work. J. P. O. 



" Thoughts in Rhyme." — Who is the author of 

 Thoughts in Rhyme. By an East Anglian. 1825. 



Iota. 



" Tancred, a Tale. " — Who is the author of 

 Tancred, a Tale ; and other Poems. By the au- 

 thor of Conrad, a Tragedy, lately performed at 

 the Theatre Royal, Birmingham. 1819. Iota. 



Hunger in Hell. — According to an ancient 

 mediaeval legend, alluded to by a writer of the 

 seventeenth century, one of the punishments of 

 the condemned was incessant hunger without the 

 slightest hope of its being satisfied. The reference 

 is not accompanied by any clue to the authority, 

 but probably some of your readers, better ac- 

 quainted with such subjects, may be able to oblige 

 me with a record of this legend. C. N. B. 



Honourable W. Fitzgerald, Irish Chancellor of 

 the Exchequer. — Does any of this family exist? 

 if so, where ? He was most violently attacked for 

 his treachery by the celebrated Mrs. Mary Anne 

 Clarke, in a pamphlet she issued in 1813, beyond all 

 bounds of moderation, and which created so much 

 excitement, that copies were eagerly snatched 

 from the public by the friends of both parties. In 

 these times, such a pamphlet would be a nice slice 

 for the gentlemen of the long robe. A. B. C. 



iKtn0i* <Mtnt€ Jnittj %x\i^txi. 



^^ History of the Civil Wars." — Who is the 

 author of — 



" The History of the Civil Wars in Germany, from the 

 Year 1630 to 1G35 : Also, Genuine Memoirs of the Wars 

 of England, in the Unhappy Reign of Charles the First. 

 .... Written by a Shropshire Gentleman, who per- 

 sonally served under the King of Sweden, in Germany ; 

 and on the Royal Side, during the unhappy Contests in 

 England. Newark : printed bv James Tomlinson, for the 

 Publisher, in 1782." 



It purports to have been written by a gentleman 

 born in Shropshire in 1608, his father's property 

 lying near Shrewsbury ; the annual value of the 

 estate being above 5000Z., and the house about 

 six miles from the town. He went to Oxford, 

 served under Gustavus Adolphus, adopted the 

 king's side, and was sent from York to Durham with 

 proposals to the Scots in the second year the army 

 lay at York. At this time his father led a regi- 

 ment raised by himself, and the writer served in 

 the troop of guards ; was volunteer under Rupert 

 in his father's regiment at Pershore, and led his 

 regiment of horse, the first, against Brentford 

 Bridge ; commanded the cavalry at Roundway 

 Down ; was one of the colonels of cavalry from 

 Oxford appointed for the relief of York, the 



others being Goring, Byron, and Smith; com- 

 manded a support of 800 at Chester, in an attack 

 on Sir W. Brereton by a Colonel Morrough. 

 His father was taken prisoner in the surprise of 

 Shrewsbury by Colonel Mitton, and taken to 

 Beeston Castle. On the road to Leicester took a 

 large part in an action near Coventry, under 

 Sir M. Langdale, also between Harborough and 

 Leicester, and near Melton Mowbray ; and as- 

 sisted in the relief of Newark and Pontefract. 

 Commanded the attack on Hawksly House, 

 having previously missed a convoy for Brereton ; 

 also three regiments of horse in the attack on 

 Leicester. His regiment engaged the enemy near 

 Lichfield ; he commanded the attack on the bridge 

 at Huntingdon ; and his regiment was, in his ab- 

 sence, dispersed in the rout by Poyntz before 

 Chester, the Lieut.-CoL, a near relation of his 

 mother's, being taken prisoner. Held a secret 

 meeting at Worcester, landed at St. Ives in Corn- 

 wall, and was one of the hostages for the per- 

 formance of conditions of capitulation at Truro. 

 He states that his father lent 20,000/. to the king, 

 and compounded for 7000Z., a sum, by the assist- 

 ance of the Earl of Denbigh, reduced to 4000Z. 

 In the above are omitted particulars which would 

 not much help to single him out from others, as 

 that he was at Edgebill, &c. ; but if he existed, at 

 all, the above indications are sufficient to extract 

 his name from the County History, the Civil War 

 Tracts, the list of Compositions, or perhaps Watt, 

 to none of which have I access. In the work are 

 specimens of dialects, and a short account of the 

 costume and arms of the Highlanders. It was 

 edited by E. Staveley, Newark. Is this book 

 scarce, or otherwise valuable ? S. F. CkesweUi. 

 Radford. 



[This work was unknown to Watt and Lowndes, nor is 

 it to be found in the Catalogues of the Bodleian or British 

 Museum. It seems to have been compiled from the MS. 

 Collections of Sir Francis Ottley of Pitchford, in Shrop- 

 shire, which had been consulted by Thomas Carte in his 

 History of England, iv, 455 , as well as by Messrs. Owen 

 and Blakeway, in their History of Shrewsbury, i. 415 — 

 444. In 1825, these MS. papers were in the custody of 

 the Hon. Cecil Jenldnson, M.P., of Pitchford, who per- 

 mitted the editors of the latter work to make extracts 

 from them. From the brief notice of Sir F. Ottley in the 

 History of Shrewsbury, we learn that lie was born in 1601, 

 and admitted at Lincoln College, Oxford, in 1618. In 

 1624, he married Lucj"-, daughter of Thomas Edwards, 

 Esq., of the College, and relict of Thomas Pope, Esq.] 



InftammMory Indian Tracts : the Indian Muti- 

 nies. — Among the various surmises made as to 

 the origin and exciting cause of these fearful 

 scenes of crime and bloodshed, I have been sur- 

 prised that no one has referred to a fact men- 

 tioned some two or three years ago in Allen's 

 Indian Mail, It was there stated, that some most 

 inflammatory tracts were being published and 

 widely circulated among the Mahommedan popu- 



