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papist, about the licence granted by the Pope to act any 

 treason against the Queen of England, and of foreign 

 news; dated Sienna, June 15, 1569."] 



Sir John Lytcott, Knight. — I shall be greatly 

 obliged by any of your correspondents informing 

 me 1{ there are extant any accounts, printed or 

 MS., of the proceedings of a Sir John Lytcott 

 at the Court of Rome, during the reign of James 

 II. I presume he was there as Charge d'affaires, 

 after the recall of Lord Castlemaine in Sept. 1687, 

 and acted as such until the appointment of 

 Colonel Porter as Envoy Extraordinary, whose 

 instructions, according to Macpherson's Original 

 State Papers, bear date Feb. 1689. I cannot 

 ascertain anything farther of Porter ; but Lord 

 Mclfort received instructions to proceed to Rome 

 from Queen Mary Beatrice, October the same 

 year. I find in Burke's Commoners (p. 1458.) 

 that John Upton of Lupton in Devonshire, M.P. 

 for Dartmouth, who died in 1687, was married 

 to Ursula, daughter of Sir John Lytcott, Knt. of 

 Moulsey in Surrey, — perhaps the person referred 

 to, but no particulars are given. W. R. G. 



[In the Lansdowne MS. 1152, art. 41, is the following 

 document : " Instructions for Sir John Lj'tcott, Knt., ap- 

 pointed King James II.'s agent at Rome."] 



Clans of Scotland. — Is there any modern work 

 containing only the pedigrees of the clans of Scot- 

 land ? If so, what are the names of compiler and 

 publisher. R. W. Dixon. 



Seaton-Carew, co. Durham. 



[Some genealogical notices of the Scottish Clans will 

 be found in the following work: The Clans of the Scottish 

 Highlands, illustrated by appropriate figures, displaying 

 their Dress, Tartans, Arms, Armorial Insignia, and Social 

 Occupations, from Original Sketches, by R. R. M<=Ian, 

 Esq. With Accompanying Description and Historical 

 Memoranda of Character, Mode of Life, &c. &c. By 

 James Logan, Esq. London, Ackermann & Co., 2 vols, 

 fol., 1845." Consult also Browne's History of the High- 

 lands and Highland Clans, Stuart Papers, &c., illustrated 

 by a series of Portraits, Family Arms, &c. 4 vols. 8vo. 

 1845. In his Preface, he says, " In reference to the His- 

 tory of the Clans, I have to acknowledge my obligations 

 to the work of the late Mr. Donald Gregory, and more 

 particularly to that of Mr. VV. F. Skene, in as far as it 

 treats of the origin, descent, and affiliations of the dif- 

 ferent Highland tribes."] 



Lord Byron. — There is a translation of Lord 

 Byron's works into French by Col. Orby Hunter, 

 who died at Dieppe in May, 1843. Can you in- 

 form me when this work was published, and 

 whether it includes the dramas as well as the other 

 poetical works of Lord Byron ? Iota. 



[This translation of Lord Byron's works, made 3 vols. 

 8vo., and entitled CEuvres de Lord Byron, traduites en 

 vers FranQais par Orby Hunter et Pascal Rame. Paris, 

 Daussin, Lil)raire Place et Rue Favart, 8 bis. 1845. Vol. I. 

 contains Manfred, Beppo, Le Corsaire, Lara, et Poesies 

 diverses. Vol. II. Marino Faliero, La Fiancee d'Abydos, 

 Parisina, Ode h Venise, Ode k la L^gion-d'honneur, 

 Adieux de Lord Byron h, sa Femme, et Inscription sur 



le Monument de son Chien de Terreneuve. Vol. III. Don 

 Juan.] 



De Quincy and Henry Reed. — In De Quincy's 

 Miscellanies, vol. ii. p. 297., reference is made to 

 " the well-known " chapter in Von Troil's Letters 

 on Iceland, in which the learned historian, after 

 enticingly heading the chapter with the words, 

 "Concerning the Snakes of Iceland," communicates 

 the very interesting and satisfactory information 

 that " There are no snakes in Iceland," the entire 

 chapter consisting of these six words. Now whe- 

 ther there is such a chapter in Von Troil's Iceland 

 I know not, never having seen the book ; but if 

 there is, it is very extraordinary indeed that there 

 should also be in Horrebow's Natural History of 

 Iceland, a chapter (ch. 47), as Henry Reed {In- 

 troduction to English Literature, p. 207.) informs 

 us, as if from personal knowledge, headed, " Con- 

 cerning Owls," and consisting of these words, 

 " There are in Iceland (he writes it or prints it 

 Ireland) no owls of any kind whatever." Now as 

 this particular joke is not likely to be found in 

 both these books, perhaps some correspondent 

 will set the question at rest by actual reference to 

 the passages, if tlf^re are any such in either work. 



Lethrediensis. 



[De Quincy's reference, as well as that of Henry Reed, 

 should have been to Horrebow's iVaiuraZ History o/Zce- 

 land, fol. 1758, where we find chap. Ixxii. entitled, "Con- 

 cerning Snakes. No snakes of any kind are to be met 

 with throughout the whole island." To which is added 

 the following note : " Mr. Anderson says, it is owing to 

 the excessive cold that no snakes are found in Iceland." 

 Chap. xlii. is headed, " Concerning Owls. There are no 

 owls of any kind in the whole island." Note. "Mr. An- 

 derson says, there are various species of owls in Iceland, 

 as the cat- owl, the horn-owl, and the stone-owl. He 

 likewise published a print of one catched in the farther 

 part of Iceland, on a ship homeward bound from Green- 

 land."] 



Passage in the " Brut of England.^'' — Steevcns, 

 in his notes on King Henry V., gives the following 

 passage from the Brut : — 



" He (Henry V.) anone lette make tenes balles for the 

 Dolfin, in all the haste that they myglite, and they were 

 great gonnestones for the Dolfin to play with alle. But 

 this game of tennis was too rough for the besieged when 

 Henry played at the tennis with his hard gonnestones." 



The word Dolfin is explained by Steevens as 

 meaning Henry's ship. It appears to me that the 

 Dauphin of France is meant. Perhaps some of 

 your readers will favour me with their opinion on 

 the subject. Henry T. Rilet. 



[Our correspondent is right in his conjecture. Sir 

 Harris Nicolas in his Battle of Agincourt, p. 8. says, "A 

 circumstance is stated to have occurred in consequence 

 of Henry V.'s claim to the French crown, which is so ex- 

 traordinary that it must not be passed over without in- 

 quiring into its truth. The Dauphin [Louis, eldest son 

 of Charles VL], who was at that time between eighteen 

 and nineteen years of age, is reported, in derision of 

 Henry's pretensions, and as a satire on his dissolute cha- 



