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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s. xo 99., Nov. 21. '57. 



NEGLECTED BIOGHAPHr. 



(2"^ S. iv. 328.) 



The Rev. William Hamilton Drummond, D. D., 

 of Belfast, nutlior of the Battle of IVafalgar, 

 the date of whose death a correspondent inquires 

 after, is still alive, and resides at 27. Lower 

 Gardiner Street, Dublin. I repeatedly see Dr. 

 Drummond, and often have a chat with him. 

 Notwithstanding Dr. Drummond's very advanced 

 time of life, his health, mental and bodily, is 

 perfectly unimpaired. He has been for many 

 years the justly respected minister of the Strand 

 Street Unitarian congregation. In 1840, Dr. 

 Drummond published Memoirs of (his friend) A. 

 Hamilton Rowan, a volume throwing much light 

 upon the origin and progress of the Society of 

 United Irishmen. Dr. Drummond is librarian to 

 the Royal Irish Academy. 



William John Fitzpatrick. 



Alexander Marsden, Esq., Under Secretary of 

 State in Ireland in 1803, was the youngest brother 

 of William Marsden, First Secretary to the Ad- 

 miralty, editor of the Travels of Marco Polo, and 

 author of the History of Sumatra, a Malayan 

 Grammar and Dictionary, and Numismata Orien- 

 talia. Alexander Marsden died on September 22, 

 1835, in London. I. H. 



John Heysham, Esq., M. D., of St. Cuthbert's 

 Lane, Carlisle, an active county magistrate, and 

 .well-known by his statistical observations, died in 

 that city sometime in March, 1834, at the age of 

 eighty-one years. He is buried in St. Mary's 

 church, and in commemoration of him a memo- 

 rial window has been placed at the east end of the 

 south aisle of the cathedral. Wm. Matthews. 



aarjlieiS t0 Minax <^\xtxiti, 



Sunderlande (2°"* S. iv. 348.) — Sunder or Sundor, 

 and Synder, Syndor or Syndr, are. Separate, dif- 

 ferent, singular, peculiar, exclusive, &c., and Sun- 

 der-land, according to Bos worth {Aug.- Sax. Diet.), 

 is " Separate or privileged land, territory, or 

 freehold land." That is to say, it is distinguished 

 from the lands about it, by being abscinded from 

 the jurisdiction, and exempt from the obligations, 

 to which they are subjected ; it is different to or 

 apart from them, by being held by a tenure ex- 

 clusively its own ; and is, in fact, nearly analogous 

 to what would now, in ecclesiastical language, be 

 called A Peculiar ? If this be so, there is no 

 difficulty in coming to the conclusion that " Beda 

 was born on the lands-proper of the monastery," 

 namely, on its own " territorium " or Sunder-land, 

 — its " separalis terra, pra;dium, or fundus," as 

 ^he term is rightly interpreted by Ljre, in contra- 



diction to Webster's second deBnitlon, which 

 would have us understand it in a sense that ad- 

 mits only of an American application. 



It may be added, that the meaning here given 

 to the designation in question receives confirma- 

 tion by comparing it with other Anglo-Saxon 

 expressions, which have Sunder for their prefix. 

 Thus we find that Sunder- craft is a special privi- 

 lege or prerogative ; Sunder-yrfe, a proper or 

 hereditary estate ; Sunder -freodom, a particular 

 liberty, privilege, or honour; Sunder-notu, a dis- 

 tinct office, dignity, or service, &c. 



Wm. Matthews. 

 Cowgill. 



Subject of Painting (2""^ S. iv. 367.) — The 

 figure of the monk is, no doubt, St. Peter Nolasco, 

 the joint founder with St. Raymond of Pennafort, 

 and James, King of Arragon, of the Order of our 

 Lady for the Redemption of Captives. The saint 

 wears the white habit of his order, has a chain in 

 his hand, in allusion to the great object of its in- 

 stitution, and wears the standard of the cross, em- 

 blematic of the same. The Blessed Virgin holds 

 a purse, to indicate, in like manner, the redeeming 

 of poor Christian captives. The order had several 

 convents in Spain ; a large one at Barcelona, and 

 several in Valencia. The arms described are those 

 of Arragon, which the king, who had so large a 

 share in founding the order, required the religious 

 to wear on their breast for his sake. The nun is 

 probably St. Teresa, though I cannot account for 

 her wearing the badge of the order of mercy. 



F. C. H. 



The Case is altered {l""^ S. iv. 188.) — I saw 

 this sign once pictorially represented in the West 

 of England, thus : — A person, with a large Avig 

 and gown, was seated at a table; another, dressed 

 like a farmer, stood talking to him. In the dis- 

 tance, seen through the open door, was a bull. 

 The story, of course, is that related of Plowden 

 the celebrated lawyer, and which now is found in 

 most books of fables. The farmer told Plowden 

 that his (the farmer's bull) had gored and killed 

 the latter's cow. " Well," said the lawyer, " the 

 case is clear, you must pay me her value." " Oh ! 

 but," said the farmer, " I have made a mistake, 

 it is your bull who has killed my cow." " Ah ! 

 the case is altered," quoth Plowden. This expres- 

 sion had passed into a proverb in old Fuller's time. 



A. A. 

 Poets' Corner. 



Napoleon and Wellington (2"^ S. iii. 90.) — In reply 

 to the query of your Philadelphian correspondent 

 " Bar-Point," as to whether the will of Napoleon 

 expressly states the attempted assassination of the 

 Duke by Cantillon "to be the motive for the le- 

 gacy of 10,000 francs, I would inform Bab-Point 

 that if not the correct interpretation, at least the 

 fact of having been charged with the attempt is 



