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son of tbe Right Hon. Jas. Fitzgerald, formerly 

 Prime Serjeant of Ireland, by his wife, Catherine 

 Vesey, who was eraated Baroness Fitzgerald and 

 Vesci, in the peerage of Ireland ; to which jjeer- 

 age he succeeded on his mother's death in 1835. 

 In the same year, he was created a British peer. 

 He died unmarried in 1845 ; and was succeeded, 

 in his Irish title, by his brother Henry, Dean of 

 Kilmore, who is still living. The present Lord 

 Fitzgerald is a widower, without male issue ; and, 

 on his death, the title will be extinct. The pre- 

 sent Lord Fitzgerald resides at his deanery, 

 Danesfbrt, near Cavan. Anon, 



Farnham. 



Obliterated Postage Labels (2"'^ S. iv. 329.)— In 

 a late number of "N. & Q.," inquiry is made as to 

 the use collectors of old postage stamps make of 

 them ; and I am told by a poor woman, who re- 

 gularly calls upon me once a fortnight for all my 

 old stamps, that she wishes to get a child into a 

 school founded, or supported, by Miss Burdett 

 Coutts, one of the conditions of which is to 

 secure a million of obliterated stamps, without 

 reference to the value they have represented. My 

 contribution, which she admits to be large, is 

 about one hundred a-week to her store ; and sup- 

 posing she is able to secure eleven others of the 

 same avernge quantity, it will take about fifteen 

 years to raise the prescribed number. How such 

 a course can benefit poor people, who, of them- 

 selves, cannot receive many letters in the course 

 of a year, and whose time must be of some impor- 

 tance to their families, I am at a loss to conceive. 

 Nor can I see any useful end to which the million 

 of stamps, if procured, can be applied. M, C. 



Some time since I was requested by a lady, with 

 whom I have but a slight acquaintance, to assist 

 in the collection of used postage stamps. She 

 informed me that an old gentleman had promised 

 a presentation to the Infant Orphan Asylum at 

 Wanstead to any child whose friends could collect 

 a million of old postage stamps. A committee of 

 ladies was appointed to obtain the requisite num- 

 ber, and a clergyman from the pulpit adjured the 

 poorer portion of his congregation to aid in the 

 good work. I have since been informed that the 

 stipulated number was collected, and that the child 

 obtained admission into the charity. Neither the 

 old gentleman's name nor that of the child has 

 come to my knowledge. One of the ladies, in the 

 course of her canvass, received a considerable 

 number of unused postage stamps left by an indivi- 

 dual in his will, in furtherance of the same object. 

 You may rely upon the authenticity of the above 

 statements. J. C. Rickards. 



Musical Game (2"'^ S. iv. 289.)— M. F., who 

 Inquires if any one can give her any inform- 

 ation as to the rules of a game entitled " Newly 



invented Musical Game, dedicated to the Prin- 

 cess Charlotte of Wales by Anne Young, of 

 Edinburgh," is informed that the game in ques- 

 tion (contained in a large box which opens with 

 tables, and is played with dice, with musical 

 notes, &c., on their faces, &c.), was sold first in 

 Edinburgh in 1801, and the present writer has 

 two books of the rules, which were sold with the 

 box, — the one, a pamphlet with the rules for six 

 games ; this was included in the purchase of the 

 box. The other is an octavo volume containing 

 a treatise on thorough bass, the rules for the six 

 games, and also for a seventh. The first had 

 simply the notice : "1801, printed by C. Stephens 

 & Co.," but the Svo. volume had in addition, and 

 " sold by Muir, Wood, & Co., Leith St., Edin- 

 burgh, and by Preston, 97. Strand, London, 

 where the Musical Game Tables are sold." The 

 date of this volume was 1803. At this dis- 

 tance of tim'e it is doubtful if any of these firms 

 are in existence; but as the game was expensive 

 — it cost six guineas — it is probable some of the 

 oldest established music shops of that time might 

 be able to procure a copy of the rules, or at any 

 rate of the treatise ; if not, the writer might be 

 able, on further application in " N. & Q.," to 

 have them copied 5 but they are not brief. H. M. 



The rules of the " Musical Game " are contained 

 in An Introduction to Music by Anne Gunn (late 

 Young), published at Edinburgh, 1 803. J. AV". 



Manchester. 



Spiders and Irish Oak : Chesnut Wood (2""^ S. 

 iv. 208. 298. 377.) — There is a fine old roof at 

 Turner's Court, in the parish of Cold Ashton, 

 Gloucestershire, four miles from Bath, perfectly 

 free from cobwebs. The building is supposed to 

 have been a chapel, but it is now desecrated to 

 farm purposes. The roof is of heavy scantlings, 

 framed with circular curb-pieces in ecclesiastical 

 style. The timber is said to be chesnut, and why 

 not ? for the tree is considered by Evelyn and 

 others to be a free-born Briton. He speaks of his 

 own fiirm, and other old buildings about London 

 where it was much used in days gone by. A 

 forest of such trees is known to have 'existed iji 

 the neighbourhood, temp. Henry II. 



Is not the roof of Westminster Hall of this 

 timber ? and it may very easily be known whe- 

 ther it is kept free from cobwebs by the brush or 

 the antipathy of the spider to the material used. 



H. T. Ellacombe. 



Maurice Greene, Mus. Doc. (2°* S. iv. 287.) — 

 It is stated in Hawkins's History of Music that 

 Dr. Greene was the son of the Rev. Thomas 

 Greene, Vicar of St. Olave, Jewry, and the 

 nephew of John Greene, serjeant-at-law ; that he 

 married a young lady named Dillingham, and left 

 issue an only child, a daughter, who married the 

 Rev. Dr. Michael Festing, Rector of Wyke Regis, 



