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ation for a length of time, yet the offenders were most 

 justly convicted, and suffered death." — Curran and his 

 Cotemporaries, by Charles Phillips, edit. 1851, pp. 390, 

 391, 392. 



Sir Henry Hayes was found guilty, and re- 

 ceived sentence of death, which was commuted to 

 transportation for life ; he was, however, subse- 

 quently pardoned, and permitted to return home. 



Catherine and Ann Kennedy lived with their 

 mother, a widow in the county of Waterford ; and 

 having, on September 14, 1779, gone to witness 

 a dramatic performance at Graiguenamanagh, in 

 the county of Kilkenny, two young men, James 

 Strange of Ullard, in that county, and Garrett 

 Byrne of Ballyanne, in the county of Carlow, re- 

 solved to carry them off by force. They accord- 

 ingly surrounded the house with a hundred armed 

 men, with shirts covering their dress as a disguise, 

 a habit which procured for the Irish peasantry of 

 that day the name of Whiteboys. They broke 

 into the room in which the girls sought shelter, 

 and seized them; having two horses saddled in 

 readiness, Catherine was placed before Byrne on 

 one, and Anne before Strange on the other, and 

 surrounded by a desperate clan, sufficient to over- 

 awe the county, they were carried off from their 

 friends. A person, who represented himself to be 

 a priest, was introduced in the night ; a mock 

 ceremony performed, and the terrified victims 

 were obliged to submit. They were subsequently 

 attended by a lawless cavalcade through several 

 counties, put on board a vessel at Rush, north of 

 Dublin ; and after six weeks, were rescued by an 

 armed party at Wicklow. Byrne and Strange 

 escaped to Wales; but were pursued, appre- 

 hended at Milford, and, on July 6, lodged in 

 Carnarvon gaol. They were subsequently tried at 

 the Kilkenny Spring Assizes on March 24, 1780, 

 before Chief Justice Annally ; when letters were 

 produced written by the girls, speaking of the 

 men, with whom they had so long cohabited, in 

 an affectionate manner, calling them their dear 

 husbands ; but these were proved to have been 

 dictated to them, and written under strong im- 

 pressions of terror. The prisoners were both 

 convicted, and although much powerful interces- 

 sion was made to spare their lives, in which the 

 Austrian ambassador participated ; yet, in accord- 

 ance with the sanguinary administration of our 

 criminal code in those days, they were both exe- 

 cuted. (Ireland Sixty Years Ago : M'Glashan, 

 Dublin, edit. 1851, pp. 35—39.) 



The Times has justly arraigned the feeling ex- 

 pressed at Clonmel in favour of Mr. Carden ; who 

 is now undergoing, for his failure, two years im- 

 prisonment with hard labour, to which he was so 

 justly and impressively sentenced by Judge Ball. 

 We are however told, so deep was the sympathy 

 felt for those whose example he sought to follow, 

 that all the shops were closed and business sus- 



pended on the occasion in Kilkenny, and other 

 neighbouring towns. W. B. 



Correction of an Error in Sir Edward CoTie's 

 Genealogy. — Nothing being of greater importance 

 than accuracy in family genealogies, I do not offer 

 any apology for correcting an error into which 

 those learned authors, Mr. Nichols and Sir Harris 

 Nicolas, have, no doubt inadvertently, fallen, in 

 reference to Sir Edward Coke's family pedigree. 

 The former gentleman, in his highly interesting 

 work on the Royal Progresses^ vol. iii. p. 465., 

 states, that Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Sir Ed- 

 ward Coke by Lady Hatton, died unmarried ; 

 which statement Sir Harris Nicolas adopts in his 

 valuable Life of Sir Christopher Hatton, p. 480. 

 Now, according to a well-authenticated MS. I 

 possess, the lady in question, who is supposed to 

 have died single, married Sir Maurice Berkeley, 

 Knt. (of the noble family of Berkeley Castle), by 

 whom she had issue a daughter, whom it appears 

 both Sir Edward Coke and Lady Hatton treated 

 very unfairly as their grandchild. T. W. Jones. 

 Nantwich. 



Oblige pronounced obleege. — I have little doubt 

 that this was the fashionable pronunciation of the 

 word some sixty years ago. I am acquainted with 

 one or two octogenarians, persons who pride them- 

 selves on their education ; they always say obleege 

 and obleeged. In a spelling-book of the date of 

 1748, I find that the young ladies of that gene- 

 ration were directed to pronounce farthing /«/-c?eH, 

 such being the fashionable mode of pronunciation. 

 Times are changed; we only G.nd farden now among 

 the very lowest classes. Henky T. IIiley. 



Cuckolds, Epigram on. — On the fly-leaf of a 

 Martial, 12mo., Amsterdam, 1628, I find the fol- 

 lowing epigram. The book has, from notes on it, 

 belonged to a German. The epigram is written 

 with abbreviations, and the ink is faded. I am not 

 aware if it has ever been printed, or who is the 

 author : 



" Uxorem moecham qui nescit, vertice cornu 



Unum habet ; et duo qui dissimulare potest. 

 Qui videt et patitur tria gestat, quatuor ille 



Qui ducit nitidos in sua tecta procos. 

 Qui non istorum se credit in ordine poni, 

 Credit at uxori, cornua quinque gerit." 



L H. L. 



Pope's " Ethic Epistles " are being discussed in 

 " N. & Q." I have a one-volume edition which is 

 not mentioned in Mr. Carruthers' list of Pope's 

 works, entitled Ethic Epistles, Satires, Sfc, with 



