Oct. 7. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



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is it probable that the word is mistaken ? I should 

 much like to know your opinion, or that of some 

 of your correspondents, on this subject. C. de D. 



Speech of Lord Derby. — The Earl of Derby, a 

 year or two ago, referring; to the mode in which 

 the last census was taken, foretold beforehand the 

 untruthfulness of its religious worship returns. I 

 should be glad if any one more conversant with 

 Hansard than myself would refer me to the date. 



Nemo. 



" The Friends." — Who was the author of The 

 Friends, or, Original Letters of a Person deceased, 

 London, 2 vols., 1773 ? D. 



Genoa Registers. — How can I procure the 

 register of burial of a person who died at Genoa 

 in 1790? D. 



Geoffery Alford. — Can any of your readers 

 give me any information about Geoffery Alford, 

 mentioned by Macaulay in his History as Mayor 

 of Lyme Regis at the time of the landing of the 

 Duke of Monmouth ? What was his pedigree ? 

 And whether he is at all connected with the 

 Alfords at Curry-Rivell and at Weston-Zoyland 

 in the county of Somerset ; one of which name 

 was churchwarden at the latter place at the time 

 of the battle of Sedsemoor ? B. H. Alford. 



fSiixxax ©uerteiS fiottlb ^u^iacriS. 



Pascal Paoli, — Can any of your correspondents 

 inform me where this celebrated individual was 

 buried ? He died on February 5, 1807, having 

 for some time previous resided in the neighbour- 

 hood of the Edgeware Road. A current report 

 exists that he was buried in his garden, and that 

 he lived at one time in Vauxhall Walk, Lambeth, 

 in the same house previously tenanted by Theo- 

 dore Neuhoff, the crowned King of Corsica. This 

 ill-fated individual we know was buried at St. 

 Anne's, Soho ; as recorded by the tablet erected 

 to his memory by Horace Walpole. 



I cannot learn from any of the older inhabi- 

 tants of Lambeth any information on the subject, 

 neither can I find any foundation for the truth of 

 either of the individuals named having ever re- 

 sided in Lambeth. Is there any tablet to the 

 memory of Pascal Paoli ? J, F. 



Kennington. 



[Pascal Paoli was buried in St. Pancras churchyard. 

 On his tomb is an epitaph written by Siejnor Francisco 

 Pietri, a gentleman of Corsica, and one of the general's 

 most intimate friends and faithful followers. A monu- 

 ment, with his bust and an inscription, was raised to his 

 memory in Westminster Abbey. Both the epitaph and 

 inscription are given in the Gentleman's Magazine for Ja- 

 nuary, 1808, p. 61.] 



Pizarro and Alrnagro. — In the Somerset House 

 Exhibition, so far back as the year 1836, there 

 was a painting of great merit, said to delineate a 

 circumstance that happened in the life of the ce- 

 lebrated Pizari'o. He and Almagro are described 

 as " reading an account of their atrocities in the 

 Convent of [name forgotten]. Their ir- 

 repressible emotion excites the attention of the 

 monk standing by, who curiously and furtively 

 regards them," &c. This scene is said to be ex- 

 tracted from the Abbe de Perez's Conquest of 

 America, a quotation from which work is given as 

 a text for the painting. 



Is that work extant, easily accessible? or if 

 not, could any reader kindly supply the anecdote 

 in question ? It appears as interesting as singular, 

 but I have vainly sought to find it in print. 



E. B. 



Wexford. 



[This painting is by R. Westall, R. A., and entitled 

 « Cortes, in the Chapel of the Convent of Rabida, reading 

 to Pizarro an account of their own atrocities, and a male- 

 diction npon them, written by the Abbot Perez." The 

 scene is extracted from Rogers's Columbus ; and the point 

 of time represented is when the monk has risen from his 

 chair, surprised and curious at observing the agitation of 

 the elder stranger. " Here is a little book," said the 

 Franciscan at last, " the work of him in his shroud below. 

 It tells of things you have mentioned ; and were Cortes 

 and Pizarro here, "it might, perhaps, make them reflect 

 for a moment." The youngest smiled as he took it into 

 his hand. He read it aloud with an unfaltering voice ; 

 but when he laid it down a silence ensued, nor was he 

 seen to smile again that night. " The curse is hea^•y," 

 said he, " but Cortes may live to disappoint him ; aj'e, 

 and Pizarro too."] 



Names of Churches. — In Brand's Popular An- 

 tiquities, under the title of "Country Wakes," 

 sec. 3. in notis, it is said : 



" It has been observed by antiquaries, that few churches 

 or none are anywhere found honoured with the name of 

 St. Barnabas, except one at Rome." 



I recollect two modern churches within the 

 metropolis under the patronage of this Saint, — 

 St. Barnabas, PImlico, and St. Barnabas, Clap- 

 ham. The church at Rome is, I believe, dedicated 

 to St. Paul and St. Barnabas. 



Can any reason be assigned why, in former 

 times, churches were not called by this saint's 

 name in England ; and why, in more modern days, 

 the practice has arisen of committing the sacred 

 edifices to his care ? G. Brindley Acworth. 



Rochester. 



[One reason may be that St. Barnabas was not one of 

 the number of the twelve chosen by our Lord, although 

 stvled an apostle by St. Luke and the early Fathers. 

 Wheatly states that St. Barnabas' festival is omitted al- 

 together in the calendar of the second book of Edward VI. 

 (probably through the carelessness of the printer), and 

 was not" restored till the Scotch liturgy was compiled; 

 nor w.as his festival included among the days appointed 

 to be observed by the act 5 & 6 Edward VI., although 

 proper lessons were appointed for him in all the Prayer- 



