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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 262. 



On this there is one commentator, according to 

 Mr. Croker, namely, the Bishop of Ferns (Dr. 

 Elvington, the editor o{ Euclid, I suppose). The 

 Bishop says that Boswell makes Johnson talk 

 nonsense, and that it ought to be fourty-four 

 yards square instead of fourty-four square yards. 

 This makes the matter worse. I think I see how 

 the confusion arose in Boswell's mind, but at 

 present I leave it as a Query. A. De Morgan. 



Heraldic. — Can any reader of "N. & Q." tell 

 me whose arms these are ? — Party per chevron, in 

 chief two stags' heads affronte, in fess point a 

 crescent, in base ermine. They were much de- 

 faced, and it might have been a chevronel instead 

 of party per chevron : neither the colours nor the 

 number of ermine spots could be determined. 



Geoffeet. 



Ancient Reservation. — Lease of April 12, 

 22 Car. II., of property at Bude. Reserving 

 " yeerely at the feast of St. Michall the Arcangle 

 sixpence for Jish -money." 



Lease September 5, 1750. Reserving : 



« Rent 25s. 

 2 capons, or Is. Qd. 

 Harvest journey, or 7d. 

 2 horse seams of wood, or id. 

 1 truss of hay in Waineford Meadow. 

 4?. for heriot or farliefe. 

 To grind com at EfFord Mills. 

 To do half day's journey in ridding the leat. 

 * A six-and-thirty piece ' to the lady." 



Query, What hfsh-money ? S. R. P. 



Oxford Jeu d Esprit. — Some years since a bur- 

 lesque poem was published at Oxford containing 

 the following line, with which, I believe, the poem 

 concluded : 



" *H pa wv Tvpvoviri. Sofiov Sia Ovpia yovvcrixev" 



Can any of your Oxonian correspondents name 

 the poem and its author ? 



Who was the author of the Bime of the new- 

 made Baccalere, published by Vincent, of Oxford, 

 in 1841, and of Johannis Gilpini iter latine reddi- 

 turn, published by him about the year 1839 ? 



G. L. S. 



Thaddeus Connellan. — Perhaps some corre- 

 spondent could furnish a list of the writings of 

 this Irish scholar, who died, at an advanced age, 

 in the county of Sligo, on the 25th of last July ? 

 He wrote several treatises for the benefit of the 

 native Irish peasantry, one of them upon bees. 

 He also wrote or reprinted several works, such as 

 grammars, glossaries, and translations of portions 

 of Scripture. He studied mathematics and anti- 

 quities, and constantly referred to the Annals of 

 the Four Masters, and the Book of Ballymote. 



" He was a pious man," writes one who knew him well, 

 " a self-taught scholar, a genuine Milesian, and a bene- 

 factor to his country. Others may share in the honour 



of originating the Irish Society ; but in length of service, 

 and in physical and mental labour, he probably excelled 

 them all." 



.Abhba. 



Anastatic Printing. — May I ask, through your 

 columns, for information respecting the anastatic 

 process of printing ? Is it a process as easy as 

 other kinds of printing ? Does it require the same 

 amount of trouble as lithographic printing ? Is it 

 cheaper in regard to the materials employed, and 

 so forth, than other kinds of printing ? Are the 

 presses (for I presume presses are used) costly, 

 and where may they be had ? Is the process, in 

 short, one which a private person, unaccustomed 

 to printing, could carry on for his own amuse- 

 ment, in the same way as photography may be ? 



An answer to these inquiries will be esteemed 

 of use in these days of progress, perhaps by more 

 than Jattee. 



" The Savage." — In the Materials for Thinking, 

 published by Taylor some years ago, and also in 

 the Pocket Lacon, there are several extracts from 

 a work called The Savage. Many years ago I 

 saw a volume of this work, having the imprint of 

 Thomas Manning, Philadelphia ; and also Cadell 

 & Davis, London ; with the date, I think, of 

 1810. Never having seen but that one volume, 

 though I had inquired of many second-hand book- 

 sellers, I concluded it must be a rather scarce 

 work. Lately, however, I picked it up at an old 

 bookstall in the country. Its title is as follows : 



" The Savage, by Pioraingo, a Headman and Warrior 

 of the Muscogulgee Nation. Published by Thomas S. 

 Manning, No. 148. South Fourth Street, Philadelphia, 

 1810." 



It is intrinsically in every respect an American 

 book : for, in addition to the paper and print 

 being American in appearance, it has the official 

 seal on the second page of the clerk of the dis- 

 trict of Pennsylvania, investing Thos. Manning 

 with the proprietary rights. 



I shall feel truly obliged if any of your corre- 

 spondents will inform me whether it is considered 

 a rare work ; who was the author, and whether a 

 second volume was ever published ? David Gam. 



Aberdare, Wales. 



Turkish Victories. — Can any of your readers 

 give me the exact dates when the Turks took 

 Kutahia from the Greeks in 1281, and when they 

 took Cameniac [Kaminiec] from the Poles in 1672; 

 stating their authority ? Aktiquarius. 



The Czarina Catherine. — Did not Mr. Lyde 

 Brown dispose of his important collection of an- 

 cient marbles, including the celebrated bust of 

 Lucius Verus, to this lady potentate ? Did he 

 receive more than the first instalment of the price 

 which, according to Dallaway's Anecdotes, p. 389., 



